she was charged with murder. for addis and lauch this noir represented an indonesian tried alongside a vietnamese woman they claim they thought they were taking part in a t.v. prank show when they smeared poison on kim jong noms face who are here on c.c.t.v. at kuala lumpur airport police say five north korean men supervise the assassination and a car registered in rejoining trolls name drove a group of them from the airport we certainly believe that. you'll still have a hand in doing this because he's a chemist's in fact when he was interview they follow money in he. account and the question is ready to get on his money out reason apartment police found thirty eight thousand dollars in cash for phones five computer devices and a bottle of chloride offices didn't test any of his belongings for v.x. nerve agent and only interviewed him once the police did not very i was the object

if in that sense they're not very computed malaysian police let's rejoin told go after two weeks you flew to freedom in china because north korea had seized malaysian diplomats and demanded a prisoner swap there was a golden opportunity to hold them accountable so we have completely lost that they'll think we can ever get to the bottom of the case. documents obtained by al-jazeera also show re junk schol had been doing millions of dollars of business with all the north koreans politicians in malaysia and now asking hard questions about what north korea has been up to the assessment of kim jong nam exposes malaysia. where you have a foreign government involved in activities that might be a true mental to release itself why did the malaysian government allow this for which a long time. we junk schol had close contact with agents from this embassy the evidence

suggests that together they planned and executed the most high profile of murders after the release of the only remaining suspect in the killing these pictures obtained exclusively by al-jazeera suggest the karaoke singing chemist who get away with murder will jordan al-jazeera kuala lumpur. and for more on this al-jazeera investigation by will jordan go to our youtube page at w w w dot com forward slash zero english well plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says attorney general william barr has committed a crime by lying to congress over the russia meddling probe. after a powerful psycho ripped through mozambique officials now a cholera outbreak plus. the richardson in darwin 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. iran's economic situation could soon become a lot more precarious as the deadline on a u.s. sanctions waiver expires president trump's decision not to renew the relief measures for countries buying uranium oil will cut a vital source of revenue for the government in tehran but iranian oil sales have already fallen by half since the us pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal. reports now from tehran. hours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions and welcomed an important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful public relations no matter. the circumstances we have more that.

would divide us when the united states reimposed sanctions it granted waivers to some of iran's biggest customers ending those waivers and iran supply means prices at the pump are likely to rise to address suggestions by u.s. president donald trump that some opec members namely saudi arabia and the united arab emirates might increase production to make up for iranian oil not making it to market it's probably potentially more dangerous to the very existence of the organization not to talk of that but does it with all of that is. the morse to do for this organization to sort these seeds of discord. to the extent that. we look at it were to sit down and took to see shows let alone implemented together needing to meet market demand has been an important

part of how iran has kept selling oil and coped with us sanctions china turkey and iraq have also said they cannot abide by unilateral american policies and will continue dealing with iran if pushed iran could obstruct shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and restart your brain human richmond none are things iranian leaders say they actually want to do but there is little doubt the country is hurting a crippled economy soaring prices runaway inflation iranians worry it could mean taxes going up and subsidies on fuel electricity and consumer goods going down last year this conference had even more buzz and even bigger exhibits and there was a little more excitement in the air about doing business but that was before the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and really imposed sanctions but one russian chief executive said u.s. sanctions are exactly why russia wants to do even more business with iran but

that's why they're here. so close you know it may be no it's for sure. it will be additional opportunity for russian companies because so busy in many many years since there is fear you get very good relationships between iran as a country and russia as a country and so he union in vice and now is there is a good chance to start to mutual cooperation between companies. for the business level under u.s. sanctions he says the kremlin has encouraged companies to seek out iranian business partners characterizing sanctions as temporary complications but many iranians may say u.s. sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to lead to more harsh up. to her on. well let's take a look at the countries that until now enjoyed relief from u.s. sanctions the world's top consumer of iranian oil china is likely to be one of the

hardest hit beijing has remained defiant and it's fear that sanctions could derail efforts to cool off the ongoing terror of war with the u.s. india comes second on the list of buyers of iranian oil washington has also hit its second top supplier venezuela with sanctions the country's important farming sector is already in distress and the high prices of oil could potentially cause the cost of food to surge turkey is another important by ankara says it cannot cut ties with a neighbor and has condemned the u.s. move other countries which up until now had been covered by the waiver such as south korea and japan have reluctant to reduce their imports ahead of the deadline and the target is a chinese political and economic commentator he joins me now from beijing good to have you with us on the program again mr chang and let's just begin with china sort of continue. will continue its long term projects and wants to continue its long term projects with iran including

a lot regarding infrastructure projects in the sort of oil and gas industry and one wonders how they're going to be infected directly or in directly by what the u.s. is imposing. well there's the point that there are legal contracts china will continue to honor these are both in terms of building infrastructure and for supply of oil and china has not signaled any. ability or willingness to change that situation the question is does this overflow into the current negotiations between the u.s. and china on trade and will it result in perhaps even lower prices for china which gives them even more incentive to deal with iran there's also this issue about just adding everything up right now if you take iranian oil out of the equation the way that donald trump would there is not enough capacity and interestingly enough although the beneficiary of this with theoretically the saudi arabia they have been

burned once six months ago when these sanctions were announced they were prepared to ramp up only to be met with these sanctions waivers and there's some feeling there that they're going to wait and watch and see before they start pumping up the price of oil keep in mind that they need eighty dollars per barrel in order to just meet their obligations on their their their current budget the governmental budget so it's a very complex situation the math does not add up china is not willing to do go in and the question is what will donald trump achieve with this move of course. iran is one of the largest suppliers to china china does buy its oil from several other countries as well but the issue here is about being dictated to and that's a very different level of conversation on the diplomatic front that china has to have with washington as you say it touches on these ongoing trade talks and tire of

talks that we've been following for the last eighteen months but this is a very delicate time for both beijing and washington what's happening right now with iran puts another sort of. problem another spanner in the works. so this this is the root of the the issue and that is that long term you have this saying trump is very much about the short term getting what he wants china is very much about the long term and when you start talking about this sovereignty issue it is not only. china that is concerned about this in europe russia south america everybody is concerned that what was once promised to be a neutral instrument this is the international swift payment system this is the payment system that allows banks to send money to each other in dollar denominations is being used effectively as a club by the united states by donald trump in order to force people to make

decisions that he wants not sovereign decisions of these countries not let us meet and figure out how we can resolve this issue but simply you either do as i tell you or i will weaponize myself system and start attacking your governments and your and your companies see how this pans out as we get more reaction through the day for the moment the timing of thank you senior white house advisor john has been giving some hints about donald trump's middle east peace plan at an event in washington d.c. he was asked about israel and its illegal settlements in the occupied west bank let's go live to in washington d.c. with us i mean are we getting sort of a sneak preview of what's being dubbed a sort of the deal of the century by the white house. we could be actually and this was a speech that was given by jared kirshner at their washington institute for near east policy a think tank here in washington and it wasn't an official roll out by any means of

the trump administration's middle east peace plan but it was an opportunity for kirshner to talk a little bit about it and he was saying that he was sort of saying that the peace plan which has not been released yet. is in his words would be a good starting point for peace between the israelis and palestinians but then he said this that you just mentioned there he said that that the administration the u.s. will discuss the possibility of israel and axing west bank settlements. when the new israeli government is formed now it's important to caution or did not say that the u.s. has decided that they would support that but the very fact that he said that the u.s. would at least entertain the idea of it is certainly something very new of course those are illegal israeli settlements have been ruled illegal multiple times by the international community and the united nations the settlements issue and next thing

them was something that prime minister benjamin netanyahu first brought up during the last election but let's listen now to a little bit more of what krishna had to say thursday night here in washington about this issue. but i do hope that what will happen is as he forms of government we've been giving him space to do that i do imagine that once there is a government formed will started gauging on this process and last discussion and i do hope that what we're doing i said i hope both sides will take a real look at it now this is this is a peace plan that's been in the works for a little over two years now questioner says that it and the administration says they plan to release it in june its much anticipated but we expect to hear some pushback from the palestinians and the international community because its general consensus is that this would be something the annexation of these illegal settlements would be something that would kill any chance of a two state solution so it's very hard to see how if the u.s.

would support such a thing how this peace plan could go forward so but the fact in the very fact it caution or suggesting that the u.s. would even discuss it indicates at least where he is thinking perhaps where the administration is thinking as well on this issue for the moment gabriel thank you to the in washington d.c. . well in the u.s. senate democrats all accusing attorney general william barr of lying in a congressional hearing be cannot see pelosi says bob committed a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election skip to hearing in the house of representatives all report has been following developments 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 in one way or the other and if he does not provide this committee with the information it demands the respect it deserves is to bars a moment of accountability 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 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 while 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 gated the president as to whether the president of the united states committed crimes still had on al jazeera. twenty years more than a million people. policy towards cuba could trigger a little suits with claims with billions of dollars. and. the england cricket. team mates.

you'd expect big rains of the moment in china but a couple of days almost rain free the brightest seen from space. china sea and touching taiwan and there in the forecast for friday the breeze would suggest we're talking more sure into vietnam and turkey back up into china so there's going to be an increase in shares in vietnam western china which will probably then march this was hong kong but not until after the weekend there are quite a few showers around the philippines a developing dairy there more south of the north and even more so than towards in west papua. to the west of that if you're in singapore kuala lumpur you could get a shower each day but there also are more parts of malaysia in the dry rather than wet on daily basis dangerous weather now in the bay of bengal the first very active tropical season. description of its effects on land devastating it's like to make landfall on the dish of coast and this is jaring friday and from

that point it will run up the coast towards buying the desh for saturday despite evacuations the potential for flooding the storm damage from winds and from waves is great. the weather sponsored by category one. in two thousand and. documenting a groundbreaking. pairing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest university. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme helping change the face of india. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in. something i feel every time i

get on the chair every time i interview someone. often working round the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. welcome back you're watching other serious news hour with the reminder of our top stories one of those well as main opposition leaders leopoldo lopez says he expects the military to soon turn against president with a row. with the spanish ambassador's residence in caracas to avoid detention after

venezuela's top court orders his rearrest. mass protests continue in sudan where demonstrators have staged a million strong march to press for civilian administration protest leaders say the military isn't serious about handing over power two sides have agreed on solving a joint council to run the country but odds over its composition. the vietnamese woman jailed over the murder of the north korean leader's half brother has been freed from prison donkey wang was one of two women put on trial for the posting of kim jong un column paul in twenty seventeen. india and bangladesh are racing to evacuate more than a million people out of the path of a powerful special trains boats and buses have been put on into service. rescue people who were in the storm's way is expected to make landfall on friday car like . 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. particularly the world. because the. people there i don't think for all the millions of things they need in the rehab additions and at the railway station in the town of pretty 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 just to leave surely being forced to go. forecasters are warning likely funny the move towards 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. big towns and villages in kellen far dealing with an outbreak of cholera officials have recorded four cases of the disease in some of the worst affected areas so it's the second major storm to hit the region in six weeks and has already killed more than forty people well aid has slowly begun arriving in the northern part of the country but thousands of people in remote areas to lead help as horrible task reports from the kamya. they survive last weeks like learn now they struggle is finding food the heavy rains and floods destroyed their crops now after days without much to eat aide workers are finally overcome flood damaged roads to reach them. and

their wants to spread 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 roads in areas by roads or some areas can only be reached by 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 were 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 but just hope the worst of the with the has passed so they can begin rebuilding their lives. how demitasse al jazeera. the u.s. senators failed to overturn president trump's veto of a law that would have added washington support for the cited war in yemen the bipartisan measure was passed in both houses of congress earlier this year

president trump used only the second veto of his presidency to block it alan fischer reports. the war in yemen is no into its fifth year u.s. backed so he led coalition is up against the rainy unsupported who the fighters who seize control of the government and the largest city so now the u.s. has been providing intelligence and 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 eight million yemenis are at risk of famine and the color obrecht 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 involvement the idea one 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 area see 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 saudi arabia we will not continue to fall out of follow their lead into disastrous military interventions like 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 fully 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 saudi led coalition alan fischer al-jazeera washington. facebook has been controversial far right figures on their organizations on both facebook and instagram the company has been under pressure over state it to restrict hate speech rob rebels reports. facebook and instagram have permanently banned several prominent far right anti-semitic and anti muslim provocateur tumors there is a concerted a social media empire you can't counts of radio host alex jones conspiracy theorist who claims mass shootings like the one at a high school in parklane florida last year where seventeen died were faked by the

government. gone to his laura loom or a prolific skewer of anti muslim diatribes and false conspiracy theories visitors to loom or his facebook page on thursday found this no more facebook or instagram for milo you know novelists former writer for the conservative breitbart news site who's been closely associated with neo nazi and white supremacist figures and often ridicules feminism islam and social justice movements who is farah khan the eighty five year old leader of the us black nationalist group nation of islam was also removed he was banned earlier from you tube for comparing jews to insects the company cited facebook's policies against dangerous individuals and organizations in a statement facebook said we've always banned individuals or organizations that promote

or engage in violence and hate regardless of idiology adding that it has an extensive process for evaluating potential by a later as among its two point seven billion members facebook instagram and other social media platforms have been heavily criticized in the u.s. and internationally for failing to police hate speech in turn facebook head mark zuckerberg has called on governments and international regulators to become more active in policing online hate and calls for violence later this month new zealand prime. mr just sinned and french president emanuel will convene an international meeting aimed at preventing violent hate crimes from being shown on line and curbing inflammatory calls for violence. al-jazeera los angeles britain's opposition labor party is calling for a police investigation into allegations that

a minister leaked information from the national security council meeting oh you or any of your behind the walkway. not. defense secretary governor williamson denies making a decision to give chinese telecom giant holloway a role in building the u.k.'s five g. network a wednesday he was such from the government over the leak prime minister trees the mayor has refused to be drawn on whether he violated the official secrets act. whatever the family's been told you know the only problem is that. it's mr williamson a lawyer or was there a kangaroo court prime minister. was the prime. come to trust well i don't know what prime minister. prime minister did you get above that . while the police investigating this is night said the control buttons whole national security adviser says failure to remove

williamson would have sent a bad precedent. this is the most serious leak out of our national security council since we established 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 in 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 in local elections in england and northern ireland the winner seems to be apathy the really conservatives are predicted to lose hundreds of council seats but across the country it seems many people simply refuse 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 to us that 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 me pressure and i give you the impression is a democracy but there's not as i said before there were 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

a chilling effects of the disaster of breck's its people being so disgusted that they're now refusing to participate in the to.