mali's president warns the country cannot be dragged into a cycle of for revenge after at least $95.00 villagers are killed in an attack. you're watching live from the headquarters and. also ahead russia drops drug charges against the detained investigative journalist following a public outcry. another day of empty streets and closed shops in sudan as a civil disobedience campaign continues against the military. and another mass protests planned at hong kong china says there is nothing sinister about a new extradition law for the territory.

hello the united nations says it's shocked and outraged that the killing of at least $95.00 villagers in a suspected revenge attack in mali a dog an ethnic village was raided and homes set on fire in the region sunday's attack was the latest in a series of atrocities involving rival ethnic groups competing for access to land and water well the u.n. special representative for mali denounced what he called an act of unspeakable barbarism mohamed. who also heads the un peacekeeping mission in mali said the threshold of the unbearable is reached it is time for a nationwide outcry victoria gate b. has the details what it was a surprise attack in the middle of the night. wielding machetes and guns looking.

people from the doggone ethnic group men women and children were killed and others injured in the attack is similar to another 3 months ago when suspected dog unarmed men killed 160 filoni villages in august saguenay near the border with the kenya fassel. mali president abraham day because kater held a minute's silence for the victims during an official visit to switzerland. at this moment a thought for those who once more have fallen on the motorist bullets an unjust and cowardly act in the country felonies on a magic herders who move in search of fodder for their cattle villages resent them invading their farmland and those disagreements often turn violent. there are 13000 un peacekeeping troops in mali to protect people from armed groups linked to al qaeda increasingly they're dealing with fighting between neighboring villages the united nations system in mali is mobilizing to provide humanitarian assistance

to help people affected the mission also provided air support this morning in support of the mali and government to prevent future further attacks there are fears the intercommunal conflict is escalating this year has seen some of the deadliest incidence of ethnic violence in mali in a generation everybody know that the government is missing in action it is not going to send its image to address the lack of presence of the states in places where they are coming out of strife between the for dummies the goals of. the attack in march led to several military commanders being sacked but many mali and say the government and un forces need to do much more to stop the bloodshed victoria gate and be al jazeera nicholas harker's joining us live from mali's capital bamako with any update on the situation there and whether anyone has claimed whether one is claimed responsibility for this latest attack.

durant no one has claimed responsibility for this attack but that comes as no surprise we've seen attacks like this been directed towards the fulani community from dawn hunters and there again no one had claimed responsibility this morning the prime minister of. went on the ground to visit those that have survived this brutal attack and you know he was there to try to reassure the population to show the presence of the money in forces because many here are questioning why it took so long for the 1000000 forces let alone the 14000 u.n. peacekeepers that are on the ground. to come to try to stop the violence that took place in that village on sunday the violence took place just 50 kilometers away from a big army base a u.n.

peacekeeping base it started at 1700 local time it lasted for hours until 1 o'clock in the morning it took all this time before any security agency could come on the ground so there's a lot of question here on the deficiency of both the u.n. forces and a 1000000 forces and that is why i say the prime minister went on the ground to reassure the population to say that that the money and security forces are there to protect both the doggone and the full on these and what was their involvement. reassurance. people are scared not just in that area in the central of mali but there is fear throughout the country that this could spread remember this all started in 2013 where armed groups took over the north of the country arriving just a few 100 kilometers from bomb

a co then the french forces to france the former colonial powers came in to intervene then the un forces came but since we've seen and really an increase on violence not just by armed groups but from from from various militia groups or neighbors attacking one another we're seeing mali in attacking mullions over the control of land we're seeing salamis attacking the dog and we're also seeing this spread across the border to work in afonso so the united nations security council is expected to meet tomorrow to renew the mandate of the peace keeping peace keeping mission here and some members of the security council are in disagreement with how to redo that mandate whether to give more or. more ability to get this mandate to intervene outside of the border of mali or whether to stay on course and to see whether that will stem the violence but it seems with at least

$480.00 people dead so far in the last 2 months the violence is just increasing nicholas hoc thank you 19 people have been killed in an attack in birkenau faso it happened in the northern town of our been the identity of the attackers is still unknown but armed groups have killed hundreds in recent months forcing 850000 people to flee their homes. moscow has dropped charges against a journalist who was under house arrest saying the accusations haven't been proven . was charged with drug offenses last week sparking protests among journalists and other supporters who said he was framed. as known for his work exposing corruption among last goes political elites vasant is joining us from moscow was this decision expected at all stop. no of course it was a big surprise in a very usual unusual turn of events here in russia i'm actually here at the main

investigation unit of the police department where even is supposed to be released tonight a lot of people have gathered here not only journalists but also supports us there was a huge build up of protest and support for a gallon of and of course that is also the reason of this breakthrough there's a lot of these kinds of cases where people are being framed with drugs but this is the 1st time that they've been released like this because normally when you end up in this legal system even without any evidence it's very likely you're going to stay in there but this time it was different and it was also already in the last couple of days noticeable from the comments coming from the kremlin that there was some kind of uncomfortable feeling with this case and put in spokesman also said well maybe there have been mistakes made and that's very unusual for him to say because normally you would say we have to follow the law so this time not only journalists not only his closest friends but people in wider circles also from the

state media have come to his defense have questioned the reason of his arrest and now the interior minister said well we have no evidence we didn't find anything and we dropped the charges so what could be the consequences of this case. well this case is seen as a significant case basically because this is the 1st time this actually happened and of course because the government now admits that mistakes have been made and even police officers will probably be removed from their posts that will lead to investigations and of course people who have been following this case as well they will go to the bottom of this case who has planned this who has organized this who has planted this drug they will want to know everything and this is so the government is not going to be rid of getting rid of this case anytime soon is also a protest planned in the city in the coming days also because to keep the heat on this case and to keep the pressure up people say this is not allowed to be

happening again in the future all right thank you protest leaders in sudan are vowing to continue the 3 day old general strike businesses are closed in a show of defiance against the military following the killing of dozens of protesters last week commanders say security forces suspected of involvement have been arrested the opposition doubts the killings are being properly investigated also in sudan amnesty international says it has new evidence of killings and abuses in the darfur region the rights group says satellite photos as well as testimonies confirm government forces and armed groups attacked 45 villages between last july and february this year sexual violence forced displacement and other abuses were also documented amnesty is warning that the planned withdrawal of u.n. peacekeepers could further in danger lives. there have been more protests in hong

kong against a proposed extradition bill security was tight around the legislature building with riot police deployed in some areas the proposed bill would allow people from hong kong to be sent to mainland china for a trial it's due for a 2nd round of debate in a legislative council controlled by a pro beijing majority until he died for you i'm urging schools parents organizations businesses and unions to seriously consider if they encourage such radical behavior what good does it do for hong kong society everybody should know there are consequences when you break the law these consequences have a huge impact on both adults and young people china's leaders continue to voice support for hong kong's leader adrian brown reports from beijing where legal experts are defending that proposed law. china began aggressively pursuing chinese fugitives over seas 5 years ago that's when president xi jinping began an anti

corruption campaign that continues in the words of state media some suspects were persuaded to return others were extradited from one of more than 30 countries that now have a treaty with china a criminal lawyer i represented 2 suspects who ended up on a plane back to china both received suspended jail terms proof he says that the rights of suspects are being safeguarded in china. some people you hong kong oppose or warry about setting up next edition system with china and i personally think it is unnecessary because the positive sites way overrides the negative side because he says it would ultimately help to reduce crime in both hong kong and china chinese officials say there's nothing sinister about hong kong needing a new extradition law they say the territory has become a haven from justice for her. birds of criminals who can't be prosecuted because of

the legal loophole china's legal system is controlled by the communist party and say critics is biased towards a presumption of guilt especially in high profile or politically sensitive cases like those involving human rights lawyers government statistics report a 99 percent conviction rate in 2072 to $1.00 and is one of a handful of activists still prepared to talk to the foreign media he says the hong kong protesters all right to resist the plan's new extradition will some gangster jungle or since i hung kong is the only place under communist rule where people can take to the streets to express their opinions and i support them the last time we did that in mainland china was 30 years ago. china's state media says the violence after sunday's rally in hong kong was premeditated and planned. but concedes the protest was

a reminder that more needs to be done to explain why the law change is necessary adrian brown al jazeera beijing. still ahead on al-jazeera the us president donald trump makes a war promises regarding his agreements with mexico on asylum seekers. a suspended italian mayor who transformed his town by welcoming refugees goes on trial accused of breaking immigration laws. hello there we're still think plenty of showers over many parts of techie the satellite pictures showing plenty of bright white cloud there across many northern parts it does break up this state we're expecting more as we head through the next couple of days so again plenty of showers. hair on wednesday and on the day and

some of the downpours a likely to be very heavy mixed with the old rumble of thunder elsewhere as you'd expect it is getting pretty hot now kobold 30 degrees will be on maximum for us in baghdad will be up at $42.00 those high temperatures that make their way all the way down the gulf towards us here in doha a dry heat for us then but certainly hot 43 or 44 is likely to be our maximum temperature as we head through the next couple of days maybe just scraping to 45 more cloud to the south so a big gray area for some of us over oman and always the risk of the gold shower if you do have that large amount of cloud at this time of year for the towards the south and there's plenty of sunshine for many of us in the southern parts of africa but all around the south coast there's more in the way of clouds that could give us one or 2 showers around cape town but a warm day temperature of just 50 that system works its way eastwards i think it will be the eastern parts of south africa maybe just about into parts of mozambique where we see the wettest of the weather on thursday.

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again the top stories on al-jazeera the united nations says it's shocked and outraged at the killing of at least $95.00 villagers in mali sunday's suspected revenge attack was in the mopti region where rival ethnic groups are competing for access to land and water. russia has dropped charges against investigative journalist ivan ghoul and although he was charged with drugs offenses last week also says the allegations haven't been proven and his move to sack 2 high ranking police involved in the case. were protests in hong kong against a proposed extradition bill it's due for a 2nd round of debate in the legislative council on wednesday they proposed bill would allow people to be sent to mainland china for trial. u.s. president donald trump says the biggest part of the deal with mexico is yet to be revealed was announced last week and aims to reduce the number of refugees and migrants crossing the border into the u.s.

trump had threatened mexico with tariffs unless a deal was reached a lot of good things are happening but i want to thank mexico and we do have one of those things that will be announced at the appropriate time but they have to get approval from their legislative body what is it why are the mexicans denying it. i don't think they'll be denying it. from el paso with the us mexico border heidi a joke ouster explains the impact of the deal on asylum seekers there's a lot of confusion surrounding this so-called secret deal because the united states and mexico have very different versions of exactly what it amounts to president donald trump has tweeted that this is an agreement that has been signed and documented you called this an immigration security agreement with mexico but refuses to release further details however speaking with reporters mexico's foreign minister marcello broad this morning called it an agreement he said this is not

a deal at all he did confirm that mexico has sent 6000 national guard troops throughout mexico to deter central american migrants from proceeding north he also said mexico is expanding this program of allowing central american asylum seekers to wait just south of the u.s. border as their cases wind through u.s. courts however both of those measures have been agreed upon months ago truncheon said is bending this as a result of his hard line immigration measures that trend 5 percent tariff which would it take 10 today and the result of fevered negotiations for mexico to avoid that threat to american conservatives have already many have supported trump saying that this was effective at his threats were in deed useful and having mexico capitulate however the real story is still to be revealed exactly what this agreement comes down to what is not in dispute is the fact that this border is

under immense strain more than 130000 people were apprehended by border patrol they were asylum seekers in central america the process of border illegally trying to seek a better life in the united states that was that 13 year high and here now passed so in this border behind me a few weeks ago. more than a 1000 central american family seekers skirted this border fence and surrender themselves to american authorities. a lebanese businessman freed after 4 years in an iranian jail accused of spying for the u.s. has arrived in his home and. who has american residency held a press conference shortly after arriving in lebanon's capital the i.t. expert was arrested after visiting a conference in to iran in 2015 and later sentenced to 10 years iran's judiciary says his release has nothing to do with politics despite the weeks of increasing tension with washington and the u.s.

has welcomed release and praised the efforts of lebanese leaders as they department spokesperson said mr unjustly detained in iran for almost 4 years we hope that mr zak his release is a positive sign for american detainees in iran our white house correspondent kelly halkett has more from washington d.c. . well the u.s. sees this as a positive sign and a statement from the u.s. state department it continues to calm iran to release what the united states says are other missing and wrongfully detained american citizens still in captivity now this of course comes at a time of tension escalating tension between the united states and iran the u.s. continuing to exert its so-called maximum pressure campaign not just tough economic sanctions but also the positioning of a carrier strike group in the persian gulf it is notable in all of this that is our zaka son met with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei earlier this year urging him to secure his father's

release we also know that the iranian foreign minister for his part earlier this year offered to discuss prisoner releases with the united states very much viewed as and signed by iran it wished to pursue diplomacy however the united states rejected that offer from iran so it is not clear at this time if the united states had any overt involvement in the release of our zaka only that this is a time where the 2 countries continue to escalate tensions the united states continuing to pursue its maximum pressure campaign. the run media and yemen say rebels have attacked an airbase over the border in saudi arabia the who things say they use drones to target base saudi state media says the drones were intercepted the whole thing is fight against the saudi emirates a coalition with which backs the yemeni government is into its 5th year also in

yemen protesters have demanded saudi troops scaled back their operations near the border with the home on sunday commanders promised last year to hand over control of checkpoints in the province to yemeni forces but hasn't happened. the suspended mayor of a small italian town is standing trial accused of aiding illegal immigration dominic all of china was known for transforming his shrinking community by welcoming refugees so in your reports on riyadh shareware immigration policy has become a highly divisive political issue he won praise for integrating migrants in the town he ran but to many is a man in exile he's no longer allowed back to his hometown of riyadh even though he made the remote southern italian village well known for its welcome to outsiders now he's facing trial for allegedly aiding illegal immigration. i've

made a choice as mayor to support people who have no voice pushing for that every day because i believe in a human society. this is the reaction is new mayor antonio 3 foot he made his inaugural speech on sunday promising a new dawn for the village with the help of the far right immigration league party vehemently against the previous mode of integration and they say it's time for change they threw their support behind the fully we saw in your reaction need to develop not just barely populating itself to phylum speakers but also by early year 13 as identity and standing strong went on to feet where once the streets were full of life there's scarcely anyone around now the government has cut funds which sustained projects here migrants who settled here are locked in to talk to anyone about the situation that's also the case for its aging population while look at those integration model was praised all over the world there were plenty who didn't

agree with him and he was investigated for allegedly abetting illegal immigration amongst other charges could even face time in prison from a global village to a rapidly deserted one reaction is new league policy backed may has promised a renewal of its fortunes but the problem here is as with so many other places in italy's poorest south is that there is a dying population and there are few incentives to attract people to come here mcconnell's project was routinely criticized by italy's league party leader and deputy prime minister. whose anti immigration policies have divided the country those who remain in riyadh share are fearing the worst. government which to end what is you cannot create it here should not be destroyed he created an economic system which works here and can work throughout the country the small towns here suffer from the population there are no young people here as they've all left. the

promises of the new mayor will be a challenge in this remote area if he actually is to come back from the brink it faces many here believe it will require a complete overhaul if it is to avoid the fate of dying out altogether so new diagonal al-jazeera reaction southern italy. the colombian peace deal signed between the government and far back in 2016 brought an end to half a century of conflict but suffering and violence persist and have inspired one of latin america's most influential artists in a major installation. shattered glass for the life shattered in a fragile peace process threatened activists from across colombia break pieces of glass then use them to write the names of community leaders killed for speaking up against illegal mining deforestation or drug trafficking. is usually not paris is

one of the participants as a community leader defending women's rights she was tortured then left for dead by a paramilitary group. this is simply a step that could be among the and the saddest thing is the total impunity surrounding our cases we are remembering them we are telling them they cannot be forgotten or we are confronting the reality of hundreds of social leaders systematically killed and the lock on the policy to protect. the piece called those are shattered is the brainchild of say the when of latin america's most influential artist who has done a number of works reflecting on colombia's conflict she calls the project undertaken in collaboration with colombia's truth commission volunteers in the national university is a monumental act of mourning. just like life is fragile and once broken it can't be fixed it can't be restored this is

a way to reflect on what's happening at an incredibly high rate and forces us to question what's causing it what's truly happening. 470 social leaders have been killed since the signing of the peace deal in 2 tauzin 16 s criminal gangs paramilitary rebels fight for control of territories once under fire influence and where the government that's failed to intervene. in the last syria to use more force how does that explode you know neatly that have been created for the obvious people who are. working for that the new deal we mean for. they mean tonight they did for the only case protecting them vital meant they were . only part of what i wanted to democracy and this is how you get a dusting for. something the leaders fighting for their communities hope this

artwork can help do the main attention from those who live from a conflict that is fractured to the country and for many continues unabated i listened then. through time baseball world series champion david ortiz's has been transferred to a hospital in boston after being shot in his native dominican republic his former team the red sox and an air ambulance to carry the 10 time all-star back to the u.s. for treatment or to this is in a stable condition despite being shot at close range in the torso the 43 year old is one of boston's biggest sporting figurines. throughout our nation and beyond yet to us he is our own adopted son. and to please join us as we offer a moment of reflection and prayer for a complete healing and a full recovery for our beloved big papi. and you can see just how much or means to

boston as the red sox paws the head of their game with the texas rangers at fenway park many of his former teammates have been speaking about what he's meant to them thank you. the headlines on al-jazeera the. president has won the country cannot be run by a cycle of revenge after at least $95.00 people were killed in an attack on the community the government says gunmen raided a village and burnt several houses in the region russia has dropped charges against investigative journalist ivan of he was charged with drug offenses last week moscow says the allegations haven't been proven and 2 high ranking police involved in the case. protest leaders in sudan are vowing to continue the 3 day old general strike businesses are closed in a show of defiance against the military following the killing of dozens of

protesters last week commanders say security forces suspected of involvement of been arrested also in sudan amnesty international says it has new evidence of killings and abuses in the darfur region the rights group says satellite photos as well as testimonies confirm government forces and armed groups attacked 45 villages between last july and february this year there have been protests against the presence of saudi troops near yemen's border with the demonstrators one saudi arabia to scale back its military presence in the province last year the kingdom promised to hand all local facilities in their control to yemeni forces but that hasn't happened. more protests are planned at hong kong against the proposed extradition bill is due for a 2nd round of debate in the legislative council on wednesday the bill would allow people to be sent to mainland china for a trial until her life will you i'm urging schools parents organizations businesses

and unions to seriously consider if they encourage such radical behavior what good does it do for hong kong society everybody should know there are consequences when you break the law these consequences have a huge impact on both adults and young people. freed after 4 years in an iranian jail accused of spying for the u.s. has arrived in his homeland. who has american residency held a press conference shortly after arriving in lebanon's capital expert was arrested after visiting a conference in south run in 2015 and later sentenced to 10 years those are the headlines and side story is coming up next on al-jazeera.

it's been 20 years since nigeria turned its back on military rule and embrace democracy 2 decades on and there is a regular pattern the violent attacks the economy is stagnant and you're lucky if you've got a job so what if any has been the democratic dividend for nigeria this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm dennis i was 20 years since military leaders in nigeria stepped.