with a gal who is very lucky to be. a developer. is disputing the economic. development is not the same as democracy head to head on al-jazeera. the return that could help decrease tension over kashmir the indian pilot shot down in pakistan and is now back on his side of the border. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in frustration in algeria as protesters say their president should not long for a fifth. canada says the extradition case against weiwei executive mung one show

will go ahead but china says it firmly opposes the decision and. we look at why it's taking so long to clean up one of the world's most polluted rivers . the indian pilot captured by pakistan has been to hospital for a check up after being freed wing commander on the bottom line was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region says his release is a gesture of peace india's prime minister has praised the pilot for his exemplary coverage reports from new delhi and at the walk a border crossing in punjab. his release from pakistani custody back to india two days after his aircraft was shot down. as. well. i was going to really look at that procedure of going to america i want to

get all music 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. i have is happy to 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 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 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. 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 eleventh and no important and 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 well jeff stacey 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 so 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 in 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 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 washing say vietnam. pakistan's foreign minister is boycotting the meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation because india was invited shah mahmood qureshi is skipping the owaisi event in abu dhabi is sending lower ranked officials instead of that she says india is not a member of the fifty seven nation organization india's ex down in the fares

minister is attending as a guest of honor she wants pressure to be put on countries that support what she calls terrorism. undertow of thousands of people have rallied across all geria demanding that their it a one year old president pulls out of next month's elections abdelaziz bouteflika has been in power for twenty years he's planning to run for the fifth town but protesters say he's unfit for the job in a block of reports. they are the biggest demonstrations in algeria in decades this is the country's capital out g.m. is. 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 comfort 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. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in afghanistan which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers the shoot about to base in helmand 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 it was eventually overwhelmed by special forces and the army at least twenty nine people were killed in the suicide bombing on the. hotel on thursday night u.s.

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 trump is also pointed out that he didn't impose twenty five percent tariff on friday as he'd originally planned china and the u.s. are trying to negotiate a way out of a trade war that seemed tit for tat tat of hikes in france last year a canadian judge will decide next week if a top weiwei executive should be extradited to the us and his government has approved an extradition hearing from 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 way face charges of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran the case triggered a diplomatic row between canada and china russia and 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 hawk way huawei has a subsidiary based in tehran called sky cop but ms money is alleged by the us government of lying about what sky com did and what sky comms 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 its 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 wolf 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 mung 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. still ahead an al-jazeera. was it was a win for worshippers not of a long battle at the al aqsa mosque compound but there are more problems inside and fears over how science will be hit by bragg's it revisit the historic u.k.

university city of cambridge. 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 facility 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 pictures of one person to the north and 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 to keep an attempt should down to about twenty one twenty i would be much the same in riyadh has 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 it's a bit of a lighter breeze come sunday reflected on the slightly higher temperatures we're beyond that nothing much in the sky to consider yourselves for the sax i mean southern africa would change in season slowly so the show's all that frequent in south africa no need as follow with zambia. this week's price a new method of cremation is helping him to transition become more environmentalists friendly and we visit a danish community in to have taken sustainability to new heights just all and then on the horizon is some so i only know they are officially one hundred percent when

you. look at that this is it that's the energy right generated with the change on al-jazeera. you're watching on is it a reminder of our top stories this hour the indian pilots taken captive by pakistan has been released and what islam about is calling a gesture of peace going commander i've been on done by command was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region. underage of thousands of people have rallied across all geria over president abdullah seems both

a fleet that's planned to run for the fifth time next month he's fired tear gas at some protesters in algiers but the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. a canadian judge will decide in next week if a top while way executives should be extradited to the u.s. long one show is under house arrest after being detained at washington's request she's accused of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran. 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 laws shouted question or should be given top level clearance trump has previously denied he had any role in questions security pass shihab rattansi reports. question as appointment as a senior advisor to president trump was controversial a president who had tangled business affairs but no political or diplomatic experience yet he was given some of the world's most complex issues to oversee on behalf of the u.s.

failed to report various contacts with foreign officials like the russian ambassador to the u.s. on his initial security clearance application but was granted an interim security clearance nonetheless that allowed him to view top secret information as well as even more confidential resources known as sensitive compartmented information he could see the president's daily intelligence report and attend classified briefings security at the white house was tighten them in february of twenty eighteen and those with interim clearances were no longer allowed to view top secret and above information pending review and that included cushion up at the time the president said it would be up to his chief of staff to review question a status so that will be up to general kelly general kelly respects share a 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 a top secret security clearance to question a 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 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 clearance 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 shihab rattansi al-jazeera washington. at least seventeen palestinians have been shot and wounded by israeli security forces during protests along gaza's body of fence gaza's health ministry says three paramedics and a journalist were among those hurt by tear gas came a day after the un human rights council accused israel of committing crimes against humanity during last year's protests. worshippers like some lost compound are back in control of a meeting hole that's been closed for sixteen years by an israeli court order

there's a tension over who controls the area led to the arrest then release of the cleric who helps administer the compound and smith reports from occupied east jerusalem. this was a rare success for muslim worshippers who'd faced down israeli police over access to a hole in the x. a compound the most a gate was sealed by the police sixteen years ago because a court had banned a hamas affiliated group that met here the group was long ago despondent says alexis custodians but the police have consistently refused to unlock the chains so the worshippers did but the mercy gate is an integra part of a and we sacrifice everything we have including ourselves including our children to the mosque oh the trust all walk says locking the gate is another example of israel trying to assert itself inside the axa compound at the roots of this to seize these

who controls the holy sites beyond that gates now israel claims sovereignty over all of east jerusalem but includes here in the old city on the alex a compound but in nineteen sixty seven jordan and israel agree that the jordanian money islamic trust would look after affairs inside the compound while israel would manage security outside. groups of jewish ultranationalists escorted by police regularly visit the site and in increasing numbers to them this is the temple mount non muslims are allowed to visit but not pray the ultranationalists want rule changed. and earlier this week the israeli agriculture minister paid one of his regular visits to the mercy gate. told israeli radio he'd like a synagogue built here palestinians see all this as per. docketed never every muslim has the right to interfere and pray in the missi gate for many years the occupations unjust measures have stopped us praying here thank god today we prayed

and held the friday prayers in it. untouched for sixteen years the mercy gate hole now needs extensive renovation but will also need approval from the israeli police who inspected the site this week only they can grant permission for building materials to be allowed in bernard smith al-jazeera in occupied east jerusalem saudi activists arrested last year after being accused of undermining security and harming national unity are to be put on trial prosecutors say they've completed investigations and they're preparing court referrals rights groups say the cases include detained women activists who've campaigned for the right to drive. venezuela's opposition leader is in argentina trying to rally support across latin america to have president nicolas maduro removed. has already met the leaders of brazil and part of what is vowing to return to venezuela as early as next week

reports. one way though is touring latin america to thank those leaders who have come out in support of his bid to replace as venezuela's president their 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 mcgraw aligned officials and their families and girls 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 venezuela's leader is turning even more to russia for support he's ordered the european union based office of the state owned company to move to moscow in an attempt to bypass recent economic sanctions imposed by the united states recently which is just the sort of the issue we cooperate closely and coordinate our actions in the international arena i'm at the moment are co. operation is gaining special importance on the circumstances of venice waiver 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 to doing so will allow him to continue challenging. the inside the country without united opposition front that was divided until he came along. with. the clean up of one of the world's most polluted rivers is taking longer than expected thousands of tons of rubbish and waste water a dumped each day in the church that i'm in indonesia reports from bundle in west java or 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 would number out the stool 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 only 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 cheeto 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 the surface is completely covered with all kinds of rubbish plastic bags bottles 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 some. any young man we feel how do you know i would remind you that when you look at this this happens every time it floods our streets and homes get covered in mud and trash 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 making. much progress for the perception.

of five years to seventy years given from the degree we will show the world from the dirtiest of the further we can become one of the most livable. in the world. 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 louis al-jazeera indonesia u.s. president donald trump may have left vietnam some time ago but north korea's leader has stayed on comes on has met vietnam's president and has taken part in a wreath laying ceremony at a war memorial it's kim's a fourth fallen visit in less than a year president trump left the hanoi summit with ken early after making what was described as little progress in talks in the denuclearization of north korea britain's planned exit from the e.u. is worrying the u.k.'s science community who say it's scaring off students and

academics who are normally come to study and teach and i hear were reports from the university city of cambridge which voted overwhelmingly to stay in the union. this is a team effort to because it's it works well with two people mattie islam these 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 bricks it has left him feeling depressed about what the future may hold for the scientific community and society as a whole important people have left other people who normally would have come to take up jobs here are not coming students are worried some students are worried about coming we get increasingly questions about what you know what does it mean for us. yeah you know this the greatness of british signs comes from english as an international language and therefore inviting and people from

all over fine and 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 six states 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 really poor many who thought i think inside there. cambridge of course is steeped in history but it's developed a multi-billion dollar science and technology sector its springboard for designing lifesaving medical equipment the sole 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 now you're paying customers by contrast because we're the best what we do and we can solve their problems really

quickly and effectively if that becomes slightly. less good in more hassle. a lot of choices many here in this remain stronghold hope that brick that can still somehow be avoided with just a month to go they know that time is running out and the heywood al-jazeera in cambridge. this is all just here are these are the top stories the indian pilots taken captive by pakistan has been released and what a slum about is calling a gesture of peace when commander i've been on done voth a man was welcomed at the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region. on earth you all of us all indians are happy to have him back so was he will be back on his country if you're here. in other countries

custody and he comes back into his country you're going to i think he was doing all of them by emotion with you but the happiness in his eyes were already evident hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across all geria over president idolizes both of flickers planned to run for a fifth term next month police fired tear gas in algiers but protests 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 at least twenty nine people were killed in the suicide bombing on thursday night at the. hotel the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers the shuttle back to base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops though the u.s. says it sector didn't come under threat you know as 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 way out of a trade war that started last year a canadian judge will decide next week give a top while way executives should be extradited to the u.s. . under house arrest after being detained at washington's request she's accused of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran saudi activists arrested last year on accusations of undermining security and harming national unity or to be put on trial rights groups say the case is include detained women activists who've campaigned for the right to drive those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after rise by for that. one day fidel castro arrived to the country club and they decided to play god. and certainly if you didn't castro said

she could write magic shade if we could. all move the softest cuban so far in this magnificent landscape a chronicle of the revolution and its aspirations through the prism of its architecture cuba's unfinished spaces on al-jazeera. since the industrial revolution human sources of polluting gases have been growing . because machines food production construction the.