actions really center on the progress being made or otherwise of egyptian medias who are now mediators rather who are now back inside gaza having been inside israel earlier on first day trying to come to some kind of long term truce between hamas and israel as they have been for many months now the speculation is about some kind of a deal involving easing of import restrictions into gaza easing of fishing restrictions job creation in alliance with the united nations but the israeli government the israeli prime minister in particular is under a good deal of pressure given that he is just a couple of weeks away from an election to project strength rather than give hamas too much already he's been criticized for not having done enough in response to a rocket launch earlier this week and so there is a big military presence on the israeli side and we're expecting a big protest or on the gaza side on saturday so that does make for a very volatile mix. a senior official in the united arab emirates says arab

nations should be more open to israel america gosh the minister of state for foreign affairs said countries were wrong when they decided not to have formal relations with israel al-jazeera senior political analyst moblin bashar has more on those comments a number of arab countries have been opening up publicly or clandestinely towards israel and we have been waiting for a lot like syria and saudi arabia not to cough it up as you know and just say that now with the minister of state for foreign affairs in the united arab emirates have has done exactly that and why is he doing that now well because it's just a few weeks ago. president trump's son in law judge question that was in the area in order to sell his date of the century we know it now we all know that this is the trap of the century rather than the deal of the century and yet a number of arab leaders feel they must appease the united states they must accept

american diktats in order to. save their own regimes in order to empower their own and their likes in the region that's why now president sisi of egypt is going to the united states by the middle april in order to discuss the defense should he the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are on board with the deal of the century and what is that deal of the century well we know it's one of the same so-called economics of peace no palestinian state no right of return no east jerusalem as capital of a protestant said that does not exist anyway no undertones of the one nine hundred seven war there is no dismantle the settlements so basically the deed of the century is this the occupation under a new name and the arab countries like the u.a.e. despite all of that want to normalize relations. plenty more ahead so on the new siren quitting. battle graines talks intensify our heads of

a third vote on teresa mayes e.u. deal. ebola cases are in the democratic republic of congo but many people there don't believe the virus is actually real. and in sports the dream job manchester united confirmed their permanent manager. the pressure on algeria as president to step down continues to mount many as some members of the opposition say they want more than a bloods he's beautiful because resignation they're demanding the removal of the entire old regime which includes the army chief and he suggested a constitutional measure to remove the president on medical grounds and that proposal was backed up by the ruling f.l.n. party own weapons say russia has more from neighboring tunisia.

president abdelaziz bouteflika is practically left alone the mother of the presidential palace has been abandoned by the army by his own party the national liberation front by some heavy tea our lives like the former prime minister ahmed here by big trade union and more key figures are now think it's about time to remove the president and appoint a replacement however the opposition and the protestors are of the view that trigger triggering article one hundred two won't solve the problems of algeria and that one needs to be done is to find someone else they are now talking about potential candidates like former president lee i mean a while like. been bait to lure to lead a transitional council to draft a new constitution and then pave the ground for a new parliamentary and presidential election now local media is talking about key

businessmen nothing related with the president who are barred from leaving the country it could be a fine but the army is sending reassurances of the people that while it is committed to trigger article one knows what it is same time it is telling the people that anyone who has been found guilty of wrongdoing or of babbling public phones will definitely face justice in the near future but as we speak the political crisis continues to deepen. the agreements between the army on one hand the opposition and the protesters on the other hand about a new road map for algeria and so if you are in algeria would like you to help us tell the story get in touch with us on whatsapp or on telegram especially if you are attending a protest or if you want to share a video comment the number to contact al-jazeera is plus ninety seven four five zero one trip four one four nine. a new zealand's has held to

a national remembrance service to commemorates the fifty people who were killed in mosque attacks two weeks ago and he thomas has more from the memorial in christ church. this national service is being held exactly two weeks. projects. that the people. are having. was passed in. the events which is being broke off running around the world other events in the biggest. while it. has given a speech she talked about how new zealand is clearly. the so in fact the other parts of the world and hit home here across church two weeks ago but even and the connection she said quickly discover the clear she was given the one standing ovation during the speech and over the last two weeks she's been really held up worldwide as an example of how a leader should react in the aftermath to

a terrorist attack like this and also hide all fifty names of those killed went out on stage and then very poignantly a survivor and a survivor of the attack on the almost gave a speech not talking about his frustrations or what happened on that day but instead talking about forgiveness even the killer the man who among others killed his wife. the u.k. parliament's well hold another vote on friday on the withdrawal agreements for britain's exit from the european union the speaker of the house previously stops prime minister to resume a pretty thing that deal to parliament for a third time unless it changed significantly the fokker reports from westminster. efforts to secure backing for teresa mayes deal are intensifying with senior government ministers urging m.p.'s to give the twice defeated divorce to. another go this after may promise to resign if

a proposal is passed those tipped to replace a say now is the time to back the deal in seventeen point four million people of the sleepy european union have a chance to make sure that we do that's why everyone can support the prime minister's deal with. the speaker of the house told the government that it could only put the deal before parliament again if it was fundamentally different but i do expect the government to meet the test of change so the government devised a plan to split the deal already agreed with the e.u. into its two constituent parts the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration the would draw agreement includes details about citizens' rights the fifty one billion dollars breaks that bill for leaving the e.u. and the northern irish border it's a legally binding document and has to be passed in parliament by friday to allow the u.k. to leave the e.u. on may the twenty second the political declaration on the other hand dictates the

future relationship between the u.k. and e.u. and forms the basis of future trade talks it's a much shorter document it's also not legally binding by separating the two plan to vote only on the withdrawal agreement was given the green light by the speaker to go before parliament on friday and this was how it was presented to this house notes the european council decision at the twenty second of march twenty nine thousand taken in agreement with the united kingdom but want does it mean in short the government is using the friday deadline set by the e.u. to secure backing for eighty percent of teresa mayes proposal resetting the bricks and clock to may the twenty second if the plan gets the required support it will allow the u.k. to leave the e.u. with a deal and title in the country to a two year transition period. it's been called the bare bones of bricks it is a big grist for the government considering hard line breaks it isn't a reason may's own party and northern ireland's democratic unionist party either

props up maine's government of repeatedly refused to back it. they'll have to rely on support from other sides of the house but the opposition labor party has said that it would be the blindest of blind bricks it that would mean leaving. with absolutely no idea where we're heading but. all. the more m.p.'s are continuing to look for an alternative to teresa mayes deal so after seizing control of parliamentary proceedings on wednesday no single plan gained a majority m.p.'s will vote again on monday the big question both leaders and remain as are asking now is whether to reserve made gamble will pay off the barca al-jazeera westminster. now when ukraine's president petro poroshenko came to paris five years ago he vowed to tackle corruption and with an election looming on sunday that promise could come

back to haunt him corruption remains widespread and he's trailing in the polls join her reports from kiev on why it's such an important campaign issue and a warning viewers may find some of the images in his reports to stress and this is the house that victor young converts built on a sprawling estate costing an estimated four hundred million dollars all stolen from the taxpayer it's now a museum of corruption on a colossal scale. but five years since ukraine's former president was forced to flee into exile in russia corruption remains an evil the country can't seem to shake off. reform where all there. is a state all the institutions are corrupt it's another day in court for vitale sabun in a prominent activist who's made plenty of enemies investigating corruption among officials a chemical substance thrown at him last year did no lasting damage but it could

have been worse another anti corruption activist catarina truck was the victim of an acid attack that killed her slowly after three agonizing months in hospital you're willing to die. but of course i'm looking today but for the job but you accept that that is a risk inherent in what you do in this country of course it's a risk the classic car collection of the young cop which is state is a testament to boundless greed and try as they did the protesters on kiev's my down square in two thousand and fourteen weren't able to wipe away the stain of corruption altogether. people are coming here to say that they cannot tolerate corruption in ukraine corruption clears the future alexander downer look was ukraine's finance minister until last summer when he was fired for refusing to be part of a government scheme to buy the votes of m.p.'s in parliament clearly wasn't prepared

to play the game actually i was prepared and i was playing against these games dirty games of making money of stealing taxpayers' money corruption cannot stop in the middle otherwise it's not the corruption. it always goes up otherwise it's unsustainable the claim that corruption goes all the way to the top is nothing new in ukraine which animals in your new car which is private zubair witness to that. there are allegations directed at or close to the three leading candidates in this weekend's presidential election and a new law aimed at criminalizing the illegal enrichment of officials has been held up in the constitutional court the man who built all this former president viktor younger coverage now lives a life of obscurity in russia but despite efforts to reform it there are still traces of the system he left behind people who feel that a position in parliament a position in government are certain routes to easy riches and possibly in

ukraine there always will be jonah hold al-jazeera kiev. still to come on al-jazeera. our technology at a certain extent the ethical line tech giants may be crossing but so-called killer robots. meets the british wonder woman with a gene mutation which means she's impervious to pain. and in sports after a stunning start to the season can this formula one driver be a serious contender for the championship. hello once again welcome saw the look of the international for cars with

a lousy dry weather across eastern parts of the u.s. pushing to the east the sadic out of the it will change over the next couple days is there is a cloud are making their way from west to a so some lobby downpours just coming into the plains as we go on through friday flooding concerns remain in place of course for the west we've got some snow that's making its way down to the cascades cross the northern rockies and just sliding down across the mountain states as we go on through the day west coast will be lousy driving getting up to twenty two celsius in l.a. sixty eight sales of san francisco and for seattle and similar to temperatures similar temperatures as we go on through saturday little more cloud out towards the southwestern corner with more clatter to central areas as i said it will turn a little one settle day which was the eastern seaboard as we go on through the next couple of days and there we go or cloud coming in here rain and notice the snow on the northern flank of that so winter hasn't quite done with us just yet most all of the winds are across the caribbean of course is what sunshine pretty much all the

way but there is somewhat weather in place we got some heavy showers there just around hispaniola pushing down towards jamaica some of it as we go on through saturday but it should turn a little eyebright at the most. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby we've been employing it was me and you got to really. reveal secrets. messaging out there will be people outraged you know. and connection some don't want to expose nanny in legacy media full love the last shooting. duck next week night al-jazeera investigations how to sell a massacre on al-jazeera. the latest means as it breaks as well as the police investigation the prime minister says there will also be a national inquiry with detailed coverage of the arms trade with saudi arabia is

going to be a very important components of life in post-breakfast of britain. from around the world the airline is a symbol also must multiplied and its europeans have told their full support behind it. you're watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour. three female activists have been temporarily released in saudi arabia after spending ten months in prison they've been freed after the second hearing of their trial which is still continuing among

eleven women arrested sin may last year for their human rights work. a united nations investigator is calling for the eleven suspects in the murder of saudi journalists to be put on public trial a special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions and u.s. calomiris says the cool story hearings that have been taking place in saudi arabia fall short of international standards. and egyptian delegation has been israel and gaza trying to broker a peace deal it comes after a major escalation earlier this week between hamas and israel the palestinians in the gaza strip are set to mark the one year anniversary of the great march of return protests on friday. let's return to our top story on the side the women who were released from detention yes i mean hassan is the executive director of equality know an organization that addresses violence and

discrimination against women around the world she says the detention or female activists in riyadh's is illegal and immoral. well we are hoping that the international pressure on this and the international press on this will have an effect on what happens to these women going forward we are we are delighted that they are not going before the specialized court on terrorism charges but they're still going before a criminal court and this move has been very fast and we don't know quite what to make of it these women have not been given access to lawyers they have not been able to see their families there has been a chilling effect all around saudi arabia on activism and women's rights so we are watching with bated breath but we are going to continue with the activism on their behalf to shine a light on that cases and we hope that that will have a positive effect on that on the cases people are not supposed to be tortured in prison anyway prison is a and us both to have a trial and a punishment that then needs to be carried out these women were held without trial

this has been a long period and so everything that's been happening to them is extrajudicial and it is illegal and immoral. at least nineteen people have died in a large fire in a terrible walk in bangladesh's capital dhaka far fighting teams are trying to push his heights with the help of the navy and air force where he'll mahomet's has more i as crews battle to bring the fire that engulfed this high rise building in dhaka on to control the many in the commercial area of the city it was a ready too late. some fell trying to escape others climb down anyway they can't let me go to clearly the only army of the we noticed that in the beginning there was fire on one floor only in floor six or seven it was possible to stop the fire on the floor of steps were taken quickly a guy jumping out of maybe i like the seven or eight or eight ninth floor there was like a lot of smoke and that was probably suffocating them so he literally just jumped

off watching from the pack streets below crowds gathered desperate for news of those trapped inside a smoke rose to each of the towers nineteen close and connecting building. the bangladeshi navy and air force join the rescue effort and lifting some who managed to make it to the rooftop that present if it was more than fighting equipment we can wage opcodes but it was started building but. beyond that we can abort. more than eighteen million people live in dhaka it's one of the world's most densely populated cities the city has struggled to enforce fire safety codes especially in older buildings. last month more than seventy people were killed in a fire in an old neighborhood of dhaka and nine years ago another cry of killed more than one hundred people due to an illegal chemicals warehouse near

a residential area now as emergency crews searched the wreckage of the latest fire they say it's still a rescue operation until every. one is accounted for the khalid al jazeera. authorities in malta say they have taken control of a ship that was hijacked by migrants off the coast of libya the migrants allegedly sick over the blue one after being told they would not speak taken to europe maltese police have arrested five men who were on the vessel or no questioning them as to these and see immigration deputy prime minister material salvini has welcomed small to us intervention hundreds of the one hundred has the latest now from tripoli. the maltese government is expected to conduct an investigation with the migrants who are accused of hijacking get the vessel but it depends on where the crime was committed and some of those migrants could be proved innocent because

the captain of the vessel according to the maltese navy stated that he and the other crew members were threatened by the migrants and force it to change the vessels course back to the north we understand that the migrants are afraid they could be returning to libya because the fear that they could face the same violations the usually face at the hands of people smugglers in libya multis prime minister joseph muscat we did that malta is going to follow the international rules in this respect but as for libyan coast guard libya's coast guard officials say that it's their right to capture the migrants as long as they have entered libya illegally and have sailed of

libyan sure illegally we understand that some of those migrants could be proved innocent and they can apply for asylum in malta but some others will probably be guilty because they are accused of hijacking. the vessel the number of cases and the democratic republic of congo has passed one thousand it's dismissal news for health authorities he hunts expect expressed early optimism that the virus could be contained it. has more. more than six hundred people have been reported dead from the boehner virus in the democratic republic of congo since the outbreak was declared seven months ago in the north eastern provinces of north kivu and tertiary it makes it the second worst

outbreak since the virus was first discovered in one thousand nine hundred seventy six in the d.r. c. and sudan the virus is thought to be transmitted to people for wild animals it spreads between humans through direct contact with blood and body fluids the worst outbreak was five years ago when it spread through five west african countries and across into the u.k. spain and the u.s. eleven thousand people died it prompted global health organizations to fast track an experimental vaccine and five experimental drugs which are being given with informed consent violence in eastern d r c has hunted efforts to contain the virus and forced a bone to treatment centers to close was a new report in the medical journal the lancet says mon levels of trust in the storage fees in the region are that a quarter of people surveyed did not believe the virus was real nor that

vaccination could protect them. i watch dog in the u.s. has warned of the risks to stability in afghanistan even if a peace deal is agreed the report spy a special inspector general for afghan reconstruction comes as washington questions its rule there after the withdrawal of its fourteen thousand troops says the risks include reintegrating as many as six hundred thousand taliban fighters you may be expecting dividends from a peace deal and reports also says economic instability could impact security if paychecks for armed forces and police are delayed and warns further u.s. support qip the risk if women's rights in afghanistan are not protected. intisar cardium is a political analyst and lecturer at mora university he says afghans especially the youth who peace talks will lead to economic developments. if government government

the international community including the taliban will take that is sponsibility to institutionalize the economic development the country i think that's possible but at least for five years after the taliban we all it really gave the national unity the united stated afghan government has been storing at least for five years there should be international donations. the afghan unit worst is that producing over four hundred thousand youngsters from universities the afghan government is not up to that does that they should provide the jobs for them so yes this is that there is a mixed feelings maybe a happy future in maybe a bad future with the youngsters of the understand are happy about the peace deal that will happen between the taliban and afghan government but the thing time we're concerned about in the future if there is no thirty movement initiative board by the international community by the afghan government i think the future will be will look like dark so that's why it's an immediate problem we have to find a solution for that. a highly contagious disease that was all but eliminated in the

u.s. a staging a comeback experts say that misinformation about vaccines has contributed to missiles light breaks in several states promising some to take unprecedented measures al-jazeera is kristen salumi has more the local health department has been offering free vaccinations ever since measles resurfaced here in new york state county of rockland last october but that hasn't stopped the spread of the disease we are urging once again now with the authority of law to get your children vaccinated so with new cases this week bringing the total to one hundred fifty six county officials have declared a state of emergency. under the thirty day declaration children who have not been vaccinated against measles are barred from public gathering places parents of violators face fines and up to three months in jail we've gotten to the point where people were not cooperating where people would be known to have had the measles or

been exposed to the measles and in a public place like a shopping center it's estimated that less than seventy three percent of children in the county have been vaccinated travelers brought the virus which was officially eliminated from the u.s. in two thousand back from a trip to israel this disease that was all but eliminated in the united states is now staging a comeback so far this year the centers for disease control and prevention has counted at least six outbreaks across five states public health officials have blamed films like this and social media for spreading fear about back summations even though they've been proven time and again to be safe and effective platforms like facebook and youtube have announced new steps to block and minimize misinformation spread by the anti backs movement so i think one thing we need to be focusing on is empowering people with skills to interpret this information a lot of it you know mimic scientifically valid information and so i think helping

people identify you know what is valid and what isn't is going to be critical moving forward in rockland county many local residents support the county's effort to keep the public safe i think that something needs to be done that has to be very drastic that people lead to comply and we've got to stop this the south bank is serious make sure everyone is safe it's not it's not a joke you know if you've actually made it they hope the message that the vaccine is safe and effective is getting through kristen salumi al-jazeera rockland county new york. now four days after the disputed election in the indian ocean island nation of commerce four gunman have been killed in a sheet act with the military close to the capital moroni worker reports say the men were a group of soldiers accused of attempting a coup separately presidential candidates solely human hermit's has been arrested mohammed who came fourth in sunday's election accuses the government of rigging the

results he was hoping to unseat president zardari also money a car bomb has exploded in somalia's capital killing at least eighteen people it happened outside a crowded restaurant in mogadishu's where berry district the arms group. often targets high profile areas in the city. the explosion happened in between restaurants some people were having lunch at the restaurant all the victims were civilians there was no government official or soldiers with the explosion happened eighteen bodies and twelve injured people being carried from the. now scientists in the u.k. say they found a genetic mutation in a seventy one year old woman who feels virtually no pain or stress despite an array of injuries joe cameron has never needed pain relief experts hope the discovery of her condition could help in the future treatments for people who suffer from

chronic pain try angela reports. imagine a life with no pain this is being joe cameron's existence here she's eating hot chili cheese with her husband and doctor not batting an eyelid. can see. that yes there's been broken limbs burns childbirth surgeries but no need for pain relief i put my arm on something and only realized it's burning when i can smell fresh burning so we took. the no reaction issue you yourself once maybe twice then you avoid that because your brain says don't do that or my brain just trade. and that's not good that's not good i haven't i haven't got the normal the normal sort of safeguards in a normal body specialized nerves respond to tissue damage and send signals to the brain it's important in terms of self preservation but roughly seven percent of the

population have ongoing chronic pain so finding mutations that lead to painlessness could help scientists develop new painkilling drugs for them when easy recovery from hip surgery puzzle doctors she was referred to a pain geneticist at university college london there they found she had two notable new taishan one in a previously unidentified gene as we understand it her body is awash with fatty acids through various receptors to her pains and sensation so that's the difference and this is a consequence of losing the activity. so she's unique the discovery has caused jo cameron to reflect it explains why cuts and bruises always healed quickly for her and why she's had memory lapses throughout her life and also why she's always been happy her mutation means she's never felt much stress or anxiety scientists say the implications of these findings are immense.