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again for most chief executive a space in criminal charges for trying to cover up the comic as diesel emissions civi. back to bo this is al jazeera live from doha also ahead. but those first awareness i had was during the interview last night conflicting stories on who knew what and when over present donald trump's payment to an adult film actress twitter sends out an alert to millions of users urging them to change your passwords and flying the flag support for france ahead of an independence vote on a pacific island. the

former chief executive of german comic of osaka and has been charged in the u.s. over the diesel emissions scandal martin vinta khan is accused of lying to regulators about fake test results up to eleven million cars were found to be releasing emissions up to forty times more than the legal limit he resigned after the scandal became public in september two thousand and fifteen john hendren has more. martin more news now the highest ranking former v.w. official accused of a crime in the admissions scandal in the u.s. printer corn 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 potential of 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 injured. many indicted by the u.s. but eluding prosecution to officials who did plead guilty in the united states from b.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. the u.s. president has changes story about how money paid to an adult film actress stormy danielle says she had an affair with him a decade ago donald trump denies this and says he didn't know about the one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment but learned about it later a white house correspondent kimberly hocket 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're very. stormy daniels is an adult film star 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 move through over the president repeated that could 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 of the night she'd ever lied to reporters instead suggesting the president had also left her in the dark and. those first awareness i had was during the interview last night and i'm giving the best information i have some information i am aware of and some i'm not one i can answer i will but beyond that i really don't have anything to add on the latest scandal follows a shakeup in dol trumps 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 i have a twitter account the social media site says you should change your passwords the company discovered a computer glitch that stored some passwords on its internal system in an unprotected form they were kept in readable text rather than disguised with a random set of numbers and that is twitter says a problem has not been fakes and no data was stolen or misused larry maggette is chief executive of connect safety dot org an internet safety privacy and security organization he says twitter should be credited for letting users know about a problem it is a pretty big mistake and the good news of course is that they claim at least at the gate it would not breach which means that with if it was seen by anybody it was seen by twitter employees that's bad enough because good best practices faith that no one not even the feo of the company should be feet 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 in the sheraton and urging people to change their password i would fade from 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 rotten apple there i doubt it but i wouldn't rule it out so in an abundance of caution of a thing just everybody should change your password and by the way make it a unique password and a strong password. french presenter mannion mccoy has arrived in the pacific island of new caledonia where he's been greeted with pro france rallies macross for a straight to the french air tory comes ahead of an independence vote in november the majority of the island's indigenous connacht ethnic group support a full break from france and thomas is a new me now with more. about two thousand people taking part in this pro france

march these are people who come november will vote for new caledonia through a main cause of france holding it now of course because president is in the territory and they want to make their views very clear to him officially the president is neutral in this upcoming referendum he says what he wants is the whole process to be seen as spare as legitimate because thirty years ago when there was another referendum on independence here that was not the takes those who wanted independence did not see it as legitimate and they boycotted the process given all process broke down there was violence more than seventy people were killed nobody wants that to happen this time around this referendum has geopolitical consequences as well china is increasing its reach in the pacific having a french territory right in the middle of it with a big french military presence as well is in macros all eyes on other leaders are it's an important part for the geo political violence syrian rebels have

surrendered an enclave of the northern homes countryside to government forces if mean given the option to pledge allegiance to the government all moved to rebel held territory in northern syria as in a harder has a 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 used 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. agreed to leave some seventeen thousand people fighters their family members and others who were involved in opposition activities are leaving in the nearby i so controlled districts and how the fighting continues between the armed group 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 death 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 the problems would cause tensions with turkey which deployed troops as part of an agreement with russia. for its. agreement with third. to solve the situation in the north of the i 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. worried if the syrian regime of the army advances toward the border. with iran. president bashar assad has repeatedly pledged to recapture every inch of syrian

territory but future bella terry operations may have different calculations. beirut still ahead. plus. in london inside the. victorian glass house of a huge restoration project it's home to some of the world's rarest. welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions around the violence and western parts of asia you see here for eastern areas generally weather conditions not looking too bad a few showers parts of standards pakistan but temperatures looking resul there are not in one thousand and twenty six cloudy for tehran and should be largely sunny

for baghdad but further north into the caucasus we have got some rain around and that's also affect him parts of turkey but generally around the eastern side of the mediterranean weather conditions are looking fine a pleasant day in beirut there in lebanon with highs of twenty five degrees here in the arabian peninsula weather conditions should be fairly quiet i think during the course of our weekend highs there are thirty a little bit of cloud around parts of saudi arabia but otherwise it's looking fine and it stays that way as we head on through into saturday temperatures for medina mecca forty one degrees so heading across then into southern portions of africa it's a largely fine picture here too for much of the region just the chance they'll share in the eastern cape of south africa but otherwise you're looking at showers across northern parts of way and zambia soboth harare and lusaka stand a chance of getting the odd shower but otherwise to move across into angola is looking largely fine fine condition extending down through parts of namibia into botswana for cape town south africa highs of twenty three.

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welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera the former chief executive of german comic of all psyching has been charged with lying to emissions regulators in the u.s. martin vinta khan was in charge when up to eleven million v.w. diesel cars were found to be releasing emissions up to forty times more than the legal limit the us president has changed his story about how much money paid to an adult film actress stormy daniels says she had an affair with donald trump a decade ago now admits reimbursing his noire for a payment made to danielle's he had said that he didn't know anything about the money and twitter is urging all its users to change their passwords after a computer bug calls some to be stored in a readable form to stop in the company the social network says a problem has now been thanks ed no data was stolen or misused. the united arab emirates says boosting its military presence on yemen's remote island of so many see it as an expansion of any influence in southern yemen alex the populace reports.

to humans prime minister been done hundreds of yemenis took to the streets of so kolchak was the u.a.e. who says prisons the remote island the gulf between the united arab emirates which recently released the islands for ninety nine years flew in soldiers along with tanks and moment vehicles the shown here sitting up a security cordon having expelled from the airport. situated off the coast of somalia and the us go heritage site known to many as the collapse because 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 occupy a country part of the country so they've done it in aden and then argue that it's a culture which is very far out in the indian ocean to effectively control the

bubble under regionally 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 is the latest move by the emirates to spread its influence go beyond its borders people have often remarked on the strategic value of sokoto are there have been speculations that that one power or another might try to actually establish a presence on the island but 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 culture placed right in the middle alex go topless al-jazeera. palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has been reelected as chairman of the palestine liberation organization's highest decision making by his reappointment to the executive committee was expected it came at a meeting of the palestinian national council the first in twenty two years

a mascot for the form to be postponed until all factions were united as one of several groups that boycotted the meeting turkey's ruling party has formally nominated incumbent president type that one as its candidate to run in next month's election i don't want call this not vote more than a year after more than a year and a half earlier than expected is that the opposition is scrambling to get organized secular nationalists opposition voxer planning to announce an alliance to challenge the ruling ak party stahmann it. gold mining companies in south africa have agreed to a four hundred million dollars settlement to compensate thousands of miners who contracted fatal lung diseases algiers malcolm webb reports thomas lipo tis lungs is so badly damaged i says he struggles to get he walks any faster than this. he worked in gold mines in south africa for more than thirty years

we met him here at his home in the mounting kingdom of list otoh he told us conditions were bad and worst on the report i'd. 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 not that they were not struck just to go and i mean it was thick it's who try to use the water to listen that we had no choice it was the a part of it there are a few jobs here in the thirty 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 thick to work he lost the job he called a myth one 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 scientific 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 lickers but they didn't know how much of it should be in the last year it's been a lot of advances on hard to measure the distance and hard to prevent the dust from being in the atmosphere. there's been gold mining in south africa for one hundred years the lawyers say thousands of cases of silicosis recorded 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 run this culture of impunity and to bring some relief. to music terms 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. mozambique because mozambique's opposition leader. has died the sixty five year old former rebel leader was found dead at his home in go wrong gosa duck lama led the armed group bernama which forty sixteen year civil war against the ruling friendly movement or an animal emerged as an opposition party after a peace deal in one thousand nine hundred two but didn't fully this on friday in kenya has left at least one hundred people dead and more than two hundred thousand displaced major roads across the country have been blocked because of heavy rain

and landslides in the past month last week part of a route between the capital nairobi and the main port city of mumbai was under water the red cross has described it as a humanitarian disaster and says kenya needs emergency funding how why is killer wave volcano has erupted forcing people to leave their homes they are reports of steam and lava coming from cracks in the ground in a neighborhood on the big island the eruption follows a series of earthquakes up to ten thousand people live in the affected area the national guard has been activated. british authorities say they will continue to investigate allegations that cambridge analytical improperly gather information from millions of facebook users to target voters during political campaigns the data firm has announced is filing for bankruptcy john hall reports 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 bricks of 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 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. 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 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 analytical and its multiple clients against what he described as unfounded allegations will now we're told in a statement that the seed 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 that the hey after a couple of days after the scandal broke a member its 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. files taken from facebook which they psychologically prey fod lot of the american voters is the

modeling of that data and you can take that you can move on just for the thumb drive and even 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 london. al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein has now been in egyptian jail for five hundred days he was detained without charge by authorities in two thousand and sixteen during a holiday to cairo egypt's national is one of many journalists harassed or threatened with arrest and a government crackdown to stifle dissent osama bin javits reports. five hundred days locked up and counting mahmoud hussein and al jazeera deny provoking sedition incitement against egypt and spreading false news the u.n. condemned his arbitrary detention hussein was stopped question and detained in

december twenty sixth seen after traveling to cairo for a holiday since then he's been in solitary confinement and has yet to be charged the office of the u.n. 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 oppression 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 and a new antiterrorism law passed last year targets of than mediocre nations 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 everything one says you hear of of a case of overjoyed. not least that you know in directly being and under difficult situation under persecution and their disappearance and their arrest censorship intensified this year during the reelection campaign of president a bill for the c.c. journalists critical of him or who interviewed opposition candidates were arrested entertainment and satirical t.v. shows have also been shut down if journalist mohammed there was a bonus show khan was jailed five years ago for reporting the rubber square

protests in cairo hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured show khan's been nominated for unesco's press freedom prize for his resistance and commitment to freedom of expression a reporter for the times newspaper in britain was arrested and deported from egypt without official explanation the 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 osama bin job it is there the world's largest victorian glass house has reopened for the first time in five years in the u.k. it's home to fifteen hundred species of plants many of which i exclaim leverage and require specialist charlie angelo went to take a look. an 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 and not too cold this is the largest metering 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 set a staple quote but ethiopia 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 that in the wild fish of the species are at risk of fiction the foundation of life farming logging development and climate change a putting them at risk. the species a part of kew gardens living collection used by scientists in charge of them has scott taylor we grow plants of really hard scientific value notably conservation

cues a conservation organization we've got about two hundred fifty species growing in a hail of fifteen hundred to have got 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 end. which survives is the time when dinosaurs rode a favorite here with botanists a specimen here has actually been a community of the engine twenty years which is spectacular and the story behind this is quite unique and. last time is an offset of the original specimen found in the only male specimen found in the wild these plants a 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. london.

and again i'm fully back to all with the headlines on al-jazeera the former chief executive of german comic. has been charged with lying to regulate in the us martin venta khan was in charge when up to eleven million v.w. diesel cars were found to be releasing emissions up to forty times more than the legal limits. twitter is urging all its users to change their passwords after a computer bought cost some to be stored in a readable form the social network says the problem has not been fakes and no data was stolen or misused. the u.s. president has changed his story about hush money paid to an adult film actress stormy daniels says she had an affair with donald trump a decade ago trump now admits to reimbursing is neuer for a payment made to daniels earlier had said that he didn't know anything about the money trumps press secretary was asked by reporters about who knew what and went.

near giuliani stated and i'll refer you back to his comments this was information that the president didn't know at the time but eventually learned the president has denied and continues to deny the underlying claim and again i've given the best information i had at the time they have been pro france rallies on the pacific island of new caledonia as french president emmanuel michel makes his first visit to the french territory the trip comes ahead of an independence vote set for november the majority of the island's indigenous conic ethnic groups support a full break with france the president's office says mccall will not express a position on the vote palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has been reelected as chairman of the palestine liberation organization's high's decision making body is reappointment came at the first meeting of the palestinian national council for twenty two years a mosque boycotted the event mozambique's opposition leader awful so dot com has died a sixty five year old former rebel leader was found dead at his home in gore on gosa

common lead the armed group or a novel which fought a sixteen year civil war against the ruling friendly moment and ten thousand people on hawaii's big island have been ordered to evacuate their homes after the way a volcano erupted there are reports of sea men lava coming from cracks in the ground in the poor community the eruption follows a series of earthquakes the national guard has been activated those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year it's earthrise i hope you do stay with us thanks for watching. once pristine indonesia's chittering river has become a toxic waste dump or textile factories that supply global fashion chains one of one is the examines the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera .