occasionally that's going to take place today or during the weekend. and of course what we're seeing that both sides if they do reach an agreement by friday which is highly unlikely come those terrorists be reversed as quickly as they've been imposed or do we have to wait a certain amount of time. not get out of school be very very quickly then there may be some transitional effect or for i think would have every transiting in the oceans or for example on the reach of asians they are bad at technically they can be very likely quickly if the united states or so we stand because it is a matter of fact it is a need at that our decision to impose them as we have seen there recently and it will be a unit out of this season if and when it will come over the mobile believe it. or not he thanks so much for joining us from lancaster university in the northwest of england. the chinese former president of interpol has been formally charged on will face trial for corruption in turn june chinese prosecutors accuse

the main hallway of abuse of power and taking bribes but who became interpol's chief in twenty sixteen disappeared in september or will a visit to china beijing later confirmed that he had been detained on suspicion of corruption his wife who lives in france has repeatedly urged the french president to intervene. the deputy head of iran's revolutionary guard will not hold talks with the u.s. and dismiss threats of military action by the u.s. . president trump urged the iranian leadership to call him up and strike a deal on its nuclear program their economy is a mess ever since they took away the iran deal they have inflation that's the highest number ever heard. they're having riots every weekend and during the week even and what they should be doing is calling me up sitting down we can make a deal a fair deal we just don't want to have nuclear weapons not too much to ask and we would help put them back into great shape their bad ship right now i look forward

to where we could actually help iran we're looking to her to run i want them to be strong and great and have a great economy now and a group of b. fifty two bombers sent by the u.s. to code to what it calls a credible threat from iran have landed at an american air base in qatar is a craft carrier the u.s.s. abraham lincoln is also heading towards persian gulf washington announce their deployment days before iran rolled back some of its commitments under the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement. from tehran. within the last twenty four hours a fleet of american warships has gone through the sways canal into the red sea and is getting closer and closer to iranian waters to iranian sure the sea but iran's armed forces has been relatively reserved in any sort of show of force or talk of force in response to what is a clear american move against iranian security iranian borders even the supreme

leader himself while still not only come in a has been silent on all matters with regard to the united states since president hassan rouhani made a statement made an announcement that iran would begin to lessen its cooperation with the twenty fifty nuclear deal but the supreme leader's thoughts on the matter his feelings on the issues are likely to be made known here at the weekly friday prayer sermon the government has also called for an anti american demonstration of protest to follow the prayers this week it's all fairly standard but it comes as the chances of an open conflict between the united states and iran are higher than they've been in recent memory any time in the past many weeks and months and it's not just american military hardware moving closer and closer towards iran that has people worried iranians are worried that the rhetoric by hawks in washington and

people that are part of the white house of u.s. president donald trump senior members of his government who have been making very hawkish comments towards iran iranian people are worried that the prospect of a war with america is a real possibility now more than ever now iranian leaders have tried to assure their people that they're doing everything they can to avoid a conflict to move towards a direct war with the united states but in a speech earlier this month supreme leader ayatollah khamenei did tell his people that the united states has a past record of the stable. behavior in the region and despite their best efforts to iranian people should be prepared for a cause which should be prepared for a potential war. the u.s. says it seized a north korean cargo ship for violating international sanctions justice department officials say the ship one of north korea's largest was trying to transport coal it was detained in indonesia

a year ago and is now being taken to american samoa. japan is accusing north korea of violating human resolutions with its latest missile test stand a second weapons test within a week north korean state media showed at least one missile being launched on thursday tension has risen following the failed denuclearization summit in february between donald trump and kim jong un south korea's president says the north weapons tests are sending a message to the u.s. . trumbull honey north korea seem to be considerably discontented it could not reach a deal at the sec in north korea u.s. summit in hanoi north korea fired missiles that do not directly threaten the united states japan or south korea so they appear to be careful not to break down the dialogue but they express their opinion at the same time. bride has more from the south korean capital seoul. senior south korean defense officials have been briefing lawmakers in the national assembly on thursday's weapons test and it

coincides with the release by north korean state run media of images of what it calls a strike drill are various weapons being used by a number of different units overseen by leader kim jong un now south korea's military says that in addition to what's assumed to be the two short range missiles being fired in one direction and also being fired but this time in a westward direction towards the sea on that side of the korean peninsula were a number of multiple rocket launchers and also self-propelled guns so a serious show of force by north koreans military and it comes just five days after a similar weapons test which was carried out on saturday on north korea's east coast are now coming together this is taken as a very serious provocation but south korea seeming to do all they can not to be provoked almost downplaying the significance and the seriousness of these latest

developments and it comes big on who is the u.s. special representative on north korean affairs is here in south korea talking to his counterparts about what comes next and about ways of moving forward one possibility is humanitarian assistance agreeing to send food aid to the north so while we have these increasing military tensions there is also the possibility of further conciliatory gestures with the whole future of negotiations very much hanging in the balance but plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news are including illegal israeli settlements based scrutiny the u.n. security council plus. looks for a five star review from investors and it's hard to supply to share listing. for the portland trailblazers cousin but on the brink to force a deciding game seven in the n.b.a. play. some of the sports news in the water.

even to much of a protest is expected in gaza demonstrators have been on the border fence every friday for more than a year israeli forces have killed hundreds of palestinians demanding the return of their land and many wounded palestinians have needed and like imputations some acute for treatment new artificial limb hospital but actually going to possible. jaime's food you is what you might call a wounded veteran of the march of return protests in gaza on a friday last august he was shot in the left leg came one of the growing number of protest amputees. i'm not disabled being disabled is a state of mind i believe if my mind is disabled i'm disabled but if i lose a part of my body i'm not disabled. food you is one of twenty people who will soon

be fitted for a state of the art prosthetic leg at the newly opened how mad hospital for rehabilitation and artificial limbs there are already forty people on the waiting list the executive director of the hospital says there are sixteen hundred amputees living in gaza since the march of return protests began last year one hundred thirty six people mostly young men have lost their limbs. patients can now get free treatment at the qatari funded hospital it's the first public rehabilitation facility in the gaza strip. the aim is to provide more advanced prosthetics and treatment programs that are currently available but given the land sea and air blockade it posed by israel and egypt since two thousand and seven there are many obstacles to overcome the deficient and

sometimes also bring it to two into gaza three because of for some but it's a cut on some security issues that's why it'll take time for the one hundred bed hospital to be fully operational. but who is hoping by the one year anniversary of his amputation he'll have a second leg again. well. if my life will change after i get a prosthetic leg i can walk up and down the stairs to my fourth floor apartment drive a car ride a motorcycle and go outside without crutches. losing his leg hasn't deterred food from attending the protests each friday he goes he says all palestinians must make sacrifices in their fight for a return to the land they once called home and for a life better than the one they have now under see which natasha going to aim.

the gaza strip. the un security council has held an informal meeting on the continuing growth of illegal israeli settlements member states say that building on palestinian land is unlawful and violence un resolutions palestinian foreign minister iyad maliki says the current u.s. policies aren't helping the stalled peace process diplomatic and to james bays has more from the un. the meeting was organized by indonesia the current president of the security council but because it was a controversial subject israeli settlements in the west bank this wasn't a formal meeting of the council instead an informal meeting to which all security council members were invited surprising then that the u.s. special representative jason green blatt one of the architects of the trump peace plan due to be presented soon came here in person to the meeting he presented

a case that was very supportive of israel. we hope to prevent our vision soon and in the meantime we will continue to speak the truth even when it is not welcome the truth is that israel just days ago came under a vicious cynical unprovoked attack that was intended to terrify kill and maim israelis the truth is that there has been no effort in the halls of the united nations to hold the terrorists who perpetrated that attack accountable also the meeting the palestinian foreign minister riyadh maleki he said the forthcoming plan looked to him more like a surrender plan for the palestinians at the end of the meeting i asked him whether he was any more upbeat about the forthcoming proposals having heard him again speak today mr foreign minister does it give you any hope for this cloud absolutely not really disappointed with god to be know it does you know what to expect if at any time in the in the future there will they would release. a plan but you know

it's pretty clear that you know it's. his thinking you know his his mind is set to be exclusively on the police union and the peace until logic as he left the meeting special representative green blatt was taking no questions from reporters he would give no more details about the timing of the release of the peace plan something that president trump has called the deal of the century other than to say it would come soon. cia has warned friends and colleagues of murdered journalist jamal khashoggi that the potential targets of the saudi government reported by time magazine says three people have been given security briefings in recent weeks the including activists in baghdad are living in norway and of the lizzie's in canada a third person is in the united states but asked not to be named security services

warned they may be targeted for continuing calls for reform in saudi arabia where hundreds of protesters have tried to stop the transfer of french weapons to saudi arabia the demonstrations organized by rights groups following an investigation that says french weapons have been used by saudis against civilians in yemen president emanuel macro is under increasing pressure to review arms sales to the kingdom. or yemen it's a junior war in yemen is a difficult war we are turned into supporters of saudi arabia and if we the french citizens do not try to stop arms sales will be accessories to this business we don't want this we don't want to be in this situation the french president shouldn't be allowed to decide on his own whether france should sell weapons this decision should belong to european democracies and a parliament. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with everton but still ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour we're on patrol with security forces in nigeria where many

live in fear of killing and kidnapping also arrested in venezuela why the president's critics all seeking sanctuary. to gold sums up the carolinas it might as they leave the lead and a wall the n.h.l. playoff series against boston sports news in the mind. we've had some really stormy weather around the southeastern corner of australia recently this little area of cloud here that's a cold front that's been dragging its way right across victoria southern parts of new south wales and as the severe storms and went through we saw some little bits and pieces of hail coming down some very very heavy rain fifty to sixty millimeters of rain in parts some trees brought down with the strong winds and those blustery

showers have caused some flash flooding across the southeastern corner of the country these pictures just to but this is a south bank in melbourne but just to the west of melbourne where we saw the worst of the weather some mountain snow as well just around the snowy mountains the aptly named snowy mountains they say the rain is making its way further race was it'll run off towards new zealand over the next day or so so dryer and brighter weather coming in still quite blustery around that eastern side of victoria up towards sydney as we go through saturday come sunday bites up a bit better things squatting down somewhat seventeen sixteen seventeen degrees by this stage much of australia be fine and dry for sunday so a pleasant autumn weekend coming up that wet weather that's making its way towards new zealand some really honest always making the way for here over the next couple of days. sponsored by catherine.

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera news hour with me so rob a reminder of our top stories the u.s. has more than doubled tyrant's on chinese goods as trade talks between the two sides head into a second day china's communist ministry says it regrets washington's decision and asked to respond with similar countermeasures. japan is accusing north korea of violating un resolutions with its latest missile test the second weapons test within a week north korean state media showed at least one missile being launched from the tension has risen following the failed denuclearization summit in february. and

friends of murdered journalist to mark a shot to have been warned by the cia that they are potential targets of saudi arabia the report by time magazine says three activists have been given security briefings by the u.s. intelligence agency. but protest leaders in sudan are threatening civil disobedience as they going creasing the first straight it with the military's delays in handing over power protests began last year touched off by the rising cost of bread and fuel they soon escalated to nationwide demonstrations demanding longtime president omar al bashir step down but who ruled for thirty years was overthrown by the military on april the eleventh a military council took over power promising to hand over power to a civilian government to soon as possible a sit in outside army headquarters in khartoum has now continued for more than a month the demonstrators have vowed to stay until a civilian government is installed. well lead is founder and president of sudan

policy for be here. with us i mean at what stage are we with this protest now it's been going on for several months public lament continues but seemingly very little progress in terms of the way negotiations are proceeding i think we are in sort of a prisoner's dilemma here at the transitional military council the t m c. and that is to me it's the magnanimity of the situation mounting pressure from the street mounting economic pressures international pressures from the u.s. the u.k. and european union. out of hand if you look at. the civic polity mainly i mean called the needed by the association of professionals and if see the freedom of forces of forces of freedom and gain they

are over it is to me thing did ability to keep. people in the city in i mean relented it in their sleep in the city in weasel would give it giving them any clear directions as to where the negotiations are hitting and this seems to be this added complication about who sits in with those negotiations who is a valid member of the opposition movement with regard to the movement itself and who the military wants to go share with that's added to the complication actually this sort of a complication has been caused by transition of military council of the t.m.c. because it has opened the door to spoilers at the very beginning people were just talking about the association of professional speed and the forces of freedom and king and. the the targets were very clear that they were the goals

where clearly identify. i people were prepared to synchronise that is sources and they already had their communication is threatening but that again in an attempt to consolidate power into this sort of process by bringing in spoilers who are who are not who don't have any intentions for a democratic transition they just want to avoid being brought to justice and being brought to trial and one would wonder why the military would do that at the end of the day the sudanese military have a lot to lose do they not financially i think it's not the military we we we have to be very careful and i'm very keen in this moment in making a distinction between the security council the sudan security council that sort of hijack the this transition process and it is now it is now announcing itself in charge of this body the military feels very much be treated as much as people in the sit in because this group is not where the king for the three

main object is the national sovereignty of the nation the constructing. and doing justice to women yours and the poor people that they are acting on behalf of their own selves so there is sort of a conflict of interest between what the army wants and what this security council or group of individuals are wanting their lies another level of bureaucracy because when you have this sort of scenario in any sort of negotiation within a domestic scenario what looks for outside help whether that could be outside powers from various european or north american capitals whether it be the african union again the people of sudan and said they don't want any external interference and one wonders where the breakthrough will come i think they're so they're nice people and they very much welcome any pressure that can help them. i mean move towards

a democratic transition prince between. pressure and interference and that's a very fine line at the moment when when ted when when personalities and feelings are so high in sudan and we've seen over the last few weeks with so many deaths during the protests people are very passionate about where they feel that independent should come from but they want it to come from themselves and not from outside powers totally agreed i think. they motions are very high but the people they have very clear i mean speaking about moral consciousness they are very clear as to what they want and they would welcome any help that can help them that can influence any transition to democracy the problem is we are getting conflicting i mean messages from people i mean countries of the g.c.c. the gulf countries i mean the rather than helping the process they are disrupting the process by bringing i mean different players to different grounds but we will

see how it all pans out it's certainly going to be ongoing for some time for the moment but from the saddam policy for thank you for joining us thank you thank you carrie. now there is going to northern nigeria where violent attacks have increased significantly more than one hundred people have been killed in the past month by armed gangs or began as a conflict between farmers and cattle herders a decade ago as now turned into regular killings and kidnappings with interests went on but troll in some far a state with nigerian security forces. i direct it says the nigerian air force on what was a hired out of one of the criminal gangs terrorizing communities in northern nigeria the one i was on the ground troops patrolling towns and villages they took us with them to an area where a large group of armed men or bandits as they're called had been seeing but after

a long search they found nothing we're told it's been like this for weeks in this part of them for our state the gangs seem to disappear this village has been attacked several times lead only them and they kept out of the towns we've paid huge sums of money as one saying we can't pay any more they said to kill the life would be easier with the rebel soldiers tired of running some of the villagers are now helping the security forces with information and that question when i went and i lost nearly everything family friends and money i joined to protect what's left. but despite the presence of the army and hundreds of volunteer vigilantes like. the bandits continue to kill and maim this i dearly had occurred in unfortunate trend sometimes if one wanted to pull attacks in haiti we have about men major cams and about thirty six men or comes you know a lot of other states are taken off of our tents how than or more band-aids

presently and it's not only the number of armed gangs that's of concern there now went into the use of sophisticates a weapon such as a. forty seven. they even use aircraft lance they use general purpose machine gauze and lids they did launched. on. a military if there. is a forest thought to be a hiding place where hundreds of gunmen are going to run this are not allowing us this point there will be a fire power in times and things but one artist like they make up in local intelligence and dollars in ransom money to pay for that. but the military says it's making progress due to our receive part rules fights in part rules governance. roadblocks interset into the our

converts communications and. every other man over his deal with mccain well if woods to. move several steps ahead of them the nigerian military is increasingly being asked to intervene in trouble spots across nigeria it's currently engaged in fighting criminal gangs in armed groups in at least thirty of the country's thirty six states from boko haram in the northeast towards these in the south and suspicion is in the east with a number of attacks increasing this could be a long and difficult campaign not only for the military but for the people here we just want to leave in peace. al jazeera northwest nigeria but with nearly all that is counted south africa's governing a.n.c. party is once again on course to win the general election but with the low share of vote since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago the main opposition

democratic alliance has almost a quarter of the vote official results are expected on saturday to meet a miller has the latest for us from pretoria. the support for the a.n.c. certainly is falling they're sitting at about fifty seven percent now and i think you for the a.n.c. is that sixty percent mark which would allow it a parliamentary majority and that's been the aim for the party for many years now but fifteen years ago the a.n.c. hits about seventy percent in the that's dropped significantly far behind though are the opposition parties the the democratic alliance is that about twenty one percent while the most recently formed economic freedom fighters and and members in leadership of the party coming from the a.n.c. you once upon a time have now gained about ten percent of the vote which is significant for that opposition party in particular but this really is concerning for the a.n.c. yes the party stays in power but this is a party that's had

a new president in place for about sixteen months now after jacob zuma resigned and so the showing for the a.n.c. would be very important for still room of course of the president at the moment who would want a solid mandate from south africans for his party but also form with in his party that has been riddled by factionalism he would certainly want to have the party's full backing we do expect. to visit this election center during the next couple of hours away he's expected to have a look at some of the final results coming in. the americans now are the family of a close opposition leader are increasingly concerned after the arrest by intelligence agents. vice president of the opposition controlled national assembly trees about because. i. know he's going to every public office he got access to try to locate her father ever got

a somewhat i know the vice president of the opposition controlled national assembly at the time. we don't know where he is he was kidnapped by this government and taken illegally he's innocent they talk about treason he has been defending democracy in venezuela because the national assembly is the only democratic institution left in venezuela. somebody i know was taken on wednesday night he did not want to leave his vehicle so intelligence officers used a tow truck to take him at this point nobody really knows where it ever got some but i know he's being held his lawyers presume that he's being detained in this prison it's known as. it's where political opponents and students for example that participated in protests are being detained on rights groups say that prisoners here are tortured and abused by. the government controlled constituent assembly voted to strip of immunity to several opposition lawmakers somebody i know is one

of them two arteries had to seek refuge at the embassy and another one is hiding at the argentine embassy. the government is accusing them of treason and rebellion but has provided no proof here. but it's not just lawmakers the government is going after this is a video from april thirtieth and involved members of the vali varian national guard that the government believes sided with the opposition leader attempted insurrection. can be seen in the video he doesn't know where his son niece. was i don't even know what he was doing there i was told he was detained i know there is an investigation going on but i don't know where they have him or where he is. why you don't is demanding the government releases those detained he says the government is the one who is not respecting the rule of law in venezuela. the government wants to talk about

a coup now but the real coup is here the dismantling of the rule of law with the constant attacks against me only on the judgment body and burns way or the national assembly that is why there is a crisis and they can show the people results that will empower their lives in the . human rights groups say that with the current situation in the country it is difficult any of those detained will stand a fair trial i mean and what. we know there are reports of planned or stein detention centers they are not in regular prisons and prosecutors are not demanding that those imprisoned charge within forty eight hours of being detained people are being abandoned with nowhere to turn. in general say there are almost eight hundred political prisoners in venezuela today prisoners whose future is uncertain so long as the institutions are controlled by the government. i just. believe as that.