and how can progress be made executive director of un women. challenges in. a huge volume of voices protest against algeria sailing presidents are now the biggest in decades. welcome devika pollin you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. the pain of no power we talk to a cancer patient caught in venezuela's worst blackout in decades. women around the world mark international women's day with protests and pride. on scott hodler in

thailand the world's largest exporter of rubber global oversupply has caused the price to plummet leaving farmers here scrambling to make ends meet a subsidy program has been called by some as a quick fix because it misses the main issue that story coming up. we begin and algeria where millions of people have staged the country's biggest anti-government protest in nearly three decades a mass uprising driven mostly by young people is a direct challenge to the eighty two year old president of the elysees beautifully cuts leadership so on friday protesters flooded the streets across major cities and towns they were urging the ailing president to remains in a hospital in switzerland not just stand for a fifth term at next month's elections. this was the seed in the capital of here's where the demonstration was the largest since two thousand and one media reports

put the number of people at more than a million and police though arrested nearly two hundred protesters there 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 herat in the west. i have a job john has this report. 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 ease 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 beautifully 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 she's free not us i am

here today with my daughters with the country's children to take back our lost 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 a 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 church fifth or 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 and disease. and the rallies for change in algeria have also spread beyond its borders there been shows of solidarity in the french capital crowds to gathered in paris say they're not just opposed to president bush's leka but algeria's entire political system the french government says it is monitoring events in algeria the foreign minister then said it's for a jury to decide on their country's future and in geneva gathered in front of the

hospital where the country's ailing leader is reportedly being treated the algerian government says beautifully car arrived in switzerland for medical checks late last month but will be discharged soon. stephen mcinerney is the executive director of the project on middle east walker say and he says he's expecting a major announcement from the government in the coming days. the protests 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'll see significant concessions 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 a beautifully it will not run for another term i 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 i 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 as a possibility so i think thing you know everyone's waiting to see what the government will say over the weekend and to venezuela now where power is back in some parts of the country after the worst blackouts in decades but the nationwide outage continues to elsewhere with several places left without electricity for almost twenty four hours that is about has this report from caracas. the seventeen years old and for the last few months she's been involved in a battle with bone cancer and. she's already had part of one leg removed because if it you want to get that. right away when and keep it went to the hotel. for her scheduled treatment on friday she was told it had been postponed the reason and

electricity affecting much of the country to another but. i spend that she's three months we can make you move because the equipment was in working now because of the blackout again she quit looking at my chemo. the source of the blackout has been tweeze to the electric dam in the state of. almost every corner of the country has been impacted by the power cut but it isn't 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 in the name only 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 a railway systems have shut down so have schools and businesses. the political opposition blames the massive power cut on corruption and mismanagement. 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 one got a lot of them 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 back 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 or chavis won't be defeated any time soon. but outside the 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 hold their child gets the treatment they desperately need. turkey and russia begun joint patrols of syria's northwestern province to safeguard a deescalation zone that live as a last major rebel stronghold and the seas far there has prevented

a syrian government offensive a truce that has come under strain with al qaeda linked fighters seizing towns and villages from rival anti-government groups. live edition that use the literal use in the to do the patrols of the russian troops just outside 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. and u.s. backed fighters in syria say they'll resume their assault on isolates last pocket of territory if no more civilians come out by saturday afternoon the syrians emma project forces have showed their slow their offensive all of our goods to allow thousands of people to leave the u.n. says more than sixty thousand people who have fled the area are now crammed into nearby cam the baby of a british teenager who went to syria to join isel has died according to syrian

democratic forces the infant died it accounts for the internally displaced people in northeastern syria show me a begum gave birth to the child last month and has also returned to london the government had stripped her of citizenship for joining the armed group across the border neighboring iraq people are living in fear and stigma because of their alleged ties to eisele atocha her name spoke to some of them in a camp in the east of mosul. thousands of iraqi children are paying for the sins of their eisel fathers many have never met or can't remember. miriam was a child bride she says her son was born after his turkish father died fighting for i saw the three year old boy is essentially stateless unrecognized by the government as an iraqi citizen she says she doesn't want her son to make the same mistakes as his father and receiving an education will help guarantee that annie

may seem. i have no soul just a body i can barely breathe i can barely move i only intend to live for my son i wish i had died in a strike families with links to i saw find 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. it's sort of new or. version. to believe the we need more coups when the good of the sons when it's legal solution this country. running hades. jehad is raising

six children under the age of nine in the past three years they've moved from one displacement camp to another unable to find refuge from being shunned she's mourned her eldest children never to mention that their father was an isolated fighter she says she begged him not to join and urged him to abandon the armed group until he was arrested and it's 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 still ahead in august their time is running out for yemen's children access shaky cease fire belts to bring in more humanitarian. splashdown that means the countdown is on for the first manned mission by a private space operator. hello again a welcome back to international weather forecasts well across china we have seen plenty of rain over the last few days in the trend is going to continue as we go into the weekend take a look at your saturday map we are going to be seeing that rain across much of southeastern china down here towards the south really for parts of hong kong you're

really not going to getting out of the rain over the next few days for joe is going to be a rainy and a chilly day and about fifteen degrees taipei most of taiwan as well will be seeing the rain in your forecast that's all due to a funnel boundary that is stationary right here but as you can see winds are coming out of the north across shanghai but they are coming out of the southwest here across parts of the coastal areas where we are seeing some dry conditions to the northern part of the philippines but to the southern part we are picking up some more clouds which means more rain possibly in the forecast over the next few days down across parts of indonesia to flee down towards the southeastern part of indonesia we can expect to see some more enhanced rain we do have a little bit of turning right there could potentially bring some rain across much of that area some showers could be heavy at times we will be watching that very carefully but for jakarta we do expect to see a partly cloudy day to mostly cloudy day with a temperature of thirty three degrees and then across parts of india temperatures are still going to be quite warm we're looking idea about at thirty seven per at thirty six. sponsored by.

a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. is this radical transformation. i mean the mother to be the she was shedding light on the remaining pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain the people on al-jazeera. a minder for top stories hundreds of thousands of algerians have staged the largest

government demonstrations in nearly thirty years that's been a wave of protests against president abdullah for the past few weeks since he announced he would seek a fifth term in office. the power is back in parts of the venezuelan capital after the worst blackout and decades but the nationwide outage continues with some areas left without electricity for several hours. and u.s. backed fighters in syria say they'll resume their assault on the last pockets of territory if no more civilians come by saturday afternoon the syrian democratic forces have slowed their offensive on bar goods to allow thousands of people to leave. the marches and rallies have been held across the world so mark international women's day with many pushing for action on equality and argentina women voiced their concerns ahead of elections later this year general shrine where has this report from. 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 or 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 were becoming more conscious of what it is to be a feminist which is to defend the rights of women. worldwide the women's movement

is growing becoming more visible growing all the time. and they all invent a swathe of mexico brazil and chile each with their own particular issues but also with many shared the city. 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 voices of all powerful there are elections here in seven months time of the issues raised here 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 won't she be across the country have even read the books and i never missed something united states have to be nice to live nation with these kind of things you know would be

speaking out for a son i hope some. freedom. of the protest is on the streets today but tomorrow it will be taken to governments to the workplace and schools. and one of their own to zero when osiris. women say vans have been held in many other parts of the world. at the camp pakistan's largest city of karachi hundreds of women called for an end to violence against women there were similar rallies held across major cities of the country where women protested against marriage honor killing and income inequality. but in turkey the police used tear gas to try to break a gathering of thousands of women in this town vote but demonstrations demonstrators defy the crackdown and continue their protests people stood in solidarity with women unjustly imprisoned in neighboring syria. and in spain

landmarks across madrid were lit up in purple to mark the occasion. and in kenya activists were out on the streets of nairobi to stand against sexual violence organizers also called for those in power accused of gender based violence to be punished. when yemen's warring sides agreed to stop fighting and withdraw their troops from a crucial port city there was hope that more food and medicine would soon flow when . with sporadic fighting still going on there is growing despair for the nineteen million yemenis suffering malnutrition and illness a warning viewers may find some of these images in a song i've been jobless report distressing. even the screens have become mute. to give any toddler hasn't had enough to eat for most of her life a parent i overheard at about three in chad and i while is now twenty four months

old she suffering from acute mine argument as a result of oh it's very difficult to get the required food some parents we're doing all we can to save her life her condition has become acute and will probably become another statistic without proper treatment yemeni said they're tired of burying their children doctors say they're helpless to cope with a rare form of malnutrition. the child is suffering from acute malnourishment which is normally found in skin and bone or course your core. case is a combination of the two types which is very rare it started with skin bone then developed into core she core and both her feet about two weeks ago. the world is not the only victim the un's children agency says one hundred thirty five thousand children remain in the besieged port city of today the way they face the highest level of malnutrition and cholera in yemen oh oh oh unicef says their living conditions are so dire no one should ever suffer them. the fight between the saudi

embassy led coalition and who has destroyed yemen's health care system. the siege and bombardment of the port city of a day that has wrecked hospitals ambulances even medical stores doctors say they're missing ninety percent of medical supplies and equipment alone and we have to go. specifically targeted the health sector and intentionally aimed at destroying all its facilities with more than fifty percent of all the medical facilities have been totally or partially destroyed including the main hospitals and maternal clinics and half of the emblems fleet has been destroyed to the province is facing a catastrophic humanitarian situation it is beyond words obviously of the board over the past four years because malnourishment among more than three hundred thousand children below the age of five alone. it may be too late for thousands of starving children. but has

a few days of hope left. its only if those in power care and help arrives in time some of the job there a women in the u.k. has become the first person in britain to be convicted for female genital mutilation the mother of a three year old girl was sentenced to eleven years in prison for cutting her daughter the woman's name was not released to protect the victim's identity prosecutors say the girl's parents rushed her to hospital august twenty seventeen claiming she had her chest self in a fall. britain's prime minister's warning that breaks it might not happen at all if her deal is rejected by parliament next week series of may's negotiations with the european union are stalled because some of the impasse over the irish border elaters had given her until friday to come up with a new proposal to end the deadlock urging m.p.'s to back her breaks a deal when they vote on tuesday. thailand is the world's largest exporter of raw

rubber but its global price is plummeting and farmers are suffering the government has launched this subsidy program but critics say it's so little too late and an attempt to win votes ahead of elections it's got hi there has this report from crabby province in southern thailand. for generations the landscape of southern thailand has been dotted with rubber plantations it's known as the white gold that's tapped from the trees but now and probably province like many others the farmers have been dealt a double blow by world markets and one dispute in particular global oversupply has driven the rubber price down forty percent over two years and the months long trade war between the united states and china has severely cut china's need for thai rubber. rubber farmer since he was a boy. is struggling but is skeptical of a subsidy program recently put in place by the military government the nato give them and try to help us but they just do it just to save face and fix the problem

in the short term they don't think about the long term they subsidise the group of fifty eight dollars to fifteen hundred square metres of course we want money to know this program some economists see the subsidies as a quick fix is there only a short term benefit for some of the local farmers here it does nothing to lessen their reliance on the global price of rubber and what needs to happen next they say is more of a focus on innovation advancing the industry here less on export raw rubber. as thailand heads towards its first election since the military coup five years ago some question the government's motivation behind subsidies rather than investing in the future of the industry they don't have enough dissent and they don't have a political view to do that. they detest doing something that is evil and then get. because you do sing puppet. so well and then do coal

but the government defends the subsidy program as the only way they can work with the farmers tell me who got me at if you don't have this program the farmers don't come to talk with us with it they cooperate with the government. probably is traditionally a stronghold for the democrat party members campaigning out in the plantation they say the current program is bad for the farmers and will bring it to an end if elected although they'll guarantee a minimum price for rubber. but offer little detail of how they'll keep the industry going in the long term and how the people here will continue to live off their white gold it's got harder al-jazeera krabby thailand. and the 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's well

and that's less reliance on russian rockets since retiring the space shuttle fleet eight years ago alexey o'brien explains. splashdown off the coast of florida. space six dragon capsule safely home from carrying cargo to the international space station the six day unmanned flight to pave 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 certain that. 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 i 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 six billionaire entrepreneur musk to finance and develop the next generation of space hardware we want the things that are in science fiction novels and movies not to be science fiction forever we want to be real one day. the capsules return to earth was a series of tastes first it had to undock from the i.s.a.'s and we have motion then survive one of its biggest challenges descending through intense temperatures to reenter the earth's atmosphere we were looking at dragon streaking across the sky it all went smoothly from the casual speech to the parachute system slowing

it's full really can't ask for a more picture perfect. 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 x. is proved its capsules can make it back to earth in one piece it's your brian al-jazeera everything. and they are watching out is there and these are top stories hundreds of thousands of our gerri ends has stayed the largest anti-government demonstrations in nearly thirty years has been a wave of protests against president of delozier over the past few weeks since he announced that he would seek a fifth term in office. and the rallies for change in algeria have spread beyond its borders evan shows solidarity in the french capital crowds to gathered in paris

say they're not just opposed to president but a flake of algeria's entire political system the french government says it is monitoring events and algeria foreign minister john plan has said it's for a jury and to decide on the country's future. power is back in parts of the venezuelan capital after the wars blackout in decades but the nationwide outage continues elsewhere with some areas left without electricity for nearly a day it was already have a biggie but some would you worry first for your insecurity because when the lights go out the criminals take advantage of the public streets to function that there are people in the streets your thirty's aren't present so you go around with caution and trying to protect yourself and. we don't know any news about anything for you to supermarket when they told us we had to leave the country has practically become a disaster for us back fighters in syria say they'll resume their assault on the last pocket of territory if no more civilians come out by saturday afternoon the

syrian democratic forces have slowed their offensive on bar goods to allow thousands of people to leave. and turkey and russia have begun joint patrols of syria's northwestern to safeguard a deescalation zone it was the last major rebel stronghold have been syrian government airstrikes and fighting between rival rebel groups there in the past few weeks and britain's prime minister's warning that breck said might not happen at all if the deal is rejected by parliament next week a new american space shuttle has splashed down paving the way for the first manned mission by a private operator space x. hopes to ferry astronauts to the international space station for the first time in a few months after the successful test flight by the unmanned dragon capsule well those are the headlines stay with us now for inside story about stuff next.

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