bags cost jobs because goods go. we bring you the stories to the shipping to economics we live in. counting the cost on 00. protesters force a delayed to debate on hong kong's controversial extradition bill as thousands around the government headquarters. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to full also ahead. on each bird has agreed to call off. and ethiopian envoys say sudanese protesters will suspend their general strike and resume talks as the military

agrees to release political prisoners fear of reprisals in mali after dozens of people belonging to an ethnic group are killed and their homes burnt down plus i'm going hey in bangkok where will tell you why a group of thai musicians are concerned for their safety in a neighboring country. legislators have been brock's from entering hong kong's government headquarters by thousands of protesters. the demonstration has delayed debate on a controversial extradition law it's the bail could allow suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial protests have been ongoing since sunday when a 1000000 people took to the streets to express their anger as speak to scott hyde those watching the protests in hong kong for as he joins us live so the protesting

against this controversial exhibition bill is caught has not convinced the government to scrap it but it has certainly did lay the process. exactly yes so i guess maybe a short term goal for these protesters and today predominantly they're young young people students that have taken off school or of they stayed away from work for the day to come out here in protest in the thousands they've surrounded the legislative council that's a black building behind me can see the protesters in the foreground their immediate goal was to slow this process and they've been able to do that we're hearing from the legislative council that they've delayed this meeting that all part of which was supposed to be the 2nd tabling of this controversy or extradition law so that has been delayed we don't know how long we don't know if it's going to be later this afternoon but right now we know it is delayed and that's mainly because of what they have done they've surrounded this building prevented people from getting in there are some of the legislators in there but not all of them sort of delaying the meeting for now why is this bill is caught so controversial why is it so

important to the pro-democracy protests. will the pro-democracy protesters it's very important to them because what they have been out on the streets and this is something that's been going on in different kind of incarnations at least for the last decade or so 5 years ago we saw the umbrella movement in fact i was right at this exact spot when that really kicked off and what they have been protesting against the pro-democracy protesters and that is the steady in constant influence and power that beijing has been putting over mainland china has been putting over here the some economists semi a ton of this region so they the protesters see that this is beijing power grabbing they're doing things changing laws that they don't want change so that is why they came out 5 years ago but then nothing really changed and then now that's why they're out again because they see this as the continue erosion of the identity they see as hong kong thank you for that. in hong kong while china's leaders are

voicing support for hong kong's chief executive adrian brown has more from beijing not where legal experts are defending the proposed law. well not surprisingly the dramatic pictures coming out of hong kong are not being shown on the mainland no images have appeared on state t.v. or indeed in any of china's state controlled media outlets pictures of also being blocked online indeed any references to the protests in hong kong are also not appearing on social media and i think that blackout is going to remain in force for as long as these protests continue china's leaders don't want to see protesters on the streets of a chinese city particularly when it's a chinese city where there were protests just 4 years ago when of course the occupy movement took over the center of hong kong a protest that lasted for several months so china's leaders continue to insist that they support the embattled hong kong chief executive kerry lam they want this

proposed extradition law to happen because of course china has extradition arrangements with more than 30 other countries and it doesn't see why hong kong should be any different but on choose day china did suffer a setback because a court in new zealand ruled against extraditing a man back to china where he's wanted for questioning over the murder of a woman in shanghai but lawyers here in china we've been speaking to say there are adequate safeguards in china's legal system and that hong kong and the people opposed to this new extradition law really have nothing to worry about the the the line the narrative coming from china is that there is nothing sensitive in this extradition law that china wants passed what is a problem is that perhaps it just simply hasn't been explained well enough. in other world news there are signs of a breakthrough in the sudan crisis after more than a week of violence destruction and deadlock ethiopian mediators say the military

and opposition groups have agreed to resume talks soon on the formation of a council to oversee the transition to civilian rule the flesh on a previous agreements on issues such as a structure of a transitional government the opposition is suspending its civil disobedience campaign and general strike for its fought the military has agreed to release all political prisoners one of the conditions for talks laid down by protest leaders and go see asians collapse on june 3rd at the start of a violent military crackdown on protesters which according to a doctor's group killed 129 people in the past few hours the un security council has unanimously condemned the violence and called on both sides to find a solution to the crisis and rights groups are warning of war crimes by paramilitary forces in the darfur region of sudan natasha good name reports. this fire in darfur was retribution for allegiance to the protesters nationwide strike according to the sudanese professional association the group says on monday about

10 people were killed and stores and homes were torched by a peer a military group called the rapid support forces or r s f amnesty international says it has evidence proving the r.s.s. is committing war crimes in the region and internet blackout and reports of electricity outages in the capital mean information is slowly trickling out tuesday it was the 3rd day of a nationwide strike intended to show the transitional military council that protesters may not have weapons but they have power. protesters say last week's military crackdown that killed almost 130 people only fortified their resolve the good thing that the syrian community are going to buy anyways and neighboring here than they're. letting food providing water for or for the

neighbors when needed with an ethiopian delegation mediating the 2 sides reached an agreement to return to negotiations or guarding a future government. to take confidence building measures including the one that's going to be. on its part. to call the. protest leaders are also demanding the transitional military council restore access to the internet lift restrictions on journalists and ultimately allow civilians to determine the next phase of governance in sudan experts say it won't be easy for the military to relinquish power after decades of dictatorship and they very much fear accountability thank the. control over election. corruption commission and they fear being

told to get out of their war in yemen which is where you need. people may return to work shops may reopen and cars may once again fill sudan's streets but protest leaders say life will not resume as usual and they reserve the right to return to their campaign of civil disobedience until their demands for civilian rule are met natasha going to aim does iran best model mani is a professor at the university of waterloo and a senior fellow at the center for international governance innovation she says despite ethiopia's mediation efforts the opposition still lacks international support certainly kudos to the if the o.p.'s for doing this frankly the fact that you had the entire arab league unable to to help and frankly complicit in the military is really problematic to say the least but i think the professional association may be just realistic about the fact that they're not getting the international support they need it is a is

a shame i think they can always go back to the civil disobedience is working it can be used again i think continue transparency by the opposition to its followers its key but some of the very basics of allowing the prisoners to be released some sort counts ability of who is behind all of these murders is helpful but make no mistake sadly the professional association is really i think the one with the shorter the shorter stick so-to speak. yemen's who the media say the rebels have attacked the airport in saudi arabia with a cruise missile the saudis have not confirmed the attack and they have been protests against the presence of saudi troops near yemen's border with oman the demonstrators want the saudi and iraqi coalition to scale back its military presence in the province of amara. the a promise to hand over cities in their control to yemeni forces but that hasn't happened. dozens of people mostly children have been killed in an attack on

a village in the mopti region of central mali houses of doggone hunters were burnt down and their animals killed during sunday's violence the u.s. called the attack an act of unspeakable barbarism reports from bamako a warning his report contains graphic images were the silence is deafening when the smell of dead bodies hangs low in the air. the attack on the doggone village of sudan who started at dusk and went on deep into the night few survived hiding as their loved ones were being killed you know at the turn they immediately circled the village and shot at everything done to move so every were people who were screaming trudel war screamy who tried to run were shot down the survivors believe they know who the killers are it is their full on the neighbors they say both communities have been fighting each other for control over land. armed groups

have called on fellow needs to join their ranks accusing the government of backing doggone militias ethnic tension is at breaking point with each community calling for revenge attacks in this spiral of violence both communities are fleeing their homes it is in this open air slaughterhouse on the outskirts of the capital that some full ani's have sought refuge. all of the people living under this tent share one bowl of rice and millets children show clear signs of malnutrition there's not enough water to go around so there's a threat of water borne diseases this is where they sleep eat and cook despite the calls for peace lonnie's continue to be the victims of violence president ibrahim burger king says the country's national unity is under threat. i would like to call on all our brothers to keep calm and stay rational more than ever. while the

$14000.00 u.s. soldiers and money and forces on the ground failed to prevent these killings don't go to hunters call this latest attack on their community a declaration of war saying revenge will come rediculus hauke al jazeera bamako mali was still ahead on al-jazeera outrage in brazil after each document appeared to show a conspiracy to keep the former president out of the 2018 election race splats. of. 20 years ago nigeria returned to democracy but many are unhappy with the pace of progress. in. the west and sponsored by cattle and always. hello again welcome back we are cross turkey we haven't seen plenty of thunderstorms over the last few days

that's going to continue the temperatures are fairly warm for this time of year into the high twenty's low thirty's keeping the instability across much of the area to wise here in aleppo though a warm day for you at $32.00 degrees and as we go towards wednesday and into thursday things are going to relatively be the same across much of the area beirut a sunny day if you with the time to there of $26.00 degrees well here across the raven peninsula we're going to be seeing an increase of moisture particularly down here towards a cell you notice out here in the arabian sea this is a cycle on and with that plenty of clouds are going to be pushing across much of the west not really seeing that here on wednesday but by the time we get towards thursday much of oman into yemen is going to be seeing some clouds and we can't rule out maybe some embedded showers across much of this area most got a cloudy day few with the tempter there of $36.00 degrees and then as we go down here towards the southern part of africa we are going to be seeing some showers make their way anywhere from the southern cape across much of the east and that

front is going to be pushing up towards durban temperatures are going to be coming down to about 18 degrees but over here towards to him a spurt it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of 17. the weather is sponsored by qatar and ways. this is a dialogue reading about it for less than staying at an international media and on t.v. why should we stop this conversation with skepticism because there's a lot of it online everyone has a voice we are being taken advantage of just because you know small community. in let's walk just hope join the global conversation on out to 0 all they want to do is start to do the same kind of debate that we have here in st.

a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera this solid thousands of demonstrators have surrounded the government headquarters in hong kong delaying the start of a debate over a proposed extradition bail they're worried the launch change could pave the way for the suspects in serious crimes to be sent to mainland china to stand trial ethiopian mediators say sudan's military joined in opposition groups have agreed to resume talks on transition to civilian rule vote as leaders have suspended a civil disobedience campaign and general strike the military says it will replay it release all political prisoners and nearly a 100 people have been killed in an attack on a village in the mopti region in central body houses of traditional doggone hunters were brought down during sunday's violence the un has described it as an act of unspeakable barbarous it. now syria's state news agency is reporting that the

government's ad defenses have intercepted an israeli missile attack that targeted the town of aha it's considered a city. lookout point over the occupied golan heights and is endeavor ophrah finds out where the world food program is warning of a catastrophe in the northwest of syria following weeks of a government offensive the u.n. agency says it's been unable to reach at least 7000 people in the area of my deek where there's been intense fighting in a neighboring hama province syrian government and russian air strikes have killed at least 27 civilians also of them women and children the government's push to recapture the last rebel strongholds has killed more than 300 people so far. there is a catastrophe unfolding in the northwest region of syria as we speak constant bombardment has pushed hundreds of thousands of people their homes from the northern parts of

the southern part of it we know that there is more than 300000 people who are displaced and those who are lucky enough to reach the northern can't have sought refuge there ever there continues to be dozens and dozens of people who are unable to make that journey. meanwhile the u.s. is imposing sanctions on one of syria's most prominent business men washington is accusing some mair foz of profiting from the civil war and helping president bashar assad the u.s. police falls and his family are directly supporting the regime and building luxury properties on land stolen from displaced syrians from washington d.c. patty cohan explains why the u.s. decided to take these meshes. u.s. president donald trump hasn't been focused very much on syria so the sanctions announcement it was a bit surprising but the treasury department's come out and said 16 people and cities with a relationship with assad in syria are going to be sanctioned what this means is

that americans are generally prohibited from doing business with them and if they have any assets in the united states those can be frozen this is a fairly big company in the middle east so what treasury says they're doing in one aspect is taking the property of syrians who fled the war syrians who are still there and converting that property into luxury buildings so there's been sanction for that and this is a company that has a broad reach as i mentioned they're involved in sugar refinery trading grain they do a lot of transportation in the middle east so this could have a big impact if this company has a connection to american businesses it is the administration's a new message that they are going to try and target those closest to bashar al assad. and lebanese businessmen accused of spying for the u.s. has arrived in his homeland after spending 4 years in the rain in jail. who has american residency held a news conference shortly after arriving in beirut the expert was arrested after

attending a conference in tehran in 2015 and may just sentenced to 10 years iran's judiciary says his release has nothing to do with politics despite weeks of increasing tension with washington. the u.s. is reportedly pushing saudi arabia to complete its investigation into the kill. of saudi journey. before the 1st anniversary of his murder a trump administration official told the reuters news agency it surging the saudis to show tangible progress towards holding those responsible to account shoji was killed after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul in october last year. russia has dropped charges against a journalist who was under house arrest saying the accusations haven't been proven a van gogh was charged with drug offenses last week sparking protests among journalists and other supporters who said he was framed photo novice known for his work exposing corruption among law schools political elite.

thank you very much for all the support i still hardly understand what's happening i'm happy that justice has been served and that a criminal case was dropped i hope the investigation will continue and i hope no one will find himself in the same situation as him. critics of thailand's military and more narky say they fear for their lives after the murder and disappearance of several dissidents in neighboring countries hundreds of people left thailand after a military coup in 2014 and many others are in hiding they include a music group as wayne hare reports now from bangkok. fearing for their lives hasn't stopped these band mates singing these songs of protest the group called 5 left thailand for neighboring laos after the military coup in 2014 they write songs critical of the military and monarchy in question the palaces role in thai society things that can result in a long jail sentence in thailand speaking to al-jazeera from laos one of the band

members says they believe they are being hunted me up there are people who are working undercover to get us there many signs some are true and some are fake i receive warning almost every day and i'm start to lose my mind. in december the mutilated bodies of 2 critics of the monarchy who'd also been living in laos were found in the mekong river and last month family and friends of 3 other dissidents held a small protest outside the vietnam embassy in bangkok concern for their safety the 3 men moved from laos to vietnam where it's believed they were arrested and handed over to thai security forces. it's clear that if. or anyone who dare spoke negatively about them or narky there is no welfare for them they are not saved they are not there when they go into its side. the thai

government says it doesn't know anything about the cases or why the band is concerned for its safety the killings and disappearances come at a time of transition for thailand the new king kong was crowned last month following the death of his father king on a do new day who reigned for 70 years and a new government has been formed following the general election in march the 1st since the coup. there are many critics in the military. the most wanted in neighboring countries it's believed the 5 members are the last on the list the wrist by the being killed or disappeared. a saved by an online campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the case and rights work is a lot being foreign governments to help the band leave laos. i hope that my application for refugee status will be quickly approved because it's becoming more dangerous every day the sooner the better. for now all they can do is wait in

hiding and continue to sing their songs of defiance wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. to brazil now where they allegations that prosecutors and a judge worked together to keep former president. out of the 2800 no i was jailed in april last year as part of a wide ranging corruption probe called operation car wash a latin america at its embassy in yemen reports. until not so long ago justice minister asserted your model was widely regarded as brazil's anti-corruption hero he was praised as a man who wasn't afraid to imprison not just corrupt businessmen but also the country's most influential politicians including former president listen. now the former judge who oversaw a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme nicknamed operation car wash is at the center of scandal himself and facing calls to step down this follows the

publication of leaked conversations and messages that he allegedly exchanged with prosecutors about a lula da silva case model is allegedly heard sharing information and advice in an attempt to ensure that lula da silva would be found guilty which is illegal for the future mark here we can see that in a way that impartiality of the judgment could have been compromised and he said the beginning we see it there was a kind of orientation given by the judge to the prosecutors in the legal process. lou was convicted and prevented from running for president last year clearing the way for a current president also noddles victory also noddle then named modern justice minister and reportedly promised to give him the next available seat on the supreme court more denies any wrongdoing and describes the allegations as sensationalist the prosecutor implicated also dismisses the charges now no those accusations are

not true and their origin is linked to a criminal attack a hack however model is now being investigated himself for possible misconduct amid allegations that he used his power for political purposes and personal gain questions over morals propriety are unlikely to be enough to overturn former president conviction but they will certainly give ammunition to those who have long suspected that the former anticorruption czar had a political agenda all along you see in human al-jazeera. the world health organization has confirmed the 1st case of ebola in uganda a 5 year old child travel from the democratic republic of congo with his family on sunday officials have sent a team to trace other potential cases and vaccinate those who may have come in contact with him uganda has been on high alert since the outbreak in the eastern democratic republic of congo where nearly 1400 people have died of the virus. so

it's been 20 years inside syria has returned to democracy with the economy still in bad shape and insecurity increasing it's been a bittersweet anniversary for many in africa's largest democracy and i did research for some lagos. these are the demonstrations of course the nigerian military to accelerate the return of the country to democracy 20 years ago. on may 29th 1909 for military ruler all who should go bus in york was sworn in as a civilian president few months after he was freed from prison serving a life sentence for treason and for the next 20 years democracy endured but many nigerians are not impressed. along with many others was thrown into jail by the military for acting as if they were demanding we know of the presidential election of june 12th 1003 be installed as president he says the current system is not what

freedoms and lives were sacrificed for. anyone we go into office after all decide because that we have made will be mindful of the state opinion. poverty of our people i do take measures economy when this is that we quickly transform the misfortune of our people and lead to. bitter living conditions with them. what have you got since in the last 20 s. that's not watching what's. in those years nigeria now has its 4th elected president many nigerians are angry at the slow pace of development over the past 20 years since the return to democracy while some happy with the failure to reform their laughter others are worried about the economy security i'm implementing an electricity shortage many believe that given the generous rich resources it's such

a bizarre battle. and those frustrations are growing the people we are voting for you lot who we are seeing through blinking their words so democracy i don't see a slow walk to the slow walking so the people who.