hello there we've got rain marching its way across the northern parts of asia at the moment there it is on the satellite picture but as we have a key issue on the southern parts of honshu and we are seeing a few outbreaks of heavy rain from that i think we'll see a few more outbreaks during the day on monday most of them along the south coast but if we head into tuesday it will begin to educate towards the east that means for some of us it should be brighter including force in osaka but we should get up to around fifteen degrees to take here that they still the chance of seeing a lot of cloud during the day and a few outbreaks of wet weather towards the west is generally looking quite quiet for us in beijing but seventeen degrees really is quite mild now the temperature is definitely rising hip before the towards the south and there's a lot of fine weather for monday but then the cloud begins to build and then by the time we get to choose day it's very different lots of heavy downpours all stretching up towards shanghai really does look pretty messy for some of us some of

that rain really will be quite heavy i mean further towards the south in the majority of the showers here are in the southern parts of a map say three parts of borneo through java and into somalia a bit further north looks like the clouds are beginning to gather now we'll see a few more showers that we've got used to so a couple of them will be over parts of thailand and also a few over the philippines as well and some of those on monday and tuesday could be rather heavy. christian priest if you are a friend of the palestinians you just threw their friends over every bar and champion of the palestinian cause. an activist who was willing to sacrifice his freedom in the for his beliefs. al-jazeera wild tells the extraordinary story of the archbishop and the piano.

you're watching our jazeera let's recap the top stories right now the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large joint military exercises in order to support future talks with pyongyang on two nuclearization the drills have been a point of contention with north korean leader kim jong. il's have been held for the victims of the recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday in cross border shelling between india and pakistan . i'm serious president of jealousies but a flick as expected to officially file his candidacy for an on sunday rallies right

now being held in paris among the algerian jasper there against who to flee so far he has defied calls to step down on saturday he sacked and replaced his unpopular campaign chief eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in two thousand and thirteen hundreds of thousands of people have already rallied against pitifully constitution to seek a fifth term in the largest protests algeria has seen in decades it is a rare show of dissent which has spread across thirty cities but if it came to power in one thousand nine hundred nine following a civil war that lasted a decade and still has the backing of several political parties trade unions business groups and the military many of the protestors are young and say they want to change what they see as deep rooted corruption among the ruling elite geoff porter is the founder of north africa risk consulting it is not think the protests west played into conflict. you know reasoning by analogy is always a dangerous thing to do. and you know algeria is not tunisia algeria is not egypt

it's not syria it's not libya this is not an arab spring this is its own. genetic a systemic algerian movement it's responding to specific conditions and i'm sure you and it's not easily comparable to the circumstances that unfolded in the other countries that i just mentioned for example. you know booklet despite the protests that took place over the last week and especially on friday but flicka does have a base and he does remain popular is not similar to the indian mentality into museo or else mubarak egypt's if you go to the countryside popular if you ask the older generation bootlick is popular if you ask women. especially secular women remains popular he's a sympathetic figure he's not a hated it unlike the other individuals that egypt and tunisia and syria for

example or libya even. but as wales opposition leader insists he will return home despite threats of being arrested as an aqua door where he met president lenin merino is on a tour of latin america which has taken him to colombia brazil and argentina is traveling up support against venezuelan president nicolas maduro the european union has urged the matter of government not to arrest quite oh for violating a court order not to leave the country saying that could escalate the crisis and international aid still continues to sit on the colombia venezuela border that's after president arroyo cut off relations with bogota and shut the border but and the colombian border town of as out as there is manual proper low reports people are finding alternative ways to move freely. first thousands of venezuelans who live near the colombian border crossing the river is becoming a daily routine the water is shallow but it still requires a bit of skill to make it across. most of the people we encountered here are

venezuelan citizens carrying heavy bags of used goods they hope to sell in colombia . this is scrap metal people take this and sell it and use the money to buy food and then take the food back to the other side. of it miss says he makes several of these trips every day and is lucky to make twelve thousand pesos for the effort that's the equivalent of about four u.s. dollars. people cross over to sell scrap metal because there are no jobs no security this keeps them going there's a heavy military presence along the colombian side of the border but officers tell us they're only here to keep the peace not prevent people from moving freely between the two countries and if it's challenging crossing the border through the river it's challenging this bridge serves as the official border crossing and is usually bustling with pedestrian traffic but a week ago venezuelan officials set up barricades to prevent international aid from

entering the country through colombia since then people have had to find other ways to get across the border. as many as twenty thousand people are estimated be crossing to and from minnesota every single day this river is what separates him in a swell from colombia some people tell us they've been travelling for four hours or more in search of food others say what they're seeking is medical attention. this woman was rushed across the river on a stretcher after suffering a miscarriage her mother tells us they didn't know where else to go you know her mouth is purple she's vomiting and vomiting it was no went to treat her if i didn't bring her here she would die. the local economies on both sides of this border rely heavily on commerce and it's clear that people are anxious for it to reopen even though there's no clear sign of when that might be but ended up with. who could. the us president has launched

a furious attack at the mall or investigation during the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the us speech came after his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him a racist a con man and a cheat and his testimony to congress trying to assess his political opponents are quote trying to take him out but the investigation into the possible russian collusion during the two thousand and sixteen election. and transformer advisor steve bannon s helping set up an academy for all right leaders in italy and has praised italy's populist government for its nationalist agenda and he is hoping more countries will follow its example but it's on a go reports from color pardo some residents are not happy their town will host the next generation of all right leaders for more than eight hundred years the truce will teach how to house more history in college park dollar has been a place of quiet contemplation these days the last of the remaining monks is retired i did is no longer so dedicated to its serial pursuits the new resident has

moved in with the plans in mind benjamin han well the founder of the detoxes humana institute d.h. i want to transform it into a right wing populist recruiting ground. the first project is the cardinal martino academy for human dignity which will promote catholic social teaching with a special emphasis pro-life pro-family issues the second project is the academy for the judeo christian west which will promote the christian foundations of western civilization one of the main backers is all right ideologues steve bannon who played a leading role in president trump's electoral victory and was the author of his nationalist american first dogma his intention here to spread that vision across europe and beyond because then return home use what they learned here for the fight

for the judeo christian west once they get back into their home environment the blueprint for this was a talk given by a baton to the d.h.i. at the vatican in twenty fourteen where he preached his conflict ridden worldview but we're in an outright war against just hardass islam islamic fascism within this form a monastery is where the organizes and steve battle hope to create a new generation of populist nationalist politicians and thinkers the next donald trump or viktor orban if you will but outside of these walls there is little appetite for this project. in the town itself there is a sense of discomfort about the plans to suit was until last year looked after by the state and there were concerns over how the d.h.i. which keeps its funding secret to maintain the monastery. we cannot even begin to consider allowing steve benen to come to our town essential just so he can do

whatever he likes by launching this academy to attack the european union resulting becomes a battleground for europe we will defend it that at that got a little. drizzle to project may sound a warning for the very future of the european union and increasingly fragile continent that threat is ever present this will be a front line with the forces of populism poised to the new recruits and create an elite in their own image. al-jazeera. stone ians are heading to the polls in a parliamentary election that seen as a test for the far right center left prime minister says the front runner and sunday's poll but he could face difficulties forming a parliamentary majority the nationalist estonian conservative people's party has been making gains since the migration crisis in two thousand and fifteen protests against serbian president alexander have been held for the thirteenth week in a row now thousands marched in the streets of belgrade demanding media freedom as

a precondition for a free and fair elections demonstrations began after an opposition politician was beaten up by thugs last november thousands of syrians who fled to neighboring lebanon when the war began are going back home a new minister in charge of lebanon's refugees who number in the millions is an outspoken supporter of syria's government is about to make the return of refugees a priority but human rights groups say those returning face arbitrary detention and torture by the regime to reports from beirut. a new group of syrians is returning home thousands have made this journey in recent months but their numbers are still small lebannon hosts over a million refugees from the war in syria authorities say it is time for them to go home now that much of the country is back under the syrian government's control but there are those who accuse bashar al assad's government of reestablishing we're pressin rule they cite the southern province of daraa as an example there is

a. lot of. insecurity for the population. for former rebels as well as for. people. who have a record. people supporting the opposition. being against the government. the opposition and there are had agreed to a negotiated surrender for an amnesty but some say the so-called reconciliation agreements are not being respected instead there have been arbitrary arrests. international organizations including the u.n. say the lack of security guarantees is why many refugees are afraid to go back. into the conflict and. form being done by the syrian government towards the security situation especially syrian security services that are responsible for

crimes against humanity and forced arbitrary detention torture and death and. lebanon's politicians are divided on whether it is safe for syrian refugees to return home but the refugee affairs portfolio is now run by a politician allied to the syrian government the newly appointed minister saw the first act in office was to visit damascus it further politicized the issue there are some criticize. the government. intervening in the you know that they believe. normalized direct contact with damascus should not happen until an international political solution is reached in syria many in lebanon complain about the refugee populations impact on the country's economy and infrastructure those who hold power say they will push ahead with what they call voluntary and safe returns for many syrians that could mean more

difficult conditions to discourage them from. beirut. in turkey have denounced the recent executions of nine men in egypt hundreds of people demonstrated outside the egyptian consulate in istanbul saying wednesday's killings were illegal turkish president has criticized egypt's leader abdel fatah el-sisi over the executions rights groups have also condemned the death saying the men were convicted in trials marred by torture allegations really elected president says he wants to free political prisoners within ten days he told supporters at a rally that includes those who were detained in the run up to the election and. he was pronounced winner of the vote that's been contested by the opposition. conservationists on the kenyan coast say poaching is putting turtles turtle species at risk or working with local fishermen to try to stop the endangered reptile being caught on purpose or in their nets or the turtles are also losing their breeding

grounds to erosion and construction reports from tom. green tuttle carefully cut his eggs she's just laid back stone we have to be careful destructing how with bright lights may force her to stop what she's doing this stretch of beach in what time on the canyon coast is a nesting site for hundreds of green and all you've really tuttle's both endangered species. every time they come out of the ocean to nest there life is in danger hunting them is illegal but some people here do for meat and oil which they say is maybe senile and is also an aphrodisiac this residence of a tom walker tuttle conservation group it's their job to guard the tuttles but the biggest threat is poaching yes some people should be talking that's why we are patrolling to give the security for the nesting mothers they then tag them to keep

count of how many are out there up to four hours of hard labor she has done and has covered up eggs the best way she can to protect them from predators she's lucky that she's in a protected area many tuttle's that come up to nest in other parts of the beach are in most danger of being hunted down for food by people another tart all lead her eggs in what is considered a danger zone this part of the beach is too exposed the title watchers have to move the eggs to a safe area it's a delicate process they have to make sure the eggs are well protected from poachers and direct sunlight. during the nesting season they carry out biweekly surveys which they say are often green last week. that we did we collected a total of. statistics we haven't done because we have done outreach with awareness of the people but still not really ready to work with

us many fisherman in what time will know that tuttle's are protected. mohamad several have been trapped in his fishing net he hands them over to government wildlife why didn't all conservationists in the area for a few it's a program that has helped but does not cover the entire nesting stretch. where we have it up there is protected i think is very difficult to see a fisherman poaching. after two months to. make their way into the ocean only one in a thousand will survive into adult catherine so i'll just zero on the kenyan coast . pick up the headlines for you on al-jazeera algerians in paris are protesting against president a. push for a fifth term in office for live pictures there demanding that the eighty two year

old pull out of the elections scheduled for april eighteenth if they can has until twenty three g.m.t. on sunday to officially submit his bid for reelection is really been seen in public since suffering a stroke in two thousand and thirteen of the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large joint military exercises in order to support future talks with pyongyang on denuclearization the drills have been a point of contention with north korean leader kim jong il room. has more from seoul. this now does come as a confirmation that foal eagle and key resolve these of these big exercises that normally take place in the spring are two ends and they will be replaced by much smaller less high profile exercises command exercises virtual computer games if you like rather than troops on the ground it is quite a concession the these exercises always enraged the north koreans they say that it could be a prelude to war so it is

a concession with the military of south korea and the u.s. now saying that yes they do the two a rise in tension ferals have been held for the victims of recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday and cross border shelling between india and pakistan. venezuela's opposition leader insists he will return home despite threats of being arrested on way to as an ecuador where he met with president lenin merino is on a tour of latin america to drum up support against president nicolas maduro which is the us president has launched a furious attack at the mall or investigation during the largest and most gathering of conservatives in the us speech came after his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him a racist a con artist and a cheat and his testimony to congress people have been urged to leave their homes after bush fires destroyed at least five houses and the australian state of victoria an emergency warning was issued for residents around but yet state park at

east of melbourne hundreds of firefighters are working on that fire those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to come inside story as that next. down but not out ailing algerian president until as these beautifully cut insists on running for a fifth term. protesters demanding an end to his twenty year rule who's really in charge in algeria what is at risk for the region its attention escalates this is inside story.

i'm richelle carey and this is inside story welcome to the program unfit for the job that's how hundreds of thousands of algerians describe president jealousies beautifully and in large scale protests rarely seen in algeria they poured on to the streets demanding he pull out of next month's elections many say beautifully go who was eighty two on saturday is unable to perform his duties as president so will he step down or is algeria heading towards political instability we'll speak to our guests in a moment first name parker has this report. they are the biggest demonstrations in algeria in decades this is the country's capital out. there are 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 cut his file it without health. 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 when he's not on the stand it is not him who really is the. it's the

group behind the group in the presidency backed up by the cynical economic burns the reading business. and the army and the security. who are trying to force one regarding their own choice to guarantee no continuity in power and that's when a jury was reviewed 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 his longest serving head of state to retire from politics leave al-jazeera take a look at some of the key events in algeria split a call history and nine hundred sixty two the country gained its independence from france and more than one million french fled the country in one thousand nine hundred eight thousands of algerian youth took to the streets against the country's economic conditions during a major recession

a decade long civil war began in one thousand nine hundred one between the algerian government and various armed islamic rebel groups tens of thousands of people were killed and then in one thousand nine hundred nine adel izzy's beautifully who was elected president and the civil war ended three years later. let's bring in our panel now in algiers via skype journalist bala in new fall a buddha executive director of the nordic center for conflict transformation also in al cheers on the line is a melba book or a socialist and researcher at the paris based school for advanced studies in the social sciences welcome to all of you on the i'm going to start with you you say that these protests were a long time coming how so a lot of us have been frustrated with the way the government that has areas that late for a long time. widespread corruption incompetence in all areas of life. but

i'm curious have kept mainly silent. for twenty years ago under the table mainly because they were going to the situation was a little bit better the violence through was the announcement that. would have let us bid for reelection in a in next april. well judy i just don't want to be governor and not. know more not just what people are protesting but of little hasn't been able to your wall has been given this issue and your insistence over and over again and not just boy you are protesting that even though they were first rate the government of the. so we've all do you agree with that as well that this has been brewing for a while yes this is what has been going for a while and i think people truer was the moment and then claim you know

i think that there are sharp assume metric positions here between a new generation that does not necessarily lived the atrocities of war of independence and the civil war as well and the deep state that has been there for a long period of time i think the jury of people killed this moment they chose. their fate and they believe that this time they can actually win over a beautiful if they have one claim it's beautiful and they chose their their fight . before i go to mel actually follow me follow up on something you said explain how you mean the term deep state because it means different things and different countries explain what you mean when you use that term. well deep state as we understand it here in the case of algeria is also all agree that the claim of people is not necessarily against bush would. govern him does not really govern the

country there are people around who support a state of power they're pushing towards some kind of. some kind of continuation of of a state of power the way it is now so all of those deep state in my opinion in algeria are those who are behind the scenes that push in and hiding behind the beautiful to say that whatever it is in the country is because of what for what i believe the deep state here will try to do in the end if they see the protests of the jury in people who will be strong enough they are i think ready to let go but they will negotiate some kind of power settlement with the people ok. a male same question to you did you feel like that was something like this just a matter of time ari surprised. bronson that's the result of the loneliest of

course but what we have witnessed so far it's really a misfortune to control chanche you know it's trying how syrians have been asking for a chance in sixty to eighty eight months to on whatever demands of change were taken from them to set the rigid interest in eighty eight it was like to launch free elections well then relax where wherever you want to but then we will stop their victory process you want no more military and for that a little grand vicksburg of the so-called fifth of presidents you want to vote social justice and we will have a run tire distribution so really self control with a keyboard in the during the construction the best weeks and that could be seen in the willingness to met the pope of self you could see family families are there in the ranks of the protesters on the most reaches how people are sorry their itchy i mean you could not stay in really that's not a revulsion exemption everybody should their retention some of that you could feel that where there is a real joy for a better than independence they. would feel the force to control improve the

relationship between the protesters and the police you could see a lot of citizens to discuses with guns men trying to argue with them trying to come to them that they should join the ranks of the of the developing nations. as an i haven't business and i haven't so sorry even so even so probably fairly heavily and both of coca-cola in order to dissipate the chaff days to both men for example gave effect that could be seen also in the first show although the excess amount of pollution i think this protest over to can cause by the other algerian something approaching to achieve good will to restore the image that the rest of the word has it has of them so they really wanted to give many of them of the major people of a major political image or people that is able to control its demands for change so one day about this this energy that she is describing why are some algerians not

afraid anymore. i don't think missourians were afraid. of the government i think it was serious war most serious war probably traumatized by the memory of the civil war and the ninety's. this is why one of the main themes of these protests has been the fact that they are peaceful they are saying to the government that they want change they want that they want they are challenging the system they want two point six eight in public life in political life but they are saying it is a peaceful protest and they don't want the. situation to go wrong i don't think people are not being afraid and i think people just didn't want things to go like they did and other recently. all these see any similarities between what is happening now algeria and some of the arab spring countries.

as saying one of the similarities is that involvement like i said of deep state. deep is looking for a static of power and the new generation of young people who have different aspirations and needs and they want to change in the most peaceful way this is also to say that for every country have their own way of doing things and to pick their fights i think in algeria this time they there are now no longer afraid because they think the big is going to win and i would not be surprised if both of them to step down in the next few days of few weeks and the second thing what is very important is when there are some changes in the intelligence and in the military we have seen for example but america has been changed many many people in the in the secret service and intelligence as well as in

a military and those people have grievances and i think there are joined in our support in people claims we need to understand that libya more it's similar to other countries as well. and no one who are new followers mentioned as a couple of times who are these these people that are who is really running the country who is it that has decided that beautifully needs to run again even if he is incapacitated and if. whoever these people are want to maintain power so much why haven't they picked a successor to have avoided all of this i've seen the lack of can they conclude that swedes really shoot in make sure the depleted real division filled ninety ninety nine when goodluck was going to go to the paper that they put in power that the idea was to. the international community to forget about the work crimes committed by g. army and this is.