in telling them to leave quietly but. then the first explosion in the elder followed witnesses reported rockets mortars landing in and around the gathering explosions and heavy gunfire. so it was the us that that has our leader mohammed hockey said on the microphone in the bed targeting the gathering and told us to escape from there as i was fleeing i was hit with shrapnel on my back. there was confusion as hundreds of people try to find safety. i don't soldiers and police unaware of who was attacking and from where. afghan special forces zoned in on a building began a clearance operation to stop the remaining attack its. ambulances ferry dozens of people to hospital most injured by rockets and mortars are through all of them that one mortar hit in the back of the crowd and then another followed by the third one hit close to me shrapnel hit me and also a soldier he was lying there and i was in

a lot of time and i don't know what happened next. in a report last month the u.n. security council used to make it up to four thousand. many arriving after being pushed out of syria and iraq last year they carried out nearly forty attacks nationwide. a primary target as most a shia muslims. who escapes to national television after the attack and accuse president danny of being complicit it looks like there was a lot of weapons stoked up i felt like i was in a battlefield i strongly condemn this barbarian attack and my condolences for all the families who lost their loved ones people are angry at such a serious security lapse in the aftermath there are questions as to how particular can continue to carry out such complex attacks in the heart of the city which a shia minority heavy price. but more to come in

creating a medical charity criticizes the response to the ebola outbreak in democratic republic of congo as the death rate continues to rise. country willing to take in more refugees but why get him and to stay is proving tricky. hello you know welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across australia we did see a front about to be pushed across parts of sydney and brisbane that brought some heavy rain showers over the last couple days things are looking much better now take a look at a forecast map here on friday we're looking at temperatures into the high twenty's there but we are seeing one funnel boundary that is extending anywhere across from perth all the way across over here towards tasmania now the next few days it is

going to be quite rainy across perth we don't expect to see much of a change but here in tasmania that france going to make its way towards the north we're going to be seen as a better weather there but for no burn and sydney we could see some showers as well in your forecast well for the north and south island of new zealand that front about it is making its way through right now we can be seeing showers across parts of christ church and those showers are going to continue up towards auckland by the time we get towards friday and into saturday christchurch really not looking too bad here on friday but by the time we get to saturday we could see some more clouds maybe some more rain coming in forecast for the time to there about one thousand degrees and then very quickly for us cut parts of asia we are looking at both the clear conditions across much of the area over the next two days so those temperatures are going to be rising tokyo at twelve degrees as we go towards friday and by the time we get to saturday about sixteen years there.

thailand's military government is accused of using repressive means to silence the general critics. after. thailand's rebel losses zero. zero is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. and i'm going around to the top stories here around his era chinese telecom giant wall way is taking the u.s. government to court for restricting the federal agencies from using huawei products

. thirty six countries including all twenty eight member states of the european union have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record. and french cardinal. has offered his resignation to the pope after being found guilty of covering up sex abuse allegations against a priest. and to government protesters in sudan a defying the government imposed state of emergency vehicle parties allied to the government say they're committed to starting talks aimed at ending most four months of demonstrations but it's unclear who the government can actually talk to because the protest movement and it obviously does have a morgan reports from the capital khartoum. but i tell you i don't have a dream are all coming from university campuses to the streets of how to thousands continue to demand the resignation of president obama to be sure protests calling for the end of his thirty year rule are now almost four months old there are

a billion shows no sign of abating despite promises from the government to improve the economy and the declaration of a year long state of emergency that bans public gatherings and protests. the government is corrupt there's a pressure may enter into people's houses and beat them now all our brothers are heading to the street to my beating with sticks of really firing tear gas as a violation of rights or were probably season lives they don't represent the sudanese people even the state of emergency because there are no soldiers on the streets the protests which started in mid december in the northeastern city of algebra were sparked by a rise in the costs of basic goods some opposition groups say protesters have legitimate reason to take to the streets demonstrators say they want to voice their demands peacefully but have been met with tear gas and bullets fired rights groups say security forces have killed at least fifty people since demonstrations began the government puts the figure at thirty two the un human rights council has

criticised the government response and its use of force president bashir met the committee formed to resolve the crisis and repeated his call for dialogue as well as announcing the state of emergency bashir has stepped down as head of the ruling national congress party with talked about preparing the environment for dialogue that are releasing all political prisoners to this end june this so we can create an environment for national dialogue because every side sticking to their positions will not help the country but it's unclear who to talk to. most of the protests have been called for by opposition groups and an unofficial body known as the sudanese professional association but some thought in these things while they participate in the protests neither the opposition nor the association represent them so nearly four months on anti-government protest remain largely leaderless making it difficult to start talks to settle the crisis. on what is bashir has presided over sudan for three decades coming to power in a bloodless military coup in one nine hundred eighty nine to overthrow the democratically elected government while the current wave of anti-government

protests isn't the first day of the most serious and persistent yet he's remaining defiant and so are the protesters leaving no solution in sight to end the deadlock people are going to zero. or a person has been killed and at least thirty people have been injured in a grenade attack in indian administered kashmir the device rolled under a bus and exploded at the main terminus in general city some of the wounded remain in a critical condition the killing of fourteen indian troops in a suicide attack last month inflamed tensions between india and pakistan both lay claim to the region algeria as president abdulaziz beautifully car has warned that peaceful protests in his country risk being infiltrated by troublemakers. comes as hundreds of lawyers and doctors joined student protests calling for but if you care to step down eighty two year old leader has been in power for twenty years

and recently announced plans to seek a fifth term in next month's election the national association of lawyers is demanding the authorities perspire in the vote and set up a transitional government. the medical charity doctors without borders says a more humane response is needed to end the a better epidemic in the democratic republic of congo it says not enough has been done to gain the trust of local communities even aid workers and increasing target of violence it covers the head of the world health organization is visiting the country to get an update on the outbreak and actually 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 a working and instead have led to his still iffy end violence against the people who are trying to help 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 joanne lee who was in the democratic republic of congo last week when two treatment centers were burned down it forced the charity to suspend its operations at the a.p. center of the outbreak this region seeing decades of and raced as armed groups of ifa territory and resources and doctor looses the involvement of security personnel is alienating patients and their families. more than forty percent of the death or right now i've been taking place in the community that means that we have not reached them and they are not sought our care these are vast amounts of money pouring in but they don't see where it ends up. they hear the constant advice to wash their hands but nothing about the lack of soap and water. has killed more

than five hundred sixty people here since august and robbed these communities of their right to vote in last december's presidential ballot the election commission said the virus made it too dangerous for voting to go ahead. the chief of the world health organization is in town to assess the response. over here he agrees community ownerships needed to end the epidemic we are here to to help and i didn't want any communities really die old people especially when we have. a visit when we have the facts are so in cut way and money to come initially is for the community to take responsibility all need to understand that it's a problem. that's what we do everything the society that we should be. different to fight he believes the virus can be based in doctors without borders though says

it still has the upper hand alexy o'brian al jazeera. israel's central elections committee has disqualified an alliance of palestinian israeli parties from running in next month's election far as a petition filed by the promised as nick could party and two others accusing them of supporting violent palestinian resistance and hizbollah are a force that has nations from west to east and. israel central election committee is hardly a neutral adjudicator it's made up of political parties with an eye on their voting blocs 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 and we of course will go to their high court and it will continue until the end and not accept this discrimination and if 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 indictment on corruption charges had said the petition charging that blood sought 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 their droves this time though it all seems to be happening a good deal earlier. of his campaign launch on monday the israeli prime minister

used the catch phrase bibi is nicknamed not to be a leading palestinian israeli politician and to the dismay of israeli moderates in . us jewish organizations 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 law 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 as president donald trump's former campaign manager will soon find out how much more time he's going to spend in prison full mana for what was found guilty of financial crimes as part of the special counsel's investigation

into possible conclusion between twenty sixteen campaign and russia a court verdict is expected within the next hour and european union has declared that its refugee and migrant crisis is over and despite that the resettlement of asylum seekers still remains and while portugal seems to be the only e.u. country willing to take in more refugees getting them to stay is proving tricky lawrence lee reports from the capital has been. 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 staffed 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 house. 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 fountains 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 area being

packed off refugees. know what companies is globally positive we should put be prepared be prepared for there is not a moment then in crisis the scene is a situation that we should see. a long a long time around and we should be prepared. portugal's problem is that it wasn't on the refugee roots 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 had 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 lawrence li al jazeera lisbon. two politicians from india's ruling janata party is set to be disciplined after a fight using a shoe as a weapon went viral on social media is caused embarrassment in a country where shoes are considered unclean and using one as a weapon is seen as especially offensive footage of the altar cation in the northern state of pradesh chose m.p. sharon beating state assembly member rakesh singh bag-o. this after an argument of the placement of names on a foundation stone for a new project. mind of the main stories here now jazeera chinese telecom giant while away is taking the us to court for restricting federal agencies from using its products in

the u.s. consider as always products a security threat assessed china can use its equipment for spying as the us has failed to provide evidence to support his claims. and so. this is our service just. as it's. now. thirty six countries including all twenty eight member states of the european union assigned a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record it calls on saudi arabia to cooperate with the un led investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and to release ten jailed activists french cardinal few barbour has been found guilty of covering up sex abuse allegations against

a priest barbour her says he will offer his resignation to the pope after a court in leo ruled he failed to report allegations dating back to the one nine hundred eighty s. his lawyer says he will appeal. at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in an attack in the afghan capital kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering including many leading politicians in the west of the city i saw has claimed responsibility. after there is. jerry is president of denies he's a party freak us says peaceful protests in his country risk being infiltrated by troublemakers comes as hundreds of lawyers and doctors joined student protests calling for the eighty two year old to step down after twenty years in power. donald trump's former presidential campaign manager paul manifold will soon find out how much more time he's going to spend in prison on

a ford was found guilty of financial crimes as part of a special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between trump's twenty sixteen campaign and russia want to one east is up next. africa's most populous nation a blog has a youth unemployment problem. with. digital. folding we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. thailand is one of the top us nations in the world to bait a political. five years of military rule. of stoffel free expression. as the nation goes to the polls. meets thailand's rebel. fighting back against the generals desperate battle for democracy.

like a. good people. he. is making thailand's military. but when. it comes. to the. song what my country's slam is corruption military control and its social. since the power almost five years ago when they cut. in the rafters with but the truck. connecting with the public. the general

elections five times. since its release in october the songs had close to sixty million views. no you're going to have a young man up on the number of hits the song got kept us safe from the hands of the government. and set an example for others to follow that i can't say but we created a momentum and discussion in thai society we did it and survived. tight and us in the group and what has changed in thailand has your popularity. i think it's about timing. went viral at a time when you could the government the most. they can't improve the situation and

people are upset. in twenty four take up to thailand's twelfth military coup the army crackdown on free speech and banned public ground. reporting here at the time i still soldiers swiftly stifle even the slightest acts of resistance. i did this in paperback i was not injured exactly how. i was well regarded in this life since then the laws which protect the military and want to keep from criticism have been used on an unprecedented scale hundreds of activists have been prosecuted even venting frustration against thailand's rules on mine is now a jailable offense. i know many people have been charged and arrested. my father was taken to a military camp for two weeks that made me very angry that.

the rep to say continue to release more trucks butt. carefully composed lyrics to avoid since the ship blows whole council and then went on him when he thought he meant in a political discussion is good and he should be free no one should fear being arrested or getting thrown into jail for talking about politics. sicko might have been caught it's not just the lyrics of the hit song which attract controversy the music video reveals it's a violent chapter of toy history. the brutal massacre by state forces of more than forty demonstrators at thomas at university in one thousand nine hundred ninety six who were protesting the return of an exiled former dictator. they've recreated a pulitzer prize winning photo of one of the protesters big lynched reminding audiences of past military abuses that went unpunished here are targeted tried to

to hide his cry over image. a new generation. renowned thai photographer and filmmaker manny tree one each whom said radio reports of the massacre neglected to even mention that any protesters had been killed even to. history textbook because they know that this single rider spirit to the people fighting for democracy. the massacre forms the basis of his pink band series which he says explores how thailand's consumerist society so quickly forgets the horrors of the past it's one of them was weiland in that type of decor history and people remember that this is why. any any government they afraid of that. man it owns an art house cinema in the capital

bangkok but he cannot screen his own film shakespeare must die. band in two thousand and twelve the film retells macbeth in a modern tie context and refers to the thomas a massacre. now man it's appealing that ban in the supreme court and will use rap against dictatorships portrayal of the massacre to bolster his case is so all we have that this isn't justice it is. the rapper. and can't. can't can't show people what about us. despite the massacre of students at thomas at university and he continued the tradition of anti establishment activism. at the main campus theatre comedians are ridiculing a deputy police chief who tory is for making inflammatory comments as well as

a prime minister cryo general jack the general who led the could. know. when to put it all. in the ordinance of someone who knows what it means to suffer for your os pointed man kong was jailed in twenty fourteen for acting in apply about a fictional monarchy at this university all trades. very adventurous far for them because we are told. something that they don't want people to know about. she says nor mourns in the plight we considered disrespectful to thailand's more nicky's. under the country's lives me just lose she was sorry for a while but when the military came to power. and did not the performa with child for two and a half years there must control the people have to. makes

confession. gado asked that because. under the military law not when the kids this is the real life. but you have to face with the threat of the myriad. while some of the fellow performers the fled into exile. as him. not to protest but to perform as she says this is one risk. i think that mary terry. they'll think that i will. be understanding that i was some odd. but. why i will not do that because i knew it. because i saw.

i saw the fear of the myriad terry. that's why they put me in jail because the fear . she's chosen a popular weekend market to stage a play about. two counts to one hundred. the number of inmates she was confined. to. feel fear scared about this but. i have a little bit of the people. that. seem a prison is like a ban from politics for

a decade so she ends her sure by pulling the public. one. point. she asks him because to take yes. cross note using lipstick on her body. this pop up performance is one of the more unusual things i'm in the city. the public approves. of the security guards much you want to break the rules i feel. on the surface thailand's cosmopolitan capital bangkok doesn't appear oppressive

you galleries and trendy culture districts have created a contemporary arts but some curation say under the current military government they operate in a climate of fear. in downtown bangkok summer runs a local gallery in box known for its political exhibitions do you think since the coup happened in two thousand and fourteen that censorship has. was oh yeah definitely definitely. a lot of events. which you get the soldier coming was you know they make sure that you do not express any opinion against them it's worse than ever i think yeah. for her life's a stick submission some rock is working with a visiting portuguese assets. she says almost all the outspoken local artists went

underground or fled overseas after the coup that was the function of bad things at the time it was not serving as a tool for critics to criticize society the general elections jus in late march have created a new urgency for political arse but some rock is cautious the army will remain a powerful institution here because new constitutional changes have stuck the voters in their favor i want to talk but i'm also scared to do that you have to be . careful and smile you cannot do anything that straightforward all the masses that you want to deliver it has to be more layers. one piece in today's show questions where the tile elections will be democratic it's a hollow ballot box when a version is cast it ends up on the floor are you concerned on days when you

hang things up do you sometimes think to yourself am i doing the right thing. because of the lord constantly before we we've been working together that's all we talk about and we keep changing the idea that it's really when you know it's i couldn't sleep because we keep changing and then fred the will was the message that we intend to deliver. hours before the show some wreck decides to make changes to some of the paces when you think about these stings last minute that you have to do she says self-censorship you is wrong because of oppressive laws you have to self censor. because you know they can get into trouble that's that's that's all i can tell yeah. so this is the exhibition that got you into trouble artist tara cool.