survivor of berlin this is europe on al-jazeera the arab . 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 rash 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 is over but at least twenty nine people were killed in the attack. canada says it will

allow the u.s. extradition case of a senior executive from hallway to proceed. into a program our top story pakistan has returned a captured pilot to india on friday in a move that many people hope will be escalate tensions between the two countries is even optimism it will lead to talks between the nuclear armed neighbors but shelling continues between the two thought two sides those living in the disputed region of kashmir say they are caught in the crossfire as jamil reports now from new delhi. at the walk a border crossing in punjab wing commander in birth moniz released from baathist only custody back to india two days after the aircraft was shot down.

because the officer. who did. 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. terrorism and supported the insurgency in kashmir these are the real key issues mean 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 pilots 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 mir the new crop of young educated people they have taken to. this is something which is unprecedented this former kashmiri civil servant made news for resigning from his post to protest against the government in new delhi's policies policies he says are far more militaristic leaving no room for peaceful negotiation. institutions of dialogue negotiation those being kind of becoming an element and

nor important but no significant political initiative from delhi has been there for last few years the indian government has long complained that pakistan supports groups who promote violence and mere 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. well now kemal hide as more on the story from islamic times august on has handed over the indian fire led to war shot down by a fungus tony croft progress on saying that the indian aircraft were trying to while a deadline crowed and flying into a bunker sunny days after the indian pilots buried there were mauled dead 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 prime 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 wanna go aboard off and budgets on it now hoping that day will be a gesture from india also to deescalate the crisis at the moment the buggers on the military forces are on red alert the aircraft are flying constant air patrols going showed 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 headed buggiest on feed their double lives now in india gold and goofy red there they will also come up with the overthrow. large demonstrations are underway in algeria against president abdelaziz bouteflika plans to run for

a fifth protest some of them violent have been held in several cities across the country including in the capital algiers demonstrators a demanding the leader who's been in power for twenty years with a draw from elections scheduled for later this month we've baccarat reports. of violent clashes on the streets of the algerian capital algiers as peaceful protests turned violent oh the protestors hold police tear gas was fired by since last friday thousands have joined rarely seen anti-government protests i. gathered in algiers of the biggest demonstrations in the country in decades there were similar scenes in several other cities that demanded the country's ailing president abdulaziz beautifully co withdraws from the country's fourth coming presidential election. the student led protests have been growing in recent days ever since the eighty one year old leader issued a statement announcing his intention to run for

a fifth term. journalists have also joined the growing demonstrations calling for greater press freedom and political reform. who was elected president in one thousand 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 seventy two frail to cast his ballot without held for demonstrators say two weeks to the. it's widely believed the country is really run by a group of military and civilian advisers who failed 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. well i spoke to george joffe a in algeria specialist and research fellow at cambridge university he says the protests and not just targeting the president when he's not on the stand it is not him who really is that the. it's the group behind in 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 one to come to their own choice to guarantee their continuity in power and that's a large area that's really object to the demonstrations which began in a very small way a week ago and now urgent throughout the whole country and there are very serious warning to the regime that is now going to find a solution we were just curious carolyn will live.

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 or demands it left all sanctions on chang'an but north korea says it only asked for partial sanctions relief mattick 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 during 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. in the u.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 j m 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 jamesburg al-jazeera. security forces in somalia have shot dead three al shabaab fighters in the capital market issue ending in overnight standoff following a bomb attack on a city center hotel the 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 a suicide bomb attack on the car on a car in a hotel on thursday evening. because the government has failed the security of the city as they did not stop this attack they should not be happy to see people dying especially after they fired security experts and recruited young inexperienced replacements algis there is katherine sawyer has more. it's been an intense battle between somalia special forces and the gunman since that attack started on fast day night we're being told that gunfire rang the arrow 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 are of the night 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 a 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 for constance's the situation is still very tense indeed all shabaab has claimed this attack and it has been able to carry out a 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. kurdish forces in syria say they are about to launch the final push against i.c.l. and their last stronghold in the country suspected i saw members and their families have been surrendering to the us back a c.f. forces close to the village of the final settlement held up by the armed group around forty thousand people have left i still held territory in the past three months. you al jazeera live from london more still ahead on the program reports the president trying to board a top security clearance for his son in law jack pusha despite security concerns and as venezuela's opposition leader one guy i don't profess to travel to argentina russia once again backs as it echoes madeira.

hell of the record breaking heat from this trail in summer still hasn't gone away and if you look at the movement of the clad you can see look it's coming from north to south that usually means the breezes coming from the hot interior and it'll affect cities temperatures thirty seven is still the case in adelaide on saturdays a little bit cooler him album but still hot same is true for tasmania cooler on the coast you'll notice and this breeze in on shore now that the seas are still big around the gulf coast through queens and as well but they are on shore breeze but also allow a few showers to build the otherwise a pretty dry picture of her standing twenty two you'll notice warming up against lowly on sunday at the same time as temperatures start to drop in adelaide and melbourne was still talking about above thirty degrees now there wasn't very much actions sky you know straight here just these few showers you can see the same is true launch least throughout new zealand there's a lot of cloud out in the southern ocean and you'll see that but overland enjoy the

relatively warm weather and the almost unbroken sunshine from door into the us it's not true in the southwest pacific where it is quite stormy no is it true in japan where incoming clouds not switching sauce they but on sunday will start to bring significant rain into the foster. all counting the cost this week the secretive money working to influence the u.k. exit from the european union good morning vietnam will get to grips with one of southeast asia. plus who really benefits in the five g. telecoms are counting the cost. of.

a comeback a quick look at the top stories just on returned a captured pilot to india on friday in a move many people hope will be escalating recent tensions between the two countries. large demonstrations have been held in algeria gets president abdul aziz because if he has plans to run for a fifth term in office and security forces in somalia shot dead three fighters in the capital mogadishu ending in overnight standoff following a bomb attack on a city center hotel. now a canadian judge will decide next week whether the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant can be extradited to the united states off to canada's government approved a court hearing mang one joe is currently under house arrest after being detained

exactly three months ago vancouver airport at the request of the us government manning and hallway face u.s. charges of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran case has strained relations between canada and china well al jazeera is rosen and jordan joins us now from washington so clearly canada is allowing this extradition case to proceed what happens next. well as you suggested mario the matter goes before a judge in vancouver british columbia on wednesday march sixth and that's where the justice ministry will make its argument why the extradition of mung juan cho to the united states should proceed as requested by officials here in washington now it does not mean that the extradition if the judge approves is going to go through right away the canadian legal system allows for multiple appeals in extradition

matters and it's likely and it's widely assumed that mung one joe and her legal team will appeal as often as possible in order to avoid her being transferred to authorities in brooklyn new york where the she has been indicted on wire fraud bank fraud and conspiracy to commit those fraud all in the purpose of trying to hide. business dealings with the companies in iran against u.s. and international sanctions but it certainly puts canada in the firing line of this dispute that is playing out essentially between china and the united states what's been the reaction from beijing. well through its embassy and the chinese government says that it is extremely upset and very angry that the government is recommending that the extradition of miss mung to the united states

be carried out it says that canada is not following the rule of law and that this whole matter is politically motivated that there is nothing to justify the allegations that were brought forward in an indictment in brooklyn new york last month and so they are very very angry and you can expect that there will be perhaps more to come not just from authorities in beijing on saturday but there might be other retaliatory acts let's not forget that after ms mung was detained in vancouver back in early december the chinese government then apprehended a couple of canadian a person's in their country and have held them mainly seen by many people here in the united states and in ottawa as an act of retaliation thank you very much for the latest from washington on this story rolls in jordan. now the new york times is

reporting u.s. president donald trump wanted his former chief of staff to grant his son in law a. top security clearance despite objections raised by the intelligence community the report contradicts denials that he had any role in question a security clearance as she explains. his 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 on the thames classified briefings security of the white house was tighten them in february of twenty eighteen and those with interim clearances were no longer allowed to view top

secret of above information pending review and that included 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 won't 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 jarrett i was never involved with the 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't go and also. the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies have about kirshner into writing the white

house says it doesn't comment on security clearances 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 kelley was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant caution about security clearance but congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further under 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 cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had krishna quote in his back pocket cushion himself has been in the middle east this week as he prepares his long touted deal of the century for the region friday's news will be another blow to his authority. washington. venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed

interim president is traveling to argentina for a meeting with president. has been traveling across south america with trips to brazil and colombia to gain support for a change of government in venezuela is due to visit ecuador on saturday as well meanwhile the united states says it will continue to take appropriate action against 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 do it just by quoting international pressure for him to resign it follows talks between russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and majoris vice president del c. rodriguez in moscow said president putin had expressed support and solidarity from the duo he referred to as a colleague and friend step boss and has more from moscow. the timing of the visit of doubts he 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 a lot for 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 say to be sent there and plant 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 hundred 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 basque off has said there has not been any agreement between mcdougall 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. the u.s. is offering a one million dollar reward for information about osama bin laden son the state department says hundreds of 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 sudan's president omar al bashir is stepped down as leader of his ruling party but to staying on as president despite months of demonstrations against his rule. meanwhile thirteen protesters are to go to jail for between six months and five years they've been sentenced under the country's recently in post-dates emergency law earlier this week bashir outlawed public gatherings in a bid to stop the demonstrations a global surge in cases of measles as posing

a growing threat to children worldwide according to a new report from the united nations it reveals that last year ninety eight nations reported a major increase in measles cases compared to the previous year why then is the disease that is highly preventable on the way back my counterpoints from the united nations. it's a disease that's more contagious than a bolo influenza but it can be prevented by a simple readily available vaccine. and yet in a 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 are posed 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 malnutrition. 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. united nations. just a quick look at the stories making headlines this hour pakistan returned a captured pilot to india on friday in a move many people hope will deescalate tensions between the two countries when commander abed nandan vitamines plane was downed on the pakistani health side of kashmir on wednesday. well first. of all.

the. good work. the officer. did wrong. major demonstrations have been held in algeria against president abdul aziz beautifully his plans to run for a fifth term protests were held in several cities across the country including the capital algiers demonstrators want an eighty one year old leader who's been in power for twenty years to withdraw from the elections scheduled for later this month. security forces in somalia have shot dead three al shabaab fighters in the capital mogadishu ending an overnight standoff following a bomb attack on a city center hotel at least twenty nine people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the. hotel on thursday evening. 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 one joe is currently under house arrest after being detained exactly three months ago vancouver airport at the request of the us government magnan huawei face u.s. charges of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran the cases strained relations between canada and china and the venezuelan opposition leader who is traveling to argentina for a meeting with president. why don't he's been travelling across south america to ghana support for a change of government in venezuela the united states says it will continue to take appropriate action against venezuela president nicolas. you're up to date with our top stories this hour that's it for myself and the team here in london coming up next on al-jazeera it's counting the cost. with a new leader in brazil comes changes to how we deals with its thriller in the u.s.

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