we're at the. camp for palestinian press al-jazeera din world news. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the game this is the live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes protest leaders in khartoum hope a two day national strike will force military leaders to a new round of talks. an uneasy calm near the serbia kosovo border after police carry out raids in a so dominated area. u.s. drug companies in the crosshairs as a court case seeks to hold them to account for their role in the opioid crisis. and

in sports several footballers have been arrested in spain's top two leagues over a suspected match fixing and in the n.h.l. the boston bruins take game won the stanley cup finals fighting back to beat frankly with claims in boston. protest leaders in sudan are increasing the pressure on the transitional military council to hand over power to a civilian broad administration a two day strike is on the way with workers nationwide walking off the job protesters are hoping that the strike will force military leaders into a new round of negotiations let's go straight to al-jazeera cimarron khan who is live for us in khartoum iran what impact on daily life is this strike having how well supported is it. this strike is very well supported i'm just going to move out the way so i can. show you this street behind

me i'm going to wait a second we had a. easy the street behind me that's one of the busiest streets actually in khartoum completely empty the entire row of shops has been shut down the sudanese professionals association are calling this strike a success and they say that the strike is holding but let's take a look at how the day has unfolded so far. on any other day this would be the main transport hub for the whole local to that the central bus station is shot and the general strike is holding disruption to the capital's airport strike is displaying signs saying we will build our country shops and businesses are closed citywide and protesters are out in the streets a handful of shops and government offices did open but the strike is widespread enough for the organizers to deem it a success the plan today walkout was organized by the sudanese professionals association speaking on monday night before the strike started organizers said they

were forced into taking action because the transitional military council are not negotiating in good faith. really so what are the sole guarantor of the revolution are the sudanese people and the law and order in what we agree upon as a constitutional declaration or otherwise this is the guarantor of the revolution not a military rifle for the workers who have walked out they hope that the military leaders who replaced ousted president omar al bashir will listen to their demands for a civilian led government. but for more they don't. have the longer she was a little shocked at one of the first in the transitional military council has criticised the strike saying it won't hand over power to an unstable civilian government it's also said that the army is the most popular institution in the country according to these people that's not true however the transitional military council will be very concerned that the strike is holding and it's courtroom wide

the opposition coalition will be hoping that the strike gives them negotiating power and that the transitional military council will have to listen and reopen told us if they don't opposition leaders say they will take further action such as more strikes for now the padlocks remain firmly closed as do the talks between the two parties. we are expecting statements from the transitional military council and the sudanese professionals' association in the coming hours expect there to be a bit of a tussle between them as the s.b.a. the sudanese professionals claim that the strike is a success and the army say the actually the government institutions were all open and that the six strike has failed what hasn't happened so far is the two parties agreeing to come back to the negotiating table what we are hearing is that the technical committees those of people discussing the shape of any sovereign

transitional government were actually meeting but the key leaders those guys on actually meeting and the whole point of the sudanese professionals at least was to put pressure on the transitional military council to get them to the negotiating table after day one hasn't happened al-jazeera cimarron calm life in many thanks. green party has received strong support in the european elections european leaders are meeting in brussels to talk about the new names they want to fill the union's top jobs austria is hosting an international summit to focus on ways to cope climate change on on a global scale politicians company representatives and activists have gathered in the capital vienna that will try to bring sustainable climate protection projects

on track faster let's go live now to vienna dominic kane is there for us dominic how significant to people at the summit think the green party success in those euro elections will be. a real. pleasure and a point to make here is that this movement the green movement is something which people here really identify with the in australia fourteen percent fifteen percent of the electorate regularly vote green and so the success of the movement of other countries it was celebrated by many of the people who attended the meetings dam outside the venue now because the speakers who were in the the venue earlier on are going to come and address the people who were actually physically able to get in the inside part of the audience there earlier i spoke to a dutch member of the green left party from the city of ny mason and i asked her why she thought that her party had prospered not only in the netherlands but also

across the continent. see and what i think is that people see the results of climate change nowadays for example in the netherlands the last two years it was fairly dry nowadays now in spring it's so dry these are fallen from the trees so people are very concerned about change and then they want to vote to a party to come into action to do something about the fact. so the point here is that the. yes this conference has been about clean energy production but also how the environmentalist calls can be advanced we also heard from some speakers from outside your particularly interesting was the former governor of california who arnold schwarzenegger who basically made his point about what he felt were the excesses of multinational companies he said look if you carry on behaving like somebody on the beach with sand in your hands it will fall through

your fingers leave a mess which you can't really deal with finally we heard from the swedish teenage campaign a good attitude and speaking earlier on she basically said look people need to stop telling the truth about climate change and realizing quite how dire the crisis is she may well be saying the same thing a bit later on on the stage behind me adrian because i said she and other speakers will address the crowds who are queuing up out here outside in the employment whether in vienna. daughter going to thank steve jobs's daughter kate in vienna meanwhile back at that meeting in brussels where leaders are talking about the names they want to fill the union's top jobs backroom negotiations have already begun to appoint the commission's president and the other heads of the e.u. institutions the election sore center right and center left parties losing support populists liberals and greens taking advantage of voter anger with the current direction of the e.u.

al-jazeera david chaytor is live for us in brussels so what's this meeting today all about david. just to tell you the latest news trees are made the british prime minister is just arriving to join this unofficial summit over dinner to discuss the top jobs in the european union and there's one job above everything else that is being discussed at the moment and that of course is who's going to replace. as the president of the european commission now. angela merkel the german chancellor arrived here saying that she was backing the german bavarian candidate a month at a vet and now he's a forty six year old who's had no elected government position whatsoever he's purely a product of the bureaucracy here in the european parliament and then we the french president emmanuel macro saying that essentially he didn't want to discuss names no

names are told and he wanted to threat much wider so clear a rift opening up between france and germany over this particular appointment so let's let's hear from the man himself who is at the center of this new dispute manford whereby let's hear what he has to say well the european people's party is not celebrating a victory in the losing seats but just build the biggest political family ever so that means they have a democratic mandate for future releases of. that five year read by the others trying to sit together to find a common date for the future of this would be expect us to build people up so much interested in the political discussions people are expecting for us to discuss how about. what. it is again my dream by a vision for the next the days and weeks ahead of us vital to see together to talk

to each of the five nations through take. a very briefly before we go back to where david let's have a listen to what britain's promised us reason may is telling reporters that we saw some very good any peace losing their seats we saw some great candidates not gaining seats but the labor party also still significant losses and i think what each of these is importance is actually delivering fun bricks i think the best way to do that is with a deal that it will be for my successor and for parliament. to find a way forward to get a consensus and i hope that those election results will focus on and on the need to deliver presage thank you this is brussels the u.k. front of her for a moment to reason made their point to her arrival in brussels possibly one of her last last meeting. with heads of state from the european union in brussels david what can we expect as an outcome to to all of this today.

the legend that the last time to reason may was here was in fact one of those emergency summits that we got so used to talking about briggs it and the others the other members of the european union dined with her in an ante room but this time at least she will join them at the table. everything that's going on here shows that in future the decisions of the european parliament will take much more time and compromise on those of the commodities of course which trees in may the british prime minister ran out of in her negotiations with the european union and i think the lesson that everybody's learning is that there is a new face to the european politics in the european parliament and it is one of compromise it will take time it will take negotiation but this is after all real politics but don't expect a decision after dinner tonight david many thanks officers david chase of the live

in brussels this is the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program as their investigation tracks the military aircraft and spy planes that appear to be supporting the border make seems to tripoli. and we'll tell you how the violence in yemen is keeping a generation of children away from school. later in sport we'll tell you about the small team from berlin to be mixing it up with the big boys of german football next season. troops in saudi or been put on a high alert after kosovo police made several arrests in the northern semi autonomous territory which is dominated by serbs police said they were targeting organized crime but serbian leaders who don't recognize kosovo's independence say police were sent to intimidate sounds as arab balkans reporter in a blue such as the details from belgrade well serbian president alexander who teach

confirmed that the serbian forces are ready to react after course of a police made a number of our arrests in the course of all voted said the cost of the police have used have used force against an armed service he underlined that the serbia is doing everything to keep peace and stability but it will be fooled are ready to react to to protect its people cos of a police have arrested twenty three people and they explain their arrested people are involved in corruption and crime and the police action took place not only in those regions of course along with the majority of serbian population by the into retore of all costs of all but serbian authorities claims that the action was organized to skeer serbian people in cos of our kind of agenda grasso is the

spokesman for nato in kosovo we can talk to him now from the capital pristina colonel good to have you with us what's your reaction to what's happening on the border of serbia and kosovo today. ok really what they. were there was a police operation that was for nothing but also police in different police it by loosing calls. these was loud enough for knowing. who are arrest the risk once for all of iraq surely should also consider can show him and the police who we are being just who we lament that these words in the interview nothing said in the event that we said earlier this. and they've been that the u.s. of course there were some things shots of mostly not and some people to use about it. but the situation remained under control and what role is nato playing in easing this tension the course that we have been monitoring the a theory that in

their development so that they of course this was a rule of law the issue so it was a specific task though because of the police is not that these results are ok for in need of money. but we'll be monitoring it and what do you stand up you get all these situations he goes through all the serbian authorities military authorities and international communities just to be sure we're in to prevent any escalation of violence in the to keep this situation kind are you concerned about the potential of the situation to escalate given the relatively recent history of the region. not at the moment of your normal science will also go to scottish our daughter will be said to be a scene something she was but the since the initial months we simply. assume that that it was not only only serbian people who were received also or

persons from different music it's also opinion. but this situation is still on the books while they're confident that colonel good to talk to me thanks to you for being with us colonel trent grasshopper. iran says there is no prospect of talks with the united states unless donald trump recommit to the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement that he withdrew from and iran is denying seeking to develop nuclear weapons reports. in his first media briefing as iran's new foreign ministry spokesman abbas moussavi wasted no time getting to the point if the united states wants talks with iran the starting point is returning to the twenty fifteen nuclear deal. now we won't have any negotiation with the united states and on line has always been respect for international agreements to the state could return there with the rubble. and based on delusion so we have no

prospect for negotiation and invades for developments. as to offers by third parties while iran's leaders are open to hearing from concerned friends mousavi says mediation isn't necessary yet stubbornly sticking to its guns seems to have worked in the iranian government's favor the u.s. has rolled back hawkish language and even with the american military buildup still in the region seems much less imminent iranians often say they don't care about iran's strategic victories or even standing up to america they care about things like the price of diapers for their children the value of their real currency fluctuating from one second to the next and generally being unable to afford a happy life. in my opinion everything should be solved through negotiations but out of politics should be separate from social issues because innocent people are being grouped into political games if iran and america. get better

during a visit to japan this week the u.s. president struck an optimistic note i do believe that iran would like to talk and if they'd like to talk we'd like to talk also we'll see what happens. the iranian government says the u.s. pullout from the twenty fifty nuclear deal has shown negotiating with americans is a fool's errand and as long as meaningful reduction of sanctions remains unlikely talking is a waste of time two already a slimy the iran is not interested in empty rhetoric and pays more attention to behaviors and will decide and act up and. iran seems to be meeting american sanctions and military threats with more soft power doubling down on a policy of strong links with other countries to build a chain of consensus and condemn america's role in the middle east to that end the new face of the foreign ministry often iran's loudest voice on the world stage made it clear iran remains wide open to diplomacy with everyone except the united states

zain. to her on the united nations security council has discussed the worsening humanitarian crisis in syria the month long syrian government offensive against the last remaining rebel held areas is showing no sign of a let up how much provinces are under bombardment by syrian and russian warplanes their attacks are forcing hundreds of thousands of syrians to head north towards turkey in search of safety let's go live now to the u.n. james bay is our diplomatic editor is james what's been said at this meeting that. well again we've had a security council meeting it seems to become a very regular process over the last month every week it seems we have a meeting where the security council or at least many members of the security council condemned the bombardment of it live and yet that bombardment goes on the u.n. security council this meeting hearing from the deputy emergency relief coordinator

coordinator of the united nations who made this appeal. can't to this council take any concrete action when attacks on schools and hospitals have become a war tactic that no longer sparks outrage is there nothing to be said or done when indiscriminate barrel bombs are dropped in civilian areas a clear breach of international humanitarian law and of council resolution twenty one thirty nine millions of bettered and beleaguered children women and men cannot wait for another geneva round to succeed. so in action she's condemning by the security council but the council of course

remains very divided on this issue we heard that some twenty two medical facilities had been hit in the last month the u.s. said it wanted accountability for the french ambassador said that that probably amounts to war crimes but we've heard a very different story coming from the russian side surge vershinin who is the deputy foreign minister in charge of the syria file saying that the deescalation zone that his country in turkey of the guarantee of was now ninety nine percent controlled by what he said was terrorists and he said that they were responsible for using rocket launchers for using combat drones to attack russian forces so certainly the russians who clearly are involved in the air campaign with the syrian government say they're fighting terrorists they may well be right that there are armed groups there in a globe but there also are three million people many of them women and children. on

diplomatic editor james bay as the u.n. . white house adviser jared kirschner is in morocco drumming up support for the american plan on the future of palestine and israel u.s. envoys are due in jordan and israel later this week donald trump's son in law is due to present the economic part of the plan at a conference in bahrain next month have a stern ians are rejecting the proposals and are urging an arab boycott of the conference mike hanna reports now from washington. the white house has confirmed that jared cushion is traveling to morocco then on to jordan then a west jerusalem before going on to join president trump on his state visit to the united kingdom now he's accompanied by special representative jason greenblatt and the u.s. iran representative brian hook it would appear that this trip is connected to the conference for bahrain next month at which the jared cushion is says that economic

aspects of his settlement proposal for israel palestine are to be discussed he's insisted that the economic aspect of this deal needs to be settled before the political aspects can be addressed now significant believe the king of jordan king abdullah has not indicated whether he'll be attending that conference in bahrain equally morocco has not made clear whether it will be attending the palestinian leaders have made very clear they will not be attending that conference insisting that they no longer see the u.s. as an honors a break in the ongoing conflict between israel and palestine so very important for jared to convince king abdullah to convince morocco to take part in that conference otherwise it could well lose whatever credibility it may have been going to whether up to next here on the use of a prison immersive brazil as dozens of good mates are killed in pitched battles.

reaction success for the president of. the arguments over years. and its course more views from a man of what's not been the best year for the brazilian. still got a chance of wattle two showers into the middle east over the next couple days but by large is getting hotter there's a shower cloud just missing across iran that's going to ease its way further east was to the east of that horse enough in kabul around thirty one celsius that is that forty. one the two showers just pushing in across northern parts of iran forty three cells just the bag that the pleasant sunshine on the eastern side of the med we can get to twenty nine celsius in bahrain thirty one there for jerusalem over the next couple of days shows become a little more scattered that push their way

a little further research as we go on through thursday still getting up into the thirty's therefore could bowl mid thirty's for pakistan this low to mid forty's across iraq and potentially now really hotting up just about everywhere a little more cloud just pushing into the gulf of aden maybe southern parts of yemen could catch spots with two rain as we go on through thursday that will help to just push greeny conditions in here elsewhere it's dry warm and dry across southern africa meanwhile wanted to showers pushing just crossed c.s. then cape could see a little bit that weather just coming in here then as we go on through wednesday but prices guys come back in as we head towards the end of the week. an investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of

public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable the people that are one and one push isn't getting much because like you now they w h o s just chaz who says w in terms of trust that you trust who are knowledge is the.

well again this is the news from up zero three and fitting in here in the top stories this hour a two day nationwide strike strike is on the way of sudar protest leaders are trying to pressure the military to start a new round of talks for a civilian government. european leaders of easing in brussels to talk about the new people they want to fill the unions top jobs the leaders of france and germany are all over who should be the next president of the european commission. and the united nations security council. was holding an open briefing to discuss the worsening humanitarian crisis in syria hama and provinces are the bombardment by syrian and russian warplanes it's forcing hundreds of thousands of syrians to head north towards turkey in search of safety. test cases beginning in the u.s.

on whether individual states can hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for widespread addiction to prescription drugs millions of americans are hooked on painkillers which resemble other opiates such as morphine and heroin as i began to go reports now lawyers in oklahoma are arguing that a drug manufacturer is to blame for the so-called opioid crisis after two others settle down of course. it's a drug crisis of epic proportions that's what i wouldn't die for it according to the center for disease control in two thousand and seventeen close to fifty thousand people died from overdosing on drugs more than a third 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 twenty years ago to ensure that they were providing in a clear and informed way what the downside was oklahoma's case is just the first of almost two thousand 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 and the whole in terms of the safety and the marketing of drugs 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 your grocer can't live in a drug free america. the opioid crisis has already claimed countless victims over the last two decades and continues to blight the lives of millions pharmaceutical companies claim they're not responsible but courts across the u.s. and now primed to hold them to account and gallica al-jazeera oklahoma city. elizabeth john lee birch is a professor of law at the university of georgia and she joins us now from athens

georgia professor good to have you with us what are we likely to learn from this trial to what extent is a pandora's box about to be opened. well that's the real question i mean what we're hoping to see is what sort of evidence the attorney general has against the pharmaceutical company what the playbook is likely to look like and part of the problem i think for the public perspective is that so many of the documents have been sealed so many of the documents have been redacted and so this is our first glimpse into that pandora's box it's our first chance to see what the evidence is going to show state lawyers will work to persuade the judge that johnson and johnson has been. a kingpin behind the scenes in this crisis why hasn't it settled out of court like poor do you. well you know that's the big question i think johnson and johnson has a history it has its own track record i've always wanted to go to court always putting plaintiff's lawyers to their proof we've seen that not just in the opioid

lawsuits but also in some of the hip implant lawsuits with sarin with stryker we've seen it also going on now with the talc litigation so this is just a drop in the bucket in some sense for johnson and johnson but it's another chance for them to really put plaintiffs to their proof and to test the mettle in court and why is this case being held before just a judge and not a judge and jury. well you know i think that's in part a product of what oklahoma's laws look like at one point it was going to go before a judge and a jury right now since the state is just focusing on the public nuisance claims it's going to be heard only in front of the judge but right now you know even though it's just in front of the judge we've got the entire public watching we've got the video being live streamed and so in the sense we don't just have one judge we also have the court of public opinion or what happens when the judge issues

a verdict pardon my ignorance could any one end up serving jail time here or is this all about financial penalties if any if any wrongdoing is found to. prove. this particular lawsuit is just about the financial ramifications about trying to abate the public nuisance about trying to compensate the people of oklahoma for the amount that they've had to pay out to address the opioid crisis as it's gone on so we're not looking here at criminal penalties we're looking here principally at the civil ramifications for the state professor really good so many thanks indeed for being with us elizabeth charlie. from georgia from the university of georgia. china's ambassador to venezuela says that foreign sanctions are partly to blame for the humanitarian crisis that the accusation came as the latest the latest shipment of medicine chinese medical supplies arrived essential medical supplies are

critically low in most hospitals in venezuela his country's health minister says u.s. sanctions have created what he calls a criminal blockade and colombia and peru are appealing for more international help to cope with what they call the worst migrant crisis in latin america's recent history colombia's president yvonne duke a warned that the influx of venezuelan migrants will continue if president nicolas maduro remains in power. in brazil dozens of prisoners have been killed fighting among themselves in four different jails the riots follow years of overcrowding jail break attempts of wyvil gangs back to control the habit reports. as a deadly fights broke out between inmates inside this prison in my analysis on sunday anxious family members protested outside demanding answers blocking roads and clashing with police look at the watch i got them what am i going to tell my mother in law and my kids when i arrive at home that my husband did prison guard

say the attack happened during visiting hours. around eleven am an internal fight broke out billions five in three leading the warden to immediately activate the prison intervention group on the right calls the deaths of fifteen inmates at the prison intervention groups action was fundamental so we could maintain control of the incident started around eleven am eleven forty it had been contained with. this prison is one of four in amazon a state where riots have started over the past forty eight hours officials say forty two inmates were found dead others stabbed with toothbrushes which have been crude to the shop and. gang violence overcrowding and break out attempts are common in brazil's jails. result prisons pretty much governed by drug trafficking and when people. arrives in prison they have to basically choose a site between these factions for protection the guards are not there and law in

and out that. area and when these fights break out prison officials that are on the ground all control what is going on. brazil has the world's third largest prison population close to three quarters of a million inmates is twice the capacity of what the jails were designed to hold was three weeks of riots and prison two years ago and it was nearly one hundred fifty inmates dead. the same year hundreds of inmates escaped in sao paulo after setting fire to their jail. government attempts implementor reforms were resisted by powerful criminal gangs with connections behind bars and outside to public buildings banks and petrol stations were targets in a series of attacks in january. president diable scenario has promised to build new prisons address under-funding to control the overcrowding and boost security

reinforcements. as angry family members await for news of the recent deaths prison guards are on alert for further retribution attacks mohamed al jazeera schoolgirls been killed several other people were injured in the stabbing attack at a bus stop in japan a bystander was also killed before the attacker committed suicide when hey reports from the scene. the attack happened just before eight 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 two 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 eleven 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 two thousand and sixteen there was another mass stabbing in the same prefecture on that occasion nineteen 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 hay al-jazeera kawasaki japan. malaysia says it won't be bullied into becoming a dumping ground for waste from other countries sending thousands of tons of rubbish back to britain the us canada saudi arabia and china the philippines is in a similar dispute with canada the malaysian government has climbed down on dozens

of illegal plastic recycling factories since china banned imports of plastic waste last year whoever. they are ways to malaysia. or whatever ways we will send it back and we will fight back even though we are a small country we cannot be bullied by the developed countries and out of their investigation in libya has revealed foreign military aircraft including spy planes are supporting the warlord colley for half of his forces who are battling to capture the capital the being resisted by troops and fighters loyal to the un recognized government in tripoli and syria shot of dallas reports. libya divided. the half to his forces and nearly two months into a push to take the capital tripoli from the u.n. recognized government after his men have now reached the airport road just south of tripoli vices will see the government are trying to push them back my god. 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 fayyad is troops are not just passing haftar and his self described libyan national army and al-jazeera 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 the 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 three libyan cities and a pro then tracked flying from egypt meringue half his advance towards tripoli on the tenth of may. and an egyptian military cargo plane flew west out of egypt on the fifteenth of april before it went off to write just off the libyan state 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 the eastern part of libya primarily it is the u.s. that has been pointed out throughout the last three years or forty years by the united nation and multiple reports that it is the primary supplier of weapons and munitions and so on to the hopped up side. last week the u.n. special representative for libya 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 a u.n. 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 five year civil war has killed. more than five hundred people forced nearly eighty hours from the hotel prime minister phaseout seraph should have to have a grief national elections are needed critics say with third party supporting the conflict they're not the only ones at the table challenge ballasts. politicians in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region have elected prime minister. zani as the new president his uncle the last held the presidency post has been very consensus failed independence referendum in twenty seventeen matheson reports now from baghdad. what this does is to close a gap at the top of the region's government and it's a gap that's existed since about twenty seventeen that's when the kurdish region held a referendum for secession from the rest of iraq now that the referendum got about

ninety percent of the vote and over but it created an awful lot of tension with the iraqi government here in baghdad but also with other company countries as well such as turkey to the north now that resentment and irritation has ebbed away but there's still been a degree of tension between the two main political parties in the region and that's the kurdistan democratic party or the k d p that spies on his own party and the patrick union patriotic union of kurdistan or the p u k and one of the reasons why this post has taken so long to be filled is because there's been a lot of negotiation between those two parties and others in order to fill out find out and work out who should be filling the key posts the top of the regions of government it's interesting to note there are one hundred eleven seats in the regional government eighty one parliamentarians went into vote about zani got sixty eight of those votes in his opponent's got none what does this mean for the region

as a whole while it means increases the chances of foreign investment in the region like in many other parts of the world are looking for foreign investment and foreign investors like to see stability so it's so hoped by filling this last piece in the jigsaw puzzle in the regions government that that will encourage foreign investment . the four year war in yemen is having a devastating effect in many ways including children not getting an education but on governmental organization warchild u.k. says that two million children don't go to school but. reports now from some. tell in shock after she lost her sister in a bombardment a near call her father's a time to convince her to go back to school have proved successful. back. to school from horror and later on it's covered the death of my sister now

i'm afraid if i go back i could face the same fate. as the marsh attack has left students scared. to death of children. after this how do you strike we found out about the death of my daughter along with other students we wondered why they targeted schools in civilian areas this brutal war should stop. some of her classmates were killed in a saudi while they were on their way to. become a symbol of their. children. called inside north of the capital sana'a are the worst at. most of the infrastructure is being destroyed every three hundred schools have been totally and completely destroyed two thirds of them have been targeted but such action has not prevented

students from continuing their education. those students and the africa region and the middle highlands of yemen have been forced to study the shadow of attacks after they are school was destroyed many calls have been turned into barracks and centers for internally displaced people that creates another challenge for the country's current generation to have the right to our education. bob al jazeera sanaa. arrests and forced to disappearances and extrajudicial killings just some of the allegations being leveled against egyptian security forces in the sinai and a new human rights watch report of soldiers have been waging a military campaign against isola philia to groups in the region since twenty thirteen there are now at least forty thousand soldiers in sinai and the report

says the military and police have made more than twelve thousand arrests many detainees face abuse of as many as one thousand to being held without trial but one of the three secret sites is a middle east and north africa researcher at human rights watch he says abuse is highlighted in the report a widespread. we believe that many of these abuses are systematic and widespread which is which means that it cannot really be. just. bad the boss good or bad officers acting on their own to have. and we also say that. there could be a responsibility for a commander a 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 hold for accountability for all of these officials because of the

. government to. look in the abuses or even just like nodded 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 persecute any officials involved in war crimes in the sinai region al-jazeera journalist mark bowden say in his back in and egyptian prison only days after court ordered his release in a statement for signs family so that a new investigation has been opened against the saints been held now for more than eight hundred eighty days without ciancia trial will conviction after he was

arrested in egypt while on a family holiday. the un's refugee agency says that ethnic fighting is forcing thousands of nigerians to seek refuge in neighboring. around twenty thousand fled homes in the last month alone fighting has fled between pharmacy and herders of different ethnic groups kidnappings for ransom and also on the rise the u.n. says the mass movement isn't linked to the war against boko haram. the president has been sworn in for a second to last week's closely fought election. won the vote with just a three percent lead over his rival. results were delayed by a high court review after the opposition accused the ruling democratic progressive party a vote. just ahead. might be far off but. the most dramatic moment of the baseball season.

our good times for his father adrian thank you so much several players in spain's top two football leagues have been arrested over a suspected match fixing it allege the players and officials from some clubs formed a criminal organization to profit from six games spanish police made the arrests after lolita filed a complaints about matches in the lower nonprofessional divisions and international friendlies league it says none of it complaints relate to games in spain's top league. neymar has been stripped of the brazil captaincy head of the copa america

next month he's been replaced by p.s.g. teammate danny alvarez for the upcoming friendlies against the tar and crew brazil are hosting the copa and their coach was under pressure to demote neymar because of disciplinary issues including hitting a fan after p.s.g. lost the french cup final. in germany union berlin have made history by being promoted to the top division for the first time a goalless draw at home to stuttgart saw them win the been designing a playoff tie on away goals this makes union the first side from the old east germany to reach the top slot in a decade it sparked a great scenes in the stadium as players and coaching staff celebrated the achievements along with thousands of fans who invaded the pitch. liverpool manager you're going claps as he's excited to get out their shots of the champions league title this weekend they're up against tottenham and cops hoping to make it third time lucky after failing twice before. so far we control our emotions in

a really good way we let them go and in the right manner all that stuff so yeah it's in a moment. it's pure excitement really looking forward to it and be really happy to have the chance again that's what we want to do have after last year and now we are here women's world number one naomi osaka has avoided a big upset in the first round of the french open she lost the first set six love to slovakia's and i care alina who is ranked number ninety that's nine zero in the world the japanese saved herself after being two points from defeat in the second and has just won the decider six one well earlier to time australian open champion victoria as a record defeated twenty seventeen winner yelena awesome panko the latvian has now suffered two first round exits in a row since winning the french open two years ago a former world number one winning in straight sets six four seven six. zero over on

the men's tour fifth seed alexanders of revelry came his determined opponent australia's john millman in a battle lasting four hours and eight minutes the twenty two year old german closed out the match in five sets to reach the second round. and juan martin del potro was also advanced the second round he had to fight back from a set down to beat the seventy fifth ranked nicklaus jari seed reached the semifinals at last year's french open. but awesome brilliance of one the opening game of the stanley cup finals it wasn't easy though they had to rally from two goals down to beat the st louis blues somehow malak has the action but still thank the boston bruins have come into the stanley cup finals playing some of the best hockey of the season based what the eastern conference finals for nothing against carolina but playing on home ice and best stanley cup open i guess they knew it things didn't start well but i did tell thing they went one down in the first

period with great interest in scoring for the blues thank. you would you say things got worse for boston as a lot of new towers genco double slaying loses advantage was a boston no with thing or two about dealing with pressure having gone to a game seven defied in the opening round thanks i conduct and got the fight back started i was and then charlie mcavoy scored on a power play to go into the final period to all. thank god from their soft and dominant with shaun curry put them ahead thanks i and brad muschamp stated the comeback win with an empty next three weeks i was fine school for two boston has been resilient all your if you watch our group not necessarily

from comebacks but just you know different guys in the lineup different guys producing we're generally going to go up and down why don't get guys that are going to play this stand the bruins are looking for a seventh stanley cup title or they'll have the chance to take a step closer to that when they host game two on wednesday here. that's why o'malley al-jazeera. i'll finish with some incredible reactions in major league baseball take a look at this. shot. place next. to the and narrow escape for the milwaukee brewers pitcher jeremy jeffress up against the minnesota twins it twists this name but it could have been so much worse. what a catch and that's all you sport for now and more coming up later back to you each of the catch it or is it just getting out of the way. people are already thanks dave that's it from the news i'll be back in just more moments with more of the

day's news see it. in twenty twelve 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 had turned into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans rewind returns to iraq after the americans on al-jazeera.

cricket's biggest total it has come to england though miles six weeks ten tell us eleven venues forty like i can australia the friend of the dr will a good fun didn't win a world cup despite with al-jazeera for all the latest on the twenty ninth a cricket wild card. kidnappings and murders in crimea since russia's full stomach sation of the black sea. they don't understand why he was kidnapped. school was of crimea into ties have been arrested. most believed by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret. on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where ever your. european leaders gather in brussels for the go see actions to fill the e.u.'s top jobs. and i get i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up protest leaders in khartoum hope a two day national strike will force military leaders to a new round of talks. serbian troops are put on a lot of the cost of a police launch operation in a sub dominated breach. a journalist must fall into the hussein is sent back to jail in egypt.