him from forming a coalition that was taken up by israeli model lawyer and t.v. presenter rotund sala who used her instagram page to ask and what's the problem with the arabs calling on the government to tell people they lived in a country of all its citizens and all people are born equal israel's prime minister engaged telling his own six million strong social media following an important correction israel is not a country of all its citizens adding israel is the nation state of the jewish nation and it's alone it's ready jews are concerned and in some cases with good reason about the attitudes to israel of the duly elected arab leadership and therefore he's tapping into something that you know has some that exists and has some places i would say for lots of israelis but he's taking it into. very disharmonious directions netanyahu denies a few division insisting his likud party has served the interests of palestinian israelis benjamin netanyahu is throwing everything he can at this campaign as he

battles to stay in office face down corruption charges and cement his legacy but his opponents say that legacy will be permanently tainted by the way he's chosen to fight this election are a force that al-jazeera westerners. a quarter of a century from the day it began rwanda is remembering the more than eight hundred thousand victims of the genocide the campaign of killing mainly targeted the tutsi people most of whom were beaten or hacked with machetes. i. owe. president paul kagame he began the commemorations by lighting a flame at the genocide memorial more than two hundred fifty thousand of the victims of believed to be buried at the site let's go live now to cook ali and her simmons is that for us and what else is planned for this day of commemoration.

well as you say world leaders have been at the site where two hundred fifty thousand people were buried in a mass grave and names on walls surrounding other sites and world leaders of laid wreaths and also the flame has been lit the flame of remembrance it will stay alive for the next hundred days and now at the convention center here world leaders are talking away hearing a number of words obviously the words of comfort words of of remembrance but also some particularly telling words from the prime minister of belgium a former colonial power are here in rwanda showers michel and he has said that the failure of the international community to intervene and stop the genocide has to be faced he said it was the responsibility of the international community and allness sounding like it was on

a personal level he apologized for the slowness of belgium to respond and to save tutsi lives that's what he said so a pretty straightforward admission from belgium that this isn't just a case of commemorating the dead which is a colossal enough challenge of its own it's also. looking forward in this hundred days to trying to integrate more all of the people of rwanda when you think of the intensity of the situation with with eight hundred thousand estimated by the united nations deaths a million more than a million deaths estimated by rwanda looking at the coal loss will issue of justice two million cases of gone before the chuch a courts which are basically community based courts throughout rwanda and there is now really are perpetrators mixing with victims i'm going to bring in here our guest eric kabera who is

a filmmaker. one of note i may say we've known him a long time you've witnessed events. eric what is going through your mind now you've just been watching part of the presentation on stage and it was a play wasn't it what went through your mind you look. i look yeah i was i was disturbed about you know it's not just like you momentarily think this is something that i've accumulated over the last twenty five years because of you know been working with the media and then making films or you know the fifty from one hundred days and countless of other documentaries where you talked about the church isn't survivor and trying to sort of like you know understand the magnitude of this particular plight of this particular genocide against the tutsi it's something that the mind cannot really easily process and it's if you know you really like you know shut down yourselves from from that particular reality but as a filmmaker as a think as a writer i think it plays in every every day and every night and every year and

we're going to be yeah you have a film school when you have young people you instruct young people now what about them they weren't even most of them were even before the genocide they're hearing it through the looks in the books of despair in the parents and so on what what's reading their minds right now before the me is the future generation. yeah it though is that it was quite challenging and that's also a good aspiration and then we see that within the theme of the renewal remember and really truly moving forward and i was struck when i started discussion with my own students and then i realized like ninety five percent of than all of them were actually born after one thousand nine hundred four because i was doing a rich respective film on sort of like run a quarter century later you know you know what is going on and how to look for it and it was kind of striking and i made that into a sort of a piece that sort of reflects in an appointee quade. looks at these memory and run the looks for it and the play brought that up as. quite powerfully and what were

you hopeful that what we had back you hope will be for the future because you see that the future is literally being sort of i did all that to the youth i mean there's a lot of hope for the youth but i do end of the day well so i have to remember that you know there is a legacy of trauma and remembrance thank you feel that you are there you have it back to you in the studio after many thanks under some sun lives in kigali a weather update next year and i was here at then rival protests in venezuela president nicolas maduro the opposition leader on why don't you rally their support . however quality of care in northeastern china is often a cause of worry to be honest for the moment although there's been some sort of

release of poor conditions i think the last she a long way from the west to beijing not the beijing is fantastic admittedly but it's increasing clouds it's going to be the thing taking the sun away now that you're bringing me very much rain in fact rain isn't the story anyway that's right the korean place you're with japan though it will eventually be in john in the east and sunshine beijing is restricted to twelve degrees much the same across to solid and slightly warmer in the sunshine in tokyo west coast for you is going to be showery than the immediate future a good part of china is fine and dry reason he wants us to now and we're han but it's from shanghai wes was familiar sight but the rain starts to develop it will be a wet day on tuesday that rain stretching as far west as children twenty five degrees here quite possibly sundry. south of this still fairly quiet this is southeast asia's enjoying slowly rising temperatures and humidity but not particularly wet weather there will be increasing showers even rain in the philippines and soon a good scotch english born and sooner ways rather less so through java or rather

more so at least risk wise in sumatra singapore. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby has been employed as making really. reveal secrets. of their people out there you know. and connection some don't want to expose many in legacy media. last seen. documents like my al-jazeera investigations house is still a massacre on al-jazeera.

well again this is al-jazeera so much of the main news that six people have been killed fifty five wounded since clashes broke out on the outskirts of libya's capital on thursday all of us forces that seized control of tripoli is full international airport but were later pushed back by pro-government fighters. thousands of anti-government protesters in sudan are defying a curfew called by the army in the capital khartoum to continuing demonstrations outside the army headquarters that began on saturday at least six protesters have been killed during one of the biggest protests against president omar al bashir in recent months. commemorations are underway in rwanda twenty five years after the start of a genocide that killed eight hundred thousand people it marks the beginning of one

hundred days of national. but as well as president of the man trying to force him from power of held more rival rallies in caracas nicolas maduro blamed each other for the electricity outages that. the country shortly will hear from who is with the president supporters but first here's a lesson america at its newman who was among the opposition crowds. this is what opponents of nicolas maduro call the first stage of what they've labeled operation liberty in actual fact it's an attempt to gauge just how successfully they can continue to bring supporters out onto the streets not just here but throughout the news raila. they want to show that they have not grown tired or afraid despite increased threats from armed paramilitary groups loyal to the government who fire tear gas and he didn't bullets at protesters but but this if it is says she's not

afraid. but you know is incompetent he talks about socialism but he lives like a millionaire like an imperialist but we haven't had any water in my neighborhood for more than a year. and. opposition leader apologized for the improvised stage and the poor sound quality he said intelligence police operatives have confiscated for generators and two trucks for the rally and arrested the drivers are going to run in like they have. it's just not water and electricity that we are demanding no we are here to demand freedom and democracy food education and a future and nothing until we achieve it. but nearly three months into the standoff is on the offensive tuesday the supreme court which is no oil to the government stripped of his legislative immunity which means he can be arrested at any moment despite warnings of retaliation from the united states the

sign reads the next exit is meet a flautist meet a flood is the presidential palace but it is wishful thinking if these people believe that president nicolas maduro is going anywhere anytime soon. so the real task of the opposition leaders now is to try to keep these people out on the streets for the long haul. the large demonstration in caracas was peaceful but in the northern city of by a cable riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters why the admitted that more sacrifices are needed. but his most sobering message was directed at those who are calling for u.s. military intervention why those says it's up to the nist wayland's to lead the charge for regime change a clear reference to the trumpet ministrations recent admission that military action is not in the cards for now. you see in human i just see them get access the president nicolas maduro put out the call to supporters and they heeded that

will thousands of them taking to the streets of central correctness to show that them back the president still enjoys a lot of support amongst the people men and women young and old we've gathered here to show that not only they supports president nicolas maduro but they are them and three opposed to the u.s. sanctions imposed against one is right at us speak to a couple of the last the first one why are you here today but. i must be wary of the hour we need to stand with president nicolas motherhood and the socialist i want to show until the very end we want to may they will grow at their duplass and move the ball that's one of the fears obviously one of the things that the u.s. has been banking gun is not the continuous power shortages and water cuts would make people turn against the president's car or to ask this gentleman here with these weird thought shortages i'm an electricity cuts doesn't know made you lose

faith in the government no. absolutely not we know destructive acts are meant to break us but we will resist we need achieve southam powermat we know that imperil ism is a reality. so we must with these things. thank you now aside from showing their support to nicolas maduro the subtle message that is also expressed by the people gathered these large crowds in caracas is that they want to support their revolution they believe that the foreign intervention as they've described that particular from the united states is an attempt to defeat the socialist revolution here and they say that they are against any foreign intervention that they are in support of the president and that they are here to defend the revolution the u.s. president has ridiculed the system which gives asylum seekers a safe passage donald trump says the people seeking refuge at the border with mexico look like mixed martial arts fighters he was addressing

a republican jewish coalition in las vegas the asylum program. is a scam. some of the roughest people you've ever seen people that looked like they should be fighting for the u.f.c. . they read a little page given by lawyers that are all over the place you know molars they tell him what to say you look at this guy you say wow that's a tough cookie greece is trying to offer education to young refugees on the aegean island spent getting children into clauss is proving to be difficult local say already thin resources are being stretched too far in refugee parents are concerned about greek schools police reports from some us. naveed ahmadi is a fifteen year old afghan who dreams of becoming a civil engineer he missed a year of school while his family made its way from iran to greece something he can

ill afford if he has to and to university now he has enrolled in a high school on summers but some local parents don't want refugees like mingling with their children one reason appears to be that refugees live in squalor four thousand of them a packed in and around a camp meant for six hundred fifty naveed as lucky to live in a mobile home for most there is no proper sewage no electricity and no washing facilities we try to have the same life as we have the past but it's. this is our situations don't we can't do anything is the canvas. and the game is very lives we don't. and we can't do anything many refugees opt for informal education offered by private charities that also gives them a break from the difficulties of camp life formal education for refugees and asylum seekers is a recent development here or there. when

a representative from the great center for disease control came to talk to parents he said we're looking at a public health timebomb to shop basically vaccinated they get a single shot for measles mumps and rubella that doesn't mean it's going moment requirements refugees who arrive on the aegean islands are kept here for much of their asylum process in case they have to be deported back to neighboring turkey so they've been seen by many as a temporary population when the government offered education to asylum seekers and twenty sixteen refugees living on the islands were left out but the asylum process is so slow they are now stuck here for years last september the government extended education to island refugees about thirty have been rolled so far here on some us but as many as a thousand are eligible that's equal to two thirds of the local greek school population many of the people of south most and other reese to gin islands consider that an unfair burden on the school system some of the ceiling some of us have

shouldered all the refugee burden for europe's sake we've been left to our fate and people are worn out we don't have a problem with refugees we've got a problem with those who are responsible for the situation. greece and especially the islands of the east to jian act as europe's buffer against irregular migration from turkey most seem resigned to that feat but here at the border they want europe to do a better job of demonstrating its humanitarian values jump. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera six people have been killed fifty five wounded since clashes broke out on the outskirts of libya's capital on thursday forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar that seized control of tripoli international airport but were later pushed back by pro-government fighters meanwhile armed forces allied to

the government have moved in artillery from misrata to the libyan capital misrata forces have been deployed at the fighting around the former airport. we reiterate alcool to all libyans throughout the country east to west north to south to the necessity of giving priority to the interests of the country unifying the ranks and working together to lift libya out of this crisis i say to the international community that it should not equate to between the aggressor and those who defend themselves or between those who seek the militarization of the state and those committed to a democratic civilian country thousands of anti-government protesters in sudan are defying a curfew called by the army in the capital khartoum they are continuing their demonstrations outside the army headquarters that began on saturday at least six protesters have been killed during one of the biggest protests against president omar al bashir in recent months.

oh. commemorations are underway in rwanda twenty five years after the start of the genocide that killed eight hundred thousand people it marks the beginning of one hundred days of national mourning syrian government forces have killed at least fourteen people in the northwest of the country the attack happened in its lib's countryside the town of such a cube was the hardest hit it is the last rebel held territory in syria it's supposed to be free of fighting under a deal negotiated by russia and turkey. britain's prime minister is warning that there's a growing risk that briggs it won't happen at all the longer it takes to find a compromise to resume a has been in talks with the opposition labor party hoping to break the deadlock over britain leaving the e.u. parliament has already rejected her withdrawal deal three times she's again asked the european union to delay the date for briggs's this time until the end of june

and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next. all but three a vast prickles fifty five countries have agreed to full one of the world's largest free trade areas and now the gambia has ratified the deal it can be put into effect about nigeria isn't on board of about africa's largest economy for challenge says the agreement ohio this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program on martine dennis now it's often difficult to do business in africa the world bank ranks many countries they're among the hardest places to sell goods and services bought an ambitious project to ease trade between them is now a step closer to reality the african union agreed last year to create a free trade zone on the continent the largest since the world trade organization was formed on tuesday gambia became the twenty second country to ratify the cold reaching the threshold for it to be implemented it's hoped the deal will reduce tiris and trade rules and create jobs for a market of one point two billion people so who signed up to this and what fifty two of the fifty five african union members have endorsed the deal the twenty two countries here in orange what they've ratified it three countries though they

haven't signed up at all they are banned in eritrea and most importantly nigeria and you can see them in gray now nigeria as you know is africa's largest economy. all right let's introduce our guests now from nairobi we have. two c.e.o. of rich management and in emerging markets economists from our bureau in the ivory coast we have stephen a co-founder of commodity monitor and from london we have a lucia go and founder and managing partner of obscenities in a finance firm focusing on east west and central africa thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you then in london first of all tell us why do you think nigeria africa's largest economy is not taking part in this free trade deal thanks martin i think that it's wise for the government of

running government consider this carefully i think major choosing not to participate immediately is presented as is quite wise but it's been five years in the making aleutian and it was only in twenty eighteen i believe that the president will hurry decided not to take part and he just didn't turn up for the meeting in kigali. i think this is something you said when you were interested in the show that there's a hope that this this free trade arrow or deuce terrorists and protect potentially create jobs. i'm not necessarily convinced that reducing tires will create jobs and it makes sense for countries to that are looking to grow an industrialized that certain key sectors of their economies to have the tools of tires to be able to do that or i am most familiar convinced that. the police very own that the i'm also not your convinced of the priorities of one country say nigeria or similar

to the priorities of another ok that's interesting stephen. i think get your an ardent proponent of this free trade area what do you think about what has pointed out that there's a huge disparity between the economy isn't africa and that nigeria is actually rather wise to hold back and think about it more closely. ny times martin. for me definitely be an optimist in our mind looking at the whole agreement that is going sane and for me i mean those are going has a case definitely in such an agreement there will be some losers and there will be some greenness but overall what we have to consider is that this agreement which is historic a chile in no is a signal still a new era and this era is utterly to make sure that we change the structures of africa's economy so when you talk about the whole structure of africa's economy one

jeff for example actually you know is less diversified because they depend so much on oil. and government revenues so when you treat you know such an agreement as well as sponsor me fed up which images so for me i mean what i see is actually airing when situation and if there are countries to fear you know that they will lose from disagreement it has to be just like countries and not a big country really big economy like nigeria and for me looking at our coach i for example you know mentions the importance of his food and this is not a trade to respond and make sure that i mean we can produce more what we eat locally let's go to the other side of the continent the out to the east and i think i'll set you use in the kenyan capital nairobi atika what do you make of the arguments that with it so far it's been pointed out that there's a valse difference in terms of the needs of the various economy is on the continent and in fact only shaken has pointed out that he's not entirely sure that reducing

terrorists is necessarily going to lead to this creation of jobs that has been stated as one of the main objectives of this exercise. so just on the jobs point of martine we've got to create about seventeen million jobs a year at the moment and when doing nothing of the sort the nigerian model currently is in the slow lane and is not even able to produce a per capita g.d.p. increase it's actually declining year on year when you factor in the population increase so i think you know nigeria is not necessarily the economic model that we should be looking at at a macro level i think this is a unique blank slate blue sky opportunity it's a three trillion dollar market people are entrepreneurial if you go anywhere in africa you will find markets and i think so at the macro scale i think it's

a uniquely good thing at the micro scale of unleashing our entrepreneurs on the ground i think it's a great idea the problem is they are going to be many reactionary forces who are benefiting from what is an asymmetric information and economic space across this continent and it's created a feedback loop and particularly one can look at things like we spend sixty three billion dollars on food imports but this is where people make enormous windfall profits and you get it reset kill a thing through the political system and as sensually what this free trade proposal is going to do if it really works monti in it's going to really reinjury near the african economy and there are a lot of people are very powerful are not very keen on being reengineered out of what is a very profitable position that's been in existence for many many years our overall

this is something we need to embrace they will be i thank you so let's put that straight back talent. shaken in. london because clearly alec on there is suggesting that it's actually vested interests that might be against any changes that this free trade area will put in place which he contends will liberalize what he calls an african economy not just the fifty five individual states the lofty ideas agreed but again i'm not the if you look at the countries example of security for the countries like nigeria they made great strides in improving their capacity to produce food in country to meet their local demand they've mostly been able to achieve that using tyra's as a tool and if you look at the counter here grievance that the some of many african countries such as cana you know situation where it's more expensive to grow

chickens in ghana than it's a good chickens in europe and as a result there is this country's unable to compete and you have less food security so i think we can over simplify this it's a lofty idea and i agree with the emotive drivers but if you look at the economics of it if africa's to develop advance it has to do so in a way that governments can achieve their priority objectives using the tools they have available to them which include tariffs yes i think yes now you have a region that only shares go all the shogun. has already pointed out that the nigeria model is certainly not one to be following is it at the moment importing of also amount of its own food it's got more people living in poverty than any other country in the world recently overtaking india and has perhaps the largest city in the world if not now pretty soon lagos will be the largest city in the world and unemployment is enormous. i think that in

focusing on those issues is it makes sense to point those out but the nigerian model isn't the citizen simplified down to the challenges you identify the question is what are the tools necessary to drive development and growth anomic activity in africa and is this free trade area or to me going to achieve that and i think is a fact and sent to say that i don't know if you had a chance to look at the tech if you view the text you can see that countries will find themselves countries like nigeria or gun or kenya or find themselves in environment where they're senshi one of fifty four countries voting there are sickly to agree to trade deals or non-trade deals with parties like the european union the hypercompetitive have said you can visit in areas where parties can accompany foreign companies or non african companies come into markets like ethiopia establish operations and then produce highly competitive products into

these other markets because now they have free access who's positioned best position to take advantage of this the small entrepreneur that was what he was mentioning earlier or the large corporation and the truth is governments should retain this tool so that they can drive development in the priority sectors which government which differs for different governments all right stephen what does this free trade arrangement mean for the country you're in at the moment could do far one of the first to sign up to this deal. yes from me a minute i think they there is a. mystery diary making test or scene or me how he viewed the agreement and from iraq i always say is that the agreement is not an end in itself is in me you know and for me and i mean the continent actually for so long people engaged in trading i mean iraq grow commodities so this for me is an opportunity to to push for

a money for a change in london in this. case how does this free trade arrangement in the reduction of tiris how does that necessarily stimulate local manufacturing because of course africa is renowned for not adding value to the wrong materials that leave the continent but how does reducing terrorists actually stimulate the local manufacturing sector so let's take for example them in the agricultural sector so let me in two thousand and fifteen africa actually imported you know about sixty five billion dollars you know what all. the produce so let's say i mean this is actually grown locally this is where we can have people in all growing wheat and actually to i mean going ahead and mean a longer valid evaluate change to process their return to used to add up with us so this is utterly i mean emina.