medical military sources in the south say that heavy weapons were used in this offensive to recapture. and sources with the with the warlords to have to say that the fighting is still ongoing and receiving have to his forces are receiving military supplies from the east we know that this is this is very this is very important for forces loyal to the warlords for have to position in the south was that of libya and opening a new front of course most of probably distract half his forces attention to recapture the capital tripoli as you know to shell that have to launch an offensive to take control of the capital tripoli two weeks ago and did his forces until this moment failed to get into the capital city center in fact have to have been retreating beyond the southern outskirts of tripoli but back to the to it's

very strategic and it most a probably would distract have to his forces attention because in this way they will have to. focus on civil fronts in order to advance. if this fight continues or sort of a little bit more clarity on what's happening in tripoli if you can just kind of reiterate that for viewers. richelle if you can hear me yes hello yes we can. i didn't hear the question of. i just asked if you can just kind of reiterate recap what's actually happening in tripoli for our viewers. currently there is sporadic fighting in one are in the southern western outskirts of the capital as the pro-government forces forces knew it would recognize the government are advancing

get towards the south of tripoli namely in the area where another detachment belonging to the government my joy in the battle and also today in another acces there will be have to as warplanes targeted government forces locations with strikes one day for individuals. the victims of shelling more and 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. 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 and his forces on tuesday night the rocket fire hits residential areas. several people were

killed dozens wounded and a state of panic lost it all might. the outskirts of tripoli are now a battlefield around three million people are now living in the cities 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 he's trying to crush post arab spring an anarchy in libya the prime minister in tripoli phase says half there is a dictator in waiting. aid workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of the city where there has been fighting electricity and 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 do is trying to escape the conflict heading for europe. i'm with a jersey a tripoli gunmen in southwest pakistan have ambushed a bus and kidnapped and killed fourteen passengers and alliance of balak separatist groups in is claiming responsibility rather for the attack on this main road between karate and the port of qatar kemal hyder is live for us from islamabad so

what do we make of this this claim of responsibility. where there's a blues group called broad ridge literally means brothers and language in the baluchi language according to their board several buses were stopped on the micron course started highway and had more dreijer in the rear passenger door to get out then the identity papers were checked and sixteen people were taken away to a secondary location where their hands were tied behind their back and they were shot at close range two of them of course but able to escape that magic and reported the incident as security operation is underway to try and see whether they would be able to apprehend the attack and of course the navy also saying that some of their personnel were on board those buses and they were going on holidays back to a day home do we know if it's specific people were chosen was it random. it

depicted there these people were children carefully that identity papers would shake that boarding to their boards some of them include members from the pakistani codes god and some naval personnel and the navy is now admitting show ended today appear that these people who were singled out and then assassinated killed at close range this is after all a province which i've seen a lot of instability including a deadly attack on dogs or a character week ago and wished twenty people who will care today has also seen such attacks and grandy fifteen and which twenty people were killed on a botched fugate's on has been complaining that the problem is because of the sanctity that these pollutes fighters have across the border and both need drawn and of want to stand and they said that they're trying to fill that border was a elaborate french however as i mentioned the responsibility claimed by

a blue chip group which has also allied to other by luge religion to outfits operating in that area right to monitor life for us and islamic lot kemal thank you . plenty more ahead and the news hour standstill in syria why sanctions are being blamed for drivers going nowhere. mourning a former president in peru apparently he took his own life to avoid arrest. one of the stars of the n.b.a. season in a match winning display in the playoffs details for. india's oldest private airline has suspended all flights after bankers refused to lend more money to the jet airways that is has been scaling down operations for months and reports say it is down to just five planes or sixteen thousand employees

are demanding a government bailout to prevent a shutdown the mumbai based company was due to complete twenty six years later this month has more from new delhi. anyone with a booking on jet airways received an e-mail thursday morning canceling their flight and all future bookings as well now what this will mean for passengers domestically in india as in the short term they will face higher prices but indian consumers are very price conscious there's only so much they're willing to pay before they stop flying aviation analysts though tell al-jazeera that india is a growing airline market and competitors should fill the void left by jet airways but that will take at least a few months now jet airways got to this point simply because it couldn't pay its bills anymore specifically for fuel and for airport charges but even stopped paying employees for months but despite that employee he's of remained loyal to the company many of them going without salary continuing to show up for work and now though they're staging protests trying to government attention investor attention

to try to save the airline they remember the days when this was considered india's premier airline internationally their biggest private airline and they say that it can still be saved now also on thursday a consortium of lenders led by the state bank of india that effectively own a chunk of the airline say they believe the best way forward is to get any interested buyer to formalize their bid but that won't happen until may ten more lessons bring an airline consultant desk to poor and lester in the united kingdom thank you so much for joining us what went wrong for this airline thank you i'm sorry what nonono are is what went wrong for this airline the question. well i think the problem is built up over the last ten years as long as ten years ago more than ten years in fact in two thousand and six the airline invested in cost airline in india that were horribly wrong five hundred million dollars

invested as a low cost airline basically didn't work jet airways were not in the low cost market three years later you saw competition coming in or asia you saw indigo airlines and you saw spice jet come in low cost entrance and basically jet airways being a full service i couldn't really cope with that competition and they never tackled the competition furthermore you've got the value of the rupee has been weakened of the last couple of years fuel prices have gone up as a result and it really just didn't work and on top of that you know you've got management which really really did not appreciate what was happening in the indian market which is one of the biggest in the world so a lot has to be blamed on managements in terms of how they run the airline and outside forces as well in terms of fuel prices and do you sort of in the list see a deal. is there a deal to be made to. buy this out to keep this going to get employees paid anything. i think this is this is

a situation that's dragged on for so long it's a very precarious situation i certainly hope plays are paid or twenty three thousand employees are paid now it really depends on an investor coming in and yes there are expressions of interest from a number of parties for parties and hopefully somebody will come forward but the danger here is and why does he want people realize is that many of the aircraft that jet actually had in operation to be ready registered by the least source and the lease was taking those planes back there is no way these lease ores will actually keep those planes on the ground in india and not take the planes back because their valuable asset is they want to earn money from those assets and they need to take those planes back so it's a very very difficult situation to be of any any deal has to be broken it has to be done very very quickly in the next few days not in the next three or four weeks clip india is a growing market rate so what does this mean for the industry there the industry as

a whole is this indicative of something bigger ok so right now you've got one hundred and thirty five million passengers were the next by next year under thirty five million passengers flying in and out of india in the next five years that figure is expected to double we're also seeing we've got right now about seven hundred aircraft eight hundred aircraft that are due to be flying in the skies in india over the next two years right now it's about six hundred so another two hundred aircraft needed there's a shortage of pilots shortage of flight shortage of routes the big danger right now is when there's this gap that's been left by. jet airways in the market you're going to see fares go up and as a result passengers will be paying higher for flying so it's a it's a big market to be had it's a great market to be in but any any potential investor any new entrant needs to get in there very very quickly to actually fill that gap and jessica poor airline

consultant thank you very much. and per thousands of mourners have held a wake for former president alan garcia shot himself as police investigating a corruption scandal arrived to arrest him at a center support some the capital lima. the last act in the life of peter's former precedent 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 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 on there but 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 seal supporters clashed with police here at the hospital where the former president has died his political allies say that this

is and to take his life was one of dignity. he has shown dignity by not allowing the government and the public prosecutor's office which is full of people with hatred to trample over him. a legacy of served two terms as the president of a do with his death he becomes the face of a corruption scandal which has not touched almost every corner political life in latin america maybe i'm a scientist i just see that the might be two. and a few moments we will have the weather live with meteorologist. also on al-jazeera let's call the troika of tyranny and new sanctions on three latin american countries production as the buzzword in washington what's likely to be left al that robert muller center court on donald trump. and liverpool booked their spot in the semifinals of the champions league final have all that and sport.

out of the last two days uprising number of vicious storms in across india from the same system that brought flooding to afghanistan and pakistan you see that for the tar package this particular storm system was hit by i believe this was sort of what looks like hundred forty hundred sixty kilometers an hour winds i mean the death toll is quite surprising thirty far you've at least reporters just not went across it wasn't sort of confined to the whole system is moving slowly east was for this is first of all to get hit now this is some of these storms that may not look like it immediately as they went east was and the winds maintain their strength not cool for example registered about one hundred forty kilometers per hour in gusts but

we've been maybe in hans in the potential because of the warm sun when it does get hot for. monsoon but it's been well above where it should have been so to see a drop in for example demi even on mondays the storms hit here went down from forty to thirty one on tuesday and a bit further east similar sort of dropped forty four twenty nine still in northern india that's probably the only bit of good news currently the highest temperatures are in summer like addition here and we've got a couple of foreign days but he were to head south the incoming clouds for corona and sri lanka produce significant rain off the rest of india remains quite. good weather sponsored by cattle and. technology. leading the way in the digital revolution. making good friends in the on line vs to places. this week sexual health things that africa and the engineering social change in london things funny young people come to school as they sell their

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right. al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now protesters in sudan are condemning foreign interference following the overthrow of president omar al bashir a special representative of russia's president met sudan's military rulers on wednesday the day after a high level delegation from saudi arabia the united arab emirates flew to khartoum for talks gunmen in southwest pakistan have ambushed a bus and then kidnapped and killed fourteen passengers an alliance of a separatist groups is claiming responsibility for attacking the bus on the main road between kharaj in the port of call tar and libya fighters loyal to the u.n. recognized government have launched a new campaign against ward cleaver hatari in the south after our forces are battling government troops for control of the capital tripoli a group aligned to the government has taken advantage of this in captured one of his bosses in southern libya. turkmenistan is ranked the most dangerous country in

the world for journalists with norway being the safest porters without borders has published its annual status of press freedom worldwide turkmenistan has taken north korea spot at the bottom of the table for the first time in three years the most dangerous countries in the middle east are syria and yemen dozens of journalists are detained in bahrain in egypt and saudi arabia censorship past and creased since the murder of a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi ethiopia has the biggest improvement in the league table since the prime minister of introduced reforms the ranking of the united states has fallen and is classified problematic for journalists the european union and the balkans have also fallen in the rankings norway tops the world rankings says the safest place for journalists let's bring in rebecca benson in london she is in the u.k. the u.k. bureau director for reporters without borders rebecca thank you so much for joining us so your report says that the biggest deterioration is in supposedly better

regions what do you mean by that. well in terms of the score from year to year we saw the regional score deteriorate the most in the americas this year followed by the e.u. and balkans and that's that's disturbing because europe is has long been the region that respects press freedom the most last year as a region deteriorated the sharpest and it's not far behind the americans this year and in fact north america the north america the united states and free in the press being in this breach is actually part of the constitution when you say that it's deteriorating in what way well in the united states we've seen quite a serious deterioration this year three spots down our index to forty eight out of one hundred eighty countries but actually if you look at the color coding that goes with our index as well for the first year the united states slipped into the orange which is the problematic category of countries it was also in two thousand and eighteen for the first time ever on the short list of deadliest countries for

journalists in the world and that was following the massacre in the capital because that news room in maryland. your report also says and we just talked about this that one of the countries that has actually seem to have turned a corner is ethiopia how so. oh yes ethiopia had a remarkable increase this year up forty places from the year before and that's due to a change in government often that's the case and that's when we see remarkable improvements of countries it's due to a change at the very top of government and really a political will to address these problems so ethiopia did that in this in in two thousand and eighteen which is what the two thousand nine hundred index looks at by the end of the year they had no journalists and joe and i want to highlight gambia as well which which had a increase of thirty places also due to political changes at the top the way talk to you talked about you know that this being deadly and you know sometimes journalists are killed but even short of the violence what role does language play

in creating a dangerous environment for journalists. language plays a really important role and we've seen that not just this year but really starting around two thousand and sixteen when the global scored to tear it sharply and it still hasn't recovered we saw an increase in this use of hostile language this sort of media bashing language from people like donald trump but also there are others around the world i mean there's a mom in the czech republic we've got to touch in the philippines both in our own now in brazil too many kind of leaders following the strongman model and they do bear responsibility when when they use hateful rhetoric actually they bear some responsibility for climate than that then actually allows for real life violence to occur or back events with reporters without borders thank you rebecca. a competition to recreate the famous spire of notre dame cathedral is being launched for architects worldwide under fire devastated the ancient symbol of france president manuel micron once it restored within five years some experts

though are warning rebuilding may take much longer to talk about the reports of 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 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 mccall wants not for down to be rebuilt in five years that would be in 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 to dams 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 al-jazeera paris and the nation's president has declared victory in wednesday's election but the official outcome won't be known until next month unofficial results show president heading for a comfortable reelection win over former army general. security forces have warned his supporters against violent protests when he reports from jakarta. it appears there will be no change of tennant for now at the presidential palace in the indonesian capital jakarta based on provisional results. has won another five years in office but that's not how his challenger sees it.

and i have become the president for all the people. we will be. disputes the unofficial results that showed. a large margin the general says there were many discrepancies in the electoral process before the election he alleged there were irregularities involving more than seventeen million voters and vowed to resort to people power if the problems amounted to cheating there is a sense of history repeating itself when. the two thousand and fourteen election. and took the case to the constitutional court which ruled against him there's no sign he's going to give up easily this time either. with conservative muslim groups who've shown they can get big numbers onto the streets considering coming out again for not to protest but to celebrate what they say is

a victory for their candidates security forces say they won't allow anyone to disrupt the official vote counting process. army. not tolerate and we will crack down on that will disrupt public unconstitutional actions that undermine the democratic process. official results won't be known until may twenty second they're expected to confirm as president of indonesia and again confined. to runner up in the two man race. have stopped a march commemorating the first anniversary of anti-government protests more than three hundred people have been killed in protests against cuts to social security benefits john heilemann reports from. the naked eye when opposition it cooled for a day of protests to mucky years since the country's crisis began. in the end they

were vasili outnumbered by police together with a feature of recent times here shadowy paramilitaries on motorbikes. the small pocket of demonstrates as we found hope that a cop out would give them some protection from a rest of the government declared this protest illegal i said a million we're here despite the repression of all takers police to demand the release of all the political prisoners we know are innocent and justice for the victims of the ortega regime and democracy for the country was those are the demands of the civic alliance a collection of business civil and university leaders in dialogue with president will take his government but they say those negotiations are going nowhere i am one of the thank i would i get them all the dictatorship signs agreements but doesn't come through on them we have human rights in the constitution and this murderous government doesn't want to respect them we're here because it is our constitutional right to protest. that they would quickly try to.

the police strategy seem to be intimidation i.g. can say they struck up with the police the growing fear of the fact that there's a huge police presence is around the capital right now and it's a smooth pockets of people the of thing that's come out. an umbrella opposition group said more than fifty people were detained the police denied that and said no one had been arrested. the united states government was. announcing new sanctions against the nicaraguan president we are going after the pocketbooks of the ortega family who continue to live off the misery of the nicaraguan people. who grew up in the last year three hundred people have been reported killed in the code i work two thousand injured and sixty two thousand took lead the country and the government strategy to hold on to power seems to be yet more repression john heilemann out

zita men are worse than a socialist president says their arrival of international aid as a result of government efforts red cross says more than thirty hospitals and health centers will receive medical supplies water sanitation and training. close border crossings for weeks to block the usa accuses the us of plotting a coup to replace them with opposition leader was. under accuses the united states of stealing thirty billion dollars from venezuela by imposing sanctions. i see imperialism is crazy and desperate the news also came out the donald trump called the pope i'm sure the pope through holy water on the telephone when he spoke to trump i'm sure donald trump gave his confession he must have confessed to the pope all the harm he's doing in the world he must have confessed to the pope all the harm he's doing to the people of venezuela with illegal unilateral sanctions

all the money the thirty billion dollars that he's stolen from the people of venezuela economy a truck a terror name that's how the u.s. national security advisor john bolton described cuba and venezuela after announcing new sanctions on all three countries and then a reversal of obama era engagement with cuba the u.s. now says it will be strict non family 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. gave the go ahead for increased trade and symbolically restored full diplomatic relations cuba once more had the us embassy. after sixty years of sanctions and isolation he said it was time to try something different. from president different approach donald trump's national security advisor was in miami to address a group of exiled cubans john bolton announced new economic sanctions on the cuban

military and intelligence services under strictures 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 nonfamily travel to cuba or another with. these new measures will help steer american dollars away from the cuban regime or its military and security services who control the tourism industry in cuba. came just hours after u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo 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 probably export these days is not cigars in iraq it's oppression detente with the regime has failed. in is among the countries that has invested billions in cuba and the e.u. .