working for several walking bass as teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. combining arts and to acknowledge. the challenge soviet era methodologies. through making creating and performing. turning a generation of children. into the trailblazers of tomorrow. and after school armenia part of the rebel education series at this time on al-jazeera. i am. brazil's top court orders the jailing of former president lula while he appeals his conviction for corruption.

alonzo raman you're watching our zero live my headquarters here in doha also coming up according to a group would like to find the truth and we insist on a fair and unbiased investigation expel the u.s. diplomats depart moscow russia continues to insist there's no proof it poisoned a former double agent in the u.k. . also the white house moves to clarify donald trump's intentions and syria iran turkey and russia trying to forge a road to peace. and fears over the nile ministers from egypt ethiopia and sudan meet to discuss control of the world's largest river. welcome to the program brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis in us who lula da silva could be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while appealing a corruption conviction now the ruling threatens his plan to run in october the

presidential election with opinion polls indicating that he's the frontrunner latin america had to tell you see in human reports from the capital brasilia. the die is cast demonstrators for and against brazil is 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 watch i represent the death of the supreme court and. 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 was

repudiated impunity this is seen as an m president and 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 a 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 a 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. historically every time you have

a president who cares about the working class he or she becomes a part get of this kind of. promoted by. luna 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 maybe his most important battle. brasilia. call us to say to is a senior principle analyst in latin america specialist at the business consultancy i.h.s. market and he says the decision to send lula to jail leaves october's presidential election wide open essentially this is a major setback for the left in brazil when the workers party you would expect these to make their election race. but unfortunately does not the gays

in the country disobey the open election and this is they nobody knows who is going to be the next president obama seal there has some potential upside as coming through for example the extreme dry wind jaybird gennaro and they could be another name there we see in the next few weeks and months but right now is that double opened raise and those crises move because it important for the markets because the america's next but addictively lead and he's going to lead the and that is known at the moment in brazil. sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have until the end of the day to leave the country three buses have already left the u.s. embassy in moscow last week russia ordered the diplomats out in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians there has been a host of tit for tat expulsions involving other western countries to where they

follow the nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter in the united kingdom the british government accuses russia of involvement which the kremlin dinoire its. the poisoning of surrogate and you're stripper has also come to an international security converse in moscow now foreign minister sergei lavrov opened the second and final day of the summit the shares focuses on syria but they'll also be discussions about the situation on the korean peninsula lavrov criticized the west for how it handled the scriptural case let's get more this from roy chalons who joins me now our correspondent in moscow of course the russians have a lot to say on thursday in moscow. yeah well that's been our atia of fairly anti western rhetoric for the last two days in moscow coming from the chiefs of various spy agencies intelligence agencies security

agencies and whatnot and of picked up the baton earlier today and ran with it some more what we're getting i think is a kind of consolidation of the russian position focusing down on what it is that they really want to get across before it seemed to be a kind of scattergun approach basically along the lines of what it certainly was an ass but it could have been any number of other countries or state actors that might of one since the script is dead because any number of countries could have either obtained or produced their own knowledge or now what we're hearing from the russians is that while it still was an ass but actually what they are saying is that this was a false flag operation that was concocted crudely by the russians sorry by the u.k. and u.s. intelligence services basically to smear russia that's this and so now.

the so-called scruple case has become a stage a pretext for an unprecedented the 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 assist on a fair unbiased investigation have to be held in line with the principle of the convention of the prohibition of chemical weapons. so where does where does this sort of who done it saga take us next. well i mean this is a pretty high stakes battle for the narrative control of the narrative and it's getting quite vicious and i think both the u.k. and russia of stumbled in recent days the u.k. stumbles because of its mishandling of well

basically the british government said that it's had been told by chemical weapons experts from its own ports and down facility that the novacek had specifically come from russia well portadown chemical weapons experts thing came out and said actually they couldn't say that with any degree of certainty so that was a problem for the u.k. government which moscow has pounced on unsurprisingly but moscow has also stumbled in its bid to have the global chemical weapons watched over the o.p.c. w. supports its request for a joint investigation a new joint investigation into the script of poisoning in which russia would be one of the key parties well that was voted down at a meeting yesterday of the o.p.c. w. . we now have a position where russia is asking for an open session of the u.n.

security council later on today the o.p.c. w. is analyzing all of these. samples that it's been given by the united kingdom it will take a few days at least for it comes when you conclusions but it's probably not going to come to any different conclusions from those already reached by porton down chemical weapons experts so we're in a position at the moment where the u.k. and the russia both have had had hit had hits against them self and force pretty much over the last few days but i still think the u.k. is in a better position in the russia has the greater task in trying to convince the world that it is in the right it's got a big ask for that and it will see what happens or certainly in the coming hours as we head towards the u.n. a lot open debate in the security council for the moment to rory thank you. well at all trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for the time being at least after he says he wants them out now the

u.s. president is said to have changed his mind after meeting with national security advisers a white house correspondent can be held at. 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 the. that 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 trump's desire to pull the united states out is part 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 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 help al-jazeera at the white house now 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 the u.n. team visited the city earlier this week for the first time since it was liberated it estimates 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 rock the defacto capital of itself declared caliphate when it captured the city in twenty fourteen. bollywood actor salman khan has been convicted of poaching and antelope twenty years ago karl was accused of hunting the endangered

animal in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight with four of his costars during the shooting of a film a court in the state of raja stan has sentenced him to a five year jail term he was the only one convicted well still ahead here on al-jazeera the philippines island of baraka i temporarily shuts down to tourists due to environmental concerns plus facebook reveals millions more people are caught up in its privacy scandal than first thought those stories on the other side of the break do stay with us. hello we're still got plenty of spring sunshine into japan for the time being that will go downhill as we go on through the next few days they go largely clear skies next weather system will push its way through to the north of that cost

a very cold air still in place in beijing struggling to get to nine celsius on friday things will bounce back over the next day or two but that of our store could three degrees celsius four celsius there for support but we are getting up to were twenty one in tokyo so not too bad the other side of the sea of japan you see seoul of around twelve degrees some very heavy rain knocking on the door for friday makes its way through for saturday fresher brighter weather does come back in behind the temperatures no hard around nine celsius for so we'll see some little bit of warming coming into beijing temperatures there getting up to around thirteen degrees and well down on a recent values may well that's a lot of rain making its way into japan stretches across central and western parts of china this is a big downpours coming in here on call gets up to twenty seven degrees and present sunshine but it will cloud over it will cool down as we go on into saturday i have a little dry for many having said that a few showers there into the indo-china region we're going to see a rash of showers across much of southeast asia but sunshine for most.

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welcome back you're watching after their arms the whole robber the reminder of our tops news stories brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis in a silver can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against the corruption conviction the decision threatens his bid to run in october's a presidential election. sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have 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 that follows the nerve agent attack on a former russian agent and his daughter in the u.k. . and bollywood and card has been sentenced to five years in jail for poaching an antelope can hunted the protected animal in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight it happened in raja stan while he was shooting a film. facebook has revealed that it's compromised the privacy of millions more

users than and they should be reported the social media company says that the personal data of eighty seven million people was improperly shared chief executive runs a kopeck says he's committed to restoring facebook's reputation as an 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 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 our voice to hurt people or to spread misinformation and it's not enough to give people tools decided. we have to ensure that all those developers protect people's information to our next yes facebook didn't tell any of its users back in twenty 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 know 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 alan fischer al-jazeera

washington. no russian has accused facebook of censorship or removed more than one hundred accounts controlled by russian media but facebook says the accounts meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the kremlin has called the move hostile to africa now where ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia are holding talks on who controls the world's longest river egypt which depends on the nile for water it's worried about a down being built upstream by ethiopia bernard smith reports in the north east 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 sadam 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 give. have to believe us have to believe he took their. believes in you could double and that is in a little a vision of resources we approach. into corporations at a cost of almost five billion dollars the great ethiopian renee's on star 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 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 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 it's government is so worried about ethiopia's down well one hundred dollars joins us now from the sudanese capital khartoum where those talks are taking place is a talking is a good sign elise they are talking to each other but one wants to know if there's

any progress mohammed. yes so talking is is a good situation but they have been talking for many years now this is about the tense meeting between the ministers of the sunni countries so that is a lot to be discussed and there is a lot of concern to be addressed. despite the cynicism of the last. several meetings today we have for your short answers from both the sudanese liberation and from the ethiopian delegation this time around to see the legations are going to try to discuss the proposals of the seasons by the presidents of the three countries us was taken in january this year about closer cooperation between cooperation between the two countries abbas differences i have just talked to a member of the ethiopian delegation and he told me there are two essential components or points that are being discussed today one of them is that filling of

the lake of the dam the reservoir of the dam which is the main concern for egypt egypt once this symlink to take eleven years while the o.p.o. once to finish it in three years you see the big gap between the two because the prostate is still the more water it will retain or hold from flowing through the dam to sudan to the last one dam and inside egypt egypt is very much concerned about that and they wanted to be. corrected they wanted longer period so that the flow can be lowered. and aside from this point the other point is as i said cooperation this is something that has been decided by the presidents of the three countries in january as you talked about and that which is being discussed the mortalities the formalities how they can go ahead and it's limited and this includes a lot of mutual cooperation even even you mentioned this is your current member of the delegation in nations railway lines you mentioned. power lines between the two

countries and he said we in ethiopia believe. but there is a lot of interest to be discussed and to be a priority between the countries than there of the each option and a half done so ethiopia is here to say don't worry about that that will what are you now addressing your consent but at the same time also we have much more important things to do which is economic cooperation which is the what happens and what more comes out of that meeting as the day progresses for the moment mohammed thank you. the philippine president to turkey has ordered the tourist island of baraka to be closed for six months saying it's beaches have become a cesspool the island will close from april the twenty six now barack is home to hundreds of tourism related businesses and the shutdown could displace seventeen thousand workers in recent years it's become overcrowded with human waste being discharged into the sea the government says

a clear rip of the environment is needed to further prevent deterioration jamila window you can 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 six months from now though several environmentalists though praise the character's actions they say with they want 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 island 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 open a multimillion dollar casino on the island according to several experts they say 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 the 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 the 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 has revealed huge disparities in pay between the sexes with eighty percent of companies often paying men more than women bank reports now from london. it is

a long comfortable truth about the society we live in when it comes to pay men and women a 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 not to pay discussion about pay and about inequality in the workplace it creates a sort of option for people to think again about whether that is discrimination that says perhaps and how that seeding when and how the findings honorees. 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 what's 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 are the only way of forcing firms to close the gap. al-jazeera london. your child has their own cell raman these are all top news stories brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis in

a series. can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against the corruption conviction the decision threatens his bid to run in october presidential election. there are still a small number of procedural disputes that have to be ironed out that involve his last appeal to a lower court which he lost just a couple of weeks ago after that's ironed out it's expected the judge said he'll moral who proceeded over his trial will sign the arrest warrant that would be arrest order which means that he would then have to serve his sentence in the city of could be devout almost immediately so that said about a week to ten days we calculate. sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have 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 that follows the nerve agent attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. moscow denies any involvement with. the situation in the

world over the past year despite all our efforts continue to deteriorate the main reasons which is obvious for everyone which is the teen years you know led to all steps by the western countries led by the us leads to this dangerous imbalance of global governance donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for now a day after threatening to pull them out now the u.s. president reportedly changed his mind after meeting national security advisers the pentagon says about two thousand troops are based in syria to prevent a resurgence of eisel. bollywood actor someone car has been sentenced to five years in jail for poaching an antelope karn hunted the protected animal in one thousand nine hundred eight it happened in the state of raja stan while he was shooting a film. ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia are resuming talks on and his adverse dam project on the river nile the ground renesas down was

originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of talks those were the headlines more news in thirty minutes here on al-jazeera but next we continue with a.j. selects to stay with us. we were caught early days that on. tuesday.

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