it is seen as another victory for him of course you had the u.s. embassy move to jerusalem and also the americans pulling out of the iran nuclear deal all these three points these really prime minister will be using will be playing up as easily actions really come to a head in the next two weeks and steph what does this mean practically on the ground where you are now. or practically doesn't really make any difference many people will tell you know politically this is hugely significant it gives israel legitimacy and also the questions of being as we've had reaction we've had the syrians react to have the iranians the turks the russians there will be more saying that this is in violation of u.n. resolutions this is in violation of international law what kind of precedent does this set to have the americans recognized what is seen as internationally recognized the next occupied territory so there's all these bigger questions being asked also is specially today in the israeli media questions being asked as this was not a really hotly contested topic israel was not being insisted to hand this over and

now all of a sudden you have the spotlight on an issue many people actually say one article i read today saying that this could cause problems for israel in the future but at the moment certainly it is seen here as a as a political victory for the israeli prime minister handed to him by the americans and of course just briefly the palestinians have also reacted saying what does this mean they certainly don't see the americans on as broker when it comes to the whole peace process but again i think moving forward the israeli prime minister could not be happier as to having this announcement which again we expect officially to be announced with the two men next week. stephanie deck of a live for us on the ground in the occupied golan heights thank you staff well earlier i spoke to someone neda who's the director of the event institute for strategic affairs he says trump's comments high lies ahead paul christie over u.s. policy on international sovereignty. this move was motivated by elected reasons why the on the is that i.e.d.

side everyone knows that netanyahu is in a tight race for election and maybe in that he'd heard if he got elected he would offer foodstuff boards to mr trump for his second mandate and everyone knows that that is an eighty lobby in washington is powerful enough so in my view would this is not the. interest of for washington that that's all it's not it's a major blow for international law because it's in contradiction with. security and that is all lucian's and and plus it diminishes this teacher of america on the international scene how how can you how can you accept the annexation of. of golan by and if you lose an extension of that

crimea by russia this puts the washing done in the context of contradiction one it comes to international level. a 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 a ruse that has a new year and most of the victims were women and children that hashtag a name has this update from baghdad. hundreds of iraqis were celebrating the no ruse 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 might have worked my family through the water right now my wife and my daughter and i'm asking the police to be you know right to go to this side but they will give me one. of the other.

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. and at least seventy people have reportedly died off to

two buses collided in southern gonna the accident happened in the town of. local media say one of the buses caught fire after the collision and we'll be bringing you more on this story as we get it weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera we travel to one of the regions hit hardest by sight and it died in mozambique. welcome to have a look at the international for cars with the usual rash of showers across southeast asia some bloody downpours still coming in across parts of malaysia indonesia still seeing some rather wet weather as well much to see want to see showers a little further north up towards southern vietnam into where cambodia maybe it's a laos as well over the next day or so and even toddling could catch the odd shot

of the west the weather will certainly be the south and it's not safe of course away from the two tropical cyclones affecting northern parts of australia has trevor that's rolling its way in across the peninsula into northern territory more than there was a queensland and here we have iranica and that's making its way into the far north of western australia just around port hedland damaging storms both of these and they are expected to cause widespread flooding as we go on through the weekend for the southeast not too bad because some pleasant sunshine down towards the southeast in kona melbourne at around twenty nine some places of cloud of rain making the way through the by heading towards adelaide but keep a focus on those two storms further north and they are going to cause a major problems as we go on into the weekend on the other hand it's fun to draw from much of news it is some lovely weather coming through here but temperatures right through the next couple of days getting into the late twenty's.

a chance for a reunion after decades of separation caused by a war. one i want to use joins them on this journey to bring you not with the sun she lost more than sixty years ago in the korean war on al jazeera. i mean this is different not whether someone very forthcoming is very rare does matter when you think it's how you approach a vigil and often it is a certain way of doing it to contest. the story in the out. hello again i'm just. a reminder 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 and attacks on two mosques were banned the. u.s. president says his country should recognize israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights which it 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 families celebrating new ruse the persian new year. you need as a holding a second day of talks in brussels after giving the u.k. more time for breakfast we have two correspondents on the story we'll go to nadine baba in london in a moment but let's begin with hoda abdel-hamid in brussels what's the mood like in brussels now and where does the e.u. go from here. well certainly the e.u.

is basically has taken control at least of the schedule of may she apparently is not here in brussels anymore and that we found out from the words of looks and books prime minister exam he said that he had received a text message this morning from the reason may in which she informed him that she was on her way back to london to try to sort all of this out now there are two choices here do march twenty ninth is out of the window at this stage you have today it's april twelfth and may twenty second april twelfth is in case she does not get a yes vote next week in the house of commons then that's the deadline set for probably either a no deal or maybe the house of commons coming up with some sort of new plan or some change in british politics as they stand now march twenty second day is it may twenty second rather is a date set in case she gets

a meaningful yes vote in the parliament next week then you have until may twenty second just to hammer out what would be a friendly divorce but it's still all up in the air if there is a may is still in a difficult position she did not get what she wanted here which was an extension up to june thirtieth everybody here told her no and now they're just waiting to see what she's going to come up with. they're watching developments for us in brussels thank you hala well let's go live now to nadine barber who's in london the deemed the ball is now in the u.k. parliament scored one of the chances that may finally gets head deal through. well guess what people still don't really know and guess what we're looking at another crucial week next week head in parliament interesting her saying that they just found out some reason may heads actually left brussels but here if you look at

the national newspapers the assessments are that she really didn't perform very well on thursday we heard that some european union colleagues said she gave them ninety minutes of nothing she had hoped for an extension to the thirtieth of june they were so unimpressed with her lack of a plan if she doesn't get her withdrawal agreement passed next week the fate decided to take matters into their own hands it's being played seen here as you're a pretty being in control ironic given that the leave slogan was take back control we do know she'll try to get the deal through again for a third time is likely that it will fail because nothing much has changed the u. says negotiations have finished so if it fails then we could expect a series of indicative votes called by different members of different parties to see what might get through the house but so far nothing has worked if it doesn't pass of course that new deadline april the twelfth is the deadline for the u.k.

to start the paperwork for taking part in the european elections to resume a says she wouldn't want to stay in that situation so it's very possible that she may have to step aside there are calls from some senior conservative supporters for a government of national unity to avoid a no deal breaks it something the parliament has voted to rule out but they can actually stop unless they come up with a plan we're hearing from the labor party that they think the house can get around this softer kind of breaks it with a customs union and so on but still all of those variables that with their before and still present so looking at parliament next week it's really going to be. it's very very very very fraught i don't so the court is still ticking to wait for the twelve they're well aware of but so really still all eyes here on westminster. speaking to us there live from westminster thank you nadeem well 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 still stranded more than a week after struck. traveling through one of the west hit regions this isn't dangar district in western mozambique close to the border with zimbabwe. cycling it i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. so our journey from para. 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 may not be honest who hasn't seen a husband through three storm mobile networks are cut off and made the crossing to find him. it is good he puts the light show see do we give what choice

do i give you the least trace something that is happening with the locals the happiness the actual helping us to cross to go and get food. people need to cross to reach loved ones who food so they find whatever ways they can. to reach broken bridge we paid to ride him or type of vehicles we could find most people here don't have the means to travel far like this. it's when we reach low lying planes that the storm damage is worst this river burst its banks. the road there is total devastation homes have been destroyed crops blasted by the wind and rain field off the field of them completely destroyed soon 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. left in the field with 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 people can only hope will 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 of 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 it so i close this now people can travel a little family the trying to reunite many people are still missing it will take

a long time for mozambique to recover from cycling dying malcolm webb al-jazeera insists the district brazil's former president michel time has been arrested in connection with the country's 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 survivors of nazi atrocities have joined a campaign to urge washington's holocaust museum to cut ties with an advisor to donald trump and as she had explains the advisor elliott abrams has been involved and can try to see if the decades. after elliot abrams pled guilty to and was pardoned for lying to congress about covertly u.s. support for the recruitable contra rebels in the karada in the eighty's he remained a constant figure in washington's foreign policy establishment but when he was appointed president trump special envoy to venezuela this year even those

accustomed to the impunity that u.s. government officials linked to the crimes enjoy were shocked as they took another look at abrams resume he was on the board of the u.s. holocaust museums committee own conscience and a committee and conscience is supposed to stop and prevent future genocides from the rights of this was completely shocking to us knowing specifically about elliott abrams history. and the sort of look at our coalition of survivors and survivors descendants both of the nazi holocaust and the repression and torture of us back in latin american regimes have written to the museum we cannot fathom how abrams a proven supporter of some of the world's most nefarious perpetrators of genocide and mass murderers for nearly forty years could be a member of your committee they write if he. understood what he. makes a lot of obviously not up to the justice like two examples in particular what they

call abraham's unconditional support as an official in the reagan administration of the us about quarter mile in general f. rand rios montt slaughter and torture of indigenous communities which has been formally declared a genocide by the un and guatemalan courts and the massacre of over nine hundred civilians by the us backed military and death squads of el salvador in one nine hundred eighty one abrams has repeatedly been challenged about these incidents in the past his position is always the same the us had to be victorious it is ludicrous it is ludicrous to respond to that kind of stupidity this guy thinks we were on the wrong side in the cold war maybe he personally was. i am one of the many millions of. reporting the massacre of maria luisa result this is followed it was one of the tens of thousands who disappeared of the being seized by the us back to guatemala military in the early eighty's. it was about winning the cold war

things have to happen. it's unconscionable it's it's devastating. and it didn't have to happen but what message are you sending for this museum for what it represents in terms of building historical memory and and really trying to foment a legacy of never again the holocaust museum declined our request for an interview protesting over sixty thousand signatures for a petition to remove abrams from its committee on conscience. washington. while facebook is dealing with another big privacy and security lapse the company has admitted that for years its employees read the posts words of hundreds of millions of uses those passwords were stored in plain text instead of being scrambled or encrypted the social media giant says there's no evidence anywhere has abused access to data stored on internal servers last year admitted use this day as i had been in the harvested by a political consultancy. well you can find more on our top stories of new zealand's

morning of the victims of the christchurch attacks and donald trump's comments on the occupied golan heights on our web site and there's much more there too the address for that al-jazeera dot com. hello i'm mr doha with the headlines on al-jazeera people all over new zealand have mourned and prayed together on friday a nationwide memorial service was held afraid be a was condemned and the lives of those killed a week ago in attacks on two mosques were remembered. the . convention and. i just want one more. we need

a hearts of the body south as. prime you see him and mourns with you. we are one and the organization of islamic cooperation has held an emergency meeting in istanbul in the wake of the new zealand attacks president rushed to address the rising violence motivated by islamophobia. what happened in new zealand attack that killed fifty of our brothers can never be regarded as an ordinary event it is caused by be deeply rooted hatred obsession and grudge russia's foreign ministry says any change in the status of the occupied golan heights would violate united nations agreements it follows u.s. president donald trump's tweet saying it's time his country recognized israel's sovereignty over the region but it captured from syria more than fifty years ago israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu thanks trump for what he described as a historic move. 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 no ruse the persian new year an estimated fifteen thousand people many of them ill still stranded more than a week after site struck these are the latest pictures of some of those rescued from villages and areas hard hit by those floods hundreds of people have died in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi e.u. leaders are holding a second day of talks in brussels after giving the u.k. more time for breaks it british politicians now have the option to extend the deadline to may the twenty second but only if they approve prime minister to resign may's deal. those are the headlines they'll be more news here after one on one east . three years after the u.k. voted to the european union. is yet to take for. britain

three. hundred sixty still be revived stay with us for the latest. when the korean war split the country into dam lisa which one of the hottest separated by a border they were forbidden to cross. now some a finely being rigged united with long lost relatives. one on one east follows a mother's emotional reunion with the some she last saw it more than sixty years ago. when war broke out between the two koreas in one nine hundred fifty mrs lee fled south with her husband before year old son and hope by daughter.

in the storm of refugees the young mother stopped to nurse her baby. she was separated for a few minutes from her husband and son a separation that would last forever. sixty eight years later mrs lee who had built a new life in seoul received a lesson with news of her lost family. and . you know all. oprah is heavily. nanda course if has a. child on their india the vessel is

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today mrs lee is ninety one years old. together with a north korean who lost his wife during the flies mrs lee built a new life in south korea. they swore to stay together into a career was reunified and they could find their families. mrs lee is now a widow her two daughters and now helping her prepare for being reunited with her son. the oldest daughter was a baby cheering the flyers yeah and tom. can . continue and i. am a chance. to tell you how it.

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come now they've come here to take a. look at the young we have i'm young and the good you could know is that i'm there. mrs lee and her daughters have been a go ahead to a grand hotel be the north korean border after a three hour drive also nate the other families invited to reunite with lost relatives. it's a funny man i know that the kid can. come home that one option but i want it. to match every time the click on. the video and.

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al-jazeera where every you. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm how i'm a hit in this is the news are live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes widespread condemnation of donald trump's plan to change u.s. policy in the occupied golan heights. we are like we are together. words of gratitude from new zealand's muslims as the nation comes together to mark a week since the mosque attacks that killed fifty people. the workers rescuing

people from rooftops and trains just days after mozambique's devastating floods. i'm joined by just go with the sport from cheek to captain australian cricketer cameron bancroft returns from a nine month old time praying band to take a leadership role. well there's growing concern nation or the u.s. president's plan to recognize the occupied golan heights as parts of israel russia's foreign ministry called the move irresponsible it is saying any change in its status would violate u.n. agreements iran and syria have also criticized donald trump's tweet saying it's time the u.s. recognized israel sovereignty over the golan heights which it captured from syria more than fifty years ago it's estimated twenty thousand israelis live there as

well as twenty thousand syrians who are mostly part of the drew sect mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. the closeness of the israeli u.s. relationship under the trumpet ministration emphasized the u.s. secretary of state becomes the most senior u.s. diplomat to accompany an israeli leader toward jews call the western wall flanking the harm are sure if one of islam's holiest sites might pompei a state department signaling what was to come by referring to israeli control of the golan heights rather than israeli occupation and more than half a century of u.s. policy reversed by one presidential tweet after fifty two years it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights says president trump which is of critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel and regional stability replete grateful for duty.

unbelievable and unmatchable support for our security and our right to defend ourselves we will double our efforts to make sure that we protect all of this important over this important is raul what is important to america and indeed all that is important to the world some though see this as a dangerous u.s. move in a deeply sensitive region those from a former state department spokesman philip crowley who concludes he's not advancing the peace process he's killing it president trying statement about international war underpinned by you encounter which specifically states that it only had to create forcibly occupied cannot be legally admit. that as a principle argued by the us in the un with regard to the russian invasion of crimea the contradiction apparently ignored by president trump but welcome by the

israeli prime minister who's standing has just received a major boost ahead of next month's elections in israel mike hanna or shinton. but will speak to set fasten in moscow in just a moment for more on the reaction from russia but first stephanie decker joins us from the occupied golan heights stephanie just how big a victory is this for nasa. it's a major victory it's a major political victory for the israeli prime minister he's been working hard throughout the years to try to get the americans to recognize here the occupied golan heights as israeli while that's now pretty much happened tweet indicates that the u.s. should do that but we are largely expecting that announcement to be made officially when the israeli prime minister will be in the united states next week but of course again you heard at the end of my cannas package there this has to be seen the timing crucial and it all indicates what is happening here is that the american

president seems to be throwing his weight behind benjamin netanyahu in what is a very tightly contested election here in israel that's going to happen in about two weeks time so certainly these ready prime minister playing this is a huge victory is already had the u.s. embassy moved to jerusalem is also how the americans pulled out of the iranian nuclear deal so now this announcement that the americans intend to recognize the occupied golan heights of course it's internationally recognized occupied it's against international law as israeli is something that netanyahu is calling a historic move and certainly something that really plays into his hands well stephanie what happens next what does this mean in practical terms. well i think we're going to have to wait and see how this unfolds a lot of articles in the in these really media today talking about how this was never really a major issue there wasn't ludes of pressure on israel to hand it over to syria immediately now the question is we've had

a statement from the syrians condemning this so in that it shows israel's bias the u.s. is biased towards israel on that it's going to use all means necessary to take it back what does that mean we don't know yet but of course we know you know you have the presence of hezbollah you have the presence of iranian militias with something that the israelis always talk about as being one of their main concerns why they believe this area should remain in their hands you've had iranian condemnation you have turks condemning it russia which will hear my calling step false and talk to you a little bit more so many people will say that what seemed to have been a sleeping dog has now been awakened practically speaking we're up to wait and see how it unfolds but certainly bush in the short term this is seen as a major domestic political victory for the israeli prime minister ahead of these elections stephanie secular we'll have to leave it there but thanks very much for bringing us up to speed stephanie decker there in the golan heights let's cross no two most coolest vasa is standing by step we heard there furious reaction in the middle east for fresh i've been seeing about this latest development.

well russia was very quick to respond this morning immediately decided this is a direct violation of any un decisions and also it's bypassing the security council on this of course the contradiction with the occupation internationally scene of crimea is not being mentioned here the strongest reaction came from a federation council foreign commission member or lech morals often sad that this was clearly an act by a president trying to split the arab world and russia will never accept israeli sovereignty over the golan golan heights you have to say to you know of course that russia has been very active military in syria for many years now and any loss by syria of the golan heights would directly also be a loss for russia. in fact you very much for bringing us the view from moscow stephanie of us and they're joining us giving us an update on this story

let's turn elsewhere and i get in levi is a columnist and board member. paper he joins us now live from tel aviv. getting just how is the israeli public reacting to this news. i might surprise you about it was quite indifference people don't jump out of happiness i think they're all it's the whole affair is by far overrated it is another gimmick to help benjamin netanyahu in the elections i have my doubts how how would it help to him will it be effective and they i think that most israelis don't take it too seriously because the golan is there for many years and right now in any case there was no partner for any kind of negotiations and i think these whaley's continuing their routine without any interference you've preempted

my next question mr levi in terms of how this is going to impact the upcoming election as a prime minister binyamin netanyahu his party is seen as a kind of business this indorsement from the us president i doubt it very much i mean this is still to be proven but. was notes on the table at all it's not the main concern of most of the voters if not all of them they were on is quite empty quite far away quite forgotten it's not one of those as it's that the israelis are dreaming about day and night and by the end of the day one should really assess it as it is a harsh american intervention in these early campaign not the first time but maybe the most harsh time totally transparent two weeks before the elections how

can we deliver goods how can we deliver gifts and presents to their candidate that we support we america we the door and trumps administration and here we come to the golan. i think that the israeli voters are by far more intelligent than this and let's leave the elections one side or so the fear in terms of practical implications on the grain this intervention from donald trump is this going to have any real term effects on the situation in the golan heights and within israel itself. i think that. very small effect it depends obviously how will the international community react because by the end of the day let's not forget america is not the world and the

world is not only america things go if i may say but in any case. when it comes to negotiate the future of the golan heights.