of plant is still fairly active in nature and will be for i think another twenty four to thirty six hours the potential anyone place from this rain is about one hundred millimeters which it comes down to in a big share of course is flash flood territory or mudslide territory so that's not good news the whole lot is moving slowly north east was running up into afghanistan and pakistan for monday leaving increasing amounts of iran dry west of that the cloud is invading from north east africa through egypt and into israel lebanon and probably far into the northwest of syria as it could manage spotter right out of it and a warming trend before the cloud comes in that it will feel obviously a little cooler the rain has been falling around the gulf states is drifting slowly south so for sunday we'll put it just in i think the following breeze will briefly a strong sure mark probably a clear one thirty reason there are back the same in riyadh and we're not hitting fourteen mecca are the cool down over the last couple of weeks come monday the rain

is mostly gone and the wind is east so it will do a bit in dar. sponsor. isn't the problem for your town that they usually don't have a health question mark over it so they don't have a corruption question mark or really doesn't look good for anything like a ticket they were going to do really well known by sort of just like the rich you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the us across the globe. is calling for a bridge doesn't build that's a great school to join me on all forms of my guests from around the world and we debate the week's top stories are the issues here and i'll just say.

hello again i'm. reminded of the news the south sudan's ruling military council has held talks with protest organizers the head of the council was replaced by another general on saturday the new leader is promising sweeping reforms. algeria's judges say they will boycott the supervision of presidential elections they say the vote could be rigged it's expected to be held in july. and forces fighting for control of libya's capital have launched more strikes khalifa haftar as warplanes hit a school and refugee center outside the capital tripoli. well u.s. president donald trump is facing accusations that he's put the life of a congresswoman at risk through one of his tweets selectively quoted. a somali american member of congress making it look like she was downplaying the nine eleven attacks john hendren has the story from washington. it was

a provocative trump tweet critics say went too far president donald trump on saturday tweeted a quote about the nine eleven attacks from muslim congresswoman omar's speaking at the council on american islamic relations along with the words we will never forget kid who was found dead after nine eleven. because they recognize that some people did something the president's post came days after the conservative new york post put this on its cover the video when trump's tweet selectively quotes omar along with images of the world trade center attacks which we are not showing it was designed to suggest that omar was minimizing the effect of nine eleven but a fuller quote shows which he was actually saying is that muslims in the u.s. have been stigmatized since those attacks here it was founded after nine eleven because they recognize that some people did something and that all of us were

starting to lose access to our civil liberties. in fact care was founded in one nine hundred ninety four but its membership increased dramatically after nine eleven she is receiving death threats on a daily basis this is not a jewel for the president is not one of his boring ugly jokes this is serious the thrust to do with her safety the safety of every muslim the safety of my own children my own family enough is enough our president has to realize the danger of forces doing the president's tweet drew a series of retaliatory responses from democrats who called it racist and dangerous congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez said members of congress have a duty to respond to the president's explicit attack today omar's life is in danger presidential candidate senator bernie sanders said no more is a leader with strength and courage she won't back down to trump's racism in hate and neither will we another presidential candidate senator elizabeth warren wrote the president is inciting violence against

a sitting congresswoman and an entire group of americans based on their religion it's disgusting it's shameful and any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it for trump the provocative tweet was a twofer needling democrats and drawing an outraged response from his own supporters john hendren washington. well u.s. president donald trump says he's open to a third summit with north korean leader kim jong un trump says an additional musing would be a good idea now that the two sides fully understand each other he was responding to kim is author of war talks and the terror left february a sad lesson of vietnam without an agreement on the new tape to some of us have north korea the u.s. secretary of state has hopeful that dialogue can resume. and respect in north korea we've made real progress and how i am confident that the leadership in america will continue to make progress to solve this challenge the nuclear threat that is posed

to the world there remain in place today the world's strongest sanctions u.n. security council resolutions which make clear the objective of the denuclearization north graham very confident will continue to move down the path of achieving that outcome. at least ten people have been killed in a taliban attack in the afghan city of couldn't as it comes just a day after the group launched its spring offensive the fighting flares in the northern province of the same name as the taliban attacked afghan police and military units more than one hundred people have been killed in the province over the past two weeks solid reports. bullet casings lissa the ground as gunfire rings out across. the army and police are still in control of the city despite a heavy taliban assault part of the group's spring offensive launched on friday this moment the moment the taliban once again wanted to disrupt the peace and security and can do so but security forces have inflicted a lot of casualties on the island and we are assuring the great people of good news

that the taliban are cannot do anything here on the ministry of defense its special forces killed several taliban and destroyed weapons and one of the group's headquarters but the taliban fought back through the night forcing a major highway to close and taking police checkpoints inside the city and. this police officer tells us that the taliban were firing on them from this tree line into police and soldiers filled wards and condos hospital most hurt when the taliban attacks the checkpoints in. a mortar came in exploded and it affected my eyes i couldn't see anything i shouted a lot and no one answered me or came to help the. people living here reported heavy years strikes before dawn broke on saturday many close their shops and started to flee the city. got a mortar hit that area until no no one could move forward from here security forces or civilians the situation is very bad here in

a statement the taliban says its spring offensive will target foreign occupying forces and it will fight until afghanistan is cleared of american occupation it also called on afghan police and soldiers to defect to taliban writes the ministry of defense responded by saying the taliban is using propaganda to boost morale after a series of recent defeats. the united states is in a difficult position as it seemed gauged in talks with the taliban in qatar the u.s. envoy in charge of the talks zalmay khalilzad tweeted this spring offensive is reckless and will not advance peace if its. people in condos are often called between a taliban offensive and the military's response. briefly to the taliban in twenty fifteen the only city to do so since two thousand and one. in recent months u.s. and afghan special forces have for hard to hold the taliban off here

a night raid ended with two american and four afghan soldiers killed in march the government is bracing for further taliban pressure now that fighting season has begun. kabul. tens of thousands of indonesians have taken part in the final day of campaigning before wednesday's election and are a piece of the twenty fourteen election presidential corrido is running against a former army general. wayne hale reports from jakarta. after six months indonesia's election campaign came to a large colorful end in jakarta on the final day that campaigning was allowed hundreds of thousands streamed into the last rally for president joko widodo the man they call jacoby is running for a second five year term in office that. he has brought equal development all around indonesia in villages in remote areas like other presidents i wouldn't bother to visit pays attention he is

a brave man and all through our. can we can. do all the many good things like infrastructure that. we need for our lives today in court a future of the really was held inside a stadium named after indonesia's first president sukarno joko widodo became the seventh in two thousand and fourteen. and was greeted like a rock star as he campaigned to stay in the job. of the young the woman and the man will make sure that our lives are better than today in five years time. wednesday's election will be one of the largest displays of democracy in the world this will be the first time that the presidential vote will be held on the same day as elections the seats in the house of representatives the huge crowd here is an example of how big and complex the democratic process is in indonesia and there are more than one hundred ninety million eligible voters and on wednesday most will go

to one of eight hundred thousand polling stations around the country. the other choice for president is probably. who was beaten in a close race in the two thousand and fourteen vote he's trailed in most polls during this campaign but has closed the gap in recent weeks i've got to go there are still a few days until the election hopefully we can easily overtake the other candidate ladies and gentlemen together we will realize a fair and prosperous indonesia i mean both candidates have talked about uniting a country that's becoming increasingly divided along conservative and moderate religious lines if it's a close race and the result is disputed those lines may be further exposed and the celebrate every mood of the campaign might be quickly forgotten wayne hay al-jazeera jakarta. people have gathered in the northern indian city of amritsar to mark the one hundredth anniversary of a massacre committed during british colonial rule hundreds were killed and more

than a thousand injured when british troops opened fire on protesters in one nine hundred nineteen u.k. prime minister tourism a has called it a shameful scar it has this report. indian politicians have been paying their respects to those who died a century ago. this will to garden in the northern city of amritsar is unrecognisable today from the bloody scene in april one thousand nine hundred nineteen at least three hundred seventy nine people were killed when british troops opened fire on protesters according to official records but people in the area at the time said the death toll was much higher. are carried out. of that come once on a hundred yards. completion of one hundred yards. generally are

all about. i heard them are yours are the is. from a political rally in southern tamil nadu state prime minister narendra modi remembers the victims of this dark day in indian history the massacre of peaceful protesters became a symbol of colonial cruelty and for decades indians have demanded an apology from the u.k. this wasn't forthcoming jaring if is it to the city by queen elizabeth in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven. no more recently in two thousand and thirteen when former british prime minister david cameron went on an official tour of the site thank you mr speaker my own wednesday prime minister theresa may acknowledge that anniversary in the british parliament the tragedy of. nine hundred nineteen is a shameful scar on british indian history as her majesty the queen said before

visiting julian while a back in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven is a distressing example of our past history with india we deeply regret what happened and the suffering caused by minute jericho still no formal apology and one hundred years later is uncertain if the apology many indians are waiting for will ever come . their. thousands of opposition supporters have taken to the streets of the capital calling for the resignation of president alexander a group of about thirty activists and organizations calling itself the alliance has been holding regular demonstrations and belgrade protesters are calling for democratic reforms government says the demonstrators have no specific demands and have accused them of cutting regime change shots has more from belgrade. several thousand people have gathered in the wrong parliament for more than. citizens and

serve in the position are demanding the rule of law the press freedom and democratic elections there are demanding the resignation of serbian president alexander to end sooner than prime minister on the bottom of each day he's the biggest protests so far people have came from all over serbia. in the protests meanwhile inside of the serbian parliament on demand bers of ruling serbian progressive party some of gen spend the night inside the parliament to protect it as they see from the violence also police inside of the building the leaders of syrian opposition parties are having a speech also serbian professors actors and others police said there are no students so far as they say there are approximately more than seven thousand people on the streets of belgrade. well ireland is breathing a sigh of relief after the prospect of a no deal breaks it seems to be ruled out for now any sort of wrecks that would be

damaging to the irish economy especially the agricultural sector barnsley explains . between them this herd of seventy produces whole foods million liters of milk every year and a full third of that is drug in britain it's trivial to cross the border to north just a without bail. but lorcan is a worried man a brick sits without a trade deal especially with new borders would put his entire business on the line and on certain days they're all the time because look i'm completely dependent on the make from the sky who's and laid off the product that's made from miami talking to forty percent of that ends up in the u.k. so of course i more eat of course i'm worried it isn't just milk nearly a third of all beef consumed in britain is irish even more cheese and butter talk about trade deals and borders can sound confusing here it's about what goes into people's mouths the cheese on this pizza was made here in the republic of ireland

the cheese was in driven across the border into the u.k. where the pizza was manufactured and is then sold across both countries years of an open border have led to this complex web of food production and distribution to the benefits of both the republic of ireland and the u.k. and it's one which farmers here believe would be entirely jeopardized by no deal bricks it. deals between islands in the u.k. are worth a full six billion dollars a year hardly surprising and he's worried when briggs says it was for supporters of by the u.k. people to leave europe there was two requirements for the. beef and dairy one was that we wouldn't have a bar but the second was that our straight to ship would remain status quo and there was a great degree greater degree of uncertainty about that today as there was twelve or eighteen months ago during the bricks and referendum concerns of irish farmers

counted for zero but maybe they should have massive more no bricks it deal no food from ireland could make british people go hungry if a hard border went up there would be food shortages in the u.k. there will be a lot of beef products because they rely on irish beef the price of beef will escalate so far that your average person in the u.k. simply will be able to afford if we can avoid us hopefully we will avoid. that point is entirely lost in the brics a debate in london where politicians seem entirely unconcerned about the impact on oil and as the u.k. leaving the european union island hopes the prospect of empty supermarket shelves might focus some minds gloriously al-jazeera on the irish border. hello i'm. with the headlines on al-jazeera sudan's ruling military council has held talks with protest organizers the head of the council was replaced by another

general on saturday and the new leader is promising sweeping reforms he's announced the end of a cathy and the release of prisoners thousands of protesters were again outside on the headquarters in khartoum on saturday night had a morgan was there. there. we get to continue. their crowd and all the people around our headquarters. and they're going to we talked to this person to see them come back with broke her leg with their hobbies have managed to reach an agreement with the minister because of the political parties. in algeria as judges have announced they will boycott the supervision of presidential elections they say the vote could be rigged it's expected to be held in july demonstrations are keeping up the pressure on the interim administration former president. resigned earlier this month he'd

been in power for two decades. forces fighting for control of libya's capital have launched strikes. warplanes hit a school and refugee center outside the capital tripoli the eastern warlord began an offensive against the internationally recognized government last week u.s. president donald trump says he's open to a third summit with north korean leader kim jong il trump says another would be a good idea now that the two sides fully understand each other he was responding to kim's offer of more talks by the year's end the two left february's summit in vietnam without an agreement on the nuclear disarmament of north korea. and u.s. president donald trump has also been accused of islamophobia after tweeting a video about congresswoman. the footage showed an exception of a speech that made about nine eleven but senior politicians and rights groups have noted that the comment was clearly out of context well those are the headlines next

stop up front do stay with us. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. one of from today we'll debate the nearly fifty year old u.s. war on drugs was it all of big trillion dollar failure but first donald trump on the taliban are saying it's time for foreign troops to go home but the afghan government isn't ready will they ever be lost this week headliner the chief executive of afghanistan.

abdullah abdullah thank you for joining me up front the war in afghanistan is now the longest war in u.s. history eighteen years in president donald trump wants to pull u.s. troops out but you say they need to stay quote until the war is over and peace is restored so basically they should never leave. the point is that it has been forty years since the world is growing government in afghanistan. eighteen years since the with of the. need to use the afghan people who are more keen to see peace achieved in their soil. at the same time the diffuser for our purposes are also we understand it the united this is an initiative which is for peace which is which

has the support of the afghan people in the afghan government we hope that we will we will achieve peace through these if words in that if were switch off. but just to be clear if donald trump says we're leaving this year and of the if he sets a date for withdrawal of all u.s. troops do you have an objection to that do you understand why that are starting at some stage. in it is for the present. to make that decision. to make that decision isn't it the case that if u.s. troops were to pull out of afghanistan it would be disastrous for your government your government wouldn't survive without u.s. troops protecting it if it happens will happen without taking into account it will have consequences but that's why idea of intensified.

in support of peace process with the taliban in their discussions in concert with the afghans to get there as well as with the government of afghanistan although your government doesn't seem to have much faith in the u.s. government right now does it you've suggested that the u.s. envoy to afghanistan zalmay khalilzad who has been shuttling back and forth between the taliban and your government is quote selling out afghan security forces and has admissions to take over afghanistan himself and the americans are furious with your government now for saying that aren't they. not reflecting the views of the people of afghanistan as a whole it was so dramatic. it was unfortunate that it happened. so you don't agree with the national security advisor that the u.s. official. is trying to set up a caretaker government of which he will be the viceroy you don't agree with those remarks. not the taliban which are. those groups

which are of put a long war in afghanistan well let's talk about the taliban the u.s. and the taliban have now held five rounds of direct talks an october do you agree with the national security adviser when he says there's no point in talking to the taliban that the u.s. is simply legitimizing the taliban by sitting down with them do you agree with that view. which are fighting the taliban which are still having contacts with the terrorist organizations including al qaeda when you have a problem with the group you talk to them but at the same time when it comes to the decision or far country in our nation it will be decided between the afghans if the taliban say we would like to be able to run in the next election we want to participate in the next round of afghan elections are you ok with that. yes of course absolutely if taliban give up the day give up the uprising in

violence in. groups in turned into a political entity and fight for their cause politically enjoying the political process and the transitional government in all view of the taliban because. deployment is that we are not. even the first step which is opposed to the principle on two sides of the table i understand that part of the idea in principle. in principle when do you have. peace processes which which is that you need upon from. this part of that part that in twenty one it cannot happen without it but sometimes there are calls for an interim government for the sake of having an interim government understand. that your title is chief executive of the afghan government but it's an

afghan government that controls according to one u.s. government study barely fifty five percent of the country's districts less than two thirds of the afghan population that's the devastating reality isn't it you call it wish the taliban away they control vast chunks of your country there is a serious challenge. out our people are given casualties in our people are suffering and. that should come to an end and taliban also understand that. if they want to continue the war forever that's their choice if they want to sit in talk about the un it's an opportunity your country's elections were originally scheduled for this spring and of twice been postponed until september your running in the presidential election against the incumbent president ashraf ghani you've run twice before you've lost twice before what makes you think this is the time lucky. the conditions in the previous

elections were different and i will not go back to describe. audience what happened didn't happen. campaign has not to start it in we have to address at this stage piece crosses the top most. holding elections is equally important for us more transparent elections. fair elections is what the afghan people deserve and have been endorsed by the current vice president abdul rashid dostum the former wall or dostum is also joined your election team this is a man accused of a long list of war crimes in afghanistan and yet he's the vice president right now he may again under you no wonder so many afghans and so many members of the international community are worried about the future of democracy and human rights in your country.

which we cannot ignore because. i am not talking about everything. against this individual or that individual but. has supported me my ticket. continue to have influence in the politics. vice president dostum has been accused not just of suffocating and massacring taliban prisoners and torturing people by tying them up to tanks but also more recently of raping and torturing his own chauffeur and having tortured and raped a political rival with an assault rifle does not shock you is not something that should disqualify you from high office in a democratic afghanistan. in a different ticket last time. he was the. result of elections in. public about.

what had happened in the past in mistakes of the past. his party his son. and he himself has supported my ticket in new out of no problems being indorsed by a man accused of rape by more than one person. the. process the. legal process. which was underway. has not. moved conclusion as your self described it but look at the situation in afghanistan today peace is a priority for us all of us have made mistakes we need to learn from our mistakes and we need. to be honest one final question.

is it the truth that whether or not you will ashraf ghani is elected president come september the problems of afghanistan war poverty corruption food insecurity regional meddling they're not going to be solved by just changing the guy who sits in the presidential palace are they they're pretty deep rooted. some of those some of those problems unfortunately. much more. but if you should ministration including property including corruption the two or so the first two were security net critics. drug trafficking in so on and so forth and we hope that the elections in afghanistan good elections which in itself will be will be a probably this. will be an administration which will be able to address those challenges in a more effective manner abdullah abdullah thank you so much for joining me up front

. you're welcome thank you. it's been nearly fifty years since the united states and the president nixon declared a war on drugs which the u.s. has never come close to winning under president obama there was an attempt to treat drugs as more of a public health issue and less of a criminal justice one but president trump now wants to build a wall to keep drugs out and has talked about designating mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and even executing drug dealers so is the u.s. war on drugs back with a vengeance or has already been lost for good joining me to debate this our son who tree director of drug policy for the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. and derrick malts a former head of the special operations division at the u.s. drug enforcement administration the dea gentlemen thank you both for joining me in the arena during the war on drugs has been a massive one trillion dollar failure has it not for more than four decades all

it's given us is more war and more drugs and help the u.s. produce i think the world's biggest prison population well first of all i'd never call that a war number one number two is that if you lost a loved one to this epidemic then you would be very happy that the d.a. and other law enforcement agencies are out there trying to enforce the law unfortunately this particular problem requires much more the. law enforcement and quite frankly it's been neglected for many years and hopefully we can get it back on track just in terms of the law enforcement the militarization us but when you look back on the last full five decades of u.s. policy from president president democrat to republican jeff any regrets about the militarization of this problem no i tell you i worked in the special operations division for ten years with thirty agencies three countries n.y.p.d. and d o d commands and not only is this a public health issue it's a national socratic security crisis not just for america for the world and you know why maybe because it's the terrorists are turning to criminal activities for their

funding and drug trafficking is generating four hundred billion dollars a year around the world so it's becoming an easy funding mechanism for the terrorists so i also witnessed the politics in washington when they were hesitant about the clearing the fog and they you see is terrorist organizations and i've been a big proponent yeah the colombian groups i've been a big proponent suggesting that the mexican cartel should be declared terrorists and i can explain what will come but i will never let me bring inside the tree it's a national security crisis so of course it has to be treated as a war and especially if you've lost people to it you want the government to fight a war against people who've killed your kids this is primarily a public health issue first and the problem created by drug trafficking is rooted in economics so the idea of pitching a war on terror to the war on drugs i think conflates two very complex issues and gives you a one size fits all solution a bigger stick more kinetic policies to really you know kick kick butt just to be part of you is your in favor of the biggest no i'm not because drug trafficking is

based on economics and we're talking about things like marijuana cocaine heroin methamphetamine these are essentially minimally processed agricultural chemical commodities that cost pennies per dose to produce where these things get such tremendous value for which people are willing to kill and massacre and and fund you know revolutions or whatever is through the policies of prohibition that amplified the value of these these things. astronomically so the more we escalate the war on drugs the more valuable the drugs become because we increase the risk premium that drug traffickers are allowed to charge the next person down the smuggling chain that's how you turn a fifteen hundred dollar kilo of pure cocaine from the streets of any in colombia and by the time you get to the streets of washington d.c. or philadelphia or new york by the time they get to the grand baggies those dealers can get about one hundred fifty thousand dollars for that same kilo this commodity snowballs in value because of our war on drugs absent that these are basically pennies produced to produce what could be a public health crisis and

a national security crisis because at the end of the day even if people agree with your home and say fine that's true what he's saying about the drugs themselves these are all these cartels we know transnational organizations very violent deployed terror why don't treat them as terrorist groups you know you would treat al there are anyone else terrorist groups that get some funding from drug trafficking and there are criminal groups that also engage in acts of terror but narco terrorism is something that was constructed and popularized after nine eleven where they made the bush administration declare colombia to be the southern front in the global war on terror even though the fark in colombia had nothing to do with al qaeda ok direction well first of all i agree with san jose cesspit on it's all about the money right so for the drug cartels in colombia the entrepreneurs' it's about making as much money as they can and same thing for the mexican cartels but here's the issue first of all the war on drugs i don't even like to use that term because it's not really a war but i will say that going back to the pablo escobar days when he blew up

a airliner with legitimate innocent people aboard that's when we started seeing narco terrorism long before nine eleven when people were listening to see around the world in particular does it really make sense to replace the war on drugs with another failing war the war on terror which hasn't been very successful at beating terrorist groups al qaeda et cetera still out there it seems kind of weird that you would say ok we tried this way you don't want to call it a war but lots of tries. definitely in central america and now we're going to try bora what we did in afghanistan iraq which didn't turn out so well either it seems like you're doubling down on failure well here's the deal i just want to try to save lives that's what mine that's why i'm doing everyone does right now not everyone there are who doesn't want us there are plenty of people that are disregarding the facts like for an example the homeland security director of america is walking into congress to educate them on what's going on on the border and they rudely interrupt there and get up and walk away they don't want to hear it you have to listen to the experts tom hallman he's an expert i worked in a border brand enjoyed all of these guys mark morgan he's not even political but

isn't the problem there i mean you talk of politics is the problem you don't want to talk politics you just did but this is on the on the on the issue of the wall yeah border wall donald trump president of states says he wants to build a wall to stop quote and the invasion of drugs ok you talk about you support that wall i believe well can i can i tell you what i mean by that ok before you do i just ask this question since you mentioned listen to the experts most experts have come out and said a wall will not solve the problem of illegal drugs coming in i don't know what expert you're referring to but here's what i will tell leagues in the ok now that's not true that twisting the words from the assessment that was made so let me explain the d.n.a. of the message already going from the major cartels come in through the port of entry that's what they've said that's not what the president has them but ok i'm not speaking for the president i'm speaking is there a building that will do well that's his decision he's the president but here's what i would say the drugs that are coming in from the port of entry we're not even hit properly because we don't have the resources there the wall is going to help manage

the flow of people and contraband to america the wall is not going to solve the drug crisis in america the wall will actually help the border patrol and the experts to get a better handle on it ok some of the way the dirt says the wall in all the problems but i hope to get a handle on this problem of the border what do you say the walls are bronze age technologies that have been countermeasures of the wall going back many many decades now so the first thing they did was. build ramps they can literally drive an s.u.v. over the wall they've got catapult technology that can launch bales of drugs over the wall they've got pneumatic air cannons you've seen cannons in sports stadiums they have giant ones mounted on trucks and inside vans that can launch one hundred pound bale of drugs over that wall there's narco submarines they can go around the fences there are narco torpedoes right now so it's going to work. thousand ways and not go tunnels and plus the vast majority of drugs that come into this country illegally grounders i think it will the majority according to the evidence the majority of illegal drugs coming through legal ports of entry actually it will be

years like it but i don't know all the colleagues of the dia is that i'm not listening to the colleagues you told us to listen to the excellence of. truly truly value that is true but here's the bottom line this statistics and the information that's being portrayed in the public is not really accurate twisting it the d.n.a. assessment i agree with one hundred percent and in that assessment they're saying the majority of the drugs are coming out of the issue of see again and i agree with that what about the issue a lot of mexicans would say look of countries demonized as being the kind of source of all this stuff and you know we talk about supply but it's american democracy so you're building a wall to deal with supply what about the developed that's a great point and i would say to anybody listening to me when are they going to get their heads out of the sand and start dealing with the demand dealing with the education dealing with the treatment i would be the first to tell you and i think anyone in the a would say war foresman alone will not solve the problem of how do we do what did moms what would you do if you could wave a magic wand and say u.s.

government this is how you tackle that the moment they would you say so many of our problems are issued rooted in issues of poverty despair an alienation if you address those things if you have a war on those those problems you solve a lot of problems downstream i think opioids are very popular right now and i think one of the reasons is that they allow this kind of a dream state you can imagine better days you could walk into your past and relive those great moments fits in with maga. politics here's a question people are yearning for that you or someone is it is it fair to say that you're someone who supports the legalization of marijuana yes there are other harder drugs you action and i think that should be decriminalized and regulated to the extent possible so it's not just me it's all thirty one agencies the united nations came out in favor of decriminalization of possession so my question is given we know that the crisis is killing one hundred americans a day according to some statistics those illegal drugs prescription drugs in many cases how does it help to bring more drugs onto the market more legal drugs has really the illicitly produced sentinels and it's analogs being injected into the

into that supply of heroin and other opioids that's what's killing people and i think canada is doing something completely different in the u.s. so in vancouver they have a program where they have heroin maintenance the fifty patients are allowed to import heroin legally from switzerland where they used heroin and maintenance for hard core difficult to treat addicts and they're allowing that in vancouver so that you take people out of the street scene where they're playing russian roulette with fentanyl and it's a very dangerous scene in canada plus they're allowing the local doctors to prescribe. loud it clear to people who are addicted so to be clear despite the fact we have alcohol that's legal ravages society in many ways we know about the family breakdown violence public health problems associated with legal alcohol you have the opioids issue you don't think that legalizing more drugs will increase the sum total of society i don't think helps at all it doesn't help the people who are suffering lesser of two evils and it benefits drug traffickers so what the drug war

does what prohibition does is provide it in direct. subsidy a price support for drug traffickers without it they've got they've gotten away processed goods ok sell that are authentic what about the u.s. corporations big pharma that were pushing this stuff that we've heard about the really that made a fortune from are actually called into the prescription pain killers going to the dia is focused on mexican cartels who's focused on the euro as a domestic so very the. pushing i live this nightmare it's a very political issue because people in washington at a supposed to be prosecuting these particular drug entrepreneur or legal companies they didn't want to do it they didn't want to taint their names because they want jobs when they leave the department of justice and that's what happens so i agree with you one hundred percent we need to aggressively prosecute legitimate drug distribution companies when they're killing kids and they're not paying attention to the details now i could tell you because i lived it for ten years when this exploding that drug companies were more interested in my view and making money then

caring about the health and the wellbeing of citizens in america and other parts of the world so i have a really strong opinion about that as well ok i mean when you look at what american companies have done in terms of the crisis do you think even people like yourself quote unquote on the liberal left and the spectrum talking about decriminalization and legalization took your eye off the ball as well during this period i think the f.d.a. did so in the late ninety's is when they begin this push to to really promote oxycontin in these opioids saying these new formulations addictive don't worry about it when in fact they knew that this was a problem and after people became addicted through prescription drugs the kind of shifts around two thousand and twelve they are no longer getting addicted through the doctor's prescriptions but rather there's they're stealing and they're getting it from illicit sources but around that time the dea begin to crack down on pill mills and go after people who are prescribing doctors who are overprescribing well when you already have a population that's dependent or addicted on these things you suddenly cut off their supply what are they going to do was utterly predictable they went to the

street and bought heroin which was much cheaper cheaper than a six pack of beer sometimes and then as the years go on after twenty twelve a few years later you start seeing fentanyl entering the heroin market and so we've literally taken these people who are dependent and some of them through doctors prescriptions and push them into the black market onto the streets where they're playing russian roulette with extremely dangerous fentanyl but helps nobody last question. derek given this problem which you've identified yourself you said you lived it isn't it weird then to see a president the united states right now obsessing over foreigners walls mexicans gangs call tells when you have all these u.s. made homemade problems that are not being dealt with. but i'm a firm believer that if you throw stones you have to live you should live in a glass house right we have to take care of our own first and that's america and the addicted people but the big thing is is that the cartels we talked about this narco terrorism take the you know the level of violence down there the. acid pits

chopping off their legs in iraq this is violence that we've never seen in this world except what isis and al qaeda and the other terror groups or something has to be done with that we give the mexicans a lot of money so the question is why we give in mexico so much money when they're not dealing with this problem and so i got it i got a major issue at the bottom of my last word but the wall is the idea of building a wall of troops that it would be a solid concrete wall then later on he said ok the border patrol is right we need slots in these walls so they can see what's in the other side what when you have these thirty foot wall slats with four inch gaps what's the first countermeasure you going to do if you're a drug trafficker three and a half inch wide packaging when a dose of fentanyl is a couple of grains of sand imagine how much of that you can push literally hand through that wall not know it. will have to leave it at thank you both for joining me in the arena thank you that's our show from will be back next week.

on counting the cost big on symbolism big on pressure rick but what has brazil's president got to show for a country struggling to recover from a recession and is india's prime minister seeks another term where off has he actually kept his election promises counting the cost on al-jazeera. part of south london is home to people from all over the world you might assume this multicultural pockets of the capital is entirely against a brick say it's often portrayed as a defense of whites britain but it's not so with this nigerian restaurant there is a quiet satisfaction of the prospects of the u.k. cutting its ties with europe a lot of rage i forgot a lot of. african british was glad to work for bricks and not because i live in the finnegans the rule then why it's we give was this leveraging time for treatment opportunity i walk. the floor because there's bridges and does it have an

derives to live in you know i can go i have to go just to do when in the twilight but when people come from europe to come to the country to visit it's just that they learned to would tend. to feel cheated i feel jealous about. sudan's new interim leader off as an olive branch to demonstrators who helped push an album out of power that some protesters remain skeptical. on the stasi attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up.

a wave of air strikes as fighters from eastern libya intensify their efforts to take control of the capital tripoli. where and for a look at the high price migrants are paying as they seek a better life. and one mother's plea to the nigerian government to bring back the girls being held by poke around. while sudan's ruling military council has held talks with the organizers of the mass protests the country now has its third leader in as many days and he's promised to hand over power to a civilian government in his first address to the nation promised sweeping reforms the military forced president omar al bashir to step down from power on thursday begins our coverage. in sudan a stunning turnaround as the new leader general abdul fatah struck

a more conciliatory tone promised inclusive and first to stop listens to believe the government. in order to provide an atmosphere for your desire to establish a state we declare that the curfew be lifted all detained under martial law will immediately be released human rights will be reinforced in line with international laws the provincial rulers will be relieved of duty and an invitation will be given to all the people political parties and organizations to engage in dialogue a ceasefire will be enforced across the country and we invite those carrying arms to lay them down sit at the negotiation table and agree to peaceful coexistence moments earlier a group of opposition leaders held a news conference and once again called for a civilian government. workers the army together with the people have been victims to those people cloaked as good virtuous men it is the judy and responsibility of the armed forces to protect the people and enforce the rule of law the armed forces

men who have fallen have done their best in else doing dictatorship and establishing a civil state we and all the opposition parties refused to hand over power to the military we want to totally civil leadership assume power on friday when another general. the man who had orchestrated the end of president omar bashir is thirty year rule resigned after that announcement was made there were celebrations on the streets many sudanese hope that one who is the specter general of the military and perceived to be less tainted then either of his predecessors may be able to bring solutions to the problems that led to months of protests what is it is that it's a great thing for sudan and god willing all our hopes will be realized we're not leaving the streets until everything goes to our advantage on saturday another high profile resignation when intelligence chiefs. also step down some analysts

believe these are encouraging signs that there could be talks between the military and civilian leaders. this is our probably no more chances of success says the military have removed a number of the first ladies who. were just as and the professional association. would have liked to be. the protests began in december over a sharp rise in bread prices and that t.d.o.t. took on him but it's not clear how the protesters would he got to these promises of change over the coming days. of disease. well the opposition including protest organizers have released a list of their demands after a meeting with the transitional council they include arresting all political and security it is accused of corruption and mad including for crimes committed in darfur a complete overhaul of the country's security and intelligence services and the

release of all political prisoners and the cancellation of all was which restrict freedom payson cannot says a former u.s. diplomat and an adviser in the africa program at the united states institute for peace he says the demonstrators want accountability from the old regime. it's certainly heartening that the demonstrators have have constituted a negotiating team that has met with the military council and certainly that's an important step but i think we have to be very very cautious in terms of thinking that there's any narrowing of the vast differences between the path for the military council has charted and what the aspirations of the demonstrators and the vast majority seemingly of the people of sudan or the seeming firing of the of the intelligence chiefs today. really powerful figure and i think one of the questions that remains is whether he may be down but is he out and i think we've seen very clearly from the demonstrators and others

a desire for accountability for the very figures such as solid goes who they believe have been responsible for human rights violations and other other atrocities over some decades algeria's judges have announced they will boycott the supervision of presidents the elections they say the vote could be rigged it's expected to be held in july demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the interim administration from the president of the car resigned earlier this month. we the judges of algeria have on a quickly to thought it took what we called supervising the presidential elections to the should put the port. forces fighting for control of libya's capital have launched new strikes. on planes from one side attack to the town of. southeast of tripoli a school and refugee center were hit but no casualties reported another strike has

a government building on the outskirts of the capital meanwhile forces from the un backed government targeted positions south of the capital in the town of korea the town is believed to be a base for have military operations fighting has been going on for more than a week as have to us forces advance on tripoli otherwise head has more from the capital. both warring factions have been using warplanes to target locations in and around tripoli warplanes loyal to the world have to targeted several locations in cite tripoli including a military camp belongs to the government of national called and their school while the government warplanes targeted have the us forces locations near the town of between on the way between the u.n. and tripoli authorities at him a to get airport the only operational airport in the capital city say that have to as warplanes will flying on saturday over the airport trying to target him eighty

get airport but forces in i'm eighty good airport tried to target the planes with the anti crafts missiles they say that authorities in a may to say that the will probably have to suspend a vacation again because the military escalation is going on near the airport now concerning the military confrontations on the ground the government forces have been gaining ground especially around forty kilometers to the south from tripoli one of the government forces managed to recapture the headquarters of the fourth infantry brigade which was taken control of by have to the forces days ago the military escalation on the outskirts of tripoli on the southern outskirts of tripoli has forces more than nine thousand five hundred civilians to leave their homes now action is here fierce fighting in neighboring libya will lead

to more people trying to cross the mediterranean sea over the past year hundreds of african migrants and asylum seekers have ended up on to mizzi and shores reports from. back in his boat tunisian fishermen selling beer he was arrested last year for helping see fourteen african migrants at sea the telling because guards accused him of human trafficking he faced thousand years in prison but was later released after months in detention. i didn't commit a crime and i would do it again we cannot abandon them or our faith cannot allow us to abandon them they are humans just like you and me. while most migrants set off from libya strong currents in bad weather often pushed their fragile boats towards neighboring tunisia. authorities here say they are overwhelmed. with the similar challenges as european countries with migrants ending up on its shores except it

doesn't have the resources to deal with them and with the fighting intensifying in neighboring libya it continues to be the gateway to europe for many african migrants. nearly four hundred people have drowned trying to cross the mediterranean so far this year. at first fishermen marzouk saw dead babies women and men floating in the sea now he sees bodies and limbs washing up on tunisia's beaches moved by the sight of so many dead migrants. buried over four hundred of them. now their journey maybe their souls made it to europe or even to america we may have buried their bodies but not their dreams. for these tunisian fishermen their action is an attempt to bring some human dignity to those who lost their lives in

the mediterranean and they fear the fighting in libya even more tempting to make that dangerous journey nicholas hawk al-jazeera at the tunisian libyan border. still ahead on al jazeera palestine has a new government but king factions are unhappy we'll tell you why and reintegrating rebels in the o.p.'s government implements a key part of a peace deal. how it was still raining sundry rain in iran in pakistan and also afghanistan is all this conglomeration of planned is still fairly active in nature and will be for i think another twenty four to thirty six hours the potential any one place from this

rain is about one hundred millimeters which it comes out here in a big share of course is flash flood territory or mudslide territory so that's good news the whole lot is moving slowly northeast was running up into afghanistan and pakistan for monday leaving increasing amounts of iraq dry west of that the cloud is invading from north east africa through egypt into israel lebanon and probably as far into the northwest of syria as it could manage started to run out of it and a warming trend before the cloud comes in that it will feel obviously a little cooler the rain has been falling around the gulf states is drifting study safa so for sunday will put it just in i think the following breeze will be briefly a strong probably a clear one such the reason there are about the same in riyadh and we're not hitting forty in mecca are the cool down in the last couple of weeks come monday the rain is mostly gone and the wind is east so it will have a bit indra.