what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important level wise to publish it. to be offensive will provoke the nice people do . this stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. and live from studio fourteen had their headquarters in. well come to the news grid a victory of sorts for sixteen thousand african asylum seekers in israel they will no longer be deported to an unknown country in africa but instead will be sent to

western countries what happens to the others and those who don't want to go explore this development with our correspondent in. your pool can whine for i'll steal an element him china responds to u.s. tyrants by slapping on its own more than one hundred twenty u.s. products are targeting the chinese say is just the beginning we discuss the tariff or with our guests and ask where and how italy and also on the grid autism day one in one hundred people are affected by autism at sixty seven million around the world so little is known about this disorder we devoting a big chunk of this program to the impact this has on people's lives the new early diagnosis and what we can do to understand it better. and we're also looking at the campaigns and the conversation online around autism awareness day plus how social media can help and the hip hop is now. to us throughout the show using the hash tag

eighty it's great to. be a. he with the nightly news great live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com we begin this hour with breaking news out of south africa the former wife of nelson mandela has died when you my dick is mandela was eighty one years old she was known as the mother of the nation for her fight against apartheid it's we will have more on that story a little later on in the program a controversial plan to expel thousands of african migrants from israel back to their homeland or to another african country is off the table instead israel has reached a deal with the u.n. to send sixteen thousand of them to western countries the interior ministry puts

the number of undocumented migrants at around forty two thousand under the original plan israel offered them a plane ticket and money to be relocated to an unnamed african country stephanie deck is live for us in west jerusalem so stephanie the details now why only sixteen thousand and what happens to them. well initially was supposed to be a mass deportation all of them would be deportable they've given two choices actually deport taishan to another country as you mention mostly believed to be rwanda and also uganda or face sort of indefinite jail time and many of the the asylum seekers that we've been speaking to over the years algiers been following the story would tell you that their choice would be prison time because they didn't want to return to africa they didn't feel that that was you know they didn't their safety wasn't guaranteed their rights weren't guaranteed so what is significant now

jane is that israel has or agreed this deal and we've just spoken to the owen h.c.r. spokesperson he's told us that three countries has also been announced by the israeli prime minister he did dress that the media a little earlier now giving the details canada germany and italy are on the table to take some of these sixteen thousand i said well how are you going to assess which ones of them will be chosen to go abroad and i was told that down to vulnerability whether it's an economic vulnerability single mothers or medical conditions or family reunification so i think it's a victory in that sense have been a lot of pressure on the israeli government particularly from critics saying that this was an inherent racial policy against people who'd really made a dangerous journey many of the stories you hear from these asylum seekers jane most of them from eritrea and saddam particularly crossing the sinai horrendous stories of rape of abuse of torture so this is why this government also came under a lot of pressure so i think it is a victory at the moment but again we need to see how it plays out and also what

kind of changes this government will make on the ground to improve the lives of those who will be remaining here is because many who we spoke to in the past stiffing you're saying they'd rather stay in israel than go to these african countries but they were saying that the poor conditions for them that they undergo in israel are appalling they treated really badly it was more about that. yes and over the years jane a lot of the single men who were rounded up and put in an open air detention center in the negev desert called a lot of people living in mostly in the southern suburbs of tel aviv and all kinds of restrictions when it came to working conditions and also just basic issues like their status this is what israel's been playing upon since the very beginning quoting them illegal infiltrators making sure that they got the message that their status of potential migrants economic migrants refugees were never really going to

be addressed that there was no future here and that that is why they would have to leave well now it seems through this deal there will be a system put in place where these people will be processed and i did speak to the u.n. and share spokesperson he said to me well like any other country israel still has the right to not accept some of these people so it's still not guarantee that all of them will stay some of them might get refugee status and others could still be deported but certainly i think most people seeing this is a slight victory as to israel now no longer forcibly deporting up to almost forty thousand african asylum seekers over the next couple of years as well as the initial plan all right stephanie thank you very much let's talk about this more with tell stein a she's the head of legal department of the hotline for refugees and migrants she joins us now from tel aviv on skype very good to have you with us what is your response to this. well under one hand we are of course very grateful and up to mystic that that danger of the protection to unsafe countries and there

is secret agreement is now off the table on the other hand we are also concerned that israel still is not lifting its better then of the refugees around the world as it should we should not be asking for help from other countries to absorb and give shelter for such few people that they are in israel right now so we are blessing this move this step forward but still a very carefully considering what would be what how it would actually look like what would you rather they do would you rather israel keeps them in israel and treats them differently absolutely we believe that israel has the obligation to uphold the refugee convention that it is a signatory to to fully examine the refugee requests and for those who are registered as refugees because there asylum requests are valid to the status

hearing is are just like any other country in the world to do what happens to those who will remain those who are not affected as. other than the sixteen thousand so from what we're hearing from the government right now and this is all the information that we have is that there would be given some kind of a stave you know we're still unclear which kind of state is that what would be the rights that would accompany this kind of status that they will receive in israel and of course we'll be following this very very closely thank you very much for that tel stein. what's really behind the plan to expel the migrants now that's a question i put to my panel of guests on inside story i had a fantastic eritrean guest who was expressing his fears about leaving israel the city would have rather stayed in a jail than go back home we also look at what the legality is surrounding this i

hear what my guest had to say you'll find the program under the show taboo just search for israel migrants this bring in more on the breaking news out of south africa the death of many mandela catherine so is live for us in johannesburg tell us about what happened to her catherine what are you hearing. jane at this very jane at this very moment her family and religious leaders are having a press conference at the hospital where she died here in johannesburg and she said that she did they say that she died of this afternoon surrounded by family and friends winnie has been a ailing for quite a while she's been out of the limelight for quite a bit her family says that she's been in and out of hospital this year and she has died this afternoon like i mentioned they say they're going to give more details about how exactly she died about how you know a range of men's for her funeral and how memorial as well but then they also

emphasize the fact that she was the face of the struggle for apartheid she was in very very long to nelson mandela before she was imprisoned and then she took the force she took the fort in that struggle for the liberation of south africa she was imprisoned for it as well she was detained she was put under house arrest and people here in south africa remember her for that just being the face of the struggle for liberation but she also has a checkered history jane as you know she was you know convicted in one thousand nine hundred one for criminal offenses she was convicted for kidnap and accessory to assault in a case involving the model of an activist but people choose today to remember her for the struggle for what she did for south africa in that struggle for apartheid thank you for that catherine so let's bring in flipped of it is an associate editor

of business insider for south africa joins us now from johannesburg on skype and philip to vet what's your response to the news of the death of winnie mandela she was such an important player in ending apartheid. hugely importance of the way people are remembering when one gallon not exactly that some of the responses the beginning to the death is people talking about how she was deep greatest of the n.t. are struggling and how she was a pillar of strength and she really was that i think there's a difference between the way the wolves remembers many mandela and the way south africa remembers when you might get lost in the world perhaps winnie mandela was the wife of nelson mandela in south africa it was just the opposite what he meant della was the person that we sold during our take long also mandela wasn't present she was the one who was campaigning tirelessly for his release she was the one keeping the banner of the gains see high and of course it will wait horribly wrong

as early as nine hundred ninety five when she continues to trash with successive presidents after the a.n.c. came into power yet remain this very important figure so much so that presents for him of course i recently visited her it home one of the last official visits that she received do you think the control of the seas surrounding stone face a payoff and her relationship with nelson mandela at the end and as he said a detail rating relationship with members in the a.n.c. to think that will tarnish had legacy. that is not quite clear the the problem that we my della had with nelson mandela and with his excesses is that she was simply too much of the threat and often nelson mandela's dance she told the newspapers and journalists that mandela himself had become a sellout that he had been too soft and that's very much the kind of rich rape that we hearing in south african politics today which is why towards the end of her life winnie mandela was closer to julius malema the leader of the f.a.

for the third largest in south africa and had drifted away and at this very fractious relationship with the a.n.c. as well she was never really true re conciliation she was always railing against injustice and what we seeing now in suits and sections of the a.n.c. and coming from the likes of the rich is exactly the kind of language that would be my della has been talking for twenty zero zero hole just tell us not to talk to the little bit but how she was treated by who a pothead government. winnie mandela became a symbol for the apartheid government as much as she did full the people she was considered the mother of the nation and that puts her into a very strange position when the apartheid government no doubt wanted to crack down on her very hard indeed but really can do so she she was misplaced will take to class all of her own as she was a symbol and that had

a very negative influence on his family at times but gave her a slightly more freedom than many other struggle icons enjoyed and that was really why she could continue doing the work that she did she was a thorn in the side i think full everyone has during the first couple of years she was married to nelson mandela for at least six years by the time he was incarcerated and perhaps there was a honeymoon period but after that all authority figures had trouble with winnie mandela she would not be silent she would not sit down that continue throughout up our tanks and through successive administrations i'm off to democracy i think this is an important time for south africa a time of conservation the. semi of the old god have died recently. very much show we have not lost the father of the nation we have lost the mother of the nation when human and other people have really just not risen to the heights we don't have the iconic figures there's

a glimmer of hope not many people feel that presence here or i'm up close or can become the kind of statesman like leader that people are looking full and but if he doesn't there really is no one else to full these very very large shoes that when he left behind they got to talk to you thank you very much. if you can get in touch with us and this is how you can tweet us at a.j. english or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news good you can also send us a whatsapp message at plus nine seven four five zero one one four nine you can always use the hash tag a j news good. some people from scotland sri lanka belgium and uganda have been in touch with us so good to hear from you now in gaza hospitals are struggling to cope with the influx of palestinians injured by israeli army fire at the border on friday at least fifteen people were killed in the protest calling for the right of return for palestinian refugees many way hit by live ammunition despite facing

widespread international condemnation israel says it will not investigate the incident and rejected the allegations of unlawful use of lethal force one of the honeyed has more from gaza to the border with israel. people here in gaza are pinning a lot of hope on the so-called long march of return which is basically staying along the border for dinnick six weeks or until may fifteenth which is actually a day the palestinians refer to as snack bar or catastrophe because it is the day of the creation of the state of israel the cabman's are about five hundred to seven hundred meters away from the border fence which is just there in the background there you see some people have gone a bit further down and they are basically at the limit at the still called buffer zone about three hundred meters by israel they don't want the army doesn't want to

see anyone in that area but you can see that some of the young people have actually gone defiantly a bit closer to the border now organizers and the people coming here want to make sure that this remains a peaceful nonviolent sit in many people i spoke to said you know we had several wars here in the gaza strip over the past ten years there was a lot of violence we lost a lot of our own people we are going to try this new way and nonviolent long term protests in the hope that maybe it will change something many people will tell you that they are sort of fed up of living thanks to humanitarian handouts they want to take their own future in the own hands they want to have life in the gaza strip like life anywhere else as specially they want to be able to have at least freedom of movement. michael kind of us is an international criminal defense lawyer he

joins us now from phnom penh in cambodia on skype very good to have you with us thank you for joining us when you look at what happened on that border the fact that we've got video footage of somebody being shot in the back as he was running away the fact that we know that live ammunition was used what does it make this ok you're breaking up a little bit but i understand this you know what makes it a more crime where there are seeing television market work arrives. so i missed you there in the beginning are you saying that this could be a war crime or not and if so what makes it a war crime and if it isn't i mean how is israel held accountable for these acts.

are to be clear you know you know we have come here you need serious violations of the laws of war. and i think that's giving rise to individual responsibility that's where we are at the moment trying to figure out exactly are who did what when exactly how and how do you figure that out i mean i'm looking at footage now and you see a man been shot in the back as he is running away we know that live ammunition again was used we'd see the protesters there are burning tires as little else. ok i think it's exuded lee you know if you mean to jump to the conclusion that you are mentally how work right now i'm not suggesting that something did not remember obviously there seems to have been an overreaction and disproportionate amount of poor was used but i think

if this is. keep in mind that i'm a criminal defense lawyer i want to know the facts i want to have the row in the plan then transfer investigation so i'm the loser to say that investigation because you know when israel doesn't vest a geisha into its own acts in the past nothing comes out of it so who should be doing it. then that's that's the conundrum i mean if i did i would not accept bibi netanyahu says representation that. those who fired on the crowd the protesters whatever you want to call them. were one hundred percent. carrying out their their duties he should be as a politician i going to stand in making that statement but that statement is no more valid or invalid then say other sources these are the work right the we need

to have the facts we need to have an investigation video footage may not capture everything so you have to look at the circumstances you have to look at. what was why on of the moment when the firing have been handled and who will who gave the orders whether they were to have orders an answer and give it out how they would behave there's a whole host of things and i want to look at the fortune. that we have here or prime what i think you're obvious here to get the facts before you label this a war crime but surely what we've seen cannot continue what sort of traces should be put on the part of students not to provoke israel and for israel not to behave in this way. well that's i mean and then there's another one under you know obviously the palestinians. are trying to get a reaction from the israelis perhaps hoping that the british were overreact.

as they have got in this instance you know my life what needs to be done is at least for this particular instance with before dinner. is a new investigation and the israel needs to cooperate. liners did they have their fears by the i.c.c. the international criminal court. but that's the only way that can be done otherwise they're going to be judged by what you see on c.n.n. or other zero zero zero what's captured on a building which may only be captured this year or so i can tell you to jump in here if israel is not a signatory of the i.c.c. then the i.c.c. can't be called in to rule on this can they and as he said nothing will be done by the u.n. because of the u.s.

. well i'm not too sure about the i says you not being able they're ready when you are the. situation the guy i be there even though it is in our heart and. i think. looks like far the prosecutor used to be here. you know that's where our this is where you. were doing some sort of a blueberry investigation before they proceed as you were living better to do it all right michael kind of us thank you very much for your comments are going to couple of comments here on facebook and tweet the first one from facebook israel is taking ethnic cleansing to another level and this one the activities of the military is absolutely unpardonable these individuals are exercising their rights

in israel israel should respect that now we're going to make sure that this story stays in the spotlight there is a page dedicated to the israeli palestinian conflict on our website and tell us the news angles programs and editorials dedicated to it china will start taxing the production of more than one hundred twenty u.s. products it will affect around a three billion dollars worth of imports including pork and wine the move comes after the us decided to raise duties on foreign steel and aluminum last month china says it safeguarding its interests and balancing losses caused by the american tariffs are china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. the experts the analysts warn that china and the united states could be on the brink of a trade war but it doesn't feel that way at this market here in central beijing although people are of course aware of the deepening trade friction between the two

countries the new taxes of between fifteen and twenty five percent will hit one hundred twenty eight items including us nuts fruit wine and pork a twenty five percent hike on pork that is likely to hit china's middle class most of all but what do ordinary chinese feel about the prospects of a trade war at a time when inflation is double what it was this time a year ago what datable might happen if the u.s. wants to fight a trade war i will never buy their product no foreign products japanese korean american we have our own products or you know i think we should give up buying american products chinese i must support our own products a new tariff on imported u.s. pork is of course good news for local producers but they don't make enough to satisfy domestic demand these are early days just last month of course president

trump announced a second round of sanctions against china possibly more punitive he's going to be targeting some fifty billion dollars worth of chinese imports and during the next couple of weeks his officials will be working out exactly what areas to hit but it saw that in his crosshairs on technology related industries at the moment the united states and china have been rapping each other across the knuckles so far there has been no body blow but that could come. in this opinion piece richard javert haider and warns of a frightening scenario if a trade war breaks out between the world's two biggest economies he says the u.s. has gone from being an advocate of free trade to a protectionist villain in the eyes of both friends and foes you can read the whole article it elders or dot com it's called what are u.s. china trade war would look like it's under the opinion tab or just search for us

china trade. is waiting for us in london. that's right jane we begin with news from nigeria the united nations has condemned it condemned an attack in the northeastern city of my degree that's left at least thirty four civilians dead dozens have been injured security forces say they've driven out suspected book are armed fighters who tried to enter the city late on sunday soldiers say they shot dead six fighters and seven suicide bombers look around is said to have attacked two villages on the outskirts of the city amid interests. over there is no claim of responsibility for. security sources believe but it's a war of before on the team under the cover of darkness of the target these two villages on the outskirts of degree always wanted to take my degree when they were taking to three northeastern part of nigeria however they were unable to in the past nine years or so no security forces i mean i just well doesn't believe that

the death toll could rise because of the severity of some of these dangers the nigerian government offered book or some form of amnesty if they're willing to give up their arms but we from what we've seen over the last few months or so it doesn't look like it's going to work. this is not the first on the larger government offered amnesty to be caught up which was rejected although at such certain point there were discussions between the government and the fighters however people in the northeast of the country continue to want to hear about the escalation and what it could mean to their future and their lives and afghan as strike has targeted a gathering of taliban members killing at least thirty four people the strike hit a mosque in the region outside convinced city taliban fighters and civilians are said to be among the casualties. saudi led coalition air strikes have killed at least fourteen civilians in western yemen ten others were injured in the raids which has accounted for internally displaced people in the city of data but it says

say six children and three women are among the dead. the rebel group controlling the. syrian opposition stronghold near damascus has reached a un brokered deal with russia to allow for some of the accusations under the agreement the families of jaish al islam fighters humanitarian cases and the injured are allowed to leave the town of duma in eastern guta they will be taken to the north of the country at least seven people have died in india where i've been angry protests across northern and central parts of the country over cost discrimination members of the dalat car say a judgment by the supreme court last month weakens their protection a court ruled that officials accused of discriminating against the community can only be arrested once the supervisors of approved an inquiry to stop the law being misused delegates are the lowest group in the hindu caste system and cases of discrimination and even attacks against them are regularly reported well violence between security forces and protesters as erupted again in indian administered

kashmir after restrictions were lifted authorities had closed schools and blocked internet services after violent protests and gun battles left twenty people dead on sunday four of the dead were civilians who were killed after security forces opened fire on a crowd of protesters thousands of taken to the streets on sunday in support of rebels who have been fighting against india's rule of the region and the egyptian president of the fatah sisi has been reelected for a second term in office after winning ninety seven percent of the vote sisi was virtually guaranteed victory after most opposition candidates pulled out of the contest earlier this year is sole opponent one less than three percent of the votes the election commission says voter turnout has been just forty one percent which is lower than the last election. we'll have more from london in about half an hour's time now back to change thank you for those of you watching us on facebook live right now me sofie it really looks like a fish swims like

a fish but isn't one we'll show you how it could help unlock the secret lives of marine animals. and also ahead on the news group it's world autism awareness day we'll be taking a closer look at how france's treatment of people diagnosed with a brain disorder has brought protestors onto the streets so with us for that. hello there we're still got a lot of cloud over parts of the middle east at the moment if you look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud working its way out of saudi arabia into iran and the more cloud ahead of it stretching all the way up towards cabot stan so that area of cloud of supporters a fair amount of wet weather a fair amount of rain and some snow as well but it is clearing excludes on choose day i think there will be more in the way of sunshine around tashkent which should get to around twenty three degrees further west more clouds working its way in here

say for some of us it could be rather gray the area of rain though is a long way further north over parts of turkey stretching all the way up into parts of russia that's gradually edging its way eastwards as we head through wednesday turkey day should be fine for wednesday seventeen as a maximum in ankara bit further towards the south we've had a lot of cloud around the arabian peninsula recently here's the latest batch of clouds looks like it's trying to educate towards the east but it will be replaced by more cloud as we head through the next few days so there's a chance of seeing a few more showers around riyadh as we head through tuesday and for wednesday too and on wednesday looks like that area of rain might just stretch a little bit further towards the north further south largely fine and dry for us down towards the southern parts of africa still plenty of showers here most of them in the northern parts of.

i am doing this on the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see the importance of the our guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. with every.

on the training pages obviously i have a plethora of stories but i'm just going to point out to you this intriguing story that's been in top positions for a few days now why the waste is praising malala from pakistan but ignoring the hate

and you know that she was a girl is that the israeli soldier or the comment from that is that first among them is a widespread acceptance of state sanctioned violence as legitimate as legitimate as hostile actions of non-state actors such as the taliban and pull her own fight as of yet as unlawful so no aggression by the states is often deemed appropriate is a really good and interesting read and a take on how these sort of acts are viewed in different parts of the. autism awareness day around the world so we are dedicating the next half an hour of news group to talk about what it is good effects and what is being done about it autism is a brain disorder that affects an estimated sixty seven million people and has an impact on how people interact with others and how they experience the world they may have trouble reading those or their non-verbal cues facial expressions or jokes

will become overwhelmed in social situations the condition may also show itself as repetitive behavior or as a learning. people with autism are often misunderstood children can be misinterpreted as naughty while adults report discrimination even human rights violations it's a spectrum condition meaning that it affects different people in different ways and it cannot be cured but advocates say with education and proper support people with autism can live so filling lives will be speaking to our guest margaret daniel phelan throughout this special segment she's a professor at john hopkins bloomberg school of public health but first let's go to this new technology that's been tested in cattle to help doctors diagnose autism in minutes rather than months the first study of its kind in the region is

funded least one in one hundred children and cats are suffer from some form of autism now researchers hope an eye tracking device could help to take the condition as early as possible reports from dakar. when do you want anything to. face appears to live the life of an average happy eleven year old boy but to his mom it's a life she never thought possible he was diagnosed as having autism spectrum disorder or a.s.d. when he was three back in the day it felt like ok what do i go where do i go now you know it's like what happens for either travel to the states to try to get a proper diagnosis which i got eight years later there's no need to fly halfway around the world because cutter's become a leader in autism research in the middle east researches at cutter's by a medical center a testing new technology the diagnosis autism in infants as young as six months old

by simply tracking their eye movement this simple device picks up i gave abnormalities linked to autism by monitoring i'm movement as children look at faces on a screen doctors able to give a diagnosis in minutes when it used to take a lot longer the research team leader says an early diagnosis makes all the difference of the long try with the goals with. the harder intervention becomes therefore early intervention is the key for autism. scientists have also conducted a prevalence study looking at the rate in qatar the field study is the first of its kind in the region it's hoped the findings will pinpoint genetic factors that may influence autism and prove useful when it comes to treatment any family overpowered any problem with have kids can get an easy access to such

a diagnostic methods without the long waiting lists which used to be done not only here it's everywhere in the world the new technology will ensure that a.s.d. sufferers in future won't have to wait as long as face still for that crucial diagnosis and doctors hope it'll take the medical world one step closer to finding the cause and maybe even a cure for a condition that poses more questions than provides answers curry leg al-jazeera dog. this article on our website takes a look at how countries in the middle east are dealing with autism like focusing on early diagnosis and setting up a support services for children and their families it's an interesting read which was a looks at challenges the countries face tackling autism in the middle east is a zero dot com just search for autism it's free and margaret's danielle phelan professor of bloomberg school of public health at johns hopkins university she joins us now from baltimore in the u.s.

thanks for waiting for us to come to you very good to have you with us i'm just wondering what you feel about early detection now when it comes to autism and how important that is. it's incredibly important it's very exciting to see these emerging early life biomarkers of a.s.d. because so much evidence shows us that the sooner that we can identify children at risk or children who will go on to have autism and we can get them in early interventions the better they do lifelong and so this is a critical step and very exciting to see i track ing and other kinds of technology moving in that direction and as a parent for example what is it you feel you should look out for well i think as a parent we're concerned about you know typical development for our children at every stage and that is never a were often not a linear or. typical occurrence all children do things at different stages so it is

really challenging for parents who are seeing these things to know is that normal is it not normal and to then go to a physician or some kind of clinician and ask you know them is this normal is it not normal and so as a parent i'm looking for are they responding to name are they looking me in the eyes are they asking for my joint shared experience those kinds of things and i do believe that parents and grandparents are particularly astute about recognizing things that just don't seem right about their own children and bringing that to attention of services of some kind of commode stay with us we're going to go to france where the problem is less about diagnosis and more about the state's treatment of children with autism so much so that the u.n. has accused the country of violating the rights of these children they have little access to mainstream schools often place in psychiatric hospitals now the

government wants to tackle the problem with the national action launching this month and the test about the reports from paris. when he go was two years old his parents discovered that he had autism a condition that affects behavior and communication doctors told the couple to place their son in psychiatric day care psychologist blamed them for his behavior called wrong. the psychologists who say you're making things up or it's your fault or that you've caused this condition because you loved him too much or not enough you breast fed him too much or not enough we need to get out of this cycle analytical approach today you go attend his local school with a carer but that's rare in france where most autistic children have no access to mainstream education. on saturday families marched in paris they say the french state treatment of autistic children is shameful and they want change.

keys are high that a man on the putting children in psychiatric hospitals has to stop it makes families suffer and children want to fellowship in a saver progs is around fifty years behind whatever it is i but it's a united states when it comes to diagnosing and treating autism i wanted a big reasons they say that is the problem still focused very much on a psychiatric treatment not of the educational. but psychiatry say that they have an important role to play when it comes to a distant children you have to really ignore facts to say is it's not suffering when people tell me which isn't is just as a way of being in the world or just a different type of intelligence usually trivializes it. mohamed such was so fed up with the lack of support and options in france for his son sammy he set up his own school the emphasis here is on behavioral therapy and integrating children into mainstream school and society. the new government must decide to break with the old

system and create a new public health strategy for. autism that means extra money new training and new methods which some of us in france are already using. the united nations recently condemned france for violating the rights of autistic children the government says it's taking the matter seriously it's preparing to launch the new autism action plan this month but few people here dare to hope that it will provide the support and financial help been waiting for for so long the trash i'll just sirrah paris. margaret children into psychiatric wards i mean. dreadful right indeed we and the united states have for many years now pushed this idea that people with mental and behavioral disorders including those with autism can and should live in their communities to the extent possible and that in fact it's good for the communities and good for

those individuals and their families how important is it then to put children who suffer from autism into the mainstream so to put them into schools with other children would that work or does it depends how much they suffer. so no two people with autism are exactly alike and so some folks are incredibly impaired in ways that can be challenging in a mainstream school system and others don't have those same exact challenges and so the idea is to have the least restrictive situation possible for an individual so many can learn skills and behavioral coping strategies that make it possible to be in a school system with supports for other folks a special education kind of facility might be more appropriate but again the least restrictive environment is the one that's going to let that person thrive and learn

ok and in africa there are only about fifty child psychologists for a population of a billion people autism is really diagnosis of the children and their care is can suffer in silence and they can sack reports from daca. cares for her three autistic boys mostly alone sixteen year old do has the strength of a grown man but thinks like a four year old when frustrated he bites groups and hits his mother these turn trims have landed in giant hospital her two other sons being don't know how to speak or write properly but she says they have special talents fourteen year old chick has a knack for drawing complex designs. twelve year old mom i do love the music but he's still not potty trained. and joe says they are gifted in their own right it's just that her family friends and neighbors aren't capable of seeing it. any more

than art has them it's the way that others look and treat us that is traumatizing i have cried a lot they need attention and i am overwhelmed of course there's been times where i've thought of walking out the door and never coming back but i can't i love them they are my children the developmental disorder affects the way a child communicates and sees the world it requires specialized care most africans don't have autism is a hidden disability often misdiagnosed and brushed aside as mental deficiency in senegal this ward is helping medical staff and carers deal with the disorder the parents that brought their children here don't want to be filmed they're embarrassed of their children's condition autism here in senegal and throughout west africa is still considered by many as a curse here most still see these children as being possessed needing not a doctor but a traditional healer to treat them these parents bring their daughter to pump him bank

a healer who says you can cure mental illnesses in children they say she no longer follows their gaze and just stares blankly. it is the devil he says it has come in your womb you must have sinned with prayers potions and talismans she will be cured he says. and others are responsible for their children's autism to have to hide their private parts and stop having sinful thoughts may need to take more charge. so little is known about autism it continues to fuel fears not just in africa but in the west too where some believe exposure to chemicals or vaccination provokes the disability. for in giant living with autism is a daily struggle rewarded only by these rare occasions when her sons show for a brief moment their love for her. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car margaret trying to understand autism how big

a problem is it this lack of understanding this stigma. you know i think the stigma is a really critical issue that we have to combat in the story that was just told it's clear that stigma is a concern across the world but is culturally can textural and so figuring out what could change the lives of someone in a particular culture by changing stigma might be different and africa than it would be in the united states or somewhere else in the world and so folks are working on trying to solve that problem because to take a back to some of the emerging science today we are excited about the new detection opportunities but you can't get into early detection and early interventions if you're facing stigma that want to allow that kind of conversation or help seeking to happen ok margaret stay with us i'm going to bring in you've been looking at the

digital ways that people are looking at to help people with autism or if you find very interesting jane so touching abled mobile computing has opened up an entirely new world of communication learning and also social possibilities of people with autism and the u.s. based advocacy group autism speaks has created a search engine database of four hundred fifty autism apps with all kinds of information and not only can they rate them they can also share experiences so this things like selecting such an activity is also the type of device this one is a certain kind of age group and people can also use that to try and get supporting evidence behind how they use these kind of apps and also the benefits behind them now one of them is talk now it helps with non-verbal autism and communication it has a custom made approach with adjustable layouts and uses can also add pictures and

words and sounds that off a million people that have or to them now the autism europe has also designed a global interactive map we'll see if you can try and get that up as well it helps people locate members and so this is a lot of spaces anywhere in the world and they say that they have almost ninety member organizations in thirty eight european countries so far. and as we already know that people with autism can experience strong feelings of isolation and you may be wondering if social media can actually help in any way and it does by alleviating the pressure of having to speak face to face and we have from one this is quite a ward he is an autism speaks and also a video blogger and he explained to us the benefits i feel as social media has has a massive part in improving my communication over the last few years you can use social media as kind of a testing ground i feel the internet is a very inclusive place it's very accepting of everyone and as people need autistic

spectrum we can often feel like the old ones out so it's really great to be able to connect with all those people from all of the planet and heard anyone in the office expect them to get more involved in social media or similarly to just help improve your confidence and if you do have a story about autism with love to hear from you connect with any of through any of these platforms use the hash tag a.j. news good day margaret that segment the really shows how social media is playing an important role here educating people the fact that those suffering from autism can reach out and tell their story do you think that social media could be better utilized. i think it's really critical to continue to innovate these kinds of tools that can help folks to reach their potential no matter what kind of disorder or presentation of autism they have and so to the extent that social media is a tool for improving those skills or for as was mentioned reducing isolation or

loneliness that's critical and so i am very enthusiastic about where that kind of technology can lead us. mortgage phelan thank you very much for talking to us and spending so much time with our some of this research is for what's happening to march madness just one word on how explain to you what's march madness or the biggest of rising in the u.s. college basketball the n.c. the a championship is on the line and later on the monday is the climax of the tournament known at the most fans as march madness while michigan who will battle it out with a veteran nova for the title both of whom spend millions on the sports programs some of the plays at this year's competition will go on to earn millions as professional players but what's in it for the actual universities to invest so much in sport all last year the national a collegiate athletic association and say and see the generated one billion dollars mostly through t.v.

contracts it was the first time that happened every year the n.c.a.a. a say they returned approximately sixty percent of the revenues to division conferences and member institutions y. and in two thousand and seventeen twenty seven out of three hundred forty seven division one zero colleges and made at least one hundred million dollars in annual revenue from this sports department and also last year and see a march madness live recorded munty eight million live video streams during the n.c. a tournament. while some people think college basketball is a waste of money and here's one tweet saying it would be interesting to research how much scholarship money that is supposed to provide an education has been wasted on the one and done athletes while one and done at least as a basketball term means a buck a ball player who plays college basketball for single year and then declares for

the n.b.a. draft while another athletic while not a fan know who's in athletics research or replied saying i wouldn't say it's a waste of money this is soon about college basketball is about educating athletes it's not but there have been one hundred thirty one and dones in the last thirteen years so this means about four point three million dollars in scholarships have been awarded to those place while joining us now a from chicago is sport legal analyst exam of year pope exhibit first of all what's the big deal about the college basketball or colors forte in general. the big deal is revenue generating sports such as college basketball march madness which you discuss your introduction as well as college football programs like ohio state worth over one point five billion dollars or powerhouse alabama worth over one billion dollars and many institutions such as our universe of michigan has it was in the championship game generating tons of revenue for its fourth sports were

college athletes aren't really getting part of the giant t.v. deal contracts all the different apparel and other trademark related revenue that would come in to to stimulate their own career their own financial resources for the future so there is an imbalance in terms of players coaches over sixteen plus football coaches made over four million dollars a year last year and and so that revenue trickling down to the players that's the issue as well as the imbalance of power conferences from the power five schools are making it's making all the money and smaller school we saw loyola generate a ton of attention for making it to the final four but not necessarily being able to share in the piece of the revenue i mean you heard me idea mentioning like a huge numbers and also you've done enough now but only a small fraction of the division one college is made keast one hundred million dollars why is that while the fraction who we just mentioned before how are

five conferences where all the money is being basically isolated sue with all the giant t.v. contracts each of our five conference except for the big twelve has its own network and even within that the conference of the big twelve the university of texas has its own television network so you have a concentration of the money toward schools that you're seeing on television all the time and so that's what the imbalances in terms of power five revenue schools versus smaller schools have to be quickly let's get your prediction on the game tonight who do you think is going to win. all that over one championship two years ago they were also one of they were predicted to potentially go all the way this year i think that over will probably come out on top they have the experience they have the players but michigan stuff they were able to beat down the loyal team and it comes to this game their big size they play their athletic they're really fast so look for it's a really exciting game coming on tonight. pope

a sports legal analyst joined us from chicago thank you very much for that now i had you back today thanks very much for that sort of that's end of this program i'm sure we'll have more on winnie mandela dying and there's going to a press conference going to find out what's going to happen response is concerned and have you know but that's in the news good contact details and they will be back tomorrow at the same time thanks.

mark. conservation is helping to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. combining arts and to acknowledge.

the challenge soviet era methodology. through making creating and performing. turning a generation of children. into the trailblazers of tomorrow. after school. part of the rebel education series at this time on al-jazeera. she played a key part in ending apartheid in south africa but was also embroiled in controversy when he mandela has died at the age of eighty one.