multinational colonialism this is of the another moment of the democratic process this congress they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. is really his populist and right wing passes celebrate unprecedented electoral success but now the country faces political ground gridlock. load and then issue with al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. civilians escape

parts of eastern groups are under attack by government forces as the president found his offensive will continue. a week after an earthquake devastated parts of papua new guinea powerful aftershocks continue to wreak destruction. this shape of your i a love story unfolding a fantasy creature wins best picture on and off his nights the saw hollywood confront itself over sexual misconduct and racism. it's really faces a long period of political instability after voters delivered a hung parliament in an election which saw them support anti establishment and fall right groups in record numbers with a roundhouse the ballot counted so far is now almost certain that none of italy's

three main factions will be able to govern and the biggest single winner there is the antithesis of a spent five star movement which has a thirty one percent vote so far they've previously. they've refused to work with anyone else in coalition former prime minister silvio berlusconi's falls or italia party had a poor showing but his broader right wing alliance has collected thirty seven percent of the vote that's the biggest share so he's actually overtaken the five star movement the ruling center left is well behind with twenty three percent it was hit by widespread anger about persistent 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 bit of a headache to deal with let's go live to our correspondent lawrence lee he's in the italian capital rome so just within the last hour or so we've heard that silvio

berlusconi is right wing coalition has had a real bump in the polls. well you know it's been projecting this way for hours and hours and now is the time projection has been that they're going to end up on about thirty seven percent that's what the opinion polls said before it looks like it's going to be exactly that that makes their grouping the big ace but it doesn't get them over the line to get a majority in parliament and so the problem is this the man who has to make this decision as to what alerted he's going to do now is the president who's a neutral figure and over the course of the next days and weeks the leaders of these parties are going to go to him and he's going to say ok then mr salvini of the league party how do you propose that you're going to be prime minister he would say well with us and for tell you this berlusconi's party in the brothers of italy who are a far right party in another little one they got one and a half percent we can get to thirty seven percent but the president then said well that's not forty percent and you haven't got a majority so how do you expect me to believe that's

a stable government for italy so that doesn't work equally the five star movement which is by far the largest single party their leader to my oh my go to the president said look i'm eleven points clear of the second party why can't i be prime minister so the president says to him well ok so he going to go into coalition with us because they will nobody because we don't like any of them so well that's not a stable government so there's no full of math that works for any of it and it's leading some people's lives already to the conclusion that the best they can do if you're the president say none of it works we're going to carry on with gentle loney as a caretaker prime minister is of the moment that all begin to do is a technical matter of organizing a new voting system that maybe you get a majority with less than forty percent say thirty seven percent or something in another election in maybe six or eight months time but it's a really really messy affair but overwhelmingly it demonstrates that people have lost faith in mainstream political groups which in the past would have worked together a left right coalition as you saw in germany on sunday to try and take the country forward in the interest of stability that's now gone here completely and as as you

alluded to it's part of a trend that seems to be sweeping across europe and that is the anti-establishment voted and moving away from the center left parties. well yeah that's true the sense of left is having a terrible time across europe at the moment but if you look at the trajectory of this monsoon across the last say twelve to fifteen months in austria in the presidential election there a year ago in december than in the netherlands where builders whose extreme populist right wing as well might of sold out on top in germany with the i have to as well and france obviously with marine le pen every one of those the european sense was like blimey are they actually going to break through and no they didn't break through then the european center said look we're still following we've beaten off the populists they haven't done this is the first occasion in european politics where the populists have really genuinely broken through and it's the same sort of politics you've actually seen in countries like hungary and poland in recent years

it's really now starting to infiltrate infects western europe at the same time all right lawrence thank you very much lawrence three they're keeping us right up to date with developments in italy today. now u.n. aid convoy has arrived at the main entry point to syria's besieged rebel on clean. now this is a picture coming from state t.v. showing the convoy at the crossing waiting to get into eastern ghouta a seventh consecutive day of a five hour cease fire is currently under way the russian and the syrian government operation has killed more than six hundred fifty people since february the eighteenth let's go live to our correspondent zain harder now she's in beirut in neighboring lebanon saying that an encouraging sign perhaps and that aid has got at least to the off the dean crossing. well yes it will be the first time humanitarian aid reaches the people of eastern the latest offensive began on february eighteenth

like you mentioned those trucks now at the. crossing crossing manned by the syrian government just outside the besieged eastern what we understand from the united nations is that these convoys are going to reach the main town of dumas and there is enough supplies to feed and help twenty seven thousand five hundred people now the united nations has an approval from the syrian government to provide supplies to seventy thousand people what we understand is that further aid deliveries will be made on march the eighth so undoubtedly a very significant development in eastern who have been appealing for help have been appealing for food for medical supplies many people hundreds of people have been injured in the ongoing attacks the bombardment and the shelling so hospitals the makeshift hospitals require those supplies to treat the injured and meanwhile the russian military is reporting that some sort of deal between some of the rebel groups allowing civilians. in exchange for humanitarian aid can be rely upon

the. well we haven't heard any reaction from the rebels but we do know that the russian military has been blaming the rebels for preventing civilians from leaving eastern a charge the opposition denies even many people inside eastern deny that they're being prevented what they have been saying is that no we do not want to leave we do not want to be displaced this is our land this is our home and plus what security guarantees have you given us for us to cross into government controlled territory are we just going to be arrested or or be sent into prison or exile or so people are afraid now the russian military this is really not the first time they are blaming the rebels for the failure really of the five hour daily humanitarian pause which is now in its seventh day civilians continue to be killed. aardman the airstrikes continue to target multiple towns across eastern and also we've heard from president assad we haven't seen him for

a little while we've heard him but he's remarkably defiant in the face of the the u.n. security council cease father was agreed over a week ago and indeed these humanitarian pulls is that the russians have arranged. yes defiance confident and comfortable we've never seen them really this comfortable since the start of the conflict thanks of course to the help that he has been receiving from his allies the russian military with the russian air support that his troops have been receiving his recaptured a lot of territory from the rebels so this is a very comfortable comfortable man who feels that he can win this war militarily that he doesn't in any way have to compromise and really his words saying that you know we will continue this offensive against the eastern we are fighting terrorists he's ignoring international criticism music nor in the international outrage for the killing of children and women in this ongoing campaign so it is clear that the pro-government alliance wants to continue to push for

a military victory and it's really not interested in any sort of deal to end this campaign really all right thank you very much in the heart of that live in very very. popular 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 fifty five people the mountainous southern highlands of the worst affected region is about six hundred kilometers northwest of the capital. one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies since last week's earthquake has been difficult to get to people to get aid into them because of the damage roads in the own going landslides well a.b.c. australian journalists eric target has more now for us from the capital. one of the things this earth quite did was destroy food god and smoke people up there are a subsistence farmers without those gardens they don't have food and it also dammed rivers the mountains have caved in upon river systems and most people's access to

water comes from those rivers and streams and they're now backing up and becoming polluted so there's an ongoing problem now about access to clean drinking water has only just started arriving that's because the area as i said he's quite remote but also because the government's capacity to deliver services is quite limited if the ideas coming in from the australian government and it's being distributed by an oil and gas company will search that has thirty three sites right around that region so at the moment it's the private sector and a foreign government that are actually doing the i deliver as some people were wondering where the government was but it said it had real trouble getting information from the quite carries about sixty three my ball towers were damaged a number of them collapsed and they've only been i would say restore about forty of them so there's extensive damage that has limited the amount of information that's come out in the paint the government said it was basically flying blind and it didn't know where to send the i'd but now that situations improving they've got i going in tomorrow and it's been coming over the weekend from foreign governments

and that's going to be ramping up by the next few days so everybody involved says the people there that really need food and water and medical care will start receiving that now. al-jazeera investigation has revealed new evidence of saudi arabia the u.a.e. . attempt to overthrow the government in one thousand nine hundred six it includes interviews with coup leaders who conspired to remove the father of the emir of shaikh hamad bin khalifa funny who was there in the country's leader the investigation comes eight months into a blockade against catarrh by saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt the countries have accused her of supporting terrorism. lots more to come here at al-jazeera including china's national people's congress meets to make changes that could see president xi stay in power for life like critics of the miramar government say repatriation of hundreds of thousands of

ranger may not be a good option. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hollow we've got signs of spring now started to push its way to west and positive here and i'm sure that's very very welcome after our recent spell of late winter weather here we go with the other think area cloud which has been piling in from the atlantic that's the model rather has been coming in this is the one which brought the snow full across the british isles you can see still some snow coming into scandinavia as results of that the temperatures were getting up into double figures now to ten celsius for london the ten in madrid and even high the physio ricky has zero and also for power seven tools eastern pa says still on the cold side moscow should be hovering around freezing at this time of year we're struggling here to get around minus eight celsius on monday minus eleven bone

chilling cold weather still continuing there as we go on through choose day we'll see that's a model happening to central parts tony to snow once again grassy that will touch right of course and then we have got some wet weather pushing back into that western side if you're in some rather wet weather there across italy and the balkan some of that what's the weather will also just brushed the fog northwest of africa a little bit damp weather coming through hey see the clouds spinning across north america we're back to see some right on shoes day fun a trifle algeria's at this stage fog and dry further east and warm in colorado with the top temperature of twenty nine degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. what makes this moment this era we live in for so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding the distortion is one of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important level wise to publish if you have

a good cheat to be offensive or provocative whatever lies people do setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera a hung parliament is expected in italy following sunday's election with about half the votes counted the antiestablishment five star movement is the biggest single party winner but it is trailing a right wing alliance which has thirty seven percent of the vote so far a u.n. aid convoys arrived at the main entry point to syria's besieged rebel enclave of

eastern these are pictures from syrian state t.v. showing the convoy of the dean crossing waiting to enter eastern ghouta. 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 fifty five people. the south korean president in his sense of delegation of top security officials to north korea in a bid to get pyongyang talking to washington and diverts conflict we've had a long period of serious simmering tensions on the korean peninsula since kim jong un took power at the end of today eleven north korea's fired sixty one ballistic missiles and conducted for nuclear tests came look to ease rising tensions at the start of the year when he offered to hold talks about his country's participation at the winter olympics the two sides held their first formal discussions in two years on january the ninth when north korea confirmed it would be sending

a delegation to the games athletes from both koreas marched into febreze a limping opening ceremony under the unified korean flag and on sunday president moon announce the make up of the delegation that would head north the two days of talks the trip is the first by south korean envoys in eleven years mcbride has more from 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 bush 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 one 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 and 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 that 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 more range you have let me and maybe our phone footage is said to show hundreds escaping what kind stayed into bangladesh adorned on sunday the phone blogger says homes in both the dollar were tossed on saturday night although seven hundred thousand have already fled nehemiah since august reporting mass killings

rape and torture by the military near miles leaders deny ethnic cleansing and in a separate development hundreds of me i'm also gers are refusing to leave an area on the bangladesh border lim us government says they've received intelligence of an imminent attack shallot ballasts reports. this sprawling whose pull on camp near the bangladesh meum our border home to nearly six hundred thousand range or refugees the majority have arrived since august. of one refugee who witnessed the influx is kemal hussein has lived here since he was two his parents also fled violence in me in the ninety's. 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 i want all who are we have first mc in october after he saved up

a missing person's birth in the scramble for survival into bangladesh many refugees became separated and disoriented as he reminded some seven hundred families in the first two months. has closed the bush it's no longer needed no longer stream over the border they see it laying into cooper long camp as harm just like he did some twenty years ago. my concern is i've been living here since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight i 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. and bangladesh governments have been negotiating over a petri ation deal that would return more than seven hundred thousand. but critics say 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 evicted and destroying the communities over rangers across the northern arc on is to make sure that like you know burma no longer has ranger as a group and so why would. that take the you know nearly one million rangers back. in just say they wouldn't return anyway not until they have a guarantee of safety compensation for the destroyed villages and citizenship something they've been denied for thirty five years. bangladesh remain settled one million revenger entirely dependent on handouts following kemal making crucible on kemp their home charlotte dallas and his ear china's parliament is expected to approve changes to the constitution which would allow president xi to rule

indefinitely 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 jumping 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 that china is going backwards because so much power will now be in the hands of one leader a monday the chinese premier league chung 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 at 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 m.p.c. of course is one man she jingping and this is going to be the congress where his powers really are cemented. became if i say security forces remain on high alert after a man was shot as he attempted to still move red glow of the presidential compound and that happened just two days after sixteen people were killed during attacks on the military headquarters and a french embassy cripple. the moment american special forces are ambushed in the shares a hell this is footage from and i still affiliate dated from last october. under fire the american soldiers running for cover behind their vehicles there are

a number of times. the gun battle last several minutes before they're all shot dead . in brooklyn afonso prayers for the victims of another attack on friday fighters dressed in army uniforms attacked the french embassy in the routine of us army headquarters the attack was coordinated by another group known as jamaat . well the muslimeen but the aim is the same to attack countries and soldiers currently fighting in the south conway says. we're not surprised with what's going on but we see so many people die like this why do they want to kill so many of us. brooklyn afonso long with new share molly moore tina and chad are deploying troops in the region as part of a multi nation fighting force led by friends their goal is to gain control of territories that are in the hands of rebel groups. the last month there's been a series of coordinated attacks targeting u.n.

french and african troops in mali many including civilians have been killed. in a statement the group behind friday's attack warned the government not to get involved in the fighting. in want to do with us as capital the army and security forces are on high alert three men on a motorcycle tried to force their way through a military checkpoint by the presidential palace early on sunday morning one of the men were shot down the two other are on the loose many here fear that the fighting that once took place hundreds of kilometers away in this hour hell is coming closer turning wanted to move into a new battleground. the prime minister says the situation has turned into a war imposed on them that a month. ago i asked the people of biking a fast to keep faith in our government and our institutions so that we as a common force can reach out our enemies while diploma ruth prays for peace the

united states is stepping up its operations backing france following last october's attack an armed surveillance drones deployed from an american base in the air will be replaced with armed ones the fighting is intensifying the front line in this hell is expanding and can no longer be ignored nicholas hawk al jazeera. israel's prime minister is due to meet president trump in washington later on monday mainly to discuss middle east peace and iran's nuclear program benjamin netanyahu behind accusations of corruption ties between the countries of warmed since trump came to power last year the us president prevent international condemnation by recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. the shape of voice has won the best picture of hollywood's biggest night of the the academy awards francis that del daum and won the best actress for her role in three billboards outside every missouri and gary oldman took best actor for his portrayal of

britain's world war two the to winston churchill and yet of all down to auto also picked up best director for the sake of force from reynolds has gone from outside the don't be fit for the office and to change the speed of those you know i think that the most interesting moment was when frances mcdormand picked up her oscar and asked all the women the 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 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. and of cole says always the website out call for more of the bases. you know with al jazeera and these are starring as a hung parliament is expected in this in the following sunday's general election with about half the votes counted the anti establishment five star movement is the biggest single party winner but it's trailing a right wing alliance which has thirty seven percent of the votes. a u.n. aid convoy has arrived at the main entry point into syria's besieged rebel on klav of the sim but there are reports that syrian government officials have removed trauma kits and surgical supplies from the convoy during an inspection the russian

and syrian government operation in eastern guta has killed more than six hundred fifty people since february the eighteenth syrian president meanwhile says his campaign will continue. to hold 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 buffalo new guinea has been shaken by three strong aftershocks a week after a magnitude seven point five earthquake struck the same area killing at least fifty five people on the mountain the southern highlands of worst affected six hundred kilometers northwest of the capital port moresby one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies but damaged roads and landslides and

making it difficult to get aid deliver it south korean envoys have traveled to pyongyang for two days of talks for the first time in over a decade the delegation hopes to discuss denuclearize ation and arrange for talks between north korea and the united states. shape of water has won best picture at hollywood's biggest night is the year the academy awards frances mcdormand won best actress for her own in three having misery and burial mental best actor for his portrayal of britain's won't want to lead a winston churchill into. toto also best director for the shape of water incidents of sexual harassment have dominated hollywood over the past year coming up next it's up front.

and the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera it's coming up to nearly six months since puerto rico was battered by hurricane maria nearly half a million americans there are still without power and reported suicides have jumped more than fifty percent has president donald trump abandon the island i'll ask one of his biggest critics mayor of san juan common nearly cruz also on the show jacob zuma was forced to stand down as president of south africa last month i'll talk to his nemesis the anti corruptions are to limit on solar about his fall from power and the future of the a n c.