noise coming from capitol hill if you will with regard to the trumpet ministration not providing enough information and that has caused a lot of frustration whether it be because of conflicting reports about the intelligence the united states perhaps overstating the threat from iran to the fact that iran or rather the united states has taken very aggressive action towards iran in recent weeks the cutting of oil exports to 0 the u.s. military presence in the gulf even the pulling of the diplomatic staff in iraq we know that there were some briefings that took place on capitol hill for the so-called gang of 8 that's the democratic and republican leaders by some top security officials but it is the broader members of congress that are demanding they get more information we expect that those briefings will happen likely on tuesday and will be conducted by the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 as well as defense officials and kimberly why is there been such a delay when it comes to briefing congress about iraq. well of the delay seems to

have a lot to do with the division that's taking place within the trumpet ministration you've heard a lot about the national security advisor john bolton in recent weeks there is fear on capitol hill and in the united states in the broader world at large that perhaps he is whispering in donald trump here he is one of the more hawkish when it members of the trumpet ministration and cabinet when it comes to how to deal with iran seeing very little value in negotiating prefer him to take a more aggressive stance but we know that donald trump from his campaign with his word in the campaign trail in 2016 and even as recently as yesterday when a reporter shouted to him is the united states going to war with iran is it imminent dottle term answer and i hope not well donald trump whether it comes to trade or whether it comes to iran seems to favor the maximum pressure campaign that the administration has been putting forth in recent months and that seems to be

where the head of the president is right now but that again is causing a lot of division within the administration between the hawkish members of the cabinet versus those that pervert negotiating and that has resulted in very little information getting to congress because the administration itself can't agree on policy white house correspondent can be how could thank you candy. well plenty more ahead on this news hour and caring u.s. president donald trump proposes an immigration overhaul that could change the face of the nation. 10 years after sri lanka's civil war we miss a doctor bringing hope to young people struggling with the shadows of the past. and mom and dad are forced to choose sides as their solid lets go head to head in the n.b.a. playoffs. young educated and speaking these are some of the qualities president on trump expects

from those who want to immigrate to the united states outlined his ideas for a new immigration policy on thursday but democrats have dismissed to those proposals as condescending and as castro reports from washington there is little chance congress will approve his plan ok in. the face of immigration to the us would look very different under the new white house plan more affluent more educated and most likely more white make no mistake this plan would have a devastating effect on millions of people around the world who like me have dreams of coming to this land of opportunity if adopted our plan will transform america's immigration system into the pride of our nation and the envy of the modern world the plan president trump introduced thursday would rank would be immigrants by

english proficiency employment salary level and age those rank higher would have priority to become u.s. residents meanwhile the existing system of allowing immigrants to sponsor family members would be cut in half currently 66 percent of legal immigrants come here on the basis of a. random chance they're admitted sholay because they have a relative. in the united states and it doesn't really matter who that relative is the plan has little chance of passing congress democrats and moderate republicans there have said they want to extend legal protections to young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children. trump took away those protections when he took office his new plan makes no mention of fixing their status at the end of the day this is the only place a lot of us call home and the only place where we can thrive and become the person

that our parents always dreamed of us becoming pro immigration advocates joined a democratic leaders too and built a replica of the statue of liberty here in washington it's a protest of the administration's plan which also seeks to eliminate the diversity visa and overhaul the asylum system at the us mexico border a record number of central american families seeking asylum in the u.s. has strained the immigration system a republican bill in congress backed by the president would allow families with children to be detained for up to $100.00 days the white house says it's the only way to tackle illegal immigration and is calling for priority sections of the border wall to be built democrats in congress have refused to build the wall and say trump's newest immigration plan gives them no reason to support it castro al-jazeera washington.

now campaigning in india's long and staggered general election has come to an end the 7th and final phase of voting will be held on sunday prime minister narendra modi appears to be locked in a tight race with his challenger rahul gandhi from the opposition congress party a short. modi attended his 1st press conference and 5 years since coming to power but didn't take any questions the governing b j p's campaign so far has been highly focused on lady he's seeking a 2nd term in office the opposition has accused him of being divisive by al-jazeera so hell rahman is environed aussie and has this report 6. it's loud it's passionate and it's drawing crowds to the city about an hour say they've come to see priyanka gandhi for the indian national congress party drum up support her party wants to unseat the incumbent m.p.

that's prime minister narendra modi for the moment it's more about political celebrity and less about politics. but analysts say a resurgence of the opposition is countering modi's record his personality and hyper nationalism what has happened is a modi has projected himself as a personal figure who represents india india's national interests but as everyone else has seemed to be coming short of what might be nationalism in this country as a result the campaign is incredibly vitriolic incredibly personalized. on the other side of our nazi supporters of 2 other major regional parties a somali and behavior and so march parties have joined forces to take on voting locations like these are in the final stages of the election how should they be crisscrossing the state and constituents in the trying to win the every single vote and general election has been described as the 1st tertius the most divisive and

the most polarized if indeed history. of the use of them because of the public agree with. friends becoming enemies within families that have been divisions and talks of talks on really hindu muslim and these things have never happened in the past we are doing together regional parties. leaders like says the government stay here to deliver on its promises of not be dressed in favor of nationalist fervor they're not talking about extras when they're not talking about blood and they're not talking about the by nation advantages they're not talking about how g.s.t. has worsened the business of local businesspeople so they're not talking about the development issue they're only about national issues that is only because they're talking about terrorism. the state of west bank goals all campaign related violence of choose date night injuring several people the election commission and did

campaigning there on thursday evening but not before the prime minister spoke. you have all seen what's been happening in the west been called the criminals of the ruling t.m.c. have made the state into a living hell the type of war that has spread across this region is a stain on democracy. as the campaigning to india's weeks long general election ends many are now looking forward to the final days of voting but some here wonder if democracy's reputation has already been damaged. also how raman now joins us live from the northern city of so how can paintings just ended talk us through which states will be going to the polls this weekend and what's at stake. indeed. 2 months of election voting in 7 phases from viewers that along al-jazeera who really don't know how the selection works over 900000000 eligible voters can go to the polls but you can't do it on one day it's

too big a country to do that so the election commission divide the voting not just by a state but also by region and therefore we have the 7 phase election in the final phase of voting which happens on sunday as you mentioned there will be 59 constituency seats up for grabs across 7 states and one union that territory in those states vary from west bengal where the prime minister was speaking less than 24 hours ago to where i am here in pradesh over to the western punjab and up to the north and they got him child. as well it is going to be a very tight race that's what many analysts are suggesting but of course those polls will open on sunday they will end on sunday evening at 5 o'clock local time and then the voting the vote count will happen on the 23rd of may in terms of the way the campaign has gone well it's been very vitriolic very aggressive and here environ r.c. of course a very tight race those opposition leaders that we had in that package want to try

and dent the majority of the incumbent problem into. to who sits on the seat is only fighting one alexion seat on this particular occasion they want to show that his popularity has dwindled and remote he says i'm still as popular as i was in 2014 and in a press conference earlier in new delhi within about the last hour and a half he is suggesting that they will win with an absolute majority again he has public support people love what he has done in india it's all very up in the air at the moment and until those exit polls come out on sunday evening we may have an idea of how the indian despite war has actually voted in the 17th general election but it's not over as i said to the fat lady sings in that sunday evening sale you're standing in very nasty at the stronghold and you say that he sounds very confident but what does his chances actually look like this time around across the country. well it depends on who you ask the various experts that we've spoken to you know do you come up with those

conflicting ideas about how the b j p is perceived one of this that we've spoken to has suggested that there isn't that excitement that wave that we saw of support for the b j b in 2014 for the b j p that is perhaps ringing some alarm bells that while they can appeal to their core base their core right wing base about who they are they'll get that support there is no such thing as a floating voter in this particular election they believe that people have made very set ideas about what they want for india and there are 2 very diverse camps you know you have the nationalist pro hindu agenda and then you have the issues of development for example as akhilesh others said in my report you know why haven't the b j p talked about their positive record in government they haven't talked about the unemployment rate that's gone up it's been the highest i think since 2016 the results of that unemployment rate were released in the middle of the election campaign the government didn't want those figures out it suggested by

a highly respected think tank that as many as a legend 1000000 people have lost their. 2018 nothing has been really discussed about job creation or development and of course demilitarization demonetize ation and the addition of a general sales tax in the last few years has if you're going to see the big 5 $101000.00 ppi notes taken out of circulation new currency brought in that absolutely decimated the rural areas who deal on a cash economy lots of farmers very angry about that and about the low price of their produce that are growing wheat sugar cane rice these are all massive issues and it depends on which region you go to around india do those issues become highlighted so for the moment being to see what the results say of the results will actually tell us how people obviously voted and how what they thought about the b.j. piece of performance during the past 5 years but we look forward to sunday and the final vote in the 17th general election al-jazeera said held around an across the indian election for us thank you for that update. well now it's time for the

weather here's everson what's going across what's going on across africa is that well we've been hearing about the flooding in southern course and the part of the seasonal range if you look at the satellite picture you can see where those thunder heads are lots of them just popping up there right across the equip tauriel belt and we've seen that widespread flooding which is made its way across the good pass of verse over mali in particular lots of problems here course the flooding has been widespread we've had lots of people thousands of people displaced as a result of that roads closed power problems of course we should see things quieted down at least here over the next couple days but lots of clouds showing up anywhere around the sahara the biggest showers of course is be the spec's just around the gulf of guinea says southern parts of nigeria into cameroon into gabon and they stretch right across central africa south sudan pushing right across into ethiopia right up into eritrea nudging

a little further north which you notice as we go on into sunday but you can follow it showers right down the rift valley uganda seeing some lively showers kenya seeing some big showers as well those showers run right down into southern parts of tanzania so some wet weather coming in here once again all part of the long rains here of course we see a few showers there into the northeast of. much of southern africa is looking fine and dry because increasing cloud just spilling into the western cape over the next couple of days further north we could see one or 2 shows to across northwestern pass the african star. well still ahead on al-jazeera the fiance of modern saudi john lewis jamal khashoggi warns america's ideals are at stake if it doesn't do more to bring his killers to justice. and casa unveils the 1st stadium specifically built for the world cup complete with the air conditioning paul will be here with more.

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hello again i'm. a reminder of the news this hour trips from saddam's iraq that support forces have tried to remove barricades put in place. by protesters outside the army headquarters but they eventually gave up more demonstrations are expected in court today. iran's foreign minister is calling on china and russia to work with tehran to save the 2050 nuclear deal from collapse the reef is in beijing where he's trying to shore up support after the u.s. tighten sanctions on iran's oil sector. and president donald trump has announced

his plans to overhaul the u.s. immigration system the changes would strongly favor the skilled migrants and make it more difficult for non english speakers and asylum seekers. president proposed changes to the immigration policy could see security increased at the southern border potentially stopping tens of thousands of migrants and refugees across the country groups of volunteers are refusing to turn their backs on them reports from san diego are. in full furry is texas fills a barrel full of jugs of water to save migrants who might other was dying of thirst in the dry thorny brush in el paso texas volunteers at the church of god to hand out donated clothing to destitute migrant families in san diego professor joyner brooks of a handful of student volunteers collect letters from people fleeing violence and

poverty were being held in detention. across the u.s. a small army of volunteers spends time money and energy to help migrants and asylum seekers in any way they can canalis has been putting out water into the wilderness for years he's seen what happens to people who don't make it to safety since 2004 we've had $750.00 recovered bodies and remains and until we fix a system that is broken we're going to continue to have a humanitarian crisis a people dying pastor méribel velasquez has turned her el paso church into a shelter for people who are released from detention with no place else to go it's horrible in in the beginning i never thought it was going to be to this stream they're tired to hydrated they're hungry authorities say a record number of migrants were detained in april exceeding 100000 for the 2nd

month in a row most are families from central america professor brooks center student volunteers are archiving over 1000 letters from migrants in detention one pair of detainees with pen pals on the outside and there are their letters we archive. with privacy protection so that future researchers will understand the magnitude of this humanitarian crisis and the real lives of refugees the letters tell of escape from violence poverty and of fear and loneliness in incarceration sometimes migrants send little gifts baby shoes woven from bits of plastic a dreamcatcher crafted from dental sloss grassroots volunteer efforts like this one stand in sharp contrast to the vast sums expended by the us government for border police barriers and incarceration even while our government is locking up refugees

we will be humans we will extend ourselves no matter how modest the effort because this the world depends upon small acts of kindness sparks of humanity amid a humanitarian crisis robert oulds al-jazeera san diego. in britain cross party talks to strike a compromise on prime minister tree is the mayor's breaks a deal have failed labor leader jeremy corbyn says discussions have gone as far as they can the 2 sides have tried for weeks to agree on terms for the country's exit from the european union britain was due to leave on march 29th but its departure from the e.u. has been delayed until october 31st while our paul brennan joins us now live from westminster hall so this wasn't really a surprise but one of the reasons for the talks breaking down this time. the reasons that have been given by the labor leader jeremy corbett in his letter to the prime minister are essentially that labor cannot sign up to anything that

the prime minister might offer because she is likely to be out of a job within a matter of weeks is left to the prime minister said the position of the government has become ever more unstable and it's all thought he has been eroded and he said the increasing weakness and instability of your government means there cannot be confidence in securing whatever might be agreed between us through some may use down in bristol today she's not here in london said that there were also problems with labor's position and she complained that there was no common position within labor on a 2nd other referendum for example and it is known that even within the negotiating team on the labor side there were differences of opinion as to the priority that should be given to a 2nd referendum so clearly problems on both sides 6 weeks of both sides several constructive talks but they simply haven't produced a resolution and so we're now most probably back to a kind of indicative votes type of system most likely next week although labor

saying they only found out about the government's proposal for more indicative votes earlier this week and there isn't really the time to work out what those votes would be on so the timetable very very fluid and paul tell us a little more about where this leaves us you say the timetables very fluid but what happens next and also in terms of what happens with conversations with the e.u. . yes it's getting a real pressure cooker building again i'm afraid you know to think back to april. please when you gave the extension to the to the end of october and said please don't waste this time does appear that the time is starting to slip away yet again next week we have the european parliamentary elections selections that the british british did the british didn't even want to fight they will go into those and then straight afterwards the likelihood is that both labor and the conservatives will

get a real drubbing in those elections but straight afterwards they go the parliament goes into a recess they will be sitting until the week of june the 3rd so there's more time loss there what happens after that it's likely that they will bring her withdrawal bill back for another try another votes it's not looking like she'll get a majority at the 4th attempt so where are we then well she wants to try to get all the legislation passed by the end of july labor said that won't happen we're looking like october yet again right up to the edge of the end of the deadline is going to be a really crunch month paul brennan explaining a very lengthy breaks that process to us there from london thank you paul. well the fiance of murdered saudi journalist america shocked she says she cannot understand why the world hasn't done enough to bring his killers to justice t.j. chang is speaking at a congressional hearing on press freedom in washington she was the last person to seek a shock before he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul last year 7 months on his

body has still not been found mike hanna reports. in a deeply divided congress this is one issue that receives bipartisan support democrat and republican members expressing dismay at attacks 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. i could us a long slow moloney he said the reason jamal moved to the united states was because there were other people like him in prisons in saudi arabia who could not was their own opinions and he felt responsible for them and he said in the united states i can be their voice if we cannot bring him back maybe at least we can help free

those people and other prisoners 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 a show she's myrna 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. michael. washington. several afghan

police officers have been killed in an airstrike in afghanistan's helmand province the ministry of interior says a nato air strike targeted the taliban just outside the provincial capital of lashkar 8 policemen were killed earlier the head of the local council put the death toll at 17 and said they were killed in an airstrike by mistake well it's been a decade since the end of sri lanka's 25 year long civil war people on all sides of the conflict are focusing their efforts to rebuild their lives but a struggling economy and rising unemployment have made things difficult for an elephant and as reports from kill or not she and northern town that was ravaged by the war. ship dr tangle to start to move he has worked hard since the end of the war in 2009 to put the brutal conflict behind him he's one of 5 doctors who treated civilians caught between government and tamil tiger

fighters mother and father brought. children so that one. does not do. the. next one the next. and this one also going today. at least one arrested by the government questioned and released after the war he quickly returned to his job. he now uses he spare time to teach young people how to make the best of their education 10 years after the end of the war dr thought there would be hopes programs like these will give students more opportunities to build a better future. it's an option that may have kept can the learn from joining the tigers when he was 16 years old today he's battled is to provide for his family

after spending 3 years in prison i got a conditional bail and have to go and sign in every month this is a must no matter where i work i also have to attend court hearings the 3 years that i was in prison we got into a lot of debt. that's a common feature in most households here in the former war zone many families struggle to make ends meet these people who are devastated during the war who could not earn a living for many many years even over the last 10 years are still in an economic crisis of sorts and we have yet to see how we're going to get them out of this high rates of unemployment have not helped the aftermath of the war has left households struggling to cope financially with little few opportunities and many have lost family members beatings the news of those still missing. government troops battled a 26 year war with the tamil tigers who fought to win their rights against what

they described as discrimination by should learn to sing in these majority successive governments could not defeat the tigers until president minded rajapaksa took power he won the war but many say he lost the peace and alienated the tamil people i made serious allegations of human rights violations both the government and. or accused of committing war crimes but only the government has faced pressure to answer for its actions so far a senior government official in the north says the government could have done more every life. and every life need to be on 3rd fall and without which we can move forward i would a mark of if you move forward without answering i would have a call to review and i'm won't be any justice for that and i'm standing for that dr southam of the hopes those pledges will be honored till then he's concentrating on helping young tamils better their lives and their philander's al-jazeera killing

archie northern sri lanka. now as a stray and scare up the elections on saturday the prime minister is defending himself against accusations to rwandan murder suspects were accepted as refugees scott morrison says security agencies investigated and cleared 2 hutu rebels who were accused in the 1999 killings of 8 tourists in rwanda the men had been imprisoned in the united states but who are released on the grounds that they confessed under torture. polls suggest that scott morrison is widely expected to lose power in saturday's elections he's only been in the job for 9 months and the man tipped to replace him has promised to put an end to the country's revolving door of leadership andrew thomas reports from sydney. if opinion polls are right the man in the middle of this crowd will on saturday be elected as australia's prime minister bill shorten from the left of center labor party is

popular with many young australians. he promises higher spending on schools and action to tackle climate change but many say it is the chaotic leadership of the governing party that has helped the opposition most goes. take action. we've got to stop. and take real action on us a living we've got to stop. take real action right. since being elected in 2013 m.p.'s of the right of center government of the liberal party have turned against their leader twice dumping tony abbott for malcolm turnbull i thought throwing him out for current prime minister scott morrison. m.p.'s of the previous labor government also deposed their own leader twice. this is a failure if bill shorten is elected he'll be australia's 6th prime minister in 6 years and change your prime minister through an election would be

a break from the recent past what bill shorten is promising is a period of political stability with the full on climate change that means relatively ambitious targets for emissions reductions renewable energy and electric cars the current government has failed to act on climate change over many years and police have been rising for the last 4 years so it's really risen as a crystal if you like the government says tougher action on climate will hurt the economy it also says a labor government's policies on refugees will lead to what it calls we care borders the government to sort to deter refugees from trying to reach australia and they sent them to detention camps on remote islands in the pacific think the bottom line is as difficult as this policy is if you change it if you wait in it if you show a lack of resolve then you invite on this country and the poor souls who would type the risks the worst of all possible outcomes but labor has effectively removed.