hideouts before trying to cross easy to see but crossing countries means crossing the intimidating. more and more refugees are attempting this route even though they know how dangerous it is even outside the risk of drowning or dying of cold in these huge empty spaces any number of refugees have told us that confessions can forcibly turned around by greek police acting in coordination with from sex the european union for the agency. this eighteen year old syrian was in a smugglers' boats with his young the system. the police came up to us and that but they told us you can't cross they made us turn around the police who previously given us access to their fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying that they'd turn any refugees around think claimed their priority is human dignity. but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking international.

tonight i'm here to tell you one thing. iran. israel's prime minister says he has secret files which prove iran covertly pursued nuclear weapons. hello i'm adrian finighan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the coast of australia orders one of the vatican's most senior officials to stand trial on sex abuse charges plus. an american migrant stuck at the mexican border celebrates as the u.s. allows in the first group of asylum seekers and friends no more one of taiwan's last remaining allies cuts diplomatic ties with it.

the united states says it believes israel psyche's ations 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 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 issue is based on lies it's based on iranian lies any rain in deception one hundred thousand files right here prove that there 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 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 jonathan crystal is a fellow at the world policy institute he says that that you know 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. my compare has concluded his first trip as u.s. secretary of state he spent much of it urging israel and palestine to restart the peace process on paper was in jordan on monday on the final leg of his three day middle east tour of the hamid reports from amman. if you are to strip 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 palestine state jordanian leaders are also worried about the even in the u.s.

embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but maintained that final boundaries with the in jerusalem 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 with israeli snipers shot and 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 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 may compare ramped up the rhetoric on iran threat to middle east ability to the delight of his hosts iran destabilize the entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an arms dealer to the. conduct cyber hacking campaigns. 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. 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 the 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 they 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 churches top officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual abuse copple george pell served as a priest in victoria in the one nine hundred seventy s. rising to become the archbishop of melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's accused of acts of sexual misconduct during those years hell is now australia's most senior catholic cleric and serves in rome as vatican treasurer he's pleaded not guilty andrew thomas reports from outside the courtroom meldon. the magistrate ran through the very such as i said spence called 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 nots. should go to trial was it physically possible for what was being alleged to have occurred again if that relatively low ball was poss then again yet his i should go through to a jury trial india and she decided that about half of the allegations against called 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 called nepal 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. eight asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan have been allowed to cross from mexico into u.s. territory. the last american migrants celebrated the news as they wait that end to the united states it took them a month to travel from honduras el salvador and guatemala they work for us tonight entry as the u.s. president called them a threat to american security lead a visit to a u.s. border patrol station in california u.s. vice president mike pence stressed it but it's ration is 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 our postum sufficient is 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 manuel apollo reports now from tijuana in mexico. 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 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 get a weather update next zero then manias opposition leader formally nominated for prime minister a day ahead of the part of a tree. i will tell you how much you hope he is taking in sri lanka.

the weather starting to quieten down now across the middle east though some bits and pieces of sherry rain in the forecast this area clouds making its way towards afghanistan took notice that was because that will produce some showers and they will be wintry a time clear weather does come back in behind little bit of cloud there on the southern of the caspian nine hundred artists in tehran perhaps your chad just creeping in here so it's also want to see showers there into turkey but we're going to warm for beirut thirty celsius on tuesday afternoon similar values you go on into where to stay a chance of one of two showers at this stage into eastern areas of syria pushing back across central parts of iraq further east it should be largely dry twenty

three celsius in couple of cloud and the showers still a possibility here but sadly some sunshine in between plenty of sunshine into they were bits and pieces of cloud you will notice the way you do see the cloud with the possibility of the old spot of rain what we often don't hard around thirty five celsius maybe thirty six as we go want to through wednesday so we're starting to see that heat picking up not a dry weather meanwhile across southern africa one to two showers into the eastern cape a little more cloud into the western cape we have got showers into mozambique and the long range continue for tanzania. on counting the cost why iran's nuclear deal and all the powerful factors are at play in a new game of oil it could mean steeper prices at the pump. and into korean summit but what would a thaw in relations mean for their economies. counting the cost. i

really felt liberated as a journalist was all about getting to the truth as an eyewitness that's what this job people. get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. is backing israeli accusations that say iran lie to international observers about its nuclear weapons program benjamin netanyahu says there's now conclusive proof that the weapons program existed prior to twenty fifteen the iranian foreign minister has called it a rehash of old claims because of the strain he has ruled one of the catholic

church most cd officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual offenses couple george pell is accused of acts of sexual misconduct back to the one nine hundred seventy s. he denies the allegations lessen american migrants stuck at the mexican border celebrating as the first group of asylum seekers allowed into the united states eight women and children from the so-called migrant caravan crossed over to begin their application process. u.s. president donald trump is delaying his proposed new steel and aluminum tariffs on canada the european union and mexico until june he's also reportedly reached an agreement in principle with argentina strayer and brazil the us announced worldwide tariffs of twenty five percent on steel imports and ten percent on a new medium in march as part of trump's america first policy white house officials say they're already in effect for china russia and japan one hour from she had

returns in 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 they're 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 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 the syrian government struck an evacuation deal with some rebels in southern damascus damascus this after it launched an offensive to recapture the territory from i saw two weeks ago so you know how to reports from beirut. another evacuation deal another surrender fighters belonging to him the heat a sham an armed group formally known as al nusra front are leaving their enclave in southern damascus they were facing little choice they were under siege and under fire their families are accompanying them to the opposition controlled northwestern province of idlib where hey at their leadership is 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 towns and who are. to leave to government

controlled 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 it's the fourth 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 rebel factions linked to the free syrian army are expected to hand over the districts of. southern to mask this 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 assault to recapture the area i saw the fighters have been putting up fierce resistance. pro-government forces have made

some gains but the battle is not easy 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 stan 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 in vacuum deal if they refused reconciliation so far they haven't given and that may change if the military pressure continues. beirut. armenia's opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister. is leading a march towards social square a day ahead of parliamentary votes of the country's new leader it's the culmination

of true weeks. protests that saw former prime minister. ousted the shimmy and says that he's the only man who can rid our media of corruption and poverty and conduct free and fair elections earthquake survivors in armenia's second city continue to live in squalid conditions thirty years after their homes were destroyed the government promises to re home none have failed to materialize 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. we can't leave here all i want is a house for my children my happiness is. 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 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. 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 the afghans with diaspora money this center in a neighboring region is educating school children. 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 first year walker al jazeera. in the philippines capital manila thousands of workers are marking labor day with protests they're angry of a president regurgitates failure on

a one of his main campaign promises union groups expected to sign an executive to create head of labor day to strengthen the employment rights of temporary workers similar demonstrations are also underway in indonesia as capital jakarta demonstrating outside the presidential palace calling for an increase to the minimum wage and for stronger for protections for taxi drivers who use online services. the dominican republic has announced that it's establishing diplomatic relations with china breaking ties with taiwan last year panama also dropped its longtime ties with taipei adrian brown reports from beijing. well the dummy can republic may be a small country but its decision to sever ties with taipei and recognize beijing still amounts nevertheless to a major diplomatic loss for taiwan it's just ten months since another small country panama also sever ties with taipei just nineteen countries now have diplomatic

relations with taiwan and it seems that china's strategy is simply wants to isolate taiwan as much as possible and also to exclude it to prevent its participation in a number of international organizations well in the past taipei has accused beijing of playing a diplomatic money game and says it's a game it's no longer prepared to pay now beijing of course regards taiwan as part of its territory and is deeply suspicious and occasionally very antagonistic towards taiwan's independence leaning president zine in when and they have warned in the past that if any time when he's leader were to declare independence than china would seize back the island republic by force. 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 was

day for the media in afghanistan since two thousand and one glass reports from kabul on the almost all of 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 four policemen and from district nine who were at the front line were among those matson and three policemen were wounded as well but the 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 threat 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 of going to start 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 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 at. the u.n. security council is in myanmar to assess the raw hinge of crisis fifteen delegates met me on mass 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 here bijan racing seems to have taken off of the tropical island of sri lanka but the locals have found it a way to unwind and feel of one with nature but it's with the breeders and their birds as they took to the skies in jeff the first pigeon race. now that reaches for his favorite but 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 in from the time it was twenty one days old i feed and look after it so it identifies recognises us we spent 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 of picked it up and for the same reasons people the world over take up hobbies and so on observation and again i will of this so i have a lot of space 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 stay 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's good to have you with us adrian for the get here in doha with the top stories now to syria iran is rejecting claims by israel's prime minister that terror rather see quickly 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 land back iran nuclear deal like pompei or has concluded his first overseas trip as u.s. secretary of state biogen israel and palestine to restart the peace process it was also the topic for discussion in pompei a meeting with jordan's king abdullah but also said that he supports israel's actions in gaza where more than forty palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire in april because of the stray rules that one of the catholic church's top

officials will face charges relating relating to multiple accusations of sexual abuse corporal george pell who denies the allegations served as a priest of victoria during the one nine hundred seventy s. rising to become archbishop of melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. . the first group of asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan of been allowed to cross from mexico into u.s. territory. latin american migrants celebrated the news as they waited there to enter to the aid to the united states it took them a month to travel from have joe to sell salvador guatemala u.s. vice president mike pence stressed 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 possum'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 and i mean is opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister they call push indian is leading a march towards the out of and central square a day ahead of a parliamentary vote on the country's new leader it follows two weeks of protests that saw for the private assertion ousted. those that have eyes will have what is feel when i was in syria after counting the cost next disillusioned with life in their own countries since the arab spring and looking desperately for a new sense of identity freedom and self-worth let me in anyway i don't feel like system my own country the country dreamed about demonstrated for and sought to achieve many things in al-jazeera world here's the stories of those deciding to emigrate in search of a new life and nationality passport to free.