we asked the seabed is a territory still to be claimed commemorating seventy years from nothing else is there examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict may go on al-jazeera. if you're in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and around the world all the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part two on a just zero. a

decisive day in armenia the parliament so expect it to approve the opposition leader as the new prime minister. hello i'm daryn jordan the saudis there on live from doha also coming up. tonight i'm here to tell you one thing. iran large israel's prime minister says he has secret files which prove iran covertly pursued nuclear weapons. one of taiwan's last remaining allies cuts diplomatic ties to extend relations with china. and a court in australia orders one of the vatican's most senior officials to stand trial on sex abuse charges. the armenian parliament's due to vote for a new. minister opposition leader nicole passion yan became the sole candidate for

the post after a deadline passed on monday without other candidates registering as the culmination of two weeks of protest at soul the longtime leader says odyssey and ousted leader robin foster welcomed joins us live now from the armenian capital yerevan robin so all the republicans like it a bad little passion young for prime minister. impossible to say right now daryn and i think everybody out here would say the same i think expectations are so high there's a real sense of. hope on the square and excitement but we do don't know yet whether the governing republican party who have the majority needed part of it's going to all votes as one and back the opposition leader nicole passion and if they did so it would be an historic step. that would catapult this country forward see

on its belviq revolutionary path is nichol question yet is called it is called evolve it revolution because up until now it's been entirely peaceful it's being led by an overwhelming majority of all medias who have taken to the streets to show their support and now it's going to the parliament for that crucial choice whether all noughts the republican party have decided will realize that their time is up and they're going to accept the will of the people in the people who are. with you in the beginning the day you see to hold out because if there isn't. a majority supporting him today and remember they need to the opposition needs the republican votes be boys. all right apologies for that we've also lost robin forrester woke up there in the armenian capital yerevan no trying come back to if we can a little bit later let's move on a propaganda show and a pack of lies that's the reaction from iran to allegations by israel's prime

minister about iranian nuclear weapons binyamin netanyahu showed reporters in tel aviv what he called conclusive proof that iran's weapons program one seg system with u.s. diplomats say they believe netanyahu and the e.u. and germany on investigating the israeli accusations political hain has more from washington. 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 do the nuclear do is based on lars it's based on the reunion lies any reunion 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 well the white house is blaming what it calls a clerical error being forced to correct its responses to those allegations in a written statement the white house press secretary initially said the israeli information shows iran has a robust plan to start nuclear weapons program but shortly after it was modified to say iran had such a program. it's the second day of the palestine national council's first official meeting in twenty two years the rare assemblies discussing critical issues although several key factions have decided not to attend a top of the list is whether or not to suspend the palestinians recognition of israel are a force that recaps day one for us 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 and attempt to revitalize an aging organization according to some to democratise it with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas hand-picking new members how democratic could it really be it's a step in the direction of again demise in 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 them porton thing is that a delegation for sort of the from the national council to center county. so if anything happens to a woman if he wants to quit if something happens there is this central council who can actually egg as the list of the p.l.o. or and can elect a new. one challenge to such legitimacy the continued split with hamas in gaza in the midst of the bloody protests in 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 farts 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 the palestinian ranks is a council that never expresses the whole of the palestinians it is the 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 man one of us tries to solidify his power and ensure continued backing for his policies are a force that al-jazeera ramallah donald trump has decided to delay 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 australia and brazil it's understood south korea will also be exempted to shabba tanzi has more 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 tariffs 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 dominican republic has announces breaking ties with taiwan to establish diplomatic relations with china is the latest nation to cut ties with taiwan leaving the island with just nineteen diplomatic allies around the globe mainland china and taiwan split after a civil war in one nine hundred forty nine and while the taiwan sees itself as a sovereign nation it has never formally declared independence agent brown has more from beijing. well the domine 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 people in afghanistan are remembering those who died on monday in a twin bombing in kabul eisel says it carried out the attack jennifer glass has

more. the morning continues here in afghanistan there will be prayers in mosques across the city for those twenty five people who died in twin eisel bombings on monday morning that injured of that also injured more than forty nine people this is the second i saw a bombing here in kabul in just over a week last sunday an attack on a voter registration center killed almost sixty people and wounded more than one hundred and ten and the attacks continue in eastern afghanistan or early tuesday morning a bombing targeting a provincial council member killed his bodyguard injured several other people and the fighting continues in eastern afghanistan as the bombings were happening here in kabul afghan security forces and want to american were killed in fighting in eastern afghanistan that is the ice will stronghold and there was a car bomb on monday in the south which is the taliban stronghold the taliban

announcing the start of their spring offensive just a few days ago and the fighting continues throughout afghanistan the afghan people wondering how this could all happen monday's bombing killed nine journalists the worst day for the media in afghanistan since two thousand and one and journalists and others are asking what can be done to keep this from happening what more can be done in terms of security to the battle very fierce for afghan security forces and for the government another battle for of the trust and the and the security of his own people. will break on al jazeera when we come back a visit to autumn by europe's chief briggs it negotiate the highlights how emotional the negotiations of the cup. under what pigeon racing is the next big thing in sri lanka stay with us.

from the waves of the celts. to the contours of the east. hello there is still pretty stormy in the west in parts of europe at the moment we've had this rather active system that's been making its way across parts of the british isles in the low countries that still with this the moment it is still wet and windy during the day today for some of us then behind it there's another weather system that's piling in from the atlantic and that's bringing us yet more heavy rain and some pretty strong winds as well further south want to get more in the way of clouds over parts of italy also giving us some heavy rain here so this region so looking pretty disturbed at the moment so that's the way it will stay as we head into wednesday we also the east is generally been very very warm here but there is the risk that that would be there could spark off a few rather lively thunderstorms most likely through parts of belarus during the course of the day and there could be a few more showers even as we head through wednesday if we head further south we

can see that the showers here are mostly in the northwestern parts of africa they've been drifting over parts of our area and to needs yes been giving us a fair amount of rain is still with us during the day on wednesday mostly over the far eastern parts of our area and more over to near zero as well so plenty of wet weather here some strong winds as well for out years though here it should be a brighter day and with a bit more sunshine looks like we'll get to seventy. the weather sponsored by cats on race. on packet for us what were you hearing what were you seeing when they're on line horrendous things humans told us there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on the sacked a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and ship steve bass is a dialogue about some of this success if perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the colobus conversation amount is iraq.

welcome back a quick reminder of our top stories this hour the armenian parliament's expected to vote for a new prime minister opposition leader in the. old candidate for the post after the deadline passed on monday with out of a town that's registering as the culmination of two weeks of protests that saw longtime leader. iran's accusing israel's prime minister of propaganda by revealing documents he said proved the twenty fifteen nuclear deal was based on lies eleven days before donald trump decides on continuing the deal or not when netanyahu showed reporters what he said was an archive of stolen nuclear plans and

the dominican republic has announced it's breaking ties with taiwan to stop just diplomatic relations with china so they just nation to cut ties with taiwan even the island with just nineteen diplomatic allies around the globe mainland china and taiwan spitta after a civil war and while taiwan sees itself as a sovereign nation it has never formally declared independence. or just about top story now opposition leader nicole passion is set to become prime minister in. roman foster walker joins us again from the armenian capital yeah robin so as we wait for that parliamentary vote what is pushing young been saying to the people what do they expect to happen now. let me just brought in a question just give you an indication of what's happening right now i believe that we saw pictures. from the armenian holland where an extraordinary session is taking place now which will ultimately ends in that vote to decide on i mean is future

because there is only one candidate who's been put forward none of the other political factions have select their own candidates and so everybody on the square in a moment with me is expecting a positive outcome for nicole passion yan to be right and it's what's extraordinary is that there are big screens here showing that it's the session taking place right now happens as if everybody here was going to be watching some life. support some some football i've seen anything like it the square is packed right behind me and in front of me as well in in the in the. right apologies for that again we've lost robyn yerevan we'll move on anyway shall we because. some ten thousand people took the streets in moscow on monday to protest against recent restrictions on internet freedom in russia authorities this month but down blocking the

messaging app telegram over its refusal to hand over keys to its data encryption john a whole 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 is proud to step up our day freedom week in russia and it's a beginning that's a way to start. censorship to examine the symbol was getting it is they could follow their career internet in the world telegrams logo depicts a paper plane and hundreds were launched as demonstrators shouted anti putin

slogans opposition leader alexina valmy was there ensuring the authorities would not overlook this demonstration i 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 oil storage fees on monday iran's judiciary sidelined the reformist government by announcing a ban on the app also citing threats to national security the clerics said telegram had been used to organize antigovernment 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 election. kind of correlate the victories of those that why in the most part of the land or your own heinie very 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 apps found a russian entrepreneur pavel bure of his fighting back he's promised to fund anyone developing proxy platforms online able to dodge the ban al-jazeera. south korea has begun dismantling huge loudspeakers used to play anti pyongyang broadcasts on its border with north korea both countries agreed on a set of reconciliation steps at their border at an historic summit last week kathy novak has more from salt. during times of heightened tensions here on the korean peninsula north and south korea have used the loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda messages across the border south korea's messages have included news weather and k. pop music it often provoked an angry response from north korea which tightly

controls the information it allows its citizens to access but relations between the two countries have been improving south korean k. pop artists were even welcome to pyongyang recently for a performance and the leader kim jong un was in the audience and as part of the declaration signed between him and south korean president moon j n on friday the two koreas agreed the propaganda campaigns would stop south korea begin dismantling its speakers on choose day in the north reportedly did the same and after that historic summit between the two koreas there's now the possibility that a meeting between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un could take place at the same border village the date and location have not been confirmed yet but donald trump says he likes the idea of having the meeting at the demilitarized zone because he says if things work out there's a great celebration to be had on the site in the philippine capital manila thousands of union workers have marked labor day with protests their anger over

president rigo to tertius failure to on the one of his main campaign promises union groups expected to turreted to sign an executive degree of labor day to strengthen the employment rights of temporary workers and similar protests have been taking place in indonesia as capital jakarta people gathered outside the presidential palace calling for an increase to the minimum wage and better working conditions the news chief brags that negotiators calling for a deal to preserve the so-called invisible border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland michel barnier was in the irish republic on monday on those lowenstein there are reports he took a hard line on the issue of the soft border. if anyone needed proof of how the european union's chief pricks in the go see is viewed in ireland and the welcome from the irish prime minister said it's all done dorks technology college was occupied by the leadership of the entire political class and everyone else with an

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

border twice on the way to walk across the border twice on the way home and she said to me i don't mind being left in the morning but i do have a worry over picking the kids up before six o'clock in the evening the hills around the border have in the past seen fighting between our 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 kitchens in the world but there is one party here which doesn't like mr barnier sticking his nose into northern ireland at all and it props up the british government keeping 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 and split in half over its bricks it 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 there was on stage gloriously al-jazeera on the island hugh cable. one

of the catholic church's top officials will face sexual abuse charges in an australian court cardinal george pell served as a priest in victoria joined the one nine hundred seventy is rising to become archbishop of melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's accused of several acts of sexual misconduct during those years pell is now australia's most senior catholic cleric and served in rome as vatican treasurer he's pleaded not guilty under thomas has more from outside the court in melbourne. the magistrate ran through the various accusations against called know how i made it very clear the her job was not to decide whether the jury should convict on any of them but whether they could convict the credibility of a witness so poor as to completely collapse in front of a jury and if not accusation 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 the accusation should go through to a jury trial in the end she decided that about half of the allegations against called should go to a jury trial on wednesday 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 once cardinal pell was the most senior catholic at the vatican managing all its finances this 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. pigeon racing has become popular on the tropical island of sri lanka many locals say they think it's a great way to unwind and feel at one with nature then of smith met breeders and their birds as they took to the skies in justness first of a pigeon race favorite. now the shalamar 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 already. 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 of picked it up and for the same reasons people world over take up hobbies i have a lot of space in my life so i have sleepless nights and all the games the lot of places and i lay for some sports believe i. thought i had to miss

a star both of these regions with wings stamped just in case a bird doesn't make it home they're ready to fly. on this training run the pigeons should make it's 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. all right time for a quick check of the headlines here the armenian parliament is about to vote for a new prime minister but the opposition leader nicole passion the i'm the only candidate monday's deadline passed without other candidates registering the vote follows two weeks of protests and the ousting

a prime minister and former president says. iran's accusing israel's prime minister of a propaganda show by revealing documents he said prove the twenty fifty nuclear deal was based on lies eleven days before donald trump must decide whether or not to stick with the deal benjamin netanyahu should reporters what he said was an archive of stolen iranian nuclear plants iran lied about never having a nuclear weapons program one hundred thousand secret files prove that they lied second even after the do iran continue to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons nor for future use why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalog its secret nuclear files if not to use the middle leader during the white house is blaming what it calls a clerical error being forced to correct its response to those allegations white house press secretary initially said the israeli information shows iran has

a robust plan to stand weapons program but shortly after the statement was modified to say iran had a program. a roman catholic cardinal is to stand trial in australia for sexual abuse decades ago cardinal george pell pleaded not guilty after dozens of witnesses gave evidence at a month long committal hearing the former archbishop of melbourne in the one thousand nine hundred rose to become a vatican treasurer an aide to pope francis but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station thanks so much and by the. getting to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can do the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like a lot of people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.