darter on violence worldwide has recorded more than seventy thousand killed since two thousand and sixteen the armed conflict location and event of the project says that include more than seven thousand civilians the organization accuses the saudi low coalition and its allies of directly targeting and killing almost five thousand civilians and the statistician's say the who three armed group is responsible for killing one thousand three hundred civilians ten thousand yemenis are reportedly been killed in the last five months so these fires brokered by the un have helped to cut the casualty rate of heavy fighting continues under a carb only as an analyst of the armed conflict location and event delta project which published the statistics the violence in yemen has overall decreased since the beginning of twenty nineteen mostly due to a decrease in violence in the province of data which had become the flashpoint of

the major offensive last year. they'd agree with has managed to actually stop violence or to prevent violence from escalating in their region but what we've seen is actually an escalation of violence in outer regions in the north of in is in our valley as well and this was mostly due to the fact that the who thiis have been actually engaged in repression of local tribal actors for instance in. but also there has been every escalation of frozen military offensives in in many areas so what we've seen is actually. geography of the violence. the president of mali is excepted the resignation of the prime minister and his entire government following weeks of protests over ethnic killings more than one hundred sixty people in

a fall on the village with killed last month by suspected gunman and the rival doggone ethnic group. demonstrators are angry at the government for failing to stop such killings as well as the poor economy and the presence of foreign troops. so i had on al-jazeera. no collusion no obstruction. homeworks of a political storm as a revealed president from tried to obstruct the investigation. had a fairly benign weather at the moment through japan the korean peninsula and northern china the circulations just stop your screen there so this is residual cloud the next system trying to build the middle of northern china it will be reasonable to rein in beijing could be a disappointment for you on saturday sixteen degrees and that the green finger

stretches across to north korea but south of it the sun should be out typically run about twenty degrees they're about to be a bit cooler in their own homes or in our car doublets hardly a surprise and maybe a bit more this morning in the fact of lots of sunshine middle of honshu come sunday it looks like it should be better in beijing the temp is coming up to about twenty four it's further south in china where the heaviest of the rain is has been there for two or three days is still there on saturday so all that comes down to sichuan is more concentrated in one g. gong dong and for jan and it will stay that if anything it will i think tend to enhance itself as it just down through hong kong but it's always there just to the north inland through saturday and sunday shanghai looks probably drawing now this although it's increasing be humid and hot in russia southeast asia there are many showers around wanted to maybe in cambodia until you get once again down to singapore the island of sumatra.

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welcome back you're watching i'll just a time to recap headlines thousands of protesters are outside the military headquarters in sudan's capital khartoum on thursday night they held the biggest rally since the overthrow of president on the bashir last week the demonstrators of the demanding an end to military pull. friday protests are underway for the ninth successive week jiri or protesters continue to demand change there because of the interim government's links to president of the lindsays beautifully and delays to presidential elections until july. more than ten thousand people have been killed in yemen over the past five months brings the war's total death toll to over seventy thousand since two thousand and sixteen that's according to dr collated by the conflict location and event project.

u.s. president trump is declaring total victory after the release of a censored version of robert mahler's for a paulton to russian collusion house democrats are already planning their next move with a meeting scheduled for monday they also on the see the for unlimited version of the report serious roles in jordan and force. donald trump's two thousand and sixteen campaign was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but when robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now ballers investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is now public the special counsel's conclusion. and stated at least three times accordingly while this report does not conclude that the president committed

a crime it also does not exonerate him as far as the u.s. attorney general is concerned trump is not in legal jeopardy bill barr says just because muller's report is filled with details about contacts between the campaign and russian officials doesn't mean anyone committed a crime we collect this information we use that compulsory process for the purpose of making that decision the report confirms what the u.s. intelligence community believes russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign between trump and hillary clinton russ upon tax with members of trump's inner circle where betty including with his son donald jr who is not be charged with any crime his lawyer michael cohen and campaign manager paul bana fort both cullen and man a ford are now headed to prison for a lawyer to the government about their actions however mohler and his investigators say there's not enough proof of

a bigger conspiracy or of presidential interference if we had called that it's after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state based on the facts and the applicable legal standards however we are able to reach that judgment but mohler if it never compel trump to sit for an interview in the interest of time raising questions in congress and the general public about how thorough this investigation really was rosalyn al-jazeera washington. kimberly house joins us now live from washington d.c. so slightly different picture of merging off lease the model report partially revealed what is nancy pelosi planning to do about the big question mark now is. yeah it's a big question mark in the house speaker is actually in ireland right now where

she's part of the tour in the united kingdom as part of a broader tour and at the moment the conclusion that the house speaker has put forward in a letter to democrats in the house of representatives in congress is that essentially this has been punted to congress by the special prosecutor that this is gone now to congress to conduct its oversight as well as the court of public opinion so well the speaker is playing down talk of impeachment she's not ruling it out saying that congress needs to investigate further whatever the issue and challenge that we face the congress of the united states will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states to protect our democracy we believe that the first article article one the legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that.

republicans on like the one sitting down one of the sort of counter attack plans. yeah so when it doesn't look like this is going to disappear as a story from the headlines any time soon in fact just the opposite that congress is as you pointed out going to be at least the democrats in the house of representatives holding a conference call a monday to discuss next steps and republicans are doing the same they're planning attacks on their own they are many of them are saying that robert muller's refusal to prosecute the president is vindication of donald trump and further many are saying the democrats sort of continued investigation of this even after two years by the f.b.i. and others it really amounts to what they say and have been accusing democrats of all along of not accepting the outcome of the twenty sixty u.s. election the resistance if you will so expect that both sides are going to dig in

their heels even further there are questions from the republican side about even pushing to investigate the law enforcement agencies that were part of helping robert muller investigate whether or not those were politicized or tainted in any way by political bias so both republicans and democrats are deciding on next steps this is a holiday weekend here in the united states many americans celebrating easter passover but expect that come monday that there will be continued talk of impeachment particularly by the progressive wing of the democratic party but at the same time well that is happening moderates in the democratic party are saying let's just wait a second let's just look at this little bit further we're not ruling that out as a possibility but the same time this is also not a certainty or from washington d.c. . now uganda's top courses up held the law are moving the presidential age limit it could lead to

a sixth term for president yoweri museveni without the age gap of seventy five years the seventy four year old president can run again he won a fifth term three years ago the opposition says the change is unconstitutional the survey came to power in one nine hundred eighty six after a guerrilla war with two term limit was scrapped in two thousand and five. dozens of cuban doctors working in kenya have been moved to safety after two of their colleagues were kidnapped a week ago gunmen based in neighboring somalia are suspected of the tank in which a police guard was killed the doctors were abducted from a hospital in the kenyan city of mandela catherine soy has more from their. six jim you're right on this street and that's time of the morning the people here who's very busy people. and those we've talked to. say.

that it's something that is called money and. then they realized something was wrong when they saw this man coming out of the shooting. the cuban doctors into their vehicle and drove. about two kilometers away the police and the military all the involved in trying to rescue these cuban doctors. from kenya and from somalia trying to negotiate a release security has been beefed up. for example wasn't there before. and no one has claimed responsibility and the government has. to talk about. a serious talks in areas along the border including and especially. its troops. alongside african union forces

and with the national. schools and assassinations as well we're talking about a very long seven hundred. for a very difficult to secure in proximity we haven't seen a major incident in the last. when something like this happens people on sound with talk to them. he needs to act as quickly as possible to make sure to come back safely and to stall the. sound like the. right. i think paul's of rescues in pakistan's largest city are causing creasing alarm and new homes and industrial developments in karachi are making the environmental crisis he was and not hide to has a story. according to industrialist it is home to some of karachi's richards people

and also some of pretty poor to. many work here without protective clothing or gloves as daniel blocked it bags and portraits from take us to keep it flowing to be very honest being a pakistani we should put our hands to shame because we don't have any civic sense left when we look banks on top of all forty years back there was a lot of civic sense to put in find his garbage around in the streets but when the population explosion the only area in which pakistan has problems too and all the other better meters an s.t.d. is going down north far away their garbage dump ridden destroyed compound there where spies are several stories high and ridenour of that city is ever growing slum children start out anything of value and stray dogs start for left over was murdered money is still to be made there are also criminals looking to take anything of value here the problem is that the.

killer figure well you garbage is taken away by the mafia and it is being disposed of by the factories and also the dull treatment. so what whatever garbage is left it is not sufficient to produce an extra ticket on to do with anything else so we're just taken by truck to open spaces further inland joining large stretch agent or dump or landfills these people live near one and have become accustomed to the health hazards and a stench like this ice cream cellar audit fruit salad bar dodgers are concerned. well mcdonald. the government has forgotten as and is least interested in collecting garbage or cleaning up history now it's piled up everywhere literally we are living in it our kids get sick it's hot spring to see which smile is everywhere . this may look like solid ground when you take your leave with floating around.

and you can't even claimed the lives of some children every day nearly two billion liters of sewage floors through these makeshift. into the arabian sea because of neglect by sex slavery james bug a standard now confronted with an ecological today doctor and the government in islamabad and now ok. green and clean pakistan the government said it had a plan but for now the situation is getting worse with operation government have failed despite after having so governing the problems for more than ten years they have handled this issue well very recently the prime minister has announced a huge bailout package for the problems for the for the crowd. that one hundred sixty two billion rupees we are installing. treatment plants and at the same time.

including the solid management system there and some of fissures in pakistan's major city kid in our neighbor to coal and i losing the battle against in creating ways. karachi. being confined much more now website be a trust have to be used i'll just syria dot com. let's take you through some of the stories now making the headlines here thousands of protesters are still gathered outside. headquarters he stands to on thursday night they held the biggest rally since the overthrow of president obama announced week with demonstrators are demanding an end to military. hero morgan has more from call

two. people have been gathering in front of army headquarters since wednesday evening that's because of the march that was held yesterday it's called a million people's march thousands and thousands and the army headquarters and political parties know that there's gathering in front of the headquarters is their main card that they have against the military council so that power is handed over to an independent transitional government we've seen the sudanese professional association butting out a notice late last night that people should continue gathering and protesting in front of the army headquarters and hold friday prayers there today friday protests are under way for the ninth successive week and algeria thousands in the capital algiers chanted down with the system long term president abdul aziz beautifully who was ousted earlier this month protesters continue to demand change because of the interim government's links to beautifully. u.s. frozen dog trump is declaring victory after the release of

a census version of. the russian collusion but house democrats say they want to see the for a moment to version whenever the issue and challenge that we face the congress of the united states will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states to protect our democracy we believe that the first article article one the legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that. more than ten thousand people have been killed in yemen over the last five months it brings the walls total death toll to over seventy thousand since two thousand and sixteen according to data collated by the conflict location and defend the project malise president has accepted the resignation of the prime minister and his entire government it comes after weeks of mass protests over the killing of one hundred

sixty full on the villages it's inside story now stay with us. a cycle of fear a report shows journalists are facing increasing hostility around the world the dangers are not just in conflict harassed persecuted and sometimes think they are facing a new threat so what's caused press freedom to deteriorate globally this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm a media freedom is in decline and journalists around the world are working in an intense climate of fear this year's evaluation by reporters without borders shows a market drop in the number of countries where it is safe for journalists to work and it says political leaders rhetoric has fueled violence against them in many parts of the world the world press freedom index covers the state of journalism in one hundred eighty countries it found eight percent of them have a media climate considered good for journalists. the biggest deterioration is in the americas with the u.s. brazil venezuela and nicaragua performing poorly the middle east and north africa region continues to be the most dangerous for journalists on the flip side ethiopia and gambia as rankings have climbed significantly norway stayed top of the list while sweden last one place to become third and north korea is no longer the most dangerous country for journalists it's turkmenistan. i.

already let's bring in our guests from london aden white president and founder of the ethical journalism network rami hooty is professor of journalism at american university of beirut he is currently in new york to address an international forum on press freedom and again from london caroline muscat co-founder and editor of the shift news welcome to the program caroline let me start with you it used to be that journalists mostly came under threat due to violence covering war covering dangerous stories that really has changed fundamentally in the last several years has it not it has we are seeing a change and threats and the kind of intimidation that genesis are facing. this climate of fear that we're talking about test started over the last intensified of the last couple of years we are not looking at things like cyber harassment they

set of tradition harassment or challenges that make janet's life on the ground very difficult and make it very hard to act. rami i want to start the discussion today by discussing the united states a country where the notion of freedom of the press is enshrined in its constitution not only has the u.s. fallen in the reporters without borders list this year it's fallen three places in this year's index but it is now classified as having a problematic climate for journalists so just how significant is this. it's very significant in terms of the modern historical legacy world the united states along with some western european countries are really trampy and of the independence of the press and free expression of citizens and the privacy of citizens that's changed now and trump really is the latest manifestation most dramatic manifestation of this because he publicly openly attacks the media and

says they're enemies of the people and and educates his followers to in some cases the followers go and beat them up and stuff but this did not start with trump this really started with george bush on the war in iraq where george bush suddenly said in the global war on terror you're either with us or against us anybody who doesn't fully support the american government policies and war in other areas as an enemy of the people is a danger is a threat is a subversive element and this process has gone on for about twenty five years and it's getting worse and worse and a spreading all over the world but in the us the interesting thing is that while the government is pushing. to restrict press freedoms and personal expression and criminalize it in some cases such as for instance supporting the b.d.s. peaceful sanctions against israel movement they push back from the u.s. is very serious including the american civil liberties unions and law cases all over the country saying that the freedom of expression that is in shrine then the

constitution has to override everything else and there's a huge battle this is really the great new ideological battlefield in not just the western world but the rest of the world as well eight in the report calls the period since president trumps election in two thousand and sixteen and one of american journalism communities darkest moments and it also links trumps notorious anti-press rhetoric with terrifying harassment it says in the report particularly at women and journalists of color so from your perspective how much have trump's words degraded the atmosphere. don't think there's any doubt that. notwithstanding the difficulties the past presidents have had with the press there's no doubt that. president trump has elevated to a new and quite. unacceptable level hostility to the press he's generated a movement against mainstream press he has tried to humiliate and to isolate

and to intimidate some of the the best journalists in the world and it seems to me with what he's done is that he has created in the public mind a deep suspicion and hostility towards mainstream journalism and given the circumstances that we are in nationally and globally with the information landscape that's a very dangerous thing in particular he's given a green light to populist unscrupulous politicians all around the world to bring the press and investigative journalists for example into the crosshairs of conflict he is very much. the leading light in a very dark force in global politics today it includes putin it includes or no one in turkey it includes others who really are generating now very hostile climate in which journalists find it difficult to work so i don't

think i've known and i've been in this business for more than thirty years representing journalists internationally i don't think i've known a worse period in terms of the problems and challenges facing journalists and the threats that they're out of free expression rami this report says that the americas have suffered the greatest deterioration of any of the regions first off why are things getting so much worse in places like brazil in venezuela in nicaragua and secondly the fact that things are so much worse in the u.s. what does that mean for the safety of journalists in other parts of the world. well the us has a leader as seen as a leader across the world in many arenas and it used to be a leader and free press now it's a leader in pushing back against the freedom of the press and criminalizing free expression so anybody who's critical of trump or american policy is as seen in the trompe and world to be an enemy and

a dangerous subversive and therefore can be attacked with legal means sometimes just beaten up sometimes intimidated and this is spreading around the world that the critical thing now is that there is a global growing network of autocrats let's call them some of them are really awful . dictators and brutal people others are just really strong autocrats who don't want to hear any views that oppose them and you see it on in brazil in the in venezuela. egypt in iran and turkey and india hungary all over the world are spreading more and more and the really dangerous thing is that they are now getting technology for instance the united arab emirates has bought israeli tech knowledge and is passed on to presidencies in egypt to monitor electronically hundreds of thousands of people and prevent them from expressing themselves so we have the situation where thousands of websites were

just closed down in egypt a few days ago by the government in order to prevent the free discussion about the so-called referendum that's going to take place now in a few days that would allow caesar to stay president for another twenty years or so so there the web of terrible things happening is much worse than just clamping down on journalists it's about controlling the minds and the thoughts and the expressions of individual citizens and preventing citizens from work together and n.g.o.s or professional organizations or whatever to express themselves and hold the governments accountable so this is really a dangerous moment but the good news is that there is pushback everywhere. around the world and this is a great great global battle now taking place carolina the european union and the balkans are registered this year as the second biggest deterioration in this original score which measures the level of constraints and violated as according to reporters without borders report tell us about the kind of threats faced by journalists in malta well definitely i want to get it's an investigative

journalist who was assassinated and will turn sixteen talk to about twenty seven thousand. there is no real serious investigation going on three known criminals were accused of the of the assassination but you have absolutely no idea who commissioned the murder they side in single of an investigative journalist in north a country where more than ninety percent of the media is own directly by political parties these are very little for criticism of the government. there is continued impunity and discontinues to make the rest of the journalists working on the ground more and more vulnerable the threats and cycle of hate that investigations have revealed are directly linked to online government porto's closed and secret groups that were used to whip up hate to get stuffed i want to call it sam i know being used to target and isolate activists and journalists who are critical of the

government and once you're isolated you become a much easier target and the maltese government is refusing national and international calls for an independent public inquiry to look at what the state could have done to prevent the assassination the state's positive obligation the government is refusing to score. in this report sweden is highly ranked but but even sweden was downgraded this year and one of the reasons for that was because of cyber bullying of journalists and this is something that keeps coming up in the report of the borders index this year what do you make of that. well i think the the the problem about the use of technology to to to monitor the work of journalists to interfere and to intimidate journalists in the in the way they're working is is extremely disturbing and i mean sweden has been demoted

but you know in terms of the league table the scandinavian countries are still out shined by a long way most of the rest of the democratic world and. globally as a whole but i think this problem about technology is is not just about how the technology can be used and developed specifically to target and to intimidate journalists one of the big problems that we're facing in terms of protecting free expression these days is the failure of the big technology companies to take their responsibility as publishers they have created in many ways the technological facilities for an informational landscape that shows no respect for public decency for respect for standards of expression that we have many many problems with misinformation.