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prime minister says he has evidence that iran is cheating on its nuclear deal. hello i'm adrian set again this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up on the latest stop of his middle east told the new u.s. secretary of state defends israel has enjoyed. a course in australia or does one of the vatican's post senior officials to stand trial on sex abuse charges. the u.s. says that it cannot accept asylum seekers at its border with mexico because it has no place to put the. united states says that it believes israel's accusations that iran lied to

international observers about its nuclear program at a press conference in tel aviv benjamin netanyahu displayed what he called conclusive proof that the weapons program existed before twenty fifteen iran has rejected the accusations serious particle had reports. 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 logs it's based on iranian lies any rain in deception one hundred thousand files right here prove that they're logged 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 you 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. patty calling al-jazeera washington which often crystal is a fellow at the world policy institute he says that that his presentation doesn't prove that iran has breached the agreement. netanyahu has not shown any evidence that iran has violated its agreement or anything that you know comes after july two thousand and fifteen at all so i'm a little bit confused as to what the whole performance was about beyond really just trying to confuse president trump and provide ammunition for him to be able to withdraw from the deal on may twelfth we're talking about technology that is decades old it's really the ability to do it and to actually have the centrifuges to. enrich the uranium to actually carry out the process that's the actual very

hard part and so you know even iran retaining what it seems like they have retained i don't think really gives them it's sort of to be expected and it doesn't really mean there's any sort of secret program if you think about it logically right iran has no particular reason to violate the deal you know when they were developing their nuclear weapons in the two thousand went on for a long time but if you look at the two thousand and one two three four five years you had over one hundred thousand u.s. troops on one side you had over one hundred thousand u.s. troops on the other side and you had a country the united states that had invaded one of its neighbors for one of iran's neighbors for no particular reason the invasion of iraq and so they had a serious concern about what could protect them from the u.s. now i'm not a fan of iran getting nuclear weapons i hope that they never do. but that sort of change there's no reason why now when the u.s. is sort of war weary when our presence on their borders is minimal why they would

break this deal. it makes no sense. mike compare has concluded his first trip as u.s. secretary of state he spent much of it israel and palestine to restart the peace process the pair was in jordan on monday on the final leg of his three day middle east tour of the honeyed reports now from amman. if you go out his trip the israeli palestinian conflict didn't seem a priority in amended newly appointed u.s. secretary of state was reminded it remains the main stumbling block to was achieving regional peace the two state solution remains the only path to that peace is we believe in jordan it is the solution that would allow for the emergence of an independent sovereign palestine states jordanian leaders are also worried about the even in the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but maintained that final boundaries within jews

elim are up for negotiation with respect to the two state solution the parties will ultimately make the decision about what the right resolution is we certainly open to a two two party solution that's a likely outcome we certainly believe that the israelis and palestinians need to need to have political engagement there was no combination however of the recent demonstrations along the gaza border fence. shut for testers killing dozens and injuring hundreds book a 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. didn't 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 may compare ramped up the rhetoric on iran

threats to middle east ability to the delight of his hosts iran destabilize this entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an arms dealer to the who the rebels. and iran conducts cyber hacking campaigns that supports the murderous assad regime as well iranian missiles are also a concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of being fired from iranian bases in syria and by has 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 if 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 some the lack of significant commitment to. eastern conflict would worry others but that that had. a course in australia has ruled that one of the catholic church's top officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual abuse cardinal george pell served as a priest in victoria in the one nine hundred seventy s. rising to become archbishop of melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's accused of acts of sexual misconduct during those he is palast now australia's most senior catholic cleric and serves in rome as vatican treasurer he says that he will plead not guilty one hour from andrew thomas is outside the court in open. the magistrate ran through the various accusations against paul know how i made it very clear that her job was not to decide whether the jury should convict on any of them

but whether they could convict was the credibility of a witness so poor as to completely collapse in front of a jury and if not. should go to trial was it physically possible for what was being alleged to have occurred again if that relatively low ball was pos then again the accusation should go through to a jury trial india and she decided that about half of the allegations against called no help should go to a jury trial on when state called new pal will face a criminal court's the directions hearing to find out more details about when and where his trial will take place in the meantime he's been allowed out on bail but he is not allowed to leave australia this will have big implications for the catholic church at one stage cardinal pell was the most senior catholic at the vatican managing all its finances they say is an incredible fall from grace from him although it is yet to be determined whether he's guilty and he says he is not

of any of the accusations that will now go to trial. hundreds of latin american migrants seeking political asylum in the us a still waiting at the mexican border border guards have already turned them away following orders from president donald trump to stop the so-called migrant caravan 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 customs 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 it 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 let's hear from both sides of the border now rob reynolds has the latest from the sun i see through 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 reus 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 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 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 but on the other side of the

border manuel apollo reports now from 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 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 the 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. a weather update next year and i was there then friends know more about seeing one of taiwan's last remaining allies cuts diplomatic ties. i will tell you how do you help me is taking wing the centroid.

temperature is really ramping up nicely now across eastern parts of the us not too bad for the west as well it has to be said well as the clear skies across that eastern half of the country still a little bit of cloud into the northeastern corner that will gradually pull out of the bay we have got some unsettled weather spinning off the rockies moving across the plains system bits and pieces of cloud and rain coming through twenty seven celsius there for chicago ahead of the right similar value to forty c. quite a temperature contrast when you move north of the border into winnipeg say with this line of clout and there will be some lobby showers on that some severe weather on that we are expecting to see some tornadoes as we go on through the next day or two that will add a little further east which as you go through wednesday the rain pepping up around the midwest still got to the west of where the stretching down towards texas still

hot ahead of that celsius in d.c. so really starting to feel somewhat more like summer when the wintry weather there you notice just around the southern end of the rockies there will be some snow in the full cost over the next few days meanwhile sunshine is showers across the caribbean still seeing a little rashness showers around the great around tennis some thunderheads there into the regular costa rica maybe also into panama not too bad for the lesser antilles here slightly five hundred i. there are over seven million lives in this war. each one a story. that one could be seen. that who need to be heard that the monster be told. it is sky to be a witness. witness documentaries

actual continue to die. on. again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. is backing israeli accusations which say that iran lied to the international to international observers when denying that it had a nuclear weapons program prior to twenty fifteen benjamin netanyahu says there's not conclusive proof that the weapons program existed the iranian foreign minister call it a rehash of old claims. a court of australia has ruled that one of the catholic church's post senior officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual offenses couple george pell it's accused of acts of sexual sexual

misconduct dating back to the one nine hundred seventy s. he denies the allegations but hundreds of migrants are 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 that it's immigration holding area has reached full capacity earlier the u.s. president reaffirmed his belief in a border war with mexico. the dominican republic has announced that it's establishing diplomatic relations with china and breaking ties with taiwan last year also dropped its long time ties with taipei let's go live to beijing get more on this from syria's adrian brown in the dominican republic if you look at it is a pretty small country so why does this matter well asia and i think it's what it symbolizes because of course during the past few years a number of countries have severed ties with taipei. coming under enormous pressure

from beijing to do so the last country to do that was panama that was in june last year now taiwan has accused beijing in the past of playing a diplomatic money game basically using all sorts of in juice mints to persuade these which tend to be small countries to end their relationship with beijing now on choose day morning the time when his foreign minister said that taiwan was deeply distressed upset over the decision of the dominican republic to sever diplomatic relations and of course we have to really appreciate and understand what china's strategy is here adrian what they want to do is to isolate taiwan diplomatically as much as possible and also to exclude it from a number of international organizations now china of course regards taiwan as part of its territory and it's very suspicious and occasionally very antagonistic towards the independents leaning president zine

a ng where now they believe that her ultimate goal is to make taiwan an independent state and china of course in the past has vowed time and time again that if that were to happen it would retake the island republic by force so what we see at the moment is just china continuing to basically pick off one by one those countries that have been recognizing taipei and it's going to continue interestingly at the moment the vatican still recognizes taipei but there is a deepening reproach mom between the vatican and the holy see so there's also uncertainty about how much longer that relationship is going to last meanwhile the trump administration is taking a more robust interest in taiwan affairs adrian in what way is that playing out. well u.s. legislators recently passed a law that would allow u.s. military contractors to sell technology to help taiwan's fledgling submarine

program also there have been a number of congressional delegations that have visited taiwan and now we're getting reports unconfirmed reports that the new national security adviser john bolton might go to taiwan in june to attend the opening of the u.s. is defacto embassy in taipei now if that happens that i think would be that would constitute possibly one of china's red lines and i think you could see china to start to apply pressure in other ways because just a few weeks ago they held a large naval regatta in waters close to taiwan forty warships took part in that including china's new aircraft carrier and that was a very provocative show of course and we've seen you know also in recent days more war games happening in the taiwan straits i think you're going to see china you know upping the military entity every many thanks indeed al-jazeera as adrian brown there live in beijing u.s.

president of trump is delaying his proposed new steel in the early minium tariffs on canada the european union and mexico until june he's also reportedly recent agreement in principle with argentina australia and brazil the us announced worldwide tariffs of twenty five percent on steel imports and ten percent of aluminum in march as part of trump's america first policy white house officials say they're already in effect to china russia and japan have returned he has more now from washington. the discussions with the europeans in particular have been described as for europe holding firm that they will not impose voluntary quotas on their steel and aluminum exports to the united states as the white house is requiring and in fact the e.u. saying that they will impose tariffs on u.s. goods like bourbon and jeans and holly davidson motorcycles if the u.s. does go ahead with tariffs on their goods wilbur ross the commerce secretary was

pushing for some sort of delay is convinced donald trump as for the other countries we knew actually about the u.s. and canada that was announced over the weekend the negotiations there lumped in with the negotiations over the north american free trade agreement lots of positive noises but some sort of agreements maybe maybe in the works from mid may and then the three other countries that were mentioned in this proclamation were argentina australia and brazil they are out of the danger of tyrus as long as the agreement that's going to that has been put into into play in principle is followed through within the next thirty days south korea already had agreed to putting a quarter on its steel and aluminum exports so they are also no longer in danger of tariffs i mean is opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister nickel push indian is leading a march towards the end of ends 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 former prime minister saad get socks and. shinny and says he's

the only man who can read on media of corruption and poverty and conduct free and elections earthquake survivors in armenia's second largest city continue to live in squalid conditions thirty years after the homes were destroyed in gomery government's pledges to rehab as them have failed robin for us to walk or reports. 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 a 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 can 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 nerine's there's nothing

we can't leave here all i want is a house for my children's happiness my happiness is 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 and this part of town had a park you could still see that rather grand soviet over there and over here. university faculty which was completely destroyed by the quake the hun 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 or doesn't want to know the realities and that's why it's 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 careful that 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 media is on the brink of change there's hope in this community that its children finally face a better future robin first al-jazeera you mary. eisel has claimed responsibility for a double suicide attack in central kabul which killed at least twenty five people and injured dozens more nine journalists were among those killed making it the worst day for the media in afghanistan since two thousand and one jennifer glass

reports on the wall of. the first suicide bomber it 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 policeman and from district nine who were at the front line were among those monsters and three policemen were wounded as well emergency workers rushed to the scene to aid the wounded. afghan cameramen 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 afghanistan has 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 with 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 delegation from. the u.n. security council is in myanmar to assess the crisis fifteen delegates met me and my leader aung san suu kyi in the capital before traveling to rakhine state around seven hundred thousand range of muslims fled to neighboring bangladesh after

a military crackdown last year the un is putting pressure on me on mine to allow refugees to return safely pigeon racing seems has taken off of the tropical either the sri lanka many locals have found a way to unwind and feel the one with nature but it smith has met breeders and their birds as they took to the skies in justice first pigeon race. now they're reaches for his favorite book that irene won 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 recognises us we spend a lot of time with the birds even when it's flying in the sky we can recognise which is our list. it takes a couple of months to train

a homing pigeon used for thousands of years to carry messages gracing the birds became a sporting belgium in the nineteenth century now the sri lankans are picked it up and for the same reasons people the world over take up hobbies. of reason and again i will have this so i have a lot of faith in my life so i have sleepless nights and all the games a lot of places in my life so get some sense of relief i. thought i had to miss a start but where are these regions. with wings 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 that coops within a couple of minutes before my champion harini has made it back after an hour later she limps home with a nasty gallop 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. it is good to have you with us adrian for going to here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera iran is rejecting claims by israel's prime minister that secretly pursued a nuclear weapons program and lied to international observers about it in breach of the twenty fifty nuclear deal benjamin netanyahu says he has conclusive proof of the program the comments come as u.s. president donald trump considers withdrawing from the landmark iran nuclear deal. mike compare has concluded his first overseas trip as a u.s. secretary of state by urging israeli and palestine israel and palestine to restart the peace process israel and palestine was also the topic in pompei as meeting with jordan's king abdullah and peace talks have stalled in recent years but pale has

also said he supports israel's actions in gaza where more than forty palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire the court of australia has ruled that one of the catholic church's top officials will face charges relating to multiple accusation of sexual offenses trouble george pell served as a priest of victoria in the one nine hundred seventy s. is accused of acts of sexual misconduct during those years and denies the allegations. the u.s. has begun processing asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan that arrived at america's border with mexico dozens traveled for about a months or less in america with the hope of gaining entrance into the u.s. u.s. vice president mike pence visited a border control station with that kind of flow in california and stressed the administration's commitment to border security. and one hundred fifty men women and many small children that are being processed at our border not far from here will be completely reviewed by a person's 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 on media as opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister nicolle push indian is leading a march towards the out of bounds central square a day ahead of a pot of entry votes on the country's new leader the two weeks of protests that saw the former prime minister ousted. those the headlines more news here here on al-jazeera to witness next. once pristine indonesia's chittering river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain one of many things salman's the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera.