any kind of language by we can be able to fit all of us a spot for not one but. we're fighting for alexandra and i want the president to come here so we can talk to him face to face there are lots of things happening here local jobs we're not fighting anyone who just won a prize or to come here so we can speak to them we're fighting for our rights how has the latest from johannesburg. organizers of the protests and nothing so far has been planned with the budget we are seeing a few people coming on to the streets in alexandria township where they are burning tires charging saying they want change they want to development the issues very some say they want access to better health care some say they want the children to get better education some say they want jobs some say they even want to land what we saw yesterday were hundreds of people coming on the streets alexander township doing what they normally do years ever the when they protest they burn tires they block roads some people were stopping this from going to school others from going

to work saying enough is enough they want the government to intervene this is an election year the elections will happen in may so politician especially those in the ruling a.n.c. party under pressure to deliver another worrying theme me seeing here is the issue of xenophobia when we seeing black south africans attacking black africans from elsewhere in the continent and they say things like why are these africans allowed to come into use there for undocumented getting work being paid cheaply could be seen with us for scarce resources is divided many people in south africa will say they partly agree with africans who don't want the african people here in the country who are undocumented they say that there aren't enough jobs it is an element is more than twenty percent so why are they allowed to become here and work but others are doing hang on a minute is not just black africans who are coming to south africa and document you have europeans people from the united states who are from asia elsewhere across the world who are inside there for the right now working without papers so why are

blasts africans particularly targeting black africans again is another theme or issue will see play out as we head towards the elections in may things like poverty unemployment health care housing land xenophobia those will actually build up as politicians gear up to those elections in. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. i i why those behind the yellow vests movement in france say they're not giving up plus. i'm nicholas for kid in northern mali in galloway join us next on a joint operation with the so in mali and police in one of the most dangerous places north of go. in sport james harden warms up for the n.b.a. playoffs with another game winning performance for the houston rockets.

countries including britain france and germany are working to figure out what to do with the families of foreign fighters who joined iceland syria and iraq the red cross says they should be returned to their countries and hold the reports on the old camp which houses seventy three thousand people in northeastern syria. aid agencies weren't ready for what's being described as a humanitarian emergency in the past four months l. hole count in northeast syria has gone from hosting ten thousand people to more than seventy thousand the cap was built to house just forty thousand many live in communal shelters they are the wives and children of i saw fighters as well as civilians displaced by the fighting against the aren't group ninety percent are women and children and we have over six hundred cases of documented malnourished

children and hospitals in the area are overwhelmed to provide them. very specialized care that malnourished children need so health care is a challenge malnutrition is an increasing concern for us some have died of disease there is a lack of proper medical for. well it is and there is a need to improve sanitation to reduce the risks to health forty three percent of the cap's population are syrians they can't return home because their villages and towns have been flattened by the assault against eisel and littered with explosive devices so they won't be leaving el hole soon the rest are foreign nationals mainly the wives and children of isis fighters their fate is also a talent hundreds of the children are orphans the international committee of the red cross says they should be immediately taken to their countries of origin human

rights groups have complained that governments are failing to tackle the problem of what to do with the relatives of i still fighters u.s. backed kurdish forces which control the camp say they don't have the authority or the capacity to prosecute detainees or hold them for a long aurukun invasion in countries that can provide process these people should be taken back to their country and. be prosecuted. or you know if western countries and others don't want to and there has to be international response to find a way to provide trials or in the region. which basically lead tension without any legal basis is unacceptable for now the international community's response to this crisis has been limited to providing emergency assistance to a few when there are many with nowhere to go. into beirut. is

the spokeswoman for the near and middle east of the international committee of the red cross joins us now from beirut good to have you with us first of all who is currently supporting those families who are living in the camp. good evening to you all right now we are at the international committee of the red cross are there in the can along with many other humanitarian actors that are working. and the council are providing shelter water food in addition to vote because service is the way that the way that we see it that there are many women and children there are seventy four thousand people right now residing in the camp from all nationalities from all sides of the society they have gone through very hard journeys in order to reach safety and we are there as much as possible trying to cover the most basic needs but of course it's just a drop in the ocean of what needs to be happen and and where do we go the influx of

people maybe this week has. has reduced but people are still arriving people are still on the way and the situation and they can physics trini dire and really as as the i.c.r.c. as the syrian red crescent our part there and other organizations are not able to keep up with the expansion of the camp with the large amount of people that are currently there. what about are you aware of any long term plans for these people. from other countries that they don't want to return true. it's extremely we understand that it's a completely and complex situation that they're in but the situation in the camp is cannot be a permanent solution in the end these women and children that are there

are our civilians they're no longer taking part if they were at any point or not they're no longer taking part of hostilities they might have been legitimate targets before but now they are protected under international humanitarian law and these laws are must be protected the civilians must be protected there must be solutions and real solutions from from governments from states and so long to find real solutions that doesn't mean that trials shouldn't be made under domestic or international laws but we have to look at the situation right now that there's another hole where you find women and children everywhere sleeping with open wounds without access to efficient medical services efficient shelter efficient water as i said we are trying our best and we are covering a huge number of people in the camp but this is not sustainable and this cannot

stay for a very long time and measures solutions bigger than this should be put in place all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much. the united nations has stepped up patrols across mali following an attack last month gunman killed more than one hundred thirty people injured dozens u.n. troops are hoping to prevent the violence from turning into an ethnic conflict as nicholas hark reports from. it's a potentially dangerous patrol for a local police chief up to like jack city he's traveling into the desert to a full on the marketplace it's along these roads that armed groups like al qaeda and islamic magreb or jam on the side of the slum launched an attack on money and security forces on this occasion you can count on the backing of a heavily armed u.n. escort this is an exercise in q munity policing in. the supporting units

take position in the market to allow the police chief to meet with the local mayor . we are here to police to make people feel safe if there's a problem we are not afraid we will come out and held a population we need to build trust with the community here. seven years ago it was al qaida in the islamic magreb who patrolled the streets after they were the two aren't fighters took control of the north of mali they were eventually pushed out by french and u.n. forces now mali and police are resuming regular patrols of the reach of. government the capital is very far from here they are not going to be the ones dictating what to do we have local problems which need to be settled by local people not outside of us go is busy with military activity with over thirty separate forces making this city their base amongst them the u.n. to help a group of west african soldiers fighting

a rebel groups along with about forty thousand french troops go may appear secure but it's now a prime target for armed groups security forces are now building a trench to fortify the city the trenches about q. and a half meter deep and surrounds the city security forces want to limit the entry points to go in order to protect the civilian population and the u.n. troops that are inside and disrupt the trafficking routes. while in the past people here traded spices or gold now this has become a major hub for the traffic of humans drugs and weapons yet another concern for the police force patrolling the desert in the north of mali nicholas hawk algis iraq. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the russian capital for a meeting with president vladimir putin for leaving for moscow told reporters he

would discuss syria and security ties with russia the visit comes just five days before the israeli general election service and has more from moscow. it's all about the timing this visit by prime minister netanyahu to mosco it's happening just five days before the elections in israel al and although there's been reports that he's carrying a so-called peace plan on syria which if only also has handed over to donald trump the spokes plan of president putin's at the t. has no idea what the peace peace plan they don't ya'll is talking about but if there is such a plan that he's willing to discuss and consider this but more likely analysts say this visit of nathan ya is more like a high profile photo opportunity for training need to now as an international leader who travels to washington and to moscow meeting all these leaders while his companions are sitting in is for al and on the site he could get some more votes of russian immigrants who are living in israel the big question though is what putin

wants in return for helping nathan yeah with this election what put in ones is that israel stops or at least limits their attacks on the iranian and hizbullah forces in syria and that is something that made on ya especially now before the elections gone commit to actually night and you are would rather want the opposite he wants that britain and russia would like to make sure that iranian forces who because well our forces are going to leave syria altogether and that's also something that britain so far has not committed on although after the last visit in february netanyahu said both countries agreed on setting up some kind of some kind of working group to make sure that all foreign forces would leave syria but for after that within made some kind of general remark that this will be the plan at the long term anyway but anyway this will be a visit the first visit after. president announced that the golan heights should be

part of israel and that's something that russia is very much against so it would be very interesting to find out what will be discussed today but so far no statements are expected. visits russia comes just days ahead of a general election in israel as we've been mentioning has been a hotly contested campaign with many issues on the table so from the deck of people in west jerusalem also pulled the. b.b. isn't the only nickname the israeli prime minister goes by another term benjamin netanyahu has cultivated and banked on over the years is mr security to be out all the people of israel that he is the only one who can make them feel safe and secure but now the strongest challenge to his position in a decade is coming from three former army chiefs of staff men who also know security here in west jerusalem most people are telling us that security has always been a priority for israelis but there are other issues just as important that need to

be addressed in a simple that people here are barely living it's the economy we can have costs go up without salaries also increasing i hope this time netanyahu will have the strength to create a broadly focused government that will be able to address all of these issues not only emphasize security which is where we invest most of our money recent polls show that the main issues on voters' minds are security the economy and corruption netanyahu is facing corruption charges in three separate cases you turn the general has announced he intends to indict the prime minister pending a pretrial hearing to be how it's trying to size curity just like he's trying to emphasize the economy just like he's trying to emphasize his rules of articulations but the election is not about any of those three things it's about corruption and whether israelis care about. so far and occasions are that they don't.

most predicted yes benjamin netanyahu will once again become prime minister but they also say that the corruption indictments hanging over him may ultimately defeat him screaming if you will go to within ten months you won't be prime minister this was the way. it is called up. and. we will get him out of the political israel goes to the polls on april ninth but it's what happens after which may be more defining for the political career of benjamin netanyahu stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem so let's take a closer look at israel's economy grew slowly last year with an increase of three point two percent and it's expected to grow at about the same rate this year as of january the unemployment rate stood four point three percent israel's income inequalities and its lowest in twenty years it has one of the worst levels among developed nations more than twenty one percent of israelis live below the poverty

line forty three point one percent of ultra-orthodox jews and forty seven point one percent of palestinian israeli families are considered poor battery communities the hardest hit with a near sixty five percent poverty rate and then there's the rising cost of living which is that there are several protests including in the capital tel of the. in a few moments we'll have all the weather with everything but still ahead on al-jazeera . so tell me why eating the wrong things could be worse than smoking. five against cholera inside cloned hit mozambique health workers begin a vaccination campaign. managers hold accountable bulls contract rebel my goal scorer with the law.

probably there but he might just have night sr yet i'm proud are out there for most pitches in west jerusalem and we have got more showers coming into some because northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days see how the cloud is gathering over towards the eastern side of the mediterranean and this is the same in the west and iran at the moment so the ground remains saturated and i'm afraid when we do see those showers developing over the next day or so things will worsen here lots of cloud pushing right up towards the caucasus lots of cloud and some rain there into northern parts of syria just stretching down across southern areas it's got some showers there coming back into lebanon as well as we go through friday going on into west saturday so you have a cloud the right it makes its way further east with so there we go we have got the showers pushing back into that western side of exacerbating the flooding that we

already have in place here another area that will see some flooding as we go on through the next couple of days and more than parts of africa pham ounce of cloud streaming in there across morocco northern areas of algeria pushing up towards more than costs over libya as well some heavy downpours that will lead to possible issues and watch for flooding but thankfully dry weather does gradually move in behind. the weather sponsored by qatar is. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that meant there is because on a project that's what we refuse it was one of the founders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is in the twenty first century jerusalem a rock and

a hard place on al-jazeera egypt strongman is ruling with an iron fist and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the mark for city for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al-jazeera. watching other sirrah let's recap our headlines now at least one person is reported

dead in fighting between forces loyal to libyan warlord flee for half starved and troops from the u.n. right now his government in tripoli the u.n. secretary general is calling for calm. if you can investigators say the pilots of an airliner that crashed last month or recommended procedures to regain control of the jets it's part of a preliminary report into the accident that killed one hundred fifty seven. british m.p.'s have narrowly passed a bill forcing the government to void a new deal breaker the amendment was passed by a single vote yet to be approved by the upper house. at least ten people have been killed when syrian government forces shelled rebel held areas in the south of the province the hardest hit area was the town of noble so president rajapaksa about of the one russian leader vladimir putin agreed last september to turn it live into a deescalation zone that agreement is to stop acts of aggression between government

forces and rebel fighters the us congress has begun the legal process to obtain the complete report into russia's a legend role in the two thousand and sixteen election last month a summary of the report prepared by special counsel robert muller cleared president donald trump and his campaign team of colluding with russia but there are still other accusations kimberly how it 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 as 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 accuse 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 test. from past white house officials wednesday's vote means it can 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. nato secretary general as warm the u.s.

congress about what he calls a more assertive threat from russia stoltenberg addressed politicians on capitol hill to mount was seventieth anniversary of the security alliance he said nato doesn't want a new cold war but added its partners must not be naive about relations with moscow our diplomatic attitude james bay sat down with berg he began by asking 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 between nato allies before back to the soon as 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 we were on it from history is that we need to always been able to overcome

them and stand together and unite around the record tosca that is to protect and defend each other and i'm absolutely confident that that will also be the case now and the cotton asked 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 underestimating 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 our ukraine support is supporting assad regime in syria our cyber attacks are different activities against nato allies and partners countries but at the same time we work for a better relationship with russia we believe in dialogue with russia russia also a neighbor interest that is steady 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 the fence. the french president the man you might call launched a series of debates in january in response to demands from yellow vests protesters who want a greater say in government in the past eighty days macross taken part in fourteen public debates. but has more. since november it's a weekly ritual yellow fest protest in france that at times turned violent the demonstrations began over plans for a fuel tax that spiraled into a movement against social inequality and the political elite up to three hundred thousand people took part in the first marches now it's just a few thousand but opinion polls suggest most french people support them so it's enough to keep up pressure on the government should i can think of another social movement in recent times that has been so vilified by those in power and why only

because people have there to us to make more money president emanuel mccall has tried to end the crisis by boosting public spending and in january he launched a national citizens' debate to give people more say in politics. insurance it was at the launch that we first met retiree robert f. who complained that the government failed to help people in poor rural areas when we meet him again more than two months on he's not changed his mind at his home in normandy he says people like him have lost faith in politics. politicians don't represent our concerns we vote for m.p.'s who make laws but never ask your opinion once elected politicians only care about their careers in the past two decades this village has lost many of its services many of the faults in this village have closed down a job so scarce there's no public transport so you have to take a car if you want to go anywhere and feel is expensive and that's very typical of many villages and small towns like this across from us which is why support for the

movement is so strong in rural areas. mike ross promised some new policies at the end of the national debate he hopes will appeal to yellow vests supporters and end the unrest but some analysts say it won't be easy that's the big danger is that you you have a minority movement that has the support of. a small majority so how do you reconcile that that's the biggest challenge because not everybody among the universe want the same thing some people talk about spending power increase in income or less taxes and so on and others talk about. democracy mike ross says that the weekly protests have damage the economy and france's image but drop us a news fellow yellow vests say they won't give up their battle until the government improves the lives of people in the countryside like them who feel abandoned natasha al-jazeera on france amnesty international says it will

continue to demand justice for saudi journalist. he was murdered at the saudi consulate in istanbul six months ago now the human rights organization is honored him with the press freedom award shows on the has more amnesty international usa said now is the time to honor the life and legacy of jamal khashoggi it's the first time in ten years that amnesty has bestowed the press freedom award to a journalist a stated mission of the human rights organization is to defend people around the world wherever truth dignity and justice are being denied they say khashoggi stood for that right up until that full day just over six months ago walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul and never came out inside the consulate were operatives who according to u.s.

intelligence services murder case shogi at the direction of the saudi crown prince because he was killed simply for doing his job as a journalist telling the truth half a year later voice has not been silenced and his story has not faded. his life work his contributions to human rights and to press freedom in the arab world and beyond will never be forgotten and while the white house has ignored the cia's findings we at amnesty international refused to turn a blind eye to this heinous murder so do your abs says it's holding a trial for eleven suspects allegedly involved in cars show g.'s murder but amnesty says they do not have confidence in the saudi legal system to hold anybody high up accountable that's why amnesty international has called on the united nations to

initiate an impartial and independent investigation and many governments around the world have also called for that as well the committee to protect journalists says fifty four journalists were killed last year alone the amnesty international usa media wards honored all of them but with special attention to. nearly a million people in mozambique are receiving vaccination against cholera after last month. most of those being immunize are in the port city of beirut hardest hit two people have died from the disease in two thousand and three recruited me the mirror has the latest from. the camp in john doe's home to more than six hundred people displaced by the hike loan and the flooding that followed that's just a fraction of the one point seven million people in wasn't rico been displaced

following that flooding people here say conditions of very difficult once you went to the tents behind us they're quite bare there's nothing in it and nothing in these tents people say that's really all they have the biggest worry for them is the delivery of food as well as medicine they say they have received some but delivery has been inconsistent they last saw a doctor about three days ago and in the past day an elderly woman lost her life people here don't know if that due to cholera but they say that many of the people here would help complaints are suffering from diarrhea and they are vomiting and these are some of the symptoms of the disease that is rapidly spreading in this area more than one thousand seven hundred people have been confirmed cases of cholera there's also concern around the outbreak of other diseases like malaria as well as needles so the health authorities are working as quickly as.