revisits the children of apartheid for the third time and much has changed over the past fourteen years twenty one up south africa on al-jazeera. finally letting go algeria is a two year old president says he's not enough weeks of protests. the power of the people the joy on the streets of the resignation of abdul aziz beautifully. led one down in jordan this is live from doha also coming up venezuela's opposition leader is facing criminal charges as he's accused of violating the constitution. and the people who survived a massacre an attack on villages in mali is being investigated for crimes against

humanity. the twenty year rule of algeria as president is over the disease but a freak has resigned following weeks of nationwide protests now the focus is on what happens next with the leadership that's divided the country as what i am reports. it's the moment millions of a jury and had been demanding in a rare public appearance of frail looking abilities but a flieger handed over his resignation letter to the head of the constitutional council and his twenty year rule as president held all geria his statement was read on state television the eighty two year old said this decision is triggered by my eagerness to prevent that verbal excesses that unintentionally marked the situation turn into potentially dangerous drifts the resignation came shortly after the country's army chief warrant of immediate action to remove the president from

office well after. the show i would use very once again we emphasize that our effort to solve this crisis is based on our allegiance to the country and we are confident that the people can overcome any crisis we also believe that individuals will vanish but the country will remain forever. that. news of the resignation turn to weeks of protests and a celebration it's not about i go over to the matter of how we won the battle about we still have to win the war this still a lot of work to do but if legal has rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in two thousand and thirteen his plans to seek a fifth presidential term sparked a national outcry and appeared to turn many of his key allies against him. the protesters have welcomed would have leaders resignation but say it's not enough there's a hole in the gut that we need to remove the previous regime that will be the

hardest thing it's hard to do so peacefully but i have trust that i'll jerry and people can move to a country of institutions not gangs. there's a growing demands for a complete overhaul of all jarius political system called to push the inner circle out and replace it with a truly democratic government if they want to get rid of the. all system and not only which means all of the political arena all the businessmen made up against in their era. upon a president's resignation i was serious constitution states the speaker of the upper house steps in as interim leader for up to ninety days during that time a presidential election must be organized because a lot of me here i got to do that because i hope the trust we put in the army won't be betrayed like it was in the past we gave our trust it must not be turned against

us we want to choose the next president ourselves all eyes will be on exactly how that process takes place at a historic moment in the country's history katia locus of a young al-jazeera. well the algerian journalist says bush of leave his resignation will go down in history as a victory for the people. the mood has been one of jubilation of triumph or victory or all the joy of you know a sense of victory at all or this president that has you know had a tight grip over the country over the last twenty years and so people are really. feeling a sense of pride because in six weeks only of pursuit big demonstrations disappeared protests have been able to to to put enough pressure on and one of the strongest regimes in the region i'd say and soul people are to this hour to

this late hour at night still outside on the streets of every major are not a dancin harkin there winds are waving their flags chanting victory slogans and so i think the two day has been reminiscent to independence day in one hundred sixty two i think this day will go in algerian history as a big of the people people to go to the streets the first let's say a couple of weeks they were not really expected. major changes to happen this quickly yes they were hopeful yes they were named it yes they knew that their strength would be in their e-mail unity and their unbelievable organization and disappeared nature i mean i should point out that there was no incidents of violence ever during these protests so how will algeria as a long time leader be remembered as it was been

a smith look back at his career he was algeria the longest serving president. also managed to hold the country together during the arab spring there were protests in january twentieth over poverty and unemployment. the government responded by creating thousands of small business opportunities with generous incentives to young entrepreneurs reducing food prices and ending a decades old state of emergency. despite this riots continue a sign that not everyone was happy with how beautifully qur'an algerian. beautifully could is considered a national hero by his supporters he fought on the battlefield during algeria's war of independence from france and then served as foreign minister until nine hundred seventy nine. in the early one nine hundred eighty s. he was accused of corruption and went on a self-imposed exile the charges were later dropped and at the end of the civil war

in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he won an election with the backing of the military the opposition so the vote was raked beautifully because critics accuse him of clinging to power and cracking down on his opposition during his second term in office he managed to change the constitution to allow him to run for an unlimited number of terms so with mounting control of a sea in popular unease among his opponents who to flee to won a third election in two thousand and nine and the fourth in twenty fourteen by the time he won that election he was frail and rarely seen in public and some said he was no longer fit to govern western leaders considered him an important ally in the fight against armed groups in north africa who to flicker had zero tolerance towards these groups and the heavy handedness linked to that approach sometimes cost civilian lives in twenty thirteen thirty foreign workers including western

nationals were killed when beautifully ordered the army to storm a gas plant in the algerian desert the aim was to rescue hundreds of hostages held by an armed group affiliated with al qaeda. critics believe buthe flicka could have saved lives how do you negotiate a safe exit for the civilians was the beautifully his grip on power started to slip when he announced his bid to run for a fifth term hundreds of thousands of algeria has poured into the streets in the biggest demonstration seen since independence from france in one thousand nine hundred sixty two for five weeks the protesters demanded the president and his allies resign beautifully to first try to placate the protesters by reversing his decision to stand again and perspiring april's elections the eighty two year old who suffered a stroke in twenty thirteen said he'd stay on until a new constitution is adopted. but it wasn't enough to stop the revolt and the protests continue. any decision making capacity beautifully had left was taken from

him by the army high command the chief of staff call for the implementation of an article in the constitution which allows for the president to be removed because of ill health. have who to flee his opponents say is main legacy is one of economic stagnation and widespread corruption his supporters insist he brought much needed stability to algeria bernard smith al-jazeera. politicians loyal to venezuela's president stripped opposition leader of immunity it means he could not be prosecuted on accusations of violating the constitution that a clear and self interim president. of the sea and human reports. venezuela one country with two rival assemblies delegates to the controversial constituent assembly which is loyal to president nicolas maduro needed no convincing voted overwhelmingly to strip opposition leader of his legislative

immunity. that the next step is for the supreme court to begin a trial that can be accompanied by an arrest warrant or other precautionary measures is accused of public office betrayal of the nation taking money that belongs to the venezuelan state and much more the constitutional lawyer says the trial will likely start immediately but clearing the way for why those arrested is a risky proposition the white house has wanted more than once that is why the president or harmed in any way there would be a quote significant response from the united states. just hours earlier in the same legislative palace why they all had overseen a session of the opposition controlled national assembly which in january proclaimed him interim president of the country neither he nor the elected legislature exercises real power but they are recognized as venezuela's legitimate

parliament and president by more than sixty countries we asked why dog about the implications of losing his immunity and. they have no legal rights to lift my immunity or anything else let's call things by their name this is political persecution in venezuela harassment and to that ism we will continue working towards the reconstruction of venezuela. in a day of dealing resolutions the national assembly passed a most. accusing me of promoting state terrorism. this was in response to the increasing use of heavily armed civilian groups to repress opponents and intimidate protesters with venezuela embroiled in an unprecedented political and economic crisis made dramatically worse by weeks of widespread power and water shortages appears to be fighting back with everything at his disposal just how and when the international community will respond is the big question to see in human i just got

access to lots more thoughts coming on al-jazeera including. we can and must find the compromises that will deliver what the british people voted for a call for help from tourism aid to save her brags that deal inhumane and cruel flood victims say u.s. sanctions are frustrating relief efforts in iraq or in the. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast we're watching one storm system right now making its way up the east coast united states and that has brought quite a bit of rain to parts of the area that is now making its way towards the canadian maritimes and with that we do expect to see widespread snow across that region but for new york you're not going to see any cold air about seventeen degrees and

better conditions in terms of sky and then as we go towards thursday we start to pick up another storm here across the midwest in the south and with this we could be even seeing some severe weather look at the temperature for dallas twenty nine degrees with the rain in your forecast as we make our way down here across much of the caribbean we are picking up a lot more tropical moisture now that means thunderstorms generally in the afternoon and for kingston we expect to see quite a rainy day for you at about thirty one degrees they are up to us now it is going to be partly cloudy at about twenty seven staying that way but finally has been yola is going to be seeing some sun in your forecast by midweek and then here across parts of central america and then down towards south america where to still see very heavy rain across argentina that has been a big problem as well as up towards ecuador we have seen very very heavy flooding across much of that area quito is going to be a rainy day for you at sixteen degrees and for lima we do expect to see mostly cloudy conditions there with a temperature of about twenty four degrees. 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 could technology help bridge the gap. this series that 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 ask for valor far on al-jazeera. welcome back to the top stories this hour president optimism is part of has resigned after

twenty years in office for six weeks the age two year old has faced mass protests calling for him to step down his full term was due to end on april twentieth. but news of the resignation led to celebrations across algeria in the capital algiers crowds gathered in the square where people have been protesting the past two weeks . politicians loyal to venezuela president nicolas maduro have stripped the opposition leader of immunity he now faces prosecution for allegedly violating the constitution of the declaring himself interim president. britain's prime minister to resign may as offer to sit down with the leader of the opposition to try to break the deadlock over brags that the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. in ten days but so far parliament has not agreed on a withdrawal plan may says should ask the e.u. for a further extension to avoid crashing out without a deal is an idea go. a softening of the prime minister's previously immovable red

lines in a bid to end the brics at deadlock i've always been clear that we could make a success of no deal in the long term but leaving with a deal is the best solution so we will need a further extension of article fifty one that is as short as possible and which ends when we pass a deal embattled but determined to keep going to resubmit a offer to meet with the opposition leader jeremy corbyn to find a new bracks it plan an attempt perhaps to leave behind a deeply divided party to seek a national consensus and breck's it leaving u.k. more closely aligned with the european union so far she hasn't compromised but i'm pleased that today she has indicated she will accept the view prepared to reach out and have that discussion earlier on in downing street one by one they arrived members of the cabinet gathered attempting to plot

a course through the chaos no deal is in sight at the u.k. is running out of days to make one this is the current state of brics it a high risk game where one side is waiting for the other to blink first and time is not on anyone's side the stakes are higher than ever as is the risk of the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. what happens here over the next ten days will be absolutely critical parliament so far has been unable to make up its mind of what kind of bracks it there ought to be but as the clock runs down so too does patience in brussels where there is little appetite to prolong an already over due process for the e.u. there is little comfort taken at the ever increasing possibility of a no deal divorce. or. never my desire to know. is not prepared.

to do more. meanwhile ahead of next week's e.u. summit ireland's prime minister met for talks with the french president it might be called has been vocal on the u.k.'s need to come up with a deal as soon as possible not least to safeguard its fellow e.u. members from the fallout of a no deal scenario it has taken two and three quarter years for the u.k. to reach this point attitudes have hardened as has the anger at the impasse police on cheese day said they were investigating two bomb scares on the rail network which they say are related many are looking to the end of this chaotic period in british politics but the forces it has unleashed have already cast their shadows over the u.k. so you go al-jazeera london greece's prime minister says hailed new ties during his

landmark visit to north macedonia it's happening ten months after both countries ended a dispute over the name macedonia north macedonia. says he's looking forward to more cooperation between both countries. has more from the capital of north macedonia. it was historic day for greece and for. first time ever one greek prime minister he's visiting this country let me remind you the two countries had more than three decades. they used the term macedonia in the name of this country which was the republic of macedonia but after the prince. remained in republic of north. prime minister today here in school yeah i said that this is very important message i have to say and to these three you wrote to well these countries need to go forward and not to even to the history dozens of

contracts are signed today but this important is the economy called between two countries in line here is called will be held one business forum and each for real will be attended by more than four hundred representatives of the companies from both countries when a very important contract was signed in two days here yet they. will create thank you. very speedy let me remind you that northwest don't have doesn't have its own. as to be here from the prime minister here. macedonia east he's. the same held for its feet became a member of european union. senegal's president has been sworn in for a second five year term he won fifty eight percent of the votes in the febreze

election opponents accused him of preventing some of his rivals and running but the results were not contested this will be sounds final gemma's president on the summit goals to. the international criminal court is investigating possible crimes against humanity in mali follows attacks on the religious in the north by militia in march hundreds were killed and dozens injured nicholas hogg reports now from guy in northern mali. they came on their motorbikes wearing don't go hunting cost you wielding machetes and guns looking for ethnic full on these. hundreds of men women and children were slaughtered many more were injured. we were chased from our homes we came here thinking we were safe never could i have thought that our neighbors here too would turn against us. this is what is left of their village. while these government accuse local doggoned militia groups for

a march twenty third attack the international criminal court is investigating what possibly constitutes crimes against humanity against the full on the people. these armed forces just a few kilometers away were alerted of the attack minutes before it started it took them twelve hours to come to the scene of the massacre and this is what they found despite thirty thousand un peacekeeping troops in mali they too failed to intervene we are going to want a situation north of it they can see and it's not the one of the group. but it's group specific group going after another segment of the population and especially the french. colonies are nomadic herders they search for food for their cattle running into conflict with local villagers who use the land to farm the clashes often turn violent. and i do. mean

calling for full on these to join the army movement and fight other groups in this i'll. the conflict is turning from an armed insurgency to an injured battle with un peacekeepers struggling to maintain stability. the mandate of these peacekeepers is to protect the population from armed groups but with the recent violence targeting the full on the population they're having to now protect the full armies from their own neighbors that are targeting them more full on the homes are being attacked in . the full army are people at the center of an expanding conflict with the violence spreading from village to village. nicholas hawk al jazeera. some my number two thousand doses of the color of vaccine that arrived in the city of better in mozambique just weeks after it was hit by cycling two people have died

and over forty one hundred cases have been recorded the world health organization is starting a vaccination campaign in the port city on wednesday the disease is also reported to have spread to outlying areas in central mozambique. the iranian government has ordered the evacuation of seventy villages threatened by flooding a state of emergency has been declared in many southern provinces the mohamed reports. iranian pictures of the floods showed the extent of the damage caused washed away roads blocked trees submerged and water waist deep. homes schools and commercial buildings stood little chance it when you know thirty's have ordered the evacuation of seventy villages in the southwest oil rich province of ston near the days and care rivers due to a growing risk of flooding the army has been brought in to help the displaced but of the. for as long as people knew us we stand by the people we will stay here until bridges are reestablished and hospitals are operational. the order comes as

iran's foreign minister javad zarif accused us sanctions of hindering aid efforts to affected areas saying this isn't just economic warfare it's economic terrorism iranian authorities are using the military helicopters to help with the rescue operation there's been a shortage since the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran after president trump withdrew from the iran nuclear deal last year in response the us secretary of state mike pompei offered his condolences to the victims of the flood but blame the iranian government of mismanagement in urban planning and emergency preparedness iran has experienced some of the heaviest rain in a decade various provinces have been devastated by more than two weeks of near constant rain affecting tens of thousands of people and while those who have survived try to save what's left of their belongings more storms a full cost in the coming days for healing mohammed al jazeera. schools in southern

bangladesh expelled schools everything going to refugee students since the beginning of the year that's according to a report by human rights watch they were born in bangladesh after their parents fled me in monster fall back as the ninety's but they don't have citizenship bangladesh prohibits raising the children from receiving a proper education classes and refugee camps are limited to a certain age and students are excluded from national exams parents often by birth certificates just to get the children into the system. has moved in the bangladeshi capital dhaka. the directive to investigate and expel rowing of children came from the prime minister's office directly in november two thousand and eighteen bangladesh is not a signatory to the international refugee convention however it is a signatory to that convention of the child's right as well as to the covenant of economic social and cultural rights which obligated to provide education primary secondary and higher education based on the capacity available now the bangladesh

haven't been fulfilling its obligation under this times now they're close to fifty five percent of their going up population are children and major challenge for the community and the international aid agency although there's been some hope the international n.g.o.s and local n.g.o.s been setting up learning center close to two thousand of them which provides informal education in burma maize as well as in english but it is not a formal education system this is doesn't provide proper education as far as school goes the world bank in two thousand eight hundred provided twenty five million dollars to set up some school facilities within the camps to provide formal education it's still not implemented for at least thirty three hundred twenty five thousand students some hope but if the odds are going are refugees there they see a bleak future for them for their children without any education there seems to be

any hope for their future for the malaysian prime minister najib razak is due to them on trial in the next few hours on corruption charges after a delay of nearly two months the trial is the first of several criminal proceedings against. the reports from one of the. criminal breach of trust money laundering and abuse of power just three of dozens of charges facing the former prime minister of malaysia not to present the last few years of his administration had been overshadowed by allegations money had been stolen from a state investment fund setup known as one and the. cabinet ministers who questioned him was sacked or made to resign but investigators cleared him of wrongdoing then last may he became the first leader of the party that ruled malaysia as it gained independence more than sixty years ago to lose an election and a new government led by mahathir mohamad reopened investigations into one and properties

linked to niger were raided us he and his wife were banned from leaving the country while this new mission government i think came into power on the back of strong with a backlash for what they perceived to be corruption and abuse of power in the previous administration so i think this new government can be seen that it's acting on these issues that i think tough on corruption is i think tough on abuse of power i think that's why the reopen this case at least six countries have ordered investigations into one and d. in the united states prosecutors allege at least four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund in total knowledge it faces forty two charges he's pleaded not guilty to all of the following wednesday is the first of several against not just in this one he's accused of pocketing more than ten million dollars from a former subsidiary of one m.d.c. among hundreds of millions allegedly transferred into his bank account if found

guilty he could face decades in prison florence li al-jazeera for. old news of course on our website there it is on the screen the address al jazeera dot com. a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera algeria's president that the disease beautifully has resigned after twenty years in office for six weeks the eighty two year old has faced mass protests calling for him to step down his fourth term was due to end on a full twenty year. well news of the resignation led to celebrations right across algeria in the capital algiers crowds gathered in or down square where protests have taken place over the past few weeks so. if we are supposed to be content with the fall of one person we won't go far our real battle

is to have a state under the rule of law with democratic institutions a second republic with a real popular sovereignty. is the power of shame they must all go away they must leave and they must be accountable we started this movement peacefully and god willing we will end it peacefully. politicians loyal to venezuelan president nicolas maduro have stripped opposition leader of immunity he now faces prosecution for allegedly violating the constitution after declaring himself interim president the trump administration and other latin american countries recognized it was venezuela's legitimate leader president maduro blames the u.s. for trying to install what he calls a puppet government to seize venezuela's vast oil reserves britain's prime minister driesum a has offered talks with the leader of the opposition to try and break the deadlock over brags that the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. in nine days but so far parliament has not agreed on a withdrawal agreement to resume a says she lost the e.u.

for a further extension to avoid crashing out without a deal. greece's prime minister alexis tsipras. during his visit to north macedonia. a dispute over the name. of macedonia as prime minister says he's looking forward to more cooperation between the two countries. senegal's president has been sworn in for a second five year term he won fifty eight percent of the votes in brazil lection opponents accused him of preventing. the results were not contested as would be solved final term as president. to to. well those are the headlines that use continues on after life. africa's most populous nation. has a youth unemployment problem. we

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