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is there life and. death is also coming out. the syrian president says his bombardment of will continue despite mounting international calls to end the bloodshed. a week after an earthquake devastated new guinea powerful aftershocks continue to wreak destruction plus. the shape of. a love story involving a stranger river creature wins best picture on an oscars night the saw hollywood confront itself over sexual misconduct and racism. the first italy faces a long period of political instability now after voters delivered a hung parliament in an election which saw them support anti establishment and far right groups. in record numbers with about how the ballots counted so far it's

almost certain that none of italy's three main factions will be able to cover gov the biggest single winner is the and here's stablish meant five star movement now they've previously said that they would not work with anyone else in coalition the former prime minister silvio berlusconi is false or italia party had a poor showing but his right wing alliance that his group is part of is likely to form the biggest coalition the ruling center left came a distant third hit by widespread anger about the system poverty high unemployment and an influx of refugees and migrants so what happens next the possible scenarios include the creation of a euro skeptic coalition giving the e.u. a new headache to deal with that in barber reports from the italian capital rome.

just five years after they first coarsens a parliament the fois storm movement the anti politics policy say that the clear winners in italy's general elections after a campaign sort of promise to guarantee universal basic income of a thousand dollars a month while cutting taxes they insist nobody can afford to ignore the. also exceeding expectations leggo formally the northern league led by matteo salvini firmly anti migration and euro skeptic they're vying to be the biggest player in the center right coalition led by silvio berlusconi purcel beneath the results prove that italians a fed up of the status quo and one of the clearest outcomes of the five years in power the center left democratic party have taken it became it and then there's this milan the peter pan of italian politics silvio berlusconi couldn't stand as a candidate because of a tax fraud conviction but he's hoping his force a tally of party and their allies on the far right can get first pick at trying to form a ruling coalition if they selection has proved anything it's that many italians

wanted a clean break from the traditional ruling parties but what kind of government emerges is hard to say that could take many days if not weeks that involve al-jazeera rome . to another of our correspondents who's in ram lawrence lee in lawrence italians have woken up to the fact that they have no idea who their next prime minister is going to be. yeah and the newspaper headlines here are saying is listen governable at the moment and that's right so i mean i think it's worth bearing in mind one thing that since the ninety nine season has taken an average of about fifty days in italy to get a coalition government together after every election and so everybody would have expected weeks of uncertainty anyway because it's a coalition system and not a presidential one but just try and put yourself in the shoes of the italian president this morning and consider the headache that he has because he's the one who has to decide what is the most stable block group of parties that can guarantee . standing on things like the financial markets and reassure people that the

country can be governed properly there is no scenario whatsoever that anybody can put in front of him that looks at all convincing the right wing bloc that people are talking about poland gets a forty percent which they need a stable government and then the way even if they did salvini of the league policy would claim to want to be prime minister with his party only having eighteen percent of the votes which holiday looks very impressive set against the performance of the five star policy whose leader luigi the maya could legitimately claim that he should be prime minister because there are going to get about thirty two percent fall or more than anybody else right the trouble is for them they won't they don't want to go into coalitions with anybody and so it becomes extraordinarily difficult to see the way forward absolutely i was going to ask you more about the five star whether in fact that is a rigid dogmatic position that they will maintain or whether they might be tempted to change i mean i'm thinking of in germany the s.p.d. they said they wouldn't go into coalition with angela merkel they did that they

gave germany months and months of uncertainty. yeah that is true but i think that's where the comparison ends to be honest with you the whole point of the five star movement is it's not a vertical party with a leader giving orders to the rest of them is supposed to be a horizontal movement of citizens fighting back against what they see as institutionalized corruption in a rotten system and so in principle and logic if they said we're now going to go into coalition with one of the parties which we've spent so much time decrying it would look like a betrayal of their founding principle some people say they should go into coalition with the euro skeptic and see migration league party i just think it would be completely unpalatable to their base which by and large is interested in things like anti corruption social justice and not really so much interested in the rampant and sima gratian message of the leaks put forward if anything i think they'll be a closer fit with the p.d. the democratic left but there's not much trust there either i think i think the

most likely scenario if demaio into the president and said we've got thirty two percent you've got to give me a go at this what i think he do would be what in britain we call confidence and supply which is that they work in in a minority governments just on a vote by vote basis aligning with other parties it suits them but it still looks very rocky all right ok thank you for that lawrence thing live in rome. now the u.s. has accused russia rigged nor in the terms of a u.n. cease fire in syria and killing innocent civilians in the besieged rebel long klaver the singleton now this is the strongest language directed at the russians from the white house to date and it's against what it says is russia's complicity in civilian deaths the russian and the syrian government operation in eastern guta has now killed more than six hundred fifty people since mid february the syrian president bashar assad says the campaign will continue pleasure thank you for all

there is no contradiction between a truce and the combat operations advancement of yesterday and but they before by the arab syrian army took place in the midst of this truce that's why when we speak about the resolution there are some positives that allow for the achievement of humanitarian goals at the same time as allowing us to get the terrorists this is why we have to continue with our operation while at the same time allowing civilians to leave just. now a south korean delegation has gone to north korea making it the first time in more than a decade and the mission of this delegation is to discuss june day new cora's ation as well as to arrange for talks between the north of the korean peninsula and the united states now this is a delegation which includes the chief of south korea's national intelligence service rob mcbride has more from the south korean capital seoul. the start of two days of talks aimed at trying to advance into

a korean dialogue certainly very achievable given the recent thaw in relations between north and south korea what is far harder to achieve will be the other stated goal of trying to jumpstart relations between north korea and the united states it's not even clear at this stage whether the delegates will get to meet with north korean leader kim jong un although that is clearly the hope it's also hoped that this session will lead to an expected visit by moon j.n. the president of south korea to north korea which will be a big step forward in relations but the leader of this delegation before their departure was very keen to stress that this is very businesslike there is a lot to be discussed on the table this is far more than just a courtesy visit. little souls and then we will deliver president moon julian's wish to bring about denuclearization of the korean peninsula and permanent

peace by extending the goodwill and peace and to korean relations created by the pyong chang winter olympics. q and for this we will have in-depth discussions with north korea to start a dialogue between the north and south between north korea and the united states as well as engage dialogues with other members of the international community opinion in south korea is very divided on this visit many people here believe that any kind of dialogue is a step forward compared with the kind of hostile rhetoric of the recent past and if kim jong un does meet with these delegates it will be the first time since he took power in twenty eleven that he has met with any south korean officials there are those conservative parties here in south korea more hawkish elements that believe this is a big mistake by south korea this is really. warding in their eyes north korea for

their villages and also their nuclear program but this delegation is entering further into dialogue with a regime that has so far given no commitment that it is willing to give up its nuclear arsenal that the shape of water fairy tale romance has won top honors including best picture on an oscar is night overshadowed by scandal about sexual misconduct in shape business other major willis include gary oldman and frances mcdormand let's go live now to the red carpet and our correspondent there in los angeles rob reynolds the shape of water only the second time i understand that this is a fantasy picture wins best picture but it was the most nominated film wasn't it before the academy. yes it was the most nominated with thirteen nominations it came away with four actual awards including best picture and best director for a year modelled thorough. it was

a film that was very unusual as you mentioned because of the it was not the usual sort of. high minded drama that perhaps the academy would have chosen in earlier years this was sort of a son mixture of science fiction creature feature and beauty in the beast love story so a bit unusual there and then of course we had the other award winners besides best picture best female actor of frances mcdormand or three billboards outside of being missouri gary oldman in his portrayal of winston churchill in darkest hour we saw the best supporting actor also from the three billboards a sam rockwell he played a police officer with a violent past and the best supporting actor backs supporting a female actor or ward that is a went to allison janney for a portrayal of

a unlovable mother in i toned yet i think that a couple of things. that stand out are sort of chances that the academy had to make some progress some some firsts if you will but they didn't pursue them for one jordan peele the director of get out an african-american was nominated but did not win best picture or best director he did win for best writer which was a first for african-americans in the in the movie business granted gerwig was the director of lady bird a very popular film. real crowd favorite but she did not win as best director had she done so she would have been only the second female best director in hollywood history. and finally the. sorry sorry robert i was going to jump in there's a bit of

a delay on the line isn't there and i'm just going to ask you about the theme of this year's awards because of course last year it was heavy on the racial diversity issues and this year quite often the year the themes are driven not only by the host how did jimmy kimmel a manager at this year's ceremony. and you know i think that the most interesting moment was when frances mcdormand picked up her oscar and asked all the women industry professionals directors cinematographers actors all the women in the audience to stand and you know essentially take a bow be recognized and then saying to all the men the producers and studio heads look you know you have to begin bringing more women into the film industry you know we need better representation of women because it's about eighty five percent male versus fifty percent female in these top spots like directing jimmy kimmel he

brought on brought up harvey weinstein right away said that it was a good thing that the academy had expelled him last year after the sexual scandals came out and said that the whole world is watching they did try to make a couple of jokes particularly about the fizzy physical properties of the oscar statue which i won't go into here but those jokes. got a fair smattering of applause i'd say ok all right thank you very much rob reynolds live in l.a. . coming up next is somewhere that then. china's national people's congress meets to take to make changes that could see president xi stay in power for life. and why critics of the man monica from the same repatriation of hundreds of thousands of may not be a good option. hello

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toughest take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera with about half the ballots counted so far it is five star movement is celebrating after winning the most votes for a single party but there's likely to be political uncertainty as the forecasts show none of the major coalitions will be able to govern and. the u.s. is accused russia of ignoring the terms of the un cease fire in syria and of killing innocent civilians in the same goose or the syrian president bashar al assad says the military campaign will continue despite all the six hundred fifty

deaths in the rebel on klav since mid february. the shape of water has won best picture at hollywood's biggest night of the year the academy awards frances mcdormand won best actress for her role in three billboards outside every missouri gary oldman taking best actor for his portrayal of britain's world war two leader with sinn churchill and darkest hour. by this go back to our main story today that of course of those italian elections italians of eighty jessa day and the palace as you just heard is still being counted we can now speak to the go gently eddie who is a professor of political science at john covered the university he's joining us live from rome and thank you very much indeed for talking to us how do you see the various permutations working out what kind of government do you expect to emerge from this. good morning from a rainy role yes. what do i see i see

a very uncertain outcome of the election even though the results where clear in terms of their combination. there's a great uncertainty ahead of us. as expected the five star movement. the lion's share of the vote but it's not enough to form an executive the center right spite of the dramatic collapse of the school in his force and equally dramatic rise of some of the needs to leave it's no longer the north and the just the league and they did well in the south to. spite of this reversal is not capable of. forming an executive alone either and as a party to them to give them a credit party of mr raines the engine to lowney has been defeated quite obviously but not crushed they are still. fighting for the second place in terms of absolute

votes for one party with the north and so what i see is either numerically likely but politically unlikely a coalition between the five stars and the leader or great uncertainty and the possibility of. new elections within a year and how much in terms of the complection it's a new executive to rule is really how much discretion is placed in the person of the president. well the president certainly has a role to play a greater role or than for example the german president or even with all respect the british queen or in terms of a non-executive head of state but still you don't see how he could force coalitions to be for him that which can either cold together numerically but not

politically or the other way around the better they go again t.n.t. thank you very much indeed for joining us. now china's parliament is it thank you to a priest changes to the country's constitution which will see president xi jinping able to rule indefinitely now the national people's congress is holding its annual gathering in beijing the ruling communist party needs its support to remove the current two term presidential limit she jim payne was elected to a second five year term last october adrian brown has more from beijing. there are around three thousand delegates to the national people's congress and this year almost as many journalists covering it two thousand of them of course from chinese state media which speaks very much with one voice now the body is very much a rubber stamp assembly it is basically controlled by the chinese communist party and of course it always endorsers recommendations of party leaders and this year

the n.p.c. is being asked to approve a change to the constitution that would allow president xi jinping to effectively become president for life now for that reason the national people's congress this year will run for fifteen days instead of the usual ten to give delegates more time to discuss this issue now on monday morning we try to talk to some of the delegates as they were arriving at the great hall of the people asking them what they thought about this proposed change and most of them did not want to question only tooted and they were in favor of the change but amongst many ordinary chinese people there is an ease about this change of fear that perhaps it's a sign the china is going backwards because so much power will now be in the hands of one leader a monday the chinese premier league chunk delivered his annual report and the key points there with this he wanted to set economic growth in two thousand and

eighteen at six point five percent that's slightly lower than it was in two thousand and seventeen also there's going to be a big increase in military spending up by eight point one percent china of course is spending much more on things like aircraft carriers it has two at the moment a third is being proposed and it's also developing its stealth fighter technology but overshadowing this n.p.c. of course is one man she jingping and this is going to be the congress where his powers really are cemented. papua new guinea has been hit by three strong aftershocks a week after a magnitude seven point five earthquake struck the same area killing at least thirty one people the mountainous southern highlands of the worst affected regions about six hundred kilometers northwest of the capital port moresby one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies since the earthquake and it's been difficult to get aid delivered there because of the

damaged roads and landslides so it's a larger share of american military light since the end of the vietnam war the u.s. aircraft carrier will soon dock in the vietnamese city of done on the u.s.s. carl vinson since it is a sign of warming relations between the two countries then was where the first american combat troops arrived and began their involvement in the vietnam war only fifty years ago. after months without ripples of fleeing violence in miramar eighty families have been recorded crossing the border into bangladesh the videos were taken on a mobile phone in wealthy down that's a mere miles rakhine state at dawn on sunday homes in both the down were tossed on saturday night before hundreds of ranger fled forty kilometers to bangladesh nearly seven hundred thousand ranger have now left me a model for bangladesh in saugus they report sexual abuse or mass killings by the

military charlotte ballasts reports. this sprawling koos prolong camp near the bangladesh meum our border home to nearly six hundred thousand ranger refugees the majority have arrived since august. one refugee who witnessed the influx is kemal hussein has lived here since he was two his parents also fled violence some e.m.r. in the ninety's. my concern was people are coming to bangladesh who'd never been here before they don't know the place they don't know anyone they don't know the roads where to go what to eat where to sleep i want i want all the while we first met in october after he says up a missing persons birth in the scramble for survival into bangladesh many refugees became separated and disoriented hearing some seven hundred families in the first two months. has closed the bush it's no longer needed ranjan no longer stream

over the border they settling into a crucible on camp as hard just like he did some twenty years ago. my concern is i've been living here since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight a came from burma when i was only a child now i'm twenty eight i'm still here what will happen to those who are coming now i believe they'll suffer more. in the emma and bangladesh governments have been negotiating over a petrie ation deal that would return more than seven hundred thousand russian jets but critics say me n ma is not an honest broker the government has deflected accusations of ethnic cleansing and even genocide and cannot be trusted to re home the very people it pushed out they say the latest troop build up on the border is a hostile message for the revenger the whole purpose of forcibly even doing and destroying the communities over rangers across the northern arc on is to make

sure that like you know burma. no longer a. ranger or a group and so why would. take the you know nearly one million rangers back. and just say they wouldn't return anyway until they have a guarantee of safety compensation for their destroyed villages and citizenship something they've been denied for thirty five years. bangladesh remain saddled with one million were henge are entirely dependent on handouts following kemal making crucial long camp their home. and his ear. thousands of macedonians who protested against a name change deal with greece thousands of demonstrators gathered under the statue of the hellenic ruler alexander the great greece objects to the country's use of the name macedonia arguing that it implies territorial claims over greece's

northern regions the same name. in london thousands of people celebrated international women's day in a march led by the city's mer. politicians musicians and activists joined the rally which started at the houses of parliament and ended in the square they're calling for gender equality a century after emmeline pankhurst helped british women gain the right to vote. it's a hundred years since some women got the vote i think evelyn my great grandmother and sylvia pankhurst my grandmother would be saying look let's celebrate the achievements there are some fantastic games that we do need to be aware of and highlight but they would be forward looking and they'd be saying you know come on hundred years and you're still fighting equal pay you still not have equal representation in parliament violence massage leave the treatment that women get it sounds too similar to the type of world that we lived in and come on keep going i'm

sure they'd be urging us on an investigation has found the british. cycling star bradley wiggins took a banned drug before winning the twenty twelve tour de france the report by a parliamentary sports committee says wiggins used powerful coaster oids to prepare for the race it says team sky who wiggins was riding with crossed an ethical line but wiggins says he took the drug to treat is asner and denies using substances without medical need within's is credited for bringing integrity back to cycling after the seven time tour de france champion lance armstrong was banned for doping . you know without is there these are our top stories with about half the ballots counted so far italy's five star movement celebrate as a win the most votes for a single party but as likely to be political uncertainty as the vote so far point

to a hung parliament with no party able to secure a majority the u.s. is accuse rusher of ignoring the terms of a u.n. cease fire in syria and killing innocent civilians in eastern guta the syrian president bashar al assad says the military campaign will continue despite more than six hundred fifty deaths in the rebel on clave since february the eighteenth the shape of water has won best picture of hollywood's biggest night of the year the academy awards frances mcdormand won best actress for her role in three billboards outside every missouri gary oldman took best actor for his portrayal of britain's world war two leader winston churchill in the darkest hour. a south korean delegation is traveling to north korea for the first time in more than ten years it hopes to discuss the nuclearize asian and arrange for talks between north korea and the united states the delegation includes the chief of south korea's

national intelligence service. we will deliver president moon julian's wish to bring about denuclearization of the korean peninsula and permanent peace by extending the goodwill and base and to korean relations created by the pyong chang winter olympics. for this we will have in-depth discussions with north korea to start a dialogue between the north and south between north korea in the united states as well as engage dialogues with other members of the international community probably new guinea is being hit by three strong aftershocks a week after a magnitude seven point five earthquake struck the same area killing at least thirty one people the mount of the southern highlands have been worst affected the region is about six hundred kilometers northwest of the capital port mauls the one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies since last week's earthquake. today those are the latest headlines from us here at

al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. more than forty thousand africans are facing deportation from israel is awarded more than ninety percent of here to accept as refugees so why is very. little point one percent of civil liberties two of those in danger of being thrown out of the country in which they sought refuge talks al-jazeera at this time. conflicts of interest in the white house donald trump's son in law jerry questioner 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.