zero zero. zero. hello i missed in this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes president on a veto as a congressional resolution to end u.s. involvement in the war in yemen. polls open for indonesian elections with president djoko widodo hoping to beat his rival proposed to be on to. addressing the nation from says president vows to rebuild not and lays out an ambitious timetable. and fighting increases around the libyan capital has the united nations calls for

an end to the violence. u.s. president donald trump has vetoed a resolution by congress calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen congress has expressed concern about the thousands of civilians killed in coalition air strikes since the conflict began and twenty fourteen yemen has been pushed to the brink of famine with a million suffering from food and medicine shortages trump says the move by congress threatened to weaken his constitutional power well we're joined now by rosen and jordan who is following the story for us from washington d.c. rose talk us through what we're hearing from the white house. well the white house put out a statement in the last ninety minutes or so to stasia basically saying that putting into effect senate joint resolution number seven would it essence tie the

president's hands given that he serves also not just as president but as commander in chief of the u.s. military the president's veto message says that doing so would violate the u.s. is military obligations to countries such as saudi arabia which has been leading the air war against the fighters who are trying to take control of gambit from the elected government of president hadi doubt the people on capitol hill who opposed this ongoing support for the saudi led air war say that not only is it the catastrophic about of humanitarian suffering that has been taking place it directly because of u.s. support for the air coalition but also the ongoing practice at least in the view of these members of congress that the u.s. has been engaged in conflicts around the world but out a specific authorization from congress itself and then there's the final point the

murder last october third of jamal khashoggi the saudi writer who was a dope castell opinion writer for the washington post they're very upset that no what has actually been brought to account for the berger of jamal khashoggi they believe the crown prince mohammed bin solid body of saudi arabia and so for those three reasons congress was really trying to put an end to the u.s. military support for the saudi coalition in this air war but dull trouble is arguing on tuesday night that to basically put this measure into law in effect would undercut his authority that he calls it unconstitutional that's why he's issued the veto about such as the visa is widely expected what options does congress now have ahead of itself. well at least two senators chris murphy of connecticut and kate over to have issued statement see the all go we

conduct of the u.s. military in supporting the saudi air coalition is simply a tangible they're both democrats but they're wholly go both democrats and republicans with they were heard for a beer or two week recess to try to vote to override the presidential veto dealt with the burger was voted on the big get two thirds of every would it even have the house or the senate to vote for this measure if so try to get to that threshold reverse the president's action is a heavy lift but there is. congress about the president's veto russell and jordan following developments in washington for us there thank you as. well to indonesia now where more than one hundred ninety million eligible voters are casting their ballots in the wild the largest single day elections in

a first of the presidential and legislative elections are being held at the same time the government says it's being done to cut costs this vote as a repeat of the twenty fourteen poll with incumbent joko widodo facing a challenge from a former general provost of ianto the muslim majority country comprises more than seventeen thousand islands. well let's take a closer look at the candidates as we mentioned this is a rematch between the current president joko widodo and propose to be otto jacoby as he is known was twice the mayor of the city of solo and elected governor of jakarta in two thousand and twelve he became president in twenty fourteen winning fifty three percent of the votes then on the campaign trail he's promised continued improvements to roads bridges and social programs his rival candidate has to be on toes the former son in law of so hot oh who ruled indonesia for three. decades ago i was a former commander of military special forces and he has promised to lower prices

for basic necessities like fuel and food well out of there as wayne has lived in the indonesian capital jakarta when polls are open and from what you're seeing met the indonesians appear to see a stick about the process this time around. well it certainly seems that way the polling groups here in the capital city jakarta have been open for just two hours now these polling stations right in the heart of the city have seen a fairly steady number of coaches coming through even though we are hearing some reports of irregularities not just in the capital city but in particular further afield in some of the more remote areas reports coming in that some of the voting paper ballot boxes still haven't been delivered to some of those polling stations because of logistical problems but here in the city we are seeing a feely good to an out so far it seems it's going to be very difficult though to gauge exactly what the turnout is because we're talking about some eight hundred

thousand polling stations right around the country for the more than one hundred ninety million eligible voters so we're talking about only a few hundred of votes is coming to each polling station really so the polling stations in the capital city in this part of the country will be open for another four hours it's a very small window for indonesians to come out and vote and about a couple of hours after those polls close we'll start to see some of the early very unofficial provisional results start to come through when you have been following both campaigns what have been the main issues that the candidates have focused on. well i think undoubtedly as usual the economy has been talked about a lot through this very long campaign we've seen the president joke oh we don't. spend much of his time really trying to sell the indonesians on what he has achieved over the past five years economically particularly when it comes to

infrastructure investment and development being probably a bit more real populist approach from the challenger to the presidency probable so beyond so he's focused a lot on creating more jobs even though the jobless rate is at a twenty year low in indonesia also focusing on the cost of living reducing food prices and things like that but undoubtedly one of the main issues is also being a religion this country is increasingly being divided it seems along conservative and moderate religious lines and we've seen in particular after the conservative muslim vote he has formed alliances with some of the hardline muslim groups in this country some of whom some of which want to introduce islamic law to indonesia even declare a caliphate there is no sign that provo himself wants to go along those lines but it will be raising some concerns among more moderate indonesians as to which

direction he may take the country in should he win this presidential election and how does there is a way in hay watching polling in jakarta for us thank you wayne well we can speak to in wilson who is a research fellow at bedok university is asia research center and he also joins us from jakarta in these are two very different men a form of fan it's just salesman who i believe has a bit of heavy metal on the side against an army general from the political elite so it's it seems even more remarkable that they appear to have been running on quite similar platforms. yes well i mean on one level i think this election is kind of a status quo election despite the fact that there's been a lot of focus on sort of polarizing effect of of islamic politics if you look at the platforms of both candidates they have a kind of a similar sort of time in. all sort of been i guess influenced by some of the trompe in style politics he's even used the phrase making in asia great again and

sort of appealed to those in indonesia who feel that things haven't really improved much for them over the past five years or in-joke always case he's trying to highlight some of these achievements in terms of building infrastructure those some of the critics the sort of criticisms of the brain that it's been slow some of it's a bit off the mark so in some respects it's sort of it's a call to to have faith that he's project is going to be a sort of for the fruits heading into the future and let me ask you about this perceived shift towards a more conservative islam how much of this election is that is about identity and religion and together. sure i mean it's probably worth looking at it from two specific angles it is a general consensus that there has been a sort of an increase in more self-conscious expressions of religious piety in indonesia but on the sort of the other hand i don't think it's necessarily links

itself to a particular kind of political project and some of the good research has shown that increasing religious piety doesn't necessarily. result in receptiveness to the idea of introducing islamic law either way if you go back to a couple years ago with the case around the former governor of jakarta who was. put in prison for blasphemy allegations this saw some hardline groups form an alliance they considered their mobilizations around the our case a great political success and in some respects have tried to sort of reproduce that model at the national level now from last point of view i think it's quite an expedient alliance he's not religiously inclined himself but sort of engaging in a sort of populist politics he's seen the sort of instrumental value of hitching a ride with these not the other hand we dawdle has come under attacks from this alliance that he's not religious that he's persecuting particular religious

scholars except for and so it's sort of trying to protect his flank by forming a much closer alliance with to alarm is commonly associated with sort of mainstream moderate islam he's running mate the vice president candidate i mean is a religious scholar who is again linked to. another through alarm or some respects these are both expedient approaches from both candidates. based in this idea that sort of being seen to be not embracing islam in particular why maybe to their electoral disadvantage in use the phrase status quo do you feel there appears to be less agence see or interest per se among the electorate than in the last election. no i think there's been a great amount of interest and you generally speaking you know indonesia is a non-compulsory system so people aren't required to vote as they are in some other

countries such as in in australia but turnouts of or remind relatively high around seventy five. percent that said the same some of less of the urgency of twenty four tane in that election but if we dawdle and beyond who were kind of unknown quantities in the sense that neither and he held that position but now after five years of a joker we presidency there is a sense this may be in some respects less at stake and the polling the reliable polling over the last six months has really been pretty consistent in showing that joker we should have a relatively comfortable victory most of the estimates are around fifty percent with around between thirty to thirty seven percent going to provoke or so for the most part there's a sense certainly at that level of analysis that maybe not a lot's going to change as as an outcome of this election and just very briefly and

i believe other well other countries in the region including australia will be watching the election very closely. yes almost definitely you know from the israeli government's point of view of course in asia as an enabler there just signed a new trade agreements and so i imagine the hope would be that there isn't a significant change to the status quo in terms of either who's running the country but also in the compositions or parliaments that will come out of the legislative elections and again from that point of view i mean there's a lot of focus on the presidential elections but the legislative elections also from what i've seen from reliable polling data probably won't bring to significant changes you have the main party blocs green drought which propose party and goal car and a sort of a spattering of islamic parties but i think overall most of the predictions are they won't be a significant change and in terms of regional politics i don't think we'll be seeing a significant shift as an outcome of this election in wilson from medicare diversity

there speaking to us from jakarta thank you dan. well plenty more ahead on this news hour including why some mexicans aren't too concerned about living in the shadow of an active volcano. sudanese crowds keep up the pressure on the military commanders who take power demanding civilian charge and in sport i aks of caused another massive champions league upsets this time knocking out a few ventus in the quarter finals. of french president emmanuel has vowed to restore the not true don cathedral within five years a huge fire destroyed its roof and spire say the eight hundred fifty year old cathedral is structurally sound donations to help rebuild or to reach nearly one billion dollars or thora to say the building came within thirty minutes of totally

collapsing however a group of firefighters remained inside to stop the blaze reaching the giants more than towers but at smith reports. it was a hellish scene inside one of christianity's most important cathedrals. burning cinders rained down on the center of the cathedral such was the danger from falling debris that a robot firefighter was used. legendary overflowed. liters of water was pumped into the flames. eight hundred years of history were taken just eight hours to go up in flames. what's left of it is now exposed to the health of. such is the importance of not to damage to the french that the president addressed the nation. what we saw last night in paris is this ability to mobilize and unite and when doing our history we've built cities

ports churches many have been burned or have been destroyed by wars revolutions by our own fault each time we rebuilt them the fire of our lady reminds us that our history never stops and that we will always have tests to overcome. had been undergoing renovation when it became engulfed in flames more than two hundred thousand kilos of lead and thousands of mediæval open beams in the roof court fight easily and fast. four hundred year old paintings hanging high in the cathedral have been damaged but firefighters and staff formed a human chain to save other artifacts. thrones golden candelabras gem incrusted crucifixes and other relics will be transferred to the louvre museum for storage but this united nations world heritage site will need to go through a careful lengthy and expensive restoration process it's really

a site which is geared to love all the regions but it's the whole of france but also the whole of humanity because it's a symbol or not only for the christian god it's a symbol for the unit. of it is an accurate actual language it's so unique in the world there's only one. before the fire broke out the catholic church was asking for around one hundred seventy million dollars to fund restoration work the state offered about forty five million dollars now money is being pledge from across the world but it will cost many hundreds of millions of dollars more to restore not a down to its former glory twenty four hours after the fire and there is still a sense of shock to believe what you did when you were i felt it out of the emotions last night with my children as we were watching t.v. so here i am now. i'm sad but at the same time very happy to see the french people united we needed that you get to see me i'm

a catholic but even if you're not it's part of your life it's unimaginable it disfigures paris. people prayed and marched through the streets. messages of support came from other faiths france's chief rabbi offered friendship and support the french counsel of the muslim faith called for donations to help restore what it called the heart of the history of france. so what will it take to rebuild a gothic masterpiece like not sure don. has that part of the story. for the french president emanuel marco is saying that he would like to see notre dame rebuilt in five years well that seems something of an ambitious target because many building experts are saying that it would take maybe ten fifteen years or even longer because it's such an enormous challenge there has been so much damage done in any case any rebuilding that has to happen will take place over several stages first of

all there has to be incessant assessment inside not to down cathedral firefighters are trying to make sure that is structurally safe for engineers and architects to even be able to go in and then of course how do you rebuild not to die or do you do something different and creative would you try and restore it to its former glory those are some of the questions which will need to be honest no matter what there it does seem that the idea of rebuilding this so. twelfth century monuments in the heart of paris is certainly touched a chord with people around the world because the donations have been flooding in hundreds of millions of dollars pledged by private individuals by some top french companies the general public people even coming forward and offering to donate their skills their craftsmanship you know carpenters stone cutters masons build. people saying let's of so there is a sense of unity of notre dame in many respects has brought many people in paris

and around the world together. earlier i spoke to robert bork who's a professor of art history at the university of iowa where he's written extensively on french gothic architecture he says rebuilding the not true don will be extensive and needs to be done judiciously. first we're going to have to understand what has happened to the building examining it carefully understanding what the fabric is like right now and then we're going to have to have a discussion about how exactly they're going to try to put it back together whether they're going to try to use modern materials in some places where they're going to insist upon reproducing things as they were immediately before the fire. i believe it should be done very carefully and very conscientiously there are a lot of decisions that will have to be made before they even start to do this work i think that mr mccraw is very right to try to say we should do this and have it done expeditiously but it shouldn't be done hastily that spire that collapsed actually dates from the nineteenth century it was the work of beauty of the duke

the great restorer who helped to consolidate the fabric of the cathedral in the nineteenth century and it replaces an older medieval spire that had been damaged so it actually wasn't a medieval original that fell yesterday but it was a very beautiful and very historically plausible reconstruction of a vision from the middle ages and it's an important part of the skyline of paris and i think that it's going to be reproduced in some fashion and i think many of my colleagues i've spoken with agree that violated duke did a very good job with that design in the nineteenth century conjuring up the way it could have been imagined the middle ages and the way that the older spire would have looked so i'm hoping that something similar will be replaced in the coming years. now fighting in libya's capital tripoli is intensifying but at least five civilians killed and many more injured have to shells and rockets were fired in various parts of the city and follows an as strike by the un recognized government

on the camp of fight as you know we also was coming from have to just outside tripoli why he has more from the capital. huge explosions and. the rockets landed and had similar to the residential areas getting and long the civilians including women and children and that's according to minutes council and it to police it is simple and soldiers with a government of national accord say that have to look for since has been called the king is everything she has said he has lived with heavy weapons a state of panic and two government media sources have been posting to find. all the money parts of committee and casualties and victims. the affected neighborhoods are not far from this city simply beyond somehow the

events line of the government forces many people here along going why did the international community is not putting to show them health that is to stop discrimination in and around the capital should probably by the way did not the first time have been forced to get civilian areas as a parade for. launches meditated offensive to take control of the capital tripoli many people died more than seventy people died in chipley including civilians. we we held that have to those forces are trying to each of the sidhe is sympathetic from different directions but really any civilians. from the victims for. now sudan's ruling military council has such the prosecutor general and two of his

aides a key demand of protest leaders demonstrations of continued in the capital khartoum for an eleventh day they're calling for civilian rule and want the military council to step aside as he morgan has been following developments from car too. the military council has announced that it has dismissed the state attorney as well as his aides there saying it's part of reforms to the judicial system and part of a response to demands made by political parties and protesters on the streets political parties that protestors have been saying that the judicial system is politicized and favored the former ruling party and they say that they will not stop protesting until they are reforms made not just to the judicial system but in national intelligence and security services as well as handing over to power to a civilian interim government now political parties and military council are deferring on the mandate and the role of the transitional government the council wants to be the one supervising that government and they want the political parties

to become prime minister and members of the cabinet but political parties are saying that they cannot take a cabinet they cannot speak of prime minister if they're not sure that the that the council will not interfere in the day to day affairs of the government meanwhile hundreds of people continue to make their way to the pro to the protests in front of the army headquarters in tottenham and they have been calls for sit ins in front of headquarters around the state by the sudanese professional association the body that is spearheading the protest since last december they're saying that if our is not handed over to civilian government that is independent from the from the interactions and has nothing to do with the military council then the protests will not end so far the african union has given sudan fifteen days to form a government that was yesterday so they're now left with two weeks to form a government and they're nowhere near forming fat government and it's not clear yet with the difference between them and between political parties and the council and the amount mandate if they would meet that deadline while the u.s.

now says it may consider removing sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if there's a smooth political transition that question was the director of policy for the u.s. special envoy to sudan under president obama and he says the events in sudan give washington an opportunity to change its approach to the country. this discussion is not new it's been part of ongoing bilateral negotiations with the now fallen regime in sudan the discussion is happening again inside the administration here in washington as to whether that does the nation could be lifted more quickly so should some of the demands of the protesters be met should a civilian led government be put in place should the terms of a transition be articulated right now policymakers in washington are are trying to find a way that they could lift that designation sooner in many ways it prevents debt relief and foreign assistance and other forms of cooperation but above all it's

a scarlet letter that really denotes sudan as a kind of pariah state the situation is fast and fluid and folks in washington are trying to keep abreast of developments in these really critical hours and days i do think both the administration and members of congress could step forward right now and articulate that they're ready to support a transition both by lifting remaining punitive measures such as the state sponsored terrorism does of nation but also by putting some incentives on the table readiness to support debt relief or readiness to restore diplomatic relations in due course should the right steps be taken the secretary of state could make a visit to khartoum washington could indicate that it's ready to designate a new ambassador to sudan which it hasn't had since one thousand nine hundred seventy so what happens in sudan in the coming hours and days will be decided by the sudanese people but i do think that washington has an opportunity right now to help give them the best chance of success still ahead on al-jazeera egypt's

parliament needs to extend the president's term and give more political palate to the minute. and spoil the defending champions. in the n.b.a. playoffs it will be here with all the details. and we've got some pretty heavy rain around the southern parts of china at the moment let's take a look at the satellite could take as you can see the cloud responsible all of that there is now beginning to clear away for the next day or so then it's looking fairly subdued weather wise over the southeastern part though we are a fair amount of cloud at times could squeeze out one or two showers but i think predominantly we're looking at some draw your weather twenty eight force in hong kong the count's beginning to gather as we head through thursday and then we'll see

a few more showers begin to develop as well i mean for this was a sound the certainly being a violent thunderstorms over parts of southeast and asia force across the border through java and into somalia lots of showers here but almost saying so the north now we're seeing the showers all along here through parts of thailand through cambodia and into vietnam again there will be more cloud developing as we head through the day or wednesday by thursday there are showers still with us on water two of them are all the heavy the philippines there is looking a good deal dry eyed just the occasional shall perhaps if you are unlucky now out towards the west and there's been a lot of active weather over this region recently you can see the latest system making its way across many parts of india through pakistan and into afghanistan where we've seen the worst of the flooding the system gradually eases as we head through wednesday and into that say. sponsored. by means of his every week brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's damage from. the ice the

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hello again i'm. a reminder of the news this hour president on a trump has vetoed a resolution passed by congress to end u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen this is the second veto in trump's presidency and congress lacks the votes to override him. indonesians are voting in the world's largest single day election incumbent joko widodo faces former general proposed to be indonesians will also choose from more than two hundred forty five thousand candidates for seats in local regional and national government. the french president has promised to rebuild the fire ravaged within five years the cause of the fire that engulfed and destroyed part of the historic cathedral is being

investigated. well let's get more now on our top story president thomas veto of a bill that's want to end u.s. involvement in the war in yemen has an l. tayyab joins us live from washington d.c. where he is the co-director of just foreign policy and national advocacy group that supported the yemen resolution has and this wasn't a surprise how are you feeling now that it's actually happened. obviously frustrated i think this was a chance to you know move forward with this really historic and vitally important build to an u.s. support for the saudi and u.a. coalitions war in yemen. that said i think the momentum that we've created this this you know odd you know coalition of you know folks going from the from the far right to the far left working together to end support for this war our momentum is not going to stop we're going to continue working together to try to first override

the veto and then you know if we're not successful there we're going to try to continue to push for defunding this war through appropriations fights over the summer for the national defense authorization act and there are even other vehicles that we have so we're not giving up yet has done in your mind is this just about yemen or is this really about the broader u.s. saudi relationship. i think it goes even beyond that this is a bow article one section eight of the constitution congress has the power to the clear war not the president of the united states so our our war in yemen is on authorized by congress therefore it's a legal and you know and as far as yemen goes you know yes you know this we have to look at some of the more positive things that have actually

happened i wanted to mention is we've just recently had a major breakthrough with the u.n. peace talks and the two sides were basically able to redeploy forces out of they agreed to phase one of the process to redeploy forces outside of the data which you know again we're trying to give leverage for the diplomatic efforts on the ground in yemen so this is you know really a positive step for us to even get this you know legislation passed by camera lee house and senate passed so you know again. as i knew you were very much within the advocacy community in washington d.c. how engaged and concerned do you think the average american is about the ongoing conflict in yemen. well unfortunately. not enough i don't think you know there's there could be enough outrage about this but i do think as we force congress to make more and more votes i mean i think the house has

voted both five or six times at this point we've got more press coverage and you know the forgotten war is no longer for god folks are you know engaged so neither go i think last night bernie sanders who was on fox news in bethlehem pennsylvania that was a troll that's country right there he asked the president on national t.v. to sign the yemen war powers resolution something the donald trump said he would do he said he would he campaigned on ending endless wars in burnie rock his applause for that statement and so i do think that the tides of turning america is fed up with the endless wars and i think this veto is going to really hurt and i think it's going to cost him the two thousand and twenty half an hour from just foreign policy speaking to us there from washington thank you for joining us egypt's

parliament has rubberstamp constitutional amendments that could keep president of the fattah el-sisi in power for another decade the parliament which is dominated by sisi supports his voice had a five hundred thirty one to twenty two in favor of the amendments the measures will also give the military and more formal role in the country's politics and a referendum will be held to approve the changes in the next thirty days well dalia family is an associate professor of political science at long island university and she explains why the constitutional amendments are a challenge to democracy in egypt. what these constitutional amendments do is put the executive branch or the president above the parliament and the judiciary with the military solidifying power around that now when we think about what constitutions are supposed to be for constitutions are essentially the contract between the state and society where essentially the constitution is it a protect the rights of civilians with this constitution is now designed to protect

is the c.c. regime which is very different than what essentially a constitution is all about it also removes a lot of procedural protections and checks on contracts and bidding and military role in the economy it actually removes all of those checks and so essentially this constitution is not just not in keeping with democracy and human rights and the route of the arab spring it actually does solidify military authoritarian rule in egypt palestinians are marking prisoners day to honor the six thousand men women and children held as political prisoners in israel and as it's being observed the palestinian authority is continuing to pay inmate salaries to their families which some say is adding to the author financial crisis and the abraham reports from the occupied west bank. to build this house so madam saved money for almost twenty years and to do it she used the monthly salary paid to her by the palestinian

authority since israeli forces at us did her husband in two thousand. is serving a twenty three year sentence for killing an israeli soldier leaving his wife to raise their three children one is the nineteen year old daughter beta to his or to . my mother does everything from dealing with construction workers preparing the budget and payments to buying the necessary supplies from the market no one helps us she is doing all of this on her or in. the family it's nice to stay in touch as much as possible somehow says she gets gifts from the most precious being had a younger son. she became pregnant with him through artificial insemination but kadeem especially misses his father. karim often asks his dad why he doesn't visit us i'm tired of visiting my legs hurt he says why don't you come over we have enough room for you to sleep do you keep warm at the present do you have

a blanket and heater like us or do you get cold. like your team more than four thousand other children have fathers in prisons israel collects taxes on behalf of the palestinian authority and since the beginning of the year israel has been withholding their payments from the traffic. in this is at the heart of the current financial crisis feast palestinians israel says the cash encourages violence but palestinian officials say the money is needed to support prisoners families and would keep paying them. no one will go to prison for any amount of money freedom is priceless prison is not an easy experience people don't go to prison for the sake of a salary freeze crackdowns and sometimes go on hunger strike the united states has got hundreds of millions of dollars of its aid budget to the palestinians and with a dispute over the prisoners payments the palestinian authority faces a financial crisis and has cut. by half but it says it won't stop paying the prisoner's families their money. in. the occupied west bank.

at least ten people have died and many more are missing and floods in afghanistan warnings of flash flooding have been issued across two thirds of the country there is shot at dallas reports from. this mean heavy consistent rain in kabul for nearly a week and the city simply isn't suited up to deal with this this is the result rivers flooded this river rose to this level on monday and in the last twenty four hours about sixty homes have been destroyed in this immediate area police and council have started to distribute sandbags so we've got some here lining up trying to protect to the house from destruction and children here taking the sandbags dragging them and trying to build some type of of a bag to protect the homes as this river searches and thracians all the homes in this area we talked to some residents about their homes and where they will live now rather than one. i had a call from the renters in my house there's

a flood and i told them to get out because it was so dangerous for the children i said forget about the house we could rebuild it but get your children out my home is all also broken everyone is worried about the safety of the. people especially this area people a lot of really bored. there is not do good quality because of all of the the flooding isn't isolated just here in kabul it is swift through the middle portion of the country east to west there are flash flood warnings are in twenty four of thirty four provinces the worst of province is herat and the far with their hundreds of homes have been destroyed thousands of acres of farmland many people have been a peg and put into government facilities in herat city there has been big flooding issues in afghanistan over the winter that had three times as much rainfall as normal and know that the ground assault on the string rains are coming through

there is real fear that maybe further displacement as rains continue. while in the united states washington d.c. sits at the fork of two title rivers connected to the atlantic ocean making the u.s. state of government vulnerable to rising sea levels and climate change yet the frequent flooding there within view of the white house is a topic president on trump has not addressed. has more. thirty six million people visit washington d.c.'s national mall each year drawn to its monuments spring cherry blossoms and the tidal basin one hundred year old reservoir that takes its name from the tides flowing in and out of the potomac river but lately the tides have been rising too high here we're seeing the sidewalk of a cherry blossom walkway around the title basin flooded completely impassable this happens twice a day a result of sea level rise and increased urbanization the bravest visitors may not

mind the water but most people have to step around puts in danger the purpose of this place it's a formal garden for americans and their guests to wander through and it's also the place where some of our most historic people are memorialized thomas jefferson writer of the. gratian of independence is lucky to have a high perch above the waters but the sea wall beneath him is crumbling the white house where the president lives overlooks the tidal basin you can see it clearly from here across the water but despite having evidence of climate change literally outside his window president trump has decided to remove the united states from the paris climate accord and he's called climate change hoax i don't think he cares it's it's not going to make him any money to save the environment so he won't be here when it's all doom and gloom and so out of the cares. the united nations says

the world has just twelve years to stop the climate change catastrophe in washington it's the local government that has stepped up we're kind of on our own now and so we're putting really a lot more money of our own in d.c. in the innovation research and development and we just don't have the partnership with federal government and that's sad frustrating will this delicate beauty survive and what monument will there be to those who had a chance to save it. castro al-jazeera washington. now the first shipment of humanitarian aid from the red cross has arrived in venezuela president nicolas maduro and the opposition have both been accused of politicizing a delivery during their long power struggle and that's under ramp yes he has more from kolkata and colombia near the venezuelan border. the first shipment landed in caracas mean airport on tuesday after much armed wrestling between the venezuelan

government and the opposition your rival it was complicated by the fact that president nicolas maduro four years the nih the existence of an economic crisis in the country let alone trying to address it and this have been further complicated by the fact that opposition force oblique tried to enter aid that was sent here on the border between colombe ends in this way led by the united states in which the government of venezuela thought it was a political tool to try and push nicolas maduro out of office but now this first shipment it did indeed arrive since the worsening of the situation inside the country convinced my daughter to reach a deal with the international red cross and the off position the red cross will be responsible for the distribution of this aid and to make sure to avoid any possibility that this aid to will be politicized by any of the factions in the

country now mexico's public has a petal volcano has been busy spewing lava and ash in recent weeks but the increase in activity isn't scaring the thousands of people who live in the shadow of the giant. reports from the city of. why would anyone want to live near an active volcano. for many of the residents of some peril we need to what is a small town nestled at the foot of mexico's book look at the volcano it's the only way of life they know. over the past few weeks however the mountain has been acting a little strange large explosions have forced massive plumes of volcanic ash seven thousand meters into the air at night bursts of fragmented lava have lit up the sky and covered the steep slopes of the mountain in

a glowing blanket of molten rock over satellite all over the whole mountain was glowing then the forest caught fire. the recent increase in moderately explosive eruptions however hasn't changed day to day life farmers still tend to their fields and children still go to school at a monitoring station that tracks seismic activity around the volcano disaster relief workers say their biggest challenge would be convincing people to evacuate from work or going to this is a volcano that people are used to living with it's a volcano there was here before people arrived and began to settle for mexico's poke at their ranks among the most dangerous volcanoes in the world not because of its potential for explosive eruptions but because of how many people choose to live so close to the mountain. has a population of about five thousand people most of them ethnic now wanted who have

made their home in the shadow of the volcano for generations book look at that but there is a now what's the word meaning smoking mountain and in recent weeks the volcano really has been living up to its namesake but even though locals here tell us that volcanic activity has been calling down authorities have yet to reduce the threat level saying everyone should be aware of the evacuation routes in the event of a truly explosive erupt. despite the warnings from authorities. by the threat of this very active. war that we're not worried nothing is going to happen then again. the people of. do understand the risks but they. depend on the rich. and say they would actually be more afraid if they no longer had their smoking.

and now it's time for sports history of thank you very much i aks have caused another huge upset in the champions league quarter finals after knocking out real madrid the dutch side have now eliminated ventus the three two aggregate win and sure and is the first time in more than twenty years that i have made it into the semifinals. they will be joined in this series by barcelona the spanish side had an

early penalty shout in their match against manchester united over ruled by v.a.r. but that was quickly forgotten as lendl messi turned on the magic scoring twice in the space of four minutes for no aggregate loss leaves united now fighting to finish in the top four of the premier league to ensure they play champions league football next season it'll be a battered line up for tottenham and wednesday second leg quarter final against manchester city midfielder adelie ali will have to pass a last minute fitness test on his broken hand spurs will also be without harry cane and harry winks but they take a crucial one nil advantage into the game with the belief and the faith that we can be a stronger and we are going to fight the disease most importantly food bill and then . hope and wish to go for that it would be good for months. and then good. for a little bit lucky because you need in. the game. put

a moment of video game and of course be ready to. dance but of course that is going to be. amazing challenge and fight i am so motivated i am so excited to play tomorrow after the first game it was obviously one that we didn't want to come away with with a defeat. but i think there's still everything to play for everything. and you only see one goal and then we go from there and i think that's how. we approach the game and it's still so close meanwhile liverpool are favorites to advance to the semifinals over porto they got into their match with a strong two nil lead after the first like the defending n.b.a. champions have let a big lead in the playoffs slip right through their fingers paul reese has more on golden state's historic loss probably steph curry is much more used to breaking

records than having the made against him and that first he was off and running against the l.a. clippers away up in the second quarter perfecting the two time m.v.p. and three time championship when i was another three points at just before half time came as the warriors built a seemingly unassailable thirty one point lead i think it was but it's no one's perfect and the clippers got some help from curry himself. to l.a. getting within twelve points of the defending n.b.a. champions in the fourth quarter the clippers have the own stars lee williams tying the game at one hundred twenty eight each on his way to thirty four points and then something no one at the oracle arena could have foreseen i visit is going ahead for the first time actually trying to talk through such a list was not even curry couldn't get the warriors out of this one missing

a chance to add to his twenty nine points and save the game one. because when one hundred thirty five to one hundred thirty one over golden state the biggest comeback in playoff history pull reese al-jazeera. french rugby side to lose will wear special jerseys that pay tribute to the fire ravaged cathedral and their european champions cup semi final on sunday to lose are the only french side in the last for the auction the jerseys following the game against irish side with all money raised being donated to reconstructing the cathedral. the fallout from homophobic comments posted on social media by australian rugby union star israel folau has led to one of his international rivals being given a warning england player believe the nepal was formally warned by the country's rugby chiefs for showing support for the comments by fellow but apolo has

apologised but a repeat of any similar messages could threaten his world cup chances for laus been sacked from the australian team for saying that homosexuals must repent or go to help both players are of tongan heritage with ultra conservative christian views. the former head of the world anti-doping agency says he cannot guarantee that this year's world athletics championship in qatar will be doping free event david howman who had now chairs the athletics integrity unit thinks that detection technology needs major scientific improvements we're going to see you do that we. want to think. is more to trying to if you don't me we still were doing something that was one of the one hundred seventy. family between all the warmish that's what we were doing in the north. and we're going to

follow normal court novak djokovic has battled through a tough opening match at the monte carlo masters the world number one needed more than two and a half hours to beat germany's philip culture i ber in three sets his frustration showed though in the second set when his serve was broken four times joke of it eventually needing five match points to seal the way. certain rust the first round in first match and on clay season for me and. kind of expect that you know this this surface is completely different from anything else is just very demanding putting a lot of hours in the practice courts with still you know doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to feel comfortable when the match starts obviously nerves kick in and all but it was it was a great match well that's all your support for me will have more for you later and that's it for me in a start but hasn't think you'll be in the chair in just a moment with more of the day's me.

running six continents across the globe. series correspondents living by the stories. of the. you know the letters. were at the origin of the russian count for palestinian growth culture syria salute in world news to me it was clear to intelligence gathering exercise my god my back i don't get over the head off into this interrogation technique one by one and he said if you speak cut your throat muslim baker tells his life story and his life changing experience at guantanamo bay. it was.

heartbreaking. the confession a witness documentary on al-jazeera. and monday put it well on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the your. fake news is a global virus but in indian context it's becoming a cancer all of these up unstructured and abuse and manipulate them into what the body just based on emotions can skew the push to be under the less pacific we have if you're bombarded with a freak news that does start to flow to you as the world's largest democracy goes to the polls how vulnerable are exposed his to malicious disinformation. people and

power investigates india fake news and agitprop on al-jazeera. president vetoes congress's move to end u.s. involvement in the war in yemen. has i'm sick of this is as you see it a live from doha also coming up voting gets underway in indonesia's elections with president joker we don't know hoping to beat his rival. more fighting in the libyan capital at least five people have been killed and dozens of others wounded. france's president vows to rebuild not to dom and lays out an ambitious timetable.