this crisis has been limited to providing emergency assistance to a few when there are many with nowhere to go. beirut. bringing you more on the situation in libya where troops loyal towards khalifa haftar are threatening to advance on the capital of libya's had two competing governments since two thousand and fourteen the un backed and internationally recognized government is based in tripoli meanwhile the parliament in the eastern city of tobruk is supported by warlords. and has backing from saudi arabia u.a.e. and the jews are both governments have their own central banks britain prints money for tripoli russia for top their years eighty billion dollars of oil reserves are managed by tripoli but after a seized the oil fields in the east and in the south and a single marty is a political analyst and director of the tripoli base are the key institute joins us

now from beirut good to have you with us so what do you make of this march by half to us forces is about to try and take the capital. i think it's a two prong strategy so mean this is about trying to really intensify the pressure on the back of a meeting that will take place in the next two weeks a u.n. brokered meeting about a deal that was done last month in abu dhabi between. this is a deal that takes us back to the negotiations that took place two years ago and there's been one faltering line in the negotiations in the articles that were agreed over a three year period of the goetia sions by the u.n. by all libyan factions about control over the military and that control being by a civilian body an elected or appointed body and this has been the single red line that after and his backers in the u.a.e. and in egypt have really kind of been pushing against that a deal that was not an arbitrary last month to try to end the crisis or end the war has been about half there is next role and the real essence of this agreement is

about how after taken control of a military without any kind of real civilian checks after also getting the kind of power to appoint a prime minister as opposed to a prime minister or a president really appointing him or or taken control of his armed services and that's a deal that would be put on the table not to negotiate but to accept in two weeks' time by the u.n. national conference that is taking place with them as so this latest move is about intensifying the pressure and really in the hope because in the knowledge that the u.n. and the international community has done absolutely nothing to stop that if after its military advances as you said earlier in the program he took over all installations illegally about two months ago in the south of the country he's been moving from the east of the west to the south over the last three years and has a no pressure from international community to stop this so i think if this is an acknowledgment really of the u.n. inability to hold him to account to condemn him to sanction him and it's really that kind of produce the pressure and it's. either one of two things.

well i think there's a myriad number of reasons the u.a.e. has interfered in that process since the thousand and fifteen sixteen when it. they were trying to procure the head of the of the u.n. mission in libya but of the only known they since took into the u.a.e. diplomat academy in the u.a.e. the french support which is a key member of the p five had been providing him with military support to coordinate plan and execute these missions in eastern libya and in southern libya there is an air base that is operating outside of libya and had them which has been there for three years is the first base to be established by the u.a.e. in libya now doesn't face any kind of condemnation there are drones that are operating from that base it's either complete ambivalence or the inability to really hold to account these major geo political forces that are really owning the process in libya i don't intend supplying them that military escalation in western libya over months ambivalence cynicism or they're almost on board but there's very little that one can say to really understand why they will not hold or sanction or

condemn the moves what have to go but anybody that has gone against or opposed that i mean five months ago there was a solution towards tripoli a key commander that came out of the un for after camp was sanctioned by the u.n. security council in seventy two hours so have to have been able to escalate impinged has been able to block can be an obstacle for the un process for years so has the u.a.e. but the u.a.e. was brokering peace or peace and of commerce in abu dhabi less than a month ago and is involved in the same time in escalate in the military the military mood and the military plans for tripoli so it's puzzling i don't understand exactly why the un why the un is some ambivalence to the escalation by one side and its completely on board with any kind of security council condemnation or or force or political sanctions when it comes to and for half their opponents all right thanks so much anderson a commodity that. british m.p.'s have narrowly passed a bill forcing the government to avoid

a no deal bragg's it the amendment was passed by a single vote that is yet to be approved by the house of lords with a days before the break as the deadline winds those vote means the government will have to ask you for an extension. baka has the latest from outside the british on and in london so what's going on in the house of lords. right well i'm going to decipher it for you you really have to stick with me as you've already said to the bill that narrowly passed by one vote in the lower house the house of commons on wednesday forcing the british government to go to the e.u. and ask for an extension and also giving m.p.'s the right to dictate the length of that extension has now gone to the house of lords the upper chamber where it's being debated it has to be passed there for it eventually to get royal assent to become law but what we're seeing is that there are already signs of division in the

house of lords the pm byron as hater who presented the bill and the house of lords said that it was a matter of urgency that the lord supports it to allow the british government to go to the e.u. next week on wednesday and formally ask them for an extension but pro breaks it appears and the house of lords are doing everything they possibly can to question why this bill is that a tool saying that well the british government authority said that there is a need for an extension there's no need now for another legal route to force the government's hand bots all over let win the conservative m.p. that tabled this bill in the first place said that there is an absolute need for an insurance policy to avoid crashing out of the e.u. without a deal and also because we don't know exactly what the british government will or will not do ahead of that april the twelfth deadline before then the u.k.

has to have a deal in place otherwise it will crash out of course of the european union just to had we're also hearing that probe rex e.p.a. is maybe getting ready for an all nighter when it comes to talks to delay any kind of final agreement on this bill those in favor of passing the bills though say that they're ready to stay up all night as well who knows though we may only get a conclusion on friday morning they are. thanks for that. u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe is hosting foreign ministers in washington d.c. to mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of nato secretary general is appealing for transatlantic unity the time of tension and division within the military alliance on wednesday stoltenberg told the u.s. congress of the threat posed by what he called a more assertive russia clued in moscow's violations of the intermediate range

nuclear forces treaty our diplomatic etta james bays is that meeting in washington d.c. so how receptive an audience is in finding there well i think in the main meeting which is taking place now what they call the plenary meeting of the north atlantic council that's all the foreign ministers twenty nine of them sitting together i think that message of trying to keep the unity and and the concerns about russia is shared by most of those ministers as ever is the case here both sammy where the real business is done is not around that big table it's in the margins and some of those issues that are being talked about i think while they're all here in washington d.c. are perhaps more important one of those is the concern about turkey's plan to buy that missile defense system from russia that is caused a row with the u.s. other allies are very concerned about that i put that issue to the nato secretary

general as he arrived here this morning. it is a national decision. for each dollar to decide on determined of capabilities but at the same time we see that this is not an issue which creates. which has created this remit between allies and nato provides a platform for allies to address issues like to this the s s four hundred issues going on the agenda of the meeting today but i expect of course is to be or to be addressed on the margins of the meeting because nato is a platform for our laws to discuss issues like this need to provides support to turkey and we augment the air defense. the air defense cold turkey river to the point of. nato to buttress another big issue that's being discussed here is the situation in afghanistan because of course that somewhere beyond normal operational

area where a decade ago it decide to send its forces there of course we have important developments those peace talks that been taking place in doha between the u.s. and the taliban but i think the interesting thing there is that's very much being at that level between the u.s. and the taliban they haven't even included their main partner the afghan government and not much visibility of what's going on on those talks for the rest of nato so i think some of the nato allies are expecting quite a detailed update here or i that was james pace from washington d.c. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has met russian president vladimir putin in moscow before leaving waskow message now told reporters he would discuss syria and security ties with russia the visit comes just five days before the israeli general election stuff us 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 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 confounders are sitting in is for al and on the site he could get 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 hizbollah forces in syria and that is something that needs on ya especially now before the elections gone commit to actually nuts and you are would rather want the opposite he wants that britain and russia would like to make sure that iranian forces who because boller forces are going to leave syria altogether and that's also something that put in so far has not committed on although after the last visit in february netanyahu said both countries agreed on setting up some kind of the some kind of working group to make sure that all foreign forces would leave syria but for after that putin 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 trump 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. now the man accused of attacking two masts in new zealand is now facing fifty charges of murder police say australian brendan tarrant will also be charged with thirty nine counts of attempted murder when he appears in court in christchurch on friday fifty people were killed last month when he opened fire during friday prayers straightly has passed tough new laws that threaten to send social media executives to jail if they don't act quickly to take down violent content in response to those mosque attacks in christ church. live stream by the killer was strayer's government has rushed the legislation through under thomas reports from sydney the crushed church killer broadcast his murders longleat online facebook hosted his video for seventeen minutes before cutting the feet australia's government is the first in the world to pass laws as

a result explicitly targeting social media companies we just sliding against the weaponization of social media we are introducing a tough regime against the misuse and abuse of online platforms the rules and norms that apply in the physical world should also apply in the online world the new laws cover audiovisual material that with government considers abhorrent and violent that's defined as acts of terrorism murder attempted murder torture rape and kidnapping the new laws to say social media companies should remove such material expeditiously basically fast but it doesn't define expeditiously how fast is fast enough that's for the police to the side when it comes to pursuing a prosecution and for a jury when deciding guilt. guilt could mean three years in prison for individuals or a fine of one and a half million dollars corporations too slow to remove an apartment dweller

material would face fines of seven and a half million dollars or more big corporations could be fined ten percent of their annual turnover the opposition labor party backs the new laws but says australia acting alone won't help there is little point in australia taking unilateral actions that do not mesh properly with existing regulatory frameworks around the world this concern to the little also been passed in a rush squeezed through parliament before any session for a national election campaign legislation was only introduced late on wednesday this an exciting moment although. to clear the nation kerry was how the new laws passed parliament on thursday some politicians think rushed laws could be bad laws potentially criminalizing some journalism or pushing social media companies to stop operating in australia entirely we've got a very significant bill that is being rushed through before this parliament rises.

and labor is going along with it now that should not occur that now australian politicians we watching to see if other countries leaders follow their lead after thomas al-jazeera sydney. all right let's catch up with all the way the now because everything's here with news of too much rain right in yeah i'm afraid sam have got the state of emergency declared along the paraguayan river we had weeks and weeks of heavy rain and it's a pretty awful situation the good news is that it will turn dry as we go into next week hundred nine millimeters of rain in twenty four hours so that's a big chunk of rainfall that's in conception just to the north of the capital soon soon but you can see little clutches of storms just rolling across the eastern side of paraguayan make in the way for the race and that's the scene then we have got to watch logs roads lots of flooded house in thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as

a result of that the remainder of thursday sees further showers effect affecting that eastern half of power by winning cross into the southeast brazil into europe wide maybe in just pushing into the river plate for a time it's not going further northward still some wet weather for paraguay east in paris why for friday places say things do improve for saturday so we are hopeful that we will get a chance to start to dry out north of the equator we've got some flooding concerns taking place across parts of north america as well at the moment got some really heavy rain just around the deep south pushing right up through the mississippi valley up towards midwest that's making its way further east was eastern seaboard having authority wet day as we go through friday and there will be some very heavy rain also making its way towards the west coast that will nudge its way further eastwards and gradually turned to snow semi. thanks so much well still ahead of al jazeera for the first time in fifty years saudi arabia state all company releases dolls about its reserves tell you why and scientists say time is taking to turn vos

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investigations how to sell a massacre on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching hour just zero time to recap the headlines the u.n. secretary general is calling for calm in libya where troops loyal towards flavor have to threaten to head towards the capital puffed out of says his forces will fight what he calls naming terrorist groups ethiopian investigators say the pilots

of an airliner crash last month performed all recommended procedures to regain control of the jet part of a preliminary report into the accident that killed one hundred fifty seven people. shelling by syrian government forces has killed at least ten people in rebel held areas village province town of kufa the noble was mainly targeted. several u.s. senators have introduced a bill to provide four hundred million dollars in aid to the venezuelan people half of the money will be sent to neighboring countries that are taking in refugees the other two hundred million will be for aid inside the country the proposed legislation will also ease sanctions on officials who recognize opposition leader why though as leader and the lancet medical journal says the crisis is creating a regional health emergency its report indicates venezuela's living standards have deteriorated to the point that more babies are dying before their first birthday

between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and seventeen pregnancy related deaths rose by sixty six percent one of the main reasons is that doctors lack the medicine needed to provide basic care vaccines are also in low supply which is lead to the spread of diseases like tetanus hepatitis b. and diptheria and last year only thirty percent of required vaccines were available leaving two point nine million children at risk. tomato soup is the america's seen the researcher for human rights watch she joins us now from. good to have you with us first of all how alarming is not just the deterioration in health standards but the rate of deterioration. in a felon people are currently facing a complex humanitarian emergency that is based on

a research we've done program here that has concluded that the combination of years shortages of food and medical and medical supplies in the country but the bread and cheese is across minnesota borders is leading to a totally unprecedented situation in that america one of the recommendations being made is that you calling on the government to accept assistance from international donors how do you respond to suggestions from the government that actually the solution lies in removing sanctions installed and stopping the publishing there of the government and the people. they're trying to send that have been imposed on many of our prism multipart sanctions and even a friend of their shows that have been implicated in corruption and abuse and they have absolutely nothing to do with the ability of the government plan for medicare and and cause which is what the people in exile are anything but and the only.

reason that it has no ability to export oil at least to the u.s. . sanctions that have been imposed on a certain state on companies that have that could potentially limit their ability to purchase medicines has been imposed here and the prices that we have seen documented clearly christine i'm sure that they don't think. so what would you put it down to then if you look at the period before. two thousand and seventeen how i'd cope with those figures be given the. the government stopped publishing two thousand and sixteen right. that is the government going to sort of has made enormous efforts but the magnitude and gravity of the crisis and that is why they are largely responsible for the suffering of innocent people because it's impossible to have a. diagnosis of what's happening however there is data.

we have got. indicates that there are outbreaks of preventable diseases that such as malaria and and these. surges of jesus which began in two thousand and sixteen two thousand and seventeen way before the u.s. imposed sanctions that you're talking about. the report also points to i mean points to increases in all kinds of diseases but it's not just to the issue of lack of medicine right there's a lot of personnel medical personnel who've left the country the scale of the problem can be solved by accepting assistance from international donors if you need to replace much of your medical workforce. this is going to require a long term solution but in the immediate future what is necessary is for the

united nations to lead to a large scale in response to what is happening. is that the u.n. secretary general does not need permission. from my little and. the u.n. secretary general needs to do is to do. a thing a conflict humanitarian emergency. then with this emergency within the u.n. trying to turn off this particular mark. to the office of the nation. and request access to. data that the government has. an independent comprehensive diagnosis of the extent of the crisis and. they do not need. thank you for your for. nearly a million people in mozambique are receiving vaccination against colorado the last

month science only died most of those being immunized are in the poor city of beirut which was hardest hit two people have died from the disease and there are two thousand cases have been recorded for me the miller as there is from. this camp in john doe's home to more than six hundred people displaced by the high clone and the flooding that followed that's just a fraction of the one point seven million people in wasn't really could been displaced following that flooding people here say conditions of very difficult once you went to the tents behind us they're quite clear there's nothing in it or 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 eaves 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 news also the health authorities are working as quickly as they possibly can but the need is really quite overwhelming process's in south africa have held a rally in a german township calling for better government services and improved living conditions some in alexandria have barricaded streets and burned tires they're angry about rubbish not being collected piles of garbage bin building up and they say illegal settlements are expanding. you can see we're overcrowded here in alexandria so there's no land we buy we can stay so if the government can provide

any kind of land we have by we can be able to fit all of us 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 locals have no jobs we're not fighting anyone who just won the prose or to come here so we can speak to fighting for our rights. argentina's economy is continuing to sink inflation keeps rising and the currency is again losing its value despite the country receiving one of the largest financial support programs for any country there is about. these pensioners and when our scientists are angry. they say they don't have enough money to live on and want their pensions increased. more says protesting is all she can do to tell others what's happening to people like her. like you i worked forty

two years and i'm not being paid what i should and everyone knows what they're doing to us who is machree ruling for we cannot make it to the end of the month. it's been over three years. to cafés promising to fight inflation and improve the lives of millions of argentina. but many here say he hasn't delivered his i don't think is economy is already suffering from recession i was double digit inflation one of very many of the people that have come here that the devaluation of the brain so fear in people immediately translates into an increase in the price of food among other items when many of those who come here are already struggling to make ends meet and the. latest government reports show that poverty has risen from around twenty six percent last year to thirty two percent the main reason and inflation. rate of forty five percent. mackley has promised the situation will

improve in the coming months and has vowed to reduce inflation the government has also increased spending on social programs but much of the middle class miss out on any government assistance. it really worries as money is just not enough i don't and it's impossible to eat live and pay taxes. presidential elections are scheduled to take place in october and polls show. ratings have dropped dramatically in recent months. former president cristina kirchner is considering running once again and around thirty percent of arjen time say they will vote for her again nor there is political certainty uncertainty can be good or bad for the financial markets if it's micro or someone else it's ok but if it's christina christian or there are fears of price and currency controls so we risk the chances of default once again because they already said they would restructure the foreign there so if that happens norah activation is possible. and that's why protests like this one i

likely to increase in the next few months with millions of people struggling to pay for basic items and the government struggling to be really acted. as one of scientists. foremost chairman carlos ghosn has been arrested again he's been out on bail in japan is accused of underreporting is in common use in company funds to hide his personal losses he denies the charges calling his detention outrageous and arbitrary for the first time since the nineteen seventies saudi arabia has released financial details of its state owned oil company the dancer shows the reserves of the world's number one oil for much lower than expected. as more. one of saudi arabia's most highly guarded secrets is out or at least part of wield the state oil company has unveiled data for the first time since the one nine

hundred seventy s. saudi aramco had to publish the information in a prospectus for potential investors as it prepares to raise capital and buy a petrochemical company called sapping the data also raises questions about the size of saudi oil reserves betrayed by the revenue to run the kingdom that of our oil field is one of the world's largest surprise in the prospectus is that the around close its production capacity is three point eight million barrels a day now that still is far away the largest feel in the world what people are concerned about as it used to produce well referred to in those days what we've understood over the years is that this is an intentional reduction of capacity in the war the sabot purchase comes after saudi aramco plans for a public share offering their i.p.o. was put on hold last year it was meant to be the world's largest which saudi arabia evaluated at two trillion dollars the i.p.o. is not only going to be about whether those interests it's also going to be about

whether salaries are prepared to offer their crown jewel their most important company the thing that is very rabia provides all the revenue for the country or the bulk of it are they willing to really put that overseas and put them in a position where you know people could potentially have lawsuits against the you know make claims against it and i think a lot of people said it would have think very carefully that's what they want to do . the data shows that tax pays to the state has been greatly reduced to investors there are also questions about crown prince mohammed bin so months ambitious vision twenty thirty investors would look at these all of these as fixed technical influence on government interference and government in their oil company operations and then of course the overall sustainability of saudi regime in the next ten twenty years money raised from around cause business and potential sell off is at the heart of diversifying the saudi economy which so far remains a distant vision from

a job aid out as their. diets are leading to more deaths than smoking that's according to a report from the medical journal lancet.