free movement i think we both recognize the importance of the withdrawal agreement but for brussels every day makes a no deal brix it a bit more likely speaking in the european parliament with perhaps the last ever british present the commission president was unequivocal reduce of the twentieth of april is the final date for possible approval if the house of commons does not adopt a stance before the date no short term extension will be possible after the twelfth of april we run the risk of jeopardizing the correct running of the european elections and the correct functioning of the european union warned there could be no transition period following an exit the u.k. would immediately become what they call a third country with all the restrictions that brings you a long journey when you they would indeed be customs checks the legal and political reasons we have to be honest here i prefer rigorous checks to a health crisis or illegal trafficking even if it means a few truck use for now to resume a still aiming to get

a deal passed so breaks it can happen by the twenty second of may avoiding european parliament elections with next week's summit in brussels fast approaching politicians here know they'll have to make compromises if they're to avoid or no deal breaks it but while the government's reluctant to seek a way out through fresh elections to vist parliament the u.k. could still end up taking part in next month's european elections nadine barber al-jazeera london. still to come one hundred era malaysia's former prime minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges relating to a scandal that brought down his government. at breaking point u.s. government claims about the border with mexico. and in sport brazilian football star neymar is back in training with his club after being sidelined with an injury for two months forward that story coming up later.

in iran have killed more than sixty people after some of the worst rains in a decade the iranian red president says ninety one hundred sixty thousand people have been affected iran's government has declared a state of emergency and all of evacuations dozens of villages really mohammed reports. the heaviest rainfall in a decade much of iran south west and central regions have been hit hard with tens of thousands of people affected in the rest and province in the west survivors trying to recover what they can from muddy streets so tell me i have lost my whole life house and everything and not only my family but the entire pollard doctor town many are without food and essential services and poison are going on well they we have been hungry and thirsty since this morning our children are hungry there is no natural gas electricity or water. in the southwest province of kusa stan there is

a growing risk of flooding it when you know thirty's have ordered people in seventy villages to evacuate and sent in the military to help in the province of gaullist on the iranian red crescent says it's helping provide emergency shelter for fifty seven thousand people and dozens of military and relief helicopters have been deployed to help those affected iran's foreign minister zarif says the relief efforts are being hampered by the united states he said sanctions imposed by washington were economic terrorism and preventing the country from getting equipment like helicopters u.s. secretary of state mike pompei accuse the iranian government of mismanaging its urban planning and failing to prepare for emergencies president hassan rouhani promised affected areas would be rebuilt gas. in spite of what america wish for all will see that our big nation our officials and our own horses or men or him will reconstruct everything that's been damaged. the heavy rains have also triggered

floods in neighboring iraq and with more rains expected the emergency may last for some time yet mohammed al jazeera. a vaccination campaign is underway in mozambique to try to contain the outbreak of cholera health workers are focusing on the port city of barrow which was devastated by last month's cycle and die thousands of people are still living in displacement camps and have little access to clean water or sanitation and fourteen hundred cases of cholera have been recorded in the city with at least one death for the miller has latest bera. the line for food is growing longer and longer as the day comes to an end here in barrow we're at the if our camp where at least one thousand eight hundred people are staying temporarily that's after they were displaced by cycle only die in the flooding that followed after now they've set up temporary tents for shelter people here say they have very

little to go back to if anything at all of this is where they can get medical assistance food and fresh water and this is important considering the concern around the cholera outbreak so far they've been about one thousand four hundred cases there is of course concern though that this estimate could be low given the way people have to live the limited access to water and hygiene been compromised the outbreak of disease is a priority for aid agencies here containing that aside from colorado is also concerned around a malaria as well as a measles outbreak so far nine hundred thousand doses of cholera vaccines have been sent to para this is one camp where people are able to get that vaccination to try and contain the spread as far as possible. the international criminal court is

investigating whether an attack in mali constitutes crimes against humanity hundreds of ethnic forlornly herders were killed in the assault last month mali's government has blamed the violence on local groups nicholas haq has more from the city of cow these full on the villagers are trying to heal their wounds and make sense of the violence against them. they say they were attacked in their village weeks ago because of their ethnic origin gunmen on motorbikes stormed in and killed anyone they saw children were beheaded with machetes pregnant women butchered others bled to death in all one hundred sixty people were killed and hundreds injured. though 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. and that.

mali's government accused dawn tribe militia for the attack they deny being involved minutes after it started mullion soldiers just a few kilometers away were alerted it took them twelve hours to arrive despite sixteen thousand un peacekeeping troops in mali their quick reaction force was two hundred kilometers away and arrived too late to protect villagers the international criminal court is investigating what may constitute crimes against humanity against the full on the people. we are going into wallace attrition or for the clinton and it's not one of the groups going after the one but it's recruiting the one specific in the group going after another segment of the population and especially the french. for long these are nomadic cattle herders who sometimes come into conflict with villagers who don't want to share their land for grazing. the phalanges are being offered protection by a magical fire he's a leader of jamaat. al muslimeen an umbrella armed group that includes al qaeda in

the islamic magreb he's calling for families to join the armed movement and overthrow the government with more than two hundred un soldiers killed in mali since their peacekeeping mission began in two thousand and thirteen it's struggling to maintain stability in this hell region of western sahara canada and the netherlands are pulling out their troops in a few months 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 other ethnic groups accuse the philosophy of attacking them the battle for grazing land is expanding across mollies border for the new homes are also being attacked in neighboring burkina faso in the share nicholas harkat al-jazeera. us house judiciary committee has authorized subpoenas in attempt to

obtain the full report into russia's role in the twenty sixteen election the move sets up what could be a lengthy legal confrontation between the trumpet ministration and congress coming out that has more from washington d.c. . we need these materials to fulfill our cousin to tional obligations a full and unredacted look at special counsel robert muller's report into donald trump and his political and business circles that's what congressional democrats are demanding and on wednesday voted for the justice department to turn over this committee requires the full report and the underlying materials because it is our job not the attorney generals to determine whether or not president trump has abused his office democrats on the judiciary committee in the house of representatives are furious the attorney general william bar appointed by president trump did not meet their april second demand to turn over the report whether trump

and his team colluded with russia during the twenty six thousand election campaign or obstructed justice during the investigation the follow the attorney general recently released a four page summary of the nearly four hundred page moller report saying there is no evidence the president worked with moscow to win the white house bar has promised only to provide a redacted copy by mid april with publicans accused democrats of i'm necessarily prolonging the collusion debate that there is a coordinated attempt by the democrats to undermine the president of the united states and this is all about the twenty twenty presidential election but democrats believe trump supporters in congress are trying to suppress evidence of potential criminal misconduct by the president last month when the special counsel concluded his report even trump supported making it public thank you very general but it wouldn't bother me at all but as the debate rages about its release trump is now

dialing back that statement so i think it's somewhat of a waste of time this is just politics at a very low level the judiciary committee wants evidence and tests. from past white house officials wednesday's vote means it could subpoena that information at any time the question is whether the justice department will comply if the attorney general refuses he could be held in contempt of congress that sets up a lengthy legal confrontation between the justice department and the congressional body that oversees it kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington. the u.s. vice president has warned turkey against buying a russian anti missile system mike pence says anchor is risking its partnership with the nato alliance with so-called reckless decisions comes as nato secretary general warned the u.s. congress about quote more assertive threat from russia still from burke says nato

does not want to new cold war but he says its partners must not be naive about relations with moscow. back to get to james phase that down with the instruction but a short time ago began by asking him if nato is concerned about tensions within the alliance. i am not denying that there are tensions on the there are disagreements on the wide range of different issues trade climate change energy and also other issues but we have seen differences in between nato allies before back to the suez crisis in fifty six to the iraq war in two thousand and three which. strongly supported somalia as a strong were against. the war but this spite these differences while there were are needed from history is that nato has always been able to overcome them and stand together and unite around the record tosca that is to protect or defend the other and i'm absolutely confident that up also be the case

now and the cotton ask was to protect from the threat from moscow originally you talked in your speech to the two houses of congress of a more assertive russia are you concerned that some in your alliance and some of the countries even here in the u.s. even president trump under-estimating that you know i think we all see what russia is doing we don't see any imminent threat against any nato ally but we see a more assertive russia ukraine in support of the supporting assad regime in syria are cyber attacks different activities against nato allies and proper countries but at the same time we work for a better relationship with russia we believe in dialogue with russia russia neighbor interested to stay and we don't want to isolate russia and we will actually work for a better relationship with russia so we believe that as long as we are strong and united we can also engage in dialogue is no contradiction between dialogue and

turns on offense. as right as opposition it is remaining defiant after politicians loyal to president nicolas maduro stripped him of his immunity from prosecution means one goto could not be charged with violating the constitution after declaring himself interim president earlier this year a latin america editor lucy newman reports from caracas. 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 warned of 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 in the way. 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 states today it is and we will continue working towards the reconstruction of an israel. in

a day of dilling resolutions the national assembly passed a motion 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 put live. google 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 back us still to come on the news hour for shoes. just six days to go until israel's general election smaller parties are finding new ways to get their message across everything is expensive and we don't get paid more by finding affordable housing in the united states isn't just

a problem in big cities. and in support free passage to the big time a deal that means baseball players no longer need to flee cuba to make it to the majors. we got some rather lively weather pushing into western parts of europe now clouds streaming in fair amounts of rain and of also had some snow for good measure not just around the united kingdom also down across the alps could covering of snow here as you go on through the next twenty four hours for sun just nine celsius there in london remember for the start of the weekend we're getting up to nine hundred twenty degrees really is something of a shock to the system wet and windy weather comes in across the southwest the protos a good part of wells now will make its way eastwards let's push into central and

eastern parts of us a little more pleasant nineteen celsius there for bergen eighteen for vienna getting up what up into the mid to high teens down towards the southeastern corner as well even moscow gets up to six celsius but it's how we come to friday we have got some rain pushing across into austria down across the balkan still some snow on the northern flank of that temperatures for cover across western parts fourteen celsius for london paris but quite scrape has to be said for madrid with a high of just eleven degrees in the cloud and the rain some rather unsettled weather to affecting parts of northern africa as we go on through thursday the system makes its way through morocco stretching up into algeria really peps up by friday with some heavy downpours and it's nice yeah. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one set for closure one ton a movie in its detainees going nowhere we have identified as

a priority is the construction of an email i value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to proxies or brutality in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited to on al-jazeera. the environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes around the world. pesticides are pushed on drones that it's a very modern way to do. and we've made poisons the measure of progress. the domestic population has become organized enough and active enough to be your assuming there is if you will or more vulnerable circle of poison on al-jazeera.

one of the top stories here on. libya's u.n. backed government in tripoli has declared a general military alert and follows the deployment of a convoy of heavily armored vehicles towards tripoli the eastern border honey for have to. algeria is up to those he's been issued a statement asking for forgiveness for any shortcomings after resigning as president on tuesday is expected to be replaced by the speaker of the house until elections can be held. britain's opposition leader says talks with the prime minister of the brics it were useful but inconclusive the two met in an attempt to find a way forward for the country's exit from the e.u. is due to leave the block in little more than a week. one on those bricks and developments and u.k.

politicians are right now considering a bill that would block. paul brennan is live from westminster in central london tell us how that's going. well the i'm looking down at the screen now the rattling through the amendments although it's taking about fifteen minutes for each one to be voted upon the currently on amendment number one they haven't done it in chronological order amendment one would limit the extent of a delay to breaks it to just may the twenty second this is a brick city an amendment that seeking to clip the wings if you like all of the main thrust of the bill which is being railroaded through parliament by to kind of remain and peace across party grouping including the labor m.p. and a conservative m.p. calls all of the left when almost unprecedented what they're trying to do and that is to get this bill all the way through the lower house the commons today and pass it on to the lords in the hope of making sure that it goes through the entire process of legislature in time basically before the middle of next week what it

would do would be to prevent recently from going for a no deal to a certain extent this is been superseded by theresa may announcing on tuesday that she was going to seek out talks with the opposition leader jeremy colvin and applied to the european union for an extension but theoretically there is the still possibility of a no deal bricks it creeping up on palm and on the u.k. and these m.p.'s are very keen to avoid it now another thing that has come out today is the pressure that's on the two leaders both theresa may the prime minister and the opposition labor leader teresa mayes getting a lot of flak from her own side for kind of selling out the principle of bracks it they for her own m.p.'s are not happy that she's collaborating in their words with the labor leader many of whom the conservatives accuse of being a pure marxist now jeremy corbyn as well is getting a lot of flak from his side unite the union wants to see

a public balance as being part of the labor party proposals taken to the prime minister currently strictly speaking it's not. other people say that labor is risking a massive split in its own party in fact both of them all but the need is for compromise at this late stage of the proceedings or no deal breaks it is a very real risk according to the bank of england governor mark carney today so all sides are trying to find some accommodation for the last three years has been impossible to reach paul brennan thank you very much fascinating man has been shot dead in the occupied west bank the israeli army says the man tried to stab a group of israelis near a military checkpoint close to numbers and one was shot and was shot by one of them palestinian officials say the man who fired the shot was a jewish settler a second palestinian was wounded in the incident israel says it has recovered the

remains of a soldier missing since the one nine hundred eighty two war in lebanon in a nationally televised speech prime minister benjamin netanyahu and outside the remains of zachary bound l a u.s. born tank commander had been returned to his family in jerusalem he was one of three soldiers still listed as missing in action since the battle of salt on yahoo with six days to go before israel's general election attention is focused on benjamin netanyahu is battle for reelection the prime minister needs the help of smaller parties to see off his main challenger former army chief benny gantz are a force that reports from occupied east jerusalem. it's a packed night at a sports bar in west jerusalem but the screens aren't showing leo messi or cristiana rinaldo the largely young crowd has come instead to see a new star player in the wire a form of mushy figuring whose surge in the polls has been one of the stories of the israeli election an issue in the law is proposing something very liberal the legalization of money i personally don't smoke but i think in today's world it has

to be legalized fagan's libertarian message goes beyond marijuana to separating religion and state ending the military draft reforming education but his a hoot or identity party's platform also reflects the far right positions of a man who's been banned from entering britain for fostering hate what about the non jewish residents say he wants to annex the occupied west bank in gaza and dispatch hundreds of thousands of palestinians to other countries allowing only those who swear allegiance to israel to stay which only a small minority would be granted citizenship yes we do believe that to keep our identity in the germs it is restated only to the state and we keep our sovereignty on our holding their hand which is the land of israel that god gave us fagan also advocates full israeli sovereignty over the locks the mosque compound building the third jewish temple on what jews call the temple mount as well as moving israeli

parliament or knesset close by and his is not the only ultra right party that could have a big say in the story of this election and the coalition horsetrading that comes after it. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself engineered an alliance between one of his coalition partners and a jewish supremacist party whose main candidate has been banned from standing for inciting anti arab racism. israel's justice minister ireland shouted standing for the newly formed new right to party tried irony spring herself with a perfectly labelled fascism a message that her plans to limit the powers of the judiciary smelled more like democracy to her these parties have a lot of power because if they get something if there's something that they don't like about government policy if they disagree with the party that leads the coalition at any point they can do this thing that often reminds me of a child in a sandbox saying i'm leaving the glyn says just that about giving up even

a green of the occupied west bank meaning donald trump's peace plan juve publication after the election could face a threat from both sides the palestinians who reject u.s. mediation and the far right israeli parties it could be crucial partners in the netanyahu government are a force that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. in turkey votes are being recounted in almost a third of istanbul's district after the ruling party disputed early results in local elections initial results showed president richard. ak party on course to lose control of his temple and the capital ankara opposition candidate from air is double his calling on the election board to declare him the winner malaysia's former prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges at his trial in kuala lumpur and he brags that denies any involvement in the multi-billion dollar one and d b's candle that brought down his government once new reports. a former

prime minister accused of being involved in looting billions of dollars from the state not getting support here through prayer not chip is on trial for criminal breach of trust corruption and money laundering involving the alleged transfer of more than ten million dollars into his bank account if that goes you know it's called the view. not just you i'm looking forward to it because a lot is that. prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a form a subsidiary of stated bestand fund one m d b and there are other accusations that he faces forty two charges in total most involving claims he pocketed nearly seven hundred million dollars from one. he's due to stand trial for most of those later this year not just says he's the victim of a political vendetta orchestrated by the current government that came into power

following elections last me i think within the. charges that this is politically motivated but i think only thing in the off time and also public credibility if the evidence against him is not strong for being that one of his on the prosecution in order to bring the water but he and prove they're wrong green didn't even. when malaysian police raided properties linked to nudge it they seized handbags jewelry and cash worth more than two hundred seventy million dollars investigators say money stolen from one m.t.b. was used to fund lavish lifestyles for his family and his associates including buying high end properties building an art collection and funding a hollywood movie one m.t.v. is being investigated in five other countries including the u.s. the u.s. department of justice alleges four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund. this trial marks the first time

a former prime minister of malaysia has been in the dock it's also significant because it will put on public record details of the four that and legibly occurred at one end and the highest offices of government how transactions were mate shell companies allegedly set up to cover the money trail the connections between nudge it and others accused of taking part of the financial scandal florence we call the newport. a record number of families mostly from central america trying to seek asylum in the united states the u.s. government says the country's southern border with mexico is at a breaking point and president trump has threatened to shut it down as a result it is hundred reports from el paso texas doing so could harm the u.s. economy. the u.s. southwestern border has not seen numbers like these in more than a decade more than one hundred thousand migrants and asylum seekers crossing in march the border patrol's commissioner says the system is overwhelmed continue to

gnashing by congress is going to continue to put people at risk the vulnerable migrants on the journey in mexico as they cross our border increasingly hot weather and our own personnel and unfortunately children in our custody sixty five percent of the recent arrivals are families or children traveling alone the vast majority are central americans who say they're fleeing violence and poverty last week in el paso hundreds of people were kept under a bridge the u.s. government said its processing centers had run out of space after the resulting public outcry the asylum seekers were moved many are being released to charities that provide temporary shelter the release says that are coming from border patrol or not as organized there they're coming in and their release is that are happening in a different type of theory that a president donald trump says he's going to close the border this week if the flow of migrants doesn't ease already his administration has moved some officers away

from ports of entries to the front lines of the humanitarian crisis but even as those close to the president claim the focus is on saving lives trump accuses the asylum seekers of fraud you have people coming up here you know they're all met by the lawyers the lawyers of and they come out they're all met by the lawyers and they say say the following phrase i am very afraid for my life are i am afraid for my life ok and then i look at the guy he looks like he just got out of the ring is the heavyweight champion of the world is afraid. it's a big fat con job. if trouble does shut down the border the impact on trade and the u.s. economy would be catastrophic a closure of just a few days would mean billions of dollars lost leaving many to question whether the president's threat is serious or simply a political tool in the absence of

a real solution heidi to castro al-jazeera el paso texas. and creasing number of people in the u.s. a struggling to pay rent with rising living costs and the stagnating wages many say they simply can't afford it and the problem is not just in urban areas as i make out of the reports from florida across rural communities in many parts of the united states studies show a housing crisis that is getting worse there's an acute lack of affordable housing many homes are in a state of disrepair and rents keep rising so is the pew charitable trust and the national rural housing coalition if they ask you i mean i can't be here for a story that you need to all graeme a knows too well but there are three works in agriculture and he's paid the minimum wage she says the rising cost of renting a home has been a burden on her family everything is so high you know everything is so expensive and we don't get paid more so.