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 economy. in the capital to herat volunteers collect donations 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 and 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 good by getting me on starting a.s.a.p. 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 connect. 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. jazeera. come here and al-jazeera including the meeting that could revive stalled talks between the u.s. and north korea. on the world's largest democracy turns out the first phase of its marathon election. hello again it's good to have you back i do want to update you on what is happening here across iran we have been dealing with the flooding that has been going on

since the middle of march and unfortunate as floodwaters are still going to take quite a lot of time to recede in the meantime though we watch what's happening in terms of more rain coming into the area on friday it is going to be some scattered showers so not too bad but we any more rain is nothing what we need right now as we go from friday to saturday though we do expect to see more showers coming into play particularly down here towards the south coming across the gulf we're going to be watching this area very carefully for more flooding potential in that area up towards tehran it will be a shower a day feel with the time to there of twenty one degrees the same showers that are coming across the gulf could be affecting the rain here in doha now we've seen plenty of rain in the overnight hours we could be seeing more too as we go through the weekend here are some clouds on friday extending all the way over towards u.a.e. we do expect to see some thunderstorms in there but the heaviest rain should be coming on saturday across much of qatar where we do expect to see a temperature here of twenty seven degrees and also a messy day here across much of south and eastern africa and we're going to see

some rain across parts of johannesburg but as we go towards saturday things improve and it's going to get a little bit warmer with your history a twenty four. he came from a wealthy background in paris and became an artist against his family's wishes he went on to bring a fresh perspective to oriental is painting falling in love with some harlem culture making all jr has honed and converted to islam. on just zero world tells the story of nothing and his unique artistic work. the french oriental list.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera at least sixteen people have been killed by a bomb in southwestern pakistan went off at a market in quite a dozens of people have been injured. as opposition groups are calling for people to rally after friday prayers on thursday the military forced president omar bashir from power and set up a transitional council but demonstrators are demanding a civilian government. on the wiki leaks founder julian our song has been arrested in the u.k. and is facing extradition to the united states and u.s. wants him to face charges relating to the publication of classified government documents. fighting continues on the outskirts of libya's capital tripoli but he and forces loyal to the u.n. backed government on the war not only for after after hours offensive was met by fierce resistance on thursday but the internationally recognized government saying

it captured more than two hundred of his men more than fifty people have been killed in fighting over the past week but civilians in tripoli are worried the fighting. then neighborhood. reports. that played day for ibrahim in his barbershop since fighting erupted on the southern outskirts of tripoli last week not many customers have come through his doors he's afraid his business might suffer further if the unrest continue. the current wars resulting in a low traffic of business and an increase in the price of goods including the materials that i use here i hope they can get back to negotiations. others from outside libya are just as worried about his sufi says he's brought his life savings from his home country sudan and started this green grocery. my fear is that if war comes to this area i'll have to leave and then i'll lose my

grocery store it's my property but unfortunately i can't get rid of it overnight life looks normal in tripoli city center but actions are not responding to international calls for deescalation civilians here are worried that the fighting on the outskirts of tripoli is not going to end anytime soon. forces loyal to the world have to our fighting forces allied with the and back the government in several locations. the battle for control over strategic sites including military camps and the disused international airport. civil rockets have landed in civilian areas forcing thousands to leave their homes. in the north of the city after the planes also untag to eighty get airport the only operational airport in the city the fighting has led to the postponement of

a you peace conference due to be held within days in the city of adamus. ibrahim is praying the fighting each other parts of the city he says and you unity government should be formed to include the rival factions to help in the conflict thirty he says it doesn't matter who wins as you don't guess he doesn't lose what he has built up over the years man would have engineered are. the u.k. prime minister has defended brags of being extended until the end of october to reason may have told parliament that securing an orderly exit from the e.u. required compromise the debate follows a late night decision by the e.u. to delay the u.k.'s departure date by six months but as with 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'd 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 party it's 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 jean-claude juncker 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 the 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 that greeted 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

a 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 . well the decision to extend brags that for another six months has helped avoid hurting the global economy that's according to the head of the international monetary fund who is warning that global growth is slowing christine legarde says the u.s. and china's trade war isn't helping john hendren imports now from washington d.c. with the i.m.f. and the world bank holding their annual spring meeting. a couple of years ago there was optimism now the head of the international monetary fund says growth in the global economy is certainly slowing we're now talking about synchronized slowdown by seventy percent of the global economy so our forecast for growth this year is three point three percent. going back up we hope in twenty twenty based on awful cost to three point six percent at the end you will spring meetings of the world

bank in the international monetary fund in washington the i.m.f. director says new world is facing a time of high uncertainty lagarde blames what she calls self-inflicted wounds in chief among those is the trade war between the united states and china the i.m.f. chief economist says the world's two largest economies must resolve that conflict or risk further destabilization around the globe the escalation of u.s. china trade tensions needed credit tightening in china macroeconomic stress in argentina and turkey disruptions in the auto sector in germany and financial tightening alongside the normalization of monetary policy in the larger advanced economies have all contributed to a significantly weakened expansion the head of one hundred eighty nine nation organization also said this week's deal to postpone britain's exit from the

european union has helped avert a potentially catastrophic economic event it removes the risk of the no deal bragg's it on april the twelfth which was one of the options. that was considered such as the u.k. is not leaving on the twelfth off april without a deal the know the of bragg's it would have been a terrible outcome both organizations said they would be guided by their members when it comes to recognizing the government of venezuela venezuela's national assembly leader one challenge the legitimacy of embattled leader nicolas maduro in january is the country's acute economic crisis worsened the united states and about four dozen countries now recognised why dope is venezuela's leader russia cuba and china recognized the world bank and i.m.f. policies to date have left them firmly on the sidelines john hendren washington and india tibetans spiritual leader the dalai lama has been released from hospital

in new delhi and been admitted for a chest infection early this week as he left the hospital said he felt almost no. voter turnout was more than sixty percent on the first day of india's six week election nine hundred million people are legible to vote in seven days as the results are expected in late may from city of noida pradesh. reports on the key issues for voters. happy to have their say voters lined up across the country to choose who ran the world's largest democracy for the next five years from indian administered kashmir in the north to answer predation the south ninety one constituencies across twenty states voted in the first phase of a six week election which ends on may nineteenth where the two hundred million people author of their shoes and the as most populous and politically important

state they say the road to the prime minister's office cuts through water for the and the big issues affecting the country are in sharp focus here. i wonder allotment for my village electricity could draw good to cities for my children good schools they have not. 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 although i heard a lot of expectations from who i watered and now i want someone new but third world whatever is going to be in that 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 or to take the citizenship bill should not pass otherwise our future 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 in which at least forty soldiers were killed a group based in pakistan claimed responsibility and india responded by launching against targets across the border. it's. whether that pays off for the beach. when the results are announced on may twenty third elizabeth purana al-jazeera noida. the us president says he wants

to continue sanctions against north korea now donald trump made the remarks while meeting south korea's president in that the white house says there was complete reports now 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 in your one year. since you 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 permit it denuclearization of the korean peninsula south korea is pressing for compromise cluing 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 failed summit with kim and enjoy 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 as you take care the north has not ruled out resuming nuclear and missile tests it 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 kerry who is dialing back expectations 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 can really help at al-jazeera the white house in a lot among decisions south korea has overturned a ban on abortion that's been in place for more than sixty five years the constitutional court ruling no limits women's rights under the one nine hundred fifty three ban women who have abortions can be fined and jailed except in cases of rape incest or risk to their health doctors who perform procedures and also face prison. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera at least sixteen people have been killed by a bomb in southwestern pakistan it went off

a market in dozens of people have been injured as the latest from karachi. for the normally friday morning for shopping for. the attack taking. place at about nine fifteen local time hadn't. been. so the opposition groups are calling for people to rally after friday prayers on thursday the military force president omar al bashir from power and set up a transitional council but demonstrators not demanding a civilian government security forces all but a curfew of the night but thousands of people have defied it we can leaks founder julian assange has been arrested in the u.k. and is facing extradition to the u.s. a british court found him guilty of skipping bail back in time to twelve the u.s.

wants him to face charges relating to the publication of classified documents fighting continues on the outskirts of libya's capital tripoli between forces loyal to the u.n. but government on the war north. offensive was met by fierce resistance on thursday with the internationally recognized government saying it captured more than two hundred of his men more than fifty people have been killed in fighting over the past week. president trump says a third summit with north korea could happen he made the comments after meeting with his south korean counterpart mungy in. moon was in washington to try to revive dialogue. the north korean leader kim jong un wants the u.s. to lift sanctions before holding more talks but donald trump disagrees. in india tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama has been released from the hospital in new delhi he'd been admitted for a chest infection early this week as he left the hospital the eighty three year old

said he felt almost normal if you had to india in one nine hundred fifty nine after an uprising against chinese rule failed to battens living in new delhi special prayers for his wellbeing. all right so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after life so much of. a flooding into countries across asia. to stop the. world. with calls texts. to help make our lives easier. but not everyone's benefit.

to help make a better world this challenges us from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help. this week. my country at the forefront of revolution and which has the world's third largest smartphone market where one in four people. lives in delhi the capital of india he works in the secret site of india's high tech boom. he has a double masters in computer cryptography making computers safe from hacking. he

also believes in using digital technology to help the less fortunate india has over a billion mobile. i believe george and me again while technology use evolution for many offered. my quest is to find on so to help people who were living at the bottom of the economic bit of. such and belongs to a collective called mix all they use technology to help underprivileged communities . one of their ambitions is to help india's beleaguered small scale farmers. have any name. given to. the challenge for such an is to design and life. a mobile phone app to help bring farmers a better life. in the local café such and his mix all colleagues brainstorm some early ideas there is somebody. to see further and the sad

stories from you know pharmacy sites and all that so there is definitely some problem on the ground which they're facing and my in benjamin not to push any technology to them but my intention is to look for a solution you know which this technology can bring because this is ubiquitous and something which is very cheap in india why dear will only available at a very cheap and affordable places if there is something you think from a problem point of view which we can address something that could be done is going to play. that is you know sort of been known to be this music hard to get into that in funding should i give this this is the. i mean he's going to start thinking and maybe of fear to visit is something which is much more needed to validate our thoughts. with. such and starts by

setting up a facebook page to help reset on this problem in schools and. the interesting leads come from the huge southern state under president bush. so such an fly south to state capital but. it's the start of the two thousand. into rural india. just. hoping. enough insights meeting those people on the ground what are the problems farmers i've been facing and what does that i see the world mobile technology can do for such and wants to hear small scale down the stories first time so we can find ways an app can help in under seven out of ten following this depend on seasonal rains decent rainfall can mean a bountiful harvest but weather patterns and long term climate change can mean rains or early late fall fail altogether.

can wipe plan this out and cause some to take their own lives. to the other. such and local guide privy in visit mr naidu who runs the community managed sustainable agriculture project. in the four thousand villages it supports the. year award to fall mosul site and all that one day we would have a new conference with the poorest of the poor but for most one he said. after one on their way. to doing no.

then you asked a serious obvious and a my if i am in your place i would not go going anywhere near a good job well the. last may do great things in agriculture my. imagination you know when i was sitting in there lee was very different and the good a talking do you know it has already a big changed you know the studio day about the woman so i such an wants to meet pharmacies like b.j. or the woman who lost three family members we visit in june one to very enthusiastic cooking has come to clean. what our school is so tomorrow that it was said i would because you are the. two hours from hyderabad is cutting nagas his home village. t.v. all day and he and the insanity had learned to.

live eternally in my lower acting and. yet they demand virtually clean my london little my little did he call and. play a little day with them and they went out on monday and so. got me though something some government is a put up by husband money grubber the mother in those could have a mother. operable in emberton in the eligibility election. now that i will go both so that i would. guess. those are far more than a little overly busy argument big. in going towards mr peabody i think. thirty thirty two models will be ok ok we still would be able to. guess our eye farming stance with a system of price intensification planting young spacing white so the multi crops

is the growing of several kinds of crops. these new ideas saved jiah. just tories are remarkable despite all the hardship she is going through she has been able to get control of her life. i want to see this fall while to grow farming to model that does remember to help her and other farmers turn around and. turned her farm around by using new methods her family had never heard about the sergeants thinking that stories like this should be heard by a much wider audience. the next day such enhanced deep into under pradesh to monday karma. this is a. protected samuel's troubles include expensive fertilizes low crop prices and drought. some real story also has

a positive twist he's found hope in organic farming in the land famous for its green revolution with its emphasis on fertilizers and manmade chemicals some mistaken advice to far more naturally. worms and insects keep the soil healthy and local organic matter feeds his crops overturning. the i.u.d. are. more your present. their ideas are driven. near their food remember that of the. eighty. year as an example out of me. you mean without a good year this year. yeah the gravy you're going to get it to fit. every director writer traces. they got or you sit through an agent them.

i'm good because they were a good challenge very american such an has discovered how farmers have improvised to deal with their problems better to stop. just heard this expert thirty six. samuel's neighbors not i am not a sama sama narrow strip of land. with some house help they realize i not only own organic farming but on multi cooks planting several crops not just one like rice it's a blend of traditional farming wisdom and modern scientific knowledge oh yeah right you. don't even come around me for years we've got a car if you got your liver from would you care about it and people are tired of your work a witchy in j's thinking very. high that i am very good dad just

a regular frugal k.k. q.q. going over cuba i know you cannot find out that i am martin going to pop up in calgary a lot of you are going to get your barbaric we name only going to prison governor you know really how do you manage being without function without trying to remain in grow up is something i mean i knew. great press army very. good. business school. now and his neighbors now go several crops all year round not just the standard old rice crop. they have more than doubled their income an extra two dollars a day each more.

the message such as. is that some small scale farmers are coming up with fresh ideas and initiatives. too often other farmers just don't hear about them but there are people trying to change that. some touches with the c m s eight women self-help group. she runs that organic pest control store. she spreads the word using very basic technology. and she's using a pictorial way of helping villages remember new farming ideas that are about getting on tap. for monday monocoque sudden like eric bana got someone to tell me it's not a cool fit that will cost item on time obviously if you are out of money you have a lot of. fun to work on to prove that she is somebody's son quote this order there is no one if she is given a form. she can pay me for all those forty have been barely.