with australia's most generation of recovery. is a really important issue suicide writes do a mind very high still twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from one i'm come on santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera. celebrations in india after pakistan hands back an air force pilot captured when his plane was shot down also anger and frustration in algeria as protesters fed up with their president demonstrate against his bid for a fifth term. because politicians give the white house three days to turn over

documents on security clearance after reports president donald trump's son in law received special treatment in canada says it will allow the extradition case against weiwei executive men one show to go ahead a decision china firmly opposed. so the indian pilot taken captive by pakistan has been released in what islamabad is calling a gesture of peace wing commander. walked back across the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed region of kashmir there's been reports now from new delhi. at the walk a border crossing in punjab wing commander of the london bart man is released from pakistani custody back to india two days after the aircraft was shot down.

i think we're going to work was. where i was going to look at that was not there all day and then i want to get all of you take we're not going to. take up this one good particularly because the officer has hacked. from an arab in ridgewood have already i don't know. have people who 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 these years of mistrust that have been generated by this pakistan for men to terrorism and support to 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 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 kashmir 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 kashmir a new crop of young educated people they have taken to all metro systems but 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's policies policies he says are far more militaristic leaving no room for peaceful negotiation but we have seen the old institutions of dialogue negotiation those being kind of becoming better and relevant and no more important and 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 in kashmir 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 fares jamil al jazeera new delhi. well as tensions have flared between india and pakistan kashmiris living on both sides of the disputed border say very other one suffering the most imran khan has that story now from. by car on foot the residents of leave in 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 are that the more. over there more

after. hearing the government doesn't do anything we have to come to insulted we're now wondering 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 our forces behind there are also similar scenes happening in indian administered kashmir just post that military checkpoint law is the line of control the effective border between pakistan and indian administered kashmir and it's not just on this side of the border that kashmiris scared people are also fleeing from over the. shows from the pakistani side have increased in recent days good luck but. please.

may god protect everyone as well as hindus and six be that the to politic and science so that peace peace is in the region and believe in the prosperity those prayers may well be in vain if and 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. how does it keep. going to talk to jeff stacy about this now in washington he's a former state department official a nice to have you with us jeff is it enough the return of the pilot not enough certainly to and fifty years or so of disagreement between two countries but enough to calm the situation right now. it probably is for now precisely because pakistan has an interest even more than india doesn't deescalation because of the

economic difficulties it's having you've seen the gulf countries who are helping bail out pakistan all argue in favor of rapid deescalation but none have mentioned kashmir so but ironically it's actually imran khan who compared to his counterpart has been really the more controlled of the two in this crisis we were actually discussing that in the newsroom a little bit earlier his performance if i can use that sort of word he's been very . sober i guess in the whole thing what do you think but is that just thinking well i just have to be here because of as you describe the situation. i think it is but it also there's another element here he is in a really unique situation having made a deal with the pakistani intelligence service an army basically to leaves most

foreign policy in their hands while he focuses on domestic policy of course in the overall evolution of pakistan which is a great country in so many respects imran khan's challenge is to nudge power away from them as they begin to understand that they can't do things like hold on to the haqqani network in afghanistan and things of this nature so there's that element as well but it's still impressive for somebody who is not long in the office and has a lot of pressures is the whole situation a quote unquote victory for you then a man who has got reelection coming up in a couple of months well in a way and he is a strong man so that's one of the dangers of escalation because india might try something else i mean they seem to be celebrating it in their pilot back but they lost two aircraft overall for this thing to resolve you know moving forward pakistan has to rein in joshua mohammad and

a couple of other groups and the indians need to pull back some of their troops and you know respect human rights a little better both have nuclear weapons now yet they do things that the u.s.s.r. and us would never have done during the cold war in gauge each other like this and that's what the international community has been so concerned about so basically we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves then because with the decades of history between the two countries this could flare up again in any moment. it really could but it it shouldn't i mean you've got things like the u.s. sitting this one out which is a big surprise normally the u.s. is right in there with secretaries of state even presidents getting on the line with both sides and that's been virtually absent in this instance partly because the trumpet administration is so neglectful in state department terms and partly because they're probably sitting this one out you've seen the u.s. south asian strategy target pakistan in a way that node ministration has done before except in private so there's that sort

of amateurish element that we've seen on display in north korea recently watching say vietnam jeff studies the great talking to you about all of this thank you for joining us well pakistan's foreign minister is boycotting a meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation because india was invited. skipping the oh i see event in abu dhabi sense and lower ranked officials instead he says and he's not a member of the fifty seven nation organizations or should be india's external affairs minister is attending however as a guest of honor and wants pressure to be put on tundras that support what she calls terrorism if you want to see it that india. and the state. and. getting peace it's meant to be introspective that better just. and. that i think and being in shape and that get it. based in that country. here's

what's coming up on this news hour the aftermath of a sci fi it is the killed after a standoff in somalia's capital. the warnings that decades of progress in the fight against measles could be done as the number of cases saul's worldwide and with a new formula one season approaching for a reason. to be in the details on that. the white house has been given until monday to hand over documents detailing security clearances this is after reports president donald trump ordered his son in law to be given top clearance there trump has previously denied any role in question of security the details now from. 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 and attempt classified briefings security of the white house was tightened 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 at the time the president said it would be up to his chief of staff to review question a status so that will be up to general kelly general kelly respects share a lot and general kelly will make that call i will make that call and earlier this year i don't trump said the eventual granting of top secret security clearance to krishna had been out of his hands and jarrett

a good i was. 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 we just swaraj general kelly but according to the new york times john kelly felt he was ordered to give 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 have about krishna 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 kelly 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 and demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on cushioning that made them reluctant

to give him clearance and why president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation they have been multiple reports that various foreign powers including the u.a.e. china israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their 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 cushion a 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 shihab rattansi al-jazeera washington. with us from boston massachusetts glenn connelly's a former deputy national intelligence officer for the transitional threat for transitional threats that with the cia nice to have you with us ken i think the first thing i'd like to just broad brush with you first is security clearance what is it about what is the access that you get that makes it i guess so difficult to get one in the first place the whole process of getting on. well

the access that you receive depends on the level of the clear and center can go up to what we call compartment information that's well above top secret much more restricted than that and that will be satellite intercepts or human sources or technical measures very privileged information that would be compromised not just the information but the means of acquiring it if there were ever a leak so that's what you guess how you get it depends on your character and on the vulnerability that you are assessed to have for compromise for pressure and in this instance it would appear that there were both of those categories that were problematic i think the main one however is the issue of character because if one is open about financial obligations and complications and so on then one can address those but one can't address lying on an application about contacts

foreigners things like that so then does it just appear to come down to the fact that donald trump and said this is my guy i want to in place make it happen despite the fact that there were a lot of questions over whether he should have such a clearance. well that's as clear as day absolutely you're you're completely correct the president ultimately has the legal authority to say give karl a clearance give jarrett a clearance or give kemal a clearance and he can override the recommendations of the bureaucracy so you and i could be sitting with jarratt of donald trump wish to however it doesn't happen i'm not aware of any instance when that has happened even a loyalist than a fabulous like michael pompei o deferred to the cia on this specific issue about gerrard's clearance it's only trump that overrode it because he has no one else that he trusts and he doesn't care about the procedures or the risk of compromise

it would appear and so we have a situation where the white house is being out something it's got until monday to hand over documents concerning all of this what do you expect to actually happen given that this administration seems to be able to dodge controversies like this or at least move on from them with well probably another controversy well if the united states were a functioning democracy with checks balances in the rule of law from the presidency on down then what would happen is that the executive office of the presidency would hand over the documents requested or obliged to hand over and one would see that the president overrode the recommendations of the bureaucracies and that the bureaucracies were concerned for issues of character and potential compromise but that's not the world that we live in and i think that what we'll hear is a claim of having corresponded to the required filled requests while ignoring them

twisted also into an attack on the deep state and the and partisan opponents of dollars from i think that's what i'm going to have always a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time thank you come on. demonstrators in algeria are demanding their eighty one year old president pull out of next month's elections. but the fleet has been in power for twenty years and now plans to run for a fifth term but protesters across the country say he is unfit for the job most of the demonstrations are peaceful but there were some confrontations with police as well as the story. of violent clashes on the streets of the algerian capital algiers as peaceful protest turned violent. protesters hold police tear gas was fired back just last friday thousands have joined rarely seen

anti-government protests. earlier large crowds gathered in algiers in 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 withdrawals 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 announcing his intention to run for a fifth term algerian journalists have also joined the growing demonstrations calling for greater press freedom and political reform. buttafuoco 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 health. demonstrators say it's too weak to leave. it's widely believed

the country is really run by a group of military and civilian advisors who failed to find a successor to ensure the continuity of the country's leading party the national liberation front parties repeatedly said the elections will be free and 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 we have from jeremy keenan earlier a visiting professor at queen mary university school of law who told us these protests are about more than just the president's age. and this is where a lot of the international press has got it wrong they said people do not want. a dying man in the presidency sure they don't that's quite true but that's really just a manifestation of this that the focusing point of what they want is they want massive

dramatic change they want to get rid of this regime hopefully peacefully it is or oppressive regime it's got increasingly corrupt people refer to it as a matter of state the people had enough of it they want to get rid of it the question is how do they do it they can't do it by our rising because the regime is very final and so they're acting at the moment with extraordinary responsibility these demonstrations we've seen enough the last three weeks on and off but the ticket during the last week these big demonstrations have been extraordinary responsible. in terms of not trying to provoke the police behaving if you like in in an extraordinary responsible manner but they want to get rid of that they want change they want change you know big time change they want the regime out in its entirety and hopefully peacefully fifty percent of the syrian population forty two million people fifty percent of them under twenty seven thirty percent of those are

unemployed so those are the basic demographics which are which are difficult tough to start with you also have a country which is potentially extremely rich the revenues from oil for the last twenty years have been at least a trillion dollars of that of these three hundred million dollars unaccounted for that is the fraud if you like the looting that this regime is taken from the wealth of the country people know that they're sick of it. in somalia security forces are shot dead three five is ending a standoff following a bomb attack on a hotel the fighters held out for several hours in a building next to the central city hotel in mogadishu before being overwhelmed by special forces and the army at least twenty nine people were killed in the suicide bomb attack on the. hotel on thursday nights. the government has failed the security of the city is they did not stop this is attack

they should not be happy to see people dying especially after they fired security experts and because your experience replacement. the canadian judge will decide next week if a top executive should be extradited to the united states canada's governments approved an extradition hearing for men one show the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant who is under house arrest after being detained three months ago at the request of the us government and face charges of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran a case that triggered a diplomatic route between canada and china let's check in with rosalynn jordan on this one in washington d.c. so if it all happens then what awaits in the united states well. she theoretically would be brought to answer for the allegations against her in brooklyn new york which is where the indictments were handed down in

january but that's probably not going to happen very quickly and that's because under canadian law mung has the ability to appeal the apparent effort to extradite her to the united states to face wire fraud bank fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud charges that were brought down by the brooklyn u.s. attorney she has the ability to appeal it's widely expected that she will appeal and as she has been under house arrest in the meantime mainly because the canadians have said that they believe in the rule of law and that they are trying to deal with this extradition request in a way that comports with canadian laws broadly speaking rose what sort of problems as this case caused when i think about it you've got china you've got canada you've got the u.s. you go to iran involved as well you've got trade battles already going on between

china and the u.s. at the same time. well for our viewers who may not be aware all of these charges go back to the u.s. government's allegation that. way and several of its subsidiaries of wild way allegedly conspired to do business in toronto in contravention of u.s. sanctions and in contravention of u.n. sanctions and furthermore down only were they doing business in violation of the sanctions but that they apparently lied to u.s. authorities when they were confronted with evidence that they might have been violating those sanctions regimes and so this is the case of the chinese suggesting that the prosecution or attempted prosecution is basically a politically motivated act they've accused canada of trying to cozy up to the

united states by trying to pursue this extradition some may recall that at least two canadian officials in china were detained right after mung was arrested in vancouver back in early december it has exacerbated tensions between a and b. jang the embassy in ottawa has said that it is very much unhappy with the decision to pursue this extradition hearing and it repeated to the chinese government's contention that this is a politically motivated act that the facts do not bear out and that money should be cleared of the accusations that huawei should be cleared of the accusations as quickly as possible but because this extradition hearing argument is going to happen on wednesday march sixth it's pretty fair to assume that these tensions between china and the u.s. and canada on the other hand are not going to dissipate anytime soon rosalynn

jordan with the latest on monkland joe and while way there thank you. so. heavy on the news hour the mediator in chief south korea's president vows to help the united states strike a nuclear deal with north korea and fears over the impact of bragg's it on science we were visiting historic university city of cambridge and spoke the former manchester united star makes a positive start to mike in the age of the details coming up with our most was. how it may now be march when to prevent heels in a good part of the u.s. all the northeastern states the great lakes and back to the the plains this is cold enough any to drop snow and of course in california story's been

a huge amount of rain and snow but the rain principally producing flooding in there's more to come on saturday night this line that runs across colorado and towards us was rough in new york the coldest to the north and that cold is sinking slowly sag and i but it is all the same so it's bringing the snow south as well you know almost as fast as kentucky certainly up towards d.c. so huge amounts of snow the temperatures dropping behind minneapolis a high by day of minus sixteen and chicago has dropped to a high of about minus three on sunday winter's not finished with the u.s. after all the caribbean is seeing slow changes here but all clad in a daily basis showers more likely in jamaica and cuba and increasingly costa rica as an example nicaragua and maybe honduras not greatly but more cloud jemmy's speak in the area and the fairly familia shape of rain takes the biggest showers from northern bolivia sue brazil down towards rio and sao paolo where they have been

heavy. right. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean to me that if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and there unconventional methods to eliminate

corruption remain people on al-jazeera. on the news here at al-jazeera these are our top stories the indian pilots taken captive by pakistan has now been released islamabad is calling it a gesture of peace we. walked back across the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region tens of thousands of people around they did cross cheerio over president up of these but the fleet is trying to run for a fifth term police fired tear gas at some protesters in algiers for the

demonstrations were mostly peaceful. and canada has begun the process of extraditing a top executive to the united states. is under house arrest after being detained at washington's request she's accused of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran also in the last few minutes we've had a development in the u.s. china trade situation a tweet from president trump he says i've asked china to immediately remove all tariffs on our agricultural products including beef pork etc based on the fact that we're moving along nicely with try. discussions he then went on to say i did not increase their second tranche of tariffs to twenty five percent on march first this is very important for our great farmers and me he says so donald trump confirming that he has asked china to immediately remove all tariffs on u.s. agricultural products because he believes things are progressing well in the trade talks between the two countries the venezuelan opposition leader is now in

argentina or on his diplomatic mission to shore up lassen american support for the removal of president maduro on whether we'll meet the argentinian president came after visiting power acquired on friday why though is seeking international backing for a transition of power in venezuela the u.s. is also upping the pressure imposing new sanctions and revoking visas of senior venezuelan officials because of a tourist crackdown on the west an aids the u.s. envoy for venezuela says he is concerned whether why that will be able to return to his country safely but as trip abroad defines a supreme court ruling which blocked him from leaving venezuela every day brehm's is also called on russia and china not to undermine american efforts clearly the support of russia china for the euro regime helps the regime. i don't think you're going to see large amounts of additional money put in by either

russia or china. but there are there are political support their diplomatic support. helps the regime and we have made the argument unsuccessfully to date to both russia and china that they're not helping themselves that is if their concern. or to the degree their concern is about the recovery of monies they have lent or invested in a bankrupt venezuelan economy will never be able to repay those amounts only a venezuelan recovery will be able to do so and that's not going to happen under the majority in. well they've been competing narratives over why talks broke down between the u.s. president and north korea's leader in vietnam trump of course says the u.s. walked away over demands it would lift all sanctions on pyongyang north korea says it only asked for partial sanctions relief more and all of us with our diplomatic

editor james bays in 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 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 designed 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 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 two similar ten years diplomatic process. says 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 in of south korea who rescued things. minutes after boarding air force one and

leaving the first person president trump was president moon it's clear south korea is now being given the job of cleaning up this mess james. meanwhile south korea's president says he will help washington and pyongyang reach a deal on denuclearization when jane was speaking at the one hundredth anniversary of the independence movement against japan broad reports from seoul. 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 so yeah 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. but it's 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. hope trump and kim will meet again and that will lead to peace on the. peninsular

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 who now back in his familiar role as mediator between the u.s. and north korea macbride al jazeera. to syria where chlorine was used as a weapon in the town of duma but an investigation into the deadly attack doesn't lay any blame the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it found reasonable grounds the toxic chemical was used but can't say who was responsible remember doomer was the final target of the syrian government's campaign to regain control of the eastern suburbs of damascus from opposition fighters armed groups gave up the days after the attack last april you know kurdish forces in syria say they're about to launch the final push against i saw in their last stronghold in the country men from the area and their families been

surrendering to the u.s. backed s.d.f. the syrian democratic forces close to the village of who's around forty thousand people have left us and remaining territory in the past three months. european union members of blocked a proposal to blank list saudi arabia for lax controls on money laundering and financing terrorism more than twenty countries are reportedly on the list including saudi arabia and four u.s. territories that is the u.s. virgin islands american some more and puerto rico the e.u. says it wants to stop suspicious bank transactions and illegal activities the trumpet ministration and riyadh lobbied against the list however calling it politically motivated the rejection of the proposal will be formally adopted until at least next week a spokeswoman for the european commission says e.u. member states were consulted on the list before it was published the photo of tom keating is a director at the center for financial crime and security studies who says financial regulations are increasingly being used as

a foreign policy tool i think countries are realizing that coercion through financial means whether it's hard sanctions that we seized around the world or whether it's perhaps lightly more subtle means by designating countries money money laundering threat of very powerful tools tools of international coercion and so i think as people realize that this is a powerful tool they're going to increasingly use it now the interesting thing is that we're seeing european union countries voting against the european commission in this case perhaps because of the trade ties and the investment ties with some of the countries that are on the list leaders are going to have to make a judgment do they value the integrity of the of the european financial system more or less than the investment opportunities operated around the world and we certainly seen in the last twelve to eighteen months that the integrity of the european financial system is very poor with scandals like the dansko bank scandal in denmark and dystonia so the european you need to clean up the financial system

in europe and one of the things they're trying to do is to protect the european system from the money from outside the union. saudi activists who were arrested on accusations of undermining security and harming national unity last year will be put on trial prosecutors say they've completed investigations and are preparing court referrals rights groups say the cases include mostly detained female activists who campaigned for the right to drive. the former argentinean prison carlos menem has been cleared of involvement in a cover up after a nine hundred ninety four bombing that killed eighty five people but the court jailed the now retired judge who led the investigation into the attack on a jewish center along with a former intelligence chief iran was blamed for carrying out the bombing but denies any involvement to store enough. for twenty five years they demanded justice they accuse the argentine state of failing them the prison

sentence issued on thursday gave them something they had so long been after. wife was killed in the attack on the jewish community center in argentina. i have a bit more peace now because we knew we were being lied to they always ignored the victims for them it was all about politics and trying to hide what really happened but destroyed all the evidence so we still don't know whether anything they say is true. the one nine hundred ninety four attack against the army i was argentina's worst terrorist attack eighty five people were killed and more than three hundred injured. argentine judges had always claimed iran was behind the attack a charge it long denied. but the cover up operation carried out by the administration of then precedent meant em has prompted even more questions about what really happened. during the trial prosecutors attempted to prove that

a four hundred thousand dollars bribe was paid to a police informant witnesses were and there was a failure to investigate what is known as the syrian lead that lead involved a close friend of former president cattlemen m. who was originally from syria men m. was acquitted in the trial. for the month son was also one of the victims in the attack. i'm not happy with the result the sentences with. too short and menem was acquitted i was hoping for a lot more because they harmed the investigation every day that passes our chances of seeing justice become small this sentence confirms that not only members of the administration of the catalogue man i'm back in the one nine hundred ninety s. but also prosecutors and a judge were involved in miss directing the investigation into the attack some of the relatives are saying that they're hoping that a new investigation will begin now that will help them shed light into what

happened twenty five years ago. has been filled with irregularities a prosecutor investigating the case with a shot in the head four years ago. lawyers say the trial sends a strong message to the argentine judiciary who has been accused of being driven by political motives in the past. this is a message to the justice system that everything that has gone wrong with the army cannot happen again you cannot invent false cases you cannot coerce witnesses intelligence officers cannot be involved and it continues to happen all the time. thursday sentence does not help those who lost their loved ones find closure. but it certainly shows the failure of the argentine state in finding the truth. a global surge in the number of measles cases is posing a threat to children there was

a warning coming from the un's children agency it says in twenty nine hundred eighty countries reported a major increase in the cases of measles compared to previous years ten countries alone contributed three quarters of that global surge including conflict hit ukraine and yemen but also wealthier nations like france according to the world health organization one hundred thirty six thousand people died from the virus last year the global health body blind what it called vaccine hesitancy mike hanna has more and more of this from the united nations it's a disease that's more contagious than a bolo influenza and 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 is a highly contagious viral disease which remains an important cause of death among

young children globally despite the availability of safe effective and inexpensive 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 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. coming up on the news hour we're going to look at the football fans who took the celebrations just a century fox was last. britain's

looming exit from the e.u. is worrying the u.k. science community who say it's scaring off students in academics who would normally come to study and teach the city of cambridge for example which voted overwhelmingly to stay from there it would reports. this is a team effort to because it's it works well with two people. 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 cambridge university for more than twenty years the prospect of work that has left him feeling depressed about what the future may hope 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 signs comes from english as an international language and therefore inviting and 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 cambridge 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 at springboard for designing life saving medical equipment the sold globally but the company has

a large customer base in europe keeping trade as open as possible in a post breaks it world is vital to the sector customers by contrast because. what we do and we can solve really quickly and effectively if that becomes slightly . more hassle. choices many here in this remain stronghold hope the brics it can still somehow be avoided with just a month to go though they know that time is running out and the heywood al-jazeera in cambridge. thanks very much roger federer is once again proving his long in jeopardy the thirty seven year old is now just one win away from clinching the one hundredth 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 very to become just the second man to one hundred titles american jimmy connors is the only other player to have the cheve the feat federer wolf they started i suppose in the final. so here we go third time you know we'll see how it's going to go to completely different conditions to some extent here the tough match against north eastern eight and here is one or a little last week and more ses is really having a great couple of weeks now and i 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 that's 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 gilmore feat 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 it saw ferrari sebastian vettel set the fastest time on the final day in barcelona is time of one minute sixteen point two two one means he's been fastest in test for a second year running start all good news though vettel scored start on track with an electrical problem it was the third ball ideology issue to hit ferrari in the last three days world champion lewis hamilton who was just point 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 excited for the for the fans. but as i said we are currently we're not you know for ari 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 league's man who 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 spores already with his its most famous famous thing. and then. say these dominance as well and to sort of shake things up a little bit a bit like savings to go from red bull a few years ago. and have a really really good impactful 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 that tired of not being world champions after sex with my perfume and thousands i think now they're trying to rebuild that didn't get back up to the very top and yet it's crucially important that they end this drought of students possible i'm saying someone the last five championships for a reason and i think they can take confidence in the south last year they did out develop the catch ferrari crossed course of the season so even if they're on the

back on that it will still fancy their chances of making it up but yeah i think i'll 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 follow us plans by world rugby to set up a league which would exclude samoa tongue that and what the chinese seem training care 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 when pharaoh and hear and read are not taking into account the welfare of players it's. all been displayed the leader the dortmund have suffered only their second defeat of the season they were beaten away but she won the result means buyer need to connect a level with them on points if they beat munching glahn back on saturday dortmund

are trying to win germany. top division for the first time since two thousand and twelve. real madrid manager santiago solari 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 parcel in the copa del rey semifinals on wednesday they managed fourteen shots but only four were on target this time the faceoff in little ego with real sitting in third nine points behind bars who topped the table i don't know if we're going to drop out of the a bit of some of the chances that should have gone didn't go in but this is football that's the way it is i don't say to same things that i said the other day but we do have another chance it's another chance to score those shots that's been going. for manchester united star marwan fellini has made a good start to life in the chinese super league the belgian scored the winner on debut for shange don in the leg as they beat beijing at rate one playing these new

pubs signed him for a reported thirteen point two million dollars in february he had spent five years at old trafford but had fallen out of favor since the arrival of only gunners so sure as united's caretaker manager. i did. it's hard to we won't. get used to. 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 city a two no win over adelaide united in the a league and suddenly their team is now closing in on the title. and that's all your sport for now more later.

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