>> turkey's president urges the world to respect the akp party's victory. the election was marred by a media crack down. hello there i'm julie mcdonald. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up: the russian airline whose plane crashed in egypt says external influence is the only explanation. human shields rebels parade families in cages to stop the army attacking duma. and germany turns a hangar into

a shelter for refugees. hello there, warm welcome to the program. turkey's president has told the world to respect the results of sunday's election rerun which has returned the ruling akp party to power. european leaders have expressed concern over the violence leading up to the vote. and achieving the participate's reform agenda may not be as easy as hoped. jamal al shael reports. >> fear mongering or return to normal, depending on which newspaper you read. the views on the street remain divided. turkey has spent the past five months without a proper government. added to the political stability and increase in bomb attacks and

the slowing-down of the economy not to mention a polarized society. >> translator: this result is not good for turkey's future because this akp party will not protect society. >> god willing, this will be good for us. >> reporter: sunday's vote was known as another rg referendum for erld' erdogan's government. >> many people have failed to read his leadership in a proper way. especially international media reporting and political commentary they always try reduce the entire turkish politics to just one man. >> erkd anerdogan and the akp pt

appears that the plans are on hold. >> maintain political stability, deal with regional issues such as the war in syria, security issues, pkk terrorism, we have to deal with those issues immediately. >> just a few hours after the jubilant celebrations, it is back to business as usual. at the achg party headquarters. the task at hand is to form a government and fill political scroid that has destabilized the country for -- are void that has destabilized the country for months. jamal al shael, al jazeera, ankara. some contestants ability has been challenged. >> the challenging security

environment in particular in the southwest, happened with a high number of violent incidents including attacks against party members. party premises hindered contestant ability to campaign freely. the media is clearly under serious pressure in this country. criminal investigations of journalists and media outlets for support of terrorism. and the formation of the president. has had a chilling attack on media. >> omar al saleh has more now from istanbul. >> the campaigning process was marred by violence and the media crack down. now government says the crack down was on media outlets that are related to an anti-government group, accuses that group to plot t plot to ovw

that government. overshadowed by a wave of violence, there was suicide bombings and clashes in a number of areas between security forces as well as the outlawed kurdistan people's party the pkk, as well as islamic state of iraq and the levant. clearly, the observers were not happy with all of that and they said with regards to campaigning and the media, a crack down does not need the international standards, however when i spoke to one of those observers and i asked if they had seen any irregularities that could have avoided the onset the answer was no. so now i think even the political parties did not make big complaints about irregularities however we have to wait and see on the official results to come out. it will be more than a few days'

time and we may have some complaints coming up by different political parties and different candidates so we have to wait and see. >> the russian airline whose flight crashed in egypt insists the technical failure isn't to blame. all 224 were killed when the flight from sharm el sheikh to st. petersburg crashed on saturday. investigators at the crash site said the plane broke up mid air but still don't know why. peter sharp reports from st. petersburg. >> reporter: in the early hours of monday morning a russian government plane carrying the viment of the disasteviments of thevictims of.

armed group linked to i.s.i.l. claims it shot down the airbus a-321 in response to air strikes in syria. russian officials say the plane broke up at high altitude. now the russian airline says it believes the plane was brought down by an external impact, ruling out technical fault or pilot error. >> translator: there are no such faults like engine failure or system failure. there are no such combination of systems failure that could lead to a plane breaking up in air. the only possible explanation could be an impact, mechanical or physical impact. >> the kremlin said nothing

could be ruled out in connection with the crash and there was this from president putin. >> i would again like to express my condolences to the families and relatives of the victims. this is a great tragedy and certainly we are with you in heart and soul. i want to thank st. petersburg for its response which the whole country sees around its words of sympathy and empathy. >> outside st. petersburg's expanding memorial to the dead, sharm el sheikh is a popular vacation destination. >> it's sad, people, children would were on the flight it's heartbreaking. i have a child myself and i fly very often. >> russian federal investigators have opened a criminal case into the incident. on the weekend, russian police apparently raided the airline's moscow office. russia last a poor aviation

safety record with many incidents blamed on aging aircraft. but the company insists it was in good shape. hopefully, investigations will reveal more details. something catastrophic happened to the russian charter 42 it at high altitude. it's going to take olarge answer, perhaps another couple of months. peter sharp, al jazeera, in st. petersburg. a rebel group in syria is putting prisoners in cages and using them as human shields to try prevent government air strikes. jayshal islam is trying to get the government to stop targeting duma. zeina khodr has the story. >> reporter: this is how they decided to put their prisoners

in cages and scatter them in residential areas as a way to pressure the government to stop targeting duma. they paraded them in the streets to tell the world that these men and women will be used aas human shields. they are believed to be officers and families from the alawite sect. >> these are families of alawite officers. after what happened in the city of duma and the eastern city of gutta, decided to place those prisoners in cages in towns in eastern gutta so they can taste our misery so they can be targeted by russian air strikes as our children and our women are. >> reporter: duma is often targeted by air strikes. friday was the worst yet. says 70 people were killed and 550 others were wounded in what it describes as an extremely

violent bombing. the target was a outdoor market. duma the country's largest stronghold in the damascus country side which is under siege. and a couple of days ago, the opposition was also under hit. >> clinic is five kilometers from the front line. we can no longer operate and we used to treat about 5,000 patients among them. >> the fighting has intensified amid efforts to find opolitical solution. u.n. special envoy stefan de mastura, visited, where world rivals discussed syria. they called for a nationwide peace and ceasefire. stopping bombs by syrian government forces britt ann' brs

envoy, also one of the causes for a the flood of refugees from syria. but russia has made clear it will oppose any such resolution because it believes it will change the war. zeina khodr, al jazeera, beirut. >> barrel bombs on civilians. the attack reportedly happened in the suburb of dara impleta. al jazeerdaraia. al jazeera is unable to independently verify this video. southern province shabwa? forcers loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh were targeted. and while a rare tropical storm

is heading for the yemeni mainland, cyclone shapalla, more than 100 homes were destroyed. it's expected to make landfall in the al qaeda controlled town. the most powerful storm yemen has seen in decades. you're watching al jazeera. still to come. scar crisis, vw has told audi models will also be tested for emissions. >> i'men stei'm step vaessen, c,

a story on meat.

>> welcome back, a quick reminder of those top stories here on al jazeera. the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan said the world should respect his country's election results, the first bodies recovered from the wreckage of saturday's plane crash in egypt have been repatriated to st. petersburg. and rebels are putting

people in cages to try to resist air strikes by the government. in duma. a vessel carrying 100 refugees and migrants from turkey reached the coast of greece, 1400 people in the east aegean sea this past weekend alone. 218,000 refugees crossed the mediterranean in october. refugees in hungarian slum center have gone on hunger strike. the people held there say they are mistreated and denied basic necessities. >> translator: we have people here who have been beaten up, who have received electric shocks and who have suffered a lot. we have had three suicide

attempts in the prison, they are very tired psychologically and cannot take it anymore. >> now ahangar at a former berlin airport has been used to accommodate the thousands of refugees continuing to arrive in germany. as many as 700 are arriving in the capital every single day. disused plane garage, each housing ten people, sleeping in bunk beds, transported to a public swimming poop to be washed since the hangar is not outfitted with showers. in the last hour german chancellor angela merkel has been addressing members of her party on the crisis. nina, very warm welcome to the program. what did merkel say?

what it hats been we can cope. >> that has been very much what is her message. but what we've seen as this crisis has escalated is a rift in merkel's own party and the csu, where they're struggling to deal with the influx of refugees and slum-seekers coming in. this war of words between merkel andens the bar barrens have be . over the weekend, and over the past few weeks we've seen merkel's position significantly hardening including new immigrant populations. >> you can never appease everybody in politics but will she have gone far enough in the short term at the moment do you

think? >> in the short term she has bought herself some time. she had a crisis summit and she has managed to since then at least agreed to sign up to a lot of the things that the barbarian premier was calling for. she will have the heat off in the short term however in the long term it is simply unsustainable if 10,000 are arriving in germany every day. now merkel will have to look at other issues, working with transit exeant, particularly. >> they have agreed to transit zones and i think something else which i can't quite remember off the top of my head. but what are these elements going to buy her? what do if tran is it zones mean? >> it's this idea that at the poured of judge germanborder ofe

found not to be asylum seekers or refugees they are deported immediately. they started cracking down on people coming from the western balkans, they frr safe countries of origin and should be returned. same for people coming from afghanistan. let's not forget, it's been almost a month since germany has instigated border controls. the broaders thin if you look at what's happening in europe the refugee crisis ss so huge, there can't be a german solution to what is a global problem. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> after an exploifs device was found in a car, it was found

south of germany. a palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an israeli security officer in the occupied west bank. one of the men allegedly tried the stab a soldier and was shot and killed. the second palestinian was arrested. 72 palestinians and nine israelis have been killed since violence escalated in the beginning of october. now u.s. regulators have widened their investigation net. the german car maker volkswagen has admitted installing software in 11 million cars around the world in order to evade diesel testing. let's get more from al jazeera april tom awrkman, how much more

can you tell us? >> this investigation says they detected at least 10,000 additional vehicles dated from 2014 models up to this year's audi models which were equipped with these defeat devices. these are these devices that trick the emissions detectors into thinking that they meet pollution standards, emission standards when in fact they defeat them by 9 times the level. this is not just a problem with models in years past, they have not estimated the number of awdf

audis, compared with nearly half aing m million cars that were deemed to be equipped with these defeat devices in the admission of volkswagen. that is determined to be bad news in the campaign in the united states and up to eight million recalls. >> you say thomas more bad news, how is this likely to impact volkswagen's precarious financial position? >> just last week they announced their first quarterly operating loss in more than 15 years and that was largely due to these more than $7.5 billion they had said aside they said for the cost of these recalls and correcting these fraudulent devices. but it does not count for the anticipated litigation costs because the suits are coming hot and heavy.

not only in the united states but of course also in europe with anybody who has a diesel model which they thought was going to be a saver when it comes to greenhouse gases, but actually was a blatant violator of aural the admission standards that both in the europe and united states had been posted. >> tom ackerman joining me from washington, d.c, thank you for the update. >> key checkpoint, protestors from the madesi an ethnic minority is angry about nepal's constitution which ignores their request for a separate state. fuel rationing for hundreds of indian trucks, other trucks carrying essential fuel supplies are still stranded. the leaders of south korea

and japan have agreed to speed up talks on so-called comfort women. south korea has insisted that japan compensate women who were forced into the military brothels, in the world war ii. >> brazil, barbecue is their national dish, how about the world health organization linking red meat to cancer. teresa vo has the story. >> claudio says he loves his sausage sandwiches and not too worried about the world health organization warning. >> translator: to care, to take a look at all this food and you are going to miss these amazing sausage sandwiches?

you cannot leave this life without eating this. >> reporter: according to the world health organization, processed meat increases the chance of getting cancer and red meat could probably be aa cause, too. argentinians eat over 100 kilos of plate a year. you can include the chorizo, kidneys and red meat. barbeques like this one can be seen all around the country and people here said never minding the risk they won't stop coming. argentina is famous for football, tango and beef. the first cattle was introduced by the spanish in the 16th century and they soon became a feature on the pampas. based on the tradition of the

gauchos . >> here we eat a lot of beef, i believe illness is caused by stress. >> in argentina, breast cancer is the most common cause of death among women and processedd prostate cancer is the most common among men. >> we recommend not to eat red meat more than twice a week. it's about a healthy lifestyle. we are very concerned about prevention and you can reduce cancer by 40%. >> reporter: even though awareness has increased in argentina in recent years culture is the first challenge experts face when trying to convince people to lead a healthier life. teresa vo, al jazeera, buenos aires.

>> the u.s. space agency nasa has released some encouraging news, ice is increasing, ra thousands of years of accumulated snow is outweighing the shrinkage from glaciers. antarctica is not contributing to rising sea levels. celebrating the 15th anniversary of continuous residency at the international space station. six men are currently aboard the space station, the american, russian and japanese crew plan a special dinner to mark the occasion. 220 people have lived on the station, since 2000. nasa says 26,500 meals have been served and the complex has grown

from three to 30 rooms. you can find out much more about the stories that we're following on our website, that is www.aljazeera.com. why not take a look. hello, i'm richard gizbert, and you are at "the listening post", these are some of the media stories this week. we are focussing on north america. starting in the u.s. with the trump campaign. is it a media mirage made in media heaven. canada promise new life in c.b.c. turkey with an election coming, the media are feeling the heat. in july, a month after donald trump announced he'd run for the