not there is adequate support for adaptation and the building of resilience i don't think we can all together stop these storms but we can certainly prepare better for all of them thank you very much we appreciate your analysis on this topic kevin trenberth joining us the senior scientists at the national center for atmospheric research from boulder colorado you're welcome. now to one of our other top stories this hour the united states is ramping up its sanctions on iran by ending waivers that allowed eight nations to buy iranian oil they include china india and turkey it could now face sanctions unless they stop importing iranian crude oil sales have already fallen by half since the u.s. pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal same bus ravi reports from an oil expert in iran's capital to iran. hours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions and the herd welcomed an important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition

a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful public relations no matter the circumstances we have more that bind us together than what divides us but when the united states reimposed sections 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 that but does it with all of that is. the morse to divide this organization to saw the seeds of discord.

to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took to see ships let alone implemented to get a meeting to meet market demand has been an important part of how iran has kept selling oil and coped with us sanctions china turkey and iran 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 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 we're here. so i guess you know we've you know it's for sure. it will be educational 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 in vice and now as there is a good chance to start 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 well china is iran's biggest oil customer and the two nations are also key allies in china's belt and road trade initiative the potential of u.s. sanctions could put major pressure on their relationship so katrina you has more from beijing. in delhi in one of china's most important ports some twenty million barrels of oil are reportedly stranded waiting to clear chinese customs. with the united states ending waivers on a rainy and oil purchases this week the future of the shipment is unclear the us has certain sanctions on all countries that continue to buy iranian oil after the first of may that includes china iran's biggest customer beijing says there's no justification for the u.s. policy. opposed to unilateral sanctions and the so-called jurisdictions imposed by the u.s. . roughly a quarter of iran's exported oil is sold to china about half

a million barrels a day the two countries have grown closer in recent years president xi jinping mediterranean counterpart in beijing last june just one month after the u.s. really imposed sanctions on iran iran is a key supporter of china's built in road infrastructure initiative designed to ease chinese global trade but analysts say china may have no option but to bow to u.s. demands and. the united states is serious and forcing china to pick a side the chinese government has to be very careful the timing is critical this week top negotiators from washington arrived in beijing for a new round of trade talks both sides are working to finalize a deal to end escalating tit for tat tariffs which began last year experts say china may give up iranian oil which makes up about seven percent of china's total oil imports to avoid jeopardising discussions on trade for china now and the most

important relation is still it's not with iran it's within us and there are other battles china need to fight in terms of transformative technology like five three china is desperate some sort of cutting slack from the u.s. should china stop buying iranian oil it could compensate tehran by boosting trade in other areas if it continues it could do so via a back door. bhatia for it without the goods china has so far given no indication it intends to stop buying uranium oil leading some to believe it may be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with the u.s. washington officials however say any wind down period or additional waiver is out of the question for china. al-jazeera bating. well joining us now from washington is eileen out of fun a senior fellow arab gulf states as you know washington thank you for speaking to us so president trump says that he wants to slash iran's crude exports to zero how

badly will the decision to end these sanction waivers impact iran's oil output. clearly washington stepping up the pressure again this lawmaker public and iran's economy is impacted by all these pressures but at the same time i'm not saw sure that the u.s. at least in the short term will manage to bring their own the oil exports to zero i do believe that iran will find customers for it or it may be giving very high discounts at the black market in order to export some of its oil but in the end if we manage somehow to survive economically so they can avoid the agenda of washington which increasingly appears to be bringing about the economic collapse of the regime in tehran and this is the problem that even if they maintain their crude exports inflation is heading towards forty percent prices are rising simple

food items are getting more expensive and unemployment is rising as well so these sanctions could be very destructive. they certainly are and there is shimon those the destructive potentials of those sanctions which is also why we see the regime preparing itself for social uprisings for bread riots and for very massive public dissatisfaction vid the regime so in some ways there are similarities between venezuela and they slunk republic of iran where hungry people are demanding food that the government is not capable of delivering at subsidized prices how serious could social discontent and a revival of popular uprisings be in the country could it be a threat to the government there is even takes those threats very

seriously and has taken measures to prepare for them the police force is nowadays better organized the top echelons of the police force are now former officers of the revolutionary guards who are more loyal to the regime than professional police officers at the same time be owners to see greater degree of presence of the best his militia at the street levels so the regime is preparing for a showdown with the opposition and we've hungry people increasingly and it is clearly getting closer to a survival mode. thank you very much senior fellow at the arab gulf states institute in washington you had the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you afghanistan's president wraps up a grand council with thousands of official saying now is the time for the peace with the taliban. who are going to resign. under pressure like never before u.k. prime minister to resign may's ruling party faces disastrous results in local

elections and in sport welcome back to australia's cricket stars return from next cheating rounds. and as well as opposition leader is taking his quest to win the support of the soldiers back to the streets with a new strategy at a conference in caracas once again offered amnesty to soldiers to switch their support from president nicolas maduro he says his supporters will be on the streets from ten am in the morning on saturday handing out amnesty leaflets but venezuela's military leaders have so far not declared that support for quite though and still back president the doura well terry is opposed following events for us in the venezuelan capital caracas so addressing his supporters what was his key message today. well let me tell you what we are seeing year in caracas so

far it's been almost four days since one why though in a way seemed that he could change the status quo here in venezuela but we saw why you go in a military base surrounded by some soldiers wearing a blue band and their i'm showing their support for him we also saw him he got company by opposition leader leopoldo lopez has been increasing since two thousand in home arrest since two thousand and seventeen the fact that he was free at that point seemed something was changing in venezuela but that didn't happen fear repressions from the government took plays for people lost their lives while the logic ended up in the spanish ambassador residence seeking in a way asylum so the situation completely changed and what we're seeing right now is going back in a way to square one we're seeing a new president. a with the military asking them to show their support for the president's you're going to swell are showing their support for him for this

revolution and now we're also seeing go once again a supporter of being surrounded by supporters surrounded by employees from the state all company here in venezuela asking them to continue fighting for what he says is the search for freedom in venezuela to fight against the dictatorship and what he's trying to do right now is that he's asking people that this saturday they take to the streets and instead of simply demonstrating he's asking them to go to military bases taking a piece of paper with them telling members of the military to join him but also the venezuelan population to fight against the dictatorship and asking members of the military to join in the fight for freedom and their likely reaction because so far he hasn't managed to persuade them to abandon the dura. well that's correct what we have seen until now we have seen some very small groups of members of the military

that have joined one way though some of them were oppressed and when he went through like a lot of time military base not far away from where i am so rounded by them saying that change has started in venice venice where i well that didn't happen we have seen some strength teaching members of the military defect for example the men one of the leader of the intelligence police here in venezuela but the broad members of the of the military that didn't happen really really leading by the nose for example saying that the military remains loyal to one who would have basically because of the history the relationship between the venezuelan government that this civic military and alliance that exists in venezuela where basically the military hold strategic positions within the government sank you very much to raise above bringing us the latest from the venezuelan company caracas. to afghanistan our president ashraf ghani has agreed to a series of recommendations from regional leaders for future talks with the taliban

or the three thousand afghan delegates gathered for five days in what is known as a lawyer jirga it ended with danny ordering the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners charlotte ellis reports from kabul. afghan your forces helicopters buzz the hoofs of whist in kabul a sign the loya jirga was coming to an aide and the president 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 if. after five days of debate delegates presented their requests to the president they included in traffic and talks the withdrawal of foreign troops a political office in afghanistan for the taliban the release of prisoners by both

sides and a sustained cease fire the immediate demand people. and in the sparks that represent their. immediate cease fire. 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 the result is that most of our poor people are living in hell and they want peace president danny told the loya jirga but he. as all of the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners that he will hand them over in a place of the taliban's choosing with honor and dignity he's called it

a trust building measure 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 qatar 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 leaders are 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 and taliban leaders have repeatedly said that only when they have a deal with the u.s. with a talk with president gunning the recommendations of the afghan people shot at dallas al-jazeera kabul. with al-jazeera live from london still ahead karaoke after killing an al-jazeera investigation like kate's one of the main suspects in the

murder of north korean leader kim jong un's brother. al battles over land ownership could decide south africa's election. and manchester city look to stay out in front in the english premier li peter has the details and sports. now spring is notorious for having whether that changes fairly rapidly in europe it's happening again and if you have a look at where the cloud is moving down from from the north you think is an old wind this is quite a harsh one some of the origins were in the arctic so at best you got nine degrees and once i say about eleven in london in the sunshine but with a harsh when the nine eleven stretches down to paris as well the boundary of the cold air and what's being pumped up from the south is this green obviously so rain

some snow on the high ground in germany and austria as well they like to snow you might think and you'd be right at the be wet and heavy snow and even when it's gone through it's not much warmer twelve degrees but the feed from the south means some of this will be sundries a big downpours of rain enormously for example and to the east of that but it will be over land of the mediterranean the fetus from the sas so this is quite a dusty wind hati share going up to turkey and ng greece your notice for the greatest suggests well this dust in there and it will prompt some thunderstorms otherwise it's quite quiet in fact the normally brazen algeria is disappointing it means it's only about eighteen degrees or so on the coast warming slightly on sunday nineteen but otherwise funnily enough it's not that warm despite the sun. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this

progress what happened was he was started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to determine if the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health conscious we think ok we'll send mary waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. al jazeera. we're in for your.

book i'm back a look at the top stories now india's eastern coast is big lashed by sight clone phoney as it rips through the area with a wrench chill winds and rain at least eight people have died and more than a million evacuated from the low lying areas that is why it is opposition to one says his supporters will hand amnesty fits to soldiers on saturday as he tries to convince the military to change sides from supporting president nicolas maduro and the united states is stepping up the pressure on iran's energy exports by ending sanctions waivers which are out some key trading partners to keep buying iranian oil well in other news we're following closely the united nations is accused hungry

of violating international law by deliberately depriving asylum seekers of food hungary's right wing government has taken a hardline stance towards refugees since the migrant crisis of two thousand and fifteen well the u.n. human rights office is now saying that it has direct information that migrants in detention centers are not being fed some for up to five days hungry as 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 thirties refused to

provide them food for 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 prohibit of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. we are 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 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 turkish authorities say 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 either leg from where many migrants and refugees try to reach the greek 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 and searches continue for those that are still missing more than a thousand people are now known to have died from a boat or in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says it fears an intense transmission of the virus in the country officials have been struggling to control the nine month epidemic because of violence and mistrust from local communities the un health agency wants to expand vaccinations but says attacks on treatment centers a seriously affecting their response. insecurity has become a major impediment to ensuring that we can access engage with and serve the communities we wish to serve and it will control suz journey we experienced one

hundred nineteen separate attacks. forty two directly on health facilities with eighty five. personnel either injured or killed in those settings. so we are dealing with the difficult to volatile situation. protesters have been back on the streets of towns and cities across the don campaigning for civilian rule are unhappy that military leaders have yet to hand over power three weeks after they toppled longtime president to model bashir it's the last friday before the start of ramadan but many on the street say they won't let the month of fasting stop their protest but also hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the algerian capital for the eleventh week in a row chanting we will not shut up a gather in algiers main post office following friday prayers an area which has become a focal point for the revolt which forced out president abdel aziz beautifully.

well now here both of the u.k.'s main parties have sustained heavy losses in local elections the ruling conservatives are expected to say the labor party also took a hit but take any struggling to win out the back seat supporting voters in the north of england and he explains thank you everybody why did you resign was under pressure like never before to resume his conservative party was braced for a bad result in 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 their spoiled ballots on social media most wrote messages demanding bricks straight away although some ballot box protest as

well and she breaks 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 are going to campaign and continue the campaign trying to keep and bring people together in negotiations was great to see but also be opposed to serious and full forward candid with action feels will be for the liberal majority 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 have 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 with the big winners of the night the real litmus test nationally could come when the brics it policy the new policy headed by former ukip leader nigel for raj and the brics it changed u.k.

policy field candidates in this month's european elections. the prime minister and her party are in trouble and it could get worse because the brics it party and ukip will be out in force for the forthcoming european parliament elections but the labor party could also find itself licking its wounds once again as bricks it continues to cast a shadow over british politics the day in barber al jazeera london. a woman jailed for the murder of north korean leader kim jong un's half brother has returned home to vietnam after being freed from prison though one tail hong arrived in hanoi after spending more than two years in a malaysian jail she's one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong nam at kuala lumpur's airport two years ago wang was convicted last month on a lesser charge of causing injury after prosecutors dropped the murder charge al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained exclusive images of one of the north

korean men suspected of being involved then came junctions murda junk charlie is a chemist who is detained and then released by the authorities in malaysia as al-jazeera as well jordan discovered he is currently living in china. karaoke after a killing this man is suspected of being instrumental in the assassination of kim jong il the brother of the north korean leader rejoined joel sings a famous north korean song in a restaurant in china in twenty seventeen an ode to his wife the fragrant flower of the family he sings my claim city. murder for artists and latch this noir represented in indonesian tried alongside a vietnamese woman. they claim they thought they were taking part in a t.v. prank show when they smeared poison on kim jong noms face caught here on c.c.t.v.

at kuala lumpur airport police say five north korean men supervised the assassination and a car registered in rejoining trolls name drove a group of them from the airport we certainly believe that. you will your head to head in doing this because he's a chemist's in fact when he was interview to follow money in he's a coward and the question is ready to get on his money out reason apartment police found thirty eight thousand dollars in cash for phones five computer devices and a bottle of chloride offices didn't test any of his belongings for v.x. nerve agent and only interviewed him once the police did not very i was the object if in that sense they're not very competed malaysian police let's rejoin troll go after two weeks you flew to freedom in china because north korea had seized malaysian diplomats and demanded a prisoner swap there was

a golden opportunity to hold them accountable so we have concretely lost that they'll think we can ever get to the bottom of the case documents obtained by al-jazeera also show re junk show had been doing millions of dollars of business with all the north koreans politicians in malaysia and now asking hard questions about what north korea has been up to the assassination of kim jong il exposes malaysia. where you have a foreign government involved in activities that might be a true mental to release itself why did the malaysian government allow this for which a long time regional schol had close contact with agents from this embassy the evidence suggests that together they planned and executed the most high profile of murders. after the release of the only remaining suspect in norm's killing these pictures obtained exclusively by al-jazeera suggest the karaoke singing chemist who gets

away with murder will jordan al-jazeera kuala lumpur and for more on this al-jazeera investigation by will jordan you can go to our you tube page you tube dot com slash al-jazeera english. a south africans are voting in what's only the sixth democratic election next wednesday one of the key issues is an ongoing debate about land ownership most of the land is still owned by the minority white population that many blacks also lost property at the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred four when traditional zulu lands were turned to tribal ownership for minimal as more from the quiz illian a tell province where you order the roof a nuclear corpsman or to lee and his family have lived on this land for generations he says the look to the clan other rightful owners but they lost their rights to the land when it was placed under the administration of the in a trust in one thousand nine hundred four when a part date ended and a democratic government came into power we must fight. by any means

necessary to do to get. our lindt because this is not midget. we should if we up being up to the trusted ministers about three million hectares of land across the cause alluna tell province some of the largest tracts of land in south africa this community says the trust under king good rules will it is abusing its power by charging people rent the problem is that that size is asking people to pay rent or lend they already all on lend they inherited from the incest us the argument ease we have been here for so many years in ways that in william the trust coming from to get a bird to attend mass into tenants on our own ancestors lived through the trust says it uses the money.