plenty more ahead in the news hour including. i will reach out to many many more people palestinian leader remains defiant after the u.s. denies him entry. a crucial meeting for the path forward on talks with north korea . and then sport find out which team grabbed the final spot in the n.b.a. playoffs. a court in london asked convicted the founder of wiki leaks for skipping bail in two thousand and twelve julian a song she pleaded not guilty faces up to twelve months in prison for the charge earlier the forty seven year old was dragged from the ecuadorian embassy by police after ecuador's government were broke his asylum status or a challenge reports from london. they've been waiting a long time but seven years after julian assange first entered ecuador's london

embassy to escape the british legal system police offices hold him out again ecuador had finally tired of its troublesome guest and revoked his right to asylum within hours he was in a u.k. court and the u.s. confirmed it wants him extradited i just fame with mr sanchez in the police cells he wants to thank all of his supporters today ongoings forces and he said i told you so the wiki leaks founder always said if he left his ambassadorial refuge he'd spend years in jail in the u.s. he's wanted there for publishing government secrets but to a sandra's fans some high profile he's a courageous whistleblower because he's been told which i did not and say this helps it's been undermining you know all this stuff but fortunately his brain and his new systems in the sky principles and missing data between not enough away from

you know and he's afraid of life joining us on she has his supporters here in the u.k. but the district judge here in this case was not one of them he said that her sound his behavior was that of a narcissist you cannot go beyond his own self interest he found him guilty of the charge of skipping by back in twenty twelve and has sent his case to the crown court for sentencing the more serious extradition process will get under way at the beginning of may in twenty ten wiki leaks published footage provided by whistleblower chelsea manning of u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq the u.s. said the hack posed a grave security risk but the website also leaked e-mails from the inbox of ecuador's president and first lady sanders hosts words amused. the patients of ecuador has reached its limits on the behavior of mr song he installed electronic and distortion equipment that was not allowed. he blocked the security cameras of the ecuadorian mission in london he has confronted and mistreated guards he had

access to the security files of our embassy without permission other former supporters won't forgive him for the twenty sixteen us election they think the wiki leaks publication of democratic party e-mails may have tipped it for donald trump and even though sweden has dropped sex assault prosecutions that led to his first u.k. arrest for some he'll remain a suspected rapist will reach alan's how to zero london mail us president on a trunk says he knows nothing about what he leaks despite in the past praising the anti-secrecy organization trump was asked about their arrest of us on john once and . i know nothing about wiki leaks it's not my thing and i know there is something having to do with julie who saw as i have been saying what happened with i saw you and that will be a determination i would imagine mostly by the attorney general who is doing an excellent job so he'll be making a determination i know nothing really about him it's not my it's not my deal in

life what you are. going to say i don't i don't really have any opinion i know the attorney general will be involved in that he'll make a decision. reaction from washington d.c. . it's been reported that obama era prosecutors decided they couldn't indict julian a sound without indicting the act of journalism itself that is receiving classified information in the public interest the group feels evidence of war crimes for example the trump lawyers though think they have found a way they say that using the sun is guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion he was involved in the hack of department of defense computers but the that relies on three particular aspects one that julian assange encouraged chelsea manning to give him more information to the genus and protected chelsea manning's identity and already those two opposing concerns those two parts of the

in time of the cause of concern among journalists because that would appear just to be journalistic behavior not criminal behavior but three the trump prosecutors use these four words in the document quote no luck so far and they use those four words to make the case that those words are discussing a sounders attempts himself to try and break a password or a partial password that chelsea manning had supplied them it's pretty thin stuff there are lots of extradition judge to consider because clearly if the u.s. is successful in extraditing jr son from london then other governments around the world will also feel they're able to extradite journalists who print information that shows their governments in a poor light with a lot riding on this. more unless it's big to coordinate in washington d.c. he served as director of national security at donald trump's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign we appreciate your time very much so since you were part of donald trump's team what is your understanding of what the president

actually thinks about wiki leaks we just played a clip where he acted as if he had no idea what wiki leaks was he's been on camera multiple times for the world to see praising wiki leaks so what is your understanding of what he really feels about wiki leaks however shell thanks for having me on the show well i think he stated today i think he said that wiki leaks is not a thing he knows very little about it and he thinks the attorney general's going to do the right thing and i believe that as well i believe he will be extradited from england to the united states although i think he will be just as ok before we have it though what do you make someone that the u.s. government wants to prosecute just a couple of years ago the president of the united states was praising this organization well i think the president says whatever he wants because he knows what his base is going to get fired up by and at the time wiki leaks seems to

have been targeting hillary clinton and i think the president trumped just thought that hey this is a line i could use a campaign rally he didn't have any knowledge about what wiki leaks is doing as the investigations are borne out so i think what you talk about what a person says in a campaign for what they actually know about an organization they're very different things so i think that he articulated his position very well today ok so what do you think is going to happen with wiki leaks are you concerned that. maybe people don't understand the different differentiation pardon me between the hack and then the publishing of the information because it is a slippery slope to start to prosecute people for publishing things that are troubling. richelle that's a very good point i'm glad to bring it up i think a lot of people would conflate what he's been charged with which is computer fraud which is conspiracy for the hacking into a classified defense department systems computer systems in conjunction was

a young soldier in the army named bradley manning at the time who's transformed to chelsea manning since those days but that's a very different thing than publishing stolen information so he's not being charged with publishing stolen information he's being charged with computer fraud conspiracy for the hacking itself so yeah you bring up a good point i am concerned about it and people should focus on what the law is and the law is is quite clear that you can't hack into classified u.s. government systems what do you make. yes they have been accused this hack and in releasing information that was clearly damaging to the hillary clinton campaign there are also reports that they had information on things that happened in russia and government but they don't release those things yeah absolutely you know we can leaks kind of cuts across the spectrum for the entire world some people on the left love them some people on the left hate them some people on the right love him some people on the on the right hate him so what i think the standard

should be though is did he break the law in the united states yes or no it is clear that he did also you know rachelle a point that i'd like to bring up is you know when i was about five years old i learned don't bite the hand that feeds you and so he was staying at the ecuador embassy for seven years with asylum so what they do he attacks the president of ecuador president merino by spreading around pictures of the president's bedroom pictures of the first lady pictures of the daughters what he eats i mean this is ridiculous that it is president to the point where he could not take any more it's certainly is an unusual approach to take against your host no doubt how do you think edward snowden is keeping his eye to this i think is. i think yes i think it works snowden should not pass around pictures of president putin's bedroom or having your garden make your expression. you're also actually him to. be on notice. thank you so much appreciate it so thanks for

a show fighting continues on the outskirts of libya's capital tripoli between forces loyal to the un backed government and the warlord general khalifa haftar our offensive was met by fierce resistance on thursday as the international recognized government says it's captured more than two hundred of his men at least fifty six people have been killed in fighting between the two sides over the last week the european union is calling on forces loyal to stop their offensive on the libyan capital foreign policy chief frederick a moderate he wants all parties to immediately cease military operations the you statement on the situation with the it was held up for a day as france and italy sparred over how to handle the escalating conflict. the united states has denied entry to the co-founder of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement or b.d.s. which protests israeli oppression of palestinians. was pulled aside as he tried to board a flight and tell of the arab israeli citizen i was leaving for

a speaking tour and to attend his daughter's wedding a state department official said the refusals were never based solely upon political statements or views are good he says the incident won't hinder his campaign. when we continue our b.d.s. movement for kind of sting in rights because they will not deter us yes it hurts for me to miss my daughter's wedding but the events that were planned for me in the united states whether a target kennedy school of government or new york university or the u.s. congress or many other events are going ahead i will be there if you know rather than in person but that events will continue my interviews with the media i was supposed to have three or four media interviews a.p. new york times reuters it has exploded to many many many requests for an interview so they cannot silence me i will reach out to many many more people after this and we will continue intensifying the b.d.s. movement to pressure israel to recognize our basic rights under international law

this movement is categorically to pose to only forms of free system and discrimination beat and to black anti muslim or anti jewish and racism and we're very morally consistent into p.b.'s movement we do not work with anyone to jewish the good sense of any sort we're a movement for human rights and we called for the rights of all people respected of identity but israel's lobby in the us is terrified of the growth of the us movement and its impact with churches trade unions college campuses and that makes artists and g.b.t. activists and others joining b.s. it's really mainstreaming and that is terrifying israel says regime workers in iran say u.s. sanctions are hampering their ability to get to get help to people hit by the massive flooding southwest urana suffering some of the worst flooding in decades and more rain is in the forecast a government ordered tens of thousands of people to leave their homes in the city of avaaz the capital. province hundreds of villages in the oil rich province have

also been emptied of people same as robbie has been monitoring the aid effort from the capital tehran. landing into her on the first flight for the u.n. high commission for refugees thousands of blankets cooking supplies sleeping mats and tents to help flood victims the u.n.h.c.r. works in iran primarily with refugee communities aid workers say at times like this helping with flood relief is the right thing to do but it was not easy u.s. sanctions meant weeks of extra bureaucracy. a few weeks ago not a most has happened you can still she did very severe impact. for example behind me to reverberate. on the sites the communities especially communities closer to reverse. still standing in house sure these months. it's clear that. there will be still work to do in the short term.

especially the recovery phase is going to be important the world health organization and unicef are also helping out germany iraq. pakistan russia and turkey but sanctions seem to be impeding a coordinated crisis response they still say we have this for for now the government and local communities are doing most of the heavy lifting soldiers and volunteers clearing the rubble diverting water building dikes and distributing supplies but large areas in western iran remain under water. study. we've been alerted to evacuate and take on things and the people don't know where they can go and the conditions are that. the floods are the worst to hit iran since the one nine hundred forty s. killing dozens injuring hundreds and displacing half a million people millions more need some sort of help. the government has set up temporary shelters and is promising compensation but entire farms have been washed

away and the repair bill is estimated at one billion dollars. it's a hefty cost as american oil and banking sanctions target iran's a condom. in the capital to herat volunteers collect donations bound for the flood zone. everything that comes through these doors is donated by private citizens and so far volunteers who've been at it for about three weeks have collected in dispatched thirty truckloads of supplies worth tens of thousands of dollars to flood hit areas all over the country communities hit hardest get first priority and volunteers say american sanctions are making their job much more difficult to say that by getting on site in may you say right now we need some boats and machinery to control the water it would be much easier thanks national agencies to provide them due to the sanctions price is a much higher if it wasn't for the sanctions we could do much more with the money with connected. the extreme weather came as

a shock to iranians who've suffered decades of dry weather with more bad weather forecast volunteers are preparing for things to get worse zain bus robbie old zero to one still ahead on al-jazeera the choices we face are stock and the timetable is clear. britain's prime minister defends her decision to delay. the children left behind his parents are forced to find work outside and then his wailing. and sport the baseball player breaking the wrong sort of records for a has that story coming out. hello again and welcome back we're here cross united states we are dealing with a huge storm system as you can see here on the satellite image the storm system has

the characteristics of a winter storm as well as a spring storm and up to the north we are dealing with blizzard conditions and here in south dakota that is what they're dealing with right now as the heavy snow and the winds are bringing the visibility down to almost nothing white out conditions across much of the region they do expect to see some more heavy snow over the next day into parts of friday as well so this is the forecast as we go towards friday continuing to see the snow here across the midwest down towards the south though it is going to be severe weather we don't think it's going to be tornadoes but we could see some hail we could see some damaging winds as well going from friday to saturday that front finally makes its way towards the atlantic we're going to be seeing some better weather behind it and the snow it's going to be making it towards the canadian maritimes down towards the south though across parts of dallas this is going to be our next system we're going to be watching with very heavy rain flooding could be a potential there well here across parts of the caribbean not looking too bad maybe some showers across parts of has been you'll of the next few days with a tempter there of about thirty one and then down across parts of rio de janeiro some better weather

a few of the next few days because of the flooding but down towards point as it is it is going to be a nice day with plenty of sun and a temperature of twenty degrees for you. we live in a time of war and tragedy as crimes against humanity. activist repression. enforced disappearance arbitrary arrests. extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. to investigations who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to combat in kenya and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high

commissioner. european parliament. and global alliance of national human rights institutions. you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories now a curfew is in place in sudan's capital hours after the military topple president omar al bashir thousands of people are defying the orders are demonstrating outside the army headquarters in khartoum. sudan stiffens minister has been sworn in as the head of the new military transitional council he says the body will war for two years before elections take

place a british court has found wiki leaks founder julian assange skipping bail in two thousand and twelve a saunters deny the charges faces twelve months and prison earlier he was dragged out of the epic dorrian embassy after ecuador cancelled his asylum status. the turnout was more than sixty percent on the first day of india's six week election nine hundred million people are eligible to vote and seven phases which ends in late may in the city and the top pradesh a product reports on the key issues for voters. happy to have this say voters lined up across the country to choose who ran the world's largest democracy for the next five years from indian administered to meet in the north to the south ninety one constituencies across twenty states voted in the

first phase of a six week connection which ends on may nineteenth where the two hundred million people are predations india's most populous and politically important state they said. the prime minister's office cuts through and the big issues affecting the country are in shop focus here and maybe. i want overlap meant for my village electricity could draw it's good to cities for my children good schools. let into more he came to power promising development jobs and a stronger economy but unemployment is at a forty five year high and the economy has slowed. i heard a lot of expectations from who i watered and now i want someone new but said well what about it going to be in this money pit the main opposition congress party is hoping to capitalize on that sentiment that promised voters millions of new jobs as

well as a guaranteed minimum income for the poorest. and the government is facing criticism elsewhere too many voters in the northeastern state of us some are against a bill which will grant citizenship to refugees from neighboring countries so long as they're not muslim while that legislation has been criticized as anti muslim in other parts of india those who oppose it and say they'll become a minority in their own state margaret to trigger the citizenship bill should not pass otherwise our future in assam is in danger but despite all these issues the government has focused its campaign on national security following february's attack an indian administered kashmir aid in which at least forty soldiers were killed a group based in pakistan claimed responsibility and india responded by launching air strikes against targets across the border. clearly the north fighting this election once performs its. whether that pays off for the b j p will be known when the results are announced on may

twenty third elizabeth purana al-jazeera noida. yes president says he wants to continue sanctions against north korea for now made the remarks while meeting south korea's president a white house report from washington d.c. . under pressure to get the united states and north korea to resume talks south korea's president met with u.s. president donald trump at the white house and praised the work he's done so far your money. oh since you and kim and you initiated personal diplomacy with him we saw dramatic significant reduction of military tension in the korean peninsula and now pieces prevailed and also in terms of the north korean nuclear program all the korean people now we believe that you will be able to solve the problem through dialogue the u.s. wants permanent denuclearization of the korean peninsula south korea is pressing

for compromise occluding potential joint economic projects between the north and the south if north korean leader kim jong un takes steps toward denuclearization and idea trucks so far there are various smaller deals that maybe could happen things could happen you couldn't work out step by step pieces but at this moment we're talking about the big deal the big deal is we have to get rid of the nuclear weapons tensions have been escalating since trump's failed summit with kim annoy in february trouble walked away from kim's offer to dismantle parts of the aging yongbyon nuclear facility in exchange for economic sanctions relief and even as the u.s. last month canceled joint military exercises said to agitate kim the north has not ruled out resuming nuclear and missile tests kim has also issued a stark warning aimed at the united states promising a blow to hostile forces who miscalculate the impact of economic sanctions on the

north still this has deterred from another meeting with kim who is dialing back. it's hard someone could happen and it step by step it's not a fast process i never said it would be still south korea's moon jay in is under pressure from north korea to get donald trump to compromise moon's own political legacy is on the line as he tries to kick start talks amid heightening tensions and uncertainty kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house. and a landmark decision south korea has overturned a ban on abortion which stood for more than sixty five years its constitutional court ruled the law limits women's rights of the one nine hundred fifty three ban women who have abortions can be fined in jail except in cases of rape incest or risk to their health doctors who perform the procedure can also face prison there were liable protests outside court as the ruling was to leveraged. an american

investor who denies committing fraud in russia has been released from prison and placed under house arrest has worked in russia for thirty years he says he's been pressured by rival shareholders in a dispute over a bank he won the support of prominent russian businessmen saying the case has her own best her and best her confidence that is step one has more from moscow. nearly two months after he ended up in a most crowded time chanst and comfy is now free to go home but still there he will be tightly guarded waiting for his trial seen as one of the most successful and moyle foreign investors in russia and this is a read i shocked many american business people even threatened to boycott the sin petersburg impressment forum in june for more than twenty years ago we invested in russia and one of his successes is the rise of the russian version of google has been charged with a thirty nine million dollar fraud case related to frostbite three bank he has

denied the charges and has said that is a rash as a result of a business dispute with his well connected partner. russia has seen a number of high profile arrests over the years i'm unclear charges some have called a politically or economically motivated but just a few days ago to the surprise of many theater director period seriously nico was released from house arrest after two years on what some have called probably grated charges but analysts say it's too early to call these releases a crank. the prime minister has defended extending boxset until the end of october theresa made whole parliament that securing an orderly exit from the required compromise the debate follows a late night decision by the e.u. to delay the departure date by six months or it smith reports from london. corporation now granted an extension to britain's membership of the european union strive minister to resume

a told parliament it was something she never wanted the choices we face are stark and the timetable is clear i believe we must now press on at pace with our efforts to reach a consensus on a deal that is in the national interest i welcome the discussions that have taken place with the opposition in recent days and the further talks which are resuming today this is not the normal way of british politics and it is uncomfortable for many in both the government and opposition parties the six month brags that extension the e.u. has given the u.k. was longer than mrs may had wanted but shorter than that suggested by european commission president. and other leaders the compromise was because of french president emanuel mccrum he'd said a long delay would undermine the project of european integration. u.k. opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn described the need for a second extension to bragg's it as a diplomatic failure but he said he was committed to continue talks with the

government labor will continue to engage constructively in talks because we respect the results the referendum and we are committed to defending jobs industry and living standards by delivering a close economic relationship with the european union and securing frictionless trade with improved rights and standards mr korwin also left open the option of calling for a referendum on any deal with grieve with the government if the political parties agree a way forward then the u.k. could avoid. taking part in european parliamentary elections and leave the e.u. before the october thirty first deadline even if both sides do find some way of coming together the e.u. withdrawal deal will still contain a clause guaranteeing an open border between northern ireland and the irish republic whatever happens in future e.u. u.k. negotiations and it's this backstop that has prevented previous attempts by the prime minister to get to deal through parliament and so far there's no indication

that m.p.'s will be any less divided on this in six months than they are now bernat smith al-jazeera london one of the main sticking points is what happens to the border between northern ireland and the irish republic the possibility of checkpoints returning is a big concern not just on trade that in the praise peace process as well that's especially true in the second largest city in the north which has been at the forefront of decades sectarian conflict trial strafford reports londonderry. the union flag know down which country the approximately four hundred people who live in this neighborhood identify with they describe fountain as the last protestant on play when the predominately catholic west side of londonderry the house is a caged in by what people call a peace wall and everywhere you look there are references to the u.k. the neighborhood used to be a recruiting ground for protestant paramilitary groups during northern ireland's

so-called troubles the three decades of violence between predominately protestants wanting to remain part of the u.k. and mainly catholic republican groups fighting for a united independent island most of the violence indeed with the good friday peace agreement in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight most people here voted for northern ireland to leave the european union but are aware of the challenges ahead hard on today as far as very important. how protestant culture as important to each undivided gel and we are also speaking for myself very much part of great britain we've never really had pace there's always the violence flared up jason carroll is deaf the do not want to go back to the adult the british government the e.u. and the irish government do not want a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic if the u.k. don't leave the e.u. the british military checkpoints disappeared more than twenty years ago so series

a maze breaks a deal rejected street times by the british parliament contains the so-called backstop a last resort to keep an open border if the u.k. crashes out of the without a deal which is one of more than two hundred roads that cross the border and out the so-called stop would given all of a lot of this part of the u.k. some form of temporary special customs union status with the u. it seems inconceivable that they would have to be some form of mechanism of checking certain goods that cross this. and the issue is once again renewing phase of violence that could well threaten so some people say the good friday agreement and are highlighting just how important notions of religion and identity are in northern ireland in catholic areas of derry the mule's tell of resistance to british rule and the fight for an independent united on and. the chicks here is met

with disdain and sometimes even threats. gary donnelly is a republican dissidents and activist he left the republican national party when they signed the good friday agreement he says he was recently shown when he heard children talking about attacking british soldiers never having seen one before the young children came around the corner and they were talking about soldiers' shock me. gary says the republican nationalists like sheehan fein had this self to blame for breaks it because they signed the good friday agreement for me as a republican i thank the good friday agreement. and ireland which is a violation a legal violation of irish sovereignty and that at dead. you know the connection between this part of ireland with. great britain and this community at the monitors and spiral particularly amongst young people there is a ravaged by drugs.