made the head of the storm making landfall well the order the government has been making all of major preparing for last couple of days and with evacuation bostick will lift since yesterday. when before i was more than one million people have been evacuated and they have been taken to the effort with the most lame cycling characters' limb but all for nine nine nine. twenty years back orders that have been preparing for this like what effectively and it has been a pioneer in building up cycling preparedness and that is why they have built up hundreds of sites monster got a load of what. these people are going to. go to where the airport is not be they have been given and. winspear bottles of it then they have sent back to that we need to bear to saving lives a lot thank you so much for speaking to us and bringing us up to speed with the situation jackie khurana journalist joining us with the latest on cycle in forney which has made landfall in eastern india still ahead on al jazeera changes in

coming fast enough the protesters in. the streets again saying the military council isn't serious about handing over power and clamping down on hate speech facebook banned several far right individuals and organizations stay with us. the time the year we're chasing dust storms and dust devils roldan thunderstorms and rainfall there is still rain around the still cloud showing we're going to see running out through israel towards to keep the greenness shows where they are really up into the killer was you see great that's a hint of some activity in the suit have to give cloud it might well kick up some sand over iraq as it has done recently and then run towards iran but otherwise.

fairly quiet weather was slowly rising temperatures for the most part from the event down towards the whole of the rest the middle east furiously rebbie in peninsula again the breezes doesn't strong as it has been centuries in doha for example an air rising humidities fairly stable it. almost uncomfortable without air conditioning route forty one degrees in mecca the could still be were to showers around in saturday but probably not dropping south and the big rains we saw recently around mozambique have temporarily gone but they may actually return in the next day or so the focus there is in tanzania and if your sides of that the chances are you missed most the shows durban you see something happening offshore the potential big thunderstorms was realized not that long ago so the risk returns but i think it's offshore. with a sponsor. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty of the reality

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this will cripple a vital source of revenue for the iranian government and need importers probably nothing new supply it's psyco in forney is lashing the eastern indian city of gori with winds of up to a hundred seventy five kilometers an hour over a million people were evacuated ahead of the storm survival after a significant destruction west forecast you know and west bengal. now venezuela's president nicolas maduro has appeared on long side his top generals in a show of strength days after a failed attempt to overthrow him at the same time one of the main opposition figures says he still thinks the military will act against the door of all the no baseball from the safety of the gates of the spanish ambassador his official residence in caracas he and his family took refuge day on friday soon after his appearance alongside opposition leader who. why dell and as well as top court has issued an arrest warrant for us. i want to say to all of my brothers and sisters in

venezuela and around the world we are not going to rest we are not going to rest for one single moment we are not going to rest under any circumstance from the challenge and promise we've taken on which is to end the user patient. al-jazeera he has been following developments from the colombia venezuela border. a major display of loyalty live on television. on thursday to the image of president nicolas maduro surrounded by thousands of soldiers and key military figures it was a symbolic way to reject claims by the united states and the opposition that the armed forces were prepared to turn on him a little. soldiers of the motherland the time to fight has come the time has come to give an example to history in the world in venezuela the national armed forces of these of loyal united defeating attempted coup plotters who sell themselves for washington dollars. his defense minister who according to

u.s. officials was supposedly participating in talks to depose the president something he denies. makes me angry inside the corporate turns to break the military honor which is the most sacred thing that a soldier of the armed forces has they have come to me with of this stupid ridiculous offer the parade followed two days of violent confrontations on the streets after the leader of the opposition called on the military to turn on my door and for his supporters to mobilize several people died in the ensuing clashes hundreds were wounded and more than two hundred arrested among security correct as residents try to resume their lives opposition supporters said uncertainty and disappointment are starting to creep in as they continue to grapple with rampant inflation in food and medicine shortages and i see a bad future ahead if we continue in the situation that we are living if things do

not change and i do not believe they will how are we going to live like this in this situation. from washington us president donald trump personally called for a change in the country the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand that. people are starving they have no food they have no water and this was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world so we wish them well we'll be there to help and we are there to help my disposition might be a shake here now that some divisions are showing among the military and its intelligence service but it's clear what the opposition could do differently after their gamble for change has failed leaving both men and the country in a standoff with no immediate solution in sight alice some of them appear to al-jazeera from the venezuelan colombian border. mass protests continue in sudan

where demonstrators have staged what they call a million strong march to press for civilian rule protest leaders say the military isn't serious about handing over power the two sides have agreed on forming a joint civilian military council to run the country but odds over its composition from khartoum spain's. it's a mixed crowd from all the corners of sudan but there were chanting in unison same slogans on every change is the word and they say their pollution has come to stay and it's time to flush out that's preceded it but politics is the talks between the opposition alliance and the transitional military council are stalled for the third day you know all the parties now communicate with written messages through mediators the alliance has presented its vision for the transitional period following the overthrow of president bashir last month. said. he will not allow

any appointment of anyone in the transitional council until there is an agreement we expect the military transitional council to respond to world vision within two or three days. it has renewed its pledge to continue the dialogue with the protest leaders until an agreement is found so try. now actually the equation the balance in the question of now on the ground actually in the direction of the civilians and civilian they want superiority and that is very important for the three weeks have passed since the fall of the regime of a lot of the sheer budgets that is no let up in the first of this crowd thousands called to new to arrive from 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 alleged 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 crowds 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 the complete dismantling of all the structures of the former regime including the security services or does iraq. have yet many as woman jailed over the matter of the north korean leader's half brother has been freed from prison do want t. hong was one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong nam at kuala lumpur airport in twenty seventeen she was convicted last month on a lesser charge of causing injury after malaysian prosecutors withdrew the matter accusation the other accuser an indonesian woman was freed in march after all charges against her were dropped foreign story has more from kuala lumpur. twenty

one had teated guilty to the lesser charge of causing harm last month she has time for that conviction and will be flying back to vietnam later on friday now the kohak used city ayesha been in the dock with us since the start of the trial was released in march off to prosecutors dropped charges against her following intense lobbying by the indonesian government these two women have always maintained that innocence they said they had no idea they were taking part in a mud plot and that they always thought they were merely playing harmless pranks for a reality t.v. show many analysts have said it would have been a struggle to convict them for murder because prosecutors would have found it difficult to come up with a motive as to why these two women wanted to kill kim jong nam and the lawyers for the two women have always said that they believe the women were mia pawns of a north korean plot to kill kim jong nam they say the real loss to mines of the

four north korean agents who had recruited the women and trained them to the extent of taking them to carry out practice runs at shopping malls in crowded areas in kuala lumpur and these four north korean men were charged in that century but they've never been in malaysia in police custody because they fled the country i was off to kim jong nam. and south korea has said it believes north korean intelligence was behind the killing off kim jong not what this trial has done is it has helped shed light on a few things such as the fact that kim jong numb when he died was found to have been carrying on him vols antidote to the vx nerve agent that killed him suggesting that he had real fears and real concerns about being murdered but the ultimate conclusion of the trial but no one was convicted of the murder of kim jong il also leaves many questions on onset and it also means that a very brazen committed in broad daylight in front of many witnesses captured on c.c.t.v. video goes unpunished. in the united states senior democrats are accusing attorney

general william barr of lying in a congressional hearing house speaker nancy pelosi says bach committed a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert miller as report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election bar has skipped a hearing in the house of representatives on monday as reports from batticaloa hayne in washington. 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 respect it deserves 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 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 to resign and allow somebody else that. 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 to borrow. 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 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 that gated the president as whether the president of the united states committed crimes. now some of the highest profile voices in the u.s.

have been kicked off facebook and instagram the social media network announced the ban is it comes under growing pressure to care of hate speech rob reynolds reports . facebook and instagram have permanently banned several prominent far right anti-semitic and anti muslim provocateur too or there is a concerted a social media empire you can't concentrate 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 stuart 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 yen up a list former writer for the conservative breitbart news site has been closely associated with neo nazi and white supremacist figures and often ridicules feminism

islam and social justice movements louis farrakhan 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 is 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 sind our journey and french president emanuel will convene an international meeting aimed at preventing violent hate crimes from being shown online and curbing inflammatory calls for violence robert oulds al jazeera los angeles and a reminder that there's much more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on there al jazeera dot com. hello again i'm fully back with the headlines on al-jazeera by the iranian oil are about to feel the full weight of u.s. sanctions washington has ended sanctions relief given to some of the iran's top oil by baez including india china and japan this will cripple

a vital source of revenue for the rain and government and leave importers scrambling for new supply is same as robbie has more from tehran since last year since the us president donald trump pulled the united states out of the joint comprehensive plan of action the twenty fifty nuclear deal or oil sales have gone down by almost fifty percent that's what a lot of estimates put it out and as the major source of revenue for iran that's definitely a huge hit to the national a budget so to speak so we've seen oil sales go down by half we've seen prices go up we've seen the economy shrink in many iranians are worried that this could relieve the government into making drastic decisions like raising taxes or something to that effect. cyclon forney is lashing the eastern indian city of poori with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour over a million people way vacuity ahead of the storm's arrival significant destruction has been forecasting odisha and west bengal a defiant nicolas maduro has address

a gathering of thousands of soldiers in venezuela as capital caracas say we are in combat the president is the armed forces to fight those he called traitors planting against them at the same time one of the main opposition figures says he still thinks the military will act against the door all it will do lopez spoke from the safety of the gates of the spanish ambassador's residence in caracas after venezuela's top court ordered his arrests a vietnamese woman jailed over the murder of the north korean leader as half brother has been freed from prison don t. was one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong nam at kuala lumpur airport in twenty seventeen she was convicted last month on a lesser charge of causing injury and in the united states senior democrats are accusing attorney general william barr of lying in a congressional hearing house speaker nancy pelosi says bach committed the crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert miller's report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. those are the headlines

on al-jazeera the views will continue right after the street does the with us if. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. where you call home al-jazeera bringing the news and current affairs that matter to . al-jazeera. ok in your industry today we look at the challenges faced by thousands of foreign students in the u.k. who are in legal limbo after losing their visa that were exactly what's in the minds of voters in south africa's election draws near central thoughts through twitter and also you choose but first there is widespread anger among people in hong kong over proposals to allow the territory to extradite people to countries

that include mainland china on sunday thousands of people took to the streets organizers say that one hundred and thirty thousand people joined the march it was a the crowd size was about a sixth of the hat past the police questioning those figures but the rally came for days after key figures within the pro-democracy movement were imprisoned for their role in a seventy nine day occupation of hong kong and that was it back in twenty fourteen so what lies ahead for the pro-democracy movement we're joined from hong kong by activist he was a key leader of the twenty fourteen occupation also in hong kong elaine wu she's a correspondent at the news agency and a.f.p. so it's good to have you both here oh goodness look at these pictures elaine i haven't seen these pictures for a very long time people here protesting the extradition bill i found this on your twitter feed so looking at this what are we seeing here lane. there we see

protesters dressed out as mayor and police and there are a lot of white rabbit fear in hong kong about whether law enforcement in china can in the future work in hong kong openly so they're really just dressing up to you know about another picture hey josh what do you see when you see this picture recent picture of people out in the streets again what do you think. after. twenty fourteen to fight for free election and democracy hundred thousand people come to the streets again to ask for free election and especially to the hot line suppression from beijing especially china or just try to impose extradition law in hong kong to freely extradite anyone live in hong kong to many men chop china for trial we sort of explained a little better the very top of the segment about what we're talking about tempers this actually just about what it might mean if you travel outside of hong kong and

go to mainland china we also spoke to some of the young people about how they could explain what their season concerns might be have a listen. to you know like this law has been passed and won't matter if you're an average person or a foreigner coming from hong kong there will be a real possibility you'll be taken and sent off to the mainland will do a lot. he's a come to the extradition law will affect everyone especially young people as they frequently join activities on the mainland or go shopping there and once this extradition law has been passed these activities will carry the risk of being misused to extradite iraqis out there to do it over. there is this happening now. so it has a long story there is a murder case in taiwan where they are hong kong or it's your fault but after the murder it was between a couple. the men had fled back to hong kong and because there is no extradition agreement between taiwan and hong kong the man cannot be tried for murder in taiwan

and could only be tried for another rod case in hong kong so people are saying the government is taking advantage of the murder to push for a deal that did not have to include me and when china but now has so people are a lot of critics than opponents of the bill are questioning the motive behind and why it's even necessary to include china seal joshua there's some real him twice a he says beijing will crackdown without any regard to international reaction there are protests right now what is the idea of the protests what are they trying to actually do in terms of this extradition bill so the bill not a law. we got him into we've created a solution when you wrote

a hand comes upon to me especially we i will add that is strongly you wrote also falling on the principle of one country two system that's the promise of the jean rest of the sheet was hong kong but now already turned one country one in a hop system and is specially we have fully aware and right of went into one leaf or place in hong kong at all and it was in hong kong might be extradited to mainland china that's the place out for an open trial. of course we remember you from the twenty fourteen occupy movement movement in hong kong i'm looking here at a headline in a story that you wrote quite recently. and it says hong kong democracy leaders jailed over the umbrella of these in the protest that is going back some years but this is just happened it's not a coincidence that these proud to mock a see movement activists should be jailed just at the same time as an extradition

bail was been unveiled and saying it's only leading to a moment where people are feeling there's so much going on the same time i think at any moment in hong kong or last two years or so it feels like there has been multiple crackdown on trade and an arm to stand happening so it definitely would but the culmination of all these events it has our contribution to what we saw last vendée which is you know the biggest protests but it was the wrong movement by any count so it has helped galvanize people in that way just for the last time the world was really paying attention to hong kong in terms of protesting was around twenty fourteen what is even doing in that interim period as the umbrella movement died down a huge change in the tactics what's going on. a political system in hong kong remain unchanged especially under the hot line policy of emperor she was received

but i would like to emphasize that in a previous dissident activist might not be joe it might be the situation only happen in mainland china but in the recent years it seems that being locked up in prison or political prosecution because of common norm in hong kong but we have never give up that's why hundred thousand people come to the street again and two against hotlines suppression from beijing and then i'm just wondering how many people might be caught up in the extradition bill this is a set a lot of people. well it's not immediately certain it can. business people the business community have the new expression equal to and about this but people are saying by principle if in fact that independent judiciary is not protected. and can be exposed to the lack of creature. fair trial and china then it can happen to. anyone because the law is not very

clear in china or what we're going to war and the uncertainty that really struck a lot of people joshua was that was the plan was the next move. is the us british and piling government along with the european union already expressed their opposition to the extradition of a man but i believe more and more people will come to st again and i urge the international communities to keep the ice in hong kong because a large scale massive mobilization will happen again you know the next few months in hong kong i want to say thank you very much to our activists josh along i'd also joining us and you will continue to follow the story coming out of hong kong and now on students in the u.k. who have had their visas consuls awaiting a final ruling on whether they can stay illegally in the country in twenty fourteen the home office acted against thousands of people amid allegations of cheating on

language tests the phone individuals must pass for a visa those affected say that they have been on saturday treated by the government . the worst nightmare anybody could have in their life and i don't want any human being to go through. the pain and the acne that i had in my life i don't have anything left. i don't have any money. and i don't know what will my walking be my next next day. for more on this we're joined from glasgow scotland by a second i'm a dan cheese director of migrant voice which is campaigning on behalf of those who have lost their visa their seculars impossible to look at those young people and not be touched by their emotion how upset they are it's not usual for migrants always to take on cases with students or young people why did you take this one on

what was the motivation behind that. yes you drag because international students. in many countries are not seen as migrants because they're seen as people who comes when she is in the country in the turn back to the country or asian we've taken this issue because of the level of injustice that those students faced and because the students were also caught in a hostile environment. for migrants in newquay that the related our products in the past the few years we just could not ignore the scale. of this injustice and the number of people are affected we are talking about it tens of thousands of the national students. coming so many tens of thousands of students absolutely adding up to fifty six thousand students were called into this scandal. fifty maybe thirty six thousand of them nearly where they

had it is older walked and they were told don't get out of our city and they were told to leave the country go back to the country with a criminal allegations and then offer them. twenty two thousand word or your question of a much needed i mean is is is that he used number of young men and women who lost their future were wrongly accused of cheating without them being presented with evidence against them and most of them had not but unity to prove their innocence to chelate to china. yet this allegation is a criminal a geisha is hanging over them and for them for the rest of their lives if they do not get the names it means that they cannot go and continue their studies at other universities nor allow them they cannot get a job because they have location that enough to get

a visa to travel in the us in the world. goodness me and remember those students. they came in good faith they came to the fore it's a good. university and i'm trying i'm just trying to do a good telling us about the impact of what this at. they will lose their visas and try to understand what happened to tested everybody sort of test exactly the same time or was it multiple tests and then they were accused of cheating well it's all started when there's a b.b.c. panorama programme in twenty four thirteen short explores that there were some cheating in english and was that the one you mentioned the students they need to. adjust and there's only but remember you can't there are a king up to ninety six difference and a saw the way the home office and the government responded to this program was in instead of going to other centers investigate in they are the english language.

destinations which is an american issue. with the agency which was accused of facilitating the cheating they asked them to invest and the government rely on the evidence presented by this just in company and we discovered later because there were hundreds of cases of their cases students were so desperate to give their names because for them the future and and then we discovered later on how flawed how underlying this is that this is such a hot mess to try and sort of unpack this for us a little bit more and i know he's been doing some reporting on this is robert white a social policy correspondent at the financial times we spoke to him a little bit early adolescence. i have looked in considerable detail the way their u.k. home office angled beads cheatin cranes impression emerges is of a department that initially panicked over the cheating allegations and they might

e.t.s. the company that had done a great deal to create the problem mark its own homework we should realize there is a terrible mistake being made in e.t.s. came back and said there's a question mark over more than ninety six percent of the tests instead the department trashed the head ignored all evidence to the contrary and tried to revoke the visas of six thousand people on the basis of evidence so thin it's hard to see how anyone could possibly have relied on it. now let me sell you some of the comments from our online community celeb and says here foreign students contravene positively to the u.k. economy so he's saying the value measures how many students this might actually possibly impact and was able to start a wholesale leave the country as that's what can happen to them is that possible. i mean did most of them have already left the country. i mean all the results and

were forcibly removed from the country stars and were detained and many of the students give up because they couldn't against them is not there and they couldn't go to court to courts to protest that instance there was nothing they could do and it was threatened i mean many of them begin to see today a lot of friends and charities. they say they were not allowed to work they were not allowed to access health. they're not allowed to drive i mean they were just you know they were put in impossible position situation so many many of them actually give up their countries but there are still a few thousand of those. still campaigning on my voice still campaigning others i'm going to show. forces of our students whose lives were ruined by the u.k. home office and twenty fourteen finally being heard these are some of the protesting students and i also want you to listen to the. documentary that will be

coming out a little bit later look at migrant voice dot org to impact on the street dance. with the devil isis have a listen i've lost our factually those memories that the damage cannot be accomplished and my my mental health damage oh my god aachen sleep i can feel that . even know what i can see the darkness if i'm in a. closed environment i'm so scared because i get that i'm still suffering. thank you for bringing the story to us and said i'm a damn director of migrant forests. now to south africa where millions of people are considering how they will vote in elections in

a week's time the ruling african national congress is expected to remain in power but is facing a one of its sternness challenges in the years to the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters present serum opposes says that he wants to reform the a.n.c. at a wednesday he addressed a labor union rally in dublin. we do have. challenged. the challenge. and equality. challenge. al-jazeera southern africa correspondent for me will be covering the election race she's in the eastern portion of durban as from johannesburg we have nicholas bauer he's a reporter for television news channel a and also seventy two if you listen in

south africa you won't know that station very well all right so for me to you actually literally walking on election coverage right now you drag yourself away to talk to us about what you're doing what is the biggest story do you feel right now is what's the big headline that we should be paying attention to. and into so much going on and perhaps this is what characterizes and what's different about this election in particular compared to the others but a big issue really for many south africans is corruption so the africans are dealing with a government and a ruling party that's been employed in a number of scandals and i think the issue for many is the spite the a.n.c. saying this is now a time for renewal we are now maybe reinventing ourselves we are promising you a lot more especially with the new president will. jacob zuma resigned the thing is those on every comes on seeing what these investigations and these

inquiries into corruption what they're actually resulting in and who's head i suppose is rolling because it really is much of the same months on and heading into another election yeah and also major issues around poverty education employment so that regard as a wiring unemployment rate at about twenty seven percent so these issues continue to plague this government and also the opposition parties have to come up with policies that address this but the a.n.c. has put itself in a tough position considering what happened in the last few years because i feel that that introduction that we just did about the next election i thought that's the same introduction that we've been doing for the last few years every time we come up to a big reaction time every important really beautiful here the a.n.c. on twitter the a.n.c. is now a shadow of itself they have lost contact with the electorate but parties like f. f. identifying with people's problems that is it perhaps take but do you feel like we're

just saying the same thing about the a.n.c. . well i can discount what melissa d.n.c. is facing massive challenge heading into this election twenty five years after democracy but just touching on the opposition i mean in many ways the opposition has failed as well because in the fairness of all of the mcs failures and problems that they've brought on this country in the twenty five years of governance it should be fairly easy for the democratic alliance or the economic freedom fighters to capitalize on that but the fact of the matter is is there's no poll that gives the democratic alliance the largest opposition party anything above twenty two percent and the economic freedom fighters got a million votes last election which was about a six percent of the electorate and they're due to about double that so even in the face of all of these issues the a.n.c. is still going to all intents and purposes all the polls are showing us going to win this election moreover when you look at causes performance in the past

year or so since he deposed president jacob zuma came to many are nobody actually predicted he would be able to do so it's been slow incremental change and while ms miller is correct in saying that there hasn't been enough change for you to do tangibly feel a change in the world's most unequal society you can't discount the small fundamentals that have been put in place and i'm specifically talking about the national prosecuting authority this is a new attorney general and joy and his two deputies that were accused of all sorts of malfeasance and corruption and oncology brain learns quickly that have now been fired as a result of one of these commissions of inquiry which we see about three or four of them going on concurrently at this point in time in south africa all right so let's hear some some voices as a senator i think to say that. this is this is far less for south africa talking about what they want from the election and what they're hoping for

what the voting for have a listen. we see corruption being investigated but no one is being arrested if it were me i would have long been in jail that's the painful part. our main problem is that we are starving and we have children as you see this farm isn't working so why is the government not compensating us with some groceries monthly so we can eat it would be better if they at least give us something to live on i'm just looking at some of the campaign posters have on my laptop so everybody is that how. rallies they getting their message out for the media i'm just thinking in terms of what people are expecting what that hoping for what they're voting on are we still looking at these basic inequality issues in south africa all they are they thinking that that's going to party that might be.

that's a very interesting question i think it also goes back to what nicholas spoke about a few moments ago in that these opposition parties haven't perhaps capitalized on the drop in support for the a.n.c. and i think that raises a number of issues one of people staying away from the polls people who would normally vote for the aid see that are happy with the party but they can't bring themselves to vote for anybody else and did these opposition parties also rely heavily on jacob zuma as presidency and once he was out of office what do they go on now yet have they managed to grab the interest of south africans and offer something solid because if that were the case we would i think see these oppositions opposition parties perhaps grow at a foster or more significant or they sort of falling apart in terms of their own fight in fighting allegations against other parties and not actually ruining lost

a.n.c. voters because those people say well i'm still loyal to the a.n.c. i'm pretty messed up to vote for anybody else i'm happy to stand let me just bring this because i found this on your twitter feed here. during a panel a conversation with young people i guess for youth a future that works he was very comfortable with the young people their young people's votes is interesting in the last forty five seconds of a show tell us about young people and what will they get as opposed to do they catch. well let me. state that i care for your interests the fact of the matter is is that there's a sleeping majority in the youth and you started this conversation by saying when we talk about that africa we seem to be saying the exact same thing and yet correct why i for one am absolutely bored by this election because it doesn't seem to be anything new coming out of it and the reason there's nothing new coming out of it is because they're not speaking to the youth six million young south africans that

have decided not even to register never mind actually go out convert that's out of town the million young thank thank you for not telling us that you were born until the very end a vast say when they call a spouse in need and good luck with covering the south african elections we really appreciate i will see you next time. a university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study or exams one on one east investigates the pakistani company at legibly selling fake degrades to dozens of police around the world on al-jazeera. al-jazeera.

i am a fish every week a new cycle going to see he said breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the welts jannah least that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all she joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most in bet is a free palestine listenings paste on al-jazeera. they call this bleeding. tree. first substance the world is addicted to now at the center of the global trade war. it's latex it is purest form found in tires phones toothbrushes satellites or mattresses it is an essential element in daily life and so deep in the ivorian forest goes from tree to tree scarring them for the precious liquid trump is opposing two hundred billion dollars in tariffs on

china the world's largest manufacturer of rubber goods china in response imposes tariffs on synthetic rubber the west produces while in the short term this is bad for african producers in the long run some hope the continent could benefit from this trade war but aware of the global trade war and despite falling prices at opel calls rubber white gold at least for now. donald trump builds up the pressure on tehran the not just buys of iranian oil will now face sanctions from the u.s. . plan fully back to boil watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead over

a million people are evacuated as psycho unfunny hits india's eastern coast with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour a show of strength from venezuela's president as the opposition leader will call for his military overthrow takes refuge with the spanish ambassador plus the second woman convicted of the killing of the north korean leaders half brother is released from facing. thank you for joining us iran's economic situation could soon become a lot more precarious as a deadline on a u.s. sanctions waiver expires present donald trump's decision not to extend the release measures for countries buying iranian oil well cut a vital source of revenue for tehran iranian oil sands have already fallen by half since the us pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal. has a report 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 club of nations. decide comes to us says we hope all of that bind us together than what divides us but when the united states re imposed sanctions it granted waivers to some of the rons 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 it but does it with all of that is.

the morse to do for this organization to saw its seeds of discord. to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took decisions 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 i guess you know we've you know it's for sure. it will be educational 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 the us 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 hardship zain. zero to one and live to gabriel is on due in washington d.c. for escape so what exactly does donald trump want to achieve with this move not to renew relief measures for countries who buy iranian oil including some of the us as are lies. yeah that's right they're big allies on that list i mean it's no secret that the trumpet ministration is no fan of the iranian government that's for sure the way the trump administration sees iran is that they see the country as being a destructive force in the region that meddles in the neighbor's affairs there and it also is unconvinced that iran is totally given up its nuclear ambitions so this is one major step that now the trump administration is putting into place to try to put pressure on the government there and there are of course hard line elements within the trump administration namely john bolton the national security advisor

who's made no secret himself that he would like to see a change in government in iran so if this leads to that that would be certainly something that many hard line elements within the trump white house would certainly welcome now the question is why it is that is the government going forward with this bold move now and they basically say that there's a nuff oil on the international market right now to where these countries can get their oil elsewhere and that's why the u.s. is unilaterally taking this measure but listen there's a lot of allies on this list india japan south korea turkey key u.s. allies and also little fact china as well watch is not a u.s. ally it's delicate situation because the u.s. is in trade negotiations with china right now unrelated to this but my pompei of the secretary of state says he does not think those trade negotiations will be affected by this we'll have to see but clearly there were some divisions within the

u.s. government we're told some within the state department that were against this move but ultimately it was the more hard line elements within the white house that ultimately pushed trump to make this make this decision thank you for that gave a elizondo live for us in washington well let's speak some more about this not to harm the data as these evil is an assistant professor of regional studies that show he did they have university he's live from tehran with us thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera so let's well how hard have these u.s. sanctions hates eve on and how much worse do you expect it will get with the end of the exemptions. well actually as we know it's you know donald trump's decision not to extend these sanctions labor is part of his greater policy i mean by their policy of you know. inserting maximum pressure on iran sole in this line if the if you're going to and

allies the situation in this line of course it's we'll have you know serious effects both in the dhamma stick and far in severe in the dhamma six appear in line with the previous sanctions imposed by the u.s. administration it would result in you know diverse inning of economic situation of you know many groups of people inside the country and in the far insecure it would lead to you know complicating the economic partnerships i mean the economic interactions between iran and some of its partners but i do not predict those kinds of you know it's nomic instructions to stop you know completely i was going to ask if you expected the radio iowa to stop family there. i don't you know predicts it's to stop completely because of

a number of reasons the first one is the role of china which is still you know. we cannot still see a kind of clear decision made by china of whether or not to continue its fool economic operation we did on in the saffir avoided if it decides to do so it's fear of change many things on the ground and on the other hand the situation in venezuela and in libya are having you know serious effects on oil markets and if for example the situation in these two countries goes towards a kind of you know national approach month or any kind of solution and they all they all continue to fully you know back in the markets it's will be easier for the united states to move forward with this policy of you know cutting your arms already from the markets even you need assembly remain defiant we had the supreme leader just a few days ago telling iranian super peffer war how might iran respond now will

they target u.s. assets in the middle east as some have suggested. actually i did not predict any kind of you know harsh reaction or violence reaction in terms of for example. to sponsor something you know armies are actually doing some you know diplomatic steps voles in terms of economic diplomacy and international diplomacy in the field of international diplomacy i think. you know there's areas or foreign minister mr zarif remarks in the us. very very important in terms of you know showing that you're on is reducing negotiates but not in the situation of pressures i mean iran is not going to close the window of opportunity for you know a kind of diplomatic solution but you do your in your leaders believe that you know

negotiating under increasing pressures would mean not seeing. on the other hand in terms of economic diplomacy talks have been on the rate between iran and some of its partners for example it's working on russia to find some mechanisms for you know. for considering the soul of war through these countries know do there is of course. you know u.s. published on these kinds of possible agreements spots. i think that's. you know it's part of the plan actually you know thank you very much for speaking to us how many data is easy joining us there live from tehran thank you for your time in other world news cycle and funny is lashing the eastern indian city of poori with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour over a million people were evacuated ahead of the storm's arrival after significant destruction was forecast you know and west bank down the cycle is the worst storm to hit the region in decades that speak to

a journalist base by skype from there tell us about the situation right now and what kind of damage has a cycle cost so far. i need to look cool since phony made landfall at forty i went home in the state capital forty psi and said i'm sitting by land for a third that's sixty kilometers away from here at forty. seven we can sit in the wind speed is more than a hundred kilometers but i would as you can see by back on it very difficult to go outside the office as you can see the wind it's very dangerous out that so you can imagine how bad the situation must have been that it made landfall and the destruction is still happening as part of really pretty bad when spirit is more than two hundred kilometers per hour we have learned that this will continue but i'm not just a couple of hours at least and this. system when possible the landmarks all orders of water or decide districts i don't want the streets of war to stop.