right. in the most heavily drugged country in the world if there's any country that would be experiencing p.t.s.d. it would be a nation that's been at war for four generations al-jazeera explores the reason those drones are there to assist the innocent civilians they exist at all for a draw or even they're not firing is there frightening because any moment they've got a bomb living beneath the drum. this time of al-jazeera. i think. the japanese leader looks to reform his country's pacifist constitution.

follow on down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we cannot force people we are not ready. it's a stalemate in the gulf high level meetings on the diplomatic rift with qatar appear to them no way. an exclusive look inside central command the desert air base in qatar some called the most important military facility in the world plus. i'm not angry with my mother and she did what she could be ten she was young when she married twenty thousand under-age girls get married every day the fight to end the practice intensifies in west africa. japan's prime minister has secured a big win in sunday's election his ruling coalition has won three hundred twelve

seats that easily gives him a majority in the four hundred sixty five seat parliament to push through his agenda hopes to change the constitution and develop a fully fledged army japan's constitution limits the military to being just a self-defense force office defeat in the second world war let's get one of them sarah clarke she joins us from tokyo sara's exit polls suggest that she has won this clear victory it seems now that he's got the two thirds majority that he wanted. a resigning between the two thirds majority which has been titled the super majority in both the upper and lower house three hundred twelve of the four hundred sixty five seats that were up for grabs and and as you can see that the local papers they're reflecting this two thirds again we have on this headline this one one two thirds are by to continue so i spoke to the media last night he said you were flipped on these results with humility voters went with the same function i have to say i mean looking at the way

he campaigned he used north career is as a key part of his campaign foundations we had a very disorganized opposition parties we had the likes of the party of hope to need new political parties which were launched in the last month the party of hope was launched by the very popular tokyo governor eureka. many had hoped she would pose a threat to its majority this didn't come through and she last night she admitted complete defeat she said she had regretted many of the campaign strategies there was a surprise looking at one particular party which has become the main opposition party this is a constitutional democratic party led by yukio edano he was the face of the fukushima . nuclear disaster a few years back and he went on to lead this party this party's offering completely different policies to what is offering so a couple of surprises in the the final results which have come through overnight but are resulting in robust victory for the lots of by and the liberal democratic

party and so rosso how much of this them was about the regional threat from north korea in the polls suggest the r.b.a. is not a popular politician not a popular leader yet he won such a sweeping victory in the elections. well it was a snap election as we all know and it was it was a gamble as many people thought but it was an opportunistic why dealing himself or put himself back in power he took advantage of a disorganized opposition he took advantage of the escalating crisis in north korea and he campaigned on this this policy front said basically saying plays vote for eyesight experienced and stable government at a time of domestic and international uncertainty and that argument was obviously biased on the escalating crisis with north korea he's taking credit for this strong stance that japan has taken against north korea and it is deepening and the deepening regional crisis so looking at that front he took advantage of this but

looking from a policy front but on a personal front yes he's a very unpopular leader a survey recently found fifty one percent of japan didn't want him to continue as the prime minister so this is in stark contrast to the election results we saw what we saw and are seeing from overnight but he has made history and maybe returned as is the the longest serving leader in japan's post-war history so rob thank you now a partial results in argentina's midterm congressional elections suggest gains for president but it's your mockeries coalition he's looking to extend control of a congress and wants a mandate to overhaul the economy wins in key districts could give his coalition its first legislative majority since he took office in twenty fifteen daniel schorr miller has more now from one of the iris. so with most of the votes now counted in the mid-term elections it does look as though the governing can be a most coalition has won substantial victories and in victories in provinces they

hadn't expected to do that well in the most important provinces populous places like mend or so-called diverse sounds of a of course in one of cyrus in the capital one osiris where there can be has won more than fifty percent of the vote the other party is the opposition parties will be scrutinizing the results in the next few days none more so than the former president cristina fernandez. she finished in second place in the race for senate seat representing the one osiris province the most populous province in the country she will say it's some kind of victory but she finished a second second place behind the can be a more candid it is there were no voltage she will take that seat in the senate but is not quite the platform i think she was hoping for towards her presidential aspirations in the elections in two thousand and nineteen still being counted will be for some hours to come but it can be a morse that can be

a governing coalition who are celebrating in their headquarters in one hour cyrus talking about the band they now have to put forward policies with a stronger force in the congress and in the senate to push forward economic policies they say are necessary to boost argentina's economy now despite hopes of a breakthrough it seems the gulf crisis that seemed cats are living under a blockade for nearly five months will drag on your search of state rex tillerson is in the region but so is the saudi arabian led bloc is not ready to talk well after meeting qatar's emission i mean been hammered out. he called all sides to deescalate tensions but said the u.s. couldn't force any discussions to listen through from saudi arabia where he met king salmon but there was no indication of any progress he also held talks with iraqi prime minister hyderabadi and says he wants to counter iranian influence in iraq particle he reports from. he talked tough on his way over blaming the saudi

led coalition for the impasse but in the region the tough talk stopped meetings with the crown prince mohammed bin samana asked him to please and gauge please and gauge in dialogue. there is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. and so we cannot force talks on people who are not ready to talk still us secretary of state rex tillerson took great pains to compliment the qatari significant progress has been made in a number of important efforts in our counterterrorism joint efforts including sharing of terrorist list terrorist financing we've participated in a number of counter-terrorism technical sessions and training and significant steps have been taken to advance a aviation security he didn't criticize the blockading countries not even after the saudis seem to publicly slight him by sending the deputy minister of protocol to

the airport for his part that qatar foreign minister is clearly frustrated by the behavior of the four blockading countries. i also feel sorry to say that they are not ready to face this issue and to tackle with dialogue the reasons for this crisis these countries have resorted to undergo a magic method they have nothing to do with modern diplomatic channels and this is no good secretary tell us and isn't leaving the region and he is expected to do one more press conference this time on his own here in doha so that means he has one more chance however unlikely to try and put some public pressure on the blockading countries to try to resolve this crisis as it begins to enter its fifth month. al-jazeera. professor of middle eastern politics at the university of oklahoma he says rex tennyson's meeting with the iraqi prime minister was also a big part of his trip. his meeting with hyder aliabadi as well as king saul mine

it's a tripartite commission as it were the cerro days the americans and the iraqis certainly was probably the most important part of this trip not only in terms of combat ing isis but also to try to wean iraq away or outside of the iranian orbit as much as possible there's no question that that was i think of paramount importance at the same time however one of the reasons mr tillerson didn't make any progress is because he knew and he indicated this in a bloomberg interview even before he left that the saudis an emirate these weren't really interested in making any progress or really negotiating at this stage so he had low expectations from the very beginning protesters are demanding the resignation of multis police chief after the killing of a journalist who exposed allegations of corruption. they've been demonstrating outside the police headquarters in the capital of a letter doesn't get its it was killed by a bomb in her car last week earlier thousands of people marched to demand justice

now as it was demanding the release of his journalist mahmoud hussain who's now been in prison in egypt for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly denied mahmud has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december while visiting his family. zimbabwean president robert mugabe has been removed as a goodwill ambassador for the world health organization just two days after he was appointed it follows a backlash from international leaders activists in the health groups whose a zimbabwe's only health service is collapsing mugabe has been criticized for going abroad for medical treatment well the south african media activists mike at ready explains why there was so much anger at magog his appointment. well he's very good at looking after his own health he regularly jets off to singapore for medical treatment abroad his ministers and high level politicians often use private south

african health care facilities while or griese and bubbly and die in dilapidated hospitals waiting for treatment the healthcare system in the block which is collapsing because of economic collapse that is a result of the new p.f. policies and the new politics this is a regime that spend ninety one percent of its tiny budget on paying salaries and yet cannot afford to pay nurses and doctors who regularly go on strike and if you recall in two thousand and nine there was a cholera outbreak that killed four thousand five hundred people or thereabouts and this is a preventable disease so this is all political. and it's a slap in the safe for ordinary zimbabweans though it is quite hard to understand the supports and of course that it's not just about health care the regime is one that is that is marked by brutality that ruled with an eye and says that has left ordinary zimbabweans in

a dire situation so it is hard to understand where the support from the mugabe does come from and he does have some support although. his legitimacy is certainly crumbling i think in order to really understand this one has to look at the complex legacies of colonialism and imperialism and neo and here is a lot more to come here and al-jazeera including leaders in spain and catalonia refused to budge in a deepening political crisis plus the pool woohoo but to hold a party rebuilt france after the revolution of course there are parts of history that are hard to accept napoleon bonaparte hero also source of shame a question that still remains more than two hundred years after his death more than the. the. however we've got some really heavy rain pushing across the eastern side of the

u.s. over the next twenty four hours or so but a rash of showers there for the moment but the already active weather system that's making its way from texas through the deep south arkansas pushing up into the northern plains the canadian prairies and driving further eastward so right down the appalachians through monday really heavy rain coming down into georgia a good part of the panhandle florida looking pretty disturbed to the east of that generally fine interact twenty one celsius in ottawa added new york and even warmest still left for washington d.c. central parts generally doing ok that is the case too over towards the western side of the u.s. thirty seven celsius for further north there are better weather there into that western side of canada with some snow and that will continue to drive its way further but for many it will be settled and sunny that is not the case for the eastern seaboard of the u.s. as we go on through tuesday you see some very heavy rain coming into new jersey new york pushing up across on terrio easing further east was through the day brought

disguised to come into the southeast and colder so we will see more in the way of sunshine there for georgia to see increasing sunshine too across the eastern side of the caribbean heavy showers long spells of rain for central areas and also central america. short films of hope and inspiration. a series of. stories that highlight the human triumph. at this time.

welcome back to the top stories here this hour japan's prime minister shinzo to victory in a snap election he pledged to toughen his stance on north korea and revive the economy. zimbabwean president robert mugabe has been removed as a goodwill ambassador for the world health organization that follows a backlash from international leaders activists and health groups who say zimbabwe's own health service is collapsing. and the u.s. state says the group of countries beheading is not what is in the next innocents in the region and the latest attempt to end the diplomatic crisis. central command is the arm of the u.s. military that handles all operations launch from middle east its headquarters and just outside doha here in castle a senior official that has told out

a zero but operations against aren't being affected by the blockade reports. this is an order to her base in qatar some military personnel consider it the most important u.s. air base in the world. it's revise u.s. central command with the facilities and equipment required for operations the base is home to several different types of aircraft used in missions across the region these tasks range from strategic bombing flights to just stick support such as the ones provided by refuting turn her planes you date is truly the nerve center of all the operations that we execute across the central command responsibility from the planning execution and assessment of the every day operations that we operate throughout the region is done right here without this base without the

capabilities that we bring every day we would not be able to orchestrate the fight that we're executing today against isis and also in afghanistan which is another important area that we provide support to there are no diplomatic issues that are impacting our ability to operate every day from here in our counter isis mission this is the sensitive operation room called the combined operations center al-jazeera is one of the few media networks allowed into this place some screens were blurred to protect sensitive information many countries have joined the coalition to coordinate the complex operations in iraq syria and of guns drawn. when the screens we can see the busy trucks a coalition aircraft along with military and civilian planes for both the coalition and our field level operators they work back through the commander control system to provide us information we have near real time information where the aircraft are

in operating and we can talk to a control agency who is able to talk directly to those aircraft and in many cases we can talk directly to the aircraft. more than twenty countries were here which is considered the predations center called the. other day the air base in qatar. hundreds of people have been protesting in spain's capital to show their support for the government's moving to take control of the autonomous region following a disputed secession referendum this month spain's foreign minister has catalonians to ignore their leaders and accept direct rule on political parties will meet on monday to decide what to do next under simmons reports from barcelona. this is the center of regional government in barcelona in less than a week it's set to lose its power as president and his ministers sacked in spain's capital madrid the mood seem to be hardening both politically and on the streets

when the government has responded very well but they should have been harder article one five five should have been applied much sooner all eyes are on catalonia as president carlos pushed him on now he gave little away after the government announced its action on saturday at the mass protests followed in barcelona. parliament is expected to meet soon a declaration of independence is still an option along with the possibility of calling elections one thing is guaranteed there will be more protest action we are not going to obey the one point five article. for we have a right for the nation and we are sure. just there's a zone on our side in this one of the most decentralized countries in the world the spanish state and the regional government in barcelona i'm now more entrenched than

ever before but what about the millions of people affected by all of this for some of them isn't as simple as choosing one side or the other parent who used to be a socialist party supporter he's been against independence but is now in a dilemma he says he's horrified by the action of mariano rajoy government in taking power away from elected politicians they decided to apply the worst case scenario for us suppressing the intel to the people hey were you are going to vote again to get what you want but when we expanded government one because now i'm feeling not comfortable at all with the spanish. government or solution but still not believe in what the independent is saying that everything is going to be fast and fantastic i don't know what what what's going to happen next week and i think going to be worst than now. after the mass protests on saturday

a contrast catalan coachable events all relating to nationalism. and outside the palace housing a regional government that wants independence an old catalan nationalist song is played its lyrics romanticize the struggle for independence in reality there's nothing romantic about the situation right now and drew simmons al-jazeera. the leaders of italy's two wealthiest regions say they've won a vote for more autonomy from the central government between them lombardi and vonetta generate thirty percent of italy's g.d.p. but many taxpayers in the north resent subsidizing the relatively poor south they want more say in how their tax revenue is used. russian opposition leader has been released from prison he was jailed for twenty days for organizing protests against president vladimir putin about he wants to stand against putin in next year's presidential election but

a criminal conviction which he says is politically motivated by him from being a counter. thousands of people have rallied in me in mosque capital in a show of support for leader. she's been widely criticized government's handling of the ranger crisis almost six hundred thousand range of muslims and fled to bangladesh. military crackdown in northern rakhine state. of the range of refugees living in camps in bangladesh children aid groups say their risk of trafficking sexual abuse and child labor has more. the most vulnerable among the new refuge is there close to three hundred forty thousand children among the refugees according to unicef nearly twelve thousand children cross with the referees every week from e.m.r. into bangladesh you can see a lot of the children will hang out in the street looking for or begging for money some time with their parents some time alone and they're playing by the streets

sometime you see never stop where the children actually selling stuff now they don't have much to do in the refugee camps the question is really bad. for hunger they're out in the state looking for something or other we have one time in one of the refugee camps sometime back a man tried to snatch a child from my mother and was beaten up by refugee mob obviously. according to save the children many of them at a high rate. child trafficking on child labor unless there is some sort of schooling set up here in the long run lot of this children with still be venturing in the state and when we had high rates of exploitation within this community in the refugee camp area. now delegates are in senegal for a summit aimed at ending child marriage in the west and central africa the region has six of the top ten countries with the highest rate of child marriages in the world almost two million under-age girls are married there every year and the

shares at the top of that list seventy six percent of women are married before they're eighteen or globally seven hundred million women are married as children it's feared that figure could go up to one point two billion by twenty fifty. of course now from the town of geisha wife and they was twelve years old when her mother asked her to marry a man as old as her father she ran away from school and hid in the village where her mother insisted on the wedding. ceremony was arranged and then they became pregnant before she ran away after abandoning her child to her thirteen year old worked as a prostitute pregnant again she's now in hiding in a safe house in the capital. but. i'm not angry with my mother anymore she did what she could. she was young when she married my mother was just doing what's best for me. young girls marrying old men is the norm here twenty thousand underage

girls marry every day mostly in south asia and rural west africa says the world bank and save the children under age weddings are often organized by parents in the village when they grew up boys are seen as contribution to the family by farming or working girls do the same but they're seen as an extra mouth to feed and so if you get to finish school instead they marry and become pregnant early hoping to give birth to a boy. so this is an days home she hasn't been back here for years just a few months ago she called her mother for the first time to tell her that she's sounding well but she didn't tell her her whereabouts. than they were in days mother. so when there she is. tells me she's ashamed for what her daughter did for cooper it's better to be

married early rather than to deal with the shame of an accidental pregnancy. and i don't regret it. but the pain of losing her daughter is evident. horse and it's my daughter's she said i want her back. and they misses her too but she's not ready to return home if she gives birth to a girl she'll call her after her mother she promises to guide her and help her choose the right husband if it's a boy he'll be free to choose whoever he wants to marry for in day life for girls is harder and unforgiving. now one of the last surviving letters written by a passenger on the titanic has sold for more than one hundred sixty thousand dollars the letter by an american salesman to his mother was written the day before

the old fated vessel struck an iceberg and nine hundred twelve alexander was among the fifteen hundred people who died in the disaster now so many he's a national hero to others he's a tyrant napoleon bonaparte still divides opinion more than two hundred years after the rule of a france and much of europe but a new exhibition with rare works of art shining a more positive light on the emperor reports from paris. with his determined steely gaze and distinctive hat napoleon bonaparte is one of french history's most recognizable figures a brilliant general he forged his destiny in the french revolution crowned emperor thirty five he went on to dominate europe but while many french people regard napoleon as a hero others say he's a source of shame a tyrant and a cruel war monger curators hope a new exhibition in northern france will help restore his reputation as

a military and political visionary if. a pretty rebuilt france after the revolution of course there are parts of history that are hard to accept poland's all for terror inside and his desire to conquer europe and if people have fallen out of love with the polian it's because these days we value peace and we're not accustomed to wars like people were in his time. napoleon transformed france he created many of its institutions and his napoleonic code still defined civil law across much of europe for visitors here his legacy is clear on the. whole he was a great figure of french history we owe him a lot our institutions and our schools. in troubled times he built an empire and restored order napoleon's tomb is under the sumptuous dome in paris it's one of the capital's most visited sites testimony to his enduring appeal napoleons youth and

ambition his love of symbols and his focus on europe have led many people in france to parallels with presidents. like napoleon presents himself as a man of the moment one who can restore french glory. france's youngest president also promises to transform france and restore its prestige historians say macros regal leadership style can be traced back to napoleon. an ember did what any story and once called the myth of the savior in world war two shallow was seen as a savior let's see if. but there is no doubt french presidential elections focus on one person we can fix everything and that is part of the legacy the exhibition in ass is called images of a legend whether those visiting will see napoleon as a genius and a reformer or an ambitious autocrat will depend on their perspective but it's clear that more than two centuries after his death napoleon bonaparte continues to

fascinate natasha al-jazeera paris. the top stories here on al-jazeera japan's prime minister shinzo to victory in a snap election the ruling coalition has won two thirds of the seats in parliament pledged to toughen his stance on north korea and revive the economy. the u.s. sector state says the saudi led group of countries blockading cut ties not ready to negotiate rex tillerson is in the air in the latest attempt to end the diplomatic crisis he's had top of the talks in qatar and saudi arabia i did in my meetings with the crown prince mohammed bin samana asked him to please and gauge please and gauge in dialogue. there's not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. and so we cannot force

people who are not ready to talk so there is no invitation to the white house because it's not clear that parties are ready to engage but we're going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement possible results in argentina's mid-term congressional elections suggest gains for president not its coalition he's looking to extend control of a congress that wants a mandate to overhaul the economy wins in key districts could give his coalition its first legislative majority since he took office in twenty fifteen hundreds of people have been protesting in spain's capital to show their support for catalonia the government's moving to take control of the autonomous region falling ice a session referendum this month. protest is not demanding the resignation of motives police chief after the killing of a journalist who accuse senior politicians of corruption. was killed by a bomb in her car last week zimbabwean president robert mugabe has been removed as

a goodwill ambassador for the world health organization a little over two days after he was appointed it follows a backlash from international leaders activists and health groups who say zimbabwe's own health service is collapsing well those were the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera. thanks so much and i think. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera.