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

to charge him under john it's very significant that north korea to come measure of freezing its nuclear activities for it would be a valuable beginning for the contemplate 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 and again i also. you know i feel that we are part of one family and both countries if you have a new policy of cooperation after years of disputes we are here today to say that nothing will make us different again and i will say this north koreans and the. south koreans are now sharing one spot on the map and they represent one country in one way or another and we hope to achieve the ambitions and hopes of both countries the fact that this summit took place in itself is historic but if some of the things in this declaration actually happen they too will be landmark developments of formal end to the korean war a peace treaty between north korea and south korea and the return visit by president moon to pyongyang in the fall. one part of the agreement will face cou

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

they'll find stability and consistency of course in the prince of wales but change probably not and john that has also been taught on the sidelines about the possibility of zimbabwe rejoining. there has been yes that happened during the course of friday in a meeting attended by the british foreign secretary boris johnson and the zimbabwean foreign minister who represents zimbabwe here. of course you'll remember that in two thousand and three robert mugabe then president of zimbabwe pulled the country out of the commonwealth he was fed up of criticism aimed at his government it is democracy he called it in the colonial club that he wanted nothing more to do with what it turns out that zimbabwe does rather want a bit more to do with the commonwealth now that it's in and the new leadership. will be elections in july the message from boris johnson was there is a way back into the club if you are elections are credible if they are for the first time in many many years judged free and fair and it is perhaps today this very sort of thing that illustrates those people who wonder what the purpose

thanks john and pledges a new history with south korea as he becomes the first north korean leader to set foot across the border since nine hundred fifty three. and this is al-jazeera line from london also coming up. we have a really great relationship that we actually have had a great relationship right from the beginning but some people didn't understand that president donald trump posts and germany's angela merkel at the white house playing down rumors of a rift. three dead as more palestinians are shot during protests in the gaza border despite the un and israel to stop using excessive force. and campaigners celebrates as the e.u. approves a near total ban on pesticides that. townhome fulton bain's. north and south korea are vowing to work towards a complete denuclearize sation of the peninsula after historic face to face talks between kim jong il and. it was a day of symbolic moments beginning with came crossing the border into the south the first north korean leader to do so since war broke out on the peninsula in one nine hundred fifty then in apparently unscripted moment came

and venezuelan president nicolas maduro who wasn't invited due to political and humanitarian issues john holdren has this report. it's the biggest gathering of leaders in the western hemisphere but this year the focus in the summit of the americas is on two men who won't even going country proved this top venezuelan president nicolas maduro he's not invited it's a mark of his growing isolation as venezuela's humanitarian and financial crisis rumbles on and it prepares for elections seen by several neighboring countries as illegitimate. in lima venezuela will be at the top of the agenda countries attending the summit will discuss the topic insisting this election is not valid because it's not a democratic election or. president but this is not for the and it's going to have no issues will be decided in that summit so it is a real waste of time and we're making here is another no show president trumps concert he says to deal with the syria crisis. some analysts believe there's another implicit message he doesn't have liked in america is one of his priorities . that he just looks down on th

well as were among several groups of protesters rallying in peru's capital leave ahead of the summit john homan reports . the summit of the americas the biggest gathering of heads of state in the western hemisphere has yet to begin but already people are protesting here in lima peru the people here a finnish whalen's and they're protesting against the venezuelan government which is currently presiding over a humanitarian and financial crisis among them is the exiled ex mayor of caracas who told us what he hopes the heads of state will do in the summit of the americas because then we're muslims jani they should declare the sanctions against those guilty of corruption and crimes against humanity and those who are linked to drug trafficking and terrorism. the issue of venezuela is going to feature on the agenda but the host country peru has already sent a message but an inviting venezuelan president nicolas maduro is going to be another leader who isn't going to be attending the summit and that's the united states president donald trump he's decided to stay at home to deal with the syria cri

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

well so far no group has claimed responsibility for these attacks but security remains a very for john even during this. process we still. have time for the election which is due in october where the waters will turn out toward for the candidates from the parliamentary elections and district council election now obgyn seeming these this kind of security situation will think twice to come out. of the thank you very much for that for now that's a blusher who the very latest in a couple. let's move on to other news now and several of manias key political opposition leaders have been detained by police they've been behind mass protests that have stretched into a tenth day calling on the prime minister to resign well these are pictures of nicole being taken away by police just a couple of hours ago and that he's the main spokesman for the demonstrations was held just talk to televise talks abruptly broke down between him and prime minister . suggesting on was elected by parliament to become prime minister after serving a maximum of ten years as president and that led to protests throughout

s bracks referendum john hendren reports from washington. facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg acknowledged the company failed to protect users data showed the company could have protected their data better years ago she made these acknowledgments in a series of television interviews this is what she had to say we don't know what data or if they have any data at all right now we were given assurances by them years ago that they deleted the data we should have followed up that's on us we are trying to do a forensic audit to find out what they have restarted that the u.k. government is now doing their own investigation and they have precedence over waiting we don't know at all what data they had that eighty seven million people we notified or people whose data might have been accessed by cambridge analytic so we're giving the most conservative possible estimate and notifying those people but once we can do our out it if we can hone it down and be more specific we certainly will be facebook shares have sent more than fifteen perce

john homan zero zero still to come here on al-jazeera. celebrations in armenia after the prime minister resigns following days of protests . through tranquil arabian. if the gondola. hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we look at the weather across europe we're seeing changes taking place now basically cooler air being introduced as a high pressure just leaks away little bit towards the south so cooler weather for many central northern areas certainly berlin there look just sixteen degrees on chooses still quite warm in vienna but i generally change will picture paris high on to temperatures into the low twenty's and if you choose to but by wednesday those temperatures will be four in a way and for london fourteen degrees is barely average for the time of year we have got this area of low pressure which is going to be impacting across southeastern parts of spain maybe into the belly eric islands later on and that's also going to be having an impact across parts of north africa so for northern morocco into algeria some v

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

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

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago. international criminal court in the hague has detained a million man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity the indictment over the destruction of religious sites in timbuktu in two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen and he's also accused of enforcing policies that led to sexual and slave meant of women and girls center another day of protests in the u.s. city of sacramento against the shooting of an unarmed black man by police a 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 the rally was organized by the black lives matter movement on friday an autopsy found stuff on clark was shot six times in the back and that contradicts police accounts that clark was facing them and had a gun and actually turned out just to be a cell phone demonstrators are demanding the officers involved be fired. civil rights leader martin luther king jr was assassinated half a

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

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

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

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

they say they are unable to see another way out john homan. mexico city. you're watching under their arms the whole robber these are all top stories brazil's supreme court has ruled that former president luis in arceo lula da silva can be sent to prison he's been trying to stay out of jail while he appeals against a conviction for taking bribes now the decision threatens his bid to run in october the presidential election where he was favorite to win. also sixty u.s. diplomats expelled by russia have until the end of the day to leave the country three buses have already departed the u.s. embassy in moscow last week russia ordered the diplomats to leave in retaliation for the united states expelling the same number of russians it's all part of a dispute over the nerve agent attack on an ex russian spy and his daughter in the u s in the u.k. the spy case has also come up at the international security conference in moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov opened the second and final day of the summit and this year's focus is on syria but the participants will al

pension reforms and greg as president described most of the demonstrations taking pot as young criminals john heilemann has more. president will take to finally came out and address the country after full days of protest in nicaragua and what he said wasn't that conciliatory towards the protesters became outflanked not just by his cabinet but also by military and police figures which in itself tells a story of what he had to say was that the protesters might have shadowy political figures the hind the so that didn't really seem an address. attempting to reach out to the protestors to try and find some sort of dialogue and these are protests the aren't just happening in the capital managua but also in several other cities in the country the spark that really lit them seem to have been about changes to the social security structure mechanisms in the country but also there's been tension in this country before then president will take is seen by n.g.o.s and also by analysts have been undermining democratic institutions in the country in the bid to hang on to power he's now in his third consecuti

led strikes in syria diverted the discussions as john holdren reports from many in . 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 goat. 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. can it also of course where we will win this one and we will continue to be generous with the venezuelan people there are brothers but will be implacable with the oppressive regime and sort of. what's it been as well and president nicolas maduro himself was uninvited to the summit he was defended

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

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

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

horner who shot dead while reporting live on facebook one of his colleagues blames a government sniper john holeman from mexico city no. 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 other 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 taker's climb down is going to be enough to stop the protests they've become about more than just the issue of the social security payments but

thank you very much john hendren with the latest from washington. and without is there a much more still ahead. in sierra leone as a new president is sworn in and find out why his opposition rival is refusing to accept the results. of the woods bad boy salman khan is sentenced to five years in jail. and. however the weather still looking a little disturbed across the middle east for the time being an area cloud making its way out of iraq into iran that will continue to drive its way eastwards still some wall to the head of it tashkent twenty degrees celsius on matty at twenty one little bit of cloud they know it is in that class stretches way down to ward skew way tashkent goes from twenty down to around eleven so you don't want it to saturday's akula what's the weather coming in behind lot of rain just coming out of the east and sot over iraq into western parts of iraq behind that warm sunshine by rigging up to twenty six degrees celsius some lovely weather just around the eastern side of the met then still in the warm side across the peninsula thi

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

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

i think used some of the leadership of the african national congress thing that they said john how they called how do we know and they so don't have the outs anybody or rapturous applause but every other speaker who came out to speak just talked about what she has done for that kind of thing was she kept was just not tied movement i lived when most of the i that is why they exiled or like how then husband nelson mandela in prison lost have been said about winnie mandela there's been a raging debate on how she should be remembered high legacy show the very front of us all we got that and lot of people a lot of south african speakers would tell you that yes you know she was a human being she was not a saint she had a weaknesses she made mistakes but those mistakes really should not be used to overshadow what they do is how great her legacy and that is the contribution she made in the struggle for liberation. so more in everything we're covering right here including live updates and analysis on syria al-jazeera dot com. our top story this hour u.s. president donald trump has praised americ

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. now amnesty international says last year saw a drop in the number of people being sentenced to death around the world bartlett so this don't include china said to be the world's biggest user of death penalties and the report highlights how for middle eastern countries resume capital punishment nothing barbara reports. amnesty international says the global picture is continuing to improve last year they counted at least nine hundred ninety three executions that's four percent fewer than in twenty sixteen and thirty nine percent fewer than in twenty fifteen and there's been a marked drop in death sentences passed at least two thousand five hundred ninety one were

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