if you look at the arms sales which president trump loves to tout we're talking tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to saudi arabia and let's be honest about these arms sales saudi arabia relies on them to stay strong in the middle east and without them they would seriously struggle with security and so this investment this lobbying that they do is to make sure that those arms sales that they keep flowing and that the u.s. continues to stay involved in the war in yemen more than a thousand people desperate to flee poverty and violence back home have started arriving in southern mexico it's the second of the so-called migrant caravan that's trying to make its way to the u.s. and meanwhile the u.s. is deploying more than five thousand troops at the border in a bid to stop the migrant caravan marching from central america president donald trump has ordered the military to harden entry points along the crossing in arizona texas and california john homan is joining us from the suits you have to river that's on the border of mexico and guatemala just give us a sense of what's going on behind you john and what the people are telling you.

well right now we're in the plows here at the nearest village to the suci out to the river and it's called take a mile and you can probably see as i step aside some just some of the people and now the third caravan that's heading towards mexico now these people from el salvador the people in the other caravans from honduras mainly but more of the same reasons really that they giving us for why they've had to leave their homeland we've been chatting to them we've been chatting to a lady who has four children she makes twenty years to earn a living and she said that she was charged by gangs in el salvador two hundred fifty dollars a month extortion just to be able to go about her business lots of that from other people some working in carriage is some working shops all of them talking to us about the extortion that so common there they call it the rents there's feuding gangs not just in el salvador but also in honduras and that along with the poverty

of many people in those two countries really is sending them out and to look for something more some of them in mexico many of them looking towards the united states but how determined are they john to continue on this journey described as treacherous by many people despite president trump's threat to order to send the troops to the u.s. border. it's a good question and it's different degrees i suppose of determination in each case many of these people leaving with their children there's many women as well as men who are going on these cologne it's a long will we we had a couple of walks just last week that were a marathon long each day beneath quite a baking sun so what the mexican authorities are trying to do they actually came around here shortly before we arrived some people from mexican migration trying to persuade people to hand themselves into mexican authorities saying look we give you shelter we'll give you food review your case if you qualify for asylum or refuge

you can stay in mexico if not the move to pull you but i think a lot of the people that haven't taken up the offer behind us are worried that that really just mean deports haitian in the end the mexican government is really desperate not to make this a scene in which it has to stop a full caravan of desperate people but is trying to do what it can to sort of peel them off bit by bit and even give them refuge the mits can government and the mates can president said they'll be a program to offer temporary work to those people to send them back so i think the people that have really been suffering on this route would be very tempted to hand themselves in and to sort of leave themselves open to the fate of that but other people like the ones that seem behind me just keep on my after night sleeping out in the open getting out trying to get a ride or trying to rule the vast distances every day just in the hope of reaching the united states which you mention is guarded now has troops been sent there and

trying to get through that the united states all right john holmes thank you. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including more remains are recovered from a crash in dinies an airliner as investigators scour the sea for clues about what brought it down. sends a delegation to bangladesh to discuss what will happen to hundreds of thousands of refugees coming up in sports gymnastic start simone biles picks up what could be the first of many gold medals at the world championships in doha. but first the speaker of parliament has told president my therapy he must recall parliament by friday at the latest he's been accused of violating the constitution after he fired the prime minister and appointed a replacement but they also the leader ronald wickramasinghe is refusing to leave

his official residence. political tensions rise across the capital bernard smith reports from colombo. supporters of sri lanka's ousted prime minister going to let him go court. has refused to leave his official residence here in the capital since president might recall a serious eighty five suspended right. to be pushed into the electoral mandate to strengthen democracy by trying to seize more executive power as we went on my way. presidents are saying to the sworn in the head of the rajapaksa as prime minister former president rajapaksa lost the election three years ago which was cold after he'd scrapped the two term limit for the presidency . protesters on the palm and speaker say there's been a constitutional coupe the prime minister they say should be chosen by palm and not

the president i think everyone is really surprised by what happened everyone is he shocked but everyone kind of feels like they need to figure out how we can stop this to be glad that this happened not on our watch we are hoping that approaches. by citizens by the people of sri lanka live the right to. the process while posters of rajapaksa have started appearing nationwide before the president hasn't yet spoken publicly about his new appoint. remains closed receiving the country's constitution was changed a couple of years ago to take power away from the president and give its. president serious saying it says he's not breaking the law but his critics will say he's going against the spirit of the constitutional amendment which was made to strengthen democratic institutions. al-jazeera colomba. in bangladesh the opposition leader has had her five year jail term double to ten she

was sentenced in february first stealing money from an orphanage when she was prime minister for the second time and she was convicted on monday for misappropriating three hundred thousand dollars from a charity. run in a general election in december the corruption charges are aimed at keeping her out of politics. but the united nations has conditions in myanmar as were kind state are not yet conducive for the refugees to return this new development comes as bangladesh on me and more reached a deal to start returning the migrants by the middle of next month fifteen min mar government delegates are on the bangladeshi capital dhaka and they're due to visit overcrowded refugee camps in caucuses bizarre around three quarters of a million revenge fled the military crackdown in rakhine states last year. we've seen the reports of the agreement between the decisions reach by the joint working group between bangladesh and myanmar u.n.h.c.r. wishes and lead on the issues of refugees was not consulted on this matter. i think

we can't stress enough that returns cannot be rushed or premature in the decision on whether or not for refugee to return should be determined by the refugees themselves when they feel the time in the circumstances or right. for u.n. h.c.r. the conditions in right kind state are not yet conducive for return to myanmar. and at the same time we're seeing a ring of refugees continue to arrive from rakhine state into myanmar which gives you give you an indication of the situation on the ground tanveer child three has more from dhaka. both bangladesh and man martin sounded very optimistic they said there is a political will to repatriate the refugees the foreign secretary offered me on my or in a press briefing say they have set up the necessary facilitate to repair their own refuges he also went to say that they have trained the police and security

personnel to shop against discrimination he also say there. will be repacked it will have the provision to complain and sick justice for any kind of discrimination or repression sound optimistic obvious contradictory to what the u.n. says in its recent investigative report genocide is still continuing in myanmar there are people still coming into buying with them we spoke to refugees who spoke about atrocities being committed. international human rights bodies and u.n. agencies are also saying then vironment is still not right. of return back to their homeland more importantly their own concern. without recognition of citizenship and timing them as and without having a third party to show the security and willing to go under this circumstance back to me and we'll have to see if this is just

a diplomatic brinkmanship or they're serious about taking back the refugees by bats starting from made them but this year deep sea divers are searching for the black box recorders from the second worst plane crash in indonesia as history one hundred eighty nine passengers and crew on board the liner flights it's the low cost carriers eleventh major accidents in sixteen years and tunisia's government has ordered the inspection of all boeing seven three seven max planes following the crash has more from jakarta. piece by piece. bring back what the found floating on the java sea. possible woods and other personal items belonging to some of the one hundred eighty nine people on board a being so. body parts are being taken to a nearby hospital where relatives have the harrowing task of making identifications but that was a bit ahead of the men here our family still hoping she survives we still have a big hope for that but if she did not survive we pray that her remains can quickly

be discovered so we can take a home to be buried finding out what happened in the final moments of lion air flight six one zero and why it crashed into the sea soon after takeoff is likely to take a long time. my father was on board but we still don't know we're still hoping for the best because there hasn't been an official statement from lion air so we are still hoping for the best but increasingly speculation is turning to a problem with the instruments in the cockpit giving false readings lion air has confirmed there was a technical problem with the plane before it took off from bali to jakarta on sunday it says the issue was fixed but during that flight the pilot reported problems with the flight control system and satellite data collected by independent flight monitoring websites shows unusual fluctuations in speed and altitude soon after it took off from bali the situation stabilized in lyon is says the problem

was fixed again when it landed in jakarta and it was cleared to take off on monday morning it crashed some twelve minutes after it left the indonesian capital small pieces of debris being found but the search for the main wreckage continues. today we've adjusted our calculations and widened our search areas to eighteen point five kilometers on the job a c. more than eight hundred people are involved in the search for debris bodies and clues to what happened to lyon air flight six one zero wayne hay al jazeera jakarta . more than fifty thousand troops are taking part of nato's biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war the event is a show of strength to deter any would be aggressor it's attracted the criticism of russia which has announced its own exercises in retaliation alex the topless reports i'm here at the media day the trying junction military exercises being held here in central norway we have static displays set up for distinguished visitors

and we'll have more comfy b.s. landings and fly by aircraft these exercises are really about are about instilling confidence in nervous alliance partners nervous to russian military activity is increased on their borders over the past here and pointing case the russians have just announced that their navy will conduct life missile drills of the course of the next two days more than one hundred fifty activists have gathered in paris for the human rights defenders summit they say activists are increasingly becoming the targets of intimidation violence and censorship natasha butler has more. it's really apparent the what unites all of human rights defenders here at this hour is some it is this real sense of moral duty obligation to try and help others even further that means that they often put that own lives at risk because there are governments of thousands of critics who want to try to silence them and stop them from doing the work they do our mission on mission to speak of truth. and truth

right to remind everybody. we don't have power pair say but we have zero or more of therapy as he won the rights defenders as people who believe in justice and justice for the victims we spoke to the american egyptian activist i he joins me now she was released formally kyrie jail in twenty seventeen where she spent nearly three years egyptian authorities. q so falsely of trying to traffic children and despite her terrible ordeal she still works fighting for people's rights people like me and the very brave activists who are still working inside of egypt and who have families arrested and murdered. very are the roadblock to more syrian me and there's always more tyranny and there isn't there isn't an end to hot evil people are willing to be and so all those who are speaking there

they're actually me we are making progress or campaigners say that this is a really valuable forum for them to come together to share ideas and experiences strategies for the future and really send a message to world leaders that more needs to be done to protect the rights of human rights defenders storms in italy have killed at least eight people including a woman whose home was swept away by a mudslide there's been widespread flooding in venice the water levels have risen to a ten year high. well the race is on for the top job in europe's biggest economy that says german chancellor angela merkel announced she will leave politics at the end of her term and twenty twenty one and she's standing down as the head of her center right party later this year and in barbara reports from berlin. on her way out but hoping to guide her country for a few more years chancellor angela merkel remains of course a central figure on the world stage but she's day she was hosting a g.

twenty conference to promote private investment in africa but now she's set to quit as leader of the center right c.d.u. party where does that leave germany. because grand coalition with the social democrats has already been weakened by the success of the far right alternative for germany or if the party. supposed to accuse the d of exploiting isolated incidents of crime to incite anti because the league's but it's been taking votes from the city you around the country is now the official position of the german parliament real tough decision that the senior party leadership needs to take next year for example is. whether to form coalitions with the. local and the state level for example states where the f.d.a. is in a very strong position and the left part is also on a very strong there is somebody whose vision for germany is further to the right there merkel's is health minister. bonnie's popular in the cd use conservative wing

it is seen as the most ambitious of the potential leaders he opposes jule citizenship for young foreigners and advocates policies such as banning the burqa in public. but it's an open secret that as she battles out as policy leader merkel has her own labor to replace her and it could come our company as a k.-k. is the cd use general secretary and former head of a small region of the solomons she's earned a reputation as a moderate whose liberal attitude really gracious is aligned with merkel's then there's michael's long standing rival friedrich advance the conservative pro-business figure is the first to officially announce he's running for the c.d.u. leadership by stepping down as party leader chancellor merkel hopes to give the c.d.u. time to revive its fortunes before the end of her term in twenty twenty one but nobody is ruling out a collapse of her ruling coalition before then and that really could change the dynamic in the race to become the next chancellor. al-jazeera but still ahead on

the news hour accused of murdering one hundred patients post-war germany's deadliest serial killer appears in court and we'll tell you how human destruction of the planet is eroding animals capital it's coming up in sport lester opens a book of condolences for their late owner who was killed in a helicopter crash. hello it's been raining recently in around and afghanistan i suspect that rain is welcome particular afghanistan i was the right time the year for however is not staying in one place is a frontal system so it will move through wednesday suggests a decent amount of rain in north and northeast and afghanistan north of that is coarse and as the ground rises it falls a snow tensional multi will drop its

a cult front after all down to three but on a good thirty couples going down to sixty but the sun has come out west of that it's a fine looking pictures guys often. sunshine that's back towards the mediterranean coast but we have seen a lot of cloud recently and some pretty effective thunderstorms throughout the arabian peninsula they're focusing on the western side of saudi for wednesday and probably thursday but you cannot rule out the idea the map if you to the east through possibly bahrain and qatar more likely the u.a.e. mostly course is still going to be a dry picture you saw rain has been falling recently in south africa and it's developing again this is a system moving from west to east and as it moves east it will develop and become slow moving so felicity to the east and south and probably sudden mozambique that rain could be persistent maybe for more than one day.

what makes this moment we're living so you. we haven't seen the president this is unpredictable freedom of speech is a balance oddly clumsy that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and here in the early years of the lights. there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the two state solution no from returns on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are.

hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour turkey's president says he believes some sort of game is being played over the murder in order to protect someone sources have told al-jazeera that the saudi side has handed over testimonies of eight hundred suspects being held in the kingdom to turkey the united states is deploying more than five thousand troops there with the border with mexico to stop them migrate caravan from entering the u.s. president has ordered the military to harden entry points along the crossings in arizona texas and california donald trump tweeted their arrival would be an

invasion of our country more than four thousand. american migrants are walking towards the u.s. while another three thousand remain at the mexico guatemala border. and a majority of m.p.'s in sri lanka have signed a letter to the president asking for parliament to reconvene the call is being backed by supporters of the ousted prime minister running will become a singer whose refused to leave the prime minister's official residence president has replaced him with the former president mahinda rajapaksa and suspended parliament. a woman suicide bombing in central tunis on monday was an isolated act according to the government's interior minister fifteen officers were among the twenty people injured in the last the first such attack in the city since twenty fifteen david schaper reports. this scene of the suicide attack in the very center of tunis minutes after the explosion the group has yet claimed responsibility the thirty year old woman who detonated was thought to be

a set of grenades has no known connections with any so-called extremist groups the majority of those injured were policemen manning a checkpoint but five civilians including two children were also caught in the blast tunisia's president shared the shock and dismay of the people in the capital . in the heavily nightly i regret to say that security personnel are always paying a heavy toll paying it in blood we thought we had driven terrorism from our cities into caves now it is in the heart of our capital the target of the attack was a street called the city of judas packed with shops and restaurants has been reopened for the public but with police on every junction. tourism is the main target for the country's beleaguered economy struggling with high unemployment and inflation tunisians are afraid the latest attack will once again on the mining industry that was making the recovery most of k.b.s.

what's happened was terrible carried out by cowards who just want to take over to new the start of all against terrorism because terrorism is a very bad thing if he allows more money on something like this happens in the capital it is the end the country has been in a state of emergency for the last three years since this spate of attacks which killed scores of people in twenty fifteen including many british tourists shot dead at the beach resort the police and security forces now will have to step up their efforts again to remove the threat tunisia is the country where the arab spring started and the only one to successfully establish a stable democracy but this latest attack could undermine those gains and provoked political instability already threatened by harsh austerity measures david cheeta al-jazeera hugeness in a region of wealthy countries that have historically shut their doors to refugees

qatar has become the first goal state to pass a landmark law offering political asylum human rights watch issued a report on tuesday calling the law a huge step forward and an example for the region it offers protection for those unable to return to their country due to a fear of execution or torture over their ethnicity religion party affiliation or political beliefs but the rights group says the law still prevents refugees from engaging in any political activity while living in qatar and imposes restrictions on freedom of movement. a german nurse has admitted to murdering one hundred patients with lethal injections emma hayward has more on. post war germany's deadliest serial killer. what nails hogle hid his face as he entered the crew already a convicted killer and now accused of the murder of one hundred patients to

hospitals in germany prosecutors say the former nurse was motivated by vanity that he wanted to be seen as a hero by trying to resuscitate the patients who were given a lethal dose of medication to mitterrand kneels her goal is accused of one hundred counts of murder he's believed to have abused his professional position to administer medication to patients which was not medically prescribed in order to make resuscitation necessary his aim according to the state prosecutor was to professionally distinguish himself with his knowledge in these situations. is accused of carrying out the killings between one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand and five at two different hospitals in northern germany asked in court if the charges against him were valid he said they were but a trial will still take place to try to establish what happened to the victims it's reported that death rates and we saw the taishan zz rose when he was on ship he's

already serving a life term for two murders and two attempted murders his earlier trial prompted the all thorough to investigate the deaths of hundreds of other patients this trial began with a minute's silence for the victims the families of you for. what's important to me is to find out what happened and that this man gets a just punishment if that's possible and maybe once the trial is over i can finally close this chapter on the families of the victims are hoping they will get some answers during the next few months the trial is expected to last until may emma haywood al-jazeera. a japanese still companies being ordered to compensate for south koreans for their forced labor during world war two south korea's supreme court ruled that nippon steel must pay each plaintiff eighty seven thousand dollars company has called the ruling regrettable japan occupied korea from one thousand

nine hundred forty five and is accused of never fully apologizing or paying repatriations to south koreans who are forced to work without pay david warren is a former british ambassador to japan who now serves as the chairman of the japan society he says the ruling is unacceptable. it's been received very badly in japan the prime minister and the foreign minister of made clear that the decision of the supreme court in seoul is unacceptable to them the japanese argue that the issue of compensation for those who suffered during the japanese colonial rule of japan and specifically during the water time period was settled in one thousand nine hundred five by the treaty which normalized relations between japan and korea which agreed a high level of compensation for those who were affected so as far as the japanese are concerned the issue was settled then and the court's decision now to insist that the japanese company nippon steel should pay additional compensation they will

say is unacceptable the issue of history and specifically of japanese treatment of forced laborers and what are often called the comfort women the enforced prostitution during the japanese rule of korea has afflicted the relationship for many years as i say the japanese argue that the issue was resolved by the treaty of normalization and the compensation which was agreed then but it continues in recent years particularly as those affected grow older there are now very few individuals left who are still alive who suffered during that period indeed of the four men who brought this case against nippon steel which is twenty one years old i think only one is still living so the issue for the koreans is a live issue and successive korean governments that given it more momentum to the frustration of the japanese. china says it will legalize the trade in products made

from endangered animals under special circumstances the announcement reverses a ban on the international trade of tiger bones and rhino horns both are considered to have healing powers in chinese traditional medicine and wildlife activists are dismayed but the government's defending the move earlier we spoke to iris host spokesman for the humane society international in washington d.c. . assess up essentially a laundering scheme for illegal tiger parts and rhino horns to enter the marketplace and pushing them furder to extinction and the tiger and rhino pharma industry has been for years to pressure the government to reopen their trades and their answer their prayers have been answered unfortunately at the devastating expense of tigers and write novels tigers and rhino should not be bred for commercial commercial gains i mean these for a while species and they are beloved by citizens around the world including

citizens in china and therefore by opening up their trade china is pushing demand for these parts and furder pushing these species to extinction tigers and right now is d's hard to rarest animals on earth we can gamble on the species extinction and animal cruelty this is a risk that we cannot afford to take and this is definitely not a fight that we can afford to afford to lose and we will be contacting and writing the cheated the chinese government and urging them to reconsider a decision and this has devastating consequences for animals and also for conservation advocates around the world where we've been given another snapshot off our impact on the planet and it's alarming conservation group the world wide front for nature says humans have brought about destruction to earth's biodiversity it

says populations of birds fish reptiles and amphibians declined by sixty percent between one nine hundred seventy and twenty fourteen the biggest losses almost ninety percent were seen in central and south america the organization says humans are squarely to blame with habitat destruction. overfishing and overhunting all having an impact and all of this isn't just having an environmental a fact the w w f highlights how nature provides goods and services worth about one hundred twenty five trillion dollars a year or earlier we spoke to mark oliver teenie who's the director general of the world wildlife federation international he took us through the areas that need our attention the most so i think of the three key dimensions that are actually driving the whole impact on nature the first one is the way we produce we generate our

energy so climate change and so shift to renewal energy is a must and we have a police agreement that drives the government and corporates in that direction which is exciting and encouraging the second one is are we produce our food today the major impact on the on the on the planet is the uta frith production conversion of forest and the utilization of besides in pretty risers and so finding ways to produce food with less resources with less imports with less besides and water inland and it is possible through the canal or g. and through gave her a change both in terms of production but also the way we consume so changing the system is fundamental to in this battle and thirdly is how we invest our money financial flows the support the wrong development model and in that we could actually be redirected to support clean energy and sustainable food production for example so it's about achieving our money between what we need to produce.