well they were able to identify thirty seven bodies many other bodies might need even d.n.a. testing but a lot of relatives are waiting here they want to know and see if their loved one is among the dead bodies that is in the market very really tragic thing as far as the government goes the industry minister made a statement saying that because of the explosion was not the chemical warehouse but rather the gas cylinder the bang of the human rights commission made a statement and timing this as a third largest disaster in bangladesh which is quite dramatic actually after rana plaza and another chemical explosion near this one and today is one would be time the third largest now as for. medical a lot of the forty one patients out there in the burn unit when i love to get in there we don't know their real condition we heard that several of them are critically injured and their relatives are also waiting to find out their condition

. india has stepped up its response against pakistan a week after an attack in indian administered kashmir killed fourteen members of their security forces a senior ministers announced that new delhi will block the flow of its share of water from ridges originating in the disputed region into pakistan india currently uses ninety three percent of its share from sri where it was under the indus waters treaty the other seven percent goes to pakistan the world bank treaty gives india access to three eastern rivers and pakistan access to three western rivers india's decision will not affect pakistan's access to the western rivers allowed under the treaty has more from new delhi. water has always been a contentious issue between india and pakistan that's why the world bank brokered this treaty in one nine hundred sixty s. it covers water lockin of six rivers and three western rivers that flow through india into pakistan that water law is for box on and won't be touched this concerns

three eastern rivers now the water a lot meant goes to india but the access that it didn't use always quoting the pakistan freely india says that's not going to happen any more going to take that excess water and divert it to its own people and its own projects in india to mr bashir and the indian state of punjab and parts of pakistan will really feel that because they are prone to drought and really did you rely on that excess water it also puts the nine hundred sixty treaty into a bit of a contentious place now under the treaty pakistan has complained many times that indian projects in fact in the end of january and india pakistan nine hundred came to india and objected to the height of a dam being built now those objections are likely to fall on deaf ears it's part of the hard line that india is taking against pakistan in light of last week's attacks in indian administered kashmir which india blames on a group based in pakistan if anything this shows that they are continuing their

hard campaign against pockets. at the very least you're not going to pakistan any favors plenty more ahead on the news hour. celebrities news commentators and even presidential candidates weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor a hate crime or fake news the controversy around a u.s. actor arrest who's now been arrested by police. the tech industries answer to falling sales is a phone that you can follow but is that worth two thousand dollars. and chelsea get ready to make get ready for a make or break match as pressure mounts on their coach details later in sport. all that still ahead the first venezuelan president nicolas maduro says the border with brazil will be closed just days before opposition leaders plan to bring much

needed aid into the country he's also considering closing the border with colombia hundreds of tons of u.s. aid a stop on the colombian border town of coup tom says it is a provocation and he has instead opted to accept three hundred tons of aid from russia in just a few moments we'll talk we'll take you live to the colombia border where he is standing by in cuckoo htat where the u.s. aid is being stockpiled but first let's cross to how my german jew who is live for us in. brazil somehow man what's happening there. well housing we've heard in the last forty eight hours finally from brazilian officials that there was a plan in place whereby a comprised of medical supplies and foodstuffs would be placed on the border on brazil's border with venezuela and that this effort was done in conjunction with the united states and that after that this would happen on the twenty third this

next saturday that then you would have the venezuelan trucks coming into brazil getting that aid taking it back into venezuela and being distributed to venezuelans there after it now it almost sounded too simple when we first heard about it because it was always a consideration what would happen in fact if venezuela were to close its border with brazil so it's very unclear what exactly is going to happen next if that is going to hamper the efforts that are go on for the moment to try to start getting this aid into venezuela now another thing that we're still unsure about is where exactly the aid that brazil's government plans to place on the border is going to be at which point along the border there have been conflicting reports in local media the past few days some suggest that there will be some kind of distribution center set up here in boa vista which is the capital of northern hot i misstate

which is about two hundred kilometers south of the border many others believe and it has been written in many reports that this aid is going to be distributed from the town of pocket imo which is directly on the border and which is the main entry point for venezuelan migrants and refugees departing venezuela and entry into brazil wasn't mohamed thanks very much mohamed june. for a song brazil's border with and venezuela a lot of aid piling up as well on colombia's border with venezuela that's cost. who's in force so on a sunday or what's been happening there. we understand that more aid is on the way and we just heard from gabby at a yanno one of the deputies of the opposition controlled national assembly you are here to coordinate the operation on sunday to try to move all of these may be cool

and food supplies that are store at the border. who just told us that real medicine are arriving sent by the united states so far here are food boxes food supplies medical supplies such as c. range and so on but no real medicine that are much needed inside of in this way we are now being told that some of that medicine is already here and more will be arriving be between today and tomorrow friday to then be moved inside the country supposedly on saturday we also heard the number of new details starting with the timing of this operation on saturday the venezuelan deputies are telling venezuelans here in colombia part of the diaspora and of in a swell lands inside the. island to touch

a state on the other side to be ready by nine am local time here in colombia on saturday all dressed in white they said that they are expecting they called it a tsunami of people that will try to cross into colombia on the four different bridges that separate from colombia on saturday morning all overwhelmed the military presence there just to try to walk through and then sort of make themselves on the two sides of these bridges to let the. see inside the country will that happen we don't know we don't know if president maduro will also close the border here something that is thinking about according to what he said before that tomorrow and friday we're expecting the concerts here right on their main bridge connecting the two countries with a number of international artists to essentially support this operation to let the

a then in another car answer on the venezuelan side organized by the supporters of nicolas maduro so many moving parts here and indeed alexandra thank you. live for us there in kuta our pope francis says the roman catholic church needs to heal the wounds after decades of sexual abuse by priests he's been speaking at a meeting of bishops to address the scandal and called for concrete and effective measures in his words many of those abused by priests around the world are also attending the event at vatican city you know. the plea of sexual abuse by the church is men against minors i thought to consult you because all together we should hear the holy spirit and listen to the cry of the young justice the way to pass through an ecclesiastic responsibility which forces us to discuss this together is

a burden on our meeting about how to face this evil which afflicts the church and the whole of humanity the holy people of god are watching us and we're not just for simple and expect a conviction but concrete and effective measures. of cardinal tagle from the philippines gave an emotional keynote speech in which he urged those gathered to think of the victims and what they've been through the wounds of the recent carry the memory of suffering but they also carry the memory of our week. if we want to be agents of healing let us not reject and then see that this part of the thinking that refuses to see and touch the roots of. which are christ who is in the people those who would that be abuse of the

scandal lead to be strong in faith in this. approach catalan independence protesters have blocked a motorway in north western spain they place burning tires on the road connecting the city of barcelona it's part of a general strike against the ongoing trial of cattle and separatists a dozen former local government leaders are facing up to twenty five years in jail for their role in a failed bid for independence in twenty seventeen thousands of antigovernment a thousands of protesters have surrounded albania's parliament to demand early elections there's anger over allegations of corruption against the government police use barbed wire to protect the building in the capital tehran on saturday protesters used iron bars and petrol bombs to attack the prime minister's office at a similar rally. has more from tehran. opposition supporters gathered in front of the parliament building in the month the government

rallied opposition poured is the man the resignation of prime minister who they accuse of being linked to corruption and criminal groups which they claim helped him win the election in two thousand and seven the prime minister rama the noise allegation there is no need for early elections to take place albanian parliament has council with plenary session planned for today fears for violent incidents against the peace and social unrest risk could have been provoked by opposition supporters more than a thousand police officers were deployed in front of the parliament building however no incidents were reported among protesters were also representatives of all opposition parties who decided to give up their parliamentary mandates in order to put pressure in prime minister in the aroma to resign democrats opposition leader who wants a transitional cabinet to be put in place before early elections are held

a group of french lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make and an ism a criminal offense in the same way anti semitism is illegal critics argue opposition to the israeli government is not the same as anti semitism president emanuel macross said legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in made thousands of people had rallied across france to condemn hostility towards jews of the two main challenges to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have joined forces for april's election the centrist candidates benny gantz and you will run together and their new alliance is expected to shake up the ruling party's campaign bernard smith has more from west jerusalem. israel's general election in april looked like being a foregone conclusion with another victory for benjamin netanyahu could party with all out change on thursday morning when two centrist parties one of them led by many gansa former israeli military chief of staff these two parties joined forces

to present a bloc against netanyahu is party and this bloc according to the latest polls or get around thirty four seats at most in the hundred twenty seat knesset netanyahu as party will get most thirty seats so in response to this too far right wing parties have merged and i said they will serve in a netanyahu government after the elections and they will be given as a reward the education and housing ministries and two seats in the cabinet and this matters because what is already widely seen as a one of the most right wing governments israel has ever had could become even more right wing one of these parties that has merged of the inheritors of a mere kahana he was banned thirty years ago from standing for election because of his anti arab racism and these two parties are also a strong settler bloc. all right still ahead on al-jazeera. you don't have to carry

a piece or anything just a body maybe ten years everything will be. a simple wave of the hand is all you need to step into the future might push it implants creating a whole new life style plus. satire in senegal how comedians are speaking truth to power ahead of elections that. later in sport the west indies cricket who's just hit himself into the record. however the weather remains slow seats right now across the middle east but it has been rather unsettled recently like this band of cloud bright and some snow that's pulling out of the way couple will be dry friday four degrees celsius crisp

sunshine coming through going to eleven degrees the eleventh also for red terra not seep out across the eastern side of the med want to show is just coming into northern parts of lebanon pushing into syria for a time in that wet weather just becoming a little more expansive as we go through sas i seventeen celsius and by rich not great but at least it will be dry with some sunshine twenty three therefore back that week warming up in couple to around five degrees celsius plenty of sunshine plenty of sunshine to across the region peninsula twenty three degrees here in rome friday but this cloud just to the south of the southern pauls the saudi pushing over towards year the pushing across into amman much as we think enough from time to time to bring a few spots of friday we warm up in doha to twenty five celsius in the southerly on saturday so really will feel pleasantly warm to across much of south africa now still a little line of showers across the mozambique channel northern parts of madagascar could see some right away by the pushes into northern mozambique and also tanzania

. from sunrise to sunset across asia. and the pacific explore untold and fascinating stories one on ones on al-jazeera. africa's largest democracy goes to the polls to elect a president parliament and governance corruption and security and economic uncertainty that dominate nigeria politics remain widespread al-jazeera brings you coverage of the issues the candidates and voters nigeria but just. between two thousand and two thousand and seven the one million racist murders in different parts of germany but the police were painfully slow to track down the killer. al jazeera world reveals the truth about the deaths linked by

a single weapon. the involvement of the far right and the serious political fallout could ensue the cheska murders case solved on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching and you see a reminder of our top stories this hour have been to explosions in syria in different parts of the country suspected car bomb near the village in did his daughter killed at least fifteen people at least four people died from the other blast in a free. chinese vice premier knew her has arrived in washington for trade talks with the u.s. treasury secretary steven minutia the u.s. president has read threatened to raise tariffs on

a range of chinese imports worth two hundred billion dollars if a deal is not reached by march the first. venezuelan president nicolas maduro says he'll close the border with brazil just days before opposition leaders plan to bring aid into the country is also considering closing the border with colombia where hundreds of tons of u.s. aid is stockpiled. it is the back hole for the young vote in nigeria two men in their seventy's are contesting the presidential election on saturday in which half the registered voters are below the age of thirty five how many drinks reports. nigeria's young new voters say they are to change their country. they want to see more young nigerians in politics but admit that it's not easy in a country where running for office is expensive. but they know what they want from those they will be voting for the want of. representing the people and that is trustworthy that the one that will help in the not in the education think trouble

posting time and not mind it. being able to vote for the first time in their lives is proving popular this time around a little i am very excited i was very honest. i just do i really suffer. younger jurors make up the biggest voter bloc this election. in key battleground states that politicians are concentrating on in the final days of campaigning with almost five and a half million registered voters most of whom are under the age of thirty five years on a stage is second only to lagos in the number of nigerians eligible to cast their ballots wherever winston states would probably be in a better position to take the presidency that's why the leading candidates are focusing their energies and resources here. since the last elections in twenty fifteen appeal has been introduced lowered the age restriction on candidates

wanting to run for public office from thirty to twenty five. sally satel barak is taking up the opportunity but admits it's tough fighting established parties and candidates those the end voters court the old order it's very difficult for a young person like me to contest what is very important for the ship because i know how about i believe that this is the right time for me to it's an end it's very particular order. comprehension for to put people like sally some of the politics say the number of young people standing in this election is disappointing when it comes to their initial quests we have dropped in the last battle because the ledge of a huge palace and you had to cut it can't afford the palace the expenses of our protest in so. we have. i guess there is no bill number no it's exactly what we asked that the majority of young nigerians are

social media enthusiastic and many are well aware how the politicians target them with messages on various platforms so you can be candy ass. covering us and spread it must meet the sounds of mice he wants how does he sort of agree in flames as. to how big that influence this may become clearer after saturday's vote. on the decrease al-jazeera. nigeria. of voters in senegal turning to satirize to find out more about the candidates for the presidency the nation goes to the polls on sunday and other other african nations comedians making fun of politicians have often found themselves in jail but that's not the case in senegal nicholas hawke reports from dhaka. there may be no televised presidential debate but there is special election coverage.

this is a comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president monkey sol on the campaign trail. follows cells every move poking fun at the president who for now and seems to be the favorite in the race. the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race thanks laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. the danger to get the daily news in around the political satire show on the election the aim is to

hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls you can live people just achieve your goals in a stand what do you. want to but we're not we're not. we're not running for governor we're not running for mayor we'll run for the win for the people. as each candidate tries to stand out comedians to bring them down to an even footing where they're powerful president or a candidate running for office in the end seems to say out loud what many politicians perhaps think but wouldn't say in public nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car. army commanders in afghanistan say they're confident a spring offensive will help in taking back large areas of territory from the taliban twenty one districts have fallen to the armed group in recent months fighting has resulted in the army's highest level losses while its strength has

fallen to its lowest level in years tony berkeley reports from kabul. this remote afghan army outpost is one of thousands nationwide often isolated and in inhospitable areas they are the first line of defense against taliban and i saw fighters as well as the most vulnerable the grays of fallen soldiers since the u.s. pulled out its ground forces three years ago the afghan army has borne the brunt of the fighting with the taliban and the casualties inflicting ever greater casualties to the armed forces who are now the number of casualties or dozens every day so people have lost. the meaning of body counting we have become indifferent officially the government says forty five thousand members of the security services have been killed since two thousand and fifteen and officially afghan analysts say that number could easily be doubled the overall army strength has dropped to its lowest level in years as the military confronts its biggest ever crisis but army

chiefs maintain that morale remains good. we have a volunteer army but it's their own choice to serve there is no doubt that we suffer lots. of disabled. is high because the goal is freedom and to serve the people of afghanistan and. in the past few months the military has lost control of more than twenty areas to taliban fighters who seem able to strike anywhere. in total we have lost twenty one districts in all of afghanistan it is because of the change in tactics on the ground so we are planning a spring offensive it will take two to three months to retake all these districts from the taliban but real reimposed the rule of law. eight thousand recruits every year passed out of this training center in the capital kabul most of them are trained by afghan instructors taught by western military experts who despite the

high casualty rate young men are still volunteering to fight it's partly out of a sense of part of the aussie duty but it's also because of the dire economic situation here they face the stark choice either stay at home and enjoy or poverty or face the taliban and risk death or injury i definitely yes i mean it's my duty to fight for my country when our freedom i'm not afraid of the taliban for the magazine other stuff i hadn't gone to the army i had nothing else planned professional soldiers say ideally training should last a minimum of a year in afghanistan it's three months that. we would like more time but we make the most of what time we do have and when they leave here they are able to fight the taliban. but the question is how able are they to fight effectively army pay is low the conditions poor and since the american ground forces left backup is limited recruits are taught to shoot but equally importantly they are taught emergency battlefront first aid increasingly important because of the shortage of medivac

helicopters now that. was a bomb disposal experts for seven years until an explosion blew off both his legs he's one of a growing number of disabled war veterans discharged from the military and when this most. i have no regret i am proud that i have contributed to the friends of my country and my second fires was in pursuit of peace my people and my country but there is little help for heroes in afghanistan the father of four receives a meager disability pension of two hundred seventy dollars a year but he hasn't received any money for eight months and he can't afford further medical treatment. the afghan military has come a long way in the last eighteen years but is it far enough and if and when the u.s. forces finally withdrawal completely will the afghans be able to stand alone tony berkley al-jazeera kabul again american actor has been arrested and charged with

lying to police after claiming he was beaten in a racist and homophobic attack jesse small that sparked a social media firestorm when he told police two men attacked him and put a noose around his neck and poured bleach over him chicago police say he staged a fake attack because he was unhappy with his salary they charged him with filing a false report small that is widely known for his role in a t.v. series empire and chicago's police chief had strong words for the atom bomb a friend about what's happened and i'm also angry. the city of chicago and the chicago police department warts and all but this publicity stunt was a scar tissue cargo didn't earn and certainly didn't deserve. to make things worse the accusations within this phony attack received national attention for weeks celebrities news commentators and even presidential candidates weighed in on

something that was choreographed by an actor. new bio technology advances are making simple things like car keys id cards and even train tickets almost obsolete it's done by inserting a micro chip under your skin thousands of swedes are now using the high tech advance many of them are getting started at implant parties whole reese reports from learned. the most cutting edge thing about town is isn't the phone in his hand it's the microchip actually in his hand. the tiny implant is the latest advance in a biohacking technology that is steadily becoming a part of normal life in sweden we have created a new implant which is not a chip it's a full device where you can different lights different. different functions suetonius a very technical and society and i think this is the main explanation really why

a lot of swedes are adopting chip implants swedes haven't been shy about upgrading themselves with the new version thousands already have a microchip implants that they use in their daily lives waving their hand to gain entrance to the gym confirm their id or make payments a short moment of pain not putting them off becoming part sweet part machine. this event is an implant party simply where people can show up and get a microchip embedded under their skin the biohacking movement in sweden is hosting them all over europe but it's at home where they get the most willing recipients i think it's really cool you don't have to carry too severely just a body maybe ten years everything will be new. in sweden more than anywhere else the future is already here the national train company s.c.a. has around two thousand six hundred people signed up to use microchips instead of

train tickets. and no need to mind the generation gap eighteen year old phyllis and father magnus still bear the scars of the new implants. student how about her having is also freshly chipped and now just needs to program it so open doors although importantly for a future career it does already connect to her linked in some people. i don't know if it's. all that but people have been putting these tips to animals for twenty years so i'm not worried about that the long term goal is for the new chips to help provide medical care in remote communities that are already getting under the skin of the swedes their may soon become just another normal part of modern life of the human body paul reese al-jazeera and sweden

others now a new smartphone that you can bend in half samsung's next generation device promises to open the whole world in your fingertips but will the galaxy fold help the industry leader boost sales in a shrinking market krista salumi reports from new york. the next generation samsung smartphone will also serve as a tablet with its fold it has a four point six inch display it's compact and perfectly portable but when the device opens up your world does too not surprisingly samsung's newest device is called before it was unveiled with all of the fanfare you've come to expect from the world's leading smartphone maker. but here's where things get really cause it goes on sale in april but it in samsung's new asked hanon as ten plus are being released amid faltering worldwide sales people have a little bit of phone fatigue all the phones look the same they feel the same this

new galaxy s ten is not really going to break the mold but we've seen some hints of things that are coming in the future that might get people really excited the issue whether.