every chance in decades actually to get back to cover on his agenda space via skype from net tell us about the situation right now and what kind of damage has a cycle cost so far. let's look cool. blandford at forty i went home after the startup in the forty's and said i'm shooting for a third sixty kilometers away from here at forty. seven we can sit in the wings but there's more than a hundred that's what i would as you can see back on it's 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 that of ensuring this more than two hundred kilometers per hour we have learned that this will continue but i met a couple of hours at least and this. system been passed through the land orders also decided districts i don't want the streets of war to stop as i did

a good boss of the neighboring west bengal and then this lead this evening but so far we have picking people up in the stores because extensive damage is estimated to have altered mostly in saudi and gone down the stairs as no loss of life has been deported but we have to wait and watch indeed this is a region of course that's prone to psych knowledge but certainly this one is a worse one in a number of what kind of preparations had the authorities made. to keep people out of harm's way. but the one good thing is bad things or the size. start life or the sentiment that's quite. prepared for that in the last forty nine to ninety nine some twenty years back but ten thousand people lost their lives since then or december has had made a special department. that production was cleared. as the national production course was clear did these are the things that are

helping the government to keep the people safe. back to the evacuation twenty four hours before landfall that is helping a lot. if people if there are more than one million people have already been evacuated and that is what they is keeping them safe because they have been they can rule started the whole. cycle characters' we don't quite see it i'm specially built for such like in the region thank you so much for bringing us up to date with the situation in iran joining us from thank you still ahead on al-jazeera clamping down on hate speech facebook banned several far right individuals and organizations . ok we've got the time the year we're chasing dust storms and dust devils rather

than thunderstorms and rainfall there is still rain around the still cloud showing right over the sea running up through israel towards turkey and the greenness the showers well they are really up in turkey otherwise you see great that's a hint of some activity in the atmosphere not to give cloud it might well kick up some sand over iraq as it has done recently and then run towards iran but otherwise we're looking at 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 does a strong as it has been centuries in doha for example and they're rising humidities fairly stable it's. almost uncomfortable without air conditioning right forty one degrees in mecca the could still be were two showers right in saudi but probably not dropping size 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 size of that the chance so 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. in two thousand and eight zero documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty announces iraq.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera iranian oil are about to feel the full weight of u.s. sanctions washington has ended sanctions relief given to some of iran's top oil by india china and japan it will cripple a vital source of revenue for the iranian government and even paul just scrambling for a new supply cycle in forney is lashing the eastern indian city of poori with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour over a million people way evacuated ahead of the storm's arrival after significant destruction was forecast and the west bank. now venezuela's president nicolas maduro has appeared alongside 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 maduro if older low pay

spoke from the safety of the gates of the spanish ambassador's official residence in caracas he and his family took refuge say on friday so after his appearance alongside opposition leader. venezuela's top court has issued an arrest warrant follow pace. he has been following developments from the colombia venezuela. a major display of loyalty live on television minutes wayland's woke up 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 land forces a kitties 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 break or pretends 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 a deceitful stupid ridiculous offer the parade followed two days of violent confrontations on the streets after the leader of the opposition in one way door called on the military to turn on my daughter and for his supporters to mobilize. several people died in the ensuing clashes hundreds were wounded and more than two hundred arrested among security caracas residence try to resume their lives opposition supporters said uncertainty and disappointment are starting to creep reign as they continue to grapple with rampant inflation in food and medicine shortages and i see a bad future here 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 a situation. from washington u.s. president donald trump personally called for a change in the country the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand that most 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. from the venezuelan border. to afghanistan now where the final day of a rare grand assembly known as

a lawyer jirga is taking place in kabul thousands of regional leaders have been meeting in the afghan capital to discuss peace for their country they'll make their recommendations to president on negotiating with the taliban shallot bennis is in kabul for us where this noir jirga is taking place so charlotte what's going to happen then in the next few hours. good morning well the president danny has just arrived he just flow in a convoy of helicopters security is very tight that afghan if force helicopters patrolling this area. heavily this morning ahead of his arrival he is here as you said to him the recommendations from more than three thousand people meant to represent the afghan population from every district different ages different tribes different religions have their recommendations on how they want the afghan government to proceed in talks with the taliban he can he can hear these recommendations and then he can either approve them and say ok yes this will be

a formal position or he could not which would be very controversial some of the things that we saw the committee started presenting yesterday amongst themselves and some of the things that keep coming up involve say u.s. troops they want u.s. troops to leave but they also want foreign aid to remain and that actually aligns with the taleban demands as well they want they say they happy for amendments to the constitution the taliban has said that that is something they're interested in doing but they say if they are to be amendments to the constitution they would have to happen and the loya jirgah framework like we've seen this week they also say they want prisoners released on both sides so they want taliban prisoners released from afghan government jails and also prisoners released from taliban trials another thing was they want the protection of achievements since the u.s. invasion in two thousand and one two of the things that came out of that woman's rights specifically they want to protect and also media freedoms and one thing that a lot of people have been saying is that they want a ceasefire as soon as possible and that aligns with what we're seeing in doha

talks happening right now between the taliban and us about trying to get some type of sustainable long term cease fire between these groups or they are collating those recommendations they're presenting them to president danny over the next few hours and then see if president ghani will accept the government's formal position for talks with the taliban shallots thank you very much for that we'll be checking in with you of course the day ben is live for us in kabul. security forces in capitol hill have fired weapons and water cannon to disperse crowds of protesters that means. readers have been calling for president pat's place alone to stand down since sunday's elections gay folk and short of parliament to two parties loyal to him a german deal quavery force. security forces face off against crowds of protesters on the streets of the capital cost a new. government response to hundreds of people rallying against the

results of sunday's elections. two parties loyal to president patrice tell on one complete control of parliament after a recent change intellectual law so the opposition disqualified opposition supporters see the new will as a move by the president to consolidate power and stifle dissent did resign or family i'm fuming because he has divided us he's going to play the highest price for doing so. that they are proposing to do so here what is at stake today goes beyond what's happening all of the people have risen today we have risen to save our democracy tolman is done that. there was a record low turnout for the elections with just under twenty three percent of the population casting votes. the internet was cut on the day of the poll amnesty international has criticized the crackdown on peaceful protests and the rest of political activist and journalist. social unrest is rare in the small west

african nation of eleven million people seen by democracy watchdogs as an example of stability in the region as anger grows over what protests to see as an erosion of their democracy is uncertain if these scenes of violence will become more common . al-jazeera. now a vietnamese woman jailed over the murder of the north korean leader's half brother has been freed from prison to aunty hong was one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong. that kuala lumpur airport hundred twenty seventeen she was convicted last month on a knesset charge of causing injury to malaysian prosecutors with two of the murder accusation the other accuser an indonesian woman was freed in march after all charges against her were dropped florence we had small 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. 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 pawns of a north korean plot to kill kim jong nam they say the real loss to mines all 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 of kim jong 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 met. but the ultimate conclusion of the trial that no one was convicted of the murder of kim jong il also leaves many questions unanswered and it also means that a very brazen murder committed in broad daylight in front of many witnesses captured on c.c.t.v. video goes unpunished. some of the highest profile far right voices in the u.s. have been kicked off facebook and instagram the social media giant announced the

ban as it comes under growing pressure to curb hate speech while reynolds reports. facebook and instagram have permanently banned several prominent far right anti-semitic and anti muslim provocateur to or there is a concerted a social media empire you can't concentrate yo 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 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 must 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. as always it's much more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of the top stories and analysis on the al-jazeera dot com. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera by is of iranian oil are about to feel the full weight of u.s. sanctions washington has ended sanctions relief given to some of iran's top oil by including india china and japan it will cripple

a vital source of revenue for the iranian government and leave important scrambling for new supply is ok but at least on to has more from washington there 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 it 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. cyclon forney has made landfall in the east indian city of poori with winds equivalent to a category four hurricane is the strongest storm to hit the odisha and west regions

in twenty years over a million people were evacuated ahead of the storm's arrival. the final day of a reg grand assembly known as a lawyer is taking place right now in afghanistan's capital kabul thousands of regional leaders have been meeting to discuss peace for their country they make recommendations to president ghani on negotiating with the taliban a defiant nicolas maduro has address a gathering of thousands of soldiers in venezuela's capital caracas saying we are in combat the president forces to fight those he called traitors frattini against him at the same time one of the main opposition figures says he thinks the military will act against my door. from the safety of the gates of the spanish ambassador's official residence in caracas after venezuela's top court ordered his arrest vietnamese woman jailed over the murder of the north korean leader's half brother has been freed from prison to one team hong was one of two women put on trial for

the poisoning of kim jong nam at kuala lumpur airport in twenty seventeen coming up next it's super thirty stay with this. when your fiance lives behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. zero world hears from three palestinian women whose lives have been dictated by their relationships with men in prison. wedding on hold on al-jazeera.

the homes in northern india beautiful impoverished overwhelmingly rural. life expectancy is the newest in india only half the population can read and write. people who flee the hardship of the countryside for opportunity in the capital. a

city of three million is a magnet for those seeking to escape. the limitations of that. this is the story of the soup but. these people are almost all backgrounds what they also share is a talent for mathematics today they're sitting the first round of an exam that could change the entire course of their lives. thousand have made their way here from all over bihar only two hundred will go through to the second round they're competing to get into an elite gloss known as the soup with. its creator and.

this record. is mcbride. wars because. he's a mathematician who set up the soup with thirty to help gifted children who come in from families. ten. or. more. all toward good board but if their brains are. those who get into soup with the will be coached for another more grueling ordeal the entrance exam for the indian institutes of technology or i i.t. it's india's most prestigious university the applicants for soup with the know that if they do make it to i.e. they will be set up for life. this seven

were intended to produce an elite of engineers and technologists today many of the computer science graduates end up as sin. in valley software millionaire. danny i.i. t's head of computer science is shy children the people who. see yours of major corporations banking finance telecom the most important of the tick is the fact that they can handle stress what did you question stands for is essential the very high quality instruction tremendous demands being made on storms in terms of the rector to project activity competition and deadlines days are extraordinary every year the. about five thousand students from all over india fifty or sixty candidates compete for each of the coveted places against this anon success rate is amazing in two

thousand and six twenty eight of his super thirty got into i.t. not many are go in bihar then education is still seen as less important than boys. and they are going with it because. really by negative the war on women love. me i do. sighed the school anxious relatives wait for the three hour exam to finish. at the end of the day four thousand exam papers collected from mocking most of the

candidates will say only one in twenty through to the second round. incredibly this stupid thirty exam scripts are taken away under. five weeks later round two of the entrance exam the super thirty will be chosen from these two hundred candidates. made it through. a paper. i can but. a general who could pick lower for. coming in for good in the subject. to go but just like because he's. the boss

because. if. he. thinks this it makes me just get successful it will. be. a good. brother is the manager of soup with the competition for the school is so intense that the candidates bring photo i.d.'s embossed as have been known to sit the exam. for the old local server but if you're going to be working with. me here there was a. we're going to meet with the. if you walk in all of the mothers. i know long or if even number to put overall pick in the scope of their financial background they clearly don't know could they care they will find

a list when. ignoring them could be a problem here you do this when you. really have to. do to get. through you know you can't get the government but i need them thank you. i'll be reading. these didn't you not last words i hope you don't do i have family here thank you very much but. in the indian capital. some of last year and now as i am.

surprised that should be revealed to. us in obvious i was probably i or the reporter got worse. although ha. ha. ha you think so but i didn't. if you told me i'm pretty dumb or google it that. and the reality is that it will be on the don't get me going. this is somebody that this person that. has almost legend there. status some coaching schools even advertise their students' rankings in the entrance exams and everyone's cashing in except. because the students who make it into super thirty say nothing for their tuition.

it's wholly subsidized by other project. school of mathematics. that. we. have got. some five to seven. mathematics or half a mile from. the. sea be this what i'm talking america here. but. i'm getting it. all it's got to do it from i know it's a. demand is high and the classes are huge seven hundred or more yet the fees so announce an unwelcome competitor for some of the other schools opt out . of the of course.

but the. fact that. it cleared. for. that for he ever had to up the harbor if isco other. is going to fall going to go scott. guthrie or. unknown kumar has received so many death threats that these days he never goes anywhere without his bodyguards. such is the reality of life in bihar. the village of deal cali two hours drive from but now even today the hearts

countryside is home to nine tenths of its people such under a presidency lived here all his life mark on her marriage in the supply line he said i'm going out about as i behave but without a good gentleman. or him again later. so those they are to have. their back their back their back that. you get up with abo heard about her. this in the thames market about the whole. the family is divided such as here with his mother his wife lives mostly in her own village her family's better off. often struggles to survive but is the thing i'm here to get out of car you have got to have a solid hard heart that i had died out by the. party.