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bells toll across the u.s. for martin luther king jr on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. sierra leone's opposition julius amar the bio is declared the winner of the presidential election. facebook reveals millions of more people are caught up in his privacy scandal than first reported plus we're going to be guarding our border with the military it's a big step calling in the troops donald trump authorizes the national guard to help stop the flow of mexican migrants into the u.s. . alone americans in several cities have marched in song civil rights songs to honor martin luther king jr exactly fifty years after he was. on down. all the.

way. bells rang out across the u.s. including at king's gravesite in atlanta georgia and in memphis tennessee where king was shot dead on a motel balcony in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight they told for thirty nine seconds each representing a year of his life civil rights leaders spoke of how the u.s. needs time to reflect on king's legacy and discuss how his example can apply to racial and economic divide still plaguing society. and in. the in the white house for the years in the wilderness my friends today the hope is in the resurrection and we celebrate winning the campaign in two thousand and eight and twelve he's alive and those children march last week saying ban on assault weapons. he's alive

and we walked the mosque in freedom and. he is alive my friend let nothing break your spirit the day he would spend the phone turned on. yet somehow some way he would not. our correspondent roslyn jordan has more now from memphis. much of wednesday's plum ration of the fiftieth anniversary of the temple mark jr was celebrated for a time but for just one minute at six o'clock local time wednesday the crowd will silent while a large church bell was told thirty nine times one time for each of the years that king lived on the earth the idea was to mark the music of someone who had achieved so much during his lifetime ending legal segregation against african-americans in

the south as well as achieving the one nine hundred sixty five voting rights act which guaranteed all americans the right to cast ballots in local and national elections this was also a day where activists called on young people in particular but on older people to to do more to fight racism to fight economic inequality and to fight what mr king had called militarism the idea that war was the way to solve country's disputes with each other this was also an opportunity for new political leaders to essentially a test of the crowd and to see if their message of civic engagement active civic engagement would go over well with this generation in two thousand and eighteen it seemed that they were getting a positive reaction but the challenge is going to be maintaining the momentum especially going into the midterm elections here in the united states as well as

trying to improve the quality of life for tens of millions of americans not just those of one particular ethnic or racial group a u.s. president donald trump will so pay tribute to the civil rights leader he says king's legacy lives on. fifty years ago dr king was cruelly taken from this world by an assassin's bullet but the promise he fought for could never be taken away his words his deeds they live on for africa and the cause for which he gave his life only gauge strength and force and power with the passage of time on this chair's day we honor the memory of reverend king and we rededicate ourselves to a glorious future where every american from every walk of life can live free from fear liberated from hatred and uplifted by boundless love for their fellow citizens and we had as well from barack obama the nation's first black president who credits

king with some of his success because 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 so did 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 were 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. far the hutchinson is the old of fifty years later why the

murder of dr king still hurts he joins us from los angeles thanks very much for being with us so i want to ask you first of all what was the you take from the commemorations that have been taking place across the country today. it was really a moving experience to see in memphis so many people come together from so many walks so why like so many ethnic groups not just african-americans you had hispanics you had asians you had people you had obviously many many women and of course many whites so right there that's told me in the message that dr king the meaning of dr king's life and certainly the spirit of the struggle was right there because king it was not just civil rights for african-americans many people sometimes forget that really it was a broad based movement equality across the board and it had an impact on many many not only individuals many groups but also global leaders who sold you know it was

really heartening to see that today and i think it was a great tribute to dr king well you talk about a lot of positive things there but the title of your book is why the murder of dr king still hurts just expand on that what how did you arrive at that title. you know a lot of people forget something about dr king we know about dr king of i have a dream we know about dr king of the greats i mean absolutely great orator and certainly great mover and shaker and great initiator and motivator i mean we know that a but oftentimes was forgotten about dr king and his organization the southern christian leadership conference he was a masterful organizer of those marches those demonstrations those rallies breaking down the barriers challenging the jim crow institutions racist sheriffs bigoted the police officers mayors governors and even the president l.b.j.

that didn't just happen without a masterful organization so when i say why the murder of dr king still hers five decades later we lost that organizational great c.d.'s that dr king and many around him had we also lost something else holosuite really mobilize around a lot of the issues education health care poverty wealth inequality and of course voting rights and civil rights and mass incarceration many of the things that dr king in his time certainly had to confront and using that simply that the civil rights leaders and dr king put in place we miss that today we need that today so when i suggest that we are still grieving over that that's still a reality that certainly a presence in many of our lives could speak. well donald trump has decided to keep u.s.

troops in syria for the time being a day off they said he would pull them out u.s. president reportedly changed his mind after meeting with top national security advisers our white house correspondent kimberly how he reports. one day after u.s. president donald trump declared the united states will pull out of syria i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home the white house was on wednesday attempting to make sense of the president's statements arguing the u.s. would withdraw but not just yet as this environment has changed because of the success under the president's leadership we're evaluating it as we go the softening of the president's position as the result of a national security meeting trump had with top advisers he was informed there was still work to be done withdrawal of the two thousand military advisors and special forces could allow eisel to regain a foothold in the region we shouldn't go into iraq on the campaign trail trump

pushed an america first agenda arguing foreign conflicts have cost taxpayers too much it's a point he reiterated on tuesday well meeting with baltic leaders seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing. it's perhaps one reason trump is excel orating withdrawal timeline the other is russia trump has argued nobody has been tougher on russia than i have a withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria would be a win for russian president vladimir putin whose forces have supported the syrian government of bashar al assad throughout the conflict oh my god it would also be a victory for iran israeli government believes the iranians are planning to use their forces in syria to attack israel accusation iran denies but one analyst thinks trumps desire to pull the united states. out is simply part of a bigger strategy i think it's probably

a good idea to put that on the table because it forces people to negotiate with you with a talk with you more seriously and i think you're always going to be there despite the president's sense of urgency white house says the decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria will not be made by the president but instead by the secretary of defense based on conditions on the ground can really help at al-jazeera at the white house. and we were are the leaders of syria russia iran and turkey have agreed to speed up efforts to bring calm and improve aid deliveries but they fail to lay out a path forward with lingering differences over the conflict in germany had reports from ankara. 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's entered its eighth 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. we are 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 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 also to push the different actors in syria towards a political solution but that effort has been hindered by the fact that even

between moscow tehran and ankara there are still a number of divergences concerning the future of syria the future constitutional syria and even the role of us up as foreign nations declared their support for peace when you go on this day the syrian air force dropped sarin gas and hunchy hoon in the province the un syria commission says it killed dozens the majority of whom were women and children the leaders of turkey iran and russia say they are dialogue is being ready for the un's geneva peace process but people inside syria's rebel held areas say they are pessimistic about a solution when attacks by parties backed by these three countries continue to happen some of the job. and car at the u.n. says up to one hundred thousand people have now returned to iraq in syria five months after i saw was driven out in a u.s. backed military campaign a u.n.

team visited the city earlier this week for the first time since it was free estimates two thirds of homes are destroyed while most people still have no access to clean water city leaders say it is still riddled with unexploded devices i saw made rock of the de facto capital of the self declared caliphate when it captured the city in twenty fourteen. we've got plenty more ahead on the news hour a roller coaster ride on global markets as fears grow over a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. the actress who played the queen but wasn't paid the princely sum of her costar britain's debate about gender pay equity. and look for take charge of their champions league quarter final but what cost details later in the sport. all that's still ahead but first supreme court judges in brazil are deciding

whether former president luiz inacio lula de silva should be allowed to remain free while he continues to appeal a corruption conviction live now to our latin america editor lucy newman who is in the brazilian capital brasilia so how is it looking so far from the. hello house and well actually it doesn't look at all that good i have to say the debate is still going on it's been going on now for nine hours but the tense of the eleven supreme court judges is speaking at this hour it sounds like he's going to vote in favor of the former president's petition to be allowed to remain free while he makes every single appeal to his twelve body continues to make appeals to his twelve year conviction for corruption however that still leaves the president of the supreme court who has made it public already that she will vote against that

police so what everyone has been saying is that it will be a very very tight vote but it sounds at this point as though it will be six to five against the former president which means he will have to go to prison now. and what are the implications then for other politicians who are facing similar charges. well let's put it this way what's bad for lula is bad for the hundreds of politicians and businessmen in this country who are facing indictments investigations and charges of corruption and other crimes and clothing that includes actually scores who are already in prison but who still have appeals and who would have certainly hoping that the court would have voted in favor of president lula so that they too can ask to be released to be released while they continue to make appeals what those who are against this whole idea argue is that

this will allow criminals or convicted felons to continue to stay remain free for years and years while they make appeal after appeal which would basically make a mockery they argue of the whole justice system and would certainly debilitate the ongoing and widespread corruption probe that is taking place in brazil at this moment which actually has tainted more than two thirds of members of congress and the senate and in fact even the current president michel tamar has or i will wait to see what happens lucien newman live in brazil. sierra leone has sworn in a new president a short time ago julius martyr bio from the opposition people's party is the new leader of the former military chief vowed to govern for all seven million people in sierra leone after winning a close run of her many dreams has more from the capital freetown. they started first by announcing the official results scored by the ruling party candidate when

it was clear to audience outside this hole why the announcement was made by the way that they hope the ruling party candidate got forty eight point one nine percent people iraq. and celebrations are still going on of course. said early on in the streets of the capital and nobody cared to listen to what the president elect got actually so jealous monday below was president of this country for less than three months in the ninety's is now the new president elect for certainly on a lot of people expect in this results to come out two days after the election but because of protocols because of changes and demands as well as complaints by one of the political parties the results were delayed as that now but for many civil unions a lot of them started believing even before this result was announced by the election

commission believing that it's the opposition party that is winning this particular vote. cameroon's military has freed eighteen hostages seized by an armed group the government says twelve european tourists were among those captured they've been visiting a lake near man u. hostages were held for several days by the group which is fighting for the independence of english speaking reasons regions. facebook says the personal data of up to eighty seven million users may have been improperly shared with a british political consultancy firm that's thirty seven million more than previously reported social media websites now putting restrictions on user data that outsiders can access the changes include cracking down on apps that can get information about events that people are hosting or attending and facebook also says it will better protect conversations between people that take place in closed

or secret groups and it's timing the review process for all apps that request uses information about things like photos videos status updates posts on monday or facebook users will receive a notice telling them what apps they use what information is being shared and how to delete apps they no longer want a chief executive mark zuckerberg says he wants stand down because of the scandal and no one of the company has been fired our official reports. facebook has come in for heavy criticism after it was revealed the data of millions of users had been shared with outside parties initially it was thought by media sources the breach took in fifty million users now it's been revealed by facebook itself after an intent or review the figure is much higher eighty seven million facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told reporters on a conference call he no plans to step down and the company would change the way it handled users' data in the future now we have to go through every part of our

relationship with people and make sure that we're taking a broad enough you have our responsibility it's not enough to just connect people we have to make sure that those connections are positive and that their brand people closer together is not enough to just give people a voice we have to make sure that people are not using our stories to hurt people or to spread misinformation and it's not enough to give people tools to sanitize we have to ensure that all those developers protect people's information to our next this facebook didn't tell any of its users back in two thousand and fifteen that information had been accessed by the firm cambridge analytical which was contracted by the trump presidential campaign to help election ad targeting it no faces questions about the number of fake news stories posted during the election and the presence of russian operatives on the service the company also had links to another firm which provided analysis for the vote leave campaign in the british e.u.

referendum of the eighty seven million potentially affected users more than seventy million are in the u.s. mark zuckerberg will face a u.s. house committee next week to discuss the scandal and several states and investigating what happened and if any laws were broken alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well janet gephardt works for the electronic frontier foundation a digital rights group she doesn't think the changes go far enough. a lot of focus in kind of the raft of announcements of facebook made today with the measures they're going to be rolling out a lot of focus on protecting your information from third party developers but not a focus on protecting it from facebook itself we're hearing a lot about how facebook will lock down your information make sure that third party developers don't have access to it but very little talk of how fickle perhaps stop collecting that information or stop storing that information that kind of measure would be much more meaningful than simply walking down information from third parties one key question that i have yet to see facebook take real responsibility

for is why weren't you just notified in twenty fifteen when people found out about this one of the announcement it made today that it will i think starting next monday start to notify people if their information may have fallen into cambridge and look at hands in an unauthorized way but the train has left the station for a lot of users who are watching this you know why weren't users in the public notified when did this come to our cyber death and what was the conversation to keep it internal i think basic also stated in its initial statement after cambridge analytic a hit headline that they had taken most of the necessary stuff years ago the same question applies if those steps were so necessary and so crucial why didn't we hear about them so i think that that is really at the core of this problem and from there you could ask you know what other cambridge analytical like situations are out there that users in the public have not been informed about but user information has been if you. time for a quick break now but when we come back on aljazeera. desperate stories from

hundreds of migrants donald trump plans to stop but do they even want to go to the u.s. . don't light fires the warning to people living close to a huge oil spill off an indonesian island. later as for they'll be no appeal why from australian cricket captain steve smith won't be challenging his ball tampering back. from cool brisk knows in few weeks. to the warm tranquil to this of southeast asia. hello it looks very much as of the spring rains have started to the yangtze valley certainly the some development taking place over the next twenty four hours a circulation of a sichuan cold areas just to the north of the temps is going to drop in chengdu from twenty one to somewhere in the middle teens say forty as snow's apparent fall

and if you look out to the west and the rain is drifting sasser chinas although hong kong looks dry everywhere else on southwards is going to be under threat of some sort of arrangement in extend into vietnam and south of that we've seen some pretty big sharon and me in montana on the repeatable wanted to dance for sumatra in java in borneo it looks remarkably clear over the philippines and. here is well there are many of them in fact we should be seeing the dry season come upon us and given the idea of where the green spot soft would lock in the showers at certain the case but of course that means for mainland southeast asia into china the showers are getting more and more pokey. they are not yet visiting the very much of india here in primo and soon heat phase and what rain is falling as large a thing going to be in the far northwest or in the pole or bhutan otherwise it's just too hot. the weather sponsored by cattle and race.

for the benefit of people. who see the importance of our cars. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness 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 and the sun at this time on culture zero.

zero again you're watching it is it a reminder of op top stories this hour commemorations to tell the u.s. city of memphis and elsewhere marking fifty years as the death of civil rights leader martin luther king jr. donald trump has decided to keep u.s. troops in syria for now a day off the saying he would pull them out the u.s. president reportedly changed his mind when he met topps national security advisers . sierra leone's opposition leader of modern bio has been elected. resident with

nearly fifty two percent of those jubilant scenes in the capital freetown. zone. now a u.s. president trump assigned a proclamation to send national guard troops to the southern border with mexico he wants them to help prevent illegal migrants from entering the country supports the border came after days of agitated tweets from president trump expressing alarm at so-called caravans of migrants moving through mexico toward the u.s. the president has directed the national guard personnel be deployed to the southern border the department of defense as you know has long supported the efforts of d h s to protect our nation's borders the guardsmen who are often used in times of emergency in the u.s. will not have contact with migrants nor will they assist in processing them at the border instead officials say they will assist border patrol agents with surveillance by air and on the ground it will take time to have the details in

place but we are beginning today and we are moving quickly the number of guardsmen to be sent to the border was not specified trump is said to be frustrated by a lack of funding from congress to build his long promised border wall until we can have a wall in proper security we're going to be guarding our border with the military that's a big step we really haven't done that before both the obama and bush administration sent national guard units to the border at different times on similar assistance missions the administration called on congress to pass tougher laws making it more difficult for migrants to request asylum and to allow migrants to be detained for longer periods of time despite trump's rhetoric about hordes of migrants entering the u.s. records show that migration from mexico has for years been in decline with little hope you'll soon get the border wall he promised this may be the best donald trump

can offer his supporters robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. mexico's government is handing out transit and humanitarian visas to a group of central american migrants trying to reach the capital more than a thousand have camped in southern mexico since the weekend john homa reports. this is what it looks like the caravan of people from central america which prompted an enraged u.s. president to send reinforcements to the mexican border they number more than a thousand but all denies is say that their destination isn't the united states it's instead mexico city for now that hasn't stopped the political drama behind it a desperate stories like your land and his son axel fleeing the gang warfare in honduras that saw him marked for the just for having a go friend in a rival groups neighborhood markets you all does your life everyone knows that if we reported it to the police the gangs would have found out because they're part of

the police even at the highest levels. for others the escapees from chronic poverty you know. the salaries just aren't enough to provide the basic needs of your family . there are more depressingly similar stories people told them as they wait camped in a field in southwest mexico while officials process safe conduct papers. to highlight the dangers that migrants from other countries face as they go through mexico and that's not just from gangs that extol and kidnapped but even from some authorities mexico has been drastically tightening its southern border for the last four years partly with funds from the united states. it's just one of the factors that's led to a big drop over the years in the number of migrants detained at the u.s. border but beyond the numbers and debate of these people even when the caravan

stops in mexico city many plan to continue north in small groups to ask for asylum in the u.s. they say they are unable to see another way out john homan. mexico city of britain has rejected russia's call for a joint investigation into a suspected nerve agent attack on a former spy moscow made the request in an emergency meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the vote against russia was overwhelming today in the hague we've seen another attempt by russia to frustrate you confuse the process of insertion just as what happens with the russian federation called today's meeting despite the fact the o.p.c. w could not concluded its technical assistance to the u.k. and. its intent to do so was not a cynical ploy it sought ultimately to show confusion and prostrate the process lawrence leni has more on the investigation into last month's attack

who tried to kill the script weeks on 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 that help british scientists determine what's the poison was but that isn't the same thing it was not a chalk they said but don't ask us which country it came from because it isn't our job we are one hundred percent certain that this is from the nova chalk family of nerve agents a military create nerve agent who provided the information to the police and to the government and that's really been our role in the us it's not far as to advice on who me who made the nerve agent or where 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 his. the russian side roundly accused by the u.k. and its allies of disinform 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 the night of the british nor anyone else will 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 them. in a court of law the burden of proof rests with the accuser and while it is true that most of the british parliament and indeed many european governments seem satisfied with the british assertion that it was overwhelmingly 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. a growing trade dispute between the u.s. and china has left global markets reeling from the volatile round of trading followed china's latest move in

a series of tit for tat measures gabriel as and all reports from new york thanks. to the opening bell and another sharp drop in stocks on wall street caused mostly by worries that these are opening salvos of a trade war between the u.s. and china on wednesday china announced tariffs of up to twenty five percent on u.s. goods ranging from soybeans cars and chemicals it was in retaliation for president donald trump's proposal of tariffs on china considering total trade between the u.s. and china is six hundred fifty billion one hundred billion dollars in tariffs made not constitute a trade war just yet on wednesday larry kudlow trumps newly installed director of the national economic council trying to calm the markets i mean i would take the president seriously. tariff issue. you know better carrots and sticks. but he is ultimately a free trader said that to me he said it publicly so he wants to solve this with

the least amount of pain president trump may be trying to drive a hard bargain but china appears to see this in starker terms. of the ten and this is not the smoke before the fire this is the real fight here the real trick the war the war is ongoing you don't necessarily need to even post the tariff or the ban importers to start a trade war the terms proposed tariffs against china are just that a proposal they're still subject to public comment there will likely be hearings on them but if it goes through the tariffs could take effect as early as mid may and it will hit middle america farmers for the trade released this ad imploring trial. for help so imported from the us are targeted for tariffs and could cripple farmers who are very optimistic about the economy under president however we're very

concerned about their trade policies from washington we depend on free trade policies to maintain our export markets on wall street by closing bell the markets had recovered at least for a day everyone knowing however this tariff fight could not only damage the u.s. and china but have repercussions around the world. which is either new york in the knees of state oil company says a burst pipe caused a large oil spill that killed five people and left hundreds of all the sick it happened on saturday off borneo on a near the city of bali stuff reports. oil polluting the bay of the city of balad and several mia 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 for meting 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 five fishermen who were in a small boat in the bay at the time died. on this home to one of indonesia's largest oil refineries the country's state energy company back to mena initially denied the oil leak was from one of its on the water pipelines but now says it was . you know you. ought to be investigated further we found that this is al crude oil leaking from a broken pipe by fishermen held a protest at the mayor's office demanding compensation the spill stopped them from earning a living if those have been damaged and they can't reach to fishing 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 oil and right amount of this out urgent police to speed up the investigation and bring those responsible for this bill to justice they also want the government to act faster clean up the oil and limit damage to the environment step by al-jazeera . a minister's from egypt sudan and ethiopia holding talks on who controls the world's longest river egypt depends on water from the nile but it's wide about how much it will be affected by a dam being built by ethiopia ernest smith explains the issue. in the northeast of africa the waters of the nile irrigate crops that feed millions of people the white nile flows from uganda through south sudan and into sudan and the blue nile from ethiopia into saddam and in the capital khartoum they converge on the world's longest river heads to egypt and not far from the border with sudan ethiopia is building what will be the largest down in africa a one thousand six hundred eighty square kilometer area is being flooded to create

the dams lake how quickly this is done is one of egypt's main concerns. have to believe us have to believe it to peer. believes in it could double and that is inability of resources we approach and into corporations at a cost of almost five billion dollars the great ethiopian renee's on stand or harness the power of the waters of the blue nile ethiopia wants to bring electricity to the seventy percent of its population that doesn't have it on the world bank estimates ethiopia could export a billion dollars worth of electricity every year. the dow will regulate the flow of the blue nile as it heads into sudan and the sudanese are very happy about that at the moment depending on the season the river floods or it's too low a steady year around the flow of water will significantly boost harvests but

downstream on the nile in egypt is where there's potential for conflict over ethiopia's plans from above you can see how much depends on the nile the country's pretty much all deserts the only strip of color is the blue of the nile and the green of its cultivated banks ninety percent of egypt's water comes from it one study suggests that if the dams lake in ethiopia is filled quickly which means over three years then that would divert enough water to kill off fifty one percent of egypt's farmland and when you consider that egypt's population is expected to hit one hundred seventy million in twenty thirty or thirty percent increase from now you can see why it's government is so worried about ethiopia's down a deadline has passed for thousands of british businesses to disclose the difference between the average earnings of male and female employees the so-called gender pay gap reveals huge disparities in pay between the sexes with eighty

percent of companies pain men more than a barco reports from london it is an uncomfortable truth about the society we live in when it comes to pay men and women are far from equal this company employs mostly women it's hoped that by exposing the pay gap it will help empower women in the workplace it's created say notch to pay in discussion about pay and about inequality in the workplace it creates a sort of opportunity for people to think again about whether that is discrimination their offices perhaps and how they're stealing when and how they're to finding salaries. thousands of british companies employing more than two hundred fifty people have been forced to disclose pay details around eighty percent pay men more than women thirteen percent including the tech giant apple pay women more than just eight percent including big chains such as k.f.c. mcdonald's and starbucks say they have no gap at all. among the worst

offenders is the low cost airline ryanair where women make up only three percent of top earners that's excluding most of the company's management to a based in ireland ryanair blames the figures on men mainly filling pilot roles. the construction industry and the financial sector also have large pay gaps the average woman employee at barclays or lloyds bank can expect to be paid more than forty percent less than the average man. there have been some high profile paid a speech too with actress claire four who plays queen elizabeth of the netflix series the crown earning less than her male counterpart. the british prime minister's vowed to tackle what she calls the burning injustice of gender inequality only thirty percent of m.p.'s are women we have to deal with those stereotypes about

what kind of jobs men and women can do about what leadership looks like why it is that men and women ask for a pay rise just as often as each other but men are four times more likely to get it i know their gender pay gap denies this data is hopefully starting a conversation about how these people are out of touch with the magic going on in our country the government says that this isn't simply about naming and shaming companies into paying men and women equal amounts of money it's about kick starting a public discussion to try and make the workplace as representative as the world around us there's no punishment for pay gaps although companies that fail to publish their figures face legal action some politicians argue that without a major societal shift hefty fines of the only way of forcing firms to close the gap. al-jazeera london. all right still ahead on. the one of the last speeches by civil rights leader martin luther king jr plus.

the commonwealth games almost strikes me as gold coast but unlike the olympics some big sporting nations. china it's not you know it's. what is a medal here really count.

well again that's going to spoil his lead. thank you let's start with the champions league quarter final first legs have been played and in an all english match it was

liverpool's night against premier league leaders manchester city yet again most salah was among the goals opening the scoring after twelve minutes though he limped out of the guy early in the second half a second goal quickly followed a long line shot from alex acts like a child blown by thirty minutes it was so you know thanks to such a man i that's how it started so many things have been city in the premier league do it get in the champions league it would take a lot to overturn that three goal 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 the 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 a new stories got a fourth of bossa jack o's 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 and cuts in the side ten times the midfielder also played for chelsea manchester united and milan ross a club career that spanned three decades. the come with games is officially underway in australia however for years it's one of the world's biggest multi-sport 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 for the games also provides an important sporting opportunity for smaller nations around the world as andrew thomas explains . 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 or territories of the commonwealth i am from pakistan i was a little while 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. there's a lot of stuff africans 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 america two americans and

there's 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 a flat six hockey mountain biking shooting 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 that we don't want to pay five hundred dollars just generated so much if he has a genuine interest and if anyone is going to do it right australia's right or 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 a pale 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 caught roughing up the ball with sandpaper in capetown was banned for nine months is what smith said in his statement on twitter i would give anything to have this behind me and be back representing my country but i meant 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 calls and that means golf fans are hoping he'll be challenging for a fifth masters title as andy gallagher reports. clocked 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 you think 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. it's. one of the tournaments that he's been from ticket sales to. people viewing on t.v.

it's a long way from his arrest for driving last year a very public divorce from his wife in two thousand and nine which is also being plagued by injuries but after a series of back surgeries fans expectations i mean i grew up watching tiger woods . in one thousand nine hundred. years. in the late ninety's talk. with him impact undeniably. it's been years since tiger woods last won a major victory. moment in the history of sport it will be a major boost for golf his comeback is already more than most expected. of a lifetime it would need the tiger effect 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. so people just want to see what the outcome is going to be. when tiger woods first won the masters he was twenty one the first african-american to the title hope he's not finished making history. and that's it for the news out thanks for being with us we leave you with parts of martin luther king's last speech and images from his celebrated life.

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