taken place we cannot we need to learn from the history we need to do something we need to support and protect the civilians that you and the 1st thing and then it does it back to it it's stuff that is very colored dicked you cannot leave off or think it did just evacuated it's stuff that is very colored boy it's none of these negotiations none of these talks recognize the t.n.c. as a partner will go anywhere believe me if it doesn't happen now it will happen again they want to kill everybody they have not shown one act that can make us trust them or they did not issue any act to free morse or any actor for ignition of the crimes we cannot trust them what do you what do we need more to recognize that these are criminal host taking the people of sudan hostage and they're committing more crimes they say that they want the people to go back to normal life we can't there's tanks and catchers and cars and guns every single every street you look around even when

people don't go out of their houses they break in a lot of them and i'm talking only about the truth that has relatively a crack of information leaking but we're know what's happening in other cities and this is not new it happened in darfur and everybody was watching we documented so many crimes everything that happened in darfur is happening now is sudan countrywide if you fail to stop the 4 you have a chance now to make this right and correct your mistake i have no idea what convention national community do but since this is their mass they need to clean it 1st starting by cutting any aid any aid so that t.m.c. any aid they're doing they need to cut it to t.m.c. money anything do not recognize them they failed to do that time and time again look where this got us the need to recognize that he can see joe we are not trustworthy in any political solution or any peaceful solution as

a lay that night thing this fact just make it harder of als to meet a sudanese human rights activist speaking to us there from washington d.c. thank you for being with us and out of there as us. on protesters and riot police have faced off during what could be hong kong's biggest rally and 3 decades they fear the proposed changes could allow china to target political opponents and send them to the mainland for trial organizers say more than a 1000000 people monster gets to controversial extradition bell hong kong with r.t. say the number was closer to 250000 and editorial in the official chinese newspaper says certain foreign forces are trying to hurt beijing by creating chaos and hong kong sarah clock reports it started as a peaceful city and around the city's parliament building. it soon descended into chaos holding metal barricades protesters brand the police frontline die pushed back with battens pepper spray and water guns. hundreds camped out on the streets

to the government headquarters 3 hour standoff ensued the streets blocked in central hong kong this was a busy area i just didn't have an invite fashion find a minister of council. under the plan fugitives or potential suspects in hong kong could be sent for trial on the chinese my land that's angered some of the former british territory who say china will target political opponents well we want to protect our children want to go to. the next generation we have to say what we need to be it is how freedom so that's why we have to come here to support past this is how it was to protest sharing those concerns of human rights groups who feel the law will be abused and will legalize political kidnappings the chinese government has a very poor track record of human rights that includes. the external they are the

force of compassion called an obvious way out west pro-democracy groups like the proposed rules also threaten hong kong's free society and undermine civil liberties promised under the one country to see. agreed when the former british territory was handed back to china in 1997 the city's chief executive however has refused to back down on this bill insisting that human rights will be protected and that the proposals were firmly grounded in the rule of law is the master at this rally is any indication it's clear many in hong kong a not convinced 2 sarah clarke al-jazeera. plenty more ahead here this news hour including. a syrian footballer tanned rebel fighter and a leader of the rebellion against president bashar al assad is laid to rest. the birthplace of civilization iraqi archaeologists struggle to preserve artifacts from

what was the ancient king then after a long. and in the sport with he said we'll have the accent as in their prayers too good for a stray leah at the cricket world cup. now exit polls suggest that kasim have has won kazakhstan's presidential election in a vote that triggered rare protests early results show the talk here has claimed more than 70 percent of the vote he succeeds former president nursultan nazarbayev who ruled the oil rich country for almost 30 years before stepping aside in march but there are concerns about whether the election was free and fair at least $500.00 protesters were detained in the run up to the vote robin forrester walker reports from the capital. this was door to the electorate turned out to your thirty's wanted disorder because

it stuns capital. and 2nd city. we call the vote protesters croyde because they do not believe this election office . i'm a real choice. some said they supported the democratic choice of stone and political party. for coming here for the reasons for i'm not afraid because i've had enough i've been living without a home in temporary accommodation for 13 years i'm fed up others said they wanted freedom to demonstrate because unsanctioned protests are illegal and hasn't started any just the election isn't fair it's all been decided already it's not like attend choices as they are all. its own like circus was the right things now are working their way down the centuries street the protesters in front of me they are trying to say ahead of the police.

in the future drugs are being seized. and it's really getting it's a good if the situation. was good and that. this was the image the authorities wanted to project an orderly participation by the electorate in a peaceful transition of power. as a boy of the man who ran kazakstan for nearly 30 years has stepped into retirement although he retains significant powers as chairman for the life of the country's security council his chosen successor. to talk of his own cause to take over what is your specific message to those individuals who are campaigning for democracy and rights in this country those individuals you've been detained are advised all the law enforcement agencies to be tolerant.

restraint but any serious violations of our laws of course will not be tolerated. but at the same time i urge all the young people. on the same level. to exercise restraint to be tolerant to the power to the government a rare acknowledgement because it's deserved more political freedom that didn't stop the tensions kazakstan has never seen an election day quite like this before robert for a steelworker al-jazeera or so tied up the u.n. refugee agency says the risk of people dying while trying to get to europe as at its highest ever they when it says without intervention and mediterranean there will be a sea of blood this comes as the libyan coast guard says it's rescued more than 500

refugees trying to reach europe just in the past 9 days most were brought ashore off the coast of the libyan capital tripoli and taken to government shelters or santana from doctors without borders says the number of crossings across the med is much lower than last year but refugees are taking more risks the absolute number of people who are fleeing across the central mediterranean is much lower this year than it has been previous years but the key point of concern is that whilst over the same period last year the chance of dying in attempting to make that journey was one in 59 over the last 5 months the chance of death during the course of all of that journey is now one in 15 there are many factors that drive people to take this desperate option one of those factors is the recent conflicts in tripoli in northwest libya that has destabilized a large region had

a massive impact on civilians in and around that city but it is also likely to be pushing people to take options that they otherwise might not thought of including crops in boise. syrian government forces say they've captured a village on the border between hama and idiot provinces government tanks and soldiers have moved into tel millais president bashar al assad's forces launched an offensive to recapture and part of hama province as an april at least $300000.00 people have been displaced and hospitals have been attacked since the beginning of the offensive and thousands of mourners gathered in southern turkey for the funeral of a prominent syrian opposition figure who was killed by regime forces on saturday. a former football star from holmes was famously known as the singer of the revolution . body was carried in a procession across the border into syria is it live province. well counsel says there's a disconnect between palestinians and the united states over

a proposed american plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict donald trump's son in law and white house adviser jared krishna is believed to be driving those plans last week in an interview to u.s. media cushman said palestinians deserve self-determination but expressed uncertainty over their capacity to govern themselves later this month is expected to be a conference in bahrain to help the palestinian economy but it's likely to be shunned by many in the arab world while cash as foreign minister sheikh mohammed bin abdul rahman tony told reporters in london our position remains very firm we are going to support any plan that the palestinians are willing to accept if the plan is rejected by one of the parties it means the plan is either unfair more just not realistic the best scenario is that either both parties accept it or that both parties reject it while moon rabbani is the coeditor of which is an online magazine focusing on the middle east and he joins us now on skype from washington d.c.

when we know that qatar has a close relationship with various palestinian groups is this in your mind another nail in the coffin of christian is deal that qatar has become another arab state openly questioning us. well your question presupposes there is a plan and there is a deal and it's my view that there isn't you know every single thing about this current admin american administration has leaked and somehow are supposed to believe that this multi-talented peace plan is the one thing the president thinks so quite clearly the only logical inference is that it doesn't exist as far as the statements by the bulk of the 4 minister are consistent i think he's more or less stating the obvious and bear in mind he's not referring to a specific document that he claims to have seen routers he's pointing out that the current american wrote and dealing and implementing various initiatives on the ground and trying to pretend that the palestinians don't exist and as if their

consent to any of these initiatives is spiritual so you know it is just not going to work i really don't think he's saying more or less than that all the cattery foreign minister does appear to have praised the economic aspects of the deal or the the general outlines of a 50 of that we were expecting to hear more about in bahrain later this month what is happening with that summit are we expecting anything to come out of it especially as the palestinians have already said they're not going to attend. no and kind of the ceiling of expectations about the seating is simply that it will ready be convened and that it will be convened with both arab and israeli participation in this regard i think it's very unfortunate that a number of arab states included thought or have chosen to attend i presume out of deference to the united states and given the importance of their relations with washington rather than out of any genuine belief that anything positive whether economic or political was going to come out of sweden if it is indeed convened do

you think any of the contriver say around this potential deal comes as a surprise especially given mike pompei is rather candid comments just a few days ago about how the deal might be received is there a growing divide within the white house about what the deal should perhaps contain . i don't think there's so much a growing divide as a reality where people are kind of all over the place you know you have most recently the u.s. ambassador to israel daniel 3 saying he supports israel you have exceptional the some parts of the west bank you have a jury questionnaire saying that statement shouldn't be on the agenda and employing a classical colonial trope saying that the prosecutors are incapable of governing themselves in other words not ready for independence as we see here all over asia and africa and the fifty's and sixty's and it's kind of one new brainwaves

a minute all going absolutely nowhere there is a very clear u.s. policy which has been an embrace of the most extreme israeli agenda and implementing this on the ground seeing various initiatives that have already been taken that's what we should be focusing on rather than awaiting some kind of document which again i'm absolutely convinced has not been written and waiting for that to be unveiled in the future and rabbani that the coeditor of judge in a an online magazine on the middle east thanks for being with us on al-jazeera. iraqi archaeologists exploring the ancient kingdom of babylon say they need support to preserve artifacts after years of conflict the biblical city is the bath place of the wilds fest complex aben communities child stratford went to babylon to find out more. on the capital city of an empire that reached its peak on the king neb you could name around 2600 years ago this road led to the tower of babel

archaeologists say the walls were once adorned with blue ceramic designs. the babylonian god murdoch rides along the famous ishtar gate king maybe couldn't is his name is carved in qunu form a writing around 5000 years old and some of the bricks the southern palace was rebuilt on the original foundations and completed around 20 years ago but a lot of the restoration work is complicated to preservation efforts. concrete has forced moisture unsold up into the ancient foundations the water table is high because a tributary of the euphrates river is close by bricks late in the 1980 s. to reinforce some walls have made archaeological investigations difficult. problems include the shifting heavy populated areas close by we need a vast plan of excavation the remaining archaeology needs sustainable preservation

because the archaeological material is being heavily eroded rising above the site perched on top of a manmade hill is a palace built for a man who often identified himself with the babylonian kings saddam hussein's sama policy is an eerie reminder of iraq's more recent past the former dictator's faces carved into the palace walls. the great holes inside the empty marble walls are covered in graffiti a mural on the ceiling seems the only thing not defiled it's saddam hussein was so obsessed with babylon that he built one of his policies here and it's from the palace walls that you get this incredible view of the ancient ruins it's believed that in the foreground here that's where the fabled hanging gardens of babylon the world located and it's hoped that after years of petitioning by the iraqi

government this site is soon going to get world heritage status. iraqi archaeologists say the government needs to demonstrate its commitment to the sustainable preservation of babylon conflicts and political instability has kept most international archaeological teams away for almost 30 years the importance of babylon goes beyond whether or not it's a world heritage property and that goes for many sites in this country the origin of civilization civilization itself of complex civilization the evidence of it is here in this country the origin of writing you know important governance itself the kingship and the temple complex evolving over hundreds and thousands of years according to the bible god punished the babylonians for trying to build a structure to heaven and this overgrown trench is where it's believed the tower of babel once stood experts say a star archaeological investigation of babylon in the surrounding area could take

centuries a site often described as the birthplace of civilization in a country the struggling to recover from its violent recent past chance trafford al-jazeera. now still ahead on al-jazeera the human cost of a deal on migrants between the united states and mexico and what it means for families desperate to seek asylum. and unfortunately where and why it's double european tour like the portugal and the nation's make 5. hello the flood risk is still around in most the states of the central part of the u.s. but that's river flooding falling out of the sky the problems become georgia's all the carolinas for example this rain has been around for 3 days and has dropped at

least $100.00 millimeters so far probably $100.00 to come and the system now stretches up the eastern seaboard even into count of toronto's days looking wet at 16 on monday further west it's been quite quiet i 30 in san francisco really courtney increase in the temperature is not brief it is snow disappears and it soon come into the northern rockies just a couple days ago so the cold is gone but there's enough a change in temperature to want to showers and some of the plain states and the gathering of rain just coming it's in the south of texas but this system is on its way out now so new york back in the sunshine as just toronto come tuesday but the rain is to hang around in southern georgia possibly even the florida panhandle south of all this the caribbean still full of cloud with occasional showers brought in on the breeze bigger ones returning to cuba and for example haiti santa domingo could well be aware places that you want results from mexico and guatemala the showers are returning getting bigger and bigger and probably thundery.

as governments fail to cut emissions scientists are proposing drastic measures to save the planet. people in power ways technological endeavors to counter humanity's pollutants against the risks of further meddling with the environment to ever feel like this is playing god it's actually quite unsettling and quite frankly makes me quite anxious. klein attackers on al-jazeera. believe news as it breaks local communities here employee are very frustrated because the lack of closed door services with detailed coverage. of the bag-o. people who talk to the citizens traveling to make ends meet and just wants a better life from around the world and agnes she has been offered to those who

rebel against the government. except those involved in human rights abuses a war crimes. hello again i'm just. a reminder of the news this hour saddam's military has defended its crackdown on unarmed protesters saying it's their job to ensure the safety of the country at least for more people were killed on sunday in the capital khartoum and neighboring on demand as demonstrators heated the calls of protest leaders for a general strike. there have been confrontations between protesters and police and what could be hong kong's the biggest rally in 30 is protesters want an extradition

bill which could enable political opponents to be sent to mainland china for a trial prompt. and exit polls suggest that custom drama talk has one cuz it stands presidential election with more than 70 percent of the voters but there are concerns about whether the election was free and fair as $500.00 protesters were detained in the run up to the voters. well moldova's interim leader has called new elections after the constitutional court removed the sitting president on sunday the court suspended hugo darden after he refused to dissolve parliament the day in baba reports. as moldova's political crisis continued members of parliament convened on sunday with some declaring that state and legal institutions have been seized the woman who in theory heads a new coalition government called on officials to work with her new administration it was only as i would see we addressed all the state employees and workers of the law enforcement institutions with

a request to ignore illegal orders of those who try to power and stick to the side of the people and legitimate authority parliament and government mulled over as one of europe's poorest countries in the populations broadly split between people who favor ties with russia and supporters of european union it's witnessed several political crises in recent years on saturday parliament finally approved a new government a day after a court mandated deadline it's one based on an unprecedented alliance between sunday's procure a p n i coom bloc and the pro russian socialist party of outgoing president don't want. people who live in moldova differ in their views identity and geo political views but what happened in parliament today proves that we can find that which unite us. the formation of a government was meant to end months of uncertainty following elections in february but failed to produce a majority for any party. but after dawn refused to dissolve parliament this

weekend the constitutional court ordered fresh elections in september and appointed an interim president from the democratic party which is led by this man vladimir a highly controversial or legal he is one of the financier is and leading man of the democratic party and has been kind of the shadow ruler of malta over for quite a while now due to is both his influence over the party's influence over the media he is the richest man in mount over he's for been from holding any of the senior official positions to elements of his past allegations of corruption criminality. closer ties with the european union has been addressing supporters who set up tents in front of ministries and state institutions in the capital in recent years the e.u. has become increasingly critical of moldova's record on reforms in this latest down passes unlikely to reassure the outside world the barber al jazeera. india's prime

minister has become the 1st foreign leader to visit sri lanka since the easter sunday bombings around ramadi paid hermance to the victims and agreed to step up cooperation to prevent future attacks from colombo fernandez reports. a 1st hand look at one of the main targets of the easter sunday bombings for indian prime minister narendra modi he's the 1st world leader to visit since the attacks and stopped at the number needs church in colombo on his way from the airport worshippers had packed this church for easter sunday service on the 21st of april the 1st of 7 suicide bombers launched his attack here. within minutes 3 churches and 3 hotels had been targeted killing more than 250 people and injuring hundreds more. 10 indians were among the 45 tourists killed. it's a 3rd visit here for the indian leader who had a ceremony and welcomed including a $21.00 gun salute despite the view reince india is probably going to pick up more

assertive role as far as its regional influence is concerned and this is part of. more he has said his visit is to express india's solidarity with sri lanka's government and people in mind just be a force stop in sri lanka but analysts say prime minister narendra modi's visit sends an important message that things are getting back to normal 6 weeks after the easter sunday carnage politics is a different story present mighty by the city center and prime minister brown has become a singer may have come together for more this visit but they continue to disagree on a number of issues their latest battleground the special parliamentary select committee set up to investigate the easter bombings the president has sacked his intelligence chief and says he want to allow any serving officers to testify before the committee the indian prime minister highlighted what he calls

a neighborhood 1st policy by choosing the maldives and sri lanka for his 1st foreign visit after his reelection observers say it's a policy that is likely to shape regional relations in future years when a fernandez jazeera colomba. now u.s. president donald trump is pushing back against media reports that his latest agreement with mexico doesn't actually contain anything new the white house announced the agreement on friday trump threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from mexico unless it did more to stop asylum seekers from crossing into the u.s. but reports soon emerged that the deal mostly involves agreements that were reached months ago from washington d.c. alan fischer explains what's different in the agreement. well there are some new elements to this 1st of all the idea that the national guard in mexico would be deployed to the southern border to stop people coming up through the country are partly in agreement was reached in december between the u.s.

and mexico what we have now is a number around 5000 national guard troops will do that job and also a time scale mexico say they are moving on and they are moving on it quickly mexico is also going to make it easier for people to stay in mexico while the asylum claims are held in the united states know that whole thing is being challenged in the courts here in the u.s. so that might not become such a key issue donald trump has also said in a tweet on sunday that there is one big thing that wasn't unknowns when the news release about this went out on friday and that will become clear at the appropriate time no idea what that could possibly be and also he is saying that mexico has agreed to buy a great deal of agricultural produce from the united states but that has left both people here in the u.s. and in mexico scratching their heads saying there is no such agreement mexico has entered into no agreement about agricultural products what supporters of donald

trump are saying is that the threat of tariffs undoubtedly made mexico come to the table because within hours of him saying that this was a possibility that the foreign minister of mexico was in washington discussing a deal this also gives donald trump a convenient political out if the situation on the border does not improve that he can say this is not a problem this is mexico's and he may well raise the issue of tired of sigyn because the talents for the moment are only suspended not completely canceled. well both the u.s. and mexico have hailed the agreement as a success but as john heilemann reports from tampa true on mexico's southern border with somalia many of those trying to reach the u.s. see the deal a very different. her the united states and mexico a bunch celebrating the new agreement mexico's avoided the threatens us terrorists the us has the promise mexico will tighten its borders. it's been sold as

a triumph but those sites but there's bound to be a human cost and these people may be it central americans trying to get through mexico to the u.s. and cool it up in the crackdown the president trying to push pull in the couple of hours we spent at the mix can checkpoint 5 groups who are detained. many like honduran dudman well say that the end demick violence and chronic poverty in their homelands means there's little choice but to flee if you want as much of the family it's the situation here organized crime there's no work the americans the whole lot we can do nothing but he and his family will now most likely be headed back home and this is just the beginning because national guard are being deployed to the border to. mexico is road out that kind of blanket security before and it's led to migrants taking even more dangerous and isolated routes. what to mull until

fellow is still recovering from his own taste of the people smugglers squeezed him and some 50 others into a truck standing up and drove it through mexico's mountainous backroads it plunged into a ravine killing 25 people on medicare when i woke up and heard that 6 of my friends from the community had died 3 of whom i had gone to school with i was very sad the solution many would say is to simply stay at home and the new agreement does include a plan for development in central american country. so the people don't have to leave but the presidents of home duracell salvador and guatemala themselves have been virtually silent during this crisis and without their support their countrymen could be forgiven for thinking in this new deal they've been left on their own journey home and i'll just stop with children mexico. now iran has unveiled a new air defense system which it says is capable of targeting fighter jets and

drones and says the technology can handle 6 targets at once tension has been heightened between tehran and washington last month the u.s. deployed an aircraft carrier group and a bomb a task force to the gulf to counter what it said were iranian threats in the region oh yes the rebels say they've launched several drones targeting saudi arabia in a tweet they said they were trying to hit military facilities at the airport near the yemeni border there's been no confirmation from the saudi government al-jazeera as muhammad has more from the yemeni capital sana'a the host is confirmed media outlets the. international airports will be key to. sky.