a dialogue is not going to be the solution there are 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 tried in the courts up 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. when we come back on and easy to another attack on an ebola treatment center in the democratic republic of congo. and found a u.s. security contractor tells agassi a he did meet with donald trump's campaign but that's not what he told congress.

fellows a lot of rain and snow you sure are to rob a moment under these this developing storm system is going to head in this general direction go through iran towards afghanistan nothing like as vicious as the last one but it will bring rain and snow progressive leaser afghanistan pakistan that move for the northwest leaving behind it caught with a city in tehran a bit of a breeze developing for the event down towards the gulf you'll notice for the consistent directions were more or less north northwesterly to study hard teens the most part going to be warm and sunny here in northern syria and in turkey slightly better in baghdad as well the breeze already picked up down through the gulf is not swelling gotta stop particular dusty the moment it could become sars injuring sunday nekesa chamish is rather

a low to middle twenty's the converse breeze means it's too hot or getting hotter i suppose on the western side as middle thirty's for mecca a lighter breeze come monday so slight lifting temperatures. now we've been talking about the significant rain that has caused a lot of flooding in malawi well the thing that caused it is now here over the water is developing tropical cycle re there for a couple of days producing strong winds and huge amounts of rain largely from madagascar. jewing sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians instead some turned on the population in plain sight of a journalist's camera this is a name to. disagree peacekeeping force believes the problem complete eighteen his own using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for

those slaughtered by their guardians of peace killers on al-jazeera. again you're watching the idols here a reminder of our top stories this hour rival demonstrations have been held on the streets of venezuela's capital caracas for and against president nicolas maduro parts of the country are still without electricity for a third day in one of the worst blackouts and death. algeria the government has ordered the closure of universities as the largest protests in decades continue all shot on sunday two weeks ahead of schedule for the spring break student

protests to say the move will not deter the. u.s. backed fighters in syria say they are about to launch a final offensive against isis. is the last area under isis control kurdish led s.d.f. recently was fighting to allow civilians to leave. for the third time in a month and a bone a treatment center has been attacked in eastern democratic republic of congo the center in tambo was targeted hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization the latest outbreak of the virus has killed five hundred seventy eight people since august barbara angle part 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 battling to contain the spread of it after

finding myself a karaoke bar i was washing glasses when i heard bullets i wondered what's going on one of our colleagues who was busy burning the 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 beller outbreak saturday's attack came just hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization. dozens of on groups are reported to be operating in the eastern congo some allow health workers to deliver vaccines and track people infected with the 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. north korea could be preparing for a new ballistic missile launch u.s. satellite images suggest increased activity of this the test site near pyongyang a second round of talks between a leader kim jong un and president donald trump ended without an agreement last month kim had stopped missile launches as relations big. i mean the two countries improved. well time will tell but i have a feeling that our relationship with north korea kim jong un and myself chairman i think it's a very good one i think it remains good i would be. surprised in

a negative way if he did anything that was. not for 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 right down you have no testing you know nothing let's see what happens but i would be very disappointed if i saw. the demonstrations marking sixty years since tibetans rose up against chinese rule will take place around the world but not in tibet china has put restrictions on tourists and journalists who want to visit the area critics say it is another sign that china is repressing the rights of tibetans rob matheson reports 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 that demonstrations have been held around the world in support of tibetan independence eternal case and for many see any verse free at timothy's represent the anger and the sentiment not that it happens again six decades of political suppression. they have been denying they have religious cultural and language right china has placed restrictions on foreigners including journalists visitors to bet 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

a chinese perspective they don't look on for they don't see that foreigners are necessarily bringing gifts. regarded as something that is only means trouble and probably 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 what we're seeing now is this a different kind of repression. making short friends can't communicate we feature for comp protest this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of tibet may stay quiet what amounts for tibetan independence are heard around the world rob matheson al-jazeera. a 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 began in late november there's anger of president emanuel arm across a comic policies which protests to say favor the rich in serbia thousands of demonstrators have rallied against the state broadcaster protesters surrounded the headquarters of r.t.s. in the capital belgrade demanding greater press freedom many accuse the station of bias reporting art or directions from the government it is the third straight month of rallies against the policies of president alexander. a millions of british citizens in other european countries will be watching tuesday's crucial briggs's vote closely many of them live in portugal which is one of the most favored destinations for britons working abroad and as lawrence li reports from lisbon they are worried as uncertainty looms over the u.k.'s future in the bloc

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 june by lunchtime but very many more move to places like this for work as we brought this group together they all have different questions they cannot get on says to me and many many other people can see you it's the same concern. about health care will that continue obviously with the all people wanting to move between countries and this whole process. not knowing. whether i'm going to be able to take people's goods between countries having ready by businesses running rental apartments and my concern is that we. a large chunk of the forty percent of our market which is currently a bridge from a bricks in residence in how people are going to be able to come across here to see

the value of the pound and what's going to happen there is speculation so we're not really sure the moon will many but home 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 it 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 pretty 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

a lateral massive. 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 he repeated complaint from british people who live and work in continental europe is the british government is making 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 supposed to happen as with so many other things it all smacks of complete uncertainty largely al-jazeera in lisbon a plane has crashed is central columbia killing all twelve people on board it

happened near the town of very sense you know in the province of mecca civil aviation officials say the pilot made a distress call reporting technical problems midway through the flight contact was then lost and the plane went down shortly after. and dozens of passengers on a flight to new york have been injured by severe turbulence over the atlantic ocean turkish airlines flight from its them flew into bad weather shortly before making a safe landing at j.f.k. airport most of the injured suffered minor bumps and bruises erik prince the founder of the private us security company blackwater has admitted to meeting members of the trump presidential campaign in orcus twenty sixteen this is despite him telling congress that he had no connection with trump's team at the time when questioned by many has said on 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 that on august third twenty sixteen you were at a meeting during the campaign at trump tower with don junior 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 minorities you're supposed to be a 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 not you i don't in the congressional testimony you go 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 them. i don't believe i was asked that question you asked whether any communique from communications or 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. sure i mean i might have been i think i was at trump headquarters or the campaign headquarters probably

twenty sixteen usable an israeli dude a back channel to the emirates in the saudis down in judea and even militant were there to talk about iran policy through that about iran policy do you think that's 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 because twenty sixteen were 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. she had pretends he has more on this from washington. 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 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 almost certainly the lebanese american businessman who was out meeting was touting a plan to economically sabotage iran using private mercenaries so the public is definitely think 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 of the bodies of two european climbers have been found in northern pakistan get that region nearly two weeks after the pair went missing they were attempting a route that has never been successfully completed tensions between pakistan and india over the kashmir region delayed to say as pakistan's space was partially closed.

this is going to round up now at the top stories rival demonstrations have been held on the streets of venezuela's capital caracas between supporters of president nicolas maduro an opposition leader why does to protest took place just blocks away from each other parts of the country remain without electricity for a third day in one of the worst blackouts in decades president maduro called why does a us puppet. we have defeated who they tried illegitimately to turn a person into a president and now today it is obvious to the world he's not a president not anything he's a clown and the puppet delinquent citizen. is calling for more protests. you said it before the regime wants to wear us out wants to wear us out brothers and sisters and yes the road has been very long the

road has worn us out but we will never tire in the search for freedom and we will stay in the streets. student leaders in algeria say the government's move to alter the early closure of universities will not deter the young protesters have been leading some of the biggest demonstrations in decades colleges will shut on sunday two weeks ahead of. the spring break us back fighters in syria say they are about to launch a final offensive against eisel but whose is the last remaining area under its control of the kurdish led s.t.'s recently pause fighting to allow civilians to leave. satellite images released in the united states by the news outlet n.p.r. suggest north korea could make a pairing for a new missile launch the pictures showing creased activity at the site nape young yang a second round of talks between the leader kim jong un and us president donald trump

ended without an agreement last month. those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now its people and. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the palace account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean it really did as he was shedding light on the roumanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption the remaining people on al-jazeera. almost two decades ago were in sierra leone was in the grip of civil war troops

from large area were deployed to protect civilians but instead some of the peacekeepers turned on those they were meant to save. atrocities captured on camera by journalists or some more now that harrowing footage is central to an extraordinary legal campaign to get justice for the victims. sierra leone west africa. in one thousand nine hundred eight in one thousand nine hundred nine nigerian peacekeepers murdered raped and

tortured sierra leonean civilians. and got away with it. all. this footage of the nigerian peacekeeping everybody up but it was filmed by a local cameraman sorious samura unbroke cost around the world seventeen years ago in a documentary called cry freetown. there was a silent majority sophie. the nigerians have been invited to protect civilians by the sierra leonean government which was embroiled in a brutal civil war against rebel positions but instead of being protected as many became butchers. after the end of the conflict in two thousand and two a united nations funded tribunals established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the civil war. but the nigerian crimes were ignored brushed under the carpet

of history. after eighteen years of silence a team of international lawyers is reopening the case. file a story of saddam i believe this case representing victims that have suffered so much the case is being conducted by myself a lot of getting drought of malaysia my brother abraham. from sierra leone where do you take a separate photo to do something for the victims. that came in to protect. in q. one has seen in the united nations allegations of abuse. underline those little.

cases today five of those cases. video evidence. we have. been. given nineteen years no international mechanism has even attempted to. today this morning a case it's a request for us to put in place investigation and accountability mechanisms we know there's a different government. a different nigeria is there a way. i have every confidence that. may be possible.

let me mansour a he was five years old when the nigerian peacekeepers otherwise known as echo came to his area being able to see their everybody. and for all the kids from the community in moore. or my studio. you don't leave me one and me to you my sister. will be dealing with my mind. soon one boy will be ninety minutes from. the city boy are you giving. me. and him or me you will see this morning it's in the in. the morning going to be done would be on my sisters and. i'm not time of the motions me more me mommy daddy and it was your. sister as.

soon as she said no they said no to. me mommy you know who is singing a song. you skipped it's me going out on mom so we. all need to be a commodity and she when she gets you into all my system. obsoletes know. and it's about single dads i live. among anymore anybody alive what was your mom got. on my system. you only feel sad about us again. in december one thousand nine hundred eight as the civil war raged in the provinces

there were rumors of an imminent rebel attack on the nation's capital freetown. sorious samura was a local cameraman living in the city for us we were living in the city we were just even in pump and in fear of the peacekeepers. the ones who were different in. that time. it was on the morning of those six stop general area nine hundred ninety nine a friend of mine called on the phone and said the rebels are here i took the camera and from the window i started fimian the rebels. i just thought what was happening in my country needed to be seen it needed to be framed so i made a decision to step out. those nine ten is what i feel what i saw what i witnessed and printer nobody. nobody.

sees it in their own people. the peacekeepers fills the block complete ok i think about it it is these is meant to be. the supreme peacekeeping force. here i was now with the camera. team. that martinez i was too confused i was just. long. it would be all sixteen year. me. if i'm in for speaking. so the answer and in solving the.

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and it all yeah these intercepts soldiers he paid a dear price at the hands of peacekeepers. the special called for sierra leone was established in two thousand and two to prosecute those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the war. sharma hendra was one of the prosecutors at the court and is now the driving force behind the renewed effort to seek justice a special court didn't have to stick. nigerian troops we had video evidence. the whole world has seen what has happened. and probably the easiest cases to prosecute and we did it was just up to pete's science.