with every new. bronze president says he's open to talks with the u.s. but says conditions are not right. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at the u.n. war and said may have to suspend aid delivery to parts of yemen saying some cooties are making it difficult to operate. but israel's president marks one year since his reelection and proposes early polls for the opposition led national assembly. was. a warm welcome for a popular politician in the democratic republic of congo but not everyone is happy to see them return from exile.

iran's president hassan rouhani says he favors diplomacy with the u.s. but the current situation isn't suitable for talks he says iran's only choice is resistance on monday or iran announced it has quadrupled the rate of production of low enriched uranium this comes a week after tehran said it would end some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal had a kahane reports. leaving the white house president donald trump says he's willing to talk to iran's leaders when they are ready while seemingly downplaying a potential threat iran would be making a very big mistake if they did it even if they do something it will be met with great force but we have no indication that they will. but his administration just weeks earlier had said it had intelligence that iran could attack u.s. forces or its allies sending in an aircraft carrier to the gulf earlier than planned. and along with bombers and missiles even evacuating some of its diplomatic

personnel from iraq perhaps in response iran announced monday it's quadrupled its production of enriched uranium still at a much lower level that could be used for a weapon the capacity of the country's interest product through some technical modifications has been increased by nearly 4 times without i've been any new chains or centrifuges the design information related to this has been submitted to the international atomic energy agency and still some analysts say there are signs of a potential diplomatic breakthrough and there is an urgency for diplomacy and maybe the signs in terms of the omani foreign minister traveling today to iran and discussing some regional issues and oman has played a kind of a mediating role between the u.s. and iran in the past so maybe this is a good sign the u.s. president has sent mixed messages on iran but this is

a man who prides himself on making deals and so far he's been able to find one in his foreign policy now saying he's ready to talk if you runs leaders only ask patty calling al-jazeera washington. iran is urging the u.n. secretary general to help facilitate a diplomatic dialogue to ease what it's called the alarming security situation in the gulf region and diplomatic editor james bass is following those developments from the united nations. the letter which has been sent to the current president of the u.n. security council indonesia and to the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists talks about the alarming security situation in the gulf it doesn't mention the u.s. by name but it says currently in their action is creating a lose lose situation instead it's proposing using a un security council resolution for more than 30 years ago to create a new mechanism for talks between the gulf states and iran the proposal by the

iranian ambassador. is one that shows iran is pursuing diplomacy is trying to be reasonable at the same time though coming up with a procedure that would cut the u.s. out of any negotiations it has already been welcomed by the russian ambassador but we fully support the need to do. something. bush and go regional security architecture which would eventually wolf would be the logic for months but the. need to have a venue for months to discuss good regional issues ambassador added he thought it was likely the security council would talk about the current tension between iran and the u.s. in the near future the united nations may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen that are under the control accuses the

rebels of blocking convoys and harassing staff but insists the suspension of aid would be a last resort and while markets have reopened in the port city of who date as a fragile cease fire appears to be holding or part mainly has more. life is trickling back into this market place yemen's port city of hard data as people buy goods without fear of snipers and aerial bombardment. residents are hopeful as a fragile ceasefire between saudi a marotta led forces and who the rebels hold at least for now at the nominal value of their own money we hope the un and boys will continue working until the roads and ports are open in her data to let aid and supplies enter they need to be delivered to the people so they have enough to live. this month pretty forces withdrew fighters from the ports of her data sally from russia isa under a deal brokered by a un led committee the start calm agreement was established between rival

combatants in december but offered 2 similar agreements failed the ceasefire was fragile and sporadic fighting continued. for now it's holding but both sides of the ramping up rhetoric after saudi led coalition warplanes bombed the rebel held capital sama killing 6 people including 4 children this was off the hooty drone strikes on a key oil pipeline to the west of the saudi capital riyadh can tell you that we are following with great concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in yemen over the past days recalling the initial positive steps taken in the implementation of the dado agreement we are encouraged by the firm commitment reiterated by president hadi and the government to implement the agreement. the world food program may also suspend aid deliveries to rebel controlled yemen because of harassment from hooty

fighters in a statement the un agency said humanitarian workers in yemen a being tonight access to the hungry aid convoys being blocked and local authorities of interfet with food distribution who day to port is the entry point for the bulk of imported goods and humanitarian aid to the war torn nation. with aid organizations responsible for distributing food to millions of people across yemen the tough completing yemenis on the brink of starvation appears speak getting a lot hard to lure about among the al-jazeera hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the white house urging president not to pull troops out of syria a bipartisan plea argues the united states should remain engaged in the conflict citing deep concerns and threats to regional allies mcgrath's and republicans have voiced concern after trump announced in december that american troops will pull out

of syria. john jones is a us foreign policy expert he says members of congress know the stakes are high when it comes to security this letter was a strike across the bow really sending a message that congress and both a bipartisan in by cameral fashion was just about united in stating that there needs to be a clear well defined policy as it pertains to syria there's tremendous concern across the house and senate and probably within some elements of the administration is well that you have open spaces within syria that can be taken over by the likes of isis hezbollah or factions groups loyal to our iran or russia and so what leaders in the house and senate again both republican and democrat are saying is that we have to know exactly what the policy

in posture of united states is going to be in the coming days and months as it pertains to syria the stakes are just too high when you look at the security issues on the ground when you look at u.s. national security interests that have to be protected. the men in libya have cut off a key water pipeline supplying the capital tripoli the unrecognised government blames fighters loyal to warlord khalifa hof tar water supplies in the city and surrounding areas are now suspended and people there are relying on private deliveries and the u.n. says the cut off could amount to a war crime to replace home to at least a 1000000 people and it's been under siege since early april when i watched military campaign to take the city yesterday an armed group stormed tripoli's main water distribution station and has reportedly closed the ward of those supplying tripoli and other cities in the north west of the country including got

a on and i was away potentially impacting $2000000.00 people and their access to water some districts in tripoli already experiencing low water pressure and it is expected that the full impact will be felt in the coming days unless the valves are reopened were supplied to tripoli has already been impacted prior to yesterday as maintenance staff for the facilities were evacuated for security reasons due to the ongoing fighting. a judge in the u.s. has ruled against president trump in a dispute over his financial records he said congress should get those documents and that democrats have the right to investigate the president trying call the ruling crazy and said he would appeal or send salumi has more from a truck rally in pennsylvania. stressed that hundreds of economic growth and. at his rally but on the way here he said he was disappointed in the federal judge's decision not to sit on a request from house oversight. and isn't

this children money answer records from the town. he was proud of her suing can spam because they're upset about the report and the spine they say it's sad that this was a wrong decision on the part and obama appointed judge didn't talk about that here in pennsylvania nor did. the fact that i'm hearing will be taking place in washington d.c. tomorrow i'm out that morning and. late in the day that. former white house attorney not testifying has been blasted by congress. to say. he is not testifying on a mismatch with the president's structure earlier the president said publicly that they. want him to testify and he got what he wanted the president's.

response from the chairman of the house judiciary committee he said that the president has shown a shot of obstruction of justice in the work of the president returns to d.c. with these controversies swirling around. still had on al jazeera have been trying to cope with the problems piling up on the streets. in formula one. they make you die at the age of 70 you. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast all across europe we have been talking about the messy weather for days and it continues across much of central europe we've actually seen quite a bit of flooding across parts of the area of poland has had flooding all the way across parts of the ukraine down across parts of the balkans as well this area of

low pressure though is really beginning to take hold and organize across much of the central area now we are picking up a southerly flow out here towards the west i mean the temperatures are a little bit warmer we're going to be seeing kiev about $22.00 but still quite showery across much of that area we're going to be seeing a big problem though as we go from tuesday and into wednesday is really across parts of germany and poland because we're going to be picking up some very windy conditions as well coming out of the northwest temperatures will be dropping germany for berlin we only expect to see about 16 degrees there down towards vienna about 16 degrees for you as well looking quite nice the across parts of turkey with on korea at about $24.00 degrees well we are seeing plenty of clouds here across parts of northern africa as well in those clouds we could be picking up a shower or 2 and also along the coastal areas so for algiers the rain will continue with attempts to there of about $24.00 degrees we do expect to see tunas come down in temperature for $21.00 and clouds in the forecast there were tripoli at 22 as well.

watching al-jazeera these are the top stories right now iran's president hassan rouhani says he favors diplomacy with the u.s. but the current situation he says isn't suitable for talks on mondays here on announced it has quadrupled its production of low enriched uranium united nations says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen under who they control blames the rebels for blocking aid convoys and harassing staff but says the suspension of aid would be a last resort hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the white house urging president donald trump not to pull troops out of syria lawmakers argue the u.s. should remain engaged in the conflict citing deep concerns over the security of regional allies truck decided to pull american troops from syria last december. formally charged the man accused of carrying out the christ church mosque attacks with terrorism and terror and it's being held in a maximum security prison in auckland the self-proclaimed white supremacists

already face $51.00 charges of murder and 40 of attempted murder is to. in courts and jail. opposition politician ways khatami is expected to go on a nationwide tour following his return from exile on monday and to be spent almost 3 years in belgium after falling out with then president joseph kabila his arrival in the democratic republic of congo coincides with a visitor can by the french foreign minister is due to meet with the president as catherine sawyer reports was always good to ms return from exile cross his hometown of to go to a standstill. tens of thousands of supporters while the airports to welcome him. he fled the country in 2016 up to falling out with former president joseph kabila whose government accused him of corruption and herring mass neris to overthrow the states while in exile he was sentenced to 3 years in prison for property fraud that

conviction was struck last month allowing him to return home was done to the ground we have video of our leaders but he thinks pleased that security from the can disposable he wanted to to to work together to fix a country that $100.00 people to on friday are. we will follow who dated him on the country's politics had to be has held presidential ambitions but was barred from contesting in last year's election while govern out the mineral rich katanga province between 262015 he faced allegations of abusing his power to expand his wealth in mining and transport he's always denied this the now but i've been talking to people like maybe the well maybe the alcoholic the fact that he was only close to other parts of the country like would. like to see of the people he comes back on the day president

felix she said katie named a prime minister. ending months of speculation and insight into what the late process 73 year olds who. has served in 3 previous governments of former president joseph kabila these late father and the late mobutu says the 2nd until his appointment he was managing director of the national railways company. member of political party and comes from the former president's home region. the message from a to b. to he supports his was clear he told them he's back to defend the constitution and he is a political rivals that forced him to catherine soy al jazeera lubumbashi south east. talks or to continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders on monday they failed to reach an agreement on who should be part of the new ruling

body protesters say they will keep demonstrating on the streets of khartoum until a civilian led government is installed talks between the 2 sides for halted for 3 days while demonstrators removed growth walks they put up in the capital. and the nation's presidential candidate. to accept defeat in last month's election and plans to challenge the result in court the election commission declared presidential code otoh the winner with 55 percent of the vote but opposition party say that it was systematic cheating something the election board has ruled out citing lack of evidence. people in allowing have started voting to elect a new president in what's expected to be a tight race 70 year old president peter with the rica is seeking reelection for a 2nd term challenge hard by his deputy at the head of malawi's main opposition party 193 seats in parliament are up for grabs. major indulgences have been announced at the u.s.

vehicle maker ford the company is shedding $7000.00 workers at offices worldwide that's 10 percent of its salaried staff ford is looking to save $600000000.00 a year is it gears up to build more electric and self drive vehicles in the future john hendren has more from chicago. ford motor company is laying off $7000.00 white collar workers worldwide that's about 10 percent of its salaried work force deep cuts at ford and those might just be the beginning that's part of an $11000000000.00 restructuring from the company why their sales actually went up in the united states in the past year but they've gone down in europe asia and latin america and as they're competing in the standard car market they are also competing with technology companies like tesla and way mo which are making self driving electric cars and this follows on the heels of cuts by general motors even deeper cuts of $8000.00 workers or about 15 percent of its salaried workforce they're

facing similar industry pressures and those companies are regearing for an era in which perhaps people aren't buying so many cars perhaps hiring self driving cars to take them where they want to go on a regular basis and all of this happens is those companies have been hit by tariffs the trumpet administration has set on steel another metals that has cost ford alone about a $1000000000.00 over the past year and to put that in perspective the company is saving about $600000000.00 with the cuts that it is announced on monday that doesn't get you quite to the $1000000000.00 the company has paid in terrorists for importing the metals it needs to make those cars so the tariffs have been bad news on top of a rough year for the automakers. president nicolas maduro has proposed holding early elections for the opposition controlled national assembly the next scheduled vote isn't due until late 2020 only so does an assembly members happen stripped of their legislative immunity in recent weeks and face charges of treason and

subversion it coincides with talks held in the us between pentagon officials and representatives of opposition leader was. as venezuela faces political and economic crises rubbish collection in some communities is on the verge of collapsing. america was seeing newman reports on people trying to go. almost everything is in short supply these days in venezuela except this. enormous working class area of more than 400000 residents co-exist with monckton's of rubbish. right now doing that mark sometimes the worms go all the way up the street. and they're not the only thing crawling around rodents roam the rubbish in broad daylight helping to spread disease confidently fire janet subtle shows us the disinfectant and chlorine she uses to keep her home immaculate but she says it wasn't enough to keep her granddaughter from catching viral hepatitis which is

spreading all over us i don't even like it but it's horrible the rubbish is right next to the schools we try to rush by is false just possible because the flies embrace the children. like other public services rubbish collection in venezuela is collapsing for a bit and i am very very much why am i throwing my waste on the street because there's nowhere else the containers are full if you can find any. scores of municipal rubbish compressor trucks are out of service for lack of spare parts. the rubbish remains on the street because there are no schedules no proper plan for collecting it and to make matters worse or economic situation means people are constantly picking through their. breaking the plastic bags looking for food or whatever else. this fly infested rubbish smells as bad as it looks but it could be a lot worse the rainy season is about to begin and once it does all this will start

floating down the street and into people's homes. deficient rubbish services are not new but with venezuela's economy in freefall it's not likely that this mess will be cleaned up any time soon you see in human i just see that. pakistan has agreed on a deal with the international monetary fund to receive a $6000000000.00 loan but under its terms its currency will have to be devalued against the dollar and electricity and gas prices increased that's likely a proven popular reports on islamabad. after months of negotiations with the international monetary fund and the agreement on a $6000000000.00 loan package. government. economic crises and their deal with. may not be did. but. pakistan needs to undertake a very painful but it's an adjustment to perform and that the country will need to

undertake and most notably it includes a more flexible can see 2nd reforms in electricity and gas sector turd reforms in the public sector enterprises which are throwing up huge losses. just. ended in. previous governments avoiding excessively from the i.m.f. . no he they agreed a loan with the organization saying the wall won't be affected by debt something many people here aren't buying and don't want to i'm a painter and if we talk about the dollar rupee parity it goes without saying that a falling rupee will mean rising costs for payment which will have a knock on effect on people like me. there is widespread anger including from the opposition my dear almighty mall the government the soldiers into the slavery of the i.m.f. and we do not accept us we announced

a rebellion both against this and the government sitting in parliament we can witness the destruction of a country. many economists and political opponents are calling the. board a heavy burden on an already gone to me and lead to hyperinflation their government . going through the i.m.f. because god from the then do you see why did all the. watering by a previous government mean that 45 percent of the budget had to be used for dead 3 . 100. rupee. and that something many see is not what they were expecting from a government that change and relief for the full. global sea levels could rise by 2 meters by the end of this century twice as high

as predicted if carbon emissions continue unchecked that's according to a study which draws on new data revealing how the ice sheets in greenland and antarctica are warming and melting some island nations and coastal cities are forced to be in touch or forecasts rather to be entirely submerged by the increased and more than 180000000 people displaced out there say human activity is behind rising global temperature rises but it can be avoided if carbon emissions are cut. through time formula one world champion niki lauda has died at the age of 70 a strange driver passed away on monday 8 months after having a long transplant he welling's reports. in his prime niki lauder was one of the most famous and fastest people in sport formula one world champion 3 times 2 of these titles came after an astonishing with coverage from a crash that almost killed him. and dressmakers lauder was born in vienna in 1949

by the age of 22 he built up enough racing car experience to be part of f 1. $174.00 he'd been asked to drive for italian culture and it's ferrari. he finished 4th for a team that had been struggling and his input to improve the car proved invaluable because in 1985 he became world champion. he was even more dominant in 76 until a horrific and infamous crash at the number green in germany now that had urged his fellow drivers to boycott the ricer safety concerns but it went ahead and on the 2nd half of the truck and burst into flames he was trapped in the wreckage suffering severe burns damage to his lungs and was left in a coma he survived severely scarred but incredibly missed just to rices he returned to do with english driver james hunt with physical and psychological scars their story after the accident i couldn't take any of it is it all because it was too bad laughter i was feeling good i wanted to raise a lot of retired from the foreign advice of the season after just 2 laps concerned

with it's a wrench riding hunt completed the rice in 3rd place to win the 76 drivers' title by a single point move now the did manage to reassert himself dominating the 77 season to regain his title. when he left ferrari there was a lame period including too short a time it's. 1902 he was back winning races with mclaren and part of another famous rivalry this time with tonight alan crossed the frenchman to the 84 while drive his title by just half a point when he finally retired as a driver at the end of the 85 season there is still plenty to keep him busy he won his own airline and yes there were times he was back in the cockpit as a pilot and had 5 children by the time the 2nd wife gave birth to twins in 2009 management positions including the returns of ferrari in the ninety's and he was non-executive chairman of messiter when i signed lewis hamilton in 2012 and understandably popular figure he's left the team in mourning for

a. very. very well you hear. part of his legacy to be his dedication to drive a safety. the damage from the 76 crash was always there. but the trophies and powers of recovery what should define. the weddings al-jazeera. take a look at the headlines right now on al jazeera iran's president hassan rouhani says he favors diplomacy with the u.s. but the current situation isn't suitable for talks on monday tehran announced it has quadrupled its production of low enriched uranium the united nations says it may have to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen under the control of blames the rebels for blocking

a convoys and harassing staff that's the suspension of aid would be a last resort. the agency will do everything within its powers to ensure that the weakest and most vulnerable especially the children do not suffer doubly if he still hopes a good sense will prevail and a suspension will not happen the ultimate responsibility for the welfare of their people lies with the yemeni leadership hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the white house urging president all trump not to pull out of syria politicians argue the u.s. should remain engaged in the conflict citing deep concerns over the security of regional allies last december trump announced plans to pull american troops on syria. but as well as president nicolas maduro has proposed holding early elections for the opposition control national assembly the next scheduled vote isn't due until late 2020 at least a dozen assembly members have been stripped of their legislative immunity in recent weeks and face charges of treason and subversion. ajor redundancies have been

announced at the u.s. vehicle maker ford the company is shutting $7000.00 workers at offices worldwide that's about 10 percent of its salary staff or does looking to save $600000000.00 a year as it gears up to build more electric and drive vehicles in the future. and in issues presidential candidate. is refusing to accept defeat in last month's election and plans to challenge the result in court election commission a clear presidential coby doto the winner with 55 percent of the vote but opposition party say there was systematic cheating something the election board has ruled out citing lack of evidence by the headlines keep it here i'll have another update at the top of the hour in the meantime in sad stories next. and the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world.

al-jazeera. is ebola spiraling out of control in the b.r.c. why does the concrete get repeatedly hit by that is used by health workers not getting enough help this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sorry doctors say they are terrified by the spread of the worst ever ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo more than 1100 people have died since august 1760 cases have been reported a 5th of them in the past month alone made were.