able to be resolved thank you very much from mexico city john homeland. now at least three people have been killed and more than fifty injured after a suspected gas leak caused an explosion at a hospital in chile it happened in the city of concepcion the local mayor is that the hospital had been evacuated earlier because of the gas leak and the gas company had given it the all clear he said the explosion happened as workers were returning to the building. the family of a palestinian engineer in malaysia says he's been killed by the israeli intelligence agency mossad amasses confirm the university lecturer five was a member of the faction but there's been no israeli response. ports. this is to an identified gunman opened fire at. the thirty five year old palestinian engineering lecturer was pushed as he was walking to was in the air by boss in the capital kuala lumpur colleagues of the university a shocked and by the killing so we didn't see any thing dangerous we human or the door only thing that was the world that we can see he's. the only thing that cou

channels covering the protests to stop broadcasting john heilemann has more. antigovernment protests in nicaragua were are unusual but they're happening now. it started when pensions were cut by five percent and employees social security contributions were raised slightly. i am here because i'm indignant i'm indignant at my grandparents who are going to receive five percent or less of their already anemic bench and after having board for forty five years that is not money that are being lent that is money that they already paid in so they bother me it bothered me and it could not remain sitting any longer several people have been killed a many others injured in running battles between protesters and police street barricades have been thrown and students have occupied at least one university the government sought to restrict coverage of the protests cutting the signal of at least three channels which was showing the independent media say that's a clear violation of the freedom of the press the vice president and first lady. has described protesters as trying to

home in their lives at the latest from icicle city john thanks. afghanistan has suffered its most serious attack yet on preparations for parliamentary and district elections shed just for a job or fifty seven people were killed in kabul when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a voter registration center and north of the city and backlund province an explosive placed near another voting center killed six people from the same family bringing the total number of deaths on sunday to sixty three. well on friday gunmen hit a voter registration center in bad his father and scaling a police officer a day earlier armed men killed two police officers in jalalabad city as they guarded a voter registration center and choose the attackers kidnapped three employees to policeman voting center in gore province arianna hall and reports on the latest attacks. police say a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the doorway of a voter registration seemed in kabul where afghans received identification cards for elections and not toba longer use them w

nuclear program leaving trump in something of an echo chamber with few dissenting voices remaining john hendren washington these five people have died in a bomb blast in a packed football stadium in somalia several of us were injured in the explosion in the coastal town of the armed group al-shabaab has now claimed responsibility it's carried out several previous attacks in the time. the united nations has described a civilian protest using dead bodies in the central african republic as propaganda demonstrates as they seventeen dead bodies that save the u.n. building in the capital bungay on wednesday they say they were innocent civilians killed during crashes between the un and armed groups but the u.n. insists the dead were criminals that opened fire on un peacekeepers killing one un's on a mission to restore state authority to the p.k. five neighborhood of. the global chemical weapons will shock says a military grade nerve agent was used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in a british town of soulsby last month u.k. government and its allies blame russia for the attack b

impact she had to know people here for them she is the mother of the nation catherine saw al-jazeera john is back south africa. more now from barbara and gober who looks back on the life of winnie medical. winnie mandela the former wife of nelson mandela spent years in the public eye as an anti-apartheid campaigner my husband has been fighting for the liberation of the african people for their work and when you speak of all of the racial groups in this country she'd been suffering from a long illness for which she spent much of this year in and out of hospital she was revered and controversial in equal measure you were up here through this morning. testimony. often really out of our government. but earlier years famed our country during her husband's twenty seven year imprisonment in robben island when it made a crucial role in directing the anti-apartheid struggle. in one thousand nine hundred ninety now so mandela was freed and the world watched as a jew i walked out of prison hand in hand but by the end of the next year when he was found guilty and fined for her involvement in the kidn

any expectations obviously micro was persuasive today he got a good hearing from president trump but john bolton my point hey we're going to weigh in on this as well and so it's really too early to say and the president didn't make any commitments today so we've still got some time before we'll know where president trump comes out on this deal three cis eyeball massive attack the pakistani city of queta killing at least six peace officers one bomber detonated his explosives near police truck on the war road towards the airport whilst two of us attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the city's outskirts fifteen place and soldiers were wounded in the attacks and no one has so far claimed responsibility. well the leaders of north korea and south korea are due to hold a summit this friday it will be the first direct meeting between the country's leaders for more than a decade they're expected to discuss bringing a formal end to hostilities between the two countries and we think will take place on the southern side of the truce village of panmunjom with correspondents on both sides of the demil

so john bolton what we call say into the job really grasping the nettle. that's right and it was a big question martine when john bolton was first announced as the new national security advisor what impact that would have on the ministration stance on russia and now there is some indication that now in his second week on the job that bolton has been pushing for a more aggressive response here the white house says that he met with the russian ambassador in the white house today and during that meeting expressed hopes for the both countries to have improved relationships but also laid out a series of needs that the u.s. has for russia to address before the relationship can improve and that it on top of that list would be addressing the election meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential elections as well as the attack on the former russian spy in the u.k. and the situation in ukraine and in syria now it is not unheard of not uncommon in fact for trump to undercut his advisors after they've made a public statement we just saw that earlier this

border and being quote ranked at levels nobody has ever seen before john home and has more from mexico city the caravan of people from central america has been traveling through mexico appears to be winding down at the moment a lot of people appeared off they're heading to mexico city and from there they going to make their own route even to seek refuge in this country or to try and get to the border with the united states but it's been something that president trump of the united states has been infuriated by he's been tweeting about this along the course of the caravan and he came out with a comment that was unsubstantiated and quite outlandish and remember my opening remarks the trump tower when i opened everybody sort of he was so tough and i use the word rape and yesterday it came out were this journey coming up women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. the president trumps comment in which he appears to toi rape and levels of rape to the passage of this caravan heading through mexico is as we said unsubstantiated but it's also useful to remember that he's talkin

several notable absentees including the us president donald trump who pulled out at the last moment john heilemann joining us from lima to tell us what more we expect at that summit. yes the summit has now got underway the meeting of today the plenary is now in action but there's a lot of things to discuss today at this summit the official main theme is corruption and that's certainly very relevant here in latin america the host country peru actually lost its president a couple of weeks ago to a bribery scandal that's really rocked the entire region the question is whether they can really clear the opera provide any concrete solutions over just two days of talks of course another issue here is going to be syria vice president pence who's come in place of president trump is going to address the other leaders on what the u.s. is doing in the u.s. actions in syria it's going to be interesting to see what the other leaders say in response that everyone gets a chance to speak at this summit and if they come out and who comes out in support of one of the issue that's going to be playing on eve

house of representatives has voted to make it a site of the site of the speech a national landmark john hendren reports on this now from indianapolis it was an uneasy alliance a wealthy white patrician and a charismatic black preacher martin luther king considered robert kennedy timid on civil rights kennedy was privately supportive making calls to get king released from a georgia jail but publicly kept his distance. right up until april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight his kennedy campaign for the presidency in indiana martin luther king jr was killed a night in memphis tennessee kennedy's aides warned him to cancel a stop in indianapolis to dangerous the set there was mixed feelings of the. people that were angry i was angry myself from the back of a flatbed truck wearing his slain brothers tweed coat thinking about martin luther king he broke the news to a mostly black crowd. martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis was it was the first time he'd spoken publicly of the assassination of his brother president john f. kennedy but those of you who are bla

and not face consequences and that means freeways are either in prison or outside that was there by john where they keep quiet to many azerbaijan is a post soviet poster child an international player the host of major cultural and sporting events but it is to this day the only former soviet republic to witness the rise of a ruling in a city as the nation gets richer one family the only arabs remain firmly controlled . al-jazeera. so has helen alex's. been nationalist says he's proud of his war crimes and sentenced to ten years in jail plus the i do it all of us and also. to serve that actually show by thousands of afghan refugees are fleeing the country and heading to techie. it is still much colder than it should be the good part of the us and canada that gray hints at where the coldest weather is this streak of whites has been given storm was a cold front still me weather in southern florida and still coming into the west wall cloud from the pacific meeting up with cold air once more so winter has apparently not disappeared now the dump to come all the way down through the california r

were handed down by their executives at the time they were first passed as a matter of fact it was john ashcroft we also give great credit to eric holder one of our former attorney generals under the obama administration for actually improving our anti racial profiling policies to make sure one of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in our country the f.b.i. doesn't practice it along with all the federal law enforcement officials police encounter responsibilities the livelihoods of two million people in nigeria are under threat because of a lack of water levels in the basin have become dangerously low forcing local leaders to ration supplies part of the series i heard it just reports from. for decades water has run through these channels to get crops. not this year the once lush green fields have been baked by the scorching sun most farmers left. but not all maurissa who's been cultivating the land here says the dam opened thirty years ago. so more government are going to we've not seen anything like this before it was so sudden some will never recover this year we didn't cultiva

the road all over and i still attacking afghanistan's capital kills twenty five people line of them john list who rushed to the scene to cover the story. to tell you one thing. large. israel's prime minister says he has secret files which prove that iran has been covertly pursuing its nuclear weapons activities and thousands rally in russia in protest against the blocking of the messaging app telegram. u.s. president donald trump has met with his nigerian counterpart muhammadu buhari at the white house the two leaders wrapped up a news conference in the last hour with business and trade among the key issues discussed nigeria to take down trade barriers to allow for more u.s. investment in the fight against boko haram nigeria has been struggling to buy a minute trick quick meant trump says nigeria is now free to buy helicopters from the u.s. but did not give a specific day. helicopters we love to look up as you like some more than i do. he likes buying helicopters but he is there buying a lot of helicopters helicopters want to know how soon very soon releasing them to go on this very sad

john hendren in washington thank you. with al-jazeera much more still to come the damn control the sea on the nile in egypt sudan in ethiopia discuss who controls the wilds longest river. and south korea has disgraced former president prepares to face to face live on television as the course is set to hand down its takes. hello we've seen some pretty heavy spring showers into central southern parts of china recently on a cloud hey united system what's the weather there across central parts pushing over towards the eastern side of the country but if i'm trying to say now seventy five millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and that lot of wet weather continues in place as we go on through friday snow over the high ground and i just don't do it around fourteen degrees celsius eighteen celsius there for shanghai fun to drive to hong kong for the time being as we go on through friday we'll see the start of the cloud over through the course of the day and it will make its way further south as to sas data temperatures pick bac

not face consequences and that means free will he says are either in prison or outside of his or by john well they keep quiet to many azerbaijan is a post soviet poster child an international player the host of major cultural and sporting events but it is to this day the only former soviet republic to witness the rise of a ruling in a city as the nation gets richer one family the only arabs remain firmly controlled . still ahead here on al-jazeera u.s. border agents caught on tape unless they're trying to make me force an injured refugee back into mexico plus yeah i do it all of us and also. to sell the actually ship why thousands of afghan refugees are fleeing the country and having to attack united live off that. nice pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello rain has been spotting all the way down through eastern iraq kuwait some of the gulf states inhale shells in saudi the mess of cloud is still there but it's just coagulates and shadows all right and that's still true on thursday possibly more into the iranian high ground than anywhere else be

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago. after two years printing out of control a chinese spacecraft the size of a boss is about to crash back to earth the tangoing one space lab was launched in two thousand and eleven but its operators lost contact with it five years later after an apparent malfunction but is now expected to enter earth's atmosphere on sunday at a speed of twenty six thousand kilometers an hour it's not the first time a space station has made a dramatic reentry in two thousand and one russia steered its one hundred twenty ton mir spacecraft over the pacific where it broke up scientists say most of the chinese space lab will burn opposite enters the atmosphere posing little or no risk to people on the ground joan johnson friess is a professor at the u.s. naval war college and a former chairwoman of the national security affairs department she says the station is part of china's development of a manned space program well it's interesting in that. while that is falling to earth it will there's only a very lit

is maintaining that no decision has been yet made the new national security adviser john bolton was on the airwaves in the states this morning u.s. time saying that that decision had yet to be taken but the indications from pompei oh have been pretty clear that unless something really unexpectedly major happens in the intervening couple of weeks less than two weeks by the may the twelfth deadline that the united states is very ready to walk away from it and that is something that of course benjamin netanyahu is welcoming hugely you heard that language there in that last clause about how if people thought the nuclear deal would moderate iran's behavior that they were so disappointed that is very much the same language that was using in riyadh just a few hours earlier so that the language between the two it ministrations almost at the changeable benjamin netanyahu has long been arguing for this kind of policy from united states it looks like he's about to get what he wants. well christensen in the joins me now live from washington d.c. a force of just mentioned the national security advi

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago. a ceremony has been held in kenya for the world's last male northern rhino last month his name was sudan and his death means there is now only two of his species left both female students caretakers to lead the tributes out as memorial service they hope his life will inspire people to fight poaching which ravage his population but we have very clear as government punitive measures must be taken into. punishing people who kill our wildlife and that's why we. for life sentences for people who kill for ivory because ivory belongs to elephants and rhinos better than preserving it taking it for human consumption in the argentinian capital many people consider the city slums a source of crime and drugs those who actually live there though are trying to change perceptions stories about reports. it's a new sour like no other you know. it's called slum world t.v. and it's made by people living in some of the poorest neighborhoods in when i. get there. who has been teaching journalism courses f

but not here in indianapolis i'm john hendren and i'll tell you why coming up. trade tension between china and the u.s. continues to escalate with beijing just announcing a new round of retaliatory tariffs well those tariffs will be up to twenty five percent or one hundred and six u.s. imports the main areas affected entered soybeans cars and chemical products or china had already announced tariffs on one hundred twenty. eight u.s. products including pork wine nuts and fish that's about three billion dollars worth of goods the u.s. has a pause and twenty five percent tariffs off its own on thirteen hundred chinese products mainly in the medical industrial and transport sectors and those cover fifty billion dollars and imports well this rapidly escalating trade dispute was set off last month and washington announced why did duty use on steel in the minium imports the u.s. is also accusing china of intellectual property theft and claims that beijing pressures foreign companies to hand over technology adrian brown has more from beijing. china moves swiftly to annou

not face consequences and that means freeways are either in prison or outside that was there where john when they keep quiet to many azerbaijan is a post soviet poster child an international player the host of major cultural and sporting events but it is to this day the only former soviet republic to witness the rise of a ruling in a city as the nation gets richer one family the l.d.s. remain firmly controlled. still ahead here on al-jazeera tracking the number of death penalty cases worldwide. both good and bad news plus the i do it all of one and also. to sell the actually share wife thousands of afghan refugees are fleeing their country and heading to turkey. hello rain has been spotting all the way down through eastern iraq kuwait the gulf states of inhaled showers and saudi the mess of cloud is still there but it's just coagulates and shadows all right and that's still true on thursday possibly more into the rainy and high ground than anywhere else behind the sun comes out twenty three in baghdad a little less on the coast the mediterranean in beirut for example the sun was warmed

their family if you are shunned by them and i'm just stunned by them ramsey thank you very much for john was this is one of a series of events here in gaza leading up to the knock what the palestinians call a catastrophe seventy five of us are of the founding of the state of israel. lisa nigeria have fired tear gas at hundreds of shia muslim protesters in a boost it's the second day of rallies in the capital demonstrators want the release of their religious leader. who's been jailed without charge since december twenty fifth in the head of the islamic movement of nigeria is believed to have three million followers. a former employee of cambridge analytic has been testifying about its role in the braggs it vote the company is under scrutiny for harvesting personal data from millions of facebook users but he kaiser has told a u.k. parliamentary committee that a key backer of the leave campaign used information for political purposes on slieve reports as well personally kaiser was asked to testify as a woman who had worked on the political campaigns of both barack obama and donald trump in

john home and i'll just. be a mars elephant population is facing a new threat poachers are killing them not for ivory before their skin conservation is say an emerging online marketplace largely in china is putting animals of for the risk the skins are ground up and used in medicine or sold as jewelry the environmental groups are warning the asian elephant could become extent in half the areas where it lives if the problem is collates. when this parliament square has a new statute and for the first time it's of a woman it's a millicent falso who campaigned for six decades for women to have the right to vote also died in one thousand twenty nine one year after voting rights were extended to all women. or i would not be standing here today as prime minister no female m.p.'s would have taken their seats in parliament none of us would have had the rights and protections we now enjoy were it's not for one truly great woman day millicent garrett false it. and you can find much more at al-jazeera dot com. quick look

john heilemann joins us live now from mexico city so what is the latest on with these these protests these marches and nicaragua. yes in cimarron that we were hearing there's been a big march off the noon in men i was talking about probably thousands of people maybe not tens of thousands of come out on the street now the march was organized by the private sector nic i work but it's not just businessmen though so you don't know some of the people from different sectors of society we've been monitoring it as it goes past some people calling out the names of the dead there's now more than twenty people have been killed in these protests all the shouting out murder is murder is one of the charge that's almost definitely authorities police tactics i think criticizes heavy handed not just by people in the country but also by international organizations you also heard in iran's ripple so that some of the things the people are unhappy about many of those protesters were heading towards one of the main university campuses in mind i was the polytechnic university and that's been taken over qui

the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger john heilemann does either. three suicide bombers have attacked the pakistani city of quite a killing at least six police officers on bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck on the road towards the airport while two others attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the outskirts of the city fifteen police and soldiers were wounded no one is claimed responsibility for the attacks. rights groups say thousands of factories in bangladesh are still unsafe five years after its worst industrial disaster or than eleven hundred people mostly female textile workers died in the two thousand and thirteen rana plaza collapse trial strafford reports. he's been described as the worst industrial disaster in bangladesh is history but twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen more than eleven hundred people were crushed to death in two thousand and two thousand injured when an eight story building collapsed in an industrial suburb of the capital dhaka. the majority of the victims were women working in garment factories in t

election john hendren explains from washington. in the probe into russian meddling in the u.s. election george nader appears to be the witness who keeps on giving the lebanese american business man's ties to the united arab emirates are well known but according to a new york times report nader also has previously undisclosed ties to russia meeting with russian oligarchs and negotiating an ill fated arms deal between russia and iraq in two thousand and twelve and i think that we will continue to get a wealth of information from mr nader and i think not only russia but it seems as though mr nader has almost a worldwide network of people at very high levels that he puts together collaborate and various and sundry schemes that are supposed to be under the radar screen if you will for special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible collusion between russia and the campaign of donald trump that makes nader a potential gold mine he could conceivably give information on alleged money funneling from the u.a.e. to trump's campaign and its allies and on russia's efforts to to

will think that the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger john home and. police in malaysia have released a new photo of one of the two suspects sought for killing a palestinian hamas member last week it's believed the two men are still in the country but their identities or nationality are unknown thought out bash was shot at least fourteen times is heading to a mosque in kuala lumpur on saturday he worked in the city as an engineering academic israel has dismissed claims that its intelligence agency mossad was the hind the killing that's also coming on al-jazeera including armenia remembers mass killings during world war one with this year's commemorations taking on a new significance. and a religious leader on trial india examines the power and influence of so-called gurus more on that stay with us. from coombe risk knows in few months. to the womb trying to use of southeast asia. how i think by and large it'll be fine in tri across a good part of the middle east over the next couple of days we have got some right in the full cost maybe a little bi

way or another and we hope to achieve the ambitions and hopes of both countries to check him under john it's very significant that north korea took a measure of freezing its nuclear activities first it will be a valuable beginning for the complete denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula came jong un and i declare that there will be no more war on the korean peninsula and a new age of peace has begun. more now from our diplomatic editor james bays from power on the south side of the border. technically they are still at war but this was carefully choreographed to create a new atmosphere of peace north korean leader kim jong un entered from the north side of the demarcation line the south korean president moon jay in the seat at the concrete block that marks the start of his country's territory. a historic handshake. and then something in all the years since the korean war the kims father and grandfather never did a north korean leader crossing into south korea. it was followed by a reciprocal gesture moon jay in very briefly crossing the line into the north. thank you both leaders see

the people gathering here john is the rejection of approaches minimum wage of twenty hours that works out at about a salary of just under three hundred dollars a month and that's the minimum wage in the legislation that's two to see the cost on part of the people here say it's nowhere near enough they say the minimum wage needs to be four or five times that amount in the twenty four years after the end of apartheid this is still protecting the kind of inequalities that they fought against much of south africa's industry and big business is still mostly by the white minority directors paid very large salaries the people here say that the lowest paid workers aren't getting nearly enough new president relatively new president is this the beginning of the end of his honeymoon period. well unions and the ruling african national congress and the party in south africa have a long history together. but this union is a breakaway union it's called sas to instead of been in existence for about a yeah it was made treaty says it was close starting which they are still the biggest union in south af

nuclear program leaving trump in something of an echo chamber with few dissenting voices remaining john hendren al-jazeera washington japan has welcomed decision by donald trump to explore the possibility of rejoining the transpacific trade partnership as president is also advised to see if a better deal could be negotiated be a major policy u.-turn for trump who withdrew from the party soon after taking office citing concerns about jobs the t.p. pay includes eleven other pacific rim countries a teachers' strike in the us state of oklahoma has ended after nearly two weeks the state's largest teachers' union says it has secured historic gains in education funding after a decade of cuts to school education budgets united nations is described as civilian protest using dead bodies in the central african republic as propaganda demonstrates his place seventeen dead bodies outside the u.n. building in the capsule bunky on wednesday they say they were innocent civilians killed joined clashes between the un and armed groups but u.n. says the dead were criminals who opened file peacekeepers killi

john john reports. for those who came out it was a display of prayer and protest this peaceful interfaith march in the ramallah a striking reminder of how a day usually reserved for festivities had instead been consumed by morning at the start of the gathering father's amount of public told us why a memorial at this time was so important today is beyond sunday and usually at noon we have a procession in the streets of ramallah to celebrate about sunday but we decided to cancel the procession to replace it with this you know march in protest of the massacre of that happened in gaza two days ago palestinian officials who had also assembled were grateful assad our brother and the christians insisted that the activities of this day be limited and to light candles to remember the monitors because we are all a united people whether in gaza old was bang christian or muslim those bullets that are coming out want to kill everything that is palestinian and there is no distinguishing between a muslim and a christi

now many nicaraguans are making their voices heard and the protests are expected to continue john homan out zero to the u.s. now where the democratic party is sewing president donald trump's campaign and russia for alleged collusion in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election they accused russia of contacting trump's advisers and informing them of a father attack that leaked damaging information about his democratic rival hillary clinton and also it also involves wiki leaks and its founder julian assange. culhane has the latest from washington d.c. . it's an unusual move but not an unprecedented one democrats have sued over the watergate break in and they did get some money on the day that richard nixon left office in disgrace now the lawsuit is against russia russia's intelligence service and some russian citizens it is difficult to sue a sovereign nation in the united states but it is possible difficult but possible it also sues wiki leaks and its founder julian assange and it really targets people very close to the president president donald trump not named in this lawsuit

as part of these negotiations now trump has surrounded himself with some hard line advisers namely john bolton the national security adviser who has said that nothing north korea says should be believed so certainly it is expected that these advisers will be cautioning the president not to be too optimistic preparing him to walk away from the table if negotiations don't go the u.s. is way which president trump has indicated he is willing to do say well who is the publisher of the magazine korea exposé he says an official statement from north korea was over june. the world was actually hoping to see if north korea would do something to indicate that it's sincere about the nuclear bomb is a shown and in a way it received precisely that this morning let's not forget that until now what we have heard about north korea's intention to commit to the nuclear radiation has been secondhand we heard it through the south korean special envoys who visited in early march and we also heard that through the chinese state media. when kim goldman made us have surprise visit to beijing in late march so i

put on high alert him and just stunned state and made fears of a backlash from supporters for china john reports. known for its extravagant and some. times different costumes also known bapu or bapuji us he's known has disciples around the world and in hundreds of hindu religious retreats known as a shrum. whose such as a psalm say they meet people spiritual needs but some are accused of exploiting their followers for money property and sex by offering them a one stop shop for everything you have been you have you have spiritual family problem this man has all the. security has been tightened across the northern state of raw just on that's after court convicted for the rape of a sixteen year old girl and sentenced him to life in prison. the allegations made against completely false and there is no truth in it is not alone he has millions of followers who support him and will continue to do so us our own supporters say the guru practices black magic and can instantly transform fortunes but the guru has also been linked to the mutilation of four young boys in an alleged sacrifice ritual. m

i was it was john holdren is monitoring developments from mexico city. it was a surprise announcement president daniel ortega coming out to say that he was canceling changes to the social security system in nicaragua and the payments that people and companies would have to make into that system it comes after five days of protest which have spread not just to the capital but some of the cities now why did president take a make that announcement well he's come under pressure not just from the united states and the european union but also from the u.n. and the pope they've all expressed concern about events in the country there's been concern also within the country about the heavy handed tactics that people have said the police have used against the protesters there have been multiple deaths including police officers and there are also been many injuries now the question will be if president take his climb down is going to be enough to stop the protests they've become about more than just the issue of the social security. but about the legitimacy of the p

john in their mind now of the nation. they're tired from that which was thought. to go well earlier we spoke to tembisa for khuda he's a researcher at the al-jazeera center for studies about a legacy. will be founded a member by minnesota africans because she she ran the struggle in the absence of the political leadership in south africa when most of the a.n.c. does a.n.c. leaders were arrested and many of them in exile women they're not together with the likes of other witnesses who knew where the faces of the sort of second black struggle against apartheid so she'll be funded remembered by many many many south africans. following his following if that her death i think people misunderstood misunderstood had a role after the release of mina political prisoners and those would return from exile women in the only struggle she was the one who was basically in front of the struggle in south africa and when these people came back men by and large they then wanted to usurp that control and power from her and that's when she became somehow defiant because she was for de

well it's certainly for me i think the optics are better now can john has come out of his sounds like he's saying all the right things easy is doing all the right things and you know his attempt to a successful attempt to get him to cross over into north korea was off script but i must say i think moon gene handled it very well he handled it with grace that he was able to do it and i think that's going to be important for everyone involved as we move forward because we know that north korea is going to throw some curveballs into the south koreans and later into the u.s. and we have to be able to adapt as that happens and so far i think moon gene is off to a great start that's a very small symbol of course but i think it is promising in the past half hour we've got a good sense of how this is being perceived in south korea north korea in china and into a queue but if you were donald trump's man or woman in the state department maybe inside the oval office what are you seeing and hearing and seeing about this because you know at the end of the day donald trump has his legion of critics

led strikes in syria diverted the discussions as john holeman reports from. the photo point as planned but then the u.s. led missile strike on syria overshadowed the agenda at the summit of the americas i call upon every nation in this hemisphere freedom to support this military action taken by the united states and our allies and to support it publicly several countries hinted that they did justin trudeau went further canada stands with our friends in this necessary response and we condemn in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons and last week's attack in eastern go to. the humanitarian and political problems in venezuela also took center stage more than a dozen countries signed a statement calling for among other things free and fair elections. here and it also of course where we'll win this one we will continue to be generous with the venezuelan people there are brothers but will be implacable with the oppressive regime and sort of. want us to see the venezuelan president nicolas maduro himself who is uninvited to the summit he was defen

as a by john's human rights record he's progressing and nobody can speak out in the ways that challenges the government and not face consequences and that means freeways are either in prison or outside that was there where john when they keep quiet waiting in the wings is the country's next possible leader. of junior the twenty year old's been looking more statesman like lately but he being groomed for the presidency. to many azerbaijan is a post soviet poster child an international player the host of world cultural and sporting events but it is to this day the only former soviet republic to witness the rise of a ruling din a city with power increasingly concentrated in one family. barca al-jazeera. that over of a former russian spy is being discharged from hospital in britain oh sure covers from the poisoned script power has been taken to a secure location russia's embassy in london says any plans to resettle her and her father surrogate will be seen as quote an abduction of its citizens bresson and his allies blame moscow for the nerve agent attack on the fourth of march which the krem

rule while there had been previous calls to take the position around all the members of the alliance john holmes joins us live now from central london hi there joe so there was some talk of the roll tape saying how has this then been decided. well you know previously this has been a deeply sort of to boo subject because essentially what you're talking about is the end of the reign of queen elizabeth. the fifth through obligation or or through death she's unlikely to abdicate so that's basically what we're talking about here it was the queen herself who brought it up earlier in the week when she gave a hint that she would like to see prince charles eventually succeed her she never said as much publicly and this was always going to be a summit at which this issue of succession was going to hang in the air if not actually become an issue of concrete fact while she got the ball rolling and here they are today announcing in dorset really the leaders of the commonwealth agreeing amongst themselves that what she wanted is what would happen that prince charles her eldest son would indeed succeed

and that has enraged president trump john from mexico city. the become any which way they can on foot in buses and trucks central american migrants crossing into mexico looking for sanctuary here or in the united states they usually go in small groups but every easter activists organized this caravan to bring awareness to the plight of those fleeing poverty or criminal gangs in their homelands particularly el salvador and honduras. it started with threats and i'm a woman and while men can be more than me we couldn't figure out any solution except to come here and that said i think a lot of the caravan organizers hope that the sheer numbers will keep them safe from the cartels which often kill and extort migrants and mean that of thirty's let them stay or pass through so far they've been granted free passage that's infuriated u.s. president donald trump who tweeted mexico is doing very little if not nothing stopping people from flowing into mexico through their southern border and then into the u.s. that on the whole is not true over the last f

is to arrange a meeting between donald trump and king john. i think it's a sign of progress i mean the the sea was direct to the sea at the time i mean this is pretty high up right this is this is kind of thing that hasn't happened in many years a good ten years or so since officials at this level in the states have talked to the north koreans. i mean this is this is pretty new so i think everybody's kind of assuming it's pretty important soon when they're laying the groundwork doesn't have to go in there completely do it all by himself and we know that my compare was highly trusted by the president right he's probably going to become the next secretary of state and he's very close personally to the president so my guess is yeah that the signals that the americans are actually really serious they're probably starting to lay not just sort of not just trying to find where they're going to actually have the some but start to lay the groundwork for what a deal might look like all of this is going very fast and diplomacy in east asia doesn't usuall

to this trip from washington what we're hearing today from the president's national security advisor john bolton who says at this point there is no decision on the iran nuclear deal he said the white house is actually still considering that plan that french president emmanuel mccrone laid out last week that for the four pillar plan which would entailed keeping the deal but then expanding it and then today on the sunday talk shows one of the sunday talk shows senator roy blunt who's a republican who sits on the intelligence committee said that he would endorse that plan as well so sticking with the plan but expanding it but we have a president president trump who has been very very critical of that plan over the last few years ever since it was announced he campaigned on it and now you see him surrounding himself with people that are more hard line against iran people like mike pompei o in john bolton you don't have those moderate voices in the white house like you had just a few months ago so it would seem that sticking with the plan might be difficult and the clock is ticking that the ad

to hit the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger john heilemann. well vanessa newman is the chief executive of a symmetrical political risk consultancy she explains the public anger about welfare reform aimed at president or take. the poor in nicaragua which is most of nicaragua that they are being that the system is stacked against them that this legislation that this was yet one more legislation that was in cahoots between the dictatorship and the business community and was was and is robbing them they had sort of allowed a ceding of governance rights in exchange for being taken care of and now they're not being taken care of and now everything has unleashed you know the control of the national assembly the supreme court the nepotism that his wife is the vice president the elimination of presidential terms and now they just want all of it out they want to kick out the system supporters of armenia's opposition are calling for more protests after planned talks with the ruling party were canceled many want a transitional government a new elections a

show of defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusions of once adoring fans john hendren al-jazeera . people are in for sassing across spain off record cleared five men of raping a woman at the pump bull running festival demonstrates a shouted shame and i believe you sister site the justice ministry in madrid the men who were in a group called the wolfpack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given lying in sentences they recorded the attack on their phones and laughed about it afterwards. the german chancellor angela merkel will visit the white house on friday and is expected to stay in the iran nuclear deal but the trip could be overshadowed by more controversy within the trumpet ministration is can really help it. he was the u.s. president's doctor and trump liked him so much he wanted ronnie jackson to take a cabinet position as secretary of veterans affairs but after mounting allegations that he drank on the job and handed out opioids like candy jackson withdrew his nomination on thursday well greeting schoolchildren in the white house rose

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago there's been another day of protests to the u.s. city of sacramento against the shooting of an unarmed black man by police. i fear for the streets and i got a feel for the cops you know how do we explain to our kids that because the color of your skin people are going to like you ronnie was organized by the black lives massive group on friday an autopsy found that stuff on clock was shot six times in the back that contradicts police accounts the plot was facing them and carried a gun which turned out to be a mobile phone demonstrates as a demanding that the officers involved fired. civil rights leader martin luther king was assassinated half a century ago this week at the u.s. city of memphis his death was one of many events that defined one nine hundred sixty eight as a year of political social and emotional chaos al-jazeera swaziland jordan looks now at what shaped that year and the parallels with modern day america one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the year the world was watching the united states was my lily and psychologica

really exist sizing their role their show up and what happened on these has been killed in fact too john they said been killed in europe on the continent that he's the best one for press for them but where the situation is now worsening regarding press freedom because of a i just want to show. a map that we've got here showing places that are difficult and very difficult to operate as as far as journalism is concerned syria of course falling under the very difficult category that's the most dangerous place according to your report in the world for genocide i'm assuming that that that's because the country is is still at war there it's good to document these developments but how do we force tangible results christophe in terms of securing a better standard of of press freedom at a global level. first there's international law regarding the protection of journalists that we have to encourage and even to force governments member states of the un to comply with international law but in fact at the end this is a political fight if we have a look we have countries even democracies sometimes in