that other sorts of chipsets are actually leaking information as well back to like a mothership i guess you could say. i think this is sensitive political posturing on both sides while way knows that it needs the u.s. as a really big market but in many cases the u.s. wants to start building its own stuff which is almost impossible as well at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack on the west in kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering of the afghan capital eisel has claimed responsibility various politicians were at the event including presidential candidates for july's upcoming election shall about his mall from kabul. eisel has claimed responsibility for this attack in western kabul unfortunately it is not a surprise because they have targeted this community the shia minority the czar's they have targeted the many times in this area especially over the last year dozens have been killed in this this gathering today of more than a thousand people was commemorating the death of his our leader who died twenty

four years ago there was a large gathering but also a lot of politicians with a senior politicians we're talking former president hamid karzai the c.e.o. of diller a dollar acting foreign minister rabbani the presidential candidate. when as they were talking rockets were heard in the distance and these politicians continued to speak trying to come the crowd as these rockets were heard in the distance and then it started to escalate the politicians got out. as bodyguards eight of them were injured in this and then there were rockets there were mortars they were in a multiple explosions witnesses telling us this carried on for up to an hour and heavy gunfire as people tried to escape this a lot of criticism in the aftermath now bubbling up in the afghan community as to how this continues to happen in the capital city they were intelligence reports the night before talking about how there was this was

a high target situation with these politicians and also the his r.'s who had been targeted so much people want to stay away from the area and yet this happened our leader a politician by the name mohammed a hocket came out on national television after the attack after he escaped from this and said this simply isn't good enough that i still continues to be able to carry out these attacks in the capital especially against his people. plenty more ahead on the news hour including a catholic cardinal gets a suspended jail sentence for covering up child sex abuse in france. a thai court dissolves one of the country's main opposition parties just weeks before elections . and the footballer who clashed with a razor blade learns his fate. and sport. algeria state media has posted what it says is a letter from ailing president with

a freak a warning of chaos returning to the streets the next warns of foreign groups infiltrating demonstrations the eighty two year old president's message comes on the eve of a major protest earlier this week his campaign manager released another letter in which the president promised to serve only briefly if reelected with a flickers in switzerland for what the government is describing as routine medical tests meanwhile lawyers and journalists have held anti-government protests of their own hundreds marched through the streets of downtown denver to make a step down elsewhere in the city journalists held a session demonstration at press freedom square there because of the government of trying to influence the coverage of the demonstrations let's get more on all of this now we're joined by a new father executive director of the nordic center for conflict transformation and he's joining us live from very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so firstly what do you make of these letters coming from the president's office first warning of trouble makers infiltrating protests then releasing

a second mehta praising the peaceful nature of the protests against him. first of all we have to understand that this is not coming from the president himself but rather from the deep state and the regime there are several moving pieces in the crisis in algeria and what we get from this are two main messages that we get from these two letters first of all this is the first time in the country in which the young women and men and young men in the streets the people of algeria have one clear message which is they are against the fifth term they are not against a bit of liquor they haven't said much about the regime or the deep state the second point that. i would like to make is that harm the deep state and the regime in algeria are dealing in approaching the crisis in algeria there have been decades in which the use of backless and up security in dealing with this kind of crisis there are still moving pieces right out there and we have to wait for the next days

to see how it's going to go why do you think you know you call them the deep state why are they key thing both a flicker is not only eighty two years old but thought to be an paul house his wheelchair bound. why are they keeping him in this place as president. i don't think they are keeping both of liquor the what they want to keep is actually the state of power that they have until today some kind of start to go that benefit a certain hidden networks of power within the algerian regime they know that with a good flick i will be going but perhaps they don't see a leader that can replace a man that can actually function in the same way with a police car was functioning but is not functioning now the. exactly he's not functioning and i believe that there are some divisions within the

state in itself and the regime itself there are still moving pieces right out there we don't know how it's going to go yeah but the people feel that they are in a better negotiating position and they feel that they're going to when something is going to happen in order. and you know we will be watching these protests very closely over the next few days as we have been for the last two weeks so i take it you think that they are put in real pressure then on the regime. exactly and i think the regime is trying to to manage the crisis for now until they find another candidate that will function in a way that supports the the start to go i don't think it will happen like that i think that will be every piece will be negotiated i think the people what they want right now is one thing is that no more a fifth term for the president mr abu thank you very much for your time on this we appreciate it that is the follow up would live and thank you. now israel's central

elections committee has disqualified an alliance of palestinian israeli parties from running in next month's election follows a petition followed by the prime minister's local party and two others who are accusing the groups of supporting a violent palestinian resistance and hezbollah but a founder of one of the parties has called the decision political and racist how a force that has the latest from. israel's central election committee is hardly a neutral adjudicator it's made up of political parties with an eye on their voting blocks as much as electoral law yet his decision to allow jewish supremacists to run in next month's parliamentary election and bar one of two major arab parties is causing controversy we of course it will go to the high court and it will continue until the end we will not accept this discrimination and because there are people in israel the decision was celebrated by israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu

who tweeted that his likud ruling parties petition had been approved and that those who he said support terrorism would be allowed in the israeli parliament the knesset israel's attorney general fresh from recommending netanyahu see indictment on corruption charges had said the petition charging that barred the elimination of israel as a jewish state and supported palestinian attacks was not supported by sufficient evidence. israel's top lawyer did however recommend the banning of one member of a far right supremacist party jewish power from standing for the knesset on the grounds of racist incitement the committee voted to take no action in that case this is not the first time that race has been an open issue in this radio election in two thousand and fifteen for example benjamin netanyahu on election day itself appealed to his core constituency to come to the polls because the arabs he said were moving there in droves this time though it all seems to be happening a good deal earlier. this campaign launched on monday the israeli prime minister

used the catch phrase bibi is nicknamed t.v. the leading palestinian israeli politician and to the dismay of israeli moderates and us jewish organizations he engineered an alliance between one of his prospective coalition partners and the far right group of jewish power whether he gets elected or not the damage is already being done both in terms of eroding people's trust in democratic institutions as well as disenfranchising and the legitimizing a twenty percent minority in israel the israeli arabs with a month to go before polling day the ballot boxes are being prepared the election is essentially a competition for right wing votes something is visible in the voting inside the election committee as it has been in the campaign itself perry feels that al-jazeera west jerusalem. to thailand now with the constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and banned its leaders from politics for ten years type of rocks a child was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess or one

right as their candidate for prime minister the king said it was an appropriate for royals to get involved in politics when have reports from back cock. there was a somber mood among the leaders of the thai rocks a charred party as they arrived at the constitutional court in bangkok they knew these would probably be the final moments of the party's existence. they didn't have to wait long for confirmation the nine judges took less than forty minutes to deliver a unanimous verdict. we considered the acts of the party as an attack an instinct towards the constitutional monarchy the court has ordered that the party be dissolved the fourteen members of the party's executive committee were also banned from politics for ten years. to party executive members and i are deeply sad about that is solving a party it is sure to have an impact on basic political rights the verdict came a month after thai rocks a chart announced that princess would be its candidate to become prime minister in

the election hours later the palace said the move was inappropriate and unconstitutional from that moment it seemed unlikely the party would survive in a country where the monarchy is seen as untouchable. still the campaign continued until a week ago when it held what would become its farewell rally in bangkok this is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge was seen as a. coalition partner for his main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its

influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. the holding as we designed the constitution all the development that has happened. was designed to keep tax in the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for the chena wants well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is set for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. to files our discourse karner barbara ann has offered his resignation after being found guilty of failing to report child sex abuse to authorities the cases highlighter the catholic church is declining influence in france and has more family on. from his diocese in the city of french cardinal philip announced his resignation. i have decided to go and see the holy father to tender my resignation he will receive me in a few days. it was an unexpected twist often already dramatic morning in court

in his absence a judge found the cardinal guilty of failing to report child sex abuse to authorities giving him a six month suspended prison sentence babar had known the priest bernard painter had abused boys from the one nine hundred seventy s. to ninety's but he allowed him to work with children until his retirement in twenty fifteen the victim's lawyer said barber has resignation was sudden but welcome. symbolically make sense needed to respond to the verdict in some way because of a shown is moral and legal responsibility. may well be resigning from his position within the catholic church but his lawyers say in terms of this case he is likely to appeal the verdict for the victims and the campaigners who've been here during this trial they say this has been a true fall from grace one of france's highest clerics phosphor davao is head of

a victims' association in leo stated it yet it's david against goliath it sends a powerful symbol of hope for the victims it's colossal i'm convinced that many others will now speak out the case is shaken france's catholic church and inspired a film that won a top prize at the berlin film festival by the grace of god follows the victim's campaign for justice because country confesses reduce interfering or just to treat . somebody like. for more than a decade the catholic church in france has been dealing with a declining number of followers and new priests after the cardinal's trial it faces an additional battle won for its credibility and reputation natasha al-jazeera france still ahead on the news hour in the u.s. donald trump's former campaign chairman is back in court to tell you why. crossing borders for an education the extraordinary lengths venezuelan children are going to

to get to school. and one hundred and counting days after reaching a tennis milestone roger federer goes for his next title we'll hear from him and sports with chad. our action once again from the point of view of the weather is not so much in iran though there are hints of showers here in india afghanistan but no further west once again the action has been turkey in northern syria and there's more to come snow obviously is quite readily available in the air is cold enough to bring that's not quite low levels it's running across the north of iraq into iran you might even find that some snow briefly falls even the capital was mainly a story of rain and other keep moving downstream iran during friday leaving behind it quite looking weather not much of

a breeze in the temperatures in the high teens twenty two if you're lucky in baghdad now typically when this sort of thing happens you pick a quarter when running down to the gulf it has been a bit sporadic recently picked up again the moment i think it might strengths about how to get to some of them friday is not so much so twenty six in there have a lab over the thames has dropped back a bit on saturday where that road to the cold northeast if you twenty two at best in her. we've seen heavy rain recently even the potential for development of a tropical storm with it comes off shore from mozambique into the shallow and that's a possibility if not then probably on saturday but this is an area of heavy rain in malawi across about a gasket a few shots the south as well. over one hundred and fifty years ago a musician started a band in an ati street in cairo and the brass band was so popular it gave

birth to an entire musical genre. a century and a half later the sound still resonates with many egyptians today house of allah the people's music on al-jazeera. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises we doe as illegally maigret joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda they have to foot of our nation what has happened to their attention that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. is it not religion this is the politics me and an unholy alliance coming soon on al-jazeera.

it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour and these are our top stories thirty six countries including twenty members have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record it calls on the kingdom to cooperate with the u.n. that investigation into the murder of saw the journalist jamal khashoggi. huawei is taking the u.s. government to court the chinese tech jobs is challenging a federal law banning agencies from using its products over security concerns and these two people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack of the west in kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering in the afghan capital claimed responsibility. but u.s. president's former campaign manager will soon find out how much time he's going to

spend in prison paul manifold was found guilty of financial crimes as part of the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between the twenty sixteen tromp campaign and russia let's get more on this now would you. say he's live for us and alexandria virginia talk us through what senators manifolds face and she have. well the department of justice guidelines suggest anywhere between one thousand and twenty four years the judge however can sentence him to considerably less time and the defense are hopeful because during the trial the judge would often say what he said a couple of times that he didn't really feel that the government was really interested in paul manifolds financial crimes he felt that the government wanted to lean on manifold to get more information about donald trump so the defense has been arguing in there that filings to the cool to the amount of four years old and he's in he's turning seventy next month he's on a holiday criminal he's a first time offender however the special counsel in their recommendations they

didn't recommend any particular sentence but they said no he is a criminal he did above the law for over over a decade and is showing no remorse so this will be up to the judge and how are they saying that he. didn't how does it connect with the russian. and that's one of the really fascinating questions this is the first and only trial that robert mueller has brought under his rusher investigation the special counsel investigation into allegations of some sort of coordination between the trunk campaign and russia and yet this case certainly had nothing to do with russian collusion we don't know whether robert miller has any other information that will suddenly appear in some special report that will come out at a time to be to be decided but this case had nothing to do it robert rushing collusion this was about manifolds work initially in the ukraine being on behalf of advising the ukrainian government under the bridge in the mid two thousand he made

tens of millions of dollars which he didn't declare to tax authorities didn't declare he was a foreign a foreign lobbyist and then when the code was overthrown and. still in financial trouble so he made various financial. which were flawed julan so these are the kind of charges that he's been he was found guilty of. not russian collusion it's fascinating though because it seems that in twenty sixteen he was still in financial trouble and he sort of put unity in the trump campaign to relaunch in washington and many of his friends apparently told him don't do this you have too much baggage you get on the radar but he did it anyway he offered his services unpaid to donald trump he only lasted six months but when the special counsel investigation began under robot go into russian collusion combination of being on the trunk campaign and having all the eastern european connections not just in ukraine but with a with a with a russian oligarch meant he was immediately a target of interest he had already been under investigation for potential

financial irregularities but he probably wouldn't have been here right now in this situation how do you not join the trump campaign and only go on the radar of the special counsel she had thank you very much for that. thank you. now. paid legal fees collins's don't trust company when he was a senior official for more than a decade refused to pay has and voices on after it became clear that he had coffee with a mother investigation calling testified before a house committee last week accusing the president of committing crimes and in and out of office. well as we mentioned to pull data for what is going to find out how much more time he's going to spend and prison but that is just one of a growing number of investigations and to donald trump explains.

it's a term he seems to use daily which which i tweet and it's a great but he might need to start using the plural witch hunts because u.s. president donald trump has a lot more to worry about than special counsel robert muller's investigation into potential obstruction of justice and collusion with the russian government trump is surrounded by investigations in new york federal prosecutors are already sending troops former lawyer to prison and they're looking into who gave and how one hundred seventy million dollars was spent on the inauguration a former trump advisor went on the president's favorite fox news program to warn him he's in danger this is why i've said all along with the southern district this is much more worrisome than mother because they have no restriction on what they can look at mother has to look at russia and that's it right these guys in the seventy's are can look at anything the washington d.c. attorney general is also investigating the inauguration specifically he is looking

into whether trump personally benefited financially by renting out his d.c. hotel for events perhaps unknowingly the president recently praised that attorney general and a special thanks to attorney general karl race. car. great job thank you very much you were very helpful everybody said girl i feel like you're like i know you. that's pretty good. he's about to learn even more about the president along with the top lawyer in maryland he's also suing trump for possibly violating the clause of the constitution that says a president can't take foreign money in new york the state attorney general is ramping up investigations into trump's businesses and the possibility he's been cheating on his taxes for years and in new jersey that attorney general is investigating if the term country club broke the law by hiring undocumented migrants and then there is congress newly in power in the house of representatives

the opposition democratic party says it is investigating all of these things and much more you just have to take a look at the president's twitter feed you know he's pretty much fixated on the investigations but with so many looking at all aspects of his administration his campaign is businesses he can tweet but he can't stop them pedicle al-jazeera washington. international monetary fund says it's yet to decide if it will recognize them as well as opposition leader as interim president i.m.f. members such as russia and china continue to recognize nicolas maduro as president meanwhile venezuela's decision to expel the german ambassador has been criticized by the european union's foreign policy chief federica ma greeny says that hampers efforts to find a political solution that as well it has urged the e.u. to not interfere and its internal affairs well as the politicians battle for the power of the people struggling to survive their injuries and shortages of food

medicine and the world's highest inflation rate some venezuelan children are going to extraordinary lengths to attend school by crossing the border into neighboring colombia. reports from kolkata. most of the children waiting in this launch line or from venezuela they travel across the colombian border every day just to attend school but since venezuelan authorities blocked off access through the official border crossing students are having to find other ways to get across thirteen year old catalina russell says she was scared the first time she had to sneak over the river that divides the two countries but it's the only way she can get to class where any awareness that it was dark we were very scared at people were terrified we didn't know what was going to happen is a very difficult situation because you wouldn't expect to have to cross an illegal route to go to school. does it mean you're at this elementary school in. only a short distance from the venezuelan border ninety five percent of students are from venezuela the school's director had

a much better bessie says since the border has been closed attendance has dropped significantly as a single sample inland in this way these children have problems in venezuela because there aren't enough schools because teachers don't make enough money and most have quit in left so children migrate to our country especially this school because it's the closest one to the border. and if you get outside the building parents are waiting to drop off more children once their lessons are over many of them will make the journey across the border back into venezuela. when we cross back if there is any kind of conflict or gunfire out children's lives or our lives are in a great risk or nearly faculty members at the school say many of the children who arrive for class haven't eaten and it's become part of the institutions mandate to make sure that children are fed before they begin their lessons half of the students in this class did not show up to school today the director of the school says that a humanitarian corridor between been

a swell and colombia is desperately needed to guarantee young that as well as students access to a formal education. in estimated three thousand children are travelling to and from venezuela across illicit routes every day humanitarian observers say the conditions these children face on the border is another example of human rights violations by the venezuelan government. they are opinion has declared that its refugee and mike and crisis is that despite that the resettlement of asylum seekers still remains all portugal seems to be the only country willing to take it more refugees getting them to stay is proving tricky lansley reports from lisbon. six years ago raf fats was a student in damascus since then his dad's been killed he's traveled to jordan and egypt before finding himself of all places in lisbon now he runs

a restaurant stops by other refugees it's quite a story but he's happy. i really like being here for different reasons i like the country the people the climates like home and the way they treat us i don't feel like a stranger here i can speak portuguese now and to make things much simpler. there's been has become similar taney asli the most welcoming and yet least well known potential destination for refugees everything happening here is the opposite to the rest of the european union portugal finds itself in a minority of war on the inside the european union the only country actively trying to encourage refugees to come and settle here the problem is trying to get them to do it and then trying to get them to stay portugal has reached out to greece and italy and is in advance talks with germany about relocating thousands of people the country has accepted many more from turkey and egypt portugal's interior minister

makes the case for doing this in a way you almost never hear anymore inside the european union that it isn't only morally right to accept refugees as an economic and social opportunity anything packed off refugees. know what companies is globally positive we should be prepared be prepared for there is not a moment then in crisis the sea is a situation that we should see. along a long time around and we should be prepared. portugal's problem is that it wasn't on the refugee route it has no natural community from the middle east even though there's virtually no racism here it's all foreigners the country finds it hard to convince refugees to stay so they hope that more places like the restaurants building a community will change things. like anywhere else the refugees are looking for opportunities but our experience is that when they feel welcome and integrated they

don't want to leave. over the last five years the countries in europe with the loudest voices have been those claiming that refugees threaten the social fabric of the continent portugal's voice is much quieter but it offers a friendship which doesn't exist elsewhere. al-jazeera lisbon. syrian refugees in jordan are taking a case against the damascus government to the international criminal court they are accusing the president assad's forces of crimes against humanity including torture rape and murder and chemical attacks syria isn't signed up to the i.c.c. even jordan is a member and that may give the court jurisdiction to take the case. meanwhile hundreds more people have fled the last remaining pocket of syrian territory held by eisel one six thousand people have left the eastern village of bogle's in the past few days the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces are trying to push them out hundreds of ice and clashes have surrounded. now the medical charity doctors without borders has

criticized the humanitarian response to the border outbreak in the democratic republic of congo it says not enough spin down to gain the trust of local communities even aid workers and increasing target of violence it comes as the head of the world health organization is visiting the country to get an update on the outbreak alexy o'brien reports. wearing protective suits they wash down with chlorine making sure every particle of the highly contagious virus is destroyed but doctors without borders says efforts to contain it aren't working and instead have led to hostilities and violence the existing atmosphere can only be described as toxic it shows how the response has failed to listen and act on the needs of those most affected dr who has just returned from the

democratic republic of congo where she saw firsthand the challenges i'd workers are facing last week the charity suspended its operations at the center of the outbreak after two treatment centers were burned down they've been thirty incidents or attacks against the a response in eastern congo in the past month alone this region seen decades of on raced as armed groups of territory and resources dr uses the involvement of security personnel as alienating patients and their families the communities are not the enemy it dollar is a common enemy the use of security forces and police only deepens the suspicion of those who feel that it has been used as a political tool. ebola has killed more than five hundred sixty people here and also robbed these communities of their right to vote and lost the same.