one hundred people have been killed and around thirty nine thousand have fled all day the international committee of the red cross describe some residential areas as battlefields. this as doctors about all day has released a video of a raid on the us that have been a series detention center have those forces there accused of storming the facility south of tripoli on tuesday and beating migrants and refugees who were protesting about the conditions there at least two people were killed and twenty injured. and thousands of libyans have take to the streets in tripoli and misrata to condemn the offensive by forces loyal to twenty five to mahmud up to why it has more on this now from tripoli. here in the main square in the libyan capital libyans have come out to condemn what they call the military aggression by have the forces on the capital tripoli also in other cities on the west of libya including the city of misrata libyans have taken to the streets to condemn the military

escalation but this is the third friday in a row since the military escalation is started on april fourth the protesters here say that they are calling on the international community including the united nations and they reappear in union to put pressure on have to stop the military escalation on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital the protesters here today are also condemning targeting get his attention areas especially after the u.n. or the kidneys the government accused have the forces of committing war crimes by targeting the residential areas and killing innocent civilians including women and children the now denouncing what they call the military rule they say that have to want to impose the military rule in the west of the country here there are

portraits of international leaders and the protesters here today are blaming these leaders for what they call supporting the military campaign led by the world cup if i have to the protesters here today say that they will continue protesting here every friday until have those forces move back to the east of the country. united nations has warned of massive flooding over the next ten days in mozambique as a second powerful storm lashes the country psycho kenneth has destroyed homes and killed at least three people just six weeks after the deadly cyclone tens of thousands of people were evacuated the world meteorological organization says it's the strongest cyclon to hit the region in recorded history well earlier we spoke to matthew carter communications coordinator with the red cross he says like kenneth has destroyed most of the houses in one district the country's north and more heavy

rain is forecast. well in one district for example. local mozambique red cross volunteers at least on the ground there say something like ninety percent of houses to be destroyed are the same as an urgent need for tents for food for water . nine districts in the north most problems of mozambique are without power so we're still ascertaining what level of damages. as hits but. yeah i mean that the first news the first occasion this isn't good from the area the forecast is for a prolonged period of rain heavy rains over northern mozambique and you know what we what we worry about most is landslides is flooding in the short term and also borne disease which we saw. that we still cholera in bearer after the first cycle and so those are the immediate concerns we have. as well still ahead for you on the program the biggest mass escape in recent memory

a mexican detention center is at least thirteen hundred microns managed to flame and china's president seeks to ease fears over his belt and road project connecting asia to europe and a form attended by thirty seven wildly. color although most of the weather in australia settle down to the seasonal norm of his pokey showers recently in queens of the sort that line just goes through there in the time of seven hundred seventy ninety nine millimeters in the last twenty four hours huge amount of rain for such a small place i think you might see worse or more what not that many and it's the same to the science look at the temperatures now would act as teens the high teens if you're lucky but the teens all the same which is really colder than the to be even for now pursed as better first of the twenty six degrees in the sunshine that

breeze of the interior and hangs on to the for a couple of days no change elsewhere if you're in tasmania expect the western windy weather and fifteen degrees which is on its way towards new zealand's this whole circulation here has been affecting tasmania will be affecting the south island first of all by rain across after that it'll get colder so eighteen degrees ahead of that rain in wellington twenty in sunny weather in oakland the rain itself isn't followed by showers and a cold wind sixteen still in wellington but if you further south don't expect that sort of large yes rain and surprisingly cool weather still the or the day mostly thought all of japan thirteen in turkey. on counseling the call says the u.s. slams the brakes on iran's oil exports will try the spillover effect also have

a secret world of high risk lending in parts the poor in a sting operation to catch a spy what's a play for control of the next generation of mobile counting the cost on al-jazeera . welcome back a brief look at headlines a curfew has been imposed and trying to after a gun battle broke out during a raid on suspects involved in easter sunday suicide attacks more than two hundred fifty people were killed in the multiple bombings saddam's transitional military

council is denying reports that foreign ministers and members of the ruling party have been freed from jail thousands of people held friday present outside the army headquarters of hard to in their latest show of opposition to military rule. and protesters in algeria keeping up the pressure there on remnants of the political regime tens of thousands rallied in algiers on the tenth consecutive friday of protests demanding the departure of the ruling elite and an end to corruption. well in all the stories we've been following today at least thirteen hundred maybe cuban migrants have staged the biggest mass escape in recent memory from a mexican detention center the migrants escaped on foot from the top achiness center in the south of the country on the border with the tamala. many had complained of overcrowding insufficient food and unsanitary conditions but half of them are ten voluntarily we've now about six hundred reported to still be on the loose it's the third time since october that migrants at the center of rioted

against the conditions that mine iraq paula has more now from the detention center into a trailer. we're at a migrant detention facility in southern mexico operated by the national institute for migration this is the scene where one thousand three hundred migrants predominantly cuban migrants managed to escape from this facility an unprecedented if it vent even though in the past there have been moments of protest and and borderline riots where migrants have complained about overcrowded news complained about the living conditions this is actually the largest migrant detention facility in all of latin america not only mexico this was a facility designed for somewhere around one thousand migrants and we know that one thousand three hundred escaped last night so there are there is reason to believe that it was at twice its capacity now this is a situation that is certainly unprecedented for mexican authorities but it's almost emblematic of the problem that's going on in mexico with this influx of migrants not only from central america we've seen these flows of of migrants in caravans

coming up from central america but now from other regions we know from cuba from haiti and even from parts of africa in the congo so this is something that the mexican government is having a very hard time they're struggling to find ways to cope with this and it's and it's certainly a point of embarrassment for the mexican government. and i think states has ramped up its pressure on venezuela by imposing sanctions on the country's foreign minister the u.s. treasury department says all of american assets will be blocked as well as those of a venezuelan judge it's the latest move by washington aimed at ousting president nicolas maduro and his government meanwhile a venezuelan opposition politician has been arrested in caracas the opposition controlled national assembly says it was detained by intelligence agents are violating parliamentary immunity karo was also arrested in two thousand and seventeen accused of passing an revolt against nicolas maduro.

now top united nations official say that more international support is desperately needed to help almost a million rand forced to flee. they've been visiting refugee camps in bangladesh which are home to the hundreds of thousands who fled in late two thousand and sixteen during a brutal crackdown by myanmar's army the u.n. is hoping to raise nearly a billion dollars in humanitarian aid china's president has been defending his controversial belton road initiative at the opening of a major summit in beijing xi jinping is infrastructure scheme has come under fire facade linked to spend countries with unsustainable levels of debt in return for poorly managed projects katrina you brings us the story now from beijing. one of the world's most powerful leaders making a powerful entrance chinese president xi jinping arriving at the builtin road summit flanked by almost forty heads of state in front of government representatives for more than one hundred countries. in his opening address

president xi said he would work to ensure the controversial project connecting asia to europe africa and beyond. would be sustainable green and provide growth for all those taking part. in the new initiative has helped people's lives in the countries involved in creating opportunities for common purdie he rejected criticism that the costs involved would loose some countries into levels of debt they would find almost impossible to pay back estimates put the bill for the long list of infrastructure projects at close to one trillion dollars there are pipelines ports bridges and railways all designed to improve trading links. courage put his printing company to follow general international rules and standards in project among those attending a key supporters of the initiative russian president vladimir putin and pakistani

prime minister imran khan but china's biggest trading partner the united states has not sent a delegation washington officials say the bolton road initiative is a vanity project which comes with too many strings attached. china has dismissed the u.s. as concerns as western resistance to china's growth but there's also been criticism of the road scheme from inside the country which to distance questioning whether china a developing country itself can really afford to be spending so much money. export import bank says one hundred forty nine billion dollars has so far been burned out to support some of the developments. analysts say the scheme is a long term investment the china. we need to make money on the we need new markets so it's wrong to say we're giving aid to other countries this is not the case this money is an investment. during the first bolton road forum in twenty seventeen

government backed videos dominated social media but is scrutiny mounts stilling the scheme is no longer that simple. a joint communiqué will be released with all eyes on president xi to see how he will deliver on his promise to ensure the project benefits not just china but all involved between e.u. al-jazeera beijing u.s. president donald trump has denied claims that he paid north korea two million dollars for the return of american student auto won't be a trump was responding to reports in thursday's washington post that said he authorized the payment of a huge build a model by pyongyang to cover won't be his medical care the student entered a coma in north korea after being detained and tortured for moving a propaganda poster from a wall during a trip there he died after his return to the united states wrote on twitter that he had never paid money for any hostage in other developments

a russian woman who admitted to being a kremlin spy has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states maria bettina pleaded guilty in december to conspiracy and infiltrating the n.r.a. gun lobby to influence republicans and conservative u.s. activists a judge also ordered between it be deported back to russia after completing a jail term. on sunday spain will vote for its third parliament in less than five years oh single party is expected to secure a majority but all eyes are firmly on the rising far right with many spaniards undecided it's thought there could be a surgeon support for the vox party which is aligned to the far right movement emerging across europe and that could make it the kingmaker for a right wing coalition. planes from seville. was. bursting on to the political scene vox and its leader santiago of our skull are spain's answer

to a surge in far right populism elsewhere in europe often seen as mainstream media shy the party prefers to communicate with its supporters in person and online the major themes immigration and nationalism. who is santiago of us go asks this whatsapp campaign video his grandmother explains that as a child in his native bilbao the proudly spanish of a skull was bullied by basque separatists on the playground today it is separatism in catalonia that box and of a skull stand against the party's most passionate battle call is for the unity of spain vox is clearly using very very true spanish feeling think you meant in present in spence invokes use this feeling this n t independence is course in in spain to gain votes and do it all very successfully that one frequent vox promises to make spain great again if you think you recognize it this

might be why steve brown and donald trump's former chief strategist is a strong supporter seen here with a prominent vox official. there's also a familiar ring to the party's nostalgic appeal to the traditions of the past among its policies for instance is restoring bullfighting to what it says is its rightful place as a grand spanish institution vox bears the hallmarks of far right populism those are labels your party rejects so how do you see vox how does vox c. itself. help out the other. votes as a party of common sense many say we are a necessary party for one main reason because we're the only party that openly confronts cattle and separatism the only party that opposes the divisions created by regional autonomy and the only party that confronts the ideology of the left it was only last december that fox emerged from political obscurity winning

a surprise twelve seats in the regional parliament of under here in seville and becoming kingmaker in a three way coalition of the political right in regional government well many people wonder whether vox can do it again only this time at a national level. spain everything for spain comes the cry from the podium. was there her journal al-jazeera seville. a british and irish governments its resume talks ever store in northern ireland's devolved government which has been in political limbo for more than two years the move was spurred by the death of journalist lawyer in the case shot during rioting in the city of london derry last week the u.k. prime minister to resign may and her irish counterpart leo veronica attended her funeral on wednesday they put out a joint statement saying northern ireland needs a new human mentor and the political progress and calling for action from political leaders. well police have released pictures of the gunman suspected of killing

their mccabe they say it's likely to be a teenager and a once again urging the local community to identify him separatist group the new ira says it shot mckay by accident while opening fire on police. while you can get the latest on our top stories there is also comments analysis and video on demand right here the addresses that al-jazeera dot com. just a quick look at the top stories for you now the fear of more attacks continues to plague sure langkow where muslims were to stay at home for friday prayers and sunday masses have been canceled indefinitely so far more than seventy people have been arrested over the easter sunday attacks which killed more than two hundred fifty people earlier a gun battle broke out as the security forces raided a property in the eastern city of

a curfew has been imposed across the area saddam's military council has denied reports that four ministers and members of the ruling party have been freed from jail such a move would anger the thousands of people who held friday prayers out side army headquarters in hard to manipulate his show of opposition to military rule. meanwhile over in algeria protesters they're continuing to keep up the pressure on remnants of the political regime that was led by the former president bill as these beautifully tens of thousands of people rallied in algiers on the tenth consecutive friday of protests demanding the departure of the ruling elite and an end to corruption so fucking up what we did all of them will be gone and they will be judged and the money of the properties will all go back to the people so that's what we're looking for we don't want them just to lead we want to be judged so that's what we want to learn over there they do the there's this corrupt system is playing a dangerous game my dear brothers algerian people we must remain united i swear to

god if we separate because of risk as i'm originalism i swear the system will not only last for years but it will last for centuries and we will go back to marginalize editions corruption and the abuse of power the united nations says rockets and mortar shells have hit residential neighborhoods in the libyan capital tripoli is now the target of an offensive by warlord who is trying to take the city from the u.n. recognize government of libya. also the united nations has warned of massive flooding over the next ten days in mozambique after a second powerful storm hit the country site claimed kenneth has destroyed homes and killed at least three people just six weeks after the deadly cyclone tens of thousands of people were evacuated before it hit world meteorological organization says this is the strongest cyclon to hit the region in recorded history and that brings you up to date with all of the top stories this hour coming up next on al-jazeera it's counting the cost.

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could be at risk in our case study from mozambique plus unbreakable glass mysteriously shattered and a sting operation to catch a spy that's how competitive the world of mobile communications has become the vested interests and players jockey for control. so we're looking at the oil markets this week one of those economic factors which affects almost everywhere in the world regardless of the politics behind it and right now the politics are all about iran the united states has demanded all countries stop buying iranian oil or they will face sanctions now ironic sport slightly more than a million barrels a day with the majority going to china india south korea japan and turkey and some of those customers especially china and turkey not happy more on the global impact in a moment after this report from roslyn jordan in washington. the u.s.

says its efforts to impose a worldwide embargo on iranian oil is already working in the last eleven months the trumpet ministration says iran has lost about ten billion dollars in oil revenue all this as washington to punish the han for what it calls the government's quote aligned ways the trumpet ministration and our allies are determined to sustain and expand the maximum economic pressure campaign against iran to end the regimes destabilizing activity threatening the united states our partners and allies and security in the middle east these demands are not just coming from the united states government and many of our allies and partners there similar to what we hear from the iranian people themselves the u.s. imposed oil sanctions on iran in may two thousand and eighteen after it withdrew from what president donald trump called the ineffective iran nuclear deal the u.s. wanted to cut off iran's ability to support hezbollah and who the fighters as well

as send aid to governments in syria and venezuela last fall when oil supplies were tight the u.s. gave several countries permission to wrap up their existing iranian oil purchases by no later than may second but now the u.s. says supplies are plentiful and so the five countries still importing iranian crude china india turkey japan and south korea no longer have a reason to keep buying from terre han. to conduct these transactions one almost always needs to participate in the financial markets and we intend to enforce the sanctions we don't lay out sanctions that we don't have any intention of encouraging countries to cooperate with analysts say it's important to look at the impact sanctions could have to untie so between the u.s. and other countries for example how sanctions could derail current chinese american trade talks but analysts say it's just as important to consider why the white house considers saudi arabia in the united arab emirates and not other oil producing

nations key to making the iranian embargo work i think that actually feeds into this narrative of this very close relationship that the president trump has a with the saudi royal family and of course the united states is again this is the president who looks at issues from a transactional standpoint state department officials won't say just how soon after may third that the u.s. will impose sanctions on countries still buying oil from iran but they are adamant they say the only way to get iran to change its behavior is by imposing an embargo and the only way to make certain that the embargo works is to impose sanctions on other countries even if those countries happen to be the u.s. as friends rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. so let's examine the economics of all this because supply and demand is key to understanding oil's spillover effect for the global economy now opec in the big produces they always

want the prices to stay just that sweet spot high enough to keep them in business low enough though to keep the demand taking over and at the moment the trade data suggests iran's customers will be able to bridge any supply gap the united states has also reassured the market yes any gap in global oil production will be well supplied saudi arabia for its part says it won't raise oil output immediately actually there's no pick deal with russia in place to cut production but that could be revised as soon as june when the cartel meets but there are supply constraints as well places like venezuela and libya of course due to internal conflicts iran has threatened as it often does to block the strait of hormuz the major oil shipping route in the gulf the upshot of all this is that brant crude the global oil benchmark is up around forty percent since november so if supply fears do start to reemerge that could send oil prices even higher we're going to talk about this all with jamila joining us from kuala lumpur he is the global head of currency

strategy and market research at f x t m market it's great to have you with us jimi so all these countries the likes of china south korea japan and turkey they are going to have to do without iranian oil at least for the foreseeable future the united states is the more it there's plenty of oil around the place do you agree with that. well there certainly is a lot of different openers as but what i would do is liken this to a different scenario let's say iran is tottenham hotspur and the football team is now losses best striker hurricane the best strike in for a rainy an economy and for supply is actually oil so all of these other countries involved china india wages total to eight different nations they are now the oil supply from iran when these waivers expire at the beginning of may now there is enough oil i was swayed places like russia u.a.e. united arab emirates saudi arabia they can supply that oil however it will take

some time and this is why investors have priced in a higher oil valuation has touches highest level of two thousand and nine scene and it does look like the rally in the oil markets will continue a bit of it yet and what about the effect on iran we already know the u.s. sanctions being in place this is exactly what the slowly recovering iranian economy won't need so you turn the taps off on the oil market the iranian economy will suffer since those sanctions economic sanctions back in place in may two thousand and eight seen we've seen the iranian crumble like a biscuits inflation has rocketed sky high there's already pressures on the iranian economy that is going to see a recession of at least four percent according to the i.m.f. in two thousand and nine saying now that it has been confirmed that these sanctions on iranian specified spoil oil will be turned off as of next month we expect this

recession to extend even further looking at recession beyond four percent the iranian reality will remain under pressure and it will also increase those are very any an inflationary pressures which is very bad news indeed for the local consumers on the streets right so the iranians will rightly you would say feel aggrieved about the situation that they find themselves in who is or who might see. dand up for them allies wise people who are willing to take on the united states in some way shape or form and say we will continue to do our business was the nation that is known to import the most oil from iran is china so you would look at the side of china towards where it could potentially stand out for a run in the situation but i don't see this happening for this reason u.s. and china trade tensions and those trade negotiations have been going on in the background now for most of a year now the united states and china are very close to a new trade agreement if you checked the narrative from both sides of the chinese authorities and the united states authorities and fesses have become optimistic

that a trade agreement is close which is extremely good news for the global economy if that was a standing up for a run and this example hypothetically this would put those that progress on the back burner so that for this reason i do not think that will be somebody that stands up it's probably going to be accepted in my opinion that those produces all those imports of oil will look for oil i was where let me throw another country into the mix and that is turkey not so much in the sense of we've been talking about standing up for iran but the effect on to ease well an economy that has struggled itself its currency has been struggling in the last well year old really . what about the effect on to this is extremely bad news for the turkish economy for its markets and for its currency it means that now needs to look for another supplier of oil at a time where its financial conditions and not grades probably in my opinion we will

see weakness in the turkish lira butts there's of a currencies and economists out there that will benefit from this news i will mention russia and the russian ruble russia's one of the biggest producers of oil it can actually supply this gap and the russian ruble will strengthen on oil prices he started with a football analogy something which a lot of people can understand i didn't want to bring this all back to something people will understand because we've talked a lot about separate economies but people all over the world when they think about hiero prices they think about high fuel prices they think about taxes on aviation industry all these sorts of things these things which people need to keep an eye on or we sort of gotten used to things being just that bit higher when it comes to inconsistency the verbal narrative and the social media narrative in particular that comes from president trump he wants to lower oil prices however this news actually strengthen sort of prices because of the tight oil markets because the iranian oil supply has been cuts now everybody knows and as aware of the need for

oil prices to move lower the global economy struggling on its face and head winds of sixty thousand once again there is a multitude of different external challenges so the longer some picture is actually the oil prices should come back and sullen mansome but not in so it is known and confirmed well at this cut in supply from iranian oil being sent off will be filled so this is why over the longer term picture many still remain negative on oil prices which is why our everyday viewers everyday consumers do not have to worry too much but over the net some some chip political risk is being priced it back into oil this is why over prices are rally and they. at the highest level of two thousand and nineteen but it's still a dramatic distance away from what oil prices were a couple of years ago so no need to worry no need to panic buts we do need to monitor the day to day news narrative around oil prices and specifically what

happens next door is what happens next isn't it jamila joining us from kuala lumpur thank you so much for your time and still ahead on counting the cost why musicians at iraq's national symphony orchestra are trying to hit the right note. right now though the battle and it really is a battle over the next generation of mobile technology on the one side you've got china's huawei love for its phones but feared over a perceived threat of chinese spying which the company's always said is totally untrue and on the other side the likes of australia canada denmark new zealand and the us who've all banned the company from their networks but in the us there is a really curious tale of his involving while away a u.s. stocks up some so-called unbreakable glass and an f.b.i. .