civilian quarters we need to a strong strong voice from from new york one of the one who has the latest from tripoli forces loyal to the world highly for have to manage it to recapture the. seventy seven hundred kilometers to the south from the capital tripoli that's after the forces loyal to the you could notice the government briefly took control of inherent in tripoli the government forces managed to push have to his forces back beyond the disused to tripoli international airport and meanwhile have those warplanes targeted government forces locations one being for the fighters one of them is in critical condition on the political level there is also a development on the political level as the interior minister. the government fed him. stated that the ministry of interior is suspending all relations with france

in terms of security and training fields that's because as he says france is a major supporter of. the world have to also in tripoli the military journal the military general prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against several officers in the east including the warlord have to himself for their involvement their arrest warrants has for their involvement in targeting civilian areas in tripoli including the only this the only operational airport in the city airport and also that is eventually areas in tripoli city center which killed several innocent civilians some for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back. home of a comedian who is poised to deliver a political earthquake in ukraine's presidential election. in one year after mass

protests in nicaragua we examine what ifs. anything has changed. how i was still got plenty of disturbed weather into eastern parts of the united states eastern areas of canada as well that cloud has been sliding its way through these of the severe storms that have been rattling across the eastern side of texas through louisiana mississippi alabama running right up the appalachians flooding concerns north of the border to into quick back and maybe some heavy rain around here as we go through fridays and not just the the the ice melts the ice thaw we're looking at some heavy rain on top of that so a big concern. really heavy rain possibly see some tornadoes as well but

a speck just down towards the panhandle through the eastern seaboard as we go on through friday process guys come back a bit high cold enough in chicago temperatures at seven degrees celsius it warms up for chicago as we go through saturday cloud away slowly moving away from the eastern seaboard still some pretty wet weather up towards new york new england eastern parts of canada right to coming into central areas of canada still a little bit of a wintry mix just around the mountain states but dry weather come back in i would towards the west coast dry for a good part of the caribbean but that wet weather that we have a round the florida panhandle it comes right down across the gulf into the yucatan peninsula on jurists guatemala think out of right or moving further east. fake news is a global virus but an indian politics is becoming a cancer on the up and stopping i believe the nuclear deal with the what if the body just recently can skew that but step three hundred dealers

a pacific fleet if you're going to do with feet it does start to improve as the world's largest among. chrissy goes to the polls how vulnerable are exposed to militias disinformation. people and power investigates india fake news and agitprop on al-jazeera. welcome back a program out of our top stories here on al-jazeera since a version of the mother report into whether u.s. president donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign collude with the russia has been released but found no evidence of direct collusion doesn't clear him instruction justice. president legal team has declared total victory but

democrats want the attorney general to testify before congress the u.s. house judiciary committee chair has requested access to the full unedited version of the report. and molly's government has resigned after protests over last month's mass killing more than a hundred sixty follow me herdsman were killed leading to large demonstrations against the government over the violence. not huge crowds continue to gather in subband outside the military headquarters the site of a mass city in the last two weeks protesters want the immediate return of civilian rule following the overthrow of president omar al bashir last thursday well another call demand is accountability hundreds of people have been arrested and dozens killed since december either movement has moved. it's nearly thirty years since hannan has and buried her son major to my job was sentenced to death after a military trial which lasted just one day the government accused him of being a currency trader after finding foreign bank notes in his family home his mother

says the money was left to him by his father who died and that her son was a victim of the new regime then. the safe hadn't been opened before they arrested him and told me the day after he was executed they said that they've killed someone from a powerful family to show that they can get anyone who opposes them i want justice now and i want to clear my son's name he was not a currency dealer they killed him unfairly i want justice for my son's blood. me to do my job was among the first to be executed by the military after i wanted bashir amid the military coup in one nine hundred eighty nine and he became president bush's reign lasted for nearly thirty years before he was ousted by the military last thursday four months of mass protests accuse him of mismanaging the economy and corruption as well as targeting dissidents through the feared national security agency and militias loyal to the ruling party thousands of sudanese have been killed during the bush years through including doctor by because i have been

having for providing medical aid to protesters in january you may say you know my son was a doctor and was carrying out his work their regimes militia's targeted him intentionally they didn't want anyone to provide medical aid to protesters and now i want justice for my son he didn't deserve to die for doing his job. the doctor was one of more than fifty sudanese killed during the protests they include the continuing to weak sit in at the army headquarters and how to. accountability is one of the top demands of protesters here these people in the city believe those targeted and killed by the former government to be much higher and they're chanting how much of the much has blood work they want those responsible for the killings to not only be removed from power but to be held accountable for the crimes they committed. leaders of the military council which is ruling sudan and to the transitional government is formed says anyone who committed crimes over the past thirty years will be held to account and the brothers of the ousted president are among his

allies already arrested and. arrests are underway of symbols of the eyes did 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. says she waited nearly thirty years to see justice for the death of her son and with bashir gone she hopes that justice will come sooner rather than later people morgan al-jazeera . climate activists in the u.k. say they'll stage a protest at heathrow airport on friday extinction rebellion group has been causing major disruption in london blocking roads with some activists even doing themselves to trains they say their action is to bring urgent action on climate change thousands of police officers have been deployed in the city with hundreds of people arrested. flooding has devastated large parts of iran affecting ten million people many of lost everything because waters rose so quickly reports now from the western

province on those who are now desperate and the efforts to help them. the river near this village had been rising all night people here say the floods came around sunrise they scrambled to higher ground with no time to save anything but themselves now they're scrambling for handouts. for those who've lost everything even a pair of shoes is precious. these women say younger stronger people take everything leaving nothing for the weak. generations of people have been living in for one hundred years and moving closer to the water even the oldest say they've never seen floods so bad the rains were a reminder the path of the river is older than anything else here a few weeks ago all this was underwater now half the houses will never be rebuilt and. we must move somewhere else in the past the river was not this big but now it has come to the village the government won't give permission to build houses

anymore. around four hundred people live in this village and it took the river only a few hours to swallow up half of it no one here could tell us how long it might take to recover after the water level went down the villagers were able to come back to their homes and start the enormous task of cleaning up. this mound of mud that was at one point actually inside this house and if you come into the house you can get a sense of how bad the situation actually was when the flooding was happening this brown line running across the wall almost to the ceiling that's how high the water level got inside this house. volunteers have come to help but some houses are too far gone others completely washed away. one woman a widow said it took years to make a home of her own she still owes half of what she borrowed to build a house in which she can no longer live. bring us but we just

want a house they bring water food and everything but we don't have a house so this things can not replace our home they gave me a tent not safe to live in a tent. all over the country many people are having similar experiences survivors living among the debris of the things they've lost so. it's cold at night and hot in the day it's really difficult to live in a tent. for now people are getting help but say what they need most are new places to live so they can stop living by the road in tents overlooking broken homes and the river that broke them same. village in lauriston province iran. now the actor and comedian loved him as a landscape as the front runner to become ukraine's next president in sunday's second round runoff against the incumbent petro poroshenko al-jazeera as robin

forrester walk a went to hometown to find out more about the man whose only experience of politics is playing the president on television. this is the wreak crook at home in english a city built on iron ore and steel production. and birthplace of a man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the law to made a zillion ski. zielinski place a humble history teacher who becomes ukraine's president in the hit comedy t.v. series servant of the people the real zelinsky has no political experience but ever since announcing he wanted the top job he's been favorite to win i asked a local historian what could he can tell us about the zielinski. this is a city of manly iron and steel the kind of character that will never let you down

here locals who know him say success inspired selenski and his comedy troupe. you always wanted what was best not just for him but for his friends his family would never reach just good people like him this is the apartment block zielinski grew up in and his parents still live here now it's clear he's come from humble beginnings rather like the character in his t.v. show but there is one big difference the real seriously is a very powerful business associate who's helped him get to where is now. one of ukraine's most powerful oligarchs owns the t.v. station that hosts zelinsky shows the oligarch lives abroad and is wanted on embezzlement charges ukraine's incumbent president petro poroshenko accuses linsky of being called a puppet. many men here have died in the fighting against russian backed

separatists a former governor of the region. financed the war effort and he's still respected for that you think when you go in with give me a visit if it wasn't because of moist the russians would have been here when the war started it was called a more ski he stood at the helm of the need program region without taking a dime the war drags on and pensions here barely enough to live on good washing enjoy it i've got nothing to lose nearly enough and with none from the start when up in america i was also shot mind and did anything bad happened there will be all right the people of previewed league appear ready to pin their hopes on one of their own robin versity walker al jazeera t.v. the. a lack of jobs and the police crackdown has forced thousands of nicaraguans on look for a better life abroad a year ago protest against planned welfare cuts began but the government responded

by targeting journalists and rights groups al-jazeera has john holdren met one woman i've been to reach the u.s. with her three children. here on from the mass protests which marked the start of the naked eye when crisis and it's not just a political problem now. the country's fallen into its worst economic slump in three decades scenes like this. haven't been great for attracting investment. christiane is one of many people laid off one influential think tank put it almost half a million votes in a population of just six million people seen. i've been looking for work for eight months not just in my area which is publicity but in administration tourism wherever i could find a job to provide for my children but i couldn't find anything in any company they're not hiring now they're firing more people. she's heading north to the u.s.

with her three children to look for work. moving sixty thousand other nick and i will have already left the country many are in costa rica saying they're fleeing persecution since the mass protests began the government's clampdown on journalists and human rights groups. film a new year's hit the most prominent of them until this happened. at a live in pm a group of about sixty police broke through the roof they tied up the young man who washes the installations by his hands and feet they took almost everything they destroyed the organization completely the computers the documents we don't know what exactly they took it into no million the government's entered into a dialogue with a group of business civil society in university leaders called the civic colline. but alliance representatives themselves fear it's just a play for more time the dialogue is kind of a stalled situation we were able to agree on two one was the release of all the

prisoners and the second was the return to the people of nicaragua basic human rights and civil rights however they go in has not been able to comply with those agreements so far they have shown very little compromise. the civic alliance is also calling for early elections and justice for the more than three hundred people reported killed in two thousand and three of. the government and other figures from the ruling party to share their views none were available for an interview meanwhile out in the streets protests have been effectively banned and paramilitary still roam the government firmly in control but it won't cost to a country that's already one of the very poorest in the hemisphere john home and how does it a. french investigators think an electrical short circuit may have caused the not cathedral inferno in paris emergency workers are being honored for their work in

battling the blaze which started on monday but raged for hours firefighters were hosted by the french president at the end he's a palace among them was the paris fire brigade chaplain who rushed into the burning cathedral to save some of the ancient artifacts including what's believed to be christ's crown of thorns more than nine hundred million dollars us and played so far to help we build a structure. talk a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump's legal team has declared total victory off the release of the report a censored version of the special counsel's investigation has been made public it found no evidence of direct connection between the trump campaign team and the russian government but it doesn't trump obstruction of justice the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense after

carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the office of legal counsel and other department lawyers the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense mali's government has resigned after protests over a mass killing last month more than one hundred sixty follow me herdsman died it led to protests by tens of thousands of people who accuse the government of not doing enough to stop the violence nicholas hawke has more. there's been mounting tension in the political arena adding to this this chaos that you're seeing in mali adding to the security situation there is political tension between the president and members of the opposition so there will be clear. pressure on the

president to try to bring in members of the opposition in hopes to please these angry that are taking to the streets because the situation really is just deteriorating by the day the u.n. envoy to libya is warning that violence could intensify in the country fighters loyal to the internationally recognized government and launch a new campaign in the south against me for have top u.n. security council held an emergency session to discuss the situation but failed to agree on a draft resolution for a cease fire. huge crowds continue to gather in sudan outside the military headquarters the site of a mass sit in over the last two weeks just as want the immediate return of civilian rule following the overthrow of the president omar bashir last thursday you know while the representative russia's president vladimir putin has met saddam's military rulers. all right so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power

stations are watching. in australia more women are being locked up than ever before what's driving this alarming development what i'm going to. reply behind bars on zero zero. as around nine hundred million indian voters decide who should be the next leader how vulnerable are they to the kind of social media manipulation that has recently been seen in europe and the usa amid growing anxiety about the impact of fake news on ministers information on the world's largest democracy we've been to invest.

as far as crime goes not much happens in. a sleepy drew district in the heart of the south indian state of. ny so when police constable muhammad his smile received an urgent phone call after noon in may two thousand and eighteen he didn't quite know what to make of it. reported that a mob had taken four child kidnappers hostage and was threatening to kill them. but some schools are.

on the record one hundred people gather that. the religious told the constable that they had received messages forwarded a war whatsapp that a child kidnapping gang was heading for their village. the messages for accompanied by a video that showed two men on a motorcycle abducting a child who was playing on the street. it was enough to cause panic and mayhem. you will know. what. a lot. of the years have never said. there were just. to hear your voice give it all there are a couple good we. all just go for the action hopefully with the law on the public at a couple of things will pull itself out of the goal. which

is. why constable a smile was able to save the day here things did get out of control in the rest of the kind. over a period of four months in two thousand and eighteen more than thirty people were lynched across india after similar rumors about child abductions began circulating on what side. these killings were eventually dubbed the whatsapp lynchings by the media. among law enforcement officials. chief of police remarked with a computer science degree was one of the first to recognize what was happening i understand mall ft under videos where did fix they were not real be deals but these weirdos and images we're making these religious form into mobs wielding mobs and they were trying to restrain strangers who walked into the

village there's this fear or there was this mass hysteria we wanted to understand the origin of this we do because they were going but unfortunately we could not get to the origin of this videos because of the traceability problem because what has this and went and corruption and you cannot get to the origin so even today we have absolutely no idea about where these videos originated from. eventually it emerged that the video in question was doctored from an educational video made by an ingenue in karate pakistan tried to reason when asked about child kidnapping. with just a little editing the video became a weapon in the hands of unknown troublemakers. so we had to do something and we had to do something very quick. when you have a faceless criminal when you don't know who is you know creating this panic or who

is spreading this malicious messages the only option you have us to reach out to the community and upbuilding not to share them not to make them go. so that's precisely what we did people write north of red all for the sake. of misinformation and the potential it hard to incite winds. but if the actions of free and others have helped raise awareness about the potentially deadly consequences of spreading malicious disinform ation few people fully understand the broader threat that fake news poses to indian democracy. in the capital of the north indian state of bihar housings of people have assembled to watch prime minister modi launch his campaign for reelection in the state the excitement is palpable. was.

behind the scenes of this festive unlike most experts have been sounding the alarm bells since the last general election in two thousand and fourteen india's political parties including the prime minister's hindu nationalist party jump up party. have emerged as masters of digital manipulation. most of them including the opposition congress now have a social media wing but critics believe that the b.g.p. steam better known as the id cell is far more organized so i reached out to them and all requests for interviews were quickly denied but there are three pozen i-t. cell volunteers spread out across the stradley and i hope some of them would be billing to discuss bad work the figures. the instructor.

is what they are trying real hard liquor filled up the bombers outside. then in a stroke of good luck i ran into money which he had the id sell for the state of bihar there are often accused of dishing out misinformation in an attempt to sway voters a charge that body image lee brushed aside i want to pull this stunt i'm able to you project on what our psyche but then we call the individual if you don't just give us we'll see you back the door buster usually if they don't make it up any somebody up their brand of overlap or not it was the fake government you could look me. up but he explained that he had personally oversee in the setting up of pozen of whatsapp groups each with nearly two hundred fifty members. bird poop say you don't want to hurt will watch the bill from the official human

been from a five year fax you have been on top of. the media want to like make up you would know what the cool facts they brought up are the year i'm fulfilling with. them say i am. a little. over two hundred thirty million people use whatsapp in india and many of them have been added to potus and groups but disseminate misinformation and provoke sectarian tensions nobody understands better how this works than twenty five year old shivashankar saying a whistleblower who was a key member of the bee gees data analytics department until he suddenly quit a year ago the editor of the party getting thirty fourteen elections for sanko don't develop or are dotted and on the wall are good there's not a multiple message unlike to her i don't at the party want and if you look at messaging today it's all about how you're going to see the full extent of the code

to get all the fighting the best focused on how that all of the nationals are not one of the children coming up for you to go to country and how they're going to save you from all of the fun with all of these top instructors anime. that the body is going to do basically a liar. and manipulate them into what a party is just based on emotion that. critics like sharon allege that the beach a piece shifting narrative is contributing to the flood of misinformation in a chair on the ballot as the cook he now consults with a group of opposition politicians in the state of bihar helping them devise a digital strategy to counter the b.g.p. which is miles ahead in the game. because in order to develop the most critical day you'd been able to unemployment. yet that all by you could also go to an official language shiver my ledge is that when he was with the b.g.p. he was staffed with collecting

a large amount of personal data to profile voters these. would then be used to add people to different whatsapp group chats based on their interests all their prejudices. of the donors in the public domain that's provided by the election commission of toast the biggest one is the one who were to. each other delivering that agenda that household information and then were going on in a large part of her do you can get people's cost in religions just with that being because if it's a muslim you know that person is probably a muslim so we just don't you can get to sixty five seventy percent accuracy brit this you can also make up other did just that including say electricity bills which give you a good idea of comics doctors because workers are to usually has a higher electricity bill because they have air conditioning plus you have things like for not bush that out of the liberal surprisingly is a leader and you know if you can back up back to the. then you basically have

a direct to be to message people based on their cost their religion their group and to belong to the lack of data protection laws in india means that such methods are not strictly illegal. but she was disturbed by the kind of an ethical micro-targeting he witnessed the problem arises when you start using the exact same of the liberty doll to basically create a divided society and the people what started happening is that there is a very concerted effort to create a divide between hindus and muslims to create a divide between groups really specific kind of messaging they're going to get across they want to get across the messaging that muslims will overtake the population number for this group but the thing is just because the messaging goes to such a small subset of people who didn't know all but i do believe that such a thing is if you can profile people and identify what kind of messaging they're likely to believe you can skew that delist better fix. messaging campaign

it doesn't happen instantly one piece of news that's going to convince you of something but if you're bombarded with fake news point to boost best foot direction for months on end it does start to feel. these messages star get minority religious groups or individual politicians journalists and activists. but the problem of fake news it's not limited to whatsapp. its parent company facebook has nearly treat hundred million users in india and that's by default plays host to an organized ecosystem for disseminating misinformation. in two thousand and eighteen a b.b.c. analysis of some three thousand facebook pages from a town found a pretty dominant trite when narrative a nationalist ideology aligned with the b two b. on sites spreading fake names at the heart of the spoken ice ecosystem up artists and influences like because spine day i started.