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that he was president is vowing to continue with the socialist revolution after nearly six decades of castro rule miguel diaz was sworn in on thursday he succeeded raul castro who stepped down after. ten years as president diaz canal is now the first cuban leader not to have forty in the nine hundred fifty nine revolution he was born after fidel castro took power let's go live now to the cuban capital of van and speak to our latin america editor lucy newman so on the one hand there is change it's the end of an era but on the other hand it stability in a business as usual in cuba today yes absolutely raul castro is leaving the presidency but he's not going very far at all in fact he's going to remain as the head of the cuban communist party for three more years

and more than that as the canal himself underscored when he made his first speech to the nation shortly after taking over the presidency he said that all the most important decisions that will be made in cuba from now on will have to be vetted by raul castro so clearly he is going to co-manage this transition is going to be a slow transition i would say that rather than turning off the lights on the castro era what was seeing is a slow dimming of them nineteen and. probably top of his challenges really is to do something about the economy the economy which is struggling somewhat isn't that what sort of plans do we think he might have. absolutely we don't have any details and that's always been the problem they have plans they've had them in place for a long time it's the implementation that's been the problem and you have a lot of pressure within cuba to move more towards a

a chinese or vietnam means model a more capitalistic style economy if you like but that is something that the cuban communist party india's canal at least for now is seeming to indicate that he doesn't agree with rather that they want to make this state sector more efficient they're keeping the details very close to their chest and in fact his cabinet has not been named yet and will not be named until july until the the national assembly meets again so they're still clearly reorganizing things and then that is why cubans are keeping are not that excited about this because they really don't know what comes next all right lucy in human alice in america at its allies in havana thank you all right now we can see the philip brenner he's in washington d.c. he's a professor of international relations at the american university. this. is canal seems to be a man who's excelled really keeping himself rather uncontroversial being rather old

mary can we expect anything different from him. well i think we have to expect something different because cuba needs some changes he has already indicated along with raul castro that they're going to change the currency that's been the biggest obstacle for foreign investment and for moving the country forward economically they promised they would do that in two thousand and thirteen that that's fallen by the wayside. they did say just a few days ago that it will be done this year and so it'll be up to me dia's canal to do it and much as i respect lucy in newman who is a terrific journalist i have to say that i do think that rule castro will stop back more than she suggested i think that he is inclined to let the government run. be run by the people in the government and not by people in the party that's been

his principle and he's building a house in santiago worry plans the move he'll be a great distance from obama and while he'll watch over this transition i don't think he'll be involved in day to day decisions and adding to make galatea as canal's was is the fact that the right process that was experience between cuba and the united states under the obama administration has missed definitely turned into a much more frosty relationship and that's having an economic impact in terms of the number of u.s. visitants. well that's certainly true there's been a drop off because the trumpet ministration has said that cuba is a dangerous place to travel to supposedly because of the illnesses that befell the some u.s. diplomatic personnel and that has harmed the cuban economy a little bit but you u.s.

tourists we're less than ten percent of the total number of tourists coming to cuba so that it's only a small impact what's really important is that the frostiness now between the two countries impedes a further the process of normalization there is continuing negotiations over some issues bilateral interest they're continuing to talk about property claims they just last week they had meetings on human trafficking disaster relief so they are continuing the two countries are continuing to meet and talk which is a positive. spillover from the obama administration but there is a tension that prevents further normalization ok and finally. the as canal is a myth fifty seven the first leader not to be enough i say in the revolution do you

think that that's going to impact his credibility across the country as a whole. well you know i don't think so he it's true tomorrow is his fiftieth birthday in fact. the most of the country has been born since one thousand nine hundred fifty nine and in fact a majority of the national assembly. the majority of actually the the central committee is now younger than dia's canel so i think that there people are ready for a new generation i don't think they want the old generation to continue ruling what was interesting is that he picked as his vice president a person of the older generation salvatore as mesa seventy two years old but i think that was a bow to the older generation he picked a man who is not personally charismatic has no personal authority it was more

symbolic to make him the first vice president philip brenna thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from washington. pleasure the south korean president lee in says the north claims it's willing to give up his nuclear program without the removal of u.s. troops from the south as a precondition and this comes as u.s. president donald trump warms that he's prepared to walk away from the plan tools with north korea's leader if they are not quote fruitful and the missing inspected to take place next month or in early june the cia director and secretary of state nominee mike pump air held a secret meeting with kim jong. un in this month as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for the talks if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting and

will continue what we're doing or whatever it is that will continue but something will happen. well many of the details of that planned meeting still unclear diplomatic editor james spaces inside north korea he has the latest. there's clearly plenty for both sides to continue to discuss one of the things they must work out is the venue for this historic summit where are they going to meet could it be here in pyongyang and some diplomats i've spoken to say that might be giving too much to the north korean side for a u.s. president to actually step foot in this country could it be in that the militarized zone where that intra korean summit is taking place in one week's time could it perhaps be in china in beijing again diplomats saying that that would effectively give china a seat at the table something the u.s. may not like there are other countries neutral countries that are offering to be

a venue for the talks we have norway we have sweden one in the region that's been mentioned is the capital of mongolia battle then you get what they might get out of first summit most observers hope that there would be after a big meeting a process an ongoing process to deal with all the details but both sides would probably want something out of a meeting of this level and certainly the u.s. will be concerned about the three u.s. citizens of korean descent who are being held prisoner here in north korea president trump has already mentioned them and the fact that he's working to get their release their fighters in a rebel held area near syria's capital damascus have now agreed to lay down their weapons as part of an evacuation deal breaker by russia meanwhile in the western region of homs the government is stepping up its offensive to retake remaining

rebel held territory then a hundred points. they surrendered without a fight rebels into may or have agreed to leave accepting an offer from the syrian and russian militaries for safe passage to rebel areas in northern syria hundreds of fighters are to be evacuated. along with a few thousand of their family members they didn't want to repeat of the pro-government alliances military assault against what was once the rebel enclave of eastern. after the brutal regime displays that people often use it now wants to do the same here sold to prevent further destruction we accept the surrender this will save the lives of civilians. as part of the deal the rebels handed over their medium sized and heavy weapons the town in the region northeast of damascus has been under siege for years more than one hundred thousand people live there half of them internally displaced the deal avoided

a military offensive. the army and its allies are now giving the rebel factions that control the other towns in the enclave twenty four hours to surrender or face a stepped up bombing campaign the pro-government alliance has been using the threat of military action to force their opponents to lay down their weapons without a fight it has given i still forty eight hours to leave the districts the armed group controls in southern to ask us or face an all out military offensive those districts are under siege and the army has sent reinforcements to the front lines and in the past seventy two hours and after months of a relative lull in the fighting the opposition controlled northern countryside of homs was heavily bombarded. they started a military assault on northern homs and neighboring southern hama to pressure the negotiating committee that represents the opposition to surrender these areas are

supposed to be deescalation agree. we're looking for a solution that doesn't involve the military option. the opposition is in talks with the russian military a cease fire is now in place until negotiations resume on sunday the pro-government alliance wants the enclave returned to state who rule the opposition however is hoping for a long term ceasefire agreement a lot of people in the northern countryside of homs don't want their town to be destroyed we don't want war we want peace and we don't want to be displaced that is what we want but if the regime and the russians launch a military assault rebel commanders have said they will fight back. rebels are increasingly under pressure their territories are under siege the syrian government and its allies are in a strong position and are clearly pushing ahead with a military solution to crush the rebellion that occurred there. beirut. and the same in syria because russia is denying accusations that it is trying to delay

international inspectors from getting to the site of a suspected gas attack the team from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived last saturday and is still waiting to get access to the area in duma which is crisis damascus well the forty people were reportedly killed in the lead to tackle missed two weeks ago was going to. it's absolute rubbish a lie that russia prevents inspectors from entering duma we don't know what made them think that from the beginning we were sincerely interested in sending o.p.c. w. inspectors there we made public statements and that moreover we contacted the syrian side so that all documents including visas were provided to the inspectors as soon as possible we have credible information that indicates that russian officials are working with the syrian regime to deny and to delay these inspectors from gaining access to duma we believe it is an effort to conduct their own staged

investigations russian officials have worked with the syrian regime we believe to sanitize the locations of those suspected attacks and remove incriminating evidence of chemical weapons use. for as i know the discussions are still going on with. our colleagues in damascus and all other interested parties. to ensure that you can go in we're working hard to have them go in safely as possible and as quickly as possible. to see for miles now he's director of the win without war project at the center for international policy he's joining us from washington thank you for talking to us what do you think what chill take on what's really going on because that a p c w team has been in damascus now for almost a week and it still hasn't managed to get access to the controversial site where

the allegations of the chemical weapons attack has actually taken place. sure well the first thing that we should say first and foremost is all the parties have agreed to allow the o.p.c. w teams access unfettered access immediate access to these sites you know we can't get around the fact that the syrian government and their russian allies control the territory we're talking about so clearly there's a lot more blame on their side but we should also take a step back and understand that this investigation in itself is barred from a sighting responsibilities so what we need those inspectors to get access unfettered immediate access we also need to take a step back and realize this investigation by itself won't help advance accountability in and of itself so we need to see solutions that advance an end to this conflict so would you would you go so far then as to say that this team in this project is actually irrelevant now given that the u.k. france and the united states have already passed judgment. no i don't think it's a rove and i mean i think certainly we're going to need

a long term process of accountability here that process of accountability is needed going to need the kinds of fact finding missions that the o.p.c. w. has bravely been attempting to do for a number of years but none of that is going to meet none of that's going to be possible until we end the fighting until we end the conflict we can't allow the fighting between the russians and the americans their war of words we can't allow that to be the impediment here because let's face it if we're waiting for the u.s. and the russia to become friends the only thing that's going to happen is the people of syria are going to continue to suffer and lessly in a war that needs to end right now and it was it wasn't that long ago was it the u.n. secretary general antonio ted ash said that the cold will have come back with a vengeance but without the safeguards what do you think he meant by that and do you think this is something that should be particularly alarming. i think we do need to be alarmed about the challenges we're seeing to international norms and the ability to engage diplomatically right now you know we're allowing the process by

which the u.s. and the russians disagree with one another the u.n. security council process has been shut down time and time again by vetoes were allowing that to be the end all be all of diplomacy i think the u.n. secretary general recognizes that we can't allow that to be the case throughout the cold war obviously we had the same problem with vetoes but we found creative diplomatic ways to deal with the kinds of horrific things like we're seeing in syria now we need to get back to that kind of creative diplomacy we can't allow this war to get dragged on forever just because of disagreements by third party countries all right stephen miles thank you very much indeed in just just one little no it's being reported john bolton the national security adviser in the trump administration has that she had a meeting with the russian ambassador so we'll get some more detail on that and confirmation indeed of that meeting but in the meantime let's go to iraq which has launched airstrikes against eisel targets inside syria the government says it's

five agents carried out what it calls a deadly raid. in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven from most of the territory it once held in iraq stepped up its campaign this week to clear remaining i still held areas. we've got a lot of calamus al-jazeera news i'm including. protests in a coastal village that's become a symbol of the palestinian struggle within israel plus. a gym in the u.s. is now accused of treating two black men like criminals. and the turkish cup semifinal is abandoned we'll tell you why in sports.

now the french interior ministry says almost one hundred twenty thousand people have attended rallies across the country against president emanuel crowell riot police use pepper spray and to gas against protests is in paris and this is the latest in a series of demonstrations by public sector workers and students against the president's plan reforms from paris his natascha about later. there was some clashes between protesters and police but overall the march in paris was peaceful public sector workers and students were united in anger against the government's plans to reform public services and universities they say the changes would reduce their rights. where parents. will fight for our beliefs we may not win but we won't surrender and it's very big issue in all of it we support the royal workers and the social movements this chair much injustice we have to mobilize people against the president's reforms it was a similar picture in some other cities across france including math say and leon

the government wants to overhaul the national rail company or s.n.c.f. which is deep in debt and scrap some stuff benefits rail workers say that's unfair that the benefits of compensation for unsociable hours and low pay for the government needs to stop treating us like fools by saying that they are open to dialogue each time the president or a minister speaks they say we're ready to talk about everything but we won't change our minds our concept of dialogue the french president says that these reforms are necessary to reduce high unemployment cut debt and create opportunities but he must convince the french public of his agenda which is why over the past few days he has been on something of a charm offensive my calls given to read television interviews and on wednesday in eastern france he spoke to protesting grell workers. i respect people and i've always respected the rail workers i've never insulted darrelle workers we need this

reform distance if needed some analysts say the protests are macros biggest political test since being elected mediate a year ago women are not cannot back down on these reforms because if it backs down in front of the strikers from the railway company it's over for him he cannot reform or anything else until the end of his members are we. since opinion polls suggest the tide is turning in marc ross favor with more people supporting the reforms than the strikes but that's unlikely to deter trade union leaders because a promising running strikes for several months a few people here intend to give up their fight in a time some. al-jazeera paris. the fountains of israel's arab minority have been protesting about the seventieth anniversary of the creation of israel known by palestinians as nakba or the catastrophe demonstrator

was gathered in a small coastal village in northern israel which has become one of the symbols of the palestinian struggle carry forth it has a. for thousands of people arriving here in this field near the town of at least this is designed to symbolize the right of return by palestinians to the original homes their original villages which they lost so many them hundreds of thousands of them in the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight it is a moment known by palestinians as the nakba the catastrophe that using this day the day that israel celebrates its seventieth anniversary to make this point a mormon might be here in solidarity with all these people demonstrating for their right to return their independence exactly tast so this is about for we're here to remember and to teach our children so they will keep the memory alive.

that it was more than five hundred very little demolition. people who were displaced and people who were killed this is catastrophe humanitarian political heritage historical and national. the message this year is every year is that the independence of israel equals the catastrophe for the palestinians but this year it's being uttered with an extra feeling because this is the seventh year anniversary of nine hundred forty eight it's also the year in which donald trump intends to move the u.s. embassy to what he calls israel's capital jerusalem a lot of moving. in a suit we all praise the historic decision by president trump to recognize jerusalem as our capital and to move the embassy there of the world's biggest power thank you mr president thank you america good. luck was the israeli prime minister kicking off our national celebrations after sunset on wednesday

their celebrations which have continued throughout thursday with a ceremony at the president's residence also military fly past over jerusalem and indeed millions of israelis taking to the parks on the beaches to celebrate a national holiday a very different picture here of course where that same historical legacy is viewed through an entirely different prism a prism of pain and catastrophe seventy years on. the sudanese president omar al bashir has fired his foreign minister after he spoke out about the government's failure to pay his diplomat. said embassy staff hadn't been paid for months and the sudan had fallen behind in paying rent for many of his diplomatic missions sudan is short of foreign currency and is facing an economic crisis the central bank has been forced to devalue the sudanese pound twice since january. south africa's new president has cut short his trip to the u.k. to deal with violent protests back home cyril ramaphosa is calling for calm in

northwest province where demonstrators are demanding the region's leaders step down they accused. of corruption and they are demanding better jobs and housing along with improved roads and hospitals president graham opposable is attending a meeting of commonwealth leaders in london. in yemen forces loyal to the former president ali abdullah saleh fighting with their former allies for control of a key outpost the battles of the red sea port of al maka is the first of its kind between the two sides since youth is killed in december accusing him of betrayal the changing allegiance by previous salai forces is that it even more complexity to a three year conflict that's killed ten thousand people and displaced three million others. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour warning from the i.m.f. about the prospects of a trade dispute between the u.s. and china and what that could mean for the global economy. been any quality we

explore nigeria's capital where pockets of poverty sit next to rich residential areas. and referenda downs monster a record eleven vaunt economy also its title continues but a big name is alex jones will tell all install. the weather not too far away from parts of north america we should see temperatures starting to recover a little not really feeling that spring like that into the northeastern corner so that eastern side of canada also getting up to around six celsius on friday hopefully as we go through the weekend we may even get up towards double figures new york at eleven degrees just about into double figures at least it is dry across

that eastern side of north america central areas still seeing some rain some snow there spilling off the rockies only twelve celsius for denver and that cool west the weather starting to dig in as we go on into sasi eventually it will move across the deep south some useful rainfall making its way through here still a little bit of snow on the back it's cold enough and also close to double think is not degree celsius toronto just about getting there may well we got to a good deal of dry weather into the caribbean but some wet weather to say particularly around the great little line of cloud here that will stretch its way right down and soon to regular costa rica into panama have you posted by possible in jamaica southern parts of cuba the rain to these as we go through sassed i still a chance to some showers looking further northwards into guatemala but lost the fine for the lesser antilles.

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right time to catch up with the top stories here at out is there a key busy president says he'll continue the socialist revolution after nearly six decades of castro rule miguel diaz canela sworn in on thursday he takes over from eighty six year old raul castro. south korea's president says the north claims that it will give up its nuclear program without the precondition of removing u.s. troops from the south the comments from move in follow a warning from president trump that he a walk away from talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful. russia

has denied accusations from the u.s. that it's trying to delay international inspectors get into the. access to the area and. the prospects of a global trade war has the international monetary fund concerned the spring meetings of the i.m.f. and the world bank accounting underway in washington and officials on trade only exacerbate long term structural weaknesses in the global economy she have. bankers and finance ministers from the i.m.f. one hundred eighty nine member countries are meeting in washington on the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis the firm's world economic outlook is optimistic about growth over the next couple of years the aging populations productivity and the possibility of a global trade war will lead to a downturn so countries in our view should work together to resolve disagreements

without using exceptional measures the i.m.f. chief economist blamed the impulse for protectionism on the inequality that's been an integral feature of globalization however he insists the trading system is not to blame public optimism about the benefits of economic integration has been eroded over time by longstanding trends of job and wage polarization coupled with persistent subpar growth in median wages many households have little or no benefit from growth. now these trends in your view are more due to technology than to trade over others argue it's precisely the floors decades old economic prescriptions of the i.m.f. and world bank that have led to such disillusionment with global capitalism they tend to force governments to cut spending on health care and pensions for example on education and this is all over the world and they also tend to promote

macroeconomic policies that will slow the economy unnecessarily and they're doing that right now as the world economy is actually growing pretty well now ten years after the global financial crisis the i.m.f. is warning that once again stock markets and risky assets overvalued unsustainably and could crash causing devastation for those who never felt the benefits of what was called the recovery it often seems of meeting like this that despite the scholarly discussions about mustering the global economy and ensuring prosperity for all those overseeing the current framework of globalization are doomed to repeat pos mistakes she had zero washington. more mass demonstrations are expected along gaza's border with israel on friday it will be the fourth since the wave of protests began at the end of march more than thirty palestinians have been killed in the demonstrations another fifteen hundred have been injured many are

still waiting to be transferred out of the territory for urgent medical treatment there's been this myth now reports. gaza's hospitals are full of young men with injuries where the bones have been shattered by israeli bullets and this is mohammed he's twenty four years old and he was injured two weeks ago and across the other side of the room is nasser also twenty four with the same injury and one of the problems the hospital house is it's running out of these metal rods this operator says that they have to put on the leg to try and keep the bone in place while it heals and at the other end of the room is seventeen year old mahmoud he was injured three weeks ago this poor guy's in is not in a lot of pain and with me in doc is doctor takes it all tunnel one of the major surgeons dr first of all have you got enough equipment to treat these sort of injuries and those of us with a no enough because we have we did for chance of him a six year to suture four of us could have surgery and

a patient like and mahmoud what are the chances for him what sorts of what might happen with him who were injured in the pretend artery and vein and may have a destructive of the muscle the left of the born sinner fix it or mom would know we had four amputation above me if this vision dance fear that was fun or does that only maybe is the c.e.o. of the limb are you ready for tomorrow. i don't know. dr thank you very much for talking to us the hospitals all of them concerned that they haven't got enough equipment to give the people the treatment they will need when they come in with those leg injuries. that queen elizabeth has as commonwealth heads of state and government. to appoint her son prince charles as the next leader of the association of former british colonies she made the appeal at the formal everything of the coma of heads of government meeting at buckingham palace leaders from fifty three member

states representing a third of the world's population are in attendance the queen's when the head of the commonwealth since one thousand nine hundred fifty two. nigeria's capital is one of the most modern cities in africa but the original residents of the federal district of the village of continue to live in homes that are built of modern they complain that their fundamental rights are being ignored mohammad valve reports from a bridge or. why she was angry discussions never ceased in the village of pico outside the nigerian capital since it was chosen to build a new capital forty years ago they say their social and economic status has continued to deteriorate they still live in humble mud homes without basic amenities. does a beauty i have no medical care here and we have new functioning schools the teachers refuse to stay here and don't have electricity water is our most urgent problem we had to call her that soon broke down we almost never used it. and two

other villages are around this place have up to three thousand people living in them the only source of drinking water they have is this might depend mother nature generously gave it to them for survival but they say the government isn't even considering sanitizing it and pumping it to their homes the spring is only a stream it takes time for the point to the field supplying the village with what to me is hard work by these women throughout the day there are more than eight hundred villages such as pico surrounding of which the area is called federal capital territory. more than one million nigerians live in b.f. city pockets of property side by side with posh new residential districts owned mostly by people who came from other regions to go out resentment geria that if it is virgin so you wouldn't live in if the. people died from order to state that's

where they are eight hundred i lived in villages settler towns yet did villages existed before even and you know what i'm going to now to fourteen or does it as a request for comment from the government was declined the novelty and his community continue to demand reform but they say their voice is hardly head because they don't have any meaningful representation at the higher level a constitution says the president is also a government f. city villagers doubt mohammed bihari has time to fix the problems we have. in our own country do what of the matter that is nurses so far can't ability for the government entity police for justice and equity and democracy to walk there is no where in the world that the head of state will become to govern of the territorial again it's not going away let it go to please relinquish up with it and let people have their own governance did not have a governor did not have a meal so it is like they are deprived and they believe that it is only by instinct

in the people putting them in this position of authority that they will be able to make any meaningful impact without an elected mayor governor a local council or minister of city people say they feel powerless which means economic deprivation for them. i just. nigeria. the security forces in senegal have fired tear gas at protesters in the capital dhaka demonstrators are angry about potential changes to electoral rules fairing that it will block many candidates running in next year's presidential election. polls from . more than just words are being changed in sites and it goes parliament's. i the fight is over electoral reforms to the country's constitution the opposition is accusing president like you sell of tweaking the constitution ahead of the presidential elections deliberate political rivals any candidate wanting to run

a political campaign will have to have sixty seven thousand signatures for the support of one percent of the electorate with three hundred political parties in senegal this new law would reduce the number of candidates for the upcoming presidential campaign the opposition says the proposal are a blow to democracy. reforms on the constitution should not favor anyone nor should it discriminate against anyone changes should be made in the interest of the general public but these reforms seek to eliminate political rivals the government says the reforms are needed to simplify the election process and reduce state costs and subsidies allocated for campaigns and this. i'm fighting for this law because it's just a question of common sense it will make our democracy more efficient and so the people better. as the debate rage on inside the parliament anger spreads to the streets shops and schools are closed the city center is in lockdown something was

going on democratic i'm disappointed i thought we were past this and that we were a more mature democracy we should allow people to express themselves freely without the use of force. and head of the vote the government is banning demonstrations in the city center police are out in full force firing tear gas several key figures from the opposition and civil to. id have been arrested it's a variation of a freedom of speech in the sense that people are not able to get their voices heard peaceful protest is a right it's not a privilege it's not something that's you know you you going to have one day and be withdrawing the other and the fact that they are there is a blanket ban it is a violation of their right to be for family and the last two years the popular mayor of deckard khalifa saw an opposition figure karim waters were both sent to prison accused of embezzling state funds both deny the charges saying the sentences were politically motivated to eliminate them from the presidential race for the opposition this latest piece of legislation is another act of provocation for the

ruling party it's much needed change with the presidential elections just ten months away both sides say at stake senegal's democracy considered one of the most stable in africa at least for now nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. early in police are investigating an assault on two young men in which the attacker list heard shouting and this and i think it is one of the victims is wearing a jewish skullcap this doesn't it came now reports as part of a trend of increasing anti semitic activity in the german capital it was an unprovoked attack in broad daylight a sustained assault on young men in the streets of the german capital and the reason because one of the victims was wearing a skull cap normally worn by jews in fact he's an israeli palestinian is not jewish but was wearing the keeper as a sort of experiment to see how safe jews are in germany following the attack the victim described his reaction. could be i stayed relatively calm but i was

terrified and i trembled into now or later all the time it was really upsetting and was very stressful. what happened here is part of a rising tide of anti semitic acts in the german capital in recent years police say that the number of such crimes nearly doubled in the period between twenty thirteen and twenty seventeen while one leading jewish organization says it recorded an increase of nearly sixty percent in incidents last year one eminent member of the jewish community in berlin says recent events have shaken people. want to show what i don't want to show while we feel totally unsafe because we've been asking ourselves where we can allow ourselves to be recognized as jews previously used to be said that there were some so-called problem areas of the city where as a jew it wasn't safe to wear a skull cap or have a visible star of david but now it seems there's

a risk even in the prosperous parts of berlin the government has been quick to react to the news when i just wouldn't. talk. the federal government will do everything we now have a representative for jewish life in germany because we have very glad that there is jewish life in germany for the fight against. and this has also been done with over and determination this is of course a tablet incident in recent years the jewish community in germany has been growing with some estimates that around ten percent of built their lives in the capital now some fear there flourishing community may once more be under threat dominic cain al-jazeera berlin. now thousands of students has marched in the chilean capital santiago demanding an end to profit making in higher education riot police used pepper spray and water cannons to disperse demonstrators is not the first student

to rally under the new government of president sebastian pinera last month chile's constitutional court struck down the law the would have banned universities from operating for a profit. to reform is providing free tuition to low income students in that paid by putin yet as. security forces are hunting for fighters who killed two journalists and their driver near the colombia ecuador border two people were taken hostage shelob ellis reports. hunting rebels in the jungle colombia had hopes these days were over. colombian in equatorial forces a searchin for. five hundred fighters loyal to his group a spinoff from the revolutionary armed forces of colombia fuck. seen here refused to get behind the twenty sixteen peace deal with colombia that

ended nearly fifty years of fighting the middle rank commander is one of twelve hundred fuck linked rebels still waging war with the government. it's really a pretty strange this is an effort of persistence we may not find out here today but it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow in a week or two we're not going to rest or stop this offensive. the manhunt began last friday after the group kidnapped civilians the government released this proof of life video of the husband and wife on choose day. last month to work with doreen journalists and their driver waltzer kidnapped the family's appeal took watcher for the release unsuccessfully the ecuadorian government says they did the bodies haven't been recovered. we have our armed forces and also colombian armed forces on the other side of the border this generates greater security and each time the area of influence of big alto is being reduced. but on

a political level the violence has become too much for ecuador the side fought dissidents like watch this the e.-l. in colombia's last rebel army ecuador has been hosting peace talks to get them to follow or fuck into disarmament after fourteen months of negotiations it hasn't worked elaine rebels continue to stage attacks. because i have asked the foreign minister of ecuador to put the brakes on the conversations and put the brakes on our role as guarantor of the peace process well that does not commit to ending terrorist actions on wednesday colombia wristed one of those commanders was sent to . the mission to find his boss on the colombia ecuador border is proving more difficult both governments say they want negotiations and a peace deal but for now it's guns that are doing the talking shelob ls al-jazeera . a u.s. fitness company has five three of its stuff after two black men accuse them of

racial profiling videos of the men being kicked out of the gym have gone viral gabriel elizondo reports to black man going to their gym to work out but instead they find themselves treated like criminals in a series of videos that went viral. said he and a friend were asked to leave a fitness club in new jersey despite the fact they were members and checked in at the front desk didn't have much wolf this could become a membership right here a standing o. the scanner gun for no reason i'm only going to go and i have been a member if it at least eight years ago because. a man who appeared to be the gym manager called the police nobody was arrested but the two men say it was a clear case of racial profiling by the gym employees in a statement the company l.a. fitness it mid fault saying in part regrettably our staff unnecessarily escalated

the situation and called the police rather than work through it clearly this is a long time member with a current ballad membership we are currently exploring potential training content and opportunities to better train our staff the incident comes amid controversy at a starbucks store in philadelphia after the store manager asked two black men to leave because they hadn't bought anything it emerged that they were waiting for someone to take part in a business meeting the incident led to several days of protests and a boycott starbucks hash tag on social media after an initial defending his officers philadelphia's police commissioner on thursday apologized to the arrested men and so messaging is important and i feel miserably in this regard. starbucks has also apologized and said they would close nearly eight thousand

stores next month for one day for racial bias training for their employees as for l.a. fitness three employees involved in that incident have reportedly been fired. new york.

sorry for the supposed news there his. thanks very much we start in turkey where

the semifinal of the turkish cup between two the country's biggest teams has been abandoned istanbul rivals but some fight about che we're playing in a tense atmosphere with the sheets already down to ten men when fans through objects out of the sheet just player and hit coach is on the head he was taken to hospital the sheets as players left the pitch with the referees and the game was later abandoned in the spanish top flight barcelona are just one win away from securing the league title it's off to the second place side in the league atletico madrid suffered a surprise three male defeat to real sociedad on thursday atletico trail boss up by twelve points the title race could now be over when balsa next play on april the twenty ninth. meanwhile chelsea kept their slim hopes of a top four finish in the english premier league alive with a two one win at burnley antonio conti side now trail fourth place tottenham by five points only the top four qualify for next season's champions league football

fans attending matches at this she is world cup in russia will be able to watch replays of incidents reviewed by video system referees on big screens inside stadiums football's world governing body fee for hope it will make video replay technology more spectator friendly as it's used at a world cup for the very first time this system has been criticized for being confusing for fans trials in domestic competitions this season. well number one rafael nadal is now just three wins away from a record extending eleventh title at the monte carlo mostest tennis part of it djokovic has come back from injury was halted on thursday helen gleason has more. where better for raf an adult to make his return to the a.t.p. tour than at a tournament he's won a record ten times and where he only lost four matches since his debut in two thousand and three.

the twenty one year old russian karren catch enough was the spaniard latest victim in monte carlo on thursday the da must win this tournament to stay at number one in the rankings and playing in just his second tona meant of twenty eight team after suffering a hip injury at the australian open he looked like he'd never been away leaving just eighty minutes to wrap up a six three six two victory. up next wild number seven dominic team who we lost twice on clay last season and it. didn't show i need to be on my. all the energy. highest intensity possible blank aggressive let him play from as a positions he has a big big shots on. shots with incredible power and especially for us you know in a good position on court cases going to be so difficult to stop and so i mean to try to avoid. team came from

a set down again school in the one novak djokovic to reach his first monte carlo quarter final and despite the defeat there were encouraging signs for djokovic he was continuing his comeback from an ongoing elbow injury. i have played some some great tennis in the last couple of matches you know still some ups and downs but you know every match here in monte carlo had had some some periods of brilliance and ten is that i've really enjoyed and i want to play and so that obviously gives me a lot of positive energy for what's coming up. so an early exit for joke of it but in a doll's bed for a month the collar crowd number eleven on a fifty fourth title on clay continues against team on friday helen grayson is their. former cycling champion lance armstrong has agreed to settle a long running suit brought against him after he admitted taking performance

enhancing drugs armstrong who was stripped of all seven of his tour de france titles was being sued by his former sponsor the u.s. postal service the u.s. government and fellow cyclist floyd landis they wanted one hundred million dollars in damages off to he admitted to cheating in the end strong agreed to pay five million to settle the case as if competing in a cycling tour as a professional writer isn't hard enough the leader of stage three at the tour of croatia always had his competition ended by careless driver nikolai brock no was forced to dodger a versing white van it must have knocked him off his game though he ended the stage last. organizers of the london marathon urging runners to reconsider dressing up in costume sunday's race is said to be the warmest on record for costas have the temperature peaking at twenty three degrees and officials are concerned about heat strike whilst top elite athletes who will set off earlier on sunday i'm worried

about setting a new record time tonya one jiri will try to defend his title from a time marathon when a. three time olympic track gold medalist can any say became. what motivated me of course. i want to know until today my race you know i. record of course i don't know when and where but. what makes me hungry you know. it's really good and that's all the sport for now more later and that's all from this al-jazeera news hour but thank you anyway because i'll be back in just a minute or two with more of the zazen. fifty

three member states. one night conic figurehead as leaders of the commonwealth descend on london for its biennial meeting al-jazeera asks how much does the commonwealth matter in today's world and where does it go after queen elizabeth

follow the commonwealth heads of government meeting on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter if will stuff like injury the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have towards would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea here their story on top to al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are.