dogon is live for us now in manila some of the what more can you tell us well hello what happened today is. what we heard today basically according to marie is that she was arriving from a trip in san francisco and at the airport she was arrested by police based on the warrant that was issued yesterday a new cases been filed against her and other members of the rappler the local news outlet that she runs and co-founded with other filipino journalists here she is on your way to post bail and she should be released in a couple of hours but critics are worried they believe that maria's arrests today which is not the first may have a broader more dangerous impact to how journalists operate in the country. the philippine government says maria ressa has broken the law and must be held accountable but her supporters say the recent spate of cases filed against her amounts to harrisburg and mary usa is one of the most high profile journalists in

the philippines. she co-founded an online news site called rappler known for being critical of the philippine government and president would be good to territory in its reporting breast so was arrested in the cyber libel law and charged along with another journalist's a libel case was filed in two thousand and twelve but it was four months before the cyber libel law was introduced so the case was dismissed for me it's about two things abuse of power and weaponization of the law this isn't just about me and it's not just about rappler but if you look at the parks whole were done in accordance with the law what she wants to she wants to be. treated differently. but in the country can say they're to one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists many worry that maria's arrest will

have a broader impact on how filipino journalists work in the field especially those in the provinces it's a very important case but i think that's not the only case of media repression there in the war it's part of. the possible consequences practice because. the center for media freedom and responsibility says more than one hundred sixty filipino journalists have been killed since one thousand nine hundred eighty six more than ninety percent of those killed work in the provinces many of those killed were reporting on the illegal drugs trade corruption and criminal syndicates the original philippine libel law written in one thousand nine hundred thirty two was the squire by the united nations human rights council as excessive now the cyber crime prevention act of two thousand and twelve has been added to it penalties for criminal libel have been increased with offenders facing up to eighty years in

prison many see this as a move towards further eroding press freedom making it even more difficult for journalists to do their job. ressa arrest today brings a total number of cases filed against rappler to eleven so they're facing eleven cases in different courts here in metro manila and dresses lawyers issued this statement today basically saying that their client intends to fight all of these in court that she's not going to evade or run away to another country to look for asylum or protection in the hopes of basically the truth will eventually prevail. joining us from manila thank you very much indeed. there's plenty more still to come on the news hour including brax at battleground talks intensify ahead of a third votes on sarees amazing deal.

and our technology editor looks at the ethical line tech giants may be crossing with killer robots. and in sports the dream job manchester united confirm their permanent manager. an egyptian delegation has been in israel and gaza trying to negotiate a peace deal it comes after a major escalation this week between israel and hamas are a force that has more now from gaza city. well after the latest escalation earlier in the week another relatively calm day in gaza but the next two days friday and particularly saturday could well be a lot more tense saturday is the first anniversary of the great march of return the massive border protests that have taken so much attention during the course of the

last twelve months i have seen so much bloodshed more than six and a half thousand people injured by israeli sniper fire more than two hundred fifty palestinians killed during the course of those protests and hamas is calling on a major mobilization of people to go and protest again on saturdays and mark that anniversary at the same time as there's been a big mobilization of israeli forces on the other side the prime minister benjamin netanyahu was visiting those troops today saying that he had mobilized extra forces to ensure that israel could carry out a broader military operation if so required but said that would only take place if or other options had been exhausted and those other options 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 thursday 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's 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 on the gaza side on saturday so that does make for a very volatile mix. now the pressure on algeria as president to step down continues to minds but some members of the opposition say they want more than abdulaziz because of the because resignation they're demanding the removal of the entire 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 on wednesday. has more now from neighboring chin is ear. 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 are lies like the former prime minister ahmed here by a 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. ben 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 the same time is it is telling the people that anyone who has been found guilty of wrongdoing or a 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 if you are in algeria would like you to help post tell this story you can get in touch with us here at al-jazeera on four chance or on telegram especially if you are attending a protest or if you just want to share a very few comments the number is plus ninety seven four five zero one triple

one four nine. but the u.s. president's donald trump passed house a make america great again campaign rally in michigan it comes just four days after receiving the news that the miller report finds no evidence the trump campaign conspired with russia during the twenty sixteen election but brown's reports from grand rapids city. taking a victory lap here in grand rapids michigan resident donald trump has been exulting over what he calls his cold the exoneration of by the report issued by special counsel robert muller to his attorney general now the full report has not yet been released but the president is calling it the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people saying that it damaged the country and many individuals and that those who. opposed it and. kept it running must be held accountable

so you have a very combative president here in michigan tonight. and the new zealand times held a national remembrance service to commemorate the fifty people who were killed in mosque attacks two weeks ago and to thomas has more from the memorial in christ church. this national of them are in service is being held exactly three weeks off the. projects. that the people. of having. as well as casting. blame for the civil banks which is being broke off running around the world of a vengeance in the biggest cities even. while it's them who. has given a speech she talks about how new zealand is clearly. stream islam and hates the so in fact the other parts of the world and hit home here across church two weeks ago but even i'm going to she said but can discover the clear she was given the mood in

the one standing ovation during the speech and over the last. the weeks have been really held up worldwide as an example of how a leader should react in the aftermath to a terrorist attack like this when we also had all fifty names of those cured went out on stage and then very poignantly the survivor of the attack on a survivor of the attack on the island 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 will hold another voice 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 in her deal to parliament for a third time unless it changed significantly the barker 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 deal 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 this leave the european union we now have a chance to make sure that we do that's what everyone should support the prime minister's bill. 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 won't 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 and is

a big risk for the government considering hard line breaks a t. isn't a reason may's own party and northern ireland's democratic unionist party that 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 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 leaves and remain is asking now is whether to resume a gamble will pay off the barca al-jazeera westminster. at least nineteen people have died in a large fire in

a terrible auk in bangladesh's capital dhaka foreign fighters along with teams from the air force and navy spent hours trying to put out the blaze but here the moments 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 felt trying to escape others climbed down anyway they kept the money going finally got the only army up because 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 and a lot of steps were taken quickly a guy jumping out only to be like the seven of the eight or eight ninth floor there was like a lot of smoke and i 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 a lifting some who managed to make it to the rooftop that present it with more than fighting equipment that we can wage opcodes with it was started building but. beyond that we cannot go. 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 everyone is accounted for freedom hunted al-jazeera.

still to come on al-jazeera rapid relief in rush hour a new transport system for the ten million commuters in central jakarta. thirty five nations are displaying their paintings at this year's who largest gallery in hong kong but as one country in particular that's really sculpting the art scene. and in sports after a stunning start in the season can this formula one driver be a serious contender for the championship. however we got some cloud and right pushing towards central and southern parts of china at the moment see this bad of cloud rolling outs of south vietnam of pushing right up towards the east and sort of charted shanghai will brighten up will be

some pleasant sunshine coming through sweating celsius coming in here but the west the weather down to wards the south hong kong will see a lot dr de haan friday tab just at around twenty six celsius it was temperatures to go on through saturday that weakly in system clears away towards the south it will cloud just rolling in into those central parts through the course of the weekend but the sunshine in showers across southeast asia there you go you can see the shout loud lurking away the southern parts of the philippines through malaysia still some showers affecting a good part of invasion from time to time fighting going on it's a sad day for that heat of the day showers are rolling through there look a little live there into that eastern side of indonesia through saturday by sas as a potential to see some wet weather kuala lumpur's singapore seeing some showers possible if wanted to sas heading towards thailand as well much just. heading towards sri lanka but for much of india it is five and dry the real story at the

moment is the increasing eight temperatures creep in the forty's. the weather sponsored by qatar it is. a time of change and discovery that things in it baby and then. you see time to forge an identity not saying anything bad about accepting the baby i mean your whole life plans get ruined one thousand nine hundred nine south africa up revisits the children of apartheid seventy years on as they grow and develop where their country fourteen up south africa part two on our jazeera. i think it was different whether someone was going for someone's favorite business model in a tree i think it's how you approach an individual and if it is a certain way of doing it you can just. get a story and fly out. in twenty sixty one the one used to reveal that goes for me

and some as young as fifteen were trafficked to singapore to work as many it's illegal and costing lives so why does it still continue when law abiding singapore one the one east on all jersey are. you watching al-jazeera 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 freezer after the second hearing off their trial which is still continuing. a united nations investigator is calling for the eleven suspects in the murder of saudi journalist to be put on public trial the special rapporteur

on actually additional executions agnus calmar it says the closed door hearings in saudi arabia fall short of international standards. police in the philippines have arrested the chief executive of the news website rappler the government says maria ressa violated laws which require all media to be one hundred percent filipino aunts rappler media outlet has made a number of critical reports of president to turkey. and the wife of chinese former interpol chief among her way is speaking out about her husband's detention in china saying the allegations against him are politically motivated mung has been detained in china since september his wife grace says her family is being denied their fundamental human rights well beijing has issued a statement saying the former in support heads will be prosecuted on bribery

charges. the more british inspectors say they found significant security problems with software supplied by chinese telecom giants while way their reports identifies defects which they say could be exploited by hackers stopped short of calling for an eye right ban on the firm's equipment's the u.s. is pushing european allies to ban huawei from next generation mobile networks in the coming years. that when ukraine's president petro poroshenko came to power five years ago he vowed to tackle corruption answer with an election looming on sunday that promise could come back to haunt him corruption remains widespread and he's trailing in the polls showing a whole reports from kiev on why it's such an important campaign issue and a warning or fears may find some of the images in his reports distressing

this is the house the trick to younger coverage built on the 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 shaaban 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 converts estate 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. jakarta one

of the world's most congested cities will finally get its first mass rapid transit system the projects has been stalled for decades but it's one of several infrastructure projects that the government hopes will promote economic growth forest larry has more from jakarta. jakarta's long awaited mass rapid train system is finally here. and it's proving a hit more than ten million people work and live in the indonesian capital and the m r t goes a long way in easing the city's notorious traffic congestion. this is a massive improvement in the nation finally has a name marty just like other country that has been having it for years it is also i am very proud i usually take an old bus to office but now i am provided with these very comfortable public transportation i hope people who make cars the office will use this facility. there's only one line at the moment running from south jakarta

to the city center covering a distance of sixteen kilometers the plan is to expand this to eventually cover one hundred twelve kilometers with more than sixty stations by twenty twenty five since coming to power in two thousand and fourteen president joe kudo's administration has prioritized infrastructure development like this one as one of the ways to unlock the country's economic potential other projects include the construction of ports roads power plants and oil refineries since the country is moving from the commodity base to the manufacturing base producing more. products it needs quite calm but the. system exporting goods from any genre or just sending them around the country is expensive logistics costs make up around twenty four percent of g.d.p. much higher than the regional average. but the infrastructure projects also come at

a price they're estimated to cost four hundred billion dollars over five years adding to government debt levels but the government says that the debt is manageable by law we are allowed to go to sixty percent but remembering to have been the main percent of our g.d.p. number all the loan but we got to be looking at the productive projects or they can be from the project to the loan so i don't see that much problem but the economic growth that was supposed to happen on the back of infrastructure development hasn't yet materialized g.d.p. growth has hovered around five percent in the last five years while that can be considered a pretty solid number for some countries it's below the government's target of seven percent and it's not enough for indonesia's development needs and ambition. condiments generally agree indonesia has to keep spending and not just on building roads railways and other facilities but we also need the soft infrastructure what i

mean about this stuff infrastructure is for instance capital human capital develop one which. is one of the up by at the of the government education in health care for instance have been given bigger allocations in the state budget physical infrastructure like jakarta's newly opened m.r.c. is only part of what indonesia needs to boost its economy florence italy al-jazeera . i want dog in the u.s. has warned of the risks to stability in afghanistan even if a peace deal is agreed the report spies special inspector general for afghan reconstruction comes as washington questions its role there after the withdrawal of its fourteen thousand troops it says the risks include reintegrating as many as six hundred thousand taliban fighters you may be expecting dividends from a p.c. you report sense economic instability could impact security if paychecks from

forces and police are delayed and it warns further u.s. supports could be at risk if women's rights in afghanistan are not protected well and is our kadima is a political analyst and lecturer at mora university he says afghans especially the youth who peace talks will lead to economic development if the afghan government the international community including the taliban will take that is sponsibility to institutionalize economic development of the country i think that's possible but at least for five years after the peace deal or dollars one we all it means they've the national community 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 after that does that they should provide the jobs for them so yes there is that there is a mixed feelings maybe a happy pewter in maybe

a bad future with the youngsters afghanistan are happy about the peace deal that will happen between the taliban and afghan government but the thing time we're concerned about our future if there is no thirty movement an 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. the number of cases in the democratic republic of congo has passed one thousand is dismal news for health authorities who heart expressed early samisen that the virus would be contained it has more more than six hundred people have been reported dead from the bone or virus in the democratic republic of congo since the outbreak was declared seven months ago in the north eastern provinces of north kivu and 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 from 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 east india r.c. has hampered 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 no levels of trust in the origins in the region are also is that a quarter of people surveyed did not believe the virus was real nor that vaccination could protect them. authorities in malta say they're back in control of

a ship that was hijacked by asylum seekers off the coast of libya the migrants allegedly to go over the blue one after being told they wouldn't speak going to europe police are questioning five men who were on the vessel it was anti immigration deputy prime minister material survive any has welcomed malta's intervention. scientists are in geneva to discuss a global ban on so-called killer robots which can hunt and kill with writes a human involved they don't exist jets but the debates has strong attention to tech giants and their role in developing military artificial intelligence that might cross an ethical line our science and technology editor mariana holmes has more. or we have here as our primary facility was driving around twenty four hours a day seven days a week robots wrote.