between lawmakers and the mining industry. on trial for. corruption charges brazil river of mud. nigeria's president calls for an investigation into why the country's election has been postponed by a week and we have an exclusive report from northern nigeria where fighting between christian farmers and muslim herders has left at least sixty six people dead. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program pakistan recalls that some bassett are from new delhi as tensions in

indian administered kashmir continue to escalate venezuelans fleeing to brazil described how unbearable their lives have been even before the latest crisis and we report on iraq's fight to revive a sports with an illustrious history in the country. thank you for joining us we start the program in nigeria where the president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week mohamedou biharis ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital of abuja on the election commission surprise the situation to move the vote to saturday that i jury and they don't criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after polling takes place. definitively.

why such incompetence many of his son. has to be explained to the nation after the election we have to know exactly what happened and. i know it's our employees to. make sure that this is still we willing to accept. is that making progress. except in confidence. well some of nigeria's leading presidential candidates have condemned the decision many blamed each other for the delay announced on saturday by the election commission just hours before polls are actually due to open there's also growing concern about the economic impact as they dress reports now from the northeastern city of my do. these days the only thing that would work are mom and does is sit or cool with the children. he wants to work but no one is hiring

because of the uncertainty around the elections. to his problems is all the children have been sent back from boarding school until the vote has taken place. the struggle to feed the family is tough enough for someone who depends on daily ironing so it's been made how to now because no one is true of what will happen the disruption doesn't stop with people like you. trade in borno state had been picking up over the last two years following attacks by boko haram fighters and the security clampdown to stop the violence centuries old trade routes between neighboring countries had reopened but if you want to do business during election season this is the major worry money market it's what progress from cameroon chad is here to public and we don't come to find out but in the past few days not much transactions after you can place here you know as we talk to say most of the buyers from across the border i keep him waiting until after the elections. most of us has

seen his weekly earnings grow from eight thousand to a few hundred dollars. will just be done. a lot less being about the old now it's far quicker and peaceful conclusion of the vote when it can limit and it distribute here no income it's going to be and as a result. i think it will impact on the house the election commission as richard will national elections for saturday with state elections coming two weeks later the cost of the delay and the insight associated with it is difficult to estimate but business is expect to be hit hard and any recovery will depend on who gets elected. nigeria. well authorities in northern nigeria have confirmed the deaths of sixty six people

in a wave of violence which nigerian president mohammed of wiring has called vial and barbaric police discovered the bodies of eight in eight villages across kaduna state on friday twenty two of the victims were children mohammed adel has met some of the survivors. the two year old ishaq was sub you is one of the survivors of what paul knox hark by hundreds of men armed with guns and machetes ishaq was killed with a bullet wound to the arm but twenty two members of his family including his wife four children and there's a limit on further what killed him in that you're going to go on like that you know where will i go back to know i have no hole or anyone left what wrong did we commit to deserve this brutality several villages in area and could do no state of north or no judio are tucked among the rules of bodies found while at least twenty two children under the age of ten the is. at the hospital in could do nothing or tumor

could die is taken care of two grandsons four year old. and two and a half year old bashir both were injured in the attack they are the only surviving members of my extended family doctors operated only brought him to remove what list thought to pull its load in his interest bags in between tears she talks about the moment her life changed forever well those are the harder they govern as a community square my husband of the first to be beheaded anybody who tried to escape was shot he came to finish his all. government officials say at least sixty six people were killed in the tuc it's a figure disputed by community leaders the county is still on but aside yesterday it's over sixty seven and the counting is still on because over a hundred of something and something are still missing yeah i mean most of the cows

are not deposition our wedding i know is not known. we met some of those who survived huddled together in the open they're still in shock skirt by what they witnessed the killings beheadings and torching of houses the pain of seeing their loved ones getting killed by the attackers is still vivid in the minds of these people there i have here after a three day strike and now say they need help with food cruel thing and shelter against the cold nights the killings in can do no shocked the nation within hours president obama bahati called the vile and the body was an attempt to say to stock religious conflict between christians and muslims in this region we're not g.d.s. muslim north meets nigeria so this prone to religious tension how does a nick flynn the muslim muslim well the farmers a muslim christian where there is break down into community relations this are the

kind of things the society so far from for the past twenty years has been neglect and architecture for harmonious core existence a more rural communities of nigeria respect and resolutions however rare and with the demand for land growing by the day there are fears the violence may only intensify mohammed atta walsh's era could do no more than. pakistan has recalled that some passenger from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir escalate that following a deadly attack in the region on thursday that killed dozens of security personnel the suicide bombing has been claimed by the pakistani based group jaish e mohammed cannot hide and has more now from islamabad. danger and running high

between india and ball gets done over the disputed kashmir day india is of course blaming buggiest on for masterminding the deadly attack on an indian corn voyager story could go and also a fault of aiding the kashmiri militants however buggers on had said all along that there needs to be a rigid lucern of the few pockets on ready to draw on any difference said red india across their day by the india of course refuting and what many people say as by have ploy by the indian government which wants to you this issue because of the upcoming election the budgets on these every quarter day high commissioner in new delhi for consultation this was a move prompted by the indians recalling their high commissioner for gone three days however although the indians and august danis have been or go over this issue

india warns that the issue of kashmir should be something guided by laterally between the two countries however the so default and minister weighing in on that saying that they were tried their level best to try to deescalate tensions between these two nuclear neighbors. at least nine people have been killed in fighting in kashmir as noise and district indian forces launched an operation in the area to clear those believed to be behind thursday's attack they became and became involved in a protracted gun battle that lasted for hours among the dead or four indian soldiers a policeman three separate his fighters and one civilian i mean as a new delhi with details. several security personnel have been injured in the last few hours several soldiers as well as a deputy inspector general of the kashmir police who got a bullet wound in his leg this is a continuation of a battle that began late on sunday when security forces corner two gunmen holed up

in a house led to four soldiers being killed as well as one civilian the man who owned the house the gunmen fled were hours later engaged again with security forces and then were killed now this all comes as saudi crown prince mohammed bin some man is wrapping up his trip to pakistan and is set to visit india now during his trip to pakistan muhammad bin some on pledged twenty billion dollars to pakistan in investments as well as offer to deescalate tensions between india and pakistan now india won't be very receptive to this they've been against any third party being involved in the kashmir dispute saying it's strictly a lateral issue between india and between pakistan also before mohamed bin some on speaking of his visit has a even a rive in the country there was a student protest on monday in new delhi held by a sunni muslim group they said they can't welcome a man to the country that's responsible for thousands of deaths in yemen and it belongs to a country and family they say which is responsible for extremism and terrorism. the

british territory of gibraltar says a spanish warship ordered the commercial boats to leave the waters around the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns the ship sailed away after the british royal navy launched the two vessels in response the government of gibraltar called the maneuver foolish and the nuisance but great as long claimed the tiny peninsula should be under stannis control but a spokesman for britain's prime minister the minister said we are certain of our sovereignty over the whole of gibraltar. still to come on the program a charity's report says un peacekeepers stood by as violence of the state in central african republic and we visit a southern town at the heart of italy's immigration debate.

however the really shouldn't be quite so much rain in china at the moment but as you can see from the massive cloud there's more than the hint what it's already for and there is more to come of it you've got one more day of it reaching its peak and it may well fall in hong kong so it's quite widespread it goes up towards shankar and the cold that run will has produced some pretty interesting architecture sculpture if you like of snow and raw in the song the trees pretty sorry and there's more to come otherwise it's rain but the ration of dried up in hong kong the term we get towards the start of wincey back of twenty five degrees humid dish to greece but twenty five old side. and there's more rain developing in pakistan eastern iran and afghanistan you don't see much from this next system is coming in the picture for tuesday isn't that dramatic a little bit of rain or snow in the far north eastern afghanistan hindu kush and

then you watch it overnight to see into wednesday all of a sudden is a blue green which is right and again it's focusing on pakistan significant amount of right here obviously snow where gets colder and is higher ground in eastern afghanistan but the western edge so looks far and we've got a bit of a breach of it began through the go also to house temperature drops to a max of twenty two. the week began with views of a ninety day truce in the tip for tat us china trade war the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil cartel we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. watch.

a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera nigeria's president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week and a jury a leader criticized the election commission surprise decision saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence staying in nigeria in the north of the country have confirmed that the sixty six people in a wave of violence that has been described as criminal police discovered the bodies of eight villages in kaduna state on friday and pakistan has recalled its ambassador from new delhi tensions in indian administered kashmir continues to

escalate at least four indian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in a gun battle in kashmir northern pawan the district. two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifty more the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood. has been hit by several bombings in recent months that have killed scores of people the city is controlled by the high up to here al shaab armed group formerly an affiliate of al qaida. several members of the european parliament have urged the e.u. to suspend contact with venezuela's government after they were blocked from entering the country the group was invited to meet venezuela's national assembly by the opposition leader one why though is also trying to enlist volunteers to

confront a government blockade of u.s. aid at the border hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to try to defy the blockade by carrying supplies across the border on saturday but. our parliamentary group demands that the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in brussels decide to withdraw from the international context group we had our passports taken and we with him to back to our plane without reason we did not tourists or to create any problem we were responding as members of the european parliament to an institutional invitation from the parliament to have a working meeting with its president who is also the interim president well as the standoff intensifies between way though and president nicolas maduro venezuelans continue to leave the country the crumbling economy is already forced more than three million to seek a new life abroad mohamed john june spoke to some of them in the brazilian town of

. where hundreds are crossing every day. on brazil's border with venezuela the migrants continue to arrive many of them relieved at least for the moment to have seemingly put their desperation behind them back home jackson maria just twenty three years old had quit school to work in a bakery and. young people like us can achieve our goals if it is well i had to stop my academic studies because it became a choice between studying and eating. but even that choice difficult as it may have been didn't make things much easier they left i know that the money i made from one week zero four was only enough to buy me one kilo price his friend i modify ghetto also twenty three tells me things were unbearable well before the current political crisis and can't help but laugh when describing the dark absurdity of the past few weeks ok even the so in the say made those who he said look

a still people are now saying we have two presidents one issues in order the other refuses it one last for eight the other says the eight one pos it's public disorder in politics and neither of them is looking out for the welfare of the people but at this processing center in the town of pocket i'ma run by brazil's federal government and supported by the united nations refugee agency exhaustion is also palpable officials tell us that today alone over six hundred venezuelans cross from venezuela into brazil and many of those migrants will be applying for asylum and many of them will be seeking medical care so now we see more people arriving in very bad conditions arriving with the urgent need of medical attention so a lot of people can come here right here because you need to immediately transport to board these different care some people arrive if we actually do nothing but they will still be wearing stefania decided to leave when she realized it would be too

expensive to have another baby in venezuela the only difference because medicine but a surveillance on my sister said she couldn't believe i was leaving i said yes i'm going i took my child and left time i got here by getting rides and travelling for two days and. like many others here she's happy for a brief respite. in this very temporary setting where children play with soldiers and things do albeit fleetingly seem a little bit better. in parker dima on brazil's border with venezuela. the head of the u.k.'s labor party jeremy corbyn says he's disappointed by the resignation of seven of his m.p.'s the group of opposition politicians say that they left the party in protest of a corbin's approach to brecht's it and claims of anti semitism the u.k. labor party is the vi that on how the u.k.

should leave the un the issue of holding a second referendum. roving passive spectators that's how a prominent international aid agency has described un peacekeepers the ploy to during the days of violence in central african republic doctors without borders says the force to not protect civilians in the city of baton gospel al-jazeera is asked to scuffle a response but so far we haven't received any at least fifteen people were killed in the violence and more than twenty thousand people were displaced when their homes were burned to the ground priyanka gupta has more now on the allegations that . these homes unbutton good food were made to show to people displaced by conflict in central african republic but now these houses status a reminder of six days of acid. that began last october. there was six days that brought what the un described as an unacceptable

humanitarian tragedy it began as isolated attacks by the mainly christian groups and mostly muslim fighters did stash aid agency doctors without borders says the four were celica fighters suger least a wave of violence but civilians at aid workers caught the middle it says you had peacekeepers deployed to protect civilians at the time to do much. you can well imagine sneaking since if the un battalion which is supposed to protect the civilians has been inefficient when confronted with this violence we used to monetary workers had to open the gate of our hospital so the population could take shelter because they found no other shelter. allegation groupie to buy the city spare and witnesses a lot over a year. so we were watching these are elements they were at the gate and they were just filming and they were smiling it's not serious. the blue

helmets were in their vehicle and they were following the extra work of fighters they were on the roads and they were watching the rebels burning down the i.d.p.'s site. the un peacekeeping operation said laughing public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's aimed at protecting civilians were armed groups control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with forty rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to get end to the six year conflict. al jazeera. it was once heralded as a model of successful racial integration but now residents of the town of riyadh chair say it faces ruin hundreds of refugees who helped bring the italian town back to life have been ordered to leave and it's suspended mayer is now awaiting trial for aiding illegal immigration from the southern italian town of. reports

these quiet streets were once bustling with activity people and purpose but reaction has become a shadow of its former self. raffia has been living here for four years she came from pakistan a family made this place their home and they are one of the few families that remain here because before the project is to. give us everything they had. no. finish project is finished crumbling buildings were turned into shops restaurants and homes now lie empty again the occupants left after pressure from the old thirties those that lived his say as she had once been full of optimism now no more. this playground used to be full of children now nothing no one's left here.

last year the mayor the when he was arrested for allegedly encouraging illegal immigration the main accusation that he arranged a marriage between an italian man and a nigerian woman who had been forced into prostitution so that she could remain in the country. reaction is integration model breathed new life into this village but it became a target immigration politicians including the deputy prime minister. who frequently voiced his antagonism towards this project so now once again the actual lies practically deserted and all the effort that went into rejuvenating this place is now wasted while the mayor was praised for pioneering a model of integration that benefited the area. to campaign to stop the movement of humanitarian rescue ships out of italy's ports and revelled on social media would

mr mcconnell was arrested. no longer allowed to set foot in riyadh mr lucado is awaiting trial and says he is being used as an example for those who do not meet the new immigration policies. the message that came from here was that for once it was possible to create a diverse multi-ethnic society and that wasn't allowed. instead they created political success from propaganda which turned the least people against each other the quietness here a reflection of the new normal immigration is no longer an issue of assistance but of control those who remain say it is a sad place hope of new life has been abandoned and the welcome it once promised no longer allowed sunny diag al-jazeera southern italy a war and political instability in iraq has held back its economic development for

decades and surprisingly investment in sport has also suffered one discipline in particular has great cultural significance for iraqis and the wider region stratford went to baghdad to find that war. it's cold ten to taking an ancient horse riding skill believed to be practiced by ami's around the world over two thousand years ago. and some of these a rocky ride is a rather good at it. is a member of the iraqi equestrian team he rides an eight year old arabian thora braid called she has aren't. since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three up until now i have won around forty five medals and four of them were gold but the equestrian sports here are no longer taken seriously they suffer lack of government support and of private investment iraq's equestrian federation used to be

a sporting institution that the country was proud of his club was a favorite hangout for saddam hussein's sons to show off their wealth both owned horses worth millions of dollars which they kept at the stables years of war political instability means the club's facilities for the for the on hold times iraq's a question federation was set up in one thousand nine hundred twenty two during the year is overall short lived more to keep the six thousand forces here that sign were raby and sorra braids the envy of the questions and breed is around the world now during the war that toppled saddam hussein all the horses here was stolen and even today the federation still struggles to survive but a few of iraq's elite who didn't flee the country still come to ride secondary school students in shell assad harmeet writes an eleven year old whole school in shallow represented iraq could be used to limp pigs held in argentina last year she

came twenty fourth out of thirty participants in the horse jumping event. i feel comfortable i feel i am or i am going to heaven when i am writing courses because it's my honest because it's a culture of our town because the horse is for the for the killings it's it's my history that strict international quarantine rules prevent iraq you write is like inshallah taking their horses abroad to compete in events instead they have to write animals supplied by the host nation the world health organization says iraq relax sufficient expertise to deal with infectious a coin diseases. we cannot participate properly an international tournaments because of these quarantine laws cannot show our true potential this is the biggest challenge we face. the writers here say despite the ban they will continue to

strive towards international success and recognition and preserve a cultural tradition so in take rule to iraq only arab world. like that. and you can find that much more in everything that we have been covering on our website the address al-jazeera that call. it's taking a look now at the top stories making the news on al-jazeera jarius president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week mohamedou biharis ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital on the election commission surprise decision to move the vote to saturday the major area leader criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence. in.

the. uk and saying in nigeria authorities in the north of the country have confirmed that the of sixty six people in a wave of violence which nigerian president mohammed hari called vile and barbaric police discovered the bodies an aide to villages in couldna states on friday twenty two of those bodies were children state governor nuff said of roofies says arrests have been made and has called on the public to avoid revenge attacks that li clashes between christian farmers and lanny herdsman have been rampant in recent years as both groups compete for land and water. pakistan has recalled its ambassador from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continue to escalate at least four indian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in

a gun battle in kashmir is northern pawan at this strict a twenty four hour curfew is currently in force after dozens of security personnel died in a suicide bombing on thursday. the british territory of gibraltar says a spanish warship ordered commercial boats to leave the waters around the peninsula while sailing nearby with manned the guns the ship sailed away from the british royal navy launched two vessels in response the government of gibraltar called the maneuver foolish and the new since. two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifteen more the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the consumer neighborhood during rush hour it live as been hit by several bombings in recent months it's it techno is next.

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