in recent days the attacks of switched against his mental stability and stamina to go with the mantra that the man netanyahu made army chief in twenty eleven is weak and of the left in response cancer is focusing on new corruption allegations and what he calls netanyahu weakness over gaza nonetheless one former senior israeli negotiator sees gantz taking a different approach on the palestinian issue he doesn't want to continue to rule in the people and this is in israel one of the most important litmus this between. liberals and conservatives dances blue and white party is a last minute creation with two other former army chiefs and netanyahu former finance minister at its helm it's an unashamedly pragmatic project to get netanyahu out of office but winning the election in itself isn't enough it then becomes about putting together a governing coalition of parties represented in the israeli parliament the knesset and even if his likud party comes second at the polls that is where benjamin

netanyahu has a distinct advantage but there have also been persistent leaks not totally refuted that dance could under certain conditions agree to serve with netanyahu in a unity government that would be the biggest twist yet in this bitter election season kerry force it out easier western. senegal's president has been sworn in for a second five year term markets are won fifty eight percent of voters in the election in february opponents accused him of preventing some of his rivals in running but the results were not contested leigh sales final stint as president under senegal's two policy. one hundred thousand doses of the color of that scene arrived in the mozambican city of there after it was hit by saigon. two people have died and more than fourteen hundred cholera cases have been recorded the world health organization is starting a fascination campaign in the port city on wednesday the disease is also reported to have spread to outlying areas in central doesn't leak. former malaysian prime

minister najib razak is due in court in the next couple of hours on corruption charges that he was accused of pocketing six hundred eighty one million dollars from the sovereign wealth fund one indeed he denies any wrongdoing is the first of several criminal proceedings against nationally in faces forty two charges schools in southern bangladesh expelled scores of raping a 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 mars far back as the ninety's but they don't have citizenship and with their children from receiving a proper education classes in 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 and the child has more now from 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 signature e to the international refugee convention however it is a signatory to that convention of 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 the rowing a population are children and major challenge for the community and the international aid agency although there's been some hope 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 doesn't provide a proper education as far as school goes the world bank in two thousand and

eighteen 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 that if they see a bleak future for them for their children without any education there seems to be any hope for their future. now two days after a violent thunderstorm devastated several villages in southern nepal relief workers have started reaching people in need the heavy rain left more than thirty people dead and injured hundreds more al-jazeera sabena stressed to reports now but our district feel. for these people in southern nepal what began as a hailstorm ended in death and devastation when strong winds reach their village of settler they took shelter in their homes in less than two minutes sixteen people were dead and hundreds injured in this municipality alone bijan patel and his wife

mina devi lost a six year old son nonetheless their friends say the family is in them so little. numbers uncle to tender but told us how his nephew was killed. he died right here the conclude trail on him his mouth was full of blood municipal officials say about five hundred homes were destroyed here. people are trying to save whatever they can and security personnel are helping to clear the rubble local and national relief organizations have arrived with supplies a local official said people need all the help they can get. a look at people we are expecting that the central government will help us rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed here. and its resources scarce tensions are high and some here say the relief efforts are disorganized disasters are frequent

in the past and it has a policy of three marriage and three responds but locals here say with different aid groups involved this relief distribution has been haphazard the recently elected provincial government says it's now taking control and will better coordinate these efforts the b.s. rushed out. district. researches in mexico have warned of more volunteer options of the popular county petal volcano it unleashed powerful explosions last week lighting up the night sky with lava authorities warn nearby towns to be alert and raise the volcano's alert level to a stage higher up a capital is mexico's second highest mountain and the fifth highest in north america.

our time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera algeria's president of the disease but to flee has resigned after twenty years in office six weeks the eighty two year old has faced mass protests calling for him to step down his full term was due to end on april twenty eighth. news of the resignation led to celebrations across our geria in the capital are just crowds gathered in old town square the protests have taken place over the past three 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 all leave and they must be accountable we started this meeting 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 trumpet ministration and other latin american countries recognized quite as it was venezuela's legitimate leader president maduro blames the us for trying to install what he calls a puppet government to seize venezuela's vast oil reserves. britain's prime minister to resign may has offered talks with the leader of the opposition to try and break the deadlock on the 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 says she lost the e.u. for a further extension to avoid crashing out without a deal and greece's prime minister alexis tsipras is hailed new ties during his landmark visit to north lasted only that it's happening ten months after both countries and the dispute over the name macedonia north macedonia's prime minister says he's looking forward to more cooperation between the two countries and senegal's president has been sworn in for

a second five year term he won fifty eight percent of votes in brazil action opponents accused him of preventing some of his rivals from running but the results were not contested it would be sal's final term as president under senegal's two term policy all right so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream station that's watching live talk to al-jazeera. you're just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country that you go we listen that children are deeply affected because of war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does their own. my name. who is right and he. and. and he. in.

the stream. feeling anything yet you are going to need a pair of really good headphones for today show for me ok today we are diving into the world of autonomous sensory meridian response or a s m r now the term is used to describe the sensation people feel when they watch certain types of stimulating videos so do you find the sound of whispers soothing desisting to someone crying call wrapping paper lol you like a lullaby if so you're probably one of the millions of people poring through a s m r videos on you tube but is there more to it than brain tingles joining us to talk about this in singapore melinda lauer she's the co-creator and artistic director of whisper large an immersive spiral for the senses in new york comedienne n a s m r

enthusiastically glaser in the studio we have craig richard he's professor of biopharmaceutical sciences and shenandoah university you also founded the n.a.s. m.r. university and that was in an effort to encourage research and in london you've already seen or heard or emma smith is an a.o.s. m.r. artist so low everybody's good to have you here emma and there were people watching the show at the very top of the show will be thinking what is going on here explain . is a tingling sensation it's very relaxing it usually begins in the crown of your head and works its way down the back of your head down your spine and often through your limbs it's trick. by certain sounds soft. someone playing with your hair during letters on your back. but ultimately the

best way to describe it is that it's an extremely relaxing calming feeling and i make videos on you tube along with lots and lots of other people we use different sounds in our voices to to get that feeling in the viewer and people who are experienced so calm that they're able to fall asleep that they're able to feel happy and rested and well kinds of different things that people are using the videos for so many different things m a u s m all ring us right now are you doing it on us right now i think you might yes you are. let me share this with you this i'm falling asleep yes but for good reason stay with us here as you know if want to see yes exactly is that tim lewis on twitter because i was talking about craig what we were doing today and i said this is a s.m.r.

and tim says i had to google i had no idea what this is it's quite new intel has of giving it a name you know wrecked yeah the name didn't get created until two thousand and ten before that it was referred to as brain orgasm right some people were uncomfortable starting that again because i want everyone to hear this that it used to be more so known as a brain orgasm so before two thousand and ten that's what people call bit but jennifer allen decided in two thousand and ten that she and others were not comfortable for him to read as a brain orgasm or what is just more so a very deeply relaxing experience so she gave it this more clinical sounding name of autonomy a century meridian response and as a researcher i super appreciate that because when i go to research conferences and i share data about as some are it's much easier for me to submit my abstract to a scientific community and have or have the words are taught in a century meridian response and instead of brain or gas although it might get more red if it was caused by the hormone name true i would get more people reading my

papers looking at it how did you find a s m r. it's funny because i guess i found it right when it was quiet and because i was just one night i just stumbled upon a video of a foot being massaged and i really wanted a foot massage at the moment and just watching it gave me the feeling that maybe my foot was being massaged but then i just started getting this feeling that i had fell out my childhood that very pivotal moments where i just felt it's what has been described this extreme fishing that starts in the crown of your head and then goes down your spine and all this and i was like oh my god it's happening and i'm making it happen and then i just started going down this wormhole of mythology videos and then you eventually start to see any of them are come up in the titles and i was like what's that and then it turned it over to the whole world. yes it's and that's how people stumble across it they start searching for something

relaxing and then they end up coming across this what is this a s m r and they find all these videos and want to start with one it's like the chip thing once you start with one you have to try another one you have to try another one and it's great because there's such a diversity of videos that if you don't like the first one or the second one you just keep trying more because there's thousands of artists who are each creating hundreds of videos i'm looking at something called the whisper. which is a sensory spa which i have never heard of a million to can explain what he's what he's doing sure so we are in my safe performance company and i have always had so it was such a pleasure for me to kind of combine both of my interests in. that if sensually. is and. foremost is to my god it's and on guess sort of like.

if he couldn't guests coming through this tend to respond. it's great what melinda does because most of us first experience very smart unintentionally like say it's from a hairdresser or the attention of a teacher someone give us personal attention but what melinda has created is intentional as some are so it's like if you want to go and get a massage you go to a professional ms soups if you want the world's best a smart experienced in person with someone you're not going to ask your teacher or your hairdresser to give you that experience you're going to go to a place like melinda offers for intentional it's more sessions right and it's really amazing as well i've been there myself and melinda this is just our own my goodness she's got the most beautiful car. and i went into her room her experience and she was doing what we would normally do in a video but to my face which was really

a different experience for me and she just got very simply got a cotton bud and started running it over the top of my and talking to me and it was so nurturing and so lovely. i want to do it all again but yeah it was fantastic i remember that and even years for her. own choices well a lot of what we do it's like. so much influenced by what you guys do. and how we develop them in person practice is basically by studying what. i said doing and then trying to translate that into something tangible yeah and it works it works really well let's not wait to do it people myself do you have story a time where you like flip through because i'm always watching people watching me like reading through magazines very delicately and that if there is there something like that you're far. well not currently going on but

you know we called the aa is that you there's all kinds of paper and packaging which. we do from charcoal drawing and i around the beauty of. the extent of so many eggs. so i guess i want our audience watching this to work out do they have so intricate as that means that they can actually enjoy this experience so craig you put together certain sounds that may well be triggers let's have a listen to some of them. for .

craig what do we know about the science of this there's not a lot yet known for the science the first.