countries are very much on the same page when it comes to regional issues in terms of the golan heights as well as the war in yemen and the future of jerusalem as well so the it was really a well received visit so far between the two sides where they both stressed their commitment to strengthen relations between the two countries and dorset just give us the broader view what's the significance of this particular visit. well this is the first visit by the iraqi prime minister since he was appointed in october and it's seen as a very important one because the rain ians are hoping that their influence and friendship with iraq will continue to grow that is something the iraqi prime minister said that according to the iraqi constitution they will not allow iraqi soil to become a ground for foreign troops and fighters to launch attacks against iran that is something in reference to of course president trump's comments that the u.s.

forces to remain in iraq will want to stay here to spy on iran that is something the iraqi prime minister said will not happen so it's seen as a very important visit and of course the iraqi prime minister will go on to meet with iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei on sunday he is the person who is in charge of everything that happens foreign and domestic in the country is the citizens are final so this visit will be a very high level visit and it's the first one of the iraqi prime minister so it's very important and at a very important time as well when iran and iraq are both facing tremendous amount of international pressure of course iran is under many sanctions and they are providing iraq's electricity to the entire country that's something the iraqis have an exemption from the u.s. government so there's a lot of different issues at play but the two sides are adamant that they will maintain their close relationship there was

a job from baghdad thank you and after threatening to do so for years the u.s. is preparing to declare runs revolutionary guards a terrorist organization iran in turn make the u.s. military on its terror list a cool haven has more now from washington d.c. . it would be unprecedented this would be the u.s. basically saying i'm part of a another country's military as part of a terrorist organization so what does that mean that allows the u.s. to designate that in that restricts their travel it makes it a crime to provide material support to the revolutionary guard and it would a potentially freeze any assets that they have the united states although it seems highly unlikely that iran's revolutionary guard has any assets inside the united states so there's concern here according to the wall street journal there's mike pompei o secretary of state john bolton a national security advisers long time hawks on iran that they're pushing the president to do this the other side you have the cia and the u.s.

military warning that it's unlikely that this will do the amount of damage to the iranian economy that they would like to see at the same time saying that this could put u.s. troops at risk in so much so that central command might issue a warning to u.s. troops to be on the lookout for any potential reaction so these are two sides that are squaring off trying to move the debate to the public sphere whether or not they do this we don't know and it is potentially going to have a lot of blowback the other countries and for example those who are in the nuclear agreement they're already trying to come up with a workaround for the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear deal this could provide even more incentive for people and those companies to try and find a way to work around the u.s. financial system but it's more ahead on the user including. in mali where protesters blame politicians for ethnic violence that killed nearly one hundred and sixty people last month. possible tell you why it increasing number of palestinian israelis say they will boycott the elections on choose state. and slots i could

tell you says i last scoring street details coming out with cho in sports. the rape is often used as a weapon of war cheering conflicts adjourning the nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda it was premeditated on a large scale among the minority tutsi population the u.n. estimates two hundred fifty to five hundred thousand women were raped one of the most underreported aspects of the genocide is the suffering of those born of rape and this exclusive report from new matter east of the capital kigali under symons visited a young woman who wanted to talk openly for the first time about her suffering. this young woman may not have physical injuries from the genocide of rwanda but

since birth her life has been blighted. is a child of the genocide she was born of rape and she's grown up unable to understand why her mother couldn't give her the love most children receive. to look at me and i'm sure she saw a flashback of what happened to her and they should be traumatized and would shout and chase me away many times i would stay in other people's houses during the genocide deanna's mother was raped in the capital kigali by an unknown hutu militia man she gave birth to danny in july one thousand nine hundred four the stigma of rape here is profound and being fathered by a hutu rapist much worse mother and daughter moved to ny but secrets last long there either some people in this district knew of day on days background but she hadn't got a clue why she was being picked on in the school playground why she was being

discriminated against her mother couldn't face telling her the truth. this child in her formative years showed remarkable resilience but the worst was yet to come when she was eighteen she confronted her mother about the truth and there were repeated rounds. i used to live in total despair to the point where i would think it's better if i wasn't alive deonte thought she'd found understanding from a boyfriend but things went drastically wrong. after you knew my history he developed a hatred towards me it took two other people and their plans to harm me. me he is the one who made me pregnant it was so we could because my mother got traumatised all of us can. deal now is being given support from a small charity this woman counsels men and women born of rape she says instead of

being treated as victims they are mostly persecuted. says her baby daughter will never feel loved both she and her mother live in poverty they're unemployed and they're in a pain remains but dionne is mother clements manages to sound optimistic in them with their time and i am proud of her and even love her daughter diana is all as gods and my family is extended now a mother a daughter and her baby sharing the darkness of a crime against humanity that will live on through three generations alondra sentences life for us and there ones in capital kigali under why is it so let's so there's been no one of these younger ones answered terms that children of rape. well rape is true in rwanda as it is in many other cultures worldwide and the situation is that. so many young people of rape have actually been

trying to hide from facing the reality not only the sort of subjugation and problems people face because of the past back to it but also the situation where have there that young woman being called a hutu killer in her playground she was chased she was discriminated against by her own family she had relatives she tried stay with they wouldn't have any dealings with her she spoke to us in the hope that others other people in the same situation as her can overcome the problems and get a real life she is in reasonable form now remarkable young lady having gone through what she has having thoughts of suicide so many times but now a fairly solid this is a test now this time of year when we're looking at

a twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide people really searching their souls and also not just the minority tutsi community also moderate hutus so many of them were killed so many of them were also raped you had situations where hutus were told if they were married into marriage to a tutsi. the genocide they had to kill their wife and that was an order so you had situations even situations where men would swap the situation they would kill each others wife rather than killing their own wives this is just so hard so surreal to absorb even twenty five years on when you look out there and you see the sort of society that exists in rwanda now a dynamic one but nevertheless. so many people are reliving those days know something deeply wrong in their minds and in terms of coming to terms with things

does one come to terms with such atrocities you mention there of course this is. the the twenty fifth anniversary of that genocides are we expecting any sort of landmark this year. well that is a good question because huge think it would be the same or full grief year on year but no it is twenty five years and there is a an explicit attempt to really focus on the younger generation you look at a young lady. dionne a now twenty four years nine months old well there's a whole generation out there in a dynamic economy that arguably the best feeling in africa with direct investment which is amazing at the moment paul could go me the president who had once led the rwandan patriotic front into the capitol taking over the end of the genocide one hundred days on has been president three terms it's controversial it's been

extended to an in-depth definite period now but he has got a hold on things he has not a totalitarian state here but certainly one that's enjoyed in a way it's very different to other states in africa where there is inclusion on both sides and reconciliation the theme include buka which is obviously a memorial is going to be one hundred days of mourning which will start on sunday and the theme remember unite renewed and that emphasis on the younger people how they will fit in how they will deal with the trauma because even though they didn't experience it for real they've lived it with their loved ones in their upbringing and that's part of their lives so it's a surreal situation really for them just as distressing says up some ways as some of those who survived the genocide it's m g seven is there joining us live from kickout we thank you very much indeed. a thousands of protesters in mali have

condemned the government saying that's not to enough to stop ethnic violence the demonstration one of the biggest in recent years falls the killing of almost one hundred and sixty villagers from the full lawmaker of priyanka gupta reports i am good over the killing of villages not directed at president abraham. protesters gathered in the thousands of the capital bamako in one of mali's biggest demonstrations in years protests to say the government and u.n. forces are not doing enough to stop the bloodshed in the mali point to include his misdeed mali is going through a multidimensional crisis we have witnessed killings that mali has never known in its history in its entire history last month at least one hundred fifty seven people were killed in the more the region members of the dog and ethnic community

have been accused of carrying out the attack on full lani herders in the village of . the two groups are often in conflict or access to land the killings are believed to be the deadliest incident of ethnic violence in mali in a generation opposition parties and some religious leaders say the president has failed to act. with the bulk of the news today president kate his regime is condemn his prime minister is not capable of resolving the country's problems you must accept the people's will which is democratic change transparency in the country's management not using millions against each other. seventy three or preston kita has said he delivered justice as a place to office top generals saying mullions need to feel secure despite to peace to even twenty fifteen his government a struggling to control several active armed groups linked to al qaida and ice who violence a spa spreading into neighboring countries like booking a fossil shot and egypt and the un says put in three million people in mali are now

in desperate need of food and humanitarian aid priyanka gupta two zero zero zero idris a son gary is a political analyst and journalist joining us now i on skype from mali's capital bamako address of the tensions between these communities there are no new what's behind this recent escalation why did we start affiliation there is a certain group. beginning. to raise on my. voice to link it to al qaeda in the. if in the mouth and africa so what we can tell about this work this is of. the religious leaders harder for people to maybe if you will and world. iran.

fifty thousand people are joining the fortas so they are for the president who made. the prime minister would not. actually in full office trichomes they want the president dismissed prime minister so also. the president and. peters joined together to fight the bill of the civil defense just got a conflict in the air of the time sir. now it seems so we've been hearing from these protests is the furious the lead to shed what exactly if the leadership be doing what if they not be doing sori why are people so fear is that the leadership as they've established these problems aren't you why haven't the leadership been taking any action so

the program people are feeling. because of this you. actually should through shortening the country they don't and the times the president are saying every day the country putting forward to contradict the developing economies the economy in the cyber world but they don't see on the ground like something coming out from give the series sort of fighting. project they don't see. the result of the president of france with that image from. soft as fuck on i don't see brazil from where you really smart there you were just being shown. on the i don't see results from growing this so-called liberal being me the president. leading every day to say the army is doing its brain fart

thing is this the mahdi army couple to fight this it or our sex fight they don't cheat we still they want the president's drug use framing it and try it i'm not one to hog results and suits it and and fight. and gets reduced from their. fights ok it's just we will have to leave it that i thank you so much for joining us from bamako a jesus angara molly and political analyst and journalist. and a few moments here we'll have the weather with kevan but lots more still to come on al-jazeera including air fields maybe green unproductive but pakistan's farmers say things that matter being so we'll tell you why. and in sports the week before over so hosts the masters find out why the most famous golf course in the world is

breaking. well just last week and we were talking about the wall to wall and widespread sunshine we've seen across much of europe that has all changed we're now looking at a wintry mix across much of western europe you can see the weather system out there all the way from parts of the u.k. down towards the iberian peninsula and it is there where i want to show you some video that has come up just from the north part of just north of spain on the highway we saw a major pileup here where fifty vehicles were involved because of the snowy conditions in the slippery conditions thirty five people were injured in this particular car accident this wreck and close the highways for more than five hours now unfortunately it is still very very slippery across much of that area we're

talking about an air of low pressure coming in off the atlantic that it still brings a very cold air windy conditions across much of that region today looks much more of the same or a lot of rain a lot of cooler air in place across much of that region and we are not going to be seeing too much change over the next couple days as we go from saturday to sunday notice all that rain and snow particularly the overnight hours continue to make its way towards the east for madrid you can see a break in the rain but it's still going to be quite messy and more rain pushing in there another area of low pressure is going to be coming in from the atlantic and that just means very very windy conditions for much of the west and coastal areas. sponsored by town and. the biggest democracy in the world is going to the polls in an election process that will last for over a month and with over nine hundred million eligible to vote india is about to choose its new government how will the controversies of the citizenship bill

announcing tensions with pakistan influence the vote. join us as we assess all phases of the election as india decides its path. india votes twenty nineteen on al-jazeera. up to. the foreign ministry.

you're watching al-jazeera quick reminder all for the top stories this hour. the heads of the u.n. has told libyan warlord how the four have to to stop his advance on tripoli forces loyal to have so say they reached the southern outskirts of the living capital in the push against the internationally recognized government. hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the capital for the first time since the resignation of president of lizzie's beautifully they want his allies to go as well. iraq's prime minister is in iran for his first official visit to the country relations between the countries continue to strengthen despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region. let's return to our top story on libya and take a course a look at the rise of libyan border after all he joins benghazi's military academy

in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and took parts in moamar gaddafi as crew on king idris in one nine hundred sixty nine. in one thousand eight hundred get off he promoted him to colonel and sent him to fight in chad where he was subsequently captured once released he defected from the army and with the backing from the cia formed a group to overthrow gadhafi himself after then spent decades in exile in the us and returned to libya in twenty eleventh's take part in the uprising against gadhafi is rule twenty fourteen he gave a televised address calling on libyans to overthrow the elected parliament later that year he survives an assassination attempts and twenty seven seen his forces seized benghazi after three years of fighting last year it's a control of the eastern city of daraa. marty is the director of the tripoli based institute

a think tank that studies and analyzes libya and joins us now live from beirut it's an os how do you has general haftar managed to make such sweeping gains in such a short space of time. well it's based on the idea that half a dozen have a conventional army you have to has a badge and a narrative that he offers to the plethora of armed groups that have emerged after the uprising in two thousand levon some of who have revolutionary aspirations and and desires and grievances at times about return the country to military rule but others that have much more pretty transitions or financial political ambitions to try and dominate their own local cities towns or villages and have to comes into each of these little towns sometimes in the vicinity of tripoli or even in tripoli itself and offers them a very very logical offer come and join me and we can call you the army and your opponents become terrorists are financially motivate you and give you a lot more money than you can get from by just sitting here and and doing nothing

and i'll give you the political backing in military support from my backers in the u.a.e. and fronts and he's been able to do that consistently over three four years now in that sense when you look at his his armed groups they are the very same coalition of militias that have plagued the country in lebanon with an additional element now that is joined by cell if you mentally forces and set every. culture that emerged in the nineteen eighties and the doctrinally opposed to democratic rule that i doctrinally opposed to any kind of political opposition who they label as islamist terrorists at times and i don't try to be unable to only want to work with authoritarian rulers so at least six is that those forces are mentally is that are against democracy so the prospects of have to arriving in tripoli and stabilizing it don't really look so good the prospect for elections with with a force of people that are and for the record it doesn't look so good either is but his ability to make sweeping gains is really based on the military might that was afforded to him by his military backers in the u.a.e. and france and the diplomatic community that he's enjoyed especially since the visit of antonio terrorises the who in twenty four hours and several meetings with

after into brooke and in tripoli the capital was unable to name her after by his own name to condemn him or penalize him let alone discuss what should be done with the section him for his matriculation in the capital which is in danger of a lot. civilians know in western libya in the same way that he had been hurt in and as you mention in your report but a president doesn't know where he's being investigated this forces are being investigated for war crimes by the i.c.c. in the hague so the idea that have to can do this in a swift way is telling but her heart the size of tripoli if not a third of the size it took him three years after he promised the three days a three day kind of military conquest in two thousand and fourteen i think tripoli will be a lot harder and the strong nature of the armed groups that are now coalescing around tripoli to sew up her jim and to push him back so that this could take years if not longer and i tried to conflict in the southern military neighborhood forty five kilometers fifty kilometers away from the nearest point in europe where there's been a massive uprising and turn in numbers in migration could be devastating but given

that all of these groups armed groups also offer security for libya's institutions its port cities its military and civilian infrastructure if they turned their backs on that and start fighting huffed are then that's the exact kind of environment that isis eisel flourishes and only strikes when your back is turned and that could be a devastating move since i still has been kind of degraded in and iraq and most over the last year and a half and particularly since the and soy after forces in the south are defeated isis only a year ago and said that this kind of environment is where isis flourishes and it's because of this kind of strongman identity and that's a purging of strong men in the region that we've been able to have this kind of phenomena of some leverage out of them over the last thirty four years so not much trouble is secured not much prospects for a peaceful future ok and asked for her to say that i thank you so much for joining us there live from thank you.

so israel has the polls on tuesday to elect a new governments almost a fifth of the voters are palestinian israelis who say they're actively discriminated against recent polls suggest that an increasing number of them intend to boycott the election stephanie decker reports from northern israel these ladies a getting ready to welcome a guest political campaigning is intimate here. hopefully these elections will bring something that will help all the arab towns someone who stands with us and helps us so we don't keep feeling like live in a country without having a place in hopefully things will get better back as a candidate for the ballad party part of two palestinian israeli coalitions running in these elections she's trying to convince these ladies to vote for her brother getting into parliament in this race is true white wing and extremist religious atmosphere is not an easy reality for us there is a direct policy by this government to target the palestinian community by population it through

a lack of investment in education in various aspects of life in addition to land confiscations and house demolitions but recent polls suggest palestinian israeli voter turnout could be lower than the last elections adam an author says he intends to boycott this vote there. were also some kind of boxes. when they need to open the box like an instrument and we are not. we have a history we have to understand we have life we have we have homeland and we have roots the palestinian israeli parties are predicted to get around eleven seats according to the latest polls out of one hundred twenty and regardless whether it's benjamin netanyahu or his main challenger benny gantz forms a new government through a coalition the palestinian israeli parties say they will join them palestinian israelis make up almost a fifth of israel's population and they hold full israeli citizenship but have only spoken to say they face racial discrimination such as the controversial nation state bill that was passed last year which says that israel is the nation state of

the jewish people and self-determination is also unique to the jewish people really are using this law and they will use it more and more in the future to make equality impossible. is a human rights activist he says this is the most right wing government in decades and little will probably change but he doesn't agree with those intending to boycott all of think that it spoils ability to balk at the election and then to say oh yeah we had the chance to you know to send his government home and we boycotted the polls suggest that benjamin netanyahu is best placed to form the next government and it could be even more right wing than before stephanie decker al-jazeera northern israel. more than one and a half million people in mozambique and i reliance on food days after their homes were devastated last month cycle it i for me to miller has the latest from china

macondo near the port city of beirut. we're inching i'm of congo where at least seven hundred families have gathered to collect food from the world food program they're distributing penes rice and whale and so far every well known has distributed food to about half a million people now that flood waters have receded and areas like this are accessible they're able to reach more people now to mostly one to hand out to at least one point seven million people who are in areas that were devastated by cycle only it dies so far they've used ed as well as boats to get that food arrived at another areas are exists of all people here have lost their homes lost farms and with alt there's food distribution really would have nothing to survive on this is about helping them survive the off the effects of the cycle and the w. if peace is it could take several months for recovery and for people here to be

back on their feet. in the u.s. the democrat controlled laura house of congress is suing donald trump's administration over his emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the border with mexico the us president visited the southern border on friday saying the country is full trump was there to inspect a small portion of the refurbished barrier fence california and nineteen other states are also taking legal action challenging trumps emergency declaration the system is full can't take it anymore whether it's asylum whether it's anything you want it's illegal immigration can't take anymore we can't take your countries filled. are areas full the sectors full can't take any more absurd can happen so turn around that's the way it is. the boeing company a has announced it

will cut production of its seven three seven maxis aircraft by nearly twenty percent the plane has been grown to its search to fatal crashes within months of each other because it's all sort of three hundred and forty six people one says it will also set up a panel to review the design of the seven three seven max a u.s. family that is well known as a patron of the arts and has become the top reus for its role in a major drug epidemic the cyclists family is facing several lawsuits alleging its pharmaceutical company purging pharma damn play the risk of addiction to its opioid drugs oxycontin is an opiate that doctors can prescribe directly to patients since its launch in one nine hundred ninety six more than seven hundred thousand americans have died from overdoses of the painkillers and twenty seven thousand more than forty seven thousand people died of opioid overdoses in the u.s. government declared a public health emergency in two thousand and seven purdue pharma pled guilty to

misstating the risk of opioid addiction or the companies that sell opioids are also being seeds. or the sackless have donated millions of dollars to galleries and museums around the world but the recent scandal has prompted many organizations to refuse new donations from the family person salumi reports from new york this sculpture is meant to call attention to an addiction crisis and those that the artist believes are responsible in just one year opioid drugs killed forty seven thousand americans the u.s. government estimates that eighty percent of people who use heroin like artists dominic esposito brother first became addicted to prescription opioids discipline is basically the symbol of sort of you know my mama call me screaming at the top of a long as it should fall another this is really kind of at the peak of his addiction six seven years ago and for me.