palestinian cause started what is the likelihood of success of that which is known as the deal of the century. what role has the media played in the region's issues. the twelve al-jazeera forum the goal of the arabs and the world amid current developments doha april twenty eighth and twenty nine two thousand and eighteen. u.s. citizens obstructed from saving their families as the crisis in yemen worsens some have fled the horror of war only to be entangled in bureaucratic limbo with their lives and dreams of a future with on call. phone lines explores the all too real effects of trumps immigration policies. between war and the ban on.

iran wants the u.s. of severe consequences if it pulls out of the nuclear deal with the visiting french president tries to convince donald trump to stand by the agreement. again peter here in doha you are watching al-jazeera also coming up. dozens die in separate saudi led air strikes in yemen all details emerge about the most senior rebel killed so far plus. he just started hitting everybody man here in every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would it to run to police search for a motive after a driver plows into a crowded pedestrian killing at least ten people also it. will stamp their mark on armenia and now the protesters are forced out an unpopular

prime minister. the iranian president has warned the u.s. of severe consequences if it was calls from the twenty fifteen uclear agreement a few hours ahead of talks between the french president emmanuel macro and donald trump at the white house mr trump has until may the twelfth to decide whether to. bring back sanctions that were east in exchange for curbs on tehran's nuclear program hassan rouhani says that would be a bad idea an attack on i'm telling those in the white house that if they did not live up to their commitments the iranian government will react firmly if anyone betrays the deal bay should know that they would face severe consequences well the visiting french president emanuel macro is trying to convince mr trump to stick with the twenty fifteen deal alan fischer now from the white house. before getting

going to work as a politician and a statesman emanuel mccrone 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 hours earlier with a warm greeting but a clear agenda we will have your board meeting to discuss a lot of bilateral issues and to discuss a border 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 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 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 nic 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 of most vernon george washington at a private dinner for the two men and their wives he will hope when german chancellor angela merkel arise through or visit in the coming days donald trump might have something positive to see alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house how

is this being perceived in paris let's take you live now to the french capital and my colleague natasha butler natasha donald trump hardly popular in france but is this is that make that a bigger deal or a smaller deal. well people are watching this visit very closely of course but as you point out to donald trump if you believe recent opinion polls they suggest that he is the most unpopular french popular u.s. presence i should say for the french you know a former real estate tycoon former reality t.v. star is perhaps the antithesis to water president should be for many french people and many people look at the relationship between a man or mark on donald trump with a certain amount of curiosity many are quite baffled outwardly of course they really you could say that they have some things in common they're both political outsiders but on the other hand politically they are poles apart donald trump is of course a conservative who wants to put america first he's

a protectionist emmanuel mack or is a centrist a former socialist politician he's pro european and he favors a multilateral approach so they're all people in france who are very concerned about what it means for france if a man or back home with this special relationship aligns himself too closely to the trump administration on the other hand there are plenty of people who see him at all mark or as being just quite pragmatic they believe the french president when he says it's important that france has a good relationship with the united states because it's much better to have good allies than enemies i mean walking towards marine one the helicopter being coddled into the white house of course that's. for any french president but as far as the french voters are concerned is the sense for them that has got to bring something back i mean the trickiest issue of course is the iran nuclear deal but there is also a trade deal that i think is just about to expire in the next ten days or so. yes

that's right you know him at all mark hall a few things you could say going on here on one hand as a president he is ready shown that he is an opportunist you know if he sees an opportunity he simply seizes it and he has seized an opportunity to have a close relationship with the united states because he's seen that his european allies u.k. or germany in the traditional friends of the united states are simply having problems at home they don't have time for this relationship if you will also him at all mark or has made himself a bit of the go to european leader for the u.s. leader and he also knows that he needs to get something out of it and he wants to get something out of it already we've had a situation in which with the syrian airstrikes france you could say you could argue needed the u.s. almost as much as the u.s. needed france because a man a man called put his credibility on the line in terms of reacting to chemical weapons attacks we found him out on my call saying look if i have a good relationship with trump i can influence

a man he's already claimed that he's told donald trump to not pull u.s. troops out of syria and then of course he wants to try and influence trump in on those key points as you pointed out iran nuclear deal he wants to persuade the u.s. to stay in and he wants to persuade also donald trump and not to reimpose tariffs on goods natasha i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much. well. some is an academic and a political commentator person to iran who says iran's leadership will not accept any new conditions with iran nuclear to. they know the u.s. has and they are not going to agree to that because they know they go weak if they agreed to grant more concessions and then they would have to be forced to comply with the u.s. demands so they have done. their part and they're in a good gesture and in goodwill and now they expect the other side to remain you know committed and loyal to me are not going to agree to that that's the major

difference between iran and europe on their conditions if the u.s. drops out and up against a deal iran has a stress that it would not grant any more concessions if it's requests of by the e.u. to keep that the ally the u.n. secretary general has condemned an air strike on a wedding party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the attack by saudi led forces in the western province of hunter late on sunday and details are emerging of another airstrike last week which killed who's the second in command salah al summit he had a twenty million dollars bounty on his head from the saudis mike hanna has more now 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 aftermath of the air strikes 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 who three 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 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 bird. with sorrow and sadness i mooned to our yemeni people that did their 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 turn our attention to canada now because the police and toronto are questioning a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk killing ten people and injuring fifteen of those officers say it appears to be a deliberate attack but so far there's no link to any organization or to avoid a plot dialect is there. 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 other people were getting c.p.r. and i have to go back and like really interface and i just got lost and i thought you know what you're just going to do. and it was just so many people just

shouting stop the car not even just a kid will. be. 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 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. still to come before you on al-jazeera including the stories of backtracked on pension changes well that's not enough the protesters in nicaragua now they want action against an unpopular president. and they're part of the fabric we look of course change in

bangladesh's garment industry five years on from a major factory disaster. welcome back we've seen a really very active frontal system pushing through china on the korean peninsula over the last twenty four hours so there's a system heading in towards japan an idea so rainfall totals have been seen very close to shanghai and also in seoul now like you see similar rainfall totals as this system moves across japan so it looks like being a really wet one cheer in the course of wednesday heavy rain in tokyo for a humid to twenty four degrees fine conditions returning to the korean peninsula it's going to be a warm pleasant day in beijing fairly decent same goes for shanghai albeit a little bit cooler and then brighter weather follows on behind across japan during

the course of thursday although that frontal system may be slow to clear across the island off the qaida heading down into central. and southern parts of china weather conditions certainly across eastern areas cheery looking dry and fine hong kong sunshine in twenty seven but but once you come further towards the west then we've got an area of rain and that extends down through parts of vietnam so some heavy showers here may pick up one or two showers during the course of the day and that risk of showers continues ahead on through into thursday heavy into southeastern parts of asia weather conditions across the philippines largely fine with highs of thirty four in the lower. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. the story of succession and leadership.

jersey a tells the story line of business. the kind of result three at this time. welcome back let's recap all the top stories for you so far today the iranian president is warning the united states of severe consequences if it withdraws from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement the french president emanuel macron is in washington urging donald trump to stick with the deal. and the u.n. secretary general is condemning a saudi led air strike on a wedding party in yemen which killed at least thirty guests is being revealed

another airstrike killed the second in command of the hoofy rebels in yemen last week. and police in toronto in canada are questioning a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk at least ten people died and fifteen others were injured officers say the suspect. appears to have acted deliberately. a cambridge university academic connected to the facebook dates and misuse scandal is appearing before a british parliamentary committee today he's alexander colgan he's linked to the u.k. based cambridge and a little. that's being accused of improperly accessing the information of nearly ninety million users through the facebook app on the whole joins us live now from london journal what's he been saying. well is testimony still going on alexander kogan this young brilliant psychologist an academic at cambridge university he's the man who sort of sits in the middle of this scandal between facebook and

cambridge analytical he produced the after the original app for the payment of a couple of dollars users on facebook would fill in this little survey and at the same time give access to their friends on facebook whose information would also be sucked up through this survey accumulating as vast data set of information that information then was passed on to cambridge analytic of the use in creating its psychographic models that would that would look at the voting intentions and try to influence the voting intentions particular voters in the u.s. election and of course its c.e.o. former c.e.o. said that he to be instrumental in electing donald trump well i was alexander kogan being probed here by this committee that has heard from facebook and cambridge i live and a little before he insists he did nothing whatsoever wrong that can that facebook was totally aware of what he was doing that cambridge analytical ensured him should in that it was doing nothing illegal and yet he is in his words being scapegoated

by both as scrutiny amounts against that well the committee scrutinizing him indeed alexander koch and looking at his methods and motivations in particular looking at the extent to which he may have been motivated by commercial interests because he was being paid not in money for these ads but b. being allowed to keep the data for his own future use he had a couple of largely failed companies it has to be said said that it attempted to monetize personal data that aspect of it would give him essentially a motivation perhaps and then the methodology has been suggested by the committee that he was less than honest that he misrepresented the nature of the app that people using the app were entirely clear what their information might eventually be used for in other words political purposes that wasn't made explicitly said. looking back i should have been more critical about the way that the app was made up but the core of his defense here is that it was always accepted for years and years in silicon valley and across the social media platforms that data was

essentially available for free use that once you had gathered the data you could put it to all sorts of different uses whether it be academic commercial or political appears now to regret not making that specific journey thanks very much. in armenia opposition leaders that say they want parliamentary elections as soon as possible to prevent them from running the country from behind the scenes there were celebrations in the capital after the sixty three year old resigned as prime minister following nearly two weeks of protests robin for a city walk from. today is a very different day from yesterday the sun is shining the square that i'm standing on in the center of your of and is empty but not for long we're expecting thousands of people back but this time they won't be here in opposition voicing their opposition to the government there we hear all armenians different ages in unity to remember the genocide against the armenians as armenia calls it those mass killings

that took place in the early twentieth century under the ottoman empire and they'll be walking from here to the genocide memorial on the hill above the city to lay flowers and to remember those who lost their lives today feels different because of what happens with the resignation of the prime minister and former president said psyche and so therefore it's typically a day is today very much about reflection and about thinking forward to the future what is going to happen next and everyone seems optimistic here at least everyone is relaxed and calm and a sense to have confidence that the armenian people have an opportunity now to. take back control of their country let's say through a more democratic. system the opposition leaders will be talking later today we know that their next objective now that the prime minister has resigned is to have

free and fair elections something the armenians have not been able to enjoy for the last few decades that he said next task and it's really going to be hard work and really it's just beginning afghan refugees in greece have been attacked and injured by a far right group there the attackers reportedly yolles burn them alive as they targeted a city in protest on the island of les boss about two hundred refugees were complaining about their living conditions the violence escalated when a left wing activist arrived to defend the refugees the former bosnian serb leader radovan cottage has started his appeal against a forty year prison sentence for war crimes a u.n. tribunal in the hague is hearing his plea for a retrial cut it it took uses prosecutors of twisting his words at his initial trial he was convicted two years ago of killing eight thousand muslim men and boys in one nine hundred ninety five. protesters in nicaragua are refusing to back down despite president daniel ortega scrapping pension reforms were spotted days of

riots at least twenty six people died in the rebellion against both the government and the president has gone home and. people continue to come out in the streets of nicaragua despite president donnie it'll take a pic ching the reform to the social security system that has first sparked protests last week. of the thousands who marched through the capital menow were on monday this is now become about something mall they're protesting against the president himself the money at the end of it that's going to make it worth 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 or 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 had 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 enough on it but after that address police rushed to university campus that has become the bastion of. the protests the students occupying it back at least one was

q you know what i am but i'm interacting yeah right 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. there knowing full well that the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger. john homan. the former u.s. president george h.w. bush appears to be recovering after having been admitted to hospital on sunday morning that's according to his spokesman the ninety three year old can be admitted to hospital on sunday morning that's according to his spokesman the ninety three year old contract an infection spread to his blood he was taken to hospital a day after attending the funeral of his wife barbara bush. the police arrested a man over the shooting that killed four people in a restaurant in the u.s. state of tennessee they say the suspect travis ranking had a gun in a backpack when they arrested him in a wooded area in nashville several people were also injured in the attack. 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 blocked the only entrance with his motorbike. north korea's leader has been to the hospital where chinese tourists are being treated for bus crash injuries kim jong il and expressed his sorrow for what happened thirty six people died when the bus toppled from a bridge on sunday thirty two of them were chinese tourists. rights groups say thousands of factories in bangladesh are still unsafe five he is office worst industrial disaster more than eleven hundred people mostly female garment workers were crushed to death in the twenty thirteen rana plaza collapse is charles stratford. he's been described as the worst industrial disaster in bangladesh is history when a bullet went before two thousand and thirteen more than eleven hundred people were

crushed to death and two thousand injured when an eight story building collapsed in an industrial suburb of the capital dhaka. the majority of the victims were women working in garment factories in the rana plaza building and. they were making clothes for well known brands including bennett's and and primal an investigation found the workers had complained about the cracks in the walls despite warnings the building was unsafe survivors say they were forced to work regardless of their heritage five years on and family members of some of the victims gathered at the disaster site demanding justice hannah began says her daughter's body was never found and when i was up like my daughter never returned from work i keep looking for her but i have no idea where her body is she used to be the main earner in the family i don't have a son to this day there is no justice. no around eighty percent of the

seventy five million garment workers world wide a women rights groups say they often have no chance of negotiation wages are abused exploited and forced to work in safe conditions. the tragedy in dhaka led to an. greenwich between some clothing brands and unions designed to better protect a bunker dishy workers since then around two thousand factories have been inspected and nearly three million workers trained in fire safety but the monthly minimum wage of around sixty five dollars remains well below the world bank's global poverty line of eighty five dollars a report by a u.s. based rights organization concludes that fowles thems of garment factories in bangladesh remain a dangerous places to work at the n.y.u. stern center for business and human rights says one point two billion dollars is needed to make all garment factories in bangladesh safe it says popular brands

retailers and governments all have to do more to improve garment workers rights and safety in some all day there are some progress but as a whole new can say this progress is not and that they do not people there that they are not organized that they do no need in now one that this this is next on this was in the for the government said that it is not what it does friendly rather than friendly for the business. it seems fashion changes faster than human rights involved in the garment industry so many of the women who make the clothes we wear remain vulnerable to exploitation working in factories that are far from city center shopping malls and far from safe stratford al-jazeera and u.s. senate panel has narrowly backed the nomination of the cia director mike pompei o as secretary of state's republican rand paul changed his vote after earlier saying

he would oppose the appointment pompei of the eleven votes required from the twenty one member panel his nomination now goes to a full vote in the senate. ok let's just redirect your top stories for you so far today here on al-jazeera the iranian president is warning the united states of quote severe consequences if it withdraws from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement the french president emanuel macro's in washington urging donald trump to stick to the deal but has some rouhani has his own message for the u.s. leader. and. i'm telling those in the white house that if they did not live up to their commitments the iranian government will react firmly if anyone betrays the deal bay should know that they would face of big consequences the un secretary general is condemning a saudi led air strike on a wedding party in yemen which killed at least thirty guests and it's been revealed

another airstrike killed the second in command of the who's the rebels in yemen last week. 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 others were injured offices say the suspect. appears to have acted deliberately. antigovernment protesters in nicaragua refusing to back down thousands are still demonstrating despite president daniel ortega scrapping controversial pension reforms at least twenty six people have been killed in the protests demonstrations and are calling for an end to what they say is government repression. the former bosnian serb leader radovan carriage has begun his appeal against a forty year prison sentence for war crimes karat it shook uses prosecutors of twisting his words at his initial trial in the hague he was convicted two years ago of killing eight thousand muslim men and boys and stubborn isa in one nine hundred ninety five afghan refugees in greece have been attacked endangered by

a far right group attackers reportedly yelled burn them alive as they targeted a sit in protest on the island of lesbos the violence escalated when a left wing activist arrived to defend the refugees. rights groups say thousands of factories remain dangerous in bangladesh five years after that country's worst industrial disaster more than eleven hundred mainly female garment workers were crushed to death in the run up plaza collapse two thousand injured twenty eight story building caved in and survivors say they were forced to work despite its warnings of cracks in the walls up next it's inside story i will see from seventy tomorrow.