new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. to. the law. israel's prime minister dismisses a decision to indict him on corruption charges as a political witch hunt. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're always al-jazeera also coming up on the program basically they one of the sanctions lifted. in there in turkey. we couldn't do that donald trump says he had to walk away from a deal with kim jong un but north korea's foreign minister disputes his explanation

pakistan pledges to release a captured indian pilots as a peace gesture to ease tensions over kashmir plus. hockey sells supporters celebrate his official results give him a second term as senegal's president without the need for a runoff. welcome to the program israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases that in yahoo has rejected the allegations saying they are politically motivated ahead of elections in april he claims he is the victim of an unprecedented witch hunt but it smith reports now from west jerusalem. he is the first sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with bribery fraud a breach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's innocent of will stay in his post

and we're going to. i am telling you citizens of israel this house of cards will collapse i'm certain about this i am four thousand percent certain about of this are battling to keep serving you and the state as the prime minister for many years to come don't believe all the spin this depends on you it's not dependent on the officials all the analysts. there's no legal requirement for him to step down. and parties will feel to the supreme court say look at slow it's not logical the job of a prime minister is a very complicated job because the city of security issues in society is called ohmic issues you can go to 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 but investigators say netanyahu made decisions to benefit a friend who's the main shareholder in israel's biggest internet infrastructure

provider in return you get positive coverage from this friend's popular news website prowess netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust because he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts and their allegations of a deal that would guarantee favorable coverage from a popular newspaper thousands of. the corruption investigation has been going on for years and doesn't seem to have dented netanyahu is popularity on the list is that guy only b.b. he's innocent these supporters are saying. they're all of the talk in israel most of the media's concern is the left wing india's been using this to sway the voters of the likud that is. haunting him and they want to. redeem him they want to go. to him benjamin netanyahu will now have an opportunity to argue his case before the

attorney general who will then make a final decision on whether to go ahead with the indictment and that is months away what matters now in an election campaign has become quite tight is whether any new details emerge about the nature of the charges netanyahu faces whether the unsavory new details that there are enough to put off currently loyal supporters bernard smith al-jazeera west jerusalem. well it comes as the united nations says israel's crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza might amount to war crimes u.n. investigators say israeli soldiers intentionally and fire on civilians israel has rejected the report branding it hostile untrue and biased victoria gate b. reports. for 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 out right 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 who 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 al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump says he had to walk away from a nuclear deal with north korea because of an acceptable demands from kim jong earned trumps that their second summit came to an abrupt an early end because kim wanted the u.s. to lift all of its sanctions in order to progress the denuclearization but he still insisted they made good progress while in haiti as the story from hanoi. before the

summit 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 will sit with the diners didn't show leaving donald trump to explain why racially they wanted the sanctions were lifted in their entirety and we couldn't. 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 and he did 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 you're reading the. kenyan variant here. so you can. see all the way to your generosity in the now way that i won't be here right. now it will be the best answer 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 hay al jazeera hanoi allows after trunk left north korea's foreign minister gave a news conference in hanoi in which he just eats at the u.s. president's expert. nation for the collapse of the summits we said they only asked for some of the u.s. sanctions to be lifted not all of. you into 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 but trump is now on his way back to washington and into the middle of the domestic political stone form a lawyer michael cohen's testimony to congress on wednesday threatens to have a devastating effect on the president but at a gathering of conservatives outside washington the tax on. his back and john henry reports from oxon hill maryland. one day after president trump's former lawyer and fixer accused the president of committing crimes in and out of office conservatives stand solidly behind him this is step one in the democrats' crazy efforts to impeach the president the united states michael is a convicted liar and that's who the democrats saw as their star witness michael cohen implicated the president in a series of crimes violating campaign finance laws with payoffs to mistresses and

knowing about leaked e-mails to democrats and meetings with russians but at the annual conservative political action conference he found only support on the main stage this is the most conservative president. since ronald reagan if not in american history and among the conservatives chatting in the hallways i think everybody. just. if it wasn't always like this donald trump was once considered persona non grata here in two thousand and sixteen many walked out when candidate trump was scheduled to speak later cancer what his long stood for cutting the national debt religious piety the hawkish military family values and now a president to his challenge them on every front now they seem to support him more than ever i think the president has accomplished more two years and any president in my lifetime i'm sixty nine years old i've seen

a lot of them come and go so why is trump so popular among conservatives when he's such an unconventional figure perhaps because he's delivered for them too conservative supreme court justices tax breaks deregulation a bulwark against gun control and an expanding economy for that they soon to put up with some quirks ethical concerns marital infidelity and an undisciplined twitter feed. many also support his relentless attacks on the media and god's word for it but despite cohen's testimony and expanding array of investigations that target him when trump speaks here on saturday he enters a safe place where he is expected to be welcomed as a conservative hero john hendren oxon hill maryland was on the program. for highly contagious patients remaining. attacks in the democratic republic of congo.

executioner for the state of virginia the form the execution. of the death penalty why. hello you know welcome back we have process of the parts are australia we're looking at temperatures that are still into the mid to high thirty's in many locations now the break that we need is a frontal boundary that's back here towards the west but we don't expect to see much of a change probably until we get towards the end of the weekend until then temperatures are going to be into the mid thirty's here for adelaide thirty seven degrees is going to be high here on friday over towards melbourne about thirty five to thirty six degrees there not really changing by the time we get towards saturday here towards east it's going to be a mostly cloudy day for brisbane with some showers in your forecast as well as

darwin some rain as well well for fiji over the last couple of days you are seeing a lot of that rain begin to dissipate all due to a tropical system making its way down here towards the south some rain will still be in your forecast over the next few days but conditions will be improving as we go into the weekend and here down towards new zealand things are looking much better we are going to sing partly cloudy conditions across much of the area christchurch though nineteen degrees there by the time we get towards saturday about twenty degrees in your forecast and then very quickly across parts of japan well not looking too bad most of the weather is going to be out here towards the pacific we are going to be seen some clouds to the north but for tokyo it is going to be a partly cloudy day with temperatures a ten in sendai eleven degrees for you. we want to return to care bring your people back to life. with updates and the best of al-jazeera documentary the struggle continues. to. use

continuing with australia's most generation a recovery from call on is a really important issue suicide rights do or mine very high twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera. welcome back to square look at top stories now benjamin netanyahu says he's a victim of an unprecedented witch hunt this after israel's attorney general says he intends to indict the prime minister on corruption charges the united nations says israel's crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza might amount to war

crimes after soldiers deliberately opened fire on civilians and the u.s. president donald trump says he had to walk away from a nuclear deal with north korea because of on except a bold demands from kim jong. il in all the stories we're following closely pakistan's prime minister says that as a gesture of peace is country will release on friday an indian pilot who's playing it shot down his capture of a fighter pilot was attacked by a mob and then paraded on video pakistan's army. footage of him went viral india and pakistan say they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region pakistan says it down to indian planes and arrested one pilot india said it shot down one pakistani air croft and lost one of its. with the indian elections jus in a few months time india's prime minister narendra modi is being accused of politicizing the situation for electoral gang as jamil reports now from new delhi. crowds cheer and chant for mother india prime minister in their in their movie

appeared on screen at this form one of fifteen thousand across the country for party workers and volunteers of india's governing party and people here backed the government given the confrontation with pakistan. the soldiers who died in the recent attack he must avenge that he is doing absolutely that i think. he should explore possibilities of peace going forward the way he has responded was very good because we had to show that we are no weaklings. but there are concerns the situation is being politicized stead of being deescalated anything that is going to happen at this point of time will be politically this analyst says india's air strike on tuesday which the government targets pakistan against our group jaish e mohammad lack the strategy of a military operation against such groups as it was unexpected given anything that we have seen or whether counter-terrorism in india are actually the history of

remissions to go that deep into pakistan where they may have strike what could be achieved now is a question that wouldn't matter but certainly it was unexpected and it was political i think in the some worry that the need to restore calm the situation is not being given full priority as debate continues here in new delhi and around one point on the baltics of observation people who. are the ones being put at risk last may or the one in the. in the capital of indeed administered kashmir hospital staff in trina graffiti red cross logos on the groups hoping it may somehow spare them in case of an air strike and there's heightened security and restrictions in some parts of the region. jets were hovering over the reason all night war is not an option all is happening because in the last seventy years about four times india and pakistan have fought a war the cush mute issue still remains the same if they all sit together and

resolve this issue once and for all this is going to be good for both india and pakistan and particularly for kashmiri was well within two years general election due to take place in a few weeks time this concern the current military confrontation with the schmear will remain unresolved as politics takes center stage. yet at least five people have been killed in a suicide car bombing targeting a mock additional hotel it happened in one of the somali capital's busiest streets destroying several buildings gunfire was heard after the attack al-shabaab has claimed responsibility there are also reports of a bomb attack near the home of a senior judge police say the attackers then tried to force their way inside but was stopped by the security forces. egypt's public prosecutor has ordered the detention of six people over a train crash it cairo is main station which killed twenty two people forty three were injured when the speeding train slammed into a barrier causing its fuel tank to explode the train's driver his assistant another

train driver and three other rail employees will be held for four days pending investigations it's thought the driver stepped off the train to talk to another driver without putting on the handbrake. for the second time in three days in a boat a treatment center has been attacked in the eastern democratic republic of congo the latest attack targeted a center run by the french medical charity doctors without borders in the eastern town of potential armed attackers set fire to the building before being fought off in a gun battle with security forces four people with confirmed cases of the highly contagious virus fled the scene and is still missing on sunday the brother of a patient was killed when another treatment center was burned to the ground just a few kilometers away it's not known who is responsible but several armed groups operate in the volatile border region and there's some mistrust of foreign health workers there since the current outbreak began last august there have been five hundred fifty three confirmed deaths and another three hundred believed to be

infected. this is the first time an abode outbreak has happened in such an unstable and insecure area like eastern congo it's a challenge for us on a daily basis for all the team to answer the call to fight against the epidemic the events in the last forty eight hours definitely are a big deal but even so what seems important to us is that eastern congo is a zone we know particularly well where m.s.f. has intervened for a long time regarding access to health care. around thirty thousand have reportedly returned to their country from neighboring cameroon since tuesday they fled the border town of ran in neighboring districts which were repeatedly targeted by fighters from boko haram this year i dear an official that encouraged them to leave while they attempted to restore order cameroonian authorities a pledge not to force the refugees back across the border. a mass grave thought to contain the bodies of dozens of yazidi s. has been found in recently recaptured eisel territory in syria the s.d.f.

says it discovered the grave nearby koos hundreds of people of many nationalities are continuing to stream out of the village most of those fleeing will end up in the whole refugee camp in northeastern syria where conditions a desperate last month more than eighty one people mostly children and babies died in the camp most from hypothermia the u.n. security council has rejected rival resolutions on venezuela one sponsored by the united states which backs the opposition into one by doe call to free and fair presidential elections and handed aid access it receive the maximum nine votes but was vetoed by russia and china a resolution proposed by russia which backs president nicolas maduro expressed concern that threats to interfere in venezuela's affairs it got only four votes meanwhile has been holding talks with brazil's right wing president amid his country's ongoing power struggle. for syria and said there was no chance of

dialogue with president nicolas maduro his government without discussing elections as well the opposition leader also says he will travel to paraguayan on friday before heading back to venezuela. as you know i've received threats to me and my family and threats of being imprisoned as well by the madeira regime even so that will not vent my return to venezuela this weekend we have an international agenda to continue with details and precision has to be announced but faced with the threats faced with the rifle claims of the people of venezuela the regime cannot continue to be repression of persecution massacre of indigenous peoples as they did. the former head of an investigation into into the one thousand nine hundred four bombing of a jewish center one desires has been jailed for his role in what's been described as a cover up but the former president carter has met him has been acquitted argentina and israel have accused has ball of carrying out the suicide bombing on iran's

orders to raise a bow is in what is honorees. an argentine court sentenced to prison a prosecutor a judge and a former chief of intelligence during the government of men and back in the nine hundred ninety securing them of corruption and obstruction of justice the courtroom says that they were involved in coursing witnesses and paying bribes and this shows that the argentine state at the time was involved in this directing the investigation into an attack in a jewish community center that happened back in one thousand nine hundred four and this whole investigation came in as a request by the victims' relatives who were demanding a serious investigation into what they said was a cover up of the attack of the argentines state has repeatedly said that iran was behind this attack but the whole case has been filled with irregularities and also let's not forget that about four years ago a prosecutor appeared with

a shot in the head the victims are saying the vis is a first step towards finding out the truth about what happened during that attack that happened twenty five years ago and they're hoping that a new investigation will begin soon. well senegal now where president macky sall has won a second term in office with fifty percent of the vote of a six million people voted on sunday saddles prime minister had already kind victory for something the opposition we checked it bought all four candidates have issued a joint statement saying they won't challenge the result sol has seen economic growth of a six percent among the highest in africa but he has been accused of squeezing out rival politicians well al jazeera is nicolas hoc has more now from decca. were outside monkey cells headquarters and people have come here to celebrate the news that he has won with more than fifty percent of the vote only that people came

out in number of them in record numbers sixty eight percent of the lecturer came out to vote during this election she really has the 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 at least one song goes easy 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 to europe he says the issue that people want is electricity water health care no these are the issues that much the cell will 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 can one infrastructure project

after another that you know in rebuilding 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. the capitol has a new train line and you airport and these are all achievements that seem to speak to the majority of senegalese around the world more than twenty thousand prisoners are in death row watching for their sentences to be carried out capital punishment is still a legal reality in fifty four countries a congress in brussels this week is examining whether the death penalty achieves its stated aims or whether it should be abolished while white paul brennan is that . who deserves to die the title of saffir morris photographic portrait series on display here at the world congress against the death penalty in brussels. this.

this is a campaigning for him petitioning for clemency that vacating judicial reform with a remarkable cross-section of speakers and delegates my name is and. i spent twenty years in prison twenty of those years was on death row for granted i didn't commit demain was wrongly convicted of murder in tennessee since his release he uses his office to educate him campaign is wrong as you have to do innocent people and i cain't think a nobody did support it there were say their support is so much you know innocent people know me. you know willing to sacrifice or maybe. to maintain a system nine hundred ninety three prisoners were known to have been executed in twenty seventeen although no figures are available from china which is believed to have executed several thousand people every year my name is jerry givens for seventeen years i was a cheat executioner for the state of virginia he executed sixty two prisoners the inevitability that one day he might take an innocent life let this devout man to

quit before that could happen mistakes cannot be undone we need to stop killing we need to stop killing one another to demonstrate that killing is wrong we know that is wrong we need to show love for one another if we can replace the love. it's the the hey tree it will be a better world for everybody one hundred fourteen countries have already abolished the death penalty and thirty two more have introduced a moratorium on its use but as you can see from this great swathe of red here many countries are continuing to resist reform. just this week egypt's president sisi rebuffed european union criticism and defended his country's use of execution by saying the two regions had two different cultures but the abolitionist campaigners remain hopeful in southeast asia there was definitely room for positive signs start from the decision of the malaysian government to abolish the death penalty let's

see if they can succeed but they have the willingness this is very important argument sometimes used in favor of capital punishment agreed to terence and retribution interpretations of religious law may also play a part the conclusion here though is that essentially it's a political and a human rights debate one that is slowly shifting. al-jazeera brussels. just a quick look at the top stories this hour now israel's attorney general says he intends to indict the prime minister benjamin netanyahu of bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases. hit back saying the charges will collapse in his words like house of cards and. i am telling you citizens of israel this house of cards will collapse i'm certain about this i am four thousand percent certain about this i plan to keep serving you and the

state as the prime minister for many years to come don't believe all the spin this depends on you it's not dependent on the officials or the analysts. united nations says the israeli crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza might amount to war crimes u.n. investigators say israeli soldiers intentionally opened fire on civilians israel has rejected the report branding it hostile untrue and biased in our other top stories u.s. president donald trump says he had to walk away from a nuclear deal with north korea because kim jong il and wanted washington to lift all of its sanctions in order to progress with the nuclear eyes ation north korea's foreign minister has disputed that explanation in pakistan the prime minister is saying that as a gesture of peace his country will release on friday the indian pilot whose plane it shot down india and pakistan each say they shot down each other's fighter jets over the disputed kashmir region where tensions have been escalating in recent

weeks. at least five people have been killed in a suicide car bombing targeting a mogadishu hotel it happened in one of somalia the capital's busiest streets destroying several buildings and gunfire was heard off to the attack has claimed responsibility. for the second time in three days in a boat a treatment center has been attacked in the eastern democratic republic of congo armed attackers were driven off after setting fire to the building but for the patients fled and are still missing it comes three days after a similar center just a few few kilometers away was burnt to the ground over the top stories do stay with us now for one one east on the story of pakistan's lost children though new war news from doha after that in about half an hour's time say without his era. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so

no matter where you call her. al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. in pakistan thousands of children are abandoned. every. day other countries want to. babies born out of wedlock considered shameful. some even left to die. but one woman is trying to save the children. being a paramedic. the same task. with a popular.