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this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine denis coming up in the next sixty minutes thirteen people are killed in afghanistan after an explosion at a mosque in eastern cost probably. haven't voted in nine years so what will today's parliamentary election mean for the people of lebanon. iran's president won't see americans not to walk away from the nuclear deal as the may twelfth deadline for renewal edges closer. with the sports le bron james schools the game winning possibly to as the cleveland cavaliers close in on the eastern conference final.

place out with breaking news from afghanistan and at least thirteen people have been killed in the eastern province of course after a bomb exploded at a mosque police say it may have been targeted because it's also being used as a voter registration center for october as parliamentary election more than thirty people have been injured for these killings come a week of the twin bombings in kabul killed at least twenty five people including nine journalists now that was the deadliest attack involving journalists for many years in a separate attack on the same day a suicide bomber set off an explosion that killed eleven children outside the southern city of kandahar and earlier in april another sixty people died in the capital during. one of several attacks on voter registration centers an explosion

near another center this time north of the capitol in baghlan province killed six people all of them from the same family and on april the twentieth gunman hit a voter registration center in back does province and a police officer was killed in that now jennifer glass is our correspondent she is joining us live now from the afghan capital jennifer these attacks particularly on voter registration senses are coming thick and fast. that's right martina as you said the parliamentary and district elections are scheduled to be held on april or start on october twentieth last month in april the voter registration process began in mid april and since it has started there have been a number of attacks on a voter registration centers on election officials election workers clearly opponents of the government trying to derail these a long awaited elections only about a million people have registered to vote and the government was hoping that fifteen

million people would be registered by mid june and that now seems a very distant prospect and i know that afghans that i speak to here in the capital many of them are frightened to go to any of these voter registration centers some of them are in schools and parents have objected that they are in schools because they they're worried about the safety factor they're worried about these series of attacks that have gone on around the country and people are just worried about bombs and explosions they are certainly a concern there have been a number of them here in kabul just in the last two weeks alone but we're just getting word in bogland province that a number of indian engineers six or seven indian engineers have been kidnapped from a minibus they have been working on a project there in bogland province of kidnapping also another concern among people here as the government really struggles to provide security for the afghan population and who is it in the main who would like to disrupt these full coming elections because of kools there's not just one fighting group in afghanistan

anymore it's no longer just the taliban. that's right so you have the taliban of course the main fighting group here they have ignored president ashraf ghani. over sure for peace talks in february he offered to have peace talks and to bring them into the political process they have ignored those government requests the fighting continues and last month late last month they announced the beginning of their fighting season and so we've seen them really engage in fighting around the country but it's not just the taleban as you say martin that the government is fighting eisel to has a very renewed mandate here and seems to be rejuvenated while it first there is thought there were just several hundred fighters now maybe many more than that and i saw has claimed that the past two attacks two weeks ago at a voter center that killed nearly sixty people and injured about one hundred twenty

more and last week's attack here in kabul that killed twenty five and injured nearly fifty people among the dead of course those nine journalists i saw has claimed responsibility for those big bold attacks in kabul that is something that has been new for them for the group to be able to get into the city there's much speculation as to how they're getting that kind of logistic and what kind of support but clearly a lot of opponents of the government's nato officials say that there are about twenty anti-government groups operating in and around afghanistan the largest concentration anywhere in the world and so this government very very has a very difficult task not only trying to build itself not only trying to hold elections and build an economy but also trying to continue to have security to be able to allow afghans to go about their daily lives but the the bombs and the explosions and the attacks really have ratcheted up in recent weeks jennifer graff live in kabul thank you. no it's lebanon's first parliamentary election for nine

years since the last bit which was in two thousand and nine a lot's happened the war in neighboring syria for instance which has led to the arrival of more than a million refugees and then there's the regional rivalry between saudi arabia and iran that almost inevitably feeds into this highly politically polarized society where the country is using a new system based for some part at least on proportional representation for the vote president michel aoun you can see in these pictures casting his ballot in the capital a short while ago no that is sad hariri of course the prime minister he'll say voted in one district in beirut. god willing all every lebanese citizen has to perform their national identity the lebanese can vote for whoever they wish this will make the country stronger. all right let's take a closer look at the mechanics of this election almost six hundred candidates vying

for one hundred twenty eight seats in parliament and eighty six of them are women lebanon's parliament is evenly divided between muslims and christians the president is always a maronite christian the prime minister a sunni muslim and the speaker a shia muslim and a prime minister saad hariri belongs to the future movement which is popular among sunnis he says the election is a contest between his party and hezbollah which is the most politically powerful political movement in the country is the only political faction with an active armed wing and the conflict in neighboring syria is one of the main issues for voters because as i've mentioned more than a million syrian refugees have now found refuge in limon lebanon and that's that amount about a quarter of its population economy has featured heavily in the election debate lebanese young people in particular looking for a strong economic leadership because there's a very high unemployment there are

a load wages and there is corruption so now we can go live to has our correspondent who is in the bekaa valley so how is the election going there hashim . quite interesting moments here eleven and you have mixed feelings. about the future and then science here the same time about a potential turn out of the election i'm surrounded by members of this some have family some members of this family came all the way from canada to cast their vote here in the hell are they hope that this will bring about a new change in lebanon but at the same time this is one of those chance districts in the area because of the different opposing parties that each vying for a bigger say joining me much more to talk about is romney somehow i mean can i ask you this question how significant is this vote for you well it's really very

significant after nine years of postponing the elections in lebanon finally able to do the elections all the political parties agreed on a new. and a new. way to do so were very happy and specially that in the here and the never known or not to be the oldest democracy in the middle east and we are almost the only one undefined and so you want this democracy to be preserved and now i can see members of your family mostly young people the vast difference you have aspirations for the future what do you hope to see this new government do for you hope for the new government to hope that it will take the leadership would want to make consideration want to have a clean government not corrupted that will be able to push forward the economy in all the specs on the energy sector in the sector because we are to have a promising but tension and those who hope that with their own will the new orleans revenue revenues will compensate all that effort the government deficit thank you

very much indeed that i mean martine it's exactly the same sentiment that you can hear across the country basically people say that with fed up of the talk about the sectarian religious divide and the mainstream political establishment that has been dominating political decision making. process in lebanon for more than five decades we want people to get their act together saw the problems that we face talking basically about poverty unemployment the poor public services particularly remember the few months ago the waste management crisis that triggered one of the must. biggest protest movements against the government so hey it's quite interesting you could give us an indication about how the wind is going to blow eleven in the past there was an alliance all for five political parties affiliated under the umbrella of the fourteen watch movement today they're no longer allies because they're competing at against each other because of the new election. it would be a really interesting to see what happens tomorrow are we bracing for

a massive defeat for the establishment political parties i don't think this is going to be the case however many say that if the independents those who voted present the voiceless those who represent the civic society managed to break the ceiling here in lebanon that could be the beginning of a new day hashem who live in the bekaa valley. we got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including human rights watch says arbitrary detentions are on the rise in saudi arabia. a stunning display as a wise active volcano continues to spew gas and lava on residential areas and the most successful manager in british football alex ferguson remains in intensive care after a brain hemorrhage james we'll have the very latest. now

iran's president says the u.s. will regret quitting the new clear deal like never before has a rouhani says his government is prepared to respond if such a decision is taken president trump has repeatedly said he wants out of the twenty fifteen deal he has less than a week in which to decide i gather the fallout as bad drama haulage if the us ups to pull out of the nuclear deal it will soon realize that this decision will become a historic regret for them no change will occur in our lives next week we have devised plans for any possible decision that trump might make and will resist it. well on saturday a prominent advisor to president trump said he's confident the u.s. will indeed walk away from the deal rudy giuliani was speaking at an event that was hosted by a group called the organization of iranian american communities. and with. various napalm peo now on his right and his national security adviser john bolton you

remember john. what do you think is going to happen to that agreement. that nuclear agreement. i. will add to that the british foreign secretary boris johnson he's on his way to washington to try to convince president trump not to walk away from the deal mr johnson's visit comes shortly after the leaders of france and germany made similar attempts last month but the manual macro and angela merkel say the current deal is the best way to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons let's go live now to correspondent who's in tehran time we've heard from the president hassan rouhani zain very strong was threatening only strengthening the u.s. that there will be historic regret if they will go away from this.

well absolutely martin with just days to go the leadership here in iran is preparing its country for what it thinks is the worst case scenario another person language can be quite poetic and broad and strong but really the solutions are proposing for their own people are very practical and our president hassan rouhani is in the northeastern part of the country he's he's touring communities to people directly and inaugurating several industrial projects. to be defending his government's desire to get into the deal in the first place he's said that iran has fulfilled its end of the bargain that it approached the deal as an honest broker and that it is the trumpet ministration that is seen the deal is not a good thing in that he called that. perspective he called it illogical nonsense and so the leadership here is very much expecting the worst case scenario

a return to nuclear era sanctions by the united states and the economic isolation that comes with it and they certainly are closing ranks in an effort to prepare for what will come once may twelfth has come and gone and what about president rouhani because a person in his state's. loss of his own political capital on this deal promising iranian people they will feel the benefits of the easing of sanctions that came with this nuclear deal of twenty fifteen. absolutely it was under his administration that the deal making began in the first place and it is what won him his last election in twenty seventeen last year president hassan rouhani put the way the twenty fifteen nuclear deal forward to his people as the cure all for all of the country's economic woes and at the time it was worth it was his it was his trump card if you will to win him the presidency and now is the time that his government is defending their decision to go forward with it in the first place

there have been broad predictions that the end of the deal would spell political the political we can a president hassan rouhani but there are many observers that this may be very good for iran by the united states being the bad guy if you world by being the reason that the deal begins to fray and comes to an end it gives a ron the the the political ability to tell the european partners that we have the moral high ground now that we tried to do it your way and it didn't work out and now we will return to policymaking on our own terms so going forward. the end of the deal may mean untether in iran from a nuclear agreement at a time when it enjoys far more regional influence than it did when it negotiated the deal in the first place ok thank you for that zain our correspondent in the iranian capital tehran now israeli media is reporting the president could ask israel to withdraw from four neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem now the

speculation that this could be part of the u.s. overall plan for israel palestine and it comes a week before the american embassy is officially due to move from tel aviv to jerusalem seventy deca is in question. reports in the israeli media that the trumpet ministration will israel to hand over cede control of four palestinian neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem drugger free of course is incredibly important it is everything when it comes to resolving this conflict three of those neighborhoods one of them is the ready outside the separation wall two of them very close to it the other one being talked about or fought is one that is right next to west jerusalem many people will tell you that it will be incredibly difficult to see how israel will allow to hand over control of that the bigger picture here is what's important and also known as yet spoken about the future of the old city the old city of course home to the al aqsa mosque compound

it is holy to muslims it is holy to jews many people will tell you the palestinians won't accept anything when it comes to the core of the issue i think it's all about concessions we have heard from the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman in these radio media as well saturday night saying there is no such thing as a free lunch of course referring to the transfer of the american embassy here to druce and we expect that on the fourteenth of may concessions will have to be made by both sides the trumpet ministration of course donald trump will be incredibly keen to be seen as the man who's been able to resolve the impossible he's calling what we are expecting to hear a new plan that their administrations been working on the deal of the century i think however no one is holding their breath the palestinians increasingly skeptical of the americans as honest brokers following that move however other was will tell you that perhaps the trump administration will be using the move to twist israel to twist this administration into giving concessions that otherwise it will not make again we're going to have to wait and see what exactly the specifics of

this deal will be we're expecting that to be announced a little after that move of the embassy to jerusalem the fourteenth. the human rights watch is strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man for what it calls a dramatic increase in arbitrary detentions the group says at least two thousand three hundred people have been detained for more than six months without trial some of been in custody for more than a decade human rights watch says the saudi justice system only seems to be getting worse they were the words now the report is based on data published by the interior ministry self a similar analysis made by human rights watch in twenty fourteen found fewer than three hundred people have been held in similar circumstances but that figure now as i say is two thousand three hundred according to them human rights watch says one saudi citizen has been held without conviction since two thousand and three and another has been detained whilst under investigation since two thousand and six two

hundred fifty one people have been in prison for more than three years without their cases coming before the courts well i've been speaking to adam kugel his middle east researcher human rights watch and he says ending such detentions should be crucial for the reforms announce by saudi arabia. saudi authorities have been promising justice reforms for more than ten years and they've poured millions and millions of dollars into it yet for all these reforms we still find these massive numbers of people held for many many months and even years without trial and that's just one part of the problem once people get to trial they also face other issues including convictions based on what they say are career scores confessions as well as an inability of defendants to adequately defend themselves before saudi courts some cases in which no defense was presented that end up with the death penalty so you know i think while the certainly the crown prince maybe even more time to

institute full scale justice reforms. they certainly have not made a lot of progress so far and i should also say in a recent interview with the washington post the crown prince when asked about the detentions and unfair trials if your rights activists seem to indicate that he did not think that the system was broken what we did was we took the data from in full second and we just analyzed how many people have been under investigation or with a case that is that is not indicative of a conviction or being brought before trial and we said how many of them are in detention how long have they been in detention i also should say that in january of this year we sent a letter to the saudi attorney general and to the saudi foreign ministry requesting information or information about the data as presented by the almight portal but we received no response it's difficult for investors to invest when they don't have confidence in the justice system it's difficult for ordinary saudis to feel like you know they can go through life and receive fair treatment when they know that

the justice system isn't working so it is a really critical it should be a critical component to mohammed bin some man's modernization efforts. for the turkish president roger tire better one has announced another cross border military operation in syria he's been addressing supporters at a rally in istanbul the president is campaigning in the early presidential and parliamentary elections that have been set for june the twenty fourth moved in a year before they were originally planned we can talk to see them because the earlier now our correspondent who's in istanbul as well and see them so the president everyone is most definitely in campaigning mode isn't he but announcing the turkey is prepared to go back into northern syria. yes martin chris unfaired on has always stated that turkish military operations in northern syria would be continuing as long as turkey it totally secure is it

borders its own borders by the way i have to mention that since the failed to attempt in two thousand and sixteen the ruling party akbar to which they present are gone is also now the chair has aligned with very few nationalist party and now he is a joint candidate for presidential debates in the snap elections that is coming in june twenty fourth so this nationalist the score since the failed school has actually dominated the ruling party's political political agenda and that's why we have seen more eager statements about the operations the targets the output kurdistan workers party and i saw in northern syria martin prisons are done now as is stating his manifest for the op for the snap election for for the next month but i must say that this manifesto is actually like a global perspective for what our court is going to do if they win the presidential

system actually by the way if donna wins this presidential bid it's means that turkey's parliamentary system will be abolished the post for prime minister will be abolished and presence add to all will be the executive president of the whole country so now he's delivering messages that he vows that he will decrease the crazy interest rates he will decrease the inflation which has actually become a major problem for the turks recently due to the higher ed food inflation he also knows that there will be more prosperity and more freedom in turkey martin actually list discourse has grown up party the ruling party and to become the government in two thousand and two but since to get the protests which took place in two thousand and thirteen the government has been. criticized by the opponents and the human rights organizations for its tough security measures and restrictions on the media

so now everybody's curious after this manifesto part two will have to end now it's election campaign is statements which will show the methodologies and implementations for this manifesto from promises but no it is very interesting because still there is a state of emergency ongoing since the failed coup in turkey but our don is talking about more freedom and more prosperity martin ok cinema because we live in a simple thank you. a volcanic eruption in ho ho why is forcing more and more people out of their homes lover steen toxic gas and even earthquakes quakes threatening residential areas rob reynolds reports now from the erupting killer way volcano on the state's big island. 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 roaring like jet engine and every time it exploded it was like an explosion or 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 les lani 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 it is a difficult thing to watch a 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 vent 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. right it's time for the weather now and stuff here and novocaine is in turkey no but really dramatic pictures though take a look at these these are the pictures that we're seeing from turkey at the moment and it shows that the flooding that we're seeing there so the water well all this rain came down just nine minutes that's all one hundred sixty cars were damaged and look at this man he's on the bonnet of one of these cars there he is but when he woke up this morning he didn't expect to be surfing on the bonnet of the car now fortunately there were no fatalities that that man is ok but certainly we had a lot of damage from the system and it's all part of this huge system that stretches from georgia there all the way across turkey and across into greece as well and throughout this region we've seen a very spectacular thunderstorms as being a lot of thunder and lightning a lot of hail as well but that was obviously the worst flooding that we saw that

system is going to stay in place as we head through the next few days it is swirling around a little bit more and actually pulling itself together too so we'll see more of a defined blog there on monday that's where we're expecting some of the heaviest of the downpours but we've also got this other system that's working its way up from the mediterranean there it's working its way through parts of lebanon and then up to wardes turkey and it's all me syria iraq iran border all of this region seeing this very dark blue so that's where we're going to see some very heavy rain and i wouldn't be surprised to see more flooding out of this marty. frank very much indeed lots more to come phil on this news hour including. on wednesday in phnom penh where it will tell you why new opposition party is threatening to withdraw from july's election. why this woman's condition was made worse after an operation in mexico and she's not the only one. and how the failure of controversial technology help decide to try to. have the details in school.

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michel cost his ballot in bay ridge an earlier prime minister saad hariri vote. in another district of the capital the country is using a new system based on proportional representation. iran's president says the u.s. will regret quitting the nuclear deal like never before has some rouhani says iran is prepared to respond to such a decision is taking taken president trump has less than a week in which to decide. ok now we can speak to. cullen who's professor of political science at the university of tehran he's joining us live from the iranian capital thank you for talking to us and these are really strong words coming from president rouhani if indeed this the americans decide to walk away from the deal how will that impact upon him his state so much of his own political personal political credibility on this deal. well i

believe that the iranian president is trying to have a brave face but beneath the brave face i think he knows that iran can do much about it if there trump decides to redraw from the deal it's it's all right to say that we are on him or on the high ground the e.u. is back we need are on the wall these back to iran and everyone is to blame in the united states but the analysts at the end of the day you have iranian president knows too well that if trump redraws from the view it would be followed by need a new sanction and b. and b. european countries whether they like it or not will go along with the united states canada will go with the united states or. south korea and the

important war powers would go along with the united states because of their own economic interest lies with the united states not. so iran might have their moral high ground of actually keeping his side of the responsibilities as far as their nuclear deed concerned but what iran would suffer already already the iranian currency during the past two months has declined by year by year by nearly thirty percent and people are very worried that there are out there are no sign of iran being able to pull out of the economic recession and. this is a part of the economy is helen saying can i just interrupt there because this is indeed a point that pats could play positively for. the rouhani at least and that is that the nuclear deal so far hasn't really yielded the kinds of positive results that it

rain ians were promised they're not feeling the benefits of it yet or they. no they are not benefiting their feeling that they have not benefited from the deal but the point is that it won't be rouhani who would gain from united states be dropped from the deal. and in fact contrary it would be the hardliners who would benefit there who would gain political point from from from you as we draw because they would tear him back to raunchy i'm very forward he's on the moderate and they would tell them that well look you said we could trust united to say we could negotiate with united to say we could reach a deal with united to say i know what happened united said is not true for these hardliners who would saying that we told you right from the beginning that making

any deal with the united the state is foolish and. i mean it would be fair their embarrassment for for on me not capital gain all right ok thank you very good to talk to you particularly at this juncture sad exhibit column to interest live from toronto and here actually this is our voting in the country's first ever democratic local elections and it's been seen as yet another milestone on the road to democracy following the arab spring but the authorities have struggled to improve living standards and tackle corruption and observers expect a low turnout citing an electorate that is demoralized by high unemployment and years of all star at eighty years of sharif is a cheesy and political analyst and he's joining us live now from the capital tunis it all sounds like a bit of an anticlimax and for the people of tunis here they had their they euphoric moments of twenty eleven they chased away

a long serving dictator they do have a very forward thinking progressive kind of constitution but ultimately their lives haven't been improved either. and then from them they. became candidates for the election because you know ways that the general population that we will be confronted with electorate programs and. reading looking elsewhere or not looking at all. the reasons that's. when we compare them to the rest of the region they are not. for eating the daily lives. they're going to be issued and that do not seem to fade away but if the sions among themselves keep struggling keep shouting at each other in. that form or parliament and so all in all

this has created the general feeling of disenchantment among the population and we see today with this very loose turnout because elections now almost three pm and we're talking about. thirteen person at the national. level so it would be actually a record low election. turnout. and what does that mean then for the results having the such a record low turnout what does that mean for the actual credibility of the results of these elections. this is the problem because now you knew many. elected with very little religion. with a lot of. stations work there is an. elected wealth and power and they won't have any popular support around then i think they. do and so they would not be able.

to. prove the situation. to make the population more attractive to the pretty good life in the country. or not it is actually quite dangerous food the future of the book. and then again but also on the griddle local and international players who did everything to make the democratic condition look as if it was total failure which is not by the end of the day when we compare it with. sherry thank you very much indeed the talking to us live from tunis. one of cambodia's strongest opposition parties is threatening to withdraw from july's election the grassroots democratic party says the vote is unlikely to be free and fair it only emerged as a challenger after the largest opposition party was dissolved when hey reports now from the capital phnom penh. 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 need for their lives from the internet. if the so there's and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and it's in this what's right for the price of pain 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 q who won his seat in phnom penh only to lose it when his party was

banned and. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no camborne international 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 so card 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 it best not the flags. or the

spirits of all people of those countries so it's still negative on earth today but the future they will come back to earth it's normal. that 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 may also come with risk wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh talks between colombia and the air len rebel group moving to cuba after the original host ecuador pulled out the negotiations aimed at ending a five decade campaign the violence started fifteen months ago in quito mediation stopped after the aqua dorrian journalists and their driver were killed by former members of another colombian rebel group. and i'll use their

investigation has found that hundreds of mexicans have had experimental and unregulated medical procedures by the country's top neurological institute john holdren explains. it's painful for you lander to look back at the time before she was hit by hydrocephalus a debilitating condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain it's left her with massive headaches and speech problems. everything changed because i was a sports woman before i spent twenty years doing sports and i sold clothing everything and that she hoped that an operation at mexico's flagship institute for neurology and neurosurgery would help her but what she didn't know was that doctors would hope with an experimental and the north rise device. and not just her four hundred seventy three other patients who went to the facility we're also implanted

they were essentially guinea pigs in an unofficial trial carried out over a period of fourteen years they never asked me anything before operating they said something to my husband but never that they were going to do an experiment. three doctors working at the institute at the time spoke to al-jazeera it all said that like you learned the nearly five hundred patients weren't told the device was unauthorized nor nobody's case file included an informed consent about the experimental nature of the device not one the national institute has refused to clarify if patients were informed or not but we got access to six patient falls this is what's key to all of this the medical consent form in one of the cases and it's very general it doesn't mention that this is an experimental device that hasn't been authorized by the health ministry. but that's not all the three doctors

out to syria talk to say the device was simply a tube that relied on gravity to drain away fluid from the brain down to the stomach area and that relying on gravity meant that if a patient lay down it would flow back other devices used valves to stop that. it's just a tube it's technology from the fifty's it doesn't represent any sort of progress. by a published studies the inventor of the tube claimed it's precisely calculated diameter did regulate flow and stop fluid going back to the brain even when patients were climbed he said it worked better than valve eula devices. doctors told us several patients had to have the device replaced but it's unclear how many suffered from any ill effects the names of those implanted have been released a many came from poor remote communities. because it's a problem especially with patients without much money they feel ok and they go

there last. year learned that was able to have another device fitted several years ago but a health continues to worsen at this point hopes of getting better or for justice a fading john heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. still to come on this. threat. of breaking. with. the european union. blueprint. gold smuggling.

ring green bacteria in a. gas escaping from volcanic well. this is really. in the for. two experiments. and. i'm the guy in. the i just have to.

thank you manchester city will be handed their premier league trophy in the next hour after the final whistle in the match where it's still male male with about her . off an hour left to play but they were also looking to rewrite the history books say city can win they will break the record for the most points and the most wins in a premier league season the team also needs just two more goals to break chelsea's all time record of one hundred three meanwhile also will be paying tribute to the outgoing manager also vanga at his final home match everyone will be given mercy also in shirts for the game against burnley banga stepped down last month after twenty two years in charge he won three league titles and a record seven f.a. cups with the gunness but his side crashed out of the rope league semifinals last

week. football stars past and present have been sending messages of support to former manchester united manager also alex ferguson ferguson is in intensive care after surgery for a brain haemorrhage former player david beckham and rival clubs like manchester city were among the many to post best wishes to focus and on social media he is the most successful manager in british football history having led united to thirty eight trophies over twenty six years in charge. well madrid manager says his side will not give newly crowned spanish champions bastone a god of honor in sunday's classico unbeaten this season and clinch the title last sunday it was the twenty fifth time to have won league their fifteen points ahead of the champions league final lists with four games to go and despite not all thriving a guard of honor the dan insists he does respect. simpliciter as a teacher of course us i've always said this we are not going to make

a guard of honor for them because they didn't do it over us but i do respect that this is a most important thing to respect of course alona have achieved what they have won love the good which is in my opinion the most difficult things in porto have clinched the title in portugal without kicking a ball fan celebrated the city's twenty eighth premier league triumph often the wrist rivals been fita and sporting lisbon could only manage a go in the straw it's left for so far four points clear with just one much remains . australia's football federation is admitted that video system referee technology failed during saturday's ailie grand final a technical failure of stop the controversial system from disallowing the goal that decided the title costabile bruce's strike in the ninety minutes gave melbourne victory a one away in television replays showed a player was offside but officials now admitted the feed into the vast system was last seconds before the goal this prevented the referee on duty from accessing the

required angles the much had been restarted by the time the connection was restored it's the latest blow to the technology which will be used at the world cup in russia for the first time later this year. to basketball now on the cleveland cavaliers have taken a three nothing late in the n.b.a.'s eastern conference semifinals over the tranter raptors the bron james is once again on top form. reports back to last year and the project aims a three time finals m.v.p. if this is a liberal james as last season with the cavaliers he certainly making it one to remember there's been reports all season long that he might leave after this campaign by now however he looks very focused on cleveland where that was with the top scored in his team's first two wins over toronto and eastern conference semifinals and game three was no different look like thank god there's been a few weeks or three time n.b.a. champion back thirty eight points but despite the bronze display the raptors pushed

the cavs all the way they went on a run in the final quarter and managed to draw level oh yes thank you thank you sir could sit there but on this night nobody was going to deny le bron thirty six if they were thanking the beating winners and not the match winning display cleveland winning it one of five to one of three they could be a drive you know for for a lay up that i've had in the past. should be a floater like i was tonight. and off the glass and i practice pretty much you know every shot that i've taken a game and no matter if it's the first quarter or you know again when i feel pretty comfortable with the cavs now have a three nothing lead so well malik al-jazeera. likely even the boston celtics now need just one more win to reach the eastern conference finals they beat the philadelphia seventy six is on saturday to take

a three nothing series late and the two favorites for the western conference title golden state and houston can both take three one leads in this series later up on sunday. the pittsburgh penguins are on the brink of elimination from the n.h.l. playoffs the stanley cup defending champions were beaten by the washington capitals six three in game five of the eastern conference semi series it means the capitals take a three tier lead and a one win away from making the next round. in saturday's western conference semifinal the winnipeg jets routed the nashville predators sixty to take a three two lead in their playoff series khana scored twice in a four goal second period to put them on the brink of progressing jason day will go into the final round of p.g.a. tour event at quail hollow holding a two shot lead the australian carded a four under sixty seven to put himself in contention for a second victory this season despite scraping through the first two rounds tiger woods is just nine shots of the pace after

a round of sixty eight. now the first event in horse racing's triple crown has been held in louisville kentucky. a one hundred forty fourth kentucky derby was a muddy affair on saturday but it was eventually won by justify who became the first colt in one hundred thirty six years to win despite not racing as a two year old that meant he broke what was known as the curse of apollo he was the last colt to do exactly that way back in eighteen eighty two he's got that it back to you he's just so above average you know he's got unbelievable talent and then he's got a mind to go with it he was loving this stuff he's crazy for such a young you know young horse is just so big in television all right that is all sport for me for now back to you marty joe thank you very much indeed for decades street art has been a prominent feature of berlin telling the story of political and social change but

now demand for new housing means that some of the city's most iconic artworks could soon disappear to mccain ripple. it's a city of culture and counter culture where the walls of buildings are the canvas on which politics and society sometimes collide in an art form that has much of the anarchic where what matters is the work and the artists themselves want to remain anonymous and not to have limits placed on that creativity if there's new buildings being held that's all right it's kind of like that's i mean more important than it's like street art is like something that is born on its own and doesn't have like when it gets too well regulated or sanctioned and it won't really be alive anymore and you get a feel for just how alive the scene really is in districts like lights back when improvised astronauts stared down at you from buildings how the fruits of the artist's labor is there for all to see and reputable fill walls are just murals

waiting to be painted all the. more and more street artists are coming here from across the world really what's more and more and as far as i know this year alone more than fifty new murals are going to be painted in a very short time. but in a city with a constant need for new housing and more office space often world renowned examples of street art can end up obscured by new buildings recent figures suggest the vacancy rate in existing apartment buildings is just one and a half percent at a time when fifty eight percent of all households are occupied by single people leaving the city planning or thora ts with the dilemma of how to protect cultural treasures while accommodating the ever growing number of people who want to live among them you have to deal with investors that want to build blocks and things like that and so everyone has to find solutions what could stay

and what current has to go not. friend of having a sort of staying with this square cities and things like that for ever there are some examples of three far in this city which do have protection germans called partial factories here what's left of the bourbon wall at what's called the east side gallery but even here it's clear where modern buildings have really taken over and yet some believe those modern buildings that obscure the art of yesteryear also provide a platform to paint the pictures of the president dominic king al-jazeera berlin. lots more to come here and out of there don't go away. sixty seven words that spelled promise for one people. but

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