egypt's president has met the libyan war not have to incur abdul fattah el-sisi spokesman says the pair discussed developments in libya but would up to what head as this update from tripoli paramedics and red cross and teams continue trying to reach out to civilians is stuck in the areas near the fighting areas in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital as sporadic fighting continues between forces loyal to the warlords really for have turned and forces loyal to the. government of national accord now the government is accusing have to those forces of committing war crimes as random shelling random rockets launched by have to the forces have been landing in populated areas and the government here says that fifty eight have been killed so far many of them are civilians on the other side of libya namely on the. terminal crossing terminal between libya and tunisia

authorities there say that the crossing terminal is witnessing a high traffic of civilians leaving libya because of the of the fighting now the meeting between the warlords who for have and president had sisi might come in terms of. support to the world really for have to we know that egypt to egyptian army alongside the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have been supporting the warlord the khalifa haftar that have been supporting the military operations led by in the east. of libya we also know that u.s. media reported that saudi officials said that have to has been promised tens of millions of dollars to support his military on face of to take over the capital

tripoli has been promised by saudi arabia to finance the military operation to take over the capital tripoli but the fact that have to the offensive has been derailed by the resistance from the government forces in tripoli might have might have disturbed have regional supporters. all right well now we can speak to most of africa tour his an independent libyan academic is joining us from paris via skype thank you for talking to us at the what do you think general. has made his way to the egyptian capital of what do you think president c.c. is saying to him well i'd like to see you or. an atheist. as he was. always ago and what we americans in the think.

that's one thing the other thing what would we. expect i'm going to. be a long. romy with breasts and war some crying point three if you like it well. or. ration one way or the other on the other hand most likely who request the role be more sustained. movement and so on the so-called. can i think there's a right can i can i jump in there because that takes me on to my next question i was good to us are we often we often say that after is supported by a variety of countries including egypt in the u.a.e. what specifically what kind of assistance is it getting from the egyptians from the artists. well i'm sure he'll get

a. point actual assistance functions in. the morning and see more of the world. no more of the. column but move begins to mutual a little more to be more neutral and. beyond employment you need my nerves with. me. and now one last question i do and i do think our line is. degrading somewhat but one last question let's just try and them many people had originally thought that after was basically making a gesture making a gesture of the a.b. taking a bit more seriously have a more secure position when it came to the national conference clearly the national conferences has been scrapped at least for now and it looks as though he's serious it looks as though he's going to try to take the capital starting this hour well

who'll be national comports with the united nations taking boeing taking over and is one of the we expected no a long time ago was only a matter. of you know a little bit would be national on support. for turi thank you very much indeed the two. that have the guilt of thousands of refugees and migrants are caught up in the violence in libya which of course has been a major focal point for people who are trying to leave the continent of africa and get to europe now many of them a try to get back to some of the countries along that transit route al-jazeera zama dangerous has more now from agadez in neighboring new share. popish isn't locals here telling us dozens of people are crossing the border from libya into agonise every week that is the position right now you know that is in addition to the thousands of migrants who are still trapped here are people who fled i recently from libya into are going to this trying to find refuge from the ongoing crisis in

that country and there are more people by the way who are coming into i get is try to wait out the situation in libya waiting for the right moment to cross the border into libya as a transit point and then into europe now the horses here and i get it including humanitarian workers like the united nations high commission for refugees and other non-governmental organizations have risen up for a massive inflow of refugees from libya the traffic of human humanity or more by grants is now going to people instead of going to libya are now coming back to here and i get this well facilities are overstretched obviously are really concerned about health impact infrastructure is not adequate enough to cope with a large influx as well as security so the united nations is telling al-jazeera that they are also making the necessary preparations they don't see it right now but they're making preparations in case there is a massive flow of refugees from across the border in tunisia here well there is

a flow of the migrants refugees moving from libya into tunisia where they they attempt to get on debates and again to try to get to europe and then for the past year or so hundreds from many different african countries and ended up on the shoulders of tunisia because hank has this report from. back in his boat tunisian fisherman was arrested last year for helping save fourteen african migrants at sea the telling because guards accused him of human trafficking he faced fifteen years in prison but was later released after months in detention. government you remember 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 tunisia 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 knowing 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 was even more tempting to make that dangerous journey nicholas hawk al-jazeera at the tunisian libyan border . most more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including the u.s. president's accused of inciting violence and dividing americans after he sent a tweet attacking a muslim congresswoman. venezuela's opposition leader calls a nationwide protest against the president during his visit to an oil rich region. and install peter will be here with action from the formula one chinese from three .

egypt's parliament is due to debate proposed amendments to the cult situation that would extend the presidential term limit from four to six years it would also allow abdul fattah el-sisi to run again after his two terms attention extending his rule to twenty thirty for a clause in the amendments could commit the army to support one politician at the cost of another if approved by parliament the changes would be put to the vent in a referendum that's me to my good man door now who is a political analyst specializing in egyptian affairs he's joining us via skype from zurich in switzerland thank you very much indeed give me an idea of what show all of what show impression is of these proposed constitutional amendments. well my impression is that they will pass most likely. however they will basically change the way that the political system works and it

will. change the position of the military within the political system now it will be the duty of the. military to protect the secular nature of the state which will be open up the way for. and intervention in a policy more than. not what particularly concerned you most is it the fact that i mean if all of this goes through of course that abdel fattah el-sisi could potentially be in office until twenty thirty four always at the fact that the military will be explicitly involved in politics of the country while of course if he's going to say it feels twenty thirty four that's not good but that's not the main. problem here there are structural.

changes that will basically. as you. pointed out will make the military a bob the. government as well as kind of subordinate the judiciary even more to the president right so the words with egypt and they go. dictator right so parliament is basically in the pocket of the ruling administration but there are some independents i mean do you think that they can have any sway in this debate it is currently did being debated in parliament or is it is it a shoo in and these basically get it get passed by parliament but they will then get a referendum they're not. being

a lot of parliament level we're not likely. to do in this day of the egyptian vision although in the referendum is not likely however the end of the opening of the probably. the might be a chance for the opposition to the. action but the likelihood that the amendment will mark how there is very likely. the maggot monday or thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from switzerland the judges in algeria say they'll boycott the supervision of the upcoming presidential elections they fear the vote which is expected on july the fourth will be rigged demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the interim administration president abdelaziz bouteflika resigned earlier this month after weeks of protests. are. we the judges of

algeria have on a quickly decided to boycott supervising the presidential elections that assured chilled purport to lie well i've been speaking to the bucker who is a research fellow at the paris based school for the advanced studies in the social sciences and she says why the boycott by the judges is an important ways. so i moved out it's part of a larger moment actively that want to disconnect from their regions plans and imports to control the transition you know for a cause that doing good for you has passed three men and dates algerians have been shifted from indifference do are they going you want we don't take we don't care about your politics we let us just leave our lives to you both cut it was actually already this is the situation of my country already experienced it for the past two monday it's to

a refusal to let the regime on their on its own and alone control 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 and to come and to make you fall out of the regime to control transition and actually you know point and this will are it's an important move because this will force the regime to for something tangible now to yemen where the parliament has met for the first time since you see rebels seize the capital in twenty fifteen president added rebel mansour hadi leads the internationally recognized government flew in from saudi arabia matheson reports. for the first time since the war began president out there are two months so hard he addresses a session of yemen's. by the bullets at the sons of

yemen targeting state institutions and they blew up the homes of yemenis and their mosques leaving nothing in authentic yemeni culture customs and values targeting them with vandalism and destruction. parliament hasn't met since the fight for control of yemen began four years ago between who the rebels backed by iran and a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates which supports the united nations recognized government of president hadi he's been living mainly in saudi arabia since being forced to leave yemen when the war began the priority for this session is to fill parliamentary positions but that may not be easy the posts in this parliament were last occupied in two thousand and nine and its original six year term has long expired and only about half of the three hundred one parliamentary members have turned up for this meeting. in the astral column to favor peace over violence to transform into

a political player exercising their rights and for filling their obligations in mind which a large constitution let's all embrace the options of peace according to the parliament's facebook page one hundred ninety two parliamentarians support these government forty five are under house arrest by the who feeds thirty three have died and thirty one have refused to take part. a big difference between this parliament being legal and our constitutional and or having hope in this parliament so very few are expecting anything from this parliament but again we are hoping that this parliament could at least help and this war no doubt. it won't see any brutes where the only people directly. but the who say honey is government doesn't have the support it claims they're not holding their own elections in areas they control to try to reduce the higher the government's majority two days ago saudi state television reported that coalition forces attacked who see targets in the

capital sana'a president hadi may have a difficult job convincing yemenis that this problem is a way to peace road matheson's others it. is time for the weather his death taking is to north america and that looks pretty ominous behind you really notice the old system crossing north america at the moment martin let's take a closer look at them because here's the big comma of cloud here and it's within that that we saw some really dangerous conditions imagine looking out your backyard and seeing that flying through just have to hope that the pane of glass of your window is kind of equal to that wind the really dangerous conditions and this system gradually pushed its way eastwards bringing very strong winds are a lot of hail and even some tornadoes with it so the worst of that was in texas that's where we saw some of the worst of the damage this place was hit by a tornado you can see a lot of twisted metal there a lot of snapped trees and a lot of up rooted trees as well have called quite a bit of damage in some parts but here's where we saw the worst of the storm

reports you can see the bright red to those of those tornadoes there around sixteen reports of different tornadoes about one hundred different wind reports of damage and then plenty of large hail stones as well and we haven't finished with this system yet is just galloping its way east but it's going to be eastern parts where we see the worst of the weather over the next twenty four hours so for some of us from about carolina up to pennsylvania i think that's where there's the greatest risk of seeing some really damaging weather and then to the north of that will be seeing it turn wintery so here that's likely to be blizzards and an awful lot of snow on the ground by the time it's finished marty said thank you very much indeed still to come here on the al-jazeera news one mother's cleaved to the nine. jiri and government to bring back the girls abducted by barbara. and then for their great relief for one batter in major league baseball these are over here to explain .

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let's have a look at the top story here on the al-jazeera news hour 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 cede power to a civilian authority the two years before elections are held. at least one hundred twenty one people have been killed in the 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. judges in algeria have

announced they'll boycott the supervision of presidential elections expected on july the fourth they say the vote could be rigged demonstrates as keeping up the pressure on the interim administration. has been five years since two hundred seventy six school girls were abducted in northeastern nigeria by boko haram some of them have been rescued all freed but many of them are still missing the international outcry spalls the bring back our girls movement which continues to this day says many of the girls a still missing kathy lopez or diane has more. zaineb doesn't know if her daughter is alive ever so often she slips through the books in homework how 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. one night in a tiny had

a our you know she's the only female of our family my other five children are all boys. i hope the government has pity on us. 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 a negotiation 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 primary responsibility of the government has promised to destroy book on 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. we've heard that some parents have been reunited with their daughters who 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 the young al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump has been accused of pushing the life of a congresswoman at risk through one of his tweets trump selectively quoted. a somali american member of congress making it look like she was downplaying the nine eleven attacks john hundred has a 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

kerry 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 jokes this is serious with us 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 omar 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. the president says he's open to a third summit with the north korean leader kim jong un he was responding to kim's off a mortal by the end of the year if washington comes to the table with quote the right attitude the left february a summit in vietnam without an agreement on the nuclear disarmament of the korean peninsula. and the section of state says he's hopeful that dano can resume. and respect we 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 nuclear station that graham very confident will continue to move down the path of achieving that

outcome there's been fighting in the afghan city of kunduz after the taliban launched an assault against the afghan police and military ten people were killed almost forty were injured while a main highway was closed and shops were abandoned the fighting began on friday as part of the start of the taliban so-called spring offensive shelob ellis reports. bullet casings lissa the ground is 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 known as the taliban once again wanted to disrupt the peace and security and couldn't use 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 said special forces killed several taliban and destroyed weapons in 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 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 heavier strikes before dawn broke on saturday many close to sean. some started to flee the city. a mortar hit that area until now 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 fit to taliban ranks 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 it's. people in condos are often caught 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 at dulles al-jazeera. voting began in finland's general election where

climate change is one of the main issues it's the first time the globe that global warming has dominated an election campaign the anti immigrant phin party and the opposition social democratic party some of the passes in the race elections will be watched closely by brussels where finland is expected to take the rotating e.u. presidency feathers wayland's have been marking the seventeenth anniversary of a failed coup against the former leader hugo chavez thousands of government supporters lined the streets today of president nicolas maduro speak since chavez's death venezuela has been going through a political and economic crisis forcing many to seek refuge in neighboring countries. meanwhile the opposition leader one guy joe is continuing to visit his supporters across the country to try to persuade them to help him oust the president he's in the north west where residents are still angry over blackouts

that have continued for more than a month meanwhile the president remains defiant on saturday he called on more than two million militia members to defend his government there see a new man replied. it's. a show of bravado on the tenth anniversary of venezuelans bolivarian militia 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. was able to overturn a coup against him briefly ousted him and installed an opposition leader. as then israel is transitional president now his successor a new class of a little is 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 the country apart they want to install or government over our role of the imperialists. as he spoke opposition leader fund why dog was rallying support in the oil rich 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 the temperatures that surpass forty degrees. after visiting soulis patron saint why don't predicted that the people of monaco able and israel a second largest city would be the ones to lead what he called the final insurrection against mother. we're here not to rise up because it is 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. while 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 the 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 prescription drug prices in the united states of the highest in the world are members of congress are under increasing pressure to lower their costs out as there is christian salumi has been speaking to one family struggling to pay for life saving medication. hunter seger went after college.