what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important. to publish it. to be offensive or provokes it's all about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. a verdict on south korea's disgraced former presidents the proceedings will be broadcast live. hello again. in life and also coming out.

standing by their man supporters rally in brazil as a deadline for former president lula to go to jail edges closer plus. we've told our u.k. colleagues that you're playing with fire and. steps up his war of words with britain over the poisoning of a former russian spy and this journey coming up women are raped at levels that nobody's ever seen before donald trump goes back to his controversial campaign rhetoric calling mexican immigrants rapists. but first a court in south korea is due to give its verdict against the disgraced former president park geun hay in a landmark corruption case it was the result of an influence peddling scandal that

sparked matts protests and it shook the country's political establishment prosecutors are seeking a thirty year jail term and for the first time court proceedings will be broadcast live more from kathy novak. 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 fairbridge 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 and. to south korea lacks a system to keep presidents in charge of which we are seeing a lot of discussion iraq constitutional reform to manage the so-called imperial 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 let's go live now to kathy who is outside the courthouse where everything is about to begin kathy give us an idea then as to what to expect in terms of how this will play out the format of this court session.

well the way things are done here in south korea the verdict and if she is convicted the sentence is handed down in one session what we are expecting is that park and herself is not expected to turn up she has actually been boycotting these proceedings since october of last year she hasn't been turning up to the hearings and she is not expected to make an appearance as this verdict is being read out today it could take one to two hours or so for the verdict to be read out and of course as you mentioned it will be broadcast live there was deemed that there was a public interest in broadcasting these to these court proceedings the south koreans can chew in in to see what is happening quite good hay is expected to have the verdict delivered to her in the detention center where she has been being held for over a year now so we're waiting to see as these court proceedings kick off in the next few minutes martin and as you mentioned in your of cold kathy the four living

former presidents of south korea have been involved in one way or to one degree or another with corruption cases and scandals how do the south koreans themselves the public catchy view this particular trial which is often being described as perhaps the biggest of them all. yes it certainly is the only time that south koreans came out to protest in the numbers that we saw during the candlelight protests and which forced this kind of pressure which led to the impeachment of park of hay and her ultimate removal from office even though south koreans are used to corruption in the presidential office it must be said there seem to be more of a turning point when it comes to this case and when you speak to people here there seems to be a sense that for many decades this country was trying to pull itself out of from economic hardship so there was a bit of leeway given to people in leadership positions that they might have had to

have some close ties with business leaders that might not be accepted today but now that south korea is in a better economic position i think the general feeling amongst the population is that it is time for this to be a more fair democracy for corruption to be stamped out that's something that was supported by the current president when julian when he was elected there are still supporters of parken hey they tend to be more elderly conservative south koreans who disagree with the liberal politics of minging in his who sort of look back to the time of park in his father's presidency with some nostalgia but overall we did see hundreds of thousands of people coming out to protest against this corruption scandal during the candlelight protests so the general feeling i think among south koreans is that they are wanting to see a harsh sentence in this case and they want to see a change and that is why there is talk of constitutional reform to try to take some of the power out of the hands of presidents martin all right for now kathy thank

you very much indeed kathy novak of course our correspondent there in the south korean capital is going to keep us right across developments which will take place in that room that courthouse that you see in front of you we understand the park in haiti the former president has south one japan because she's been boycotting the proceedings so far but nonetheless within about an hour. hour or two according to kathy we should hear exactly what the verdict is in this massive case the has permeated almost every corner south korean life so we'll keep you right up to date on that. well from south korea let's go to brazil and another former president who's in trouble this time is luis in the last year lula da silva because he's considering is that move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. i. the purpose of gathered outside the metal workers union building in sao paolo that's where he had retreated to some of his allies he has until five pm on friday local

time to hand him self in to police after the country's top court ruled that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption but one of his closest allies the former president dilma rousseff has been speaking 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 the courage and serenity of an innocent man where the prospect of jail time could deal a fatal blow to lula's plans around for a third term in october's presidential election a latin america editor lucien human has more from the capital brasilia. barack obama described lucy 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 corruption allegations they never stuck inside 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 sentance. it's clear the shield has crumbled the messages you all are equal all the piece off legislation that you have been busy you on the law so now we are talking about the former president to morrow we can be talking about the current president pamela or even the future president list legal team said it would request a series of injunctions to block his arrest warrant hoping to buy more time but judd said tomorrow was quicker on the draw he said that out of respect for law 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 candidates ahead of october's presidential elections and. it will be in you 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 luna remains a political force. this is on this very direct hasn't ended leadership look at snowshoe 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. newman brasilia. so the diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia has now moved to the un security council where moscow is ambassador 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 on one of its former agents and his daughter that meeting came hours after british police released the first public statement from one of the victims yulia scrip hour in which she said she's getting stronger every day there's a diplomatic editor james spays. a greeting between the british and russian ambassadors but it was clear when the meeting started 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. this monday

a dozen news noticable commensurate 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 souls bree that the former spies surrogate script and his daughter . well incapacitated by a nerve agent known to have been developed by russia yulia is getting better and 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 on the script power 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 al-jazeera at the united nations we're going to have more to come here it out is there including a german court rejects an extradition request that colors pushed him on top and grants the ousted catalan leader bail he could soon be free. and it could be one step closer to a full blown trade war the white house considers an extra one hundred billion dollars worth of tyrus on chinese goods.

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through kuwait eastern saudi marc rich's fast as bahrain or even count other this is the lower limit south of the federal breeze it's been quite just dusty recently it will carry on in that same vein the cloud tends to fade away come saturday but it doesn't mean it'll be bone dry not just yet southern africa should be seeing the end of its wet season and that's certainly true in the forecast for friday but are all in all namibia it's still wet. thank you so she she was their champion of nine hundred ninety two teams. as much as the fans read the qur'an from a bunch of. dreams dashed by sectarian attacks with a stop being. politics. that looks back on the long haul of.

basketball time out. take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera this warning a cold in south korea is jus to give its verdict against the disgraced former president called going hey in a massive corruption case that shook the country's establishment prosecutors are seeking a thirty year jail term and as you can see the court proceedings are being broadcast in south korea for the first time after it was ruled that the park's case is in the public's interest brazil's former president luiz inacio 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 colt that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption. in russia his will and britain it's playing with fire during a tense exchange at the u.n. security council the meeting was called to discuss the poisoning of a russian form a double agent in england which the u.k. blames on. the tit for tat trade standoff between the world's two largest economies is escalating president trump has now ordered his ministration to consider an additional hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods president trump fired the first salvo last month by imposing terrorists 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 slap

a twenty five percent duty on thirteen hundred more chinese products and then on wednesday beijing retaliated by threatening similar tariffs on one hundred six american goods in clued in critically soya beans which the u.s. export to china that's the biggest export to china from the u.s. and just hours before threatening the further terrorists president trump spoke of his desire to straighten out trained in many respects i think we're going to have a fantastic relationship long term with china but we have to get this straight 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 unfair to 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

. well president jiang has his crimes a large group of migrants from central america is being plagued by violence and sexual assault echoing the language from his presidential campaign you may remember in twenty fifteen he said some mexican immigrants were rapists don't homan reports now from one where he's met migrants from the so-called caravan which is heading to the u.s. border. one is packing to go again this is been his life since he left his family in honduras to join the caravan of migrants heading through mexico he says he had no choice but to leave. i had problems with the maras gangs in honduras they wanted me to join them and i don't like those things so they came looking for me to kill me gangs and poverty and the twin curses of central america especially honduras and el salvador these people are trying to escape their stories are

harrowing and helical says gang members raped her twice and extorted her smoot told pti a business until she couldn't pay then they said they take a five year old daughter ashley instead. they sell the children to people for sexual abuse that was when i decided to leave my country because i didn't want my daughter to suffer what i'd gone through companies are doing this caravan has infuriated president trump who feared a mass border halt on thursday he appeared to refer to a tax that many migrants suffer on route to the states and yesterday it came out where this journey coming up women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. he plans to send national guard reinforcements to the us mexico border many people in the united states including president trump and his supporters say no you should stay in your own country known douras fix things there why are you running to our country would you respond if you don't like that if people need help why not

give it why does the us president discriminate against us the caravan that's been at the center of so much controversy has split some people are still following its route others like the ones on this bus to mexico city have decided to go their own way eva to ask for refuge in mexico or to try and get to the united states. many have family back home who depend on them making it like that on a coke what the trying to help her husband and three sons in el salvador where lives there but. it hurts to part from the family and only see them in feel that i have an aim to get the family ahead and raise good men not bad ones. with president trump looking to tighten the u.s. border still further the future she's searching for looks increasingly out of reach john home and how does it or mexico or. a german court has rejected a spanish extradition request the catalonians former leader carlos wisdom and

judges ruled that the rebellion charge that pushed him on faces in spain is not a criminal offense in germany he's now being released on bail but could still be extradited on a lesser charge of this using public funds dominic casey has the latest from there live. this decision by the german court means that mr bush more 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 profit 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 over this court ruling in germany suggest 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 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 lives of hundreds of thousands of the hinge or fleeing from miramar since last august has captured the world's attention the crisis in iraq and state is only the most recent episode of a much longer period of persecution which just falls for him out the decades more than sixty thousand have found shelter in malaysia florence louis has met some in our last star to find out why they still hold 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. there. in my village life was good then to myanmar military started making things difficult for us a bead people burned horrors. so that's why i came to malaysia but life here is just as tough if not more. she has health problems but bad 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 of volunteers who get a monthly allowance the rohingya have been fleeing the decades many of them end up living here in the northern state of several entry points from thailand which is often a transit route. despite the difficulties summer when 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 if we continue to study here. he's looking forward to starting a new life in a country that actually wants him. al-jazeera. north malaysia. the two of argentina's most famous football clubs are at the center of an investigation into an alleged child prostitution ring former players from the youth divisions of

river plate and independent a club say they were abused between two thousand and four and twenty eleven to raise a bow ripples from one osiris i football is much more than a sporting argentina it's a national passion that in the last week has been shaken to the core. a seventeen year old player within the indian there told the club psychologist that he and another young player had been encouraged to sell themselves for sex at least seven miners were prostituted and ten others are relieved to have been potential victims prosecutors say there could be more. if we don't go on but those many children were contacted but did not fall into the trap and we are also investigating the potential of the crime known as grooming in many cases they were not successful in carrying out their attempted activities but we are going to ensure that these people no longer have the chance to approach children. but the

sex abuse investigations have spread to other clubs. runs a rape victim association and filed a complaint against river plate when she received information that young players were also abused between two thousand and four and two thousand and eleven. a doctor that worked at the club wrote to us she had proved that children are also part of a ring she had to take time off because she was told not to get involved we also received a letter where a former player says that children were forced to prostitute themselves to be allowed to move forward in their careers. lucy has been receiving threats since she can talk to the authorities and is now using what is known as a panic cream. river plate as one of the most famous clubs in the country it is tice board that operates whole stealth. four young players recruited from other parts of argentina or abroad the sexual abuse scandal involving young players that live here because they do not have any relatives in one of us. has been

investigating the abuses and says there is a common pattern. kitty and there are two cases where we see a similar situation we see individual cases but they happen inside the club with children that have a very vulnerable economic situation who are not from whether cyrus for example a thirteen year old that is from shock or who has no money transferred to i was a day and pedophiles try to take advantage of that. the dream of becoming a bigger star as you know an enemy seem has left hundreds of children exposed in argentina and even though the argentine food will association says it will now look at conditions in the hostess where the young players live that won't prepare the damage that has already been done. it is how will i just want to cite. privacy take a look at the top stories here it out

a court in south korea is due to give its verdict against the disgraced former president park geun haye in a landmark corruption case that shook the country's establishment that's the scene live in the courtroom prosecutors are seeking a thirty year jail term. russia has warned britain it's playing with fire during a tense 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. planes are. no good. 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 have told our u.k. colleagues that you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry. we can achieve what has happened in salzburg we cannot ignore the 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 louis in the silver is considering his next move after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest if allah is a ruling by the country's top court that he must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption supporters have gathered outside a union building itself paolo has retreated with some of his allies president trump as ordered his administration to consider an extra one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods. and the german court has rejected the spanish extradition request for catalonia is formally the colors push to mount judges decided the rebellion charge or push him on faces in spain is not a criminal offense in germany is now being released on bail which amount is one to

over his role in the legal referendum for catalonia is independence revelator cation is next. just. saying. photojournalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media or opinion the listening post at this time on al jazeera education matters the universal rights to expand arrive and offer better prospects. to a better life yet around the globe schools an institution. system's been deemed to be no longer fit. rethinking what schools and how they want identifying the feel of the knowledge needed in the twenty first century and now a new wave of rebel education is sweeping. educated.