looking beautiful moment to blossom in tokyo and it really does look good from some of the images we've seen twenty three as a whole in tokyo on thursday we're going to see our patchy cloud across the korean peninsula but it should be dry very poor air quality in beijing at the moment that will probably continue to head on through into friday though it should stay dry up a stable bit cooler for tokyo highs than of seventeen. conflict standing something. united tyrian disaster displacing more than half a nice and. just zero world meets the children who have become victims of syria's civil war. i am a syrian child announces iraq.

this is al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes a diplomatic triumph the china in pink trumps from becoming the first world leader to meet north korea's kim jong il in the. polls close in egypt's presidential election but it looks like turnout has been low despite the best efforts of the government is donald trump setting his sights on amazon rumors that he's doing just that send shares in the retail giant tumbling. and i'm peter with all the day's sport including australia's disgraced cricketers steve smith and

david warner are banned from playing for twelve months for their part in a ball tampering scandal. in the program. north korea's leader has pledged his commitment to denuclearization and says he will go ahead and meet u.s. officials that's according to china which has just hosted the reclusive leader after days of speculation beijing revealed that kim jong un was its guest from sunday to wednesday what it called an unofficial visit but kim jong un received almost all the trappings of a state visit including an honor guard and a banquet in the capital's great hall of the people from beijing our china correspondent adrian brown reports for xi jinping this was a diplomatic triumph he did not u.s. president donald trump now the first world leader to beat kim jong il. chinese

state controlled media waited until kim was back home before confirming what officials had tried so hard to deny just a day earlier. in the great hall of the people kim and his wife were welcomed like old friends appearance is important at times like this she opted for a business suit whereas kim stuck to the look favored by his father and grandfather the wives of both men were present during most of the photo opportunities. visits like this are all about symbolism for she it served as a reminder that china still holds sway over its neighbor and intends to be at the center of diplomatic efforts to achieve a nuclear free korean peninsula it's not clear what made him come to beijing or indeed what incentives he may have been offered to do so but china remains north korea's only real friend and ally so it's fair to assume the president xi jinping

might want to know what kim's negotiating strategy will be during his upcoming summit with president trump. kim's visit made it possible for china to know what north korea will be talking about to south korea and the united states in his discussions on the nuclearization china has also learned what north korea's demands will be which will help china. it's a visit that would have seemed unimaginable just a few months ago where north korea was ignoring chinese appeals for restraint at an exhibition showcasing some of china's technological achievements the message appeared to be we can help you with all of this if you behave. china's leaders of fond of metaphors that a lavish banquet she told his guest that in the beautiful season of spring everything comes to life kim replied i believe our meeting will yield abundant fruit that could mean making good on his commitment to give up nuclear weapons the

fruits of spring were apparent in the garden of the state guesthouse where friendship also seemed to blossom she accepted an invitation to visit north korea and told him he was welcome to visit china again the visitors left happy adrian brown al-jazeera beijing well the us president donald trump gave his reaction to the meeting on twitter he wrote received a message last night from ping of china that is meeting with kim jong il on went very well and that kim looks forward to his meeting with me in the meantime and unfortunately maximum sanctions and pressure must be maintained at all cost let's get more on this now then joining us live from washington d.c. is patricia kamal who is a stanton nuclear security fellow at the council on foreign relations her current research portfolio includes projects on the north korean nuclear crisis and the

future of the korean peninsula madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so this meeting between the chinese and north korean leaders take place takes place after what seven years that kim jong un has been in power so why now and what do you think each leader takes away from it. so i think the meeting between china and north korea demonstrates that despite the strained relations as you noted you know the two leaders haven't met for seven years despite these strained relations for many years that the two sides realize that they need each other to be partners that there is mutual gain to be had by corden ating their approaches to the united states so for shipping paying he most likely reached out to kim jong un to at a minimum get his read on the situation and to ensure that north korea would keep china's interests in mind as it starts to negotiate with the united states and kim

jong un probably accepted xi jinping offer to meet in order to enlist china's support for its negotiating position to and to get china's guarantee to stand against military strikes in case the talks don't go anywhere i guess we have seen from the north koreans more diplomacy than we have seen in the past in the past few months but ultimately what incentive do you think there will be for kim jong un to actually denuclearize. so i think most experts agree that kim jong un doesn't intend to denuclearize at least at the pace that the united states wants it's to north korea has come to the negotiating table because the maximum pressure campaign has been or they've realized that the maximum pressure campaign is unsustainable that it's squeezing the regime and that it needs to find a way out so they will most likely be seeking concessions seeking some sort of

sanctions relief in return for minimal concessions on their part so i mean there does seem to be even if it's superficial but some kind of optimism about these talks looking ahead with soul and washington as well but ultimately what do you think all of this is going to lead to or is it just the case of north korea as you mentioned kind of pulling back and realizing that the path that that it was on wasn't sustainable in the long term. so i think we can hope that it will open some doors but again i think where we have very different expectations on all sides and i'm afraid that it could lead to disappointment in talks when trump and kim jong un meet in may like i said the united states wants north korea to quickly denuclearize it the trump administration has said that it cannot tolerate north korea gaining the capability to strike the u.s. with a nuclear weapon whereas when north korea talks about denuclearizing we don't know

what timeline it has in mind most likely its thinking in terms of you know years or decades and so i think there are very different expectations on both sides so we're so you know i i don't i'm not too off to mystic that we're going to solve this problem with just one summit coming up in may patricia kim stanton nuclear security fellow at the council foreign relations madam think you. polls have now closed in egypt's presidential election ending three days of voting with no real challenger president of the fact that sisi is set to win a landslide victory but low voter turnout has been a problem despite the best efforts from the authorities who have been trying to lure people into polling booths with the promise of many. reports yet natalie's he'd go vote and you will immediately be paid the equivalent

of three dollars an ounce because of for bribes to egyptians to cast their ballots as government fears of a low turnout grow state media police and officials are pushing to try and prevent embarrassment. trucks distributed sugar rice and cooking oil in poor areas businessman offered people free rides to go to polling stations. the government's using the carrot as well as the stick to boost turnout it just choose to stay way risk being fined. for whoever abstains from casting his vote with no justifiable reason faces a fine of twenty eight dollars it's our duty to ensure the law is implemented we are a country that respects the law president our bill for to has sisi has bit for reelection

is almost unchallenged fear is a low turnout will be widely seen as a sign of growing discontent among the people senior army officers visited polling stations across the country they insist the election went smooth and the turnout is higher than reported by the media. but even if the turnout is low c.c. is expected to trounce his opponent. the little known politician who announced his bit of a last minute sissy's sat for an easy win but is likely to face many challenges during his second term critics dismiss claims by c.c. supporters who say he's the right man for egypt and he's helped improve the economy some analysts say the vast majority of egyptians were solved the biggest challenge

for him right now i think is the economy if you look at some of the macro level indicators like g.d.p. and foreign reserves things seem to have improved for for egypt over the past two years particularly since they enacted tough economic reforms encouraged by the i.m.f. but on the micro level life for the average egyptian has actually gotten a lot more difficult because inflation has increased dramatically presidencies he said repeatedly that if we elected it's going to be his final four years. but he's already pushing for constitutional changes to pave the way for the general turned politician to run for a third term. well little earlier i spoke to our senior political analyst madeleine he told me the satisfaction is high in egypt for a number of reasons but mainly due to the strong political repression that is great

that the selection of europe has been silent in fact has been a piecing the egyptian general and the united states not only has been appeasing has been praising the. president in fact the former sec of state tell us and said there is no gap between the egyptian regime of the united states vice-president pend said. president sisi is a friend of the united states and of course person from said he's a close friend of ours i guess especially the european countries would look at egypt and say well o.c.c. is the devil that we know and the last thing we need is an egypt that is like libya or iraq or syria we need stability and we are willing to sacrifice the democratic principle but how stable is egypt right now and you know this compromise it's be made by the west i mean ultimately is it going to be effective that's a very important question and i think that's the dilemma facing most of western leaders. there's this idea this notion of the likes of sisi even the likes of

assad and the likes of publicness old man and others but they'll get on ters of security and stability in the region and partners in the fight against terrorism than the alternative but the fact of the matter is the hit the ships authoritarian regimes and repression in the arab world is that the root cause of terrorism instability and violence in the middle east so having taking the shortcut of supporting more repressive regimes will not allow for stability in fact i would argue not only it was going to create more chaos next time around in egypt and the likes it's going to create even worse blowback to those who supported repressive regimes in the arab world and i think the egyptian streets we're going forward it's i think it's going to show signs of dissatisfaction and we've been seeing that since two thousand and thirteen when sisi basically you know ran a coup to tell in the country and with each and every passing month we're seeing

more and more dissatisfaction the political repression is high and deep and why. the economic austerity measures are leading to more and more dissatisfaction among the egyptians and certainly radicalism extremism and the likes of isis in sinai is all or causes of insta pics. well voting is now over in egypt but our social media producer and pal has more now about what's been trending online on the final day of voting the turnout in this election is being closely watched for an indication of egyptians trust in the president local media dominated by pro-government voices have portrayed voting as an obligation and the only way to prevent foreign forces from sowing instability regardless of the choice of candidates many egyptians voted to carry out a basic civic duty. we have to cast your ballot we have to express our opinion and make a difference we've seen our neighbors suffering instability and turmoil but we have

stability thank god the most important thing forty seven point five percent of eligible voters participated four years ago handing sisi his first election victory with nearly ninety seven percent of the vote if you were voters participated in the last election in twenty fourteen compared to two thousand and twelve when mohamed morsi became egypt's first democratically elected president egypt's election authorities said sisi received ten million more votes in twenty fourteen then morsi did in two thousand and twelve so forty seven point five percent in two thousand and fourteen fifty two percent in two thousand and twelve but check out this number from two thousand and five only twenty three percent of eligible voters cast ballots in that race when former president mubarak faced a challenger from the gods party that's the same party as cc's only challenger. now pop culture has played a role in getting people to vote this week and many of the prominent pro-government hashtags for the election featured videos of people dancing outside polling stations playing songs by popular artists encouraging people to participate this

song. or good omen was released for the twenty fourteen election but it continues to be played outside many polling stations this week it's a massive hit that's racked up more than two hundred and eighty six million views on you tube. and it appears that american election observers became hooked by the catchy tunes as well several videos of u.s. officials dancing outside polling stations have gone viral on egyptian social media that's something that's hurt some online observers a cairo based writer and filmmaker here calling it a celebration of the unopposed triumph of a military dictator and while the u.s. embassy in cairo says that as americans they are very impressed by the enthusiasm and patriotism of egyptian voters you have commentators such as while iskandar who say that western complicity and partnership in the crimes against the egyptian people are the most important story about the elections. there now much more to come on the news hour including courtroom drama. faceoff in

a legal dispute with heated exchanges. the people of. burying their dead after sunday's shopping center fire that killed sixty four people forty one of them children and the day before the new baseball season gets underway there is something foul at the dodger stadium will have all the details in sports. but first new details are emerging of the u.s. special council's investigation into potential collusion between russia and donald trump's election campaign at least five people have pleaded guilty in connection with the probe and next week a lawyer alex found there will be the first to be sentenced that prosecutors say that there is a clear connection to a russian intelligence operative has equal hain has the latest. in just

a few days alexander's one will walk back into the federal courthouse to be sentenced his crime lying to investigators and special counsel robert miller's probe into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia his sentencing documents lay out for the first time the clearest connection yet between russia and the campaign it details conversation between former campaign aide rick gates and someone labeled a person investigators say person a has ties to a russian intelligence service and had such ties in two thousand and sixteen it goes on to say the bender's one admitted that he knew of that connection stating that gates told him person a was a former russian intelligence officer with the g.r.u. gates is also pled guilty and is cooperating with telling him all about the conversations that happened just months before the election a lawyer vendors work with gates and former campaign chairman paul mann of ford on a report that was meant to legitimize the prosecution of former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko concerned that they could face charges over two thousand

and sixteen then there's one now admits he recorded phone calls and destroyed e-mails when caught by muller he confessed miller says he shouldn't be shown levy and see for eventually telling the truth and urges the court to impose a large fine same vendor swan can afford it his father in law is a prominent russian oligarch with close ties to the russian president attorneys for venezuelan say he should be spared prison arguing he's been stuck in the last few months without any good friends or family they say that should be punishment enough investigators though painted a pretty harsh picture for the judge they'll find out next tuesday he could face up to five years in prison or up to a two hundred fifty thousand dollars fine. al-jazeera washington. saying in the u.s. saw lane retailer amazon's stock price has been sliding on wall street after reports emerged that donald trump well to to reign in the retail giant speculation the u.s.

president wants to change amazon's tax treatment let's go to my cabin now who is following developments in washington d.c. for us so tell us a little bit more about what happened on wall street. well it was a disaster for those investing in amazon at the close of the day the value of amazon shares had dropped by nearly five percent of that amounts to sun thirty three billion dollars lost and all of this because of the reported musing of a president in which he was quoted in a news report as saying that he is looking for ways in which to take action against amazon now no coincidence perhaps as well but amazon has been the subject of tweets by the president before he's accused in the past of costing u.s. jobs he's also twin demos on with the washington post now these are both earned by jeff b.'s us so there could be a personal element to these reported public statements that it would appear by

president trump so mike i guess you sort of explain one of the reasons why the president could be targeting amazon but publicly what what could be his other reason. well the report is goes into quite some detail about what has been happening in the white house and the way in which the president has been speaking aloud to two business associates and indeed two friends now the report goes on to say that his friends have told him that they are suffering because of amazon's action that also the shopping malls the bricks and mortar type retail facilities are also suffering because of amadan also the report states that president trump and he has stated this publicly and on the record in the past contends that the amazon is benefiting from the u.s. postal service claiming for example that the postal service has to work on sundays

because of amazon but all of this is certainly the dumain of the financial trade commission or indeed the justice department should any legislation be considered against any specific company or any specific group of companies or type of companies for the record though the white house press spokesman says that there is no policy in place for any specific company at present she's apparently attempting to walk back these reports but for many amazon. holders of amazon stock this is certainly a rather hollow assurance given the fact of how much money they've lost in the course of the day and i can i with the latest from washington d.c. thank you. u.k. police investigating a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter say the highest concentration of the poison was found on the front door of their family home from a russian double agent so i guess creep arlen is the uni every main in

a critical condition after being poisoned on march the fourth russia has repeatedly denied international league ations that it was behind the attack dozens of their diplomats have been expelled from around the world in retaliation. thousands of canadians are protesting against greater military cooperation with the u.s. washington wants more of a presence in the sahara region where armed groups including al qaeda and i saw have developed a stronghold the u.s. will invest twenty million dollars in training and the point man for the canadian military this year but the protesters say the deal threatens the country's independence at least ten people have been killed and several more are missing in the democratic republic of congo after fighting broke out between the army and rebel forces the violence has sparked an angry backlash by residents who blocked roads used by the congolese army and u.n.

peacekeepers around the area in the east of the country villagers there say that president joseph kabila has failed to protect them. we are leaving our houses and you can come and take them through able to protect your priorities looking after rich people and not the whole majority just do what you worked with tired of being skilling. a diplomatic dispute between chile and bolivia has come to a head at the international court in the hague bolivia a landlocked country is fighting for chile the granted access to the coast in of this view that has pulled the countries that are the countries against each other for more than a century now on wednesday the court heard the final arguments from both sides says and see a new man now reports from santiago. in chile is in bolivia the final round of the world court hearing over their territorial dispute was followed like at the hall of fame match for the world cup match with a lot more at stake. bolivia

a landlocked country which oddly enough has a navy says chile is obliged to negotiate a sovereign corridor to the pacific ocean that it lost in one thousand nine hundred three war but vowing not to cede a centimeter chile's president had this message for bolivia minutes after defense team lawyers made their closing remarks bolivia. libya must know not to confuse its aspirations we don't like a sions on a country. chile argues that ignoring the validity of a one thousand nine hundred four peace treaty would have global implications for all modern borders as what would have been between russia and what would have been been poland and germany what would have been in the balkans what would have been why the mexicans cannot request the part of texas is the same argument. but for bolivia it's not just a matter of international law but of justice i for they can read and write children

are taught to yearn for the day when believe you will again have access to the deep blue sea as these can do garden students are. all bolivia has unlimited access to northern chile imports president evo morales insists his country's economic development is being unfairly stunted and. we've gone to the courts to ask them to mandate that chile and bolivia resolve their pending issues through dialogue and effective negotiations in good faith this is the canadian consulate in santiago but both countries don't have diplomatic relations in fact ties are probably at their worst in recent history chile accuses president ever more of using their territorial dispute to exacerbate nationalist fervor at home in order to better his chances for a controversial bid for a fourth consecutive presidential term. the courts will likely take months to issue

a verdict in which clearly chile has the most to lose. you see in human santiago. still to come. france honors the policeman who sacrificed his life to save the hostage plus the chinese mining company accused of almost wiping this village of mozambique off the map plus in sports peter will be here to explain what happened in this cycling road race in belgium. hello and welcome back we'll start by look at weather conditions across europe i mean got this area of snow pushing across northern parts of europe with rain trading back and again more snow pushing into the alps we've lost the snow across of russia moscow still below freezing but at least it is dry moderate conditions

out across the web but some pretty windy conditions and some very heavy rain likely to and that continues through friday with snow still going of the alpine regions but the flow coming up from the south weather conditions gerri not looking too bad across central parts of europe with temperatures recovering back up to eleven degrees for berlin and also fourteen in vienna still looking too bad here now as you move into north africa with governor of low pressure just pushing through the eastern side of the mediterranean could be quite a vicious little affair lot of lifted dust around but for cyprus some parts of turkey some very heavy rain syria higher elevations in turkey we could be seeing some heavy snowfall and winds in the eastern part of the mediterranean up to about one hundred ten kilometers per hour in terms of gusts where that system clears away quieter weather conditions likely through friday night is tunis there twenty eight the winds coming from a long way south and across central parts of africa we've got some heavy showers across parts of south sudan away towards the gulf of guinea highs of thirty in the

. systemic corruption from politics through business to who is controlling what state of resources people in power investigates the misuse of south africa's state assets nobody who'll use implicate good or named in those of board was ever asked to put their point of view on the financial rewards available to an accommodating business community south africa corruption inc on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. it's. where ever you. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on the news hour hours after he left china it was finally announced that north korea's leader kim jong un had in fact made his first trip abroad since taking power seven years ago president. polls have now closed in egypt's presidential election ending three days of voting with no real challenger president. set to win a landslide victory and shares in the online retailer amazon dropped sharply on

wall street after reports emerged that donald trump wants to change the company's tax treatment amazon closed the trading day four point four percent lower. funerals are being held for some of the victims of a fire at a shopping center in save the area on sunday it's a day of national mourning in russia to remember the sixty four victims forty one of whom were children or a challenge reports from moscow. oh. on sunday. took her grandchildren ten year old maria and eight year old constantine to the cinema they didn't come back just three victims of the russian shopping mall fire that killed at least sixty four people said again natalya's house will be quiet now the children to go on there are many more shattered families like the ago most of those who died in the fire the kids. this tragedy is made even worse by the

fact the children became victims of the bloody great grief is upon all of us and the no words that can express our shared pain the bereaved siberian city of camera began burying its dead on wednesday but as more bodies are identified many more coffins will be lowered into siberia. it's not just one city grieving though wednesday is a day of mourning across russia in moscow flags were flying at half staff and there are two memorial sites best still considerable anger being voiced in this country some people feel they haven't been told the whole truth about the fire and there's a sense that official corruption and a disregard for safety regulations are largely responsible for the horror that unfolded in kemah rivers burning shopping mall the shopping centers director is one of five people that have appeared in court as suspects in the investigation she

denies doing anything wrong even. you know i wholeheartedly bring my sincere condolences for the fact that this tragedy this disaster happened i'm a mother myself i perfectly understand what people who are now burying their children are experiencing but i do not want to blame myself for this. the search for bodies in camera is now officially over but the investigation continues locked cinemark doors blocks fire exits nonfunctioning alarms these are reasons investigators have already given for howard shopping mall fire became a national disaster were chalons al-jazeera moscow. if he is set to welcome a young and outspoken prime minister an appointment that some hope will come months of anti-government protests forty two year old i.b.m. it is from the overall more ethnic group and is believed to have a huge amount of support among the euro youth many of whom have been active in

anti-government protests he opiah began sliding into crisis in late two thousand and fifteen when protests began among the a moros and the m.r.o. who feel they are marginalized by the government both say the minority tea gray ethnic group has too much influence in the country the protests led to a heavy crackdown hundreds of people were killed and tens of thousands were arrested a ten month state of emergency was imposed in october two thousand and sixteen the prime minister haile mariam this alina struggled to contain the unrest and then a shock move announced his resignation last month he said that that was to make way for reforms let's go live to washington d.c. now where we can speak to mohammed adamle he's the founder and editor of oprah had dot com a news website about a romeo and ethiopia so thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera servia made to the new leader of ethiopia do you think he is the right man for the job.

i think given the alternatives that the people of ethiopia were given he is certainly the one that is more qualified one. semblance of legitimacy a popular support of some sort in clearly a landslide victory within the. ruling coalition that elected for him so i think he is better positioned to be the prime minister but again i think a lot of it will depend on what he does in how he lay the ground from here on forward and what do you think his main challenges will be because obviously you see opi is now coming well i mean certainly perhaps coming out of a period of instability so do you think that he will be able to calm the waters at least for a while. i think in the short term given that he has

a popular support in orania the epicenter of the government protest over the last four years in the short term he has he has an opportunity to stabilize the situation he also has cross-cutting support across the region the second largest in the country in the says i think he is qualified but again it comes down to a question of whether or not this tabulation in the security in the military interest is who want to maintain the status quo or will give him the full powers of the office of the prime minister to implement his own agenda to make changes to the ruling is tractor of the party putting a new cabinet in really. inviting the opposition in charge a better way forward for the country so i think he will face challenges this deeply into an entrenched interest in the party has been in power since one thousand nine hundred one he is a relatively an outsider in

a sense that he's his message is one of reform and one that is not highly popular with the powerful interests in the ruling coalition so he faces challenges but i think there is a lot of hope here just on the virtue of the fact that he is the first or a more prime minister there is so much goodwill. i mean obviously the process as you mentioned started there with india roma community and mainly they started about land rights and then branched out into things for example like greater political representation i mean certainly having a lower all moral. leader is shoojit the symbolic but do you think that it will go past that i mean you hinted that there were obviously that you weren't sure that effectively that he was going to be allowed to make the changes that the people protesting had wanted to be named. this is indeed a historic opportunity for the incoming prime minister not only is he the first

prime minister from this ruling party but in ethiopia as a long history he is the only self identifying oromo to be the head of the state so he's hugely symbolic but ultimately i think he he comes from rome which fills the highest number of members of parliament of the national parliament he now has the officer of the prime minister so i think it's a question of using that advantage in the popular support from the streets to implement to make changes right away in he can start doing that next week or in the coming days when he takes over by repealing the state of emergency by announcing the reforms legal and political reforms that could really inspire confidence in the public because the people are giving him the benefit of the doubt but they don't really trust the party the party has made so many promises in broke

a lot of those promises over the last quarter of a century so i think he has a unique historic opportunity with a law him to do this would he be bold enough to take on this interest would he be able to take the reforms that he put in place in or romania to the national office i think those are the questions that needs to be answered he can answer that by laying out a clear vision in his acceptance speech or will be following this story closely enough serious will be very interesting to see how his first weeks and months as leader at pan out for the moment for him made it they will founder and editor of a pride dot com search thank you for sharing your views. now the french policeman killed in last friday's attack in southern france has been honored in a ceremony led by president the man who and on it have been colonel bill thomas swapped places with a hostage during a supermodel supermarket attack entire saving her life but losing his own has been

post here mostly awarded france's highest award for bravery of every ports from paris. trams coffin was a school to paris and to pouring rain people came to pay their respects to a french police officer who's become a national hero in imposing courtyard of the adelaide france's most famous military memorial victims' families joined politicians of all persuasions and former presidents in a show of unity on friday beltrami had swapped himself with a hostage in an attack in southern france it was a display of courage that cost him his life. as a priest or just as soon as we learned of this high risk act all french people trembled as one one of us said stood up straight clear headed and brave he was standing up to islam missed aggression to hate the folly of murder and with him the whole country's heart swelled with the french spirit of resistance the bravery of

one man taking the whole country with him back all war did beltrami the commander of the legion of honor one of france's highest accolades all nobel transactions have touched so many people in france because he did something that very few people could imagine doing sacrificing his own life for that of a stranger. bell tram had rushed to the supermarket in the town of tired last week after news broke that a gunman had taken hostages twenty five year old writer one black dem had been on a shooting spree in the name of eisel he'd killed three people including two men in the supermarket and it injured a police officer who'd been joking facts that beltran would have known when he volunteered to put down his weapon and take the place of the female hostage french police said lacked him was radicalized and under surveillance but he wasn't considered a threat on tuesday the prime minister dismissed criticism by the opposition that the government's not doing enough to prevent such attacks research. those who say

that this attack could have been avoided those who believe there's a guarantee to french people that there's a residual risk i say to them so it's a mistake responsibility falls in the igi. more than two hundred forty people have been killed in attacks in france in the last three years each time many people in the country feel a sense of anger and despair in bell trum some are found a reason to hope for tasha butler al-jazeera paris. a four year old boy has been detained by israeli soldiers on suspicion of an attempted stabbing in hebron in the occupied west bank palestinian media say the boy was holding a sharp object it was the pain for an hour and things that this footage of which was shared by a palestinian journalist shows the moment the boy's family confronted the soldiers at an army check out. there have been tense scenes at

a memorial march in paris honoring a whole accost survivor who was killed in a suspected anti semitic attack a scuffle broke out between some demonstrators at the march against racism eighty five year old that mirela was stabbed eleven times and her apartment was set on fire in paris on friday investigators say her jewish heritage may have been why she was targeted far right leader marine le pen was told she was or welcomed by france's leading jewish but she went anyway but was a score to the way by police. the u.s. military says a high ranking al qaeda official has been killed in an air strike in libya u.s. officials say the wood was one of two people killed in a position airstrike on saturday near the southern city of body the u.s. state department listed the wood as a specially designated global terrorists he was accused of training recruits as well as providing funding and weapons to the group known as al-qaeda in the islamic

magreb a chinese company has been accused of almost destroying an entire village in mozambique while illegally mining sand amnesty international investigated how you mining company following the allegations. explains the findings. is a small fishing village built upon sand dunes in northern mozambique it's an idyllic setting for a simple life but only doorstep a global battle is building the people of new go this is china's high you mining company the villages complaint high you sand mining blocks which they say cool severe flooding in twenty fifteen forty eight homes was swept out to sea and more than one hundred seventy damaged in barry's amnesty international spent two years investigating how it happened. ripon revere was because brit conduct

of a chinese mining company that threatened to wipe out a small village of about one thousand people into the indian ocean higher mines the sand to extract certain minerals it boasts it can process twenty tons of sand a day and employs more than five hundred people china is the largest source of direct foreign investment in the country and holds the majority of its foreign dares. the investment should be welcome in the gonyea and one of mozambique's poorest provinces the pint fortunately is that the company and the government are putting the profits first then the human that got me into also the human rights of people who. almost three hundred people are now homeless but hi you says the flooding was a result of abnormally heavy rain the company received its mining concession in twenty eleven and denies it's all to the germans and anyway ninety nine percent of

the sand remains at its point of origin and is not extracted this contradicts the idea that there was a change in the channel for underground water which is not true. time is not on the side of these mozambicans satellite images showing mining activities getting ever closer to the village they want to safeguard what's left of their lives and want government to investigate high year and negotiate for compensation to go near was named after a crocodile that taunted locals from a nearby lagoon these days villages say the crocodile comes from china shallop ballasts al jazeera. is much more to come in this news hour including troubled waters how in the end the poles all going border disputes could threaten thousands of rivers and streams. peter will have the latest as australia cricketer. and david warner are handed their sanctions.

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. the paula shares six thousand rivers and streams with india various treaties have been agreed to divide the water between the two but many in the poll say they are disproportionate with india getting far more than its fair share in the latest part of our first series subpoena shrestha reports from of the new set the strict of nepal. john there should be others cannot afford to live off his land he has half an acre and if he had enough water he says he would never have to buy food again

but just fifty meters away there is water it is the come alive occasion project to build for agriculture more than forty years ago and meant to serve both nepal and india. when the come along irrigation project was complete officials from nepal and india had a grand ceremony use the water they said but how are we supposed to use the water it went straight to india the water flows past but there are no channels that feed the farmlands yet have has to use a diesel pump to access water at around four dollars an hour yeah dave says the land here is for a time and could produce cash crops but without a ready supply of water it is impossible many people have to look outside nepal for work the other and both his sons work does labors in saudi arabia i'm standing here on the embankment off the river down there is the river and as you can see farmers from i decide off the river in the park have no access to that water the rim of those directly downstream towards the state of bihar in india that when the indian

government built the same bank meant there was a larger plan a separate river was to be diverted towards the comma and finally towards irrigation channels for farmers over here in the pile to use all year round but almost half a century on no progress has been made and the farmers here say they feel cheated. downstream across the border in india is the common agenda going to an artificial barrier from there the river is diverted to an agricultural canal in the late one nine hundred fifty s. the first water sharing agreements were made between the palin india but many in the past say the treaties have always disproportionately benefited india and projects are not designed to help the body farmers the fact is that the location of the street is close to the only part of border and naturally the amount of. land that received irrigation benefits is larger on the him inside as compared to

believe nevertheless there were a host of other benefits red were created for me while at that drawing these are related to not just irrigation but also financial assistance these are related to the release of roads building a real reliance and the fact that the embankment all the way deep into a nearby littered tree so as to protect me while it there drew from inundation the farmers here are still facing the impact of those agreements john they show ya the showed us his land it was dry and in desperate need of water some government bought it can you imagine how much we could grow if we could use these fields he asked the same question posed by many of his apology neighbors. had a stricken apart ok it's time to get on the sports news now here's pete in the. barbara thank you very much indeed australia's cricket captain and vice captain

have been given twelve month ban from the sport for very role in a cheating scandal they face varying accusations connected to ball tampering he's home and reports that australia's cricket captain steve smith being a score to out of south africa with his career in tatters the world's top ranked batsman won't be playing for his country for the next year neither will be vice captain david warner a third player cameron bancroft has also been banned for nine months for his role in a ball tampering scandal copping to very sad and disappointed and and remorseful for what has happened they want to use their own words but cheating is certainly one of them that is probably appropriate in the circumstances bancroft was caught on camera placing a small object on his trousers during a match in capetown on saturday he lied to paes on the field and later claimed it was a piece of tape that he was using to change the ball condition in breach of cricket's

rules of cricket australia as investigators have now revealed it was sandpaper warner is being blamed as the instigator who instructed bancroft to do it smith being charged with knowing about a potential plan and failing to stop it. they had been called for a strategy of cards darren lehmann to also be punished but officials maintain he had no knowledge of the plan or do in daryn's defense i do want to just clarify that specific matter and i want to what aside that he sent a message to say what in the hell is going on i mean this this has been a shocking affront. to a strike. even the prime minister has had an opinion in a country where cricket is the national sport and the consequences made stand far beyond the three players sponsors for cricket australia are questioning the way they manage the brand in the brand of the straining cricket team add to that at the

moment cricket australia is negotiating the t.v. rights for cricket in this country they will be severely compromised by what has happened in south africa so this could cost cricket in this country millions. the indian cricket board has also barred smith and warner from competing in the indian premier league a decision that will cost each player one point seven million dollars they will be permitted to appeal their strelley and cricket bans but it's going to be a very long way back to the top if it all relates home and al-jazeera earlier i spoke to e.s.p.n. cric info writer for those minder who is in johannesburg ahead of the fourth and final a cricket test match between south africa and australia him a series she says there david warner might move a return to the australian national team as the smith and bancroft pair might yet be light at the end of the tunnel well as brady may come back and possibly play

a. world cup i think you did enough the game is clearly distraught and he does seem like the guy was strong enough. it whatever it is it's a lot more that much of these changes have been better. and know that you need to challenge the verdict and that's what it's going around so i just think it will just get uglier and uglier for all i'm not sure. straight in colors and then what you know young any atheist genes can be our luck went to people one couldn't. score a lot of them to be considered a game. tennis knowing your lame hasta pain co has made it through to the miami open semifinals for the first time in her career latvian beat number four seed a leaner spittle of the ukraine it was a straight sets win for the twenty year old auster penco seven six and seven six was the final school investment. now in the n.b.a.

the washington wizards snapped a three game losing streak on tuesday seven washington players scored double figures as they beat of the san antonio spurs as the final score was one hundred and sixteen to one hundred and six. jobber. they became the wizards ninety nine the school the wizards next face the detroit pistons that match taking place on thursday and it could clinch a spot in the playoffs for. which there's just a day to go before the new baseball season gets underway but the los angeles dodgers groundsman will be working overtime to get things ready better after a pipe burst grounded during an exhibition game on tuesday fans sitting nearby described it as sewage the game was eventually called off but the dodgers asked to

show deal to host the san francisco giants in those days open up belgium's evil one part one bird water stored flandern a road race in belgium for second year in a row while one cyclist ended up in a field during the event cycle cross world champion vote for not went completely off road after riding into a race marshall the twenty three year old was still able to mount back onto his bike and continue the race leaving the marshall stranded lampard launched a perfectly timed attack inside the final kilometer of the race to seal the victory . and that's all the sport more later peters thank you very much for that and that is it for this hour remember you can get the latest on everything that we have been covering on the web site as well the address al-jazeera dot com on your screens right now or you can keep on watching i'll be back in just a few minutes with more of these things but.

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