who needs help who may be stranded out there as president of trump's nominee for the federal reserve has withdrawn his nomination stephen moore has been criticized for sexist comments and for being too close to president trump the critics felt that with threaten the central bank's independence moore is a conservative commentator but has no formal economics background he was to fill one of two vacant positions at the u.s. central bank the other nominee herman cain withdrew last month. and in the chairs represented the u.s. attorney general who's refused to testify at a congressional hearing about the mole report bill barr wanted to avoid lawyers questioning him about russian collusion and donald trump's election he's been threatened with contempt by the house of representatives for refusing to answer questions barr has cleared the president of collusion but the democratic party wants to see the full and censored version of the report pedicle hay and ask more from washington d.c. . a lot of political theater today as 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 and 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 in one way or the other and if he does not provide this committee with the information it demands and the respect it deserves the bars the moment of accountability come 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 the 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 i mean 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 that gave you the president as whether the president of the united states committed crimes plame or ahead of the news hour including. schools and hospitals have been hit during the worst airstrikes in rebel held syria more than a year. around an opposition m.p. bobby wine is freed on bail after being arrested on charges he says were made to silence. coming up and support the ice hockey player and take advantage of being sent to the penalty box.

founder julian assange has told a london court he will fight extradition to the united states let's cross to war in taylor in our european news center for more important. thanks michel yes speaking of a video link from a prison a source told the court his work could protected many people and refused to agree to be extradited a soldier is wanted in the u.s. for alleged computer hacking that carries a maximum of five years in jail but us on his lawyers fear he could face additional charges if extradited is due back in court at the end of the month reports from central london. was he was this is passionate support for the u.k.'s most famous prisoner but will he seed be on the way to face trial in the united states with julian assange was removed from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested three weeks ago hours later a u.s. prosecutors charged him with conspiring to access a classified 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 that has won many awards and protected many people were vice 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 the former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning downloaded more than a 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 four of the journalists and week uniques are published i say publish the truth they're being targeted for telling the truth and this has huge potential implications so our journalists and media outlets all across the world. american officials have accused the sounds of endangering people's lives through the mass publication his backers say he's done nothing wrong and they fear the u.s.

could widen its legal case beyond the hiking charges of course we're worried about if we have a provisional requestion united states which has at this stage one charge with a five year sentence but there is much speculation in the united states about whether additional charges might be brought by that now for once he's returned to the united states julian assange and his legal team say they'll wait to receive a full extradition request before deciding on their next steps barbara al jazeera. britain's opposition labor party is calling for a police investigation into allegations a minister leaked information from the national security council meeting or you or any of your issues behind the way. not former defense secretary given williamson denies leaking a decision to give chinese telecom giant while away a role in building the u.k.'s five g. network on wednesday he was sacked from the government over the leak a minister to resume has refused to be drawn on whether he violated the official

secrets act. whatever the policeman told then over the weekend prime minister. is mr williamson a lawyer or was there a kangaroo court prime minister. mrs burke was the front. company turfed well not private is that. the. problem is that they do get the job. while the police investigated this is nice but said the control. or britain's former national security adviser peter ricketts says failure to remove williamson would have set a bad precedent. this is the most serious leak out of our national security council since with published it in twenty ten. all over government of course you get leaks you get stories coming in and out but in this space where intelligence officials of the chief of defense staff talk to ministers about the most sensitive issues you

need to be sure the confidence will be respected and therefore this was very toxic . cypresses justice minister has resigned over a bungled investigation into the murder of seven foreign women and girls a cypriot army captain admitted killing the women and girls who were from countries including the philippines remaining and nepal it dumped some of their bodies in a lake critics accuse the government of doing little to investigate the matters because the victims were migrant workers. well from london the persons are now it's back to michelle and oh thank god in opposition politician bobby wine has been granted bail it into the herring video link while he's been held in a maximum security prison since monday i was arrested on incitement charges stemming from protests last year against a social media tax catherine sawyer has more from kampala. when the magistrate granted bobbie wine build a lot of celebration in the courtroom and outside where some of his 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 charged comes from an incident that happened last where he led a protest against the social media and mobile money task 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 how the case was hot he was not physically present in the courtroom he followed proceedings of a video link from the prison where he was being held this is a fairly new system that has been introduced by the judiciary they it's more effective bill two things going to cut down costs of bringing it to court but then supporters people who've been talking to hear

a thing that the reason why it's happening with the wind is because the government does not want too many people gathering to wait for him to appear in court a lot of fear has been garnering a lot of crowds everywhere he goes to perhaps people are thinking the government is afraid that the situation in the political situation in the country i've talked to lawyers and politicians with thing it's very precarious in. we've seen media stations being function for how they are covering. issues with the key opposition being the movement being killed the government very keen indeed to show that it's being controlled but the thought position politicians led by a bee line saying that we will not relent we will continue and hold to continue to hold the government to account and that is meaningful change in this country mass

protests continue in sudan where demonstrators are staging a million strong march to press for a civilian administration and leaders say the military isn't serious about handing over power and starts have agreed on forming a joint civilian military council to run sudan but they're at odds over its composition sudan's military council has been given another sixty days to hand over power to civilians by the african union or face suspension. as the latest from khartoum. just a while ago the fossils of that location of pretty much change finally. a lesion of what she should look like. the. powers of the main structures of the government documents all four pages too close. to the paper has been handed to the military council just a bit. to stipulate and it should spell the end of the two thousand and

five constitution in sudan the articles related to public rights and individual freedoms will be transported into the transition put into the. constitution but. it also talks about. all in council joint council of military and civilian as has been expected but no details about the membership. forces how many from the military how many from the civilian point has not been codified in this document it talks about an executive cabinet that should have the polity to declare the state of emergency in consultation with the military council. this vision has been submitted as i said to the military council the expectation during the last few days was that it will be submitted during a round of talks between the two sides but that didn't happen the talks have been stalled for the third day now the two sides are now speaking to each other through

mediators and we're waiting for the military council to announce its reaction to this south sudan's warring parties are meeting about ending the six year civil war the talks are being held in ethiopia capital addis ababa before the deadline runs out to form a unity government at peace sign in september by presidents how to care rebel later break mish are and other rival factions in a morgan has more from. parties from south sudan are here in the capital addis ababa to try to resolve outstanding issues as they face potential delays in implementing a peace deal that was signed here if you think capital addis ababa in september last year now they're supposed to be forming a transitional government on the twelfth of may this year but it doesn't look like that's going to happen the joint monitoring and evaluation commission the body that is set up to wanted to the peace deal is saying that there are a lot of delays specifically in terms of implementing the security arrangements now

asper the deal the touring sides are supposed to be bringing their armies together unifying them and training them ahead of the return of the rebel leader regular charges to his post as vice president now that's hasn't happened yet and it doesn't look like it's going to happen in the coming ten days there's also the issue of the number of states and the boundaries something that should be resolved ahead of the return of the rebel leader that is also not yet resolved so it doesn't look like that the transitional government that is supposed to be formed will happen and the opposition is already complaining they're saying that they want an extension of the period of the deadline they want another six months to ensure that security arrangements are in place so that their leader can come in assume his post. has not been getting good publicity a u.n. report released just a few days back says that the government is responsible for the defeat disappearance and the killing execution of two activists who disappeared from nairobi on the twenty third and twenty fourth of january twenty seventh seen now the government has repeatedly denied knowing where these activists are and have always been repeating saying that if anybody is to be asked and question in terms

of their disappearance it should be the kenyan authorities but the un report says that the activist disappeared from kenya then appeared in south sudan specifically in the national security prison known as the blue house before they disappeared once again and were executed in a presidential compound in the southwest of town so the government is denying that it has any involvement in this saying that if anybody is to be held accountable it should be nairobi all this comes as the opposition party is demanding accountability and the formation of a hybrid court so a lot of issues to be resolved a lot of issues to be discussed with me the very hard to see how a transitional government will be formed in the coming two weeks. so at on al jazeera look at the influence saudi arabia appears to be wielding on u.s. foreign policy as the trumpet ministration tightens its iran sanctions. and support the blazers are looking sharp it will have all the action and we are here they are .

either but quite a few showers with us at the parts of turkey at the moment the satellite picture is showing all the cloud making its way across tekkie and up towards the northeast and it's going to give us a fairly lively downpours as we head through the next couple of days so quite a few showers then across turkey once more on friday and then those pushing their way eastwards as we head into saturday was in particularly heavy downpours in the eastern parts of turkey but also through georgia and up into the fossil in parts of russia so a lot of wet weather is likely here i mean for the towards the south and for the arabian peninsula the weather is coming down and it's also pretty hot for many of us now doha we see the temperatures up to thirty six degrees as we head into friday there is a little bit more cloud just around politics saudi arabia that is working its way eastwards and that will work its way towards doha towards cattle on saturday so be outside chance of a shower certainly looks like it's going to turn

a bit more humid here in the day as we head for the south we've still got one or two showers with us in the northern parts of mozambique some of those again likely to be pretty heavy as we head through the next few days of course this is a region that was hit by also i claim those are also affecting us in tanzania as well but away from that there's a lot of dry following weather to be found and should get to around twenty seven degrees say one for us but not this one forcing cape town will be getting to seventy. a university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study or exams one want to waste investigates the pakistani company at legibly selling fake degrees to the thousands of police around the world on al-jazeera and may on al-jazeera. as the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls we focus on the economic challenges facing india and the rise of cultural nationalism a new series of you want

a winning environmental show which meets some of the people striving to protect the planet twenty five years after coming to power can be a unseen maintain its political dominance in south africa and a massive documentary series talk from lives of two young boys and little kenya and up in brazil over the past twenty years and with threats it still looming and populism on the runs across europe will these elections become a referendum on you so may. take up the top stories this hour on al-jazeera

a bit as well in court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition politician leopoldo lopez is accused of violating a two thousand and seventeen court imposed order to remain under house arrest. says he was released from his home by the military. authorities an india are evacuating nearly eight hundred thousand people in the path the site on tani as expected to hit india's east coast on friday forecasters are also warning though. and low lying bangladesh. and an empty chair has represented the u.s. attorney general who refused to testify at a congressional hearing the bar avoided lawyers questioning him about the report and why he's cleared donald trump of russian collusion in the election. united nations is condemning what it calls the worst barrel bomb attacks in northwest syria fifteen months government helicopters and warplanes supported by russian jets attacked deescalation or safe zones a rebel held areas children are among at least four people reported killed at live

in hama provinces reports ok ok this baby girl survived strikes on one of the towns in the southern countryside of it live province another little more suitable. for what we do but this child didn't like that the book. and then this during the day a little. white tell me it's volunteers watched as barrel bombs dropped on to the village of. the syrian civil defense force know there's no time to waste. entering a home looking for a family. quickly quickly quickly they shout hello. they all make it sound. like the united nations is condemning the latest round of syrian government and russian as strikes on the deescalation or

safe zones in the north west in rebel held areas of hama. the school health senses and residential areas have all been hit in the north west of syria the un say they are the most intensive barrel bomb attacks in fifteen months that strikes one of the killing of at least sixty syrian soldiers and their allies during opposition attacks in the last couple of weeks. to ensure that there is a proportionality backed national row and that is the value that's all projected. nearly one hundred and forty thousand syrians have fled the latest bombardment of the war within the last three months. many of them have managed to travel close to the border with turkey and many more are expected to arrive soon sort of its own desire. the united states is tightening its ways on iran by introducing sanctions on any country which buys iranian oil and they were struction starting on friday

follow the end of sanctions waivers for a major customers including china and india the latest attack against iranian exports are part of the u.s. campaign in cooperation with the rands regional rival saudi arabia by canada has a story from washington. it was a surprise to many when president trump chose riyadh this a destination of his first international trip in office. but two years on it's clear this was more of a signal as to the central role saudi arabia would play in his administration's decision making. driven home when it was made clear the imposition of oil sanctions against iran was done in coordination with aleve but other stuff about the details of what the site is in the emirate is have agreed to but i've had conversations the president conversations with these countries and there they have committed to making sure that there is a sufficient supply in the markets. confirmation of saudi coordination came just

days after president trump signaled a major policy reversal in libya in an obvious not to riyadh expressing u.s. support for the saudi backed warlord fighting the internationally recognized government in tripoli the announcement makes clear that saudi arabia is now a fulcrum of the united states foreign policy this despite the fact that congress has held saudi arabia responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi as well as for the deaths in the ongoing war in yemen even senior republican leaders have said and to all these situations are resolved responsibility for the murder of khashoggi is assigned it simply cannot be business as usual the white house simply ignores this position a congressional resolution condemning saudi arabia's actions in yemen the subject of presidential veto in president trump size it seems the relationship with three

are more important than that with congress. mike hanna zira washington opec secretary general are cando wasn't tehran on thursday to attend and or oil and gas conference hours before u.s. sanctions waivers on iranian oil are set to expire he said maintaining stability in the global oil oil market was better for everyone even the united states they must be as more from tehran. as iran comes under more pressure from us sanctions the secretary general of opec the organization of petroleum exporting countries mahomet's a new super kindo came to ron to attend an annual oil and gas conscious his presence alone a strong signal that iran remains an important world producing member of the opec cartel and despite reports that countries like the united arab emirates and saudi arabia might increase production to make up for sanctioned iranian oil not making it to the markets barkin those said when it comes to keeping the oil industry stable opec members speak with one voice as they older men focus on.

their obligations under the declination of corporation and it is a work in progress. toward the going to be the more you learn. the decisions within or pick up it will continue to look i said i still don't want to be so difficult he will take a look at your decisions and the implementing electively i'm concerned with measures i was willing to take during a panel discussion attended by secretary-general barr kindo an iranian member of his team said as far as practical steps opec might be able to take to protect iranian oil sales from ongoing us sanctions he said that there was nothing that opec could do that is not opec's mandate but he did say that decisions on output would be made together as a block and that the organization would make those decisions at the regular meetings but by his presence and in his own words martin doul made it clear that maintaining the stability of the global oil industry is vital and more important

than unilateral u.s. sanctions a second day of talks between the taliban and the u.s. are underway in qatar it's a sixth round of talks between the two sides who are trying to find a framework for peace in the country the afghan government has not been part of the negotiations. around forty members of libya's parliament who support the country's un backed government have spoken out against work for half tar comments came during a meeting in tripoli and would have to had has more. more than forty parliament members who are originally part of the. house of representatives convened in the libyan capital tripoli to condemn the military attack by have to his forces on the libyan capital and to show support for the forces loyal to their you and the recognized government of national accord the parliament members in tripoli who were joined also by e-mails and members of the elderly councils

in the west of libya say that the approval given to have to buy the speaker of the house of representatives based in taba. in april was given to have without the consent they say they also say that they are planning to elect a new speaker of parliament in tripoli which is going to be paralleling to the speaker. sunday they also say that they are going to put to continue putting pressure on the political key players in libya until i have that his forces moved back to the east of libya the crisis started in two thousand and fourteen when have to his forces launch a military campaign known as operation dignity in the east of libya since then the crisis between the east and the west of libya started but now as have to the forces

are moving on the capital tripoli the division between the east and the west of libya has become very clear. the mosque attack in new zealand has claimed another victim taking the total number of people killed to fifty one a turkish national who was shot in the chest at the nor mosque in christ church and march died during surgery a twenty eight year old man is charged with fifty counts of murder. the former president of pakistan pervez musharraf at his trial for treason adjourned the case is expected to continue in june after the muslim holy month of ramadan the shah of hasn't returned to pakistan since leaving for medical treatment three years ago he was indicted for high treason for suspending the constitution and imposing emergency rule when he was president and two thousand and seven catholics in sri lanka will be blocked from attending sunday mass for a second week because warnings of more attacks

a cabinet minister said the group behind the easter bombings which killed hundreds of people could also be trying to target government officials. around one hundred twenty million voters in india appear to be missing from the electoral roll activists say it's far too easy to delete names from the lists they accuse some politicians of deliberately targeting supporters of their opponents but now a new app could help people get their voting rights back albus or al jazeera reports in new delhi. north works as a domestic helper in new delhi. throughout her adult life she's always voted but might not be able to this time. made and i'm going to have got to know my name is. i have voted before but they have removed my name from the voting list. by live it doesn't get it she says her husband's name is also missing and believes it's been

done on purpose what on those that's all one vote can make a government that's why they removed names from the list as my vote can also remove the government that. is under we'll be able to vote she's one of around eighty six million new voters this year she feels it's important she should be able to cast her ballot. so we should always utilize that. but many more people are finding they no longer have that power activists say there are up to one hundred twenty million people whose names are missing from the list. voters and political parties across the country say names are being indiscriminately removed from electoral rolls activists are working to get them back on but say believe me anyone's name from the voters' list is actually quite easy to exclude somebody from the word list who call it software law has studied how the election commission's own systems are being used to disenfranchise voters with just a few clicks on

a couple of websites. step one. find out in a body. if their political party is not getting enough boards step to see the borders list and find out who are the people who may not work for their political step three just apply forms of an online by taking the names and the see the numbers of those particular people and somebody before. al-jazeera asked for an interview with the election commission to speak about the missing names but is yet to receive a response. does not jimmy suspects a government conspiracy he's not on the voting list for this election nor are for members of his family is that. wherever they had doubts people would not vote for the ruling government their names have been removed from the watering list this has affected the minority community and the lord god. is my god is not valid to call

this awful laws the belton app which is helping people get their names back on the electoral roll but that's little comfort for the many millions of others who fear they won't get to vote in the biggest election in history. says camille al-jazeera new delhi. and has been five hundred years since the death of the influential renaissance painter or not or to then she was crossed back to lauren taylor in london for more or thanks michel the painter sculptor and architect was born in the town of vinci in fourteen fifty two but spent most of his professional life in florence and milan the last supper and mona lisa are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the rene sauce they would change reports when i was in france where davinci spent the last years of his life. the another division she arrived in france carrying his most famous work the mona lisa on the donkey's back. this royal chateau de on was on the banks of the rwa 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 fawcett 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 different court if you wanted to sure the french quarter 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 macron and his the talian counterparts tara 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 dato was given was close to say which contains his workshops and studio it was here one of his apprentices.