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the u.n. issues its darkest warning yet on climate change. >> pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has been charged with treason, accused of unlawfully suspending the constitution and imposing emergency rule in 2007. pervez musharraf pleaded into account -- pleaded not guilty and said the case is politically motivated. >> serious charges, because these carry the death penalty. take us through what happened in court. >> defying all expectations pervez musharraf left the cardiac hospital that he's been in for three months. he presented to the court. he was indicted on six charges relating to trees job. the charges, as you rightly point out stem from his 2007

decision to suspend the constitution. he denied the charms and made a plea to the courts. he pled to be able to leave the country to visit his ailing mother in dubai, and asked to go to dubai to receive medical treatment. the court is expected to reconvene at 9 gmt on whether the former military ruler will be able to leave the county. >> we have seen a couple of protests demanding the release of the mormer president. in -- former president. in reality, how much support does pervez musharraf have? >> on the streets i would say relatively little. the reality is over the past year pervez musharraf has cast a strange shadow over the country. he was in control of pakistan for a decade, a very powerful man with a tumultuous time in office. really, since his arrival last

year, or a year ago to save the country, he's struggled to save himself and has become a bit of a joke in some circles, saying that he's failed to achieve anything that he tried to achieve in this country. he's facing serious charges. he's been indicted, we are a long way from treatment or conviction. if he is convicted, he faces life in prison. >> thank you for that. that report from islamabad. >> turkey's recep tayyip erdogan declared victory in local elections, with 97% of the vote. his justice and development party won a victory with 45% of the vote. the main opposition is liberal republican people's party, around 30%. the nationalist movement party

has over 15%. jamal has more from angaria. >> thousands of prime minister recep tayyip erdogan's supporters gathered outside his party's headquarters in angaria to celebrate victory in lbzs seen as a -- elections seep as a referred -- seen as a referendum on his popularity. now heats says the people of turkey have spoken. >> translation: people have given a message to the world with today's poll results. they said we are hear, turkey does not bow. >> the vote was held against a backdrop of large scale corruption allegations directed at the government. accusations that recep tayyip erdogan was leading the country towards authoritarian rule and with the memory of protests in gizi park fresh in people's minds.

we were happy. we were waiting for the result and were hoping it would be good. >> the turn out in elections was high, with close to 90% of turks costing the ballots. whilst recep tayyip erdogan and his party may have won the election, his government faces the challenge of bringing the gap in a significantly divided society. >> why can't the main opposition party increase votes, because it doesn't have the money this is why recep tayyip erdogan is powerful. he distributes money and wins. people believe this. >> these are the first in a set of three elections. turks will take to the polls to choose a new president. a few months after that they'll elect a new parliament. supporters of the justice and development party will hope that the victory is the first in the set of elections, further empowering the prime minister and the governing ak party.

>> former israeli prime minister has been convicted of bribery, he's the first former premier to be convicted. stefanie dekker is in jerusalem. fill us in on the background. it was something to do with a real estate deal. >> yes, you could see that behind me, it's the holy land project, and this was something that started during his term as a mayor in the 1990s. it's regarded as not an attractive building and doesn't fit in with the jerusalem skyline, and the convictions against him and others is they took a deal of money to go around zoning issues and the project why is 12 times bigger than planned. the trial was sensational. you had the main state witness

die during the trial, and the middle of two questioning episodes, and a close confidante turn against him, saying she had recordings that could implicate ooul mart saying he was trying to circumvent the trial. the judge was not going to allow that and convicted them on a trial that exposed the governance growing more corrupt and rotten. it is seen as a victory for the justice system, the first prime minister to be convicted and there's a former president in gaol here, who is serving time on rape charges. people here do feel that however high you are, however powerful you are, whatever position you hold in government, you will be held accountable. stefanie dekker in jerusalem. >> the trial of three al jazeera

journalists resumes in a few hours time. mohamed fadel fahmy, mohammed badr, and peter greste have been detained for 93 days in a cairo prison. they are accused of having links with a terrorist organization and spreading false news. we have this report. >> heading back to court for a fourth time. al jazeera journalist peter greste, balme , and mohamed fadel fahmy are charged with spreading false news and assisting a terrorist organization. they have been held for more than three months. the case has received worldwide attention. it's the first time egypt prosecuted journalists on terrorism charges. in the last court hearing the detained al jazeera journalists appeared in a dock wearing white prison uniforms. they stressed their innocence and called for international support. >> we haven't done anything

wrong? the al jazeera english reporting team was detained at their hotel by egyptian security services on december 29th, and tape to the high security toura prison. mohamed fadel fahmy is suffering from a dislocated shoulders, suffered just before his election. he has received limited treatment. according to his family he can barely move his farm. mohamed fadel fahmy -- mohammed badr, a father of two can see his family twice a week. peter greste's family is commuting from australia. two weeks ago the family received a let from egyptian president adly mansour indicating that he wanted the trial to end soon. the prime minister tony abbott called adly mansour and insisted peter greste was doing his job. he received assurances that peter greste would get a fair trial.

mohamed fadel fahmy's father received a letter from the president reassuring him his son would enjoy all the rights as guaranteed by the law. a fourth journalist al jazeera arabic's abdullah al-shami has been detained since august 2013 without trial. he's been on hunger strike for the last three months. al jazeera rejects the charges and continues to call for the release of staff. >> north and south korea have exchanged fire across the country. both countries have been conducting military exercises. people on the south korean island have been taken to shelters. no targets have been fired on land. >> let's bring in robert kelly, a political science professor at a university. good to have you on the program. both sides firing at each other. how worried are you by the

exchanges. do you think they could escalate into something more serious? >> there's the potential, particularly in dealing with north korea. we don't know why north korea makes the choices and often it violates the norms. you may remember in the same area the north korea sank a south korean destroying. north korea is known for being unpredictable. these things happened before - shellings, shootings, and whatnot taking place with common - with some regularity. so the things don't usually spin out of control. i wouldn't imagine that southern elites are that afraid. there has been build up. it's no coins that the u.s. and south korea -- coincidence that the u.s. and south korea are conducting exercises at the same time. presumably that is frustrating north korea. >> yes. whenever the south and the

united states sort of run exercises or have a high-profile meeting, the north is prone to lash out. northern idiology relies on the idea that north korea - that america is out to get north korea. so whenever the americans are operating in the region, it's a good opportunity for the north to go after that, hit back, that old stand by. >> this is what north needs to justify the probation. it's a beat up on americans. when president obama is around, some big meeting, it's a great opportunity for little spats and explains why north korea is what it is for its people. >> north korea threatened a fourth nuclear test at some point. we don't know whether that's imminent. how will south korea respond to that? >> it's more significant than what has happened today. little things don't usually spiral as we think they do. the issue has a detonation.

the real issue is can they miniaturize it, put it on a rocket and send it somewhere. that takes a fair amount of testing. i don't think that south korea will do anything this kind. but if north korea runs with the missile and the nuclear program, they'll have a serious first strike capacity and nuke a fair amount of south korea. it may force the hand into striking. that's my fear in the next five to eight years. >> thank you very much indeed for that, for your analysis. robert kelly from the university. >> japan and north korea held high-level talks. discussions were suspended in 2012 when japan demanded information about a number of citizens abducted by the north. pyongyang hopes to resolve the

situation and relations improve. >> still to come - business or signs - japan awaits a key ruling on whaling in the antarctic. >> and the abuse of domestic staff in britain is under the spotlight. stay with us.

>> welcome back. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has been charged with treason, he pleaded not guilty is said the case against him was politically motivated.

south korea returned fire after a shell from a north korean artillery exercise landed in its waters. >> turkey's ruling party won a resounding victory in local elections. recep tayyip erdogan's party got nearly half the vote. >> the u.n. is warning of mass extinctions and food shortages within the century if global warming continues as it is. >> in its comprehensive report, water supply is a key issue, with flooding likely in some regions and frequent drought in others. especially serial and fish stocks. there'll be an increase in mosquito and water borne diseases and death and illness from heatwave and poor nutrition. oceans are likely to rise and become more acidic, threatening to kill a large number of

species. >> translation: if you think 50 years from now, asia's population doubles, there's a possibility of that, sea levels will increase and there's typhoons to. if put together it shoes that a couple of hundred million will be effected. >> the international court of justice is due to decide if the whale hunt is breaking international law. australia brought the case against japan, and want a ban on all whaling. that's unlikely to happen. it's a familiar confrontation, disrupting whalists on the high seas. dramatic these encounters can be, it may be the outcome of a court case on the other side of the world that ends whaling. last june australia government launched a case against japan in the international court of justice in the hague.

australia argued japan's scientific whaling is commercial and breaks internationally agreed bans and moray toriums on whaling. we do not need to kill whales for the science. we can collect the information we need to conserve and manage the whales. >> japan argues the international court of justice does not have the jurisdiction to decide what is or is not scientific whaling. the definition is subjective. up to individual governments to decide not for a court or eight months. the court has been deciding whether australia or japan is right. for australia victory is japan banned from whaling. that would be embarrassing for japan. they have the option to withdraw from the commission, and keep whaling. another danger for australia is that anything less than a full victory may give japan's program more legal protection.

>> if i were a betting man i would have a dollar each way on the case. it's not clear there'll be a clear winner or loser. the court, based on previous history will try to find a middle course. so it looks at both sides walking away with a semblance of a victory. on monday, don't expect a clear-cut result. >> andrew thomas is live in sydney. why did australia decide to bring the case against japan in the first place? well, i think there were a few... ..australia would say is that the whale numbers in the antarctic were perilously low, they were in the middle of last century when certain species were hunted to extinction. lots of countries signed up to a moratorium and japan found a

loophole. it's hunting under the veil of science, when it's doing it commercially. numbers have recovered, japan would argue. if you like that argument, public opinion matters. the antarctic is close to australia. the environmental activist groups, greenpeace and sea shaepered go down every summer, following the boats and filming it. footage of graphic confrontation, you saw it in the report, and the whales pulled on board. they go on television in australia, and public opinion is against whaling in australia. then politics seeps into the equation, kevin rudd , before elected tapped into public opinion, saying if he was elected he'd do everything he could diplomatically, and if that didn't work he'd go through the international court of justice. he did that. this takes a long time to work

through. this was launched in 2010 in the hague, and it's only now, monday, that we'll get a result. it may come down to a fila soficcal question of what is science and can the program be described as science and does the court have the authority to decide what is science. a lot of background and history boiling down to the central question. >> we'll get an answer within the next couple of hours. thank you very much indeed for thax. >> within the hour. >> within the hour. >> andrew thomas in sydney. >> now, thousands of soldiers in venezuela have removed barricades in the western city of san cristobel. now the army has taken control of neighbourhoods. we have this report. >> taking back san cristobel the

center of unrest. the national guard regained control of the barricades with bulldozers and armed vehicles. they met no opposition in a city that had been blockaded for over a month and a half. >> translation: we recovered the area under threat. often by armed thugs that kidnapped people. we did it under the mandate of president nicolas maduro. we came to bring back peace, and did it in a peaceful way. this is a democratic state. but the operation that started early on sunday morning with stun grenades and tear gas. protesters responded with more tar and rocks. one didn't wave a shotgun, and they go only retreat with the government forces. >> they are doing what they want. they are entering people's houses. they are abusing people and

throwing tear gas into homes. >> normal life came it a halt when students protested against crime, food shortages and sky rocketing inflation. protesters have been joined by support from all walks of life since troubles began in mid-february. middle class doctors and businessmen helped with food and money. this man runs a shop in town and has not worked for two months, but says he can't leave the student without support. >> translation: it's our neighbours who are dying, our students in the streets risking their lives. i have two young girls that need to work. we are a community, we are stronger and resisting together. we can't stop now. >> today appears to have been a setback for the protesters. however, the demonstrators say they'll rebuild what has been destroyed, but with a military

standing, and you are starting to wonder how long they'll be able to resist. >> the official death toll from last week's devastating mudslide has risen to 21. emergency services worked in bad weather, making it difficult. 30 people are listed as missing. >> russia and the united states agreed that ukraine's future must be decided by it people. it follows four hours of discussion between u.s. secretary of state john kerry and his counterpart sergei lavrov in paris. >> we agreed to work with the ukrainian government with people to implement the steps they are taking to assure the priorities. language rights, demobilization, disarmorment and regular forces

and prove okay terse and inclusive reform process and free and fair elections monitored by the international community. >> the russian foreign minister supports the idea of giving more powers. >> we are convinced that federalization is an important part of the constitutional reform, because the most significant thing is to keep ukraine's territorial integrity. >> that can only be done if interests in the west, east and south of the country is considered. it's important to find an agreement in all parts of ukraine, if we are convinced ukrainians themselves like the idea. >> france's far right front party made gapes in local -- gains in local elections. president francis hollande socialist lost 155 areas. although the party held on to

paris, which elected its first female mayor. >> philadelphia domestic workers in the u.k. are facing gross abuses at the hands of their employers of gulf countries. a new report suggests the exploitation is tantamount to slavery. we have this report from london. >> the extent of modern day slavery in the u.k. shocked many people. now the focus is on filipino workers who came to london of the the sponsorship system is called cafalal. known to allow employers to cease passports and virtually enslave them. >> this woman took an overdose. >> i took pills. my employer said "are you crazy, what you did is dangerous?" i said "i want to die." the slavery is happening in the

wealthiest parts of central london. it seems very rich arabs from the gulf employed the cafala system at home, transported their rules and staff to london on the assumption that they can get away with it as easily here. yathala is not the only thing. rules in place by the home office to cut down on immigration tied vizas together of worker and employer. filipino staff are left with no rights say critics. >> with the law, you don't have a chance to change anything, so what will happen is you stay in the house being abused, not being fed, not paid, because you know that if you run away from your employer, you'll be undocumented. >> the home office is standing by the rules. abuse of ofsz domestic workers

is unacceptable: >> human rights watch who published the report says the system is not working. >> there's no mechanism to check on domestic workers once they are in the u.k. some people we spoke to told us that their employers told them to lie, saying in the visa we'll pay our worker £1,000, but they pay $2,000, and it's sent to the philippines, saying they have a day off, and there's no days off. >> new laws come into force, built as a push to stop slavery. they will not cover abuse of domestic staff. their rights are solely in the hands of their employees, with a few checks on welfare. >> britain's only surviving

world war ii submarine has been restored after a 7 million pound project. >> hmas alliance was launched. a third of sailors serving on assault occasioning actual bodily harms during the war lost their lives. >> don't forget aljazeera.com for the news. >> yeah, i'm all right. >> you see what? >> no. ♪ ♪ ♪