choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get and one more comment because this is someone who's an activist is close to the story joining the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and. this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes u.k. poisoning victim and daughter of a russian spy you says she is recovering and her strength is growing daily.

brazil divided on the fate of former president lula after the supremes court rules he will be sent to prison for corruption. a german court rules that the former county to carlos' put him on can be released on bail as it decides on his possible extradition to spain. and bollywood star khan is sentenced to five years in jail for poaching an antelope. and i'm tatiana. with the day's sports think looting gulf as the five the major event of the year has just teed off i'll have all the latest from. this news hour. come to the program top story the daughter of a former russian spy poisoned in the u.k. has made her first public comments since the nerve agent attack just over a month ago issuing a statement through police in london described the entire episode. it is somewhat

disorientating that said she is recovering and her strength is growing daily just hours earlier russian state television reported that yulia called her cousin and said she would discharge herself from hospital soon she's been receiving treatment since being poisoned on march fourth in the city of seoul spree a father sergei scrap remains in a critical condition russia's ambassador to britain said he was happy to hear yulia was recovering well and that he was sure she would one day come back to moscow the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has described britain's accusations that moscow was behind the attack as a mockery of international law at russia's request the u.n. security council will discuss the spy poisoning case in the next hour laurence away as our report first the good news scriptural is on the mend the police in london issued a statement from her in which she said i woke up over a week ago now and i'm glad to say my strength is growing daily i'm grateful for

the interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that i've received i have many people to thank for my recovery i would especially like to mention the people of souls free they came to my aid when my father and i were incapacitated. although on the timing of the press release was curious became just off the purported phone call between yulia and her cousin victoria who's played on russian t.v. it's the two women complain that victoria can't get a visa to come and see you and you do suggest not only she but also her father the surrogate the former spy are getting better on this point the british police and government have said nothing. all of which was the backdrop to the latest from the russian embassy in london the ambassador laying out the stall that his counterparts at the united nations will repeat that britain can produce the proof that russia was guilty of the poisoning and it's only nato countries that support the u.k.'s position the rest of the world doesn't the take your real.

position in the this is she'd been serious with the position of the west so basically you have. twenty three countries. against fifteen so the international community is not ready to assist the themselves with the position which was taking by the u.k. in the united states and which was supported by the e.u. and nato countries mr yet again can also heavily criticize the u.k. for not having given you a scrip old cousin they toria a visa just as the two women had on russian t.v. it starts to look like both you and victorious cripple are on board with their own government in the end the russian message to the united kingdom and the united nations is exactly the same prove it was us beyond any doubt or stop making these allegations as frustrating as it may be for the british the russian diplomatic

efforts is very very well coordinated gloriously al-jazeera of the russian embassy in london. well diplomats are already gathering for that u.n. meeting in an hour's time on diplomatic editor james bass is live for us at the united nations now james tell us more about why russia has called this meeting of the security council. well a number of diplomats have told me they see a pattern here when russia's back is in the corner it goes on the offensive the diplomatic offensive you've seen fresh comments coming from the russian foreign minister mr lavrov you see in that news conference that lawrence was reporting on from the russian ambassador to the u.k. russia called a meeting of the o.p.c. w. that's the body the watchdog body that looks into the use of chemical weapons and there russia suggested the u.k. and russia should have a joint investigation now russia's called

a security council meeting ahead of the meeting the u.k.'s ambassador to the united nations karen pierce has been speaking and she spoke about lots. of ideas from russia that it should have a joint investigation with the u.k. that was actually voted down in the p.c. w. and she referred to it with a very british literally literary reference referring to the villain of sherlock holmes allowing russian scientists into an investigation when they are the most likely perpetrators of the crime insoles be would be like scotland yard in fighting game professor mariotti so i don't think that's a tenable way forward instead i fear that the russian motive in calling for a security council meeting today is another step in the pattern of obfuscation and contempt for international institutions that we have sadly seen all too much of

that from the russian federation recently. i'm sure that's not how the russian ambassador will see things the security council meeting takes place in new york in one hour's time all fifteen ambassadors on the security council will speak but because they called a meeting i think you can hear russia speak very early on and pretty likely the u.k. will speak pretty early on in that meeting coming up next hour thank you very much our diplomatic editor james bays with their preview of that meeting in one else time thank you james joining me now in the studio is martin corley he's a russia historian and former senior lecturer at the school of onic in eastern european studies here in london thank you very much for coming in to speak to us and so russia has called this emergency meeting of the security council but of course that denials of any involvement in this nerve agent attack continue do you see a further diplomatic escalation is it going to get much worse before it gets any better well of russia is going to the united nations the u.n. security council this is how you go internationally. and the outcome we have to

await the outcome but britain will in fact insist that the intelligence services believe they have identified the source of knowledge ok two three four it is a secret laboratory in russia needless to say sergei lavrov the foreign minister of the russian government say that is not possible because we've destroyed all. of the nerve agent novacek therefore it's not possible that you could have found it in a laboratory in russia so we're just going to continue to hear two very different and increasingly entrenched narratives we have to know it is and the two sides are not communicating there's no dialogue between them one is saying one thing and the other saying. we're really saying the opposite not really saying you're lying but saying the opposite and in fact there's no dialogue there's no communication and other words you're

a situation where it's really talking to the diff should the british have been more careful particularly far in second. johnson in the language that he used he said unequivocally that russia was behind a nerve agent attack and then the signed science and chemical apart from important downside but actually we identified the nerve agent we know where it's produced but they didn't use the language that that orse johnson boris johnson should be more careful but if you actually analyzes language very very carefully he didn't actually say russia were responsible or put them down and told him responsible but actually his language as a diplomat she read more careful because. since the prime minister had said we're almost certain all the evidence the bones of probability is such that we believe it to be. the russians who are the source of this nerve agent that's more careful more diplomatic because it means you haven't proved it yet so therefore now

with the russian british intelligence saying we believe we have identified the source of the nerve agent in russia but of course that is believe that's not the sabers prove it because you'd have to go to russia and prove that this is this is precisely the problem now that clearly you need cooperation of both sides in order to discover precisely what has taken place and how this nerve agent was deployed and by whom but if anything we're going in the reverse direction we're not going to it's been completely politicized could really put it aside but also russia will never admit it is a source of this nerve gas and will never permit anyone to accuse it of carrying out the attempted assassination of the gave script. they will say we deny that completely and is absolutely untrue and so on and don't make these accusations

because it's typical if you like a cold. war mentality cold war language and so on you blame russia the russians see themselves really a victim nation and they want respect and they say you're not showing his respect you're blaming us without the evidence therefore you must show is more respect and enter into a joint negotiation enter into really joint a joint search to find out the source of this and how this actually happened was a mccauley thank you very much thank you. brazil's top court has ruled that the former president louise and asio luna disillusioned start serving a twelve year prison sentence for taking bribes. to stay out of prison until he exhausted all possible appeals in august was found guilty of accepting bribes worth more than a million dollars the court's decision threatens his bid to run in the upcoming presidential election where he was the favorite to win all our latin america and

it's how you see in human joins me now from brasilia what my next. hello mary might you know what they say about the wheels of justice and rulers legal team and associates are certainly trying to do all they can to make sure that those wheels move as slowly as possible we're here at the senate and we spoke to a member of the workers' party that's lula's party who explained that they're going to be presenting injunctions to the courts and also other legal technicalities to try to keep delaying and delaying the issuing of an arrest warrant if they can for days for weeks for months if not even longer again if it is possible that they can do that they say that there are many many legal options that are still open to them and that they're going to take advantage of every single one of them. so how then is it going to impact the presidential contest if. so much support in the polls i think double the amount of any of the other opponents of participants who

how does this affect the election if he doesn't take part that's right. exactly let's assume that he is either put behind bars in which case he will be painted by the workers' party as a kind of brazilian nelson mandela who will still be able to rally support because he is above all they argue a leader even no matter where he is but if he is no matter if he has more time he's going to use that very clearly to try to promote a substitute his would be vice presidential candidate is the one we understand. he's a former mayor of law he doesn't have a lot of supporters certainly not yet so he needs all the help he can get from little up for as long as he can get it but you know this leaves little to be rolled wide open now to the second most popular presidential candidate was an extreme right wing former military member of the military someone who is a great admirer of chile's former dictator i've seen o'shea and he is certainly

supported by some brazilians who are actually in a style just for the old days when the military ruled this country so we've gone from one of three into the other and it will be six months yet before those elections take place so merriam anything can happen thank you very much our latin america is have you seen human with all the latest on the story from the syria. with the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about a lebanese american businessman who could have new information about russian interference in the u.s. presidential election. we're looking at the damage control to see on the nile egypt sudan and ethiopia discuss who controls the world's monkey river. and in sport liverpool a call to answer for their fans behavior after manchester city's boss comes under attack.

of course in germany has ruled that the former cast and i need a car can be released on bail while awaiting a decision on his extradition to spain has been held at this prison in newman for just over a week after he was arrested soon after crossing the border from denmark which the mount is facing charges of rebellion over the camp land regions campaign for independence spain's government says it will respond appropriately to ensure that spanish law is carried out so for more on this dominate cain joins us live from lynn tell us more about the legal rationale behind this decision. well the thing to say merriam is the spanish government says that it respects the decisions that the german courts in this case courts in northern germany have come to the point here is that the court is saying that all this that this decision says that some of the charges that were proffered against mr bush the man by the spanish government namely of sedition and rebellion relating to that referendum that was held that

that one constitutional referendum is the government called it that was held by mr bush tomorrow in catalonia will that charge the german ruling says is not something that is recognized in german law and therefore not some more reason for him to be extradited to spain but it does then say that to another charge referring to to the money that that was spent in holding that referendum the spanish government so that was fraudulent or the german ruling says well that is a reason why mr push the man could be sent to spain so what they're doing effectively is saying ok well mr push the man can be released on bail he has to pay seventy five thousand euros as a surety as a guarantee that he will stay in the country but that he can go free so there is a degree of ambiguity in this ruling about what exactly the german courts believe are reasons to be set for him to be sent and reasons for him not to be sent back to spain so what is the timeline then when will we get

a final decision on whether pledged amount will be extradited to spain. well as you said earlier marion he's been held in a prison in moments that are in this photo shows because trying for more than a week he was arrested on the twenty fifth of march but don't seem portland because under the auspices of the european arrest warrant which was the document that allowed mr putin man to be arrested in the first place the each member states that his to the w. has sixty days within which to complete an extradition process if the person detained seeks to to go against extradition well if found were the case if those sixty days play out that suggests may the twenty fourth might be the day when the final decision would be arrived out here but the question now is what is mr push them are going to do next if he walks free from this court will he stay in germany might you try to go somewhere else that these are questions being posed right now

and we wait to see what he will do next thank you very much dominick kane in berlin to the ongoing investigation now into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the new york times investigation has a new york times investigation has drawn the spotlight onto a lebanese american businessman who's been cooperating with robert letters investigation it says george nader has connections to the united arab emirates and also to russia and that he might be able to link two important parts of the inquiry so for more on this let's go to john hendren who is in washington what do we know about how georgian aid is of help to miller in his investigation. well merriam nader's seems to be the witness who keeps on giving similar we knew long ago that he had ties to the united arab emirates that he had acted as an agent for the crown prince of abu dhabi and we knew that he had arranged a meeting between a trump liaison and

a russian businessman in the seychelles but what we're learning now according to this new york times article in and is that he also had deep ties to russia that he has had them since at least two thousand and twelve when he negotiated an ill fated arms agreement between iran and russia that he is familiar with all the guards there and what that means is that miller can ask not only about the u.a.e. connection whether money was funneled from the united arab emirates into the trump campaign or its allies we can also ask about russian collusion whether russia helped trump in that campaign so that intertwines two parts of two major strands of this investigation and of course nader is a cooperating witness he has an immunity deal and that means he is protected when he talks to miller and he isn't the only figure who has made a deal with rob a lot of there are those that have been questioned on l.

cooperating with the investigation how is the inquiry making progress. well we know that motor has been recently following up on both of these threads you've been stopping people in airports his agents have stopped a russian oligarch at an airport in new york questioned him about ties to russia taken his phone and electronic devices which they're presumably going over now they also stopped an australian businessman and questioned him about ties between trump and the united arab emirates that it was another that was a cooperative investigation we don't know if this came from nader we don't know if it came from one of the other witnesses but we do know is that miller is aggressively pursuing both of these lines of thought what we don't know is whether donald trump will ever testify that would have been a debate among his lawyers we're told that he thinks he'll do a terrific job on that but it least one of his lawyers has quit thinking that trump

should not testify from washington john hendren thank you. criticized the deployment of french troops just across the border in northern syria on monday the kurds revealed a posse of sixty french soldiers had arrived and man bitch is east of the turkish stronghold of a friend and started patrols in the surrounding region france is refusing to comment on this but you minister as well and they don't want the french training groups he describes as terrorists. or the. if the soldiers are training p. why do you and why p. g. forces will perceive this is giving support to a terror group. what's important here is that the french don't repeat the same mistakes the americans have made in one big with the same rhetoric and approach it from looking for a partner or an ally very to be turkey the p y d n y p g can't be friends with partners or the wise what's the point of being nato allies. the gunman is shot dead

for academic city university in western turkey a tackle who was detained after initially trying to flee the scene was a research university he killed his fellow staff members allegedly because he believed they were supporters of the exiled cleric the two look a land which the turkish government blames for the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen ministers from egypt see done in ethiopia holding talks on a massive dam project which raises questions about who owns the world's longest with ethiopia in sudan are pushing for the building of the renaissance dam over the nile but egypt is worried it will cut into its share of the river as bernard 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 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 lake how quickly this is done is one of egypt's main concerns. to believe us. to believe he toopid. believes in you could do well and there is 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 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 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 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 sierra leone's new president. has started his first day in power but has beaten opponent is

refusing to accept the election result for me sworn in late on wednesday night after narrowly winning sunday's final with just under fifty two percent of the vote willing party candidates america mara made a television address saying he would illegally challenge the results amid interest has more from the capital freetown. here are the party headquarters in freetown the mood is celebratory they've been doing this says last night when mother bill was declared winner of the presidential runoff and subsequently sworn in by the chief justice of setting the on now the mood and color across most of sort of your own is the color of the now ruling party but if you will is coming into office at a time when his party is minorities a minority in parliament the only a.p.c. the former ruling party is in control of parliament with the majority it looks like might it be a we'll have to work with opposition figures in parliament to get most of these bills passed some people say this is good for democracy good for the development of

democracy in certainly all people i want to move to see some of the be all are not against the waters and conveys the parliamentary members to come to his side when he wants to push some bills regarding development and certainly on now we don't on this mood right now as a front of the candidate of the a.p.c. but lost in the presidential runoff is going to court to challenge the college of the of the election results claiming the boat was rigged and there was some of the rigid auditors in the balloting as early as the time to look like to new orleans will have to wait a little bit longer to be sure the more the bill is the next president is the new president still had fully the south south korea's disgraced former president has to face live on television as the cold hands down its verdict teachers in the state of oklahoma rally sebas italian funding as will make his convene a special session to discuss the crisis and in sport the caribbean athletes he's

had to overcome a different type of just to make it to the commonwealth games. however the weather still looking a little disturbed across the middle east for the time being an area cloud making its way out of iraq into iran that will continue to drive its way eastwards still somewhat the head of it tashkent twenty degrees celsius on matty twenty one little bit of cloud they notice in that class stretches way down to ward skew way tashkent goes from twenty down to around eleven so you don't want it to saturday so cool what's the weather coming in behind a lot of rain just coming out of the east and sod over iraq into western parts of iraq behind that warm sunshine they were getting up to twenty six degrees celsius

some lovely weather just rather eastern side of the met then still in the warm side across the peninsula thirty two celsius here in doha follow that line of cloud right down towards the southern end of the red sea wanted to show showers study a possibility possibly with some thunderous while as we go on into was saturday he does in tampa weather making its way across bahrain across carter thirty one celsius here in doha but for many they stay she will be fine in triumph on a dry to across southern parts of africa into mozambique heavy rain here since a very heavy rain to into towns in there that's making us well little further north woods over the next few days. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a story of succession and leadership.

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i'll come back here at the news outlets update you on the top stories the daughter of a former russian spy poisoned in the u.k. has made her first public comment since the nerve agent attack just over a month ago. says she is recovering and his strength is growing daily she described the entire episode as somewhat disorientating. brazil's top courses rolled up for president luiz inacio lula da silva must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for taking bribes. and a new york times investigation says the lebanese american businessman george nader could have new information about russian interference the twenty sixteen presidential election. now an indian court sentenced one of hollywood's biggest stars to five years in prison for killing a red deer known as indian antelope salon khan was accused of shooting the

protected animals in a nature reserve almost twenty years ago these are carports. so monk was surrounded by heavily armed police as he arrived to court in the city of jodhpur not the kind of entrance to bollywood stars used to the fifty two year old actor had denied shooting death the da over the northwestern state of rogers stand while filming a movie in the region in one nine hundred ninety eight but the judge disagreed but amanda conner go work in a traditional magistrate dave caught three fronts on one can go under section one fe one of the wildlife protection act and sentenced him to five years in prison and fined him ten thousand rupees several other stars also accused of the case were acquitted this is the type of endangered black buck dia comes been found guilty of killing juror in the hunt. this isn't comes first brush with the law in two thousand and fifteen he was acquitted in a drink driving hit and run case in the city of mumbai in which a homeless man was killed four others injured the regional governments challenge

the acquittal the award winning actor has appeared in more than one hundred films and has a huge fan base around the world com will now appeal the verdict and could still walk free but the career of the so-called bad boy of bollywood might struggle to recover. jazeera joining me now in the studio is film critic and journalist on the chandra thank you very much for coming in to speak to us here are you surprised by the sentencing. yes i didn't think that the sentencing would be this harsh because in the past he's gotten. he's been absolved of more serious crimes so everybody was expecting two years or less which would have meant that he would get out on jail or bail immediately but now he's been tendence to five years so that means he has to apply for bail tomorrow and so how do you explain that the fact that he's been absolved of far more serious crimes in the

past but here we have. a sentencing of five years which hasn't received the full i think it stood to do with the perseverance of the bishnoi community the community that. are just on that is as for the last five hundred years they've been dedicated to protecting the flora and fauna of the state and. i think is their perseverance and clearly some evidence that the court has found that has led to this sentence and also in the sentencing the judge judge did say that he's a public figure they're people that people look up to and so i think he's also being made an example off so it seems as though it's very much about the ethics and the law being of this one community in just done. but. it's to something like this affect his career public opinion of him because someone con

is someone who has almost a cult like following in the country yes so he does so. for the liberals and people who care for the rule of the law etc. this verdict will be welcomed and but unless you does go away for five years it will not make an iota of difference to his fans and his fans as you said i got it and they're just waiting eagerly for july fifteenth when his next film raise three comes out ok so that's how they see things is there a culture of well a lack of accountability or impunity for people in this position in india. bit people it's not just bollywood stars it's people that got action. and money across the board they seem to. guilty on or they seem to

get away with it much more than people who are not so fortunate and in terms of someone conned own behavior of that been in terms of the way he is the trade in films in the sort of characters that he plays he's known as the sort of bad boy i mean is this the sort of thing that cultivates that image could his career actually do quite well out of this well it is two things that the characters he plays on screen are one thing where he plays simple guys are heroes but off screen since two thousand and seven many started the being human foundation which is a job to do with foundation that does genuinely does a lot of very charitable work to help the poor people in india so he's also not just seen as a bad boy he's seen as a humanitarian so a lot of his colleagues in bollywood think that because of his charitable work he should be given a more lenient sentence well thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us

on this story from your tick and journalist none from the chandra thank you well now to south korea where the ousted president bargain hay has arrived in court to receive the verdict on an influence peddling scandal that rocked the country's business and political elite prosecutors are seeking a thirty year jail term it's also the first time that proceedings from the district court will be broadcast live off it was ruled to be in the public interest kathy novak has more from seoul. judgment day for the woman who made history as south korea's first female president and then as the first leader of the country to be impeached and removed from office she was indicted on eighteen criminal charges relating to bribery and corruption the culmination of months of unprecedented protests in central sort of. public outrage had replaced the hope that many south koreans felt when in twenty thirteen they elected the daughter

of a former president parked in heat he was a military general who came to power in a coup and who eventually met a violent and. had a traumatic past which affected her politics her mother was shot when park was twenty two and her father was assassinated by his closest aide. around that time in the one nine hundred seventy s. park befriended chasen schill decades later they were at the center of the scandal that sparked the candlelight demonstrations as president park shared sensitive documents with chair and allowed her to dictate policy even though she had no official government role in february chair was sentenced to twenty years in prison for using her friendship with park to extort millions of dollars from major companies including samsung samsung error and group leader j. widely was tried separately and convicted of bribing part by making payments to foundations chick controlled he was sentenced in august to five years in prison

then released on appeal park has continued to deny the charges against her saying she wasn't aware of cho's activities this is the country's biggest political scandal but it's far from the only one every former south korean president since the one nine hundred eighty s. has faced corruption allegations either personally or because of accusations against their family members parks pre-disaster leme young buck is in jail awaiting a formal indictment on corruption allegations linked to his time in office during or would result korea lacks a system to keep presidents in check go we are seeing a lot of discussion iraq constitutional reform to manage the so-called imperio presidency of your presidency president came to office on a liberal agenda promising to stamp out corruption he has proposed changes to the constitution including revised presidential term limits which need parliamentary approval before being put to

a popular vote kathy novak al jazeera sole. no makers in the state of oklahoma holding a special session on friday as protesting school teachers continue to demand more funding for public education hundreds of teachers and students and marching in the state capital for a fourth straight day of a low pay and classroom spending a climb as governor signed legislation last week that granted fifteen to eighteen percent salary increases for the state's teaches but the teachers say more funding is still needed friday session will look into legislation which could raise more money. and joins us live now there have been other teachers strike so walkouts in the u.s. in the past month what's causing them. right we're seeing this quite astonishing patent of industrial action that began in west virginia where the teachers successfully went on strike there and managed to win a five percent pay rise for public sector workers that i'm teachers here in

oklahoma in kentucky in. the next week in these conservative republican states it will take a new and also you know if it's enough it's time now to take a stand for the public sector with route sixty six as you may know just with a march as easy teaches marching all the way from tulsa oklahoma to oklahoma city the state capital of just about one hundred seventy seven kilometers they'll be walking for the next week also once they get to the city they'll be joining the thousands of their colleagues who've been gathering each day to try to pressure the legislature to grow more funding to education let's talk a little bit to one of those who's organizing this this particular pierced who's a superintendent school superintendent from tulsa this appears to be there much more on this much more to this than just teachers wages you know there is much more today one thing i would say is that i'm actually not one of the we're going to

teachers organize this effort and i am fortunate to have the opportunity to be here to support that. they are leading this effort and they have really risen up and said enough is enough the time has come for us as a state to invest in our children it is much more than about salaries although it certainly was about that that we have under invested in public education in oklahoma actually for decades and in the last decade we have cut more per pupil in our state than any other state in the country by a large margin and our teachers are saying that's that's not ok and we're going to stand up and do something about it why do you think we're seeing this outpouring of fact tippity labor activity now that these cuts have been going on for several years as this whole system of cutting corporate taxes and slashing public services has been going on for several years down the you know various administrations why i know you think are we saying all this you know i can't answer that for elsewhere but what i can tell you is that here in oklahoma we have had many efforts we've been working for years to to try to change this and our teachers have seen in the

last two years several efforts that were had a lot of hope behind them rise up and then fail and i think that those efforts and seeing that the traditional kind of advocacy wasn't working really drew us to this point because they recognize that something more dramatic was going to have to happen our teachers weren't acting that aggressively previously because for so long they were taking the brunt of all of this on their shoulders what they started to see though much more clearly is the way in which these cuts have had an impact on their students and our teachers just like a mama bear or a parent with their child our teachers are that way with their students and so that's what this is about they're they're ferocious because they're doing this for their students always seeing an alignment of stars in the fact that you have a trumpet ministration you have been through divorces education secretary who doesn't seem to have much of a grass perhaps i'll give you about some of these issues where facebook and was all the ways of organizing that is there a lot of coming together at the same time but i think there's no question that

social media has played he. role in this our teachers now have the ability to organize in a way that's far different from how they might have been able to do so previously especially in a state that has been active teachers' union but we don't have the kind of powerful teachers' union like the ones i've experienced and in other places and so that ability to connect to communicate with one another to plan to organize to motivate each other certainly played a role in it isolating it to get started very very much the state legislature has also had more money to the teachers however the teachers say that just simply isn't it all we might need to get your money is about a quarter of up to what's needed it might amount to an extra seventy eight dollars per pupil has only been a textbook directed to very expensive it doesn't even come close to anywhere near what it's needed to to fix crumbling classrooms even to get new textbooks that haven't been updated for many many years so the strike will continue into the

teachers get what they want is thanks very much i have a ton see a reporting there from cali ville oklahoma now six men have been killed in georgia in a coal mining accident three more were injured when the roof of the mine collapse the economic development minister said the accident was caused by a pressure bump ten workers have died at the mine in different accidents since two thousand and eleven. indian security forces a fired tear gas at demonstrators an indian administered kashmir. the violence started after police tried to stop students from marching in the capital seneca they were protesting against india's rule of the region after thirteen rebel fighters and at least four civilians were killed by government troops on sunday three indian soldiers were also killed in the fighting tobacco is a major money maker in zimbabwe but work on the farm brings human rights abuses and serious health risks this is according to a report released by human rights watch which highlights the plight of child labor

as harmless as more from harare. tobacco is the second biggest export earner last year the country produced and sold almost two hundred million kilograms worth nearly six hundred million dollars that's a third of zimbabwe's g.d.p. most of it ends up in china south africa and belgium but human rights watch says child labor and other human rights abuses on farms is tarnishing the country's tobacco industry many of the children all of the children and many of the adults that we interviewed reported symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning vomiting headaches dizziness. children shouldn't be doing work handling tobacco because it's so hazardous and this applies both to hired work and to work in family farming. the report from human rights watch says some farm workers are also overworked and underpaid a label for survey done in twenty fourteen by a statistical agency said about three hundred thousand children were engaged in

some form of child labor the main driver is. when you look at. the poor people in the rural areas and. parents. forced to work to. basics like food and. education. the labor ministry like other government sectors doesn't have enough resources and people to inspect each and every farm. we. do that is dedicated. to what is currently happening. by those who cases that reporting. in. return money to go to school after decades of government mismanagement and alleged corruption zimbabwe has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world the continuing cash crisis has crippled zimbabwe's economy jobs are hard to come by and those in world worry if they complain about health and

working conditions they'll be fired. most farmers here are beneficiaries of the government's a land redistribution program where land was seized from a white commercial farmers and given to blacks and nearly twenty years ago growing even more tobacco is a priority for zimbabwe's government one way it plans to get out of debt and improve the economy human rights workers doubt conditions on tobacco farms are going to change. al-jazeera. once upon. a cesspool. the expectation.

welcome back philippine president we're going to territories closing down the terrorist island of archive for six months off to describing it as a cesspool the un and will now be closed from april twenty sixth barca is home to hundreds of terrorism related businesses and the shutdown could displace seventeen thousand workers more than two million tourists visited bark i officials have said the island's drainage system is being used to send the untreated sewage into its surrounding water his government says cleaning up the environment is needed to prevent further deterioration i mean i don't duggan has more on this 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 what 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 islands like allowance to 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 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 the 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. or purchase a broken arm india's southern tamil nadu state over access to water there demonstrators are angry because a management board that's meant to resolve a dispute over the cover a river has still not been set up it's a carvery originates in the neighboring state of connecticut but has its basin in tamil nadu and access to the water has been an issue between the two states for decades now right so it's time now for sport with tatiana.

thank you very much the first gulf major of the year the masters the teed off at all the all eyes are on fourteen time major champion tiger woods but instead woods is three over par a not part of the early leaderboard australia's mark leishman is four under par and leaves the way by one shot at this very early thursday. europe's football authorities wafer has opened disciplinary proceedings against liverpool after the clubs attacked and manchester city team bus thousands of supporters lined the streets the city turned up for their champions league quarter final at anfield some fans threw bottles smashing windows and city one able to use the bath for their return journey liverpool apologize for the damage but will face you a fair hearing at the end of may after the champions league final. australian cricketer david warner wanting to pill his twelve month ban for ball tampering has

joined former captain steve smith and batsman cameron bancroft in accepting the punishment from australia's cricket board on twitter he said he is truly sorry for his actions and would do everything he can to be a better person a teammate and role model. major league baseball ricky gervais or tawny is living up to his hype for the los angeles at the japanese star hit his second home run in two days as a lock on the cleveland indians three two a tiny made his home debut on tuesday after joining me and i'll be fighting to fend for the twenty three year old will make his first home pitching far against oakland on sunday. now it wasn't the best of starts to the commonwealth games on day one on australia's gold coast the world champion hurdler sally pearson the thirty one year old has been the event's poster child as she grew up near their thirty stadium had to withdraw after suffering

a flare up of the long term killings problem not to be able to go out onto the track and an end run for strayhorn it's gut wrenching it's it's heartbreaking and it's very unfortunate that i can't get out there i would love i went out there last night into the opening ceremony and heard the roar first day of the year and not being able to feel that for myself in my individual events is very disappointing meanwhile it was a great opening day of the games for the tiny island of bermuda they won their first gold medalist two time world champion florida they won the women's triathlon . it's also the first email that's what a medal for bermuda commonwealth games so that's really special and i think the coolest part is that member meet is a tiny place we have seven athletes here but at this moment i think we're leading the medal tally because this is the first medals it's so that's actually really go on probably the body the funniest and most special moment in the games the host

nations men cycle back away to a gold medal in weld record in the four thousand meters team pursuit the how would you know brian alex porter and sam welsh that finished in a time of three minutes forty nine point nine zero three four seconds but new ball for. australia's women's swim is one way to a wild record in the four by one hundred meter freestyle relay buntay campbell kate campbell is shana jack and emma mccann helping themselves to the gold medal. now for some athletes just getting to the commonwealth games is victory in itself especially those from a caribbean islands recently ravaged by hurricane andrew thomas explains. at the commonwealth games card mcmaster will race the four hundred metres hurdles but in the lead up to the games he and other caribbean athletes have faced other hurdles away from the sports track master filmed this video himself it shows some of the destruction caused by two hurricanes which hit his country the british virgin

islands last year among those killed was mcmasters coach at the games masters wearing a respond in his memory it wasn't me on his dream making it up step by step to get up to get it was or how this has been he would be with me every step or two even if i win or lose he would be. masters new coach says it's been tough for the team to carry on. anything happens you know he will do he was. so with him going to. be very just took a little dip but we're hoping it will bounce back up again perkins and maria most of the caribbean countries which have athletes competing at the commonwealth games across the island sports facilities were badly damaged car and mcmaster is one of many who since the hurricanes has had to move to the united states to train

the stadium lights came down. is that you know there right now is something the tree in a muddy area because if it remains. flooded with master says that winning a medal is not his priority at the commonwealth games he simply wants to make his traumatised country proud andrew thomas al-jazeera on australia's gold coast. australian surfing icon make fanning his fall and at the final hurdle in his last event before retiring the three time world champion has been aiming for a fifth title of beach but there will be no fairytale farewell the thirty six year old was beaten by preserving it hello for data in the final. they always want to finish year up with bells just because i felt calmer and just. but yeah it was a very special moment of the crowd and then you know there's friends here and yeah . and then and then to be on the phone with the law and and just see how much it

meant to him you know i sort of are grateful that i. have over to marry him and wanted thanks very much what. my calling will be with you in just a moment with much more of the day's news today without is there. paint the scene for us where 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 us on set there are people that there to choose

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