the kingdom continues to promote what it sees as its reform agenda its attempts to modernize saudi arabia for him hunted al jazeera. brazil's former president who is in our still a little silver was released from prison temporarily to attend his grandson's funeral and he was transported by helicopter. after leaving his cell for the first time since being in prison nearly a year ago seven year old grandson died of meningitis on friday the silver serving a twelve year sentence for corruption and money laundering. spacex has launched its astronaut capsule into space for the first time unmanned test flight but it's a big step forward for the company owned by the billionaire ilan musk mohamed d.c. has more. it's sad but. nasa describes it as a historic moment that could pave the way for a new era of space exploration vehicle 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 low 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 the space x.

and boeing to develop cheaper methods of going to space since retiring it 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 access to the space station redundancy right now we're relying on just one system the russian soyuz system we also have boeing starliner vehicle coming later this year so so we really will see a lot more capability in terms of our ability to launch humans into space space x. and boeing own and operate the spacecraft and will be leasing them out to nasa and other clients one struggle is and regular ration i think we will. we will. seek commercial customers. which the nasa mr and that national journal has been very supportive of that of that idea so but we've been very focused on just making sure

that the vehicle worked and maximizing secure liability. elon musk's ambitions go far beyond shuttling astronauts he says it won't be long before the dragon starts taking commercial customers to space some of that but d.c. al-jazeera is francisco diego now an astronomer at the university college london who says this could signal a new space era with more collaboration between touch. the about space race anymore i think this was very and we're coming to the fiftieth anniversary of the apollo landings. but that was a space race if you like of that time so they. are the countries as well about king in launching rockets like china and japan and india they are also producing this amazing exploration of the solar system i hope that instead of a space race we have a space collaboration and indeed the international space station is

a good example of this international collaboration where all the countries come mention. contributing to to the further explore understanding off of how space works and how it went to behave in the future about exploring to the moon and beyond. still ahead here on the news hour roger federer claims a historic time to win in dubai far away have all those details in a moment. the

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so african cinema is being celebrated at a film festival and became a fossil with more than one hundred sixty films. with more now on the pan african film and television festival of walking to. comedy. forbidden 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 and bric enough capital an opportunity to discover and showcase some of the best storytellers on the continent. and among them a director. with their 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 distro. tali 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 me. where i minorities 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 them just like the character illustrated in the film. while there is the increased threat of attacks from rebel groups in the sile 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 walker do you think cinema 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 women was temporarily banned in kenya but it was saved a warm welcome from critics at the festival and is also a favorite to win a prize. african cinema is a growing market estimated to be worth two billion dollars a year and yet filmmakers struggle to find funding and fortunately one's private institutions that come from that stay here after america finance our cinema we are not able to voice the needs of was we're not able to have the political activism and social activism that we wish to say in our train. and now we need african cinema is like any other cinema it's funny gritty and offers a fresh social commentary on society well for some of these movies are moments of escape in discovery for others they're an expression of wrong unfiltered emotions depicting people too often ignored. nicholas hawk al-jazeera time for spoke with

far. thanks very much swiss tennis star roger federer has claimed the one hundredth title of his career the thirty seven year old the rising great players specialists that supposed in the final the divide championship better the last of the twenty year olds in the fourth round of the australian open close out the victory in straight sets six four six four the twenty times grand slam champion becomes just the second man to claim a century of titles after american jimmy connors federer won his first title back in two thousand and one. well it makes me look back. i would all start to about one of my first title back in milan which was actually owned by the dubai tournament at the time. and yeah i was hoping that one day i was going to win the title just before the final did and that i'm sitting here today having one hundred is i don't know is this belief even though of course the last few titles ever since

i guess have reached like ninety six ninety seven i started feeling well maybe a hundred is possible and it was a big moment for me tonight here in dubai. barcelona have won their second class go against arch rivals around madrid inside a week having knocked them out of the copa del rey midweek they now beat los blancos in the league and i've been a record to scott the only goal is a one one zero win take some time points clear at the top of the league at manchester city of knocked liverpool off the top of the english premier league algerian international riyad marez got the winner as the champions beat bournemouth one know they now have a two point lead at the top liverpool though have a chance to reclaim first place on sunday when they face ever can. do we need to chattels already this isn't the community shield in the kind of today with the sleep leaders in the in the premier league can you no good position in the last sixteen champions league in swansea game so. when when everybody is there enough to

me we're going to win but no complaints no regrets each other that is the most important thing we can feel like an athlete like a sportsman manchester united have moved ahead of arsenal into four that's because the gunners could only draw with their place taught them while united themselves came from behind to beat southampton three two. so please for the boys the money to claw. three points out of this game cause. we spoke about it half time just get some more urgency get in the box play more forward and the structure then will sort the ball in for you but i had a race in germany is really heating up byron in a crushed russia want five one on saturday to go level on points with his legal leaders dortmund it's a far cry how rare from the situation italy where you ventus are closing in on the

syria title the turn club have a commanding thirteen point lead and on sunday they face their closest rivals second place now plea you will have won the skit at zero on the previous seven occasions but despite their lead manager max alegria is taking nothing for granted there will be some of them i said i do carter on sunday we have an amazing match to play and we have not won the title yet we still need seven to eight wins even though this match will be an important watershed. the san francisco police and major league baseball are investigating an incident where they see the san francisco giants was caught on video having an alter cation with his wife larry baer is seen pulling his wife to the ground in a public plaza in san francisco the sixty one year old has since publicly apologized to his family and the giants there who has been c e o of the team since two thousand and twelve has been married for twenty eight years and the couple has four kids together of the n.b.a. has seen its highest scoring game in nearly three decades three hundred twenty nine

points were scored as the chicago bulls took on the atlanta hawks it was a marathon game that went into a fourth period of overtime the bulls eventually ran out hundred and sixty eight to one hundred and sixty one winners the game was also one of the highest scoring of all time it ranks third on the all time list and surpasses the one nine hundred ninety game between golden state and the denver nuggets friday's matches however still some way off the highest total in n.b.a. history the three hundred and seventy pointer in one thousand nine hundred three where the detroit pistons being denver one hundred and eighty six two hundred eighty four the west indies there is celebrating a series tying seven wicket win over world cup twenty nine host england the series ends to all they needed less than thirteen zero wrist to overturn england's score of one hundred and thirteen in st lucia chris gayle was a star man he smashed seventy seven off just twenty seven balls. and india have opened their home one day series against australia with

a win the men in blue men as she chased down australis total of two hundred thirty sake a scattered and emma stone a getting them over the line in hyderabad scoring eighty one and fifty nine respectively india winning it by six wickets with ten balls to spare and that's all your sport for now more later thank you sir we're back with more news for you there are now syria just a few moments. in germany's capital there is a barber like no other sort of what had to be hard for my remark goes from across

what you have. but as his city changes he's moving with the time. and going on the road. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live down. the master barber of berlin this is europe on al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers are out there going on tyrol you know. we are challenging the forces we're challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the powerful to account. how does this radical

transformation occur. i mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remaining people on al-jazeera. we're going to go into his finances we're going to jackie's deals we get a check these people are sick president trump lets loose he delivers a blistering speech to his base attacking the democrat sound of a political rivals. summary

of what the world news from al jazeera course in the line of fire more injuries and deaths in the disputed kashmir region where tensions remain high between india and pakistan also a push to end the seventeen year old war in afghanistan as attacks by the taliban continue and an inside job the french government see even going to prison to get its message across. so he went off script for two hours railing against the democrats on the mall or investigation but in doing so got back in the comfort zone after one of the most damaging weeks of his presidency donald trump has been speaking to the people who got him elected but the largest annual gathering of conservatives in america is c pac the conservative political action conference this is of course after

a bad week for the u.s. president his second summit with north korea's kim jong un ended in failure his former lawyer michael cohen called him a racist a con man a big cheat and testimonies of congress and so in this speech to see about trump went on the attack criticizing democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and using profanity over their attempts to look into his personal finances we had the greatest of all time now we have people that lost. unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with ok. a correspondent and gallagher was that the seat that conference in oxon hill maryland the president don't trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea and his former fixer michael cohen giving damning testimony before congress but here at c pac this is his base and

he's been talking to them about all the usual issues his relationship with china the booming economy and also immigration but he did touch briefly on the miller report let's listen to what the president had to say they fight so hard on this witch hunt this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia there's no collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done we're going to go into his finances we're going to check his deals we get a check these people are sick of this. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday you. know it's a first time he went into a meeting. and he shared were go to look into his finance i said where did that come from he always talked about russia collusion with russia the collusion

delusion so what the president was essentially doing he was and in jais ing he's basically talked about the love that was in this room and this theme of this year's c pac really is trump ism he talked a lot about the forthcoming twenty twenty a lecture and he is a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe that he's an opposition and democrats are socialists he talked about that in relation to venezuela he will talk about that once again in the future but in this room lots of love a president don't trump going forward to the twenty twenty lunch. we spoke to political analyst eric hamm on the news and he said trump's speech only highlights the extent of the divide in u.s. politics. walk for this president he has made his base he has made his home on the right on the far right and so now after a brutalising couple of weeks where he sees his declaration of emergency on the u.s. border wall threaten michael cohen threatening both his administration and his organization

and of course the southern district of new york closing in this is us a place where the president can be at home where he can be around his supporters and where he can feed red meat see pac has now become trump pac and it's a place of political conservative red meat today donald trump was the primary of the president's support now even among republicans is around eighty percent of very high and unfortunately what we're seeing with the president among independents and democrats of course his numbers are are at a astonishing low rate in fact if you look at texas a conservative state a state where no democrat has won and more than twenty years right now in a hypothetical match up with democratic challengers the president is in a dead heat with joe biden bernie sanders and kamel harris and so right now we're seeing the president if the election were held today it would be very difficult for

this president to get to be all important two hundred seventy electoral votes so right now with the president needs to do is is he needs to ensure that his base hold strong because unfortunately that's all he has keep in mind this is a president who now we know has paid off porn stars we see the president under siege from politically legally and so unfortunately this has become normalized we are looking at the fraying of relations with allies the united states and have held for decades and so everything right now from our treaties from our allies even from the us constitution is being frayed is being pushed to the brink right now. well wild donald trump told the conference he's confident of victory in two thousand and twenty is now anyone's independent u.s. senator bernie sanders is making his second bid for the presidency launches campaign in brooklyn telling supporters he expected to win the democratic

nomination for a candidate he also described donald trump is the most dangerous president in modern american history this is what i believe from the bottom of my heart if we do not allow trumpeters friends to divide us up if we stand together black and white latino asian american native american if we stand together the urban and rural north south east and west if we stand together not as red state and blue state but as working people fighting but think if. i if we stand together believing in justice and human dignity if we stand together believing in love and compassion. ah

ah if we stand together brothers and sisters. the future of this country is extraordinary and there is reacting we will not be able to accomplish i. were moving to other news and funerals are being held for some of the victims of the latest fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border shelling between india and pakistan tensions still high between the two countries were fighting resuming just hours after pakistan released an indian pilot in a gesture of peace that pilot captured on wednesday when his jet was shot down he has now returned home though to scenes of celebration so how raman reports from new delhi. india is missing military pilot is back home and people are celebrating on the streets. the blood diamonds fighter jet crashed in pakistan administered kashmir on wednesday after being shot at by pakistan's force pakistan's prime

minister it brunt card ordered his release as a goodwill gesture which was welcomed by new delhi it's the only story and turn around yet the government's message is clear pakistan is not off the hook. in the past twenty four hours there's been ongoing shelling in the kashmir region indian administered kashmir officials claim three members of one family were reported to be killed in the area. at six in the evening pakistan started firing and shelling the shelling was going on for about three hours one of the shell fired by pakistan hit a house in which three members of a family were killed including two innocent children. fifty kilometers away and three civilians were due to temporary accommodation after coming out to heavy shelling from pakistan's forces the suicide bombing that killed more than forty paramilitaries last month prompted the latest escalation of violence in the disputed kashmir territory it's one of the worst attacks a decades and group operating from inside pakistan claimed responsibility india's

foreign minister speaking at the organization of islamic conference in abu dhabi as its guest of honor was clear about her country's approach to terror groups they have to go. because this newspaper editors says the government is keen to play a bigger role of the international stage they want to be of the process of decision making in the muslim world because if you are there on the idea when you go and influence things and also there. will be. somehow sidelined by. somehow as you are going to a leading role in the muslim world india is heading towards a general election in twenty fourteen the issue of relations with pakistan was not high on the election campaign agenda and with weeks to go just before that date is announced politicians are trying to work out how to internationally isolate

pakistan while domestically build consensus that will help them with the election so whole raman al jazeera delhi. algeria's president has sacked an unpopular campaign chief and named a replacement but is refusing to bow to pressure not to stand for a fifth term. beautifully his reelection bid has triggered the largest protests in algeria in decades a rare show of dissent which is engulf thirty cities he came to power in one thousand nine hundred nine after a decade long civil war but has rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in twenty thirteen despite that the eighty two year old president still commands the backing of several political parties and trade unions business groups and importantly the military but the protests signal a wider impatience with the status quo in algeria yet many of the protesters are young and motivated to change what they see as deep rooted corruption among the

ruling elites the thoughts not sure who is the founding director of the security studies program at the doha institute for graduate studies is a specialist on algerian told us the president is supported by three main figures with the fleet has been in the same condition since april twenty third seen since the first stroke so after april you saw some of the major major changes in algerian politics while he was having the stroke you had the head of the intelligence head of the general mohammad million who basically ruled over the u.s. for twenty five years or through six presidents and twelve prime ministers he was sacked you know during with a flicker stroke and then many of his generals were also removed from their positions so there was an undermining of the structuring of the security services to a certain degree now the with a flicker and in his you know weakest weakest states.