all right i'm still here go into areas that nobody else will go we talk to people. and bring that story to the forefront. hello and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth coming up in the next sixty minutes. more huge protests and reports of looting party defection defections pressure on a big president. and. drags into

a second day in venezuela bringing chaos to a country already in the grip of crisis and turkey and russia began joint patrols and server is in the province a significant sign of cooperation in the last major rebel stronghold. with the sports the women's world cup champions go on the attack. against the u.s. soccer federation for gender discrimination. will begin with reports that mine politicians from algeria's ruling party have resigned and joined protests which began about two weeks ago tens of thousands of poured out onto the streets after friday prayers the modern president. of the reverse his decision to run for a fifth term in office but the flake is in switzerland for what the government describes as routine medical tests he has led algeria for twenty years but has.

when people sit in public office suffering from a stroke of twenty thirteen raman reports. friday protests for the third successive week nationwide in algeria and this time they appear to be bigger than ever. demonstrators demanding president i.z.'s with the police abandon his bid for a fifth term in office in next month's election. just a day earlier eighty two year old with a fleet who suffered a stroke five years ago and is in switzerland for what are described as routine medical tests urged algerians not to demonstrate and warned about the risk of chaos if they did. not protesters didn't listen and local media reports say that nine politicians from beautifully his ruling f l n party resigned to join the revolt analysts aren't surprised they are just following the logic of the the people in the states and the convention that it's time and which if you thought so

i'm not on a need that didn't but see that or see or saw that organisations like the dead the what if it deadens organisation the outside the side then we've had the debate but in the city it's. train and metro operators halted services to try and stem the tide of protesters a strategy that clearly didn't work across town syria demonstrations have been staged daily for the past two weeks since beautifully could confirm it would stand for another term in office on april the eighteenth the second was stationed out of them to stop yeah just going on and on it's no book seoul and they at some of them you know get allies that this is a mountain and point you know dad i'm going to go back and it's time now just to use deadly and just so sad to leave the people and students since the protests began opposition groups have been attempting to come up with a viable plan on how to remove with a flicker from office in an open letter on monday the president said if he's

reelected he will call for a referendum on a new constitution and another election at some point. algeria's armed forces are under mounting pressure to find a solution but so far the response has been cryptic while alluding to the demonstrations algeria's army chief the civil war of the one nine hundred ninety s. urging protesters to be aware of history but the rallies continue with no signs of abating any time soon. and. well let's get more on this developing story we're joined by omar to shore found and director of the security studies program at the institute for graduate studies always good to have you with us on al-jazeera the biggest protests that as you were saying earlier we have seen in decades in algeria how much do you think that the powers that be that have both a fluke and power that decided that he should run for a fifth term miscalculated the step i think there was a major miscalculation nobody expected this neither the experts nor the parents of

the politicians in algeria or the audience to go why didn't they expect this and why did they think that the people would settle for not just an eighty two year old being an eighty two year old and such ill health that he hasn't been seen. since april twenty fifth exactly why don't they thank the people for this because twentieth for two reasons one twenty fourteen when he had his fourth term mobilization there was lots of calls for mobilization and you end up with somewhere between tens and hundreds of there was not enough mobilization and they were easy the. marginalized because of the numbers were small and too because all judea is extremely traumatized l.g.'s so a major mobilization october nine hundred eighty eight that forced a president to become a reformist and allow multi-party elections allow free and fair elections for the first time in the. history of controlled media the president was being criticised in algeria media this is we're talking not talking twenty eleven we're talking nine

hundred eighty nine so very much you know in that direction but then this ended up with a nightmare in one thousand nine hundred two often the generally kuwait a group of eight generals supportive of them not among them but a supportive of them of the current teacher chief of staff gets all the. you know stage a coup and with the situation ended from september one thousand nine hundred two onwards into a very messy civil war. for his credit got the country out of this in another world he would be awarded a nobel prize laureate if he had the support of security and military institutions but he hadn't and it was a tug of war between one thousand nine hundred nine or the way till maybe two thousand and fourteen you know you know many of the generals were involved in this either marginalized or the main intelligence about this was dismantled and this is all relevant now because the current problem is ation it's massive it's new or judea did not expect it but it can lead to very different directions that can lead to actually undermining

a status quo or current status quo yeah but bringing in the generals who many of them committed horrible things during the civil wars with how do you think the security services. what is possibly one of the biggest challenges in decades now. so far we have cliche statements from the sixty's or from the ninety's so the first statement by the chief of staff was basically that these are misled youths mind you the chief of staff is seventy nine now he was born in one thousand nine hundred two so almost before the fall of world war two. his statement was a cliche misled youth and then the second statement which was earlier. he was basically saying reminding them of the horrors of the civil war and was saying talking about chaos talking about terrorism so no engagement with the actual demands on the ground which has to do main the simple reforms and allowing an ailing president who again had a stroke into a twenty thirteen and has not been active since then to not to run in the

presidential term and. you know who's running the show basically the chief of staff on one and the head of the army the head of the intelligence three intelligence of the coordinator of the intelligence that is general or the other security head and the president's brother who was major businessmen hasn't lines of business men so you have the guns the intelligence apparatus and the money you know kind of running the show but there are many losers from the status quo and among them among the losers are the former head for example of the d.r.s. of the general into of the intelligence apparatus before general midian who was removed by the president and probably hundreds of senior officers in the army and the intelligence who were removed by prison with a. so they may capitalize on this public anger if the opposition if the pro-democracy forces did not have a clear cut plan on how to get to propose basically to pressure and propose right

now it's very decentralized and anyone can who has a centralized trucks that can capitalize all right of course be watching the story extremely closely thank you very much for coming in and looking at it on that a short. let's move on to other news from allan lodge areas of venezuela have woken up to a second day without power for some schools to close and working ellis to be suspended the government is accusing what it describes as extremist sectors of sabotaging the biggest hydroelectric dam the opposition says mismanagement his role in the polygraph the blackout is adding to tensions between president nicolas little and often. little is backed by about sixty countries including the u.s. . has more from caracas. there's a massive power cut in the country to vilify acting at least fifteen states around the country we know that so far it has not been refurbished we were at another hospital just a few hours ago now we're in front of

a maternity. that i've been without power for now we're. not. able. to average and. the situation. right now what we know is that the government have. been working hours in order to try to get electricity grid back on. the ball they're also saying that they have been and that. we have been some government workers here are basically thing and off the workers who are denouncing the conditions in its own very thing that they're missing and lacking basic services water for example and also among other things for the situation is critical in the hospital like this one the one we were just visiting and with situations like this one like a power can. make the situation even worse. when it's got more on this.

in cook with a on the venezuela colombia border and as with everything else in venezuela manuel we've got competing narratives about what's happening is there any more clarity on what caused this massive outage. certainly a very troubling development in venezuela with this massive power outage unfortunately from where we are on the border with venezuela and colombia we can't independently verify exactly what the official cause of this outage was we have on one end president nicolas maduro saying that this is part of an electricity war directed by the united states you have quoted boy leg which is the state owned power company in venezuela saying that there was an attack there saying that this was quote sabotage of the goodie dam the dam is a hydroelectric plant that provides energy and electricity to nearly every single part of venezuela what we're hearing from local reports are saying yes these power

outages are common in venezuela because of the run down infrastructure in the company but this seems different this the local reports are saying is this was a near total blackout not of a near total blackout of all of venezuela so at this point we know that the scale of the blackout is unprecedented we know that powerhouse returned to parts of it as well but we still can't know how many people are still without power or the official cause of the outage itself a little bit and as we wait for all of those models well the opposition is awaiting more protests and as this weekend. how is that affecting the situation where you at the border where you know aside many people continue to try and cross every day to escape the situation in venezuela. elizabeth that's absolutely right we're still seeing thousands of people crossing into colombia every single

day because the border remains closed people are having to find alternative ways to cross across the river through the jungle risking their lives knowing that there is paramilitary forces on that border just to attend school just to find something to eat the situation on the border we would say we would say that is call them i see that it's called but there is a heavy military presence both on the. colombian side and on the villains bit as well inside perhaps in anticipation of these protests that are planned for saturday protests that were called by president nicolas maduro where he said he wants an anti-imperialist march and protests called by opposition leader one who wants people to take to the streets of the thousands against the government of the last month or so at the moment we're working on finding out more information to really nail down and find out what the root cause the official cause of that power outage was but for now is a birth it's more questions than answers unfortunately not only thank you very much for that to now that. live in cocoa thank you. now calling hot and to

lash out a list and he doubts that my little time in office will be cut short despite the pressures that he. i think. having hoped that the military would change sides massively. has now i think reconciled selves and they've to be tracked that it's not going to be quick he hopes that the increasing pressure both domestic and international the country is very isolated mariner of course doing things like expelling the german ambassador and to send help basketball now that this increasing pressure on the government will bring about its collapse and that this will finally convince the military not being convinced by why those the office of and the standard for treatment. that they will eventually be persuaded that they really should not matter at this point but it's not going to be quick and it's going to have to be some kind of negotiation no doubt there are talks going on

with senior military and government officials behind the scenes that this is going to be a long process because they'll want guarantees that you know that they're not going to crash in this thing too badly if they're going to relinquish power so it's in for the long haul now i think why don't you just because just are increasingly rare like this turkey and russia will begin joint patrols of syria's northwestern edler province where they've created a deescalation side at least the last major rebel stronghold the cease fire has had a syrian government offensive the troops has come under strain though as al qaeda linked fighters began seizing towns and villages from rival anti-government groups . you live in this in the fuselage of oh yes and today the patrols of the russian troops just outside it live border and inside it live weaponized areas the patrols of the turkish army forces are starting to there were some restrictions over using the airspace over it live in africa 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 joshua landis is the director of the scent of a middling studies at the university of oklahoma and he says turkey and europe a desperately trying to keep the agreement together because they don't want rebels all civilians to us than over their borders into the province is a big problem and it's where most of the hardened rebels have been in a sense collective pushed out of the rest of syria as the government has conquered it and so it's a giant holding ground there are you know by cia estimates over thirty thousand hardened rebels many of them fairly aged with h.t.s. tired it is which is a al-qaeda organization or at least has been linked with it and. syrian government the russians have accused the turks of not fulfilling their side of the bargain which is to contain these jihadi it's in fact that conquered the

entire province largely ana and so this is an effort by turkey to have these joint patrols and to mollify russia and to consolidate this agreement because turkey is terrified that if syria and russia attack you'll get the same thing you're seeing in the east bows which is tens of thousands of family members refugees fighters being pushed out into turkey and perhaps into europe so europe turkey are desperately trying to keep disagreement together they do not want to an army that's what europe and turkey are interested in they want this region in flip to be turned into in a sense a holding ground for these rebel groups that they will not be scattered into anatolia in europe syria and russia of course have said that they want this region to be read conquered by syria and included back into syria and sovereignty sovereign territory so ultimately they don't agree on very much over this region

but this is why we're seeing these little. temporary agreements to try to patch it up and keep the situation stable. now over the border in iraq people are living in fear and stigma because of their ties to eisele natasha going to reports from a camp of the disputed territory east of walsall. 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 mae's here 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 families with links to i saw if i had 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 the we need more coups we need good distance we need legal solution this country. 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 mourned 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 and is sound matter how india and 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 reparations 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 they're planting more ahead of the news al including vaccines are hard to find as an outbreak claims maybe a thousand lives a madagascar the push for gender equality is people around the world mock international women's day and venus rising as the former world number one of the comes illustrates the second round of india's wild struggle have actually been spurred. alister nans were banned from entering the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem have held prayers outside the building as well recently banned around one hundred forty people including the custodians of the holy site as well sealed it off six years ago accusing the bad groups of using it for ratings howie forces there. we're just a few minutes away from friday prayers here in the old city of occupied east jerusalem and as you can see thousands of people are streaming into the al aqsa

mosque compound known as the temple mount to jews and they're doing so at a time of some controversy given what's been happening inside in the last couple of weeks the islamic works the trust which operates the compound in accordance with the jordanian government has decided to reopen an area around what's known as the mercy gate which was closed off from two thousand and three after israeli authorities tried to disrupt the activities of a group that they said was linked to hamas the want fish decided in recent weeks to reopen that area to allow worshipers to pray around it and there is essentially a battle going on between israel and the walk over or far at sea inside the compound as part of that hundred seventy people have been arrested one hundred forty people have been barred from the site altogether and that is why as pres a ping prepared inside the mosque there is also a group of people out here preparing to pray in processed in the streets outside

the old city among those who've been barred senior clerics we spoke to one of them a little earlier national and that they're all wrong but that they are not calling for violence or dangerous developments we're telling these radio completion police and the politicians who are trying to gain votes in their elections to leave the mercy gates to authority of the walk of council and to jordan which has custody of this place where the amount himself let off the press with a speech calling for the three hundred fifty thousand palestinians who live in occupied east jerusalem all to pray whether inside or outside the mosque in order to defend the mosque from what they see as an israeli assault on the sovereignty of the walk over the mosque site itself the question now is how this is only resolved there have been talks going on between these radio farda and on the job. we understand that they are stalled over just how the mechanism of closing it off

and allowing potentially some long term renovations to take place in the area could be begun the works itself says it will not submit to it is ready to dish a deadline to hand back control of this area by monday it says it does not accept the jurisdiction of the israeli authorities over this site so for now the protests continue. to madagascan our doctors are blaming the shortage of vaccines for their struggle to contain the worst outbreak in decades fluster a thousand people mostly children have died of the disease in the last five months and to monaghan reports this family is in mourning for four year old lim barraza and his cousins martina and mario who were both aged three they all died within days of each other in january young victims of the measles epidemic in madagascar and if my child had been vaccinated he had received the first injection but he died because we didn't have enough money to get him the second boost

a jab. at least nine hundred twenty two islanders mostly children have succumbed to the disease since october the world health organization says only eight percent of the twenty six million malagasy people are vaccinated against measles and the government says it's three million dollars short of the seven million it needs to buy in a fax nations for everyone. children from poor families who catch measles are often given cheap traditional treatments seven year old dream was only brought to this health clinic when her condition worsened you know every time we tried to heal her with traditional medicine using natural herb but it didn't help at all. madagascar is hoping to rule out an emergency to those facts a nation program for children the first injection will be free but the booster won't if. we shouldn't stop there the main challenge is how to plan for what comes after for the last twenty five years madagascar hasn't been successful in

immunizing its children against measles we can only hope that after this campaign it will have all it needs to vaccinate as routinely as possible. doctors say ninety five percent of the population needs to be backs needed to stop measles spreading but without extra money it's likely more malagasy families we've forced to live with the devastating consequences vinton monahan al-jazeera the world is mocking international women's day with events and protests too there was a demonstration in turkey's largest bowl in solidarity with the woman who imprisoned in neighboring syria they say many detainees that innocent and have only been locked up because of apparent crimes by family members. in kenya activists have been out on the streets of nairobi to speak out against sexual harassment abuse andrei organizes also of course for those in power who have perpetrated gender based violence to be punished. and the role of italians lost in front of

universities to demand more equality in education there were also demonstrations at government buildings by those who say more needs to be done to improve women's health policies and working conditions while in the u.k. a reporter criticize problems a truism a for taking just one question from a female journalist after a speech. well this is how may respond. thank you for having the seventy one christian or muslim or international when you push it a little if you want to the teeth. to the head on the. it needs just one more push to address the final specific concerns of. three weeks before the departure date britain's prime minister and. to help strike a compromise on her brakes a deal. alice successful splashdown in the atlantic ocean promises a new era and space travel. and. next

year's olympics in tokyo that's coming up in school. hello if we're lucky maybe the last winter storm is just developing of the flatlands of eastern iraq since circulation it brought a bit of rain to northern 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 about thirty degrees in tehran fine weather to the west of that struck the rock back to the coasts of the mediterranean hard teens although twenty's but a breeze picking up in iraq and blowing southward the rain itself to be assessed in sunday moving eastwards leaving iraq into afghanistan again significant snow is certainly possible up to kabul and beyond belief fine weather behind and as is

fairly typical in these storms because here you end up with a schmaltzy blowing down the gulf if it's been drawn in iraq that could be a dusty one that is the case now in the low twenty's near feels like it as far west as riyadh but in mecca or was it wind direction a pretty hot city six seems likely. we've seen some pretty nasty fighting recently in milan. the remains of one tropical cyclone still visible there and it may well turn into a cycle starting again as it goes off shore into the mozambique channel the line of race to exist from madagascar. some parts of mozambique to the middle of below way with heavy rain still forecast. over a hundred and sixty years ago a musician started a band in an arty street in cairo. that brought back popular it gave birth to an entire musical genre. a century and

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here in new zealand these are our top stories algeria is seeing some of the biggest nationwide protests against president out there. tens of thousands poured out onto the streets following friday prayers demanding he reverse his decision to run for a fifth term. the massive blackout across most of venezuela is now into its second day the government is accused of what it describes as extremists sectors of sabotaging the biggest hydroelectric dam the opposition says management has ruined the power grid. in russia will begin joint patrols of syria's northwest province where they created a deescalation so an ad lib was the last major rebel stronghold in the city has a government offensive. now britain's prime minister is urging m.p.'s to support her brakes and when they vote next tuesday. with the e.u.

a stalled because of the impasse over the irish border a year leaders have given her until friday to come up with new proposals for a solution. next week members of parliament in westminster face a crucial choice whether to back the bricks it deal or to reject it back it in the u.k. will leave the european union reject it and no one knows what will happen we may not leave the e.u. for many months we may leave without the protections that the deal provides we may never leave out all the only certainty would be ongoing uncertainty and then barbara has the latest from london. one of the groups that tourism it was really speaking to with this speech in grimsby which are voted strongly to leave the e.u. in twenty sixteen was wavering m.p.'s from the opposition labor

party she urged them basically and the rest of parliament to get behind her deal dangling the threat of either leaving the e.u. with the without the protections of a deal or of possibly not having breaks it a toll but also she directed some of her comments towards brussels she said that it was in the european interests as well that britain leaves with a deal and she said the way that the e.u. responds in the next few days would have a big impact on the outcome of the vote in parliament next tuesday on her deal she's still hoping against hope that there will be significant changes to the irish backstop solution something that her attorney general geoffrey cox has clearly failed to obtain over the past week so this. fear of continued uncertainty is what she hopes will push and will concentrate minds but

it's not looking great for the year deputy head of the e.r. g. hard line breaks it a group within her own party says there are likely to back the deal next week in the days after that there are votes to take no deal off the table then to possibly seek an extension to the article fifty process but i think her recent events have taught us that nothing should be taken for granted now bracks that as a wife for one and a half million brits eleven countries all over the european union many who made a new life here for their future is now in play reports from the spanish town of i am aren't they on the border of a portugal. it's carnival weekend i am wanting and people are on the streets it isn't a rich place by any means but the sense of community is obvious. at the home karen simon and thirteen year old jayden aren't so happy they fell in love with the place moved here years ago when a small consultancy from home changed is bilingual and regards himself as more spanish than british and they're watching events unfold in the u.k.

with unmitigated horror absolutely shamed because the every person i spoke to here in spain looks at me with pity or or with with a look in their face to say why one why ain't doing this and i'm so sorry that they're doing this to him i'm so sorry because i just cannot understand what is your problem what is the problem tell me what are you going to gain from leaving what do you so i've upset you know idea i can't answer them they worry about the impacts of brecht's it on their business but they were removed or about their son there was one instance. of a hurdle that we might have to go back to the carrot protect our business and he started crying and caring man and he said i'm not going back to the carrier you can't make me go park. no no no ok don't worry about it it's not for you swear is that moment he made me go back i'm going to run a wire and i'm going to get

a plane and conduct barry. now you got. to rub salt into their wounds just as the u.k. has been turning away from europe so the kendricks european home has done the opposite. with some fanfare i am joined forces with its portuguese neighbor villareal over the river to create a new so-called euro town called quite iana the bridge linking the two countries the towns is the strongest metaphor imaginable the different directions the u.k. and e.u. are heading in. on the portuguese side of the river the man in charge of the euro town has everything to say for closer european integration and nothing good about rex it. is rather an isolated europe germany alone england alone france alone cannot compete with bigger economies it makes sense to be united it's also the idea of our euro town our little villages have only small potential but to

gether they are bigger and stronger. merging with his portuguese neighbor has done nothing to stop celebrating its spanish traditions arguments in favor of brics it restoring british pride a mess with derision the kendricks can only watch their cold and the e.u. becoming stronger and closer and they insist they will never go back to britain a country they no longer understand largely al-jazeera. southern spain and to get our the highest court has ordered mediation between muslim and had to settle a dispute just size the case dates back to the destruction and the. riot to both sides. and it's been a source of tension between the two religious communities. here we are again just two days after the supreme court reserved its decision it's now ruled in favor of mediation in the case between three parties one

a group of hindus claiming the land a group of muslim petitioners and another group of hindus representing the day the lord believed was born on the site mediation has been tried on the past since the one thousand nine hundred two demolition of the mosque by about two hundred thousand ultranationalists hindus but those talks are always held by a third party and always unsuccessful this time it will be a panel of mediators appointed by the court and a former judge heading it and they'll also be a media ban in place but it's not what all the parties wanted because mediation had . from the beginning not very enthusiastic so. we expect that there should be some. expectation another reason many believe the court is pushing for mediation is because the politics involved issues such as the bobby moss demolition are very politically polarizing here in india many analysts believe the governing b j p got

a big political. porsche in the one nine hundred ninety s. following the mosque demolition with elections set to begin here in india next month analysts say mediation may be the best way to keep politics out of the case at least as much as possible. now south korea and the united states have signed a deal that would increase financial contributions for the deployment of u.s. troops in the country song has agreed to pay one hundred twenty four million dollars up from about eight hundred thirteen million last year president earlier pressured sell to increase its share triggering worries and south korea that he might withdraw some of the troops there the day of a quiet approval south korea. now tribesmen and woman living in the amazon rain forest of brazil are waiting to hear if they'll be compensated for what they say was genocide committed decades ago. deny the massacre of up to three thousand people to make way for a new road but the reports deep in the world's largest rain

forest a hearing's been hound witnesses accuse 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. 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. why does this to me is where these bodies where is the residue material from the alleged bomb 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 are speaking out

a time of heightened tension they say newly elected president jaya both sonora has stripped them of their rights and dismantled environmental protections opening the amazon's mineral riches for more commercial exploitation construction on an energy pipeline through the amazon is due to begin in june both scenarios says he doesn't have to consult indigenous people because the pipelines the matter of national security the hearing will decide on the tribes demand that the brazilian government pays its thirty million dollars in compensation and issues an official apology victoria gates and be al jazeera. is running league party has pledged support for the future of a high speed rail tunnel through the alps deputy prime minister met a.s.l. when he said he would never vote in parliament to block construction of the high speed for a length of files bot his coalition partner the five star movement fiercely opposes that the money should be used to fix roads and bridges. now five years ago

malaysian airlines flight three seventy disappeared along with two hundred thirty nine people on board it remains on the walls biggest unsolved aviation mysteries but it's reports now for the genny a major upgrade to the existing plane tracking technology could help prevent further disasters. how can a passenger plane vanished without a trace in the twenty first century years of searching for the wreckage of m h three seventy have yielded little clue only a few pieces of debris and frustrations of not knowing exactly where the aircraft crashed into the indian ocean it's amazing that in this world where we track or cars or kids or animals that we don't track aircraft in real time in two thousand and fourteen air traffic controllers had only a general idea of m.h. three seventy's location over open water in fact the. that's been the norm for flights covering most of the earth the aviation industry has long relied on land

based radars to provide flight surveillance those radars only cover ten percent of the planet you can't build a radar tower in the ocean when you're flying over the oceans nobody knows where you are the aviation industry has accommodated by spacing out planes over radar blind areas and sticking as close as possible to radar zones if you've ever taken the popular flight between new york and london you may notice that every route takes you on a northward arc a detour in a sense over canada and greenland that's because flights have had to stay within eyeshot of the land based radar towers there but starting this month new eyes will be watching and watching from space to us companies carry on and radio have teamed up to operate a satellite flight surveillance system that leaves no area of the planet uncovered

the last of the web of sixty six satellites were delivered to orbit in january the only system that has truly global coverage meaning that there is no spot on the earth. south pole north pole anywhere that there isn't. the m h three seventy disappearance led to new international standards for aircraft position reporting over open ocean ariane any radium say their technology exceeds those standards feeding location data to air traffic controllers at least every eight seconds. another situation that arises where we lose an aircraft but if it were to arise with the technology we have now where does the vast majority of planes already have satellite transmitters onboard perhaps ushering in a new industry standard. castro al-jazeera leesburg virginia. now a new american space shuttle has returned from orbit paving the way for the first

manned mission by a private operator in a few months space x. hopes and last astronauts into orbit for the first time that one less reliance on russian rockets since retiring the shuttle fleet eighty years ago lexer brian reports. splashdown off the coast of florida thanks to 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've brought together the people the hardware and all the processes and procedures and gotten 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 this is the. first day of a new era for the next generation respects first 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 six billionaire entrepreneur a long musk to finance and develop the next generation of space hardware and 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 casuals 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 the earth's atmosphere you're looking at dragon streaking across the sky it all went smoothly from the captions he'd shield to the parachute system slowing it's full really can't ask for a more picture perfect. than the. net is counting on space x. and boeing to start launching astronauts into space this year there's still plenty of training and learning ahead but space excess proved its capsules can make it back to earth in one piece alexia brian al jazeera everything francisco diego is a senior research fellow at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london and he says the test flight went without a hitch. i mean he was really really fantastic mission with no or no problems at all very very straightforward with challenging challenging operations specially the ultimate docking. to the space station and also the. coming back

and the heating in the atmosphere and the deployment of chutes 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 proceed yourself for safety. inspection of the car to the tetra before the national goes ahead and give the green light for astronauts to be launching to the space station another important thing actually if they start to be useable the drug will come to this for use both they don't want to reuse it exactly i think they want to visit for test later on this year about 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 go ahead but they were talking about sending two astronauts to the space station in july. still ahead on the news out. of. fort.

it's time for sports now has joe thank you the friending women's world cup champions have filed a lawsuit against the united states soccer federation claiming they are the victims of gender discrimination all twenty eight members of the u.s. women's national team when named in the lawsuit it was filed in los angeles styles like lloyd megan rapinoe and alex morgan the legal move comes just three months before the team is due to defend its title at the women's world cup in fronts u.s.

soccer said in a statement out there it doesn't comment on matters of pending litigation before more on this let's join gabriel elizondo in new york gabriel why all the players claiming they're being discriminated against. well this is the lawsuit right here it's twenty five pages long we've been going through it really trying to analyze what it's all about and what it comes down to is really two things pay and conditions let's deal with pay first women soccer women so football players here in the u.s. say that they're paid roughly about twenty five percent of what their male counterparts are paid now there's no dispute that women are paid less than the men it's just then it gets a little fuzzy after that how much less women generally say they make about twenty five percent less across the board and they say that that's unacceptable also the bonuses as well for example during the world cup the min have about four hundred

million dollars in potential bonuses that are set aside where the women only have about thirty million and potential bonuses for the women's world cup but u.s. soccer federation says that's a that's a number that said by fief not by u.s. soccer so it's out of their hands the other big issue that the women are talking about here is is is work conditions they say everything from travel to training facilities even to medical help that they get is inferior to their male counterparts but at the heart of this it really does come down to pay and this is really excessive bait to this night when you look at the two teams because given the success that women have had with three well cup titles compared to the men's taking while they getting the same treatment. yeah three world cup titles for the women and actually four gold medals in the olympics as well the men have none of that you know we as you mentioned we talk we reached out to u.s. soccer they're not responding to this lawsuit but in generally when general what

they've said in the past is that you really can't compare the men and the women according to u.s. soccer because they say there are two separate organizations and while they fall under the say no same umbrella they have separate budgets they have separate collective bargaining agreements and so they say just you can't compare them it's just like comparing two complete separate entities but the women say it doesn't matter they say they play the same sport for the same country for the same u.s. soccer federation and they're paid less and they say that is simply unacceptable and even things to how much they they have to play the women in the u.s. generally play about double the amount of games that the men play still are paid less but still win more than the men get paid less so that's why they're saying there's no excuses the women say they must get paid more ok so what happens next is this likely to get results for the defense of their women's world cup title.

no you know the women's world cups in france starts june seventh and these these. class action lawsuits in the u.s. usually take months if not years to resolve so the chance of this getting resolved before the women's world cup is very very slim now could the u.s. women boycott that they could because in two thousand and sixteen the u.s. women's football team actually threatened to boycott the two thousand and sixteen rio a lympics because of this labor. negotiations with u.s. soccer in the end they were able to resolve it temporarily so they did not boycott they did not walk out of that but clearly that could potentially be an option but no this lawsuit in of itself will not be resolved in the next few months that's for sure all right gabriel elizondo thank you now claudio ranieri is been appointed as the interim manager of roma just a week up to being fired by fullam ronnie arry had a medical before heading to rome is training ground on friday face second stint in

charge of the club italians move quickly to replace you say beauty francesco who was sacked on thursday after romo and knocked out of the last sixteen of the champions league. as a mouthwatering tennis match coming up later indian wells with two time champion serena williams and victoria as a rank of facing off in the night session now this will be williams' first match since her quarterfinals exit at the australian open meanwhile sister venus was three to the second round after a tough opening match the former world number one overcame illness to beat germany's andrea petkovic in three sets after venus lost the second set about winning a game show now face a stray and open finalist and third seed patrick fit of the. women's world number one i am your sock opens her title defense on saturday against frenchwoman christina. after high profile splits with coach in the socceroos working with a new trainer jermaine jenkins and she's confident that things are looking up.

the next year's olympic weightlifting competition will be missing one of its powerhouses thailand has chosen to sit out tokyo twenty twenty an all white lifting competitions this year to serve a voluntary one year ban six tie weightlifters tested positive for a banned substance last year's world championships that's including a limpy champions to come your spirit seen here who was one of thailand's to go medalist at the rio olympics despite the ban thailand will still host the world championships in particular in september without any home competitors. formula one is set to revise its scoring system by watering a point for the fastest lap of a race the decision has already been approved by sports governing body the f.i.a. the extra point will only be added if the driver setting the fastest lap finishes inside the top ten this season opens next sunday in melbourne. michaela schifrin is closing in on her first women's world cup giant slalom title the american placed

third in the final to race in the czech republic on friday schifrin lead the standings by ninety seven points with only the world cup finals in endora next week a win there is worth one. hundred points a rival for the title is the hova who's also the world champion and the slovakian pinch victory at friday's event just ahead of germany's victoria. almost casual skis would take a chair lift or a cable car to the top of the sites but not three free riders who went to extreme lengths in the austrian alps hitching a ride on a sec plane the only problem of course is that there was no way to land the ship and that meant the skis had to abseiled fifty metres down it's to the top of the mountain but it looks like their attempts to avoid the left he's paid off as they got the best of the often off piste powder. all right that is i guess that will have. an incredible job at that it is very much for that and that does it for this

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a sentry and a halt made to the sound still present of many egyptians today house of the people's music on al-jazeera. as algerians defy riot police to again march against the absent president local media says several politicians have quit the ruling party and join them. hello i'm maryam namazie and on daniel with al-jazeera also coming up electricity is restored in parts of caracas but much of venezuela still has no power more than twenty two hours on time is running out for children in.