the nature of news as it breaks this is one of the areas where protestants had blocked the roads using binding than anything else they could find with detailed coverage of this extremely hot spot through. driving the state from around the world this museum aims to be a way of positon the region's history and its perfected war that has divided the tribes here for generations. citizens unable to vote on represented in washington or members of congress do nothing about the cause like a part of the constituency in their responsibility and that is what's underneath this crisis line squeeze it's the island devastated by hurricane maria and demanding the support of the u.s. government more than we can tell you what it is and then this girl mentality responsibility and you know not let them forget the. shelter after the storm on al-jazeera.

the u.s. releases a prisoner from guantanamo bay the first on the president. a lot of this is live from and all so coming up. a day off the calling for a nationwide strike opposition leader stops the protests also ahead. announces it's disbanded signaling the end to one of europe's bloodiest internal conflicts. and some are you just part of are sold for. the return of thousands of ancient iraq smuggled into the u.s. .

ally the united states has released its first prisoner from the guantanamo bay detention center under president donald trump u.s. military says after metadata be transferred to saudi arabia as part of a twenty fourteen plea deal to serve out the rest of his sentence there he have a tense he has more this is the first prisoner to leave guantanamo bay since donald trump took office at its height the facility held seven hundred eighty detainees now forty remain ahmed muhammad ahmed al darby has been in u.s. custody since two thousand and two he says he was tortured at the tories u.s. facility in bob graham afghanistan before arriving at guantanamo he admitted to aiding a suicide attack on a french oil tanker near yemen in two thousand and two but under the terms of a plea deal he reached he was supposed to have been released into saudi custody by february the twentieth of this year that did not happen which raises questions as

to whether donald trump would refuse to reduce guantanamo as population having vowed repeatedly to repopulate the detention camp. to ensure that in the fight against isis and al qaeda we continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists wherever we chase them down where ever we find. and in many cases them it will now be. the pentagon also announced on wednesday certain guidelines to the white house for future president transfers to guantanamo however the defense secretary james mattis and others said not to be keen to use what even george w. bush had eventually to concede was a propaganda tool against the u.s. others say the reason to close the facility down is it simply unlawful to keep prisoners in indefinite detention without a fair trial. al darby has nine more years to serve his thirteen year sentence in

saudi arabia in a statement relayed through his lawyer he said quote my words will not do justice to what i have lived through in those years and the men i leave behind in prison and no one should remain in guantanamo without a trial there is no justice in that sheraton see al-jazeera. a u.s. president's legal team is facing another shakeup the main lawyer representing donald trump in the russian inquiry is retiring type call his departure comes speculation mounts about whether trump will talk to investigators kimberly how could reports. the investigators looking into allegations u.s. president donald trump 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 cobb 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 mann a four trumps 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 another repeatable who've been. making threats privately and publicly. against me for quite some time and i think they should understand by now that a permit justice is not going to be extorted and waste a truck seemed 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 kimberly helped get al-jazeera at the white house for the newest member of donald trump's legal team says the us president reimbursed his lawyer michael cohen for a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to former porn star stormy daniels

trump has previously denied he's behind the payment ordered it breaches federal laws on financing election campaigns rudy giuliani told fox news the payment is in his words going to turn out to be perfectly legal that came pay that money was not campaign money sorry i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money no campaign finance violation they followed it through the law firm and the president repaid it daniels is suing trump for defamation she says she had an affair with him in two thousand and six and the money was paid as part of a nondisclosure agreement she now wants to break trump denies any affair. a high level u.s. delegation is traveling to china for trade talks president donald trump wants to slap tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese exports to the u.s. including steel an element of treasury secretary steven menuhin and commerce

secretary will ross are trying to hammer out a deal with chinese officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war let's cross live now to our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing so adrian given the complexity of all of this what realistically can be achieved there in just two days of talks. well those talks actually haven't even begun yet the u.s. side were due to arrive in beijing until thursday morning they'll have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time there be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first high level talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports that hasn't happened yet but the

deadline is the middle of june so not a lot of time left now going into these talks both sides have been talking up and talking down the chances of success china has said that he wants to see sincerity from the u.s. side and that it won't agree to anything that seeks to contain china's economy wilbur ross the u.s. commerce secretary had some very pointed things to say before he left washington he said that the trade deficit between china and the united states was down to evil chinese trade practices now of course china at the moment currently exports far more to the united states and the other way around and the united states wants to redress the balance but the there are other issues here of course that the two sides have severe disagreements on and that's why really forty eight hours is not a lot of time to try to resolve them and in what areas then can we expect china not

to back down. well i think you know the u.s. is saying it wants china to to chop one hundred billion dollars off the trade deficit we don't know whether china's going to be able to to accommodate that whether they see that has an attempt to as i said before contain their economy but there's one other area at the moment that the u.s. is really honing in on and that is china's made in china twenty twenty five initiative this is president xi jinping plan to to bankroll industries that are involved in technologies of the future like artificial intelligence and robotics and the u.s. is basically saying that china is pouring billions of dollars into state owned companies and that china is seeking to dominate globally this market and that's making it very difficult for u.s. companies to compete also the the americans object to the fact that u.s. companies involved in joint ventures here in china sometimes have to hand over

sensitive data their intellectual know how if you lied as part of the deal for doing business in china and the united states says that is unfair and has to stop so these are big issues and there's a big question mark as to whether they can actually resolve all of that in forty eight hours i suspect they'll come to some sort of deal on tariffs but we'll leave the more substantive issues to another discussion adrian brown live for us in beijing thanks a.j. . armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests after the ruling party agreed to support him becoming interim prime minister called machine and told a rally in the capital yet of on that an agreement with his political opponents was near parliament will vote again next week on a new prime minister forrest the a walker reports. when armenians heard the news that the government backed down

with back their people's candidate his build it revolution took a step closer to reality yes has courage how can i say there was no need to believe in any politician or political power believe in yourselves and only then will you always when i called her she had called for another massive show of support a message to the ruling republican party that they were out of touch with the media and reality. the opposition movement had forced the resignation of the country's long term leader said. last week but his republican party refused to step aside its rejection of passion yon's candidacy for prime minister on tuesday only seemed to make the movement stronger. a general strike on wednesday paralyzed the country students surround the ministries and cheered with the governance culture

minister resigned i. with police absent the roads railways and even the airport cuts off the call pascha claimed that the only power the republicans now had with this seats in parliament they will try tall tall and pears. to me. i guarantee that folger's away our soldiers will join us the governing parties intention to now. back in a second round of voting will also fulfill his movements objective to overthrow power but respect the institutions that has inspired armenians of every persuasion may not change kitchen among and this is not only a fight for nicole to become a prime minister but also to fight for people's victory as a businessman usually stay out of the politics and we do our work when you win

freely you know there is a change you really aren't. you really feel that it's just going to unlock a huge potential without your recall passion the calls it i felt that revolution and he called it the revolution of solidarity it's always been peaceful it's always been people driven. they have reason to celebrate because the people's candidate said today that people's private is robin first it woke up al jazeera. take a quick break now but when we come back on as you see it up fears for the safety of range of refugees or cycling seems approaches and by. now it is smith has said that afghanistan one of the most dangerous country in the world you know this. morning his workmates a call for more protection on world press freedom. 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 billowing there on the satellite picture is this that is giving us our severe thunderstorms with very large hail some flooding downpours and also 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 of the system gradually edges its way eastwards as we head through the next day or so ahead of it is quiet to hear but it's not completely weather list we've got winds coming up from the south tracking in some very warm weather so twenty eight will still be the maximum in new york there on friday despite the increase of clouds and for washington d.c. will be up to thirty three further west to here 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 they'll 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 will just be cloudy and that's a bit damp for friday. in the us civil war slavery to a. strong possibility that the very truths that you. have been to your table. in the land of the free thousands of foreign workers tricked into emigrating and trapped by on scrupulous property and. to jane slaves cause of slavery a twenty first century evil on al-jazeera. and

again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the u.s. has announced the first release of a prisoner from the guantanamo bay detention center under the trumpet ministration u.s. military says after metadata beast transferred to saudi arabia as part of a plea deal to serve out his sentence to. a high level u.s. delegation is traveling to china for trade talks president donald trump wants to slap tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese exports to the u.s. including steel and alum in your. armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests after the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the

interim prime minister we called her she told supporters at a rally and yet of on they were close to an agreement the parliament here will vote again next week. at the united nations says two hundred thousand refugees need to be moved to safety as cycling season there gets underway in bangladesh many are living in flimsy shelters which are no match for the expected heavy rains floods landslides and storm force winds charles traffic reports from cox's before bizarre and what has become the world's largest refugee camp. life a solemn a consulate her family has been precarious enough since escaping the military crackdown against the regime jane myanmar eight months ago their makeshift shelter is perched on a hilltop in the call to pile on refugee camp in bangladesh but the daily struggle to survive is expected to become even harder in the weeks and months ahead for

salema and hundreds of thousands of refute g.'s like her because cycling season is starting that. we are afraid of the wind sometimes it takes the top poland and there might be landslides but we don't have anywhere else to go. there's a sense of urgency around the camp. the weather could change dramatically at any time thousands of tons of bamboo is being distributed to refute g. so they can make their shelters stronger aid agencies are training them how to best secure what are often nothing more than top pool and corrugated iron shacks not up to me. we were afraid of the wind and thunder during cyclons or teaching us about landslides and what we need to do. heavy machinery has been brought into the camps to build roads it's vital emergency services have access to anywhere in the camp in order to rescue victims of potential landslides or floods as quickly as possible

men gather bricks to harden the road surface otherwise they will quickly turned to mud when heavy rain arrives you can see how vulnerable and exposed these flimsy shelters are these hillsides now over the next four months we're expecting a psych loan and a monsoon season where winds can often reach up to one hundred kilometers an hour and they're going to be lashing rain which means places like these are potentially highly vulnerable to landslides aid agencies here say around two hundred thousand people need to be moved to safer ground. the bangladesh government has allocated a large area specifically to house refugees who need to be moved shelters schools and health centers are due to be built here aid agencies say there are twenty five thousand people living in areas most vulnerable to landslides who need to be relocated immediately they want to further flatter ground that's what we're doing we're moving and working as fast as we can with heavy machines with people so that

families can live somewhere where they are system public health services and they're safe and that they're comfortable and that they're not at risk and for us in the late afternoon the weather suddenly changes for the worse the wind kicks up dust clouds across the camp refugees run for cover all rush to try and secure the tarpaulins there's a ripped from roofs hundreds of thousands of men women and children face the greatest challenge yet since fleeing for their lives from the myanmar military crackdown child strafford al jazeera could you problem with camp bunker dish britain's upper house of parliament has voted against any deal with the european union which could bring back controls along the irish border the house of lords heard that a so-called hard border would violate the peace agreement that helped end decades of conflict in northern ireland it piles more pressure on the british prime

minister to raise a mate who is facing a revolt from within her own party that could threaten her fragile government and peace in favor bragg's it opposes any customs partnership with the e.u. one of the options being considered by may the one the u.k. to have no links to e.u. laws all regulations after it leaves the flock. came with analytical u.k. company at the center of a major facebook data breaches to shut down operations. the political consultancy hit the headlines in march when a former employee revealed how he used data from millions of facebook users to influence the u.s. presidential campaign the company says it suffered a sharp drop in business and will begin bankruptcy proceedings its parent company s e l is also closing out a basque separatist group says it is this spending just days after apologizing to its victims more than eight hundred people were killed during its fifty year

campaign for an independent state it declared a cease fire in two thousand and eleven the dean barber reports from san sebastián 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 in the what it called its historical cycle. its fifty years since its occurring but first a victim a secret police chief here in the basque coastal city of san sebastián the announcement that it has desponding comes as no surprise to anyone here but many people do hope it marks the beginning of a new era the name of the police chief was carlos diaz his daughter says people like her are still waiting for a real apology in the p.r. is now with this 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 her 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 carrero 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 in it because there are many missing did

people there are many assessing 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 are 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. egypt's military court has renewed the detention of journalists my iskhandar army for another thirty days he spent nearly nine hundred days behind bars without trial and jazeera journalists and one of his saying seen here has also had his jail time extended he's been kept in prison without charge for almost a year and a half and is either an international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged egyptian authorities to release jailed journalists. at the u.n.

secretary general antonio good ted as she is calling on governments to do more to protect the media on world press freedom day ten journalists in afghanistan were killed on monday in the single deadliest day for the media there jennifer glass reports from kabul in the newsroom of one t.v. in kabul a reporter's desk is now a memorial on it the photos of cameramen now who's on the road jobby and reporter kasi resolutely they were two of nine journalists killed in monday's bomb attack in the capital a tenth died during the attack in the east i meet hyder he was one of the last to see his colleagues alive yes it's the dangerous now it is because said that afghanistan one of the most dangerous country in the will that your lives are working without a lot facing the country it you're facing with a huge of treats there's a from law fuels from tourists are going to. a truck bomb blast a few hundred meters away destroyed the one t.v. studios last year three staff members were injured the explosion that killed one

hundred fifty and wounded hundreds more reporters were back live on the air within hours of the massive attack. another station came under attack in november shamshad t.v. was besieged for hours by i saw fighters but monday's attack was the most blatant direct assault on the media so far journalists rushed to the scene of the first suicide bomb explosion then a second bomber blew himself up among a crowd of reporters cameraman and photographers. being a journalist has never been easy here in addition to the bombings and attacks journalists have been intimidated for years beaten up even murdered allegedly by powerful people unhappy with the stories written about them and more often than not the killers are never punished. and the killer of a dumont hard guard is still at large the t.v. reporter was shot last week in the center of kandahar in southern afghanistan by saying freedom of speech in

a countries like afghanistan is much important in the countries in the united states because the countries in the and the west at least there is a check and balance between different parts of the power supply the enough honest law there is an absolute power without any check and the media is providing that check editors say the government isn't working with them we're doing enough to keep them safe to believe that we have discussed how to provide security to due to list and our media partners effect the protection of civilians is our top priority but you know that suicide interests attack us sophisticated and on some cases preventing attacks is complicated we accept that despite the recent bloodshed journalists say they continue to have hope for the media in afghanistan and are proud to be broadcasting here jennifer glass al jazeera kabul ancient artifacts have been handed back to iraq after they were smuggled into the united states it's believed they were destined for

a christian museum linked to the hobby lobby retail chain alan fischer reports from washington. 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 massey how important is it to have these items you turned to security as part of our soul man 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 today 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 into 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 parts as 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 other criminal activity and we've had numerous cases from terrorism activity so first of all we're taking the money out of hands of criminal organization terrorist second wall returning artifacts the people who own 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 purchase 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 probably will be is new to control or see. its conservative christian owners 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 the returned relics in the national museum in baghdad alan fischer al-jazeera washington. uses al-jazeera to get a round up of our top stories the u.s. has announced the first release of a prisoner from the guantanamo bay detention center under the trumpet ministration and u.s. military says acknowledge darby has been transferred to saudi arabia to serve out his sentence as part of a plea bargain a high level u.s. delegation arrived in china for trade talks president travel wants to slap tariffs

on billions of dollars worth of chinese exports to the u.s. including steel and alimony and treasury secretary steve minutia and commerce secretary what will ross i tried to hammer out a deal with chinese officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war adrian brown has more from beijing will have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time there be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first high level talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports. armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests that's after the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the interim prime minister called question yan announced the deal

said to supporters at a rally in yet of our parliament is due to vote again next week on the post. egypt's military court has renewed the detention of journalists smile a scan that ronnie for another thirty days he spent nearly nine hundred days now behind bars without trial i just see a journalist mahmoud hussein has also had his detention extended after nearly a year and a half in prison edges into an international human rights groups have repeatedly urged egypt to release jailed journalists those are the headlines we're back in half an hour. al-jazeera. and three suits.