20000 people who disappeared during the conflict but no one has been prosecuted for any alleged war crimes from the 26 year long civil war that left more than 100000 people dead birds made i'll just sarah. in northern sri lanka. earlier we spoke to a lecture for international law at griffith college in dublin he thinks a culture of impunity has made it difficult to heels for long divisions. serious problem is that the lankan government has committed itself before the united nations however all the commitments made before the united nations especially after the report of the high commissioner for human rights in 2015 have seen little results in the country only with the office of missing birth of many issues remain unresolved people are still longing for justice but this again to a new and very usual chapter in toronto namely the culture of impunity rather than

the culture of accountability in light of also the. eve said tag renewed rejuvenated a merchant's regulations are impeding a dialogue between the communities there are actually being an obstacle further to transitional justice between the communities and they actually hinder any kind of solution where people in the country are seen as equal citizens in an equal country i acknowledge the federal government has to move forward with a transitional justice again until those who have seen but when we go back to the pre arrow 2015 we will see again a retreat from an engagement international human rights and gauge went. on the international scene and that will be very boring if you want to dust though because the momentum is lost in my eyes and the international community must renew its engagement with the sri lankan government and with all political activists and

civil society activists on the ground. so it's come on al-jazeera. sedans nocturnal activists we meet the men and women joining the sets in to protect their revolution. it's all goal for joe biden as the former vice president officially launches his campaign to ice donald trump. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across china plenty of rain to talk about over the next few days and it's really going to be expanding as we begin the week as well most of the rain will be up here towards the central areas we're talking about chengdu on will see some very heavy rain as well for joe the rain for you but as we go towards monday the rain starts

to make its way towards the south that's going to corporate hong kong as well and that rank be quite heavy along the coast expect some travel delays if you are coming into hong kong up towards shanghai though the rain will stay just to the south of you but we do expect to see plenty of clouds in the forecast there or across india we are seeing some rain down here towards the south across carola those rain showers could be quite heavy we are going to be seeing a little bit of a break as we go towards sunday up towards the central region so for now per still quite warm at $42.00 degrees and new delhi at 39 getting to about 40 degrees by the time we get towards monday up towards nepal though we do expect to see some rain in katmandu with a temperature of 29 degrees and then here across the gulf we are looking at a break in the temperature for doha we were into the low forty's coming down to about $37.00 but we do expect to see plenty of wind in the forecast here over towards amman though it is going to be rainy we could be seeing some flooding as well with the scott so you attempt to $34.00.

anything you say tight brows can be held against. food lines investigates how governments using israeli software to turn critics cellphones 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 any fan anywhere targeted by text on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera quick remind all the top stories for you 9. australia's

ruling conservative coalition has won the country's general election and a major upset prime minister scott morrison has described the victory as a miracle the opposition leader bill shorten stood dying after conceding defeat austria's far right deputy leader has resigned over a secret video recording christian strucker was filmed offering government contracts to an unknown russian woman in exchange for political supports and sri lanka has helped memorial services on the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war 26 years of fighting kills more than 800000 people many of them tamils i seem to creates their homelands in the. majority islands. but explosions in syria have targeted u.s. backed syrian democratic forces at least 20 s.t.'s fighters were killed at a police station at military base in iraq and the mostly kurdish led forces forced

eisel fighters from iraq or 2 years ago but several attacks have been reported since then. now u.s. oil and gas company exxon mobil is evacuating foreign workers from basra in iraq just days after american diplomatic staff were ordered to leave baghdad and bahrain is ordering its citizens to leave iraq and neighboring iran warning of regional instability iraq is course in the tension between iran and the united states the pentagon has deploys an aircraft carrier and b. $52.00 bombers to the gulf accusing iran of threatening its troops and interests. a former u.s. vice president joe biden is set to officially launch his campaign for the white house in the next hour or so with a call for fairness and equality in america you'll be holding the opening rally in philadelphia pennsylvania his campaign headquarters and a key states one by president don't trump in 2016 this will be biden's 3rd run for

the top job but this time around he's leading in the polls it's in is one of $23.00 democrats currently seeking to challenge trump next year will gabriel joins us now live from washington d.c. a gaper will this be 3rd time lucky for biden what are his chances. well biden sure hopes that the 3rd time is the charm and he hopes that his chances are very good and he thinks his chances are very good and he thinks that because he's looking at the polls he's leading donald trump in the early polls a head to head contacts contest but also make no mistake he's in pennsylvania because pennsylvania the people that live in pennsylvania could very well decide who the next president is going to be. in 2016 donald trump just narrowly beat hillary clinton in the state of pennsylvania by less than one percent and those 20

electoral votes for pennsylvania really are what put donald trump over the top to be the president biden is from pennsylvania he's very well liked there and the latest polls show that he is leading trump in the state of pennsylvania by more than 10 points which is huge and so this state is going to be one of a small handful of states that are really going to be key biden thinks that he has a clear shot to win pennsylvania and take himself to the presidency but he's 1st got to get past these other 22 democratic challengers who all have a different idea they all think they can be president so we'll have a long way to go here in the coming weeks and months for the democrats finally nominate who they want to be their candidate absolutely but let's look at the chance of getting that nomination he asked how to write the book he starts the campaign even before he declared the accusations of his own mitsu movements is he likely to say good night that some across behind him. well yeah i mean he's hoping to unite a democratic party that is united on wanting to beat donald trump but not on how to

do it a lot of people saying they need a younger person running maybe a woman maybe someone that's a governor or something like that and they're out of the $23.00 people running they have a whole slew of people we have 6 women one asian american 3 african-american so there's a big diversity there that the democrats have to pick from and also political political spectrum is where they fall the political structure and some more centrist some far to the left biden is hoping to be a unifier that's what he's hoping but again he's also had claims that he's been a little too close to to to women in public spaces touching them on their shoulder or their head or their hair or in appropriately some accusations of that he of course denies that there is any mal intentions of any of that but clearly he has had some stumbles here early on but he's hoping that he is the unifier in the end

and the polls are indicating that he clearly is the front runner at least in the polls ok good we'll have to leave it that way thank you so much indeed gabriel is on the joining us live from washington the scene the far right politicians from across europe have gathered for a rally in italy to try to boost their chances heads of e.u. paula mentioned elections next week the events in milan was organized by its these deputy prime minister matthias savini he says their new alliance is set to gain a powerful voice and european affairs. and a former president of argentina is making a comeback cristina fernandez secure center has made a surprise that i'd spent to run as a vice presidential candidates in october's election 66 year old has been seen as the most likely challenger to presidents modi see a mockery who supports has fallen in the opinion polls a corruption trial involving secure snow is she to begin next week she's also

implicates it's in other scandals. presidents transitional military council says it plans to resume talks with the opposition alliance on sunday thousands of people have been demonstrating near the army headquarters for more than a month demanding civilian rule and many are holding their ground overnights morgan has more from the capital khartoum. call themselves the night. city needs cool calm after sunset to join the thousands outside the military headquarters they searched for weapons at checkpoints set up by other protesters before they joined the sit in which is now in its 2nd month mechanizing is we to believe it was only one it's important to have people here at night because the attempts to disperse to sit in mostly happens during the evening that's why we have people come and even sleep here to guard the revolution. but those who come here do more than guard their revolution which began in december before reaching its peak

in early april when they began camping in front of the military headquarters and demanded the country's president ahmed and bashir and his 30 year rule. when the military ousted him on april 11th the protesters stayed on to demand power be handed to civilians. brings books every evening for protesters to all read for free if they can't afford the price he can now offer books that were banned by the old regime because the get up that ticket out of the bill is a benefit that books used to have limited purposes during the former regime but now people can access books they couldn't find because of the oppression and the ban they were living under but this isn't just a revolution of the people it's a revolution of the mind this while. some choose other ways to learn listening to political debates from various parties and groups including those that were targeted by the former government with the opportunity to talk to other protest this people here say my bet is that it was feeling just down jefferson and that many here have heard of but haven't lived while getting

a taste of how different the country can be. here. on this corner different cultures are full display the dances performed are common in the west and south of sudan parts of the country that have been marred by violence. now people are traveling here to join in their revolution in their own ways. to fight against sudan's future will be beautiful people will be united like never before this is what sudan's future looks like and i'm happy to be part of it. sudan's transition may not speak. but those here at the city and old and young have seen a glimpse of the future they want and are living it here they say they want to back down until this sort of life becomes the norm across their country morgan al-jazeera for 2. and 6 weeks after forcing at their longtime president. protesters in algeria say they'll stop only when everyone from his inner circle is replaced tear gas was far is on the 13th successive friday protests demanding

a clean sweep of the leadership which are again may reports. for months protesters have gathered outside the iconic grampus building in the capital algiers demanding political change. but on friday morning they arrived to find the area barricaded by police officers. tens of thousands of protesters tried to push their way through but 1st security forces responded with tear gas but outnumbered and under attack i they eventually pulled out of the area it's the 38th consecutive week protesters have gathered in the main square to demand the removal of politicians and officials associated with the regime of alstom president abdelaziz bouteflika the to make a similar mix between the they want to destroy us but they want we demand late only we reject their stories of being we are the ones who choose who represents us

normally the. many protesters day believe that interim president up till kadok been salah is the right person to run the country at this critical moment presidential elections are scheduled for july the protest is not just in the capital but across algeria unrelenting in their demands but complete regime change was a. logical elections under this president can only lead to a fraudulent government but we is the one who fix $6000000.00 forms for bootlicker but weasel actions are rigged and dollars and we will not take part in that and we say no to the elections. some want chief of staff my guide salah to step in and remove the political elite but he's wounded against what he says are attempts to create a power vacuum so i spite such warnings anti-government protesters seem determined to continue their rallies until the political establishment is gone victoria gates and be al jazeera venezuela's president says welcome talks with his representatives

and the opposition in norway because missouri says it's the beginning of dialogue with those who want him to step down the mediation bed comes after months of power struggle. and opposition later on why do. the homes come in all shapes and sizes including some on stilts perched precariously over a lake in the one african fishing community in the village of gandy has managed to preserve its lifestyle and traditions for more than 2 centuries but its. reports the pressures of modern life are threatening to swarm and. what they say about gun view is that life is peaceful. for more than 250 years people have been living on the water and what's thought to be africa's largest lake community it's grown to around 35000 people. our guide is 23 year old hermann's also he grew up

here but is now studying on the mainland he shows us around the fish farms the main source of income for most families. we meet gerard in year he explains that business is tough because they have to invest so much in it for so little return. to go around the world when we cast down that some don't catch any fish it breaks our hearts we have no choice but to come back to fishing because we have nothing else to do if we can get some help to move away from this work it would be good what we really need is help. the water reaches up to 2 metres and so a boat is the only way to move. them and tells us that each family has at least 3. community is divided into what they call villages the chief of this one is no new he tells us they need help with basic facilities. we have no electricity or clean water because of the way the population is growing the clean water we have is not

sufficient if the government could help us with this we would be happy i. round for 25 and sells food for a living she has plans to open up a store she is the exception among her age group and i want all of my friends are gone they've gone to the mainland to look for money i'm the only one left congo is a fully functioning community with schools churches a hospital and even a cemetery one of the challenges for people here is how to preserve their way of life without being left behind by the rest of society. a man tells a story of how his ancestors found sanctuary when they were escaping a war between paintings ancient kingdoms now there's no escaping the fact that many like him though proud of their heritage are looking for a different future i'm up watching al-jazeera.

this is answers here and these are the top stories a street is reeling conservative coalition has scored a surprise victory in the country's general election prime minister scott morrison who won on a campaign of sweeping tax cuts will be back for another term it's not yet clear whether he will have an outright majority though his challenger opposition labor leader bill shorten conceded defeat and also resigns from the party's leadership. i have always believed in miracles. was. i'm standing with the. 3 biggest miracles in my life here tonight was and tonight we've been delivered another one was.

good is a stray or was austria's far right deputy leader has resigned over a secret video recording christian strucker was filmed apparently offering government contracts to an unknown russian woman in exchange for political support at least 20 fighters of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces were killed in 2 bomb attacks in rocca a local police station and a military base were targeted a moral services have been held in sri lanka on the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war 26 years of fighting kills more than 100000 people time of tiger rebels battles government forces to create their own independent homeland in the sinhala buddhist majority island both sides were accused of war crimes but no one has been prosecuted. and there she up to date stay stay with us here on al-jazeera

and use continue after faultlines stay with us. ringback ringback hi just all right i meant months or as a human rights activist in the united arab emirates. i interviewed him 2 years ago shortly after he'd received strange text messages with suspicious links the text was talking about some secrets related to the torture the united arab emirates they tell us that most of them for me to click on the link. at the u.a.e.

have bought a powerful spyware called pegasus that can break into almost any smartphone i want to target opens an attached link at the bottom line to the government to your is to monitor activists and certain individuals over interest of the. one source is now serving a 10 year prison sentence in the u.a.e. for publicly criticizing this government. not only learned people in general but that would also cause some people to be killed or. assassinated in. this case was the 1st detective hack of its kind. in the last 4 years pegasus has been used against activists and journalists around the world. in this episode of faultlines reinvestigate how governments are using pegasus to turn their critics so films into the whole to the tools of surveillance .

in 2015 pegasus showed up in mexico. among the 2 dozen targets was mexico's most famous investigative journalist carmen. senior team it just revealed a major corruption scandal involving the president at the time in reeky opinion miata. the story shocked the nation and soon our stock you felt the backlash. norvin to get any of the this out though now that is a question that i mean that of us young escaped again that now to me even in this money that's. 2 months after the revelations and her teenage son started getting strange text messages with enticing links. that aren't the same as them inside his case came up with the. i love the.

media are all who got of them the leaving does. give people their goals i doubt. there is a writer with a lot of the film in the zone as can. get us out of it as it were meant that he was obvious. that they look at the end they need to lift. less fuentes and his companions play these tests on a bit of us. cyber security researchers in canada determine there are a sticky and her son emilio had been targeted with pegasus at the time emilio was a 16 year old high school student studying in the u.s. look at this up. there they know her. is it going to not only send the not in the upper case that he will grow. no escaping stevie could be an innocent those that are you and i that have made up my your when those soon to be

said is the only style or night i mean that intimacy eva one and i mean that would pull that osa bought us out at the overall gas in being able to get our notice in the. study nico going to hell is doesn't get in the saddle i'll go milo but i got to me. to find out more about the use of pegasus in mexico we came to our 3 d. the digital rights group that has helped shed light on the cyber attacks here how many pegasus infections have you found in mexico. we know that at least 30 people have been targeted in that and those where human rights defenders journalists politicians even international investigators but we know from the contract that has been made public is that mexico acquired that really did to infect $500.00 targets so we know that there probably were. many many many more targets. because this is the creation of an israeli spy ware company called an a so group. the mexican

attorney general's office recently disclosed his contracts within a soaker from 20162017. to show the office had paid at least $32000000.00 for pegasus have you seen anything like this when it comes to surveillance on this scale we have seen other types of malware we have seen some cases here and there we haven't seen the scale of the use we don't model we're too less powerful as this 1. 1 of the things that makes pegasus so powerful is that it can access information on a phone before it can be encrypted. encrypted protects the user's privacy by securing the data on a device. lots of authorities for you to. and a legitimate purposes want to be able to crack by looking at the devices before that information is encrypted in the 1st place. passes takes total control

phone he can get access to pictures chats the contact lens the can open the mike open the camera with all you know to seeing it records everything you type. in a soaker says it only contracts with governments and law enforcement agencies to buy criminals and terrorists. and that their technology has helped thwart terror attacks and save thousands of lives but they won't say how some of the people that seem targeted clearly they're not suspects what why would they target them the government was trying to silence them he was trying to make them not resist. acts and buy from our rights violations corruption lies and when a target is particularly difficult to target they call to your immediate circle so in no ways an attack on all sides. in a so group says that it can remotely cut off

a client's access to pegasus if their abuse it but more had to report it in mexico after the pegasus scandal blew up in. 2017 in the state of sinaloa home to one of mexico's most powerful drug cartels javier valdez was gunned down just blocks from his office. he was a reporter payments for his unflinching coverage of narco violence here. i'm not fake tan. i am meant to. kind of sign us and i know that our but our set. brazil the trio ana is the widow of valdez she's a journalist and activist and son a lower. risk companion as man. must. be when they hear more of them and they are christan last seen to somebody yes he and quite appalled a home he had. already gotten. just

days after the shooting triana got strange text messages that included links. fare so i mean that the scene natalie here was this whereby one of the islamists who met here for one of the assists was in that area and the link here is a bit early. l y's so that's hiding with the actual play descent 2 and this is so specific to you. john one candle for. release here on. this side up ahead way komisar nasional they simply that. the feet. journalist but he had access some. gas. here at the supply at the scales

but if you. and don says miss andy we are neither. to evolve as his colleagues at the cinema were based newspaper rio dos say also received pegasus infected links within days of the murder. audrey's heriot was one of them. why do you think you were targeted in some was again illegal we have opinion which up but he supports or there is a board that the answer may be at the goodwill geisel. then inform us you're going to start off on the korean the or the at among the soldiers who for media will says must have guns quite a lot of meals i must he could put us on or. have a star in the maybe at the mint those boys that i see not but. why would they need to secretly and illegally surveil your phone is the implication that they think you didn't tell the truth or you're holding something back and this is

a still making course in the just cause us gave up on them and this one inexpert governess no conformant back their name best yes you are correct that he was not yet up and seemed politicizing there all that most wanted but it would stop when the as i said. i don't which was the as this was a less is he not both of you had enough i don't phony many ups do you worry about more the authorities or the narcos. know are you there and that it. is more you dave you. get a lot also we have to say they are. 2 men were arrested a year after the murder but the mastermind was never apprehended. 99 percent of crimes against journalists go unpunished in mexico. it's unknown if paul does get a similar message just before his death his killers took his phone and laptop. do

you think your photos tapped now. just 2nd me and how about i thought my state that better does my name ask can i see. sense as they. send data mail said either. in 2017 under pressure from the public the mexican attorney general's office launched a criminal investigation into the hacking of journalists and activists. this is the same agency that bought pegasus so far no one has been held accountable. earlier this year the mexican government claimed that it no longer uses pegasus. the 1st people to discover what pegasus is and does were researchers at citizen lab a digital rights group at the university of toronto. they investigate abuses of pegasus worldwide one of the biggest selling points of this stuff is that it's wickedly hard to find there's

a cat and mouse game. they hide we seek they were able to associate the links that were sent to months or are sticky and are signed triana in many others within a so groups servers. the 1st time that we learn about pegasus about this or get in touch and says listen i think i'm being targeted i guess. what was special about it was different well this one caught our attention in part because it was about his mobile phone hacking and i phone is a much larger technical lift and we realized that we were looking at a chain of i phone the 0 days so these are vulnerabilities that even apple didn't know about at the time they could be used to remotely in fact in penetrate that device and implant a piece of malware on it and a really fine message it's got railton and his colleague bill maher check have investigated abuses of pegasus since 2016. they didn't.