these just their way to their house as you can see the wooden bridge that would allow the over here. with the smell of these which are. the corpse or the badly of the headlines. so all this much worse than the garbage he does all of the smell is coming from the dead bodies so that's a. very. hard. how.

oh. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour life from london coming up in the next sixty minutes well tonight i'm here to tell you one thing. iran lart. israel's prime minister says he has secret files which prove iran has been covertly pursuing its nuclear weapons activities on the on the job. and i still attack in afghanistan's capital kills twenty five people line of them john lewis who rushed to the scene to cover the story. thousands rally in russia in protest against the blocking of the messaging app telegram. i'm tatiana sunshiny day with that.

israel's prime minister says iran is pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program and lied to international observers about it in breach of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal benjamin netanyahu gave an audiovisual display claiming to have conclusive proof of the program from documents obtained from iran iranian state t.v. has rejected the accusations as propaganda iran lawit about never having a nuclear weapons program one hundred thousand secret files prove that their last second even after the iran continue to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons nor for future use why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalog its secret nuclear falls if not to use them later. third iran lied again in

two thousand and fifteen when it didn't come clean to the. as required by the nuclear deal. and finally the iran do the nuclear issue is based on lars it's based on the reunion laws in the rain in deception. well the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has taken to twitter in response writing that president trump is jumping on a rehash of old allegations already dealt with by the i.a.e.a. to nix the deal how convenient coordinated timing of alleged intelligence revelations by the boy who cries wolf just days before may twelfth but trump's impetuousness to celebrate blew the cover so let's bring in alan fischer who is at the white house and the iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif tweet that

alluding to the may twelfth deadline that president trump is facing as we approach that in a couple weeks that the bay of iran's nuclear program is becoming more how do we know about any communication between president trump and mess and yahoo before all off to this presentation. what we know that might compare who is the new us secretary of state was in jerusalem over the last few days so undoubtedly this was raised at that point we also know that benjamin netanyahu said that during his presentation which many people here in washington believe was a presentation to an audience of one that they cheered the information with the americans and they're willing to share it with other governments as well donald trump was here at the white house he was hosting a joint news conference with the president of nigeria he was asked specifically about what benjamin netanyahu had said because it came probably no more than ten minutes before donald trump appeared in the rose garden and all he said was if the

israelis if they're correct then we'll take that into consideration he said that no decision had been made he again made that very cryptic comment of people think no i'm going to do but i have made a decision and he would like to renegotiate the deal his dislike of this deal has been very clear for a very long time since he was candid it trump he has mentioned it repeatedly on the campaign trail he's talked about it repeatedly in the white house he has signed the reauthorization of the deal as required under u.s. law on a couple of occasions but said he wasn't going to do it again his new u.s. secretary of state is also very much against the iran deal but the decision will be made on or before the twelfth of may we're told by president donald trump and he believes that everyone in white house knows everyone in washington knows which way he's beginning to get to gore but interestingly enough after he gave that news conference he also had a phone call with president mccall of france. again talked about various issues and

undoubtedly president mccrone probably talked about what netanyahu was saying at his news conference in tel aviv and alan the president has made his dislike of the iranian canadian. very very clear for a long time now but this may twelfth deadline and and others that will come after that comes at a time when they are trying to negotiate an agreement with north korea the deep new qarase ation is that how is that playing into calculations within the trump ministration well certainly donald trump doesn't believe that the iran deal is a thing to do with north korea the feeling was speaking to a couple of analysts at the end of last week they would suggest that it also doesn't factor into the north korean calculus either that the leader of north korea holds nuclear weapons and the reason he's got them is because he wants to die in

his bed is a very very old man who's a revered leader and so isn't very keen to give up nuclear weapons or the diplomatic and military power that that brings so the iran deal to a large degree is set aside by the americans when the talking about the north koreans because they believe the north koreans are doing exactly the same thing and not looking at iran regarding that really is a completely separate issue ok thanks very much alan fischer at the white house have more on this let's speak to trita parsi who's the president of the national iranian american council joins us via skype from reston virginia just outside washington and our correspondent there at the white house was mentioning president matt crones visit to recent visit to washington and we know that the other powers that signed the iran nuclear agreement germany the u.k. france among them are very keen to keep this deal alive do you said do you see that being a broadening of the current agreement or indeed an additional agreement to encompass

iran's ballistic missile program in the next few weeks or months. first of all in order to be able to have any credibility to ask for additional negotiations whether it's to broader or have an add on one has to first respect that here to the existing vo and the trumpet mistreatment has been violating it ever since they came into office so i don't think there's any basis for them to be able to make that request but if they start actually respect the video and hearing to it i think there is a chance that they could be an add on deal that is separate from this deal but if the west and the united states would like to put iran's missile program on the table which is not subject to do any international agreements i think they also have to be ready then to put their own arms sales to g.c.c. countries on the table because right now the saudis are spending five times as much money on arms to the iranians are and if the iranians are going to be this army that everyone else has to as well that's going to just be

a reality and i doubt that the u.s. is willing to give up its arms sales to some of these countries we know that there is a close relationship between president and the israelis and his presentation here comes less than twenty four hours. the new secretary of state might on pale as in the region and saudi arabia and then also in israel if there is a coordinates of policy to pressure and contain iran what do you see happening in the next few months. i think what we're going to see is that the trumpet restriction is going to walk out of that the you know they've already essentially killed it this me twelve is going to essentially be a formality the europeans mind make a real effort to see if they can replace the u.s. which would mean that they would have to do far far more than they were what they've done so far in trying to ensure that the economic benefits that the iranians were crummiest as part of this year actually is delivered to them i personally have downs that they are going to be capable of doing this and as

a result we're going to see us walk out the iranians walk out and the deal will collapse and who will be back in a situation that existed prior to this year in which the u.s. is trying to put pressure on iran build a coalition against iran and the iranians most likely will restart their nuclear program. and there's a very stark choice facing the iranians right now. do you think that that is certain will they if we see. president trump whether it's on the may twelfth deadline or indeed the july deadline failed to or new sanctions relief for iran which effectively kills the deal will they almost certainly restore the nuclear activities they gave up before joining the dail. i think it would be very naive to expect that they don't because the deal essentially asked them to restrict their activities in return for economic sanctions relief and recognition

now if the sanctions relief is not going to be forthcoming there's going to be political pressures and you've got to restart the program and here i think north korea does matter i saw the earlier conversation that there's an argument that the north koreans don't pay attention to what's happening to you don well the iranians are paying attention to what happens to north korea and if the north koreans get a deal with the united states that the u.s. then respects and it hears too it's likely that the iranians will conclude that their mistake was that the went to the negotiating table when they only had uranium enrichment if they had done with the north koreans did which is to have a bomb test of bomb and also produce the delivery mechanisms for a bomb the united states in concert a table strike a deal and here to it that's where the injuries we are creating an incentive structure for iraq to actually go from in the transition. thanks to the spec to with us and the national iranian american council thank you so much. i still has

claimed responsibility for a double suicide attack in central kabul which killed at least twenty five people and injured dozens more nine journalists from lung those killed making it was safer media in afghanistan since two thousand and one jennifer glass reports from kabul on the almost zero zero zero zero the first suicide bomber was on a motorbike i saw says the target was intelligence headquarters but the explosion killed civilians and policeman in the street every day added the limb for policemen and from district nine who were up the front line but were among those monsters and three policemen were wounded as well emergency workers rushed to the scene to aid the wounded. afghan cameraman reporters and photographers who come to cover the news became part of the story when a second suicide bomber disguised as a journalist blew himself up among such attacks could create existential threats against press freedom and freedom of expression in afghanistan which is considered

one of the biggest achievements of the country in the past seventeen years i've got to start who's got the most vibrant media in the region this is supposed to be a secure part of kabul home to not only intelligence headquarters but nato the u.s. embassy and various aid organizations in the capital these days nothing feels safe . another eisel bombing last week killed at least sixty people and injured one hundred ten afghans lined up to register to vote were the target not only in kabul but elsewhere too in kandahar in southern afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack on a nato convoy killed at least eleven civilians including children several nato soldiers and afghan policeman were injured the afghan president has described these attacks as were crimes terrorist acts in conflict with islamic values and human rights and the afghans blame the government for not doing enough to prevent them jennifer glass al jazeera kabul. the palestine national council is officially

meeting for the first time in twenty two years in the west bank city of ramallah the powerful but rare assembly will discuss several critical issues top of the list whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel the meeting is scheduled to last three days gather you don't get too far if this council is harm to them the palestinian dream me seriously harmed therefore we were very determined to create the session we were hoping that everybody who wanted a future of palestine and the palestinian people we wish them to be here but they unfortunately prefer to be abroad are a force that washrag want to pass a speech to the council. he essentially is is trying to unify and revitalize this central organization in palestinian politics the p.l.o. he says it's vital to do that ahead of facing off israel and the united states in the lead up to the publication of the donald trump peace plan in the aftermath of

donald trump's declaration recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital but beyond that the policy there's also a great deal a very important process going on here read or rather naming new names for this this p. and c. the times the national council more than seven hundred members also the nominating a new executive committee of the palestinian liberation organization so those are things that which will allow him to put people that he wants in those positions for all the talk of democratizing this organization is not really very democratic process here at the moment and it allows a system to be put in place for really kind of taking the focus away potentially from the palestinian authority from the all those different parliamentary body that the palestinian legislative council and and putting it very much in the p.l.o. under the aegis of mahmoud abbas and giving him something of

a free hand to react and adapt to events in the next few months and i think he's now from london much more still ahead forging ahead with his anticorruption engender armenia's opposition leaders formally nominate the eyes of prime minister and u.n. security council delegation arrives in myanmar and meet with the country's leaders as part of an investigation into the rangar crisis and real madrid could but that place in the champions league final on cheese day will have all the buildup to that semifinal win by. iran's judiciary has banned the popular messaging out telegram to protect national security and his game is some ten thousand people took to the streets in moscow earlier to protest against recent restrictions on internet freedom in russia is ortiz that began blocking telegram this month over its refusal to hand over the keys to its data encryption jona home reports. in

moscow they demanded the government block the popular instant messaging app telegram the company had refused an official order to hand over the data encryption keys that keep messages sent on telegrams private. to. russia's federal security service the f.s.b. says that privacy is a shelter for criminal and terrorist groups but telegram users see it as an attack on free speech it's proud to step up our to freedom within russia it's a beginning that's the way it is. censorship to examine the symbol for a link it is the course lower. internet in the world telegrams logo depicts a paper plane and hundreds were launched as demonstrators shouted anti putin slogans opposition leader alexina valmy was there ensuring the authorities would not

overlook this demonstration i want to show you cage in which i have my rights and i don't care about these bands i do what i want what i need to do whatever i'm allowed to do under the constitution russia is not the only country in which telegram has fallen foul of the earth or it is on monday iran's judiciary sidelined the reformist government by announcing a ban on the app also citing threats to national security the clerics said telegram had been used to organize anti-government protests that swept the country in january it's a combination of something like what twitter that you might have here in the united kingdom so it's. platforms combined for iranians often times so it's very important and if you look back to previous elections you can kind of correlate victories of those that won the most seats in parliament or their own honey victory kind of see how effective they were using social media especially very well it ramps and all of

that was supporting so telegram is seen as a threat by those opposed to reform in iran and protesters in russia would say the same thing the apps found russian entrepreneur pavel bure of his fighting back he's promised to fund anyone developing proxy platforms online able to dodge the ban al-jazeera. and delegation from the un security council has met me on mars de facto leader unsung sixty to discuss their anger crisis some seven hundred thousand rang of muslims have been forced to flee and stay off the military launched a brutal crackdown last year the un is putting pressure on the government to allow for the wrangles safe return charles stratford reports. on song suchi nobel peace prize winner and for so long the darling of much of the world for the fight for democracy in myanmar beats un security council delegate silly capital and they could all through appreciation of the civilian leader now in taxes after her

refusal to publicly at least condemn the military crackdown and the injured rights groups say the army supported by put a small killed thousands of men women and children carried out a campaign of gang rape and destroyed hundreds of wreckage of villages the other thing the security council should do is to refer the situation in iraq try and state to the international criminal court the crimes against humanity that were committed against the injure population were clearly of the gravity and severity that they warrant prosecution by the international criminal court. the un has called the violence against the mainly muslim or hinge a textbook ethnic cleansing myanmar's buddhist dominated military deny that saying the army was responding to what it describes as terrorist attacks following the killing of border guards the security council delegation says talks with suchi and military leaders of focused on stopping the violence and eventually starting

a voluntary repatriation plan proposed by bangladesh in myanmar last year the security council veto power of china and russia has meant the un has been unable to act effectively to end this crisis the ranges say they won't go back to me and more until they have their citizenship returned. it was stripped from them by what was then the government in one thousand nine hundred two u.n. and international aid agencies say it's inconceivable that the regime you can return when their legal status in myanmar makes them so vulnerable to more violence . than i get out of. the fed me and mom because they tortured us and they killed a lot maybe if they can guarantee us citizenship freedom and a life we will go back otherwise how can you survive that for the approximately seven hundred thousand ready joe who fled me on boston august and now live in what's been described as the largest refugee camp in the world the struggle to survive could become even harder. a dramatic change in the weather is putting lives

at risk. as united nations security council delegation continue their discussions with the myanmar government the situation here for hundreds of thousands of refugees living in flimsy shelters many on steep hillsides could get a lot worse in the coming weeks and months slike clone along soon season is starting here the u.n. and aid agencies say that it is vital to act in all of this a prevent a disaster happening i mean what can only be described as one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world right now charles stratford al jazeera part of the refugee camp. or more on one of our top stories the attack in the afghan capital kabul in which twenty five people nine of them journalists were killed one of those journalists there was a peace chief in afghanistan he rushed to the scene of the first blast to cover the

story the french news agency has shared a selection of his best work where i was a father of five and wrote in two thousand and sixteen about how his family had been scared to leave the house he said he had never felt life to have so few prospects and called it a time of anxiety or may john is an investigative journalist who is based in afghanistan she joins me now from new york thanks very much for speaking to us did you know any of the victims in today's attacks. thanks for having me called press corps a very tight knit small community and it's inevitable that when a touch of this magnitude happens there's a personal connection. as you mentioned the margins front's press photographer he has been an institution in afghanistan for for over a decade he started off as a driver working for if p. and then worked his way up to be a chief photographer he's someone that i would see often either odd events that we

were covering together or dinners and social gatherings to wind down in the evenings and he was an incredibly warm presence. i mean that does also doesn't negate the fact that there are the very fact there were here talking about him is because he spoke english and worked for an english language news agency there are eight other reporters who died today that you know i don't personally know and few people will know of because they belong to this in this parallel world that westerners don't have access to how dangerous is it for dangerous for journalists in afghanistan at the moment but how would you describe the risks that afghan journalists are taking in telling the story. i've always admired and have been in awe of the attitude that after many afghans

have towards death it's almost as if they treated as if it were an extension of life and there isn't this sort of clear severing the way we have in the so-called west and i think a lot of afghans and especially after reporters you know. the work they do so much of it involves. life and death and trauma and suffering and so in many ways i think they've been inert to the violence but that doesn't you know negate the fact that it is it is a catastrophic loss and i think today is meant to go down as one of the deadliest days in afghan media press history and and press is one of the few sort of you know big accomplishments of the post nine eleven order compared to other countries in the region compared to iran pakistan especially what's happening . in you know certain countries in the arab world afghanistan really does have

a very strong and independent. press scene and today is a devastating blow to that small community what more can be done to protect those journalists. i mean there's of course a lot of advocacy organizations that work towards helping you know support press freedom and i imagine if p. is taking care of. their eyes families as we'll told will all the other television networks and newspapers that's lost employees today but short of the war ending lives will not get any better i mean of course you know to day that the fact that so many reporters died is a function of you know the fact that so much of their job happens takes place in the in the margins of safety you mean the talk that happened and many of them

rushed over i mean there are other other good friends of mine who were just a you know they were stuck in traffic and you know they had to whatever they had other errands to run and there were just a slow to the scene and that really that's what saved their their lives and their the these men and brave men and women are often navigating through these sort of. precarious situations where you know being a couple minutes late might mean that you die but you live or you lose a friend or your obliterated and i mean that one change none of that will change unless the war ends well thanks very much for sharing your experiences and thoughts with us may john investigative reporter formerly based in afghanistan now joining us from new york there are reports the saudi crown prince told jewish leaders in the u.s. that palestinians need to accept these proposals or shut up and stop complaining israel's channel ten says the comments on may dream had been some months trip to

new york last month around the time he visited u.n. headquarters the report also goes on to say that in some months stated the palestinian issue is not a top priority for saudi arabia. al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashar says if the reports are true the saudi prince has either shown any experience or arrogance. he probably wanted to. please his hosts and these are very influential hosts whether it's the meeting with the twenty seventh with jewish leaders or the meeting of the twenty eight with jewish and christian leaders the backbone of the trump administration i think he probably wouldn't want to charm them and in that sense you would probably be as i said blame his inexperience and his youth if he's actually serious about this if he means it then you know it's certainly a lack of wisdom block of knowledge a lot of ignorance certainly of history again one maybe should not blame him i

remember when the peace process started in one thousand nine hundred fact i was there in madrid in one thousand nine hundred one i was there in washington in one thousand nine hundred thirty when the all slow process was signed in washington i think mohamed been so none was five or six years old i don't think he knows much about what the policies were ready to give or compromise and how much they suffered over the last twenty five years i think it's more of it is. stemming from ignorance . so i have for you this hour and now the rebel groups around this in syria fighters from had to leave that enclave and some damascus camped out on the border and the central american refugees have spent a month traveling to the u.s. only to be turned away. and no craning his neck and face to great heights to watch his team that's coming out on.

how we got more very warm weather it's eastern province of europe over the next couple of glossy clear skies of that fabulous weather just nice to see a little fun but had some lively show was starting to push their way in still looking are all around settled over towards the a west that the temperatures swensen says to looking pretty woman to monday's highs thirty celsius in warsaw all those that heat compare that to six decrease in london grow cold wet and windy day this one will improve with six a one so choose day thirteen celsius not great has to be said but that is an improvement thirteen there for paris sixteen zero and also for madrid central as those more so twenty five degrees so the heat just abating a little bit but staying well up into the twenty's there for bucharest and down towards the southeast and colder a similar conditions continuing here we will see some very wet weather coming into

that western side of the med as we go on through the next twenty four to forty eight hours and that will ease its way east was originally makes way for the next weather system bringing more rain into the u.k. the west of france and also into west is back in portugal now that wet weather will lap on to the coastal shores of algeria really gets going as we go into the middle part of the week really wet and windy weather coming in from tunisia abul say for algeria's at fifteen degrees. from planting forests with drones to surviving drought small funds award winning environmental solutions program with tons of a group of them for them to a real job but. making the people communities and organizations addressing some of the greatest manmade environmental problems threatening our planet. a new season of

birthright sort of al-jazeera. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. just we all come different places but it's one that gives us and gives us the ability to identify the people when they hear the side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. a

come back a look at the top stories this hour israel's prime minister says he has haas half a ton of documents that show iran has been secretly continuing its nuclear weapons program off the signing two thousand and fifteen dozens of people have been killed in bombings in afghanistan i still says it carried out a double attack in kabul that killed at least twenty five people nine of them journalists a taliban suicide bombing in kandahar also killed eleven civilians there including children. and the palestine national council is meeting for the first time in twenty two years top of the agenda is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel. and evacuation has been struck between the syrian government and some rebels in southern damascus it includes the palestinian refugee camp the largest of its kind in syria pro-government forces have surrounded the camp after we taking several neighborhoods from my sil and other rebel groups saying a holder of ports from beirut. another evacuation deal another surrender fighters

belonging to him. an armed group formally known as al nusra front are leaving their enclave in southern damascus they were face to little choice they were under siege and under fire their families are accompanying them to the opposition controlled northwestern province of. this powerful but the armed group had to make concessions such as agreeing to release dozens of prisoners and allowing thousands of syrians from the besieged loyalist towns of poor and can freyja to leave to government control. territory pro-government forces have long wanted to fully evacuate the predominantly shiite towns because that would deny the rebels the ability to pressure damascus by threatening to target them it's another win for the syrian government and its allies so it's a force agreement of its kind in recent weeks rebels have already surrendered eastern hutto which was their main stronghold close to the capital and the pocket

of territory in the column one region northeast of damascus and then a few days the rebel factions linked to the free syrian army are expected to hand over the districts. in southern damascus in order to stave off a military operation. that will leave a few districts in southern damascus still outside government control. is in control of that pocket of territory it's almost been two weeks since government forces and their allies launched an all out their heavy weapons are ineffective in built up areas the government however is pushing ahead with its military solution to the war focusing on recapturing all the remaining areas besieged by bashar al assad's forces. the northern countryside of homs province is among them the biggest town in the opposition controlled area rustan's has been coming under heavy fire the region is strategically important for the government it's close to the main road connecting the government controlled cities of homs and hama rebel factions

have been offered an evacuation deal if they refused reconciliation so far they haven't given that may change if the military pressure continues. beirut. u.s. president donald trump has again reaffirmed his belief in a border war with mexico one of the key policies of his election campaign is a group of hundreds of refugees and migrants from central america stop just across the southwestern border the so-called migrant caravan has been making its way north across mexico for more than a month trump has ordered on a security to stop them from entering the u.s. but says more measures in needed. but we have to have changes in congress and we have to have it quickly we need a wall number one and you see that right now you know where they are even though it's not a particularly good wallet even though a small percentage can climb to the top they have to be extremely good shape but a small percentage can climb that particular wall we have

a wall that's much more difficult but if you didn't have that you'd have thousands of people just pouring into our country you get to have a wall. well money is on the mexican side of the border. and if you can tell us roughly how many migrants have decided to remain outside the us border gate of the ny off to being denied entry. we spoke to activists that i've been traveling with the migrant group who told us that some around fifty individuals were allowed by mexican officials to pass through without borders gate to arrive at the u.s. inspection facility but those individuals were turned away now overnight there were around fifty individuals that chose to stay here outside of the border again sort of camping out again today that we were seeing some around one hundred fifty to two hundred individuals that have rejoined that initial group of migrants are outside waiting and camping out. mexican agreement in the immigration officials actually

asked them to sort of there's quite a few children that are that are walking around me it's actually worth noting that today is children's day in mexico so we've seen a lot of a lot of volunteers and charity organizers that have been providing food and blankets and toys and and a much needed distraction for a lot of these kids roughly half of the migrants that are seeking asylum are children and and it's been a good distraction for them given the confusion and the stress over when exactly it's going to be that these folks are going to have their opportunity to turn themselves into border officials but at the moment it's still a waiting game and they've been here now for what is the second day in a row that they're waiting to hear word as to whether or not they're going to be allowed in and plead their cases to those officials you know we can see from what's happening behind you mandela definitely managing to keep their spirits up while they're waiting but i mean if they continue to be stuck and prevented from actually entering into the u.s. do they have any plan i mean can they just stay there indefinitely. we have to keep

in mind that a lot of these people been traveling for a month now of use are individuals that of a traveling from central america most. from honduras but their door and for many of them they've been traveling for well over a month so what we've heard what i've been told by several individuals is that they've been through so long this journey has been so long for them that waiting another few days they're willing to wait as long as it takes to get that opportunity to plead their case to make that asylum request request to border officials it started raining earlier today which is why you're seeing a lot of these tarps that have been put up there are. many of these folks are. hoping that it doesn't rain again but they're being a bit preemptive about that they're saying that even if it does rain there's really nothing that's going to dissuade them from from staying out here and waiting as long as it takes to to have their opportunity to speak to border officials there the reminding us that there don't they don't want to do anything illegal they don't have any plans to to sort of storm the border to jump over that that border fences we're hearing the type of rhetoric from from from certain leaders in the united

states they want to use the existing asylum laws in the united states to make their legal case for asylum which again they have every right to do so. all right well thanks so much money there in tijuana where we can see a group of immigrants a lot of kids we can see they're camped out just step by the port of entry between the two countries joins me now from san ysidro on the u.s. side of the border and rob are all familiar with the trouble ministrations politics on immigration and president own views on this particular group of migrants and in making their way through mexico from central america what have we been hearing from trump today. well we've been hearing a lot from president trump first of all you broadcast just a few moments ago that the comment that he made about the inadequacy of the border

wall between the united states and mexico i'm standing this a couple meters from the border wall at the port of entry at san isidro and let's just take a look here as you can see yes there is a wall in fact it's a double wall i can see some razor wire there is an extension on top and right at this particular point here there's actually some water in the ditch there i don't know if you could call that a motor whether there are any alligators or anything in there but there is definitely a barrier here pertwee the united states and mexico so that's one point the second point is as president trump also went on in that. press conference he had with nigerian president mohamed who bihari the he said that american law is particularly weak about refugees that countries are laughing at the united states and so on i don't know what kind of study president trump has made of the relevant laws but

they basically they're all based upon the one thousand nine hundred fifty one convention on the status of refugees which almost every country in the world is a party to including the united states if you know to full notable exceptions like goli a saudi arabia in vietnam but the convention requires members of hearing states to accept pleas for asylum from anyone who comes with a reasonable suspicion or reasonable assertion that they will be persecuted in their countries of home origin and it also for bids the accepting country from essentially throwing them back it's a term called the fallen but it means you can't send someone. back to their country if they are declaring that they are refugees and they fear going home the categories are race religion a political party or alignment and membership in

a social group and these. particular things were done categories were established in the wake of the second world war the problem with the central american refugees as we've been saying a number of times over the past several days is that their fear is they are being persecuted and threatened with violence and death by non-state actors that is the well organized gangs like m s thirteen. and others that exist in honduras and el salvador guatemala so that is the problem that they face they have to argue that they are refugees from non-state actors and not from an oppressive government now at the moment here at the border the united states officials are still saying they are at full capacity they can't accept any more refugees and so we don't know exactly when they will be able to take in any of these when or if they will be able

to accept any of these refugees that you just saw there with manuel thank you thank you sunlight chef from sunny and sandra on the other side of the border that. i mean is opposition even called question jaan is the sole candidate for the post of interim prime minister after the deadline passed with no one else registering earlier he had led a march towards yerevan central square a day before a parliamentary vote on the country's new it's the culmination of two weeks of protests that saw the former prime minister. ousted russian young says he's the only man who can read armenia of corruption and poverty and conduct free and fair elections. well earthquake survivors in armenia second largest city continue to live in squalid conditions thirty years after their homes were destroyed in conry government pledges to reales them of so far failed as robin forrester walker reports on meaning families are hoping their plight is about to end with the election of a new prime minister. this is the only neighborhood these children know not the

one that used to exist before the earthquake of december one thousand nine hundred eight when the six point eight magnitude quake struck northern armenia between twenty five and fifty thousand people died hundreds of thousands were left homeless much of the city of geometry lenina khan as it was then known was ruined despite millions of dollars in aid money over the years around two thousand three hundred families still live in appalling conditions families like. that we can't alleviate all i want is a house for my children's happiness my happiness is long gone a decent place to live is all she's wanted for the past thirty years back in one thousand nine hundred eight this was a thriving soviet city in this part of the park you could still see that rather grow soviet over there and over here

a university faculty which was completely destroyed by the quake. whose charity helps re house families says thirty years should have been enough time for the government to solve the problem. there's a huge gap between the government and the people and the government doesn't feel or doesn't know it doesn't want to know the realities and that's what is where lucia is happening to make up for decades of mismanagement the armenian diaspora communities of armenians living abroad have helped to support charities like veterans with diaspora money this center in a neighboring region is educating schoolchildren there. i mean it will not be a developing country much longer and that the type of support the diaspora can give this country is actual direct foreign investment bringing businesses here and actually developing the country's economy instead of looking at it as

a humanitarian obligation of sorts. with seismic political events unfolding armenia is on the brink of change there's hope in this community that its children finally face a better future robin for. al-jazeera. he used chief. call for an agreement on the irish border at a summit in june and siobhan a is visiting the border between northern ireland which is part of u.k. in the republic of ireland he repeated warnings that person leaving the single market in customs union could result in a hard order reports. if anyone proof of how the european union's chief directly goes is viewed in ireland then the welcome from the irish prime minister said it's all. done dork's technology college was occupied by the leadership of the entire political class and everyone else with an interest in making bricks it

worked on and done by extension the european union i have the honor of introducing someone who has become a household name in our mr bania they all said he will have no closer friend in us and he in turn promised to defend islands to the end. there is no added value. the consequences of bricks he could not and must not lead to the return of our border naser and maps or in mines dundalk itself is only a few kilometers over the border with the u.k. and virtually everyone here crosses as a matter of daily routine the man from the city's chamber of trade is raging at what he sees as the u.k.'s planned betrayal of people here by the proposal to leave the customs union with europe i have somebody that works for me that lives in monaghan tone which is thirty miles away about fifty kilometers so she crossed the

border twice on the way to walk across the border twice on the way home and she said to me i don't mind being left in the morning but i do have a worry over picking the kids up before six o'clock in the evening the hills around the border have in the past seen fighting between are republicans and the british army they were also smugglers routes for contraband the peace dividend open the border and encourage trade so what next. so we're just crossing the border from the republic of ireland into the north and therefore the u.k. more or less the only reason why you have no is because the road signs change color and that's true in dozens and dozens of other border crossings between the two countries and communities in all of those places are desperately worried that the u.k.'s lack of clarity about what bricks it really means will end up with physical roadblocks all over the border. mr bunny then went to newry the british city just over the border in the north where he offered his support to people who fear

exactly the same things as the people he met in dundalk the business community in northern ireland wants to remain in the customs union the customs union and also wants to retain access to the single market so if those are to your comes from the end of this process just for northern ireland it's a very positive thing that would make northern ireland one of the most attractive investment kitchens in the world but there is one party here which doesn't like mr barnier sticking his nose into northern ireland at all and it props up the british government keeping stories amaze conservatives in power he is here to represent the views of the european union twenty seven so he's not an honest broker he's here to represent their views on the u.k. government will represent the views for the people of northern ireland given that the british government is in disarray anyway and split in half respects a strategy pressed it isn't difficult for mr carney to look like he knows what he's doing he and his supporters must hope they can use this tour in the u.k. as weakness to press home the results which closely al-jazeera on the island u.k.

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the our. business updates. going places together. the our audience to the body. to the body thanks to our. thank you very much a day after being crowned champions boss alone have taken to the streets to celebrate with their fans thousands turned out barcelona for the team's victory parade sunday's four two win at depo tivo secured boces twenty fifth vanish league

title it was a double celebration as they also won the cough adultery earlier in the season. madrid struggled to keep up with boss or in spanish competitions this season but have done better than their rivals in europe and remain on track to win an unprecedented third consecutive champions league crown they take a two one lead over a bar in munich into the second leg of their semi final image on tuesday and if they do go on to win the tournament again defender sergio ramos believes that would be as good as an achievement as bosses domestic double. who wants to lead the bustling about a brilliant year two titles isn't easy winning the culpability and the league is great but winning the champions league is maybe even better if we can win the champions league it could be a great season for both of us by i mean it could become the first team in champions league history to overturn a two one first leg deficit away from home if they can be rail in the second leg but the german champions of lost their past six games against rail. has called for

the referee of tuesday's game to be fair as his side get ready for the challenge of the burn about. it can and. should i expect from the referee in these kinds of matches is to be objective fair and just i'm expecting a fair form of refereeing tomorrow and i expect the players to decide the match and not the referee or system referee is miss it's in design we need to be more efficient than in the first leg in the first like real madrid had three or four goal chances and they scored twice they were very efficient you need to try and play the way we are used to because we've scored eighty eight goals on the league also in the champions league or the german cuts we've scored a lot of goals. so rarely by him going head to head in madrid on tuesday they're meeting for a record twenty sixth time in europe competition the semifinal will take place on wednesday between roma and liverpool level leading five to one aggregate from the first leg off to a run of bad results taught them of boosted their chances of

a top four finish in the e.p.l. which would mean they qualify for next phase the champions league goals from delhi early and harry kane and the material when the over was that at wembley on monday race their party tino's men now need five more points from their last three games to book their champions league spot while let's have a look at the top of the english premier league table you can see at tottenham and now five points clear of chelsea in fifth and just one point behind third place to live a poll and just say united and champions manchester city already is short of champions league football next season. when cost as shown by a ref to a player is rarely a joking matter but an official in the dutch league had a sense of humor he appeared to trip over of a test on him player but the players saw it slightly differently and tried to book the referee for diving luckily the cheeky move didn't get him punished for real.

football fans will often go to great lengths to support their teams travelling at long distances buying expensive tickets but we think we found one of the most dedicated fans ever. this turkish football fan of second to club done his last four was banned from the stadium for twelve months but he wasn't prepared to watch his team on t.v. oh no instead he rented a crane and led his fellow fans in the chance unfortunately for him he was later brought down by police and didn't get to see the end of his team's five nil victory . a brazilian surfer has been officially recognised as the new world record holder for the biggest wave ever ridden puerto rico car show was confirmed as setting a new mark of the big wave awards on sunday. after this wave last november off the portuguese coast it measured up twenty four point three eight metres beating the

previous best by just sixty one centimeters to put it into context for you that's just over eight stories tall another award given out on sunday was the biggest wipeout of the year it happened on the same day at the same event but as for andrew cotton got the dubious honor as he disappeared into the surf in spectacular style. finally this param or used to winning their award on the tennis call the. head of the astral open in portugal top brown portuguese player and british player number one call adam and temporarily hung up their tennis rackets to try out spot of stuffing how to play for them. to what they do best at the tournament on tuesday. and. thanks very much tatiana on now to news of a record breaker a very different type the world's oldest recorded spider has just died in australia and here she is a trap door spider with the less than glamorous name of

a number sixteen at forty three years old she smashed the previous record held by a twenty eight year old tarantula from mexico sadly number sixteen did not go peacefully scientists say she was killed by a wasp sting. to go well that wraps up the news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with much more news for you stay with us.

conservation is helping to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi touch kemmer traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust

believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international least of threatened species. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china to josie.