thousands of foreign workers tricked into emigrating and trapped by un scrupulous profiteers. chain slaves part of slavery a twenty first century evil on al-jazeera. the street is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year the more than thirty meters in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in cape town children sometimes caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking past to try to take them from gang violence i lost my. store years ago i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards.

on me as opposition leader calls for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience that the ruling party blocks his bid to become prime minister. said this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a chilling report on afghanistan security a day off the twin bomb attacks killed dozens in kabul the taliban gaining ground donald trump takes to twitter over the online leak of information relating to the russia collusion probe. iran large and israel's prime minister is accused of recycling old accusations as he files to prove that iran is breaching its nuclear deal.

i mean a position in any call passion yan has called on his supporters to launch a nationwide campaign a civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bed in parliament to become prime minister i should young declared the party's decision and insults to people tens of thousands of his supporters have been rallying in the capital yerevan after weeks of protests the saw the resignation of the country's former leader a man first a walkout has more from. this was not the result the crowd dialing outside in the hot sun the whole day that i would have been waiting for a day i think how big that the republican party to have a majority running your father was going to do what the feeling was the feeling was that the only tell you very little being the other day take

a look of. republican party have a look i just think says you know this will take others with the right candidate if they turned up today if i was but again this is all about very well having it all through the vent their frustration i and i said the. irritation that they were the ones being gutted to roll over and had over the reins of power. just weeks ago had no following who already has a few seats in his back you know. they are big money again as has been demonstrated for the past few days weeks even really have been able to bring tens of thousands of people all to the street not just in the capital but around the country but it seems as if the republican party is not yet ready money and they can think with the past as a snake this means that they will be able. next week which is his kind of if he

will again. and i think we can expect the interrelated sparkler extremely not married i mean you know but. nobody really is controlling their. electoral changes that the opposition. will look go ahead and so therefore they will place. the hearing from people on the great. party is because. pressure. will be there if there is a. person suggestible feel frustrated with work out with. the national liberal with the person you are right all the people that. you think i was i will live to quite another day. so

who is nicole passion young the forty two year old is a form of journalists who came to prominence as editor of a popular liberal daily the armenian times a prominent opposition supporter the two thousand and eight presidential election that brought says i guess young to power. was jailed after post-election protests led to violent clashes it was released as sponsor of a general amnesty form the new party promising to tackle corruption and was elected to parliament last year russian young often appears in public in a camouflage t. shirt and cap that he swapped them for a jacket and tie to seek election by parliament prime minister anna hitcher and yan is an academy associate at the front of festing tank chatham house she explains what the ruling party's next move could think. there are three scenarios which could happen next i think one is that the ruling party might actually be trying to

win some times and prepare for the next round of voting which is going to happen in a week's time so there might actually try to strike some sort of a deal with caution yann. the other scenarios daewoo bonet down. once again in a bit to trigger stop parliamentary elections and if new elections are held under dear overside it means that there's a big chance that will result in more of the same they will use the administrative resources and not her option is that they might actually try to come up with their own candidate for an m.p. for the next two weeks but by taking it out that seems a bit on likely. thanks . at least twenty seven worshippers have been killed in an attack on

a mosque in northeastern nigeria face in a movie in adam our state say there was an explosion jaring afternoon prayers and many died as they were caught by a second blast while fleeing residents say they saw a young man wearing a suicide vest and touring the mosque with worshippers no group has claimed responsibility but many are blaming the armed group baka her with general allen duggan has more from the nigerian capital abuja. it happened as people were preparing for their afternoon prayers according to police it was a double whammy need twenty 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 nigerian army then attacks have not stopped since then in fact last year a similar attack happened in the same area where the book group also eight attacked

a mosque which left at least fifty people dead another attack in another group of sibylla civilians was again perpetuated where the group left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time today in the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian government in fact we knew its commitment to end depressants of the group in the north east of nigeria as many as fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of central african republic protesters in the capital bangui march towards the presidential palace carrying the body of a priest shot dead in the attack hundreds of people had gathered from mass when gunmen opened fire and threw grenades that worshipers in a church in bondi. we were in the church and everyone was running one of

my church sisters was shot to her feet and brought here but others who did state it's our muslim brothers who surrounded us the united nations mission in the central african republic when the sky reports that the situation in bungay is tense and evolving with violence and casualties being reported in the capitals second and third districts. this follows an exchange of fire earlier today between central african internal security forces and the armed criminal gang force which operates in the biggest area of bungie. when it's got media deployed patrols to protect civilians and secured key points and bunky in close cooperation with the authorities the mission condemns the violence and calls for calm 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 as well as i still 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 shawn ryan 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 you do 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. is committed to protect old countryman it's all top priority as you know attacks like these take place in developed countries in the west and in countries which do not face all kinds of security problems one of the challenges that we all have 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 being given for the significant fall that 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. so coming up on the program locked out of their own homes off the fleeing a battleground the syrian law that could deny people that basic property rights i'm breaking down sound barriers north and south korea take down loudspeakers they used to black propaganda.

how i was there were plenty of hot weather into eastern parts of europe but elsewhere the temperatures starting to fall away now a lot of clouds spilling into that western side still western side of the med pushing up towards italy it will go downhill over the next couple of days but some pieces of cloud and rain rolling across the northwestern corner so into the u.k. pushing across the british isles easing across towards the low countries that's where this day's picture twelve celsius there for london and not great better than it has been true but it's going to be wet and rather windy at times sixty celsius in paris and in syria so the temperatures starting to recover we're twenty six therefore if we get a chance of some lively showers and thundershowers a possibility up towards poland easing into that western side of russia there's the heat there kiev twenty nine celsius twenty seven in ankara and twenty seven there for athens as well similar picture as we go on into thursday not too bad shot

perhaps a little livelier up around the baltic states and it's quiet at long last there in london forty degrees temperatures going in the right direction nineteen celsius there for madrid but you do see that wet weather just sliding across the far northwest of africa so northern areas of algeria seeing some very wet and windy weather it's going to slide as well little further east which slowly but surely by thursday. unpack it for us what were you here and what were you seeing whether online horrendous things humans told us there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on the sat a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry chips to eat this is a dialogue talk to us 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 let's get a reminder of the top stories here on just their army an opposition leader nicole passion and have called for a nationwide strike on wednesday after losing a parliamentary vote to become prime minister. at least twenty seven people have been killed by explosions in and around a mosque in adam our state in northeastern nigeria many are blaming back around and the least fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of central african republic gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at worshippers in a church in bungay. now

a list of questions that robert muller will supposedly ask president champ as part of his russia pro private portably been leaked donald trump slammed choose days disclosure on twitter calling it disgraceful and a witch hunt us media reports the list contains at least forty questions for the president including trump's ties to russia and other questions designed to determine whether he obstructed the choir itself special counsel probing russia's alleged interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election article hain explains from washington d.c. . two very interesting questions i found inside this report from the new york times one says that the team's 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 for assistance within the campaign that we've known that there were russian nationals who reached out to the campaign

offering help we didn't know that muller was looking at the possibility that the trump campaign was actually soliciting it 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 now of course the president's taking to twitter to defend himself against these allegations he went on to say it seems hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened that's not at all how this works it doesn't matter if their crime can be proven if you obstruct justice that in itself is a crime in the united states you went on to say disgraceful that they were leaked important to point out the new york times says 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. fourteen asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan have been allowed to cross over from mexico into u.s. territory scores of other latin american migrants have been celebrating the news as they wait their turn to enter the united states it took them a month to travel from honduras el salvador and guatemala and manuel where palo is in tehran on the mexican side of the border what more can you tell us about these fourteen who have reportedly got across and are being processed and how is the patience of those still waiting at the gates. migrant activists confirmed with us that eight individuals were allowed to be processed by u.s. officials at the inspection facility on the u.s. side of the border yesterday evening another six were allowed to pass today three

families most of the individuals that i've been passing that i've been allowed to pass through are women and their and their children we should note that even though they've been allowed to plead their case to border officials for asylum it does not necessarily mean that they're automatically going to be given asylum this is only the beginning of what could be a very long process for them to answer a question about how the mood is out here today give you a sense you see a lot of tents and tarps behind me this is because this is becoming a sort of encampment at this point so you see a lot of people being handed food by activists being handed clothing and other and other supplies by charity organizers given that the one is a very friendly city toward migrants but these are people that have been sleeping out here staying out here for what is now the third day in a row we should mention that apart from those fourteen that were already allowed to to turn themselves into border authorities there are other asylum seekers from other countries many mexican citizens that have been waiting for several days as well to plead their asylum cases we know that

a small group from them outside of the of this central american migrants group were allowed to pass through so would seem to be an impasse yesterday would seem to be a scene of a lot of confusion is now becoming a slow trickle of people that are being allowed being given that chance to to plead their asylum cases to u.s. border thirty's and the u.s. department of justice is saying eleven of those apparently found this group from the same group where arrested trying to cross illegally what other details do you know about them. that's the statement that we heard from the u.s. department of justice that eleven individuals allegedly from the migrant group of central americans were captured about six kilometers away from the u.s. border entrance which is where we are right now what we've heard from the activists that i've been following this group of migrants from central america all the way to see one is that those individuals that were apprehended were not part of this group we cannot independently identify that we have to remember that at its height there about fifteen hundred individuals that were traveling with this group many of them

broke apart from from this group of about one hundred thirty that that are staying out here behind me so it may very well be the case that some members of the migrant group from central america did attempt to cross over illegally but we can't confirm that right now what i can say is that overwhelmingly what we hear from the folks that are staying at this camp here is that they do not want to do anything that is outside of the scope of u.s. law or outside of the scope of international law they want to use the existing asylum laws in the united states so that they can turn themselves in to border authorities and pursue the legal route of applying for political asylum in the united states good to get my well pablo speaking to 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 no credible indications of iranian attempts since two thousand and nine to develop nuclear weapons a monday benjamin netanyahu showed the media in tel aviv what he called conclusive

proof that the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lies andrew symonds 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 impressed 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 about the war weapons program arbet 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 reunion deception one hundred thousand files right here prove that there 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 cartoon fiasco at the u.n. general assembly you can only fool some of the people so many times over 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 u.s. appears to be leaning and drew simmons. rocco has severed diplomatic ties with iran accusing teheran of supporting the polish sario front sorry i was fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control morocco alleges that iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah support by training and arming its fighters rocco will close its embassy in teheran and will expel the iranian ambassador to russia the homes of millions of syrians could be seized by the government under a new property law syrians have until the middle of next month to present their deeds of ownership or risk losing their properties and that includes the hundreds of thousands of syrians who used to live in rebel controlled areas but fear

returning to government controlled territory they know how to reports. was forced to flee because of the war now he doesn't just fear permanent exile in his own country but losing his home in do much to. the syrian government is threatening to confiscate the homes of anyone who don't provide land ownership deeds that requires returning to government controlled territory for many that is not an option. assad regime just. hundreds of thousands if not millions of syrians have been forced from their homes many of them left after government forces recaptured opposition territory they fled because they are wanted for opposition activities they could face arrest and some fear they'll be killed others simply don't want to live under the rule of president bashar assad who they blame for the deaths of so many syrians own was i would the

new property was the last card the regime is using its punishing the people who betrayed a law number ten as it is known was published on the syrian state news agencies website the deadline for registration is made the tents and unclaimed land will be sold at auction the government says the law will overhaul the land registry others disagree we've already seen an example of outskirts of damascus and in the new development on what was said. where actually what happened there is that the informal residents of these areas were forced out of their homes they were dispossessed with no compensation and the likelihood of them getting any kind of compensation is almost nonexistent so i think we will see the same scenario play out over and over again. international aid agencies say just nine percent of syrian refugees and displaced have their property title deeds with them that means millions could be stuck in camps in syria and across the region. this could put

pressure on refugee host nations already european countries are voicing concern the german foreign ministry said the legislation could change property ownership to the benefit of the syrian government and its supporters it also accused the government . of hindering the return of a huge number of syrians yousif shaaban is among them he was an opposition media activist and says returning to government controlled territory would be suicide. this low is dangerous because it changes their demography which the government is doing in areas under its control the law is unjust the government says the new law is needed to begin the reconstruction of areas damaged by war opponents say it's about demographic changes and repopulating areas with loyalists one thing is clear the government is taking advantage of its growing strength by beginning to shape syria when the war and. beirut south korea china and

japan will hold a trilateral summit in tokyo next week the latest move in a diplomatic whirlwind centered around north korea the gathering follows a historic summit last week. followed to pursue denuclearization and a lasting peace treaty i think over reports from seoul a measure has already been taken to. 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 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 pakistan has just opened its largest international airport situated in islam about they tell us the capacity to handle around fifteen million passengers each year and there's room for further expansion it was blown down by allegations of corruption and it's cost balloons to a billion dollars come on hard to report. prime minister try to talk on

a. new international airport. now this airport was supposed to be completed back in. and work began in two thousand and seven and it was estimated that it will cost over three hundred million dollars but financially regularities delay then allegations of massive corruption has meant that this project is now going to cost over a billion dollars. to be able to handle nine million passengers a year and fifty thousand tons of cargo by twenty twenty five that figure it like need to go up to twenty five million passion now despite the fact that the airport is off to. a day likely to be a game changer for bogged down because of the traffic that pocket. the big greenfield projects head in pakistan which already cost a lot of money but the expectation a that it will also boost the country's stage

and will be the country's largest international airport. let's get you a recap of the top stories an al-jazeera armenian opposition leader. has called for a nationwide strike after losing a parliament she says to become prime minister i mean his ruling party used to five . weeks of anti-government rallies is forced formally. to step down tens of thousands of people have gathered in the capital harris county declares that support. from a forest. this is the result. of the the way.

the only tell you. at least twenty seven people have been killed after an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria case in movie an adam our states say there was an explosion jaring afternoon prayers and many died as they were caught by a second blast while fleeing no group press kind of responsibility but many are blaming the armed groups. the latest attack comes after the nigerian army announced it was launching a new operation to defeat dhaka her own defense if will begin around the lake chad area hosting the group's faction linked to eisele more than two and a half million people have been displaced in the fighting between the group and the nigerian government as many as fifteen people have died in an attack in the capital of central african republic a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at worshipers in a church in bungie

a list of questions that robert mueller will supposedly ask president trump as part of his russia probe have reportedly been leaked. slammed choose days disclosure on twitter calling it discourse full and a witch hunt the list contains at least forty questions for the president including trump's list ties to russia and other questions designed to determine whether he obstructed the inquiry. those are the headlines next up it's the story.