about ten thirty five am local time this is a popular route. to nairobi a lot of people would be only thirty three nationalities on board there's also a big conference the un. environment assembly that's supposed to happen tomorrow monday so perhaps maybe there are some delegates who are coming in on that flight 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 for those who lost their loved ones flight yeah absolutely catherine again just to recap the kenyan cabinet secretary of transport saying that they don't have the information yet on 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 thirty 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 so far and these very early hours since the crash is that this was the same aircraft a boeing seven three seven eight hundred max that crashed in october. and that was a low cost and in the. 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 again from. we do have three nationalities no survivors one hundred forty nine passengers one hundred fifty

seven people on board eight crew and we do know so far and. only a few hours off of the crash is that this was the same type of plane that crashed off. that line and crash all one hundred eighty nine people died and. yes just to give you again a brief about if you can allies as well i think you mentioned before that it is a very stable airline one of the growing on the continent it's one that has one of the biggest elizabeth service and. other airlines use that service into service lines it has a reputed training facilities for. one hundred ten aircraft twenty six of them being boeing seven three seven five.

seven three seven it's also important to note elizabeth that this particular flight crashed earlier this month i think on the fourth of march it was delayed because of technical problems the airline said it sent out a statement and then saying that the safety of passengers is very important so this is an airline. aircraft even if it's very new it's about four months old it all to developed a mechanical problem it's not clear what kind of mechanical problem but the airline statement then said it's mine that was being dealt with at the time catherine thank you very much for that for now and that is catherine soy with all the information that we do have sort of. ethiopian airlines crash live in the kenyan capital nairobi thank you catherine. let's move on to other news now undervalues taking place central moscow to protest a new bow giving the state more control over the internet the first readings of the proposed law passed in the lower house of parliament last month russian media

likening the new sovereign internet to an online curtain for all traffic through service in russia the kremlin says the bill would protect the country internet internet from foreign cyber attacks well let's get more on this now we're joined by correspondent steps and she is live in moscow to talk as more tell us more step through the people's concerns there. you have people are gathering here for this big rally around ten thousand protesters will gather here today to protest this what they call sovereign internet bill that's being discussed in the state duma in these months from now what people are carrying around here are posters so you can save the russian internet or internet or rights just showing that they're very worried that this new bill will control the russian internet even further of course in the past there have been

a few years restrictions on the internet already but the ends of that there's still sort of the last resort where people can go to for independent information t.v. radio newspapers are mostly under state control so distinct is now trying to control the internet as well and that's what a pro. here are saying a lot of out of people experts have been telling us that it's going to be very difficult what the russian government who wants this complete control they basically want to control and take the russian internet from the world wide web if necessary but that needs a lot of money a lot of equipment and a lot of use and it could take years to accomplish and is unlikely to be passed and to door step. it is likely to be passed into law but it will take a few moments it's now going to the second to reading in this month and then it has to go through with reading as well amendments but it's quite likely to be possible

but as i said it's also going to be likely to take a while to be actually be implemented and it's also been question. the bill at the end will be because a lot of bills have been passed in the past but now still for example telegraph. important messaging service here in russia. but still a lot of people are able to use it so a lot of people are also questioning this bill and say maybe it's just a lot of rhetoric but in practice maybe it's not going to be this far reaching steps thank you very much for that for now that's awesome live from moscow thank you. still ahead on the news polls turn to play catch up in the english premier league title race we hear from the manager for.

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it is time for sports now his far elizabeth thank you so much things have gotten worse for the l.a. lakers as the wrong james's team's hopes for securing a playoff spot have all but ended they've suffered a fifth straight defeat this time going down to the boston celtics at home the bronzes a former it chain made kyrie early start for boston with thirty points james also had thirty points and bagged the a.t.f. triple double his career about he couldn't get his team over the top with l.a. missing three of their top players the celtics winning one hundred and twenty two one hundred and seven if the lakers don't make it to the playoffs it will be the

first tide in fourteen years that the braun will miss the postseason. i feel for obviously just listen a lot of time is was running groom. championship. is always going to chambers have been center and he's such a great player on such a very team and you know when we're not close it was because everybody else is hard i can't imagine so many of your. eastern conference leaders on the walking box speak the visiting charlotte hornets for a leave beth fiftieth victory janice and paul had twenty six points and thirteen rebounds leading them to one hundred and thirty one to one hundred fourteen when. a liverpool manager you're going coopt says his team are not concerned about playing catch up in the english premier league title race the reds host burnley later on sunday are when we'll see them go one point behind leaders of manchester city who beat want for three one on saturday earlier this season liverpool had

a seven point lead but in their last six e.p.l. game they've managed just temp wants from a possible eighteen we are in the position we like to be like the position before it's not a problem what we've always said we wanted to be in a position to to fight for four for the top spot in the league and we are still in and that's all what we need to be positive to be optimistic to be excited in a very positive way about the challenge and all that stuff but it's our only problem this weekend is burnley tottenham's defeat to southampton on saturday is thrown open the battle for third and fourth champions league places chelsea will be in action against wolves that arsenal take on matches to united who have been in great form since the interim in manager only gunners soldier took charge. of managing these boys and playing. not playing how will work in here and.

i said so many times i'm just doing the best i can every single day. i am pushing for for sunday if we can we can take the first eleven with the flesh play yet with the with energy with quality and with the pussy deal so to be beaten back by four months looking for a while also to play out on this one day unlike like much advantage and how do you even in this moment. barcelona are seven points clear of the top the spanish league after a three one win over can own fierce rivals around madrid are facing up to a season without a trophy coach santiago to laurie has vowed to fight for his future in just over a week i have lost twice to barcelona and been knocked out of the champions league they trailed barsa by fifteen points going into sunday's game against by a delete. your grace through adversity that personality appears and that's not just

a cliche dance reality that's when you see who's there and who's not who's hiding and who will face the consequences who's happy and who sat and which of the players will rebel against the situation. both the men's and women's tennis world number ones have clinched victory at the indian wells tournaments in california about jock rich b. bjorn a friend tanja low in straight sets for his record fiftieth when after turn meant the serbian player needed an hour and a half to beat the american family and stick it to him djokovic is going for a record six title in california. playing in her first match since ascending to the world's top spot naomi began her title defense with the win over christina martin over each of soccer was dumped out of the divide international by the french player two weeks ago came out on top in this encounter the australian open champion cruising to a six three six four win. everyone talks about being the defending champion

and then playing her again i think actually it was really good for me because i learned the most when i lose matches and. i lost her last in dubai and honestly it was great that i got to play here again because i was able to learn from the mistakes say i did and i was able to apply it so it worked out pretty well for me. wales have stayed on course to win the northern hemisphere is biggest international rugby title they beat scotland eighteen eleven in the six nations championship it's wales four straight win in the tournament the team can complete the grand slam with a win over ireland next saturday. a maverick finale's will be in pole position for the first moto g.p. race of twenty nineteen qualifying as cateye was helped by a number of crashes as many riders struggle in windy conditions or hail around so was unable to continue after this and then ten will start in fifteen and ellis was

fast says with andre david c.e.o. so second and world champion marc marc has back in third. and that's why you support for now will have much more coming up later but for now it's back i lent you very much for that and that does it for the news out of the do stay with us a turn for the game is here with another full news bulletin of the latest on the ethiopian airlines crash just a couple of minutes. driven by outrage and spanning generations the row hinge of demonstrators gathered on the

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a feudal east another commie mr castro wanted his country che wanted international revolution became 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 . and this was different that whether someone was going for some of his favorites but that's about it we think it's how you approach an official and if it is a certain way of doing it to congress. story and fly out. no survivors a boeing seven three seven airline a flight from out is not about to nairobi crashes killing all one hundred fifty seven people.

again i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. far from home but closely watching the growing crisis we hear from algerians living abroad about that hopes and dreams for their homeland. as well as opposition leader calls for a nationwide just the country reels from a major power blackout. brigs a deal could impact the world of fine art especially if taxes rise on imports and exports. so we get we begin with that breaking news one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew have died after an ethiopian airlines jet crashed in ethiopia a boeing seven three seven jet came down six minutes after takeoff from the capital on route to nairobi in kenya it's the second crash within five months involving the

latest version of the seven three seven one hundred eighty nine people were killed in lion air crash off the coast of indonesia. well one relative awaiting the flies in nairobi says there was initially confusion about whether the plane had arrived almost. look the more the other humans who found. the plane had to. take the done on time let's look at getting under water so we walked on foot the bill doesn't really mean we see people coming out he was sure. it was going to come up. a few minutes we. we saw some nice unfaceable to tell just fly to fill their land the sun when we looked at the time it was the same time we were selected to leave the field ethiopia's prime minister tweeted state offices of the prime minister on behalf of the government and people of ethiopia would like to express its deepest condolences to the families of those

that have lost their loved ones on ethiopian airlines boeing seven three seven is flight on its regular shojo journey which we nairobi and kenya this morning let's go live now to what nairobi airport i was there as catherine sawyer is there what is the situation there we have we heard from one relative of someone who was on that plane a little earlier how relatives waiting they're being dealt with. minister in charge of transport had a press conference just a few minutes ago and he did say that he understands that this is a very sensitive and emotional time and that of people who had loved ones perhaps won't board that flight he said that they have set up the information center says and counseling centers for relatives to go there and try and get any information and also try and also get counseling as well he said that the government has to

ensure that this relatives are accorded the highest form of privacy which they need very much but he said that the primary source of information is to come from if he say they have they're still waiting for the money fest all of that the still waiting for that as well as more information about what exactly could have happened so as far as people there are concerned we still have no idea who was actually aboard that plane or where they were from. when the minister's statement he did mention that they have still no information about who was on board about the nationalities about the casualties as well but we also know because. a spokesperson of the ethiopian airlines that. has said that there were three nationalities and bowed and there are no survivors in that flight so we expect i mean this is

a popular flight from nairobi from about to nairobi an important conference coming up as well on monday the u.n. . environment assembly perhaps some delegates who are coming for that conference will be there and the several nationalities perhaps even including kenya that's why it's very important for this information sent us to be set up here relatives are still coming in to try and find out what's going on with. what kind and for vision that going to get rather and also being told that man that. we spoke to him as well and you're saying there's a lot of confusion idea when he came here he thought he was on that flight and when he was told oh i'm so sorry your son that flight crashed it's only later that he came to learn with a lot of relief that he was on another flight but he's saying that he understands

the grief of many other relatives who are still trying to get information about their loved ones catherine many thanks officers catherine sort of. nairobi at the airport we'll have more on the crash of that. alliance boeing seven three seven. soon as we can here on. parts of venezuela remain without electricity as the political battle for power intensifies mass rallies have been held both for and against president because we do. he's blaming the power telecoms blackouts on what he called an international cyber attack amid a coup attempt led by his rival. has been defeated the opposition leader himself is vowing to lead a nation wide march on caucus. is that. it was a protest to win territory in the capital caracas thousands responded to opposition leader why those call to take over victoria avenue in. an area that's been off

limits for the opposition because it has been traditionally controlled by supporters of the i a free though to me was among those trying to convince the police to join in the protest i want them to join us because we are the people not the government we are the majority right now that needs change and it's not represented by nicolas maduro. this rally is the opposition's latest move to oppose government after a failed attempt to get aid into the country with the help of the united states it was gathered in three different parts of that i guess and then made it to this haven't you and now they're trying to make it till the end of this road where they're supposed to meet opposition leader one rival but they're saying as you can see here that if i have a nationality god won't i doubt that. a few minutes later people started to push to get the body of aryan national guard off the street they left

the area to avoid a major confrontation. one way they all arrived hours later begging venezuelans not to lose hope. we've said it before the regime wants to wear us out brothers and sisters and yes the road has been very long the road is worn out but we will never tire in the search for freedom. the protest had. bent after a major power outage left much of venezuela in complete darkness the first blackout was caused by a failure a big hydroelectric plant in the state of. electricity supply began to return on saturday but then power and communications collapsed once again. the government also organized an anti imperialist protest close to the presidential palace. blamed the opposition and the united states for the power cuts.

they were conducting highly scientific energy attacks with advanced technology. experts called electromagnetic attacks against the transmission lines to generate interruptions in the process of. venezuelans are already struggling with an unprecedented economic crisis of the past few days has allowed the opposition to gain ground in areas they were not able to reach before i. had access to algeria where students say the government's order to close universities won't deter them from demanding the resignation of president tom to lizzie's beautifully no official reason has been given the campus is being shot this sunday two weeks before the spring break was due to start young people playing

a leading role both in the revolt against the eighty two year old president there urging him to abandon his decision to run for a fifth term. jury is living abroad are watching events back home closely more than four million people of algerian origin live in france activists in paris who are supporting their compatriots i've been speaking to our correspondent. 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 is 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 king says 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 abdul latif 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 we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then we'll tell you why efforts to contain.