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i mean as opposition leader calls for a nationwide strike out of parliament votes against him becoming the new prime minister. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera lawyer from doha also coming up twin suicide blasts in northeastern nigeria target worshipers of a mosque killing at least twenty seven people plus. zero. may day protests seven economy turned violent in puerto rico a country still suffering through a hurricane maria. and digging for gold is supposed to be look at it but that's not the story in south we'll tell you why. protesters in armenia have started. king roads to the capital after the parliament

rejected a bid by opposition leader nicole passion jaan to be prime minister he called for a nationwide strike on wednesday urging his supporters to block streets runways and airports robin frost to walk as more from the capital yerevan. this was the moment of collective disappointment on the air of fans republic square off the m.p.'s from the ruling republican party used their parliament tree majority to block the so-called people's candidate's election to prime minister by forty five votes to fifty five despite him being the only candidate. a huge gathering of supporters expected the vote would reflect the will of the armenian people they followed the debate from the square or on radios and smartphones but republican m.p.'s spent knowing hours questioning nicko passion younes right to govern or his competence in a military crisis to the crowd's cheers you on the. i

don't you know you better direct mr passion in just as yesterday today you have not convinced me i do not see you as the supreme commander i. was with mr pushing in late to join the crowd elude we still buoyant. heat if we're talking about negotiations i want to officially say that that may only refer to the political funeral of the republican party mr push in yen has spearheaded the mass protests that led to the resignation of the veteran leader says sucks yan last month is promising to rid the poor soviet country of corruption and poverty and bring about free and fair elections he has now called for a general strike and further protests. and armenians are ready to return to the streets ahead of another vote expected next week you know who just loves you know nobody. a few victory anyway we won because we're together now what nicole passion

and says we will do it in good will they will do. what they vowed to continue this bridge with. god's words a little bit of before it's probably first of all crowded zero. at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria the explosion happened during afternoon prayers and must be an item on a state let me people died in a second blast while attempting to get out of the building witnesses say young man wearing a suicide vest and to the mosque with worshippers jamal and dugan has 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 koran 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 the span within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact we knew its commitment to end depressants of the group in the north east of nigeria. syrian rebels have surrendered in the northern homs countryside they've been given the option of pledging their allegiance to the government relocating to rebel held territory in northern syria what is live for us

from beirut reports of a new deal is this another win for the government. well unlikely well first of all state media is reporting this they're saying that the rebels have agreed to surrender to lay down their arms and to be bussed to the north of the country to rebel controlled territory in the north of the country there's still no confirmation from rebel factions that this ultimatum has been given to them but activists on the ground opposition activists have told us that the russian military actions that they need to hand over their weapons by twelve o'clock noon time or face an all out military assault so what the government really has been doing is given these rebel factions the choice of surrendering or face an all out assault and this is an area heavily populated the northern countryside of homs approximately three hundred thousand people and people there are worried they're

worried about the possibility of a military offensive they want to spare the lives of civilians but at the same time these people do not want to be forcibly this place to the north of the country over the over the years really what we've seen is the hundreds of thousands of people if not millions of syrians being forced to leave their homes and head to the north of the country or outside syria and now with a new law that has been introduced by the government these people could lose their homes. 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 two. 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.

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 and also i would make the new property was the last card the regime is using it's 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 . hindering the return of a huge number of syrians. among them he was an opposition media activist and says returning to government controlled territory would be suicide. dangerous because it changes that 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 the loyalists one thing is clear the government is taking advantage of its growing strength by beginning to shape syria when the war and. and what is also clear is that the syrian government is pushing ahead with its solution to the crisis clearly rejecting political compromise. say no thank you america has suffered diplomatic ties with iran accusing terrine of supporting the opposition group the policy front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under control of iraq accuses iran and its lebanese hezbollah of supporting by training and arming its fighters close its embassy in tehran expel the iranian ambassador in

. the reason behind what we did today is related to a threat to our national security and to the safety of our citizens morocco has obtained strong indications and evidence that hezbollah in coordination with and support from the iranian embassy. has provided all kinds of support to the polish sario to form a military commando and to train the policy area that even handed arms to the palace are you in september and november i have handed all this evidence today to my iranian colleague during a visit to tehran. the highest ranking chinese official device that north koreans three years has arrived china's foreign minister is there for a two day trip relations have been strained over a cotton chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong un works to improve ties with south korea taking part in an historic summit last week brown has more from beijing . well one year now becomes the first chinese foreign minister to visit north korea in almost eleven years in fact the last time

a senior chinese government official was in north korea was almost three years ago that i think is a reflection of the strain immolations that existed between these two cold war era allies this time a year ago for instance china and north korea simply weren't on speaking terms if there was a hotline between pyongyang and beijing it simply wasn't working i think president xi jinping was both humiliated and enraged by conjunctions refusal to desist from his missile and nuclear tests his defiance of the international community and of course he wasn't just define the international community he was also defying china it's one ally well things started to in change i think at the end of march when kim jong un came to beijing either summoned or invited here by president xi jinping and of course that came shortly after it emerged that kim jong il and president from were going to hold face to face talks talks that are due to happen sometime in late

may or early june so there is now a flurry of diplomatic activity and china doesn't want to be on the sidelines i think it is talks in pyongyang the chinese foreign minister is going to be pushing the idea of china being involved in four party talks involving the united states china as well as leaders of the two koreas and of course next week in tokyo we will have talks involving the japanese prime minister the south korean president as well as china's premier league a chunk. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back the french president takes office australia talk around trade and china high on the agenda plus. saddam seekers in the so-called migrant caravan remain hopeful as they wait patiently on the u.s. border proposing more in the state of.

how i was still plenty of hot weather into eastern parts of europe but elsewhere the temperature is starting to fall away now a lot of cloud spinning 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 places the cloud and rain rolling across the northwest in conus into the u.k. pushing across the british isles easing across towards the low countries that's why this day is pitch at twelve celsius there for london not great but better than it has been treated now but it's going to be waits and rather windy at times sixty celsius in paris and in syria so the temperatures starting to recover we're twenty six there for vienna chiles some light the showers and thundershowers a possibility up towards poland easing into that western side of russia there's the heat 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 at this quasi at long last there in

london forty degrees temperatures going in the right direction nine hundred four madrid but you do see that wet weather just sliding across the fall 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 was slowly but surely by thursday. it. was finished yet.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour protest as an army blocking some roads in the capital follows calls by the opposition leader michael passionately for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister. his supporters to go on strike. 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 off and prayers the group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. now annual may day protests in the puerto rican capital of san juan have turned violent with police clashing with thousands of protesters angry at tough new

austerity measures puerto rico struggling to rebuild more than seven months after hurricane maria but protesters say that recovery effort down the people in most need of help will suffer even more there in the heart as more. the produce started peacefully and the liang bua and frustration bubbled for thousands joined the annual may day much to read the voice of protest of the tough new steerage images. cuts to pinch and hurricane recovery if it's in schools cuts that some economists warn could wretched up the poverty rate in puerto rico for minority high forty five to seemed to more than sixty eight why am i here because i'm a citizen of this country and i work in a field that has been contaminated and abused in this country people are literally dying. and i'm a teacher and i'm here to fight for my students and for a better future for their heart it's more than seven months since hurricane maria

tour across the island causing more than one hundred billion dollars in damage but the island was already crippled with a date now at seventy two billion dollars and in the midst of an eleven year recession at. federal control board created two years ago to try to resolve put a rico's economic crisis approved a raft of the stereotyping mages in late april to put a rico's governor has refused to implement them and the mayor of san juan has called on congress to do away with the control board completely many here are angry at the lack of real recovery since hurricane maria around thirty thousand homes and businesses remain in the dot comenius still waiting for it surance payouts and services are closed for lack of funds both a lot of coverage all over the world i'm just trying to stay out of the fight i was just standing there in the middle getting punches from one side and the other trying to get away these guys got hurt the authorities hold the power around here that is the business owners and the rich people and these protesters have no power

they don't even have the right to protest in large numbers of puerto rican is left in the aftermath of the hurricane protesters say they feel a tough new a steerage images will leave those who remain with little choice but to leave to maidana hond and to syria. now so thought only one full of people in the so-called migrant caravan have been allowed to apply for political asylum in the u.s. around one hundred fifteen asylum seekers are waiting on the mexican side of the border for their chance to speak with us immigration al-jazeera has done a rap spoke with some of them at their makeshift camp in tijuana. i over the last month this group of central american migrants has attracted international attention many of them fled their homes in honduras el salvador and guatemala to reach the u.s. southern border. but only a few steps away from where the so-called migrant caravan has camped outside the border crossing dozens of other migrants share similar hopes of reaching

a safe place to live we had a lot of. this former taxi driver who fears revealing his identity is from the mexican state of the truck on now camping under a plastic tarp with his wife and children he he says. forced from his home after eighteen of his colleagues were killed by criminal groups over a span of two months when the. you can't work at night even more because you might get shot many people have died and their bodies cut up there have been shootings between criminals where many children lost their lives it's innocent people they get caught in the cross-fire mexican states like beach account where many of these people are from so for record rates of homicide and violent crime the stories they tell are no different from those fleeing violence in honduras el salvador or guatemala but it failed to capture the same attention or you know the international human rights observers like madeline penman say these families have a right to be heard but mexican asylum seekers and central american asylum seekers fling situations where their lives are with us we think that

a few dozen families is not a threat to the united states is not a is not in any way a criminal act and it is not a crime to seek asylum in the united states especially when your life is at risk if you lose the migrant caravan has become the topic of fierce debate among american politicians and media pundits but residents of the one are accustomed to seeing a constant flow of individuals seeking asylum to the u.s. throughout the year it may range from a few dozen to several thousands at a time while these asylum seekers from mexico and central america continue to wait outside the u.s. border for their names to be called record levels of violence in their home countries ensures that thousands more will take their place after the cameras have gone on record up alone. they want to. french president emanuel macross on his first official trip to australia join prime minister malcolm turnbull and commemorating those who lost their lives in the two world wars triple

a strong focus on defense as he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors he also discussed the iran nuclear deal trade and china's growing influence in the south pacific during the three day trip. i know how indebted my country's to you. and so it is with emotion unknown or that they come to you on behalf of france to see messi thank you. a former member of the irish republican army michel bonnie has told al jazeera that their fears briggs it could lead to a resumption of the armed conflict in northern ireland his comments came as the european union's brags that negotiator were visiting the city of london derry or derry as it's known lansley reports mr bonior is certainly putting the miles in he's been all over i a little here here last week was business and it was 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 great information we'll be able to maintain. belfast agreement in all directions. the city still has two names londonderry for the process and unionists a with the river derry 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 peace bridge to join up the once 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 but we do have 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 was great for the support. the physical manifestation of it the division of the vision. phase in the face of avoiding a void that the great good friday agreement before their deal with the british government. you know the won't respect the agreements that they make under national unison to make it all the way to go is to get a little 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 oh i think so yes you know because i think they're fine

it's a shoot yeah yeah yeah because at the moment that hank. i don't have any time for them to be honest. they're fine and for their hard he actually. set up where they would call operations on 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 they will be and they 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 the brits and there's an 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 towards the al-jazeera and british politicians say they're prepared to issue a formal summons for mark zuckerberg to answer questions over the cambridge and it's a good day to scandal comes as the co-founder of whatsapp resigned from facebook its parent company in what seems a blow for privacy advocates in the firm jan koum clashed with executives over their attempts to use personal data from the messaging service to develop products and target ads now six people have died after an unexpected snowstorm left hikers stranded in the alps footage released by rescue teams shows the force of the snow storm that hit the climate's they were hiking in their own a region about ten kilometers west of switzerland's matzoh home in total fourteen hikers were stuck outdoors without shelter from sunday night into monday. mining for gold is the only source of income for many people living in the eastern part of south sudan but the country isn't benefiting from it because most of the

gold discovered is quickly smuggled out of the country even morgan reports from cover to state where gold digging is a way of life. look at people and his friends come to this stream every day and spend long hours panning for gold they're hoping to find even a few tiny specks of the precious metal to support their families they did you know no idea. i come here to make a living i sift through the sand and look for gold because it's the only way for me to feed my mother and father if i find some specks of gold i sell it and get money to feed my family. the twenty year old says he can make about thirty dollars a day if he finds a gram of gold and in thousand dan where the inflation rate is more than one hundred twenty percent that's a fortune the value of the south sudanese pound has tumbled because of the economic crisis caused by the four year long civil war for many here selling gold to traders is the only way to survive but the government is losing out because of the inflated

economy minus sometimes preferred to sell gold to traders themselves without going through a government body the gold is that smuggled across the border and sold for higher prices robbing south sudan of its wealth less than half a dozen companies have licenses to mine for gold in south sudan the civil war has discouraged many companies and miners working for themselves preferred to deal directly with traders who prefer gold instead of the declining currency. but only exams are here so students currency is not accepted everywhere things are becoming expensive so if we can find any other currency like gold yes we'll take it to keep up with inflation. the size of thousand dams gold reserves isn't known and fighting has caused more gold to go abroad in the middle of the garbageman better traders come from uganda and kenya and buy gold from the miners people find gold in abundance but the traders give them thirty dollars while we give them twenty then men as want to come to us we are supposed to get at least five kids every two weeks

but we don't get even one we are trying to control the borders but we can't lack of control which makes it easy for press specter such as look at people to get a better price from traders than they would from the government allowing them to buy more food for their families people morgan and as they are. now a large sandstorm of the parts of egypt caught many off guard on monday the storm forced the closure of several highways due to poor visibility it follows rare heavy rainfall which pummeled the capital cairo last week the unstable weather is expected to last until thursday an investigation in brazil has uncovered allegations of years of abuse of young gymnasts by a former coach john home and reports. dozens of brazilian gymnasts have accused the form a coach of the national team of sexual abuse among them the pan american games gold medalist. that psychological pressure on a ten or eleven year old boy he sent for me and when i went to the bathroom and he

told me to take a bath or relax ok i took the bath and suddenly he entered into the bathroom and got into the bath like if we were two children playing the accusations emerged in a global t.v. news investigation fernando that cover you lopez denies them he's since been fired from his job in a sports community center or. to the point of that kind of accusation i have nothing to say they have to prove that. i know that i have my conscience clean because i never raped anybody i never molested anybody in the way it's been told it comes on the heels of another scandal for me usa team doctor larry nasa admitted that he molested some of that country's top jim the us more than two hundred fifty women and girls say he abuse the the allegations against mr lopez and now being investigated by the south pole public prosecutor's office john homan.

tough a quick check of the top stories here not just here a protest as in armenia blocking some roads in the capital follows calls by the opposition leader and the call passing on for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister. may. 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 with out exception. all the streets in the country will be blockaded along. with railways the metro and the airport everything that can be will be. 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 no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. morocco has severed diplomatic ties with iran accusing terran of supporting the opposition group the policy or front of us are those fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policies are here by training and arming its fighters. the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea and three years has arrived china's foreign minister young we is there for a two day visit relations have been strained over a cut in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong il works to improve ties with south korea. and french president emanuel macro's on his first official trip to australia join prime minister malcolm turnbull in commemorating those who lost

their lives in the two world wars. trip will have a strong focus on defense and he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors. six people have died after an unexpected snowstorm left hikers stranded in the alps footage released by rescue team shows the force of the snowstorm that hit the climbers they were hiking in the their own a region that's about ten kilometers west of switzerland's matterhorn well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story station that's a water bottle. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. when the new prime minister solve the crisis in armenia the election of a replacement.