two weeks before spring break is due to start the youth are playing a leading role in the biggest protests in nearly thirty years that urging eighty two year old bush if we can not to run for a fifth term now william long is a professor at george washington university and he believes the government's closure of universities is counterproductive. 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 to the idea was if you close the housing and sent them home maybe their parents prevent them from joining protests but if you know anything about students when there is a mass mobilization of students going on in the campuses 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

crisis group in the streets and that is likely to grow 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 shock mortgage bourg of the greatest hits of algerian protest over the last sixty years which are bringing together the quasi totality of the german 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 knowledge ariens living abroad are watching events back on closely more than four million people of

algerian frons and that to this impasse have been speaking to all cost. singer abdellatif lau fee was born in algeria but he's lived in france for fifty years he's music draws on the sounds of the sahara region where he grew up. despite decades in france abdellatif passionate about how geria he's closely following and supporting the protests there that call for abdelaziz bouteflika to give up his bid for a fifth presidential term so it's amazing because a glorious have seen what happened in the arab world the yellow best seen france what's happening in venice well i'm personally i've been emotional transported i want to go here we were all asking why don't we go in the streets and now finally we are in the streets all together france is home to the biggest algerian origin population abroad estimated at more than four million people thousands of algerians

in france have demonstrated in cities like paris and mass a in a show of solidarity with a compadre it's many of the protestors are you know there's no phones on the algerians living in france have very strong links with their country many left long ago disappointed and wanted to reinvent themselves others came to work and study one day we hope to go home to a new democratic algeria that gives people a future paris now genes have a close but difficult relationship one way down by history algeria was colonized by the french for more than one hundred thirty years it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty two after an eighty year war today france is one of algeria's main trading partners the french government has taken a very cautious approach to the situation in algeria the french foreign minister says that paris is of course watching events very closely but the future of algeria can say this is not hands of its people. argyria is

a sovereign country and it's up to the algerian people and them alone to choose their leaders and their future. some say the french government is quietly concerned over further instability in north africa algeria borders libya a major route for people and arms smuggling to europe of dillard's he says such fears are unfounded he says that algeria is turbulent past means many people like him a wary of chaos what they hope for he says is a peaceful transition to a fairer and more harmonious future with al-jazeera paris got a better activists and human rights of horses and marking the sixtieth anniversary of a tibetan uprising against chinese role rallies are being held outside tibet in countries that are in taiwan and india china as for restrictions on tourists and journalists who want to visit the himalayan country critics say it's another sign that china

has a press and 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 then demonstrations have been held around the world in support of tibetan independence it's an old case and for many the any worse really a pretty represent the end and we stand up to the patterns against six decades of political suppression. they have been denying piano villages cultural and language right china has placed restrictions on foreigners including

journalists visiting tibet. 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 they get 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 and what we're seeing now is this a different kind of repression. making short friends can't communicate we have a car protest this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of tibet

may stay quiet for demands for tibetan independence are heard around the world rob matheson does either. plenty more ahead on the news hour including north koreans what for members of parliament they want to be any surprises. why efforts to contain the bowl of water in the democratic republic of congo are under threat once again and in sports we'll hear from the football coach who is fighting for his future at one of europe's biggest clubs. noise and nine female protesters have been sentenced to twenty lashes and a month in jail for rioting students in the capital khartoum have defied the government employee a state of emergency to condemn the detention of demonstrations on saturday president omar al bashir ordered the release of thirty eight women. now a treatment center for

a bowl of victims an east and democratic republic of congo has been attacked for the third time in a month the clinic was targeted hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization with some colleagues blamed foreign aide workers for spreading the virus. reports. soldiers drag a suspected attacker through the forest close to the temporary burleson and 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 reaction while 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 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. 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 criticised 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. to disease health minister has resigned after the sudden

deaths of eleven babies within twenty four hours of each other in a public hospital the health ministry says early indications suggest a blood infection was the cause. now north korea is holding parliamentary elections for the supreme people's assembly it is the second vote of the. kind under kim jong only came to power eighty years ago this is a compulsory voting everyone over the age of seventeen is required to cast a ballot is only one party so the race is uncontested in twenty fourteen there was ninety nine point nine seven percent turnout although it is pre-determined the results can sometimes reveal a shift in the ruling party with about half of the delegates replace each time but let's get more on this now we're joined by young chick on the research fellow at the institute for north korean studies and he's joining us live from the south korean capital seoul very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as we mentioned the root zones are a foregone conclusion but could a reshuffle give us an idea of what chemists thinking especially following that

failed summit with president trump and hanalei. definitely north korea is our most dives all eight of country in the world but that doesn't mean the north koreans are not privy to what has been going on in the world there are at least five million uses of a cell phone see inside north korea so north koreans are very aware of what happened in the noir which means no agreement there would help relieve the pain created by the economy certainly shows so this is very crucial moment for the leadership in north korea and how are they managing. the result or the non result from that summit of course as modern democracy but does the regime figure any pressure either from the population or the ruling elite who are both affected by economic sanctions which continue again because the summit ended with no agreement

. that's the million dollar question i believe the first freedom leader of north korea could mr killen is a losing his sleeve with the correct answer to your question. i guess the kims own is trying to appease the public because the population had such a high hopes for a breakthrough made in the honey summit where the us president all knowledge from and you didn't happen so. origins has for the keystone leadership be used to appear as though he's appointed population at least in the short run and how do you expect him to try and do that from what we know about him so far what will the plan be now the most likely plan b. is to falls one is to gradually and carefully increase the pressure on the

trumpet to ministration by. hinting that north korea may resume its a miss nuclear test that eat promised not to resume as long as a dialogue and negotiation between north korea and the united states continue another plan b. is turn to the government of south korea to resume the entire korean economy prozac. although the united states made it really clear that it has no intentions to allow south korean government to go ahead to resume the into question economy projects so the ball is not only in the court of north korea but also south korean government is facing a very tough choice between north korea and the united states west bank thank you as always for your analysis on this that is young chick bombed live in style thank you. now this gunman being blamed for killing nine policeman and myanma there out

plus was attacked in the western state of iraq and pull the out a con aves accused of aiding myanmar's military in the persecution of the hang of muslims the head of the un's refugee agency has been experiencing firsthand what life is like the syrians who fled the fighting for the focus on the visit of refugees in lebanon and says the u.n. will not pressure them into returning to syria they're worried they're there 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 these not being said anymore we're not blocking any return we would be it would not be our job to do that. severe turbulence is cause and yuri's to more than thirty passengers during a transatlantic flight a turkish airlines jet from istanbul to new york encountered bad weather forty five minutes before landing one passenger suffered a broken leg and others have bombs and bruises. it is time for the weather with steph now in trouble cycle and in the mozambique channel has bit of history to its to that's right it's been swirling around for a while and it looks like now it's intensifying so let's have a look at this storm then here it is in the mozambique channel this bright white massive cloud and now it's beginning to pull itself together it's moving very slowly only around five kilometers per hour at the moment but we think on choose

day it's going to begin to get a big a bit of a wriggle on and head towards the southwest so moving very slowly at the moment but then beginning to accelerate as it heads towards mozambique now from this you would expect some of the heaviest of the race to be over parts of mozambique but this is what the storm is doing and the problems are because it's moving so slowly so there's that system there gradually then begins to move away towards the west but still dragging plenty of showers behind it so it's actually going to be not mozambique where we see the wettest of the weather over the next two or three days in fact over the next three days we're expecting up to two hundred millimeters of rain to fall in mozambique in madagascar that's where we're expecting the wettest of the weather in the northwest of madagascar that system though as we head through day forty five will gradually edge its way towards mozambique and then we'll see the worst of the rains there now if we head further north we'll be watching for very sharp showers over parts of west africa recently as well some of these have been giving us well over one hundred millimeters of rain the rains there are

usually at this time of year we're expecting plenty more thank you very much steph still ahead on the news hour how breaks a deal could impact the world of file are specially of taxes go up on imports and exports. and. the government is the total cost for the people the government up in arms about an ambitious project in kenya to transform a coastal town upon the price of progress is too high and for wide and struggle to get to grips with conditions that are the first place in the new much of g.d.p. season. isn't the problem for your crown that they really don't have a health question program but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the image to get a picture of the net going to do everywhere probably not knowing about it or deciding the real you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.n. across the globe to survive it is called fall of the bridge doesn't build

confidence it breaks will join me where the hot sun on up the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories i don't think issues here and i'll just say. over a hundred and sixty years ago a musician started a band in an all or t. shirt rate in cairo. that brawl span was so popular it gave birth to an entire musical genre. a century and a halt later the sound still present mates with many egyptians today house about the people's music on al-jazeera.

good to have you with us on the. these are our top stories. on my road be awaiting for news of the fate of one hundred fifty seven people on board an ethiopian airlines jet that's crashed the boeing seven three seven took off from the ethiopian capital. from nairobi in kenya it came down just six minutes later near the town of bush in ethiopia. parts of venezuela remain without how the city has the power struggle between president and opposition leader continues rival groups held rallies in the capital caracas on saturday and students in algeria say the government wanted to close universities won't deter them from protesting demanding the resignation of president. who is seeking a fifth term and next month's elections. let's get more on our top story

now the plane crash in ethiopia catherine soli is standing by in nairobi where the flight was heading but first let's go to a house she's live for us. and we're hearing from the state for cost thirty three nationalities. and that they would notice the lobby this. is the. gist of it there were one hundred fifty seven people in the airplane and. the crew members recently we've got an update. from the plane from the plane. we also heard from ethiopian prime minister a little while back expressing his condolences to the families of everyone on board . if you've been prime minister.

you. get or i shall hunt thank you for that for now that's in. let's go to our correspondent catherine sawyer she's joining us live from the airport in nairobi and you were saying earlier catherine that there are already families waiting there for news of their loved ones who were on the plane. information service desk has been set up. looking for any information about their loved ones and as you mentioned elizabeth thirty three nationalities are confirmed to have been on board and some of them could have been kenyans diplomats perhaps who are coming for very important. conference here in nairobi that's supposed to start tomorrow so it's going to be interesting to see who exactly was on that flight but some relatives they hear they're waiting for any information they can

get and just to recap as you mentioned this happened this flight to cough from. early morning last. just six minutes later it was supposed to land here at the international airport at around ten thirty am so people here are relatives here just waiting for a mean formation they can get and it's going to be a. very fluid catherine we're. getting pictures of a news conference on the kenyan capital let's just listen in to that be afflicted and. want to see the pasta just. the fruit was expected. at about ten thirty five. this morning. at this stage what you have done. is to establish. to be my dissenters.

one time in one deep. whereby we shall be meeting that are different friends. who. are to meet the positive. a porn that i would put to one d. . those that are tears and friends would be dedicated to the sick and the mud is a center. which has been set up and shut up one four points which is within the vicinity of the airport. the purpose of this interests is to provide a definitive so we call meet doesn't greet us. and with information. as much as we hope. at the same time to provide them with an element of privacy.

because until we know what has happened. of course they'll be out of one. affecting friends that are teves affected it's. for the money fist. so at this point to tell you. the one forty nine. then a certain nationalities who don't have the details about which countries they came from we don't have information about the gender of those passages but upon getting that information which as you know the primary source of that information will be ethiopian airlines. and of course they've given the government. do have the right medicine. the airline but also given government because that incident happened in ethiopian peace. what you're doing ourselves is

to provide as much support as is a quiet. in that's why we have a. we have a mug incidence ponces here at the gym akio. is here waiting for that additional information. at this point what is critically important. what is critically important is to ensure that those families and friends of those passengers on board. did the highest level privacy. some of it for more information. and hence that's why we have provided. those two facilities. at one deep end of. the shuttle. to make sure that. we provide them with as much information as we get. we

are like a seed waiting for the money fists and without that money fist we cannot provide do we additionally information. in terms of the aircraft itself. it is a boy seven through seven dash eight hundred bucks. and. above the aircraft as well we shall be waiting for it from the european allies. when we get information we shall be able to provide a deal made up addicts as a quiet. we are aware that. these are the ones they are to. especially for that it gives in france. was a just so and so we would like to. request you intelligence. being patient. is to wait for this information. it is a very sensitive emotional matter we do not want. and it is not our intention

to provide a deal we cannot information the primary source of information is authorities in ethiopia and mosul. because we are here we have to make sure that we provide do with as much information as to comes to us. at this point we have normal you would have to accept to see that we. read it to provide you with additional information and when it is a deceived. thank you very much. and that's what it is especially civil vision. if you've been elements.

to a view of that information. in this way they have set up those two centers. to us. we have to give you what we deceive. and that's what you've come so quickly to a big deal and also that additives of those afflicted. with information which we have. we should be deceiving them it's you know one deep . and we shall be busting them to sit on the tail. to make sure we provide them with envelopment which is conducive in these very difficult. is who wait for more information. but i see the information the first primary source of the permission has to be the airline itself in consultation with the ethiopian. thought it is where these didn't happened but to us we showed us quickly as possible often when

we get that information. yes. sunday. and if you could. put up what. we have been listening to. secretary of transport james much of rio who is holding a news conference in the kenyan capital nairobi following the crash of the ethiopian airlines plane that was going from the european capital. nairobi and crashed some six minutes after takeoff he's holding that conference in nairobi saying that it was expected to arrive there at ten thirty five in the morning they

don't have information yet on the nationalities of the one hundred fifty seven people on board but we have heard from. ethiopian government sources that there were thirty three nationalities on board and that there were no survivors the kenyan transport secretary telling people at the news conference there that they've established two emergency centers at the international airport let's go to our correspondent catherine saw a she's joining us live from the airport again catherine james saying that it's critically important now at this time they don't have a lot of information for the most important thing for them is to ensure that the families and friends of passengers are given the highest level of privacy as they wait for more information. yes and he has said that this is a very emotional and sensitive so they have to be very careful with the information

that is coming out particularly to the relatives and friends of those who may have been. saying that they are waiting for the manifest they haven't received. and as you mentioned they've set up two information centers wired right here at the airport and another one with the airport he says that relatives and people who are missing their loved ones should go and read. there and get all the information that they can from those centers he also said as you mentioned that this is the need all the privacy they can get and that's why the hotel is in a very secluded area it's very private so by them going there they'll be accorded the privacy that they need in this moment of grief so the situation here is very. easy mentioned the flight was supposed to be.

about ten thirty five am local time this is a popular route. to nairobi a lot of people would be. thirty three. on board there's also a big conference the u.n. . environment assembly that's supposed to happen tomorrow monday so perhaps maybe there are some delegates who are coming in so it's going to be interesting to see in the coming days who exactly was on that flight and a very distressing moment indeed elizabeth. yeah absolutely catherine again just to recap the kenyan cabinet secretary of transport saying that they don't have the information yet you know on nationalities on gender or on things like that that's information that ethiopian airlines will release and we have heard from the ethiopian government saying three nationalities no survivors it's only been a few hours since the plane crash again crashed only six minutes after taking off

but what we do know some of these very early hours since the crash is that this was the same aircraft a boeing seven three seven eight hundred max that crashed. and that was a low cost. airline called line there. catherine can you hear me. repeat your question please. catherine can you hear me repeat that question elizabeth yes can hear you please repeat your question elizabeth catherine we're just looking at what we know so far again from ethiopia the only information we do have thirty three nationalities.