right wing assault on our freedom to oss questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being targets of the students teachers activists for their cause right so it's nice all of them but it's limited that's the number of people on the streets to protest it's just our doorstep saw image as a weird legs all attempts to contradict something that has. everything to do is being an alarmist it's been great and it's been measured i'm going to call this month. and it's not just i phones that's all it's lengthens i mean most not fans of the state at the moment we are in a state of the universe let's stop and did something that was acts i would rather take the risks of democracy to the risks of the dictatorship digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera.

the french president tells us lawmakers to reject nationalism and by salaciousness some key policies of his host donald trump. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i supporters around media's opposition step up the pressure to install their leader as prime minister. police in california make a major break in a serial killer case the dates back forty years and we're inside north korea looking at the country's military capability ahead of friday's historic summit with the south. french president as he was his speech to a joint session of congress to urge the u.s.

to reject nationalism and to preserve the iran nuclear deal the money well necron received a three minute standing ovation as he arrived at the chamber his speech was critical of the u.s. president's agenda despite the two sharing warm relations tearing across state visit. let me say we have two possible ways had we can choose i thought. withdrawal and nationalism this is an option it can be tempting to us as a temporary remember if to all fields but closing the door to the word will not stop the evolution of the word it will not dolls but inflame the fears of our citizens. we have to keep our eyes wide open to the new risks right in front of us saving the iran nuclear deal has been high on the agenda

for micron's us visit in the past few hours the french president has said that he's not confident that trump will stay in the pact alan fischer reports from washington . the fact that the two men have this personal chemistry there's no doubt about that everyone can see it but emanuel mccall took his speech to congress to highlight the policy differences between the two men though we know about the iran nuclear deal that has been clear something that's been talked about but there were other key moments in the speech not least when he was talking about international trade no manual mccraw said that town of swer not a good idea it didn't see that implicitly but essentially he said look we made the rules for the world trade organization that's what we should use to get over any trade disputes he also talked to about america abandoning its position in the world as a global leader with the idea of isolationism or america first he said there are other

countries and at that point he was clearly referring to china and russia who have the ambition and are ready to step in to that role he also had a rebuke there's no other word for it for donald trump and some of the rhetoric he uses saying that does nothing to construct anything positive what it does do is make people feel scared and there's a negative tone to it all it's interesting to know that when there were loads of applause they came mainly from democrats in congress and one of the biggest cheers was when emanuel mccraw said that he would like to see the united states return at some point to the polish climate accord which of course donald trump has pulled america out of a donald trump said before the speech he tweeted out that he was going to be watching it on television we don't know if he did the white house hasn't confirmed that but we certainly know in the following hours there's been absolutely no reaction from donald trump on across visits has featured plenty of backslapping

handshakes and kisses put how are french people reacted to their president's close relationship with donald trump natasha butler reports from paris. it was pomp and ceremony and displays of affection and of the words like camelot the apparent friendship between the french and american presidents was on full show during emmanuel state visit to washington politically the two men have little in common but the liberal macro is determined to get on with his conservative counterparts we have to make a berth for years perfect in france opinion polls suggest donald trump is unpopular but many people support mike ross approach. what on that they are great friends doesn't matter michael is the french president and he must create strong ties with the u.s. . it's very important for france and for the u.s. and even for europe especially as trump seems to really appreciate president it's

a sea chill to have good relations analysts say that macro's courting of trump is seen by many french people as a political tactic mcroy is probably really doing this as a strategy of trying to show from that he actually does respect him and to value the transatlantic relationship because at the end of the day from the european perspective you might not like the american president but the u.s. was always remain an important partner since micros election he has no cheered his relationship with trump inviting him as france's guest of honor to last year's bastille day celebrations and talking regularly by phone mike ross says he was able to convince trump to keep u.s. troops in syria some people say that the macro's closeness to trump is a risk because the u.s. president is so unpredictable but others say the french president has much to gain he can try and influence trump on important international matters such as the iran nuclear deal and it may help france's international standing rockwall seems to her

very. well thought through diplomatic strategy which is to create the largest amount of flexibility for france by making sure that the u.s. is on side micra will leave washington with few promises on a number of issues it's unclear for example whether trumbull impose u.s. trade tariffs on the e.u. or agree to an expanded iran nuclear agreement but if trump changes his mind on either issue many people in france may feel that all the back slapping and smiles well with it natasha butler al-jazeera paris protesters have been back on the streets of armenia's capital out of the acting prime minister canceled crisis talks with the opposition protest leader they called me and he says he's ready to leave until new elections are held his movement forced former leader serge saga c.n.n. to resign on monday from the end of an robben for us to walk or reports. they

brought the capital to a standstill. it was a carnival atmosphere. for others it was an inconvenience the police have ceased to intervene instead they have retreated to protect government buildings said so is yesterday's news now his republican party still in charge is the next target of the protest movement. the young smell revolution. wasn't just isn't one he got. yet. to be the prime minister acting prime minister cut in kind of pity and cancel talks with the opposition shenzhou for wednesday said he was ready for elections but not on the street he is boring it's in the game i don't know of any country where the people's candidate is elected in that way that's why we have elections there are some in the citizenry who are disappointed how are we

to measure their desires to have going to the desires of others in the citizenry who want a different candidate nicole consolation and nicole taking actually that apart from mr it's not clear who else is willing to stand in the way of opposition leader nicole passion. parties in parliament sided with his movements on wednesday and the international community is taking him seriously too we caught up with him fresh from talks at the russian embassy republican party has lost his power and the. republican party should recognized victory of the people and without any condition as far as he is concerned and as far as this crowd is concerned because it is on the threshold of becoming this country's new leader and i shrink a new democratic era to the republic of armenia it was oh.

i don't want the corridors of power but he has proven he can mobilize our millions in time there where his power is on the street and here on republic square probably for a steelworker al-jazeera. international donors have raised four point four billion dollars and urgency for syria but that's just half of the un's target for this year the us didn't submit a pledge at the fundraising conference in brussels saying that it's reviewing its support for the country. meanwhile the e.u. is accusing russia iran and turkey of escalating the conflict the e.u.'s foreign policy chief federica michael really says that the countries have a special responsibility to establish a ceasefire. thousands of people in yemen have protested to condemn a saudi led s. trike that killed a senior leader last week salah. had been head of the hooty administration since twenty sixteen rebels say that he was killed with six companions the conflict has

killed more than ten thousand people in the past three years and caused what the united nations says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. police in california say that they've cracked a decades old murder case they've arrested a former policeman that they believe is the so-called golden state killa a serial rapist and murderer from the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's from los angeles will brunell's reports forty two years after he began a rampage of murder rape in fear authorities in california say a man alleged to be the golden state killer is behind bars in a perfectly executed arrest my detectives arrested james joseph d'angelo seventy two years old living in citrus heights dns lho was taken into custody at his suburban home near sacramento during part of the period when the crimes occurred he was a sacramento area policeman. well very possibly he was committing the crimes during

the time he was employed as a peace officer the golden state killer also known as the east area rapist allegedly murdered at least twelve people sexually assaulted forty five and broke into more than one hundred and twenty homes across california in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's detectives collected massive amounts of physical evidence and tips but were on able to crack the case until recent advances in d.n.a. technology we all knew as part of this team that we were looking. for a needle in a haystack. but we also all knew that the needle was there d.n.a. collected from the crime scenes provided the crucial break we started some surveillance we were able to get some discarded d.n.a. . he often targeted couples he would tie up the husbands and then sexually assault their wives he then bludgeoned some of his victims to death is youngest rape victim

was thirteen years old we will do everything that we can to bring justice to the victims that suffered from and speak of all harm from the horrific crimes crimes that may now be solved by decades of relentless investigation and detectives who never gave up rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles we're going to weather update next here on out to zero then accusations of double standards from light jail sentence for his radio officer who shot dead a palestinian. anger in greece and the board cuts to pensions a lifeline for thousands of families. how i was still got something of a mixed bag of weather across north america still some rather heavy rainfall some

light a spell of wet weather is in the process of pulling away from the middle and six days up into that northeastern corner becomes the next one on the area just spinning off the planes coming out of the rockies easing down towards the deep south and as we go on through thursday some bacon found was certainly a possibility convert out the possibility of the odd tornado coming through as well but some just picking up ahead of that they say could be up to twenty celsius eighteen celsius in new york that will be some cloud of right just around maine pushing up into that eastern side of kind of the thirteen celsius for ottawa five dry and sunny for toronto at around thirteen degrees for the west looking at twenty six in seattle before back to around sixteen for friday often in the tribe either though the one thing that we can be policed about so we're looking at a lot of dry weather to the central pos by friday but the west the weather will. make his way back toward stacy edging over to was a bit allowed to stay north carolina was to say some of that wet weather before the south suspects they will stay five jobs and pleasant sunshine coming through the

sunshine as per usual across the caribbean but we have still got some live the shallows set to continue across the greater antilles for much of the week. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wilds. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. al-jazeera selects palestinians.

well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the french president has used his speech to a joint session of congress to urge the u.s. to reject nationalism and to preserve the iran nuclear deal past few hours of audio mcdonogh said that he's not confident the president will stay in the pact. protesters have been back on the streets of armenia's capital after the acting prime minister canceled crisis talks with the opposition protest leader mikko passion young says that he's ready to lead till new elections are held. at least in the u.s. state of california have charged a former police officer they suspect of being the so-called golden state killer a serial rapist and murderer in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's seventy two year old joseph james angelo was held off the d.n.a. from his home matched crime scene evidence. that israeli court has sentenced

a border police officer to nine months in prison for killing a palestinian teenager and twenty fourteen that in the water was shot dead during protests marking the anniversary of the naacp when palestinians were expelled from their homeland harry forsett reports from the occupied west bank. four years ago nadine nora took part in these protests in the occupied west bank town of beit hanoun yesterday he was one of the group of young men and teenagers throwing stones towards israeli security forces israel says they were instructed to use rubber coated bullets but when the seventeen year old was shot he collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead later an autopsy on his examined body would show he'd been shot through the chest with a regular bullet medical volunteer mohammad saleem was there that day he arrived in time to see a second teenage boy shot through the chest right next to him throw a stone and he was like walking so his face was toward this their accent and when

he reached almost here he was shot in the back and then he turned around and fall he gave first aid to the victim muhammad but he too died no proceedings were brought in the case of one would i would die here but the killing of nadine was different at one stage israeli border police officer who pulled the trigger was indicted for manslaughter. ben derry was initially accused of deliberately placing live rounds in the magazine of his assault rifle which should have been firing only rubber coated i mean in a plea deal that accusation was dropped and he was convicted instead of negligence his sentence mine months in prison now deems father has fought a long legal battle on behalf of his son from the moment he says he found alive bullet in the backpack nineteen was wearing when he died and a kid in nor i have proven that israel has no justice or fairness when it comes to palestinians i prove this with evidence because the cares of the d.m. is one of the strongest piercers in the israeli palestinian conflict by ambulance

approved in a day most intentionally killed palestinian activists say a double standard is at play highlighted by the case of i head to mimi the palestinian teenager convicted of assault and incitement after slapping an israeli soldier her sentence eight months i had a child who slapped the soldier and received almost the same sentence as the soldier who put an end to the life of testing the child so you can compare the standards the justice system is following the israeli police have declined to comment on ben derry sentencing for judgment criticized him for aiming at the upper body of someone who presented no immediate threat to having a live round in his magazine but it found no intention on his part to load that bullet or fire it at nineteen nora perry force at al-jazeera in the occupied west bank made opposition party in the democratic republic of congo is held its first public rally in two years thousands of people gathered in kinshasa to hear

opposition leader felix. it comes just months ahead of a key presidential election and reports. in the capital of such a large volatile country and political rallies like this one are a rarity firstly because there are opposition supporters here and also more importantly there's no sign of violence. this man felix she security the newly appointed leader of the u. d.p.s. the union for democracy and social progress wants to take the presidency from joseph kabila and for those wanting to know why the security forces were breaking this gathering up he dismissed rumors of a trade off deal with kabila in which he would become prime minister and kabila would remain in power. don't let yourself be distracted leave them to their own distractions we must prepare and you must prepare yourselves to get me to win this

election. he came to relaunch the struggle for change in this country there must be an election and we must respect the rules of the game the support look strong but in a democratic republic of congo there's a divided opposition she's a kennedy is one of two figures vying to topple one and a half decades of rule by kabila this policy appears to be divide and keep on ruling his refusal to stand down at the end of his latest term led to protests that were crushed with violence in kinshasa dozens of people were killed. the catholic church brokered a deal kabila could stay on for one more year and organize elections due in december then stand down but this is a place where certainty of progress can be hard to find government and opposition accuse each other of supporting militias in gauged in violence and the displacement

of nearly one half million people in castle in the east cam the seventeen thousand polling stations needed for this election see a free and fair ballots there are serious doubts and an increasing distrust of kabila he's been attending a summit of the southern africa development community in angola it's called for all parties to create the right environment for peaceful and credible elections andrew symonds al-jazeera. a national strike in south africa has disrupted public transport and forced businesses to close thousands marched on wednesday to demand a higher minimum wage and better rights for workers the federation of trade unions wants the government to address high rates of unemployment and poverty. there's agger in greece over more cuts to pensions planned for next year latest figures show the majority of pensioners live on about four hundred twelve dollars a month that's the lowest rate since the two thousand and eight financial crisis

johnson 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 in a glow 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 saudi's 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 learns the latest figures last year produced a surplus of a certain degree which suggests that the government's initial assessment may have been correct but these measures were unnecessary 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 suppressed 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 south korea has released more details about its meeting on friday with the north president will greet north korea's kim jong un at the border as he steps across the military demarcation line kim will be accompanied by his sister during the talks the two leaders are expected to announce a joint agreement after the meeting the first in more than a decade well north koreans have been celebrating military foundation day which commemorates the army's creation in one nine hundred thirty two while the focus has been on the country's nuclear ambitions little attention has been paid to the military's huge arsenal of weapons conventional weapons that is our diplomatic as the james bays reports from pyongyang they are everywhere but you're not allowed to film them we only got these pictures when we first arrived in pyongyang before it was explained politely but very firmly that taking pictures of military and

security personnel was forbidden. the north korean military is believed to have over a million soldiers this city was badly destroyed during the korean war most of the buildings were built in the decades immediately after the conflict the military history of this now isolated nation is revealed as you travel around the capital city. this monument marks the defeat of the japanese who occupied korea until the end of world war two a few years later the korean war which had a devastating human cost on both sides this is a country that was forged in war and is still even now on a war footing. yet younger koreans at this school of thought the history of the korean war war images are displayed in the corridors. older koreans meanwhile need no remind us the hunan during those americans is just

hearing about them makes my heart tremble my father was killed by the americans when i was twelve so whenever i hear about those americans i get overcome with hatred it makes my heart tremble suma la forthcoming talks will center on north korea's nuclear program but the country has a substantial conventional arsenal to the principal target of their artillery guns the south korean capital seoul earlier there in the other half of this divided land i spoke to a lawmaker a military expert who told me the world should not only focus on the nuclear threats. oh you know the biological weapons are honestly more fearsome the nuclear weapons from our perspective the destructiveness of a one ton nuclear warhead can be achieved with only four kilograms of anthrax in terms of casualties in seoul it is estimated that north korea has stockpiled over five thousand tons of chemical weapons song in all military first is

a longstanding north korean strategy in recent years the leader kim jong un has added another track a cautious and partial opening up of the economy now for the first time on friday he'll be adding in high level diplomacy james pays out his era pyongyang. fears of a trade war between china and the united states accosting a shadow over the biggest annual motor show in beijing u.s. carmakers are worried that the tension could damage their plans in the world's largest auto market china correspondent adrian brown reports. 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 four years from now restrictions the. being 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 is 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 development but you don't want the western countries inventing their traditional car that's why the chinese government went 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 years adrian brown al-jazeera beijing .

protests here with us a very unfair going to here and other top stories this hour. the french president is urging the u.s. to reject nationalism and to preserve the iran nuclear deal and many on the call gave a speech to a joint session of congress but in the past few hours he said that he's not confident that president donald trump will stay in the pact let me say we have two possible ways ahead we can choose isolation isn't withdrawal and nationalism this is an option it can be tempting to us as a dumper ie remember if you are fears. but closing the door to the word will not stop the evolution of the word it will not dollars but inflame the freeze of our citizens we have to keep our eyes wide open to the new risks right in front of us protesters are back on the streets of armenia's capital

after the acting prime minister canceled crisis talks with the opposition protests later and says that he's ready to lead until new elections are held his movement forced former leader sir's suggs to resign on monday. police in california have charged a former policeman that they suspect is the so-called golden state killer a serial rapist and murderer in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's seventy two year old joseph james to angelo was held after d.n.a. from his home matched crime scene evidence south korea has released more details about its meeting on friday with the north president bone j.n. will greet kim jong un at the border as he steps across the military demarcation line kim will be accompanied by his sister during talks in poundland john the two leaders are expected to announce a joint agreement after the meeting international donors have raised four point four billion dollars in emergency aid for syria but that's just half of the un's

target for this year the u.s. didn't submit a pledge at the fundraising conference in brussels because it's reviewing its support the e.u.'s foreign policy chief urge russia iran and turkey to help establish to cease fire others that had lives more news after a.j. selects next. in this. the mine to be. the.