house about left the people's music on al-jazeera. pakistan cracks down on groups under a un order following days of tensions with india speeches kashmir region. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. reopens an oil field in the southwest that was taken over by world for you to have done full since. u.s. president donald trump excludes india and turkey from its oldest and largest trade

preference program. as well as opposition leader was welcomed home by cheering supporters and calls for another protest against president or. maybe says it spotted an indian submarine close to its waters which then turned away after being warned the incident comes all to pakistan's government move to reduce tensions with its neighbor by stepping up a crackdown on armed groups which are banned by the united nations has been under pressure to act after an attack that killed more than forty indian paramilitary soldiers in the disputed kashmir region made last month a group called mohammed said it was responsible for the bombing triggered the most serious standoff between india and pakistan in a year is so who all these groups and who supports them correspondent imran khan reports. and they challenge me to be free

this group called themselves the. jodeen the brother of holy warriors their leader mohammed haroun he's a firebrand cleric who supports armed groups across kashmir including jaish e mohammed that's the group who claimed responsibility for the february fourteenth attack on indian troops that sparked this latest crisis between pakistan and india . god willing the fighters of al bad are already across the country and are ready to pounce on their targets and are waiting for the right time and god willing this year will be the liberation of the whole of kashmir. the anti indian pro united kashmiri ideology is fundamental to all of the groups in the region india has long maintained that these groups are directly funded and directed by pakistan's intelligence service the i.s.i. it's a charge pakistan the noise however the question remains what is pakistan doing about groups like al but their majority and jaish

e mohammad after two thousand and fourteen we have been hard on these groups i don't know it's a stupid policy in pakistan that. remain in this state a normal group of me of when to. be real how to have that ability to use one for the groups so i think we are taking steps we have taken steps in the past since two thousand and fourteen we have stepped and i think we are on the right direction the groups are active today on both sides of the disputed border in indian administered kashmir hizbollah mojahedin regularly now attacks on indian troops yet india insists it's a domestic issue and says there's no comparison between groups on either side of the disputed border so all the suggestion that there is some kind i require balance between the kind of better challenge that india is facing. and what pakistan is

either dealing with internally on n.p.r.'s all internal security issues which are related to the northeast have completely i would say different contours and it's a different profile so this is a case of apples and oranges in a very negative sense because these groups have been assisted by the pakistani state on a neighbor and so where there's your mama. you cannot compare them with what is happening with groups in india because they are being sustained and they are the strategic assets of the parties. there are many in kashmir who say that the indian army is occupying kashmir and that the groups are a direct consequence of that india says it's there for security reasons meanwhile its armed groups in pakistan that seem to be garnering the most attention reissue of armed groups and who supports them is a phony one in pakistan not a factor in your forty's say they are cracking down on these armed groups but it's clear that they are in the spotlight right now pakistan has made an announcement

that it's cracking down on the other groups however that might not be enough for india to demand the arrest of the group's leaders but questions remain as to whether even those arrests will reduce the tensions between the two nuclear neighbors iraq or does it. that the former secretary in india's foreign ministry says that was a degree of suspicion surrounding pakistan's actions the problem is that fifteen years ago in jan admitted. to two thousand and four the president of backus standard should have. public assurance that he would not allow that pakistan would not allow three hundred. but. why did his groups launch their list operations in india. so we'll be here to day fifteen years that pakistan is in acting legislation to comply with un

resolutions there's naturally a. degree of suspicion. that the real problem is the activities of these groups and. then there will be the local normalization libya's national oil corporation has started limited production as a sheriff sheriff failed in the southwest it's been shut down for the past three months the gunman took over the facility vises handled war the have to force those gunmen out and he's now ordered his men to leave off the top from members of libya's unity government. has more from tripoli. libya's national oil corporation or in new c that is the state oil third says that the force majeure a status has been lifted on i'll share our oil field around seven hundred fifty kilometers to the south from the capital tripoli i'm sure our oil field the biggest

oil producing field in libya was shot down on december ninth by armored groups and also a local militias in the south who wanted to put more pressure on the government of national accord to provide more services and to improve security to their areas and now three months of shutdown of production has cost the libyan treasury around one point eight billion dollars that is according to the national oil corporation during january forces loyal to the warlord honey for have to manage it to get into the oil field by field there was a hand over a peaceful handover of oil field to have to forces now the general prosecutor of libya says the armored groups responsible for shutting down and shut our oil fields are wanted now the n.o.c. says that the oil production operation for much of our oil field is coming back to

normal. the u.s. will no longer give india and turkey preferential trade status donald trump says india has failed to provide assurances it will allow with simple access to markets and trade officials say taking no longer qualifies because its economy is sufficiently developed and general system of preferences aims to promote economic development and countries by allowing some exports to enter the united states treaty frame two hundred seventeen turkey exported one point seven billion dollars worth of goods under the program it represents only eighteen percent of all turkish exports in the u.s. and affects mostly turkey's auto industry yes decision to remove turkey from. preferential last fall as i'm good imposition last year i would tell you to tariffs on u.s. goods in response to american steel and alum minium tariffs. is a professor at the american university of a rock who fixes on us techie relations he says the chump administration wants to

maintain the advantage it has on trade relations with taki turkey was one of the first countries that were hit with steel and aluminum and scrap mentals tariffs in the spring and summer of twenty seventeen and these have not been removed it looks like they're here to stay and much of it probably has to do with the fact that whatever advantages or whatever trade balances that the united states is maintaining with turkey and right now the numbers are pretty pretty close in the last three four years trade balance have been mostly on equal terms i believe the trumpet ministration from a purely commercial standpoint would want to maintain that advantage reserve eat turkey of course you could also argue that there may be political connections issues related to syria issues related to turkey's perhaps unwillingness to fully back u.s. sanctions a guest iran you know regional problems that sort that that that might be informing

the trumpet ministrations decision making. but as well as opposition leader one has called on his supporters to keep protesting against president nicolas maduro was a was mauled by a chair in crowds after returning to caracas from a tour of his nasty american allies is that he got a supports after a failed u.s. led attempt to bring aid into venezuela present to his dressing to arrest friday for breaking a travel ban in the u.s. is want any action against him will have consequences. well meanwhile venezuela is marking six years since the death of next winter's preterist as a mentor hugo chavez and takes a look at how much of his legacy remains. chavismo is dead the opposition in venezuela has been saying that since the president for whom the ideology was named died of cancer on the fifth of march two thousand and thirteen.

chosen successor nicolas maduro continues to cling to power and the pressure from foreign governments and millions of his own people to step down. they blame him for around things inflation high crime and chronic food and medicine shortages. blames foreign sabotage particularly from the united states so then assuages problems but not as colorfully as charges once did here criticizing former u.s. president george bush at the united nations in two thousand and six. the president of the united states the gentleman to whom i refer as at the devil marquis came here. doing all the talking as if he owned the world i think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the united states but daughter says that she is alive and well citing health and education programs and the continued redistribution of wealth begun by his

predecessor but even his supporters admit that is no charge but he doesn't have the same charisma or political astuteness he continues to talk of the future well aware of the mounting risks to his government. but honestly i want peace for venezuela we all want peace for venezuela stop the drums of war stop the threats of invasion of lebanon surrealist say with one voice that we want peace we want to be how well the two men shared similar politics the world has changed or prices have slumped in venezuela as leftwing allies in the region have largely disappeared the doors critics say the only flawed elections and support from the military keep them in power the predictions of his imminent demise have been frequent these past six years as they were the charges before him now president maduro faces one of his toughest challenges yet with the world watching to see how he'll react to the returns have been a swayer of the self declared interim president. from

a trip to neighboring colombia. well there this will amok the sixth anniversary of the death of a little child as the opposition is questioning his legacy nicolas maduro supporters are wondering how much longer it will keep the president in office and china how does iraq still ahead on al-jazeera have the latest on a possible breakthrough in treating ain't going tests on a patient ending here today. and how the northern italian press for boston has managed to gone as the bullets and the country sound. hello again to welcome back well sardou want to start here across north parts of asia now we did see one system make its way out towards the pacific but notice here coming across the southern part of japan that is going to be the next one watching with plenty of rain in the forecast here on wednesday for osaka you're going to see

the rain on the increase as well tokyo it is going to be a cloudy day at fifteen degrees by the time we get to thursday more of that rain extends across much of the northeast so we're talking rain for tokyo rain for die or soccer is still going to be the rain as well now most of china especially the south was a china could be seeing some rain over the next few days last week the rain was up here towards the north we're seeing more of that rain down here towards the south even hong kong you're going to be seeing a rainy day at twenty three degrees taipei will be in the rain as well and not much for a change as we go towards thursday for joe that rain is going to be a cooler rain because we are going to see a northerly wind there even hong kong drops in temperature to about ninety degrees for you and then very quickly across parts of the philippines we're looking at dry but town to the southern part of the philippines more moisture is on the way by the time we get to thursday down here across the card it is going to be a rainy day for you and for coaching the rain continues in your forecast the

temperatures into the low thirty's. donald the president's son donald trump jr was promised damaging information about the hillary clinton allegation want to see the investigation sit down to see did the trump campaign with russia did you at any time the former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form the closer the body down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question buckle field washington on al jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour that his songs government says it would seems the assets of groups banned by the united nations has been under pressure to act against groups after an attack on indian troops in the disputed kashmir region in february. libya's national oil corporations when stocks of production as it sure are a field in the southwest was stopped for three months by gunmen who took over the facility. and that as well as opposition leader why does call and supporters to return to the streets and step up pressure on the to splinter and to resign why don't we received a hero's welcome back returning from the trail of massive american lives. rights groups are calling on the u.n. to deny egypt a leading role in setting its human rights agenda and says related to the office of the un special rapporteur responsible for the promotion of protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms its mandate is up for renewal and egypt is

reportedly in talks to take a leading role in drafting the resolution it was recently denounced by the un special rapporteur so very reprisals against people who spoke to another visiting un experts and its government has been accused of numerous rights violations amid a crackdown on dissent that pollard is a senior legal advisor and un representative for the instructional commission of jurists he says egypt is working to undermine the effectiveness of un human rights bodies. this is the one person in that huge architecture who has a specific job from the u.n. to remind states that they need to respect human rights or they counter terrorism and to give them independent expert advice how to do that mexico has for many years played the leadership role in creating this expert position maintaining it while at the same time egypt has an appalling record of abusing counter-terrorism measures

deliberately to repress human rights defenders civil society and other nonviolent dissenting voices within egypt so for us to to imagine sharing an important role in defining and maintaining this one expert who has that specific job to to uphold human rights and vice states how to do that that this is like putting the fox in charge of the of the chickens that governments like egypt are very sophisticated clever and strategic when it comes to their international diplomacy and are very effective at persuading other states not to focus on much on them but as civil society we do work very hard to find a way to give a higher profile to these violations and we always hold out hope that if not today that then in the days that come the you know the human rights council will give equal focus to to this situation but it certainly is not going to help if at the

same time as these abuses are occurring these violations of the rights of people who even speak with you and experts that egypt is given a leading role. being hailed as a potential breakthrough in the fight against h i v a man in london the pisser become only the second person in long term remission of the virus the patient was seeking treatment for cancer when he received a stem cell transplant three years ago there's also a positive doctors decided to give him a bone marrow from rare hiv resistant donor three years later he stopped taking drugs to control the infection and tests show he's still in remission is in the second such case timothy brown was the first to have a similar treatment in germany twelve years ago and has since lived h. i.v. free tomorrow is the acting deputy executive director and the director of the fast track when taishan department at un aids he joins us now via skype from geneva can

you give us an idea of just how much of a breakthrough this is to have a second patient in remission. thanks very much laura that i said really fun it's fantastic news but we're delighted to hear about this it's as you said as you said in a story it's the second time this has not happened it was ten years since the last case and so obviously we were keen to see some progress and this functional cure as we as we are calling it is obviously a significant step forward we're not clear there's obviously a lot of a lot of further work that needs to be done in terms of the past ways and watch what it what is behind that cure and obvious it is further work before we can definitely say there is a full cure. we really want to recognize that there is a lot of further work that is needed to be done to develop a cure and obviously a stem cell transplants are highly complex than the significant interventions are

not something we can use for the twenty seven million people living with hiv so there's a lot more work we need to do to to make this a bannable more generally as as a successful. solution for the problems so what i'm hearing from you there is that this is unlikely to be replicated anytime soon. i think it's something that we want to continue to encourage to invest in that there is work going forward in a number of different. patients that we have taking forward similar approaches but we do not see this in terms as as a solution for ongoing treatment and prevention services that we need to put in place ok so what is what remains still the best way to treat. at the moment we have highly effective antiretroviral medicines that are. very very effective they have low levels of resistance they have low levels of toxicity and they are

a key key aspect of what we would encourage countries to continue to invest in but i do want to stress we also say this is a great step forward and it is really important that we continue to invest in scientific innovation such as this what is the health risk that hiv aids carries today because it certainly doesn't bring about the headlines that it did back in the eighty's ninety's. yet it's a good question i think it's really important we remember that there are still a million people dying every year from h i v and that's obviously a toll that we need to address it's still the second most common infection among women of reproductive age in africa so we will have a we have a really really significant ongoing problem that sad when people are started on treatment and if they start treatment quickly with effective medicines people can live a very good quality of life and for a long time so there is there are effective solutions but i wouldn't want to wonder

play its continuing significance in importance as a big global health problem ok to musson a very good did speak to thanks for taking the time to join us from geneva thank you very much for ads in pakistan and afghanistan have killed at least fifty people heavy rain over the past ten days is cut off tens of thousands of residents the afghan government says flooding in kandahar province is the worst at least seven years. a second member of canadian prime is the justin trudeau his cabinet has quit day to fill up his budget minister says he's lost confidence now the government is dealing with a west wing scandal and apart from follows the resignation of justice minister jodi will some very bold wilson rebel testified that she was pressured to help a construction firm avoid a corruption trial while she was attorney general and just under days says china's detention of a former diplomats and the businessman is arbitrary to taint in december just days

after the arrest of a top chinese executive in vancouver cameras on their reports michael covert a former diplomat and current asia advisor to a brussels based think tank and michael spade for a businessman based in china two canadians detained in china since december on monday for the first time china said the two men are being held because they are suspected of being spies but the arrest of the two men has been seen possibly as beijing's retaliation for china's arrest of a mangle one joel an executive at chinese technology company while away and daughter of the company's founder she was arrested on december first nine days later two canadians arrested in china. since being released on bail has been required to stay in vancouver on sunday her lawyers filed a lawsuit against the canadian government after her high profile arrest saying she

was interrogated before she was told she was even under arrest she was detained in canada at the request of washington allegedly she had broken american sanctions against iran yep a so it has severely strained relations between canada and china on monday canada's prime minister's scolded china for what he called arbitrary detentions we are obviously very concerned with the this position that china has taken the safety and security of canadians is always of first order for this government and that's why we've been engaging in standing up for the two two canadians who've been arbitrarily detained by china from the very beginning. but china was infuriated at their arrest and possible extradition of mang something it reaffirmed on monday. the u.s. and canada buz their bilateral extradition treaty and take compulsory measures freely against chinese citizens so it's

a very early violates chinese citizens legitimate rights and interests we once again urge the u.s. to immediately withdraw the arrest warrant an extradition request on this main longo. as for coverage of the international crisis group think tank he works for full time city has not been allowed to see a lawyer or denied he's a spy or partook in any activities that threatened to china's security there appears little chance of the situation deescalating anytime soon meng is fighting to avoid extradition to the u.s. where she could face more than twenty years in prison if convicted her next court appearance in canada is on wednesday but the appeals process is long and complicated and could last months or even years gabriels andro al-jazeera new york algeria student demonstrators are back on the streets to vent their anger at the government they're protesting against president which affixes decision to ban

the full of from. it's the same signs of compromising promising not to serve the full term in iowa if elected has been how to the more than twenty years. as a legal posse sausage out as a northern separatist movement but its support is extended to the south the leader of the posse also known as levy became an m.p. in the southern region of calabria and has focused his gender on immigration some agave reports from rossano. a town left to its own devices stuck in a troubled present does not know is an agricultural community of some fifteen thousand people in italy south it continues to live through hard times in the grip of the local mafia the input on guitar and yet it's a political party that once supported the idea of northern italy seceding from the south that's what it's most surprising success here but people get bored with the

only party that will sort things out is the league five star is a joke and i voted for them but not everyone agrees remember you were neutral don't you remember when salvini would call us calabrian sleeves and crooks. all the troubles that this town has the poverty your guys crime and lack of any civil society have been taken by the league party transfigured into another issue immigration one of the illegal only too eager to use to their advantage. so the migrant ship blockade is a promise metairie sylvania made and kept and usually can't take all these desperate people there are enough here desperation underflow and sense of hope have been powering the league success hit calabria is one of the poorest regions in italy and has been forgotten time and again by politicians over the decades and its place criminal organizations have taken root exerting a powerful control of almost everything here including politics. the leaks

coordinator in calabria domenico pictured here on his facebook page with the leader . has been key to its success but he has been accused of having had links with the mafia. last march mateo salvini celebrated his election as calabria sen. among those pleased with his win was a result most form of a commando who denies that the input on paper has had anything to do with the league's victory in the region. when people say that the league only won because the in the writing that supported them i can tell you that in these areas. would have voted for other parties yet this is a region where local governments have been dissolved because of mafia infiltration suspicion runs deep here. it's very surprising that an intelligent politician like

matteo salvini hasn't understood this when you choose candidates who have links to these organizations how do our citizens to report crimes to the police if they fear of repercussions. not far from the town center this tent city one official of a makeshift housing hundreds of people mainly from sub-saharan africa exploited by the end but i'm they work in the agricultural sector for a pittance and provide a distraction for the other problems people face here sunny diagonal al-jazeera not . deal with al-jazeera these are all top stories pakistan's government says it will seize the assets of groups banned by the united nations has been under pressure to act against armed groups all trying to tackle indian troops the kashmir region and . libya's national oil corporation has restarted production rara field

in the southwest it was shut for three months by gunmen who took over the facility the u.s. will no longer give india and turkey preferential trade status some says india has failed to provide assurances it will allow reasonable access to its markets and trade officials say turkey no longer qualifies because its economy is sufficiently developed generalized system of preferences and soprano to economic development in selected countries allowing some exports to enter the u.s. duty free. the benefit is opposition leader one called on his supporters to return to the streets and step up pressure on president this majority to resign friday received a hero's welcome after returning from a tour of latin american allies you don't believe god when i say no i want to ask people of venezuela is that a shred of fear the they threatened us here they threatened me with jail you saw it and well i'll tell you something it will not be through threats that they will hold

us back we are here and we are strong united more than ever you know when i think we are here and we are stronger than ever i q family thank you hank thank you for the floods in pakistan and afghanistan have killed at least fifty people every rain over the past ten days is cut off tens of thousands of residents afghan government says flooding in kandahar province is the worst in at least seven years and algeria student demonstrators a back on the streets venting their anger at the government they're protesting against present these beautifully his decision to run for a fourth term would you think is an signs of compromise promising not to. enquire if elected this route for more than twenty years. with the headlines more news on jazeera of the inside story.

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