house of representatives for refusing to answer questions bar has cleared the president of collusion but the democratic party wants to see the full and censored version of the report had more from washington d.c. a lot of political theater today in the house democrats called for a congressional committee hearing and they basically talked to an empty chair the u.s. attorney general william barr refusing to show up to testify he said he had a problem with the process that they wanted to take which was basically to have members of congress ask questions but allow one of the committee attorneys to sort of ask those follow up so would have made it a much tougher day of testimony for william barr there's a disagreement between the democrats and the republicans on the committee and in the white house over whether that sort of testimony in that sort of committee hearing would in fact be proper history will judge as to how we face this challenge we will all be held accountable one way or the other and if he does not provide this committee with the information it demands and the respect it deserves is to

bars a moment of accountability soon enough i think what we're seeing from chairman adler is that he's incapable of holding power if he and his committee are capable of actually asking the attorney general questions themselves and need to staff that out it seems like a pretty pathetic moment for the chairman of that committee and look we lost confidence in jerry nadler a long time ago but it's surprising that to find out that he's actually lost confidence in himself and his capability to do his job he can't and he's not capable of asking the attorney general questions maybe he should step down or resign and allow somebody else and. this is high stakes for william barr because members of congress are already saying that he lied to congress lying to congress is a crime and it could get you sent to prison what they're arguing here is that when muller gave bar his summary bar then then just a couple days later put out a four page summary of what he thinks the report said he was asked about this in

congressional testimony before the senate under oath and they said what are all these reports that muller was upset and are said i have no idea what you're talking about well it turns out that robert mueller the special counsel had sent a letter before that. or saying exactly that he was upset with the way barr was handling the special counsel's probe was that a lie to congress well house speaker nancy pelosi has come out and said that he lied to congress and it's a crime but you want to see how the committees decide to proceed next up though the big testimony we're waiting to see is if the democrats can get robert muller the former special counsel before them they say they want to hear directly from the man who invested the gated the president as to whether the president of the united states committed crimes still had on. the latest on the aid effort in mozambique. the country.

hello there it's still looking quite mobarak cross the southeastern parts of china at the moment plenty of cloud all marching its way towards the east and this line of rather intense looking showers is the tail end of a system that's now moved away from japan but it's still going to have some rather lively downpours those pushing their way into the northern parts of luzon there in the philippines as we head through friday behind it actually a bit quieter for a time but this is some here it's going to begin to pop up as we head into saturday so off to saturday we'll see some heavy rain for many of us across this region out towards the west and we've got a very intense blob of cloud an asteroid picture this is our tropical cycle on phony and you can see it working its way towards the north it is a very intense feature we've got winds over two hundred kilometers per hour at the moment but fortunately it looks like it might ease a fraction just before it makes landfall when it does though it's still going to

give us an immense storm surge some coastal flooding and some very very heavy rains as well so there is likely to be a fair amount of destruction here as it runs its way up the north eastern parts of india and then up towards bangladesh a lot of flooding across this region so this is what we're expecting on friday then it's working its way northward giving all its rain and still giving us plenty of it as we head into saturday. in two thousand and eight zero documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme helping change the face of india. soup authority on al-jazeera.

watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now in israel as opposition leader one quarter was urging his supporters not to lose hope after their protest failed to topple president nicolas maduro president supporters held a rival rally in the capital caracas a woman was shot dead and dozens injured during fighting with security forces. this attorney general bill barr refused to testify before the house of representatives about his handling of the report and to the russian investigators objected to plans by the committee to use boyers for passion. parties in india are evacuating nearly eight hundred thousand people in the path of funny it's expected to hit india's

east coast on friday forecasters are also warning those in low lying bangladesh. and people in northeastern mozambique are being urged to find higher ground in the wake of cyclon kennet as more rain comes down it's a second storm in six weeks to hit the southern african coast and has already killed more than forty people harmatz hasa reports from one of the worst affected areas. it's about a three hour drive from when the area was worst affected by the cycling and in this community the houses learnt that while builds to begin with when the fly climb came the heavy rains and the winds and other one knocked over and completely destroyed some of the politicians will also brought stalin we're told some people were injured when the houses collapsed some way even killed. a couple of days trying to get aid into this could mean because some of the roads were damaged during the cycle own so now that some of the roads the. possible we're now seeing some aid

agencies bringing in some much needed food to these communities that's one of the first load to arrive with many maize meal and it's women and children who help first and then of course the main afterwards is not enough but it's something the people here say that the waiting for days and the cycle need to get help the concern for aid workers is that trying to access people in more remote areas is actually more difficult partly because of the weather they can only get the planes and helicopters up in the air when it's not raining so for now it seems the weather has slightly improved but they are concerns if it rains again heavily it will hold relief efforts to give an idea of how some people are in those remote areas one u.n. worker said that they came across a family that a young boy is what twelve years old he was so thin so manara so sick you had to be airlifted to a hospital in pain that is one family out of thousands of people who need help wasn't big is really one of the most poorest countries in the world this lichen

hasn't made things any easier the concern for aid workers and the government is to reach as many people as possible who need help who may be stranded out there. but helix founder julian assange has told a british court he will fight extradition to the united states where he's wanted for alleged computer hacking a sanchez hearing in london has been adjourned until the end of may is currently serving a prison sentence for skipping bail prior to seeking asylum in the ecuadorian embassy again barbara reports from london. this is a passionate support for the u.k.'s most famous prisoner but will he be on the way to face trial in the united states. julian assange was removed from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested three weeks ago i was later a u.s. prosecutors charged him with conspiring to access across the four u.s. government computer has just started a fifty week jail sentence for skipping bail in twenty twelve so he addressed the court via video link mr assange said i do not wish to be extradited for doing

journalism it has won many awards and protected many people were rights a message that resonates with many supporters here but whether he wins out in the courts is hard to say. a lawyer for the us said that in twenty ten former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning downloaded more than half a million classified reports relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan as well as a quarter of a million diplomatic cables the vast majority were later released on assigned his wiki leaks foreign. journalists and we cutie are published they publish the truth they're being targeted for telling the truth and this has huge potential implications so journalists and media outlets all across the world. american officials have accused the sounds of in danger in people's lives through the mass publication his backers say he's done nothing wrong and they fear the u.s. could war huge in its legal case beyond the georges of course we're worried about

it we have a provisional request from united states which does at this stage one charge with a five year sentence but there is much speculation the united states about with additional charges might be brought now for want to return to the united states. and his legal team say they'll wait to receive the full extradition request before deciding on their next steps. iran then opposition politician bobby wine has been granted bail tended to him. the hearing via video link he's being held in a maximum security prison since monday i was arrested on incitement charges stemming from protests last year against a social media attacks catherine sawyer has more from kampala. when the magistrate granted bobby wine build a little fellow abrasion inside the courtroom and outside where some of the supporters had been gathering they started singing one of their favorite songs that he performs often they say they're happy that he's been released but they also feel

that he's been politically targeted unfairly by the government the charge is comes from an incident that happened last where he led a protest against the social media and mobile money pack that had been introduced to people asking why is he being charged now with something that happened last year what also stands out from this is the how the case was hard he was not physically present in the court. of by a video link from the prison where he was being held this is a new system that has been introduced by the judiciary they it's more effective it's going to cut down costs will be because we bring in fact. back to court but then some of the supporters people have been talking to are here are saying that the reason why it happening with bobby wine is because the has the government does not want too many people gathering to wait for him to appear in court

there is a lot of fear he's been garnering a lot of crowds everywhere he goes to perhaps people i think the government is afraid of that the situation in the political situation in the country i've talked to lawyers and politicians were saying it's very precarious indeed we've seen some media stations being sanctioned for how they are covering. issues with the in the key opposition figures being the movement being curtailed the government very keen indeed to show that it's in control but these opposition politicians led by bobby wine saying that we will not relent we will continue and all to continue to hold the government to account and to see that is meaningful change in this country. ireland has broken out and been following parliamentary polls that were held without a single opposition candidate or testers torch businesses or stones and smash

windows of government buildings many are supporters of the former president who calls for a boycott of the ballot soldiers and police have been deployed across the city of new. and the us is fighting an open epidemic that has killed thousands of people over the past few years many of those drugs originate in china and the u.s. has been pressuring beijing to ban drugs containing the painkiller fentanyl and that has now come into effect castro looks at the addiction battle in baltimore. maryland a new frontline in the war against opioids in the u.s. a war that at times feels overwhelming more than a dozen people die in this city from overdoses each week i want to get excluded from all the trouble that i personally. feel so that's what it does give me two weeks to get away from feeling. it's hard to get it not.

just like go to school go back to. kirk parker says he last injected himself with fentanyl laced heroin about two months ago he says it cost him just ten dollars to get high and want to know the build killed. instantly but they don't care about the. selling opioids can be a lucrative business especially in a glutted areas where real jobs are hard to find brandon cotman went to prison for dealing heroin so you can see why. you do caught up in that because if i'm making one hundred to two hundred dollars a day. you really if you save your money you see the right one weakness saving your money the right. practically all of the fentanyl on the streets comes from. china or mexico it's smuggled or even nailed to the u.s. the world's biggest market of opioid drug users the u.s.

government is applauding china's crackdown on sentinel exports but here in baltimore there is only skepticism you only know the. money to save because they will they don't know clever ways to get it in. different ways and make it parker says he's trying to get clean now he receives treatment at this mobile opioid addiction clinic parked outside the city jail this is also where he picks up free doses of no locks zone and emergency no spray that reverses the effects of an overdose he carries the kids everywhere he goes one day. say five people to six person because i didn't have enough. and that is the reality here for each person saved after overdosing on fentanyl still others die addicted to perhaps the most deadly drug the streets have seen. castro al-jazeera

baltimore as five hundred years since the death of the italian painterly in our adventure a sculptor architect and engineer was born near the town of and she and fourteen fifty two but spent most of us professional life in florence and a lot of his iconic works last supper and mona lisa are among the most influential paintings of all time david schaper reports and weiss and friends leonardo da vinci arrived in france carrying his most famous work the mona lisa on a donkey is back. this royal chateau de was on the banks of the law is where he spent the final chapter of his extraordinary life. young french king francis the first was enthralled by his genius he called leonardo his father never will tell you what's false it to the french kings through the west to show you were seeking an intellectual refinement the tea had previously discovered in italy and wanted to

transpose to the french court you wanted to show you the french court was the most elegant in europe five hundred years after his death his hope the legacy of leonardo the maestro of the nascence can help repair relationships between italy and france which once again have hit turbulent times. president emanuel mackerel and his a talian counterparts. hope to soothe the tensions between rome and paris over the hardline immigration policy of italy's populist government and its support for the yellow vest protesters in france the president's lunched at the mansion which leo dato was given was close to say which contains his workshops and studio it was here one of his apprentices sketched a hasty portrait of his master now and non-rival collection of leonardo's during held by the british queen is to be put on display for the first time at buckingham palace we are now dorry's the. italian genius but also

europe ingenuous know it is is becoming a universal genius a portrait hangs in the royal chateau of francis the first at the deathbed of leonardo. it is in fact an example of sixteenth century fake news the king was away on ruled business when davinci drew his last breath but his spirits and his genius still hold this land david j. to al-jazeera was fromm's. take a look the headlines right now on al-jazeera and as well as president has again bit out on the streets surrounded by soldiers and in a nationally televised speech nicolas maduro warned the time to fight has come as opposition leader has told his supporters not to lose hope after they fail to

cushman the road from power a woman was shot dead and dozens of others injured during violent protests and rival rallies in the capital caracas on wednesday. at least four people including children have been killed by syrian government airstrikes on a rebel held area and northwestern adlib province schools and residential neighborhoods and the town to consider for a war hit and what the u.n. describes as the worst peril bombing campaign it live in fifteen months it says russian and syrian forces and tense a fired air strikes and shelling overnight in what's supposed to be a safe zone. an empty chair has represented a u.s. attorney general who's refused to testify at a congressional hearing though bar avoided lawyers questioning him about the mulla report and why he's cleared donald trump of russian collusion in his election the democratic party is demanding to see the full and censored version of the purported confirm that trump hasn't broken the law. wiki leaks founder julian assange has told a london court he'll fight extradition to the united states he's wanted for alleged

computer hacking hearings been unsure and with the next session scheduled for may thirtieth his supporters say more serious charges could be filed if he's extradited the songes serving a prison sentence for skipping bail before staying in the ecuadorian embassy in london. ugandan opposition politician bobby wind has been granted bail it tended to hearing via video link while he's being held in a maximum security prison since monday fireless arrested on incitement charges stemming from protests last year against a social media tax. and violence has broken out and been following parliamentary polls that were held without a single opposition candidate or testers torch businesses threw stones and smashed windows of government buildings many are supporters of the former president who led calls for a boycott of the ballot soldiers and police have been deployed across the city of

continuity and so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come super thirty s next.

the homes in northern india beautiful impoverished overwhelmingly rural. life expectancy is the newest in india only half the population can read and write. people who flee the hardship of the countryside for opportunity in the capital. a city of three million is a magnet for those seeking to escape the limitations of that.

this is the story of the soup with. these people are almost all backgrounds what they share is a talent for mathematics today they're sitting the first round of an exam that could change the entire course of their lives. thousand have made their way here from all over bihar only two hundred will go through to the second round they're competing to get into an elite class known as the super thirty its creator is. this record. just a project worth here but it's because. he's a mathematician who set up the soup with thirty to help gifted children who come in

from poor families. ten jobs. or. all toward get bored but if there. are. those who get into soup with the will be coached for another more grueling ordeal the entrance exam for the indian institutes of technology or i. it's india's most prestigious university the applicants for soup with the know that if they do make it to iowa they'll be set up for life. this seven were intended to produce an elite of engineers and technologists today many of the computer science graduates end up as silicon valley software

millionaire. danny i.i. t's head of computer science. the people who. see yours of major corporations banking finance. the pick is the fact that they can handle stress. what did you question stands for is essential in pretty high quality instruction tremendous demands being made on stored and in terms of activity product activity competition and deadlines days are extraordinary every year the. about five thousand students from all over india fifty or sixty candidates compete for each of the coveted places against this anon success rate is amazing in two thousand and six twenty eight of his super thirty got into i.t. not many are go in bihar then education is still seen as less important than

boys. and they are talking with it because. the war on women love. me i do. side the school anxious relatives wait for the three hour exam to finish. at the end of the day four thousand exam papers collected from mocking most of the candidates will say only one in twenty through to the second round. incredibly stupid exam scripts taken away under.

five weeks later round two of the entrance exam the super thirty will be chosen from these two hundred candidates. made it through. here to a paper. i can but. the general who could pick lower for. coming in off the field in the subject. has to go but you just make the cars use. the bus because you hear. it but. this is just a successful. brother

is the manager of soup with the competition for the school is so intense that the candidates bring photo i.d.'s imposters have been known to sit the exam. for several hours here go to. work with. me here there was a. meet with an. if you walk in all of them look you know mother. i know long or if even number how to put all they can do with one little risk of their financial background they feel a. little finalist when. ignoring them could be a problem but here you do this when you. really have to.

include me you know you can't but again i'm a prime example thank you. i'll be reading. these are you not last words you must believe i if you knew i had feet deep down you are not. in the indian capital. some of last year's super and now at. the trial. for. the forty three days of fifty. six what should be revealed to. me so i was probably i or the reporter got worse.

although ha. ha. ha you think so but i didn't. if you told me i'm pretty dumb or google it or not that. that's the reality of it at least. don't get me going. this is. what. has almost legend there. status some coaching schools even advertise their students' rankings in the entrance exams and everyone's cashing in except. because the students who make it into super thirty say nothing for their tuition. it's highly subsidized by other project. school of mathematics. that. we. have got. some

five to seven. mathematics or half a mile from. the. c. b. this what i'm talking america here. but. i'm going to get. all that it's got to do it from i know it's a. demand is high and the classes are huge seven hundred or more yet the fees. are nuns an unwelcome competitor for some of the other schools opt out. of the of course. but the. fact that a. clear. or

he ever had to up the hard to get in is school other obviously fall. is going to fall going to go scott. guthrie or. unknown kumar has received so many death threats that these days he never goes anywhere without his bodyguards. such is the reality of life in bihar. the village of deal cali two hours drive from but now even today bihar's countryside is home to nine tenths of its people such under oppressed has lived here all his life mark on her marriage in the supply line he said i'm going up out

of either side behaved without is a good gentleman. or him again later. so the. but they're back they're back they're back they're told you get up with abo heard about her. body right is in the tent marked about the whole. the family is divided. as here with his mother his wife lives mostly in her own village her family's better off. often struggles to survive but is the thing i'm here to get out of car you have one hundred thousand one hundred that i had either by the. party i. talk up to now that i've. kind of been about milliken and look i've made her the.