al-jazeera wherever you are. refusing to back down tens of thousands of algerians continue to put pressure on the ailing president who plans to run for a fifth term. hello i'm adrian for getting this is i was here a life and also coming up power is back on in parts of venezuela after the country suffered a major blackout but for some families the damage has already been done. women's rights demonstrators notching tina use silence to make

a lot of noise and get the message across. and barely scraping by a drop in the month leaves thailand's robot industry facing an uncertain future. they are the biggest nationwide protest seen in algeria finale thirty years but the targets of the protest as anger isn't even in the country he's receiving treatment in switzerland president of the lessees beautifully suffered a stroke six years ago demonstrators say the eighty two year old isn't fit for the job that after twenty years and power they're demanding that he abandons his decision to run for a fifth zeros mohamed jump jhoom reports. friday protests for the third successive week nationwide in algeria. and this time they appear to be bigger than ever. demonstrators demanding president because he's with the clique abandon his bid for a fifth term in office in. next month's election i 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. protesters didn't listen she's three novels 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 work so that they don't see and drown in the mediterranean sea. 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 church fifth or please leave you won't even be judged. at local media reports say that nine politicians from which the fleet is ruling f l m 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 to 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 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. our jury is 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 evoke 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 into a disease. power has been restored to ponce venezuela a country suffered its worst blackout president nicolas maduro has accused the us.

he's urged his supporters to come out on saturday to march against what he calls imperialism opposition leader has also called for his backers to take to the streets as a bone reports now from caracas on how the power outage is affecting the country's collapsing health system. seventeen years old and for the last few months she's been involved in a battle with bone cancer. she's already had part of one leg removed because of. her scheduled treatment on friday she was told it had been postponed the recent and electricity blackout affecting much of the country. i spent three months waiting to begin my chemotherapy because the equipment was in working now because of the blackout again the equipment is not working so i get my chemo. the

source of the blackout has been traced to the electric dam in the state. 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. daughter loudy annie is twelve years old and suffers from hydrocephalus she has been in the hospital for a week and in the 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. 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 back jobs 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 chavez won't be defeated anytime 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 hope their child gets the treatment they desperately need. us back fighters in syria say that they will resume their assault on. the territory of no more civilians come out of it by saturday afternoon the syrian democratic forces have slowed their offensive. thousands of people to leave the u.n. says that more than sixty thousand people who fled the area. into a nearby camp. more children separated from their families of the us mexico border could soon be reunited with their parents after a judge expanded a reunification ruling initially the judge's order allowed nearly three thousand

children to be handed back to their parents but now families who've been split up since july twenty seventh teen will be included the u.s. government says that it doesn't know the precise number of people who've been separated rights groups are criticizing the u.s. government for storing a database of journalists covering the migrant caravan from central america leaked documents show that customs and border protection compiled a list of dozens of people to be screened more thoroughly at the us mexico border officer as rob reynolds reports from los angeles. the until now secret list of fifty nine immigrants rights activists journalists and attorneys who are being tracked and monitored by border agents has infuriated civil liberties groups and prompted an inquiry by the u.s. congress the database was compiled by u.s. customs and border officials and obtained by n.b.c. news it contains names photos and other personal information photojournalists

already on addressed were is one of those on the u.s. government's list it was interesting to see the level of questioning you being asked almost the same question and you giving the same answer. i think to find out this information for yourself and why do you have to stop me and i see some of the people listed were subject to heightened scrutiny such as being stopped for questioning and in some cases refused entry into mexico at a crossing near san diego dressler says she was repeatedly stopped for questioning and just asked me about what i was seeing on the ground i asked for all my personal information that i dress like i was shooting for who i work for. and one of the editors phone number was my e-mail on the database was apparently compiled near the end of twenty eighteen as large groups including many families from central america

traveled to the u.s. border seeking asylum the u.s. customs and border protection agency issued a statement saying in part criminal events such as the breach of the border wall in san diego are routinely monitored and investigated as democratic members of congress called the database alarming unacceptable and an assault on press freedom the congressional committee that oversees border agencies demanded a copy of the list and an explanation of why individuals were included as well as any others. dossiers that me exist the american civil liberties union called the government's targeting of journalists and activists quote an outrageous violation of americans constitutional rights the department of homeland security's inspector general will conduct an internal investigation into whether officials behind the database violated policies and the law robert oulds al jazeera los angels

women and argentina have marched and held rallies voicing their concerns and of elections that later this year the demonstrations coincided with events around the world marking international women's day daniel swarm the reports one of. it's a stark image from the pages of margaret atwood's novel the handmaid's tale to the streets of one osiris the silent for this is just one of the many ways women here are being heard telling the world telling men what they want but he made up the nomad that 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 when argentine women have added to it. the most

which come together to knit the biggest feminist flag in the world as examples who are becoming more conscious of what it is to be a feminist which is to defend the rights of women going to the moon young men that are going to worldwide the women's movement is growing it is becoming more visible we growing all the time. and they all invent a swale of mexico brazil and chile each with their own particular issues but also with many shared themes. more than fifty women across 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 across the country have even crappy people sometimes i never miss something i'm trying to make it takes me back to meeting. with these kind of things to be speaking out mission i hope solo on top of my feet on. the protesters on the streets today but tomorrow it will be taken to governments to the workplace and schools. and. one of cyrus where the weather update next and why measles and proving deadly to hundreds of children. means the countdown is on for the first manned mission by a private space operation.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast full of the last couple of days we've been kind of saying the same story about what's happening here across northern europe a lot of wind as well as a lot of rain in and forcefully as we go towards the weekend most of that is going to continue so take a look at our saturday map here we do have a lot of rain here across parts of germany as well as poland windy conditions up towards scandinavia and into the baltic sea and as we go from saturday to sunday that rain starts a push over here towards the east we do get a bit of a break but we do see some more rain coming into play as we go towards sunday and that's also going extend up towards parts of denmark as well to the south though things are looking quite nice athens at twenty two rome at fifteen but we do think by the time we go towards next week things are going to be cooling off quite nicely across much of that area here across the northern part of africa though fine and dry for most locations we're still watching that area of low pressure in algeria

and that is causing some windy conditions and dusty conditions as well a few clouds up here towards the north but on the coastal areas things quite nice we are going to be seeing rabbet at about twenty one degrees few tunas at twenty things over here towards cairo looking quite nice at twenty five but as you go down here towards khartoum it is going to be a sunny day for you with a temperature of about thirty four degrees in us one at thirty one. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how libel reigns influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution communist away feel castro is a feudal eastern not a communist or just for want of his country che wanted international revolution they came a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face on al-jazeera .

again let's just take a moment to remind you of the main news this hour hundreds of thousands of people in algeria of stage the largest anti-government demonstrations there in nearly thirty years the country's seen weeks of protests against president time to lizzie's beautifully since he announced that he'd seek a fifth time in office. the power is back home in parts of the venezuelan capital after the worst blackout in decades but the outage continues elsewhere with some areas left without electricity now for more than twenty four hours and u.s. backed fighters in syria say there was in their assault on iceland's last pocket of territory if no further civilians come out of it by saturday afternoon the syrian

democratic forces have slowed their offensive on goes to allow thousands of people to leave. britain's prime minister is warning that breaks it may not happen at all if a deal is rejected by parliament next week to raise amazed to go see a sions with the european union a stalled because of the on past so the irish border e.u. leaders had given her until friday to come up with new proposals to end the deadlock maze now as an m.p.'s to back up breaks a deal when they vote again on his on tuesday. 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 at all the only certainty would be on going on certainty is uncertainty too for the one and a half million britons who live across the european union many have made a new life overseas so that they fear for their future after briggs it is a serious lawrence lee reports now from the spanish town of. on the border with portugal. it's carnival weekend i am auntie and people are on the streets it isn't a rich place by any means but the sense of community is obvious but 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 a mitigated 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 one 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 the business but they were removed or about their son there was want to. hear overheard of the difficult thing was that we might have to go back to the carriage to protect our business. and he started crying that i'm not going back to the car you can't make me go park said no no no ok don't worry about it it's not for you swear is the norm if you make me go back i'm going to run a wire and i'm going to get a plane but. 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 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 by a month a celebrating its spanish traditions arguments in favor of breck's it restoring

british pride a mix with derision the kendricks can only watch their cone of the e.u. becoming stronger and closer and they insist they will never go back to britain a country they no longer understand. the al-jazeera. silence by. another white house communications director has resigned this one is now going to work on president all of trump's reelection campaign bill shine is a former fox news executive who joined trump staff in july he left the network in twenty seventeen after being criticized for his handling of sexual harassment allegations trump released a statement commending sharon for an outstanding job in his administration doctors in madagascar blame a shortage of vaccines for their struggle to contain the worst meals measles outbreak for decades close to a thousand people mostly children have died of the disease in the past five months finland reports. this family is in mourning for four year old 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 it received the first injection but he died because we didn't have enough money to get him the second post 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 every one children from poor families who catch measles are often given cheap traditional treatments seven year old doreen was only brought to this health clinic when her condition worsened you know everything we tried to heal her with traditional medicine using natural herb but it didn't help at all. madagascar

is hoping to roll out an emergency to dos vaccination program for children the first injection will be free but the booster won't. 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'll have all it needs to vaccinate as routinely as possible or when. 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 will be forced to live with the devastating consequences vinton monahan al-jazeera. take a trip in southern thailand and it won't be long before you travel through a forest of rubber trees thai pharmacy exported more. than anywhere else in the wolves but as global prices for all the suffering and this can't hide the reports

from the southern provinces crabby critics say a government subsidy scheme is too little too late. 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 need to give them a 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 fifty eight

dollars to fifteen hundred square meters of course we've got money you 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 incentive and they don't have. to do it at. they detest doing something that is evil and then get me because you do sing puppet. so well and then you go but the government defends the subsidy program as the only way they can work with the farmers tell me

who got in yet if we 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 plantations 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. 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 would allow nasa to resume launching human space flights from u.s. soil alexy o'brien reports. 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 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 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 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 first nasa is 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 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 you're looking at dragon streaking across the sky it all went smoothly from the captions he told to the parachute system slowing it's full really can't ask for a more picture perfect. shot the. net is counting on spy six and boeing to

start launching astronauts into space this year there's still plenty of training and learning ahead but space six has proved its capsules can make it back to earth in one piece alexia brian al-jazeera everything with francisco diego works of the pop and of physics and astronomy at university college london he says the test flight went without a hitch. so many was really really fantastic mission with no no problems at all very very straightforward with challenging challenging operations specially built them up the docking. to the space station and also the. coming back and the heating in the atmosphere and the deployment of parachutes and finally landing only a couple of hundred miles from the calls 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 goals are fair and give the

green light for astronauts to be launching to the space station another important thing actually if they start to reducible the drug will cut to the use of all they don't want to reuse it exactly if you don't want to be using for test later on this year but to carry astronauts we will see a couple of asteroids 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. it is could tell you with this hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories on al jazeera hundreds of thousands of algerian sustains the largest anti-government demonstrations there nearly thirty years there's been a wave of protest against president on disease beautifully for the past few weeks since he announced that he'd seek a fifth term in office and the rallies for change in algeria have taken place

beyond its borders so that the shows of solidarity in the french capital to crowds who gathered in paris say and not just opposed to president flicker but on serious entire political system. passed back on in parts of that as well as capital of the worst blackout there in decades the outage continues elsewhere with some areas left without electricity now for more than twenty four hours what is a what would you worried first for your own security waiting because when the lights go out the criminals take advantage of the public streets to function there are people in the streets your thirty's are present so you go around with caution and trying to protect yourself and get home and. we don't know any news about anything supermarket when they told us we had to leave the country has practically become a disaster the u.s. backed fighters in syria say that they will resume their assault on iceland's last pocket of territory of no more civilians come out of it by saturday afternoon the

syrian democratic forces have slowed their offensive on by gurus to allow thousands of people to leave the u.n. says that more than sixty thousand people who fled the area and now crammed into a nearby camp. thousands more children separated from their families at the us mexico border could soon be reunited with their parents after a judge expended a reunification ruling initially the judge's order allowed nearly three thousand children to be handed back to their parents but now families who've been separated since july twenty seventh teen will be included. another white house communications director has resigned this one will now work on president onil trump's reelection campaign bill shine is a former fox news executive who joined trump's as trump's staff in july he left the network in twenty seventeen after being criticized for his handling of a sexual harassment a scandal. there's the headlines now inside story. thailand's military government is accused of using repressive bulls to silence critics. but

a new brigade of. thailand's rebel. so on the edge of the sahara is on the brink of disaster because of a surge in fighting involving various groups the u.n. says a humanitarian crisis is unfolding for twenty million people so what's behind this violence and could it spread across west africa this is inside story. hello again i'm james pays became used to be best known for hosting the continent's most prestigious film festival in the capital ouagadougou a lot has changed now it's better known for an increasing amount of violence grew.