representatives from more than fifty countries came to hear islamic welcomes and prayers. and then the slow recital of the names of those killed all fifty of them. among them was her mate her husband survived on stage he spoke of forgiveness i don't support in the wrong direction but at the same time i can not deny the fact that he is my human brother the daughter of another victim spoke to about her father he was a really nice man. thank you. i there were performances too from local singers side i was the owner and the use of cat stevens who sung about peace. to the.

twenty two people remain in hospital following the fifteenth attack for them recovery will be slow for new zealand to this national remembrance has had a female came up again and again in the speech she was on stage and that theme was unity when the gunman tried to divide see people rally in opposition on the talk of the program to. we all one hundred thomas al-jazeera christchurch. will still have for you a new wave of chinese artists pushing the boundaries of cutting edge exhibition in hong kong that story and then of course as well that. despite this off the track.

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scientists in geneva to discuss a global ban on so-called killer robots the kill independently without direct human control then don't know when to exist yet but that potential has been a debate about military technology and the ethics of wolf at technology. has mall. all we have here is our primary test facility although it's driving around twenty four hours a day seven days a week robots road here being tested to deliver discover to do what they're programmed to do. but what you want to find here is a so-called kill of robot

a fully autonomous weapon designed to hunt and kill without a human involved as far as we know they don't exist yet but canadian company clear path insists killer robots have no place on the battlefield we feel that there is a a line which is being crossed with this technology and we feel that on top of being riskier than anyone that actually appreciates right now there is a disconnect from there is an ethical and moral disconnect from. from war we think that these weapon systems are going to be used in all sorts of dangerous ways both by major powers and non-state actors alike. the risks of say i'm ashamed killing the wrong person of being hacked of engaging with another machine in a conflict a sum of the reasons the company says it took

a stand in two thousand and fourteen it has committed to not knowingly at least create fully autonomous weapons thousands of scientists engineers to companies and out official intelligence experts have done the same but they're not shunning military contracts completely they say ai can be a valuable tool. the pentagon just last month called on big companies to help develop its ai capabilities russia and china are already investing in military ai technology but i think it really first comes down to the responsibility of every engineer and developer to ensure that. that. the governments around the world are aware of the risks in the use of this technology and that these decisions are being made in a in a rational considered way and then from there perhaps they can start having

conversations about if their company in particular themselves in particular should work on these this technology take work as a demanding transparency is their bosses i knew had potentially lucrative defense contracts some of them have chosen to leave and work for companies like clear path it all boils down to wanting to know what they creating and whether it's technology that could kill all save lives medium hond al-jazeera time now for the sport with peter. thank you very much leonore messi has hit back at critics in argentina they say he doesn't make the same effort for his country as he does for his club it comes as he has returned to training with barcelona after another disappointing showing for the national team. host city rivals espanyol in the capital and darby on saturday with messi set to feature for whatever nest of over this team the player told the radio station on friday that he's firmly was affected

by criticism of him messi stayed away from the argentina side of the being knocked out of the world cup a need to return last week for a three one defeat have been as well he scored a hat trick for boss a two weeks ago his coach doesn't see any sign of the pressure getting to him that are killing innocent deal i see that his karma in the world of football we are sometimes put under excessive pressure and ups and downs the last game he played with us he was spectacular the goals he scored the way he played and then he lost a game with his national team happens roger casablanca have won the african super cup the match between the winners of the calf champions league and confederation cup the moroccan club scored first before the champions league winners esperance equalised but they invited. the winner for roger for a two one win the match was played in qatar the first time the super cup was contested outside of africa ferrari have bounced back from

a slow start to the formula one season with both teams drivers topping the time charts at practice for the bahrain grand prix former world champ sebastian vettel proved fastest on friday even though he was far from seamless in the first session of the clerk shade slower than him overall as he had been at the first race in australia when vettel was fourth and look for. the fading miami open champion john is now is through to this year's final but he had to work hard to overcome canada's felix. seem the big serving american won this match seven six and seven six twenty one aces along the way this victory extends its most tiebreaker record in the tournament to an impressive nine wins from now. they may have missed in the world series last year but the los angeles dodgers are off to a powerful start in this year's major league baseball season jock peterson and enrique adam and is it two home runs each of the dodgers defeated the arizona

diamondbacks twelve five getting eight zero runs for the major league opening day record and tying the franchise record for any game at the same time. the new york yankees are also to a winning start with a seven two win in the baltimore orioles masahiro tanaka throwing eighty three pitches and allowing just. to live as been suspended by california's athletic commission of the kissing a female reporter during an interview the bulgarian who was being interviewed by jennifer avali last saturday and just started these shots were taken he kissed on the lips of clay in the to a friend's daughter vala said she'd only met the box of the day before and is taking legal action against the. former world the more lee westwood showed on friday that he still has what it takes the englishman was up against to row at the w g c match play championships in austin texas when he scored versus hole in one on

the eleventh it wasn't enough as half of alternately won the match. horseracing is back under way at california santa anita track and more than three weeks after it was suspended because of the deaths of twenty two horses in three months the last races had been on march third before an investigation forced the closure of the breeders cup a new one immediate change has been a reduction in dosage of an anti bleeding medication for horses. we're just two weeks away from the n.b.a. playoffs until the western conference elite win tape to hit on thursday the used in rockets got a boost with a win over the denver nuggets james harden school thirty eight points and the rockets had a huge second quarter to win one hundred twelve eighty five. the san antonio spurs closer to a playoff berth with a narrow win over the cleveland cavaliers leading one hundred eleven one hundred ten but fourteen seconds left. school the three pointer to sink the cavs as the

spurs went on to win one hundred sixteen one hundred ten. french rugby is to hold a referendum to decide whether to appoint the country's first foreign coach to lead the national team new zealand or warren gatland is hot favorite to take the role of the world cup but as there's never been a non infringement in charge rugby chiefs will poll all the amateur clubs in france on whether they are in favor of an outsider or not the result will be announced on april twelfth and that's all the support we have even now more on the way again later but for now i'll hand you back to merriam in london thanks very much peter on that one of the world's premier contemporary art fairs is underway in hong kong three days out basil hong kong is showing cutting edge exhibits from around the world including works from a new wave of chinese artists and to sarah clarke found out there's a growing asian market in both creating and buying art. it's a fish eye casing some of the best contemporary art in the world two hundred forty

two galleries from thirty five countries under one roof as well as the blue chip galleries is a growing presence of artists from southeast asia in this year's line up at basel i think we do stand by i would say that we are the international pop up. when i say that i really feel that you know the asian galleries are presenting some very very strong means from our part of the organizers of the fish side of the global lot landscape is changing with chinese paintings a new favorite for investors is gen fun g. set a record for chinese contemporary art with his painting the last supper selling for twenty three million dollars in twenty thirteen this year he's painting the rooster is grabbing attention to lamb as an industry veteran in china she says a growing number of chinese artists is being driven by a more mature market and is attracting greater investment from the west what is interesting is also to china's others is represented by or the international

galleries is an evolution of the market and of course we all know that chinese are now this is not just a regional it is international like auction houses art fairs like this shape the global market last year total sales reached sixteen and a half billion dollars that's up six percent on the previous year the united states remains a was largest market with nearly half of total sales by value u.k. hold second spot with twenty one percent followed closely by china this is annual report by at basel and u.b.s. found the millennial particularly in hong kong and singapore are the emerging big spenders it's about thirty years old they got education abroad like they have all the biggest museum in the world with a very western culture so they understand now better in a better the international level off the contemporary art of art sales last year pushed the global market to its second highest level in

a decade gallery's will be hoping that prosperity continues this year sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. well that concludes the news al about i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news and coming up very shortly see an event.

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the brazilian economy is booming but deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life technology help bridge the gap. the series the challenges developers to design apps for a better world travels to rio de janeiro and meets the young people tasked with making a different life than for vela far from al-jazeera. so the nerds have it the numbers have it all off the british prime minister's breaks it dale rejected a third time album and now has two weeks to come up with a new plan or crash out of europe.

oh i maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london coming up on the program hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of demanding an overhaul of the entire political establishment. we're just about to board a canadian air force. and find out that's why this has become one of the deadliest peacekeeping operation in the u.s. . and as palestinians prepare to mark a year since the start of the gaza border protests there are reports of a deal between hamas and the israelis. so we begin here in london where british m.p.'s have rejected the government's rights it deal for a third time the prime minister had promised to resign if it was passed the withdrawal agreement failed to win enough support falling short by fifty eight votes juries in may now has until april twelfth to come up with

a new plan or face the prospect of crashing out with no deal or ports. the our eyes to the right two hundred eighty six the nose to the left three hundred forty four. the breaks it breaks through the pritish prime minister had staked her political career on has been defeated the country remains in confusion to speak rising to should be a matter of profound regret to every member of this house that once again we have been unable to support leaving the european. the implications of the house's decision. britain has only two weeks to find an alternative way forward otherwise it will crash out of the e.u. without a deal without a plan. gerry called the opposition labor leader said the defeat paved the way for a general election but the house has been clear this deal now has to change the

has to be an alternative found and if the prime minister can't accept that then she must go not at an indeterminate date in the future but now so that we can decide the future of this country through a general election treason may have promised to resign if a deal was passed but the gamble failed to win support from northern ireland's democratic unionist party that props up maine's government remember this brics it means bracks it and this we are very clear we will be leaving the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen is eleven pm what. the regional deadline date is hugely symbolic for the prime minister and for seventeen million people who voted for breaks it. to leave the european union all those. breaks that is they've gathered outside parliament on the day in which the u.k. was meant to be leaving the e.u. i ask you where is that money do you think the division inside parliament was

echoed on the streets around it the countries that olds with itself. these are hard line breaks a t is of this is what they think of the e.u. . so how can britain move forward from here but it may have missed the opportunity for an orderly exit on may the twenty second but to resume a could still give her deal another go possibly even next week meanwhile in pisa hunting for a majority for an alternative to teresa mayes plan they fail to rally around a single idea so far they'll try again on monday a second referendum a general election another breaks of extension anything now seems possible but british politics remains powerlines to leave barca al-jazeera westminster well european council president says the leaders will now meet on april tenth to discuss the way forward in a special summit attash has more reaction from brussels. well the leaders are

increasingly talking about the possibility of a no deal snorer of britain's leaving the european union without a deal is something that's been mentioned by many top e.u. officials including the use chief exec negotiator michel barnier and there's certainly a growing sense of frustration amongst officials at this bridge that process is taking so long that it is deadlocked and that sense of frustration has been fuelled by the events in the british parliament today in which you came please decided not to support the withdrawal agreements well that decision was met by great disappointment amongst the u. officials we heard from the e.u. commission spokesperson saying it was with deep regret that the use saw what was happening in terms of what happens next of course we have a pollutant as the next day to look out for because that is the day that the u. council president don't know tosca set for an e.u.

summit to resume a the british prime minister has been invited to that summit she's been told that she must come with some sort of plan for britain to move forward if there is no plan e.u. officials have made it very clear that on april the twelfth the britain will leave the european union without a deal that's something that e.u. leaders and officials have always said they would like to avoid they would prefer the person left in an orderly fashion but as the days pass that is looking more and more difficult. now hundreds of thousands of people have been out on the streets of algerian capital again in the biggest anti-government demonstrations in stan restaurant just six weeks ago demonstrators are demanding an overhaul of the entire political system stratford reports. the six week of peaceful protests in algeria of so far no change of government but many algerians feel they

have never been closer for twenty years is enough so get out oh dearie as many candidates who are competent to take the job so why would the regime stifle them in their own country are you this there's a breath of fresh air algeria doesn't deserve this we deserve to live in peace not only let you know that i'm here to come from the people's demands they have to listen to us. earlier this week the army back there cools to president abdulla's ease with a frica to step down. the ruling party its coalition partner and algeria's biggest union have joined the coals for beautifully could to go the national lawyers union reemphasize its demand that the eighty two year old president must leave office yet that missing mrs levy had been my wife we reiterate our support for the peaceful popular movement which calls for a change in the system of governance the creation of a new republic that respects the southern tier of the people and the principle of

the law the union calls for a positive response to the demands of the people within whom the sovereign power resides. local media reported millions of people came out to demonstrate in towns and cities across the country this is the town of gigia in the east. and it was a similar scene in misc on the west. side. we want to move to a real democratic country for a transitional period and to set a new algerian government which will be elected by the people and not by this government we are against this government oh but even if beautifully could does go that won't be enough for the protesters they want a complete overhaul of an establishment that has been entrenched in power since algeria's into. pendants from france in one nine hundred sixty two they want the resignation of the ruling elite it is such

a long sign for twenty years for anything like that to happen the powerful military would have to agree that it's very sensitive to signs of instability that everyone is waiting for the constitutional council to rule beautifully because fitness for office based on health reasons it's given no indication when it will make a decision if it rules the president on fit for office paula much must indorsed the decision by a two thirds majority even if that happens it will only just begin to fulfill the demands of the hundreds of thousands of algerians who have spoken out in protest. nation's security council has met to discuss the deteriorating situation in mali are asking for more troops and resources but as fighting intensifies some countries are putting their soldiers out of the un peacekeeping force linked out when the canadian troops operating out of the city of gal in northern mali.

this canadian task force is deep in mali's desert not a training mission to rescue did front line troops down below un soldiers french and west african forces are fighting twenty armed groups including the state in the greater sahara and al-qaeda in the islamic magreb. dr murray on her level and her team of medics flying aboard a chinook helicopter. this is a training exercise in hostile terrain. we don't know if there is still enemy of the area so by treating them here we're putting ourselves a target so there's a possibility that if i just. look is a really big target so we don't there is an enemy. here yes which swung the back a step but make get out close to two hundred u.s. troops have been killed in mali and this has become the deadliest peacekeeping operation in the united nations' history. well this is

a training exercise the dangers are real these canadian forces with live ammunition you have two helicopters hovering above us because the situation in mali is slowly deteriorating. mobile phone footage captures the aftermath of the latest attack entire villages are burnt to the ground after local militia group armed with machetes and guns killed over one hundred full on the villagers dismembering even the youngest the attackers accused of supporting rebel groups. which started as a localized conflict is turning into ethnic cleansing moving beyond these border into neighboring kenya faso in the share the theater of operation is as vast and wide as the european union the fighting is intensifying making the medivac operations essential to troops i often compare it to true the canadian arctic today

to northern canada that looks very much the same it's a barren landscape you few replacing the sand with ice and rock is that you'd be in northern canada. a thousand feet above ground level i turns this helicopter into a flying hospital while they have saved lives the french in charge and soldiers have also returned dead bodies. faced with criticism for putting canadian lives at risk prime minister just introduced government is pulling back its troops overstretched the us i want them to stay it's an operation they can't afford to lose. because hawk al jazeera go northern mali. now a newspaper affiliated to how mass is reporting that a deal has been reached with israel to reduce tensions in the gaza strip it comes as palestinians prepare to mark the one year anniversary of weekly protest along the border fence with israel how force it reports.