mr but to everyone in this corrupt system including the president. going on here in parliament the day of confusion members of the chamber of deputies yelling at each other as they debated the prime minister's future before they knew he was going to step down but after combe was restored in the prime minister resigned they focused on what it all meant. now we need a new government one that inspires confidence with all sectors we need someone who understands the political dynamic that works across the board we need big changes that can have systemic effect haiti currently now has no functioning government right now now that law has stepped down all of his ministers go with him so what happens next it will be the president as well as the two heads of the parliament that will decide who the next prime minister will be. left parliament quickly after stepping down without taking questions a country now hoping the political chaos of the last week also goes with him.

which is it a port au prince. the spanish coast guard has rescued three hundred forty refugees and migrants from the strait of gibraltar one hundred children were among those found on twelve days around one thousand people have arrived in spain from north africa since the start of this year. and u.s. president donald trump will fly to finland on sunday before a summit with russian leader vladimir putin trump insists he'll meet putin alone and that's worrying diplomats more from our diplomatic editor james base. helsinki a city that during the cold war was used as one of the few places where western allies and the soviet union could talk some believe relations are almost at a cold war level again yet one leader keeps talking up the positive and i said putin may be the easiest of the more you never know the biggest blow to relations

was russia's seizure of crimea from ukraine the first time a part of one country had been stolen by another in europe since world war two at the time it was condemned by the us nato and the u. . however in recent days two news conferences in belgium and the u.k. president trump was asked if russia should give back crimea and each time he dodged the question what will happen with crimea from this point doing that i can't tell you well we'll have to see what happens far from here the syrian war seems to be entering its final phases the assad regime would support from its allies iran and russia has the upper hand the u.s. and israel want to reduce iranian presence in the country and its influence in the region could there be a grand bargain in the works. only days ago israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in moscow putin could perhaps persuade

a sad to ask you iran to leave his country trump could lift objections to russia's control of crimea far fetched perhaps but just listen to the way the ukrainian ambassador to the u.n. is clinging to previous statements by members of the u.s. administration on crimea i think that. that will come from several times by the book but by many many other u.s. officials from. mr bolton who'll be the be the spokesman for the white house and many other. officials who come from the principal ballers who yes wolf they've assumed that the illegally fish no crimea but i should never be recognized remarkably for part of this summit in finland's presidential palace trump is likely to meet putin alone just as he did in singapore with kim jong un in june the u.s. is closest allies are worried what this most unpredictable president might agree to

behind these walls james pays al-jazeera helsinki are still ahead on nigeria as you have already you know well sergio safe for now students walk free from a scene in nicaragua but there's no end in sight to months of unrest. plus fears that many nigerians will got hungry as floods wash away crops and farmland. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle. hello and welcome back as you look at weather conditions across europe this circulation of low pressure has been drifting around parts of poland over the last what week to ten days and it looks as though it's going to hang around for a few days yet further towards the west high pressure that we have got this frontal

system pushing in towards the northwest of the u.k. and we've also got some really severe storms likely to break out across the alpine region not so much sunday but certainly through overnight into monday i think it will really kick off that could well be some serious flash flooding temperatures upper twenty's across much of the region that low pressure keeping somewhat cooler further east but still she come further towards the southeast generally is not looking too bad at all plenty of sunshine around but there you can see the extent of the sharrett to vittie developing through monday most of that area it means severe storms for many into north africa is a fine picture here with thirty degrees in algiers but with the winds coming in from the south forty inch eunice still the breeze coming in off the mediterranean for cairo hence a high of thirty seven some huge storms across central parts of africa a long way north chad malina share all seen some still might seventy lot of lift the dust around the region as well heavy showers from lagos nigeria and ghana also to see some downpours. the weather sponsors i can't turn away so.

he has no passport yet he's politically active in two countries i was the only one who let's turn the power of peaceful transition when because the short term expired you know a part of the world some people think you are stupid and crazy if you do that mccown sarkozy really former president of georgia and ex governor of the odessa region in ukraine talked to al jazeera. but you know. some of the life. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour. a

curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of basra that's after police use water cannon and tear gas on protesters who tried to storm a government building people have been demonstrating over the past week against living costs and a lack of basic services. israel has reportedly accepted an egyptian brokered cease fire with hamas following an escalation of violence in gaza on saturday israel targeted the group with what it says world's most powerful daytime airstrikes since the twenty fourteen gaza war at least two palestinian teenagers were killed. haiti's prime minister has resigned after days of violent protests against the plan to remove fuel subsidies jack stepped down despite abandoning the proposal part of an agreement with the international monetary fund. a two hundred university students in nicaragua have been freed after a siege at a church they took refuge there after occupying a university campus part of an empty part of anti-government demonstrations

president daniel ortega has been accused of using excessive force to try and end the protests calling for him to resign or be on a sanchez reports from managua. after more than fifteen hours and students at new get i was national antonymous university were freed. the cardinal. with the release with gunmen. who pleaded for her life during the siege came out and. we fought back with his but they shot at us with high caliber weapons a k forty seven and i don't know what the priest has come out with a white flag to pull. this. student says they all thought they would be killed. at some point we didn't have any more mortars or molotov cocktails to respond with i didn't think we'd come out alive. for hours families sang and prayed the

access near the church was blocked by police while heavily armed gunmen shot at the students. it was a desperate wait to see their children florida says she's also afraid because her home has been under attack these past days. and the barrier the last hours have been tragic we haven't slept or eaten but we were at on a grateful to god our children only wanted which forms. the government calls protesters terrorists and coup plotters it blames them for the deaths of policemen and three months of bloody confrontations around the country but rights groups say the majority of attacks are perpetrated by government forces the seed has left many got one families devastated but the question is whether the government will continue with the use of force or will sit at the negotiating table

this week. cardinal brain is said despite the curry has also been targeted they want to resume peace talks between protesters and the government on tuesday however they are worried about the safety of the students and their families. we will also continue to conduct negotiations with the government so the lives of the students and that of their families are respected. but the lives of these students and their families may continue to be a risk for protesters say they will continue to fight to topple president than they got. and while government forces do nothing to arrest the government in plain clothes and heavily armed shoot in plain daylight with impunity. i get a sanchez i just see them and now when he got out. our new era of friendship as began between once rival neighbors in the horn of africa eritrea's president is c s f work he has made his first visit to ethiopia in more than two decades it's

another step towards reconciliation after the two leaders agreed to restore ties mohamed atta reports from added. a few weeks ago ethiopian that a chair will be tight and it is as they have been for the past two decades now they're behaving as if they're the best of friends and a tramp president decide to suffer work and i've been a disciple bones said today to dancing on loud jesus. smiles and stand out in a disciple tight security to welcome his visit the latest in and then a little militaristic. i thank the people of at least for this wonderful reception for the eritrean president and we made this in the goodness in the one i'm very happy to be here with these two people and now one people. ethiopia's new prime minister ahmed made a similar visit to the tryst capital last weekend where he was welcomed by for

working with hugs some laughter the forty two year old rb broke the ice last month playfully embracing a peace to love and that in one thousand nine hundred to two thousand board a war that killed tens of thousands on the left from lists of praised. says that at a few of. the trades and then on to the delightful funded by the district there will be often embassies fly through its telephone lines. the sudden change in relations a surprising many but it's just the beginning of what could be a long peace process both sides wilson need to follow through on their commitments this week if you appear submitted a request to the united nations to lift sanctions on a trailer in a show of good faith on the hunted out of joins us live now from madison avenue so many people say this is

a step in the dry to right direction for. two nations they've agreed to restore ties what happens next. promises to be long piece of course is the law because this. all. comes to. one thing because i think we are all fighting. the laws for the past two decades it's a much needed. to. come. home with. between the two countries. the people well. to give us. a countrywide which is going to articulate

a future of peace between the two countries. mohamed atta live for us there in addison of a thanks. now flooding and heavy rains are affecting many parts of nigeria dozens of people have been killed and as as many drinks reports now crops have been lost raising fears of a food shortage mordred she is a community in mourning sixteen people from this village recently died in a boat accident that was caused by two racial rains or model worker survived the accident but the death of his brother means he will have to take on the additional responsibility of looking after the large family he left behind two wives and sixteen children why don't you krugman are going to for ten years we've witnessed floods but this year's is the most tragic we lost a brother most of us can find many more even if you wanted to all of the victims are buried in the cemetery near the village this is

a sport where thirty nine farmers were killed just a few days ago there were troubling in an all well ordered wooden board like this one when it sank and many are still missing locals here say the floods and death. are also affecting agricultural production despite the devastating loss mahamudra nick you say so really back at work after losing a large chunk of his farm in the flooding he really has no time to mourn the loss of three family members. when i think we've lost twenty hectares of farmland including the crops the losses are huge i can't afford to take a break. his priority is to grow food for the family now he would have to replant his crops if he is to harvest enough many farmers the actually depend on rain to help produce crops. the situation in what i choose repeated in many farming communities throughout nigeria and experts are warning that more heavy rains are in

the forecast the consequence is what it will have effect on agricultural productivity and the quantity of crude profit that will be produced farming is only means of survival of these people and if it continue yet in year out with out me to get in the minutes of this flooding definitely do put security situation will deteriorate as the rain speak in a few weeks time many farming communities living in nigeria's five b.'s ins are bracing for more losses why do implications on the country's agricultural output i meant it greece algis it or more dutch. our began a month ago with thirty two teams now after sixty three matches in eleven cities just two teams remain and on sunday it comes down to ninety minutes here at the luzhniki stadium in moscow that's where france and chrysler will face off to decide who goes home with football's biggest prize landy richardson has been out among the

fans. french friends in moscow are experiencing a familiar feeling for the third time in the last six world cups their t.v. is in the final. thanks to question fans and footballers going where no croatians have gone before the creation same may not be looking quite as fresh faced as they were for their pre-tournament photographs all three of the knockout games have gone to extra time so they've affectively played an extra game when compared to france croatia strength is their ability to dominate possession in midfield with players like luka moderates in even rackets each and the danger posed by their white players even parasitical be able to exploit the inexperience of french fullback benjamin provide many of their key players including moderates all the wrong side of thirty this is their one chance to win football's biggest prize the senate. me the most important thing is to never give up and believe in yourself

and just push forward no matter what is in your way there are ups and there are downs but whether happens you need to continue to believe in yourself and that's. france have a generation of players arguably more talented than the school that won the title in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight much has been said about the impact of teenage striker killing and back pay but this is a team built on a strong defensive corps goalkeeper and captain hugo reese has excelled rafael wiranto has stood tall in the defense and the work of holding midfield and goal i can say allows him bappi and co to run three this is also a side determined to heal the scar of losing the european championship final on home soil two years ago you know my search for santa old enough to keep good with the inner strength of our team from the beginning of the tournaments which has guided us this will help us to overcome any challenge this is certainly the most important match of our career superstition my also have a role to play in deciding which set of fans are celebrating on sunday night in one

thousand nine hundred ninety eight on the way to winning the cup french defender laurent grown used to catch the ball for head of his goalkeeper fabien barthez before every game twenty years on and the players are taking to stroking the considerable facial hair of their defender of all rummy before every game and the richardson al-jazeera moscow. places al jazeera let's get a round up of our top stories a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of basra that's after police used water cannon and tear gas on protesters who tried to storm a government building people have been demonstrating over the past week against living costs and a lack of basic services a spokesman for prime minister hey there are bad he says he's put aside three billion dollars to promote services and create jobs demonstrations have spread to karbala and the capital baghdad three people have died so far the government has deployed more security to control the crowds. a duty is to provide

security for all iraqis and also to listen to all the demands and salute all the protesters the peaceful and the civilized to state their demands in a civilized manner reflecting the nobility of iraqis and their country but those who assault the institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments disrupt the aspirations of the people and should be held to account. reportedly accepted an egyptian brokered cease fire with hamas following an escalation of violence in gaza on saturday israel targeted the armed group with what it says world's most powerful daytime airstrikes since the twenty fourteen gaza war at least two palestinian teenagers die haiti's prime minister has resigned after days of violent protests against the plan to remove fuel subsidies farm town stepped down even though he abandoned the proposal two hundred university students

in nicaragua have been freed after a siege at a church they took refuge there after a university campus part of anti-government demonstrations those are the headlines . on counting the cost why china wants an expanded economic role in the middle east we'll look at which countries are leading the way in innovation plus safe or parents are causing one of the world's most profitable and widely used killers goes on trial counting the cost on a zero. all. you can do is hold. the proceeds. from president eating his tie in the midst of a war to getting dragged off a roof because saakashvili was once widely recognized as an advocate for reform and democracy. friend of the west and enemy of russia saakashvili became president of georgia in january two thousand and four. his popularity got him reelected four

years later despite accusations of electoral fraud but georgia's constitution prevented him from running for a third term in two thousand and thirteen saakashvili party was defeated at the polls and he left georgia for ukraine shortly afterwards where he supported the two thousand and fourteen revolution he gained ukrainian citizenship although it meant losing his georgian passport crane's president petro poroshenko offered to the governor of the desa profits but he resigned in november two thousand and sixteen accusing kardashian co of corruption a few days later surprised really announced plans to create a new political force in ukraine but that didn't happen the government revoked his ukrainian citizenship in july last year. stateless circus really was first sent to poland then to the netherlands where he now lives under temporary asylum status meanwhile a court in georgia found him guilty of abuse of power in connection with the two thousand and six murder case he was sentenced to three years in prison absentee

here. in ukraine a prosecutor accused of having connections with a suspected criminal gang led by ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych. so where does all of this leave the man who was once hailed as a champion of democracy. i'm sami's a down in the dutch capital i've come to amsterdam to discuss with mr saakashvili his rise and fall and how he plans to continue his political career former georgian president mikheil saakashvili talks to algiers the. former president of georgia a former governor of a desk in ukraine thanks so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you for inviting me so you're now here in the netherlands but on april the third you spoke about how you want to return to georgia when will that happen well be or entire region are we going to change the the present artificial situation when all garcia running the show sidelining the people sidelining democracy just making fun of the whole idea

of the political process it's very artificial and there you can't return until that changes or else you would probably go by the refs except i also ball sort of change i keep i am the only politician maybe well maybe in the world at least part in two different countries i have a part to work which i lead in ukraine and i hope part two which i live in georgia and then put in permanent contact with them indeed bareheaded some of the campaigns there now we came up with some initiatives so i'm not standing still i'm i'm i'm not just waiting for the moment to come i'm trying to bring moment closer to how do you remove all the guards from power in places like georgia places like ukraine from here in the netherlands it just can not last it is not sustainable these guys are going to collapse it's going to be very. difficult transition nothing is going to be bumpy but you know you just cannot keep going like this happens if there is

a collapse in ukraine or georgia i mean your personal ambitions do you want to return to power and if so whether because like you said you're running political parties in two countries at the same time i would not really compare myself to symbol of our but i have to remind you that in other historical for context that historic figure was glad five latin american countries now different situation not that kind of an bishan but countries are similar challenges are similar like it used to be in the times of simone boulevard why we need to live live up to that expectation but how would you respond to those who might say you're not simone believe are you lost power twice in two different countries those who say are you able to make sound political calculations for your apps of the right are not simple of our but someone who is different from what's happening in the region indeed i

was i had two terms of successful presidency i finished it all and i go criticize and look at the countries around us look at armenia look at other neighbors look at belarus look at you know just wherever you look this leaders extend their terms they find other ways not to create i was the only one who had full extent of power and first of all quit had transpersonal transition when the constitutional term expired that's quite unique which comes natural to another place in the world in our part of the world some people think you're stupid and crazy if you do that and second i mean you're more crazy according to this cry tears because you know i left without any riches about any stealing anything and that's also unfortunately very unusual in our part of the world and in ukraine i left from the governorship when i felt that when we're no longer in business. of reform of the country rather we were staying there would be just trying to whitewash something that cannot be justified

by how your corruption early garcon cruel in your second term as georgian president the world criticisms of your tactics accusations that you try to suppress opposition protest that you've acted in a heavy handed way do you think any of those criticisms or accusations now in hindsight are justified that you would have done things look the georgia was a failed country you cannot make from a failed country just enough rule scandinavian methods over night something looking like sweden norway georgia has under my watch georgia's economy has quadrupled the you know georgia went from hundred twenty seventh place of the to doing business in the actually world bank to being the ninth place the best place in the world to do business that is to say we are educated corruption we became the safest country in europe and one of the safest in the world from being one of the criminal countries to think you fight criminal you know totally criminalized

country making to transform it into the safest country in europe just not doing anything and just being forced to switch to the criminals and then the version only you know torvald my rule of law should abide by the head trial of law that's the rule of law but rule of law applied zero tolerance towards crime and that's that's heart is the opposition opposition ultimately won the elections and we handed over the power we georgia still has robust free media it always enjoyed on them on my rule and don't forget some of the propaganda against us there of course there were shortcomings but it also was imposed by a very strong presence of russian propaganda that absolutely hated me that now we know that paul munna ford was hired by their pascal in two thousand and five to write articles against us specifically on democracy and or so-called absence of democracy starting from two thousand and five. so we were running against the

propaganda machine now we're not perfect and of course we had our mistakes but when you have the nastiest machine specifically focused on killing the idea of george's success case not to give this soft power to the small nation that would transform the entire region then you should always understand why some of the treaties were what if the maffia the oligarchs are still in power in georgia in ukraine especially in georgia where you served his two terms as president why should voters believe you now when you say support my party or make sure this time will unseat the oligarchs and the mafia my reform survived my presidency i think the biggest task for the reformers is that when you quit whether these figures sustainable most of it is still there so from that standpoint of public services you know absence of corruption safety i left a good legacy a legacy still intact from that standpoint you know we we come back

basically we come back. we do all the experience of successes know whether you know people in georgia have trusts have seen what the success looks like that's the difference when you create in ukraine no government since independence has demonstrated any success whatsoever i wonder if we can go back in time a little bit and talk about some of the highlights i guess this year two thousand and eighteen is the tenth anniversary of the war between georgia and russia do you reflect back on it at all and say maybe i made a mistake in starting that war with russia well i didn't start war with russia in first place well that was the e.u. report for two thousand and nine lowth a wrong look apps of if somebody into president report they're like this there's a flat wrong look this is a quote from other report found that you'd started though because of quote a penchant for acting in the heat of the moment look there is only one choice when your country gets attacked by

a hundred times bigger. neighbor either to surrender or to fight and we chose not to surrender so hang on then the e.u. was wrong when they said again quote in that report of september the thirtieth there was no ongoing armed attack by russia before the start of the georgian i know your report said russian troops were already inside our territory and if you don't call it arms that have then what the hell is the armed attack ok you know there was no armed attack in crimea after that russia just came in i think they're referring to maybe the presence of russia in the south the center everyone has known but they were saying they were not an aggression are not inside the territory just exactly same way they were in crimea except that ukraine chose not to react and not to fight and georgia chose to fight so they were so high on your telling me very sadly the west was playing politics with your situation when they said again in the quote of the report georgian claims of a large scale presence of russian armed forces in south the set here prior to the georgian offensive could not be substantially pro with

a pretending like they know it can be searched in the chips or to the only thing that they were turning a blind eye on then because they fought this situation will not continue now we have situation when every time they have three of the problem is the lack of leadership you know great leaders like europe had for instance like when mr was their teacher was there you know and monitors was there look was there is gone we have just tacticians in europe we have lack of leadership in europe nobody wants to build as a result putin was playing tomorrow it's not put about putting being so strong it's about this kind of leaders being so weak you know there's still you are there is no leadership in europe of today it's so bleak and it's you know we see you know having ajman semyon gauge and now fortunately at least to resume reacted and she mobilized everybody else to react but back in two thousand and eight that was exactly the opposite back in two thousand and eight they would just they didn't want to hear anything about upcoming frets and you know now. well who is crazy and

who was not i think they were crazy when they didn't listen to me and then when they fought i was crazy and you know and the russians were playing into that look at this crazy surely you know history saying all this stupid claims and who made stupid claims now everything i worried about happened and i hate to because sandra but if europeans continue to be as weak as this we're not going to avoid big war in europe because russian that right now even i was at the munich security conference this time generals the same generals that were down playing russian being intervals eight are saying well russia has really become dangerous that's forward in two thousand and thirteen you decided to go to ukraine you accepted this ukrainian passport yes a move which you knew would mean you lose your georgian citizenship i'm wondering why if as you said for the third of two thousand and eighteen that you're committed to quote not leaving the georgian people in despair and you want to end the rule of the because georgia's fate was also the.