in two thousand and twelve he was appointed minister of defense by egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi a year later sisi deposed morsi in a military coup and eventually became president while consolidating his grip on power. his government has a rusted thousands of activists and opponents many facing death penalties the trials were widely condemned by human rights groups as a travesty over the last few years a predominantly loyal parliament has introduced a series of reforms expanding the military's influence the referendum is also asking people to vote for a provision that declares the military the guardian and protector of the state the opposition is calling for boycott our agreement to have the president elected once every two terms i can't and. is not without challenges he faces armed

groups in the sinai peninsula who have launched attacks against security forces and international calls for political reforms but the general turned politician seems defiant he's launching mega projects across the country and hoping to be able to fix an economy in tatters and win the trust of the people. clashes in libya have intensified close to the capital tripoli as forces loyal to the warlord highly for have to are continue their campaign to take control of the city after us forces are battling the new when recognized libyan government south of tripoli in the town of kashmir the world health organization says at least two hundred twenty people have now been killed since after us forces launched their offensive more than two weeks ago a spike in violence follows the white house's revelation that president trump spoke to have taught on the phone earlier this week that the ahead has the latest from

the libyan capital. fierce fighting happened today according as the spokesman of have those forces described. have those forces lost the ground today as the government forces proceeded and took control of the strategic locations including divinities of the disused international airport on the southern part of the capital meanwhile civil military units on the government of national called the you and the recognized government have joined each other forming a kind of defense could have gone as military commanders describe it they have managed to push have to this forces back beyond civil war locations in the southern outskirts of tripoli and also now they say that military commanders with the government say that they are now besieging military units loyal to the world have to have been here the area that's near the tripoli disused international airport

meanwhile the spokesman of have to as was said that his forces received strikes from the government of national called all planes today near the city over the yan around eighty kilometers to the south from tripoli in the city of fallujah and there is a central command of running the battles in the southern outskirts of tripoli and also government of national called warplanes targeted a would be around one hundred sixty kilometers to the southwest from the capital tripoli that is there has the runways from which have to warplanes have been taken off from their targeting to target locations of the government forces on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli. still to come. it's just to play senseless struggling to come to terms with the killing of journalist mira mckee as police in northern ireland say they have of arrested two

men. and more clashes on the streets of paris as yellow vest anger is fueled by the donations to rebuild the town. or. how the dramatic cold front keeps marching east out of south australia into new south wales and victoria it may not look very much with a difference in temperature of along its length is quite substantial cause stormy weather in perth has dropped the temperature in its pretty stormy time through adelaide to twenty one is max on sunday on such as a comparison it was thirty two and on friday it was thirty four so we're back down to where we should be similarly melbourne's cool down by about five or six degrees and this cloud exists or a long way north was the green just indicating occasional sunder store spot of rain

now things won't change for the better they will change possibly you must be for the worse for the sun's out now adelaide probably coming out to melbourne on monday as it gets colder and this string of greens just still some pretty sundry stuff to keep marching so east was through queens and and the south wales purse warmed up by this time to run a sunny and more usual twenty three now all this is australia the weather in new zealand is so detached you know we've had a curling area of low pressure come up from the size of the air and is inherently quite cold and it not outstandingly so your forecast still gives you something in the high teens if you're lucky the low twenty's and then things moving north woods . in the heart of the amazon libyan families but then lives in peril to harvest brazil not. cancelling the congo to the capital is an

even more dangerous challenge. risking it to libya. on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera as protests continue in sudan to the man civilian rule several top members of the former ruling party are reported to have been arrested egyptians are voting in a three day referendum that could allow president sisi to stay in power until

twenty thirty and the role of the military and fighting has intensified around the libyan capital tripoli the death toll in the battle for the city has now risen to two hundred and twenty. algeria's former prime minister and current finance minister have been ordered to face court in connection with an investigation into the wasting of public money the move comes as hundreds of thousands of o.j. ariens continue to hold rallies calling for wider political change after a longtime leader of the lizzie's beautifully casts that doubt on friday of the tester died from head injuries that his family says were caused by a police beating. saturday is the twentieth anniversary of the calling by high. school shooting in the united states twelve students and one teacher were killed when two teenagers carried out their planned attack in colorado that have been many other school shootings since then but little changed to the gun laws as alan

fischer now reports it was until then the watched school shooting in american history a nation watched twenty years ago as terrified students run for their lives the lucky ones could hug their parents but twelve students and one teacher never would they died when two students took their guns and their rage into the corridors of their high school and columbine became new in the world over among the community it's among the american people there really was at the time a sense that ok maybe maybe this will be a change maybe change will will come from this and there was quite a popular appetite to see it happen but the colorado shooting brought copycats and contagion it wasn't the first mass school shooting but somehow it became a fresh starting point and a heart breaking list that grew every year. for junior tech with thirty two people were killed. sandy hook in connecticut where twenty children were shot dead and moved the president to tears the majority of those who died today were children.

beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old. roseburg in oregon parklane florida and many places in between eleven more school shootings eleven places that said enough eleven places changed forever. but not in the we many hoped in australia after a mass shooting where thirty five died they changed the laws in scotland where children were gunned down in a school in dunblane they changed the laws and the recent attack on to mosques in new zealand brought an almost immediate change in gun laws so this new generation to really are the ones that are going to be the ones to bring change because they've grown up knowing nothing but the fear of school shootings their entire life columbine was twenty years ago. people who were born after columbine are now voting and that matters because they don't want this fear for the next generation they had

a memorial service for columbine this week they wanted to send a message of hope and strength to the community which has lived with the tragedy every day for twenty years and the other places that no must also live with the same pain the same scars alan fischer al-jazeera police in northern ireland have arrested two teenagers in connection with the killing of an investigative journalist and they're warning of what they call a new breed of terrorists threatening the area so as this shooting has added to concerns about the stability of the region's twenty one year old peace deal or in it smith has more now from london their way of course is the murder of a key has been a shocking reminder here of what life was like during thirty years of violence between irish republican and pro british communities while the signing of the good friday agreement twenty one years ago brought peace there is still a lot of frustration in what remains the poorest part of northern ireland where is

a music that doesn't going to get as and they were killing more or less some people doesn't really get it anywhere and. it's just to play senseless there's no reason can justify it even if you don't agree with the agreement nason justifies technically or my case i say oh it wasn't. riots began in this pro irish estate in london derry on thursday as police raided homes looking they say the pattern bombs and other weapons the might be used in a march planned for easter monday lire was hit by someone who fired a gun apparently randomly towards a crowd of onlookers the twenty nine year old journalist had been named as one of the thirty under thirty in media by forbes magazine and had signed a two book deal to write about the conflict in northern ireland that has shocked people who thought they were on shock a local politician named mccann lives in an area with the highest unemployment in the u.k. almost half of working age adults in derry don't have

a job young people who are living in poor circumstances and they're not getting any better they can't see any future in which there's a decent job for them they are angry at the situation and words. growing up in this it's understandable in the inevitable that some of them are going to see an outlet for their anger and frustrations and taking up the cause was to find the syria historically and worst of they've see it has been abandoned by their elders police officers here say they've noticed a palpable change in the community as people often cooperation following the murder the police also say they're dealing with what they're calling a new breed of terrorist two years ago in northern ireland power sharing of ministration between pro british and pro irish parties broke down and that's left a power vacuum which groups opposed to peace could be trying to take advantage of bernard smith al-jazeera dairy. police in paris paris have the tamed more than one

hundred twenty people after another saturday of yellow vests protests the arrests followed violence between police and demonstrators many of whom were angry at the huge donations pledged to repair the knock her down cathedral so they gave a go has more. ah. a saturday of fire and fury for the twenty third week in a row yellow vests protesters came out in paris as well as other cities across the country. this was one of the most intense day of confrontations between the crowds and the right at least in looks it was driven by outrage over the nearly one billion dollars donated by some of france's wealthiest families and corporations to repair the not good. days after a blaze nearly destroyed the famous building but the message here france has bigger problems to solve. it's about decency all these their nations could help friends

people but it's so short sighted instead all this money is going to save those old pebbles and stones of what is not right something's not right. here she just told us just it's shocking given the current situation whoever is giving to know about may be a good thing to do but perhaps it's not the moment to do this kind of thing be inclusion of groups such as black bloc have led authorities to place paris and other major cities on a state of high alert throughout the day protest is lit fires on blocked off streets destroying vehicles parked in the vicinity others attempted to break into buildings the police responded by firing tear gas at the crowds and using water cannon to disperse them. if the government had hoped that protesters would take a break over this holiday weekend it was not the case. the movement that

began last november a ritually of a fuel price hikes and the high cost of living has not gone away to said spread into a broader movement against president in my way back home in his attempt to reform the economy. is expected to announce a series of measures in the coming week that includes tax cuts for poor. more households to protest his anger at the wealthy has flourished in recent days partly stoked by the not fire but also at himself who is seen by them as a president of the rich in a deeply divided society sunny. in the car i was there marking easter week and the first anniversary of mass protests in the country rallies for social security reform turned into deadly demonstrations against the president daniel ortega more than three hundred people were killed and tens of thousands fled the country now a year later the country is reflecting on the cost of the crisis on home and has

more. it's in the specially somber easter weekend messiah those here are remembering not just the events of two millennia past but those more recent far more local. in this town a bastion of the opposition during the first months of naked i was crisis street barricades went up and running battles with security forces were regular sight some are still struggling to come to terms with the human cost of it all. but it's really hard to speak about this for me is about what the people of nicaragua have gone through even the love of life is leaking away because of so much pain so much barbarity. that the easter week this year falls exactly on the first anniversary of protests against naked i was long term president daniel ortega he labeled those against him as violent inciting terrorists pointing to the death of

a policeman and his response was brutal concepcion portal's may says her brother darwin was killed by a sniper's bullet that she says was just the start of her family's troubles me in the ten months since he's been called we've had death threats been falling harassed and i don't see any change from the government. there's been an ongoing crackdown against human rights groups journalists activists and even demonstrations since the crisis began the government's effectively banned street protests in the kid i was so religious procession is like this one one of the only ways that people can come out and express what they feel about the situation. here that meant a call for peace gabo that we plead with mr than a lot of data misses. her brother souldiers stop their oppression stop the gross addiction and killing over naked i want people you have mothers and children. two

you have wives and family that you love it's never too late it's time to free yourself from. before looking to the future though it was time to remember the day . they're with us responded those gathered here john home and. coral in the remote area of australia's great barrier reef are showing signs of recovery after psych loans and heat waves which devastated the ecosystem scientists are warning though that if higher sea temperatures than midget anymore and many species of marine life that the penguin it will be destroyed. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera several top members of sudan's ruling party have reportedly been arrested as protests continue to demand civilian rule

the former parliament speaker along with the acting head of sudan's national congress party have reportedly been detained the public prosecutor also began a probe into the ousted president omar al bashir on charges of money laundering. clashes in libya have intensified close to the capital tripoli as forces loyal to the warlord holly for have to are continue their campaign to take control of the city after us forces are battling the un recognized libyan government in the town of casts have been here the world health organization says that at least two hundred twenty people have now been killed since after us forces launched their offensive a spokesman for half the us forces say that they are increasing the pressure on the un backed government. forces providing fire support ground operations the enemy is trying to fling colorful system. failed in the face of the

strength of our thought and the experience of our forces you just become a war of attrition so districts controlled by the oil and. egyptians are voting in a three day referendum on constitutional amendments that could allow up the fight and sisi the stay in power until twenty thirty if approved current team would be extended by two years and he could stand for another six year mandate after that the changes would also allow him to appoint top judges and give the powerful military even more control. four civilians and three soldiers have been killed in an attack on the communications ministry in the afghan capital kabul a suicide bomber targeted the building before gunmen opened fire on it tried to get inside it took the security forces several hours to bring the situation on the control the taliban has denied responsibility for the attack and police in northern ireland have arrested two teenagers in connection with the killing of an

investigative journalist also warning of what they call a new breed of terrorist threatening the area well those are the top stories more news in half an hour coming up next it's risking it all thanks for watching by. a being locked up than ever before what's driving this alarming development one i'm going to explain my blog behind by going to interview. thank.

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a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price. that's a good drama thanking everyone for. fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo won't be enough to pay for romance university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rots due to the moisture. to avoid losses i get must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague here in. london in the month of may i don't

want to give him money. despite his troubles at gary's happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if. a taxi has just dropped off his son we haven't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing the. moment these women one of the men i was giving up. on the middle of the mammoth i don't know. what the name the single message. made me out again as he says there will be another nickname. leap here when they get to the murder me i made it because he had

a way of the area. with the feeling. that their. precious cargo of nuts begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone on this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son i love. him to make him. feel that way but i was just in the wrong but that wasn't going to but it could be something. in three days' time it's back to school for alan one thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late is afraid he's ex-wife will no longer

allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the forest has already flooded slowing the traffic. must cross a tributary of the amazon the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. led to get this done. by inclusion i phone five. minutes going to madame's us and. the dock has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating.

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