well i. can tell you. some of. the mass stabbing in japan one child is dead and several others are injured in an attack near tokyo. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up an al-jazeera investigation trucks the military aircraft and spy planes that appear to be supporting the war laying siege to the libyan capital. but the youngest leader is ousted by the austrian parliament following a corruption scandal but to return to power. also ahead the court case in oklahoma

that could have major implications for america's opioid crisis. top story is a moving story young children are among the victims of a mass stabbing in japan at least one child has been killed in the attack. in the a tokyo the suspect is also dead when he has more from the scene. this attack took place at around 7 45 in the morning on tuesday just a few meters down the road from where we are standing in a suburb of kawasaki city just outside the capital tokyo normally this part of. a fairly quiet suburb but at that time of the morning would be particularly busy with people commuting to work and also going to school there was a train station down the road behind me and also. bus stop which is where the

attack is believed to have happened at that bus stop school children lining up waiting to go to a particular elementary school in the area a private catholic school in the hospitals are saying that most of the patients that they are treating young school children we know that the attacker is now confirmed dead is a man believed to be in his forty's or fifty's as far as we know operating on his own eyewitness accounts say that he was brandishing 2 knives when he carried out the attack of course an attack like this would be shocking anywhere in the world particularly involving school children but it is particularly shocking and disturbing in japan which is regarded as one of the safest countries in the world with one of the lowest murder rates. seems intensified around the libyan capital as those loyal to the u.n. recognized government battle with forces led by the warlord after.

the government is trying to push afters fighters back from the airport road south of tripoli have to launch the offensive in early april say at the capital from forces loyal to the prime minister raj the fighting has killed more than 500 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes. and al-jazeera investigation has tracked several military aircraft and spy planes that seem to be supporting have to as for suz 2 military cargo planes appear to have switched off their tracking devices to conceal their movements to and from eastern libya the countries under a u.n. imposed arms embargo after a supported by saudi arabia egypt and the united arab emirates. is a senior fellow at the foreign policy institute at johns hopkins university he told us why he believes the u.a.e. is so involved in this fight. over the last few years a lot of countries have been supplying have started without which he would not and

never have been able to dominate bungles e and the eastern part of libya primarily it is the us that has been pointed out throughout the last 30 years or 40 years by the united nation and multiple reports that it is the primary sub supplier of weapons and ammunitions and so on to the half dozen side had also established an airbase in the eastern part of libya it and it is the one behind also they dipped in involvement in libya it is the sort of the the lead point in that is support the primary motive is that the us has a very irrational fear of what it calls that the muslim brotherhoods which seems to be a broad stroke that it covers everybody that doesn't agree with its policies and it

believes that it is if anything happens in north africa it will cascade down and undermine its own regime that is their primary reason which is really quite irrational in many ways because if you calculate the distance between tripoli and abu dhabi it is about 4 times more than the distance between to paly and rome so it's very hard to see that anything that happens to libya can effect day us directly in any way whatsoever except their their their absolute conviction that that will inspire revolutions order revolts within the e.u. if it's of. austria it's with. the leader after a no confidence vote forced the right wing chancellor sebastian kurtz to step in opposition parties joined forces to remove him from office over

a corruption scandal involving a former coalition partner dominic cain has the story from vienna. just over a week ago court said a stable coalition astri's far right. now his chancellorship is over after only 17 months in office and his country has no government. sacked this was the scandal that engulfed his family partners and eventually ended the coalition the secret video emerged of the freedom party's leaders filmed in 2017 apparently advising russians how their country could increase its influence over austrian politics the controversy led courts to force the party's cabinet ministers from office last week now they have returned the compliment. you have begun to see if you made the entire freedom party responsible for the wrong actions of 2 people who took the appropriate measures as we agreed that's what he did he tried to take advantage of

a difficult situation of a government partner he tried to enlarge his own power base for the social democrats it was about denouncing what they call the unconstitutionality of course his actions and his sham laws this is a shameless unrestrained and irresponsible power grab this is what we are witnessing at the power in our country is based on the people and not you it was a stark contrast from sunday's scene when civil courts led his party to its best european election result in 20 years which makes the opposition decision to force an early election seemed electorally questionable the chamber is now empty the politicians who voted the government out of left perhaps come to think about planning their election campaign the one irony of this results is that the man who's been forced from office my. well soon be back on those same government benches if the opinion polls are anything to go by something mr cortes knows only

too well as he told his supporters soon after losing the confidence of parliament in the hyperfocus by the me today parliament decided but at the end of the day in september in this democracy the people will decide and i'm looking forward to that thank you for your support clearly he thinks he can ride that support back to the chancellorship dominic can al-jazeera the. fragmented verdict in the european parliamentary elections has opened up divisions between france and germany on who should head the european commission angela merkel says the president should be from the single largest bloc that's the center right european peoples party however emanuel says that solution must reflect the results of sunday's vote in which the far right as well as the greens and liberals gained at the expense of the centrists and sasha butler has this report from paris. the face of europe's parliament is changing the traditional power blocs of the center right and center

left that have dominated for decades lost seats as populous greens and liberal searched for the 1st time in 40 years since the 1st elections in $1879.00 of the european parliament due to classical parties socialist and conservatives will no longer have a majority. nationalism and fears over immigration fueled gains for populist parties in france hungry and italy where matteo sell vinnie's far right policy won more than 30 percent of the vote. in in not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france in the u.k. knowledge of the rajah's 1st so is city france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing green parties in several countries celebrated their best e.u. election results highlighting concern among some voters of a climate change after ending people all across europe want to form

a peaceful europe together we haven't just got a great result in germany but as it stands in ireland and the netherlands in austria all across europe the greens are strong. the election results reflect a growing political trend in me use 28 member states people are increasingly rejecting establishment traditional mainstream parties and supporting alternatives and voting for causes the center right european people's party remains the largest bloc in the e.u. parliament but with no majority it will be forced to seek support to former pro e.u. coalition the center right and center left parties have scored badly they have both lost. they have both lost votes but we see a 3rd party emerging which is the liberals at the moment so the liberal party if one includes the votes from across is likely to become the king made. in the next european parliament. the european project was created after world war 2 to

ensure the rivalries between countries would never again result in conflict while these elections show that politically europe is more fragmented than ever pro e.u. party still retain a majority suggesting that although some voters may be questioning the european union most still believe in it natasha butler al-jazeera paris. well there was a surprise breakthrough coming for the greens who now stand to become the 4th biggest block in the new european parliament the greatest success for the environmentalists was in germany where the greens came 2nd with 20 percent of the vote they took over a 1000000 votes in the country's 2 biggest parties they also came 2nd in finland 16 percent there france saw a big upset 2 with environmentalist order up ecology polling 13.3 percent to make them the 3rd largest party in ireland the green party treble their vote from 5 to 15 percent a result that was almost emulated in the u.k.

where the greens vote share rose from 4.6 to 12.5 percent overall green parties are projected to take 69 seats in the parliament making the potential kingmakers when it comes to choosing the next president of the european commission moniker for sony is the co-chair of the european green party she says the party's ability to unite is one of its biggest strengths. even if we are not a huge political force we are really able to be united in a few missions and we win because we are able to gather majorities so i think that this kind of unity will be our greatest a patrimony i'm also over the next in the negotiations which are i trust are not going to be very very easy but in which we have certain priorities that hopefully will be respected also because we are not alone in this hour the so-called green wave has been very much pushed by young people in the streets but also the vote of

young people so i believe that the other parties will be somehow contaminated by this kind of backward also because we have very little time to to reverse of the trend and be able to fight climate change we have some kind of paradox italy for example my own country and is the place where the globalization of young students was the biggest in the world out there on the 15th of march i think that the reason there are 2 questions one is the offer that perhaps you were not strong enough or good enough to take and to interpret this kind of movement which was very sudden and very quick and the 2nd is that the political debate is basically stuck between momentum or selling the 5 stars movement and so beanie on issues like a power struggle the so-called migration crisis except now which the lout the green issues and climate questions to come out. plenty more still to come for you

here on al-jazeera including dozens of inmates are killed in brazil in the latest wave of violence 2 rockets over populated prisms. also at the merger the codes of reshape the global car industry. the weather set by the time. hello there we've got yet more showers across parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing this little swell of cloud here that just about works its way down through positive iran you can see a little speckled area of cloud here these are actually giving us some fairly lively thunderstorms and say we're seeing a fair amount of dust kicked up with those showers as well so the risk of seeing more of them as we head through the day on cheese day and into wednesday but aside from the showers this region now is just very hot couple there up to 31 degrees 30

in tehran and further west even hotter in baghdad with a top temperature of $43.00 degrees a bit further towards the south and here in doha it's a little bit she even at times in our temperatures getting to around 40 or $41.00 there have been a lot of showers down towards the southwest in parts of saudi and into yemen but there is generally speaking all clearing now so if you choose day wednesday it does look a good deal drier than it has been over the past few days than 2 of the southern parts of africa and we've had a fair amount of cloud in the south over the last day or so we've got this area of wet weather here in the eastern parts of south africa very heavy downpours are expected here on tuesday but by the time we get to wednesday should have cleared away by way of bright weather then just the outside chance of a shower and been ok time should be fairly well we'll have a temperature of 21. ways. the pollution is palpable. very shares the symptoms of many modern

metropolis but its unique features of the goats in a crisis. people in power investigates the toxic mix feeding the city's invisible killer and asks why more is not being done to relieve its citizens to these deadly air on a jersey or. watching al-jazeera live from. your top stories of least one child is dead after a mass stabbing in japan 13 children and 3 adults were injured in the attack and in the it took you the suspect died after stabbing himself in the neck. fightings

intensified around the libyan capital. forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government battle forces loyal to the warlord after an al jazeera investigation has tracked several military aircraft and spying planes that seem to be supporting his forces. austria's chancellor has been ousted after a no confidence vote in parliament to force the right wing chancellor curt's to step down opposition parties joined forces to remove europe's youngest beater from office over allegations of a corruption scam. at least 57 prisoners have died in fighting in northern brazil over the past 2 days 42 inmates were found dead in 4 different prisons in. state just a day after 15 prisoners were killed in violence between rival gangs officials say some inmates were stabbed with sharp toothbrushes whilst others were strangled brazil has the world's 3rd biggest prison population with many jails suffering from

overcrowding as my burghers a journalist in sao paulo he says there wouldn't have been enough security in the prisons to break up the fights. the guards in these cases tend to leave the prisoners to themselves if you like to believe that these riots they these fights they happen in the in the. security area of the prisons we typically the guards are not there more in and out of peripheral area and we need fights break out. some conflicts that is these prisons obviously severely understaffed because brazil's prisons are 200 percent of the full so when these fights break out if you prison officials that are on the ground can control what is going on they know that so they rather don't go and they wait and told the fight is over until things calm down and then maybe they send in

negotiators or they call in reinforcements which sometimes takes a while to arrive. sudan's opposition is pushing ahead with a 2 day strike was set to begin in a few hours time protesters are trying to pressure the ruling transitional military council to hand over to civilian rule but there are signs of division within the pro-democracy movement with one opposition party refusing to support the strike imran khan has more now from khartoum. the vice chairman of the transitional military council has been speaking he's issued a very strong statement at a dinner for fellow officers he said the army has popular support than any other organization in sudan well the people who would disagree with the speaker over that he's reaching the word made a medicaid it means civil servant they still demanding a civilian government now the sudanese professionals association the people of call

for their turn are on strike tomorrow also speak english quite a press conference as you can hear every ticket sales and 72000000 civilians are brilliant now they've issued a strong statement as i've said and what they've said is this regarding the would not be rolled at the barrel of a gun let's take a listen to what they had. done really so what are the sole guarantor of the revolution are the sudanese people and the law in order in what we agree upon as a constitutional declaration or otherwise this is the guarantor of the revolution not a military rifle has a lot i mean. right now these people are very much like that about the general strike it looks like it will hold but will say over the next couple of days. 4 years of war in yemen has forced millions of people living there to the brink of famine and the crisis is becoming increasingly desperate and that's what tory gave

me. this yemeni mother has 10 children to feed and this is where they live in a makeshift camp for internally displaced people in the remains. provence in northern yemen all i guess about that we're living under a tree and we don't have anything there are snakes which we're scared of yesterday we had to kill one that got too close i struggle for my children i back so that i can see down. fighting between pro heat the food says and fighters backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition has intensified in the province in the past 2 months around 420000 yemenis forced from their homes living in hundreds of makeshift settlements such as this. and the numbers keep rising. this camp is in a very bad condition some people have received food aid packages and others of not some people have received tents and others still have to live under the trees the situation is similar to that of homeless people who don't have any found. aid is

trickling in 3 her data poort the gateway for 80 percent of yemen's food and humanitarian assistance but hope generated by the he withdrew from the city earlier this month is fading. this fighting on the outskirts raising concerns of the deepening humanitarian crisis growing even worse the war is intensifying in many parts of the country where every day we have stories of people. from air strikes. they tell us that they're hungry and they're worried. things won't get any better this is a bad they've never had it families such as you feel because a struggling to survive and the chances of aid agencies reaching their remote mountain camps appeared to be fading victoria gating be al jazeera. first crucial test of whether the us states can hold drugmakers responsible for the opioid crisis

starts in oklahoma on tuesday lawyers will argue that the company johnson and johnson is to blame for the widespread addiction has devastated the states the case will likely affect around 2000 other pending cases across the country and gallagher has the story now from oklahoma city. it's a drug crisis of epic proportions that's what i would even die for it according to the center for disease control in 2017 close 250000 people died from overdosing on drugs more than a 3rd of those deaths were caused by prescription opioids given to patients for pain faced with a growing crisis oklahoma's attorney general decided to take action to big drug companies purdue pharma and tiva pharmaceuticals have already settled before being taken to court that leaves johnson and johnson who lawyers say are an opioid kingpin these companies we believe made no effort.

when this process began 20 years ago to ensure that they were providing in a clear and informed way what the downside was oklahoma's case is just the 1st of almost 2000 lawsuits brought by states local municipalities and native american tribes this then is an important test case for the entire nation if lawyers here can prove a multi-billion dollar company like johnson and johnson played a role in the opioid crisis the ramifications could be huge ultimately campaigners say it will save lives and could be the beginning of tackling a crisis has claimed so many legal experts say whatever happens drug manufacturer is watching closely and think it's going to have a really good benefit for the public as a whole in terms of the safety and the marketing of drops in april president trump valid to tackle the opioid crisis by providing more treatment and oversight of big pharmaceutical companies we will end this terrible menace we will smash the grip

of addiction we will make our cities safe our communities strong and our future brighter than ever before as one united nations we will work we will pray and we will fight. for the day when every family across our land can live in a drug free america. the opioid crisis has already claimed countless victims over the last 2 decades and continues to blight the lives of millions pharmaceutical companies claim they're not responsible but courts across the us and now primed to hold them to account and gallacher al-jazeera oklahoma city. u.s. attorney incorporation fear chrysler has proposed a merger with the french carmaker road to create the world's 3rd biggest automaker the new company would be worth $40000000000.00 and combine forces in the race to

make electric and autonomous vehicles run as merger with the japanese make a nissen has faced challenges following the arrest of the former boss carlos caution on financial misconduct charges david kiley is a car industry analyst based in michigan he says the merger is in the best interest of both rhino and chrysler automobiles also known as f c 8. well both companies stand to gain f.c.a. has been looking for an alliance partner or a merger partner for a couple of years now. renault now because of their difficulty now with nissan that they have this global alliance with nissan that is on somewhat shaky ground now because the c.e.o. of both companies and the the architect of that alliance carlos gone is in is in a jail in japan awaiting trial. in the 2 companies are negotiating kind of a new arrangement under the alliance so renault in

a way this f.c.a. offer is very good for them because it will give them leverage to get what they want possibly out of nissan it for a nose board wants to do the merger with f.c.a. there won't be any he difficulty in achieving the merger the difficulty will come in making it work because as we have seen there's really been no automotive merger that has worked with the possible exception of f.c.a. itself putting together the operations of 2 auto companies in a merger situation where both sides feel that they're equal is terribly difficult. the cricket world cup begins on thursday with a matching team such as afghanistan aiming to make their mark in the sports they

play the defending champions australia on saturday was the best bowler in the world and a genuine chance of course in an upset he welling's explains. when cricket was bad under the taliban afghanistan being one of the elite 10 teams to contest the world comp would have been unthinkable but that rise over the past decade has been extraordinary 2 years ago afghanistan was. test match titus one of only 12 teams to play the most prestigious and respected form of cricket but it's in the shorter forms of the gang then my stained dress and this team has a genuine chance of upsetting bigot's aims in this 50 over to side world cup. several of these players have lucrative indian premier league and australia big bash contracts and play county cricket in england but the star is the man considered the world's best one diabolo spin of rashid khalidi you must be so excited about this world cup you're one of the superstars of the game now exactly definitive verdict started every in the world cup squad in the biz and in my

country especially in my 1st 50 or you go you have the and you have the skill you just need to utilize that and hopefully the guys are good everyone is in is working hard and definitively it won't be too far that when it's i will be in top ranks. that coaches phil symonds who has plenty of world cup experience playing for the west indies the players are having to cope with it tough showed you. the training hard all of their opponents in the tournament a part of the world's elite just quite tough you know the longest mission is 3 long days to get to have the fast you need to do well for the country as well so we didn't bring those things in the mind that i'm fasting i'm not you know we have enough energy we have enough to eat after after after 30 and then you can just go in a day and play the game they're opening matches on this ground in bristol against defending champions australia a difficult start but they'll have plenty of support the tournament organizers the i.c.c.

have restricted the amount of teams in the tournament to just 10 which excludes many of the developing nations but 5 as the big nations in lakers choose afghanistan still manage to be one of the 2 tames to qualify and now i intend to make a mark on this world cup wellington al-jazeera bristol. this is al jazeera these are the headlines at least one child is dead. 13 children and 3 adults were injured in the attack. near tokyo the suspect died after stabbing himself in the neck when he has more now from kawasaki. we know that the attacker is now dead a man believed to be in his forty's or fifty's as far as we know operating on his own eyewitness accounts say that he was brandishing 2 knives when he carried out

the attack of course an attack like this would be shocking anywhere in the world particularly involving school children but it is particularly shocking and disturbing in japan which is regarded as one of the safest countries in the world with one of the lowest murder rates fightings intensified around the libyan capital as those loyal to the u.n. recognized government battle forces allied to the warlords. and an al jazeera investigation has tracked several military aircraft and spy planes that seem to be supporting his fighters. no confidence vote forced the right wing chanceless about . opposition parties joined forces to remove him from office over a corruption scandal involving his former coalition partner. france and germany are divided over who should head the european commission. should be someone from the center right european peoples party however emanuel says the decision must reflect the gains made by the far right the greens and the liberals in sunday's european

parliamentary vote. at least 57 prisoners have been killed in fighting in northern brazil the over the past 2 days 42 inmates were found dead in 4 different prisons in mouse and amazonas state just a day after 15 prisoners died in violence between rival gangs officials say some inmates were stabbed with sharp toothbrushes whilst others were strangled. sudan's opposition is pushing ahead with a 2 day strike set to begin in a few hours time protesters are trying to pressure the ruling transitional military council to hand over to civilian rule there are signs of division within the pro-democracy movement with one opposition party refusing to support the strike those are your headlines the news continues here after the stream i'm back with 30 minutes of al-jazeera world news in 30 minutes i'll see that. you're just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country to go we listen

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