what its vision is for systemic change 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 crowd's concern 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 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 and 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'd be 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 continue to see confrontations but but right now the 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. to come on the news hour including a roadblock for codas fighters with power in for a final push. in syria. was . abused rejected humiliated me to nigerian human trafficking victim and in sport we'll hear from the football coach who's fighting for his future one of europe's biggest clubs us all still to come.

now u.s. banks kurdish fighters are preparing for a final push against isis last year in syria fighting back was paused to allow more civilians to leave on saturday and i saw a flag could still be seen in the town a group 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 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. they're worried they're they're fearful of security they are thinking about their destroyed houses of their 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 work at nasa yassin says security is the main issue preventing syrians from returning home. they're thinking about going home. most of them want to go back to their home around seventy percent of the syrians in the region and countries around syria hosting the refugees around five point six million of them are hosted in the neighboring countries of syria want to go back eighty eight percent of those and lebanon want to go back but they cannot go back at the moment when we ask them about their you know ability to move

in the next six months or a year this percentage drop significantly and for valid reasons things are not yet clear when comes to ensuring security back home thirty percent of the housing stock is destroyed the economy is in very dire situation in syria the syrian pound has lost eight hundred percent of its value so there's a lot of question marks that are being asked by the syrians in the region at the moment in the countries hosting them but they clearly the security question that needs to be you know sort and they they need to make do get assurances that when they go back home they're not going to get into the gate or maybe get checked or maybe taken into the prison. thousands of palestinians attended the funeral of a guardsman for just killed by israeli forces twenty three year old was shot in the

head at the weekly great march of the term demonstrations. israeli forces have killed one hundred eighty three dozen chester's in the last year in that war crimes may have been committed. lawyers and saddam hussein not a woman protesters have been sentenced to twenty lashes and a month in jail for rioting comes a day after president bashir ordered the release of all women detained to government demonstrations students of continued to protest in the capital khartoum despite a state of emergency around agree with the government for detaining protesters during the last three months of demonstrations officials say thirty one people have died human rights watch has put the death toll at fifty one even more than those moves in khartoum. following the directives of president armitage bashir thirty eight women have been released from prison according to the da for lawyers association now let's remember we don't know how many women have been arrested in the first place the government has not given a clear figure to how many women were detained since the protests started more than

eleven weeks ago in fact the government hasn't given a clear figure to how many people both male and female were arrested but what we do know is that thirty eight women so far have been released that number does not include the women who have been sentenced to jail for their participation in trials and that number does not also include the women who are pending charges because of their participation in protest over the past few weeks now again we don't know how many women were arrested in the first place but activists say that the number could go as high as one hundred fifty women who have been arrested we've spoken to family members over the past few weeks and they have expressed concerns about the well being of their female relatives who have been detained some of them tweeted out on social media and on facebook that they are very relieved to have their family members back and that they are very happy to know that they are doing well and that they will be taking them for basically medical check up to make sure that everything is ok with them but again this is not mean the end of the process the president has. he said that he wants dialogue and this could be part of his initiative to try to show the protesters and the demonstrators that he's trying to

pave way for a dialogue but people are saying that they don't want any talks with them we have spoken to many demonstrators over the past few weeks and they say that is not going to be the solution their calls for more protests tomorrow and in the coming weeks and they say they will not stop until the government steps down something the president said he's not going to do and he's already announced the state of emergency that is set to last for a year and most of the people who've been arrested over the past couple of weeks have been charged have been charged and pride in our courts in something called emergency courts which were set up to make sure that the people who've been protesting have basically are being charged and due process takes its course so it's not clear how long this will go and where it will end but at the moment we have protesters and demonstrators will very determined to continue until the president steps down and we have a president and a government that seems to be very defiant and not willing to step down until elections come next year people traffickers smuggle tens of thousands of africans every year an armed conflicts in some parts of the continent of course trafficking to increase the u.n.

estimates women make up half of the total who are trafficked those from nigeria often go through mali the nigerian government believes there's up to twenty thousand of them and start to repent treating some in january nigeria's national agency fighting human trafficking recently said many of them were tricked with promises of getting jobs in europe but ended up as sex slaves in mali one woman who escaped told us her story. i misplaced trash and. i had to drive is. almost bankrupt regarding screwball last fall you know it's as. good montreal safe and makes me reply from. some really neat thing that's results and. there are so many clear they are really smart smart guy gal very very very smart say outright that if you or she has the guts to walk the talk to his posters and stand with the solo school and not long before. the crowd from its

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if they even say which remind you of paying our lead to multi-cell follow us or fuck up like you. smell anything if you truly want to sit in peace if you do mother want to remove from the small no point in its path. well mikael bumpass is from the international organization for migration he says human trafficking along migration routes is common i'm not. i'm a percent confident about these numbers still wouldn't bet against and they mark this phenomena but what is sure about the serious crime and gratian between mali and then judea is that the phenomenon is there and it acquires an immediate reaction it's quite common in the region that a given them a bit of a bucket just averaged sometimes based on the capacity our. criminal network

to appeal and to attract migrants looking poor job opportunities and once these are sparking out established the level of another bit of migrants especially once they leave their protection network increase exponentially and leads makes extremely easy for these networks to exploit them it's clearly something extremely dark and difficult to accept that in the country first century we still have to listen to these kind of study that people are up to work all these kind of experience really its. resources are limited and neat that a huge but he doesn't mean that. i don't like many others who are actually in charge of taking care of these. authorities who would never be. addressed this phenomena and this is health minister has resigned after the sudden death of a neven babies in hospital they died in tunis between thursday and friday the

ministry says early indications suggest the babies were killed by a black. now for the third time in a month on a boat a treatment center has been attacked in eastern democratic republic of congo the center in but it was targeted hours before this it by the head of the world health organization the latest outbreak of the virus has killed five hundred seventy eight people since august or bungled marbles. soldiers dragged 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 battling to contain the spread of it are very very much that they actually thought i was washing glasses when i heard bullets i wondered what's going on one of our colleagues who was busy burning been garbage began shouting but the attackers were already entering the treatment center from the main entrance. it's less than a week since the potential center 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. the. who. is slated to be. dozens of on groups are reported to be operating in the eastern congo some allowed health workers to deliver vaccines and track people infected with bella 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 sarah environmentalist in northeast kenny are campaigning against a major construction project which they say is taking place on stolen land but the government's accused activists of standing in the way of progress even labeling some opponents terrorists so in basra the reports. kenya's leaders say it's east africa's most ambitious infrastructure project. the level port and lemuel southern sudan ethiopia transport corridor or lap set is worth an estimated twenty four point five billion dollars. it includes the construction of a deep water port highways oil pipelines railways airports and even three luxury resorts. port will be the main hub connecting kenya ethiopia and south sudan to the indian ocean and to the world. and. to me. because. this. is.

not country. work started in two thousand and thirteen when it's finished it's hoped the port will become a major source of revenue. but not everyone is happy with the project activists say it will damage the environment and the government is not properly compensating people for their land leaving indigenous communities to pay the price for kenya's progress that i say that we have. if the government wants to solve them. only twenty seconds. for years lamas people relied on fishing and tourism to earn a living the port means a major shift and instead of speaking to them community leaders say the government is steamrolling them the kenyan leaders say the lab said project is being done by the book and accuse activists of working against the national interest and in some cases even labeling them as terrorists a recent human rights watch report said people campaigning against the project

faced intimidation beatings arbitrary arrests and detentions. one longtime activist turned politician said in kenya government suppression is nothing new and the government is the terrorists it's not the people it's the government. has been left behind because of development there's no development there no roads there no public health facilities there is zero government involvement in the ground and now in this project is not going to. improve the lives of people it's going to affect them there's going to be pollution it's going to affect fishing it's going to affect tourism it's going to affect every facet of their life. projects like level port are central to president kenyatta as development agenda he's promised all kenyans that things will get better in twenty nineteen but in lumber the pace of progress may mean some kenyans get left behind. nairobi. right here al jazeera when we come back blackwater found erik prince admits to al-jazeera that he did

meet donald trump's campaign team but that's not what he told congress. with briggs it coming up britain's living abroad wonder what it will mean for them. and support right a struggle to get to grips with conditions head of the first place of the new moto g.p. and seized on that stings. hell are the rains a little early but it seems to be fairly persistence or china vast amounts of cloud riggin that direction really where the rain is going with feeding in warms from the south and the cold relatively speaking countries and also by injuries where the rain is developing for jan and granddaughter particular including hong kong

shanghai looks fine if not the yangtze valley is fine back to junk do with temperatures in the high teens if you're lucky with the exception of shanghai where used to go at the northerly now the rain is sort of creeping offshore for time may just about leave you in hong kong with a dry evening on monday temps just say much the same inland as far as normally breeze for the course it will feel different in the sky should be launched the blue then is a bit of a gap which we've been seeing now for weeks really for the philippines most of southeast asia has docked securely share the concentration of heavy rain apart from these dotted showers around driver is far east west pop here for example some parts of sort of where you see that circulation there you'll notice she's drifting slowly south towards australia taking all the energy with it so far from a scattering of born every borneo an increasing cloud in the philippines so much dr picture than you might expect so it may be in singapore. that wasn't sponsored by cattle ringlets. isn't the problem for your candidate that you may not

have a health question program but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the news business a pickle not going to do it he will probably not knowing about it what are you saying he will you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the un across the globe cease fire that is called for and then breaks doesn't build confidence it breaks will join me mad the hot sun on our front and my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and think issues here on al-jazeera. right.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera rival demonstrations have been held on the streets of venezuela's capital between supporters of president maduro and opposition leader. parts of the country that remain without electricity for. one of the worst blackouts in decades. government has over the closure of universities is the largest anti-government protests in decades continue. on sunday two weeks ahead of schedule for the spring break to protest to set the mood one to . us but fighters in syria say they're about to launch a final offensive against isis. is the last remaining area of the isis controlled

kurdish led recently post fighting to allow civilians to leave. now erik prince the founder of the private us security company blackwater has admitted to meeting members of the trump presidential campaign in august twenty sixth in despite him telling congress that he had no connection with trump's team at the time when questioned by al-jazeera as head to head program the former blackwater c.e.o. said the public transcripts of the congressional hearing could be wrong what you didn't tell congress is 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 acts as a back channel to the saudis 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 so relevant to their investigation. i did

as part of the part of the investigations i certainly disclosed in the ne meetings the very very new i don't in the congressional testimony you gave to the house we went through 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 community for communications or contact with the campaign you said apart from writing papers putting up yard signs know 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 usable and is really due to a back channel to the emirates even the saudis down in judea and even militant were there to talk about iran policy through that about iran policy i think that's something important to disclose to the house intelligence committee while you're under oath did you didn't we just went through the testimony there's no mention of the trump tower me to 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. jabotinsky 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 is been rumbling away since last may when the new york times broke 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 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 almost certainly 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 satellite images released in the us by the news outlets 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 of the talks between leader kim jong moon and president trump ended without an agreement kim had stopped missile launches as relations between the two countries improved its latest reports come just days after a different satellite images allegedly showed pyongyang had started rebuilding a rocket sites. well time will tell but i have a feeling that our relationship with north korea kim jong un and 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 her our understanding but we'll see what happens but when i came in. under the obama administration north korea was

a disaster i inherited a mess with north korea had right down you have no testing you have no nothing let's see what happens but i would be very disappointed if i saw a test laden fausta caught as a senior research fellow at leeds university he says north korea will be well aware of its reconstruction is under surveillance there is no definite evidence but the north korea's it is depressing that the north koreans presumably to show that they are not happy about the way the homeowner summit ended or no agreement are back to the old game of casa mousy keeping us guessing so they know perfectly well now that satellites move ahead all the time and take further graphs but 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 all get to do those things it doesn't rule out they'll do them so you know they take the north koreans tolerate what they say and do very catholic unlike the current us president was tempted to

say so i'm not to our media but that was a little bit on the easy not in sixty years since tibetans rose up against chinese rule the demonstrations on sunday mocking the event on to expected to be held in tibet and china has put restrictions on tourists and journalists who want to visit the country critics say it's another sign that china is repressing the rights of tibetans is romanticism. on march tenth one thousand nine hundred fifty nine chinese soldiers poured into tibet china says it was liberating the himalayan country it had ruled since one nine hundred fifty one but it was also suppressing protests against chinese authority which had grown and were becoming more violent tens of thousands of tibetans were reported to have been killed monasteries were destroyed tibet's spiritual leader the dalai lama was forced into exile in india where he remains every march tenth since then demonstrations have been held around

the world in support of tibetan independence eternal case and for many he any verse three at timothy's represent the anger and the sentiment of if it happens again six decades of political suppression. they have been denying religious cultural and language right china has placed restrictions on foreigners including journalists visiting to bat when you go back to those you know six years ago the cia was actually involved in training people radio operatives who were dropped back into tibet to kind of stir up trouble so from the chinese perspective they don't look on or they don't see that foreigners are necessarily bringing gifts. regarded as something that is only means trouble and. more headaches for beijing. china says it's held sovereignty over tibet for centuries it describes the dalai

lama as a separatist supporters of the dalai lama say he doesn't want independence just more autonomy for tibet and what we're seeing now is this a different kind of repression. making short friends can't communicate with the traffic cop protest this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of tibet may stay quiet. well demands for tibetan independence are heard around the world rob matheson al-jazeera so-called calvary is continue to operate in india despite a supreme court order of police to crack down on them a recent report says forty four people have been lynched to the accusations of smuggling or slaughtering activists say the government has downplayed the attacks as reports from. that. this is one of several viral video showing violence by so called how vigilant is in the idea. self-appointed guardians of cows which are sacred to hindus claim they're being

illegally slaughtered they're not afraid he used violence to stop that. for every victim there's also a family behind. the son and i ask her if she was killed in two thousand and fifteen along with two other young men from this village less than fifty kilometers from new delhi. how can anyone who's lost their son live in peace we are devastated his father has been suffering from mental tension all of us are stressed no but it's meant was given to the perpetrators no attention was paid to us. a human rights watch report states that eight lynching cases they studied involve victims who are considered lower caste hindus the vast majority of those killed however were muslims the victims come from world in poor areas like this not always far from me the city lynching such as these were known to take place in the us but they were rare now thirty six cases have been reported since twenty fifth be some

activists saying the real number much higher. in september twenty thousand india supreme court ordered central state governments to take what it called preventative in punitive measures to stop such attacks after most states failed to comply with its previous directive. this social rights worker spent a year and a half documenting cases of so-called calvin trillin theism while there have been convictions including that of eleven men in march last year she says the problem persists the numbers on the ground unlikely to be even higher and what we are what we need to look at is not just people who have died from the lynchings but the spate of attacks on people. various calvin operate across the country looking for those they believe are slaughtering cows.

but on every count protection group advocates violence. the head of this cow shelter says he understands why some groups are violent. look at the reason behind . protection because they are to be saved guarding an important thing the government is negligent do not provoke us. with the victims' families added to their losses the sense of abandonment by their government left to feel as just another statistic on a growing list as jimmy l. al-jazeera does not with the british. start of a short break when i come back we'll have all the sports why it always pays to look before you leap into that story and just a few small that stands. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis

wedo as illegally maigret joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have devoted our nation what has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as it. is in our religion this is the politics me and mine an unholy alliance coming soon on al-jazeera. jewing sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians instead some turned on the population in plain sight of a journalist camera this is a name to be where the supreme peacekeeping force to launch the product complete a cheney's own using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for those slaughtered by their guardians of peace kilis on al-jazeera.