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zero. hello and welcome to this. coming up in the next sixty minutes lebanon awaits the results of parliamentary elections but on official reports gains the iranian backed. russian president for a full time he's now the longest serving leader. confinement to torture. and political prisoners. are regulated medical devices were used on patients undergoing brain surgery in mexico .

but first the shia group hezbollah and its allies are now reported to have made gains in lebanon's palm entry elections this is according to unofficial preliminary results that are being cited by politicians and by the media the official tally is expected to be announced in the next couple of hours but hezbollah supporters are already out there celebrating as you can see from these pictures well these are the first parliamentary elections for lebanese people in nine years let's go live now without more ado to our correspondent zana holder who is in beirut and the unofficial results are showing some quite significant gains for hezbollah and some other surprises as well. yes more than half of the seats of the one hundred and twenty eight parliament going to the law and their political allies they will have

the biggest bloc in parliament their political allies of course including. a group . movement as well as the christian party the free patriotic movement many are translating this really as a window for iran over recent years we've seen iran gaining influence not only in the eleven on but across the region because during the last election in two thousand and nine it was the pro western and the pro saudi arabia alliance which was headed by the current prime minister. they won in the majority of seats in parliament so those unofficial results showing hezbollah and its political allies winning at least the simple majority in the parliament and. from the hard line the israeli cabinet minister. saying that this result for hezbollah means that this concerned hezbollah equals lebanon lebanon equals hezbollah or.

this isn't the first time. government.

so we are expecting. twenty four. almost seventy percent of the. president. he started out as a k.g.b. agent became the head of russia's spy agency then the country's prime minister and less than five months later at the age of forty seven vladimir putin became the

president of russia it was a spectacular rise and reveals the to knesset that has shaped his eighteen years in power evolution to the likely issue of russia's two term presidential limit by two thousand and eight putin's time was up he resolved to that by handing the presidency to dmitri medvedev and becoming prime minister himself if you were in any doubt as to who really held the power. four years later a person was back in the top job and stamping his authority with a police crackdown on anti-government protests and tough you measures to quell the scene. a much more man image is fuelled his popularity at home and putin has worked equally hard to assert russia's tough image abroad. he took crimea from ukraine a move that still angers many in the waist he stepped in to back the regime of president bashar al assad in syria's long running war over the breast and he's

accused by u.s. intelligence officials of being behind a campaign to sway the us elections in donald trump's favor forbes magazine has named bush and the world's most powerful person for four years in a row he's now back for a fourth term president of a country with the opposition has little or no voice president of a country where despite tough international sanctions he's determined to drive russia's agenda no matter how much that might change tegan eyes the west right now we can talk to our correspondent rory chalons who's in moscow he has said that this will be his last term do we believe him. well that's the million dollar question who knows there is a constitution in russia in the constitution says that you cannot see more than two consecutive presidential terms now he sidestepped that of course as mariana was just saying the last time he came to the end of his constitutional limits by

stepping into the prime minister role doing that for four years and then stepping back into the presidency well if he did that again then by the time he was back in the presidency he would be probably in his late seventy's now you know he seems fairly fit for the moment so that's not beyond the realms of possibility but there is a problem that the kremlin has of the moments with working out how to manage the transition at the end of this next six year term in office what happens next does he step away from the presidency permanently but keep some kind of guardianship role over the trajectory of the country or does he find a loyal successor in the way that boris yeltsin did at the end of the one nine hundred ninety s. when he stepped down and basically handed over power to vladimir putin putin was

chosen by yeltsin because he was going to be a fairly unexciting not particularly remarkable but loyal successor to yeltsin well things turned out slightly differently he was loyal bus he has not turned out to be an exciting so we will have to wait and see what putin chooses to do next he's got six years to make up his mind her i'd thank you very much very challenge there live in moscow well now we can speak to your read bomb in his a fellow at the russian international affairs council and he's joining us now from istanbul thank you very much indeed for taking the time out to talk to us some people refer to. as a new star of russia and he has become now the longest serving leader in one form or another hasn't he since stalin. i mean it is true you know it is always a symbolic thing in russia that you know a leader stays on for so long he becomes that kind of an element that is linked to

the you know to the core of the country so of course russians a lot of russians let's put it that way see blood near putin as the new sorry if you will if you want and is that a good thing or a bad thing. i mean look at depends you know if we look at the past years that one report has been in power. a lot of russians would tell you that he managed to transform the country managed to return the country to the global arena which with the russians resonates a lot that is hugely important to them to see russia as this global power right but of course you know throughout these years we've seen a lot of challenges of a lot more putin has not been has not been able to to deal with economy wise domestic politics some of russia's external kind of you know russia's external affairs so there are lots of challenges but it seems that to for an ordinary russian that image of a global power overshadows all those other things and problems that he hasn't been

able to deal with because in many ways i suppose one begets the other doesn't it this fairly at the sariel position that he takes with western interests and say many different levels which of which have elicited this the house side actions that are now imposed upon russia which is what of course is impacting upon the economy and leaving it in this state of stagnation and of course impacting upon ordinary russian lives. it is true but again you know i would be cautious here saying that russia has this kind of. sees the west as a as an inverse or a right because there's i think it's way more nuanced than that i think a lot of russia's external affairs of russia's sort of meddling in different crisis here and there ukraine syria a lot of that actually has to deal with the fact that russians want to reach out to the west it's just that it's widely putin's way of positioning himself as an equal in the in the in the global arena but of course yes you're right that has impacted

russia's economy a lot on the life of ordinary russians but like i say all the recent polls show that russians kind of look beyond that and the the international success of russia is way more important to them that some economic instability all right yuri bomb in thank you very much indeed for talking to us now rebel fighters are leaving an enclave near the syrian city of homes under a deal that's been very could by russia or a number of factions have handed over their heavy weapons to the syrian army fighters are being taken to a rebel held areas in the north of the country and this is the an agreement that also has allowed for the process of reopening the main highway between homes and hama which is being close to seven years. this the rebels in yemen have launch more missiles into saudi arabia they were aimed at several military targets in the not drawn border region economic sites including oil storage areas

were also said to be hit saudi arabia says it's a defense systems were able to shoot down some of the missiles. and within the last hour or so we've been hearing that saudi led coalition airstrikes have hit the presidential office in the capital sanaa well this is a city of course controlled by the who three rebels and this is a saying there have been casualties. and the head of the provincial council in southern yemen is criticizing what he calls the unjustified saudi ever r.t. military presence on an island in the arabian sea protests began when amorality troops fall sharon is to leave so katra on first say the island has an air and sea port with easy access to the horn of africa yemen's prime minister describes the u.s. troop deployment as an assault on sovereignty. these forces are present and soko in volumes that country understood there are

illegitimate troops in these areas are there forces that belong to the hutus to be fought by the coalition here the answer is a big no the british foreign secretary is now in washington d.c. in the latest attempt to try to persuade the trumpet ministration to stay in the iran nuclear deal writing in the new york times boris johnson said of all the options we have for ensuring that iran never gets a nuclear weapon this pact offers the fewest disadvantages it has weaknesses certainly but i am convinced they can be remedied i'm sure of one thing every available alternative is worse the wises course would be to improve the handcuffs rather than break them well mr johnson's visit comes soon after efforts by emmanuel mccraw of france and anglo merkel of germany when they went to washington to try to persuade mr tran dial estabrook reports. with the may twelfth deadline just days

away president donald trump's new legal advisor offered this assessment of the iran nuclear deal to a gathering of iranian dissidents in washington what do you think is going to happen to that agreement. that nuclear agreement. was president trump a longtime critic of the pact is threatening to pull out of the deal by saturday unless it can be improved on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani offered a stern warning this solves money and energy i tell me if america leads to nuclear accord it will soon see that this will entail historic remorse for it china the united states along with four other countries and the european union signed the joint comprehensive plan of action with iran in two thousand and fifteen. under the j.c. way iran agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons in exchange for the easing of sanctions president trump says the deal was flawed from the start in part because it allows some nuclear provisions to sunset in two thousand and twenty five. he's also

blasted iran for its use of ballistic missiles in the region and has accused iran of supporting terrorism european allies have been pressing the u.s. president not to scrap the deal u.k. media say british foreign minister boris johnson is traveling to washington to meet with senior administration officials on the issue so it is really that visit followed similar meetings in washington last month with french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel who both agree the pact isn't perfect but think it can be improved in an interview on sunday britain's ambassador to the u.s. expressed optimism about keeping the u.s. in the deal all those issues we have ideas we think that we can you can find some language produce much and that meets the president's concerns there are reports that former secretary of state john kerry who helped negotiate the j.c. under president barack obama is also meeting with foreign leaders to save the deal

some republicans in congress say they aren't opposed to scrapping it but advised the president to be careful you need to have a clear idea about next steps if we are going to pull out president trump maintains he still hasn't made up his mind what he'll do but time is running out dion estabrook al jazeera washington we've got a lot of come in this news hour including bail denied cambodia's opposition data remains behind bars after being accused of treason. opposing volcanic activity allows hawaii residents to go home for their pets and their valuables. and the houston rockets and the golden state warriors. please closer to the n.b.a. conference finals details from the playoffs coming up a chair in a school. amnesty

international has accused egypt of using solitary confinement as torture it says that dozens of human rights activists journalists and opposition supporters face horrendous physical abuse behind bars the group's report outlines extended beatings humiliation a lack of food and restricted movement for years on end egypt has arrested thousands of people since the military overthrew president mohammed morsi in twenty thirteen morsi is reported to have been held in solitary confinement for most of the past five years amnesty says egypt has responded to these allegations with a fourteen page response denying that it systematically detain people in solitary confinement for long periods well al jazeera journalists mahmud to say there's been an egyptian jail for more than five hundred days he was detained without charge by

the authorities in twenty sixteen during a holiday to cairo al-jazeera and international human rights organizations have repeated leah's the egyptian authorities to release jailed journalists we can speak to hussein bellamy who is egypt campaigner amnesty international and he's joining us via skype from the capital chieftainess i want to specifically talk about the main thrust of this report and that is what you consider to be the abuse a solitary confinement tell us the kinds of examples that you've come across which make you equate it with torture. pointed to egypt and very announced partial because the treatments prisoners suffer in sweat you can try means not only are zero three detained but actually have to stay in cells sometimes for over four twenty five twenty four hours

a day living alone in cells with absolutely no meaningful human contact with no more with only five minutes to go to the bathroom most. with very poor ventilation with without air without sun. sometimes with tonight a family visits the cells are very filthy people have to sleep on the ground floor for extended the persons periods not to mention that i see some signs was printed bins there for over four years like government duma us or people like a certain girl for example describing. this is that she was first in a similar to create to achree for these issues i mean that this isn't too onerous so isolations people assume juror keys to complete isolation from friends i see as a business which can lead to course radiations for example someone like. who is

actually beaten use physically beaten in a very horrendous wait and see this happen because he was in such a rush by nights away from sight ok i mean i mean you're giving us a fairly comprehensive list of the appalling conditions that exist in egyptian jails but there are laws that govern the detention of prisoners and it seems very much as though those laws are being broken on a regular basis. yes of course like any other law research is really very great because our own laws that they actually put forward. and so we do. is use different names for example and see response in supporting pages response to us saying that this in us are not useful to confront but trials are excellent security solitary cells also says individual songs and so we see trying to be

distinctions that doesn't exist right right yeah i think can i can i just something that we are running out of time i just wondered whether the sea international took any comfort from the fact that the egyptian government did reply to your report and it is actually engaging with amnesty's criticisms even if it's in a slightly disingenuous way. no because frankly because it's very serious been sick leaves that you want to engage with international relations and look at the rationalizations at the same time to terrorists think at every one of the seriously journalists activists who are spenders and are cracking down on the national not on human rights organizations in egypt so instead of spending time to try to justify these violations it's easy to. trace is why vision's issue is spent trying to give more intricate more space to people to peacefully express themselves in asia who are saying the bellamy talking to us live from tunis thank you very

much thank you. now one of the last bastions of free press in cambodia has been sold to a businessman with links to the government the phnom penh post was bought from its australian and a by p.r. firm boss sivakumar g. prime minister who did say in his crackdown on independent media in the past year journalists complain of harris meant by secret police and several outlets have been shut down reporters without borders say independent media is in ruins and reporters operate in a climate of terror well cambodia supreme court has rejected a request to release the former opposition leader kim soca ahead of his trial so he was arrested in september on treason charges and has been in pretrial detention ever since he denies all allegations against him wayne hayes our correspondent in bangkok. this is really now the end of the line for him so car when it comes to taking this case through the courts to try to have his pretrial detention nullified

this all started in september when he was arrested on treason charges and then in march the municipal court in the capital phnom penh ruled that that initial period of six months could be extended by another six months that was appealed unsuccessfully by kim so cause a legal team and now the supreme court has upheld the decision by those two lower courts so he can now be held until september and crucially that takes us past the general election in july and of course critics of the government led by prime minister who say that is what this is all about it's about stamping out any significant opposition to the ruling cambodian people's party in that election there's also over the past year and a half been a significant crackdown on independent media in cambodia and now we've had what was really seen as the last truly independent outlets in cambodia being sold this is

the phnom penh post it is being sold to a an investor in malaysia who also owns a public relations firm that has among others counted among its clients the cambodian prime minister who in sin so clearly that raised a lot of concerns the phnom penh post ran a story about the sale about who the publication was being sold to and the new company owners ordered that that story be taken down now we've had the editor in chief of the phnom penh post on monday being fired and several of the editorial staff at the publication resigning from their position so clearly this is being seen as further deterioration in the media landscape in cambodia an erupting volcano in hawaii has destroyed at least thirty homes. sinful also missed two thousand dollars and is to seek safety but reynolds is near could know where the

volcano which is sending most and lava into visit ancillary as. the road into the eruption zone is cracked and broken vents of steam and toxic gas from the lava flows beneath below out deeper into what was once leylandii it states the enormous power of mt killer way it is plain to see we passed roads sealed off by meter high lava flows finally we reached a wall of burning rock and could go no further we've gotten just about as close to the lava as we can the smell of toxic sulfur dioxide is very strong in the air and it gets stronger when the wind blows from the wrong direction but if you look behind me here you can see that leylandii avenue this is formerly the main street in this community is completely covered with that black lava beyond it the smoke is the sign of another house that's being consumed by the lava people who

have been living here have no idea when or if they'll ever be able to come back home more than twenty houses have been destroyed from the air you can see the main crater on kill away is still boiling with smoke and steam toxic gas from the deep magma chambers is the biggest threat to human life i'm most worried about the impact of sulfur dioxide feel in our nostrils a look here as we're standing over time if there's extended exposure people get inflammation of their lungs and if people have underlying lung conditions like c o p d your emphysema they could get into trouble on sunday morning a long line of cars formed as some residents were permitted to enter the danger zone briefly to salvage important papers medicines pets and personal treasures but plenty more people are waiting to be allowed back in they want to get a. this is when they can go back to their residence and that's all what this whole issue about so that they can make themselves whole like this is not the whole why

of glossy tourist posters and glamorous television shows this community is one of the poorest in the entire state volunteers set up an outdoor community center called up who hold or place of safety in the hawaiian language. to distribute donated emergency supplies food and water we all come together and want to make this make stuff happen the government not going to make it scientists say there's no way to predict when the eruption will end it could be days months or longer leaving the people here to wait and hope for the best rob reynolds al-jazeera the whole hawaii. coming up in just a few minutes and richard will have the weather for us and also coming up on this out to their knees praying for peace. in. the attack on a chance in central nine here and that's dividing this community. in iraq from petraeus

has general election since the fall of eisel but will the result lead to change for its porous people. on the night continue their golden round and i saw his pale details coming up with inspire. from long flowing i mean we had this to an inch on t.v. that's it pretty soon you're. we have some quite spectacular weather over parts of europe at the moment all the way from moscow to manchester the weather conditions are looking really fine the sun has been out in paris france there and see people enjoying conditions on the walk we've got fine weather in geneva and even over in minsk we've had plenty of sunshine of last twenty four hours and to top it all off today is a national holiday in the u.k.

still enjoying fine weather conditions there although been having a field day with this off they're talking about traffic jams people complain about queues on the roads and general rush to get out and enjoy that fine weather while it last well it will last for the day or so but we will find colder weather pushing as that cold front begins to drift in from the northwest but for many parts it continues to be draw and find an exception though is down around the bay of general we've got this little area of low pressure that will trough doesn't look much on our analysis charts but it's commute some very severe thunderstorms around this region into the far southeast of france into parts of switzerland that area of low pressure begin to weaken that front will make some progress in across the u.k. as we head through into choose day and an area of low pressure will give some very disturbed weather across southeastern parts of europe. the weather sponsored by cateye base. al-jazeera is investigative units reveals tactics

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traverses take a look at the top stories here in the news hour the counting of votes is underway in lebanon's parliamentary elections hezbollah supporters are celebrating unofficial preliminary reports which show gains for the shia muslim group and its allies official results are expected in a few hours from now that amir putin has been sworn in as russia's president for the fourth time and becomes the longest serving leader since stalin he won eighty percent of the vote when reelected in march he's already been in power as president or prime minister for eighteen years. saudi led coalition airstrikes have hit the presidential office controlled by the who is in yemen's capital killing six people

this comes after the roof is launch more missiles aimed at saudi military targets. now once a general election in malaysia has been described as the most competitive ever boxes florence louis reports from selangor fate despite the challenge analysts expect another way in the for the world's longest serving elected coalition. one hundred kilometers from kuala lumpur is known for its fishing villages and rice fields it's in rural areas like these that the ruling alliance. has traditionally dominated but discontent is stirring. fisherman here are working longer hours just to be able to survive the higher cost of living has really affected us things weren't so bad for ten years ago he says the subsidies they receive are no longer sufficient and blames the goods and services tax imposed three years ago for the

increase in overall costs. but there are others who say they are grateful to. the only party that has ruled malaysia since independence in one nine hundred fifty seven. it's in places like these far from the cities that the election will be fought and won rural areas have long been given disproportionate electoral advantage here in the smallest voting area in the state of salonga a vote is worth four point three votes compared to the largest constituency. the an equal number of voters have parliamentary seats was made worse after parliament hurriedly pushed through a motion to redraw electoral valentines a notch despite protests from the opposition and civil rights groups terrifically the minimum the got the minimums of which the government needs to win to to carry one one two of the simple majority of suits in the parliament is only sixteen point five percent because of the smallest one one two constancy content only thirty

three percent of electorate the election commission has also been accused of favoring the ruling party in other ways it introduced new guidelines regulating images of party officials and vanna's it has been accused of applying them inconsistently its offices have cut up pictures of mahathir mohamad the former prime minister leading the opposition bit from some posters the commission's decision to call for elections on a wednesday is also being seen as a ploy to lower voter turnout the claims of unfairness has always been the agenda of the opposition and it is really for sympathy was to prove that your prayers to the people. and perhaps as a reason really feel very safe with you calling for electoral reform says irregularities in the electoral roll persist including voters registered without their consent and others transferred to a different voting area without their knowledge many analysts say the results of

the upcoming election will be close but predict a win for the ruling party florence italy al-jazeera salaam est malaysia the funerals have been held for some of the forty five people who were killed by attackers in northern nigeria. gunmen raided a village in could do the sate on saturday with this is say they shot at children and they taught styluses the region has seen an increase in violence carried out in the main by cattle rustlers and gangs but disputes over territory are continuing to escalate in other parts of the country and president the horrors government is under real pressure to prevent such attacks ahead of elections next year jamil alan doe the reports are from benue a state where an attack on a church is developing a community that has lived peacefully for generations the police are taking us to a small town called by law it's in bend with state in sensual nigeria but long is

a small farming community a place with no history of violence until now there are photographs of growth tool . for an extra hour for the. well known. because of. the attacker was devastating for people here they accuse ethnic feel any herdsman of being behind the attack there was a morning mass here when a group of gunmen stormed the church and started firing people say the shooting lasted for over an hour sixteen churchgoers died that day including two priests and children. there have been disputes or remand across central nigeria between mostly christian farming communities and muslim herdsman for many years people here say they are afraid because the attack in belong is creating divisions they say the

attackers wanted to provoke religious conflict and they call on the government to put a stop on this now are for government to exist really didn't listen he was our capacity to stop people from killing our people. no one should die not a woman if one. should die we should be able to be free i sick in our environment to live what to do our walk to from what i do wash it got their freedom carnival cry but the moment you try to call it in terms of trade in terms of political mission in terms of allegiance. you have to fit in the purpose for the fight and that is why i will been telling the people so fight for all. the. many here fear the attack on the church was intended to sow fear and hatred between communities and this is why despite the violence people here continue to pray they

see that for generations they have always lived peacefully together despite the religious differences what binds them together they see is chunkier than the killings in the village of balon duggan al jazeera along been with state central nigeria in india a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after being raped and set on fire and police in just current state are investigating a similar attack of a recip the main suspect in the gang rape and burning alive of a sixteen year old would have been on friday now her relatives are distraught and thought suspect done is done and another man angry at being fined hundreds of dollars by village elders after the teenager's parents complained to them. iraq is due to vote on sunday in the first general election since the rise and fall

of eisel high levels of poverty are among the campaign issues years of war and political instability have left communities in ruins and the oil reliant on the oil reliant economy is in decline but many iraqis doubt that this election will lead to change as iran come reports from baghdad. the locals call this the slums of thought it directs the name of this area in northeastern baghdad. it's one giant rubbish tip nestled into the piles of garbage lives some of iraq's poorest poverty rates are on the rise to the extent the politicians and are paying attention turning it into a campaign issue ahead of the general election in may. according to the ministry of planning poverty now takes thirty five percent of the population. the alley family lives amongst the rubbish they try and sell what recyclable goods they can find.

called him used to be the main income but he was injured in a bomb blast in a local market in two thousand and six and suffers from brain trauma and partial paralysis the family lives in constant fear of being thrown out of the slums. my son was found the heart of the fish and then there's no future for the children living like this we all wish to have a decent house even if the government would give us land and we'd build it we would make ends meet we don't know when or if authorities will kick us out when going to . despite election fever gripping would have put all potential votes as i'm not convinced politicians a serious about tackling issues such as pollution. i'm pessimistic there's a lot of wrong doing journal a campaign there are many corrupt candidates compare with decent ones i'm not accusing all of them of being bad but the majority are. however those running for election say they can and will make a difference. according to many of our friends and other segments from the society

including us who are running for the elections campaign everyone is optimistic and we all hope that new faces will emerge and that we are progressing towards a brighter future those words will be met with caution from iraq's poorest who feel that they've been forgotten left to fend for themselves and don't have any representation in iraq's political system whoever wins the election on may twelfth reaching out to iraq's poorest will be a challenge in. baghdad. now starbucks has announced that it's entered into a seven point one five billion dollar deal with nestle to phone what it calls a global coffee alliance the agreement gives the swiss food giant the right to sell starbucks products around the world outside of starbucks coffee shops now around five hundred starbucks employees will join nestle's ranks under the deal which is

yet to be approved by regulators armenia's pollens is expected to elect the opposition leader nicole as prime minister on tuesday as natasha going to a report from the capital the era van students have played a major part in the nationwide protests demanding change. many armenians are saying their so-called velvet revolution succeeded because people finally shed their political apathy and were inspired to act. has been leading protests since twenty sixteen for several weeks he's rallied students at half a dozen universities he says opposition leader goal posh union may be the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they don't need to because if they saw there are steps they. need

to hold a process that is why people are called food and. it's undeniable young people force during the protests that eventually crippled the country. fed up with the poverty lack of jobs and corruption there hoping the government will finally turn its attention to the pressing needs of armenians if pressure becomes prime minister as expected on tuesday he'll have an abundance of goodwill and face high expectation i belong to the there really no percentage of the people who really believe that this day would come i expect a lot but it's really hard for me and for him because like people i know people are going to push and i know that it's going to take a long time for him to rebuild that. system the student activists we spoke with say the priority is for the new government to hold free and fair elections it would be

a first for this generation no closing to spit into or going to another page where it will be said to me is no it is participatory terry democracy and this is also a victory and dissipates a political process when i mean it can be united forcing the resignation of a prime minister is one thing remaining in through the often slow and messy journey towards monumental political change will be the next test of this country's people power movement natasha guinea al-jazeera year of on armenia. which is about. first of a tough spot. that's

a mexican the second part of algiers investigation into medical malpractise summed up this is that serious flaws in an experimental device that was invented by the state neurological institute john heilemann explains how hundreds of patients well adversely affected and the past fourteen. over fourteen years almost five hundred patients with fitted with an experimental unapproved device top public neurological institute you learned the good at it was among them it was done without her or her husband's knowledge. they asked us to sign

a bit of paper but never that it was going to be a valve or a tube that was part of an experiment they never told us anything about that. three doctors working at the institute at the time told how does it or that the same is true for other patients who received the implant it was designed to treat hydrocephalus that's excess fluid in the brain by draining it down through achieved into the stomach area. this man invented the device and patented it julio sotelo he was also the director of the same national neurology and neurosurgery institute where it was pressed into use despite never being approved by medical authorities have become in that field there was a recommendation i would see a demand that you had to recognise the brilliant idea of thought hello the institute the health ministry and the to sotelo himself were fused to top two out to zero he's always maintained that studies show his device was effective. neither

he nor the national institute has ever been sanctioned for its unauthorized use despite a commission of medical arbitrage clearly stating that malpractise occurred in your landers case. dr eg natal who still works at the national institute has one word for it all. impunity impunity at every level he says. meanwhile your land and one man oil had to sell their flat to pay medical bills their claims for compensation have fallen on deaf ears mexico's attorney general's office kept them waiting for eight years only to tell them it wouldn't take any action all the time you learned his health is worsening although it's unclear if that has any connection to the device. i'm frightened of dying as leaving my daughter i'm just so tired there are days in which i just think it would be better

if i died fighting. against the backdrop of silence a congresswoman and n.g.o.s have taken the case to the into american human rights commission. it's unlikely to succeed but it is a fresh attempt to get justice for the hundreds of people treated as guinea pigs over fourteen years. john holeman how does it or mexico city. right is the time you've been waiting for sports news with joe and seen thanks and very defending champions the golden state warriors a one win away from reaching the conference finals the warriors thumped the new orleans pelicans one hundred nine hundred ninety two kevin durant grabbed thirty eight points and steph curry made twenty three that gives them a three one lead in the best of seven semifinal series the houston rockets are in the same position they leave the utah jazz three one in their western conference semifinal series chris paul's twenty seven points lead the rockets to a one hundred eighty seven point victory over the giants on sunday so i'm always

like that. and. you know one game at a time. it was showed a lot of great for us to come here when two games we still got a lot of work to do and as you know we're not relax and we. want to debut season the vegas cold nights are having in the national hockey league they're heading to the western conference final after beating the sun as a sharks in their playoff series goaltender mark andre flurry is a big reason behind this success this season flurry won three stanley cups with the pittsburgh penguins before joining the golden knights on sunday he made twenty eight saves in his fourth shutout of the playoffs vegas also got a bit of luck in the second period as the puck hit the post but on review is determined to cross the line the golden knights beating the sharks three nothing they'll play either winnipeg or nashville in that conference final with the jets leading the series three two into game six later on monday. the tampa bay lightning

have advanced to the eastern conference final they beat the boston bruins three running game five of their series in tampa is the third time in four years they'll be back in the conference final the lightning will face either the reigning pittsburgh penguins or the washington capitals with the caps leading that series three two and they also have a major. baseball star debutant show her tiny return to the mound for the los angeles angels after twelve days out with a sprained ankle and there was no sign of rust against the mariners on sunday as he dominated early blanking seattle through six innings before ryan healey spoiled his did for a shutout with a two run homer in the seventh still the angels came away with an eight two win and a series victory against their division rivals. jason day when we've back into the top ten engulfs world rankings after winning his twelve p.g.a. tour title at quail hollow on sunday there was a disappointing tournament for four world number one tiger woods the fourteen time major winner failed to make a birdie on the last day of torment for the first time since two thousand and four

he carded a final round of seventy four to tie for fifty fifth meanwhile it was a commanding performance from day who closed out victory with a two under round of sixty nine he now turns his attention to one of the biggest events on the calendar the players' championship which starts on may the tenth it's really nice to be able to play as you know pretty solid for the most part of the week. you know the short game is really nice it's running out nicely for next week but you know obviously got a lot of work to do over the next few days i'm going to enjoy tonight an obviously enjoy this win but you know once tomorrow starts it's going to focus back on the players and trying to win the one league champions barcelona just three games away from going the entire season without losing a league match that's after they drew two two with rivals rome madrid in the latest edition of el classico that's despite also playing forty five minutes of the game

with just ten men with the score level at one one soldier berto was shown a straight red card after he appeared to slap royal defender most solo you know messi netted his thirty third league goal of the season to pass ahead shortly after the break but they had to settle for a draw after a late equaliser from gareth bale that later this week ireland will finally play its first ever test cricket match after pushing to be part of the sport's elite game for decades pakistan of their opponents for the historic fixture in dublin but a controversial reduction in qualification places means they failed to qualify for next year's world cup the winnings reports cricket is being played in ireland five or two hundred years but they've not been part of the one hundred forty one years of the most prestigious form of the guy test cricket until now. the ground in dublin is about to stay jolly its historic first test with pakistan on the visitors

it's been a long struggle to be recognised a quick its top title. auden's team features experience pros many who have played in english county cricket around the globe but this is the moment they craved every time we've kind of been given obstacles got passed was we've done a work culture we've produced the results against big teams and we've been knocking down the door so to finally you know get the appreciation i got that chance at the top is going to be great but this was ruled as stand accused of favoring the established powerful nations. expensive those who were growing the guy the bosses of world cricket the i.c.c. have reduced the amount of teams in next year's world cup from fourteen to ten now in a brutally difficult qualifying competition in zimbabwe the west indies took one of the qualifying spots and the other one went to the new test nation afghanistan but that meant there was no price for island in the past if these players wanted to play test cricket that have to switch their allegiance to england kevin i brian

boating here was the hero went on and famously beat england in the two thousand and eleven world cup the big pakistan in the tournament four years earlier the i.c.c. van the guy says they were good a decision to reduce woke up places clear admission of a mistake but to life on and it was absolutely heartbreaking especially when it comes down to the last game. so like obviously there's just a minor difference between the teams who went through the last of the teams who didn't so it's just a shame really because if you look at like other sports like football or whatever they have there are more teams involved in the world cups that's the only way to grow the sport the effects on the interest on the finances for irish cricket could be irreparably damaging so they need test cricket to succeed and to attract jarosz public how do you sell how do you market a five day game to a public that's only used to a game that sort of lasts six seven hours well we do it by saying be part of history come and watch or

a major to you know your major sport come up play against one of the world's finest so you get a positive response. probably all. i can control the decision making of pickett's bosses and i can't control the unpredictable skies i've adopted in my but i can demonstrate on the field we're all in should having parts of pick its purest form with the guy long before now they want to have a doubly. when going head to head in california over the past few days but they've been in the ocean instead they've been competing all to artificial waves at the founders cup the artificial wave pool is the brainchild of champion suffolk county slater and it's taken ten years to develop surfers compete on identical sized waves meaning competitions come down purely to technique a combined world team won the inaugural title ahead of brazil slater's team usa had to settle for third behind them but he told our jews there are a number of countries are now interested in using that technology. at the base of the very inefficient. water pushing the swallow of all the why

you know that well it's a solid on solitary. or underneath. it's everybody at it crazy. race. beginners never in all the top surface in the world but the marching course everyone is doing. it's really fun to make it bigger smaller faster slower. all right that is all the sport for me for now but some are saying thank you very much indeed jay well that's all from this al jazeera news hour but don't go anywhere because lower it will be in this chair in just a moment of the more of the day's news. getting

to the heart of the matter if will stuff i can gee that social security bill calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace for unification this the only option for first clearly deal for south korea hear this story on talk to al-jazeera. jeanette morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distin shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say i'm going to be up at the gala the governor. it raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow

a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government will fail. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with him was off to new zealand . bin laden was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter before in part two of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin laden he never showed up to the g towards me of the west i knew bin ladin continues.