americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. al jazeera. no i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes venezuela's opposition leader says there is no turning back the president to do to insists that coup attempt is being defeated sudan's military wants them in streets or is not to take the law into their own hands but protest leaders as say the army doesn't want to give up power to civilian. a new era for japan's emperor akihito stands down the first here real

application in more than two hundred years plus there's a mood. for our politicians to get together. a priest to criticize politicians at the funeral of murdered journalist and byram a key calls for unity. on paul recent doha with the sport its advantage i.x. in the champions league semifinals maybe tottenham to move a step closer to the biggest much in european club football. we begin the news hour in venezuela where the government says a coup attempt by the opposition is being defeated this follows an earlier call by the opposition leader one to remove president nicolas maduro thousands of demonstrators have clashed with security forces outside an airbase in caracas armored national guard vehicles ran down protesters while soldiers used tear gas

and live a nation to break up the crowds the violence broke out after an early morning call to action by wide though from the lack of a lot of air base in a video shared online he said he had begun the quote final phase of a plan to oust lead to a row and urged the military to join him why don't was accompanied by a well known. position the figure leopoldo lopez who had been freed from house arrest he says he was released by members of the army on the orders of lopez and his family have now sought refuge at the chilean embassy a warning some viewers may find images in this report now from side a hideout the starving. this is how an homage to military vehicle in caracas responded to antigovernment protesters the crowds had come out after all call by opposition leader one to join him and soldiers that have defected. these men are

fighting against the venezuelan military they want support for. the fighting continues between forces loyal to and against president nicolas maduro in caracas crowds gathered to join the opposition. was that's despite the government vowing to end what it calls an attempt to cool it so i get out of here because they've called upon us the military is pushing us away but you came here in peace when. we went to the us. had posted this video on social media saying he now has support from soldiers to begin what's he called the final phase of a plan to remove president maduro. hours later the man who declared himself as interior president in january called for more members of the military and public to

join. the political will for the polish for everyone to come out into the streets at this moment and to back what we've built over the years we're now here in the streets not only with the international community and not only our citizens but now with the national forces who are backing the citizens the future and progress so it's an airport. moment for venezuela. here paul de lopez also came out in support of quiet just hours after being released from house arrest the prominent opposition figure was accused of inciting violence during antigovernment protests in twenty fourteen he says he was let's go by soldiers from declared their loyalty to quite so and thinks more will join. the custodians are with us because stadiums came along that have been part of this process came with us and i'm convinced that there will be many more for the military force who will join this process. i owe. but it's not everyone is

convinced the door supporters have gathered near the presidential palace to show their support for their leader right now because it was there's no doubt the people of venezuela or addressing his conferred to us in history to defend our country from the legacy of hugo chavez an illegitimate illegal president of venezuela nicholas material but. there's been strong international reaction spain has warned against bloodshed while the united states has once again stressed its support for why don't and the removal of president maduro so afraid at al-jazeera let's go live now to caracas and speak to political analyst amy respond to les who witnessed that those protests earlier on today mr pantelis thank you so much for joining us first of all what is the current situation like now in caracas. we've got an situation

right now in caracas because a complete uncertainty we have most of in israel as a rabbi you know it has a lot of censorship so there is no hope of c.c.r. information if you don't have any media reporting about the situation and most of the people we are going to the social media to find some information on the menu bam are a fake news or with false stories about on the show people they don't know what is going all we don't know where these players the model we don't even know where it is a but i didn't like the room they didn't break the weddell so moment everybody doesn't know what's going on asking the relatives friends if someone has a any information and some an information that has come out of his that you know faldo lopez who of course food with the one who i don't know when that message was made is actually sought refuge in the chilean embassy in caracas he was actually

previously under house arrest and had presumably been allowed out or so he said by the military why those orders i mean what do you make of all of that news coming out there for the lopez refugee in a foreign embassy you can close to look at the low perceived but he's in the a bus the as a guest in order to negotiate we're the government i don't know if you bought this true or not but within that i'm feeling older people do some disappointment people are pulled back to look for the low person who given to work with wide all that would be on the streets writing against nicholas my ludo their support for their position and obviously. we've recently moved the many people realized or told about the the uprising is all there and they are the leaders not of the seeking for the. order to be saved we don't know what is. what is to hold or not. yes i mean we have to specify of course you know it's still day of course as we can

see in caracas and i guess the next few hours are crucial but from where we stand now do you think that perhaps one point zero has miscalculated the kind of support he would have had or or thought he had from the military and other players infinites well i think it is all. this uprising today it's all the luck of organization coordination i think they went ahead of their plans i don't know why but it wasn't very well organized or even organized so i suppose the way though in the local the locals with fear that something can happen before. it will be able to hold their plans political analyst amy to respond to this joining us live now from caracas us or thank you for sharing your views with us let's go live now to daniel schorr i'm were daniel dramatic scenes in venezuela but right now it does seem that it has

actually triggered the downfall of nicolas for the. know like i said to me through a sane just now it does look as though the might possibly have miscalculated he gambled he was hoping to have more military leave then leave their barracks and support him he certainly had some surrounding him in the video that was taken in the early hours outside like a lot of ace but not enough to make to oust nicolas maduro and we've seen demonstrations before in the six years that nicolas maduro has been in power two thousand and fourteen a room most daily tens of thousands of venezuelans on the street the situation since then has only got worse shortages of food and medicine millions of venezuelans have left the country the crime rate is high inflation is out of control yet nicolas maduro holds on he says a lot of opposition obviously people are unhappy there's a great deal of discontent but at the same time it doesn't need necessarily that

all those people who dislike nicolas maduro are supporting one way though in leopoldo lopez that have caught between two stools they don't like what they've got and they don't much like what's to come either so there's a bit of a dilemma there and it does look as though nicolas maduro for now at least is holding on is consolidating his position and will be delighted with that he's done it again is probably what he would say danny as you say i guess some people in venezuela are torn between a different way though but other countries and for example the united states are very clear about who they prefer are the u.s. very much support. the u.s. president saying all options are still on the table but the reality is that it doesn't look like any kind of international action any kind of military or otherwise is going to take place in venezuela to i guess make one why don't the official leader of the country. you know there's

a lot of talk of military. actually united states brazil colombia they've they've all expressed support for it all others have suppressed expressed support of asked both from restraint from both sides there's a lot of talk at the united nation is a group of countries who make in lima recently another group in montevideo in europe why to talk about a way forward but they've mostly just been talking they've not been able to bring the two sides together the mood of government or one way to go together to discuss the future of the really does seem like another standoff with demonstrations on the streets supporting nicholas goes one way though others supporting the government it does seem to be more of the same but at the same time as i mentioned the situation the economic and the social situation continues to deteriorate and i read that question how much longer though he seems to hold on for now how much longer can nicolas maduro hold on for and try and there with the latest there on the situation for his will of daniel thank you well we were mentioning it earlier more now on the

reaction from the united states let's hear from the u.s. national security advisor john bolton he says the situation in venezuela is not a coup but a legitimate president trying to take control all options remain on the table i'm simply not going to be more specific to that but recall that right at the beginning three months ago we said that would be a big mistake for me dura and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians we feel very strongly about it we felt that way then we feel that way now . so reaction from the u.s. meanwhile then as well as ambassador to the u.n. has also been speaking let's cross to the united nations and speak to a diplomatic editor james space james so what has the ambassador been saying. well very fast moving developments and people have been trying to keep up here at the united nations as you say in the last couple of hours ago some well more cargo has been speaking to reporters he has now called for a u.n.

security council meeting let me just make clear though that venezuela's not currently a member of the security council so it can call for a meeting it can't actually itself call a meeting only a member of the security council could do that he says he believes the security council should meet though because he said what we've seen in recent hours which he says is now over from his view has been entirely instigated by the u.s. appleyard whatever there was a very dangerous incident that was supported by the u.s. government they knew what was happening in that unlike in chile in the seventy's or as in any other country in latin america this demonstrates that the u.s. government considers venezuela part of its property and through war they want to destabilize using domestic agents at the. no i pushed him on whether he believed that president maduro had now survived this particular crisis i asked him whether he thought president maduro and be in power in days and

weeks and months and his reply was what we've seen in the last few hours if that's what they've got then president maduro will be in power for the next twenty years are on the security council meeting which as i said venezuela would like to see no word yet from venezuela's close ally russia on whether it will actually call for such a meeting one complicating factor is we are right now at the very end of the month and so germany is giving up its presidency of the security council it rotates to indonesia i think that means it's unlikely we're going to get a meeting in the coming hours although technically the security council could meet at any time on any day at any hour i do think there is quite a strong possibility that we might see a meeting in the coming days worth reminding you barbara though that there's unlikely to be any sort of agreement at the security council and that's because

there are two permanent members the u.s. who supports quieter and russia who supports madeira. james bays diplomatic editor with the latest from the u.n. thank you. and still to come on the al-jazeera news hour the u.s. looks to designate the muslim brotherhood a foreign terror organization just weeks after hosting the u. gyptian president at the white house heavy rain hampers efforts to deliver desperately needed aid to parts of northern mozambique which were flattened by cycling kennett's and could this man challenge for the world heavyweight title or we'll have that story coming up in court. sudanese protesters say the army isn't serious about handing over power to civilians it comes after talks between the military and opposition groups appear to falter over the makeup of a joint ruling body the army says it wants to chair the council which will be the

country until elections are held one hundred reports now from two. so then stop generals warned their patience has limits they want the protesters on the streets of the capital khartoum to remove roadblocks checkpoints and allow trains to bring food supplies across the country or they were there we are responsible and we have to take responsibility as a military council as a transitional military council we have to protect the citizens and protect the law we will not accept any chaos or attack on civilians and their properties and properties of the state and we will deal with this firmly and in accordance with the law this is what you wanted to clarify to the sudanese people we did not want to add insult to injury. the army's warning comes after talks with the opposition hit a snag the two sides have agreed to form a new body to run the country until the next elections the army wants

a majority in the transitional body. and so far it has avoided an escalation that might lead to an armed confrontation and evolve them we have made many concessions for the sake of protecting our nation and preventing scenarios similar to what happened in neighboring countries we want to talk to end quickly so that the tension deescalate. but the young activists behind the mass protest movement toppled president omar al bashir who worry the military is buying time to prevent a civilian takeover. they say they want the army's role as a stick to it and its influence contained during the transitional period. in a press conference on tuesday so that his professional association denounced the military saying they have no desire to give up power to civilians here illegally. the military council is not serious about transferring power to civilians it is clear they want to keep power and retain it for themselves this is unacceptable the

revolution did not take place in order to stop a unilateral military regime and another unilateral military regime therefore this will not be accepted and is not acceptable but strong statements that sound ultimatums have replaced the soft and optimistic language of the last few days casting doubts over the prospects of the talks that are now stalled until further notice. khartoum or protestors have refused to comply with the military's request to remove their roadblocks and barricades remain in place throughout the two mohamed reports that there was a confrontation outside the sudanese military headquarters protesters attacking that demand for a time to civilian rule to the gates of the building that houses the country's military rulers this after the transitional military council last fall the reopening of roads bridges and railways blocked by the protesters that order

completely changed our course for. almost immediately the protesters began reinforcing the body creates they say the military's real intention is to disperse them. the governor's. order i have all but no one can remove those barricades i have been put by the protesters to particular lives and i really can remove it. until now this has been a happy place for weeks the protesters have sought here chanting and singing themselves hoarse but they need peace justice and freedom as tension rises their message to the transitional military council is simply hand over power and. the impact of the blockade of the somebody's kid bridges is being felt across the cup at a traffic gridlock so called one of the few streets in central hub tunes that are still open they follow solomon has been a taxi driver here for more than twenty years. and was done

business is bad my income has gone down by up to sixty five percent since the roads were closed. four minutes sudanese the fault of going back to anything similar to the bush era years is unbearable and for now the protests. have the protests not destructive but it's all well we would not have seen a close roads or even protests if we didn't have grievances talks between the military council a position parties and protest organizers to form a transitional government a continuing but more deal has been pushed off to several rounds of negotiations the most optimistic hope that the lack of a breakthrough is just another glitch in what is undoubtedly going to be a long process on the talks will eventually bear fruit. out here. but they are certainly not going to. come about the al-jazeera.

the white house says it's considering designating the muslim brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization the move could bring sanctions against the group and companies and individuals who interact with it egypt's president of the five reportedly urged president donald trump to make the designation egypt the band of the muslim brotherhood after the two thousand and thirteen military military careers and before on this story we can speak to mike hanna who is in washington d.c. for us mike what do we think is behind this decision. well certainly the meeting between president trump and presidency c. earlier this month played a major role in it egypt has been pressing the united states to describe the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organization since president trump came to power also saudi arabia of course has been discussing this matter with president trump it is likely saudi arabia for example creating the gulf blockade against cutter because of what it

sees as cutter support for the muslim brotherhood but there is a nother possible reason and that is a domestic one certainly president trump looking ahead to the twenty twenty lections is well aware of how well or how distrustful his base is of the muslim brotherhood or indeed any organization that bears the name muslim. and mike so far what's been the response from the muslim brotherhood itself. well the muslim brotherhood has issued a statement saying that it intends to continue what it says it's moderate to political process and the role that it plays in a number of democratic countries in the middle east it also expresses concern that president trump is siding with what the muslim brotherhood calls autocrats such as president fatah al sisi so certainly the muslim brotherhood saying that it is going

to continue its work as a political organization one must remember too that the brotherhood has played a major role in democracies in tunisia in morocco and of course in egypt itself where it came to power in a democratic election in twenty hundred twelve before being deposed by the selfsame presidency see in a military coup so this is going to be a point of concern perhaps should the definitive go through by the united states and that is how does it continue to maintain relations with countries like the newseum morocco jordan all of which have a strong muslim brotherhood participation in their democratic system and then of course there's turkey president one a strong supporter of the muslim brotherhood turkey a very critical component of u.s. policy so there's a lot of problems ahead should the u.s. finally decide in this internal process to go ahead with this move i can there with

the latest on that story from washington d.c. mike thank you. at the u.n. refugee agency has criticized u.s. president trump over proposed new restrictions on asylum seekers' president trump is there acting immigration officials to introduce a fee for asylum applications he also wants to ban those who enter the country legally from working until their claims are approved it's the latest effort by the u.s. government to stem a growing number of central american migrants crossing the southern border. history has been made in japan with the first imperial abdication in more than two hundred years in a brief ceremony of the imperial palace emperor akihito stood out from the throne to make way for his eldest son when have reports now from tokyo. after more than thirty years on the throne emperor akihito made his slow final walk into the serum o'neill room in the imperial palace as was so often the case

throughout his reign he was accompanied and supported by his wife improves michiko akita then spoke for the last time as emperor of japan much it is fortunate that i have been able to perform my duty as imperator would perform trust and respect for the japanese people for thirty years since my ascension to the tram to the people who accepted and supported me as a symbol i express my art felt thanks so much. there was little fanfare all fuss surrounding the ceremony which lasted around ten minutes that low key nature of it was perhaps fitting for an emperor who sought to change the perception of the role one of akihito as legacies is that he modernized the imperial family by attempting to make it relevant and because of that there is still widespread public support for it according to polling and there was also overwhelming support for this abdication. in a surprise speech three years ago he said he felt his health and age would prevent

him performing his duties but he had to stop short of saying he wanted to retire because there was no law allowing for abdication but the message from the palace and the support for his wishes from the public meant the government had little choice but to pass a one off law or allowing for the abdication. to do more with the day of publication i really flipped the point along us all with the emperor has not flew said the happiness and sadness of the people of libya once again the feeling of the prospect and tanks among those at the ceremony the oldest son of akihito crown prince no he told you on wednesday will become the one hundred twenty sixth emperor of japan that will be his day this one belonged to emperor akihito after a few minutes the education was complete the eighty five year old offered a bow and a moment's reflection before leaving the room heading for a quieter life wayne hay al-jazeera tokyo still to come on the al-jazeera news

hour of rare national assembly in afghanistan steering the government's position for future talks with the taliban we are in mexico where poppy farming is now virtually worthless as the synthetic drug fenton mill is increasing traffic to the u.s. and barcelona bid for the tribal paul looks ahead to their champions league semifinal in sport. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across much of southeastern and eastern europe we're still talking about a lot of messy weather in terms of clouds as well as rain that's going to continue as we go towards wednesday as well here's the air of low pressure making its way up here towards ukraine now you can see the circulation right there over kiev so the

heavy rain will continue there on wednesday it could be even gusty winds we're going to talk about that but as we go towards thursday going to be seeing that air of low pressure make its way towards western russia and things start to clear up a little bit we do have a isolated areas of pockets of rain right across the region nothing too bad but we are going to be seeing still some lower clouds across much of the region too well here across the west unfortunate for paris you did have a nice day there on wednesday twenty one degrees but now coming down to about fourteen degrees as we go towards thursday with rain in the forecast there well cross the northwestern part of africa we are talking about clouds here across morocco but as we go towards the end of the week those clouds really begin to expand and we also get some rain out of it anywhere from iraq over here towards parts of algeria we are going to see in calls for showers in algiers could be seeing some rain as well which when you went to greece there tunis we do expect to see some rain in your forecast the temperature of twenty four.

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the aftermath mass shootings in america on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories announcing the venezuelan government says it is beating a coup attempt by the opposition an armored national guard vehicle has run down protesters in the capital and soldiers have used the tear gas and live ammunition to break up crowds meanwhile opposition leader one point though says the spoken to military leaders who have shown him they are quote total and loyal he says there is no turning back from his campaign to topple mother. and sudanese protesters say the

army isn't serious about handing over power to civilians hundreds of thousands of people have blocked streets throughout the capital after protest organizers called for a day of civil discipline. let's get more now on events in venezuela and speak to sack he's a commentator and author in latin american affairs from the london school of economics thank you so much for joining us here on well we've heard that leopoldo lopez who was house arrest and stood by one where they made his announcement if it standing up to the door is now in the chilean embassy seeking refuge there i guess that doesn't really bode well for how he thinks that this so-called coup is going you know i think certainly significant i think if they felt that this was actually going to result in a serious change i don't think he would have done what he was thinking this morning when he joined bordeaux and i mean. but it really depends on the military now and so far there's only been

a really kind of mind shift towards quite oh today despite the images from the bridge and so on the venezuela he has two hundred thousand people in it but at the moment it seems like only a small segment of the intelligence service and maybe some of the believe are in national guard switch sides because what we do have been hints. at something like this for a while but presumably you must the felt confident when when he spoke on video what do you think the miscalculation was well from what we're hearing at the moment in venezuela it seems that there were some discussions potentially with other members of the armed forces more significant generals including possibly the defense minister and even the head of the supreme court and if they had actually switch sides and that would have made a difference they're not fully confirmed reports but that would explain the apparent kind of rush to try and get something out really before why dole was arrested which was apparently the threat that was made and so they've tried to do

this on a day that didn't plan to do it that's what i'm hearing a lot of venezuela and you know we've seen very strong support from by the united states john bolton national security adviser speaking out saying that the president is still considering all options how realistic is that really and what kind of impact do you think international support had on like those actions i think is had a very big impact in general since the twenty third of january when he first declared himself a kind of parallel president with dura particularly the link with the u.s. obviously but that in itself causes a very big problem because the ideology of the venezuelan military is very anti imperial obviously the u.s. has a long history of intervention in latin america and one of the pillars of chevy's ma was to reject that so even on a logical level a lot of the military will have a problem with that a lot of the venezuelan people have a problem with that but beyond that there's also u.s. sanctions on

a lot of people in the military the possibility of prosecution for human rights violations and things like so they have good reasons in a way to stick with the duro because if they then subject to prosecution after switch of government. they they would be in big trouble essentially unless they have some kind of off from where they could possibly. amnesty all that kind of thing there's no way really that they're going to switch sides so really the conditions aren't there so it's hard to see why at this particular moment they decided to try and launch this murder and briefly if you can if we do a see you see now that operation freedom so to speak has failed what happens to why though now what could madugalle model have you know in store for him. really i think it could go one of two ways it could be that mother finally kind of makes the leap and feels emboldened by the fact that this doesn't appear to have come off and actually arrests quite o. but then that is something that the u.s.

was very clear about that that was some kind of red line so that would still be quiet bold move i think another option would be to just kind of let this peter out because in itself it kind of has taken away motivation from the opposition potentially every time they try to do this kind of maneuver and it fails it becomes harder for the military to believe that the next one is going to work so in that sense i think you might just let this go back to the kind of stagnation we had prevailed late we've seen for months basic you said commentator and also in latin american affairs are thinking of. aid agencies say that they're struggling to deliver aid to mozambique because of heavy rain which is causing flooding and mudslides and the people have been confirmed dead after last week's cycle kenis authoritatively has the latest. tina shoed and her family salvage what they can from their flooded home like thousands of houses in the pool city of pemba it was

badly damaged by cycling kenny for some of them because everything inside the house was wet t.v.'s mattresses beds freezers fridges everything that was on the ground weather experts say cyclon kenneth was the strongest ever recorded in the mozambique it was the second storm in six weeks to hit the eastern coast of southern africa mozambique's government says two hundred thousand people are at risk they urgently need shelter and water purification but aid agencies say bad weather is hampering the efforts to reach survival. this supplies that were trying to come in couldn't land because of the rains and this is something that's going to be a challenge in this operation for the days ahead because the forecast is that we will continue to have rains for at least the coming days cycling kenneth rip through beeks northern province of cabo with wind surges of up to two hundred eighty kilometers an hour in some areas entire villages were flattened in pember roads

have been washed away and roofs ripped off houses. to rebuild this home we will have to demolish it and start again with a new house. aid agencies say they desperately need money to respond to what they describe as an incredibly difficult situation in mozambique victoria gate and be. the hard work has begun for more than three thousand prominent and influential afghans the sky peace in their country it's called the loya jirga and it's a rare national assembly that will steer the government's the go seating position for future talks with the taliban shelob ellis reports from kabul. painted concrete walls holding up the hopes of a nation they call this the loya jirgah taint it's where three thousand afghans are gathering in a rear national assembly to define what peace looks like in a country that hasn't seen it for

a generation we have to back for it because you know we have spent forty one years of war in this country we have lost the family our sons our husbands our sisters our brothers all together and know now this is the this is the chance for us sufi acidic he is hopeful she was elected head of the committee she says it's a sign that gender equality is improving the government says thirty percent of the delegates are women but this is still a country where women and men have separate interests as of women as african whether this is a responsibility just to talk about peace and to believe in the government has started the diversity of this crowd the young and old from various tribes and religions despite the taliban condemning the gathering organizers say those from television held areas are in attendance in the half of afghanistan to how can taste it by the armed groups even the area controlled by the taliban they can send their

representative here he is after. that representing the people of those areas and they have that is that advice is in order for peace delegates have been broken into fifty committees and i tossed about three or four questions what needs to be done to achieve long lasting peace what type of value should be safeguarded in talks with the taliban what kind of personalities should represent the government in these talks and also foreign policy. action should be taken against countries that support the taliban but progress is slow and security is high a wide cordon surrounds leaving you in a weeklong public holiday has been declared to improve security inside the event screening procedures have slowed the schedule. you know it's quite difficult to start particularly in a country when you help more than forty years and i wore through a lot and particularly animorphs you know. big fishes out here

big fishes that have spent two days jockeying for influential roles within the gatherings of ministration now comes the difficult task can three thousand people come up with a can seem cis on how the government should negotiate peace with the taliban what's the opinion of the ground about it this is not the office because you know the jeremy opinion of the people are a people who for decades have not known pace but must now help define it shall it balance al-jazeera. israel's twenty first knesset has been sworn in three weeks after the country's general election the prime minister benjamin netanyahu won a fifth term and be a problem nine elections but as he had to put together a new coalition government are now from harry for set in western slope. ceremonials began with the arrival of the israeli president reagan rivlin he inspected an honor guard outside the knesset building before coming into the hall

to preside over the swearing in of one hundred twenty members of this twenty first israeli knesset now all of this serving as the backdrop to the real political business at hand which remains the finalizing of benjamin that knows new coalition government he and his likud party along with its coalition partners have a majority sixty five to fifty five within the knesset but one of his prospective partners the. israel bit a new party which is a secularist right wing party led by the former defense minister avigdor lieberman it is concerned about too much being ceded to the ultra orthodox and religious nationalist parties which themselves are very important partners for benjamin netanyahu in any coalition he manages to build and they say that they will pull out if too many of their demands are exceeded to which would be a major stumbling block to having a functioning majority within the knesset of course this knesset also has to deal with any issues arising from the fact that a sitting prime minister is facing pending indictment there

a hearing scheduled to take place in the next few weeks on three corruption cases there is talk about a potential law giving the prime minister immunity from prosecution talks about potentially reviving a previous arrangement where and kay's member of the knesset had automatic immunity from prosecution unless there is a vote inside the parliament itself as well as that of course there is also the issue of benjamin netanyahu own pledge given just before the election to start an exceeding illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and all of this coming just weeks after what we're expecting to be the publication of the trump peace plan so a lot on the agenda as this new knesset gets underway now and so federal drug franken is causing a crisis in the united states where tens of thousands of overdoses have recorded each year but in mexico it's also affecting the internal drug market down home and explains. these farmers are taking a sup into the sea had

a mother the mountains to see a crop that sustain them for generations these pretty flowers glinting in the sunlight of the sim aloa morning the source of much of the heroin stateside it's made from these puppies gum which the foam is similar to traffic is they say it's the only crop around here the pay you not get that i know how the quality of barley out there isn't enough land to be growing quantities of corn or tomatoes for. profit if everyone in the community did that we will earn enough to buy shoes or clothes or school bags for the children. whatever the ethics of it this has meant the communities in the hinterlands of cinna lower could get by until the last two years that is when everything changed because of what to look at. what we hear is that in the us there's some synthetic drug and that means that our prices crashed he's talking about fenton eal an opioid that's fifty times stronger than homegrown heroin on top of that it could be cooked up in two days rather than the five months

the farmers' crops take to grow there's no wonder traffic is prefer it and it's putting the farmers out of business their prices have dropped by two thirds many migrating to the us this situation isn't just playing out here but in communities across mexico after all poppy fields have been found in more than half of the country states and it's completely reasonable to think that it would be a good thing if these fields after all the starting point of heroin become a thing of the past the only problem is that a lot of people in poor marginalize areas of the country depend on them for work if they're gone many could be tempted deeper into organized crime says roman liquid who spent years studying poppy farmers from some of the people that were into the poppy business. had weapons for themselves and that are now offered being part of a criminal group either as an employee you see. something of that so you actually

have people moving into something deeper something probably even more dangerous that there is of course an alternative this could be a golden opportunity for the government to get farmers out of the business altogether the president says he's working on it and many of them are being helped and will be helped all of them where there was poppy farming we can stimulate the production of corn. pair better than fair price for the corn to compensate for the poppy crop substitution is just one option another could be legalizing opium production for medical use whichever way right now there's a small window of opportunity to bring these farmers out from the shadows john home and out zita sin the lower. the u.k.'s opposition labor party says it will only support another referendum on bracks said there are certain circumstances it says it will first work to get changes to the prime minister's withdrawal agreement

or secure a general election and the hayward reports. they could be forgiven if they feel rather confused about the state of british politics at the moment two deadlines to leave the e.u. have already passed and getting a deal through the u.k. parliament is proving extremely elusive after three failed attempts to reason may is looking beyond her own party for support because shay sions to woo opposition labor m.p.'s are ongoing to try to strike a deal before the new end of october deadline labor has agreed to support another referendum if it can't get the changes it wants to to resume a stale or general election the party is preparing to fail candidates in european elections of course it wouldn't be taking part we agreed on the manifesto it's going to be. next it has divided britain like nothing else in recent times after the word and people can respond with an exhausted song by one of

britain's new with political parties made up of defectors from the conservatives and labor is pushing for a fresh vote. thank you made me think thank you. thank you for. the creasing the people in the united kingdom are looking at bracks it with horror i know lots of people are absolutely fed up with it they want an end to the maps and the only way through that is to have that people's vote remain on the ballot paper and as a good campaign we will win it there is prostration among many in britain on both sides of the break to debate about the political impasse at the moment we're just not seeing much happening in british politics in parliament so not much domestically. not much of exit and that's basically because both leaders of both parties are really struggling to bring their m.p.'s along on their back to positions so there's no guarantee that any time soon there will be a breakthrough stalemate. it is nearly three years since people in britain went to

the polls to decide whether they should stay in all leave the e.u. the result caused a political earthquake and the aftershocks still being felt and he would al-jazeera in london a priest who received a standing ovation for criticizing politicians at a northern ireland funeral is appealing for them to unite father martin mcgill received a groundswell of support after asking why it took the funeral of a young journalist killed by dissidents republicans for politicians to come together and do simmons reports now from london their one priest in the journal is shot dead by our republican dissidents have shaken northern ireland's political system father martin mcgill inundated by messages of support from both sides of the divide is calling politicians to account their campaigning for local elections and they're being given

a reminder that bigotry sectarianism and division won't work there's. for our politicians to get together if the politicians can stand back and maybe stand away from from the the experience the embarrassment whatever they felt in the cathedral last week and i should be very grateful that people want them there. and there i'm a key was killed during rioting in london derry dissident republicans say they shot her by mistake. in the way a short distance from where she died election campuses are mainstream republicans for machine fame once the political wing of the provisional ira which disbanded was part of the good friday peace agreement in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the political messaging on the doorstep is much the same as ever so is this a landmark moment in post conflict northern ireland the cynics say no talks about talks on trying to restore power sharing after a two year deadlock are due next week but there were no apparent signs of

a breakthrough at the dinner usual staunchly. and irish language checked. wages and language checked and scotland has the language we don't have the names language and here we don't have equality much quicker and in a union is dariya there's talk of deep distrust there are people who never seemed to want to accept. that there was a community here that are brought ashore while there is talk of political unity following leary mckinney's killing there are still very deep social divisions here i don't think a change is going to come gradually and a comment a thunder clap or it won't convert all of us the longer we go on sort of as weary steel and situation all is going on is that people are consolidated in their particular communities watershed moments have come and gone in three decades of conflict the legacy is near is death will depend on whether there's

a last thing momentum for change andrew simmons al-jazeera londonderry. so the sports news including a new. board. oh ok. thanks. business update. it's going places together. thank.

you by. going places together. paid for the sports things now here's. barbara thank you very much dutch team i.x. of taken a big step towards the european champions league final they won one tottenham in

choose days first leg of their semifinal tie vanderbank got the crucial goal after fifteen minutes spurs with it all to do and next wednesday only one side has ever lost the first leg of the semi's i'm gone on to reach the final that was i.x. he then lifted the trophy back in one thousand nine hundred ninety six well home to liverpool in the first leg of the other semifinal on wednesday on a high after clinching the spanish league title at the weekend and they still have the spanish cup final to come against valencia but coach and i stayed valverde is wary of liverpool who have never lost on their four previous visits to the new camp they just are the only one is there in the fight for the premier league with manchester city whereas we've already worn out the performances of the two teams in the champions league is there for all to see that now here we are to play against as they are a powerful tea with extraordinary forwards and a level of pressure rhythm and pace which is very hard well last year's beaten

finalist liverpool received a boost as they prepared for the much one enjoyed out striker rebirth so from a trained with the squad. have enjoyed a hugely successful season so far but the manager says there's no room for complacency. that we had one hundred percent chance i would think if you go do it if you go to big guys and throw ten dollars somewhere the virtue of. that but we have a chance in both competitions and you don't you have to play these games there were god that you always make these kind of things that gave us what before it's played an f l draft selection corey ballantine is out of hospital after being shot to name his university in kansas just hours after being chosen to play for the new york giants the cornerback anti made during simmons worth fired at near the campus in the early hours of sunday simmons was killed in the shooting valentine is expected to attend the giants' rookie training camp this week but it's not yet clear when

he'll be able to take part in football activities. the most successful road cycling team of the past decade has become it began its new era team sky is no more there now team any us with last year's tour de france champ thomas leading the rebrand at the tour of roman de on choose day the team won six the top titles in nine years but even their ideas couldn't stop young tronic of bahrain merida team winning the prologue time trial in switzerland thomas came home in fifth place. well there were very different scenes in morocco where the titan desert mountain bike race was canceled on tuesday after the death of spanish rider finance he suffered cardiac arrest during monday's second stage riders paid their respects the race will resume on wednesday organizers of wimbledon says they say they are willing to give former champion andy murray as much time as possible to be fit for this year's tournament the two time winner is hoping to be granted

a wild card in order to compete as he recovers from hip surgery if he makes it it's likely to be murray's last event in front of his british home support. been a discussion with him as you think it's too soon to know. the answer to that one and should he wish to apply for a while can't he would do so in the normal in the normal way we don't know what comes before when there's been an. african member a couple years ago it was mostly in group mood before so. and you came forward with a strong currents i'm sure. would work with. boxing's undefeated heavyweight world champion anthony joshua will talk to the media on wednesday about his next fight after the previous challenger failed a drugs test the brit is set to face a rather surprising choice american andy rue is junior the twenty nine year old is heavier than joshua but four inches shorter and he has a big reach disadvantage hill replace general miller who was denied

a license for the june first fight at new york's madison square garden or boxing journalist gareth a davis told us this was all about joshua making an impact in his u.s. debut but the fight fans were likely to be frustrated by yet another low key match up. franson joshua way down the line all i remember is him knocking out some roly poly figure in the first round and putting his stamp on america at the beginning of a journey but at the moment we're seeing the semi final what's on it's incredibly frustrating so in a way it doesn't matter fitzgerald and you release traffic brian michael hunter it's just an american named joshua will knock out that's what they want that's the storyline they want but for us out here in the us on the sports fans what we want all the undefeated heavyweights facing each other oh that soil sports now back to barber in london paul thank you and that is it for this school's hour do stay with

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