whose personal story. to the history of his country. a nationwide general strike in sudan is underway as talks to form a civilian government at a deadlock. and richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. their investigation tracks secret cargo flights that appear to be helping the libyan warlord trying to capture tripoli. 2 people including a schoolgirl are killed in a mass stabbing attack near the japanese capital. and the 1st trial of the opioid crisis began so in the u.s.

on tuesday lawyers say drug companies are to blame for widespread addiction. today a nationwide strike has begun and sudan. workers have walked off the job at banks shops and the airport causing major disruptions the strike has been organized by officers protest groups to pressure military leaders to start a new round of talks protest leaders are demanding a civilian led administration let's go now to have a morgan it's been following this from khartoum so this strike it it has just begun indeed had a but does it seem like it actually might put pressure on the military council. well even before the strike started we've been hearing statements from the military council regarding how they don't want people to protest they've removed the suspension that they had on labor unions on federal labor unions to try to

basically counter those strikes by the people who are responding to the calls of the opposition coalition so they did have some concerns even before the strike was held now how much pressure this strike this will have remains to be seen as the main point of it the main purpose according to the opposition coalition is to bring back the transitional military council to talk and to negotiate how to hand over power to civilian government so if the military council and the opposition coalition manage to come together again and hold talks then that strike will be successful but the opposition coalition also said that if the military council does not come back to the negotiating table then be ready to escalate be ready to call for civil disobedience which means people will be staying away from their offices they willing to escalate their protests and their strikes until the military council sits down once again to try to negotiate a way forward in terms of handing over power to an independent civilian transitional government so where do things stand with the 2 sides coming back together other talks happening on any level. well it's been more than

a week since the leaders of the opposition coalition and the military council have met together but the spokesman for the military council said that the technical teams between the 2 sides are meeting and are trying to negotiate to iron out the differences of course the main difference is the composition of the sovereign council and its role now bed body effectively we will be the presidential council and the military council wants to be the one chairing it with a majority in that council but that's something the opposition coalition is not agreeing to so the military council is saying that the technical teams between the 2 sides are meeting and trying to go see it but that things are going at a slow face and they're saying that if this thing which continues and no deal is reached then they're willing to call for early elections now that's something the opposition coalition is not happy about and they say that they will not accept and they will continue escalating their protests and till a civilian rule is in place ok but morgan live for us in khartoum thank you fighting has intensified around the libyan capital as those loyal to the u.n. recognized government battle with forces led by war khalifa haftar are the spidey

u.n. arms embargo and al jazeera investigation has revealed military cargo planes and libyan airspace supporting off tar trella bellus reports. libya divided. the hostages forces and nearly 2 months into a push to take the capital tripoli from the un recognized government does min have now reached the airport road just south of tripoli. in the government trying to push them to my government because we have overpowered the enemy and we are now on the airport road we have overpowered them and they will return to where they came from. but prime minister 5 years alsa russia's troops are not just bestselling haftar and his self described libyan national army and investigation has revealed several foreign owned military planes based outside the country have been supporting her the aircraft flown regularly between egypt israel jordan and libya be tracking devices were frequently switched off concealing their movements to and

from eastern libya have to space private jets have also been used one carrying military equipment was seen in 3 libyan cities and a pro then tracked flying from egypt marrying half his advance towards tripoli on the 10th of may. and an egyptian military cargo plane flew west out of egypt on the 15th of may before we talk to right just off the libyan fronts over the last few years a lot of countries have been supplying have done it without which he would not never have been able to dominate benghazi and the eastern part of libya primarily it is the u.s. that has been pointed out throughout the last 3 years or 40 years by the united nation and multiple reports that it is the primary it's a supplier of weapons and munitions and so on to the hopped up side.

last week the u.n. special representative for libya haasan salami called for immediate action to cut off the flow of arms saying many countries were sending weapons to libya's war in posses the country is under un imposed. both sides are violating their weapons in bargo and there are many countries supplying weapons to both sides but the primary . country for furnishing arms to have to are in the east is and the primary country supporting the defense of tripoli in the west is turkey. this recent escalation in libya's 5 year civil war has killed more than 500. people and forced more than 60000 from the us prime minister 5 years out after have agreed national elections are needed but critics say with 3rd party supporting the conflict they're not the only ones at the table. at least 2 people have been killed in a mass stabbing attack in japan it happened during rush hour in the city of callous

saki the attacker appears to have targeted children as they made their way to score when he reports the attack happened just before 8 in the morning in this usually quiet suburb of kawasaki city as children were waiting to board a bus to go to a nearby private catholic elementary school a man attacked a group of girls with knives it appears he deliberately targeted the students but some adults were also caught in the violence eyewitnesses say the attacker was carrying 2 knives the latest stabbed himself and died in hospital not. kids screaming and crying other kids in people at the scene looked too shocked to do anything i didn't know what i could do for them. medical staff say most of the wounded being treated at several hospitals are children among those killed an 11 year old girl and attack like this mainly against children is particularly shocking in japan which is regarded as one of the safest countries in the world with one of

the lowest murder rates. in july 2016 there was another mass stabbing in the same prefecture on that occasion 19 people were killed in a home for people with disabilities by a former employee as the scene of this attack was cleaned investigators were trying to find out why children may have been the targets of such violence wayne hey al jazeera kawasaki japan. later italy's league party says the european election results show people want austerity measures reversed but they also by any who is also italy's deputy prime minister repeated hasn't tension to reduce taxes in defiance of europe's policy of austerity it says it was time to change outdated rules that hurt many countries. the europe of cuts and them employment has failed greece merkel mccrone and may

well rejected everywhere the europe of insecurity and unemployment has been rejected even the advance of the greens in some countries such as germany calls for the overcoming of economic constraints however it goes it will be a success and we are counting on being part of that success. party stands to become the 4th largest bloc in the european parliament after the elections but a persone is the co-chair of the party he says the party's unity 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're able to gather majorities so i think that this kind of unity will be our greatest a patrimony and also over the next the 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 contemplated by these kind of backward also because we have very little time to to reverse 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 mobilization 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 was still in the 5 stars movement and so be on issues like a power struggle the so-called migration crisis except now which did not allow the

green issues and climate questions to come out later of romania israel and social democrats as they get a 3 year sentence for corruption a monday the supreme court upheld the dragon is conviction for handing out state jobs it was a 2nd defeat and 24 hours after his party lost heavily to centrists and the european elections. a test case has been getting in the us on whether in the visual states can hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for why. it's bread addiction to prescription drugs millions of americans are hooked on pain killers which resemble other opiates such as morphine and heroin as any gallagher reports lawyers in oklahoma are arguing that a drug manufacturer is to blame for the so-called opioid crisis after 2 others settled out of court. it's a drug crisis of epic proportions that's what i wouldn't busy 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 gallica al-jazeera oklahoma city. still ahead on al-jazeera to tell you how to violence a young man is keeping a generation of children away from school. and i began a stance cricketers can bring joy to the face back home as they get ready for the world cup. spaces as usual across southeast asia say plenty of sad was there had to malaysia some showers driving their way into the philippines the west the weather does look like it's going to be i would say was the gulf of thailand bad but

a wet weather coming in here warm and sticky there for bangkok at about 33 celsius a similar temperature to 4 kuala lumpur we're getting up to 31 in singapore plenty of showers saw in all $58.00 of the day showers of course lots of sunshine in between my still catch one of 2 showers into the fall north of indonesia by and large it is essentially looking pretty much dry all the way along as you drive to across much of australia that we've seen is a broad blustery shout was weaving through the southeast and cold and over the high ground to the northeast all victoria cold enough for a touch of snow would you believe temperatures there struggling really getting up to around 11 celsius in melbourne over the next couple of days but some places of shabby right blustery showers driving through rattling through victoria as we go through wettest a truck watch the weather comes in for. a great change in the temperatures you can see the weather's on the other side of the country perth at around 25 degrees celsius plenty of sunshine here and what sunshine we have in new zealand well that's going to be eroded away 5 of the north out of the wettest day but the right

is moving in from the south. every piece of devastating impact on. earth rises explores some of the efforts to recover those lost. from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important samples that we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees striving to co-exist with nature ok so what's going on there simulating what happens when an elephant comes to conflict on al-jazeera.

you're watching i was here let's recap the top stories right now today a nationwide strike is under way in sudan workers walked out of banks shops and cartoons airport causing major disruptions the strikes organized by the opposition to pressure military leaders to start a new round of talks for a civilian led government. and libya forces loyal to the u.n. recognize government are trying to push back those led by war khalifa haftar are an al-jazeera investigation has revealed over flights into bases controlled by hauff taras fighters that's despite a u.n. arms embargo. and at least 2 people have been killed in a stabbing attack in japan at that school school children was targeted and how a saki it tacker sabs himself and died in the hospital. mass arrests and forced disappearances an extrajudicial killings just some of the allegations being leveled against egyptian security forces in the sinai and

a new human rights watch report thousands of soldiers have been waging a military campaign against isis what the lead groups in the region since 2013 there are now at least 40000 soldiers in sinai and the report says the military and police have made more than 12000 arrests human rights watch says detainee. he's often face abuse and as many as a 1000 are being held without trial at one of 3 secret sites the report says violence in the sinai peninsula has forced tens of thousands of people to flee it blames both sides for human rights abuses against civilians it says amount to war crimes since fighting intensified egypt's arms imports have grown by 215 percent make get one of the biggest arms importers in the world. i'm armande is a middle east and north africa researcher at human rights watch says abuses highlighted in the report are widespread we believe that many of these abuses are systematic and widespread which is which means that it cannot really be.

just. the boss kids or some bad officers acting on their own to have. and we also say. there could be a responsibility for commanders senior commanders and also civilian officials in the egyptian government who knew or should have knew about should have known about these abuses and should have stopped it and we called for accountability for all of these officials because of the failure of. government to really in this loop in the abuses or even just like nodded in you don't doink in the sinai peninsula we actually call on the united nations human rights council to stop this independent inquiry of. independent commission of inquiry and also similarly the african commission to do the same and we call on countries to use. domestic loads of

universal jurisdiction to actually pursue any officials involved in war crimes in the sinai region a new report by war child u.k. says the conflict in yemen has had a catastrophic effect on children the charity says 2000000 children are out of school and stance of child marriage is on the rise increasing 3 fall between 20172018 air strikes have severely damaged many of them and schools and some are being used as military bases. more from santa. is still in shock after she lost her sister in a bomb near the cole have. to convince her to go back to school proved successful. back. at the school from horror and later on it's covered the death of my sister now i'm

afraid if i go back i can face the same fate. as the marsh has left students scared. the deaths of 18 children. after the saudi u.s. strike we found out about the death of my daughter along with other students we wondered why they targeted schools in civilian areas as brutal war should stop a mama shrug and some of her classmates were killed in a saudi heiress while they were on their way to. become a sample of the facts of the war on children. scalds inside north of the capital sana'a are the worst hat there are most of the infrastructure is being destroyed every $300.00 schools have been totally and completely destroyed 2 thirds of them have been targeted but such action has not prevented students from

continuing their education. those students and the after region in the middle highlands of yemen have been forced to study the attacks to be a school was destroyed many calls have been turned into barracks and centers for internally displaced people that creates another challenge for become trees current generation to have the rights to education. bob al-jazeera son are. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's doing everything he can to build a coalition and avoid another election that's after parliament passed a poem unary motion to dissolve itself less than 2 months after election seemed to offer netanyahu a new mandate yes just 48 hours to form a government potential ally of adore lieberman is insisting on

a new law extending mandatory military service military service to alter orthodox men but yahoo's ultra-orthodox allies want the draft exemptions to stay. china russia will not attend the u.s. sponsored summit on palestine in bahrain next month the palestine liberation organization has also announced it will not be going to the top administration is expected to unveil its interpretation of the economic benefits of ending the israeli palestinian conflict and try to attract and. austria's without a later after a no confidence vote forced right wing chancellor sebastian curse to step down opposition parties joined forces to remove him from office over a corruption scandal involving a former coalition partner a mccain as the story from the. 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 government. this was the scandal that engulfed

his family partners and eventually ended the coalition the secret video emerged of the freedom party's leaders films in 2017 apparently advising russians how their country could increase its influence over austrian politics the controversy led coats to force the party's cabinet ministers from office last week now they have returned the compliment. 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 courts is actions and. this is a shameless unrestrained and irresponsible power grab this is what we are witnessing but 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 may. opposition decision to force an early election seems 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 might well soon be back on those same government benches if the opinion polls are anything to go by something mr courts knows only too well as he told his supporters soon after losing the confidence of parliament in part because of this parliament that 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 dominant came. the.

ukrainian president has visited troops in the eastern region on the border with russian speaking territories that have declared independence and saw them as a once case 1st trip to the donbass area since he was sworn in last week he's vowed to achieve a cease fire but he says dialogue will only be possible after ukrainian territory and prisoners are returned. and brazil dozens of prisoners have been killed in fighting in 4 different jails $42.00 inmates were found dead in the jails in the amazon a state another 15 prisoners were killed 24 hours earlier as rival gangs attacked each other. as 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 a busy referral area and when these fights break out. some context 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 negotiators or they call in reinforcements which sometimes takes a while to arrive malaysia's last male sumatran rhinoceros has died in captivity the animal named tam was about 30 years old and had lived at a wildlife preserve since 2008 is so much a rhino is the smallest species there right asuras he was declared extinct in the

wild and malaysia 4 years ago. the cricket world cup starts on thursday with emerging teams like afghanistan aiming to make their mark in the sport by the defending champions australia on saturday with arguably the best bowler in the world and a genuine chance of an upset by welling's reports. when cricket was banned under the taliban afghanistan being one of the elite 10 teams to contest the world cup would have been unthinkable but there rise over the past decade has been extraordinary 2 years ago afghanistan was awarded a test match status one of only 12 teams to play the most prestigious and respected form of cricket but it's in the short forms that the gang they're most dangerous and this team has a genuine chance of upsetting bigots aims in this 50 over to side world cup. several of these players have lucrative indian premier league and australia big bash contracts like 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 pretty excited to be in the world cup squad in the biz and doing my country especially in my 1st 50 or you have to have the skill you just need to utilize that and hopefully the guys are good one of them is working hard and definitively it won't be too far that when it's i will be in top ranks. their coach is phil symonds who has plenty of world cup experience playing for the west indies the players are having to cope with a tough should judge your environment the training hard all of their opponents in the tournament a part of the world's elite just quite tough you know long long days to get to have the fast you need to do well for the country as we didn't bring those things in the mine that i'm fasting on nor do you know you have enough energy to have enough to eat after after after then you can just go in a day and play the game there i pretty much is on this ground in bristol against

defending champions australia. a difficult start but they'll have plenty of support the tournament organizers the. street to the amount of teams in the tournament to just 10 which excludes many of the developing nations but the big league could not choose afghanistan still managed to be going to to qualify now. bristol. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera a 2 day nationwide strike is under way in sudan. workers walked out of banks shops and khartoum airport causing major disruptions the strike was organized to pressure military leaders to start a new round of talks for a civilian led government morgan has more from khartoum. the opposition coalition

is saying that it is just the beginning they're saying that they will be able to make the transitional military council feel the presence and feel the strength of their popularity all their bases if people listen to them and go on strike there's already been reports of some flights out of 2 international airports counseling due to most of the people being on strike as well as people on the streets you can see most of the streets around me right now and most of the shops are closed people are saying that they are standing in solidarity with the opposition coalition a group of young schoolchildren in japan have been attacked by a man with a knife they were waiting for a bus and callous saki one child and one adult has been killed and more than a dozen more injured the attacker stabbed himself and died in the hospital. and libya forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government are trying to push back those led by warlords are fighting congress more evidence emerges of support given to khalifa hop star and their

investigation as a bill covert bases covert flights into bases controlled by how the biker's that's despite a u.n. arms embargo. mass arrests and forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings just some of the allegations being leveled against egyptian security forces in the sinai energy human rights watch report thousands of soldiers have been waging a military campaign against i saw affiliated groups in the region since 2013 the report says the military and police have made more than 12000 arrests the later of italy's league party says the european election results show people want austerity measures reversed but ailsa vanny who is also italy's deputy prime minister repeated his intention to reduce taxes and defiance of europe's policy of austerity there's a hell of headlines keep it on al-jazeera earthrise is next in the philippines the black market for gold is worth hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards to some paying the ultimate prize one i want to use to investigate why

people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. and conflicts one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment. from the chemical contamination of soil and the collapse of cruelty and food supplies to the habitat damage caused by displacement. has devastating consequences. not seen any manmade infrastructure has but also natural ecosystems are destroyed and i'm alone i lost as well as human. even amidst the most vicious strong.