now parliament is due to vote again on whether to extend the date the u.k. leaves the e.u. which is currently as i mentioned the twenty ninth of march that would need the approval of all the e.u. member states and the e.u. leaders say that there is always withdrawal deal is the only one on the table get good renewal of. the united kingdom still wants to leave the european union and wants to do so in an orderly fashion if that is still the intention of the united kingdom then this treaty which we negotiated with the government of theresa may for a year and a half this treaty is and will remain the only available treaty so they you very much repeating what they've been saying for months now that that deal is the only deal on offer well the issue of a hard border between arlen the northern ireland which is known as the irish backstop has been a major stumbling block between the u.k. and the e.u. in dublin some feel british politicians have let down the public accusing them of being consumed by internal squabbles that there's largely

a feeling that people feel really kind of sorry for the u.k. . and i think they're politicians of absolutely. they haven't informed people have brought them along to squabble to where i don't see leadership they don't see guidance i don't see education. self-absorption their own little squabbles but do they go back to the people. some people are saying what the merger of. that's good in nigeria now are the authorities say around fifty schoolchildren have been pulled from the rubble of a three story building which collapsed in lagos but dozens more are feared dead there was a primary school on the top floor of the building and as many as one hundred pupils were studying when the block came down or a challenge as more now on the ongoing rescue efforts. freed at least. but not

moving this is one of several children to leave from the rubble so far the collapse three storey building contained homes shops and a primary school for at least one hundred young students it's in the it's a foggy area of lagos highlands the original heart of nigeria's most populous city that would just warn you i don't know you know i would be out soon because i feel i pull out all the i like stuff i teach my kids i mean everybody i get arrested in this child looks in better shape you can hear the relief of the onlookers as she's carried through the crowd i was then another limp for my g.'s and as well as the injured there are those it's too late to say i these are the frantic efforts of people waiting for an organized professional response they use their bad hands trying to get the unknown number of victims trapped underneath

rescue teams arrived with a crane and speak of successes but nobody caught in the number of casualties involved that was so far so good we have rescued about least eight to fall out there rescue god and the rescue mission is still ongoing nigerian television showed injured children there lagos island general hospital such events are all too frequent in nigeria in two thousand and sixteen three building collapses killed at least one hundred thirty people for each island's al-jazeera. us president donald trump has issued an emergency order to ground all boeing seven three seven max eight and max nine planes the type involved in sunday's crash and c.e.o. pia truong made the announcement at the white house saying any planes currently in the air would be ordered to land and that airlines and pilots had been notified of the decision he says the move is based on new information about sunday's crash which killed one hundred. fifty seven people. we. had

a very detail. group of people working on the seven thirty seven eight and the seven thirty seven. newark police. were going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the seven thirty seven. max eight and the seven thirty seven max nine. of the black boxes of the boeing seven three seven max eight jet that crashed on sunday will be sent overseas for further analysis mahomedan though has more now from. relatives of those who died in flight three all to have been forking to the crash site on one a stay relatives of thirty two passengers from kenya on board flight eight hundred thirty two visited the crisis site where they laid flowers and paid tribute to

their loved ones who died on the flight which crashed eighty kilometers away from the cockpit all addis ababa. of the passengers who died and bought flight who are currently in that is being accommodated by ethiopian airlines the been kept out various hotels in the city the airline has asked for more time to carry out the process of identifying the remains of so far been recovered from the crash site officials of the airline are saying that for some they would need to go through d.n.a. testing and maybe even identification through dental records something that is going to take weeks if not months and it's. the relatives of the passengers to be patient during this process of course ethiopia also doesn't have the expertise to deal with op taining information from the two

recorders that have been recovered from the crash site and that is the black box the cockpit voice recorder as well as the digital flight recorder which will give an insight into the last moments before the crash that the flight crashed and walked actually caused the crash and now if your panel has official say there will be forced to send it abroad they haven't yet decided on where actually to send it for the information on these records to be tamed. one hundred fifty seven people from thirty five different nations or aboard that flight but the highest number of fatalities were from kathy castor. spoke to some of the families of those who died. it's hard to imagine the pain john cwindows is going through relatives and friends have been coming to his home in the cool of the rift valley to console him since they had news that his wife. and three grandchildren had died

in the ethiopian airlines crash on sunday his wife was a retired school teacher who had gone to canada to visit their daughter carol and her children ryan kelly and nine month old ruby were coming back to kenya for a visit some. of the. some that are coming to the village free. to imagine. relatives of those who died are now waiting for information from the government and if european allies on when they'll be travelling to ethiopia their d.n.a. may be needed to identify the remains of windows and his family have started burial people rationed but they'll have to wait a little longer for the remains of their loved ones to be brought home if you can airlines officials say the identification process is delegates and will take time the plane went down just minutes after takeoff killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board most of those who died are kenyans.

these mourners are grieving for yet another victim a priest. who was returning home from rome where he was working with i don't even want to see his sister ruth logical did not even know he was coming he wanted to surprise her my brother was very social and he was a very close friend to me who was not only a brother but the fred we would talk so many things. as they moaned their loved ones a little information they're getting is i did to their ordeal we talked to say they're patient but also want this whole process over quickly so they can bury their loved ones and then perhaps begin to heal catherine sawyer al-jazeera kenya. u.s. president donald trump's former campaign chairman coleman afford has been given another three and a half years behind bars pleaded guilty to multiple counts including conspiracy

money laundering and obstruction of justice he received nearly four years for tax evasion and other financial crimes and a separate case last week says he felt bad for man a fort but they claim to say whether he would give them a pardon of both cases or link to special counsel robert miller was investigation into russia's role in the two thousand and sixteen the us elections has equal has more now from washington d.c. . paul mann afford us president donald trump's former campaign manager woke up at almost seven years old not knowing if he would die behind bars he's already facing almost four years in prison for different sort of charges he could have been sentenced to an additional ten years for the crimes heard in this courthouse the judge didn't go that far in all she said he should spend about seven and a half years in prison he'll get time credit for the basically the time he spent behind bars in jail waiting trial so that's about nine months then he'll likely also get time off for good behavior so paul metaphor now knows for all of these

various crimes that have happened over more than a decade that he does have a chance to see sunlight as a free man again for anyone who was in the courtroom today what i'm about to say will not be a surprise. judge jackson. conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any russian pollution in this case or that reached to florence to court whatever no evidence was provision load of rice you know rather for. larry. was very. narrow construction. sector it's the eighty's early on the. actually on this the protesters write a poem and a lawyer was not telling the truth to. specifically said this has nothing to do with the collusion the case before her was not about that and we don't know yet what special counsel robert mueller is going to produce and she actually said when it comes to this no collusion refrain that it's not clear if that's accurate

because you can't say that there was nothing out of the investigation when you actually hurt the investigation by lying to those that were looking into it. the governor of california suspending the death penalty in the us state for as long as he remains in office gavin newsome is signing an executive order closing the execution chamber and withdrawing lethal injection regulations during his governorship it means a reprieve to seven hundred thirty seven inmates throw although none that will be released from prison california hasn't executed anyone since two thousand and six do we have the right to kill. deep next essential question i don't believe. you know i know those thing people think. if you're raped we don't rape. i think if someone kills we don't kill we're better than them. at

least eight people including children and teachers have been killed in a school shooting in brazil police say two teenagers entered a school in the suburb of south tower and opened fire before turning the guns on themselves or people are being treated in hospital for serious injuries school shootings in the country are rare despite a high number of murder cases this is new president j. both so narrow recently announced the gun ownership controls would be loosened or police have said that they don't believe the attackers were former students and have been speaking out about how the attack unfolded. they entered the school the students were on their break they went to the gym the attackers fired and four high school students at the time there were only high school students there they went to the language that the students of the language center locked in selves in the room with the teacher and then the attackers committed suicide. then you're surely has more now from when. it seemed as though two massed attackers first of

all opened fire at a vehicle showroom near to the school. in the suburb of susana about sixty kilometers from the center of sao paolo opened fire with a revolver a bow and arrow and some say some kinds of also had some kind of explode slow civs for children were killed at the scene two died later on the way to hospital to work at the school what we also reported to have been killed and then the attackers had to be aged between twenty and twenty five killed themselves up the sea sixteen to seventeen children were taken to nearby hospitals where their condition some of the most had to be in a critical condition this a relatively rare occurrence in brazil the last attack on a school happened seven years ago in rio de janeiro's need to rio de janeiro so this relatively unusual in a country which has a very high crime rate on the day this happened the supremes court was talking about men. suggested by president. to bring down the age at which children can be

detained by the police if they thought to have been involved in a crime in the meantime still trying to with the exactly what went on at this school while psychologists are brought in to deal with the children who escaped from the trauma the families are gathering outside the scene to gather more details . kurdish fighters in syria say they have repelled the two attacks by eisold as they continue to push the group from the last territory that the group holds the u.s. back to syrian democratic forces say that thousands of fighters have surrendered or been captured thirty eight were killed in fighting on tuesday the s.d.f. resumed fighting over the past few days following appalls to allow for civilians to evacuate most of those civilians are now in the alcohol camp which is struggling to shelter almost sixty five thousand people a school teachers and students have led renewed anti-government protests in the algerian capital algiers that's the spy president abilities beautifully kept

announcing you would not seek a fifth term in power and the country's presidential elections instead elections have been delayed and protesters fear the beautifully will extend this two decade rule meanwhile the government says it's ready for dialogue with the opposition following the president's decision not to stand. ten female saudi activists who campaigned to end the ban on women driving in the kingdom have appeared in court in riyadh they include al has been in detention since last may and says she's been kept in solitary confinement and tortured mohammed val has her story. is a young guy activist who's been fighting for saudi women aside to drive among other demands she's a graduate of the university of british columbia in canada and was ranked by arabian business magazine as fed on the list of top most powerful arab women in two thousand and fifteen in recognition of her phyllis activism but then again and

other female campaigners paid a hefty price including constant house mint and even detention at the hands of saudi authorities. last may she was arrested after releasing a video showing her behind the wheel on a highway between the united arab emirates and saudi arabia in defiance of the ban on women driving. and even though the ban was lifted a month later jane remained in detention without charge or access to a lawyer she only found out the accusations against her via social media she was moved from one jail to another and the times her family couldn't visit her in an article in the new york times her sister alia said jane told her family and rights groups that she was held in solitary confinement and tortured in the presence of saudi the tiny the former adviser to crown prince mohammed bin said. she said

bonnie attend the torture sessions in person and threaten to rape her and throw her body into the sewage system during a you and human rights council session in geneva last week nearly forty countries including member states condemn saudi arabia over the way in which a head lewd and her co activists are being treated not only because their basic rights have been violated but also because of the way in which they are purely humanitarian activism is being construed as terrorism saudi authorities also said had lou and others were active as foreign agents spying on their own country we joined the high commissioner in a special opportunity on the call on this all three or four of these to release all individuals including russia in our household the man i love you on our seas are yourself in a similar saga some are about r.v. abdullah says the tone of us it mohammed out by at the. hobby and children are detained for exercising their fundamental freedoms. the saudi authorities deny the

allegations of torture and sexual harassment against that have you but they have so far failed to agree to demands by the un to release any of the activists mohammed fired. here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.k. parliament has voted to reject a no deal breck's it at any time under any circumstances m.p.'s voted three hundred twenty one votes to two hundred seventy eight to reject the united kingdom leaving the european union without a withdrawal agreement and this paves the way for a vote on thursday on whether to delay the process beyond the march twenty ninth deadline and actually we've had an update on that in just the past a minute or so some breaking news and that is that britain's government will almost thursday proposed to seek a delay to breaks it it give us

a date now june thirtieth if parliament approves a deal to leave the european union by march twentieth so roughly a week from now and then the government will propose a delay to breaks it to june thirtieth of buying a few months there will of course bring you more details on that story which is developing as we speak on the al-jazeera news hour that's at twenty one g.m.t. in other news rescuers in the area say around fifty schoolchildren have been pulled from the rubble of a three story building which collapsed in lagos but dozens more are feared dead as a primary school on the top floor of the building and as many as one hundred pupils were studying when the block came down. u.s. president dollar trump has issued an emergency order to ground all boeing seven three seven max eight and seven three seven max nine planes that's the type involved in sunday's crash in ethiopia trump said that any planes currently in the

air will be ordered to land he says the move is based on new information about some this crash which killed one hundred fifty seven people. staying in the us the president's former campaign chairman paul manifold has been sentenced to another three and a half years in prison on conspiracy crimes last week and of a judge gave man a four to surprisingly sentence of under four years in a separate tax evasion case. at least eight people including six children have been killed in a school shooting in brazil police say that two young men entered the school in the suburb of south paolo and opened fire before turning the guns on themselves more people are being treated in hospital for serious injuries and kurdish fighters in syria say they have repelled two attacks by eye so as they continue to push them from the last territory held by the group the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say thousands of fighters have surrendered or been

captured those are the top stories i'm going to have for news hour in around twenty five minutes i hope you'll join me. but i mean attention to these. things is one. of. the united i think of a company called come. along richard does work in europe the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week the case against benjamin netanyahu and the israeli media outlets the prime minister is accused of trying to bring under his control after five years the egyptian photojournalist show is no longer behind bars many of his colleagues still are colonial residue

governments in sub-saharan africa are still using laws that colonists left behind to silence journalists and a music video comes out of china in defense of a mobile phone company we begin in israel and the corruption case that centers on prime minister benjamin netanyahu is attempts to control the media a story that also exposes the degree to which certain israeli news outlets are willing to sell out their coverage elections are just weeks away and netanyahu is looking at charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust one of the cases alleges the prime minister agreed to limit the distribution of one newspaper israel high yom in exchange for positive coverage in another era not he's also accused of offering a telecoms company beza a lucrative government contracts buying in effect positive news coverage on a website owned by the same company a news site called while the attorney general handling the case says netanyahu even

had a hand in choosing which editors and reporters while i would hire or fire prime minister netanyahu is using the fake news defense calling the case a witch hunt cooked up by political rivals and their friends in the media it's a line he's used before but the victim narrative is starting to sound a little unconvincing our starting point this week is to. levy. family should be the story of. those who would do that if i'm actually on the or tell a good. little bit of a detour they slowly shot before the other version that. she do in new hubby and cookie group. in a big loud that he had to say only still able to feel the most going to. just equal

who loses should club. like i'm going to know it's a been it's. this is a first in israeli political history a sitting prime minister faces indictment on multiple counts of corruption and media manipulation the telecom and media baron getting contracts and bribes from benjamin netanyahu in return for favorable coverage show all the lovat the man who issued the indictment notice attorney general of the high mantel blinked in his written ruling detailing the grounds for indictment mandalit walks us through an extensive system set up by netanyahu to control media coverage of himself his government and his family its damage however supporters of the prime minister argue he was left with little choice of the cumana felt by the about that of fame and all the cases have to do with the media why was nothing else so involved in the media

why did he try to meddle so much with it nobody's asking that question could it be didn't it and we always vilified by the media more than any other prime minister in the western word zero nish clearly there's no prime minister or president anymore that's so savagely criticised day in the. well you'll be on the let's play a quick test this is the name. the thing that was most important to him. finally bring him down you know if they mingle with everybody now is a lefty everybody now is out to get him that made the ad that county ever so much and him is not big deal when with in the finale feel watching i'm not out to get you i'm just waiting i really thought that this happened because the prime minister's contentions that he is up against some kind of left wing media conspiracy failed the scrutiny test on the sat so i don't. need to do.

to the attorney general leading the investigation mandalit was appointed by netanyahu himself two of the prosecution's key witnesses reported to have provided the most incriminating evidence our former confidant of the prime minister and details of what is being called case four thousand involving israel's biggest telecom company which owns the online news site while on paint a picture of elaborate media manipulation police allege the prime minister's relationship with baz x c.e.o. alone which was based on bribes netanyahu provided besuch with government contracts and regulatory favors in return for not just flattering coverage of his government but a hand in the way the website operate police say that from two thousand and twelve to two thousand and seventeen the prime minister or his staff blatantly intervened

hundreds of times and on a near daily basis often calling in the middle of the night to demand changes in the coverage. there are recordings in which netanyahu speaks with lovitz who then passes messages on to align your sure the c.e.o. . so it's obvious that netanyahu tried to intervene we spoke with journalists asking them how come there were positive articles the next you know her as well of negative one. were you for or against explain that what were the same was the tip of the iceberg underneath there was a constant battle about whether to follow the orders that came from netanyahu over the editorial team to just do the job. looking at while workers a while or reporters and junior editors i think that some of them were maybe too young and they they couldn't see the big picture but it was not only on their shoulders it was

a matter of their chief executive editor and they rector of the company those were the people that did it. the netanyahu a lot of which relationship resulted in politically driven material like this maybe . it first appeared on the prime minister's website on the morning of march seventeenth two thousand and fifteen the day israelis voted in the last general election within minutes it was on wallace homepage where it would remain on the order say prosecutors of the prime minister's office met i thought of that video the arabs are flocking to the polls which is just pure incitement was on the home page for a whole day it was discussed totally ungentle istic and rather and. then there were dozens of articles and photos of sarin netanyahu helping holocaust survivors for instance now it's one thing to post such pieces which really have zero news value

but to then take down other articles such as the piece on the poverty report in israel actual information that is important that it was a disproportionate faith. in me and that they did i know things were as complex and detailed as the indictment should know i had absolutely no idea i didn't know that they were actually helping choose images for specific articles i didn't know that sorry netanyahu herself for sending text messages if we would have known about it would not have had any reporters that. case four thousand and the communications between netanyahu and is just one of the corruption allegations under investigation there's also case two thousand backed up by secretly recorded conversations in which netanyahu offers to support legislation that would limit the distribution of the country's most widely read israel a free in return for favorable coverage in the biggest traditional paper on the

market yet. the prosecutor's announcement of a coming indictment happened just weeks before an election in which the netanyahu campaign clearly has the media in its sights posters of. journalists face. also launched a facebook broadcast quote throw the fake. in the increasingly polarized israeli media space there are still voices the prime minister wants to hear. some of whom can be found at news outlets like. the. lot of the small animals that i don't get in the leftists criticize and

it's considered journalistic integrity but when the right wing journalist says he supports the prime minister and think he's doing a great job. i get attacked for my journalistic integrity have you ever asked a leftwing journalist about their integrity you never have why do you only ask me. one standard for the media. as to whether this. indictment can play in netanya his favor the answer is absolutely yes part of his genius is that he realized how to use that they often say that after each netanyahu scandal his party gets an extra two seats in the election this time we're right in the midst of an election and the indictment helps netanyahu push the idea that the leftist media the patronize him is trying to dethrone netanyahu has turned the media into the biggest game and this indictment

in my opinion is only making his campaign stronger conventional that's a lot of money much. more than you know in previous elections netanyahu built an enemy in the shape of an iran. and hezbollah today the situation isn't one that enables him to build an enemy from the outside and therefore he's putting up the media and the justice system to be the enemy they say they're trying to bring me down. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flo philips flow the egyptian photojournalist mahmoud it better known as shall conquer released from prison this past week after something like five and a half years behind bars but he's not exactly a free man is he not exactly and should undeniably this is one of the best pieces of media news to come out of egypt lately but one condition of siobhan's release is

that he spends every night for the next five years at a police station and all this for a case that so many consider a sham shall come as a rested back in august twenty eighth jaring the early days of the c.c. government there was a huge pro muslim brotherhood demonstration in cairo in which at least six hundred protesters were killed shot and says he was just taking pictures but he wound up behind bars charged with murder and terrorism it took more than five years for the case to get to trial and by the time he was sentenced shaka. virtually served out his time here's what he had to say when he got home says whoa whoa. he's also a. really. good host you feel well and. there are still more than thirty other journalists in egyptian prisons including al jazeera his own man hussein who's been in jail now for more than two years the same still hasn't been charged with a crime let alone convicted. ok now to croatia where hundreds of journalists took

to the streets of the capital zagreb just last weekend to protest against pressures that are facing the media what kind of things are they talking about so they've got a variety of complaints wretched they say they're often abused and threatened and that the government medals in the country's media but what really stands out here is the sheer number of norse suits being filed against croatian journalists more than a thousand and a currently being sued for myriad reasons under a law the croatian journalists association says is being abused the way this law is written makes content deemed shaming or humiliating a criminal offense and it's pretty easy to see how powerful people can just use that to their advantage and while most of these lawsuits are being filed by politicians what's with these news outlets that are suing some of their own employees so this is the bizarre pot croatia's public broadcaster h r t is suing thirty six journalists including some of their own six months ago fired her voice zovko he's also the head of the journalists association after he spoke out against

political interference and censorship at the station he's been h.r.t. for twenty one years and now the channel is serving him for seventy thousand dollars the european federation of journalists issued a statement prime minister under a plank a bitch to get to work and to take concrete steps to limit abusive prosecutions against journalists ok thanks for next we're moving to a media story whose roots date back to the late nineteenth century european powers were setting sail for africa sweeping across the continent colonizing country after country and once they took power they wrote laws designed to ensure that the call the nies to would not rise up against the colonizers laws that could also be used to silence censor jailed or intimidate journalists who refused to toe the line come the late one nine hundred fifty s. africans began revolting and over the next decade or two most countries would win their. independence however much of the colonial legislation remained in place and

there is now a growing list of journalists in sub-saharan africa falling afoul of those laws that were never written with democratic societies and the listening posts nick me your head now on the colonial era laws that still determine what can and cannot be reported in sub-saharan africa. two thousand and eighteen in the democratic republic of congo newspaper editors that were funny. was jailed for publishing articles critical of a bank she was prosecuted under a different nation law dating back to nine hundred forty when the d r c was a belgian called in november two thousand and sixteen five zambian radio journalists were arrested for allegedly calling a member of the ruling party a useless person they were charged under section one seventy nine of the zambian penal code which dates back to the british colonial times and in another former

british colony one. newspaper editor at the sunday standard published a report that the former president was involved in a late night car crash he was charged with sedition i told my lawyer that you know what i am going to plead guilty to save the ship because i believe i did that i think and he. will be but there was a change of government and the government has added to it but i was very disappointed that they threw the charges because that we need only opportunity we had the chinese the constitutionality of this edition so sedition. compared to a less well. off defamation which much more. is very specific to who can say it is people at the. the pinnacle of power

in any society the us sumption is that the said comments remarks views expressed have a potential of cost and national security threat or a public order threat one suspects that because the the newspaper was so independent then had been writing about other matters that was clearly upset in the government of the day that they used that as an excuse to move against the journalists the irony of course is that the world looks up and sees it as a best in of democracy and stable rule in sub-saharan africa and yet some fortunately sedition still remains a crime in botswana and it is used to close down the democratic space. which is by design colonial era little voice weren't written to protect democracy but to limit dissent when countries like britain france and belgium established the

african colonies in the late nineteenth century the new colonial administrations expected journalists who were almost exclusively white and mostly compliant to highlight the achievements of government perpetuating the nation of african dependence on colonialism they also want to be opponents silenced and a legal framework was created for that. but when the colonize ation process began in the late one nine hundred fifty s. and african governments started coming into power securing independence was the priority not media freedom and the new leader is so valued in the lords that they inherited what happened after independence when. black leaders to call before they were calling for free media but after they changed. they decided to use the strategy

that was used by the koran yet they are colonial masters and there was a reason for that why because the nation building projects the forcing of people treat now identify themselves as it says zambia in stocks now have to be centrally money store centrally controlled so in order to do that the new governments found it necessary to send a single message as the only voice that had their good intentions and everybody else was destroying what this government was trying to build our leaders see the media is an opposition. you know and. they don't understand the role of the media because the only generic version. of our leaders we're hiding behind this idea of nation building

and cohesion we contacted multiple governments in countries that still have clone you are laws in place to ask why decades after independence those laws are still on the books none of them got back to us. it's not just the legacy of colonialism that lingers on in africa but the legal residue of apartheid in south africa next month marks twenty five years of democracy in the country but journalists there still have to contend with doors that were designed to preserve white minority rule. nine hundred eighty two protection of information act gave some thought for because apart take government sweeping powers to keep secrets and silence journalists in the democratic era many of the provisions in that glow are deemed unconstitutional but that hasn't prevented its use a big surprise was last year when an investigative journalist. who had written a book called the president suddenly found himself on the receiving end of

a police raid and. it was. his stance simply because he had confidential information from the intelligence services in his possession he's been charged under this act and while the case has been moved against him it's still hanging over his head. the ruling african national congress has made several attempts to replace the nine hundred eighty two protection of state information act its version the protection of state information bill even made it through parliament. but campaigners journalists and lawyers said it was new only in name and still gave the state unconstitutional powers the bill remains unfinished business it's been on the president's desk for nearly six years now awaiting signature until then the a particular law remains in force. to start because aside there's an unwritten

cultural code in the region it's called going to the idea in african culture that a shared sense of humanity builds and binds communities that challenge for modern day. african societies and their leaders who are no longer united by the common goal of ending colonial rule it's hard to reconcile the reverence of a pointer with the irreverence of critical journalist not too long ago in this very same book so i'm not. criticizing a public figure especially political leadership could be city should be at fault but attitudes are changing as people begin to identify themselves often as text as messages in this way that their concerns these days are less about generalists looking good and more about the media or journalists not digging deep enough it's important that people realize that if they want to live in

a democratic society that there is no way that a government a democratically elected government or a post colonial government should be in a position to use colonial era laws of apartheid north to try and subjugates the population i am convinced that if they want to keep those laws in this they truth because they have a vested interest. and there is no way. there is no way disguise i'm going to go entirely to stop power to the extent of that journalist even to criticize them free . and finally the legal cases around the chinese mobile phone manufacturer huawei and the u.s. justice department are crawling through the courts the charges include stealing trade secrets and doing business with the likes of iran north korea and syria all countries under economic sanctions now a private chinese company has released a propaganda video of children singing the praises of huawei and who better to

produce the lyrics than a former member of the people's liberation army song and dance troupe as now put it the only way to win a revolutionary war is by mobilizing the masses now the chinese masses are being mobilized online to come to the defense of a mobile phone company only the bulk of the social media chatter on this has been mockery since while way has consistently tried to distance itself from the chinese state will leave you now with a snippet of wall way the beautiful and we'll see you next time you're at the list .

hello again and welcome back well here across the eastern part of australia over the next couple of days we are going to be see thunderstorms develop mostly in the afternoon and evening timeframe now we did see that on wednesday night as well you can see the clouds down here across parts of new south wales and victoria now these thunderstorms with the heating the day could be severe at times and we were watching that and that means it could be a large hail and some damaging winds across some of this area let's put this into motion from thursday to friday notice here along the coast you do see some of the rain shower activity and thunderstorms develop so we'll be watching that very carefully but for brisbane on friday it is going to be a warm day for you at thirty one degrees townsville about thirty degrees so plenty of sun in the forecast there here across new zealand what's going to be a mix of clouds and sun for you over the next few days particularly here on thursday we're going to be seeing conditions really not looking too bad for most of the area choice church temperature for you of about sixteen degrees but by the time

we go towards friday we are going to be seeing more rain in your forecast attempted there of about eighteen in auckland a high of twenty three degrees and here across parts of japan well things not looking too bad here as we go towards thursday but we do expect to see a little bit of a break in the weather before more rain comes into the forecast in tokyo i tend to view a fourteen. al-jazeera . hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes are you still write three

hundred twenty why the u.k. parliament rejects leaving the e.u. without a withdrawal agreement. a desperate search for survivors in nigeria after a building with a primary school on the top floor collapses with dozens of children inside president trump orders the grounding of all boeing seven three seven max a ten max nine aircraft in the u.s. after the ethiopian airlines crash and his former campaign manager paul man of forty is sentenced to another three and a half years in prison. in sport barcelona lead in the champions league round of sixteen match but bosses game with leon hit by violence ahead of kickoff. the u.k. parliament has voted to reject a no deal break said at any time under any circumstances m.p.'s voted three hundred

twenty one votes to two hundred seventy eight backing an amended version of prime minister to resign may's motion which rejects the u.k. leaving the e.u. without a withdrawal agreement now the result paves the way for a vote on thursday on whether to delay the process beyond the march twenty ninth deadline and within the last hour the house speaker has said another vote will take place on terrorism is withdrawal deal next week despite it being overwhelmingly rejected on tuesday. the motion we will table is the fundamental choice facing this house if the house finds a way in the coming. days to support a deal it would allow the government to seek a short limited technical extension to article fifty two provides time to pass the necessary legislation and trashy for the agreement we have reached with the e.u. . but let me be clear such a short technical extension is only likely to be on offer if we have

a deal in place therefore the house has to understand and accept that if it is not willing to support a deal in the coming days and as it is not willing to support leaving without a deal on the twenty ninth of march then it just suggesting that there would need to be a much longer extension to article fifty such an extension would undoubtedly require the united kingdom to hold european parliament elections and. i. i i. i do not think that would be the right outcome. but the house. the house needs to face up to the consequences this is a. prime minister speaking there well the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn says any extension to article fifty essentially a delay in britain formally leaving the e.u. is now inevitable tonights this house has once again definitely ruled out no

deal the prime minister said the choice was between her deal and no deal in the last twenty four hours parliament has decisively rejected both her deal and no deal one extension of article fifty is now inevitable the responsibility of that extension lies soley on squarely at the prime minister's door. well any extension to the date the u.k. leaves the e.u. would need the approval of all the member states evader say to reason may's withdrawal deal is the only one on the table. given your ilk if the united kingdom still wants to leave the european union and wants to do so in an orderly fashion if that is still the intention of the united kingdom then this treaty which we negotiated with the government of theresa may for a year and a half this treaty is and will remain the only available treaty. while lawrence lee joins us live now from westminster lawrence you've been following all the

developments we had been expecting that today parliament would vote against leaving with no deal so has the vote that we actually got been a surprise in any way well look i think i think i think we've learnt two things tonight's and there's and there's a lot of very big questions as well we i think it's fair to say we have now learned that there will be no deal and we can explain why the seconds. and we've also learned that the u.k. will now not leave the european union on march twenty ninth that's now seems to be not not going to happen it's all but after the votes by parliaments to rule out no deal completely under any circumstances they the prime minister now dropped this bombshell in terms of what's going to happen so morrow around the debates and the votes on seeking a delay from the european union based on that because what she said these that by only next wednesday just a week away if nobody can come up with

a better idea it is assumed her deal which is lost twice by two hundred thirty one hundred forty votes and separate will come back for another votes if it doesn't pass then she will go to the european union and ask for a very long delay if it does pass they'll be a technical delayed till the end of june to organize all the fifty or so bits of legislation she has to get through so it's a basic threats to the hard cold bricks it has in her own policy which says are the but my deal because they can be no deal now or risk no breaks a toll or a second referendum or whatever else they might be in a year or two a whatever length of time it says and so she's still not giving up let's take a view from blackfoot who's the head of the scottish national party. faction here in westminster you don't own rex's or what what you think of his behavior and promises not you must be furious yeah but i'm just absolutely gobsmacked you know the government has had the two of the biggest defeats in parliament in history for the prime minister's deal she simply said what seems to want to carry on is of

nothing has happened it's extraordinary the house of commons has voted she should respect that vote what we had tonight was a very clear expression that parliament doesn't want no deal and i said to the prime minister you must know bring forward the legislation that repeals the part of the withdrawal act that means the default position of the government is still that we're leaving just not doing that you've got a prime minister this ahead in the sand that believes everybody else is wrong that parliamentary democracy doesn't seem to have any of. victor as she's concerned this is an indicative vote it's grossly insulted from the prime minister this failed to give leadership over the course of the last two and a half years it's embarrassing for our democracy that she thinks that she can behave in this manner but just as just help me understand this what she seems to be suggesting is that there will be another vote on her deal next wednesday or here and if it policies then then the u.k. leaves yes but but by the end of june under her deal and if it doesn't pass then the whole thing is hoof down the road for folk goodness knows how long they might not even up and see what we are saying and that's right and yet well that is right

and what we're saying is that what the prime minister should do is have an unlimited extension to article fifty because quite frankly i think the only answer now for the united kingdom is for this to go back to the people people's fault and let the people have a say on this you know what do you consider what has what's happening here that the government itself except that our manifest risks with no deal less to medicine supply rest the food supply and yet you had hundreds of tory m.p.'s there were prepared to vote for that tonight risks to jobs less to the risks to the financial security security of our communities it really is quite extraordinary this is a government that's out of control. quite frankly the prime minister has to accept that she has no authority and i suppose since the house of commons has got to do its job if she is going to be foolish enough to ask us to vote again on the same deal next week i hope with we do jack that because in the end what you're being faced with is that the government is ignoring every defeat that is trying to blackmail m.p.'s and to voting for what the prime minister wants to millions of

questions how your view is open opposition policy the labor policy the that the welsh nationalists whoever else however you've got time between now and next wednesday in combination to come up with an alternative deal that could also be put to vote no short and i've been appealing to jeremy corbyn as the leader of the official opposition to work with us to make sure that we can put that people's vote the eastend article fifty but who might use for example soften your position and go for something like a you know a cuss. some sunni with free movement or something like that still leaves but in a much softer sense and we have sought to achieve a compromise over the course of the last two and a half years i think the right thing to do knows to put this back to the people i think that is what. that's the most democratic way of dealing with actually that can only happen if parliament votes down her deal for a third time to go i think i think we've actually got to seize the moment and do that over the course of the next few days labor has already an established position that says it will back to people's will let's no do it and frankly if if scotland is going to be threatened by being taken out of the european union this is

currently still the option that we need to protect our own interests and i would simply say to the people of scotland that we need to have the powers to have our own referendum and independence to make sure that scotland can be a continuing member of the tippit union as an independent country a destination and you know one that we can be proud of not this in shiver and weird looking united kingdom that we have you know i had a situation yesterday when the prime minister was listening to music applying to her and i was talking about the loss of rights that we're going to have that today that we have the automatic light right to live and work in twenty eight e.u. member states if the prime minister gets are we it comes down to one and she sat and laughed about this but she might mean she is in fairness i mean you know she she she she might not get away you the ido know how the hardcore rex's think about this if she loses for a third time next week and you get you know in the in the you then agrees to a year extension or late seaman's as something like that you might still get your way they could easily be no bricks which is after all what you want isn't it

absolutely haven't because at the end of the day any formulation of rex's is going to reduce economic growth in the united kingdom is going to reduce jobs it's going to reduce growth opportunities we can't allow that to happen the primary responsibility of members of parliament is to protect our conceptions interests but even with all of that what you're saying is westminster is not working it's not functioning there's no working government here with us real sense of frustration and scotland being ignored because our parliament and said that we don't wish to be taken. if you. excuse me scott has to become independent all right ok well thank you very much with respect if it's on a course that we're willing to say about this ultimatum that's reason make is not puts to the hardcore in the room policy back me or you might not get back at all is that the folks who are going to be amendable and parties like the scottish nationalists labor others now go between now and some or even support amendments to her proposal and that they'll get votes on suit but it is now very much coming sway

it it is indeed lawrence lee making sense of that for us there in westminster lawrence thank you it's going to nigeria now where the authorities say around fifty schoolchildren have been pulled from the rubble of a three story building which collapsed in lagos but dozens more are feared dead it was a primary school on the top for the building and as many as one hundred pupils were studying when the block came down we'll go live to lagos in just a moment first of all right chalons reports on the rescue effort. freed at least but not moving this is one of several children leads from the rubble so far the collapsed a three story building contained homes shops and a primary school for at least one hundred young students it's in the it's a foggy area of lagos island the original heart of nigeria's most populous city that would disappoint you i now know they were. draws near.