hello i'm doing a pollen you're watching the news hour live from doha and it's good to have you here with us coming up in the next sixty minutes. overflowing the streets of the capital and the cities across algeria protests against the any president are now the biggest in decades. the pain of no power we talk to cancer patients caught in venezuela's day long blackout. living in limbo the families in iraq struggling with

the stigma. the splashdown that means that countdown so on for the first manned mission by a private space operator. now the demands for algeria's eighty two year old presidents ago are getting louder and the crowds are growing larger by the day friday's protest against abilities with a flick over the biggest in twenty eight years hundreds of thousands of people turned out in huge numbers across the country they're urging the ailing president who remains in a hospital in switzerland not just on for a fifth term at next month's elections. so this was the capital algiers where the demonstration was the largest since two thousand and one media reports put the number at more than a million people police arrested nearly two hundred protesters in the east

protesters packed into the main square in the city of but no waving flags and calling for political change and there were similar scenes in the port city of iran and the west. well in the capital some demonstrators fought with police as they were blocked trying to access the road leading to the presidential palace security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds authorities say more than one hundred security force personnel were injured. as more. friday protests for the third successive week nationwide in algeria and this time they appear to be bigger than ever. demonstrators demanding president up to as he is 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. to me not was i am here today with my daughters with the country's children to take back our last algeria we want to take it back so that our children find where they said it they don't see and drown in the mediterranean sea. near the system please leave us look at the people the action is here the people are here from all social classes from the youngest to deal just everyone is saying no to a few other please leave you won't even be judged. and local media reports say that nine politicians from beautifully his ruling f l in party resigned to join the revolt. train and metro operators halted services to try and stem the tide of protesters a strategy that clearly didn't work across algeria demonstrations have been staged

daily for the past two weeks since beautifully could confirm he would stand for another term in office on april the eighteenth since the protests began opposition groups have been attempting to come up with a viable plan on how to remove which to flee 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 at 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 mohammed in june and just. stephen mcinerney is the executive director of the project on the middle east and joins us now from washington d.c. thanks for coming on the program so these protests showed no signs of abating in fact they're growing to some of the largest we've seen and decades do you think

a resolution at hand or this will come to some kind of a heads yes you know as your report has described the protests today were enormous they were wide reaching across the country and very crosscutting in terms of all segments of society participating the numbers were really overwhelming and the mood was really positive and kind of inspiring i think it's very likely that we will see significant sessions and significant announcement to come from the government this weekend i would expect either tomorrow or sunday i think it's very likely that there will be announcement of beautifully it will not run for another term think it's also very likely they will postpone elections beyond april to give more time to kind of figure out a roadmap and a plan but we'll see i mean there's been there was complete silence from the government today but i think it was encouraging that there was any kind of real crackdown on the protest or any any real violence initiated by security forces

which some had feared was a possibility so i think thing you know everyone's waiting to see what the government will say over the weekend but is there a credible opposition that can take the place of the governments and how do the people feel about the opposition that is there at the moment. there is not a credible organized opposition that is really prepared to step in because there has not been given political space for such opposition to organize under would have . been very closed so there's a lot of discussion about different scenarios involving some kind of potential transitional government and you know i don't think it's realistic that the entire regime or the entire government will be swept out of threat from power many key figures from the current regime are very likely to stay in place but the hope is that there will be some new independent civilian voices that will play a significant role at least during some kind of transitional period so those who

have been saying over the past five years it's been a lot of behind the scenes movement is there a clear idea of how this transition couldn't care those that look like the military has a plan in place i don't think there's a clear plan in place i think there's been a lot of scrambling this week to try to figure out different scenarios for what that might look like and that's part of the reason that i think in addition to beautifully to not running for election i think it's very very unlikely that elections will move forward as planned on april eighteenth because i there's a feeling that more more time is needed. have some kind of transition plan put in place now the one point that beautifully has made was that if he's reelected reelected he will call for elections. why is that appeasing protesters. it's seen as innocence sufficient and too little too late you know he said that a few weeks ago you know maybe it would have been welcomed but at this point they

want more than that they've had enough they want to move on they also see his presidency as as as a farce as it is not serious that he's not really running the country and no one takes seriously the idea that you should elect someone to be your president on a platform that they will then step down before the end of the term in addition there's not confidence that that promise would be kept so the expectation is that more has to be done than. stephen mecca and her need from the project on the middle east democracy thank you very much good to speak to you. now the rallies for change in algeria have spread beyond its borders there been show social solidarity in the french capital proud to gathered in paris say they're not just opposed to president but to flee but the entire political system in algeria the french government says it's monitoring events in its former colony the foreign minister john eaves and says it's for algerians to decide on their country's future and then geneva

algerians gathered in front of the hospital where the country's ailing leader is reportedly being treated algerian government says it's a fake arrived in switzerland for medical checks late last month but will be discharged soon. because. it's amended shouldn't happen this mandate is a mandate of cheating and corruption the president called run for president because these health doesn't allow him but the algerian constitutional council has accepted . and this is very telling of what is happening you know. now to another country that's in the middle of a political crisis the power is back on in parts of venezuela's capital after the worst blackouts in decades but the nationwide outage continuous elsewhere with some places left without electricity for twenty four hours there is a boy who has this report from caracas. and he really home a c.

seventeen years old and for the last few months he's been involved in a battle with bone cancer. she's already had part of one leg removed because of a few more everything better when and keep her went through the whole day matter yes hospital and get back as for her schedule treatment on friday she was told it had been postponed the recent and electricity blackout affecting much of the country to another but. i spend at least three months waiting to begin my chemo center of p. because the equipment was in working now because of the blackout again the equipment is not working so calm get my chemo. the source of the blackout has been traced to the electric dam in the state of. almost every corner of the country has been impacted by the power cut. but it is in hospitals like this one where the situation becomes critical this is one of the most effective but nobody got i got electricity had been gone already for fifteen hours and initially the

hospitals power plants failed and that's why the government was forced to bring in other power plants but we're told that they're only able to supply some rooms within the hospital. and he is twelve years old and suffers from hydrocephalus she has been in the hospital for a week and live in a moment or not anymore there's no electricity and because of that there's no water there are no syringes no goals we were told the power plant failed last night so i'm not sure how the situation here will continue. without electricity most of the capital remain closed on friday the metro railway systems have shut down so have schools and businesses. the political opposition blames the massive power cut on corruption and mismanagement. if you know in two thousand and nine they declared an electrical emergency ten years ago they put one hundred billion dollars into the

electrical system yet we find ourselves in this disaster today. the president. has blamed the outage on sabotage by the united states government has not provided evidence to support his claim but his backers including captain. are convinced he's right. there are people who are planning to destroy the revolution we're talking about international opposition and donald trump and his puppets are trying to guarantee people get their jobs mostly for hospitals and other sectors. a few minutes later electricity came back in some parts of. the government supporters celebrated and chanted that the socialist revolution started by chavis won't be defeated any time soon. but outside the whole hospital there was silence as mothers waited for any update on their children's condition their primary concern is not who's to blame for the blackout it's the whole third child gets the

treatment they desperately need. all aid is another big issue for venezuela the deputy director of the us government agency is in colombia where the latest shipment of international assistance has arrived but president nicolas maduro has so far blocked a from getting across the border when other apollo is with that story. another u.s. cargo plane arrives and could be on board the most recent aid package the trump administration is positioning in the region at the request of venezuelan opposition leader one way though. the shipment now moves into the hands of the colombian government until it can be safely transported into venezuela this is the first time colombia has acted as and to provide the assistance to another country we have achieved an important technical function denying the existence of a humanitarian crisis president has said venezuela is not

a country of beggars and ordered the closure of international borders with brazil and colombia. the last time the colombian government tried to move aid to venezuela clashes broke out with paramilitary forces and the cargo was set on fire. during a news conference and on thursday the deputy director of u.s.a. id told al-jazeera she's confident that won't happen again when it comes to contingency planning our contingency is that the borders will be opened and the humanitarian assistance will be allowed to enter venezuela. as many as five thousand people are crossing into colombia from venezuela every day in search of food for been as well and refugees like gas and her two year old son one soup kitchens like these are a lifeline. for all of us venezuelans are dying of hunger there's hunger there are children dying since february fourth the united states and three other

nations have delivered more than one hundred ninety five million dollars in assistance supplies include food hygiene kits and medical equipment. this latest shipment that's just arrived in colombia aboard the c one thirty aircraft is carrying more medical supplies and other equipment that will add to the more than six hundred tons of international aid that continues to sit in warehouses on the colombia venezuela border but the big question remains how much longer will it remain here unable to cross over into venezuela. more than a dozen countries have pledged to assist in delivering aid to business will even though nobody seems to know when that might happen. on the. news hour including. visiting the spanish resorts where britons fear for their future once their country leaves the european union. and five years on from the disappearance of the flight m h three seventy aviation experts are developing

technology to track planes wherever they go. and the women's world cup champions launch a lawsuit over gender discrimination joe we'll have those details in sports. joint patrols of serious northwestern province to safeguard a deescalation that it live as a last major rebel stronghold and a cease fire there has prevented the government offensive the truce has come under strain though with al qaeda linked fighters seizing towns and villages rival anti-government groups. use a little yes and to do 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. joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he says turkey and europe are desperately trying to keep that arrangement together in the provinces a big promise and it's where most of the hardened rebels have been in a sense collected and 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 affiliated with h.t.s. hired it a sham which is a now qaeda organization or at least had 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 jihad it's in fact they 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 bo's 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 this agreement together they do not want to an army that's what europe and turkey are interested in they want this region into live 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 catch up and keep the situation stable now u.s. backed fighters in syria say they'll resume their assault on i saw its last pocket of territory of no more civilians come out by saturday afternoon the syrians are across it forces have slowed their offensive and to allow thousands of people to leave the u.n. says more than sixty thousand people who have fled their area are now crammed into a nearby camp some have described scenes of horror and despair on the bombed out the edge of bargirls that over the border in iraq people are living with fear and stigma because of their alleged at ties to eisele that's a sure name reports from the camp 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 and recognized 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 i knew. 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 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 ice all are victims facing collective punishment the geneva conventions classify

that as a war crime. or. who believe the. more coups when the globe systems when it's legal solution this country. running. ahead 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 and urged him to abandon the armed group until he was arrested in his town what i had in the end i'm a human being he's treated 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 eisel

a way forward maybe changes to the justice system to include prosecutions truth commissions rican silly asian 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 name al-jazeera east of mosul. and other news a new american space capsule has returned from orbit paving the way for the first manned mission by a private operator space x. hopes to blast astronauts into orbit for the first time later this year that will and nasa is reliance on russian rockets since retiring the space shuttle fleet eight years ago brian explains. splash down off the coast of florida. 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 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 seizing up the ultimate space selfie this is 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 thirsted 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 you're looking at dragon streaking across the sky it all went smoothly from the caption. to the parachute system slowing it's full really can't ask for a more picture perfect. than the. next is counting on space x. and boeing to start launching astronauts into space this year there's still plenty of training and looming ahead but space six has proved its capsules can make it

back to earth in one pace and it's here by al-jazeera everything eric berger is a senior space editor and arst technica and he joins us from houston and texas good to have you on the show and as we heard there saying he would like space travel up to be the stuff of science fiction and for all of us to one day possibly holiday and space how significant is this. well this is very significant from the standpoint of nasa getting its own way back into space for its astronauts as you. just mentioned you know they've been relying on russia last eight years to writing this for you space capsule so commander suspected to have a private companies step forward and say we've got a capsule is ready to go is a big deal because you know no private company is a reporter person or group or it's just one country is united states and russia and china but how close does this take us to actual commercial flights where people like you and i can get on a flight into space. well did it depends on how much money you have you know pretty

suit and later this year you know you're going to have an opportunity to ride on a virgin galactic spacecraft it was so horrible space we were just going to offer similar service later this year or early next year or boy but you know going up into some little space for six eight ten minutes and then coming back down is a lot different than the energy required to get you up in orbit to go around into space and then have the high energy return that we saw with the greatest spacecraft today and so a sort of overall space place probably two hundred fifty thousand dollars but orbital flight is probably some newer tens of millions of dollars and that in the way it mentioned about nasa not having to rely on russian rockets anymore how does this change operations for them and what does it mean for them as far as space exploration goes was the really interesting to watch their reaction this week it's been it's been a little bit passive aggressive you know they've dated a snake to a little bit about the air quality on the space station after grabbing

a rival basic question there causing the not inside the russian segment when it was approaching case it you know rammed into the space station of course that didn't happen but then today that the leader ross crossbows dimitri rose and put out a nice statement graduating both musk and nasa to russia it's kind of a bitter pill because their space program is fading you know they're the capsule the sleaze capsule used to get the space station now is about fifty years older than upgraded along the way but it's old technology and so they're seeing these new vehicles come along a reusable rockets reusable spacecraft that's really it provides a threat to their space program which has a nice legacy but maybe is not investing as much in the future as a chevy and going back to commercial flights what's the next step that will that space x. will have to do that will take us closer to the reality of commercial flights. right so we're not there yet this dispute but this dragon spacecraft they're going to do something called inflated war test which is basically when they want to

rocket we're just spacecraft on top no people on board and then basically at the point of maximum energy the spacecraft is going to see if it can escape from the rocket to the situation to launch emergency and then have the spacecraft pass that test and now be ready to recruit flight next probably can take place by the end of this year although there's still a lot of work to go and then you know when she gets space x. and that's it going and doing this and going to the space station david who are private services but that's probably at least several years down the line eric berger thank you very much great to get your insights thank you to be right plenty more still ahead an observation enter national women's day it's like the demonstrations and protests around the world about take a look. indigenous tribes in the amazon wait to hear of they'll be compensated for a decades old massacre. and joe will tell you why talents weightlifters one next u.s. olympic centennial that will be coming up in sports. the add.

to. hello again and welcome back we're crossing eight states over the next few days it is going to be stormy for many locations we're talking about severe weather down here across the south as well as winter weather and advisories for winter storm watches and warnings up here towards the north affecting parts of the northern plains parts of ontario as well as come back so here you go on saturday very winter conditions up here towards north winds are going to be a problem as well visibility could come down to near white out conditions there but here across the cell this is where we could potentially see some large hail damaging winds and the possibility of a tornado or two as we go through sunday as well the snow continues to make its way towards the east but down towards the cell it is going to be quite warm look at

this washington you warming up to about twenty one degrees there across much of the caribbean things are looking quite nice we're not looking at much in terms of rain some rain down here across parts of costa rica that is going to continue on that eastern coast but up towards savannah it is going to be a fairly nice day for you with the temps are there of about thirty degrees and then very quickly across argentina things are getting better down towards the south we are going to be seeing that rain pushing up here towards montevideo but for rio de janeiro it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a tempter thirty three and it's until about twenty eight degrees for you. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean you know other than me that you must be shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate

corruption remain the people on al-jazeera. and the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full drive like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the your.

desire and here's a reminder for our top stories this hour hundreds of thousands of stage the largest government demonstrations in the early thirty years has been a wave of protest against president. for the pos few weeks since he announced that he would seek a fifth term in office. and the power is back on in parts of the venezuelan capital after the worst blackout in decades but the nationwide outage continues to elsewhere with some areas left without electricity for almost twenty four hours. and u.s. backed fighters in syria say about to resume their assault on loss of territory if no more civilians come out by saturday often noon the syrian democratic forces have slowed their offense about by good thousands of people to leave. so marches and protests were held across the world so mark the international women's day and argentina women's voices are being heard over their concern ahead of

elections later this year than elsewhere where has this report from whereas our east. it's a stark image from the pages of margaret atwood's novel the handmaid's tale to the streets of one of cyrus the silent for this is just one of the many ways women here are being heard telling the world telling men what they want to be made of it or not my first that they stop killing us then there's our right to abortion it's our right because we're talking about our bodies and our decision to be a mother will not then equality in government and in business because in argentina like the rest of the world we earn twenty five percent less just for being women. the messages being relayed in many ways this knitted flag came from guatemala and will be passed to another country in argentina women have added to it. we've come together to knit the biggest feminist flag in the world as it almost we're becoming more conscious of what it is to be

a feminist which is to defend the rights of women children again when the unmitigated world wide the women's movement is growing becoming more visible growing all the time. and they are in venice weyler mexico brazil and chile each with their own particular issues but also with many shared themes. for them fifty women across argentina were killed in the past two months fifty thousand to treated every year for complications resulting from illegal abortions every year this protest grows bigger every year the voice is more powerful there are elections here in seven months time and the issues raised designed to resonate powerfully in those . little history a vibrant social movement as many in the region look to argentina to lead the way tens of thousands of women representing hundreds of organizations marching across the country have even half the people sometimes i never missed out on sunday night

he takes me back to meet the live nation with these kind of things you know when peace made our mission i hope some of the top. freedom. of the protests is on the streets today but tomorrow it will be taken to governments to the workplace and schools. and. one of cyrus. and let's take a look at how international women's day was marked in other parts of the world. there was singing and dancing in pakistan's largest city of karachi to mark the event this tiny little calling for last to be implemented equally. but there was violence in ukraine's capital as far right protesters disrupted a women's march against sexual violence police were called in to separate the two groups and three people were arrested. there were similar scenes in turkey as

police tried to stop a march in this tumble but the demonstrators defied attempts to stop them and students solidarity with women unjustly imprisoned in neighboring syria. and in spain thousands of women took over the streets of the capital landmarks across the city were eliminated in purple to mark the occasion. well britain's prime minister's warning that bracks it might not happen at all of her deal is rejected by parliament next week series of may's negotiation with the european union are stalled because of the impasse over the irish border your leaders have given her odds of friday to come up with a new proposal to end the deadlock many is now urging m.p.'s to back or breaks a deal when they vote on tuesday next week members of parliament in westminster face a crucial choice whether to bank the brics 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 never leave out all the only certainty would be going. our correspondent the dba has the latest from london. one of the groups that theresa may 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 a recent events have taught us that nothing should be taken for granted well there's also uncertainty for the one and a half million britons to live all over the european union many of them have made

a new life overseas and say bell fear for their future after bragg's it lawrence lee reports from the spanish town of i am one day on the porch with 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 changes 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 with with a look in their face to say why why why you doing this and i'm so sorry that they're doing this to you 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 are you so i've upset you know idea i can't answer them they worry about the impact of brecht's it on their business but they were removed or about their son there was one instance where. a overheard of the difficult thing was that we might have to go back to the character protect our business and he started crying and caring man and he thought i'm not going back to the care 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 i 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. 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 it. 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 puts together they are bigger and stronger. merging with his portuguese neighbor has done nothing to stop by a monti celebrating its spanish traditions arguments in favor of breck's it restoring british pride a mix with derision the kendricks can only watch their call of the e.u. becoming stronger and closer and they insist they will never go back to britain

a country they no longer understand. al-jazeera i am wanting something. finland's government has resigned after failing to push through social welfare and health care reforms prime minister jus house subpoena as wanted to cut public spending by more than three billion dollars because of the rising cost of caring for an aging population but he failed to get enough support in parliament the palace says he will stay on as caretaker leader until next month's general election well it's a lease ruling coalition remains locked in a dispute over plans for a high speed rail tunnel to france the project is backed by the deputy prime minister matteo salvini and his new party but its coalition partners the five star movement fiercely opposes it arguing the money should be used to fix roads and bridges. now the mystery of what happened to malaysia airlines flight three seventy exposed the limitations of claim tracking technology there liner vanished over the indian ocean five years ago with two hundred thirty nine people on board but as

highly as jocasta reports a new satellite network could soon make it easier to track flights in real time anywhere on the planet. 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 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 evasion 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 ariane 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 poles south pole north pole anywhere that there isn't covered the m h three seventy disappearance led to new international standards for aircraft position reporting over open ocean area on any radium say their technology exceeds those standards feeding location data to air traffic controllers at least every eight seconds hopefully we won't have another situation that arises where we lose an aircraft but if it were to arise with the technology we have now we would know exactly where it is the vast majority of planes already have satellite transmitters on board perhaps ushering in a new industry standard. castro al-jazeera leesburg virginia. now where the highest court has ordered mediation between muslim and hindu groups to settle a dispute over a religious site this case dates back to the destruction of the mosque in north in

the north indian town of the riots in one thousand nine hundred two both sides say the site is holy to them and it has been a source of tension between the two religious community. has more from. here we are again just two days after the supreme court reserve 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 whom they believe was born on the site mediation has been tried in the past since one thousand nine hundred ninety 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 . it had not. the parties from the

beginning were not very enthusiastic. we expect that there should be some result of this decision will be expected another reason many believe the court is pushing for mediation is because the politics involved issues such as the bobby mosque demolition are very politically polarizing here in india many analysts believe the governing b.g.p. got a big political push 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. the white house communications director has resigned and will now work on president donald trump's reelection campaign bill shine is a former fox news executive he joined trump's staff in july eleventh networking twenty seventeen amid criticism of how he handled sexual harassment scandals trump released a statement commending shine for an outstanding job in his administration well the

u.s. president has been visiting victims of a tornado that tore through alabama last week killing twenty three people from start of the visit in lee county one of the worst affected areas he signed a major disaster declaration for the county which frees up federal money on that for the region. french students have rallied in paris for a fourth time this year calling for action against global warming it's parts of a worldwide youth movement started by a swedish teenage activist and protests are expected to continue next week. indigenous brazilians living in the amazon rain forest are waiting to hear whether they'll be compensated for what they say was genocide committed decades ago army commanders deny the massacre of up to three thousand people to make way for a new road victoria gate to be has this 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. 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

amazons 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 and be al jazeera. that's coming up in sports.

thanks very much the defending women's world cup champions have filed a lawsuit against the united states sucka federation claiming they've become the victims agenda discrimination all twenty eight members of the u.s. women's national team were named in the little seat that was filed in los angeles on friday the legal move comes just three months before the team is due to defend its well cup title in france gabriel is under reports from new york. a massive ticker tape parade in the streets of new york to welcome home u.s. women's football players after their two thousand and fifteen world cup victory a sign of their success on the field which they say has not translated off of it

all twenty eight members of the team filed a class action lawsuit against their employer the u.s. soccer federation in a longstanding grievance over gender discrimination at the heart of the twenty five page lawsuit they are asking for equal pay they make on average just a quarter of the money the men do the settlement could reach tens of millions of dollars in back pay for current and former players in a statement u.s. soccer said they would not comment on pending litigation but critics of the lawsuit argue that some of the money like the world cup bonuses which are four hundred million for men and only thirty million for women are set by fifa world football's governing body and not us soccer. and they say comparing salaries of men and women is not fair since they are two separate entities separate budgets and contracts. but for the women what makes matters worse is this they win and the men don't. u.s.

women are four time olympic gold medalist and three time world cup winners that two thousand and fifteen victory attracted the largest english speaking t.v. audience in u.s. football history the u.s. mint haven't come close to winning a title or gold medal. the women get a chance to defend their title at this year's world cup in june it's unlikely the dispute be resolved before kickoff in paris by the u.s. women not even attend the world cup perhaps they go on strike they almost did in two thousand and sixteen before the summer olympics in rio but that work stoppage was avoided when they got a new contract gabriels ondo. new york claudio ranieri has been appointed as the interim manager of roma just a week after being fired by follow him ronnie arry had a medical before heading to rome is training ground on friday for his second stint in charge of the club italians moved quickly to replace you say beauty francesco

who was sacked on thursday after roma were knocked out of the last sixteen of the champions league. women's world number one am opens the defense of her indian wells title on saturday she's up against frenchwoman christina benefits after high profile sed split with coach sasha by in a soft as working with a new trainer and she's confident things are looking up. from that so it's been going really well he's kind of tough though so it's a little bit difficult but yeah i mean he's he's a really awesome guy and he's a really good coach i think of course there is a little bit of pressure there but for me i don't think about defending i just think about winning another tournament so hopefully i can keep that mindset going for sure i think winning in new wells gave me a lot of confidence going into grand slams because it is seven matches for me because i wasn't seeded at the time and it's where like all of the top players play indian wells and mandisa definitely it gave me a lot of confidence meanwhile venus williams is through 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 off to venus last the second set without winning a game. next years and then pick 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 tile weightlifters tested positive for a banned substance at last year's world championships including a limp dick champion the kenyans are actually seen here who was one of thailand's two gold medalist at the rio olympics despite the ban thailand will still host the world championships in the tie in september without any home competitors for no one is set to revise it scoring system by awarding a points for the fastest lap of a race the decision has already been approved by motor sports governing body the f.i.a. the extra points will only be added if the driver setting the fastest lap finishes

inside the top ten but kayla shifrin is closing in on her first women's world cup giant slalom title the american placed the in the penultimate race in the czech republic on friday schifrin leads the standings by ninety seven points with only the world cup finals in andorra next week when there is worth one hundred points arrival for the title is picture of the hova who's also the world champion and the slow backing clinched victory at friday's event just ahead of germany's the tory arabians both. now most casual would take a chair lift or a cable car to the top of the slopes but not three free riders who went to extreme lengths in the austrian alps hitching a ride on a section in the problem of course is that there's no way to park it and that meant the skiers had to abseiled fifty metres down to the top of the mountain but it looks like their attempts to avoid the live cues paid off as they got the best of the off pieced powder. that is useful for now we'll have more for you later.

and i'll be back with more news shortly. from the carter center. in

a. monch. maggi how son jim bates discusses and dissects the big issues of our times and head to heads five years after the revolution voters in ukraine will have a chance to offer a verdict on what's come since. in a powerful new film residents of occupied east jerusalem sheva through its own its cost present and future. leaders will gather for the thirtieth arab league summit in tunisia join a school coverage and we examine the development of an unusual alliance between radical buddhist monks and the military in million mom march on i'll just sierra. as women's rights in the gaming acceptance of the world. what's the status of global gender equality and how can progress be made executive director of un

women from. a huge volume of voices protest against algeria sailing presidents are now the biggest in decades. welcome debate a policy of watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. again a no power we talk to cancer patient costs of venezuela's worst blackout in decades . women around the world mark international women's day with protests as.