all men tax lead that want to disconnect from their regions plans and imports to control the transition you know for a doing good for the past three men and dates algerians have been shifted from indifference do are they very long we don't take we don't care about your politics let's just leave our lives to go cut out towards actually you know already this is the situation of we already experienced it for the past two months to a refusal to let the regime on on its own and a lot of control points and so this is part of a movement that is trying to get back. to the sense of political life the real political life and to have and to come and to make the fault of the regime to control transition and actually you know point and this will or it's an important move because this will force the regime to for something tangible still

ahead on the program venezuela's opposition leader calls for nationwide protests against the president during a visit to an oil rich region last polling begins in finland's bottom entry election that could see a leftist leader come to power. hello there more rain is on its way towards japan you can see the cloud on the satellite picture originating over parts of china then pushing its way across the north and south korea and now it's edging across parts of japan as heavy downpours out of that system but it will be moving through pretty quickly so on monday we'll see an improving picture things will begin to brighten up for some of us not even north though i think some of us in hokkaido in the northern parts of paunchy there will be a little bit of an overhang hey so expect some showers later on during the day and

it probably won't brighten up here until we head into choose day choose it should be a fairly reasonable day though for sendai up at eighteen and for tokyo twenty for the southern part there is still a good deal of travel some of us here as it will be for the southern parts of south korea for beijing they should be fine our temperatures rising now though twenty six will be our maximum bit further towards the south and has been a lot of heavy downpours over the southern parts of china already has been very wet for some of us here that rain is releasing its hold for now but there's more forming as we head into cheese day so choose day is looking pretty wet for some of us and that system will gradually sink its way southwards as we head through tuesday and into wednesday for the southeastern parts of asia plenty of showers head the heaviest are in the southern parts of the way all the way across towards someone. 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 culture making on june and converting to islam. and just your own world tells the story of the stick and his unique artistic work. the french oriental listed on al-jazeera. our top stories on al-jazeera sudan's ruling military council is expected to meet dozens of political parties to reach a consensus on a transitional government protest leaders want military leaders to seek power to

a civilian authority for two years before elections are held at least one hundred twenty one people have been killed in libya during the recent offensive to take control of tripoli according to the world health organization meanwhile rival forces on the ground have launched more airstrikes and judges in algeria have announced they will boycott the supervision of presidential election so expect it in july they say the vote could be rigs demonstrate is it keeping up the pressure on the interim administration following the resignation of the president in the united states president donald trump says he's open to a third summit with north korean leader kim jong un he was responding to kim's offer of more talks by the years and if washington comes to the table with the right attitude the two left february summit in vietnam without an agreement on the nuclear disarmament of the korean peninsula and the u.s. secretary of state says he is hopeful that dialogue can resume and respect we made

real progress until 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 the denuclearization that's very confident will continue to move down the path of achieving them. venezuela's opposition leader one guy joe is in the oil rich state of zawiya where they have been demonstrations against power outages who is recognized by the u.s. and fifty other countries as interim leader is trying to organize a nationwide protest against president nicolas maduro on saturday madeira called on more than two million militia members to defend his government the sea and human race for some caracas. a show of bravado on the tenth anniversary of venezuelans bolivarian militia really bellowing and we are ready for the americans if they come let there be no mistake if they answer they want to make it out. this is an

emblematic anniversary for the bolivarian revolution abel thirteenth two thousand and two was the data that its leader although chavez was able to overturn a coup against him briefly ousted him and installed an opposition leader whether caught him or not as then his will is transitional president now his successor you classify bhutto as here surrounded by the militia and the military to send the message that any attempts to oust him will meet the same fate. model is under unprecedented domestic and international pressure to step down and allow a transition government to hold new elections. they are dissing right wingers who for the last seventeen years and now more recently continued to tear dick country apart they want to install government over our role of being peerless. as he spoke opposition leader fund why dog was rallying support in the oil rich

tourist western state of. it's been the worst hit by power and water shortages with more than a month of almost round the clock blackouts and temperatures that surpass forty degrees. after visiting soulis patron saint why don't predicted that the people of monaco able in israel a second largest city would be the ones to lead what he called the fine. insurrection against my little get down we're here not to rise up because it's really a that's going to rise up that will show its pride and of course you have the national assembly and me to accompany this process of reconstruction of venezuela and of maracaibo of. power has been restored to most of the capital it's been at the expense of other states like. the government is saying very little about plans to restructure the electrical system which it claims is being sabotaged. instead my looted cleared all of next week a public holiday to commemorate easter reminding the militia that after their break

they will be expected to return to their posts to defend the revolution. you see in human i'll just see that us egypt's fundament is due to debate propose amendments to the constitution that would extend the presidential term limits from four to six years it would also allow. it to run again after his two terms potentially extending his role to twenty thirty four a clause in the amendments could allow the army to support one politician of the costs or another if approved by parliament the changes will be put to the vote in a referendum the same bomi is an age of researcher at amnesty international he thinks there is a lack of public debate on the proposed amendments and that could be dangerous. the way we seize our constitutional amendments that are being debated at the moment is that they are very dangerous. not only easy it would change the term limit for

prison doctor for the city but more the interest the z r r o c would actually enshrine a number of measures that would force or we consider all of law in egypt as he would. after military truck or civilian seaward first allow more executive control over the judiciary in egypt tenchi damaging what fair trials and you process use of torture very very long time what would happen is that this different would not be would not happen under fair use because what we are seeing is points to the minutes are being arrested people are being arrested for absolutely no reason this is the worst time in recent decades for freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in egypt because being there is a protest whistling in the street people are being arrested for sharing civil pinions on social media management even even initiatives to collect or to talk about seven minutes are being blocked. at least ten people have been

killed in a taliban attack in the afghan city of condolence it comes just a day after the group launched its so-called spring offensive the fighting fled in the northern province as the taliban attacked afghan police and military units more than one hundred people have been killed in over the past two weeks shot 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 can do so 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 for 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 and. 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. wanted to go on 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 it's spring offensive will target foreign occupying forces and it will fight until afghanistan is cleared of the 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 tool. tweeted the spring offensive is reckless and will not advance peace if its. people include. between a taliban of prince of 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. voting has begun in finland's general

election where climate change is one of the main issues it's the first time the planet's rise in temperature has dominated the campaign the anti immigrant offend audie and opposition social democratic party as some of the parties in the race elections will be watched closely fibrous awls where finland is expected to take over the rotating presidency of the european union. thousands of opposition supporters in serbia's capital are calling for the resignation of president alexander full search and alliance of about thirty activists and organizations calling themselves the alliance for serbia has been holding regular demonstrations in belgrade protesters are demanding democratic reforms anti-government protesters have fought with police in albania thousands of people gathered in the capital tehran after opposition parties call for demonstrations and accuse prime minister eddie rama and his government of corruption as the ninth opposition organize rally

there in three months. now they're concerned in tunisia about migrants and refugees who have come from libya trying to cross the medicine. over the past year hundreds from several african countries have ended up on tunisian shores. back in his boat tunisian fishermen he was arrested last year for helping save fourteen african migrants at sea. guards accused him of human trafficking he faced fifteen 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 human just like you and me. while most migrants set off from libya strong currents and bad weather often pushed their fragile boats towards neighboring tunisia. authorities here say they are overwhelmed. with the similar

challenges 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. that 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. more know no on 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 it's been five years since two hundred seventy six school girls were abducted in northeastern nigeria by book fighters the international outcry swapped the bring back our girls movement which continues to this day since over one hundred goes missing. on a force. zaineb doesn't know if her daughter is alive ever so often she sorts through the books in homework who wants her to school on the day she was abducted five years ago over the years her daughter's absence has weighed on the entire family. she's the only female of

our family my other five children are all boys i hope the government has. her daughter is among the two hundred seventy six schoolgirls who were kidnapped by boko haram fighters on april twenty fourth team. the military has rescued or found one hundred seven of the kidnapped girls some were freed in exchange for fighters the negotiations between book are wrong and the government others escaped it's estimated that about one hundred girls are still unaccounted for. in nigeria's capital there are renewed calls for the search to continue security and welfare of the people i married responsibility of the government has promised to destroy book of her arm but its attacks have continued more than twenty thousand people most of them civilians have been killed since two thousand and nine this

family like others in the neighborhood hopes their missing daughter is not one of those victims but we've heard that some parents have been reunited with their daughters as hasn't come back home yet we are losing hope but we're calling on the government to invest more resources to bring back our girls. despite the pain this mother still hopes she will once again see her daughter alive katia lopez so there ya al-jazeera. her again i'm fully back to go with the top stories here on al-jazeera sudan's ruling military council is meeting dozens of political parties to reach a consensus on a transitional government protest leaders want military leaders to college to a civilian authority for two years before elections are held and demonstrate as a going back to the streets for the eighth straight day as have a morgan reports now from car too. one fairly said that they would give him

a few days to figure out if the transitional government that would be leading the country for the coming two years will have civilian representatives or not not just of a leader a present of the want a majority of all new representatives over the past two hours we've seen dozens of people making their way to the army headquarters carrying the sudanese flag there saying that they are going to continue with the city and that's because when he addressed the nation yesterday he said that the military will be taking charge and keeping the order and security of the country but he did and he said that he's going to talk to the political parties but right now they are concerned that the military council is made up of eight members all of them once upon a time they were all out there all the military and once upon a time parts of the regime of president bashir. egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi has met libyan warlord highly for half time in cairo we're still waiting for details of that meeting meanwhile at least one hundred twenty one people have been killed so far in libya during the recent offensive by halftime to take control

of the capital tripoli that's according to the world health organization. as strikes launched by forces loyal to have talked targeted the town of i know a south east of tripoli the u.n. backed government in libya's capital is accusing have tarr of war crimes and not to work them out at the atomically secure several war crimes have been committed such as targeting civilians and medical teams they've targeted schools in airports and the illegal immigrant centers all of this is documented including using minors to fight we will be taking legal procedures nationally and internationally they're still trying to bomb other civilian targets and our forces are still resisting new . in algeria judges say they will boycott the supervision of the upcoming presidential election they fear the vote which is expected in july will be a rig's present what if resigned earlier this month after weeks of protests those

are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is up next a serious. arrested in the u.k. and wanted in the u.s. the wiki leaks founder julian assange on faces an uncertain future after he was kicked out of the ecuadorian embassy in london but will he be extradited what about the allegations of sexual assault and hacking and is this all about freedom of speech or a man hiding from the charges against him this is inside story. hello

i'm kemal santamaria for two thousand four hundred and eighty seven days he was right there within touching distance of the british police but in the end always untouchable and we of course talking about julian assange the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks who for nearly seven years was an unintended guest of the ecuadorian embassy in london as he tried to avoid both angry governments and accusations of sexual assault well on thursday that all changed has ecuador revoked his political asylum and then allowed police into the embassy where he was arrested on the spot it is a complicated story because there are many allegations across multiple countries some of which have been dropped but on technicalities this first arrest dramatically played out in front of the media was for breaching bail it could mean twelve months in prison but then later a songe was arrested again at the request of the united states which wants him

extradited and then there are the sexual assault allegations swedish prosecutors dropped a rape investigation into a sergeant twenty seventeen saying as long as he was in the embassy they couldn't formally notify him of the accusation and a second woman's claim of modest station was halted and twenty fifteen due to time limits what you see here the letters from more than seventy british m.p.'s has written to the home secretary saying the sexual assault allegations should not be forgotten and that a songe should be extradited to sweden first if requested. asunder supporters though say his arrest is an attack on freedom of speech and that he's being punished for exposing war crimes this is a dark day for journalism i was just jennifer's that's the president you know we don't want to this to go forward this has this has to work the i've heard it the u.k. government used to make of it was sure is that a journalist will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activity

this pertains to publishing work nine years ago publishing of documents of videos of killing of innocent civilians exposure of war drives this is journalism. so you can see there are a lot of angles to the julian assange story and they need some clarity so here we go a songe first sort refuge in that embassy in london to avoid extradition to sweden over those two separate sexual assault allegations which he does deny both those investigations were dropped after prosecutors ran out of time to question him but now swedish prosecutors say they are read salmon in one of those cases he's seven years in the ecuadorian embassy ended over what was called quote discourteous and aggressive behavior and concerns that he was interfering in the country's affairs and then as we mentioned a son faces extradition to the united states on charges of conspiring to hack into a government computer along with

a former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning that dates back to twenty ten and there are also the democratic party e-mails published by wiki leaks and twenty sixteen jury in the u.s. election campaign which have raised some questions over songes links perhaps to russia. i lots to talk about and we've got a great panel to do that with starting in london with michael patrick joyce he is a barrister in international and european law in philadelphia clear thankful stein who's a professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school and rounding out our panel in norfolk in the u.k. vaughan smith who is a freelance journalist and a personal friend of julian assange and so able to give us some interesting insight there in fact why don't i start with you. even as a supporter i suspect mr assad's knew this is why this day had to come didn't it the ecuadorians after nearly seven years we're probably going to run out of i guess patience might be the word at some stage well i if this came because there was

a change of political administration in ecuador there was a new president who had different populaces of the previous one out attempted to get julian to ecuador but we didn't as a country the british didn't allow allow julian to leave the embassy so we you in touch how much were you in touch with with mr us on shit leading up to this friday before last so eight days ago i had to but because you have to book to go and visit him and so i saw about an hour and a half now he'd be expected to be kicked out he was expecting it from before christmas that any day he would be kicked out i think he was planning to walk out i was quite upset i must say to see the way he was dragged out because i feel that was done really for the television cameras to promote the idea that he was a sort of fugitive the sort so i was quite disappointed that he wasn't able to have a bit more dignity than the point i would make just before i go to our other guests

is that. he made that choice to go into that embassy nearly seven years ago didn't he i know there's been a lot of talk he sort of almost felt like he was under house arrest that he couldn't move and couldn't go out but he made that decision knowing what could happen maybe not knowing he'd be in there for seven years but certainly knowing what the consequences could be. well yes i mean he kind of he claimed asylum he was given diplomatic asylum and that has been revoked which i understand is against international law and i understand it was tested in the inter-marriage can call it human rights quite recently by the sanders lawyers who found his favor and also i think it's important to observe that julian has won on all of the supranational bodies that are available to him for example united nations working group probably detention determined that he was detained and i understand that is the hostel for a few thing but but but unfortunately or fortunately but whatever these are these judgments aren't your britain america and ecuador are i don't have to apply those

judgments there advisory is my understanding but nevertheless you know if the highest authority in the world determines who's arbitrary to trains a need to detain and he deserved xylem and that is fine the other headlines very important to point out. because i think there's a corrective needed he claimed asylum to avoid being extradited to america which is the thing that appears to be happening now and he's been very consistent about that and he said that he feared and even he knew there was an extradition genesis the time almost all of them thought that wasn't happening and now it is so you know the swedish thing he said that he would be happy to go to sweden to face those charges he wants you know his day in court just as the women deserve it too and i think is very important very interesting that the that this letter has gone around which i support i think it's really good that that he does go to sweden but it mustn't be misunderstood he said that he would go to sweden if they could be guaranteed that he was going to be extradited the united states that's what he's trying to avoid ok

i'll come back to you shortly one let's go to michael patrick joyce now in london for some. i was going to say legal advice legal perspective let's put it that way he was arrested where we've outlined there with one the the different issues which mr assange has faced in the end he was arrested for skipping bail twelve months in a u.k. prison is the. likely situation to see that how it how it plays out because there is this pressure to the maximum ok that's the maximum penalty that he could get what has happened is that he was tried in westminster magistrates court on thursday convicted of the charge of breaching his bail of not answering to his bail back in two thousand and twelve and the magistrates court has now remitted the case to the crown court so the crown court which will determine the sentence at a date to be fixed now twelve months is the maximum there is a judicial discretion as to where the precise term of imprisonment if that is

imposed rests but will be a shorter period of time ok will do you think and i know there's a lot of speculation involved in everything we talk about today but do you think the united states will be putting the pressure on and saying actually we want to now we want and sooner rather than later though i think that there is a jew process in relation to extradition and it's quite clear that due process will have to be followed i don't think there's any means of short circuiting this. that would be an infringement of the process of law or the rule of law and i think it's probably going to be rather protracted proceedings. and what about the issue michael of sweden already brought that up there the just explain again to our viewers what's happened as i understand time basically ran out can these charges allegations come back i believe the swedes are already talking about possibly reinvestigating. well there was a series of charges or these allegations that he was facing in sweden and they

range they were they were all serious but they range from molestation and coercion to allegations of rape now as i understand it under swedish law and you have to understand i'm an english law specialist from the swedish law specialist so i can't speak with total authority but it's my understanding that within that range of allegations sa the allegations in relation to the station and coercion had a statute of limitations and therefore the time in relation to investigation of those as i understood it rather and that really is the end of it the more serious charges of rape i don't think there is a statute of limitations in sweden but there is an important distinction between raising allegations under swedish law and charging someone you have to have access you have to charge in the presence of the accused and obviously whilst mr assad was

in the ecuadorian embassy that was impossible so the the investigation in relation to the rape allegations really ran into the sand and reached an impasse so that the swedish laura his desisted from continuing now i have no doubt that in sweden there will be a big debate as to whether that disses sitting from continuing means that it's simply gone into a balance and now can be revived or whether having desisted then that's an end of the matter that's a matter for swedish law and i'm sure will be hotly debated and contested in swedish courts ok time to bring in clear finkelstein in philadelphia for the us perspective i like what we're doing here actually which is laying out all the facts without getting into the subject of stuff just yet clear let's talk about the indictment which the us has got and i note that it is very carefully. britain has not been charged with publishing government secrets which would be usually the big

headline he has been charged with committing unlawful computer intrusion explain this one to us face that's correct so it's not quite espionage and it's not as civilly just receiving stolen government documents and classified documents and disseminating them which would be a problem if he is indeed to be considered a journalist because it would be protected activity under the first amendment is something in between which is basically computer hacking and he's accused of doing this as part of a conspiracy with them bradley manning now chelsea manning who clearly violated the law and she would be the principal and of course he would be an accessory to that crime and part of the conspiracy so is this a way of going after him for something which is more likely to be successful as you say there is well there is a gray area over journalism over freedom of speech.