of course violence criminality terrorism was always are all still wrong today and twenty nine chain we can damage wholeheartedly we hope that everyone will work in london derry and indeed for their failed with the place service to give them all the support that they need many people in northern ireland to concerns about the renewed ballance in derry and what led to it there were many tributes being paid to lehr mckay all praising her as a seeker of the truth emma heywood al-jazeera. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back spying allegations turkey arrest two suspects accused of working for the u.a.e. plus under pressure will examine the rising suicide rate among french police officers more nuts than this.

ally the weather is now quieter and drawn in iran and afghanistan despite the cloud is rather more active with those throughout the caucuses wolf in turkey actually through northern syria into the caucasus particularly us by john you've seen some pretty heavy showers recently high ground will see snow of course now still the forecast showing sort of the circulation above my head which is in the black sea me still quite cold in turkey but to round up to nineteen but doesn't twenty seven the shelf dress right on the border i think in iraq and iran everything's moving really from west to east from the north to south so it's looking quite quiet again syria iran right back to the kosovo you pick up through israel lebanon and syria increasing cloud and range earing sunday sounds of this mostly arabian peninsula looking fine there's a hint of a shower too maybe a nice inside iran but rather more obviously once more in the southwest saudi

arabia in particular western yemen where daily thunderstorms are going to be more and more obvious as the weeks go on. south of all this and also it should be court chorus and draw this time the year the forecast of showers returns to south africa quite a broad swath is running off and to just touching botswana and edging only slowly eastwards towards mozambique. whether sponsored by can tolerate. the right to adequate housing adequate who decides. housing is not just about four walls and a roof it's about living in a place where you have peace security and most importantly dignity un special rapporteur. talks to al-jazeera. coming. up. let's.

talk about the critter amount of our top stories this hour in a phone call u.s. president donald trump has offered support to libyan warlord honey for hostile forces have been fighting to take control of tripoli from the internationally recognized government earlier this month those like pompei expressed concern of a half dozen vons on the capital. the u.s. department of justice has dismissed a subpoena by the democrats requesting an uncensored copy of the mother reports premature and unnecessary an edited version that was released on thursday. and hundreds of gathered in northern ireland to pay tribute to a journalist killed during a riot in london that there mickey was standing close to a police car when she was shot politicians from all sides in the region have

condemned the killings. and months of protests in sudan as a pairing to name the p. wants to take charge of the country they're demanding a civilian government takeover from the military rulers who ousted president omar al bashir earlier this month. was joining the sit in is like stepping into a new sudan people are taking power into their own hands these civilians are now guarding the border and they're greeting people with songs and smiles there was soul being almost a pleasure and they'll work in voluntarily. and while this crowd braves the heat to put out a message of change has helped to keep them cool money is also being donated drinking water is provided i. food is served for free for a while today medical doctors have left their paid jobs on joint efforts to set up

makeshift clinics to help those tested last night. yeah we worked in hard conditions there were days when we couldn't handle the sheer number of people who came for medical help we could hardly sleep for days we were doing both a humanitarian and national due to my being here. these people are here in front of the army headquarters to make sure a complete revolution is achieved and a military coup doesn't just lead to another period of rule like that and ahmed bashir. in. the military council most tend of the powerchair transitional civil in government which protected by me will fulfill all the objectives of derivative so far we have only the head of the tree we still need to remove the roots a message that's being eco that on sudan as ordinary people now take center stage

the blood that's been shed for this moment is on the walls as are the young women to. with courage and leadership this is where some of the deadliest losses took place in the morning of course when thousands of protesters walk up to the crossfire members as they go to those classes day displays a special civility clampett actually came from the students and the audience what if it's not if i send you to hospital since his uprising it's like a fire ball that's building up to the sense of the old regime. the uniforms of those the snipers who were caught hank here as a mark of shame to those who fought change but many say the deep state is still intact and only the facade of the former regime has been removed from us out i think. they didn't they just removed some debt and put more debt in its place we don't want any national congress members in the government. and that's why the

protest and they are slogan whether or not there is she has fallen and we are staying here. protests have taken place for the ninth successive week in algeria thousands in the capital are geas chanting down with the system long term president abilities beautifully it was forced to resign earlier this month protesters continue to demand change because of the interim government's links to put a flicker and they've been angered by the presidential election being delayed until july. first saudi led coalition in yemen says it's targeted or who the rebel drone base both sides claim to have down drones in recent days the media posted this video on friday appears to show a saudi aircraft being shot down over sata days earlier the saudi coalition said it had hit who think drone over the port city of data. police in turkey have arrested two palestinians who allegedly confessed to spying

for the united arab emirates the two men are reported have been accused of monitoring members of hamas and the muslim brotherhood according to turkish media one of the men arrived in turkey in october last year just days after the murder of saudi journalist. police are investigating whether there's a link to that crime but there's more from istanbul. two palestinian men have been arrested in istanbul they've been charged with political military and international espionage the palestinians were initially detained in a hotel in is stamboul officials confiscated an encrypted computer stashed in a hidden compartment sources say the men allegedly confessed to being intelligence operatives working for the united arab emirates and they were here specifically gathering intelligence on arab dissidents and students after the arab spring in two thousand and eleven many arab dissidents came to turkey to live in exile sources

tell us the men were under surveillance for six months during that time they contacted turkish analysts made inquiries about qatar's foreign investment in turkey the two countries are close allies the u.a.e. is part of a saudi backed blockade against qatar intended to isolate the country the men also allegedly contacted a suspect in the. murder case. was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october there was international condemnation at that time the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are close allies now sources are saying that shortly after quiz show g.'s murder the first operative entered the country the second soon after to help with the workload but the focus of the investigation appears to be on spying on arab dissidents in turkey and there's the thought that given the strained

relations between turkey and saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. and turkey and egypt that perhaps the u.a.e. was attempting to open up a new avenue of intelligence gathering in turkey. there's been a sudden rise in the number of french police officers taking their own lives an increase in terror attacks mass protests and anti police sentiment is adding to the stress on average one police officer is committing suicide every four days well now police unions are calling on the government to take action is under schapelle reports. police officers are the ones members of the public look to to keep them safe but now it's the police who are looking for help the pressures of the job becoming too much for some of them. these officers in marsay are in mourning for two of their colleagues who killed themselves this week twenty seven others have done the same so far this year others stood outside police stations and the interior ministry in paris woman is of. i myself and my children do not ever become

police officers because all their lives they will suffer in so let's go believing in a lack of recognition social i can accept from our children but our current. working conditions for police officers in some of the country's main cities have been described as difficult. and some say the yellow vests protests which began last november in response to rising fuel costs but quickly became a campaign against the government have added to the pressures while the vast majority of demonstrations have been peaceful there have been outbreaks of violence and cases of anti police chants. already under stress from a number of terror attacks and a two year long state of emergency officers faced long working hours and struggle to get paid for overtime the government report reveals french police have a suicide rate thirty six percent higher than the general population already this year the number of officers who have taken their own lives is double the figure

from the same time last year and police unions fear if action is not taken now twenty one thousand could see more suicides than in one thousand nine hundred six when seventy officers died. the government says it's setting up a special unit later this month to try and tackle the problem and prevent more deaths. there is a passion for the uniform it's extraordinary but there is pressure and we obviously need to heed the warning cries that come through these individual suicides cries of the collective. that the police don't feel protected by the government and the yellow vests protesters don't think the government is listening to them it's a delicate balancing act on the streets of french cities and al jazeera in iran the cost of recovering from flood damage is expected to be around two and a half billion dollars millions of iranians are rebuilding their lives after the devastating floods a month ago as a report some of. the crisis has come at

a time iran shrinking economy and the u.s. sanctions. iran's government is measuring the cost of flood damage in the billions of dollars for iran's people measuring the cost is also very personal damage shops . broken furniture. even packets of spaghetti. homes have been destroyed shops and businesses damaged everything is gone. now the cleanup the floods left this school filled with mud the goal is to clear up as fast as possible to get the children back into class now this is the kind of thing that will cost time and money to fix if you look over here that metal structure that's connected to the bridge that is a temporary one that had to be put in place when the pressure of the water that was coming through flowing through the river brought down entire sections of that bridge and if you look over here in this direction basically what we're looking at

is a river front that has now been completely destroyed. the iranian government's response to this emergency was rapid and people say they are grateful but now they expect the authorities to help them return to their normal lives. a scheme is in the works to rent apartments for people who don't want to live in tents and relocate those from villages which cannot be saved the city governor says his people are doing everything they can maul. seeking to considering the large scale destruction all roads had been cut and we had no access to the capital of the province most roads to villages were damaged and we had to. cut across lauriston province crews have been at work for weeks rebuilding washed roads repairing transport links is crucial for getting help into affected areas. there

is a sense of urgency. officials want to get the newly homeless out of tents and into temporary homes away from busy streets for some patience is wearing thin and there have been reports of protests in some parts of the country. we met one woman. who says she's had enough little remains from her earlier life but memories just days before the flood she was celebrating the persian new year with her family now this is all that's left. with a. house was just here the floods took us away completely there was no sign of a two story house anymore it's riven now we have displaced living in tents we don't know what to do there is so much pollution there are thousands like her looking to the country's leaders for answers. the questions include where will her family go and how will she raised three boys after losing everything.

on province iran. climate activists have gathered in a number of european cities at the start of the easter break the demanding that politicians in the face of what they say is a climate in the agency. reports from london. time to change protests that began in london on monday are spreading. by friday greenpeace activists had appeared in paris aiming their actions of multinational companies with government linked. to do we want to send the message that we need to act urgently there's a climate and social crisis that needs to be tackled and at the moment we're not even close. and in rome a young swedish climate activist grettir from berg told the crowd that time is running out humanity is standing at a crossroads we have decided which parts we want to take. and now

we are waiting for the others to follow our example. at the start of the easter holiday weekend a small group of teenagers tried to block access to london's heathrow airport police were quick to intervene they were part of the london based movement extinction rebellion that drew the attention of one celebrity dame emma thompson to help make its message heard. the london protests have been shed you will to last for two full weeks or until the government promises to confront what protestors describe as a climate and ecological emergency but there are signs the police will send for london's busy oxford street and other locations three it will be a full day. there's a very fine balance being struck here between the interests of this very peaceful passionate crowd and public order with roadways in the capital obstructed now for five days it's clear nobody here wants

a confrontation with the police clearly feel that they've got to do something to regain control of the police something fantastic. scene how far are you prepared to take. as. long as it means peaceful nonviolent. there's been a number of arrests but all my whole it's all been pretty good natured so young and old in a city in for the earth for humanity and a better future. of the headlines here in al-jazeera in a phone call us president donald trump has offered support to the libyan warlord. not appearing to be a major policy u.-turn recognize have to roll in fighting so-called terrorism and securing libya's oil resources after his forces have been fighting the

internationally recognized government earlier this month. demanded an immediate halt of violence in the capital tripoli for the phone call by trump follows a u.s. decision to oppose a u.n. draft resolution calling for a cease fire. as more from washington. it wasn't clear why the u.s. had not backed this proposal until new submerged rock the fact that president trump had been in touch with. earlier in the week now this very much a reversal of u.s. policy president trump now going against it would appear an internationally recognized government and joining an alliance which consists of the u.a.e. egypt and of course saudi arabia the u.s. department of justice is dismissed a subpoena by the democrats requesting an uncensored copy of the mother report as premature and unnecessary an edited version was released on thursday. huge crowds are gathered in the sudanese capital demonstrators are demanding

a civilian government the opposition is expected to put forward candidates on sunday. police in turkey have arrested two palestinian suspects who allegedly confessed to spying for the united arab emirates the two men are reportedly suspected of monitoring members of hamas and the muslim brotherhood turkish media reports one of the men arrived in turkey in october last year just days after the murder of a saudi journalist. a saudi led coalition in yemen says its targets are who the rebels drone base both sides claim to have down drones in recent days the media posted this video on friday and it appears to show a saudi aircraft being shot down a star. hundreds have gathered in northern ireland to pay tribute to a journalist killed during a riot lara mckee was standing close to a police car when she was shot in the city of london very ordinary as it's often called politicians from all sides of condemned the killing and police are blaming dissident republicans. well those are the headlines the news continues here on

al-jazeera after talked to al jazeera starts with the watch and i thought the official story is unfair and i'm sure we all still are you i don't care about the official story what has the media been telling you join me there the front of my guest from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here when i visit. you in the world is all to. see. it's the one riddle that seems almost impossible to solve look at any major city regardless of political or economic system and the chances are it's not solved the basic issue for its citizens how to strike a balance between supply and demand for housing and in that dilemma lies a real human rights problem at least according to the un special rapporteur adequate housing leylandii for how she was appointed in twenty fourteen and the

picture she's painting of this difficult situation isn't pretty given how persistent and pervasive it is around the world a natural question to ask is is there any solution and any particular or easily identifiable calls. we discussed this real and complex question with her on talked to al-jazeera and. her special rough but on the right to adequate housing thank you for talking to al-jazeera we'll have a discussion about the global housing and homelessness problem but first let me ask you about that title special report. explain to us what that means what you do and who you report to sure i was appointed by the u.n. human rights council which has pretty much the highest human rights body within the u.n. system and i am a. pointed as a kind of global watchdog at least that's how the media presents me and my job is

to monitor and assess how people are doing with respect to their right to housing in countries around the world so it's a global mandate and i look at things like homelessness the adequacy of housing the affordability of housing forced evictions those sorts of things my job is also to kind of develop the right to housing to some degree to write thematic reports to help states understand what does the right to housing actually mean and how can it be implemented in a practical way. i also try to hold states accountable to their human rights obligations not an easy task but certainly a really important one and in this day and age let's start with the basics you talk about the right to housing where is it written down that everyone has a right to housing yet so it's in the universal declaration of human rights for example article twenty six everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living

including adequate housing it's in a document celebrates his seventieth birthday right now that's right exactly so you know if that is the main articulation and i like that articulation because it sits there amidst all of the human rights you know and that's the way i view housing it has tentacles into every other human right practically think about the right to life and security of the person but it's in a whole host of treaties the most recent recent treaty took to come into being the one on persons with disabilities it includes the right to adequate housing it's in an articulation of economic social and cultural rights a treaty about those rights it's articulated there it's actually one of the most articulated economic and social rights out there so there has been a lot of writing in activism on the right to housing the right to adequate housing difficult words new water adequate who. sides what is adequate yeah so it's funny

because it's so obvious what might be adequate housing what we say is that under international human rights law and there is a u.n. committee that has talked about this through what they call a general comment that housing is not just about four walls and a roof it is about four walls and a roof but it's not just about that it's about living in a place where you have peace security and most importantly dignity and once you start playing with the idea of dignity well you can imagine what that means it means living in a place with proper sanitation and basic services toilets running water it means living in a place that's close to employment so that you can actually generate an income for your for your family or house or it means living close to health care services child care services it means having security of tenure and that's a cornerstone cornerstone of the right to housing in other words you should not be

fearful that you're going to lose your home like that. those are that you know the basic tenets it means living in a place without experiencing discrimination having access to housing without discrimination so adequacy is actually fairly well defined and in this you know right now affordability is a key component of adequate housing and the way affordability is defined is based on what a household income is so it has housing has to be affordable to people based on their actual income not based on what the market can bear you to find it very clearly let's now talk about how many people in the world do not have that now i preparing to talk to you been trying to read all the statistics you are an expert on this i've been trying to get up to speed it seems to me the last time a really big global survey was done was a long time ago two thousand and five when they came up with the use of one hundred million homeless worldwide and one point six billion people. laffing adequate housing that's some time ago over

a decade ago yes the situation got worse or better yes i mean i suspect the situation has only got worse if i look at my daily reality in my email inbox i can only say that there are so many troubling issues on in the area of housing right now so i think those figures are probably outdated and things have probably got worse we do know for example that approximately nine hundred million people that's a quarter of the world's population are living in informal settlements informal settlements slums that is without all of those elements of adequacy that i was talking about with often without basic services certainly without security of tenure so i mean it's a huge it's a huge percentage of the world's population right this is a very very urgent and serious matter if you have whatever figures of homelessness and how you define homelessness even if you just look at street homelessness tell

me a city you've been to where you haven't seen street homelessness and you talk about these informal settlement. towns that some called him because some of the people the see the community and they don't actually want to move from those places to that that's exactly right and one of the things that i find fascinating about informal settlements is the dual nature on the one hand. people are experiencing extreme violations of human rights in those informal settlements or slums right no no toilets and no sanitation i mean the horror of that we can all imagine no showers crumbling structures of fear of the vixen all the time so that's on the one hand the reality on the other hand i've visited many informal settlements the vibrancy in those places the sense of community the way they will even though they don't have a paved road they will name their streets they will. give each house a number they will ensure there's

a community center where people can meet and talk and discuss there is a vibrancy there and people do want to remain in their homes of course some people have lived in informal settlements for decades and generations so of course they don't want to leave and in fact under international human rights law that's the standard upgrading should happen in an ensuite two or as we say on site way in other words don't remove people from their homes unless there is absolutely no other option i've been looking at some of the figures or trying to find some of the figures for some of the key countries and obviously the problem is going to be worst in the places where there are more people particularly more people living in urban areas and it's difficult to get the real figures nigeria i've seen estimates of twenty four point four homeless people estimates in india an official figure of one point seven seven million but then the mess to most of seventy eight million the figures vary widely even here where we are right now we're in new york in the

us official figures much smaller than the rest much of up to three point five million homeless do you believe this problem is seriously under reported and if so . you can decide that homeless population is people living rough on the streets and then you're going to get one figure you're going to go around and do a count on a single night how many people do you count on your streets that's going to be a small figure you could then say no my definition is on the streets and in shelters so then you're going to get a slightly bigger figure but what about all of those people who are couch surfing living with family friends relatives etc because they have no other place to go that's a population that is almost impossible to measure we know that that in every country that there is that population out there we know that and so the estimates are going to vary widely based on. definition i don't think that homelessness has been viewed

as a human rights issue that it is the i don't think it's been given the sort of urgency of of political will of social policy that it deserves and so i think that's also part of the problem let's talk about the life of someone who's homeless and while your definition whether it's in an informal settlements rushy living on the streets how does it affect someone's life not just not having somewhere to live what other ways to save affect them for example the hells. this is a population that is deeply traumatized you can imagine. a day on the street it would be completely traumatizing for us in light of you know where where how we're positioned it might imagine a week on the street imagine a year imagine five years it is a completely traumatizing experience and what we find is that the that experience can actually trigger psychosocial disability people are always like oh

the people who are homeless or they're all crazy they're all going to have some you know psychological problems many many people who hit the streets are completely of sound mind it's the trauma of being on the street that can trigger psycho social disability the trauma of living on the street is what often leads people to do things like drugs right it's to numb the experience i've talked to many people in the united states in particular i was out in california and just saw some harrowing situations people with gainful employment working in hospitals working in animation studios living on the streets and telling me that the trauma of that has led them to undertake activities they never thought that they would be doing you mentioned life and expectancy one figure so can from the u.k. from the national health service a. the average homeless person has

a life expectancy of forty seven years now if you go back to the wider population in the u.k. you'd have to go back about one hundred used for that to be the average life expectancy this is shameful isn't it i think it's shameful and you know you gave figures of homeless rates in different countries and you said you know what of course in the bigger countries there's going to be more people who are homeless but the way in which we deal with that sort of an analysis of homelessness is not so much based on population size and ratio but we look at the wealth and resources of a country and then we look at housing and home inadequate housing and homelessness because of course there's there should be a correlation wealthy nation largest g.d.p. in the world you might expect to see less homelessness per capita cetera or no homelessness but that's not what we're seeing if you look at north america if you look at europe what are we seeing rising rates of homelessness in the richest

countries in the world that to me is where we get into extremely shameful territory extremely shameful why is that how is it acceptable that you know g.d.p. is are increasing all the time hopefully and homelessness is rising all the time so is the main reason that cities as they grow as a nation takes place have become unaffordable for most people one of the things is this very new phenomenon we've seen since about two thousand and eight that very special year where we mark the global financial crisis. housing has changed housing has become basically the hottest commodity around and at the same time housing is supposed to be a human right and so what we have is. investment in housing as a commodity as a place to park capital and grow wealth and that has changed the way in which

housing operates it means you know if you think about it if you have investors private equity firms vulture funds buying up pao's ing who are who is their principal concern it's their investor and if they're using housing to satisfy their investor interests what do they have to do with that housing if it's rental housing . it's obvious they have to increase their rents so what do governments do about the problem of homelessness because some are only dealing with that part of the problem hungry for example has come up with a new law or it's made homelessness effectively a crime it's bound for you to live on the streets they say people should go to emergency shelters is that going to help a policy like that it's i think it's cruel and i think it's completely misguided and obviously it's out of step with international human rights and human rights

obligations it's out of step with the sustainable development goals there are places that are doing some good works in the area of homelessness if you look at the housing first study to see it is it is which actually sits nicely within a human rights framework the idea of housing first finland is where the model was first developed and it's where it is most successful finland and norway are the only places in europe where we haven't seen an increase in homelessness in the last year. and the housing first model is just that you say we will provide this population with housing first and then we will provide all of the services and supports that those households need in order to make a go of things and that's not time delimited and that's where the success lies in finland for example so in other words it's not a we'll throw services and supports at you for twelve months and then take pull up your socks and make your own way it is services and supports until that household

really can be autonomy this and survive and thrive so that is a model that is working on the homelessness front but that doesn't address affordability issues and these bigger macro things that are happening that i that i've touched on you've mentioned your visits you've mentioned your very recent visit to egypt you were allowed to go in many other human rights defenders have not been allowed to visit egypt the government there is. trying to make efforts to provide new housing are you concerned though that they are also trying to move populations away from the areas where they have their livelihood. yeah my trip to egypt is very fresh i just got back. i think that the government is making a concerted effort to deal with some of their housing issues they've prioritized people living in what they call a life threatening situation so you know too close to a railway line underneath power lines that kind of thing underneath rocks that

could fall and i think that that's really important obviously we want to save lives . i am a little bit concerned about the model in egypt because it's not people centered and a human rights approach to dealing with in formality or dealing with inadequate housing and i should say forty percent of the population in egypt is living in informal housing or what people call slums. the human rights approach should be human centered you should really ensure that the population is part of the process every step of the way. it's an understanding that communities actually have knowledge expertise about their own fate and their own futures and their own communities and you have to empower those communities provide them with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi where there was an informal settlement shanty town

slum whatever you want to call it to build a new road they got rid of the homes of some thirty thousand people what was interesting there i think i don't know whether you saw the photo that was taken by a reuters photographer there while the demolishing of the homes in that shanty town next door on the green of a golf course and there are golfers watching the destruction of the. holmes it really sums up doesn't it the inequality center of the. the kibera situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force

eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should be victim unless there is absolutely no viable alternative i have seen situations in thailand where in bangkok where the government wanted to build an off ramp from a highway right into a community an informal settlement and the community rallied and managed to figure out a way that that off ramp could in fact come down and the community can remain intact these things are possible i may not want to live underneath her around but that community wanted to stay and that was possible in bangkok surely there was another way in combat or it's the largest informal settlement in nairobi it's it's it's mind boggling to me i think the understanding of home has been lost i think people are viewed as dispensable i think as you say it's this inequality some people's lives matter and some don't seem to but how do you stop what has become

all over the world i mean it's the result of urbanization globalisation and speculation how do you stop this trend because it's their rich investors look and they go where am i going to put my money today stocks baldwins i'm going to put it in gold oh no the safest bet is to buy property even if i don't want to live in it now. so huge it is absolutely a huge problem and i love that you mentioned you know should i put my money in gold versus housing and i can tell you everyone is going to housing and not gold. housing residential real estate is now valued at one hundred sixty three trillion dollars which i mean i can't even get my head around i'm not a numbers person i can't get my head around that one hundred sixty three trillion dollars is the value of residential real estate if you take the value of all gold

that has been mined seven trillion right so so people are going for residential real estate for sure. how do you curb that that is the question of the day i think that some governments are doing some interesting things around this if you take singapore they have a nineteen i think eighteen percent tax on foreign owned properties so that's a trying to you know it's using a tax system to sort of keep that it a little bit or at least keep it in check things like that can happen. you have a law in cata loony aware. they're trying to make it such that no mortgage foreclosure should result in the event that that would be even into homelessness that that would be legal so there are these small attempts at curbing this what do the single attempts to look at the way the world

is run even look at who's running the world right now the united states of america is being run by a property developer yes absolutely and i'm glad you mentioned that too because that's not often talked about and what does that mean and when president trap originally had that advisory group i mean who did he have in that advisory group this is the c.e.o. of blackstone the largest private equity firm that is buying up properties real estate residential real estate around the world and really. creating an affordability everywhere they go it is almost like a price fixing situation right you mentioned blackstone what about reaching out to companies like that to see if they can help solve the problem that perhaps the creating yeah well yes i have actually reached out to blackstone and have tried to

meet with them because i actually see them and my present position as raptor as. somehow related they are becoming well they're one of the large third largest landlord in new york largest landlord in the united states they own i think something like three hundred thousand units worldwide right there a major player in the housing sector i'm a housing person on the global scale we should be talking it hasn't happened yet and i would really welcome that conversation because i'm not sure that they're aware of all of these human rights standards i don't think it's in their in their mindset it's not in their business model that's for sure but could it be i'm open i mean i'm open to having that that conversation you mention that goal these are the goals the u.n. set to improve the world by twenty thirty let me just remind you what it says by twenty thirty ensure access for all to have a quote safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums everything

you've told me is that goal of the ones may be going well everything is going backwards we're not going to reach that goal in twelve years are we look we have to strive to reach that goal in twelve years states have that obligation they've made that commitment i think if states and cities took it seriously and decided to adopt human rights based housing strategies and i've written a report about that and what that might look like i think that huge strides could be taken that's what i think that's my that's my. ambition is to see. states take this very seriously and actually adopt strategies that you know focus on the most vulnerable that change the way decision making is made that ensure accountability of governments to the people that ensure equality those sorts of

things big principles if that was guiding housing policy maybe we would inch toward that twenty thirty deadline and that commitment. long before thank you for talking to our thank you. joy bringing my. children so we can see and get more comfortable for children are at the heart of america's love affair with weapons fact that's a very mixed group and therefore need to shoot and it's fun but the new generation is fighting fire with reason we're fighting for voices to be heard because we don't want to speak to you to speak it really. never again part of the radicalized youth series on a. in an ordinary week talk to even atar at the

heart of the only functioning hospital in town in north eastern south sudan and his team operate on around sixty patients the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestigious nansen award which you won in recognition of his work and incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in conflict since twenty thirteen the war has divided the country among ethnic lines two hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and looked to be a band hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost. infrastructures which. almost always including my cutlass bill was obstruct. the process of you know visions of the mother to working to capacity to discipline . this was

wrong to teach children away from their parents and herd them into a school or against their will there was no mother no father figures they put it in the big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names never forget canada's dark secret on al-jazeera. and an apparent major u. turn in u.s. policy donald trump telephoned the libyan woman. to voice support for the man fighting the internationally recognized government. along down jordan this is live from doha also coming up democratic presidential candidate is a bit warm and calls for the impeachment of donald trump

a day after the public release of the mother of. a journalist a shot dead by a gunman jane rotting in northern ireland politicians from all sides are condemning the killing plus. we look at how flooding in iran is draining two and a half billion dollars. in a pound reversal of u.s. policy president donald trump has offered support to the libyan warlord only for have to he's been leading a military offensive against the u.n. recognize government in tripoli but trump prices topped off a fight in what he called terrorism and securing libya's oil earlier this month sect of state might have demanded an immediate halt to half dozen violence in the capital mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. . one must remember that two weeks ago the secretary of state or sharply criticizing huffed and his forces for their latest offensive and certainly this is

now a massive turnaround with the president. after and effectively giving him support and praising him thanking him for his efforts against terror and also thanking him for what the white house describes as protecting libya's oil resources now the internationally recognized government in tripoli regard this as a theft of libya's oil resources so certainly this is a very puzzling question a very puzzling turn around why it's being kept quiet for the week well there was a u.n. security council meeting thursday in which to everybody surprise the u.s. refused to back a resolution introduced by the u.k. asking for a cease fire in tripoli in libya there by agreeing with the russians who had objected to the resolution because it mentioned have to has forces by name as the aggressors in the conflict so that was perhaps an indication that was the first

sign that there has been a shift in u.s. policy not even a shift a complete somersault from posing afters forces to now apparently siding with egypt saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in supporting the hafter initiative our correspondent in tripoli to wirehead has been following developments. people here seem to be angry about this support from president trump to have. especially those demonstrators whole took to the streets today and to diminish squares in civil cities and the worst of libya especially in the capital tripoli and the city of misrata the major cities in the west of libya they say that there is some kind of contradiction in the american situation libya specially they were happy when the state secretary mike pump you in an interview in

a television interview said that must set down and must stop the military escalation on tripoli but when they heard that there is support from president trump will have to via this call and it's kind of saying get to have to take here or are you doing well people here have become very angry this say that they're wondering whether or not there is more important than people's blood here. over two hundred people were killed since have to launch at this military offensive on tripoli on april fourth many of them are innocent civilians women and children a vigil has been held for a journalist in northern ireland politicians small sides in the region which is part of the u.k. have condemned the killing a man who has made. only twenty nine years old larry mckee was a rising star in journalism she just signed a book deal and had

a promising future instead she's the latest victim in northern ireland's long running conflict. after police raided a property in london. as it's commonly known more than fifty petrol bombs were thrown at police and several vehicles were hijacked and. the key was watching events and in the hours before her death tweeted diary tonight absolute madness. the journalist was standing close to a policeman. and she was hit she was taken to hospital where she died we believe to be a terrorist act. violent as republicans. are sas men of this time would be that the new ira are most likely to be the ones. formed our primary line of inquiry overnight. to try to piece together the events that led up to her. earlier this year the new ira was blamed for

a car bomb attack in terry it's also claimed responsibility for sending possible bombs the killing of the journalist has shocked the community and devastated have friends and. our hopes and dreams of her amazing potential. act. this cannot stand britain's prime minister to reason that the murder was shocking and truly senseless condemnation to from the leaders of northern ireland's biggest political parties this is a tragic loss of a young life and our hearts are broken for although all those am concerned those people who carried out this and this attack have no place in society those people who carried out this attack do not have any support those people who carried out this attack have attacked all of us they have attacked the community they've attacked the people of dairy they've attacked the peace process and they've attacked the good friday agreement of course violence criminality terrorism was

always wrong and it's still wrong today and twenty nine chain we can damage wholeheartedly we hope that everyone will work in london dairy and indeed further afield with the play service to give them all the support that they need many people in northern ireland to concerned about that we knew ballance in derry and what led to it there were many tributes being paid to lehr mackay all praising her as a seeker of the truth emma heywood al-jazeera. the opposition group that's led months of protests in sudan says on sunday it will name the people it wants to take charge of the country is demanding a civilian government to take over from the military rulers who ousted president omar al bashir earlier this month reports. that joining the sit in is like stepping into a new sudan people are taking power into their own hands these civilians are now guarding the border and they're greeting people with songs and smiles the.

soul being searched is almost a pleasure and they'll work involuntarily i. doubt while this crowd braves the heat to put out a message of change has helped to keep them cool money is also being donated drinking water is provided. i. food is served for free for a day medical doctors have left their paid jobs on joint efforts to set up makeshift clinics to help those who protested last night. yeah we worked in hard conditions there were days when we couldn't handle the sheer number of people who came for medical help that we could hardly sleep for days we were doing both the humanitarian and national by being here. these people are here in front of the army headquarters to make sure a complete revolution is achieved and

a military coup doesn't just lead to another period of rule like bashir. in medicine he said the military council most tend of the powerchair transitional civil and government which protected by the army will fulfill all the objectives of derivatives so far we have only cut the head of the tree we still need to remove the roots a message that's being eco sudan ordinary people now take center stage the blood that's been shed for this moment is on the walls as are the young women who acted with courage and leadership this is where some of the deadliest blasts took place on the morning of course when thousands of protesters across five members of state security those classes gave this place the special facility where protection came from this direction what if it's not a percentage. basis of this uprising it's like a fireball that's building up to the sense of the old regime. the uniforms of those

snipers who are caught hank here as a mark of shame to those who fought change but many here say the deep state is still intact and only the facade of the former regime has been removed but. they didn't go there. just remove some debts and put more tax in its place we don't want any national congress members in the government and that's why the protests must and and they are the slogan whether or not there is she has fallen and we are staying here. friday protests have taken place for the ninth successive we can algeria thousands in the capital algiers chanted down with the system long time president of the disease but a freak i was forced to resign early this month protesters continue to demand change because of the interim government's links to beautifully but also unhappy with the presidential election being delayed until. the saudi led coalition in

yemen says it's launching an operation to destroy the rebel drone base in the capital sana'a both sides claim to have downed their opponents drones in the last week with the media posted this video showing what they say is a saudi unmanned aircraft being shot down the province on friday the saudi american led coalition claimed that it brought down a drone over the port city of how data. for a time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back. the funeral of peru's former president is held while yet another is jailed as part of the same corruption. on the looting ecological disaster in pakistan that's raising a stink stay with us. the

weather is now quieter and dry in iran and afghanistan despite the cloud there are other more active those throughout the caucasus wolf in turkey actually through northern syria into the caucasus particularly us by john you've seen some pretty heavy showers recently high ground we'll see snow of course not still the forecast doing south of the circulation but my head which is in the black sea me is still quite cold in turkey but to round up the nineteen but does it twenty seven in the shelf dress right on the border i think in iraq and iran everything's moving really from west to east from the north to south so it's looking quite quiet again syria iran right back to the kosovo you pick up through israel lebanon and syria increasing cloud and rain during sunday sounds of this mostly arabian peninsula looking fine there's a hint of a shot.