use. to be so she should live there champ you know nine hundred ninety two t. . as much as me i'll read the from thread to run i'm outta my fancy growth process. dashed by sectarian attacks but them stopped being about sports he became pure politics. looks back. basketball time out. we've told our u.k. colleagues that you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry. steps up its war of words with britain over the poisoning of a former russian spy. hello

welcome to our visitor life and. dennis also coming up in the program. standing by their man supposes rally in brazil as a deadline for former president lula to go to jail edges closer plus. this journey coming though women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. donald trump revives his controversial campaign rhetoric calling mexican immigrants rapists. and it could be one step closer to a full blown blown trade war the white house considers imposing an extra one hundred billion dollars worth of tyrus on chinese goods. that press a diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia has now moved to the u.n. security council where most because i'm back. sadar warned london that it was

playing with fire russia had called for the meeting to refute accusations that it was behind the nerve agent attack one of its former agents and his daughter well that meeting came hours after british police released the first public statement from one of the victims scruple in which she says she's getting stronger every day here's our diplomatic editor james bays a greeting between the british and russian ambassadors but it was clear when the meeting started that that is where the cold all relations ended russia called for the security council meeting to strongly reject u.k. allegations that russia carried out the nerve agent attack. because monday a dozen news noticable commuters ladies and gentlemen i don't even know what to say about this it's some sort of theater of the absurd could you come up with a better fake story we all know what the worth of british intelligence information is based on the experience of tony blair we have told our british colleagues that

you're playing with fire and you will be sorry diplomats tell me they see this council meeting as part of a pattern when russia is backed into the corner it goes on the diplomatic offensive we've seen fresh comments in recent hours on the soles pre-k. seen from foreign minister sergei lavrov and from russia's ambassador in london on wednesday russia called a meeting of the international body that oversees chemical weapons the o.p.c. w and brazenly suggested a joint investigation by the u.k. and russia the idea was quickly voted down but the british ambassador at the u.n. again referred to it using a very british literary reference the villain in the sherlock holmes books 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 moriarty 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 it was at the beginning of march in the british city as sol's pre that the former spies surrogate script and his daughter were incapacitated by a nerve agent known to have been developed by russia yulia is getting better an hours before the security council met british police released a statement from her it reads 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 rusher in the u.k. of painting very different pictures of who was behind the attack or miss script and her father the investigations by the u.k. authorities and by the o.p.c.

w a likely to be long and detailed but even when they report their final conclusions i think there's a strong chance russia will reject them james pays al-jazeera at the united nations brazil's former president lewis in asio lula da silva is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. supporters have gathered outside the metal workers union building in sao paolo where lula has retreated with some of his political allies he has until five pm on friday local time to hand him self into the police after the country's top court ruled that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence the corruption one of his closest allies former president dilma rousseff spoke to the crowd. it's a political persecution aimed at putting him behind bars and i want to tell every

one of you gathering here that i'm sure that president luiz inacio lula da silva is an honest strong and brave person and that he will know how to face this moment with a courage and serenity of an innocent man. for the prospect of jail time could deal a fatal blow to lose plans to run for a third term in october presidential election a latin america editor lucien human has more from the capital brasilia. barack obama described lisi nasser lula da silva as the world's most popular president the left wing little worker rose to become a global example for others who dream of lifting tens of millions of people from poverty. to lula's two presidencies were haunted by. eruption allegations they never stuck hence his reputation for having a teflon shield but with the supreme court's decision to send him to prison while he appeals a twelve year corruption sentence it's clear the shield has crumbled the messages

you all are equal all on the piece off legislation that you have been to see you on the law so now we are talking about the former president to morrow we can be talking about the current president bama or even the future president loosely go team said it would request a series of injunctions to block his arrest warrant hoping to buy more time but judge said tomorrow was quicker on the draw he said that out of respect for lula as a former president he would allow him twenty four hours to present himself voluntarily to federal police in the city of where he is supposed to serve his sentence if he does not go then he says federal police will go out to arrest him given brazil's complex legal system anything could happen in that time remains the most popular would be candid ahead of october's presidential elections and. it will be in with the best president in brazil's recent history it's not fair to end

things like this. with lula apparently out of the race the new frontrunner is an ultra right wing former military officer. and admirer of chile's former dictator pinochet. but the senator from lula's workers' party insists lula remains a political force that this is. this very addict has an end leadership look at snowsill mandela he was twenty seven years in prison. you know did not immediately respond to the supreme court ruling but given his temperament it's safe to say he won't go down without a fight. in human brasilia. a german court has rejected a spanish extradition request for catalonia former leader carlos bush demand is now to be released on bail but could still be extradited on the lesser charge of misusing public funds pledged to mount was arrested as he entered germany last

month from belgium where he's been living in self and there's exile since fleeing spain the mccain has the latest from there live in 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 court but the other charge that was proffered against mr push for more namely of embezzle 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 all does next he will emerge can emerge from the prison the earliest on friday but 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 . the tit for tat trade standoff between the world's two largest economies is escalating donald trump is now what it is is ministration to consider imposing another one hundred billion dollars worth of tyrus on chinese goods mr trump fired the first salvo last month by imposing terrace on steel and aluminum imports largely he said to protect u.s. industry from cheaper chinese metals beijing responded on monday with import duties on three billion dollars worth of u.s. goods ranging from pork to wine the next day the us announced plans to supper

twenty five percent duty on thirteen hundred more chinese products and then on wednesday beijing retaliated by threatening similar terrorists on one hundred six american goods including soya soybeans the the biggest u.s. export to china but just hours before threatening further terus against china president trump spoke of his desire to straighten out trade issy's in many respects i think we'll have a fantastic relationship long term with china but we have to get this straight now we have to have some balance and that goes for other countries and it goes for other places if you look at the european union it's very solidly against us in terms of trade it's very good for a look at a younger shaking her head yes you know about the european union it's like it's almost we can't even do business they send their cars over here they send everything over here we don't want to take our product so we can't let that happen

. is professor at the university is she's a worker school of management and information he says no one will benefit from a trade war between the u.s. and china. there is no logic to initiation of this war in the sense that you know china is not a threat to the u.s. security in any form because you're not dealing in the high end security or related in the first place what it would really damage is its relationship with for example like canada that were japan and of course with the chinese retaliation what's going to happen is that u.s. consumers are going to suffer as well. and it brings back again the feeling of protectionism which is already rising on a social logical sense in your for example so this is a very bad timing to trigger these kind of issues we've got a lot more to come here and out of there including south korea's disgraced former

presidential be sentenced and proceedings will be broadcast live to find out why bollywood's bad boy is now behind bars for a crime he committed twenty years ago. hello well spring is friday across europe winter is returning in the u.s. and in canada now you may not see it as so from here but that sharp back edge of white lines a cold front goes down through here and this it'll tail here is in was effect of the cold air in the middle of the u.s. makes the temperature the max were thursday minus four in winnipeg that's ridiculous in calgary again you shouldn't see that in early april and for chicago is a bit of a disappointment this is the cold bit and if you feed into that moisture and that's exactly what we're doing from the pacific coast across the cascades that will turn

into snow well ok in the mountains thus far but no this is coming down towards kansas even oklahoma don't look at that because of the big contrast between the temperatures here and the warmth in texas that means who eventually turn into a storyline but if the immediate future we're thinking what's going on here snow possibly as far south as washington i know it says twelve degrees but that doesn't mean there will be some snow at some time in the day won't stick really should it be there at all on the cold is digging right down so this is going to be stormy through the southern states the green represents thunderstorms rain and yes quite possibly tornadoes is a big contrast in the temperatures here. white supremacy is on the rise in the u.s. and its adversaries to beaching vary from. faultlines investigates

the anti fascists using force against intolerance. this is untrue from on al-jazeera. non-violence does attempt to appeal to the moral conscience of them now the jury's still out. if the nation has one. time to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera this morning russia has warned britain that it's playing with fire in a heated exchange at the u.n. security council the meeting was cool to discuss the poisoning of a russian from a double agent in england which the u.k.

blames on moscow brazil's former president lewis in the c.e.o. luna the silver is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest follows a ruling by the country's top court that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption. and president trump has ordered his ministration to consider imposing another one hundred billion dollars worth of tyrants on chinese goods it's the latest in the tit for tat trade fight between the world's two largest economies. well president trump is also invent lines from his presidential campaign really controversial lines as even it all script during an event about tax cuts he referred to a large group of migrants who've been traveling through mexico in what's being described as a caravan and the president suggested that the group is besieged with violence and sexual assaults similar to what he said in twenty fifteen when he claimed that mexican immigrants were rapists john holdren has more from mexico's vetter cruz

state. 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 said all 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 but one of the ladies that we spoke to on this caravan told me that she was feeling 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 so 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 it is ordered the national guard to move 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 fool 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 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 to. the president if you wish to reach agreements with mexico we stand ready as we have proved until now always willing to engage in a dialogue acted in good faith and in a constructive spirit if your recent statements of the result of frustration due to domestic policy issues to your laws or to your congress it is said then that you should turn not to make seconds we will not only our negative rhetoric to define our actions we will only act in the best interest of mexicans and that some of the people that we've been talking to on this caravan of 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 the see that the caravan itself has

generated with president trump that hope seems a lot further off the maybe it was before now just two months after stepping down from the presidency jacob zuma will appear in court to face money laundering fraud and racketeering charges and these are allegations that are connected to a multi-billion dollar arms deal almost two decades ago al-jazeera is catherine story now reports from durban that's the former president's strong hold on a case that is deeply dividing the ruling a.n.c. . these are some of jacobson's loyalists in dublin a stronghold of the former president they say corruption charges against him are aimed at damaging his reputation and they'll support him to the very end the african national congress leadership that strongly supported zuma in previous scandals has distanced itself from him this time and has won supporters against

using party symbols and communist. country one pressing on that case. you know if there is anything that have been done incorrectly it can't be on newsarama so dreamy innocent zuma has been implicated in an over two hundred fifty thousand dollars on steel in the late ninety's he was deputy president then and he said to have received bribes to use his influence in favor of a french arms company bails and later to protect the company from investigations this group in fighter jets filmed a few years ago were part of the deal. he was first charged in two thousand and five but the case was dropped by the national prosecuting authority just before he became president it was reopened. after he was forced to resign. the case is being hard. on placated they feel that may take

a long time to complete as often say that he is in the center and wants justice roberts same time he spent so many here that a lot of hospitals money to avoid. anticorruption campaigners say they'll hold leaders to account but there also needs to be radical institutional reform i think that now all. the critical thing is not to deny belies ourselves and for those whom we have now been instrumental responsible in putting in power for them to recognize the role that we have played and not to start to do this governments so often do is imagine that they don't need to be held accountable. one of the biggest corruption scandals in south africa's history has deeply divided the a.n.c. . many south africans including those. pack say they're tired of waiting for answers they hope that they'll be closure sooner rather than later catherine so

al-jazeera douban. south korea's former president is due to be sentenced in the influence peddling case that has rocked the country's business and political elite prosecutors want a thirty year jail term for paul gillin hey for the first time the court session will be broadcast live after 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 park 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 and during a would have to south 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 presidents and 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 soul. turkey has condemned the deployment of

french troops just across the border in northern syria on monday the kurds revealed that a policy of sixty french soldiers has arrived in member age to begin patrols francis criticized turkey's military operation in a frame turkey's even minister says any french plan to train kurdish armed groups in man beach will be seen by ankara as helping terrorists. most important here is that the french and don't repeat the same mistakes the americans have made with the same rhetoric and approach it from looking for a partner or an ally that everything should be turkey the p y d n y p g can't be friends with partners otherwise what's the point of being nato allies now the plight of hundreds of thousands of range of muslims fleeing from e m r since last august is pretty much captured the world's attention but the crisis in iraq and stated is only the most recent episode of a much longer period of persecution which is for stranger out over decades more

than sixty thousand have found shelter in malaysia where like amy amar they have no legal status florence louis has met some in law star to find out why they still hold out hope of a better life. b.b. came to malaysia by boat four years ago with her children as if. she was stateless and faced persecution she didn't want to leave my door in rakhine state but had no choice. in my village life was good then to myanmar military started making things difficult for us people burned homes and so that's why i came to malaysia but life here is just as tough if not more. she has health problems but barely enough money for medical treatment and she worries about her children who can't go to government schools or work legally. malaysia is not a signatory to the un convention on refugees so the refugees here have few rights

and no access to public services the government has declined to comment but many non-governmental organizations filling the gap. this school is run by muslim aid groups the teachers are volunteers who get a monthly allowance the rangar have been fleeing to malaysia for decades many of them end up living here in the northern state of which are several entry points from thailand which is often a transit route. despite the difficulties somebody and you have secured a better future and. has been here for seventeen years making a living doing odd jobs last year his application for asylum in new zealand was approved. i'm comfortable with life here but i thought about my children what sort of future i have if we continue to study here. he's looking forward to starting a new life in a country that actually wants him florence li al jazeera. north malaysia

and one of bollywood's biggest stars has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing endangered animals. was found guilty of shooting the indian antelope in a nature reserve but this is almost twenty years ago now has more. selman calm was surrounded by heavily armed police as he arrived to court in the city of job not the kind of entrance the bollywood stars used to the fifty two year old actor had denied shooting dead the deer in the northwestern state of rogers stand while filming a movie in the region in one nine hundred ninety eight but the judge disagreed monegan it all work in a tradition magistrate dave command cut three hunts on one can guilty under section one fe one of the wire left 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 the court of india have forgiven him many times in the past. in. this sentence would be so marked if you saw the statement that his lawyer there 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. 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. al-jazeera. ok time for us to take

a look at the top stories here it out is there russia has one britain that is playing with fire in a heated exchange at the u.n. security council the meeting was called to discuss the poisoning of a russian former double agent in england which the u.k. blames on. newsnight a good game and you lose i don't even know what to say some sort of theater of 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 we can achieve what has happened in soulsby we cannot ignore russia turning a blind eye to the use of chemical weapons in syria and insoles free and we cannot ignore the way that russia seeks to undermine the international institutions which have kept us safe since the end of the second world war brazil's former president

louison asio lula da silva is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest it follows a ruling by the country's top court that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence the corruption supporters have gathered outside a union building in sao paolo where has retreated with some of his allies. president trump has altered his administration to consider imposing another one hundred billion dollars worth of tyrus on chinese goods is the latest in the tit for tat trade between the world's two biggest economy. south korea's former president will be sentenced in a corruption case that rocked the country prosecutors are seeking a thirty year jail term for. the sentencing will be broadcast live a german court has rejected a spanish extradition request the catalonians former leader call this pushed a moment judges decided the rebellion. faces in spain is not

a criminal offense in germany all right up to date those are the latest headlines coming up next here at. four. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your bra five g. will mean the data transfer times faster than forty we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost this time on al-jazeera. gained access to a group of militant fascists known as it was filming now they don't usually like cameras around some cover their faces and others want to voices disguised.