reports. so dunn's former president ahmadabad she it is reported to have been moved from house arrest to a maximum security prison there were protesters on cartoons three pts welcomed the news. but then the months go much further we are so much happy to hear that the president has been moved to present what is still not sure what it would be i don't want to see that we want the president to be in prison but not only him actually but the whole region what he would have been brought to the. brazen it would be on a deal now we have no very. information and he would have been brought to the. prisons or wednesday the military council announced a series of measures including vieira stuff and bashir has bought his best and along with a number of other high and i can officials of the former regime it's difficult but the council's spokesman hasn't confirmed that the when abouts of the defoe's to

president and at the top arrests are underway of symbols of the i stood regime in addition to others who are believed to be linked to corruption cases the most prominent of those who have been placed in custody until now i are the brothers of the former head of this corrupt regime abdullah and. the council welcomed the cease fire offer from one faction of the sudan people's liberation movement the group has been fighting at bashir government into southern regions. meanwhile the two main bodies behind the protest so than professional association and the forces of the declaration of freedom change say they have submitted a paper for change including the creation of a civilian presidential council with military representation to the country along with a civilian cabinet made of independent technocrats but protesters say they fear what may happen if the various parties fail to agree on a plan you know that disagreements with me and failure and an opportunity for the

military to stay in power. or dizzy or cut on. the united nations says an attack on residential neighborhoods in libya's capital tripoli could amount to a war crime and at least seven civilians were killed and twenty injured during shelling on shoes day soldiers loyal toward khalifa haftar and forces belonging to the internationally recognized government fighting for control of the city not what other wahid reports. the the victims of shelling mourned in the libyan capital and in the main square there are funeral prayers. and calls for the international community to help stop the conflict. folk. were speechless and in great shock we stand here by the victims' families demanding an immediate cessation of that barbaric attack by the war criminals have to on his

forces on tuesday night the rocket fire hits residential areas several people were killed dozens wounded in a state of panic last eight all my. the outskirts of tripoli are now a battlefield around three million people are now living in the city's suburbs they were and has condemned the shelling of civilian areas. the secretary general's special representative in libya salaam a condemned in the strongest terms the overnight showing recalling the responsibility for actions that may constitute war crimes no lies not only with the individuals who ordered who committed the indiscriminate attacks but also potentially with those who ordered them since we have to his forces began an offensive to take control of tripoli two weeks ago the violence has escalated.

forces of the internationally recognized government have been defending the capital have to say as he's trying to crush post arab spring an anarchy in libya the prime minister in tripoli phase as half that is a dictator in waiting aid workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of the city where there has been fighting electricity on the water supplies have been disrupted along with telecommunications and there are concerns the violence could spread beyond libya's borders affecting its oil production and bringing a rise in those trying to escape the conflict heading for europe. tripoli. well there's plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including the u.s. opens the door to potentially billions of dollars in legal claims against cuba. from its plans a competition to help restore the not to dam cathedral in paris that was devastated

by fire. and in sports at tottenham hotspur and manchester city's hopes of a could ripple of trophies after one of the most thrilling that champions league history. of tyranny that's how the u.s. national security advisor described cuban nicaragua venezuela. new sanctions on all three countries and in a reversal of the obama administration era engagement with cuba the u.s. now says it will restrict nonfamily travel to the island along with remittances alan fischer reports. in his last few months in office barack obama wants to improve relations with cuba he lifted travel restrictions to the island give the go ahead for increased trade and symbolically restored full diplomatic relations cuba

once more had a u.s. embassy. after sixty years of sanctions in a solution he said it was time to try something different. different president different approach going from national security adviser was in miami to dress a group of cubans john bolton and new economic sanctions on the cuban military and intelligence services and restrictions on the amount of money that can be sent to relatives in cuba and he brought the crowd to its feet with this the department of the treasury will implement further regulatory changes to restrict family travel to cuba or in other words. these new measures will help steer america. away from the cuban regime or its military and security services who control the tourism industry in cuba you know this man came just hours after u.s. secretary of state mike pump cleared the way for u.s. citizens to sue foreign businesses if they're using property in cuba that was

seized during the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution he was most prominent export these days is not cigars it's oppression detente with the regime has failed. bin is among the countries that has invested billions in cuba and the e.u. is warning this could create a huge international dispute. and the end i think this is bad for everyone it's a lose lose that is why the european union has sent a letter this week to secretary of state pompei all over to ask that the best thing is to collaborate and respect the agreement. john bolton also notes fresh economic sanctions on both venezuela and they could argue all aimed at increasing pressure on three countries he has dubbed the troika of tyranny alan fischer i'll just read it. david ariosto is a journalist and the author of this is cuba and he joins us now live from new york david how much of this is about punishing the so-called troika and how much of this

is about rolling back obama era policies. well i think it's a little of both you know you're looking at national security adviser john bolton who in two thousand and two when he was undersecretary for arms control tried to convince congress and the executive that he was developing biological weapons that obviously proved to be false intelligence but it seems like this is been something that he has wanted to sort of feather in his cap for ages and now the region is starting to shift in his favor really every major government and economy within latin america is is starting to turn to the right unlike what it was during the obama administration and so as a result you've seen increased pressure against venezuela and it's it's patron there's his mates benefactor which is cuba cuba obviously receiving fifty thousand barrels of oil from venezuela daily so they can see those two as as a part of this troika of tyranny now obviously domestic politics is always is

always a factor within cuba it's you know brant scowcroft called it a domestic issue not a foreign policy one and if you look back at the course of the last three elections the winner of florida that all important swing state has only won florida by a little bit less than one percent of the vote so even though the population is starting to change start to favor normalization more the calculus that the political operatives and watching must think is how much do i gain by being tough on cuba how much do i lose and when those margins are that slim they might as well be tough because it's florida's all that all important state that sometimes determines the presidency so david in your mind this is largely about what's going to happen in twenty twenty. you know it's hard to to not ignore the fact that as you have ocasio cortez and bernie sanders increasingly mentioning socialism in the vanguard of the sort of leftist part of the democratic party that there's this renewed attention on socialist leaning governments in latin

america be it cuba or venezuela and you know if you were to sort of play the read the tea leaves or maybe sort of pontificate in terms of what's happening within the oval office you might expect someone to say hey you know you want to talk about socialism there's your socialism that's venezuela with during that failed economy and it's within cuba and there's those screws start start to start to tighten it plays very easily into the calculus of the campaign trail in two thousand and twenty so you know my personal contention is that cuba is very much a domestic policy issue whether it's florida and swing that state or whether it's building the rhetoric that they might need to combat whoever is donald trump faces in two thousand and twenty lection david what kind of impact could these you'll see it's actually have on the ground practically and in juba. well it's you know it's remarkable right now because cuba relies on only a few factors for ports economy that it's only been growing by about one or two

percent throughout the course of the year venezuela has been subsidizing them that's been dropped they were they were selling about one hundred thousand barrels to cuba every year and struck down to about fifty so what they rely on is tourism and foreign investment and because donald trump has changed the policy that obama brought to bear tourism has dropped off from its the major economy to the north which is united states not as many american tourist traveling so that foreign investment is really important now these claims which are about six thousand claims equaling about eight billion dollars it really sort of this thorn that have been ignored for the last two decades now that they've been thrown to the forefront of this these issues it creates all of these basically legal bramble that will keep other countries other companies from investing in cuba and that is exactly what can the cubans don't want but keep in mind this is also going to affect american companies the two largest claimants are those that hold the claims or office depot and marry out so you know when you look at how actually benefits who actually gains

it's the cubans clearly are on the losing end of this they'll sort of circle the wagons and nicaragua. venezuela cuba to look to their counterparts with russia and china those economic relationships are still quite strong but the united states is exercising about as much weight as he can short of a full scale invasion where this will kind of go is you know kind of to be seen but cuba has managed to thumb its nose effectively at the united states for more than half a century so my hunch is is that they'll survive david this is also a stance to be about as you say turning the screws on venezuela how much pressure does all this actually put on the duma. well you know it's interesting right because the cuban the cuban apparatus within venezuela is about a strong as they come they're infiltrated within the security services the intelligence services they have a what's a kin to

a situation room within caracas their advisor duro many people say they're the very reason that would still in power. as the united states starts to exercise their influence the question of oil prices comes into play you know higher oil price prices is something that cubans don't want because they have to pay for it but they actually do want it's in another capacity it's very complicated because that actually helps the venezuelans their economy is based about ninety eight percent on oil that's its export revenue now with the united states pressuring venezuela the only way to really effectively do it is to also pressure cuba because it's really effectively pulling the strings in that country but you know what became an international issue was really just a very homegrown venezuelan issue and that economy was it was in freefall starting in about two thousand and fourteen. it's increasingly gotten to the point where that it's getting to the point to be almost being a failed state but you have to wonder you know it's been almost a failed state for

a couple years now why the trumpet mr action is focusing now well you look at the region you look at the allies that that the trump administration has with narrow in brazil and argentina in chile i mean these were these were allies that the obama government did not have back in two thousand and fourteen so they can afford to be a little bit more blusterous a little little harder edge and this is a policy that i believe is emanating largely from national security advisor john bolton david. and that journalist and author speaking to us from new york thank you feel inside. well former peruvian president alan garcia has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in the capital the tears and president was being investigated as a latin america's infamous brecht corruption scandal marianna sanchez reports from lima. the last act in the life of former president began with the police raid of his home in an affluent area of the capital lima they were there to arrest him in

connection with a long running investigation into corruption during his time in office in the late one nine hundred eighty s. at some point police apparently allowed alan garcia to make a private phone call from his home a short time later was heard was long live on garcia was in critical condition and doctors fought to save his life he was revived three times before dying from the effects of a gunshot wound to the head earlier produced public prosecutor had issued a detention order in connection with corruption charges over his relationship with a giant construction company in latin america called or they would it alan garcia and nine associates were accused of receiving illegal payments and money laundering the sixty nine year old former president was already the subject of a travel ban on tuesday in his last ever interview he repeatedly denied the charges dismissing them speculation adding that he never sold himself and that is proven.

what i can accept and which i reject completely having been head of state two times is that there are these baseless speculations. and i saw himself as a victim last november he entered the two way embassy in lima seeking asylum he spent two weeks there until the government rejected his request saying there was no evidence of political persecution that's just a quarter's clash with police here at the hospital where the former president has died his political allies say the decision to take his life. one of dignity. he has shown dignity bernama are in the government and the public prosecutor's office which is full of people with hatred to trample over him. i don't get to see you served two terms as the president of the do with you still he becomes the face of a corruption scandal which has not touched almost every corner political life in latin

america many innocent just and just either. you're watching pictures now of mr garcia's party leaving the hospital in lima they are now that that party is now heading towards the people's house and watching live pictures from the crowds gathered outside their that's the headquarters of garcia's political party. michael shifter is the president of the interim merican dialogue which is an organization of global leaders working toward strengthening latin america and the caribbean he says alan garcia is down for began after his first term. he has his image and reputation has declined dramatically he ran in two thousand and sixteen election he got six percent of the vote. clearly he's somebody that really was very clever was very skillful was a great orator. and was popular and hold a lot of promise and there was

a lot of excitement in the country and eight in one thousand nine hundred five one thousand nine hundred eighty six when he first came in but he he was irresponsible in his decisions both on the economic front as well as on human rights questions and with the he was dogged by allegations of corruption which really. caused his fall in the public opinion in peru and there are people that blamed the justice system for garcia's death that these these allegations were baseless and there's some there's some pushback there's some reaction to these scandals of the two countries where the overbrook investigations have gone the furthest and result in more prosecutions are in brazil where former president lula is in jail and peru where there are four presidents now that have been touched by the order brecht scandal some people say it's gone too far that it's affected the economy it's fetid

governance but this is extremely important the latin america countries like peru and brazil need to strengthen their capacity to see respect the rule of law and to end impunity. well still ahead on al-jazeera it's the moment much of washington has been waiting for the release of special counsel robert miller's records. and in sport rafael nadal is back with a bang as he returns to his favorite surface at hunts for title number twelve paul will be here with more later. hello there we've got more rain on the qods force in the southeast and parts of china look at the chance for us on thursday you can see the winds feeding up from

the south dragging in a lot of moisture as they work their way northward so that will intensify the rains but we'll see on thursday so by friday i think that's when the rain is going to be particularly heavy and we could have a few problems thanks to the amount of rain that we see him before the towards the south and it looks like it should be largely fine for the philippines but elsewhere though more in the way of heavy showers as we've seen recently particularly of a possible in through some march in this region again is where we'll see the most likely showers that the day friday even further north there were parts of thailand cambodia and into vietnam i think here will see one or two pretty heavy showers at times as we head out towards the west the weather here has been very violent particularly over the northern parts of india through pakistan and into parts of afghanistan but this whole system is retreating now towards the north and the winds easing as well so things already proving over this region as we had three thursday and into friday that means the temperatures will be rising up as well say from that poet be back to around thirty eight degrees is the maximum as we head into friday

towards the south well that's where they'll be a little bit more in the way of cloud i think some of the showers over sri lanka will be quite heavy. sponsored town. for the week began with use of a ninety day truce in the to protect us china trade war the world's largest supplier of that defied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil cartel we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on ounces iraq. in the heart of the amazon believing in families with their minds in peril to harvest brazil not. the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous charm.

on al-jazeera. hello again. a reminder of the news this hour north korean state media is reporting that kim jong un has overseen a test launch of a new tactical guided weapon while the exact kind of weapon is on the north korean leader has called it an event a very weighty significance. there are reports that saddam's ousted president al bashir has been jailed military leaders say they've made other arrests including

two of his brothers but protesting sudanese say they want proof of him in the maximum security prison. form a peruvian president alan garcia has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in the capital the former two time president who is being investigated in an extensive corruption case. international architects will be invited to help recreate the spire of france's not to dom cathedral the collapse of the spire was one of the most dramatic moments of monday's fire which devastated at the eight hundred fifty year old structure french president emanuel back on wants to restore the not true to its full glory within five years but some experts are warning it could take much longer the talks about to reports from paris. from above the extent of the damage to not a dam is clear monday's fire ravaged the twelfth century cathedral destroying its roof and making the spire collapse dozens of precious artworks were burned

centuries old stained glass windows melted. firefighters continue to assess the cathedral safety and used water jets to cool parts of it the spokesperson said risks remained. the surely most money toward a hot spot that can be found in the cracks between the stones that make up the votes the lead which covered the entirety of this vote as complete melted so we have to continue monitoring the boat to do that with you on the banks of the river saying people watched juicier the overall b.c. i thought to myself i have to come and take in the same ocean it's really deeply moving it's very different to watching it on screen to take time to see the devastating impact france's prime minister said a committee will oversee not traditions reconstruction and an international competition will be launched to rebuild the spire. the international competition will allow us to ask whether we should even recreate the spire if we should rebuild

the spire as it was conceived and built by the architect in the same manner or if as is often the case in the evolution of heritage and of the cathedral we should give not a new spire adapted to the techniques and challenges of our times the french president emmanuel mak all wants not for down to be rebuilt in five years that would be time for the paris and then picks but some building experts say that's too ambitious that a project of this scale could take decades the deadline for rebuilding could be a challenge but funding it seems less of a concern with multimillion dollar donations flooding in on wednesday cathedral bells across france rang out in solidarity. not her dam's devastation has touched many people perhaps because it's a famous symbol of paris because the imposing eight hundred fifty year old building office people a link to the past natasha butler al-jazeera paris. well for two years

now u.s. citizens have been racing to know what the robert muller of course is all about the special counsel is investigating ties between president on and russia a redacted version of the four hundred page report is expected to be released on thursday even though democrats have been demanding access to all of it attorney general william vala fest held a press conference before releasing it well al jazeera is run and jordan is now live for us in washington d.c. ross talk us through what suffice to happen and what a congressional democrat saying well the process is this the attorney general bill barr will hold a press conference at nine thirty am local time on thursday and then about ninety minutes later. a group of officials from the justice department will deliver to members of the senate and house judiciary committee as well as to the congressional

leadership copies of compact dick's disks or c.d.'s containing the full report with those removals or redactions in the report there are a number of issues that could come up issues of it teligent gathering and matters that are currently before a federal grand jury trying to protect the reputation of private persons as well as trying to make certain that no classified information gets out to the public now once that delivery happens around eleven a new time local time then the report will also be published online well as you might expect congressional democrats are not happy with this time blood because they say this is not what bill barr had promised he would do gerald now where is the chairman of the house judiciary committee he spoke late wednesday

evening we are certainly not. satisfied with that we've repeatedly said what is demanded of by the situation and that is that the judiciary committee be given the entire report and the underlying evidence. so that we can make those judgments for ourselves and the judiciary committee can as has been the case in prior situations decide which limited portions of the report might have to be kept secret so as not to reveal sources and methods of intelligence or for some other legitimate reason but that's a decision for the committee to make not for the attorney general so rose what kind of impact if any is all this likely to have on president trump. well it is apparently the case according to at least two newspapers most notably the new york times that apparently the attorney general has been sharing some of the information into the moeller report with white house officials including with

members of the president's a legal team so that they could prepare their rebuttal this is of course also a great congressional democrats who have either been holding the spot press conferences or trying to make appearances on the late evening cable public affairs shows here in the u.s. to express their discussed certainly i think that the president has been duly since bill barr first issued his doubt of a submarine back up march twenty fourth this saying that he has big cleared by the bowler investigation that there wasn't any proof that he did anything to try to throw the two thousand and sixteen presidential presidential election his way but of course be there already is this pushback not just on television but he had social media as well and even though we're going to get to a rather important religious holiday weekend here in the united states the. congressional democrats and others who think that there was something going on that

was perhaps illegal or criminal between of the trump presidential campaign and russian officials they're certainly going to continue talking about it especially once this report said to be about four hundred pages long as actually released to the public in jordan across developments for us in washington d.c. thank you. well patty callahan has more on attorney general when and how his approach to a report that isn't even public yet has already star in contrast to see. bill barr is the man with all the answers he knows what special counsel robert mueller uncovered in this nearly two year long investigation he took two days after receiving the four hundred page report to release his own summary no collusion with the russian government and he decided the president didn't try to obstruct justice democrats cried foul i must say it is extraordinary to evaluate one hundred

said pages that evidence legal documents and finding based on a twenty two month long inquiry and make definitive legal conclusions in less than forty eight hours democrats are demanding he release the full report but he's not promising to do that i do think it's important that the public have an opportunity. to learn the results of the. special counsel's work and i said then that i would work diligently to make as much information public as i could in available to congress as i could he could ask a judge to release testimony from the grand jury but he says he won't instead many expect a heavily redacted reports i believe that given his track record being very skeptical of any authority of congress to oversee the executive branch. that i think that he will substantially read that. anything out of the grand jury anything that he

thinks could taint someone's reputation who wasn't actually indicted. anything that marginally related to foreign intelligence sources and methods. congress says they'll subpoena the entire report setting up a link the court challenge bar has faced off with congress before in one nine hundred eighty nine representatives asked for a legal memo he wrote he in turn released a summary the last. dollars later misled congress because it left out key findings but this is now barr will find himself caught between a congress demanding answers and a president who demands loyalty and a country watching his every move. washington. at least twenty nine people most of them german tourists have died in a bus crash in portugal the accident happened in the coastal town of deer island city officials say the driver lost control of the bus on a suburban street before it rolled and crashed into a house at the bottom of

a slope fifty five people were on the bus and at least twenty were injured and taken to hospital. well now egypt will hold a three day referendum beginning on saturday over constitutional amendments that could allow president abdel fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty the parliament had overwhelmingly approved the amendments on tuesday they could expand the president's powers and give the military greater influence and politics timothy call'd us as a nonresident fellow at the therea institute for middle east policy and he explains how these new amendments will affect egypt's government. will be an extension and trenchant of the authoritarianism they were already. so used term obviously you will be able to remain president was least twenty thirty at the same time as you mentioned he's going to more power with you to sherry will dilute the power of the elected members of parliament by adding.