blue al jazeera selects this one's feared warlord during lay barriers. decade long civil war says he's now fighting a drug epidemic. the work that the former warlord joshua boy he has done at west treat children, has attracted to help with an ass protected. and in effect from public prosecution, despite the recommendation is made by pictures and reconciliation. permission for this former warlord liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country, ah, deliberately targeted with alma pissing bullets,

the palestinian authority lays out as evidence against israeli military and the killing of sri, nebo actually ah, 11 o'clock, this is out 0 life. also coming up and go over the state of maternity care and set a goal is 11. you born babies die in a hospital, fire police in texas are accused of being too slow to respond to tuesdays, deadly school shooting. we are not looking for conflict or new cold war to the contrary. were determined to avoid both in the us says china poses a challenge to the international order, accusing it are becoming more aggressive and repressive. ah, so is ready, force is deliberately targeted veteran al jazeera reports are the sharina blacklight with the intent to kill her. that's the conclusion of the palestinian

investigation into killing in the occupied west. it found she was hit with an arm, a piercing bullet, need able to him post. now from the israeli army, deliberately targeted veteran. i just need a journalist cheating a barclay. this is the main finding of the palestinian public prosecutor's investigation into the killing in a press conference in the presidential headquarters in the occupied westbank. the prosecutor explained how she was targeted was trying to escape a barrage of bullets. and it's been proven conclusively that the targeting shewn and the group adjusted by the israeli occupation forces was direct and deliberate that has improved by the type of the rice of a ruger mini 14. and the type of the bullet known as appears in bullet struck them . the investigation confirmed there was no firing from the palestinian side at the time. shooting was killed. the bullet is a key evidence of the case. california official have refused to hand it over to the

israeli authorities. that palestinian authority won't even release the picture of the bullet, saying israel will try to use it to manipulate track. that mistrust is why the palestinian authority has refused a joint investigation with israel saying it's can't trust israel to investigate itself. these really narrative changed several time since judy was shot. these really are mistress that it can't. that's her mind if she was killed by palestinians or by israeli forces. they just either media network has formed a legal team to refer shootings files to the international criminal court. i. c. c . earlier this week, the palestinian foreign ministry submitted the file of shooting killing to the high tribunal whole thing, the ices he's prosecutor, would investigate the case. we will continue to resort to all international for and we will not. and in a single right of the palestinian people, we will present all the document to the international court,

including this significant report. and we have already referred several documents to the international criminal court. the palestinian investigation report is the latest addition to witnesses accounts and several investigations confirming that shooting was deliberately targeted. it's saying here as more prove as more evidence that if and when i see decide to investigate the case that they will have more witnesses. they will have more finding, but the palestinians here are hoping that with international pressure, with the media attention to this case that the eyes to see will indeed investigate should ins, killing as a war crime. many here say that she is not the 1st victim of these really occupation and fear she won't be the last. they won't accountability, but fear it's a far fetched expectation. neither but him al jazeera the occupied westbank a well there were emotional scenes at the un security council meeting, new york. it's 1st since the killing of serene ucla kirsten swimming has more. the

security council held its monthly meeting on the situation in the middle east and clearly the most significant development in that time has been the killing of sharina lockley as nearly every speaker mentioned her death and called for an investigation into exactly what happened. but many speakers, including the humans, middle east envoy toward venice land put her death in the context of what palestinians go through on a daily basis. what venice long called a familiar pattern of daily violence that includes armed clashing settlement expansion, evictions and demolitions. 10 palestinians have been killed since the last meeting of the security council, including a woman and a child and for israelis were also killed during that time which was also condemned by many speakers. but what sharina death makes clear as the palestinian ambassador

rod montessori pointed out is the lack of recourse for palestinians when journalists aid workers and children are killed without repercussions. shootings, killing is the story. the same story. she was telling. the difference is that this time, the war new with a big we are not being killed because of what we do. but because of who we are, we are not being killed by mistake. but as but a grand design a me to make to we own understood, no one is safe so that we all live with fear in our hearts and surrender. in a rare moment of unity on this issue, the security council did already call for an impartial, transparent investigation. many repeated that call during this meeting,

including the united states who also demanded accountability center goals president has declared 3 days of national morning after 11 newborn babies died in the hospital fire and electrical short circuit has been blamed for the place in the western city of tuan nicholas hark reports now from her mother's grieving for their newborn babies who died in the neonatal ward of the public hospital. i am heartbroken, i am a parent in morning and i cannot understand why god took my newborn child away this way. dozens of premature babies were left unattended under u. v. lights when a suspected short circuit started, the fire, the smell of smoke woke, retired police officer, l hodge montague m boop, who lives near by their mom. what about a little later? a lot. i recognized the smell of human flesh of babies burning. i think it's too gruesome. the state is responsible for this because the state is responsible for

the safety, especially public buildings. so the responsibility lies within the state. the government announced 3 days of national morning and an investigation to fix responsibility. security forces and police have been deployed around this hospital that has been cordoned off and also the contain the crowd. the government says this was an unfortunate incidence, but people here see gross negligence. they say some of them that we spoken to, that they tried to break inside the ward, but the fire extinguishers were not working. there was no sprinklers. there was no alarm bells last year, several newborns were killed in similar circumstances in another maternity ward fire. last week, you born declared dead was found alive in a morgue, and another national crime protest were provoked when a pregnant mother died after nurses and doctors were accused of failing to assist

her. we want to remind the government of their responsibility to ensure that all citizens, especially women and children, are given the care they deserve. and we invite citizens to denounce the injustice and negligence that exists in our hospitals. what is it in augusta government? critics say funds meant to go to hospitals are going into the pockets of officials with not enough nurses in too many seemingly preventable death. senegalese, people are trying to make sense of this latest tragedy in what appears to be a broken health system. nicholas hawk al jazeera tivo and lauren formed officials in the us are under pressure over their response to choose day school shooting, texas the deadliest in a decade. 019 children and 2 teachers were killed at an elementary school. and you've healthy vigil was held to remember the victims authority,

say gunman sold over. i must end to the school without any confrontation, any report suggested he's engaged with an officer outside the building. i honestly think that it could have been a lot more to have been preventive prepared. you know, that is, you know, barriers that are new as surely that go further horizon with the baby. they all get them bothered. i bet you john 100 has more not from your valve in texas where police held a conference to update the media. there are a lot of new questions now being asked as to why it took an hour for border patrol agents to storm into that school. they had to find a key to getting to the door of the classroom where the gunman was held,

holding people hostage and shooting them. over the course of an hour. we are told by one child who survived in that room that hit the words of the gunman as he entered work. it's time to die. now what we've learned from police in a news conference today was they backtracked earlier comments saying that a guard at the school had tried to stop the gum. and in fact, they say that gum went right into their school and we have video here. this is a little hard to hear, but there are parents who are asking police why they're not going in urging them to go in saying there are children inside who cannot defend themselves. asked about that at a news conference today. a police spokesman said, we want to get you the answers, but give us time. so a lot of criticism about the timing of this shooting. students at schools across the united states have walked out of class to monte political action on gun control . the shooting texas is raised painful memories from many at oxford high school in

michigan. last november, full students were killed when a classmate opened fire. a 15 year old has been charged with 1st degree murder and terrorism. and this was a scene in a church falls in virginia, where students cert meridian high school held a so called diane. they lay on the athletic field hoping to pressure politicians to toughen gun laws, some held signs, calling on those in power to protect children. instead of weapons, democratic senator chris murphy has been pushing for more gun safety measures since 20 children were short dead in his home state of connecticut a decade ago. oh, we're the only country in the world in which our kids go to school, wondering whether they will survive the day. right. my. my for 4th grader yesterday had to have conversations all day at school with his classmates that no child that no 10 year old should have to have. and he is forced

to have those conversations with his friends about where they will high about where they will run because of decisions that are made in this place. and we're going to change those decisions. the earth says it doesn't want to new cold war with china, but that beijing, as a threat to the international order sector, state entity plan can says that challenge will test american diplomacy like never before. she returns, he has this report, this was a speech the secretary of state lincoln had been scheduled to give the for the us presidents trip to asia as a cut and razor. but it had to be postponed because he contract cove it in the interim confusion was sewn by joe biden. when he gave this also, during his tour, are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. so in part, the secretary of state's task now was to explain whether u. s. policy towards taiwan had shifted. our policy is not changed. we do not

support taiwan independence and we expect prostrate differences to be resolved by peaceful means. am lincoln read out the portion of us of encapsulates washington's position of so called strategic ambiguity to maintain our capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms of course, that would jeopardize our security, or the social or economic system of taiwan. the problem is, joe biden wasn't ambiguous at all, and this isn't the 1st time he spoken at all with official us policy. so the question does remain, how's policy changed quietly behind the scenes? or is this just a matter of a president giving his personal views off the cuff, the rest of lincoln speech presented a stark geopolitical framework of china versus the international order. lincoln insisted the u. s. does not want a new cold war of opposing regional blocks. yet, at the same time, he talented the new alliances, the u. s. was making in opposition to china. this is not about forcing countries to

choose. it's about giving them a choice. the speech is likely to be viewed skeptically. in beijing, the speech will be seen in beijing as hypocritical, and be ruling that the fight and administration is picking a cold war mentality to deal with the problem. in spite of entity, blink, and saying exactly the opposite. china is clearly a threat to the international order, as governed by the rules set by the united states and it's western allies, but it's not yet clear. if none of 9 countries feel this geo political change is necessarily a bad thing. she ever time see al jazeera washington cilla head here and out 0 selling off its ivory stockpiles. im bob way hosts to conference to gain support for the potential sale of tons of tasks flying in for kick off. we look at the new initiative to help fans get to catch up for wilcox matches. ah,

it's friday. here's her headlines for the americas. hi, everyone. thanks for joining in. we've got a lot of active weather through the great lakes stretching across the eastern seaboard of the us. we may power up some severe thunderstorms here and this disturbed why there. we can track it as far south as freight through florida. in fact, may see some flooding across the u. s. gulf states into florida thursday into friday . let's go to the desert southwest right now. still quiet, still parched conditions here. temperature is pretty well where we expect to see them. central. it has a high 23 degrees after the pacific northwest. our next disturbance here. so we see some showers in washington state and oregon. western canada also some rain, vancouver. it's been a pretty dismal spring there. just the other day. hitting 18 degrees for the 1st time. want to show you this off the pacific coast of mexico. it made cook up into

a tropical storm, or potentially a hurricane will watch that carefully, but really intense rain falling into costa rica and panama now for the top end of south america. our season rains not as intense as we would expect, but still falling right through the amazon basin. and we've got this line of storms stretching from paraguay right into the southeast of brazil, and cooler weather in month of dale at 13 degrees. that's below average, that sure weather update. the news with an arabic, my name is i was abducted by the cia in 2004. a german citizen was kidnapped and tortured by the sea. i came up with handcuffs, gave me into interrogation. a new documentary tells the story of how the politics of the post 911 world ruined the life of an innocent. the master case coming soon

on al jazeera hulu. for i'm going to watch out 0. remind about top stories the saw in the palestinian attorney general says, israeli forces deliberately targeted veteran al jazeera report. as sharina black with alma piercing bullets. a cram out cut deep says they've concluded a sniper was intent to kill her. and those who tried to palestinian ambassador to the united nations has given an emotional address of the security council. redmond sir, is calling for justice for all palestinians who've suffered under the israeli occupation, including officer a journalist. sharina said

a goal has begun 3 days of morning after 11 newborn babies died in the hospital for electrical shorts. the circuit is being blamed for the place in the western city to ward less than 2 months after he was ousted in a vote of no confidence pakistan's, former prime minister, him run con estates, his biggest process. yes, and the capital is lemme but he's warned the government to hold new elections in less than a week or face. major protests wider as more than a 100 container, and police barricades have failed to stop. this brought a march powder and looked up, ordered the former prime minister in ron han bringing life to a standstill in bucket staunch capital, if by one group broke through a set of barriers. while largest glowed by, tried to reach the protest retinue hoping to catch a glimpse of delita people march for 30 yards and lying, stretching with several kilometer to reach their capital. and what would usually be

a 2 hour drive 100 them on the left early morning on rent day today the city despite the barricade. thank you. the punjab police made things difficult for us and use tear gas and to talk to stop us. but i still managed to get it although it was made to be a peaceful protest. it turned violent police you for your district, the protested and major city and prevent them from joining the protest in the capital. hon supported including women and children faced in jail. and rather for late in bite, a court ruling allowing the protest to go ahead. hundreds of people who are all corrected across buckets on including and nitrate throughout the nearly dead. m, ron con, said he had decided to temporarily call of the appropriate an issue to make him

i am giving the government 6 days to announce and you will action date announce election dates in the month of june. end is over simply. if you do not, then i will come back to islamabad with all of my mean. the former prime minister m, ron han had already left the renew of the protests. but he had warned a government 6 days to announce fresh election, the government, and it will complete it all. but it faded an up here, dark and dealing with a mounting economic crisis. and reduce your force against baseboard per cache criticism of it's growing gemalto. roger gita it's lama bod, performance 11 and 110 percent of the seats in recent parliamentary elections. that's a 1st since the end of the civil war, more than 3 decades ago. the victory doesn't seem to be the claim break from traditional politics. many hopeful and now discussing the lines that hold

a reports from beirut. the walls are coming down 2 years on lebanon's political establishment has begun to remove barriers that stood between anti corruption protestors and state institutions through the ballot box and against the odds. those who were demanding political change made their way to parliament, winning 10 percent of the seats in the recent election. it's a small crack in the political classes, hold on power, who often used violence to silence opposition. for the longest time, politics in lebanon has been about dividing the shares, and compromising between the different parties in order for each one of them to have its own share after certain bargaining. this is not a democratic process. there when is a 1st and post civil war politics, which has been dominated by mainly sectarian leaders, many of them, former militia leaders. but so far what they have in common is their opposition to

the system. they know they'll need to speak in one voice forming the blog at this point for a form of this video section for us to be able to confront the current establishment parties. we know that they are very powerful. we know how much they have level intervals. those parties also have support to, to have shown willingness to use violence, even destroying opposition. symbols such as setting fire to the iron fist in the epicenter of the protest movement that came to represent the peoples resistance and determination. gone are the crowds, their voices are now inside parliament, but the traditional party still retained the majority of seats. they are the dominant force. it still a resilient regime, and opponents remain fragmented. to be genuinely king maker, they will have to form a united, coherent to block. they will have to form alliances with other groups. they might

not have the influence that they think as they will have. they will certainly offer dissenting opinions. they will raise their voices, they will criticize certain policies, but when it comes to passing new legislation, they will face a stumbling block. no doubt, there is a new beginning, but not all is well in lebanon. were political dynamics after the election may not be much different than before? then there has ita balte. colombian said to the poles on sunday to choose the next president. that person was tackled and economy hits by the pandemic and social unrest. if candidates can't secure, more than 50 percent of the vote, the top 2 candidates will face off and run off. let's take a closer look at the full candidates, find the top job for stop. stop. petro is a former left, his gorilla, and full marable guitar. if he wins, it would change the political landscape and columbia in the region for the ricoh

gutierrez, is seen as the continuum candidates of the current president, even do case administration. he's a conservative for the mirror, maybe in, but support appears to be searching for a dell for hernandez. the businessman is campaigning, is the 3rd way anti corruption candidate and such if you order is polling. 4th, he's a mathematician and a former governor. he missed the 2018 run off by just 2 points. jose restaurant po is director at the conflict analysis research center, and he says the end of affiliated with the groups has opened up columbus political space. previously from the selection, every candidate for the left was label i will say even stigmatized as having alliances would be left. is guerrilla groups in colombia, that is the owner. that way of rejecting a progressive kind of the age is not credible right now because we seem to have

started to left that into the past. and i had open not only for himself to apply for his vice president and financial market, open up the political and by norman for them to participate in the selection. and which credibility and which are also symbolic way is hosting a conference aimed at winning international support to sell it stock pile of ivory . it has a $130.00 tons of tusks sees from poachers. all that elephant. it's estimated to be worth a $100000000.00 on the black market. if sales remained brand symbol weighs warning, it could quit an international convention regulating the trade in endangered species. that's enough from john scotland, who's the chief executive officer of the elephant protection initiative. he says selling the stock pilot ivory will encourage. yeah, because the challenge that symbolically is facing is a real one. and it's not just bases in bob way. and that is how do you manage large

elephant populations and how do you manage them when they coming into conflict with your local communities and very sadly injuring and killing members of the community . that is a real problem. and how do you finance that? at the moment, somebody's looking to get ivory stockpiles. it's a way of financing that. the problem is that the theory behind ceiling, ivory is fine. an elephant dies of metric causes. you can make the i for you sell it in the and the prices go back to local community. the fact reality is that it just hasn't worked that way. once you have a marketing every, you have a high value placed on ivory. it does seem like poaching the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory and back in 2010 to 2012 is 100000 elephants killed illegally for their ivory. so the issue is, is this the best way forward to try and generate revenue? i would say no, we ought to maintain the ban on ivory for good reason. what we need to do is have

a much more conversation outside of the outside of the trade or no trade debate. and look at how do we generate resources, forcing bob way to manage a telecom populations. now cut a 2022 kicks off in less than 6 months. and as friends prepare for the 1st will come from the middle east, where all some logistical concerns. natasha can name reports or new measures that organizes promise will make for seamless and memorable experience. ah, you know, we're better together is part of the chorus of a rule cup cut our 2022 themes saw. ah, you might say it's also the mantra of cut art, is it works to overcome logistical challenges to coasting the 1st world cup in the middle east. oh, it's turned to neighboring countries to help with one of the most pressing, insuring there's enough accommodation for all fans of vision for the stolen and has

always been that it is one for the entire region. after all, this is the 1st woke up in the middle east and the at a boat. and together we have the opportunity to share the best of our culture and traditions with fans across the globe. with less than 6 months before players take to the pitch. many hotels are still under construction in cutter. finding a place to sleep remains a concern for the 1000000 fans expected to attend cut our 2022. the organizing supreme committee has allocated $130000.00 rooms in hotels, cruise ships, and desert camps. that does not include rooms available for rent in villas, and apartments by private landlords. though no one has been able to provide an estimate of how much additional accommodation that could provide. cut our airways

has announced a partnership with airlines in neighboring gulf states to provide seem day shuttle service to attend matches. fly due by so dea kuwait, airways, and demand air will fly in 12800 fans to doha. a day. war flights are expected. i know people are using this against my country. we are not unique that accommodations will be up in shall supply. because the volume in every fifo, even if it is in a big country like south africa, like russia, like anybody else, that has always been a shortage of accommodation. so we are not unique organizer say, what is unique is the era heritage and hospitality that will offer fans a once in a lifetime experience. natasha name el jazeera, doha. ah

sir. this is our desert. these are the top.