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with. more than a thousand arrested in russia protests against president put opposition leader alexina volley is among. the watching all the zero life from a headquarters in doha also a heads the u.s. brings back the second naval fleet to patrol the atlantic and confront russia. thousands of kenyans hit by floods face worsening conditions in emergency camps and fears of more tremors after an earthquake hits hawaii as an erupting volcano forces thousands from their homes.

hello riot police in russia have detained the opposition leader alexina volley as well as more than a thousand of his supporters in anti-government demonstrations the protests come just two days before putin's inauguration for fourth term worry chalons reports from moscow. right side. that two days before putin's fourth presidential inauguration these russians wanted him to hear their demonstration slogan you are not ours are not we have a fascist state a totalitarian regime we should do something about it there is no relation and russia. i'm here because i disagree with the politics the government and our so-called president are leading i want to tell him that he is not ours are not his places in the hague and imprisoned again on the. several thousands joins the unapproved protest in moscow thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia. right now almost goes pushkin square they were met by

a small group with very different values good job. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all my supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise at that point the police moved in. so they will rest the big gun in other parts of russia i do want to say now that. in moscow was the brilliance of just grabbed a young guy out of the crowd and looked like she was crying so dragging her off to the police why him. the numbers of detentions take top words protester

after protester was dragged away so too was the man who calls this demonstration alexina valmy he's an anti corruption opposition leader who was banned from presidential elections because of a fraud conviction he insists was fabricated his online videos exposing the corruption of russia's ruling elite have made him a critic of the kremlin and a popular resistance figure among many russians who want something different i'm not even a putin's hold on power looks for another six year term he's tightened control of the media and internet and made protesting much harder his assertive foreign policy is popular with many russians moscow's riot police followed detentions with the next act in their rough clearing the square the valley supporters have been through this before and i'll probably go through it all again they feel it's their only remaining way to be heard. al-jazeera moscow the u.s.

is beefing up its naval presence in the north atlantic as russia gets more assertive and there has been a build up of russian and nato forces to levels not seen for decades diane easterbrook reports. the u.s. navy says its second fleet will be back in commission this summer operating out of norfolk virginia the fleet which was eliminated in a cost cutting move seven years ago is being reestablished to counter what the pentagon calls a rising throughout from russia at a ceremony in norfolk on friday admiral john richardson chief of naval operations said our national defense makes it clear that we are back in an era of great power competition as the security environment continues to grow more challenging and complex. russia's navy has stepped up patrols in the atlantic and both russia and nato have been building up forces in eastern europe at levels not seen in decades while russia has fewer ships than it did during the height of the cold

war u.s. officials are especially concerned about its expanded submarine fleet and increased presence in the atlantic ocean but one military expert sees this more as saber rattling than an outright threat of war i think what the russians will do is probably over time react with more submarines operating in the atlantic more messages to us that be aware but i think that this will be kept at a relatively low level and i really don't see a huge escalation or any escalation proceeding from these actions the u.s. second fleet will be responsible for an area extending halfway across the atlantic and will include a staff of more than two hundred dian estabrook al-jazeera there have been protests outside a meeting of the u.s. national rifle association in dallas texas the crowds included parents of children shot dead at a florida high school in february calls for a stricter gun control laws have been getting louder since the shooting which

killed seventeen and president donald trump addressed thousands of gun owners at the convention on friday valen to protect their rights and trump has sparked anger in france over his comments on the twenty fifteen pair. during that speech he suggested the attacks could have been prevented if looser gun laws and used hand gestures to make the attackers the french government has issued its strongest criticism of trump since he took office demanding the memory of the victims be respected one hundred thirty people died in a series of attacks on restaurants a stadium and a concert hall at the time thousands of people have been forced to move after a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook hawaii's big island the biggest to hit the area in decades this follows the eruption of the kilauea volcano which began spewing lava on thursday reynolds reports from near mt. local resident tony lutes shot this cell phone video as new line of the events

opened near his neighbor's house the molten rock blasted high above the ground and toxic sulfur dioxide gas streamed through the air sound and a lot of jet engine and every time it exploded it was like an explosion as i can i'm going on the new eruption from mount killer way a cause the emergency evacuation of nearly two thousand residents from the small rural community of lay loni estates and surrounding areas one night it was find there was little cracks in the pavement and the next morning. no one having worn it covered roads with rivers of magma and reportedly destroyed several buildings hawaii's governor called out state national guard troops to provide emergency help and keep people out of harm's way and it is a difficult thing to watch the lava flow is unpredictable and not exactly certain what course it will take on friday

a powerful six point nine magnitude earthquake shook the big island of hawaii causing structural damage to buildings including a school kill away a is one of the world's most active volcanoes continually erupting now for more than thirty years normally the lava flows through subterranean channels to the sea but the new eruptions are following a different pattern this is a newly established road block in the middle of the eruption zone now the police and national guard tell us that just a couple of hours ago a new law the event opened up in the trees over in that direction for the people who live under the volcano the occasional jet of molten lava and bone shaking quake are part of the price of living in a tropical paradise i'm not afraid of it just respect it and be aware of. you know i don't care if the mountain is unpredictable no one knows where the next

lava breakout will be or how long kill away as angry mood will last rob reynolds al-jazeera near mount killer whale. two people have died and tens of thousands of homes are without electricity in the canadian provinces of ontario and quebec powerful winds there brought down power lines and toppled trees gusts of up to one hundred kilometers an hour have been recorded. an explosion in gaza has killed six members of hamas is military wing that brigades which injured three others happened in a residential neighborhood says those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded is really weapon dating back from the two thousand and fourteen war. in the next hour polls are expected to open in lebanon's parliamentary elections more than five hundred candidates have campaigned promising stability and economic growth the country is divided along sectarian lines raising questions over what political

changes may result to reports from beirut's. it will be the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade polls were repeatedly postponed until a new electoral law was agreed proportional representation has replaced winner takes all system but some are criticizing the new law for benefiting the ruling political class who have been forging unlikely electoral alliances just to stay in power their main objective is to increase the number. of seats. the new law is supposed to give a chance to first time hopefuls but breaking the establishment decades long hold on power is not easy the problem is that the civil society. they say that they are. just.

as. the only parties that formed a joint and the torah lists at a national level they have long dominated the muslim political landscape but they are facing opposition from within limited but a challenge nevertheless and that is why hezbollah has been campaigning hard. so i. would change the political scene one thing will change prime minister he will lose seats because of the way electoral districts are carved out but he is expected to be the sunni leader with the biggest bloc in parliament he does however face opposition from within his community with some blaming him for not taking a hardline stance. has. a. chance to prove that he. can be the next prime minister. christian candidates are also battling for leadership of their community the pull

their popularity a few years before they vie for the presidency a post reserved maronite christian a lot has changed since the last election the long established political divisions of the past are now god. and the pro saudi march fourteenth coalition march fourteenth. and the issue that. has military power which is stronger than the lebanese army has been shelved at least for the time being. have been focusing instead on securing their power if they hope to bring about a new generation of leaders that likely will not happen there may be some changes within parliament but there is a general consensus that these elections will not the major changes to the political landscape. of. the united arab emirates could be removed from the saudi led coalition. deployed forces to

a yemeni island without consulting its exiled governments there have been further protests on the territory in their arabian sea. it's not clear when troops will leave saudi arabia has a delegation to the island. from the key locations there last week. still ahead on al-jazeera. generation say they've been subject to a hostile environment in the u.k. . is threatening to withdraw from.

well last twenty four hours earth produced storms in both texas and in new england then actually in toronto to be honest that was the head of the cloud that went through fairly windy weather and the telling of this cold front where it's warm has been injected mostly gave the stormy stuff now the cold front itself is going to swing through such the sunday is dollars hasse's it has been still seventeen in new york or a fairly wet new york bollock of it twenty one in washington the temperature regimes pretty good further west got some clouds coming into washington state still a little bit of snow on the very top of the highest crime but not much to think it's a cloudy picture to be honest and then it's gone quiet again i mean monday looks like a fine day similar sort of temperature regime nineteen to twenty one eastern seaboard but that's a good ten degrees down from a couple of days ago the most active weather actually in probably going to be in hearts by the tailing cold front is this massive cloud here look at the sharp back edge to the cloud that suggests active some storms indeed there were five thousand

thunderstorms reported yesterday i know it seems a lot is based on lightning flashes but an active massive cloud still circulating through cuba jamaica haiti the bahamas or the smaller islands and back to florida and that's its progress over the next two days. on counting the cost drumming up business why saudi arabia is trying to lure of foreign cash even as oil prices head high up the european union launches a new budget blueprint upsetting some plus a look at gold smuggling in south sudan. counting the cost on al-jazeera.

the top stories on al-jazeera this hour riot police in russia have detained opposition leader alexa of only and more than a thousand of his supporters an anti-government demonstrations he had called for nationwide rallies against president vladimir putin who will be inaugurated for a fourth term on monday the united arab emirates could be removed from the saudi led coalition in yemen that's after it deployed forces to a yemeni island without consulting its exile government there but further protests on the territory in the arabian sea against the u.a.e. is a military presence there thousands of people have been forced to move after a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook hawaii's big island the biggest to hit the area in decades this follows their option off killer why are volcano which

began spewing lava on thursday. thousands of people who took refuge in schools often losing their homes in kenya's floods are being moved into makeshift camps the government plans to reopen the schools on monday but as enter simmons' reports in the town of garage in kid leafy county people are now facing worse conditions than before. it's a school classroom but this isn't about learning it's evil thousands of kenya's flood victims found food and shelter in schools but their stay is over it's time to move again the government wants to reopen the schools think i've got nothing in there is no way i can refuse to move i have no place of my own anymore right now i have no peace of mind. and so the

registration begins and these people are then sent on their way with some basic survival kits they're heading for a place known as the chief's camp but there's little in the way of comfort there they're all homeless with no possessions surrounded by floodwaters and there's no sign of what's going to happen next this camp may have the advantage of being on higher ground but it's a small hill top space is limited and it's overcrowded already the people have had to go elsewhere it's getting really bad for them while the weather is still wet and their conditions of got worse. they have to get wood to support the top pullens they've been given the to do is shelters and there are no facilities here yet for the moment the nearest source of drinking water is a want to a round trip away by forte and it means wading through these floods no bombs

no. on the belong to. the local chief has orders to reopen schools on monday but admits facilities for the displaced place yes what did they have reason to know about. our boat. it's not good. these resilient people are remarkably tolerance some accept the education of their children must come first but it won't cost in terms of hardship and health risk some of us all going to say about what we are suffering it would be better to have this elderly defiles. it's difficult now moved back and forth you never know you might be. uncertain sea like the rain clouds hangs over these people andrew simmons al-jazeera khalifi county in kenya this talks between the colombian government and the yellen rebel group will move to cuba the original host ecuador

pulled its support for the talks the negotiations started fifteen months ago and chris how after more than fifty years of fighting ecuador stopped hosting the talks after two ecuadorian journalists and their driver were killed by former fark rebels a coal mine explosion in southwest pakistan has killed at least sixteen miners emergency crews are carrying out an operation to free around a dozen others who are trapped in the mine the blast in the coal fields in baluchistan was caused by a buildup of methane gas inside the mine. at least four people have been killed in violence in indian administered kashmir a man died in srinagar after being run over by indian security forces and earlier at least three separate us fighters were killed during a raid by soldier is just a warning that you may find some images in a sauna binge of aids report disturbing. this is the moment when an indian

security vehicle crashes a protester. the vehicle drives on and the wounded man is left behind he later died of his injuries indian forces say they are investigating what happened it is now under control as regards the good or the other civilian just him to be a certain make what are the factors all the second. was more than a dozen people have been killed in escalating violence in indian administered kashmir last month the un secretary general urged that the loss of civilian lives needs to be investigated. and get it's been of the day of violence. this time it began when soldiers raided homes in a densely populated area in the city ocean of their security forces say they had information that fighters were hiding in that area when they were asked to surrender the soldiers say the fight to stop it shooting operation is going on things are not under control everything is an under control you want to look. there

is not much there is more damage off assuming property and and other things so i think that under control. fight is read killed by security forces during the operation police accuse protest is of trying to impede their operation and help the rebels so does the money by any go to our brothers who have left the path of allah they left for us and they've taken up arms after seeing the tyranny in kashmir now we have come out to rescue our brothers. india continues to blame neighboring pakistan for instigating trouble in the disputed region which pakistan denies. activists say more than seven hundred thousand indian troops and security personnel have been deployed in kashmir and the army is opposing calls to repeal a special powers act which prevents the prosecution of soldiers accused of abuses human rights watch has urged india to carry out prompt investigations into allegations of abuses and to prosecute those responsible. but rights groups say

thousands have already been killed in kashmir in nearly three decades of violence with no sign of reconciliation any time soon. one of cambodia's strongest opposition parties is threatening to withdraw from july's election saying forces are play the grassroots democratic party only emerged as a challenger after the previous largest opposition party dissolved in november when he reports. one of cambodia's newest political parties believes it's the only one that truly lives up to its name representatives of the grassroots democratic party are related from the ground up with supporters and members voting for who they want to stand in july general election but party leaders say there are undemocratic forces at work in cambodia we had a day for their mission but in the next two months i'm on until monday so there's

an inch and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and it's in this what's why i thought the price of paying the previous largest opposition party the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved in november accused of plotting to overthrow the government its leader kim is in jail charged with treason critics say it's part of a campaign orchestrated by the ruling cambodian people's party which is afraid of losing power the opposition performed well in the last general and local elections including here on q. who won his seat in phnom penh only to lose it when his part he was banned and. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no national rescue party in the election they want to go to. the party headquarters which is owned by another former leader sam rainsy has been seized by the court which may sell it unless he pays a million dollar fine for defaming the prime minister when sam rainsy has. called

on cambodians to boycott the election there has been international condemnation of the deteriorating situation here with forty five countries signing a letter calling for the opposition to be reinstated and for kim to be freed while the united states and the european union have withdrawn funding for july's votes the government says it isn't concerned about the criticism and words intervene in the judicial process they can voice but. of the spirit. of the country. on earth. but the future they will come back to earth. the grassroots party has already faced intimidation with signs and banners taken down in some places apparently by government supporters but in a way a new political force may be exactly what the government needs

a strong opposition to give the election some credibility but becoming too strong with risk. phnom penh the unveiling of a statue of karl marx has sparked both celebration and protest in the german city of tree where the sculpture marks two hundred years since the philosopher birth it was a gift from the chinese government some groups rallied against human rights abuses in china others wanted to highlight exploitation and capitalism marx remains a controversial figure especially among germans who lived under soviet control after the second world war. tens of thousands of people have protested in paris against presidents and money when michael demonstrators marking his first year in office carried. effigies of the former investment banker. were critical of his economic policies which they say favor the rich. people

from the caribbean invited to work in britain after world war two. they're protesting after the scandal over a government policy threatens their right to live in the country after decades members of the so-called wind generation took their protest directly to prime minister to resign in london. was there. from. the call for amnesty for the victims of a scandal that goes to the heart of the british government a scandal that's affected thousands of people of caribbean origin and their fight to remain in the country meant to be their home i still have family and friends who were affected by this some people i know with back in the middle of the night we couldn't do anything about it because because batman stories so open the wind rush generation who went to britain between one nine hundred forty eight to nine hundred seventy one were vital in rebuilding the nation after the second world war but for

many the right to remain in the u.k. has been fraught with difficulties by government blunders no records were kept for those who will grant to permission to stay permanently and no paperwork was issued to confirm it and in twenty tend to put his home office destroyed landing cards that belong to wind migrants risking the status of people who have been living here illegally in the u.k. for decades many of those affected lost their jobs and why denied access to health care benefits and pensions that were even threatened with deportation when the government has promised results the way. within weeks there are still so many. answer questions and just last week the ruling party voted against the release of secret documents relating to the with russia crisis saying that it was disproportionate during last week's prime minister's questions reason may promise more transparency into how such wrongful deportations and detentions occurred but so far she has resisted discouraging further immigration controls despite

increasing pressure we all share the ambition to make sure we do right by members of the win dress generation and that's why he will be announcing a package of measures to bring transparency on the issue to inform make sure the house is informed to reassure members of his house but more importantly to reassure those people who have been directly affected under emergency government measures thousands of people will be offered the chance to obtain british citizenship free of charge as well as the right to compensation for those affected it is perhaps too little too late your little light here and the telling you you don't mean oh well you know the anger and hurt of a generation who were betrayed by a country they believed in sunnydale egle london. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera right police in russia have detained

opposition leader alexina volley more than a thousand of his supporters and anti-government demonstrations in a volley was carried away as he attended a rally against president vladimir putin in the capital moscow he had called for nationwide rallies against clinton will be inaugurated for a fourth term on monday. the u.a.e. could be removed from the saudi led coalition in yemen after a deployed forces to yemeni island without consulting its exiled government that's according to a senior yemeni official speaking to the associated press there have been further protests on the territory in the arabian sea against the u.s. military presence there. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate after a magnitude six point nine earthquake shook a wise big island the biggest to hit the area in decades the killer way a volcano began spewing lava on thursday several tremors have struck since then rob

reynolds has more from states. the civil defense administrators said that the eight active lava folds seem to have quieted and that they are sort of joined together but they are not completely done yet they have burned down five homes fortunately no people have been reported to be killed or seriously injured in a officials are now considering whether on sunday to allow people to come back into this area the un is warning of disease outbreaks following severe flooding in kenya at least one hundred twelve people have been killed and more than two hundred sixty thousand displaced over the past two months aid workers say they've reached only a quarter of the families in need of shelter the red cross says it doesn't have enough money to cover its emergency operations and explosion in the gaza strip has

killed six members of hamas military wing three others have been injured in the village near the coast of gaza where the blast occurred because some brigades say those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded is really ordinance dating from the twenty fourteen war at least four people have died in violence in indian administered kashmir a man was killed in srinagar after getting run over by indian security forces earlier at least three separatist fighters were killed during a raid by soldiers there those are the headlines on al-jazeera counting the cost is coming up next. billion in the. police didn't want to be. killed.