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this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news our live from coming up in the next sixty minutes security is tight ahead of iraq's first parliamentary election since the defeat of ice a last year. iran condemns israel's air strikes on iranian targets in syria as a senior cleric threatens israel in response plus. another palestinian is shot dead and five hundred people were injured by israeli troops on the seventh friday of protests along the gaza border. and as a new ebola outbreak is confirmed in democratic republic of congo the world health organization says it's planning for all possible scenarios.

well in just under two hours iraqis will begin voting in their first parliamentary elections since the defeat of i sold last year the government says it's closing airports and border crossings for extra security it's also suspending travel between provinces and restricting the movement of vehicles are some a binge of aid reports from baghdad. this was the crown jewel in iceland self declared islamic state a few years ago but control of mosul is back with the triumphant iraqi government and now the majority sunni city buzzing with election fever i did them a lot of candidates are using new ways besides their banners such as facebook and other social media voters from mosul face many difficulties because people are still displaced and more than seventy percent of that is completely destroyed ice and says it killed one candidate in mosul iraq's interior ministry says its plan to

secure the vote has been coordinated in strict measures are in place for this it actions this importance in baghdad and also all of provinces including. iraq everything now it's and we achieve all of. the northern city of used to be held by kurdish peshmerga now iraqi forces have taken charge when rich could kook is also known as mini iraq because of its mixed population including kurds turkmen christians and arabs during this election the focus is on using the strength of diversity to solve the commission's. targets and. accords a stance between the continent of the iraqi and car cork the real test will be in places like ramadi and other sunni majority areas which were under rice and much of the roads and buildings have been destroyed and many residents are still displaced

iraqis are worried about sectarian divisions and political corruption. after we saw candidates back stabbing each other and some familiar old faces we began to have doubts if any change will happen in these elections although many people say they are not afraid of mice and attacks securing the election is a challenge on saturday airports and border crossings will remain closed for the twenty four hour curfew. prime minister by the onces mostly shia national coalition to win while vice president. maliki is behind his state of law coalition and other hopeful is how the lumbering whose fatah coalition has plenty of she has support and it's only what is still divided in this election there are almost seven thousand candidates vying for three hundred and when you know what's different about twenty eighteen of the dawn of unity rather than sectarian allegiances there are alliances between sunnis and shias between communists and sudras not so different are similar faces making the same promises the biggest challenge remains

to convince voters to actually come out and cast their ballots some of the job down there there are. well in some parts of iraq people who were forced from their homes are struggling to recover their cautious but hopeful the election may bring change charles trafford reports from a refugee camp in northern iraq mohamad shocker and his family fled mosul in june last year during the battle against beisel their home was destroyed like many of the two million people in iraq displaced by violence in recent years they live in a camp for the internally displaced yet we are asking politicians to look after everyone equally regardless where they are from and especially those living in camps we don't want charity we want to go home and we don't want money in return for our votes. the iraqi government says one hundred sixty six polling stations are being set up in seventy camps in time for saturday's parliamentary election

campaign chiefs say candidates from a number of parties have visited but apart from the post there's little sign of election campaigning. only around twenty five families of the one thousand three hundred fifty living in this camp have returned to the areas they fled during the battle against. the vast majority of the people here a slim knees and their homes have been completely destroyed when you speak to people here many of them say that even if they could return to the areas they lived in they have very little faith in politicians because they feel so let down by discriminated against by previous shia led government. the government says it's going to cost two billion dollars to rebuild mosul forty thousand homes were destroyed in the west of the city alone. every few days people who used to live there gather in the camps to collect food handouts. tell

us that when eisel took control of mosul in two thousand and fourteen many among the city's predominantly sunni population believed eisel may improve their lives up to what they describe as so many broken promises by the bank that government but they say that quickly changed when they began to experience the brutality of life on the. fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps. what did you not. only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded we're only asking politicians to rebuild their homes this is the least of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us right mingling. winning the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be

a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq sectarian divide getting wider. and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. camp in iraq. well ismail also known he was a brigadier general in the iraqi army he also served as iraq's defense attache in the us and he's joining us now from washington d.c. on skype thank you very much indeed for giving us your time so i so may have been defeated but there is still a strong suspicion that parts of it at least have splintered off and gone to ground can voters be confident enough to come out and post their ballots in this election . well i think i feel. defeated in mortal. danger. arising from iraq

i think they have lost the signal. on the operation. and logistical as well as the mind of the commanding. so i think they are going posing kind of threat to iraq and to the ability in iraq but i don't think so that threats will be acting on the coming election. situation and there are still. as we heard in our correspondent charles toppers report that there are significant parts of the population who still remain to be convinced that the government can protect them for myself and indeed to still blame the government for they the problems with i saw in the first place that's going to be a major hurdle for the new government going forward is not. it is. if you also i still will be able to come back to.

iraq i would answer no support because i still or isis has lost the social support because they are. their practices and polity and how they cheated. and all the. others they have fought but the question is is their government. to diminish this kind of concerns and treat the people well having its strategy alongside with the local governments in cities or in the. progress i think by the question is to be addressed by the government and the local government i think. the after the

election and the new government should have should not be g.'s to diminish this kind of concerns otherwise we will have the same concerns that the new brand although i still will be appearing and that will be disturbing the situation of security in iraq where appreciate your giving us your point of view thank you very much i smile also donny of course. thank you more ahead on the news hour including an inquiry opening in kenya after a downburst killing many people but there is confusion over whether its operators had the right from missions plus. i am robin bride in south korea with one of the longest working weeks in the world it's a five o'clock revolution people are clocking off. in sports the had a world football says he's considering an enlarged twenty twenty two world cup.

a prominent iranian cleric has threatened the destruction of two israeli cities following the worst faceoff to date between the two countries over syria it follows israeli attacks on iranian positions in syria israel says it was responding to iranian strikes in the occupied golan heights which iran vehemently denies from tehran as investor avi reports. in perhaps the harshest words so far a senior iranian cleric said israeli cities face destruction if that country continues to act quote foolishly. during a friday sermon a to her own university to look to me had this warning after strikes on what israel says were iranian targets in syria now do you not think we will expand our missile capabilities despite western pressure to kid it to let israel know that if it acts

foolishly tell of even hateful will be totally destroyed cut to me as part of the council of experts an eighty eight member body that elects iran's supreme leader he's also a political hard liner and has been a harsh critic of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal he gave his views on the u.s. pullout from that agreement empty because i don't see america cannot do a damn thing they. always be nafta toppling of iran's regime and they say it is in line with. these european signatories also cannot be trusted iran's enemies cannot be trusted. on these comments come as a ronnie and foreign minister job prepares to embark on a diplomatic tour meeting the remaining signatories of the nuclear agreement his job to try to preserve the deal has no doubt become more difficult.

if they actually want to continue with the deal they have to adopt toss diplomacy with the europeans the europeans have to come up with mechanisms to protect european companies and european banks that want to invest and do trade with you want and an escalation of violence at syria's border seems linked to the u.s. pullout from the nuclear deal well i think the israelis are trying really hard to completely kill off the deal by rising tensions in the region they're essentially going to make it even very difficult for iran to even work with the europeans and i think ultimately what they're trying to do is to put you on a confrontational path with the west and i mean that's the reason why they were against the deal from the beginning of the. iranian leaders know the nuclear deal is on borrowed time and there is mounting public pressure at home as well as deep internal divisions among iran's political heavyweights all this could mean that an

international agreement years in the making something that represented a hard won diplomatic victory for iran is now beyond repair hardliners in iran have been emboldened by the events of the last few days and the moderates the government of president hosni rouhani are not only in a fight to save the nuclear deal abroad but also to maintain their own political futures here at home. well the rising tensions comes hard on the heels of america's withdrawal from the iran nuclear agreement to which european leaders are no scrambling to salvage germany france and britain have promised to stay in their part of the deal some of europe's biggest companies have billions of dollars on the line european plane maker air bus has large operations in front so it's got a twenty five billion dollars deal to supply iran with more than one hundred aircraft french oil giant total has been planning to invest five billion dollars in south park it's the world's largest gas field and carmakers run no and have signed

multi-million dollar agreements german companies with interests include the mercedes owner daimler and votes five and engineering from siemens was in talks to develop iran's rail network network that chemical company b a s f had wanted to explore oil fields the u.k. has got less on the line but while dutch shell and british petroleum were in talks to develop the oil industry telecoms company vodafone wanted to invest in the mobile network the tasha butler has more from paris. well french government ministers have been working very hard on a plan to try and reduce minimize or even get rid of the impact of u.s. sanctions on french companies working in iran there's a sense of urgency here certainly a sense of frustration we heard from the french foreign minister a bit earlier saying europeans should not be made to pay for the fact that the united states has decided to pull out of the iran deal now we have

a host of french multinationals that have been working with iran ever since sanctions were lifted in twenty sixteen we're talking about companies like car makers renault citron drug companies santa fe and of course energy giant hotel that has invested very heavily in gas fields in iran french finance minister bruno lemaire has been very busy trying to rally people around he says europe needs to step up and do more and he says france is going to try and present some measures to block these sanctions the impact of them on french companies to the european commission in the next few days. it's high time for europe to move from words to actions in terms of economic sovereignty its hard time it develops the same instruments that the u.s. has to defend its economic interest. well only on friday we heard from one iranian minister who said that the european plane maker airbus is going to give

a decision in the coming days on whether or not it will continue with its deal with iran and i basically signed a deal with iran they're back in twenty sixteenth's liver one hundred planes it was a deal worth billions of dollars but in this climate of uncertainty nobody knows what is going to happen next. best mobile money is a professor at waterloo university in canada where she specializes in foreign policy related to the middle east she says it's going to be a tough road ahead for european interests in iran. companies may eventually get waivers they may in fact be insulated and protected by let's say the some sort of legal measure to allow them to continue to operate but how are they to get their money out of iran and this is the biggest challenge for many companies left will they be able to get their money out through credit swaps through the say their central banks that's an option but the international financial system is so

american dominated that it's really difficult to get their money using american banks and their affiliates and even international ones because they have so many global operations in the united states and beyond they're just not willing to incur the potential sanctions that come with it i mean maybe for referring to cuba right i mean europe and canada for example they had continued to trade with cuba despite sort of the sanctions that the americans tried to have particularly secondary or tertiary sanctions i think that's a great example you know there's going to be i think a lot of creative attempts to find ways to continue operating in iran and don't forget here i think at the end of the day the fact that the americans pulled out will allow the european countries to say look this is not a breach of an agreement that the iranians did this is basically americans pulling out why should our companies have to suffer but then they frankly it's all going to be up to lawyers in the legal system to basically arbitrate this if the europeans pull out or arse are scared off from continuing their investments in iran they're

going to be the greatest beneficiaries you know both china and russia have said that they're going to continue to do business on the russian side obviously they're under american sanctions already so you know they don't care of and the secondary sanctions are going to come on them and the chinese are not really well integrated the i'm international banking system so they don't care so they're going to benefit enormously and i think that's going to have to be pitched or explained to donald trump in many ways that you know if the sanctions are imposed and become heavy handed on the european companies these are two competitors that are really going to benefit and that's not in the long term american interest either. the u.n. says two hundred thirty six civilians were killed in yemen in april that's more than double the number killed the month before and it's urging all parties in the conflict to respect international law but the u.n. human rights office blames many deaths on saudi arabia's military tactics our office has documented

a total of sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty two civilian casualties and this includes six thousand three hundred eighty five dead and ten thousand and forty seven injured. and the vast majority of these civilian casualties were as a result of air strikes carried out by the saudi led coalition of palestinians being killed and hundreds more have been injured on the israel gaza border during demonstrations on the seventh friday in a row forty two people have now been killed in the protests which call for palestinian refugees to be able to return to their ancestral lands taken by israel stuffy deca reports from gaza. but the injuries started early this young man was shot in his lower leg as he tried to pull that israel's fence it's a seventh friday protest has here called the great march of return a passion well established by now tires brute right to the front and set on fire to

obscure israeli sniper positions many palestinians have been coming here every friday for seven weeks now in the lemon leg. we're not going to stop our protests we will not move until we get our rights if the international community was on us about us and implemented a two state solution that was promised our lives would be so much better no one can accept living in this siege there was no light at the end of the tunnel. there was a constant volley of tear gas and other established pattern now israeli soldiers firing close to the fence and right to the back of the crowds this is what we've been seeing happening for the last a couple of hours a lot of tear gas being thrown. into the crowd and then do you think they are picking it up and throwing it back towards the feds that young people here are frustrated they have spent eleven years growing up under an israeli and egyptian siege they say they feel suffocated there are no jobs unemployment is over sixty

percent that's the highest rate in the world. live with me when there was a lot of the you know what i want to live on is going to be besieged in gaza by everyone including the arab countries. palestinians especially here in gaza we want our rights and need our rights just like the rest of the world we just want to be no one is better than us we deserve a good life too much of course has a lot of mallam just in the fish. throughout the day a steady stream of injuries we counted several gunshot wounds to the lower part of the body the crowds appear smaller descried day everyone is preparing for monday one protester planned to mark a palestinian school the nakba catastrophe the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the state of israel which displaced hundreds of thousands of palestinians from their homes it also coincides with the u.s. embassy's move to jerusalem we ask what will happen. to you on the fourteenth of may will be a surprise we're preparing

a lot of surprises for israel you will see them made a full change. no one is sure exactly what will happen but from everyone we've spoken to palestinians are determined to come out in huge numbers stephanie decker al jazeera east gaza. where the charity save the children's has hundreds of children in gaza have been injured since the protests began in march it says eight thousand palestinians have been hurt including seven hundred children of the total number of people injured found more than two thousand of them have been treated in hospital for bullet wounds and quoting figures from the palestinian ministry of health it says at least two hundred fifty children have been hit by live ammunition the world health organization says is preparing for the worst case scenario after confirming two cases of a bola and thirty two probable or suspected cases in democratic republic of congo nine neighboring countries have been alerted at least seventeen people have died

since people in the village of book called zero began showing symptoms similar to a bolo and the hayward reports. a sober announcement to the democratic republic of congo and beyond is back but here dear compadre it's since tuesday may the democratic republic of congo is facing an epidemic of a bowl of virus disease that constitutes an international public health emergency. the government isn't taking any chances the world health organization is exploring the use of an experimental vaccine to try to stop the outbreak and in the meantime we have preparing as if it will be a green light so coaching is on standby the stockpile is on standby the teams are being put on standby health authorities compare the outbreak on tuesday they were alerted when news came from a remote congolese village to the capital kinshasa the outbreak declaration occurred after the lab results confirmed true cases four people died during an

outbreak last year but it's over current threats the d r c has had nine ebola outbreaks in the last forty years it is highly contagious it kills half the people it infects and has no cure the experimental vaccine has been successfully used he says in. extended access. it passes from its origin bass to humans through bush meat once in the population it spreads through bodily fluids symptoms a poll from of people headaches and a sore throat into organ failure along with internal and external bleeding health workers the most vulnerable being in close proximity to the victims so far three have been infected the w.h.o. is trying to support the d r c s health workers by sending in fifty experts and releasing one million dollars per an emergency fund to stop it from spreading

nigeria is already taking it so measures rolling out ebola screenings that is the airport's investigators will follow anyone who has been exposed to the by respect three weeks the time it takes but ebola victims to show symptoms burials will also be monitored as people can get infected while preparing bodies all part of an effort to avoid a repeat of the worst ebola outbreak in west africa in twenty fourteen which killed more than eleven thousand people and the heywood. questions are being raised in kenya about whether a dam which burst and killed at least fifty people on wednesday had the necessary permits the water resources authority says the operators of the patel dam did not have the permission required by the interior ministry told al-jazeera the dam was entirely illegal what was a rescue has now become a recovery as andrew symonds reports with no hope of finding survivors the sense of

urgency had gone it was about finding bodies over a large expanse of ground deep set about the floodwater many of those found dead have been children. i may be alive but my mom is gone my son is gone i'm not lucky i feel so bad because the place has grown so much but now we have nothing again i will never have a good life again at the local mortuary there's an attempt at helping the bereaved a counselling service this man whose wife is dead expressed his gratitude that his daughter somehow survived. they were able to rescue my child after the water subsided she had hung on to a tree branch and was tired but i thank god she is ok. most of our visit are in gauged in one of three actions identifying the dead trying to settle in a makeshift camp for the displaced or recovering what's left of their lives and

their homes it's a familiar grim picture in so many parts of kenya in this flood crisis even so there are those who feel they're lucky. we thank god that we're alive even though we've lost everything i'm grateful for my life and that my family was spared. all over the area there was a controlled release of water from other downs but local people still feel uneasy about risks kenya's director of public prosecutions has ordered the chief of police to open an investigation local media are reporting that the patel dam was investigated by the national water resources all forty and deemed unsafe but no action was taken nor any follow up by the all forty aside from questions over this there are seven other similar dams in the area all of them used for irrigating the

crops from the air it's clear to see the consequences of such a dam burst but an interior ministry spokesman on the ground told al-jazeera that no laws have been broken by the farm owners some people are claiming the number of missing could be larger than the national disaster team is saying because many bodies have been recovered why do you know we've heard on the radio that forty three people are missing i'm a local i just don't believe it we know it's a bit two hundred people that are missing. and so whatever the cause whatever the numbers the people of this rural district have to cope with their losses and somehow live in these grim conditions andrew simmons al-jazeera there is a county in ghana in neighboring somalia heavy rains have affected half a million people after the show bell river burst its banks the u.n. estimates more than one hundred thousand people are being forced out of their homes because of flooding it's warning of the danger of water borne diseases like cholera

and malaria emergency medical supplies have been sent but the u.n. estimates an extra two million dollars in aid is needed. still ahead on al-jazeera voters head to the polls in east timor for the second time in less than a year we'll take a look who is on the ballot. euro vision controversy why a chinese t.v. channel has been barred from airing the contest. and in sport gearing up for the spanish roam free find out who's quickest in practice in barcelona. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello and welcome back signs of the monsoon across southeast asia with the

biosystems producing outbreaks of rain across china some heavy rains being reported here but see some rain extending up towards the young sea river valley but these clothes food to hong kong and indeed for taiwan weather conditions are looking dry it's looking pretty wet across parts of vietnam protect the northern areas extending into indochina during the course of softly on sunday but further north across china that frontal system does begin to weaken i sat down into southeastern parts of a ship we've got one and two showers for the philippines with jeremy weather conditions not looking too bad middle of that thirty five degrees heavy showers across borneo but for java and bali the weather is generally looking pretty good and as we head up through them in a pinch are scattered showers to singapore and kuala lumpur further north i think for central northern parts of thailand some heavy downpours but for bangkok probably dry for much of the time for south asia we've got a few showers for kara but otherwise the main feature remains the heat temperatures into the mid forty's in many areas also some showers across parts of the poor into the eastern states of india and bangladesh and some of those still looking pretty

heavy but really temperatures expected remain up at forty three degrees for delhi over an crunchy somewhat more pleasant weather there with highs of thirty four the weather sponsored by catto and nice. beginning until the very end the trade in human. is big business. and wealthy western nations are really. no way to know how to randomly now there must be an organized crime that sex lives episode of slavery in the twenty first century medieval on al-jazeera fresh perspective it's impossible it seems. thinnest janice's just one of the rooms and you have to understand the last look. looks like the debate and discussion still what do you make of that commentary misinformation descents the rumors and false messages when

playgrounds take you on a janni and ground the canal and. only a mountain scene. you're watching all jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour in just a few hours iraqis are going to begin voting in their first parliamentary election since the defeat of ice a last year the government's closing airports and border crossings for extra security the coalition led by current prime minister high that all the body is tipped to win. a prominent iranian cleric has threatened to destroy two israeli

cities following the worst confrontation so far between the two countries over syria on thursday israel fired dozens of missiles at alleged iranian positions in the syria it says it was responding to an iranian attack on its troops which are run denying it's. the world health organization is to send an experimental vaccine to democratic republic of congo after confirming two cases of ebola and thirty two probable cases there. now for the second time in less than a year polls have opened in east timor to elect a parliament there's been a political stalemate in the southeast asian nation since elections last july when the minority government didn't get enough support to pass legislation shall about this report's. supporters of east timor's parliamentary majority alliance were aimed at a campaign rally the opposition coalition has prevented the government from passing legislation and forced and you would like. that. they already lead us in

an independent fight why don't we let them be our leader in this country. unemployment is high in east timor life expectancy is sixty eight years old forty two percent of people live in poverty improving these numbers are key campaign issues but over the last year the taken a back seat to political wrangling a parliamentary election ten months ago or indeed with no clear winner the lift this frightened posse won by just zero point two percent and received twenty three of parliament sixty five seats and formed a coalition to create a minority government and the nation's first prime minister mario terry was elected for a second time the. most important things in government is improving development the quality of development in the future as well as development in all institutions at that they look to a brighter future and second establishing relationships with neighboring countries in order to strengthen mutually beneficial corporations. but over terry never got

the charts opposition parties conspired to make sure his government couldn't get a mandate and in january parliament was dissolved. east timor has a volatile history more than one hundred thousand timorese were killed or die from famine and disease before the island nation achieved independence from indonesia in two thousand and two it's. offered through a mutiny gang intellectual violence to receive the highest bracing for democracy southeast asian last year now it's up to voters whether it stays on a path to political maturity shallop bellus al-jazeera when asia's new prime minister mahathir mohamad says the king has agreed to pardon the former deputy prime minister ibrahim was jailed what he was opposition leader but now he's in a coalition with marketeer when he reports from kuala lumpur. i think

that as the prospect of a pardon sent family supporters and media scrambling to a hospital in kuala lumpur inside and why abraham is recovering from shoulder surgery under a prison guard while he serves a five year jail term earlier the new prime minister mahathir mohamad said the malaysian king had agreed to pardon and while immediately it is going to be fooled by the reach it was means that he should not really be if i did it should be released immediately when it is. up that you can be. but this speech really both ways which are remarkable words to hear from who was grooming and want to take over in the one nine hundred ninety s. during his first tenure as prime minister but he sect him as his deputy in one nine hundred ninety eight when unproven allegations of sodomy emerged and then oversaw his jailing for six years on corruption charges the following year in two thousand and fourteen he was convicted on separate sodomy charges and sentenced to five

years now in events that not long ago would have seemed unthinkable and was wife one as he stands alongside mahathir as malaysia's first female deputy prime minister i didn't even yeah i could have dreamt i could come this far twenty years it's quite some time i'd have achieved it but it's a start of the new dawn a new era new time formalise and i think it's a better future for all of us the prime minister now says he was wrong to fire and water twenty years ago and he'll hand power to him within two years even when it bring him is pardons and released it may be a long time before he can be elevated to the position of prime minister he would have to go through a byelection in a seat somewhere in malaysia and then an internal vote so he can become a party president all of that has to happen before he can become prime minister. the supporters who've been with. him during a long fight may not believe it until it actually happens given that mahathir

mohamad has promised this transition before when hey al jazeera kuala lumpur. one of china's t.v. channels has been barred from airing the euro vision song contest in lisbon mango t.v. censored gay themed elements during its broadcast of tuesday's semifinal the station also chose not to air ireland's performance which is about a romance between two men the european broadcasting union says censorship is not in line with its diversity of values so the koreans work longer hours than people in most other developed countries but a controversial new law will limit the working week from a maximum of sixty eight hours and bring it down to fifty two hours the government says it will help work life balance but some businesses say it's going to make them less competitive more bright reports from seoul it's four in the afternoon and these workers are already thinking of home time that's because unlike most south

korean companies this office has imposed district nine to five routine the company says limiting the working week to thirty five hours makes people more productive and you're more. used to have a typical south korean corporate culture with long meetings and unnecessary paperwork now executive simply give verbal reports and meetings have to finish within an hour an employee seem happier to come five o'clock be uncertain queue gets a warning on his screen to stop work. by five thirty the computer is a shut down when most people will already be out of the door. beyond picks up his son from the office nursery and heads home i think. we also have guaranteed holidays and my mom often asked why are you always off my friends finish a lot later than i do and are envious south korea's work culture has resulted in one of the longest working weeks of any developed industrial nation is not only

unhealthy says the government but is being blamed for the country's birth rate hitting a record low the new law is meant to create a better work life balance but many small businesses say it will hurt their competitiveness and many workers say they rely upon overtime to make ends meet most and they were you know even though they want a little less work an hour but actually an income is real trouble for so many you know workers are dissatisfied with this kind of action from the congress. as darkness falls offices in seoul continue to work well into the night a producer in the media industry bake wanky is used to the longer hours and so while his colleagues. people work a lot late most of my peer compared to my friends they work overtime until late sometimes they've invented the next morning an ingrained culture not easily

undone but gradually whether they want to or not more korean workers are finding other things to do with their evenings public bride al-jazeera so. indian prime minister narendra modi is on a two day visit to nepal its first trip since twenty fifteen when his government imposed an unofficial blockade along the nepalese border it caused a shortage of essential goods and that allowed china to step in i said been assessed the reports from poor motors visit is being seen as an attempt to tilt the balance back in india's favor. the streets have been decorated swept and cleaned the city of jhana poor has been preparing for weeks for the visit of indian prime minister narendra modi people here hope this visit will cement friendship between the countries and most of the people here are very much like our neighbors across the border who want everyone to live together in a friendly environment the state visit is in keeping with mr modi's hindu that the

politics he's visiting the hindu temple of john icke mythology has it that john knox daughter john the key to god a seat was married to god john who was born in india a place whose symbolism has been crucial to mr moody's hindu nationalism we are to do not look down not about the relationship between iowa and poor is unbreakable and invincible on this day we are inaugurating i direct bus service between the two historical cities for the provincial government mr moody's visit is finally attracting the attention the area deserves no this is the time for all we want to. bring. but why don't the poor is celebrating moody's visit the jubilation is not shared by people across the country trending on twitter is hash tag blockade was a crime mr modi referring to the crippling border blockade imposed by india in twenty fifteen the blockade was

a response to nepal's new constitution which angered people in jhana poor and elsewhere in southern nepal leading to protests in which over forty people died the indian government responded to the un dress by blocking the transfer of products across the border for five months creating severe shortages of essential goods across nepal impact of the blockade has opened the pot from neighboring china to step in reducing india's influence in the pali politics china is offering major infrastructure investments as a part of its one belt one growth initiative and that makes india feel sick to me threatened but some key. and taters say that the geopolitical change is a good opportunity for the past. we need connectivity with both china and india india has agreed to build roads and rail links and the fuel pipeline china is also trying to get india on board with the china railway and they can help and it might seem ambitious but nepal can slowly exercise its bodies and to build economic days

with both countries it is unlikely that this today visit with eliminate the resentment many nepalis feel over the blockade but for most people in this province this image this visit is an exciting day on the big international stage and for the party government balancing both the giant neighbors and doing infrastructure deals it's crucial for national development. others here it's on a prude it's been ten years since one of china's worst natural disasters an estimated eighty six thousand people were killed in the six one earthquake just months before the two thousand and eight beijing olympics the tragedy also became a political test after questions about the number of buildings which collapsed our china correspondent adrian brown travelled to young sui incest one province to revisit a couple who lost everything. you know you chong looks like the older brother he never knew the brother who died before he was born his sister jo un had been

adopted a year earlier before her mother thought she'd ever get pregnant again their father says life is better now the than is when the quake happened we lost our house but now we have a place to live and that time there are only two people my wife and i but now we are four. al jazeera first met joshing wa six days after the earthquake he was sifting through the debris of his home after burying his son joey a day earlier he and his wife changing leanne we're retrieving precious memories. the earthquake struck a two twenty eight in the afternoon when his son was at school like so many other children who perished his child had been taking an english lesson after i got there

he heard a familiar voice calling out but there was no equipment to move the rubble trapping his son. i could hear my son but i cannot see him he said that i want to sit up and i told him you cannot. know yet that was two pm but by six pm i cannot hear him anymore this was a natural disaster but one also exacerbated by man evidence emerged that many schools have been built with substandard materials you can show was the epicenter of the quake but the town is being completely rebuilt except in one part where the rubble of the school has been preserved to form part of an official

memorial site in the weeks and months following the earthquake many parents who lost children called on the government to begin an inquiry into why so many schools collapsed but they say instead of meeting their demands they were instead subjected to harassment occasional detention and were even prevented from grieving in public . joel says if his son had lived he'd now be twenty one and probably at university and most of the longer of course i meet him no matter what happens i cannot forget him that. he says his children know they have a big brother. but they also know they'll never meet him adrian brown al jazeera in sichuan province southwest china. all the sports are rafael nadal's on comes to an end coming up.

the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's complex pieces of things. but on those informations. cardinal joseph zen. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. on counting the cost how the u.s. decision to exit the iran nuclear deal is being felt around the world argentina's cry for help with the i.m.f. triggering bad memories for many people the coal mining debate in south africa.

counting the cost. it's time for sports here. thank you very much well the head of world football has publicly backs the idea of expanding the twenty twenty two world cup to include forty eight teams cats or is currently preparing to host thirty two teams ornament in november and december of that year or favor president johnny in france and i was talking in paraguay at a meeting of the south american football association is there in favor of expansion qatar tournament organizers said last month that further discussions would be required before any final decision could be made the twenty twenty six world cup

was set to be the first forty eight events. if we've already taken this decision to a forty eight teams in a future world cup if it is doable and that's the key question why not anticipate so it's not just whether we will have enough stadia which the teams could play without any problems also means looking at the international calendar the number of much is in the health of the players these are the topics that we need to analyze for the twenty twenty two world cup in qatar as well brazilian defender danny alvarez is out of this year's world cup in russia and suffered a knee injury during the french cup final on shoes day alvarez's won more than one hundred caps for his country little pulls mohamed salah could set a new premier league goal scoring record against brighton on sunday sila has already scored thirty one league goals this season and it's just been named the football writers player of the year solid also getting ready for this year's champions league final against real madrid. i think everyone now expect to win not

everyone but most of the people in the game will be easier for grandmother read but you know will be a man city will be a room in a good way so i'm very excited about the game to be honest it's a fine that it's only one game so everyone in the city is excited everyone in the club is excited so it's one game so let's see. if it's an manager sam allardyce says one thing he hasn't asked to leave the club despite reports the striker is set to move some major league soccer in the united states and the last club d.c. united say a deal has been done in principle the former england captain rejoined his boyhood club everton in july of last year after thirteen seasons at manchester united if the player player wants to go there if any player wants to leave i'm always completely really want to leave. ruefully play a little bit when really let's get this right where he really has not really

another's when really other conflicts confrontation with me. or. we've not been any difficult situation and times are because we're two dogs and we took a global report into football finances has put manchester united at the top of the world league when it comes to earning power of the brand finance survey say but also own all the same most fans around the globe have a when a software is growing supposin china india and the united states the german bundesliga attracts the biggest crowds and albie leipsic have the fastest growing brand of any team in the world middle eastern companies account for more than thirty percent of all shirt sponsorships for top level teams and the english premier league still the cash king with eighteen teams making the top fifty rich list well earlier i spoke to bryn anderson one of the people behind that report he says the cost of relegation from the premier league can be devastating. broadcasting revenues can represent up to eighty percent of their of their earnings

and obviously their sponsors enter into sponsoring sponsorship or gauge events with these clubs on the assumption that these brands will be playing in the premier league so if they do fall down to the championship they get relegated then often there's clauses in the sponsorship agreements that they will lower the payments or in fact they might actually terminate their sponsorship agreements and equally the lose out in terms of the broadcasting revenues i believe the lowest broadcasting income for the team at the bottom of the premier league is around eighty million if you're looking at the top of the championship broadcasting brings that brings in around ten million so you're looking at a delta or a gulf of about seventy million there. rafael nadal's twenty one much unbeaten run on clay has come to an end the spaniard was beaten by world number seven dominant team in straight sets in the quarterfinals of the madrid open. lost on clay since

losing team in the last eight of the it's early and open a year ago it also set a new record of fifty consecutive sets on the surface with his fourth round win defeat means that i will also lose is world number one ranking to roger federer. and i am playing against one of the best lawyers of the world. special conditions the ball flies more here was the more difficult to have the candle of the of the ball and the ball and this playing with more of the. things that work that way is that the moment do all those on the stool to dominic happy for him he's a great guy he deserve it i wish him all the very best for the rest of the. team will face south africa's kevin anderson in the semifinals last year's u.s. open final speaking serbian qualifier dusun live which in three sets in their last

match. in the women's draw patrick a bit of a reach the final in madrid for the third time in her career the twenty eleven and twenty fifteen champion defeated fellow czech carolyn discover in straight sets in the semifinals for her tenth straight win the two time wimbledon when it will play keep her sins of the netherlands in saturday's title. formula one world champion lewis hamilton set the pace in second practice ahead of sunday's spanish grand prix and also leads the championships damaged by all points from ferrari sebastian vettel who was just quicker than red bulls daniel ricardo who crashed out of first practice his teammate match for stop and not far behind the paramedic collided on the track during the last by jan vettel will be chasing a fourth successive pole in saturday's qualifying he was fourth quickest. iris cyclist some bennett is one stage seven of the year i did sally with britain's simon yates holding on to the overall late friday so riders it's in the it's

hellion mainland for the first time after opening stages in israel and on the island of sicily when it's time to sprint finish to perfections edge out of avionics and claim his first ground source stage when a treat science is advantage over defending champion tom delay and heading into saturday's mountain stage. and the date was set the venue was ready and the opposition were poised for action but sadly for irish cricket the weather was unwilling to cooperate they warn of islands in all the test match against pakistan in maui hide completely washed out it seems will try again on saturday and crucially the weather forecast is much improved ok that is always sport find out more like some. of them say here's our next time robot there's a place for being with. children dream of becoming us to. further from the

stars and said. the teenager from iran. held back by society struck. today reaching for the star witness documentary on al-jazeera. and the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full drive this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. this is a boon for blind people right now and technology is so much going to help people

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