a nationwide power outage drags on into a second day in venezuela bringing chaos to a country already in the grip of crisis. and unwelcome to. headquarters in doha. also ahead. more huge protests and reports of the ruling party defections piled pressure on the algerians a president. joint patrols in syria's province

a significant sign of cooperation in the last major stronghold. and how a successful splashdown in the atlantic ocean promises a new era in space travel. algeria is seeing some of the biggest nationwide protests against against president. tens of thousands poured onto the streets following friday prayers. a reverse his decision to run for a fifth term there are also reports that mine the politicians from the ruling party have resigned and joined the protests which began two weeks ago which of flicka is in switzerland for what the government describes as routine medical tests he's led algeria for twenty years but is rarely seen after suffering from a stroke in twenty thirty. well let's get more on this now we're joined by john

mccain and visiting professor at queen mary university of london school of law he also write a book called the dying and he's joining us live from london with a cane and very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as we've been reporting huge protests continuing around nine lawmakers from the voting party have quit how much pressure is the presidency on. and a huge precipice i mean this is this is unique pressure on the presidency. you are saying in the introduction there that sounds people are courting on the street we're talking about millions we obviously can't count them but you know alone in the capital it looks to me from local reports that there are julie's two million out she has other people obviously this is unverified saying that they could be as many as fifteen million people throughout the whole country that is almost everybody it was not a child who is not old who is not sick has come out in protest against the

government that figure of the sea can't be checked yet but this is the impression one is getting and it's what some people are saying but it's absolutely huge and the pressure on the regime is huge yeah and where you don't go from here of course is it open ended or how do you think the military will respond to these protests they have been you know some have described them as painstakingly peaceful. they have so far be there's been enormous restraint on boast sides this is what is so extraordinary the military and i talk with the security forces and journalists police and army the military so far they haven't used any real force just right now been watching pictures from out years as we talked there has been a little bit of violence in one square in algiers doesn't look huge difficult to tell but in one spot and that is more than likely to be police or government thugs the government will use the sense that people called here. let's watch but so far

the army hasn't been called out and the threat the problem the government has is if he does bring out the security forces against the people there is a very very high chance that they could mutiny against the government that's a high risk also if the high levels of the army where support makes such an order again there's a very high risk that lower ranking officers colonels and that sort of level might actually instigate a coup d'etat against the top of the army so for the army to actually order the troops out onto the street against the people would be a very very high risk and it one that one that is most likely out of sort that the army would musically against it's come on mr kagan you know you were saying that you're hearing actually millions and we've heard this elsewhere too we're also hearing of protests not just in algeria but among the diaspora in france among

other places as we have in the last few weeks do you think how much do you think the powers that be that have kept the faker in place miscalculated having him as the candidate for a fifth term given this response. it's made miscalculated hugely as i said this is possibly the most important date in algiers history maybe since one nine hundred fifty four the reason what it miscalculated of course is they're completely out of touch with the people that write a contempt for the people they despise the people they are basically a cabal a gang if you like around the presidency the head of the army that is purely for sister who are basically criminals saying they wish it robbed don't carea of much of its wealth it probably talking about at least three hundred billion dollars since we defeat has been that money has been taken out of the country into places like dubai france switzerland so you've got this week if you like running the

country the people call a match a state and that of course is very dangerous because if they are forced out of they could be prosecuted for dozens of criminal charges so to find an israeli ssion is to get these people out of the country and you know you're calling them the mafia state they're also called the deep space whatever you call them their power is so entrenched in algeria is it enough for both a flake had to reverse his decision to not run for a fifth term or for them to decide that he wanted one for a fifth term or what the people of what more than that that's not enough anymore. now they want much national beautifully it is just a symbol if you like of a completely rotten corrupt state obviously they want him to cancel you know his his standing he may not even be alive. and i think the chances of having elections that are just about zero anyhow but people want much more that they want the system and they want their regime out they want

a free democratic new republic new constitution which they want to set they don't want outside interference they know what it is here from the west from the other arab countries they want to manage the situation themselves you know the people and they want the whole system. let's put it that way in a peaceful way it democratic way and that's what they want and i don't think they're going to stop until that happens quite frankly mr cain and it is great to get your expertise on this we really appreciate your time on this very important story out of algeria jeremy keenan live for as in london. as though on to other news for now and the mess back out across most of venezuela is now into its second day electricity has been off for around twenty hours and into people's misery as a political and economic crisis quine's on the government has close ordered working hours to be suspended and told businesses to stay sharp as

a tries to fix the problem it's blaming what it describes as extreme extremist sectors though it says have sabotaged the biggest hydroelectric dam opposition leader why the earth is mismanagement and corruption are to blame to raise about in caracas. there's a massive power cut in the country and it still affecting at least fifteen states around the country we know so far it has not been we thought we were at another hospital just a few hours ago now we're in front of a maternity hospital. that had been without power for sixteen hours in a row. that are only able to light some type of ballot with the urgency wrong the to the emergency room but the situation. right now what we know is that the government has offended and working hours in order to try to get electricity grid back on and. they're also saying that there

has been an attack by the opposition most. of that we have been talking to some government workers here are basically thing and hospital workers who are denouncing the conditions in the home it's so interesting that they're missing and lacking basic services water for example and old medicating them on other things for the situation is critical in a hospital like this one the one we were just visiting and with situations like this one like a power cut happened they'd make the situation even worse. now took in russia joint patrols of several western province where that created a deescalation zone at the last major rebel stronghold the ceasefire has averted a syrian government offensive the truce has come under strain though as. has began seizing towns and villages from rival anti-government groups. philip invasion that is a little yes and today the patrols of the russian troops just outside it live border

and inside it lip weaponized areas the patrols of the turkish army forces are starting to there were some restrictions over using the airspace over it libyan afrin which also lifted today in this respect our cooperation with russia has improved we see this as a significant step for the continuation of the cease fire and ensuring stability. in eastern syria the u.n. says more than sixty thousand people are crammed into a camp often leaving last shrinking pocket of territory some have described scenes of horror and despair and the bombed out village of ghouls where the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say isis defeat is imminent the s.d.f. has been applying a combination of force to put pressure on fighters who refuse to surrender followed by pauses to allow the fighters wives and children and other civilians to escape. now when yemen's warring sides agree to stop fighting and withdraw their troops from a crucial port city there was hope that more food medicine would soon flow and with

sporadic fighting still going on there was a growing despair from nineteen million yemenis suffering from malnutrition and illness a warning viewers may find some images and it's reported distressing. even the screens have become mute. to give any toddler hasn't had enough to eat for most of her life. is now twenty four months old she's suffering from acute marshman and as a result of her it's very difficult to get the required food supplements we're doing all we can to save her life her condition has become acute and will probably become another statistic without proper treatment yemeni said they're tired of burying their children doctors say they're helpless to cope with a rare form of malnutrition. the child is

suffering from acute malnourishment which is normally found in skin and bone or course your core case is a combination of the two types which is very rare it started with skin bone then developed into a course record and both her feet about two weeks ago. the wilds not the only victim the un's children agency says one hundred thirty five thousand children remain in the besieged city of the day the year they face the highest level of malnutrition and cholera in yemen oh unicef says their living conditions are so dire no one should ever suffer them. the fight between the coalition and who has destroyed yemen's health care system. the siege and bombardment of the port city over their heads wrecked hospitals ambulances even medical stores doctors say they're missing ninety percent of medical supplies and equipment. specifically targeted the health sector and intentionally aimed at destroying its facilities more than fifty percent of all the medical facilities have been totally

or partially destroyed including the main hospitals and internal clinics half of the emblems fleet has been destroyed to the province is facing a catastrophic humanitarian situation it is beyond words of the board over the past four years because malnourishment among more than three hundred thousand children below the age of five alone. it may be too late for thousands of starving children . but has a few days of hope left. it's only if those in power care and help arrives in time some of the job there. the weather is next the push for gender equality it's people around the world mark international women's day. to hear about compensation for what they say was genocide coming decades ago.

hello if we're lucky maybe the last winter storm is just developing of the flatlands of eastern iraq since circulation that brought a bit of rain to no one in syria northern iraq will bring a lot more to iran and of course with snow at some height you might even see some in the capital we end up on saturday route thirty degrees in tehran following weather to the west that started iraq back to the coasts of the mediterranean high teens old twenty's but a breeze picking up in iraq and blowing south was the rainy day in sunday moving eastwards leaving iraq into afghanistan again significant snow is certainly possible up to kabul and beyond belief fine weather behind and that is fairly typical in these storms because here you end up with a schmaltzy blowing down the gulf if it's been dry in iraq that could be

a dusty one that is the case now he's temperatures in the low twenty's and feels like it as far west as riyadh but in mecca that wind direction a pretty hot sweaty six seems likely. we've seen some pretty nasty flooding recently in malawi the remains of one tropical cyclone still visible there and it may well turn into a soft on again as it goes off shore into the mozambique channel but a line of rays to exist from madagascar through some parts of mozambique to the middle of the way with heavy rain still forecast. a hundred and sixty years ago a musician started in and. in cairo. the brass band was so popular it gave birth to an entire musical genre. a century and. the sound still resonates with many egyptians today.

the people's music on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories algeria has seen some of the biggest protests yet again stating president. tens of thousands poured onto the streets. his decision to run for. power has just come back on and venezuela's capital caracas but most of the country is still blacked out and the worst out of trust. and years. in russia will

begin joint patrols of syria's north western province where the creators deescalation saw the last major rebel stronghold has a version of the syrian government offensive over the border in iraq people are living with fear and stigma because of their ties to. reports now from a camp in the disputed territory east of mosul. thousands of iraqi children are paying for the sins of their eisel fathers many have never met or can't remember. miriam was a child bride she says her son was born after his turkish father died fighting for i saw the three year old boy is essentially stateless unrecognized by the government as an iraqi citizen she says she doesn't want her son to make the same mistakes as his father and receiving an education will help guarantee that annie may seem. i have no soul just a body i can barely breathe i can barely move i only intend to live for my son i

wish i had died in a strike in families with links to i saw a fight it difficult to obtain identity cards this restricts their ability to move freely work with their children in school and apply for welfare benefits human rights groups say these families are even denied food donations by tribal leaders a humanitarian group called the public aid organization says relatives with ties to i saw are victims facing collective punishment the geneva conventions classify that as a war crime. or. do believe that we need more peace we need go existence we need legal solution this country cannot be running hades. jehad is raising six children under the age of nine in the past three years they've moved from one displacement

camp to another unable to find refuge from being shunned she's warned her eldest children never to mention that their father was an eyesore fighter she says she begged him not to join urged him to abandon the armed group until he was arrested. in the end i'm a human being these treat me as one i understand people lost loved ones but i am not accountable for my husband's actions. after years of war in iraq including the recent battle to defeat i saw a way forward maybe changes to the justice system to include prosecutions truth commissions reconciliation and reparation that could be a long process. what is now a private shame for these families may one day become a national reckoning for all iraqis natasha going to al-jazeera east of mosul. now the world is marking international women's day with events and protests

too there was a demonstration in turkey's largest city is bold and solidarity with women who are imprisoned in neighboring syria they say many detainees that innocent and have only been locked up because of apparent crimes by family members and kenya activists have been out on the streets of nairobi to speak out against sexual harassment abuse and rape organizers also called for those in power who perpetrated gender based violence to be punished in a tally of march in front of universities to demand more equality in education they're also demonstrations of government buildings by those who say mornings to be done to improve women's health policies and working conditions while in the u.k. a reporter criticize prime minister tourism may the taking just one question from the famous journalist after a speech on break said i want to take a listen to how she responded. thank you i'm going to study one question from a woman before the internet so when you say well i. think it was to

cry. now a new american space shuttle has returned from orbit paving the way for the first manned mission by a private operator and a few months space x. hopes to sing boss astronauts into orbit for the first time and that will and nasa is reliance on russian rockets since retiring the shuttle fleet eighty years ago alexey o'brien reports. splashdown off the coast of florida. thanks. to the space six dragon capsule safely home from carrying cargo to the international space station the six day unmanned flight paves the way for the united states to resume manned missions we brought together the people the hardware and all the processes and procedures and got in to see how they all work together and that's very important on this as we as we move towards putting people on board the vehicle it's been read by thousands watched the capsule blast off from kennedy

space center with its only occupant a taste one ripley. it's covered in saints is recording everything that astronauts will feel during its docking with the eye assists astronauts carried out tastes and checked out the new capsules cabin which one described as a business class experience even sitting up the ultimate space selfie the. first day of a new era for the next generation respects for nesses astronauts have been riding russian rocket since retiring the space shuttle fleet eight years ago that's when it turned to big business including space x. billionaire entrepreneur musk to finance and develop the next generation of space hardware we want the things that are in science fiction novels and movies not to be science fiction forever we want to be real one day the capsules return to earth was a series of tastes first it had to undock from the i.s.a.'s and we have motion

then survive one of its biggest challenges descending through intense temperatures to reenter the earth's atmosphere looking a dragon streaking across the sky it all went smoothly from the captions he told to the parachute system slowing it's full really can't ask for a more picture perfect. shot the. net is counting on space six and bowing to start launching astronauts into space this year there's still plenty of training and learning ahead but space six has proved its capsules can make it back to earth in one piece it's here brian al jazeera everything let's get more on this now we're joined by francisco diego senior research fellow at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london mystic always good to have you with us on al-jazeera i know that you watch all of these developments very closely so what do you make of the north and the landing. because being. well it's spotless

i mean he was really really fantastic mission with no or no problems at all very very straightforward with challenging challenging operations specially the automatic docking. to the space station and also the. coming back and the heating in the atmosphere and the deployment of parachutes and finally landing only a couple of hundred miles from from the coast that was an amazing achievement and now we expect that everything will follow some prophesied years of safety and inspection of the cup to the tetra before the. goals are here and give the green light for astronauts to be launched into the space station do you think this is given nasa increased confidence you know i'm one of its prime contractors a lot musk has been dogged by a bit of controversy and lately. yes he has been very

successful and then as we just heard boeing also has the space dreamer which is also capsule similar to the apollo capsule will go also into low earth orbit we have to remember all these got to start for low earth to supply crew and goods to the space station if we go deeper into the higher orbit the moon and mars they nasa is taking over with the with the orion and the. heavy rockets that is developing and when do you think we can expect the private capsules to start carrying all astronauts. another important thing actually is this got to the use of all the drug and catalysts for use of all they don't want to reuse it not exactly that want to use it for test later on this year but to carry astronauts we will see a couple of astronauts going into the space station in the next few months the pending on how quick nasa can give the corps here but they were talking about

sending two astronauts to the space station in july and beyond the astronauts what about space tourists well lots of different story i suppose that is completely private i don't know if nasa will get involved in doubt but what about you know virgin for virgin galactic. yes well this is completely for i've been very reluctant is not offering this kind of thing they are just going up of the just fly in fly boat about eighty or ninety kilometers of altitude in the flight which is goes going up to stay there a few minutes and then coming down experience the. zero gravity for a few minutes and that's all we're getting a lactic is offering and it's a completely different is not exactly space tourism is a high high airplane flight if you like kind of tourism when you can experience gravity as a day i thank you as always for your time on on all things space we do appreciate

it that's francisco diego live in london thank you it's a pleasure it's a pleasure. now tribes men and women living in the amazon rain forest of prison awaiting to hear if they'll be compensated for what they say was genocide committed decades ago commanders deny the massacre of up to three thousand people to make way for a new fraud. reports. deep in the world's largest rain forest a herring's been held witnesses accused the army of trying to wipe out their tribe during the military dictatorship in brazil between one thousand nine hundred sixty four and nine hundred eighty five. i lost my father my mother my sister and my brother i'm the only survivor in my family federal prosecutors say thousands of indigenous people died to make way for a new road through the forest. and i saw a group of soldiers arrive overland one another by helicopter they drop bombs on

our hearts military commanders deny attacking the tribe decades ago. the main thing why does this to me is where these bodies where is the residue material from the alleged let's really look for the truth it's not the instinct of the brazilian army to attack indigenous people it never has and never will be what indigenous groups is speaking out at a time of heightened tension they say nearly elected president jaya both sonora has stripped them of their rights and dismantled environmental protections opening the amazones mineral riches for more commercial exploitation construction on an energy pipeline through the amazon is due to begin in june both sonora says he doesn't have to consult indigenous people because the pipelines a matter of national security the herring will decide on the tribes demand that the brazilian government pays its thirty million dollars in compensation and issues an

official apology victoria gates m.b. al-jazeera. government has resigned after ditching plans to reform the health care system promise to you wanted to cut the rising cost of caring for the rapidly aging population has plans collapsed in parliament on the scandal involving the collect at nursing homes. now china's government has thrown support behind telecom giant always lawsuit against the us foreign minister wang he says they'll protect the rights of china's people and companies are ways to the u.s. government for banning federal agencies from using its technology the u.s. considers for ways products a security threat and says beijing can use its equipment for spying wang said the bad and ongoing attempts to extradite a top while way executive from canada a politically motivated. the recent action against a particular chinese company and individual is by no means a pure judicial case but deliberate political suppression china has taken and will

continue to take all measures to resolutely safeguard legitimate and lawful interest of chinese businesses citizens now nasa has captured unprecedented photos of the interaction of shock waves from two supersonic jets these photo images show t. thirty eight aircrafts flying in formation at supersonic speeds producing shock waves . hello again alan is of the problem in doha where the headlines on al-jazeera friday protests demanding the resignation of algeria's president have been held for the third successive week this time they appear bigger than ever train and metro operators halted services but that didn't seem to stem the latest in two weeks of nationwide protests demonstrators are demanding a two year old president up the last he's abandoned his bid for a fifth term in office in next month's election local media same line politicians

from the ruling f.l.n. party have resigned to join the vault. power has just come back on in venezuela's capital caracas bought most of the country is still blacked out in the worst out atrocity outage for years. the government has closed schools ordered working hours to be suspended and told businesses to stay shut as it tries to fix the problem that's blaming what it describes as extremist sectors who it says have sabotaged the biggest hydroelectric dam took in russia will begin joint patrols of syria's northwestern adlib problems they've created a deescalation zone as a last major rebel stronghold the ceasefire has alerted the syrian government offensive the truce has come under strain though as i didn't imply it was began seizing towns and villages from rival anti-government groups the world is marking international women's day with events and protests too there was a demonstration in turkey's largest city istanbul and solidarity with women who are

imprisoned in neighboring syria they say many detainees an innocent while in the u.k. a reporter criticised prime minister trees in may for taking just one question from a female journalist after a speech on breaks it will take a listen to how may responded thank you. for the. and and american space shuttle has splashed down paving the way for the first manned mission by a private operators space x. hopes to ferry astronauts to the international space station for the first time in a few months after the successful test flights by the unmanned dragon capsule well those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story that's coming up next thank you very much for watching.

on the edge of the sun hala is on the brink of design lost it because of. involving various groups the u.n. says a humanitarian crisis is unfolding for its twenty million people so what's behind this violence and could it spread across west africa this is inside story. became used to be. the continent's most prestigious film festival in the capital ouagadougou along.