entire family was buried under the rubble. it is very clear that what happened this morning here in san i was a response to the through the whole drone attacks on the. oil facilities in riyadh it is a very clear but unfortunately it was. blind a completely blind. response because it is only in killing women and children in there is additional area the escalation comes a few days after the her theists attacked an oil pipeline near the saudi capital riyadh using 7 drones. it's the most daring military operation by the her fears since the start of the war 4 years ago and a sign of their growing military capabilities the saudi u.a.e. coalition remains adamant it says its military campaign in yemen will continue

until the military installations are destroyed. thanks these are the fighters of the moment they opened fire on what they say was assad is drone they remain defiant despite the prolonged conflict was so large we will repair the drone and will hopefully flight once again over saudi arabia israel and the u.s. . on the ground hope generated by a healthy withdrawal from the border city of how data is fading there is fighting on the ask us of the city raising concerns of a deepening humanitarian crisis how did aboard the main entry point for food imports and aid is a lifeline for millions of yemenis frightened by starvation. in the solve there's more fighting around the city of by government troops backed by the saudis are struggling to push back with your fancy. u.n.

envoy martin griffiths has called the united nations security council the recent ask a nation might damage rajon peace deal. but i'll just erupt. the yemeni journalist she says the attack is a deliberate act of revenge so there were many airstrikes and that help from our and most of them has highly civilian populated area one of them is my own my own neighborhood so i know the 3 tonight. you know the the neighbors and and even my own family my own mother were surrounded by civilian you know they they live and civilian area there is no military target and these places that were had today there is no excuse excuse from the saudi led coalition it was a deliberate and systematic bombardment hacking civilian they want they

did this is really a retaliation of the. attack in the oil. earlier this week and this is not the 1st time that the saudi led coalition do this collective collective punishment for all yemenis went to how he attacked any of the cities and 2017 and of. early november there were like rockets hit or fired by what you say 2 words riad and i believe mike and and really retaliation the saudi unit coalition at that time imposed a total speed on all interviews so this is not the 1st time that the saudis want to take revenge with what they are doing against all to be and yemen and this is an exception. egypt's military says it's killed 47 gunman in raids across north and

central sinai hundreds of explosive devices and other weapons have been seized and more than a 150 people have been arrested 5 soldiers were also killed in the offensive egypt has been fighting armed groups in the region for several years. all $150.00 civilians are being killed in northwest syria during a 3 week russian backed government offensive targeting the opposition the violence is putting a strain on a ceasefire struck by turkey in russia last year and that's testing their relationship so now to reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. people's lives have been destroyed while their neighborhoods are reduced to rubble i don't know how but the law schools mosques and hospitals have been hit. for 3 weeks syrian and russian jets haven't left the skies over northwest syria opposition controlled villages across southern it lead and northern hama and provinces have been targeted

like about us and elsewhere and as in the middle that the majority of the people flocked to areas further north many were injured and killed in the bombing of a solution there 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 past. so it's all right it's not sure. what's what's the reaction. because. in a situation that's what. 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. i

president treasurer type of line 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's expanding influence in the middle east is a reality so it is difficult for turkey to walk away from an alliance 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 . you know. interest or i think it

was. in russia in turkish officials say a working group with russia on northwest syria will convene 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 senator beirut amnesty international says it has evidence that walk crimes may have been committed in libya the rights group says unlawful rocket attacks against civilians have been launched on tripoli where warde hollister have to as waged a 6 week long offensive after is trying to take the capital from the un recognized government amnesty is calling for an international investigation into the attacks. sudanese opposition groups have called a decision by the military to suspend talks on a transfer of power a regrettable setback talks were postponed after gunfire broke out at the main

protest site in the capital on wednesday the military described the atmosphere in khartoum as unsuitable to reach an agreement and school on protesters to remove road blocks which means set up throughout the city opposition leaders are demanding accountability for the violence. protesters are saying that by removing some of the barricades that they have set up over the past few days they're not listening to the orders given by the military council but rather to the opposition coalition who said that those new barricades that have been erected over the past few days should be removed and that they should return to their original pair of meters that was set up on the 6th of april when the 13 started now protesters are also thing that as much as they wanted to see a transitional government being formed led by civilians they say that in the coming few hours if more violence erupts then they will call on the opposition leaders to hold talks and to not resume negotiations with the military council to hand over part of government rather they want the opposition coalition to announce they're also building government and the protesters are saying that they don't want to

recognize that government and that is what matters now of course we know the talks have been suspended and it will be resuming in the next 48 hours or so but people are saying that they do not trust the military anymore and they do not believe that the military will want to hand over power to to a civilian rule so largely what happens in the next few days relies on if more violence erupts or the situation remain calm and if the protesters are complaining that the military council want to hand over power to civilian rule and kill them they say they will continue with their certain and will not go back home until the government and all of their demands are met. but there faso has appealed to world powers to form a new international coalition to combat increasing violence in africa's sahar region the country's foreign minister made the plea to the united nations. which already has a task force in the area but as our diplomatic editor james bays reports that force has suffered multiple set us wealth of probable the g 5 joint force was set up

by the sahara countries chad to mali mauritania akina fast so and me share 2 years ago but it still barely operational lacking funding and key equipment one of those nations bikini a fast so it was a largely peaceful country just a couple of years ago but things are deteriorating fost here villages burying their dead after an attack at the weekend on worshippers in a church in the north of the country in new york ambassadors have heard a grim account of violence and instability spreading across the sahara and local and regional armed groups expanding their operations with no respect for national boundaries moves it down the threats from these groups remains strong and exerts an enormous pressure on our states and all across the threat is gaining territory it is no longer contained in the north of mali or the deserts of broken a faso or along the mauritanian borders it has taken new forms with more terrible

consequences the un does have a large $16000.00 strong peacekeeping force in one's country mali but they don't have the mandate to venture beyond its borders now the un is requesting permission to revive the separate regional force with what they call life consumables an amazing admission that the g 5 joint forces currently lacking food water and fuel geographical with speech and impose on menus must support have prevented the 3rd as a bet the u.n. of the joint force which opened wait outside of mali to benefit from life support. this proved to be one of the obstacle to the fool police tonight is a sign of the joint force while armed groups operate freely without borders the international community seems constrained by them as well as the g. 5 so hale and the un peacekeeping mission in mali. national armies are involved in

the fight as are u.s. special forces french special forces and it easy you training mission in mali the question is whether there's enough coordination and overall funding for security crisis that continues to grow james baez out 0 at the united nations police in kenya have charged several suspects in connection with an attack in nairobi in january which left $21.00 people dead many of the accused are involved with a somali based on group al-shabaab are there a spoken to other kenyans who returned from somalia and say they were forcefully recruited into joining the group catherine sawyer reports from the coastal town of melinda. a mother's pain this woman whose identity with he didn't want safety says her son disappeared 2 years ago was a casual worker was promised a better job eric crew time. 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 al shabaab comp and i bet i knew. i wanted to bury my son but i could not even get his corpse that is what hurts me the most i wanted to report to their police but i have seen how they harassed my neighbor 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 from somalia my red should be younger offers them counseling i'm sure you want to come out of. no one wants to associate with them if they feel isolated then there will not be peace they potentially could be violent in another secret location we meet this man who say they're risking their lives just by talking to us they returned after 4 years they talk of converts training hard labor and sex slavery liberal who got cool as us and when they got there i saw men with

guns they told me the job they'd called me for was to fight i asked about my from a b. they said they were to kill them and for sure the whole time i was there they were sent part of my story home but i later came to recruit but like many other retired nis they're in hiding ignoring a government amnesty program that security analysts say has largely failed. many of those who have gone to somalia to join al-shabaab from areas such as this one other calls they say they were promised good jobs and money some of those who have retired have been rejected by their family most are in hiding human rights campaigners say hundreds of kenyans have willingly or been duped to join all. as fighters porters and wives after kenyan troops went into somalia in 2011 to fight the group as part of an african union force alongside somali security forces. since then also about has carried out

a series of attacks including this one on the hotel an office complex in nairobi in january when 21 people were killed were girl whom is very difficult for our government to understand our stories that's why many of us will not surrender to the police if you report your presence you put a spotlight on yourself and if any crime like the dusit attack happens you'll be the 1st one they come looking for. those we talked to in 1000000 d.c. life is tough they still have no jobs and are struggling to deal with the horrors they say they witnessed in somalia while at the same time trying to regain the trust of relatives and neighbors catherine sawyer my lindy on the kenyan coast. you're watching live from london still ahead china moves to protect its tech companies after the u.s. blacklist huawei and 70 affiliates. but israel has government hits back down again sions of murder and torture against political opponents. and it's party time in amsterdam peter will have more

a day of celebrations for the doctrine of the am. i there we've got a lot of wet weather that spreading its way across europe at the moment this is tim was already given us some damaging winds and some flooding rains over politics. we've also seen a bit of snow out of the system here is just now spiraling its way down over the southern parts of italy but this whole system is now spreading its way towards the west so it's making its way across parts of britain and ireland to down through parts of france as well so here we'll see more cloud as we head through friday and it will be a fair amount cooler but won't boxes going on of a most of europe we've also got this little area of low pressure that's just popped into the sea in the mediterranean and that's going to intensify as we head through the next few days so we're going to see some very intense rains over the southern

parts of france and into the northern parts of italy there as we head into saturday so very heavy downpours here generally speaking that wherever you are across europe it's looking very unsettled really as we head through the next couple of days for the other side of the mediterranean though here is generally fine and settled for most of us we do have the winds feeding up from the south so they'll pick up a fair amount of dust in haze at times there would be a way eastwards a richard petty there as we had 3 set today but generally speaking most of us getting away with some draw a weather for the central belt of africa there were more showers here what a few of them over uganda at the moment and plenty more of the coast of west africa . anything you say tight or browse can be held against you. food lines investigates how governments are using israeli software to turn critic cell phones into the ultimate tools of surveillance just exposure of your personal world doesn't just stop you right it extends out to the people you care about who trusted you and it

makes you toxic cross border and he phones anywhere targeted by text on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for that is you know it's very challenging liberally but to be there because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues. with the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mended used to do we were indeed dynamism we don't feel inferior we're good audience across the globe.

one of the top stories here al-jazeera the u.s. president has proposed an overhaul of the country's immigration system he says will put american workers 1st donald trump says the plan would stop illegal immigration and protect the border. a fiance of murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has told especially here in washington that the u.s. should do more to bring his killers to justice. and saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen says it will investigate the possibility of an accidental airstrike in santa after a family of 6 were killed in a residential neighborhood. police in trying to say a nationwide evening curfew has been lifted it came into effect on monday after mosques and muslim businesses were attacked sri lanka's military has denied allegations that its troops failed to contain widespread riots in the wake of the easter sunday bombings the government blames what it calls british to extremists

and it smith has more from a combo in western china but chat with almost any village monk will give you an idea of the challenge sri lanka faces in repairing relations between its muslim minority and buddhist majority population i became we'd like to talk with muslim and muslim community leaders to have a discussion and live in a couple way to be able to live harmoniously muslims need to realise this is not arabia this is sri lankan lanka has a culture in a civilisation and identity 31 men from this village are in police custody after violence in northwestern sri lanka on monday. very. open under their oath says the men were protecting the village and didn't attack muslim properties 9 mosques were vandalized and hundreds of businesses in more than 30 towns and villages were ransacked by what witnesses described as sin holies young men a sailor wickramasinghe is not visor to one of the buddhist nationalist political

groups that are now the focus of government criticism after this week's violence if i go to saudi arabia if i say i am a buddhist person i need the right. if you are brought like that what will happen to you. saw me how do i understand the reality i had this is a mad already there were these people were singhalese people and that is the norm now the real muslim people they understand the video of a police raid on a mosque where large knives were seized spread quickly on social media it's thought this helped fuel anger so the government shut down access to apps including whatsapp and facebook. but we're missing the says the government hasn't done enough to calm the tension if someone said there is a will. in this must see them in all these muslim houses then of course emotionally rod trying to protect our children right so we expect from the government

to. action. this control this current situation at st sebastian church in the gumbo that continuing to repair the damage caused after one of the 8 easter sunday suicide bombers blew himself up here he killed more than 100 of the 253 people killed in a series of coordinated explosions across the country most of the victims of the bombings were sri lankan christians but they're not the ones that have been involved in this week's attacks on muslims rather one minister is blaming buddhist extremists are trying to tarnish the reputation of the government bernard smith al-jazeera in a gumbo in western sri lanka china says it's taken steps to protect its companies after the us placed war way and 70 affiliates on a trade blacklist washington believes equipment produced by the chinese company could be used to spy on america the hallway has repeatedly denied the allegations

adrian brown reports from a tech trade show in changi in. 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 while away china's national tech champion its expansion plans in the united states now seem over after the u.s. put the firm and its affiliates on a trading blacklist an issue too sensitive for this company official to discuss i guess the country operates the company so sorry. but he's confident while away will still thrive in other markets so now laid her with your fire level. we hope we can cooperate each other face 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 full 3 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 move i don't think i saw in summiteers counties is open for the all the differences you know the products here and our attorney is a customer's is what i think. america. 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 shin jang 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 you the reason you can't even use the u.s. government has once more targeted one of china's most successful companies leaving executives at other technology firms wondering who will be next adrian brown al jazeera in t.n.g. in northeast china. the world's 2nd biggest electoral contests will take place next week when voters head to the polls for european elections breaks it and the rise of populism have dominated politics and the bloc recently the 2 issues could reshape the news agenda for the next 5 years barbara starr explains. between may 23rd and 26th voters

across the e.u. will elect members of the european parliament they'll have the power to approve e.u. laws that you budget and choose the president of the european commission there are 751 seats up for grabs with each country getting a number of seats proportional to its population as things stand the 2 major blocs in parliament are the right leaning e.p. p. and the center left s n d but the dominance of these coalitions could be a roaded by the rise of europe's populists the year skeptic e.l.f. grouping is predicted to pick up $62.00 seats that's an increase of $25.00 the group includes members of france's far right national rallied the party of marine le pen meanwhile the populist the with members of germany's far right if the could win an extra 4 seats in the u.k. of course the breaks a deadlock is far from resolved and nigel farage is newly established the bracks of party is predicted to get more seats than both the ruling conservatives or labor

parties and then there is nationalist leg up party which is part of the coalition government its leader and the prime minister met there savina he says he wants a new block with far right allies in germany and denmark that could reshape the parliament until 2024 and potentially change the very nature of the european union . well theophanies exadata los is a senior lecturer in european politics at university of sorry here in the u.k. joins me in the studio thanks for coming in so that rise of the populous parties that was talked about there how big a phenomenon is this and how much difference it made to the opin parliament well as a phenomenon has been going on for a few years at least in the west of politics and so progressively we've seen it entering the rail of european politics now it's a very real. thing that this coming up in this in this coming election and i think it has the potential of changing the dynamics within the european parliament making

it slightly more relevant to people across europe especially as these groups will participate in some important decision making within the european parliament in general they do when it comes to the european elections or do people vote on european issues so-called in your view there is it actually just a kind of a reflection of what's going on in national politics on a european scale well you see that has always been the thing that has always in the case people usually vote on the domestic platforms rather than the trans european issues in this case where we see some convergence in terms of the issues that are that many countries are facing around europe at this very moment but again most of the politics are battled on the on the local domestic level and this gets then reflected back into the european level so i know all of this in the context of this weird situation whether the u.k. is voting in these elections even though. some time ago. for brics it what's the

kind of why why is brics it could have affected the european elections or how has it well 1st it's the 1st case that we have of a country voting to leave the european union and some of these far right parties who have a populist agenda and anti european agenda the european union agenda from time to time. have supported the egg. of their own countries from the european union therefore brags of has given a little bit of a of an extra momentum to those parties so they count on the parliamentarians the peace who will be from say the brits at party in the european parliament to create additional disruption in the proceedings of the parliament and making sure that this message is coming across wired so one of them is the bizarre pose i read about is that in spite of what's been going on with the e.u. in the brics is on there's actually the highest level of people supporting the e.u.

and the has been for years but at the same time people think that within 20 is it's going to break it up or how do you explain that that donations that is that is unlikely in terms of a prediction i think that's a personal view from my own research however. there is support this high but then the parties that have the capacity to mobilize supporters in elections are precisely those more extreme far right parties of populist nature who managed to capitalize on the motion of the public rather than the facts and therefore voters who's they more apathetic towards elections they have home so if you had to pick one country in within the you that you say well that's the one to watch in these elections which one would you go oh germany would be one to watch definitely the a if he has made some impact and also italy based on the results of the previous national election and the rise of the leg solving ok thank you very much indeed death of an honest exit actually just thank you. now as well as ambassador to the

u.n. has denied his government kills its opponents he was responding to a report by amnesty international which says it has evidence of extrajudicial killings and torture involving government agents or latin america to see in human reports from caracas. for nearly 3 weeks catalina gado has been looking everywhere for her missing brother. kill bill gado is an opposition parliamentarian who was supposed to have legislative immunity he was eating in a sandwich shop when security forces took him away on april 23rd she says and he hasn't been seen since i really don't know where they are taught maybe they've done something to him and they want to hide it because at this stage he should at least have been presented before a judge my mother says that she feels that his son is still alive but that he's having a hard time. in the car on may 7th. the vice president of the national

assembly was taken away by security forces car and all and hasn't been seen since his family too is demanding proof of life they have reason for concern. last year an opposition councilman to numb bloody bun allegedly jumped to his death from intelligence police headquarters where he'd been taken authorities say it was suicide but his family and government opponents believe he was thrown out of the window to disguise his death by torture. this week amnesty international issued a report saying it had found evidence of extrajudicial executions arbitrary detentions and deaths and injuries due to excessive use of force by government especially earlier this year when business wayland's took to the streets demanding regime change. in january and february received many reports from working class areas where people fled their homes when the police

special forces group arrived because they are an extermination group people run for their lives because they aren't afraid of being arrested but are being assassinated . them a little government is adamant that it does not persecute or exterminate opponents . but this 30 year old activist who asked not to be identified says she's terrified to appear before a judge next week in her home state of sulia where she is being accused of political crimes. when you're a political prisoner the treatment is much more harsh there are reports with foreign objects i've heard horrible testimony a police officer warned me that since my kids was political i had to prepare for the war so that's why our flag. it's a fear that the u.n. commission on human rights among many others believes is well founded. to see in human i'll just got access.