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this is zero. line we shall carry this is the news hour i from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. armenia's opposition leader calls for a nationwide strike after parliament votes against making him the new prime minister. twin suicide blast in northeastern nigeria target worshipers at a mosque killing at least twenty seven people. as mourners bury the dead in kabul a new report paints a grim picture about afghanistan's security situation. and it's for real madrid beat byron munich to reach their fourth champions league final and five years.

i mean an opposition leader has called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked as it's a become prime minister declared the decision and insults and urged his supporters to strike as well as walk the streets and airports inside weeks of anti-government protests that forced the former prime minister to step down. or you may hear. there's no way we can go backwards we must move forward in the armenian republic there's no power that can resist you. starting from tomorrow. all over the country we declare a general strike at every company was owsley exception. all the streets in the country will be blockaded along with railways the metro in the airport everything that can be will be bought. out and for

a stay walker has more from the capital of europe on. this was not the result of crowds to be dining out. in the hot sun the whole day the whole seven hours had been waiting they might see how big that the republican party to have a majority on the part of it was going to do what the people once you've been doing with. the only tell you they did it before the day the. republican party has played all sides of the session this week they cut a deal with the right kind of a safeguard of the day to vote but again this is all about having to go through to vent their frustration and they said look. irritation that they were the ones being suspected to just roll over and over the race of power to an upstart with. just a few weeks ago had no following who only has

a few seats in his faction in hollywood yesterday again as has been demonstrated for the past few days weeks even though he has been able to bring tens of thousands of people to the streets just in the capital but around the country but it seems as if the republican jeffords was. ready to make something with the past with. his name this means that there will be a vote next week in which his kind of if he will again be debated. and i think that sales we can expect given the entry of elected minutemen you know i mean you know but the republican party. it's. normally it's controlling the. electorate changes. to look go ahead and so therefore they will place. the hearing from people or you could break the closing let's have

a good night. party years because that was. pretty clear. there is a number. of course incidental to the frustration with. the movement. with the personality not great all the people who. think i was an item i will live to fight another day or. so who is cynical me i'm a forty two year old is a former journalist who came to prominence as editor of the popular popular liberal daily the armenian times a prominent opposition supporter at the two thousand and eight presidential election that brought serves a president to power machine ian was jailed after post-election protests led to violent clashes he was released as part of a general amnesty formed a new party promising to tackle corruption and was elected to parliament last year

mission and often appears in public and a camouflage t. shirt and cap though he swapped them for a jacket and a tie to secure lecture by parliament as prime minister male tsunami and as the is from the institute of armenian studies at the university of southern california this is the opposition is now under pressure to enforce positive change. this kind of looks like prince rescuing a princess from the dragon and it has the sort of fairy tale feeling and i don't think mr pushing and was ready for this couple of weeks ago when he was just starting to protest i hear from other opposition supporters that the you know the minimum they were trying to do is just to make sure that what the previous president tried to do continue to rule are indefinitely as has been the case throughout central asia would not go without public punishment as well as protests so that was the minimum that they were trying to do right now with this sort of huge public support they have to try and try to do more of course there's no.

recipes for battling eradicating corruption of course there are also very clearly things that could be done that have not been done by this government and at least with this new wave of new generation of armenian politicians there is renewed hope throughout the armenian world he could say around the world the army in communities around the world that something will be done and that something will be positive versus this. incumbent government that was not inspiring much hope at all. i was twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria the explosion happened during afternoon prayers and movie in adama state many people died in a second blast all attempting to get out of the building is this a young man wearing a suicide vest and at the mosque with or should purse tamil alynda going to ask more from the nigerian capital abuja. it happened as people were preparing for

their afternoon prayers according to police it was a double bombing a 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 boko haram group in two thousand and fourteen for over a month and even if it was already liberated by the nature and 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 to date 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 the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria gunmen have opened fire on unarmed civilians and iraqi town north of baghdad killing several people the iraqi military says security forces are searching the area and the town a tar mia it's unclear how many people died one witness though told the warders news agency that sixteen people were killed and three wounded. 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 yes defense department watchdog says the afghan government is continuing to lose ground to the taliban and eisel jennifer glass has more from kabul. special prayers for the dead as morning continues for the twenty five people killed in monday's twin bombing i saw a tacklers this is a scene being repeated in mosques all across the afghan capital on

a hillside on the outskirts of the city shall know ra 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 the building's journalists have been attacked and now a group of media people in green zone of culver 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. as you are committed to protect older countrymen it's all a 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 house is how to prevent sophisticated attacks that although the latest report from the us 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 at dentist and human rights commission says more than nine thousand civilians have been killed or wounded this past year up some marks the commission's expecting a higher number of casualties this year along with a rise in the number of attacks jennifer glass al jazeera kabul. joining us from washington d.c. is omar samad a former senior advisor to the chief executive of afghanistan adel adel away appreciate your time very much so these soft targets are really called as such because they're easy for armed groups to hit the targeting specifically of this many journalists what is the bigger message the bigger goal of what these groups are trying to do. well listen the attacks take place against civilians of all sorts this particular one yesterday was initially against civilians before the media arrived then the second attacker suicide attacker blew

himself up in the middle of the media so afghanistan and the larger cities in particular kabul have seen so much bloodshed over the past year or two that people are very frustrated they're frustrated with the government not being able to deliver the kind of security they expect they are also frustrated with international community which has doubled its efforts in so many ways but this situation overall i think it the larger picture has to be looked at in we need to look at it within a time frame that started just a few weeks ago with the new fighting season and will continue maybe for the next five six months so i think that well let me get situations very fluid can you can you clarify for clarify for our viewers what you mean when you say even the term the fighting season. we're fighting season afghanistan because of snow in winter and cold conditions usually starts around march april and ends on october

november so we are at the beginning of the fighting season the taliban just three four days ago announced their new sort of so called operations the name did something in this and we're going to go after the afghan government and after others the afghan government has been also doing its best to secure parts of the country now what is important is who controls the population centers in who controls the strategic audrie's of the country and who controls the main cities that's where everything is happening now this is why i think soft targets are being used this is why the taliban or i s or targeting civilians in areas where it is easy to penetrate and easy to create mayhem and obviously is part of the second logical warfare that they tend to carry out so the report says says a couple of things it says that you know obviously the security situation as we're seeing seems to be deteriorating that it says that the u.s.

military claims that afghan troops and nato forces are actually still making progress overall in these in this sixteen and a half year conflict how can how can both really be true how can they be claiming to make progress when things seem to be deteriorating. yeah it's a mixed picture and it changes from week to week month to month even night to day and region to region i would say that yes there is a lot of fighting going on there's a lot of casualties the casualties are increased there is added burden on the government and in the nato u.s. coalition to do more afghan special forces are doing much better air force is doing much better police is not doing as best as it could for all kinds of reasons some parts of the country or less secure than there were some parts are more secure than they were it's a very mixed picture and i think that by the end of this fighting season as we said maybe by october or november we would have

a much better understanding of what this all entails ok marsan trying this washington d.c. thank you sir. one in my head and the news hour including. celebrations in mexico is the first of the so-called migrant caravan across the border into the u.s. . a u.n. delegation demands a full investigation into reports of atrocities committed against henschel muslims and in march and then sport the t. shirt tribute roma hopewell as tensions ahead of their champions league tie with liverpool. he has nuclear watchdog is skeptical about the israeli prime minister's latest allegations about iran's nuclear program the i.a.e.a. says there was no credible indications of iranian attempts since two thousand and nine to develop nuclear weapons a monday benjamin netanyahu presented to media what he called conclusive proof that

the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lies and resentments 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 abreast who speech is the dates are all missing everything he presented it appears to be related to developing nuclear weapons was longer growers where there is nothing that he presented to the war weapons program are that 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 the reunion law as any reunion deception one hundred thousand files right here. prove that their log 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 tune 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 u.s. appears to be leaning and drew simmons. the white house is backing israel's assertion that the iran nuclear deal was reached under false pretenses the president area says tehran lied to the six world powers who brokered the agreement in two thousand and fifteen can really help to has more on what was said. there are further indications that u.s. president donald trump intends to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement this time at a white house press briefing with press secretary sarah sanders she admits that the white house did coordinate in advance of a press conference held by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will critics argue there was nothing new in terms of information about iran's nuclear program in that and in that press conference the white house press secretary says it is further proof that iran was not truthful about the extent of its program in

advance of signing the iran agreement the deal was made on a completely false pretense iran lied on the front end they were dishonest actors and so the deal that was made was made on things that were inaccurate and we have a big problem with that given the white house contention that the agreement was signed under what the press secretary called false pretenses it is a further indication that the united states is planning to withdraw from that agreement to limit iran's nuclear program the president has until may twelfth to make his decision potentially recertifying iran's compliance under the terms of the deal if he does not do that he may decide at that time to reimpose iran sanctions and israel's parliament has given the prime minister the power to declare war with the single vote politicians approve to change the law which previously required the whole cabinet to vote on the declaration of war and means prime minister benjamin netanyahu will only need the approval of his defense minister to declare war in

extreme situations morocco has severed diplomatic ties with iran accusing tehran of supporting the whole sorry affront all sorrows fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control rocko accuses iran and its lebanese ally has been supporting whole sario by training and arming its fighters rocko will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador and. eight asylum seekers in the so-called micro and caravan have been allowed to cross over from mexico into the u.s. territory people from other latin american countries migrants there have been celebrating the news as they wait for their to their return to enter the united states as the months to travel from honduras el salvador and guatemala and mahalo this into a one on the mexican side of the border so many of these people there are camps right at the u.s. border is there a sense that they will actually be allowed to to go through this u.s.

processing facility. a lot of the folks that are out here today say roughly around one hundred thirty people are in fairly high spirits given that yesterday eight people were allowed to go through the processing center and begin that asylum seeking process today another six were allowed to pass through three families most of these people that have passed through are women single mothers and their children but another hundred thirty or so as i mentioned before are here behind me as you mentioned already camped out you see these tents bomb you see the tarps set up a little bit of rain is starting to fall with it with that without the sunlight it gets quite quite chilly here we've seen a lot of activists in charity volunteers coming through handing out blankets handing out clothes and food and toys to a lot of the kids that are here keeping in mind that half of those that are seeking asylum in the united states are are are children but hopes are high that that

impasse that was perceived yesterday that u.s. border authorities would not be allowing people to do that that seems to be over it seems the the sentiment now is that slowly but surely there are there are people small groups of people that will be allowed to present their asylum cases to u.s. border authorities so this group started out significantly larger there are over a thousand people at one point and now as she said you know they're down to one hundred and some odd people these people that started the the journey. they didn't end up at the place their shoe are where they gone. that's a good question as you mentioned it started off as a good as a group of some around fifteen hundred individuals many of them were identified by immigration activists is having a better chance of qualifying for political asylum in the united states those were the ones that were moved into this area here to wait for an opportunity to turn themselves into border authorities others were told to apply for asylum here in

mexico mexico has has its own asylum laws that make it easier for individuals that can't get into the united states to apply for asylum here we did hear that announcement by the u.s. department of justice earlier today that it had been apprehended at at the border at the u.s. border about six kilometers from here attempting to cross into the country illegally that the u.s. government had said that these were individuals part of the migrant caravan activists here have denied that they've said that they're not members of the migrant caravan but we can't independently verify that what i can tell you is that an overwhelming number of people that we've spoken to that are here camping out waiting for their opportunity to turn themselves in at the border tell us that they don't want to do anything that's illegal they don't want to do anything that's outside of the scope of international law or outside of the scope of existing u.s. asylum laws they want to pursue the asylum process legally and that means turning themselves at the at the border once they have the opportunity to do so and the

general sense now is that they will be having that opportunity in if not today in the coming days and our hala and i want to thank you very much. the un security council team is demanding a full investigation into reports of atrocities committed against her henschel muslims and me and maher the team is on a four day visit to myanmar and bangladesh to look into reports of rape and murder and torture they visited villages in rakhine state that were allegedly burned by soldiers as part of a military crackdown the delegates also held talks of myanmar as leader on sochi and the head of the military florence louis has been following events from kuala lumpur. this visit to myanmar by un security council envoys is primarily to assess whether conditions exist in northern rakhine state for the safe return of refugees who fled to bangladesh in the last few months it's not a fact finding mission u.n. investigators are still barred from entering the country and it's very likely that

this visit to northern rakhine state would have been like other visits by other foreign delegates and independent media tightly controlled by the government now the un envoy is we know also had meetings with myanmar leader aung san suu kyi and the military commander in chief so this press conference on tuesday follows on from these two events now at the press conference the delegates chose their words rather carefully they talked about how they wanted to see a repatriation agreement between myanmar and bangladesh implemented with the u.n. overseeing it they talked about how they will continue to evaluate how they can improve conditions on the ground that will facilitate the safe return of refugees but there was very little discussions of what sorts of conditions will need to exist for that to happen. refugees have said they want justice for the people who've been killed by the military during the crackdown that began in august they

want compensation for lands seized houses that were burnt down and of course most importantly basic recognition of human rights they want freedom of movement they want to be able to access government services like health care and schools but this will be the main sticking point and this will be this is the main issue and of course there was very little discussion of that because this is an extremely sensitive topic for the myanmar government which does not recognize the ranger as citizens of myanmar. still ahead on al-jazeera on warnings that a hard rock said could see a return to violence along the northern ireland border. fifty years after the one nine hundred sixty eight uprising may day protests turned violent in france turning a new spring of discontent. and in sports the attack on a referee that resulted in the suspension of the ethiopian premier league.

how i once again we've got some more warm weather pushing into the eastern side of the u.s. rewards as well will feel like last summer by the end of the week but we have got a little cloud making its way across the plains that will meet up cooler or tucking in behind and we get this line of cloud ad right we are going to see some pretty lively storms pushing in over the next day or so the potential for some tornadic activity look at that for a temperature in d.c. thirty one degrees celsius so really heating up to go on into were thursday could be warmest still the cloud have the right will continue to slide is where across the midwest down across the plains down towards texas and again we are looking at quite a rash of storms so we want to watch out for localized flooding sunny a possibility big foundry downpours and large hail to watch out for with those

tornadoes behind that we could see a little more snow over the rockies farther west states fatah dry seattle not doing too badly temperature wise as well on as he have around twenty one degrees that's about across the caribbean as per usual some lovely tropical sunshine coming through generally staying fine and dry over towards the less around today is more and there's a lot of the showers from time to time across the great around to this still in place as we go one into thursday but more sunshine than showers. to. push for. just. one specific indonesia's river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain it's one of when you see examines the human cost of the

world's most polluted river on al-jazeera and al-jazeera is different from other channels because we're not just there when something happens we are there before it happens where there while it happens and we say we do have a permanent closeness and a lot of places are stuff i have heard first even the background being eleven on is very important it's about syria it's about lebanon it's about the power struggle between iran and saudi arabia it's all there and that's the challenge.

watching al-jazeera these are the top stories right now i mean opposition leader nicole pushing me and has called for a nationwide campaign at civil disobedience after the room party lost his bid to become prime minister and has urged his supporters to strike as well as walk the streets in airports and protest. at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in movie town in northeastern nigeria two suicide bombers detonated devices during afternoon prayers or group has claimed responsibility for that attack. fourteen asylum seekers in the so-called migrant caravan have been allowed to cross over from mexico into u.s. territory they say they're playing from death threats sex attacks and extortion that has them a month to travel from various countries including hundred or so salvador and guatemala. at least fifteen people have died in an attack on a church and the capital of central african republic or testers among a march towards the presidential palace carrying the body of

a priest shot dead during the violence and its people had gathered for a mass when a gunman opened fire and threw grenades at the worshippers. don't you know many we were in the church and everyone was running one of my church this is was shot in her feet and brought here but others who did to stay it's all muslim brothers who surrounded us the united nations mission in the central african republic miska reports that the situation in benghazi is tense and evolving with violence and casualties being reported in the capital's 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 song area of bungie miniscule mediately 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. newly appointed u.s.

secretary of state my palm pale has promised to restore what he called american swagger as he met with diplomatic staff for the first time former cia director has created with the clause as he entered the state department building on paler places rex tillerson in langley unpopular within the agency everton's he joins us live now from washington d.c. so that. that's swagger may or may not be welcome news depending on who you are she had. what i think what we were seeing was real intervention on two tracks firstly an attempt to reinvent the state department and the donald trump over the last fourteen months on the rex tillerson we've been told morale has been utterly destroyed is to listen involved on a plan to restructure the department filed so people over he was presiding of a budget cuts and so on and also to listen to the when both are really coming out of his office most of the time to really talk to anyone sinking very very low also as a result of donald trump and all the national security stuff was apparent disdain for

the state department no indication as yet that pompei is going to reverse any of these budget cuts or job cuts but he was attempting to draw a line under it by saying he is a believer in the state department's mission i talked in my my hearing about the fact that this nation is so exceptional and so incredibly blessed and the fact that derive from that or that it also creates a responsibility a duty for america all across the world. and i know for certain that america can't can't execute that duty can't achieve its objectives absent you all absence executing america's foreign policy in every corner of the world with incredible vigor and incredible energy what we're also seeing there is the reinvention of mike compare himself before he became cia director and trying we knew him best as a while some would say rabid right wing member of congress who was anti muslim he

would say he used to auggie that there was some fifth column of muslims in the us trying to undermine and bring down the united states he was and he was on the female reproductive rights all all opinions that were raised during his confirmation hearings as reasons for him not being secretary of state which has a role to push an agenda of diversity and inclusion he was also someone who mused about regime change in north korea but now we're seeing him as the man who is leading the u.s. his diplomatic efforts in north korea who apparently believes that there is a diplomatic negotiated solution to the u.s. has problems with north korea and he's also rabidly against iran he called the iran nuclear deal a surrender but now during his congressional hearings he admitted despite what others may say notably israel that israel that iran wasn't rushing towards a nuclear nuclear bomb and there's no evidence to suggest it would rush towards a nuclear bomb if the deal if the deal was ended by the u.s. so now we're seeing the supposedly fact based might bump am not the person who

would just use inflammatory rhetoric about foreign policy and other issues all the time and people are a little confused as to which the real pump area is i. live for us in washington thank you. south korea china and japan will hold a trilateral summit in tokyo next week in the latest diplomatic developments relating to the future of north korea ties between north and south korea have been improving since the leaders held a historic summit last week the south has been dismantling loudspeakers that were used to blare out and north korea propaganda the two korean leaders have also agreed to work towards the nuclearization on the peninsula and a lasting peace treaty. a list of questions the special counsel robert muller will reportedly ask the president has been leaked donald trump denounce the disclosure on twitter calling it disgraceful and a witch hunt us media reporting that muller has at least forty questions for trump related to his ties to russia and whether he obstructed the inquiry it's itself

miller's investigating alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election one of the vatican's senior officials will stand trial and australia for sexual abuse thirty years 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 nine hundred ninety s. rose to become vatican treasurer and an aide to pope francis and her thomas reports . cardinal pell arrived at a melbourne court hoping this would be his final appearance. in one week 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. 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 the five in the system you could say that the judge. went through very very far away the crimes against the cardinal spoke about climates and arm. yes it's. a very historic absolutely historic on wednesday cardinal pell the place 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 case prices secretary is insisting the british government won't agree to an e.u. proposal which could see northern ireland subject to different customs arrangements through the rest of the u.k. david davis says the u.

has wrongly interpreted an increment reached and the summer between london dublin and brussels i pledge to maintain regulatory alignment in ireland north and south after the u.k. leaves the e.u. in order to prevent a hard border on the island northern ireland we clearly is highly controversial we stand by the words used in the joint report december but we think we don't agree with the commission's interpretation of that we think what they have proposed is something that in the words of the prime minister nobody's government could agree to infected a division of the kingdom down down the irish sea and we are still working on our response to that a former member of the irish republican army has told al-jazeera that if yours breaks it could lead to a resumption of the armed conflict and northern ireland his comments came as the european union's backs and go shooter was visiting the city of london deary mr brown is urging the british government to commit to staying in the customs union or

asli reports just a pony a certainly putting the miles in he's been all over a little here he wants to be world business owners except in a city that source so much violence he had a chance to stress the importance of bricks it's not damaging the peace we're all going to bring the solution we'll be able to maintain. the twenty first agreement or it's diversions. the city still has two names londonderry for the process and unionists a with the river dairy for catholic irish nationalists who never took down the signs of protest against what they saw as british occupation the ira force on the streets until recently it felt like a long time ago anybody under the age of thirty could have no real idea about just how bad things used to be here but clearly the fact that they built a piece bridge to join up the ones divided communities tells you everything you

need to know they had of course assume that the troubles were a thing of the past that they could never happen again but then again they haven't thought about bricks it's. the border with the republic of ireland is just a five minute drive out of the city and as of now you switch countries without any sign of the present when thomas was growing up the road was blocked and the british forces were everywhere for republicans it was a constant reminder of a divided dial and just like a hard border would be off the bricks it would reinforce those protests and on the island starts really what it breaks it is about. the physical manifestation of it the face of the vision. plays in the face of having a void that the great good friday agreement the four thirteen over the british government. you know that won't respect the agreements that they make under national agreements of the mic the only way to go is to get or don't get away from us and the only way we can do that here is for

a near. term it's friendly i'm right he drives a taxi now but he used to be an ira member and was in prison for fifteen. so do you reckon there are dissident republicans who might regards the reemergence of on board as an opportunity and i think so yes yes because i think they're fighting to to shoot yeah yeah yeah because at the moment that i had. no i don't have any time for them to balance out the. fine that for the hard he actually. set up with a recall operations but for certain the border they don't have to operate from the north. and just fire and that's the problem and i think i don't like or keep all of it now but there will be and there will be sorely tempted to do commentators often say that bricks it could destabilize the peace agreement in ireland but don't explain how in reality it means that every single country lane on the border would be heavily policed and

would cause enormous disruption to border communities which already have historical suspicion that britain is in england talk all the time about taking back control people here it would be economically and socially designed stress and it is not an exaggeration to say it could lead to violence. al-jazeera and. people have been taking to the streets around the world to mark may day they're celebrating workers and their campaigns for improved labor rights and the u.s. more than fifty organizations including labor unions immigrant rights groups and other advocacy groups have been marching in los angeles for immigrant worker rights prosser protesting against president onil trump's immigration policies. and demonstrations in the french capital turned violent after protesters set fire to a car and smashing the windows seven mcdonald's restaurant that shares protester karnit added significance in light of french president men will knock ons proposed new

labor reforms. it's also fifty years since the one nine hundred sixty eight student uprising when students and workers rose up and almost overthrew the aging government of general de gaulle natasha butler looks at what the legacy of those uprisings mean for today's protests. to me 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 that held sway under president showed a 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 so cops were like mad dogs when living in the proper. were there was a whole family and not worth the turning point. and they didn't

about the brutality of the corrupt. that i decided that the route. this author says the events were reflection of a gathering storm outside of france four hundred of its 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 laura. 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 fifty years all time a sixty eight uprising railway were students i'm obligated to work and lost a whole new wave of antigovernment protests and strikes across the country. trade union leaders are calling it a new spring of discontent they're angry over the present emanuel calls planned

reforms but some analysts say that today's protests lacked the mental 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 sixth the 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 in 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 spirit of may sixty eight lives on. jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera. fancy their teams stay on course for a third straight champions league title and they will have all the details in sport

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has become popular in sri lanka many people say they think it's a great way to unwind and feel at one with nature that breeders and their birds as they took to the skies for jackson's first ever. dream of. 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 have a lot of space in my life so i have sleepless nights and all the games a lot of places and i lay for some sports believe i. thought i had to miss a start but where are 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 to 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. thank you very much for ramage ritter into the champions league final for the fourth time in five years a big mistake by buying munich goalkeeper sven alright proved to be the decisive moment in their semifinal all right allowed the ball to roll through his legs at the start of the second half and carrying ben's amounts of advantage to score his second goal of the game it finished two two on the night in madrid with rail progressing at four three on aggregates the twelve time champions aiming to win

this title for a third straight year. the rails great domestic rivals barcelona have been celebrating their twenty fifth spanish league title the seventh in the last ten years but it's been three years now since they last won the champions league and this year they gave up a four one first advantage when getting knocked out by rome or in the quarter finals spanish football writer financial chaos believes it's the european game that now define success and failure for the two clubs everything changed after that in ninety two we know because it before ninety two only the champion of each country went to the to the championship so it was really hard to win the european cup but now since ninety two there if you see if you see the last twenty years spanish close real madrid or barcelona they won half of the champions league if real madrid wins again this year is going to be standard for the last ten years so it's when the dominoes come to these point you know they're the fans they almost expect their

teams marson on the real madrid to be at least one senior finals that's why barcelona is really frustrated this year because it's been three years since the got to the semifinals in what's he done is accomplishes something unbelievable you know to win in this kind of a perry. era there we're leaving the be in full three titles one after another it's simply remarkable. romas players of want t. shirts bearing the name of the liverpool fan who was attacked by the italian club's supporters before the first leg of their semifinal tie last week fifty three year old sean cox was left in a critical condition after being attacked outside and feel he's still in hospital it's how he and police insist liverpool fans will be safe in rome and more than a thousand extra officers are being deployed for wednesday's game the pull off five two up after the first leg is gone to wrongly thought it might give you a leg separates him against violence of any kind and so is our community of fans i

can assure you roma have true fans passionate and decent human beings so it's just about a very small group of bad people which i believe liverpool has to you can find them anywhere in the world a small group which can damage the beautiful game in a beautiful match like the one will play tomorrow so my appeal is to ask everybody to do their best so that tomorrow will be a joyous occasion at the stadium no matter what the result. liverpool striker mohamed salah scored twice in that five to thirst like when egyptian has just become the first africans to win the football rights as player of the year award in england liverpool also aware that roma recovered from a three goal deficit against barcelona in the previous round. nobody told barcelona it's possible to beat you three no or four mil or whatever nobody told them so because nobody could imagine that it can happen but it happened so if it was needed i didn't need

a warning but if the warning was the end and the warning the world cup trophy has arrived in host nation russia forty four days before the tournament kicks off the trophy has already travelled to fifty other countries across six continents as part of a global soul for fans that will now go to nine russian cities before the opening game coming up on june the fourteenth when the hosts will meet saudi arabia in moscow. in the n.b.a. playoffs the boston celtics have taken the early advantage in the eastern conference semifinal with a big win over the philadelphia seventy six ers sal malik reports. boston i started to look like a team ready to end a ten year wait for a championship standing in their way of the in-form philadelphia thirty six of beer headed by joel embiid. but the thirty x. made short work of them in the opening game of the eastern conference semifinals i hold for getting twenty six points he was one of three players to get more than

twenty for boston so terry rosea more than adequately filling in for the injured all star kyrie irving. resonating seven three seven nine and finished the game with a team high twenty nine point. i jason tatum was the third big score a bagging twenty eight. they were out of sight by the end of the penultimate quarter to twelve ahead. that lead got even bigger in the fourth boston closing out game one thirty two one zero one it's been a dream come true and you know i want to keep i want to keep going i'm a god a he. just livin in a moment i can't say never john to get to our number johnny get too low. you know go on the third take so expect a tough time in game two with philadelphia not losing to make it a game that's their breathe through hell malik al-jazeera the organizers of the oldest tennis tournaments in the world say the game needs to be reformed to keep

match fixing at bay well the bosses were responding to a recent independent report which warned of a tsunami of corruption in the game's lower levels it concluded that while there was no evidence of the sport's biggest names being involved poli paid players were more likely to be exploited professional tournament tribute find does play as being a prick really rewarded not just with prize money but also where appropriate accommodation travel allowance and things like. plays then need to be educated or trained in their responsibilities and then accept in those responsibilities to the sport early favorite justify has been given a favorable barrier at your office saturday's kentucky derby. kentucky born colt will start america's biggest horse rise from barrier seven a total of six horses have won at churchill downs from that starting position over the last was over

a decade ago european base mendelson is second favorite and will start from a wider ansin barrier fourteen history though against the colts as no european based horses ever won the race. and the ethiopian premier league has been suspended after a referee was attacked during a game players from the well while university team rather unhappy here with a decision to award a goal against them at one point the referee attempted to defend himself with a corner flag now a short before he was punched by a coach a meeting on thursday will decide what's next for the league and those involved in the incidents ok that is always sport find out more lighter. stuff for me for the news hour but more on the other side of the break that aired on al-jazeera.

he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with him was off to. finland was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter patrol in part one of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin ladin he never showed the hostility towards me of the west i knew bin ladin all knowledge is. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum malika

a wall here is the driving force behind iman sars partition museum it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening on nine eleven museum was there and they are now numerous holocaust museum this is not beautiful a museum so countries around the world have walked a memorial lies these events that have shaped them by titian is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shared history.