here seventy six is unleash their star man to take it to one lead over toronto in the n.b.a. playoffs it'll be here with more in sport. so that to come of first the number of deaths from ebola in the democratic republic of congo has passed one thousand there's been an alarming rise in cases in recent weeks and officials say at least fifteen hundred people have the disease attacks on clinics by fighting militias is adding to the struggle of containing the outbreak distrust of health care workers has also affected the response of dr abraham a source a fall is the assistant director general for emergency response at the world health organization he joins us via skype now from tambour in the democratic republic of congo the epicenter of the outbreak in north kivu thanks very much for being with

us hello yes hello i just wanted to ask you first of all to give us a sense of the challenges that you and your team at the world health organization have been facing there with this with the these continuing cases of the ebola virus . thank you very much i think since the beginning of the brick alarm in the war barbs and security in the shoot so our mind concern is really the security because when you are attacked from armed group you have disruption interpersonal and difficult access to areas where we need to identify the passion and to bus in that people who are at risk so anytime we have at that major disruption an increase of the number of guests out measure. there's also this

distrust of of any medical workers help help us understand why why that's happening why there is so much especially of the medical staff there because a couple of perhaps not familiar with this it. doesn't seem to make make a lot of sense when people like yourself are there to to to to help i think is important to understand the context you're not careful you are dealing with. exposed to more than twenty years off. and security these are access to any formal system so the government was really not prison cohen we are just new outbreak seeing more many people coming from outside. very difficult to understand at the same time you have some local politician manipulating the population you know to get caught so everything is complete in the saga but you are engaging more and more communities to really like them understand

what is going on because they're seeing the left is dying so we are seeing more commitment from them but the same time friends are certain that by a group it's very difficult to have full engagement. and how would you compare what's happening there now to the previous outbreak of of the bowler. in the democratic republic of congo because of course unfortunately this isn't the first time. that the country's had to deal with this. this is a term recorded. democrat of congo but for the first time ever like. it means of the health workers look at health workers who are not from those of color and here are very. very and secure environment really more by populism these approaches are brick you know your hearts courtroom only you grow the more areas where you can is it can turn it but here to our core of the excess security and

more bit of the population spiritual and much more complex good to speak with you dr abraham so safe all talking to us there from the temblor in the democratic republic of congo thank you. at the united nations has accused hungary of violating international law by deliberately depriving asylum seekers of food i am namaz in now with more from our european broadcast center maya that's right thanks very much has him hungary's right wing government has taken a hard line towards refugees since the crisis of two thousand and fifteen the un human rights office says it has direct information that migrants in detention centers are not being fed some for up to five days hungary's previously promised to end the practice paul brennan reports. the two transit zones on hungary's border with serbia are testaments to the uncompromising stance of the budapest government

refugees arriving via serbia and applying for asylum in hungary must do so from within the confines of these detention camps and since twenty eighteen the default position of the authorities has been to reject every application. at that point a detained refugee finds themselves stuck they cannot leave the transit zone they cannot return to serbia and in the midst of all that your forties refuse to provide them food. to human rights in geo hungary and helsinki committee has been representing those affected you might actually call it. torture definitely and inhuman and degrading treatment even in the cases where for example children or family marjorie's. imagine. what it means for children that they receive food or why they are watching their parents being starved the hungaroring government strategy began in august last year with five cases of food deprivation

the policy then halted but since february this year another eight cases have come to light bringing to twenty one the total number of people involved they include an iraqi family with three children the parents were denied any food for five days in march an afghan mother and one of her four children were denied food for two and a half days and an afghan iranian family whose children were fed but the father was denied food for three days. in all the cases food was only reinstated after urgent legal action by the hungary and helsinki committee and now the united nations is turning up the pressure on the hungarian government the deliberate deprivation of food is prohibited under the mandela rules and violates the rights to food and to health as well as the provision of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment we're asking hungry to ensure that it fulfills its human rights obligations towards those deprived of liberty regardless of whether they're

in transit zones or in other places where migrants are detained and gary and prime minister viktor orban is unapologetic on thursday he took the italian deputy prime minister matteo salvini on a helicopter tour of the border security fence both governments have found strong electoral support for the tough migrant policies and there is no sign that they're willing to soften their stance in the face of international criticism paul brennan al-jazeera. well elsewhere taj authorities are saying that two women and five children have drowned in the mediterranean trying to make their way to greece they set off from the turkish town of from where many migrants and refugees try to reach the quake island of less boss five other migrants were rescued after the but they were traveling in sank it's believed the boat was carrying seventeen people in searches continue for those that are still missing. u.n. human rights advises of course joining us on just prison sentence disproportionate

the founder of wiki leaks has been jailed for fifty weeks in the u.k. for breaching his bail conditions as claimed asylum in the ecuadorian embassy for seven years to evade arrest for rape charges before being expelled last month is currently facing extradition to the united states for allegedly hacking thousands of state secrets which he subsequently published online. the scandal in cyprus of a botched murder investigation has seen a second public official sacked the island nations president fired the police chief over the mishandling of the killings of seven migrant women and girls a cypriot army captain has admitted killing the women and dumping their bodies in a toxic lake many people protested that the authorities failed to properly investigate the murders because the victims were low status and occurrence i'll have more from london for you a bit later in the program now let's head back to has and our. thanks myron now in uganda for the wine is back home after three nights in prison the pop star turned

politician was drawn to bail after arrest for incitement ones accused of encouraging an attack on the president's motorcade the supporters say the charges are made up we spoke to him earlier in camp paula. we have gone to every legal avenue trying to get our freedom our we are big issue in the court we are going to parliament and all the reason lucian's all the pronouncements of parliament have been disrespected the terms of going to court our cases have been hard and we have resorted to another cause that usually means of by airing our voices of dissatisfaction and that is protest because it is provided for in our constitution as particular twenty nine so whatever we are doing is within the law and even our protest against injustice against police brutality and against impunity is justified as by the law however the police and old security organs of continued to break the law and to crack down brutally on the peaceful citizens.

afghan president ashraf ghani has approved recommendations for pete's talks with the taliban is calling for a he's calling a road map for negotiations it is the result of five days of debate by three thousand elders at their assembly called the loya jirgah rani approved looking for an immediate cease fire and the pullout of u.s. troops and he's ordered the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners shala ballasts reports from kabul. afghanistan helicopters buzz the hills of west in kabul a sign the loya jirga was coming to an end the president ashraf ghani was about to arrive more than three thousand afghans meant to represent every sector of society ready to present him with the recommendations a guideline on how to negotiate for peace with the taliban i the loya jirga is a centuries old afghan tradition mean to decide issues of national importance this

was the largest ever. after five days of debate delegates presented their requests to the president they included in traficant talks the withdrawal of foreign troops a political office in afghanistan for the taliban the release of prisoners by both sides and a sustained six fire the immediate demand of the afghan people in urban and in the immortal sparks that represented their. immediate cease fire. prolonged. danny had to decide whether to accept the recommendations as the government's formal position. that i know made i have heard your demands from now on these are not just recommendations this will be the roadmap for the afghan government. he addressed the taliban directly. juncker we have fought

enough sometimes we have war and sometimes you have why sometimes. you were defeated and sometimes we were told the result is that most of our poor people are living in hell and they want peace president told the loya jirga that he has all of the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners and that he will hand them over in a place of the taliban's choosing where the honor and dignity he's going to trust building mission and hopes that the taliban reciprocate with a gesture of their own during the muslim holy month of ramadan but the taliban leadership is in custody as capital doha meeting with u.s. negotiators they are close to finalizing an agreement on a foreign troop withdrawal and agreeing not to allow afghanistan to be used to launch attacks overseas the main sticking point is what to call the taliban its leader is a demanding it's known as the islamic emirate of afghanistan its name when it was in power in the ninety's the u.s. is refusing because that would undermine the current afghan government. have

repeatedly said that only when they have a deal with the u.s. with a talk with president ghani the recommendations of the afghan people that dallas al-jazeera kabul. a step ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. ramps up its plan to choke off iran's energy exports. accusations the united arab emirates is using chinese made drones to launch attacks in libya. and later in sport welcomed back into the side two of australia's cricket stars return from their cheating back. again where across a long we are watching plenty of rain here across parts of turkey not just a weather system that is moving here across the area into the caspian that's going to bring a lot of rain across turkey baku your rain is going to continue from saturday into

sunday but down towards a cell you're going to be seeing most. cloudy conditions at least on saturday by the time we get to sunday though that system really begins to dissipate we're going to see and still more clouds but for tehran you may see a little bit of rain with the temps are there twenty seven degrees well here across the gulf we have been dealing with the heat it's going to continue it's been fairly dry but we do expect to see clouds pushing through now the problem is from saturday night into sunday we could also pick up a shower or two here in doha as that little system pushes across the gulf for abu dabi here on saturday a thirty four degrees there by the time we get to sunday it is going to be about thirty five where across much of southern africa not much in terms of rain a lot of the rain has now moved up here towards the north we are picking up quite a few clouds down here towards the south though so for cape town mostly cloudy conditions a day team cause for durban as well but plenty of sun for johannesburg at twenty five degrees by the time we get to sunday though that temperature is going to be dropping down to about twenty two but over here towards madagascar we are looking at almost wall to wall sunshine from north to south the temperature of twenty five

. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the u.s. . study after study has demonstrated that it's really perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. until now the coverage of latin america most of the world was a covering coup de tas tragedies. and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go away five and a half months. to an education system that was introduced.

in latin america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be stilled. you know watching i just you know reminder of our top stories this hour the most powerful cycling to hit india in twenty years has plummeted the east coast pummeled the east coast to get to greece three hundred forty has killed at least three people flattened buildings and forced hundreds of thousands to leave their homes. the white house says u.s. president donald trump and russia's vladimir putin the talked on the phone about a number of issues they excluded the possibility of

a new nuclear deal north korean denuclearization and the political prices can find its way. and then as well an opposition leader who held a news conference calling for more protests on saturday that's just hours after president nicolas maduro appeared on t.v. alongside his top generals. the u.s. has put an end to waivers which had allowed eight countries to buy iranian oil china india and turkey now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they don't stop crude imports from the islamic republic iranian oil sales have already fallen by hard since the u.s. pulled out of the twenty. fifteen nuclear deal zanger sabi reports now from to iran on what's next for iranian oil. 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 no matter this a comes to us 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 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 none of that is. the morse to divide this organization to saw its seeds of discord. to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took decisions

let alone implement them to get them needing to meet market demand has been an important part of how iran has kept selling oil and coped with u.s. 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 is 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 impose sanctions one

russian chief executive said u.s. sanctions or exactly why russia wants to do even more business with iran but that's why we're here. it's so close you know we've you know it's for sure. it will be additional opportunity for russian companies because surveys in many many years since there is we get very good relationships between iran as a country and russia as a country and so he union even vice and now is there is a good chance to start mutual cooperation between companies was 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 bus ravi old a zero to one well iran isn't the only country feeling the heat president donald

trump has increased pressure on cuba. putting on sanctions that had been suspended for years last month he activated provisions of a twenty year old law alike to me more recent iran sank. the helms burton act aims to punish a u.s. enemy by penalizing other countries if they do business with them the act also allows u.s. nationals to sue for damages of a private property seized during the cuban revolution the first lawsuits filed this week targeted the miami based carnival cruise lines which is accused of using ports without payment to the company that owns them and bruce fein assisted in drafting the helms burton act which we mentioned just now he is a constitutional lawyer and joins us from washington thanks very much for being with us so what do you what do you make then of the way the way the president is activating this law now given that you are one of those involved in putting it

together. yes it's been waived for all previous presidents which now know it goes through the administrations of mr clinton and mr bush and mr obama and even the first years of mr trump and i do believe that the reason why he's ended the waivers is to attract votes from cuban expatriates in florida who are a substantial political group the waivers now permit u.s. companies who is or individuals whose property was expropriated by fidel castro and then he was able to sell the properties are they are being used by third parties for profit it's those who are so-called trafficking in the expropriated properties that are subject to lawsuits but they're very very high hurdles for success for example many states and nations in response to the extraterritorial

application of u.s. law prohibit their companies from responding or complying with any discovery requests or even any court judgments based upon the extraterritorial application of u.s. law and that's why i think the likelihood of many suits eventuated in is not very high it's more a political gesture than an actual gesture that's going to cripple the cuban economy and how does this feed in to this kind of wide a narrative of the united states being seen as this kind of bullying power around the world given given this and and given what's happening with iran and their decision to end the waivers for a number of countries that are continuing to buy iranian oil. well this is just part of what you indicate is a wholesale use of extraterritorial application of united states law and we just go it alone and this is not unique here to q board iran it's true with regard to

sanctions we impose on any company or nation doing business with north korea for example or any state sponsor of terrorism that could be sudan and it goes even beyond just the economic issue we walked away from the paris peace accord on the environment not the peace accord the environmental accord we're disparaging nato partners they should spend more money so it's unilateralism that's an earmark of an empire which is what we've become and we just do what we want to do oftentimes we lecture other countries and how they operate in it's in the long run going to isolate the united states so what do you say then to those i mean in particular with what's happening with iran and i said as i said this decision to to ramp up. the sanctions process against them. people from the trumpet ministration and those who support them are saying that this is going to force iran to the negotiating

table as their will revenues continue to drive to drive down they're going to be forced to come back and talk to the u.s. on their terms what do you say to that. well i don't think experience substantiates that speculation if we look elsewhere with long term saying sions of cuba we've had saying sins against cuba now since fidel castro took over in one nine hundred fifty nine so that spreads approaching now sixty years no cuba has not capitulated in any way to the sanctions in the rand did not when we had posed sanctions even before the the accord over nuclear weapons and we've had a long long long term sanctions against north korea it hasn't yielded at all any give or budge with regard to their nuclear arsenal it simply has not shown historically that these kind of sanctions work in fact in many respects they boomerang because it gives the incumbent government an excuse as to why their

economies are in the doldrums which oftentimes is because of massive corruption and state enterprises that are used for nepotism so it enables the target country i mean government to stay in power longer than if we had open trade and they couldn't excuse the deficiencies on the united states sanctions. bruce fein good to talk to you that the united arab emirates is being accused of using chinese made drones for missile strikes on tripoli in support of war. some military analysts say chinese drones are cheaper than american ones in easier to obtain un monitors have accused the gulf states of violating a weapons ban the interior minister of libya's un recognized government had said they have evidence foreign planes are taking parts but just in brown from the royal united services institute says there is evidence chinese made drones are being used

in libya. well so one of the key pieces of evidence is fragments of chinese made anti-tank guided missiles l j seven and found at several sites in tripoli over the past month those can be fired from a few platforms all chinese made including the willing to which is operated by the united arab emirates as well as the c.h. four b. which is operated as of recently by egypt. the u.a.e. also has a history of supplying leung's to halftimes forces and also is one of the most professional forces in the gulf which is probably one of the only ones capable of mounting a sustained day and night strike campaign with close coordination of these ground forces at range so while egypt is one possible. actor in this the

u.a.e. remains the overwhelming likely suspect. our fighting over tripoli has fractured an already divided political system in the east fifty two parliament members opposed a move on the capital by forces loyal to war. and they're setting up another parliament headquarters. reports. for two weeks of fighting is taking its toll on the libyan capital. but the you enter could now is the prime minister face as there will be no cease fire deal with forces fighting for or have to unless they retreat to where they came from in eastern libya or. only after the enemy forces stop its aggression and go back to its bases then we may be able to have a discussion on the format of resuming the political process that has been severely damaged by these brutal attacks that caused civilian casualties damage the

infrastructure the schools the shops the ambulances the airport. have to said last month he would capture the capital within a week but the battle has dragged on to the concern of his backers particularly in egypt and the united arab emirates the spokesman for the e.u. and the recognized a government of national accord in tripoli accused and neighboring country of sending weapons to have his forces hundred units did not name the country but it's widely believed to be egypt last month the speaker of the house of representatives the parliament in the eastern city of tobruk approved have to as offensive to seize tripoli but some members are opposed to aguilar salis declaration of support more than fifty of them have met in tripoli to condemn have to this offensive on the capital. the forces who came from the

east of the country to attack tripoli have no legal standing. being from the parliament the message we want to convey is that we as members of the house of representatives can never approve any war on any libyan city the monthlong battle for tripoli has already killed nearly four hundred libyans have terrorist forces are facing fierce resistance from fighters defending the capital for the end recognized government in tripoli the crisis between the eastern and western regions of libya began in two thousand and fourteen after the world have to launch it his military campaign known as operation dignity now fears are growing that his offensive to capture tripoli could intensify the division between the two regions some analysts say. the speaker of the base department is allied to egypt and the united arab emirates which back have to and they say has violated the

constitution by unilaterally approving the war on tripoli obviously in the light of decision which. absence without any consultancy to this body by invasion decision through the military obviously. was the. most. the members of the house of representatives whole mitten true police say they're planning to replace ag and elect their own speaker as well as to the beauties if that happens other state institutions all over the country could possibly split each with their rival factions back in tripoli and the battle for attrition shows no sign of ending the u.n. is renewing calls for a truce to and now he'll military and aid to be delivered. tripoli. are both of the u.k.'s main parties have taken some big losses in local elections

back to maryam the marzieh now with more from our european. yeah that's right has him some dramatic results from these elections the ruling conservatives are expected to suffer but the labor party also took a hit particularly struggling to win over breakfast supporting voters in the north of england and in barber reports thank you everybody why did you resign. under pressure like never before to resume his conservative party was braced for a bad result of the local elections but it's fared worse than many predicted that in large part can be explained by frustrations over bricks it i think there was a simple message from yesterday's elections to both us and the labor party just get it all and deliver bricks it. i dozens of people have shared photos of the spoiled ballots on social media most

wrote messages demanding bricks it straight away although some ballot box protesters were bricks it labor has also struggled losing seats amid confusion over the opposition party's bricks at position leader jeremy corbett was putting a positive gloss on the results we always want to do better and that's why we're in politics for that's what weeks and simple we have been a campaign and continue the campaign trying to keep and bring people together in negotiation must be great but also do you pose a serious and put forward with the fact he feels will be for the liberal and. if anyone's unambiguously happy it's the liberal democrats as one of the clearly anti bricks at parties along with the greens who also performed well done better than they could have expected the story across the country. you know the lib dems were it not for one point that we're coming back very very strongly where the big winners of the night the.