fuel that crisis has agreed to pay two hundred seventy million dollars in fines al-jazeera as alan fischer reports it is a new day in oklahoma. and for the nation in our battle against addiction. it's estimated one hundred thirty americans die every day from an opioid overdose the president has declared it a public health emergency nobody has seen anything like what's going on now as americans we cannot allow this to continue several states including oklahoma say big pharmaceutical companies have pushed opioids to boost profits the insist they don't play the risk of addiction while claiming their drugs would treat a wide range of conditions and while thousands die each year many more are struggling through addiction which has led to serious social problems including a spread of hiv and hepatitis c. dealing with the consequences cost states millions of dollars a year this is the first settlement in more than sixteen hundred claims perdue faces from states and cities and individual american counties the company says it might be forced to consider bankruptcy other major companies have so far

forces have been fighting i saw in syria twenty fourteen speak to alan fischer in washington for us alan president had been teasing this victory for days now and now the official announcement from the white house. well actually he's been predicting the death of vice all for a lot longer than just the last few days but you'll remember that on wednesday he stood on the south lawn at the white house with two maps one seeing showed the territory that had been controlled by i saw him the day he came to power two years ago and the situation know there was a very small dot of red and he predicted that that would be gone by the end of the day will it took slightly longer than that but he got confirmation from the department of defense that eisel has lost all that territory as i say he's predicted the end of eisel several times he's also said that he is going to pull all his troops out of syria there around two thousand troops there he initially said they're all coming home that led to the resignation of jim mattis who is the defense secretary and concern from allies around the world now because

but he'll be told quite clearly this group hasn't gone away alan fischer i'll just say you know washington well there is growing criticism of donald trump's announcement that the u.s. should recognize the occupied golan heights as part of israel russia's foreign ministry says any such change would violate un agreements turkey egypt iran and syria have also spoken out against it so israel captured the golan heights from syria during the one nine hundred sixty seven war around twenty thousand israelis live there as well as twenty thousand syrians who are mostly part of the druze sects we reaffirm that the united states states administration has no right or mandate to decide the fate of the occupied seat on going on and that any tickle condition or any action that involves violation of the shit out of any public sovereignty over its occupied territory is in fact an act of aggression. provocation and illegal act and a failure to comply with the united states obligations as a permanent member of the security council but also as the host country of the united nations. we're back in a few moments

though the polls don't look good for him at the moment that didn't stop donald trump last time alan fischer al-jazeera washington. schoolchildren worldwide are skipping class to take part in the climate change protests among the first words trailing pupils in sydney organizers say more than eight thousand strikes are planned and ninety eight countries the movement started as a solo protest by sixteen year old phone berg she sat outside government buildings to accuse politicians of failing to stick to the un's powers agreement on climate change four years ago. we can now see what's happening in india and face jail is added demonstration and new delhi. the students have gathered here in central new delhi for the strike for climate action joining students in other indian cities and across the world india now is felt the effects of climate change for several years rising temperatures flooding in some parts of the country and drought in others now in the decades before the students are even born the dominant economic policy of governments and policymakers has been economic development sometimes

the political crisis in venezuela both leaders are fierce critics of president nicolas maduro alan fischer is live at the white house for is so alan the south american trump and the man himself and finally met politic on. well the trump of the tropics as many people have called him get finally gets to meet the man he modeled a lot of his election campaign on the two of them sat in the oval office donald trump answered a few questions about his relationship with brazil but the media were more obsessed with some domestic stories that are ongoing at the moment certainly we know that the two men get on very well also not always says that he is the first pro american brazilian president in a number of years he's praised donald trump that never goes down badly or donald trump as a c. took a few pages out of the donald trump playbook for his election campaign he talks a lot on twitter he talks about complex issues but how he has simple solutions he attacks the elite he talks about how he's going to work for the common man all of these things resonate very heavily with donald trump no they're goin

to reach a nationwide settlement with state and local governments possibly along similar lines alan fischer i'll just. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the head of the algerian army has called for a constitutional process to be triggered which would declare president bush a flicker unfit for office it follows weeks of mass protests which has led the country for twenty years but has been mostly out of the public eye since suffering a stroke in twenty three israel's prime minister is threatening further action against gaza amid the biggest israeli palestinian escalation in months there's been reports of sirens in southern israel and a rocket landing there as well as new israeli air strikes in the southern gaza strip we were clear in the condemnation of the rocket attack but now we believe it's absolutely necessary to avoid any scaling up to have restrain the charity save the children says seven people have been killed in the net strike on a hospital it supports in yemen four children are among the dead the charity says a missile struck a petrol station near the entrance

on his first trip abroad since taking office in january alan fischer reports the brazilian president has quickly become donald trump's closest latin american ally not only does he praise almost everything he does the a lot of the same treats the push many of the same policies and they're both on the same page in venezuela both supporting self declared interim president one. u.s. president again called on the country's military to abandon president but do we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for material who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet. both men insist all options are on the table when it comes to events across brazil's border and president both are not who wouldn't rule out using his country as a piece for a u.s. led military intervention. there are a few issues that if you speak they are no longer strategic so these issues are not going to be made public during the brief news conference in a chilly white house rose garden donald trump revealed brazil would know have the opportunity to buy u.s. weapons after being designated a major nor ne

but he'll be told quite clearly this group hasn't gone away alan fischer washington algerians have been out in force for a fifth successive friday calling for regime change and for president abdul aziz beautifully to immediately step down and rallied in the capital algiers and smallest cities across the country as more of the president's former allies abandoned him mohammad john june reports. for the fifth friday in a row demonstrators across algeria forward into the streets gray skies did not cloud their enthusiasm rain could not dampen their passion appropriate to the occasion this man carried an umbrella designed in the colors of his country's flag . were coming from all over the country we're all one united under the umbrella of one nation we will keep protesting in the sun in the rain until we get what we want it's been almost a month since demonstrators led by the young began demanding president eyes he's beautifully withdraw from running for a fifth term in office. the eighty two year old leader reversed his decision to stand for reelection but he also postponed polls that were d

but you'll be told quite clearly this group has gone away alan fischer washington here's what's coming up on the al-jazeera news hour we'll speak to families still waiting for loved ones to be released under a prisoner swap deal in yemen. in sport amateur boxing hopes to be back in favor for the tokyo twenty twenty olympics will tell us more. but first it's over weeks and cyclonic die hit southern african countries including mozambique and zimbabwe desperation is growing among the survivors an estimated one point seven million people are affected many of whom need food water and shelter so in mozambique which was worst hit two hundred ninety three have been confirmed dead but it is feared that death toll will exceed the thousands the devastated port city of barrow has become a center for frantic efforts to rescue thousands still trapped by the floodwaters and in eastern zimbabwe the official number of dead from the floods and mudslides is two hundred fifty nine and another two hundred seventeen people are missing aid agencies say they're running out of time cases of cholera have alread

secretary briefed president as he was traveling on air force one about the updates from syria alan fischer has this report from washington everything red is isis. now. saying there is no. declared victory against or isis as he calls it several times. days ago in the south lawn of the white house he insisted again the self-proclaimed caliphate. fact there's actually a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight he had already announced the end of eisel back in february but the group still had at least one stronghold in syria and one point i still controlled a huge territory in syria and iraq an area roughly the size of mainland britain. don't trump has wanted to end u.s. operations in syria for a while then in december he suddenly announced he would withdraw two thousand troops it was such a surprise it provoked the resignation of defense secretary jim mattis and criticism from allies world white now he plans to keep four hundred troops in country pushed by the pentagon and allies in part to stop any researches of the case of syria is a strange game of musical chairs in the point is this is not

reach a nation white settlement with state and local governments possibly along similar lines alan fischer al-jazeera. shall carry here with the headlines on al-jazeera thailand's main opposition party has formed a coalition with six other parties following sunday's inconclusive election the leader of the. thai party rather says the coalition will have two hundred fifty five out of five hundred seats in the house of representatives though that's still not enough for them to choose their own prime minister scott heiler has more from bangkok they are going to start they have are forming this coalition kind of phrased as the democratic front to counter what's been going on and to counter. who is the head of the military government now and prime minister candidate for the main party for supporting the military they say that they have enough seats in the lower house to now form a coalition the have a majority in the lower house they say there are at least six parties involved in this coalition and they say they have at least two hundred fifty five seats that would be a majority a simple majorit

people around the table and divan we are bombs and bullets as a way to end the fighting season alan fischer al-jazeera washington and human rights group says american and british weapons have been used to kill and wound hundreds of civilians in yemen the findings were based on more than two dozen attacks by the saudi and u.a.e. led coalition documented between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen the report from the yemen based group has prompted calls for both countries to halt arms sales still ahead on al jazeera accused off a cover up a cat. cardinal in france faces a verdict in a major abuse scandal and the european commission declares the migration crisis is over but there are still problems. and there we've got a few bits and pieces of cloud across the middle east at the moment with one working its way towards kabul there then another one that's making its way out of saudi and across into parts of iran and then the final one that's here over parts of turkey now this one is the most significant one it's giving us the heaviest outbreaks of rain and it's gradually working its way south was

since taking office and john you're among the topics discussed was the crisis in venezuela and as alan fischer reports the two men have similar views on what needs to be done there. the brazilian president has quickly become donald trump's closest latin american ally not only does he praise almost everything he does he shoot a lot of the same treats the push many of the same policies and they're both on the same page on venezuela both supporting self declared interim president won. the u.s. president again called on the country's military to abandon president but do we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for material who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet both men insist all options are on the table when it comes to events across brazil's border and present both scenario wouldn't rule out using his country as a piece for a u.s. led military intervention. there are a few issues that if you speak they are no longer strategic so these issues.

alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house but of course when as well as political crisis continues as opposition leader continues his efforts to oust president nicolas maduro a collapsed economy means many people are struggling just to survive in this series of reports now from port to let cruise desperation is leading people to part of fish for food and money. this is a daily scene at local sport in the state of. fishermen arrive without catch sardines which is the only fish most people can afford the stays the people like in so having spent all night at sea battling. tell the government to come and see what's happening here this is hunger it's desperation i don't even make money i owe . try to get food for my family. for inflation is having a devastating effect among the country's poorest the fish that you can see here are starving says the chief with the force of. their time that's when hundreds of people are coming here to. ride for flour when they tell us is that one kilo. is worth one of. these days venezuelan struggle to find the most basic items medicines are difficult to find

reach a nation white settlement with state and local governments possibly along similar lines alan fischer al-jazeera. still to come on al-jazeera have we seen the last of the mixed martial arts biggest star all the details coming up after this. oh here is far and i with the sports. thanks very much italy recorded a huge win in euro two thousand and twenty qualifying on choose day they thrashed liechtenstein fics nil. scored twice as these talents made it to add to that result puts italy top of group j they're trying to make the euros after failing to qualify for last year's world cup. spain have also secured a second straight when they beat malta to no and now top group af and in the scandinavian darby sweden and norway drew three three european clubs have repeated their intentions to boycott the revamped club world cup which is set to launch in two thousand and twenty one for president confirmed plans for the new book tournaments at a council meeting in miami earlier this month and plan is for it to feature twenty four teams and replace the confederations cup the european club associatio

makes a gun harder alan fischer washington. it was the worst attack of its kind in argentina the one nine hundred ninety four bombing of a jewish community center when as areas which killed eighty five people now a former judge who led an investigation into the attack has been jailed the six years for his role in covering up evidence the court also acquitted former president carlos menem on charges he conspired to derail the inquiry to raise about reports from. for twenty five years they demanded justice they accuse the argentine state of failing them the prison sentence issued on thursday gave them something they had so long been after. said here was danes wife was killed in the attack on the jewish community center in argentina. i have a bit more peace now because we knew we were being lied to they always ignored the victims for them it was all about politics and trying to hide what really happened but destroyed all the evidence so we still don't know whether anything they say is true. in one nine hundred ninety four attack a

sanctions on a rainy ends that says play a central role in the country's nuclear weapons program alan fischer i spoke about this with brian hook the u.s. special representative for iran and senior policy adviser to the secretary of states he asked him what the u.s. is trying to achieve. we know that this is a regime that has retained the intent to become a nuclear weapon state they have retained their atomic archive many of the names that we designated today were people who were in iran secret atomic archive these are people who were working on iran's nuclear program to develop a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it and so we designated these specific people and organizations who are still active in research and development that if iran turned back on its nuclear program again a lot of this work becomes very relevant and we continue to have an impact when russia doesn't support them china doesn't support them the unit paean union doesn't support them india tuckey are still interested in buying oil from iran because the need that supply what we've found is that in light of the strength o

honest first trip abroad since taking office in january alan fischer reports the brazilian president has quickly become donald trump's closest latin american ally not only does he praise almost everything he does the sheet a lot of the same treats the push many of the same policies and they're both on the same page on venezuela both supporting self declared interim president one white all u.s. president again called on the country's military to abandon president but do we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for madeira who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet. both men insist all options are on the table when it comes to events across brazil's border and president both are not who wouldn't rule out using his country as a piece for a u.s. led military intervention. there are a few issues that if you speak they are no longer strategic so these issues are not going to be made public during the brief news conference in a chilly white house rose garden donald trump revealed brazil would know how the opportunity to buy u.s. weapons after being designated a

but he'll be told quite clearly this group hasn't gone away alan fischer al-jazeera washington well there's growing criticism of donald trump's announcement that the u.s. should recognize the occupied golan heights as part of israel russia's foreign ministry says any such change would violate un agreements turkey egypt iran and syria have also spoken out against it israel captured the golan heights from syria during the one nine hundred sixty seven war we reaffirmed that the united states admit states administration has no right or mandate to decide the fate of the occupied seat on the line and that any tickle condition or any action that involves a violation of the syrian out of any public sovereignty over its occupied territory is in fact an act of aggression. provocation and illegal act and a failure to comply with the united states' obligations as a permanent member of the security council but also as the host country of the united nations when anti racism march was held in the new zealand city of christ church a days after the mosque shootings in which fifty people were killed andrew t

crisis as agreed to pay two hundred seventy million dollars to settle a lawsuit al-jazeera as alan fischerreports it is a new day in oklahoma. and for the nation in our battle against addiction. it's estimated one hundred thirty americans die every day from an opioid overdose the president has declared it a public health emergency nobody has seen anything like what's going on now as americans we cannot allow this to continue several states including oklahoma say big pharmaceutical companies have pushed opioids to boost profits the insist they don't play the risk of addiction while claiming their drugs would treat a wide range of conditions and while thousands die each year many more are struggling through addiction which has led to serious social problems including a spread of hiv and hepatitis c. dealing with the consequences cost states millions of dollars a year this is the first settlement in more than sixteen hundred claims perdue faces from states and cities and individual american counties the company says it might be forced to consider bankruptcy other major companies have so far r

the fighting could create long term instability and pose a future threat to the united states alan fischer reports from washington. from the hearing room in washington they discussed how to bring an end to almost five years of fighting thousands of kilometers away but this is no detached former war the us is part of the sodium led coalition confronting the fighters and the subcommittee chairman says requests to satisfy the coalition is doing all it can to reduce civilian deaths have been ignored by the trump white house the administration brazenly ignored the february night certification deadline the administration continues to refuse to certify ignoring a loss supported by both republicans and democrats the war which escalated dramatically in march twenty fifteen has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the united nations says twenty four million people need humanitarian assistance fourteen point three million need food and water simply to survive one expert witness told the committee there can be no humanitarian fix a political solution the humanitarian situation in yemen has sh

alan fischer reports from washington to be discussed how to bring an end to almost five years of fighting thousands of kilometers away but this is no detached foreign war u.s. is part of the saudi led coalition confronting the fighters and the subcommittee chairman says request to certify the coalition is doing all it can to reduce civilian deaths have been ignored by the white house. the administration brazenly ignored the february ninth certification deadline the administration continues to refuse to certify ignoring a law supported by both republicans and democrats the war which escalated dramatically in march twenty fifteen has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the united nations says twenty four million people need humanitarian assistance fourteen point three million need food and water simply to survive one expert witness told the committee there can be no humanitarian fix a political solution the humanitarian situation in yemen has sharply declined over the course of the war but any amount emergency humanitarian situation solution without a political settlement will not

as alan fischer reports from washington the unusual public hearing after the drug companies asked for it to be in private is a sign america's congress is running into patients over the price of drugs we here in congress are exploring legislative options to determine companies to deter companies from engaging in these practices they keep drug braces high for patients. today we expect open honest answers each of the company bosses submitted statements to the committee one said the companies use their profits to invest in important research and development of new drugs we go where the science leads us which means we don't focus all the on diseases in wealthier countries the goal is to save lives even where no viable commercial opportunity exists one this is the first time lawmakers have demanded answers from pharma companies about rising prices the government is among their biggest customers buying billions of dollars for various government programs senators acknowledge the importance of research it was pointed out drug companies enjoyed more than two hundred billion dollars in governmen

as alan fischer reports from washington the unusual public hearing after the drug companies asked for it to be in private is a sign america's congress is running into patients over the price of drugs we here in congress are exploring legislative options to determine companies to deter companies from engaging in these practices and keep drug braces high for patients. today we expect open honest answers each of the company bosses submitted statements to the committee one said the companies use their profits to invest in important research and development of new drugs we go where the science leads us which means we don't focus all the on diseases in wealthier countries the goal is to save lives even where no viable commercial opportunity exists one this is the first time lawmakers have demanded answers from pharma companies about rising prices the government is among their biggest customers buying billions of dollars for various government programs senators acknowledge the importance of research it was pointed out drug companies enjoyed more than two hundred billion dollars in government

as alan fischer reports from washington the unusual public hearing after the drug companies asked for it to be in private is a sign america's congress is running into patients over the price of drugs we here in congress are exploring legislative options to determine companies to deter companies from engaging in these practices and keep drug braces high for patients. today we expect open honest answers each of the company bosses submitted statements to the committee one said the companies use their profits to invest in important research and development of new drugs we go where the science leads us which means we don't focus all the on diseases in wealthier countries the goal is to save lives even where no viable commercial opportunity exists one this is the first time lawmakers have demanded answers from pharma companies about rising prices the government is among their biggest customers buying billions of dollars for various government programs senators acknowledge the importance of research it was pointed out drug companies enjoyed more than two hundred billion dollars in government

people around the table and the van we are bombs and bullets as a way to end the fighting season alan fischer al-jazeera washington which is soldiers might be deployed on the streets to help deal with rising knife crime the emergency the government's had emergency talks with police who blame years a budget cuts for reducing officer numbers named barco reports from london. jody chesney and yusef marquis are the latest ninth and tenth teams to be fatally stabbed this year this is the london parkway jodi chesney was murdered stabbed in the back as she played music with friends the victims were both seventeen ten teenagers have been killed in stabbings this year twenty seven in the past twelve months the killings of course outrage and a fierce national debate nine of my friends were shot dead in the last one was shot fifty seven times this is sheldon thomas a former gang member who now advises young people and politicians on violent crime he believes the current debate been heightened because recent victims have been white and middle class why does it take a middle class person to be killed befor

sanctions on individual rain ians it says play a central role in the country's nuclear weapons program alan fischer spoke about this with brian hoke the u.s. special representative for iran and senior policy adviser to the secretary of state he asked him what the u.s. is trying to achieve. we know that this is a regime that has retained the intent to become a nuclear weapon state they have retained their atomic archive many of the names that we designated today were people who were in iran secret atomic archive these are people who were working on iran's nuclear program to develop a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it and so we designated these specific people and organizations who are still active in research and development that if iran turned back on its nuclear program again a lot of this work becomes very relevant and we continue to have an impact when russia doesn't support them china doesn't support them for unity and union doesn't support them india tuckey are still interested in buying oil from iran because the need that supply what we've found is that in light of the strength of th

the fighting could create long term instability and pose a future threat to the united states alan fischer reports from washington. from the hearing room in washington they discussed how to bring an end to almost five years of fighting thousands of kilometers away but this is no detached former war the us is part of the sodium led coalition confronting the fighters and the subcommittee chairman says request to certify the coalition is doing all it can to reduce civilian deaths have been ignored by the trump white house the administration brazenly ignored the february night certification deadline the administration continues to refuse to certify ignoring a law supported by both republicans and democrats the war which escalated dramatically in march twenty fifteen has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the united nations says twenty four million people need humanitarian assistance fourteen point three million need food and water simply to survive one expert witness told the committee there can be no humanitarian fix a political solution the humanitarian situation in yemen has shar

he was in favor of tougher gun laws says he will veto anything that makes owning a gun harder alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the world of classical music has lost one of its leading figures. conductor and composer only previn died on thursday. in a career spanning seven decades he enjoyed long ten years leading the london symphony orchestra and the los angeles phenomenon and also worked in hollywood when he for all schools for his work on films including i feel lady and podium because. this is all jazeera these are the top stories the un security council has rejected rival resolutions on the crisis in venezuela or u.s. led vote seeking free and fair elections failed at the security council with russia and china vetoing the move and russia had its own idea rejected as well pakistan's prime minister says a captured indian pilot will be released on friday as a peace gesture that was caught after india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region. donald trump has returned to the u.s. after talks with north korea have ended without a deal in vi

syria for the time being at least to calm but any regrowth of eisel thank you very much for that alan fischer live for us in washington we'll have more on this breaking news story out of the u.s. with the white house announcing that the final offensive against i saw in syria in the village of beigels is over do stay with us on al-jazeera coming up next here it's a thrice. the way they'll see in antarctica the size of an extraordinary bids to create the largest protected area on a. for this special episode of a prize we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optic sunrise following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement is ations history witnessing the spectacular biodiversity and the many threats to life from climate change to add to fishing as a team of scientists photographers and ocean experts sets out to prove these vos remote waters must become an antarctic ocean sanctuary. before i set off down south i'm going to find out a little about the journey i'm about to embark on tucked away in this maze of old london streets something quite extraordinary. ever since i w

when they will be able to start there's more rain and more flooding forecast for later this week alan fischer. britain's prime minister tourism a has suffered a new setback over breaks that the speaker of the lower house of parliament has ruled that she can only hold a third vote on her deal to leave the e.u. if it is fundamentally different from before well may's deal has been rejected by m.p.'s twice and speaker john bercow says he won't allow another votes unless substantial changes are made. what the government cannot legitimately do is to resubmit to the house the same proposition or substantially the same proposition as last of last week which was rejected by one hundred forty nine. ten with. the latest from london. but it may be a little while yet before we have a precise idea of how this is all going to turn out no doubt it's a major blow to the government's hopes of holding a third vote on trees of maize briggs it deal this week perhaps at all much will depend on what happens i think at the european union council meeting at the end of this week will for instance reason may turn up th

with a territorial force if need be but he'll be told quite clearly this group hasn't gone away alan fischer washington well to iraq now search operations are continuing in mosul a day after a ferry carrying about two hundred people capsized the interior ministry says one hundred people have died most of them women and children and iraq's president got an angry reception when he traveled to the city and sasha cohen has more from baghdad the people are angry in mosul protestors are calling the iraqi president and other government officials the names they say the government has failed to keep a check on the safety of ferries and how they're operated and they want justice for the victims. this ferry was packed with people enjoying a holiday at an amusement park it didn't get far from the banks of the tigris river before capsizing social media video shows bystanders screaming passengers struggling against the swift current to get to safety dozens drowned most were women and children more than fifty people were rescued so we still have my wife and my daughters are in the water and those police of

but he'll be told quite clearly this group hasn't gone away alan fischer washington. well marwan cabala is the director of policy analysis some the arab center for research and policy studies and he joins me now on the set and is this the end of i so have they been zefi since. and terms in terms of territories they might have been defeated but i'm afraid in terms of ideology the have nots. why because i believe unless we tackle the root causes which had led and the first days to the emergence of feisal are the policies of execution marginalization of the huge parts of syrian and iraqi society is most probably will be seeing i see you making a comeback sometime in the future this is a see environment which has actually worked with the al qaida which have been defeated by the united states and the iraqi tribes in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine but then we have seen actually al qaida coming in in your form. isom in two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen and this time as a reaction to the civilian policies of iran maliki government in iraq the gov

to get people around the table and divan your bones and bullets as a weed to end the fighting alan fischer al-jazeera washington and cameroon leaders of an separatist group of jews who are pair and court accused of treason the amazonia freedom fighters have attacked villages schools and businesses over the past year their aim is to pressure the government into establishing an english speaking state and what's mostly a french speaking nation and the reports on the impacts this has had this been on a plantation in southwest cameroon used to be a thriving business not anymore last august it was attacked by armed men from a group known as the amazonian freedom fighters workers on the farm say they were terrified they worried about more attacks so we've hidden their identities they beat me on the head with a machete a young man was asked to kill me but he didn't have the courage to do it one of the guys kicked me and i fell to the ground he cut my neck and back i begged him not to kill me after that i lost consciousness the plantation was so badly damaged that it's been difficult to restart pro

max back in the air in the next couple of months if it can convince people it's no safe to fly alan fischer al-jazeera washington. ukrainians will vote on sunday in a tightly falls presidential election more than forty candidates are running but it's really a three horse race president petro poroshenko is seeking reelection for the first time since coming to power in twenty fourteen he's up against opposition these are you the a team of schenk oh a former prime minister popular among also for all divorces which is promising a three fold increase in pensions the wild cards is this man volodymyr selenski he's a comedian he plays a fictional president at a popular t.v. series he's tapped since a growing discontent over corruption ansi appears to be leading in the pause the winning candidates will need at least fifty percent of the votes to avoid a runoff and while this is happening against the backdrop of the conflicts in the east with russian backed fighters now in its fifth year the war has hurts ukraine's most economically important region drains public resources and exhausted voters and th

alan fischer reports from washington. from the hearing room in washington they discussed how to bring an end to almost five years of fighting thousands of kilometers away but this is no detached former war the us is part of the sodium led coalition confronting the fighters and the subcommittee chairman says request to certify the coalition is doing all it can to reduce civilian deaths have been ignored by the trump white house the administration brazenly ignored the february night certification deadline the administration continues to refuse to certify ignoring a law supported by both republicans and democrats the war which escalated dramatically in march twenty fifteen has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the united nations says twenty four million people need humanitarian assistance fourteen point three million need food and water simply to survive one expert witness told the committee there can be no humanitarian fix without a political solution the humanitarian situation in yemen has sharply declined over

reach a nation white settlement with state and local governments possibly along similar lines alan fischer i'll just read it. the pentagon has authorized the transfer of one billion dollars to get build a wall along the us mexico border the phones are the first son's of the national emergency declared by president donald trump to bypass congress and build the barrier he pledged during his election campaign democrats protested against the money for the house of representatives fails to overwrite trump's veto of a resolution c. ends the border will emergency she have residency has more now from washington d.c. . so the democratic leadership would fail to get a two thirds majority in order to override the presidential veto was never in doubt but this was a symbolic vote and we can perhaps expect more symbolic votes in congress to register the opposition to the declaration of an emergency as this now moves to the courts perhaps to the supreme court the argument isn't about the necessity of having a war it's about whether the president's emergency declaration is constitutional whether it actual

years and is a reflection of the man at the top in washington president trump believes that to alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house kazakhstan's president has abruptly announced his resignation after twenty nine years in the job. has led the central asian country since its independence from the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one and a televised address the seventy eight year old explained that he had made a difficult decision but didn't explain the reasons behind his move he's due to step down at the end of this month robin forrester walker has more. but in your you're going to. have led kazakstan for three decades and his decision to stand down is nothing short of historic in a region where leaders tend to be pushed out or down in office that are here because of. you today i have always gone in the most important moments in the history of our state which we are building together my address today is special i made an easy decision to step down as president of the republic of. london as a buyer of stewed chip starnes capital as donna became a modern metropolis a country the

when they will be able to start there's more rain and more flooding forecast for later this week alan fischer. the number of indonesians killed in flash floods and landslides in pop up province has risen to at least seventy nine doctors have set up tents to treat the wounded rescuers are looking for survivors trapped by mud and fallen trees a baby found in the rubble was reunited with its father the rest of the family died in the disaster venezuela's president nicolas maduro has asked his anti cabinet to step down as he struggles to maintain control of the country he's been facing off opposition leader one for more than two months why declared himself as venezuela's leader in january to ease a bow as the latest. the government of unequal i don't know announcing who chuckling the whole having the vice president does you know the it's also said that the president had backed the resignation of members of the cabinet and that he was hard naming and giving information about who's going to be part of that cabinet when this is not given to quell any well as i would have had at least for vice preside

continue to talk about important things like trade and venezuela thank you very much for that alan fischer live for us and the white house. and the protests in algeria show no sign of slowing down now medical students and doctors are demonstrating against the president's plan to stay in power beyond the end of his term abdelaziz bouteflika says he will remain in office beyond april twenty eighth when his fourth term is due to expire. choose the marks the anniversary of the r.g.b. in war of independence. this year it's coincided with unprecedented calls for change thousands including university students and medical doctors have joined the protests in the capital of jews calling on president of the isis but a few cartoons on. the word change which for weeks was the exclusive demand of the protesters is now being used by their leaders to. but while the protesters want to change the entire ruling class the leaders are talking about changing the constitution according to state media president with a flipper has announced that an all inclusive national conference will be held soon what people ca

three states have declared emergencies and there is a danger that floodwaters could rise further alan fischer reports. the midwest of the u.s. has been swamped historic flooding driving thousands from their homes states of emergency have no been declared in wisconsin iowa and nebraska. that's like i look out there and i just see nothing but a big ocean massive late winter storm hit the area last week that caused local rivers to flood this is flat open country there's nothing to slow the water don't added to the winter ice melting the rivers like the missouri have simply been overwhelmed hopefully people understand what the quantity of water that's coming down the missouri river that you stay out of the water a number of people have been killed in iowa one victim drove around a safety barrier and was swept away in nebraska another died after refusing to leave their home in some places it was people's animals that raised the alarm houses right here their dogs all of them up because they got in water and they were cold and they started barkin in sometimes the water rose so fast that you only had