so organized he is a longtime ally of beautifully curry any election would be overseen by the head of the constitutional council. is a veteran of beautifully a loyalist the third man being targeted by protest as is the prime minister and hardline a near a dean but dolly another beautifully appointment i'm joined now by chloe teevan she is a researcher with the european council on foreign relations and returned from algeria earlier this week and i know you've been spending a lot of time in the country and the protesters have been very consistent in their demands it's not change they will not be satisfied with the syfy because departure if it means that those around him remain in place how far are they willing to go in their rejection of the transitional process i think that it's very clear that protests will continue until such a point that it does that the same faces are no longer leading this

process so you mentioned the three b.'s but i think it's it does go beyond those three figures and for a lot of protesters there are a huge number of others who would need to go including potentially chief of staff. also. so i think that the demands are moving and not everyone has exactly the same demands. bootie will continue for some time yet but for now at least they appear to be be unified in their main demands it's very interesting that you mentioned it because we have seen the army try to position itself as being very much on the side of the people is that the case. i think they're there they're is a difference in terms of how the hierarchy within the military is seen and the military itself. it's i think there's

a division in terms of how people see these latest moves and whether people will be satisfied with with that the use of article one or two of the called situation which is why. has proposed in the past week if these figures were to change who are you leading that process so that's very interesting so that when you say that there might be some differing opinions within the protest movement there might be some who don't necessarily object to the army's intervention that might see it as being in the country's interests and all those that are concerned about this transitional process because it's led by the very people that they're trying to oust so yes i think first some this transition process might be acceptable in the case that the figure is leading a change but for a great number of people i think that there is a desire for something much more fundamental and there is

a lot of discussion about having not one president but a common having several figures make up a presidential council for this for this transition period and having a technocratic government and potentially old so. having a constituent assembly to rewrite the current constitution so there are there are many who particularly in civil society who are suggesting that there needs to be something much more just and to rewrite the constitution because there are elements of it now that they that they disagree with but of course this is a leaderless protest movements that will presumably make it even more difficult you know to pursue these goals it is a leader. this movement but there are figures emerging as at least spokespeople people for the movement was stuff she has been kind of the name that has come up

the most often there are rights lawyer yes the prominent human rights lawyer and good i do think that there are also no youth leaders who are emerging there are discussions taking place in universities and public parks all over the country there is this kind of there is a general atmosphere of dialogue and of of of critical thinking and i do believe that it would be possible to select a range of people who instead of one person to represent this movement thank you very much even appreciate you coming in to share your insight with us on this story and if you are in algeria you also would like you to help us tell this story do get in touch with us on whatsapp or on telegram especially if you're attending a protest or if you want to share a video comment the number is plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four

nine. it with the news hour live from london much more still ahead the u.s. president tours parts of the newly constructed border fence with mexico not everyone though is happy to see him. millions of vulnerable children of course in bangladesh as climate crisis and then later in sports the oval feed box and a half a century wait to set the best record of the n.b.a. season. with more on that story. and the african development bank as promised around one hundred million u.s. dollars to reconstruct parts of mozambique zimbabwe and malawi old devastated by cycle die. south east africa on march fourteenth a mission catastrophic flooding and killing hundreds of people for me to measure

has the latest from bera a port city in mozambique almost flattened by the storm. we're at one of their whole temporary shelters that have been up here in various cities one of the areas hardest hit by the flood and the spike loan that hit just over two reaks ago and aid organizations think people coming into the city and finding shelter in simple places like that has made their work likely easier they are places across apollo province that still remain inexplicable difficult to get to because they still live waters those haven't receded and it's only once that happens and once roads are opened and there is act this will aid organizations be able to spread their services and these facilities across this province for now bringing people into beirut is important the provision of shelter good also a creepy priority is that of food and who'd water as well as health the the

major concern your health considering that there is an outbreak of cholera that's so perfect it's two thousand people the government has said two people have died so far but that's based on the records they have people who have actually entered camps and medical facilities looking for help given that there are areas they haven't reach that number could rise significantly the u.s. president is touring parts of a at the border fence with mexico earlier on donald trump took part in a security roundtable in calexico california on thursday president trying to back down on his threat to shut down the border saying too many migrants were coming into the u.s. the white house says the barrier trumps touring is marked with a plaque bearing his name and those homeland security officials. already joe castro joins us live now from el paso texas near the border with mexico and trump has been talking about the economy he's saying that that's doing very well why introduce

this uncertainty about the border. that's a great question marion because he has been kind of all over the place on this threat to close this border behind me it started with him saying that it would close this week now it's at the border may close at some point if imposing auto terrorism mexico doesn't work which the president said he'll only do if mexico does not do more to prevent central americans from reaching this border with the u.s. so there's so many if there so much uncertainty and why he would introduce this when the economy in the u.s. or into the latest report today is still going strong it's the working theory is that this is fodder for his political base we're two years out from another presidential election and trouble may be trying to position himself as strong on this border policy even if it is a bluff now he's denying that's the case he says it's still serious and what is clear is that those who are bearing the pain of this uncertainty at the moment are

the u.s. businesses on this side of the border. everything made in this metal parts factory in el paso texas is destined for mexico mexican workers just over the border will turn them into sprinklers medical devices and remote controls and the finished products will cross back to the u.s. to be sold to american consumers they don't understand how much we rely on that she go and how much that she will realize. we are partners. we have to look at it that way factory owner matt keith says if president trump shuts down the border his machines will stop and some workers may be laid off he says it would be unfair for his business and workers to pay the price for an immigration problem they did not create now he's doubting whether he'll continue to support trump. right now there's

a lot of negativity towards the president and unfortunately he's short of brought that on to the shelf mexico is the third largest trading partner of the united states last year more than six hundred billion dollars of goods moved between the two countries aboard trucks and trains a border quotas or even just a few days would be significant losses for u.s. auto industry and mean rising prices in american grocery stores then there's the personal cost to family split by the border gerri ramos his father was deported to mexico now the son crosses the border daily bringing his father toys to sell in juarez if the borders were to close and that means they would be taking the bread out of his mouth and paso call each other sister cities the two dependent on each other for economic survival and now they are also united by the shared uncertainty

of what will come next heidi jo castro al-jazeera el paso texas that's now speak to monny follow who is ally for us in mexicali just across the border from where president trump currently is lanny what is the reaction to trump's visit on the mexican side of the border. well there were a lot of local residents that came out to kind of sneak a peek trying to catch a glimpse of president trump at his visit just across the border where we are right now there are also several demonstrations both pro and against president's from a visit to the u.s. southern border there was actually only moments ago just behind me you probably can't see this at this point but a a a large blowup balloon bearing the likeness of president trump i would say that on the mexican side of the border it was more of a collective i rule not a lot of people taking the threats to close the border too seriously or the threats of imposing tariffs against mexico if if mexico can't kind of rein in and stem the

flow of migrants and stem the flow of drugs president trump also toured a section of the wall that he claims is new we should point out that where we are right now in mexicali and this section of wall that we see behind us is a reinforced section of law there is in an additional four meters added to this walls lower as well as barbed wire on top of it and barbed wire below the fence there are actually no new sections of wall contrary to what president trump is touting as being sections of new wall that are being built quote unquote a lot of wall being built there are actually no new sections of border wall anywhere along the u.s. southern border at least where we are right now in mexicali. that money president trump has been saying that border arrests are on the rise why might that be happening. president trump did say that

mexico has been doing a better job of apprehension saying that that mexican authorities are apprehending upwards of a thousand migrants every single day we actually did our own fact checking year talk to our sources in the southern border of mexico saying that yes indeed there was one day in april where more than a thousand apprehensions were made but that was the exception that more or less apprehensions are on average there are there are no apprehensions are not higher the number of mexican authorities on the southern border are not higher so again these are these are facts that are contrary to the claims that president trump is making and with we're talking about demographics of migrants themselves the actual flow of mexican citizens mexican migration is in the negative there are more mexican citizens returning to mexico now that in the past because there are more opportunities for them in mexico when we're talking about a crisis at the border we're talking about an increase in central american migrants who are leaving their countries countries like wonderous will solve or guatemala

countries that are experiencing a humanitarian crisis due to. large scale poverty due to a lot of violence due to the rampant corruption within these countries and what we hear overwhelmingly from immigration experts is that without addressing those root causes of migration that i just mentioned there is no stemming the flow of migration there is no stopping migrant caravans like we've been seeing over the course of the last year so it's on the minds of a lot of people is what exactly the trumpet ministration wants mexico to do to stem the flow of migrants thank you very much for mexicali money wrapping up bringing us the story that. meanwhile the u.s. has revoked the entreaties of a prosecutor for the international criminal court fashion bensouda has been investigating possible war crimes committed by american forces in afghanistan last month u.s. secretary of state might threaten to withdraw or deny visas to i.c.c. stuff involved in the inquiry. still more ahead for you on the program as israel's

elections approach many palestinians think nothing will change for them whatever the result. twenty five years on the scars still hailing from the genocide. also find out why this japanese baseball player tank down an award from his own government we'll have the details a bit later. we got a real mixed bag of weather across europe of them there are some lovely sunshine around see it there it's essential that east impossible for the west's the clouds on the rain keeps on streaming in more showers rattling in the crust the british isles western areas of france to support in tampa just look at madrid eleven degrees celsius as pretty poor is going to be pretty damp as well lots of rain that sue for portugal southern areas the front seeing some big downpours and some lively showers

in the other side of the med that just around greasy sing over towards the western side of to further north as the warm sunshine be getting up to twenty celsius in berlin and sas they are named similar temps is big on into sunday perhaps a little more cloud into those east than there is but on the go back to bad having said that improving whether they're coming into athens temperatures at seventeen celsius with some sunshine slightly better there across spain still eleven degrees is not warm but we've got some wet weather still lurking there it's a good part of portugal a little further south than the other is some cloud and rain is in north africa as well l.j. areas seeing some rather heavy rain on saturday for a time slides its way further east was it will push across into the sea of for a while bright skies across libya are also into much of egypt.

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welcome back a look at the top stories this hour in iten nations secretary general antonio terra says he is deeply concerned about the military escalation in libya as the war fully faffed us forces advance towards tripoli. vast crowds of protesters have flooded the streets of algeria's capital in the first mass demonstrations since the president announced he was resigning and the african development bank has promised around one hundred million u.s. dollars to help we construct parts of mozambique zimbabwe and malawi which were devastated by sight ponied i. will some more on our top story the united nations

security council has just been discussing the crisis in libya in an emergency session the members of the security council expressed their deep concern that the military activity. here tripoli which risks libyan stability and prospects for u.n. mediation and a comprehensive political solution to the crisis they called on ellen the forces to halt all military movement. they all took called on all forces to deescalate and halt military activity that can be no military solution to the conflict well i'm now joined by tim eaton or search fellow at the think tank chatham house thanks very much for speaking to us here on the news hour so we just hearing there are some remarks after that u.n. urgent session focusing on recent about means in libya interesting that the u.n.

security council calls on have to us forces to halt their advance. how is this how important is this given that in the past they have avoided singling out. i think it's clearly a development but given the fact that i have to decided to launch this offensive while the u.n. secretary general was in tripoli i think you got to see that as a measure of the amount of respect that the allen is willing to give the u.n. i think really though what we're getting from this security council statement is also the views of some of the backers of afters forces clearly for that statement to come out it has to be backed by france for example and we saw yesterday as well but you know the united arab emirates and egypt both issued statements calling for a cessation of the advance so that is perhaps an indication that have to didn't have a green light for his activities well as you say they might be calling for a cessation of hostilities but it doesn't mean that have to or any of the militias

that are like him are going to listen to that how on minnes is this warning from the u.n. chief antonio the terrorists he said he hopes it's still possible to avoid a bloody confrontation in and around tripoli which suggests he thinks that there is an inevitability to it potentially but i think it's hard to make certain statements right now because it's a very fluid situation and a lot still happening but what is the cases that have to hasn't been able to take tripoli in a quick strike perhaps that was the plan as an as envisaged yesterday by grouping with other allied forces that hasn't really materialized in the way that perhaps he would have hoped the fact it is still on the outside of tripoli perhaps means that this could be seen as a major gamble that will fail and if it does fail actually that could reshape some of the dynamics and lead have to lose some of this. a lot of the live ridge that he has generated over recent weeks particularly ahead of the national conference which is for the fourteenth to the sixteenth of april or could it possibly go the other

way and result in libya and bring a new much more difficult phase of possibly all out civil war. certainly i think that one of the unintended consequences of have to failing if indeed he does fail is that it may unite the opposition against him clearly the decision of misrata to come into the battle in tripoli yesterday was critical it's always been the case that have to has been forced to rely on divisions among his enemies for his ability to push his cause now clearly those divisions have reduced in the last day and it's been illustrated that have to support isn't perhaps as great as was first. or was envisaged perhaps by half to himself and in fact lurking behind a lot of the political negotiations has been a latent threat that have to and his hellen a could impose his will by force if his opponents didn't agree to a deal if this does indeed fail then that surely shows that that premise is perhaps

not as as have to would have liked to illustrate and then when it comes to the negotiations does that mean that he's then less able to push his cause actually what we've seen in recent weeks is a lot of unease in western libya that a deal was going to be made that was very much in the favor of have to and that would be crowned at the national conference in damis in ten days or so time so now that this is happened and if after isn't successful maybe some of those opponents will push back even further on that deal maybe they'll refuse to sit with have it really does put the whole u.n. process in jeopardy regardless of whether the operation successful or not well thank you very much for now for sharing your thoughts and opinions with us tim eight and from chatham house thank you. israelis vote on tuesday in parliamentary elections with

a long serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu facing a strong challenge from an opposition coalition the main candidates disagree on many domestic issues but have similar hardline policies towards the palestinians and abraham reports now from the occupied west bank. part of my. surveys is that mage land and destroyed green crops. here and says living from this land on the slopes of the jordan valley in the occupied west bank the israeli army often effects palestinians from these hills temporarily the reason military trails activists tell us that israeli army has carried out more than twenty drills in the jordan valley already this year the war games have damaged large areas of farmland and forced four hundred palestinians to leave for up to three days the most recent drills caused the most damage. but this is where the tanks came through and made a path the jordan valley makes up one third of the west bank the u.n.

says that around half as this ignited as closed military zone. palestinians cannot imagine a future state without the jordan valley rich with water sources and agricultural lands highly and other farmers say it's bad news for them that israeli politicians are shifting increasingly to their rights. as a farmer doesn't make a difference to me they're all the same they're two faces of the same coin if they wanted to make peace they would have done so since we signed the oslo agreement twenty five years ago. under the also agreement sixty percent of the west bank including part of the jordan valley was put under temporary israeli control those large buckets of land known as area c. were supposed to be handed back to palestinians this could be the west bank's only bordering area with the outside world that doesn't include israel and the main israeli candidates say that it's off the table when it comes to any future deal with the palestinians but palestinian officials say that the israeli claims are not

limited to the jordan valley first the jerusalem declination jerusalem as its capital moving the embassy and then now putting their arab syrian. territories of the. under israeli sovereignty i think the third step would be to announce america's the mission of sovereignty resign over the west bank and fourthly it's a deal very commission of the state of gaza many palestinians here have similar fears they see that the faces in the israeli government might change after the election but feel their policies towards the palestinians want me that every male just the occupied west bank. in all the developments palestinians in gaza which is under israeli blockade say nothing will change for them whatever the result of elections in israel on friday israeli forces injured eighty three palestinian protesters in the latest round of demonstrations at the gaza israel border the protest known as the great march over time began in march last year they are

demanding an end to the blockade on the right to return to lands occupied by israel . the un's agency for children has warned that climate change is threatening the lives of millions of children in bangladesh there are more than nineteen million children across twenty of bangladesh's sixty four districts who are vulnerable to climate incidence unicef says nearly twelve million of them live in and around bangladesh is river systems where there is a high risk of life threatening floods another four and a half million children live in coastal areas regularly struck by powerful cyclons almost half a million of them are refugees living in flimsy tents that barely protect them from ferocious storms and with natural disasters hitting bangladesh almost annually now the problem is only likely to get worse sorry reports. each family has a story to tell of loss and devastation and all because of climate change. mohamed

left lower islands in the bay of bengal where rising water levels and floods are fast becoming the norm and all of the guys in the wrong we came to dhaka because the river washed away our home there's no work there so i'm here to try and find one i have a lot of loans to repay the money he's finding it hard to adjust to his new city life it's along with his wife worries most about the future of their daughter so out of those amid a militia my hope is to raise my daughter as a good human being and i would like her to live in a decent environment and. unicef reports that climate change is displacing millions of bangladeshis and many children are missing out on an education with some forced into child labor and even prostitution it says girls are the most vulnerable. it takes a lot of money to send your children to school in dhaka i can't afford to educate my children my son does not go to school. two thirds of bangladesh lies five metres

above sea level and the bay of bengal has one of the fastest rising sea levels in the world. experts are warning that if nothing is done to reverse these changes the consequences for the country's one hundred sixty million people will be dire the global leaders have to come in that they have to build something serious in respect of emissions beppe to develop they have been has that ambition that by the year two thousand and fifty or two thousand one hundred we have to go for a gentle carbon emission so that this is not only the bottom where there should be say whole while have to be see. the world bank says by twenty fifty more than thirteen million people in what it calls this highly climate vulnerable country will be displaced. that may be decades away but for those living in dr oz

overcrowded slums it's a reality right now. so to hide out. one hundred days and at least eight hundred thousand people killed twenty five years since there are one then genocide the scars remain and the healing continues as we can rely on the will pause to commemorate one of the worst periods in its history is there as andrew symonds visits the area of that now where some of the worst atrocities took place and a warning that you might find some of the graphic images in his report disturbing as rwanda prepares to commemorate twenty five years since the start of its genocide the same images of horror dominate is a low carb dissolve the sword and questions remain who shot down the aircraft

killing rwanda's president from the hutu majority an act that started a 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 why didn't the united nations at least take early action against a highly organized campaign of hatred and incitement by the hutus. underground in one of the mass graves there's only one. 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 vividly remember the

death of my parents and my siblings i hear their voices in my heart i'm sad but i forgive. 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 tunes 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 moment when files and 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 or even you for serving a life sentence to be ok because it will be punishment for my crimes being alive is not lucky i kneel in front of those i have had 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. the french president emanuel lakhan has appointed a panel of experts to investigate france's actions during a wanda's genocide france in rwanda have had a strained relations that relationship since the killings in one thousand nine

hundred four reports now from paris at the least a palace the french president met tutsi survivors of the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide.