it has incurred significant cost to the united states generating greater instability and potential new rounds of terrorism in the arabian peninsula both sides agreed to a cease fire around who did a port in yemen in december after un brokered peace talks while there is optimism that me leads to broader talks there's no sign a political settlement is near and the committee was told us needs to use its influence to get people around the table and divan your bones and bullets as a weed to end the fighting alan fischer al-jazeera washington and cameroon leaders of an separatist group of jews who are pair and court accused of treason the amazonia freedom fighters have attacked villages schools and businesses over the past year their aim is to pressure the government into establishing an english speaking state and what's mostly a french speaking nation and the reports on the impacts this has had this been on a plantation in southwest cameroon used to be

a thriving business not anymore last august it was attacked by armed men from a group known as the amazonian freedom fighters workers on the farm say they were terrified they worried about more attacks so we've hidden their identities they beat me on the head with a machete a young man was asked to kill me but he didn't have the courage to do it one of the guys kicked me and i fell to the ground he cut my neck and back i begged him not to kill me after that i lost consciousness the plantation was so badly damaged that it's been difficult to restart production. the park houses burned to the ground worth and spread and people were afraid to come to work the package was abandoned the fields were abandoned that's why you see weeds everywhere the separatists who attack the plantation want the government to recognize southwest in cameroon as its own country to be called amazonia they say the english speaking minority faces discrimination in the largely french speaking nation the surge in violence has

damaged cameron's economy this plantation is a by the country's biggest private employer it says its profits fell by fifty percent last year putting thousands of jobs at risk in the palm sector on out of seven estates only to. freshen up i think in the operation for me and the bottom a sector this is. fighting has caused thousands of people to cross the border into southern nigeria they're waiting to return but must be wondering whether they'll have jobs to come back to victoria gate and be al jazeera. breaking news from afghanistan where there have been several explosions and kabul and it appears the attack is still going on let's go live to or charlotte ballasts who's in afghanistan for us in the capital charlotte oh i believe we'll be coming

back to charlotte shortly and we'll be bringing you updates on that as and when it happens. still ahead on al jazeera. accused of a cover up a catholic cardinal francis case is a vatican a major abuse scandal and racing is suspended as a top u.s. track after the deaths of more than twenty horses. well we're back to normal back to average at least in the western half of the of the huge amount of cloud has come in recently it's dropped a lot of rain particularly portugal is also drawing some much colder and now given that we broke records only a week or so ago it's interesting to see temps are back down to average eleven in london eleven in paris even madrid with ten to twelve now this cold air really

shows itself actually just north of your charges northern part of scandinavia even stockers and imagine about five whereas central and eastern europe and south it's two quite mild is seventeen eighteen twenty one in rome and the cold air doesn't really penetrate sound he's still going in that general direction bringing the winds across germany once again poland temptress talker i'm still five on friday it's gone down to ten in london that's a debate in madrid where the sun's become a little bit stronger in bucharest is now enjoying the twenty one degrees so all the action really in europe is in the northwest corner over is coming from the atlantic so that cloud has spread across morocco and algeria and is could still bring some more showers into the mountains in the interior of morocco seventeen reback very cloudy picture argyria possibly two newsy in the temperature held as a result of that but ahead of it drawing a subtle it's twenty four tripoli. sponsor.

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government agencies from using its products because of security concerns. the latest figures show donald trump's trade offensive against china and others could be failing the u.s. trade deficit has blown out to its highest level in ten years. and thailand's constitutional court says ruling on whether to ban one of the country's main opposition parties the party is accused of violating election laws for nomination princess dollars their candidate for prime minister in an upcoming father's. accord in france is due to deliver its verdict on a roman catholic cardinal on trial for covering up sex abuse called will fully barberin and five others are accused of protecting a pedophile priest boy scouts were abused by the priest who has confessed in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's while the trial is being held in leon and our correspondent is there natasha this has been

a huge case for the church. there has indeed been a huge case for the church where i'm standing now in the court and we all we are expecting that verdict to be delivered shortly by a judge the cardinal is also expected to be here in the courtroom he will learn his fate now he does face up to three years in prison if he is found guilty of having failed to report a priest accused of child sex abuse as you said in the seventy's eighty's and ninety's here in france the priest in question is called that in our pain he is himself awaiting trial over these allegations that we've just been speaking to some of that pre-select victims and what they say is that the cardinal basically failed to protect the welfare of children if you allowed this priest to continue to work with young boys while the car has so far denied all of these claims. that his trial in january french cardinal philip barbara told to call tinley or

that he had never covered up the sexual abuse of boys by a catholic priest the cardinals accused of failing to report bernard pray now to authorities over allegations he abused boys from the one nine hundred seventy s. to the one nine hundred ninety s. as a child falls on deval as one of the priests victims now he campaigns for justice he said aloud pray not to work with children until his retirement in twenty fifteen and then it up to the. predator against children the abuse was on a massive scale that cardinal barber rung collette hume continued to work in a position of moral and the spirit of thirty is unacceptable for the case is shaken france's catholic church and inspired a film that won a top prize of the berlin film festival by the grace of god follows the alleged victim's story because could you give us reduce until you bought one just

a tree just wanted to feel so. it was in this parish in lieu of that at least seventy men say the plane or abused them as children some reason young a seven years old bernard braina it is now awaiting trial his alleged victims say that many people in the catholic church community knew about the abuse from some of the parishioners here to parents to the highest clerics in france like cardinal but they say that the urge to protect the church his reputation was stronger than the urge to protect young children this writer grew up in pain as parish and is investigated his case she says barbour has trial reflects the way the catholic church around the world has failed to deal with abuse through like reporting only the problem with the church into recently was there was a fear of public scandal cardinals would say it was best to sort out problems internally but that's not right you sort out problems with the justice system and in full transparency. the cardinal faces up to three years in prison if found

guilty the public prosecutors recommended no conviction because many of the accusations is so old the statute of limitations has run out fast or devil says that whatever the verdict the trial has sent a powerful message to the church hierarchy and frauds that the culture of silence on child abuse could no longer be tolerated. for this case a certain damage the reputation of all fronts is catholic church has shaken the church to its very core and not only that at a time when the church is in crisis because the number of followers across france is for an over the last few years the number of new priests being ordained is really plummeted over the past decade and they've been similar scandals like this across the world and that of course has made many people feel that perhaps they do not wish to be part of this institution and it's not just that the victims also say

that the way that these cases of even being handled by the catholic church by the institution in itself has been so damaging because they say that they feel at least here in france has been a real lack of motivation to make any real change al-jazeera is natascha but they're there for us in leon thank you natasha. all germany's ambassador is being kicked out of venezuela accused by the government of meddling in the country's affairs daniel cry and i was among those to welcome opposition leader back to caracas on monday president nicolas maduro says that was unacceptable and once krajina gone in forty eight hours germany is among the nations supporting who has declared himself venezuela's interim president. everyone in venezuela knows who the person on grata is there's only one that's not welcome in the region and the rest of the world in all the countries of visited they recognize the venezuelan fight for democracy as a constitutional element the red carpet rolled out in those countries wasn't for me

it was for the secretary says of hundreds of venezuelans it was a recognition from every corner of the continent so i say to the autocrats the only people that are not welcome in venezuela are you. well venezuela's most vulnerable people are dying because of budget cuts mental health facilities throughout the country are collapsing leaving patients without doctors food or medicine there's a new man reports from the town of perry becca and to cheer a state and a warning viewers may find some of the following images disturbing. half hidden at the end of this road is what was one of the news whalers most respected psychiatric rehabilitation centers that now the only person left there is but not of the are seeing it as the watchman for the last fifteen years evil get us to have a why did they close the institute i ask. because there was no medicine or food

there used to be three hundred patients but in may the last fifty were transferred dr phillips the last call worked at the institute until the last day and he tells a disturbing story documented was shocking images. it began five or six years ago the state national government started cutting the budget half of the three hundred patients were released to their families the rest had nowhere to go they began dying from starvation eventually we had one hundred and insufficient funds for food or medicine between forty five and fifty five more patients died of starvation especially in the last two men are. these patients who once weighed one hundred ten kilos and ended up weighing forty left with just skin and bones. dr of alaska says there was nothing they could do but transfer the remaining fifty patients to another institution in northern minnesota he's been told only nine survived. the psychiatric wing of sangli stall was general hospital

the only place now left in patchy the state for mental patients is another testimony to the crisis in venezuela's health services. which going to make not only doctors and nurses but also means that because our salaries aren't enough to survive. the wind was designed for sixty patients but with the acute shortage of personnel it could only accept eight and only those whose families can supply their food and medication the facilities are in a dilapidated state in. the isolation cells the patients who become violent many no longer have locks for the love of the. a lot of patients havok scape giudice with. all over venezuela mental health institutions are struggling to provide sufficient nourishment and essential medication to ease patients suffering. the government blames u.s. economic sanctions but dr glasgow argues the decline began long before they were

imposed. i never thought i'd see this in my life in a rich country like ours personally wrote forty five death certificates for patients who never should have died. and as venezuela's political and economic crisis worsens it's almost certain they will not be the last to see in human pity because venezuela. now let's go back to the breaking news from afghanistan where there have been several explosions in the capital kabul and it does appear that the attack is still ongoing let's speak live now to our correspondent charlotte ballasts who is in the capital sean what do we know about what's going on . so there's a big protest in. which is wasting shia minority area a lot of his czars there they were gathering for the anniversary of the death of his our lady named bubba mazhar e in about forty minutes ago we started to get reports of an explosion over the

over the last kind of half an hour or so with heads. and conflicting reports coming in about rockets initially being five then multiple explosions some people saying more than ten explosions grenades and also ongoing gunfire there was a lot of people at this protest we have a photo it shows hundreds of people gathering including senior politicians and that includes former president hamid karzai and see. we have talked to people he said that they that he has escaped and that are you safe now and we understand that has also got out and he is also safe so if they are casualties at this point it looks like. civilians may have been caught up in this we've just heard sirens going off in the green zone about five minutes ago those sirens alert for incoming rockets so this is ongoing a lot of sirens being heard across kabul right now. al-jazeera charlotte in kabul

with that update we will be bringing you more on that as we get it thank you charlotte. will veterans of algeria's war of independence have backed student led protests calling for president abdul aziz beautifully to resign they say demonstrators concerns are understandable weeks of protests are posing a challenge to the eighty two year old leader who's standing for reelection next month after twenty years in power who to figure has offered to call early elections if he's returned to office and won't run again. israel's prime minister says his naval forces could take action over iran over what's called suspected oil smuggling he called on the international community to hold any efforts by iran to evade u.s. sanctions he accused of shipping fuel in secret u.s. president donald trump last year pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and reimposed some sanctions there was no immediate response from tehran while the start of argentina school year has been postponed by a three day teach

a strike they say wages on keeping up with inflation which reached nearly fifty percent last year the government is trying to pull the economy out of recession with a widely criticized austerity program all scandal hit social media giant facebook has rolled out new plans to improve user privacy on its platforms c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says facebook's focus will change from public to private sharing he also said facebook will not be storing user data and countries with a weak human rights record last year it was revealed that data from millions of its uses was harvested by a political consultancy. hello i'm mr hall with the headlines on al-jazeera multiple explosions have been heard in afghanistan's capital kabul and it appears the attack is still ongoing or

authorities believe a large gathering of shiite muslims was targeted. huawei is taking the u.s. government to court the chinese tech giant is challenging a federal law banning u.s. government agencies from using its products the u.s. government had said. that it has heritage that our servers and the story are you merits and a source called these tragedies the u.s. government has never prove. every day supposed. that our we hold these securities direct steer the u.s. government is very low effort to merit their company and it's probably a battle that. the latest u.s. commerce department figures show donald trump's trade offensive against china and others could be failing the u.s.

trade deficit has blown out to its highest level in ten years one of thailand's main opposition party is waiting to hear whether it's being banned from this month's general election constitutional court judges are deciding whether the thai rocks a chart party broken lection laws by nominating the king sr as its candidate for prime minister the king said it's inappropriate for royals to get involved in politics the long delayed first election since the military coup five years ago is due on launch twenty four a u.s. congressional committee has been told the white house needs to do more to end the war in yemen the warning comes from members of the house of representatives who say the fighting could create long term instability and post a future threat to the united states a course in france is due to deliver its verdict on a roman catholic cardinal on trial for covering up sex abuse cardinal felipe barberin then five others are accused of protecting

a pedophile priest boy scouts who were abused by the priest who has confessed in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's. well there is all the headlines to join me for more news here after the string. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined them listening as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter tomorrow on al-jazeera. i for me ok and you're in the street and i'm really could be live today is fortnight more than just a video game we have diving into one of the biggest cultural phenomena in gaming so share your thoughts in our live chat or you can tweet us at a.j. stream need to be in this to. the free to play online video game for tonight is

a cultural juggernaut not only is it influencing pop culture but pop culture is influencing fortnight the game both more registered players than the populations of canada and mexico combined it also generates roughly two hundred fifty million dollars in revenue each month for its creator epic games but for many of the two hundred million people who play it fortnight isn't just a game it's a communal gathering place joining us to talk about this from los angeles we have jamie in the war and he's an avid gamer and founder of two five six a company that works with brands to engage with the world of play and interactivity in new york i should have done is a journalist who regularly reports on the gaming world in charlotte north carolina author psychologist and co-founder of tank gaskill good to have you as we also want to introduce you to one other person you will see throughout the show how they do or she is a digital producer here at the stream and an avid fortnight gamer he'll be playing

the game during our discussions and you'll be out to follow along and his fortnight journey is at the bottom of the screen all the way through so if you get killed earlier or high. we will know no question all right. and i have never paid for it so we're going to play with you what do we need let's jump right into it so here we are in the lobby screen as you can see this is where right before you jump into the game ok so real quick i'm going to my locker when you happen to me i'm going to have you choose my outfit all right i'm going to go through. this guy yet ok so me and. my bling. bling yes i want we want you to fly so now i'm back in the lobby and i'm ready to go fire up and go and i'm just going to game can you play until course i can play all right plain talk of course so will the loading screen takes a couple seconds and i'll be probably in again probably

a minute or two all right well we're watching you at the bottom of the screen. so i mean we know that we have a lot of gamers in our community but this is one person who is not as simple all them so i want to start this conversation with them this is christopher who says i heard a lot about this game for tonight and was curious to see if it was worth all the hype after trying it for a month i decided it wasn't for me love the look but spending twenty plus minutes wandering a giant world without seeing the soul to just get taken out from behind is not my idea of fun so james and i you know it was the last thing in there i want to give a little teaser for our audience because mohammad before the show described the game as our version of the hunger games if you've seen the movies or you read the books describe for us based on this tweet from christopher what it is that you're actually doing in this game yeah games it's actually agree and now. as a culture we're familiar with the battle royale john the kind of winner takes all

format that exists in a lot of different places so you have things like dodgeball march madness for basketball so i think culturally. so you understand what it means to be the last person standing which is really unique and revolutionary about fortnight is that if throws one hundred people into an environment that they all share and the last person to be standing wins there's a big ring that that's outside the world that kind of pushes people into a more and more compressed space but for you know the fellow who is feeling a little down about being lost by themselves they may want to consider playing with other people you can actually play as duo as you can put a squad so at least if it's if it's not as you getting taken out it's the rest of your crew so it's a really innovative format really interesting twist on a very popular gaming style front with us i'm proud fortnight. what were you thinking he's single for the actual goal was trying to do for you as a pro. well i'll tell you the first time i played it is the same experience and i

was in there for twenty minutes i did know it was doing even though i'm a dreamer and i just decided to give up and just play on my phone which which is interesting about this game is cross-platform you can do play station x. box you name it but my claim to fame is after playing it for about a month i actually got a solo when i actually won the game on my phone which gives me a lot of street cred with some of the clients that i see but it also in playing this game with my son and getting better at it it was just very bonding experience it was very funny when this broke i started i could hear the theme music it made me feel like oh sexually walking into my house going to greenlight you could split and it was very familiar i like that i because it's the only area that people online are saying is what draws them to it because it's the thing that they come back to again and again so this is gene park and he says some of the appeal it's free which is a big factor it's on every modern platform it being on phones was a big in

a bowler and frank you just mentioned how you played on your phone jean on twitter says it enables cross-platform play the way part that way progress is always ensured no matter where you are i shall want to bring you in here with this tweeting is this different than the way other video games are played the fact that you can play it on any platform what may grab it but oh well so cost five as who don't know it basically means that no matter what pop from your on whether that's a p.s. for on mobile or a p.c. you can play with other people i would say fortnight is actually a big game that really brought this to the mainstream and sony actually caved into pressure at the end of last year to enable cost from play largely because my parents were like look we want to play with our friends let us play with them on p s four and stuff and as previously mentioned it's free to play so that combined with the fact that it's cross-platform means that the barriers and she was significantly lowered. i just think you don't have to that is when march

madness was mentioned. what's happening culturally over the i'd say the last decade or more is at least in the u.s. and probably worldwide we don't have common experiences so when i was going to date myself but when i was growing up i was watching the love boat dukes of hazard and we go to school and we talk about particular football games because we had a limited choice in terms of what we could entertain ourselves with this is that experience all these kids young adults adults we have the shared experience now so we can go into school or go into the workplace and talk about the time we spent together and this is just one of those rare platforms where you can actually do that to me having seen all the people around the well proven scam and i haven't had that little song experience in different parts of the walls. and the really important point about the game being able to play be played on multiple devices is that every country is a little bit different you know access to high speed internet is different in every country access to you know p.c.

gaming rig for example which might be on a more expensive i had your multiple on which everybody has games exported it really flatten the experience for everyone around the world it is going to try it out and bought having up and now on be a part of the conversation if you want to play it with other people right if you look at other forms of viral need. a beauty or a point to read ever it might be a take on don't democrat running trouble connecting are here to talk about different kinds of connectivity in different parts the we will done in the meantime frank what is happening in your brain as a problem for night what happens psychologically. well as gaming you have lots of different kinds of players and i'm going to be judged severely by all your social media and the audience but i tend to be a camper which is somebody who pays i'll play

a place cautious and that's actually how i got my soul awareness i got it a push you can actually do this if you don't wander around with a twenty minute rank so you get in the bush for twenty minutes i mean you won the game well i had to creep along because you have to stay within the eye of the storm and there was one other guy left and he was shooting bushes to try and five me and i managed to kill him and what so that's a very cheap way to win but that's what i love about playing with especially my son is he's a leader and he tells you where to go where to be if it's a game that can teach leadership ship skills problem solving and it's it's really an impressive platform so when you're talking about the leadership skills i want to go to one hundred now because i'd like to know who it is that you play with me now that it's one hundred player game in the world gets smaller and smaller who are you playing with right now so right now i'm in the solar mode some all alone in this huge he won this world and to numberous myself i'm kind of doing with what the guest is that i'm not camping but i did land for i didn't i didn't go find smoke

purposely to fight so right here i just finished loading i have four still i've picked up a bunch of some ready for any battle coming my way but usually when i do play i don't like playing alone i have a huge group of friends that i play with we call it we call it we call what's our group game boys and whenever someone wants to get on we dismiss it's a group who's on guys and we jump on the game and we play together and that communal that community feeling is really felt because one of my friends for example of the malaysia the other lives in doha some live in the west coast some live in chicago so it's a great place to come together to speak and i play almost i don't want to say a daily basis to seem so it's like i'd like us exactly to seem like such a he. i pretty much put on a daily basis and i talk to these people almost every day so they become close friends and i even invited them to my wedding so yeah you know the outside over here is that we're so here's the funny part and i kind of feel but i knew

a majority of them in real life so i invited those ones to my wedding but the one there's a bunch of them why i haven't met one so good friends with but i kind of felt weird inviting them to my wedding but i kind of i kind of wish i did oh that is going to kill them you know i have no idea what it is. so i guess i think that a lot of the regroup there because you talked about friends and that communal feeling we got a video comment from a former member of the stream family a former producer and host here latoya peterson she's a gamer she's also on the board of advisors for that society and she talks about that community. peterson from washington d.c. and fortnight has become a cultural phenomenon partly because it is fun to play and it was a free to play a huge multiplayer game and one of the key secrets to success is that it was fully customizable you could completely fix your character change your world around you

had a mission but you also just hang out with your friends and so that makes for a really compelling experience in the multiplayer experience and when more people start playing there are a lot of reasons to meet in the world scene we kind of people go to starbucks in third place for their place for gamers and thing and so it's overleaped other types of games like book. so de mint he mentions it's sort of like the new starbucks it's a place to meet it's a place to hang out when you think about. i mean i think that's true to a certain extent i mean the reality is that there's lots of things to do in fortnight so they've had some virtual concerts they're experimenting with this big concert with marshmellow that millions of people attended and there's other types of game mode so there's a guy minecraft like game mode inside a fortnight to build things i think you know at the end of the day it's one of many places that people will go i think in the same way that starbucks is one of many different coffee shops sometimes you want this big kind of big coffee shop.