can't go this far without the very clear support of egypt and particularly the u.a.e. and the france france has come very strongly supporting have to end this conflict inside libya and without really talking to these scab atolls to be better as i'm not sure how far that you and can go with that but also even on this one in particular then the debate now is with. have to really received conflicting messages from the international. support or actually he was to misread the messages that he was receiving from the international community because that is there is no consistency when he started or will he go on to tripoli well it seems so far he is proceeding he's not stopping but also he's not making seeders gains the only gain that he made is in the city of the dumbest in the southern parts of the trouble but

that's not really critical in terms of his power and his control on the ground the losses that he had so far are serious he lost you know some of his troops were arrested so he's still yet to shore some gains on the ground in order probably to receive other international support but that's not been the case so far ok thank you very much for your analysis. thousands of protesters have marched to the army's headquarters in the capital harts whom this is the first time they've reached the building since anti-government demonstrations began in december but there are also reports of demonstrators converging on the residence of president bashir the. government's crackdown on dissent it's. been protesting for months it was initially sparked by a hike in the price of bribes but quickly escalated into a nationwide anti-government movement in february the government announced a one year state of emergency protests were banned and police were given enhanced

powers to crackdown on dissent president ahmed bashir has stepped down as head of the ruling party where protesters are demanding he go further and quit as sudan's leader he's ruled the country for nearly three decades plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including why cholera is once again putting many at risk. as a weapon of war in rwanda has affected generations on thousands of lives. in sports lots on continues his m.l.s. scoring streak details coming up a little later with peter. but first the venezuelans are gathering for rival rallies in the capital after president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader. their supporters to take to the streets they remain locked in a bitter standoff but maduro is resisting pressure to step down or latin america

editor is joining us live from caracas covering the. protests how big are they expected to be. i'm sorry i just somebody went by and i didn't hear your question you were saying tell us tell us. that is it the cia guy. yes. it's getting very yes yes yes very well look this business expenses. are demonstrates that. this is a show of strength on the part of the opposition and opposition. is calling on his supporters to prove that they are not afraid that they can go out into the streets and continue to demand the resignation of president need to laugh and have little what they call here are not allowed the streets to get cold and that is very very important because at this hour at this moment there is increasing pressure from the

government to turning up the heat they are using armed groups on motorcycles heavily armed sometimes called chronic people still out on the streets and so tear gas to protest there's fire live rounds into the air in fact that happened here in this neighborhood last night we're told by the residents and in fact we can also report that very very large contingent of riot police have been deployed all around the areas where at this hour opposition supporters are gathering and they're supposed to converge about two three hundred meters down the street where we are now where i am in front of the electricity company which was the original final point for this rally but they had to move it at the last hour we understand that security concerns and we also know that john bolton the u.s. national security advisor disappointing tweeted and warned president well after my little to allow opposition members to march peacefully and not to use these colleague to try to represent them and the constituent assembly to see

a turning up the heat on why though as well how real is the threat of his arrests after. it's a very very real threat to daryn there's no question about. it has been a member of the national assembly which is the legislature of the opposition controlled legislature was lifted as you may remember just a few days ago. by the supreme court that means that at any moment you could be arrested there's been a lot of pressure from the u.s. government and members of the international community to. not to arrest him but he's under a lot of pressure from his own constituency from the army not from members of the government it's not going out wide all to remain free to do precisely this organize people out on the street and to try to show his reign it is a standoff at this hour and it's going to be playing it's going to become more and more tense as the hours and days go by all rights alysia will speak to a little later thank you for the time being now democrats in the u.s.

congress are suing the trumpet administration over the president's emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the mexican border donald trump visited the southern border on friday saying the country is full trump was there to inspect a small portion of a refurbished barrier fence california and nineteen other states are also taking legal action challenging the emergency declaration the system is can take. whether it's asylum whether it's. illegal immigration can't take anymore we can't take your country is full. our air is full the sectors full can't take any more i'm sorry but so turn around that's the way it is a strong visited the border there were protests on the other side in mexico when i was there. the reaction to president trump's visit to the u.s. southern border at least on the mexican side was one of

a sort of collective i rule not a lot of people taking the president's threats to seriously to shut down the u.s. southern border given especially that this is now the second time the president has backed down on that threat to shut down the border there also demonstrations earlier today on the u.s. side both for and against the president's visit a lot of people coming out of their homes here in the city of mexico on the mexican side of the border peeking through the border wall wanting to catch a glimpse of the u.s. of the u.s. president but while we're on the subject of the border one of the things that president was out here doing was touring a section of the wall that the white house has characterized as a new section of wall but there are no new sections of wall actually under construction this contradicts the president's statements that there is quote a lot of wall being built there is reinforcement of the wall there repairs being made parts of the war being are being heightened a little bit given that you can see here it's not very high it's more or less easy

for people to jump over into the united states but we should stress that there are no new sections of wall being built iraq's prime minister has begun his first official visit to iran that i've been by these trip comes just months after a visit by iranian president hassan rouhani to baghdad's relations between the neighbors are strengthening despite efforts by washington to curb 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 there's a job ari has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister arrived in tehran where

he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at south palace in the capital there to help meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many developments to come in the in the future between the two countries the iraqi prime minister for his part stressed the importance that iran has for iraq and that he said that if according to iraq's constitution there will be no iraq's oil will not be allowed to be used by foreign troops or fighters to launch any attacks against iran iranian president also stressed that iran wishes to increase its exports to iraq to a revenue of about twenty billion the current figure is at about thirteen billion dollars of course the two sides have made very strong gains in the past few years they've developed stronger relationships and they continue to work on that and the

iraqi prime minister will go on to meet iranian supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei on sunday where they will hold joints discussions about regional issues as well as strengthening the relationship between the two countries tens of thousands of algerians who rallied for the first time since the resignation of president. there are now demanding his allies follow his lead reports. military might be disappointed if it was hoping that the resignation of president abdulla's these beautifully would dampen enthusiasm for anti government protests millions of people came back on the streets for friday for them beautifully because resignation earlier this week usually a first gesture all of that we did change. all of them including so. that we cannot remain silent anymore. you are no longer afraid of you you have killed our children and started the whole nation for

metallica we have seen nothing from him that he deemed i am forty one years old and i can hardly make a living well hoping for better. moves 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 the target is no out of office and that begins to remove some of the infrastructure of the boot of the the regime but it will only be a beginning and whether it really lies a change in the institutions of a state or not that i doubt very much. is now in the hands of a caretaker government but the protesters have made it clear they once accepted

a new president from look. 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 today. statements by the chief of staff suggest he will listen to the people. obviously we didn't does dunn's issue and the gun the military will be supervising in from a distance or i'm still with it but eventually would want the middle 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 unemployed the economy is dependent on oil and gas has attempted to stand for a fifth term as president frustration with the status quo to the head now those elections will be a three month's time so far no obvious successor has

a. child started al-jazeera. israel to the polls on tuesday to elect a new government 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 that her reports from. these ladies are 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 ballad 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 right 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 a nutter 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 to this time 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. 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. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour more on the sculpture that calls attention to the u.s. opioid addiction crisis and those the artist thinks are responsible why living off the land in pakistan is becoming more a fast struggle. and as wrestle mania heads to new york peter will explore why fans take it so seriously. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast where we are seeing some stormy conditions that are pushing across parts of iran and then towards the east so we have seen some rain showers across the region things are going to get a little bit better as we go towards sunday maybe a few showers will continue to lag there up towards tehran though rain in your forecast clouds as well attempt

a few of twenty degrees baghdad at twenty four but here is the clearing that we do expect to see and fortune for the northern part of iran we could see more heavy rain in your forecast in a few spotty showers down here along the coast we're still seeing some stormy conditions across the gulf war since a partly cloudy conditions then it gets cloudy and in the evening in the afternoon timeframe we are seeing those thunderstorms develop across much of the area we do think by the time we get towards monday things will be improving particular here in doha but we could still see a few clouds in the area with the temperature there of about thirty one degrees thirty one degrees for you as well and then as we make our way down towards the southern parts of africa we did see quite a bit of stormy conditions here across much of the eastern part of south africa things are now getting better and we're going to see temperatures a little bit lower for this time of year where johannesburg at twenty one durban to twenty four and then up towards harare rain is up towards the north but the temperatures are still quite warm with the time to there of about twenty eight degrees.

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. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we don't have to from the government to just shoot soon turned into a battle front for the nigerian government. yet why. the tourists for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing and displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins of blood the rise of iran on al-jazeera

. well again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour are forces loyal to. be. moving to recapture tripoli is former international airport fighting is continuing thirty kilometers south of the capital. thousands of protesters in sudan have marched to the army's headquarters in the capital khartoum it's the first time they've reached the building since anti-government demonstrations began in december . and for more on those rallies and let's talk to. an activist who was in the demonstrations today he's joining us via skype from hard to him good to have you

with us can you tell us what you saw during those demonstrations and how significant it is that the demonstrators were able to march toward the army headquarters for the first time thank you very much for having me but i just got back from the. where the most races were and people were starting to get a million million protesters but i think it was over two million. number the good thing is that it was completely peaceful there was no disturbance. resources and people were able to voice their concerns and it was it was it was a small it's really how much momentum do you think these rallies still have more than four months on. well if you think about it it started in december nineteenth and until now the longer it takes for a bishop to step down the bigger the protests will get but if you walk down the

street it was ages from five years old up to fifty or sixty years old people coming out for the same thing and want him to step down but are the protesters any closer in achieving that aim of bashir or stepping down we can't really understand if you will step down imo but you understand that. mom and i was eight are you still with us our rights apologies we seem to have a technical problem with the hard to. now we'll move on to news from iraq because a court there has upheld the ruling against leaders of mass demonstrations in twenty sixteen forty two activists from the and head up the protest movements were sentenced to up to twenty years in prison the government accuses them of orchestrating demonstrations in the north or an eighty five region the unrest was sparked by the death of a fisherman but later turned into a protest against the government neglect. at least seventy people have been killed

in flash floods in several provinces across iran the government says u.s. sanctions are impeding aid efforts while washington is accusing to ron's government to failing to manage its emergency response priyanka groups are reports. the floodwaters are rising and there are signs off more rain to come iran's government has ordered the evacuation of six cities in southern has a stern province out although we have moved our belongings to the rooftops we have no choice you're surrounded by water and soon we are going to have to leave. it's a tough side to bear a life's worth of belongings destroyed but the immediate danger comes from the rising waters along with home how can i take my family away from here even if i want to for almost three weeks heavy rain and flash floods have battered most of iran's thirty one provinces about nine hundred cities and villages are affected in

lauriston province alone entire neighborhoods have been washed away families are taking refuge in emergency shelters thousands of kilometers of roads and farmland are damaged in the bad the but now we have to make a choice between bad and worse not between good and bad but choosing bad we have to pay a costume and the people a pain that cost us aid workers are struggling to reach at least three hundred fifty villages that are completely cut off iran's red crescent society the lead agency in the rescue efforts it's confronting yet another challenge in reaching those in need u.s. sanctions u.s. president donald trump renewed old sanctions and impose new ones against iran last year accusing their on off not complying with the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal his government has withdrawn from that agreement signed implied that the transferring of the money to the iranian accustomed society is our current so none

of our or our foreign currency is not working now because of the situation on the ground there are many montanus there are tom brought that are washed totally so we have to use our helicopters you can imagine how the relief operation john b. in britain. by their spare parts of four helicopters u.s. secretary of state mike comparable has dismissed the allegations and blames the remained government for the damage caused by the floods the european union u.n. agencies france and germany meanwhile have announced more funding and relief supplies for those affected priyanka gupta dizzier cholera is making another comeback in yemen suspected cases have doubled during the past month with warm weather and the health system devastated by war creating perfect conditions for the illness to spread his whole day on ports. 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 of pharmacies. yemen has endured a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the sorry you a little war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the outbreaks 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 add up to about one thousand about forty percent have tested positive for cholera it's a crisis for the local government of ties. yeah most families in yemen can't afford to get sick prices are high and treatment is limited and most vividly that happens

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 more than one and a half million people in mozambique are now reliant on food aid after their homes were devastated last month by cycle in die father lower house the latest on the outskirts of the port city of barrow. we're inching up on joe where at least seven hundred families have gathered to collect food from the world food program they're

distributing the rice and whale and so far the w.s.p. has distributed food to about half a million people now that flood waters have receded and areas like this are excess of all they're able to reach more people now timidly want to hand out food to at least one point seven million people who are in areas that were devastated by cyclists on it dies so far they've used air as well as boats to get that food arrives at another areas are exists of old people here have lost their homes lost farms and results this 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 peace is it could take several months for recovery and for people here to be back on their feet.

is often used as a weapon of war during conflicts when rwanda's one thousand nine hundred 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 who 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 diaz. is a child of the genocide she was born of rape and she's grown up on able 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 was shouted and chased me away many times i would stay in other people's houses. during the

genocide the armies mother was raped in the capital kigali by an unknown hutu militia men she gave birth to day 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 but secrets last long there either some people in this district knew of down 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 deanna 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. 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 by. the army says her baby daughter will never feel loved she and her live in poverty they're unemployed and they're in a pain remains but dionne is mother clements manages to sound optimistic. i am proud of her and even love her daughter diana's life guards and my family is

extended now a mother a daughter and her baby sharing the darkness of a crime against humanity that will live all through three generations andrew simmons al-jazeera in rwanda protesters in the german capital are angry over the rising cost of accommodation they say large companies have bought up thousands of berlin apartments and are responsible for rising rents many have been forced to relocate but the company say other factors like the growth of the tech sector are to blame lynn are still half those in your neck germany's most expensive city. police and refugees of classified account in northern greece and children were vast after police fired canisters and stronger unaids protesting migrants looking to make their way to other countries in europe tensions have been escalating since police prevented hundreds of them from crossing into north macedonia it's the third straight day refugees have fought with police the government says the

demonstrations were triggered by false reports on social media that travel restrictions have been lifted. the boeing company has announced it will cut production to fit seven three seven max eight aircraft by nearly twenty percent the plane has been grounded after two fatal crashes within five months of each other that killed a total of three hundred forty six people boeing says it will also set up a panel to review the design of the seven three seven. a u.s. family the celebrated for its financial contributions to the arts has become notorious for its role in a major drug epidemic these are fighting several lawsuits their company per do pharma is accused of don't playing the risk of addiction to opioids crystal 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 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 sac lawyers stand accused of making billions of dollars by encouraging doctors to prescribe a painkiller whose 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. 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 sacked lawyers who are fighting some of the lawsuits and have settled others say they don't want to be a distraction for museums purdue was really the grandfather were 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 in one of the worst health crises in u.s. history kristen salumi al jazeera new york the leader of thailand's opposition future forward party is facing charges of sedition followed by the military controlled government the accusations against a foreign. power from twenty fifteen he says they're politically motivated his party placed third in syria last month's election and the results have been delayed because there is a recount underway if found guilty before the road to face up to nine years in prison. rising prices in pakistan are putting pressure on everyone inflation has reached its highest in five years pushing up the cost of fuel and electricity it's a particular problem for farmers who have taken second jobs just to stay in business or reports from the islamic countryside. it's morning

in the religion of kerala and the reed pains to ground green their children with god pharaoh dean dig his goats out to graze this place less than thirty kilometers from islamabad has been his vol for more than seventy years by the feds a field is not big enough to sustain a family and a few years ago he turned to building stone walls and homes to make extra money but now he's paid rent rises in electricity and fuel prices that has to change the limit pantechnicon grande i used to be able to work but now i'm too old but i'm already trained my sons and now it's time for them to carry the burden as i take care of my goat and it's a problem being ferried around by august on specially in port au communities like the government under prime minister imran khan sayed previous governments are to blame for overboard rowing and leaving the country in debt but under an agreement

with the i.m.f. for a bailout package a.z. agreed to devalue the rupee and that led to rising inflation the effects of inflation are being fed even and rural areas close to the capital islamabad although the people head grow their own crops they don't have enough in line and they say that despite a link cost of living means they have to find or turn a day of employment. not far away his son's a baby on a construction project to make extra money you do need what are you 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 alex christian fuel prices we have to work extra hours to cope with this farmer say things that have never been this bad so you're lucky you're not a bus i mean god has been kind and given 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 correspondent stan terry ken soft or justice party they say that's because their promise to bring people out of poetry and get pakistan's 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 islamabad still ahead on the. women footballers are attracting the fans but not the money that's coming up in a moment in sports. armed vehicles transporting playing riot police we've got one on one east

explains why indonesian soccer fight and die for the sports analogies to. al-jazeera. where ever you. high tech revolution. country. how can this technological boom be harnessed for the common good. to devise and. to struggling to. find a way to bring the two worlds together. peter

thank you very much three hundred feet for president says it would be good for asia if the council will cup was expanded to forty eight teams he was speaking at the asian football congress. has been pushing the expansion idea for months but it's still clear how this would be achieved making. to share gains with its neighbors. ninety percent of the associations would like to move to forty eight teams it boosts football development all over the world if we have sixteen more countries and we are looking and analyzing together with our partners in qatar and what could be sharing a few games with

a few of the neighboring countries is of course an option as well one of the countries approached by him from tina about sharing is oman but the president of the f.a. admits it would be tough to get world cup ready. we have some issues we don't have a stadium for forty thousand if we take the world cup we will be working against time that is the first enemy for us there are so many issues and it won't be as easy as it looks women's football once again drew a big crowd in europe earlier thirty thousand turned out to watch germany beat sweden in a friendly in stockholm ahead of the match the swedes called for unified approach to addressing gender inequality in football especially when it comes to many female players are paid a fraction of what their male counterparts. they got to yeah you can't compare it at all i know that if i played in the german town to speak of for six years i

wouldn't have any financial worries if i'm going to compare my club pulls back with the club in the men's going to sleep. in munich were taught meant 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 sweden's biggest football stars latin able him of it continues to take the m.l.s. by a storm with the l.a. galaxy the thirty seven year old showing no signs of the injury that kept him out for a few games this one instead of another in a two no when over the bank to the white caps. they camels and the younger brother of a foreign champion lewis hamilton begins his first full season in the british touring cars championship on sunday he'll compete in a specially adapted car twenty seven year old hamilton was born two months prematurely diagnosed with cerebral palsy and told he wouldn't be able to walk let alone drive his brother will be in the crowd to watch but nick wants no special help. you know he's made so much for himself he's so successful and i want him

to endure that he doesn't necessarily have to give it to me personally in that way and i never sponge off anybody to to get somewhere i don't want to do it myself so . that's how it's been it's been difficult it's been tough but it's developed me as a as a person as an individual and i'm so improper few sports will generate as much hype as wrestle mania in new york on sunday many say it's not a proper sport but he has more than a billion social media followers and despite being scripted the fans take it very seriously as al-jazeera is so hale malik 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 the eighty

thousand seat a met life stadium just outside new york it's our super bowl. it's our world championship if you will. so this is the most important year to put on a performance so you can. the best you can. make it a very memorable match this wrestle mania is just as important to the fans is broadcast to more than one hundred eighty countries and wrestling lovers of come from across the world to be part of the action on the part of the world then yeah that's the fun of it and it makes me because i'm sitting here and have a go i'm going to take a look at a president it might be good to me and feel lucky you got in your role models and yeah. yeah it amazing that actually here is a crazy week progress and it is of course staged entertainment. the results the free. determined yet many followers take it as seriously as mainstream sport with

the fights having storylines and feuds to proceed 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 for 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. what's real what's 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 rest of media is giving ves found

a genuine feeling of joy so here malik al-jazeera new york. will leave a benefit of more coming up again later during we'll say later on peter thank you for that update thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera back in just a moment with much more of the day's news see you in a minute. we live in a time of war and tragedy it's crimes against humanity. activist repression . enforced 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

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a. chance in the upcoming israeli elections get the latest on al-jazeera. this week libya's wealth as. we take a look at the. most important economic region of international investors a boat with india's election. fighting continues between libyan government forces troops loyal to. the capital tripoli. there are. thousands of. emergency rule.

calls for president. in iran flooding aid agencies say u.s. sanctions have made relief efforts all the more harder. they may be. fellow libyan fighters loyal to the warlord say they have advanced into the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli in a person against the internationally recognized government the u.n. now world powers are demanding they halt the offensive there's also been fighting on a key highway south of their former airport this video shows have to use force is in control of a bridge near our eyes and we'll go live to tripoli in a moment but first victoria again b. has this report on all of the developments on the ground. answering to defend

tripoli soldiers from misrata arrive in the capital to help push back the have to us forces have to ask 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. violence has gripped 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 while the. 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 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 what and what technical. i like to emphasize that the u.n. secretary general was surprised at the recent escalation during his first visit to libya as all the parties that the organization stance is clear and the military confrontation and resume the political process the same message was relayed to all the parties he met with in the opening closed meetings have to those forces are now advancing on the southern outskirts of tripoli and there are fears of a major escalation in fighting the u.n. 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 a move unlikely victoria gate and be algis their live update from. joining us from tripoli how close are have such forces to the capital right now. well there in i have just spoken to a higher ranking officer officer of the government the national accord government and they are confirming that they are in full control of tripoli international airport in fact they are as they say they are pushing back have to does forces from the outskirts of the capital tripoli tools the city of the n. word have that its forces have bases there now there the weather will be a neighborhood that's the area around the airport is now witnessing heavy clashes between the remaining troops of have to his forces and forces loyal to the government of national called the also confirmed that have forces have withdrawn

from. an able to herd that's west of the tripoli international airport as you know. crafts belonging to the general to the government of national accord have conducted civil air strikes today and targeted the civil locations of have to his forces including. this one looks like an i munition depart. namely in missed the area and now we're getting reports from the eastern outskirts of tripoli saying that more military units and detachment from the city of misrata are joining the battle the are moving towards the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli as you know that political efforts going on to

convince the rival factions to put an end to their military confrontations around tripoli and their united nations special representative has just mentioned in a presser that the peace talks are continuing. to or try to convince the rival factions to deescalate and also he mentioned that their national conference the general national conference which is due to be held in the city over the dam is on the fourteenth of this month is going to be held on the same date is not going to be postponed because of the military escalation in the outskirts of the capital tripoli also we're getting reports from government sources saying that have to have certain forces are recruiting military of a sort of whole world could under the full of. thank you thousands of protesters in sudan have marched to the army's headquarters

in the capital hard to it's the first time they've reached the building since anti-government demonstrations began in december there are also reports of demonstrators converging on the residence of president tom that invests here the latest marchers come in spite of the government's crackdown on dissent so sudanese have been protesting for months it was initially sparked by a hike in the price of bread but quickly escalated into a nationwide anti-government movement in february the government announced a one year state of emergency protests were banned and police were given enhanced powers to crackdown on dissent president omar bashir has stepped down as head of the ruling party but protesters are demanding he go further and quit as sudan's leader has ruled the country for nearly three decades mamadou opposition activist who was at the demonstrations today he says the protests will continue to escalate . the good thing is that it was completely peaceful there was no disturbance or. gave it to police forces and then people were able to voice their concerns and it

was it was it was a smooth rally if you think about it it started in december nineteenth and until now the longer it takes for a bishop to step down the bigger the protests will get and if you walk down the streets who was ages from five years old up to fifty or sixty years old they're all coming out of the same thing in one step down police and refugees have clashed at a camp in northern greece and children were tear gassed after police fired canisters and stun grenades at protesting migrants looking to make their way to other countries in europe tensions have been escalating since police prevented hundreds of them from crossing into north macedonia it's the third straight day refugees have fought with police the government says the demonstrations were triggered by false reports on social media that travel restrictions had been lifted . venezuelans are gathering for rival rallies in the capital after president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader hi joe called on their supporters to take

to the streets they remain locked in a better stand up maduro is resisting pressure to step down our lot america at its illicit a new man has more from the program i don't rally in caracas. this. demonstration . this is a show of strength on the part of the opposition and opposition. is calling on his supporters to prove that they are not afraid. of the streets and continue to demand the resignation of president nicolas maduro what they call here not allow the greeks to get cold and that is very very important because at this at this moment there is increasing pressure from the government in turning up the heat they are using armed groups from motorcycles heavily armed sometimes called people to go out onto the street and go here gas at protesters fire lie brown into the area that happened here in this neighborhood last night we're told by the residents and in

fact we can also report that very very large contingent of riot police have been deployed all around the areas where at this hour opposition supporters are gathering and they're supposed to converge about two three hundred meters down the street where we are now where i'm in front of the electricity company with the original final point but this rally but they had to move it at the last hour we understand that security concerns flash floods across iran have killed at least seventy people in the last few weeks the government says u.s. sanctions are impeding aid efforts while washington is accusing governments of failing to manage its emergency response to reports. the flood waters are rising and there are signs all small rain to come iran's coffman test ordered the evacuation of six cities in southern closest on province we have moved our belongings to the rooftops we have no choice you're surrounded by water we're going

to have to leave. it's a tough. and life's worth of belongings destroyed but the media danger comes from the rising water has already. when i take my family away from here even if i want to for almost three weeks heavy rain and flash floods have battered most of iran's thirty one provinces about nine hundred cities and villages are affected in lauriston province alone entire neighborhoods have been washed away families are taking refuge in emergency shelters thousands of kilometers of roads and farmland are damaged in the bad the but now we have to make a choice between bad and worse not between good and bad but choosing bad we have to pay a cost to you and the people a pain that cost us aid workers are struggling to reach at least three hundred fifty villages that are completely cut off iran's red crescent society the lead

agency in the rescue efforts it's confronting yet another challenge in reaching those in need u.s. sanctions u.s. president donald trump renewed old sanctions and imposed new ones against iran last year accusing their on off not complying with the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal his government has withdrawn from that agreement signed implied that the transferring of the money to the iranian accustomed society is our current so none of our or our foreign currency is not working now because of the situation on the ground there are many montanus. that are washed totally so we have to use our helicopters you can imagine how the relief operation john. spare parts of four helicopters u.s. secretary of state might compare.