must see it different now that is if you that speaks for shit by many many people here in the past to rid of. the return that could help decrease tensions over kashmir the indian pilot shot down in pakistan is now back on his side of the border. i'm not about this in this is all it is a real live from doha also coming up anger and frustration in algeria i suppose tassos say their president should not run for the fifth. day after mouth of a seizure fighters are killed after a standoff in somalia's capital canada says well allow the extradition case against

weiwei executive to go ahead a decision china firmly opposes. the indian pilot captured by pakistan has been to hospital for a check up after being freed when command and on both a man was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region pakistan says his release is a gesture of peace india's prime minister has praised the pilot for his exemplary coverage reports 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 his aircraft was shot down. as i was going to go to work i was. going to look at it that was not there all day

and then i want to get all of. this pick up and run good particularly because the officer has hacked. from an arab in ridgewood have already i don't know. i have to have people who have already gotten back to 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 for men to terrorism and support to the insurgency in kashmir these are the real key issues cush 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 kashmir a new crop of young educated people they have taken to all metro systems but this is something which is unprecedented this former kashmiri civil servant made news for resigning from his post to. protest against the government 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 eleventh and nor important but no significant political initiative

from delhi has been there for the 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 you delhi. gestation is a former u.s. state department official and he says both sides need to act to diffuse the situation and that the u.s. has taken a backseat role this time 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 hammad in a couple of other groups in 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 u.s. 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 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 trump 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 washing say vietnam. pakistan's foreign minister is boycotting a meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation because india was invited. skipping the or icy event in abu dhabi sending lower ranked officials instead says india is not a member of the fifty seven nation organization india's external affairs minister

is attending as a guest of honor she wants pressure to be put on countries that support what she's calling terrorism. and funding. the infrastructure to get better just. being in shape to get it. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across all geria demanding that their eighty one year old president pulls out of next month's elections as he's both a flicka has been in power for twenty years that is a run for a fifth term but protesters across the country say he's unfit for the job may barker reports. they are the biggest demonstrations in algeria in decades this is the country's capital out. there similar scenes in several other cities

that demanded the country's ailing president up to lizzie's 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. flicka 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 file it without health. demonstrators say he's too weak to leave. it's widely believed the country's 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 but national

liberation front the 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 neve barca al-jazeera. george of a is an algeria specialist and he's a lecturer a cambridge university is a center for international studies he says people aren't just protesting about the president the social economic challenges are certainly very important and they're not just the unemployment there the fact that algerian really used to drop dramatically with the decline in oil prices there the implications of that the algerian economy its growth there also to the question of the result of that being the internet and there's also a sense of sclerosis

a political system that simply is not operating and an algerian finally become thinner. and there's a very strong feeling of knowing who they should be forced to do enact a man who is incapacitated and stroke their fist turn in breach of the constitution and the this there should be first in the only proper discussion or any probably the one where we saw the stone that is not here who really is that the channel. it's the group behind 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 foist on the country their own choice to guarantee their continuity in power and that's a lot of europeans 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 can leave and will live. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in afghanistan which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers a short about the base and one province is shared by afghan and american troops the u.s. says it sector wasn't threatened the afghan defense ministry says twenty attackers including eight suicide bombers were killed i level talks between the u.s. and the taliban are expected to resume in qatar later on saturday security forces in somalia have shot dead three fighters ending a standoff following a bomb attack on a hotel in the center of the capital the fighters held out for several hours in a building next to the hotel in mogadishu before being overwhelmed by special forces and the army at least twenty nine people were killed in the suicide bombing on the. hotel on thursday night. 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 find security experts and inexperienced replacements catherine so it has more from kenya's capital nairobi. 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 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 and and politicians as well we have offices there people at this time all of the nights 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 to 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 vandeman 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. still ahead on al-jazeera venezuela's opposition

leader continues his tour of latin american nations trying to shore up support to oust president nicolas maduro. hard slog we look at why it's taking so long to clean up one of the world's most polluted rivers. alice thursday was a wet day in the levant and the cloud that brought the masses on its way through iran i think will eventually regenerate what's happening in southern iran pakistan and afghanistan i went picture for society on notice at the same time the cloud is starting to gather again on the coastal event so you've got a potential of rain anywhere from almost sinai to beirut and in lebanon that will prompt showers inland the posts the possibility of flash floods is that i think not

this time because the concentration that he's trying to move north woods sunday's picture is a wet one for something to northern syria in the finals of iraq much drive for pakistan and strew out more or less for iran federal breezes been blowing down the gulf for the last twenty four hours the sun is keeping the temp should down to about twenty one doha twenty and i would be much the same in riyadh it's been dusty one as well dust storms have been the been reported and with the winds still strong it will be a while before they die down a bit of a lighter breeze come sunday reflected on the slightly high temperatures would be on that nothing much in the sky to consider yourselves for this access on in southern africa with changing seasons slowly so the showers all that frequent in south africa no need as far north zambia. sponsor. with a new leader in brazil changes to how we deal with in the u.s. brazil's vice president is playing an active role. asked you not to talk to the

press. the president just told me to be careful the vice president of brazil. zero. zero zero a reminder of our top stories this hour the indian pilot's taken captive by pakistan has been released in what islamabad is calling a gesture of peace. the man was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region. the taliban has claimed responsibility

for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers should about base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops though the u.s. says it wasn't threatened. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across all geria over president abdelaziz bouteflika is planning to run for the fifth time next month police fired tear gas at some protesters in algiers but the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. as president donald trump has china to lift all tight ropes on american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks between the world's two biggest economies are progressing well also pointed out that he didn't impose twenty five percent tariffs on friday as he to region of the planned china and the us are trying to negotiate a way out of a trade war that's seen tit for tat hikes in town since last year. i can any and

judge will decide the next week if a top weiwei executive should be extradited to the u.s. canada's government has approved an extradition hearing from long one soon the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant is under house arrest after being detained three months ago at the request of the us government along the way faced charges of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran a case triggered a diplomatic row between canada and china roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . there are four countries involved in the case of joe the chief financial officer of the chinese high tech firm hall way huawei has a subsidiary based in terre hong kong cop but ms money is alleged by the u.s. government of lying about what sky com did and what scott khan's relationship to is she also is accused of lying to us banks about the relationship between law and sky

call it so much so that these banks were at risk of running afoul of u.s. sanctions and possibly being fined and it's officials being jailed for allowing iranian money to come through the u.s. financial system the situation is this the u.s. wants to bring this monkey to brooklyn for trial on these charges the canadians have detained ms monk who has two homes in british columbia and they're trying to work out if when she can actually be extradited there's a hearing coming up on march sixth however just because she has this hearing to try to fight her proposed extradition doesn't mean that money will be coming to the united states any time soon for its part beijing is disgusted and upset that the canadian government is trying to move ahead with efforts to extradite ms monk to the united states it says that not only other charges against. unfounded they're

accusing both canada and the united states of engaging in a kind of political witch hunt and they say that they are going to do what is possible to try to release ms monk from this legal complication as well as to try to clear walkways name. at least seventeen palestinians have been shot and wounded by israeli security forces during protests along gaza's barrier fence gaza's health ministry says three paramedics and a journalist were among those hurt by tear gas then rest came a day after the un human rights council accused israel of committing crimes against humanity during last year's protests. the white house has been given until monday to hand over documents giving details of security clearances and follows reports that u.s. president donald trump ordered that his son in law jetted should be given top level clearance drums previously denied he had any role in question a security pass shihab rattansi reports. question his appointment as

a senior advisor to president trump was controversial the president 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 general lot and general kelly will make that call i won't make that call and earlier this year i

don't trump said the eventual granting of top secret security clearance to question or had been out of his hands and. 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 we just swaraj general kelly but according to the new york times john kelly felt he was wanted 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 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 kelli was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant question about security. but

congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further and are demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give him clearance and why president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation there 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 the al-jazeera washington. you know being union members have blocked a proposal to add more countries to a blacklist of those accused of money laundering and the financing of armed groups the countries including saudi arabia and for u.s. territories they would join sixteen nations already on the list including iran iraq

pakistan and ethiopia the european commission says it wants to stop suspicious bank transactions and illegal activities but the top administration and saudi arabia lobbied against the plan calling it politically motivated a u. nations unanimously vetoed the move diplomats said to have been concerned over potential legal challenges keating's the director at center of the financial crime and security studies and he says some e.u. members may have been worried about the lists impact on trade and relations. i think countries are realizing that coercion through financial means whether it's hard sanctions that we see used around the world or whether it's perhaps slightly more subtle means by designating countries much 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 union 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 dirty money from outside the union venezuela's opposition leader is in argentina trying to rally support across latin america have president nicolas maduro removed hong kong has already met the leaders of brazil and paraguay is vowing to return to venezuela as early as next week and he said book reports. one way though is touring latin america to thank those leaders who have come out in

support of his bid to replace me as venezuela's president they're members of the so-called group and why though says their support is crucial in this i want that i will be returning to caracas soon to continue carrying out the judy that i swore to and that all of venezuela swore to we're going to continue mobilizing in the streets of venezuela despite the risks and even the death threats. the opposition leader was banned by the government from leaving venezuela on a tour that's already taken him to brazil imperiled why but while he's away the united states is promising to keep up the pressure on the government of. this time new sanctions on those who prevented food and medical supplies from the united states entering venezuela but the united states has imposed new visa restrictions on individuals responsible for undermining venezuela's democracy we are applying this policy to numerous aligned officials and their families and girl supporters

the abuser violate human rights steal from the venezuelan people or undermine venezuela's democracy are not welcome in the united states but as the u.s. tries to isolate my would've been if we left leaders turning even more to russia for support he's ordered the european union based office of the state of company to move to moscow in an attempt to bypass recent economic sanctions imposed by the united states recently which in just the sort of the show we cooperate closely and coordinate our actions in the international arena and at the moment our cooperation is gaining special importance on the circumstances of venezuela facing a frontal attack on a shameless intervention into its internal affairs we will categorically counteract such attempts and will be defending the ideals norms and principles of the united nations. with wife out of the country the big question is when he will be able to

return doing so will allow him to continue challenging. the inside the country with a united opposition front that was divided until he came along. a cleanup of one of the world's most polluted rivers is taking longer than expected every day about twenty thousand tons of waste and three hundred i'm forty thousand tons of waste water dumped in indonesia alone slowly reports from bandung and west java a why it's such a tough job. cleaning up indonesia's most polluted river is a huge undertaking even the military's involved machines have been brought in to bury the tons of rubbish fished out from the cheetah it's been a year since the government launched a program to clean up the river. but one military commander tells us progress has been slow with an action plan only put in place recently but they were not about

the school we were supposed to have four thousand six hundred military personnel working on this last year but we only had one thousand six hundred this year because of a lack of funds four hundred of us involved thankfully the villages see the benefits of this program so they've been helping us so. the cheeto river flows through northwest java and provides eighty percent of the water supply for the capital jakarta this photo taken in january by a local environmental group shows untreated waste from a textile factory dumped directly into the river runoff from farms upstream also contribute to the contamination a government agency that routinely tests the quality of water in the cheetah room says it went from bad to worse last year. the slow progress is even more apparent in other areas this looks like a landfill but it's really part of the river and the surface is completely covered

with all kinds of rubbish plastic bags botolf but here you get a sense of the scale of the problem and just how massive the cleanup effort is the plan to rehabilitate the river isn't only about improving water quality floating garbage clogs up drainage the river frequently overflows during the rainy season. people in the village of cheap have had to endure floods year after year. in the. three minute when you look at this this happens every time it floods our streets and homes get covered in mud and trash and i worry not for myself but for my children and grandchildren. the newly appointed governor of west java indonesia's most populous province has been tossed to the cleanup we make. much progress. the perception. of five years stephanie are different from the

degree we will show the world from the dirtiest of the further we can become one of . the for us. to make good on his word he'll have to ensure not only that the river is cleaned up but that the laws that punish those who pollute the river on forced florence al-jazeera by indonesia. this is all just syria these are the top stories the indian pilot taken captive by pakistan has been released in what islamabad is calling a gesture of peace one compound commander i mean and on vote the man was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region . all of you all of us olympians are happy to have him back so was he to be back i was going to continue going here. on another country's custody and he comes back

into his country you're going to i think he was very emotional. happiness in his eyes very evident hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across all geria over president abdelaziz bouteflika is planning to run for a fifth next month police fired tear gas at some protests in algiers but the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. security forces in somalia have shot dead three fighters ending a standoff following a bomb attack on a hotel in the center of the capital the fighters held out for several hours in a building next to the hotel in mogadishu before being overwhelmed by special forces and the army and these twenty nine people were killed in the suicide bombing on the market around the hotel on thursday night. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers the show about the base in helmand province is shared by afghan and

american troops but the u.s. says it sector didn't come under threat because president donald trump has asked china to lift all tariffs on american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks between the world's two biggest economies are progressing well china and the u.s. are trying to negotiate a way out of a trade war that started last year a canadian judge will decide next week if a top while way executives should be extradited to the u.s. when one is who is under house arrest after being detained at the washington's request she's accused of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran. seventeen palestinians have been shot and wounded by israeli security forces during protests along gaza's body of fans a day earlier the un human rights council accused israel of committing crimes against humanity but. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world

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