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into the news the u.s. says it supports israeli accusations that iran and lied to international observers when denying it had nuclear weapons prior to twenty fifteen at a press conference in tel aviv benyamin netanyahu displayed what he called conclusive proof that the weapons program existed he says it showed the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lies iran has rejected the accusations the country's foreign minister called them a rehash of old claims netanyahu made the allegations less than twenty four hours after a visit by the new secretary of state mike pompei or and in a statement the white house initially said the documents provide new and compelling details that iran has a nuclear weapons program a corrected statement was later issued saying the dock. humans show iran had

a nuclear weapons program particle hain has the latest. it was an inauspicious start a technical glitch with the audio meant a brief delay describing a highly sophisticated intelligence operation this was an innocent looking compound it looks like a dilapidated warehouse but from the inside israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says his intelligence agents tracked the paperwork from an iranian nuclear weapons program to this building and that they were able to take this. proudly displaying paperwork and disks he says were from iran according to his own visuals the program ended in two thousand and three but he alleged it continued in secret using these visuals and television performance to send the message the iran deal the nuclear do is based on lies it's based on the reunion lies any rain in the separation one hundred thousand files right

here. prove that their log at the white house it was clear the u.s. president was impressed by what he saw i think of anything what's happening today and what's happened over the last little while and what we've learned. has really shown that i've been one hundred percent right that matters because by may twelfth the president will decide if the u.s. sanctions will continue to be waved under the iran nuclear deal negotiated between the u.s. iran and five other countries around foreign minister dismissed the new allegations tweeting breaking the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cartoon fiasco at unga you can only fool some of the people so many times the president has said nobody knows what he's going to do perhaps trying to build suspense but there seems a lot less of that after what he saw on his t.v. paddy calling al-jazeera washington well my pump has wrapped up his first trip as

u.s. secretary of state he spent much of it urging israel and palestine to restart the peace process pompei was in amman on monday on the final leg of his three day middle east toll. if throughout his trip the israeli palestinian conflict didn't seem a priority in our man did you get appointed u.s. secretary of state was reminded it remains the main stumbling block to always achieving regional peace the two state solution remains the only pass to that peace is we believe in jordan it is the solution that would allow for the emergence an independent sovereign palestine states jordanian leaders are also worried about the even in move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but but pale maintained that final boundaries within jews and are up for negotiation with respect to the two state solution the parties will ultimately make the decision about what the right right resolution is

we certainly open to a two two party solution that's a likely outcome we certainly believe that the israelis and. to need to have political there was no combination however of the recent demonstrations along the gaza border fence. shot on protesters killing dozens and injuring hundreds limited himself to saying that israel had the right to defend itself the u.s. secretary of state didn't seem to share the jordanian view that this really palestinian conflict is the main source of instability in the middle east instead he pointed to other conflicts in the region but throughout his trip it was clear that iran and the uncertain future of the nuclear deal where the immediate priority for the u.s. administration in riyadh and tel aviv. the rhetoric on iran threats to middle east ability to the delight of his hosts the. region supports proxy militias and terrorist groups.

to the. cyber hacking campaigns. supports the murderous assad regime as well iranian missiles are also a concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his focus on the risk of them being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon. need to now apparently couldn't be more pleased with. grinning and warmly congratulating him their language at times interchangeable we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains people thought that you want aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other has flown back to washington but if tough talk on iran

please some their lack of significant commitment towards solving the longest running middle eastern conflict would worry others but at that hemy. is a national security and foreign policy analyst joins me now via skype from san francisco good to have you with us live on al-jazeera i mean house netanyahu proved his case the other expert contributors and analysts that we've had on al-jazeera i'm not so sure. and he hasn't he's talking about documents prior to the so-called joint iran nuclear deal now u.s. intelligence has been aware of these documents or it why don't some of these documents actually go back to two thousand and two two thousand and eleven some of these documents were shared by u.s. intelligence with our eyes not much of this is really new but what makes me think this is actually important or significant development is that it takes

a minister netanyahu this much effort to make a power point presentation and come up you know make this case or was it also tells us that what we he's not commands the president trump is going to air our iran nuclear deal and not give it another exemption for his actions i'm a troll so he does feel the need to make or a case to make its case that iran is in fact an untrustworthy actor here and as to lobby the president. not resort i.v.i. iran who also that's i think the most significant development this the alternative of what prime minister netanyahu perhaps is also doing is to show that iran would have an archive of its nuclear development history and it would keep it rather than throw it away so this is really nothing new surely in the history of what iran has done in terms of its development yeah i mean you can't erase

knowledge you can't you can make sure that hard water facilities or you can make sure that reactors or nonfunctional or you can make sure that center fuses are no longer running but you can't erase. you know knowledge now let's not let's not kid ourselves there's a reason that the reach of this weight of iran's actions now i do think even with all its flaws the iran nuclear deal was in fact the best option we had a time that iran under eight nuclear halt takes at least a year for iran now to even if it goes for gas at all. at least for a year to go out towards what an isolation a bill in nuclear warhead overall with all the holby options we had a time this was by far the best because the other option for just now but it doesn't mean it's flawless secondly iran's behavior in the region has added to these concerns so yes while i think prime minister netanyahu is are unfortunately

somewhat on substantiate it doesn't take away from the fact that iran is threatening this really iran is very much present in many arab capitals and it's exporting its radical revolutionary ideology that lies in that region but you also have to look at the bigger picture our allies here schieffer amongst them saudi arabia who are not exactly helping the cause now it's a multifaceted problem here but we've got to keep in mind that the nuclear issue and iran is the stabilizing actions whilst separate they are linked and one causes concern and the other causes more worry among amongst iran's neighbors and other sort of rivals in the region so we'll see what president trump but at the end of the day. diplomatic options have to be exhausted first and talk of military strikes or talking tough alone is not going to solve the problem and also going down the road let me just let me just get in that because basically you know you

said that both the diplomatic side of. relationships with its neighbors and the influence it has in the region is connected obviously to the nuclear deal and how it behaves itself. on the international scene yet the e.u. for example has said that they want to try and keep the two issues apart and make sure that the nuclear deal on its own stays intact hence we've seen french and german leaders head over to washington d.c. to try and get make sure the president doesn't throw the deal away how close are we i mean it's very hard to read what what president trying might actually do but how close are we do you think to president just really tearing it all up. honestly that depends on the president and his latest last assessment which is dependent on so many different variables and it's very difficult to speak on anything with much certainty about this president and predict

his actions having said that based on sort of is rhetoric and sort of has built up and also his campaign rhetoric and not his recent appointments it seems very likely that the president is not a big fan of the iran nuclear deal but a very important fact yes european union would like to keep the nuclear deal and pressure on iran or its for its missile development or for its interference in the region separate but again my point was the fear amongst its neighbors is linked to the theory that iran might weaponize and go towards a nuclear weapon. and his actions in the region are limited let's not forget i mean you know the number one reason countries like iraq countries like north korea countries like you know iraq of the saddam or libya under gadhafi want to go towards achieving a nuclear arsenal is this regime preserve ation that is the best insurance policy you have you will never have to worry about a foreign invasion or foreign threats that you could be uprooted from from from the

inside but that is the main thing and iran having got there eight years a war with iraq and also being a region where. amongst arab neighbors that are not friendly and also israel that is not friendly it finds that nuclear weapon or at least the nuclear option to be its ultimate regime preserver but we worked a deal we worked out a deal through backbreaking in crushing sanctions to bring them back to the table make sure we put some arms and some brakes on iran's nuclear program and i don't know by getting out of an area of art this deal which you know a lot of republicans on the hill even support what i'm going to achieve and what's the alternative we get out we can no longer impose backbreaking sanctions like we did back in zero nine two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve we don't have good. or what if iran says you know what we're actually out of n.p.t. that's going to be disastrous for us for the region ability brought or at the moment we have to talk in terms of hypotheticals and see what happens in the next twelve days for the moment i rush thanks so much for joining us.

now the u.s. defense secretary has played down the idea of pulling american troops out of syria james mattis said the u.s. and its allies will not pull out before a peace agreement is reached that is said they were on the verge of a victory against deisel and did not want to abandon syria at this point last week president trump said he wants to withdraw american troops from syria relatively soon. i said to asia pacific now where a cotton australia has ruled that one of the catholic churches top officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual abuse cardinal george pell served as a priest in victoria during the one nine hundred seventy s. rising to become archbishop of melbourne in the nine hundred ninety s. he's accused of acts of sexual misconduct during those years including against choirboys pal is now australia's most senior catholic cleric and serves

in rome as vatican treasurer he denies the allegations let's go straight over to andrew thomas our correspondent in melbourne andrew what was said in court. the cardinal pell left the courtroom behind me just a few minutes ago essentially this was the collision the other the missile hearing deciding whether or not these accusations of a sexual abuse nature against cardinal pell had enough merit to be put in front of a jury and the standard for dismissing them at this stage was very very high the magistrate made it clear that unless the credibility of a witness was completely shots was completely destroyed in two weeks the committal hearings then she would allow the jury to hear the various charges or if the evidence was such that it was impossible given the known facts that the offenses could have taken place when and where they took place unless that very hard ball

was passed then these places would go to trial and in the end she decided that a lot of as you say the multiple counts against should go to trial now there is a legal suppression order which disallows me from saying how many charges he faces or indeed how many were dismissed except to say that about half were dismissed about hall will go to trial it also still. smee from describing the nature of the charges against called the or even those that were dismissed here that's to stop any prejudice of the upcoming trial but suffice to say. he was at one stage the third most senior catholic at the vatican an archbishop here in melbourne and lights in sydney he will face a criminal trial trial for charges relating to the sexual offense it's a historic charges and of course the catholic church has been embroiled historically and globally with issues like this in the past so just the

ramifications of this hearing alone will no doubt reverberate across the catholic church globally. i think they will cardinal pell is a long measure the most see it happening anywhere in the world to face criminal accusations of this nature and now there was a royal commission into institutional abuse of children embarrassing situations but particularly the catholic church that ran that in australia for two years and i'm failed some shocking. institutional cases of sexual abuse against children by people in the catholic church now these allegations came subsequent off that but that was shocking enough the fact that somebody so senior in the catholic church right up there with the pipe in the vatican has been brought back to australia to festival try and draw out the charges against him file and now face a criminal trial that will reverberate right surrounds the catholic church well why

locally here in melbourne there was clapping as the magistrate left the colts at the end of the hearing there are those who say that they were abused by people in the catholic church in previous years and they're very happy to see somebody so senior have to face a jury for what he is accused of but certainly globally say this will have consequences are willing to die for now under and of course continue to follow that case when it does come to call thank you. well plenty on the al-jazeera news are including at the last minute the us puts off imposing widespread and widely controversial tariffs. also visit weiland by europe's chief brecht six negotiator highlights how emotional the negotiations are becoming and it's forty it's party time for barcelona as they celebrate winning the spanish league title.

hundreds of latin american migrants seeking political asylum in the u.s. are still waiting at the mexican border border guards have already turned away some of them following orders from president donald trump to stop the so-called migrant caravan while in a visit to a u.s. border patrol station in california u.s. vice president mike pence stressed on the administration's commitment to border security. and the hundred fifty men women and many small children that are being processed at our border not far from here will be completely reviewed by our possums officials under our asylum laws and that will take place that's why we we've got to build a wall not just for the physical barrier that prevents but also because of a wall sends a very clear message that we're a nation with borders and we intend to uphold those borders and defend those borders rob reynolds has the latest from san isidro border crossing just south of san diego. authorities here on the u.s.

border with mexico are continuing to say they have no capacity to process the ria siloam claims of several hundred migrants who've made their way up from central america and say they want to obtain asylum in the united states that has drawn some criticism from human rights organizations and pro immigrant organizations who say it's a farce and say it's is a way a book by the u.s. administration to try to avoid dealing with the immigrants and with their claims meanwhile president donald trump has been outspokenly tweeting and speaking out in press conferences saying that the group of central americans many of whom are women and who whom are women and children are a threat to the national security the united states and must be stopped he says they will not be allowed to enter the united states when we cross the border to men

will repel a hostile from the mexican city of tijuana. it's been two days of confusion and exotic for a group of over one hundred fifty central american migrants who were denied entry into the u.s. inspection facility at the u.s. border crossing here in c. one a mexican officials had asked many of these individuals to leave yesterday after they were denied entry but a group of fifty stayed overnight braving the cold braving the elements saying that they will do anything to to have that opportunity to plead their asylum cases to u.s. border officials you can see that there is quite a few children behind me today happened to be children's day in mexico so we saw plenty of activists and charity volunteers handing out clothes handing out blankets and toys as a distraction from the confusion a distraction from the stress for many of these kids we have to remember that these folks have been traveling for a month now across mexico many of them most of them from central america countries like honduras el salvador and guatemala where they're fleeing violence related to gangs violence related to organized crime because so many of these folks have been

actually traveling for longer than a month what many of these folks are telling us is that regardless of the rain you can see the tarps being set up behind me sort of preempting rain showers that are expected later this evening they say that regardless of the weather regardless of how long it takes to be out here they're committed to having their opportunity to plead their cases to to authorities on the other side of the border we're also hearing overwhelmingly from individuals saying that they don't want to do anything illegal they want to use the existing asylum laws in the united states to go about this the legal way which of course they do have the right to do so under international law. well steve rogers is a member of dolce trump's presidential advisory board he says u.s. management of its border with mexico is appropriate and. i know what the overwhelming burden is that they have at that border. don't have enough manpower the national guard is now going down there to help out and keep in mind there are

no reports of anybody being roughed up or are dragged from you know one end of the border to the other. people that aren't there are there the course they want to be there the united states is not responsible for them being there they'll just have to wait and as long as they're patient i'm sure that the process as you say under our constitution what worked out them a craps will can criticize anything that president trump that but keep in mind that on the president barack obama the democrats had control of the congress they did nothing absolutely nothing to solve the immigration problem that the united states was facing so they could criticize all they want but the fact of the matter is is that president trump is trying his best to get congress to move to solve this problem and they haven't moved yet at all but we just received that in the last few minutes some of few members all thought caravan have just been allowed to cross

into us to have a tree to request asylum most of them however all still on the mexican side of the border but the pilot is a professor of law at santa clara university joins me now from milan a parking california vice cut good to have you with us on the program just so international viewers to understand what all the rights that asylum seekers have when they arrive at the border of the united states and american legal. here's the united states like many countries are subject to international agreements and one of those international agreements specifies that the united states has to give credence to credible claims that people are being persecuted and if they can show that they are and they have they must give asylum within the country the law in the united states is that for individuals who can show that they have a well founded fear of persecution on account of either their race their religion

their nationality their political opinion or their membership in a particular social group if they can show that to the satisfaction of u.s. immigration authorities the united states is obligated under its own laws and the international law to grant those people asylum so what's your reaction to the statement that we've been running the behaving from the from the u.s. of the c.b.p. facility is basically full is that a legitimate response or is it just one that's being created because of the aggressive statements of the president. right now it's quite hard to tell it is true that that particular border crossing area has it has several detention areas and can hold i think a few hundred people it is not out of the realm of possibility that it is that it is crowded around the past and that said the fact is this administration has made quite clear in threatening statements about the caravan about people coming to the

border that they dave essentially create judge many of these claims so it's quite hard to take them at their word that in fact they're running at capacity there are many ways in which they could expedite this process they can shift resources if they thought it was a major issue but quite frankly it's really impossible to tell we're just taking their word for it and that word is one that is difficult to give a lot of credence to over time we are of be hearing that the the criticism of support for this particular stance by the government and by the white house itself where does this leave social to the debate among all between civil society and lawmakers because obviously both have reasons for having that positions on this issue both want the best for the asylum seekers and for the security of the united states. sure and i think the real problem here is that the trumpet ministration and president tropical south has made this particular group of people

in this caravan symbolic of a larger immigration battle that they want to have that goes to a more restrictive united states the fact is this caravan and this group of people has been coming to the united states in an organized fashion for the past several years there's nothing really new about these people presenting themselves for asylum at the united states it's not a very big number when you think about the number of people generally that are crossing the border that actually the number of people attempting to cross the united states on the border is at an all time low it is not been this low for forty years so really at the end of the day i think that much of this comes down to a symbolic fight that the trunk of mr she wants to have we already have an asylum system asylum laws and immigration laws that check for things like national security threats crime by and threats all the things that the trumpet ministration is talking about these people might be bringing we already have laws that check for

all the ins and we don't generally let in anybody that has new details well for them but we will leave it at that thanks so much for joining us from milan a park there in california thank you for having. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news our thousands take to the streets of moscow to demand internet freedom. and we'll tell you why pigeon racing is the next big thing in sri lanka. also real madrid could book that place in the champions league final long choose day we'll have all the build up to that semifinal with byan munich in sports so do stay with us here on al-jazeera. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. i

would say some rather heavy rain racing into central parts of china and there's more of that as we go through the next few days it's warm right if you're in shanghai thirty degrees celsius actually warmer than hong kong twenty nine but this is where the sunshine is going into the sunshine as we go on into where the state has clouding up a late on in the day that wetter weather will sink a little further south was it cools off in shanghai winds go around more northerly directions to temperatures at around twenty four degrees by russia showers across china some of the heavy stop sickly into vietnam and into cambodia or to showers also making their way into the philippines a move out of the way there you can see but the really heavy and widespread showers remain and that's just around the gulf of thailand we've seen more heavy downpours coming through here not just through a choose day also going on into what is day further south we have got some rather lively showers from time to time and then towards at least the side of sumatra should be largely dry forward in asia you know just jakarta at around thirty three

degrees logic right to across much of south asia but the heavy and lively showers continue into the northeast of india into bangladesh also into where bangladesh some very heavy rain on the cards here with the possibility of some localized flooding for a good part of the week. the weather sponsored by cats are always. on the packet for us when you hear in one scene where they're on line horrendous things humans are just there is no doubt about that or if you join us on sacked a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is a dialogue about some of this excessive perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the colobus conversation amount is iraq and under pointed world on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already

a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the you're. welcome back you're watching over there is news hour i'm still robin a reminder of our top news stories the u.s. is backing israeli accusations which say iran lied to international observers when denying it had a nuclear weapon prior to twenty fifteen and even netanyahu says there is now

conclusive proof that the weapons program existed the iranian foreign minister called it a rehash of old claims an australian court has ruled out one of the catholic church's most senior officials will face charges. relating to multiple accusations of sexual offenses cardinal george pell is hues of acts of sexual misconduct dating back to the one nine hundred seventy s. he denies the allegations and hundreds of my business still waiting at the mexican border with the u.s. to find out when they can apply for asylum u.s. border officials have already turned them away saying its immigration holding area has reached full capacity earlier the u.s. president reaffirmed his belief in a border wall with mexico. now the u.s. president is delaying his proposed new steel and allen minium tariffs on canada the european union and mexico until june he's also reportedly reached an agreement in principle with argentina australia and brazil the us announced worldwide tariffs of

twenty five percent on steel imports and ten percent on alinea back in march as part of trump's america first policy white house officials say they're already in effect for china russia and japan as cross over to washington d.c. where she had returned says the latest for us what does sort of the delay of one month mean in reality she has. it means that the commerce secretary wilbur ross who we understand was also going for this delay has managed to convince told trump that there is still a chance of some sort of deal we know that the discussions specifically between the e.u. and washington have been described as fraught the e.u. holding firm saying it will not impose voluntary quotas on its steel and aluminum exports to the u.s. the u.s. is asking for about ninety percent of last year's exports it's been reported the e.u. says no that's against the rules it's about precedence it's against the world trade

organizations rules so we're just not going to do that and in fact if the u.s. doesn't pose these tariffs the e.u. will impose its own tariffs on american goods like jeans and harley davidson motorcycles and bourbon. holding firm but clearly wilbur ross apparently thinks there might be some hope for a deal with the u.s. and either with mexico and canada we already knew this actually wilbur ross did announce as over the weekend that they were going to get an extra month at the steel tariff another million tire of negotiations have been folded into the general discussions they're having on the north american free trade agreement renegotiating bad and we've had lots of positive noises recently that perhaps there will be some sort of deal in principle by the by mid may perhaps and then that leaves option tina australia and brazil they now don't have that risk of terrorists as long as the agreement that has been reached in principle with the white house is a did too and signed at some point in the next thirty days otherwise the president does reserve the right to again imposed the risk of imposing tariffs on these

countries south korea it was confirmed again but we already knew that was already a negotiated deal by which they have agreed to quotas on the aluminum and steel exports so therefore that deal is being finalised well so they will leave it there thanks to the update she has. heading to europe now where the u.k.'s upper house has voted to give parliament the right to veto and he breaks it deal again cheated by the british government government the. previously agreed to a parliamentary vote on any agreement but insisted if the deal was rejected the united kingdom would leave the european union anyway the amendment approved by the house of lords would give parliament the right to force the government back to the negotiating table it'll now go to m.p.'s in the lower house or the house of commons now that use chief breaks it negotiator is calling for a deal to preserve the so-called invisible border between northern ireland which is

part of the united kingdom and the republic of ireland michel barnier was in the irish republic on monday and as lawrence lee reports he took a hard line on the issue of the soft border. if anyone needed proof of how the european union's chief breaks in the go 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 ireland and 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 we will have no closer friend than us and he in turn promised to defend ireland to the end. there is no added value to brag. the consequences of bricks keep should not a mess not lead to the reader. and maps

or the minds 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 the up 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 know is because the road signs changed 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'd met in dundalk but the business community in northern ireland wants to remain in the customs union the customs union 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 cations 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 to reason may's 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 and the u.k. government will represent the views for the people of northern ireland given that the british government is in disarray anyway in splitting the hoff overspread strategy it isn't difficult for mr bonior to look like he knows what he's doing he and his supporters must hope they can use this tour and the u.k.'s weakness to press home the result which gloriously al-jazeera on the island hugh cable. to the middle east where the palestine national council is holding its first official meeting in twenty two years the west bank city of ramallah the rare assembly is spending three days discussing critical issues although several key factions have decided not to attend top of the list is whether ought to suspend the palestinians recognition of israel hari force a report from ramallah more than six hundred surviving members of the palestine liberation organizations main representative body arrived for its first full

meeting in twenty two years an attempt to revitalize an aging organization according to some to democratise it to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas hand-picking new members how democratic could it really be it's a step in the direction of again it's amazing the vitalizing our institutions i think we should strengthen the p.l.o. not weaken it i believe we should take this is but then. there's that. challenges we're facing including the so-called. this opening session was dominated by the palestinian president's freewheeling near two hour speech heavy on history light on policy the emphasis was on the vital importance of the pianos role in the face of israeli aggression and in advance of the publication of donald trump's peace plan. and if this council is harmed then the palestinian dream me seriously harmed therefore we were very determined to create the session we were hoping that

everybody who wanted the future of palestine and the palestinian people we wish them to be here but they don't fortunately for to be abroad but this meeting is as much about process as policy putting the right people in place transferring powers from this national council to a smaller body more closely aligned with our boss then porton thing is that a delegation for city from the national council to central casting. so if anything happens to a woman if he wants to quit if something happens there is this central council who can actually act as the list of the law and can elect and you'll put one challenge to such legitimacy the continued split with hamas in gaza in the midst of the bloody protests of recent weeks. recommended children be kept away from the gaza border and israeli sniper fire near the

beginning of mahmoud abbas a speech was a declaration that there could be no palestinian state without gaza being part of it but efforts to reconcile his facts are faction with hamas which controls gaza have folded so badly that to call them efforts really does stretch a point at this stage and there is no hamas representation here at this meeting from gaza hamas as leader delivered a preemptive denunciation of the p. and c. meeting led me to be shocked when i'm in a mass confirms that any council that doesn't carry the unification idea of a palestinian ranks is a council that never expresses the whole of the palestinians it is a council hits the unity of our people and it's the organization and its legitimacy as representation over all palestinians. the real work of this meeting begins now as mom one of us tries to solidify his power and ensure continued backing for his policies are a force that al-jazeera ramallah well i mean his opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister nickel and is leading

a march towards the other one central square a day ahead of a parliamentary vote on the country's new leader it's the culmination of two weeks of protests that saw the former prime minister's. ousted sharon is says he's the only man who can rid armine of corruption and poverty and conduct free and fair elections. nigerian president mohammed who behati has become the first sub-saharan african leader to meet donald trump at the white house on the agenda was security trade on the economy but one infamous topic was not discussed alan fischer has more from the white house. new sign of tension instead warm handshake for the first sub-saharan african leader to visit the trump white house the president of nigeria made no mention of comments attributed to donald trump several months ago when he questioned letting nigerians visit america it's claimed that president donald trump made derogatory comments about several countries during

a discussion on immigration the white house several months ago and when talking about nigeria in particular it was claimed that he said why would the other although nigerians into the u.s. because they wouldn't want to go back to their quote mud huts there the white house has pushed back against that saying that conversation never happened but we do know that the u.s. ambassador to a butcher was called in for consultations with nigerian government officials. their talks covered trade security and the battle against corruption the. u.s. has recently sought military helicopters to nigeria it has military trainers in the country and is supporting the push against boko haram fighters the white house is also wary of the increasing economic presence of china across africa donald trump hopes africa and nigeria. for the u.s. as a trading partner i think maybe more than anything else what we discussed today was our agricultural products going into nigeria which nigeria wants but we have certain barriers that don't allow that to happen so for the good of our farmers

u.s. farmers and for the good of nigeria and all of africa it's very important that we are able to sell our great agricultural products products. the nigerian president thanked us for its military support and please the surgeons in the u.s. economy and ask for their help in recovering funds siphoned out of nigerian government accounts to governments if with the machinery in place for there to spread to or tourny generous to collaborate in. their town to nigeria or five hundred million now to save their lives over looted funds the two presidents walked out of the rose garden and back to the white house partly the warmth of the sun also warming relations between the two men alan fischer i'll just you know at the white house now three hundred fifty victims of modern day slavery have been rescued in a major interpol operation in the caribbean central and latin america twenty two arrests were made across thirteen countries in a crackdown that took thirteen months to prepare the victims including children

with sexually exploited and forced into labor without pay some women were forced to work out of spaces no bigger than coffins. some ten thousand people took to the streets in moscow on monday to protest against recent restrictions on internet freedom in russia or thora teases months ago blocking the messaging telegram over its refusal to hand over keys to its data in crippen joho reports. in moscow they demanded the government unblocked 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 fun to step up our to freedom within russia it's the beginning

that's a way to start. censorship to examine the symbol why do you think it is their course some of their three year internet in the world telegrams logo depicts a paper plane and hundreds were launched as demonstrators shouted anti putin slogans but opposition leader alexina valmy was there ensuring the authorities would not overlook this demonstration was sure you could you know 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 a tease on monday iran's judiciary sidelined the reformist government by announcing a ban on the app also citing threats to nationally and 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 eaten up by iranians. so it's very important and if you look back. elections you can kind of correlate the victories of those that whine the most seats in parliament or your own heinie victory kind of see how they were so yes specially very eloquent and all 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 app's founder russian entrepreneur pavel bure of is fighting back he's promised to fund anyone developing proxy platforms online able to dodge the bam al-jazeera. pigeon racing seems to have taken off on the tropical island of sri lanka with many locals finding it a way to unwind and feel one with nature and a ben smith met breeders and their birds as they took to the skies in japanese

first ever pitch in race favor. reaches for his favorite irene one of the first of a pigeon race here earlier this month and this one. a hindu priest would like more pigeons but says his wife has drawn the line at the hundred or so he has in his yard. i have hundred this bridge and from the time it was twenty one days old i feed and look after it so it identifies recognizes us we spent a lot of time with the birds even when it's flying in the sky we can recognize which is our this is. it takes a couple of months to train a homing pigeon used for thousands of years to carry messages gracing the birds only became a sporting belgium in the nineteenth century now the sri lankans are picked it up and for the same reasons people world over take up hobbies. are an observation and again i will have this so i have

a lot of space in my life so i have sleepless nights and all the games the lot of twisting my layers so some skirts believe i. thought i had to miss a star both of these regions with wing stamps just in case a bird doesn't make it home they're ready to fly. on this training run the pigeons should make it to their coops within a couple of minutes before my champion harini has made it back after an hour later she limps home with a nasty gal and it seems this champion pigeon survived a fight with a hungry falcon the vet stitches are up a rini will fly again bernard smith al-jazeera jaffna. well we wish it while. we'll have the with the big. head. he has. a hand.

he has. his. thank you very much a day after being crowned champions boss alona have taken to the streets to celebrate with their fans thousands turned out in barcelona for the team's victory parade sunday's for to win it up for tivo secured bosses twenty fifth vanish league title it was a double celebration as they also won the cough a dollar earlier in the season. madrid struggled to keep up with boston 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 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 raul defender sergio ramos believes that would be as good as an achievement as bosses domestic double. bustling about a brilliant year two titles isn't easy winning the culpability and only used to date 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 last the past six games the game's rail boss 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. 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 lead also in the champions league or the german cuts we've scored a lot of goals. so rarely by and 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 as champions league goals from delhi early and harry kane and the material went over what at wembley on monday race a 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 to say united and champions manchester city already is short of champions league football next season. when casa shown by a ref to a player is rarely a joking matter but an official in the dutch league had a sense of humor here 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 a 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 awards on the tennis court then as head of the astral open in portugal top brown portuguese players ourselves or in british player number one call adam and temporarily hung up their tennis rackets to try our spot of surfing happily for them both be back to what they do best at the tournament on tuesday. and that is all the sport for now more later. thanks very much of course you can follow all of the stories that we're covering here all by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com adrian finnegan is here with a little for hard news that a moment from a cell ramadan the news team thanks very much for your time and your company.

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