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he just started getting everybody mad he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would hit ten people die with more than a dozen injured after a van hits pedestrians in toronto. hello i'm adrian said again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up french president tonight on arrives in the u.s. for a state visit with hopes of saving the iran nuclear deal. celebrations in armenia after the prime minister resigns following days of protests. the political leader is killed in a saudi led air strikes in yemen. police

in canada questioning a suspect after a van drove onto a crowded sidewalk in toronto killing ten people and injuring fifteen other officers say there's appears to have been a deliberate attack but there's no link to any organization or wide applause daniel lack reports from toronto. bystanders watched in horror as a rented van was driven at speed from a busy street onto a sidewalk full of people shoppers commuters students and residents were among the victims he just went on the sidewalk he just started ending everybody he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in his they wouldn't i saw three or four bodies lying on the grounds on the people were getting c.p.r. and i have to go back and like really enter from a distance and i just got lost and i saw the you know what you just. want to know so many people just. stopped the car not even just

a couple. in this cell phone video alone policeman confronts the driver who waves an object perhaps pretending it's a gun he's heard to shout kill me kill me but the armed policeman didn't shoot and made an arrest in front of the van used to cause so much harm we're all collaborating and we're all putting our our pieces together to see exactly what we have and at this particular point in time there's nothing that does affect the national security footprint we are looking very strong to with what the exact motive motivation was for this particular incident to take place and at the end of the day we will have a false him answer and we'll have a full some account as to what the conclusion of this is police say the suspect is a twenty five year old student called alex and from north of toronto he has no criminal record and it's not believed he's part of any larger plot involving national security toronto's mayor is calling for unity and healing i hope that we

will as a city remind ourselves of the fact that we are admired around the world for being inclusive and free and for being accepting and understanding and considerate and that we are united in standing in solidarity especially with those who have fallen victim to this terrible tragedy today a huge police investigation. involving national security officials and other government agencies has begun a clearer picture of this attack may emerge soon but for now this is a city mourning the unexpected bloodshed that marred a beautiful day in the spring daniel lak al-jazeera toronto france's president emanuel micron is on his first official visit to the united states he says he'll use the visit to try to persuade his u.s. counterpart donald trump to stick with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran alan fischer reports. before getting going to work as a politician and a statesman a man decided to be taking the opportunity of a sunny spring day in washington to walk to the lincoln memorial the french

president arrived a few earlier with a warm greeting but a clear agenda we will need to discuss a lot of bilateral issues and to discuss about security about trade. and a lot of. very important for our countries and beyond our two countries at the white house he was welcomed for the first official state visit of the trump presidency donald trump gets on well with a manual mccraw but in the talks that have to follow the french president wants to convince him to stay inside the iran nuclear deal not to abandon it and to also think again about possible trade tariffs on european goods the white house press secretary seemed to indicate there was little chance of change on iran from the president's been extremely clear that he thinks it's a bad deal that certainly has not changed and speaking in canada become acting u.s. secretary of state things the nuclear deal is at risk because of iran's actions the

united states has significant concerns with iran with its listen mic did ballistic missiles program its destabilizing malign influence in the region in yemen in syria and elsewhere iran's foreign minister is carrying out his own tutor in the u.s. international inspectors see iran is in thought compliance but he warns the u.s. collapsing the deal could have consequences politically it would be difficult for donald trump not to abandon the iran nuclear deal given his previous statements the first chance for president mccrone to raise the issue was a very new and george washington storm at a private dinner for the two men and their wives he will hold one german chancellor angela merkel arise for a visit in the coming days donald trump might have something positive to see alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house but as you heard there ron's foreign minister zarif is also in the u.s. he told the council of foreign relations that neither iran nor saudi arabia can be

the dominant power in the middle east we need to have a strong reach or. not to be the strong growth in the rate. in an attempt to be the strongest in the region to exclude one another from the region we have managed to destroy the region time to break with that and i'm telling you that iran is ready put it because we are bigger not old enough mature enough to appreciate this reality. and i hope that our neighbors can also appreciate it tens of thousands of armenians are celebrating the resignation of privacy sagas ian he's stepping down after almost two weeks of anti-government protests opponents accused him of a power grab zero as robin for us to walk or reports from the capital of. tension turns to celebration after eleven days of street protests the. prime

minister. it was a humiliating and serious for. the band who has clung to power in the for the soviet republic for a decade on monday he was to preserve the peace he said just hours after soldiers were seen joining the crowds we know that the country has been suffering specifically under the rule of the took mandates of the president with absolute lack of institutional freedom so be it the judicial be it the the dia police be it 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. stepped down after the release of the leader of the opposition his arrest the day

before had only served to crowds was president since two thousand and eight his second term in office had ended but the pliant parliament formed off the constitutional changes he presided over swiftly appointed him prime minister with enhanced powers stripped from the presidency the peaceful protests had focused largely on high level corruption and persistent poverty in a volatile region they were closely watched by russia who who had formed close ties with the kremlin said it would not intervene describing events in yeven as a domestic matter and crowds evident delights i alex i have them in full obviously that he's had a regime but especially the young leaders reading with writing for the audition for . the real what they are deciding this country's future from the first she woke up

al-jazeera arabic. is a former foreign minister and says it's a great time for the country. it's a joyful moment where the entire i mean nation and to paper where it is truly people feel empowered but they can't really change for the first time in a long time since our birth in london in nine hundred ninety one when the armenians to demonstrate. contributed to the whole of the soviet union since then going through all sorts of ups and downs and going through all sorts of disappointment disenchantment after a long time now the feud getting power on the country i think going through we you know the question now is what's next i think soon we will have a transition government in which. i believe there will play a major role and do primary tasks will be to organize the parliamentary elections

that are going to be very critical during this past decade to decade our will say one of the doctors that you know i mean it was the trust in the government we had to look at them as you problem because of our blog election and it would be extremely important that we conduct really incredible action so that people will have trust in the next government so that the government can tackle their challenges before it well domestic you aren't regionally antigovernment protesters in nicaragua refusing to back down with thousands continuing to demonstrate in the capital that's despite president daniel ortega scrapping controversial pension reforms the proposed social security of a horse spots days of violent protests that left at least twenty six people dead demonstrators are now calling for peace and for an end to what they say is

government repression does who is john holmes reports from mexico city. the march was a balkanized by the private sector a nuclear weapon it's not just business. some of the people from different sectors of society we've been monitoring it i think. some people calling out the names of the dead there's now more than twenty people being killed in these protests. murderous murderers was one of the charge that. authorities police tactics i think criticizes heavy handed not just by people in the country but also by international organizations some of the things that people are unhappy about many of those protesters were heading towards one of the main university campuses in manner with the polytechnic university and that's been taken over occupied by students and most police have been trying to attack them and sort of take that back there was at least one there last night so there's definitely still a lot of tension and i would this president take his crime down really on this over

who of the social security system at least ten people have been injured and more than one hundred detainees on the greek island the boss off the fighting broke out between locals and migrants riot police had to intervene to separate the two sides earlier local people said bins on fire during a demonstration against two hundred asylum seekers who were camped out on the island's main square as boss was a gateway for more than one million refugees entering europe during the twenty fifteen migrant crisis there are still around ten thousand migrants on the island. we're going to weather update next here on houses they were then luxury despite sanctions an exclusive look at how north korea is reacting to international trade restrictions. and protecting our rain forests leaders and environmentalist's gathered for a summit in indonesia. from

dusk the sunset so it's pruning savannah. to sunrise the top and asian metropolis follow we've still got some rather disturbed weather affecting the middle east at the moment hands of cloud just easing across iraq the caspian sea iran pushing over towards afghanistan where we will see some clouds and rain over the next couple of days prices guys do come back in behind twenty two degrees baghdad getting up to thirty celsius and it's five and dry across that he says sod off the mediterranean choose day off today and make the most of it they will be some rain just around the sinai peninsula. israel southern parts of jordan seeing some wet weather maybe the fall northwest of saudi arabia two looking a little disturbed by this day maybe all of the stuff weather that we have towards afghanistan that's pulling away pulling away from tech minus don and also as a by process guys come back in behind but you notice

a little bit of cloud just around the raging gulf anywhere you see this cloud to catch a few spots of rights that we've been hearing constant over the next day or two possibility of that a bit damp weather the west weather pockets of life showers possible it's essential as a saudi arabia maybe down to the southern end of the red sea now not too much wet weather across south africa at present tuesday looks fine and dry as is the case as we go on into wednesday by wednesday there was the possibility of some wet weather easing towards the western cape. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating they say is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist has posted

a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera police in canada questioning a suspect off for a van drove onto a crowded sidewalk in toronto killing ten people and injuring fifteen others he's been named as twenty five year old alec manasse and officers say that he appears to have acted deliberately. french president about quotas in the u.s. for a three day state visit he's hoping to persuade president donald trump to stick with the twenty fifteen uclear deal with iran. but antigovernment protesters and nicaragua are refusing to back down with thousands continuing to demonstrate in the

capital that's despite the president that it will take a scrapping controversial pension reforms which sparked days of protests leaving at least twenty six people dead at. the u.n. secretary general has condemned estrada called a wedding party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the attack by saudi led forces in the western province of hayat the details are emerging of another saudi air strike last week which killed a cd a hoot the leader. as mike hanna reports from the united nations. the wedding hall which was to have been the scene of joyous celebration was turned into a death trap this video which al-jazeera cannot independently verify shows the often math of the airstrikes believed to being carried out by the saudi led coalition local officials said the first missile detonated in the men's section of the wedding party moments later a second one hit the side on which the females were gathered this footage released

by the rebels shows the horrific off the mats. a young boy screaming and crying next to what appears to be the lifeless body of his father dozens of people were treated in the nearby hospital and they have no mercy towards children they've been killed without any remorse says this man a spokesman for the saudi led coalition says it will carry out a full investigation the u.n. has set that off the estimated ten thousand menes that have so far lost their lives in the conflict some sixty percent have been killed in air strikes. there's been no formal response from the security council as yet its members have just returned from a weekend retreat in sweden but the office of the secretary general has issued a statement on his behalf condemning the attack it reads in part the secretary general reminds all parties of the obligations under international humanitarian law concerning the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure during armed

conflicts he calls for a prompt effective and transparent investigation and during the day details emerged off another saudi led air strike political council here. was killed in an apparent missile attack last thursday the burnable. with sorrow and sadness i mooned to our yemeni people that did martyr president saleh. 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 sunday our summit is the most senior who feel leader to have been killed since the western backed saudi led coalition intervened in yemen just over three years ago mike hanna al jazeera united nations let's hear from peter

soles for he is a senior consulting fellow for the middle east north africa program at the think tank chatham house explains how significant was to the movement. some odd was that the heads of the supreme political council that was formed in august of two thousand and sixteen and he was sensibly a figure who filled the role of president in controlled areas but in terms of his decision making power on a day to day basis he was increasingly more of a figurehead than a major figure he came from the political wing and as the war continued the military wing and the more extreme wing of the movement really took over the overall decision maker for the who feasibly monocle hoofy who is generally recognized as the leader of the hoofy movement some odd came from the group's political wing. of the malek's half brother mohamad is affectively sort of the the ruler of the who controlled areas of yemen from sun and

his full brother the holic oversees security and some on the ground a lot of the country so realistically when you look at the structure of the group he was a political figure a figurehead who was overseeing an organization which was meant to bring the who these together with the g.p.c. the party valuable to the sala the former president who himself was killed last december by the who fees so what we're really seeing is we're doing out of many political figures an increasing consolidation within the movement of military hardliners so it so again he's someone who had some significance he was symbolically important to the movement this will be a blow to them but overall it makes very little difference to the movement overall a u.s. senate panel has narrowly backed the nomination of cia director mike pompei as secretary of state republican rand paul changed his vote after earlier saying that

he would oppose the appointment that gave pompei of the eleven votes needed from the twenty one member panel is nomination now goes to a full senate vote. former u.s. president george h.w. bush has been admitted to hospital the ninety three year old is at a facility in houston texas after contracting any infection that spread to his blood a spokesman said that he's responding to treatment it appears to be recovering he was taken to hospital a day after attending his wife's funeral on saturday barbara bush died a week ago just days before a rare summit between rival leaders on the korean peninsula zero has been taking a look at life inside north korea we've been granted rare access to the capital pyongyang diplomatic as a james bays takes a first hand look at the impact of international sanctions. 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 subsidised for north korean citizens what is the main yes what's the name of the north korean brand oh our. hero yet not yet not ok but a recent un 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. there's a nutrition problem lots of 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 as 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 deep. 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 caught earlier this year sanctions are having an effect in north korea but perhaps not the one the international community wanted james pays zero pyongyang. place and is here have released sketches of two men suspected of killing a palestinian academic who was a member of hamas. was repeatedly shot on saturday israel has rejected his family's accusation that its intelligence agency was behind the murder florence larry reports from kuala lumpur. to murder suspects wanted in connection with the killing of foggy alba which 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 luck or any mission to deliberately he went to the sketch shows to light skinned suspects who are european or middle eastern with their quite long both men are about one hundred eighty centimeters with sturdy. police haven't been able to identify the men and have alerted airport and border guards botches brother arrived on sunday to accompany the body back to gaza where his family want him to be buried almost certain members of the local n.g.o.s have been supporting us throughout this ordeal we thank them for that we also hope that the malaysian authorities will announce the result of this investigation so we know he did as. 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. environmentalists and politicians are joining forces to try to save fragile rain forests in the asia pacific region a summit in indonesia aims to build on the commitments made in the paris climate agreement andrew thomas reports from talia. 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's 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 and basically 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 breton island say representatives of logging companies tricked them into signing away the rights to log their land giving very little in

return you know 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 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 is the on and off part it is third largest forest block on the planet and it's see major regulator off the climate in this solar specific but it's where we

would write 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 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 by andrew thomas al-jazeera papa new guinea. find more video reports like that at the website i was there a don't call. it

is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha but the headlines on al-jazeera police in canada are questioning a suspect after a van drove onto a crowded sidewalk in toronto killing ten people and injuring fifteen others he's been named as twenty five year old alec. officer saying he appears to have acted deliberately. he just went on the sidewalk he just started shooting everybody man he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would hit the bus stop everything i shouted there's a lady in there i just stopped and i looked the night went after it again crumbling up one by one and one by one i seen a stronger. and stronger. stance i seen i see. the most gruesome scene i seen was a young empress the woman's leg or leg was all months. it's really bad

france's president of money omicron is in the u.s. for a three day state visit he'll be hoping to further cultivated and cultivate his good relationship with donald trump across has already said that he'll try to persuade the u.s. president to stick with the twenty fifteen uclear deal with iran a u.s. senate panel has narrowly backed the nomination of cia director mike peo as secretary of state republican rand paul changed his foes after earlier saying that he would oppose the appointment of nomination now goes to a full senate vote. anti-government protests in nicaragua are refusing to back down with thousands continuing to demonstrate in the capital despite president daniel ortega scrapping controversial pension reforms which sparked days of protests leading to at least twenty six deaths demonstrators calling for peace of what they and what they say is government repression. the resignation of.

following nearly two weeks of protests he was accused of a power grab when he became prime minister after finishing two terms as president the u.n. secretary general has condemned an airstrike that hit a wedding party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the attack by saudi led forces in the western province of details have also emerged of another saudi airstrike last week which killed a senior leader. of the stream next. on the twenty seventh of north and south korea will hold a rare into korean summit after decades of heightened tensions on the peninsula. pave the way for more dialogue we'll bring you live coverage and analysis here on al-jazeera.