if the nation has won. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in but something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. brazil's top judges trade bob says they weigh up whether former president luis in arceo lula da silva should be sent to prison.

hello ball come to al-jazeera live from doha i'm. coming up. the bells ringing while americans stand in silence to honor the memory of martin luther king jr fifty years after his assassination. and there is victory in sierra leone in this presidential election for the former general who led a military coup in the one nine hundred ninety s. . plus facebook reveals millions more people are caught up in his previously scandal then at first thought. that americans across the country have been honoring the memory of martin luther king jr fifty years to the day after he was assassinated.

the bells rang out king's gravesite in atlanta georgia and in memphis tennessee that's where he was shot dead on a motel balcony in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight civil rights leaders reflected on dr king's legacy and urged that his vision of a normal racial egalitarian society be applied to today's america. this balcony in memphis back when and why this is for the years in the wilderness the friends today the hope is in the resurrection. celebrate the campaign in two thousand and eight and twelve he is alive. and those children macia last week send ban assault weapons enough guns and. he's alive and we walked in modern freedom mandela he's alive my friend let nothing break your spirit the day he would allow domes by the

phone turned on violate it and yet somehow someway he would not give up. al-jazeera israel flinn jordan has more from memphis. much of wednesday's number ration of the fiftieth anniversary of the temple mark jr was celebrated three times but for just one minute at six o one full 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 view of someone who would achieve 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 president trump made his

contribution to the commemoration. 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 gained 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 the president comes free to set that america's first black incumbent of the white house barack obama he will say released a video message 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 but for every victory there were setbacks and defeats that for every two steps forward we often take a step back. but let's go to brazil now where a tense debate is underway in the country's supreme court where judges are voting on whether to send the former president luiz inacio lula da silva to jail now their decision will have huge implications for the country which is basically divided over lula. he wants to stay out of jail while he appeals against conviction that

taking bribes lou there is a favorite to win the presidential election in october despite the corruption scandal but there is still big questions as to whether he can even run so let's go live now to our last in america editor lucien human she's in the brazilian capital brasilia how how does it stand with regard to the judges and which way they're going. martine things are becoming very complicated and indeed very exciting in just the last couple of minutes ten of the eleven judges have voted the vote so far is tied five for five against lewis petition but the final vote should be castro was expected to be cast by the president of the supreme court the eleventh vote but right before she began to speak a lawyer on behalf of president lula of the former president rather said that she is not allowed in a.b.'s corpus cases to cast

a vote at all and sole the other ten judges are now having to decide whether or not there can be a tiebreaker if not then that means that lho would have won this this petition not to go to prison while he continues to explore. ways to stay out of jail or to to appeal his twelve year sentence for corruption because that's those are the rules of the game if it's tied then the the person who makes the petition wins this is all happening as i speak i'm not sure just which way it's going to go it's really late right now they've been at it now for ten hours we don't know when we're going to have white smoke. because of course the importance of this ultimately is it will decide the fate of perhaps brazil's most popular politician and also have a great bearing on brazil's next presidential election which is shatru for up to. exactly it isn't clear at all whether that would be allowed to run he is still has

other. cases up to six i think at least of corruption and he's going to have to keep dodging this on and on but at least if he doesn't have to go to prison it would allow him to keep campaigning and as late as august be able to promote a vice presidential candidate somebody who could at least in theory replace the movies not if he is not accepted by the electoral court as a candidate that's something that he wants to do and also of course he could keep kicking these appeals for years and years to come and that's what a lot of people who say that this would be a travesty of justice are opposed to going to ride for now lucy i thank you very much indeed lucy and human latin america will keep us right across developments in the brazilian. donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for the time being at least just a day after he said he wants them out the u.s. president is said to have changed his mind after meeting national security advisers

here's our white house correspondent kimberly how could. one day after u.s. president donald trump declare 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. it's 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 in this i think you're always going to be there despite

the president's sense of urgency the 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 kimberly helped at al jazeera at the white house so as the u.s. president softens his stance on syria iran turkey and russia they're all trying to forge a raid to peace that's coming up in just a little while plus a roller coaster ride for global markets is fears grow the trade war between the world's two biggest economies. hello winter has not left north america it's still quite cold in the plains states we've had well some snow as recently as yesterday is on par for the great lakes and this arc of cloud here represents something of

a junction between the colder in the warmer air now what snow that was falling heavily in the east of kind is gone out of the way but just follow the line back again manas for winnipeg that's below where it should be minus eighteen calgary it really is quite low and the snow just inland in british columbia so the air is cold enough here for snow and that will make itself a bit more of this and i think as you can see right into the plain states almost reaching denver this is on friday and more shows itself in the northeast corner he's supposed to be spring is just not yet here. in texas but in dallas at twenty seven they expect thunderstorms possibly court fishes ones. the caribbean is quite being quite dry recently and apart from that line of cloud that it still will be but there's an increasing chance of showers or the next couple of days and if you're in cuba which america his spine yoga or even temporarily summer in mexico showers are possibility they're not very widespread but where you find them is getting warm and i could be quite poky particularly in panama.

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time for us take a look at the top stories here it out zero this morning commemorations are being held in the city of memphis and across the united states to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr thousands gathered for a day of speeches and marches to on the his legacy. judges in brazil's supreme court are voting on whether to send former president louis in asio lula da silva to prison he wants to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes his lawyer is trying to prevent the final and deciding vote from being cost. donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for now at least just a day after threatening to pull them out the u.s. president reportedly changed his mind after meeting top national security advisers . well meanwhile three of the other big foreign players in syria russia iran and

turkey they have agreed to speed up efforts to bring calm and to improve aid deliveries bot meeting in ankara the leaders failed to lay out a path forward amid lingering differences over the conflict from turkey's capital is on a binge of aid reports. these are the three men deciding the future of syria the degree president hosted the russian and ukrainian leaders to talk about how to end the conflict that's entered its eighth year. 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 the 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 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 when year ago 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 their 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. and kyra well meanwhile the u.n. says up to one hundred thousand people have now gone back to raka in syria five months after i saw was driven out in a u.s. backed military campaign a u.n. team went to the city earlier this week for the first time since it was freed and it reckons that two thirds of homes are destroyed while most residents still have no access to clean water city leaders say it's still riddled with unexploded devices i saw made rack of the de facto capital of itself declared caliphates when it captured the city in twenty fourteen. now

a growing trade dispute between the u.s. and china has left global markets reeling the volatile round of trading followed beijing's latest move in a series of tit for tat missions which are pushing the world's two biggest economies to the brink of a trade war gabriel elizondo 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 there are 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 trying maybe trying to drive a hard bargain but china appears to see this in starker terms. but 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 imports 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. farmers for trade released this ad imploring trump for help imported from the u.s. are targeted for tariffs and could cripple farmers who are very optimistic about the economy under president however we're very concerned about the trade policies from washington we depend on free trade policies that 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 or let's go live as agent brown our correspondent who's in the chinese capital beijing an age in this one a six week window perhaps of opportunity for the negotiators do we imagine then that a chinese team is being assembled and is already trying to make contact with the team. i think it would be hard to imagine that the back

channels are not being worked at the moment and i think certainly in the weeks ahead expect a flurry of diplomatic activity but in that report we just heard it's quite clear that the united states does want to lower the tension and if you listen to the comments are made at that press conference yesterday given by officials from china's commerce and finance ministry again and again the official said china wanted dialogue to try to resolve this dispute so far we've not heard from president xi jinping but he is jew to deliver a very important speech at the bar economic forum on the island of high and then on choose day so i think analysts economists will be studying those comments studying the text to see whether there are any clues but perhaps we have had some clues already martine as to what china's strategy is now the list of sanctions that china released ran to just one hundred six items whereas the u.s. list was thirteen hundred so was there

a message there from china saying look we could have hit you a lot harder but we didn't i've also been looking at state controlled media today reading the people's daily and what's interesting what stands out is this story this trade spat is not even on the front page of china's most authoritative newspaper so has the media been told to to play down this story at least in the chinese language media in the english language chinese media it is on the front page and the message that comes through loud and clear is one of defiance china doesn't do surrender china is quite prepared to fight fire with fire but also prominence given to that quote at the news conference yesterday saying china wants talks to resolve this crisis but an indication of perhaps our serious a chinese are prepared to get is the fact that on this rather small list that you've already mentioned there are the top imports from the united states namely aircraft soybeans and cars.

yeah but it's interesting when it comes to aviation there's a bit of ambiguity because at that news conference yesterday no mention was made of putting tariffs on on boeing yet if you go to the website of the commerce ministry right to the bottom of the list it mentions aviation saying that any aircraft between fifteen and forty five tonnes would be subject to a twenty five percent levy now that would include the smaller aircraft the boeing makes so again is this ambiguity part of china's negotiating strategy all right we shall learn find out more no doubt as time goes by thank you very much indeed for now agent brown live in beijing and the man who once ruled sierra leone as the leader of a military genter has now been sworn in as a civilian president in a peaceful transition of power julius a moderate beer narraway won a runoff it at the end of last month their love largely untroubled election process

has come as something of a relief for the country of seven million people who in the one nine hundred ninety s. injured a civil war fueled by the diamond trade reports now 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 across. 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 who is 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. eighteen hostages who were abducted in southwestern cameroon have now been freed by the military and they include twelve european tourists the group was held for several days by an armed group which wants independence for the country's endless speaking areas protests and violence in the region have intensified in the last year or so. the size of facebook's privacy scandal is much bigger than previously thought the social media giant has now revealed that the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared and that's thirty seven million

more than initially reported and as it grapples with the fallout the company is now on veiled a new privacy policy with extra rules for third party applications or ups the changes include cracking down on apps that can get information about events that people are hosting or attending facebook also says it will better protect conversations between people that take place in closed or secret groups and it's tightening the review process for all apps that request users information about things like photos videos status updates and posts on monday facebook users will receive a notice telling them what they use what information is being shared and how to delete that they don't want anymore or the company's chief executive mark zuckerberg says he's committed to getting facebook's reputation back as alan fischer 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 in ten 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 they're bring people closer together not enough to just give people a voice we have to make sure that people are not using ads for it to hurt people or to spread misinformation and it's not enough to give people tools to sign it. 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 are investigating what happened and if any laws were broken i want fish or al-jazeera washington. all right let's take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera and we've just hearing that judges in

brazil supreme court have ruled that the former president lewis in the lula da silva can be sent to prison even trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes now this is a decision that could end his bid to run in the next presidential election shuttle for october. americans across the country have been honoring the memory of martin luther king jr fifty years to the day after he was assassinated bells rang out near to his grave site in atlanta georgia and in memphis tennessee where he was shot dead on a motel balcony in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight civil rights leaders reflected on dr king's legacy and urged his vision of a normal racially gala tarion society be applied to today's america. children march last week saying ban assault weapons are gone. he's alive we walked the march in freedom and. he's

alive. my friend little brick you spirit the day he would. turn. somewhere he would not. president trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for now just a day after he threatened to pull them out the u.s. president reportedly change his mind after meeting top national security advisers the man who once ruled sierra leone as the leader of a military giunta has been sworn in as president in a peaceful transition of power julius moderate beer marilee want to run a fence at the end of last month facebook says the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared and that's thirty seven million more than first reported last month it was revealed that uses information was obtained by a political consultancy in the u.k. which worked for the u.s. president's election campaign facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg is you to

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