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 it's from cisco a 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 thousand 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 and 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 of 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 kirsten salumi reports from new york. this sculpture is meant to call attention to an addiction crisis and those that the artist believes are responsible and 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 in spain is basically the symbol of sort of you know my mom would call me screaming at the top of her long as it should fall another this is really kind of at the peak of his addiction six seven years ago and for me it's just kind of like this dark ugly truth pharmaceutical companies like produce in the family which owns it the sack lawyers stand accused of making billions of dollars by encouraging doctors to prescribe

a pain killer who's highly addictive properties were downplayed. now sackler money tens of millions of dollars of which has been donated to museums all around the world is being seen by many in the arts world as tainted sparking demonstrations like these that major institutions after this one at new york's guggenheim the museum announced they'd no longer accept the family's donations after the guggenheim became the third museum to sever ties with the sackler family trust but trust announced that for the time being it would stop making donations altogether the news came on the heels of the announcement of a new federal lawsuit against the family in addition to several others already on the books including one filed in massachusetts and another here in new york art experts say efforts by museums to publicly distance themselves from the sackler family is unprecedented it's very unusual it's the first time that i've ever seen anything like it usually the way that these things work if there's

a sort of problem in terms of ethics and fund raising the institutions are giving out or accepting it usually ends very quietly the sac lawyers who are fighting some of the lawsuits and have settled others see. they don't want to be a distraction for museums for do was really the grandfather at all they were the masterminds behind why we find ourselves in this epidemic right now half a million lives lost all because of corporate greed but a family once known as patrons of the arts may now be better remembered for their role and one of the worst health crises in u.s. history kristen salumi al jazeera new york still to come on al-jazeera as wrestle mania heads to new york we explore why millions of fans take it so seriously. we live in

a time of war and tragedies crimes against humanity. activist repression. and forced disappearance arbitrary arrests. extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. who investigates who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to combat impunity and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high commissioner. european parliament. and global alliance of national human rights institutions.

and rising prices in pakistan i presume pressure on the population inflation has reached its highest in five years pushing up the cost of fuel and electricity is a particular problem for farmers to reports from the islamabad countryside. it's morning in the religion of kerala and there we'd been stick around green this is reynolds god fair old dean dig his goats out to graze this place less than thirty kilometers from islamabad has been evolving for more than seventy is why do you think his feet did not big enough to sustain his family i know

a few years ago he turned the building stuart was on hold. to make extra money but now he didn't electricity and fuel prices that has to change the limit paterno gone guardrails i used to be able to work but now i'm too old but i've already trained my sons and now it's time for them to carry the burden as i take care of my go and it's a problem being ferried around pakistan especially in poorer communities like. the government under prime minister imran khan say the previous governments are to blame for all what boring and leaving the country in day but under an agreement with the i.m.f. for a bailout package easy agreed to devalue the rupee and that led to rising inflation the effects of inflation are being fed even in rural areas cloistered capital islamabad although to be buried grow their own crops they don't have been out for land and said that despite a link cost of living means they have to find or turn

a day of employment. not far away his sons are busy on a construction project to make extra money year journey with a year the new government promised to lower prices but instead they have increased we also have to pay more for harvesting our wheat because of rising elektra's to in fuel prices we have to work extra hours to cope this farmer says things have never been this bad. for it you're not a buzzard god has been kind in giving us land if it rains we get something but if it doesn't we get nothing the rising cost of essential commodities makes it even tougher we can only hope the government will do something more for the poor most people in this area war did for enron correspondence john terry ken soft or justice party they say that's because their promise to bring people out of poetry and get bogged down the economy back on track now they say they can only wait to see if

things will get better all go from bad to worse. on the outskirts of a slum or by oh sign for the sport now here's joe thank you for your president jennie inventin i says it would be good for asia if the cats how well cubs expanded to forty eight teams and he was speaking at the asian football congress in kuala lumpur in front he knows been pushing the expansion idea for months but it's still not clear how this would be achieved making the tournament bigger would require council to share games with its neighbors a final decision is expected at the fee for congress in june in paris. ninety percent of the associations would like to move to forty eight teams it's football development all over the world if we have sixteen more countries and we are looking and analyzing together with our partners in qatar what could be sharing a few games with a few of the neighboring countries is of course an option as well one of the

fellows called his fiftieth premier league go full of full special soft save the team fell behind to southampton solid nobby kater and jordan henderson sealed the three one win as the ball went back to the top of the standings go also ended a nine much drought for the egyptian star well the biggest name in m.l.s. last anybody move it by the l.a. galaxy to victory in vancouver the thirty seven year old showed no signs of the injury that kept him out for a few games is called one and set up another in the two know when last time now has four goals in three appearances. and speaking of swedish football is thirty thousand fans will watch the women's team play a friendly in stockholm against germany later the swedes are calling for a unified approach to addressing gender inequality in football especially when it comes to money female players are paid a fraction of what their male counterparts. they've got to you know you can't compare it at all i know that if i played in the german bundesliga for six years i

wouldn't have any financial worries if i'm going to compare my club with a club in the men's been it would be maybe buy in munich or dortmund in terms of percentages you can't really compare what they maybe make in an hour i make in the year or something like that now there's less than a week to go before the masters augusta national is about to host its first ever competitive round of women's golf this is a huge shift when you consider the history of the world's most famous course founded in one thousand thirty three it's staged eighty two masters tournament the prestigious green jacket is cancelled and many players to stardom including tiger woods but all of them have been men it wasn't until twenty twelve that augusta admitted its first female members including former u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice there are now four in total and later on saturday hosts the final round of the a gust at national women's amateur championship the players had a practice round on friday. every single hole had something special and we were

joking or group like i was on twelve t. and i was shaking on like a practice round i would hire you shaking and i mean just the amount of history that is out here it's it's amazing and we're just really lucky to be out here a few sports will generate as much hype as wrestle mania in new york on sunday many say it's not a proper sports but he has more than a billion social media followers and a spite being scripted the fans take it very seriously as al jazeera says help like found out. it doesn't get bigger than this in the world of professional wrestling thousands of hysterical founds and the biggest names in the business it can only be wrestle mania kurt angle is a legend in world wrestling entertainment and then the olympic champion he's in one of the headline matches that this year's spectacle which happens at the eighty thousand seater metlife stadium just outside new york it's our super bowl. it's our

world championships if you will. so this is the most important job of year to put on the performance so you can be the best that you can. make it a very memorable match pierced my wrestle mania is just as important to the finals is broadcast in more than one hundred eighty countries and wrestling lovers of come from across the world to be part of the action congress so that's the fun of me because i'm sitting here to have a go i think it's a friend a friend it might be good it just means you're lucky you got in your role model it's just you know leave them at her yeah it's an amazing it's an absolute it's a serious crave meat progress and it is of course staged entertainment. the results are pre-determined yet many followers take it as seriously as mainstream sports with the fights having. storylines and feuds to perceive them you have to really

paint a picture that they can feel and get behind and it takes a lot more than just what you can do in the ring. often likes to blur the lines between fiction and reality. that's been the case with this year's main event in which women will close wrestling's biggest show for the first time ever ronda rousey who is a huge star in mixed martial arts has been mocking one of her opponents becky lynch for not being a real fighter and to having big moves i think that's what that's what has made it so much what it is because it gets you thinking why. it's so good like me and what's real what's and what's not real that she meet like you really want to see these girls go at it the debate goes on over what's real and what's not and why it matters what isn't in dispute is that being part of risk the media is giving ves found a genuine feeling of joy so here malik al-jazeera new york. all right that's. well

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feet in two thousand and six south africa revisits the children of apartheid for the third time and much has changed over the past fourteen menas twenty one up south africa on al-jazeera. over night fighting on the outskirts of tripoli as warlord heidi five task forces closing in on libya's capital. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back to bowl also ahead. gerri ends of promising another round of protesters five their long time presidents resignation earlier this week security and trade on the agenda as iraq's prime

minister begins a two day visit to iran. and they may be glorified as kashmir's take mask on stags needs protection. thank you for joining us libyan fighters loyal to the warlord holly for have to say they have advanced into the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli in a push against the internationally recognized government the u.n. and world powers are demanding they halt the offensive victoria gate and he has our report. answering a call to defend tripoli soldiers from misrata arrive in the capital to help push back wall owed her life to have to us forces have tossed suffered a setback on friday when at least one hundred forty five of his fighters were captured during battles near tripoli's old international airport in an audio

recording have to had urged his forces to in his words liberate the city. those who lay down arms will be safe those who remain home a safe those who host the white flag are safe the. violence has gripped in libya the country has seen cayle since the twenty eleven uprising that deposed leader muammar gaddafi and since twenty fourteen it's had two competing governments forces loyal to libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli they have tossed trying to wreck any chance of a political settlement whatever the corner not only of libya will be nothing but a civil state built on institutions of the peaceful rotation of power we condemn the u.n. commission for their silence towards these gross violations. following a meeting with have to are on friday the u.n. secretary general antonio the terrorist said he was leaving libya with a heavy heart and deeply concerned the u.n. security council fears the fighting could threaten tools to rebuild libya's

practised political system but the members of the security council expressed their deep concern that the military activity. here tripoli which risks libyan stability and prospects for un mediation and a comprehensive political solution to the crisis. we have to those forces are now advancing on the southern outskirts of tripoli and the roof is a major escalation in fighting the un says finding a political agreement is the only way forward but would have to on willing to work with the tripoli based government that looks more and more unlikely victoria gate and be algis there. let's get the latest on the situation now. is our correspondent in tripoli mahmoud tell us about the movements of half task forces how close are they to tripoli is the advance still continuing. will for the year it's really confusingly overlapped in the southern outskirts of

tripoli one of the brave factions of the warring factions are rapidly exchanging control over areas we're getting reports from pro-government military commanders say that have to us forces pulled out of areas around the tripoli international airport meanwhile the government forces are receiving new military units and detachment from civil cities in the west of the country including forces from the city of misrata as you know fully the military units in the west of libya are trying to reposition and unit again against have to the have been several in several areas in several locations during the last four years the had raven rees together but now with this war with this war

launched by have told us forces to take over the capital tripoli they are saying that they are trying to reposition and they are trying to unite again to as they say defend the capital again and have to his forces also as their government of national accord has given orders to its air force to lunch strikes and target any military activities by have to as forces to enter the capital tripoli minutes ago we heard aircrafts in the skies if true of tripoli we don't know exactly where they were. flying to what locations they have targeted or what locations they are planning to target but again have their forces on the ground are now changing their position. around tripoli international airport

also in another location south of the city we're getting reports from there saying that the government aircrafts are targeting have forces positions. of the city at city fully so a very fluid situation mahmud up then wide in tripoli thank you for bringing us the latest there in other world news hundreds of thousands of algerians have rallied in the capital and elsewhere for the first time since the resignation of president. they're now demanding but if our allies follow his lead he stepped down this week after twenty years in power protesters are calling for an overhaul of the entire political system for reports. older is military might be disappointed if it was hoping that the resignation of president abdulla's ease beautifully would damp an enthusiasm for anti government protests millions of people came back on the streets for a seventh freude for them beautifully because resignation earlier this week is only

a first gesture all of that we demand change is going to go to all of them including so. that we cannot remain silent anymore we are no longer afraid of you you have killed our children and started the whole nation. we have seen nothing but i'm very dream i'm forty one years old and i can hardly make a living we're hoping for a better. moved to sideline beautifully can i lie is a continuing the intelligence chief bashir talked to has been fired and earlier this week eight businessmen had their passport seized as their investigated for corruption state television showed a clearly frail eighty two year old beautifully kept handing in his resignation on tuesday and i think what's happened now is that certain grad schools are being settled the result is that tartaglia is now out of office and that begins to remove some of the infrastructure of the boot of the go regime but it only be

a beginning and whether it really applies a change in the institutions of a state or not that i doubt very much. algeria is now in the hands of a caretaker government but the protesters have made it clear they won't accept a new president from the prove why that's the nickname for the trench war veterans and business tycoons of the country. and what julian wants is a civilian government they want to get a little destructive but exist to date statements by the chief of staff suggest that he will listen to the people. obviously we didn't these drones issue and the military will be supervising from a distance or still with it but eventually would want the bill to go back to its box and leave the politicians to do the business feat one in every four

algerians under the age of thirty is on employed the economy is dependent on oil and gas is attempt to stand for a fifth term as president frustration with the status quo to ahead now those elections will be in three months time so far no obvious successor has emerged that al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister has begun his first official visit to iran a day. trip comes just a month after a visit by the iranian president hassan rouhani to baghdad relations between the countries continue to develop despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region really. we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones with all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen

and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt qatar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars. there is dosage of barry has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister up to the as a arrived in tehran where he was received by waning president hassan rouhani at the palace now the two day visit comes as the two countries pledge to further ties between the two sides in terms of the country's economy and their defense and the political strategies that they share of course iran and iraq have really become much closer in the past few years the iranian president hassan rouhani stressing the country's commitment to strengthen economic ties currently iraq is the number one importer of reunion goods that in two thousand and eighteen of about nine billion dollars the iranian president said they hope to increase

trade to about twenty billion in the coming year now the iraqi prime minister also stressed that according to iraq's constitution they will not allow their country and iraqi soil to be used as a launching pad for any foreign troops or fighters to launch attacks against iran that is something that's very important to the iraqi government of course has some rouhani and his government are very happy to hear this in light of what president trump had said that they want to use u.s. troops in iraq to spy on iran and its activities in the region the iranian president also stressed that there will be further developments that would that will include one cultural village in west of the country in iran between iran and iraq to strengthen cultural ties as well as an industrial zone to be set up in the south of the country the iraqi prime minister will go on to visit iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei on sunday where they will discuss further at the root developments in the region and of course how to strengthen the ties between iran

and iraq. still ahead on al-jazeera in mali where protesters blame politicians for ethnic violence that killed nearly one hundred sixty people last month plus we'll tell you why an increasing number of palestinian israelis say they will boycott the elections on tuesday. welcome back we're here cross parts of asia in particular we're talking about japan things are going to be quite nice as we end the weekend we do have a system that has made its way out here into the pacific that means a cold front has pushed through now not so.