right. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera getting to the heart of the matter if 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 a lot of people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

he just started reading everybody 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 vine the hits pedestrians in toronto. hello i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up french president to money 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. at a who's 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 others police say that it appears to have been. a deliberate attack but there's no link to any organization or wide applause 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 would it i saw about three or four bodies lying on the grounds on the people who were getting c.p.r. and i have to go back and like really enter from a distance and i just. you know it's not like you just. cut off the many people just shouting stop the car not even just

a little. 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 the 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 as. 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 in the u.s. for a three day state visit across has already said that he'll try to persuade trump to stick with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran i was there as alan fischer reports. before getting going to work as a politician and a statesman emanuel 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 have the opportunity 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 the man 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 front but 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 missile 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 us 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 of most vernon george washington at a private dinner for the two men and their wives he will hold one german chancellor angela merkel arise through or visit in the coming days donald trump might have something positive to say alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house well as you heard there runs foreign minister mohamad jeffords of the fizzle so in the us 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 richt 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 nob old enough mature enough to appreciate this reality. and i hope that our neighbors. can also appreciated tens of thousands of armenians celebrating the resignation of prime minister search and he's stepping down after almost two weeks of anti-government protests opponents accused him of a power grab zeros robin for us the walker reports from the capital got about. tension turned to celebration after eleven days of street protests that. prime

minister. was it was a humiliating and to satisfy. the band who has clung to power in the for the soviet republic for a decade on monday he resigns to preserve the peace he said just hours after. 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 spear 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. after the release of the leader of the opposition his arrest the day before had

only served to crowds i was president since two thousand and eight his second term in office had ended but the point parliament formed of the constitutional changes he presided over swiftly appointed him prime minister with enhanced powers stripped from the presidency the peaceful protests that focused largely on high level corruption and persistent poverty in a volatile region they were closely watched by russia with. close ties with the kremlin. that it would not intervene describing events in your event as a domestic matter and crowds evident delight. now i know i am ready for audience of any generation but especially the army when the right. side is. the real one the kids are deciding this country's future problem

for us it will get their caravan. vote on us county and is a former foreign minister of i'm in the air and believes that it's a great time for the country it's a joyful moment where the entire i mean nation and the paper where it is truly people feel empowered that they can really change for the first time in a long time since our first in congress in nine hundred ninety one when the armenians to street demonstrations. contributed to the whole of the soviet union since then going through all sorts of ups the ups and downs and going through all sorts of disappointment that disenchantment after a long time now day few during our day on the country and begun to greet the question now is what's next i think soon we will have a transition government in which the opposition leader will play

a major role and primary tasks will be to organize the parliamentary elections that are going to be very critical during this past decade to decade i will say one of the deficit in armenia will be tossed into government we have legitimacy problem because of our walk lection and it will be extremely important that we conduct we improve the election so that people will have trust in the next government so that the government can tackle their challenges before it well domestic young regionally . and government protesters in nicaragua are refusing to back down with thousands continuing to demonstrate in the capital that's despite president daniel ortega scrapping controversial pension reforms his proposed social security overhaul and spark days of violent protests which left at least twenty six people dead demonstrators are now calling for peace and for an end to what they say is

government repression holeman is following the story from mexico city. the march was organized by the private sector nick i work but it's not just businessmen. 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 shouting out murderous murderers was one of the chant that's almost definitely aimed authorities police tactics i think criticizes heavyhanded 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 man i was the polytechnic university and that's been taken over occupied by students and most night 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 when i would this president take his crime down really on this over who of the social security system and whether i'd take next year i was zero then spain confronts the painful legacy of one of its most controversial monuments . and a question of copyright why artists in south sudan a struggling to benefit from their work. hello 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 tehran twenty two degrees baghdad getting up to thirty celsius and it's far and dry across that ace's side of the

mediterranean the tuesday afternoon 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 far northwest of saudi arabia to looking a little disturbed by this day meanwhile the disturbed weather that we have moved towards afghanistan that's pulling away pulling away from tech missed out and also as a by john prices guys come back a bit high but you notice a little bit of cloud just around the arabian gulf anywhere you see this cloud to catch a few spots of right so we can hear a concert over the next day or two possibility of that a bit damp weather the wetter weather pockets of life showers possible into center halves of 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 where to stay by wednesday there was the possibility of some wet weather easing towards the western cape.

he ruled for nearly half a century a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad. in a two part series al-jazeera warrant tells the story of king hussein of jordan episode two. on al-jazeera. well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera police in canada 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 alex when i see an officer say that he appears to acted deliberately. french president of ariel micron is in the u.s. for a three day state visit he's hoping to persuade president all trump to stick with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran that seek up the protesters in nicaragua are refusing to back down with thousands continuing to demonstrate in the capital but despite president daniel ortega scrapping controversial pension reforms which it sparked days of protests leaving at least twenty six people dead. the u.n. secretary general has condemned an airstrike on a wedding party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the attack by saudi led forces in the western province of haji details also nurturing of another saudia strike last week which killed a senior who think leda zero as mike hanna reports from the united nations. the.

getting whole 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 off to 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 in 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 the political council head. was killed in an apparent missile attack last thursday the bird. 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 petersen's free is a senior consulting fellow for the middle east north africa program think tank chatham house he explains how significant was to the hooty 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 a sensible. 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 who these 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 these are the 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 muhammad is affectively sort of the the ruler of the who controlled areas of yemen from son 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 of ali abdullah saleh the former president himself was killed last december by the who fees so what we're really seeing is

a 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 that the movement overall the u.s. senate panel has narrowly backed the nomination of cia director mike pompei or as secretary of state republican rand paul changed his vote earlier saying that he would oppose the appointment that gave him pay or the eleven votes needed for the twenty one member panel his nomination now goes to a full senate foes. 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 contracting an infection that spread to his blood a spokesman said that he is responding to treatment to the piers to be recovering the former president was taken to hospital a day after attending his wife's funeral barbara bush died

a week ago. just days before a rare summit between rival leaders on the korean peninsula al-jazeera has been taking a look at life inside north korea we've been granted rare access to the capital pyongyang our diplomatic editor james bays takes a firsthand 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 of 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 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 it will make us what's the name of the north korean brand 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. that's the official line privately even western diplomats will tell you there's a stigma to deny eighteen 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 to. al-jazeera pyongyang. police in china

have arrested a man that they believe deliberately started a fire that killed eighteen people the blaze tore through a three story building in the southern city of ching on state media says that the building was used as a karaoke it's reporting that the suspect lit the fire and blocked the only entrance with his motorbike but the life of an artist can often be a struggle but for writers and musicians in south sudan the lack of copyright laws makes it even harder to earn a living hell morgan reports from juba. it takes days sometimes weeks for one of south sudan most popular musicians emanuel to write record and produce his songs despite his dedication he benefits very little from the finished product. visibly. copyright law does not exist so we musicians we spend time money

and energy to produce but. there's no any law that protects all right like in other countries neighboring countries like uganda so when musicians produce music at least to earn something out of the work. but. emanuel is one of more than fifty artist in south sudan all facing the same problem musicians writers and poets are all suffering because there are no laws in place to protect their work now many prefer to have their work produced in other countries where there is copyright legislation. where in south sudan and south hundreds and i too have a comprise the sound system here. i wanted to try to publish in uganda i would publish them you're going to give me that but he would i would still maintain that i didn't you know i'm soliciting this poet who is publishing in your grammar there

are no distribution companies in south sudan it's not seen as a worthwhile investment but that doesn't mean artists works are not being sold distributing the work of art without their permission isn't difficult you bring a stick or drive to meet a fellow here in the markets and to the music you want he'll cop it and you'll pay and it'll cost less than a dollar then you can reproduce songs using the music and the lyrics and the artists don't even know that their music is being sold on government has taken little interest in the arts and literature sector especially after a civil war broke out in twenty thirteen tens of thousands of people have been killed and a third of the country's twelve million population displaced but the government says it is now working on a bill and forming a council to protect the intellectual property of artists will be formed soon by the by the approval of the cabinet so that it. will become. and then at this same time will confirm that we have a body that we can give him we can give this body

a policy with these these. laws so that we we talked about protection. for emmanuel and other artists this provides some hope that in the future it is they who will benefit financially from their words and music not an unknown third party. people more going on to their own jubal. for the first time a court in spain has authorized the exhibition of bodies from the country's most controversial monument the valley of the fall in this vast mausoleum where the fascist dictator general franco is buried along with thousands of victims of spain's civil war charlie rangel reports. sixty kilometers outside madrid lies spain's largest mass grave cut into the mountainside the valley of the fallen is where dictator francisco franco lies buried around him tens of thousands of

bodies of unnamed people killed on both sides of spain's civil war many of the murdered on franco's orders. is the granddaughter of one of those murdered men for years her family has fought for the right to re berryman well and his brother antonio romero in their hometown. it's an historic day not because of my relatives but also because we can help other people that are in the same situation . that the mortal remains of my family shouldn't be lying with a dictator. during franco's thirty six year dictatorship hundreds of thousands of spaniards died or just disappeared franco himself ordered the building of the basilica as a symbol of peace and reconciliation but many see it as a monument to a fascist a silent place it embody spain so-called pact of forgetting and amnesty pardoning

the political crimes of the past that helped spain's transition to democracy in one nine hundred seventy seven the benedictine monks who live here against the dead for them the religious status comes before its political significance but the silence is now being shattered. city officials entering there's a grim task ahead searching through the remains of thirty four thousand people to identify. bringing up the bodies of frank has happened in other parts of the country but relatives have to fight for the right to re bury their loved ones i hear today other grandchildren of many people but there are others waiting hoping that today is the beginning of the end of the legal process to retrieve our relatives these relatives are also calling for the removal of the hundred fifty metre high stone cross the tallest in the world but fresh flowers a still on franco's grave it seems there are still to spain's when it comes to

re-examining the civil war. it is good to have you with us adrian for the good here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera police in canada questioning a suspect after a van drove onto a crowded sidewalk in toronto killing ten people and injuring fifteen others officers say that he appears to have acted deliberately has been named as twenty five year old alec massey and with us described a scene of horror he just went on the sidewalk you just started dating everybody here every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would hit the bus stop everything was shattered there's a lady in there i just stopped and i looked annoyed when after to generally crumbling up one by one and one by one i seen a stronger and. stronger. stance i seem i see people

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 emanuel necron is in the u.s. for a three day state visit he'll be hoping to further cultivate it's good relationship with donald trump because already said that he'll try to persuade the u.s. president to stick with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran. former u.s. president george h.w. bush has been admitted to hospital the ninety three year old has a facility in houston texas after contracting an infection that spread to his blood a spokesman said that he is responding to treatment and appears to be recovering. police in china have arrested a man that they believe deliberately started a fire that killed eighteen people the blaze tore through a three story building in the southern city of ching you won state media says the building was used as a karaoke lounge and it's being reported that the suspect lit the fire on the only

entrance with his motorbike. antigovernment protesters in nicaragua are refusing to back down with thousands continuing to demonstrate to the capital that's the spy president daniel ortega scrapping controversial pension reforms which sparked days of protests that left at least twenty six people dead. thousands of armenians are celebrating the resignation of prime minister so you see and following nearly two weeks of protests he was accused of a power grab when he became prime minister to fishing two terms as president of the headlines the news continues analysis here after counting the costs next. story generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives separate the spin from the facts that's why i'm done. with the listening post on al-jazeera.