march on al-jazeera. an impassioned call for peace and coexistence from the ruins of churches destroyed by ice ill francis holds mass in the iraqi city of mosul. and i know i am i am to my z. and london you're watching algis there are also coming up on the program iran releases bush iranian aid work and as needs a garri radcliffe after 5 years in prison but summons her to court on another charge. the saudi led coalition hits yemen's capital with as strikes after missile and drone attacks on saudi arabia and the it unions call for

a total strike to shut down me and mas economy on monday is the security forces ramp up their crackdown with mass nighttime arrests. and switzerland merrily approves a far right proposal to ban face coverings despite few women now wearing the niqab . welcome to the program pope francis is iraq's christians to forgive the injustices committed against them he made the play on day 3 of his trip to iraq as he told northern areas decimated by isis ill the head of the roman catholic church was greeted by locals in the ruins of mosul he released a dove and heard from residents about life under the group's brutal rain event traveled on to car kasha christian enclave that was overrun by eisel fight as well crowds. lined the streets to see and then it was back to erbil where he started the

day and where despite surging covert cases in iraq he celebrated mass in a stadium with 10000 people some on a fault in reports now from our bill. amid the rubble of mosul all city a prayer for the victims of war and they don't nearby christian town striving to recover from isis to your occupation and appeal to forgive and look to the future you know everything. it's a matter of conversion of the hearts reconciliation and putting aside our differences we must all work together for the future of her turn all of which recognizes a common humanity and together build a dialogue and forgive on his 3rd and final day in iraq pope francis traveled to the northern maine of a plains to highlight the plight of communities damaged by a war and then courage to shrinking christian minority to stay in their ancient

homeland i saw may have been defeated here 4 years ago but the fear it spread still lingers to feel safe church leaders say minorities need to be empowered to govern and protect themselves we could form local police christian was them's together train them together and they will know exactly who are there they know all the people very very well in that sense we offer jobs and also security and that the same time try to bring the trust of the people in their land again because they would feel that they are responsible and protecting this land now with i would urge the government to take these steps. thousands of christians who fled the nineveh plains remain in the semi autonomous kurdish region and eagerly flocked to see pope francis hold mass in the capital at a beetle god willing it will be good and a blessing for all of iraq we're in crisis i am 60 years old and all of my life has

been was my cold and these was the pope's visit to iraq was a rare moment of hope and inspiration for christians and muslims alike and the break from the divisive politics that have fueled many cycles of violence diversity coexistence and forgiveness and both were the main themes of the pope's thurmond's while the seeds for a new way of thinking may planted in the course of this is couric visit seeing it come to fruition will require political change and reform they want to hold the al-jazeera to be. want to bring you some news now from equitorial guinea where local television is saying that at least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a military base in the city of bhatta. videos posted online show the off them off of this attack with wounded people being

obviously carried away there the cause of these boss or the number of casualties number of dead or wounded isn't clear just yet but local media outlets are reporting at least several casualties a t.v. station is also appealing for blood donations and hospitals are currently described as being overwhelmed by was just taken place. in iranian british national nazneen zardari radcliffe might be one step closer to freedom after 5 years in custody a lawyer has told an iranian website her house arrest has officially ended and she's now had her ankle tag removed but she's also been summoned to appear in court on a different charge as a bag reports from tehran. after 4 years in prison and one year under house arrest as an insult the radcliff's ordeal looks like it's almost over on sunday her

electronic ankle tag was removed but she's not yet completely free her lawyer said he doesn't know if she will be allowed to leave iran while welcoming the developments the british prime minister criticized iran's treatment of her. nazanin hold to julie rein in british citizenship she'd gone to iran with her young daughter in april 2016 to visit her parents on the day she was meant to travel back to the u.k. she was apprehended by members of the iranian revolutionary guard at the airport she was sentenced to 5 years for plotting to overthrow the iranian government evidence against nazanin has never been made public a trial was held behind closed doors and she's always maintained her innocence the lack of transparency around her case has led some to believe that iran may have other motives beholden on to the people who are in the uranium regime are absolutely. about the west about america about you know big states and

little states some folks think that we will stop at nothing until there is regime change and it is trying to you very very hard to get them to trust us and so that is the challenge of trying to deal with iran wants the u.k. to return money it paid for tanks purchased in 1986 but never received iran denies that nazanin case is linked to the ongoing dispute you know all of the sensitivities around. the media interest in this case is not only sees is. as or getting. all russia certainly on britain in all the. more. now than has been summoned to court on march 14th to face further charges of spreading propaganda against iran her husband richard has led her campaign for release from the start and throughout it all the daughter gabriela has been

counting the days until her mother is freed aside big al-jazeera the arab. roy chalons has been monitoring the situation here in the u.k. and so rory the 5 year sentence is complete but now the guy radcliffe going to court to face new charges tell us about the political reaction here to this. well i mean we've heard from both the foreign office and we've heard from boris johnson the prime minister today basically saying that they glad that sentence has come to an end but the the iranian treatments of a continuous mia's is very inherent castration is unacceptable and needs to be ended the difficulty is working out quite how that is going to happen because i think you know the general perception from both nazanin family and from the british government is that this is nothing to do justice is nothing to do with guilt or

innocence this is about point scoring this is about saying you know kind of geopolitical argument between iran and the west particularly the united kingdom so in the context of that is difficult to predict what is going to happen next now richard ratcliffe a nasa needs husband thinks that the revolutionary guard has made it very clear that it's about these tanks that asset was just talking about in his report and when it boils down to that then essentially what you need to have happen is for some kind of deal to be reached a monetary one probably this is the resolution of this half a 1000000 tough a $1000000000.00 of outstanding debts that iran feels that it is owed from the u.k. that needs to be settled and then perhaps things can move forward. there also these different differences between the family of him as a name and the british government about how best to achieve

a resolution there as he were both working towards the same aim but you know we've got richard who i think believes that the u.k. government has not acted quite is. actively as it could have done and the u.k. government thinking that perhaps richard is being a bit too vocal and if you only kwan downs a touch and let him get on with the kind of quiet diplomacy things have moved forward swifter then you also. have things like the gaffe the boris johnson made a few years ago in 2070 when he was he was the foreign secretary basically saying that the name was into iran to to teach journalism and that this is this is you know set out back her case considerably the family would say that was absolute nonsense that wasn't true which it wasn't the truth she was there on holiday but. multiple different layers and multiple multiple different different difficulties in how exactly to achieve her return to the u.k.

thanks very much rory chalons. yemen's hoofy rebels say they've launched 14 drones and 8 missiles toward saudi arabia a spokesman said they targeted the oil from iran to noora and military targets in the cities of a syringe is on has been no confirmation from saudi arabia but there have been reports of an explosion in the eastern city of daraa on. well it comes after the saudi led coalition carried out several as strikes on who see targets in yemen's capital sana'a. residential area was also hit and there are reports of casualties those strikes in time came after he said they shot down a saudi spy plane earlier on riyadh said the who he said find a missile and drones at an oil facility in civilian areas inside the kingdom but they were intercepted and destroyed mohamed el i doub sent this report from sun

just after the saudi ass strikes hit the city. we can see columns of small convoy still raising up in the sky over. the saudi fighter jets a military compound to the control of the whole of these in the worst of the capital it is called the military compound the. tora the civilians and the. people. of. the city of sanaa. these according to some of those and also i would was over 5. be carried out on this mythical bargain also. military side or military position to the south of the capital sanaa there are more than 450 have been carried out in. the region of

mughal where the whole of these are trying to advance towards the city of my they believe that the world can take control of the city in order to gain the supply of fuel they say that the saudi quality has for the. structures on the floor. to. draw. now to me and my labor unions are calling for a national strike on monday in an effort to shut down the economy at protest at the military it comes as a funeral was held for a prominent politician who died in police custody after being detained in a nighttime raid ken long was an official. national league for democracy a party member says they suspect he was tortured there could no longer come a viewing damage on the military doctors stage his death was due to a heart condition i asked how he got the bruises on his body they were bruises on

the back of his head on the back near his heap but the doctor said those were not the cause of his death although police and army have been carrying out increasingly birdsall nighttime raids throughout the country there as tony chang reports on that now from bangkok. they come in the night firing stun grenades and live rounds. soldiers and police roaming residential neighborhoods shooting into buildings smashing property as they pass for some these are detention squads seizing protest leaders politicians and civil servants dragged away to an uncertain fate elsewhere they're cleaning up peeling stickers of the coup leader general min on off the road. but for those watching from behind twitching curtains it's clear they have one main goal to intimidate. the yangon resident who filmed this told al-jazeera that 40 armed soldiers and police had been

searching houses for members of the national league for democracy or n l d yeah well over. the whole of our neighborhood in shock today is frightened we can't sleep at night in case they come back of the car and as the sun sets another sad ritual in modern myanmar vigils for those who have died on the streets in the cities of yangon mandalay dar way and elsewhere the candles burned to commemorate a growing list of names until the darkness and the security services claim the streets once more toni ching al-jazeera. you're watching out of town life from london and still ahead on the program 2 years after the estate easter sunday attack sure lanka's catholic community is still calling for justice and accusations already flying before the blockbuster interview that's real and old wounds and the question well family.

hello there we got a late blast of winter coming into the northeast if europe at the moment we've got this area of cloud here sinking down across the boat 6 days this cold front this blue line that will continue to track its way further southwards. to speak read just coming in behind to temperatures in moscow minus 4 celsius there's snow on that into western russia into ukraine to sliding out of poland temperatures well as you can see subzero for many right clouds meanwhile across the northwest of europe we have been see some showers just coming in across the north sea plenty of showers across the western side of the but it's right in that it could be on the heavy side as we go on into monday and shoes to choose to become a little more widespread they can filter their way across central parts of italy possibility of some snow over the high ground and some snow there into the ouse

snow clears away from moscow meanwhile but take a look at that temperature minus 9 the top temperature this stays back into the northwest well we're getting up to plus 9 in glasgow wet windy a mild who had just started to push its way in from the atlantic we got some wet and windy weather also making its way across northern parts of morocco northern areas of algeria over the next couple of days and shop showers here with a distinct possibility of some localized flooding. amidst destruction and despair a group of friends resist. rescuing books from the rubble they build a refuge for freedom and democracy. a secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. who witness.

a library under bombs on al-jazeera. to move. back and dine at main stories now pope francis has called for peace and coexistence urging iraq's christians to forgive injustices committed against them he made the play on the 3rd day of his trip to iraq as he told northern areas destroyed by eisel. nazarenes a guy writer for geo iranian british national is one step closer to freedom after 5 years in custody a lawyer told an iranian website a house arrest is officially ended but she was now go to court to face new charges and there before large explosions at a police or military base in the city of biter in equitorial guinea now 17 people

have been reported dead 420 injured the cause of the blast is not yet clear. right there is nicholas is following developments from the car and joins us now and so nick we've been reporting so far 17 people dead hundreds have been wounded just how extensive are these attacks in equitorial guinea. well miriam the fact that we are hearing about this in the 1st place and there's so much footage on social media people being carried out from these military complex in a country that's so isolated it only shows to you the extent of the damage and how big of a of an explosion of a deal this is for the people in the world getting off in this country is described as the north africa sorry the north korea of africa an isolated country it happened

in one of the the biggest city the former capital of guinea inside the military barracks now this was a complex where there you had people who worked in the security forces that live there as well as people who worked in the movie living side by side as well as a detention center and there's a fear that many who have been detained in in their cells well might be still trapped in there in the rubble some of them may have died there's a scenes of of bodies being carried out to the hospitals the hospitals the 3 main hospitals of the city are overwhelmed bodies of children as well the hospitals are calling or the health authorities have been calling for blood donations to try to treat the patients in this is happening in a country that is extremely wealthy and of with oil and gas and there's been a tussle for power. following. obiang who's been the leader of this country since

1989 and there's been a tussle of power between his brother in law and his son his son who is in charge of the military did in fact the brother in law as it is expected to be appear in court over embezzlement and corruption charges in spain so after this explosion the finger will be pointed to who is responsible for this and there lies another challenge ahead but for. the moment for health authorities and the security forces it's trying to pull out those people that have been affected out of the rubble treat those that are injured i'm trying to find blood for them and trying to treat all of that that have been victims of this explosion very peculiar there hasn't been attacks or explosions like this before 4 explosions happening not

simultaneously but one after the other inside a military barrack in there john donnelly and possibly inside the detention center miriam indeed these explosions of course a great deal of destruction will stay on the story and bring more information on this later found thank you very much now frank as catholic minorities have attended mass dressed in black to demand justice for the victims of the easter sunday attacks almost 2 years ago they are calling for accountability no one has been prosecuted on the bombings which targeted 3 hotels and 3 churches in elfin and is now. a strong but peaceful sure strength by catholics in sri lanka these people who want justice for the 270 killed in 6 bomb attacks on easter sunday in 297 of them were from terry's appearances family this little to and 5 grandchildren that had the help did the police they went happily expecting

to come back but only their bodies returned i'm asking that these issues are not avoided by the authorities who are enabling these tragedies to be repeated 8 gomers detonated bombs in churches and in a series of attacks they were blamed on a local extremist group affiliated to eisele that milly suspect others were involved. after 2 years of waiting the church is now campaigning for answers. i don't really know much about this is not a struggle between religions race or politics but it's a struggle of fear over and fear light over darkness justice over in justice the report of the presidential inquiry into the bombings was handled the incivility because. it says things 2015 the government did not protest national security instead purgatory sing unity and reconciliation witnesses said the government did not take action against religious extremism that only presidents are

a sinner and premier rick i'm a single but entire government responsibility we are more interested in finding out who did beat who funded it and why they did do it the church says black sunday marks the 1st step of a journey to secure justice the bloodstains are long gone the cut to a beauty a church you see behind me has been repainted the church leaders see there would be no closure until justice is served and the identities of those behind the least of bombings are revealed in a finance i'll just cut to update here now some news from switzerland where voters have narrowly approved a controversial face coverings in public the proposal was approved by just over 51 percent of those who voted in a referendum it did not mention islam specifically but the measure is known informally in switzerland as a burqa ban me several exceptions including mosques protection from the coronavirus

serial is head of women's rights amnesty international in switzerland and says that very few women in the country actually wear full face coverings. we don't have official data about it but a recent study is showing that they are only about 30 women wearing the niqab in switzerland so they are very few women concerned this is the 2nd time populistic committee is launching that his story getting one very just minority in particular they started in 2009 was burning of building of minarets which has been successfully approved by swiss voters and this time they attacked again religious symbol and instrument their lies to remain to advanced. agenda according to opinion surveys people have been convinced by misleading propaganda that banning full face veil would help protect the rights

of muslim governments which is of course not the case on the contrary dishpan have a negative impact on the women in question they can be marginalized and excluded from public spaces. and the british royal family is bracing itself for a highly anticipated interview between prince harry his wife meghan and us chat show host oprah winfrey in a clip already released meghan accuses the royal family of perpetuating falsehoods about the couple this as the palace says it's investigating bullying claims against the duchess by former staff poc reports from london. i just want to make it clear to everybody. from the confines of the crown i can markel isn't pulling any punches accusing the british royals nickname the of a smear campaign i don't know how they could bear that after all of this time we

would still. after that. burma's play in perpetuating falsehoods about us with my wife when the full interview airs expect huge audiences massive ad revenues and lots of shouting at the television. these are wrong comfortable topics for the royals from the death of princess diana to racism my biggest concern was history repeating itself. back in britain a swirl of rumors surrounds the royal palaces with 12 staff members reportedly queuing up to take part in a palace investigation into accusations make it mistreated her former aides something she denies but royal watchers say there's no palace conspiracy to take megan down ahead of the interview discounted staff it's claimed of fueling the fallout there are low paid loyal servant of the crown who work away and expect in return for their duty is to be treated with

a level of respect they feel clearly from what's been said they want to call it that respect they also felt the palace and swept back complaints under the carpet. meanwhile the royal family has activated a tried and tested tactic say nothing. a strategy used after the explosive tell all with prince harry's mother princess diana in 1995 when she revealed details about her and prince charles's marital affairs and her eating disorder decided not. to say absolutely nothing not regularly not. continue the discussion. 2 years later pursued by pavarotti diana was killed in a paris underpass and the boy princes aged 15 and 12 followed their mother's body through the streets of london. there's a tension between the royal family's public persona as representatives of the 1200

year old monarchy and their private lives the tabloid media often argues that all the attention they get is completely one. and said because they are public figures like celebrities they should just simply deal with it they also receive a huge chunk of money $93000000.00 a year from british taxpayers meaning every aspect of their lives their joys their woes and indiscretions are in the spotlight. parallels have been drawn between meghan and harry and the abdication crisis of bed with the 8 who gave up the throne in 1936 to marry american divorcée wallis simpson. into the popularity of the netflix series the crown has fuelled people's appetite for the real royal drama now unfolding on both sides of the atlantic with many of the us coming down firmly in support of team meghan. especially after the scandal surrounding prince andrew's questionable ties with convicted sex offender

geoffrey epstein no palace investigation for that despite 99 year old prince philip harry's grandfather recovering in hospital after heart surgery there are no plans to delay airing the interview behind palace walls the royals are bracing for impact the barca al-jazeera london. that lines now at least 17 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 large explosions at a police and military base in the city of an aqua toil. that. videos have been posted online showing aftermath with that willing to paint.