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you know what is going to be thousands back on the streets in armenia as protest leader in a call on fails in his bid to become prime minister a move he says is an insult to the people. below i maryam namazie and on the north al jazeera coming up a chilling report on afghanistan's security a day off to train on the tax killed dozens in kabul i still and the taliban are gaining ground on of the vatican's most senior officials is ordered to stand trial in australia on multiple charges of sex abuse. in fifty years after the nine hundred sixty uprising may day protests turned violent in france gerry. a new spring of discontent.

armenian opposition leader in a called has lost a parliamentary vote to become the prime minister after the ruling party refused to back him. declared the party's decision an insult to the people tens of thousands of his supporters have been rallying in the capital yerevan after weeks of protests that saw the resignation of the country's former leader so here we have pictures from the armenian capital where you can see many thousands have gathered to express their support for and he is very much the leader of these protests but really from what we've been seeing these of protests which have developed and morphed into a kind of movement and from the reports that we hear involving many different sectors and parts of society our correspondent on the ground robin farsi

a walkover just trying to connect with him but he's been speaking about many different people taking part in these protests and luckily we can speak to him now so passionate man has been denied approval by the ruling party robin tell us about reaction on the streets there. i think i caught your question. yes and. it's been grandstanding all of. you waiting for this result or a result this is not the result they were expecting. a collective groan a disappointment where. the republican party.

m.p. who we were expecting is going to be a little writing anyways it was fifty two forty five what that means. is that there will be. again. the republican. candidate. has a good opportunity to explain himself. to try to figure out how to do next but i think we're now expecting him to come to the state where. supporters talk to all these people because they're pretty disappointed but i think his message here is this will continue and he was saying in front of parliament a short while ago how the republican party had basically. and that this movement with. it's just it's been a very difficult thing to reconcile again it is really this country. with

a sea change in the i mean a popular imagination we now see it. but the people in the poll the governing body just got interested to this day. what is happening what is going on on the street. robin i know that it's difficult seats hammy but let me try asking. the people that the people that you've been speaking to who are running on the streets what do they tell you about why they are choosing to protest. what they. did i was up starting on. the night of the of the of a lot. of the. people

if you expect to do with this book is full of it says ok well let me talk. to some of the glory that. you know if you can change the vision needed to change that the discipline that the old the old if. you like me about. making one but that then you expect to continue going to the public but i think well yes they will be taking up to hear from him with a question on how to reassure them make them think that if you can give me an idea . to keep the energy going. want to call it an event and that this is ok by the way. the final say about the i told you if i think anybody is going to go ahead like i said and he does not going to select it then there will be the collection of . different day at the end of this movie that they would be able to control.

the l.a.p.d. to have the. ability to change a little bit to make it will balance as they said now if the repetitive party makes a blockage for a living then. you come to know the opposition to the election will just be the way to have the economy rolling back but what about the stuff and how does it begin you know because of the war about the financial analyst that the republican republican party going into the room you want to be no big deal but you. want to be when you like the you know you had the school schools arrested telling. that student how they have heard to be very clear yelling like this is how they should be voting and that. that is how we respond to this how do you. want to be the great candidate to be helping you do already faced near the medium to recognize the film under the clinton. there

is amongst all the. even if. they could be. right for now thank you very much rob in farsi a walk with the laces from the armenian capital yerevan where the opposition leader nicole passionate man has been denied the required support he needed from the parliament in order to be confirmed as prime minister despite the fact that he is the only candidate for the posi promised a political tsunami if he wasn't confirmed as prime minister and we can see that after weeks of protests people are continuing to make their presence felt on the streets of the capital let's move on to want to rather top stories now at least twenty four worshippers have been killed in an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria well lease in movie in adam our state say there

was an explosion during afternoon prayers and many died as they were caught by a second blast while flaying genuine bogan joins us from nigeria capital of has there been any further information about the latest attack on the mosque in northeastern nigeria. also part with the police the things that they're trying to secure the area first still there is still no confirmed number of injury and what we're getting is at least twenty four civilians have been killed there have been twin bombings committed by two suicide bombers happening in this town which is really no stranger to attacks from groups like the. town was taken in two thousand and fourteen by the group and it took more than a month before the nigerian army was able to liberate it from the armed group but that did not stop the attack in fact last year a similar attack happened right at the thing area an attack in

a market which left at least fifty people dead another attack in a group of christian communities which left at least twenty people dead but what makes this critical at the moment is today's the same day when the nigerian army also launched its intensified operations against the book group which it says quote will completely destroy the local armed groups within the next four months now yesterday as well this also comes as yesterday during president hari met up with u.s. president donald trump to basically out amplified the renewed commitment to end the presence of the book group it remains to be seen whether this will have an impact but clearly a message is being spent here that group of books are running very much in the north east and is of course to be reckoned with by the nigerian army that's right and many has been killed and displaced by the violence in northeastern nigeria any

indication as to how the government plans to to fight on the say there's going to be any change in their plan a strategy. well what they're trying to buy now is basically looking at these new arms deal that it had with the you with the government it's unprecedented it's almost five hundred million dollars which will basically bring in at least twelve aircraft and that and will give them several surveillance capabilities however deals like this one take a few years this will arrive in twenty twenty right now what is clear is that there is pressure for our president will act swiftly against a group he won overwhelmingly to really because he promised to end its presence and with less than a year in office really not much has been done then and so there is that pressure as he positions himself for another term but it really does come in kerry elections

but there are security experts who are actually urging the nigerian government to not just look at an all out like a solution but look at the social political context and you know we basically it how we allow it's a situation for groups like the book. so there is that issue that needs to be looked at whether a military solution is enough to end the presence of a group like the book from up on and thanks very much elsewhere at least eight people have died in an attack in the capital of the central african republic gunmen opened fire and grenades at present a church and bungie hundreds of people had gathered some mass when the attack took place. well now thousands of mourners have attended funerals for victims of monday's suicide bombings in the afghan capital kabul as afghan and global monitors warn of a rise in attacks the u.s. defense department's watchdog says the government's continuing to lose ground to taliban fighters and i sill jennifer glass has more from kabul.

special prayers for the dead this morning continues for the twenty five people killed in monday's twin bombing i saw attackers this is a scene being repeated in mosques all across the afghan capital on a hillside on the outskirts of the city shah mariah is being laid to rest one of nine journalists deliberately targeted in the attack the mullah leading the burial prayers says bloodshed is everywhere in afghanistan every day young people are being killed and afghans are tired of the ongoing conflict in all ten journalists were blown up on monday another was killed in eastern afghanistan it was the highest number of killings in a single day for the afghan media in an already dangerous environment media outlets were attacked that the buildings journalists have been attacked and now a group of media people in green zone of call the city were killed this means that security situation is getting worse and huge is in a in a in

a position that if it goes like this no one knows what will be happening. on the un says civilian deaths and injuries from suicide bombings and other attacks have doubled so far in the first quarter of this year. many afghans blame the government for failing to protect them. are committed to protect old countryman its old top priority as you know attacks like these take place in developed countries in the west and in countries which do not face old kinds of security problems one of the challenges that. is how to prevent sophisticated attacks. the latest report from the u.s. special inspector general has more bad news the american military watchdog says the afghan government controls fifty six percent of districts the rest are controlled or contested by opposition groups taleban eisel and other anti-government fighters control twelve percent of the thirty five million population the resilient eisel and resurgent taliban on their spring offensive are facing thirty six thousand

fewer afghan security forces this year no reasons been given for the significant fall but recruitment and retention of troops have been a problem for years i get a sense human rights commission says more than nine thousand civilians have been killed or wounded this past year up some arts organizations expecting a higher number of casualties this year along with a rise in the number of attacks jennifer glass al jazeera. still had for us off our u.s. president takes to twitter angry over the online leaks of information relating to the basha collusion. iran large. and israel's prime minister is accused of recycling old accusations as he fails to prove that iran is reaching its nuclear deal.

hello there we're still got quite a bit of cloud around in parts of the middle east at the moment well one weather system that's making its way from egypt drifting its way towards the east that's giving us a little bit of unsettled weather but it's really going to pull itself together as we head through wednesday and into thursday on thursday you can see it here of a pulse of iraq and iran that's where we're likely to see the thickest of the cloud and the most significant outbreaks of rain we've also got another system in the far eastern part of our map here that's giving us some severe all the stuff and whether it's sticking around for a couple of days so expect some rate and some snow over the mountains here for the next few days at least even further towards the south and over parts of the arabian peninsula there's more in the way of cloud with this and that's going to stick around over the next few days so we've got one area of cloud over parts of yemen and oh man that's just in its way eastwards but a great deal of wet weather to that but certainly hiding the sunshine a little bit and we're also going to see the cloud build around the gulf as well so we could just see the old light showers here in doha on thursday

a bit further towards the south and there's a sharper showers over parts of southern africa we're seeing quite a few of them in the eastern parts of south africa and there's likely to be a few more there and also impose a mozambique there as we head through the day on thursday it is dry air force in cape town. rewind returns with a new series i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and bryan you want dates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in libya was the but and no like and the other student rewind continues with children of conflict. we'd love some peace in this world especially with children join the church and you write here rewind on al-jazeera.

welcome back a look at the top stories this hour on the opposition need any called has lost a parliamentary vote to become the prime minister after the ruling party refused to back him. at least twenty four people have been killed by explosions in and around a mosque in the state in northeastern nigeria many are blaming boko haram. and at least eight people have died in an attack in the capital of the central african republic gunmen opened fire and threw grenades it was schippers in a church in. that one of the catholic church's top officials will face

a criminal trial in australia to defend himself against sexual abuse charges going back decades a court in melbourne has decided there is enough evidence against cardinal george pell to be tested in front of a cheery andrew thomas reports. cardinal pell arrived at a melbourne course hoping this would be his final appearance. it would be george pell was until recently the catholic church's treasurer arguably the third most important person of the vatican inside here a magistrate told him he will face a criminal trial accused of historic sexual offenses police formed a barrier to help clear his path out a large crowd of media and people who say they were abused by priests in the catholic church was writing. the magistrates had barely finished asking hell. before he answered very very not guilty they were only words during

the hearing he's been granted bail but he's not allowed to leave australia a legal suppression order bans the reporting yet of exactly what will stand trial for it also prevents the reporting of how many accusations have now been dismissed and what they were as a priest in the state of victoria and later archbishop of melbourne and sydney cardinal pell became australia's most senior catholic during his committal hearing a magistrate tested the credibility of pelts accusers and the strength of his defense she said her job was to decide whether a jury could convict not whether it would she only dismissed charges where established facts made the accusations impossible or where an accuser's credibility was so poor their attitude to giving evidence so cavalier that a jury couldn't possibly trust what they said on that basis the magistrate decided there was sufficient evidence for about the charges she examined to go to trial

victims of sexual abuse by other people in the catholic church say they are delighted to die surely does restore your faith in the system you could say that the judge. went through very very far away the crimes against the cardinal spoke of the crime. yes it's a severe historical absolutely historic on wednesday cardinal pell will face another court that will be a first hearing to determine where and when no longer just whether he'll stand trial under thomas' al-jazeera meldon. the un's nuclear watchdog has reacted skeptically to the israeli prime minister's latest allegations about iran's nuclear program the i.a.e.a. said there was no credible indication of iranian attempts since two thousand and nine to develop nuclear weapons but on monday benjamin netanyahu showed the media in tel aviv what he called conclusive proof twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lines under simmons' reports. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu

may have unveiled secret files and computer disks describing them as conclusive proof that iran's nuclear program did exist this was an innocent looking compound it looks like a dilapidated warehouse he may have shown a building in iran where he says israeli intelligence agencies had found the evidence but in vienna a former director of analysis for the international atomic energy agency isn't depressed or who speech is the dates are all missing everything he presented it appears to be related to developing nuclear weapons longer growers where there is nothing he presented to the war weapons program it was news but netanyahu says the iranian program didn't end in two thousand and three it continued in secret the iran deal the nuclear issue is based on laws it's based on iranian law as any rain in the separation one

hundred thousand files right here prove that their logs at the white house donald trump like what he saw and heard 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 iran's foreign minister dismissed the allegations saying in this tweet breaking the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cup toon fiasco at the u.n. general assembly you can only fool some of the people so many times whatever the words action could come soon trump will announce his decision on the iran deal by the twelfth of this month in a statement the i.a.e.a. refers to a twenty fifteen report that found some activities in two thousand and three relevant to the development of a nuclear device but nothing after two thousand and nine britain and france have said the development from israel does not change their view in support of the deal and other signatories remain steadfastly against the way the us appears to be

leaning and drew simmons out zero a list of questions that robert miller will supposedly ask president trump as part of his russia probe of reportedly been leaked donald trump slammed tuesday's disclosure on twitter calling it disgraceful and a witch hunt us media reports the less contains at least forty questions for the president including trump's ties to russia and other questions designed to determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself i am explains from washington. two very interesting questions i found inside this report from the new york times one says that the team special counsel robert muller once to ask president donald trump what he knew about his campaign specifically his once chairman paul metaphor what his outreach was to russian officials first systems within the campaign that we've known that there were russian nationals who reach out to the campaign offering help we didn't know that muller was looking at the possibility that the

trump campaign was actually soliciting that it also asked whether or not there were discussions about immunity or pardons for michael flynn former national security advisor general michael flynn he reached out to the russian ambassador before the inauguration later lied to the investigators about that pled guilty the line is now cooperate a witness so if the president or anyone in his team offered him immunity for his silence that could also be seen as obstruction of course the president's taking to twitter to defend himself against these allegations he went on to say seems hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened that's not at all how this works it doesn't matter if they're a crime can be proven if you obstruct justice that in itself is a crime in the united states he went on to say disgraceful that they were leaked important to point out the new york times as they were leaked from people outside of trump's legal team it wasn't from the special counsel we can see no evidence that they've leaked at all during this investigation and he also went on to say that there were no questions about collusion which is absolutely not the case many

of the questions are looking directly at whether or not the trump campaign colluded with russia to get him to the white house taiwan says it has deeply upset top to the dominican republic announced it was severing ties with the self-willed island in favor of building an alliance with china china's vice president has been meeting with the dominican foreign minister in beijing a taiwanese official says china offer the caribbean nation a three billion dollar package of investments and loans to kafka to essentially persuade them to seven diplomatic relations with taipei the move east taiwan was just nineteen diplomatic allies around the globe. police in india and indian administered kashmir are blaming rebels for the deaths of three men killed overnight in while shops in the region remains shut off to separatist leaders called a strike to protest over the death of a fourteen year old child and two rebel commanders they were killed during a raid in the southern village of drug come on monday security forces have also been forced to cuff you in parts of the provincial capital. twenty six story

building has collapsed after being engulfed by fire in sao paolo killing one person and leaving at least three missing around one hundred seventy five fighters were called to the scene of the blaze early on tuesday local reports say the abundant building was occupied by around one hundred fifty people including many homeless families for years the city and state governments have been trying to forcibly remove squatters from buildings in central south tower. well now people have been taking to the streets around the world to mark may day to celebrate workers and their campaigns for improved labor rights in turkey dozens of people were detained after they tried to march towards istanbul symbolic main square in defiance of a made a ban on demonstrations police declared tax some square off limits to protest as citing security concerns the school tensions are running high and tacky as the country prepares for snap elections next month. during. all demonstrations in the french capital turned violent after protesters

set fire to a car and smashed in the windows of a mcdonald's restaurant this year's protester khan an added significance in light of the french president emanuel micron's proposed new labor of forms but it's also fifty years since the one nine hundred sixty eight student uprising when students and workers rose up and nearly overthrew the agent government of gen the goal. as russia but looks at what the legacy of the uprising means to today's protests in. the midst of may nine hundred sixty eight still homes the hearts and souls of the french it was much more a cultural and sexual revolution than a political one an attempt to overthrow the suffocating conservatism to tell sway on the prison shoulder goal it was started by students but the heavy handed response by the riot police brought out nearly ten million workers on strikes in

support the french sociologist christine delfi described why she joined the movement i saw were like mad dogs burning in the top. the whole family and not worth the turning point. and didn't the brutality of the corrupt. that i decided that the road. this author says the events were reflection of a gathering storm outside of france it wasn't written facts it may sixty eight was a global movement we realize now the importance of the circulation of ideas passing between the u.s. and western and eastern europe. it was the year that saw the dawn of the so-called prague spring soon crushed when soviet tanks returned it was the year that the tet offensive was launched against american troops in south vietnam which led to washington's eventual withdrawal. is ultimately sixty eight uprising railway were

students and wildly expensive workers and lords a whole new wave of anti-government protests and strikes across the country. trade union leaders are calling it a new spring of discontent they're angry over president emanuel mccall's planned reforms but somehow analysts say that today's protests lacked the momentum of those fifty years ago you have at the moment the railway workers on strike you have students who are protesting and you have the health sector but there are separate movements if this converge and that's the the myth of may sixty eight coming again if that happens then if it is trouble for president michael mccall says he won't back down on his reforms in sixty eight the goal also refused to step aside he called a snap election and to crease his majority the dream of revolution may have been over but many french people had felt empowered for the first time for those

protesting today the spirits of may sixty eight lives on the sasha butler. paris. a quick look at our top stories this hour on many an opposition leader nicole passion has lost a parliamentary vote to become. the prime minister after the ruling party refused to block back him declared the party's decision an insult to people tens of thousands of his supporters have been rallying in the capital of an after weeks of protests that saw the resignation of the country's former leader and here you can see addressing the crowd as they have on set his call to continue that rallies. and all the headlines at least twenty four people have been killed after an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria police in movie in are demolished a say there was an explosion jaring afternoon prayers and then many died as they

were caught in a second blast no group has claimed responsibility but many are blaming boko haram the latest attack comes after the nigerian army announced it was an option a new operation to defeat. if will begin around the lake chad area hosting the group's faction linked to i still. going to has more on the attack according to police it was a double bombing it twin bombing committed by two suicide bombers it happened in movie a critical town in the north east simply because this was an area controlled by the group in two thousand and fourteen for over a month and even if it was already liberated by the nature an army then attacks have not stopped since then. at least eight people have died in an attack in the capital of the central african republic a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers in a church in bondi hundreds of people had gathered for mass when the attack took place. australian cardinal george pell is pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual

abuse spanning decades a day before his trial starts in melbourne cardinal pell will be the most senior catholic clergyman to be tried for sexual abuse. and the un's nuclear watchdog says there's no credible evidence to back israel's claim that iran is secretly continued its nuclear program on monday israel's prime minister said he had thousands of documents that proved iran lied about its nuclear weapons activities but the i.a.e.a. says all the documents are related to older programs from before two thousand and three or more on that in the news hour and twenty five minutes time off the inside story.