as gulf states survive the control of trade along the horn of africa. we've got some rather disturbed weather coming in see parts of japan over the next day or so you can see this area cloud which has been making its way away clear skies to come back in behind for a time and then this never the next weather system starts to push a move to see some clouds drifting through the east china sea running across japan twenty celsius some sunshine around as we go on through friday but then we start to feel the influence of a northerly breeze temperatures fall back to around nine celsius in tokyo bits and pieces of cloud and rain coming in at this stage clear skies come back and behind separate cells is across the korean peninsula just thirty degrees there in beijing we've been getting into the twenty's mossad on the into the twenty's into the

southeast of china twenty five celsius but for central and eastern parts still some outbreaks of very heavy rain pushing through here shanghai clear through temperatures pick up to around seventeen souses on saturday with that wet weather will sink its way further southwards hong kong a much of southern china seeing some of the heavy downpours from time to time never say some heavy downpours into parts of malaysia philippines generally set that set of facts here across india china looking good in bangkok as well but some showers there still very much in the mix across the northern parts of indonesia as we go through the weekend. for. twenty five you off to independent. they must become. different. preparing for the possibility of.

very. true. hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour. fifteen thousand more than three hundred people have died since the storm struck that country zimbabwe and. britain's prime minister to resign may is preparing to defend her request that delay in brussels she is hoping the european union will

agree to a three month extension to britain's departure from the e.u. . and at least six people have been killed in bomb attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul the health ministry says at least twenty three others were injured in the blasts. while new zealand's prime minister has moved swiftly to make changes to gun to was just days after the mass shootings that two mosques all military style semi automatic weapons and assault rifles a band effective immediately when hay has more. less than a week after fifty people were murdered the prime minister just announced changes to gun laws that she says will make new zealand safer today i'm announcing that new zealand will ban all military style seamy order magic we fans we will also ban all assault rifles we will ban all car capacity magazines we will ban or pads with the ability to convert seeming automatic or any

other type of firearm into a military style seamy automatic weapon i just don't expect the laws to be passed in three weeks and in the meantime the weapons have been reclassified meaning owners will have to apply for new licenses the message from the prime minister to those gun owners is don't bother trying. the gunman who is alleged to have attacked the mosque sport assault rifles legally with a license he then modified them using parts he purchased online he was able to fire multiple rounds quickly the guns he used will now be illegal and the loophole he took advantage of to modify them closed on monday as cabinet met to agree on the law changes the owner of new zealand's largest gun seller held a media conference in christchurch he said he had previously sold four guns to the suspect in the attack but couldn't be sure if any of them we used last friday and

he wouldn't be drawn into the issue of gun laws to buy differently will continue as it appears will more life but this particular guy is not of their begun to bite the government says it will buy weapons off owners in a plan things will cost up to one hundred forty million dollars some have already started handing this back to the police but with no gun bridge there were new zealand it's not known how many are out there tell me the last week or so a lot of people been buying up lots but i mean. they're going to have to look at themselves of the hard stuff mayor and relentless on them that simple i think it's a step on the right direction something must change spaced on the last experience and some people could see this as a reaction. across reaction because of one person the consequences and what we've seen is this terrible and something must change the prime minister says the new laws are just the beginning she says one star past will be

a broader review of regulations to try to ensure new zealand never sees another mass killing wayne hay al jazeera christ church and more victims of the attacks have been buried and christ chats among them was the first person who was shot. out of there as andrew thomas was at his funeral. in life harvey dowd now be loved motorbikes so his sons arranged for members of a club to lead his funeral cortege nabil was the first and at seventy one the eldest person shot and killed last friday in christchurch witnesses say he greeted the gunman at the door of the al nor mosque not realizing his intent his family is profoundly proud of his spinal words of welcome on first day hundreds of people came to the muslim section of christ churches memorial park

cemetery to pay their last respects and reflect on his life he was the first african in new zealand any search to accomplish a mosque in he built the allure mosque in is the power there so many people are being buried this week there's a marquee at the cemetery in which to conduct formalities the greeting of and grieving over nobby's body his wife died in teary youngest granddaughter his wife distraught and a friend comforting one of his sons after the funeral. this is now he when he first came to new zealand a young engineer who established a business mending damaged cars he made a success of life in new zealand many friends helped carry his coffin. graveside more tears and more prayers eleven victims were buried before nabi

thirty eight more to follow all on our identified after days of investigation by police and the coroner now doubt be used to be lowered gently into the ground. after all the trauma and then the bureaucracy of the last week finally isn't about how. died but rather how he lived. he was able to do it and the legacy he's leaving behind. the legacy includes family of children and knowing grandchildren and the memory of a calling to my dad had a good heart a loving father to welcome even. a good man for muslim reserve. for our family three big loss let's make. will forever stay here but only his final words and now troubling.

al-jazeera cross church well a senior aide to to venezuela's opposition leader has been detained by intelligence agents as chief of staff for bashar maria it was held after dawn raid on his house and caracas well nicaragua's government says it will free all jailed protesters within ninety days more than seven hundred opposition protesters were arrested during unrest last year freeing them was the main demands of the opposition for continuing talks with the government in return the government is asking the u.s. to lift sanctions imposed against the daniel ortega administration at least three hundred twenty five people died since the protests began last april. well the future of algerian president. is in doubt following a decision by the ruling party to withdraw its support but that's unlikely to

satisfy protesters who don't want just the president to go but the entire establishment that's backed him until now. reports. for more than a month algerians have waved banners and shouted slogans demanding president out to as he put the flicker step aside now his own party appears to have deserted him leave. the members of the national liberation party fully support the popular movement and will defend with all sincerity in order to achieve the objectives according to a clear roadmap. it's a serious setback to the eighty two year old leader who many believed to be unfit to govern because of his health the country's newly appointed foreign minister extended a conciliatory hand to the protest movement the likes of which algeria has not seen for decades the could then and when she and she was the solution lies in dialogue the algerian state is fully ready for dialogue moreover it is fully ready to

welcome the representative of the opposition and civil society as members a new government that is being formed now and a constructive dialogue is the only way capable of finding successful solutions that meet people's expectations in the state's responsibilities. the demonstrations led by the young have already scored success which was forced to withdraw from the possibility of a fifth time but would also postpone polls which were due in april with no new date set and he remains the nominal head of the transition process. many protesters note ironically that they've asked for elections without the what they've got is beautifully and no elections complicating matters even further is the fact that protesters want to see more than just put if he could go they'd also like to see the ouster of the entire establishment that has backed him until now the which means the protests looks set to continue which of luka and his f.l.n. party have not ruled out jury alone also at the top table is

a coalition of business interests and the military on tuesday algeria's army chief declared that the public has expressed noble aims during the demonstrations analysts believe those words to be the strongest signal yet that the military may be distancing itself from with the. growing number of people in the philippines are struggling to feed themselves according to age groups one in five live in extreme poverty by on less than two dollars a day a national survey by the philippines department for science and technology found twenty percent of children are considered underweight with. thirty two percent suffering stunted growth another survey found nearly seven out of ten households unable to meet their daily diet remains out of there as. some of those struggling to earn a living and feed themselves in the capital manila. when war broke out in the southern philippines almost two years ago. and her children fled the violence they

made their way here to downtown manila since then her eldest son to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violent and like many others they are harassed because they're homeless and they're classified as illegal vendors later the market is hard when you see them haul away entire what is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say iran to have a filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of money meant more than twenty percent of them are underweight the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children with stunted growth. how occurs the most in agriculture and fishing sectors where more than seventy percent of workers are impoverished displacements brought about by natural disasters and continuing on conflict contributes to communities food insecurity the autonomy's

a region in muslim in the now has one of the highest tendency for on their way children and it may be attributed to the history of conflict in the region. aid groups have been feeding children in many public schools for years and the government has promised to expand that program nationwide and include kindergartens and elementary schools. it hopes to eradicate hunger and reduced on to the growth in children by twenty thirty on their it's sustainable development goal it's not being highlighted because. this is very abstract we only notice one nutrition if the child is skin and bones sometimes we call it behave that hunger even recall it like. that starvation of the soul because when we talk about that it doesn't only affect the body but it affects the whole being of the child

shane is twelve years old and for four years she's been helping her mother feed her other seven siblings they sell flowers outside churches and together make less than six u.s. dollars a day shane sleeps here on the pavement with her mother she says she dreams should become a doctor one day but for now she sells her flowers with hunger her constant companion . dog an al-jazeera manila. nine democratic senators in the u.s. are calling for the release of detained human rights activists in saudi arabia including an american citizen in a letter to king sound man senators denounced what they called systematic discrimination against women religious minorities and the mistreatment of migrant workers they asked for human rights activists including dr will lead for to hate to be pardoned he is a u.s. citizen held without charge since november twenty seventh team well al jazeera has been investigating the competition between gulf states and other countries to

control the ports along the horn of africa in the latest move by has announced a twelve million dollar investment in berbera port and self declared somaliland but this has been done without the consent of somalia's government are about and money has more. the port of berbera is located in a politically sensitive region in self declared somali land but the region is internationally recognized as somalia the united arab emirates has announced it's investing millions of dollars to develop perper a but has done this without permission from somalia's government in mogadishu president mohamad marjah has rejected all of the uys port contracts in the region calling them illegitimate for the us what they're trying to do is build gain more strategic depth in the whole of africa making sure that they control the coastline but also controlling obviously these very important some would even say the most

important strategic naval. live lives. in the worst. the u.a.e. is not alone in somalia a turkish firm has a twenty year contract to run mogadishu's port and turkey has established its largest military base outside of its borders here qatar has also invested in mogadishu this is just one area where nations are competed for strategic control between the red sea to the north and the indian ocean to the south the states have been able to manage their relations. very well. between those in recent years and there's a real danger that by geopolitical interests from the gulf states coming into the horn and picking and choosing their allies that the dispute of the gulf region may overflow into the horn the u.a.e. has been locked in a dispute with djibouti over control of its durai port lost his government cancel

the contract of the u.s. port authority d.p. world the case was taken to an international court outage abilities actions d.p. world issued a statement saying the contract cannot be unilaterally terminated at will the contract therefore remains in full force and effect but now media reports of pointed to china being handed control of the terai port it's not only commercial ventures it's driving these country's interests in the horn of africa the u.a.e. has both a military base in eritrea as port city of a sob. the u.a.e. has sought to acquire more ports in the horn of africa and the red sea but this is being contested by countries including china and turkey with this competition the whole of africa seems to be heading towards more foreign influence lure about somali al jazeera.

hello i'm a star and doha with the headlines on al-jazeera rescue workers in mozambique are struggling to reach victims of sight tony di nearly fifteen thousand stranded and more than three hundred people have died since the storm struck that country zimbabwe and malawi now where has more from source and then got in mozambique what we can see here which is a bridge really damaged when the rental rain like caused the rivers this well this river just a few days ago was above the water levels above where i'm standing now so it really damaged the bridge and took out a whole section on the far side the people have got on both sides in vehicles people are managing to cross by climbing up and down the pillars on the bridge with the help of a cable and scrambling across not very safe that people really need to get around to find out if their relatives who survived britain's prime minister to resign may

is preparing to defend her request for bret's a delay in brussels she's hoping the european union will agree to a three month extension to britain's departure from the e.u. and new zealand's prime minister has announced sweeping gun controls after last week's mosque attacks that killed fifty people just in to adjourn says there will be an immediate ban on military style semi automatic weapons. at least six people have been killed in bomb attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul the health ministry says at least twenty three others were injured in the blasts at a ceremony to mark the persian new year. a senior aide to venezuela's opposition leader has been detained by intelligence agents. chief of stuff was held after a dawn raid on his house and caracas another opposition politician says his property was also raided by intelligence agents but he hasn't yet been arrested and nicaraguan government says it will free all jailed protesters within ninety days

more than seven hundred opposition demonstrators were arrested during unrest last year freeing them was the main demand of the opposition for continuing talks with the government those are the headlines that the more news head off the inside story . he's ruled cause it's time for almost three decades now an assault on the suddenly resigned surprising many but does that signal a shift in the central asian states and how is it being viewed regionally and globally this is inside story.

hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan he's the only leader many kazakhs of ever known and the first and only president of an independent stunned now seventy eight year old assault on the as a by affairs unexpectedly stepped down but although he's brought his thirty year tenure as president to an end he's not giving up power he's keeping the status of both leader of the nation and chief of the country's security council the speaker of the upper house of parliament sconce him joe much to have been sworn in to serve the rest of not survive term which ends at the end of next year some human rights organizations have criticized him of suppressing dissent and sidelining the opposition here's what the president had to say as he told the nation that he was stepping down that area because of those i'm addressing me today i thought always dong in the most important moments in the

history of our state which we have built together through my address today is special i made an easy decision to step down as president of the republic of causes . kazakhstan is an oil rich country in central asia it's the size of western europe with an ethnically diverse population of just eighteen million people it gained independence from the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one but it's remained a close ally of russia which borders it to the north china lies to the east kazakhstan provides a crucial transport hub for chinese products heading to europe and kazakhstan has kept a delicate balance between its neighbors in the west especially the us with which it provides a supply routes into afghanistan. let's bring in our panel for today from al massey in kazakhstan we're joined via skype by yevgeny justice a human rights activist from paris we have alex miller his filly who researches

kazakstan as an analyst at the financial risk consultancy i.h.s. market and from washington d.c. we're joined by william courtney who served as u.s. ambassador to kazakstan from one thousand nine hundred two to one nine hundred ninety four gentlemen welcome to you all alex in paris if we can start with you first so the sultan as a buyer for giving up the presidency but not giving up power he will for some time yet be pulling the levers of power wizard of oz style from from somewhere offstage yes indeed correct here again for a number of very important positions here is there in their lives longer chairmanship of the security council which was significantly and power last year he also retains their membership in their constitutional. and that allows them to sort of return formal liberal or influence over political processes in the country so that's very important to bear in mind at the same time and we now have. gone

through as or what is likely to be. you know preliminary quandaries of what is likely to be a brand that the succession in place i'm running to be had by and but i have to tell you that today the unanimous vote by son of true especially many president the mother by an elder brother that even a lot of my one who has been a senator are twenty six going to become. bigger of the senate that's a very crucial development because it our signal they're likely down now think drug addiction which is called an. in constitutional terms ok we'll come on and talk about what happens next in kazakstan of who takes power in just a few minutes and courtney in washington during your tenure as the u.s. ambassador to kazakhstan you must have met. more than

a few times what do you make of him. president as a bio is probably the most skilled of the early soviet post soviet leaders he certainly. enormous amount in a number of areas kazakhstan was the first country to give up all of its strategic nuclear weapons after the collapse of the soviet union kazakhstan attracted the first huge western oil investment of any country of a former soviet space prison i was a by i've advocated a policy of tolerance right from the beginning that turned out to be a wise policy he's pursued good close relations with russia and china that's very helpful and finally present most of bias his national strategy was to open kazakhstan to the outside world to be a leader in international diplomacy for example conflicts star was the first post soviet state to chair the organization for security and cooperation in europe so there are more missed number of achievements in the nozzle by

a fairer that sounds great if any every country could have a leader like him why then the negativity around as a biased and his rule of thumb while the criticism. well in recent years. the forty's and kazakhstan have become more of a foreign terror really repressive in some respects so recently for example cousin stan has been jailing journalists been locking up peaceful demonstrators not allowing political parties as a biased. political party is the only one mostly lower house of parliament so these are signs of really rather than opening up moving toward democracy kind of moving away from democracy so hopefully this transition will allow more opportunities for political discussion in kazakhstan that would be stabilising the kazakhstan the people clearly want to have if they. do you think that that's going

to happen that this may be an opportunity for opening up the. political discussion in kazakhstan to what extent this is president has a bias in the lead responsible because it stands poor human rights record. patois want to add something about he's powerless after retirement he's still keeping the control over there. not on political party which is the only party represented in their local legislatures and in the executive branches of power there are two other parties in the parliament but they are right the spoiler was real opposition or something way that mr was above considers himself as. and compare a few self with lee kuan yew with then so p. and without that you work as the constructor and builder with the first independent cause

a state in the history and it makes him to feel that he is the leader of the nation as it is put in the constitution and. to move forward not paying too much attention to some kind of political pluralism with the mochas civil of law but the problem from my point if you latest in the ear is long ago because after the collapse of the former soviet union there was as they did distribution of the wealth of their private property starts to be too much and that the ruling elite and their representatives where they could be in the future is of this process of privatization and that's why they're very vulnerable and they need to keep power and to control all structures of power and this is what he was doing and this is the explanation why this crackdown on political opposition and the bend the media and city protestors are going well and even threatening but so how easy

is it again if you he's speaking to us from out our massy how easy does is it for you to to say that the critical things that you are saying about the government. i agree with my friend mr courtney that now that wife is a wise ruler he is not here create the soft authoritarian rule he did not. repress binik need the people who are our old spoken or critical and he allows certain kind of criticism and then i dependent germany's there are opposition of sense sort but they are excluded from the since the mad for belief system the political system has maneuvering if you see any card to freo threat and any leadership skills or mobilise ition potential he's cracking down if it is not it's still allowed to speak critically

ideas to fight before the us congress or you parliament that he allows to do these he's not he's doing it's very intelligently a mix. in paris. the president has another another year we're just over a year you know half even of his term this latest term to go why now why step down so suddenly now. well my understanding though it is that he wants to oversee the or they're orderly and as i mentioned to you glossed in the constitutional rules transition so and bother with has to do with the fact that he wants to oversee the transitional in a sense that first of all you now have assume you're not the guy if. according to the constitution was a speaker of speech speaker of the senate who assumed the interim presidency the intern presidency until the april of two thousand and twenty. and essentially

then the most important part will start as we approach the april twenty twenty presidential elections because you know depending on who appears in the mainstream coverage of gods of media this will be a really good barometer of who will be the primary candidate for the presidency doc i have is untested you know he's not necessarily experience with regard to handling the domestic matters and i have to remind everyone that just in february. then prime minister bucket subjunctives government was sacked in an unprecedented manner by president nazar by a brace actually because of the situation related to the sort of sporadic social and economic undress that where witnessing in gaza stand so it's important to bear in mind this sort of tentative date of april twenty twenty which is when

the next presidential elections are supposed to take place unless of course they are shifted further down the down the road from this point of view as i mentioned to you earlier the you know the candidacy of that again as are by of are is becoming more likely in my opinion because. of the fact that there are indications pointing to this which i mentioned to you which is the fact that just today unanimously senate elected her to be speaker of the senate at least means that according to the constitution again if something happens to dock i have in the interim in the interim until april of twenty twenty according to the constitution that are going to have biopics over so. what about the other on the other contenders that perhaps weighs in on the side as you mentioned.