yeah. i know. but you know. some of it i like. this is al-jazeera. has some secret this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes tens of thousands of civilians escaped parts of the province in syria as government and russian jets continue bombing. there really happy and excited to see our families colleagues. freeze to watch as journalists jailed for their reporting on atrocities against the ranger. and with the top stories from europe including journalists murder forces rival politicians to resume talks in northern

ireland but the government has been out of action for more than two years. manny gleeson in. south africa's governing party faces voters in wednesday's general election with anger over corruption essential issues and sports. inside of the ninth appearance in the final of european champions league. taking a three nil lead into the second leg of their semifinal would liverpool. syrian and russian warplanes are bombing targets in northwest syria killing at least twenty civilians that's according to the white helmets rescue group syrian government troops have now advanced into the last opposition territory the rebels say they will fight back the violence has displaced tens of thousands of civilians

zain ohana reports from beirut. it's a worsening humanitarian situation in northwest syria there are reports of up to one hundred fifty thousand people on the move heading north towards the border with turkey escaping what has been described as the fiercest bombardment in months. and we only brought what we can we have nothing but syrian and russian planes are continuing to target villages across southern adlib and northern hama it's been more than a week now dozens of civilians have been killed the united nations is calling for an urgent deescalation and a recommitment to the cease fire especially after schools and health facilities were targeted the u.n. is closely monitoring the situation in the demilitarized zone there are contingency plans in place and. in terms of supply hunting but at the same

time we are also reports. of their operations. in the region syrian government troops have for the first time pushed into rebel territory taking some ground in northwest and it's only the beginning of what is expected to be a difficult and costly battle. against political blackmail under military pressure. by the russians to enter our pure and they were right to land will be met with fire the next battleground be fateful hour and it will be surprised what you see. along with. groups are the dominant force in this area they have refused to abide by the ceasefire agreed by turkey and russia last september russia and syria say the military campaign is against those so-called radical groups but those fighters are embedded among the civilian population russia has accused turkey of not fulfilling

its commitment to clear a demilitarized zone from the so-called radical groups and opened. highways that link cities held by the government but turkish officials argue a war with them and other armed groups would only endanger the lives of civilians and has been trying to push for a negotiated solution. now the syrian army and its allies are trying to forcibly dislodge them at least from the hammer countryside and a few kilometers into it lead to an area that was supposed to be a buffer zone the army hasn't announced the scope of its operations but there is no indication it involves recapturing the entire province especially since turkey continues to have a military presence there and still maintains a strong alliance with russia that of. beirut sudan's military is expected to publish its plan on how to govern during a transitional period protesters want the military to hand power to civilians after an hour stood president bashir last month opposition leaders have presented the

military with draft documents proposing a way forward. for one of the main opposition groups the sudanese professional association is holding a news conference right now let's listen in for a moment. this document has been produced by or out of the meetings from the groups within the coalition. before we held a meeting and we had cleared all these disagreements and we issued a clear statement but this vision represents the forces of change and freedom and we are waiting for the response from the military council the response which you received just a short while ago. please. given

the military council has no right to hold meetings with the representatives but as far as we concerned representatives of those people who are out on the streets. and the military council itself has acknowledged that that more than one occasion and statements have referred to the forces of change and freedom as the representative. of the forces that led the revolution they have referred to that more than once and in their statements and in previous meetings. efforts to manipulate the political process by the former military council. had led to suspending negotiations and then now working. meeting tomorrow the military council has called for we hope that is not another

attempt to manipulate the political forces. military council has a right to me to have a they want. us. military council had actually said that they do want a genuine partnership with the forces of change and freedom and we hope that they are sincere. so that we can. move from this dark tunnel that after thirty years of dictatorship. we can come to greater horizons. civilian room so you've just been listening there to the sudanese professional association one of the main opposition groups giving a news conference there in the sudanese capital khartoum. they have been ongoing discussions with the military council about

a transitional government but morgan is been following this for us from hard to as well so where do things stand right now in all of this. well at the moment has the opposition coalition have finally they've finally gotten a response from the military council they've been waiting for that response since last wednesday and the basically presented their idea very version for a transitional period they said that they wanted four years transitional period with the prime ministerial post an executive cabinet that should be made up of technocrats not military representations or military officials and that they want a sovereign or presidential council and a legislative assembly and an independent judicial system now the military council had said that it wanted partnership but it also wanted the leadership of the transitional period that's something that the opposition coalition have been strongly objecting to so the military council has just responded to their proposal and they say that they have not heard not read it read it yet they haven't gone

through it and that they will be doing that shortly and we're expecting more people from the sudanese professional association to speak and tell us what the content of the reply is of the response as we're also expecting a press or from the military council to tell us what their vision for the transitional period is we already know that they say they want to have a transitional period and they want to be two years but the details of how that transitional period should be is something we expect to hear from them in the coming hour or two so as far as the protesters that are out on the streets they have made it very clear that. they will accept nothing that other than a complete handover of power by the military to civilians what are the chances of that happening. at this point i mean can we gauge what what the military is calculations are in all of this. well it's going to be very hard to know what the military council has in store for sudan's future during the

transitional period we also do know that the two sides the opposition coalition and the military council has had some mediation in the middle a group of independents who do need a journalist. mood. and a prominent businessman also both they both offered their mediation and they said that instead of having one single independent transitional council which the two sides are fighting over there should be two transitional period two transitional council's one of them a civilian with headed by the military and the other known as the security and defense transitional council which is going to be headed by the military and with military with military majority and a civilian representation now we've just heard from the sudanese professional association and they say that they as the opposition coalition have rejected that they want a single transitional period and yvette's the vision that that the military council has put in its reply to to the proposal and that's something they're not going to accept so we should be hearing from them again in a few minutes on what the content of the reply from the military council is and if

that's something they're going to accept and we're also going to hear from the military council what they think sudan's future should be in the coming two years here or thanks for that hello morgan live for us in hard to. democrats in the u.s. congress will vote on wednesday on whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for not providing the full special counsel report william barr has refused a request by congress to turn over an uncensored version of the report that looked into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election for more on this now let's go to kimberly how kid who is live for us in washington so kimberly what are we expecting to happen here when what would a contempt vote on bar essentially mean. yeah well it's very serious and let what this essentially means to pull it back in layman's terms is that this is a major escalation in the fight between the trump white house and congress specifically democrats who control the house of representatives because look at

where we are right now not only have we got the attorney general the highest law enforcement official in the united states refusing to comply with the quest for the uncensored version of robert muller's report that report that as a result of the investigation into whether or not donald trump and his campaign cleared with russia and also if there was obstruction of justice so we've got not only that refusal to turn that over but the latest as we know the white house now invoking executive privilege directing its former white house attorney not to comply with another subpoena request for documentation by house democrats in addition to that we had on monday the treasury secretary refusing to turn over six years of donald trump's tax return steve what this is is really the white house and republicans saying look there's nothing more to investigate this is just a further resistance by opposition democrats refusing to accept the outcome of the twenty sixteen presidential election democrats are saying there's

a lot to investigate there's alleged corruption concerns there is alleged obstruction of justice on the part of the president but the white house again pushing back not only refusing to turn over documents but also saying look at there's no reason for the special prosecutor to our special counsel to testify in mid may because essentially what their argument is look at the report's been filed case closed time to move on all right kimberly how can live for us there in washington thanks. now plenty more ahead on the news out. there were thousands of farmers and indigenous people have been forcibly displaced by a return of violence more than two years after the signing of a peace deal with fire gravels somewhere in gaza city to assess the impact from the worst escalation in cross border attacks since twenty fourteen. novak djokovic celebrating his two hundred fifty

a week as the world number one in style the details coming up later in sport. still ahead but first northern ireland in the u.k. hasn't had a government for more than two years now talks to restore a delicate power sharing agreement there have finally resumed in belfast his laurent taylor in london with more from our european broadcast center lauren thank you has them at the latest round of negotiations comes after the new ira a dissident republican faction admitted to killing journalist leader mckee in london last month and has raised fears of a return to sectarian violence as new reports. the funeral in belfast of lire mccann's young journalist shot dead last month and an urgent question from the priest why in god's name does it take the death of

a twenty nine year old woman with her whole life in front of her. that reaction was a wake up call for foster leader of the democratic unionist party and mary mcdonald to head republican party shouldn't face the key was shot dead by dissident republicans during the rioting in london derry now people's clear frustration with two and a half years of political and past in northern ireland has led to new talks involving all the major parties there aimed at getting the devolved administration based at stormont house back up and running here in the catholic all doing area of belfast al-jazeera but the director of an organization providing support and training to vulnerable young people under twenty five shane wheeler hand says the collapse of stormont means he can't get approval for future projects we want to see centered communities but we can't do that in the absence of effective executive at stormont so. we don't want people to go back and storm it in the way that it was before

where there's a whole raft of supremacist lines to cross in order for us to have some sort of government that needs to change but we do need government do you need some sort of legislative body that can actually bring us from where we are to a better place alfie mccrory's a youth worker in one of belfast's loyalist areas he says the political uncertainty is directly affecting local services yesterday i spent five hours with a lady and her son or so much tentative his own life and we took him to the hospital and he was sent home there was no preparation from within the hospital to help or no money money comes from the budget budget comes from politicians politicians come from government show instead of what happened from the top during we're having to complain from the bottom up. and looking in the background wherever you go the fear that the political vacuum is allowing that those who advocate violence to influence the generation born after the so-called troubles these days

you can find a new kind of role model murals around here like the sporting figures but many people will tell you the longer the political arm past continues the more young people will be tempted down a dark up of. many people here hopefully or in the case message of dialogue will now be heard by their politicians if it's not the implications for all communities here a deeply worrying about al jazeera belfast and mccann is a journalist and political activist he joins us by skype or londonderry thanks for being with us so the talks are started has the tone changed you think they're likely to make progress toward some kind of agreement this time well sort of the atmosphere of the attitudes in broad society here and there are chains and continue to change the world and that is reflected in the talks whether the political parties involved in the talks reflect what is happening on the ground remains to be seen the to me and parties here that democratic unionist party and that seen that

these parties are based upon your very fundamental a.d.'s what you're in contradiction to one another showed me even if they wanted to it may be difficult for them to rave and i consensus that they can all go forward on the merger of miracles are seen as a catalyst in that but what else was what are the factors were there in getting them back to the table. well the i think the. killing of lira maccie i think focused attention sort of on the need to get back into government there already was even before that that growing frustration i don't think so that's just civic society if you like at the absence of government in northern ireland and what referred to you in your package there that of the the fact that there's nobody available to say not sort of in relation to health expenditure or educational expenditure only how to run darn health service our schools on a very bad situation and so it has been crazy raising sort of from the tree junior

level and from business from also from civic society right across the board saying for god's sake can you not get back into government and rottenness a little patch of the air and that was already there when it came that's of the week before last when young lira mickey was killed that's sort of the revulsion at that and the fact that when a priest said you know at their funeral in the name of god why did it take the death of this young woman to bring people together and all parties were there in the church listening to them that struck a note that struck an organist that certainly has played a rule and getting the parties back at this time into talks well these talks work well we have a positive outcome we must wait and see there are no shortage of some exceeded in northern ireland they don't think it's going to work and what about breakfast i mean and that's all this is all going on in the background of brains it is that in any kind of effect on the premises that. well it's a general factor i think the significance of it might be that in the sort of

a time of political agony his in turbulence here in northern ireland this very difficult nobody wants to make a misstep and brags it contributes to that on the face of it bragg's it is very little to do with community relations in northern ireland and the way in which these are reflected in government but the fact that there is a deadlock over blankets and the fact that there is a fax northern ireland breaks it in a way that it doesn't affect anywhere else in britain so that's a very a very important one i'm sitting in the dairy city three miles west three by is east are three major size from where i'm sitting you're in the republican or you know crossed front here so any attempt to impose a border guard of a right and a dark there in ireland would have enormous implications for a place like very sort of in all the border regions so that's an additional element of uncertainty and confusion which does nothing to do create that positive atmosphere for the future i mean mccann thank you very much indeed for your

thoughts thank you thank you. and walk across party negotiations aimed at breaking the brakes at deadlock are underway between the u.k. government and opposition labor party prime minister tourism a had been hoping the talks would deliver a compromise deal in time to allow her to call off the u.k.'s participation in this argument elections later this month the government has admitted that is now not possible and to britain will be taking part in the may twenty third vote hole suggest the n.t.e.u. breaks it party will surge ahead of both the ruling conservatives and the opposition. meanwhile the president of the european commission says it was a big mistake to stay silent during u.k.'s breaks that referendum in twenty sixteen . says he regrets not intervening in the campaign to correct what he calls live about the european bloc. second the mystical needs to listen to carefully so the british government can move because the prime minister asked me

not to interfere not to intervene in the thing to work for and you could think it was a mistake not to intervene not to interfere because we would have been the only ones to destroy the lice which we circulate throughout i was wrong to be silent but an important move for british student who was jailed for spying in the u.a.e. has made a formal complaint to the u.k. foreign office over its handling of his case matthew had has always denied the allegations against him and has vowed to clear his name is wife says she was told by officials in the u.k. to keep his arrest last year secret but led a public campaign to get him released the u.k. foreign office says it intervened at the right moment to get the academic home and was prepared to put britain's relationship with the on the line hedges was in solitary confinement and now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. why did they have to intervene only when i've been given

a life sentence only when the news or going public what about the months beforehand when they knew i wasn't in detention when i knew i'd be arrested but i wasn't going anywhere why did it require all those other steps to go through also sets a precedent for other british citizens now when the foreign office says you know leave a task to try to quiet diplomacy course the next time this happened someone says nigga straight to the press. international court of justice is here in qatar is case against the united arab emirates for violating human rights got us government says the u.a.e. targeted its citizens when it expelled all categories and stopped them from entering the after twenty seven thousand blockade u.a.e. claims qatar is hampering efforts to improve the situation something catarrh denies stephanie decker has more from the day. it is the second time in the history of the international court of justice that a respondent is coming up with a case requesting provisional measures what does that mean well qatada one initial

let's say step of the international court saying that the u.a.e. needed to allow the students back into the country needed to allow the renewed cation of families because of course when the blockade started the emirates gave to the citizens fourteen days to leave the country it's become a very personal issue of what is a political spot well we are now expecting the emirates to present what they want to see going forward which are things that include they allege that qatar is blocking a website that allows called the citizens to apply for amorality visas and also a clampdown on the al-jazeera news channel so will be hearing from the emirates will be hearing from qatar it and then the courts will go away and think about it the bottom line is this it is now almost two years since the blockade in countries closed air land and sea access to qatar to also expelling its citizens has become a very personal issue qatar says that what the court suggested still hasn't been implemented and this is the top court in the world when it comes to resolving

disputes between states both sides of employed the top lawyers trying to resolve this in a legal framework but certainly at the moment there seems to be no sign that the blockade is going to end anytime soon that's it for me and the team in london now it's back to has amanda thanks lauren now to reuters journalists who spent sixteen months in a myanmar prison for reporting on the military crackdown on reindeer have been freed while on who was serving a seven year sentence for violating the official secrets act both men were reunited with their families one of them meeting his daughter for the first time when he reports on a case that strong international reaction. after almost a year and a half in prison while alone and walked to freedom they left insane prison in yang gone moments after finding out their names were on a list of thousands of inmates to be freed in a presidential amnesty their immediate thoughts were for those closest to them and their profession. in the freezing. of their own the. regime to

release says i want to see thank you very much i'm really happy and excited to see my family and my colleagues and i can weigh in my youth radio right out and soon after they were emotional family reunions for the journalists who were arrested in december two thousand and seventeen working for the reuters news agency they were investigating a massacre muslims in myanmar as west when they were found to be in position of sensitive documents lawyers for the journalists said they were framed despite little evidence presented by the prosecution while alone and who were convicted of violating the official secrets act and sentenced to seven years in prison they appealed twice unsuccessfully. the case led to an international campaign to have them freed led by their employer we are enormously pleased that mean war has released our courageous reporters while on and. since their arrest five hundred

eleven days ago they have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the world we welcome their return much of the international pressure was focused on me and miles leader aung san suu kyi and her party the national league for democracy before forming the government they campaigned for human rights and freedom of speech but throughout the case they refused to speak out in support of the journalists or to amend laws like the official secrets act that critics say are open to abuse we can talk about the n l d not having very much power over the military they do have power over the law the have a parliamentary majority if they wanted to they could abolish them and then not the ordeal for a while alone and who has come to an end but it's one that should never have happened to journalists who say they were simply trying to uncover the truth when hey al-jazeera bangkok. still ahead on aljazeera we'll look into why the european union is expressing support for iran after a u.s.

pressure. find daniel shriner in one outsider it's one hundred years after the presence of the former first lady eva peron can still be found all over argentina in sport australia's biggest rugby star learns his fate at a disciplinary hearing centers here with that. kind of the scars are not completely clear but temperatures are rising now headed for what's going to be a hot couple of months or so and as you can see a curl of cloud here across the levant and showers in iran suggest it's not stable with the so bring in the potential for uplift to dust and occasional showers mostly it's ahead of all that which is turkey at the moment so the sunshine comes out by guards at thirty three beirut only about twenty you'll notice until around twenty

eight slowly rising afterwards this grain this is really cried more than anything as an occasional seana near the caspian is possible and occasional shower on the high ground in northern saudi is a possibility and not that unusual that the south of that we won't see much more in the way thunderstorms i don't think for northern parts of society or bahrain or qatar but the cloud is always a hint that it just might happen i think is a pretty low chance so she made high searches even low forty's seems fairly typical at the moment that's true in oman as well and the breeze is setting up to be a southwesterly which you might think is the first hit in the monsoon well it's certainly showing rain going north for tanzania it's been very wet recently everywhere we rely now on fronts coming in from the sudden atlantic and that's certain the case the cape town and later central process africa. russia has jeopardized the united states' security interests we know what you are

doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking in. but what's the picture from the inside. stars think russia's foreign policy is too soft to us russian goals have be achieved not peace and the fall russia coming soon on all just zero. zero world goes on an incredible journey through firsthand accounts and extraordinary archive footage to the cities of palestine as they were before nine hundred forty eight and the impact the creation of israel had on the. witness the vibrant commercial and cultural bias of that kind of close and the heritage that many of today's palestinians have never known lost cities of palestine on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching i just say a reminder of our top stories this hour syrian and russian warplanes are stepping up their bombing of the last rebel held province in the country government forces have advanced into opposition territory activists say at least twenty civilians were killed on tuesday. sudan's opposition says it is assessing a response from the ruling military council there demanding a civilian led transition after president bush here was ousted last month the talks have been deadlocked for weeks. to reuters journalists jailed in myanmar have been released after a presidential pardon they were serving

a seven year prison sentence over their investigation into a massacre of. south africans will vote for a new parliament on wednesday here are the three main parties to look out for the governing african national congress is led by president cyril ramaphosa who's promised to tackle corruption and the stagnant economy the opposition democratic alliance party has. me its first black leader. poll suggests it may be losing ground zero among its wealthier support base the economic freedom fighters party led by julius malema won six percent of the vote in twenty fourteen and they are the third largest party in parliament. now its policies include my nationalization and taking land without compensation to give to the poor

and we have correspondents across south africa covering this in a moment we'll hear from malcolm webb in johannesburg but first for me to miller has this report now from cape town. on prime real estate along cape town's waterfront is a building that was once a medical residence it became fake and when the city moved its nurses out in twenty fifteen two years later people who had nowhere else to live moved in one of them a sixty nine year old sicilian mother bella went to sit in a classroom you can give it wherever you would like to be. there's no rich or poor people we are all the same and it allowed to stay in the city. in a group here the conditions are not great sanitation is poor and space is a crime and despite the government building millions of free homes south africa still has a shortage of two point three million as other africans prepared to vote there are

a number of issues that may influence who they vote for land ownership and the redistribution of wealth rising unemployment and a poorly performing economy are just some of the concerns that people want the government to address the governing african national congress has been plagued by one corruption scandal after another it led to the resignation of president jacob zuma. as the party works to renew its image under the leadership of so roma pour some it's also fighting a declining support it's battling not only its traditional opposition democratic alliance but also a rise in populist voices like that of julius malema of the economic freedom fighters the one six percent of the vote in its first election and poll suggests that support could double a greater number of small parties are emerging good is led by patricia de lowell

who form the party after splitting from the democratic alliance a n c one of the old parties they have perfect accord option the d a they only need the all party to prove take out that there really they don't care about the poor and what we need you need an alternative in this country that stand up for the who are there fight for social justice the a.n.c. spent much of the campaign like managing its mistakes and asking its supporters for forgiveness commentators expect the party the hang on to power but it's not clear how comfortable a majority it will have. al-jazeera caped on. elizabeth pang says her brother christopher didn't have to die he had epilepsy and lived in a mental health care facility in the last. three years ago she says health officials moved him to an unregistered on licensed and ill equipped building he was

among more than a thousand patients taken out of care at the time weeks later he was dead it's manny. it's not i don't. get any don't really. want to think we have to. along with christopher more than one hundred forty patients died nearly sixty are still missing campaigners say the officials responsible were stealing public health care funds that the officials deny it but it's just one of dozens of corruption scandals here in south africa that have lighted the ruling african national congress specially in the last ten years it's made it increasingly difficult for the a.n.c. to retain votes. in. the worst scandals surfaced on the former president jacob zuma treasury says billions of dollars of public money was stolen

presidency around opposer took over just over a year ago launched a number of inquiries into the corruption scandals referred to some are still running others a complete but the national prosecuting authority hasn't yet sent any want to jail . i asked the a.n.c. spokesman why so far most of the growth for what we know is especially. on issues which are raised in commissions to ensure that we're possible they can investigate because a trial in the proper sanctions gives the bulls were in conflict with the law oh really ensues expected to win wednesday's general election polls suggest it'll have the smallest majority it's ever had since he came to power in one thousand nine hundred four the end of white minority group. from opposed to stays in office south africans are waiting to see how far his fight against corruption will go i hope

that it won't just be that none of that this isn't just about the politics of survival the appetite to send the correct signals to the public to the international community and to potential voters to potential investors i would hope that this is a much deeper. undertaking than that but i'm not sure an inquiry into the health care scandal that killed christopher hasn't led to any prosecutions yet elizabeth and her mother say we won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. or going to talk about this more now with. pecl in johannesburg you just saw there for a moment in malcolm's report she is a political analyst and senior research fellow with the trade collective think tank thanks very much for being with us. so just to just to pick up on the point that was being made about the d.n.c.

that they are despite all of the pushback against them and their loss of support in many places in south africa they are still projected to win but do you get the sense that they are getting the message from from south africans the sense of anger and frustration that many are feeling. and the one the one way that manifested itself was of course the recall of the former president zuma because he was seen as a liability going into these elections in particular and the eighteen months stretch between his resignation and now have helped immensely to galvanize and get some new new breath into the a.n.c. clean up operations person time up or such perceived as mr mr keen as somebody who understands international relations understands the investor investor relations and also is very keen on getting corruption to the bottom of corruption but of course i think one of the critiques about him is that he's not necessarily per say a man of the people but

a man of this moment. and speaking of corruption the man within the a.n.c. who was kind of seen as the face of that corruption was was the former president to former president who still has a lot of support within within the a.n.c. . how will they be looking at all this i mean will they be trying to push back. i think what they in see has and the n.c. is a is essentially quite upset that at the moment it's probably going into this election weaker than it's ever been in its history it's probably about three or four at least three or four different factions internally what they've done is to try to present a united front i don't think that the zuma support as the president will support us will push that per se because that would mean of course that the a.n.c. might lose its incumbency and that's the bigger picture so there is this debt tends to keep things together for this moment but there's a huge amount of infighting and that in itself might be something that may not be

easy to manage going forward especially over the next five yes. and the n c has won every election since one thousand nine hundred ninety four since the end of apartheid the fact that they are now facing a tougher opposition would this not be welcomed as a sign of a healthy democracy absolutely and i think that it's also a sign of the times any country any especially posts post-election post-independence african states have faced this so. kenya and condoms that even existed in all faiths exactly the same uniquely the zambia which is the quality of his and calm down founded and led also that existed in the in the in a significant way so if the attrition and the life span of any liberation movement we just send it to a government must expect itself to eventually phase out and i think that this is excellent for democratic spaces but also more importantly full of voices the very

very voices an escalation of voices on the ground not everybody per se identifies with the a.n.c. and this of course is a generational gap of course between people who who don't vote in the same way that the parents felt so the younger people students in their twenty's in the teens late teens and perhaps every thirty's who don't identify with the that a.n.c. mythology with them the struggle myth follows you of the love and and potentials sente those things don't interest them they want to see their lives changing right now they want to see an end to the inequality they want to see that gap between the wealthiest and the poorest people now and they also want to see a much stronger a stronger move towards redistribution of access and privilege especially from the minority white population to the majority african population this is a large part of what this the recent student protests have been about good to get your perspective. thanks for being with us thank you so much. the european

union has voiced its criticism of the u.s. decision not to allow some countries to continue trading with iran for oil iranian oil sales have already fallen by a half since the us pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the tasha butler reports from powers since donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran deal one year ago european leaders have been battling to save it this week britain germany france and the e.u.'s foreign ministers criticize washington's decision to end sanctions waivers for some iranian oil exports to countries including china and india in a joint statement they said the lifting of nuclear related sanctions aims at having a positive impact not only on trade and economic relations with iran but most importantly on the lives of the iranian people in february the e.u. launched a new payment mechanism called instax to allow e.u. companies to continue trading with iran and bypass u.s.

sanctions by avoiding transfers in dollars the e.u.'s foreign policy chief told the un security council that ensuring regional security was the block's priority our collective security requires a solid. multilateral architecture for nonproliferation and this are meant this is why the european union has worked and will continue to work to preserve the nuclear deal with iran the e.u. says inspects will it first be used for trade in humanitarian items including food and medicine managed by germany and overseen by a board in the u.k. the system is headquartered in france's finance ministry the prime minister is unlikely to persuade multinationals like french oil giants otoh how to resume trade with iran and risk u.s. penalties but some analysts say that in stakes are still very important because it sends the message to the u.s. and to iran that the e.u. still wants to maintain the twenty fifteen accord and it's also enabled the

european union to find new ways of move the u.s. is great on international trade or six cutters it was what's important is the e.u. strategy because today there's a problem with u.s. sanctions on iran but tomorrow it could be cuba or russia or venezuela so the europeans are building tools to allow the e.u. to overcome what they see as an acceptable u.s. dominance in the global marketplace that they can acknowledge that job loss as tensions escalate between the u.s. and iran european leaders are caught in the middle washington has sent an aircraft carrier group to the gulf and accused iran of threatening american troops iran's reported to be reconsidering its commitment to parts of the accord on tuesday french presidential sources indicated that if tehran violates the deal the e.u. would be forced to reimpose sanctions the deal they fought so hard to save looks increasingly fragile natasha butler al-jazeera paris. in brazil hundreds of students and teachers have been protesting cuts to public education they gathered

outside a military high school in rio de janiero where president. was speaking students say the cuts will be devastating also nars government sparked outrage last week when it revealed it is also cutting thirty percent of federal university funding. armed groups in colombia once again forcing farmers from their homes displacement had been common joining the fifty years of civil war but it stopped in the run up to a peace deal with fark rebels three years ago. al jazeera. reports from southern cordoba. for more than a month two thousand farmers and indigenous people have been living in makeshift tents in the village of. in a remote area of northern colombia. armed men arrived into rural communities with one message everybody had to leave. they said we had less than twenty four hours to vacate our communities we had no option but to leave the tire track and field to

the closest town didn't give us a chance to take anything but. almost all the displaced are subsistence farmers who once made a living growing coca crops remaining greedy and for cocaine in territories under control of rebels but as part of the two thousand and sixteen peace deal they agreed to switch to legal crops in what was called a substitution program that promised assistance and development in the region. instead the power back in created by the mobilization of the fire left smaller armed groups fighting for control of the land. farmer who said man this struggle still hold back tears as he worries about losing his harvest he says he believes peace would have changed things for the better. we lived happily for two years all of us did then everything collapsed when peace implementation started everything seemed fine then the war came back. most families would like to go back to their

homes in their fields but they say that the basic guarantees necessary for a safe return are simply not there. one farmer who recently tried to return lost his leg after stepping on a land mine the united nations says attacks on civilians have increased by ninety percent in the past two years affecting thirty thousand people mainly in areas where the government has failed to exercise territorial control and implement reforms many of these areas. of state presence and i'm talking about are but also are there certain shoot bring back normal. to those areas in some development so if there is still this ground for informal economies we will continue to see ten issues like internal displacement or killing of community leaders a sad reality for days families who dream of peace but say it remains

a distant delusion i was in a beauty i'll just see that sudden cordoba argentina is celebrating one hundred years since the birth of its former first lady ever put on every turn she was popularly known was a champion of women's rights daniel schorr our reports on her legacy. what she once said her greatest fear in life was to be forgotten one hundred years after her birth one hundred of eaters marched to the center with osiris to ensure that they would bet on is remembered as boss we say to the whole as a young beautiful woman an actress she was an example of what a woman can be. the name in the image of the former first lady still shine in all corners of argentina bookstore written about schools hospitals and restaurants are named after this dessert concocted in her honor but i. we're incorporating the image the figure of the values she represented the sensibility her main value was

her sensibility which is necessary to overcome the difficult times are facing now david walker he was born in the seventh of may one thousand nine hundred nineteen in the argentine countryside a wealthy father abandoned the family to poverty aged fifteen she sought and found fame and fortune as an actress in one osiris there she met the rising politician then labor minister. at a function to raise money for earthquake victims the rest as they say is history instead of being a woman fighting for social justice for equality she was taken into the hearts of the argentine people and aspired to the universal story and today everyone here in argentina remembers her the couple married in one thousand nine hundred five and the following year he became president of argentina a plane skinny girl with prominent teeth transformed herself into a glamour icon both revere and despised she was something of an enigma while she

was alive a champion of the poor wearing fur was a fighter for women's rights in a man's world a show that is superstar ahead of a time sixty seven years after her death that attraction that influence remains just as strong. former president improbable candidate in this year's elections cristina fernandez. describes her as an inspiration in a way i think that inspires the new struggles and today you can see that many of those movements many of these stretched industry you have young people with addition we did. a sign we did the town and you still think about it peter kay still emulated sometimes denigrated however every to put on one hundred years after her birth has very clearly not been forgotten. and. when osiris. all right time now for sport here's santa thank you very much to has

him or barcelona are inside of the ninth appearance in the final all but the european champions league get a bus a take a three nil lead into the second leg of their semifinal with liverpool that match kicks off in a few minutes time you know messi scored twice in spain and there was also a call for former liverpool striker luis suarez the home team are without the injured pair of the homicide roberto for a meal by liverpool will be hoping history can repeat itself last season buster threw away three goal lead to lose against roma in the quarter finals show in the morning we've been on the receiving end of tough blows particularly last year so we've got that on our minds coming into this game we also have to be conscious that they have an added extra here which is the little pool fans they always create an extra player so we have to be careful and aware of this. think everyone's got to be realistic. does he still got the belief. in the change room anything's possible

especially anfield and hopefully will be able to produce a special night you have a joke of it celebrated his two hundred fiftieth that week as well number one with a straight sets win at the madrid open the two time champion beaten taylor for it for the last also just six games djokovic is building up to the french open which starts later this month he has the chance to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time for the second time in his career. or as well number one now we all sat there has a tougher time and her much against. tom offspring a japanese star needed two hours and thirty seven minutes to beat her wild card opponent a soccer venture to take in the match love six six three six seven. and australia's biggest rugby rugby star israel has been found guilty of breached. play is a code of conduct over

a homophobic social media post his contract was terminated by rugby australia in april after he tweeted hell awaits gay people but he requested the hearing which finished early on tuesday after four days and three person panel is still has to decide his punishment however it's looking less and less likely he'll play at this year's world cup donald trump described tugger woods as a true legend as he presented him with the presidential medal of freedom at the white house would speak to you at the masters last month that kept one of the greatest career comebacks in sport but this is a business associate of trump and is designed in a golf course for the trump organization in dubai a forty four forty three year old is the fourth and youngest gold for to receive the medal of freedom after jack nicklaus arnold palmer and charlie ford. in ninety seven yes i won the masters and i was there to. be my dad and

my mom my dad is no longer here about my mom's here i love you mom thank you. well not all astley's have been keen to accept invitations to the white house with visits to collect awards or celebrate championships becoming more controversial since trump took office as asia has more it's wonderful to have you here it's been a tradition at the white house for years when u.s. sports teams top off their celebrations with a visit to the president but like many other things it's different under trump the patriots are an incredible organization of the twenty teams that have won major titles only ten have gone to the white house the rest have either not been invited or more unusually have declined the invite our current president is a very divisive and you know individual he's someone who you know people don't

unite around and even in these things that are not supposed to be political or partisan he's such a divisive figure such a polarizing figure that it causes people to make a political choice donald trump has often said athletes should stay out of politics but he doesn't mind winning in on sports he was hugely critical of black american football stars who knelt during the playing of the national anthem in protest at police violence and he's picked fights on twitter with african-american athletes like basketball stars steph curry and le bron james. the philadelphia eagles won the super bowl last year american food bowls top trophy they were invited to the white house but when a number of top stars said they wouldn't be going because of the president the invitation was quickly rescinded one of the biggest things about dolphins politics is he supports who supports donald trump it's not necessarily about an ideological position i don't even think i think it's he loves who loves donald trump just in

the last few days the manager of baseball's title winning boston red sox says he won't be joining his team in washington in protest at the u.s. government's failure to do more to help his native puerto rico after being how. by a hurricane and i was just very tough you know to go celebrate when where and where we had you know and i'm from and i go sports stars turning down a presidential invite isn't new but it's become more common with donald trump in the white house it used to be about respecting the office even if you didn't respect the man no more athletes me will stage their own boycotts no matter who is in the white house alan fischer i'll just get up washington. and that's it for me of course we'll have more sports later on though from clothing the result for the champions league semifinal between barcelona and liverpool which is happening now at anfield but for now he has a thanks very much sanna and that is it for this news hour has i'm sick of thanks

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