we were he said that we are looking to increase military operations which russia the nature of miniature operations is unknown with being kind will it be because we know that over the last two years russia has provided printed. hard currency and has provided forms of forms of support to have to was operations in the east to what degree will that move forward it's it's not a surprise if if that increases we know that russia has vetoed the recent un security council resolutions on ceasefire and the cease fire in libya. in the east across libya but specifically nice is been a major. economic economic pressure for the governments for the local authorities to to provide funding for teachers for civil servants to ensure that

the economic cycle continues to flow and a lot of that a lot of the pressure is coming because the central bank in tripoli is ensuring that none of the funds goes into un embargoes and u.n. sanctions and. to prevent that money from leaving from from going to purchase weapons but we've also seen the forces as they advance over tripoli and seized many small towns they have taken on accounted for sums of money from commercial banks creating an even more pressuring situation on the locals on salaries in the area so i guess the fundamental question is are his backers prepared to continue their support of him for what looks to be at this stage a pretrial. war had been fought in the first instance and able to quickly come in and take tripoli but that certainly hasn't been the case is it. yes it has and the

assumption was that have to or would march on tripoli and you know in a very brief amount of time with seize the capital it's been ongoing since the forts a favor all we've seen very little advance on central tripoli or even on the perimeter in fact today the government of national chords military spokesperson said the supply lines have been cut to major towns in southern tripoli. is running out of not only military and sustenance but also personnel and they are there is going to be a need for her to rely more and more on these foreign actors. supplying his troops are they prepared to increase their funding that's will come out a risk of further or further endangering the very fragile diplomat u.n. diplomatic efforts that are in place and the very split and the very severe split

that we're seeing at the u.n. security council or the cease fire that we have in libya on the route resolution put forward by the united kingdom khouri thank you very much indeed for children to us live from london thank you. we have a lot more to come in this hour including the russian president to the north korean leader meet for the first time in bloody vostok find out what they discussed. the south african president goes to newtown to see for himself the flood damage. and in sport with peter drummers the hurrican blow away the capitals in the n.h.l. player. of the protest leaders in sudan of increased pressure on the army by calling for a larger massive rally demanding

a civilian government. are calling it a one million person march or hoping a million people will converge on the capital meanwhile three senior members of the ruling military council accuse of cracking down on protesters resigned on wednesday the council says it's reached a deal or most of the protesters demands but there's no word on how soon the military will actually hand over power to civilians let's talk to our correspondent in khartoum mohammed vile and mohammed just yesterday here on al-jazeera we were speaking to a member of the. professional association and she highlighted the three members of the transitional council that she and her association objected to today there resigned is this the military acting in good faith and trying to meet the demands of the protesters. well the appearance is

yes the appearance of it are the face of it this is. like. a concession to the protesters and looks like a gesture of goodwill and we have seen things like this in the past the. former head of the intelligence serious line because of the same type of pressure from the protestors we have reports unconfirmed reports that he still enjoying his freedom he's inside his house his god and he's a working through phone lines with anybody who wants to talk to and so on and the likelihood that he still connected with the military council is sort of the some suspicion among the protesters that these people who disappear from the from the surface and you know comply to the pressure from the street they are still somewhere and they are still pulling the strings somewhere this is just i'm telling you that what is being said in the streets if that's if these people are going to be tried if these people are going to be put in jail the protesters tell us then

that strong just strong. proof of the good will and the intentions of the military that they are really going to go after the minutes of the former regime but if they just disappear from the military council membership but they are still some well they're not in jail they're not being tried that's not what the protesters are looking for now another line of interest to day is that both sides the military council and the protesters have formed some kind of committee to take that dialogue forward is this a positive step. absolutely if an interview of the leadership it's a very good step they have form of the joint committee or the have decided to form a joint committee to deal with the issues at hand and with the difficulties and with the differences between the two sides and it is this committee that is going to be tasked with. you know paving the way for the election or selection of the supreme. military civilian military council that is going to rule the country

during the transition period they are still not in total agreement over a number of points including for instance how many years the protesters are asking for for your four years transition before an election could be held the military council are asking for only two years so that's something they have to decide and also the level of membership or the level of representation from the two sides that present as the story the protesters are saying that it should be majority civilian council or all in the country a presidential council with only a limited the presentation from the military side the military council is saying the opposite they wanted to be as it is now a military council ruling the country but only with some members of the leadership of the protesters and other parties contributing there and cabinet working under their leadership civilian cabinet of technocrats so they have quite a number of issues including as i said the eradication of the former regime and how

many years the transition will take and also the level of representation from the two sides they have to deal with these issues they have to settle them before the protesters before the leadership of the protest can you know tell their base that now it is time for us to disperse and go home and see what happens next but i mean of our live in the sudanese capital thank you very much. now the russian and north korean leaders have had their first ever face to face meeting vladimir putin described talks with kim jong il. as substantial president putin says denuclearization can only be achieved through international law and the north needs security guarantees conditional look with binoculars of what is denuclearization it is to a certain extent disarmament of north korea of course i have spoken about it all the time and can confirm once again the north korea site speaks about it as well democratic people's republic of north korea needs guarantee of safety and sovereignty. but the people of the two countries who share

a valuable friendship that was created and strengthened while overcoming every hardship and challenge thrown to us by history have a deep understanding that the ceaseless development of north korea russia ties not only serves our mutual interests but is also indispensable for securing the region's peace and stability. so what is south korea making of all of this our correspondent in seoul is rob mcbride. events in blood of our stock have been followed closely from seoul as you might expect the view from south korea is that they are generally supportive of any bilateral summits between north korea and any of its neighbors all part of the process of the normalization of north korea of being less isolated from its neighbors and indeed the rest of the world a top security official from the russian government has been in seoul and has been briefing the south korean government just on putin's goals in holding this summit

and also expanding more on what putin has meant by russia possibly in conjunction with china becoming more involved in dialogue with north korea the view from south korea is that while they want to know more details about what that might involve the most important thing for south korea is the resumption of this top down dialogue between north korea and the u.s. that for south koreans has achieved the most success in trying to move towards denuclearization and that any other initiatives must be cold war denatured with that an envoy from south korea is ready to go up to north korea when the time is right to try to find any common ground that might lead the way for another summit between south korean leader moon j.n. and kim jong un their fourth summit which hopefully could pave the way for a resumption of dialogue between north korea and the u.s.

. the french president emanuel mccraw is huge make a major policy speech which could some of the demands and think yellow vests protesters the president spent months meeting local mayors and members of the public to try to resolve the protests yellow vest campaigners have been on the streets for months now calling for action. on a wide range of issues surrounding social inequality live for us in paris is our correspondent natasha. so this will be the culmination of this national dialogue that the president embarked on a people confident about the process i mean did he speak to the right people do they think. well i think the french president probably think that he spoke to the right people i mean what we're expecting here at the least say is for a man or market to reveal a raft of new policies aging for him trying to address people's concerns in france over social inequality in a sense amongst many that they feel simply shut out of

a political system they say politicians they don't understand and they are from the leaves and they don't understand their concerns so we're expecting court to come up with some policies such as tax cuts for the middle classes reducing the number of m.p.'s in parliament even scrapping all reorganizing france's most famous political administration school called n. owhere many government ministers have studied because many people in france see it as a bastion of elitism now a man or my core is revealing these policies saying they're based on the findings of the grand debate that was an initiative he launched back in january in order to try and give people an opportunity to air their grievances to talk about their concerns in town hall meetings up and down the country and online the idea being that perhaps this was the best way to approach people's concerns rather than see these constant so protests in the streets by the yellow vest protesters now whether

or not. policies today will quell the movement and the protests of course remains to be seen but that's certainly his aim all right for now natasha about that thank you very much indeed of course will bring you the result of that speech here at al-jazeera. now south africa's president is promising government help to rebuild the lives of flood a mudslide victims cyril ramaphosa has been assessing the damage for himself in and around the city of at least sixty people have been killed many others have lost their homes more heavy rain and go full swims a forecast for the eastern cape region. has more from pinetown south africa risky efforts are ongoing but they are part of the reason is because the landscape in some places has completely changed for example this water wasn't here a few days ago a piece of land with

a few houses on it and some house there were in this area were swept away by the violent waters we're told that they are rescue teams in and around this area body was recovered a few hours ago and they are now currently looking for an elderly woman who's been missing for a couple of days no one knows whether she is alive or dead but they are looking for using sniffer dogs and people from the military the police and divers as well the main concern now of course is helping people who've been displaced many are staying in community holes but they need things like blankets food medication they are getting some of that but they still need more to come in officials say they worry that some people are becoming increasingly frustrated believing the safety of community who is coming back to areas and going into houses like this trying to look after the few positions that are still inside because they're frayed those positions could be stored and that's another challenge officials are facing but right now the priority is finding people who may still be alive who may still be stranded who need help and of course that's going to be increasing difficult

because of the rough terrain in some areas and if it does start raining again a soldiers are worried there could be more displacement and more landslides. still to come here in the al-jazeera news as being the worst kept secret in washington but now it's official joe biden is running for president. and the rockets on fire in the playoffs peta will have an n.b.a. action in sport. had i most of the cold air that was around only a week ago is just about gone now so even though you see a northerly breeze coming down through the caspian after western russia was still talking about temperatures in the teens so sixteen in terran is a result maybe that for twenty in baku and pleasingly if you're in turkey or in

syria temperatures are on the rise as they please and they because of being cold and wet fairly recently well there's a potential for showers here in turkey as you can see on saturday we're still talking about pretty warm weather for the most part clear skies try to around seventeen in toronto particularly warm if you never asked afghanistan it's just up in the northeast where it could be cloudy enough for a shower or two so dress picture temperatures rising to be expected this small finally is drawing down its strength of the time we get to friday's a temperature rise in bahrain you a qatar the cloud indicated here on the return of this wind could well develop into words too big showers in the saudis somewhere meccas held short of forty and the cloud extends across to bahrain and qatar on saturday but the wind has more or less disappeared. the heavy rain of light around durban isn't going to be repeated in fact as you watch the rain is forming when off shore breeze off shore.

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a long and healthy life on al-jazeera. coverage to take a look at the top stories here in the al-jazeera news our defense secretary has resigned at the president's request following sunday's suicide bombings that killed three hundred fifty nine people at least seventy nine suspects have been arrested so far the red cross says residential parts of libya's capital. attorney battlefields. warning hospitals are struggling with power cuts and chronic shortages of medical supplies. pressure on the army by calling for

a large rally demanding a civilian government three senior members of the ruling military council accused of cracking down on protesters resigned on wednesday. there's no word on when or if the military will hand over power to civilians. the former us vice president joe biden has finally. to be the democratic party nominee for the twenty twenty presidential election in a video announcement by the u.s. in a battle for the soul of the nation he was referencing the racism and violence seen in charlottesville virginia in twenty seventeen he's up against nineteen other democratic hopefuls including elizabeth warren and bernie sanders let's go live now to our white house correspondent. so he joins a very crowded field in the end i think is around seventy six so the question is really the right man for the democratic party now. well the

democratic party members will decide that it's going to be a challenge for joe biden let's talk about some of his vulnerabilities it's not just his age of being seventy six but it's the fact that as the democratic party has become younger more diverse and the candidate pool has also become more diverse there are more women joe biden is neither of those things so it's not just his age it's also the fact that he's sort of an older white man that many in the party view as being kind of the establishment democrat that essentially allowed donald trump to be elected i mean this was the the challenge for hillary clinton although she was female she was viewed as being sort of out of touch with the democratic party of today and this is something that joe biden be very close to the clintons being barack obama's vice president for eight years that he's going to have to challenge but it's interesting with his announcement video the fact that he is using the

issue of charlottesville and the white supremacist rally that took place there in twenty seventeen he is confronting his vulnerability head on essentially saying look at i may look like a lot a lot like donald trump but my views are starkly different whereas donald trump blamed the violence on both sides joe biden says that he believes it was firmly in one camp versus the other so this is the challenge for joe biden at the same time while he has been picking up indorsements it is notable that well he was barack obama's vice president his office and through brock obama spokes person they have certainly praised joe biden with this announcement but he has stopped short of endorsing him and i mean he has has consistently kept up the image of being the blue collar man the man the ordinary people like he's an affable fellow but there has been have been a bit of a scandal surrounding him with regard to allegations of inappropriate behavior.

yeah he's going to have to answer to all of that with political experience comes a voting record that now can be scrutinized and perhaps some of those choices now look a little out of touch out of date with the modern voter for example given the fact that he was not only vice president he was also a senator he's going to be criticized for some of the decisions he made involving the appointment and the approval of clarence thomas to the supreme court and the need to hill hearings his views on abortion in the past have come under scrutiny and you brought up the most recent example his sort of gregarious. i'm having trouble saying this right on television about his book arius nature. with women if you will it's haunting him and he had to confront it even before his announcement and say i recognize times have changed yeah they sure have and women don't like the sort of friendly uncle joe many saw it as creepy so this is something that he's

going to have to address it's not going to be easy for him and again there's also that more progressive wing that leans towards bernie sanders another senator who of course was very popular in the last presidential race he's going to have to challenge that as well to to say look at i'm not the establishment democrat nor am i this out of touch old man that many of the younger voters think i am all right kimberly thanks for about kimberly how to live in washington all right now we can speak to john jones is a former congressional advisor and he's also joining us from washington do you think joe biden can make his time lucky's already tried twice before never managed to get the democratic nomination. well hopefully for vice president biden the third time will be a charm if you're supporting him or you're on his campaign i think what president biden does have is the movie rarity with the experience of actually running

a presidential campaign the last two times he quite honestly failed tragically in his attempt but he with that comes more experience right now in over the last two months vice president biden has been the most popular candidate in the race but now that he has cleared the challenge will be will he remain the most popular candidate definitely be the top target. sorry i'm sorry for interrupting but i guess it's a matter isn't it of the democratic party has got to work out what is best line of attack is to defeat donald trump next time around yes you hit the nail on the head a lot of democratic voters right now are in a position where they're going to have to decide between an imperfect candidate or ally and an absolute political opponent and that means do you want to elect somebody who is in

a good position to take on donald trump mobilize the base and win notwithstanding challenge and both are challenging statements that that candidate might have made in the past and you're going to have to decide who is the best candidate to actually bring about a winning coalition of progressive voters moderate and centrist voters as well as independents well i'm just wondering whether it will be of of not significance next time around in twenty twenty the fact that he comes from pennsylvania which of course was one of those states that hillary clinton lost by a tiny knowledge and that swung and whether that kind of constituencies what the democratic party needs to be targeting for the twenty twenty. yes it depends who you ask james carville former political current political strategist would say pennsylvania is philadelphia pittsburgh and alabama in the middle joe biden from scranton pennsylvania the middle or alabama section of pennsylvania he really gets

those voters a number of whom voted for president obama in two thousand and eight in two thousand and twelve so goes that region may go elements within michigan minnesota and wisconsin who vice president biden may definitely be able to reach the challenges of understanding that the democratic electorate is a little bit different than the electorate that's on twitter so voters are going to have to decide who can be trump as opposed to who can win the contest of who's the most what absolutely and also women of course women and the way they vote matters a great deal in u.s. elections we've already made reference to this. allegation of inappropriate behavior with women as a scandal which clouded him for a little while do you think he's overcome that or is that something that might make him look like something of

a relic of the past. that question will be answered on the campaign how he responds to these questions when they come forth and quite frankly how women voters vote in the polls something to consider is that in two thousand and sixteen hillary clinton lost white female voters right now the challenge will be i think in terms of looking at the base of the democratic party it is african-american woman joe biden is polling right now though it's very early above cory booker and come on harris to two african-american candidates in the race i think the real sweet spot is going to be where does vice president biden do in terms of how does he do in terms of connecting with african-american democratic female voters in this campaign don't get your tickets to. thank you. mexican immigration agents have detained more than three hundred migrants have

attempted to cross a the into the u.s. this week is the biggest raid carried out in more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico large groups of migrants have been trying to get to the u.s. through mexico over the past year the mexican interior ministry reckons that around three hundred thousand migrants have tried to cross the u.s. border within the past three months mexico is under increasing pressure from the u.s. to do something about it let's go live now to our correspondent manwell. who is in the mexican state of how that's close to the border with guatemala so therefore the message. quite keen i'm i'm i'm sure to show you that they're trying to do something about this because the pressure is mounting on them and mexico is the three passage to the united states isn't that.

that's right it sort of make a quick correction we're in the mexican state of chiapas in the town of just about two hundred kilometers north of the mexico guatemala border where we were told that when we arrived yesterday that migrants who were part of that initial caravan that you mentioned martin that had been broken up by mexican authorities were taking refuge in this town here into what you see behind me is actually what's left of that caravan this group of three thousand people that's been broken up at this point what we're hearing from people on the ground here is a lot of confusion a lot of fear a lot of uncertainty not knowing what their next steps are going to be where they're going to go next asking us what route to take of course we don't know and we wouldn't know what to what to tell them if if we could but to answer your question about mexican authorities showing a sort of different tone toward migrants that's absolutely the case even though we're hearing from mexican. in mexico city that the policy toward migrants hasn't

changed that they're taking a humanitarian approach is their number one priority the reality on the ground is very different the images that we've seen from that raid where over three hundred migrants were captured and detained a very different story the majority of the demographic makeup of the migrants that we're seeing here we're seeing a lot in the news will number of mothers with children mothers that are pregnant traveling by themselves those that were part of that initial group three thousand people that have been broken up we actually don't know where a majority of them went and we know that somewhere around three hundred seventy five of them were detained the rest ran off they ran out into the into the bush we actually don't know where they are the people that are here and tell us that even though they don't know where they're heading next that several families have already started making their way north from here heading north alternately their goal is to reach that southern border of the united states. a man well i mean it's important to point out at this point that there is a kind of

a triangle of desperation if you like el salvador guatemala and honduras people simply leaving fear with their lives because of this because of the extreme abject poverty they don't often have a choice do they but meanwhile the trumpet ministration has decided to cut the age to these countries making the situation there. you hit the nail on the head there are more teen what you're referring to that northern triangle salvador guatemala and honduras majority of the migrants so we're encountering that are part of these this phenomenon the migrant caravans is made up almost predominantly of honduran citizens you mentioned that president donald trump announced cutting aid to these countries we've heard overwhelmingly from immigration expert that that is not the case that this money is invaluable to to improving the conditions in these countries you mentioned extreme poverty high levels of violence and of course governor. corruption which is what's responsible

for driving these people out of these countries and into mexico and ultimately into the united states so when we hear these threats from president all trump against mexico for mexico to do more to stem the flow of migrants heading north there aren't any specifics other than a policy of contention a policy that does nothing to to improve the lives of these people in their home countries to dissuade them from wanting to leave and not want to return to their countries in the first place or to. talking to us live from chap us in mexico thank you now iraq fears it's being caught in the middle of the u.s. campaign against neighboring iran among the sanctions imposed by the u.s. with the recent blacklisting of iran's revolutionary guard calling it a terrorist organization but some iraqis have close ties with that organization also jabari has the story from the iraqi capital baghdad this is the town of eighty five kilometers north of baghdad and looming over a main road

a poster of brigadier general hamid to harvey one of the most senior commanders in their reign in revolutionary guards he was killed her by nice a sniper in december two thousand and fourteen fifty five year olds have used the most senior member of iran's armed forces to die outside its borders since the iran iraq war of the one nine hundred eighty s. . after the feet of eisel in mosul many of its fighters move south and circled this town in the hopes of capturing it and eventually getting to baghdad that's when the iraqi government asked for help a call answered by iran's revolutionary guards this statue was baited by locals a year after death. salah hosseini is a senior commander with iraq's popular mobilisation front here in baghdad and fought against eisel the. it's nothing new that the u.s. keeps interfering against the islamic resistance the us is trying to divide iraq from iran but it will not be able to iraq and iran are considered one body with one

leadership it is impossible for america to split apart iraq and iran because iran helped us fight i saw and no one can deny that fact. iranian officials have designated the us military as a terrorist group in response to a similar us move against the revolutionary guards that makes an already complicated situation in iraq even more so there are just over five thousand u.s. troops in iraq and they will be here for the forseeable future we have good relations with both. with the americans and with the iranians are going to have to go through the. efforts to ease and come down the situation is not in the interest of any of the parties. not united states not iran not iraq not the region has a horse so we are going to the border. of foods to use things and things iraq has a long and complicated history with iran trade between the two countries is worth

over thirteen billion dollars annually iraq is also heavily reliant on iranian gas to fuel its electricity grid the influence of iran is revolutionary guards here is in an advisory role according to officials and that's not likely to change anytime soon which means the iraqi government has a find a way to balance both its relationship with the united states and the islamic republic of iran and how that works out could have repercussions across the middle east doors as a pari al-jazeera baghdad. that according to scientists a catastrophic breeding failure is now take. place after thousands of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out three years ago the british antarctic survey says the emperor chicks drowned when the sea ice they were being raised on was destroyed by severe weather in twenty sixteen since then researches a found the virgin nothing's hatched at halle berry a which is the second biggest

emperor penguin breeding site in antartica well filtration is a penguin ecologist at the british antarctic survey behind this research and he explains why holiday was considered a safe breeding ground for the emperor penguins the colony is between a fourteen thousand and twenty four thousand breeding pairs so it's a big colony it's equivalent to about eight or nine percent of the global population so it's a significant colony however we've seen in the past that sometimes you get a complete failure at some colonies we know that colonies move so that's not what is interesting about this observation what is unique about this is that this colony is deep in the world will say it's in an area where we expect to stay colder as the world warms so it's an area which we can think of as

a refuge for and preparing winds so if in the refuges very are also vulnerable to severe storm of events and that means those safe places aren't as safe as we had previously thought. thank you.

i'm in his forty's now with peter martin thank you very much two of the biggest

names in athletics are locked in a bitter dispute four time in the picture for a claims he was robbed at a hotel owned by ethiopia's a legendary runner haile gebrselassie and that not enough was done to help him but give us a lesson he has hit back accusing for a of assault and defaming his business and reputation david stokes reports. what should have been a straightforward promotion day for the london marathon was and to think but after most far up without any prompting decided to talk about something that happened during his training camp and the train is going to well i never figured there was a slightly bigger problem with my tele stated in ethiopia this is the berg who broke into farah claims money a watch and two phones were taken from his room at a hotel owned by haile gebrselassie he felt the ethiopian great should have done more to help get his property back. to tell one it was very disappointing to know

someone who has the tone kind of support couldn't do nothing and now the analysis like they couldn't do nothing so it's just disappointing i like say. ok ok well it's a much better. ok. when i'm ok thank you. all could exchange did not go down well with gabe or selassie back in ethiopia he says the theft was fully investigated and that fire had turned down the use of a safe he also revealed text messages that he claims were sent to him from farah threatening to bad mouth him at the press conference in london selassie says it was premeditated and a clear attempt at blackmail he told me before he left he told me how to. destroy. this. massive. selassie described her as conduct during his stay is disgraceful

even alleging that he attacked a married couple at the hotel gym and that it was him that convinced police not to press charges he also says far left without paying his three thousand dollars hotel bill farah denies these claims but gave her selassie says he intends to take legal action years even as possible whenever he is he has to be responsible. with a potential legal battle on the horizon farah must now do his best to focus on the job at hand this weekend winning the london marathon to do that he'll need to beat the defending champion and world record holder elliott keep choky david stokes zero there corelli organizers unveiled the route for next year's race which will take place in saudi arabia competitors will start in the country's second largest city jeddah and travel nine thousand kilometers across the desert to finish in could be

close to rio the prestigious race was staged in africa up until eleven years ago when terror threats all the events switched to south america saudi arabia has been given a five year deal to host the red. the defending champion. is confident saudi arabia's blockade of carter won't prevent him from competing next year because our driver says the race is good for the middle east. i will try to go to defend my title you know because i don't want to mix. sport than politic you know i think i hope we don't have any problems you know. when we go to saudi arabia i think sport is completely different from political but ok from my side i am really happy you know to to have a dakar because i when the free times you know i am only one of their the arab region when this race you know. twenty twenty.

i will start fairly scary you know in this race i hope. the politic can fix you know before to go to that and so there are twenty twenty two would be fantastic you know to have this race in our region you know and to defend my title in order this is my my dream i will push myself you know to win the fairest race here in our region so the. sign for five years and ok they're fairly serious will be completely unnecessary get abia but second year i am sure it will be different different place will be two or three country you know. what a dream to see here in. a dramatic finish in the n.h.l. playoffs all the defending stanley cup champions knocked out in the first round the

carolina hurricanes beat the washington capitals four three on wednesday with a goal in double overtime. clinching the match and the series to stop the celebrations among the canes players will face the new york islanders in the second round. the used in rocket surged into the second round of the n.b.a. playoffs on wednesday james harden school twenty six points as they beat the utah jazz one hundred ninety three to give the rockets a four one series when used to now await the winners between the l.a. clippers and defending champions golden state the clippers kept their hopes alive will win over the warriors. to. return as action continues at the barcelona open with eleven time champion rafa nadal through to the quarter finals after a win over veteran david ferrer meanwhile two time former champion kenya to korea japan is into the last eight after his victory over felix o'shea earlier seem on thursday for proving too good for the canadian teenager winning it in straight. and

women's world number one soccer made winning start to her clay court season at the porsche grand prix in stuttgart she taiwan's cac away in straight sets six zero six three on thursday to move into the quarterfinals of soccer has won two grand slam titles but it's been through a tournament through. liverpool manager you're going to lapses nobody is thinking about next week's champions league semifinal against barcelona ahead of friday's english premier league game with huddersfield but the who are still in contention for both trophies and club is keeping his team focused. things people think about the game is already enough preparation joe will not. push that wrong mindset with. but french line up well whatever old no chance for that we had enough time to recover after last game we have enough time to recover for the next game nothing no barcelona's nothing to do with the game on friday night ok

well even if a normal sport on the way again later monte thank you very much peter and thank you for joining us for this al-jazeera news hour be back in a moment or two with much more of the daisies including the latest from counting to stay with us. he put up your own record on this trouble in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a two state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we all see already i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been tallied feel the world is watching why there's

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presidency you know is that the truth was for instance but and we all know today. is the cold war going on with the interesting case return of a president on al-jazeera. that's. true lanka's defense secretary resigns as more raids and arrests take place in the aftermath of the easter sunday attack. hello again on. live from doha also coming up the red cross warns that populated residential areas in the libyan capital a turning into

a battle for you. into don protests has refused to back down from their demands for immediate civilian rule and more demonstrators are gathering in the capital. why are you to have trade would. be limited. was the worst kept secret in washington but now it's official joe biden is running for president. defense secretary has resigned following sunday's suicide bombings that killed three hundred fifty nine people security services remain on high alert the u.s. and the u.k. a warning against going to sri lanka unless it is absolutely necessary there warning of the possibility of more attacks speaking to al jazeera the prime minister. says some suspects are still at large. a number of

people have been taken in i'm sorry i cannot disclose the number but yes some are on the run and the third found them remain for the first use to round up those people we have to admit the failure in intelligence the breakdown in the flow of information. and that's one of the matter that are being investigated even in regard to the numbers of dead while the police have stored at the three hundred fifty the health ministry said it's more about two hundred sixty so i've asked them to verify the numbers and let me know how you did to the shock i mean if not for the lab says many of them would be alive today our correspondent in the sri lankan capital colombo is florence lilly. armed patrols random searches the increased security can be seen everywhere on the streets of colombo as the hunt goes on for

anyone involved in sunday's attacks it's not just the police and the army but the navy an afro mobilized to a limited state of emergency has been enforced since tuesday giving security forces greater powers to detain and interrogate further details of those emergency powers are emerging among them is censorship of the media and internet and limiting the right of assembly the why did powers given to authorities are reminiscent of what happened during twenty six years of civil war the fighting ended ten years ago but sri lanka is again on edge arrests have been made and a bomb scare in the capital cost a lockdown at the central bank and the road leading to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagoda forty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo will not hold sunday mosque this weekend

because of security threat and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinema in grand hotel although police have not named the bombers they have said they come from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and. it saddens me that. my neighbors have done this. on all of us sri lanka's police and security forces are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence nearly. three weeks into the fight for control of the libyan capital and b international committee of the red cross has warned residential areas of tripoli of gradually turning the. battlefields the agency says hospitals are struggling with shortages of medical supplies along with power outages and more than thirty thousand people are said to

have fled their homes and are sheltering with relatives or even in public buildings well robert algebra five is a spokeswoman for the international committee of the red cross and red crescent societies she says civilians and their property needs to be spared from the fighting. depending on the areas it can be more difficult i speak with my colleagues in tripoli every day we have committed colleagues that are working on the ground so libyan colleagues even some of them have told me that they've had friends or relatives that are on able to leave their neighborhoods because of ongoing fighting so so it can be pretty difficult and unsafe for people to move out and this is where again we remind the parties to the conflict. that fighting in densely populated areas in urban areas in civilian areas. the

damages should be minimized a civilian should be protected their properties should be protected essential infrastructure should be protected also were fighting is taking place right now there are power cuts and this could potentially get worse so we were in a room mind to avoid as much as possible spare the civilian population and their properties from the fighting and of course guarantee that they can leave the area their area safely should they wish to or and that they have access to essential humanitarian needs or. have to mobilize the largest military campaign since the toppling of gadhafi eight years ago so who's funding him the rival government in the eastern city of tobruk is a major backer and reuters financial analysts say the top government raises money through a mixture of unofficial bonds cash printed in russia and deposits from government controlled banks so far have to accumulated debt of more than twenty five billion

dollars a looming banking crisis could undermine the east ability to fund itself three banks are struggling to meet their financial obligations and saudi arabia is one of have to arab backers but some prefer to give help in kind rather than cash well i've been speaking to many a car use a political analyst he says have will need continuing support from his allies. it's a very pressing issue for have to but a very complicated issue for international actors the u.n. sanctions and the un resolution of one hundred seventy three die came out in two thousand and eleven and any import or purchasing of weapons from libya or for other states to trade or to provide any military assistance in that form and that has complicated the relationship between many other.

governments or actors working with him what we know is despite that relations sustain on wednesday the timmy had a doctor's office was in russia attending the moscow high profile meeting organized by the defense ministry and international security. where he where he said we are looking to increase military operations which russia the nature of the militia operations is unknown will it be in kind will it be because we know that over the last two years russia has provided printed. hard currency and has provided forms of forms of support to how was operations in the east to what degree will move forward it's it's not

a surprise if that increases we know that russia has vetoed the recent un security council resolutions on ceasefire and the cease fire in libya. purchase leaders in sudan of increased pressure on the army by calling for a large rally a million person rally demanding a civilian government. as i say they're hoping for a million people to congregate three senior members of the ruling military council accuse of cracking down on protesters resigned on wednesday and the council says it's reached a deal or most of the protesters demands but so far we've got no word exactly as to when the military will hand power over to civilians. now we can speak to. a friend he's professor of politics at the doha institute for graduate studies and that's the point i want to ask you first about. we've had the three resignations.

is the military council actually acting in good faith can we trust the military council to be honest and and good in terms of their intentions at this point i think. the military council has been more or less open about what was actually just a few weeks ago i heard that they made a statement saying that they want to give the civilians executive power but they will continue what they call sovereign power questions means that they will have. the same way it happened in one thousand nine hundred five where there was a military council which was like a presidency and there was a civilian governments which was helpful exerted for. the. civilians at the moment don't accept this. they want to have false or very

empowered to have legislative power and to have except for what about control of the vital security ministries which seems to also be a sticking point that the ministry of defense and ministry of interior for instance i think from the agreement they had reached for the first time that the military and the police will control these these ministries now i don't know what happened since then that were the first i think probably now that i agree the the proposal from the military is to to give full powers including them in this series of defense and security to the to the civilians but they said they want to maintain what they call sovereign power. this is this is likely to be negotiated it's a matter of negotiation because they're already formed a committee. which should jointly agree on names of.

for example a prime minister and any other council they do but there is a sticking point i think there is at the moment no understating from the meeting that they will give complete inability to power to these new guys because nobody has been elected yet right do you think that security concerns issues of national security internal security do you think that they need to remain. under the aegis of the professionals i mean for instance i mean sudan is in or it is in a fairly rough neighborhood isn't it i think that's one of the consideration that has been raised but i think the worry off of the military is more internal security the extent of security there are quite a large number of armed groups who are still active. there is a still so.