this is. the room nor in tate of this is the al jazeera news our live from london coming up . lanka's president promises sweeping changes in the defense force after it's revealed intelligence about the easter sunday attacks is not shared. this is the first funerals get underway on a day of mourning and remembrance in sri lanka. more protesters arrived in sudan's capital to add their voices to the sounds and demanding a swift transition to civilian rule. and egyptian voters approved

a constitutional amendment which would allow president abdel fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty. and i'm lee harding and doha with all the day's sport as barcelona try to move a step closer toward securing a second straight league title will have the result from their match against. later in the program. because president says he will sack security chiefs in the wake of the easter sunday bombings softer it was revealed intelligence agencies were tipped off about the imminent attacks two weeks before they took place it's also being reported they were tipped off again just hours before the first strike the total death toll from sunday's attacks has risen to three hundred twenty one reports. a seemingly innocent moment a man with a backpack strolls casually into the st sebastian church in a gunboat he pats

a child on the head and enters the building this security camera footage shows a suspected bomber one of several who carried out the attacks across three cities in st lanka on sunday officials have admitted there was an intelligence failure a warning given more than two weeks before the attacks happened was not shared acted on now it's also emerged that intelligence services should have had one of the suspects on their radar much earlier hilmi ahmed the vice president of the muslim council of sri lanka says he had alerted security officials about a radical preacher said to be the leader of national. the group the government blamed for carrying out sunday's attacks about three years ago we were in turn told them that there is a muslim cleric who is preaching he had been gathering young people in the guise of conducting koran classes and radicalizing them at

a news conference on tuesday afternoon the prime minister didn't sidestep questions about whether the attacks could have been foiled if we tried in order sadly we could have prevented many of the attacks in the churches and had more security in the heart of what is we could have prevented all of it back so at least reduce the number of attacks that were taken place but when it came to the suggestion that it was a rift between him and the president who's in charge of the police that led to the breakdown in communication he was less forthcoming we had a meeting at that we i mean we are different so medium but we did crash out and somehow look we've got to get the country out of this problem i don't think we can start and he was in front a few hours later the president in a recorded address to the nation insisted he had no prior knowledge of the attacks emma rog. specifically i would like to say that i wasn't informed by the relevant authorities. or by the responsible officers before and if they had informed me i could have taken actions regardless. she said there would be changes in defense

heads within twenty four hours the investigation is down looking at whether the suspects had links abroad as officials believe they would have required help planning and carrying out the coordinated attacks there was also a suggestion from the defense minister that the bombings were in battalion patient but i must shootings in new zealand but some here say there should be caution in making such links an operation like this holly coordinated complex attack against multiple targets on both coasts or sri lanka that takes quite some trying inability and planning to. christchurch to actually five weeks. given what we know of the organizations like we put these together this is probably playing quite some time in advance of that meanwhile remains on high alert fearful of the possibility of more attacks officials here say they continue to be threats to the country its institutions and businesses even the post office has now said it will no longer

accept sealed packages a return to wartime practice it appears no one wants to take any chances after sunday's attacks florence louis al-jazeera colombo sri lanka holds a day of mourning mass funerals are taking place across the island nation well one hundred people were killed at st sebastian church in the north of colombo in the first of two services want to pay their respects to thirty victims charles stratford reports from the gumbo. the. community in mourning. thousands came to pay their respects and remember the men the women and children killed at the san sebastian church in the gumball. families of victims stand by the coffins of their loved ones over the car with grief. at least one hundred ten people were killed when the suicide bomber detonated the

explosive vest police say the device was packed with ball bearings and metal objects so as to kill and maim as many people as possible some people here believe the bomber had lived and often been seen in the vicinity of the church a couple of months before the attack that i know some people had been there i know . little children. and i. am a school teacher there is so students many students are they in this church. i read a fair very scary and i can explain my. very painful how does going to fare. is often referred to by locals as sri lanka's row it is the country's catholic heartland now so many people were killed in the suicide attack at this church on easter sunday that there is not enough room in the

main cemetery to bury all the dead. a priest leads the funeral procession to the graveyard. there will be many more people buried here over the coming days. we really know what is going on right but we know one thing they killed us so. even though they killed us we need to tell them those who did this before gurira because our lord says' to do so we are we are we are believing. one true god years on the sorrow of jesus christ of nazareth he is our god he said when he was crucified for you all of them so we do forgive them but those who have done this how to answer and to be accountable before god remember there are one of the priests didn't want to be named because he is afraid of being targeted by those who killed so many people here. the man cries for his dead sister.

a glance he fernando was forty four years old she tried to go to church every sunday she leaves a husband son and the daughter behind chance trafford al-jazeera the government sri lanka. to sudan now where hundreds of protesters have arrived in khartoum by train to support activists demanding the military relinquish power to civilians about four thousand demonstrators greeted the station as the train arrived comforters african leaders meeting in the egyptian capital cairo agreed to give sudan's military council three months to hand over power to civilian rule president or rather she was ousted by the military two weeks ago after months of anti-government demonstrations those rallies have continued against the military will involve me speaking to protests as in the capital. forty members of the military police came

here and try to clear these roadblocks they told the protesters to move away from this place and to go closer to the center of the city and protesters told them that they categorically refused to move from that place and they have been telling us that this is a fresh attempt from the military council to clear the protest following statements from the deputy head of the military council in which he said that the military will not allow what he called chaos to reign in sudan and that the litani council is doing what it can to speed up the process of transferring power to civilians but people here are very skeptical about this just ask any doing that they get forty members of the military police came here on foot they said we have half an hour to clear the roadblocks we told them that we have demands as they receive orders from their leaders we also received orders from our easy you can't just come and make us go and we are now sure that britain is not a clean man and between is worse than him either they go or we continue to protest if you like that are going to be all the generals who are in the council now were

sitting around bashir including samael up at dean who is now the head of the council political committee all of them are islamize and they have to be removed the. number of protesters have organized a counter movement a mobster words where the military police are standing another checkpoint in this direction trying to drive the message home but they are not going to move from this place until the all the demands of the revolution are met they are saying that even if it takes a year to stay here they will stay. libyan government forces of pushback forces loyal to warlord holly for have to in a counter offensive against his two week advance on the capital tripoli they say they're ready to recapture the disused international airport south of the city after heavy overnight shelling of have to us positions the government also claims to cut off the main roads to the city of gharyan which has become have to regional base both sides are bringing in troops and equipment from other parts of libya

despite united nations calls for a deescalation more than two hundred sixty four people have so far been killed in have to fence in the capital. of the year with as i was the task i've been charged with despite its difficulty is to return to negotiations i call for a peaceful solution to stop the war or the reunification of the libyans on a unified resolution to save their country whatever the work of the international community it will need a special libyan will to stop the war. and more still to come including united nations takes action on sexual violence in conflict but struggles to win over the world's three biggest military powers. a seven year sentence to journalists jailed for reporting on the rigging a crisis lose their final appeal. and in sports sprinting for the line the best of the action from the not but day of the asian athletics championships.

egypt's voters have backed constitutional changes in the referendum paving the way for president sisi to remain in power until twenty thirty a national election authority put the turnout at forty four percent with nearly ninety percent of them voting yes presidential terms will now be extended from four to six years the president will also be given more powers over the judiciary and parliament and the military's role in politics will be enshrined in the constitution rights groups say the referendum was not a free nor fair job a muslim the board of the national election commission made today and handed down a resolution number thirty eight of twenty nineteen declaring the outcome of the front i'm stating that. of the voters a majority of the voters by the electors twenty three million four hundred

sixteen thousand seven hundred forty one valid votes representing. eighty eight point eight three percent. out of the total votes as it is. is. that the kind of situation shall be amended. to enough washington by michelle dunne news a senior associate carnegie endowment for international peace she also served as a middle east specialist at the us state department between two thousand and six and twenty eleven thanks very much indeed for being with us so the result perhaps not much of a surprise for anyone no absolutely i mean these constitutional amendments were rushed through very very quickly i'm not sure egyptians even knew what exactly they were voting on in fact the text wasn't even finalized until four days before the referendum was held one of the last minute surprises was that ccs current term was extended by two years so now he doesn't have to stand for

elections until twenty twenty four and what about that i mean that given out figure is broadly people have suggested or many national notations are just that. it was hardly a free and fair referendum so why give up the figures do you think. well you know there's a long history of this in egypt that gyptian officials feel they have to show they have to show that things are legitimate and they announced these very precise numbers but they're not credible numbers lauren i mean the they were they announced that twenty seven million egyptians went to the polls for this referendum that would have been the polls would have been crowded had that been the case i took out a calculator it would have meant that you know there would have been more than one voter every minute in every polling place throughout egypt for all thirty six hours that's just not credible but yet they i think they wanted to show that there were more egyptians and a higher percentage turned out for this referendum than for any previous one and

that somehow sisi showing that people support him staying in power and how much of an effect will changes have on say that the judiciary myside from the extending sisi in power through the federal judiciary in particular. well i think the effects on the judiciary will be dire this is you know it's been a process that's been going on for some years now egypt's once proud judiciary once fairly independent has become increasingly politicized and under sisi in particular more and more under the thumb of the executive so you know that's it's it's a dire situation for the judiciary also the fact that it's now actually written in the constitution that the military has the right to intervene in politics which is it's an extraordinary thing i mean i suppose as supporters would argue that they vote for him because he said represents stability and you also i mean he has some pretty solid backing from many countries including i mean president trump has had

him at the white house will what do you make of the kind of international so approval of someone who doesn't pitch allow any kind of dissent. well one has to ask why did see see rush this through so quickly and at this time right he wasn't even up for elections for another three years before his term was extended so you know why now i think one reason is the very permissive international atmosphere with president trump in office in the united states and we saw that president trump hosted c.c. here just a couple of weeks ago to give him the american stamp of approval as he went you know and asked for these extraordinary amendments so i think that's one reason another reason may be that there could be some difficult economic times coming for egypt and i think sisi wanted to try to get this all nailed down but it really remains to be seen whether these amendments will consolidate cc's power or whether they will become a source of grievance against him and eventually fuel increasing opposition to him

he showed on thank you very much indeed for taking the time to thank you. argyria as army chief has welcomed a move by the judiciary to crack down on billionaires linked with former president after those he's butcher frica who are accused of corruption the country's richest man is said read robb's was amongst five people arrested on monday is suspected of making fake statements about the transfer of money in and out of the country four brothers from the wealthy could in their family were also arrested which if you step down from office earlier this month after weeks of protests against his twenty year rule. versus to continue on an almost daily basis thousands of civil engineering and architecture students have marched through the capital chanting let's build a new algeria they want to see a complete overhaul of the political system not just because departure they're

demanding that all which if you can in a circle face trial. a u.s. threat to veto u.n. security council action on sexual violence in conflict has been averted after a long agreed phrase was removed thirteen council members voted in favor of the resolution while russia and china abstained over a number of concerns on diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations in new york. the german foreign minister presided over this meeting about one of the grave issues possible women and peace and security sexual violence in conflict. you'd think there'd be unity and joint resolve but as ambassadors arrived here for the meeting it was clear there was deep division this is a dark cloud and this could a concert or an issue that we supposed to be closing ranks and negative one unfortunately the politics of this if we believe in the values of the u.n.

we believe in the values of women rights this is a real fight. and ironed out their attitudes that we just. as the council heard from the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists and nobel laureates nardi him around and dr denis mccuaig a tense negotiations continued about a draft resolution written by germany the u.s. authority for it to get references to the international criminal court removed but backed by china and russia it also wanted changes to the words sexual reproductive rights because it argues that phrase implies support for abortion the campaigner and lawyer amal clooney made it clear the council would be judged by its actions this is the your nuremberg moment your chance to stand on the right side of history you owe it to nigeria and to the thousands of women and girls who must watch i think members shave off their beards and go back to their normal lives while they

the victims never can in the end the german delegation rewrote their resolution it passed with the u.s. support but with abstentions from russia and china after the controversial wording was removed the council effectively caving in to u.s. pressure. thank you very much. hard work. european nations say they are dismayed by the u.s. position and believe this battle is not over yet they detect the hound of the u.s. vice president mike pence in trying to roll back the internationally agreed position on women's rights for the last quarter of a century one diplomat described the alliance between the us china and russia and all those outside the security council including saudi arabia and the vatican as the axis of the mediæval james is era of the united nations.

meanwhile is highest court has rejected the final appeal of two bush's genest jailed while reporting on the rangar crisis and. was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of breaking manaus official secrets act safe on they've served sixteen months it's called toddler has more from. the last appeal for war is journalist wallow and has been rejected by the supreme court in me and more that coming down on tuesday now they heard the argument from their attorneys just a couple of weeks ago this comes three months after a lower court rejected an appeal they said the sentence would be upheld that also coming down from the supreme court on tuesday now what had happened since the verdict came down in september sentencing these two gentlemen to seven years behind bars an international outcry over the sentencing and also just the process particularly as myanmar marches its way toward democracy a lot of criticism for that and also just last week the investigation the two

gentlemen working on one a pulitzer prize for international reporting or it is news agency their employers coming out almost immediately after this decision by the supreme court saying that they will continue to fight for their journalist behind bars and that they are part of a police set up. given carnegie is the asia editor for bush's he outlined how russia's were approach the case from now on myanmar is a legal process would allow for an additional appeal to the supreme court but wallow in shows who themselves to and through their lawyers have indicated that for them you know they they want this to be the end of the legal process and myanmar and we have we've made it clear both at the trial and then and the subsequent appeals that there was no evidence of a crime that is instead there is ample evidence including testimony from a police official that this was a set up so for us this is the end of the legal process in myanmar will be regrouping now and the families will be renewing their appeal for

a pardon to the government of myanmar. still to come when i was there this news out we visit the world's largest and deepest lake where new environmental plan could be threatening the purity of the ancient multiples. and in sport man will be here with action from boston as a tennis match and thinks that the time is running. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast or still it has some very messy weather here across much of south western europe and you can see all the clouds on our satellite image extending all the way if new u.k. down through france in their band peninsula unfortunately the next few days things are going to remain quite wet as well as windy for many locations and the temp is going to be going down to london we're going to start here on wednesday at eighteen

degrees for ferrous at eighteen degrees as well the rain continues across much of the area the winds that get worse as we go towards thursday but those temperatures do drop to about fourteen degrees for london and paris at about fifteen degrees for you where are seeing those warmer temperatures though are oh here towards central parts of europe we are looking at berlin at twenty six and vienna at about twenty seven degrees for you well we did see some messy weather across the northern part of africa things are getting a little bit better still some winds to deal with here across parts of libya as well as tunisia tripoli at twenty seven degrees there over here too it's been ghazi it is going to be a cloudy day for you with about twenty nine degrees but as we go towards thursday the clouds really begin to dissipate winds come out of the south that means some more air coming into play there the guys he is going to be about a thirty degree tape for you in cairo about thirty two degrees but we could see some rain over here towards morocco with her but see some clouds at about twenty degrees.

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and one of the top stories here now jazeera sri lanka's president says he will sack security chiefs after it was revealed intelligence agencies were tipped off about one of the easter sunday attacks hours before it took place. hundreds of people who arrived in the sudanese capital khartoum by train to support protests demanding the military relinquish power to civilians. and egypt voters have backed constitutional changes in a referendum paving the way for president a de facto sisi to remain in power until twenty thirty. president donald

trump has been meeting the head of twitter jack dorsey at the white house earlier the u.s. president used the social media platform to criticize what he perceives as their bias against him this is what he tweeted they don't treat me well as a republican very discriminatory hard for people to sign on constantly taking people off list of big complaints from many people different names over one hundred million but should be much higher than that if twitter wasn't playing their political games and must be more and fairer companies to get out the word has crossed live now to mike hanna for more on this and do we know how the meeting went. well indeed yes president trump was very quick to tweet out at the end of the meeting saying that it was a great meeting as he put it earlier the c.e.o. of twitter jack dorsey had been saying that they were discussing ways in which to improve the performance of twitter to clear the air for debate as he put it but

president trump making very angry tweets in the course of the morning criticize into it as you said for what he sees as a bias against him and other conservatives as he put it but this appears to have satisfied him to an extent at this particular point but the meeting itself incidentally it would appear was called by president trump himself he called on the c.e.o. of twitter to come and discuss the whole matter with him underlying all of this says we heard in president trump's tweet there that he is dissatisfied with the count that is attached to his twitter account he's got nearly sixty million followers but others such as former president barack obama barbara have more than one hundred million followers so certainly this may be the point that president trump or is certainly exasperating president trump but once again no news of the meeting before it actually took place the meeting as we understand at the request of the president himself mike hanna thank you very much dozens of british m.p.'s

are trying to block a state visit by the u.s. president accusing him of mr chen ism racism and xenophobia don't trump has been invited to the u.k. by queen elizabeth hundreds of thousands of people protested against his first visit last year and many say they won't do it again in june and the hayward has more from buckingham palace. well donald trump has accepted the from the queen to come here to take part in a state to visit between the and the fifth of june he'll be here for three days and he will take part accompanying the royal family to commemorate which will take place on the south coast to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the taking of what makes this visit different to his visit to be last year though is that this is a state visit and that comes with all the privileges that a state visit of a large banquet of about one hundred fifty people which will be hosted by the queen

of course everybody is happy about trump coming back to britain of course last year when he visited the u.k. there were several hundred thousand people who protested on the streets of london he didn't get anywhere near the protests and of course through a balloon which appeared in the sky up of parliament depicting trump as an angry baby we don't know yet whether that will feature in this year's visit. the supreme court in the united states has been hearing arguments over a controversial proposed change to the questions in next year's census the court in washington d.c. will now decide on whether to allow a question on u.s. citizenship census has been taking place every ten years since ninety but for the first time there are plans to ask whether someone is a u.s. citizen critics say it's a deliberate attempt to intimidate immigrants. adding that particular citizenship question could lead to the under-counting in communities across america particularly in immigrant communities and hispanic communities it would mean that

communities entitle to resources get those resources it would deny certain communities of equal representation and so in the interest of fairness in the interest of upholding this quintessential american promise we are obligated to ensure the most accurate count in the twenty twenty census and as such we must use every tool at our disposal in our arsenal to fight to protect its integrity. philippines has been hit by a second quake on an island in the central eastern region it comes a day after a tremor hit several provinces north of the capital manila and the island of luzon rescuers are still searching for survivors paul brennan reports. a man is pulled from the rubble of a supermarket in paula one of many towns and communities in pampanga province which felt the force of monday's earthquake but the dead and the living under these piles

of shattered concrete. structure of course the structure is big and heavier and we have to be careful in clearing the debris because there might be survivors so it's hard but we are doing everything we can. as well as the collapsed buildings electricity supplies were cut as power lines were downed survivors such as sixty five year old arabia daying escaped with any damage to her home or. there was terror and surprise we did not expect it to be like that it was only about twenty seconds but it was very strong it was our first time experiencing something like that in our whole lives. monday's craik was felt in several other provinces on the main island of luzon the trauma and many aftershocks caused high rise buildings to sway what. we're proving too much for this rooftop pool. on tuesday another earthquake hundreds of kilometers to the south in the province of eastern samar filipinos in the regional capital tacloban ran out of

buildings spilling into the streets for their own safety. the six point five magnitude quake caused cracks in buildings and wasn't as damaging as monday's quake in the north damage is now being repaired a clock international airport just was stranded when flights were cancelled. this is what's left of some catherine of alexandria the shattered remains of the eighteenth century church in park a reminder of the latest earthquakes disaster in the philippines. paul brennan al-jazeera. indians are voting in the third and largest phase of the country's general election prime minister narendra modi was among more than one hundred eighty million indians and of eligible to vote on tuesday it cast his ballot in his home state of gujarat the vote is seen as a referendum on modi is a five year rule is adopted a nationalist approach trying to appeal to countries hindu majority voting in the

state election ends on may the nineteenth. tuesday could be the last time millions of people in india's northeast. get to vote many people there are not on a citizenship list which is meant to distinguish between. nationals who aren't on the register could face imprisonment or deportation. voting in this election maybe for the last time despite his family living in the region since one thousand nine hundred thirty s. his name is not on the national register of citizens a list created to distinguish between indian citizens and illegal migrants from other countries. a completed draft of the register was released in twenty team and its wife was on the list but he and his daughter weren't. when we found out names weren't on the list we would be. if you don't find our names on the list we will lose all our rights as citizens if we lose our rights we will lose

everything that we have. it's a problem facing almost four million people in this region who could face imprisonment even deportation if they're not on the register. hindus and muslims live in villages and towns like this one in assam generations of their families have been here for centuries or more recently new migrants have arrived illegally from bangladesh. that's become a political issue this election with the prime minister saying the government will act against illegal migrants. are full effort is to make sure. it isn't just a. rights groups say the governing party the b j p is targeting people based on religion and ethnicity and turning the citizens register into a political weapon. is definitely trying to get people to understand. wanted to buy

the on the table supreme court but it has been executed by the state government and the central government right without. this independent candidate has been campaigning to keep the migrants out saying they don't fit in you become a threat grinded to this idea that the dismissal from all the common numbers your logic would run and then that just isn't. emmett checked in at the polling station he goes to cast what may be his last vote as an indian citizen he's appealing to get on the citizen's register even fails he worries he and his family will lose everything clued in the right to live in their own country. a sample. of korean leader kim jong un is on his way to russia to meet president vladimir putin preparations are being made in the russian pacific port of blood of austar where the summit will take place on thursday kim's visit is believed to be part of pyongyang his efforts to build international support around the breakdown of talks

with the us in february russia is also keen to play a role in any peace plan on the korean peninsula. the remote and beautiful lake baikal in southeastern russia is the largest lake in the world with an area of more than half a million square kilometers it holds a staggering one fifth of the world's fresh water so just so worried the purity of that water will be compromised by a new russian plan to relax pollution limits and a step in reports from the lake the government says it's actually the best way of protecting the waters. the fragile line between water and ice marks the entrance to the world's largest and deepest lake when the ice melts the water is so clear that fish and freshwater seals can be spotted with oxygen one and a half kilometers down near the bottom they'd baikal has a unique ecosystem found nowhere else on the planet but human activity on its six

hundred thirty six kilometers long shores has increased and so has pollution every year more than one and a half million tourists visit a baikal natural park which lacks a proper sewage system to deal with their waste or lead to i mean has lived here for nineteen years he recalls how not long ago he would drink water from the lake without boiling or filtering it. before i would go to another village and i would see one or two birds now i can see twenty or thirty if not more if there are tourists on every boat who need to go to the toilet i don't think disposing of it in the right way it all goes into the lake therefore it's not recommended to drink water an area water treatment plants around the lake are outdated or broken the ministry for natural resources sas it wants to build twenty one new ones but to make the plan feasible the amount of harmful waste discharge into the lake needs to be increased greenpeace's among environmental groups concerned at the potential

harm to the lake so are some russian scientists. we sorry the norms they are proposing are unacceptable and they should review them according to the latest technologies there is only one worry you still need to build clean them for cities but better ones researches are trying to find out why sponges unique to baikal are dying at an alarming rate and if large amounts of elvia and wheat are changing the fragile ecosystem russia's government didn't respond to requests for comment but the website of the ministry of natural resources says the new wastewater standard is based on scientific research and by colors better protected than any other lake in the world. people were drinking this water straight from the lake just a few years ago but drinking this now would definitely make you sick scientists fear that what is known as the world's cleanest lake and its largest freshwater reserve is rapidly losing its value for humankind scientists say it's not

too late to turn the tide they say while water by the shores is polluted water deep into the lake remains as pure as it was millions of years ago they're urging the government to invest in better technology so the levels of harmful substances don't need to be raised not only for russia's future but to preserve one of the planet's important sources of water stop bassam al jazeera lake baikal russia. teenage environmentalist greater turn bird has been meeting british politicians and climate protesters in london a sixteen year old swedish activist held talks with the leaders of opposition parties over their prime minister trees in may was conspicuous by her absence timbered has inspired tens of thousands of children worldwide to boycott classes to draw attention to climate change a trip to london coincided with a ninth day of climate protests by the extinction of delhi and group. china's navy

is celebrating its seventieth anniversary by showing off the first of a new generation of guided missile destroyers president xi jinping says the navy is improving its ability to defend chinese waters but taiwan and others are worried about territorial claims far from the chinese mainland catrina you has more from beijing. thirty two warships and thirty nine aircraft including a raft of new nuclear submarines and destroy is difficult to see through the hazy air china's navy was out in force in the port city of qingdao celebrating seventy years since the founding of the people's liberation army president xi jinping presided over the parade since coming to power in two thousand and twelve has made modernizing the military one of his main priorities china says a stronger navy means a more peaceful region. the chinese navy has always been a peaceful force and will not pose

a threat to any country. chinese offices referred to past foreign invasions the source of deep wounds as motivation for improving their military china's defense spending has scaled new heights in recent years the soviet board leonnig its first aircraft carrier was launched two years ago a second domestically produced aircraft carrier is reportedly being tested china's navy was joined by warships from thirteen countries including india and australia notably absent though was the united states the u.s. sees china's growing naval power as a threat to regional security and says it's overstepping its territorial claims by building and militarizing artificial islands in the south china sea which is contested by several countries including vietnam and the philippines. u.s. naval exercises in what it says are international waters have resulted in tense

confrontations and near collisions u.s. ally taiwan is also watching the chinese naval build up close like china because it is the self-willed island broke trying to territory it has been conducting what it calls in so full of patrols in the taiwan strait leading some analysts say the conflict is in recent years. because in war in the war. you were aircraft u.s. warships on the charles i was. on the encounters together in assad's honor so you thought honestly as more and more crowded but who says any skirmish is likely to remain small in scale despite making great strides in recent years the power of china's navy still trails far behind that the united states katrina you al-jazeera beijing. a large scale trial of the first malaria vaccine specially designed for young children has been launched by the world health organization in malawi with

ghana and kenya to follow that area killed more than four hundred forty thousand people in two hundred sixteen with more than two hundred ninety million people infected ninety percent of all cases are in africa one in every ten child deaths on the continent is from the disease which is carried by mosquitoes trials showed the r t s s vaccine offered almost forty percent protection for children between five and seventeen months old a mune response needed to protect against the malaria parasite is far higher than with a bacterial or viral infection so it goes moscow says a biologist at northumbria university he says the vaccine could have a global impact. the problem with malaria is that it's predominantly a disease found in africa of the over two hundred million people acquire the disease on an annual basis more than ninety percent of these people are in sub-saharan africa to put it this way if you were to be allocating resources in

other countries you wouldn't be getting as much information from these pilots that it's so the best place to carry out these pilot studies is africa this part of the work is necessary to make sure that in the larger population when there is an actual launch and the actual drug is made available to the rest of the world then they can be all safe in the knowledge that the vaccine is safe yes there are problems that happen when various drugs any kind of drug gets a production line about the problem but what happens with any kind of drug it's not just exclusive for vaccines so to to say that vaccines are a problem. is the misconception it's not an outright lie i think in this particular instance people should be happy that they are given the opportunity to increase the chances of the children surviving from this disease is thirty five years is the cause of aids the hiv virus was first recognized by u.s. scientists to peak in two thousand and four when nearly two million died from the

disease aids related deaths have dropped by more than fifty percent and medicines are helping millions of people live healthier lives but not everyone has access to the lifesaving treatment if you're going to quit port. now living with hiv is the reality for almost thirty seven million people the use of multiple drugs in a motel to control the infection has helped those with the virus live as long as those without it but two out of every five people with hiv forty one percent have no access to life saving medication left untreated hiv can destroy so many cells that the body is unable to fight off infections and disease and that can lead to aids drugs help keep the level of hiv in the body low is that allows the immune system to recover and stays strong and also helps to prevent the virus being passed on in two thousand and five only two million people were using the necessary drugs

to control hiv by two thousand and seventeen that number had risen to more than twenty one million africa's seen the biggest increase in treatment and today most pregnant women with hiv have access to medicines to prevent the virus been passed on to their babies but worldwide almost two million children under fifteen have the virus infected by their mothers during pregnancy birth or breastfeeding is estimated around nine million people don't even know they have h i v for those that do access to treatment and support still largely depends on where they live. look on the news are all trained on the shores and is it granite development planned for one of the world's most famous avenues. and in sport why usa gymnastics are struggling to stay in control of their sport ahead of next year's olympic trials.

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alex business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. their plan is to revitalize france's most famous avenue to show that easy chair about twenty million people visit but less than two percent of those a person's french architect say it's in desperate need of renovation ahead of twenty twenty four olympics the dutch about the reports from paris. described as the most beautiful avenue in the world the shells lease a is a symbol of paris its name comes up images of french elegance and flag but the

reality is quite different traffic's heavy pavements a crowded and the avenues lined with false food restaurants schools shops and call show rooms parisians tend to stay away. disappointed noise but it's not exactly what i expected and there are too many people everywhere there are so many cabs people and noise that i find it hard to see any beauty here the head of the business and residence committee says the situation's urgent he's launched a project to renovate the famous of new plans include more green spaces more the road around the outer tree of could be transformed into a garden beach or ice rink. of a new has lost its soul and its identity shows it is a supposed to be a place for walking if the reasons don't come in and it's not because it's not your choice enough shows it's because it's noisy and unpleasant and polluted one of the

main problems with the shortlist days the traffic is nearly always noisy and busy sixty thousand vehicles pass up the stabbing you each day sometimes the pollution is worse than of viruses far ringrose that's why architects say one of the solutions could be to reduce the number of planes. since its construction in the seventeenth century the shah's elisei has been central to french culture from the allied liberation of paris from german forces in one thousand nine hundred forty four to france's two world cup wins people have celebrated here recently many people were shocked when some yellow vests protesters vandalize shops and monuments the architect behind the renovation project says it's vital to maintain the show unique place in french history but is of course we could use this to show french excellence in gastronomy culture fashion and green technology the shell city says an international symbol a myth and icon it should reveal where the nation does best the project has yet to

be given the green light by a paris a city hall but those behind it say a new look. could be revealed in time for the twenty twenty four parcel lympics and help restore some of the avenues lost glory and romance natasha butler al-jazeera paris. and doha sport. thank you lauren will we start with football and barcelona are a step closer to their second straight league title in spain on tuesday barsa defeated all of us to nail second half goals from car less elena and luis suarez ensure they moved twelve points clear of challengers atletico madrid but let it go our twelve points behind and have only five game left to play. over in england tottenham hotspur scored a late winner to see off brighton in the premier league christian eriksson's eighty eight minutes striker put spurs three points ahead of chelsea in the standings tottenham are third with three games to go english premier league champions

manchester city can retake top spot from liverpool on wednesday as both teams close in on the title city play local reiver rivals manchester united who were thumped four nil by everton ever over the weekend city's manager pep guardiola is more focused on winning the title than adding to united's misery. the question is i mean in the premier league when the tide comes. in the series i took a but it is not the most important thing it should the three seasons we hear. we did better than them but the heat is when that type of. be to united the response has to be there you've tried to provoke a reaction provoke were inspired reaction and we've. we haven't had time to work on the pitch. with the players that play because you need recovery of this stage of

the. season as well so it's a vote. changing mindset the making sure our heads are ready because anyone's heads would drop when you lose like that doha is hosting the asian athletics championships as a warmup event ahead of the world athletics championships later this year tuesday was the penultimate day of competition and that was a day of mixed emotions for china in particular the chinese women race their way to victory in the women's four by one hundred meter relay than their male compatriots achieved the same feat only to be disqualified after stepping out of their lane on the first leg victory then went to thailand and the day's action was finished off for the gold medal for bahrain in the mixed four by four hundred meter relay. usa gymnastics announced that they plan to host the olympic trials next year in st louis missouri but only if they remain the governing body usa g. was slowly being stripped of their authority following the a sexual abuse scandal with former team doctor larry nasser but then in two

thousand and eighteen the organization filed for bankruptcy saving it from folding usa gymnastics c.e.o. lee long said she's confident that u.s. a.g. will remain intact but if not the u.s. olympic committee will pick the olympic team. two of the stanley cup playoffs first round series will be decided in the seventh game later on tuesday the try to maple leafs will be in boston to take on the bruins while the san jose sharks are on home ice against the vegas cold nights to string of tennis now world number one they only osaka starts her clay court season in stuttgart this week she says she has high hopes for herself for coming out on top. i don't really feel pressure anymore . i think the first tournament after one. was like one of the biggest pressure moments for me and it sort of wore off so honestly now i just. want to win french and wimbledon and i'm kind of making those my biggest. anastasia's have

a stove it is through to the second round at the open after beating for. winning the match six two four six six. japan's world number seven tennis player came in has progressed to the third round of the barcelona open he was up against american taylor fritz on tuesday cory would have been expected to win comfortably against the world number fifty eight but he came into this match on a run of three straight defeats against lower ranked opponents the twenty nine year old turned that streak around here seven five and six two. nicholas gerry knocked out to number two seed alexander's vera of in three sets to reach the third round of the barcelona open on tuesday the three six seven five seven six victory came in just over two hours. and there was good news for the home fans in barcelona spins david ferrer cruz into the second round the thirty seven year old software of

germany six three and six one for has already announced he will retire after next month's madrid open. former middleweight boxing champion again the gold of kin says he's excited about his return to the ring at madison square garden in june because that fighter known to his fans as triple g. will face canada's steve rolls as he looks to bounce back from his first career defeat to canelo alvarez go often is looking to reestablish himself as the top of the middleweight division. well that's all your sport for me here in doha but we'll have more for you later and back to lauren in london. thank you very much indeed denigrate them i know you can always catch up with all the news and sport on our website that just about. dot com. and that's it for me for this news hour back in a moment with more the day's news thanks for watching.

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