what do you mean by get us into going to. hand all these criminal operations from his regime and their truck and pay their prison time in the us there's a lot that the us can do is more our whole issue in our international cooperation from latin america ok eyes iris medina thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera. flight so to come here us that kurdish fighters are pairing for a final push. against. against isis last year in syria and fighting in but booze was posed to a lot more civilians to leave on saturday and i still fly could still be seen in the town aid groups say tens of thousands of fled the area since the start of the offensive by kurdish fighters last month.

now the government in algeria has ordered universities to close early for the spring break as the biggest anti-government protests the nearly thirty years continue all shot on sunday two weeks ahead of schedule no official reason has been given young people have played a big part in demonstrations against president bush of a two year old is seeking a fifth term in office. has covered north africa extensively he says the role of algerian military will be key. as the protest movement gains momentum in algeria the big question is what will be the army's next move the army being the most powerful establishment in algeria that will depend on many factors we'll have to wait and see what happens on the thirtieth of march when the constitutional court will. approve those illegitimate to run for the presidential elections and i think that could ignite more anger in algeria the general sentiment now among many people

the protests the opposition is that the elections should be postponed and vase say that they don't think that the environment could be conducive to and instability in algeria i think of the men term continuous over the coming weeks the army will definitely have to step in now they're cautiously monitoring the situation on the ground and they're looking for that balancing act they don't want to be seen as siding with. and of the same time sounding again as the algerian people that are statements made over the past few days by the. army chief guy backfired here asked b.p. warned people against any acts of instability but for many people this was an act of intimidation trying to tell the people if you decide to continue to protest the

army might interfere so i think they are trying to gauge wish way the wind is going to blow in the coming days in algeria but this is quite a remarkable moment in the modern history of the country has gone through a series of political crises nine hundred sixty five the those who fought for the independence of algeria disagreed about how to move forward and the pave the way for the first military coup in our syria in one thousand nine hundred one the army had to step in and block the political process in a syria to prevent the. islam is from abroad in the country an act which still continues to divide those who say it was a wise decision by the army and those who say that was the moment that has prevented algeria from building a strong vibrant democracy and this explains why you know the army is very cautious about how to move forward but i think if the momentum continues to build against president abdullah as the support of his bid to run fourth fifth it could be the

moment for the army to step in and look for another turnout of well let's bring in william lawrence a professor at george washington university and writes extensively on algeria at the arab center in washington d.c. he joins us from the u.s. capital let's start first with this move by the algerian education ministry to send university students early holidays what's the thinking behind this given that many students have been supporting the protest movement in the first place. well it's a poor decision and it will likely backfire there is about one point seven million university students and a little over six hundred thousand of those live in university housing so the idea was if you close the housing and sent them home maybe their parents were bentham from joining protests but if you know anything about students when there is a mass mobilization of students going on in that campus is literally letting out into the streets students cutting classes and joining protests the likelihood that the parents will be able to prevent the students from joining these the ever

growing protests is very unlikely so in fact one point seven university students were just told you're on vacation we've had more than two million protesters according to a crisis group in the street streets and that is likely to grow yet in friday's protests was the largest ever against beautifully and we're also seeing large protests in cities outside the capital how is the protest movement managing to gather so much more meant someone growth at the moment do you think. well it's certainly not because of political parties or civil society organizations even though there is a group called what the now that we hadn't heard of before that's driving some of the organization but basically what we have in algeria for some years now is a direct action by by protesters towards the state which leads to most political outcomes and so you have thousands of protests every year in algeria at the micro level and then direct response from the state and so this is just that on

a much larger scale and it's being driven by social media it's very youth driven but one of the interesting thing about these protests is that we have slogans from the sixty's from the eighty's from the two thousands two thousand tens it's a real war of the greatest hits of algerian protest over the last sixty years which are bringing together the quasi totality of the population against a fifth mandate for the president and for systemic change the problem is that the crowd is not articulating what its vision is for systemic change which if you could have said he would step down early he's reelected but that's of course hasn't had the demonstrators how tenuous is the president's position politically do you think . very tenuous and what he said on the t.v. through a spokesman and an announcement was that he would step down after one year after a national conference and a new elections if elected so basically the crowds concerned about his health is

being validated saying that he won't last more than a year after being reelected and that's on that only serves to encourage the crowds who who want him out and him to be replaced replaced and basically they're forcing a resolution to the succession crisis which has plagued the algerian regime for six years since his stroke in two thousand and thirteen just a final thought from you william laurance i mean all of this as you say is not helped by rumors surrounding the president's health he's apparently now in switzerland receiving medical treatment is that also helping the protesters i mean beautifully is rarely seen in public and they say look he's too sick to leave the country anyway. i think it confirms what they're saying but it would be the same if he was in algiers by the way the hospital where he's staying in switzerland has gotten fifteen hundred more phone calls per day than usual students ordering out pizza for the president an opposition figure was arrested in the hospital so there's a lot of algerian attention being focused on that hospital but if he was in algeria

they've been focusing on the presidential palace and most of the limited violence we've seen between protesters and security forces have been outside of the presidential palace and that's where we'll can see you to see confrontations but but right now the jury is really don't care where the president is they just want him to step down and those around him to step down as well they won't but they're going to have to agree on a successor to move the political chess pieces forward william lawrence thank you very much indeed for your time not us but kurdish fighters are preparing for a final push against isis last area in syria fighting in bugaboos was pools to allow more civilians to leave on saturday and could still be seen in the town aid groups say tens of thousands of fled the area since the start of the offensive by kurdish fighters last month the head of the un's refugee the agency has been experiencing firsthand what life is like for syrians who fled the fighting for the program visited refugees in lebanon and says the u.n. won't pressure them into returning home. they're worried they're they're fearful of

security they are thinking about their destroyed houses of the lack of jobs in all these are very important human factors that need to be addressed but i think that if we continue to work on the syrian side maybe more people will make this decision in more confidence it is very important you know very well our position that any return be not only safe and dignified but also voluntary that people have to make that decision by themselves and should not be pressured or pushed and i think that continues to be our position but of course for those who return they will be they will be supported by us and we're certainly not as has been said in the past but he's not being said any more we're not blocking any return we would be it would not be our job to do that lawyers in sudan say nine women protesters have been sentenced to twenty lashes and a month in jail for rioting comes

a day of the president omar al bashir ordered the release of all detained of anti-government demonstrations students of continue to protest in the capital khartoum despite a state of emergency they're angry with the government but again in protesters during the last three months of demonstrations. well people traffickers smuggle tens of thousands of africans at with conflicts in some parts of the continent of course trafficking to increase the united nations estimates women make up half of the total who are trafficked those from nigeria often go through mali. government believes that up to twenty thousand of them start to repatriate in some of the victims in january larger as national agency fighting human trafficking recently said many of them were tricked with promises of getting jobs in europe and the sex slaves in mali one woman who escaped told us a story. i mean especially. i had to drive his car

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the center in but temba was targeted hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization the latest outbreak of the virus is still five hundred seventy eight people since august her reports. soldiers drag a suspected attacker through the forest close to the temporary bella center in the democratic republic of congo is one of several men said to have fired shots into the buildings where medical teams have passed linked to contain the spread of rebel after finding myself a reaction i was washing glasses when i heard bullets i wondered what's going on one of our colleagues who was busy burning big garbage began shouting but the attackers were already entering the treatment center from the main entrance. it's less than a week since the but ten percent or reopened after it was attacked in february is said north kivu province source of the republic's latest to beller outbreak. saturday's attack came just hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization or. the.

music. in the. room. with. dozens of on groups are reported to be operating in the eastern congo some are allowed health workers to deliver vaccines and track people infected with a para but others are hostile to outsiders. some aid agencies have criticized the military's response to threats they say intimidation and violence is making it more difficult for medical staff to contain the virus and the number of cases is increasing barbara and out to sara for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back the founder of the notorious u.s. military contractor blackwater admits to al-jazeera that he did meet donald trump's

campaign team but that's not what he told congress why some young men in indian administered kashmir are using violence to voice their discontent. and sports writers struggle to get to grips with conditions that are the first place of a new motor and sees more in that state. once again a similar areas at risk from severe thunderstorms we're talking about mississippi valley but actually strong winds have been spreading from the texas panhandle slowly northeast was this storm develops we got a mixture of snow to the knolls winter warnings rain to the south and this whole lot is moving fairly rapidly isa's that by and read it will be the dangerous when it does ease daytime on sunday is a pretty cloudy picture but the storm risk is more or less gone by this time but

look at the temperatures were fifteen and eighteen in washington this wards tucked up in here and the real cold we brought in from behind is nothing like as cold as it was the pacific coast to coast itself the low not as much quiet and still snow falling in the rockies you'll notice in series of hours to some degree and even l.a. could see some daytime rain come monday by which time still cloudy coonass still eunice in texas down to thirty but new york's above freezing washington still at fourteen as i said the real cold isn't there i think east and counter ontario quebec we're seeing a lot of snow out of that still the caribbean still though breezy quite quiet the cloud is building up against the coast of costa rica and panama we will see more showers here to run his daniella increase the the coming up through columbia as well. 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 was a feudal eastern not a communist or castro wanted his country che wanted international revolution there 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 . the latest news as it breaks hours after the explosions to the point you say the city is safe and the civilians were not targeted. with detailed coverage despite the high cost the right young men are still volunteering to fight this partly out of a sense of prophylactic choosing from around the world it must see it different now and that is a view that being supported by many many people here in the past a republic.

welcome back a quick reminder about top stories here this hour rival demonstrations have been held in the streets of venezuela's capital caracas between supporters of president nicolas maduro opposition leader. this is the country remains without electricity for a third day of the worst blackouts in decades. algiers government has over the closure of universities the largest anti-government protests in decades continue their shot on sunday two weeks ahead of schedule for the spring break student protests to say the move went to target. and u.s. backed fighters in syria say they're about to launch a final offensive against isis. is the law. remaining area under control the kurdish led s.d.s. recently pools the fighting to allow civilians to leave. now erik prince the

founder of the private us security company blackwater has admitted meeting members of the presidential campaign team in august twenty sixth in this is despite him telling congress that he had no connection with the trump team at the time when questioned by mehdi hasan al jazeera as head to head program the blackwater c.e.o. said the public transcripts of the congressional hearing could be wrong. what you didn't tell congress is that on august third twenty sixteen you were at a meeting during the campaign at trump tower with don jr trump son which stephen miller then a campaign advisor to trump with george nader a former blackwater colleague of yours who works as a back channel to the saudis there moralities you're supposed to be convicted paedophile and also joel's imo an israeli expert on social media manipulation how come you didn't mention that meeting to congress given it's so relevant to their investigation. i did as part of the part of the investigations i certainly disclosed in the any meetings the very very not you i don't mean the congressional

testimony you gave to the house we went through it you didn't mention anything about august twenty sixth meeting in trump tower they specifically asked you what context you have and you didn't answer that. i don't believe i was asked that question you asked whether any communique from all communications of contact with the campaign you said apart from writing papers putting up yard signs no what you said i've got the transcript of the conversation here. i might have been i think it was at trump headquarters or the campaign headquarters. twenty sixteen years ago and is really due to a back channel to the emirate in the saudis don't jr and even miller were there to talk about iran policy little iran policy something important to disclose to the house intelligence committee while you're under oath you did you didn't we just went through the testimony there's no mention of the trump tower meeting notice twenty sixteen why not. i don't know if they got the transcript wrong. or they got the transcript wrong so we could i don't know i remember i remember certainly does dismiss is that we didn't get you because we know that robert muller he hasn't been

able to establish collusion it but he has got a lot of guys for lying to the authorities and not telling the whole truth is that a problem now even if you accidentally didn't tell them that could come back and haunt you fully cooperated i haven't heard anybody i haven't heard from anybody in more than nine months i mean i mean members of congress after they discover this media have talked about certain witnesses not telling the truth but you believe you told congress about this meeting even if no in the transcript just to be clear i believe so. you have a chance he has more now from washington d.c. . members of congress had already said they were dissatisfied with erik prince's testimony last year to a congressional committee this obviously isn't going to help it is quite striking that he didn't have a better answer prepared because this has been rumbling away since last may when the new york times wrote the story about this meeting which the new york times said erik prince himself organized and which subsequently donald trump jr's own lawyer

confirmed erik prince after meeting with several of those one acting apparently as an emissary for the saudis and the u.a.e. according to the new york times the other fascinating part of this is when prince was pressed he said that he was there to discuss iran and that's interesting because the new york times account said the discussions were mainly based around a social media campaign perhaps in order to help the trump campaign and general discussion about the saudis and the amaranth he's hoping the trump campaign which incidentally would be illegal but not about iran but and we know that later on in the the lebanese american businessman who was at that meeting was touting a plan to economically sabotage iran using private mercenaries so the public is definitely thick thickening we don't know whether anything illegal was happening at this meeting whether this was just the normal not normal gray area of foreign lobbying and illegality which is quite common but certainly certainly this is terribly interesting and will be interesting for congressional committees i'm sure

. you can see that interview with erik prince on the head to head with a one hundred g.m.t. on sunday it's also online at al-jazeera dot com. now satellite images released in the u.s. by the news outlet n.p.r. suggest that north korea could be preparing for a new missile launch increased activity at the site near pyongyang comes two weeks off talks between need a loon and president donald trump ended without a deal kim had stopped missile launches as relations between the two countries improved these latest reports come just days out the different satellite images and those new should have started rebuilding a rocket launch site. well time will tell but i have a feeling that our relationship with good career came to myself chairman kim i think it's a very good one i think it remains good i would be. surprised in a negative way if we did anything that was. not per our understanding but we'll see

what happens look when i came in. under the obama administration north korea was a disaster i inherited a mess with north korea right now you have no testing you know nothing let's see what happens but i would be very disappointed if i saw it. but i didn't foster caught as a senior research fellow at leeds university he says north korea will be well aware its reconstruction is under surveillance. there is no definite evidence but the north koreas it is depressing that the north koreans are presumably to show that they are not happy about the way the hummer summit and agreements are back to the old game of cason marci keeping us guessing so they know perfectly well now that satellites overhead all the time and take for graphs that shoot everything and so they obviously they want us to see some stuff that makes us worry that they're going to do things this doesn't necessarily mean they are going to do those things

it doesn't rule out they'll do them so here they think the north koreans tolerate what they say and do very carefully on like the current us president was tempted to say so i'm not to our media but it was a little bit on these. with another crucial brigs that vote on tuesday millions of u.k. citizens and other european countries abound to be watching closely portugal is one of the most attractive destinations for britons working abroad and as long as the report someone has been uncertainty over the u.k.'s exit from the block has begun to take its toll on business. one of the myths about british people in europe is that they like to live in places like portugal so they can get a round of golf in before moving on to chin by lunch time but very many more move to places like this for work we brought this group together they all have different questions they cannot get answers to me and many many other people across the years the same concern. about health care will that continue of three people wanting to

move between countries and this whole perks of. not knowing. whether i'm going to be able to take people's goods between countries having ready by businesses running. and. a large chunk of the forty percent of our market which is currently a bridge from a. residence in five people are going to be able to come across here and see the value of the pound and what's going to happen there is in speculation so we're not really sure the moon will many but. what's going to happen more than twenty percent of all people who fly it's a portugal the british such is the love affair with the place so it's hardly surprising the portuguese government has raised the possibility of special lanes at passport control the british tourists so they continue to come after all would be a massive density economy if the golf courses were half empty. like other european

countries portugal is trying to ensure the rights of british citizens who want to live in their country as well as simply visiting but that only works if portuguese citizens in britain have the same rights and that is still not guaranteed we decide that we're going to give all these rights to the u.k. citizens resident in portugal in the expectation that there will be resupply city so all the contingency measures that are being taken that the you level are in the lateral master. unilateral measures they are temporary measures and we hope this will be sorted out soon will. i would have a real answer for that british consular officials in portugal are accused of being vague in their advice to u.k. citizens living here nobody was made available to speak to us but you can reasonably suggest it's hardly their fault the repeated complaint from british

people who live and work in continental europe is that the british government is making it their responsibility to find out what their rights should be after the u.k. leaves the european union has just three weeks to go now until that's supposed to happen as with so many other things it all smacks of complete uncertainty largely al-jazeera in lisbon. protesters have been out on the streets of paris for the seventeenth successive weekend and this time it was women leading the march they've been calling for equal treatment just a day after international women's day the protests were mostly peaceful but the number of those taking part fell to its lowest level since demonstrations first began in late november as anger the president micron's economic policies which professors say favor the rich they follow when the women are in the front line of the demonstration because there is no democracy without women's rights there are no women's rights without democracy we are essential to the proper functioning of

society. people do not want more of this financial globalisation french people will not go back they do not want to go back between ten to fifteen million french you're in misery even in a survival state so we don't know where we're heading to but we won't go backwards that's for sure al-jazeera has spoken to the family of the kashmiri bomber who killed forty indian soldiers last month the parents of adult dogs as he was injured by police or a protest before he decided to join them group residents say many young men have had similar experiences as jamil reports. among the trees in fields of this village an indian administered kashmir is the home of a suicide bomber dar was responsible for driving a car full of explosives that killed forty indian paramilitary troops last month sparking a conflict between india and pakistan. his parents have confine themselves to their home since then praying and clutching to memories of their son trying to figure out how their cricket loving boy became

a suicide bomber. he was very good at studies he was reciting the koran reading prayers used to go to the shrines and stay in mosques dar says his son was shot during a protest in twenty sixteen and had to leave college because of it. other young men say these incidents are common and breed resentment this nineteen year old college student who won't reveal his name says he's been penalize for joining protests three years ago and his house raided over a dozen times he says he's fed up with the situation. i used to take part in protests and i was tortured a few times i stopped then again i was harassed on my mother and father. i can't on . human rights activists in the region fear young kids are being pushed into joining armed groups because violence is a vicious cycle if government of india promotes that of violence it's not going to bed but it will be. so government of india has actually created the space for

the militants. it's not just young men and armed groups that have lost their lives civilians and many in the security forces have been killed in the violence in indian administered kashmir some of the soldiers are named here and india's new war memorial military officials on the ground in kashmir say it's a misinformation campaign by armed groups that the blame for some of the violence. the region's military commander has lashed out at what he says is a descent from ation campaign we want you meant as propaganda and even can't say anything without any proof i would like to tell again people of kashmir don't fall victim to this propaganda. as fighting between armed groups and indian forces continue as does the intermittent shelling between india and pakistan. say they are caught in the middle with few options in front of them the worry is the next generation may also get dragged into the conflict as jamil al-jazeera you delhi.

but on a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back barely scraping by one industry in thailand is struggling with falling prices and the u.s. trade war with china and the sport what always pays to look before you leap about story in just a few minutes more on that stings. your man killed a mother in some way to an appointment sadly the insurgents don't wear uniforms also. with the was the american people matthew has an old american prince to account trump tower twenty sixteen how come you didn't mention not meeting to congress and i did i don't know if i got the transcript wrong. i don't think you're that sharp but you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy all you need in your head to head. isn't the problem for your

candidate that he may not have a health question mark over it but he does have a corruption question mark or really doesn't look good for the image to get a ticket not going to do any will knowing about it what are you saying you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.n. across the globe that is called for and then breaks doesn't build confidence a great spoke to join me from my guests from around the world and we debate the week's top stories and think issues here on al-jazeera. welcome back now rights groups are criticizing the u.s. for storing a database of journalists who cover the migrant caravan from central america.