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he just started dating everybody he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in his they would it. so police search for a motive for a driver plows into a crowd of pedestrians killing at least ten people. hello and welcome watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here also coming up. a senior political leader with a twenty million dollars bounty on his life is killed in a saudi led air strike in yemen plus. the president's been extremely clear he thinks it's a bad deal that certainly has not changed a tough job ahead for the french president hoping to change donald trump's mind about pulling out of the iran nuclear deal during his u.s. visit. also this going back to school thousands of syrian children displaced by

war find new classrooms in georgia. the police in toronto requesting a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk killing ten people and injuring fifteen of those offices it appears to have been a deliberate act but so far there's been no link to any organization or to a wider plot daniel lek is that. 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 getting everybody here every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would it i saw your four bodies lying on the grounds on the people were getting c.p.r. and i have to go back and like the relay that information to me i guess they are

saying and i saw the you know what you. it's. not something that people. stop the car not even. 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. collaborating and putting 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 full some 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 around the world for being inclusive 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. the u.n. secretary general has condemned an airstrike on a waiting party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the attack by saudi forces in the western province of hunter late on sunday also the details are

emerging of another airstrike last week which killed who sees second in command salah al summit who had a twenty million dollars bounty on his head from the saudis mike hanna has more from the u.n. in new york. 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 up 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 math. 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 said that off the estimated ten thousand menes that have so far lost their lives in the conflict some sixty percent have been killed in 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 their martyr president saleh. who 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 theall leader to have been killed since the west and back saudi led coalition intervened in yemen just over three years ago mike hanna al-jazeera united nations ok let's get more on that for you peter soles for is chatham house he explains now how significant a figure summit was for the who see movement. some odd was the head 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 groups political wing. of the malek's half brother muhammad is effectively sort of the the ruler of the who controlled areas of yemen from son and his full brother alcoholic 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 value to the seller 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 the but overall it makes very little difference for the movement overall the iran nuclear deal is expected to dominate the state visit of the french president emanuel macron to the united states mr macro is urging the u.s. president on the trunk to stick to the twenty fifteen agreement mr trump has threatened to walk away from the deal which does ease some sanctions on iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program alan fisher has the story now from the white house. you're forgetting going to work as a politician and a statesman emanuel mccrone decided to be a tourist taking the opportunity of a sunny spring day in washington to walk to the lincoln memorial the french

president arrived a few hours earlier with a warm greeting but a clear agenda we will have your partner to discuss a lot of bilateral issues and to discuss about her security about trade and a lot of the issues 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 you're 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 front the president's been extremely clear 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 blistering mick did ballistic missiles program it's destabilizing malign influence in the region in yemen in syria and elsewhere iran's foreign minister is carrying out his own tutor in the us international inspectors see iran isn't 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 vermund george washington at a private dinner for the two men and their wives he will hope when german chancellor angela merkel arise to visit in the coming days donald trump might have something positive to see alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house iran's foreign minister mohammad. also in the united states he told the council of foreign relations that neither iran nor its rival 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 that wreaked 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. still to come here on al-jazeera we'll tell you why a backtrack on pension changes isn't enough for the protesters in nicaragua plus. celebrations in armenia after the prime minister resigns following days of protests .

however a spell of sunlight weather has now gone across europe spring has written it in the form of spring salah some lobby down poles next area whether spilling across the british isles this area of low pressure we got another weather system just moving across france and germany over towards scandinavia that right will sink its way further south was going to see that just pushing down was no the piles 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 fall on the move last the twenty four that we saw on sunday some of the values as we go on through whedon's day and that wetter 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 the central and eastern parts of the med is fine and dry twenty eight celsius in athens once again says and glorious sunshine as 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 that of course northern parts of morocco that will run across northern algeria sicko on three wettest day algiers with a top temperature of twenty two degrees.

here with al-jazeera live from doha my name's peter dhabi let's just recap our top stories for you the police in the canadian city of toronto are questioning a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk at least ten people died and fifteen were injured officers say the suspects alec naseer appears to act it deliberately. 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 another air strike last week the second in command of the rebels was

killed. one of the story the french president emmanuel macron has started a state visit to the u.s. with the iran nuclear deal expected to dominate his talks with donald trump as your macro is urging the u.s. president to stick with the twenty fifteen accord as a may the twelfth deadline for mr trump to recertify the deal closer. antigovernment protesters in nicaragua are refusing to back down even though the president daniel ortega scrapped controversial pension reforms the proposed social security overhaul will spawn days of violent protests leaving at least twenty six people dead john holeman now reports. people continue to come out in the streets of nicaragua despite president daniel ortega sing the reform to the social security system that is first sparked protests last week. that the thousands who marched through the capital menar were monday this is now become

about something move they are protesting against the president himself. the minute the minute or so they make it that their final seconds this protest is bigger than all the rest because people have grown tired people are worn out from the violation of rights rights of the people the violation of the constitution this was the vote that knocked over the glass as they say the president all take is now on his third consecutive term and has been accused of nepotism his wife is the vice president and for undermining democratic institutions to tighten his grip on power. his critics will now add to that list repression police have used heavy handed tactics in dealing with protesters close to thirty people have been killed among them offices themselves. others have been the timing of these relatives saying outside a police station as they called for their loved ones to be released. what the

president originally bullish in his response to the protests head on sunday struck a slightly more conciliatory tone let me turn the symbol to the incidents of violence that have happened i regret about we express solidarity with all the families whose loved ones have died from the violence. and then as you did i saw in the footage but after that address police rushed to university campus that has become the bastion of the protests the students occupying it full back at least one was killed the man i am but i'm interacting the army afterwards they promise to carry on what they need is the backing of the country's powerful business community and the rest of the population. here the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger. john heilemann. you know many of the opposition leaders say they want parliamentary elections to be held as soon as possible to prevent you see and from running the country from

behind the scenes there were celebrations in the capital the on monday after the sixty three year old resigned as prime minister after nearly two weeks of protests robin for a city walker reports now from the. tension turned to celebration after eleven days of street protests that proved its prime minister. yet it was a humiliating to say. 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 two. mandates of the president with absolute lack of institutional freedom so be it the judicial be it the the dia police be at the. the health or culture or even the religious of 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. so he 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 whose ugly c.n.n. had formed close ties with the kremlin said it would not intervene describing events in year of an as a domestic matter and crowds evident delight i. always thought

i had the right for father to say that he's had a regime but it's basically the younger suspect with writing with me and tried to write from the first she woke up al-jazeera care of us. will stay with us story the former armenian foreign minister. believes it is now a great time for the country. it's a joyful moment where the entire army in a nation and a paper where it is truly people feel empowered but they can't really change for the first time in long hiram since our first in hundreds in nine hundred ninety one when the armenians through street demonstrations contributed to do it all over the soviet union since then going through all sorts of ups sit ups and downs and going through all sorts of disappointment and disenchantment after

a long tiring nowaday few doing our duty on their country and begun to leave 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 task will be to organize a parliamentary elections that are going to be very critical during this past decade to decade that will say one of the deficit in armenia will be trust in big government we have legitimacy problem because of part clarke election and it would be extremely important that we conduct we in parallel action so that people will have trust in the next government so that the government can tackle their challenges before it well the mass that you aren't regionally. a u.s. senate panel has narrowly back to the nomination of the cia director mike pompei o as secretary of state the republican rand paul changed his votes after earlier

saying he would oppose the appointment that gay pompei are the eleven votes needed from the twenty one member panel his nomination now goes to a full senate vote while my pump air has risen rapidly from the fringes of the republican party to become one of the president's most trusted advisers he came to congress as a tea party republican from kansas in twenty ten and served until trump made him the head of the cia last year a former u.s. army officer pompei osha's trumps views on north korea and iran and to said he'd support regime change in both countries he's been accused of promoting anti islamic views on saying muslims are a threat to america ross jordan has more now from washington. the cia director mike pump a.o. is now one step closer to becoming the next u.s. secretary of state this comes after a business meeting on monday in which the meeting ended in a tie ten ten if the confirmation vote had gone forward just that way that would

have meant a negative recommendation from the senate foreign relations committee that was a signal that the chairman bob corker of tennessee did not want to send it's very rare for a senate committee to not recommend that a president's nominee for a cabinet post be confirmed so after a bit of negotiating one of the democratic senators who had first voted no or had voted against mike on peo change his vote chris coons was then thanked for his statements like the attitude part of the reason why this vote came up the way it did is because one of the members on the republican side was away for a funeral and so mr coons changed his vote in part so that senators wouldn't have to work late into the night waiting for that senator to show up to cast his vote in person the police in china have arrested a man 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 on state media says the building was used as a karaoke lunch it's reporting the suspect lit the fire and blocks the only entrance with a motorbike most korea's leader has paid a visit to the hospital where chinese tourists are being treated following a bus crash that killed thirty six people can also met china's ambassador to north korea there on sunday a bus fell from a bridge in the south of the country most of the passengers on board were from china which is north korea's biggest tourism market. just days before a wrist 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 diplomatic editor james bays takes a firsthand look at whether international sanctions are having any impact on daily life. 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 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 mean yes 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 lots of malnourished children especially there are to 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. 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 james pays zero young young. children who've fled the war in syria and are confronting another problem jordan is home to almost a quarter of a million of the young refugees and is trying to help them to get an education but money is tight as an economic crisis continues to bite them reports now from amman . playing piano in front of her classmates before heading to school was once unimaginable for sidra after fleeing the war in syria the twelve year old was

forced to drop out for two years. of the rest of us and there was a school at the refugee camp but i didn't like it i love studying here in aman because i study with my friends and the level of education is better. this unicef center helps a drug transition back to school impoverished children such as syrian refugees come to learn everything from english to communication skills to play and obtain psychological support to cope with the trauma they've endured come on feed them enough see one of my sons has psychological problems the psychologist at the center has helped him he is now listening to me and he is better and this has been the biggest benefit unicef says thirty one percent of syrian children in the kingdom are not enroll in any formal or informal education program yet this year there are more syrian refugees in the jordanian school system than ever the ministry of education has implemented

a double shift system to meet the need unicef is also providing cash assistance to encourage children to stay in school fifty five thousand students are receiving about thirty dollars a month the money helps pay for the cost of transportation uniforms and school supplies unicef says the economic crisis in jordan is making it harder for all children living in poverty its educational program is operating with a more than one hundred million dollar deficit this year this is now a prolonged crisis and so it is becoming increasingly challenging for us to maintain interest in funding these very important programs but the reality is on the ground there we see increasing vulnerability is educating children is seen as a long term economic investment in jordan and at the centers all nationalities are coming together and learning to get along natasha guinea al-jazeera man.

peter overby with the headlines from al-jazeera for you today the police in the canadian city of toronto are questioning a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk at least ten people died and fifteen were injured officers say the suspects. appears to acted deliberately but so far there appears to be no connection to an armed group or to a wider plot 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 forces in the western province of hugill on sunday and it's now emerged that in another air strike last week the second in command of the who the rebels was killed the french president emanuel macron has begun a state visit to the u.s. with the iran nuclear deal expected to dominate his talks with donald trump mr mccraw is urging the u.s. president on the trump to stick with the original twenty fifteen accords made the

twelfth deadline for mr trump to recertify the deal draws closer iran's foreign minister mohammed jeffords a reef is also in the united states he's warned of severe consequences if washington walks away from the agreements now earlier he told the council of foreign relations in washington that neither iran nor its rival saudi arabia can be the one dominant power in the middle east we need to have a strong region not to be the strong growth in that route 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 down 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 appreciated.

continuing to demonstrate in the capital despite the president. protests that left at least twenty six people dead. elections to be held as soon as possible. from running the country from behind the scenes those are your headlines so far today the news continues off the inside story. the real. life. series of. political.