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opposition leader called from nationwide strike after all of the votes against him becoming the new prime minister. hello i'm don jordan this is al-jazeera lawyer from doha also coming up twin suicide blasts and northeastern nigeria target worshipers of a mosque killing at least twenty seven people plus. oh. i did protests over the economy turn violent in puerto rico a country still suffering from how to marry. and digging for gold is supposed to be lucrative but that's not the story in south sudan we'll tell you why. protesters in armenia start. blocking roads to the capital after the parliament

rejected a bid by opposition leader nicole passion and to be prime minister nationally on call for a nationwide strike on wednesday urging his supporters to block streets railways and airports he has led weeks of anti-government protests that forced the former prime minister to step down or robin forced to work and joins us live now from the armenian capital yet about robin so bitter disappointment for passion yan and his supporters yesterday how as a result of that parliamentary vote going down. this certainly was disappointment but i think because of the debate and the extraordinary amount of time that the m.p. spent discussing his candidature and really laying into him it started to become obvious to everyone who was on the square yes there were those thousands tens of thousands of people that the republican party were not going to support his prime ministerial candidacy so i think when the result came through the crowd had already

let's say prepare themselves for that outcome and then we saw people spirits really just being results to keep going with nicole passion you know and saying you know the republican party is effectively finished because they failed to recognize the seriousness of the situation and the it's that the armenian people are now supporting him and how they control the country and that's what he wants to demonstrate today with this general strike so we have seen significant disruption to traffic to the roads and rails actually i'm not sure about the rail but certainly they have blocked access to the international airports to yerevan main airports and tourists struggling to get home from their holidays although he said he will lift that blockade later on this afternoon they've also attempted to

put a ring around some of the ministries police have had to dismantle some of those blockades they were you can cause to do that students back on strike some medical staff some teaches where we're trying to get a sense now of how widespread this is we're also hearing about the government. regional government offices in armenia second largest city of girl marie also being blockaded so this is their response now to show the republican party that the power that they exercise is only in the parliament and robin there will be another parliamentary vote in seven days time so i suppose another chance of passing on and the protesters. yes it's beginning to get interesting when you when you try to figure out the. extent of the

extent to which they want to engage with this political system i mean they are trying he describes this revolution as velvet not just because it's happening on the street and it's peaceful but because they also want to respect the constitution and that's why they took part in this vote yesterday and they submitted him as their candidate and at the same time they need to somehow. supersedes what's happening with from a legislative perspective with the with the with the republican party at the moment digging its heels in and saying that it's not going to back here and so they they will have a decisions to make i think we've been hearing from his depression the end who has been saying this morning that they are leaving their options open they will be discussing whether or not to to to go ahead with this vote next week or even if that fails there will be snap elections called a day without him as prime minister

will not have the opportunity to reform the electoral system the electoral codes to enable free and fair elections and so they are also considering the opposition movement now whether they would actually boycott those elections the crisis here has sort of gone up a notch deepening now and it's changing we at this stage where it's difficult to predict how this may go. because the opposition the city is going to remain peaceful it's exercising of itself in a disciplined way but they are at some point obviously going to have to figure out how to move things forward and really force this republican party to acknowledge that they have the public support in the supremacy robin thank you. now at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria big splosion happened during afternoon prayers in movie that some of them are what state many people died in a second blast while attempting to get out of the building witnesses say young man

wearing a suicide vest into the mosque with worshipers jamila on him turban has more from the nigerian capital of marjah. 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 or a group also eight attacked a mosque which left at least fifty people dead another attack in another group of sybil civilians was again perpetuated where the group left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date in nigeria 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 governments in fact we knew its commitment to end the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria morocco has suffered diplomatic ties with iran accusing tehran of supporting the opposition group the policy front pasar is fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is on the moroccan control of iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy by training and arming its fighters the rocket will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador about. 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 post to

foreign military commando and to train the policy they even handed arms to the policy in september and november i have handed all this evidence today to my iranian colleague during a visit to tehran. millions of privately owned homes could be seized by the government in syria under a new property law syrians have until the middle of next month to present their deeds of ownership or risk losing their properties that includes the hundreds of thousands of people who've been displaced and fear returning to government controlled territory reports from neighboring beirut. was forced to flee because of the war now he doesn't just fear permanent exile in his own country but losing his home too. 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 but also i would make the property was the last card the regime is using its punishing the people who betrayed a lot 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 course of the massacres and in the new development on what was. 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 a 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. is 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. the highest ranking chinese official to visit north koreans three years has arrived in the capital china's foreign minister is there for a two day trip relations have been strained over a cartoon chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program comes as north korea's leader kim works to improve ties with south korea taking part in an historic summit last week. 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's 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 a fine 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 chunk. all right time for short break here now is iraq when we come back warnings that are hard briggs it could see a return to violence along the northern ireland border or in the stay with us. police pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we got some really warm air

across europe at the moment but we also got some significant storm activity particular cross western parts of the mediterranean from this frontal system and we've been seeing some really large amounts of rain being reported in sardinia and extending down towards the coastal region of north africa too so as we take a look at the forecast details we've got one front moving in from the west cold air digging in behind it some heavy rain affecting more eastern parts the u.k. down through france a lengthy period peninsula but it's low pressure system which is going to continue to give some very wet and windy weather some severe storms across this part of the mediterranean so for corsica sardinia it will remain really unsettled further towards asia notice it's looking pretty warm and fine temperatures in the mid to upper twenty's in many areas through thursday that the area of low pressure moves slightly back towards the east so for parts of maine and italy will also see some pretty heavy rain developing as i've already mentioned we've seen some disturbed weather across the other side of the mediterranean sea system that begins to move away so we should find slightly brighter conditions for algeria and tunisia but

still quite windy temperatures struggling just twenty degrees warming caras thirty eight degrees central parts of africa some fairly hefty storms here see some heavy downpours affecting people think a bomb. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. canada a country of promise and opportunity for my grim work is but with little protection from the state authorities many are forced to pay extortionate relocation phase and a saddled with heavy debts hesitant also no luck to come to canada here and the night of my new year in one brave group of indonesia and workers speak out and seek justice for their exploitation migrant dreams a witness documentary on al-jazeera. welcome

back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera protesters in armenia are blocking some roads in the capital follows calls by the opposition leader nicole passion for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister. supporters to go on strike. at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in movie town that's in northeastern nigeria two suicide bombers detonated their devices during afternoon prayers no groups yet claimed responsibility for the attack. on the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea in three years as a ride in the capital china's foreign minister one years there for a two day trip relations have been strained over cotton chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program. riot police in puerto

rico have fought with made a protest as speaking out against new austerity measures the caribbean islanders are struggling to rebuild their lives devastated by hurricane maria they say most in need of help will suffer even. more because of the cuts. reports. that the protests started peacefully and binny anger and frustration bubbled pool. thousands joined the annual may day much to add their voice of protest of the tough new steerage images. cuts to him sions 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 percent to more than sixty percent i don't know 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. i'm a teacher and i'm here to fight for my students and for

a better future for them 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 a federal control board created two years ago to try to resolve puerto rico's economic crisis approved a raft of austerity measures 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 dock many a still waiting for insurance payouts and services have closed for lack of funds well fortified was not the authorities hold the power around here that is the business owners and the rich people and these protestors have no power they don't even have the right to protest the children that have large numbers of puerto

ricans left the country in the aftermath of the hurricane protesters say they fear tough new austerity measures will give those who remain little choice but to leave to me down the hall and i'll just syria. may day demonstrations in the french capital also turned violent. protesters set fire to a car and smashed in the windows of a mcdonald's restaurant this is a protest on an added significance in light of french president emanuel micron's proposed new labor reforms it's been fifty years since the one thousand nine hundred sixty eight uprising in france when students and workers rose up at almost overthrew the agent government of general de gaulle about a looks at what the legacy of the uprising means for tuesday's may day protests. to me may nine hundred sixty eight still haunts 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 soak up were like mad dogs when living there the proper. were there were the whole family and not worth the turning point. and they didn't about the brutality and the corrupt. that i decided that the route. this author says the events were reflection of a gathering storm outside of france it wasn't written facts it may sixth it 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 was expecting workers and last 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 demand 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 little sasha butler al-jazeera paris . six people have died after a sudden snowstorm left hikers stranded in the alps the video released by rescue team shows the force of the storm fourteen hikers was stuck outdoors without shelter overnight near the mater on in switzerland five italians and a bowl gerund woman didn't survive a former member of the irish republican army as told al jazeera that he fears brags that could lead to a resumption of the armed conflict in northern ireland his comments came as the brig's it negotiator was visiting the city of london very low and the reports just a pony a certainly putting the miles in he's been all over ireland and here he was to be

with business news 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 a nice of you should we be able to maintain. the very first 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 these 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 of them 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 of us starts really what it breaks it is about. the physical manifestation of it the face of the vision because face to face surviving avoid the great good friday agreement the four thirteen over the british government. you know the won't respect the agreements that they make under national agreements of the me 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 the whole border as an opportunity oh i think so yes yeah because i think they're failing to to shoot yeah yeah yeah because at the moment the hank. 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 you 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 here all of it 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 disastrous and it is not an exaggeration to say it could lead to violence. al-jazeera and an investigation in brazil has uncovered allegations of years of abuse of young gymnasts by a former coach out as it was john holmes reports. dozens of brazilian gymnasts have accused a former coach of the national team of sexual abuse among them the pan american games gold medalist but. 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 they cover you lopez denies them he's since been fired from his job in the sports community center. 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 nasser admitted that he molested some of that country's top gymnasts more than two hundred fifty women and girls say here abuse the the allegations against mr lopez and now being investigated by the so polo public prosecutor's office john homan now does it are now 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 over reports from camp where it's a 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 there hoping to find even a few tiny specks of the precious metal to support their families. hey did you know

i no idea where 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. the twenty year old says he can make about thirty dollars a day if he finds a gram of gold and in thousand then 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 then 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 comes up here so sudan's 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 garbage i'm about to trade has 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're supposed to get at least five cages every two weeks but we don't get even one cage and we're trying to control the borders but you can't lack of control which makes it easy for press spector's 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 al-jazeera on. top a quick check of the headlines here and al-jazeera protesters in armenia are blocking some roads in the capital follows calls by the opposition leader and the call passion for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister. has his supporters to go on strike 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. blockaded along with railways the metro and the airport everything that

can be will be bought. at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in movie town that's in northeastern nigeria two suicide bombers detonated their devices during afternoon prayers no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. morocco has severed diplomatic ties with iran accusing terror around of supporting the opposition group the policy area front policy areas fighting for independence for western sahara most of which is under moroccan control iraq accuses iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah of supporting policy area by training and arming its fighters rocco will close its embassy in tehran and will expel the iranian ambassador in rome at the highest ranking chinese official to visit north korea and three years as arrived in the capital china's foreign minister huang he is there for a two day trip relations have been strained over a constant chinese exports to pyongyang as part of its sanctions against its

nuclear program. six people have died after a sudden snowstorm left hikers stranded in the alps fourteen were stuck outdoors without shelter overnight in the month alone in switzerland five italians in a ball girl and woman didn't survive. a large post almost caught many egyptians off god poor visibility forced many roads to close on stable weather is expected to last until thursday sounds tome followed red heavy rain in the capital last week those are the headlines and these continues here on al-jazeera off to the stream stage and also watching my fellow. jews here us. swear every us.