and shia people from all of iraq's ethnic and religious groups came to tackle your square to make our voices heard iraqis don't want their land to be a battleground by the iranians or the americans. iraq and its eastern neighbor iran share trade cultures and religion iran also supplies about 80 percent of the electricity and gas needed in the south of iraq but iraq also relies on u.s. and foreign troops to combat the threat of eisel it also means foreign investment. this rally is being called by mcdonnell souter he's a shia cleric is also a leader of one of the biggest political blocs in holland he's also a nationalist he's made no secret of the fact that he wants troops from the u.s. and foreign countries out of iraq but he like many other iraqis across the political and religious spectrum i said that they want iraq's safety and security to be paramount and they want iraq to be central to any negotiations and not have

my journey been empty we are having discussions with the u.s. and iran and will be sending delegations in a few days to various foreign countries especially tehran in washington to try to push for calm. iraq has been relatively quiet since the threat from isis began to decline last year iraqis like these now fear their country could be dragged into another conflict rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. to libya now where fighting has picked up on the outskirts of tripoli between forces battling for control of the capital. forces loyal to the u.n. recognize the men say they have pushed back against fighters who support the warlords highly for half a time near the old international airport more than 500 people have been killed since half task forces began advancing towards tripoli in april and as mom or dad reports that violence is tearing up anger at the brutal esther's took to the main square in the libyan capital to condemn the targeting of civilian areas calling on

the international community to stop the military campaign led by have to ask him did deb and his comrades say the rose up again is to get duffy in 2011 and now can't have another military john ruling the country father wasn't part of. after as a war criminal because he is with the it strikes in fact is even bringing gyptian in iraqi war planes to help him we want to civilian state not a military rule on thursday night another air strike hit in tripoli city center but this time the attack seems to convey the political message the headquarters of the have to lawmakers is the target are you witnesses talk over state of panic after the explosion no casualties were reported but the damage was significant. and i believe we are calling on the united nations mission in libya and the

international community to do their part to protect civilians and face the aggression that has been targeting civilians. the target appears to have been numbers of the beast the parliament which is controlled by have to realize they broke away in a base in tripoli after have to his forces began their offensive to take control of the capital civil civilian locations have been targeted. i have to the jets says the fighting began in southern tripoli earlier last month many people here call it a war crime and are demanding the perpetrators be brought to the international criminal court. 50 days of fighting between hefted his forces and others loyal to you and recognize the government have taken at all nearly 500 people have been killed more than 1401 dead and about 70000

forces from their homes. the protesters say they will continue to protest every friday until hefted his forces move back to the east of the country. tripoli. much more ahead on this sound easier news hour including protesters raise their voice for activists they say have been silenced in secret detention plus. find out more about the south american grain that could become the world's next super food and sport roger federer plays down his chances after 4 years away from the. 7 children are among at least 12 people killed in an airstrike by the saudi u.a.e. coalition in southwestern yemen that's according to the rebels and witnesses who say a fuel station was bombed in the district of taste province there's been no comment

from the military coalition which intervened in yemen's war in 2015 and there's been more fighting near ties city between who these and saudi backed forces have been explosions and clouds of smoke seen rising from the area elsewhere in the capital sanaa funerals have been held for those killed in an airstrike last week reports the family friends and neighbors for the last islamic prayers for those killed in last week's coalition air strike in sanaa. the coffins lined up one by 14 of the victims were children from one family 3 brothers and a sister the family's only surviving son was in the same house as his brothers and sisters when the airstrike hit this is. still my 4 siblings were killed my sister she had my brother abdul rahman khalid and wassim my father and i are the only survivors we're here to bury them our home is destroyed. as other family

members said their last goodbyes was the children's father sat quietly seemingly loss in despair but he still soon turned to justice and i don't remember the aggression on yemen isn't just may god avenge them they killed my 4 children for no reason. this attack is a reminder that no one who see controlled areas in yemen is immune to the sounds he made strikes was dozens of others were injured in the attack including 2 russian health workers. yemen's capital sanaa has been held by the filthy since it ousted the internationally recognized government of abdul rubble months to head in 2014 the airstrikes and renewed fighting in yemen's for data port city have further complicated u.n. sponsored peace efforts to end the 4 year war that has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the country towards the brink of famine sort of played out.

an international maritime court in germany has ruled russia must immediately release 3 ukrainian naval ships and 24 detained soldiers sailors they were seized last november during a standoff in waters off the crimean peninsula russia stayed away from saturday's hearing which took place in the northern city of hamburg germany kane is there in a hearing that lasted 45 minutes the korean president of this court read out the findings of the ruling that the panel had made regarding this situation the documents that emerged 32 pages but the most important elements are right at the back where this panel this court has said that the russian federation must release the ships and perhaps more importantly for the ukrainians the crew who have been detained by the russian federation basically for almost 6 months the point to make here is that this is for the ukrainian side certainly the deputy foreign minister who was here in court welcomed this ruling but the russian federation has not sent

representatives to this court at any point the question must be what sort of heed will president putin and his officials paid to this court ruling this is an interim ruling this is not a final verdict but it is binding russia is a signatory to the charters that set up this court it recognizes jurisdiction but the court has no power to force the russians to comply so now this does ratchet up the international pressure on president putin but it's for him to decide what happens next. now u.k. prime minister theresa may only announced her resignation a day ago and already there's a race to replace there several hopefuls are promising to succeed where she failed and finally pull the u.k. out of the european union chalons has more from london so who is going to be the next prime minister of the united kingdom well 5 conservative politicians have already thrown their sins of the ring perhaps the most recognizable for our viewers

around the world is. boris johnson he's the front runner the former mayor of london and the former foreign secretary but for others estimate very rory stewart the current foreign secretary jeremy hunt and hancock 14 more are saying they're considering running including the current home secretary and the current defense secretary so it could become a very crowded field indeed that boris johnson is the front runner does not mean that he is going to take this position because historically the leader in the conservative party races in the past has not actually done very well boris is popular with the party's membership but he's much less popular with his parliamentary colleagues he weather gets it though will face pretty much the same and arithmetic as true reason may has his face we have brecht's it deadline of the end of october a bitterly divided country

a bitterly divided party which has no majority in parliament and we also have an opposition labor that have said if the government tries to push through a no deal brecht's it then this might well set up the stage for the next big battle in parliament labor will try to bring down the government and trigger another general election. cereal has been sown in a south africa's president and while it was a day of celebration for him it was the worst election yet for his party the african national congress has more from pretoria. once presidents will roam of course such a case of oath of office he then untwist the thousands of south africans gathered here at the loftus vessels de germany as well as the millions of others watching and he began that address by thanking them for stowing this trust on him saying that this would be a different era an era where he would want to tackle the challenges of poverty

inequality and the huge problem of unemployment especially unemployment that a fix almost home for the young people in the country he also made the need veiled reference to the last few games a as when jacob zuma was president piece previously preferred a referred rather to those years as 9 wasted years and one with state institutions were affected potentially looted and corrupted and this is way thousands if not millions of south africans lost out on the benefits and opportunity that the african national congress government has promised them of forward decades now. also touched on the 25 years of democracy looking back at when announcing mandela was sworn in saying that the country has made a number on the chief months in that time but how those achievements with threatened by some of the decisions as well as the good governance by the

african national congress and how that would change now the next step. is to nominate to name the members of his cabinet he's promised to scale down on the size of the cabinet and look at people who would to run the country more effectively this is what drum up warsaw is calling a new dawn and he's making promise to some to some africans that many of them. heard time and time again but this certainly is hoping that this time around there will be adjustments and that ramos and the government will love up to those promises. have been protests in bangladesh by people demanding to know the fate of loved ones stay say are in secret detention rights groups say more than 430 people have been forcibly disappeared during the past 9 years many of them government critics hoda abdel-hamid has a story. where there is no respect in their torment even during this month of ramadan where did they leave fasting is made more difficult by the longing for

a loved one has disappeared into the pig justice system of bangladesh many unheard of for several years. despite repeated appeals now calls to stop in forced disappearances are getting louder this one organized by the mothers call campaign a family initiative inspired by a movement in argentina through which mothers there called on the authorities to reveal the fate of their missing children their story is similar to that of these bangladeshi families one of a family member picked up on the street by security forces and never heard of again for afters husband was abducted on his way to a birthday party he was a student leader of the bangor this nationalist party the main opposition force in the country they're full of this number they are it was on the 2nd of december 2013 it was his friend son's birthday humans out with 6 friends 4 of them are standing

together at one corner and the other 2 in front of the shop suddenly security forces got out and picked up 2 of them importantly china fan both were white 2 days later sent jitters to his brother was also snatched along with 5 other friends from the streets of dhaka by men dressed in black witnesses say they were part of the antiterrorism elite force it was the eve of a general election every day when dying every day our each member of this family wait every night that maybe we'll get information maybe my brother will back. other brothers will be back so the should realize that they should take action on that it's not something government is implying as they want and should grant that they should accept that so that's our only only request to them so far authorities have denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of sanjay does brother or anyone else is relative human rights groups say more than 400 people have disappeared in the last

9 years some have been found dead but the fate of the majority of the missing bangladesh remains unknown but at the honeyed a loser. still ahead on the news hour a kenya's government says they are the future but not everyone is convinced about new biometric biometric id cards will find out more cash. monitors all the speech of call to the city that shut down this week it's a lot of protesters to go to the streets it's mostly latino brown but i'll be looking at the economic impact of the problem and what will work. and the defending women's world cup champions are shining on a spotlight on inequality here will have the details it's forced to stay with this .

hello there we're seeing some terrible waterfall is in israel recently 1st of all we had a heat wave not only in israel but also through palestine as well and them we saw the wildfires around 40 homes in israel are believed to have been destroyed by these fires you can see the heat that must have been given off by those 5 now over the next few days is still some unsettled weather around but not really the rain we need in order to clear all of the problems with the water fi's so it's a temperature in beirut there of around 23 now it's not too hot here because we're at the coast head further inland and the temperatures quickly rise and by the time you get to baghdad we're right about 42 degrees and so say pretty hot in tehran now 32 for the west impose all of you around though there are a few showers here with a shout still going to be with us as we head through monday it's hotter as you head out towards kabul by monday the temperature is much higher and before that it was the south and here in doha certainly feeling hot now we have more in the way of

humidity and the temperatures up around $38.00 to $39.00 say feeling incredibly hot outside force insulin $32.00 will be our maximum so not too hot i think for the west in parts of yemen though there's likely to be a few showers as well say forth across the southern parts of our. more showery weather is likely around the coast of mozambique. after decades of being programmed with instructions data on greek computers can no love on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence could monitor ombudsman. and decide on our future the big picture to coach the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine coming soon on al-jazeera. news is happening faster than ever before from different places from different people and you need to

be part of backed you need to be able to reach people wherever they are and that means being across all social media platforms this is where our audience lives as well as in front of a t.v. we're on the smartphone they're on the tablet they're on the computer. and that's the way al-jazeera is of all due to a true media network. they're watching the news hour an al-jazeera with me fully back to our reminder of our top stories iran says the u.s. decision to send more soldiers to the middle east is called extremely dangerous for being present on tribe insisted the point is needed to defend his country and its

allies. fighting has picked up again in libya between those battling for control of tripoli forces or side with the u.n. recognized government say they've pushed back fighters no. toward holly for have to are near the old international airport and an international maritime court has ruled russia must immediately release 24 ukrainian soldiers then 3 naval ships detained in november russia sees a vessels and crew during a standoff in waters off the crimean peninsula. india's newly elected m.p.'s from the governing b j p have relented prime minister narendra modi as their leader it follows a party's landslide victory from the 6 week election for the world's largest democracy the win gives madea a powerful mandate to implement his nationalists vision so here raman has more from new delhi. as part of the process of the protocols of choosing the next government

the prime minister narendra modi and his cabinet had to resign their positions on friday and submit those resignations to the president covalent he accepted the resignations but asked the prime minister to stay on as a caretaker until a new government and a new prime minister was elected by the winning party of course the b.g.p. are the winning party of the general election and so on saturday their winning parliamentarians have gathered in an empty chamber of the parliament and have elected. modi to be the man that they wish them to lead the next government and now that process has happened he will take that request by his own members and his allies back to the president and say that he has a mandate as a majority leader to form the next indian government that said and done there has yet to be a swearing in a date in the future that will be coordinated between astrologers b.g.p.

prefers to consult astrologers and also allies before they go ahead and decide what day that will be most probably at the end of may or early june. com has returned to indonesia's capital after protests over the presidential election results opposition candidate to be until has asked the constitutional court to review hard votes were counted and people in jakarta are counting the cost of the week's disruption andrew thomas reports. people shuttling bundles of clothes from southeast asia's largest textile market earn about $30.00 a day so when violent street protests in jakarta many managers close the markets janai idea dealers took a financial hit. in new growth last about on busy days i can make 40 or 50 dollars so missing 2 days means i've lost nearly 100 dollars i couldn't give anything to my wife there was nothing violent street protests in jakarta and

tuesday and wednesday night stopped much of the intermediate capital protesters were angry that official election results showed a big victory for the incumbent president jocko widodo over his small religious opponents. supporters shared their opinions on how the voting was rigged and the vote counting operation was run by biased officials. the violence led to road closures shops and offices was shut people discouraged from leaving home it's all had an economic impact which economists put in the 10s of millions of dollars. short term it will have a negative impact but long term if the government shows it can control the situation it could actually create confidence among investors and on friday opposition politicians appealed for calm as their lawyers launched a formal legal challenge of the election result the city has mostly returned to

normal but it's not hard to find proposal supporters sympathizing with the protesters. something strange went on with the lists of voters and with the vote counting the witnesses on the site were able to do their job. but the mother mostly he wants life to return to normal he says he's personal finance trumps his political concerns if this week's pilots turns out to be the extent of the post-election troubles and the long term economic impact here will be pretty small the concern is that the people of disruption hate when the constitutional court releases its verdict at the end of june or beyond. algeria to come. donald trump says he's hoping for progress on a trade deal with japan. the u.s. president is there for a 4 day visit as the 1st state guess of a new emperor and. with this deal we hope to address the trade imbalance remove barriers to united states exports and ensure fairness and reciprocity in our

relationship and we're getting close just last week u.s. beef exports gained full access to japanese and to the markets in japan for the 1st time since the year 2000 we welcome your support of these efforts and we hope to have several further announcements soon and some very big ones over the next few months algis there is wayne hay is in tokyo with more. despite the fact that the white house and the japanese government had been saying that trade was not going to be a big factor in this visit by donald trump to japan i think no surprise that the u.s. president made it all about trade pretty much soon after he got off the plane in tokyo speaking to business leaders he referenced the big trade deficit as he has done many times before that the united states has with japan saying also that he

wants a better deal the official reason for this visit is that donald trump will become the 1st foreign leader to meet japan's new emperor another hito at the imperial palace in tokyo but there is no doubt that trade will be discussed as well when he meets formally with the japanese prime minister shinzo abbay on monday trade negotiations on a deal are underway they started in april and we've seen the trade delegations continuing those talks over the last few days in tokyo having said that i don't think there is an expectation that they will be any significant announcement on trade while donald trump is in japan and north korea will be discussed between the 2 leaders as well particularly after the 2 missile tests from north korea earlier this month we heard from the national security adviser for the united states john bolton he's also in japan he said that those 2 missile tests were clearly a violation of united nations security council resolution so the issue of north

korea regional security will be discussed when donald trump meets shinzo up in. the governments around the world are increasingly interested in using biometric technology so what does it involve it's often used for identifying a person through their physical and behavioral characteristics that includes facial patterns the iris of the eye of fingerprints or even the beat of one's voice supporters say biometric registration is more secure than id cards or pin codes which can be stolen lost or for each but they are concerns about just how secure biometric data can be where it stored and the amount of oversight involved in the 1st of our series on biometrics algeciras catherine story reports from nairobi on how a new id card is dividing opinion in kenya. this kenyans are registering for a new digital identification card called who duma but all citizens and residents will be expected to hold it can government calls it

a single source of truth it will contain details about people's physical characteristics combined with other data it's costing taxpayers about how food $1000000000.00 and everyone above the age of 6 will be expected to have one official say it will make it easier for people to access public services and will protect national security we don't want to force you to do just that but just not enough but if you're going to seek services you need to get the services in a manner that is much more physically active and fast kenyon's hold of variety of identification documents all with different numbers from a national id passport but certificates to a driving license and so on government officials say the who do money number will consolidate all bills in one digital platform some kenyans see this as a good and progressive step but human rights campaigners are concerned that proper privacy protection laws it could prove dangerous critics also say people are being

cast into registering and they're not being told how the information will be stored also. on the national integrated identity management system or names names is a major death of these all or everybody in kenya that will be put in a cloud or whether their clothes or not we're not sure how that particular system will be ordered to see who can access that information google. who will be able to who apply and be given this information if somebody applies for my information relayed notified. the government announced it was bringing in the system weeks of this attack by somalia's armed group al-shabaab in january that left 21 people dead at a hotel complex in the capital nairobi some security experts say having data on one platform will make it easier and quicker for security forces to identify people who

pose a threat. to gether is going to help the management of human resource in our country some rights groups try to block the scheme in court although judges rejected that they do drew the system should be falloon terry and not to access to public services the state was also bad from gathering people and from sharing information it collects with other organizations but activists say that's not enough and bast lose can protect people living in kenya from their past the information being misused catherine sorry al-jazeera nairobi. and next will be looking at concerns raised in india where the world's largest biometric system has captured the personal details of more than a 1000000000 people you can see that story and report here our knowledge is there on sunday. in venezuela at least 29 prisoners have been killed and 19 police wounded during riots at a prison it happened in the town of in the state of portugal police say special

forces went in to rescue visitors who had been taken hostage they say inmates were . trying to escape and were armed with guns and grenades inmates rise charities regularly complain that venezuela's prisons chaotic and overcrowded. the most rural and remote areas of the u.s. rely on volunteers to drive and balances but these unpaid said this is a shutting down one by one leaving millions of people without immediate access to emergency care there is john hendren has more from rural wyoming. in wyoming with the buffalo roam there are as many deer as people and twice as many cattle. here in the least populated of the 50 american states. drivers are the modern day cowboys of the frontier. they cover 250000 square kilometers of red rocks oil wells and wildlife that ranges from

prairie dogs to horses to whatever this is and they rescue the ailing on one of the most serene in spectacularly barren terrains on earth it's a pretty big area that we cover. for the 46000000 americans who live here and across the rural us most emergency medical technicians work for free trained certified experts such as rancher dusty downey volunteer their time. people just go out of their way to help each other they're just willing to drop everything to help somebody if they ask for. yeah that system is on the verge of collapse the concern is the there won't be. volunteers to answer the calls there or do they just there just won't be well i guess i would say it is. a crisis that needs immediate attention as the u.s. population increasingly leaves rural areas and grows older and with more 2 income

households busier there are fewer emergency medical technicians to drive the ambulances. for many here in the vast expanses of rural america the distance between the gravely injured and the nearest dam billings is growing wider and for emergency services scrambling for volunteers and funding it's a system in crisis for rural residents whose ailments range from rattlesnake bites to rodeo injuries that means longer sometimes life threatening waits for help the answer many say is to fund rural ambulances through taxes like most police and fire services the volunteer model i do not believe is sustainable as it currently exists the organizations cannot be expected to continue to fund themselves and by their equipment and provide their time for free it's just it's it's not a sustainable model. already across the rural us ambulance services are shutting

their doors for good many operators who remain fear one day soon critically injured patients will down 911 and no one will answer john hendren al-jazeera devil's tower wyoming. and saying in the u.s. army's old outbreak has officials looking for ways to get more children vaccinated the shots are already required to attend school but most states allow religious exemptions christensen only has more from new york where there's a movement to change that. the latest measles outbreak in the united states is concentrated in orthodox jewish neighborhoods of new york like here in borough park brooklyn there's nothing about the vaccine which has been proven safe and effective in the limiting the disease that is contrary to the jewish faith in fact religious leaders have been at the forefront of urging members to vaccinate still this local elected official thinks people should have the option of opting out on religious grounds it is just a dangerous precedent we will be opening

a pandora's box 1st amendment issues with the state senator bradley oilmen is sponsoring legislation to eliminate the religious exemption in new york just like california did after a 2015 outbreak. of course you have a 1st amendment right to practice your religious beliefs in this country and that it sank or sank but you do not as the supreme court has said time and time again have the right to endanger your children or worse someone else's child all but 3 states allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children on religious grounds even though none of the major religions in this country are against vaccinations here in new york it's as easy as filling out a form and bringing it to your local school for approval. but now several like new york are reconsidering why wouldn't we vaccinate our children alexander rappaport took part in new york's pro-vaccine ad campaign and runs

a local social services agency but he thinks a limiting the religious exemption will simply fuel the conspiracy theories that lead to the distrust of vaccines it gives the end of x. a nation's a platform they say you see what they're doing to they're closing down their schools they're getting rid of the religious exemption there is a venn. instead of you. being seen as a friend someone to take advice from being alienated i am concerned that the measles outbreak will continue to grow eliminating the religious exemption has raised vaccination rates in california though the number of children seeking medical exemption is there has tripled the bill sponsors are hoping to bring it to a vote before the legislative session ends in june kristen salumi al-jazeera brooklyn new york. thanks in sports taking the lead inside this way the skull the

shot put him at the top of the table in texas that's coming up next with peter. once and the mug detroit now settled in towns and villages. but many are unregistered and invisible to the park 6 boys and 2 girls none of them have citizenship 0 world meets the great people. who are both going into tomorrow the person is going through the system. stateless in the banal. analogise era. we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it

united nations peacekeepers out there going on thai riot control. we are challenging the forces we're challenging the companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. temps was nice for you thank you very much formula one world champion lewis hamilton will start from pole position at the monaco grand prix of them a sadie's dominated saturday's qualifying session it was a day to forget for ferrari as they look to reignite their title challenge track and put lane errors main charla clare failed to get beyond the 1st section of qualifying sebastian vettel twice clipped the wall during the session and ended up

in full from the grid a few problems for mercedes hamilton taking his 85th career pole and aiming for his 3rd grand prix victory on the streets of monte carlo will start ahead of team at $1230.00 but us with the red bulls max for stepan in 3rd place at. the german grounds had plenty to cheer as audi tasted victory at saturday's formula erase in berlin a key moment for race when a look at the grassy came on lap 3 with this overtaking move on sebastian where me who had started on pop position the brazilian held on for a comfortable victory to get our sea moved to 2nd in the championship standings after 10 races the season that's just 6 behind leaders john eric vernon who finishes 3rd i spent 4 years since roger federer last played on the paris clay but the 20 time grand slam winner is preparing for his french open return federer is playing down his chances of

a title this year though he'll play spain's lauren's all sore leg or in the 1st round phèdre is in the same side of the draw as reigning champion rafael nadal so if all goes well they could meet in the semifinals. some ways i feel similar to maybe you're straight open 17. i feel like i'm playing good tennis but is it enough or is it enough against the absolute top guys when it really comes to the crunch launch over to my racquet you know but. i hope i can get myself in the position. deep down in the tournament against top guys you know. but firstly to get there and i know that's a challenge in itself. but yeah it's going to be excited terminally mentally to go through simona halep is looking to defend her $2800.00 title at roland garros the world number 3 says she feels relaxed ahead of the tournament but admits that coming in as the champion has had stress. i know it's

a little bit of pressure there because the defending champion but it's 1st time when it happens so i just want to take the positive and to be in this position i think is the best thing so i wouldn't complain about it i just try to play every match here and i try to get ready as much as possible until i have to start with some big name managerial appointments coming in the off season they won't be changes of paris st germain german coach thomas to show has signed a contract extension with the french champions for 2 more years in his 1st season in charge p.s.g. comfortably one league 16 points but he came under criticism after pushing in the champions league and a surprise defeat in the french cups. it's on is even after the 1st leg of the calf champions league final we dug casablanca and esperance drew $11.00 check commodities headed for we cancelled out for cynically bali's opening strike the

draw leaves the final wide open going into next week 2nd leg in tunis esperance are hoping to become the 4th club to retain the title. preparations continue for the women's world cup which starts in france in just under 2 weeks but the issue of inequality in football has come under the spotlight again has doubled the prize pool at this year's event to 30 $1000000.00 but that's still well behind the $400000000.00 prize money for the men's tournament with more viewers tuning into the women's game than ever before members of the defending u.s. team say more needs to be done to address the differences between conditions. there's been such a lack of investment for all of these years and such a lack of care and attention. that you know doubling or tripling or quadrupling investment care. you know attention to the women's game i think would be appropriate so i guess incremental changes better than none at all but for the resources and for the ability that i feel like. to

implement that change i think that there are not doing nearly enough. freezer major champion jordan spaeth remains in contention at the halfway stage at the colonial the texan is looking to end an almost 2 year long victory drought is 4 shots off the lead in for this was his birdie on the 10th. at the top of the standings is sweden's it eunice blix to hold out from 132 yards for eagle on the 17th is a stroke ahead of kevin and tony if you know. japan can finally added same to the list of countries with championship winning surfaces. the standings on saturday at the world surf league event in bali the win also puts the 2nd in the men's jan. rankings. on the subject of japan waking up on the wrong side of the baby could

cost you in the next sports the all japan pro fighting championship yes it is a thing has taken place on the outskirts of tokyo a match starts with all 5 players sleeping under do all the whistle sounds each player jumps up grabs a pillow and tries to hit one definitive known as the king on the opposite team if the offense is too strong they can use a do very to protect the teammates. well even if ali most would later thank you very much peter for that now we thought we'd finish on something tasty and nutritious kenya has been growing for generations in one of south america's most inhospitable regions as daniel sheiner reports from toledo in bolivia that grain could offer solutions to future food shortages. at 3600 meters above sea level this desolate arab landscape in the andes mountains doesn't produce much but what it does manage to grow here is

a grain with more iron zinc protein and calcium that it's cousin it also has a less bitter taste and them of the presidency than the mental. sure as sisters food production was an art the art of having a deep relationship with mother earth what we now call the environment they had to have a positive relationship. positive relationship working with a husband and for children to grow and develop the consumption both at home and abroad as flour cereal soup and more. i believe all products must have a fair price for the producer that it covers the effort he puts in but it should also be a fair price for the consumer so they can afford it and then if fair price for mother earth the cost of pollution a sustainable use of the soil she's keen that they're all get it product does not go the way of sold at high prices in the whole food shops of london new york but

linen elsewhere a so-called super food that the bolivians who produce it can no longer afford to be tough to survive up here both plants and humans both need to understand the other not just to survive and thrive but to provide solutions so never hungry a world can you know what can withstand frost and heavy rainfall strong winds and even drought making it an ideal crop in areas affected by extreme weather caused by climate change. it then needs to be adapted to the modern markets. noid says this machine didn't exist anywhere else in bolivia it's a prototype the 1st we had to test our key in wa and the emraan to produce this toaster which transforms the product can yell is also providing work in regions which farmers have for generations been deserted for the cities to keep the return from the city and peace with mother or the she says a here if we would only take the time to look for them. daniel schorr and there are

a little bolivia as if there's news out al-jazeera to say with us adding more news coming out that it is very short break we're back in a market. culture a down's thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to brace and they'd take their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are or whether. this is a suburb of the idiot capital new delhi tibet so be refugees here since 964 buttons

here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they've become self-sufficient starting a pair of businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. what is left of the vast indigenous knowledge that colonize ation of the americas has assaulted for centuries to amateur astronomers environ a journey of discovery and reach a remote village in mexico's mayan region but who has more to learn about the ways of the world a route through mexico's contemporary wreckage and its mystical past view finder glances on al-jazeera. in 2012 al-jazeera traveled to iraq people here

are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq turned into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans rewind returns to iraq after the americans on al-jazeera. the u.s. is sending more troops to the middle east iran's foreign minister calls it a dangerous escalation. this is al jazeera live from doha fully back to boy also coming up. on the outskirts of libya's capital as forces loyal to warlord tally for have to try to

advance near a disused airport plus the un maritime tribunals orders russia to release $24.00 detained ukrainian sailors and 3 naval ships that it has seized and improving access or a threat to privacy the controversy over kenya's new biometric id cards. thank you very much for joining us iran says the u.s. decision to send more soldiers to the middle east is quote extremely dangerous for peace prize and donald trump insists a deployment is needed to better defend his country and its allies from iran or get more reaction from tehran shortly for its his alan fischer without a report from washington initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send an additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending 1500 we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending

a road of the small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress would be given 30 days to approve foreign arm sales but it's already put a hold on earlier sales so secretary of state might pump decided to bypass congress and to clear the seal necessary to bolster regional allies against iran in the statement he said delaying the shipment could cause problems for key partners

during a time of increasing regional volatility he says he sees this as a one off event the state department's decision to do this implies are very intent on increasing the weapons flow to saudi arabia but they did it within what i think they would argue is politically acceptable frame by adding jordan to the mix question now of course although it may have been there originally these 3 countries together it's looks like a more robust package of defense against iran the sale has provoked criticism from both republicans and democrats in congress but it appears there's little they can do to stop it the president insists robust u.s. action sent a clear message to iran right now no i don't think iran wants the bite and i certainly don't think they want to fight with us trump maintains he wants to strike a new nuclear deal with iran having pool the u.s.

out of the existing deal he's cranked up tough financial sanctions to force them to reopen discussions alan fischer washington and now with reaction from tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east so $1500.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign minister jihad zarif said american decisions are endangering international peace and security he said u.s. accusations against iran are only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but reports of emerge the during

a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april job odds are if met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate intelligence committee the foreign ministry in iran released a statement saying the meeting was consultation of and routine but should not be seen as any kind of a negotiation the goal the statement said was to maintain a line of communication with non governing political players in the us to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called a made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran as a mentioned u.s. media reporting iran's foreign minister and a member of the senate intelligence committee met several weeks ago or even senator dianne feinstein are reported to have had dinner in washington when he was say she pretends he has more. trouble ministrations reaction to news breaking about dianne

feinstein's dinner with the report at least on the face of it appeared to back up what the iranians are saying this wasn't some back channel negotiation using feinstein as a go between between the administration and the iranians or top of the assertions as a very i agree about dianne feinstein are the other democrats like john kerry the secretary of state communicating with the iranians and undermining trumps foreign policy of course if there was about travel negotiation that would be worked for the americans would say but it's very difficult to tell what is going on if diane feinstein is the conduit is not a terribly good draw because she was reported to be walking around congress with the contact information pulled up with her i phone a few days ago she said she is exactly keeping all of this terribly secret and these for the moment is just adding to part of the trumpet ministration i'm told from his own stump stump speech and the narrative that kerry john kerry and other democrats are undermining undermining

trumps foreign policy and should be prosecuted on the iranian foreign minister jobs every meanwhile has landed in baghdad for talks with iraq's leaders protests says there are demanding their government stay out of the u.s. iran disputes rob matheson has more from baghdad. iraqis filled baghdad's tucker you square chanting yes yes to iraq demanding that their country should not become a battleground in someone else's war started to set up our messages for peace our message is to say no to the iranian agenda and now to the american agenda as iraqis we should make independent decisions. we reject war by any shape or form iraqis including sunni and shia people from all of iraq's ethnic and religious groups came to talk we are square to make our voices heard iraqis don't want their land to be a battleground by the radiance or the american. iraq and its eastern neighbor iran

share trade cultures and religion iran also supplies about 80 percent of the electricity and gas needed in the south of iraq but iraq also relies on the u.s. and foreign troops to combat the threat of i saw it also means foreign investment. this rally is being called by mcdonald's out of these are shia cleric is also a leader of one of the biggest political blocs in all and he's also a nationalist he's made no secret of the fact that he wants troops from the u.s. foreign countries out of iraq but he like many other iraqis across the political and religious spectrum i said that they want iraq's safety and security to be paramount and they want iraq to be central to any negotiations not have my journey we are having discussions with the u.s. and iran and will be sending delegations in a few days to various foreign countries especially to iran in washington to try to

push for calm. iraq has been relatively quiet since the threat from isis began to decline last year iraqis like these now fear their country could be dragged into another conflict matheson al jazeera back down. to libya now where fighting has picked up on the outskirts of tripoli between forces battling for control of the capital and. forces loyal to the u.n. recognize government say they have pushed back against fighters who support the wall otani for hafta near the old international airport more than 500 people have been killed since the task forces began advancing towards tripoli in april. has more from the libyan capital. several fighters were killed on saturday morning as clashes that in you would between forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar and others loyal to the. government of national accord in southern tripoli namely in

the vicinity of the in active international airport which is controlled by have their forces and also in other neighborhoods like ns are and gen sources with the government say that the government the government's jets targeted have to this forces locations in civil areas in southern tripoli and also the government forces say that they have managed it. a new offensive by have to have those forces tried to proceed on the highway linking the airport the inactive airport to the capital city center also in the city center in the main square on friday night many people took to the streets and the main square protesting their military attack the military campaign by have to his forces on the capital tripoli. 7 children are among at least 12 people killed in an airstrike by the saudi u.a.e. coalition in southwestern yemen that's according to who the rebels and witnesses

who say a fuel station was bombed in the district of tice province there's been no comment from the military coalition which intervened in yemen's war in 2015 and there's been more fighting near ties city this time between hope these and saudi backed forces have been explosions and clouds are small seen rising from the area. an international maritime court has ruled russia must release 3 ukrainian naval ships and 24 sailors captured in november russia sees their vessels and crew during a standoff in waters off the crimean peninsula russia stayed away from saturday's hearing which took place in hamburg germany kayne west air its in a hearing that lasted 45 minutes the korean president of this court read out the findings of the ruling that the panel had made regarding this situation in the documents that emerged 32 pages but the most important elements are right at the back where this panel this court has said that the russian federation must release

the ships and perhaps more importantly for the ukrainians the crew who have been detained by the russian federation basically for almost 6 months the point to make here is that this is for the ukrainian side certainly the deputy foreign minister who was here in court welcomed this ruling but the russian federation has not sent representatives to this court at any point the question must be what sort of heed will president putin and his officials paid to this court ruling this is an interim ruling this is not a final verdict but it is binding russia is a signatory to the charters that set up this court it recognizes jurisdiction but the court has no power to force the russians to comply so now this does ratchet up the international pressure on president putin but it's for him to decide what happens next still ahead on al-jazeera.