but the. fact is a robot analyst is joining us now from poway in california where the attack took place rob what more do we know about the suspect and what motivated the attack. the suspect has been identified as a nineteen year old man from san diego his name given as john earnest he man of that name is known to be enrolled in a local college studying nursing the college says that is shocked and dismayed by the events and he left a apparently posted on line a screed on a channel or web site often used by right wingers and they're popular with neo nazis in this document or whatever one might want to call it he expressed extreme hatred against jews against other minorities threats of violence were included in

the online document as well as praise for the perpetrators of the attacks on the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh six months ago to the day and the. alleged assailant two mosques in christchurch new zealand that took place last month rob thanks very much indeed but i understand that there are also investigations going into to some incidents that he may have been linked with in the past according to the local sheriff i believe. that's correct rob the local sheriff has confirmed that this suspect was under investigation for an attempted arson attack on a mosque in escondido that's a community not far from here this is a very very quiet. suburban area people in the streets are just walking around looking kind of stunned the mayor of hallway was

extremely emotional saying that this doesn't represent his community or the people who live in it so it is yet another in this seemingly endless series of religious or racial the bigotry bigoted attacks from the one in pittsburgh one several years ago at a black church in charleston south carolina and then of course as we mentioned also the. mosque attacks that killed fifty people in new zealand and as we were just hearing from a correspondent in colombo sri lanka there they're still investigating that atrocity that took place on easter sunday rob thanks very much still ahead analogy from russia with love moscow uses soft power to once again get

a foothold in afghanistan plus. i'm not what i think in and i'll be reporting on an election with no opposition and what that means but in st. now if you're in eastern canada moment or planning to go there take a boat it's very wet in fact is flooded from all to us through montreal not towards new brunswick there is flooding on the ground this rain not coming out of the sky and it's still cold north of no in places just add to the mix because melting snow is part of the problem that goes away so the sun day by day should be a better looking picture and the next system coming in is much weaker is a bit of rain maybe in new york or just across the border maybe but nothing much to it and it's broken up further west so you've got sort of places to reason does no

showers and if you follow the tail end apart from a couple of showers maybe in somewhere like new mexico colorado utah it's dry but above my head it's the elephant in the room what is it doing snowing in late april or early mates a little bit late in the season to do that and unfortunately from sunday to monday that spreads across the northern plains states towards the midwest with rain to its south so it's not really cold enough to sustain much snow on the ground and in the cases still plenty of cold air around in the caribbean it's a picture of increasing breeze and clyde with a few showers mostly light the bigger ones are around in haiti jamaica cuba and the bahamas the next two days. on counting the cost as the u.s. slams the brakes on iran's oil exports will track the spillover effect also have a secret world of high risk lending impacts the poor and

a sting operation to catch a spy what's a play for control of the next generation of my bob counting the cost on al-jazeera . but you. know some of it i like. and you're watching i'll just remind of our top stories this hour protest leaders in the military in sudan have reached a deal to form a joint council made up of people from both sides they'll discuss a peaceful transition to civilian rule this comes after weeks of protests calling on the military to immediately hand over power. to. a special mass for the victims

of the easter sunday attacks is being held in sri lanka's capital colombo one week after the bombings all other services across the country have been counseled with concerns about more attacks. in custody after a shooting at a synagogue in the u.s. state of california one person has been killed it's just up to celebrations began to mock the final day of passover. the leader of hamas has called on palestinians to unite against donald trump's peace plan is smale heinie a's says the deal does not include plans for a palestinian state and says the u.s. by. it is favoring israel he is calling for a committee that includes national regional and international players details of transplant still not known. egypt will not accept an infringement of its sovereignty and we as palestinians will not agree to anybody

else having sovereignty over our land we also reject being moved to an alternative homeland in jordan let me or putin says he has not ruled out syrian forces backed by russian airpower launching a full scale assault on syria's it live province but not at the cost of civilian safety russia and turkey brokered a deal in september to create a demilitarized zone in the northwest moscow is one of the syrian government staunchest allies but it's concerned about increasing violence in the area. just before you can get a shot for much trouble prior to taking such actions we always coordinated with president assad we need to factor in the presence of civilians unfortunately they suffer those civilians under the oppression of the terrorists who are located there in great numbers we need to balance the scale of what is happening in this is own with the civilians being oppressed by terrorist groups and the potential cost of battle actions. so many forces in afghanistan have freed dozens of prisoners from

a jail run by the taliban the u.s. special forces joined the raid in the province the jail was housing mainly security officers some are being tortured during their detention eight taliban members were killed during the operation. afghanistan's marking the anniversary of the overthrow of the government in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after soviet occupation in the eighty's the day signifies the end of russian influence in afghanistan bug's thirty years on russia is returning and looking to again play a role in the country's future reports from kabul. it's not feasible or has been learning russian for six months and kabul university that i was at first i chose this language as a hobby but after learning it i found it is very rich it gives me broader ideas and connects me with the world which can improve my life. the course was started in one nine hundred seventy nine as the soviets invaded afghanistan they were in

afghanistan for a decade fighting the mujahideen when the military retreated so did coach times. when nato forces came to afghanistan we only had one russian class now we have four classes because there is no sensitivities around learning russian six thousand five hundred afghans are studying russian and three hundred sixty can apply for paid scholarships into russian university. i want to learn russian because it is an international language if i learn this language i will be able to introduce the russian culture in afghanistan and vice versa russia has turned towards afghanistan as the u.s. has turned away after eighteen years at war america is looking for a way out u.s. taliban talks are progressing seem to be around a foreign troop withdrawal without being asked moscow held parallel talks in march upstaging the us by getting afghan leaders and the taliban in the same or agreed

with on many fronts and the fall date in future can be succeeded made fun of that and on thursday moscow hosted a trilateral meeting with china and the u.s. would be agreed to work together to bring peace to afghanistan russia's rebranding afghanistan extends to a new cultural seem to hair in western kabul in the one nine hundred eighty s. this was the site for the sort of hit hard a science and culture that was destroyed during the civil war the ruins became a refuge for carbo's drug addicts now they teach russian language cold arctic submissions and movie nights they have soccer tournament's with players from former soviet states this except mission showcases one hundred years of diplomacy between kabul and moscow an hour for people to have an opportunity to compare it is yes and . you know. some colleagues. spent for afghanistan several billions of

dollars. now russia is hoping for a fresh start in afghanistan one without you recently ference. kabul venezuela has said it will withdraw from the organization of american states the oas recognizes opposition politician as venezuela's interim leader earlier this year he asked the group to ignore my daughter's request to exit the organization or the supporters are carrying on with protests across the country demanding the ouster of president. well president of supporters have been holding their own rally the president's refused to step down despite international pressure is accused of leading a corrupt government that's left the country struggling with a nationwide power cuts and worsening economic conditions. appointed by hong kong you don't have met in colombia his envoy to the u.s. called venezuelan president nicolas maduro user power and has asked him to step

down his foreign minister carlos holmes story or was also at the meeting and said that it was just a matter of time before model leads office. in france anti-government yellow vest protesters have charged the police in the city of strasbourg the group tried to cross a bridge to get to the european parliament but they were pushed back by riot police protests come despite president announcing a series of tax cuts this week aimed at calming the widespread anger. waters in spain are going to head to the polls on sunday for the third election in less than five years no single party is predicted to win an outright majority after a campaign dominated by the rise of the far right and the issue of catalonia is independence sonia gago reports from madrid. the final cool to mobilize the policy

faithful spain socialist prime minister pedro sanchez surrounded by a sea of supporters urges them to go to the ballot box the country deserves to turn the page in the last seven years and look to the future with hope and excitement which is precisely what we are offering our citizens to the young what we are asking is that you vote for your future and therefore vote for the socialist party . voters have a wide choice decades of dominance by two political parties has given way to a multi-party system the largest players are still the socialist party and the people's party but their influence is gradually ebbing away. his name socialist may be the head of the polls in the lead up to the election but the reality is that even if either side does where the most votes he will still have to go to coalition with the far left regional parties if you fail to do that but it falls on to the people's marty and they were have to do a deal with the far right either way it is

a big compromise for both parties. the main spoiler in this unpredictable election box capitalizing on the populist wave spreading through europe the anti immigration policies have resonated amongst voters angered at the status quo the constitutional crisis caused by catalonia as attempt to secede has also dominated this campaign it's the first time a far right party has entered mainstream politics since the dictatorship of general franco so what does he mean sovereignty won't be broken in catalonia it won't be surrendered in brussels we're not going to kneel down in front of those who don't respect the anti austerity together we can and center right citizens parties have a chance of being part of a national government. previous coalitions have struggled in spain disagreeing factions have failed to pass national budgets the makeup of the next government is

far from clear polling ahead of sunday's vote suggested forty percent of voters were struggling to make up their minds there are some people in between p.p.o. there are some people that if they've been between. a man some of them between. so we can see that there's not a clear pattern all for you know one party. whatever the result forming a coalition is likely to take time and in a reflection of what's happening across europe the only certainty is that the politics in spain has become more fractured more polarized a sign of the times when an increasing combative political stage. al-jazeera madrid . as you to get underway in the west african country of benny and the collection is controversial there are only two parties on the ballot and both a loyal to the president that's because opposition parties failed to meet the necessary requirements to field candidates and reports from court on. this keep it group

meets regularly. and when they're finished they like to exercise their minds and this election has given them plenty to think about. is retired he says he'll be making time on sunday to vote despite the fact that the choice is limited only candidates from two parties both linked to the president. to. what they explained to us on t.v. is that one hundred fifty smaller parties came together to make up two parties and we have seen that to be the case i'm not a politician but what we want to speak is whether it's oppositional pro-government parties i don't care i only want peace. jack is about is a traitor and is unlikely to give up his time to visit a polling station he's disappointed with the current situation. we are in in the election period yet in the city it doesn't feel like there is a real campaign going on there is no competition because two parties are fighting

for the same cause so ultimately there is no election because there is no competition. moment to get a new electoral code was agreed in the national assembly aimed at reducing the number of political parties five years ago twenty parties field of candidates but eighty three positions this time only two newly formed parties met all the requirements they're both loyal to president parties tunnel who came to power in twenty sixteen as an independent there are around five million registered voters in twenty it's never going to know how many will find out because. the political fight over overshadowed any faith around real issues making this election more about symbolism and substance. despite protests from opposition parties many been in these just want to get on with their lives julian county has been selling fabrics in the market for forty years under with

a government can come and help you. and the government can come to if you. have never seen the situation before but you must accept it benny is proud of its democratic tradition since the transition to multi-party politics in one thousand nine hundred ninety but this election appears to be challenging that with the opposition arguing sunday's vote is not taking place on a level playing field i'm up watching al-jazeera. this is all just here these are the top stories protest leaders and the military in sudan have reached a deal to form a joint council made up of people from both sides discuss a peaceful transition to civilian rule this comes after weeks of protests calling on the military to immediately hand over power while it out has more from khartoum . and it turns out still very sketchy and all we know is that they have agreed

to publish what they're calling a transitional governing council what's going to lead the country for a period before elections are organized now that this has been the main point of contention in talks between the military the transitional military council and the civil society organizers of the process as well as sudan's opposition parities a special mass for the victims of the easter sunday attacks is being held in sri lanka's capital colombo one week after the bombings all of those services across the country have been cancelled in an unprecedented move by catholic leader he's the president has banned two muslim groups accused of being behind the attacks but the security situation is still tense mel fernandez more from columbia. the head of

the catholic church here in sri lanka the archbishop cardinal markham runge is celebrating holy mass at bishop. it's in central in a central part of colombo and this church service the live feed is being beamed into houses throughout the country now that's been a measure that they've been forced to take given the. basically security alerts that have happened the ones in custody in the u.s. after a shooting at a synagogue in the city of poway in california one person has been killed at least four people were injured in the attack on the chabad synagogue the shooting happened just after celebrations have begun to mark the final day of passover mozambique's government has urged people to move to higher ground in the wake of another powerful cycle forecasters are predicting more heavy rain which could lead to flooding and mudslides. and those are the headlines the news continues here at al-jazeera after counting the cost i'll see you in about twenty five minutes

probably. one of the richest philanthropists in the world renowned financing endeavors to eradicate some of the worst diseases bill gates talks to al jazeera about his foundation's goals and on says those who are critical. on al-jazeera. hello i'm come on santa maria and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week boiled united states has declared zero tolerance of anyone buying iranian oil so as the u.s. slams the brakes on oil exports from the islamic republic we'll look at the spillover effect for the global economy also this week the secret world of high risk money lending there's been a boom in loans to poor countries in the past decade we'll see how the people there

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 says 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 they are 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 nice 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 on ties 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. 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 with the saudi royal family and of course the united states is again this is a 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 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 to keep the demand taking over and at the moment the trade suggests iran's customers will be able to bridge any supply gap the united states is 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 like solve 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 no more at this 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 and for a rainy an economy and for supply it's actually oil so all of these other countries involved china india the way it was 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 sway 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 touch as highest level of two thousand and nine seen 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. and 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 the game now the ninety's 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 taking as 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 but's that'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 are these things which people need to keep an eye on or if 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 i don't see where

the need for oil prices to move lower the global economy struggling and it's facing head winds of sixty thousand once again there is a multitude of different external challenges so the longer term picture is actually the oil prices should come back and sullen mansome but not in so it is known and confirmed where 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 has been priced to back into oil this is why over prices are rally and they fit the highest level of two thousand and nine seen but it's still a dramatic distance away from what oil prices were a couple of years ago so no need to worry no it's a panic bumps 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 has 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 huawei a u.s. stocks up some so-called unbreakable glass and an f.b.i. say.