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level the second round series. let's get going syrian rebels have surrendered an enclave of the northern homs countryside they've been given the option of pledging their allegiance to the government or relocating to rebel held territory in northern syria is in order as this report. russian military commanders led the negotiations on behalf of the syrian government rebel factions controlling the northern countryside of homs were given an ultimatum reconcile with the state or surrender and move to rebel held territory in northern syria to avoid an all out military offensive. military pressure has piled on the armed groups a few days ago the pro-government alliance heavily bombarded the region which is at a strategic crossroads linking the main population centers under government control the opposition had little choice around three hundred thousand syrians live there

many of them forced from their homes elsewhere in syria the northern homs countryside is the latest rebel held area to surrender the opposition has been losing ground since its biggest defeat in years the fall of eastern huta in early april followed a fierce and intense bombing campaign the pro-government alliance then use the threat of military action to force rebels in the enclave northeast of damascus to bring about their surrender the same tactic was used on opposition armed groups in southern damascus rebels in the districts of bates to him agreed to leave some seventeen thousand people fighters their family members and others who were involved in opposition activities are leaving in the nearby iso controlled districts and how the fighting continues between the armed groups and government forces but in those districts there were a few hundred fighters belonging to him. the group formerly known as el nostra they surrendered and were moved to northern syria the opposition continues to control

the province of idlib in the northwest border with turkey they also hold parts of the southern provinces of daraa and sway the close to the borders of jordan and israel in recent weeks the process government alliance has been focusing on recapturing besieged areas close to its strongholds northern homs is the last significant piece of territory the rebels control that is not along an international border what comes next is more complicated. every offensive to recapture the whole of it in the province would cause tensions with turkey which deployed troops as part of an agreement with russia. for high value on this agreement of thirty they know they need turkey to solve the situation in the north of syria if they ever want to fall for an offensive in the southern corner of syria is also just as complicated there is the possibility of escalating tensions with israel israelis are worried that if the syrian regime of the army

advances toward the border they will come with the rain or iranian affiliated militia that's president bashar al assad has repeatedly pledged to recapture every inch of syrian territory but future ballot terry operations may have different calculations so given those calculations that you were talking about there in your report just take us through what in syria might happen with holmes over the coming few days. well homes undoubtedly is another win for the syrian government a very strategic territory really at the crossroads of all these urban centers these population centers that the government controls now as of late the syrian government and its allies they have been reclaiming territory from the rebels either through a military offensive like what we saw in eastern weeks of intense bombardment hundreds of civilians killed and then the rebels surrendered and also they're using the threat of military action using really as an example telling the rebels this is

what awaits you if you do not surrender so rebels really have little choice because these areas these besieged areas are populated in homes alone three hundred thousand people so people were really afraid if there would be a military offensive but at the same time they do not want to leave they do not want to be displaced from their homes but they cannot stay at least some of them because they are wanted by the state for their opposition activities so another win for the government you know with the surrender of the northern countryside of homs if holmes plays as we think it might shift to the northern part of the country and that's a completely different scenario. totally different scenario the syrian government has repeated time and time again we want to recapture the whole country but what comes next if they intend to take for example then they will clash with turkish troops which are deployed in that area and you know disturb it's the relationship between turkey and russia if they push south then there's

a possibility of tension with israel but what we know is that the syrian government wants to take the crossing between jordan and syria this border crossing so that trade can resume and we do know that the jordanian government wants this to happen now what about the north east where the kurds are there are u.s. troops there but the government also wants that area why because there's oil there's resources money from oil money that a cash strapped government really needs so different calculations in the coming weeks thanks very much. meanwhile a russian fighter jet has crashed in syria killing both the pilots on board it reportedly crushed in the mediterranean sea off taking off from the base according to the russian military the jet was not shot russia is the main ally of president bashar al assad and operates from bases in the syria's coastal areas pavel felgenhauer is a russian military and defense analyst who's also a columnist with he joins us now from moscow what do you think happened here.

well. that's obvious. and the. great way to see so very nothing and. no one really knows for sure. but russian a hard. life. i'm not sure. what the story. there in the russian military have no vision but i know of many many crashes they. often simply invent something that sounds positive to begin with then they have theirs and then. there is an investigation if there is a public relations announcement they have very. but when people talk about a strike talking about an. income trying multiple i mean

the clue is in the plural one surely could not bring any kind of a croft oh yeah. this is a yes and that's most likely no one that these are. yes clues and why mention. they says this is this is a. car is most likely where you are now there's going to be in. place and getting. past most never know or. there's no boxes for them maybe months col planned out. ok of course is open by default understood many thanks. nearly one hundred people have been killed when a powerful dust storm hit the northern indian states the rajah stunned and pradesh

has left a trail of destruction with collapse has useful in trees and livestock to dust storms are common in india during the summer months but the scale of the destruction this time around well that is unusual officials say the number of people killed is expected to rise we're following that story for us here on the news is we're saying is going to continue i guess rob as well now i think it's slightly improved the point you made earlier this is worse than usual so you'd expect something would have changed i think one of the changes probably visible from just a few days ago on the edge of the town is that we're talking about the source of the sound being the town as it crosses the border from pakistan to india now obviously it's now that broke a record with the highest recorded temperature in april just a couple days ago so you've clearly got hotter than is normal now has always a pretty monsoon heat it spreads up this part of the world and we started to break records already now if you increase the temperature on the ground that always breaks the potential for storms and then if you put something above it all like cried because some things happen in the upper atmosphere rejected some more

moisture then you tend to use some pretty big storm to produce this level of death and destruction obviously things are worse than normal you don't normally get this level of most or above all the temperatures all of the ground and it's around here just on the edge of the taunters that you picked up the sand but it's not the sand this area that did the damage it's the fact you got major thunderstorms bringing rain but also very strong winds i think that's what did the real damage we did. rob thanks very much and rob's back with a full weather forecast in about fifteen minutes the u.n. says two hundred thousand refugees need to be moved to safety a cyclon season gets underway in bangladesh many living in flimsy shelters which no match for the expected heavy rains flooding landslides and strong winds charles stratford now reports from cox's bizarre on what's become one of the world's biggest refugee camps life a solemn a cultural and 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 brave you 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 tarp poorly and corrugated iron shacks not of them. we were afraid of the wind and thunder during cyclons you're 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 on these hillsides now over the next four months we're expecting a cycling 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

a juice 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 say for a 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 these families can live somewhere where they are access to public health services and they're safe or not that comfortable and that they're not at risk from anything. 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. strafford al jazeera coup to prolong refugee camp on the dish ok lost more ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including these stories.

armenians took to the streets last night soon scenes of celebration as the opposition leader edges closer to becoming prime minister. for the fans see their team make it to a champions league final. turkey's opposition parties are set to join forces to take on president wretch up tired to one's governing party in the forthcoming elections last month mr erdogan announced presidential and parliamentary elections for june the twenty fourth that's more than a year earlier than was originally planned and there's more at stake than usual a new presidential system will begin after the election which critics say will give the president greater powers the smaller opposition parties will form an alliance

to stand a chance the coalition would include the republican people's party the good party the sad it party and the democrat party now those parties will need more than ten percent of the vote each to enter parliament math might check is a political news editor at daily newspaper good to talk to you again in turkey is being. enough to get you into parliament. i mean this is a very good question because this is what has gathered very distinct parties. together around one and one cause and their main strategy is being anti add on and i think this is also their main their biggest step back in appealing to people's votes because being an anti aired on coalition or an alliance is what they're putting forward but i don't know if this will be enough to actually get votes for

people who are looking for ten jubal policy proposals and also. policies that will make their daily life better if you look at the alliance that is formed by the h p s p good party and the democrat party we see that they come from very distinct ideological backgrounds this will be perhaps their biggest challenge to maintain their coalition on a sustainable basis rather this comes out as a very. that is. coming out as a desperation against a party and a president who has claimed to have claimed victory for the all the elections past decade and a half i think one of the biggest challenges they also have is that they recently failed to. join together around a joint presidential candidate this is also another weakness people saw that they

could not agree on a presidential candidate as their very distinct from each other i mean you have this i'm just calling for a second just just what you're saying for our viewers when you talk about ideology here surely with mr erdogan in charge a.k.p. has gone from being a party of ideology to being a policy of therefore the election is about mr erdogan it's not about the bread and butter issues that people normally vote on so if they are to announce one candidate to go up against him who would that one candidate be. i mean they failed to join together at least a former president himself rejected to be their candidate but right now they don't actually have. an option and that's why they have chosen to go in separate directions and each claiming each coming up with their with their own presidential candidate i think this is also for their sake it's

a good strategy because they will be able to. get votes or steal votes from the people's alliance formed by the mh be in our party because then they can have a c.h.p. candidate for the c.h.b. electoral base. their. candidate for their own conservative base but there is a reality in turkey turkish public vote is historically is known as the central right how c.h.p. will reconsider with a central right center right candidate will be a very challenging situation for them because they are now in a coalition also with a far right nationalist party and a conservative islamist party but there are traditional voters have been. central left ok are saying looking forwards are they looking forward to gather and just interrupt you again which i apologize but looking forward to over the candidate or

candidates end up being are they playing on a level playing field there's this ten percent rule the so-called winner takes it all rule that's what's called outside the country whereby you've got to get ten percent and if you don't get ten percent your votes get fed up the way so the people that are in power are held in power more than the people who want to get into power. well this is about the parliamentary elections. and the coalition that they have recently formed will really try to get the three hundred and one members in the parliament out of the six hundred two and this is why they have formed this quality and this will be a very challenging situation for the our party poll but at the same time our party and president on have also have a record of past fifteen years which will make it easier for people to decide whether they want them or not but on the other side on the c.h.p. poll or c.h.p.

that coalition there is no such record so this also makes it a very challenging situation for them to be able to get the temperature sent to be able to get the ten percent threshold their main strategy is to be able to get a majority in the parliament with several parties achieving more than ten percent threshold so that they are calling actually when they enter into the parliament all the parties end up getting into parliament with this will be a problem if president are gone get elected as a president but our party fails to achieve the majority in the parliament because things will not. i mean i doubt that things will run very smoothly when there is such a clash and polarity between president our last poll with the m h p and also the c.h.p. led coalition that was formed as it was announced as of yesterday ok most naturally it assemble a great structure thanks very much. sudan is reassessing its military participation

in yemen with growing anger over the number of its soldiers killed in that conflict sudan has at least three thousand troops in yemen as part of the saudi led coalition dozens have been killed in coastal battlefronts there's also discontent about sudan not benefiting financially from its operations in yemen as its economy continues to struggle. sudan's defense minister told parliament his government is conducting studies and assessments about the participation of sudanese forces in yemen it's assessing the negatives and the positives of them taking part before taking a decision that will benefit the country and its stability. armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests after the governing party agreed to support him becoming the interim prime minister. told a rally in the capital that an agreement with his political opponents was close the parliament will vote again next week on a new prime minister robin for walker reports now from europe. when armenians heard

the news that the government had backed down with back their people's candidate his velvet revolution took a step closer to reality. garbage 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 was i told her she had called for another massive show of support a message to the ruling republican party that they were out of touch with armenian 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 yan'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 government's culture minister resigned was. with police absent the roads railways and even the airport cut off nicole passion claims that the only power the republicans now had with this seats in parliament they will try to encourage. soldiers away or soldiers will join up the governing parties intention to now back past. and 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 next think it should i'm hungry 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 or there is a change you really are. you really feel that it's going to look a huge potential but out your only goal passion the end called the i velvet revolution and he called it the revolution of ours and solidarity it's always been peace work it's always been people driven and now they have reason to celebrate because the people's candidate said today that people's private despair robin for his it worker al jazeera hearing about. the u.s. has announced the first release of a prisoner from the guantanamo bay detention center under the trumpet ministrations saudi arabia says ahmed al darby has been transferred and arrived back in the country forty inmates remain at the military prison. a member of donald trump's legal team has contradicted the president about hush money paid to a former porn star in a t.v. interview the former new york city mayor rudy giuliani said trump knew about the

payments catch a loop as young as more. statements from donald trump's own legal team may have backfired against the president in an interview with fox news former new york city mayor rudy giuliani said trump knew about the hush money paid to adult film star stormy daniels he says trump even reimbursed his lawyer michael cohen for making the payment that wasn't money that was paid by by his lawyer the way i would do out of his or firm funds or whatever funds doesn't matter the president reimbursed over a period of several million trump has long denied he knew about the payment. but now that claim appears to contradict giuliani's untrivial trump's lawyer reportedly paid daniels before the presidential election. in exchange the porn star was to keep quiet about an alleged affair with trump and the lawyer asked trump for

money but apparently what giuliani is arguing is child had no idea what the money was being used for. at the core of this scandal is whether election campaign funds were used if proven it would be a violation of u.s. federal election laws the president can contribute as much as he wants to his own campaign he has to report it and he did not report this to the federal elections commission that would be a criminal violation bug trump's team says laws were not broken and criminate ing information will not be found the fact is just trust me. they're going to come up with no violations there the adult film star has filed a defamation lawsuit against the president despite the scandal trump still appears to enjoy the support of his base cause he'll opus of a young al-jazeera. in a few moments we'll have the very latest weather for you with rob but also still ahead here on al-jazeera the u.k.

company at the center of that big facebook data breach is closing its operations plus rubbish fighting this one as iris is trying to find new ways to deal with its mounting crush problem. and the lightning strike back n.h.l. playoffs son of a about story later in the sports news in about twenty minutes. through tranquil arabian can you. and in on can free will times and if in the show going to. how extraordinary the extraordinarily deadly series of storms just swept through western india now it is that season but the site has been extraordinary so something has changed and one of the things that's changed is the amount of heat that's coming out of the ground we hit a record number of churches on the edge of the target which is the source of the

sand for these storms it hit fifty points three on monday records going back ninety years or thereabouts and forty three is the average so temperatures are higher as well that are always encourages the the air to rise and then if you inject some most you tend to produce a pretty vicious thunderstorms where there's evidence of moisture and certainly there are other thunderstorms going around the edge of what is this very hot area and if i can draw a junction like this or a frontal system that proves to go to a definite area would produce violent storms that's exactly what happened there cold sandstorms indeed they were picking up the sun from the desert but the strength of the wind is what caused all the damage taking down their graph poles trees and buildings the storms themselves carry on running down the eastern side of india and we've got one hundred fifty millimeters i have of them all in the shot but now the same sort of storms that might produce these vicious ones that hit bangladesh and northeast india which are in the forecast still for the next two days. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

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and. welcome back you're watching the news hour live from doha these are your headlines so far syrian rebels have surrendered an enclave of the northern homs countryside they've given the option of pledging their allegiance to the government support relocating to rebel held territory in northern syria. he's ninety seven people have died in a powerful dust storm an indian states of russia stand at the top pradesh it left a trail of destruction of collapse houses fallen trees and dead livestock officials say the number of people killed will likely rise. several of turkey's opposition

parties are set to form an alliance to take on the president the ones willing party in the forthcoming elections last month presidential and parliamentary elections for june the twenty fourth that's more than a year earlier than planned. china says it will stand up to us bullying if necessary ahead of trade talks with a high level u.s. delegation on thursday the u.s. treasury secretary steven you can is meeting china's vice premier during his two day trip they will try to hammer out a deal to avoid a trade war between the world's two biggest economies beijing and washington threaten to impose big tariffs over recent months. from beijing. there are many areas of friction but i guess the two key ones would be the deficit at the moment china exports far more to the united states than the other way round and the united states wants to redress that balance china of though also is accused by the united states of really carrying out very unfair trading practices what the united states

really gets upset about is this china has a plan known as made in china twenty twenty five and this is president xi jinping ambition to basically overhaul the economy and to pour billions of dollars into technologies of the future things like artificial intelligence and robotics but the problem is these are state funded companies that will be competing against u.s. companies in the global market in china and the united states believes the basically china is out for world domination in this area and says you know it's unfair on the trade issue on the deficit issue the united states wants china to to cut the deficit by about one hundred billion dollars will state media here say there's very little likelihood of china going along with that chinese media was saying that they want the united states to show sincerity during these negotiations and they say that china will not bow to any measures that seek to contain china and

that's the overriding message china will not allow itself to be contained if the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross who is also part of this high level delegation now in beijing also spoke before leaving washington and he said that basically the deficit was had inspired what he said were evil chinese trade practices well those are the sort of comments you're hearing outside of the negotiating room imagine what you're going to hear inside that negotiating room now that those talks are under way. china's foreign minister has met the north korean leader kim jong il in the capital pyongyang that follows talks between one and his north korean counterpart on weapon state his two day visit is the first official high level contacts between the two countries since last week's into korean summit kathy novak has more now from seoul one year is the first chinese foreign minister to visit north korea in more than a decade and it follows a period of strained relations between north korea and its traditional ally china

in another sign that relationship appears to be improving one held talks not only with his counterpart the north korean foreign minister but also with the leader kim jong un of course kim himself made a visit to beijing back in march for talks with the chinese president xi jinping and she is expected to make a reciprocal visit to pyongyang possibly in the coming months on this visit to north korea one clearly has said that china is willing to strengthen communications with north korea and continue to play a positive role in seeking a political solution to the korean peninsula issue china has been somewhat sidelined from talks regarding north korea as the two koreas pursued the intercalary and summit and of course as the united states presses ahead with plans for a meeting between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un so this meeting that one year he had with kim jong un was an opportunity not only to be briefed on the results of the into

korean summit but also to make sure that china's voice is heard as kim goes into that meeting with donald trump. the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace is calling on governments to do more to protect journalists his comments come on world press freedom day and they follow the deaths of ten journalists killed in a suicide bomb attack in kabul on monday according to reporters without borders syria remains the most dangerous country for the media thirteen journalists were killed last year and more than twenty being held hostage in me and moderates is journalist while you're on shore so you are accused of obtaining state secrets and face fourteen years in jail if they're found guilty they've been covering the running a crisis and turkey has more journalists in prison than any other country last month fourteen staff members from the daily newspaper that was sentenced to prison accused of helping what officials called a terrorist organization human rights watch says they're being punished for doing

their jobs egypt's military court has renewed the detention of journalist ismail al it's good at ani for another thirty days he spent almost nine hundred days in detention without trial and al jazeera journalist mahmud hussain seen here has also had his jail time extended he's been kept in prison without charge for almost a year and a half now al-jazeera and international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged the egyptian authorities to release jailed journalists let's talk more about press and press freedom with risk in the neck up he's an ethiopian journalist who spent years in detention he joins us live from nairobi is going to nag i guess your back story is a perfect demonstration of what we're talking about you were labeled at one point a journalist and all you were doing was actually telling a story. and that's correct i was i was doing my job as a journalist but then i was leveled as a terrorist which is a standard charge against journalists where wherever there is very very new the

mandate if you. i'm a journalist and i think it. the u.n. secretary general antonio good saying journalism is essential for peace justice and human rights is a good idea but it's easier said than done and it's an easy thing to say if you're at his level but not if you are a knock down the door reporter who wants to tell the story exactly i mean what we have learned in ethiopia is that democracy is a precondition for for for for press freedom without democracy without the environment without the position of work of democracy it's just not possible. to practice journalism so i think we need to concentrate on democracy as a precondition for journalism. press freedom cannot be respected in isolation. press freedom cannot not be an island of freedom in

a sea of dictatorship so we need to work on democracy as a precondition. for press freedom what's the biggest threat to a free press around the world these days some people say look it's actually a combination of two things perhaps when you get a hard man leader or a hard woman leader a president or a prime minister combined with a rise in in populist politics and that hard man leader is kind of riding that wave journalism then takes a kicking. indeed indeed but it's not only that it's not only the charismatic dictator which is an enemy. of president and more freedom of expression. and like i said earlier the best guarantee against the suppression of freedom of expression against. press freedom. democracy it's the other where there is democracy there is freedom of expression

and when there is no democracy there is no freedom of expression to go hand in hand we cannot separate the two. assuming for a second that we had a report i think it was reporters without borders in the past couple of days saying look the croft is under attack anywhere you look in the world is it being made safe because of new technology because journalism the craft is changing it's not traditional now it's not just about newspapers it's about television radio multimedia it's about apps it's about people blogging people logging when they can as well is that a good thing or a bad thing when it comes to that idea of freedom the integrity of the job. yeah. i mean take social media for example you know social media has democratized freedom of expression. i know that there is plenty of criticism about the social media but the social media has taken has taken freedom of expression to the

grassroots to the people. and you know there are questions whether you know it's being freedom of expression is being. exercised properly or not but ultimately people are now able to expose them to subs like they have never expressed themselves before and this should be supported but in the thirty there is a things in authoritarian countries countries that type i guess three different version of systematic it's the states that attacks journalists and freedom of expression while in democracies it's not the states and that's and that's a huge difference that that different you know that's the distinction. is very important. where journalists are being attacked in democracies it's individual it's individuals who are doing that but in talkers is dictatorship it's the state. and that's are. ok we have to skin the neck at great to talk to you thanks so much.

yemeni security officials see the united arab emirates is amassing a troop presence on one of its islands. is seen as strategically important life in the gulf of aden along important oil trading routes it also provides access to nearby regions including the horn of africa the yemeni prime minister paid a visit to troops on the on and on weapons down shortly after that official say the u.a.e. unloaded soldiers tanks and armored transports into the area the yemeni troops were reportedly expelled the iraqis have been expanding their influence in southern yemen and a part of the saudi led coalition targeting the rebels. spain is warning it will go ahead with investigations against member state. really in my gosh we were never faced these terrorists again and never will we bend on our knees to them they should understand very clearly that they would have to pay for what they did and there's no impunity for after this and they will be pursued wherever they may be other more than eight hundred people were killed during et as fifty year campaign

of the group declared a cease fire as we've been hearing seven years ago and that in baba has more 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 first victim a secret police chief here in the basque coastal city of. the announcement that this 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 still waiting for a real apology. is the way that. 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 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 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. cambridge analytical the british company at the center of that big major facebook data breach is shutting down the political consultancy hit the headlines in march when a former employee of whistleblower revealed how it used data from millions of facebook users to influence the u.s. presidential election campaign the company says it suffered a sharp drop in business and will begin bankruptcy proceedings peter jukes is a journalist and the chief executive of byline media which campaigns for higher media standards he joins us live from london peter jukes what happens to investigations into cambridge analytical and the data that they're promising us

they deleted. well the investigations are still ongoing there is a parliamentary inquiry which is yet to report the information commissioner's office or the i.c.a.o. graded cambridge journal it prior to its closure and possibly other you know investigations going on we don't know about so they'll take some time to report that but that's the question the companies close down but oddly enough another company with another name with very similar executives alexander nix the mercers this started up does this mean that their data is gone that that cannot be analyzed and that is the fear among many campaigners that this move because cambridge unless it was a company only in they had no assets had no actual employees is a way of avoiding proper investigation by the authorities of where they got their data and what they did how can they be filing for bankruptcy my understanding of the u.k. fiscal law is that you file for bankruptcy if you run out of money or you've gone

fiscally bust but even just what two weeks ago when you saw that gentleman that was giving testimony to a british parliamentary committee he was saying he didn't want to be paid because he was actually getting the data that was being harvested because you can monetize the data so i don't understand how a wealthy company can go from being really wealthy to being bust in the space of a couple of weeks. well that's the problem i mean this is a company effectively claiming journalists are formed in the us with a very complicated reporting structure so i suppose it just requires one nonpayment one other entity within that structure and it is technically bass it's crosses jurisdictions as well because of the what s.c.l. the parent company is based in the u.k. and cambridge on al it's got operates out of the u.k. in terms of data law it's actually incorporated in the us with trump's former campaign adviser steve bannon so the question is is this really coming clean and

the problem the data you know as an assett you can just download it to a zip drive it's not like a factory or car or other intellectual property which is quite so bulky this data can move around very quickly and that's the allegation obviously the data is being misused between various campaigns and not only in the trunk it now is quite clear from parliamentary testimony that came with journalists who was involved in the bronx if you referenda so there's lots of questions here exactly what how you know who has worked who's paid for it was there coordination with other campaigns which is illegal and there's all the money accounted for and was the data got legally ok does this mean peter that we can trust this kind of company i mean ok cambridge analytic or is now a thing of the past or it will be was in the next few hours but the ecosystem that it operated within is still going to be there i mean this is not scientific i put a little poll on twitter yesterday saying this was to do with the facebook dating app saying would you trust facebook post cambridge analytic with your deepest

desires eighty six percent of people who responded said absolutely no way we do not trust what happens we have to live with it and we will work with it but we don't trust them. well that's the thing i mean thanks for the revelations of the whistleblower chris why they revealed what happened with that facebook page that i think people's eyes are open to what you know the data is the new or that's the most precious thing in the morning call me about this in many ways for cooperation through the e.u. is intervening g.d.p. are much tighter data collection and i think it's the consumers to pressurize we call go around giving away almost precious assets for free with then in the case of cambridge analysts will use against us in military style operations cycles to affect the democratic vote we have to guard our data much more peter jukes thank you so much for your time today here on the news out. find new ways to deal with this mountain crash problems history zapote reporting from cyprus. this protesters

are not happy with the governmental. or they are opposed to cities plan to change the law to allow all foodies to burn waste and turn it into energy. when i you know my burning trash is dangerous not only for human health where the plants are going to be installed but it's the worst possible way to treat waste the best way is to recycle and the government wants to change the law and replace it. but what worries many here is not just the environment but the future of thousands of open recyclers like the. whole works in a copper even when a site is she's fifty six years old and makes around five hundred dollars a month i know you will let that but is that i started with this because i was too ill to work as a domestic employees so i joined this cooperated and now i'm able to survive the government wants to get rid of us and if they burn the trash all of us will be left

without a job. seeking of recyclable materials from russia became a way of making a living after the economic crisis of two thousand and one when hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs over the. people organize themselves into operating something that they say has not only improved their working conditions but has also given them big new pain. he's known here as the boss she used to live on the streets and has been able to turn her life's work into this corporative that employs at least three hundred people. are all we don't need to be searching for recyclables on the street now the city's government gave us vehicles and we can collect from our clients and recycle as much as we can i still don't understand why the city wants to buy plants that will take away our way of making a living. plans to reduce the amount of waste this city of when a site is produces have failed over the years most landfills have run out of space

. government officials when someone else says the city needs to start looking for new options. i mean we never said that cooperatives were in any risk the idea is to have plants that can burn trash and give energy it is used in many cities in europe and we need to have that option but we plan to continue supporting the cooperatives in the city. waste management he said challenge for many latin american cities like when a site is open recyclers have come to play a crucial role in keeping the city clean and give jobs to those who desperately need them. that's why these people are demanding more guarantees that they won't lose their jobs. it is i will. always make time for santa with a small change thank you very much. with the n.b.a. playoffs where there's been a surprise result a western conference top says the houston rockets went down in game two. in their

second round series he was a star a man donovan cello was in fine form when he double double that was seventeen points. and levon assists he also reminds us why he won the this is all-star slam dunk contest just when it to hundred sixteen two hundred eighteen to level the series at one zero. to just being for you know staying under control was that was the biggest thing you know understand and how they're going to gardening and you know when you've got a big fellow role in this is as you do you know making the right plays and to kind of trying to predict the defense going to do next. it was just too comfortable you know what i was. going layouts dunks free throws a little bit everything and we fought back hard but they you know get him a lot of credit a day were they supposed to do they came here and got away. liverpool play real madrid for this season's champions league trophy seven six on i get to reach the

first final in more than a decade if you were taking a five to advantage into the second leg of this semifinal and italy. from side your money and will look to have put the five ton time out of sight but well must go three times in the second home to get within a goal of taking the tie into extra time to finish fourth two to roma on the night but it's liverpool through to their eight champions league final. we came into the competition as a qualifier and i know in the final and i'm really really happy for the boys i'm really happy for the club i'm really happy for fans of those fantastic right so far and now i know we will. go to clear. it's sounds crazy and but it's the truth i.

would thousands of liverpool fans also gathered there and feel stadium to watch the drama unfold at liverpool back in the final for the first time since two thousand and seven when they were beaten by a similar one this time out they will face twelve time champ israel madrid in kiev on may the twenty sixth if you are the last side to beat rio in the european cup final was in one thousand nine hundred eighty one on an island kennedy a goal saw the english team beat a way out one nil in paris. awesome venders a final chance to end his twenty two year reign as arsenal boss with the trophy is on the line later on thursday for the gunners face at a coma did away in the second leg of the european league seven final it's one one on aggregate to that let it go getting a late away goal in london mango will stay a step down as arsenal boss at the end of the season despite his three league

titles and seven the f.a. cups winning the ok league would be vendors first european title as arsenal boss you know we need to school. so we have a clear demand you know what helps and clear approach we have to do to have a positive way. the only way to beat what we don't know. if you can what we do the same we. have a more. cautious approach and try to get us on the break that's what you have to deal with. and the other semifinal suspect host must say the austrian side trail to nothing but perhaps shouldn't be written off they managed to overturn a two goal deficit in the quarter final to reach the stage. tiger woods returns to action on thursday for the first time since last month's mosses was finished thirty second at the first major of the season and is paired with new mosses champion

patrick reid for the opening round of the wells fargo championship in north carolina why i threw my clubs in the closet for about ten days and got away from the game didn't touch a club to make a golf swing and you know i 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 and eventually my speed and got them all back for more world and triple fifteen hundred meter olympic champion. has denied doping claims following british media reports that he tested positive for the banned boosting drug e.p.o. well the twenty eight year old kenyan said he would prove that he was clean and will fight the charges but was promoted to limpid gold in two thousand and eight after the hurricanes. tested positive for doping. to the n.h.l. while the tampa bay lightning have moved ahead of boston in the eastern conference

semifinals despite losing the opener the lightning and now lead the series two one after striking early in game three hundred scored twice and under the bus it is clear stopped at twenty eight shots to power a tampa bay to a four one when. the san jose sharks thrashed the vegas golden knights four nil in game four of the second round of their stanley cup playoffs san jose went to the series at two two. and that's it for me a hundred back to peter so thanks very much see you see you next also you.

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