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is zero. and this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. like kamelot. bond at the white house and suggest reworking the iran nuclear deal an agreement that says in say. a man at the center of the facebook personal data scandalous questioned in britain pour scorn on the idea that the information was of any use. elephants under threat to me and mark but it's not for the ivory. skin. in sport it's. the biggest european game in more than thirty years the face of liverpool and their

form of play mohammed sala in the champions league semifinals. to washington where the french president says he wants to work with the u.s. to forge a new nuclear deal with iran he's held what he described as very frank discussions with u.s. president donald trump at the white house says it's not about tearing the agreement apart but rather building on it. who conceded a good deal that you know you consider that the around in negotiated in two thousand and fifteen is a bad deal for a number of months i have been saying that this isn't a sufficient detail but unable to us until at least twenty twenty five to have some control over their nuclear activities we therefore west from ny on to work on a new deal with iran what we need to cover our four topics block any nuclear activity in iran until twenty twenty five this was feasible because of the data the

second is to ensure in the long run that there is no nuclear activity there it is to be able to put an end to iran's ballistic activities and fourth is to generate the conditions for a political solution to continue iran in the region france and the united states also agree that iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and that regime must end its support of terrorists all of you know where no matter where you go in the middle east you see the fingerprints of iran behind problems can be how could you set the white house for us so to me there was still within the news conference also some strong words from trump against iran and yet this this possibility that they might be a broader deal in the making at some stage talk us through how that would work. yeah you know it's interesting all eyes were on emanuel mccraw who was on under

enormous pressure coming here to meet with donald trump specifically because of the key differences between the two leaders when it comes to the iran nuclear agreement manual macross saying in advance of the meeting look there is no plan b. donald trump being very clear sort of doubling down on some of the statements he's made on the campaign trail prior to becoming u.s. president that he felt it was a flawed deal that was negotiated badly by the obama administration and was in need of significant approve improvements what it appears we have here is the two leaders acknowledging they have a difference when it comes to the current twenty fifteen agreement to limit iran's nuclear activity in exchange for the lifting of sanctions but what they've done instead is say look let's keep that as one pillar of a new agreement essentially announcing that they've worked out a deal amongst themselves that they think can address some of the broader concerns that are not only of importance to the united states but emmanuel mccall saying

there that he believes that they are concerned to french citizens in the broader european union as well so what we have here is them essentially saying that look at this agreement isn't perfect we agree on that and here is how we can address the concerns that have repeatedly been sort of summed up by the trumpet ministration is a ron's destabilizing activity and influence when it comes to not only iraq but yemen syria even lebanon i think the other key headline in there when talking about syria is the fact that donald trump has repeatedly said he doesn't want to be there he wants to bring u.s. troops out but given that there are these concerns about making sure and preserving and moving and building upon rebuilding the syrian country and also to make sure that there is stability there needs to be a presence from what the president called wealthy nations who have great influence and could contribute more but in the eyes of the united states president are not doing enough right now and can be what about the other issue that was on the agenda

the trade issue didn't mean any progress you think on that. you know that is the one issue that maybe emanuel mccraw is going to have some criticism of back at home because it doesn't appear at least from the public statements made in this joint press conference that there was much movement on the issue of grave concern to to you the european union and that is the issue of those imminent tariffs that are to be placed on steel and aluminum imports into the united states of course there was the temporary exemption but that is set to expire the european union of course looking for permanent exemptions and it doesn't appear that those have been secured we heard from the french leader there that he reminded donald trump that it was france he believes who is not contributing to any knowledge is an overcapacity certainly pointing to war but not naming by name china they're saying at the end that they were confident their interest for a lie and what this seems to indicate is they weren't able to reach an agreement there but are hopeful something can be reached as the foreign ministers from each

country work to try and resolve this issue but for now with the fears of a trade war looming and really just about another week to resolve this issue there's still some work to be done committee how could thank you very much indeed. i'm joined in the studio now by emily mansfield she's the europe analyst at the economist intelligence unit from the economist magazine thanks so much for coming in so just to get back to this deal the iran nuclear deal with the possibility as michael suggested that it could be built on or that the new deal could be come up with an what do you make of the widening of this and the inclusion of things like the syria crosses into it well i think really what mike holmes amiens is to show trumps that that the e.u. has really listened to his concerns and taken them on board and that the e.u. is also ready to make some concessions so for instance further sanctions on iran in would have to ensure that there is continued u.s. support for the day and i think you want to represent this deal more as part of a broader security strategy for the region rather than just about syria about iran

i mean president jiang was was careful not to say he was going to do in may the twelve thirty is there a possibility that you could still have him pulling it out of the deal and that this wider arrangement goes ahead always that is a possibility well i think the third more uncertainty still to come certainly our core forecast is that he will remain in the deal i think one of the issues that that underpins that focus is the fact that there is very strong support for the deal from the business community both in the e.u. and also in the u.s. and i know that my points strategy for influence in foreign leaders does typically tend to reside in trying to show that stakeholders are in favor of perhaps a different course of action to show that it's in his interest to see that just have to go back to the kind of the relationship you touched on it there i mean they they went out of the way to be sort of warm with each other and there was this kind of bizarre incident where trump picked some dandruff of michael's color and kind of said that that illustrated how special their relationship was because he was able to do that is is what do you think that that relationship is really is it one that

they they kind of their mates in public just to show how well they can get on to their to their own countries or the disease that they genuinely get on i think they genuinely have built quite an amicable relationship obviously both strategy behind their. but yes they have regular phone calls and michael has really managed to i mean he's ever since he's been elected he's been trying to step up fronts as a role on the international scene and given that germany for instance over the past year roughly has been quite distracted by the election and then the coalition to go she ations the u.k. quite distracted by brac that michael has really been able to step up and build that personal relationship with trump do you do you think that it's a difficult moment to be on the world stage with him when things are difficult at home or you think actually that's an advantage or is it a risk or or an opportunity i think it's an opportunity for him if you look at the polls the french public actually think quite highly of mike holmes efforts to show france as a strong power in europe and europe as

a strong power in the world and to really a third france as a major player on the international stage so i think it's the ideal time for him to distract attention from from the strikes at home with the pomp and ceremony of a u.s. envoy that one of the i mean there's such a wide ranging news coverage but the one of the thing that came up was north korea and president trump said i want to get rid of the nuclear weapons were news is that is that something that you think will play well with the with the french public and the kind of that relationship between the two the potentially yes i think thing a tough line with trump goes down very well i think my comment typically does tend to make quite clear what his red lines are whether that succeeds in influencing trump remains to be seen of course thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you immensely thank you. are the leaders of north korea and south korea due to hold a summit this friday it will be the first direct meeting between the country's leaders for more than a decade expected to discuss bringing a formal end to hostilities between the two countries the meeting will take place

on the southern side of the truce village of panmunjom of correspondents on both sides in the demilitarized zone kathy novak has been at the venue where the leaders will meet but first this from james bay is on his raid trip from pyongyang to the border. it takes over two hours to drive from the north korean capital pyongyang through the countryside to the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone the road is from people very quiet it's also in places extremely wide one pyongyang resident speculated to me this was so aircraft could land with reinforcements in the event of conflict once we reached the d.m.z. security was tight we were not permitted to film in certain areas our guide was a north korean army captain he showed us the layout of this frontline zone this is not an international border the korean war officially never ended it was simply

paused with an armistice or truce. is it possible for you to show us where the meeting on the twenty seventh will be taking place between field-marshal kim and the president of south korea. to cuba it's the peace house on the southern side so this is the first time any of your leaders government crossed to the southern side to him is that at the moment yes we continued on the route that the north korean leader will take for his historic meeting on friday pass the bill there are the one nine hundred fifty three armistice was negotiated and the hall where it was signed by the north koreans and by a u.s. general on behalf of his country and their allies fighting under the u.n. flag it's estimated that in just three years up to three million people were killed as a professional soldier how hard is it going to be with your field marshal sitting down

with those that have been your enemy going into what i want to get because if dear supreme marshal is with us surely all the problems will be saundra peacefully and that's what we firmly believe. we would take a norm to a tall building and up some stairs where you could view the line that separates communist north korea from democratic south korea from the north we have this vantage point of the demarcation line the blue hot stone there where in the past military officials from this country have met the other side and just over that building is where the historic summit is supposed to take place. this is also being suggested as a place where kim jong un could meet donald trump no venue for that planned meeting has yet been formally announced the leaders of countries whose forces have been facing off against each other for decades will soon be meeting face to face james

bays out zero on the north korean side of the de-militarized. from the south side of the demilitarized zone has kathy novak were often reminded that the two koreas remain technically at war an armistice not a peace treaty ended hostilities in one thousand nine hundred fifty three and it was signed here at the joint security area at punjab the two sides agreed then to establish the four kilometer buffer zone between north and south known as the demilitarized zone or d.m.z. it's still heavily guarded on both sides and has been the site of tensions over the years north korean soldiers killed two u.s. army officers in one nine hundred seventy six landmines injured south korean soldiers and twenty fifteen and late last year a north korean defector what's shot by fellow north korean troops as he ran across the border not far from where i'm standing. this year as relations improved between

the two koreas this village has once again been used as a venue for high level talks within the d.m.z. the military demarcation line marks the actual border between north and south in this room when i walk over to this side of the table i'm crossing into north korea so it was significant when earlier this year a delegation from the north stepped over the border for talks after two years in which there had been no official communication between the two countries and when north korean leader kim is on the south korea's president at the end of the month the meeting will be held in peace house on the southern side it will be the first time a north korean leader steps on south korean soil since the korean war as much more to come on the news out where registering to vote could cost you your life we report on elections under attack in afghanistan. by protesters who won their fight to get pension reform scraps of back on the streets in nicaragua. and james harden

puts on and on the shooting match to class action from the n.b.a. playoffs a little later in school. at cambridge university academic at the center of the facebook data scandal has appeared before a british parliamentary committee next on the coburn is linked to the u.k. based cambridge analytic a firm it's accused of improperly accessing the information of eighty seven million users through a facebook app trying to haul explains. well two pretty interesting bits of testimony heard from different sources of course in the facebook cambridge analytical data breach scandal first of all speaking to a parliamentary committee dr alexander kogan he's the man who produced the app that was used to harvest the data of some eighty seven million facebook users and then illegibly pass it on to cambridge analytical for use in influencing the donald trump campaign and following that swiftly it was

a press conference given by cambridge analytical defending or dealing with what it described as ill informed and inaccurate speculation about a company that well alexander kogan insists as he has done before that he did nothing wrong back in two thousand and fourteen both sides he said knew precisely what was going on what he was doing no one raised any objections then he says he's being made a scapegoat by facebook that describes him as a liar and a fraud his product as a scam and cambridge analytical that says the data he produced was in effect will take a listen to this exchange from the briefing in which the committee suggests that his motivation may in the end have been commercial game essentially the payments. apart from the soon to be thirty thousand for your role in this was to keep the data exactly much you could then use who in your academic life or perhaps that was part of the deal of i mean that was the deal i was rewarded with data ok you say whether it's that you got some. university ethics approvals for all your academic

work yes or. did you have university approval for for that deal for the commercial it's not yours so there's not a mechanism for a company to go out and seek out its approval for a commercial deal and the university all over say is over are going to get over these this side of the. right but after that as i said there was a press conference given by a spokesman clarence mitchell for cambridge analytical in which he stressed that none of dr kogan data had been used in any political campaign he said that cambridge analytical had only a brief five month tenure with the donald trump campaign he said it had never worked for either side in the brics it campaign take a listen. the company has been portrayed in some quarters as almost some bond villain cambridge analytical is no bond villain whilst no laws were

broken we have acknowledged where mistakes have been made and a full independent verse to goshen being conducted by a q.c. is being conducted as we speak well mr mitchell described cambridge analytic as a fantastic world leading data science company he said the media outlets leading the coverage against it were doing so because of a political agenda three suicide bombers have attacked the pakistani city of quarter killing at least six police officers one bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck on the road towards the airport where two others attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the city's outskirts fifteen police or soldiers were wounded in the attacks no one has so far claimed responsibility dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan as i saw and the taliban try to derail upcoming elections sixty died in an eyesore suicide bombing at

a voter registration center in kabul on sunday in baghdad's province six army officers protecting a registration center were killed by the taliban and another center was burnt down on monday night show business reports. at least sixty people are being buried in afghanistan they all had one thing in common a desire to vote. these people were killed in western kabul on sunday morning queuing at a voter registration seems that they wanted to vote in october as elections in. the attack caused sorrow to hundreds of families people are not optimistic about the government in this country any more. voter registration opened on april fourteenth for long delayed parliamentary and district elections the government has two months to reach its goal of riches during fifteen million afghans just two percent have turned out so far. but the of election commission released an ad campaign to convince afghans to sign up president musharraf danny invited the media

to see him open the registration process but it's a hard sell in the current climate to get cover because i did not want to look at this this is a boating tide which is drowned in blood who will come to vote when the government asks us to. isolate took responsibility for sunday's bombing of the taliban has carried out multiple attacks on registration seems his and security posts election workers have been abducted and there are no voting seem to some thirty five provinces a security can't be guaranteed afghanistan's election commission says it's working hard to protect prospective voters and during challenge with elections still six months away and. afghanistan is currently in a situation of conflict hold weekly meetings with afghan security forces and the election commission an afghan forces have an agreement to secure the voters and polling stations the security forces are visible outside election seem to is that

is what they can't see that scares voices the afghans that show up here say they are in the minority i don't imagine everybody is not the people are not interested in the election anymore because considering the current security situation in the country most people are not willing to attend the election as this generation gets worse day day by. the continuing attacks destroying optimism for a truly democratic afghanistan charlotte dallas al-jazeera. mean mars elephant population is facing a new threat poachers are killing them not for ivory but for their skin according to conservationists there thought to be about two thousand asian elephants in the wild in me in mar they're less of a target for ivory poaches than the larger african variety as only the males have tusks but according to government figures fifty nine elephant carcasses were found in myanmar last year a sharp increase on just four in twenty ten in twenty fifteen researchers began fitting g.p.s.

collars to elephants in myanmar to track the population within two years the butchered carcasses of five adult males were found two more stopped transmitting at the same time conservationists noticed a growing online marketplace for elephant skin products especially in china where it's used in medicine or made into jury and it cox is the conservation director of the world wildlife fund in maine my joins us live from yangon on skype so it's such a terrible story why do you think that these elephants are particular at risk in myanmar. well thanks for having me on the program and yeah it's a rather gruesome story that's playing out here ma'am of the moment. but just you know like in africa and across asia elephants have been poached for many many years but i think that the situation in manama especially to decades of conflict and civil unrest have created the conditions that have allowed some of the criminal

networks that are involved in all kinds of illegal crime including crimes it to take advantage of the. fact that lauren foresman has been quite weak and the elephants are found in areas that aren't in a protected areas as made it relatively easy for war and the poachers to take advantage and so what how did you discover that this was going on and that the skin had become something that people were trying to get hold of. yeah it was quite a surprise actually. finding out that that you know it's unique in memoir that whilst elephants being poached across the countries in asia we're only seeing this skinning phenomenon here in our government have been tracking coaching numbers over the last few years but it was only really in two thousand and fifteen sixteen that it became obvious that this was this was serious and particularly last year as

you reported at least one elephant poached every week in the wild for the trade now. whilst the conservation community has reacted and we launched a public awareness campaign really to bring this to the attention of the government and to raise awareness and to call for action to to address the trade and to close down the open markets that are selling products including elephant skin and ivory and other wildlife as well. they're also looking at how to reduce the demand and particularly the demand for elephant skin used in traditional chinese medicine and that we all know that it takes a long time to change behavior and consumer practices and that's not going to happen overnight so in the meantime we need the agencies to get boots on the ground research protect elephants and the while i want about sanctions i mean are there any kind of tough sanctions being brought in that would mean that people would be

deterred from actually getting involved in the crime. i mean i think that's a critical point really whilst we know that laws themselves aren't going to stop crime they need to be much tougher. while there have been laws in place here in memory that haven't been enforced very well and penalties as you say really haven't provided enough of a disincentive to make it difficult and risky for approaches you know we want to see a situation where what a lot of crime is seen as a serious crime. an issue once. dealt accordingly no forcing the government is taking action to have a new law which hopefully will be in place soon. and that that will be enacted. but i think we also we need the support of the international community and also draw lessons from neighboring countries in china is a good example nice they share in real leadership recently by banning that domestic

ivory market and the u.k. is set to also announce tough measures very soon as well and in fact london will play host to an international conference in october that later this year on the illegal wildlife trade and governments from around the world to come in and we really hope that memo will take advantage of that to announce their own intention to really to stamp out the illegal wildlife trade including in alison's and just to get back to the kind of practical measures that you can help with what are you trying to do some more tracking and and so sort of high tech things to try to protect them a bit or is a thing that you don't decide on tents and you mentioned the coloring so you're working with other organizations we have been fitting satellite colors on some of the elephants just to find out where them moving so that we can help the government direct in force on efforts and we've been training local agencies in patrolling in performing techniques including involving. communities in

there and encouraging communities to share information. you know me money a good news story and while at the moment this is somewhat of a crisis thing the response has been good the response from mema society has been positive in the very they don't want me in march to be. for illegal wildlife trade and i certainly don't want to loose their wild elephants in the same way that other countries in asia are close to doing it cox after the world wildlife fund name off like you very much and if your foes. still to come on the news hour five years on from bangladesh's worst ever industrial disaster rights groups say working conditions remain for factory workers. catching up on class how jordan is trying to educate tens of thousands of syrian refugee children. our thoughts and prayers are

with the victims their families are first responders and in support an emotional victory for the toronto maple leafs in the n.h.l. playoff series. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia see this frontal system which is sweeping through giving some snow up in the hindu kush some rain at lower levels and certainly cooler in the house being four times cantona's becky stan almighty in kazakhstan but temperatures still not too bad fine around the caspian sea of los the cloud some clouds further south across iran but it should be dry and tara thirty one your high in baghdad and larry of low pressure around the eastern side of the mediterranean bring in some lifted dust perhaps in certain threats or some showers across parts of the region and

certainly for saudi arabian sea quite a few showers for beirut in lebanon as a chance of a shower highs of twenty three degrees across the arabian peninsula generally weather conditions not looking too bad but we have got the slight disturbance resulting the threat of the old shot across here in doha it may be rather cloudy at times though i think for much of the time it should stay dry on the same goes for thursday they're heading down into southern portions of africa as a largely fine picture here should expect at this time the fact the showers are way way way north that all the way across angola zombie zimbabwe and south which is all looking draw and find when to maybe that twenty seven degrees celsius i mean said that the risk of frontal system which will be pushing in towards cape town later on thursday highs that of just seventeen. 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 court on call. phone lines explores the old two wheel effects of trump's immigration policies. between war and the ban on adjusting. being located outside that western centric sphere of influence we're able to bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away the list the cove the military and the financial darkening you see the people in those words and his policies are affecting see the emotion on their faces the situation they're living in that's when our viewers can identify with the story.

they're going to the top stories on the news our french president says he thinks the nuclear deal with iran should be reworked to fix the concerns of all parties including the u.s. comes off to closed door talks with president bush called the deal insane. three suicide bombers attacked the pakistani city of court took in at least six bodies offices and wounding fifteen one bomb went off near a police truck or to make it a checkpoint on the city's outskirts. the research at the center of the facebook data scandal has been questioned by u.k. m.p.'s and it's on a coven dismissed suggestions that the information he collected could have been used to sway the us presidential election. rights groups say thousands of factories in bangladesh is still unsafe five years after its worst industrial

disaster well then eleven hundred people mostly female government workers were crushed to death in the twenty thirty nine rana plaza collapse charles traffic reports. has been described as the worst industrial disaster in bangladesh is history when they pull a twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen more than eleven hundred people were crushed to death in 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 a 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 five years on and family members of some of the victims gathered at the disaster

site demanding justice hannah begun says her daughter's body was never found and when i was up like little 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 still up about the budget but i don't own eighty percent of the seventy five million garment workers worldwide the 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 agreement between some clothing brands and unions designed to better protect the bunker dishy workers since then around two thousand factories have been inspected and nearly three million workers trained in fire safety with a 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 files and 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 and retailers and governments all have to do more to improve garment workers rights and safety in some while they there are some progress but as a whole new can say this for this is not and that they do not believe when they are that they are not organized that they do no need didn't now one love this this is next on this was a new for the government said that it is not what it does friendly or rather that it is friendly for the business people it seems fashion changes faster than human rights evolve 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 trial stratford al jazeera. steve needham from the international labor organization says there are still many things that can be done to improve safety for workers. nearly every exporting factory has been inspected for for structural foreign foreign electrical safety those which posed an immediate danger of being closed lot of changes in safety a lot of changes in the regulator environment and capacities so yes there have been improvements but there's still a lot needs to be done still a lot of challenges ahead i think what we'll find since run of plaza lot a lot of sub contracting companies are actually closed of going out of business some of the biggest subcontractors are still in operation but they are there working to far higher compliance far higher standard safety standards so again i think we've seen a consolidation in the industry smaller more dangerous companies are out of business those who can meet the standards can work safely are prospering from that

what's important safety is improved but at the same time labor rights also need to improve there can be no real safety in this work is voices are heard so there's still a considerable level of mistrust in bangladesh the workers and employers this needs to be breached steps are being taken but it's a considerable challenges still a long way to go. oh just a continuing in nicaragua with the demonstrations now calling for the resignation of president daniel ortega human rights groups say at least twenty six people have been killed in a violent crackdown by police on the protests which began last week on home reports . 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 is first sparked protests last week. to the thousands who marched through the capital men are were and monday this is now become about something more they are protesting against the

president himself the money is going to the so they make a deal 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 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 time these relatives sang 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. then as you did i saw in the footage but after that address police rushed the university campus. has become the bustin of the protests the students occupying it from back at least one was killed when i am allowed to be out of it 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. the noise will be here the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger. john homan does the other. security forces in the philippines have held security drills on the island of boracay before it shut off from tourists for six months for he said the exercises

show the police army and coast guards ability to handle unspecified threat president reagan to tatay order the island to be closed out officials warned untreated sewage from hotels and restaurants is being pumped straight into the island's pristine waters and he's in the us city of nashville are still trying to work out the motive for sunday's gun attack on a waffle house or light restaurant in which four people were killed the suspect travis ryan king who was arrested on monday has so far refused to answer questions or make a statement or into police the twenty nine year old who has a history of mental health issues had a semiautomatic rifle in his backpack when he surrendered in woods close to his home a man suspected of killing ten people after driving a van through a busy pavement in toronto has been charged with ten counts of murder and thirteen of attempted murder officers say it appears to have been a deliberate attack but so far there's no link to any organization or

a wider plot and you lack reports. 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 man he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in his they wouldn't i saw about three or four bodies lying on the grounds on the people who were getting c.p.r. and have to go back and like really enter from a distance and i just got an artist and i saw the you know what you're just going to. run it on and you know so many people just shouted 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 it 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 alec manasse 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 world for being inclusive and for being accepting and understanding and considerate. united in standing in solidarity especially with those who have. victim to this. tragedy today

a huge police investigation involving national security officials and other government agencies as a clearer picture of this attack may emerge soon but for now this is a city mourning the unexpected bloodshed that beautiful day in the spring. a u.s. senate committee has now backed president trump's choice of cia director white pompei as the next state republican rand paul changed his vote after saying he would oppose the appointment that gave from paris the eleven votes needed on the twenty one member panel president jordan has more from washington d.c. . the cia director mike pompei o is now one step closer to becoming the next u.s. secretary of state this comes after a business meeting on monday it 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 that you tube 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 to 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 syrian government forces and their allies on the ground have intensified their operation in southern damascus the army is trying to regain all the territory

surrounding the capital are still controls one of the pockets being targeted by the army next to another held by rebel factions rebels in two other enclaves northeast of damascus surrendered in recent days the u.n. special envoy for syria says the recent government gains when bring the country any closer to peace. we have seen in the last few weeks days. we have seen it with no eyes that military gauge to tauriel gauge military escalation does not bring a political solution has not built any change on the political will on the contrary we are going through a very difficult moment the truth is that everyone has the political solution and that is what we need to work on and he's trying to hide diplomacy or is it mr o. is speaking at a conference in brussels where the u.n. is hoping to raise nine billion dollars for the aid effort in syria the un's under section general for humanitarian affairs says there's been some difficulty getting

support to the right people need better access across the whole of the country so that the aid agencies and their heroic workers who take enormous risks themselves in bringing relief to the suffering involved is can see where the most acute needs are we can plan the programs that need to take place to relieve all that suffering we need to tell the story of the syrian people the children and women and men who are suffering through this crisis that just like you and me in every material respect except their own lucky enough to be caught up in this war and when people around the world see this suffering they want to do something about it and they want reassurance which we try to provide for them and if they and their governments provide help it will reach people in need and we are able to do that if the fighting dies down a bit in the place we need to reach people if we get the resources we need and if we get the access. children who fled the war in syria and are confronting another

problem jordan is home to most a quarter of a million young refugees and is trying to help them gain some of the education they've missed out on but money is tight as the country faces an economic crisis joshua name reports from amman. playing piano in front of her classmates before heading to school it was once unimaginable for sidra after fleeing the war in syria the twelve year old was forced to drop out for two years and the silent film of the rest of us and how there was a school at the refugee camp but i didn't like it so i love studying here in amman 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 in rule 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 getting old zero. so to come on the news hour why this suffragettes touch here is a first for a long time and that's bad. and they are a shock play to such an unlikely running record on the. north pole is next.

time or sport now andy's and. thank you so much lauren while the first champions league semifinal of the season has just kicked off it's how inside roma are in liverpool for their most important european game in more than thirty years liverpool fans creates in quite an atmosphere both outside and inside the stadium they'll be hoping mohamed salah is once again at the top of his game last year and gyptian was around the player now essential to liverpool's push for a sixth european cup. i've never heard voices and so against us is a process while the good guys and i know you will the yos go. are you going to definitely score big runs in is going to do against wrong with a smile on your rearguard. like you bonus al is going to score the first goal of

five minutes. let's talk now to our correspondent lee welling suzette live for us at liverpool's and failed stadium let's talk about mohamed salah just how important has he been full of a pool so far this season. it's going to have to move quickly if you're going to go in the first five minutes because the first five minutes of the guy. behind me the most. phenomenal phenomenon in football times this season when he moved to live a paul it was a play for the called around fifty million dollars i don't think people expected decent things from him but he's gone from being just a very good footballer as he was with a real superstar in this season an extraordinary amounts of goals for which he won he's breaking records saying we're on a weekly basis now he's been one player of the year of course he's faced some little po-r. being marched and in some cases that's advice fetes agent where he really was the

driving force getting them for. involved sure the leading score in african qualifying i think is a real culture around him now where football fans around the world just want to see him play this so excited by what they're seeing every way from the money doesn't seem to have lets up at any stage this season pretty. little late but what sort of atmosphere around the stadium and how much of an advantage is that feel of a pull in the home games. or not the site for the second consecutive champions league i end of a poll has been a bit of unpleasantness around the ground now in the i'm going to manchester city because two weeks ago we saw the mansion city team boss being attacked by liverpool fans that's use a new coach to drop them off there was a little we're in trouble with you i perform in the hour before kick off that was what seems to be an isolated incident but a video where level five is injured we don't know about his condition.

from what. there's no confirmation of. collars but that's certainly how it looks from the around the grounds i'm from speaking to the place it seems that that's the most my should come from. so we'll see what happens after that. the atmosphere overall has been a positive one of the guys because much of the city that incident stood out. and they just slightly more generally how do you see this season's tournament playing out of seats some are we've got the other semifinal between byron munich and ryan madrid is the winner of that semifinal going to be the favorites so win the trophy this season. you know because both madrid remember all the trophy how does they have a fantastic recent record in france a fantastic overall record in the champions league i have christiane of the doubt on who's been ups and the amazing in this competition and others for the past few

seasons by have to be considered favorites i think the real surge has come from liverpool with the father scope thirty five goals in the competition they have such a potent strike force but roma will be confident of getting a result if you cannot help barcelona you'll be confident of basing any body lay welling's poles and field stadium thanks so much for plenty more from lee throughout the night's. former tennis world number one of a joke of it believes he can get back to winning major titles djokovic is getting ready to play at the barcelona open as he continues his comeback from an elbow injury he's struggling so far this season with just five wins and four defeats the long term goal is obviously you know trying to win biggest tournaments in this sport in fight for for the peak of of what our sport is and that is to be number one so i mean i've been i've been in that position so many times and for a long time in my careers proceed through five six years of most successful period

and i believe i can i can get there again. for sea diver go fund has already booked his place in the second round of that song and in barcelona. roger coming back from a set down sweet springs marcelled renault is in three sets. the houston rockets are one win away from reaching the second round of the n.b.a. playoffs the rockets now three one up in the series with the minnesota timberwolves it was james harden starting for the rockets with thirty six points it's up seeds in the western conference scoring fifty points in the third quarter that is the most scored in a quarter of playoff basketball since one thousand nine hundred sixty two. rockies taking it one ninety two one of. the trends i believe said level the n.h.l. playoff series against the boston bruins prior to the game a tribute was paid to the victims of the vanity of vanities act that had to happen

in surround so just hours earlier the league's pulling off a three one win to force a decisive game seven. when they were going to face tampa bay in the eastern conference semi it's. an irish athlete paul robinson enjoyed temperatures of minus thirty degrees to set an unlikely record he's just clocked the fastest mile ever run on the north pole robinson completing the distance in just over four minutes and fifty seconds us around a minute slower than in normally runs in regular conditions the twenty five year old suffered a bit of frostbite on his right ear but is now the fastest more runner at both poles having set a similar record in antarctica last year. ok there is a sport is looking for now let's get back to lauren in london. thanks so much andy london's parliament square has a new statue and for the first time it's

a woman it's militant force it you can paint for six decades for women to have the right to vote force that died in one nine hundred twenty nine one year after voting rights were extended to all women from institue reason may pay tribute to her at the unveiling ceremony. i would not be standing here today as prime minister no female m.p.'s would have taken their seats in parliament none of us would have had the rights and protections we now enjoy were it's not for one truly great woman day millicent garrett false it. any time on our web site address that is al-jazeera dot com. that's it for me if this news out of chile mcdonnell will be here in a minute with another full round of the day's news by sorcery.

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