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al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. as a prisoner from guantanamo bay detention center the first under the trumpet ministration. a day after calling for a nationwide strike armenia's opposition leader stops the protests we'll tell you why. signaling the end to one of europe's bloodiest internal conflicts is the basque separatist group announces it is disbanding. and i support liverpool beat rome on aggregate to set up a champions league final with real madrid. the us has announced their. police of a prisoner from on top of

a bay detention center in cuba it is the first under the trump administration that the u.s. military says ahmed mohammed darby will be transferred to saudi arabia that brings the number of prisoners at the facility to forty during his campaign president tom will trump the valve to keep the facility open so this detention center of course was opened by former president george w. bush following the september eleventh attacks in two thousand and one a total of seven hundred eighty detainees have been held there since then according to human rights first during the bush administration five hundred were transferred or released one hundred ninety seven others were freed during president barack obama's time in office but was unable to fulfill his pledge to close it many prisoners to and still in guantanamo bay are waiting for trial including cliche mohammed the alleged organizer of the nine eleven attacks for more on this story share petards he joins us live from washington d.c. so she has why now if donald trump vowed to keep to keep it open releasing someone

maybe implies that he's he's going to i don't know what does it imply actually. well the point is i would. have had reached a plea agreements with authorities that required him to be transferred to saudi custody by february twentieth of this year and that didn't happen how if that president was set to continue why would anyone else cooperate with u.s. authorities at guantanamo bay if i wasn't going to abide by any of the agreements reached he still has about nine years left of his thirteen year sentence to in saudi arabia we're not actually have a statement from him relayed by his lawyer in new york my words will not do justice to what i lived through in those years and to the men i leave behind in prison no one should remain in guantanamo without a trial there is no justice and that he's been in u.s. custody since two thousand and two he was tortured he says

a. base initially during the first few months of his custody but now apparently he is in saudi custody according to the pentagon so about these people that are still awaiting trial is there any indication that there will be trials at the pace that that will pick up it's been stagnant for so long. right well the currents are gently all noughts as regards going ton him as a whole new way it fits in with the trumpet ministrations attitude of there are several military commissions still underway they have been very slow moving there's always been that argument that actually if you want to try terrorism suspects it's much more efficient much quicker you're much more likely even to get a conviction if you if you do it on u.s. soil but in the meantime the trump has been very clear both on the campaign trail and this president in his state of the union address he wants to keep guantanamo open he wants to repopulate guantanamo bay with what he called would be bad doods he wants to continue keeping that keep keeping with keeping the facility open and

he has no other people in the administration like john bolton who are also very keen on going tom and i bring all this in the administration like defense secretary mattis others in the national security team having said that they perhaps coincidentally we did get the pentagon guidelines to trumpet ministration to the white house as to who might be eligible to be transferred to guantanamo bay in the future trump gave the pentagon ninety days to come up with some guidelines they have just been given to the white house one source inside the administration told the new york times they were pretty vague actually because there aren't that many files perhaps in the pentagon for this particular mode of incarceration but now the white house does have the guidelines if it chooses to keep repopulating guantanamo as the president has said he wants to do ok i said washington and she had thanks. this president's legal team is facing another shake up the main lawyer representing donald trump in the russian inquiry is retiring cobbs departure comes as speculation mounts about whether trump will talk to investigators reports. the

investigators looking into allegations u.s. president donald trump's campaign colluded with russia want to question him but the president's legal team who would accompany him is changing again ty cobb has been one of trump's lawyers since last july the white house says he's decided to retire to take effect at the end of the month kopp is the second member of trump's legal team to leave him in the past two months john dowd quit march after he told reporters he thought the investigation should end it will be very difficult with mr cobb going to attract somebody who is going to ask themselves why do i want to go to a ship that sinking the cop departure comes at a critical time during the probe by special counsel robert muller his team is looking into whether the russian government worked with the trump campaign during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election paul manna for trump's former campaign chair has already been indicted and

is awaiting trial former white house national security advisor michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and it's believed he is now working with investigators. but there are now questions about whether trump will speak with the f.b.i. cobb reportedly encouraged to cooperate cops replacement emmet flood is known for being more adversarial the white house says flood is joining the team to represent the president against what it called the russia witch hunt in science and there are new threats by republicans in congress to remove the man overseeing the case deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and other people who have been. making threats privately and publicly against me. for quite some time and i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted on wednesday trucks seem to respond to that directly tweeting he may need to use the

powers granted to the presidency and get involved ironically the lawyer stepping into ty cobb's place built his reputation defending someone donald trump despises and the flood represented u.s. president bill clinton during his impeachment proceedings can really help at al-jazeera at the white house armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests after the ruling party agreed to support him becoming the enron prime minister. and he called the shenyang and told his supporters at a rally and the capital the earth and that the issue had been practically salty urged the strike action on monday after the ruling party blocked his initial for prime minister will now though again next week. there was a meeting of the republican party they said in the coming elections they would support the people's candidate not in your of on nor in other regions shall we

continue protesting and you tear people should rest earlier demonstrators and nirvana brought roads to a standstill and blocked buildings shing in and sell flood tens of thousands for the city in an act of civil disobedience of a forestay walker as more from the capital europe on the movement that nicole passion and 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 they closed off the roads to the international airport the metro wasn't running all the cities and towns also had protests administrative buildings were 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 the ends kind of shift

your 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 nicole passion the end not in as many words they used a clever way of saying that they would 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 nickel passion 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 that candidate and that six why tens of thousands hundreds of thousands perhaps of on he is back on the streets this evening and celebrating this momentous news and now their hopes resting on the republicans holding true to their word that 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 claim ahead in the news hour including. people are not going to caravan or otherwise stampede our border. a warning to asylum seekers camping out at the us mexico border in hopes of making the united states their new home. good morning about the air we breathe and what it's doing to our health. and store the reigning tour de france champion faces more questions about adopting investigation. ice was claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission at least fourteen people were killed when several gunmen including a suicide bomber stormed the offices in the capital tripoli the commission has been

registering voters ahead of elections expected later this year and hawkster reports . attack is talking to the electoral commission the head coaches on wednesday morning with the twin suicide bombing of the storm the building and set it on fire i saw has claimed responsibility for the attack but the assault comes days off the u.n. pressured libya's leaders to hold elections by the end of the year. the international quartet the e.u. arab league african union and the u.n. met on monday to promise assistance in the voting we have seen. despite the quarter optimistic talk of improving security libya remains divided. the un backed an internationally recognized national called government in tripoli was formed 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 the national accord in the west is the total of ministration in the east under the

control of the self declared libyan national army its commander the renegade general highly for have to controls the oil rich east and its vital export terminals he recently shrugged off talk of elections and libyans to follow his army instead of leave him and 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 and tripoli government leaders in the capital say that before elections are held libyans should agree on a new electoral law and a constitution. they want to turn their back on past agreements and take us all the way to new elections. have to me which is supported by usa in egypt is more powerful than troops based in tripoli in the general he recently returned home after medical treatment is widely seen by his supporters as the only libyan leader qualified to end years of infighting. there. the basque separatist

group has announced its disbanded just days after apologizing to its victims more than eight hundred people were killed during its fifty your campaign for an end appendant state eclair to cease fire in two thousand and eleven reports 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 it's fifty years since it's occurring that first victim a secret police chief here in the coastal city of. the announcement that it has this funding 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 carlos diaz his daughter says people like her are still waiting for

a real apology. 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 is 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 it are prisoners currently in jail across spain and france hoping they'll soon be able to service sentences near their families in the basque region so this is not closure but it has reenergized the debate on where the basque independence movement goes from here eugene barber al-jazeera. martinez as a lecturer in spanish studies at aston university he says a test disbanding is symbolic i think there is a change in a political strategy and i think the idea here is that i don't think the solution has been reached in terms of a basket possible bust push for independence of further autonomy from the spanish

central government if anything what we've seen recently that's aluna is that these problems have not been solved yet i think what we see here he said is perhaps a change in strategy and a change in approach from the whole umbrella of movements or part of society the ones for the basque independence or at least for the army from the spanish state military spending is on the rise across the world according to a new report from sweden russia as backing the trend with its expenditure falling for the first time in almost ten years see a political rival the united states remains the world's biggest spender and is expected to fork out even more this year and reports. 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 dollars 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 home 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. joining us on set is richard writes he's director and senior fellow at the hudson institute center for political military analysis thank you for coming in and so i'm going to start with what i what i at least think is the biggest surprise you tell me from your point of view if it's a surprise russia is spending is down why no i agree that was the unexpected development it's probably due to the effectiveness of western sanctions the fall in global oil prices the weakness of the currency but it's very significant and i think that that's that's going to encourage the western countries to keep their sanctions going with the coffee at being that the russians potential is really at the high end the nuclear forces which are as we saw from whom the speech on march

first being built up at the lower end nonmilitary paramilitary subversion of elections everything you've been covering over the past year or so the fact that they're spending less doesn't necessarily mean that they are in any way defenseless by any stretch you know they and specially the local i mean in their we feel confident to take place which it's very unlikely you would be near russia and so they would have a lot of local advantages. so i think again it's going to it's i think over the long term we'll have to and effectively is a strain continue as it was the most i agree it was most surprising to me ok let's talk about saudi arabia what it's what's driving their spending some of the most obvious things that we see such as you know the horrible crisis in yemen what where's their money going right so it's a combination of intervention in yemen and prickly rivalry with iran the there they were concerned of course by the relaxation of sanctions with with the iran nuclear deal we've seen the iranian defense budget rising even according to

this report and so saudis are trying to match that and donald trump as you know u.s. president is encouraging countries here to buy as many weapons as possible whenever they visit including with the saudis for absolutely no test of that so let's talk about the u.s. . for a while the u.s. has been steady if not declining when it comes to military spending of course it's still the most in the world the most is i think the next seven or eight countries combined. but this is about to change this is about to go up what is driving that is it donald trump yes the fence budget present from submitted to congress is a significant boost over previous levels now it's start to stabilize i recently saw given the tensions with russia and china but the thomas pressure is really prioritizing that as well as homeland security as where they want to promote the most growth in the budget and you did mention china as well where does china

stack up and to me that's probably going to be the most significant trend ten twenty years from now each year china has these double digit rises and over time i think we're going to see china surpass russia is the main rivalry for the united states particularly over mastery over the pacific and i think think that's the long term as analysts we need to look at the long term most important development over time is all this military spending necessary. you know it's it depends in the abstract you can make good reasons to increase it you can see security threats the military can help you achieve some goals but we've always been worried in the u.s. side there were underfunding the state department development and over funding the military and so we're forcing the military to do jobs that really would be better off done by civilians you know nation building counterterrorism and so on so it's it's it's a mixed picture it's a it's a lot easier for

a politician to say i want to boost defense budgets strengthen defense and that as opposed to i want to give foreign aid to any guy dream pointed out that way as well all right richard lights thank you so much for coming in and we appreciate it thank you for having me. sudan as a reassessing its part inside military operations and yemen as defense minister says studies are being carried out by the armed forces command has been growing criticism in sudan's parliament over its role in that conflict at least three thousand sidney's ground troops and several jets are and yemen by pompei last been sworn in as the new us secretary of state has downturn restore what he calls swagger to the state department after succeeding rex tillerson pale and says more of korea must commit to dismantling its weapons program right now we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the korean peninsula i 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 is ministration will

not repeat the mistakes of the past our eyes are wide open it's time to solve this once and for all a bad 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 i have absolute confidence that he will do an incredible job as the nation's seventieth secretary of state as my travels the world who will carry out the greatest mission and highest duty of the state department to represent the interests of the american people this mission includes overseeing more than thirteen thousand foreign service officers who act as our representatives to the world twelve thousand consular officers and. minister ater of just an incredible immigration system a system that we're going to be changing and fixing and making better

a system that's under siege right now. but a system that will in fact hopefully be the talk of the world by the time we finish cambridge analytic the u.k. company at the center of a major a facebook data breach is to shut down operations the political consultancy hit the headlines in march when a former employee revealed how it used data from millions of facebook users to influence on a trump's presidential campaign the company says it has suffered a sharp drop in business and will begin bankruptcy proceedings its parent company as c.l. is also closing the u.s. is beefing up the number of lawyers and judges at its border with mexico attorney general jeff sessions says thirty five extra attorneys and eighteen charges will help deal with asylum claims that's in response to the so-called caravan of central american migrants who are waiting to be processed people are not going there caravan or otherwise stampede our border we need legality and integrity in the

system people should wait their turn ask us to apply lawfully before they enter our country we sending a message worldwide don't illegally make your claim to enter america in the lawful way and wait your turn. well a handful of full handful of migrants from the caravan have been allowed to seek asylum in the us from honduras guatemala and el salvador have spent a third night at a makeshift camp and he'll want to and will of apollo spoke to some of them. 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 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 that get caught in the crossfire. mexican states 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 you got 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 playing situations where their lives are with us we think that

a few dozen families is not a threat to the united states is not in any way a criminal night and it is not a crime to seek asylum in the united states especially when your life is at risk. 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 it up a little. they want to. still had on al-jazeera by south sudan's government is struggling to benefit from that's lucrative poultry plus we have plenty of water in los angeles which whether we choose to use it effectively changing the way we think

about conservation to keep our cities from running dry. and the brazilian player saying read as he lashes out during a game in japan. hello there we're expecting more severe weather across parts of north america so thanks to this weather system hey you can see the cloud really building there on the satellite picture is this that's giving us all a severe thunderstorms with very large hail and flooding downpours i don't so it's a very gusty winds to in fact there's also be some tornadoes spotted within this as well and there's likely to be more as this system gradually edges its way eastwards as we head through the next day i'll say ahead of it is quite a hit but it's not completely weather let's we've got winds coming up from the

south dragging in some very warm weather so twenty eight will still be the maximum in new york today on friday despite the increase of clouds and for washington d.c. will be up to fifty three for the west to hit with a maximum just of seventeen in seattle for the central americas we've had lots of showers here recently you can see the clouds on the satellite picture over parts of cuba will still be with us as we head through the day on thursday and stretching down across many of the greater antilles but it looks like they'll be clearing from cuber at least as we head through the day on friday and so from jamaica east is where we're likely to see the heavier downpours meanwhile for south america the violent thunderstorms that we've had here are gradually easing and it looks like it'll just be cloudy until that dam for friday.

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watching al-jazeera let's make out the top stories for you the us has announced the first release of a prisoner from the one tom obey detention center under the trump administration the military says the harm it has all darby will be transferred to saudi arabia. arminius opposition leader has called off nationwide protests after the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the interim prime minister. told supporters at a rally in nirvana the issue has practically been solved the parliament scheduled to vote again next week. in the u.k. company at the center of a major facebook data breach as shutting down cambridge analytic is accused of improperly accessing the personal information of millions of people for political clients it says since the scandal there's been

a sharp drop in business. united states says it remains gravely concerned about north korea's human rights record despite warming diplomatic relations in recent weeks the comments from the state department come ahead of a planned meeting between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il u.s. concern about human rights in the north spiked last year after american student auto warm beer was released from north korean custody he was arrested and good health while on a tour of pyongyang but later got fourteen months for after fourteen months was found in a vegetative state he died soon after. i was running chinese official to visit north korea in years has arrived in pyongyang foreign minister along is on a two day visit to try to ensure beijing plays a role in the next round of nuclear diplomacy with its longtime ally adrian brown reports. it's eleven years since the chinese foreign minister last stepped foot in north korea a measure of the strain in relations between these allies and now of china's desire

to repair them one year is in pyongyang five days after the historic into korean summit when kim jong un and president mungy in agreed to pursue denuclearization of the peninsula and the peace treaty one will be hoping for a detailed briefing on the results of that meeting thanks unusually last friday chinese leaders found themselves on the sidelines of a major international event happening on their doorstep and they won't be part of the planned meeting between president donald trump and kim jong il either not even to analysts say china's president who met kim jong un in late march wants to ensure that the chinese aren't left out of future talks that could possibly include the united states and i want to make sure that in any war on these questions china will have

a secure seat and that negotiating table it is hard to believe that china won't play a role in any future discussions it is in theory at least the only ally that north korea has and china was also a signatory to the one nine hundred fifty three armistice that ended hostilities on the korean peninsula but not the state of war that still exists between the two koreas adrian brown al jazeera in beijing. iranian state media says only seventy six people have been injured in an earthquake in the southwest a magnitude five point three quake struck near the remote mountain the city says sacked seven hundred kilometers south of tehran reporting there has been extensive damage to roads and buildings and hospitals in a nearby town the town is sued for evacuated after the quake. the opinions backed israel a condemnation of holocaust comments by palestine's president mahmoud abbas suggested historic persecution of jews in europe has been caused by their quote

professions rather than their religion call the comments unacceptable they said they said. hatred against jews was not because of their religion it was because of the social profession a different issue so the jewish issue that has brought against the jews across europe was not because of their religion but because of the social professional relates to usury and the banks. britain's upper house has voted to prevent any breaks a 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 this puts even more pressure on prime minister theresa may who is facing a revolt from within her own party politicians are against her plans for a customs partnership with the new once britain's left the block. we will be losing 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 north island and ensuring we have as frictionless trade as possible with the european union. hall has more on the debate in westminster. where talks in the so-called war cabinet on breaks are the likely to go past wednesday of course but they begin in earnest today on britain's customs relations with the european union after brigid and what position the government decides to take into negotiations may well determine the nature of britain's exit from the european union why because well if it goes in with a position that would require some sort of border to be set up between northern ireland in the u.k. and the republic of ireland in the e.u. to monitor trade well that is something the e.u. would not accept and that likely would push britain towards a so-called hard breaks of leaving with no trade deal at that economists many economists say would be very damaging to the economy here the prime minister is pushing for a particular arrangement called a customs partnership in terms of which britain would mirror e.u.

regulations at its borders charging tariffs for the e.u. on goods passing through to the e.u. and then giving refunds to importers delivering goods only to the u.k. potentially based on its own trade arrangements that it makes separate to the e.u. after the break that that is something that would not require a border if might therefore be acceptable to the e.u. the problem is that it is not acceptable to a pretty influential bunch of progress of m.p.'s in her own party who say it will deliver nothing but a break sit in name only that it is a customs union in order to all intents and purposes they've demanded she drop it and have tacitly if not directly threatened only to leadership over it all the while time is against the government here they've got to reach a settled position before a big meeting of the e.u. in june at which it will be decided whether to advance negotiations. towards a final deadline of open toe but by which time they hope to reach a final deal with britain's exit from the european union or no deal to. hundreds of

women in england may have died prematurely from breast cancer following a computer error and the national screening programme the government revealed around four hundred fifty thousand women age sixty eight to seventy one were not invited to their final routine breast screening and says to me to the lives of up to two hundred seventy women may have been shortened because of that mistake the u.k.'s health secretary has apologized calling it a serious failure for us krantz cancer scheme screening is meant to be offered to all women aged fifty to seventy in england every three years your state of iowa has passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the united states making it illegal as soon as a heartbeat is to tech to and the fetus that can happen as early as six weeks before many women even know they're pregnant the republican controlled senate voted twenty nine to seventeen to pass the bill supporters and opponents say it's aimed at triggering a challenge to the one nine hundred seventy three supreme court ruling which established the u.s. constitutional right to an abortion pope francis has apologized to victims of

clerical sexual abuse scandal and asked for forgiveness it comes after days of meetings at the vatican with three of the victims head of the roman catholic church admitted last month he made mistakes in handling the crisis after discrediting the victims he says he was quote part of the problem the victims have urged him to end the epidemic of sex abuse and cover up in the catholic church. we were able to speak frankly and respect for you to the pope we talked about difficult issues such as sexual abuse abuse of power and especially the cover up of the trinity and vicious. realities that we do not refer to as sins but as crimes and corruption that do not end. but are an epidemic an epidemic that has destroyed thousands of lives a judge presiding over the case of the two warder shadowless and me and maher has

refused to throw out the testimony of a police witness the two journalists while lone in chaucer who were arrested in december while investigating abuses in rakhine state they're accused of violating state secrecy laws by acquiring official documents but a policeman who is appearing as a witness last month told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalist to entrap them. nine out of ten people worldwide are breathing air with high levels of pollutants that's the alarming assessment from new information produced by the world health organization as a name reports people living in poor countries are at the highest risk. 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 mill graphics and because of the speed. and because probably if the lack of political will 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. for columbine or as a researcher on urban issues at the international institute for environment and development says the problem is serious but it's not too late for action. of course london is famously famous for its historical pay supers and it's terrible small and london still has a problem with evolution but it's become much better since the nine hundred fifty s. so there is absolutely hope for beijing new delhi and the other cities that are struggling local and national governments working together because they have a different set of powers local governments are responsible for getting the basics of urban planning right your spatial planning about who lives where where jobs are way industry is but national governments need to empower them and resource them so

that they can act effectively and they also need to make sure that the money reaches local governments to do things like build bus systems or build clean power systems and his top court has criticized the government for failing to protect the taj mahal the marble monument has been slowly changing color because of air pollution construction work and insect among supreme court justices have given the prime minister an arranger movies government a week to respond taj mahal was built in the seventeenth century by local emperor to house the two of his favorite wife searching for gold as a way of life for many people in south sudan but the glittering prospects don't seem to benefit the government here morgan reports from the eastern state a competitor look at people and his friends come to this 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

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 you find a gram of gold and in found 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 miners 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 preferring to deal

directly with traders who prefer gold instead of the declining currency. but it 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 south sudan is gold reserves isn't known and fighting has caused more gold to go abroad in the middle of the. 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 won't 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 spector's to just 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 to zero point zero. two black

men who were arrested at a starbucks in philadelphia has settled with the city for a symbolic one dollar each last month for sean nelson and honor robinson and more busted for being in starbucks without ordering anything the men filmed being led away in handcuffs after the manager called the police this incident sparked the latest major backlash in the u.s. over racial profiling officials have also promised to set up a two hundred thousand dollars program for young entrepreneurs. so i had on al jazeera now i. say that's to make it to eight and so i don't.

cities around the world are struggling with the effects of climate change one of the biggest challenges is ensuring clean drinking water now and in the future as part of our desire is thirst series robber and also ports in los angeles on the looming problems for millions of californians. an estimated eighteen million people now live in the los angeles metropolitan area on land that was once largely arid this sprawling city has thrived despite the lack of an obvious large source of water nearby los angeles is history is tied with water this place was able to grow and expand and become one of the largest metropolises in the world because we brought water here the second phase of i think los angeles is growth now is going to be with the new normal with the expectation of less water over time and more

people how can we sustain economic progress and sustain life itself here in l.a. las water comes in by aqueducts from the san joaquin river delta to the north the sierra nevada mountains to the east and hoover dam on the colorado river four hundred kilometers away but all three sources are in decline we have seen pressure on climate change which has been right dancing winter snowpack over time the snow in either not falling points now team to quickly and the early months and then were dry in the summer months the solutions to los angeles is water dilemma according to its mayor are conservation recycling and better use of local sources of water conservation was proven effective in the recent multi-year drought when l.a. residents reduced water use dramatically we have plenty of water in los angeles it's whether we choose to use it efficiently and effectively. recycling waste water is another challenge about sixty percent of our equivalent water usage every day we

treat clean and then wash out to the ocean that means that we could have sixty percent more water if somehow that water came back to us if we could just take that water make sure as many places do that it is sanitary to drink and then bring that to the homes that we have contrary to popular belief it does rain in southern california but currently that rainwater goes to waste it's one of the perverse things about l.a. is that we've engineered this incredible system that whenever one drop of rain drops outside of our city we know how to grab it take it use it but anything that actually drops inside our city we quickly wash it out to the ocean instead of reusing it for ourselves that's what we're changing and that will ensure a life for you know centuries to come challenges that must be met to keep the city of angels from running dry. just year old los angeles time for sport with andy. thank you very much well liverpool will play round madrid for this season's champions league title they beat rome seven six on aggregates to reach their first

final in more than a decade while liverpool were taking a five to advance into the second leg of their semi final in italy first off goals from saudi oman and jenny one album looked to have put the five time champions outs of science but wrong with scored three times in the second half to get within a goal of taking the time to extra time it finished also to rome on the night but it's liverpool who were through to their eighth champions league final i. was thousands of liverpool fans also down and field stadium to watch the drama unfold on a big screen with a pull back on the farm for the first time since two thousand and seven when they were beaten by ac milan this time as of course they'll face twelve time champions real madrid in kiev and made the twenty six liverpool off the last hour to be in the european cup final but it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty one when an alan kennedy go still being used to beating right now. in paris well last week

first leg at anfield was overshadowed by an attack on liverpool fan shaun cox the fifty three year old is still in hospital in a critical condition and two italian men have been charged over the incidents i was at it i was. around ten thousand liverpool support says we're in the italian capital for the game regardless fans were told not to walk to the stadium three g.s. the risk of being attacked earlier on i spoke to one gerard a writer for writing this official website he explained why there is a long history of violence amongst a minority of the club's fans. romo's history with hooliganism is unfortunately something that rises in the eighty's it's prominent in the ninety's in the early two thousand it's also there with something like well that's called it there be of the day that child so it's not sometimes it's isolated and there's incidents we

don't hear about though but those are more minor incidents which may you know it's a minor as in stabbing but yeah as usually not intended to mortally harm somebody from the president to our fans in indonesia to around the world we're all upset with with the who can who do that and basically we're such you know loving fans and when there's that select few that ruin it for everyone we all get thrown under the bus on an international aspect international limelight unfortunately but that's not the case if you talk to most from the tents in the most loving and adoring of their clubs you know in italy it's a little different we don't have that friendships with other clubs roma fans tend to you know we hate other teams that's that's just how it is in italy is company us military you know love of your own city. running toward a france champion chris froome says he's confident he will clear his name of doping charges for him is getting ready to race in friday's jury to talia but he's being

investigated after he was found to have twice the allowed level of a legal ass majority in his system during last year's race in spain this year begins in jerusalem and stays in israel for two further stages before moving to italy for the rest of the rice i can understand the frustration i mean over see. this this whole process was was meant to have been a confidential process and we're going to respect that. we are in that process now and there's a process in place for me to demonstrate that i've done nothing wrong and that's obviously what i intend to do tiger woods returns to action on thursday for the first time since last month's masters was finished thirty second at the first major of the season and he's paired with new masters champion patrick reed for the opening round of the wells fargo championship in north carolina why i threw my clubs in the closet for about ten days got away from the game didn't touch the club to make a golf swing and. i started to lift

a little bit but tried to make sure i kept flexible and then i started grinding and trying to get my muscle strength back in eventually my speed. steph curry has made a triumphant return to the n.b.a. action golden state's star man he's missed six weeks with a knee injury helping the defending champions take a two nothing lead over new orleans in the western conference semifinals but he came off the bench in school twenty eight points. to hit five three points in twenty seven minutes of action. in cycle seven rebounds game three in new orleans on friday i was a good night for it to happen i mean it's going to be an emotional boost anytime stuff steps on the floor after an absence but this was a good night for a given that we won game one comfortably and we had a feeling you know new orleans was going to come after us pretty hard so. perfect

timing really came in you know slow first quarter for us and everything changed soon as he walked on the floor in the n.h.l. playoffs the washington capitals beat eastern conference rivals pittsburgh for three in game three of their second round series but capitals forward some wilson has been ordered to face a disciplinary hearing for his illegal head shot there on zach aston reese the penguins rickly man needs surgery for a broken jaw he's also suffering from concussion and is expected to be out for the remainder of the playoffs alex of action school to win it for the capsules to give them a c. one series lead. and brazilian defender germ a sense of how to be physically restrained and drank from the pitch after being cents off during a jail a game in japan sun sauce first a lashing out here at an opponent's kicking him in the back of the leg and then pushed it isn't same mates as they try to pull him off the field and he finished it off by attacking some opposition coaches the same night still managing to win three

one despite his sending off. ok but as a sport is looking for now more lights out. several thousand ancient artifacts are being returned to iraq after they were illegally smuggled into the us they were obtained from and to quote the steelers and shipped to american arts and crafts retailer hobby lobby u.s. authorities took a legal action against that business last year the shipments have been labeled as tile samples from turkey so these artifacts include clay tablets and cylinder seals dating back to sixteen hundred b.c. . that's all for the news hour here on al-jazeera but i'll be back on the other side of the break more of the day's news keep it here.

the nature of news as it breaks this is one of the areas where protestants had blocked the road for food finally higher than any flaw think of five with detailed coverage because now there's an extremely hot mugs assad regime but everyone striving for the good of the state from around the world this museum aims to be a way of posset torrie other regions of history and its perfected war that has divided tried fear for generations. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with him was off to new zealand. bin laden was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter before in part two of an exclusive two part documentary all

jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin laden he never showed the hostility towards me of the west i knew bin laden continues on on jazeera. a new poll ranks mexico city as the pool with worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets west's no money on the uses a new service it's called lateral drive it's for women cus it does only a drum by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers.