is laid to rest and then sports rafael nadal moves on to the next round of the barcelona open winning on a court named after him for a little of that and more than that when they transport. iran's foreign minister says keeping the strait of hormuz open is in the interests of a rainy a national security german serif has been speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew sanctions waivers for china india and iran's other major oil customers our diplomatic editor james bays has for the iranian foreign minister himself brought up the case of nasir the dar iraq cliff a british national being held in tehran compared it to an iranian being held in australia who's given birth to a baby while in custody and then came forward with what he said was a new offer in exchange of prisoners he said he had full thora to make this offer

nobody talks about this lady in australia. who gave birth to a child in prison whose child is growing up outside prison with his mother mother in prison. so what can i do as reporter minister. i put this offer on the table publicly now exchanged in the foreign minister was asked about recent threats that iran might close the straits of hormuz he said that that was not iran's position he said that the free flow of trade was a lifeline for iran but he said if that was prevented then there might be consequences and he said all shipping that crossed through the straits of hormuz had to make contact with the revolutionary guards he said that was nothing new that was the established procedure. when well the united nations says

pro-government forces in afghanistan have killed more civilians this year than the taliban and i saw it's the first time since the u.n. u.n. began its records a decade ago that report says the afghan and u.s. military were responsible for most of the three hundred and five civilian deaths in the first three months they were mainly from airstrikes the u.n. says taliban isolated other fighters have killed two hundred twenty seven people are the number of suicide bomb attacks has for lynn for this year compared to nineteen in the first quarter of last year shelob ellis has more now from kabul. in the village of to local in condos province there are thirteen mounds of dirt they are fresh graves thirteen children two women and one man killed in their home by a u.s. airstrike. measure when the bomb dropped i was thrown back into a wall in the house when i opened my eyes i couldn't see anything but dust pulled

myself after the rubble it was raining and i just thought please don't let me be the only one to survive and. we filmed with their family exactly a month ago the day of the strike the family piled the children's bodies onto the back of a truck travelling ten bumpy kilometers into condos city looking for accountability now they may have got it was. a un report has revealed that in the first three months of this year the leading cause of civilian deaths was airstrikes the majority by the u.s. military in total the afghan government and its supporting forces were responsible for killing more than three hundred civilians more than the taliban and eisel combined it is counterproductive this is just going to create more enemies and more taliban this is not going to help needed because of the afghan government nor the

cause of the u.s. led coalition in iraq and afghanistan the u.s. military has defended its actions in afghanistan we hold ourselves to the highest standards of accuracy and accountability we strive for precision in all of our operations we reserve the right of self defense of our forces as well as the afghan security forces. and search operations all night raids by afghan intelligence units and a militia known as the haas protection force killed another seventy two civilians they target taliban suspects and is supported by the us but are outside of the afghan government's chain of command. a consequence of that. that is that they are unaccountable. we have now repeatedly called for them to be brought within the command and control structure after appropriate vetting. or disbanded the report also found that the total number of civilians hurt or killed

has fallen to its lowest level since twenty thirty in the low eighteen hundred that is due to a drastic drop in suicide bombings by the taliban and i saw. back in condos that's of little comfort this family had fled fighting in another province and were just passing through looking for a safe place to rist until they could return home charlotte dallas al-jazeera kabul . the u.n. envoy for libya has said he is hopeful the country's two warring sides will engage in dialogue soon to end the conflict they're fighting has raged since warlord family for have tired of the game began an offensive to take control of the capital tripoli earlier this month the head of reports from tripoli. another frontline has been open between forces loyal to warlords have to and others loyal to the tripoli be used to you know used government of national accord the clashes erupted on

wednesday morning in the area north of the city but have warplanes targeted the government forces locations in and here are the government forces say that they recaptured. north of the very end but have. targeted them killing and wondering. fighters from the government forces the government forces say that they have recaptured. around thirty kilometers north of the city center in tripoli the government forces say that they continue maintaining their locations maintaining their presence and the locations they have recently taken control of south of tripoli. where they will be and also areas near the disused or inactive tripoli international airport the government forces are accusing have to the forces of attacking a migrants detention center. killing and one didn't get several innocent

migrants there lammas the international says it has seen footage of the aftermath of that attack at the castle benghazi and the tension center including video showing people with gunshot wounds it's all of five facilities near tripoli that has been engulfed by the fighting the u.n. warns the situation in some of these centers is increasingly desperate that as your attention center for example says it is struggling to care for hundreds of refugees without international aid like owen sound a few g.'s are fearing for their lives. i'm scared of being caught in the war are you gunfire every day night and day all day i hear gunfire in all directions i'm skeered with problems here. every day i just hope that nothing bad happens to is that they move us from here so nothing bad happens to us this is all i wish for. the united kingdom is said to approve a deal with weiwei which allows the chinese telecoms giant to supply equipment for

britain's new five g. network this this fight warnings from the us of a potential security risk of spying or insley reports. holloway has grand ambitions and appears to be on track to carry them out the chinese giant telecoms company is catching samsung in global sales and has signed dozens of next generation five g. contracts with providers around the globe but the heart of it all is the issue of trust huawei is directly linked to the chinese states and the sought to reassure western countries that its infrastructure doesn't pose a threat to their security australia new zealand and the us particularly very suspicious of. there's mixed opinions in the u.k. it is mixed opinions and come after all those don't forget it was counted with originally arrested it's the financial director of. the british

government is under pressure to agree their security services have advised the governments that hallway should be banned from providing some critical infrastructure when five g. arrives in britain on the grounds that it could jeopardize data security as we know data is extremely valuable today and is indeed. one of the main profit generating areas for companies like google facebook and apple is how they process the data that they collect and then secondly of course there's the possibility to intercept communications and perhaps even to blackmail different. governments or organizations in order to exert pressure chloé isn't the only example of the dilemma facing the u.k. over its relationship with. china the country has already been given a contract to build a new nuclear power station in the west of england despite concerns it would allow beijing to control parts of the u.k.'s power supply as with everything here brics

states casts a shadow over all of this parts of the governments very much want to do new trade deals with china in order to replace existing ones with the european union yet the spy agencies are worried about the impact of a chinese takeover of the british economy on security in diplomatic circles one of the main topics of conversation has become just was a mess the u. case china policy has turned into. even more ironically chinese media has been busy trumpeting the facts that the e.u. has declared huawei safe as a partner and several european countries have already signed new five g. contracts the u.k. meanwhile seems unable to make its mind up with china is friend. lawrence li al-jazeera london well the race to lead the world in five g. is on with countries doing all they can to win so what exactly is it well five g. is as you can imagine fifth generation of mobile internet connectivity promising

super fast data speeds wider coverage and more stable connections with development well underway five g. networks are expected to launch across the world by twenty twenty the u.s. and china are currently tied for first place in five g. of readiness that's according to a report by the cellular telecommunications industry association south korea sitting third japan fourth but there are fears that five g. could bring heightened security risks the u.s. has already banned while away from its government networks accusing beijing of using the advanced technology to spy well i'm joined now by john hemmings he's the director of the asia study center is the henry jackson society based here in london sir thank you so much for joining us here on out as they are so focusing on what has been announced by the u.k. . basically what the u.k. government is saying is that there's a difference that yes well we will be involved but they will not be allowed into the core of five g. what do you make of that explanation so i think it's problematic because if you

listen to the technical community to cybersecurity experts there's still a lot of uncertainty about five g. we're still discovering as we go and you can see that in all the trial tested programs of five g. all around the various companies so some experts are saying the core begins to merge with the periphery that as you can through they kind of become one of the other so of course you know this is fine but if that's the case the governor. should make more clear that that case that they know this is definitively the way i don't think the technical community feel that same resolve until we can do that what's the rush and you and henry jackson society who actually work in a report on this which i understand will be finished quite soon so are your question marks technological question marks of an while way and five g. technology or is it more of a political i guess you know the lack of trust that you feel towards what way it's

a combination of brought together as the project leader a group of people we have some former cyber experts from the u.k. government we have people from australia from the us people have had high office but also people who have a technical background in cyber area it certainly is a political issue the rise of china it's authoritarian model the way that it's imbued its kind of approach to technology in surveillance society and the concerns that that bring certainly mobilize our think tank in our research project but we've tried to make very careful that what we're saying is technically accurate as well so we're trying to walk those two lines between technical and political you know what way obviously say you know they are a private company and separate from the government when it comes to the u.k. government i mean obviously this hasn't come without controversy why do you think they're doing it now is it a financial consideration i think so i think. we've seen that huawei has been able to price traditionally traditionally eighteen percent less than its competitors

look or a. academic at harvard has brought up those numbers and we see a lot of that's coming because while we have this favored position with chinese development banks they're said to have thirty billion dollars in credit with the china development bank and that's the kind of sums that actually private companies just don't have access to they also follow very closely the strategic. thirteenth five year plan of china in terms of what technologies they target. so our research shows that with these things if you look at the ownership structure the actual ownership structure not the share system that they propose profess there's actually a very fuzzy line about whether they are virtual state owned enterprise or private company i wouldn't say that there's a decision to be made but i think we need to look further into their ownership will certainly some of the allies have been very clear mike crapo the secretary of state of the united states faked of the arguing or sustain a suspecting that it could facilitate spying in what he said is if

a country adopts this and put this in some other critical information system we will not be able to share information with them considering that the u.k. and the u.s. you know when it comes to intelligence actually have incredibly close links do you think that this could have that kind of repercussion to break up that relationship absolutely as as we discussed the british are doing it are being mobilized of course by brock's it pressures for investment wanted to stay on the good side with their business community and they are not really thinking hardly about the effects on the relationship not just with the americans but these trillions who also feel very strongly about this i don't think the relationship would break up but certainly you could see it degrading and trusts which under under scores the relationship and like any relationship where one person puts their own priorities ahead of the groups you'll see that individual slowly get less and less of the good fruits of that relationship john hemings the rector of the asia study center at the henry jackson society sir thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. now

still to come on this news hour boeing reveals the grounding of its seven three seven x. jet after two fatal plane crashes has cost the company at least one billion dollars so far brazil's indigenous take on the streets of the capital demanding protection for their land rights and olympian we're far has a strange workout plan ahead of this week's london marathon peter we'll explain in sports a little later. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecasts all across europe we have quite a contrast of weather that's going on right now to the support of europe we're looking at some fine skies as well as warmer air over here towards the west though it is quite messy and has been messy for the last couple days with a lot of rain and windy conditions in cooler temperatures as well well lucky here

on thursday as you can see a lot of rain down here towards a better put into temperatures into the teens or if you're just on the edge that into about twenty three degrees for you but where as we go from thursday to friday we're going to be seeing more of the same across much of this area and the rain across parts of italy is only going to be increasing and that could lead to some localized flooding as well over here towards the east though things are looking quite nice temperatures into the mid to high twenty's in some locations warsaw you can receive it partly cloudy day with maybe some rain in the afternoon with a time for there up twenty seven degrees across another part of africa not much in terms of clouds or rain we're going to be seeing some warmer conditions here across much of benghazi you could be seeing those winds coming out of the south so that means twenty nine degrees for you across much of the interior though we're talking to the high thirty's and forty's so we're going to see over here towards want to tempt thirty nine cairo of thirty one maybe a little warmer by the time we get to friday because a it's going to be a warm day for you with a temperature of thirty. from

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on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera sri lanka's president has asked the chief of police and the fence secretary to resign after security forces failed to act old warnings ahead of the easter sunday bombings which of killed at least three hundred fifty nine people more than sixty people have been killed in floods and mudslides along soundtrack of his eastern coast they were triggered by heavy rains which began on monday night hundreds have been displaced mainly in the port city of durban and russia has rolled out the red carpet to welcome the north korea's leader

kim jong. il by train ahead of a planned meeting with vladimir putin on the. spring is some new developments from sudan the military council has just issued a statement after meeting with the country's main opposition movement it says the two sides have agreed on a number of principles and the stablished a committee to iron out this agreements earlier the coalition of freedom and change forces rejoined the go with the military which is currently in charge of sadat after ousting the former president a little bashir protesters are still on the streets and they're demanding the military hand over power to a civilian administration immediately michael mo is a visiting fellow at the. center for africa at the london school of economics and he joins us live via skype sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera so we are getting this statement in the past half hour or so from the military is saying

that they have agreed on a number of principles what do you make of the statement coming so soon after talks started again. well essentially seeing the trees notes of people coming from the countryside to khartoum sudan know very well that there's no way that protests are going to seize and actually is going to increase so did they have to decide that now we have to play ball with the opposition parties and with the s.b.a. but there's also one other point which is actually that now it's only it's not just one week they have to. come up with a decision by the may have three months but he gives both sides whole time to actually now take the time to decide what's best for the country so long gus it is i greet that the military will have to give up power to a fully civilian transitional council yeah but from the statement that we received from the military do you see me do you see any indication that that is what they

plan to do they're just trying to hate each it's a game of chess and the moment that this frantic head didn't see in the piece by piece what's the reaction they're going to get from the opposition parties and this is a nice professional association and they're really just make it clear i think her good mate that the another nice time for any joint governance with the military and that image he now have to basically be discussing isn't about how they handed up power fully to them and that's the way it's going to go and that's the with it talks are going to proceed from this point it's now been a few weeks since a little bashir stepped down amid the situation has been relatively calm so far do you think there is still a chance that things might escalate. the only escalation we can expect to be in terms of numbers but the protests are not going to try and.

produce anything violence. to be to make them look bad so the numbers are going to increase and the pressure will increase but we can't expect in the next escalation in terms of violence of fights and unless the military deliberately tries to or move the protests by physical force. even that we can't let that happen because they're literally very much aware that the who or this is what you. dr michael a mo visiting fellow at the london school of economics or thank you for sharing your expertise with us thank you thank you. boeing says the global grounding of its seven three seven max jets will cost the airliner more than one billion dollars three hundred forty six people were killed when its planes crashed in ethiopian larch and then indonesia last year the company has faced accusations of

ignoring poor practices at some of its construction plants castro spoke to one whistleblower. rags left near landing gear a loose bolt in an engine chewing gum holding together a door trim these are among the concerns voiced by nearly a dozen boeing whistle blowers who say the company's seven eighty seven dreamliner jet produced in south carolina should not have been delivered in such conditions a new york times investigation reviewed hundreds of internal boeing documents and federal records and interviewed turned and former boeing employees john barnett worked at boeing for nearly three decades he retired from his job as a quality manager in twenty seventeen from what i've saying building their planes here charleston i don't feel they're in a safe in our weather condition barnett says on several planes he discovered metal shavings hanging over wiring that commands flight controls he showed his bosses he

says who ignored his concern and moved him to another part of the factory as over time these metal shavings are going to migrate down in these boxes or into the connectors store far. and the last thing you want forty thousand feet so far the south carolina boeing plant was troubled from the start built in two thousand and nine to focus exclusively on building the dreamliner boeing struggle to find qualified local workers according to the time for reporting production delays tested the patients of carriers from day one it's just all been about scheduling aria is get it done push planes out we're behind schedule you know we don't have time to worry about issues that you know i'll bring in a message to employees the vice president of boeing's dreamliner program said the new york times article features distorted information that rehashes old stories and rumors that have long ago been put to rest a federal inspection of the south carolina plant in two thousand and fourteen

thousand and no violations but the f.a.a. said it had previously found the presence of foreign object debris i am not aware of any civil airliner. having an accident as a result of debris being left inside the aircraft due to maintenance or manufacture there is no evidence that the problems alleged by the boeing whistle blowers have led to any major safety incidents in fact more than eight hundred of the dreamliner jets continue to fly around the world none have ever crashed but after the deadly accidents involving boeing's other popular model the seven thirty seven max now begs the question whether the company has a greater safety problem worthy of scrutiny. joe castro al-jazeera. brazil's indigenous people have marched in the country's capital demanding protection for their land rights they fear that hard won rights will be eroded by

the new president tradable scenario that's given added significance of this year's them straight it happens every april when brazil holds what it calls indian day for this aboard joining the some of the indigenous people who camped near brazil's congress. who are here in brazil the capital brasilia worth thousands of members of the brazil of indigenous communities have started to arrive to the capital for a three day event even though this event happens every year this particular event is very very meaningful for them because they say they're using it to fan their very strong message to president. who would be accused is threatening their very existence the precedent fifth taking office for example has taken a series of measures that they say threaten their communities for example moving of brazil of indigenous affairs office from the ministry of justice to the agricultural sector that they say generate a very serious conflict of interest just limited since january the president has

taken measures causing the deterioration of indigenous rights so they transferred the right to demarcate all land from the indigenous office to the ministry of agriculture which is led by representatives of agribusiness. some of the people we have spoken to say the best inventor is already starting without the feet because the government has deployed hundreds of members of security forces they were hoping to initially camp in front of congress but they were asked to leave and i don't have vowed to integrate indigenous communities with the roles of railways and agriculture but of if people here say that this is going to isolate even more they're already suffering from persecution from farmers miners among others there is a wrong three hundred tribes in brazil today and many of them are represented in.

the protests able to find out who prides himself of being friends with the united states president donald trump has said that he would like to explore the amazones with the united states for them and that the reprieve a threat to their very existence. dozens of workers at a jade mine in me and more are feared dead after a landslide at least three bodies have been recovered at the site in more than catching state where the fifty people remain missing since the mud collapse on monday night environmental groups say landslides are common in the region's poorly regulated. japan has apologized to tens of thousands of people forcibly sterilized under a now defunct politicians unanimously passed legislation to compensate those affected by the nine hundred forty eight law it was designed to prevent the births of those considered inferior the sentence about twenty five thousand people with physical disabilities were sterilized the law remained in place until one thousand

nine hundred ninety six. as the governments which had been implementing the past law forcing still. in heartfelt apology to the victims. leaders of the two thousand and fourteen occupied the democracy movement in hong kong have been jailed on public nuisance charges their protests last that almost three months and brought hong kong to a virtual standstill as hundreds of thousands of people blocked rogues the man they open elections is young and reports was the leaders of the twenty fourteen occupy protests in hong kong which also became known as the umbrella revolution joined supporters outside client two of the nine were jailed for sixteen months two for eight months others had their sentences the suspended and one was ordered to do community service they all remained defiant the home of

the world and not to cut was for the price of a muchness it was and i believe denise was released from prison was i will see a stronger and more powerful democratic the adults common touch that was me and i. did all the time to think that. by having it all to you guys that moment i began to think democracy was very smooth and i do thank you dated one hundred two to the the former british colony was handed back to china in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven under an agreement that it could retain its own laws economic system and civil rights for fifty years but activists accuse the chinese government of breaking its promise was and in twenty fourteen protests began when the government announced leadership elections for twenty seventeen

insisting hong kong would have to choose from a list of candidates pre-approved by beijing thousands of people camped in the streets for nearly three months causing chaos they were demanding free and open elections i would say that unfortunately the. system currently remain unchanged but we still realize that umbrella movement is not a victory but absolute it is a legacy of hong kong democrat democracy movement. the founders of the movement were prosecuted on public nuisance charges the judge acknowledged the right to protest but said they couldn't be allowed to make the public suffer many see the course of action as the latest move by beijing to undermine hong kong's autonomy sixteen months is is is long for civil disobedience but with no force and violence it was an entirely peaceful event and there was no personal gain no financial benefit we just want democracy. supporters of the jailed activists

say they are determined their voices will continue to be heard. al-jazeera. a journalist shot dead in northern ireland has been laid to rest in belfast the prime ministers of britain and ireland attended the ceremony as well as leaders of the main irish nationalists and pro british unionist parties here in a key was shot while covering a riot by dissident republicans who are opposed to the northern irish peace process that in barber reports. spontaneous applause for a local woman who died doing the job she loved the coffin was carried into sometimes a protestant cathedral in belfast her family a catholic but they wanted her funeral service to be of course community events. hero was a person who broke down barriers and reached across boundaries near him

a key became known for her work on the rights i hear of myself for much of my life because of what religion taught me about people like me the congregation in belfast heard how she'd been planning to marry her partner sarah but she was also involved in trying to reach across northern islands religious divide the ceremony brought together the british prime minister to reason me into irish counterpart leo varadkar and the leaders of the pro british democratic unionist party and the republican shin fein were side by side as the priest appealed to them to work together once again a call which brought people to their feet why in god's name does it take that daf of a twenty nine year old woman with her whole or life in front of her thank.