scented in washington members of congress do nothing about the cause of the part of the constituents in their responsibility and that is what's underneath this crisis phone lines visit to the island devastated by hurricane maria and demanding the support of the u.s. government for the only thing that isn't in the current mentality responsibility and nothing ever gets. shelter after the storm on al-jazeera he was the world's most wanted. the last meeting i had with him was often. bin laden was very nervous about nature does not match a western reporter the full in part two of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin laden he never showed up to the cheatwood near the west our new bin ladin continues.

this is zero. zero zero am or him home and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. former c.e.o. is facing criminal charges for trying to cover up the automakers diesel emissions cheating. their first awareness i had was during the interview last. conflicting stories of a who knew what and when of a president trumps payment to a pornstar. rain and dust storms in parts of india kill more than one hundred people. twitter sends out an alert to its millions of users urging them to change their passwords.

the former chief executive of german comic a volkswagen has been charged in the united states over the diesel emissions scandal martin venta corners accused of lying to regulate this about fake test results up to eleven million v.w. cars were found to be releasing polluting emissions up to forty times more than the neagle limit he resigned after the scandal became public and september twenty fifteen to one hundred has more. martin van der korn is now the highest ranking former v.w. official accused of a crime in the emissions scandal in the u.s. printer korn the former chief executive officer of the w. was accused of four counts of federal crimes in the united states one of conspiring to cheat the u.s. emissions system and three counts of wire fraud that he's using e-mail in order to achieve that he faces the big ten years in prison but he could avoid prosecution

entirely simply by remaining in germany that is because germany does not extradite for crimes outside of the european union so he could simply remain in germany and that is what five lower ranking officials did when they were indicted they remain in germany and dieted by the u.s. but alluding prosecution to officials who did plead guilty in the united states from v.w. are facing hefty prison terms one of seven years one of three years the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says this shows that the admissions cheating scandal in the u.s. occurred at the highest levels of the w. and he says it will be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law nevertheless vinter corn gets the final vote there he could avoid prosecution simply by remaining in germany. now the u.s. president has changed his story about hush money paid to a porn star so me daniel says that she had an affair with him a decade ago but he denies this and that all trump says that he didn't know about

the one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment box learned about it late so white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports. a shifting story from u.s. president donald trump appearing at the white house rose garden ironically on the national day of prayer trump spoke about the importance of face but nothing about a lie he told reporters a month ago aboard air force one you. know the. stormy daniels is an adult films. who alleges she had an affair with trump a two thousand and six trump's lawyer michael cohen paid her one hundred thirty thousand dollars during the presidential election campaign to keep quiet and for the first time a member of the president's legal team rudy giuliani admitted the president knew about that payment from the through over the president repaid back to put the president in legal jeopardy because the campaign never disclosed the payment add it

exceeds the twenty five thousand dollars legal limit for contributions that money was not campaign money sorry i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money but melanie sloan a former federal prosecutor says that legal argument is flawed if they made the payment to stormy daniels with the intent that it influenced the campaign it can be an in kind contribution which also can be a felony given the amount on thursday trump defended the move on twitter saying payments like the one to daniels are very common among celebrities and people of wealth the white house press secretary defended the president's shifting story than i did she ever lied to reporters instead suggesting the president had also left her in the dark we give the very best information that we have at the time the latest scandal follows a shakeup in donald trump's legal team two lawyers have left in the past two months just as there are more questions about another controversy whether or not trump's

presidential campaign colluded with russia kimberly helped at al-jazeera at the white house. while in kennedy's piece you heard part of what the white house press secretary have to say here's more of that press conference where she was questioned by reporters about whom you want and when. you said on march seventh there was no knowledge of any changes to the president and he's denied all these allegations were you watching to us at the time or were you in the dark and the president has denied and continues to the not the underlying claim and again i've given the best information i had at the time and the refer you back to the comments that you yourself just mentioned a few minutes ago about the timeline for marriage you guys think just with this or that state very dramatic statement wasn't in reference to the reimbursement team again i gave you the best information that i had and that new york then allegation

at the time of the allegations the president has not been continuously johnson your house or not whether you were in the dark i think it's a fairly simple question whether you need to really make me answer that i can tell you actually several times now they give you the best information that i had them and i continue to do my best to do that every single day player five when did you specifically know that the president's record he'd mr call and for the one hundred thirty thousand dollars you personally the first awareness i had was during the interview last major. earlier that when you were given answers wrote this general topic gives the best information you have the time now it appears that your position is you're not going to comment because it's all going to be if you've been advised not to do this to protect yourself from any potential legal exposure by giving you the false information or information the proof later of people to people stood in court you know but i would always against giving false information as a person it was a human voice and c.i.

police was jonathan's question earlier when you say you before you give the best information out of the time i'm sure you do that today but it turns out not to be correct or accurate are you then trying to limit the liability that you may encounter by not dealing with any of those questions now and pushing it all off because you say it's ongoing with again i'm giving the best information i have some information i am aware of and some i'm not when i can answer i will but beyond that i really don't have anything to add. well more on this joining us from austin texas via skype is matthew mccovey acas a republican consultant and former ambassador bush administration thank you very much indeed matthew being with us so you just had a snippet all of that conversation between sound as and the press cole what do you make of how she handled that conversation could it be that she might have lost credibility within the administration all within the press cool. yet i don't think she probably lost credibility within the administration but i do think there's

a chance this year loss of credibility among the press corps well this is obviously a very difficult subject the subject of an affair the subject of a payoff and on schools or remit these things these are all outside of the work this done inside the white house every day this obviously predates trump's election but it does raise questions about campaign finance laws during the two thousand and sixteen campaign and so a spokesperson for any elected official in any at any level can only give the best information that they have unless they are literally there when the decision is being made in many cases those people are not there when the decisions being made what's there when this is being made and they can only provide the information that they're given that i think in this case sarah sanders was put a really top position in this case donald trump that the person not naming nest necessarily don't trump the president denied the affair initially i think he thought he could knight forever because that's what he done in his previous life when he was so that read a businessman but when you're in politics are things

different now how do you think this content ministration deficit comparison to the previous ones when it comes to the relationship with the media sound as has said in the past that some of the top administration is one of the most accessible than decades what do you think. yeah you know there's been there to choice look at that so i think in terms of press conferences in terms of of interviews with media organizations trump is is far behind his predecessors done very few interviews anywhere outside of fox news says i he's done very very few press conferences that said they are briefing every day they do answer questions they ask answer questions at events he answers questions with foreign leaders usually two two for each side every time he has a foreign leader with him at the white house so they are somewhat accessible it's not quite as accessible as predecessors been but i also would add though that this is ministration has been attacked more consistently by the press corps probably

than any president since nixon the relationship between the white house and the press corps is as bad as i can remember it in my almost forty years of being alive i mean it really is a war every day and i remember back when steve benen was in the white house used to call the media the opposition party and i think for a lot of republicans they see the press corps as trying to impeach trunk every single minute of every single day and i think that's part of the reason why trump lashes out at the press corps so how do you see them bridging the gap between the two for better communication between both sides i think there's probably not much opportunity to bridge the gap i think that the sides are just too far apart at least for the time being i think if the molar inquiry is resold particularly if it's resolved in a way that's favorable to president trump we might enter a new phase where they can be some type of detente between the two sides i think of trump is reelected in two thousand and twenty i think there's a possibility you could have better relations both of those things are some some

distance from now on both of those things are certainly not not certain to happen ok matthew mcconaughey thank you so much for your time pleasure. and plenty more ahead on the news hour including gold companies settle south africa's biggest ever cross action lawsuit involving minus two contracted fatal lung diseases. and a show of support for yemen's prime minister on a strategic island as the united arab emirates pulls up its military presence there plus. on call recently are you sulky world championship in denmark where an h.l.l. stalls all black on international and south korea get their debut away from the politics of the olympics. and more than one hundred people have been killed in a powerful dust and rain storm in india it's destroyed homes destructed electricity

and uprooted trees in the northern states of raw just on and with a british ports. i the storm struck in the dead of night as well slept in their homes leaving a trail of destruction in its weight i feel much a stand to progress even the capital new delhi there were intense bursts of lightning accompanied by hail and rain the worst affected will rural areas trees hit fragile buildings destroying homes killing dozens of people inside and disrupting power supplies across the regions. all the private and government hospitals have been alerted government to minister pool resources have been mobilized and we are taking the help of the private sector as well people are helping to and we are trying to get all the into hospital and clear the roads dust storms are always expected ahead of the incoming monsoon season but not of this

strength and killing so many people. in our district we have information of five deaths due to a high intensity to understand at least twenty two people a critically injured and i've been given treatment at a trauma center of the district hospital while relief work has already started in the affected areas it will take days to restore power and with livestock having been affected by the storms people's livelihoods have also been impacted a worrying sign ahead of the impending monsoon season. al-jazeera and the red cross is appealing for more aid to help victims of flooding in kenya rising waters have left at least one hundred people dead and for some two hundred thousand from their homes and travel to the worst hit area near the village of carson and ten county. they've never had much now they've lost everything not

just a home and their possessions but the life of their thirteen year old daughter taken by a vast surge of water as the river town a burst its banks some people had to swim for their lives some were stranded ruchir baba and her daughter were my thoughts were in a rescue boat that capsized in strong currents here and one of her daughter's friends survived but the floodwaters swept away were my third along with a baby girl whose body has not been recovered. isn't speaking her husband was on dry land watching helplessly. you know i was that i did that would had capsized some people. i tried to take off my shirt in getting them but i was held back some women were holding on to branches when you mean or today because they're wildly deceive. but carol and his family are among more than sixty four thousand people living in conditions like this in rivertown a county alone and there was already

a cholera outbreak before the flooding most of the health facilities. munched with water or more rooms so accessibility being a big problem to this you can sense the fear here the flood levels are still rising there are reports that water has been released from the dams further upstream and the people here want to know what they're supposed to do next that question doesn't have an immediate answer for now at least they have a safe water supply that it's from this one of only three filtration and treatment systems in the region people also want to know why they're suffering from what they believe is climate change a few months back there was a lengthy drought now what is supposed to be seasonal rains are the heaviest and most prolonging for two decades and do simmons al-jazeera send in kenya.

palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has been reelected as chairman of the palestine liberation organization as highest decision making body his reappointment was expected and a move seen as a concentration of power in the hands of abbas and his loyalists it came at the end of a meeting of the palestinian national council the first in twenty two years of us had called for the forum to be postponed until all factions were united it was one of several groups a boycotted the meeting. a syrian rebels have surrendered and a of all of the northern homs countryside to the government forces there they've been given the option to either pledge allegiance to the government or move to rebel held territory in the north of syria in the heart of reports. 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 have. agreed to leave some seventeen

thousand people fighters their family members and others who are 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 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. 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 the problems

would cause tensions with turkey which deployed troops as part of an agreement with russia. on this agreement or thirdly 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 if the army advances toward the border. with iran. that militia its president bashar al assad has repeatedly pledged to recapture every inch of syrian territory but future bella terry operations may have different calculations so to. beirut. while if you have a twitter account the social media site says that you should be changing your password the company discovered a computer glitch that stored some passwords on this internal system in an

unprotected form they were kept in readable text rather than the skies with a random set of numbers and letters to says the problem has now been fixed and no data was stolen or misused. earlier we spoke to larry mcgeady the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org an internet safety privacy and security organization he says a twitter should be credited for letting uses know about the problem. it is a pretty big mistake and the good news of course is that they claim at least that the gate it was not breached which means that with if it was seen by anybody it was by twitter employees that's bad enough because good best practices faith that no one not even the c.e.o. of the company should be think anybody's password but you know it was a software glitch i can't tell you how the glitch happened but obviously it's something that they are embarrassed by but to their credit they did put out an alert they let people know they think they could have ignored it but they decided to share it and urging people to change their password i would face and possible

that an employee could have grabbed it and fed it to family that's the type of risk that you want to avoid i'm sure that most twitter employees are very reputable but you know they've got a lot of employees and there could have been a sort of a rotten apple there i doubt it but i wouldn't rule out so in an abundance of caution if they think just everybody should change their password and by the way make it a unique password and a strong password gold mining companies in south africa have agreed so four hundred million dollars settlement to compensate thousands of minus who contracted fatal lung diseases. reports thomas lipos his lungs the so badly damaged he says he struggles to create if he walks any faster than this. he won't think gold mines in south africa for more than thirty yes' we met him here at his home in the mountain kingdom of lists he told us conditions were planned and were on the reponse side. there's been a lot to how there was

a lot of dust i wouldn't be able to see a person standing right next to it like that there were no structures to go and i mean it was thick it's who trying to use the water to listen to it we had no choice it was the part of it there are a few jobs here in the thirty day that's why thomas traveled to south africa to look for work many millions from neighboring countries of them the same and his story is typical of many of those he worked in the mines when he became too sick to work he lost his job he told him his son could be sent to replace him so he came home and he's lived here ever since. a rock from a blast blinded him in one eye that's what cost him his job he already had tuberculosis. doctors since told him the t.v. was because of his work and that he also had silicosis permanent lung damage caused by inhaling silica dust now he might finally be compensated. he's among thirty

thousand miners he was represented in a class action the first of its kind here the lawyers behind it have announced that affected miners will be paid in a settlement with six gold mining groups they say it's time to fix progress that helped they didn't know a lot about silica dust and that was they knew it existed and they knew of course a lick cause they didn't know how much of it should be in the last year it's been a lot of advances on hard to make the dance and hard to prevent the dust from being in the atmosphere that. there's been gold mining in south africa for one hundred years the lawyers say thousands of cases of silicosis recorded like gold miners since the one nine hundred seventy s. we can just do a little something to hold these companies that are still here to hold them accountable to change this account to root this culture of impunity and to bring some relief. to music to who are still alive today thomas might be eligible for

about twelve thousand dollars for his lung damage he says he'll invest it in his small farm he says the mining company took his health forever. now you might get something in return malcolm webb al-jazeera. and france's president has a arrives in new caledonia it's my first visit to the french territory in the south pacific ahead of an independence vote set for september the majority of the island's indigenous kana ethnic group support a full break with france the president's office says that mccrone will not express a position on the vote and will focus on commemoration and remembrance jury in his visit under thomas is live for us in. well under this visit does come a quite a crucial time what does love hope to achieve. it does well president arrived on the study for

a three day visit and it's likely to be his only one before that referendum in november simply because of how far away new caledonia raise from the rest of frogs but i say the rest of us because they see as fronts they see as part of the european union people have vote in the presidential elections they same deputies to the french assembly as well this is very much part of france and opinion polls suggest that a majority of people here want to keep it that way there was a rally on friday about two thousand people supporting new caledonia remaining french they want that message to get through to president loud and clear as you say officially he is neutral he simply wants this process to be seen as legitimate by both sides he is not saying whether he personally what you call a journey to become independent or not but at the same time in some comments on thursday he said that he really sees the pacific as a central part of his foreign policy he made the point that off the break say when britain's left the european union france will be the only european country

a you country left with any territory in this part of the world and there is this strategic struggle across the pacific china is making creasing inroads into many pacific countries economic but some fear they may turn militaristic in time france having an important territory here with a vost area of say and a crucial military base able many see that as an important counterbalance to china in this part of the world to this goes beyond simply france and you caledonia. and what is it about the relationship between france and the sara she has really brought us to this specific point. well france calling on your in the nineteenth century there was an act of possession passed in eighteen fifty three but of course that was unilateral imposed on the people who were actually here the indigenous contacts and the relationship between france and the french and there are many here and the connections been pretty testy ever since in the nineteen eighties there was another referendum on independence

but the can actually independent side they boycotted that referendum as a result it was heavily won by the pro front side but the comics didn't see it as legitimate it's all in there was violence about seventy people died while president has made it clear he does not want a repeat of that this time around this is a little of what he said on thursday. in. lives even though our history like you say can sometimes be jostled around and cause harm i believe that if we know how to take the part of history that links us in the future and today we will only become stronger president has a pretty packed shuttle in those three days he's traveling or rights around the island of new caledonia he'll be in the north of the country on friday morning by friday afternoon he'll be right here in the capital and on saturday he visits one of the outlying islands where thirty years ago there was a massacre more than twenty people died in a cave right after thomas life thank you andrew. coming up on

al-jazeera of the campaign to free an al jazeera journalist from jail we'll look at egypt's crackdown on the media plus. in london inside the world knowledge of victorian house of a huge restoration project it's home to some of the world's rarest dogs. and then sports a champion penny and ron aspell kept prop at mit's to failing a doping test the says he isn't to blame. from the clear blue sky you don't home. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of los. welcome back we've still got some rain to contend with across southern parts of china and that extends into northern parts of vietnam and indeed into laos

and parts of me amar hong kong probably dry through much of friday shanghai too and then as we head into saturday will find the rain pushing way further towards the north so this rain along the shanghai yangtze river valley and shanghai looks wet but further south it should be fine for hong kong and it should be dry and brighter for hanoi the temperatures there into the low thirty's for southeastern parts of asia we're looking at bright conditions across much of the philippines you're in the course of friday some heavy rain across southern parts of vietnam and then southwards into borneo isolated shower as much as you'd expect but dry for much of the time it's area looks fine across much of java and bali and up through the main points we'd like to say you want to two showers here but jerry weather conditions not looking too bad for singapore and kuala lumpur a few showers around the gulf of thailand into south asia we still got some big storms here and ahead of the monsoon rains so certain across parts of bangladesh the eastern states of india we're looking at some very heavy downpours otherwise is the heat still really above average temperatures in many areas forty two the high

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got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism on and on. and again you're watching al-jazeera the mind of our top stories this hour the former chief executive of the german comic a volkswagen has been charged with lying to emissions regulators in the u.s. monson been to court and was in charge when up to eleven million v.w. diesel cars were found to be releasing emission pollution up to forty times over the legal limit. and more than one hundred people have been killed in

a powerful dust and rain storm in india is destroyed homes cut electricity and uprooted trees in the northern states of roger stone and put to pradesh officials say it is the strongest storm in decades. and twitter is urging all its users to change their pos well it's after a computer bug calls some to be stored in their way to bill for the social network says a problem has now been fixed and no data was stolen or misused. al jazeera journalists to say in has been an egyptian jail for almost five hundred days he was attained without charge by authorities in twenty sixteen during a holiday in cairo egypt a national is one of many journalists harassed or threatened with arrest in a government crackdown to stifle dissent some of in job it reports. five hundred. is locked up and counting map and hussein and al jazeera deny provoking sedition incitement against egypt and spreading false news the un condemned his arbitrary

detention saying was stopped questioned and detained in december twenty sixth seen after travelling to cairo for a holiday since then he's been in solitary confinement and has yet to be charged the office of the un high commissioner for human rights says indefinite pretrial detention is the egyptian government's tactic to restrain anyone who dares to act independently the un human rights what he says the policy is a cornerstone of egypt's suppression of the media civil society and protesters the committee to protect journalists says egypt is a leading jailer of journalists at least twenty are in prison. advocacy that we can do by documenting attacks and repression of journalists and using every opportunity that we have to bring this to public attention around the world egypt's government has targeted other al jazeera journalists in a trial condemned almost unanimously by rights groups and journalists organizations egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera is by her mohamed mohamed fahmy and peter greste and jail them five years ago the former editor in chief of al-jazeera

arabic ibrahim helal was sentenced to death in his absence two years ago in a new antiterrorism law passed last year targets other media organizations as well the committee to protect journalists says the law furthers the government's crackdown on the media it enables police to put journalists acquitted of terrorism related charges on a watch list that restricts their finances and other rights. every morning so everything long as you hear of of a case of over journalese that you know or in directly being on there and the difficult situation under persecution and their disappearance and their arrest censorship intensified this year during the reelection campaign of president a bill for the hand c.c. journalists critical of him or who interviewed. opposition candidates but arrested entertainment and satirical t.v. shows have also been shut down as you can journalist mohammed there was a known as show khan was jailed five years ago for reporting the robust square

protests in cairo hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured. be nominated for unesco's press freedom prize for his resistance and commitment to freedom of expression and it borders for the times newspaper in britain was arrested and deported from egypt without official explanation international journalist unions accuse the egyptian government of creating a climate of fear and reporters don't know if they will be next to be jailed. as their. journalists are under attack from both sides of the war in yemen they're often threatened by head nothings raids and missile strikes reporter was killed and three others injured in bayda province last month and as world press freedom day passes mohamed al the parties he reports on what life is like for journalists in yemen. yemen is a country that's been torn apart by war and suffering. the u.n. calls it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. and those telling its stories

are increasingly finding themselves at risk but to the from the top of after the coalition's intervention the hooty started going after journalists intensively especially after the hutu leader's speech calling for the targeting of journalists and deeming them more dangerous than fighters but where does a yemeni journalist who was forced to leave the capital sana after being targeted by the rebels for his coverage of the war he says he had to escape the southern city of terrorists for safety. of his you know. the media published my name along with other journalists calling us coalition supporters only for doing our jobs by doing that they increased the threat on our lives and trapped our movements if hutus were to spot us our fate would be uncertain you would be fortunate to be kidnapped. journalist covering the conflict in yemen face kidnapping raids and missile strikes in december last year forty one journalists from yemen t.v. were held hostage after the forces stormed the building. human rights groups have

accused both who the rebels and coalition forces of targeting journalists yemen's media union says saudi led coalition air strikes have killed at least one hundred and twenty journalists since the start of the war three years ago. saudi air strikes have killed one hundred twenty journalists over the past three years these airstrikes have also cause total a partial destruction of over two hundred t.v. and radio stations as well as newspaper headquarters journalist ahmed nobody was concerned his wedding would be targeted so did the coalition have been targeting wedding parties since the beginning of the war so it is not something. people like now afraid from doing within parties like me i got mad it one month ago my mom told me don't party men and continues to work where you can. his life or means restricted the city of tears where he's free to report but if you ventures

elsewhere you're likely face being kidnapped or even killed amid a d.c. . the united arab emirates is boosting its military presence on yemen's remote island. in the gulf of aden yemen security officials say that emmer r.t. kaga flights have on noted all me vehicles and heavy equipment that many see the move us the latest expansion of m r t influence in southern yemen as the top us reports. showing support to yemen's prime minister i've been done hundreds of yemenis took to the streets of so culture is the u.a.e. looses presence in the remote island in the gulf of aden the united arab emirates which recently released the islands from one thousand nine years flew in soldiers along with tanks and armored vehicles that shown here is setting up a security cordon having expelled local troops from the airport. situated off the coast of somalia and the us go heritage site known to many as the galapagos of the indian ocean is famous for its unusual wildlife and scenery but with

a three thousand metre long runway ideal for fighter jets and large military aircraft the island is also situated between the horn of africa and yemen just beyond the red sea and some of the busiest sea lanes in the world and what they've done here is basically occupying a country part of the country so they've done that in aden in an hour. which is very far out in the indian ocean to effectively control the region and you know sure having already invested heavily in somaliland and expanded the commercial port but there are the uys control of the culture is seen by many as the latest move by the emirates to spread its influence well beyond its borders people have often remarked on the strategic value of sokoto there have been speculations that. one power or another might try to actually establish a presence on the island. with the war in yemen entering its fourth year the u.a.e.

now controls much of the south of the country the strong presence on both sides of the entrance to the red sea and so cultura place right in the middle alex go topless al jazeera. and bill cosby and roman polanski have been expelled from the organization that manages prestigious oscars movie awards and it had a cause they was convicted of sexual assault last month and oscar winning director has admitted statutory rape of a thirteen year old girl in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven the u.s. academy of motion picture arts and sciences says that the decision reflects its standards of conduct. the u.k. authorities say that they will continue to investigate the data for at the center of facebook's privacy scandal even though it's shutting down the chair of a u.k. parliamentary committee says that action could still be taken against directors all of cambridge i'm melissa trying to hold reports now from london. cambridge

analytical is the political consultancy at the heart of a massive facebook data breach there are claims that the personal data of millions of people contributed to micro-targeting models using online ads to influence voters in the u.s. presidential election and the brics a referendum in the u.k. the news that the company has closed its doors and is filing for bankruptcy may frustrate efforts to get to the bottom of what went on a british parliamentary inquiry has heard evidence from a company whistleblowers describing how the data of eighty seven million facebook users was harvested vajra third party app and passed on to cambridge analytical in an undercover investigation the company's former c.e.o. alexander nix all but took credit for donald trump's election victory only eight years old as the scandal went all the way to the u.s. congress where facebook founder mark zuckerberg apologized for what he's called a breach of trust between facebook's and its users and said more should be done to

protect people's privacy online rocked the offices there of cambridge analytic in london suddenly empty as are their offices in new york just a week ago a company spokesman gave a press conference here defending the reputation of cambridge analytic and its multiple clients against what he described as unfounded allegations well now we're told in a statement that the siege of media coverage has driven those clients away the business therefore no longer viable but there are also reports of a brand new company with several familiar figures among its directors could this be cambridge analytic or in all but name. the new company form with the mercer sisters one of them is behind. alexander nix we learned the same person involved in cambridge analytical set up the day after a couple of days after the scandal broke a member it's data data could be just downloaded all the modeling it's meant more important than just the data for example the eighty seven million cry.

and you can take. the demise of cambridge analytic it does little to dim the lights shown by the scandal on the widespread use of personal data for commercial and political purposes data is often described as the new oil the most precious asset in the modern economy and it is ours as social media uses to either god more closely or simply give away jonah. donna hoping to kickstart a deal to realign factions that spitz from the main party in the civil war is holding a three day convention turn for a twenty fifteen agreement signed in tanzania have a morgan reports now from. in a meeting that is the fourth of its kind in south sudan. the ruling party is coming

together. to reunite the party which fractured after civil war began in twenty thirteen resulting in leading figures leaving the party and creating their own. that holds these countries together. to form. story will never forgive us our unity. family remains my priority the ruling sudan people's liberation movement. was founded as the political wing of the sudan people's liberation army which fought in the rebellion against the sudanese government in one nine hundred eighty three it represented the south in an agreement signed in two thousand and five which paved the way for the country's independence six years later but a power struggle within the party as leading figures expressed a desire to lead it and the nation led to a civil war which has cost tens of thousands of lives and displaced

a third of the country's twelve million strong population the war also left more than have the population in need of aid to survive other political parties say because the ruling party started a war they should come together to end it the era of two thousand and thirteen. led to the conflict that has cost lives of people. is their responsibility to fix it and it should be today make sure that the people. responsible is a respected regulations of the party and for the people don't struggle for power but really find the party won't be so easy in ten to fifteen it signed an agreement with the s.p.l. i'm in opposition on the former vice president riek machar and a group of former detainees they were accused of being involved in plotting a government overthrow but there is now a division within both the opposition and on a detainees and not all sides are aboard with the idea of. the leaders of the

ruling sadam people's liberation movement that by reuniting the fates of five year old party it would result a lot of issues the country is facing but with some of the main defectors failing to attend the reification conference it raises questions as to what this meeting can achieve. some analysts say one of the biggest challenges through unification is the concept itself the fundamental problem is what means and because it was supposed to be reforms second was supposed to be part of it they made. it. the s.p.l. and began as a movement involved in an armed struggle against a sudanese government thirty five years on now the struggle is amongst its leaders while those they rule continue to suffer the consequences people morgan. of the world's largest a victorian class house has reopened for the first time in five is the queue

goddess temperament house in london is home to fifteen hundred species of parts some of which are very rare. and architectural wonder and heaven for horticulturalists kew gardens a vast victorian greenhouse is open again to the public it's taken five years of restoration moving in ten thousand plants from the world's temperate climates where it's not too hot not too cold this is the largest picturing glass house in the world it's maybe two hundred metres long it actually consists of five separate buildings each grade one listed it's this is unesco world heritage site and it's open to the public every day of the year as well so dismantling this building restoring it taking all the plants out returning them it has been a hugely complex project inside a plant that can feed the world like the end to staple. a cousin of the banana plant which kew scientists hope could be used throughout africa there are plants that supply medicine and plants that

a purely beautiful thing all these plans on the one we've picked pretty positive picture of global biodiversity in the wild. species risk of. the foundation of life farming development and climate change putting that with. the species a part of q gardens living collection used by scientists in charge of them. we grow plants of really high scientific value conservation he was a conservation organization we got about two hundred fifty species growing in a hail of fifteen hundred conservation writings from vulnerable to extinct in the wild species here extinct in the wild which means you don't find them anywhere else in nature one of those now extinct species is the. which survives is the time when dinosaurs roamed a favorite here with botanists all specimen hair has actually been a new engine twenty years which is spectacular and the story behind this is quite

unique and. timeless an offset of the original specimen found in the only male specimen found in the wild these plants are part of everyday life the food we eat to the clothes we wear the materials we use and the medicines we take too often we take them for granted.

thank you very much well there is to be no fairy tale ending to arsene wenger's two decade long career as arsenal manager let's come a druid have not just team out of the europa league a goal from diego costa gave athletico a one nil win on the night in madrid and a two one aggregate victory in the semifinal for the outgoing vanga it had been his last chance to win a trophy with. athletico will play french side must say in the final one extra time goal from rolando deciding this encounter in with the soul spirit that after the austrians that want to nail in old time to level the tight must say will be on home soil for the final is to be played in leon on may the sixteenth in the n.b.a. playoffs western conference top seeds the houston rockets went down in game two against the utah jazz in their second round playoff series utah stollen donovan

mitchell in fine form a double double with seventeen points and eleven assists and he reminded everyone how he won michigan all-star slam dunk contest the jazz winning it won sixteen to one of whites to level the series one one. just being poisoned those days are over control was of the biggest thing you know understand and how they're going to garmin in know when you've got a big role in this is no big no write plays and to kind of try to predict the devens going to notice. those to come to you know who's. been layouts dunks free throws a little bit everything we fought back would they get him a lot of credit they did a supposed to do they came in a got a win. kenya's champion fifteen hundred meter runner care proffers confirmed he did test positive for doping but claims he's the victim of extortion the failed test relates to

a urine sample that the olympic and three time world champion gave at his house in kenya last november the twenty eight year old claims doping officers demanded money from him and may have tampered with his sample more than fifty kenyans have failed doping tests in the past six years while in a statement a process this i have remained faithful to mine and see doping convictions and i will be the last person to commit such an atrocious and sports like thing i pray to be given the benefits of the downs even as i'm cast into this lonely isolation i mean since i did not stop new australian cricket coach justin langer says he's aiming to transform the image of the national team the former opening batsman is taking over the job in the aftermath of the recent bolt tampering scandal that resulted in three players being banned and former coach darren lehmann resigning i think one of the things that's really important is that we are looking to earn respect. to me he respects more than worth more than all the gold in the world so

respect all of the cricket field in the n.h.l. playoffs the tampa bay lightning have moved ahead of boston in the eastern conference semifinals despite losing the opener the lightning now lead the series two one. on dry pilot school twice in this fall one way. now despite this ongoing playoffs the ice hockey world championships are about to begin in denmark some n.h.l. players already evolved after their absence at the recent lympics as the tournament attempts to position itself as the number one global showcase for the sport pool race reports. training has an extra intensity when the usa are about to take on canada and for the americans now hunger has more of an edge every year. they open the ice hockey world championships here in denmark against a canadian team going for a record twenty seventh gold medal decades have passed since the usa won this title . just a few months after the olympics and n.h.l.

players are back in their international colors with the chicago blackhawks patrick kane one of those bringing quality that was lacking in p.r. china yeah i mean i think. it's a great opportunity to grow the game in a play for your country especially if you get the chance i think a lot of guys maybe knowing they're missing missing out on their picks you know they want to take advantage of this chance and play in the world championships so now canada such a big rival for us it's it's a pretty easy game to get up for. taking the sport to new fans means that the quiet city of handing is co-hosting the competition with copenhagen but not all of the hockey world has come to denmark the stanley cup playoffs are in full swing in north america so the international i saw the federation hasn't quite had the flood of and i tell stars it might have hoped for what it does get is a new team ninety eight years after these championships began south korea and making that debut. south korea's qualification sees them step out of the shadow of

the only winter olympics where the unified north and south women's team took the spotlight. their first exposure to this level of hockey has been brought about by jim pak the first korean ever to win the stanley cup as a player it's a real special moment. because we are and it but these guys here they worked extremely hard to earn their position here in the top division and the world champions this is where the hockey people i believe come together there's no other winter sports or anything involved or politics it's hockey and that's what we have to concentrate on which is great international hockey can say it's in good health t.v. figures for last year's championships were reported at one point three billion three hundred thousand tickets have been sold as denmark play host for the first time. but the game might only be seen at its best when the biggest rivalry is no longer club versus country. whole race al-jazeera heading denmark and often

that's if not sporting success of korea's unified women's hockey team at the winter olympics table tennis is now following suit north and south korea's female players will combine fifty seven finals of the world championships in sweden on friday the last time a unified korea team played in the event was in one thousand nine hundred ninety one and about occasion on the gold medal. ok that is only sport for now more light . they can find a much more on our website. all the latest news analysis and video or you can also just simply live stream us that's what i'm reading of one hundred forty is here with another full blessing of news i'll see you shortly. of all my friends and coworkers who were detained i am the only one who survived

they were all waiting for news of the men for to come was only one word on their lips bill maher just saw a boy killed in his father's all by storm. i have only once in my life see men who are scared to death a bit to civil war was darkest secret. to come on al-jazeera. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum malika. is the driving force behind sars partition museum it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening on nine eleven museum was there and they are now numerous holocaust museum this is not beautiful a museum so countries around the world have walked

a memorial lies these events that have shaped them by dition is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shed history. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we don't intend to from the government to just shoot soon turned into a battle front for my jury and government how do you know why. the torrijos for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing the displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins bloody rise of. on al-jazeera.