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i. i. mean here is protest leader calls a pause in his campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party appears to offer an olive branch. this is a live from london also coming up at least fourteen people are killed in an attack on libya's electoral commission says it masterminded. after eight hundred fifty three killings in sixteen years of violence the basque separatist group eta says it has completely disbanded. president loses yet another lawyer and is reported to be hiring mantra defended bill clinton during his impeachment.

hello media's opposition leader has suspended protests for thursday after the ruling party appeared to back down on its refusal to pick him as prime minister. nicola told her supporters at a rally in the capital year of on that the issue has practically been solved it follows reports that the government will support any candidate for the role of prime minister if they secure a third of parliamentary vote. earlier on wednesday demonstrators in the capital brought roads to a standstill and blocked buildings showing their anger after republican party members refused to elect me called question yon to the top job on tuesday and himself led tens of thousands of armenians through the city in an act of simple civil disobedience robin for a city worker has more from year of on. the movements that nicole past and u.n. calls the national movement that we have been calling the opposition movement but

which has become clear represents so many armenians wanted to send a message today with a general strike they shut down all the streets in yerevan they closed off the roads to the international airport the metro wasn't running all the cities and towns also had protests administrative buildings was surrounded ministry's was surrounded and the message that they wanted to send this movement was to the republican party the governing party that yesterday had rejected the call passion yan's candidature prime minister that message appears to have gone through because the republican party had that special session and they decided that they were going to support nichol passion the end not in as many words they used a clever way of saying that they would say by saying that they would back the candidate with thirty five votes well or more which is the requirement for somebody

to be put forward as prime minister in the armenian parliament and it's nicole question you know who has those thirty five votes from the other political fact factions if not more and so the republicans have said they will not put forward a candidate and they will support the candidate and the six. tens of thousands hundreds of thousands perhaps on he is back on the streets to see me celebrating this momentous news and now the hugs resting on the republicans holding true to their word and they will see their hero the man who has led them all the. micko passion and appointed his prime minister annually lead a new future for the armenian people. and you expect. the founding director of the regional studies center and independent think tank based in yerevan it told us it was undoubtedly people path that prevents the building government to back down and this was

a sign of desperation in many ways the ruling republican party was increasingly out of touch with the political reality of the country and a deepening sense of mistrust among much of the population therefore in this latest round of political bluff if you will we saw a widespread campaign of civil disobedience that demonstrated the potency of so-called people power and what this actually demonstrates is a rare example where peaceful nonviolent demonstrators were able to force out in the french the incumbent government nevertheless that could have been the easier part the real challenge now is in terms of governance and the necessity for compromise and consensus in the face of the dangerously high expectations first of course is this second law in ballot in six days where an interim premier or prime minister will be selected by the parliament there for the next stage after such

a move would be electoral reform a scheduling of a snap or extraordinary early election to reflect the new political reality but in many ways the challenge there is also in terms of the reality that are as a country that has not had a free and fair elections for over a decade the political culture is not quite prepared so in many ways the challenge here is actually forging a consensus a broad based coalition government perhaps technocrat a nature that could be capable of true. i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission which killed at least fourteen people the commission based in the capital tripoli has been registering voters ahead of elections expected before

the end of the year and a host of reports. attack was targeted the electoral commission headquarters on wednesday morning a suicide bomber detonated his explosives before shooting began the assault comes days after the un pressured libya's leaders to hold elections by the end of the year and the international quartet the e.u. arab league african union and the u.n. met on monday to promise assistance in organizing the voting we have seen despite this quarter optimistic talk of improving security libya remains divided. the u.n. back to internationally recognized national court government in tripoli was from three years ago. as the prime minister but he struggled to establish the authority of his government beyond the capital pitted against the government of national accord in the west is the tobruk administration in the east under the control of the self declared libya's national army its commander general healthy for have to

control all rich east and its vital export terminals he recently shrugged off election talks and urged libyans to trust his army instead of the german i want you to trust the army it will lead you to what you aim for i know you want a real life not a semblance of a life that results from elections. have to has expressed disdain for the government of national accord in tripoli government leaders in the capital say that before elections are held libyans should agree on a new electoral law and a constitution and if the so. they want to turn their back on past agreements and take us all the way to new elections. after his army which is supported by us in egypt is more powerful than troops based in tripoli the general who recently returned home after medical treatment is widely seen by his supporters as the only libyan leader qualified to end years of infighting. as there are iranian state media says at least seventy six people have been injured after an earthquake hit

the country's southwest imagined five point three quake struck near the remote mountainous city of says sacked which is around seven hundred kilometers south of tehran reports say there were x. there was extensive damage to roads and buildings the british company at the center of facebook's data privacy scandal is reported to be closing its operations cambridge analytical hit the headlines in march after a former employee revealed how the company used data from eighty seven million users but donald trump's presidential campaign nigel oakes the founder of s.c.l. group which is a british affiliate of the firm says both companies are now shutting their operations. the basque separatist group better has announced that it has disbanded it would rise ation campaign violently for sixty is for an independent basque state between northern spain and southern france that killed eight hundred people before declaring a ceasefire in twenty eleven and surrendering its arms last year that involve

a report from san sebastian. in the end it came in the rather mundane form of a letter dated the sixteenth of april to various basque organizations a long awaited announcement that the group that waged a violent campaign for independence for five decades was disbanded for good and what it called its historical cycle. its fifty years since claimed its first victim a secret police chief here in the basque coastal city of san sebastián the announcement that it has this binding comes as no surprise to anyone here but many people do hope it marks the beginning of a new era the name of that police chief was called last death his daughter says people like her are still waiting for a real apology. p.r. is the way that no matter in principle it's good news that they're not killing more people of course it's great news that there are no more victims but there's absolutely nothing to thank for. it's a formed in the late one nine hundred fifty s. in response to the crackdown on bus culture by spain's dictator francisco franco in

one thousand nine hundred seventy three they killed his heir apparent prime minister luis cairo blanco public attitudes hardened and opinion even inside split when the group killed twenty one people in a barcelona supermarket in one thousand nine hundred seven and a series of arrests of better leaders in both spain and france weaken the group significantly. last month which had observed a ceasefire since twenty eleven did apologize to what it called innocent victims of its bombings and assassinations but that wasn't extended to the families of people in the security services or politicians who were among the more than eight hundred killed by it or over the years for some people in spain's basque region the latest announcement is a missed opportunity and even the latter in terms of society i don't think we're going to notice much change and at a personal level i don't believe in it because there are many missing did people there are many assess the nations that have not been clarified there are many

victims that have not received compensation. for their part campaigners for the rights of at a prison is currently in jail across spain and in france hoping they'll soon be able to serve their sentences near their families in the basque region so this is not closure but it has reenergize the debate on where the basque independence movement goes from here nadine barber al jazeera. and alarming new report from the world health organization says air pollution is killing seven million people globally each year and is still rising and it wants at the inequality between the world's rich and poor is widening its updated estimates reveal nine out of ten people worldwide are breathing in air with high levels of pollutants the most rapid deterioration of air quality is in south and southeast asia with almost seventy percent of poor cities affected new delhi is the world's most polluted city with indian cities making up fourteen of the twenty worst for outdoor pollution and

shows as the rising pollution leads to an increased risk of stroke heart disease lung cancer and chronic and acute respiratory diseases including assman attritional name report. pollution has become a silent killer stalking people outside and even inside their homes from exposure to smog from industry or traffic fumes to smoke from cooking the world health organization says seven million people die from air pollution every year nine every ten persons around the wall are breathing air that these know all too respecting the recommend that the guidelines of government job for and quite. the w.h.o. says pollution worldwide increased by eight percent and there's a pollution gap between rich and poor countries. data collected shows people in low and middle income countries in southeast asia and the eastern mediterranean are

breathing in the most polluted air on the planet while the lowest levels of pollution were measured in cities in europe the americas and the western pacific more encouraging news is cities across the economic spectrum were able to reduce pollution levels by more than five percent in the past five years for the time being because of the most graphics and because of the speed. and because probably if the lack of political wind in some countries we are not moving at the speed that we would like to see the w.h.o. says reducing industrial smokestack emissions increasing the use of renewable energy taking mass transit and walking and cycling can expedite efforts to make the air we all breathe cleaner natasha going to aim al-jazeera. hundreds of women in england may have died prematurely from breast cancer because of

a computer error in the national screening programme the british government has revealed that around four hundred fifty thousand women aged between sixty eight and seventy one were not invited to their final routine breast screening it's estimated that up to two hundred seventy women may have had their lives shortened because of the era ukase health secretary has apologized calling it a serious failure breast cancer screening is meant to be offered to all women aged fifty to seventy in and every three years. to save us on al-jazeera iraq regains thousands of ancient artifacts which were smuggled to the u.s. plus. we're going to be building real long term relationships are not just programs . facebook is the world of online dating can it be the ultimate matchmaker.

hello there there's definitely going to be a wintery feel to the weather for some of us in australia thanks to this weather system here it's making its way across the us is turning things a far wetter and turning things a lot cooler as well so for adelaide instead of around twenty seven degrees we're looking at a maximum temperature just of nineteen there on thursday and it will be quite wet as well the rain will be welcome many of us have had a pretty dry year so far so this rain should give a somewhere between ten and forty millimeters of welcome rain that area of rain continues its way eastwards as we head through friday but staying cool behind it just seventeen in adelaide and around sixteen for us in melbourne we want to head a bit though it's largely fine and dry for us in new zealand a good little bit of cloud there just flirting with the southwestern coast but it's not really giving us too much in the way of significant rain instead most of us should have a fine unsettled one sixteen degrees there in christchurch dropping to around fifteen as we head into friday up towards japan though and things are far more

active weather wise here with this very intense system that's giving us some heavy rain not only in japan but also in eastern parts of china and the eastern parts of russia in fact on the northern edge there's also a fair amount of snow to be had and that's all moving east. citizens unable to vote on represented in washington or members of congress do nothing about this late part of the constituency in their responsibility and that is what's underneath this crisis phone lines visit to the island devastated by hurricane maria and demanding the support of the u.s. government or the u.s. citizens in the cabinet has a responsibility as you noted up there for get. shelter after the storm on al jazeera.

and one of the top stories. planned and to government protests for thursday has been canceled in armenia after the country's ruling party appeared to have softened on its decision to block the opposition leaders bridge to become prime minister. says it was behind the attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission which killed at least fourteen people in the capital tripoli. and the basque separatist group eta has announced it's just bonded in an open letter declared all of its structures have completely dissolved. the white house lawyer representing donald trump in the russia probe is retiring at the end of the month the president's legal team for the special counsel investigation has already

experienced a high turnover of staff tyco was expected to be replaced by emmet t. flood a veteran washington lawyer who represented bill clinton during his impeachment. when this story she never transit joins us live from washington d.c. she have tell us more about this character and what does this mean for the president and the russia investigation. it's yet another signal that the trump white house is going on the offensive against the special counsel's investigation ty cobb was the good cop on trump's legal team who wanted to cooperate with the special counsel was counseling don't trump against tweeting mean things about the investigation and so on however we know that flood is apparently no friend off the special counsel he says according to insider sources to the washington post this is all part of a rejigging of the trump legal team that really began in early april the april raid

of trump's personal lawyer in manhattan it seems troublous position is really hardened against the special counsel so first of all in rudy giuliani another attack dog type figure and now we have a flood so we expect this to mean a much more aggressive stance and also about a new phase in the fight against a special counsel investigation. said one trump insider was great during the you know the evidence the discovery process giving documents and so on now you need a wartime concealed carry as the trump white house faces the possibility of the special counsel one thing an interview with trump himself possibly three subpoena it's also just as now the trouble fight any attempt to subpoena subpoena him if he doesn't go voluntarily for an interview with robert mueller and another issue we've had to us is transferred it's first went to my prisoner championship will he talks about. yeah this is adjusting because we had wondered whether trump was going to

going to all know the plea agreement for ahmed ahmed ahmed he was supposed to be transferred to saudi custody on february the twentieth but as we know donald trump is a great file of guantanamo he says he wants to keep populating it with quote bad dudes so there was a question as to whether he would be he would be released to saudi saudi custody there was a sense it would backfire if he wasn't released because it would mean there would be much of the incentive for those before he remaining and going to cooperate with authorities and the more interesting lee there on the same day that this is happened what he says has been announced the department of defense has just given its new recommendations new guidelines to the white house on how to continue repopulating guantanamo bay so this doesn't mean the guantanamo is going to be emptied necessarily it just means that he's almost something that was expected at least in february on february twentieth but going on what is remaining open shabba times you thank you very much mike pumpin has been officially sworn in as the new

u.s. sanctions state in a ceremony at the state department in washington he said he wants to get the department for the demat department to get it swagger back and insisted that north korea must commit to dismantling its weapons program and pay it says it's time to solve the problems on the korean peninsula once and for all right now we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the korean peninsula underscore the word opportunity we're in the beginning stages of the work and the outcome is certainly yet unknown but one thing is certain this him a distraction will not repeat the mistakes of the past our eyes are wide open it's time to solve this once and for all of that deal is not an option the american people are counting on us to get this right we are committed to the permanent verifiable irreversible dismantling of north korea's weapons of mass destruction program and to do so without delay. two black men who were arrested at starbucks in philadelphia have settled with the city for

a symbolic one dollar each last month nelson and dante robinson were arrested first city in starbucks without ordering anything the men were led away in handcuffs after the manager called the police the incident sparked a fear and the u.s. over racial profiling officials have also promised to set up a two hundred thousand dollar program for young entrepreneurs britons upper house has voted to prevent any breaks it deal that restores a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland it says that would be in violation of the peace deal that ended the conflict there it puts even more pressure on prime minister to resign may be facing a revolt from within her own party of a brics it group of around sixty m.p.'s from her ruling conservative party spoken out against her favorite plan for a customs partnership with the e.u. post breaks it we will be leaving the customs union we want to ensure that we can have an independent trade policy we also want to make sure that we actually we

deliver we are committed to delivering on our commitment of no hard border between northern ireland an island and ensuring we have this richness trade as possible with the european union global military spending is on the rise according to a new report from sweden but russia is bucking the trend with its expenditure falling for the first time in almost ten years its longtime rival the united states continues to be the world's biggest spender and is expected to fork out even more this year brianna haunt explains. two hundred and thirty dollars that's the amount of military spending last year for each person on the planet it adds up to almost two trillion dollars or two point two percent of the world's economy military spending in china rose the most last year based on the latest figures from the stockholm international peace research institute all sipri the twelve billion dollar boost leads a twenty nine year upward trend in asia china's two hundred twenty eight billion

dollar budget is being spent on some big ticket purchases aircraft carriers don't come cheap china has bought one and has two more under construction contrast that with russia which cut its military spending last year by twenty percent the first drop in almost ten years sipri says that's because of economic constraints at harm but russia remains a major player in conflicts including three years of a strikes in syria to back the assad regime saudi arabia is driving a rise in military spending in the middle east a nine point two percent increase makes it the world's third largest spenda but the world number one remains the united states at six hundred ten billion dollars the u.s. forked out more and its military in two thousand and seventeen than the next to six countries on the list combined there was a downward trend in spending from two thousand and ten but that plateaued last year

under a u.s. president donald trump the report's authors predicts the pentagon budget will rise this year french police say they've arrested one hundred nine people after tuesday's may day protests in paris turned violent demonstrations against president in one year in the halls labor reforms escalation with six cars burnt out and attacks on a restaurant and car dealers they say around twelve hundred members of a libertarian group called the black bloc are responsible. a judge presiding over the detention of two quarters journalists in myanmar has refused to throw out the testimony of a police whistleblower the journalists were arrested in december when investigating government abuses in rakhine state they're accused of violating state secrecy laws by acquiring official documents but a policeman who was appearing as a witness last month told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalists to entrap them he's due to testify again next week.

shares in some online dating companies have taken a tumble after facebook announced it's creating a new dating feature mark zuckerberg says two hundred million people on his site currently list themselves a single but as you service which will launch soon is seen as a move to rebuild facebook's popularity among younger users but getting 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 shared with the political consultancy company we are announcing a new set of features coming soon around gaming. this is going to be is going to be for building real long term relationships are not just hook ups 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 endure as top coaches criticize the government for failing to protect the iconic taj mahal the marble monument has been slowly yellowing because of industrial smoke all insects also leaving green stains on the walls supreme court justices have given promised in a random modi's government a week to respond. thousands of ancient artifacts have been handed back to iraq after they were falsely labeled and smuggled into the u.s. the pieces some of which are more than five thousand years old were bought by the american arts and crafts store hobby lobby alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . a piece of history to be returned home at a special ceremony at the residence of iraq's ambassador in washington u.s. officials returned the ancient objects to the rightful owners mr ambassador how important is it to have these items you turned to security it's part of our psalm you know. this is you know really important to us you have to understand that in

iraq memories are long and so we really have a sense of kinship to it to the to these artifacts so you know imagine these things coming back home some of the valuable artifacts are more than five thousand years old and they include examples of the first writing system internet religious texts and cool ones with texts from the rulers of what was then mesopotamia they were among the five thousand objects bought by the chain store hobby lobby from dealers in the united arab emirates and israel in two thousand and ten experts warned the company the items might be stolen but it went ahead with the parties it's been fined more than three million dollars for breaking the law and had almost four thousand artifacts that were stolen removed when the criminal organizations still is merchandise and sell on the black market if funds or other criminal activity and we have numerous cases from terrorism activity so first of all we're taking the

money out the hands of criminal organization terrorist second wall returning artifacts the people while it's thought the final destination for the artifacts would be the recently opened museum of the bible in washington or below because owners have a big stake in the project it admitted previously it should have taken more care and asked more questions about the hobby lobby went ahead and bought the artifacts for approximately one point six million dollars additionally they allowed the dealers who were supplying them to decide how they should be shipped to the united states. unable to prove prove their legitimate ownership of the pieces those dealers smuggled the artifacts into the united states. is new to control or see. the. it's conservative christian owner successfully sued the obama administration over the right to deny employees insurance coverage for contraceptives but this is a victory for the iraqis who plan to put many of their time relics in the national

museum in baghdad and fisher al-jazeera washington. are now the headlines on al-jazeera armenia's ruling party appears to have softened on its decision to block the opposition leader's bid to become the country's next prime minister as a result. has now suspended thursday's planned protest having already led to days of anti-government rallies across the country republican m.p.'s had refused to back him but there are now reports that they'll support any candidate vying for the top job if they are able to secure a third of parliamentary vote. that. will be chosen to become prime minister it's what the people want. it's a people's protest there's no choice we can't stand the situation we're waiting for the party to hand over power yes they love the way if needed we will go to war

because we are already at war there is no other way if they don't want it they should go away. at least fourteen people were killed when gunmen including a suicide bomber stormed the headquarters of libya's electoral commission in the capital tripoli the office which has was set on fire and been registering voters head of elections expected before the end of the year. says it was behind the attack. the basque separatist group eta has announced it's disbanded in an open letter declared all of its structures have been completely dissolved it was a sion campaign violently first sixty is for an independent basque state between northern spain and southern france at a killed more than eight hundred people between one hundred sixty eight and twenty ten before declaring a ceasefire a year later. and alarming new report says air pollution is killing seven million

people globally and it is still rising the world health organization is also warning that the inequality between the world's rich and poor is widening. tycho of the white house lawyer representing donald trump and the russia probe is retiring at the end of the month the president legal team the special counsel investigation has already experienced a high turnover of staff is expected to be replaced by emmet chief land the veteran washington lawyer who represented bill clinton during his impeachment there is the headlines stay with us next up it's fault lines thanks for much for watching. in this. story. to be. with. you.

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