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 blood 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 nicholas matilda's government especially earlier this year when venezuelans 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 they're 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 al-jazeera got access. australia's native woman bat is one of the country's

most loved animals but wildlife authorities say they're on the threat from a fatal and painful disease the population in one national park has declined by 94 percent in just 6 years drew ambrose reports from australia's southern state of tasmania see how his back legs all these legs are under attack from a can tie just parasites called suck up to my left untreated the results a horrendous. the mind works with a community action group to try and tackle the disease we've seen them disappear in the hundreds just in this area admittedly this is the worst area probably but it's not us alighted into this area tasmania's new ranted to national park and the surrounding forests a ground 0 for the worst recorded outbreak the woman population in this national park declined by non to 4 percent in just 6 years because of mines in an attempt to save the population volunteers placed flaps outside borrowers then put

a sheep lice treatment on them every week the strain songes a working on more effective medicines at the moment if we want to treat a woman at a minor while on that we have to use treatments that we have to deliver every week and it's really challenging to do that consistently so what we're trying to look at as a longer lasting single treatment that can protect individuals for up to perhaps 3 months going down a step and runs a century on these trying in mainland and doesn't believe flat treatments work. with help from a university she's been testing what she calls borrow hospitals built over a woman that's natural borrow it enables one to be treated with pills while they are fed we know it works we use it here for the last 2 years if we could recreate that over and over again in the different states managed by the people who currently put their energy towards mange wombats in the wrong way the results would

speak for themselves donna believes innovation is the only way to save a strategy as one bats from the disease in the last decade it has escalated every single year the amount of areas with mange one that's just continuing creases on the critically endangered list when 20 is no doubt in my mind the strain government has no national major monitoring program but says the disease is being adequately controlled however few states have darcel populations and that's heartening the concern of wildlife carers dry ambrose al-jazeera has made you. and you can watch want to program the woman but whisper a 20 to 30 g.m.t. here an obvious here that's. often asked time. still ahead on the program lady liberty reveals her newest addition $100.00 such

a year is after she 1st raised her torch in the united states. and drama all the way to roger federer and his fans in rome data as was. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get our.

business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. on the day that the trumpet ministration announced its latest immigration policy a new museum opened its doors next to the statue of liberty the 100000000 dollar publicly funded project aims to showcase what's long been seen as a beacon of hope for immigrants coming to the u.s. christensen nummi reports from new york. for more than 130 years she's welcome

visitors to new york harbor a symbol not just of the city but of the entire united states a beacon as it says in the inscription for the huddled masses longing to be free now the island lady liberty has called home all these years is getting an upgrade a new $100000000.00 museum designed to enhance the experience for the more than $4000000.00 visitors who cram the island every year and that building can hold about 500 people at any one time so we think of it as 500 people every 30 minutes can move in cycles through the museum we're going to be ok. it's hoped the exhibits will fill the gaps for the many tourists who don't beat the lines to get into the statue itself and immersive the it or not only recounts the early history but also takes visitors on a virtual journey inside and up the structure structure was not used to engineering marvel outside galleries continue the abridged history from

a recreation of the workshop of the statues french designer frederick bartoli to its opening ceremony in new york in 886 the statue has layers of meaning for americans not least as a symbol of hope for waves of immigrants but at a time when president tribe has attempted to drastically reduce those allowed into the country this federal landmark largely avoids the topic we want this museum to be about that idea of liberty and the idea of you are defining what liberty means to you and it could be immigration or it could be something else but that's up to you to choose not. on the way out the statue of liberty's original torch which was replaced in 1986 is the final display of an experience it's hoped will shine a new light on one of new york's oldest attractions kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. sports news over to peter and ahau. lauren thank you very much nic

curiosus has been making headlines at the italian open and once again for all the wrong reasons the australian failed to make the 3rd round after another hot headed moment on court of the having broken in the final set by casper rude he threw his record down kicked a water bottle at the umpire's chair and then chucked a chair as you do the world number 34 was instantly disqualified and booed off the court. it was a busy day for the mains top players coming through 2 matches to make up for with the delays in rome roger federer was pushed all the way and his match with born to char rich the 3rd seed came from a sit down and save 2 match points in a final say tiebreaker to reach the quarter finals. was very tight i got very lucky again. today already like in madrid so it's nice to get lucky i guess sometimes and i've lost a lot of heartbreakers throughout the years so it's nice to win the atmosphere was

trying to get people going crazy. few problems elsewhere for the top players of the dispatching jeremy shaadi for the loss of one game the defending champ in the rafael nadal repeated that scoreline again as he beat nicole last bassil actually looking to add a titles at this event. but top seed novak djokovic was in no mood to hang about either he dropped just 3 games in his match with philip culture it set up a meeting with wonder with juan martin del potro in the last 8. in the women's event sarka eased into her 1st quarter final in row the world number one taking it in straight sets against me haleigh. school. the defending champion brooks kept has made a sensational start to this year's 2nd goal of major the u.s. p.g.a. championship the american shot an opening day $63.00 to finish on 7 under par at bethpage black in new york the last player to start

a major as well as that was full make often at the open in 2016. but the chances of masters winner tiger woods claiming back to back majors already looking slim he's too over paul after the 1st round not helped by 3 bogeys and 2 double bogeys any opening round of 72 woods and kept were part of the same group on the coast the defending champion said he was well aware that fans were hoping to see more from his playing partner. i mean i felt like i won this last year. you know i'm playing. you know it was great attire want to go but i mean we're out on the new week now so. it's just i just got to go out there and focus on me i'm not really concerned about. what's going on you know what you're going to get when you play with them you know i mean obviously everybody in new york city to be chair for him it's going to be allowed especially if you make sure but. you just gotta keep keep

going and find a way to to get through it. there's a new leader in cycling this general italia conti couldn't quite hold on to victory at the end of stage 6 in san giovanni wrote on though he was picked by another retell and. as he won his 1st ever stage in a grand tour but conti moves ahead of primo in the standings emirates rider is the 1st italian to wear the race leader's pink jersey since the trans only valley in 2016 has been quite a party in amsterdam on thursday as i accelerated the double winning season thousands of fans turned out of the players showed off their 1st league trophy in 5 years and the dutch cup as was the 1st domestic double for i.x. and 2002 and comes in the same season they were only narrowly beaten in the champions league semifinals by tottenham. arsenal want you to explain why they've chosen to stage the europa league final in azerbaijan arsenal play chelsea in barca

is the limbic stadium which has a capacity of more than $60000.00 but both teams only have 6000 tickets allocated is also no direct flights from london but azerbaijan has defended their right to host. why that question. during the buckle games but and there were during one of the games in the let's say in some cities over russia for the world championship which is also too far from london and from loose ball from madrid this is the europe any city have a chance and to toast such kind of event and that's a really good that the people can traveling to know each other better and i believe that next time when they will host such an event no not not never ever such a question will appear because i believe that they were but if. you're getting acquainted with our beautiful city was our hospital we'll be happy to be back again

and that's all the sport more later laura. thanks very much can catch up any time with our website address for that is. dot com. that's it from a darn. good back in a minute with an awful roundup thanks for watching. meet maria driven by poverty into prostitution and drugs as an early age now as a mother she's turning her life around with the help of a theatre troupe a group of colombia women fighting the challenges they faced on al-jazeera was

compelling series which showcases fresh filmmaking talent from a down the globe find a latin america presents acting lessons on al-jazeera. an army of. and here's has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than 12000 structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. to us is a tipping point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 near us

the world leaders to agree. to taking matters into their. trying to get people to understand that it kills people and that it kills people now it's critically both from. the people's doors. a fair modern and lawful system of immigration for the president trump outlines his vision to reform the u.s. immigration system that raises many questions as it says. live from london also coming up. the hill say of the murdered saudi journalist who

. tells a hearing in washington that the u.s. should do more to bring his killers to justice. saudi u.a.e. coalition air strikes on the yemeni capital sana'a could at least 6 members of one family including 4 children. and growing anger from sudan's opposition after the military suspends talks following violent protests. hello the us president has proposed an overhaul of the country's immigration system that he says will put american workers 1st reforms would mark a shop shift away from the u.s. tradition of welcoming migrants to their country however it's highly unlikely his plan will get through congress and many see it as more of a campaign speech than a serious bid to pass new legislation donald trump says the changes will transform the immigration system into the envy of the modern world and he says they would

stop illegal immigration and protect the border. we are proposing an immigration plan that puts the jobs wages and safety of american workers 1st. our proposal is pro american pro immigrant and pro worker it's just common sense it will help all of our people including millions of devoted immigrants to achieve the american dream college or castro's life for us in washington d.c. so how do you want further details can you give us about the reforms he's outlined . well lauren 1st it's important to mind her that these proposals are most likely dead upon arrival in congress so really it's more of a wish list of what the white house under trump is seeking in addressing

immigration and it's quite lofty these 2 goals that it tries to achieve one is to curb illegal immigration by tightening assignable asylum laws at the border and adding to the very contentious border wall that trump wants to build and secondly these reforms would be to drastically reform legal immigration namely it would end what we know of as the green card program which is the name for us permanent residency and instead replace it with something called the build america visa that is built upon this merit based program so it would be immigrant would then be ranked and according to their age their english proficiency level education employment opportunities and income right now just about a 1000000 people get the u.s. residency per year 12 percent of them do so based on these merit or employer based

sponsorships president trump says he calls that random selection and he spins that as discrimination against brilliance and skill he wants to drastically increase that percentage and cut in to what is currently now the family sponsored relationships for immigration which is what trump has called these chain migration in which one immigrant may be able to sponsor their relatives to then join them in the u.s. so these ideas though are very contentious the pro immigrant advocacy groups have said that this would be racist it would prioritize white would be immigrants and that it is against the very core american tenants of welcoming. people who seek asylum and who in the famous words beneath the statue of liberty are part of the weary and huddled masses and they say that this proposal by trump flies in the face of those issues and what about there the key concerns they didn't touch on like the

issue of the dreamers those undocumented migrants who are brought to the u.s. as children that's right and the dreamers have been dominating the conversation as something that could be potentially any mediately solvable fact there is bipartisan support in congress for some sort of plan to help normalize the stay the status of these dreamers who are the young children who were brought to the u.s. illegally by their parents through no fault of their own and there is nothing in this plan from the white house that addresses their status nor the 11000000 other undocumented people who are living in this country currently and that is why democrats are saying that this bill is not even a bill really that if this plan ever gets written into a bill and is introduced into congress it would be dead upon arrival lauren hunter is with us or thank you very much indeed.

fiance of murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has told a special u.s. hearing that nothing has been done to seek justice for his murder a teacher changes criticized the trump government for not taking stronger action over the killing mike hanna has more from washington d.c. and miss hoosier in a deeply divided congress this is one issue that receives bipartisan support democrats and republican members expressing dismay at the checks on journalists around the world. and strong criticism of a president who stands accused of encouraging or empowering such attacks president donald trump has fought to do huge amounts the work of news organizations has failed to criticize repressive regimes and has praised leaders who crush the senate under close scrutiny the murder of jamal khashoggi and testimony from his fiance is

deeply saddened at visiting his hometown of washington alone what is good or can washington if someone had told me 7 months ago that i would come here without jamal or to ask for something about him ask about justice for him i would not have believed it thank you words of support from committee members written testimony really is a love letter to your fiance i hope that what you hear today does not sound like empty words needs to be accountability for your fiance john mark karr shows she's murdered his loved ones deserve justice and we lawmakers have an obligation to push for their justice despite pressure from congress president trump insists the matter is closed resisting attempts to hold any saudi leader responsible a stark statistic presented to the committee in 9 out of 10 cases of journalists killed while doing their jobs no body or person has been held accountable.

jamal khashoggi remains part of what in the eyes of his fiance and this committee is a horrific reality. al-jazeera washington. a saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen says it will investigate the possibility of an accidental ass trike in santa after a family of 6 were killed in a residential neighborhood the coalition says it precision strikes targeting the military positions. as the latest. for the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen the series of strikes was a successful operation targeting the military installations in the capital sanaa but these pictures depict another reality residents say the attacks targeted barely civilian areas and that an entire family was buried under the rubble.

it is very clear that what happened this morning here in sun i was a response to that through their home their own attacks on the on the oil facilities in riyadh it is very clear but unfortunately it was. blind completely blind response because there is only in killing women and children in there is it until area the escalation comes a few days after the whole thing is attacked an oil pipeline near the saudi capital riyadh using 7 drones. it's the most daring military operation by the who 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 its as 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. the lag free 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 her data is fading there's 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 us rivaling to push back the offensive. u.n. envoy martin griffiths has warned the united nations security council the recent

ask elation might damage if peace deal. that. egypt's military says it's killed 47 gunmen in raids across north and central sinai hundreds of explosive devices and other weapons have been seized and more than 150 people arrested 5 soldiers were also killed in the offensive egypt has been fighting armed groups in the region for several years. she needs 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 military describe the atmosphere in khartoum as unsuitable for reaching an agreement it's called on protesters to remove roadblocks which you can set up throughout the city opposition leaders are demanding accountability for the violence the movement has more from khartoum.

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 off the 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 artistic 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 a day do not believe that the military will want to hand over power to to.