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this is al-jazeera. hello i'm down in jordan this is the al-jazeera news from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a flurry of diplomacy as the u.s. confirms its held top level talks in pyongyang with kim jong il. still a no go international monitors are yet to get the green light into duma to examine the site of a suspected chemical attack. its independence day in zimbabwe and for the first time in almost three decades a different man is front and center of the celebrations plus. obama may. be the end of an era cuba prepares to start a new chapter without the castros at the helm. and in sport manny pacquiao insists

his time isn't over as the boxer the filipino fight legend confirmed that plans for his first contest in more than a year. welcome to the program the u.s. president has confirmed that his nominee for secretary of state made a secret visit to north korea this is the man himself current cia chief mike pompei o donald trump says he met the north korean leader in pyongyang last week when it comes as the groundwork being laid for a possible summit between trump and kim jong il and in a separate development south korea says it may pursue a formal post-war treaty with north korea when its leaders meet next week we'll hear from our correspondent in pyongyang in a moment but first kimberly hawk at reports from florida where president trump has been meeting the japanese prime minister japanese prime minister shinzo abbay came

to u.s. president tal tribe's florida retreat seeking security assurances but so far they have got just the opposite we've heard direct talks at very high levels really high levels with north korea as a close friend and ally abyei and half a dozen locations has met with trump more than any other foreign leader he's tried to discourage him from any warming of u.s. north korea relations instead trump has agreed to a meeting with north korean leader kim jong il and for late may or early june or even not at all still he says he's narrowing down prospective benyus still abhi admits the strategy the two nations have utilized applying maximum pressure against north korea to bring about dialogue is working and i stand with them if they commit it is fair to say our approach has proved to be successful and the right one. the obvious summit comes ahead of another planned summit between north korea and south

korea trump says he's encouraging the two koreas to finally declare an end to the official state of war between the two nations that's been going on for decades south korea is meeting and has plans to meet with north korea to see if they can end the war and they have my blessing on that and they've been very generous that without our side without me in particular i guess you would have to say that they wouldn't be discussing anything including the olympics would have been a fair your south korea has credited the united states with playing a leadership role and helping to build on the goodwill of the winter olympics but japanese security isn't the only issue expected to emerge from this summit the two leaders have also pledged to discuss their differences when it comes to trade despite calling japan a friend an ally trust didn't exist japan from the list of nations now subject to tariffs on foreign imports of aluminum and steel into the united states it is one

of the many thorny trade issues the two leaders are set to discuss during their two day summit kimberly help get al-jazeera west palm beach florida well as there is diplomatic editor james bases in north korea and has more from the capital pyongyang. north korean officials are not commenting on all confirming the visit of mike pompei oh to this city all of the information at this stage is coming from the u.s. side but this is the highest level visit for a serving u.s. official since secretary of state madeline albright came to pyongyang in the year two thousand the us doesn't have diplomatic relations with north korea there is no embassy here members of the diplomatic community have told me though they are aware that there is a channel of communication of negotiation ongoing between the u.s. and north korea but tween the cia and the north korean intelligence service they clearly are looking at the possibility of

a meeting between the supreme leader kim yong and president trump the possible things that could be discussed possible things that could happen at the end of that meeting for example three american citizens who are held in jail here in north korea the americans want them to be released but also have been talking about the possible venues for a meeting could it be in europe could it be here in pyongyang could it be down in the demilitarized zone between north and south korea are there other places that we mentioned mongolia for example russia has returned he joins us live now from washington d.c. shahab sir tell us more about what was discussed. we're getting more clues from the white house no no to be from donald trump himself who tweeted a couple of hours ago mike pompeo met with kim jong il in north korea last week meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed details of summit a been worked out now denuclearization will be a great thing for world but also for north korea so this meeting at the end of

last month brokered by the south korean intelligence services we understand what we know is that a week off to that meeting took place the white house became very in fact sick and sure that north korea was prepared to negotiate about potential de nuclearization so it would appear that this is the condition these are the conditions that were being set that demutualisation would be the substantive issue on the table in any negotiations beyond doubt the other issues as james suggested is whether these talks will take place the white house now saying that five locations are being considered a number is timing donald trump on tuesday saying that he thought a meeting might take place in early june if not before but then in a very trumpy and where he had it then again it was a meeting might not take place at all yes you have and how significant is the timing of this leak because mike pompei is facing trouble in his confirmation

hearing isn't he. it was rather difficult not to notice that the leak from the administration came on the same day that it merged that might might be the first secretary of state nominee since one thousand nine hundred twenty five at least that's one records were kept on this sort of thing not to receive a full endorsement or an embarrassment from the senate foreign relations committee during this confirmation process hearing the senate foreign relations committee oversees the state department and many concerns have been raised about and you can sort of take your pick his islamophobia he is often talked about what he thinks is a fifth column of muslims in the u.s. who are trying to overthrow the u.s. government his he is positional reproductive rights gay rights all these issues which sentences hope the secretary of state will would would reflect what they feel are american values what they think are american values you know they were the pump air can't do that and then his bellicosity his rhetoric his is

a suggestion of regime change against nations who he deems are enemies of united states need to be iran and interestingly north korea he up to this point has been seen as one of the biggest hawks on north korea in fact when rex tillerson was secretary of state it was pale who was reported to be undermining to listens attempts to broker negotiations with north korea from. sort of slashing down to listens attempts at negotiations with north korea saying there's no point to go shooting with rocket man in a tweet to listen is wasting his time it was one voice and that's clearly something that his allies in congress can i work with as he faces confirmation next week perhaps in the senate should have thank you. now taiwan's defense ministry has accused china of using what it calls cheap verbal intimidation to threaten the island china has conducted live fire drills in the taiwan strait for the first time in two years chinese state media says it's a warning against any push for independence the area's been under taiwanese control

since one nine hundred forty nine beijing is worried about the u.s. seeking closer ties with taiwan which it sees as a breakaway chinese province where thailand's president as a government to remain vigilant now. i also asked our national security team to closely monitor the neighboring eritrea my visit approved and report to me on the first instance for appropriate responses i'm reiterating that maintaining peace stability and prosperity across the taiwan strait is the primary duty of our government it confident and determined to defend our national security and i can assure my people that agent brown has more now from beijing. beijing has given no official reason as to why this large scale military drill is happening now in the narrow strait of water that separates china from taiwan but of course this military drill comes at a time of heightened trade tensions between washington and beijing as well as deepening concern in china over the growing interaction between taipei and

washington in the past few months we've seen a korean gresham delegation visit taiwan we've also seen the house of representatives pass the taiwan travel act if that becomes law it would allow high ranking government officials from taiwan to visit the united states also in may officials from taiwan and the united states a jew to meet in taiwan to discuss arms sales and the united states is also beefing up its trade representative office in taiwan so all these factors a feeding into the deepening frustration and anger here in china now of course this military drill in the straits of taiwan comes just less than a week after china held large scale a large scale military display in the south china sea involving its new aircraft carrier the leone ng that display was watched over by president xi jinping who warned that now was the time for china to strengthen its military especially its

navy artists give us some breaking news we're getting here on the al-jazeera turkey's president richard type erdogan has said today that elections will be held on june the twenty fourth that's june the twenty fourth more than a year earlier than planned saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency so let me just repeat that again for you the turkish president heard of and sent elections will be held on june twenty fourth that's more than a year earlier than planned saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidents more on that of course as we get it here at al-jazeera. well inspectors with the international chemical weapons watchdog have still not been to the site of a suspected gas attack in syria more than a week ago in the capital damascus on saturday western nations accuse russia delaying the inspectors entry into duma and say they suspect the site has been tampered with moscow says there are security concerns two days ago journalists were schooled into duma by the russian military without incident joins us live now from

the lebanese capital beirut so still some confusion as to whether or not the chemical inspectors will be allowed in to do most of what's been happening. well we did reach out to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to find out what is happening if and when this team is going to enter the organization says that they will be releasing a statement shortly but a united nations official has confirmed that a u.n. security team which entered that is the town the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack when they entered yesterday on tuesday they came under fire there were no injuries the team returned to damascus now this u.n. official not saying who was responsible for firing those shots but we have to make clear that is under the control of the syrian government and the russian military a few days ago both the russian military and the syrian government declaring victory saying that the area was clear of what they called terrorists so now that the u.n. saying that they came under fire so it's really not clear what is going to happen to this fact finding mission we are waiting for

a statement from the open late yesterday both syrian state television and the russian foreign ministry said that the weapons inspectors were in that turned out to be a false report now western nations are accusing both moscow and to mask of hampering the work of the o.p.c. w. and preventing them from reaching the site now they were supposed to enter into my collect soil samples as well as other samples as well as talk to witnesses but really there are concerns on whether these witnesses will face any sort of intimidation because there is a new authority on the ground so we are waiting for that statement. from the o.p.c. w. and santa we here in the rebels in a town in the region have surrendered to the government what more do we know. yes the rebel faction in mayor that is a town in the enclave controlled by the rebels is controlled by the opposition they have agreed to lay down their arms and surrender and the evacuation process will begin early on thursday just one of a few rebel forces now the russian military as well as the syrian government

putting more pressure on the other rebel factions to do the same what we are expecting to see tomorrow is some five thousand people among them one thousand five hundred fighters to be bussed to the north of syria to rebel controlled areas in northern syria so the government clearly empowered and feeling emboldened following its victory in putting pressure on other rebel enclaves to surrender all rights and how to say no thank you well still to shut my jollies a former inspector for the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons joins us live from beirut to shut the americans have already blamed the russians saying they've tempered with the sights of the attack and duma but if you wanted to cover up evidence of a chemical attack what would you need to do. well i think you had to do times been a long time since the attack took place not talking about eleven days but the same time actually we are talking about chemicals some of them are one of the tedium so

if you are in control of a site with the chemicals for such a long time it's very easy actually to tamper with the place and to change the facts on the ground. you can actually do some what we call it in the. military business as the decontamination process which is to move all the. evidence is on the ground by using other chemicals to neutralize the can because of the gun also you can temper with the munition itself the bodies of the munition change both had to remove what about or you can do also to prepare or some witnesses order to prepare some medical reports all these together actually can add to the facts that i think. the russians and the syrians they are planning to change the idea on the ground as you say the attack the suspected attack took place on the seventh of april yet eleven twelve days later the inspection team still hasn't been

allowed in and one of the key issues as you say is the timing i mean the longer you take to get in the more the scene of the attack can be degraded. yes you are right are actually the longer actually the time passes. it will be the the materials the chemical materials will evaporate and it will also with which is a very important thing which it will give them the time to manipulate or to play with the evidence is on the ground so eleven days you can do whatever you want to do you can change the facts and i am quite sure that the inspectors will not find so many things on the ground they will not find and so what will the inspectors be looking for once they get there and what sort of challenges are they likely to face on the ground when they do get in actually will be are going to look for mainly as we are talking about samples they would look for what we call it as. biological

samples i mean from the people blood samples juden samples tissues also there are looking for some environmental samples like water saw oil or whatever are also the most important things is the the military the medical reports the medical reports of the most important thing if they have a true and genuine medical report i think they can reach become good results but i don't think they will find some good results from this is that much ali thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you plenty more still to come here the news hour including. this is the normal life for my situation out some syrian refugee girls are being forced to marry a civil war drags on. and we meet a scientist infected with malaria as a child who is now leading the fight against the disease. and the sports team

making playoff history in their first season in the national hockey that's also. not zimbabweans are celebrating their first independence day without robert mugabe as leader gabi i've been in and zimbabwe broke away from british rule in one thousand nine hundred he was forced to step down after a military intervention last year former vice president anderson one got what to charge ahead of general elections in july and his speech to the nation he addressed the. zimbabweans five months ago. remember we're. busy we will be there. we don't need the progress. we have you doing things lately you know before the big.

zimbabwe we're hearing their voices we share their vision we committed to delivering. well the celebrations in the capital harare. the need is there to sleep involving police here at the stadium are here to celebrate independence from britain and i think the good wife i noted with interest but on the subject appointment a little bit since it basically comes to the economy has been holding the plane and told them something positive about the quite revealing thing is going to including one in the evening saying to date and the killing tax rises but it's really been a powerful lot of my financial talk it just seems that it's not the ground they want him to tell them when was the cash crisis and when was the country's open when the just bought the place if you think people ask for the day to be done they need to go on strike and getting it out for whatever pay could be since civil servants played a big role in them no it says that you know you try putting the days in last night

the government cannot is that all necessary and right that you had the prior to going to pass a good many many things obviously i'm not a good people not always easy i'm coming next time will be between i think i'm able to understand these things kind of off of this in one thousand able to go through here is something they never used to do a government body would play with and they can ask me as well is because i'm you can strongholds in the party from old and for parties you know major incidents of violence and so on and on think that he's really making a film that might be explored those reentry looks into it next will go to all of the world have invited him he told the media call up the wall will be allowed to cover he delivered a critic of the president say that it will not not even a must be more than just one thing on the ground he will call the electoral act and most importantly it's a cooling around the economy which is a nice thing the world's leading scientists say malaria continues to be a major threat to killing one child every two minutes from a gourd is one of the few african countries that reduced cases of malaria by twenty

percent last year thanks in part to a new early detection technology developed in the country because all reports. a small life saving effort to combat africa's biggest killer in the air barely visible are mosquitoes carrying that deadly belayer parasite last september record yet his fourteen year old niece woke up in this bed suffering from pains in her stomach that took her to the doctor who sent her back home saying she contract had malaria then followed an intense fever aches and nausea i mean that never recovered. the doctors diagnosed her too late she was a child just fourteen years old full of life she was just days away from graduating from middle school when she suddenly died. every two minutes a child dies of malaria worldwide the fight against the parasite starts here in this hospital lab indycar. is called. the parasite

sent to professor and in a coma as a child now he's doing everything he can to save other children from suffering his team developed an early detection kit in just an hour the machine can recognize even the tiniest amount of parasite in the blood he says this is key to stopping malaria saying the parasite often goes undetected. and if you live off the minute and infected. the life humans can not only act as a reservoir to the parasite but also spread it when bitten by mosquitoes during a malaria outbreak although senegal and five other african countries have reduced malaria according to the u.n. two thousand and sixteen saw five million more cases most were in sub-saharan africa the this is coming back and coming back normal. human a lot of people indycar researchers and health policy makers gathered to

discuss ways to eradicate the parasite altogether. some discuss the use of traditional plants others wait to beat a parasite that has become resistant to drugs and so there is a sense of urgency with scientists gathered here sharing new techniques and research in order to help african countries come closer to eliminating malaria at stake is protecting the hundreds of millions of people across the world for who fighting malaria is a daily battle the close hawk al-jazeera to car britain's media regulator has opened seven new investigations into russian news channel r.t. off comers looking at whether the broadcaster broke impartiality rules and its coverage of last month's nerve agent attack on the former russian spy service cripple the kremlin backed service previously known as russia today broadcasts from the u.k. the regulator said it had also been monitoring our coverage of the syrian war now

thousands of people are marching in armenia to protest against the election of a former president as prime minister it's the sixth day of demonstrations which began in the capital on friday they have since spread to other cities demonstrators say is attempting a power grab the seventeen dozens of people. this isn't quite the welcoming greeting a new prime minister would be hoping for tens of thousands took to the streets on tuesday for the fifth consecutive day braving a heavy police presence to show their fury if the search sophos ins appointment i mean police made dozens of arrests using water cannons and stun guns to keep the protesters far away from disrupting the election within parliament. and not shared by lawmakers in the assembly with an overwhelming majority of seventy seven to seventeen votes the former president became the new prime minister got our children

to the stage of forming the government starts now but will not last long. a change in role but not in power he oversaw a constitution shift to a new parliamentary system in two thousand and fifteen increasing the power of the prime minister roles was diminishing the power of the president changes due to come into effect when his term expired last week that date had been denounced by european observers who alleged vote rigging two years on armenians reacting to those changes coming into effect. you do something not go accomplished after two presidential terms search the kissin wants to become prime minister and all that despite the fact that his ten years of presidency have caused great harm to society poverty migration fourteen percent of the population of lift the country. protests have always clouded his time in power ten people died in clashes when he

was first elected ten years ago when supporters of the defeated candidate reacted ten years on his position seems even stronger with the lack of opposition. the focus seems to be on you. know let's assume starkey's young leader is showing just his mind. the parliament is no mean a goodbye. and great because look he's bug. sasha seka c.n. was a military officer who served in the save it army in the one nine hundred seventy s. despite armenia voting for independence from the save it union in one thousand nine hundred one his links with moscow remain strong but the key issue is how easily russia are going to react to these are developments because og. i mean. did you. know of those analysts a dubbing his move as doing a putin opponents look no closer to being a pain. to share. our time for the rather doubt has richard with news of wildfires

in the us with the prospect of snow to come yet quite a bit at the moment i mean snow in the us i think since the start of march is about the six dollop of snow they've had across northeastern areas. meanwhile down in the size and fact in the western parts of oklahoma we've got wildfires which result in the death of two people the same life fifty two of seventy seven counties in the state under a state of emergency as gusts of wind of around about eighty kilometers per hour continue to fund the flames. and if you look at the general picture though we've got this area of clay which is associated with an area of snow and it's snowing quite heavily in parts of south dakota minnesota wisconsin and that area of snow is going to migrate further towards the east during the course of the day so i think chicago for instance could well see between two and ten centimeters of snow developing but in parts of wisconsin we could be seen

a fifteen to twenty centimeters of snow now that system will continue to make progress up across the great lakes heading up into wards northeastern areas once again that stage it should then begin to diminish in terms of intensity says we get through until thursday no left in the northeast temperatures are elsewhere not to pass this shouldn't be any problem for the major cities states mean that stage we're going to start to see another area of low pressure developing have across the rockies and here we're going to see some heavy snow and heavy rain at lower levels . richard thank you for that to come here and al-jazeera replacing u.s. troops in syria arab nations consider the idea of a miniature coalition if american forces move the region. mother or wife to two u.s. presidents barbara bush has died at the age of ninety two. and supporters want the most famous photos in the history of sport fifty years ago to unpick athletes defied a nation on the stay with us. still

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where every. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on the news hour the u.s. president's nominee for secretary of state might have has made a secret visit to north korea donald trump wrote on twitter that the trip went smoothly and that details of a summit with north korean leader kim jong il are being worked out. inspectors with the international terminal weapons watchdog are still not enter the site and i suspected gas attack in syria more than a week ago western nations accused russia of delaying the inspectors entry into do and suspect the site has been tampered with. and president has called presidential

and parliamentary elections for june twenty four percent of the votes originally shuttle for next year to be brought forth. now saudi arabia says it's in talks with the us about sending forces into syria president donald trump or said he wants to end washington's involvement in the conflict and he's encouraging arab states to commit their troops and money instead article in reports from washington d.c. . for weeks u.s. president donald trump has made it clear he's growing impatient over syria this will become another syria like very soon. he made the how a bit clearer when he announced limited u.s. strikes in syria last friday we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region now the wall street journal is identifying the country's trump is apparently asking to give money and soldiers as egypt cutter the united arab emirates and saudi arabia but the u.s. military won't confirm that it will leave that to individual nations to first make

that announcement and if they want to then we will be able to echo that egypt qatar in the u.a.e. have not publicly commented yet that saudi arabia's foreign minister acknowledged the ongoing discussion we are in discussions with us in that have been for since the beginning of the syrian crisis about sending forces into syria. it's not clear if other countries will make similar offers but if they do they're likely to agree only if some of the two thousand troops and american air power stays in the region that may not be something trump will be willing to do he's already put a hold on two hundred million dollars that the u.s. had pledged to spend rebuilding syria with his words and deeds sending the message that he wants out of syria and soon he believes it should be someone else's responsibility to deal with what's left. al-jazeera washington well richard watches the directs the center for political military analysis of the hudson institute he joins me live from washington d.c.

richard good to have you back on the program donald trump says he wants american troops out of syria and it's time for someone else to step in so is this arab league going to work is it a good thing militarily. well you're right he does want u.s. forces syria and then you're looking for alternative forces and the forces naturally come to mind and serve so proximate and they have experience with the region but that challenges to building the effective force are immense i mean many of these countries that saudi arabia egypt and so on are heavily engaged and in their own struggles egypt in the sinai saudi arabia and yemen and so on. they don't often get along i mean it's kind of interesting to hear that more protein both qatar and saudi arabia to provide forces have been difficult to get those to do greta an integrated command given their current differences the effectiveness of

the air forces. especially those that you just put together the last minute for a special operation is unknown and the u.s. forces have been fairly successful in preventing attacks on them or their allies from turkey the syrian government russia and so on i'm not sure how effective it would be with an air force that had not had much combat experience so there are a lot of challenges in addition beyond those who just securing countries they're willing to send their troops into what is still a major battlefield yeah that's an interesting point you make because what about key regional players like russia like iran i mean the iranians would say hang on a minute this is just a couple facade arabia to take on its rival iran and iran's ally hezbollah in syria . yes i mean so far the saudi iranian arrival really is not been involved in direct conflict between the two it's been done primarily through proxies but if you take saudi anuranan forces and put them

together in the same country and in the midst of a war zone i would not be surprised if they start shooting at each other. and just a final quick thought from the many of these countries and probably insist that american air support and special forces troops remain to help train this hour a bombing that something trump might not want to do well in my i mean it depends on if it's the u.s. ground forces that are leaving here if that's his only requirement the rest is doable you could have air patrols launched from turkey or. c. young and carriers and you could do the training in the country of origin or in a third country jordan morocco and then move the forces so it's possible to finance that part i worry less about our ability to do it if it just isn't to than it has a cure the front the volunteers and then to make them into effective fighting force which it was thank you for talking to us. so. now up to seven years of conflict in

syria life for many refugees is only getting more difficult and that's pushing some parents to marry off the daughter as a soon as they can attach a good name report some jordan's capital amman let child marriages on the rise among syrian refugee goes. but mom was almost fifteen and living in a syrian refugee camp when her parents told her she was engaged she fought with them for days before she agreed to marry she's now sixteen has a five month old daughter and another baby on the way she says she loves her husband but their lives are hard they work ten hours a day every day at a factory people say to me when you are still young you have a baby and you are married at this age. this is the normal life for my situation and i'm ok with that more than seven years into the syrian war life is becoming

increasingly difficult for refugees forced to flee to countries such as jordan poverty is the primary reason driving families to marry off their girls. according to statistics from jordan's court system child marriage among syrian refugees primarily girls is on the rise in twenty fourteen fifteen percent of all syrian marriages included a child bride now it's thirty six percent last year jordan's chief justice issued new stipulations allowing girls the right to demand a marriage contract with conditions including completing their education and working but the united nations children's agency unicef says girls need even greater protection what we would like to do more is the prevention as really work with courts work with religious leaders and really promoting that goes to education that we need to break the cycle of poverty and prevent them from

dropping out of school and going into our late night as but most says her biggest regret is dropping out of school at the age of ten she hopes early marriage in her family stops with her generation. i wish i could have continued my studies this is my destiny i want to let my daughter gets married she needs to be twenty five or so it's too much responsibility. when asked about her dreams for the future fatma says she just wants to live in one room independently from her in-laws natasha going to name a man we're joined now by john from the u.n.h.c.r. in amman samus so child marriage is clearly on the rise among syrian refugees but what's driving this and why are we seeing more child marriages among refugee populations do you think.

well thank you for having us today mainly we moving into the eighth year or starting the eighth year into the syrian crisis we could definitely confirm that the worsening economy situation. and the long an extended. period of displacement as well taking into consideration the limited financial economy regional situation has impacted. the refugee population plus host communities definitely when it comes to analyzing the key reasons for. it child marriages is a key reason is definitely poverty and the worsening of the economy situation comes first place well refugees has also. consumed and used all their financial resources all their savings and they've started looking and searching

into new methods and new. mechanisms in terms of supporting their families and their children particularly girls you cannot go this way saying sorry is usually what is john i'm going to armful traditional to you because i came here if if poverty is the main driving factor behind this i mean what do parents get when they sell the daughters into marriage i mean is there some kind of monetary value placed on the child. well just to confirm we cannot consider the economy christian as the only reason we need to confirm that it's one of the key reasons however the social norms the harmful traditional practices is another key reason as well where families has started misperceiving. child marriages thinking that it could be a protection tool because they do have protection concerns and they do believe that getting married is

a protection mechanism ensuring the safety of their daughters. are last year the jordanian authorities issued new rules allowing girls the right to demand a marriage contract that includes completing their education and working but that's going to be very hard to police amongst the refugee population isn't it well this is an interesting development on the jordanian level in the context where it is seen definitely of the positive. move two words narrowing at least at the ability of judges or random decision of judges to grant marriages. well those new legal restrictions certain restrictions on age gaps for example. and it ensures that marriages should not be a reason for drop out from school it has also ensured some mechanisms to ensure the

well being and the best interest of the child taking into consideration that the legal age of marriage in jordan is eighty and however there are certain exceptions where the best interest and the wellbeing of the child needs to be taken into consideration. thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera. one family's dominance of cuban politics since the one nine hundred fifty nine communist revolution is coming to an end a successor to president raul castro will be chosen on wednesday. reports from. barring the unthinkable eighty six year old president rolled castro will be handing over power for the first time in six decades to a cuban who doesn't carry his last name and who was born after the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution that he hoping to power only four generations of cubans live in this have an apartment grandmother daughter ianna granddaughter another girl and

her two children only eighty five year old elsa remembers a time when juba was not ruled by fidel castro you're here to know when the revolution triumphed everyone was happy because there were high expectations. but like the beautiful decaying city of havana the expectations began to crumble cubans had free education and health care but they became isolated economically and technologically under a one party communist system our twenty six year old plans to join millions of other cubans who've emigrated very little while young people are hungry for something else to have access to things we don't have to be paid a decent wage. some say raul castro a pragmatist came to power too late after ill health forced his elder brother fidel to resign pradelle castro is still glorified here as the supreme leader of the

cuban revolution but it is our castro who will be remembered for introducing some of the most long awaited reforms to the communist system and the decade that he has been at the helm none of these reforms though include easing even slightly the one party states absolute grip on political power. and while castro's attempts to improve cuba's socialist economic model have fallen far short of their mark his main objective now is to ensure political continuity with the communist party dictating policy guidelines and that's the way he likes it that's that's the style he he was known to have been a fan of soviet style political decision making process. and so not surprisingly on the eve of what will be the end of the nira on the streets of cuba's capital there's a sense that little is about to change the united arab emirates has suspended

operations at a hospital in iran in somalia's capital mogadishu there's a growing dispute between the two countries that have seen businesses banned in iraq to diplomats searched in somalia mom the boat has moved. the u.a.e. iran ship zite hospital in mogadishu and now close to the public staff there say they received orders to stop operations in definit the facility or for treatment mainly to poor in this place people in the somali capital medical workers also perform life saving surgery on those injured in mogadishu as frequent car bomb attacks i can fathom how they are this is basically a punishment for the people of somalia for simply defending their sovereignty if the u.a.e. had opened a hospital for humanitarian purposes they would not have close to residents of mogadishu have been reacting to the news the libido of the humanitarian aid should never be politicized where the u.a.e. has done a shameful then pinafore malia somalia is a free country we might be weak today but we don't want the aid that comes with

strings attached relations between mogadishu and up with that we have been frosty since june last year when mogadishu resist the pressure from the u.a.e. and so did abia to cut ties with qatar and join the blockade the post on it. in march somalia banned uys dubai ports world from doing business in the country of faith an album agreement the company had entered into with ethiopia and some other land for the management of better but up port in the breakaway and clear last week somalia intercepted a plane chartered by u.a.e. diplomats and confiscated almost ten million dollars in cash saying it would investigate the intended purpose of the funds. on monday security forces in somalia as puntland prevented them of the u.a.e. plane from living out after the military trainers refused two hundred of their luggage to be such that it really looks like a dispute that nobody can win somalia is

a very. poor country it's you know i was called reconstruction based in eastern focus on rebuilding and developing internally not to be bogged down. these kinds of disputes. on in the latest sign of a phone call the breakdown in relations both countries of and and a minute to call put a program that began in two thousand and fourteen in which the u.a.e. trained equipped and paid the son it is all pundits troops mohammed and. when we come back a bad night. but that story. right

let's catch up on some of the sports news now manny pacquiao insists his time isn't tell of a boxer and he can still fight at the very highest level takio is getting ready for his first bout in more than a year the thirty nine year old will take on argentina's lucas my tastes in july for the w.a. welterweight title anything that is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxes of all time but he has lost four of his last nine fights the last contest against australia as jack ford also ended in defeat. when time is not done yet that's what i'm trying to. prove this coming to light the thin. money. is not done yet in boxing. and also

i will predict this if i don't have prediction but. i will do my best to doing good been simply when earlier we spoke to the filipino boxing writer recall a virus he says patios desperate to leave the sport as a winner. i think at thirty nine years of age he knows that he doesn't have a lot of time in some ways it's a gamble he's fighting for in his last nine fights and to many people it's a loss is the loss to jeff borne of a unanimous decision really sticks in the minds of a lot of people i think manny moving on to a bigger stage which is national politics full time national politics he once was a winner in sport of boxing i think like any other big name athlete it's history knowing when to hang it up there's always just one more fight one more game one more season to flame and i think you can regrets not getting out of the game a little earlier you know when you're still in the thick of it people tend to look

also that bad when you're far removed from the game there's a better appreciation for all athletes and i think we can look even at for example michael jordan lantern the basketball his last few seasons with the washington wizards and do well but when people still talk about him today still the three best of all time so even with mohammad ali and there's no reason why the same talking up like men like you know you know he's fought a lot of fights easily the fight of the decade the first decade of the new millennium so i think his legacy is secure but he went from being sure of one of perhaps the greatest fireball and to be merely one of the greatest are top of the rest of the sport his side thank you very much to download to n.b.a. where the boston celtics had beaten the milwaukee bucks to take it to a nothing a seriously the in their pale face. scored twenty three points well boston but the star of the night that was that day and brown who hit a playoff korea high thirty points to help the celtics outscore the bots one

hundred twenty two hundred and six. the toughest parts that we think we took from milwaukee the first game and they probably felt like they should have won our game second game we came out and just wanted to execute you know the game is a lot more intense the second time playing a team and trying to take away a lot of the stuff that we like to do we got to execute and i think brad's game plan was was great but we came out executed very well from the point guards time sentimental to bench one of the dream a debut season of the last vegas the golden lion task continued in the n.h.l. playoffs he goldeneye to beat the los angeles kings one nothing to win the first round series the knights became the first expansion team in the one hundred year history of the national hockey league get to sweep a playoff series in its first season. so hey all the time he has also being enjoying a great a rookie season in major league baseball but the japanese players suffered a setback on tuesday in los angeles angels star lasted just two innings that before

departing the game against the boston red sox it because of the blister on his pitching hand prior to his all seeing all tiny has impressed as both a pitcher and a hitter the angels lost the game ten to one. limping is that tommy smith and john carlos have been on a date on the fiftieth anniversary of their famous protest at the nineteen sixty eight mexico games the american sprinters that raised their fists in support of civil rights during the two hundred meter medal ceremony the international olympic committee forced their expulsion from the u.s. team and banned them from future competitions the pair say current sports stars still have a responsibility to promote equality in the race versity the struggle continues you know there's really a verse. for him. known about.

it see you can run but you cannot have i. say i don't hear about what your every background is i don't care about what your economic status are all i care about is while you doing the right thing and god is telling me to support you. show terrorist there but it's your turn if you don't want to pour it in one day we have to say this get a trophy let's get a medal let's give it in there because they deserve. their should thank you for give me this opportunity. as a family thank you very much indeed now past and present american presidents are paying tribute to former first lady barbara bush has died at the age of ninety two her son george w. said she was a fabulous first lady who'd been missed the former president jimmy carter said her work to promote literacy gave countless families the skills to thrive and don't trump raised a strong devotion to country and family alan fischer reports. however bush often

dismissed her popularity saying it was simply because she looked like everybody's grandmother with her signature white here in peril necklace but she will be remembered as one of only two women in u.s. history to be married to a president so help me god and the mother to one officer present united states she was just sixteen years old when she met george h.w. bush at a christmas dance both born to privilege she would later drop out of college and molly the young navy pilot home from world war two they would settle down in texas so he could make his fortune in the oil business but the growing family would soon face tragedy the three year old daughter died after a fight with leukemia she said she clung to her children even more after that four boys and another girl would grow up watching their father's political career which would ultimately lead to the white house leaving heart the role of disciplinary and you're just so you know anything they do is all right. but someone has to be sure

that. standards are captain he he leads by example i don't mean by denying some things and i am the enforcing there's no question about it. there was no question over loyalty either anyone who did criticize her children or even more so husband would quickly face her quick wit to an icy stare she didn't want a husband or her son george to run for the presidency admits she didn't think he would when she made news when speculation terms to another son jeb. the question. is the best qualified person to run for president but i help him out because i think you get all my enemies all his brothers all and their other family i refuse to accept that this great country isn't raising other wonderful

people thank you all for that warm welcome reluctant mitri arc of a political dynasty the first wife to speak at a political convention but beyond the campaign she wasn't known to give either a husband or son political advice in office she advocated for family literacy but mostly she prided herself on a family that she said was a true legacy i think they feel and i hope if i have a legacy other than being the enforcer that it will be that i raced along with george a great family a family that will be remembered along with the woman at the center of it. yeah stay with us here. rewind returns with a new series of care bring your people back to life i'm sorry i'm brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries there has been

a number of put in price since the program. rewind begins with mohammed at the time when i was in libya i was the global but. like any other student i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship rewind on al-jazeera. it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who want to able to find

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