two hundred. breakthroughs inspired by digital revolution jobs and gates for. zero. zero. zero i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes a captured indian fighter pilot is released from pakistan after the biggest eruption in hostilities three years between the two nuclear armed countries. of defiance in algeria thousands protest against plans by president putin to seek a fifth term. a gun battle in the somali capital between police and al-shabaab

fighters is over at least twenty nine people were killed in the attack canada says it will allow the u.s. extradition case of qualities chief executive to proceed. but in sports roger federer is just one to one away from clenching his one hundredth career title the thirty seven year old the past born of corage to reach the finals of the dubai championships. welcome to the program our top story pakistan returned to a captured pilot to india on friday in a move many people hope will deescalate tensions between the two countries is even optimism that will lead to talks between the nuclear neighbors but shelling continues between the two sides in those living in the disputed region of kashmir say they are caught in the crossfire reports now from new delhi. i think about at the walk

a border crossing in punjab wing commander. on his release from pakistani custody back to india two days after his aircraft was shot down i'm not going to. ask you if you're going to do it was the last one is going to do that procedure all day and then every one of you can obviously if you're not going to get bearded men under the desk i'm going to take up with him and get your party through to me because the officer has had to take from an arab in ridgewood have orders and dad already on ok it's true this. is happy to have already gotten back a former colonel in the indian army says at best the decision to hand him over so quickly has been begrudgingly welcomed by india but that doesn't do enough to overcome this lingering mistrust of mistrust that have been generated by this pakistan fomenting terrorism and support of the insurgency in kashmir these are the real key issues kashmir terrorism. the celebrations at the border are unlikely to

last long as the roots of the kashmir dispute remain deep seated as attempts are made to deescalate tensions between india and pakistan continue to complain they're the ones caught in the middle and those from indeed in mr kashmir accuse the indian government of not doing enough for them not just now but over many years just before the pilot's release there was a funeral in indian administered kashmir it was for woman killed by shelling between india and pakistan that began on wednesday across the line of control that divides mere people here complain they always suffer when pakistan and india fight and there is renewed concerns about the indian government's policies in india did mr bashir a new crop of young educated people they have taken to. this is something which is unprecedented that this former kashmiri civil servant made news for resigning from his post to protest against the government in new delhi policies policies he says

are far more militaristic leaving no room for peaceful negotiation. institutions of dialogue negotiation those being kind of becoming irrelevant and no important and no significant political initiative from delhi has been there for last through. the indian government has long complained that pakistan supports groups who promote violence and push mir whoever is to blame for the under arrest in the disputed region all these indians want to do for now celebrate the release of their pilot as jamil al jazeera new delhi. high has more now from. august on has handed over the indian fire led to war shot down by a fungus tony croft by your son saying that the indian eggdrop drained a while a deadline crowed and flying into a bunker sonnie a space after the indian pilots buried there were the maldives almost killed him

however it was the pakistani military rendered a fart and rescued the indian pilot after which he was in pakistan's military custody focused on from minister imran khan in a gesture of good will send a signal to india that they would release the pilot he had been handed over now i don't watch the board off and budgets on it now hoping that today will be a gesture from india also to deescalate the crisis at the moment the buggers on the military force are on red alert the aircraft are flying constant air patrols to ensure that did no element of surprise from india again and of course the military on a heightened state of alert their situation is still critical and many people head and focused on feed their double is now in india gold and you see red there they will also come up with the overt show. dr shroff is

a visiting fellow an expert in security and terrorism at nasim university he joins me in the studio now thank you very much for coming in to speak to us so there is obviously a great sense of relief that this captured pilot has been returned home but does it mean that this episode of hostilities between india and pakistan has necessarily come to an end i don't think it was one of the worst thing outcomes would be everybody forgets this and walks away because the underlying tensions the underlying problems that precipitated this incident are being left on addressed and what has happened in this incident is that there is a threshold of response that the indian government certainly has searched for its public so next time god forbid there is a terrorist attack or another kashmiri separatists attack what will they do they will have to be seen to be responding for public relations purposes and if they respond in the military way that they have and pakistan retaliates them will get an

even worse situation so the tit for tat threshold has been increased by this and the real deescalation will be if political negotiations take place now between the two governments to find some form a framework for a long term solution for the kashmiri problem you mention the indian response there how significant is it that on this occasion the indians chose to actually strike directly at pakistani territory from what you say it sets a dangerous precedent in terms of how they might need to respond next time but what prompted the indian government to particular to cross that line well a lot of people are saying it's because of the elections that he's going to have to fight and he needs to be came in on ticket of robustness of military interventions were necessary or military responses. and and so i think

for all those reasons he felt that he needed to to do something but i think what hasn't been accounted for is the need for the other side to appear to be responding and of course next time would you do next time there's an attack he cannot not respond he will probably be seen as being weak because of public opinion the big problem here is that was most both governments and indeed both militaries are acting relatively sensibly they whipped up a sentiment at the public level which is very dangerous there are reports of up to five thousand pashtoon on their way to the army to sign up to find the right indian enemy and so this. public clamor for conflict is actually very dangerous and the fact that the very problem is getting worse not better is the greatest suggest that they will be more likely to be incidents that

might lead to a further escalation in the future and so the pakistani prime minister a man can't describe the release of the indian fighter pilot as a gesture of good will and other pakistanis genuinely willing at this point to improve their relationship with india well i think they are in even when the sheriff was in power they were is a desire to have talks and to try and solve the problem what the pakistanis haven't been doing as much as the indians would like in many others would like is clamping down on the terrorists they had a policy which they claim that is now no longer there of supporting these groups and i think to some degree there is truth that they are pushing pulling back not doing enough certainly not doing enough to put away the leadership of this jaish e mohammed and other groups that have been involved in any of them are walking freely around the. thank you very much from nottingham university for sharing your

thoughts and analysis with us on this story and get it with the news hour live from london more silat for you north korea promises further negotiations with the united states despite the failure to strike a nuclear deal in vietnam. reports the president donald trump ordered top security clearance for his son in law jared despite security concerns and with the new f one season approaching ferrari looking like the team to be one of the details are not in school. large demonstrations are underway in algeria against president abdelaziz beautifully because plans to run for a fifth protest some of them violence have been held in several cities across the country including the capital algiers demonstrators are demanding eighty one year old leader who's been in power for twenty years withdrawal from elections scheduled for later this month the fokker or its. violent clashes on the streets of the

algerian capital algiers as peaceful protests turned violent oh the protesters held . tear gas was fired by since last friday thousands have joined rarely see the anti-government protests i. g.'s of the biggest demonstrations in the country in decades there were similar scenes in several of the cities that demanded the country's ailing president abdulaziz beautifully co withdraws from the country's forthcoming presidential election. the student led protests have been growing in recent days ever since the eighty one year old leader issued a statement amounts of his intention to run for a fifth term algerian journalists have also joined the growing demonstrations calling for greater press freedom and political reform. who was elected president. nine hundred ninety nine. but after suffering

a debilitating stroke six years ago he's rarely seen in public and hasn't given a speech in years here he is in twenty seven t. too frail to cast his ballot without help. demonstrators say he's too weak to the. it's widely believed the country is really run by a group of military and civilian advisers fail to find a successor to ensure the continuity of the country's leading party but national liberation front parties repeatedly said the elections will be free transparent beautifully kept presided over the end of the bloody algerian civil war in two thousand and two and a return to international affairs following decades of isolation but demonstrators say it's time for algeria's longest serving head of state to retire from politics leave barca al-jazeera. george joffe a is an algeria specialist research fellow at cambridge university and lecturer at

university center for international studies he joins me now from cambridge thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us on the news hour how unusual is it to see protests of this size and scope in algeria well. it's not so unusual. in the capital. now that is really very unusual there's a great burden on producing. ever since two thousand and one and then it will besides the demonstrations it's a rewarding to the regime lose now going to take this extreme. of course the catalyst for these demonstrations is mr beautifully bid for reelection but what about the some of the broader trends at work here you have more than a quarter of algerians under the age of thirty who are unemployed how much of a factor are the the social economic challenges the countries facing. one of the social economic challenges and certainly very important in the not just the

employee level for the nigerian revenues have dropped dramatically with the decline in oil prices you know the implications of not only its growth there also to the question of the reserves to be named and there's also a sense of sclerosis you've got a political system that simply is not operating and are now jerry and so finally become fed up with this and there's a very strong free. and they should be forced to explain to enact a man who is incapacitated by a stroke growth term in breach of the constitution and should be forced not you know the proper discussion or any probably the titian usa that these protests represent a serious challenge to abdelaziz bouteflika how might the regime now respond when he saw that it's not him who really is the channel. it's the group behind him

the group in the presidency backed up by the so-called economic barons the leading business. and the army and the security services who are trying to force them to come to their own choice to guarantee their continuity in power and that's a lot of it's really object to the demonstrations which began in a very small way a week ago and now burgeoning throughout the whole country and there are very serious warning to the regime who is now going to find a solution we can't even with live. these are the most significant protests against beautifully guesses he came to power some twenty years ago as you well know after a very bloody civil war you confident that these protests will remain mostly peaceful. well the demonstrators have made it creative from the very beginning they want peaceful protests protests the only is the flag is the symbol there on really

posters rigs and and even no coals or no beginning to manage removal of the regime what are jews really want is a russian sensible intelligent way of providing leadership for the country to try to some of the major problems lot of your faces if they don't get it this could become something much more serious but what i don't expect is that we will degenerate to kind of violence that we saw between one thousand nine hundred two and one thousand nine hundred ninety if you're going to have enough of that they don't believe in souls and they certainly don't want repeated of the gods to begin one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand dollars thank you very much always good to talk to you george joffe a algeria specialist from cambridge university. north

korea's leader kim jong un has received an official welcome in vietnam's capital hanoi a day after nuclear talks with the u.s. president broke down trump says the u.s. had to walk away of a demand that left all sanctions on kyung and that north korea saying it only asked for partial sanctions relief our diplomatic editor james bays has more on the summit now from hanoi. kim jong un has stayed all in vietnam meeting with the country's president as his isolated nation needs all the friends it can get with the global sanctions now likely to stay in place following the failure of the summit what's happened has 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 rope or 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 desired but it just wasn't appropriate i want to do it right i'd much rather do it right than do invest an expert on the korean peninsula told me why he believes kim pushed hard to get so many surgeons lifted so early in the process for the north koreans they see an opportunity here 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 to. the mattick 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 j.m. of south korea who rescued things minutes after boarding air force one then 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 james byrd's. now security forces in somalia have shot dead three al shabaab fighters in the capital market issue ending an overnight standoff following a bomb attack on a city center hotel fighters held out for several hours in a building next to the hotel before being overwhelmed by special forces and the army at least twenty nine people were killed in this a side bomb attack on the market on the car in the hotel on thursday evening. was

the government has failed the security of the city is they did not stop this attack they should not be happy to see people dying especially after they fired security experts and week looted young inexperienced replacements and if there is catherine so i has more on the story. it's been an intense battle between somalia special forces and the gunman since that attack started on fast day night we are being told that gunfire rang the air of most of the night and throughout friday and this happened at a very busy streets one of the main streets in mogadishu at the hotel that was targeted is very popular with government officials and in politicians as well we have offices there people at this time all of the knives are out in the hotels on terraces having coffee socializing eating so you can imagine how

difficult it was and how chaotic it was when this attack started. being told that there's been huge damage on the hotel and other buildings that are just sent there who tell rescuers have had a very difficult time trying to get people out of this buildings but they're trying the best they can and the best fact constance's the situation is still very tense indeed all shabaab has claimed this attack and it has been able to carry out brazen attacks in the last few months in areas in mogadishu that are protected remember back in twenty seven thousand five hundred people were killed in a car in a truck bomb attack and it's also able to carry out attacks in neighboring countries like in kenya and in january twenty one people were killed when van men attacked. and office complex in the capital city nairobi so the group remains a very big threat to the region and a very big concern to the region. a canadian judge will decide next week whether

the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant huawei can be extradited to the united states after canada's government approved a court hearing men joe is currently on the house arrest after being detained exactly three months ago vancouver airport or request of the us government. and huawei face u.s. charges of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran the case has strained relations between canada and china enjoyed and joins us live now from washington so canada is prepared to allow the extradition case to go forward what happens now. well as you said the matter goes before a judge on wednesday in vancouver that's where monk has a home in british columbia there the government will make the argument why it believes that it should be allowed to proceed with the extradition of ms monk to

the united states in order to be tried on conspiracy wire fraud and bank fraud charges she was detained in early december while she was on her way from vancouver to mexico and that was at the request of the united states who say that she basically conspired to have. do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions and in violation of international sanctions these are charges was child ms monk has vehemently denied the process however does not mean that she immediately will be brought to the united states and in particular to brooklyn for a prosecution on these charges under canadian law there are multiple opportunities for defendants to appeal their extradition to another country and it's widely expected that munn will be availing herself of canadian law in that respect i cases

feel tensions between the u.s. and china and also china and canada what is the government in beijing saying about ace latest development. well beijing is not happy with this decision by the justice ministry and canada to proceed with the effort to extradite mung one show to the united states it says that this is a politically motivated act that there is no basis for the charges against among in the united states and that canada is not respecting the rule of law and so it's a very strong statement which the embassy in ottawa put out late on friday and it is a statement that is being backed up by authorities in beijing of course we are expecting to hear more from much chinese authorities perhaps as early on saturday because this is a matter where they do feel that the effort to prosecute ms mung as well as bringing

charges against huawei it's u.s. subsidiary and its subsidiary and tariff on are nothing more than a political witch hunt in order to keep in washington's good graces so it is something that we are very much on keeping tabs on here thank you very much share with that story from washington roslyn children. here the news hour most ahead for you as one prepares to travel to argentina russia shares venezuela's vice president a full support alsop to veto a u.s. led bit at the u.n. calling for fresh elections. not going to have to be striking at the heart to the president an electoral heartland the first major industrial stoppage in u.s. manufacturing since donald trump came to power and this woman manchester united star makes a positive start to life in asia i have more details on that in school. hello

the weather type of north new york that's at the end of february was warm sunshine record breaking this is clearly different the clouds moving at some speed now being driven by a strengthening wind that being the main difference it's windy in much of north and central europe the clouds increase and some rain coming in still not cold you know fourteen to fifteen degrees the early march is pretty good twenty in madrid we're single figures still in germany in poland and subzero in kiev even that is going to change as this wind does drive everything eastwards including generally speaking a rise in temperature where it's being cold recently but this cold wet heavy snow still going to fall in scandinavia sweden in particular differing dian through the baltic states and of course into moscow now was taking place in northern europe in the sas with the exception the eastern med it's not quite quite this interesting

breeze which isn't allowing the sun to warm things up very much yes we got twenty knowledge is by the same in most america but it's middle teens otherwise on the eastern med is increasingly windy and likely to wet once again. now you come further south you picking up up coming showers that the sun is moving quickly north and that when the showers of over the reached nigeria and cameroon you know we're there for a few days yet fairly heavy. for some it's murder say for others it's a way of life. a battle is a raging between the whaling industry and conservationists as the future of whaling in iceland the quarters decided. people in power are

killing whales on other josey. and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the war.

and at the stories making headlines this hour pakistan return to catch a pilot to india on friday in a move many people will deescalate recent tensions between the two new k.-rob countries. large demonstrations are underway across algeria against president abdelaziz bush defeat his plans to run for a fifth term in office and security forces in somalia have shot that three hour fight in the capital mogadishu ending an overnight standoff following a bomb attack on a city center tell. venezuelan opposition leader and. self-proclaimed interim president is traveling to argentina for a meeting with the president merits your machree white house has been travelling across south america with trips to brazil and colombia to gain support for a change of government in venezuela he's also now due to visit ecuador on saturday meanwhile the united states says it will continue to take appropriate action against the venezuelan president nicolas maduro earlier on friday the state

department impose new sanctions against six venezuelan government officials meanwhile russia's government to say it stands behind the duo despite growing international pressure for him to resign it follows talks between russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and the doors vice president del c. rodriguez in moscow said president vladimir putin had expressed support and solidarity from the duo he referred to as a colleague and friend that boston has more from moscow. the timing of the visit of douchy rodrigo's the vice president of venezuela is interesting because it comes only one day after russia lost a resolution of vote basically asking for support of nicolas maduro and his control over international aid this resolution got only four votes in the security council which is quite a dramatic loss but still the foreign minister laffer here in moscow has sat that he stands firm behind nicolas maduro and he says he is against any cynical attempt as he describes it to topple a legally elected government he also says that he knows that the united states is

trying to militias remember intervene in venezuela and they are basically buy in arms in the eastern european country to see to be sent there and plan some kind of syria skin area for venezuela as well he says there's not a single country in latin america who's supporting this kind of military action and that russia is basically supporting a peaceful solution for venezuela of course russia has a lot at stake in venezuela not only militarily politically but also economically billions of dollars have been put in the country in recent years especially also in the oil industry to most concrete results for the meat of the meeting today is that the office the european head office of the state oil company of venezuela will be moved to moscow from lisbon because venezuela said we can't get any guarantees in europe anymore to defend or state assets also russia has said that they have sent

seven a half tons of medicine and also agricultural products like wheat to venezuela to support the population there but nothing else concrete has been announced so far the spokesman of president putin bass called has said there has not been any agreement between mcdougal and put into land more money to venezuela and also they have planned a high commission meeting in april to do scarse more agreements between the two countries which basically gives it gives russia a few male more weeks to decide and look at the situation in venezuela which is happening very rapidly. well as you mentioned earlier the u.n. security council has rejected rival resolutions on venezuela leave the u.s. draft free and fair presidential elections the delivery of aid it was vetoed by russia and china and a counter proposal by russia in support of the government failed to get enough votes christensen in your reports. that as well an opposition leader traveled to

brazil on thursday visiting president jeroboam. and the 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 a 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 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 white house over at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east i'm not saying these approaches bill for legal and i say sure love latino america 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 look it is not true that the dilemma in venezuela 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 one by doa wonders if he'll be allowed to go home kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations. the new york times is reporting u.s. president donald trump ordered his former chief of staff to grant a son in law jared cushion a top security clearance despite security concerns that were raised about it well it's off to trump's denials that he had any role in question a security clearance chance he explains. question is appointment as a senior advisor to president trump was controversial the president's son in law had tangled business affairs but no political or diplomatic experience yet he was given some of the world's most complex issues to oversee on behalf of the u.s.

failed to report various contacts with foreign officials like the russian ambassador to the u.s. on his initial security clearance application but was granted an interim security clearance nonetheless that allowed him to view top secret information as well as even more confidential resources known as sensitive compartmented information he could see the president's daily intelligence report and attend classified briefings security at the white house was tighten them in february of twenty eighteen and those with interim clearances were no longer allowed to view top secret and above information pending review and that included cushion up at the time the president said it would be up to his chief of staff to review question of status so that will be up to general kelly general kelly respects general lot and general kelly will make that call i will make that call and earlier this year donald trump said the eventual granting of top secret security clearance to krishna had been out of his hands and. i was never involved with his security i know that he you know just from

reading i know that there was issues back and forth. about security for. the numerous people actually but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. general kelly but according to the new york times john kelly felt he was ordered to get a question about top secret security clearance and was so worried he wrote a memo to that effect the white house counsel don mcgowan also put the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies had about kirshner into writing the white house says it doesn't comment on security clearances and following donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen's testimony this week about how trump interacts with his subordinates there are questions as to whether kelli was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant question about security clearance but . congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further on to demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give them clearance and why the president trumped concealed his role

in overruling their recommendation there have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about the hope to exploit code from his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had christian records in his about pocket cushion himself has been in the middle east this week as he prepares his long touted deal of the century for the region reuters news will be another blue to his authority. washington. well now to syria where kurdish forces say they are about to launch the final push against i still in their last long hold in the country suspected i saw members and their families have been surrendering to the u.s. backed kurdish s.d.f. forces close to the village of a final settlement held by the armed groups around forty thousand people have left i still held territory in the past three months meanwhile the u.s. is offering a one million dollar reward for information about osama bin laden's son the state

department says hamza bin laden is emerging as a leader of al qaeda it says he could be on the afghan pakistan border in recent years hamza bin laden has released audio and video messages calling for attacks on western targets now saudi arabia has stripped him of his citizenship the reuters news agency is reporting that european union states have blocked a proposal to blacklist saudi arabia for lax controls on money laundering and financing terrorism for u.s. territories were also on the list prompting lobbying by washington i'm riyadh to veto the idea the rejection of the proposal won't be formally adopted until at least next week. with regards to the methodology i think that we explained that at length that it was done in close cooperation with the member states and that member states were consulted both on the methodology and on the countries last year . sudan's president omar al bashir has stepped down as leader of his ruling party

but is staying on as president despite months of demonstrations against his rule but he reportedly made the decision to extricate himself from party matters so he could instead concentrate on running the country. meanwhile thirteen protesters are to go to jail for between six months and five years they've been sentenced under the country's recently imposed day to the emergency law earlier this week a share out or public gatherings in a bid to stop the demonstrations have a morgan has more from heart him. president bashir delegating his powers to the deputy of the ruling party i met her is no surprise so expect it last week when he announced a state of emergency on friday but the question is what does this holds for the future of sudan let's remember that as part of the digitization is that it's said that the president is still a get in are to the deputy and till the election the religious right is convention annual convention is held that was supposed to be done in april but that has been postponed indefinitely so it's not clear when that would happen and then again the

question is if it does not happen in time what does that mean for the elections instead of the late the state of emergency is said to last for a year after that there should be elections next year in april twenty twenty but with an amendment to the cost to ship pottage was not convention to the religious party the question is will there be elections of course the state of emergency was also imposed to stop to stop the process that had been going on for ten minutes that hasn't happened yesterday we've seen thousands of people coming out just by the state of emergency that was in court so at the moment we have people who are very defiant of them sit in legislation that will continue to protest and till the president steps down we have a president who has delegated his power to his deputy and said that he stepped his stepping back to try to be a leader of the of the whole country not just his party and we have a party that is basically in other words it a for lack of better words sidelined because right now the government is controlled by the military most of the people that the president appointed to the state of emergency are part of the military including the eighteen governors of eighteen provinces that he appointed as the seat of allegiance was announced. global surge

in cases of measles is posing a growing threat to children wild wide according to a new report from the united nations it revealed that last year ninety eight nations reported a major increase in measles cases compared to the previous year so why is a disease that's highly preventable on the way back i can reports from the united nations it's a disease that's more contagious than a bolo influenza that it can be prevented by a simple readily available vaccine. and yet to the number of countries including some once declared measles free cases of the disease on the rise unicef and its partners are supporting governments urgently to reach millions of children in countries around the globe milesians is a highly contagious viral disease which remains an important cause of death among young children globally despite the availability of safe effective and in the

expensive vaccines some health workers contend that the increasing cases of the disease now is a direct consequence of successful vaccination campaigns in the past as a result we relaxed and the general population began thinking that the vaccination was perhaps not necessary so the uptake in vaccinations dropped which means the number of the vaccinated population declined and with that we lost protection in a number of regions some opposed to vaccinations for personal religious or medical reasons this is the case in our a gun in the u.s. described as an anti vaccination hotspot last month health officials declared a public emergency after at least fifty cases of measles were confirmed in january alone. and the situation is more critical in war zones like yemen where diseases like measles are made even worse by widespread non-nutritious. nearly sixteen thousand cases of the disease were reported last year at least two hundred sixty

children died yet despite the ongoing conflict there more than eleven million children were vaccinated last month alone the stress the beginning in a new global fight against an old and deadly enemy. here are united nations it's exactly a month until the u.k. is due to leave the european union its biggest trading partner a city of cambridge in the east of england voted overwhelmingly to stay in the e.u. its university is internationally renowned but the city has also become a leading light in europe science and technology sector from cambridge and the hayward reports this is a team effort to quiz its it works well with two people mattie islamic route through the originally from germany is teaching the next generation of the scientifically he's lived in the u.k. since nine hundred eighty nine and what to cambridge university for more than

twenty years the prospect of bricks it has left him feeling depressed about what the future may hold for the scientific community and society as a whole important people have left other people who normally would have come to take up jobs here are not coming students are worried some students are worried about coming we get increasingly questions about what you know what does it mean for us. yeah you know this the greatness of british science comes from english as an international language and therefore inviting in people from all over the interface of different ways of thinking come together that's where your creative. seventy three percent of people in cambridge voted to remain in the e.u. in twenty sixteen many people from all over the world it is affluent and has one of the fastest growing local economies in the u.k. this part of the highest percentage of remain voters in the u.k.

that's in part down to the largest student population who lived here many thought i think inside the. cambridge of course is steeped in history but it's developed a multi-billion dollar science and technology sector but springboard staff are designing life saving medical equipment globally but the company has a large customer base in europe keeping trade as open as possible in a post bricks it world is vital to the sector value apparent customers by contrast because we're about what we do and we can solve really quickly and effectively if that becomes slightly. more hostile. a lot of other choices. many here in this remain stronghold hope that brits can still somehow be avoided with just a month to go though they know that time is running out emma hayward al-jazeera in

cambridge now is a one and a half thousand workers at a factory in the us state of pennsylvania that makes railway locomotives have gone on strike they are unhappy it changes to their pay and conditions it's the first major strike in the manufacturing industry since president donald trump came to power as all know has been to meet striking workers in the city a very. david plato works the factory floor assembling train locomotives he said third generation from his family who has worked at the plant but today he's out in front of the factory on strike one of more than one thousand seven hundred welders and machine operators who are fighting to keep their jobs required for america no longer a race to the bottom we're tired of it so we're making a stand right here the general electric plant is now under new ownership web tech

a conglomerate that generates eight billion in revenue is the new owner protesting workers picketing and all the entrances to the plant say the new company wants to cut pay for new workers and force overtime something webb tech says is standard practice for the industry and that's exactly the problem according to the union boss workers' wages and rights are being stripped every day from country to country location location state to state here in the united states and at some point you know american workers are going to have to take a stand and say we've had enough the last time union members here at this plant in erie one strike was fifty years ago right now this is the biggest strike in the manufacturing industry anywhere in america in the last three years so for the strike has not gotten the attention of president donald trump whose election victory was largely thanks to his popularity in places like erie fueled by campaign

promises to protect good paying manufacturing jobs according to a local economist the number of manufacturing jobs in erie have been cut in half in the last decade reflecting the trend in the industry across the united states the trends from technology that affect the labor market with the competitive pressures to cope with zation that affect the labor market unfortunately those are one. major reasons why. for workers. no matter what. pennsylvania.

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business updates. going places together. with her. marion thank you so much roger federer is once again proving his long jeopardy the thirty seven year old is now just one win away from clinching the one hundred title of his career this was star thrashed born of course the dubai championships to reach the finals the twenty time grand slam champion won the match in straight sets six two six two in just over an hour federer is a dream to become just

a second man to one hundred titles american jimmy connors is the only other player to have the cheve feet federer off they started i suppose in the final. so here we go third time you know we'll see how it's going to go completely different conditions to some extent here the tougher match against north eastern eight and here is the one hours or last week and morris days was really not a great couple of weeks though and hope i can you know play maybe a little bit better than i did in melbourne but the thing's going to be tough because this the photos roos go to conference right now. also it's a person is from greece and is a rising star on the men's a.t.p. circuit the twenty year old francis gambles in friday's other semifinal sets of his is aiming for back to back titles after winning in marcell last week. formula one's pre-season testing has come to an end itself ferrari sebastian vettel set the fastest time on the final day in barcelona his time of one minute sixteen

point two two one means he's been fastest in tests for a second year running start all good news though vettel scored start on track with an electrical problem it was the third ball i believe the issue to hit ferrari in the last three days world champion lewis hamilton who was just point zero zero three seconds behind expects ferrari to really test mercedes when the new season kicks off on march the seventeen. this is going to be the toughest battle yet so it which is exciting for all of you and started for the for the fans. but as i said we are currently we're not you know for the pace is very very good at the moment so the challenge is going to be harder than ever. earlier we spoke to a fine writer leaps man he 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 big news story to sports at all really with his it's most famous famous thing.

and then. say he's done so as well and to sort of shake things up a little bit a bit like savings took over from red bull a few years ago. and have a really really good impactful for no one for our e of seeds hopes of the whole of italy basically on it as well it's very very important for that country they are successful and yeah i think tired of not being not being world champions and after all the success with michael schumacher and thousands i think now they're trying to rebuild that didn't get back up to the very top and it's crucially important that they end this drought of students possible i'm saying someone in the last five championships for a reason and i think they can take confidence in the last year they did sort of 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 not still fancy their chances of making it up but yeah still be a little bit concerned after last year and far it's begin with it's been

a similar story this time around players from pacific island nations are considering boycotting this year's rugby world cup in japan follows plans by world right. which would exclude some tonga and fiji's seen training here a proposed annual competition would include the six nations and rugby championship teams plus japan and the usa the plan has also been criticised by the captains of england and new zealand feral and karen green for not taking into account the welfare of players it's. all been to sleep the leaders were also dortmund have suffered only their second defeat of the season they were beaten away by two one the result means byron munich can ago level with them on points if they be back on saturday dortmund are trying to win germany's top division for the first time since two thousand and twelve real madrid manager santiago expects his team to be sharper

in front of goal they're getting ready to host arch rivals barcelona on saturday for a second class go inside a week were beaten three nil by barsa in the copa del rey semifinals on wednesday they managed fourteen shots but only four were on target this time the faceoff in little league with rails sitting in third nine points behind bars who topped the table i don't know him from going through but if you have to do some of the chances that should have gone you didn't go in but this is football that's the way it is otherwise they just seem things that i said the other day but we do have another chance it's another chance to score those shots that didn't go in. former manchester united star marwan fellini has made a good start to life in the chinese superleague the belgian scored the winner on debut for shange don in the leg as they beat beijing at rate one playing these new clubs signed him for a reported thirteen point two million dollars in february yet spent five years at old trafford but have fallen out of favor since the arrival of only getting

a soul share as united's caretaker manager. is physical. law this. holiday so it's hard to leave we want to design to change to do. the changes you disease due to the bull moose law is going to have to improve and it will do. and finally some over excited football fans in australia cause a bit of damage to their stadium this was the reaction that was sydney f.c. fans when cameron devlin scored the winning goal in injury time giving sydney a two no win over adelaide united in the elite and suddenly their team is now closing in on the title. and that's all you sport for now it's now back to marion and london all right fara thank you very much well that wraps up the news but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with a full bulletin of news for you top stories coming up in just a few minutes soon

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and the piano. the latest news as it breaks hours after the explosions to the police say the city is safe and the civilians one of the targets. with detailed coverage despite the high cost you're right young men are still volunteering to fight this partly out of a sense of coffee off the juices. from around the world it must see it different now that is if you do the fix for three five many many people here in the press to rip up. in germany's capital there is a barber like no other sort of put it to be hard on iraq or struck cross what you have. but as his city changes he's moving with the time. and going on the roads. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live there. the master barber of berlin this is europe on

al-jazeera. a captured indian fighter pilot is released from pakistan after the biggest eruption in hostilities for years between the two nuclear armed countries. hello i'm maryam namazie a watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up a show of defiance in algeria thousands protest against plans by president putin to seek a fifth term in office a gun battle in the somali capital between the police and al-shabaab fighters ease .