supporting it are on the libyan national army at the reactors side we have saudi arabia now you have united arab emirates france some degree russia a certain degree are supporting outside so it's a very complex situation where both sides. calling the other side terrorists i'm not so it is all in how you define terrorism i guess wrong bruce and john good to speak with you thank you very much. since have begun voting in a three day referendum that could open a door to president abdul fattah his sisi staying in office until twenty thirty voters are also deciding on whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military fifty five million people are eligible to take part voting will continue on sunday and monday but ahead of the vote rights groups expressed concerns the referendum wouldn't be free or fair. the most changes

to the constitution are widely described as a step towards more autocracy under c.c. as from what has. president i'll deliver to has sisi was sworn in last year after winning his second term in office the vote was marred by claims of irregularities a crackdown on activists and potential challengers a few months earlier sisi had said he would not seek a third term by the egyptian leader seems to have changed his mind beginning on saturday voters will take part in a referendum that could extend cc's term in office by two years and allow him to stand for another six year mandate effectively keeping him in office until twenty thirty the movie's a departure from the two thousand and eleven constitutional declaration that limits

presidents to two four year terms egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote sisi rossa prominence after the two thousand and eleven uprising 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 consider dating 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 militarist 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 a president elected once every two turns i come to an end but since his will 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 but i'll to zero. or to write one is an independent research of focusing on egypt he was the associate director for research at the atlantic council and he

sent a joins us now via skype from washington good to have you with us. so . the opposition are saying that this is an attempt by president to cement his grip on power and to tighten. the grip of the military in egypt politics is that how you see it. it seems pretty clear when you're talking about extending president cc's current term by two years and then how allowing him to run again and for president until twenty thirty and it doesn't seem like there is any kind of opposition and he's sort of. opposition political participation dissent all of these public spaces whether real or virtual have literally been shut down i mean we've seen the there was hardly any debate over these constitutional changes

by parliament i mean even the what was supposed to be a public dialogue we've had reports of where the disappearance of those public dialogue they've been handpicked to end any kind of disagreement or it was over relatively minor points nothing challenging the fundamental. term limits on the extension of presence easy time it in terms of term limits or the changes in terms of judicial appointments all of these combined really kind of erased the separation of powers that the two thousand two thousand and eleven constitution was or the two thousand and twelve constitution or even that you have the fourteenth position was meant to protect. and so it is very much a personalization of power at this point. and and it are a share of that separation that really was

a hard one for those who support this move say that the what these changes offer for the country are political and economic stability and that that is what matters to to many gyptian is right now more than anything else what would he say to that. well i think it's hard to say what really matters to egyptians right now because any kind of discussion in these public spaces simply isn't allowed now certainly the economics of the country have been terrible i mean that the revolution saw could sure downturn in terms of tourism the increase of insecurity certainly the twenty thirteen takeover by presidents you see you know in flanders inflamed a lot of the extremist activity that was happening in the sinai. and yet at the same time there is no independent reporting that is allowed anything any kind of

information comes from the state it's all state narrative so it's really hard to tell what people actually want the kind of inflation that we're seeing the austerity measures that this government has imposed to try to stabilize macro economic indicators has put a ton of pressure. on the middle to lower class even the upper class is feeling a bit of the pinch as basic commodities. prices have been rising as fuel subsidies are being lifted now and pretty much the i think that this administration is relying on implementing those economic reforms through the is this kind of repression because otherwise if there were any kind of political discussion recently would be able to do a. lot and i wanted to talk to you thank you. well plenty more ahead.

more clashes on the streets of paris says yellow vest anger is fueled by donations to rebuild not true down. the king of clay. round. up on his favorite surface to miss out twelfth monte carlo title. sold. at least four civilians and three soldiers killed in a gunfight in the afghan capital kabul attackers appear to have detonated an explosive device storming before storming the communications ministry has been relative calm in kabul recently coinciding with the talks between the u.s. and taliban officials taliban have denied responsibility for the attack. as more

from kabul. this is time began around eleven thirty am local time a loud explosion was heard reverberated across central kabul and then following that there was three to four minutes of heavy gunfire. that it was inside the ministry of communications building the ministry of interior came out they said we understand this is a complex attack there was a suicide bomber and then gunmen into the premises it took about five hours for security forces to get in and get control of the situation and they have just they've managed to secure the scene and we've seen security forces coming and going as intelligence people come in and try to assess what happened to the whole the central kabul was on lockdown people could not come and go cordons are still in place a lot of these people are very frustrated that they haven't been able to get inside central kabul and congestion. very high was very difficult to move around kabul as the heart was under lockdown during this attack. intelligence.

on the serena hotel and neighboring government buildings still the serena hotel is right next door to where this attack happened and that intelligence may be some type of explosive. elements on the screen or neighboring buildings and that people should stay clear they didn't at the time but they said that there were. whether or not those threats were related to what we're seeing today. but. something like this could happen now security has been very high at government buildings because of the spring offensive last friday so there was heightened security and we are in the ring of steel where there are a lot of checkpoints if you go into government buildings you get searched. this blast walls there's a lot of security in place there will be questions now as to how this could have been how could most politicus get inside the string and stage an attack of this nature. government has brought back one hundred ten of its citizens from syria with

the help of the u.s. the group included thirty two women and seventy four children who were taken to a detention set near the capital for stina for suspected arson fires were also returned to kosovo and arrested the government says about four hundred citizens left to join i saw in syria and iraq. algeria's former prime minister and the current finance minister have been ordered to appear in court in connection with an investigation into the wasting of public money hundreds of thousands of algerians continue to hold rallies calling for wider political change after long time leader abdel aziz beautifully stepped down on friday a protester died from head injuries that his family says were caused by a police beat. the chaos once again erupted on the streets of paris on saturday more than one hundred twenty people were detained at a yellow vests protest the latest demonstration was driven by outrage among some

protestors over the nearly one billion dollars donated by france's wealthiest families to repair the not to die cathedral so i know a guy ego has. a saturday of fire and fury for the twenty third week in a row yellow vest 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 riot police in weeks 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. days after a blaze nearly destroyed the famous building but the message here france has bigger problems to solve. it's about decency who these donations could help for its people but it's so short sighted instead all this money is going to save the

prevalence and it's not right something's not right. with features or sort of you're just it's shocking given the current situation whoever is giving to not that may be a good thing to do but perhaps it's not a moment to do this kind of thing be inclusion of on a case group such as black bloc have led authorities to place paris and other major cities on a state of. high alert throughout the day protesters 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 protest as would take a break over this holiday weekend it was not the case. the movement that began last november originally over fuel price hikes and the high cost of living has not gone away to said spread into a broader movement against president. his attempt to reform the economy.

is expected to announce a series of measures in the coming week that includes tax cuts for poor households the protest is anger at the wealthy has flourished in recent days partly stoked by the not to fire but also at michael himself who is seen by them as a president of the rich in a deeply divided society sunny al-jazeera. police in northern ireland have arrested two chain teenagers in connection with the killing of a journalist and police are warning of what they call a new breed of terrorists threatening the area politicians are calling for calm as a shooting added to the concerns about the stability of the region's twenty one year old peace deal bernard smith has more from londonderry the murder of lyric a 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 us and they were killing more innocent people to get us anywhere and. it's just to play senseless there's no reason can justify even if you don't agree with the agreement nason justifies technically or mickey's i say oh it wasn't. riots began almost pro irish estate in london derry on thursday as police raided homes looking they say the patch will 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 it has shocked

people who thought they were on shock about a local politician ayman 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 you know 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 they are angry at the situation and which they know growing up in this it's understandable and the inevitable that some of them are going to see an outlet for their anger and frustrations and taking up the cause which defined their syria historically and which of they see it has been abandoned by their elders police officers here say they've noticed a palpable change in the community as people offer 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. still ahead when we come back rebuilding iraq after a month of heavy rain victims of the floods say they are left with no food or shelter plus. their journey blocked by police and international pressure to turn back we'll tell you why thousands of people in mexico are found to push on. and later unspoiled eventis put their champions league exit behind them and they celebrate as they celebrate eight straight italian titles. the story weather is just about gone now the last of the cold front thunderstorms

has left florida still exist in the bahamas and what you're looking at here is a satellite picture really is showing the end of saturday's are we talk about the dark hours but it's hard to get to dawn on sunday is all going offshore but it rain still to come through east and boss of canada in the back or showers are more or less gone as well so you're left with fine looking weather from the north to the south and quite a long way west as well texas up to twenty seven lance's warmed up nice is twenty one now all this gray green in and white you are familiar with outbreaks of rain or snow dipping on the height and they were from northern california through montana towards the northern plains states that's going to exist for a day or two dropping more snow for those who want it and dropping a bit of rain whether or not you like it shouldn't be stormy i don't think there is not particularly cold seven in denver thirteen in minneapolis and still is twenty seven in dallas it's just as well when oklahoma as well so you know what's happening down here still in potential in the bahamas breaking out slowly

suggesting maybe something of a damp or two in cuba where in jamaica and the tails off in honduras to the front is breaking. the shadows will continue. this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is the big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names . kind of dark secret on al-jazeera. major. to be sitting in. a room spanning six continents

across the globe. to serious correspondents living bringing the story state. of the law does not give up the letters. were at the mercy of the raj camp for palestinian direct al-jazeera fluent in world news. hello again you're watching i just did a reminder of our top stories this hour several members of sudan's former ruling party have been arrested including the acting head of the national congress party that's courting to the reuters news agency the test is continued to camp outside army headquarters demanding an immediate transition to

a civilian government. egyptians have begun voting in a three day referendum that could open the door to president of the fact that his sisi staying in all. until twenty said he rights groups already expressing concerns the referendum will not be free or fair. fighting has increased around key parts of libya's capital tripoli as warning would leave off stars forces battled the un recognized government for control. of the us president donald trump of hostile his support in a phone call. that we're now hearing is that tripoli's only functioning airport has been closed off to an ass strike in the libyan capital let's go straight to mahmoud at the y. head who joins us on the phone now from tripoli so mahmoud what more do we know about this will be a third to their vision a third is imminent legal experts say that they have to employ

a leaf of tended ideation at the airport just for security it was very pretty and precocious reasons that the decision has been made. a warplane that. some some sources say a work plane was in the making gets a june the saw a drone flying over the mighty gap where they tried to targeted with n.t.i. . fire but they did not target it meanwhile we heard the heavy gunfire by to get an order that the force is very mighty good try to to shut down the drilling drill if your plane happens we're playing neutral and now it's flying over my divas we're getting two different accounts of the things two is some sources say it's a good one others say it's a work plane was trying flying over a major gap about meanwhile. the location of the forces loyal to the.

to me to give you an american as a government was targeted by the missiles and their local locums it were their mobile phones showing amid a missile being fired from both. teams from a war plane belonging to the world safer had the targeting. of government forces and military actions and that an area called. neighborhood on the southern and eastern outskirts of the libyan capital but government sources say that no casualties reported so far we don't have those warplanes have been targeting civilian locations in and around tripoli during the past two weeks and did the government of national guard is. addressing the united nations security council to send in investigation committee to investigate the war crimes committed to happen

as forces but i think it is then she added as including the only operation at the time the city and i need to get airport a member has and this is not just trying to get a vision and maybe get ahead but is suspended has been suspended several times over the past three or four weeks that's due to a threat by happiness forces have to. go to get it maybe get seven attachment for. all right for the moment without the warhead thanks miss from tripoli on the reports that the airport there has been closed down. now more now on the situation in sudan the chairman of the african union commission has been holding meetings with military leaders in khartoum will sucker faqih how much it is also jewel to hold consultations with opposition groups the a us want sudan's military

rulers to hand over power to a civilian body by the end of april or risk suspension. we all sudan's protest leaders say talks have been planned with military rulers to talk about the transfer of power to a civilian government here but morgan reports from. the sounds of sudan's uprising made loud and clear in front of the army headquarters in the capital hundreds of these protesters have been here for nearly three weeks demanding change . i mean we are continuing with our sit in so that we can guarantee that our demands will be achieved demands that we came out and that people have to sacrifice their lives if their demands are not met then this certainly will not end with them was there demanding that the military council the body that ended president obama in the shoes thirty year rule hand over power to a civilian government and to hold all former officials to account for alleged corruption and the lives lost during the three decades that bashir and his ruling

party were in power the military took over and eleventh of april in a move that was condemned by the african union which gave the council and till the end of the month to transfer power to the people foreign diplomats have expressed similar demands and the united states stated that it will not recognize the council if that doesn't happen. on saturday the head of the african union commission. council leaders and political parties in huts on the council had stated that forming a transitional government was a task for the parties but some say they need more time to make that's happen. reid told them the political parties must mean that regardless of our vision and number we must need to that a you and agree on transitional government and we've asked the e.u. to extend the deadline they gave for handing over power for the consultation. it's . a position that is not held by all sides the sudanese professional association

which led the calls for protests that started in december continues to encourage the sit in in front of the army headquarters along with twenty two other parties it wants power to be handed immediately to an independent transitional government for a period of four years a proposal that shows that's not all parties are united and that forming a transitional government may not be an easy task something they'll hold on to their demands hoping for a different sedan for a future generation does it have to be. victory when there is a civilian government because through a civilian government will have a pen and constitution to preserve the rights of all yet they didn't have any rights for. what happens now would largely depend on these protesters and those leading the military council for more than a week and with them it's more important than it normally was here then and little that the government and the military council is under pressure to hand over power pressure let alone the final demand even if it were an international diplomat as

well as you know we. don't want the military to deprive them of a victorious revolution you know morgan are you there are. among sudan's of voices for change or hundreds of women who want equal rights to be at the center of this transition women from all sectors of society join the thousands of protesters camped outside military headquarters their demands include equal representation a future parliament as well as improved rights and freedoms for all sudanese women . a thirteen people have been shot dead in the family party in the mexican city of minuteman in vera cruz state seven men five women and a child died in the attack the motive for the killings is not known but the gunmen are said to of asked to see the owner of a local bar before opening. fire it is one of the worst attacks in mexico so far this year murder rates in the country remain

a record levels. and police in southern mexico or have intercepted a group of migrants making their way to the united states we sent hundreds of them to an immigration center that's according to witnesses they say mexico is backpedaling on promises a better treatment for central american migrants under pressure from washington more a burden many reports. and this truth in southern mexico people find any way they can to escape the police. many have been traveling for weeks or months some by foot some with children or in such the better life in the united states military leaders having a joke witnesses say people have been forced on to police buses and taken to an immigration center almost one hundred kilometers direction they came from no no no mother look at them a protection we just want protection we don't want to write we just want protection

the police say they're here to help actually be a losing you we're going to call the women and children in the buses so they continue on their way but not by walking because they're hurting themselves we can't allow them to walk anymore because several have been hurt and they're carrying children who are not many escaped with their children and press on with their journey to the u.s. . president donald trump is not giving them a warm welcome he's starting to close the border unless mexico stops people from crossing it's not just border closure there's a threat to these people taking this head on solving a video posted online shows members of the u.s. group armed with semiautomatic rifles arresting migrants at the us mexico border people are also fun route kidnappings and trafficking but for many turning back home is no option. and you know we're being told off slowly what our mothers children. viewing the ukraine for our lives our children who are the most important

in our lives a woman fighting for her children is capable of anything. in the city of the squints three hundred one my clients are waiting to request legal status so they can continue their journey safely to mexico in a moment to come but their dad i mean what i know they're crossing here in mexico is very complicated it puts one's life at risk and we are obliged to do this because of a hung jury there is no work there are no toss. when president under his man who will look pezzo plethora took office he promised more humane treatment for microbes and he should thousands of year long humanitarian causes. but the government is now accused of resorting to tougher tactics like that. who are opposing money i'll just say no no no remembrance ceremony has been held to mall twenty years since the columbine high school shooting in the u.s. people gathered near the school in denver to honor the victims of the attack and

offer support to the survivors columbine became synonymous with mass shootings in the u.s. after two teenagers killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded more than twenty others alan fischer 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 the 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 mass school shootings eleven places that said enough eleven places changed forever. but not in the way 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 the change the laws and the recent attack on two 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.