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this is al-jazeera. kerry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes trying to save the iran nuclear deal the french president proposes reworking the agreement to address concerns about tehran. at the u.n. calls for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua. and a rare meeting between the leaders of north and south korea a report from both sides of the demilitarized zone. and in the hot seat the man at the center of the facebook personal data scandal testifies that his work was worth nothing and what not influenced an election. france has proposed negotiating a new deal with the ron that builds on the existing agreement. to curb its nuclear

program president man on the pitch is aimed at saving the two thousand and fifteen deal with two as president onil trump has threatened to pull out of kimberley how as more from washington d.c. . and elaborate military welcome on the south lawn of the white house as u.s. president donald trump greeted france's president emanuel back from thank you what appears to be a warm friendship was on full display tromping even somewhat oddly perhaps deciding to wipe some dandruff off of a chronic shoulder if we have to make a burger he is perfect but as the parent barked on the substance of their bilateral meeting prof had a stern warning for iran they restart their nuclear program they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before his statement underscores the leader's key foreign policy differences truck favors was drawing from the iran nuclear deal as one of the signatories to it mccraw and wants to preserve the twenty fifteen

agreement to limit tehran's nuclear powers before may deadline on whether to pull the u.s. out or not trump wants his concerns addressed those include a plan to stop iran's ballistic missile testing and limit iran's influence in iraq yemen levit on and syria a chronic greed they may need to address those issues to keep the deal alive. news on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability and security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting

appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel live aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb and it doesn't come from europe and not even from from the meeting between us president donald trump and french president emanuel mccraw has highlighted key policy differences between the two leaders their divisions mccraw may address on wednesday before a joint session of the u.s. congress can really help get al-jazeera at the white house ok let's take you now to the white house live pictures of all the pomp and circumstance that goes with a state dinner as kimberly was reporting president trump is hosting france's president manuel macron there have been arrivals going on for a bit are alan fischer joins us now from washington d.c.

so alan this is not the first world leader who has come to d.c. during trump's you know first year in office but this is the first official state dinner what is the significance of the pin the guest being the president of france . well donald trump actually said on the campaign trail that he wasn't going to have any state dinners he actually the right to do barack obama for holding a number of state dinners during the election campaign saying that until america's trade deficit was white he wouldn't be having any of these events at the white house the difference perhaps is that he gets on very well with a man we know that he was treated to a state dinner in paris he was the guest of honor at the steel day celebrations in twenty seventeen so he feels this affinity but there are those in the trump orbit that would suggest that being invited to his florida retreat his private club largo is perhaps something that is even more prestigious in donald trump's mind and he's

done with a number of leaders the japanese and chinese leader spring instantly to mind there so this is donald trump to some degree breaking a campaign promise by going ahead with the state dinner and as you mentioned mar a lago obviously that's something that he personally. and financially benefits from this this state these state dinners at the white house's is a real tradition and along the lines of that tradition it's surely a bipartisan thing where members from both parties are invited the media is invited that's also another area where it seems tunnel trump this breaking tradition. well you can almost understand why you wouldn't invite the media he dislikes them he thinks they get in the way of him ruling as president and of course he's going to snub the white house correspondents dinner for a second year in a row which is held in washington this coming weekend it is unusual it is a break with tradition that he didn't invite members of the other party the

democrats to come along but of the one hundred fifty guests there are only we think five members of congress who are there including speaker paul ryan no members of the media as you say but tim cook of tim cook of apple is there as one of the guests there was a feeling perhaps in the trump orbit that to invite democrats would perhaps to invite the possibility of them snubbing the president but as you see these events have been bipartisan in the past and even when there have been vociferously francis between the republicans and the democrats they seem to be able to put the differences aside for one night don't the very best been tucker to use an all british show up for the event and helen fisher live from washington allan thank you our president warned tehran i have bigger problems if it starts its nuclear program meanwhile the iranian foreign minister said his country may abandon the deal if the

u.s. pulls out we've said that the united states has not lived up to its to its side of the bargain that is to its commitments to lift certain sanctions not to impede. economic relations between iran and its economic partners it has done all of that it has prevented. basically dissuade threatened companies from engaging with iran so the economic benefits of the of the nuclear the have not been at the level that had been promised. ok joining us via skype from tampa florida is mohsin the loni's a professor of politics at the university of south florida and will come back to to a job as a race comments in just a moment first so let's start with france's president mandela back on has he made any suggestions so far that you have heard that or even a starter's that are realistic to you. say you

and waited for him to do this it is. books that they knew but start negotiations about a number of features including some provision for all. and who didn't iraq's nuclear missiles out of. iran's region and activities he's the oldest person a president from one state but he knew it and at the same time press some of the key is that the president instead of from france u.k. . and germany to change the balance to. do you think that donald trump is open to being persuaded that he wants to be persuaded just on what his rhetoric has been. all the oh it's that he has developed a very friendly and close personal relationship with the press and the friends but we also know that the person doesn't like surprise

a bit but still it is very difficult to predict what the president's going to do in the next two weeks about didn't he also know that he has spoken. and decisive and clear that he does not like him and he believes that you eat what. ever sun or united states and west go. in as we play just a moment ago the job answering basically said if the u.s. pulls out we're done with this deal as well as this some sort of public negotiation between the two sides as it brings then ship what's really going on it's all of the book and it is also very clear that a number of high ranking being you know rich including the term of the instant the national security council have said that the u.s. gets out of the. iran might even get out of the known region and moving

forward another powerful push a piece on that's indicating that the moment the united states gets all of the media iran will start its bridgeman activities twenty per cent. ok professor thank you so much for joining us and malani thank you. plenty more had in the news hour including more dovish. the hard sell for afghanistan's election as violence keeps potential voters away. and sport liverpool fans see their team take a big step towards the european champions league final andy has that story. the man accused of killing ten people by driving a van and so protest ariens in toronto has appeared in court allan asin has been

charged with ten counts of murder and thirteen attempted murder is for investigating social media posts that may offer clues to his motive to reports. it took just twenty horrific minutes for a van speeding along a sidewalk to hit injure and kill many pedestrians in a crowded part of toronto. during a brief appearance in court twenty five year old alex was charged with ten counts of first degree murder thirteen of attempted murder without speculating about motive police say they've seized a cell phone and are looking into social media posts that appear to warn about a pending attack as has been reported in the media the accused is alleged to have posted a cryptic message on facebook minutes before he began driving the rent van and he drove it southbound on young street and onto the crowded sidewalks media reports say this post now taken down by facebook referred to an online group called in cell

or involuntary celibacy where members revile women who they say refused to have relationships with them the post also praises someone with similar views who killed six in california in two thousand and fourteen all the security services in canada and elsewhere will be some contracting people to do some research on a movement like. to see if this is a one off our or dealing with our rising crescendo individuals sounding this call to rebellion against society this issue for now police have cordoned off several city blocks to gather evidence they say more charges are likely nearby a park that's become a memorial to victims and their families political leaders say the public should feel safe because this attack looks increasingly like the work of a single person who was indicated last night by a public security minister. at this time we have no reason to suspect that there is

any national security element to this attack but obviously the investigations continue. just a day ago this busy shopping district was full of people enjoying the spring sunshine then it became a killing ground and now it's the country's largest crime scene as investigators struggle to answer the burning questions canadians still have first among those why did this happen daniel zira toronto three suicide bombers have attacked the pakistani city of quote to killing at least six police officers one bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck on the road towards the airport while two others attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the outskirts of the city fifteen police and soldiers were wounded no one has claimed responsibility for those attacks. dozens of people have been killed in afghanistan over the past week as i saw in the taliban try to derail elections set for october sixty people were killed in an aside bombing at

a voter registration center in kabul on sunday and in bagus province six army officers guarding a registration center were killed by the taliban on monday charla ballasts reports . at least sixty people are being buried in afghanistan they all had one thing in common a desire to voters. these people were killed in western kabul on sunday morning queuing at a voter registration seem to 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 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 but 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 ensuring challenge with elections still six months away and. afghanistan is currently in a situation of conflict you hold weekly meetings with afghan security forces and the election commission an afghan forces have an agreement to secure the voters and polling stations. security forces are visible outside election seemed his but it's

what they can't see that scares voices the afghans that show up here say they are in the minority i want to manage the money and 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 by day. the continuing attacks destroying optimism for a truly democratic afghanistan shallot ballasts al jazeera. place and china have arrested a thirty two year old man they believe deliberately started a fire that killed eighteen people there people were injured in this blaze in the southern city of chinua on a fire spread through a three story building that state media says was being used as a karaoke lounge. the united nations is calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in iraq where 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 the u.n.

says some of those deaths may have been unlawful demonstrators are demanding the president and take out resign john heilemann 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. of the thousands who marched through the capital men are were on monday this is now become about something move they're protesting against the president himself the money is going to those other markets were there for the second so 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 was 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 from the symbol of 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. i mean it's you know i saw nothing but off to 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 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. the way they know. that the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger john heilemann. political change continues to gather steam in armenia following the resignation of prime minister serge sarkozy and he stepped down following almost two weeks of mass protests tens of thousands marched for a different cause on tuesday to commemorate the mass killing of armenians during world war one robin forestay walker reports from europe where for many the annual day of mourning held its significance. armenians were back on the streets of the capital. this time to commemorate the immediate victims of mass killings in one hundred fifteen by the ottoman turks it's an ideal occasion but

after weeks of street protests ending with monday's dramatic resignation of prime minister said assad and his cabinet the pilgrimage this year feels different if show for all the people who are excited today's commemoration as an added level the significance. this is something completely different it's like people broke free of their chains. today armenians have gathered as they do every year to remember their past but for the last two weeks they have been gathering by the thousands for political change change which may finally have a arrived. the leader of the opposition looted which forced from power joyed with the people to pay his respects old shoes that they call pressure is the hero of this self-styled velvet revolution he says the movement now has a popular mandate to form a transitional government and he has made those demands to such yards governing

party the only only kids for the year will cherish. him be peaceful. and full transition of power. and that's. so the republican party still dominates politics but it's willing to accept that i'll be needs to change until that revolution is set to be take its movement to root for a sequel can you see that. italy's coast guard has released dramatic video of migrants and refugees being rescued off libya and then move. around a thousand people have been picked up in the mediterranean over the past few days the weather and calm seas and made it easier for boats to make the czerny refugee

agency says more than eight thousand people have arrived i.c.u. in italy since the start of the year. israel has a band plans to forcibly deport undocumented african immigrants the government couldn't find a country that was willing to take them alison's a mostly eritrean and sudanese man crossed into israel through egypt's sinai desert will be able to renew their resident permits every sixty days rights groups and immigrants have welcomed this u. turn i am very happy to see that the person is what is consulate and now it is the right time to the israeli government to give. for as i said i'm scared came from off at refugee status or to answers there are salim clan opposition leaders of north and south korea are due to hold their first direct meeting and more than a decade on friday expected to discuss bringing a formal end to the korean war that meeting will take place on the southern side of the truce village of. at the no that takes us to the venue where the summit will be

held first though our diplomatic editor james bays has an exclusive look at the demilitarized zone from the north 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 bumpy but 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 you it's the peace house on the southern side so this is the first time any of your leaders garma crossed to the southern side to him is that. yes we continued on the route that the north korean leader will take for his historic meeting on friday past the building where the one nine hundred fifty three armistice was negotiated and the hall where it was signed by the north koreans and by us 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 is a key if dear supreme marshal is with us surely all the problems will be solved

peacefully and that's what we firmly believe and we were taken on to a taller 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 zone and we're

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 panmunjom 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 jong un meets 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 the south korean soil since the korean war. still ahead on al-jazeera five years after the bangladesh textile factory collapse trade unions say workers still face danger. and elephants face a new threat that conservationists warn may be bigger than ivory coast. and sport the irish athlete is at an unlikely running oracle on.

how it had some rather live down poles pushing away from the southeastern corner of the u.s. across the carolinas easing out into the open waters process guys coming back in behind i can wait for the next weather system actually this area a cloud and right maybe some wintry bits as well sinking for the south would say some wet weather coming into oklahoma into all console pushing down into northern parts of texas clear skies dry weather still want to be not it's north carolina up towards the genius was the weather there just around new england just pulling out of new york and notice some snow on the leading edge on the northern flank of this system it will east further east was full thursday prices guys come back in between we are going to see a little bit of weather making its way towards louisiana by that stacy clearing out there for much of texas further north but you can see the snow that stretches up its central canada one terrorist see some wintry weather then as we go through

thursday so west spring really struggling to break through the west is generally fine and dry generally fun to drive across a good part of the caribbean as well want to choose shabbas there into that is decide all of mexico because see some wet weather already heavy rains any possibility in sioux northern and southern parts of key maybe want to choose showers there for jamaica as well and also his back. australia's multibillion dollar international student industry is booming but it has a dark side one of the salmon's widespread revelations of sexual assault on foreign university students on al-jazeera.

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negotiating a new deal with the wrong that builds on the two thousand and fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program president made the pitch to u.s. president on a troll who is threatening to pull out and that deal. and donald trump is hosting a state dinner for president back from the french president arrived at the white house just a few minutes ago this is the truck the ministrations first state dinner. and accused of killing ten people by driving a van at pedestrians and toronto has appeared in court allan asin is charged with ten counts of murder and thirteen of attempted murder is for investigating social media posts that may offer clues to his motive. the united nations is calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua human rights groups say at least twenty six people have been killed in a violent crackdown by police and the demonstrations which began last week. syrian government forces and their allies have intensified their operation in southern

damascus the army wants to regain all the territory surrounding the capital campaign began last week after rita eastern gouda nearby i still controls one of the pockets targeted by the army next to another area held by rebel factions the end special envoy for syria says the recent government gains won't bring the country any closer to peace stephon been dimmest or it was speaking at a conference and brussels for the u.n. is hoping to raise nine billion dollars for aid. we have seen in the last few weeks days. we have seen it with no eyes that military gains to be total gauge and 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 its own political solution and that is water we need to work on and it's time for high diplomacy on this man

terry told al jazeera how difficult it is to make sure the aid goes to the right people. we 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 and we can plan the programs that need to take place to relieve the 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 stay warm reassurance which we try to provide for them and if they and their governments provide help it will reach people in need we are able to do that if the fighting dies down a place 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 are facing another problem getting an education tens of thousands of young refugees in jordan are not in school the government is trying to help but many is tight as an economic crisis by tashi can 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 lot of them are the rest of us and there was a school at the refugee camp but i didn't like it so 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 c'mon see them enough

see one of my sons has psychological problems the psychologist at the center has helped him he's 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've seen an increase in 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 man. a cambridge university academic connected to the facebook data misuse scandal has appeared before a british parliamentary committee alexander kogan is linked to the u.k. based cambridge analytical about firm is accused of improperly accessing the information of nearly nineteen million users through a facebook app to influence elections he says the data compiled would have been practically useless for micro-targeting voters john hall explains. or 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 passed 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 the company 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 on the part and soon to be thirty thousand for your role in this was to keep the data exactly much you could then use you in your academic life or perhaps that was part of the deal and i mean that was the deal i was rewarded with data ok you say whether it's that you've got some you've had a universe yes it's approvals for all your academic work yes or. did you have university approvals for for that deal for the commercial it's not yours so there's no real now can isn't for a company to go out and seek its approval for a commercial deal i mean the university open over say is over up to maturity is this far side of the. rubble 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 zz data had been used in any political campaign he said that

cambridge analytic 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 almost some bold villain cambridge analytical is no bold and villain well. we have acknowledged where mistakes have been made and a full independent verse to go being conducted book you see 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 and other social media platform that has been under pressure to change its policies to safeguard its users has published reports you tube says it deleted eight million extreme video clips in the last three months of two thousand

and seventeen as follows a promise made in december to give its users more transparency into how the online video sharing website handles abuse and decides what uploads to remove you tube has been struggling for years to police extreme content every minute about three hundred hours of video was uploaded to you tube and now uses an anti abuse algorithm that flags any content containing extremism pornography or spam a former indonesian politician has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for corruption sets in the van was found guilty of stealing more than one hundred seventy million dollars and public funds prosecutors say he used an electronic identity card system in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and twelve to take the money of ontario is the former speaker of parliament and former chairman of the party which is the second largest in indonesia. rights groups say thousands of factories in bangladesh are still in say five years after its worst industrial

disaster more than eleven hundred people mostly female garment workers died in the two thousand and thirteen rana plaza collapse while stratford reports. it's been described as the worst industrial disaster in bangladesh's history when they pull a twenty fourth 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 run applause a building. they were making clothes for the 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 if there are 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 i don't want to look 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. around eighty percent of the seventy five million garment workers world wide and women. rights groups say they often have no chance of negotiation wages are abused exploited and forced to work in unsafe conditions. the tragedy in dhaka led to an agreement between some clothing brands and unions designed to better protect abundant ishi 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 and retailers and governments all have to do more to improve garment workers rights and safety in some well they the there are some progress but as a whole new can say this for this is not and that they do not believe that that they are not organized that they do no need to now one that this this is next on this was a new fund the government said that it is not what it does friendly rather than friendly for them. 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 trial stratford al-jazeera. how many changes have been made workers in bangladesh still face dangers textiles are big business for the economy bringing in twenty eight billion dollars a year mostly from u.s. and european companies major brands threatened to pull out of bangladesh unless safety standards improved two thousand three hundred factories were inspected and in some cases upgraded a new survey has found that the largest factories have complied with the new standards but thousands of smaller factories have not the new york university based center for business and human rights report found that workers at three thousand factories are at risk due to structural flaws and a lack of safety equipment paul barrett is the co-author of that report he says that there are still many unsafe factories some twenty three hundred factories

mostly larger factories that export to the west the u.s. and europe primarily the large majority of them are markedly safer that's in terms of fire prevention in terms of electrical systems in terms of their structures. the bad news part of the story is that there are many other factories in bangladesh and many of them have received little or no oversight and no attention to their safety problems so in those factories workers sadly are still at risk the bangladeshi government unfortunately does not have a history of vigorous regulation and there's not much of a sign that that's changing anytime soon what the center that i work for has proposed is that in the short run. there would be established an international taskforce that would be led by bangladeshis but involve the governments of western countries whose consumers enjoy low prices and bangladeshi made clothing as well as

the companies that profit from those clothes but those clothes and international financial institutions like the world bank and that by forming this task force under a principle of shared responsibility in the short run money could be raised and spent properly to bring up to code those factories that have been ignored to date. at least fifteen people have been killed in floods across kenya a major highways have been cut off leaving commuters stranded calls for the government to fix the drainage system which is under pressure from open station and a growing population. security forces in the philippines have held drills on the island of burra high before it closed for close to tourist for six months president regatta terror tape ordered the shutdown after local leaders said untreated sewage from hotels and restaurants is being pumped into the island's waters. in mars

elephants are facing a new threat from poachers they're now being hunted for their skin conservation and say the scans are ground up and used in medicine and sold as tor sold as jewelry mainly in china they're warning the asian elephant could become extinct if this problem escalates to say the threat is bigger than ivory poaching because all elephants are targeted not just those with tusks there are thought to be about two thousand asian elephants in the wild in me and maher are usually less of a target for ivory poachers than the larger african variety since only the males have tusks the government figures show fifty nine elephant carcasses were found in myanmar last year and that is a sharp increase from just four in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fourteen researchers began fitting g.p.s. collars on elephants in myanmar to track the population within three years the butchered carcasses of five adult males were found two other collars stopped transmitting conservationists have noticed

a marked increase in online advertising in sales of elephants can products especially in china that cox is the conservation director for the world wildlife fund and me and maher uses only elephants and me and maher are being poached for their skin. like in africa and across asia elephants have been poached for many many years but i think that the situation in manama especially in 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 our life crimes it to take advantage of the. fact that lauren foresman has been quite weak and elephants are found in areas that aren't protected areas has made it relatively easy for poor and the poachers to take advantage and it's unique in mammals that whilst elephants being poached across the countries in asia we're only

seeing this skinning phenomenon here in our government have been tracking. 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 from target. including elephant skin and ivory another wildlife as well. we're also looking at how to reduce the demand and particularly the demand for oil isn't 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 it's easiest to get boots on the ground research. elephants in the wild so head on al jazeera and sports masala is the star as liverpool had drawn up for five and their champions league semifinal.

time for sport with andy. thank you very much for liverpool have beaten roma five

two in the first leg of their champions league semifinal at anfield mohammed silent was once again front and center for liverpool he scored twice in the first half to take his tally for the season up to forty three little pull when five up after the break but two late goals for roma have given them something to take back for the return leg in italy next week our correspondent lee wellings was at the gang. side roma do you have that glimmer of hope having scored that so like go by did it so barcelona by winning by three goals when they needed to they could conceivably do it again but it's unlikely this was liverpool's know and it was marcellus no it was always going to be the case with a man who came from rome with liverpool for what i was fifty million dollars he's been worth so many more times that with an incredible season the statistics are incredible thirty one premier league goals he was expected to score anywhere near

that and it was a record i'm forty three goals overall in this season after that so brilliant finishes against him he really was a much winner there's no doubt about that the fans here actually love moscow you are most all of the world on my soul or anyone else i believe of all. my salary for most solid best in the world ok me talk well then i will go on and the likes of them are messy when you use more shit better than them all and you're considering what we paid for them we stole them or that only believe it that's all i can say about most of them on believable thank you so he's perfectly summed up what everyone here thinks about myself i'm around world football he is the king pretty tight little hole the white champions league. police are investigating what they're describing as the serious assault of a man outside the stadium before kick off the work clashes between supporters minutes before the semifinal started this footage shows an individual motionless on the ground there was already an increased. police presence after manchester city's

team bus was attacked before the quarter final at anfield earlier on this month. former tennis world number one of a joke of each believes he can get back to winning major titles djokovic she's getting ready to play the bass line or 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 and 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 career especially throughout five six years of most successful period and i believe i can i can get there again. full see fun has already booked his place in the second round of that school and it's in barcelona. rushing back from

a set down to beat spain's most elegant always here in three sets. the houston rockets are one win away from reaching the second round of the n.b.a. playoffs the rockies now three one up in the series with the minnesota timberwolves that was james houghton the start for the rockets with thirty six points and top seeds in the western conference score fifty points in the third quarter that is the most score in a quarter of playoff basketball since nineteen sixty two the rockets taking it one nineteen see one point. this entire series is from game a game you see prime examples from like first game was no win really knock down shots second game we did their game they beat us they killed those in the foreground we one quarter we get hot in and i said you know but with all that being said i think defense who you got to had i say my sit everything every single quarter and i would give ourselves a chance this is

a very explosive team so. we've had two really bad quarters you can't do that against them. you know and. paul and harden were there were a lot so let's take a look at the foam and see what we can do. the utah jazz have also gone three want to end their series against the oklahoma city thunder one of the mitchell getting thirty three points as they won game for one thirty two ninety six and irish athletes paul robinson enjoyed temperatures of minus thirty degrees to set. a record he's just quotes the fastest mile ever run on the north pole robinson completing a distance in just over four minutes and fifty seconds us around a minute slower than the times he runs in normal conditions the twenty five year old did suffer a bit of frostbite on his right say but he's now the fastest marana of both poles

having set a similar record in antarctica last ok that's it for now more lights are on the parliament square has a new statue for the first time it's a woman it's nelson fawcett who campaigned for six decades for women's right to vote u.k. prime minister paid tribute to prosecute the ambulance or also died in one nine hundred twenty nine one year after the shooting rights rights tended to all. 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 forsett that's all for me for the news hour more news on the other side of the break there.

on the twenty seventh of april the leaders of north and south korea will hold a rare into korean summit off the caves of heightened tensions on the peninsula is this the meeting that will pave the way for more dialogue we'll bring you live coverage and analysis here on al-jazeera. the sams in archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to

emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life is culture the fact. this morning corpus on the promised money could soon be lost but often it's an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen without intervention to give the big i would say to a vast now it's a race against time to try and find a species like a crisis that's in the masses the plan they've the extinction tag no on al-jazeera .