the bad thing. would i be able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't get even better showing. the unforgiven a weakness documentary on al-jazeera my own team asked. brazil's supreme court rules that former president lula goes to jail a decision that could append the upcoming elections.

of civil robin you're watching al-jazeera like my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes american diplomats expelled over the spy poisoning fallout leave the embassy in russia. fares over the nile ministers from egypt ethiopia answered all meet to discuss control over the world's largest river. and the israeli army is being accused of using excessive force against protesters in gaza. welcome to the program brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis de silva can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes another decision threatens his bid to run in october presidential election where he was favorite to win in america to lucien human reports now from the capital brasilia. the die is cast as demonstrators for

and against brazil charismatic former president lula da silva gathered outside. the supreme court narrowly voted against his petition to remain free while he appeals a twelve year corruption conviction this means brazil's most popular politician and the frontrunner after october's presidential election must go to jail it's a victory for brazilians unwilling to accept any other verdict are more i represent the death of the supreme court and less it puts little or why the pressure on the supreme court justices has been an intense and not just out here on the streets and shortly before the vote the head of the army came out publicly and said that he would quote u.t.a. to impunity this is seen as an unprecedented veiled threat from an institution that is not supposed to weigh in on politics at least not since the end of the military rule in brazil back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five. for the escalating

tensions was this banner in front of the court openly calling for military intervention. the court decision was a blow not just to lula's political future. hundreds of other politicians under investigation or suspicion of crimes including two thirds of congress. were anxious for the court to set a precedent that many argue would have been the death of the nationwide corruption probe the investigation has even implicated current president michel tamar. meanwhile supporters of lula da silva who lifted tens of millions of brazilians from poverty during his presidency insist he's a victim of political intrigue a study coming to you historically every time you have a president who cares about the working class he or she becomes a part get of this kind of sabotage promoted by ideally. lula was found guilty of accepting a seaside apartment in this building in exchange for helping

a construction company obtain government contracts he insists he's innocent but the seventy one year old politician who's ignited political passions like no other in brazil has lost what may be his most important battle you see in human brasilia sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have until the end of the day to leave the country three buses have already departed the u.s. embassy in moscow now last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's all part of a dispute over the nerve agent attack on an ex russian spy and his daughter in the united kingdom british authorities say russia was behind the poisoning but moscow denies the accusations and has requested an urgent u.n. security council meeting. has more on the investigation underway in london. who tried to kill the scruples 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 could 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 for us to advise on who me who made the nerve agent 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 subjects 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 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's 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 laura. al jazeera in london. now the spy case has also come up at the international security conference in moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov opened the second and final day of the summit this year's focus is on syria but the participants will

also discuss the situation on the korean peninsula and lover of criticize the west for how it's handled the scribal case. the so-called crippled case has become a stage a pretext for an unprecedented massive expulsion of russian diplomats not just from britain and the united states but also from other countries that were made to do so with an open mockery of diplomatic efforts i'd like to stress that will continue to respond to those unfriendly steps but at the same time we would like to find the truth and we insist on a fair and unbiased investigation of to be held in line with the principle of the convention of the prohibition of chemical weapons the israeli army's rules of engagement are under scrutiny following allegations of unlawful and excessive use of force against protesters in gaza last week israeli human rights group that salami is calling for soldiers to refuse to shoot at demonstrators who are expected to turn out for more protests on friday seventy deca reports are from west jerusalem. these are unprecedented scenes along gaza's border with israel it's the

biggest protest since a tiny strip was sealed off after hamas took power over ten years ago israeli army has been widely criticized for using excessive force charge it rejects they all those were strict i mean nobody should cross. the fence but i think there was restraint their high offices were on the ground all the time so it wasn't just the women of of the if of a private you know the un and the e.u. have condemned israel's excessive use of force eighteen people were killed over eight hundred injured by life fire according to palestinian officials israel says it only targeted those trying to breach the border fence and it claims members of groups it deems terrorist organizations infiltrated the protests but cumin rights organizations say the evidence shows otherwise what we've seen is

a great number of people standing at a distance from the fence inside the gaza strip and force live ammunition was used against them in such circumstances the use of lethal force is the last course of action only in circumstances when there's a risk for a life he's really human rights group that set him says live ammunition is being used as a crowd control measure i invite everyone you know just watch the footage and that's yourself is this reasonable that the israeli army. which you know backed by a policy from the prime minister down to use such force in such fashion and with such results the army claims it did use restraint last friday and says it will respond more forcefully to anyone trying to breach the separation fence again we're told the rules of engagement are not likely to change as you know there is a strong support for the military and also for the government at this point.

outside pressure can play a role but it's not strong. enough israel is used to engaging in conflict with armed factions in gaza and its missile defense system the iron dome intercepting rocket fire but not a single rocket has been fired out of the strip since this protest began israel is now dealing with the consequences of a decades old policy of blockading gaza where two million people are squeezed into a tiny strip of land palestinians say they're desperate for freedom military force may not be able to silence them stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem now ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia olding talks on who controls the world's longest river egypt which depends on the nile for water is worried about the down being built upstream by ethiopia burman smith explains 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 saddam 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 diamond africa a one thousand six hundred eighty square kilometer area is being flooded to create the dams like how quickly this is done is one of egypt's main concerns. have to believe us have to believe he toopid. believes in you could ever learn that is an ability of resources we approach. into corporations at a cost of almost five billion dollars the great ethiopian renee 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 and 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 sedan 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 egypt 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 its government is so worried about ethiopia's down well still ahead here on al-jazeera. desperate stories for hundreds of migrants a donald trump plans to stall but do they even want to go to the u.s. plus find out why the philippine island of barak time has been temporarily shut down. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. we got a large clutch of storm still rumbling away around italy and the balkans and i will continue to strive its way further east which is be go through the next few days so we going to see more heavy showers here through the remainder of thursday having said that whiting in the wings who got another system that will push into that

western side if europe over the next few days but ahead of that not looking too but it's all twelve celsius there for london some pleasant sunshine coming through over albeit in a northerly on northwest of the breeze eleven celsius there for paris as well the fine weather stretches down into the operator peninsula nine hundred s. there for madrid nineteen two for right he see the showers still in place here they will ease over the next twenty four hours pushing over tools that eastern side if you have been tending to fizzle out if anything at the same time will see it starting to cloud over across the british isles increase in the cloud weather coming through the last blast of warm air coming into that western side of europe twenty celsius there for paris sixteen in london getting up to twenty in madrid a little bit of cloud there just drifting across the iberian peninsula northern parts of africa also see a little bit of cloud but for much of north africa it is now fine and dry some warmth coming through as well as twenty six celsius there for algiers twenty four inches and a high of thirty the current. the weather sponsored by qatar and he's.

paid the scene for us where they're on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join a sunset there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. your child is there i'm still robin to remind our top stories brazil's supreme

court has ruled that former president luiz inacio lula de silva can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while appeals against a conviction for taking bribes. also the sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia departs from the u.s. embassy in moscow last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's part of a dispute over the nerve agent attack on an ex russian spy and distorter in the united kingdom. and ministers from egypt sudar and ethiopia are resuming talks on just abacus dam project on the nile river the drug to replace old dam was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of the talks. the three main brokers in the syrian war have called for a lasting cease fire and urge the international community to increase aid for

syrians now the leaders of turkey russia and iran held a summit in anger on wednesday to find out find a way in fact out of a seven year conflict this was their second meeting in just six months and many say it's a sign of a. deepening cooperation but they still have many disagreements over syria's future the somber binge of it has wolf manka. these are the three men deciding the future of syria the dervish president hosted the russian and ukrainian leaders to talk about how to end the conflict that ended its eight year what other will learn . 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 called terrorists dirty 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 support 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 they are dialogue 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 let's give up one of our top stories of course the ongoing negotiations in sudan in khartoum between three african countries over a down that's to be built is quite controversial over the years mohammed. joins me now from khartoum how much hard bargaining hard hard bargaining are we expecting because these discussions and arguments have been going on for some time. your right to hold those discussions have been going on and this is this could be

the tense meeting about the tense meeting between the foreign ministers and the irrigation ministers of the three countries they have never really been able to come to a solution to this problem we have three countries that share one river but each country has its own interests and its own concerns egypt has deep concerns sometimes even complaints everywhere. about what could happen if you chop your goals on building this dam without enough plants pelosi and enough clarity about the technical aspects about how they are going to fill the damage that is of water which hold which to retain about seventy four billion cubic meters that's the equivalent of the anti or flow of that if her in one year of high rains that's very concerning for egypt they think that he's got that if the lake is the filling of the lake of the reservoir is speedier or quicker than the normal or the then what

is the say for egypt this is going to be very bad for egypt is going to considerably reduced the water of the nile flowing on the way to the us one dam and beyond sudan is in the middle and true to its geography it is trying to play and middle ground position in this discussion trying to put the two sides together put them closer to each other and sudan thinks that whatever happens is always benefits from the building of the dam or the known building of the damages in the middle of the stream and it has a lot of territory that is covered by this by the city for a choker for a joke where it is about national pride now it is about national sovereignty they would tell you that nobody should dictate to us what we should do what we can't do with our own national resources so this is a big problem and now the discussion has been going on as i said for many years and here today the type of this is a need to tell us what our supervising this. this meeting tell us that the main

theme of this meeting is up prashar you know the leaders of the three countries met in january and they decided that the three countries should work together more closely now and they should stress on cooperation not on divisions so they will tell you that this meeting is a is not about divisions but he's about rapprochement how do you tell lies the nile for the three countries how to make sure that no none of the countries can hurt the benefit of the other and that's what each of you has always been saying but until we have an agreement we can't i mean we can't rule out problems because egypt needs for clarity and it is to be able to follow the steps that are being taken nobody knows when they're down with open nobody knows how much house how much is the speed of the feeling of the lake so there is a lot of of security here that is of deep concern to the egyptians in particular who of course will come through the day as we get more word out of that meeting there in khartoum. the man who wants rule sierra leone as a military gentle leader has been sworn in as president in the peaceful transition

of power. and now really won the runoff vote with fifty one point eight percent of the vote but hopes of a smooth transition have been thrown into doubt with the ruling party turned to declaring he's rejecting the results. because prime minister survived a no confidence vote in parliament the opposition had accused. of mismanaging the economy but often those hands the latest from colombo. the prime minister has come out with tory is 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 a no confidence motion but a seventy six voted for it before the 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 refused 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's supporters you know bang 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. the philippine president

has ordered the torah starland ballroom calling to be closed for six months saying its beaches have become a cesspool to be has more from manila. well it just may be a small island but boruc revenues make up twenty percent of the total tourism industry of the country at least fifteen thousand workers are affected by this decision there is still no clarity whether they will receive financial assistance in the six months that the island will be closed there is also no assurance that there will still be a job or a business to return to for six months from now though several environmentalists though praise the character's actions they say with the one right now is to make sure that the issue of sustainability is at the forefront of the discussion when it comes to environmental concerns of course tourism to it puts into question just how other islands are fairing other islands that are dependent on tourism for the

people's livelihood islands like allowances for example all across the country now still the president and his government is the widely criticized not just for the closure of the island but for the position to own a multimillion dollar casino on the island according to several experts they see that would actually not mean sustainability first a multimillion dollar gambling casino has no place in a small island like boruc i so are many question though that in the intention of the president whether they his government is acting drastically and they would like to know what is really the long term plan of the government will not just when it comes to rehabilitation of these islands but also when it comes to the economic situation especially of a tourism industry that supports millions of filipinos. now the u.s. president donald trump has ordered the national guard to be deployed along the border with mexico the announcement comes as mexico's government began handing out

humanitarian visas to a group of central african migrants trying to reach mexico city john homan 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 organizers say that their destination isn't the united states it's instead mexico city and 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 on foot there just for having a go friend in a rival groups neighborhood market he was your life that way last year 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 . the salaries just aren't enough to provide the basic needs of your family.

there are more depressingly similar stories people tell them as they wait camped in a field in southwest mexico while officials process safe conduct papers 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 led to a big drop over 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. you're watching under their arms the whole robber these are all top stories brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis in arceo lula da silva

can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes now the decision threatens his bid to run in october the presidential election where he was favorite to win. also sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have until the end of the day to leave the country three buses have already departed the u.s. embassy in moscow last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's all part of a dispute over the nerve agent attack on an ex russian spy and his daughter in the u s in the u.k. the spy case has also come up at the international security conference in moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov opened the second and final day of the summit and this year's focus is on syria but the participants will also discuss the situation on the korean peninsula and love are often criticized the west for how it's handled the scriptural case. the so-called scriptural case has become a stage a pretext for an unprecedented this massive expulsion of russian diplomats not just

from britain and the united states but also from other countries that were made to do so with an open mockery of diplomatic efforts i'd like to stress that we will continue to respond to those unfriendly steps but at the same time we would like to find the truth and we insist on a fair unbiased investigation of to be held in line with an altar. in support of the convention of the prohibition of chemical weapons ministers from egypt sudan id theory appear are resuming talks on ideas arbors dam project on the nile river now the great renee salts dam was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of the talks. and the man who wants to rule sierra leone as the leader of a military has been sworn in as president julius now only won a runoff election with fifty one point eight percent of the vote but the rival parties candidate says he'll challenge the result because of alleged voting

irregularities those were the headlines about with more news in thirty minutes here on al-jazeera next it's the story do stay with us. getting to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept given i think he's going to do you in the terms of facing reality are you willing to make that call they are always ready for talk but they're not ready for taking decisions here their story on talk to al jazeera. high on family ok you're in the stream we are live on al-jazeera how don't you choose today. on safe place for journalists where discuss how the recent attacks on reporters are highlighting a growing trend of hostility towards the media.