really concerned about health impact infrastructure is not adequate enough to cope with a large influx as well as security so the united is just telling al-jazeera that they are also making the necessary preparations they don't see it right now but they're making preparations to is there's a massive flow off refugees from across the border in tunisia. there are also concerns in tennessee about asylum seekers have come from libya trying to cross the mediterranean by boats over the past year hundreds from several african countries have ended up on tennessean shores has this report from. back in his boat tunisian fisherman selim bill he 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 grandmama fury remember i didn't commit a crime and i would do it again we cannot abandon them with 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. it's already as you say they are overwhelmed. tunisia faced 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 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. 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. most were still to come on the al-jazeera news hour and one mother's plea to the nigerian government to finally bring back the girls abducted by boko hard five years ago years of austerity and climate change give an opening to the left as finland votes in parliamentary elections in sports the battle for the english premier league title is going down to the wire all the details.

but first the white house is standing by donald trump's tweets about a muslim congresswoman despite accusations they're putting her life at risk press secretary sarah sanders says democrats to join trump in criticizing omar trump selectively quoted omar making it look like she was downplaying the nine eleven attacks and certainly the president is wishing no ill will and certainly not violence towards anyone but the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congress mall and for her not only one time but history of anti-semitic comments the bigger question is why aren't democrats doing the same thing it's absolutely a poor at the comments that she continues to make and has made and they look the other way find out what her comments to be absolutely disgraceful and

unbefitting of a member of congress and i think that it's a good thing that the president is calling her out for those comments from washington john hendren takes us through the full story. it was a provocative 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 founded 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 what 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 joke for the president is not one of his boring jokes this is serious with us to do with 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 al-jazeera washington. families of more than one hundred schoolgirls missing in nigeria have marked five years since they were taken they gathered in chibok in northern borno state where the girls were abducted by the armed group boko haram fighters stormed the school and took two hundred seventy six people some of whom have been rescued or freed the international outcry sparked to bring back our girls movement which continues to this day. has more.

zainab 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 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 a new calls for the search to continue security and welfare of the people i'm

a responsibility of the government has promised to destroy 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. so the young al-jazeera judges in algeria say they will boycott the supervision of the upcoming presidential elections they fear the vote which is expected in july will be rigged demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the interim administration president with a fico resigned earlier this month after weeks of protests. by international.

we the judges of algeria have on a quickly decided to boycott supervising the presidential elections for the fourth of july and thousands of algerians living in europe are also demanding new leadership. is in our london broadcast center is with us more about that. we have seen algerians living here in london but also in other cities like paris come out on the streets demand the immediate resignation of the interim government in the british capital a rallied in trafalgar square calling for hours of former president abdul aziz buttafuoco to be removed from power they say the interim leader abdul qadeer been southern mexico as well he's been a member of the ruling elite for almost two decades. well in all the stories we're following finland is on course to have its first left wing prime minister in

sixteen years early polling puts the social democrats in the lead with around a third of the vote now counted but in a split feel whoever wins will most certainly have to form a coalition and looks now at the issues at the heart of the election. it's a nation of five and a half million people which tops the united nations world happiness rankings but voters in finland do have their worries and they've all played into the uncertainty surrounding sunday's parliamentary elections four years of austerity cuts have helped push the social democrats the center left opposition into the lead ahead of the vote there promising to increase taxes to fight inequality the big question is how to reform education reform. how to care for people. very big questions for us. part about. last month the government of prime minister resigned after it failed to achieve

a key policy goal on social welfare and health care reform how finland which only emerged from recession three years ago continues to fund its generous welfare state is one dividing line another is immigration the social democrats favor a work related immigration policy to compensate for the aging population and declining birth rate but the nationalist party which has been running a close second is proposing tougher limits on immigration who want to reduce to us was possible. the kind of immigration that is in our opinion damaging to the public finances of the country and to the safety and security of people that he's. so-called humanitarian immigration from the third world defames party has had an effect on the way that we speak about immigration and other parties are being very cautious about their stand in the immigration issue

because they are fearing. their support with. party another issue on many minds especially in cities like the capital helsinki is climate change and the environment. same politics up artists like you. year after year rick. you know we have this offer here. we have the respect back to the mother nature over stood there with. the girl there are like one thing to take care of the climate are. more cautious but environments which have a policy gets the most votes it will almost certainly have to form a coalition government but foodland could be about to get its first left wing prime minister in two decades. now to developments in ukraine where a televised debate at the national stadium ahead of next sunday's presidential runoff election descended into farce when one of the participants failed to turn up

incumbent president petro poroshenko is left to take questions alone is rival vladimir zelinsky a comedian with no political experience wanted the debate closer to sunday's vote par shango who is trailing in the polls called out his opponent. third the critical moment i am fully certain that you are what he is now i hope you've already come back from punishment summarized and with renewed vigor are ready to take part in a core element of democracy in the debate but meanwhile there's been more action in eastern ukraine where the army and air force of held military drills close to areas controlled by russian backed rebels. are planning to build a military base in the region on the coast of the as i've seen which separates southeastern ukraine from russia more than ten thousand people have died in fighting between ukraine and moscow back separatist since russia annexed crimea five years ago. that's it from london for now i can daryn. thank

you or at least seven children have been killed during an explosion in eastern afghanistan seven others were injured in like one province it happened in a village on the outskirts of the provincial capital. and there's been fighting in the city of course that's where the taliban launched an assault against the afghan police and military as part of its so-called spring offensive ten people were killed and nearly forty injured while the main highway was closed and shops abandoned charlotte tell us 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 momentum of the taliban once again wanted to disrupt the peace and security and couldn't do so but security forces have inflicted a lot of casualties on their own and we are assuring the great people of good news

that the taliban are kind of a thing 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 full back through the night forcing a major highway to close and taking police checkpoints inside the city. this police officer tells us that the taliban were firing on them from this tree line into police and soldiers filled wards includes 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 the 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's. 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 reg's 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's in 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 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 facebook instagram and whatsapp have restored services after going down earlier on sunday down detector dot com a site the monitor has outages said there were reports of problems in the us europe and parts of asia has tags about the outages were at the top three trending topics on twitter facebook which owns instagram and whatsapp had another major outage a month ago. prescription drug prices in the united states are among the highest in the world and members of congress are under increasing pressure to lower the costs . salumi spoke to one family struggling to pay for a life saving medication. hunter sego went off to college to study biochemistry and play football but he put it all that risk due to his worries about his family's finances a family sacrificed to keep me alive it was costing them fourteen hundred dollars

a month or to pay for the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes even with health insurance i certainly russia. has suffered for. so he cut back his treatments and ended up in the hospital. al-jazeera caught up with his mother a schoolteacher in rural indiana via skype and she talked about the choices her family had to make. oh. yes. i'm not sure. i just. rationing medication is increasingly common according to the american diabetes association the price of insulin has nearly tripled uninsured families are facing this families that may have insurance are also facing the high cost of insulin

recent congressional hearings have pointed fingers at so-called pharmacy benefit managers middlemen negotiate discounts on drugs for insurance companies and my experience that kind of negotiation rarely results in an act of charity for consumers but ultimately its promise to tickle companies that set their own prices a cost that isn't fully covered by many americans health insurance policy if a company raises the price of a product by twenty percent and then another company comes in and says that we're giving you a twenty percent discount you know have they really save you money lawmakers have indicated that they're working towards legislation that will limit how these middlemen make money and provide more transparency to the process kathy sego tells us something has to be done and quickly. so i know i mean break out of this report to take you to heart to where the sudanese military is speaking right now let's listen in. but i think the real

fully we're going to. the development in. and following the puppet opinion. by providing advice to any authority that was in place then and also given many advice. which i thought. so i think the media has a big. huge contribute. and that we in the. transitional military council. the role because we're on top in orders and responsible for achieving the big. as operations through the minutes of. the first meeting of today and it. has

resulted in many decisions which i would like to say in this conference. also they are the political forces that met in the afternoon of today and the sub. tasks of the council all the head of the council. he has issued many decisions the first of which was. that mr howard been all of the general general. who has had designed. and although he has resigned he would still. in service and he also now he has. said that he would retire. he was also

a leader and. in the. military council long so. other decisions to restructure the. military force and also with the leadership of the place by appointing. head which is mr general. part of the transitional council. we also. within the. priorities that's to do with the. general command and then the intelligence. missed the general sort of hundred engineer who's known as. his resignation was accepted and also he has been accepted to. go to retirement and appointing

the head of. the national intelligence and security and there are also other. arrangements are taking place in the military. department particularly in the respect of security and intelligence. that this is going to be taken place within the restructuring of this service as. the council has. yes that they want within. their vision plan. work and has issued a number of decisions and the name of the transitional military council. we also have taken a lot of the recommendations from the new. media conference that we have taken

and the outcome of the meeting with the media will also take into consideration any points that we see fit the military council also yesterday made many meetings with the diplomatic services yesterday the military political committee and the military council on through set up for committees political committee that is to deal with political issues and it is concerned with the another concern with also one with the peace and the international relationships there is also another committee. that is concerned with economic economy and services

and a committee. concerns with social. affairs. with respect to the. political committee yesterday the. arab group and the issue group and america and the african groups have made some. meeting and a number of leaders from. different countries. but the head of the. military. council to deal with saudi arabia qatar. and the south of sudan there has been a meeting also with the charger the for. the american the further within the european. countries also the head met.

with the chief of the transitional military council. to point out. something to do with the way the military council deal with some of the issues. reflected in the spirit of the revolution. and these are values that we have to take into consideration and follow in all our decisions so that there is no violation of. of this decision in order to settle scores. it is important to maintain peace and observe the law and not exclude anybody or to cause enmity to anybody and they said this is

a general principle the council follows and we assure that this is what we make sure. the following are the decisions of the military council as they are as follows. to review. the law. of the of the public order and this would be referred to by competent authority to study it and make the. right decision in the specter of a public order. to form a committee. which it has actually taken its. tasks to deal with the province's it is concerned with. dealing with the. national congress and it has taken its

task immediately also the anti corruption service is to be appointed immediately and to take its task under the new roles to also include. implement apply the law on the previously that ship in the respect of. of corruption not just those members of the former regime but everybody else who is suspected of corruption and the names will be added subsequent to the list that is in existence also to release the activists the national activists who . will deliver. and. who was under section fifteen fifty fifty fifty one fifty six and sixty in. seventeen and also the activist mohammad that has and the sheriff and bush who was

also arrested under sections fifty fifty one sixty one of the criminal law the decision was to be released within mediate effect and the head of the. military council has signed the degree to release. to release all the. officers of the army and police and the state security who had been accused of participating in the. dispersant the people. to. adhere to all the treaties and conventions in accordance with the high interests of the country in accordance with the international protocols. in the past.

international treaty which were not properly ratified to look at the diplomatic missions and to review the appoint appointment of some of the ministers also shortly a decision had been issued to relieve. general engineer mohamed mohler the. ambassador to the united states and took the order to stop our smart. relieved from the responsibilities and the evaluation is still carrying on. in the afternoon of the day it was the meeting of the political. committee in the. hold the purpose was to let the political. forces. have the facts regarding the changes in accordance with the

demands of the sudanese people and to give an update of the developments and to. attempt to create a new government. that. also deal with some important political issues. and also to. decide. the. the nature of the relationship between the council and the civilian. institutions in order to be able to coordinate the running of the affairs. in respect to all so and and this would be irresponsible for a point in the prime minister also responsible for.

restructuring the government and we will be a word can with them in order to work within a framework. we also. came out with a request to all the parties and all the other. entities that are nonpartizan that are existing includes the youth organizations and women's organizations and we started by right then. issuing a written decisions. and made sure that a secretary at a has been formed so that the written decisions are to be disseminated to those the from the plant meant through the military council and we will issue a document that. states clearly. such

a relationship. we would have you know sure. also people that. all the provisions and the role products will be made available to people and also particularly oil gusher lean. will be particularly the. bread. flour and the we. for the year two thousand and nineteen we have achieved. that this would be supported and we are. sure reassured to great extent that this

will be supplied to meet the needs. and just.