cycling canada has dispersed in the indian ocean after ripping off roofs and drowning power lines and rule areas the un has warned of a flooding risk along the coastline another cycle and devastated more populated areas in southern mozambique just two months ago it's the first time in recent history to cyclons of hit mozambique and one season. there will be an urgent need for shelter clean water sanitation and hygiene kits food and non-food items power generation until communication equipment so i can kenneth may require a major new humanitarian operation at the same time that the ongoing cycle response targeting three million people in three countries remain critically on the fund chinese president xi jinping says more than sixty four billion dollars worth of deals have been signed during a summit promoting his country's belton road initiative she plans to build infrastructure and trade routes through asia africa and into europe was front and center during the two day conference russian president vladimir putin was there to

show his support but warned other countries against supporting a trade wars. but sure nobody wants any restrictions nobody wants any trade wars except maybe only for those who start these processes an overwhelming majority almost one hundred percent are sure that all these are strictures harming the development of the world economy but still ahead on al-jazeera the us president rallies american gun supporters and uses the venue to pull out of another international treaty. hello there the temperatures are recovering now over the northern parts of asia seem quite cool recently but i think we'll get up to nineteen degrees in tokyo on sunday and in the sunshine that should feel fed and pleasant in fact for tokyo

looks like it should stay fine even as we head through the day on monday not too far away is quite a good deal of cloud though that's over many parts of southern hunchy and stretching across the korean peninsula reverence well the wet weather from that well that's a little bit further towards the south so that's head south and see what's going on here for the southeast impulse in china generally quite unsettled at the moment and that fame continuing as we head into sunday so few bits and pieces of rather heavy rain and that tries to organize itself as we head into monday so some wet so weather in this law and as we head through the day if the towards the south is plenty of showers here lots of them particularly in the southern parts of our map so again borneo jaba and through some monstrous should see most of the showers are they so much you will see those showers later on during the day they are pushing further north now so we'll see more wet weather just make its way into parts of cambodia and into the southern parts of vietnam and across the southern parts of the philippines as well the northern coast the philippines for news on it should be mostly fine enjoy i think they'll be more showers though as we head into monday it

will still we hope whatever happens we're at thirty six. for drug users seeking to get clean one rehab option has been raising serious questions. based therapy a so-called treatment that is a little a no a. bold lines investigates how people reeling from drug use or having exploitation added to that was. recovering from rehab on al-jazeera.

project al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now curfew is in effect and part of sri lanka where a police raid turned deadly overnight commanders say they found the bodies of at least fifteen people all in a shootout in connection with the easter sunday bombing us in sudan several former government ministers have been released following their arrests during the overthrow of president omar al bashir about his anger protesters at the three week sit in outside military headquarters in khartoum and they are demanding an immediate civilian rule and damage is being assessed after the most powerful ever cyclon in northern mozambique the un has warned of a flooding risk along the coast. south africans are celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the end of apartheid presence or or i'm opposed to says the day of freedom won't be forgotten. the great tragedy will be. i was

raised with great deliberation. begins different races. and the scale of human endeavor and. although. it was deep division. much progress has been made since nelson mandela's revolution to end white role but not nearly enough according to critics of the ruling african national congress has more from johannesburg. marked them uneasy remembers the feeling of euphoria in one thousand nine hundred four when apartheid ended and nelson mandela became south africa's first black president she believed ending a white minority rule would mean a better life for the poor black majority after decades of oppression since then she's been waiting for the government to provide her with a decent home and she hasn't managed to find work in years if she was home to hers

and open up my cupboards and see i have nothing no food i have to go outside and house in order to eat something before going to beit so why should i take my id book and go out there to vote when i'm suffering. in soweto township we meet. he was a member of the football club founded in the one nine hundred eighty s. by nelson mandela's wife winnie a group that was politically active during apartheid twenty five years after the end of racial segregation he says he's angry and disappointed with the african national congress led government. jobs. we are hungary is because of those guys not the. new. thing for the people to protest over poverty poor public services and unemployment happen almost daily there's a general election on may eighth and the a.n.c. is facing mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions

of black people we have not looked at people either no real knowledge we have all the successes. just the challenges. and all over the road to accuse us to protests but everything must be done within the law the legacy of apartheid where black people were considered inferior to whites and not given the same opportunities is partly why africa remains one of the most equal societies in the world since one thousand nine hundred ninety four more people do have access to clean running water education and healthcare even though many say those services are poor these are some of the houses the bills by the government for the poor are provided for free others are subsidised millions of been built since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but there are still housing shortages blamed many on corruption and millions of south africans continue to live in abject poverty they won the right to vote twenty five years ago today the struggle is with economic

freedom which many say still feels a long way off. how. john is this one day to go before spain holds a general election and one of the issues is they and dependents movement for catalonia any other region hope sunday's results well help their cause so and the pendants leaders have been rallying supporters some of them from present a whole report some barcelona. the letters of support arrive regularly after eighteen months in prison and on trial in a drip catalans haven't forgotten pro independence former interior minister jew hakim for him and his wife lara and their daughters know that you are came as an forgotten them. doesn't i linger here doesn't it was us. saying that he loves him next year we don't celebrate together and he's with us on. the trial of twelve cattle and independence leaders on charges of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds follows the region's referendum and unilateral declaration

of independence which was met by police violence in two thousand and seventeen it's taken on heavy significance for a movement struggling to reassert itself last in search of a way to achieve its goal. that i see very clearly that people don't feel like compromising in this ends up giving up of recognizing a mistake a renowned seanie i don't see that it is possible that some people may think that we need more time that it doesn't have to be an immediate thing but i don't see any kind of resignation at all if not now then what is to happen in the interim at the national level spain's socialist government may pay a heavy price in this weekend's election for its attempts to negotiate over catalonia a surge in support for the far right nationalist brock's party risks dragging the entire political landscape to the right making a compromise over cattle and separatist aspirations seem less likely than ever. if

to the right and the radical right. everything is going to be more difficult because this practice in the right of the explicit proportion of. the money again so it's going to be only a matter of. in the pentagon's project but there are very. very core of the government on the that was recovered. and so perhaps inevitably there's a quiet shift towards a more pragmatic approach is this it is hard to see the republican unless the main political party of the roughly fifty percent of catalonia some support and some of its leaders you can see are in prison addressing the crowd here by live video link the message increasingly is that unilateral action didn't work the way forward now is through dialogue and political legitimacy. that means winning as many seats as

possible in the national parliament and influencing change from within the dream of independence isn't getting any closer but it does remain very much alive. barcelona . and algerian thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets for the tenth week and a row and they want all those associated with the old regime the president abdelaziz bouteflika to go he resigned earlier this month after pressure from the military police have been able to break unable rather to break up the protests despite the announcement of a presidential election in july 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 that's what we're looking foolish we don't want them just to lead we want to be judged so that's what we want to learn the other. 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 ism or regionalism i swear the system will not

only last for years but it will last for centuries and we will go back to marginalize the corruption and the abuse of power and southern afghanistan security forces have free dozens of prisoners from a jail run by the taliban u.s. special forces joined the raid in zabul province the chair house mainly security force personnel are reported to have been tortured during their detention. a us court has jailed a russian agent for eighteen months for conspiring to infiltrate the national rifle association that's a gun lobby group prosecutors say the thirty year old maria bettina attempted to influence american conservatives and sway the government's policies to favor moscow she will be deported after completing her sentence. as that court case was ending donald trump was guest of honor at the national rifle association saniel event the president used the convention to announce he's pulling the u.s.

out of yet another international agreeing that the u.n. arms trade treaty here's our white house correspondent kimberly how. tearing up another treaty this time with the stroke of a pen in front of hundreds of national rifle association supporters donald trump made the announcement many had been anticipating i will sign right now. in front of a lot of witnesses. a message asking the senate to discontinue the treaty ratification brussels and to return the now rejected treaty right back to me in the oval office where i will dispose of it. the united nations arms trade treaty was signed in two thousand and thirteen by the united states under president barack obama it sets international rules for global arms transfers and seeks to halt illicit weapon sales. that fuel international conflicts. more than

one hundred countries are signatories more than twenty like russia china and syria are not. for years members of the national rifle association and others have criticized the u.n. arms trade treaty arguing it cedes u.s. sovereignty to a global body they believe that threatens the second amendment or the right to bear arms and shrine in the us constitution we will never allow a foreigner approach. to travel on your second amendment through trump's latest announcement further entrenches his america first platform he's been in acting since taking office already withdrawing the united states from unesco the paris climate accord as well as the joint comprehensive plan of. action to live in iran's nuclear program the president feels that the international system is biased against the united states and we don't believe it so therefore we shouldn't be bound by

these treaties because they heard all swore that other countries democratic members of congress are criticizing president trump's decision to withdraw from the treaty they accuse him of kowtow to america's powerful gun lobby or putting lives at risk around the world kimberly health and al-jazeera the white house finn as well as foreign minister is the latest target of the u.s. campaign to get rid of president nicolas maduro and the socialist government. is having all this american assets frozen by the u.s. treasury department similar sanctions are being imposed on the venezuelan judge to approve the jailing of an opposition politician last year. mexico is having to cope with a precedent a number of migrants seeking a new life over the border in the united states many thousands of migrants have walked all the way from guatemala honduras and other countries despite warnings from donald trump that they are not welcome and some mexicans are running out of patience with the new arrivals as well as a story. outside

a small church and don't allow mexico several dozen central american migrants are taking a break from the exhausting heat for most of these people faith centers like this church are among the few places left where they still feel welcome. notice it all in is from us and is here with eight members of her family she says she was recently chased down by mexican immigration agents and hasn't found much sympathy from the mexican people but. this they think we're criminals but we're not it's true there are all kinds of people in the caravans but we're being cursed for the sins of others some places we've been one even let us use the toilets and my kids have been denied water how could you deny a child water we're all human beings. over the past few months in mexico there's been a shift in public opinion toward migrants many business leaders in the state of chiapas have closed their doors to central americans publishing videos online for training migrants is disease ridden criminals people in chiapas no longer come out to donate

food and water like they once did it would appear the migrant caravans have worn out their welcome. to grow neatly veta also from a window to us says that without support from local communities migrant shelters are a last resort but the shelters can't provide for everyone. is that coming up we're going to say like you know you were not on this journey because we want to hurt anyone and we're here because we want to better lives for our families we would never hurt anyone here in mexico they are brothers and we respect them but at the same time we wish they would stand by us because they do feel there is a lot of discrimination. against us migrants and that is not fair. several hundred migrants have gathered along the train tracks their goal is to head as far north as possible we're standing atop a train car in the town of in southern mexico many migrants who are worried about being detained while walking on the side of the road will opt for hopping on one of

these freight trains this one's called la or the beast but hopping on top of one of these trains carries its own risks and over the years many migrants have died falling off the sides of these train cars right. just before sunset migrants began to rush the train many of them women with young children. no longer feeling safe traveling in caravans it appears migrants are resorting to the back roads and train routes of the past even if it means a whole new set of risks. when measured up a new disease mexico. so the headlines right now on al-jazeera a curfew is in effect in part of sri lanka where a police raid turned deadly overnight military commanders say they found the bodies of at least fifteen people all in a shootout and connection with the easter sunday bombings police discovered

explosives a suicide vest and myself flag lawrence louis has the more from has more from the capital colombo. well it really founds like police are making progress but at same time security situation is a lot more fragile and escalating now according to police they've made more than one hundred arrests now one of the most recent took place in the town of twin kamali on the east coast a man was also found to have explosives on him as well as detonators now in the eastern province is also where a security operation is underway police have often villages to leave their homes so they can conduct house to house rate and sudan several former government ministers have been released following their arrest on the overthrow of president omar al bashir and that's anger protesters at the three week sit in outside military headquarters in khartoum and they are demanding immediate civilian rule. the un is

warning that mozambique is at the risk of widespread flooding as hurricane force winds give way to torrential rain despite winds from cyclon kennet starting to settle the u.n. says the danger has not passed tens of thousands of homes were evacuated along the indian ocean coastline it's the first time in recent memory that mozambique is seen to cyclons in one season. china's president xi jinping says more than sixty four billion dollars worth of deals have been signed during ascent promoting his country's belt and road initiative she's planned to build infrastructure and trade routes through asia africa and into europe was front and center during this two day conference russia's president vladimir putin was there to show his support but warned other countries against supporting trade wars and southern afghanistan security forces have free dozens of prisoners from a jail run by the taliban a special forces joined the raid in zabul province the jail house mainly security

force personnel reported to have been tortured during their tension. so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera and so his story is next a recap of the headlines at the top of the hour. tax cuts and promises of reforms president emanuel macron followers to transform france is his response to months of yellow vests protests and nothing to stop the riots this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan they are the results of the so-called great debate after months of hearing complaints from the length and breadth of france emanuel mccraw has told t.v. viewers that he's listening to the cries for change he's responded to the biggest challenge to his presidency by offering some concessions to the best protesters they've brought paris and other cities to a standstill every saturday for months now demanding cuts to the cost of living across proposing lower taxes for some pensions reform stopping the closure of schools and hospitals and making it easier to hold a referendum on vital issues there are other proposals too but are they enough to stop the riots and revolt against his ideas for the future of france we'll get to that soon with our guests but first here's al-jazeera is natasha in paris. at his first presidential press conference on domestic affairs emanuel mark all said he'd

listen to people's grievances over social inequality and the french political system in response he offered a raft of new policies including a reduction of m.p.'s and income tax cuts for workers let me you're going to show you the best way to address the needs of fiscal justice is not to increase the taxes of dispersal of that person no it's rather to lower taxes for the greatest number of our fellow citizens in particular for those bloat and part of the middle class is he also touched on personal matters saying he regretted that some people considered him arkansas. i've given the impression of always giving orders of being tough and at times unfair this i regret because it's not why i am and it's not helped our cause. macro's new policies were based on the findings of the great debate and initiative he launched in january to give people a chance to discuss their concerns at a town hall meetings and online an attempt by the president to end months of yellow

fest street protests if the cost of living in the state of politics emanuel mccoll hope that his speech in new policies will convince french people that he's heard their concerns of the social inequality and he's trying to help he knows that if he fails to persuade them his credibility his popularity i does a policy to continue with his reforms wealth. in paris yellow vests supporters gathered after the president's speech and said that not out there back of the sort of my reaction to he says speech is one ward resign when a government does not answer to people who need it is necessary to hold elections again who will continue your demonstrations to convince mr mccraw on to the side of these government. the real test of the macro will be how the wider public will regard his new policies and whether he's managed to bury his reputation as a president who favors the rich this little doubt that the timing is vital halfway

through his presidential term and just one month until the european elections he needs to rebuild trust natasha butler al-jazeera paris. let's bring in our guests for today joining us from paris right chief foreign correspondent at le figaro from london charles let's field european affairs analyst at the eurasia group and on skype from san milo jack russell or head of european research of the global policy institute but welcome to inside story if we could begin with you has president said and done enough to put an end to the yellow vest protests i don't think. actually. the yellow vests is of course a tiny minority involved but they're really in a they want to remove prison macro from power they just don't have.

sent. it's more they have some kind of. hatred for him though i don't think personally his man that should be heated you couldn't agree or disagree with him but this is the way the yellow vests think and. you will still have some kind of protest i think against him because as a matter of fact we have to consider that. he has lost a lot of the clout that he had after is the election in two thousand and seventeen if you if you like people much more desire pointed with reagan mccourt today that of course they were days of action is two thousand and seventeen chance which field in the twenty extent then is it not the policies but the man that is the problem here it's true that the yellow vest protesters who

have been protesting until now the sort of hardcore the remaining hardcore won't be satisfied by the policies yesterday and. they obviously dislike macro but i think anything he could've said any poll and for that reason any policy could have come up with wouldn't really have been enough but that wasn't necessarily the goal of yesterday's appearance and i think he was really unsettled by the support for the other best movement at the very beginning in december some really rather scary polls for him showing seventy five percent eighty percent of the french agreeing that's receded quite substantially and i think the whole goal of yesterday was to start a new phase in his presidency where he can talk to those who no longer agree with you might have had some sympathy at the beginning but no longer do and as far as that's concerned the policies he announced yesterday might be somewhat successful we can discuss that ok run on the same question to you to what extent is it not the

policies but but the man that is the problem here. a very large extent indeed. yes you know us have already announced they would keep keep but they have protested already called protest vote tomorrow in paris and you know the towns in france the they're pretty sure it is a shrinking number of demonstrators and michael was not addressing the you know best even though you mentioned them early in his intervention but to actually make a difference between do claims of the you know vest he claims which he agreed were actually funded were right and they were right to complain and the vent and medium set of that yet note some of the programs that now he was ready to tackle them and he already announced some measures in december we said he's fight what they're up of person yesterday and so on on some reforms which we said these five

pension or element of do you know. bridging or buy a real risk index seat pension so. as it was said earlier was the factory to come to have you know the what remains of the you know as down is a was to appear to a border section or a beautician to. electorate twenty five percent rooted for him and to some of the people on the center right who are attracted by support he sees and in that sense you could say that it's been reasonably successful to just size yesterday because you see to popular is the aberrant the according to the polls of today he's managed to convince thirty seven percent of the french which is quite an achievement because to actually charm city twenty seven doesn't run is quite an undertaking and so is the demand result when you figure that these folks you know generating was just of over twenty five percent before his intervention run

a year out in paris was this the speech of the leader does he have an air of presidential authority about him and that is that mayor culpa wasn't that when he said that he could have adopted a different tone and style of leadership in the first two years of his presidency was this speech made with an idea think on reelection in twenty twenty. i don't think sure i think it's a bit too early but we have to remember that sixty maybe thirty seven percent of the french were convenes but there's another figure which i think it's more which is the more important is that sixty three percent and of. the people who listen to the president when not convinced though even really made a lot of efforts to try to you know to get everybody with him. so. this is not a success this is not a filler either the show that he was

a compared to and man it was hard working but maybe it was more a minister's speech than a president it was very technical he looked like it was long it was all big blog boring bland you could say and and he went into details that are actually the responsibility of the prime minister and the government and not of a president the president in char in france is in charge of the real big decisions if you like diplomacy war or peace and the great you know constitutional constitutional changes and so of but the. president is not in charge of the deed today social policy of the government. and there's an article in the constitution's that it is the government that debtor minds and leads and conducts.

the policy of the nations so i think that. core looked a little bit too much as a technocrat and not as a president in the sense of you can see that you know. the gauls last will be do of course were meteo and birdied really the president of france johnson's free and what do you make of that it was more of a minister's speech than than than a presidential one sixty three percent of the electorate still not convinced to what extent his is all of this a little too late. too little too late for french voters i tend to disagree with the previous panelists and perhaps a great degree of it more tell me why it's evidently the case that the president spoke about sort of more technical measures and didn't look like a de golyer a mr on but in twenty nineteen i'm not sure if that's really the expectations the

french have in fact macro at the beginning of his presidency spent an awful lot of time trying to come across as a jew patisserie and president a sort of god like figure and it came across really it's rather in written rather strange strange fashion i'd say for such a young man to behave like a greek god or a roman god. so this is been there's he's trying to open the second act of his presidency i think it is understandable that he's trying to talk a bit more concretely about what he can do for the french and i'd also say that political attacks in france has accelerated since two thousand and two in that there's been. sort of saying that the elections for presidents and for parliaments have been synchronized and therefore presidents have become more responsible for the actions of individual governments you don't have this kind of removed figure of a president the president is expected to be involved in day to day politics that may be incoherent with the original spirit of the fifth republic.