the russian invasion of crimea the contradiction apparently ignored by president trump but welcome by the israeli prime minister whose standing has just received a major boost ahead of next month's elections in israel mike hanna are watching to . sami neda is the director of the levant institute for strategic affairs and he joins us now from beirut thanks for being with us sami was this a surprise especially with elections approaching both in israel next month and the united states next year. what is surprising is this decision of giving away a major card and the negotiations table and a major element in getting to peace settlement. everyone knows that the situation the threat to school in going on has been dead for forty two years but what is surprising is this free gift that washington is giving to is that i was any thinkin that he turned and giving away

a major car. a major card in the hands of martians done in getting to set a peaceful settlement so this kid is the peace process this is what we can take all. of this century and any peace initiative that relies on the basic principle that is land for peace and now that the public american administration is giving for a free land or maybe for electoral very reason but anything but nothing to do with neither the american interest nor the condition of a sustainable peace in the middle east and this process this will empower that enemy of the peace process what we call the hard line the axis of an existence iran in particular and assad's regime and it

weakens the parson out of washington in the regions because they look like if they were incapable of defending. the basic principles upon which. a peaceful settlement is so i think this move was motivated by elected reasons why the on the is that i.e.d. side everyone knows that's not on yahoo is in a tight race for elections and maybe in that he does. if he got elected he will offer food support to mr trump for his second man did and everyone knows that there is an eighty lobby in washington is powerful enough so in my view with this is not good interest of for washington not at all it's not it's a major blow for international law because it's in contradiction with you and security

and that is your lucian's and and for us to diminish is this teacher of america on the international scene how can you how can you accept the an extension of. of by and refuse. of could i mean by russia this splits washington in total contradiction contradiction when it comes to international law. sami nader there speaking to us from the levant institute for strategic affairs thank you for your insight sami and vigils been held in iraq for at least one hundred people who were killed when their ferry capsized in the northern city of mosul it was carrying family celebration new is the persian new year most of the victims were women and children as there is not actually going to him has this update from baghdad. hundreds of iraqis were

celebrating the no rues holiday at an amusement park in mosul when tragedy struck good. images on social media reveal a distressing sea after a ferry carrying an estimated two hundred people capsized a distraught husband and father of begs the police to take him to the banks of the tigris river and now i don't know if they my own i work my family through the water right now my wife and my daughter and i'm asking the police to beat me to go to the other side but they will give me one. zero bystanders were screaming some were jumping into the river to try to rescue people and some passengers could be seen swimming furiously against the swift current. in the immediate hours after the ferry capsized the death toll kept rising the ministry of interior noted that many of the dozens of victims were women and children the iraqi

prime minister has called for an immediate investigation into the cause of the accident however iraqi civil defense says it appears it was due to the ferry carrying more passengers than the maximum capacity recommended this ferry accident appears to be unprecedented in iraq it's also yet another misery to be endured for the people of war ravaged mosul who have already lost so much natasha going to aim of baghdad. weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera find out why police in brazil have arrested former president michelle turner. and facebook is dealing with and now that privacy and security lapse.

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hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour people all over new zealand mourned and prayed together on friday a nationwide memorial service was held away islamophobia was condemned and the lives of those killed a week ago in attacks on two mosques were in. the organization of islamic cooperation has held an emergency meeting in istanbul in the wake of the new zealand attacks president rushed up to address the rising violence motivated by islamophobia. what happened in new zealand he knew such attack that killed fifty of our brothers can never be regarded as an ordinary event it is caused by deeply rooted hatred obsession and grudge. us president donald trump says his country

should recognize israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights which had captured from syria more than fifty years ago. and the vigils been held in iraq for at least one hundred people who were killed when their ferry capsized in the northern city of mosul it was carrying family celebrating ruse the persian new year . you need is have agreed to offer the u.k. more time for breaks it postponing the departure past the march twenty ninth deadline but as politicians now have the option to extend the cutoff to may twenty second but only if they approve the prime minister's deal if not they'll have until april twelfth to quote indicates a way forward reports from brussels. if brics it is supposed to be about taking back control then what's happened at this summit was nothing short of a humiliation for the reason may she turned up assuming the european union would grant her a short extension to her brics if plan. the language of everyone else was more or

less the same ok a short extension they said with a sigh but only if you get your deal passed those threatening language had been coming from the french who would threaten to veto any delay such was their frustration but their president also warns that this was the last chance he didn't just. c.d.'s of course if there is to be an extension he can only be a technical one but we cannot have a long lasting situation where there is no visibility no and no political majority the most be a deep political change for there to be anything else other than a technical extension. but will make gave her pitch it all went wrong she refused to tell the other leaders what she would do if a plan fails yet again so she was ushered from the room in the e.u. started to change its plans there's a fairly even split between those who believe that if her deal collapses next week

for the final time to reason they will simply throw caution to the wind and announce that the u.k. is leaving the european union with no deal it's all others who think that is simply so inconceivable that she must have some sort of alternative arrangements e.u. leaders asked straight out at this meeting if she had a plan b. and as usual she refused to answer. the e.u. assumes she will lose her vote again not least because in her address to the british people she managed to blame parliament for not agreeing with her infuriating the very politicians whose support she needs. it all meant by midnight they were heading home with a new plan if the deal passes the u.k. leaves in may if not bricks it day moves from next friday to april the twelfth that gives parliament's more time to get the prime minister out of the way and find a new plan that would lead to the u.k. staying in the e.u. for the rest of the year. two of the key date in terms of the u.k.

deciding whether to hold utopian parliament elections. decided to do so by the option of a longer extension will automatically become impossible if this involves a further extension it would mean participation in the european parliamentary elections as i've said previously i believe strongly that it would be wrong to ask people in the u.k. to participate in these elections three years after voting to leave the e.u. . nobody needs reminding that no deal would mean a land border crossing guard and into jeopardizing years of peace backlogs for essential goods going in and out of the u.k. economic and social instability inside the european union what happened here was that the e.u. gave the british parliament more time to stop its all from happening and the prime minister could be on her way out lawrence lee al jazeera brussels the un's

describing the flooding disaster in southern africa as hugely complex and it says it will require an even more complex response fifteen thousand people many of them are still stranded more than a week after struck out of there as malcolm webb is travelling through one of the west head regions this isn't a district in western mozambique close to the border with them bob way. cyclamen i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. so i would journey from barrow. began in small boat made of tree bark. then a few kilometers down the road another broken bridge. the cyclamen split central mozambique into islands cut off from road access. we met machree on a sire who hasn't seen our husbands in for a storm mobile networks are cut off and made the crossing to find him. it is

good but what choice do we if. i. tell you something that is happening the locals are hampering us actually helping us to cross to get food. people in need to cross to reach loved ones or food so they find whatever ways they can. to reach broken bridge we paid to ride in more type of vehicles we could find most people here don't have the means to travel far like this is when we reach low lying planes but the storm damage is worst this river burst its banks. there is total devastation homes have been destroyed crops. by the wind and rain field off the field of them completely destroyed so a lot of people here will be very hungry. more than three quarters of mozambicans live on less than two dollars a day many people here subsistence farmers. what's left in the field was their food

for the year ahead. held. the only sign of it a helicopter makes one circle then flies off possibly an aid agency taking a survey and people can only hope they'll soon bring food and shelter. but with so much damage to the roads it'll have to come by air. the last broken bridge just before to morrow has been made possible with some blown down cables. and turning off the moneys trying to reach the town check on his family. hundreds have died. i'm a survivor but i have suffered too much not just physically but also psychologically traumatized is the first time i've seen a cycle of this now people can travel a little family they're trying to reunite many people are still missing it will

take a long time for mozambique to recover from cyclonic die malcolm webb al-jazeera insists the district sudan has summoned egypt's ambassador to khartoum after egypt's government offered bids for oil and gas exploration in the red sea so don says some of the bids are in the disputed how triangle the area which is controlled by egypt has been claimed by sudan since the one nine hundred fifty s. making it a source of contention between the two neighbors and brazil's former president michel tema has been arrested as part of a huge anti corruption investigation the federal prosecutor says to me was the leader of a criminal organization involved in decades of money laundering insists he's done nothing wrong that reports. he was arrested he was. an investigating judge accused him of being the head of a criminal organization the pavements of millions of dollars.

the charges are in connection with the construction of a multi-million dollar power plant three within an hour of the arrest. on the brazilian currency the one point two percent against the dollar. the arrests . into widespread bribery and corruption in brazilian business and politics more than one hundred fifty people have already been jailed they include the former president. who was imprisoned last year for corruption. president in two thousand and sixteen. was impeached for financial irregularities always denied previous charges of

corruption and this president enjoyed immunity from prosecution that ended when on january the first he handed the president. much of his popularity grew with a promise to fight political corruption which is long been widespread in brazil everyone must be responsible for their actions justice applies to everyone. to him a lift off is with approval rating of around two percent of the implementing tough austerity measures of freezing public spending for twenty years he'll have little support from the brazilian public but he was at the center of power is a many of those the associated with will be anxious about what he might reveal exchange for the likes of treatments and other presidents implicated in this investigation is far from over. brazil while facebook is dealing with another big privacy and security lapse the company has admitted that fee is its employees read the passwords of hundreds of millions of

uses those passwords was stored in plain text instead of being scrambled or encrypted the social media giant says there's no evidence any work is abused access to data stored on internal servers last year it admitted users days or had been illegally harvested by a political consultancy firm well larry magid is the chief executive of connect safety dot org an internet safety and privacy organization and he says with a company as large as facebook users need to be cautious. one never knows if there could have been a malicious employee with an organization that large there are going to be some employees who have bullish intent and also the risk of a of a hack if somebody had broken into that database having passwords in plain site is it's a very much against industry standard so they should always be hashed they should be absolutely undecipherable to anyone other than the customer himself the user even employees should have access to anybody's password even if we assume in the

best of intentions that facebook it's a very big system with a lot of moving parts and it's very complicated so i would say trust but verify and i guess the ultimate answer is that users still need to be where their. hello i'm. with the headlines on al-jazeera people all over new zealand mourned and prayed together on friday a nationwide memorial service was held the way it is on a phobia was condemned and the lives of those killed a week ago in attacks on two mosques were remembered. not i'm not allowed to write like he was a t.v. . you know you cry nice can you handle. an engine pity me i just write minority. we win the hearts of the body surface the hollow body feels prime you see him and mourns with

you. we are one and the organization of islamic cooperation held an emergency meeting in istanbul in the wake of the new zealand attacks president address the rising violence motivated by is on a phobia. what happened in new zealand attack that killed fifty of our brothers can never be regarded as an ordinary event it is caused by deeply rooted he treated obsession and grudge russia's foreign ministry says any change in the status of the occupied golan heights would violate united nations agreements this follows u.s. president donald trump's tweet saying his country should recognize israel sovereignty over the golan heights which it captured from syria more than fifty years ago an estimated twenty thousand israelis live there as well as twenty thousand syrians vigils been held in iraq for at least one hundred people who were

killed when their ferry capsized in the northern city of mosul it was carrying families celebrating new ruse the persian new year brazil's former president michel has been arrested in connection with a corruption scandal has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing his arrest is part of a larger investigation into corruption and racketeering and that's led to several politicians and business leaders being detained facebook has admitted that its employees read the passwords of hundreds of millions of its uses fee is those passwords were stored in plain text instead of being scrambled or encrypted the social media giant says there's no evidence anywhere because abused access to data which it says was stored on internal services well those are the headlines the news continues here after the stream. africa's most populous nation the bloodiest economy has a youth unemployment problem in a bid to control the internet of the future some say

a kind of digital. folding we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. and here in the stream today we look at the deadly impact of cycling the day in mozambique then we'll look into what we can learn from my space is the loss of millions of songs photos and videos and what it suggests about our tendency to rely on the internet to store our most treasured memories but first as millions of people are getting ready to vote in thailand's first election since a military coup in two thousand and fourteen we explore the high stakes and possible outcomes remember you can always leave your comments in the you tube as we look at this clip from al-jazeera scott learned bank. for decades thailand's youth has been politically active like in this parade held before the end you will rival

football match between thailand's top universities it satirizes politics here and one of this year's targets the general election to be held sunday many taking part have become old enough to vote since the last election eight years ago. and with nearly seven million voting for the first time a form was held in bangkok to teach them how the process works. and why it's important for thailand. who want a free and fair election. not and not just any election that. makes someone to say that ok i become a man because. this is. what people believe in. for more on this i'm joined from bangkok by private rosanna procures a senior journalist at khao side anglish private thank you so much for being with us i want to start with the basics i mean what makes this a very different election from those in the past. well for two reasons obviously as

pointed out it's been. nearly five years since the military stated coup and ruled. as a military dictatorship so. this will come. a time when the people all get a chance to decide and. determine the fate of the future type politics secondly actually this is the first time in eight years that. this will get a chance to go earned nearly seven million out of. fifty one eligible voters will be voting for the first time and on top of that you have. been tallied. general prayuth genosha running as

a. candidate to become prime minister of thailand again and. now i can go on and i will go on and what i want to go on with this is some of the concerns of the voters obviously there are many concerns a lot of people online trying in telling us what they're more more concerned about it's a knife for example on twitter saying breaking human rights watch thing that thailand's jointer has created conditions that obstruct free and fair elections people's right to choose their government are severely undermined do you agree with that statement and what do you make of all the concerns of this election essentially being regs and not being a fair election. well as i was just about to find out. there will be five hundred. lower housed or members aliments elected on sunday and on top of that. an added two hundred fifty will be selected and basically appointed by the gentle leader was pretty good and for you that was the gentle

leader and a coup leader and who has a point made himself prime minister over the past near side years is competing as a prime ministerial candidate again and this two hundred sixty people that's going to be appointed by for you will take part in the vote that would so late the next prime minister so one target of all basically has already been secured by the year that so this is widely and unsound and that doesn't sound very rare doesn't sound fair to. well i think to say that it's not so it's an understatement it's and lopsided. actions because one candidate or in the arse basically you know the power to appoint people will vote for him you know one target of the people which is two hundred fifty hours of seven hundred.

fifty people if you combine doest upper and lower houses and you know for those who don't know the intricate details of the constitution itself or even the history of thailand i think what will really you know resonate is a clip that we have which really illustrates how young people are testing the limits not only of speech lies but really pushing the boundaries of political discussion and it seems they have been rowing audience take a look. the public is starting to listen thanks to bands like rap against dictatorship their anthem condemning corruption politically impunity and the growing social divide went viral with close to sixty million views but. the rap troupe believe their songs popularity is the only reason they. want to pull and then went on a little discussion is good and he should be free no one should fear being arrested

or getting thrown into jail for talking about politics. private your reaction i mean obviously we know that video went viral do you think that's why they haven't been arrested you know we know many others who have spoken out in similar ways have been arrested what do you think this means for the youth vote it means to use feel that they have not been listened to and they want to have a role in shaping the future course of time and rightly so. and online public sphere. is growing. the internet has become in the new public sphere that will that enables to. ty's mostly young a lot of them young ties to deliberate condors and even aired there and teach into sentiment as are shown you know the the fact that we have seen just.

wrapped against dictatorship videos going viral with nearly sixty million and order i mean sixty million viewers well you know the type elation is just south of seventy million so private means you're going yeah i was just going to say whatever happens i'm curious because a lot of people you know commentary you know varies on this issue berman you keep coming back to this fundamental fact that the military is going to be in charge of the regardless of what happens is that true do you think. yes or no not this kill some possibility that the so-called troll or democracy slashed and each entire camp could muster and. say to reanimate seventy six forwards or slightly more out of seven really forwards that's going to be very difficult but it's still mathematically possibility are if the

production to parties gains very she you lower house vote then. when they would need to enlist the support of the center which will be appointed. there will definitely not have the same level all mandate or legitimacy so it's still not a done deal first of all secondly even if it wins he will not have absolute power as he used to. as such into a leader so he will become an elected prime minister but at the same time we also have to deal with the. the armed forces particularly the army which be a as if it is a state bit in the states and there is strong tension for states including a tar the current. has refused to commit themselves publicly.

in not staging a coup friends are not surprising but only time will tell ultimately private i want to thank you for taking the time to join us here at the stream thank you now shifting gears a look at the deadly cycle and that is completely devastated swaths of southeastern africa mozambique has borne the brunt of stormy day with hundreds of people feared dead the port city of berra has been virtually destroyed by floodwaters of desire as malcolm webb filed this report from has been a bear. when roche's winds ripped the roof off terry race he told his house she was terrified she ran outside into the torrential rain with her children just just so you know we were very afraid we were panicking but there was nothing else to do except move outside now i have nothing but i don't even have money to build a new house somewhere. she's among dozens of families who are now

sheltering in school he would newtown of their barracks in mozambique they've been homeless since cycling need i swept across the country after reaching mozambique's coast on thursday. many villages and now completely cut off. al jazeera as malcolm webb has been covering the aftermath of the cycle in mozambique he joins us from the city of timor you and in geneva we have matthew cochrane he's the spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies gentlemen thank you for being with us i want to start by asking you malcolm where are the efforts i mean how would you categorize this given all you've been witnessing on the ground there very good i mean. again i'm just wondering i mean where are the efforts now in terms of being able to provide the immediate aid that people who are victims of this are need to.

be able to kind of a bit more about. what we. part of the country people know. i mean i know the prime.