all across kuala lumpur this is becoming a familiar sight flags of the ruling coalition known as bars on but i think it's important trindle in the last few years it lost its two thirds majority in two thousand and eight and in two thousand and thirteen at the popular vote for the first time this is the first election since news of a corruption scandal surrounding state investment fund one m d p broke more than four and a half billion dollars has allegedly been siphoned from the fund set up by prime minister rudd. has denied any wrongdoing and malaysian investigations have not found any evidence of impropriety challenging is his former mentor and former prime minister mahathir mohamad the ninety two year old was angered by the scandal he's returned to politics and sets up a new party opposition politicians say the odds on tally stacked against them the government has changed electoral boundaries it's introduced a new law and not this opposition party has been banned for thirty days elections have to be held within the next sixty days but they're widely expected to be held soon. well kn

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and police suggest the involvement of a foreign hand to the murder of a palestinian engineer in kuala lumpur or. at least nine people have been killed in an explosion at an afghan voter registration center in the capital kabul police say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the doorway of the building they have been attacks and during the past week elections set to take place this a toy but well let's go to. the opera juicer who's joining us live from kabul and just and the last few minutes of the i've heard that the death toll has gone from four to line what are you hearing about the attack. the keeps going up we heard from the public health ministry officials that at least twelve people killed and more than fifty people have been wounded. this seems so that's a fact that happened just at the entrance of this. election i.d. card distribution center as you said that there were a couple of attacks in the past week on these distribution centers not only in kabul but in the central afghanistan in all provinces and also in the east in general about three policemen were wounded in an atta

now hamas is vowing revenge for the killing of one of its members in malaysia police in kuala lumpur say a palestinian engineer fadi about she was shot ten times as family is blaming the israeli security service mossad for his murder but israel's defense minister says the engineer was no saint was working to improve the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza. we try to deter these incidents but sadly it still happens we will try our best to solve these high profile cases that should not have happened here i give my assurances that safety and security despite these incidents will be ensured especially around the kuala lumpur area the victim was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel from kuala lumpur hospital post mortem start of this morning. to syria now where rebel fighters from the district of column only of the capital have arrived in northern aleppo following one of the evacuation deals negotiated by syria's ally russia many of the fighters belong to the group. about harf of the population of color moon are internally displaced and have been under government seizure for

a low mourners carry his body to a mosque near his home in kuala lumpur. the engineering lecturer who taught at a university in the city was shot dead by two men on saturday. i feel that their whoever assassinated looked at the has carried out he must find it for this despicable act when you fail to compete with palestinians in academia and in the time to take excellence. don't go and eliminate the scientists don't go and eliminate the distinguished scholars who know. it was a member of hamas the palestinian group that controls gaza his family and how must accuse israel's intelligence agency of ordering the killing a claim the israeli government denies it's not the first time mossad has been accused of killing hamas members in other countries from other limbo al botches body will be taken to its final resting place in gaza his family has only recently obtained a book called a chance on the body via the prophet offering which has been told by egypt. while boche and his family leave malaysia his killers are thought to still be in the country police in malays

hamas is vowing revenge for the killing of one of its members in malaysia police in kuala lumpur say palestinian engineer. was shot four times his family blames the israeli security service mossad israel's defense minister says the engineer was no saint and was working to improve the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza. we tried to deter these incidents but sadly it still happens we will try our best to solve these high profile cases that should not have happened here i give my surance is that safety and security despite these incidents will be ensured especially around the kuala lumpur area the victim was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel from the hospital mortem start of this morning in pakistan the passing community in lahore of march to demand demand an end to decades of oppression protests began in february when the police killing of an aspiring model went viral online police said he had ties to the taliban but an investigation showed no evidence to say thousands of disappeared over the years or been targeted by police killings right you're up to date coming up n

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agency mossad was behind the murder let's get more now from florence lewis joins us live from kuala lumpurfrance so the police have been speaking about their investigation what more they've been saying. that's right now it's only just one photo of one of the suspects that police say they've managed to obtain and this follows from the discovery on tuesday off a bike that was abandoned not far from the crime scene that police say was used by the suspects this was a car a sucky bike a high powered bike that the gunmen came and left on now police also said they believe the suspects are still in the country they don't know who they are yet they don't have any names so they are appealing for the public to come forward with more information now he refused to be drawn into who could possibly have carried out the killing and what motive could have been behind them but he did say that it was very it was professionally carried out there refused to be drawn into who could possibly have trained these killers and it's worth remembering that his family members as well as hamas to which he belongs have bl

and police suggest the involvement of a foreign hand to the murder of a palestinian engineer in kuala lumpur or. at least nine people have been killed in an explosion at an afghan voter registration center in the capital kabul police say

well let's get the thoughts of our guests now joining us from kuala lumpur is charles santiago an m.p. and member of the opposition democratic action party in singapore o.e. son senior advisor at asia strategy and leadership institute and also in kuala lumpur eric seato he's the baddies and nasional deputy communications director welcome to all if i could start with eric so why did prime minister dissolve the parliament now in part of these elections what was the reason well bit is often because that's what this forward for the prosecution department and this is launching. probably is the people who are snitches it to its course and is exactly what you did. this time around so we look forward to elections and we go into the next month or so and important election elections commissions. but still the best it's is the be ends on a slow not to be ready for it likely and oh yes yes. and but you know we have confidence at that so it's free yes it will be all right the ruling party confident it's ready to charles why did my dear mohamed in particular decide to make a comeback now do you thi

lazies government considers giving special status to a syrian refugee has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month and formula one world champion lewis hamilton sets the pace ahead of the chinese concrete but only just these houses for picture. quality the weather still remains unusually disturbed across parts of the middle east areas of cloud spilling else of syria iraq pushing across iran and that's producing some rather live fish i was from time to time fifty to seventy millimeters of rain coming out of some of these actually thirty celsius there in baghdad eastern parts of iraq will see some cloud and right some very heavy rain into western areas of iran is nothing a little further north was up towards the caspian to see if you shall is just around maybe a georgia and azerbaijan over the next to die also that cloud extends all the way over towards tech minustah his back is start a few showers there making their way into afghanistan as well prices guys do come back in behind still not just some showers southwest inside of iran so if you shall was recently into the

syrian asylum seeker who's been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month may now be allowed to stay in malaysia has done a concert was deported from the united arab emirates and has tried but failed to get into ecuador and cambodia now the malaysian government is considering giving him special status floor's reports from care. so an airport isn't the most comfortable place to spend a night for hassan al contact it's been home for nearly forty nights hassan israel hope to syria has been devastated by war he wants to go to a third country that will accept him but hasn't found one when al jazeera spoke to his son he told us he wanted to get word out to his family that he thinks it's going to be ok what. for our testing. what's happening in the economy do. you want them to know that i'm not going back to back to work for the peacetime. i have an air conditioner on the fourth. floor or. what it's like. but has and says he's getting worried because he only has nine more months on his passport has son says he hasn't tried to contact syrian officials in kuala lumpur that's because h

murdered in kuala lumpur on saturday is on its way to gaza. opposition supporters are again demonstrating in the armenian capital that they are making major demands of the government the protests followed the cancellation of a meeting between the acting prime minister and the opposition leader nicole push and now he's promised to keep the pressure on the government to meet all the demonstrators demands the acting head of the government has offered to hold a new parliamentary election saying the people are free to elect oppression yeah but the opposition says that's not enough it has several demands for the government to live to get on and my colleague rob interesting a walkout robin so the demonstrators do you have the sense there that they really mean business with this. i think they do and to give you an indication of that this is well the scene right now. this city center is paralyzed i'm scared to walk you through a little bit of this busy intersection where we are where the traffic has been stopped here for the last several hours going no

how massive value in revenge for the killing of one of its members in malaysia police in kuala lumpur say palestinian engineer for the al but was shot four times his family blames the israeli security service mossad israel's defense minister says the engineer was no saint and was working to improve the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza. we tried to deter these incidents but sadly it still happens we will try our best to solve these high profile cases that should not have happened here i give my surance is that safety and security despite these incidents will be ensured especially around the kuala lumpur area the victim was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel from a hospital start of this morning several key armenian opposition figures have been arrested by police after leading nine consecutive days of mass protest against the prime minister among those opposition leader nicola passion young who since been charged with committing what the attorney general calls socially dangerous acts earlier televised talks between him and prime minister says broke down after less than

was ambushed and shot near a mosque two motorcyclists fled the scene the university of kuala lumpur tweeted condolences for the senior lecturer hamas says he was a party member. ronen bergman is an author of the forthcoming mossad history rise and kill first he joins me now from lima in peru via skype good to have you with us on the program and thank you for your time i mean what do we know about this individual that's apparently connected to hamas. who. is really intelligent. you know so is. is a luminous on the. hamas and does that mean that. while the family accuse obviously. being behind this it's going to be very difficult to prove that especially when it's on the foreign soil. must clearly seem to have lost mr bergman we'll try and get back to him as we started out interview will join him later in the program or be well let's move on now to the funeral of the former u.s. first lady barbara bush and that's about to begin in their hometown of houston in texas the these are live pictures coming from st martin's church there where we expect a very large turnout of past presidents first la

bunch of palestinian academic an engineer was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in kuala lumpur his family says israel's intelligence agency mossad is behind the death florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. malaysian plays don't yet have the names of the two suspects but they have released computer generated images of the two men based on eyewitness accounts there's distributor these images at various checkpoints throughout malaysia to try and nab those two men should they still be in malaysia now the police also say the two men are thought to be about one hundred eighty centimeters tall fair skinned believed to be off middle eastern or european descent they were at the scene of crime and fled on a motorbike a high powered motorbike police have narratives down to two possible models photos of which were also distributed or released at a press conference on monday and they've also appealed for members of the public to come forward if they have information about the two that are postmortem on fire has now been completed and fourteen bullets were recovered police say he died of

bunch a palestinian academic an engineer was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in kuala lumpur his family says israel's intelligence agency mossad is behind his death florence levy joins us live from kuala lumpur florence what else do we know about this. well police say they don't yet have the name of the names of the two suspects but what they have is computer generated images compiled from eyewitness accounts of the two suspects now police say they're not sure whether the two suspects are still in the country so what they've done is distributed images of this photo of these photo kits at various exit points in the country and the police chief went on to describe the appearance of these two men they thought to be around one hundred eighty centimeters tall both of them fair skinned and believed to be of either middle eastern or european descent and police all have also narrowed down the model of the motorbikes that the suspects were on and also released photos of these two of the two models of the bikes on monday now and the two men were said to be wearing dark jackets had on h

and flora's joins us now live from kuala lumpur so the body of. due to leave the country with the company by his family in the next hour or so florence the police any nearer to finding out who who did this well as family members and friends and hamas now have pointed the finger of blame at the israeli intelligence agency and the israeli government has denied those accusations israeli defense minister has even suggested that she could have been killed because of an internal dispute between palestinians but a couple of days ago and this was on the same day that was gunned down malaysia's deputy prime minister who's also the home affairs minister said he believed the suspects had links to a foreign intelligence agency and the malaysian police chief at the press conference on wednesday refused to be drawn in to speculate on who could have been behind the killing and what sort of motives the killers could have had but he did say that the killing it appeared to be carried out in a professional manner and it's possible that the killers were highly traine

hamas is vowing revenge for the killing of one of its members in malaysia police in kuala lumpur say palestinian engineer for the album was shot four times his family blames the israeli security service mossad israel's defense minister says the engineer was no saint and was working to improve the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza. we tried to deter these incidents but sadly it still happens we will try our best to solve these high profile cases that should not have happened here i give my surance is that safety and security despite these incidents will be ensured especially around the kuala lumpur area the victim was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel from the hospital him start of this morning in pakistan the passion community in lahore of march to demand demand an end to decades of oppression protests began in february when the police killing of an aspiring model went viral online police said he had ties to the taliban but an investigation showed no evidence bastions say thousands of disappeared over the years or been targeted by police killings right you're up to

thought to have fired at least fourteen shots at the palestinian lecture at the university of kuala lumpur on saturday they fled on a motorbike luck or any mission to deliberately he went to the sketch shows to light skinned suspects who are european or middle eastern with their quite long both men are about one hundred eighty centimeters with sturdy. police haven't been able to identify the men and have alerted airport and border guards botches brother arrived on sunday to accompany the body back to gaza where his family want him to be buried almost certain members of the local n.g.o.s have been supporting us throughout this ordeal we thank them for that we also hope that the malaysian authorities will announce the result of this investigation so we know he did as. was a member of hamas which describes him as a scientist who had made important contributions the group which controls gaza and his family accuse mossad of being behind the killing the israeli intelligence agency denies any link. israel's defense minister has said the palestinian was no saint who was working to improve the accu

malaysia's deputy foreign minister says the killing of a palestinian engineer living in kuala lumpur may have been conducted by a foreign intelligence agency or palestinian media has reported that father was ambushed and shot in the a mosque two motorcyclists fled the scene the university of call in the twinge of condolences for the senior lecturer hamas says he was a party member. tells us now what the man's family is saying. this is to an identified gunman opened fire at. the thirty five year old palestinian engineering. was pushed as he was walking to was in nearby in the capital. colleagues of the university shocked by. the killing so we don't see any thing dangerous we human or the only thing that we can see of peace. and the only thing that could be is because of his expertise in his field of electrical engineering. a neighbor told reporters that he saw two european looking man nearby shortly before the shooting their family blame israel for the killings. the israeli mossad is to be held responsible for that because the israelis can't tolerate any well educated arab and particu

syrian asylum seeker has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport full only say yeah i may now be allowed to stay in malaysia has and was deported from the united arab emirates and has tried to fail to get into other countries but now the malaysian government is considering giving him special status that's florence lee now reports from calling the. so an airport isn't the most comfortable place to spend a night for hassan al contact it's been home for nearly forty nine hasan israel home to syria has been devastated by war he wants to go to a third country that will accept him but hasn't found one when al jazeera spoke to his son he told us he wanted to get word out to his family that he thinks it's going to be ok or. so. just think. what's happening is the economy. you want them to know that i'm not going back to the peacetime. i have an air conditioner. or. so. it has and says he's getting worried because he only has nine more months on his passport says he hasn't tried to contact syrian officials in kuala lumpur that's because he doesn't want to be sent back he's been surviving on the kind

only has nine more months on his passport says he hasn't tried to contact syrian officials in kuala lumpur that's because he doesn't want to be sent back he's been surviving on the kindness of strangers including a sudanese student osama saberi who heard about the syrian plight via social media . because. so. since hassan story went viral there have been many office of help people have been donating money to pay for his ticket out of malaysia the home ministry told al-jazeera they are deciding whether to allow him to stay but has and says that might only be a temporary solution as malaysia does not recognize refugees so he's still looking for a way out florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. the government of the democratic republic of congo is boycotting its own donor conference in geneva on friday saying the united nations has exaggerated the number of people who need aid the u.n. says escalating violence has displaced more than four million people within the country and that since december alone seventy thousand people have fled fighting in the eastern part of the country the camps in n

area the victim was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel from kuala lumpur hospital mortem start of this morning i said. by the two suspects that killed the palestinian we believe to have a connection with a foreign intelligence organization the malaysian police we work together with interpol and shion pole to track the two suspects. more now from our correspondent . this is to an identified gunman opened fire at. the thirty five year old palestinian engineering lecturer was ambushed as he was walking to was in nearby boss in the capital kuala lumpur colleagues of the university are shocked and he's been by the killing so we don't see any thing dangerous where he met or to the only thing that we can see of his. and the only thing that could be is because of his expertise in his field of electrical engineering. a neighbor told reporters that he saw two european looking man nearby shortly before the shooting their family blame israel for the killing. of. the israeli mossad is to be held responsible for that because the israelis can't tolerate any well educated arab and partic

the police investigation in kuala lumpur continues an autopsy is currently being completed in gaza and york by palestinian territories threats of revenge are increasing. our desire. lots more to come on this al jazeera news hour including demands for justice in pakistan hundreds protest day the mysterious disappearances in the past june community. and the landmark summit approach just what the north koreans think of president trump we have another special report from inside the secretive nation. barcelona now have some exhilarating after being knocked out of european football champions the tatiana we'll explain in sport. the rebel fighters from the district of kalamu near syria's capital of now arrived in northern aleppo following one of the evacuation deals negate by russia the ally of the regime many of the fighters belong to the armed group. about half of the population of kalamunda are internally displaced and have been under government siege for years the syrian president backed by russia and iran is seeking to recover control of the last pockets of rebel territory around damascus

only has nine more months on his passport says he hasn't tried to contact syrian officials in kuala lumpur that's because he doesn't want to be sent back he's been surviving on the kindness of strangers including a sudanese student osama subir who heard about the syrian plight via social media. because. so. since hassan story went viral there have been many office of help people have been donating money to pay for his ticket out of malaysia the home ministry told al-jazeera they are deciding whether to allow him to stay but hasn't says that might only be a temporary solution as malaysia does not recognize refugees so he still looking for a way out florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur the democratic republic of congo is shelling its own doha conference in geneva on friday saying the united nations has exaggerated the number of people who need aid. un says escalating violence is displaced more than four million people within the country and that since december alone seventy thousand have fled fighting in the east of d.r. see for camps in neighboring uganda where malcolm webb has we traced

only has nine more months on his passport says he hasn't tried to contact syrian officials in kuala lumpur that's because he doesn't want to be sent back he's been surviving on the kindness of strangers including a sudanese student osama saberi who heard about the syrian plight via social media . because. so. since hassan story went viral there have been many office of help people have been donating money to pay for his ticket out of malaysia the home ministry told al-jazeera they are deciding whether to allow him to stay but has and says that might only be a temporary solution as malaysia does not recognize refugees so he's still looking for a way out florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. well joyce in a minute with sports i'm. going to the home of the student. winning stall in the stanley cup playoffs. both of our kids' type of sport is tatiana thank you very much the how to time of year when as athletic i'm a dress have drawn also in the pick of the semifinal clashes on friday off will they call their off to during a two two and that quarter final that can leg against c.s.k. a moscow

of shot fired at least fourteen times in the back last saturday he was heading to a mosque in kuala lumpur where he worked as an engineering academic israel has dismissed claims that its intelligence agency mossad was behind the killing the united nations is calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua human rights groups say at least twenty six people have been killed in a violent crackdown by the police in the demonstrations which began last week. when tens of thousands of people have marched to remember the mass killing of armenians during world war one the demonstrations come after the resignation of prime minister said. he stepped down following almost two weeks of mass protests. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off the street . u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your bra five jeans will mean fofa days of time but ten times faster than forty we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazee

at least fourteen times in the back last saturday he was heading to a mosque in kuala lumpur where he worked as an engineering academic israel has dismissed claims that its intelligence agency mossad was behind the killing. united nations is calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua human rights groups say at least twenty six people have been killed in a violent crackdown by police over the demonstrations which began last week. and tens of thousands of people have marched to remember the mass killing of armenians more than a hundred years ago the demonstrations come off of the resignation of the prime minister said saugus in following widespread protests well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening to that statement that so much in life and. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this

about being delayed at the airport well we had the story of one syrian refugee has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month packed with us throughout the show isn't a hash tag. you with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in a town to see redock on the power of the people in armenia has deposed the prime minister so resigned following days of mass protests in the capital yerevan which a few hours ago attracted the support of hundreds of soldiers such as ian who recently stepped down after ten years as president was accused of a power grab and corruption in his resignation they say he said the opposition was right i was wrong and the pictures we've seen coming in from yerevan have been quite extraordinary throughout the day and we say it was when the soldiers joined hundreds of soldiers join the march it was clear that something more was afoot and eventually we had the resignation from the prime minister confirmed by his office the flags out on the street the people celebrating as we say a major win for people power now we're hoping to

fatty al butts was close close range by two motorcyclists as he walked towards a nearby mosque in kuala lumpur a massacre that was a loyal member of its posse who made important contributions in the energy field then sascha a committee of the red cross says one of its workers was killed in the yemeni city of tires on saturday. dies after a gunman opened fire on his car it was in charge of the organizations detention program and was on his way to visit a prison when the attack happens india's government has approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve it follows widespread protests over a number of attacks and doing the rape and murder of an eight year old girl in kashmir. armenia's new president has personally intervened in a public demonstration as anger continues to grow over his predecessor's attempts to stay in power. sarkisyan spoke to opposition supporters many of whom are calling for a prime minister's son c.m. to step down. became prime minister after a decade as president positions says with his new expanded powers he's now effectively bec

thought to have fired at least fourteen shots at the palestinian lecture at the university of kuala lumpur on saturday they fled on a motorbike. mission to get really be the sketch shows to light skinned suspects who are european or middle eastern with beards to look quite long at both men are about one hundred ninety cents reaches with sturdy build. and. police haven't been able to identify the men and have alerted airport and border guards. his brother arrived on sunday to accompany the body back to gaza where his family want him to be buried almost certainly. the local n.g.o.s have been supporting us throughout this ordeal we thank them for that we also hope that the malaysian authorities will announce the result of this investigation so we know who did this. was a member of hamas which describes him as a scientist who had made important contributions the group which controls gaza and his family accuse mossad of being behind the killing the israeli intelligence agency denies any link israel's defense minister has said the palestinian was no saint who was working to improve the accuracy

funny al bunch was shot close range by two motorcyclist as he walked towards a nearby mosque in kuala lumpur a mosque has confirmed that it was a loyal member of its party who made important contributions in the energy field international committee of the red cross says one of its workers was killed in the yemeni city of tires on saturday who died after a gunman opened fire on his car the hood was in charge of the organizations detention program and was on his way to visit a prison when the attack happened. india's government has approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve it was widespread protests over a number of attacks including the rape and murder of an eight year old girl in kashmir prime as an arranger modi's cabinet approved the order but it is backing from parliament within six months to become law and us president donald trump is accusing former f.b.i. director james comey of leaking classified information in his memoirs came he has been promoting his new book in which he portrays trump as a quote ego driven liar he was fired by trump

in kuala lumpur, malaysia, a palestinian man was shot and killed saturday by two assailants who fired 14 rounds before speeding away on a motorcycle. the victim, 35-year-old fadi al-batsh, was a senior lecturer at the university of kuala lumpur who specialized in engineering and who had been living in malaysia for theast decadede. mamalaysia's deputy pririme minr said he e suspecd the e killers were europeans lininked to a foreign intelligence agency. in the gaza strip, members of batsh's family blamed d the israeli spy agency mossad for carrying out the killing. in syria, governrnment forces se stepped up a massive campaign of airstrikes and artillery fire on the last opposition-held districts around the capital damascus. among areaeas taking h heavy fis the yarmouk camp, home t to palestinian rerefugees, which hs en held by isis since e 2015. chris gunness, spokesperson for unrwa -- the u.n. relief agency for palestinian refugees -- warned of a humanitarian catastrophe inside the camp. camp was a refugee transformed into a death camp, again to one of the lower rungs of help. things

old palestinian apathy academic and member of hamas was killed in a residential neighborhood in kuala lumpur on saturday his family suspects israel's intelligence agency mossad of being behind the death at least sixty three people have been killed in bombing attacks and voter registration centers in afghanistan several centers have been targeted since they opened last week ahead of upcoming elections a bus crash in north korea has killed dozens of chinese tourists in the country's north korean hey province china's state television english channel tweeted that a tour bus had driven off a bridge killing more than thirty people but that tweet was later deleted and police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed four people in the us state of tennessee police said that travis ryan king opened fire at a nashville restaurant on sunday ranking was arrested last year for being in a restricted area near the white house his gun ownership privileges were revoked by the f.b.i. and all those other headlines that he has continues here on al-jazeera after a digital dissidents next. at the moment we a

at least fourteen times in the back last saturday he was heading to a mosque in kuala lumpur where he worked as an engineering academic israel has dismissed claims that its intelligence agency mossad was behind the killing. i mean automations is calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protest as in nicaragua human rights groups say at least twenty six people have been killed in a violent crackdown by the police over the demonstrations which began last week protesters are demanding president don you know take a step down but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the coming war in china that's a watching i thought. i pity a country that would come up against us. the synergy with air land and sea forces and in our ability to control the battle space and seize the high ground is devastating all countries respect the power of the united states in that respect how dominant we are in this region and we get better and better and better. the. tonight attend a reg limps of china's bishop's expansion in one of the world's most contested regio

in kuala lumpur, malaysia, a palestinian man was shot and killed saturday by two assailants who fired 14 rounds before speeding away on a motorcycle. the victim, 35-year-old fadi al-batsh, was a senior lecturer at the university of kuala lumpur who specialized in engineering and who had been living in malaysia for the past decade. malaysia's deputy prime minister said he suspected the killers were europeans linked to a foreign intelligence agency. in the gaza strip, members of batsh's family blamed the israeli spy agency mossad for carrying out the killing. in syria, government forces have stepped up a massive campaign of airstrikes and artillery fire on the last opposition-held districts around the capital damascus. among areas taking heavy fire is the yarmouk camp, home to palestinian refugees, which has been held by isis since 2015. chris gunness, spokesperson for unrwa -- the u.n. relief agency for palestinian refugees -- warned of a humanitarian catastrophe inside the camp. camp was a refugee transformed into a death camp, again to one of the lower rungs of help. things were beyo

next, geraldine hardy in kuala lumpur has this question. divide your trip into three segments.itage trail. start in boston, the birthplace of independence, and end up in washington, dc, calling at new york city and philadelphia. all of those places are connected by fast trains. then, take a four—hour flight across the midwest and the prairies to the mile—high city of denver, with a wonderful view of the rockies. step aboard the californian zephyr train, ending up in san francisco as the sun sets on the golden gate. then go by train, plane or automobile south along the pacific coast to los angeles, a wonderful sprawl with highlights that include venice beach, santa monica and of course hollywood. finally, meena in london has a friend backpacking through south america. check the latest foreign office advice for any particular hazards and devour guidebooks. my personal highlights include lake titicaca, divided by bolivia and peru, the ancient inca capital cuzco, the amazon, and if you can possibly manage it, a river trip from iquitos in peru, downstream to leticia in colombia. by

mourners carry his body to a mosque near his home in kuala lumpur. the engineering lecturer who taught at a university in the city was shot dead by two men on saturday. i feel that their whoever assassinated the car the has any doubt in your mind it's for this despicable act when you fail to compete with palestinians in academia and in the time to take excellence. gumbo and eliminate the scientists don't go and eliminate the distinguished scholars who know. it was a member of hamas the palestinian group that controls gaza his family and how must accuse israel's intelligence agency of ordering the killing a claim the israeli government denies it's not the first time mossad has been accused of killing hamas members in other countries from the little boy just body will be taken to its final resting place in gaza his family has only recently obtained a book called a chance on the body via the rock offering which has been told by egypt. while boche and his family leave malaysia his killers are thought to still be in the country police in malaysia have rel

mystery in kuala lumpur as a palestinian engineer is ambushed and killed. and as the war of words continues between donald trump and his former. a western powers have welcomed north korea's announcement it will suspend nuclear and missile tests u.s. president donald trump called it very good news while european leaders say it is a positive first step but japan says it must lead to concrete action kathy novak reports from seoul. north korea regularly tested increasingly threatening ballistic missiles last year including weapons that could have the range to hit the united states in september it conducted its most powerful nuclear bomb test now north korea says those tests are over so it should chip we will discontinue nuclear testing an intercontinental ballistic rocket test firing from april twenty fifth. the north a new contest ground at the d.p. r. k. will also be dismantled to transparently the discontinuance testing it's welcome news for the us president who's planning to meet north korea's leader kim jong un within weeks donald trump tweeted north korea

police scuffled video goes viral and in the second spots of the palestinian scholar killed in kuala lumpur the family is now blaming the israeli mossad we brought you that story just a few moments ago right here on the newsgroup. that story out of iran andrew proving to be a very popular read on our website right now what's that all about sugaring if you click on it if i click on if anyone clicks on this article on al-jazeera dot com you'll read my colleagues i usually this report from tehran about the wave of criticism being directed towards iran so-called morality police. the incident in question shows female officers violently confronting a young woman who had starforce loosely worn in public as you can see they start exchanging insults before the officer starts beating her while her friends tries to intervene though this video has been seen millions of times since thursday and a number of government officials have weighed in the interior minister abdul raise that rahmani fuzzily ordered an investigation into the incident which he calls an unconventional encounter of the morality police