the colorful spring of flower festival on the golden goose island of madeira. colorful fashion and a new some fashion blogger who wants to brighten ups with. colorful accounting of the lunar plaza lamp of cornwell in soho west england. we start our journey today on madeira the portuguese island is located in the atlantic and has a pleasantly climate it is a tropical paradise thanks to a stable warm weather flowers are in bloom all year round therefore madeira is also called the green island or flower island however it is particularly blooming at the moment because the flower festival festival floor is in full swing and the big parade in the capital for saga is the highlight. there's a party atmosphere in front shot of the capital of madeira the portuguese island is celebrating something it has plenty of flowers the highlight of the celebration is a magnificent parade always held three weeks after easter. roberto rodrigo is taking part with his dance group food as somebody born in portugal he lived in switzerland for many years now he's returned home. to look at

thanks very yummy all right from food to travel now and we're off to the portuguese island of madeira located on the atlantic ocean i'm a deer is often referred to as the green or flower island because of its vegetation and at this time of year that certainly rings true because a major flower festival is in full swing with a big parade as the highlight. there's a party atmosphere in flint shot in the capital of madeira the portuguese island is celebrating something it has plenty of flowers the highlight of the celebration is a magnificent parade always held three weeks after easter. roberto rodrigo she is taking part with his dance group food as somebody born in portugal he lived in switzerland for many years now he's returned home. to look at what's really fun to be in the plowright it's great to see how people are so happy to see all the flowers the dancing our costumes it's wonderful to take part here. past the album it's about. the flower festival was the main topic of conversation and for weeks before the parade floral carpets had been spread out on the main promenade and flowers

there's a hearty atmosphere in front shot of the capital of madeira the portuguese island is celebrating something it has plenty of flowers a highlight of the celebration is a bad medicine for ray always held three weeks after easter a. group out of a dream is taking part with his dance group food as somebody born in portugal he lived in switzerland for many years now he's returned home. at what's really fun to be on the clock right it's great to see how people are so happy to see all the flowers the dancing our costumes it's wonderful to take part here. that's the album it's about. the flower festival was the main topic of conversation and for weeks before the parade floral carpets had been spread out on the main promenade and flowers handed out to visitors. through battle and his team start preparing for the parade in early april it's taking quite a bit of effort. this is some quality it's difficult to coordinate i told the people the whole team that's here we work under time pressure of course to get everything done everything has to be ready tomorrow it's not just the front where you

madeira is called the island of flowers they flourish in the sub tropical climate even on rocky formalkind of ground so it's the ideal place to celebrate an annual festival of flowers. the director of tourism couldn't agree more. a small flower festival started with an exhibition that's over says sixty years old about sixty three and then about thirty years ago we started with the parade as it is with groups involved which has been growing year by year and this is one of the biggest so in numbers one thousand five hundred people starting with little ones from four year olds. it's sunday afternoon and in fifteen minutes the parade will begin. his club were up until two in the morning putting together and decorating their float now it's ready to move out and the club members pose for tourists. can feel the adrenaline rising instead of getting really excited you know it's completely normal when you walk a nice older people and everything else here. we are well on our way. i'm sure it'll be a great. time to tell the shoulder and. with so much floral spectacle spring can't be anything but g

it's an improvement now i said we didn't die madeira of course just off the coast of africa. the canary house and they're going to get a northerly gale in the next couple of days we've given chile i think will we noticed on the shores of morocco itself robots forecast for tuesday to me it's seventeen degrees not as windy but disappointed because probably wet it's much better for the east two days here we're up to thirty degrees again. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china talked one on a just. a quick reminder of our top stories here on al-jazeera sixty three people have died and more than one hundred have been injured in bomb attacks on voter registration centers in afghanistan. peace in armenia have detained the leaders of protests against the former

. >> reporter: jody madeira is the executive director of walk sf, and launched a social media campaign against these companies with the hashtag scooters behaving badly. it seems like this endanger the disabled. the board of supervisors will meet monday to discuss whether these companies need permits to continue operating. all three companies say they are open to that. they are just hoping sentences go will allow them to stay. in san francisco, susie steimle, kpix5. >>> warriors fans will be watching their team in the playoff beginning tomorrow, but every seat in the oakland arena is already filled. with t-shirts, that is. they did this in the past, a group of about 50 people laid out these yellow shirts that read strength in numbers on every single seat. almost 20,000 of them. arena officials say the shirts mean a lot more than just free merchandise. >> everyone is in the same color, strength in numbers like it says on the shirts, the fans are part of the team, and this really gets them to feel like it, it really creates an environment, a home-court environment that gets the fans fired

iam i am cassie madeira in london and just before we go, we have some breaking news coming in from owlnda broadcast at the border with north korea. that sony is usually filled with the sound of south korean news broadcasts, which echo across the border. south korea is to stop that and north korea also will do the same. good morning. yesterday was the last time we will see anywhere in the uk get above 20 degrees in the week ahead. the kink in the jetstream to the north helped to drag in that unusual warmth through last week is now out of the way, and through the week ahead we will see it piling up on the atlantic and move to the south of the uk, putting us on the colder side. what does that mean? back to more typical weather for the time being, nothing untoward, nice enough when the sun's out, it has a bit of strength but it does mean we will see cooler conditions especially when the rains are around. cooler conditions to start your monday morning commute, temperatures into single figures uk—wide, compensated with a bit of sunshine in the south and east of the uk. a bit more cloud and o

let's get more details now from artie's de rich i hope we can talk to her now anyway can we speak to madeira. are you all good to see you ok we're going to cause we have any learned about this in the past twenty minutes half an hour or so what else did the doctors have to say about recovery. yeah i mean we don't know as you said we've only just got this information and not a lot of details have been released but we do know in that statement from dr christina blanche that's the medical director at soulsby district hospital said that sir three powell is responding well to treatment improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition however those were all the details that have been provided on this so far also we know that cripples daughter ular is recovering so much show so that she gave a statement to the met police saying that she is growing stronger day by day this is a story that has absolutely dominated the international community it's gone on for ages they've been in hospital for over a month now recovering and it all started when they were allegedly poisoned on the fourth of mar

i'm kasia madeira with bbc world news.meeting of the security council to discuss the poisoning in the uk. it said britain was playing with fire in accusing moscow of carrying out the attack. in response, britain said its actions stood up to any scrutiny and likened russian requests to take part in the investigation to an arsonist investigating his own fire. a court in south korea is expected to deliver a heavy punishment to the former president in one of the nation's biggest corruption scandals which could see herjailed for 30 years. and this story is popular on bbc.com: prince charles and the duchess of cornwall taking a stroll along the beach at the gold coast. the royal couple, on a tour of australia after opening the commonwealth games, saw a demonstration of a rescue drill by young lifesavers. that's all from me now. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk.

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spat between the two countries over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter artie's madeira cheeta has more details this committee consists of very high profile u.k. politicians and at the helm of that committee is the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and his name is tom took in heart now he has not minced his words about blood tamir putin in fact what he said is that the u.k. must target everybody who supports the russian president and his gangster regime during his interview he obviously sounded like he wasn't a fan of mr putin but he did mention someone that he was a fan of and that was the saudi prince mohammed bin salman the big change actually is that where he's trying to change the economy he's trying to bring women and young people into. trying to radically this is really something quite impressive in a separate interview took a hard talked about his career path and his aspirations and he described a number of roles that he feels that he would be ok at including the job of pm so it appears that he wasn't particularly fussy about what few. lies ahead for him

close the iberian peninsula giving some pretty strong winds and the risk of thunderstorms affecting madeira for instance central parts of europe still looking pretty fine for the most part temperatures into the mid twenty's but you know says we've got some really cold weather across more eastern areas moscow there seven degrees the risk of snow this frontal system pushes on through into central parts of europe as we get through into monday so a big drop in temperatures coming in its wake copenhagen still in just fourteen all slow at nine degrees and still that cold air across russia best the weather really down across southeast and there is twenty five in the sunshine in athens on the other side the mediterranean weather conditions are looking pretty good for the most part with the wind coming in from the south all cheers up at twenty nine tunis at twenty eight and it's fine further towards the east with cairo coming in at twenty eight degrees also just a chance of some quite rough seas and press wanted to show us the coast of morocco into central parts of africa showers lake effect the gul

earlier winter in the algarve and particularly in the data it's an improvement now i said we didn't die madeira of course just off the coast of africa as the canary house and they're going to get a northerly gale in the next couple of days we've given chile i think where we noticed on the show was of morocco itself rebuts for cross the tuesday to me is seventeen degrees not as windy but is going to be cloudy and probably wet it's much better for the east today as you are up to thirty degrees again. welcome by recapping the top stories for you here on al-jazeera the french president emanuel macron has urged the u.s. to stand by the iran nuclear deal the us president donald trump has threatened to walk away from the agreements that all arrived in washington on monday. a belgian court is about to give its verdict in the trial of the last surviving suspect in the twenty fifteen paris attacks twenty eight year old cell of the slum is part of the group of the tankers that killed one hundred thirty people across several locations in paris. nicaragua's president daniel ortega as withdrawn proposed pens

i'm jodi madeiras, and i'm the walk san francisco executive director, and i'm happy to be here this morning with this honorary group of city leaders and the mayor. for san francisco's largest walk to workday in history. very exciting. [applause]. >> on our walk this morning from soma, i saw in civic center a common -- i saw octopus and giraffe and otters, and i think the mayor was equally excited as i was for the yarn bombs as i was on the way to work. i just encourage you to get out and walk every for 15 minutes. you never know what you're going to discover. every year, annually on you can with a day, we all have the opportunity, myself, city leaders, businesses, residents, and community groups to recommit to our goal of vision zero, the goal to end all severe and fatal traffic crashes by 2024. [applause] >> earlier this morning, in soma, with great civic leaders and also community groups like united players, we turned on a new traffic light on howard and russ, and it was a really wonderful moment to see school children walking on safe streets, and that is exactly what we want for vision z

did that just after stepping down from "national review" and he -- they left from lisbon, went to madeira and made their way to barbados and he called the book the -- the subtitle was "the end of the affair." and this little epilogue is a meditation on what that -- the end of the affair meant and i would like to read by way of conclusion the last couple of lines from that epilogue. i think they're quite moving. "the sea has always something lying in wait for you. perhaps in my last years i'll deny it the opportunity to vex me but if so how can i draw from it those fleeted moments? you have shortened the sail just a little because you want more steadiness than you are going to get at this speed. the wind up to 22, 24 knots and it's late at night and there are only two of you in the cockpit. you are moving at racing speed, parting the buttery sea as with a cal pell and the waters roar by, themselves exuberantly subdued by your powers to command your way through them. triumphalism? the stars also seem to be singing together for joy. that's how i lick to remember bi bill. parting the buttery

the dinner dolly madison had prepared for her guests, they apparently commented favorably on the madeira, and they stepped outside and threw in torches and burned the white house. that is a scary and great painting by tom freeman. the fire burns really hot for a time, and then it rained. when you had afterward was a -- so what you had afterwards was a show with cracked -- was a shell with cracked stone. it was in bad shape. a lot of the stone was unusable and the brick inside was unusable. i will jump forward to the british again, a different one. field marshal montgomery came to see my grandfather after the war, and you can see they are eating along just fine in that picture. montgomery asked my grandfather, when was this built? and grandpa said, once in 1792, to 1800, and then again in 1814 after you burned it. [laughter] mr. daniel: and the field marshal was very quick on his feet. he smiled and said, well, if london hasn't paid for by now, -- paid for it by now, you should go burn whitehall. [laughter] mr. daniel: we rebuilt it fast because it was the symbol of this country. they wan

weather of the last four days has been more like early winter in the algarve and particularly in madeira it's an improvement now some idiot and the deer of course is just off the coast of africa as the canary house and they're going to get a northerly gale in the next couple of days which to venture i think will be noticed on the show was of morocco itself robots for cross the tuesday to me is seventeen degrees not as windy but is going to be cloudy and probably wet much better for the east today we're up to thirty degrees again. inmates learning from other inmates acquiring knowledge that can set them free. through legal education classes and mock tribunals vegetation has led to staggering results even in prison with him yes this will rescind that they was. teaching empowerment kenya part of the rebel education series at this time on al jazeera and hundred forty twelve on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they