i mean it may be that you're going. on the remaining pressing for change and then unconventional methods to eliminate corruption. people on al jazeera. algerian celebrators president. declares he will not run for a fifth term in office. welcome i'm giving up palin you're watching our desire live from doha also coming up. the british prime minister says she's agreed to legally binding changes to plan with the e.u. just hours before a crucial vote. the u.s.

aviation regulator asks boeing to modify the seven three seven max eight plane off to the second crash in just five months. and the united states withdraws all of its diplomats from venezuela as the opposition pushes for a national emergency declaration. so as president of the lizzie's with a flicker has abandoned his bid for a fifth term in office after weeks of mass demonstrations he has delayed next month's election and the pointed a new prime minister but there are also said a national conference will be held by the end of the or to schedule an election and draft a new constitution richard martin has to details. celebrations growing up across from the capital to constantine and beyond within minutes of hearing the algerian true. didn't abdulaziz beautifully but caved into mounting

pressure and announced he would not seek a fifth time protesters who took to the streets over the past week asking for his departure and calling for political reforms. and have it help if. i am optimistic that the voice of the people and especially young people has been and that this paves the way for a new and constructive period that can solve many of our problems i believe that the young people who took to the streets in cities around the country acted responsibly which impressed people both locally and abroad we must continue and work together with this responsibility with all mutual respect and ten this crisis into a constructive process for our. flicker will continue to run the country for the time being he's reshuffle his government appointing his interior minister

nurdin badly as prime minister and his advisor rahm tamla mamre as his deputy. with the army chief general. salah retains his post. has outlined a series of steps which he hopes will shape algeria's future. such as launching a national dialogue on reforming the state's institutions and drafting a new constitution. but it's unclear is beautifully just decisions will contain the anger of the anti-government movement key opposition figures were either banned by the constitutional council from running against the president all pulled out of the race describing the april election as a fast most people do not think that would have taken himself is pulling the strings of power but with think. so we have been appointed as prime minister. deputy prime. minister and this is these are faces that we

know from from the year from the year of this regime and there's a lot of people with it we want and the pretenses insist they will continue their rallies until their demands are met they want a new president democratic reforms and the government capable of tackling rising unemployment poverty and corruption richard martin al jazeera. the british government says it has reached an agreement with the e.u. on a legally binding changes to the brics a deal that they don't spend follows last minute talks between prime minister terry's m a and the european commissioner president john clarke drunker their revised plan for the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. and through resolve the key sticking point of the irish border it will be put to vote in britain's parliament on tuesday having an insurance policy to guarantee that there will never be a hard border in northern ireland is absolutely right it only has the u.k. solemn commitments in the belfast good friday agreement but if we ever have to use

that insurance policy it cannot become a permanent arrangement i did is not the template for our future relationship the deal that m.p.'s voted on in january was not strong enough in making that clear and legally binding changes we needed to set that right today we have agreed to them but they had of the european commission says there will be no more chances for the british government to renegotiate if this latest version of the deal is voted down by m.p.'s in london in politics sometimes you get the second chance you'd use what we do with. that comes because there will be no chance there will be no further interpretation of the interpretations that the truancy is reassurances. boeing says it will update the software on in seven three seven max eight planes in the coming weeks the federal aviation administration has given

boeing until the end of april to make those changes safety concerns about the plane have been growing especially after sunday's crash of an ethiopian airliner that killed one hundred fifty seven people singapore is the latest to take action it is temporarily banning all boeing seven three seven max eights from its airspace kristen salumi has more from washington. boeing's most popular jet is now coming under scrutiny as a result of the ethiopian airlines crash it's the second deadly accident involving the seven thirty seven max eight in less than six months and similarities between these two accidents have prompted airline carriers more than a dozen of them in countries like china indonesia and mexico to ground their fleet while the investigation is going on that's not the case here in the united states here the federal aviation administration says that the boeing plane is airworthy

and that it's too soon to draw conclusions about what happened it's been working with boeing ever since the last crash the lion air crash that happened in indonesia last october says boeing is expected to make a software update to the plane in the next month that should help with some issues but again insisting that the airline is airworthy and safe now that's not enough for some people here in the united states the airlines have been facing questions from passengers and travelers who are worried about flying on the seven thirty seven mts we've heard from senator dianne feinstein in california who's called for grounding the fleet temporarily until the cause of the accident is known flight attendants association is one pilots union have also called for further investigation boeing for its part issued a statement saying that their plane is safe and that the software update will only

make it safer they have however suffered in the stock market their stocks dropping more than five percent on monday. and the investigators have recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders catherine soy has more from. a moment of silence at the united nations environment assembly in nairobi some of the passengers and both the theo pin airlines flight that crashed on sunday but delegates enterprises and other stuff members coming for this meeting this is also a regional u.n. help with several agencies and two u.n. headquarters based here u.n. workers in the affiliates were on the flight some of the u.n. workers were coming for this conference some of these were u.n. workers are actually on the frontline of humanitarian and development work in kenya and in the region so they were coming forward from from from different perspectives but certainly there were certain subject matter experts there were language experts

etc who were coming here for the conference itself so it's been a setback you know in on all counts but most of those who died were kenyans like benson be room to stoughton and coming back home from vienna where she is pursuing a doctorate and whom they had just spoken to in the morning it is so painful to lose the young guy. who has struggled for the rest of her life. to achieve. a life. then lucilla. in the blink of an. eye the crash site just outside investigators have found the plane's black box that's an important evidence to help understand what could have gone wrong back at the u.n. the agency's flag flies at half staff two or not those who were killed that will be going on throughout the week are climate would secure. rather than

the environment for the tragedy this. many delegates say despite the sadness the research resilience and heads of state arriving here in the coming days must make strong commitments at the end of it all catherine. and i will be. a u.s. backed forces in eastern syria are bombarding the last pocket of eisel territory for a second night. but many kurdish syrian democratic forces resumed their assault on sunday after a deadline for fighters to surrender expired they say they're making advances on the enclave of five groups which is near the iraqi border an estimated five hundred fighters are believed to be inside and up to four thousand civilians. made has this report from on the turkey syria border. a deadline to surrender has come and gone and the battle to retake battles has picked up once

again kurdish forces on the ground backed by coalition airstrikes increasing the pressure on the remaining fighters in eastern syria in the middle of the church which was once controlled by isis because they were in the beginning part of the camp which is very low should put a large area. into a small area under the mountain of the horses serve the kurds advance into one part of the large encampment once used by the fighters and their families all that remains is ammunition weapons and a car rigged with explosives but further away some fighters could be seen milling around the pomegranate orchards that surround the holes it's been a long and tough battle hindered by the presence of civilians among the fighters their numbers took everyone by surprise so far about sixty thousand people have streamed out of the among them i still wives and children and surrendering fighters

many seem broken bowing their head in shame and between them some of them or has the rule of foreign fighters. and as well this one says he came from china and he says he is from chechnya russia. the evacuation came after negotiations between the kurdish s.d.f. which guaranteed that women and children wouldn't be harassed and treatment for doing good fighters. this man says there was nothing left no fuel no food no water we were completely beseeched he added but whose is the last sliver of land remaining of the so-called caliphate the advance of the kurds is also slowed down by land mines and booby traps but i still fighters are cornered stuck between cliffs to the south do you features river too did west and kurdish positions to do north and east. soon would have lost its last bastion of territorial rule.

but many among those evacuated remain defiant vowing that this is only a setback and one day the caliphate would flourish once again. al-jazeera. still ahead announces they're riding high we'll tell you why the political honeymoon still isn't over for mexico's president. and it's back on track a friendship train almost derailed because of recent tensions between india and pakistan is on the move again. hello there we're expecting some more rather wet weather across parts of the middle east over the next few days our last system is making its way over parts of afghanistan and tracking off towards the northeast the things here will be drying

up but instead we've got another weather system is piling into the western parts of our map so for turkey it is looking pretty wet and pretty windy for us on choose day on wednesday that system pushes further east towards and so more of us will see that cloud in the winds will be picking up as well so for many of us here they're the sort of going downhill as we head through the next few days if the towards the south and here in doha is still pretty cool during the night and it will be cooler and choose day night again but on wednesday the wind should change direction so from wednesday on winds it doesn't look like it's going to be quite as cool at night the temperatures twenty five degrees for us during the day seventy seven in fahrenheit down towards the southern parts of africa and here we've been watching our cycle and it's still tracking credibly slowly towards the west but dragging plenty of cloud and rain behind it so for many of us in madagascar we've got days more of heavy rain in store that stretches all the way across towards the northern parts of our map as well across towards angola towards the south there is fine and dry for now for cape town twenty two degrees is fairly respectable or wednesday and

for us in durban it will be higher will get to around thirty degrees. africa's most populous nation the blondest economy has a youth unemployment problem in a bid to control the internet of the future some say a kind of digital. we bring you the stories to the shaping the world we live in. counting the cost.

hello again you're watching others there and here are the top stories this hour ugh areas president abilities with the band and plans to seek a. few weeks of mass demonstrations. election that has promised social and political reform. the british government says the. e.u. are legally binding changes to the brakes a deal prime minister to resign may has been in strasbourg for last minute discussions with the e.u. officials the new plan will be put to britain's parliament on tuesday. the boeing says it will roll out software modifications to the seven three seven aircraft just days after a crash. one hundred fifty seven people died in sunday's disaster singapore has temporarily banned all planes from its air space. now the u.s.

has announced it is to withdraw all of its remaining diplomats from venezuela the state department says the presence of u.s. embassy staff is limiting its policy options earlier the opposition dominated national assembly in venezuela this crap the widespread power outages as a national emergency the power cuts have led to water and fuel shortages and cost the debts of dozens of hospital patients who were unable to receive treatment but as a boy has this report from caracas. water is running short in the capital . as the country continues to struggle with the effects of power shortages costa by a failure in the largest hydroelectric plant in the state of. people who are trying to get it from wherever they can there used to be a small for such right next to the haven't you but they say it has been cut off the northernmost. the only thing we need is water we can't continue like this we

haven't had water for weeks and now there's no electricity the government has been trying to restore electricity around the country a task that is becoming more challenging as days go by. this power station in eastern blew up in the middle of the night there is still some smoke here because of the fire the government says and that the opposition and the united states are trying to sabotage venice where last electric grid. i mean. all of the options which are on the child. and one of these options includes the electric the electric shock and the sabra tank if it is one of those options and a high tech sarber attack has been made against venezuela the united states is the only government with the technology meet. she was woken up by a strange sound in the middle of the night. it was like. and then i

watched the sky there was a big flame it was like fireworks that you can see in disneyland with the princesses and all that was so afraid that we're all going to blow up the workers from the state electric company told us two transformers exploded. for the opposition it is an example of the corruption and mismanagement has been ongoing for years in venezuela. that's why opposition leader said it was time to declare a national emergency. so we are requesting today the chamber approve a decree to call for a national emergency of emergency of tragedy of catastrophe. today was the government is trying to contain the situation on the streets trying to prevent violence. of the security forces were unable to control the looting in this mall. was destroyed when dozens of people entered to loot his shop

many were detained the moment they did they said this makes me very sad that this is happening to our society people coming in here and destroying everything they took food but also chairs tables and other things. but on the streets there are those who are struggling for almost everything and till now the government has been unable to fulfill their most basic needs. it's been a long political hot. president. after one hundred days in office his popularity is at an all time high even more so now reports from mexico city on what's behind a success and the challenges ahead. when men were lopez obrador was sworn into office on december first. tens of thousands of cheering fans welcomed and the mexican president's honeymoon isn't over yet. on monday lopez obrador celebrated

his first hundred days in office and with the most recent survey putting his approval rating at seventy eight percent his first three months in power have been the most popular since polling began in the one nine hundred eighty s. . the government belongs to all mexicans and its main function is to enforce justice and seek the welfare and happiness of the people. has broken with tradition by offering daily press conferences that start at seven am by repeatedly bringing up corruption a quality development and his own popularity the veteran politician has been able to set mexico's news agenda good. we will continue all of us together to build a beautiful utopia we will continue moving towards the great ideal of living in a new free fair democratic and fraternal homeland. was.

has already made good on many of his most popular campaign promises the folksy leader has cut back government salaries given up presidential luxuries and launched a myriad of social programs while traversing the country most mexicans are now marred by lopez obrador his brand of populist politics but critics warned that he doesn't have concrete plans to bring about change at a critical time for the country. january marked mexico's most violent month on record with nearly three thousand murders and. country's economy could be in trouble with investment down by six percent to december the biggest drop in more than five years of good intentions is not enough to change the reality of for the daily life both in the economy can the security front there needs to be a plan there needs to be more reforms on different fronts to increase productivity and economy growth potential that is not in at least at the beginning of the administration during his first one hundred days there doesn't seem to be

a plan to do that. for now lopez obrador is able to blame previous administrations for the country's problems but as he heads further into his presidency the mexican people will hold him to account for his political leadership and his efforts to tackle the challenges the country faces. david mercer out just zero mexico city. at least twelve people have died in floods in brazil's biggest city several neighborhoods and major roads in sao paulo are submerged after heavy rain firefighters rescued a number of families trapped by the floodwaters or members of one family died when their house collapsed on the city's outskirts and severe flooding in southern malawi has killed thirty people and left thousands without shelter officials say more than two hundred thirty thousand people have lost their room since the heavy downpours began last week villages were left underwater after rivers broke their banks while other areas were without power and water supplies. now the

united nations is warning mean mars writing minority muslims may be about to face another crisis un special rapporteur young he has told the human rights council that a plan by bangladesh to relocate twenty three thousand rohingya refugees turned on in their bed on inhabited island is a bad idea so also set up to ten thousand rohingya have fled the violence in me and march rakhine state since november lee wants the un security council to refer me and maher to the international criminal court over the persecution there were have ensured and action in my rejects the barker has more from geneva. young leaders report is a damning indictment of the treatment of ring of people both in myanmar and outside as well in her report she says from last november ten thousand where he fled the country many of them ending up in bangladesh and cox's bizarre now the world's largest refugee camp we know that

a team from the international criminal court the united nations highest court is on the ground cox's bizarre investigating the possibility of future legal proceedings but as young released said it is early days are right now i think as we speak there are people in. still taking doing a preliminary examination they're not interviewing victims of the persons per se and this is not the first visit or industry and they have been if you mind the past may be one mind the past also here the united nations was a rocking the victim a woman who has lost both her parents she thinks also a husband too she fled myanmar ended up in a refugee camp in bangladesh where she spent three months searching for her she says many people who fled. looking for one thing citizenship and rights.

another thing on our line i'm here to request all a few for three things first we seek justice we want justice with compensation secondly we want to return to a home with safety and dignity and we want to have full citizenship and said we want to have access to the education system and. or young uli's report is the work of many people over many months she was barred from actually visiting my omar itself the authorities there said that it would not be conducive to the public good to allow her into the country instead she's been able to gather evidence both in thailand and also in bangladesh she feels that the consequence of international inaction when it comes to the ring of people is only more suffering for them the sons are to express also call the friendship train between india and pakistan has resumed its service it had stopped running because of the reason violence in the

region it's one of only two railways that link the countries making it a cheap travel option for people on both sides of the border come on hyder reports from the horse railway station. their train to india leaves breakthrough week early in the morning. it grew a few only opportunity for many people to connect with families there why did between india and pakistan the distance between low order not dari on the indian side of the border maybe less than thirty kilometer but if fix our destination does it go to do you get on board. had come to the station early and is not taking any chances as years already seen t. cancellations because of escalating tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors. thirty years your goal and the. broader

the other the president of the time i haven't seen any issues visiting pakistan and have felt the same love which i have back home in india yes i got worried when train services will hold you to recent tensions but now everything is fine and i am going back happily getting surgery and there's travelling with her family. grandmother boy you know it is very difficult to get an indian visa people are waiting for a visa here and since long to the crisis between india and pakistan but now we are very happy that one who make it this time although dangers are running. on the paper to remain strong are divided on either side of the border the whole. country will be able to reconcile their differences and create an hour. of money and. it's time for a good bye still fear no warm cup of tea

a quick break first or good move and shaking travel documents. many are relieved to be able to travel again. i request countries with friends and live in peace as people on both sides a book with little cognisant was pretty. some says. i felt honored to be in pakistan when the people knew about me that i am indian they met me with love which is unthinkable they even offered me tea i think war is not a solution to any conflicts. as more passengers arrive to crowd their space and some even find time to take a call from their loved ones to take good bye as their baggage buyers are in front of us counting room they enter one by one for security. after clearance and under tight security the passengers boarded a train for india for many years to come to be relieved to be finally moving again

perhaps wondering if this break your link will remain open. that some got a great maybe back on track but no one knows for how long come on either al qaeda long war. a very a watching our desire and these are the top stories jarius president of the lizzie's but a fake has abandoned plans to seek a fifth term after weeks of mass demonstrations he's postponed april's election and has promised social and political reform. the british government says it's reached an agreement with the e.u. on legally binding changes to the brakes a deal prime minister terrorism a has been and strasburg for the last minute discussions with the e.u. officials the new plan will be put to a vote in britain's parliament on tuesday and boeing says it will roll out

modifications to its seven three seven max eight aircraft just days after crashing into you here one hundred fifty seven people died in sunday's disaster singapore has now banned all boeing seventy seven max eights from its airspace one of the kenyan victims was returning from a study in vienna her father spoke to al-jazeera. it is supremely fu to lose the young guy. who has. life. to achieve. life. in the blink of an eye it is to play with. well u.s. backed forces in eastern syria are bombarding the last pocket of eisel territory for a second night the mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces resume their assault on both groups on sunday after

a deadline for fighters to surrender expired. the u.s. has announced it's to redraw all of its remaining diplomats from venezuela the state department says the presence of u.s. embassy staff is limiting its policy options earlier the opposition dominated national assembly in venezuela described widespread power outages as a national emergency that led to water and fuel shortages and caused the deaths of dozens of hospital patients who were unable to receive treatment and severe flooding in southern malawi has killed thirty people and left thousands without shelter officials say more than two hundred thirty thousand people have lost their homes since the heavy downpours began last week well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the costs. hundred and sixty years ago and musician started

a band in an arty shriek in cairo. the brass band was so popular it gave birth to an entire musical genre. a century and a half later the sound still resonates with many egyptians today. the people's music on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week recharge your batteries under pressure from trade tariffs new c o two rules that even briggs's carmakers around the world are electrifying. how power outages in south africa putting livelihoods at risk. plus why connecting young people to.