that plane thank you. well here s some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.s. backed syrian forces say they re making slow advances into the last village held by islamic state jihad a spokesman says that troops are battling militants holed up in underground tunnels in grooves which is near the iraqi border in eastern syria the offensive resumed on sunday after a deadline for militants to surrender expired. u.s. president donald trump s twenty twenty budget proposal has been delivered to capitol hill you see it right there he s seeking eight point six billion dollars for his mexico border wall project as well as increase spending on defense he s also looking for big cuts to non-defense spending like environmental and welfare programs spain has been marking the fiftieth anniversary of the terror attack that killed one hundred ninety three people in the capital madrid prime minister pedre sanchez and city officials later wreaths at
making headlines around the world that u.s. backed syrian forces say they re making slow advances into the last village held by islamic state jihad has a spokesman saying that troops are battling militants holed up in underground tunnels in switches near the iraqi border in eastern syria the offensive resumed on sunday after a deadline for militants to surrender expires. japan is marking the eighth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck its north east back in twenty eleven officials and members of the imperial family attended a memorial service in tokyo the disaster killed more than eight hundred thousand people and called a nuclear meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power station. spain has been marking the fiftieth anniversary of the terror attacks that killed one hundred ninety three people in the capital madrid the prime minister. and city officials
charges were dropped city ayesha and a vietnamese woman were accused of poisoning kim jong nam with a nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport two years ago. iran s president hassan rouhani has started a three day visit to neighboring iraq his first official visit as president he was accompanied by a high ranking delegation iran has emerged as an ally of iraq since the u.s. invasion that toppled iraqi dictator saddam hussein. japan is marking the eighth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck to the northeast in two thousand and eleven officials and members of the imperial family attended a memorial service in tokyo the disaster killed more than eighteen thousand people and caused a nuclear meltdown at the fukushima power station. spain has been marking the fifteenth anniversary of the terror attacks that killed one hundred ninety three people in the capital budget prime minister pedro sanchez and city officials later we had a memorial on march eleventh two thousand and eleven
led to concerns the vote might not be santa one hundred ninety three and something about that well right now there s no indication that this is going to be the case but a lot of speculation has been going on in the past days after the elections were postponed both major political parties were blaming each other for rigging the elections but they did not come up with any clear evidence but certainly people here are angry that the elections were postponed you know the business activities were disrupted for one day last week already now it s the same thing again on saturday because you have to know that there s no movement of vehicles on the election day in nigeria people can t go about their businesses they just have to focus on voting and a lot of people are not really happy about that and right now at the polling station where i m here in lagos people are also not happy because voting was supposed to start at eight o clock already and just now the election material arrived we went to o
to look at a story go because of that and also because back then so it s been eighteen months the leaders states all the members the one hundred ninety three countries they had the opportunity to have open a way of discussions with the civil society ok those are the stories those are the countries behind this bill to boot the real question is i mean you come into contact with migrants on a normal daily basis of what how will it affect their lives but that doesn t affect their lives first of all they don t know about this because at the end of the day what you get when you read through the twenty three points of the global compact are things that should have been a radius that wish i mean wishing dignifying migrants wherever to go number one and number two there have been and there has been lots of why the discussions in the civil society are right so i guess this is a it s a call to the members states to always include the migrant perspective indeed if migration is undoubtedly a defini