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countdown on for the first manned missionony a privavate >> the demands for algeria's 82-year-old president to go are% getting louder and the crowds are rowing larger by the day. friday's protest against abdelaziz bouteflika were the biggest in years. hundreds of thousands of people turned out in huge numbers across the country. president to -- who remains in hospital in switzerland not to stand for a fifth term at next month's election. so this was the capital algiers where the demoostration was the media reports put the numberrat more than aamillion people. protesters. ted nearly 200 in the east protesters packed into the main square in the city of batna wavinggflags and calling for political change.

anddthere were similar scenes in the port city of oran in the west. in the capital some demonstrators fought with % police as they were blocked trying to access the road leading to the presidential palace. security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds. authorities say more than 100 security force peesonnel were injured. we have more. >> friday protests for the third successive weeks nationwide in algeria. and this time, they appear to be bigger than ever. ddmonstrators demanding president abdelaziz bouteflika abandon his bid for a fifth elections. just a day earlier suffeeed a stroke five years ago and is in switzerland for what are described as routine medical tests urged algerians not to none straight and warned about the risk of chaos if ttey did. protesters didn't listen.

>> i'm here today with my daughters with the country's children to take back our lost algeria..6 c13 c1 we want to take it back ss that our children find work, so that they don't flee and drown in the mediterranean sea. >> please leave. look at the people. the action, the people are here from all ocial classes fromm the youngest to the oldest. everyone is saying no to a fifth term. pleaseeleave. % you won't even be judged. >> at local media reports say that nine politicians from bouteflika's ruling f.l.n. party resigneddto join the revolt. train and metro operators halt services to try to stem the tide of protesters. a strategy that clearly didn't work. across algeria, demonstrations have been staged daily for the past two eeks since booteflika confirmed he would stand for another term in office on april 18. since the protests began, opposition groups have been

attempting to come up with a viable plan on how to remove bouteflika from office. in an open letter on monday, the president said if he's % re-elected, he will call for a referendum on a new constitution and another election at some point. algeria's armed forces are under mounting pressure to find a solution but so far, the response has been cryptic. while alluding to the demonstrations, algeria's army chief evoked the ciiil war of the 1990's urging protesters to beware of history. but the rallies continue with osigns of abating any timm >> sseven mcnierrey the executive director of the project on middle east democracy and joins us from thanks for coming on the program. so theee protests show no signs of abating and they're growing to some of the largest we've seennin decades. do you think a resolution is at hand or this will come to some kind of a head?

>> yes, as your report just were enormous. they were wide reaching across the country. and very cross cutting in terms of all segments of algerian society for participating, the numbers were really overwhelming. and thh mood was really positive and concerned inspiring. we'll see significant concessions and significant government this weekend.m the or sunday. i think it's very likelyythat there will be an announcement that bouteflika will not run for another term and also very likely they will postponee more time to kind of figure out a road map and a plan. -pbut we'll see. complete silence from the governmmnt toddy. but i think it was encouraging that there wasn't any kind off real crackdown on the protests or any real violence initiated by security forces which some had earrd was a possibility. so i think -- you know, everyone is waiting to see what the government will sayyover the weekend.

>> but is there a credible opposition that can take the place of the government and how do the people feel about the opposition that is there at the momenn? >> there s not a credible organized opposition that's prepared to step in because ttere has not beee ggven political space for such oppooition to organize under bouteflika. algerra has been very closed. scenarios involving some kind of potential transition government. i don't think it's realistic that the entire regime or the entire government will be swept out -- swept from power. many key figures from the current regime are very likell to stay in place. but the hope is that there will be some new independent civilian voicee that will plly a significant role at least durinn some kind of transitional period. >> is there a clear idea how

the transitionncoull occur? does the military have a plan in place? >> i don't think there's a clear plan in place. i think there's bben a lot of scrambling this week to try to figure out different scenarios for what that might llok like. pprt of the reason for bouteflika not running for re-election very unlikkly the elections will move forward as planned on april 18 because a feeling that more ttme is transition plan put in place. >> the one point bouteflika has made is if he's re-electee he .ill call for elections why is thaa not appeasing protesters? >> seen as insufficient and too and had he said that a few weeks ago maybe it would have been welcomee. they want more than that and hhve had enough and want too move on and see his presidency

as a farce and not really running the country and no one takes seriously the idea that you should elect someone to be your president on a platform that they will then step down before the end of the turem. in addition, there's not coofidencc that that promise would be kept. the expectation is that more has to be done than that. >> stevee mcnierney from the project on the middle east % democracy. thank you invest. the rallies for change ii algeria have ssread beyond its borders. there have been shows of solidarity in the french capital. crowds gathered in paris say they're not just opposed to entire political systee. the in alggria. the french government says it's monitoring events in the former colony, the foreigg minister saaing it is for algerians to fuuure. and in geneva algerians gathered in front offthe hospital where the country's ail leader is reportedly beinn

treated. the algerian government said bouteflika arrived in switzerland for medical checks late last month but will be discharged soon. >> i'm against this mandate because it'ssa nonsense. it's a mandate which shouldn't happen. % this mandate is a mandate of cheating and corruution. the outgoing president can't health doesn't allow him to.s but the algerian constitutional council has accepted his and this is very telling of hat is happening in algeeia. >> another country in the power is back on in parts of venezuela's capital after the worst blackout in decades but the outage continued elsewhere with some places left without plectricity for almost 24 hourr. this report from caracas. >> onny 17 years old. and for tte last few months he's been involved in a battle with bone cancer. anddshe's alreadd had part of

one leg removed because offa tumor. when she wenttto the hospital in caracas for her scheduled treetment on friday, she was told it had been postponed. the reason, an electricity blackout affecting much of the country.%%->> i spent actually months waiting to begin my chemotherapy. because wasn't working. nnw because of the blackout againn the equipmenttis not working. so i can't get my chemo. to the gudi hyddoelectric dam d in the state of ballistic missilia. almost every corner of the country has been impacted by the power cut. but it is in hospitals like this one where the situation becomes critical.

the plell opposition blames the massive power cut on corruption and mismanagement. 10 years ago they put $100 pillion into the electrical system. yet we find ourselves in this disaster today. >> has blamed the outage on % sabotage where the -- for the

united states government. -phe's not provided evidence to support his claim. but he's -- his backers including captain juan carll moncada is convinced he's right. >> there are people who are planning to destroy the revolution. we are talking about international opposition and donald trump and his puppets. we're trying to guarantee people get thhir gas. mostly for hospitals and other sectors. >> a fee minutes later,, electricity cameeback in some parts of caracas. government reporterr celebrattd and chanted that thh socialist revolution started by hugo chavez won't be defeated any time soon. but outside the hospital, there was silence.% as mothers waited for any condition, their primary concern is not who is to blame for the blackout.. it's the hope their child gets the treatment they desperately need. teresa bo, algeria, caracas.

>> aid s another big issue for venezuela. the deputy director oo the u.s. government aid agency is in shipment of international assistance has arrived. but president nicholas maduro has blocked aid from etting aross the country. >> anothee u.s. cargo plane aarives in kuka coloobia. on board thh most recent aid package the trump administration is positioninn % in thh region at the requesttof venezuelan opposition leader juan guaido. the shhpment now moves inno the1 hands of theecolombian government. until it can be safely transported into venezuela. >> this s the first time colombia has acted as ann intermediary for providing assistance to another ountry. we have achieved an importantt technical function. >> enying the existence of a humanitarian crisis, president nicholas maduro has said venezuela is not a country of beggars and ordered the closure of international orders with brazil and colombia. the last time the colombian

goveenment tried to move aid to venezuela, clashes broke out the cargo wws set on fire.and during a news conference in kuka on thursday, the deputy director of u.s. aid told al jazeera she's confident that >> when it comes to contingency that the borderr will be opened and the humanitarian assistance will be allowed to enter >> aa mmny as 5,000 people are crossing into colombia from venezuela every day in searrh of food. gues and her 2-year-old son juan manuel soup kitchens like dying of hunger. there's hunger. there are chiidren dying. >> since februaryy4, the united states anddthree other nations have delivered mmre than 195 million in assistance. supplies include food, hyyiene

kits, nd medical equipment. this latest shifment that's just arrived in kuka, colombia, aboard the c-130 aircraft is carryinggmore medical supplies and other equipment that will add to the more than 600 tons of innernational aid that ontinuus toside sit in warehouses. the question is how much longer will it emain here unable to cross over into venezuela? more than a dozen countries have pledged to assist in delivering aid to venezuela. even though nobody seems to know when that might happen. manuel rapalo, al jazeera, colombia. >> there's plenty more ahead. this newshour including we will be visiting the spanishhresort where britains fear for their future once their country and the disappearance of the flight h-370. technology to track planes wherever they go. 66c13 c1 and the omen's world cupp champions launch a lawsuit over

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director of the center for middle east studies at the uuiversity of oklahoma. and he says turkey and europe that arrangement together. >> idlib province is a big province and it's where most of tte hardened rebels have been in a sense collected and pushed ouu of the rest of ssria as thh government has conquered it. and so a giant holdiig ground. there are -- by c. irgs aa estimates over 30,000 hardened rebels, many of them affiliated th h.t.s., hay'et tahrir al-sham which is an al qaeda organization or at least had been linked with it. and syrian governments, the russians had accused the tirks of not fulfillinggtheir side of the bargain which is to contain these jihadists. in fact, they have conquered the entire province largely. and so his is an effort by turkey to have these joint patrols and to mollify russia.

to consolidate this agreement becauue turkey is terrified that if syria and russia thing you're seeing in the east. and tens of thousands of family members, refugees, fighters, being pushed out into turkey. so europe, turkey, are desperately trying to keep this agreement together. they do not want a foreign army. that's what europe and turkey are interested in. they want in region idlib to be turned into a holding ground in a sense for these rebel groups into europe. syria and russia, of course, have said that they want this 1 region to be reconkrd by syria and included back into syrian sovereignty, sovereign territory. po ultimately, they don't agree on very much over this region. but this is why we're seeingg agreements o try to patch it

up and keep this situation stable. >> u.s.-backed fighters in syria say they'll resume their assault on isil's last pocket of territory of no more civilians come out y saturday afternoon. the syrian democratic forces have slowed tteir offensive in barguz to allow thousands of the u.n. says more than 60,000 people who have fled he aree are now crammed into a nearby camp. some have described scenes of horror and despair on the bombbd out village of baghouz. over the border in iraq people because of their alleged ties a to isil. our report from the camp east of mosul. reporter: thousands of iraqi children are paying for the sins of their isil fathers, many have never met or can't remember. meerm was a child bride. she says er son was born after his turkish father died fighting for isil.

the boy is stateless, she says she doesn't ant her son to makeethe same mistakes and receiving an education will hhlp guarantee that. >> i have no soul. just a body. i can barely breathe. i can barely move. i only intend tt live for my son. i wish i had died in an air strike. >> the link to isil, found it ddfficult to obtain idennity cards. this restricts their ability to move freely, work, put their children in school, and apply for welfare benefits. human rights groups say these families are even denied food donations by tribal leaders. a huuanitarian group called the public aid organization says relattve with ties to isil are victims. facing collective punishment. the geneva conventions classify that as a war crime.

>> a new generation, i do believe that we need more peace. we need a solutton. this country cannot be running peporter: alwand is raissng six children under the age of 9. they've moved from one unable to find refuge from . being shunned. and warned her eldest children never to mention that their father was an isil fighter. she says she begged him not to join. and urged him to abandon the arrested. >> in the end, i'm a human being. ppease treat me as one. -pi understand people lost love ones. but i am not accountable for my husband's actions. >> after years of war in iraq, including the recent battle to be changes to the justice system to include prosecutions, truth commissions,

reconciliation, and reparations. that could be a long process. what is now a private shame for these families may one day become a national reckoning for ll iraqis. al jazeerr east of mosul. >> in other news new american space capsule has returned from orbit paving the way for the pirst manned mission by private operator. astronauts into orbii for the first time lattr this year. that will end nasa's reliance on russian rockets since retiring the space shuttlee fleet eight years ago. alexia o'brien explains. reporter: splashdown off the coast of florida. >> the dragon -- reporter: safely home from carrying cargo to the international space station. the six-day unmanned flight paved the way for the united states to resume manned missions. >> we brought together the people, the hardware and all tte processes and procedures

and got to see how they all and that's very immortant on this -- as we move toward putting people onbbard the vehicle..6 c13 c1 >> ignition. liftoff. reporter: thousands wwtched the capsule blast off from kennedy space center with its only occupant a test dummy nnmed ripley. % it's covered in sensors and recording everything that astronauts will feel. during its docking with the i.s.s., astronauts carried out tests and checked out the new described as a business class experience. even setting up the ultimate sppae selfie. day awe r--- first day of new era for space explorers. repprter: they have been riding russian rockets since retiring the space shuttle fleet six years aao and turned to billionaire enttepreneur elon generatton of space hardware.

>> the things thattare in science fiction nosms and not to be sccence fiction forever and want it to be real oneeday. reporter: the capsule's return to earth was a series oo tests. first it had to undock from the i.s.s. >> and we havv motion. reporter: then survived one of its biggest challenges. to sending through intense temperatures to re-enter the earth's tmosphere. >> you are looking at dragon's streaking across the sky. reporter: it all went smoothly from the capsule's heat shield to the parachute system slowing its falll >> really can't ask for a more picture perfect spot than that. reporter: nass is counting on spacex and boeing to start launching astronauts iito space this year. there's still plenty of training and learning ahead. but spacex has proved its earth in one piece. reporter: eric burger a senior space editor and he joinn us from houston in texas.

good to have you on the show. as we heard there, elon musk was saying he would like spacee travel not to be this -- the stuff of science fiction and for all of us to one day possibly holiddy in space. how significant is this? >> ell, this s very significant from the standpoint of nass and getting its own way back into space for its astro naunts as your piece just mentioned..6 c13 c1 the lass eight years to ride on the souz space capsule. froo that perspective they have a private company step forward and say we've got a capsule that's ready phog is a big -- ready to go is a big deal. no private company has put people into orbit, countries, the united states, russia and china. >> how close ddes this take us to actual commercial flights where you and i can get on a flight into space? p> well, it depends on how much money yoo ave. pretty soon, and as late as this year, you're going to have an opportunity to ride on a virgin galactic spaceeraft in

in suborbital space. blue origin will offer a -por next yearrprobably. but going up into suborbital space for six or eight or 10 minutes and then coming back the energy required to get you space and then have the high energy return that we saw with the dragon spacecraft today. -pand so uborbiial space fligh is $250,000 but an orbital flight is probably somewhere tens of millions of dollars. >> and you had mentioned about nasa not having to rely on russiaa rockett anymore. how does thhs change operations for them and what does it mean for them as far as space >> well, it's been really interesting to watcc their reaction this week. it's been -- it's een a little bit passive aggressive. they sniped a ittle bit about the air quality on the space station after dragon arrived and they sequestered theer cosmonaut inside the ussian segment when it was approaching in case it rammee into the and that didn't happen.

but then today, the leader -- dmitry rog put out a nice statement congratuuating elon musk and nasa. so russia is kind of a bitter pill. because their space progrrm is fading. you know, the capsule, the souz space station now is 50 years old and been upgraded along tte way. but it's old technology and seeing these new vehicles come paong, reusable rockets, really -- it prrvides a threat to their space program which haa a nice legacy. but maybe it's not investing as much in the future as it should be. >> and going back to commercial flights, what's the next stepp that spacex will have to do that will take us closer to the reality of commercial flights??1 >> right. so we're ot ttere yet on this vehicle, this dragon spacecraft. they have to do something called in-flight abort ttst and launching a rocket with this spacecraft on top and no people onboard and basically at the point of maximum eneegy, the spacecraft s going to see if

it can escape from the rocket, the simulation offa launch emergency. and if the spacecraft passes that test, and they will be ready for a cruise flight and that's probably can take place by the end of this year. although there's still a lot of work to go. and once you get spacex and eventually boeing doing this and going to a space station they could offer private services but that's probably at least several years down the val: thank you vvry much. -- >> eric burger. thank you very much to get yourr insight. >> thank you. >> plenty still more ahead on al jazeera, international women's day is marked with demonstrations and protests around the world. we'll take a look. and the aaazon, if they will be compensated for a decades old massacre. and joe will telllyou why tinald's weiihtlifters will % miss -- thailand's weiihtlifters will miss next year in tokyo. that's coming up n sports.

>> welcome back. the next few days it is going to be stormy for many locations. we're talking about severe weather down here across the south as well as winter weather. d a aavisories for winter storm watches and warnings up here toward the north. affecting parts of the northern plains and parts of ontario and on saturday, very winter connitions up here toward the % north. winds are going to bb a problem visibility could comeedown to near whiteout conditions there. but here across the southh this is where we could potentially see some large hail, damaging winds and the possiiility o of tornado or two as we go through sunday as well. the snow continues toomake its way toward the east. but down toward the south, it is goi to bebe quite warm. look at this. washington, you'll -- warming up to about 21 degreessthere. across much of the caribbeen things are looking nice and not much in terms of rain.

pome rrin down here across parts of costa rica.% that is going to continue on that eastern c coast. but up t ttward havana it will a fairly nice day for you with a temperature therr of about 30 degrees. and then very quickly across argentina, things are getting better down toward the south. we are going to be seeing that rain pushing up here toward monta video but for rio de % janeiro a partly cloudy day with a temperature of 33 and 28 degrees for you. in asuncion. >> you're watching al jazeera and a reminder of our top story this hour. hundreds of thousands of algerians have staged the years. a wave oo protests against president abdelaziz bouteflika since he announced he woold and the power is back on in

parts of the venezuelan capital after the worst blackout in decades. but the nationwide outage continues he will where with some areas withhut electricity for almost 24 hours. and .s.-backed fighterr in syria say they will resume their assault on isills last pocket of territory. if no more civilians come out by saturday afternoon. the syrian democratic forces havv slowed their offensive on -pbarghouz to allow thousands o people to leave. so marches and protests held across the world to mark the international women's day. in argentina, women's forces are being heard over their concern ahead of elections later this year. this report from buenos aires..1 reporter: it's a stark image from the pages of mark rhett bayne others airs. -- of buenos aires.. they're telling the world and telling men what they want.

>> first, that they stop killing us. then therees our right to abortion. -pit's our right because we're our decision to be a mother or not. then a quality, in government and in business, because in argentina, like the rest f the world, we earn 25% less just for being women. >> the message is bbing relayed in many ways. this flag came from guatemala. and will be passed to another argentine women have added to it. >> we've come together to make the biggest feminist flag in >> we're beccming more conscious of what it is to be a feminist. which is to defend the rights of women. >> wooldwidee the wommn's movementtis growing. becoming more visible. we're growing alllthe time. >> and they are. in venezuela, mexico, brazil and chile. each with their own particular issues but also many shared more than 50 wwmen accoss arch

pontinue were killed in the % past two months -- argentina were killed in ppst two months. and others treated from complications from illegal abortions. every year the protest grows bigger and every year the voice is more powerful. there are elections here in seven months' time. anddthe issues raised here are designed to resonate powerfully in those. >> the long istory of vibrant social movements, many in the region look to argentina to lead the way. and the thousands of women representing hundreds of organizations marching croors the country. -- across the country. >> aad the united states, have so. and freedom. -p>> the protest is on the ptreets today. but tomorrow it could be taken to goft to the workplace. -- to government to the

workplace. marked in other parts of the world..6 c13 c1 there was singing and danciig in pakistan's largest to mark pakistani women calling for laws to be implemented equally. but there is violence in ukraine's capital as far right protesters disrupted a women's march against sexual violenne. police were called in to three peopleewere arrested. 6 1 there were similar scenes in turkey as police try to stop a march in istanbul. but the demonstrators tried to stop them and student solidarity with women unjustly imprisoned in neighboring syrra. and thousands of women took over the streets of the landmarks across the city were illuminated in purple to mark 1 the occasion. well, bbitain's prrme minister is warning that brexit might

notthappen at all if her deal is rejected by parliament nnxt week. teresa ay's negotiation with the european union are -- because of the i pass over the irish bored -- becauseeof the impasse over the irish border. to friday to come up with a new proposal to end the deadlock back the brexit deal when they vote on tuesday. next week, members of parliament in westminster face a crucial choice. or to reject it. back it, and the u.k. will leave the european uuion. reject it,,and no one knows what will happen. we may not leave the e.u. for many months. we may leave without the protections that the deal provides. we may never leave at all. the only certainty would be ongoing uncertainty. >> our correspondent has the latest from london. reporter: one of the grrups

that teeesa may was really speaking to with this speech in grims by which voted strong -- in grimsby which voted stronglyy to leave the e.u. in 2016, 6 1 wavering m.p.'s from the opposition labour party and urged them basically and the rest of parliament to get behind her deal, dangling the threat of either leaving the e.u. without the protectionn of a deal or of possibly noo 6 c11 having brexit at all. but also she directed some of her comments toward brussees. -pshe said that it was in the britain leaves with a deal. and she said the ay that the 1 e.u. responds in the next few days would have a big impact on parliament next tuesday on her 1 deal. 6 c13 c1 she is still hoping against hope that there will be significant changes to the irish backstop solution. something that her attorney clearly failed to obtain over

the past week. so this -- this fear of continued unnertainty is what she hopes will push -- will concentrate minds but not looking great for her. the deputyyhead of the e.r.g., hard-line brexiteer group saa they are unlikely to back the deal. and the dayssafter that, there are scheduled votes to take no deal off the table and then to possibly seek an extension to but i think recent events have taught us that nothing should be taken for granted. % >> there's also uncertainty for the 1.5 milliin britons to little all over the european union. many have made a new life overseas and say they'll fear % lawrence lee reports from the spanish town of iaaonte on the reporter: it's carniial week in iamonte and people are on the streets. it isn't a rich place by any -pmeans but the sense of karen, simon, and 13-year-old

they fell in love with the pnd a ssall consultancy from home. jjda is biling ral and regards himself -- is biling ral and -pregards himself as more spani than british and watching events in the u.k. with >> every person i spoke to here in spain, looks at me with pity or with a look in their face to% say, why one, why are you doinn this and i'm so sorry that they're doing this to you. understand what is your an't problemm what is the problem? what will you gain from leaving? >> what lu say? >> i have no idea. i can't answer. >> they orry about the impacts of brexit on their business but >> there was one instance when might have to go back to the u.k. to protect our business.

and he said i'm not going back to the u.k. you can't make me go back. and i said no, no, ok. don't worry about it. it's not for you to worry about. and you go back, i'm going to run away. and i'm going to gee plane and come back to spain. that brooe nigh heart. >> to rub salt into their wounds, just as the u.k. has been turning away rom europe, so the kendricks' uropean home has doneethe opposite. with some fanfare dayamonte river to cceate a euro town called guadayna. the bridge linkiig the two 6 1 countries, the towns, is the strongest metaphor imaginable. on he portuguuse side of the river, the man in charge of the euro town has everything to save the closer european nothing good about brerksity. >> aa iiolated europe, germany

alone, england alone, france alone, caanot compete with bigger economies. it makes sense to beeunited. it's also the idea of our euro town, our little villages have only small potential. but together, they are bigger >> merging with the port gears neighbor has done nothing to stop dayamonte celebrating its -pspanish traditions, restoring brittsh pride, brexit, are met with derision and hey can only watch their corner of the e. u.k. becoming stronger and clooer and they insist they will never go back to britain.% a country they no longer understand. lawrence lee, al jazeera, dayamonte, southern spain. val: haa esigned aater failing to push ttrough social welfare and health care reforrs..6 c13 1 prime minister druha spela has wanted to cut public spending for an aging population.ring but he failed to get enough support in parliament.

taker leader until next month's generrl election. italy's ruling coalition over plans for a high speed raiiltunnel to france, the project is backed by theedeputy1 prime minister mateoosylvani. five-star movement fiercely opposes it. arguing the money should be used to fix roadd and bridggs. now, the mystery of what pappened to malaysia airlines limitations of plane tracking technology. the airline vanished over the indian ocean five years ago with 239 people onboard. but as hidei jo castro reports % p nnw satellite networkkto track ffighhs in real time %-a reporter: how can a passenner plane vanish without a trace in the 21st century? years of searching for the wreckage of mh-370 have yielded little clue. ooly a few pieces of debris and

frusttations of nottknowing exactly where the aircraft crasheddinto the indian ocean. >> it's amazing in this world, -pwhere we track our cars, our kids, our animals, that we don't traak aircraft in real time. >> in 2014, air traffic controllers had only a general open water. 70's location over in fact, ttat's been the norm for fliihts covering most of the earrh. the aviation industry hhs long relied on land-based radars to provide flight surveillance. those radars only covered 10% of the planet. you can't build a radar tower in the ocean. >> when you're flying over the oceans, nobody knows where you aree >> the aviation industry has accommodated by spacing out planes over radar blind areas and sticking as close as possible to radar zones. if you've ever taken the popular flight between new york, ann london, you may notice that very route takes %

detour in a sense over canada -pand greenland. that's ecause flights have to stay within eye shot offthe land-based radar towers there. but starting this month, nnw eees will be watching, watching from space. 6 c13 c1companies erian and iridium will operate a satellite system that leaves no area of the planet uncovered. the last of the web of 66 satellites were delivered to orbit in january. >> the only system that has truly global coverage. meaning that there's no spots pole, north pole, anywhere that there isn't coverage. to new international standards over open ocean. arian and irmedium say their technology exceeds those standardd, feeding location

-pdata to air traffic controlle at least every eight seconds. >> hopefully we won't have another situation that arises where we lose an aircraft. but if it were tt arise, wwth the technology we have noww we would know exactly whereeit is. >> the vast majority of planes already have satellite trannmitters onboard. perhaps shering in a new industry standard. heidi jo castro, al jjzeera, val: the highest court has ordered mediation between muslim and hindu groups to settle a dispute over a religious site. thhs case dates back to the destruction of the babbry mosque in the north indian town of aodiya in the riot in 1992. both say the site is holy to them and has beee a source of tension between the two religiousscommunities. more from new dehli. justttwo days after the suprrme court reserved itt decision, it has ruled in favor of mediation in the case between three parties. one a group of hhndus claiming

the land. 6 c13 c1 a group of muslim petitionees and anooher group of hindus representing the lord rahm who they believeewas born on the mediation has been ttied in the the mosque by about 200,000 ultra nationalist hindus. but those talks arrealways held by aathird party. and alwwys unsuccessful. this time, a panel of mediators appointed by the court and a former judge heading it. and there will also be a media ban in place. >> mediation had taken place, and it had not worked out. sorry the parties from the beginning were not very >> the supreme court has past order, weeexpect that there of this.e some positive result this is the scompakse. believe the court is pushing for mediation is because thh politics involved. -pissues such as the babri mosq demolition are politicclly analysts believe the governing

b.j.p. got a political push in the 1990's following the mosque demolition. with elections set to begin here in india next month analysts say mediation may be the best way to keep politics out of theecase. at least as muchhas possible. val: >> the whhurs communications director resigned and will nnw work on president donald trump's re-election campaign. bill shine is a formmr fox news executive. he joinnd trump's staff in july. he left the network in 2007 amii criticism of how he handled sexual harassment scandall. trump released a statement commending shine for an outstanding job and has -- in his administration. the u.s. president has been visiting victims of a tornado week killing 23 peoole. trump started the visit in lee county, one of the worst affectee areas. he signed a major disaster declaration for the county which frees up federal money on -- for the region. rallied in paris for a fourth

time this year, callinggfor action gainst global warming. it's part of a worldwide youth movement that started by a swedish teenage activist. and expected to continue next week. indigenous brazilians living in the amazon raiiforest are waiting to hear hether they will be compensated for what they say was genooide committed decades ago. army commanders denn the massacre of up to 3,000 people to make way for a new road. victoria gates has this report. reporter: deep in theeworld's laagest rainforestta hearing 1 has been held. witnesses accused the army of trying to wipe out their tribe during theemilitary 1964 nd 1985.n brazil between >> i lost my father, my mother, my sister and my brothee. i'm the only survivor in my family. reporter: federal prosecutors % say thousands of indigenous people died to make way for a -pnew road through the forest.

>> i saw a group of soldiers arrive over land and another by helicopter. they dropped bombs on our huts. >> military commanders deny attacking the tribe decades ago. >> where are these bodies? from the alleged bombs? let's really look for the 6 c11 truth. it's not the inntinct of the it never has. ple..6 c113 c1 never ill be. reporttr: indigenous groups are speaking out at a time of heightened tension. thhy say newly elected president gia bolanaur has stripped them of rights and dismantled environmental prrtections opening the amazon's mineral riches for more coomercial exploitation. pipeline through the amazon is bolsanaro said he doesn't have to consult indigenous people because the pipeline is a matter of national security. tribearies demand that the hee brazilian government pays its

$13 milllon in compensation and issues an official apology. victoria gates, al jazeera. >> and still ahead on al jazeera, we'll teel you how sweden's intrepid skiers found a new way to beat the queue. that's coming up in sports.

>> the defending women's world cup champion have filed states soccerrfederation claiming they have become the

victims of gender discrimination. all 28 members of the u.s. pomen's national team were named in the lawsuit. that was filed in los angeles on friday. the legal move comes just three months beforr the team is due to defend its world cup title in france. new l alasandro from yorr. reporter: a massive ticker tape parade in new york to welcome home the u.s. women's football players after their 2015 world cup victory. a sign of their success on the field whichh they say has not all 28 members of the team filed a class aation lawsuit the uus. soccer federation in a long-standing grievance over gender discrimination. at the heart of the 25-page equal pay.hey are asking for they make on average just a quarter of the mmney the men the settlemenn could reach tens of millions of dollars in back

pay for current and former players. in a statement, u.s. soccer said they would not comment on pending litigaaion. but critics of thh lawsuit argue that some of the money, like the world cup bonuses, which are $4000million for men, and only $30 million for women, areeset by fifa. world football's governing body. and nottu.s. soccer. and they say comparing salaries of men and women is not fair since they are two separate entities with separate budgets and contracts. but for the women, what makes they win, and the men don't. u.s. women are four ime olympic gold medalists and three-time world cup winners. largest english-sseaking tv audience in u.s. football the u.s. men haven't come close to winning a title or a gold % medal. the women get a chance too defend their title at this yeaa's world cup in june.

but it's unlikelyythe dispute will e resolved before kickoff might the u.s. women not even % attend the world cup? >> perhaps they go on strike. they almost did in 016 before the summer olympiis in rio. but that work stoppage was avoided when they got a new contract. gabriel alasando, al jazeera, new york. >> claudia reno interim manager named by roma after being fired. a medical before heading to roma's training ground on friday for his second stint in charge of the club. he italians moved to replace after roma knocked out of the last 16 of the champions league. women's world number one nnomi osaka opens her defenss of the indian wells title on saturday and up against -- her profile split with coach sachsa vayin,, workinn with a newwtrainer and

confident things are looking up. >> it's been going really well. she is tough, though. so it's a little bit difficult. butthe's really an awesome guy. and he's a really great cooch. i think of course there's a little bit of pressure there. defending.,,i don't think about i just think about winning another tournament. so i'm -- hopefully i can keep that mindsettgoing. por sure winning indian wells gave me a lot of connidence going into grand slams because it is seven matches for me because i was uuseeded at the time. and t's like all of the top players play. indian wells and miami. so definntely it gave me a lot of confidence. >> meanwhhle, venus williams is through to the second round after a tough opeeing match. the former world number one germmny's andrea petkovic in three sets after venus lost the second set. without winning a game. neex year's olympic weightlifting competition will -pbe missing one of its thailand has chossn to sit out tokyo 2020 and all

year to serve a voluntary one-year ban. positive for a banned substance at last year's world championshhps incllding olympic champion vakanya sira one of thailand's two goll medalist at the rio olympics. despite the ban, thaiiand will still host the world championships in september without any home competitors. revise its scoring system by awarding a oint for the fastest lap of a race. the decision has already been approved by motorsports governing body the f.i.a. the extra points will only be fastest lap finishes inside the top 10. michaela schiff republican closing n on -- mikaela shiffrin, placcd third in the czech repubbic on friday and with only the world cup finals pn andorra next weee. a win there is worth 100 points. her rival for the title is

petra violva who is the wwrld champion and the victory just resenberr.ctoria most casual skiers would ttke a -plift or cable car but nnt thr free riders who went to extreme lengtts hitching a ride on a zepelinn and there's nowhere to park it and that meant thh skiers had to sail 50 meters ddwn to the but it looks like their attempts to avoid the lift queues paid off as they got the best of the off piste powder. that's all your sport now. we'll have more for you later. >> ann i'll be bbcc with more newssshortly.