i know. this is al jazeera. and this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes i'm dissipate. a piece gesture from pakistan as india awaits the return of its downed pilot. north korea's leader puts on a brave face in vietnam after coming out of a summit with trump empty handed. sudan zomato bashir steps aside as the head of the ruling party for the crackdown seems more than

a dozen protesters jailed. in sport looking good to be named the n.b.a.'s most valuable player for a second straight year hitting the miami heat for fifty eight points in this latest win for the houston. india is awaiting the release of its pilot captured in pakistan prime minister says the amman will be set free on friday as a gesture of peace media has gathered a border where the handover is expected to take place in the around that time it comes after india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region on wednesday well tensions have escalated since february the fourteenth when a suicide car bombing by the pakistan based group. mohamad killed forty

soldiers in indian administered kashmir a day later india with through its most favored nation status which is who granted pakistan since nine hundred ninety six of the thing out of the trade pact means new delhi can now enhanced customs duties to any level on goods coming from pakistan on tuesday india said it launched a preemptive air strike on what it called a terrorist training camp near pakistan and pakistan administered kashmir islamabad warned it would respond we have reporters covering the story from both sides of the border raman is live in the indian capital new delhi but first let's go over to come on hi there he's joining us live from the pakistani capital islamabad so kemal when will the pilot be released. where is that something that everybody is rating fall. a great happened. and

a great happened there who was born right at media and already that and the fact that they really are sympathetic many everybody looking forward to see how days have been and then more importantly what kind of response come from their lead because the pakistani prime minister. had already tried to call mr modi and. by him. when they were dressing a joint return of parliament he did receive a call from the president who said that it was an excellent step. however i also think that on the indian side the indian media is portraying the. obvious honored releasing that. because it is under pressure that i guess our new prime minister has. your son is ready for any eventuality the armed forces are ready the air force and the army and. the situation is still very precarious so it's really

important to see how india now gets form. over. how is all this impacting among domestic political calculations at this point right and wrong hon has come out on top as far as that situation is going to start . yesterday. from across the political spectrum focused on the national assembly and not only go to the fish market because everybody's fighting against the job but it was pain drugs. and the war is coming from the opposition all of all the political parties and the people of plot against on stand by their government and stand by their military forces and although they warn be ready for any eventuality. noise come out hi there thanks for the of the crossover announcer raman he's live for us in new delhi so no doubt there

a lot of anxiousness ahead of the anticipated release so take us through the mood there. indeed well the the press corps had to certainly gathered on the pakistani side of the border as far as the indian side the atari work aboard aside the media there have been gathering throughout the morning but we've been told within the last hour that they've been pushed back by at least one kilometer away from the atari border it's assumed now to have been other than the. command the airman who was captured after his plane crashed in. pakistan administered mia will be handed over to the indian authorities. without any cameras present now he will then be taken really be put in communicate by the military air force and also by the secret service they will want to deep brief him and also make sure that he doesn't come

into contact with the press who will of course want to get statements as to what actually happened in the air and how he was treated by the pakistanis so that's that's a scenario we know so far in terms of his return maybe as some are said within the next ninety to one hundred eighty minutes from now but the tension remains still here in india curfew remains in indian administered kashmir no reports of any clashes but their worst which is on thursday one lady killed in the area of indian administered kashmir her funeral is today said the tension still high the the shelling still continuing sammy between the two sides and so therefore the violence hasn't disappeared has been brushed under the carpet it's still there. bit of a diplomatic struggle going on as well over the organization of islamic conference on him about that. why is asian islamic

conference the largest gathering of muslim majority countries over fifty of them a muslim majority about sixty countries in that organization it represent sort of islamic views and positions every year to discuss global issues as well as domestic issues the respective country and for many years several countries have wanted india to be on ups and have observer status to the objections of pakistan so this is the very first time that india has managed with the support of countries like the united arab emirates but now there. and saudi to actually and qatar to actually be in attendance because of the situation of the last few weeks pakistan objected realize that. the foreign minister of india was attending and have withdrawn now whatever the domestic politics plays out in pakistan it's

certainly a success for the indian foreign minister in the indian government because it gives them an opportunity to not only forge new alliances to strengthen old alliances but also put their case and evidence in front of those that have influence over the thinkers the power brokers in pakistan that this is what pakistan did to india on the fourteenth of february and there has been no doubt sami in the minds of the indian government that they want the perpetrators those that planned the attack on over forty paramilitary personnel in kashmir to be brought to book and brought to justice that india is not letting that issue go away easily all right so how raman there in new delhi.

north korea's leader kim jong un has received an official welcome in viet nam's capital hanoi kim is currently holding talks with the vietnamese president comes just one day after his nuclear talks broke down with the u.s. president donald trump left for washington almost immediately after their summit ended north korea has accused the u.s. of wasting an opportunity to strike a nuclear deal talk to our diplomatic editor james basie's live for us in hanoi so kindo on there putting a bit of a show of confidence song james. yes remember the president trant left very much earlier two hours earlier than the originally planned they didn't have a signing they didn't have the lunch that they were supposed to have together president trump shook his hand said goodbye and got on air force one kim though has stayed he's been meeting the president of vietnam he's a guest of honor in this country he's staying all here because he doesn't travel

very much this is only the third countries visited as the leader of north korea he's been in that job for seven years but he only started traveling abroad last year he really at this time it needs all the friends he can get because the global sanctions that are against his country look now like this staying in place after that failed summit. this is been a textbook example of the benefits and the drawbacks of top down face to face diplomacy bringing trump and came together last year in singapore worked they built a report and moved the world back from the brink of nuclear war. but in hanoi relying on the two leaders to conduct complex negotiations on the issues of north korea's nuclear program and the wide ranging global sanctions wasn't a success the north korean leader took

a tough position calling for all the most recent sanctions to be lifted it was a step too far for the u.s. he actually had papers ready to be sad but it just wasn't appropriate i want to do it right i'd much rather do it right than do it fast an expert on the korean peninsula told me why he believes kim pushed hard to get so many sanctions lifted so early in the process for the north koreans they see an opportunity to in the trump presidency to achieve some goals that they really wouldn't expect to achieve with a quote unquote normal president in the white house so for them there is a little bit of urgency and of course sanctions relief is a relatively urgent matter for north korea as a purely as a matter of economic expediency there have actually been two similar taney s. diplomatic process is south korea's diplomacy with the north led the way of the winter olympics almost exactly one year ago and when u.s.

diplomacy with north korea faltered at the end of last year it was president moon je in of south korea who rescued things minutes after boarding air force one and leaving vietnam the first person president trump phoned was president moon it's clear south korea is now being given the job of cleaning up this mess. the talks are now over and failed for now but sammy i think for now we can say the process is not dead but it's on life support james any clearer this point as some details come out what exactly went wrong in the summit with donald trump. well we heard the words from the north korean foreign minister we've heard the words from the u.s. secretary of state and from president trump as well it's pretty clear that they have a slightly different opinion of what happened what north korea was pushing for north

korea. says that it wanted the most recent sanctions that were put in place lifted the u.s. says it wants all the sanctions it wanted all the sanctions against it lifted i think the confusion there comes a normally based at the u.n. security council i can tell you what happens every time you put a resolution through the u.n. security council you recall the previous resolution so the most recent tough resolution from twenty seventeen actually includes all the sanctions yes there are new things that mean that the list in that particular resolution but actually includes all the previous things that were on the list i think that the way they went about this work last year in singapore when you try to build or of poor and stop imminent war but when you try to deal with a great number of details trying to get the two leaders to do it that becomes very tricky indeed and i think it's worth bringing up the example one the president

trump won't like he says is what the worst deals ever of the iran nuclear deal that was done at a much lower level for many years before foreign ministers took over and actually have their meetings and the other thing about the iran nuclear deal it was called the joint comprehensive plan of action they did it all in one deal yes they had loads and loads of meetings but there was one big deal they didn't try and do what they try to do here an interim deal and james any diplomatic moves afoot right now to try and get the process back on track. well i think that's the problem because even now in the last twenty four hours since this collapsed the rhetoric since they're no longer in the same city they were talking about how constructive the meetings were that was the face saving statement being put out when they were here in hanoi but now you're hearing the north korean foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state know he's moved from hanoi to manila being much tougher for

a domestic audience each of them and that's the danger the war of words will start a delay will start and then diplomacy will die so i think really the ball is very much in the court of the man who in some ways started this process one year ago the intro lympics it was south korea and north korea that got together the north koreans attending the winter olympics sending athletes to the winter olympics and when the process got bogged down towards the end of last year it was moon jay in of south korea the south korean president who's invested so much in this is the main plank really of his policy as president hayes now going to have to try and pick up the pieces he was already going to have we thought a third meeting with kim this time in seoul kim travelling to seoul not clear

whether that still on them but if it is all no i think you will have much less ambitious goals it was before about reconciliation infrastructure projects building railway links and roads i think the priority now is just to get this back on track now right james banks that thanks for that. a south korean president says he'll help washington and pyongyang reach a deal on denuclearize the nation after talks failed in hanoi jane was speaking in seoul on the country's one hundred sin dependence day it was hoped there would be more to celebrate after the viet nam summit reports. it's a source of national pride for all koreans. marking the day people rose up against the japanese who wants ruled the korean peninsula this one hundredth anniversary was going to be especially significant coming after what was meant to be a successful hanoi summit between the u.s. and north korea president moon jane's hopes of improving relations with the north

now dealt a blow but he appears to be remaining optimistic turn on her years of the second north korea united states summit in hanoi vietnam meaningful progress enhanced mutual understanding and built more trust my administration will closely communicate and cooperate with the united states and north korea so as to help their talks reach a complete settlement by any means. the south koreans have been hoping that a partial lifting of sanctions would allow them to embark on a joint economic projects with the north marked in both north and south korea this day allows all koreans to celebrate their history but the collapse of the hanoi summit leaves the future far more uncertain. is my dream to go to north korea where my parents are from and so this has left me heartbroken. to everyone in south korea i was hoping for an agreement i was disappointed yesterday i border the

hope trumping kim will meet again and that will lead to peace on the korean peninsula state run media in north korea has reported the failure of the summit to reach an agreement but was still positive in tone remaining positive to president move. now back in his familiar role as mediator between the u.s. and north korea rob mcbride al-jazeera so. well probably more still ahead on the news hour including opposition in senegal reject president exiles when find out why they are putting up a fight and the u.n. security council rejects rival revolution resolution from the push by world powers over venezuela. that is for not every team is getting a ride during testing ahead of the new formula one season is here with that story.

the embattled president of sudan normal bashir has stepped down as leader of the ruling national congress party but the main call by protesters has been for him to resign as president the move comes as thirteen protesters in sudan are to go to jail for between six months and five years and. they've been sentenced by a court to stablished under the country's recently imposed state of emergency law earlier this week bashir outlawed public gatherings in a bid to stop the demonstrations. morgan joins us now via skype live from the sudanese capital khartoum so all of this year is handed over control of the ruling party to his deputy what does that signal here bill. well let's remember that he said he was at least his national security directorate said on friday that the national the national the state of emergency was announced he said president bashir

was going to hand over the reign of the of the republic to someone. and that he was going to basically hold amendment amendments to the constitution and it was going to declare a state of state of emergency which now let's try to do things happen a state of emergency was declared and hold to any amendments to the constitutional sort an ounce but he did not announce that he was handing over power is as the head of the ruling party until late last night and some people are saying that you know when he's giving up the ruling party let's remember that when state of emergency was an ounce of the cabinet was dissolved of state governors were relieved and were replaced by military personnel so some people are saying that he's trying to address the protests that have been happening for ten weeks people have been demanding that he step down and some people are saying that and was spoken to say that it's because he feels situation is getting out of control and that the party is not able to address. this wave of protest because people are saying that this party has been power for nearly thirty years he has been apart for nearly thirty years and they want to see change some people are saying that it's

a way for him to show that he's trying to distance himself from the party he's trying to distance himself from any site he's said before that he's trying to be a president of the people and lot of one ruling party salt it's not clear if this would stop the protests we've seen that happened yesterday people are very determined they say they're not going to stop and he steps down as president and not only as the head of the ruling party on that point does it seem like the state of emergency is working then. well no not really thousands came out yesterday to protest once again which they've been processed into the honest family since since the announcement was made of emergency was announced people came out to protest against the state of emergency even when the president issued measures to end that such public gatherings and public property taxes is banned and sentenced and a fine and people could be sentenced to jail or fine people still did not listen to him and continue to process we've seen that happen yesterday we've seen mass arrests people who have been participating in the protests arrested and taken to

a court that especially specifically been established because of the state of emergency now some of them will be sentenced to jail some of them already have been sentenced or will be tried in the coming weeks as people continue to protest but this state of emergency and the public ban and all the measures that have been announced so far hasn't halted the process so it's not clear if there is anything else that the president and the government could present to stop the people who said they're not going to step down they're not going to stop until he steps down or who are more than their thanks so much gunman battled police in somalia's capital hours after a bombing that killed at least twenty nine people post car bomb was detonated in a plot to assassinate. the chief judge of somalia's appeals court says it was behind the attack. senegal's president has won a second term in power all four opposition candidates say they won't impose for vision the results show my few sol taking fifty eight percent of the vote.

it's a victory they were expecting. declared the winner of sunday's presidential election with fifty eight percent of the vote there will be no second round much of the relief of his party supporters i'm so happy that he won he deserves this because you were. a good many years i mean it's not the senate it's people. they detest the not the years outside the cars university students protest the you know it's mit police firing tear gas to quell the angry crowd. or it must be said that the incumbent candidate is going to skate at the will of the senegalese people and will be the only one to bear the consequences in the face of the people and history . while the other candidates reject the results they say they want to peel the outcome during the two we campaigned incumbent president boasted of his achievements the economy is growing at an unprecedented rate of seven percent the

number one to producers has tripled sol promises to turn senate going to a middle income economy thanks in part to the recent oil and gas discoveries estimated to be worth more than the fifty billion dollars but unemployment remains high and nearly half of senegalese live on less than two dollars a day thousands have attempted to cross the mediterranean playing not war but the lack of economic opportunities. been sunk over the anti establishment candidate attracted mostly young voters frustrated with corruption the political system and calling for change the challenge for president mikey saul is to address grievances of young people who haven't voted for him who are unemployed and struggle despite the economic growth. during his two thousand and twelve campaign sol promised change seven years later he's promising the same but the electorate has changed

senegal is now made up of mostly belittles wanting action promises a load or no longer enough nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car and the un security council has rejected rival resolutions on venezuela the u.s. draft free and fair presidential elections and the delivery of aid it was vetoed by russia and china the council proposal by russia in support of the government failed to get enough votes christensen reports. that as well an opposition leader traveled to brazil on thursday visiting president jeroboam son are masters of european union states it was part of a tour of several nations meant to ratchet up international pressure on president nicolas maduro to step down. at the united nations knows allies attempted to do the same united states introduced a resolution calling for a free and fair elections in venezuela as well as humanitarian access but russia

would not have it. we are seriously concerned by the fact that today's meeting may be exploited as a step for preparations for real not humanitarian intervention and as a pretext for external intervention they vetoed the draft which was supported by nine other council members the us is special representative for venezuela said the biggest threat to the venezuelan people came from their government regrettably by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield rural and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people. more than three million people have fled the country seeking food and medicine while others have taken to the streets in protest after an election widely regarded as illegitimate supporters of the resolution pointed out that it contained no authorization for military force but venezuela raised the specter of colonialism

the power to this will has to do with having this one story at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east i'm not saying these approach yourself legal and i say shouldn't of letting them russia introduced its own resolution reaffirming the territorial integrity and political independence of venezuela but it only got four votes european countries which have also recognized accused russia of misrepresenting the us draft and venezuela of working against the interests of its own people and i said it is not true that the dilemma in venice well is between war and peace as they have said it is not true that a dilemma in one ideology or another in venezuela it is between democracy and dictatorship. so the international stalemate continues. nicolas maduro remains in power and won why dell wonders if he'll be allowed to go home christine salumi al-jazeera the united nations. i don't know i will have all the weather with rob

but still ahead here in algeria another blow in the vines contain the about the academic in the democratic republic of congo. we need to stop killing one another to demonstrate that killing is wrong. the words of a former execution at a forum examining the death penalty and it's called roger federer closing in on yet another thirty and i don't. know how the water flowed again yesterday where it doesn't normally dry wally's and it came time so fos just south of jerusalem for example this guy was caught just warm driving down a road this is are quickly the road that the water gallus and flows down valleys and it was normally a fairly dry area it was just this general area which is jordan israel the west

bank we heading towards a man george because the city itself had the water flows for it fairly quickly but rather unexpected as you can see this is all from about fifty to seventy five millimeters falling fairly quickly i mean the west bank worst of all. the hebron and nablus were similarly affected other clans moved on since they had a fairly active system swept through iraq and is now on its way through iran and it's still thirty active but it does mean further west we are at least quiet for a time in today's weather is breezy but it looks stronger however that's not the end of it if you look at this region starting tomorrow the cloud gathers once more and the rain starts to gather again once will move it further north than last time but potential is still there. however as i said the system's moved all its works moved on to the cloud is gathering in southern iran and in pakistan the picture will be a wet. weather sponsored by qatar and. a

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welcome back you're watching i'll just there a time to recap headlines now india is awaiting the release of its captured in pakistan media have gathered up they want a hottie board where the handover is expected to take place it comes off to india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets the disputed kashmir region on wednesday. north korea's leader kim jong un has met the vietnamese president in hanoi comes just a day after nuclear talks with the u.s. president broke down after disagreements over international sanctions. sudanese

president omar bashir has stepped down as leader of the country's ruling party but will remain this president bashir has been facing months of demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year rule. more now on our top story the tension between india and pakistan amid the fighting it's kashmiris living on both sides of the disputed border who are suffering the most a man can reports from. by car on foot the residents of leave in a haste this village on the disputed border area of kashmir known as the line of control is typical of many in the area. shelling from both sides is not uncommon but in recent days it's increased to levels not seen in two decades and people aren't taking any chances for them or the amount of media but our way over there more days after us we keep seeing kashmir here the government doesn't do anything

we have to calm the insulted who are now wandering there's no point in living. from the village alone some three hundred families have fled in surrounding villages artillery shells have damaged houses in this village the women and children have left but the men have stayed behind to defend. we stand with the army we stand here just a kilometer away from the border we won't leave her forces behind there are also similar scenes happening in indian administered kashmir just part of that military checkpoint lies the line of control the affected border between pakistan and indian administered kashmir and it's not just on this side of the border that kashmiris are scared people are also fleeing from over there shows from the pakistani side who increased in recent days. how do you please everyone do you mean see may god protect everyone as well as hindus and six pleaded to two powers to consent so

that peace peace is in the region and believe in prosperity those prayers may well be in vain for now both pakistan and india are pushing each other diplomatically and militarily and so far neither shows any signs of backing down in the disputed region of kashmir is the people that are feeling the pain and once again they feel they're being used as pawns between the two nuclear powers iran card or deserve it . is a retired indian army colonel and a columnist on defense issues and diplomacy joins us now from new delhi good to have you with us clearly still a tense situation in kashmir where those tensions now head for the escalation of the indian pilot is released do you think. yes i think the pots wait to deescalation has been opened by the release of this pilot it was

a sort of extreme really nasty situation that has developed where for the first time since the nine hundred seventy one war between india and pakistan fighter aircraft from both countries had crossed over to the other side heading gauged in combat had dropped bombs had actually engaged military targets so the pot's way to escalation was relieved moving large and there were fears that the this could escalate on control of glee all the way to full scale war because there seemed to be no meeting ground between the two sides but the shooting down of an indian a indian air force aircraft and the capture of that by a pilot by pakistani ground troops seems to have wiped out a doc sickly opened the box we have to deescalation because yesterday prime minister in iran khan announced that the pilot would be repatriated to india and then last evening monday indian side it was vesa procreated

a statement was made by the indian foreign ministry that essentially talked about restraint on both sides wanting to maintain the peace so when the pilot is returned to deceive ning maybe in just another half hour or so he will be coming back to an absolute frenzy evacuation in india he has become a cause celeb nor most sort of a symbol of indian military valor and he's going to be received very warmly back home in india but at the law knowledge level he's served a very very large purpose and that is to deescalate these tensions between india and pakistan because that is the escalation lead to perhaps some diplomatic movement over the you know the long standing problem of kashmir. oh well that might be a bridge too far at this point in time. the sort of tensions are still high

there it was just on the fourteenth of february that forty indian troops were killed in a suicide bombing that was claimed by the jaish e mohammad which is a pakistan backed pakistan based terror group proscribed by the un and india is going to wait to see where the pakistan takes any steps towards cracking down on the gesture more money on other groups as well that have targeted to india in the past from safe havens in pakistan so india is going to watch and wait i think there's also the fact that in india an election is coming up that india is likely to go to the polls to elect a new government next month and a degree of anti pakistan feeling is likely to serve the ruling party well it's likely to portray that it's been very strong and walked a very tough line on pakistan and it's going to sustain that tough line at least until the elections so i don't see india and pakistan talking at least in the next

couple of months but it could well be that after the election the same government being reelected or a new government that is elected could well choose to open up dialogue with pakistan and repair relations that have really deteriorated very sharply over the last five years good to get your analysis home and social class the medical charity doctors without borders a suspended its work at the epicenter of the bone laughter demick in the democratic republic of congo two of its clinics will burn down in the latest attack against aid workers trying to contain the dangerous fire us like sarah brown reports. this is all that's left of an ebola treatment center in the town of. attack is set fire to the building on wednesday before engaging in a gun battle with security forces for people with confirmed cases of the highly contagious virus fled the saying still missing but those who would miss not forget

a lethal disease an extremely contagious illness entire families in north have been to dismay to entire villages in west africa disappeared because of the epidemic so the health workers are here to avoid the picture. it was the second such attack this week on sunday and now the treatment center just a few kilometers away and was burned to the ground the brother of a patient was killed as he tried to escape the blaze. they set fires to areas that were not for treatment like the changing in utility rooms which were burned down in any case the treatment center is no longer operational. this is outbreak began last august and is the worst in the country's history it's believed to have killed more than five hundred fifty people and infected about three hundred others i'd work as a feist what the world health organization is called

a toxic mix of violence and community mistrust. the health ministry says foreign and. have been attacked on average three to four times a week as armed groups of control of the region which is rich in minerals. this is the first time an outbreak has happened in such an unstable an insecure area like east and it's a challenge for us on a daily basis for all the teams who answer the call to fight against the epidemic. the charity says its immediate focus is the safety of its patients and staff but with its medical work suspended it could affect the battle to stop the virus from spreading and congo and across its borders alexy o'brian al jazeera. israel's attorney general says he plans to indict prime minister binyamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases netanyahu

has dismissed the allegations as a politically motivated witchhunt the announcement comes ahead of elections in april bernard smith reports from west jerusalem. he is the first sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's innocent and will stay in his post and look at as a crucial room 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 analyst. there's no legal requirement for him to step down. parties will peel to the supreme court say look at slow it's not logical the job of the prime minister is a very complicated job because the city of security issues and says it is called

ohmic issues it 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 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 browse. netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust because he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts and there are allegations of a deal that would guarantee favorable coverage from a popular newspaper as of. the corruption investigation has been going on for years and doesn't seem to have dented netanyahu is popularity. is that guy only bibi he's innocent these supporters are saying play the role of the underdog most of the

media's on. the left wing. india's been using this to sway the voters of the likud that is. haunting him and. want to topple the regime and 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 there unsavory new details that there are enough to put off currently loyal supporters bergmann out west jerusalem. the u.s. is offering a one million dollar reward for information about osama bin laden's son the state department says hundreds of bin laden is emerging as

a leader of al qaida it says he could be on the afghan pakistan border in recent years hundreds of bin laden released video messages calling for attacks on western targets prominent philippine journalist maria ressa was filed a motion to dismiss the cyber libel case against her rappler founder published the story about a businessman in two thousand and twelve interests argues the law under which the charges were filed came into effect two years later she says it's just the latest in a string of politically motivated accusations against her more than twenty thousand prisoners around the world are now on death row form in belgium is examining whether camp will polish from the chiefs its aims or should be abolished paul broun reports from brussels. who deserves to die the title of severe morris photographic portrait series on display here at the world congress against the death penalty in

brussels within one hundred. years the status of the day this is a campaigning for him petitioning for clemency and advocating 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 and i'm a was wrongly convicted of murder in tennessee since his release he uses his office to educate and campaign as long as you have to deal clearly innocent people go and i came think and nobody did support the idea there were say that i supported so much no innocent people know me. you know willing to sacrifice or maybe are newer. 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 but

the inevitability that one day he might take an innocent life led 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 to killing this wrong we know that is wrong we need to show love for one another if we can replace their love. as 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. but 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 is definitely room for a positive. start from the decision of the malaysian government to abolish the

death penalty let's see if they succeed but they have the willingness this is very important argument sometimes used in favor of capital punishment include to terence and retribution interpretations of religious more may also play a part the conclusion here though is that essentially it's a political and human rights debate one that is slowly shifting. al-jazeera brussels. washington is still reeling after the testimony of president transform a lawyer michael cohen and its potentially devastating effects on the president but at a gathering of conservatives outside washington the attacks on the president seem only to have made trump backers more fervent john hendren 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 size their star witness michael cohen implicated the president in this 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 don't know why. it wasn't always like this donald trump was once considered a person unknown grata here in two thousand and sixteen many walked out when candidate trump was scheduled to speak later cancer what she packed has long stood for cutting the national debt religious piety

a 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 than two years and any president in my lifetime i'm sixty nine years old and 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 willing 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 to the bad guy 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 al jazeera oxon hill maryland. the world of

classical music has lost one of its leading figures. and composer. aged eighty nine in a career spanning seven decades he enjoyed long ten years kneading the london symphony orchestra and the los angeles philharmonic previn also works in hollywood with four oscars for his book songs including. the. things. we'll hear from boxing champion. about his finds to win the title belt.

our eyes sports fans it's time for mr slam dunk himself his and the brilliant thank you sammy james harden looking good in his efforts to be named the n.b.a.'s most valuable player for a second straight year hard hitting fifty eight points in his latest game winning performance the houston rockets with twenty one points down in the third quarter against the miami heat but hit back thanks to their star able to latest things pretty narrow once when she wants a one eighteen when it's the most points ever school crossing will play against the hate and it's also hard in the six fifty plus point game of the season rockets sitting fifth in the western conference. on the philadelphia seventy six is

twenty nine game losing streak against the oklahoma city thunder has finally come swim and sixes tossed high risk with thirty two points then simmons chipping in with a triple double as the sixers profiled white suit one zero four. and roger federer is closing in on his one hundred saw title american jimmy connors is the only previous parts were cheap the fate federer into the semifinals here in the departure championships after a three set win of one hundred words matson for it should be thirty seven over the next place six see what courage of croatia in the seventies i. mean. i'm happy it's over there we had a couple arrange allays gusty winds again march on playing well save to step onto the first set i was dramatic at the end so. i got to go and. but are joined in the seventies by stuff on a set suppress the twenty year old coming from

a set down to get past polished cloth but a catch so it's a pass to take home game one station at each. other on year has become the sixth english premier league manager to lose his job this season ranieri in charge of fallen for just sixteen league games the challenge great success of course coming in twenty sixteen when he guided lest it's the premier league title but since taking over at full in november he's been unable to move them out of the relegation zone. former one seams are into the final day of testing ahead of the first grand prix of the season in melbourne so far as ferrari have been setting the pace for a new come a chance of clerks at the fastest lap some in barcelona on thursday for all the driver hasn't won the title both since two thousand and seven the sadie's have won the last five championships but of struggle for consistency in this pre-season. obviously i think as every team we are not flat out there's still some margin a bit obviously in myself i still have to learn i get more comfortable with the guy

laps after laps and also the guy so yeah it's looking good for. his red bulls pierre garcia skating unhurt but he described as one of the biggest crashes of his career is the second crash the frenchman as injured in preseason earlier on we spoke to f one right salute smithy says title success at ferrari is long overdue. ferrari is the most famous brand in formula one you think that's why you think for ari really ferrari being successful it's a good news story for sports a whole really with his its most famous famous thing and also to come and then the skeleton say he's done since well and to sort of shake things up a little bit a bit like saying it's to go for red bull a few years ago. and have a really really good impactful for no one for ari of seeds the hopes of the whole of italy basically on as well it's very very important for the country they are

successful and yeah i think they're tired of not being not being world champions and after all the success with michael schumacher and see thousands i think now they're trying to rebuild that in and get back up to the very top and it's crucially important that they end this drought of students possible to say to someone the last five championships for a reason and i think they can take confidence in the fact that last year they did out develop a catch for our across the course of the season so even if they're on the back to early on that it might still fancy their chances of making up the gap but yeah to still be a little bit concerned after last year and far it's begin with that it's been a similar story this time around. and daniel jacobs believes he can seal his boxing legacy when he takes on the kind of alvarez in a middle white unification became a three division world champion after this win over britain's rocky fielding in december his only career loss was against floyd mayweather jacobs meanwhile he spent close to two years at other and bunk cancer before making his return in two thousand and twelve his i.b.s.

middleweight title be on the line when he faces alvarez in law. but he's a very strong mental fighter you know his history and his past and that showed his perseverance and that's a big strength when a fighter walks in mentally strong and with the will to win it makes him very very difficult to beat but i love that i invite that because i'm that type of fighter very strong willed and that's going to just give a great fight but it's going to be a great fight because i know for me this is my one shot you know and i know that kanellos been used to giving great performances so he's going to show up this is what he does this is what he's used to it will be more special for me it's not even though it's not my first rodeo to me you know this is everything you know so i'm not going to show up like some kid happy to be at the circus i'm more pretty i want to be actually be a part of the ak and take over the show and be the you know be the headliner. ok

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a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tigers nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brits anees happiness is what we ensure it if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy time has done what no other country has. for some meds murder sex for others it's a way of life. a battle is raging between the whaling industry and conservationists . as the future of whaling in iceland the quarters decided.

people in power are killing whales. anticipation of the border a peace gesture from pakistan as india awaits the return of its downed pilot. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. later puts a brave face on in vietnam after coming out of a summit with donald trump him to hand to. omar al bashir steps aside as the head the ruling party a crackdown says more than a dozen protesters jail.