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this is al jazeera. again. hello welcome to the al-jazeera news. live in coming up in the next sixty minutes a military plane crashes up to take killing more than one hundred people. also risking their lives to find safety we look at the dangerous path that tens of thousands of people are using to flee the democratic republic of congo. and as the u.s. considers a military response to an apparent chemical attack in syria russia walls had to shoot down any missiles. there was my mistake and i'm sorry. also place called boss mark zuckerberg promises to do better while being grilled about privacy

failures. with all the sports news as five times european champions barcelona dumped out of the european champions league in a stunning upset by italian club or rome or that in more later this news hour. welcome to the news i will begin the program with breaking news coming out of north africa and my algeria where a military plane has crashed near bouffant an airport south of the capital algiers now as many as one hundred five people are said to have been killed there is no word yet on the cause of the crash which happened just after takeoff. is a journalist in algiers and joins me on the phone mr ballard good to have you with us on the program just bring us up to speed on what we know about the plane crash oh yes this is obviously one of the worst planes are the russians are doing it's

really. only a sheen military plane that crashed this morning according to military sources here at the. crash site one of the core anythings of the grain caught fire on takeoff exploded which exploded so. caution all according to reports one hundred. the pictures that we're seeing show the emergency services being on the scene very quickly what do we know about any survivors are there any and if so which hospitals all ok sions are they gone to for treatment. according to military sources there were at least talking on the plane so i can tell you that there are a lot of survival rates. as a military. hospital here in the. last several years the.

language and that's where most of regular victims will be. taken for treatment most of the survivors will be taken seriously but also last was all over the capital because it is not far from the capital. well for the moment we'll leave it there mr balla and of course our come back to you as we get more information of that plane crash just south of the capital for the moment thank you. our other top stories now to a refugee exodus from the democratic republic of congo that's mirroring migration crises in europe and asia now since the start of this year sixty thousand people have fled to neighboring uganda risking their lives in rickety boats there seeking safety from the fighting across the democratic republic of congo's eastern border lines that began late last year now the violence has left thirteen million people in need of aid about half of them don't know where their next meal will actually come from adding to the situation is the political instability surrounding

president joseph kabila and now he's refusing to step down despite passing his term limit her persona in elections repeatedly as there is malcolm webb his retracing the refugees journey from the end to the beginning he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to chiang wali refugee camp that's where most of them are sheltering right now he's crossing lake albert heading from there to send the landing site on the congolese side where refugees are fleeing the fighting before getting on water he sent us this update. i'm standing in uganda this is lake albert on the far side you can just about see killed in the democratic republic of congo and it's after in those hills in recent months that militia have been attacking villages setting hearts on fire chopping people up with machetes killing some and that's what prompted thousands to get in boats across the lake we can see some of the kinds of boats here that they've been using these wooden ones have an engine

strapped on the back that's a better way to cross but for people who can't afford a ticket in one of those they have to get in a canoe and paddled in which case the crossing can take one or two days lakes prone to bad weather strong winds heavy rains and storms not uncommon for boats to capsize and some refugees have drowned on the way those that make it here are registered by ugandan government officials and by the united nations and that's taken from here a couple of hours drive into uganda to the chiang wali refugee settlement we went there and spoke to some of the new arrivals let's take a look at that story. all these people ran for their lives. now patience runs teams there waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. free to liza's stories typical a few days ago a militia or attacked

a village in congo they killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five children she's pregnant with her six dogs the dogs and get them good to restart the fighting had started then they started burning houses with people inside so we went into the forest and hid for three days then we decided to run and we came to uganda . militias from the lendu ethnic group has been attacking villages in rita's province called is to worry since january the un says that forced more than seventy thousand to sleep here in uganda many more displaced back at home. people have lost their family ministers and women are subjected to sexual and gender based violence before and during flight so they came very traumatized very tired and some needed a very raw and they needed medical attention so. some people described the violence as ethnic return says he's not she says the attackers killed anyone and everyone

she said i think lendu has the same as them some people here say they don't know why they've been forced from their homes now other suspect congo's government is behind it trying to stay in power by further postponing the long overdue presidential election the government denies it. regardless people keep arriving here in uganda. the u.n. says more resources donors threatened to cut funds for refugees in uganda when government officials were implicated in a corruption scandal earlier this year that new arrivals still need help at the moment a lot of the refugee settlement is a vast expanse of bush people are given plots being given her here she's got some plastic sheets a few simple rules now she asked to build a shelter that's what she'll be living in for the weeks ahead and use the tools to

start selling the land and growing some food and now it's starting to rain rita lost her husband when she fled she and her children now have to wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp uganda. now the russian ambassador to lebanon has warned that any u.s. missiles fired into syria will be shot down now the envoy also suggested that launch sites could be targeted the u.s. and its allies are considering strikes in response to an apparent chemical attack near damascus on saturday which they blame on syria's government at least forty people were killed in the rebel held town of duma let's join our correspondent in moscow route chalons who's following events for us not the russians have never really hidden the fact that they will defend their ally come what may so this statement really should be no great surprise to us. that's true and

basically this ambassador was directly referencing comments that were made by the russian chief of staff gerasim of nearly a month ago when the russians first started warning that they were picking up intelligence that's the united states was planning some kind of false flag operation using the rebels and chemical weapons to basically pin the finger of blame on the assad government and thus justify launching strikes against damascus and its. its facilities so yeah the russians been saying this for some time but when the grass or offer made those comments he also said that there would be a russian response there is a difference though between what the ambassador has just said and what gerasim off said originally when it originally was talking he was saying that if the russians strikes threatened russian sorry if u.s.

strikes of britain's russian personnel russian military facilities and that's when there will be a response above the ambassador speaking very recently has seemed to broaden that the any u.s. missiles would get a russian response i don't know whether that was intentional or not we'll have to wait and see perhaps but of course all this centers around that apparent gas attack at the weekend now we're hearing that the invitation to the o.p.c. w is pat's full swing but it certainly. forward what more do we know about this. well you know there were these dueling. u.n. security council draft resolutions that were basically torpedoed in the council yesterday the united states basically made sure that the russians one didn't get off the ground and the russians vetoed the united states

draft resolutions both of these resolutions by the way calling for an independent investigation into this chemical incidents in duma now the o.p.c. w the global chemical weapons watchdog seems to be preparing their heads to do anyway it says that this preparation coincides with invitation from the russians and the syrians as well but they're not saying that they are directly responding to that information but they are calling on the syrians to make preparations to essentially host them to receive them and take them to duma and show them around this visits from the o.p.c. w a would not apportion any blame if it went there were basically just try to determine whether substances were used of course that would not holt's the you know the political geopolitical crisis that's unfolding here it would just

provide a little bit more information to fuel that far perhaps. of course worry when we get statements coming out of what's good for the moment thank you. mentioned their rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria failed to pass out the u.n. security council michaela reports from new york. yet another security council session on syria and yet another veto. the twelfth exercised by russia since the conflict began twelve members were in favor of a u.s. led proposal to set up an independent body that would investigate chemical attacks and identify perpetrators voters old reconstitute and similarly this is a moment of truth the vote that we are faced with today so i would call upon each of the members of the security council speaking on behalf of france to take proper stock of what is at stake here and to live up to their responsibilities and to the

us vote in favor of the american draft resolution raised as a day was the council continue to splinter a russian proposal for an investigative mechanism fails to get the nine votes needed to pass the u.s. not even needing to veto and an explanation of how it differed in two ways from the u.s. led resolution the key point is our resolution guarantees that any investigations will truly be independent russia's resolution gives russia itself the chance to choose the investigators and then to assess the outcome there's nothing independent about that. the tone of discussion was no less a serb big than in previous sessions the russian ambassador repeating his assertion that the u.s. and its allies were seeking a pretext to take unilateral action against the syrian government. if you

take the decision to carry out an illegal military adventure and we do hope that you will come to your senses well then you will have to bear responsibility for yourselves what you're trying to do is plant a resolution that has been on the shelf for a long time in order to find a pretext in the course of the session all members expressed support for the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or p.c. w which will investigate this past weekend's alleged attack the key issue though while the o.p.c. w. is empowered to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place it has no mandate to identify the state or non-state actors that may have been responsible. for a second russian proposal failed to pass an apparently non-controversial resolution supporting the work of the o.p.c. w. failed to get the necessary votes those opposed to pointing out the chemical watchdog was already at work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of this day so too it appears for the

security council. mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. yemen's hoofy rebels say they've launched a drone strike called one of saudi arabia's oil facilities they say their target was the oil giant saudi aramco space in which is on province now the company says its facilities there operating normally and safely. still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour clamping down on dissent growing fears in azerbaijan one family's grip on political power. south africa says farewell to the anti-apartheid campaigner known as the mother of the nation and one of europe's most successful football teams has a night to remember in the champions league peter will be here with details in sports.

demonstrators in the central african republic have laid bodies outside the u.n. mission building in the capital bongi they were some of those killed during a un operation in the mainly muslim neighborhood called p.k. find that peacekeepers and the army targeted our troops on sunday two people including a peacekeeper died when fighters attacked the un troops near the president's residence it's. now the central african republic has been struggling to return to stability since violence erupted in twenty team that was after longtime leader francois busy was overthrown by this armed group a coalition of largely muslim factions in response to the coup christian fighters form groups known as the anti blacker to carry out range killings adding a religious element to the violence despite the election of a new president in twenty sixteen the crisis has intensified with the groups splitting into multiple factions all vying for control so far more than

a million people have been displaced with the majority seeking refuge in neighboring cameroon. do les is a journalist in the central african republic joins me now on the telephone from the capital bangui good to have you with us on the program so what more do we know about the exact circumstances around the deaths of these civilians and the peacekeeper in the capital. yes thank you for the question. lucian. groups called open defiance in p.k. fight which is the anchor for emotional people. to decry seem to stop you don't send it so soon so then it is kind. and then they want to divide by force a guy called and made a mockery out of and he's mostly by force but they try to come in to him personally

do what they did and they told us but suddenly we saw it last sunday. coming from everywhere. like it different from mine to open for the people who. didn't know what's going on exactly who's attacking a new deadline to force but everyone so people are reacting to it and it's tough fighting back with diminished and. that night from cool. up to eight am in the morning. and the next day it was fine but yesterday and so then the time of day must. go on approx emitted from different from mine again to see and wait and take in the twenty want to dance now and people. and demonstrating in front of diminished body obese people. so you're wondering why am i doing that because if they want to average disability it's very easy because they

are tending to live there to meet you every time and they could direct him somewhere else but not into care for a monkey see brilliance you can see many displaced people are now in the central mosque even my personal house has become a shelter for many families more men and children and bullets flying everywhere and people are really traumatized but we don't know what's going on well for the moment we will leave it that obviously a very fractious situation that you're experiencing and will come back to you as the situation develops lisa delay in bowie thanks for your time sir. south africans all saying the final goodbyes to the woman many cold the mother of the nation official memorial service is being held for winnie magazine and it's a taking place in sweater where she left and fourth against apartheid. the activist and former wife of south africa's first black president nelson mandela died last week at the age of eighty one when she played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule. is

a correspondent following events from what seems to be a very joyful so what's with a great deal of memories and some notable speak because speaking of what will be a very important venue in the coming days. i. must have. yeah it is quite the. happy feet as a bit here but now we know that now that hearing some how many people. was that he. was to keep that he had no address and a lot of people i say i'm like yeah i saved it just here to celebrate the extraordinary life to celebrate the struggle was that she the face she was

teaching me the face of the struggle for liberation and for that she suffered immensely she was in the zone she was held in solitary confinement was kept away from her shoes friends she was a botanist to some far away villages she didn't know at anybody's a people here saying that they just you know how i feel how the carriage and that's why they're here and a stadium along the stadium song ended up forty thousand and capacity stadium but it's not cool because today is a walk today with the school day but the funeral service. it's going to be held here as well and the day and it's expected to be the stadium is expected to be sure to bring even exude. and this place on land a stadium isn't so when hugely significant and symbolic because it. was very much the heart of the struggle for liberation and the momentum against the apartheid

movement as people are here a lot of people here relate to women and. they tell us just celebrate what she did for this country or leave it there for their conference calls and follow events with you through the day from sweater thank you. letter to a south asian now where me and miles army has sent in seven soldiers to ten years each for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on the range of muslims now the military says the soldiers joined police and buddhist villages in the killings in rakhine state last september near mass army has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing. meanwhile a court in myanmar has also refused to drop a case against two reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret government papers on the crackdown. choice arrested in december they could face charges under me and mass official secrets act which carry a prison sentence of up to fourteen years. he was i'm not happy at all

the man who carried out the killings were only sentenced to ten years do you think that's fair in the end and yet i would like to ask the government does the sentencing of the murderer is fitting with democratic standards we journalists just did our job in line with our rights of a free press in a democratic country and now we are facing a possible sentence of fourteen years and the murderer is only got ten. well the minister government is on a three day visit to bangladesh and he'll be the first high ranking official to visit refugees in cox's bazar. being done to improve the condition of the camps most of the rowing references are living in sloping hilltop like there's an area highly vulnerable to monsoon rains now according to you and they'd say are over one hundred thousand refugees are in an area they're highly brian a ball and that risk they need to be displaced and moved to a better place on safer ground so far they've been able to move forty thousand

people there just isn't enough room and time to move the rest of them many of those . could be easily washed away with landslides and those in the bottom of the slope could be washed away by flood i spoke to one of the refugees who was working on his but there's no place for us to go we have to bear the monsoon season staying here we have no choice if the government or aid agencies help us. otherwise we are staying here aid agencies are doing their best to move some of the brown or boat people into safer ground a new location we need to move families who are most at risk in the safe ground so what you see here is three thousand workers working around the clock to make this land safe. so that we can move families to safety one of the biggest threat the refugees are going to face is water brawn and mosquito borne disease during the monsoon season also the communication process from from their home to the relief

center and the clinics are going to be jeopardized by that road condition during the monsoon season just about run the refugees were getting adjusted to their new camp life they're facing new challenges in coming months. now facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has admitted making mistakes during a nearly five hour testimony before the u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the recent privacy data breach at the social giant media giant alan fischer reports now from washington d.c. . ditching his favorite greek t. shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to match mark zuckerberg apologize for the massive data breach that impacted eighty seven million users worldwide we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry but the importance of this appearance was not lost on one senator it should be a wake up call for the tech community we want to hear more without delay about what

facebook and other companies plan to do to take greater responsibility for what happens on their platforms with the core issue was summed up with one question from democrat dick durbin mr zucker byrd would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night. no. mark zuckerberg was called in front of the senate after it was discovered millions of users data was improperly obtained by yuki beast political consultancy cambridge analytics the use that information to target ads to help donald trump's presidential campaign and the bricks at referendum in the u.k. the facebook founder says steps will be taken to ensure such a data breach can never happen again but one senator asked if he was ready to follow through on that promise i believe you have all the talent my question is whether you have all the will to help us solve this problem yes senator do you believe the european regulation should be applied here in the us regardless of

whether we implement the exact same regulation i would guess that it would be somewhat different because we have somewhat different sensibilities perhaps the most contentious exchange came when republican ted cruz accused facebook of political bias are you aware of any and or page that has been taken down from planned parenthood senator i'm not but let me just ask and i have on another work sorry about move on dot org i'm not specifically aware of about any democratic candidate for office i'm not specifically aware i mean i i'm not and i'm not sure mark zuckerberg revealed facebook is looking into potential russian links to the cambridge analytical breach and also that the company has cooperated with special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible collusion between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign mark zuckerberg spent the weekend preparing for this appearance and it sure will no fees members in the u.s.

house at a separate hearing on wednesday with the threat of greater regulation for the entire tech industry standing on the other side of that performance alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill. well in a few moments of her we'll have a weather check for us of that on al-jazeera new developments in the russia meddling investigation raise more questions about donald trump's next move also. the push to legalize abortion in argentina sends people to the streets. and the franchise record in the n.b.a. will philadelphia peter will be here to explain all of that in school you stay with us here on all just. three tranquil arabian ten year olds. and their long canned fruits and if any should come to light. the weather remains very unsettled across the

middle east lively showers violent storms in places actually from this long line a cloud which stretches right the way from the northern sections of the gulf across saudi arabia where we've had some rather large hail storms and violent storms coming from right down towards the far south of the region here from southern into the red sea where we've seen some very very heavy rain we saw this was the same in santa in yemen some a very a very heavy showers here lead to some flooding and you can see it has caused some problems in and around the air making it very difficult to get around in the process as you can see so high water is in place here at present as we go on through the next couple of days we are lucky to see a little more wet weather just making its way through so showers stretch they way right down towards the southern end of the red sea into the gulf of aden further north bright skies do come back in behind say temperatures here in casa getting up to around thirty four degrees those showers they the same ones that stretch across the ethiopian highlands into the seasonal rains of the now pepping up quite readily

across central africa rwanda eighty six millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and the big storms they'll still be there with their about you're going to sing some lovely showers showers into the gulf of guinea and those showers stretch all the way to liberia. the weather sponsored by the time riis. he ruled for nearly half a century a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad. in a two part series al-jazeera world tells the story of king hussein of jordan. episode one so far on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. on the wall that city and the story builds to be forced to leave

the room just. when people need to be head to women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new award winning documentaries and live news and outages i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism on air and on mine. welcome back to the news our arms a whole robin a reminder of our top stories now gerri a military plane has crashed near to favorite airport south of the capital algiers at least one hundred five people have been killed also rival proposals from the

u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria failed to pass at the u.n. security council meanwhile russia's ambassador to lebanon says his country will shoot down any american missiles launched against syria's government. and a memorial service is taking place in south africa and apartheid activist winnie mandela mandela these are live pictures coming from sweater the former wife of the country's first black president nelson mandela died last week at the age of eighty one. polls opened in a snap presidential election in azerbaijan president ilham aliyev is expected to win by a landslide extending his fifteen year grip on power opposition parties are boycotting angry the election is being held six months early mean parker has what. it's boom time for azerbaijan bolstered by multibillion dollar oil deposits under the

caspian sea the journey from crumbling soviet republic to this has been turbulent. as the nation gets richer one family the arabs have remained firmly at the helm. when the soviet union collapsed in one nine hundred ninety one investment in the oil industry dried up mass unemployment followed the country was also locked in a war with neighboring armenia over the disputed enclave of nagorno-karabakh tensions rumble on to this day. enter. a former k.g.b. general and communist party leader who reemerged as the new video elected leader of an independent as a by john. down hard on political opponents crushing an attempted coup in the early ninety's. he also signed what is a call the deal of the century with international oil companies to exploit offshore oil fields all the while his son was being prepped for power

first as president of the state oil company and later as prime minister shortly before he. election soon followed and in became president fifteen years on and three elections later still in power. he married to his wife marianne into the country's most powerful business family. she was appointed first vice president last year politics in azerbaijan is a family affair. pro-democracy groups aren't happy. with this is how their concerns are frequently dealt with. as a by johnson rice record he's progressing and nobody can speak out in the ways that challenges the government and not face consequences and that means freeways are either in prison or outside that was there where john when they keep quiet waiting

in the wings is the country's next possible leader. jr the twenty year old's been looking more statesman like lately but he being groomed for the presidency. to many azerbaijan is a post soviet poster child an international player the host of world cultural and sporting events. but it is to this day the only former soviet republic to witness the rise of a ruling denah city with power increasingly concentrated in one family leave. by joining journalist and human rights activist joins me now on skype via istanbul good to have you with us on the program back in two thousand and sixteen the constitution was changed to extend the term limits for a president from five to seven years so as neves reports suggest we are looking to a more dynastic stable rule in azerbaijan.

i would definitely agree with you there in aspic part of the rule. but i wouldn't so much agree with you on the stable part of what you just said and if we really look at whether or not this is becoming then ask leadership and the country i think we have to go back to the thousand and three as well because that's when the first signs of us ever becoming a dynastic republic came out when their leadership paths are on from the father to the. stability does seem to be the issue though for perhaps many of the electorate because they would perhaps they were perhaps brush to one side what the opposition have to say for a more steady captain at the helm when it comes to wages the standard of living and controlling inflation. well i think this is one of the arguments that really is weakened if you release talk to the independent economists in the country and the

critics of the leadership because when you look at the wages or if you look at the economic development of the country you're only seeing that there is only one family and really the people around the family that one family who are becoming and doing much better than the rest of the nation and that is the family of the l.e.o.'s because when you look at the nomic lee and all the developments there's been very small change especially and they just especially in the pensions especially and. they sectors of the economy. should that the people but rather are only benefiting the very few who are running the country is that why there is sort of no credible position. that any sort of dissent is stumped told very quickly. well i wouldn't say this is the only reason why there is no opposition i mean as it were as a country where there are no political freedoms and in a country where there are no political freedoms for opposition to really function

to really have access to people and to really have a say and domestic and foreign politics you really need to have this freedoms and so you can't really blame the opposition for that and there's also the fear and i think the fear factor is quite important there is the fear on behalf of the government any credible opposition rising in azerbaijan and this probably will explain why the leader of the only of the political movement that has now been turned into a political party a grandmother of still languishes in jail since two thousand and thirteen this by the ruling of the court of human rights to release him immediately and so you have to add all these various factors when trying to understand what's happening and as they were shot and why the opposition is not a strong or why the people are doing so well and why the willing family is winning every single time it's good to have you on the program to clarify that for our international audience that will be interesting to see what the election result is in two thousand and thirteen there was an eighty five percent win for the incumbent

president let's see what the results are like all day for the moment. thanks for joining us from istanbul thank you for having me know the white house says president donald trump has the power to robert miller the special counsel is looking into accusations of russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election terms described the latest development in the federal investigation as disgraceful and a never ending witch hunt political heinous more from washington d.c. . are you in white house handlers didn't even wait a second saudi reporters out of the oval office before the president could be tempted to answer questions donald trump stayed silent tuesday the night before was a different story they broke into the office going on a long rant about the raid and his lawyer michael cohen's hotel and office. why don't i just fire a moment well i think it's a disgrace what's going on and we'll see what happens but i think it's really

a sad situation when you look at what happened there many people have said you should fire him that is giving democrats i mean ition to call for new legislation this congress must respond forcefully and on a bipartisan basis by reaffirming our belief that the president cannot fire special counsel without law without cause and by passing legislation to ensure that any attempts to remove robert muller. well the unsuccessful so far republicans have only gone as far as to warn the president not to act but he is tweeting calling it a witch hunt and posting attorney client privilege is dead it actually isn't but that's what makes the read on cohen so surprising investigators and judges very rarely subpoena attorneys in order to get a judge to sign off the roll say that they have to have evidence that the attorney and his or her clients are actively committing a crime and it has to be signed off on at the highest levels of the justice

department at the white house insistence the president has the power to fire the special counsel i know a number of individuals in the legal community and including at the department of justice that he has the power to do so most experts believe that is not true the president can't directly fire special counsel robert mueller but he could try to force the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to do it if you won't try to replace him with someone who will say or he could replace attorney general jeff sessions with someone willing to close the special counsel's office that would provoke a constitutional crisis putting pressure on congress to step in potentially giving miller even more power and money to pursue his case that president trump clearly feels it's getting closer to him by the day political haint al-jazeera washington well human rights groups are criticizing turkey over the deportation of three thousand afghan refugees they say lives at risk in a country that still had hopes to has more. an unceremonious and what

could have been a life changing trip the first contingent of deporting hundreds of illegal afghan migrants started on sunday forming an orderly queue in asm airport in northeastern turkey these migrants a chance to back to their home country part of a deal between anchor in kabul to send all three thousand afghan migrants from them back. one person who's recently arrived back in afghanistan is now as we've been like most refugees he was hoping to get a better job to look after his family of twelve. dollars in the hole to quote one of the reasons that i went to turkey was because of the daily explosions and suicide bombing in kabul one explosion would shut down the businesses nearby for two weeks we got used to seeing people in the morning but with no guarantee of seeing them again in the evening. he shows us the websites and afghan ads that offering tuck ish visas and residency cards for three thousand u.s.

dollars per day he took the cheaper and well trodden path of pain smugglers instead the standard fee for afghans is between one thousand and one thousand three hundred dollars he describes walking through deserts and mountains and to cross in the iranian border with kurdish smugglers. from there he was driven in an airless container packed with around one hundred fifty people including whole families on the journey which had held such high hopes for him those were dashed fast. man hundreds of young afghans who try to go to turkey committing a big mistake they don't understand the pain of going through a legal routes sometimes walking for hours in freezing cold running or falling especially on crossing the iranian border when nearly ninety percent do it illegally i've experienced a mountain crossing we have seen dead bodies of people who died of thirst so many bodies of afghans dying there. he is now back in kabul and his one in a restaurant setting local dishes his desire for a new life in turkey is now

a jaded memory kind of. at least twenty people have been killed during an attempted prison break in northern brazil that began when government time the perimeter wall of the jail in the land they were trying to help in with the skateball exchanging fire with police and guards and most of those who died were part of the group that staged the attack. staying in the region argentina's congress has started public hearings on whether to legalize abortion a growing demand for changes in the law that the conservative president machree to soften his anti abortion stance but at the moment terminations are only legal if the mother's life or the health is at risk and when the pregnancy is a result of rape trees about how small from buenos aires. it's a debate that divides this country deeply and that's why on tuesday hundreds of people took to the streets to make their voices heard when you join an obvious says

that abortion needs to be legalized argentina so that women like her have some type of protection i am poor i hardly make enough money to support my child and i'm tired of seeing women living in shelters taking care of children they cannot support and the reason they have them is because there is no education we need a law that would guarantee sexual education that will assist women to get contraceptives i will allow women to have an abortion if they don't want that child . abortion is illegal in argentina in most cases but the health ministry says that between three hundred and seventy and five hundred thousand clandestine abortions are carried out every year. thousands of women are hospitalized because of complications in the procedure some of them die there also address gov been detained. the hearings are going to be ongoing for over a month when at least one thousand people will have the right to express their views on abortion the vote is expected to happen in june and it's going to be the

first time in this country's history that congress will debate the legalization of abortion. but there are many who are not happy with the possibility of decriminalizing abortion in the country. they also took to the streets on tuesday. we want to save the mothers but also the babies all lives are important and that's why we're pro-life in argentina we defend life not. the hearings include we now own doctors journalists and doctors who are hoping abortion will be legalized in the country. against it members of the powerful catholic church and politicians among others the debate has already polarized argentinean society and he will probably intensify in the months ahead. to western europe now where northern ireland has been marking twenty years since the signing of agreement which ended decades of violence is

a time of mixed feelings the deal brought divide communities closer together right now a political deadlock and there are questions about what the united kingdom's decision to leave the e.u. will mean for northern ireland's future to be fillets reports from its capital belfast the class of ninety eight told their reunion at queen's university belfast the men and women who made peace a day to celebrate the dramatic reduction in violence that good friday agreement brought to northern ireland but what else the devolved government that was an essential component of the agreement has not functioned in over a year where. one key player insisted peace is not at risk. the good friday agreement remains the accord which is going to guide politics on the side and on our agents in the side and and relationships in the end to the

perfect c. of o. because of so i think the future is very bright from the opposite side of northern ireland's divided not a key placid britain's withdrawal from the e.u. should not damage the agreement perhaps it is one thing. if completely different there is no interaction between them all but what is happening at the moment is some people are trying to use bricks it took on their mind the agree. and i hope that they are successful in doing so later the chief negotiator for the united states senate said george mitchell and former president bill clinton were honored with the freedom of belfast i will always be grateful that i came to belfast when peace of been made but the city was still troubled when was it good and decent people had to actually make a decision to do the right thing to be the right sort of person to give children the right sort of future. it was

a fortunate when. that blew me here one of them left for the good friday agreement but outside her needed to bring peace to northern iraq. for the federal budget yet . another good liberal the modern day. i've heard about fighting basement is no longer back on the brink. it was a time when as the irish poet seamus heaney wrote hope and history rhymed and elusive harmony that can never be taken for granted. my body phillips al-jazeera belfast. and the. white house things are disappearing from the commonwealth games almost gold coast to stay with us.

welcome back to some sport let's kick off with football peter. four and five times european champions barcelona have been eliminated from this is champion's league at the quarter final stage by italian club roma the italians trailed for one from the first leg of the tie but a stunning three nil home win sees roma go through on away goals at barcelona's expense they are just the third side of the competitions history to come back from a three goal deficit in the knockout stages and this will be just a second ever samy final in europe's elite club competition he took at look in the north of a hundred ninety minutes we played the first like was like c.

minus but last night was an a plus for everybody and for the whole stadium rome has been extraordinary playing against an undefeated team and what i said to my players is that they have to lose at some point and they lost badly and this is not luck this is what happened in this clinic and i should add a little osa. no doubt it's a painful defeat we all dream to win such a tournament but only one team can win it's the end of the road for us in a very unexpected way and now we need to move on same as every other time we've lost we need to go through this moment and there are difficult days ahead of us no doubt but we need to focus on the competitions and try to win them because we haven't won anything yet none of the two losing like this hurts a lot it hurts us and it hurts our fans but we need to move on now. liverpool's passage to the semifinals was a little more straightforward even though manchester city took an early lead your going to clubs men would win two one on the night and five one on the aggregate mohamed selar became the reds all time leading goalscorer in the champions league

with his eighth strike it will be difficult as well one hundred percent so but we are now in a seminar for us where we should enjoy the moment and. you have a moment because it's. obviously a while ago as europe we was in the semi's it was a while ago that i was innocent and now we're together there's all that's quite a cool moment and really happy about that so liverpool are off to the semifinals for the first time in a decade now they had been fears of violence after city's bus was targeted before the first day but i'm happy to tell you that liverpool's team bus arrived safely in manchester without any incident now more champions league action on when thing of interest will take heart from fellow city our club aromas performance heading into their second league quarter final against rail the droid the spanish club hammered you venters three nil in the first leg in a match that will be remembered for their stunning cristiana rinaldo bicycle kick

goal the thirty three year old has scored twenty times in his last ten games. because i'm not thinking about playing without christiane we have him and we're happy about it there are a lot of people who remember for morale greats like alfredo to stefano and a lot of people really a lot of people and i'm one of them will remember christiane i being at this club we have him and we have to take advantage of it. and german champions by munich will host severe in the other side by and beat the spanish team to want a way from home in the first leg and they are now eyeing a fourth semifinal spot in five seasons. yeah i love it going to be so friedan's i mean i think we can be really happy with winning two one way from home but it isn't over yet it's not like when we beat the shit cash five nail in the last round so two one is good but civilly have played a great match against manchester united in the last sixteen they're still a very good and dangerous team and in football anything can happen so i just ate

a cameroonian athletes have gone missing at the commonwealth games in australia as gold coast's the three weightlifters and five boxes were last seen on monday and tuesday all of the athletes still have valid visas until next month and according to the commonwealth games federation they all rely on to travel freely it's not the first time that cameroonian athletes have gone missing though the same thing happened in twenty twelve when seven went missing at the london olympics this is obviously an. issue that. the team cameron is monitoring very very closely and until it becomes you know a real issue in terms of basis and so forth we would obviously need to take that very seriously but you know right now it is certainly something that's. you know the safety and welfare of those athletes from the from a team cameron perspective is being taken very seriously but we are obviously

monitoring that situation with team cameron. now there is just one more round of games to be played in the n.b.a. before the playoffs begin on wednesday it will be a straight shooter between the denver nuggets and minnesota timberwolves for the final playoff spot in the west spot in the western conference on tuesday the philadelphia seventy six is warmed up very nicely for the playoffs by setting a franchise record fifteenth consecutive victory met the atlanta hawks and took the honors one hundred twenty one to one hundred and thirteen j.j. redick schooling twenty points along the way the hawks experiencing they would just season since two thousand and five. one of the fiercest rivalries in sports exchange a stage in major league baseball on tuesday as the boston red sox hosted the new york yankees the yankees lead the overall head to head but on this occasion it was

boston who triumphed in emphatic fashion the red sox dishing out of fourteen one i doing with mickey bets the star of the night taking a grand slam on the night to that is a home run with each of the other three bases loaded resulting in four runs scored . and the man who became famous during the recent n.c. double a college basketball championship sister jeanne threw out the first pitch before the chicago cubs first home game of the season sister jeanne was created out in cubs gear with her own personalized jersey to she didn't bring the cubs any luck though as they lost eight five to the pittsburgh pirates and that's all the sport for me more later so thanks peter well you have been watching al-jazeera news as i'm sick i will have another hour of news in a moment for peter myself and all of the tape but your time at your company.

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