lucky to get to. relieve. my brain and the story needs to be two. largest catholic countries witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring. winning documentaries. and live news on air and on. populist and euro skeptic parties are expected to make gains as the polls open in italy's election. hello i'm here with al jazeera live from doha also coming up what next for angela

merkel germans await a crucial vote on their next government. and al qaeda linked group claims responsibility for friday's attacks in bikini fasces that killed sixteen people but you go on i thought he would be just for communicating with our family going ever anticipated that he would have so many followers and what began as a daily message to his grandchildren has turned this man into an internet sensation . and the polls have opened in italy but it could be some time before the country's leadership is actually decided no single party appears to be on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government let's take a look now at the main players in this election the democratic party of the p.d. led to by former prime minister renzi is pretty europe and pro immigrant but has failed to engage younger voters luigi demaio is the prime ministerial pick of the

five star movement that's a an anti-establishment anti corruption party which looks set to secure a hive and it. led by my tail fella vini the lego party is a euro skeptic and anti immigrant and the former prime minister silvio berlusconi he returns with the center right forza italia party he can't hold public office because of a tax fraud conviction but bella skinny could become a kingmaker let's go live now to our correspondent and who is in rome lawrence leigh and lawrence is a very broad and confusing picture then presented before italians today well yes clearly it is a lot of people are saying very worried little what happens if italy doesn't have a governments and it could be months of chaos and things like this i think it's worth remembering over the course of the last of the year or so that when the netherlands took ages to form

a government after its elections and germany too which may or may not get a government today and so if they don't get a government here in italy it's not as though the world going to fall apart because it hasn't in other places and they will have to find a way through it but i think the difference here really is that the possibility of a very right wing government coming into position is still there and that's deeply troubling i think for the european union centrally certainly the people i'm most excited about this of the global anti establishment hard rights donald trump's old friend steve bell and for example is apparently in italy overseeing this election and people like him are very excited about the potential prospects of math say oh salvina the head of the league party potentially becoming the prime minister it might not happen but it's possible and if he did he's he's routinely calling for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of documented migrants which would be potentially illegal in the european law but would reflects a very great unease and unhappiness in this country about the status of the

european union and issues to do with immigration and so in that sense is a very unhappy sort of election here's a look at some of the possibilities as to what might happen by this time tomorrow morning. it says much about the state of politics here that the party making all the running is the anti politician party its thirty one year old leader held several part time jobs before entering politics five stars entire proposal is to create a citizens' block in opposition to the corrupt excesses of the political class. but five-star have vowed not to do a coalition deal with anyone else in a country in which you can't do government without a coalition it leads many to wonder if they would prefer not to gain government. they want to. probably be camera defer political parties to transform into influencing the transformation in derby configuration of

them we doubt government responsibility to. the political bloc with the best chances this group led by the it's home you will silvio berlusconi the eighty one year old appears to hold a magnetic attraction for his far right allies who campaigned entirely around identity politics blaming the european union for what they see as an invasion of black people and muslims over the mediterranean. for if they gain power they claim they would deport four hundred thousand people to libya earlier a ringing endorsement of the european union's suppose liberals were meant to. anyone who arrives here illegally must be sent back if we keep welcoming them and look after them the state will collapse it doesn't work economically or socially. but if the polls are accurate the far right might not get enough votes for

a stable government many italians are revolted at the idea of berlusconi choosing the next prime minister so what then. it's hardly unusual for italian politicians to promise one thing. and then change their minds and even though silvio berlusconi insists his right wing coalition is the only one and all for many suspect that in the events of political stacey's he and the center left might do a deal for a sort of grand coalition supposedly for the good of italy but even that would only be a temporary measure with a view to even more elections. all of it reflects a bigger malays in european politics from rome to london and berlin there's a lack of confidence no clear direction hoarsely al-jazeera road. the germans are awaiting the results of a referendum that could end months of political deadlock votes cast by hundreds of thousands of members of the social democratic party being counted and we are

expecting that result well any time soon so let's go live now to the social democratic party headquarters and our correspondent he said when it came what are we hearing are they likely to declare quite soon. yes that's right martin almost six months after a general election in which perhaps sixty million german voters gave their verdict about what the government should be at now falls through perhaps five hundred thousand social democrats to decide what shape that government will be we expect the results in the not too distant future perhaps in the next five ten minutes and the question will be has the party decided effectively to give angular merkel another three and a half years in the chancellery or have they decided to pursue a different option the point to make here is it's quite close in the special party conference that was held on the twenty first of january when they were talking about whether there should be more talks with merkel or people expected perhaps two thirds of the conference would vote in favor and yet it was fifty five forty five

or there or thereabouts and the suggestion is it might be something like that again but one wild card here is the level of opposition that there has been to this this what they call the course they call it soon here in germany this grand coalition the level of opposition particularly from the youngest side the leader of the young socialists a man called kevin out has been vociferously in his opposition in saying the party needs to renew itself in opposition and one final point to make as far as that is concerned since the general election in september the s.p.d. is voters been really falling and now there are some who fear that perhaps this party which once was governing with chancellors of its of its own while that may be there will be a long time before this party can have a leader who will be chancellor. ok dominic we're going to move on and come back to you as soon as we get that decision confirmed from the social democratic party because of course as you've already outlined it's exceedingly important for the future of german politics will come we'll come back to you in just

a little while because we think that that decision is going to going to happen any time soon. so while we're waiting for that decision that important decisions come through in germany let's go to syria because the government there says it sees more territory held in rebel held territory in east and after another night of air strikes and shelling more than six hundred forty people are reported to have been killed in the besieged enclave over the last two weeks rebel mortar fire can reach the center of the capital damascus so control of this area is a government priority the syrian observatory for human rights has reported that government forces have now retaken ten percent of the district then the holder has more now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. pro-government alliance advancing into eastern huta quite significant gains according to the syrian observatory for human rights they've taken ten percent of the and cleaves territory they've pushed taken

towns from the eastern side of eastern. but this area the areas that have been recaptured are mainly farmland not really built up areas which makes it much easier to advance if they're going to push further into eastern they're going to encounter urban and urban setting and neighborhoods where the civilians really live so the battles there will be more difficult and of course the more and more deadly but undoubtedly significant gains on the ground the bombing campaign also continuing despite the five hour daily pause in the fighting undoubtedly the intensity of the bombardment is much less when you compare it to the first week of the bombing campaign but civilians continue to die on average thirty civilians a day do you and security council's a resolution calling for a ceasefire is not being he the people the situation for civilians inside becoming unbearable according to the united nations one thousand people need to be evacuated for to receive proper medical treatment and eighty five of them require urgent

medical assistance they could die if they're not to evacuated but there is no sign that there will be any evacuations or no sign that desperately needed aid is going to reach the people any time soon. publicised health ministry says a farmer has been shot dead by israeli troops close to the girls a border he died waltz working on his land close to the border fence on saturday according to the israeli military the man was approaching a restricted area and warning shots were fired into the air when the from a didn't stop soldiers shot him. and i will cut your affiliates says it was behind the attack that killed sixteen people in bikini on friday the attackers targeted headquarters and the french embassy in the capital walking to the. based group jemaah islamiya mostly me claimed responsibility for the attack two days later we have this report now from nicholas hawk. when

a taxi packed with explosives drove past him i was fetching water raman was sorting out his stall and quander was clearing his shop none of them noticed the attackers nor did members of rick enough us the armed forces who let the taxi in the attackers enter their headquarters the subsequent explosion sent them and the country into panic at the same time another attack was underway targeting the french embassy and its cultural center friends special forces were deployed after hours of fighting all the attackers were shot dead. islam was leamy has claimed responsibility for the attack they say it's in retaliation for the bombing by french forces that killed one of the group's leaders in february. sorry sitting in this video on the right was killed in that attack them broken afonso is home to a french military base and has increasingly been targeted by fighters in the south of the market people are returning to work with mixed feelings there's no serpent

in there i'm not scared i'm not going to let the attacker put me in a state of fear is in some but it feels uneasy because the reality is brooke you know fastow is in the middle of a security crisis government officials visit the army headquarters the intensity of the explosion shattered the windows of neighboring buildings deborah flew hundreds of meters into the air bullet holes pockmark the building. this is about to be one of the safest and most secure place in this country and yet it's inside this building that most people lost their lives on the prime minister is talking to the troops outside police have cordoned off this area and there are hundreds of people standing there in shock and they have one question how could this attack take place in such secured in safe areas visiting the scene the prime minister described what he called outlook elliptic scenes inside but he tried to reassure the public to saw something that we have to stay united against this war that is being imposed on us

i am convinced we will win we weren't allowed in the hospital where the injured mostly soldiers are being treated their friends and relatives are worried we're hearing if they will survive there is a sense of despair that broke in a farce or has become another front line to an expanding conflict affecting millions of people across the sahara nicholas hawk al-jazeera. don't go away because here at al-jazeera we will bring you live and direct that result as soon as it comes in from the social democrats in germany as they decide whether or not to join angle of merkel in coalition government plus. president trump heightens the threat of a trade war with europe. from long island winds to an enchanting tax increase.

hello there things are calming down for some of us across europe now we do still have some pretty strong winds in the northwestern parts of europe and they're giving some pretty violent seas that of the southern parts of the u.k. but the worst of the snow seems to be a this and now still have a little swirling mass here that still generating plenty of showers for many western parts and this plenty of rain for the south as well some of this is going to be quite heavy but generally speaking here it's a bit milder than it has been so we're looking at around ten in towards the east though it's still cold here we still got plenty of snow that has system just pushing its way across parts of russia moscow very cold minus ten the low maximum and then that area of snow gretchen pulls away as we head into monday behind it a bit of a break but then the next system is swirling around in the mediterranean so plenty of wet weather here stretching from posset greece for the north now as we look at

the other side of the mediterranean we can see the cloud and rain that we've been seeing him plenty of it over the northwestern parts thing giving us some fairly heavy rain but the worst of that is clearing away as we head through monday so force in algeria and china here it should be good to dry at the next system though is making its way into morocco so we'll see the winds pick up here the clouds will increase we see some fairly heavy rain during the day on monday. the weather sponsored by qatar and release. more than forty thousand africans are facing deportation from israel more than ninety percent of. the distance away. almost zero point one per cent of the two of those in danger of being thrown out of the country in which they sold refuge. at this time i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth of the law with. all this. country

mind you are the top stories here at al-jazeera the poles of a friend in italy but it could be some time before the country's leadership is decided no single party appears on track to gain the required forty percent to form a government. germans await the results of a referendum that could end months of political deadlock that's a scene live a social democratic party headquarters where expecting them to report a whether the party would join with christian democrats and form what is known as a grand coalition we'll keep you right up to date with developments in berlin. and an al qaeda affiliate says it was behind the attack that killed sixteen people in

bikini fassel on friday the attackers targeted army headquarters as well as the french embassy in the capital while the jews and the mali based group. mostly me claimed responsibility for the attack two days later. early seventy nine people have died in the latest into ethnic violence in democratic republic of congo dozens of people were killed in the village of ma say that's in the province of it turi more attacks have been reported in three nearby villages on saturday at least two hundred thousand people have fled the area in recent months to escape fighting paul brennan reports witnesses said the ethnic lendu militia went from house to house hacking people to death with machetes and burning the buildings afterwards the victims came from the majority ethnic haim a group and the number of fatalities makes this the most deadly attack in the recent uptick in violence between them footage from as

a shows some villages looking shocked others appearing vengeful and angry the it turi region was already blighted by food shortages and now this. people are dying here and there is nobody to bury the bodies and the children are also dying of hunger there is no supervision we're worried we want peace to return among the population so that everyone can go back to their homes and we can be safe. but soldiers are thin on the ground despite the reassurances of the army something you will see why we are here with official instructions from the president to see what is going on and see how to resolve the situation originally. the violence in the province of authority has forced two hundred thousand people to flee their homes of the town a visit by the provincial governor did little to reassure some of them to him and lendu a longstanding enemies that outbreaks of low level violence have been common but not on such a scale is this paul brennan al jazeera. an advisor to the crown prince of the

u.a.e. has reportedly become a focus in the u.s. special counsel's investigation into meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the new times is reporting that george nada has been questioned over possible attempts by the united arab emirates to buy political influence in the trumpet ministration nodar is believed to have regularly visited the white house in twenty seventeen the latest developments suggest special counsel robert millner has broadened his investigation beyond russian interference. that china is urging the us to exercise restraint in taking unilateral trade measures and this comes after the us president announced he will be introducing sweeping tyrus on seal and alum in the in importance president trump is also valid to increase taxes on european calls and that was in response to the e.u. is warning it would impose retaliatory terrorists on american products if mr trump

goes ahead with his trade plan this piece about this is a professor of political science at cypress college he warms the president trumps planned could have devastating effects. he doesn't really know what he's talking about because once that began back in the thirty's it just escalated more and more countries put tariffs on their own american products and the whole world went into a great depression and this could happen again you cannot win trade wars easily especially in dealing macro nations like china and germany export a lot of products united states and this is going to cause havoc in the american the an international economy it will cause jobs here it'll cost jobs in europe and even in china and it'll be very bad for working people around the globe it will shrink the world output of economic output as well around not just the united states or in china it's going to or worldwide phenomenon i don't think was to trump is really fully qualified or equipped to make these decisions i hope you have some experts advise them he doesn't immediately be listening to express a problem. police in bahrain have arrested one hundred sixty members of what's

described as a terrorist network funded by the revolutionary guard in iran t.v. pictures purport to show weapons ammunition and explosives to be used in attacks on security forces the sunni led government on the shia majority island regularly accuses iran of supporting armed groups iran denies stirring dissent roxanne farm and farm i am is a letter in politics and international relations at cambridge university she specializes in the middle east she says the terrorist network claim is not supported. there is no evidence that we know of is plenty to terrorists and in fact there has been an ongoing this is part of a longer story and there's been ongoing low grade violence all through last year which is what led to the shutdown of the party in the paper for example. there is no evidence that we can. reach at this point that the iranians are

actually behind it in the way that the government is saying and bahrain journalists from the polls largest newspaper have briefly appeared in court in a case widely condemned as an attack on press freedom they were summoned by the chief justice of publishing articles critical of pain has more from the capital katmandu i'm standing here outside the supreme court where the power of the largest newspapers on t.v. t.v. is expected to go on trial on contempt of court case the newspaper published leading to fighting and letting down the pumps chief justice because when i judy used fake documents and voted by his date of birth which allows him to extend his term beyond the mandatory retirement age of sixty five chief justice but i did he says that these stories are an attack on the judiciary system that they use objectionable language and imaginary facts now that justin is sitting as

a judge and jury in his own case and forty people including the proprietor he edits and newspaper reports where it can be up to one year jail term if found guilty to defend it and many other people agree with it say that this is a clear case of muzzling a freedom of expression which is guaranteed under the constitution the case was on a friday what would adjourn till sunday morning. and indian navy sail boats with an . female crew is approaching the end of his round the world journey the seventeen meter vessel set out from india in september and sailed into cape town on friday with six crew members on board the team is now preparing for the final nine thousand kilometer leg to the indian port of. that's the never differentiate between a danda the weather condition does big does that only drop down and we have to do

the same kind of thing which an individual requires to do so there is no gender bias in natur and in every field i suppose whether it's for flying whether it's for sailing whether it's no swimming everything all sport all activity that we do in our life you need did a dedication unit devotion as an individual not as a den to thailand now where scientists attesting fruit bats and pig to find out how viruses a passed on to people when hey reports from chonburi. the daytime sleep patterns of these fruit bats have been sending thousands into the afternoon sky but the commotion is for a good cause they're being woken so some can be caught temporarily in the name of health and science samples are taken from the bats to try to discover more about the many viruses they carry and how and when they can be passed on to domestic animals and ultimately to humans we know that the last happy seasonal season

are. so that mean. we really know this period other year. highest list. the research is part of the global initiative to try to build a protocol and model of how to prevent or contain a major outbreak recent examples in other parts of the world of viruses being transmitted from animals to humans include ebola and saz one of the main focuses of this research is need to virus which is common in this variety of fruit but the virus was first discovered across the border in malaysia twenty years ago when an outbreak killed more than one hundred people. in that case the virus was transmitted from bats to pigs to humans something that could happen here in thailand chonburi province surrounding the bad colony are several pig farms researchers conduct tests on the animals and educate farmers about what to look out

for if for example an animal eats something that was dropped by a bat infected with the virus. are changed to better farming practices and i've learned more about diseases and how to detect them before my pigs got diarrhea and anthrax i didn't know how to treat them but now i know. as well as researching the behavior of known viruses the thais scientists have also found at least two new ones that information will now go into a database for scientists around the world to access they believe their research and discoveries will see them better equipped to manage the next dark break of a virus originating from the humble fruit bats in hay al-jazeera chonburi thailand . now it's never too late to get started on social media because when seventy five year old li was living in brazil he started using instagram to get in touch with his grandsons he lived in south korea and in the united states this started as a small family project but after listen three years he now has more than three

hundred thousand followers around the world. it's. my name is lit and i draw pictures from my grandchildren and post them on instagram every day. so when we lived in brazil i used to drive my grand kids to and from school then move to south korea. all of a sudden my grandkids were gone and so was my daily driving job i felt very lonely without much to do. when i visited my son who lives in new york i told him about this my son suggested i draw pictures for the grandkids. i don't use a mobile phone to make calls i was at a bit of a loss and put off by social media such as facebook and instagram. my son explained over and over again how to use it but because i'm old i kept forgetting it was

a very difficult process for me but eventually i was able to draw a picture photograph it and posted on instagram. i draw a picture of my wife writes a story in korean to go along with it. my son translated into english. my daughter translates it into portuguese. because it's in three different languages a lot of people around the world can read it. through this project my wife son daughter and i communicate every day it has had a positive influence on our family bonding. and first i only thought about what to draw from my grandkids. but as a continued lots of people started leaving comments. my youngest grandson is too young to understand but my two grand kids in middle school feel grateful for the pictures that people know their grandfather draws for them. all

i thought it would be just for communicating within our family. i never anticipated that he would have so many followers. now under even more pressure to draw good pictures. times take a look at the top. of the polls but it could be some time for the country. to be on track to gain. forty percent to form a government. germans are awaiting the result of a referendum carried out by members of the social democrats five hundred thousand of them have voted to decide whether the party would join with mrs merkel christian democrats to form a grand coalition that's the scene live in berlin the country is waiting to decide

for them to decide exactly the shape of german politics for the next electoral period i'm with you right up to date of course with developments in berlin some of our other main stories and an al qaeda affiliate says it was behind the attack that killed sixteen people in bikini on friday the attackers targeted army headquarters as well as the french embassy in the capital to do to the mali based group jemaah islamiyah al mostly me claimed responsibility for the attack two days later the syrian government has reportedly seized ten percent of rebel territory in the signature after another night of airstrikes in shelling russian led five hour humanitarian poles is underway for a sixth day and adviser to the crown prince of the u.a.e. has reportedly become a focus in the united states special council's investigation into meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the new york times is reporting that george

nada has been questioned over possible attempts by the united arab emirates to buy political influence in the trumpet ministration nanda is believed to have regularly visited the white house in twenty seventeen the latest developments suggest special counsel robert mueller has broadened his investigation beyond russian interference china has urged the united states to exercise restraint in taking unilateral trade measures it comes after the us president announced he'll introduce sweeping tyrus on steel and aluminum imports president trump is also valid to increase taxes on european cars. south korea's announced plans for a special envoy to go to the north the five person delegation will leave for two days of talks on monday same response to an invitation by kim jong un sister when she visited the olympics those are the headlines to say or is there. just. some

journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media are they listening to at this time on al-jazeera. you. will. see. for many years people have been fleeing eritrea. a steady stream crossed the border into sudan but unable or unwilling to stay there.