the devastating impact for say the bank means also to save the deposits of in their service and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders of the people who needed to learn less gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera. we have nothing to hide mr president but trying to fear that russia might have something to fear the diplomatic crisis deepens over last month's poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter.

hello again i'm suitors and this is al jazeera life from london also coming up a german court allows catalonia as a former president calloused priests a man out on bail until they decide on extraditing him to spain and arrest warrant has been issued for brazil's former president lula over a corruption conviction plus. women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before donald trump repeats a slayer about central americans as he vows to send thousands of troops to the us mexico border. we begin at the un security council where the war of words between russia and the u.k. has escalated with moscow warning britain not to play with fire over last month's nerve agent attack russia denies british claims that it is responsible for the poisoning of former russian spy service cripple and his daughter in salzburg

because of the u.n. sessions saying britain had legitimate questions to answer because mother doesn't know good comment you lose i don't even know what to say some sort of the serious be absurd can you come up with a better fake story we all know what the worth of british intelligence is based on the experience with tony blair we've told our u.k. colleagues that you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry. a lot of article to james space has the latest from the united nations for us. they've got very very different views of what happened on the fourth of march and who was responsible for what happened on the fourth of march a completely different version of events outlined by the russian ambassador some very long interventions i suppose one point well over half an hour and he actually came back and asked to speak again and right to require at the end of the meeting where for a bit in a rut very strange moment in the security council he read

a quote from alice in wonderland in english to the security council it has been that sort of day the british ambassador has been sticking to what she says are the facts and she also referred to what the security council was talking about earlier this week which is chemical weapons in syria when she made her speech i won't take any lectures a morality or on our responsibilities and deception international conventions for my country this is this council debated yesterday has done so much to block the proper investigation of the use of chemical weapons in syria we have nothing to hide mr president but i do fear that russia might have something to fear well there are investigations underway there is the investigation by the u.k. or thora she is the u.k. police the metropolitan police are leading that investigation into the chemical

weapons attack and there is also the investigation by the international body the o.p.c. w. based in the hague that's the international body that is there to try and counter the use of chemical weapons and stop chemical weapons being used they are investigating samples to both those inquiries i think a likely to be very detailed and very lengthy i have to say though even when those two investigations finally come to an end and we get some idea of their conclusions and find out whether there's any evidence whether there's any proof i think it's highly likely at that stage that russia might reject the findings of those two investigations. a court in germany has ruled that the phone my cats are the only callous priest a man can be released on bail while awaiting a decision on his extradition to spain pushed him on that has been held at this

prison in nine months for just over a week after he was arrested soon after crossing the border from denmark he says in charges of rebellion over the castle and regions campaign for independence dominic cain has more from berlin. this decision by the german court means that mr bush will soon be able to walk free from the prison annoyance to that he's been held in for more than a week now since being picked up by german law enforcement agencies on the twenty fifth of march he has to post a bail of seventy five thousand euros and he can't leave germany while the case is still active the point to make here is that this ruling states that the charge of sedition or rebellion is one that is not recognized in german law and therefore has been thrown out by the german courts but the other charge that was proffered against mr push them or they may have been bessel meant of the funds that we used public funds that were used to allow what the spanish government considers an

unconstitutional referendum to be held although this court ruling in germany suggests well that is grounds those are grounds for him potentially to be extradited but they say they need more information the question now will be what mr push them or does next he will emerge he can emerge from the prison the earliest on friday then the question is what will he do next the deadline under the european arrest warrant scheme for his case to reach combination is in late may the question will be what he does next. a brazilian judge has issued an arrest warrant for the former president louis inacio lula da silva the supreme court has ruled that lula must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for taking bribes you'll have asked to stay out of prison and to the exhausted all possible of pales in august lou it 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 favorite to win brazil's top quotas rule the

former president lula nasa's to silva must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for taking bribes we're now joined by lucien human he joins us from brasilia so he's there's an arrest warrant out for him now this really does sound like he is going to prison despite these appeals. hello sue well just a few hours ago legal team that was equipped with about one hundred and fifty lawyers had boasted that they would be presenting many many i don't know how many injunction requests to the supreme court and to another lower court precisely to try to keep out of prison but apparently judged as got wind of this he was quicker on the draw and he has issued this arrest warrant he says that out of consideration for ludo's position as a former president is giving him twenty four hours to present himself voluntarily to federal police in the city of putting where he is supposed to serve his twelve

year corruption sentence if he doesn't do that then yes he says he will send the federal police out to arrest him so here's an incredibly popular candidate for the presidential election but if he doesn't now take power how does that impact the contest. that is really the fifty million dollar question now who would succeed him in the workers' party apparently there is no obvious candidate i had hoped to stay free for at least a while longer to try to endorse someone else in his stead so what we're seeing now is that a the newest most popular potential presidential candidate or the one with the most support after is no other than a very old to a right wing former military officer who is it in my or of chile's former dictator pinochet and who is supported by many brazilians who are still in this for the days of this country's military rule it's still six months to go those so it might be

too early to say just what is going to happen here when the elections take place manufacture. here in speaking live to us from brasilia. still to come on the program bollywood's bad boy salman khan is sentenced to five years in jail for poaching an antelope and zimbabwe's money make a is put under the spotlight after human rights campaigners say the tobacco industry is rife with the means. there's only one bit of obvious weather in australia as seen from space and this this cloud which is no tropical cyclone been around for a long time not done much still not doing much has been battering the coast of queensland is more or less forming a part the still legacy big waves and

a good long fetch of course as a swell with it but the storm itself stays offshore effect and the barrier reef the coast will improve slowly there's a hidden story to have because of that you can't see much happening in australia the temperature is slowly dropping in the west it has not been the case it's been remarkably halt in for example x. was thirty six is a cooling trend it was ten degrees higher than that a week ago and this warms is spreading across the middle of australia still fairly such that i think next week we're talking about temperatures approaching the low thirty's in place to adelaide melbourne they c.t. you don't see that in april very often if at all but that's the story still to come to these this big open skies again lovely weather in new zealand as you can see from satellite picture there is cloud coming to the south i think we get showers coming into south island on friday twenty three christchurch twenty two in oakland who's to complain that it's still pretty warm.

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welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera russia has warned the u.k. against playing with fire after to cuse moscow of poisoning a former russian agent and his daughter on british soil russia convened a un security council meeting to dispute britain's claims a court in germany has ruled that the former catalan leader carla switchable can be released on bail while awaiting a decision on his extradition to spain which the man is facing charges of rebellion of the catalan regions campaign for independence and a brazilian judge has issued an arrest warrant for the former president's louisa naseer new to the silver quarter's rule that lula must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for taking bribes. in the us a lebanese american business an epistemic playing an increasingly important role in the so-called russia probe george naida has close ties to the united arab emirates

and is the facto ruler the crown prince of abu dhabi according to a new york times report special council is also questioning neda a novice about his previously on this close ties to russia john hendren has a story from washington. in the probe into russian meddling in the u.s. election george nader appears to be the witness who keeps on giving the lebanese american business man's ties to the united arab emirates are well known but according to a new york times report nader also has previously undisclosed ties to russia meeting with russian oligarchs and negotiating an ill fated arms deal between russia and iraq in two thousand and twelve and i think that we will continue to get a wealth of information from mr nader and i think not only russia but it seems as though mr nader has almost a worldwide network of people at very high levels that he puts together to collaborate in various and sundry schemes that are supposed to be under the radar screen if you will for special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible

collusion between russia and the campaign of donald trump that makes nader a potential goldmine he could conceivably give information on alleged money funneling from the u.a.e. to trump's campaign and its allies and on russia's efforts to to the u.s. election toward trump at american airports f.b.i. agents at mulder's command have detained high profile foreign visitors in cloak and dagger encounters among them an australian entrepreneur with ties to the united arab emirates to change in new york and a russian oligarch detained in washington his electronic devices were seen by miller's agents then there is the question of whether nader himself was involved in funneling money to protrude campaigns it's illegal for foreign entity. and individuals to give money to. campaigns but of course they could use cutouts they could use american to forward the money miller has given nader it least partial

immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony is miller examines the true campaign's times to the persian gulf and russia that move suggests the special counsel is confident nader can help him tie those two strands of the probe together john hendren and you zero in washington u.s. president donald trump says he has no knowledge of an alleged payment made to a pornographic film star to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she says took place twelve years ago still me downhills says she was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars in twenty sixteen by chump's lawyer michael cohen to sign a non-disclosure agreement cohen says he paid the money out of his pocket but trump also said he has no idea how his lawyer attained such a large sum. the ministry of health in gaza says one palestinian has been killed by israeli soldiers near the border and another has died of injuries resulting from

friday's violence that brings the total number of palestinians killed by israeli forces in the border arrests to twenty eight since friday and the stephanie decker reports from west jerusalem the violence has put the israeli army's rules of engagement under scrutiny. these are unprecedented scenes along gaza's border with israel it's the biggest protests since the 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 the olders were strict i mean nobody should cross . the fence but i think there was restraint there high offices were on the ground all the time so it wasn't just the women 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 point of prime minister down to use such force in such fashion and with such result 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's 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. u.s. president paul chung has accused central americans of being rapists and i go at his

campaign rhetoric and has vowed to send thousands of troops to the border and this speech in west virginia he said women and a caravan of migrants who had been trying to reach the u.s. border and being quote ranked at levels nobody has ever seen before john home and has more from mexico city the caravan of people from central america has been traveling through mexico appears to be winding down at the moment a lot of people appeared off they're heading to mexico city and from there they going to make their own route even to seek refuge in this country or to try and get to the border with the united states but it's been something that president trump of the united states has been infuriated by he's been tweeting about this along the course of the caravan and he came out with a comment that was unsubstantiated and quite outlandish and remember my opening remarks the trump tower when i opened everybody sort of he was so tough and i use the word rape and yesterday it came out were this journey coming up women are raped

at levels that nobody has ever seen before. the president trumps comment in which he appears to toi rape and levels of rape to the passage of this caravan heading through mexico is as we said unsubstantiated but it's also useful to remember that he's talking about real people here with these migrants one of the ladies that we spoke to on this caravan told me that she was fleeing her native from douras because she'd been raped twice but she feared that the same thing was going to happen at the hands of gangs to her five year old daughter there's a lot of women a lot of children in this caravan so it's quite a serious thing to link break through to to what's going on one of the other things the president trump has done it seems to be provoked by the caravan ordered the national guard or more of them to go to the united states border makes can president enrique pena nieto has responded to that mexico doesn't see the act

a tool well and he said if you've got differences with your internal politics with your laws with your congress then take it up with them not with us the mexican people so there's nothing concrete in what mexico might do in his address but he was certainly striking a more combative tone that he has in the past and he addressed the mets united states president donald trump directly but he didn't the promp. president trump if you wish to reach agreements with mexico we stand ready as we have proved until now always willing to engage in a dialogue acting in good faith and in a constructive spirit if you recent statements the result of frustration juta domestic policy issues to congress it is to then that you should turn not mexicans we will not allow negative rhetorical to define our actions we will only act in the best interests of mexicans. now some of the people that we've been talking to on

this curve on the central american migrants still have the hope of getting to the united states either with asylum or passing through undocumented but after all the control of the sea that the caravan itself has generated with president trump that hope seems a lot further off than maybe it was before turkey has criticised the deployment of french troops just across the border in northern syria on monday the kurds prevailed part of a sick a party of sixty french soldiers have arrived in my big one hundred kilometers east of the turkish stronghold are free and started patrols in the surrounding region france is refusing to comment but turkey's e.u. minister has warned they don't want the french training kurdish armed groups who he describes as terrorists are still loves order if the soldiers are training p y d n y p g forces will perceive this is giving support to a terror group more. what's important here is that the french don't repeat the same

mistakes the americans have made him on be with the same rhetoric an approach that if france is looking for a partner or an ally there we should be turkey the p y d n y p g can't be friends his partners or the wise what's the point of being nato allies. sierra leone's new president julius mar their beer has called on his rival to drop the legal challenge to his election when he says ruling party candidate samara kamar is expertise and experience could instead be used to make sierra leone a better place. here at the party headquarters in freetown the mood is celebratory they've been doing this since last night when mother bill was declared winner of the presidential run of a subsequently sworn in by the chief justice of saturday on now the mood and color across most of us are here on is dream the color of the now ruling party but if

y'all is coming into office at a time when his party is minorities and minority infallible the ruling 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 his bills passed some people say this is good for democracy good for the development of democracy instead of the other people i want you to see my mother be all let me get the watches and conveys the parliamentary members to come to his side when he wants to push some bills regarding the elephants and certain here and now we don't on this mood right now is a fight that the candidate of the a.p.c. the most in the presidential runoff is going to court to challenge the religious he of the jews are claiming that the vote was rigged and there were some of the registers in the balloting as early as a child to look like to new orleans will have to wait a little bit later to be sure the more the bill is the next president is that you

press the legislators and the u.s. says of oklahoma holding a special session on friday as protesting school teaches continue to demand more funding for public education and as a teacher parents a student some lunching in the state capital when the high and classroom spending she had her sound st john one of them honest. i don't reach sixty six in oklahoma with teachers who are making the trek the seventy seven kilometer trek from tulsa oklahoma to oklahoma city the state capital they're going to join the other striking teachers thousands of them have been gathering in oklahoma city every day of this week trying to get legislators to listen to them they say the days of corporate tax cuts particularly for oil and gas corporations in this state should be over especially because schools in the states are crumbling and they're taking as their model the teachers of west virginia they went on strike in february and a mouse to get across the board pay rise for public sector workers if five percent

teaches in this state wilson tuckey and in arizona all republican states have taken notice and now there's talk about industrial action in these reliably trump supporting states tobacco is a major moneymaking and zimbabwe but welcome to pharma spring human rights abuses and serious health risks that's according to a report released by human rights watch. 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. 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. agency says three hundred thousand children were engaged in some form of child labor the main driver. when you look at . the poor people in the rural areas and. parents and children are forced to work. to basics like. education. the labor ministry like other government sectors doesn't have enough resources and people to inspect each and every farm. that is dedicated. to what is currently happening. by those who kisses that

reporting and in. return monies to take them back 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 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 its plan to get out of debt and improve the economy human rights workers doubt conditions on tobacco farms are going to change. al-jazeera. one of bollywood's biggest assets been sentenced to five years in prison for killing rare dear. philip someone carney

was accused of shooting the protected animals in a nature reserve almost twenty years ago if barker reports. selman com was surrounded by heavily armed police as he arrived to court in the city of job poor not the kind of entrance the bollywood stars used to the fifty two year old actor had denied shooting dead the deal with a northwestern state of rogers stand while filming a movie in the region in one nine hundred ninety eight but the judge disagreed monegan alone work in a tradition magistrate dave command cut three hunts on monday under section one failed 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 in the case were acquitted this is the type of endangered black buck d.n.a. comes being 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 in the courts of india have forgiven him many times in the past people didn't think that. the sentence would be so marked if you saw the statement that his lawyer released they said we were not expecting such a harsh sentence the award winning actor has appeared in more than one hundred films and has a huge fan base around the world can 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 barca jazeera. what chance is there and here is a reminder of the top stories russia has reiterated its warning to the u.k. saying it is playing with fire by accusing moscow of being behind last month's nerve agent attack russia denies british claims that it is responsible for the

poisoning of former russian spy service cripple and his daughter in seoul's very a call for the u.n. sessions saying britain had legitimate questions to answer because mother doesn't know good comment you lose i don't even know what to say some sort of these here is the absurd can you come up with a better fake story we all know what the worth of british intelligence is based on the experience with tony blair we've told our u.k. colleagues that you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry. a court in germany has ruled that the former catalan leader colace preached a man can be released on bail while awaiting a decision on his extradition to spain which them on has been held at this prison in one month for just over a week after he was arrested soon after crossing the border from denmark and germany facing charges of rebellion over the catalan region's campaign for independence the court ruled that he can be extradited over accusations of

corruption but not on the rebellion challenge of brazilian judge has issued an arrest warrant for the former president who is in asio the silver a court has ruled that lula must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for taking bribes had asked to stay out of prison until he exhausted all possible appeals. u.s. president donald trump has accused central americans of being rapists and his campaign rhetoric and there is bound to send thousands of troops to the border drunk said women in a caravan of migrants who had been trying to reach the u.s. border had been quote right at levels nobody has ever seen before and in new york times investigation says the lebanese american businessman george nader could have new information about russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election according to the times he has connection this to both the united arab emirates and russia and may have information that links to important

strands of the inquiry together see a headline stay with us one i want coming up next thanks for watching. getting to the heart of the matter if most of 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 are always ready for talking with you for taking the syrians hear their story on talk to al jazeera. and. in china. will seem to be challenging the government. and of state security the chinese government has. to manipulate to the people there were some violence.