polls open in egypt and elections and, abdel-fattah el-sissi looks for victory. and watching al jazeera live from the headquarters in doha and coming up, a earn earthquak a european union and a coup gets approval as they try to stifle decent. >> anybody home sick. >> reporter: live on stage in afghanistan barack obama makes a

surprise appearance. so people across egypt are voting for a new president. the former army chief, si si who is the strong vote to win cast his vote and they are being heavily guarded and it is taking place amid tight security. al jazeera is ban from reporting from egypt and we are crossing over because they are monitoring developments for us on social media to tell us what is going on on the first day of voting. >> they are cueing up to vote and we will look at that and the campaign social media is where we will start and his twitter page which has actually been quite quiet and the last was a couple days ago and 1.8 or 1.9

followers ansi abdel-fattah el-sissi has less and putting out things like this and my arabic says to every egyptian man and woman who cares about the county today raise the flag in the country and playing on the favoritism which goes this way and the hash tag says basically raise your country's flag and putting them in markets and things and have an active team with abdel-fattah el-sissi's line up there and that is a flag being heated in some places. this is from cairo, a group of women lining up to vote there with their flags in place and looking like they are celebrating the moment if they cannot go out and vote. and we have seen one of the men, this is a man actually in line casting his vote.

i think the earlier picture shows his i.d. card checking himself of the list and casting his vote for election and we will look at people's reactions as well and the social media feeds are the actual players in seeing how much they use it. the other place i really think you should have a look is al jazeera.com and look at this. this is our explainer page if you like for the egyptian e elections about how old and the college degrees and how the election plays its role and how the campaign will have results and this will be in two-days time and this is two days time, monday and tuesday and by wednesday the 28th we hope to see results come out and this is on line and you can keep too

touch with us on line and if you want to alert me to something use hash tag egypt to pick that up and a.j. staff will be talking about that in an hour's time. >> we will see you there and throughout the day and keeping an eye on social media developments from out of the elections in egypt, thank you. elections in europe have seen a swing to the far right in parties across the continent like in france where they topped the call for the first time e r ever. >> translator: our people demand a single policy, the policy of the french for the french with the french, it will no longer be directed from outside. and laws which they have not voted for or obey commissioners who have not talked about the

sufferage. >> reporter: this is gaining popularity and eu independence party topped the poll there and harry smith has more. >> reporter: he doesn't have a seat in the uk parliament but like any politician in resent years he is transforming the layout of the country's power and for months the opinion polls have been predicting that the uk independence party were on the verge of something big and as they were counted the numbers clearly began to stack up. >> 751,439. >> reporter: elected one of four successful candidates in the region that covers much of the south of england and told supports this was a historic moment. >> you have spoken tonight and delivered a extraordinan extrao

amount of politics in 100 years and proud to have led them to that and surprising it did not happen before because we had three passes in british politics that lead us to a common market that has went to a political union that twisted and turned with promises they never have actually kept. >> reporter: and david cameron conservatives suffered in the polls and he has been forced to take a tougher line and promise a referendum of the eu and under press to move further to the right and some observers say that would be a mistake. >> the temptation for governments would be to like at the parties and would be say to win would be going to lock up and detain and lock up migrants

and this is potentially damaging. >> reporter: can they repeat this sort of success and the elections for the uk in less than a year's time but long before that he will have to describe who he can have alliance with and what it will have on politics. >> i'm with al jazeera in the south of england. >> reporter: that is the view from the uk and this is the view from the rest of europe and we are from london to tell us now that the people have spoken what does this mean for the eu and its powers? >> well, i think the first thing to point out by puncturing the hype around the victories of these anti-euro parties and political earthquakes as described in many countries is

the euro counties have not collapsed. and it's expected 70% or more of seats in parliament will return to the center right and left and that said on the fridges it's very clear that major changes have happen since 2009 and this is in britain and france and greece and elsewhere and it's not hard really to see why because of course since 2009 there have been major crisis in europe and the euro zone crisis and banking collapses and bail outs and programs that cut deeply in people's lives and living standards have gone down and unemployment up and anger and resentment and disenhabitment has grown to the european project and the idea of free flow of migration to europe

and mainstream parties and politicians who are increasingly seen as disconnected elite so this is the dynamic that the election has thrown up, on the one hand things have remained solid and stable within the eu parliament and on the other hand on the fridges there are deep rumbles and eruptions. >> this gives us an indication of how voters actually feel about the eu right across europe. >> reporter: well, it does, of course, but as i say the point to bear in mind is there is still an enormous support for europe and the extent to which the eu parties broadly speaking are able to influence policy within the eu and on the fridges they will of course be able to have agreements within the parliament on issues like the economy and trade and how much power should be brought to brussels and how much power

pushed from brussels and influencing domestic policy in their own countries because the major parties lost support to the fridge parties and trying to win the support back. in this country there is an election due in a year's time in britain and the conservative government and democrats may be trying to win back support it lost to the ue independence party and it may have to toughen the laws and look closely at europe and over time these sorts of things could begin to under mine the european progeny more. >> we are reporting from london. the candidate and poroshenko will hold talks with russia in june and the polls are suggesting that poroshenko won over half the vote and russia sergei fedorov is looking at

dialog but says the election was not without problems. a fire at a bus terminal in south korea killed six people and started at a construction site and quickly spread. 27 people were also injured. mother of those killed were construction workers. thailand's army chief has received the royal endorsement and the ruling military counsel and we have more from bangkok. >> reporter: this is after a ceremony that gave him royal endorsement and in a press conference he said there is a long road ahead of reform and it is to bring the country to democracy but there are many steps in that process and mentioned the anti-coup movement we saw grow on sunday he said he would have to grow on that if this continues. we are in the attorney general's building because the leader of the anti-government unit has been released from detention

from the military and being processed here for insurection and then on to criminal court and have been released from military detention but we don't know the fate of the pro-government group that were also holding their own protests on the outskirts of bangkok. a manhunt underway for the lone gunman who shot at a jewish museum. plus is it fair, research says fair trade is not what it says, details coming up. there's more to financial news than the ups and downs of the dow. for instance, can fracking change what you pay for water each month? have you thought about how climate change can affect your grocery bill? can rare minerals in china affect your cell phone bill? or how a hospital in texas could drive up your healthcare premium?

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♪ e inside story hello again, the top stories on al jazeera, in egypt presidential elections and the hopeful cast his ballot and security has been increased and polling stations heavily guarded. far right and the leadership of thailand's army chief has been endorsed by the royal family and court proceedings have begun against the leader of anti-government protests. hope francis is on the third and final day of his visit to the middle east and the leader of the roman catholic church visited the holocaust museum and he was with benjamin and did we

see anything going on today and what is on the agenda for the rest of the day? >> reporter: absolutely. he did make that unscheduled stop that really surprised many people and surprised the palestini palestinians because they consider that separation wall a security fence. for the palestinians they consider the wall apartheid wall really is what many people have named it there. he did make an unscheduled stop today and today was for inner faith unity and meeting with people from jurisdiction e-jerusalem before meeting up with benjamin netanyahu the

father of zionism and things happened when netanyahu asked the pope to go to a museum and he went and prayed there and they went on as scheduled and went to the holocaust memorial museum in jerusalem and met with survivors and with him being the modest pope and he has been given the name the humble pope and given the name of, he kissed the hands of each and every h d holocaust survivor as he listened to them. >> what is the official aim here, do we know that at all and we know he invited the president and the israeli president to come and meet together and pray for peace as he says. >> reporter: absolutely.

i think one thing that has been constant with the pope in the year he has been at the vatican is he has been the unconventional pope. he is really trying to reach out to different parts of the world and not just here but he has reached out here to israelis and palestinians and wants them to find peace and said from the start when he came to the holly land that this trip was first and foremost as a christian pilgrim but as we saw yesterday and seeing today that has changed pretty quickly. >> all right, thank you very much. well, increased security has been ordered for bell um after tourist were shot dead and two others were killed after a museum is attacked in brussels and they are looking for the lone gunman. >> reporter: this shows when the gunman struck, firing an ak-47 in the jewish museum in

brussels before making off on foot and he is still on the run. >> the camera images showed us we have to deal with the fact he was alone and he was prepared and he was armed. >> reporter: the museum remains sealed and no one knows why he open fired on a quiet saturday afternoon but anti-semitism is widely suspected. and this has a promise and this promise is never again and today people in the streets want to do it one more time. >> reporter: they latched out for failing to condemn the killings. >> translator: there are elements in europe to condemn the house in jerusalem but not the murder of jews here or in europe itself. >> reporter: security is being increased at jewish institutions

across belgium and france and jewish leaders say more attacks could follow. >> translator: we can feel reassured but attacks can happen any where any time and anything can be expected for anyone who will carry them out. >> reporter: the worst attack against jews in 30 years and they say tips from the public will be crucial in helping track down the gunman, and i'm with al jazeera. the white house has mistakenly revealed the identity of a person's name on a list of a briefing during president obama's trip to an air base and we report. >> reporter: unexpected visit by the commander and chief, president obama touched down at the airforce base in afghanistan to get what the advisors called a read on the security situation. soldiers waited to hear from their president while he held a

closed door meeting with top common ders and advisors and they were entertained by a popular singer while they waited s and when he emerged from his meeting president obama thanked them for service and with afghan security forces in the lead he announced he would decide how many u.s. soldiers would remain in a supporting role after a planned withdraw at the end of the year of the bulk of nato and u.s. forces. >> for many of you this is the last tour in afghanistan and by the end of this year the transition will be complete and afghans will take full responsibility for the security and our combat mission will be over. america's war in afghanistan will come to a responsible end. >> reporter: the pentagon has indicated it would like to see

roughly 10,000 soldiers stay in afghanistan after 2014 but any u.s. presence is contingent on a bilateral security agreement granting u.s. soldiers immunity and karzai has refused to sign agreement but people to succeed him in a runoff election say they may stay. >> the commitment to afghanistan will endure. >> reporter: there are roughly 32000 u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. the president says it's his goal to have a smaller number stay to conduct counter terrorism mission, but the exact number of forces is not clear. it's a decision the white house promises will be made soon. kimberly with al jazeera, washington. >> reporter: pakistan prime minister arrived for the inauguration as india's new prime minister and he is the first leader to visit since 2005. and modi will take the oath in

new deli and it was a landslide election victory. at least 20 people are feared dead after a train crash in the indian state that happened at the rail way station and it hit another train that stopped. in australia a report released on the circumstances surrounding the death of asylum seeker and he was killed during riots at an australian center and at the time they said he died after breaking out of center but the report finds he was killed by staff and andrew thomas has more from sidney. >> reporter: back in february the minister was quick to say he had been killed outside of the detention center and if head not broken out he would not come to any harm and this report shows how wrong that was and he was beaten to death in the center

and it was staff working in there who killed him and the report talks about rising tension as it became clear to them he tried to come by boat and wouldn't be settled in australia and there were riots and police and some of the staff dragged the detendeten -- deta to be beaten and the salvation army led the attack and he was beaten and a rock dropped on his head. separately a guard who worked for g 4 slashed the throat of another detainee and another report says he was lucky to survive. >> and flood waters start to recede in the balkins and are facing difficulties on one town an evacuation is planned because of a looming landslide and kim reports. >> reporter: this is behind the

village and there was little warning and now those living below are told the worst is yet to come after last week's record rainfall experts say the entire hill at some point will come sliding down and say it could dam a river between bosnia and serbia potentially flooding the village's on both sides. >> translator: there is risk it could fall, the mountains could fall and there is danger for me and the people who pass through here. >> translator: it could happen, the ground up the hill could slide in the river and the river could flood the city and could be a catastrophe. >> reporter: leaders from serbia and bosnia are working on a plan and this is one of them. >> translator: basically our county will be cut into two

parts so one part we have bakeries and gas stations and shops and the other side industrial buildings and basic necessities will not be able to get in. >> there are thousands of land slides across because yeah and serbia and crotia sending forth tons of water. this is the idea of the sheer force of a water. over a week ago this was a road and now it's a sea of boulders that have been forced down from above. no one was killed but locals believe that was just luck, more rainfall is predicted for the coming days. residents are making sure they have a plan, hoping to remove this from the equation when the hill comes crashing down, al jazeera, western serbia. >> reporter: in alaska there are more than a thousand people who have been told to leave

their homes because of a massive wildfire. the funny river fire has destroyed a large part of the wildlife refuge south of anchorage and that is the best efforts of air bombing aircraft as you can see. the fair trade movement was supposed to help workers in developing countries ensuring they get proper pay but that is not always the case as al jazeera reports. >> reporter: that price is decent working conditions and sustainable farming is the promise that fair trade offers when purchasing the products and it's a word for a better way of doing business in rural areas with the farmer, workers and local community but it may not be effective enough. after studying 1500 people working in fair trade certified businesses in uganda and

ethiopia they have found otherwise. many of the workers profiled fell short of earning decent wages and receiving little of the benefits it's meant to deliver and there is evidence of children being paid to work on such farms. >> in certain cases in areas where there is larger scale and commercial production what we tend to find and the statistics show this is significant is that the awages are lower with fair trade producers. >> reporter: fair trade selling products as the coffee shop is a popular idea like the coffee or chocolate could help farmers around the world and leaving them reassured that some money could go toward ethical projects and the fair trade scheme began 25 years ago and set up by consumer groups and now it's $3

billion enterprise and backed by the government and christian organizations it is one of the trusted consumer brands and 1.5 million in the world are part of the fair trade scheme and products from schools and sanitation and health projects and allegations may be troubling youth it's a work in progress and the challenges are numerous but it is improving working conditions in countries with high levels of poverty. >> i hope people acknowledge how touch it is to tackle the problem, as the report shows it's a problem that all governments have yet to tackle and that is why you find the terrible poverty and the report looks at women who are widows and divorced and literate and have to find very item tarry work. >> reporter: and in a globalized work it's the regulators who have to push for better living and work

conditions for what fair trade is trying to help, al jazeera london. >> reporter: you can find out much more about that particular fair trade movement by going to our website at al jazeera.com and find the top stories and what we are covering are the big games. >> well, tonight we're going to philadelphia, we'll devote ourselves to a city so hardworking, the face of the middle class in the city has changed. we'll look at the sensitive subject of race. why more than half of the city's black middle class fear slipping out of it. but philadelphia is still full of tight knit neighborhoods and the people there are not giving up on the dream. i'm ali velshi and this is "real money."