people in power. this is al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from the headquarters in doha. coming up in the next sixty minutes setback for benjamin netanyahu israel's attorney general decides to end him on charges of corruption north korea's foreign minister says his country made a realistic proposal on nuclear disarmament during this summit between donald trump and kim jong il and. it was a very productive two days but sometimes you have to walk but trump blames north

korea's unacceptable demands for the failure to reach a nuclear deal. gesture for peace says prime minister iran pakistan announces it will release the captured indian pilot on friday i'm joined again with the sports and now the english premier league manager gets the boot. back now do you have any area. hello israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust his recommendation is based on a two year investigation by the police into three separate corruption cases netanyahu denies any wrongdoing while his party is calling it political persecution ahead of april's election it's the first time a sitting prime minister has been charged bernard smith reports. he is the

first sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust but benjamin netanyahu says he's innocent and will stay in his post there's no legal requirement for him to step down the. field to the supreme court saying look it's slow it's not logical the job of the prime minister is a very complicated job because those security issues and nomic issues you cannot the law serve spend days in. the court netanyahu is in the middle of an election campaign which if you wins puts him on course to be israel's longest serving prime minister. there is nothing and there will be nothing he's told supporters and can't really argue but investigators say netanyahu made decisions to benefit a friend who is the main shareholder in israel's biggest internet infrastructure provider in return you get positive coverage from this friends popular news website

. netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust because excepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lavish gifts including cigars and pink champagne from an israeli american entertainment magnate and there's a further breach of trust charge over allegations the prime minister promised to economically hobble one newspaper in return for favorable coverage from its rival excesses of i'm viviana the corruption investigation has been going on for years and doesn't seem to have dented netanyahu is popularity. is that guy only b.b. he's innocent these supporters are saying in israel most of the media. the left wing. has been using this to sway the voters of the likud that is. haunting him and want to. redeem him they want to go. to him and netanyahu must now pay for his army of lawyers. out of his own pocket the government accountants of audit the prime

minister to repay three hundred thousand pounds given by wealthy cousin towards his legal fees they noted that netanyahu is an affluent mom for israel estimate his wealth at around forty million dollars and will bring in bernard his joining us from was as we're hearing in your report netanyahu denies the charges were heard and we're expecting him to speak in just a couple of minutes time yeah he's going to be speaking on prime time israeli television everybody is poised to listen to what he has to say but we know essentially what he's going to say that he's innocent that he's being set up he's played this role of the underdog he says everybody's out to get in the liberal left wing media he's attacked for trying to unseat him so it will be the same he'll say there is nothing there will be nothing because there is nothing a well rehearsed line that he said to his supporters before the tricky thing vain

is this election race has become quite tight with these two centrist candidate is joining forces to take on netanyahu they're slightly ahead of him in the polls and while netanyahu has been able to rely on his loyal supporters what matters now is if over the coming days any new details emerge about the nature of the charges any more information about what's led the attorney general to come to his decision if there's anything in the particularly on palatable nay persuade some of his supporters to maybe put their votes elsewhere durian and bernard what is the attorney general saying about why he decided to come out with this announcement now before that election in april and not wait till afterwards. well the attorney general i think was in a very a former ally of know who was in a very difficult position he could party try to say to come out

with this before the election would prejudice the election but the alternative argument to the wall to that was the israeli people have a right to know what charges the prime minister faces before they vote for him and that i think ultimately was what made the attorney general come out with his decision before come out with a charge before the election were a long way though from an indictment netanyahu now is the chance to make an argument towards the attorney general that he shouldn't be indicted with netanyahu lawyers will take months that will be after the election only then does the attorney general decide ultimately on an indictment and then we're a long way then from c. ever seeing benjamin netanyahu in court hearing ok a bernard smith with an update from us or some thank you so if we take a closer look at the cases against the israeli prime minister now the most serious one accuses netanyahu of offering incentives to the country's largest telecom provider bezerk in exchange for

a positive coverage in media it owns the prime minister is also charged with colluding with israel's top selling newspaper for the same reason a lawless pushed forward to limit the circulation of her rival publication the third case involves allegations that netanyahu granted billionaires personal and financial favors after receiving more than two hundred eighty thousand dollars worth of gifts and benefits from them let's speak to al-jazeera senior political analyst joining us from london so as we're saying his indictment is obviously still subject to a hearing a marijuana netanyahu will be speaking in a couple of minutes what do you expect him to say and how significant is all of. i think permanent sort of thing you know expected this and that's why in my opinion he called for early elections because he thinks if he wins these elections basically that means the public trust in him is so high that the indictment will

basically have to. wash away if you will i think he took a calculated risk i think he was hoping that the indictment would not be coming because as his camp now claims this is interference in the elections and he's hoping that this claim this accusation to stick and i think a lot of his followers will agree with him about that saying that there is a conspiracy on the left something very similar there in the what we see in the united states i think the comparison is inescapable in the sense of a sitting leader simply accusing his detractors on the left of being behind. all sorts of accusations or indictments in this case against him and the investigations for those three charges what does what is amazing and i think we must really address that is that over the last two years hundreds of palestinians were killed for peacefully demonstrating on the border with gaza and of course

there was no investigation at all into that and to the prime minister netanyahu and yet accepting cigars. as a gift from some american jew is considered something to be indicted for that is a paradox a call to israel in the sense that over the last thirty forty years israeli leaders from prime minister rabin to prime minister all mertz where indicted and basically quit government in the case of rabin for financial issues while political or rather war crimes are never indicted for in israel. and that one as you speak to us we are looking at the live picture coming into us from west jerusalem where nothing yahoo is speaking right now so we'll keep an eye out on what he has to say but going back to the issue of the elections what impact could this have on the elections and on his the coup party. i think now it depends if the.

if the if is the correct there's within you cood will start considering him more of a liability than an asset because thus far he has been an asset for likud because most of the other smaller parties on the right have committed to into a coalition only with him and not with his rivals in the center right so i think he's so far he's been an asset what that this now will snowball and he becomes a liability because of the mounting public distrust in his leadership after. this indictment of course remains to be seen however the overall the reason i don't expect that the german roadmap in israel will change i think what there is on the right in israel voters for right this party is center to right i think dominate more than two thirds of the israeli electorate so i think the next government with

or without knowing the whole will be one of the right ok thank you and you can see you were watching a moment ago benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister speaking in west jerusalem responding to the israeli attorney general saying that he intends to indict the prime minister for bribery fraud and breach of trust meanwhile the united nations is saying that israel's crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza may amount to work crimes u.n. investigators say israeli soldiers intentionally opened fire on civilians be reports. almost a year palestinian protesters have gathered along the gaza israeli border fence to demand the right to return to their ancestral lands controlled by israel israeli soldiers have shot at them with live ammunition the un has investigated the deaths of one hundred eighty nine palestinians killed during the first nine months of the

protest. it found that israeli soldiers deliberately shot at children disabled protesters paramedics and journalists it says their actions may amount to war crimes clearly this life fire was used completely unlawfully where these people were not posing any kind of threat to life or to limb of any israeli security force or any israeli civilian. israel's dismissed the un report it says it has a right to defend itself from what it calls violent attacks in a statement to prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel rejects outright the u.n. human rights council report the council is setting new records for hypocrisy and mendacity out of an obsessive hatred of israel the only democracy in the middle east. the un also criticized the palestinian group hamas which controls gaza the not doing more to stop protestors flying burning kites over the gaza fence israel says they cause fires and damage property. the un believes it's identified some of

the israeli snipers responsible for killing palestinian protesters that information will be given to the un high commissioner for human rights it could then pass it to the international criminal court israel's not a member of the i.c.c. but should those soldiers travel abroad they could face arrest victoria gate and be there well meanwhile the white house senior adviser jared christian arizona five nation tour of the middle east to promote his israeli palestinian peace plan he met with the turkish president on wednesday president. donald trump's son in law have said they will together resolve the israeli palestinian conflict person who has already met some gulf leaders this week including the saudi crown prince to discuss his peace proposal then ians have refused to discuss any peace blueprint with the united states in the wake of fits recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital.

talks between the u.s. and north korea broke down without any agreement on pyongyang's nuclear program the north korean foreign minister held a news conference in her noite a short while ago re on whole laid out his government's proposals that donald trump rejected. the united states removes partial sanctions namely removes the articles of sanctions that hamper the civilian economy and the livelihood of our people in particular we will permanently and completely dismantle all of the nuclear material production facilities in the yongbyon area including plutonium and uranium in the presence of u.s. experts and by the joint work of technicians in both countries. told me this proposal was the biggest denuclearization vision that we could take in the present state in relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the united states also donald trump says he had to walk away from the second

summit without him deal because he couldn't meet kim jong un's demands to lift sanctions as the details of what transpired and the way. before the summer u.s. president donald trump tried to lower expectations of a deal with north korean leader kim jong un but the expectation was at the very least that the pair would sign some form of agreement on denuclearization or make a joint statement instead the talks were cut short before lunch the table was set but the diners didn't show leaving donald trump to explain why. they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to denuclearize portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the the american said kim jong un was willing to dismantle his young beyond research facility regarded as the centerpiece of north korea's nuclear program in exchange he wanted all economic sanctions lifted which was

a step too far for the us unfortunately we didn't get all the way we didn't get to something that that ultimately made sense for the united states of america i think chairman kim was hopeful that we would we asked him to do more he he was unprepared to do that but i'm still optimistic despite that optimism this was not how the summit was supposed to go earlier on thursday there was no sign of trouble ahead kim jong un the reclusive leader of a repressive state even on to questions from reporters perhaps for the first time. here if you really knew. me and then you know if. you think. you'll know when you're done as you did it i'm now worried that i won't be here right. now i'm going to be the best dancer you've ever met but after two summits that have yielded very little there are more questions than answers donald trump warned about this possibility last year ahead of the first summit in singapore saying he was prepared to walk away if the talks weren't fruitful it seems he's now

delivered on that threat but with such a sudden premature end to this summit there must be real concern about what happens next. at this stage there are no plans for a third summit donald trump says kim jong un assured him there would be no resumption of misato nuclear tests but what happened in vietnam has proved that this continues to be an unpredictable road to the stated goal of ridding north korea of nuclear weapons wayne hey al jazeera hanoi that's great to rebecca johnson she's the director of acronym institute for disarmament diplomacy she's joining us from. london good to have you with us on al-jazeera help us break down what the north korean foreign minister said just a short while ago and what he said is that north korea offered to close the young beyond nuclear plant for partial sanctions relief but that's not what we heard from donald trump who said that the north koreans demanded total relief from sanctions what do you make of this. well obviously not being there i cannot say whether the

north koreans demanded total sanctions or not but i think we need to keep our attention on the substantive issues and also what is at stake. donald trump is now saying you know he he said he'd walk away if he didn't get what he wanted and he walked away i think he walked away too soon because i think it's actually a substantial step forward that the north korean leader kim jong un was prepared to be offering to dismantle the yongbyon facility now it isn't as far as we understand the only facility so there are others now i would have expected in that situation that trump would about how many of the sanctions and what kind of sanctions should be lifted. and i think it's extremely unlikely that kim although his opening position might have been if we dismantle our nuclear

program you have to lift all the sanctions almost certainly there was room there to come to an agreement but we have to recognize this is actually not just about kim jong un and donald trump this is about the needs and the hopes of the korean people and to be honest the mutual discussions are still going forward between the south and the north through president in and kim jong un those have to be renewed those have to do to get down to brass tacks they have to be substandard and we also have to be bringing in that other multilateral treaty regimes that can help us to denuclearize so i don't want to miss a herion regime new sound optimistic version of sort of line of communication still open some wired some people are saying well the north now has an incentive to perhaps build more nuclear weapons and completely stop any communication. i

don't see it like that i'm not optimistic as such but i'm realistic that the fact is that a lot of this process has actually been taken forward by moon and kim rather than trump and and kim those are kind of almost circus shows so really substantial issues the north and the south leadership and their scientists and and lawyers and peace and women involved in the peace process these talks need to go on and there is. every reason to be optimistic that those can and will go on now what we have to make sure of is that when we all know president trump is a very capricious kind of leader that he doesn't take offense and and stomp of because the u.s. needs to carry on being involved but the real work has got to be done by the korean

people and their leadership and they are hungry for a peace treaty for denuclearizing the whole of the korean peninsula for ending nuclear testing ending nuclear weapons enormous it is sure to test things that i know must. do and that the north korean foreign minister in our press conference also saw north korea had offered to permanently hold nuclear long range rocket testing how significant is that statement in the context of that. that is extremely significant also the the north korean missile program is one of the major dangers and you know we have to find a way to get a handle of that not just the long range but the medium range and the short range as well but this is a process and there are steps and there are you know international treaties the treaty on the prohibition nuclear weapons that the u.n. adopted in twenty seventeen the comprehensive test ban treaty that can with you

know with the verification specialists that can make sure that there's no rerun or no clandestine testing and also the nonproliferation treaty which north korea had been a member of and then withdrew from there a treaty regimes that can help us to underpin and indeed to monitor and oversee the dini nuclearize ation ok it is not a bilateral process between the u s m north korea it is a regional process across the korean peninsula and a multilateral process because the security interest of the whole world are actually at stake it's rebecca johnson we thank you for giving us your analysis from london on to more head on the al-jazeera news hour including sudan's you tell us why vera continuing to fight against their president's rule results now in stone senegal's presidential elections what are the latest from the cops on the car. and with just a day left of testing for rory have set the pace again ahead of the new formula one

season stories coming up in sport. but first pakistan's prime minister says his country will release a captured indian pilot on friday as a gesture of peace a day earlier india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region. down to indian planes and the rest of the pilots said it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own we spoke to pakistan's foreign minister who says they're willing to cooperate with india. we knew. god has collected by the people of dogs. yes that is a historic baggage but beyond a month with a fresh mindset we want peace and stability in the region we have to have mentioned which is that people send to kids and we want to focus on

the government we want to focus on the. front where we want peace and the consideration of honestly why it would be want to heat up the eastern border we have nothing to gain from box we are willing to engage we are willing to set the goal and we are willing to create science or meal has an update from new delhi. word of the pilot's pending release has been very well received here in india particularly on social media but local indian channels here had a very interesting take on the situation even flashing headlines saying india saves pilots and imran khan's new caucus on surrenders they've been taking a very patriotic or something to a jingle with dick take on the situation now unlike baucus on prime minister india's prime minister has been very tight lipped about the situation he's only alluded to it in general thursday at an interactive form across the country

addressing party workers and volunteers in the renderer mo the stated how he believes the public should be reacting to the situation let's have a listen to that. seem up are the country's brave soldiers are showing their strength at the border and across the border to the country is one today and we're standing with the soldiers. how it is here now against samarra provided we have faith in the ability of our forces and that's why it's very important that nothing affects the morale of our soldiers otherwise our enemies will have the upper hand. now that's being seen as a direct dig at the opposition the opposition party stood shoulder to shoulder with the government ever since the february fourteenth attacks on indian troops in the needy administered kashmir then on ones day after the pakistani incursions and the capture of its pilot they openly criticize most of these handling of the situation now analysts say that no matter what the situation is here in india with elections

just a short time away just a matter of weeks whatever happens politics will be front and center senegal's president macky sall has won a second term in power all four opposition candidates say they won't oppose the official provisional results that show he won by fifty eight percent over six million senegalese voted on sunday to elect a new leader. more from the car more outside monkey cells headquarters and people have come here to celebrate the news that he has won with more than fifty eight percent of the vote only then its people came out in number in record numbers sixty eight percent of the lecturer came out to vote during this election to really has a mandate from a large part of the people but there are those who haven't voted for him a lot of young first time voters who decided to vote for the opposition candidate who spun song go he's the outsider the anti establishment. candidate and he has campaigned on the issue of unemployment to try to stop so many senegalese from

migrating going across the mediterranean into europe he says the issue that people want. electricity water health care i know these are the issues that much to so we'll have to address during his five year mandate but it's clear that his campaign he's going through the last two weeks going across across various regions of senegal promoting his his last monday where you've been one infrastructure project after another that you know in promoting what he has achieved during his time in office the life of senegalese has gotten better the economy's growing at the rate of more than seven percent this capital hands and you train line and you airport and these are all the children and that seem to speak to the majority of senegalese or hundreds of protesters and so don have once again taken to the streets to defy

the government's ban on public gatherings. chanting freedom peace a revolution for the people many join mass rallies across the country widespread protests broke out in december over the price of food but they've evolved into a larger movement against the president. morgan sat down with some of the protesters to ask if they're ready to negotiate. in this room moment to update brings his passion of creating visual arts to life a filmmaker he says his dream is to reflect the beauty he sees in sudan but he says that's difficult because of the lack of freedom. so there is nothing that was ever shot. that describes sudan the way is the way it needs to be described. because of the restrictions that the sudanese government is throwing upon the public. his views are not unique young people make up about two thirds of the

population of forty two million and for the past ten weeks they've led anti-government protests in the whole nine we have so much talent that we can't display it because of the restrictions i'm see denise but i grew up broad i feel like a date have a hey in their regime is that rules that will let me be myself so we'll have to just the same the same to the same hour he was corrupted by i didn't know that they were. in the know this this corrupted like blood was the last thing the they really care about the life of a person with a loss in the current market you're right all the lost in the current market and how they use brutally treated the people. now with. what i gave myself a promise it's either me or this regime in this country. president bashir remains defiant in the face of calls for change since the demonstrations began in december rights groups say at least fifty people have been killed by security forces the government puts the figure at thirty two the protests began over rising costs of

basic goods including bread but quickly turned into demands for the president to end his thirty year rule. the government characterized the demonstrators as traitors and one by foreign agents but as the protest continued it changed the tone and called for dialogue but it also imposed a state of emergency to last for a year. the ruling party says it's already on the path to engage the country's youth but. we have started talking with young people because we understand that our political reforms overlooks the young we address the grievances of politicians but not everyone in sudan the youth have their own concerns so we will include the youth create jobs for them and participate in the country's development on the streets of how two young sudanese have differing views. given that was that let's wait to see what they're offering the dialogue they've called for and if we don't like it we can vote in the coming elections for a new one rather force this one out and create a vacuum you can't leave someone's words out of. this region of silence it's only

words for the big cities featured so many times we haven't seen in each and every one and those are on the street. and i'm bored just the only way you treated them is you know they do today but with the state of emergency in place there are limited options for those who want change to voice their demands without breaking the law he morgan al-jazeera. and we're just getting some breaking news out of the capital mogadishu we're getting reports of a large explosion near a hotel frequented by government officials or bring in more details as we get them . so i had on the officer news hour one of my docents more allies in a bid to put pressure on venezuela's president nicolas maduro they arrest him for foreign and vaster sense shock waves through russia's business community. and breaking the barrier will tell you how

a female player has made college football history that story's coming up a little later but joe. heller's rain falling at the moment in southern iran is just been catching qatar as well this developing system is going to head east woods and affect pakistan and afghanistan beyond it is a bit of a brief break as wall cloud coming into the levant but if anything that's going to move north into the caucasus city improving picture there for syria for iraq for lebanon as temperatures in the teens in the breeze but a fairly strong cigars are going to focus here on the east side of iraq more especially iran really high ground means snow and that's easy enough for the greens right and it's a quite extensive road as you can see and as i said it's going to develop eastwards through pakistan move up towards afghanistan as well leaving behind it fine looking

weather max seventy minus two in kabul compare that nasty was nineteen in baghdad which is more or less where it should be in funny looking weather the immediate future then the potential for rain once more in bahrain qatar the u.a.e. i think during friday mostly talking about it getting from the other side of the gulf and then following that there's usually quite a strong shamali cultish northerly so that's reflected in the mix of twenty one in dire are in a max of twenty one riyadh but there's not much breeze further west so that we're not in the thirty's anymore we are high twenty's in mecca. donald presence on donald trump jr was promised a damaging information about hillary clinton allegation like to see an ongoing investigation sit down to see did the trunk campaign commute with russia did you at any time of the urge the former f.b.i.

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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour israel's attorney general says he plans to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust his recommendation is based on a two year investigation by the police into three separate corruption cases that's a new who denies any wrongdoing senegal's president has won a second term in power all four opposition candidates say they won't oppose the official provisional results that show he won with fifty eight percent of the votes . u.s. president donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un have called off their vietnam summit early after failing to reach an agreement on denuclearization and sanctions trump told reporters the papers were ready to be signed but it wasn't appropriate are diplomatic editor james bays has more from hanoi. i was saying twenty four hours ago what they needed was

a little bit of progress and the continuing process you have had no progress whatsoever and you just about still it's a bit shaky how a process so this isn't where they wanted to be they were ready i think to sign something that was the plan that was the schedule the reporters were there the plan was for both sides to have lunch the reporters were there waiting to watch them come into the room the tables were set the food was ready they were going to have their lunch and then they were going to sign a deal but at the last minute the u.s. side it seems we only have the u.s. account to go on decided they were not going to sign anything because they were not happy with the concessions north korea had made and the that north korea had made the problem now is how do you restart this process because it has been a top down affair the way these things normally work is low level officials do

negotiations they come up with a draw and then in the end you get high level officials who come to a summit and sign things this whole process has been led by the two leaders singapore started off and this was supposed to reenergize it can you now bring in the two leaders to start it yet again i think that's going to be difficult the worry is that is if you don't get something soon some sort of momentum and there is delay after delay that's how diplomacy dies the venezuelan opposition leader hi joe has vowed to return to qatar cast despite the threat of being arrested he's just met with the brazilian president today or both an hour and brasilia who has pledged his full support it's quite oh is heading to paraguayan next in a bed to ratchet up pressure against president nicolas maduro white house says he will return to venezuela later this week even though he could be detained for. travel ban to colombia and despite borders being closed many venezuelans are still

embarking on the treacherous journey to reach neighboring colombia which has already taken in a million refugees. now the u.s. president's long time personal attorney and all around fixer michael cohen has started his third and last day of testifying before the before the house intelligence committee but this time it's behind closed doors in monday's testimony he portrayed worlds where he accused donald trump of being and narcissistic liar a racist and a con man or republicans use the hearing to try to undercut cohen who's pleaded guilty to lying to congress and will soon serve a three year prison sentence donald trump accuse cohen of flying but admired him for admitting that he didn't have evidence that trump's campaign had colluded with russia. we were telling you moments ago about the opposition leader of venezuela

juan why joe who's now in brazil he was meeting with the brazilian president a let's cross over to alexander and p.s.c. who's joining us from the capital bogota to first talk about why don't know and what his strategy is alessandro by heading to brazil and we're now hearing that he's going to be heading to paris why. that that is the case that reading he's on a tour allies across south america he was given a five days to do so by the venezuelan national assembly in many ways he is playing government here while the opposition is trying to find a the right strategy to try and get back into business where a lot without having him being arrested by. the police there since he

decided to leave venezuelan comes first here in colombia defying any violation of a ban to leave in its way that was issued by the country's supreme court that wedo says he doesn't recognize the story of the supreme court which was appointed by president unequal last. calls also the meetings with bolton are using some big words he said it was sending his story meeting in a new beginning in the relationships between the venezuela and deal he said it's. only a transition in venice to atlanta and new elections that could bring the trade balance between the two countries that's where it was before the economic crisis started in venezuela and he thanked the nado for his support for the questions here of course if any of this. will be able to change are they

a stalemate inside venezuela given the fact that my daughter still controls all the state institutions there and the sandro. the borders of then as well i continue to be close yes we also hear that venezuelans are still trying to leave and come to where you are in colombia. absolutely the main bridges connecting grannies to langkawi are closed at least in that they're not the center in their religion that's the way we've been reporting in past weeks and where the worst of the clashes between the supporters of the opposition and when it's wet and security forces happened over the weekend as the opposition was trying to move the eight cents by the united states to the border with go along main tide that venezuela fistfights the closings housing and urban it's where the answer using

birds has illegal crossings say in the very porous border between the two countries to either migrate to colombia or start a trip to other countries and south america more than three million venezuelans have left the country since two thousand and fifteen or their simply crossing into colombia as they have been doing for four years in search of food medicines other goods they can find inside venezuela or doing formal jobs or or sell things for a profit so now we also know that the colombian migration services and social services are trying to open a humanitarian corridor arms of bridges to help the many venezuelan students that study inside colombian schools to reach the schools that despite the closing of the border and also for meeting people who are sick to reach colombian hospital.

all right. thanks. well we'll return now to the conservative political action conference that's a conference that's taking place over in the u.s. and john hendren is joining us from oxon hill maryland because. john mostly supporters how do they feel about the past twenty four hours that. testifying against him basically calling him a criminal. well all across the u.s. yesterday people watched those hearings and weren't necessarily surprised were sometimes a little shocked by the details that they learned and there's been questioning of the president ever since that happened but none of that is going on here because this is his crew are base of support the president has never been over sixty percent fifty percent support in the polls here normally he's about thirty seven to

forty three percent but these are his base supporters the people who never change and we talked to a number of them they said they were not troubled by michael cohen's testimony yesterday and they say that they support the president they say they believe him over cohen who is after all convicted of lying to congress among other things the president has had a tough week he's coming back from vietnam with how to deal with north korea and he's had a lot of bad press over the last couple of days but literally everybody we talked to here was supportive of the president did not worry about that but they were a little concerned in some cases about the fact that he had been unable to build the wall he keeps promising despite shutting down the government for thirty five days and now issuing an emergency declaration that has not yet allowed him to access that funding so largely supportive anything they want him to go harder and what kind of reception that. that we expect them to get when he attends and speaks

at that conference on saturday. well on saturday he will come here and he's going to speak at that day is right over there and we expect him to get a hero's welcome despite the hard week he's add these being his core supporters will be there for him but it's interesting it hasn't always been like that in two thousand and fifteen there was a straw poll for president donald trump received three point five percent in two thousand and sixteen as a candidate he came here and people did walk out when he was scheduled to speak in the end he canceled his appearance here because of the controversy but that all changed when he became president why did that happen perhaps because he's been able to deliver for them he's given them to conservative supreme court justices tax cuts regulation cuts. a war against gun control and a growing economy and they seem willing to accept that even if it means putting up with a few quirks like some ethical questions marital infidelity and of course

a twitter account that often causes him trouble all right john hendren thank you. negotiations to end the afghanistan war has been paused for a few days talks between senior taliban officials and the u.s. . are expected to resume in cats are on saturday the afghan taliban co-founder and political chief ghani baradar has been leading the discussions. a moscow court has dismissed the appeal of american businessman michael healthy who was arrested two weeks ago for a legit frauds so he's helped invest almost four billion dollars into the russian economy but his detention has sent shock waves through russia's business community . more. michael coffee has been doing business in russia for more than twenty years he's been charged with fraud worth more than thirty seven million dollars prosecutors say he illegally underprice shares of first touch any bank how

the sas he's the victim of a corporate dispute which shareholders high level executives have come to his defense. and he believes if he. would believe. the words girls he is one of russia's most successful foreign investors one of his biggest success stories has been the rise of internet giant yandex better known as russia's version of google in an open letter to vladimir putin these colleagues have asked the president to personally get involved in his case but in his annual address to the federal assembly last week button suggested his concerns are not always listen to. the better stories in the business and her colleagues to achieve these goals we have for our country we should get rid of everything that limits to freedom of intrapreneur on his businesses should always feel looming prosecution and the risk of criminal i've already asked for your attention to address this

problem the unfortunately the situation has not changed much but despite its worth some reports have emerged that put in insisted this case should be investigated making the business community not hopeful of the president's support. for about fifteen years in a row nothing changes the situation councilmen was. either it means that he. really he means another thing. to him or he is powerless and cannot influence the. legal experts at the business against corruption santer in moscow have started their own investigation hoping to prove innocence and they say that according to russian law it is illegal to detain a suspect in a corporate case before his trial. michael called these cases seen as a sign of the increasing uncertain russian investment climate some say the case shows that without the right connections it has become more and more difficult to

do business here and with tens of billions of u.s. dollars of oil revenues coming in every year foreign investors like cold feet i'm not the government's priorities subclass and al-jazeera moscow's.

again time for the sports news with joe there in thank you cloudy and rainy airy has become the sixth english premier league manager to lose his job this season full of dismissed the italian manager with the club in serious danger of relegation that currently ten points away from safety with ten games remaining ranieri sacking follows films to no loss to southampton on wednesday he was hired in november and only managed to win twelve points in sixteen games it's a big change in fortunes for a coach who in two thousand and sixteen led les to city to the english premier league title. formula one teams have just one more day of testing to get their

calls ready for the first grand prix of the season in melbourne in march for ari has been the most impressive so far you come a shiela clerk set the pace on day seven in barcelona alex on the album of tara ross i was second with mclaren's monday norris in. bowl champions and ferrari's biggest rivals miss avies have lagged behind while champion lewis hamilton finished up tenth and his teammate valtteri bottas admits miss avies need to figure out how to challenge for ari. i still think like i said earlier we do need to look more for the new package to. be able to really really compete with them probably so still a big point i think they're looking. well it looks like miss a days could use an extra pair of hands or poles to figure out where their pace is gone lewis hamilton posted this video of his dog roscoe who could well be in training for one of f one's famously fast pit stops. formally for millions of young

sportsmen and women it's a dream to play in the n.f.l. that dream has just got a little bit closer for one young female player i will be signing to. central methodist university this is tony harris who's just become the first female non kicker to sign a letter of intent and get a college scholarship and she's had a difficult journey to make it this far in what's traditionally a male dominated sport harris started playing at six but it eighteen she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and lost half of her body way. they should never get to actually. never. generate. never get started. or how this was already well known in the u.s. before getting that scholarship she was the focus of an ad by car company teo to which aired during the super bowl and despite only just getting her place at

college she said she dreams of one day playing for the seattle seahawks she's had a taste of the big time already appearing as a guest on n.b.c.'s today show. they didn't make the sport they don't want to see males to play in this sport and so if you want the chance you do have to be so good they can't ignore you because once you're that good so before reaching out like always said no matter what school you are no matter what state or what place if you have the talent they'll find you in the us and they found me i always tell people that the game is more eighty percent mental and twenty percent physical and so although i do have the mentality for that i still have to build my mentally more every day because the next level gets harder and harder it won't get any easier top seed rafael nadal has been dumped out of tennis is mexico open he let three match point slip away against curious and it was the australian celebrating at the end david stokes has the action from. the don't was the man to beat in mexico

standing in his way the bad boy of tennis nick kyrgios sixty two places but i would . the australian complained of feeling sick in the opening set and it showed the dow took it comfortably six games to three point zero i took kerry off rallied and looked like a different player in the second set wearing the crowd with shots like this. i came out on top in a tie break and the match was squared up at one set old fire was. it turned into a real scrap and again kiryas held his own against the world number two. i know the tao is a fighter though and he looked to adele to kill a blow when he set up three match points i but despite all the excitement he missed the mole and curiosity rattled off five points in a row to complete an incredible turnaround.

i love him or hate him curiosus into the third round where he'll face the swiss stand by frank david stokes al-jazeera. saying rough in the drawing you know a sword i knew that you know i'm capable of being these guys and give me a little bit more drop to. the dark places and ultimately i was one of your people you know if i can do it you know a lot of people can do it you know you don't have to be anything special needs to get out there and the other thing taken by you know the wife or daughter or do my thing you know i'm trying to find my way you know i've been through some tough stuff the last year or two so you know just to be able to go out there and just have a fun again it's something that's been lost me for a long time and it's a fight again today against polygraphers very special well cricket fans were treated some incredible batting as england got the better of the west indies in their fourth one day international a record forty six sixes were hit in the match england batted first and racked up

four hundred eighteen only morton got a century but just spotlight was the star of the show hitting one hundred fifty of just seventy seven balls step forward chris gayle he smashed fourteen sixes in the way to a phenomenal one hundred sixty two in the west indies might actually do it but in a bowler agile rashid took four wickets in one over in one by twenty nine runs now only two one. brace yourself for this next one everything seems to be going smoothly into the penultimate lap at the track cycling world championships in poland and then this happened ten reuters for taking out in old great britain elena barker who was leading the race came out unscathed and went on to win ahead of netherlands because didn't failed it just went from cycling to dominoes the way for the. all right that is a useful for now have. will see you later thank you and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera we hand you over to our teams in london with much more news

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jazeera. and for you. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismisses of the citizen to indict him on corruption charges as a political witch hunt. you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the u.n. says israeli forces may have committed war crimes in their crackdown on palestinians protesting. basically they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that.