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watching the news from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes more details emerge about the twenty six year old attack in southern france who killed three people and took all of us hostage will be live at the scene. after weeks of intense bombardment by the syrian government the second largest rebel group strikes a deal to leave eastern. peru has a new president after his predecessor resigned following allegations of corruption . and zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe is implicated in a massive ivory smuggling ring. police in southern france have been searching the home of a suspected gunman accused of killing three people in a series of attacks today the man hijacked a car and shot at police officers before taking hostages at

a supermarket in the town of trip the twenty six year old was later killed by the police. as police investigated the scene in the town of type in southwest france a clearer picture began to emerge of the man who had killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others in a shooting rampage in three locations before he was killed by police the paris prosecutor said twenty six year old to read a one locked him was born in morocco but lived locally and it become radicalized pyramid to determine look dog the man went to the supermarket by shouting allah akbar and stated he was a soldier eisel and ready to die for syria he was asking for their break brothers before shooting a customer a member of staff they both died instantly in two thousand and seventeen he was under surveillance but there is no signs of indicating he would carry out a terrorist attack. the attack took place in three stages first encounter the

gunman carjacked a white opel car wounding the driver and killing his passenger then stealing caucus on the gunman shot and wounded one of a group of four police officers who were out jogging in the street it was only thin that the gunman drove eight kilometers to the town of type where he attacked a supermarket took hostages and killed two more victims the violence has shaken people across the community was he. to kill i took cover because he saw me and then he followed me with a knife perhaps he had no more bullets left i did what anyone else would do i manage to get out through an emergency exit french president emmanuel makkal had been in brussels at a european summit as news of the attack him through after returning to paris he said france continue to be under threat never want to be just any for some years we have paid the price in blood in order to discover the cost of the terrorist threat

our soldiers abroad are risking their lives to reduce the threat from iraq and syria our forces of law and order do everything in their power to identify threats and neutralize them. now that it's clear the red one lacked in was known to the french intelligence services and had spent time in prison many people in france will be wondering how a man with such a profile could have slipped under the radar obtained weapons and caused so much carnage with actual butler al jazeera treb live and my colleague david chase or david what are the key questions for the authorities there this evening. i think this is the one raised by natasha package it's exactly how has this man this gunman escaped the attention of the french intelligence and security services well there is a partial answer is that they've first of all described him as a small time dealer not very interesting you know. a low level thief

essentially but then they admitted that he had been on their suspect watch list since twenty fourteen so essentially admitting that they don't really have the resources or their own intelligence to allow them to be able to predict the behavior of just one man so he was on their suspect list he was on their watch list intelligence officers were beginning to actually make sure they were watching him but they didn't know when he was going to act so there are a lot of questions to be answered a huge number of questions but the point is that this is perhaps the first real test for the french president emanuel mccraw a jury his first year of office and he actually made sure that the state of emergency was dropped last october then was actually taken up in legislation very harsh legislation he'll have to look at his own legislation here

have to look at his own security and intelligence forces and find out if it's effective enough because most people here tonight saying essentially there's nowhere safe in france and the person responsible for that is the commander in chief and that is the french president. on that idea of safety david had the french people begun to feel safe or more than two years after patrick lang when the state of emergency that you mentioned that had been rescinded replaced by a permanent standing legislation and today we've seen the events unfold in the south of france. i don't think so living in france myself and knowing what's happening knowing the scale of the problem i don't think anybody can feel safe and it's very very clear that major action is going to be taken to try and trace back the history of this gunman and find out

how did he get these weapons who is supplying him it seems unlikely he doesn't have a partner that he hasn't had contact with some sort of network now why on the intelligence services picking that up i think that's the important question that is going to be asked how did he get hold of these weapons and where are they coming from who's supplying them how is this contact done these are the answers the intelligence services and the police will be looking for as fast as possible but at the moment i don't think anybody here in france particularly feels that tall safe or secure david thank you very much well let's stay with that idea of the intelligence services for a second joining us on skype from berlin is the security specialist raphael boss on he is a research associate for the german institute for international and security affairs picking up on the point of what the intelligence agencies in france do now how can an individual go from being on a watch list to being not perceived as being particularly high risk to getting his

hands on a gamble. well i think it's different processes i mean as it was mentioned this person was probably a small time or is actually proven to be a small time criminal before it might well be possible that this person held on to a long gun for a long time already as a small time drugs leader so it's not necessarily the case that he only picked it up just now when he decided to undertake the act and the same time you know it's not to say that we should be complacent and just be passive but the number of people on this watch list in france is very very high indeed and this is a result of the particular threat france is facing but also of the policies of france are. conducted in the sense that france has actually a very extensive watch list well over ten thousand people so that fact alone may not mean there are much and this person may not have been listed in the same way in

another european country so this is not to say we should be complacent but we should provide some context. this listing me by itself means all that much this is clearly viewed now as a big test for the relatively new french president emmanuel macro you're talking there about a particular threat emmanuel micro today saying the threat is not external eighty's internal but break that down for me what are the particular facets of that that the french state has got to deal with. well france has been facing terrorism for the long time indeed i mean no no need on a national basis which is also from many many other countries but also from a jihadist. threat which is actually already been going on since the latest the nine hundred ninety s. so not since it's not a new. sort of many many foiled plots in the past and of course in recent years and

i'm also. seeing what the remark from across the indicators is that most people are looking at the end of the islamic state. primary sort of concerned with so-called foreign fighters who've gone there and come back to holland and trained and then seen as a major threat but well there is still the case attacks like this remind us and the security services that. other sources people who are living long time in the country and may not actually have this kind of experience post just as much as a threat at least of this kind of more improvised small scale attacks that we've seen just today ok but just to break that down to the next layer if you will i mean disfranchise have a problem with this particular kind of young man you were talking there about the salafist threat so-called granted that's the thing but is that related to this individual i mean we saw the pictures today of the quite humble but relatively prosperous council house block that he and his family lived in this family did well

disfranchise have a problem with this kind of dare i say quote migrant family who've come to france and they haven't got to the next stage of prosperity and whilst they claim allegiance to a group like iceland eisel says yes he was one of us the the line of connection between what i saw really is and what these individuals really are is not that solid it is not that well in hans they don't use it to communicate with each other for example. well the investigation will show what kind of line of connection they read it wasn't in every case it's a bit. different. well before you blow holes but people really take things in their own hands and that was only a very very thin connection and given that the i.s.i. actually had a very generic claim without really tells me indicate that but it's something we can't say yet but i'm young why the question well it's

a problem many european countries face but france faces a certain maybe heightened degree because it has a very large. migrant community which have particular integration problems as i said all countries haven't that in france there is a somewhat more trench problem but i think this is not the only explanation and it's not a straight line between some form of perceived. discrimination and radicalism i think it's also a matter of yes also french foreign policy i mean brief is not to blame french foreign policy but we can see that countries like france like britain who are much more engaged in the theaters of war and also against i.a.s. in the military capacity has been more exposed and have been more at the forefront of the threat and secondly we see also grown networks of recruiters and ideologues it's not clear whether this really played a role here but you know the biggest things that also makes a difference so it's not just imitation but entrenched millionaires entrenched

networks of radical preachers or veterans of previous conflicts and in france we've had this from the ninety's ever since the algerian civil war and people have been you know them taking refuge to certain extent but also taking the fight forward to france so that's why there is a particular and comparatively greater threat in france than in other european countries but in the end it's a shared threat and all european countries will be watching this developing very closely ok we'll leave it there a feel of a song in berlin many thanks. thank you. another rebel group has agreed to pull out of eastern just outside the syrian capital damascus now the government now controls many all the territory previously held by the rebels. as the latest group to withdraw now earlier this week fighters from the group also agreed to the evacuation deal has that story from beirut. there is no ceasefire here the pro-government alliance is bombing into submission the densely populated

town of the northern pocket of the now divided eastern who to and claim is controlled by the rebel faction. the russian military and the syrian government want the rebels to surrender negotiations have stalled i do not in particular demonstrate that there is still ongoing very active and violent still it is in people continue to be disgraced there is really no safe place in a lot of these areas that was reported that they've been sheltering in underground shelters in basements that even have not been able to be limited from the violence syrians who aren't afraid to go to government controlled territory have been streaming out of duma for days numbers vary but syrian state media so they are leaving the besieged town in their thousands passing through the government checkpoint that. hundreds remain trapped in the duma particularly those who fear arrest or even execution because of their role in the opposition they are demanding

an internationally monitored safe passage to other rebel held areas. those people are wanted by the state for opposition related activities they include medical activists civil defense volunteers and medics the united nations says there are one thousand humanitarian and medical workers who are trapped in eastern who are with their families who fear for their future the government calls them terrorists accusing them of hiding behind humanitarian work. the syrian army and its allies have recaptured most of the rebel controlled enclave in what has been one of the fiercest bombing campaigns in the past seven years the remaining towns in the southern part of the enclave are controlled by fila. that rebel faction agreed to what amounts to a surrender deal with the russian military it says it wants to end the suffering of the people at whatever cost that cost involves leaving their lives and homes behind . several thousand are being bussed from a town once controlled by after hour

a sham fighters who are now along with their families on their way to the rebel held province in the northwest it has become a place where rebels who agreed to hand over territory to the government are sent and more often than not civilians accompany them but it isn't safe it too is a target for the government's armed forces which are vowing to recapture the whole country. through has a new president two years martin this car has been sworn in replacing pedro public because shinseki resigned after facing threats of impeachment this was until now the country's vice president and the ambassador to canada had been caught up in a number of scandals including accusations of links to brush the brazilian construction company which has admitted paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes for public contracts across south america mariana sanchez joins us live now

from lima how much experience does mr vickery bring to this new top job. well peter we've got i was the governor of a very small state in the south of peru where he was able to rise. of education from. the country to one of the top he also has a lot of very good. with the social conflict so we saw why president. time called him to be the first vice president to allow him to help the government to deal with one very one issue that is very important because there are nearly two hundred social conflicts. however we will have to see if he'll be able to deal with congress that's a much more difficult task if the congress is controlled by the popular force party fujimori been the leader of the forty popular force party who said that she when

she last took a change key twenty months ago she said that she was going to govern the country from congress well that's basically what she's been doing and that's what built up our local chines gave the outgoing president said all along that it was impossible to deal with a congress like that. but didn't discover was greeted with a standing ovation it's the same congress that pushed him out of his police transport minister less than one year ago. the fifty five year old former governor of the tiny southern state to deep oath and it's the deepest political crisis in decades in the endian nation look yes truth is real it's time to say enough is enough what has happened most marked the time to put an end to the politics of hate and confrontation that hasn't done anything else but damage the country. even the other rich corruption scandal led to the resignation of. former president in

jail and congress approved the extradition of another former president. from the u.s. at the end of the night on friday the new president said he would be tough on corruption look at obviously the grave situation that we've been true merits the clarification of responsibilities and that any type of regularity committed should be taken to justice. many peruvian say they're ready to move on just almost down south with bamboo are tired of being so underdeveloped of so much corruption we want martin to be our hope that he really improves our country's development education health and agriculture should be the main issues to succeed analysts say the big question for these cattle now is where will you get the political strength to govern with this congress for the mahdi a popular party hold the majority only gets you a majority that former president. accused of impeding his ability to govern his

party peruvians for change now support but with very few votes. and the challenges for change are many from reigniting the economy to fighting crime and pushing forward rebuilding the country left devastated by the phenomenon last year . i however many say the scotus greatest challenge will be to get the people's trust and opinion poll says that in early march eighty one percent of peruvians did . even. well. he will if it. happens. all the. money. all the presidential candidates men made. this government

start i think that there will still be a political crisis because we will still see more heads rolling. thanks very much plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including the offices of cambridge and. his part of the investigation into alleged misuse of facebook data. hawks take flights in washington. appointments raise questions over the direction of u.s. foreign policy. and the. cheese an unlikely cricketing dream. zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe is being investigated for alleged involvement in an ivory smuggling operation that follows a three month inquiry by an undercover journalist and the seizure of a two hundred kilogram package of illegal ivory at harare airport has malcolm webb

. cindy going to this group or not is never going adrian stern went undercover as an ivory buyer in zimbabwe he says he received more death threats and he can count he's a wildlife photographer who began investigating the illegal ivory trade in december speaking exclusively to our zira he says young covered a poaching and smuggling syndicate which he believes is led by the former first lady grace mugabe ivory which is being sourced either from the national parks vote bank the food or from live elephants being killed by poaching syndicates the syndicate within sale to the squad till she would then be able to pack that and sent it out through the airport anything through that airport that was the property of the first lady was not searched or scanned in any way stern got the documents undercover videos and testimonies which she showed to al jazeera as investigative unit he says they expose the syndicate and the former first lady's involvement this

is the vault from where he says tens of millions of dollars of ivory and rhino horn was stolen when he presented evidence to zimbabwe's wildlife authority they allowed him in to allege smugglers have since been charged with possession of ivory and investigations been opened a special advisor to president emerson. confirmed to our dizzier in a written statement that the government of zimbabwe will seek answers from all parties implicated in this matter including former first lady grace mugabe about their knowledge of the illegal export of prohibited items from our country. al-jazeera contacted grace mcgarvie staff lawyers and relatives for comment he didn't respond during the presidency of a husband robert she was a controversial figure earning the nickname. for her extravagant shopping sprees. hopes of succeeding him were dashed when the army forced him from power in november

and mango took over three weeks later this shipment of two hundred kilograms of ivory was seized harare's airport stern says his investigations on covered evidence which appears to connect it to grace mcgarvie and the smuggling syndicate the new government keen to clean up its international image after decades of mugabe rule since the change of power the poaching in the smuggling investigation is the first major challenge to the garbage family dynasty malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. students from the florida high school where seventeen people were shot dead last month of now arrived in washington to lead saturday's march for our lives a vent at least half a million people are expected to join them in the u.s. capitol for this and. all the eight hundred events have also been planned worldwide a number of celebrities have given their support to the movement singers including miley cyrus and ariana grande will perform in the washington correspondent and gallagher joins us live now from washington andy over to you.

well this is the washington cathedral a national cathedral right behind me and on the eve of that momentous march to having an interfaith service here inside the church people from all sorts of but grounds all sorts of ethnicities the church says this represents the amount of harm done without gun reform inside the parents of one of those killed in parkland will be addressing the service but less bringing who is a republican strategist to the republican party hasn't been known for being pro gun reform but that's not how you think about all this right certainly i don't but i'm encouraged by the numbers there's a new poll that's out from the associated press that says that sixty nine percent of americans support stricter gun control now and that includes half of republicans and a majority of gun owners so that's encouraging news because i'm part of the action of republicans that believes that now more than ever we need sensible gun control

in this country and if members of congress aren't willing to put country over party they don't deserve to be in these seats any longer i guess the biggest battle though is getting politicians away from taking money from the national rifle association and stop being so afraid of the national rifle association how do you do that one thing is in the united states is that there's a great influence of money in politics and so getting people to take a principled stand when it means that they may not be reelected due to the money that's needed to win campaigns is tough and it really means that we're going to have to do something different as voters it may become something that's a single issue referendum for example and that in the midterms we know that happens of course i'm not sure what all this means i thought that after the las vegas shootings when we saw so many people at a country music concert just enjoying themselves we would see republicans look differently it took a school shooting another one one of countless ones now in america that has put

politicians' feet to the fire but they are. when to enact any gotten reform even after a member of congress the shot during a baseball practice center tomorrow we've got about a half a million people many of them young people now who will be able to vote come november and in the future years do you think politicians will sense that the tide is changing that opinion is changing and change their own views i'm not sure that that's going to happen quite as fast as we think about what's encouraging is that young people are partaking in peaceful protest and that's going to leave an impression on many lawmakers that various levels and i think that's what's most inspiring is that this this change could happen at state and local levels rather than all of it being federally which many of us would hope but we really should start somewhere and that's where i think these young people can have a great impact by holding leaders at all levels accountable thank you very much so just one opinion there perhaps representative of how people in this country are

beginning to change their opinion on gun reform of course the march for our lives event on saturday march and in d.c. could be the biggest of its kind peter and i thank you for. staying in the states donald trump's appointment of the hardline of john bolton national security adviser has raised questions internationally mr bolton has previously pushed for the preemptive bombing of iran and north korea but he's not the only recent addition to the u.s. presidential team with a more aggressive tone and white house correspondent. recent appointments made by u.s. president ahmed trump to his cabinet have left many in washington nervous i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the cabinet others say that i was on his most recent appointment john bolton as national security advisor underscores that concern. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations was the chief architect of president george w.

bush's justification for the two thousand and three us invasion of iraq and appears ready to construct the cases for other wars the national security advisor among whatever other functions he or she might have has two critical roles number one making sure that the president has the four range of options in published editorials bolton has called for the bombing of iran and north korea last month in the wall street journal newspaper he called north korea an imminent threat arguing it is perfectly legitimate for the united states to respond to the current necessity posed by north korea's nuclear weapons by striking first but it's not just bolton surrounding trump with aggressive ideas trump's new pick to lead the u.s. state department is equally hawkish mike pompei o as cia director favors confrontation with iran tearing up the iran agreement and supported trump's moving of the u.s.

embassy to jerusalem will not a cabinet appointment in pompei is placed trump is left gina housefull to take over the cia during her intelligence career she once ran a cia black site in thailand. with a brutal practice of waterboarding took place trump's defense secretary james mattis remains in his cabinet and although he's considered by some to be the moderate voice mattis also holds hawkish views on iran even the recent a dish. larry kudlow is white house economic advisor has the u.s. position for an aggressive trade war to counter chinese trade practices but one analyst argues the changing face of the trumpet ministration may actually help the one thing we do know about the koreans and russians and iranians is that they do respect strength and perhaps the show of strength will be enough to call them tensions rather than. already this week donald trump has picked

a fight with china and now it's in terror of dozens of imports into the united states but fears of a trade war are small compared to the big concerns about the fight donald trump now appears to be positioning with north korea and iran can really help at al-jazeera at the white house ok still to come here on the news for you tens of thousands rally in poland against plans to make it harder to have an abortion. a new tax on the menu in somalia and it's leaving a sour taste with customers and business of. sports l.a. galaxy spread no expense to welcome there become a sign. how low we've got more snow in the forecast across north america little area of cloud

pushing rural across the rockies clear skies come back in behind speckling of showers across the pacific northwest into a western canada this area clouds we have across the central areas running into the cold rare snow one the northern flank of that and some rather heavy rain across so southern areas kentucky tennessee over towards the carolinas will see some rather lively showers for the northeast high pressure in charge so at least it will be crisp but dry and sunny and it stays dry and sunny as we go on through sunday the wetter weather down into that southeastern corner seventeen cells is the top temperature in atlanta with some bits and pieces of rain not too much rain in the forecast across the caribbean over the next day or so is generally settled fine and sunny a chance of wanted to showers yes as always a possibility maybe into dominican republic you could see a few showers just rolling in here easterly winds driving showers over towards panama like a regular costa rica but to the north of that it's going to find dry presently

woman sunday twenty six ounces for guatemala and for mexico city over the next day you'll see the showers continue across the western side of the caribbean but we want to show is creeping towards jamaica but by and large is dry. i am doing this for the benefit of people. so they see me important. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. we here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this

story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me recapping your top stories the police in southern france have been searching the home of a suspected gunman who killed three people in a series of attacks before being shot dead by the police he's been identified as a twenty six year old brother wayne like dean he said he was fighting on behalf of

ice. a second rebel group has agreed to pull out of the eastern picture in syria the government now controls nearly old of the previously rebel held territory near damascus. and martin this car has been sworn in as peru's new president to the form of value. president will replace pedro public who resigned after facing threats of impeachment because of allegations of corruption. the london offices of cambridge analytic are being searched as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of private information of millions of facebook users the raid by the u.k.'s data watchdog comes after a high court judge granted a search warrant for the company's offices last week whistleblower claimed the company harvested private data from fifty million facebook profiles the information was allegedly used to support donald trump's twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign well some companies are now distancing themselves from

facebook after those revelations of that major leak of a user data musk has deleted the facebook pages for his space x. and tesla companies after he was dead to do that on twitter other companies followed suit including the web giant mozilla and the german bank commerzbank is the least fallout from the scandal that seen facebook shervon you tumble in at the online movement to delete personal accounts facebook planning a closed door staff meeting very soon top of the agenda facebook dean crutchfield is a corporate branding specialist he joins us now from new york dean welcome to al-jazeera has the come time now come for mark zuckerberg and facebook to. jettison the idea of closed door meetings they've got to open those doors they've got to go fully down the road of utter transparency. absolutely i mean this is an art to catastrophe we're actually seeing a case study in exactly what not to do when you have a crisis situation like this on your hands and what's most damning is the fact that

it's facebook a major player a major brand a major stock and yet it has no crisis plan it doesn't marshal a crisis team it doesn't get mark to speak sooner than later and then they actually have to hide nothing in tell all and we really don't know where they still stand especially when it comes to regulation so it's a real pickle what's the central issue here might it be that facebook in effect if you think about it from another perspective it's like a digitized pen optic and we are all being watched in a control group in a controlled environment but we don't know we're being watched and that's just wrong well i think we all know that our data is valuable i think most of us know that people want our data i think what we just don't know is how it's being used how it's being sold and i think if someone lifts the lid up on that which i think is going to now happen we're going to be quite shocked and horrified in terms of the abuses that happened over our data and this is just one example of it so we're going to see a lot more conversation you know this whole idea of privacy and security is now a mainstream topic from the boardroom to the living room it's on everybody's mind

right now and that battle for privacy and security is going to happen and happen on social media and facebook taking the lead you see facebook's taking the lead taking the lead in being blamed or being identified as being the problem but nobody is constantly being blamed i think in part me for interrupting you but nobody is coming through and saying what we could we could sort this or we could sort this when you see data is valuable the reality surely is this that if the product is free that means your the product you are being manipulated you are being sold on. yes we are exactly but i think again that we're aware that that's happening i don't think many people are naive to think that everything safe and no one's looking at you the very nature of how we do it the way that we want personalized service is the growth of ai all of that means exactly that that there's more information out there for people and most of us are often willing to give it its when we're juked

into giving the information as exactly what happened here with this academic app that we're put was put out and go to the hunt three hundred thousand people to submit their data you know that's actually a con and we know there's a lot of bad people out there so the job facebook has is to make sure those bad people don't get access to my data and that's where they failed so here's the big question i've got to ask right there either incompetent because they didn't know it happened and it was a toll calamity or they knew about it or are aware of it and that makes them complicit so really those are the two questions here and i think you know they need to answer those and that will have to happen when zuckerberg takes the standing testifies on the hill ok when he testifies on the hill will he be asked do you think the question that everyone else is asking and it's this is very simple it's very basic it's very local why has facebook or why has historically made it so difficult to delete or deactivate your facebook account because other people can get it going again and if you say you want information from an organization that

uses facebook but doesn't have a web page this stuff about signing with your facebook page no we maybe don't want to do that but we have to do it and then that reactivates or it on deletes the thing that we thought we deleted but then we find that actually you don't delete it because it has to stand in that sort of file of to be deleted for up to three years right. well i think that's what you're really hitting a big point there because i mean their stocks taking a battering and now their trust is taking a battering and we're only going to see more and more information we want detail we will understand step by step what happened here where else has it happened other other examples of this so we're we want to get to the real deep details of this we want to get zuckerberg in a seat so he can testify about what's happened here and give us all the detail we're going to ask and i think what you're going to see is a seismic shift in people's attitudes and behavior when this case comes to come to comes to the hill and he explains what the hell happened interesting relevant

conversation so good to talk to you thank you so much for joining us from new york . thank you thank you well cambridge analytic is influence may have spread further than just the twenty sixteen u.s. election candidates in the forthcoming mexican presidential election are denying reports they also hired the u.k. company john holeman has that aspect of the story from mexico city. cambridge journalists could told on the cover of porter's that it was working in mexico what we do know is that the company did set up shop here and it was looking for a presidential candidate that it could work with now all of the major candidates said that they had nothing to do with the company but this is still a timely wakeup call for mexico and that's because it's heading into the biggest elections in its history a more than sixty percent of the population over the age of six is now online making the potential targets for influencing there and it slowly and mask it and it

doesn't matter if the biggest election where the most young people are going to vote and we have of the most voters connected many will be in better ways of using new technology and almost all of my facebook and a lot going to depend on how effective a strategy is influencing them as much make news as voting him a sheet depending on when the last is that they hear us the country's already seen some do you b.s. online and tech practices for example since two thousand and twelve experts have noticed that when there's a hash tag on twitter this in particular been criticizing the government then other accounts are sprung up bringing out hundreds of tweets per minute to dilute or to the rail that protesting hash tag they've been called those accounts penya bots named after the country's president it also emerged last year that the government have booked surveillance technology that was then used to spy on human rights lawyers activists and journalists but the focus isn't just going to be on mexico

this year there's elections coming up across latin america including brazil colombia and venezuela and there's going to be a lot of eyes on the online battle for the electorate. around fifty five thousand demonstrators in poland have rallied against plans to restrict abortions the country already has some of the harshest laws anywhere in europe illegal terminations are commonplace while others opt to travel abroad to have an abortion and a word with more. marching towards poland's parliament signs of defiance . thousands of women and men coming together to fight plans to make it harder top an abortion in poland where the norse already some of the most restrictive in the european union. i have two values that's why i'm here it's compassion and respect for women and respect for life they want a limits human rights and it's only human rights we cannot talk about human rights

when we exclude fifty percent of population the current law allows women to have an abortion if there's a risk to their life or their health or their pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and if there's irreversible damage to the fetus the new law would ban all abortions in cases of fetal abnormality it's about being pregnant and knowing that the child that you're carrying is going to die actually and die in pain and that's what the church wants from us and that's what the government wants from us and they have no idea what they are talking about. in twenty sixteen an attempt by the government to restrict abortion was dropped after the large scale protests this new bill put forward by civic group is backed by the catholic church and m.p.'s from poland's ruling party. this latest considered another example of the battle between hard line conservatives the more liberal elements in poder society

anti abortion campaigners say a change to the current law would save lives i am deeply shocked that. anyone could . go out to the streets and. promotes their right to kill their weak and most harmless people you can imagine so they're disabled children in their whims of their mothers un human rights experts calling on the polish government to reject the barrel campaign is on both sides to pry tom and he would al-jazeera. politicians have clashed in georgia city assembly as a heated debate turned violent punches started flying between two opposition members one of whom went on the offensive using a telephone as an improvised weapon the men were arguing over the creation of a new political faction in the city of d.d. after they were separated by a fellow politicians medics had to be called in to treat them for their injuries.

protests are taking place in catalonia after spain's top court detained five separatist leaders for their role in last year's independence but the court also issued international arrest warrants for six other catalan figures if that abroad including the former regional president collars put in moments police used batons keep the demonstrators away from the federal government offices in barcelona. zimbabwe's junior doctors are continuing to strike over wages despite the government refusing to pay salaries and allowances now the doctors say they will not be intimidated and they will not return to work until those demands are met it is the first big labor dispute since president emerson took office last year from harare. junior doctors in zimbabwe have been on earth strike for nearly a month they demanding better pay and working conditions they say their basic salary is three hundred and twenty nine dollars a month they do get some allowances but they insist it's not enough they feel the

government is ignoring them they feel the government isn't taking them seriously is an angry and the frustration you are frustrated every day you see patients but there's no equipment there no gloves these visually nothing your patients can't have access to blood so it's is though is the experience they have then on top of that they have a great doctor and a hundred doctors a dangerous to. the minister himself to the house of the teachings of islam so we're really hoping that there's going to be engaged from the procedure to fix these issues because it is now going beyond the capabilities of the minister and his office zimbabwe's government is broke it's a shortage of foreign currency the ministry of health has made some striking doctors trying to convince them to go back to work myself but every offer that's upon the table has been rejected if seems the patients who are suffering the most in many public hospitals they aren't even essential drugs some of the doctors who

are on strike i've been complaining say that there are days when they don't even have gloves to do their work right now there's no indication when the strike is going to end and a lot of people are watching the situation very very closely as a health situation in zimbabwe continues to deteriorate. there is growing anger from consumers in somalia over the rising cost of shopping and eating outs now that's because of the first five percent sales tax in nearly thirty years the government says the levee is crucial for somalia's economic recovery mohamed atta reports now from mogadishu. we're going to shoes lido beach is a sign of somalia's growing sense of optimism that it's come first with shaded table said clients mainly middle mogadishu's welfare elite. sipping expensive coffee but these days they're having to pay more for their food and drinks the government has just introduced a five percent sales tax for the first time in almost thirty years many are unhappy

that i was any higher i just paid three dollars of tax yet i don't trust the government they have missed my needs revenue from other sources including don't know if child this tax will not be different is the reaction of somali traders to the tax has been more dramatic. shops and stores in mogadishu sprawling but car market which is a lifeline for the city and surrounding areas remain closed for days the traders were particularly and get by the governments and sisters that they pay the value added tax up front for the mother said we had meetings with the prime minister in his finance minister to voice our complaint the meetings was inconclusive we then decided to shut our businesses in protests. businesses have since we opened signaling a fast round of victory for the government of the last we explain that there was no going back on the stacks and that it must be paid for the sake of the nation of somalia people relented and now more and more people are stepping forward to register for taxation government officials say live in you from taxes will be

distributed across the regions of the country to fund health care education infrastructure and security tax collection is also a key condition for that relief for somalia from the international monetary fund and the world bank somalia are also around four billion dollars most of it interest and penalties or nearly three decade old made to the former military government whose overthrow in one thousand nine to one plunged the country into years of lawlessness. that makes it almost impossible for mogadishu to access money from international organizations like the i.m.f. forcing it to rely almost entirely on aid for it's a budget with some some. optimism. on the road to solve reliance. on almost three decades officials admit that facing

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sport andy. thank you very much well afghanistan of claim the tenth and final place at next year's cricket world cup in england they beat island by five wickets in the qualifying events being hosted by zimbabwe this win for afghanistan that eliminates

it all and was the culmination of the toughest world cup qualification process in twenty five years all and restricted hits a score of two hundred nine to seven in their fifty overs it was paul's world governing body the i.c.c. has been criticised for reducing the size of the games highest profile events it means teams like zimbabwe nepal scotland and the united arab emirates of all missed out of afghanistan and made sure of that prize winning in harare with five balls to spare the country into the world cup for the second time. well the fifty over world cup has become the incredible shrinking tournament next year's event in england will include just ten teams that is the smallest number since the nine hundred ninety two edition where nine countries took part in twenty fifteen fourteen countries were in action all and afghanistan scotland and the u.a.e. all included the biggest ever world cup was hosted by the west indies in two thousand and seven sixteen countries were there including canada but muta kenya the

netherlands well earlier on i spoke to the cricket writer at the lee premier chandra he explained how the decision to reduce the number of competing teams came a bounce. pressure from the leading cricket boards namely england australia and india the broadcaster want small indie games to current format the one that would be used in twenty nine hundred million entrants twenty three in india guaranteed to broadcast in at least nine indian matches and that's what they want unfortunately the world cup the world has been taken out of it soon with you know cough is the term. of course it will damage the game because we won't see incentive the young players in these developing countries still to work on that talent and whereas for drew i started watching for ninety minutes to the world cup there was twenty four teams just one through asia that was through eight to dramatic cricket cameroon

algeria this year you have five asian teams side from africa that sports group they don't shrink they don't you know build walls around themselves. never joke of it she has lost three consecutive matches on the men's tennis circuit for the first time since two thousand and seven the twelve time grand slam champion beaten six three six four by ben was in the second round of the miami young fan wasn't the only one having a bad day on courts. you have several hours ago emergency thought of five minutes you're alone you say you then you need less than you don't think so you think you're the kid. i know medvedev there of russia unhappy despite winning his match against a nineteen year old stuff unless it's a mid match toilet break taken by his opponents had particularly annoyed medvedev at last year's wimbledon he was hit with a big fine after arguing with and then throwing money at an umpire. i only saw as a match winning run has been brought to an end up the same sort of the twenty year

old from japan won her maiden top title indian wells and backs that up by beating serena williams in the opening round in miami but alina is bitterly let one this match in straight sets. the l.a. galaxy have confirmed the signing of former manchester united striker as lathan abraham of which a full page ad was taken out in the l.a. times to confirm the swedes move to major league soccer their los angeles you're welcome it read along with signature and he's also appeared in a typically low key video. central's welcome to. she needs you have dates and asia's top ranked saying iran in one of many friendly international cycling places around the globe both teams heading to the world cup

and were unbeaten in their respective horrifying campaigns own goal is enough to end iran's eleven game unbeaten run iran a group with portugal spain and morocco in the finals will cheer israel be taking on england belgium panama. russia will beat in three nil barbara zille in moscow germany and spain joulwan want argentina beat italy to know in manchester just feeling god the difference is england beat the netherlands while my salah put egypt on course for an upset against portugal only for christiane elder to score twice in injury time and clinch but see one victory f one world champion lewis hamilton looking good ahead of the first race of the new season the must say the driver was fastest in both sessions ahead of sunday's australian grand prix the same fifth world title. and you saying bolt has been upping his efforts to improve his skills as a football player the eight time sprint champion at the olympics trained with germany

but in this league it seemed brush it all meant bolt and that same coincidentally enough sponsored by the same sportswear company after me oh it's playing as a top level my dream is to play for manchester united because it's my favorite club or for me my biggest goal is to work or to play in one of the biggest any top leave in any country serve our country in the boom as the league apparently will be great that is why sports looking for now more later ok i will have thirty minutes of world news for you when we come back i'll see you very soon.

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