for an end to the war in yemen well frances those involved in the conflict to respect the ceasefire in who data a human rights watch released an open letter to the pope saying he should use his visit to press the u.s. government to end violations in yemen part of it the u.s. plays a prominent role in the saudi led coalition's military operations in yemen since march twenty fifteen the coalition has indiscriminately bombed homes markets and schools impeded the delivery of humanitarian aid and used widely banned nations human rights watch has documented nearly ninety apparently unlawful coalition attacks some of them likely war crimes. and israel has begun building a new battery a long its border with gaza when finished the fence will be sixty five kilometers long and six meters high almost three hundred palestinians have been killed and thousands more injured in months of protests along the current border harry fawcett has more from west. this is confirmation that work has now begun in what has been

a longstanding plan by the israelis to build a much more substantial much higher much stronger border fence along the israel gaza border it will run along the same course as the underground barrier which israel has also been constructing to prevent tunnels from gaza and territory into israeli territory and it is accompanied by a warning from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that despite the fact that elections are upcoming in israel ninth of april is the date for those elections to take place that israel would take any military action that it deemed necessary unless hamas continued to ensure that quiet prevailed along the border of course the protests have been going on on that border for ten months now there are also efforts underway by the egyptians and the qataris to try to ensure that quiet prevails the political leader of hamas which controls the gaza strip is melania is

in cairo there is an understanding that the egyptians are saying that they will maintain the opening of the rough our border crossing if hamas continues or does more to restrain the border protests but the fact that the these protests and the situation on the border is extremely tense and could lead towards an escalation has been evidenced again today sunday with the publication of a video which showed what took place on the twenty second of january when an israeli soldier was struck in the helmet by a bullet fired from gaza and territory islamic jihad claiming that that was their action shooting that israeli soldier after he himself had been firing into a crowd of protesters the fact that his helmet protected him from significant injury or even death could be really the line between what might have been a major escalation and which what and what actually took place which was an israeli tank firing on a hamas border post killing. one palestinian so it does remain extremely delicate

situation and on top of the front already according to the united nations last week we have seen two hundred ninety five palestinians killed in these two months of protests six thousand injured by live fire twenty nine thousand injured all together the signing of a peace deal aimed at ending six years of fighting in central african republic has been postponed it's not clear why the agreement between the leaders of fourteen on groups and the government was scheduled to be signed in so don the sudanese capital khartoum has hosted a weeks off talks they were aimed at ending war between christian and muslim militia which has killed thousands of people in displaced hundreds of others. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including scars of war after enduring is a violent syrian amputees face a long wait for a percent eclipse sent to gaza incumbent president mikey sockets off for his reelection bid as rivals accuse him of clamping down on the opposition and rocked

by roache the west indies here or in a crushing test cricket when people have the option in sports. he is of a new arms race are growing after the u.s. and russia announced they would pull out of a decade's old nuclear treaty on friday washington declared this decision accusing moscow of violating the agreement russia's president vladimir putin followed the move a day later both sides both signed the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty in one thousand nine hundred seven and banned all manned base missiles within a set range the javier solana is the former nato secretary general and former foreign policy chief in an interview for talk to launches there he says calling off the cittie is a bad idea. it's very driskill what they do the real the and it was one of the

pillars of the end of the cold war which is destruction. i am to witness and utopian. i do remember that treaty was the possibility of. the babied of the european union without the possibility of defense by the other side that case by us given when i would be have made americans and therefore european it's a very difficult thing to do to take. so we have done the most to try to do to make them keep on talking to really guarantee that the. device for the uses is because the cup ability of brick that range is one of the bad news that we have not only as european but also globally because think about.

the treaties were transferred never to have to. level between japan and china or bitterly in china and something of them nuked nuclear. and now we open another situation another condition whereby these type of theme may happen. syrian state media says u.s. led airstrikes have targeted the syrian army near the border with iraq u.s. warplanes reportedly attacked a syrian artillery position in the dairies or area of eastern syria sources say two soldiers were injured and guns destroyed an apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of aleppo killing eleven people including four children the fire story brock was damaged during years of war one child was pulled out alive by rescue

teams many other buildings around the city are also on the brink of collapse now demand for artificial limbs remains high in syria despite the large infighting in the conflict hundreds of thousands of people lost oms legs or both especially during the bombardment of opposition led areas many of the main are children al-jazeera is a sama bin job it has this story from near the turkey border with syria. says that had said that. when i think about what happened she says i cry this is eight year old. like millions of other syrian children she struggles with the painful memories of how she lost her leg and her brother. we first met her three years ago when she got her first breast leg has started school since then and made new friends but now she tells us she gets bullied as well for

having an artificial leg and for being a foreigner as she grows older the artificial limb needs to be replaced with a bigger one this is also true for other patients whose bodies outgrow their prosthetics whatever as i did sometimes my classmates just leave me alone other times the children can call me things like hey you with the leg keep walking like this so what young child has been telling me is that she wants to go to germany her father tells me that their cases been pending with the authorities for the last three years now that the situation in syria is karma the cases at this center continue to pile up in twenty sixteen they had three hundred people who required prosthetic limbs now that list has grown to two thousand but with more restrictions on who can cross the border into turkey they've opened a smaller workshop inside syria which has its own set of challenges because after eight years of war find qualified technicians difficult it cost somewhere between

three to one thousand dollars to make a prosthetic limb costs depend on injury and whether it's a hand or a complete foot or a leg. man to head the war is still happening patients who require limbs are chronic and with time they need more care many of these cases appear after the fighting has finished people need to continue their lives regardless of their disability with rising inflation and winning help it's difficult to keep producing high quality prosthetics every time the exchange rate in turkey changes it means fewer limbs can be many factored but for children like donor fatigue rising prices and border problems don't mean much all she dreams of is to overcome what hinders her from being treated like all the other children in her school summer job it out of the era. some egyptian politicians are planning to push for major changes to the constitution including the creation of a second chamber of parliament and the appointment of one or more deputy presidents

their requests follows demands from sections of the public for presidential term limits amar sure is associate professor of security studies and middle east politics at the doha institute for graduate studies he says the propose amendments are aimed at increasing the number of terms a president can run for office. the now the if you look at the media is focusing on the idea that eighty years are not enough and they're not enough to deal with the economic political or security challenges of egypt face and therefore the current president needs more time to fix the political economic and security challenges if you look at the actual what happened between twenty four thousand to now it's a t.v. nation on multiple levels with the economic political and security or human rights values it doesn't really matter to the constitution is violated on an hourly basis not on daily bases in terms of human rights situation in terms of even you know some changes within the regime you know the you need the approval of the supreme

council of the armed forces for example to sack the minister of defense the president sec the minister of defense without the approval of the supreme council of the parliament is composed of loyalists basically outbidding each other to the elections were not free and fair and you have a parliament in many ways it's a done deal in a sense that no one will pause in the parliament that kind of amendment and there's no no one is even voicing any concerns or any sort of opposition so that the one and the other thing is the parliament is going to to actually vote or amend the articles that empowers the parliament so article four seven and article one four six both of them say that the president cannot sack the prime minister or the government without the approval of the majority of the parliament i think these two articles will be probably amended so that the president has complete try to remove the government and the prime minister without the approval of the parliament. presidential campaign has begun with the incumbent president running for

a second term he faces four candidates who have accused him of clamping down on the opposition reports from the capital. he calls himself the candidate for all for supporters of president make use of this is more than a political slogan but a message they'll now be spreading as the presidential campaign has officially started. but i've got. why i ask them of course we are very confident we will win because we have the best candidate the one who has brought economic cultural and political stability like no other but this stability for the opposition comes at a cost the leader of the senegalese democratic party karim what it is in exile and convicted on corruption charges while the popular former mayor of the car khalifa zone remains in jail the opposition accuses cells government of using the courts to clamp down on political opponents nonsense says former prime minister today this

has nothing to do with. politics it's about mismanagement of public funding and i think in his program as a country the president made it very clear that he would like to make progress on fighting corruption with the two leading figures of the opposition out of the race it seems there's no stopping. he's been opening one infrastructure project after another jump starting in now booming economy. this is the latest infrastructure project in our greeted by president mikey sol it's a building for government officials and ministers a building helps to be in charge of if you wins a second mandate because the challenge for sol is to translate his economic success into votes. while the economy is booming political freedom is shrinking warns amnesty international police band several opposition protests the four other candidates struggle to mobilize supporters with many disappointed that karim wanted in khalifa's cell are absent from this race we think president sellers hijack the

electoral process locking in the short victory with a campaign that has barely started were t. shirts are being distribute. did voter id cards sinegal be one of the most stable democracies in africa it's also one of the most unpredictable. among the six million voters will go to the polls in twenty days time or young first time voters and undecided and powerful force not always so easily swayed by slogans. al-jazeera the current. governor in the u.s. state of virginia has changed his story about a photo which is causing a racism scandal northam says he's not with in the photo twenty four hours after apologizing for wearing at costume in the photo the photo was taken in one thousand nine hundred four and us provokes increasing calls for the resignation of the democrat from virginia my belief that i did not wear that costume or

attend that party stems in part from my clear memory of all the mistakes i made in the same period of my life. that same year i did participate in a dance and in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson costume i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that it is because my memory of that episode is so vivid that i truly do not believe i am in the picture in my yearbook now bishop garrison is the interim executive director of the truman national security project he explains how the case affected him personally. as a resident as someone who has worked in virginia politics since two thousand and twelve as the great great great grandson the cendant of slaves myself this was something that really touched me deeply emotionally this press conference was

absolutely terrible i join in the many voices the chorus of voices at this point that have called for the resignation of the governor i think it's important for virginians and to be quite honest for a part of this country to move forward and to heal we need the leadership of someone like justin fairfax a lieutenant governor to take us to that to that next level i believe that in his heart he believes he's doing the right thing governor ralph northam and as i said i was a supporter of his during the primary and during the general as well i believe in him as a leader and i believe in his very heart of hearts he's a good person but you cannot build a coalition of support and you cannot properly represent all those within your constituency when you have this type of history that you haven't acknowledged for the past thirty five years in further to for him to believe or espouse that somehow being in black face is michael jackson was different from being in blackface and

potentially in those photos is just absolutely absurd. still ahead on al-jazeera a chilling rhetoric from an odd group accused of bombing a cathedral in the southern philippines al jazeera speaks exclusively to one of the fighters also break said state his business casualty comic a nissan scraps plans to produce its next generation s.u.v. in northern england and the fastest man in the wilds makes a run for it ahead of the super bowl has more on you same bolts coming up in six. hello there we've got plenty of snow in the store for afghanistan over the next few days here's the satellite picture and it shows this swirling massive cloud hail as this one is making its way across parts of iran is giving some of us some heavy

rain and then as it works its way northward it's going to get increasing a wintery as it makes its way over parts of afghanistan so lots of snow here on monday and for tuesday as well and that's good news because many of us here are in a drought towards the west generally quite quiet and fairly cool for us on choose day a maximum temperature in baghdad of twenty degrees the higher doha it's been pretty whole time for the past few days but things have changed thanks to this area of cloud hit for some rain and it's also it will rain to the u.a.e. as well the whole system is slipping away towards the south and behind it it is a lot cooler so the winds are firing down from the northwest bringing in that cool air a maximum temperatures for us then just twenty two as we head through monday and tuesday and during the evening and overnight you'll notice it is feeling a good deal cooler to as we head down to was a southern parts of africa a loss of showers here in the northern parts of our map as you would expect we've also got some in the eastern parts of south africa this is giving some of the some heavy rain a lot of rumbles of thunder as well and it's working its way eastwards durban is

looking what for monday. the world's largest oil company fails to become public want to happen. all the kingdoms of the company inseparable here the world's largest oil producer and you don't list in the world's largest stock exchange that definitely says something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east most come to an economic when. saudi arabs the company in the states on al-jazeera.

it's. with every. welcome back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump has told a u.s. t.v. network that sending the military to venezuela is an option he's also said he's turned down a meeting with venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro in while russia says the international community should reach frayne from destructive interference in venezuela's crisis yemen's warring sides have been holding talks aboard

a united nations boat in the red sea in an attempt to save a frog in her data it's hoped the meeting will finalize a timeline for the withdrawal of troops from the city and israel has begun building a new battery at long its border with gaza when finished the fence will be sixty five kilometers long and six meters high almost three hundred palestinians have been killed and thousands more injured in months of protests along the current gaza israel border. now a member of an armed group suspected of carrying out last week's bombings in the philippines has spoken exclusively to our iso claimed responsibility for the cathedral attack which killed more than twenty people but the military says it was the work of a smaller group called john a john there is jimmy lindegaard reports on the island of hollow where the bombing happened. he got in her car nervous but defiant he claims he doesn't have a name just like the more than twenty other members of the a junk

a jungle group in sulu province on the island of mindanao. we want to kill christians this is our gold we don't want them it's a look even if you've blown to pieces that is the best way to get the better days are you trying to say you want to become a suicide bomber. we will do whatever we can because that estimate that was given to us by the arabs you know mom it says we must get read the piece chance the agenda john is an offshoot of the armed group i would say you have which has been operating in the area for decades i so claimed responsibility for the bombings at a cathedral in law a week ago but the military dismissed that and blamed john for the attacks the group was originally called lucky nine when it was formed in two thousand and nine by children and or friends of abu so your fighters later on the group renamed

itself a junk a junk which means lost command. when there's ten million vessels from kidnapping we keep the two million for our group we also extort money from rich families if they don't give it to us even if they are muslims we kill them too . it's a rhetoric that shocks many here despite a previous attacks on places of worship the mindanao region was never sharply divided by religion days after the cathedral bombs there was another attack in a place of worship this time a mosque in some born the city it happened at midnight eleven people were asleep here when a grenade was thrown inside it killed people instantly this is a second attack in a place of worship within just a matter of days and according to the philippine government it seems as though there are efforts to cause the divisions between the different religions but people

here reject at the. say they will never let that happen muslims here tell us they are hurt and differing with. christians and muslims are more than just neighbors here we enter marry we all grew up together we all love one another. there is concern here that last week's bombings will be the last the but in a heavily guarded mosque preachers offer some hope love the city is stronger than violence dugan al-jazeera holo sulu southern philippines. japanese carmaker nissan has cropped plans to build its new generation s.u.v. in britain the extra was said to be manufactured in the northern english city of sunderland but the company has announced it will now make the call at its plant in japan nissan warned uncertainty over brecht's it was making it hard to plan for the

future of brennan has this update from london. now this announcement from the sun we think was due to come out on monday but because of leaks in the media it's been rushed out and a letter has been issued by. ficci now he doesn't specifically say that bracks it is this is the actual reason he says there are wider issues in the car industry at the moment they're having to invest a lot in to deal with new emissions rules that have sweep that have swept across europe but he says that the uncertainty over the way breakfast is going to pan out has certainly weighed on the minds of the decision to the company's decision to make investments in the north of england now the extra oil was due to be made both in japan and the north of england what they're going to do is consolidate production just in japan he also says though that there shouldn't be an impact on jobs at that massive plant in some of the land at least not in the short term

because the other models that are made today for example the very successful eco model called the leaf that will still continue to be made in the in the hundreds of thousands of units at sunderland al-jazeera has been seeing how corruption in romania's public hospitals is harming the survival chances of patients romanian children suffer the highest mortality rates in europe and no new government hospitals have been built since the fall of communist rule thirty years ago lawrence lee has this story from bucharest. corruption kills people and in romania hospitals do not necessarily make people better bucharest children's hospital was built in one nine hundred eighty two and much of the equipment doctors and nurses have at their disposal looks like it hasn't changed in the thirty seven years since inside the hospital lies one year old iron valentino to mr diagnosed by a doctor he's now in a coma his young parents are living in the hospital as his body breaks down in

front of them they look completely destroyed. if one of the counties made no recovery since he came here his lungs are starting to collapse and his little heart is as well he's on life support they've killed my son images obtained by al-jazeera of the conditions inside some of romania's public hospitals are barely believable this is the pathology units where human tissue was stored inside the hospital in one of romania's biggest cities clues the european union offered one hundred seventy million dollars worth of funding for three new war spittles a full five years ago but the work hasn't even started the crisis led carmen and on to form a business woman to launch a crowdfunding campaign to build a new hospital in the capital stepping in where the government has failed they already raised nearly twenty million dollars there will bottom of the garden lawyer were slapping their remaining state in the face or showing them it's possible in a country where impossible is what you're always told regarding the first hospital

in the country for children with cancer after thirty years of incompetence from the remaining state. so this is it's the first new hospital to be built in romania since the fall of communism paid for by the public it'll be finished years before the government gets around to building one you may well ask yourself how it can be that so a group of business women with no healthcare background can build a hospital from scratch in romania while the government apparently colt's wall on so is that corrupt officials don't want seems european funding because they have to account for it and can't simply stick the money in their pockets the other theory is that they're all just completely incompetent probably the truth is somewhere in the middle no doubt there are politicians who want to do something about all this but they're up against a huge wall of corruption the current health minister run a relatively successful hospital herself but she admitted to us the system is broken with officials stealing money from public funds yeah. i had bought an

m.r.i. scanner for five hundred thousand but here they bought one for two and a half million the exact same one this explains a lot it didn't need explaining someone stole two million euros on the pretense of buying medical equipment we both understand the reasons you have to say it's hardly a great indorsements of the current president of the european union's who admits to the thinks it won't be able to build a new hospital for another five years anyway it'll all be too late for florian and denise are they watching their baby son die in front of their eyes killed by corruption largely al-jazeera book or rest. the last four chiles refugees held in australian run detention center on the pacific island of novel are being resettled in the us they will go with their families under a deal struck with the administration of former us president barack obama australia's government says it won't send any more children to nowra it's over the past five months we have been working quietly and methodically to term the children

from the room today there are only four children on the roof and they will shortly resettle permanently in the united states our government has got the children off the road david mayne is executive director of the refugee and immigration legal center he says resettle children will need counselling to manage the trauma their suffered in detention many who are experts who have a novel to carsley examine the health of the health and the impact of these these policies on children have overwhelmingly reported very very significant levels of oppression of anxiety. and other very serious very serious medical conditions the trauma the suffering has been very dated and

a lot of the prognosis really for for the suffering and the long term and so the last thing in many times that there is the damage to have and very profound and lasting effects on children so we can only heart that are now being resettled society that these children can be given help then a good counseling mandate and to be able to rebuild their lives after such trauma. now for the people of van want to rising sea temperatures intense cyclons any rhotic weather patterns are becoming a daily part of life they're being forced to spend more money not only protecting themselves but also keeping their businesses afloat and navin want to is considering legal action against big polluters thousands of kilometers away andrew thomas reports. warming sea is mean fewer fish in the waters around than a water so people are building fish farms in like the states this very frustrating

cost to build one fish farm is around fifteen thousand u.s. dollars there are other costs of climate change here more frequent sly clones mean big repair bills mitigation in preparation for disasters and rising sea levels also have big costs money while these own contribution to global climate change is small even so it's doing all it can to reduce it further there are a solar farms and coconut plantations oil squeezed from coconuts can fuel generators as a clean way to make electricity one cocoa will give you one liter of oil. with what we've got here it's fine now where if a t.v. program for a few coconut powered televisions will make little difference to the global climate but i want to use government believes the world's big polluters should compensate it for the damage that climate change does here and that if they won't voluntarily

through treaties and agreements and they'll try to force them to through the threats of legal action the government is considering suing big polluting countries and fossil fuel companies we're working with a number of lawyers in different parts of the world we're also looking at our evidence base that we're going to need to prove in court that would be hard suing a company needs to happen in that company's national court giving them the home advantage taking legal action against the country means going to the international court of justice it only considers cases where the country being sued agrees to the case being heard but there is another avenue here that can take and that is to ask for an advisory opinion and that isn't legally binding but it does set the direction and it gives the world a sense of exactly how they are. legally.