in the direction of the civilians and civilian they want civilian or and that is very important for them than three weeks have passed since the fall of the regime of a lot of pressure and yet there is no letup in the best of this crowd thousands called to new to arrive on the remote regions they say they are ready to stay here for any length of time until they had achieved the goals of the revolution. one of those goals is to bring members of the former regime to account for image corruption and other crimes the process is now underway the prosecutor general has a started investigating former president omar bashir for crimes including money laundering misuse of public funds and financing terrorism it's a measure which these carloads see with a mixture of satisfaction and doubt they still criticize the military council for what they describe as its lack of transparency and they demand public trials and a complete dismantling of all the structures of the former regime including the

security services one hundred five zero. in the u.s. senior democrats are accusing attorney general william barr of lying in a congressional hearing house speaker nancy pelosi says barr committed a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election bar has skipped a hearing in the house of representatives on miller's report one hour from particle hayne who's been following those developments 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 the respect it deserves the bars a moment of accountability come soon enough and 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 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. saying exactly that he was upset with the way bar 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 committee has decided to proceed next up though the big testimony we're waiting to see is if the democrats can get robert muller this former special counsel before them they say they want to hear directly from the man who invested the gator the president as to whether the president of the

united states committed crimes or plenty more ahead here of the news hour including after a powerful psycho ripped through an island. officials a cholera outbreak plus. in syria after what the u.n. calls the worst barrel bomb attacks in over a year. one hundred richardson in the world's best athletes are gathering for the new track and field season but just one runner and one story is grabbing all of the attention. of the u.s. senators failed to overturn president trump's veto of a law that would have ended washington support for the saudi led war in yemen the bipartisan measure was passed in both houses of congress earlier this year but president trump used only the second veto of his presidency to block it alan fischer reports. the war in yemen is known to its fifth year u.s.

back so he led coalition is up against the really in supported the fighters to seize control of the government and the largest city so now the u.s. has been providing intelligence from logistical support to a force which also includes the united arab emirates and egypt but the fighting has killed or injured more than fifteen thousand million yemenis are at risk of famine and the caller has hit more than one million people u.s. politicians argued only congress could declare war and so the president has no right to continue american envoy. the idea won support from republicans and democrats in both houses of congress but the president vetoed same because there was no u.s. military directly involved in the fighting it wasn't needed the senate can overturn a veto if it gets enough votes a two thirds majority plus one one of the movie sponsors said u.s. involvement was not making the idiocy for there is evidence that our involvement in yemen might well have in fact probably has further destabilize the region has

actually helped al qaeda in the arabian peninsula well senator bernie sanders said the u.s. should not be fighting two wars with so do europeans we will not continue to follow the follow their lead into disastrous military interventions. but supporters of the presidential veto insisted donald trump didn't need congressional approval for what we are doing however is providing limited non-combat support in the end the senate failed to overturn the presidential veto falling short by fourteen votes one former u.s. ambassador to yemen says the vote lays down a marker for the white house about future involvement demonstrates the rising level of frustration in the congress which is bipartisan as both democrats and republicans who are frustrated with the administration's position are the main conflict and frustrated with the support that the administration has for saudi

arabia while the white house is skilled bike u.s. involvement under congressional pressure it's still facing questions about how far it's willing to go to back the coalition alan fischer al jazeera washington a six month exemption from your sanctions for countries that still buy iranian oil will end in a few hours time the new restrictions will affect countries like china and washington's allies india and south korea amongst others mike hanna has the story from washington d.c. . 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 scientists in the immoralities have agreed to but i've had conversations the president said 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 full crim 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 al-jazeera washington. secretary general mohamed but i can do was entire state to attend an oil and gas conference i can do says maintaining stability in the global oil market was better for everyone if the united states. has moved into iran. as iran comes under more pressure from us sanctions the secretary general of opec the organization of petroleum exporting countries mohamed kindo came to ron to attend an annual oil and gas crisis his presence alone a strong signal that iran remains an important oil 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 though said when it comes to keeping the oil industry stable opec members speak with one voice as they all remain focused on. in their obligations under the declared mission of cooperation and it is a work in progress. toward the going to be the more you need. decisions within opec ok it will continue to look like i said we don't want to be so difficult we'll take a look at your decisions and the implementing collectively i mean through this was taken 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 bloc 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 india and bangladesh are racing to evacuate more than a million people out of a path of cycling forty. it's expected to make landfall on friday car like how small. these families aren't taking any chances are they leaving their towns and villages as cycloid funny approaches india's east coast odisha state has deployed teams of emergency workers to set up shelters in schools and government buildings. the pregnant women. in the world. because there are more. i mean the people there i don't think for all the millions of things they need in

the habitations and at the railway station in the town of putting tourists are queuing to leave extra trains and buses are running to take them somewhere safe our . previous cycle hit back then we stayed in the hotel we wanted to stay this time but the government wouldn't let us the hotel owners also wanted this to leach all being forced to go. forecasters are warning funny you move towards a low lying bangladesh threatening hundreds of thousands of refugees from me in ma who are living in camps. but first the sightlines expected to strike india's east coast putting hundreds of thousands in harm's way. al-jazeera. tiles of villages can a third eeling with a cholera outbreak officials have recorded multiple cases of the disease and some of the worst affected areas. is the second major storm to hit the region in just

six weeks and has already killed more than forty people. well because arriving in northern parts of the country but thousands of people are in remote areas they still need help tassel reports from a community that. they survived last weeks like learn now they struggle is findings . the heavy rains and floods destroy the crops now after days without much to eat aide workers are finally overcome flood damaged roads to reach them. and their wants a speck of maize to last at least a month long enough for his family to live on until he makes a plan his home was destroyed during the cyclon. sangar arriving to the house to help more children or pull them out when i went back inside to take things out of the house collapsed i was injured. and my legs.

cyclon kenneth struck while mozambique was still struggling to deal with the impact of cycling die aid workers say many remote areas and small islands are still waiting for supplies aid has started to arrive but it's slow partly because of bad weather some trucks i managed to reach remote areas by roads or some areas can only respond back to pins on the weather. the united nations says hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter food and drinking water that eye of the storm was narrow but it was ferocious it took out everything in its path so those are the people that we're targeting this food assistance that already gone out to nearly twenty seven thousand people so this operation is moving at a pace and scale but we need the international community to care we know this is a part of the world that often doesn't get attention it needs the world's attention and it needs the world to care. more rain is expected and that could burst already swollen rivers people living in areas at high risk of flooding have been urged to

move to higher ground but some families say they have nowhere to go they just hope the worst of the with the has passed so they can begin rebuilding their lives. michael mia mozambique still ahead here on the al-jazeera news. as pop star turned opposition leader but we want is for. bail but how a change of president tom's policy towards cuba could trigger lawsuits with planes with billions of dollars and play tower the england cricket asked to lead the world cup squad by his team mates peter will have his details later. howler may can be a pretty stormy months in the us today and it starts in that way this big massive

cloud here represents sunder storms quite wide ranging quite violent in nature we're going to march slowly eastwards the temperatures only in the twenty's that's because of the amount of cloud rain we're feeding the more sure in all the time this is normal this time the able to cause accountant or not a surprise in this still cold enough weather for winter running through the prairies of counters to dipping down across into the united states every now and again the next couple of days is still turns to minneapolis but it's cold enough for some snow just in north dakota name stars to kota but this is the picture of the science and that green represents again the potential in the southern states of some big thunderstorms big hail and of course a tornadic potential we have had recently some pretty big showers moving slowly out from puerto rico's for the bahamas towards florida now they've mostly gone i think by friday you'll see is a lousy dry picture so masses of cloud in the trade winds though and occasional light showers seem like point of view otherwise they're the caribbean's remarkably

dry and so is mexico but the breezes up as you can see now salvato does look still fairly sherry. free education for all was the promise the reality provoked a generation. to drugs another plot the wanton son of a god how a protest over education fees am morphed into a national revolt. there is damage come. everything must for. a witness documentary on al-jazeera. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera 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 screen a helping change the face of india. super thirty. welcome back you're watching the obvious here and use our with the whole rob a reminder of our top stories venezuela's top court has ordered the arrest of one of the country's main opposition leaders they called accuse the poll though lopez of violating the terms of his house arrest lopez understandably and are in the spanish ambassador's residence in caracas. mass protests continue in sudan where

demonstrators have staged a million strong march to press for a civilian administration protest leaders say the military isn't serious about handing over power the two sides have agreed on forming a joint council to run the country but the tods over its composition. and a u.s. congressional hearing has been forced to speak to an empty chair after attorney general william barr refused to face that house speaker nancy pelosi earlier accused of committing a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert miller's report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. peter matthews is a political analyst and professor of political science and cypress college he joins me now from los angeles good to have you with us on the program sir i mean what congress feels and what congress does are two very different things the impression is they feel lied to or misled so one wonders what next.

it was remarkable how the attorney general decided just not to show up today and refused to testify and that's something that could lead to contempt of congress but here's what's next is a problem here with mr miller's letter which indicated that mr barr misrepresented the actual report of the investigative report and mr mollett had actually prepared summaries earlier back in march and asked mr barr to use the summaries to go and presented to congress and the public and barr didn't do that instead he comes up with a four page summary letter which was very misleading and set the tone for the public to misunderstand what happened with the investigation and deal problem right now and congress is furious indeed another bar of course you know the public also very confuses what's going on at the moment because i will not see plays he calls a liar but sort of words are not enough they they democrats certainly want to try and get the public behind them behind this potential for to impeachment of the president why won't they make that move on their own.

well there's a difference of opinion with the democratic party which leads the house the palosi faction believes that they should go slow and make sure they win the next election without getting diverted through impeachment proceedings other people are progressives want to go ahead and can start impeachment as little war and actually advocated and that is this started because they feel is enough evidence the mother report to bring articles of impeachment against the president and there's a difference of opinion that's why they're going slow and they're going in two different directions but what's that what the whole house i think can agree on is that they've been misled by mr barr and many of them are calling for mr barr to resign now here's something else about the structure of justice in the part that's in question here that the president tried justice or not and that has to do with things like when he asked mr mr again the white house counsel to find a way to get mr moller to resign that's interfering in the in the investigative process the justice process so there's enough evidence to say that the high crimes and misdemeanors is not the actual crime where someone robs a bank is a crime committed by a high end of it i level individual who's broken the trust with the people in the

continent old for example so this is a very tricky situation democrats are a bit bifurcated on this decision which way they go and of course while the situation continues to rumble on and this argument and counter-argument between the democrats and the republicans we slowly edge closer and closer to the twenty twenty presidential election is this issue do you think this issue could ever have a line drawn underneath it or is it going to rumble on a sea overtake the discourse for the candidates that will then try and counter president president trump and when that election happens. where i doubt inflection point we don't know exactly which way it's going to go because it depends how the house responds to bars refusal to testify for president trump saying that he's going to avoid any of the subpoenas he already has avoided subpoenas for himself is avoided subpoenas for information about his tax returns

and there's a cancer crisis brewing here between the executive branch and those that are rare and congress is the oversight branch as opposed to be able to subpoena people from the executive branch and provide information to investigate there's a big crisis now depends which way and how nancy pelosi and her party which leads the house will respond and how the republicans in the senate will respond in case that any kind of a trial comes to the senate on impeachment it's very much up in the air as to what this will have to do with the election which is a year and a half away still or two years away but may have some impact of course depending on how it goes did we just wait and see for the moment thanks so much for joining us from l.a. beat about his. no u.s. president all trumps nobody for the federal reserve has withdraw his nomination steve moore has been criticized for sexist comments and for being too close to the president more is conservative commentator but has no formal economic background. americans are not tries cubans whose properties were seized by a former leader fidel castro in r.c. damages in u.s.

courts for their losses their claims total more than eight billion dollars the lawsuits were allowed by a historic change in u.s. policy towards cuba under the trumpet ministration i did show castro explains. american cruise ships docked in the port of havana are a sign of how far the business relationship between the u.s. and cuba has come in a few short years the ships arrived in twenty sixteen after president barack obama eased a decades old trade embargo but they sailed in taking a risk that may now back fire the previous owners of the land the ships are docked on the private families that lost their property to cuba's communist government are suing they're doing that under a legal provision just enacted by donald trump the floodgates are open sores big there's a lot of people that have had their properties expropriated carolyn chester is among the nearly six thousand americans who have certified claims to land or

investments in cuba her parents had a farm there the family's nest egg taken away at gunpoint by fidel castro's soldiers when she was just a baby honestly sixty years that's a long time ago i don't have a lot of time left you know i'm in my golden years and. i'd like to see this claim settle if not for me for you know my family chester wants payment for her claim now valued at two million dollars but with no way of collecting damages from the cuban government the cases most likely to go to court are those where a foreign company profited from the seized land carnival cruise lines was the first defendant named thursday economists say the lawsuits will have a chilling effect on cuba's troubled economy truth. be. more to go want to go. on best and.

cubans taking to the streets of havana for its annual may day parade this week sent a defiant message to washington but we are not afraid of trial or the americans or anyone because we are cubans and we will defend what we have cuba's president calls the u.s. decision to allow the lawsuits a provocation the european union and canada have both pushed back as well saying they should protect foreign investors in cuba and concerned about the president set by the new u.s. policy but the white house has stood firm in its tough in stance against leftism in cuba saying it is righting a wrong in history. castro al-jazeera washington. the united nations is condemning what it calls the worst barrel bobber time for syria for fifteen months government helicopters and warplanes aborted by russian jets attacked the

escalation or safe so rebel held areas so current reports. ok ok this baby girl survived strikes on one of the towns in the southern countryside of it live province also another one a lawless she goes to. work but this child didn't like that i don't know but what i did and then this during the day. why 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 as the last of the apostles our fellow quickly quickly quickly they shout that. they all make it sound and mind. that the united nations is condemning the latest round of syrian government and russian as strikes on the d.

. escalation or safe zones in the northwest in rebel held areas of and hama. school health centers and residential areas have all been hit in the northwest of syria un say they are the most intensive barrel bomb attacks in fifteen months there strikes follow the killing of at least sixty syrian soldiers and their allies during opposition attacks in the last couple of weeks. to assure that there is proportionality respect of the national law and. rejected. 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. al-jazeera. for the opposition labor party is calling for a police investigation into allegations that a minister leaked information from

a national security council meeting oh you or any of your behind the walkway. absolutely not. former defense secretary gavin williamson denies leakey a decision to give chinese telecom giant holloway a role in building the case five g. network on wednesday he was sacked from the government over the leak prime minister trees may has refused to be drawn on whether he violated the official secrets act. whatever the family's been told then i think prime minister. is mr williamson a lawyer. was there a kangaroo court private it. was the prime. how many troops was prime minister. prime minister did you get the obvious out. why are the police investigating this is night said to control. britain's former national security adviser says failing to remove williams said would have

set a bad precedent. this is the most serious leak out of our national security council since we established a g twenty ten. all over government of course you get leaks you get stories coming in and out but in this space where intelligence officials and the chief of defense staff talk to ministers about the most sensitive issues you need to be sure the competence will be respected and therefore this was very toxic. voting as i did at local elections in england did all the island when it seems to be apathy they really conservatives are predicted to lose hundreds of council seats but across the country it seems many people simply refused to vote as a protest over bricks it lawrence lee has been following events from yorkshire in northern england. look it's a voter increasingly an endangered species their numbers dropping as bricks it sucks the life out of them my son is very skeptical and he has this saying that politicians all politicians lie you know they're lying because they're it's amazing

i don't think there is a democracy for a while in this case it's just is a card. with a heavy on it with an impression i give you the impression is a democracy but it is not as i said before they're for their own agenda by eleven in the morning just twenty seven people had come to this polling station in richmond the main market town in this part of yorkshire very strongly what came across to me was that the felt that the m.p.'s didn't want to leave the european union and they and they do and they do. and that it was apply for is not to actually leave so it's a revolt against politics in that sense it is this in miniature is the story of these elections people unable to separate local issues from the gigantic mess the bricks it has become this is just warn of the chilling effects of the disaster of breck's its people being so disgusted that they're now refusing to participate.

it's in the democratic process at the same time the governments cannot produce a legislative program to present to the queen because they don't know what to put in its and they still don't know the u.k. is going to participate in european elections which are exactly three weeks away in short breck's it has put the whole of british politics into suspended animation england is now peculiar place where the public is heavily politicized yet is starting to reject traditional parties out rights but it certainly presents a major problem when people question the point of voting in what's supposed to be a democracy gloriously al-jazeera richmond in yorkshire. now ugandan pop star turned politician opposition politician bobby wine has been freed on bail after spending two days in a back some security prison he's facing trial after leading a street protest last year against attacks on social media wine has been warned not

to engage in protests while on bail catherine soy has more from kampala. the moment but the wine supporters hired he'd been freed the pop star todd politician was arrested on monday accused of leading an illegal part test last year against a new post social media tax. the bail hearing in kampala took an unprecedented four hours he's lawyers argue that he wasn't going to feed the country and would abide by the bill times i am glad that he has been granted bail and there are four security temporary freedom that you need service is a very exciting thing. because nobody desires and should be in a prison for. one form of the proceedings from prison by the link it's a new system introduced by the judiciary to increase efficiency. but he supporters say to his used to prevent them from coming to court they also say the charge

against him of disobeying a statutory duty and another pending teasin case are politically motivated. if you are born again or full of politics.