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celebrations and media the resignation of. the days of anti-government protests. in jordan this is. also coming up guilty of attempted murder suspect of the twenty fifteen sentenced to twenty years in prison over a shootout with the belgian police plus. what do you have as a bit their option i don't see the french president on a mission. to save the iran nuclear deal. we go shopping around north korea to see how it's coping with tough international sanctions.

people power has forced out as prime minister within the past. has announced his resignation he stepped down after eleven days of protests hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated in the capital and other parts of the country when other monday three opposition m.p.'s were freed from police detention i'm just a few hours ago hundreds of troops marched. in support of the protests while some on this net speak to robin for us to walk out joins us from the capital robin subducting news that the prime minister has now resigned how much pressure was he on that's ago. they don't seem to happen very far. as a little bit yesterday he had sat down with the leader of this opposition movement . and it was really a fossil thing in which you know he had said he was absolutely going nowhere and

accused the supposition movement of having no real mandate no right to represent the people of amenia and yet twenty four hours later this extraordinary statement was released in which he said nicole question here in which right i made a mistake i was rome and you know when we saw crowds of. joining the protest that was an indication that this wasn't just about a small minority of people in the media this is about everyone. coming together. in their disapproval of president prime minister. because he'd been in power for ten years he had to change the constitution to a more parliamentary one and promise people that he wasn't going to then run for prime minister and then he did exactly that and i think that pushed. that was just a step too far as i know we just have

a static on the center of the center of your venom republics where thousands again this time not to call for his resignation as they've been doing for the last eleven days but to just celebrate we've been hearing the cooking of the sound of popping champagne go through everyone just delighted with this outcome who is standing around me here on the square and robin so what happens now i mean earlier we saw the opposition leader on some of the m.p.'s released from police detention how will this all play out what happens next. that's an excellent question you have to be an expert in the armenian constitution. exactly what's going to happen next but i understand that his government is likely to be dissolved parliament the armenian parliament will have to decide. new executive or at least the governing coalition is going to have to put somebody else in charge and.

really what's extraordinary about this is that the armenian people have been able to express their frustration. in the street protest in arguably a very democratic chaotic way and get a result that they could hardly scarcely have a school i mean we're talking about a country that has emerged from the soviet union you know almost thirty years ago. but it's been very much opposed to the country where the dominant political system was a sort of an oligarchy with a very powerful elite controlling industry controlling the economy and started represented that to the people and this is really a very extraordinary step forward for for democracy and for the people here in the media robyn thank you will also make on jan as a canadian i mean an activist on member of the grassroots group justice to armenia she says thanks to the changes that tsongas young made to the constitution the

armenian people will now decide their next meeting. the question is not right now who will be taking the leadership because i believe that there are many many out there if they can have a free voice and free speech especially in the us especially the in the young generation and also the political parties also the opposition week is it has seemed until now i can gather this is the opportunity this is the momentum to come together and elect in a democratic way the good thing about this change of the constitution in the last year is that now it is a parliamentary voice therefore it's the people's voice so now people have to after destroying for a moment and knowing that says the son is no longer going to use its grip on his grip on the people that people start organizing themselves with their representatives in parliament and have fair transparent inclusive elections that

will translate the wish and the will of the people who want governors who serve their country their interests the only surviving suspect to the paris attacks and twenty fifteen has been sentenced to twenty years in prison twenty eight year olds a lot of the salaam was convicted of attempted murder during the shootout in belgium that led to his arrest he was europe's most wanted fugitive after the pirates attacks a separate trials due for the killing of one hundred thirty people in the french capital well an accomplice was also sentenced in brussels natasha butler has the details. well the judge in the brussels courts gave the twenty year jail sentence to both and sophie and i say that this was for attempted murder in a terrorist context she said that it was clear that these two men had the intention to kill now this is in connection with a shootout with belgian police the two men were involved in back in march twenty sixth it was a few days later there's

a lot of discipline was finally caught by police in the moment back district of process well obviously was not present at the court his lawyer said he did not wish to attend and i was no surprise because in february at his trial he was present only on the first day he said that he believed that the trial was a false that muslims are not judged fairly and this silence was going to be his defense and he said that he wouldn't speak well he'll be learning all of this verdict in france where he is in jail in a high security prison he is waiting for another trial the trial into the paris attacks in twenty fifteen one hundred thirty people were killed on november the thirteenth solid islam is the last surviving suspect the foreign ministers of russia and china have pledged to block any attempts to sabotage the iran nuclear deal u.s. president donald trump has until may twelfth to decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement he's previously called it one of america's worst ever deals the un's also urging trump to stick to the agreement the secretary general remains

convinced that the joint comprehensive plan of action continues to be the best way to ensure the exclusively peaceful nature of iran's nuclear program and to realize the promised tangible economic benefits for the iranian people we hope that all of its participants remain fully commit church to its implementation and long term preserve ration well that appeal follows another one from the french president emmanuel macro the head of a state visit to the u.s. for talks with donald trump. what do you have as a bit there option i don't see it. what is the what if scenario or your plan b. i don't have any plan b. for nuclear against iran so that's a question we will discuss but that's why i just want to see on nuclear let's preserve this framework because it's better than a sort of north korean type of situation seven i'm not satisfied with the situation

with iran i want to fight against the listing. i want to contain their influence in the region so my point is to see don't leave now as a g.c. purely as long as you have not a bit of option for nuclear and let's complete it with ballastic myside and original containment. has more from paris and what the french are expecting out of michael's visit. they're an odd couple both politically and psychologically both men could be described as mavericks now they have common interests of course because of their respective positions but there's little common ground between the two men what's happening here is the beginning of a special relationship why because the reason may the british prime minister is more or less buried by the brakes at negotiations at the moment and the german chancellor angela merkel has spent six months trying to get together a grand coalition so there's been if you like a vacuum of political leadership in the heart of europe and this is where president

macro has seized with alacrity this position now he's in constant telephone contact with president trump but as for any policy changes will have to wait and see the result of this three day state visit now he obviously wants america to stay on board with the the climate pact he's also said that he persuaded the american president to keep troops in the syria conflict and he hopes also that perhaps he can try and persuade him on the iran nuclear deal but the problem here is there are many skeptical voices amongst the analysis here in paris they feel like tony blair he could be getting too close to an american president and the american president will benefit from the relationship but it could actually scar the new political face of france and president. the death toll after an airstrike

on a wedding party by saudi led forces in yemen has risen to at least twenty it happened in the western province of hunger more than a dozen others were injured who think rebels say another attack earlier on sunday killed six people the un's criticize the saudi led air campaign the killing a large number of civilians. at least twenty five muslim clerics have been. cleric . days provoked an outpouring of grief in the southern city of aden he's one of at least twenty five clerics preaches and religious scholars killed in the south of yemen in just over two years most of them in just the last six months. what is the crime what is a speculation we call on all. to do something no one has claimed responsibility for the killings twelve political parties have said they believe the killers targeted clerics who supported yemen's excelled president of the months or hardy and many reportedly had links to the party the yemeni branch of the muslim

brotherhood and had these leading ally in the south i think it's obvious. that the religious belief and quite possibly because they're linked many of them to the islam party it's not clear shoes doing the talking although there are why actually held beliefs on the ground. by the u.a.e. forces the killings focus attention on a new layer of complexity developing in yemen civil war the her things control this area in the north including the capital sana and are supported by iran they're fighting forces loyal to exiled president hadi whose power base is here in the self and includes aden al-qaeda controls these areas and black three years ago the saudi led coalition stepped in to back hetty's forces a coalition that includes the united arab emirates from that time the u.a.e.

has concentrated on growing its influence in the south and large part by funding and training to yemeni groups each with different agendas and which appears to be at all those with the saudi led coalition. one of them is the shabani elite forces they're a mix of hardline groups census ation ists who want the south to break away from the rest of yemen completely something saudi arabia as opposed to another is the security belt forces in aden they've been openly fighting had these forces the very group the saudi led coalition stepped in to support the forces don't necessarily want the same thing and it's quite possible that the governments of u.a.e. and saudi. likely different outcomes in yemen a level below containing iranian influence the killings have prompted dozens of religious leaders to abandon their mosques and seek refuge elsewhere. it's the

latest twist in the three year long civil war which has killed thousands and three thousand femen for millions of yemenis maidana hond al-jazeera the afghan military has confirmed at least eleven soldiers and policemen have been killed in two separate attacks the first happen in the city of color in norway in baghdad's province in the west of the country taliban fighters attacked a new outpost meant to secure a voter registration center in the same province the taliban hit another check post and cut his district there been a series of attacks on voter registration sentence since that opened last week. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back nicaragua's president says he'll drop plans to change the pension system after days of violent protests plus protecting our rainforest leaders and environmentalists gathered for a summit in indonesia more on the stay with us.

how i would get some pretty wet weather in sea west and pots of china at my long line of cloud and rain stretching all the way down into the north of vietnam for the race it's generally fine and dry twenty seven celsius there in hong kong that normally breezes picking temperatures back to around fifteen degrees there in shanghai with a fair amount of cloud around it will brighten up as we go into wednesday so to see the temperatures lifting to around twenty one degrees further west it does stay rather wet the rain becoming a little more p.t. in the process but because he wanted to show sliding down towards high net and on into vietnam still seeing plenty of showers making their way across southern parts of india into sri lanka a little bit of cloud still in place just around the eastern side all in the ass was a possibility of one of two showers just sliding in here but for the most part the story is about the pre monsoon hate one pool forty one celsius choose the name

similar values as we go on into wednesday a little bit of wet weather there into the fosse out of india into carola maybe also into sri lanka and a little bit of wet weather in the full cost across the arabian peninsula over the next day you see some cloud there just to the north of us here in concert it joins up with some wetter weather that we do have a little further south i look at more widespread awareness day with a chance of rain for many. getting to the heart of the matter if well stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

go. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour armenia's prime minister has resigned after eleven days of mass protests hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against him in the capital yerevan and other parts of the country. the only surviving suspect of the powers of tax and twenty fifteen has been sentenced to twenty years in prison twenty eight year old salah after salaam was convicted of attempted murder in the shootout in belgium that led to his arrest separate trials due for the killing of one hundred thirty people in the french capital. and an airstrike by saudi and of forces in yemen has killed twenty people

attending a wedding party it happened in the western province of. somali troops have taken over a military base in the capital mogadishu run by the united arab emirates the order to end military cooperation between the countries follows the closure of a u.s. funded hospital mohamad though reports from opposition. senior somali military off source one or two of the u.a.e. based in mogadishu they say then play mentoring a government order to disband any morality military training program what i wonder if we have taken over everything at this base from now on the government will fund the training and equip the soldiers twenty eight. hours earlier you a minute to train is how did they left the base with almost everything they could moving military hardware and other material to the port to be shipped back home that follows the u.a.e. suspending treatment a few days ago of the ship's side hospital which had funded operated in mogadishu

a sign of the gate reminds patients that the hospital remains closed security is tight stuff was called in on saturday paid their final deal use and told more time for the past three years this facility has offered free medical treatment to many the poor and displaced yet in mogadishu those of hardships it was disrupted by something close are now forced to seek help house where. most of them end up here the turkish run at dawn hospital staff say they've seen an increasing number of patients in the past week the somali ministry of health says it's keen to take over one reopen the hospital her our plan was to reopen the hospital immediately if them are already said they are out completely which leaves our people in limbo so they should quickly make up their minds relations between mogadishu and we have been frosty since june last year when somali government leaders desist that pressure from the u.a.e. and so did it via to cut ties and join the brocade important qatar. last month the

u.a.e. shipping company dubai ports world was barred from doing business in somalia somali leaders condemned the u.a.e. agreement with thier pm the breakaway and clip of some island to manage the portal barbara and two weeks ago somali police intercepted a plane chartered by u.a.e. diplomats almost ten million dollars in cash was confiscated while the intended purpose of the funds was investigated as tension continues to rise it seems neither side is willing to back down one hundred at all just who wish to somalis. in nicaragua president daniel ortega has withdrawn the proposed pension reforms that sparked a wave of violent protests killing twenty six people among the dead a journalist who was shot during clashes human can reports. on the fifth day of anti-government protests residents are trying to stop from being looted. but if

we are defending this supermarket and these stores because we're not going to allow looting or vandalism. police are being criticized for what demonstrators say is the heavy handed response including gunfire a t.v. journalist is among the dead. angel governor was shot while reporting live on facebook one of his colleagues blames a government sniper. so far the police haven't commented on the desk but some expect more unrest despite the president's announcement that we are protecting our hundred everything that has cost us so much that we have gotten i don't want anyone to target us we're ready for anything protesters were infuriated when the government approved the social security changes last wednesday to try and stop the widening deficit the united nations human rights office criticize the government for not allowing free assembly of protesters president daniel ortega said on sunday he would withdraw the proposed reforms but that hasn't been enough to call the younger. group isn't our representatives and delegates will be ready to go to the

table for talks and make sure the first team they approach is pensions. protesters still have other grievances including what they say is ortega's influence over the national assembly the law and the constitution such as eliminating presidential term limits iran come. to more palestinians have died from wounds by israeli gunfire during protests of the gaza border at least thirty five palestinians have been killed in the four weeks of demonstrations against these ready blocking palestinians are calling for a un investigation and israel's tactics of shooting unarmed demonstrators. police in malaysia have really sketches of two suspects in the targeted killing of a palestinian lecturer. was repeatedly shot on saturday his family say by israeli intelligence agents israel denies causing the death of the hamas member israel's defense minister says he was working on improving the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza. just days before rest summit between rival leaders on the korean

peninsula al-jazeera has been looking at life inside north korea we've been granted rare access to the capital pyongyang our diplomatic editor james bays has been looking at the impact of sanctions on the communist nation. north korea has been targeted with tougher and tougher sanctions by the u.s. and the international community of a what persuaded the country's leadership to pursue a diplomatic course and what effect to the having on ordinary people in this isolated country. we've been taken to a department store in the center of pyongyang despite the international sanctions the shelves here are full we managed to visit a number of shops in the city center all were up marketplaces catering to the elite we found no shortages and luxury items like chocolates and bottles of alcohol that were clearly smuggled in in defiance of the sanctions the official line is that

foreign imports have been replaced by increase domestic production. do you believe i don't know why others around us are starving us dear reporter when we return please tell them we are indomitable no matter what sanctions are upon us. the only medical facility we were taken to was a gleaming new hospital most of the equipment here was imported clearly a problem in the future when spare parts become needed we were shown the eyeglasses which is subsidized for north korean citizens you know what it will mean yes what's the name of the north korean brown oh our. hero yet not yet not ok but a recent u.n. report says the humanitarian situation particularly in rural areas outside the capital is poor before traveling to north korea i spoke to the un's top humanitarian official in new york. their. nutrition problem also

malnourished children especially there are too many women having a really hard time to often dying in childbirth it's the u.n. security council that voted in the international sanctions and the netherlands is the council member that administers them. in all resolutions there's a view very clear passage where it says. these sanctions are not meant to have adverse negative effects on the people of the pier again that's the official line privately even western diplomats will tell you there's a stigma to donate in humanitarian aid to north korea for example an important program by the n.g.o.s the global fund to fight malaria and tuberculosis was cut earlier this year sanctions are having an effect in north korea but perhaps not the one the international community wanted james plays out zero pyongyang. the former new york mayor michael bloomberg says he'll write a check covering this year's u.s.

commitment to the paris climate agreement the billionaire businessman says he'll contribute four and a half million dollars last year president trump pulled the u.s. out of the pact making it the only country opposed to it bloomberg was a democrat says he'll continue to provide money if the u.s. doesn't rejoin the agreement. and i meant listen politicians are joining forces to try and save fragile rainforest in the asia pacific summit is being held in indonesia where delegates from all over the region would try and build on the commitments made in the paris climate deal on the agenda will be the rapid rate of deforestation in popular guinea under thomas reports from tahlia. this machine should not be operating these logs should still be standing as trees most of this land should still be forest in twenty sixteen papua new guinea supreme court ruled that the special agricultural business lease or a.b.l. which allowed logging in this part of the east sipek region was invalid and illegal logging did stop for

a few months but it's restarted since the same is true across the country. according to some there isn't the political will to enforce logging bans after s.a.b. elsewhere made illegal new types of licenses were issued for the same areas instead in rural areas many say logging companies have more sway than the government does over police and officials basically paralyze the public service system so that those public service systems so a very rather than the interest of the nation or its people people here in a remote part of east new breton island say representatives of logging companies trick to them into signing away their rights to log their land giving very little in return for there was no proper clearance for the local communities at all people weren't aware of what was going to happen to the forests and the land local say deforestation has taken away a source of food and traditional medicine they say that the local weather has changed and that the locals leave a barren often burned landscape in their wake the logging doesn't just change the

way this landscape looks it completely changes the way it feels as well it's cool in their hearts out here just two years ago this entire area was covered with virgin rainforest. now where are the walking marks the dividing line between that forests and the devastation all around of broader consequences what the rapid deforestation means for southeast asia as a whole is the on and off part where it is third largest forest bloke on the planet and to see nature regulate off the climate in this or specific but it's where would right still with the loss of forest we have negative impact on the climate the malaysian company operating here. or r.h. accuses the tractor's of trying to stifle p n g's economic growth it says here in east new britain it funds infrastructure upgrades and provide significant support

for education services and health logging companies in papua new guinea are certainly a powerful economic force also own shopping centers hotels and businesses in i.t. and media when al-jazeera first ran reports on communities looking in the street in january the country's main national newspaper ran an article accusing us of being biased and politically motivated the article did not mention that the newspaper it appeared in is also island by andrew thomas al jazeera papa new guinea. all right all the news of course on our website all the latest developments from armenia there it is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here armenia's prime minister has resigned after

eleven days of mass protests hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against him in the capital yerevan and other parts of the country al-jazeera as robin forrester walker says there are scenes of jubilation in the capital. i understand that he's government is likely to be dissolved parliament the armenian parliament will have to. elect a new executive or at least the governing coalition is going to have to put somebody else in charge and. really what's extraordinary about fifty million people have been able to express their frustration. he did treat a protest you know arguably a very democratic it's like a chaotic way and get a result that they could hardly scarcely a very cool the only surviving suspect of the paris attacks in twenty fifteen has been sentenced to twenty years in prison twenty eight year old son of the slum was

convicted of attempted murder during the shootout in belgium that led to his arrest . the death toll after an ass tricon a wedding party by saudi and forces in yemen has risen to at least twenty happened in the western province of more than a dozen others were injured two more palestinians have died from wounds by israeli gunfire protests on the gaza border at least thirty five palestinians have been killed in the four weeks of demonstrations against the israeli blockade police in malaysia have released sketches of two suspects in the targeted killing of a palestinian engineering lecturer. was repeatedly shot on saturday his family say by israeli mossad agents israel says al bash was working on improving the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza but they deny causing his death. the foreign ministers of russia and china have pledged to block any attempts to sabotage the iran nuclear

deal u.s. president donald trump made twelve to decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement he's previously called it one of america's worst ever deals the french president says he plans to appeal to trump during his white house visit on monday but those are the headlines the news continues here on after talk to us is there a statute that's a watching. on counting the cost of a trade war a real war and rising the debt find out why the i.m.f. and the world bank a warning of risks to the global economy what saudi arabia is ideal world price and the castro era ends in cuba but an economic blockade remains counting the cost.