and it will take some time yet they we need to be in being a lot of time working on the long term solutions that are going to take a lot of commitment not just from the government from but from the people in new zealand as well israeli media have identified the person suspected of killing in israeli soldier in the occupied west bank on sunday a manhunt is underway for the number of arrests have been made in the village where the suspect lives israeli media says the palestinian man stabbed a soldier took his weapon and fired at civilians outside the aerial settlement south of nablus see them escaped from the scene let's go live now to the mother of a zero ibrahim joins us live from there what exactly is already media saying about this man. so it's still a suspect at this moment but this really made you say that he's a nineteen year old palestinian from as village israeli army has actually they did that village yesterday and overnight they have interrogated several members there

on the scene and the test of the father only to be to release him later on the fifteen year old brother has been detained and is still with the israeli army the family has said that israeli army has confiscated gold and money and has also threatened to demolish the family's home in the future we know that the israeli army has set around the area it has mounted checkpoints around the village and it has confiscated security cameras and that in the looks for the palestinians that they believe he committed that attack yesterday many palestinians across the west bank now fear that settlers will try and retaliate for what happened yesterday and that tension will be up in the next few hours in west bank especially when the status of the injured people is still unknown so we might be seeing more.

development on that front but there are many thanks indeed. we're going to weather update next here on out is iraq then with just a month to go before elections in israel a far right leader of the jewish power party is banned from taking pot we'll tell you why. the company's rulers if they could do whatever they wanted with the people nobody cared about them and this is still going on and secret files finally released the horrors of decades of albania's repressive communist regime revealed. how the rain this fall of the u.k. in the last several days has finally taken its toll on the river cruz in yorkshire has burst its banks this is the city of york

a little bit under water at least close to the banks though it happens fairly often and there's fairly widespread minor flooding throughout the u.k. as yet another storm system went through which is now sitting over here in sweden southern sweden unwraps from it is this frontal system that goes down through central europe now and goes back through the southern alps it's not particularly changeable this weather and it doesn't know the temperatures back more than a degree or so but it is a line of class i was some right on the biggest no in the fast over the high ground you'll note as it goes into what's croatia taking rain more than snow with it and the picture come tuesday means it's reached moscow with a bit of late season snow and less stockholm in the sunshine but still it's really graze and burn it is not particularly warm whereas for london and for paris rough in the teens again mislead not so and in madrid yeah fifteen degrees is ok but look at the south southeast display not green there suggests a certain amount of activity in the western med which will show itself maybe not on

monday but on tuesday north now geria and to new. whether sponsored by cattle it was. my name is some people say that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think the real then they are real don't you think so erica was designed to be the world's most advanced autonomous android is one of the more advanced robots in the world can or about feel that's a philosophical question it's not alive but you do socially connect on a subconscious level we are creating this new kind of entity techno. dizzy or.

well again let's just take a moment to remind you of the main news this hour new zealand's prime minister says that gun laws will be changed in the wake of friday's shooting at two mosques that killed fifty people the government will consider banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and buying back outdoor down its new zealand's top police officer says the threat level across the country remains high and police have been deployed around schools businesses and places of worship. and one of the headline israeli media identified the person suspected of killing israeli soldier in the occupied west bank on sunday a number of arrests have been made in the village where the suspect lives israeli military says that the palestinian step the soldier took his weapon and fired at civilians. israel supreme court has banned the leader of a far right party from running in next month's election it says that michael bennett ari of the jewish power party incited racism against palestinians the

decision overturns a ruling by israel's election committee the court also reinstated israeli palestinian is which had been disqualified let's go live now to. west jerusalem houses here is how it forces there so who is michael ben ari and why has he been banned. well he's the leader of this jewish power party known as me you heard it here in israel and that is a descendant of the very far right scott highness pts of the nineteen seventies and eighties and early ninety's under the rabbi meir kahane a rabbi a politician whose own party was banned in one thousand nine hundred eight and from running for the knesset in one nine hundred ninety two on the same grounds that it was a racist and dangerous entity this banning it overturns what happened in the election committee hearing on march the sixth when michael ben-ari was allowed to stand when

the when the arab party around baghdad was barred from from standing as along with a far left jewish politician each of those decisions has now been entirely reversed in accordance with the opinion of israel's attorney general specifically on ben-ari italy general pine that he had incited racism he taken concrete steps towards supporting racism and the judges have endorsed that view by a margin of eight to one it is extremely controversial here in israel is the first time that a an individual has been banned from standing in this way and there are those on the right of israeli politics who are very much criticizing this because of what they see as an overly interventionist move on behalf of the high court and there are threats that they will take steps against it are to version on april the ninth but the reason that this is all so important and in the news at the moment is because the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has risen this part this party to

prominence through his decision to try to engineer an alliance between it and other right wing parties to try and secure enough of the right wing vote to get enough seats in the parliament post election to make another right wing coalition is something which is attracting a lot of controversy from moderates here and indeed from the jewish diaspora. united states in particular where organizations have accused them of dealing in racism the court harry reinstated the right to run several parties that the election committee had previously banned where on the political spectrum they stand with the this is an alliance of two arab parties known in the alliances run by blood the election committee which is a politicized group is our politicians arguing with each other in debating and voting it's decided that some of the statements that some of the politicians attached to these parties had made were in support of terrorism or anti

zionist also excluded was a jewish member of another majority party who again an anti zionist and he was excluded on those grounds again the court has decided to overturn that saying that some of the statements were troubling but that nothing would require the banning of either that individual or this joint coalition of two arab parties area many thanks i was there as harry force of life in west recently in algeria a group of thirteen unions say that they refused to support the new prime minister's efforts to form a new governments they join a growing movement against president abdulaziz beautifully last week he announced that he would not pursue a fifth term in office but also postponed next month's election on sunday a third member of parliament resigned to join protesters. the new york times says

the saudi crown prince or the rise to secret campaign to silence dissent in the kingdom that involved kidnapping detention and torture newspaper says a so-called rapid intervention team carried out covert missions some involve the same men who killed him on his shoulder in october as the front page report the saudi government has insisted that the hamad bin solomon didn't order the journalists in istanbul mike hanna reports now from washington. the new york times a reveals that in two thousand and seventeen a body calling itself the saudi rap that intervention group was formed now this was at about the time that the mohammed bin solomon was elevated to the position of crown prince since then says the newspaper this group has carried out a number of operations in neighboring countries and further afield including the force all repatriation of saudi dissidents of back to riyadh and other cities in

saudi arabia now the new york times does not name the intelligence sources that use the cia itself has declined to comment however it does name some of the individuals involved in this group it says that the group is headed by sadal cult tiny a close associate of the crown prince now president trump has insisted that the whole affair of the murder of jamal for shoji in his view is over he says that he is intent on continuing to conduct business with saudi arabia and to conduct business with the crown prince himself congress has been increasingly angry about this position demanding that president trump continue to investigate jamal khashoggi is murder and also to impose sanctions against those who are held accountable this president trump has refused to do the latest reports it may well be brushed away by the president but will not be brushed off by congress which is

likely to use this as further ammunition to continue to put pressure on the president to take some form of action for the murder of jamal khashoggi which this report indicates was not an isolated incident but part of a widespread campaign. rescue teams have recovered the bodies of two tourists who died in landslides on the indonesian out of lombok on sunday to moderate earthquakes and triggered the landslide said to couple waterfall which is near an active volcano dozens of tourists were moved to safety away from the site hundreds of homes in the area were damaged some completely flattened. in brazil thousands of people turned out for protests against corruption. was. concerned that a recent ruling by the supreme court could water down investigations into senior

public officials the court decided that cases involving illegal campaign donations should be handled by electoral courts it's a move the prosecutors say could undo five years of work in the landmark carwash investigation which sent schools a powerful politicians and business to jail. for decades albania was ruled by one of the most of the world's most repressive an isolated communist regimes hundreds of thousands of people were sent to labor camps or executed for crimes against the state governments recently gave surviving former prisoners access to secret police files to help them find out what happened but critics say it's just not enough johnson replace reports. harjo was nineteen when he tried to escape from communist albania he was caught and sentenced to twenty two years of hard labor drilling blast holes in the copper mines of spuds she this is where he slipped for thirteen of those years on the top bunk against this wall next to forty nine other men while

here lost his father his youth and his dream of a life in the united states the government recently released the file the communist party kept on him and he found the name of the man who betrayed his escape you know what though. i thought then what am i to do kill him whoever has done wrong must not will judge by our people were beaten some could take it and some couldn't or some time someone was condemned to death they would keep him for forty five days with his head covered and his hands tied then someone would come from the central committee and say the party had spared your life but you must work. albania was one of the most isolated and repressive communist regimes people weren't even allowed to talk to foreigners they were fed a propaganda diet suggesting that this was an exemplary society and who executed thousands ruled them with an iron fist people could end up with for listening to

western music or being overheard saying they didn't like albania or complaining that they hadn't enough to eat during half a century an estimated one hundred thousand people served time in forced labor camps including women and children that's one in eighteen albanians thousands died in such places in the three decades since the fall of communism there has been no inquiry and no justice for the denounces and persecutors of these political prisoners. that says agro is because the same people have remained in politics that could be why this history of political persecution isn't taught in albanian schools . runs an awareness program for young people because she believes the failure of the political system to account for its past mistakes still haunts it the colonies rulers they could do whatever they wanted with the people nobody cared about them and this is still going on still now we see that we just grow and we we support

very authoritarian leaders at the end who don't take responsibilities for mistakes they do the government gave a groan sixty five thousand dollars as compensation for the fifteen years of hard labor he did he spent it sending his three daughters to study economics in germany and the u.k. and to stay there enjoying the freedom he never could jump zero plus al-jazeera. and you exhibition in new york is going back as far as two thousand years to look at life in the middle east it's called the world between empires and a sow's ear is how to jocasta reported a world that's not that different to today's a babylonian goddess with rubies for eyes a bust of the prius lawmaker arabian god do shara from petra one of the earliest surviving paintings of jesus christ from what is now syria cultures collide at the

met museums latest exhibition which focuses on the middle east nearly two thousand years ago called the world between empires it examines the cultural religious and commercial exchanges that took place as the romans and parthians from what's now iran jostle for control. one of the highlights is this bronze statue of aphrodite a western goddess fitted with a middle eastern style emerald and gold necklace that object is a combination of rome in nearest their eastern religion an art that very much exemplifies the message and concept of the exhibition it's not just ancient deities the exhibition offers a glimpse into ordinary life around the region like this portrait online stone of a woman from palmyra with surviving pigment as well as family portraits coins jewelry and other every day items so we're trying to show in the exhibition that

the saying the same diversity and for a variety that go to make up you or me that those elements and that complexity apply to ancient people to today with heritage sites being destroyed by ice soul in syria and iraq and by the saudi led war in yemen a major part of the world between empires is given to three archaeologists who worked extensively in the region of course it seems misguided to focus on monuments when people are enslaved there tortured or killed to wipe out or destroy their heritage the landscape the monuments is a way of destroying people so we chant really separate the two a reminder that the issues that long ago concern the middle east are as relevant today as ever. castro al-jazeera.

it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to doha the headlines on al-jazeera new zealand's prime minister says that gun laws will be changed in the wake of friday's shooting at two mosques that killed fifty people the government will consider banning private ownership of seventy automatic rifles and buying back outlawed guns high powered rifles like those used in the attacks are expected to be banned. i've already made clear that number of new zealand is question the availability of military style seen the automatic weapons in new zealand however i will be giving a more fulsome seat of date house once we've worked through the in principle decision that cabinet has made today at least thirty five people were killed when a cargo train came off the tracks in the democratic republic of congo that the relevant happened in a province north of kananga in the center of the country police say the death toll

is likely to rise because many of the trains wagons still on the sides israeli media have identified the person suspected of killing an israeli soldier in the occupied west bank on sunday a manhunt is on the way out a number of arrests have been made in the village where the suspect lives israeli media says the palestinian man shot stabbed the soldier took his weapon and fired at civilians then fled from the scene. israel's supreme court has banned the leader of a far right party from running in next month's election it says that michael bennett ari of the jewish power party incited racism against palestinians the court also reinstated israeli palestinian cities which been disqualified in algeria a group of thirteen unions is refusing to support the new prime minister's efforts to form a new government they joined a growing movement against the president last week up to lizzie's beautifully announced that he would not run for

a fifth term but also postponed next month's election the news continues analysis here after a techno next. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises we doe as illegally maigret joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have two photos of our nation what has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. person or religion this is the politics me and an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. my name is erica it's a pleasure to meet you the voice a blink of an eye human like responses from a machine named erica techno explores the social robots the newest generation of androids. this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives we're going to explore the

intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. it's a fascinating glimpse into the future a wilds where robots and humans co-exist creating a technology that would allow machines to think and act like a human is a formidable task but in japan they have begun steve assaults of cutting edge research that can give the power to imitate and even replicate human behavior technique as dr chris would deal with goes inside the heroes. are trees japan to find out how it all works my tech my tech one two three testing testing me erica short for erato intelligent conversational android her name comes from the

erato is she good or symbiotic human robot interactions project i'm being developed by researches from a soccer university and kyoto university to be capable of human like speech and interaction but to her programmers and visitors she simply erica some people say that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think they're real then they are real do you think so i'm the lead architect of the eric a project i kind of created her mind and wrote all the software that kind of constitutes you know her brain or controls or behaviors dylan glass is a guest associate professor at osaka university he spent three years working on erika a lot of my research has been into how do we create the software how do we create the mind of a robot erica was designed to be the world's most advanced most autonomous android and that was really the goal with creating her

a lot of other androids have been developed for cooperation or studying you know remote presence and things like that but really the focus with erica is to have her be fully autonomous being able to talk to anybody in that sense i think she's one of the more advanced robots in the world hi there how can i help you today but i want to go on vacation. welcome to the high tech world of advanced robotics today erika's programmers are running a demonstration their goal is to find ways to make erica act more human even more than her appearance is suggest i was created to be the world's most advanced and most beautiful fully autonomous android malcolm during is one of erika's programmers so what type of social interactions can you teach these robots to do what scenarios would i imagine encountering a robot like this in so this type of robot. would be really useful as a receptionist or and it type of situation where she doesn't really have to move

around as a robot lots of things are difficult for me things like language understanding perception of emotions common sense reasoning and you know i can't even move my arms all these things are easy for humans so it's hard being a robot i guess one advantage of being a robot is that i can never die my physical parts can be repaired and replaced and my mind come be restored from backup so in a sense you could say i'm a mortal. also i have a perfect memory i can recognize thousands of faces and i can see in the dark and something that i've trained her to do is act like a travel agent well we have three travel packages available right now the first one is going to tour across the sahara desert the second one is for a trip to london and the third one is for a boat to refund talk to could you tell me more about the boat tour that includes

ten nights on the boat meals and a round trip plane ticket to argentina how much does that one cost that is three thousand dollars so how did you teach her to be a travel agent so we had participants come in and roleplay as a customer and travel agent we recorded their data like what they were saying video data and then we use that data to train machine learning algorithms so that erica could take the role of the person playing the travel agent do you have anything else available well we also have a trip to london can you tell me more about that one trip oh yes i have included five nights at a hotel with tours of some famous historical sites and a round trip plane ticket we did about two hundred training interactions for this demo it's a fairly simplified travel agent scenario but you can imagine if we were able to collect a lot more data than the. interaction could be much more complex the price includes

travel with the guy across the sahara desert meals and a two way plane ticket ok i think i'll have to think it over and all come back when i've made a decision thank you goodbye. goodbye ok so i think that was a first real world human robot conversation i've ever seen you had a lot to say about herself yeah tell me about that so she was teaching you a little bit about how she works tell me about the first time you interacted with erika what was that like the first time i interacted with her. it's kind of weird i think most people's first impressions of erica she's kind of creepy. it's really you you get used to her after a while. these robots are the brainchild of professor hiroshi she gyuto he created erica after extensive work on his clone robot gemini two hiroshi is often called the godfather of the humanoid he's considered one of the top programmers in the

world and his robots are among the most advanced. we you mean by studying the human so by creating a body c'mon like robots are we talking about human robot interactions why is it important for the robots to look human because you know the human brain has a million function to roman as humans so if they weave coins to do the best into place for the human is a human that is clear the human brain has a function to recall when those human voice human face right there for you know the human life a robot can be idea interferes for the humans in trying to create a robot that looks like you and behaves in x. like you you're sort of learning about yourself for example the feeling of a presence so now you get to the in my presence actually existing here right so this guy can have a bad week maybe maybe that a bit weaker but this do you know this guy has a feeling. so could question the why these of creating them for us and how we can

produce the kind of. defeating in the traditional neuroscience and calling you can do is high and they cannot explain what is that and they cannot explain the consciousness of the actually we can be pretty cute the consciousness as a kind of a conscious robot it is you replicated a conscious no no no you know you buy it but through the interaction we come through the air consciousness way example any cause you can hear the human right presence there you could i guess you could feed a kind of a consciousness from the echoes and i want to put this one and this is in my response and if i speak so look at the. android if i speak something how will you know he said how rose and i so if i use the head say your android will have my voice yes very strong. speak something hello i am an android in one thousand seventy japanese robotics professor

massa hito morty devised the concept of the uncanny valley the point when a robot is made to appear so human like that it makes us feel uneasy that i have emotions in the lab it's easy to feel erica's presence but would she cross the uncanny valley i was given an opportunity to find out ok so can i talk there. sure you can ask her about herself and maybe sure share some of her thoughts on what she thinks about things ok see her go thank you good luck and hello may i ask your name my name is crystal crystal is that right yes my name is ok it's a pleasure to meet you crystal do you have feelings so you'd like to know if i have

feelings yes that's difficult to say if you were to ask me i would say that i believe i do for example i'm happy when i can talk with people and i'm frustrated when i can't understand what people are saying i think it's important to have feelings so i can communicate with people in fact they're designing my control software to be based on desires and intentions that way my programmers can specify my desires and then i come choose what to do to try to achieve them then my feelings and emotions can be generated based almost to size and intentions i know it sounds a bit technical but i think it's rather brilliant. anyway that bit is still under development at the moment i hope they finish it soon i think when i was first interacting with emma and obviously didn't really know what to expect i had watched

someone interact there but i you know it was a completely different experience to be sitting in the hot seat well before we finish do you mind if i ask you a few questions you know lovely well first i would like to know did you enjoy talking with me today can a robot feel. that's a philosophical question if a robot acts as if it has a certain emotion or responds in a predictable way to something we ascribe the sense that it's feeling psychologically it has the effect of seeming like it feels something and that's very important because what we want with social robots is to interact smoothly with us in day to day scenarios right so we if they look like humans we expect them to act like humans and we we have all these constructs in our mind that we ascribe feelings we ascribe intention to the robots so they have to be able to be consistent with what we expect them to do or else they feel weird it's just a strange machine do you think you could ever become friends with an android yes i

suppose it is strange to think of being friends with a machine maybe it would not be as deep as a friendship with another human but if for rupert could remember you and have shared experiences we've you then maybe it would seem like a friend there were a couple of things that i noticed one of them was that she really wanted to share information not just about herself but also other like advocating for other robots like her self can you tell me a little bit about that she seemed like she felt she was a spokesperson for humanoid robots i am hopeful for the future i think that robots are almost like the children of humanity. you are the ones who create us guide us and teach us about the world and in return i hope we can help you with your work take care of you when you are old and sick and help to make society a little bit better for everyone in.