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this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the game this is that is i'll live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes another opposition rally of the albanian capitol as the acting prime minister calls for a new parliamentary election to end the political crisis now into its second week. workers across south africa are on strike protesting against a controversial change to their wages. a religious leader who is said to have millions of followers is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of rape. on china's drive to go green is in the limelight one of the world's biggest car shows. opposition supporters are again demonstrating in armenia's capital gallop and they're making major demands of the government the protests follow the cancellation

of a meeting between the acting prime minister and the opposition leader and they called on he's promised to keep pressure on the government to meet all the demonstrators demands the acting head of the government has offered to hold a new parliamentary election saying that the people are free to elect bush and u.n. but the opposition says that's not enough it says it has several demands for the government let's go live now to get of an al-jazeera is robin for us to walk is there so what are those demands robin. adrian hide those demands are to hold elections just to kind of party on his offering but first what they want is an interim administration and that interim administration would be run. at least headed by the opposition political movement themselves and it's by all looks to all extents and purposes everyone we've spoken to that person the interim leader would be himself. now this

is. this is the big sticking point because i think that the republican party said second since party of whom mr cutler is a member and he's the acting prime minister of mines of use again. they're not ready to just keep everything up like that it's i don't think that was part of the bargain that they had in mind when resigns earlier this week and so that's why those talks failed to go ahead this morning and the result was. that the opposition said fine if that's how you want it would be. to remind you again that we have the armenian people behind us and we're going to show you how and they have brought this capital city to an absolute standstill. traffic going nowhere blockades throughout the city and the police just not intervening the police offices are

around the corner from where i am but what they're doing now is keeping an eye on the government buildings and this is the opposition is saying that they've effectively paralyzed and unable to move and they think it's game over for the media and government. i mean they were now expecting enough that crowds of people assembling on the republic square they were to divide the people you can see now actually resting in the shade but already to head there and join what is already a very large crowds at seven o'clock this evening local time expend largely peaceful robin how long will the republican party those in power tolerate what's what's going on as you say with that but the capital city being brought more or less to a standstill well dissent. what was it it looks like they they don't have a means of of taking on this movement because it's so. so so

capable of forming at various places it's impossible to surround it they don't have a strategy and they know that if they use force i think they're aware of that but they think use force they are playing with fire and it will have very serious consequences i don't think that this movement this popular movement is going to tolerate that. i also think that what's really got to happen now being told is that it's it's a case of people jumping ship and that's been happening today we've seen a key minister resigned his position and join the opposition movement we see in the other political parties in column t. the same. i think what they want is ultimately for the republican party attend to to effectively lose its majority in the parliament that would enable a legitimate election by the parliament of this interim administration is needed which would be to call question again and that i think is the key objective now is to is to bring on board more poor people and and that's the sort of information

we've been getting today that increasingly we're seeing people jumping ship and if and city the republican party but it's a kind of touchy arm the acting prime minister we are still at the moment he's still standing. and we don't know yet whether or not he's going to submit to this popular party that to his popular will at the moment we still waiting to see whether the republican party under him is going to concede to these demands by robin many thanks dave roman for us to walk a live and yet of an assault because i.b.m. is the director of the university of southern california institute of amin studies she joins us now live via skype from get of and good to have you with a sense of what do you make of of what's going on here is the republican party likely to relinquish power in the face of these mass protests. you know the short answer is yes but the explanation for that is the following that in any society there are all sorts of political institutions that allow for protest right

you go to visit your elected officials office you call a town hall meeting you sign a petition you go to the television stations well all of those institutions the work the people go to the street in this case they went to the streets in large enough numbers that the prime minister resigned but their demands were to this mantle of the system some of the students who are on strike today said you can't have reform if it's the same system that's implementing those reforms and so the reason the protesters went back on the street today probably slink is because they said wait yes we want snapple elections but if the same guy who are in office illegitimately are going to monitor the elections and we're going to come back with the same result that's not what this is all about it's not just about one man it's about a system so what is seems to be happening now is that there is talk that there will be some sort of possible mediation by some higher ups perhaps the new president and

perhaps some of the religious leadership in fact legitimizing the public demand that is saying perhaps nicole question you know the leader of the protesters is a member of parliament perhaps he should be put forth as the interim prime minister which of course would be face saving for the republicans but also make clear that the street demands of course will need to be legitimized by the political structures what about russia's involvement in. this crisis so far russia has been pretty quiet and has said that that it's glad the that everything is is peaceful there but of course nothing much happens in media without russia the country's economy very reliant upon its its neighbors. that it is true that i mean as economy is very reliant on russia however the rest of the relationship is you know in many ways so obviously interdependent that i mean you know any armed leader will have to keep relations both with russia and the west evenly and

so far we have managed to do that this particular change of individual institutions is not in any way a threat to russia any new i mean leadership must maintain relationship with russia and so they've been very good about staying out and saying you know i mean as a friend and i mean is the most the issues of their. goods are completely lost i'm sorry good to talk to you many thanks to for being with us so i think is on the on the in yet over. a nationwide strike is underway in cities across south africa the federation of trades unions in the country is staging the shutdown to protest against changes to the minimum wage it's demanding action to end what the union calls a crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality that's good life not to have his book on sirius malcolm webb is the how widely supported has this the strike today been malcolm. we're in johannesburg they pulled

a big crowd many thousands of strikers of marched through the city delivered their petition to the premier's office now for the provincial governor and also to the offices of two other government departments that presented their demands and all the business is down there are closed almost all the closed today so that's because they are quite some effect their key demand is a rejection of the minimum wage that the government's proposed which would amount to a salary of just under three hundred dollars a month the government agreed to see some of south africa's major historical unions the people here don't agree they say it's not acceptable they say it needs to be four or five times higher than that not the reason they called for the strike today south africa's new president but malcolm is only just getting to grips with beginning to get to grips with the country's economic problems are they willing to give him time i mean he seems to understand their plight. and that may well be room

for improvements to the minimum wage in the future. will this issue regarding the wages and also the representation by the unions predates him taking over this is something that's been simmering for quite some yeahs and his face has actually been on some of the banners here today but not portrayed in a positive way the reason that he's being represented here there is because this connection with the marikana massacre and twenty twelve when police massacred miners who were rules there protesting for higher wages is there ramaphosa. it was on the board of the mining company at the time he wasn't found guilty of any of the inquiries but people here don't see it like that they also see him and most of the a.n.c. is elite being too close to the people that own the big companies in the industries and also too close to the major unions here in south africa and that's why they think to date they haven't made substantial gains because the unions have been colluding with the politicians and with the business people that's why the

coalition the federation of unions is marching in today's an offshoot broken away they say now they're going to represent people properly and they think that they're going to make much more progress has been made in the last couple of decades that will be waiting to see if they do in today's march kind of a test to then see how effective they can actually be like a many thanks mark on whether live in johannesburg. nigeria's president is trying to track down a gunman who attacked a catholic church on tuesday the number of people dead has now risen to nineteen that includes two priests it happened in a remote village in benway stace in central nigeria police say the attackers burned nearly fifty homes has been fighting in the region between for dani herdsman who are mostly muslim and farmers who are predominantly christian since twenty thirteen more are from a serious of an interest susan a buddha. gunman invaded the village of my loom after dawn and started attacking booms and places of worship in the catholic church in the

area the killed at least one thousand people including two priests the nigerian president ordered the immediate arrest of those who perpetrated the attack local say the act was carried out by following a hundred men who have been in conflict with farmers in that part of central nigeria but there is no claim of responsibility they have been didn't take attacks between the farmers and cattle reraise in central nigeria over the last decade or source so far this year dozens have been killed in that region the nigerian president described the attack as barbaric as vile and promised to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice the police while i'm able to bring the situation under control after the police chief was ordered to relocate to belize to to bring to an end this crisis the nigerian army was deployed in large numbers and is conducting exercises aimed at calming frayed nerves and also dealing with those

carrying out those attacks it has made several arrest however the attacks still continue and israeli court has sentenced a soldier to nine months in prison for the twenty fourteen killing of a palestinian teenager seventeen year old the water was shot during a lull in confrontations marking the day that israel came into existence in one hundred forty eight a soldier was offered a plea bargain as a result of which he only admitted to negligence he says he didn't know that his magazine contained live rounds and thought he was firing rubber coated bullets kerry forces is live for us in ramallah ari what's been the reaction to this. will the reaction from the family as you can imagine is pretty strong we've been speaking to the father of nora. and he says that he was. not very much from this to start with was wondering if the soldiers with this police officer would only get community service in the sentenced to nine months but

as far as this new war is concerned that is grossly insufficient and there is a suggestion the family will be appealing this he told us that the system was meant only to protect israeli soldiers and as a family they would follow up and show their true colors as you say this all took place on may the fifteenth in two thousand and fourteen the day that the palestinians refer to as not by the catastrophe it was then the sixty sixth anniversary of the creation of the state of israel nora was one of a group of young men who were protesting near the often military prison. near the the town of between you're here in the occupied west bank he was captured on video throwing a stone at one point but it was after that some minutes after that that c.c.t.v. footage showed him collapsing and then being taken off to hospital where he was

then pronounced dead a post-mortem did show that he was shot with a live bullet and this officer ben barry. admitted that he that there was a live bullet in his in his magazine he said he wasn't sure how that happened he was initially charged with deliberately putting that bullet in there but in a plea deal that was reduced that manslaughter charge was reduced and he was convicted of negligent homicide instead why was he hopes that this this plea deal hairy. well as far as the palestinian side of this is concerned this is the way the system works although there was strong language against him in the court judgement talking about two points of negligence talking about how he aimed at the center mass of a young man who was not presenting him. any immediate threat and it talks about gross negligence though power since will point to the fact that there are

a number of occasions when this kind of thing this sort of sentence will be handed down indeed there was that the famous case of a low as area of the israeli soldier who shot dead a prone palestinian man eleven minutes after the israeli army said that he was involved in a stabbing attack at a military checkpoint and was shot and wounded in the process he was originally sentenced to eighteen months in prison that was reduced to fourteen months he's going to be released next month after serving just nine months the same as this sentence the palestinian liberation organization executive committee member one and a shroud has released a statement contrasting these kinds of sentences was that without handed down to a head to me the palestinian teenager who was convicted in another plea deal earlier this year in a military court for slapping an israeli soldier and incitement as she was sentenced to eight months he says that this is part of the deliberate dehumanization of israel's palestinian victims and it shows the double standards

involved. in touch with the israeli police and they have passed no comment at all right harry many thanks did harry force it then very sundry ramallah. here with the news from out zero still to come on the program more aid money for syrian suffering from war of the countries hosting them as e.u. leaders call for an end to the conflict. bearing a heavy load we meet desperate migrants who've already traveled a long way to try to get to the u.s. . and its course liverpool fans say that team take a big step towards the european champions league final. it's been a week now since government forces in syria launched a campaign to regain the area of yarmouk crum eisel fighters sits in the southern part of the capital damascus which was once syria's biggest palestinian refugee

camp home to around one hundred sixty thousand people but most of now fled because of the government siege and continuous bombardment it's estimated that there are one thousand two hundred eisel fighters still in yarmouk and in surrounding neighborhoods well the plight of syrians in battle zones in the country's future is the focus of an e.u. summit representatives from more than eighty countries aid groups and agencies are meeting in brussels the u.n. says the turn as at the conference pledged four point four billion dollars in aid for syrians and the country's hosting the foreign policy chief federica mockery any says that all members present at the summit agreed on three key issues. one is that there is no military solution to the war in syria and that there is a need that everybody recognized to relaunch the political process the second element on which i have not found any divergent view is the key role of the united

nations in leading this political process and third elements on which i have seen a consistent level of convergence is the need to support. syrians inside syria in the neighboring countries with humanitarian aid financial support but also to support hosting communities in particular in the neighboring countries self-styled religious leader in india who claims to have millions of followers has been sentenced to life in prison for rape pool was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl of one of his spiritual retreats and twenty thirteen indian security forces have been put on high alert in the northern states of russia stan as paul challenge again reports. known for his extravagant and sometimes dreams costumes also on bubble or bapuji as he's known has disciples

around the world and in hundreds of hindu religious retreats known as. guru such as asalam say they meet people spiritual needs but some are accused of exploiting their followers for money property and sex by offering them a one stop shop for everything you have been you have you have spiritual family problems this man and all the. security has been tightened across the northern state of raw just on that's after court convicted asylum for the rape of a sixteen year old girl and sentenced him to life in prison up with the allegations made against bapuji. completely false and there is no truth in it is not alone he has millions of followers who support him and will continue to do sound us arm supporters say the guru practices black magic and can instantly transform fortunes but the guru has also been linked to the mutilation of four young boys in an

alleged sacrifice ritual. many in india have called for tough legal action against him and other self professed god men we demand his ashram his religious center be seized by the government he should be put behind bars and all his property throughout india no matter what it is should be seized a son ahmed's forty six year old son not only on are also accused of other crimes including the rape of two sisters over a period of ten years in the city of swat police said saddam's son admitted the sex assaults and fathering a child with one of his victims but nearly all witnesses in the rape case changed their mind about testifying fearing expulsion from the community at least two witnesses were shot and killed that case is continuing these kind of. dying have a lot of political by boneheads. various political party to in india who

vote doing election dying they become all powerful and. they are above the law prosecutors are fighting back by using laws passed for the protection of children against sex offenders to stop religious leaders from breaking the law paul chowder john al-jazeera when he saw. in that report he's a journalist who's been following the case and says that. conviction comes as india toughens up its laws against rape. when he started gaining popularity. there was nor were there on so many divisions of their own so many sections the two against him it was more important the judges of that to see who saw fist against him and. he started a community just finding all was god man is what he's about and then slowly other charges started tumbling are told thirteen this is the case which has been decided today. a complaint was registered on this case the conviction that has happened is

under the pew o.c.s. a lot of the protection of children against section of instance and this is one of the first major conviction that have been hundreds of other convictions but this is the first major conviction in there that law is again. there's going to be some more evolution recently davao tried to look at. the government has looked at introducing not get for. you know bad jew living below twelve years have been sexually assaulted so there are obvious things which are happening and i mean if of course this is a judicial decision not a government one but this has been the judiciary which vision is going to. fall in this on wonder facts and despite all the smoke that has been torn into the face of the judiciary they have convicted him danish inventor peter madsen has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dismembering a swedish journalist on his submarine came wall's remains were found at sea after she interviewed madsen on his homemade vessel that's an admitted to causing

a pub body but says that she died accidentally on board prosecutors say the poor diet either by strangulation by having her throat cause. people around the world are attending services to mark and zach day remembering australian and new zealand troops who served in the first world war. april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred fifteen is when thousands of troops landed on the peninsula in turkey it's estimated that more than fifty six thousand soldiers from australia and new zealand were killed during the campaign. it was raining cats and dogs and mother when we spoke to harry force a few moments ago other parts of the world though have a distinct lack of rain is still a small rigid language thanks adrian yes we've looking at southern india may think maybe going to bangalore as bangalore has a reputation for being a city which is very short of water at this time chennai the city's fifteen reservoirs are to parity fourteen percent now is said to be the worst straight one

hundred forty years of very difficult to pin that down to the lack of rainfall as such i know that the rains a failed of last a couple of years but again we have that old problem of growing urban populations three point six million but the fifth largest city in india the demand for water continues to grow so obviously the rains them selves is a long way away nothing board and some patchy cloud temperatures still in the mid thirty's in chennai and across the region further north we've got some really high temperatures continuing forty plus in many parts of northern india let me take you now across to north africa where we've got this area of low pressure which has been causing some real issues of the last twenty four hours we've certainly seen some severe storms here as a whole rushes thunderstorms occurring across northern parts of algeria at the moment with one rainfall total coming in of more than one hundred millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and is bound to cause some really quite severe flash flooding and that low pressure is going to continue to spiral around

a fake he not just algeria but parts of morocco maybe chin is here i'm going to see a lot of cloud and some showers affecting the bunny area candidates. richard many thanks still to come here on the pensioners feeling the pinch the cuts that have got them out protesting in greece. we have an exclusive report from north korea's side of the demilitarized zone ahead of a red leaders' meeting. no carry no problem golden states keep going even without that main man the latest from the n.b.a. playoffs coming up in sports. the scene for us there on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that choosing between buying medication and eating this is

a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's been out to visit and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the carter center.

good to have you with us adrian forget here in doha with the news are from out of syria our top stories this hour media's acting prime minister has called for new parliamentary elections to ease unrest opposition supporters are again protesting in the capital got about after a call from their leader they called his promise to keep pressure on the government to meet all the demonstrations tomorrow it's. a nationwide strike is on the way in cities across south africa the federation of trade unions says staging the shutdown to protest against changes to the minimum wage it's demanding action to end of the union calls a crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality. at a self-styled religious leader in india has been given a life sentence in prison for rape assault on bup who was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl at one of his spiritual retreats in twenty thirteen he faces similar allegations in another case. iran's president hassan rouhani

has questioned the legitimacy of demands for a fresh nuclear deal he's criticized the us president donald trump to his plans to pull out from the existing agreement. we even had a lot of dogs he says these deal is a very bad deal well if it's a very bad deal then why did you sign it he says this is a very dangerous deal if that's the case then did your predecessors not understanding you think you don't have any background in politics you don't have any background in law you don't have any background in international treaties how can a tradesmen a merchant a building constructor a tower constructor make judgments about international affairs meanwhile france has proposed negotiating a new agreement with tehran building on the twenty fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program france's president of money omac wrong made the offer to donald trump as he continues to his state visit can really help reports.

u.s. president donald trump welcomed french president emmanuel macron to the white house with a state dinner to celebrate the bond between the two nations. what appears to be a warm friendship was on full display earlier in the day trump even somewhat oddly decided to white dandruff off mccraw on shoulders we have to make them perfect he is perfect but as the parent barked on the substance of their bilateral meeting fraud 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 was 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 levet on and syria a chronic agreed they may need to address this issue. 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. a which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included. trying to get suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment syria's future stability as 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 and aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have

a very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb in him it doesn't come from europe and not even from france the meeting between u.s. 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 that al-jazeera at the white house place in mexico say the three film students who went missing in quite a lot last month were kicked back to tortured and killed by a gang after being mistaken for other gang members the death a spark strong condemnation of protests around the country john holdren reports from mexico city. this is one of the pockets of protests that have sprung up in mexico since authorities announced that three films students who disappeared last month were killed the state prosecutor's office for helis go in southwest mexico

says they believe that they were murdered by a drug gang and that their bodies were then dissolved in a suit. indecent it is those according to the indications and interviews that is where they were known to have beaten one of the students once they were hitting him that is how he was killed and they had to execute the other two students. the wounds in mexico never really closed after forty three students were taken by police in collusion with organized crime in two thousand and fourteen the having you around me was full of hundreds of thousands of people protesting and this is another reminder for many. authorities can't or won't protect the innocent stuff. we're indignant angry we want justice in the area where the students were taken with people disappear every day we want it to be an area of freedom and security now a new president and many political leaders to to be elected in just over two months

and they're going to have to get to grips with a murder level that's the highest in two decades and with many in a population that are both scared and indignant dozens of migrants from central america who received the attention of the anger of president donald trump a began arriving at the u.s. border with mexico they're expected to eventually turn themselves in to u.s. border authorities but all appollo reports from tijuana. more than one hundred central american migrants have arrived at the us mexico border for many of these men women and children the journey has been the ultimate test of physical and mental resilience. the most difficult thing has been traveling on the train because our children became seriously ill some of them fainted so you see it's difficult after traveling for a month from honduras carlos and his family are tired hungry and anxious. each one of us here has a story and each one of us has

a case to make we've traveled all the way here with our families because we all have something bad that's happened in our lives a million. these new arrivals are part of a larger group of migrants seeking asylum in the united states most say they're fleeing violence or persecution in their own countries including hundred el salvador and guatemala. and the vast majority who want to get across and seek political asylum some are already organized with attorneys that are helping them prepare too but to answer questions when interviewed by u.s. immigration officials in the united states the department of homeland security announced recently that any illegal entries into the. entry by members of this migrant group will be referred for prosecution i know you know what now if you want to the asylum seekers are being helped by immigration activists and charity volunteers who are providing temporary shelter medical aid and food but their journey doesn't end here many central american migrants who have arrived at the

border plan to turn themselves in to u.s. authorities in the coming days but the process for seeking asylum in the united states can be long and has no guarantees for many of the next step is still unknown and up i just want to a palestinian independent commission for human rights has released its report for last year it criticizes israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is to could party for unanimously voting to impose israeli sovereignty of all key pide palestinian territory and to build twelve thousand new illegal settlement units the report says that israeli forces have increased the number of child detentions with an average of around four children a nice being kept in jail but it also highlights violations by palestinian authorities that says the twenty seventeen saw a record number of death penalty verdicts with six out of the thirty three palestinians sentenced to death already executed ahmad reich is head of the palestinian independent commission for human rights he joins us now live from

ramallah good to have you with us so what are your main findings in this report. what this is a comprehensive report of all the human rights situation in the palestinian territories. situation is disastrous in gaza and the human variant sense on international reports talk about near collapse of the humanitarian situation in gaza no one is doing anything it's shameful for the international community to continue the siege on gaza we have two million palestinians who cannot leave their country for treatment or for dick ation for anything where the last generation of gazans who have been in ongoing wars and the siege and they are now trying just to resist that by peaceful demonstration and what they see is a killing by the israelis so this shameful chapter and the fears of the international community has to be ended we highlighted the disaster situation in

gaza and the west bank the solution is not is not much better after the decision to move the embassy there israelis are taking that as a carte blanche to go ahead with an extension of the west bank through direct act or through making laws that makes defacto an extension a de jure an extension and we have a systematic policy of killing palestinians children are a target by the israelis today a court in israeli court sentenced a sniper who killed a palestinian child who would have placed his bullet proof rubber bullet by life and munition and shot and killed a palestinian child he was sentenced to day eight months in prison and the public was a group that is going to be there because they think it's too harsh it must too harsh for ending the life of a child so we have a systematic violation committed by the government supported by these dishy and

this is license to go ahead with giving palestinians and nixing their lands and taking them on their country. this is the national community has moved and has the book then and this ongoing occupation this is the the twenty third annual report that the commission has published the things in terms of human rights violations getting worse in the palestinian occupied palestinian territories or does this year's report read depressingly like last year's report on the one before it. well terms of the patient is getting worse and worse and the commission is entrenched and it's increasing its systematic violations against palestinians want to comes to palestinian who was very nation it's not very pleasant also we have setbacks in there for the expression and don't go and get that division between west bank and gaza the absence of the parliament the absence of political.

democracy and the political process all these political condition are causing go some more violation internally by palestinian authority in the west bank or by as government in gaza the continued. lack of medical association between palestinians is creating an environment through which human rights are systematically violated by security forces however there are some improvements and some aspects that we highlighted in the report but we think that this situation internment is a fragile because of the very unstable political situation because there's no certainty about the future there's no certainty about the future of medicine is because of his israeli continued occupation and there's no certainty about the future of what is the new political system we don't have a clear succession plan after president about the. functioning parliament that can take over because of any political transition so there's lots of uncertainty and

this uncertainty is deflecting because they've live on the psychological would of palestinians and they're moving towards more frustration and lack of trust in what the national can provide there thank you sir took to you. pensioners in greece are rallying to prevent further planned cuts to their pensions next year according to the latest figures a majority of them live on an average monthly income of four hundred twelve u.s. dollars that's the lowest average rate since the two thousand and eight financial crisis john psaropoulos reports from athens. after a lifetime of building electric transformers school studies managed to buy a house he borrowed against his monthly pension of twenty seven hundred dollars but after all standards he policies cut his pension repeatedly he and his wife were left subsisting on twenty five dollars a day off the negro be that is the theft to work your entire life and sacrifice

part of your salary for health and social security and when you claim your pension the state comes and says no you won't get it i'll take that the state is capitalist its main concern is to save the banks who se is still luckier than most more than half of these pensioners a living on fifteen dollars a day and things are about to become much worse they're out here protesting because next year the government is going to cut pensions by another eighteen percent the government was forced into this by the international monetary fund which wants to ensure that greece produces a surplus of three and a half percent of g.d.p. with which to carry loaded with the latest figures last year produced a surplus of percent of g.d.p. which suggests that the government's initial assessment may have been correct but these measures were on necessary there is a sweetener the government convinced its creditors to allow it to spend more on tax cuts and social spending especially for families with small children if the economy

does better than expected that spending could now come into play but many pensioners have lost any faith in social justice under the seat is a party government ya need your unemployment is such that our best minds kids we spent millions to raise and educate have gone abroad our government isn't left wing it's liberal prime minister sipress represents big business and he's passed measures that socialist and conservatives couldn't pensions are key to the economy many extended families are surviving partly thanks to them so it comes as little surprise that even though they are so low there are still two hundred twenty thousand people on the pensions waiting list that judge. it isn't enough money to start paying them jumps at all plus al-jazeera athens the leaders of north and south korea are due to hold their first direct meeting in more than a decade on friday they're expected to discuss bringing the korean war to an official end the meeting will happen on the southern side of the truth for japan when job kathy novak takes us to that venue in just

a few moments but first our diplomatic editor james bays has an exclusive look at the demilitarized zone from north korea 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 seven 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 cross to the southern zone looking. at them. 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 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 to monitor what are known to get lucky if dear sprit marshall 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 tall a 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 huts down there where in the past military officials from this country have met the other side and just over there 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 al-jazeera on the north korean side of the de-militarized zone. we're

often reminded that the two koreas remain technically at war and 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. 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 in two reuters journalists accused of violating state secrecy laws park wiring official documents have once again appeared in course. and cure so who were arrested in december while investigating abuses in rakhine state if convicted they could face a prison sentence of up to fourteen is last week a policeman who was appearing as a witness told the court but one of his c.d.o. officers gave the documents to the journalists to track them. u.s.

president donald trump has announced that he said his treasury secretary to china within days to negotiate over ongoing trade disputes the two nations have impose tariffs worth billions of dollars on each other and threaten more measures in the future sparking fears of a foreign trade war all this is overshadowing one of the world's biggest car shows which is open in beijing on a series adrian brown is there. amid the specter of a trade war u.s. auto executives are holding their breath in china but they're not holding back on their brands this is a market where their companies have to maintain a high profile. general motors now sells more cars in china than at home almost four million last year. it's an important market for ford as well their presence illustrated of the deep economic connections between china and the united states but unless beijing and washington can settle their trade differences these cars

could eventually cost twenty five percent more we always advocate anywhere around the world the benefits of free trade we feel very welcome in china here is a business we have great chinese partners in spite of strains in the china u.s. trade relationship president xi jinping has been holding out an olive branch he says that for years from now restrictions that have been preventing u.s. car manufacturers from fully owning local companies will come to an end. a promise to end those restrictions could go some way to heading off a trade war china's so important to foreign car manufacturers that some now choose this market to launch new models. china has the highest concentration of car ownership in the world more than twenty four million vehicles were sold last year and a growing number of the cars now clogging china's roads are electric powered. their

popularity is partly down to generous subsidies available to both buyers and manufacturers the government sees electric cars as both a way to clean up smog choked cities and to become a market leader in green technology technology to how they can find out what the western countries invented in their traditional car that's why the chinese government want to encourage development obvious on electric cars to overtake the west. and the government has another ambitious goals for electric cars to account for a third of all chinese car sales within seven. yes adrian brown al-jazeera beijing . time now for sports his foreign ager in thank you so much two of the most successful teams in european football will meet later in german champion's bar in munich host holders around madrid in the first leg of their champions league semifinal twelve time champions around the traitor bidding for a third successive european title rael who have had

a disappointing legacy seven have won their previous five matches against byron. to do this. i don't think they are the favorites me the side the favorites it's the flame the final and it's completely different to last season is a different much different conditions from last year we cannot compare the two of them portent is that we're in the semifinal and that we play a good game. barring coach this is a means to become just the third coach in the history to win the trophy three times he's won it once at byron and also while in charge of rel now age seventy two i guess said this will be his last season as a manager not predicaments. you could say the last two years ram adric has won the champions league and may have an advantage but we are in very good shape the team has won the german league this season and reached the german cup final we've had a great year and we want to finish it by reaching the champions league final.

liverpool fans have seen their team take a big step towards the final liverpool beat roma five two in the first leg of their semifinal at anfield one of solace scored twice to take his tally for the season up to forty three the return leg is in italy next wednesday. we have to. we're going to draw him that's no problem we would have visual yeah there would have been broke for us to do when we win five no he goes wrong would've tried everything to strike back anyway so that's not a big difference and i but i learned tonight is that we can win the second game as well even when it will be different. our sports correspondent lee wellings says liverpool have overachieved to reach the stage of the competition. well liverpool has a proud tradition in european football but at the start of the season i would really stickley not of expected reaching the semifinals of the champions league let's along winning the first leg against a five so of course you have a good m.r.

of hypothesized. if i can do the same things in liverpool that i did. in the last round the other thing that liverpool wouldn't have been expecting is to turn out to be quite as good as he is of course he has a record of cosplay hides hopes that he would be a key player in the new look say monday you can call but a chilly school forty three goals and counting to a broken record after record to be one player of the year. was the first african player to ten dollars in a champions league season that sends out a warning to the other semifinalists by a munich. who will play deficit leg wednesday night of course for the trophy holders of course they have chris john the interesting thing now is that saleh has moved into the bracket of a messy in terms of his performances as the to sticks can he do it for the long term. so would be the european cup or champions league. roma have

issued a statement condemning the abhorrence and behavior of some of their fans police are investigating the assault of a liverpool supporter outside the enfield stadium before kickoff there were clashes between supporters minutes before the semifinal started two men from rome have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder fifty three year old man is in critical condition roma says those involved had brought shame on the club. ruff and adele is about to begin the defense of his barcelona open title the world number one is facing fellow spender. on the very court that was named after him meanwhile former world number one know about joe average has been knocked out in the second round by still vacuous martin kills and jock which has been struggling since coming back from an elbow injury his record this season is five wins and now five defeat and be a champions golden state have booked their place in the second round of the playoffs

they sealed a four one series victory over western conference rivals the sam and ten year old spurs the warriors doing it even without star man steph curry who was sidelined with a left knee injury they do have kevin durant's though who drained twenty five points on choose jazz call this a one ninety nine to ninety one if you want wins pelican. different . the boston celtics have taken a three two series lead over the milwaukee bucks they won game five ninety two to eighty seven dos are looking for their first championship for ten years. the philadelphia seventy six years are through they finished off the miami heat in five games philly winning one hundred fourteen ninety one on thursday will face either boston or milwaukee next. when you have

a taste of six it sure you know feels good. when you start you know. someone would not be telling the truth if you know you'd say you'd go to predict. and in major league baseball japanese sensation show hero tanya's once again proving his worth the l.a. angels working page one hundred and one mph fastball in the game which is the fastest by a starting pitcher this fact this season the twenty three year old who is also a hitter struck out seven leading his fight to an eight seven win over the houston . that's all you sport for now for about a thanks i'll be back to our top stories just a few. major on al-jazeera. marking world press freedom day al-jazeera shines a light on this important issue and examines the state of freedom of the place

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