then there's the question which is quite divisive within the opposition labor party of whether to take any deal to the public for what they're calling a confirmatory vote that's far from clear despite pressure from some m.p.'s on from much of the labor membership for a referendum it's a very complicated matter with such with others in the parliamentary labor party saying that that would be going against the promises that labor made it's a lecture it's so divisions within both major parties and just in the last few hours jacob reese mug the head of the hard line breaks it says in the conservative party saying that if there were to be an extension now then britain would say he wants to see britain basically acting as an obstruction to e.u. business with vaccine mind france the french government is saying that an extension is by no means a done deal they're very aware that it could create further uncertainties for

businesses around the continent so right now there's still that deadline of next friday where the european where the u.k. would leave the u. without a deal unless they get this extension next week so that really will be crucial thank you. time for short break here al-jazeera when we come back. within six months we will see one of the great humanitarian crisis in the world u.s. politicians invoke never before used powers to call for an end to american support for the saudi american who are in yemen and zooming into their everyday lives south koreans become the first in the world with five speed on their mobile phones more on the stay with us. however we've got a good mobile phone i weather across japan at the moment but some places of cloud

are rolling for the save japan easing across on shoe q.c. latest weather systems now pushing up into hokkaido wind and rain coming through here but it will sweep through sport gets up to what a disappointing six degrees celsius but it will be dry nineteen celsius therefore not too bad it's all some wet weather there just across the towards northern parts of china by saying around twenty degrees a little disappointing on the temperature haven if anything tesco still as we go on in tucson the broad skies to come back in across the korean peninsula much of japan as we go through sunday or whether they're just not going up towards the father was off the country but all in all the city feeding race bringing like spring like weather to sail across southern parts of china twenty nine degrees in hong kong that's very agreeable want to see the showers longer spells of rain over towards the southwest of the country for a time though right not as we go through sunday and sunday was like a fabulous day pretty much everywhere even northern parts of vietnam should see

some lousy fine and dry weather that is dry by the tail across southeast asia the usual rush of showers coming through with some levee down poles pushing up to time . twenty one the teenage years i left behind still trying to find my place trying to see where i fit in to the whole picture and adult hood begins to take form i did cook occasionally but the great doesn't really want me do you want me to stay off my feet in two thousand and six south africa revisits the children of apartheid for the third time and much has changed over the past forty nina's twenty one up south africa on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of the top stories here on the al jazeera forces supporting libya's u.n. backed government have been deployed to defend the capital as troops loyal to warlord have to move closer to tripoli. algerian media reporting the intelligence chief has been fired bonnie a close ally of former president but a feature announcement comes as activists are calling for more protests. and british prime minister to resign may has asked the european union for another delay to break that letter to the e.u. . a three month extension until the end of june. now one hundred days and at least eight hundred thousand people killed it's been twenty five years since the rwandan genocide but the scars remain and the healing

goes on well this weekend rwanda will pause to commemorate the most violent period in its history sunday marks the day when hutu militia began an ethnic genocide against the minority al jazeera as andrew symonds visited the area where some of the worst atrocities took place and a warning some of the images in his report could be disturbed. as rwanda prepares to commemorate twenty five years since the start of its genocide the same images of horror dominate tears a low carb dissolve the sorrow and questions remain who shot down the aircraft killing rwanda's president from the hutu majority an act that started one hundred days of killing on a scale rarely seen in modern history around three quarters of the minority tutsi population were murdered. questions of why the international community didn't immediately respond still exist how many lives could have been saved or why didn't

the united nations at least take early action against a highly organized campaign of hatred and incitement by the hutus. for alice. underground in one of the mass graves there's only one answer and that's to forgive despite her extraordinary loss she shows some of the seemingly endless lines of coffins containing the dried out bones of whole families in this casket are the remains of her mother father two sisters and three brothers i knew i vividly remember the death of my parents and my siblings i hear their voices in my heart i'm sad but i forgive their killer in a separate attack alice was hacked all over her body one of her hands was amputated with a machete she nearly died yet she forgives the man who did this as well. above her you see the tops of these modern day tombs they contain the remains of more than

forty five thousand people killed in this district alone a family died in the church just here this is one of so many churches where people tried in vain to seek sanctuary but more than ten thousand people died here mostly women and children their clothes now spread out over the pews above shrapnel rained down upon this place and below here now you see coffins filled with the remains bones of victims twenty five years on what happened here still defies understanding. as alice continues with her visits here the man who attacked her is now free living with his family he served eight years in jail and completed community service aside from killing in a group he's murdered twenty one people in cold blood would you say you feel nucky that you didn't get a life sentence or you did even you for serving

a life sentence to be ok because it would be punishment for my crane's being alive is not lucky i kneel in front of those i have hacked and beg forgiveness this form of reconciliation is one of many initiatives aimed at trying to ensure peace can be permanent but not everyone is as forgiving as alice andrew simmons al-jazeera in rwanda and the french president among your macro has appointed a panel of experts to investigate france's actions during rwanda's genocide micron's also met the representatives of a survivors' group in paris france and rwanda about a tense relationship since the killings in one nine hundred ninety four with a more on this natasha butler joins us live now from the french capital tasha so tell us more about what emanuel has exactly announced. yes i'm on your mark or as you said a met survivors group from the rand and genocide at the least a palace it was his way of marking the twenty fifth anniversary had been invited to

garley but it actually declined the invitation and that of course some controversy questions as to why he wasn't going but now the police say put out a communique saying that in fact what emmanuel michael is going to do it says is trying to shed some light on what france's role was during the genocide he has set up a commission to investigate study the state archives and try and clarify what france's role was because that role has been a real point of contention between kigali and paris for the last twenty five years kakali has repeatedly accused france of being complicit in the massacres now back in one thousand nine hundred four when the genocide began the french government under francois mitterrand the time they'd been very close to the hutu regime there are allegations that the french also arm some of the militia and then french troops at the time that was sent and deployed to try and protect some of the population

well again there are allegations of both from historians in rwanda and france that those troops simply just didn't do enough they did too little and many people continued to be killed so it's a very sensitive issue in france and by setting up this commission amount on my call is saying that hopefully more clarity can be shed on exactly what france's role was to show how significant is this move by markov for a french president. it's very significant because french presidents have been so guarded over this very sensitive topic for so long you know in twenty ten nicolas sarkozy admitted that france had made some errors but he really stopped there in twenty fifteen the former french president francois law and opened up the state archives but historians since have said it's very difficult to access those archives so there's a sense that the french government's been very secret about its role in rwanda so

you might or might cause move to in a way make those archives accessible appoint a panel who are going to look at france's role well that's seen as something very welcome by some of those to the survivors also the met him at all mark or today of course there are historians who are saying well let's make sure that this is done in the right way so it is as open as a composite really be but this move is sony in keeping with him and all my core style because he has said that france needs to change its relationship to africa and it needs to face its past in africa and last year for example we saw him at all michael admitting that french troops would use torture during france's war with his former colony algeria he's also talks about france are committing crimes against humanity in algeria so imagine michael's very much trying to move forward in a way by he says you have to look at history in the face you have to admit some of the things that the french did or didn't do in order to have better relationships

with african allies in the future natasha thank you. saudi arabia is reported to have detained eight people including two dual u.s. saudi citizens and a new round of arrests of activists the associated press and reuters and the dual citizens are related to the use of a woman standing trial over her campaigning for women's rights a source says that all those arrested were targeted having ties to jailed activists or supporting women's activism in the kingdom. u.s. politicians are stepping up efforts to end support for the saudi and u.a.e. led war in yemen congress has given final approval to a resolution to stop all military aid to the conflict and sent the builds the white house for the president's signature but donald trump says he will veto the move article again as more from washington. i don't want to see fourteen million yemenis starve to death harsh words for saudi arabia filled the house chambers and if the saudis don't stop their blockade and let food and medicine in within six months we will see one of the great humanitarian crisis in the world and with that in

a vote of two hundred forty seven to one hundred seventy five the house joined the senate in sending the message the congress wants the u.s. military to stop supporting the saudi coalition's war in yemen this is the first time that he u.s. congress has rebuked a president on a war powers resolution which was a concern for some who voted no it really basically states yet again that the fundamental premise of this resolution is flawed because u.s. forces are not engaged in hostilities against the here these in yemen which is what the war powers act requires if we want to cut off economic assistance or logistic assist assistance security assistance the saudi there's a way to do that but it's not through the war powers act the lawmakers made clear this is about much more than ending the war in yemen the vote in the senate and in the house makes it clear that the united states will not continue to follow a despotic and hard democratic leadership coming out of saudi arabia day how they

are aggressive foreign policy their aggressive military policy i think it's a bad idea but at the very least the united states should not be led into a wall by a despotic undemocratic murderous regime this was a bipartisan vote the president's likely to respond with a veto the congress probably can't override still for many members of congress this was about much more than a message or a historic rebuke of the president it was a statement on congress's ever darkening view of saudi arabia pedicle al-jazeera washington. the australian man accused of attacking two mosques in new zealand has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric assessment to see if he is fit for trial brenton tarrant made his second court appearance on friday he's been charged with fifty counts of murder and thirty nine of attempted murder of the last month's attacks in christ church in response new zealand has banned the sale of assault rifles and semi automatic weapons the african development bank has promised around one hundred million us

dollars to reconstruct parts of mozambique zimbabwe and malawi all devastated by cycling. mozambique's port city of bear it was almost flattened by the cycle and flooding and poor sanitation has led to an outbreak of cholera which is infected more than fourteen hundred people the un has appealed for three hundred ninety two million dollars to fund the humanitarian response to the disaster for the next three months unicef report says more than nineteen million children in bangladesh are being adversely affected by climate change rising waters are driving many families from coastal areas to the capital dhaka once they arrive in the city children are at risk of being used as laborers some even end up as prostitutes in south korea while fire has killed at least two people and forced from their homes it broke out in the eastern province of gang one on thursday night spread to the seaside holiday city of suction residents have been moved in at least fifty two

schools have been closed. south koreans are rushing to buy the world's first smartphones featuring the newly launched super fast five g. mobile internet wednesday became the first nation to roll out the speedy service from abroad has more now from the capitals. events like this one have ensured there is maximum hype for the launch of five g. and south korea becomes the first country to offer nationwide coverage as one of the most digitally connected places on the planet it would be strange if south korea was not first with five g. this event by one of the service providers is in conjunction with samsung that at the moment is the only hand phone maker in south korea that offers a device fast enough to handle the incredible speeds of five g. a but they won't be the only ones for along all the other tablet and handphone makers playing catch up given the anticipated demand for five g. and it's not hard to see why the super fast internet speeds many times faster than

current four g. speeds will offer all kinds of possibilities in terms of streaming content a virtual reality or mentored reality the gaming applications and so on for consumers here in south korea for consumers anywhere in the world what is there not to like watching young and i'm expecting to use a high quality videos video phone calls in virtual reality and so much faster speed . far with south korea providing the quickest telecom service in the world i have high expectations. i watch a lot of videos so i think it's going to be good for netflix and you tube there are of course the wider implications of the five g. force of society and the way we live our lives the ability to move vast amounts of data with almost no delay is reckoned will have a transformative impact on things like robotics driverless vehicles even drones to deliver things for korea companies there are of course security concerns about

having so much more data and access point. to it you just have to look at the contriver see over chinese manufacturing while away and concerns about it controlling infrastructure for five g. in places like the u.s. and elsewhere but certainly here in south korea the government believes that five g. is essential for the country to keep its economic competitiveness and as far as the consumers are concerned they believe they need five g. and they need it now. all the news of course on the website there it is on your screens the address al jazeera dot com. talk a quick check of the headlines here this hour forces loyal to libyan warlord anything have to have suffered a setback as they approach tripoli just fifty kilometers west of the capital dozens of his fighters surrendered to the u.n. backed government forces more than forty military vehicles received in all forces

supporting libya's u.n. backed government of been deployed to defend the capital as troops loyal to move closer to tripoli when the byzantian minister says after trying to invade tripoli at a time one president of peace and calm. why use weapons in force to terrorize the people of libya to kill them and to force them to accept one thing only which is to be ruled by a military dictator what makes mr have to be a candidate then the other libyans if he's calling for a state with a strong army and police we are also calling for a state with a strong army and police and for the rule of law we will not be subdued by any use of force by any side or any person and if anyone is willing to use force that gives us we are ready to secor for us but we will not give up on democracy which is what we have always wanted from the beginning. algerian media are reporting that the intelligence chief of money tartaric has been fired he's

a retired army general who's a close ally of the former president abilities but a fico well these are scenes from the capital our jails where protesters have gathered once again they're demanding the prime minister the speaker of the upper house step down immediately activists have called for rallies targeting those overseeing the political transition and showing loyalty to beautifully to. saudi arabia is reported to have detained eight people including two dual u.s. saudi citizens and a new round of arrests of activists associated press and reuters say the dual citizens are related to as you say if a woman standing trial over her campaigning for women's rights a source says that all those arrested were targeted for having ties to jail database or supporting women's activism in the kingdom and british prime minister to resign may as asked the e.u. for another delay to bragg's it in a letter to the e.u. may has asked for a three month extension until the end of june. but those are the headlines the news

continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story stage of the watching by foot. you. will saudi arabia go nuclear the kingdom is reported to have nearly finished building its first nuclear reactor the crown prince had said they will develop a nuclear weapon if iran does so what does that all mean for an already tense and volatile region this is inside still.

a lot of welcome to the program has a secret if iran develops a nuclear bomb we will follow suit that was the warning from saudi crown prince muhammad bin sandman last year today the kingdom may be a few months away from completing its first nuclear reactor and some control experts all along these photos published by different media show the reactor site in the king abdul aziz city for science and technology on the outskirts of riyadh construction is apparently nearly done around a vessel believed to contain atomic fuel saudi arabia is yet to sign up to the international framework that seeks to ensure tomic programs are not used to build weapons and it hasn't adopted rules allowing inspectors to look at sites. saudi arabia has been open about its ambitions to have a nuclear plant that it says is for civilian purposes this is what the saudi energy ministry had to say in

a statement the facilities purpose is to engage in strictly peaceful scientific research educational and training activities in full compliance with international agreements the reactor is being built with transparency and the kingdom has signed all international nonproliferation treaties and this is what the saudi energy minister said in twenty seventeen when he was asked about the kingdom's plans to develop nuclear energy plants not only are we not interested anyway. doing nuclear technology to belittle you we are. very active. on the list of the ocean by others and we are extremely. by artist specially in the engine but even beyond that is the top developing. country the nuclear weapons are thirty arabia's program has come under increased scrutiny since it was revealed to us u.s.

energy secretary rick perry authorized american companies to share sensitive nuclear information with saudi arabia perry reportedly said in a document the firms had requested the deals be kept secret a u.s. congressional watchdog is investigating the white house's talks with riyadh on sharing nuclear technology the united states has been competing with south korea france russia and china to help build reactors in saudi arabia the kingdom is planning to build a least two reactors and is expected to announce the winner later this year. well let's bring in our pound now to talk more about this joining us from here in doha is it will him for i have associate professor of conflict resolution at the doha institute and from to iran sayed stuff or session professor of journalism at the fars media faculty under the applied sciences university and from washington

d.c. mark fitzpatrick director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies good to have you all with us so it really let me start with you then what do you make of this development are the saudis. going to use nuclear u.s. nuclear energy info to get nuclear weapons or some have. expressed fear about well we are still in a very early stage about this we are talking about the. development of a nuclear reactor that's not yet completed. the estimate is that it would need approximately when you have to be completed we are not talking about the major elements of such a nuclear capacity which is basically in the richmond of your any m or the reprocessing of the plutonium and the third element which is the signing

of the nonproliferation treaty you. signed in one thousand it is so it's committed to this one provision according to the treaty so with all of this is going to change the balance of power of this is going to pose a threat to iran or to israel i don't think so i think we are still in a very very early stages. needs a lot more than that in order to talk about this in nuclear capacity being a factor in the regional equation probably the only benefit that saudi arabia is benefiting from this new. now is in terms of training over human resources to say interests if this is the key is that they are receiving the training from the saudis from the american companies that are involved in this but other than that i think we are still for now looking at it in my view in terms of an attempt to

have a nuclear capacity a peaceful capacity but we are still very far away from translating this into influence politics and the balance of power in that he. mostafa profession what what implications is. saudi arabia having a nuclear plant going to have for iran and particularly when so much of the focus in this region was on iran's nuclear ambitions and it was part of the reason of course that we had that international nuclear deal that was made with iran well how are they reacting to this you know of the war in states are you not entitled to develop to die you verify their you know energy programs and resources. that includes also of the nuclear energy if you are a member of the i.a.e.a.

then you are entitled to develop a civilian nuclear technology but the point here is that the saudis are no member of the i.a.e.a. they are not open to international monitoring and inspection they are they have signed the small quantities agreement that doesn't open their facilities to international monitoring and inspection on the opposite side iran has been a member if you know of the i.a.e.a. everyone knows about it's been in full compliance with the m p three rules and regulations it has signed a nuclear deal that some believe that it's somehow unique regime of inspections to iran more than any of this state iran has been on their international monetary and and inspection even before the nuclear deal now after the nuclear deal was abrogated by the united states and the e.u. is adamant to complying with its terms iran has been a trustworthy partner in full compliance with the deal according to over those an

i.a.e.a. report and that shows iran is a very sober and responsible actor and it is on their you know international inspections seven twenty four. what matters here is that the saudis not only they are not members of the i.a.e.a. and not open to international monitoring and inspection they have proved to be an irresponsible actor in the middle east take a look at what they've done in the last couple of years you will come up with so many stories like incarceration of the lebanese prime minister the prime minister of a sovereign state then to the brutal killing of jamal khashoggi lane season qatar you know threatening to iran with opening war and taken the war to tehran streets that white by the way happened the cup a month later with a terrorist attack on the iranian parliament so they are a very adventurous state they are source of instability in the region in the

words of former u.s. vice president joe biden he actually blamed solve the arabia as well as to other u.s. allies in the region for the start a war of militancy and the havoc in the middle east in syria and iraq so when we you have a state that is irresponsible that's by the way at best at this part a grueling and treating you know of the population in solve the arabia with force and with tribal rule and state that you know are adamant to stability in regional security that this would be a complete insanity to provide the solo these with such sensitive technology outside international monitoring and inspection and that's why i believe that the u.s. congress is also very much serious about this. the situation grows grave when you

come to notice that in the words of some. u.s. congress people the state that the trump administration has been adamant to impose a ban on the delivery. of nuclear enrichment and plutonium reprocessing technology to solve the arabia meaning that if there is a good deal they would provide the solo these with such sensitive technology when the us my final sentence is that when the us abrogates the deal with iran with so many other words they standing in opposition to such a move by the us. claiming some nonproliferation concerns and at the same time they go for a deal with the saw with these and they are adamant to place and get ban and you rein him in richmond and plutonium reprocessing let's get knology and they provide them with this technology that shows full hypocrisy that shows that the us feels no

nonproliferation for middle east and for middle east security and stability mark mark fitzpatrick. given all of that everything you've just heard there from stuff and i want to ask you as well about the concerns that have been expressed in washington about this by politicians from both parties not just the opposition democrats but a number of probably prominent republicans. about the whole idea of the u.s. sharing sensitive nuclear information with saudi arabia given much of of what stuff has has said there are they right to be concerned other reasons to be concerned but there are there's a lot of exaggeration let me clarify a couple of things number one saudi arabia is a member of the i.a.e.a. saudi arabia today is in compliance with its obligations to the i.a.e.a.

but the point made by your guest in tehran is that saudi arabia has not agreed to full or inspections which it has been asked to and before the research reactor that is being built comes online it. i'll have to join the general safeguards agreements that all other states have so that will happen with regard to the u.s. nuclear cooperation agreement united states is not going to provide enrichment uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing technology they're not going to do that the the issue is will united states require saudi arabia to for goal getting these technologies from any other country in exchange for u.s. nuclear cooperation the way that the united states required the united arab emirates to do and that's the issue the saudis don't want to give up rich meant and u.s. administration seems to be weakening on this and ready to strike a deal.