and today. i'm very actually i'm very very happy with. the press that there is on the the kenyan freedom movement has made of removing all the all the barricades because then you know we showed this is we have we want to move forward with. the transitional government and this is now in the hands of the military now that the barricades has been removed the majority of them what do you think of the major and the issues that are going to be causing conflict in these talks well there's a lot of issues but 1st of all you know the issues are always going to be claiming that there is a 3rd party that does that because they need to keep sudan secure from right and will be seen from the 8th of ramadan today to go on from of the event yesterday that there is no there are already we know exactly who called the shots we know exactly who killed those were that there is and the military that hasn't done anything about it but that will become of course the excuse every time

college or referring to some of the violence that's been ongoing against the demonstrations has been sitting at outside military headquarters just how united is the protest movement now especially after all that violence this week. i think i think most. doctors are are united in one thing that they want a transition to civilian government. but again we have to all understand that this is the 1st time this happens in 30 years so there is a lot of free media even now there is there's a lot of power and there's a lot of there's a lot of. rumors now that's being that's being pushed by by different different parties so i think it's. it's up to the protestors now if you figure out what its fate is what is not what do they really want to keep focused on and you will not be because that. or for that

which is jones is an old 2 civilian government followed by a student whose political cartoonist and activist speaking to us from copenhagen thank you. and you have plenty more ahead on this news hour including we'll be live in tehran with the iranian reaction to washington's military buildup in the region and we'll also have the latest reaction from washington as the u.s. round with china of a tech giant while away gathers steam. and in sports we'll show you how i aks wrapped up to fast dutch double in 17 years. egypt's military says it's killed $47.00 gunmen in raids across north and central sinai it also says 5 of its soldiers were killed in the offensive the destroyed

$29.00 shelters used by armed groups several tons of drugs were also confiscated egypt has been fighting groups in the region for the past 2 years. well i am sure is the director of the securities program at the institute and he joins me now on set i ma with all of these men who've been arrested who do we think they're affiliated to who are day it's the largest group that has been fighting there since to sell them 14 in the sinai province which is an affiliate of islamic state organization isis but it's more complex than that because there are multiple on groups that are trafficking networks that are drug lords so it's more complex than that and the history of musically state or nonstate violence in sinai goes back all the way to solve them for so it's not it's not something new there was a promise is going to end in 2 weeks when general sisi took over in september 23rd dean we are in may 29000 did not and by some estimates it escalated

i think the same news from reuters said that they had 385 confiscated from these tunnels if that is true and this we have to be very very careful because you know the numbers the media spokesperson give are very controversial you know if you counted them the counted the number of this is 47 to day yesterday another 50 and so on and so forth it would exceed the maximum estimate of the number of good in those in this in this area the number of insurgents with exceeded by far so we have to be very careful there but if there was a 385 i confiscated then we're talking about a significant blow to. sign up and if it was the target organization sure well as you say this has been ongoing for some time and there had been previous raids before with both weapons and drugs seized and multiple arrests is this part of an ongoing government operation that yeah the government basically escalated the

campaign in september 23rd there was a campaign before the eagles one since august 20 levin did not really do much. holzer september 20 the deal was just more vicious and there was a lot more victims gross human rights violations probably multiple crimes against humanity. the town is pretty much completely demolished she. talks about over 50 to 60 percent of its demolished. on the southern borders of the city of building a wall to prevent people coming from the suburbs from the desert into a lot of because some of them may be insurgents so it's transformed the how the north. got governorate to looked but all of these measures are still in effect of to quell an insurgency that was a marginal phenomenon marginal marginal more on urban terrorism 2013 now

it's became a full fledged mid-size insurgency. that's from the institute thanks for being with us today on al-jazeera. well at least 150 civilians have been killed in northwest syria during 3 weeks of a russian backed government offensive targeting the opposition the violence is putting a strain on a ceasefire struck between turkey and by russia and turkey last year i'm sorry and that's testing their relationship then what i reports from beirut in lebanon. people's lives have been destroyed while their neighborhoods are reduced to rubble . schools mosques and hospitals have been hit. very weak syrian and russian jets haven't left the skies over northwest syria opposition controlled villages across southern and northern. provinces have been targeted their command i say no when there's a minimum amount that the majority of the people of look to are yours for the north

many were killed in the bombing is no ghost town empty of its residents. it's the biggest military escalation since the ceasefire agreed by turkey and russia last september that agreement is now under strain turkey says it is intensifying diplomatic efforts with russia to deescalate the violence but it seems moscow has its own agenda but rather the structure. itself was all right this was. not what's what's the reaction. in the streets that's what's wrong. nato ally turkey is in a difficult position going ahead with a deal to buy russian made s. $400.00 missile system would worsen a troubled relationship with the united states which is threatening sanctions. president treasure 5 or decline was also careful not to mention russia's role in

the violence in northwest syria he accused the syrian government instead of seeking to sabotage turkey's relations with russia the 2 countries don't just cooperate in syria. turkey is increasingly reliant on russia for its energy needs they also have an important economic relationship and the kremlin is expanding influence in the middle east is a reality so it is difficult for turkey to walk away from another lie and say that secures its interests in syria and gives it a say in its neighbors future. it live gives turkey political leverage but the offensive around the province is unlikely to break its alliance with moscow. smart . or. turkish officials say

a working group with russia on northwest syria will could be soon it didn't give more details but the offensive continues dozens of civilians have been killed and nearly 200000 displaced many more remain trapped not just in a war zone but in a geo political struggle so. be root. now the rights group amnesty international says it has evidence of war crimes may have been committed in libya. the warlord khalifa haftar has waged a 6 week long offensive to capture the capital tripoli from the un recognized government amnesty has gathered witness statements and compiled satellite images which it says reveal unlawful rocket attacks on the neighborhood of tripoli the group is calling for an international investigation well iran's foreign minister says u.s. sanctions are unacceptable and uncalled for but insists his country is committed to the 2015 nuclear deal shop at the reef is in tokyo for a meeting with prime minister shinzo japan is a u.s.

ally that depends on a rainy an oil earlier this month washington ended waivers that allowed japan and others to buy crude oil from iran the u.s. has tightened sanctions on tehran and deployed warships to the gulf region in recent days and runs foreign minister job at the reef says well as must take action if they want to preserve the nuclear deal also known as the j c p o a. we believe that escalation of tension in the region is not in the interest of anybody but you down below be the party beginning at school age and both of you certainly defend ourselves and respond to any threat against our national security to be discussed how we would prevent further escalation to discuss how the natural community could step in to save case t.p.o. a crusade a new period be in properties and the only way to do it would be to distort the

economic david and put it on. from j.c. pure that is the purpose of the new year. meanwhile the commander of iran's revolutionary guard is warning of imminent confrontation with the united states major general has seen salami says the u.s. escalation in the region represents what he calls a decisive moment for the islamic revolution. well as in buzzer obvious live for us in tehran zain it seems that things are clearly heating up should we be concerned about the various statements we've been hearing. the rhetoric is definitely ratcheting up it has been for the last several weeks and months but the message essentially is the same iranian lawmakers civilian leaders elected officials as well as the military are all staying on point on a couple of specific things major general hussein salome the relatively new leader of the islamic revolutionary guard corps certainly saying making very strong

statements that were broadcast on state media earlier today he said that iran and the united states on the verge of a full scale confrontation of course the supreme leader has been warning for some time now that war might happen but he's also said that a military confrontation is unlikely he said that america is behaving ostentatiously the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has also said that all of that is just an uproar in the middle east to create publicity stunts in order to intimidate iran and other countries in the region mr salami also went on to say that this was a decisive moment for the country and the reason he said that was a little more what part of the speech that was perhaps hinting at a more tactical viewpoint he said that the enemy an enemy has come to the battlefield with all of its capacities at its disposal this time perhaps hinting at the fact that the united states has built up its military forces in the region before but this time its focus is so iran something we haven't seen in recent

memory and we heard from the permanent mission the permanent iranian mission at the united nations in new york reinforcing a position that iran has maintained that this is all a propaganda war that this is all psychological warfare the iranian mission dismissed the american move to remove non-essential stuff from its diplomatic embassy and consulates in iraq saying that it was a ploy to begin some sort of propaganda war against iran in the statement the iranian mission said iran is not a threat to anyone in iraq or in other places and has no intention to carry out any a tie. it's an annual creation the decision by the united states was a result of false propaganda to start a possible confrontation soran in leaders pushing back against what they say is an american publicist and to try to goad it into some kind of conflict was and we've also been watching around the prime minister make the rounds to oil clients in day on monday in japan as we just had on tuesday what's he telling us now

well apart from trying to maintain iran's traditional economic alliances with some of its best oil customers with zarif was telling his counterparts and other leaders other world leaders was that iran remains committed to the 2050 nuclear deal to sticking to the tenets of the j c p o a and that if the international community can help iran to try to mitigate the economic sanctions placed on it by the united states that it is happy to keep maintaining the nuclear agreements in perpetuity but of course he said this the day after iran's atomic energy organization announced that it had started to comply with a directive from president hassan rouhani announced last week that iran will start to roll back some of its cooperation with the nuclear agreement our correspondent. in tehran thank you zain. well it's now time for the weather and here's everson with news of rain and california yeah that's right the stars are in that's usually

a good thing in a place say on this occasion that is the case as well so not huge amounts useful around you can see this massive cloud that we have swirling away off the west coast of the u.s. sport a 3rd bit of snow to just around the sierra nevada pushing down into the rockies over the next couple of days we will see more of the white stuff but also more that useful rain san francisco 12 minute meters of rain doesn't sound like a huge amount average for the entire month of may 18 millimeters so that's that's a good little dollar we'll see a little bit more as you go on through the next $24.00 hours or so as you see in san francisco that rain was enough to set the way the grounds we'll see a little bit more that as i said over the next couple of days the cloud in the rain is making its way in a general eastley direction so there you go through the remainder of states them quite widespread rainfall across the pacific northwest down into a good part of california even l.a. seeing some of that cloud and right that is going to drive its way across the rockies snow at times pushing

a further inland dry weather comes back in behind as we go on into friday and isn't going saturday should be drier and brighter stills and normal service being resumed at least into california up around the pacific northwest you could see some clouds and rain the real wet weather by this stage is going to be up central parts big downpours severe weather coming in but this warm weather you like the stars look to the east coast. well still ahead on al-jazeera why the ambitious indian health care plan some call modi is failing the poor. more on the disease threatening a strain as one bats population. and in the sport of things go from bad to worse to finance our lawns or as he prepares for the indy 500. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty of the reality where on line we have

a male chauvinism that is in plants with in our global federation and it is really hard to get a kid up or if you join us on send. the beef up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us in our live you tube chat and you too can be in the street join the global conversation on how does iraq russia has jeopardized the united states security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft going to be the most russian gains to be achieved none. of us russia all knowledge easy.

hello again i'm the star a reminder of the news this hour at least 6 civilians have been killed in saudi u.a.e. coalition air strikes in and around yemen's capital sana residential neighborhoods were bombed the coalition insists the targets are truthy military positions. talks between sudan's opposition and the military council have been suspended for 3 days this follows an increase in violence they're trying to decide who should head up the council that will oversee the transition. and egypt's military says it killed a $47.00 gunmen and raids across north and central sinai it also says 5 of its soldiers were killed in the operation the army has destroyed shelters and

confiscated tons of drugs. china has vowed to defend its companies after a u.s. government decision to place while way and 70 of its affiliates on a trade blacklist washington believes equipment produced by the chinese company could be used for espionage huawei has repeatedly denied the allegations brown reports from a tech trade show intention. what you see here is at the heart of the trade dispute between china and the united states the 2 countries are competing to be world leaders in artificial intelligence robotics and 5 g. technology. showcasing its achievements with china's national champion. expansion plans in the united states now see over after the u.s. put the firm and its affiliates. trading blacklist an issue too sensitive for this

company official to discuss america as the country operates a company so sorry. but he's confident while away will still thrive in other markets so now laid her weave your fire level. we hope we can cooperate each other based other countries while away officials had anticipated this move and on thursday the firm issued a statement saying the transactions wouldn't improve safety or security in the united states and would only harm consumers and companies it doesn't bode well for the faltering trade talks between the 2 countries u.s. firms are present here in the mood among one technology representative surprisingly upbeat levy is in very hard to sell us technology in china today because of the trade rules i don't think i saw in soviet years counties is open for the all the difference to you know the goods products here and our attorney is the customers

who is what i think the. american. pronounce is one of. the theme of this exhibition is artificial intelligence in china the technology is widely used in surveillance and facial recognition cameras. especially in the far western province of shinji where they monitor track and rate members of a largely muslim group known as the week goes this company manufactures many of those cameras and has been promoting its expertise here but officials didn't want to tell any reason you can't even use the u.s. government has once more targeted one of china's most successful companies leading executives at other technology firms wondering who will be next adrian brown al jazeera in t.n.g. in northeast china well our white house correspondent candy how trains us now live from washington d.c. candy the u.s. is arguing this move isn't just about economics it's also about national security

talk us through what the u.s. means by that and what happens next. yes this is really the intersection of chinese trade talks with the united states that of course broke down late last week and u.s. national security at least from the eyes of the trumpet mr ation of the white house there has long been from both democrats and republicans on capitol hill deep concern that u.s. companies have been subjected to intellectual property theft by china espionage in fact there is a hearing taking place right now being chaired by a democrat of the house of representatives side intelligence committee where they are discussing what they call the rise of china's digital authoritarianism so this move is being applauded by both democrats and republicans on capitol hill this action taken by the u.s. president directing the commerce department to be vigilant ritek national security especially declaring it a national emergency and expanding government powers to protect communication

networks we know that this is one of the reasons that those talks broke down between the chinese and the united states when it comes to trade the tariffs that we've been covering for weeks on al-jazeera essentially the chinese side we're told was demanding that it continue to have the access to american business servers that it typically has had for years through technology the united states saying no way so where does this head this heads next now to japan where sara sanders the white house press secretary said that the u.s. president will be meeting with chinese president xi we don't know if this will be a bilateral meeting if it'll be a polish side but this is something that we believe the u.s. is trying to use as a bargaining chip not only to protect u.s. companies from further espionage that they allege has been going on for decades but also to try and secure the trade deal between the united states and china the donald trump has been working towards him to help with that update from washington d.c. thank you candy. well sri lanka's government says it's investigating what it calls

hardline but just groups recent wave and 100 muslim attacks at least $31.00 people have appeared in court in connection with the raids that small mosques and muslim and businesses targeted in days of violence but it's myth has more from. a press conference on wednesday updating the security situation in the shrine where the government's. been no further attacks since the beginning of the week and that is essentially because there's been a curfew in place and that has kept a lid on the violence for the greater challenge of course with your language to try and find some sort of long term solution to bring these fractured fractured communities. together but it was not in this one and i are one of the ministers in the government here who for the 1st time we've heard this from the government claimed this nationalist extremist groups are provoking missed by. the also

ensure that those people who are behind these were arrested and today yesterday also last night would be days peace in this country nothing has happened. so even if the whole that we feel that these are organized attacks on muslim business hosers premises that are happening and we will ensure that it does not happen well it's quite interesting it remains tense and particularly here in the northwestern part of sri lanka which is where all of the attacks at the beginning of this week were censored censored and what the minister says is quite interesting because it's you go to a lot of the villages here but typically the sinhalese buddhist majority believe here and there is this sense of resentment against muslim communities muslim communities that live nearby and that resentment has been given an outlet really by these to sunday attacks a sort of an excuse that some of their nationalist groups have been looking for

looking for perhaps to target muslim groups and when you speak to some of the buddhist villagers some of the in these small communities they'll say that the muslims aren't integrating they'll say that they're not a normal part of sri lankan society and unfortunate this sort of view is quite common and i think the government fears that it's being given fuel by the nationalistic stream is scrooge police in bangladesh have shot dead 2 suspected range of human traffickers outside a refugee camp in the south east this week or 30 than to sept and more than a 100 refugees about to make the journey to malaysia by boat officials say traffickers are targeting re-injure who have fled a military crackdown in myanmar. well that's the 2nd last day of campaigning for the 7th and final leg of india's parliamentary elections the election commission ordered campaigning in the state of west bengal wrapped up a day early after violence at

a rally on tuesday more than 900000000 people are eligible to vote over a 6 week period across the country the last round is on sunday may 19th prime minister narendra modi is hoping for a 2nd term al-jazeera sahara raman is in the city of daraa nasi in the more than stages which are pradesh. electioneering is drawing to a close in india's general election the 7th and final phase of voting will be conducted on sunday of the 19th and here environ i see the incumbent prime minister hoping to retain his seat however the big political guns from across the spectrum in this city hoping to unseat him priyanka gandhi was 24 hours ago trying to drum up support thousands of people followed her convoy through the city. to the major regional state parties led by. 2 potential people from the parties of the s.p. and the b.s.p.

may well become linchpins in a future coalition government issues of corruption unemployment communalism of albeit at the forefront but what opposition politicians have been stating both on the policies of the personalities of the 24 to general election which we'll see what happens when the vote count begins on the 23rd electioneering in west bengal. even $24.00 hours earlier than scheduled because of the election commission very worried and concerned about the situation it's a theory a to the opposition parties but they are allowing the incumbent prime minister to speak in the states before he comes here to. vote counts on the 19th of may. here in uttar pradesh and then the national vote on the 23rd of may. indian health care plan was designed to solve most of the medical problems for the poor but many say the system is experiencing a challenging start for the 500000000 people that's supposed to help hide the

reports from new delhi. akash has a brain tumor he's travelled with his family from state to get specialized care in new delhi. but he and his family don't have the money for this 2nd round of treatment like millions of others they are not poor enough to qualify for the universal health care program launched last year known as mody care. they only have benefits from india's national health care system and that does not cover all expenses the president about the other but at the time the doctor said that please deposit the money 1st i told him said i don't have any money then to get us a slip and told us to go to another account but then it was $1.00 gone after another they were then told the cost would not get free care because he is not from new delhi and were told to leave the hospital. care is supposed to help the 60000000 people who currently slip into poverty every year because of health care

costs but something that makes the situation more difficult for people living in states not participating in modi care like west bengal and kerala among others of those states have their own health plans so people from those states are blocked out from some of the best hospitals in the country like the ones here in delhi. the few who possess such more it's come to me and done me that we took this got to the hospital but but it doesn't work the ground reality is that it isn't working as a policy. modi care only covers serious illnesses and hospital stays new delhi's health minister thinks more funding should go into essential primary care doesn't mean we think that primary health care is the best for all treatment big if so much importance on our 2nd ticket that we have neglected the primary kit . in some states insurance companies administer the funds for modi care and he accuses some of using their role to profit unfairly. the man who runs motor care on

refutes this this is of it is not only good for people who are it's also good for politics and. if it's serving. the country serving the poor people i don't see why or how any part of the power. of the scheme. only 6 percent of the $500000000.00 people eligible for medicare have signed up election results are due to be announced later this month and whoever runs motive here afterwards will face the challenge of ensuring millions of people like a cash are not left out scott either al-jazeera new delhi. now the philippines has taken drastic action over canada's failure to take back tons of rubbish shipped in a lot more than 5 years ago canada was given until may 15th to ship back more than 100 containers filled with household waste the philippines has responded by recalling it from and consulates in canada. for members of venezuela's

opposition government in norway to try to resolve the political impasse many governments recognize opposition leader one as interim leader on wednesday he defied a military blockade to enter the opposition controlled national assembly and caracas . and protests in rio de janeiro over cuts to brazil's education system have turned violent security forces fired tear gas into the crowd of demonstrators many of them students and teachers the protesters also set fire to a bus tens of thousands gathered across the country in the biggest rally since president air both n.r.o. took office in march. police in kenya have charged several suspects in connection with an attack in nairobi that killed $21.00 people earlier this year many of the accused are kenyans involved with the somali based armed group al-shabaab al

jazeera has spoken to other kenyans who returned from somalia who say they were forcefully forcefully recruited into joining the armed group catherine sawyer reports from the coastal town of melinda. a mother paid this woman whose identity was he didn't heart own safety sees her son disappeared 2 years ago it was a casual work was promised a better job our recruit. the offer was $200.00 a month 4 times more than he was being paid the next time she heard about her son 8 months later he was dead just thought he had been killed in somalia while trying to escape and all shabaab comp. i knew. i wanted to bury my son but they could not even get his corpse that is what hurts me the most i wanted to be put to do police but i have seen how they had us from a need for whose son came back she's in a support group of mothers whose children joined the group some of the young women here have come home for.