this is bbc world news, the headlines: tens of thousands of people have been protesting in algeria, over president bouteflika's decision to run for a fifth term in office. the 82 year old, who's this is bbc world news today. in poor health has promised i'm samantha simmonds. not to serve a full term, our top stories. according to state tv. protests in algeria a senior us congressman as president bouteflika says he'll is requesting documents from more run for election one more time, than 60 people close but reportedly promises not to donald trump as part to serve a full fifth term. of an investigation into whether the president obstructed justice. among those who'll be a senior us congressman is requesting documents from more asked for evidence is than 60 people close to donald trump the president's son donjunior. as part of an investigation into whether the president the husband of shamima begum, the teenager obstructed justice. stripped of her british citizenship for travelling to syria to support so—called islamic state, the husband of british is militant has told the bbc he wants to return shamima begum tells the bbc he wants to the netherlands with her to take her and their baby home and their newborn baby. to the netherlands — and defends marrying america's new astronaut capsule her when she was 15. has successfully docked with the international space station. the dragon blasted off from florida yeah, she was — she was very young. on saturday on a test mission. its operators spacex hope to get approval to transport it may be would have been better for her to wait but she chose to get married. mission accomplished. america's new dragon astronaut

capsule docks smoothly with the international space station on its test flight. hello and welcome to world news today. the algerian president, abdelaziz bouteflika, has submitted papers to run for a fifth term in office. but he's pledged to only serve one more year as president if he does win next month's presidential election. the leader's desire to continue in power, despite bad health, has led to angry demonstrations in the capital algiers and elsewhere. thousands took to the streets on sunday to vent their anger. demonstrations have also been taking by algerians living abroad, like these protests in paris. opponents say the 82—year—old president, who is rarely seen in public, is no longer fit to lead the north african country. he had a stroke in 2013. jon donnison reports. once again, mass protests

on the streets of algiers. riot police deployed to contain the crowd. these demonstrations have been going on now for ten days. they want to see the back of this man, president abdelaziz bouteflika. his critics regard him as a dictator. he's had a firm grip on power for almost 20 years and his determination to secure another term in office in april's presidential elections is what's provoked these latest protests. these pictures are from several years ago and these days, the president is rarely seen in public. he is currently in switzerland for medical tests, having suffered a stroke six years ago. but tonight, on algerian state television, a newsreader read out a letter from the 82—year—old leader saying if he were to win the election, he wouldn't serve a full term and would hold a fresh

vote within a year. the question is, whether the demonstrators would accept this apparent concession. there have been protests in european capitals, the biggest in france, which has a large algerian diaspora. this was paris on sunday. translation: the people who govern, we don't even know who they are. they're in the shadows, big mafia, big everything you want, so you have to stop. we need justice, equality and clarity. we need a republic, we need democracy and freedom. translation: there are no transparent elections in algeria. the administration does everything. elections are rigged. unlike many of its neighbours, algeria was relatively untouched by the so—called arab spring. but seven years on, these algerians are ready for change.

jon donnison, bbc news. joining me now from algiers is 22—year—old english literature student rania ben croft, who was protesting earlier this week. why have you been protesting? what don't you like about the current president? thanks for having me. the reason people took to the streets as of february, 22nd, was because the prime minister announced that he would be running for a fifth mandate which is unfathomable. the president hasn't been speaking to his people since 2013. he is in a wheelchair and gravely ill. why would we accept and gravely ill. why would we accept a man like this? it's unacceptable.

what's your reaction to the news that abdelaziz bouteflika plans to run again? it's been announced that he intends to run again, announced today. he applied to the constitutional council, he applied his candidacy file. not by himself, of course, because he cannot even walk but he had representatives who applied his file. the people behind him. there is a mafia behind him. many people have been speaking today, it isn't just many people have been speaking today, it isn'tjust about him. there are a bunch of mafia who have been sucking the country dry with their corruption, who have been using him as a front for corruption. does it give you any reassurance that his campaign manager says that if re—elected, he'll only hold office for one year? we can say that this is a manipulation tactic,

trying to win time so they can steal and corrupt even more. we aren't sure because things are occurring as we speak. what i can tell you is that the people can see what's happening, we don't want him and his mafia any longer. we said enough was enough. do you know who you do want to leave the country? yes, there have been a couple of candidates who have been a couple of candidates who have been a couple of candidates who have been sabotaged. you have ashid nikaz, who has been in this struggle, this fight, but they won't let him run because of excuses, because he was in lebanon. they've been trying to sabotaged his campaign and we don't know where he is. there are people who are trying

to serve the country, of course. is. there are people who are trying to serve the country, of course! thanks forjoining us. the head of an influential committee in the us house of representatives has said he will seek documents from more than 60 people and organisations, as part of an investigation into possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by president donald trump. the committee chairman, a democrat, says he believes that mr trump has obstructed justice but that it's too early to talk about whether to try to impeach him. we are starting this investigation. tomorrow we will be issuing document requests tomorrow we will be issuing document req u ests to tomorrow we will be issuing document requests to 60 different people and individuals, from the white house to the department ofjustice, donald trump the department ofjustice, donald trumer, to begin investigations to present the case to the american people about obstruction ofjustice,

corruption and abuse of power. that includesjohn kelly, corruption and abuse of power. that includes john kelly, the corruption and abuse of power. that includesjohn kelly, the former chief of staff, and also the white house counsel? i imagine, we don't have the list. we will reduce the list tomorrow of over 60 people. chris buckler is in washington. we were hearing those comments from chairman nadlerfrom we were hearing those comments from chairman nadler from the judiciary committee. he said he believed donald trump has already obstructed justice. he doesn't have the documents to prove that yet. what is he basing that on? he says he's basing it on things that are in the public domain, even things that donald trump himself has said however you are right to point out that he says they are not pursuing impeachment at this stage. however listening to the full interview on abc, he was very clear that mr nadler is thinking about impeachment in the longer term. he said that

before you impeach someone, you must persuade the american public that it should happen. democrats trying to gather as much information and evidence as they can against president trump. talking about requests for documents from a range of different people. he mentioned the white house and department of justice, but he also mentioned a man called alan weisel boak —— allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization. there are suggestions he had some information about residential‘s business dealings that may be relevant to some of the enquiries they are having. it gives you a sense of what the democrats are doing as they try to investigate president trump, beyond the robert mueller report, whose details we are waiting, but what they are trying to do in congress. robert mueller, his

investigation into possible russian collusion, expecting to report in the next couple of weeks. do you feel the pressure is growing on donald trump? i think you saw the president under pressure just this week, when he gave a speech to the conservative conference on the edge of washington, dc. the truth is he says he isn't concerned about it, these investigations, but yesterday there were real flashes of anger as he talked about robert mueller, again suggesting the special counsel, looking into allegations of collusion between the trump campaign and russia, which he has fiercely denied, suggesting that robert mueller himself was conflicted, describing it as a witch hunt and at one stage even swearing as he suggested his political opponents are trying to use the report to take him out. he also talked about this battle between democrats,

specifically between democrats and president trump. he said that they are trying to look at his business dealings, at his financial records. and he says that —— that is something that is irritating the president. he says he has nothing to hide but he says there will be a focus not just on hide but he says there will be a focus notjust on the president and his presidency but specifically on the business dealings and his organisations, as the democrats have control of the house of representatives.. thanks control of the house of representatives. . thanks for control of the house of representatives.. thanks forjoining us. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the us—backed syrian democratic forces say they are facing tough resistance from the so—called islamic state group as they defend their last village stronghold of baghouz in syria. the final push against the militants began on friday and was expected to be over within hours. but is are now using booby—trapped vehicles to repel the attack. the authorities in the port of calais in northern france say 63 migrants have been detained after climbing aboard a large ferry

that crosses to dover in britain. the ship was searched after the migrants breached perimeter security and boarded the vessel on saturday night using a maintenance ladder. there's been another delay in the search for two missing climbers in pakistan. plans to use high altitude drones to search for british climber tom ballard and italian danilie nardi have been delayed because of bad weather. the pair have been missing on nanga parbat for a week. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come. france's oldest carnival kicks off in dunkirk. keep watching to find out exactly what the local mayor is throwing into that expectant crowd. first the plates slipped off the restau ra nt ta bles first the plates slipped off the restaurant tables and then the tables, chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards. it was seconds as the ferry lurched onto

her side. the hydrogen bomb, on a remote pacific atoll. the americans have successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfs that used at hiroshima. the constitutional rights are their rights as citizens of the united states and they should be protected. this religious controversy, i know you don't want to say much, but are you don't want to say much, but are you worried that it is going to boil 7 you worried that it is going to boil t you worried that it is going to boil up? it worries me but i hope everything will be all right in the end, as they say. this is bbc world news today. the latest headlines.

there have been big protests in algeria as president bouteflika says he'll run for election one more time. a senior us congressman is requesting documents from more than 60 people close to donald trump as part of an investigation into whether the president obstructed justice. the husband of a british teenager, stripped of her citizenship for travelling to syria to support the so—called islamic state, has told the bbc in his first interview, he wants them both yago riedijk who's a dutch citizen, married shamima begum days after the then 15 —year—old arrived in is territory, after travelling with two other girls from london. riedijk is facing a six—year jail sentence, if he's allowed to return home. he's been talking to our middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville.

shamima begum's husband, yago riedijk, is now in kurdish detention at an undisclosed location in north—eastern syria. the dutch extremist says he wants to take his family home to the netherlands. of course, i would love to go back to my own country, which i now understand the privileges that i lived with, you know, the privilege of being, of living there as a citizen. and, of course, i understand that many people have a problem with what i did and i totally understand that. i have to take responsibility for what i did, serve my sentence. shamima moved over when she was 15. you met in raqqa. she was at the women's centre in raqqa. you married her when she was 15 years old. that's correct. how in any way is that acceptable? you were, what, 23? ithink so, yeah, i remember. and you thought that was ok? to be honest, when my friend came — he said there was a girl, she was interested in marriage — i wasn't really interested because of her age,

but i accepted the offer anyway. so, it was acceptable for you to marry a 15—year—old girl? it was her own choice, she was the one who asked to look for a partnerfor her. shamima begum is being held at another camp. the marriage was arranged by is. in the united kingdom, sex with someone under 16 is statutory rape. they had three children, but only one newborn survives. you know she has been stripped of her british citizenship, she is viewed as a danger and someone who is undesirable to britain, so why do you think holland would welcome her? she is... i don't understand how in any form she would be a danger. all she did was, she sat in the house for three years, took care of me and my children, she never had anything to do.

do you realise that when you say, somebody whojoined the islamic state willingly, married someone in the islamic state, fought for the islamic state, when you say that you are a victim, that's sickening. 0k. what can i say? i lived a miserable life. i was imprisoned, i was tortured, i lived in fear. how can i see that as... it was my own fault for going, yeah, but... i didn't come out of it as a winner in any way. i lost years of my life. yago riedijk‘s admission, too, that he fought for the islamic state means he may find itjust as difficult to leave syria as his wife, shamima begum. quentin somerville, bbc news, northern syria. the test flight of a possible new capsule for taking us astronauts into space, has gone well. the dragon vehicle,

has successfully docked with the international space station. it was launched yesterday by california s spacex company, but still needs approval from nasa, before it can transport humans. on its current mission, it's carrying a test dummy, and 90 kilograms of supplies. i'm joined now by mark mccorkrun, from the european space agency. good to have you with us. hell us about the test flight and what repercussions it may have and its significance. it is an important step to getting another route to get back to the space station. at the moment everybody who gets there across the space partnership, nasa, the russians, japanese and others, use the soyuz space aircraft which are relatively old and limited. now we are in the position with this demonstration flight, hopefully the next flight in july will carry two

astronauts and open the door to carrying up to seven astronauts at a time. another vehicle is being developed from boeing called the star liner which has its first demonstration flight, uncrewed, in april. this is a great time for reopening the partnership and having more astronauts. the iss is fundamentally a science laboratory, where we do experiments useful for space and the earth. the more astronauts we have, the more experiments we can do. a year since america put anybody into space on one of their own vehicles, a rocket. why has it taken so long? why so problematic? developing a crew vehicle from scratch, as spacex and boeing have done, is hard. everything in space is hard. while those vehicles for low earth orbit

are being developed, nasa and the european space agency have been developing the orion crew vehicle, which is preparing for its first trial flight. it is a which is preparing for its first trialflight. it is a more which is preparing for its first trial flight. it is a more capable vehicle because it could go to the moon and beyond. everything in space we are trying to break barriers, to do things which are more challenging than before. often they take longer than before. often they take longer than we expected. after many delays, right and is at the iss successfully. it must land as well, we will know that on friday. in terms of greater usage, how could it be more usefulfor terms of greater usage, how could it be more useful for the future? at the moment on the stay station there are three astronauts. normally there would be up to six. the day—to—day work on the station is often involved in maintenance, keeping it fit for habitation, keeping systems going. we try and do as much science

in the available crew time as we have but the station can hold quite a few more astronauts than it currently has, even beyond the six we've had for the last seven or eight years. it's a laboratory, a place to do experiments. we have a fully equipped set of modules waiting for astronauts to arrive. i think it opens the door to bring in much more in terms of science back from the station which is what it was built for. . thanks forjoining us. sport now. let's start with football. liverpool have failed to regain top place in the premier league. they could only earn a goalless draw at everton in sunday's merseyside derbyjurgen klopp's side needed a win to move back above manchester city — who won on saturday. they were held to a stalemate at goodison park though. mohammad salah missed big chances,

denied brilliantly in the first half by england keeperjordan pickford. this a real set back for liverpool — with just nine league matches remaining this season. we were the better side in a difficult game. that's why we didn't have ten, 15 chances but i would say we had five or six really big ones. a defender or the keeper were in between and we must respect that. not perfect but good enough, getting a point from everton is always a success because a point from everton is always a success because for us it is the most difficult game. maurizio sarri s chelsea secured back—to—wins with victory over scott parker's fulham. gonzalo higuain and jorginho struck either side of calum chambers equaliser. that result leaves fulham 10 points from safety. parker now looking after them until the end of the season after claudio ranieri's sacking last week. they've lost eight of their past nine league games. watford denied new

leicester city manager brendan rodgers a point. that's after andre gray scored an injury time winner. i loved every minute of it, a great week. i sent to the players, whatever the result was going to be today, i wanted to see that intensity. we've onlyjust come together. i've seen that. it's a great opportunity to go forward now and build on some of the good points from today. poland have finished top of the medals table at the european indoor athletics championship. closely followed by great britain, who've secured their best ever medal haul at the event. laura muir picked up theirfourth and final gold in glasgow. she dominated the 1500m, leading from start to finish to add that title to the 3000m she won on friday. poland's sofia ennaoui finished second. ireland's ciara mageean took the bronze. great britain also picked up a gold in the women's 800 metres. shelena oskan—clarke led from gun to tape.

they finished second overall in the medals table, with 12. netherlands topped the medal standings after the final day of competition at the cycling track world championships in poland. harrie lavreysen won gold and compatriotjeffrey hoogland took silver in the men's sprint final taking their country's medal tally to 11, six of them gold. 21—year—old lavreysen was part of the dutch team that won team sprint gold as well. australia's alexandra manly won the women's points race racking up enough despite not being first across the line on the final lap. she came home ahead of ireland's lydia boylan and kirsten wild of the netherlands. australia finished second in the medal standings — 10 in total with six golds. and the last one from us for now. australia's nick kyrgios prepared for the final of the mexican open against world number three alex zverev by going jet—skiing. the strategy seems to have worked, though. kyrgios won in straight sets to pick up his fifth atp tour title. zverev is one of three top ten players kyrgios beat on his way to the trophy.

as for the jet—skiing, he says perhaps he needs to be more disciplined and professional in his preparation for matches. i think it's more an example of anyone who is going through some struggles, places you don't think you can get out of, if i can do it, you can as well. i was really down and out and i did not know what i was going to do and i guess it can change so if i can do it, you can do it as well. the jet thejet skiing seems the jet skiing seems to have worked. that's all the sport for now. france s oldest carnival has kicked off in dunkirk, attracting tens of thousands of people. but it's one particular practice that makes it the most unique. the mayor of the coastal city comes out onto the balcony of the belfry to throw around a50kg of herring into the cheering crowds below. this is known as the highlight of the festival, which first took place in 1676. tha nkfully thankfully they are wrapped in

plastic! you can catch me on twitter. thanks for watching. storm freya is bringing a stormy and to the week. disruptive rain and even some snow. the windiest weather is across england and wales. yesterday it was across scotland. the tell—tale sign of deepening areas of low pressure bringing not just strong wind but some heavy rain and the potential for some snow as it clears for the likes of northern ireland and later, england and wales. the wind whipping up, have been across south and west areas. enough to bring down some trees. you can see the wet weather over northern england, clearing away from northern england, clearing away from northern and western areas by morning. the strongest wind will be

confined to eastern and southern areas. blowing a gale. severe gales overnight. a touch of frost in parts of scotla nd overnight. a touch of frost in parts of scotland and northern ireland as these guys clear. before that stage, storm freya is in the north sea —— before these guys clear. plenty of sunshine in the morning to start with but a day of showers coming through on quite a brisk westerly wind. feeling cooler. quite pleasa nt westerly wind. feeling cooler. quite pleasant in the sunshine. expect some showers to have hail and thunder. that's because the low pressure sitting close by to our northern shores. it will be there on tuesday, more showers, perhaps longer spells of rain. later in the day we get the next spell of wet weather, low pressure, gathering to the south and west meaning that tuesday night into wednesday will turn progressively wet and quite

windy. you can see the low pressure, quite a dominating bit of weather over the western atlantic. there may be some heavy showers following the snow. a fairly unsettled week. mild in the south but cold air across the northern part of the uk, especially scotland. a stormy end to the week. u nsettled scotland. a stormy end to the week. unsettled into the new week with the wettest a nd unsettled into the new week with the wettest and windiest weather following on wednesday. bye, bye.