during results. for. the. teaching empowerment. part of the rebel education series at this time on al-jazeera. an archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several building museums taking part in the project called the meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture. a

van strikes at least eight pedestrians in toronto the driver is in custody. live from london also coming up. here protests to celebrate in the capital after the prime minister now says his resignation. the top political leaders killed in yemen in a sound. french president arrives in the united states on a mission to urge donald trump to save the iran nuclear deal. and some breaking news out of canada a number of people are feared dead after a van run into pedestrians in toronto. the driver of the van has been taken into

custody but so far i haven't given any further details of the spokes person so the van apparently jumped the curb and images from the scene show several people being attended to by medics. i just are standing us all to yourself why try just go to the. sun coming out not so many people just shouting stop the car but he did just documenting and he did something home and nursery people lived on the verandah you know at all so the car just kept hitting people do you think it was on purpose or did it look like it was on purpose i think it's on purpose because if the car doesn't work he should like hit the car or something and stop but he just goes for the first time. a short time ago the canadian prime minister gave this reaction to the incident. obviously you know we're just learning about the situation in toronto our hearts go out to anyone affected people are going to obviously have more to learn and more to say in the coming coming hours i

was here as it was a journalist to count davidson joins us on the phone from toronto to do we have any more details at all about the circumstances of this incident. well lauren there are local radio stations that are saying that there are several dead unfortunately of course we all hope it's not the case but nothing official yet on a death count this accident happened around one thirty in the afternoon here and it's a beautiful sunny day and the particular intersection is the end of the subway line there's always people walking around getting buses there's restaurants it's a very very busy section of town especially at that time of day and you know what about the vehicle itself is that a rental bob what you know i can't tell yet whether it's a rental i have heard that there is there is someone in custody i will say that they picked their day if this isn't an accident because trying to just got out from

under a huge ice storm and we've all been inside for of almost a solid week so this is really the first day that the sun is shining people can be outside. like i don't know if this is intentional or if it was some kind of medical incident but tron tony ns are aware that this kind of things going on in other major cities around the world and i think everyone's waiting to hear what the police think the cause of this accident is means by that i mean it's a terrible thing is you're right it has happened in various cities around the place and in some places like london they've actually. change the the kind of street furniture to try and avoid this kind of thing if it is intentional looks from from what i can see the pictures there as though the streets they're a fairly wide open that there isn't a new stop someone going up onto a paved right and this is north of the city this is sort of getting to the very edges of toronto proper so you might find barriers and things downtown where you will see big sport teams events like tonight there's a hockey game that they're expecting thousands of people to descend on the heart of

the city but this is on the north end where there are still a lot of people but not quite the heart of town so we are not in the mode of thinking in terms of barriers and this kind of thing happening intentionally if in fact that's what happened we still walk around without barriers without posts and i think will have to rethink a lot of this if it turns out this is intentional conduct and thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on the subject thank you lauren we'll bring you more details as we get them another witness gave their account of the scene. then i seen them go and then i thought he had a heart attack or something so i was trying to chase it down and we almost try to catch up see what happened on the scene this guy is crumbling i mean he's going seventy eighty klicks he's hitting people one by one going down. and he was so nice . and legan isn't.

really. mania where tens of thousands of people are celebrating the resignation of prime minister. and you know he's stepping down after almost two weeks of mass anti-government protests opponents had accused him of an unconstitutional power grab and a stern how reports. attention turned to celebration after eleven days of street protests that brought down armenia's prime minister. it was a humiliating in socks and the man who has clung to power in the former soviet republic for a decade on monday he resigned to preserve the peace he said just hours after unarmed soldiers were seen joining the crowds in the capital you know of and now we know that the country has been suffering specifically under the rule of the two. mandates of the president with absolute lack of institutional freedom so be it the

judicial be it the the police spear be at the. the health or culture or even the religious or the fact that they read it took the initiative on individual individual basis to come to the street shows that ultimately institutions are formed by human beings and human minds and intentions was. stepped down a day after his security forces arrested and then released the leader of the opposition further angering the crowds it could have been a tipping point towards violence they claim sarkozy on had rigged the system to stay in power president since two thousand and eight he'd been forced to step down because of term limits earlier this month but a pliant parliament formed after constitutional changes he presided over three years ago swiftly appointed him prime minister with enhanced powers stripped from the presidency critics said it was

a job for life. the mostly peaceful protests had focused on high level corruption and persistent poverty in the country but in a volatile region they were closely watched by russia with whom saga seann had formed close ties but the kremlin said it would not intervene describing events in the other than as a domestic matter to the crowds evident delight. jonah hill al jazeera. from in first year walker has lessons from the arab and. the crowd shouting victory victory and it is that victory for the very. good guys this is going to win in the end the fighting to keep giving the resignation and sounds that things will be square around the erupting in the floor and. the military clearly do that which is the trend very little pulping way but by what and now the opposition leaders get well the same thing if you well go they are really. talking to the

credit old telling them that victory is less about anyone the media is the beginning. but this is just the beginning really because although i said stock is there and i had to sell them what they want now was is free and fair election they want to get political parties a republican seems to be with very very ugly sincere free and fair elections all kings full and a good government to be full but really like all the people of the flutist just enjoying this experience because what they will see is popular politics has replaced this political system in the media at least the true way. one of the top political leaders of the hussein is in yemen has been killed in

a saudi led airstrikes somehow some of his head of the his he'd missed ration in santa his oldest twenty sixteen is considered been effective second in command of the rebel group has he say he was killed last thursday in her data a port city also under their control. with sorrow and sadness i mourn to our yemeni people the did martyr president. he was killed on the nineteenth of april with six of his companions he was targeted in her data province on his way back from a meeting with local leaders by three airstrikes launched by the warplanes of the us saudi aggression. the forces of this aggression led by washington and the saudi regime are legally responsible for such a crime and all its implications this crime will not pass without accountability we will not allow any crime committed against our dear yemeni people to happen without

repercussions. thirty people have been killed in an airstrike that hit a wedding party in yemen and the attack by saudi led forces happened in the western province of have on a dozen others were injured what reports. they were celebrating a wedding but the whole they were gathered in soon turned into a death trap. yemeni officials say the first missile targeted the men's wedding party moments later a second one hit the female side rescue teams were unable to initially reach the bomb site for fear of further airstrikes when they arrived they found body parts scattered among the rubble video released by the hooty rebels which al-jazeera can't independently verify is said to show did them it's from the air strikes by the saudi led coalition. and in the midst of the horror they found

a young boy screaming and crying next to what appears to be the lifeless body of his father. dozens more were killed and wounded among them many children health officials say the bride is among the dead while the groom was rushed to hospital. in the ward shock survivor spoke of the senseless loss. they have no mercy to was children they have been killed without any remorse says this man in a failed voice the air raid to happen in a province in northwestern yemen controlled by who ts who are at war with this saudi led coalition of countries a coalition spokesman promised a full investigation wedding markets hospitals and schools have all been hit since the war began three years ago. an estimated ten thousand yemenis have lost their

lives so far about sixty percent killed by airstrikes says the un which also accuses the coalition of war crimes indiscriminate shelling is sniper fire by the fighters have also claimed many lives could have the honey al-jazeera for mrs a russia and china say they'll block any attempt by the united states to sabotage an iran nuclear deal u.s. president donald trump has until may the twelfth decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement between iran and six world powers trump is often called the deal which lifts sanctions on iran exchange for limiting its nuclear program one of the worst ever in u.s. history. is not a signatory to the deal and president and many are back home has just arrived in new york estates for a three day visit state visit i should say my home has already said he'll use the trip to try to change trump's mind she had the chance he joins us now from the white house or she have how likely is it that michael can persuade trump to stick with iran deal given what he said about it in the past. michael himself has given

several interviews in the last few days to american media outlets what he's saying that he really does have this great link with donald trump the suggestion being if anyone can change doldrums mind it's it's him having said that of the white house press briefing a short time ago the white house press secretary says he did want to get ahead of negotiations but don't want does continue to think this is a very bad deal we know that there have been the go under way between european powers and the state department on perhaps forging some sort of side agreement on various areas of concern that the trump administration has on iran's ballistic missile program on sunset clauses in the nuclear deal on having more aggressive and spectrums of iranian military sites but still to see how this all fits in to the iranian nuclear deal the joint a comprehensive plan of action because as background and the iranians say there is no plan b. this is the deal you signed on to not only that if america does walk away all

messages like it to north korea and others in addition there are other parties other than the europeans and the u.s. in this in this deal notably at the the russians and the chinese we know that micron had a conversation with adam a putin just before his visit to the u.s. where he agreed according to interfax news agency without a putin that the deal should be continued having said that though there might be some wiggle room might compare who is now looking likely to become the next secretary of state during his confirmation hearings he said that that was a way perhaps to stick to the deal on may the twelfth when donald trump has to renew this the waiver of sanctions on iran if that close to some sort of agreement with the europeans so that maybe some wiggle room some way out have a times of thank you very much indeed. still ahead on the program well stocked shelves that despite hefty sanctions were taken to a shopping center north korea whether now shortages. it is disappearing forests one of the business of logging is booming despite

a court ruling that says it's illegal. however a spell of sunlight weather has now gone across europe spring is returning in the form of spring sallis some larvae downpours text area weather spilling in across the party solves this area of low pressure we got another weather system just moving across france and germany easing over towards scandinavia that right will sink its way further south was going to see that just pushing down was no the parts of italy they stands all the way over into you cry nine hundred thirteen degrees for moscow another band of rain that's making its way across northern parts of germany links all the way back across southern areas of england fifteen celsius for london we've lost the twenty four that we saw on sunday similar values as we go on through whedon's day in that west the weather sliding across the northern half of

germany in the process come further south some really heavy rain moving across spain and portugal through the straits of gibraltar the western side of the map of a sense of an eastern part of the med is fine and dry twenty eight celsius in athens once again system glorious sunshine i say eighty two in found high the sort of value we'll see in cairo for choose day five and dry at this moment in time some wet weather the course northern parts of morocco that will run across northern algeria's to go on through wettest day with a top temperature of twenty two degrees. a story fourteen hundred years in the make. a story of succession. tells the story of.

the count of. three this time. they're going to one of the top stories. in breaking news several people are feared dead after a van hit pedestrians in toronto in canada police say the driver is in custody already more details on that story as we get them. thousands of armenians a celebration the resignation of promise to. step down following the week of anti-government protests. and one of the top political leaders of the who fees in

yemen has been killed in a saudi led air strike. as head of the administration in sana'a since rebels took over that city in twenty fifteen south korea says it stopped propaganda broadcast across its border with the north head of this week's into korean summit so says it wants to create a peaceful atmosphere before talks between the careers which are the first in a decade i think that has the details from seoul. for more than two years south korea has used loudspeakers at the border to play messages about democracy news and even k. pop music into north korea the propaganda campaign has angered the government of kim jong un which tightly controls the information it allows its citizens to access north korean soldiers have even shot at the speakers in the past south korea has used them on and off after south korean soldiers were injured in the landmine incident at the border in twenty fifteen and again in twenty sixteen after north korea's fourth nuclear test well now in the latest sign of easing tensions south

korea says it will stop broadcasting propaganda into north korea ahead of the historic summit between president mungy and kim jong un on friday south korea welcomed news over the weekend that north korea would stop its nuclear and missile tests and shut down a nuclear test site south korea hopes that the meeting on friday will lay the groundwork for a summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un well after initially welcoming north korea's announcement donald trump now has tweeted a more cautious message saying we are a long way from a conclusion on north korea maybe things will work out and maybe they won't only time will tell just days before that summit is due to start at the border trish village of panmunjom we've been taking a look at what life is like inside north korea under syria has been given rare access to the capital pyongyang our diplomatic editor james bays takes a firsthand look at whether a raft of international sanctions have any impact at all. 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're being 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 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 thank sions 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 is amazing 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 deeper. that's the official line privately even western diplomats will tell you there's a stigma to denature humanitarian aid to north korea for example an important program by the n.-g. o. the global fund to fight malaria and tuberculosis was caught 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 only surviving suspect in the twenty fifteen paris attacks has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for his role in a gunfight which led to his arrest in brussels salah of the slum was convicted of attempted murder for farming on belgian police as they tried to detain him three

officers were wounded the verdict came down in his absence of his has refused to cooperate with the court since the first day of his trial ten people have been taken to hospital and more than one hundred detained on the greek island of les boss after clashes broke out between locals and migrants right police separating the two sides late on sunday local said things on fire during protests against the two hundred asylum seekers camped out on the island's main square there's boss was a gateway for more than one million refugees passing into europe during the twenty fifteen migrants crisis there are about ten thousand still on the island. former bosnian serb leader radovan carriage is appealing his twenty sixteen conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity cartage his lawyers argue a series of legal and procedural errors mean he should be given a new trial they say judges at the united nations tribunal for the former

yugoslavia denied him the right to testify in the manner that he wanted a seventy two year old was sentenced to forty years in prison from last monday in the atrocities instrument it's a eight thousand muslim men and boys were murdered carriage says he's innocent. police in malaysia have released sketches of two suspects in the targeted killing of a palestinian academic. was repeatedly shot on saturday is families say by israeli mossad intelligence agents israel denies killing the harassed member runs through reports from kuala lumpur. two murder suspects wanted in connection with the killing a foggy al bunch these men are thought to have fired at least fourteen shots at the palestinian lecture at the university of kuala lumpur on saturday they fled on a motorbike. emission can really be the sketch shows to light skinned suspects who are european or middle eastern with beards to look quite long at both men are about

one hundred ninety cents reaches with steady build. and. police haven't been able to identify the men and have alerted airport and border guards. his brother arrived on sunday to accompany the body back to gaza where his family want him to be buried almost certainly. the local n.g.o.s have been supporting us throughout this ordeal of the we thank them for the we also hope that the malaysian authorities will announce the result of this investigation so we know who did this. was a member of hamas which describes him as a scientist who had made important contributions the group which controls gaza and his family accuse mossad of being behind the killing the israeli intelligence agency denies any link israel's defense minister has said the palestinian was no saint who was working to improve the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza at a door liberman has also suggested could have been targeted because of an internal

palestinian dispute this is not the first time mossad has been accused of killing hamas members abroad palestinian drone expert muhammad al-zawahiri was shot into his year two years ago and in two thousand and ten hamas commander mahmoud was killed in a hotel in dubai florence louis al-jazeera. mentalists and politicians are joining forces to try to save fragile rain forests in the asia pacific region a summit is underway in indonesia to build on the commitment made commitments made in the paris climate agreement on the agenda the rapid rate of deforestation in papua new guinea where logging continues at a rapid pace as andrew thomas reports now from the village of talia. this machine should not be operating the 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. else were 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 are good paralyze the public service system so that those public service systems so a very rather than the interest of a nation or its people people here in a remote part of east new britain oil and 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 completely just the way it feels as well it's cool in there. hot out here just two years ago this entire area was covered with virgin rainforest now where i've been 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 the on and off part war is third largest forest bloke on the planet and it's c. major regulator off the climate in this solar specific but it's where we would live so with the loss of forest we have a large 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 p. and g.'s logging industry 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's appeared in is also out by andrew thomas al jazeera papa new guinea and a reminder that you can catch up with all the stories we are reporting on by check out our website the address that is our dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange wire icon al-jazeera dot com.

because the top stories here in breaking news out of canada a number of people are feared dead after a van ran into pedestrians in toronto they say the driver of the van has been taken into custody but so far haven't given any other details of a spokesperson said develop parity jumped the curb and images from the scene show several people being attended to by medics. it's obvious that you know someone over there when i see them go ahead i thought he had a heart attack or something so i was trying to chase it down in a way almost trying to catch up to see what happened all i seen is this guy's just crumble i mean he's going seventy eighty klicks he's just hitting people one by one going down. and it was so nightmare i seen that i was going in for us and i seen a lady with her leg is a gruesome scene is really about. just not racial not coming through to us on the

wires here from reuters to sunnybrook hospital says it's received seven patients from the scene of the van incident and the emergency department is on lockdown as an added precaution. in the newly appointed prime minister of armenia has resigned after days of mass anti-government protests people poured into the streets in the capital to celebrate so you see and said on his website that he was stepping down to maintain civic peace he'd been armenia's president for a decade until last month when his term expired critics say his appointment to prime minister was an attempt to thwart the rules and stay in power. one of the top political leaders of the who fees in yemen has been killed in a saudi led air strike some odd has headed the hooted ministration inside since the rebels took over that city in twenty sixteen is considered an effective second in command of the rebel group if you say he was killed by saudi led air strikes last

thursday in one of her data a port city also under hooty control the foreign ministers of russia and china say they will block any attempts by the united states to sabotage the iran nuclear deal donald trump has until may the twelfth to decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement between iran and six world powers u.s. president has often called deal the worst ever in u.s. history. with us the stream is up next hour more news for you after that i phone after.