the authorities around two hundred thousand use edis have little choice but to live in poli equipped camps in the kurdish region of the old iraq who obama want this issue ation is critical that the political bickering and security tension among the various forces is overshadowing on the town's future the only solution to move forward is to pull all these forces out and live the people of the town decide their fate the years edis often called iraq's forgotten people after suffering some of the worst atrocities on the eisel political violence and distrust means they are now also struggling to rebuild their lives. must more northern iraq. well still ahead on al-jazeera how the french president is going to an unlikely source as he tries to quell the protest movement against him. and signs of a foreign relations for the u.s. china trade standoff could

a deal on terrorists be imminent. hello something like sixty millimeters of rain has fallen out of this latest belt shorts for a science now that fell a little bit further in the wall so it's food chance to run down hong kong possibly get the tail end of it there i think and then we end up balls when we get to monday was fine looking weather drop and humidity reduction the clouds so blue skies for you well away from shanghai down to hong kong hanoi is going to gradually who's seeing showers and that general line of latitude has been seeing rain generating recently the latest batch in pakistan and afghanistan right now that will tend to be at its heaviest i think in the next couple of hours snow of course further north you're optically afghanistan that is gone through time you get to sunday leaving fine weather behind on the sunshine but maybe sparking

a fair share too as far east as behind mostly it's going to be in the high ground of sevens about platter and fine weather with increasing slightly increasing temp she is throughout india and to some degree pakistan the wind has been a feature recently of those countries down the gulf it's still blowing on sunday a little less strongly maybe giving twenty three in die hard less in abu dhabi with that wind tends to die the sun and this time the east getting stronger so you get the middle twenty's in qatar increasingly warm for the west you get. the fact. the smallest place on the planet money could soon be lost. its an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen without intervention. i would say here to a vast now it's a race against time to try to change the sheets take

a crisis that's in the majesty plan to stave off extinction techno. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines high level talks between the u.s. and taliban have resumed in u.s. envoys. says an earlier round ended with on president progress. at least seven people have died in cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say pakistani artillery fire killed a woman and two children standing stand says indian troops killed two civilians and

two soldiers. kurdish forces in syria say they expect the battle to retake i saw his last held area to be over soon u.s. backed syrian democratic forces launched a final push against i saw in the village of bugaboos on friday the last remaining group of civilians was evacuated just hours earlier. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across algeria demanding their president pulls out of next month's elections and that as these words a flicker has been in power for twenty years he's planning to run for a fifth term protesters say he's unfit for the job they've barker reports. they are the biggest demonstrations in algeria in decades this is the country's capital algiers the area similar scenes in several other cities that demanded the country's ailing president up to lizzie's political eco 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 seven t. too frail to cast his ballot without help. demonstrators say he's too weak to lead . 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. the standard is not here who really is the. it's the group behind the group in the presidency backed up by the cynical economic burns the leading business. and the army and the security. who are trying to force their own choice to guarantee no continuity in power and that's a large areas really object to 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 saudi activists who are 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 courts referrals

rights groups say the cases include mostly detained women activists who campaigned for the right to drive 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 the us president also pointed out he didn't impose twenty five percent tariffs on friday as the the originally planned china and the u.s. are trying to negotiate a way out of a trade war that seen tit for tat hikes in tariffs since last year or always chief financial officer will appear in court next week after canada allowed an extradition request to proceed among one joe was arrested at vancouver airport in december is at the request of the us government accuses mung and the chinese tech giant of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran the case triggered a diplomatic row between canada and china beijing says it will be watching the case

closely for as well as opposition leader is now in argentina is on a diplomatic mission to shore up latin american support for the removal of president nicolas maduro one way though will need argentinean president maurizio my career after visiting paraguayan friday kwaito is seeking international backing for a transition of power in venezuela the us is also imposing new sanctions and revoking visas of senior venezuelan officials over maduro's crackdown on western aid. in france yellow vests demonstrators are marching for the sixteenth weekend in a row calling for president about all my crawl to resign the protest began in november over a proposal to raise fuel taxes the movement has since grown into anti-government rallies my callers been holding what he calls a grand debate nationwide to provide

a forum for people to voice their concerns. support for those rallies this fall and recently though as frozen by crawling gauges people across the country in that great debate the strategy is to gather ideas for to form a more inclusive government as david chaytor reports from the city of. it's gaining support from one of the toughest crowds. when the gate closes behind you and number twenty three boulevard robert spear in rants you might lose your freedom but you don't lose your vote the champagne city's only prison is the latest venue for president macaroons attempt to outflank the yellow vest rebellion and listen to the voice of the people we can't identify the inmates but we can bring you their opinions so many business things you love as demonstrations were beneficial as a gathered not of political parties or to people to french regarded williams or differences it was a good movement as it actually triggered this debate

a debate that was needed. a thirty one year old m.p. from the president's party was the heart of the debate with the prisoners she passionately rejected their cynicism about politicians they would never even i think we are living an excellent democratic exercise as of today we have received more than a million contributions to this debate and that is a success it was time to give back the word to the french people if you do you see the big debate is meant to reach every and every level of society. even here behind bars and it is beginning to work present emmanuel mackerels ratings are beginning to climb once again. the same can't be said for the conditions in french prisons they have one of europe's highest rates of overcrowding. on the news one of the france is sacred to be the homeland of human rights but the penitentiary system is

not given the means to guarantee the inmates human rights european regulations require we are two in a cell have a shower and a landline but sometimes we have four people in man square meters. must be debates go straight to the key point it allows the detained population to be fully recognized as citizens as french citizens but radicalization is flourishing in french prisons the debate about how to tackle that has barely begun yet and scores of ice all fighters may soon be repatriated from syria david chaytor al-jazeera runs. african cinema is being celebrated the top film festival in bikini a fast so more than one hundred sixty pictures are being featured in this year's lineup nicholas hark has more on the pan african film and television festival of we're going to go.

comedy. for britain love. drama. and even animation. the world's biggest african film festival is celebrating fifty years of the continent's cinema. beyond the pomp and ceremony in brick enough asas capital an opportunity to discover and showcase some of the best storytellers on the continent. among them a director. with her film their last set during the ivory coast civil war it's a story of a father in search of his wife and son the unlikely hero the film is is twelve year old daughter hyla who saves her father from despair and self-destruction. kali could be making history this year as her film is shortlisted for the prestigious prize of the jury never has a woman when the award show in the. minority there are only four women directors

and especially there have been many times when i've been the only woman and so we need to fight so that our peers finally recognize the roles we have and send it just like the character illustrated and i thought. well there is the increased threat of attacks from rebel groups in the style who are trying to overthrow the government targeting public gatherings people came out in numbers to watch the one hundred sixty movies being played out across all nine cinemas in ouagadougou. cinemas continues to be a weapon for freedom it's our way to defend what's most precious to us and express our changing identity. a love story between two kenyan women was temporarily banned in kenya but it was a warm welcome from critics at the festival and is also a favorite to win a prize. african cinema as. a growing market estimated to be worth two billion dollars a year and yet filmmakers struggle to find funding and fortunes even private institutions

that come from let's say you have for america finance our cinema we are not able to voice the needs of ways we're not able to have the political activism and social activism families to say in our eyes. and now we need african cinema is like any other cinema it's funny gritty and offers a fresh social commentary on society well these movies are a moment of escaping discovery for others they're an expression of wrong unfiltered emotions depicting people too often ignored nicholas hawke al-jazeera. bushfires in the australian state of victoria have led authorities to issue an emergency warning for the area people living around state east of melbourne have been told to leave their homes as more than three hundred firefighters try to control the fast moving blaze it's believed the fires were started by multiple

lightning strikes on friday space-x. has launched its capsule into space for the first time the young man test flight is a major step forward for the company owned by billionaire in long mask one hundred bodies he has more. it's said that that. nasa describes it as a historic moment that could pave the way for a new era of space exploration vehicle getting down here at kennedy space center in florida billionaire elon musk's company space x. successfully launched an unmanned test flight bound for the international space station. what to what today really represents is a new era in space flight and an era where we are looking forward to being one customer as an agency and as a country we're looking forward to being one customer of many customers in our in a robust commercial marketplace in lower earth orbit so that we can drive down

costs and increase access in ways that historically have not been possible. the crew dragon capsule atop the falcon nine rocket is the first space shuttle intended for commercial use the only passenger on this demo one mission is a dummy named ripley carrying with him four hundred pounds of supplies for the space station it's expected to arrive on sunday and if all goes well the next mission could put two astronauts in space as early as this july nasa wardy contracts to space x. and boeing to develop cheaper methods of going to space since retiring its shuttles in two thousand and eleven thus ending its reliance on russia so use spacecraft which cost more than eighty million dollars a seat what it means for the space program is it's really opening up much more regular.