the children of apartheid seven east on as they grow and develop their countries fourteen up south africa part two on al-jazeera. zero. zero i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up the end of an era algeria as powerful army chief triggers the constitutional process that would declare president abdelaziz bouteflika unfit for office zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero the move comes as mass protests against beautifully because twenty year rule continue across the country. israel sends tanks to the

gaza border following monday's exchange of fire as prime minister benjamin netanyahu threatens further action. we took all forms so we need to leave. cleaning up after. some survivors in mozambique are accusing the government of ignoring them. and sport another big night of action and euro twenty twenty qualifying plot a man convicted of stabbing double wimbledon champion patrick a bit about is sentenced to eight years in prison. welcome to the program we begin in algeria where the head of the army has triggered a constitutional move that would see president abdelaziz bouteflika declared unfit for office a red direct intervention by the military follows weeks of protests. against the

eighty two year old who has led the country for twenty years but he's rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke six years ago well matheson reports. the head of algeria as army announcing what could be a significant moment in the country's history requesting the removal of president abdelaziz bouteflika from office but that's in this regard we need to find a solution to sort out this crisis and to respond to the demands of algeria within the constitution and within the sovereignty of the country in order to achieve that consensus and to achieve something that is accepted by all parties beautifully has been in power for twenty years he's been credited with revitalizing algae riza colony and ending fighting with armed groups in the one nine hundred ninety s. which killed tens of thousands but he's now eighty two and his health has been poor especially since suffering a stroke six years ago his critics say he's become little more than a front man for military and business leaders who his opponents say really run the

country. weeks of growing protests finally forced beautifully to refer to his announcement to stand for a fifth term he also postponed next month's presidential election a decision designed his critics say to keep him in office algeria's military leaders have been some of beautifully his strongest supporters now they seem to be abandoning him article one zero two areas constitution says a president should be removed from office if the constitutional council decides he's unable to carry out his duties because of a long term illness if two thirds of parliament agrees the chairman of the upper house will become acting president if we follow the constitution's model that's the same people who are allowed in the country at the moment we've been in it for the foreseeable future than forty five days like today's depending on the situation the elections. we would make you know. constitutional or legal

arrangement so the game we put it would be would be played according to the rules that exist today and this is what the people have been calling for or against basically they don't want the politics to continue under disables the lizzie's beautifully his hold on power appears to be slipping but some of his critics fear his allies are determined to remain in iraq matheson al-jazeera i'm above occur is a research fellow at the school of advanced studies in the social sciences she joins us now from algiers via skype thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us so is this attempt by the army to remove president hu to fake a light play to win the support of the protesters who have shown themselves to be very ambitious and determined. well to understand this no we have to put it in the context of the techniques that has been used by the military power since ninety sixty two to save in place the usually when they lack legitimacy they

usually create an institutional kravis well and present themselves partly on the actor's evill to saw this crazy as it saw in one thousand nine hundred sixty two by multiple izing did you constitutions have somebody did that in one hundred sixty five where there were at the end of the coup against the president there that are saying that only the military was to the city will be able to early in the country to watch their merely blue shirt and so on and so far that it did that of course in the ninety's and they did that was bookie a kind that like saying that now to see what will ever end that will feel have a syrian president will be the one responsible to lead the transition and that's the i wouldn't want to interfere in point six anymore what is offering today is not the time that you have to slow or talk or is this as usual that the air after the

heemskirk presidential legitimacy that the army has trying to use the values in a couple the past twenty years so that's much more important than just what happened before it's not a nice carry coupe that we should not understand it has such it's much more overweight on impulse ability to continue the regime so what basically they are trying to do is to organize new one of the actions and to have a new law can do so just just to be clear about this from just from what you're saying is you've given us a lot of history and context but the point is it's about the preservation of the regime essentially nothing changes as a result of this is that what you're saying. yeah order that the visit to the region of the need to be insured and that it's really the ship over at the transition and already who all the other questions have to let it be that that's politically connected from the demand of the of the places the strip have asked for

not all of them to some of them have asked for the army to maybe interfere in order to make sure the strong mission will be in the hands of the people that the electoral institutions will be nude and empty from all cars to. tend to use all corruptions and woke up to people that's not what the army is offering to inflict on the people and that's why the twelve you told me about by the people and by the doctors and that's why they have already asked for google tradition try that. thank you very much i'm a good worker giving us some insight there from inside the country when our article want to chew on the algerian constitution means that if the president is believed to be unable to perform his duties because of a lasting illness then algeria's constitutional council has to assess his condition if it unanimously agrees that the president cannot continue it informs the

parliament which then has to vote two thirds of parliament has to support the removal of the president before any action can be taken the chairman of the upper house will then assume a caretaker role for forty five days if the president's illness last longer than that well then elections can be called so joining me in the studio now is a. political analyst and managing director of global strategy for coming in to join us tell us more about the steps that will ensue if and when this constitutional process is triggered it book will we will have as a caretaker as you mentioned the head of the senate. but that is a part of the regime and then they will have ninety days to organize elections but under the governance of the government with the new prime minister which is also part of the regime so the main issue as your previous guests say is that it's business as usual when you think about it they overturned

a constitution when first they decided that the difficult didn't need to be physically there to depose a skin to see but also the fact that it wasn't viewed by doctors too or says the fact that he could run. everybody knows that since two thousand and thirteen years and been able to speak at least in public so the regime and the power as we say behind him has whitted six years to get this situation and it's the people behind him that's important the so-called prove what we've been hearing from general ahmed gates who are the possible contenders for. so it's been a triumph very behind. it's as you say the head of the army sylar side to flick of a difficult brother but also the head of the security services general tar tag you have to remember that in the past eighteen months there's been a huge purge of people within the army within the security services people that

were against the to flicka if you will and they were in their fifty's salaries seventy nine and. as the wrong last name to run saw they will find if you will a puppet to basically run but that will be part of the regime and that's why demonstrations are going to continue because there is just some fairy dust sent for to the people right and and of course but do you anticipate that there will be a presidential parliamentary election in the coming months if the regime wants to keep its power they have to run the elections quickly so the opposition the real opposition cannot organize themselves but with what mean but really what are the prospects for the opposition the country left free speech is restricted in state institutions support the regime anyway for now nothing because the opposition as such doesn't exists so they will need to build

a civil society so in the long run algerians are better off dealing as much as possible the elections to have free and fair elections not the elections that are. basically prepared and planned and we know the winner before hand as he said people are not likely to be satisfied with this will that be do the protests returning to bloodshed or will it just be this continuous eban flare. hopefully we will avoid bloodshed but you have to remember that the people behind put a flicker of a lot to lose in terms of controlling the country but also controlling the wealth of the country and we might find out that a lot of the world has been squandered around thank you very much for your analysis olivier joining us from global strike thank you well still ahead for you on the news hour what lies ahead for the u.k. prime minister two reason may is m.p.'s prepared to vote on

a range of alternative options tomorrow the united nations describes venezuela's refugee exodus as the worst crisis in latin america we meet some of those who fled . and in sports have we seen the last of mixed martial arts biggest stars will have the details that makes our. israel's prime minister is threatening further action against gaza amid the biggest israeli palestinian escalation in months on monday the israeli military responded to a palestinian rocket attack with a wave of strikes in the past few hours have been reports of sirens sounding in southern israel and a rocket landing there and in the past few minutes there are reports of israeli war jets again targeting sites in the south gaza strip hairy force it has more from the gaza border. after a night of israeli bombardment and rocket fire from gaza israeli tanks remain close

to the border on tuesday israel had warned of a broader response to the recent escalations that threat was very much on show despite relative calm and talk from hamas of a cease fire the increased tension caused israel's prime minister to return home early from his u.s. trip a speech he'd planned to give to the influential a park jewish lobby conference in washington was instead delivered by video link. we are prepared to do a lot more we will do what is necessary to defend our people and to defend our state. the israeli air force struck targets throughout the besieged strip on monday night including multi-story buildings in the heart of gaza city. and the first rockets which was a warning was fired then the second and third were fired to the north and east of the building five minutes later the whole building was hit and we didn't know where to go. among the destroyed buildings the office of hamas is political leader ismail

haniya and insurance headquarters that israel said housed hamas military intelligence and a building belonging to its internal security all that following a rocket launched from gaza that struck a family home north of tel aviv early on monday seven people were injured. earlier this month hamas said two rockets that landed in tel aviv were fired accidentally how is investigating this latest launch i think we have no intention do it today that it gets today i add to this immediate or to be some homes i think people have tried to to direct this to the military targets and there but maybe sometimes they could not do that because then they have no technical politicking the. tool to do that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has condemned what he called the israeli escalation the p.l.o. leadership accuse the israeli prime minister of trying to use the situation to his

benefit before next month's general election. benjamin netanyahu has been criticized by opponents from the right and left of israeli politics over his gaza policy his main rival in the election the former army chief benny gantz accused him of failing to contain and deter the sufficiently strong military action netanyahu has options of fraud most analysts agree he doesn't want an unpredictable war on the eve of an election but at the same time he's under pressure to project military strength israel's domestic politics adding to the volatile mix on its border with gaza ari force at al-jazeera southern israel. where the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process has called for an urgent deescalation to gaza crisis and made the comment city un security council meeting but he didn't discuss the occupied golan heights james base has more. the security council is watching the fast moving events on the ground but seems no closer to

taking any action despite a grim briefing from the top u.n. official normally based in jerusalem a new conflict will be devastating for the palestinian people it will have consequences for israelis who live in the vicinity of the gaza perimeter and it is likely to have regional repercussions as he spoke inside the security council his boss was answering reporters' questions outside the chamber and can we have your comments on the current bombardment in gaza and can you tell us whether you believe that the recognition by president trump of the golan heights as israeli will hinder peace efforts we were clear in the condemnation of the rocket attack but now we believe it's absolutely necessary to avoid any scaling up and to have restraint and i would appeal is forty strain on the other hand i think the two seeing this connected but it is our position in relation to the golan heights is very clear it

comes clearly established by the resolutions of the security council and on that issue some of the u.s. is closest allies in the five e.u. members of the council terry read out a joint statement making it clear they disagreed with president trumps action any declare ation of for unilateral border change goes against the foundation of the rules based international order and the u.n. charter. comments like that the rebuke in washington from the u.s. secretary of state case we're simply recognizing facts on the ground and the reality and doing the right thing we hope those nations will join us to understand how important it is how right it is ever since president trump took office the security council hasn't passed any resolutions or made any statements on this issue they've been ceding the main diplomatic role to the administration and in particular to the president's son in law jared cushion however increasingly

ambassadors are becoming an easy in the security council meeting the french ambassador said the silence of this council on this issue is becoming deafening james outers era of the united nations people in the occupied west bank as staging sit ins in solidarity with thousands of palestinians in israeli jails prisoners threatening to begin hunger strikes on april seventh the date of israel's elections to protest worsening living conditions and abraham has more from ramallah. so how does he fear for the lives of their loved ones in israeli jails particularly after this trial if tension their. son has been in prison for the past fifteen years and she follows his news. we're concerned for their health these three prison service is ready to a skill for that we call upon human rights organizations to stand by them to

pressure the israelis not to harm the prisoners but the. the current escalation started when israel prison service began installing signal jamming devices in prisons while they say it's an attempt to stop palestinian prisoners from using cellular phones palestinians see it seems to isolate them further and cause cancer . oh. the this issue is very close to the hearts of many palestinians hundreds of thousands of them have been imprisoned at some point in their lives in the past few decades and palestinian officials say that around five thousand five hundred palestinians are currently in jail the charity save the children says seven people have been killed in an air strike on a hospital it supports in yemen the agency says a missile struck a gas station near the entrance to the hospital just outside the city of sodom in the northwest of the country four children i said to be among the dead british m.p.'s are preparing to vote on a range of alternative bricks and options on wednesday after parliament voted to

take control of the process of the u.k. leaving the european union it's a major defeat for prime minister to resign may he still hoping to get a break that would draw parliament this week well that's despite the agreement being rejected by u.k. m.p.'s twice already or a challenge reports. persons ministers are in a hurry these days often with little time for questions if you know what. we compromise them days they had to emergency downing street meetings cabinet meetings parliamentary sessions but whether taking the country still isn't clear despite the haste britain's government is paralyzed big ben's newly restored clockface was revealed this week a reminder as if m.p.'s needed one that time is ticking on wednesday they'll hold so-called indicative votes and attempt to choose an alternative to to reason may's withdrawal agreement the divorce deal with the e.u. that parliament has rejected twice but will she listens to them it is the prime

sways being clear that it's negotiation between ourselves and you. and it couldn't express to you it may be entirely undeliverable thank you so parliaments bracks it options that the prime minister may or may not agree to m.p.'s have voted against no deal already but it's still the default if they can't agree on anything else by a pull the twelfth nearly six million people have signed a petition urging them to revoke article fifty staying in the customs union wouldn't please iraq skeptics they want complete trade independence the softest of all breaks its would keep the u.k. in the customs union and the common market but it couldn't help make the rules anymore a canada style deal really would cut ties but trade deals take years to negotiate and the irish border would still be a problem a second referendum could reappear if m.p.'s want to put whatever they choose to the people with staying in the e.u. as the alternative and then there's the deal that won't die most m.p.'s hate it in

the commons speaker doesn't want it back but the reason may could try again anyway some of the deals fiercest critics are softening the brick city m.p. jacob reece morg suggests he might support it if the alternative and stay in the e.u. . becomes the choice of eventual weather with yetta's and all of nasa but i've always thought that no deal is better than mrs may's deal with mrs may's deal is better than not leaving at all still as there are many politicians including those from northern ireland's democratic unionist party who remain opposed to the prime minister doesn't yet have the numbers on wednesday she will meet with conservative party backbenchers and there is speculation that this most dog of leaders will tell them when she resigned perhaps that's the price of getting her deal over the line rory's allan's al-jazeera london. united nations says venezuela's refugee exodus is the worst crisis in latin america of the three

million who fled in recent is one million have entered neighboring colombia that's where the un's refugee agency has set up its first center to help the most vulnerable. she met some of those refugees in my cow. it's an image more often associated with countries real refugees are fleeing from war while the stains in the desert of northern colombia might seem a surprising sight they could become an increasingly common one like thousands of others yet became unable to feed their three children in neighboring been a swell she took a chance moving them here and soon ended up sleeping on the dusty streets of the border city of michel i've looked at us and we slept on the side. it was scary and it was difficult to find food i would skip meals to feed them i needed to eat to feed the little one i would worry and cry until they pull me to this camp. this is

the first camp the united nations refugee agency has built in colombia where more than a million venezuelans of sought refuge from hunger and shortages. the un's not calling a refugee camp but a migrant center where the most vulnerable state temporarily to gather their strength. diana sorry ass is relieved to leave the desperation back home behind her and says every meal for her daughter bridges or joy was. they still when we were screened they told me she was underweight thank god she gained weight since be brought here and is recovering fairly well until recently the colombian authorities had resisted the idea of opening camps like this one fearing they would have convince more people to leave but with more and more families arriving from venezuela and ending up on the streets local authorities decided something needed to be done hundreds of people of families are now still living in the streets on my

couch soldier to the lack of alternatives and lack of shelter solutions. the local authorities us to. unity are toward to intervene. exhaustion is palpable among the arrivals but no one is giving up seventy four year old that they knew was an engineer for venezuela's state oil company after losing a suspension for protesting against the government he's selling chocolates on the streets to support his wife back home. your maybe. i came without knowing what i was going to achieve but i've always been strong and i'm going to persevered. a sentiment of resilience echoed here again and again with venezuelans happy with their brief response i and life however fleetingly feels a little bit better i listened to them. on my couch. so i had for you on the

program here pam parliament votes for controversial new legislation which is set to change what we share online don't trampas bypass congress in an attempt to stop building the wall he promised along the us mexico border. and this australian sports team fights back against racism i'll have the details in sport. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where here across northern europe we're still dealing with some very gusty winds and that's been a problem for the last day or so we're going to still deal with it as we go towards wednesday and we're talking about the northern part of germany as well as into poland where you see these streamlines particular very tight that's where we're getting our gusty winds now a little bit better for poland as we go towards thursday but for germany and even denmark that is where we could be seeing some still gusty winds here down towards

the south though we are looking at clouds across much of central europe out here towards the west though things orton quite nice we'll be seeing plenty of sun if we get a few clouds maybe that's going to be about it here across parts of the u.k. down across france as well as into spain well we are going to be seeing the weather though is going to be here across the northwestern part of africa plenty of rain plenty of clouds are going to be in the forecast here on wednesday the earth low pressure across italy is really the cause of it and we are going to be seeing those rain could shift shins as well as cloudy conditions make their way over here towards the east for little parts of libya you're going to be seeing the rain continue here anywhere from tripoli over towards benghazi but for egypt really not looking too bad we are going to be seeing a partly cloudy day here in cairo and from morocco things are getting much better a few partly cloudy conditions we do in a temperature about twenty two degrees there. it is murder when you throw

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al-jazeera. welcome back a look at the top stories this hour the head of the algerian army has triggered the constitutional process that would declare president abdul aziz beautifully unfit for office it follows weeks of mass protests israel's prime minister is threatening further action against gaza after the biggest israeli palestinian escalation in months on monday the israeli military responded to a palestinian rocket attack with a wave of strikes on hamas in the past hour they've been reports of sirens sounding in southern israel and a rocket landing there have also been reports of news radio as strikes on the southern gaza strip. british m.p.'s are set to vote on

a range of alternative options on wednesday after all of it voted on monday to take control of the process of the u.k. leaving the european union the move is a major defeat for the government of british prime minister to resign may he's hoping to get that withdrawal deal through parliament this week. now survivors of cyclonic diet trying to return to normal life after last week's storm left a trail of destruction in southern africa but hundreds of thousands of people remain in makeshift camps with little or no food in mozambique alone the u.n. has said that one point eight five million people have now been affected by sight and it die and its aftermath the city of beara in mozambique was particularly hard hit tony but east plains why the recovery effort there could be hindered by politics. on the streets of fear of the clean up of cycling even as destruction has begun it's a massive task volunteers are valid around to try and restore a sense of normality to this ravaged city. man go is the hands on mare who gets up

every day at five am to supervise the operation and try and restore hope we also are trying to tell the people there's no food. but we need to work we need to work off farmers so we need to rebuild tell us else people are living in schools and on street corners it's a miserable existence even for families familiar with hardship before the psych loan struck this region had an unemployment rate of seventy percent with forty percent of those making living on the streets the majority of big companies that employ most of beer is full time work force have been devastated by it i many have gone bust and getting the economy back up and running is now one of the top priorities it's been a climatic battleground here but also a political one vera has been hard core opposition and has voted five times against the ruling for lemo government in parliamentary and presidential elections and some

people here believe they're paying a price for that opposition critics accuse government leaders in the campus almost of previously failing to invest in infrastructure including schools and hospitals and of not doing enough to help victims of the disaster there so question i asked grogs god why are you breaking cycle and here i want to get. only god can tell me that. i'm saying the same that all of the central government can't and that's what i did a lot giving us. government supporters maintaining all it can with limited funds and that. funding is allocated regardless of which party is governing all provinces what is important is the direction of the country and not the party. but politics is a game that few of mozambique's poor and destitute play their lives they've always been a struggle from birth to has been unemployed for twenty five years he lived in

a shack and survived a lot of jobs the cycle only left him with nothing. good if i had a home before the cycle of my life was a little normal even though i didn't help much but now i have lost everything it's not just me sleeping here the streets are full of families with children. many of beer is new street well as don't know what even care this is an election year in mozambique for them life is about if and when they will next meet not when they'll vote the stones we did i don't care about politics we just need help there's nothing to eat and we don't have medication we don't even have pots and plates. the misery for many of mozambique's cyclon victims won't end until help arrives tony berkeley al-jazeera beera the incumbent president of the calmer arlen's has been reelected to office winning more than sixty percent of votes president as early as two money was widely expected to win sunday's election and secured

a second term many opposition candidates were banned from running in the indian ocean archipelago which has seen several coups since independence in one thousand seventy five. in the united states the pentagon has authorized the transfer of one billion dollars to army engineers for a new war construction along the us mexico border the funds are the first under the national emergency declared by president donald trump to bypass congress and build the barrier he pledged during his election campaign democrats have protested against the move but the house of representatives failed to override president veto the resolution to end a border war emergency shabbat chancy has more now from washington but for the democratic leadership would fail to get a two thirds majority in order to override the presidential veto was never in doubt but this was a symbolic vote and we can expect more symbolic votes in congress to register the opposition to the declaration of an emergency as this moves to the courts perhaps

to the supreme court isn't about the necessity of having a war it's about whether the president's emergency declaration was constitutional whether it actually breaks the rules of a separation of powers whereby congress appropriates from the president according to members of congress home simply appropriate forms really appropriate phones having failed to win the argument on capitol hill to get the money for his war so that's the argument that will be argued in the courts and by congress consistently showing its opposition to the presidential emergency declaration the democratic leadership from republicans hope they can win the day in court now that baps where this argument will be played out meanwhile president trump might be claiming complete and total exoneration in the motor probe but his legal worries a far from over trump's family his business and his inaugural committee all remain the subject of several ongoing investigations kristen salumi reports.

of all the lawsuits and investigations hanging over the trump presidency experts say the biggest threat could be here at the federal court in manhattan southern district that's where trump had his campaign it's where most of his businesses are based and it's where many of his children live so they've got direct oversight and jurisdiction over him second of all the southern district of new york is highly independent notoriously independent there the president's former lawyer pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions and implicated the president testifying he made payments at the president's direction in an effort to silence an adult film star who claims she had an affair with him federal prosecutors have signed immunity deals with the trump organizations chief financial officer and the publisher of the national enquirer to obtain their cooperation and they've subpoenaed information from the president's inaugural committee that could be used to look at how it raised and spent a record one hundred seven million dollars more than twice as much as for any other

inauguration is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today yes and michael cohen's testimony before congress has raised speculation about a possible third line is an investigation related to the president's business dealings the southern district the well known independence has earned it the nickname the sovereign district but current justice department regulations prohibit federal investigators from indicting a sitting president state officials face no such restrictions however and they are currently looking into the president's foundation as well as his taxes and the attorney general of the state of new york who's pretty powerfully antitrust may decide i want to test the legalities of indicting the president they could indict lots of the president's associates. he has no pardon power over crimes

in the state of new york federal prosecutors could wait until president trump is out of office to press charges either way the on resolved cases are likely to cloud next year's presidential election kristen salumi al jazeera new york. more than six hundred thousand people have signed an online petition calling for the impeachment of thailand's election commission the move follows allegations of widespread irregularities during sunday's votes but memory results point to a close race between the party backed by the military government and the main opposition party neither have so far managed to win enough seats for a majority of the asian network for free elections as issues of ballot counting lead to confusion of the political results. that relation and conservation of the results we said that were deeply flawed. because we don't have access would you really have an understanding of the process and that in itself is

a flaw in the democratic process you may have the best manager election in the world if people see it and don't believe in it's it's not a perfect election so in this case what happened was we trusted what we saw in front of us which was the counting process of putting stations and them but soon results when. we which when we lost sight of the process we were not informed and our friends from the media say the same thing we don't know the procedures. a former senior police officer in the philippines says present or go to territory has been photographed with two chinese men allegedly involved in illegal drugs eduardo has released the results of an investigation which suggests that chinese drug smugglers might have access to the top levels of the philippines government jamelle island boken reports. former police senior superintendent eduardo a share to face the media afraid but defiant he has been in hiding for several

months and has received death threats but now he's presenting the results of an investigation he led before being dismissed from his job last year. the report which was submitted to senior police officials in the summer two thousand and seventeen details the alleged involvement of two chinese nationals in the smuggling of illegal drugs into the philippines the former police officer says one of the men also helped set up an illicit drugs laboratory in dabao city the hometown of president rodrigo territory in two thousand and four the chinese national was appointed economic advisor to the government and was often seen in the president's company. that is what scared me is the president even aware of the background of this person my conclusion is that the drugs in the group

have already penetrated the top levels of power that the michael young group are conduits in the importation of illegal drugs in the country are sure to says he did consider at one point the terror to wasn't aware the chinese national was a suspected drug lord despite his report. when the president mentioned that michael young was just a drug user or a pusher because at that time they already had a copy of the report so i don't know if my report. by someone close to the president or if they submitted a different report to the president when the turtle was sworn into office he promised to end the presence of illegal drugs within the first six months. more than two years on thousands of filipinos have been killed in the president's so-called war on drugs the fifty years and occasion. ironic is that it's part of the report given. to the president michael what's the

point this is a good moment monitor or economic advisor of the press the government denies the allegations a spokesperson says they have cleared the chinese national of drug links the government also says a share to himself as answer allegations he was involved in a major drug smuggling operation last year i don't think michael young was ever involved otherwise he would have been shoot or would have been on the norco list but the government has yet to explain the process it uses to decide the guilt or otherwise of suspected drug lords the dossier about the chinese nationals alleged involvement goes back fifteen years and it includes detailed information about associates in the philippines and other countries dogon al jazeera manila. the e.u. is considering extending its mediterranean mission which cracks down on smugglers and migration from africa the extension would last for six months and only be for

air patrols and training libya's coast guard there's disagreement within the block over promoting the mission which expires on sunday italy wants to end it but germany is behind the extension. european leaders and china's president say they're working to put their rivalries aside and cooperate more on trade and climate change she jinping is in paris meeting with the leaders of france germany and the european commission the e.u. is beijing's biggest trading partner and it cools for greater access to china's domestic market we know the developments members of the european parliament voted for controversial new legislation that would protect artists and consent make a content makers but significantly change what is shed online the e.u. copyright directive as it's called will see sites like you tube twitter facebook and other social media companies or cried to remove illegally shed material it could see them having to sign licensing agreements with musicians writers and journalists and face fees for republic copyrighted content some protest to say the

legislation is taking censorship too far others welcome the law for media companies artists and content creators essentially it means that they will get paid. joining me in the studio now is social media commentator glenn moodie thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us how significant is this lauren how will it change the internet it's one of the most significant laws passed in the european union in the last two decades probably it updates the copyright law in europe which hasn't been changed for about twenty years it tries to bring you up to date into the digital age and it has some good ideas behind it is trying to make it fair for artists are trying to increase their remuneration those are all good things one for to the way it's chosen to do that has some very serious drawbacks and you were just telling me about that because you have been following these developments for a number of years now what does the law what does this rule or aimed to do and

where does it fail in your in your opinion so it aims to increase the remuneration for artists when their works appear online and that's well and good but as part of that the major online sites will be required either to license things which is fair enough but more importantly to block things before they're uploaded so rightly to correct what was said before is not after they've been uploaded and taken down it's before they're even uploaded a content filtering system has to be put in place that looks at every are and checks whether it is legal right now and that is the particularly controversial part of the law isn't it because it requires websites to prevent the material that's being uploaded it right and isn't that of science and the problem with that is because of the huge ball of material for example you tube has sixty hours of video uploaded every minute so there's no way a human can look at that which means it has to be done by computers so you have to

somehow get a computer to understand whether the material being uploaded is legal or not and although you can do that roughly you'll never do it perfectly so you get what are called false positives which is where you see. something is illegal but it is in fact legal and this is where the risk is because that means that things like means parody commentry which are all legal in the e.u. law might get believes included in this yes because i'm a mom as you know often takes a picture or make some little witty comment but the system the upload filter will say hang on you're using copyright material here not allowed is this a blow to. freedom of speech expression on line it is its import to emphasize that it wasn't framed as such nobody is accusing the european union trying to do that but the big problem is once you put in place a system that can filter things it in those returns into a censorship system because government so high on you've got this perfect system for filter out the bad stuff you couldn't possibly object to just taking out these

things that we don't like and once you start doing that is a slippery slope that governs start telling these companies what can and can't do here online so could we then see a ripple effect as a result absolutely has the e.u. is looked to for the kind of trailblazer in many ways and so a lot of country will say well if he is doing it it must be a good idea and therefore the danger is desired it will spread out to other parts of the world which perhaps don't have as many safeguards as the you has what does it mean for users for users it means that when you've got a really cool idea for a meanwhile some of that in your uploaded it may not appear because it'll be blocked now again the legislation says ok you can appeal so that means you don't have to contact the company you may have to wait days or weeks for it to be put up again and that really cool mean that you have will obviously be so boring no don't look at it and that's the problem even though there are safeguards built in they're not really going to address the main problems thank you very much really appreciate

your thoughts on this story joining us thank you. so i had for you on the program. and. business updates.

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welcome back now australia's prime minister says he's very concerned after an al-jazeera investigation showed links between the us gun lobby and australian political party officials from the n.r.a. were filmed by al-jazeera investigative unit advising australia's one nation party on how to deal with public opinion following a mass shooting andrew thomas reports on the fallout in australia after these revelations. this is denise this is the sentence that. in one case in court nothing worse. what started as an al-jazeera undercover investigation into the united states is national rifle association is now dominating australian news and the top of politics there we have reports that one nation officials by sickly sought to sell australia's gun laws to the hospitals to a foreign buyer and i find that apart one nation is

a far right anti immigration party that's growing in influence in australia its officials caught trying to get donations from the us gun lobby is big news that's because first for donations to political parties were recently made illegal in australia with one nation foremost among those calling for that ban and second because most australians are proud of their strict gun laws and a concern that any political party suggesting they could be watered down or changed . that is particularly true right now in the off the mouth of the horrific mosque attacks in neighboring new zealand this month on tuesday the one nation officials caught on camera tried to turn the tables pointing at the undercover reporter of al-jazeera and never ever ever suspected him or wildest dreams that this guy was employed by a middle eastern country while just zero as in a study inspired to you it's going to politics this is skullduggery at its worst

this is the very first time a strong leader has witnessed political interference from a foreign government but the al-jazeera program make it rejects that the evidence is on the videotape the videotape is quite clear one nation says the al-jazeera documentary will seriously and fairly damage their election prospects in the meantime it's dominating australia's waves and online and al-jazeera sydney all al-jazeera contacts and all those who featured in the report none responded the al-jazeera investigative unit film how to sell a massacre will be broadcast on al-jazeera on wednesday in zero one hundred g.m.t. . time now for the latest sports news with. marion thank you so much italy have recorded a huge winning euro two thousand and twenty qualifying on choose day they thrashed liechtenstein six now fabio scored twice as they cross europe's third lowest rank

side but when makes it two out of two for the italians they're trying to make the euro after failing to qualify for last year's world cup spain also recorded a when they beat malta to no and in the scandinavian darby sweden and norway drew three three. european clubs have repeated their intentions to boycott the revamped club world cup which is set to launch in two thousand and twenty one for president confirmed plans for the new book tournaments at a council meeting in miami earlier this month and plan is for it to feature twenty four teams and replace the confederations cup the european club association is concerned about congestion in the international match calendar the position was a stance as stands today and we as a club will confirm that we are not willing to participate in this competition at this moment in time because of the congested calendar before we actually address

the revamping of the club world cup there were and are still a matter of topics that we want to discuss and agree with sheaffer and they all fall under the umbrella of the international match calendar montenegro's football association has been charged by you a for over racist fan behavior it happened during their home loss to england in monday's qualifiers derogatory chants were aimed at england's black players while similar abuse has also been a major issue and australia the rules star liam ryan seen on the right has been on the receiving end of racist posts on social media referred to him as a monkey earlier his team the west coast eagles released this video in response we do not accept don't tolerate rice use them when will this and the term monkey or i can be same as just name calling but for aboriginal people it cuts much much deeper than that it is

a throwback to early settlement when this land was settled on the terror north or no man's land the reason for that is because their original party who were thought of as human beings. but matt who attack two time wimbledon champion petra committed has been sentenced to eight years in prison a check court ruled that thirty three year old rob cause committed a serious bodily harm when he attacked her in her apartment back in december twenty sixth teen the twenty nine year old suffered severe stab wounds on her left playing arm world number two return to tennis just five months after that attack is currently competing at the miami open when richie what you have seen champion conor mcgregor says he's retiring from mixed martial arts a thirty year old irishman hasn't fought since last october when he lost a lightweight champion can be he was suspended for six months after that fight ended in a mass brawl gregor made the statement on social media just hours after

a t.v. appearance in which he discussed his hopes of fighting again later this year our sports correspondent lee wellings has more. one of those this is not the first time the economy gregor has retired from mixed martial arts and not the first time that he's retired on social media and that all the time in twenty six they knew who was very quickly said that he regrets he was falling out with the sports bosses kind of back and forth again obviously we're giving them this idea of social media where someone can come out and say something that by day and go back home quickly bob even if this was an official press conference he thought it through and said it what has happened throughout history not just mixed martial arts but also a boxing is a long history of fights is retiring i don't sign anything to say they'll never be back it's so often the pie that will bring them back and it all adds to the sort of circus feel around for live mixed martial arts is

a very serious side to it obviously the level of interest has grown extraordinarily but it's also about big paydays and if something was offered anywhere close to the thirty million dollars he was said to have made with the boxing match with floyd mayweather even something far less than not it could tend to not it's all part of being able to sell fights and sell us the events and that's all you sport for now and now back to marion and along. farai thank you very much well that wraps up the news hour but remember there is always our website algis there adult kong for the latest news and sport many who watch us live that as well you'll get comments and then allah says on there of course al top story of the army chief in algeria making a move to declare president abdelaziz bouteflika on fit to rule this off to weeks of protests which for tens of thousands of people taking to the streets in that

country more on that story in just a couple of minutes without is there seen. in the country playing political cottonmouths games with europe and russia the people are trying to find their voice. but under the un free struve of the super cool stick to the tour of europe voicing any opposition is risky. the penalties can be severe. the better roost in emma the weakness documentary.

on al-jazeera driven by outrage and spanning generations the real hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty thirty or if we were given city. and ship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there or we would go back on our own we must remember the revenge of all among the most persecuted minorities in the world isn't the problem for your town that they really don't have a hell of a question mark over him but he does have a corruption question mark or really doesn't look good for the image that this article is not going to do it we will probably not knowing about it or decided we really do get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the us across the globe too far that has called for

all of the breaks doesn't build confidence it breaks will join me where the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories are big issues here on al-jazeera. end of an era algeria as powerful army chief triggers the constitutional process that would declare president abdul aziz bits of frica unfit for office. a move comes as mass protests against because twenty year rule continue across the country. i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program israel sends tanks to the gaza border following monday's exchange of fire.