sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm sutras and this is the news hour line from london coming up he had a dream but he wasn't simply a dreamer but a man of action fifty years on the united states commemorates the death of civil

rights leader martin luther king were alive in memphis tennessee at the hotel where he died also on the program. officials say donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria a little longer. brazil's supreme court decides whether former president lula da silva can stay out of jail during his appeal against a corruption conviction. on facebook comes clean admitting the data of eighty seven million users could have been improperly shared with the british consul to. not only weddings with the sports including big wins for barcelona in the champions league and the gold rush begins one of the world's biggest multis for two brands goes on the way australia's gold coast.

it's been fifty years since martin luther king jr was assassinated on a hotel balcony and memphis tennessee events are being held right across the u.s. to honor the memory of the civil rights campaigner thousands of people have gathered at the lorraine motel which is now a civil rights museum for the official ceremony commemorating the anniversary and from there roslyn jordan joins us live in memphis tennessee a long list of speakers due to speak on the balcony behind you on the stage behind you ross including the reverend jesse jackson who i read this described the knights of king's death as the most trying. sake of his life. that's right it's not something that jesse jackson has discussed much in the fifty years since martin luther king jr his fellow activist and his mentor was assassinated on the balcony behind me that you see there draped in black bunting but people are trying to focus

not just on what they say was a traumatic loss for them personally or for the country as a whole but they're also trying to focus on the work that martin luther king did during his very short life you only lived thirty nine years to talk with me more about king's legacy and what is the challenge facing not just americans but others in the days ahead i'm joined now by derrick johnson he is the president and the c.e.o. of the n.w.a. c.p. one of the nation's largest civil rights organizations thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera thank you for being here. when you woke up today what is your thought about this anniversary the death of martin luther king jr but i think is both the speed of his hard work but we also want to out of a certain tension workers who sacrifice must to be sure that they have a. bias working to dishes the ball support me they reconfigure raise us to continue to do the work of immelt cain and so many others to make democracy work law so many

countries including the united states love anniversaries to talk about what's been happening what the legacy was is this an opportunity for action in the united states public this acknowledgment of the work of the all the people who sacrificed in the civil rights movement is something that we can use to propel to ensure that the current political landscape in this country change with african-americans turn out to vote we make a difference the midterm elections going to be crucial to ensure a week impact all of the eighty eight legislative bodies on the ballot this year in turnout in red. good numbers there are those who will saying well the united states had a black president we heard a recorded message from barack obama in the past half hour does that mean that the work for racial and economic justice is done in the united states if you look at the tone has been since from the white house where this from charlottesville or comments about african nations that tell you

a lot of about where we have come and how far we have retreated it is the role in doubling c.p. to make the marker see work we can only do that if we show up to the polls our voters our currency does the marxian we must collectively impact the landscape so all citizens can have a viable quality of life and finally what is the danger of apathy fifty years after the death of martin luther king the danger is cut in education funding so don't feature for our children no protection for our health to leave the disadvantaged under attack you know to help the vinnies aside as measured on those three valuable things are we preparing our young people do we care for elderly and honor them and are we protecting our rights to this advantage it of us today gave today we are living in a sick society it is our role as a conscious of this nation's africa america's to make a difference we'll leave it there derrick johnson president and c.e.o. of the n.w.c. thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera and sue i'll turn it back to you

here in the studio in the next couple of hours of course there will be the tolling of bells to commemorate the moment when martin luther king jr was assassinated again on the balcony of what used to be the lorraine motel it is now the national civil rights museum to remind all visitors of what happened more than fifty years ago a cross for people watching from around the wild especially those that may have seen over the news that's come out about how many black man have been shot dead by the police in the plot device matter as much if they're assigned steve think the perception may be that after they're at. actually as you mentioned of barack obama a black man the president in a way the country's come back to it's not forwards. ball some would say perhaps the country is gone backwards but i've heard others tell me today that really what has happened is that some of this race is feeling some of the stereotypes around african-americans persist and perhaps were driven underground

because it was considered impolite to share such hateful views and certainly with the coming of donald trump into the u.s. presidency there is a view that perhaps those people who think that one ethnic or racial group is superior to others feel empowered and emboldened to make known their views but what we have been seeing here in our preparation sewa covered this event is that there seems to be a real recognition that the only way to deal with those views is to actually confront them in the public sphere and to try to change institutions that perhaps have instituted or infiltrated those views and try to get those views out of official policy so a real sea change but the question is how long can this momentum be sustained kaye rossborough and junk thanks very much for that we're going to fit in now to the reverend james lawrence turner who is a senior pastor at the mississippi but devout christian looking for now interesting

modern civil rights movement he was a gospel preacher he has inspired generations of preachers to marry spiritual annoying thing and social action in their ministries and i am one who has been shaped by his life and ministry it was a tragedy that he lost his life here in memphis fifty years ago fighting on behalf of sanitation workers who said he would not give them a living wage. and fifty years later it would be even more tragic after a week of celebrations speeches done hundreds luncheons and entertainment that we leave memphis with a plan to do absolutely nothing even more tragic than that it would be shameful if faith leaders did not pick up the mantle that failed here fifty years ago the hour is late. time is far stream and we cannot wait for justice any longer i

can hear dr king calling to us and saying to us that we cannot wait we cannot wait another fifty years to get serious about taking action against injustice and poverty as we've been meeting the need in our week alone those who perpetuate wickedness are hard places he had been a child still he's been speaking to. that is a commemoration of the anniversary of martin luther king we're going to come back to this a little later on when the reverend jesse jackson from now government still to come on the al jazeera news hour volatility on tit for tat terrorists trying tensions escalate between china and the united states the war of words between russia and the u.k. of the nerve agent attack each cell and in sport no challenge for australian cricket captain steve smith says he accepts his ball tampering ban.

a senior u.s. official says donald trump pass a create to keep u.s. troops in syria a little longer on choose day the american president threatened to pull out his cell just from the country and demanded the u.n. and other regional powers step up their support the u.s. is conducting asterix in syria and has deployed about two thousand troops on the ground can really help this update from the white house. this is yet another example of donald trump making it unscripted remark with far reaching implications and then his policy advisers scrambling to give this the appearance of a coherent strategy not only did the president on tuesday suggest that it was time for the united states withdraw those two thousand forces from syria but he also made the comment or the suggestion last week in front of his supporters when speaking to them in ohio so certainly there is an eagerness by this president to

withdraw those troops he certainly has said that many times in the campaign trail that he believes that americans are paying too much in terms of foreign conflicts that the american taxpayer cannot afford and so that's sort of the underlying base of these comments but again he was advised today by his intelligence briefings that occur on a daily basis that in fact it is too soon for the u.s. to withdraw those troops that in fact there is a need for them to stay there well there is an effort for this to wrap up it cannot wrap up just yet there's still work to be done and that's why we saw the white house sending out a hasty statement early this morning here on wednesday where in fact the white house press secretary sara sounders tried to clarify that the president wasn't wrong saying that it's coming to a rapid and but it's not ending yet. iran turkey and russia have promised to work together to ensure a lasting cease fire in syria the leaders of the three countries have been meeting in ankara to discuss the crisis some a binge of aid is there and sent this report. these are the three men deciding the

future of syria the turkish president hosted the russian and ukrainian leaders to talk about how to end the conflict that ended its eight year what other will learn to draw as a guarantor country it's important to attain the territorial integrity of syria these fights have to be ended in the country has to be rebuilt on this we are in agreement the syrian public the civilians are those who are losing as a result of these fights there is a difficult process ahead of us but the light at the end of this tunnel is getting brighter we will not allow the face of syria to be darkened by terrorist organizations but each one of these three leaders has a different definition of what they call terrorists turkey has influence over opposition fighters who've been fighting bashar al assad's forces iran backs the syrian president and has sent thousands of troops in militia to support him russia supports assad but is also very of growing sectarianism after ice in defeat. but in

ankara the focus was on what brings together this diverging alliance. really that's it we're looking to take steps towards implementing the decisions made in sochi first of all to form in geneva under the un auspices a constitutional committee which will work towards a framework in which syrians can determine the main parameters of the state structure of their country. was. the people of syria especially those inside opposition held areas or the tens of thousands forced to flee their homes do not trust the countries who back the regime even if there is recognition of the humanitarian suffering. as. we have always emphasized from the perspective of the iran islamic republic that there is no military solution to the syrian problem we need to help stop the war in syria by peacefully the three leaders agreed to expedite

a political solution but it might be easier said than done the less successful part of this initiative has been the political angle where the three countries are wanted to push the different actors in syria towards a political solution that effort has been hindered by the fact that even between moscow tehran and i know. there are still a number of divergence as concerning the future of syria the future constitutional syria and even the role of us up. as foreign nations declared their support for peace one year ago on this day the syrian air force dropped sarin gas and hunchy whom in the province to you in syria commission says it killed dozens the majority of whom were women and children the leaders of turkey iran and russia say their dialogue is being ready for the un's geneva peace process but people inside syria's rebel held areas say there pessimistic about

a solution when attacks by parties backed by these three countries continue to happen some of the job. and car china has hit back at u.s. trade terrorists by imposing its own measures on going from america beijing says it's introducing a twenty five percent tax on more than one hundred u.s. products including soybeans planes cars and beef u.s. president donald trump insists it's not a trade war agent brown reports from beijing. it's forty years since china began to open its economy to the world encouraged ironically by the united states as a result their brands are among the first to benefit now chinese government officials are warning that four decades of cooperation is being recklessly endangered but on wednesday they responded with carefully targeted counter measures that will hurt a wide range of industries. kidlet tariff ruling committee of the state council

decided to impose a twenty five percent tariff on one hundred six types of products in fourteen different categories including soybeans cars and chemicals made in america no mention though of aviation but we're taking you now directly back to memphis tennessee and the lorraine motel to that anniversary and commemorating a fifty years in the king died and were about to hear from the reverend jesse jackson i am somebody. a man i am a man respect me protect me never neglect me i am somebody stop the violence save the children saw the violence save the children keep hope alive keep hope alive he lives he lives he lives he lives let me hear you scream like you really mean it.

i. my brothers and my sisters. it's a bit difficult standing here. again today. i see brother be a loser sitting here who was here. fifty years ago. i've been blessed by god to come back here fifty years later. and every time. the saw is still roll. in the blood seal loses this is the site of the crucifixion. and is the resurrection the new hope and the new possibilities the difficult season without the king this was. the last i mean we had in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight it was able that

day of excitement had quite some appalachian. mountains native americans. blacks from a deep south the desert belt of mississippi. how they in the war in vietnam how the impoverished how to end the war and how they in poverty if it was going for the warm polish had been gone to the war in vietnam had been going to war the way about poverty that was his mission and violence. was on the street is attacked that spring february first two men were killed and then we're going to call the reverend james lawson come to memphis because it gives concrete to say you'll pull because him painted gives concreteness to it the king had a staff meeting on the sad to before we came in said. and in. bevel

i. have had a migraine headache for three days i'm a career and my wife and with and then jean and ralph and one. of them a bassett just squit much as i could do in thirteen years we one month governor we won birmingham we win in chicago we won selma we're making progress but maybe. if we as attacking them. tapped as home phone and office phone and hotel rooms and tried to pay maids to see it there was semen on the bits of disgrace and discredit him made his allies turn on him. to new york times in the march would not work. and the young don't talk that way he said end of the peace peace when there is no peace let me tell you. we get real quiet he said maybe i can't turn around because for the dumbass inherit when not on

the stand those who never gave up i can't turn around it is said about it fast to the point of death stroke when rap. kissy jim fama. we may disagree on facts we refer and so there. was a point of stopping the death fast and that. the changes moved to say you know but we're going on the memphis on the way the washed up we're going to washington to go to jail in top traffic and ship to congress is focus instead we're going to go a step further he said the senate they should workers they are god's children if they don't do their work the surgeons cannot do operations because germs to kill the patient they don't do their work the teachers cannot teach because the stench in there if they don't do their work to people and so we get workers deserve to get

their pay and their benefits and their health care he went from a deep depression to how to expire come on the. same three move jesus went through a let this cup pass for may be as he prayed disciples slept then not my will be done within them. shame on them if that next week came across the. hose then revving up took a pitch on this balcony he said you know. we're going back to the streets in memphis and we're going to win this battle in memphis we've got to win this battle in memphis we got the win that battle that we're not going to give up on memphis we're going to win the battle here we can fight poverty right here in memphis in the day my brothers and sisters put the focus of average americans make less than fifteen dollars an hour the working poor missed sick to focus an average american thirty two percent in poverty working poor that was his agenda then that is his

agenda to the day and so he said well we're going to have done the remember the cows home tonight around six o'clock around five o'clock when the carousel planned music and then he said. around five for the fire just say you're late i was down about with. the rails on the only you know just you know not you know you're an hour late but it's all right jess you. can have on the shirt in time the reading is an appetite not attack and we laugh and you look down a subbie and breakfasts in there please pray my favorite song tonight precious low on the saxophone bins in these eighty raised up but. not going to get this. upon

impact he said with this time him in the neck i'm vince he never felt the pain he was dead on impact remember never came back up my friend modern modern you can't leave us now we need you can't you can't leave us now you can't leave us now. to the room three o five my room and call mrs cain is that they're not the king had been shot i think in the shoulder was hoping against hope but i knew better i just couldn't say without action the scene she got the call a few minutes later and said that he was dead. for in the bad news is he was did then but going to does not have the last word my brothers and sisters if. that land is his bethleham and mason temple church of god and prices hit gets him in and then this is his cavalry and not thought of him

calvary is resurrection. from this balcony we decided not a little one will it kill a movement from his back and we went straight from here to the rail at the potomac overlooking the time of the white house and for the years we went from the balcony on the rain with the bow to the white house in forty years we never stop fighting we never stop there we never will in coalition blast in the boat need a good white woman in the south we never stop fighting we never gave up we never never gave we never gave out. this balcony in. the balcony in the white houses for the years in the wilderness the friends today the hope is in the resurrection as in the biblical case he is not he's gone and when you celebrate winning the campaign in two thousand and eight and. he is alive and those children

macia last week sen ban assault weapons are gone. he is alive. and we walked in modern freedom mandela he is alive my friend let nothing break your spirit the day he was allowed the homes by the phone turn known violated and yet somehow someway he would not give up. as a seven accept his challenge i cannot give up. well i would not turn around someone so the few days ago rejects you know you have parkinson's and there's no cure. there is a queue of everything. we turn to the dog. and . we fear. lord of the sort of them. we cry some time we heard we lose a little million due for

a night. the whole joy cometh in the morning the same the commonest the same in this it in him the power to talk but in the war the same man you've been listening to the reverend jesse jackson civil rights activist and minister speaking to the crowd commemorating the fiftieth anniversary since dr martin luther king was murdered reliving the of the moment she won the dr with that but saying the message is really not to let one bullet kill him if men and saying that he believed that dr king lived on through the day that barack obama was elected to the white house to the children marching against. brazil supreme court is deciding whether former president there was. a silver can stay out of jail while appealing against corruption conviction you know could be

barred from running in this year's presidential election if the judges in his favor let's go live to our last night american and i said to see a new man who's in brasilia he was saying a little earlier that the vote was on a knife edge this year do we have the result yet. no it is still it is still a cliffhanger sue in fact it's a very slow painful process the judges began voting or debating four and a half hours ago and only three have cast their vote the fourth judge is about to do so we believe it's going to be almost tie that it would all come down to one vote of the eleven judges we don't know which way that eleven the judge is planning to vote and the way things are going it may be apt to be a recess until thursday so all eyes in this country are on the supreme court where i am right now but it hasn't been decided yet one significant development so is that the army the head of the army has weighed in on this that is unprecedented he

is saying it would seems like an unveiled threat. that it would be unacceptable for impunity to reign that is something that has that institution such as the army usually doesn't talk about it supposed to stay out of politics and at least it has done so since the military stopped ruling this country back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five so many parents to see a new me newman their life. still to come on the al-jazeera news outlet and uneasy as national oil company takes the blame for a huge oil spill and fire off borneo and liverpool take control of that champions league quarter final but at what costs and they will have the details coming up in sport.

hello spring is definitely sprung in europe when temperatures are rising beautifully because as little snow on the ground still so there will be more floods and with the cloud head again as you can see all coming from the west the ridge of the warm planted you'd expect to find rain coming out of that on top of what's already left on the ground so ranging says it'll be in northern italy austria down through croatia as well and spots at least through germany as well and up towards the baltic states temperatures are all in the teens twenty three if you're in bucharest or athens and they're heading up through british isles and france and iberia up into double figures and quite high double figures today off to twenty in paris for example all could see of the warmth of the atlantic of course it does to generate a fair amount of rain and that's the picture on friday greece is in for it probably belgariad and rumania but i think not in fact throughout the mediterranean the clouds dispersing so you should see sunshine on the shores from algeria across to

egypt temperature wise for all depends on whether winds coming from is thirty three now swann very light wind here a few showers are possible in egypt but he's tried every way further west the potential maybe of some red. otherwise it's just warmth. tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the movement where we are here lies nothing worse first world the in three years the devastating impact perceive the big means also perceive that the proceeds of in the recent years and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders are the people who need to learn of us our gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera .

when and you're. welcome back remind all of the top stories here on al-jazeera a senior u.s. official says donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria a little longer just a day off the american president president to pull out his soul just from the

country and demanded the u.n. and other regional powers step up their support beijing impose his duties on more than one hundred u.s. products less than eleven hours after president trump unveiled tariffs on chinese goods. and thousands of people all gathered up the lorraine motel for the official ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination civil rights leader martin luther king. a former u.s. president barack obama was among the speakers paying tribute of him because of his glorious words and deeds because of his hopeful vision and his moral imagination we found the courage to come as far as we have. because of him and his fellow marchers barricades began to fall and bigotry began to fade laws changed but sort of hearts and minds new doors of opportunity swung open for each new

generation just look around we can see with our own eyes that america is fairer and freer and more just than it was in dr king's time people of all colors and creeds live together and work together and fight alongside one another and love one another it's progress that expresses itself in a million ways large and small across this country of ours every single day we're right to savor that progress but we also have to take stock of all the work that remains we're right to remember that such progress didn't come easily that for every victory there were setbacks and defeats that for every two steps forward we often take a step back from a president barack obama playing to new thinking russia has lost the vote calling for a joint investigation into last month's nerve agent attack in salisbury the motion was blocked and the o.p.c. w.v.

chemical body investigating the incident basin also dismissed russia's offer of help saying it was highly likely moscow will be hind the policing of a phone with spy no one slave imports who tried to kill the script weeks old from the incident there remains no determining piece of evidence that puts beyond doubt the question as to who was behind this. of course the samples taken from the scene to tell british scientists determine what's the police and was but that isn't the same thing it was not a chill they said but don't ask us which country it came from because it isn't job . we are one hundred percent certain that this is from the nova choked family of nerve agents a military create nerve agent who provided the information to the police and to the government and that has really been our rule in the us it's not for us to advice on who me who made the near vision or we had indeed it came from. all of

which is a bit embarrassing for the british foreign secretary who apart from comparing vladimir putin to hitler in recent weeks had seemed to suggest that he'd been told by the same scientists that the poison had come from russia they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt which was seized on by the russian embassy in london it's pointed out that over the course of four nights the british side seemed to have changed its story nor did it help the british case that some tweets from the u.k. foreign office on the same subject had been to lead it or the russian side roundly accused by the u.k. and its allies of dissin from ation is by now in full flow arguing that the u.k. can't stand up its arguments and along with its allies in washington has made the whole story up to conjure up a new cold war but it is. washington has become fixated with the fight against

a nonexistent so called russian threat this is reach such proportions an acquired such absurd characteristics that it's possible to speak of a return to the dark times of the cold war. in the middle of all this the experts from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons met at the hague at the behest of the russians moscow has said all along that many countries have novacek and neither the british nor anyone else would be able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia the seeming lack of a consistent argument from the british side has only strengthened likely to the russians did it the russians can still say you can't say for certain that it was us and they will continue to do so until and unless the british can provide categorical evidence gloriously al-jazeera in london. facebook says the personal data of up to eighty seven million users may have been improperly shared with a british political consultancy firm thirty seven million more than previously

thought last month it was revealed that the uses information was obtained by the firm cambridge analytical which worked for donald chance presidential campaign news news corps an international outcry and has forced facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg to testify before a u.s. congressional committee next week we'll go across to alan fischer who joins us now live from washington d.c. alan face are saying they're going to start to inform those whose date has been harvested from april the knife but what more do we know about this bill the started taking steps to protect their users by changing the terms of service for the first time since twenty fifteen that's going on to the website just in the last few hours but we also know that facebook could never put a number on the the the users that perhaps had the data breached it was the media that suggested fifty million senior executive in facebook says that after their studies they're seeing eighty seven million how they got to that figure we're not

entirely sure but just in the last couple of hours mark zuckerberg has jumped on to a conference call with a number of reporters to talk about these figures and what he said is we didn't take a broad enough view of what a responsibility is and that was a huge mistake on the back of this fisa books share price is down again don't sixteen percent since the scandal first came to light for think about exhibit to appear later this month in front of that congressional committee is it likely do you think that he will face or indeed face forward facing the kind of punishment and indeed other that he says just say. he says that he's the person to fix this but then we've heard from many c.e.o.'s and founders of companies that always believe that to be the case for the moment no one is suggesting that mark zuckerberg is about to leave facebook as far as the u.s.

house committee hearing is concerned next week he's decided that he's going to send a number to to speak to other foreign governments but he's going to take the lead here in the united states does he face any direct sanction from them not unless he starts to refuse to answer questions or we don't think that is likely the bigger concern to him is that there are a number of jurisdictions including a number of attorneys general right across the united states that are looking into the details of this data breach and from that new wealth flaw some criminal cases one of those who are looking into of course is the attorney general of california where facebook is based so this may not who are we with mark zuckerberg talking to us host committee this may not go away with a change in the terms of service this may not go away because facebook is no admitting a lot more people had their data breached go to torture alan alan fischer there in that latest breaking news out facebook back now to the commemorations of the death of martin luther king margaret burnham is

a distinguished professor of law and african-american studies at northeastern university and she also directs the civil rights and restaurateur justice project and joins me now live from boston thanks very much for coming on to al-jazeera we were just hearing from the reverend jesse jackson there who is speaking live from the very place where dr king was killed saying that he felt that his spirit if you like it lives on through significant events like barack obama being elected to the white house like the people that the children who were demonstrating just last week about the guns is that do you think his lasting memory memory is a lasting legacy i suppose that that's where people feel him most. well yes and i think that dr king really does reflect the. liberal toward the libretto or spirit in the united states so wherever that spirit expresses itself as you say it did in washington when people came to really claim

their lives as against gun violence it has in the streets in sacramento where people have collected to protest the police shooting of stefan clark so wherever people have gathered to say their space for a broader and deeper democracy their space for more justice in our country the space for more peace in our country certainly those those expressions are motivated and impelled by the legacy that dr king left to all of us why did he tell you that actually i think trying to move on beyond desegregation and the right and sort of brought on really his focus really looking at the a lot of the poor person is a difficult question but if he'd lived how do you think he would have moved forward how do you think he would have developed this movement that he had behind them. well so i do think that you're right to point out that oftentimes we embrace only

half of dr king and in order to be true to his legacy it really is the whole king of the more difficult as well as the easier science of dr king's message and that message really spoke to war it's both to the persistence of you war at that point was the vietnam vietnam war it spoke to the persistence and deepening of poverty are in our country and to structural racism not just the jim crow kind of racism that was familiar as those fought against segregation in buses and schools but really to the deeply structural roots of racism our country and he was in bracing those those that agenda as he as he mature and as a as a political leader from ninety one one thousand fifty five through nine hundred sixty eight in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven he gave an absolutely marvelous speech about the war in vietnam that he wasn't the first to embrace the

antiwar message for all of our communities and particularly for african-american communities but when he did so he was steadfast in that and so that message the antiwar into militarism war message is one that resonates certainly today because we have been persistently at war since night since the one nine hundred sixty since the vietnam war whether they are quiet wars or or or or declared wars we have certainly been a country a militarized country in many senses and it was that that just as the dr king's message was was addressed to the moral what the moral. imperative for peace and for greater justice and and for and quality very grateful for you sharing your thoughts with us today margaret brennan speaking from northeastern university in boston. thank you so much sue for

having me u.s. president donald trump will sign a proclamation to deploy the national guard to help protect the border with mexico the u.s. homeland security secretary says she hopes the troops can be deployed as a as one saved and the president has directed that the department of defense and the department of homeland security work together with our governors to deploy the national guard to our southwest border to assist the border patrol the president will be signing a proclamation to that effect today and uneasy as state's oil company has admitted the ruptured pipe is responsible for a massive oil spill off borneo island at least five fishermen have died in a fire related to the spill and a state of emergency has entered its third day local officials warn residents not to light cigarettes in the area set by some reports from jakarta. oil polluting the bay of the city of ballot and several media by villages the spill has spread over

an area of around twelve square kilometer us residents have complained of a strong smell of fuel in the area hundreds have reported health issues such as north and formatting police have warrant against lighting fires. on saturday shortly after the spill was first noticed a fire broke out in the water near a chinese cargo ship with five fishermen who were in a small boat in the bay at the time died. but like bob on his home to one of indonesia's largest oil refineries the country's state energy company better mena initially denied the oil leak was from one of its underwater pipelines but now says it was. you know you. ought to be investigated further we found that this is our crude oil leaking from a broken pipe by fishermen how the protests at the mayor's office demanding compensation to spill stop them from earning

a living if those have been damaged and they can't reach deficient grounds almost two hundred fishermen are affected the impact of the pollution on marine life still needs to be investigated residents are working with emergency services to get rid of the oil and by imagine if out urgent police to speed up the investigation and bring those responsible for this bill to justice they also want the government to act fast the clean up the oil and limit damage to the environment step by al-jazeera. sure lanka's prime minister has survived a no confidence vote in parliament the vote was brought by a group led by former leader mahinda rajapaksa they accused her on a walk around the singer of appointing a foreign national a central bank governor so he could leak inside information to his son in law about the treasury bond sale when off and on those reports from colombo. the prime minister has come out. we tourist after this no confidence motion

a mammoth twelve hour debate from the early hours of wednesday morning now essentially when you look at the numbers at the end of the day hundred twenty two m.p.'s voted with the prime minister they voted against the no confidence motion but a seventy six voted for it a former twenty six m.p.'s decided to abstain from voting ultimately it is the prime minister who has come out on top this time but if you look at the bigger picture it's the government that is weakened with the joint opposition obviously kind of laughing all the way to the bank in terms of seeing the government schooling having problems within the different parties the party of the president the sri lankan freedom party and the party of the prime minister of the united national party now as to what happens over the coming days the coming weeks will remain to be seen because different people have different opinions those who have seen say that the prime minister is just one member of the cabinet that they will

continue even though they refuse to support the prime minister they say it's for the president to decide whether there's any action taken against them there kicking in their heels and saying they're there to stay but obviously the prime minister supporters you know begging for blood saying this should not have happened that it was very much politically driven asking for the relevant authorities to end centrally to take action to root out those who had come out against the prime minister would weaken the government. still to come all the sports news with including i'm andrew thomas of the commonwealth games on australia's gold coast but unlike the olympics some big sporting nations are missing here there's no china there's no united states so what is the medal here really count. business updates brought to you by qatar airways. going places to get the.

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thank you very much and let's start with. being polite and in the old english much it was liverpool against premier league leaders manchester yes again my solo was among the goals i think the scoring off the twelve minutes out of the guy in the second off a second goal quickly followed a long line shot from. how. so the only things have been city in the premier league do it get in the champions league it would take a lot so i would turn up for a go deficit in the second leg on tuesday but liverpool my face punishment for an attack by their fans on the manchester city team bus before the game outside the ground missiles were thrown reportedly smashing thirteen windows and city were

unable to use their bus for their return journey and wednesdays over much of the new campaign because barcelona for one first like winners thanks to two uncles by roma job added to the score early in the second half of luis suarez scored a fourth. goal for weimar gives them a glimmer of hope for the return leg players and fans across europe are paying tribute to former england player wilkins whose died at the age of sixty one wilkins had been treated as a london hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest last week one eighty four caps for england a cut in the side ten times the midfielder also played for chelsea manchester united and milan draws a club career that spanned three decades the call of games is officially underway in australia had every four years it's one of the world's biggest multi sports events with most countries competing having once been part of the british empire

then usually rainy weather can dampen spirits as thousands of athletes from around the world join the opening ceremony on the gold coast the first time men and women will have the same number of medal events with australia and england expected to battle at the top of the medal table but the games also provides an important sporting opportunity for smaller nations around the world as andrew thomas express . australia's gold coast has a new multicolored village six thousand athletes and officials will live in these apartment blocks and use their services for the next ten days the athletes permanent homes are seventy one countries or british regions all territories of the commonwealth i am from pakistan i resembled islands barbados most places represented were once part of the british empire the games are a colonial legacy of course some of the world's biggest sporting nations like the united states china france germany japan they're all missing some athletes don't

think that matters a commonwealth medal may not be as prestigious as an olympic one but in certain sports the commonwealth games can hold their own in my field hundred metres there's a low caribbean countries he was some of the world's best jamaica. and there's a lot of suffolk ans of foster marvin as well so you know if you look at the olympic final there's those i mean you know two or three i'm out to americans and as the rest of the world and a lot of a couple of nations. the commonwealth games also reserve spaces for sporting minnows yet jim cook will box when a room a tiny pacific island nation most famous is the place australia sends on wanted refugees its entire population is thirteen thousand people is quite a big deal back in the role and. everyone knows everyone and everyone will be they will have their eyes on to win the competition starts. the games which include let's. and even lawn bowls are spread across venues that stretch the length of

australia's gold coast and into the neighboring city of brisbane as well ticket sales have been slow only gymnastics is completely sold out but along the beach front on wednesday there was still enthusiasm we came from the united states of america and were absolutely excited to be here man this would have been no other time we would have came on you going you know we we we we we wish but we don't want to pay five hundred dollars just generate so much if he has a genuine interest and if anyone is going to do it right australia's rather right organizers have to meet high expectations andrew thomas al-jazeera australia's gold coast two of australia's disguised cricketers have said they want to pay all against playing bans for ball tampering former captain steve smith and batsman cameron bancroft made the announcement on twitter smith was given a twelve month suspension by cricket australia for his role in the instant in south africa bancroft's who was called roughing up the ball with sandpiper in capetown

was banned for nine months is what smith said in his statement i would give anything to have this behind me and be back representing my country but i know what i said about taking full responsibility as captain of the same i won't be challenging the sanctions that were imposed by cricket australia to send a strong message and i have accepted them. it's widely considered golf's greatest told m n that this year's masters in augusta there is particular excitement at the return of tiger woods the photo you out has returned to form after his problems on and off the coals and that means golf fans are hoping he'll be challenging for a fifth masters title as andy gallagher reports. back at augusta national and back on form as the masters gets underway tiger woods is firmly in the spotlight he's long been the game's dominant figure so use that he's fit and eager to slip on a fifth green jacket as fans and players excited he's going to win. some point i

think that's pretty clear to everyone with. the ways in continue to get better. so it's great for the game to have him back i think you can see. the tiger effect and or new tournaments that he's been from ticket sales to. people viewing on t.v. it's a long way from his arrest for reckless driving last year of a very public divorce from his wife in two thousand and nine woods has also been plagued by injuries but after a series of back surgeries funs expectations are high i mean i grew up watching tiger woods you know when his first mass was in one thousand nine hundred seventy and so on that strong run for a couple years so needless to say me and my buddies are all you know ready for thursday to get here and get that tournaments started. in the late ninety's tiger woods conquered golf bringing a new generation of fans with him his impact is undeniably important it's been

years since tiger woods last won a major victory but at the masters would not only be an epic moment in the history of sport it will be a major boost for goals are the way his comeback is already more than most expected this year's masters is already being touted as the tournament of a lifetime proof if it would needed the tiger effect it's still a potent force everyone's been invested in this story no matter where you picked it up along the way you know some people love him for the drama some people love him for his skill so people just want to see what that outcome is going to be. when tiger woods first won the masters he was twenty one the first african-american to win the title runs hope he's not finished making history and he got out. looking forward to that but that's his fall from zero thank you well that's it from me for now for this news hour but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news.

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an archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several building museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture. a function of their champion over ninety nine children to teach us to reflections which is the fun thread to run and i was having a fancy growth process and one dream dashed by sectarian attacks but then stopped

being about sports became pure politics zero world looks back on the rise and fall of last. basketball timeout on al-jazeera. he had a dream but he wasn't simply a dreamer but a man of action fifty years only us commemorate the death of civil rights leader martin luther king.