a blow to he had warn in an historic victory for the kurds. ♪ ♪ hello, welcome to him al jazerra, live from our head quarters in doha. i am elizabeth. also ahead south korea shuts nearly 2,000 schools as purchases cases sore. violence disrupts miss term elections in mexico with ballot boxes set on fire. and new york state offers a 100,000-dollar reward for two escaped prisoners who left them a note saying have a nice day.

erdogan's ambitions for a more powerful presidency have been dealt a severe blow by the turkish electorate, his party set it's -- you ever had its worst defeat in a decade. it's still the biggest party with 52% of the vote -- 42% rather. the main opposition c.h.p. has 25%. the nationalist m.h.p. got just over 16% crucially the pro kurdish h.d.p. are on call for parliamentary seats for the first time with 12 percent of the vote. a report from the a.k.p. party headquarters. >> reporter: thousands gathered outside the party headquarters to is he zell brought yet another victory. despite the jubilation of the

crowd there was a sense of disappointment. they were hoping to celebrate a victory that would have insured their party would remain in government. but sunday's elections appear to have delivered a major upset. for the first time since coming to power 13 years ago the a.k.p. party failed to get enough votes to rule on their own. if they want to remain in government they have to form a coalition. >> translator: the a.k.p. party is the winner and finished first in the election, no doubt about that. nobody should make a victory out of an election loss. everyone should reassess themselves. >> reporter: one of the biggest criticisms of the a.k.p. party in recent months has been that it was allegedly eroded freedoms in democracy. this result as he told his supporters was proof that such accusations were baseless. meanwhile there were also scenes of disappointment at the main opposition c.h.p. they fell well short of the 35% target they had hoped for. but party leaders it seems were taking solace in the a.k.p.

party's misfortunes. >> translator: we ended aid heavy handed era through democratic means democracy has won, turkey has won. >> reporter: that's what everyone will be waiting to find out. whether some sort of coalition government will be formed and if so with who? will the a.k.p. opt to partner up with the kurdish h.d.p. or try to form a government with the ultra nationalist m.h.p. a move that could see an end to cooperation with the p.k. k. turk could have to vote again in elections possibly before the end of the year. it seems that the current polarization in turkish politics could result in a hung parliament and an uncertain future. even though results have dealt a blow to the a.k.p.'s party dominance to the political scene here in turkey the supporters continues to say that they are

optimistic and back the party's leadership. however that leadership may have to rethink some of itsy policies and its approach if it's to regain control of the parliament and be able to govern once again on its own. al jazerra. and as we mentioned earlier the pro kurdish people's democratic party has made a historical gains bernard smith is at the h.d.p. headquarters. >> reporter: a huge political gamble by h.d.p. has paid off. they have heeded the 10% share of the vote needed to get 10% representation in the turkish parliament and this is very significant in this country. that means for the first time in the history of turkey a pro kurdish party has representation at a national level in a turkish. >> pat: lament and the h.d.p. managed to do it by trying to broaden its support base, that this is a matter that's ally today an

outlawed turkish separatist organization the p.k. k a tar orist organization its considered in the united states and european union they have played down their organization to the p.k. k and played up its commitment to peace and its representations of working class and minority groups. now with that partner lament are you representation they say they will be able to push forward a peace process, one of the biggest problems facing the modern turkish state. south korea has closed nearly 2,000 schools as fears grow about the spread of percent, six people have so far good from the virus, 23 new case have his been identified. harry fawcett sent this update from seoul. >> reporter: here in southern seoul, this is one of a large number of schools that are now closed.

more than 1800 schools in two districts of seoul and in seven cities in neighboring province are closed as of monday. that's not just because of orders but also individual principals of individual schools responds to go parental concerns as well. those kind of concerns have been growing because the number of new case have his been growing 17 confirmed on sunday, already on monday more than that number have been confirmed. the government, though, is saying that it is tackling this outbreak in a much more aggressive manner and a more transparent manner. they have now named the 24 hospitals and medical facilities where people have either been confirmed with mers or those exposed to it have gone to seek treatment. and they are also saying the initial outbreak, the initial spread from patient zero at st. mary's hospital in a city south of seoul where that hospital is located. that the that spread from that individual in that medical environment is now over. there is another major outbreak

in terms of hospitals here in seoul, the samsung medical center already 34 cases confirmed there. they say that the numbers the new numbers from there should also start to decline. really, we are at a pretty critical point now if this has been limited to hospital exposures the numbers will start to come down. if people have infected others in the community that will be a very different story. it's one that the government is very keen to try to stop happening. saudi arabia's supreme court has upheld a verdict against a blogger who was found guilty of insulting it islam. the sentence includes 10 years in prison and a thousand lashes, he's also being banned from travel ago broad for 10 years after the end of the sentence and fined $266,000. egyptian pred el-sisi has apologize today a lawyer who was beaten by a police officer. the beating last week sparked a one-day strike by lawyers across egypt. in a statement sisi apologized to any citizens that may have

been abused. the deputy police chief in the nile del delta was sentence today three months in prison for beating the lawyer the european commission president has launched an angry attack on the greek government in the g7 summit. world leaders have garth in other words ba save i can't germany. he accused the greek government of undermining the negotiations over a new term for a bailout. >> i am waiting for annal attorney five proposal of our greek greek counterparts, i don't have a percentage problem with alexis, he was my but friendship in order to maintain it has to observe some minimal rules. iraq's prime minister is meet is u.s. president barack obama on the sidelines of the g7 summit to discuss the battle against isil. it's a crucial opportunity to ask for extra help. imran kahn reports from baghdad. >> reporter: iraq is not only a

country at war it's a country in economic crisis. a slump in oil prices has left iraq with a massive budget deficit which, according to economists could be around $22 billion. aid agencies are warning they are running out of money to help 3 million iraqis affected by war. at the ofadd the cost of the war itself and iraq find itself in real trouble. prime minister abadi has said the lack of international support for iraq say failure and wants world leaders step up. up. >> translator: what iraq is looking for is strengthening military aid and more air strikes and helping iraq reconstruct it's war-torn infrastructure and knew humanitarian aid. >> reporter: it's also sent 2,000 anti-tank missiles to help curtail isil's use of armored vehicles for car bombing and the administration has pledged to speed up other weapons shipments. relations between the u.s. and iraq have been strained of late. earlier this month u.s. defense

second accused the iraqi army the of not having the will to fight some. iraqis say that's not fair. >> isil -- >> translator: isil is well equipped and funded a rack is in dead. we more more financing and need the g7 to fort iraq financially and bridge the debt gap. >> reporter: the meeting between the prime minute officer and barack obama is supposed to be a review of what's happening in iraq. here in the capital this sideline meeting means very little. what people are really concerned about here is rising food prices electricity blackouts and security t isil mount regular car bomb attacks in markets like this. iraq's deficit in its budget influences every single decision it makes from fighting size ill to paying government salaries. all of which have a big impact. the real question, however is how much can the g7 help. imran kahn, al jazerra baghdad.

polls have closed in mexico where the ruling party held onto power. protesters in guerrero state burned ballot box block access to polling station and threw rocks, independent jamie rodriguez has won a resounding victory for governor of the northern state. adam raney is in mexico city. >> reporter: according to exit polls an independent candidate for governor in the northern rich industrial state has won that race, winning with what appears to be nearly 50% of the vote. more than 45 at this time compared to an apparent second place winner who just has a little you remembered 30% of the vote. that is of course exit polling and we can't confirm that result as of yet. but what it does show is perhaps a ground breaking result in that northern state because this is the first time ever that an independent candidate in mexico has beat a major party candidate for office such as governor, at

the same time, there is this pressure in the north of the country. in the south we saw protest vote burning by leftist teachers trying to disrupt voting in four southern states. they weren't that successful, though although there were precincts and polling stations closed in certain areas of those states overall, it was a peaceful and safe day of voting. even in those more radical states. these groups are mainly led by teachers who are unhappy with an education reform that was passed a couple of year old ago here in mexico and this was their way to try to exert pressure on the president enrique peña neito who passed that reform as a signature mesh you have his presidency. we don't know if they backed down through some sort of backroom negotiation which is the old styled politics of the ruling p.r.i. party. we dough know did he haven't the impact some expected leading in to this election. regardless the ruling party cannot be happy with the result perhaps of this independent candidate winning the

governorship at the same time that you still have these leftist groups, extremely frustrated and angry with the president. still to come in the bulletin. trapped in the mid. how saudi-led air strikes are compounding the misery for millions of yemenis. and spiritual inspiration we need one of the many devotees a sustaining a religious festival in southern pakistan. >> from going pro, >> i never know that was really a possibility. >> to becoming president of the us tennis association. >> we're about getting rackets in children's hands... >> building the game... >> ...sky's the limit for growing tennis in america. >> and expanding access to play... >> at the end of the day it's about the kids... >> every tuesday night. >> i lived that character.

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turkey's elections have delivered a major blow to president erdogan's plan to boost his powers. the ruling a.k.p. is set to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time in their thing years. and for the first time in turkey's modern history a pro kurdish party has representation in parliament. the european commission president has launched an angry attack on the greek government at the g7 summit in germany. he a accruesed greece of undermining the negotiations over a new term for a bailout. south korea has closed merila 2,000 schools as fears grow over the spread of mers, 30 are 30 people have died and 23 new cases meaning the tote toll 87 cased in the country. let's return for our top story now on turkey's lexes earlier richelle carey spoke with the director at the center for turkish studies at the middle east institute she began by asking her who was most surprise big the results.

>> well, i was surprised by the h.d.p.'s capturing of 13% many political opinion polls suggested that the h.d.p. would garner around 10 or 10.5%. so this was a huge win for the pro kurdish h.d.p. and also this is a big loss for the a.k.p. i was expecting the a.k.p. vote around 43 or 44%. so yes, it was a surprise. >> so let's talk about both of those things about why they both happened. why such a weak showing for the a.k.p.? >> well, the a.k.p. i think formed a wide coalition when it came to power and increased its votes since it came to power in 2002. and i think it's lost the wide coalition, it lost the support of the liberals because of the party's authoritarian turn.

and the ruling party loss the support of the conservative kurds, historically, the kurds have always voted 50% voted for the pro-kurdish nationalist parties and the remaining 50% voted for center right parties. so in the kurdish region the two political -- the most important political actors have been the a.k.p. and the pro-kurdish h.d.p. but after the kobane, because of the government, president erdogan's indifference in the suffering of the kurds in kobane the a.k.p. lost the votes in support of the conservative kurds. so -- and the h.d.p. secured those votes. and the ruling party also lost the nationalist vote because of its kurdish opening. that it launched in 2013. so i think now the a.k.p. has a narrow coalition. and that's why we saw the results and the a.k.p.'s loss

today. >> let's talk about the pro-kurdish party that did so well. what does it many now? it's one thing to win it's another thing to know what to do with your power. so what next? >> i think this is a great chance formation. and it will lead to a further transformation for ahd. now they have a wide coalition they have the support of the liberals, they have the support of the left and other marginal groupings. and they could also be able to capture the votes of the a.k.p. some votes from the a.k.p. so now they have recently embarked on a process of becoming a party that is not just an he ethnic pro-kurdish party, but a party that can appeal to a wider segment of fishing i society and i think that is -- turkish society and i think that's great news to tub i's political moving that is something that they have been waiting for for decades. >> okay. >> and it finally happened.

so in a way the h.d.p. filled the liberal void that was left by the ruling party. houthi rebel say at least 44 people have been killed in sanaa by air strikes lawrenceed by saudi arabia and its allies. the target of the strikes was reportedly the yemeni army headquarters which is being held by the rebels. houthis also say more than 100 people were wounded in the attacks. the saudi-led strikes and the power struggle between the houthis and the government in exile is also destroying the country's economy. a lack of imports and fewer jobs are making life harder for millions of yemenis. now a report. >> reporter: the simple process of making bread is becoming difficult in yemen's capital sanaa. he runs a small bakery and he is struggling. it's estimated more than half of the bakeries have shutdown due to a shortage of fuel and power. a basic staple of yemeni diet now becoming a rare commodity.

a kilo of flour used to cost 40 cents, it's now gone up to 60 cents. prices have gone up across the board in yemen us because of insecurity hurting small businesses like this bakery. >> translator: the difficulties we face are mostly shortage of fuel. now we are using gas. which doesn't only make things slow, but it's also expensive. even the price of gas is going higher. power outages are another problem. on top of that the shortage of fresh, cold water is one of the difficulties that we face. above all the workers' spirits are down. >> reporter: petrol used to cost 70 cents a liter it now costs $3.50 now it on the black market it can cost 7 1/2 dollars. people wait for days and many sell it for a much higher price it's sign of how bad the power shortage is getting. >> translator: first the absence of fuel and power the biggest

obstacles at the time the state short was in place. now there is no state. total vacuum that's why big malls and company have his for him a halt. second citizens purchasing power has decreased substantially. >> reporter: for house a saudi-led air campaign has hit sauna. targeting houthis and troops loyal to former president is laugh. but the conflict has continued since last year when the houthis took over the capital. basic services have been suspended and prices skyrocketed due to the fighting some. aid has come through but the u.n. says 80% of those living in yemen need eight to survive. what was once bustling commercial streets are now mostly empty. with no shoppers, shutters have been closed. >> translator: we are living a real catastrophe. many shops have been shutdown. how will all those families earn a living. that's the question, none of the warring sides are willing to answer. it's not just the dead and

injured in the fighting. yemen's war has taken its toll over in the country. to the u.s. now where dallas area police officer has been placed on leave after pulling his gun on a group of black teenagers at a swimming pool. the video recorded on a mobile phone showed a police officer aggressive throwing a 13-year-old girl to the ground and pinning her down. police say the teenagers didn't have permission to be at the pool. an investigation is underway. a manhunt is underway for two convicts that escaped a maximum security prison in new york. they used power tools to cut through the wall of their cell before inspection on his saturday morning. david shuster has the details. >> reporter: the manhunt now includes hundreds of local state and federal law enforcement officers. they have been setting up roadblocks walking door to door and flying helicopters over a small new york community on the edge. >> these are dangerous people.

and they are nothing to be trifled with. >> reporter: 48-year-old richard matt was convict odd three count of murder including the kidnapping and dismembering of his boss. 34-year-old david sweat was serving life behind bars for the murder of a sheriff's deputy. officials at the clinton correctional facility discovered the men were gone early saturday morning. the duo fooled the guards overnight by stuffing hoodies beneath their bed covers. >> the search revealed there was a hole cut out of the back of the cell to which these inmates escaped. >> reporter: authorities say the inmates used power tools to cut their way out. >> we don't yet know how they acquired the tools. >> reporter: once they were out of cells they had to slice through steel greats and pipes and scale down six floors for to get not sewer system then broke through a manhole cover outside the prison walls. >> china says its greenhouse

gassy mentions will peak in 2025. five years earlier than its stated target. according to a study is emissions are set to decline after that. the world's biggest carbon emission is going to -- computer coding to be made compulsory in schools. sarah reports now on what is being called literacy for the 21st century. >> reporter: it's a saturday morning and school may be finishes for the week but this class is still in session and the lesson today is computer coding. >> coding is like building stuff, different games and designing electrics. >> reporter: joshua is one of 700 students who are part of this coding academy. learning to create apps and computer games from scratch. some are as young as four but all have the same goal, to become digital an entrepreneurs.

>> i make lots of games and i always wanted to make games. >> coding is no longer in the dough main exclusion i have to popular science it's actually a very important subject. that all young people should learn. so i think the earlier the better. >> reporter: john wayne is the founder of the academy. and a man on a coding mission. he studied engineering at the university of congress hong and won a scholarship to oxford university. after a career in computer gaming, he turned to computer education. and believes that digital literacy is now a core life skill. >> i think this is a very meaningful mission for me to teach our young people to learn programming. which i think is the 21st century literacy. >> reporter: with apps, smart phones and digital technology so much a part of our daily lives now it's no surprise in hong kong there is a campaign to make coding a mandatory part of the school curriculum. while some countrys, like the united kingdom and estonia have

it on the agenda, here there is still no compulsory computer program in school. but the enthusiasm is clearly there. this year, a group of 1,000 students from hong kong broker the world record for the most people coding at the same time. and now coders want the government to commit. >> i am a believer of coding being something that every kid should learn at the early stages. so hong kong schools are far from having something like that in the curriculum. >> right now i am telling the computer what to do. >> reporter: for those parents who aren't waiting around, there are now more options than ever for teaching code literacy. sarah clark, al jazerra, hong kong. now, around a million pilgrims are attending a religious festival in southern pakistan, security stepped up in response to threats of violence opposed to the shrines, al jazerra spoke to one pilgrim and

asked him to explain his journey in his own words. >> translator: my name is. [ inaudible ] i am from. [ inaudible ] i have been coming here since past 20 years for a spiritual inspiration. like the calendar the people who aring here should refrain from drugs and restrict themselves to prayers and following the teachings of the. [ inaudible ] i frequently visit other shrines. and other important shrines. but i haven't found a true and reallies sense in the devotees for visit being these places. i never beg or ask anyone for anything because a true one never begs, he find all his

needs are taking care of because alla is the real providers. women are not allowed to visit shrines because it is forbidden in islam. these saints did not have female visitors. anyone who can control system take,. [ inaudible ] those that come here with a pure purpose always take away blessings from here. those that come for just fun go back without anything. they will fail and not succeed in anything unless they come here to seek solace. finally this bulletin an american. [ inaudible ] is on the pacific ocean to route to japan -- from japan to the united states. 29-year-old set off from east of tokyo on her purpose designed seven-meter vote she plans to

arrive in san francisco by late september rogue between 14 and 16 hours a day and taking advantage of favorable currents. just a reminder now that you can always keep up to date with all of the news on our website at aljazerra.com. >> every summer in america a force of nature becomes a man-made disaster. some call it a war millions of acres, billions of dollars. no end in sight. >> in this episode of fault lines we follow the 2013