the bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. even if you reach the goal. you know are finally laying the pass to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because they need to find if i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera. italians head to the polls for an election in which the far right and populist party is all set to dominate but the clear winner is unlikely. hello i'm citizen this is al jazeera live from london also coming up more and

strikes which rebel held eastern ghouta syrian forces have now seized a quarter of the enclave and still no way is getting a. month of political uncertainty and in germany the social democrats vote to renew the coalition giving angela merkel a fourth term as chancellor. and instagram we meet the seventy five year old social media star from south korea. it's all hands are voting in national elections which could reshape the country's political scene no single party is expected to win the forty percent needed to form a majority government the anti establishment five star movement is expected to lead the votes but has already vowed not to go into coalition with any of its rivals well we'll be live in rome in just a moment but first a look at how voting is going so far with lawrence lee. as the time arrives for

voters to make their minds up there was every sign there were as many people who simply couldn't decide as those with any sort of conviction the policy making much of the running is the and see politician party it's thirty one year old leader held several parts i'm jobes before even entering politics five stars inside a proposal is to create a citizens' block in opposition to the corrupt excesses of the political class but five-star vowed not to do a coalition deal with anyone else and in a country which you can't do government without a coalition it leads many to wonder if they would prefer not to be in government at all they want to. probably be camera defers political parties to transform into influence to do transformation in the reconfiguration of politico since them we doubt government responsibility.

the political bloc with the best chance is this group led by the it's handily youthful silvio berlusconi the eighty one year old appears to hold a magnetic attraction for his far right allies which have campaigned entirely around identity politics blaming the european union for what they see as an invasion of black people and muslims from over the mediterranean the dream scenario for the anti establishment right wing is this man his prime minister matteo salvini wants mass deportations it's really first he says and part of the allotment cannot simply go 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 governments 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 suspected in the events of political stacey's he in the sense a 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. could well hold the key to unlocking the confusion the fact that the european union might look to him as their best guarantor of stability says much about the state of politics lawrence lee al-jazeera wrote. on the day barbour is live for us in rome jamie economy clearly playing into this ballots quite quite important say for many of those voting how do the three parties breakdown as to what they're going to do about the economy. also clearly yes the economy is a key motivator for people voting there's ten percent unemployment in italy around

a third of. italy's under twenty five's are out of work so it's a key issue but many of the policies have been making promises which economists say they simply won't be able to deliver for example silvio berlusconi's forty italia party have proposed a flat income tax of twenty three percent trying to better him he's northern league allies of matteo under matteo salvini say that they would bring in a flat rate of fifteen percent even the five star movement who say that they're so different from all the others are also saying that they could lower income tax but perhaps they do have some other ideas they've suggested that not only would they raise tax on energy companies to bring in revenue but also that they they would cut they'd go after tax evaders big corporations as well beyond that though italy has

major economic problems in terms of its debt to g.d.p. the second highest in in the eurozone so there are there are a bigger problems as well in terms of long term debt reduction how any of the parties are going to tackle that is a big question mark i watch a center for how the european union is viewing this whole election. well i think that the european union all always or people in other countries around europe view italy as a place quite rightly that has had in state unstable governments ever since the second world war it's the way the system is geared and there was a new electoral law brought in last year which which does change the way the votes translate into seats in parliament but the referendum back in twenty sixteen which led to matteo renzi resigning didn't go through which would have perhaps led to more stable governments there is

a familiar figure in the in the guise of silvio berlusconi who notably had who had his run ins with chancellor merkel of germany but the man he's proposed as his prime minister were he to win. and tony otel yani the previous president of the european parliament so offering him as a safe pair of hands somebody that brussels could work with the most euro skeptic perhaps were the five star movement they wanted previously a referendum on not just the euro currency but e.u. membership but they've since scrapped but as a red line so that leaves the northern league berlusconi's allies as perhaps the most euro skeptic in these elections and some of their policies including sending back fairly quickly hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and refugees would certainly raise eyebrows in other parts of the you really though and the general public do think that the country has been left to fend for itself in terms of

receiving people across the mediterranean but but yeah that's one is one thing which might be worrying people in brussels but of course it's too early to say what kind of coalition will be governing here many thanks again bringing us that latest update from me italian actions. syrian government forces have brought in a quarter of rebel held near damascus well then six hundred forty people are reported to have been killed in the siege and clay featuring the past two weeks the u.n. says the increasing violence is simply unacceptable they know how the reports from beirut and neighboring lebanon. pro-government forces are advancing inside eastern holter they are moving in from the eastern side forcing people to pack whatever they can and move to other areas away from the front lines people are seeking

shelter in towns closer to the center displacement is adding to their suffering the ground offensive began just over a week ago the territory taken is not heavily populated it's mainly farmlands which are hard to defend pro-government forces want to control the dumas she funny out road which would cut rebel supply lines cut off the main town of duma and split the opposition held pocket in half was the assault this not just from the ground airstrikes and shelling are targeting towns throughout the besieged rebel stronghold the bombing may have lessened since the five hour daily pause in the fighting ordered by the russian government came into effect on tuesday but civilians continue to be killed. it's one of the deadliest offensives in the almost eight year conflict the death toll is now more than six hundred fifty rebels have

been retaliated by firing mortars into the syrian capital killing almost thirty people in the past two weeks the ability of the opposition to threaten damascus is one of the reasons why the pro-government alliance wants to recapture eastern huta . it is the last major opposition controlled area close to the government's seat of power if pro-government forces take it then there will be only one small pocket of territory south of the capital out of the government's control and the pro-government alliance is making it clear not only in its words but in its actions that it is not ready to compromise and it is pushing for a military victory despite pleas from humanitarian organizations aid hasn't reached the almost four hundred thousand people believed to be in eastern huta the united nations was hoping to deliver food and medical supplies on sunday now it says that won't happen this isn't the first time restricting humanitarian access to a besieged population has been used as

a weapon of war. senator beirut well the u.n. says it wasn't able to get its convoy of forty eight trucks into hooch on sunday because permission wasn't granted it's in the last hour is confirmed they will try to make that delivery on monday. germany outweigh the social democrats have voted to approve their party going into another coalition giving the conservative chancellor angela merkel a fourth term in office it brings an end to months of political uncertainty that many in the past say are happy to be propping up another merkel government from berlin dominic a reports. for much of the past six months since the federal election failed to find a clear winner the social democrats have appeared divided stuck between the ideological desire to oppose angle america's and the pragmatic need for germany to have a stable government on sunday the party's grass roots had their say it. will

not annoying on the eyes it's thousand two hundred thirty nine thousand six hundred four is speedy members voted yes one hundred twenty three thousand three hundred twenty nine in speedy members voted no this represents a two thirds vote and one third of those. this was a decision of the head not the heart many members agonized over their choices some feared how the electorate will perceive another grand coalition in the weeks leading up to the vote the party youth movement was vociferously opposed saying election losers should lick their wounds and not work with angle america but the politician who is likely to be the next finance minister welcome sunday's result. we now have clarity s.p.d. will join the next government our party did not make this decision lightly like this will now give us the strength we need to move forward as a party in government and to put our country on the right path it's good to get but

some analysts believe it's questionable whether that path will benefit the social democrats long term brand is social justice but it has to be more in order to actually be over twenty over thirty percent because what they're claiming for they still want to be a fights and what does that label mean it actually means or how is. defied thirty percent and more of the votes are there far away from that in the end good parties members have decided to put the interests of the country above the interests of their party but the point to make here is the constant another coalition with angela merkel's christian democrats is it's now many many years since their party has been in a position to win an election and to provide the chancellor as a social democrats dominic her name is there a girl in. and became a fast one man has been shot dead while attempting to stew storm a roadblock near the presidential compound two other men involved in the attack which happened in the capital ouagadougou managed to flee it comes just two days

after eight people were killed in twenty stalls on the military headquarters and french embassy in baghdad became the fastest prime minister condemned the attacks as cowardly at least three people have been injured in a car ramming incident in the northern israeli city of acre israeli police are describing it as a nationalistic attack a term place used to describe politically motivated attacks against israelis by palestinians they say an arab israeli attempted to run over a border policeman crashed into another car and mounted a sidewalk almost a week after a deadly quake struck the highlands of papua new guinea nearly one hundred fifty thousand people remain in need of emergency supply is damaged roads and landslides have stopped the delivery of aid to isolated communities a quake destroyed or damaged the homes of around seven thousand people while others

in the region are in desperate need of food water and sanitation. still ahead here on al-jazeera it has to go into interference in the u.s. presidential election extends to ring klute the united arab emirates and china's parliament prepares to vote on changing the constitution so she can stay in power supply for life. hello there we're seeing plenty of cloud march its way across the middle east at the moment we're seeing plenty of it in the northern parts of mostly because see the next system that's working its way across turkey at the moment that seem to bring us some rain mostly to the northern parts of our map through parts of armenia and up into georgia we're seeing some snow rain in that system but it will be picking up as we head through into chews day so some heavy outbreaks making their

way through parts of turkey as well and maybe just one or two showers through the northern part of iraq and into iran to the south of all of that no major problems for us it looks like you eight thirty will be getting to around twenty six degrees and here in doha we're getting to around twenty nine or thirty over the next few days there is this area of cloud and just to the north of us it may just squeeze out one or two showers but it shouldn't bring us anything too significant a bit further towards the south and we've been watching a cyclamen hair is just to the east of madagascar is running down the eastern coast looks like the eye of the storm won't make landfall which is good because it's intensifying very rapidly but it's still giving us a lot of or heavy rain along the eastern coast and is plenty more still to come so very heavy downpours here and then much whether it stretches all the way across the further towards the west as well so we're also seeing a very heavy downpours in parts of mozambique and tanzania as well.

well comeback or mind all the top stories today on al-jazeera italians are voting in national elections which could reshape the country's political scene no single

party is expected to win the forty percent needed to form a majority government forces have ceased twenty five percent of rebel held after another night of air strikes and shelling the minute she says it's close to splitting the employee into and german chancellor angela merkel's center left rivals the social democrats overwhelmingly voted to approve a new grand coalition with conservatives bringing and two months of political uncertainty. saudi arabia's crown prince is in cairo for a three day visit to meet with egyptian president. see is mohamed bin first foreign trip since becoming crown prince last year fly on to meet with leaders in the u.s. and the u.k. saudi arabia and egypt are among the countries that imposed a blockade on cats last june. following developments from doha.

this is one hundred percent man's first foreign trip as crown prince of saudi arabia and people might wonder why did he choose egypt as the first leg of the trip well from a sandy perspective there are two serious challenges in the region first of all iran which the saudis consider almost like an existential threat and the war in yemen which continues with no indication that it might come to an end anytime soon so for the saudis the only way to contain iran's growing influence and to win the war in saudi arabia they need to rely on a strong ally in the region and this explains why they have been pouring billions of dollars into the gypsum economy and providing strong political assistance to the president of the c.c. if you look at the events shuttle during that three day visit crown prince mohammed bin so many is going to meet with pope who was the second leader of the coptic

christians in egypt and this is quite significant because crown prince will have a bias and i would like to show that he's young more to break into from a long tradition of strict interpretation of islam that has been prevailing in saudi arabia for decades he's going also to attend a performance of the opera in cairo along with the president at the has sisi. only recently saudi arabia decided to invest sixty one billion dollars into intertainment industry in the kingdom and this is quite important for the leader because he says who wants to introduce major changes in the society and diversify the economy he basically wants to be seen as a young leader who is going to change science eurabia. now it's being reported in the us of the investigation into russian into fairness in the presidents the

election may have wide at its to include the influence of the in one thousand arab amorous the neo time says investigators have been questioning george naida an american lebanese businessman who's an adviser to the crown prince of the. john hendren is live for us in washington john give us a bit more about this george nader gentleman and what indeed this could mean to the whole probe well it seemed until now like the miller probe has focused like a laser on connections between the trumpet ministration of the trump campaign and russia now we've learned that miller is asking about the united arab emirates specifically about the role of george nader and whether any em roddy's have tried to buy influence with the trump campaign at the time that they were later able to use by perhaps funneling money into that campaign somehow now nader is an interesting individual he's a guy who's been at the fringes of american diplomacy for years the clinton

administration used him as a back channel to negotiate with syria back in the ninety's and now he is said to represent the crown prince of mohamed bin ziad and mahler's people are asking what exactly role he played and what has happened since then the. president trumps view he has changed he has supported saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in a diplomatic dispute with qatar which of course sponsors this broadcast and the question is whether anything was done to influence that bottom line on the investigation though is that there's now goes well beyond russia that miller is looking at at least one other country and possibly others and this could go on for some time. and they knew at times also saying that he has had the links with jared crist the president's son in law and of course close aides the problems just seem to came out saying for. that's right kirshner had

a bad week last week he lost his top secret security clearance that means despite the fact that his portfolio says he's supposed to negotiate middle east peace he can't even see the top secret intelligence on what is going on there then we have had a recent reports of it in newspapers here that u.s. intelligence agencies say they overheard four nations diplomats saying that they felt that cushion or was an easy target for influence because of his business ties those nations included china mexico israel and the u.a.e. so this is potentially bad news for christian or potentially bad news for steve bannon and other aid that nader also met with and of course that means it could be bad news for the trumpet ministration over all there is already talk of getting rid of krishna because of this this is what one senator had to say on the sunday talk shows today. if it's true it's damning if it's true cushion or has to go for many of us the fall of the middle east closely we could not understand why the trumpet

ministration was so firmly taking the saudi side in this dispute between the saudis the m roddy's and the qataris because the united states has very important interests in qatar at the top of the list are thousands of u.s. troops that are stationed in a base there and so to so firmly take the side of the saudis against the countries potentially resulting in the downward spiral of the qatari economy put thousands of americans at risk so this is just an example of the broadening of this moeller inquiry it is no longer a russian investigation it is an investigation into the influence of other countries into the trump administration whether people in the trump administration knew that was going on and whether other countries got anything in return this could go on for some time good to talk to john hendren there bringing us the latest from washington d.c. professional mountain areas have recovered the black box of an iranian plane that crashed two weeks ago killing all sixty five people on board

a civil aviation spokesman said the flight recorders from the asam an ally and plane have been handed over to investigators experts will analyze them after a legal procedure is complete it's a twin engine plane which was traveling from to her yes such crashed into the desired west mountains in foggy well. now on monday china's parliament will hold its annual meeting where it's expected to rubber stamp changes to the constitution removing any limits on how long the president can stay in power the plans were first announced a week ago that being seen as a huge power grab by paying which could see him ruling china for the rest of his life from beijing adrian brown reports. in the ceremonial heart of beijing china's political season is about to start but it will be different this year delegates to the national people's congress are being asked to do something they've never had to before approve

a change to the constitution that restricts presidents to two terms dissenting voices are rare in today's china yet in the run up to this n.p.c. there's been token criticism over the proposed amendment. most of the modern countries in the world adopt this two term presidency that's why people find it unbelievable that if she is going to stay in power more than two terms president she is likely to get his way the n.p.c. is viewed as a largely rubber stamp body controlled by the ruling communist party and has never voted down a proposal from party leaders. the change will further consolidate she's power as he is also party chief and head of the military and in october his name was in shrines in the constitution elevating him to the status of chairman mao like president xi jinping wants to make his country great again and he often talks about

the rejuvenation of the chinese nation he now believes he's the only leader that can make that happen there are no opinion polls in china so it's not possible to gauge what the public thinks about all of this a few people in beijing though were willing to share their views and surprisingly they weren't all positive so what they want to know why it will be honest. this hasn't happened in china or other countries before if you change the constitution it is that is back to the old days when i living backwards. he should be president for more than two terms even he serves seeks i would support him. china today is a one party state dominated now by one man adrian brown al jazeera beijing now a story shows it's never too late to get started on social media when seventy five year old. living in brazil he started using instagram to keep in touch with his

grandsons in south korea states it started as a small family project but after less than three years and now has more than three hundred thousand followers around the world. each. my name is lieutenant i draw pictures from my grandchildren and post them on instagram every day. 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 and post them on something called instagram. i dabbled a bit in our school but trying was just

a hobby. i had only use a mobile phone to make calls i was at a bit of a loss 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 him but 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. through this project my wife son daughter and i communicate every day it has had a positive influence on our family bonding. and at first i only thought about what

to draw for my grandkids but as i continued lots of people started leaving comments to. 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 transfer them. all i thought it would be just for communicating with in our family. i never anticipated that it would have so many followers. now under even more pressure to draw good pictures. of the headlines now in august there italians are voting in national elections which could reshape the country's political scene no single party is expected to win the forty percent needed to form a majority government but the anti establishment five star movement is expected to

vote although it has already vowed not to go into coalition with rivals it embarrassing there have been issues with. polling stations. there have been delays and also people in line to vote when the official deadline happens at eleven pm do you get the right to cause the ballot so those delays might have a knock on effect beyond that people are saying that the permutations are so difficult all of these different alliances that it could be not just hours but days before we have any idea who's going to be governing it. syrian forces have seized a quarter of rebel held eastern ghouta after another night of airstrikes and shelling the military says it's close to splitting the enclave into one six hundred forty people are reported to have been killed in the besieged enclave during the past two weeks the u.n. says collective punishment of civilians is unacceptable nearly one hundred fifty

thousand people are in urgent need of emergency supplies nearly a week after a did deadly quake struck the highlands of papua new guinea damaged roads and landslides have prevented the delivery of aid a man has been shot dead in bicheno fast while attempting to storm a roadblock near the presidential compound two other men involved in the attack which happened in the capital aka dugu managed to flee it's happened two days after eight people were killed twenty assaults on the military headquarters and french embassy in iraq a jugar. chancellor angela merkel's center left rivals the social democrats have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new grand coalition with her conservatives it turns months of political uncertainty the investigation into russian interference in the election of donald trump has reportedly been widened to include the united arab emirates the new york times says investigators have been questioning george neda american lebanese businessman who's now buys or to the crown prince of the u.a.e.

those are the headlines stay with us around inside story coming up next. conflicts of interest in the white house donald trump son in law is reported to have used his influence with the president to boost the family business and cushion or has had his top secret security clearance downgraded is that a sign of more chaos in the president's inner circle this is inside story.