news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. bangladesh one students it will crack down hard on protests over road safety even as it promises to tackle dangerous driving. hello i'm in london with al jazeera also coming up. the. panic as a second big of quake in a week hits the indonesian island of long block with thirty nine reported dead. even as the. six are arrested after what venezuela's president says was an attempt to assassinate him using explosive drugs. and melania trump sides with le bron

james and against her husband after the basketball star was the target of an insulting tweet from the u.s. president. into the program our top story police in bangladesh a fired tear gas at thousands of angry students rallying for an eight eighth straight day in the capital dhaka they are demanding safer streets after two teenagers were killed by speeding buses last week government has promised to crack down both on dangerous driving on the protesters and pro-government activists have been attacking demonstrators and journalists pull down has more. student protesters have blocked streets and boggle desh for the past week they're demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least

seven thousand bangladeshis every year two young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week and even though the net i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some about demands with demanding justice for those students of the college coup and by a bus and we want safe roads i said over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm actually going to stop by the government that's actually we all are feeling threatened we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here you can rubber bullets were shot on our brothers at murch or neighborhood they were dispersed one told us the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting internet services to cripple

social media and censoring both bangladeshi and international media on a topic i want all of them of the pro-government students attacked us then we broke the locks of a building around fifty boys and girls took shelter there and now the journalists how to us to leave the place the police fired tear gas and used the tongs pro-government students also attacked and roughed up those. pro-government students are seen in this footage beating up an associated press journalist government leaders say they're going to implement the stew's demands for improved road safety but more protests are feared as both the ruling in opposition party's campaign for elections due in december paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. let's take a closer than at the number of riot deaths and accidents that take place in bangladesh more than twenty five thousand people have died over the last three and a half. reckless driving and excessive speeding that amounts to more than twenty people killed a day with most of the victims children or youths who are lifeline for their

families and more than sixty two thousand have been injured on the roads and the challenge is in the bangladeshi capital dakar and has more on this latest violence there were clashes in different parts of the city several students were injured major conference been brought up by the journalist community at least five members of the journalist community were beaten up a p photo journalist was marketed between in front of the police by the ruling party member of a lot of court a generalist but also britain and this just happened today yesterday also at least five other journalists were beaten including a pre-meal journalist who was given not only bitten but you were told that she worked for a major leading english daily i don't know what the government's trying to do why the police are stunned by the journalist i've been iraq and this would be a major come from we're covering an event in coming days home minister gave a stern warning against anyone who have. the patience of the government the prime

minister's made today. some people are trying to catch. cloudy water he was even critical of like many of the media for their coverage. right on president and why should the media or most of the media covering the event from the ground. or bangladesh's home minister has issued a stern warning to anyone considered to have crossed the line he said lower in force as a showing patients it does not mean that they will keep crossing the limits and we will sit idle and watch we will go for tough action if the limit is crossed which is a bangladeshi photographer and social activist he told al jazeera that people have been happy about the situation for a while. it really is that and and the energy emotion anger that has been let loose this particular incident sad as it is that really the viral

that allowed these to go through under the pressure of the prime minister offered reforms but then renee so this done that's also part of the reason so this time when the students did go on protest. e.d.m. it went to a situation where they cannot control it and the prime minister has promised that she will see to that demands but of course even the law we believe she has no credibility she's made promises before it's not been accepted so now they don't do it but i think what we need to look at is what's happening in the street today the police specifically asked for help from these booms to combat a non-students demanding safe roads i mean how ridiculous is that today i was in the streets there are people that michette in in their hands chasing unarmed students and the police standing by watching it happen in some cases they are actually helping it out i mean i've been under this warning that was you know

gassing and i saw the police going ganging up trying to catch these on students whereas these armed goons so going out wielding sticks and michette and walking past. and they're standing by. and following this interview with al jazeera and was arrested by a bangladeshi police at his home in dhaka. well now to our other top story this hour local officials say at least thirty nine people have died after a magnitude seven earthquake hit the popular tourist indonesian island of long video from the island shows people running from damaged buildings a tsunami warning was put in place but has since been lifted strong quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people last week step bassam has more from jakarta. only one week after a powerful earthquake struck the island of lombok another earthquake happened on

long but an all too well strongly felt on the neighboring island of bali both the tourist destinations also both in the peak season lot of tourist on both islands damage has been reported both on bali and lombok but the exact extent of the damage will only be known in the morning at the moment of thought these were very busy trying to evacuate people from the beaches and shores because there was a tsunami warning in place that warning has now been lifted and only a very small tsunami a small wave has hit the beaches of not more than fifty centimeters high but it was a huge branagh especially in the areas where also last week's earthquake struck a lot of people were still sleeping on the street didn't dare to go back to their houses of course you can imagine the panic and trauma in that area but this earthquake had a wider range and it was also strongly felt in the capital of lombok that with more than three hundred thousand people a lot of panic there as well and also the airport a lot of travelers were stuck for a while stranded they had to wait at the tom mark to make sure that the authorities

would give a clear again so now flights are flying in and out of lombok again. to venezuela now where the interior minister says six people have been detained after what president nicolas maduro says was an assassination attempt on him the president accuses colombia and a group of u.s. financier is trying to kill him venezuela's opposition fears it could pave the way for a government crackdown mike hanna reports. this is a live broadcast of the ceremony on national television the camera begins to shake and president maduro looks into the air as explosions sound before the feed is cut soldiers who had been on parade are seeing the in panic number reported to be injured in the blasts north office only investigation as evidence that shows those that didn't in the constitution and for good are doing his will in the public. a group calling itself the lost soul dartos day for and their last claimed

responsibility in a series of tweets this one with the phrase time is running out a few hours after the attack president maduro addressed the nation saying right wing groups within the country were responsible but also accusing the colombian president one manual santos of involvement in looking for a mark and i have to inform you that some of those who carried out the attack against me today have already been apprehended and they are now being processed in nothing although the they tried to assassinate me and i have no doubt that everything points to the right the venezuelan ultra right in alliance with the colombian ultra right and that the name of one manuel santos is behind this attempt of president maduro playing to victory in the elections earlier this year but his political opponents insisted the process was rigged many venezuelans hold him accountable for a major economic collapse that could see the inflation rate hit one million percent by the end of the year. mike hanna. the u.s.

has denied any involvement in the alleged attack let's get more on this from brian wells in washington and rob national security advisor john bolton speaking out about this reinforcing u.s. denials yes that's right baria but i should mention also that as we heard in mike and this story the president of venezuela blamed the neighboring porritt president the son those of colombia the foreign ministry of colombia has now come out with a statement saying that all those allegations are absurd but here in washington today john bolton president trumps national security advisor was one of the sunday morning public affairs talk shows and he was asked about this and he was quite adamant in his denial that there were any u.s. fingerprints on this supposed drone attack in caracas with respect to

what happened last afternoon could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the regime itself to something else he's made accusations accusing the outgoing president of colombia of responsibility what he calls the extreme right wing in venezuela that means the vast opposition to his authoritarian rule and he's blamed. answers in the united states these are things he's said before and you have to take them for what they're worth is there any reason to think the u.s. might have played some role in this. well dural is saying that there are. elements of his his opposition the right right wing opposition to them adore regime which circulate in the united states that have elements in florida in miami where there is

a large venezuelan a patriot community people who've fled the deteriorating economic conditions over the past number of years also it is no secret that the united states does not have exactly warm relations with caracas in fact it's been widely reported that last summer in august of twenty seven teen president trump. at a high level meeting asked his senior officials why don't we just militarily invade venezuela because venezuela of course at that time was and still is suffering from an economic meltdown and according to multiple sources who were not named in multiple news reports the senior officials including the then. secretary of state talked president out of that idea saying it was would not be

a very good idea for the u.s. to military and militarily invade one of its neighbors in the hemisphere. other indications of the ill will between the two countries is the fact that. in president trump's well known travel ban which is mostly directed towards the residents of primarily muslim countries a number of them but also it's directed towards any senior officials in venezuela they are barred from prattling to the united states and the election which was held earlier this year in venezuela was denounced as a fraud and a sham by senior u.s. politicians so relations are frosty but having said that there is no. evidence that the venezuelan authorities are providing or making public that indicates there are any u.s. fingerprints on this alleged incident involving the exploding drones thank you very much from washington rob randolph. still ahead for you on the program rival leaders

in south sudan sign a new power sharing agreement aimed at ending the civil war and israel's prime minister defends the controversial nation state law but just angry protests from the country's jury's minority. and other weekend he did not provide any big broken records for you there want to lisbon for example at its high temperature forty four there are a few showers around and these bits of white show you roughly where they are the concentration is still going to be eastern europe and down for the hours of the going down towards italy in the arc of cloud of the british isles is indeed another cold front and it's that sort of area where the temperature will drop for a while see these lines here that's a cold breeze we're hasi all things are relative relative to the last twenty five

invariants hardly cold and twenty four in stockholm is hard because but in comparison the last week it's a bit of a draw but the breeze will keep blowing east which i suspect monday's will see the coolish weather go towards moscow but already berlin's hotting up again these big green dots the showers likely again in parts of remaining ukraine and certainly over the alps daytime still in the forty's i suspect with madrid represented that at four degrees the night time lows are also quite high warm nights in spain portugal france will continue and then the next bit of heat wave is going to be moved a little bit east was we think it's going to be this area fronts and germany temperatures in the middle thirty's possibly higher than that. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens.

stories of loss no one tone. a sweeping association of islam with violence eaves erupt in muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life. twice a victim on al-jazeera. welcome back just a quick reminder of the top stories now thousands of angry students have been rallying in bangladesh's capital to call for a safe a streets after two teenagers were killed by speeding buses last week at

least thirty nine people have died after a magnitude seven earthquake hit a popular tourist indonesian island of long bog this is the second major quake in a week in venezuela's interior minister says six people have been arrested over an apparent assassination attempt on president nicolas maduro. rival leaders in south sudan assigned a new power sharing agreement aimed at ending five years of war in africa's youngest country the deal will give sell the care in riyadh which are three months to form a transitional government which will sit for three years about morgan housel. another agreement signed between south sudan's government and opposition groups and renewed hopes of ending five years of war this time regional countries brokered more than a month of direct discussions in the sudanese capital khartoum between the leaders of the whirring sides. the civil war started less than three years after south sudan gained independence from sudan in twenty eleven president salva kiir accused

his former vice president riek machar of attempting a coup since then tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the twelve million population forced from their homes the latest agreement gives an eight month pretense period after which a rick machar is due to return as vice president the deal stipulates thirty five ministers in a transitional government twenty from curious party and nine from much r.'s the rest represent of the party's parliament will have five hundred fifty legislators including three hundred thirty two from peers group and one hundred twenty eight from much r.'s opposition leader rick machar says the latest deal will bring peace a power sharing deal signed three years ago so much i return to his position months later only for fighting to soon restart. some such as florio or so what's happened then are cautiously optimistic now. when the two thousand and sixteen fighting

happened we were trapped so much has changed since the war my sister lost her husband and we also lost another relative we couldn't do anything we just stayed at home now we just one piece. around six million south sudanese rely on foreign aid to survive with the economy devastated by were many are hanging their hopes on this agreement he morgan al-jazeera. if you know of his defense ministry is promising to take all necessary measures to restore order in this instance somali region while it's broke out after the government to floyd its troops that leading to fighting with paramilitary soldiers loyal to the regional government mobs then loosehead shops and burned buildings including two churches in the capital. at least four towns have also been affected by the violence and there are reports that a number of people have been killed and i'm going to has more from neighboring shipping saying. they got tons humble in the city of you've got a couple of the somali region of ethiopia federal troops continue to arrive some of

them by plane and. the residents of the city was surprised to see a group troops moving into the city with tons. at this point the local or special police exchanged fire with the federal troops and these created some confusion which. began something that's so the entire market to go to church is bombed and up to fifty people losing their lives the government in addis ababa justifies what the troops saying that there was a rift between the regional administration and the federal government and that there was a plot by the region with russian to. suppression or suspicion from the rest of ethiopia something that was outright they didn't mind by the regional president stabbed him. in afghanistan a suicide bombers attacked

a checkpoint in jalalabad killing three soldiers police have recently set up checkpoints around the eastern city after a wave of deadly attacks that three soldiers in the czech republic were killed in another suicide attack they were serving with the nato force in eastern part one province north of kabul one u.s. and two afghan soldiers have also been injured. egypt says its military has killed fifty two people and arrested dozens in an ongoing crackdown in the sinai region egypt launched an offensive in february targeting armed groups in sinai the nile delta and the western desert it's also destroyed fifteen vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition which it says were attempting to cross the country's western border with libya. israel's prime minister is defending a new law which has outraged the country's druze minority during a cabinet meeting benjamin netanyahu said the law is meant to protect israel's status as

a jewish state and will help to prevent palestinians and illegal migrants from seeking citizenship on saturday druze protest as rallied against the legislation which they say reduces them to second class citizens even though they also serve in the military and police simmons has more from west jerusalem. what the prime minister had to say doesn't take things further he isn't prepared to repeal the law nor will he amend it and it won't click kate that offer of the committee looking at the whole range of issues won't play kate's at the objectives of the druze in particular there will be more demonstrations and parliament is being recalled the knesset will meet on wednesday to discuss this but can't vote on anything so where does this go next it will be measured perhaps by the number of israeli jews who actually get involved in these demonstrations we saw so many jewish people at that demonstration on saturday night and though the government may well be concerned

about this and watching it very closely right now we have a security cabinet meeting which is looking at the gaza situation those talks to try to get along to a peace deal with hammers we have a un special envoy in nickel i'm letting go of has been engaged in shuttling to cairo garza and indeed israel right now there will be consideration of a potential deal which will be apparently step by step but when details will come through on this remains to be seen airplane and cross manufacturers are rushing to deliver planes to iran before u.s. sanctions are reintroduced on monday iran arras received thirteen of the twenty planes it bought from the european fan a.t.r. iran says the sanctions endanger the lives of ad travelers because they stopped allies from buying new planes and parts meanwhile iranian authorities have detained the deputy chief of iran's central bank and made iraq she was arrested along with several other individuals as part of

a crackdown on financial fraud in the country same bus driver has more from attack iran. the detention of ahmed iraq the iran central bank's top official in charge of foreign exchange comes just twenty four hours after he was fired and replaced now less than two weeks ago the head of the central bank was fired and replaced and all of this comes on the eve of u.s. sanctions going back into effect against iran also foreign minister jobs reef is expected to address parliamentarians in the morning about the country's foreign policy matters specifically about u.s. sanctions and later that day president hassan rouhani is expected to make a televised address to the nation this government no doubt wants to be seen to be doing something about the allegations the perception of corruption amongst top officials and especially in light of the fact that the result has fallen so drastically the iranian currency has lost more than half its value in less than

a year just to give you a sense of the public mood in the country at the moment during the friday sermon this week the cleric delivering the sermon said that public officials who were involved in corrupt practices were traitors now all of this high political drama comes in the backdrop of a six night of protests demonstrations have been ongoing a sporadically throughout the country and police personnel as well as protesters are out on the streets in various cities across the country once more to demonstrate against. the country's failing economy so a most protesters as well as opposition politicians there's a desire to see more than just personnel changes at the mid level what people are calling for is a change at the federal cabinet level which is something that we aren't seeing as yet. presidential hopefuls in the democratic republic of congo have until wednesday to file their candidacy for december's election many are waiting to see if

president joseph kabila will be among them despite being constitutionally barred from seeking a third term catherine so he has more from the capital kinshasa. the. catholic charge has been the most critical voice during uncertain and tense political times this year in the democratic republic of congo the presidential election has been delayed for two years it's not kiev president joseph kabila who's barred by the constitution for running for a third tom will try again. church leaders say he became. election they'll add washy powers to protests want it back given by big groups i'm not afraid of anyone we need the country to go forward the country is not free and we need a credible electoral process. the country is on edge former rebel leader john pear bemba has submitted he's kind of d.c. to the electoral commission. to return home after being acquitted of war crimes at

the international criminal court in the nothing lands he spent ten years in prison pending his trial another popular opposition leader. who the negs was stopped from crossing the border from zambia to submit election documents presidential hopefuls have three days left to complete the process at the beginning of the year catholic church leaders organized and to kabila protests there were valid confrontations between the shaky forces and protesters on the streets in other parts of the city several people were killed and injured. rosie macand as family is rarely of politicians his sister says he was killed by police in the demonstration and assuming the government the truth of this is the world i want thirty's who killed my brother arrested i also want split equal justice he always said that one day our children will live freely and with dignity leaders of the ruling coalition called presidential majority say they're making final adjustments before nominating their

candidates look silly like you drew up a business while you mentals where because both of us got to decide there could be a political argument which can only be backed by a forum by wednesday congolese will have a clearer picture of who's running for president in december they want to see who the ruling party kind of eighty's and what that will mean for them catherine soy al jazeera kinshasa. melania trump has come out in support of n.b.a. star le bron james who was the target of an insulting tweet from husband trent was clearly irked by a bronze interview during which the basketball or accuse the president of causing divisions in the united states in a late night tweet the president called interviewer don lemon the dumbest man on television adding that he made le bron look smart which the president said isn't easy to do but it's not a view his wife shares the braun was being interviewed about the school he's opened for at risk children a spokeswoman for the first lady says that maligning it is supportive of the good

things that brown is doing for the next generation as well as more and everything we're covering right here as the address al jazeera dot com. a quick recap of the top stories now police in bangladesh a fire take gas at thousands of angry students rallying for an eighth straight day in the capital dhaka demanding safer streets after two teenagers were killed by speeding buses last week. local officials say at least thirty nine people have died after a magnitude seven earthquake hit the popular tourist indonesian island of lombok video from the island shows people running away from damaged buildings a tsunami warning was put in place but has since been lifted. venezuela's interior minister says six people have been arrested over what it's

described as an assassination attempt on the president nicolas maduro is speaking at a military parade in the capital on saturday when an apparent explosion interrupted the event the president accuses colombia and a group of u.s. finance years of trying to kill him. with respect to what happened last afternoon look it could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the regime itself to something else he's made accusations accusing the outgoing president of columbia responsibility what he calls the extreme right wing of venezuela that means the vast opposition to his authoritarian rule and he's blamed. answers in the united states these are things he's said before and you have to take them for what they're worth rival leaders in south sudan have just signed a new power sharing agreement in neighboring sudan it's aimed to ending the civil war which started in two thousand and thirteen

a deal will give salvage. three months to form a transitional government which will sit for three is several previous agreements have been violated by both sides but which is promising that this deal will not collapse. the ethiopia's defense ministry is promising to take all necessary measures to restore order in its eastern somali region on saturday government troops clashed with paramilitary soldiers loyal to the local government in the regional capital. ethiopia's government says troops were sent that to hold a secession attempt up talk to al jazeera is coming up next.

it's a story of survival. it's a story about how people led to live in such a remote land. pretty true to the way it did with cheese and how that instinct help them recover from the financial crash i will continue as long as i can stand. this is a story about iceland. a jute on al-jazeera. and . you. will. see. the landmark conviction of. crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court in the hague has now been overturned and mr bevan that cannot feed

held criminally responsible under article twenty eight for the crimes committed by and all seek troops to end a car operation. the former rebel leader and vice president of the democratic republic of congo has spent nearly a decade behind bars. he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison up to sending his militia to the central african republic to help put down a coup attempt they conducted a reign of terror a rampage of looting and killing of civilians followed including the mass rape of hundreds of work. but a majority of the judges ruled on his appeal he could not be held responsible for the actions of his fighters his lawyers august successfully the fighters were no longer on the his.