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at least seven people were killed after gunmen attacked libya's election commission in the capital tripoli. well i'm down in georgia this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up the political turmoil in armenia deepens after parliament blocks the opposition leader from becoming the new prime minister plus. asylum seekers in a so-called migrant caravan remain hopeful as they wait patiently on the u.s. border for processing. digging for gold is supposed to be lucrative but that's not the story in south sudan we'll tell you why. we're going to some breaking news out of the libyan capital tripoli where at least

seven people have been killed in an attack gunman including a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of libya's electoral commission the commission has been registering voters ahead of elections that are expected before the end of the year well mahmoud had joins us on the phone from tripoli what more details are emerging about the attack. security sources here say that seven people were killed including get. stuffed members at the national election commissions and for security guards. the attackers. gunmen tried to engage with your sources at the gate with a man and then the manage it to kill four of the security forces and then got into the premises of the national election commission and. tell you that

the packages might have. needed. belts. on top of that they heard huge explosions when this mission that has forced the security apparatus policing billet the diktats and tripoli to engage in the situation there the attack was probably between eight and themselves because i would say that the two huge explosions and also also the commission of tripoli sense that all the signs of the act. indicate that it's behind the attack to have my town any. of the of the attackers because they have did today themselves they also say that they found the body parts of one of the effects of the company i didn't defy the odds but in all these cases. two explosions indicate that the suicide attackers have

made themselves so far the special detents course has managed to contain this situation and now it's kind of this is still very tense around the high national election commission and they're getting. checkpoint in front of the commission. they're stopping active vehicles and they're ok to apply security measures in that area much more just briefly so how is this attack likely then to affect the registration process for the elections later this year this is a huge. hit to the process because this commission has been concerned with it has been working for the last one year and a half. preparing them doing its job to prepare

voters to register for the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections that was supposed to be before the end of this year and now after the attack i think this is a huge huge. to do the work of the commission and also the institutions that have been that have been cooperating with the national election commission like the united nations mission and also internationally recognised in libya ok mark what do i have thank you very much indeed for the update when earlier we spoke to an os political analyst and director of the tripoli based subject institute he says the attack bears all the hallmarks of eisel. well this attempt to certain it is all really instilled a shock at a theater low to libyans that are looking to come out of both of the last six or multiples of the community and let alone that live years of her stable and that the

civil war that has rocked the last four years between. l.a. based. level of arthur and forces the boy the u.n. back up in tripoli and not the early stories in the country all that leisel that was based instead of last year it has lost they've been degraded it was sure to hold it was a still narrative mobile agile you know club style moving around the country very quietly and this kind of attack is certainly a signature slope of less of this early achieve the objectives which is never to go about as well since the view is this is a source that really the signature style of was that he had his book well it certainly does a certain headline grabbing a kind of movement it wouldn't really play into the hands of either of the two silence third line that we also have to be careful of the way in which places is kind of both a group but it's also a currency that groups in libya traditionally have traded their use that reflects that leisel orthodox want this is just it's

a time for elections although we have to move and they're going to topple tripoli so this is also be you know usually concerned about what happens in the article at a time like this and certainly on groups and other political groups have no information so easy as a pretext for something a bit weary through which is about today elections that will almost entirely or using this attempt to then make a military move on the capital or elsewhere the political crisis in amin is deepening after the parliament rejected a bit by the opposition leader to be the new prime minister he called passion on his calling for a nationwide strike on wednesday and his supporters are already out in the streets as lead weeks of anti-government protests that forced the former prime minister to step down from a fight and what has more. revolutionary is simmering on the streets of the capital yerevan today after nicole patching the ends vote yesterday to become prime minister and was unsuccessful in the parliament he called on his protesters on his

supporters to come out again in large numbers and show the republican party the governing party that they are the ones who are who have the support of the armenian people and to do that today he called a national strike and that means that we have seen again the streets blockaded in the capital with traffic brought to a standstill we've seen the airports the international airport cut off. the roads to the airport cut off some tourists been struggling to get home the metro is not clean running students to get out on mass not going to university medical stuff and teaches as well we're hearing involved and spontaneous acts of civil disobedience roads being blocked located by even. some you know private employees that the guys in my hotel i saw them outside on the street blocking it off determined not to let

private transport through this is all about showing the republican party that the public is behind them despite efforts yesterday to discredit nichol passion the end where he was his competence was questions and his true intentions. were on the question he for that part has now said that he will be thinking about all kinds of options going forward to maintain this movement to maintain those civil acts of disobedience the president of armenia has called for talks between both sides and this is all expected to play out in the coming days with another vote expected in parliament in which he's. prime ministerial head of the sea will be considered again this time next week the french president emmanuel mark roy's on his first official trip to australia mark wrong join prime minister malcolm turnbull and commemorating those who lost their lives in the two world wars like ross trip will

have a strong focus on defense as he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors he's also discussing the iran nuclear deal trade and china's growing influence the south pacific during the three day visit i know how indebted my country's to you and so it is was emotion unknown or so they come to you on behalf of france to see messi think you. have to say i my job is not to speculate as well because we're pretty much of the same. first the d.c.p. was absolutely was a very important negotiation and isn't based with the money towards the current nuclear activity of the iranian government the iranian regime and i think this is important was negotiated by our country support i mean u.s. was involved and obviously france that's why first as we negotiated we signed it

it's good to respect it and that for me the good beginning. at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria the explosion happened during off and prayers in movie in the tamal est many people died in a second blast while attempting to get out of the building witnesses say young man wearing a suicide vest and the mosque with worshipers developed ogun 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 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 governments in fact when you its commitment to end the precedence of the group in the north east of nigeria the international monetary fund says saudi arabia needs oil prices to go up to around eighty five dollars a barrel this is in order to balance the state budget the kingdom has projected a fifty two billion dollar deficit some analysts are warning the recent recovery and or prices could ease pressure on riyadh enough for the pace of economic and fiscal reforms to slow. i think the fact that we are witnessing.

globally and the fact that oil price is going up it shouldn't at any point in time considered as a way for the effort and to be complacent. with north. korea. the french president takes office with. more on that stay with us. welcome back deep area of low pressure is giving some particularly heavy rain across northeastern parts of asia you see the massive cloud associated with this system so we're looking at really wet weather across parts of japan during the

course of thurso for begins to clear away from the west but you notice that system is going to be stuck over her kaido during the course of thursday with some snow even on its northern edge but then through friday will find the system moving further towards the north so brighter weather returning for sapporo further south will flow coming in from the southwest relative warm conditions are for tokyo twenty four degrees should be fine across the korean peninsula beijing is looking pretty woman the moon at thirty degrees hotter than is for the south in shanghai a mere twenty six here across more central southern parts of china it's looking like a fairly unsettled picture at the moment we've got areas of rain always in the west towards the east coast of to hong kong probably dry during thursday but on friday i think there is a risk of some rain developing here quite cloudy skies across much of indochina with some heavy showers and i think one or in vietnam may see the odd downpour into southeastern parts of asia northern parts the philippines to manila quite bright with highs of thirty six some heavy showers across parts of borneo but java looking

largely fine with highs of thirty three in jakarta. of all my friends and coworkers who were detained i am the only one who survived they were all waiting for news of their menfolk it was only one word on the image in march one of those saw a boy killed in his father's all i saw. i have only once in my life see you are scared to death a bit to civil war was dark secret bosnia the camp on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap our top stories here this hour but a seven people have been killed when gunmen including a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of libya's electoral commission in the capital tripoli and they've been office has been registering voters ahead of elections expected before the end of the. protesters in armenia have started blocking roads to the capital of the parliament rejected a paid by opposition leader crashing down to be prime minister. call for a nationwide strike that weeks of anti-government protest the force the former prime minister to step down. and the french president on his first official trip to australia join prime minister malcolm turnbull and commemorating those who lost their lives and the two will train here today to issues behind the agenda during the three day trip. china's foreign minister has arrived in north korea for a two day visit while he is the highest ranking chinese minister to visit pyongyang

in three years but strained over a cut in chinese exports as part of sanctions against the north's nuclear weapons program and the trip comes before kim jong un summit with the u.s. president in the coming weeks china correspondent adrian 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'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 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. now so far only a handful 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 the chance to speak with us immigration. spoke with some of them at the makeshift camp in tijuana. 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. in. 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 says he was 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 crossfire mexican states like beach 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 filling situations where their lives are with us we think that a few dozen families is not a threat to the united states is not it 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 think 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 under the apple. they want to. an investigation in brazil has uncovered allegations of years of abuse of young gymnasts by a former coach the case comes just months after former sports doctor laurie not admitted to molesting some of the united states top athletes and reports dozens of brazilian gymnasts have accused a form a 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 south polo public prosecutor's office john homan now does either. now a lot sandstorm has caught many egyptians off god poor visibility forced many roads to close the unstable weather is expected to last until thursday the sandstorm

followed rain heavy rain in the capital cairo last week british politicians say they're prepared to issue a formal summons for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg to answer questions over the cambridge analytical data scandal this comes as the co-founder of whatsapp resigned from facebook its parent company and what's seen as a blow for privacy advocates in the firm john kuhn clashed with executives of their attempts to use personal data from the messaging service to develop products and target. well fresh from the privacy scandal that so facebook apologize if the data harvesting is now launching a dating app its chief executive mark zuckerberg says the new feature will operate alongside the usual facebook app he says two hundred million people on facebook list themselves a single seen as a move to rebuild its popularity among younger uses but gaining back trust may be tough due to ongoing privacy concerns facebook has been hit hard by the cambridge analytical scandal which saw the private information of millions of users shed with

a political consulting company we are announcing a new set of features coming soon around dating. now this is going to be going to be for building real long term relationships not just took out and what i've learned this year is that we need to take a broader view of our responsibility it's not enough to just build powerful tools we need to make sure that they're used for good and we will. british prime minister to resolve a maybe feeling questions over the wind rush immigration controversy john howard joins us now from westminster jonah the labor leader jeremy corbin was always going to roast terrorism a over when ross he thinks you need to take full responsibility for the scandal. yes trees are made dealing very much now with the blowback from this when rush scandal that's the mistreatment by the british home office of the children of kind

of being immigrants who came here to help rebuild the country at the government's invitation after world war two some subsequently having their citizenship rights denied deported and detained on the weekend of course amber rudd the former home secretary was forced to resign over what she said was her in that video inadvertent misleading of parliament over what she knew of illegal immigration removal charge that effectively. you have a we have a rousing melody of the borders behind us that effectively removed for oil between two reason may and will drug scandal she of course was home secretary before and the rush well this morning she's apologized for any errors made during her time as home secretary that's not enough for the opposition though they want to vote later calling on the government to reveal all of its communications only to gratian dating back to two thousand and ten the government has ordered its m.p.'s to vote against prompting calls of a cover up that will likely grow louder take

a listen to what jeremy corporatists. and the pain that's been caused to the windrush generation needs to be resolved very rapidly and full compensation paid as quickly as it can be possibly done and an understanding of the hurt that they feel but this isn't the only failure of this government all the only failure of its policies. the government used to talk about a long term economic plan. but now we. now mr speaker where the slowest growing economy in the g seven. ball was there. but that's not the only challenge the prime minister is likely to face today because in a couple of hours' time she'll share a meeting of the cabinet subcommittee on breaks at the so-called war committee they'll be talking about britain's customs relations with the e.u. after breaks it after it exits the customs union this is

a thorny complicated and divisive issue that among other things will determine whether or not it will be at once again a border between northern ireland in the u.k. and the republic of ireland in the european union that border of course painstakingly dismantled during the good friday in the good friday peace agreement it is an issue that has divided the cabinet divided the ruling party and indeed because of a rump of pro breaks it m.p.'s it may indeed threaten to resume a's very leadership join up thank you now searching for gold as a way of life and the only income for many in south sudan but has he been morgan reports much of what they find is smuggled abroad depriving the government of much needed revenue look at people and his friends come to the stream every day and spend long hours planning for gold there hoping to find even a few tiny specks of the precious metal to support their families. they did you know i know. 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 dand 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 preferring to deal directly with traders who prefer gold instead of the declining currency. but only

comes up here since don'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 no limit the. 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're supposed to get at least five kids every two weeks but we don't get even one we're trying to control the borders but you 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 more going on as they are. so small so as now and real madrid are into the champions league final for the fourth time in five years a big mistake by byron munich goalkeeper sven oric air proved to be the decisive

moment in their semifinal recap following allow the ball to roll through his legs at the start of the second half and current benzema took advantage to score his second goal of the game if finished two two on the light in madrid with a real progressing four three on aggregate the twelve time champions i mean to win this title for a third straight year. this year. it's been a crazy match betty same time very beautiful it's been a beautiful show for the fans for football we need to congratulate our rivals because they've done a great job that we started with difficulties letting it go and we just couldn't find our way you know a little second half was much better scored the second goal and we played even better. liverpool face roma away in the second leg of the other semifinal later on wednesday mohamed salah scored twice in the reds five two first leg win and despite their big advantage liverpool are also aware that roma recovered from

a three goal deficit against barcelona in the previous round. or top a quick check of the headlines here at least seven people have been killed when gunmen including a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of libya's electoral commission in the capital tripoli the death toll is expected to rise the libyan office has been registering voters ahead of elections expected before the end of the year. protesters in have started blocking roads in the capital after the parliament rejected a bid by opposition leader nicole passion young to be prime minister passionately and has called for a nationwide strike is led weeks of anti-government protests that forced the former prime minister to step down. there's no way we can go backwards we must move forward in the armenian republic there is no

power that can resist. starting from tomorrow all over the country we declare a general strike at every company out exception. all the streets in the country will be blockaded along with the railways the metro and the airport everything that can be will be borked. two suicide bombs at a mosque in northeastern nigeria have killed at least twenty seven people one of the attackers went into the mosque along with worshippers often in prayers after that explosion a second blast killed others trying to escape in a movie in adam allah state now a group has yet claimed responsibility. the french president emmanuel mccraw is on his first official trip to australia micron 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 as he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors is also set to discuss the iran

nuclear deal trade and china's growing influence in the south pacific during the three day trip. and china's foreign ministers in north korea for a two day visit wang he is the highest ranking chinese minister to visit pyongyang in three years relations are strained over a cut in chinese exports as part of sanctions against the north's nuclear weapons program and the trip comes before kim jong un summit with the u.s. president donald trump in the coming weeks well those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after inside story statement that's what i thought.

well a new prime minister solve the crisis in armenia the election of a replacement.