second day reaching for the star witness documentary on al-jazeera. which includes a reconstruction of the famous. people he's showing around. this is just one of several museums taking part in the project. in point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of. the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with things. it's not just about me.

this is. for the next sixty minutes u.s. president donald trump says announce his decision on the iran nuclear deal on tuesday. the changing face. a major upset. residents are told to leave their homes immediately. and toxic gas. revolution rebranding helped inspire thousands of armenians to. protest.

u.s. president don trump says he'll announce his decision on whether to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal on tuesday but america's allies have been trying to convince trying to preserve the international cream and which is limited iran's nuclear capabilities committee how it has more from the white house. after months of diplomacy and high level meetings at the white house between the u.s. president and his counterparts in france germany and on monday the foreign secretary of the u.k. donald trump announced he had finally made his decision trump tweeted he would make his decision public on tuesday or whether to withdraw the united states from the iran nuclear agreement. the announcement follows a last minute effort by u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson to persuade try to keep the u.s. within the deal even with top trump administrators including secretary of state

mike pump aoe but not donald trump in the absence of a presidential meeting johnson penned an editorial in the new york times newspaper and has been appearing on multiple u.s. t.v. networks urging trump to remain in the agreement you can be tougher on iran but not throw away that the heart of the deal which is all about stopping them getting a nuclear weapon the deal was negotiated in twenty fifty and under the administration of u.s. president barack obama and included other european countries as well as russia and china it's designed to contain iran's nuclear program for civilian use only. trouble was to get out of the deal unless it's fixed to address iran's missile program and tehran's other military activities in the region on monday on twitter he called the deal a mess and criticized the man who helped negotiate it former secretary of state

john kerry along with the president trump advisor rudolph giuliani is zero. also criticizing kerry and what they call his shadow diplomacy this follows media reports kerry recently met with the iranian foreign minister job as a wreath at the united nations i don't think that we would take advice from somebody who created what the president sees to be one of the worst deals ever made is the latest signal us president donald trump is preparing to withdraw from the iran deal still france britain and germany have indicated they'll remain in the agreement regardless of the u.s. decision kimberly healthy at al-jazeera at the white house. well the iranian president says he's committed to the date as long as iran's interests are protected in your own chim our doubt about it. regarding the nuclear agreement if our interests and objectives are protected by other parties to the agreement except america and we will be committed to it if america leaves the agreement it will not

mean anything actually it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm that we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret its feel like it is committed a strategic mistake. well the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear agreement was one of barack obama's signature foreign policy achievements but has called it one of the worse deals and history was signed by the five permanent members of the u.n. security council germany that. in july two thousand and fifteen a week later was endorsed by u.n. security council resolution ironically to reduce the number of its centrifuge machines from twenty thousand to about five thousand for ten years centrifuges are needed to enrich uranium a material that can be used to make a nuclear bomb iran pledged to enrich

a maximum of three point six seven percent of its uranium for fifteen years additional limits were put on its research and development of advanced centrifuges iran also removed the core of its main heavy water reactor and filled it with cement it's not allowed to build any new reactors for fifteen years inspectors from the international atomic energy agency have access to its nuclear sites and exchange for all of this the us e.u. and un agree to lift sanctions but they can be imposed again of iran is found to be violating the deal well let's get more on this now we're joined by our national security and foreign policy at a list he's joining us live from san francisco via skype very good to have you with us on al-jazeera do you think that donald trump will pull the u.s. out of the steel. it's clear but from based on his rhetoric based on president trump's campaign better rick when he was a candidate based on his rhetoric for the past year and two three months that he's

been president and also based on his recent appointments that is appointing most upon payload to be america's chief diplomat a secretary of state no so massive of john bolton to the very important role of national security advisor in a sense sort of the foreign policy maker in the white house and they all indicate that the president is a unhappy with iran the o m b e is going towards either weakening or completely pulling out of this deal now let's let's just be clear tomorrow on the may twelfth deadline that the president is going to make an announcement about tomorrow is about a certain set of sanctions that the president was going to issue a waiver for but there is yet another set of sanctions come in the summer in july that are also extremely important so it's a step by step process but what boiled down all boils down to that the u.s.

and the president trump decides to sort of deal rail parts of the iran nuclear deal then the iranians are not going to abide by the rules and we're going to have a problem where a we are violating and b. we're not and have full support from our european allies and see an iranian heart iranian hardliners will be in a position and to claim victory was dividing president has said that and heaven will remain in the date even if the u.s. pulls out as we've just heard but how much support do you think will honey will have and yvonne sustained and as you said as they know the hardline as a very critical of the stand. it's not up to him that's the thing is up to and at the very end of the day the at the very top of iranian foreign policy and national . security decision making every minute said of the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and with an event param it there are much more powerful elements in the president's president on me or his foreign policy team buses or even so on and so

forth and terry meant you have the islamic revolution guards corps you have various intelligence and security establishments and the apparatus that sort of direct from the force a member force there actually ties on a common so yes he would like to say i mean president rouhani would like to stay in the field but. he's not the ultimate decision maker here what is sort of disappointing is most of us many of us who grudgingly want to long with the iran deal we said hey you know there are a lot of flaws live but again this is the best deal we can get our concern was it would be near ronnie and violating that because we thought hey it's rowhani in the resigning the deal yet the implementation of it is going to eat up any iranian islamic revolution guards corps that run the nuclear bases and also i believe harmony we had sort of we was much less of a concern for us to think that a future u.s. administration a subsequent u.s. administration with the side to sort of unilaterally pull out

a deal so that that our disappointment a frustration for me all about what forget this is not a perfect it is not perfect has a lot of flaws it's imperfect but again without a good replacement and also without a global multi-party agreement that includes all the p five p. five p five plus one iran and the united states any idea railing of this agreement will be disastrous and it's just going to embolden the hardliners in iran to do what they do and again as i said nothing. we do just doesn't mean that iran havior is being condoned it's just this particular issue president trump is taking a huge risk making a mistake without having a good backup plan to back our allies and friends in germany and britain and france and so on and so forth a set of measures is going to get useless on this that assad i shot him a shilling as my from san francisco thank you. let's move on to other news now

a. prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his poor showing. to have lost a third of its seats. to the shia party has. more than half the seats in parliament that has. there was a clear winner and lebanon's election. hezbollah and its political allies won the majority of seats in parliament it's being seen by some as a victory for iran this is backed by iran it's the only party that has an armed wing and its electoral gains further empowers it politically hezbollah's leader called for cooperation. and. stressed that there is a reality in lebanon and that is that no one can eliminate the other even if we have disagreements we want political stability we need to cooperate. the general

elections was a loss for lebanon's prime minister. no longer heads the largest bloc in the legislature but he still retains the majority of seats allocated to suddenly muslims how did he faced opposition from within his own community have accused him of being too lenient with hezbollah which is fighting in neighboring syria when asked if he plans to change that approach the prime minister said the focus should be on development and improving the lebanese economy. i disagree with many issues and will continue to disagree with them but what do i told the lebanese people. working on services like electricity water roads and instead focus on political challenge lebanon can handle political crises. clearly indicating his willingness to continue working with his political rivals he has led a national unity government since late two thousand and sixteen

a cabinet that includes members of hezbollah. and the last election in two thousand and nine it was the pro western approach saudi alliance headed by saddle that won the majority of seats in parliament since then iran's influence has been growing not just here in lebanon but across the region and the expense of saudi arabia. saudi arabia used to play a role in lebanese politics. for the better. i would be i was busy with other conflicts in the region like yemen the war there is a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia i was aware that there are lies in lebanon where no longer united and they couldn't be a force. but. the ground for iran. for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and now that the election is over.

nigeria's army has confirmed that it's rescued more than a thousand captives the hostages were rescued from several villages and borno state mainly women and children and some young men who were forced to become fighters for the operation involved twenty two. task force. from the state capital. the one thousand people who have been rescued by the military actually rescued were actually rescued along around the by my area which is on the fringes of the some piece of forest we've known and have heard of boko haram fighters trying to infiltrate that particular area and they've extended actually they reach into neighboring atom of state while some book or arm suicide bombers deter naked bombs last weekend killing at least fifty people in the town of movies they've also from that particular area extended their reach into cameroon so the fighters are actually members of the multinational joint task force that comprises soldiers from

cameroon nigeria ninja chad republic as well as the new republic which is not directly affected by boko haram yet it's contributing forces to the fight against boko haram now that operation is called named operation deponent it's holding simultaneously as the army or regional forces launch another operation called operation last fall on the shores of the lecture targeting particular island why they suspect that book was on fighters are holed up and are carrying from where they're carrying attacks now with that particular faction of the koran is actually a lie to the islamic state in west africa a group that the military in the region is trying to see that they've been denied access to arms and ammunition and freedom to operate in that part of the lake chad region. we have come to morehead on the news all including this relatively small one a sixteen year old girl who was raped and burned alive and a second time major fight for her life after

a similar attack plus. i'm andrew symonds reporting on the continuing rains and floods in kenya and i'll be explaining how this river has changed course completely destroying. cash crops and in sports former world number one the ria shabtai the continues to bounce back from a recent losing streak. the white house says president donald trump's pick to head the central intelligence agency is one hundred percent committed to getting the job jenna has filled would be the first woman to run the u.s. spy agency bob she's in for a grilling on wednesday's confirmation hearing amid criticism of her role in the cia's use of torture against president has. reports. who is gina housefull the intelligence veteran endorsed by six former cia heads to become

the agency's next director she is not only a highly respected nominee. but she is among the most qualified that will ever serve in that role or as critics have called her the head cheerleader for waterboarding it sends a signal to the rest of the world that we do not value human rights and the people who engage in even the worst acts of torture or supervise people who do so can end up becoming cia director and serve at the highest levels of government house who ran a secret cia prison in thailand after the nine eleven attack under her watch at least one terrorism suspect was water boarded and has pulled later ordered videotapes showing enhanced interrogation sessions to be destroyed a senate report labeled those techniques torture it's very concerning because those of us that worked on the torture report know some things that are classified and.

this is an important part of this woman's career the cia has selectively declassified some details on how schools thirty three years working for the agency from an undercover agent in africa and eurasia the chief of station in several overseas postings to deputy director but last week haskell reportedly offered to withdraw her nomination to lead the agency telling the white house she didn't want to have a confirmation hearing that may potentially damage the cia's reputation president trump pushed back monday tweeting my highly respected nominee for cia director gina haskell has come under fire because she was too tough on terrorists haskell's test before the senate is scheduled on wednesday where tough questions will surely await heidegger castro al-jazeera washington. to hawaii now emergency teams more people to move as new fishes have opened up pushing more lava to the ground and into

residential areas dozens of homes have been destroyed can no way it has also been a matter of toxic gas into the essence of optional day around two thousand people have been evacuated so far. of reynolds has more from near killer way of ok though . 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 estates the enormous power of mount 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 look here as we're standing over time and there's extended exposure people get inflammation of their lungs and if people have underlying lung conditions like c o p d r emphysema they can get into trouble on sunday morning a long line of cars form just 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 as is when they can go back to their residence and that's all what this whole issue about the debt they can make themselves whole i guess this is not the whole why last. the 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 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 hoey. but as well as president

has expressed solidarity with his palestinian counterpart during my visit to caracas my daughter has proposed further economic cooperation with palestine and he is a government backed cryptocurrency for transactions venezuela has longstanding diplomatic relations with palestine record its ambassador from israel's two thousand and fourteen gaza war. we hope that sooner rather than later on the basis of international rights under the united nations mandate the negotiations that will return to palestine its territory and the right to exist or resumed. i have also proposed that the palestine been as well a commission except the petro as a crypto currency for the exchange of commerce the payment of transactions and the creation of a binational fund for financing for the joint palestine been its will and development in which we will contribute twenty million peytral for technological and industrial development between our nations. now the first road signs have been

unveiled in jerusalem for the new u.s. embassy opening on monday that's moving from tel aviv is part of president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital tom said he might attend the official opening it coincides with the seventieth anniversary of israel's creation which palestinians call the catastrophe. a seventeen year old girl in india is in critical condition after allegedly being gang raped and set on fire a man's been arrested in connection with the attack it happened in the eastern state of georgia and on the same day a sixteen year old girl was murdered there she was also of raped and burned alive the latest victim suffered first degree burns to seventy percent of her body. and an indian administered kashmir the trial of eight men accused of raping and murdering an eight year old girl has been moved to a neighboring stage the supreme court made the decision after the victim's family and lawyer said they faced death threats that incident led to protests across the

country priyanka gupta reports. they look at peace but this family is in pain prosecutors say that on january and eight year old girl was kidnapped gang raped by at least three men over the course of four days and then killed her body was dumped in a forest the indian supreme court has banned media from using the girl's real name her family is part of a nomadic community of muslim shepherds a muddy but bob a tatty they killed our daughter she was very pretty we remember her every time we miss her a lot during migration wherever i transit i miss her i met her in the days and nights whenever i'm alone i miss her after the incident we are very scared we want justice and the culprits to be hanged i tension between the muslim and hindu communities has often been high but the old girl's case has shocked many on both

sides a retired government official and four policemen have been charged through a tired official sons iran is alleged to have ordered his nephew and a policeman to kidnap the girl to harass members of a community into leading qatar district which is a little more than indian administered kashmir area of jammu it's mainly him the activists say the religious divide here is fueled deliberately this government form last three years this government branded this community has learned about this forest. guard those from our last three years branded this community as a criminal and now they are attacking by the governmental institution activists say those accusations have created the atmosphere which led to the gold staff. according to police reports d.n.a. tests have proved the girl's presence in this temple her post-mortem cited in the police report has indicated injuries to her genitals as

a result of sexual assaults lawyers for the accused disagree with. the theory of the lived bill that it was a gang rape is not established under the medical reports that is whatever the state mean is. supporters of the accused are demanding that the federal police take over the case supporters of the family just want justice. here. but rape is the fourth most common crime against a woman and d.n.a. twenty five thousand rape cases were reported in two thousand and twelve the slammer jumped by nearly sixty percent in just four years to forty thousand in two thousand and sixteen the conviction rate for a purse has dropped over the past forty years from forty four percent in one hundred seventy three to twenty seven percent in two thousand and thirteen but this is higher than other developed countries like the united kingdom which recorded a conviction rate of just seven percent in two thousand and twelve only one in four

trials leads to a conviction in india and it's believed many cases go unreported because of the stigma attached to rape and sexual assault. yes me and her son is the global executive director of a quality of now that's an international advocacy group for women's rights based in new york and she says prime minister that in the morning must do more to do with the rising number of rape cases in india. it took a lot of international pressure to get him on board i know christine legarde called him out from the i.m.f. when he was in london people protested initially his response to all of these is left them let's ignore them and they will go away and given that there is government complicity almost in the silence i think that his government needs to do a lot more first speak out about it and then ensure that the justice system really functions for justice to be done in these cases because otherwise there is no deterrence these are going to go on. still ahead on the news hour cell the lead air strikes start of the presidential office and the yemeni capital killing at least

six people. after a long walk through the pardos of power that a mere person a sworn in for his fourth term as russia's president and in sports the french cup final that could be one of the biggest mismatches ever as the richest club in the world takes a team fighting a third division relegation battle. and either the weather is clearing up for some of us in north america now that east coast just seen a lot of cloud over the last day or so but that is pulling away so as we head through into tuesday be more in the way of dry weather is still not going to be that warm there were maximum temperature in new york of the seventeen degrees hey come the next system though that's already galloping its way across the plains working its way eastward still pulling itself together as it does say and it could

give us some very lively downpours there a wednesday ahead of it the winds will be feeding up from the south so the temperatures will be rising this time new york should get to around twenty two degrees that's seventy two in fahrenheit meanwhile for the far west seattle looks rather soggy and that what weather is extending further north into canada as well now for the central america as we've been watching this area of cloud over the past few days and it's certainly given us some lively showers they were parts of jamaica through cuba and into his spaniel as well looks like his spine you know the should begin to dry up as we head into wednesday more of us getting away with a dry day but we'll still see some rather lively showers through jamaica through cuba and up into the bahamas as well if we had down towards south america well here it's now a little cooler for us in santiago i am what is always we do have some showers around and some of them rather life.

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good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news our top stories u.s. president donald trump says he'll announce his decision on whether to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal on tuesday america's allies have been trying to convince truck to stay in the deal which is limited nuclear capabilities. nigeria's army has confirmed its rescued more than a thousand captives the hostages were rescued from several villages and state that mainly women and children and some young men were forced to become fighters for the armed group and that it is set to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party losing

a third of its seats. from sunday's election show the party has allies winning more than half the seats in parliament. let's get more on this now we're joined by matthew levitt the director of the counterterrorism program at the washington institute for near east policy and he's joining us from washington d.c. via skype mr levitt very good to have you with us on algis the other one more than half the seats in parliament in a country where you know people are usually sectarian lines so does this mean that it's not just shia who voted for hezbollah. it's a pleasure to be on the show there's lots of things that this means including the fact that a great many people did not vote that there was some intimidation and that many people see hezbollah as the most powerful political and military party able to defend against the sunni extremists and they are straight across the border in

syria saad hariri may continue to hold this position but he's far far weakened and hizbollah as a party both at home across the border in syria and across the region now is for certain going to be emboldened and how much do you think the debacle with the promise to haiti can a announcing his resignation from saudi arabia only to come back to lebanon and rescind it worked against him and his party ad and against their back is saudi arabia. there's no question that the rift between saad hariri and saudi arabia and other gulf states backers was a net negative for him it was embarrassing for him but i think that the larger issue here has more to do with hezbollah and its allies. and than it does with every person a great many lebanese just did not vote voter turnout was very low many of these just felt that whatever happens the same people be in power nothing matters the ls

lebanese forces did better overall hizbullah is a big winner here and my concern is it's going to be emboldened we've seen what can happen when some boldin home look at march two thousand and one is politic over downtown beirut by force of arms we see hizbollah deeply involved militarily in syria most recently morocco broke off relations with iran charging iran and hezbollah is doing things in morocco and of course is ball of is engaged in activities in iraq and in yemen as well when those types of regional activities do not cost as ball of political support at home to the country now it is done better than it ever has before i think the message for his bolo whether its message it should take or not is the one that it will take is that it's to be emboldened in its overall aggressive posture and how do you think you know the u.s. . is still designate hezbollah a terrorist organization will be looking on at this the time for that. well there's two issues here how this affects his ball and how this affects lebanon there's

already been a lot of concern in the united states in washington d.c. about the u.s. government's continued support for the lebanese armed forces which is largely ascribed to supporting the glue that holds lebanon together and the entity that can keep hezbollah a day many will now see hezbollah as being the not just the dominant but the power in lebanon and will see less of a distinction between hezbollah the designated terrorist political and military party and as ball of the element leading the government the second issue is how effective has bowl itself this is all coming just before president trump decides to amend or or sticks or perhaps to completely nix the iran deal that could house and significant implications not only for iran for for his ball either way one should anticipate that the trumpet ministration is going to want to hold iran speak to the fire old bird support for terrorism and first among equals there is hezbollah and

congress itself to not just the administration is finalizing plans to vote on the second version of the international finance prevention act or if but two and that could have some very important secondary sanction implications for foreign financial institutions in europe or elsewhere to do business with anything related to his ball also there are some interesting times coming around the bend starting tomorrow with the president's decision on the iran deal mr leavitt it's great to get your expertise on this that's matthew levitt joining us live from washington d.c. thank you thank you. now both of the modern world and so we had to connect falzon to rebel fighters and their families as part of an evacuation day. off of homs is one of the only areas still and revel homes and to monaghan reports. rebels in the town of al ruston have been surrendering their weapons for days artillery machine guns and other heavy weaponry handed over to russian and syrian government forces.

in return the end of the bombardment on their homes and a safe passage out for some rebel fighters including veterans of the seven year war the deals being forced on them now no one thought but i'm not leaving he was not or decision we would have died here rather than leaving our city the wards to chortle of helping goes a little then the approved the deal for us to be displeased we would return one day to our city. it's ok just for the sake of civilians we're leaving the city we sacrificed our blood for this city but we will come back again the revolution is ongoing and we will retreat every inch taken by the tyrant regime we are the brave and they are the cowards. the ceasefire deal brokered by russia applies to the last remaining bastions of resistance in the central provinces of hama and homs fighters and their families are being taken to the rebel held city of drop in aleppo

province as well to neighboring italy problems which remains largely outside government control. syrian government forces are regaining three rebel towns tell bisa our austin and i'll hold. and controls the main road that runs from the capital damascus to homs and on to the city of aleppo in the north securing the road has been an important goal for government forces. at least three thousand people are being taken out about part of the negotiated with drool which returns yet more territory to the syrian government. al-jazeera. at least six people have been killed and saw the lead coalition air strikes and yemen the raids targeted the presidential office in sanaa which is controlled by what the rebels have been fighting the coalition since two thousand and fifteen but reports. witnesses say they heard will save the head before two loud explosions as bones hit the presidential office in the center of the controlled center the strikes damaged not

only the intended target but all say businesses and houses nearby. a jet target at the presidential office the neighborhood is full of people unemployed youths were at work we rushed to rescue people whether we were trying to rescue a man from underneath a car and a child on the wrist type target us with no mercy for human beings. citizens have nothing to do with what is going on we are not leaders no leaders work in these offices we are doing our routine daily work. a spokesman for the saudi led coalition defended the airstrikes say they targeted a high level meeting of who the leader is. targeting the presidential palace was targeting first and second rate the leadership there was confirmed intelligence information they were monitored through intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance systems. that saudi arabia and its allies have been fighting against

the since twenty fifteen when they intervened to support yemen's internationally recognized government led by president abbott robbie mansell heidi after three years of fighting and no end to the war. site analysts say the saudi led coalition has changed tactics and is concentrating on targeting the leaders. but it's a risky strategy the fighters and their supporters say they're more determined than ever to continue their fight for control of yemen victoria gating be out is there. there appears to be a breakthrough in south sudan's civil war one opposition faction has said it will join the voting party the group is controlled by first vice president dan guy as announcement will strengthen the position of president salva care i heard of peace talks later this month. now heavy rains in kenya have destroyed large swathes of farmland and displaced over a quarter of

a million people anderson and has traveled to khalifa county to make farmers who've lost their land. nothing could stop this a backing river from destroying land that provided people with something near to self-sufficiency with abundance of fruits and vegetables used to grow here in fertile soil that's been replaced by silty sand these are only a few of the farmers who have lost their livelihoods by land wars around the corner there. like everyone else valentyn katana has no insurance to cover his losses that. the city was. cooling off. all the good from. it one of the places that escaped the floods this is how it should be two crops of maize a year but people may be poor but it's rich land the original course of this river

was white over there but the key line it didn't just burst its banks it changed course completely surging right across this destroying whole farms and all of the crops. the danger now is that the force is here right across this bank a short distance away this family is afraid they could lose everything to the floods that changing lives making more people dependent on aid right now longer term many will consider moving to towns following the path of urbanization the nearest town is melinda and jobs here are hard to find. back beside this a back a river it's raining again and these farmers what the kenya government to do more. everybody is crying here. all one family about. crying because.

they lost everything i think you know. so good luck trying. to split the aid agencies the people are now dependent on a hard pressed to meet demand and the government is coming under heavy a pressure to devote more resources to the crisis andrew symonds al-jazeera. in kenya. that i'm a person has been sworn in for another six year term as russian president for eighteen years or a challenge reports from moscow. it was a long walk to a bloody putin's inauguration broadcast live and step by step on russian state t.v. through endless kremlin corridors he's walked for eighteen years of marring the pictures along the way downstairs across hallways finally him to the brights moscow may sunshine and a drive in a brand new russian made limousine. at last he entered the kremlin's ornate

alexander roski hall where dignitaries were waiting but still the american wasn't over finally on to the podium to deliver the type of oratory the presidents the world over to live or on inauguration day when. taking office as president of russia i'm acutely aware of my colossal responsibility to each and every one of us a multinational population most sponsibility to russia a country of great victories and achievements to the fauzia history of the russian state and our ancestors humility and the fact expressed so then a pledge to all russians. obviously just as head of state i will do everything to increase the strength prosperity and glory of russia in order to meet to surtees demands and justify the hopes of our countries people following the biggest election win of his career but he may have putin is perhaps as secure in office as he's ever been he has no meaningful political opposition despite the arrest of

thousands of anti-government protesters and his critics he's cultivated a father of the nation type persona but though the sun shines cloud still gather on the horizon. once the carefully choreographed be out tricks of a glorious inauguration ceremony have faded from memory but i'm a person we'll have to address to the questions one is what happens next at the end of this six years when constitutionally he has to step aside from the presidency and also can he continue to use an assertive foreign policy to distract us from russia's persistent social and economic problems political analyst dmitri already has his doubts. he's called native dissonance we've been raised from our knees therefore we should live better but instead we live worse that means putin will have to restore the economy but the economy has its own restrictions russia has lost its status as a reliable borrower investment is slowing and hampered by sanctions domestic

business prefers to flee. and asked for what happens in six years time no one yet knows in two thousand and eight split in temporarily swap jobs with prime minister dmitri medvedev to sidestep the constitutional limits theoretically he could repeat the trick in twenty twenty four he's just announcement period if he's staying on as prime minister whether putin does or doesn't if you believe putinism lens when his presidential term finishes rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. thousands of armenians have gathered to show support for opposition didn't accomplish genuine ahead of tuesday's parliamentary vote has become hugely popular after spearheading weeks of mass protests all in foster walk of a portrait on the emergence of evolutionary brand. name here. when the band performs this song to tens of thousands of armenians on tuesday the crowd would know how to sing the. mice that has become the anthem for

a revolution. to. stay composed the music. beat. cannot hide we came to the conclusion that it needed to be in a courageous rock style as the song as a call to step up those steps should constantly be heard in the music. penned by opposition leader nicole pass on the lyrics along with his protest walk inspired thousands of armenians to join the movement both the resignation of former presidents and prime ministers said. and bringing passion to the threshold of power . a smart young armenian such as hiking his brother have led a highly effective image driven campaign our success has many many many

details in all. this. the target helped craft past nonviolent revolutionary persona that dress called all the people who should join us. yeah dad we didn't allow him to shave all the details we discussed so we had to plan. and street stalls you can pick up a passion yen t. shirt or a baseball cap that says have courage you call passion and in his movements messaging has been so effective they've become like a brand. placards like rubin have become the pop art of the movement. but i don't like the rigid framework of that we're not selling anything we're just trying to set ourselves free from from tyranny opposition

organizers and they are providing him with his paint but the inspiration ruben says is here it's a load i'm trying through it's filtering through my stuff. my friends are feeling good people feeling on the street and when people see that those words and washing only connect so it becomes a dialogue. about connecting and communicating with this culture a culture of resistance. will cause al-jazeera. to head on the new south. i believe welling's of cricket club in dublin which is about the island's first cricket test match against pakistan wow. he has.

on sport now here's tatyana. thank you very much we start with tennis and form a while the number one maria sharapova continues to bounce back from her recent form losing streak reaching the third round of the madrid open. broken in the opening game by romanian irene a big but the russian who won the tournament and twenty eight fourteen was able to have a calm a higher on the plane and in straight sets to winning seven five six one. second seed caroline wozniak he had

a tough task getting past australian ashley bossy in her second round match the day and eventually winning in three sets six two four six and six full. i ever in the men's troll form a wild number one and two time champion at this event know about djokovic has continued his return from a long time elbow injury with a straight sets when i have it kind of early has also battled injuries and with forces out of the australian open with a very injury this into the second round with his seven five six four when. and it was a big day for young canadian dentist a pov a lot of us think of as fast as when on clay he beat american tennis some going six one six four to reach the second round the nineteen year old who faced the ben wopat net. men's world number one rafa nadal has blitz the clay court season so far having won both the monte carlo and basilan open titles he's won forty six straight sets on clay and is the defending champion in madrid but he needs to win his home

event to stay ahead of roger federer in the wild rankings always very happy to blame both events in both because i really. don't play with more motivation on one by shiny fees than on the. name of the court is my name is the name of the court. for me to say my play in front of my home i could be in in two beautiful this. part of the playing in my county so this is always a special situations and i enjoy this minute looking to cause the biggest upset in the history of the french cop when they made paris found a man in tuesday's final of the side from western france of currently trying to avoid being relegated to the french fourth division while last month p.s.g. claimed their fifth title in six years pearce tree is one of the richest clubs in the wild they paid

a record transfer fee of two hundred sixty two million dollars but neymar and oldest play r.b.i. could afford to pay his wages for just sixteen days. total annual budget of two point three million dollars almost all of sixteen thousand people from the town take it to the final. it's the charm of the french cup the opportunity and history of the french cup the mid-level teams to get to the final and enjoy it with all the supporters from the little town they'll be here with all the supporters it'll be the same for us for stadiums and the start the fronts but we were spectum. what does it mean to have fun and enjoy the game. play is that for comparison having fun means to fight when you're a competitor and you're on the pitch and need to have the courage to look the players at harrison jermain in the eyes and to confront them if they enter onto the pitch saying these players i watch on t.v. are my idols the players i admire when they want to have fun so i hope my team will

be ready later this week island will finally play its first ever test cricket match after pushing to be part of this board game for decades pakistan of their opponents for the historic fixture in dublin and officials are already talking about a possible game against england they want reports cricket has been played in ireland for over two hundred years but they've not been part of the one hundred forty one years of the most prestigious form of the guy in test cricket until now. the ground in dublin is about to stage systolic first test with pakistan the visitors it's been a long struggle to be recognised a quick it's top table. arlen'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 he's kind of been given obstacles got past was we've done a work culture we've produced a result against big teams and we've been knocking on 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. expense of those who are 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 the famous leaving england in the two thousand and eleven world cup today in pakistan in the tournament four years earlier the i.c.c. one 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. like obviously there's just a minor difference between the teams who went through the last two teams who didn't so it's just a shame really because if you look at like sports like football or whatever they've been involved in the world cups that's the only way to grow the sport the effects on the interest and on the finances for irish cricket could be irreparably damaging so they need test cricket to succeed and to attract the public how do you sell how do you market a five day game to a public it's only used to a game that sort of last six seven hours well we do it by saying be part of history come and watch a major two you know your major sport come up play against one of the world's finest are you getting a positive response from the probably all. i can't 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 why arlen should have been part of pick its purest form of the guy long before now they want to have a doubly. teams have come from around mexico and beyond to compete in the national

championship for a traditional sport that's more than three thousand years old the ball game was played across all major civilizations including the earth teka mayor in what was then the mezzo america region that now includes countries from mexico to costa rica players use their bodies but not the hands and feet to keep the foliage rubber ball which could weigh up to three and a half kilograms and martian basketball has ribs and other versions of the game players trying to get the ball through circles on a wall. and i want to. thank you very much tatiana and that of this news al but i'm back in just a couple of minutes with another full news bulletin. on.

may on al-jazeera venezuela will hold a snap election as president maduro aims to retain control what lies ahead for a country that has been waiting for light at the end of a long tunnel people in power ross the top u.s. general in afghanistan about his plans for defeating by the taliban and an isis insurgency. struggling with security issues and economic uncertainty iraq is finally set to hold elections as an unseen global battle rages for results as beneath our oceans we all skip the seabed is a territory still to be claimed. commemorating seventy years from now al-jazeera examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict

may on al-jazeera. to. the foreign minister. on counting the cost of drumming up business why saudi arabia is trying to lure of foreign cash even as oil prices head high up the european union launches a new budget blueprint offsetting some of those plus a look at gold smuggling in south sudan. counting the cost on al-jazeera.