simon mc-greger wood al jazeera, in lozan. >>> the palestinian authority is now officially a member ofnternational criminal court. it's part of a move by the palestinians to increase global pressure on israel. and we report the process will be neither quick nor simple. >> reporter: the palestinian authority foreign minister emerged from a formal welcoming ceremony at the international criminal court in the hague on wednesday. palestinians he said were a step closer to justice but it will not be quick. >> we seek justice because it is the anchor in which the future of the peace and stability can be firmly established. >> do you accept this might take a long time to bring any action against israel here to international court? >> well, we are not going to alter the work and the mechanisms established by icc, what we want to do is incorporate with icc to provide whatever information is available in our hands in order to facilitate the process of investigation done by icc. >> reporter: in a preliminary examination of the facts on the ground the prosecutors are looking at to potential areas

now may not be how to get asylum but avoid being sent back to where their long journey began, simon mc-gregeral jazeera, paris. >>> army commanders in nigeria say they are killed notorious boko haram leader and an advanced on the last known stronghold in the forest and stretches along several of nigeria's northeastern states a regional coalition forces recently recaptured several times from boko haram. the guinea government says security forces have killed a protester and wounded four others during anti-government rallies and police fired tear gas to dispurse protesters angry about delayed local elections and alexia reports. >> reporter: the roads around the home of opposition leader are surrounded by police. he says it's a deliberate attempt to stop him directing anti-government protests, outside his home rock throwing protesters were met with tear gas from police. similar rallies have been happening across the country for weeks weeks. >> translator: in the city here there has been a sit-down strike that paralyzed the area and police arrested our party leader there and a 27-year-old man was

simon mc-greger wood finds how they plan to make a new life for themselves in europe. >> reporter: 50tly sudan migrants living in tents by the river and some have been here months made the hazardous journey across the see from libya and escaping war at home and hoping for a better life and have no papers and rely on charity for everything, it's a kind of migrant limbo. mohamed, not his real name spent three years working in libya and paid $1100 for his place on a boat which made it to italy and now this. >> translator: it's not the life we imagined finding in europe. we don't know what to do. but we are obliged to be here. this is the path we took. but i have to ask myself why are we here and eu states don't seem to be interested in us any more. >> reporter: helping migrants in france say people like mohamed are victims of a system which is intentionally slow and designed to discourage. >> the arguments which is brought forward by the government is always that if you welcome them well more will come and it's not true. people in sedan or syria do not think i will ask for asylum in fran

simon mc-greger wood has the latest from switzerland. >> it's clear that talks in lozan and stretchedm late tuesday and well into the early hours of wednesday morning have made progress on a number of key issues. but it's not clear there has been enough progress for a full framework agreement. leaving the talks the iran foreign minister spoke of his optimism. >> we have been working since 7:30 in the morning and it has been a very long day for all delegations. we have accomplished quite a bit but people needed to get some rest and start over early in the morning. i hope that we can finalize the work on wednesday and hopefully start the process of drafting tomorrow. >> reporter: the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov was also upbeat as he headed out of the hotel in the early hours. he and both the chinese and french foreign ministers are no longer directly participating in the negotiations. on wednesday morning there was a greater degree of caution from the british foreign minister and a warning that there is still difficult work to do. >> well i think we have a broad framework of

in hopes of a better life in europe and many finding reality a far cry from their dreams and simon mc-gregerimmediate sudan migrants forced to live under a bridge in paris. >> reporter: 50 migrants living in tents by the river, some have been here months all made the hazardous journey across the sea and escaping war at home and hoping for a better life and none of them have papers and rely on charity for everything it's a kind of migrant limbo. mohamed and not his real name spent three years working in libya and paid $1100 for his place on a boat which made it to italy and now this. >> translator: it is not the life we imagined finding in europe, we don't know what to do. but we are obligeds to be here, this is the path we took but i ask myself why are we here the eu states don't seem to be interested in us anymore. >> reporter: those trying to help migrants in france say people like mohamed are victims of a system which is intentionally slow and designed to discourage. >> the argument which is brought forward by the government is always that if you welcome them too well more will come and t

. >> reporter: back to switzerland simon mc-greger wood for us and what happens now simon?ll beside as you heard john kerry said at the press conference they have a lot of work to do and no binding nature to agreements until the fine tuning and cross the t and dot the i have to be completed between now and june 30th interesting i thought that each side clearly spinning it to their own advantage, i think from john kerry it was noticeable and agreed to which he spoke at the level of restrictions on iran's nuclear program, the extent to which the ability to enrich uranium will be cut and invasive and high-tech nature of inspection regime and of course on the other hand the foreign minister zarif from iran talking about the positives from the iran point of view and talking about the fact that tehran will be allowed to continue enriching uranium and none of the sites are closed and after the full deal implemented sanctions including the tricky u.n. ones they were keen to have removed will all go at the same time. if i was judging who has the biggest challenge in terms of selling

migrants may not be how to get asylum but avoid being sent back to where their long journey began, simon mc-gregerparis. >>> marking 100 year anniversary of mass killings they call genocide and arrived at the memorial to pay respects and french president as well as russian president putin are many who placed a yellow rose on a wreath to commemorate the day and this was around world war i and we have more. >> reporter: it has been raining all day, that has not stopped people from walking up to the eternal flame to pay their respects to those who died 100 years ago between 1915-1923. earlier today was the official commemorative ceremony and world leaders including putin were here including the serbia and greek president and they had an official memorial and went off to hold by lateral talks later on this afternoon. now tonight there is a torch lit session in the center of town to the memorial and also an orchestra performing a revival concert. >>> events in turkey not just for the massacre but to honor thousands who died in world war i battles and we are in istanbul where the event just started and

simon mc-greger wood al jazeera. >>> the next president of nigeria says he will be a leader for all thee the foreign military ruler who became opposition ruler pledged the transition of power will be peaceful. in his victory speech after a closely fought election he thanked outgoing president goodluck jonathan for conceding defeat and not challenging results. some celebrating the win held to signify muhammadu buhari's promise to sweep out corruption from nigeria. ahead for the 72-year-old president elect are two big challenges how to handle boko haram and effects of a slump in oil prices on africa's biggest economy and muhammadu buhari spoke just a short time ago. >> a long nice has past and the daylight of a new democratic governance has broken across the land. and therefore this is a victory for me for one man and even one party. it is a victory for nigeria and for all nigerians. >> reporter: we will have more on that nigeria's president elect with a live report later in this show. stay with us for that. it's been more than a week since the nigerian military detained two al jazeera jo

. >> thank you and simon mc-greger wood where there have been hours and hours now of negotiations and united states you would expect the republicans pretty quick to react to the news the house speaker john boehner saying a deal with iran represents an alarming departure from obama's initial goals and let's cross live to tom ackerman live for us in the united states. does this mean the republicans are going to try to do everything they can to prevent this deal going through or do they just now know it has an unstoppable momentum? >> well they have not said as much as that that they are trying to absolutely block it but the criticism here has been withering and the leading contender for the republican presidential nomination senator mark rubio said the administration was trying to spin a diplomatic failure and showed an farsical approach to iran basically saying iran people are not to be trusted. the chairman of the foreign relations committee is convening a hearing and actually a bill which is pending before the foreign relations committee on april 14th in which it would require a 60-d