last month at least two 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 lunny 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 there is the book of. today president caters regime is condemned 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 oppressed and k. to has said he delivered justice and has replaced two of his top generals saying millions need to feel secure despite a peace deal in twenty fifteen his government is struggling to control several

active armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw violence is fast spreading into neighboring countries like booking a fossil chad. and the un says wooden tree million people in mali are now in desperate need of food and humanitarian aid priyanka gupta al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister has begun his first official visit to iran as these trip comes just a month after a visit by iranian president hassan rouhani to baghdad's relations between the countries continue to develop despite efforts by washington it's a curve iran's influence in the region. 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 could

tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars well dosage of ari has more now from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister up to the as a arrived in tehran where he was received by reigning 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 in 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 ukrainian 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 you 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. lots more still to come on the news hour including. rival rallies are

called in venezuela by supporters of the opposition leader and the presidents will be live in caracas also point increasing number of palestinian israelis say they will boy courts choose these general election. and sports slots and continues his m.l.s. scoring streak all the details coming up with two later in the program. no more than one and a half million people in mozambique and a reliance on food aid after their homes were flattened by cycle in italy last month for me to miller is 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 beans rice and whale and so far that's everywhere was 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 want to hand out food to at least one point seven million people who are in areas that were devastated by a cycle only it dies so far they've used it as well as boats to get that food around and another areas are exists of all people here have lost their homes lost farms and revolved there's food distribution really would have nothing to survive on this is about helping them survive the off to fix all of the psycho and the w. if he says it could take several months for recovery and for people here to be back on their feet. that when egypt's chief prosecutor hisham baraka was assassinated in twenty fifteen the president responded with what human rights groups cold a brutal crackdown over the past three and a half years the interior ministry says its soldiers killed four hundred and sixty

five people in shit tents it says they were members of armed groups and some had eisel links but families of eleven of the dead say their relatives have no connection with such groups and have told the reuters news agency they don't believe they were killed in gun battles they accuse the interior ministry of a cover up and say the men died in custody after being grabbed off the streets or from their homes or reports from the u.s. state department last month details of pieces in egypt including forced disappearances well who say in the about me is an egypt research or at the cia international and joins us now via skype from chillis thank you so much for joining us today on al-jazeera first of all can i just ask what you make of those figures four hundred sixty five people killed in shooter it's in just three and a half years. good afternoon susan figures are quite shocking saw

everyone knows in egypt that asian or sorties have committed a number of excess dyslexic you since there are video evidence showing soldiers executing unarmed individuals or are official documents confirming a number of sources that were later claimed to be killed in gunfights were actually in state custody and also confirming extradition executions but the figures that we have seen inside there is article could indicate something bigger it indicates that if if the figures are true indeed saying we are talking about potential crimes against humanity. i want spreads in general are force disappearances such as the ones alleged in this reuters report and have widespread are these so important appearances are already white spirit we know that they are being backed to systematically by say tips and so it is we have said we have documented zen heavily

we have seen our eyes and number of importance appearances we documented around thousand seven hundred case when corsets appearances offers us a few years and we know zero point practice we know that the affected children we know that the effect all the people we know that they can happen even for individuals that have after cortef even ordered release we knows that there's no sort of have actually kidnapped individuals before they are being released and in course abuse appears in four months at a time so they are quite common indeed and i was behind this. so there are a number of factors behind it most importantly is a complete and absolute impunity the egyptian security forces enjoy it's a moment which is encouraged from world's youngest bicester judiciary on so one hand by not taking measures to investigate all of these allegations or fixes

excuses are taken as they are encouraged by specific ones you do not investigate acts of violence ways of police you are taken by as a terrorist by those dissolute ones you not investigate the claims by the families of the victims of course forcibly disappeared there also in cars when president of the seas for example. says that as a district is slow in expecting justice from victims and carriage to beis a large number of the sentences after completely arbitrary on our fear or trials. what the us state department has also released a report detailing these abuses any chance also highlighting the issue of forced disappearances given this given these numbers that we can't see why are we not seeing more international condemnation for these for these alleged abuses. it's a very good question but unfortunately the answer is simply politics. and government

have been very successful in playing its hand on the international stage so when c. talk whenever you go to europe we see president of the city talking about a potential five million migrants and asylum seekers if he's regime and gold is destabilized in egypt we see that we see houses from source airplanes that hand very well when presenting themselves as predicting minorities in particular christian minority in egypt despite the fact that they are suffering severe abuses sousa riots particularly the right to prayer in egypt we are seeing how it is of some government plays its hand when he talk about counterterrorism wenzhou label zero zero crackdown as if words to counter terrorism also we are seeing for example through this reuters report as well as reports why as enjoys and united nations.

and governments raise the issue of counter-terrorism are using that mainly to justify a crackdown unprecedented crackdown on its critics and opponents ok has seen about money from amnesty international will have to leave it there but thank you very much effort sharing your thoughts and analysis with us from tunis thank you. now venezuela's president nicolas maduro and opposition that's a one point two have cold their supporters on to the streets of the capital caracas for more rival rallies their looks in the business standoff after going to clear it himself the interim president with backing from the u.s. and others china and russia though support who also maintains the crucial supports of venezuela's military well or latin america. joins us now from caracas see this process has been described by the opposition as a dress rehearsal for what it calls operation freedom but i significance is it really. you know how we are what you see behind me

actually is one of one of the headquarters for the electricity company here in venezuela and this is supposed to be the final convergence point for the opposition major call for a show of force out on the streets of the whole country not just here in qatar cows and decease as you can see are pretty empty at this hour this is supposed to happen in about a couple of hours and significantly there are no stages. a month ago you would have seen that but the government has been arresting the drivers that have been trying to set up stages and and basically large shows all of them organize ation by the government so rather by the opposition so why are all the opposition leaders expected to get here and stand on top of a truck with a microphone and talk to his followers he needs to show that he still has support things have changed dramatically in the last few weeks the government is now on the

offensive every time that they try to have even small rallies armed groups with that pro tier gas and sometimes so live shot that live rounds into the air have been going round and round a lot of people are becoming very frightened and so he needs to keep the momentum going and that. it is what this demonstration is all about not just here and got back up but the opposition is hoping that they can mobilize people all over the country to try to show that they still have support for their calls for president people ask him a little to go and. see a part of the pressure that's being he has this impending of a ray. kelly is it's the go it's a will be arrested today. absolutely that certainly has been a blow to the opposition the government lifted his or rather these the supreme court

lifted his parliamentary immunity which of course means that he could be arrested at any moment it hasn't happened yet in fact the u.s. point man for venezuela elliott abrams announced on friday that or rather threatened on friday that if i would have dared to arrest that wide law it would be quote the worst mistake or the last mistake he would ever make but there was a lot of pressure on the government to arrest him not to let his guy that have been what they consider a fascist traitor us have a tour continue to run around the streets freely and so it's very unclear at this moment how long he can continue to do what he's doing now and i've been told by members of the opposition that if he is arrested they already have a contingency plan set up to continue the momentum to continue the protests even without weigel also very much support for thanks very much for that live syrian human are left in america bringing us up to say. it's time now for the weather yes

catherine that's right we're talking about tropical moisture it's that time of year where a lot of it begins to move in some areas get more rain than they could probably handle this time of year i want to take you over here towards brazil particularly over here towards the eastern part of jill just to the southwest of fortune this town right here p.o. we has seen some very heavy rain over the last twenty four to forty eight hours so much so that flash flooding swept through the town actually some of the flash flooding was about this high unfortunate three people died in this particular instance and we saw about thirty five thousand people displaced because of the very heavy rain over the next few days though we're going to be seeing more heavy rain across this area the trouble shows that i mentioned are going to stay across this region it is that time of year where we do see those areas a very dark greens that means very heavy rain over the next few days across much of the region so in terms of letting that water recede it is going to be quite hard across this region and now to take you up here to a united states where also this time of year we see a lot of severe weather particular down here across much of the southern part

united states we do have another system that is making its way out and over the next few days and this system right here is going to bring very heavy rain across the region also the temperatures are coming up that is helping the situation and we're going to be seeing some very gusty winds probably destructive winds large hail as well as the possibility of a few tornadoes across this region and you can't rule out because of the heavy rain the possibility of some localized flooding thanks catherine now the democrat controlled laura house of congress is suing the trumpet ministration over the u.s. president's emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the border with mexico u.s. president visited the southern border on friday saying the country is full trump was that suspects a small portion of a refer bush barrier fence california and nineteen other states are also taking legal action challenging trans american sea declaration. the system is full can't take it any more whether it's asylum whether it's anything you want it illegal

immigration can't take anymore we can't take our country has felt our area is full the sector is full can't take any more i'm sorry can't happen so turn around that's the way it is. still to come on al-jazeera. a new color i break in yemen kills hundreds of people and conditions are pear fix for it to get much worse by u.s. based pharmaceuticals family is being shunned by the art world that it has long supported. and in sports a week before augusta hosts the masters the most famous golf course in the world is breaking new greatness. the official story is apparent on where we all show you i don't care about the official story what has the media been telling join me near the house and all out front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's

top stories and big issues here now does it. benjamin netanyahu is fighting for a fifth term as prime minister of israel using his friendship with donald trump fears over security and race but he faces corruption charges and a trio of former army chiefs trying to gather to unseat an opponent's sense a chance in the upcoming israeli elections get the latest on al-jazeera or to. put into. australia all the moves you. and you. will be. a rich and diverse culture explored through its music istanbul songs of the city on al-jazeera .

you're watching all to zero a quick reminder of the top stories this hour. forces loyal to libyan warlord holly after are moving to recapture tripoli's former international airport fighting is continuing thirty kilometers south of the capital . meanwhile foreign ministers from the g seven say they can't accept a further military escalation in libya they've warned khalifa haftar to listen to warnings from the international community. thousands of protesters have marched through saddam's army headquarters in the capital khartoum is the first time they've reached a building since on to government demonstrations began in december. well let's get some more on our top story now. is the director of the tripoli based

institute i think tank that studies and analyze his libya he joins us now from rates can you just start by explaining how highly for have to has been able to make such sweeping gains is there anything or anyone that can stop him from reaching tripoli at this point. well i think it's not reaching tripoli in the conventional sense the conventional motion that we would expect for moving from east to west with a traditional convoy and a structured set of armies and structures of units what he's actually been able to do is to co-opt many of the armed groups that emerged after the never but with a particular sway with his on his particular the armed groups that came out searching for power that had been uprooted tree ambitions when it came to political power so they can access resources or kind of conduct kind of rent seeking exercises and an ambition so he normally goes to them and offers them

a very very simple narrative your the army and your opponents now the terrorists or islamists or the muslim brotherhood whoever it may be and i'm happy to give you for the actual military and political backing with the additional motion now since the visit went on your tires in the last twenty four hours until it was was not able to mention have there by name he was able to condemn him by name because of the french blockage within the p five in the security council so now he's offering them diplomatic immunity to effectively wage a war without almost any kind of political or diplomatic sanction that's crazy if we're going to consider the fact that this was done in the presence of the u.n. chief on his first visit to libya and we've been hearing from the g. seven they have not been condemning this latest push asking that for a deescalation in violence that interesting they its supporters such as the u.a.e. and egypt who have been calling for that deescalation as well what do you make of that. is duplicitous i mean we can only go back to the u.n. panel of experts reports the security handles own neutral impartial expert reports

that show in the year that the un delivered a peace treaty and a government of national accord and thousand and sixteen the u.a.e. wrapped up an unprecedented levels on the back of oil ations and establish an airbase in eastern libya that has been draining civilians and is being investigated for the operations that it conducted in but huzzy an indefinite thousand sixteen seventeen by the i.c.c. for war crimes if that's the same kind of in a conduct the military conduct that then requires a politically passive message like we call for the escalation i think the u.a.e. and the french involvement within these larger kind of p three plus three configurations of statements or the un security statements have made sure the language is politically vague and ambiguous and terms of who they are condemning in fact the un's french ambassador came around and this is a video that is now doing the rounds on twitter where he was asked who do you mean by the parties that are involved in escalating the violence and he laughed and said all the parties we all know who the pa is are responsible we know the activists

responsible but the u.n. has been unable and paralyzed to condemn have there not shows you that the brittleness of this movement that's dangerous given that the window of diplomacy and dialogue could force close and that still the largest military coalition of revolutionary forces in western libya misrata has not really made its move and played its hand yet that could be a massive massive opening for escalation of violence that could not end only in tripoli but could see them start to push troops over towards the east and toward the south and the outbreak of violence if you want to have open dialogue and diplomacy you have to have trust and you have to have leverage and i think that many of the and for after forces today trust the u.n. process given the have brittle it is and how much control the u.a.e. and frosting is exerting over it and if you want to have leverage over those actors then you have to rein in on the international powers that are funding and providing military material support so what's making this active making this war at it want to ripen after towards peace you have to close the doors to war and that's the main objective of the. one has to be focusing on that should really be talking to people in tripoli that should be focusing their efforts in paris and that with ok an os

have to leave it there but thank you so much for giving us your thoughts and analysis on this crisis and as our massy director of the tripoli based saw that institute. now rate is often used as a weapon of war during conflicts when ones as one nine hundred ninety four genocide happened though the scale was unimaginable the u.n. estimates that between two hundred fifty and five hundred thousand tutsi women were raped and those born as a result is one of the most underreported aspects of the genocide andrew symonds visited one woman he wanted to speak 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 dion e.-mu. 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 when. she is 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 the army's mother was raped in the capital kigali by an unknown hutu militia men she gave birth to day on a in february ninety ninety five the stigma of rape in africa is profound and being fathered by hutu rapist much worse mother and daughter moved to ny armata but secrets last long there either some people in this district knew of downey's 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. of i used to live in total despair to the point where i would think it's better if i wasn't and i. thought she'd found understanding from a boyfriend but things went drastically wrong. after he knew my history he developed a hatred towards me it took two other people and their plans to harm me. he is the one who made me pregnant it was so we could because my mother got traumatised all over again. dielman 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 unloved both she and her mother live in poverty they're unemployed and they're in a pain remains but the mother clement's milledge is to sound optimistic. i am proud of her and even love her daughter diana's 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 andrew simmons al-jazeera in rwanda. a koehler is making another comeback in yemen suspected cases of double during the past month with warm wet weather and a health system devastated by war creating the perfect conditions for the illness to spread. reports. this is one of yemen's main hospitals

and it's for cholera cases are spreading fast bringing an influx of old and young. here to be ready if i brought my six on to the hospital they prescribe medicine but it's not available in the hospital we have to go looking for it outside in pharmacies. yemen has endured a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the saudi u.a.e. led war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the breaks but last month more than seventy six thousand new suspected cholera cases were registered the u.n. fears a latest outbreak could be as bad as the one in two thousand and seventeen which killed more than three thousand people. and that this hospital is considered a main health center the number of cases we've dealt with at up to about one thousand about forty percent have tested positive for cholera it's a crisis for the local government of types. yeah most families in yemen can't afford to get sick prices are high and treatment is limited and most vividly that

had them is that the hospital that doesn't offer the tests that we need some of them cost anywhere from seven to fifteen dollars outside the hospital and i don't have enough money we don't even have enough money to pay for the transportation to get here how can i pay this. cholera is spread primarily through polluted food and water the war has damaged the country's infrastructure making conditions ripe for contamination. these patients are fighting for their lives it's unlikely the disease will be brought under control until the war ends and rebuilding begins katia locus of the young al jazeera. the leader of thailand's opposition future forward party is facing charges of sedition felled by the military controlled government the accusations against them of on it are from twenty fifteen he says they're politically motivated this party placed third during last month's election

but results have been delayed because there's a recounts underway if found guilty the forty year old could face up to nine years in prison. so israel has the polls on choose states to elect a new governments almost a fifth of the voters are palestinian israelis who say they're actively discriminated against and it seems increasing numbers of them intend to boycott the election stephanie decker reports from the northern israel. these ladies a getting ready to welcome 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 we live in a country without having a place in hopefully things will get better. as a candidate for the party part of two palestinian israeli coalitions running in

these elections she's trying to convince these ladies to vote for her. getting into parliament in this racist 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. 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. when their needs are to open the box like an instrument and we are not. we have a history we have this and 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 won't 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. 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 welcome 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. oh us family that's been celebrated for its financial contributions to the arts has become the tourists for its role in a major drug epidemic the psychos are fighting several lawsuits their company purdue pharma is accused of dying playing the risk of addiction to opioids kristen 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 respond is basically the symbol of sort of you know my mama call me screaming at the top of her long as it should fall another spawn this is really kind of at the peak of his

addiction six seven years ago and for me this is kind of like this dark.