so bad to see the important. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. taking you live to the russian capital moscow where the light in a person is speaking addressing a rally to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the annexation all of crimea and of course this coincides with the presidential votes in russia that we've seen people rallying waving flags chanting and also a few musical numbers that. to commemorate the anniversary but speaking now. you know but it's the national team but it's not. for kids mission

of what we have done in the past couple of years. that gives us hope and trust holding which it will be working just as hard and responsibly but more better results. will have such a strong multimillion strong team. will be successful yes. it's very important to maintain this unity to attract to our saw it people who perhaps could have voted for our candidates we need this to move forward in order to move forwards we need to feel each other shoulder to shoulder every citizen of what we have to think. about junichi not. peculiar to swishes think about the future of our country about the future of all people we are destined for success. yes thank

you very much to give or will start. big large scale work for us a call for action thank you. russia . thank you. so in listening to present idea of peace and giving sure appearance and making are short of parents at the rally where people have gathered to mark the fourth

anniversary of the omics a sion of crime miracles this coinciding with the presidential votes in the country but in essentially rallying the crowds saying that success awaits us saying voters recognize the achievements of the past few years and leading people in chanting and celebration. the have been concerns about irregularities over this poll let's just remind you of the latest results that are coming in now putin is projected to take almost three quarters of the votes in this election with forty percent of the vote now counted putin is all over seventy four percent of the vote his nearest rival is the communist party candidate dean in who's sitting on eleven point two percent according to exit polls gruden is a multimillionaire tycoon has been critical of the government but not of just behind him on six point seven percent his ultra nationalists were damaged aronofsky

the former reality t.v. star because the new subject was one of the most high profile candidates but she's in fourth position now with just over two and a half percent of the vote in the absence of credible opponents to putin the kremlin is focused on boosting the turnout to give the election as much to just mysie as possible people have reported a report and reported being pressured to go to the polls and some polling stations have been offered free concert tickets or russia's opposition leader alexina volley has been speaking out he was barred from running in the vote. thousands of people went to vote and out of curiosity i went on twitter to check on the candidates to see if they are writing about violations they are behaving as if nothing is happening people who are observing these elections keep writing about the things and other violations and they're complaining about it and the people who are remaining silent don't care about this they are candid it is just that kind of election i guess. our coverage of the russian election continues in about twenty

five minutes time do stay with al-jazeera for the latest on.

the european parliament brussels where the people of europe send their representatives. because of the boxes of the of the m.p.'s. they belong to the people who will jump at these to hold the european union to account. a look you can hear us look inside. what do they do here. nothing. i am there's a hugely important debate about the future all to european union today and i'm trying to see. i mean it's impossible for them to people but it is the european parliament that's not accountable. like even inflation the parliament you have a balcony of a dog and if people can come every day and look what's happening but here. the closest i can get is the press room where we get to see our representatives on t.v. . but then the european parliament is unique. normally parliaments the wise their

own laws but here they can only accept our. legislation from the unelected european commission. seven years ago it's one of the reasons you believe there nigel farage says britain well it's to leave the e.u. leave the euro and just days after the break sit while he's relishing his success well i have to say you're not laughing now are you. know that as a policy to impose poverty on greece and the rest of that trade you've done that really well by stealth by deception without telling the truth you wouldn't take the fall then a political year here the worst thing is that he's right everything was put out that they were going to love his own people indeed they cite it as a tragedy of the enormous if. i may not agree with what he stands for but that's

the paradox of europe today that's what i'm saying so what has cause he's saying you're against europe. one question yes how do explain the rise of you'll keep on trying less and you'll become europe. i don't know how do you mean smart how do you explain the rise of i must tell you how do you explain the rise of some reason you know how do you explain that it's a failing on your opinion and i want to turn yes i'm here. because you are getting the growth of houses across the political spectrum growth of rejectionism of this model because the model doesn't know me so what do we have then i mean if you have nation states because of nation states borders walls and there isn't this dangerous oh and democracy but where is the moccasin what is not here. so i'm going on a journey to understand how come the far right claim to be deceivers democracy eula .

nepos old one we saw how europe is facilitating gets on colonization privatization the extraction of resources and secret trade deals like the t.t.p. . the nature of the agreements is a construction of ultra neo liberal system will cement culture and the realism in europe. and the financial forces behind the politicization are driving governments into wars abroad. which in turn are producing refugee flows that challenge an already anxious population. the major decisions that determine how life is lived are made without popular participation and that causes anger frustration and. contempt for the parliamentary system leads to erratic and

often frightening reactions that's couple little severe economic growth. in this episode and examine how the anger and frustration generated by this wailed politicization of p.b.s. the future pm democracy as we know. in november two thousand and fifteen terrorists attacked paris killing one hundred thirty people leaving over four hundred injured. attacks on brussels airport and nice followed all carried out in the name of i.c. . so how did europe make sense of this we discussed it as coming out of norway or in explicable acts committed by evil people because of their adherents to a religious ideology. but just because a neck this inexcusable doesn't mean it's inexplicable.

non tomsky is a prolific writer only international relations and the riches of terrorism and look at news international these are people from the. miserable suburbs or. its internal problems that are leading to terrorist attacks again people with the people involved people been picked up by the police at least . the very few shallow islamic groups that are drawn to jihadism kind of a way out of their group ration and humiliation. internally for. the belgian and terrorist attacks were carried out by a man from brussels. he somehow was runs

a youth center here in the district of small and. i find nice to meet you yes welcome to living things when you're shows around it yeah. you'll encounter any kind of discrimination maybe already in your childhood because you are of my stories and never let the first is in my school. and then let the family just springing from foisting some but mostly my work on them but. to. believe that some of the terrorists for committed the terrorist attacks in madrid in paris and also here there from welcome back is the level of discrimination higher today after the. terrorist attacks. when you learn a yes or no because i tell you of course after that that she said like morning which is that oh no nothing in the machine oh no nothing in the morning big i mean

when you see the people who committed so i thought there was lots of you missed him we've done this a lot of addition there were people let's some months before there was the need to get drinking alcohol so the problem is not stem the problem is the money big the problem is the do you feel the problem is money in the are both are defeating that that we did and did not do as politician and as media also that's that make them feel that those people so it's clear that from the society so they were just like real enough to be onboard it in some in some extreme areas. but could this just be an exultant i want to find some hard evidence. so we arrived at the free university of brussels and we're trying to say very is

the office of dr karim karim has been studying the experiences of muslims in belgium including discrimination and radicalization. here this. is what we're observing versions that if you have. or turkish or freakin background you have between twenty and thirty percent less chines to get a job. even if you have a nice a or degree is there any date and what is your explanation for those people who are second and third generation for turning to a more radicalized version of islam we aren't in societies which have difficulties to provide and to produce sense we always see that there is no more difference between left and right. they are answering questions sometimes in a very. many care and white and black.

ways to deal with answers but they are answering these issues and answer they are providing sense and if we don't understand things we are not going to slide in kingston sound this idea into trouble. and could we explain the recent rise of europe's far right in the same way as a desperate search for signs. across europe openly xenophobic parties are the rising political force. in austria presidential candidate or but author stopped on to refugee sentiment. you know me in my own community. even in germany the ultimately the few doj one party are now winning seats in the regional parliament.

in an attempt to eliminate them many parts of the center of the op that they're sort of for be sure one of the canonical because all too many of the fit extraordinaire who should get a false spot on the most serious sumber they're not serious more they farm it on their t.v. do not think of extremist. as you go. but france is book a band didn't neutralize the anti me gratian front. instead it helped legitimize their lead their very lappin who is now a serious contender for the next presidential election. if she wins she's pledged to take france out of the. it's easy to dismiss the supporters of the far right as ignorant racist but the current reality is much more complex. in slovenia and two refugee

sentiment has boosted the far right. but it's a simple for the put price says philosopher slow he got going to be pretty. good with this but i think it is optional clee cool sure for example when you talk about . immigrants and the warm did you read eat as a shim dumb as a reaction of what dish but i won't in today's baek global capitalism dead sticky don't moralize don't just accuse ordinary people how can they be shallow and so once mission i can don't tell me understand a french ordinary who feels threatened don't talk just. properly but the question what went wrong in society that opened up the space for. immigrant rights you.

know because possibly europe smokes and a full big party. and the turks largest in the hungary and parliament but you just . don't like us like when you meet them you don't want that i was there many people you were going to go because that somebody that knew you when i was there. talk i got anxious that wages are not going to look at me got a case i wasn't going to get your money. the uk or something you. unlike most of europe so far right alongside their intolerance of foreigners runs promises of economy protection. after twenty six years of transition from communism hungary remains one of the poorest countries of the e.u. . there are still nearly one million people living. in homes without electricity and heating.

in europe because young leader gobbled one note staring. at it when a woman ecological one woman i could have i was going door to put your arm on the mechanical shoulder plea because she has a lot of luck was actual cause why don't you go to shag she got a leash for. when you got the to get them would you not and i still got some of them on your side was a. unique mark how do you explain this success of your big in hundred year because i'm the one with your son when are we going to share political battle or my my good medical info the number for ya meant as i'd year. long only. nobody about the back east at the lamb zetia. want to go when there are so i'm going to live in what your apartment at the will of the goodie ben will become about of. course is that you

will be actually fellow she just the way you'll be going to you guys i would have been one with your my divorce i'm going to. illuminate your field all automatic assault on us as the letter of the is just on me but i don't shock a shochet when i will try to look john i shall go. i mean best that she does any good from bad net i mean heat. and it would get it i think as does a lot if you met with the saudi prince. and like you know other parts of europe big success is pushed under is prime minister viktor orban forwarded to the right. that's a friend i got your hey alli took us around at that what i meant to be starship. so you friend i got to be a lush i'm usually more got a problem when i'm sad because when i got the itch. so in two thousand and fifteen or build a fence to keep the refugees out of hungary and move many wealth from. her

other countries across europe quickly followed and the borders were sealed. like. this is past fascism says hungary and political scientists rush but how much. i do form of the ideology that can operate within free markets and democracy. the classic condition that this coming this time from the right it is very successful in which public opinion. accepts that there isn't in and then out as an interior and there's an exterior and even the remaining old left is defending the ins and rejecting the hots and in that respect.

even this gentle f.g. is being conquered by this logic basically in economic terms no liberalism on the one hand is accepted. of the enemy towards the east. call it russia will call it is long is accepted. and the abandoned movement of the. unemployed ill. at such a populations within even the court countries he said. but if we accept the logical finster now. if you create another to blame for our economic tailors. i would not also creating the conditions for outer italian fascism. closer for agnes heller whose father was killed in auschwitz thinks we need reminding about europe's blood of european

leaders who are totally blind and in every way they are forgot about the european past europe into twentieth century has emerged that hundred million europeans or european countries who are either dictatorship or subjected themselves to dictatorships either now to some of us fascism or stalinism so much to mean democracy in europe this goal almost nothing and even after checking for adverse event you were a democracy start at the developed invest and euro they developed all invest that was the case in spain in portugal in greece ever dictatorships a democrat liberal democracy is new in europe and they pretended that it was our tradition it was centuries or fish was it not as things were well economy's going crazy people get to share each and every year at this point liberal democrats is fantastic the moment the economy does not feel that vera that americans there are

problems then immediately it is for link up our people thought people don't want it anymore they call for food and they call for their leader and if called for a strong man or song. and it's not just. europe that people are turning to so-called strong men in the hope of the konami protection. however deceptive that may turn out to be. but the anger and frustration at europe's financial colonization also took a very different for. a recent example of it is to be found in paris. when president obama tries to introduce a new law that loses french labor rights and makes war more precarious. the usual

demonstrations lead to something else. look at pace. for the last two months hundreds of activists have gathered here every evening for what they call the lean to. the night stand in to ask you see if you can use of my. last week at the center is the general assembly we're up to five thousand people gathered to discuss how to solve problems. the refugee crisis for precarious for and their environment. even when divided turns back. such an occupation has different committees a committee for ecology kmita for economy committee for legal matters and so on. to conceptualize discuss different proposals already us and then they come with the proposals and the ideas to the general assembly and then the general assembly all of them together in the process of their liberation they decide on the next that.

the economy committee wanted to be interviewed together what are the topics you are specifically your group dealing with the economy commission so first of all commission is to go to people to be appropriate to be devout debates which is started by its votes. why do you think it makes sense to gather here and you know at this square there is rainfall and so on we have already parliamentary democracy in parliaments and institutions. sad to me too good a plus at best good. news. and when you take. your piece of paper mr patel. you know. that he really. did you commit good for going online will be just that there will

be seats on the. scene a pretty. good. case if you see. what people are lacking in representative mike democracy to put it very simple least representation. i'm taking you now to russia where the president has been taking place we've already been hearing from president like him in a rallies that here he is speaking again now let's listen in this political forces use. you could go on that we should mean. think about their clan interests should care about national interests it will we call it has different views but we want to have seen this year the

direction of all forces towards the results i mean. and for me it is very important and for our why did seem it's very important that we should continue our joint work. or we might do it slightly in a different. way. organizational way doesn't matter what structure we belong to. we should realize that we are facing huge challenges and we should stand up to those challenges. and i hope football will continue his work to get over i've just been to the square and one of the members of the public shows it you are our team and i responded and i am

a member of our team and i hope it will be one team in the next few years for the sake of russia thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much once again and i wish you all the best thank you so much thanks a lot. which. one team. right so we've just been listening to president vladimir putin addressing a crowd of supporters here and there you can see a very excited and celebratory mood in the room with president putin leading the people around him in chance he made a couple of comments here saying that we need to make a breakthrough he said that the next won't be business as usual have been some

irregularities in the overall election process that footage has emerged that's been highlighted by certain opposition figures of ballot stuffing in some places. like him a person is of course expected to win this election is seen as a foregone conclusion but the crucial thing for the kremlin here is that it's all about turnout it's all about the number of people that head out to the ballot boxes to cast their vote to give his victory that element of legitimacy has just listen some more. rain in the the. associated. supporting me. workers my lord. and i hope will be working just as hard but the results. until now we have all chances to really to achieve real

results. i mean. just before elections we had this case called house chris paul what do you think about the opponents in europe. i learned about this tragedy about scrip i don't i learned it from media and i learned that this was. but i think it's quite obvious that if it if it was a chemical weapon the people would die immediately russia doesn't have any chemical weapon russia will destroy all company chemical weapons under international observation. and some of our international partners promised to do the same but they haven't done so therefore we are open to corp we are ready to cooperate in investigation. but we need to have an

interest from the other side but we don't see it we do not rule out joint work. when it comes to general situation but if we were have any anyone hussein will should understand that nobody in russia would allow something like that just before elections in the world. it's unbelievable. but despite all these complications we ready for joint work operation full discussion of any questions and overcoming any difficulties. you know when you many people turned up. some citizens russian citizens in ukraine couldn't vote and that was how russia can respond well sure but isn't that this is

unacceptable this is very late all international los russia would not respond to. us to. go ukrainian people are brotherly people by all this said so we would not respond to some restrictions that we will do our best friend ince would feel in russia and us in at their home home. he received. you receive congratulations from chinese president xi jinping what can you say president he didn't seem as if that has been massive goal of developing china and we wish this chinese leadership the. best of luck to resolve those challenges china faces many. difficult goals one of them is creating can you silk road. and it was an economic foundations of

the civil war. i would work. about concrete programs in our cooperation but i think it's comparable. to our attempts to create your asian economic union or your asian partnership in the broader sense of who work here we have similar. comparable goals when we have a number all joint projects china is our strategic partner relationships between russia and china on president lee great we would like to. congratulate president xi jinping a say a serial acted leader of china we sure that china and the his leadership and from our side and russia will do if you would ever think. to improve

russian chinese cooperation. agency when do you think we can see changes in the government option before or after inauguration. i think that all changes in the government structure should be dealt with by of a new president who started it in his new term i will start thinking about it now because i think all changes will take place after the integration. i think i would like to specify do you have new candid it or prime minister does it could it be nice or maybe if you. do you plan also to do any constitutional reform changes or you get. power distribution in russia you know i don't plan any reforms constitutional reform

when it comes to. government structure i'm thinking about it but until now we had to wait for the results of the elections and all the changes will be announced after the integration. what do you think. i mean or the thing about russian. you know. what will the thing about united states return in latin america that's burning on the road doctrine that. we know of as america the united states of america has difficult complicated where relationship would let in american countries that where based on certain pressure but i very hope that a new american the administration will be able to build

a new relationship in light in america based on twenty first principles of equality and mutual respect we are interested that countries i would who are in the world would develop positive relationships and that form a new international agenda. do you envisage a possibility for you to. become a new president in two thousand and thirty if you change we're going to situations . i think this is really funny what you're saying is that. i'm not going to live two hundred years old no no no. do you plan any meetings of our candidates presidential candidates. yes i do and i will invite all of them to our presidential administration all of them.

will when you knew putin or it will be the same putin regime is changing all these. all right so we've just been hearing present like him a person speaking to reporters and taking their questions about the presidential vote in the country he also spoke about matters relating to russian part foreign policy and changes going forward and interestingly he was asked there about next about running for another term as president and his response was that will i live until one hundred he said that it's the possibility of a further is a rather strange and funny thing so i ask at this point in time also listening into this our correspondent in moscow lawrence lee joins us now and so i suppose

lawrence we got to a bit of a hint of what putin's challenges and priorities will be during the course of his neck some further consolidating his position in the country and identifying a potential successor. well yes it was interesting is essentially the couple of different events now this evening obviously after he's basically claimed victory the first one was that he appeared in front of a crowd of the kind of celebrate three music festival that may have made a red square i need just said look we're all a big same to get on a member of the team you know you're all we're all in it's together and we're destined to succeed as a people you know you know how donald trump goes usa usa well putin goes. it's exactly the same kind of populist nationalism that the two men have in common so he did a last and then he then he spoke to the party faithful from him and gave this news conference and that was a bit more detail actually one of the most interesting things which will be

a bit of a headline grabber i think in the western world was that he was asked about chemical weapons in the months to do with the poisoning of scripts all that the british spy butin said that the allegations about russia developments in this were. complete nonsense he said ravings he said russia has no such substances we were the first to destroy chemical weapons and so that's that's the that they that the most out rights denial that we've heard from him as to any sort of russian involvement so that's not going to make things any better in some of the collapse and diplomatic relations with between russia and the u.k. but the other thing in the way that you pointed out is well to do with this question of whether he might change the constitution in order to become president for life he scenes as you suggested to pull cold water on that to some degree saying he's i mean going to be the seventy's by the end of this time anyway need to as he said he's going to do it when he's one hundred years old but his direct quote was i don't plan constitutional reforms yes so he didn't rule it out completely and

it's very interesting that you. point out the parallel between putin and trump and you know we've seen the rise of populism across europe and trying to project this sense of where all in it together and that everyone is is essentially in the same boat in a society where you have such stark dichotomies and i guess discrepancy between. the wealth being concentrated in the capital and elites and people who are in other parts of the country russia is a vast country that have been feeling the effects of a strained economy well yeah it is it is curious that it's you know in putin and trump you have two men who are basically both extremely rich . who have benefited enormously from their their own power and yet both men seem to

have the strongest part of their support base among people who are from very poor backgrounds or are they what the other thing they both have in common is that they are able to reach out and present themselves as being on the sole aid of the poor the dispossessed that is very striking there in russia for all the time the putin's been in charge for all the money of the russians made out of oil and gas moscow has just sucked it all in like a black hole and there's been no redistribution of wealth across the poorest possibility where indices of collapse from the soviet union onward as all that is in those places the putin support seems to be at its strongest in moscow in some pieces bug the two biggest it is in western russia his support isn't anything like as strong this is more european more westernized people were thinking in places like they seem to want some more. multi-polar type of democracy but it's in it's in the places far away that he's that he seems to get his support and if you consider

how big russia is you know the distance from vladivostok to most co is about the same as paris to los angeles you know that's that's if you live in lust of a lot of all stalk it's that that's how far away you are from the seats of power and so it's very difficult thing for a national leader in moscow to present themselves as being on the side of people that this far away but he has managed to do that he has a wall of whatever you think of him in western countries people don't like him but he has a common touch and that's very very very powerful it is and of we've been saying throughout our coverage that really the crucial thing for president putin and for the kremlin was turned out of course the result of this election was very much a foregone conclusion but did he tonight get the public stamp of approval to just say my is his his presence in another time. i think at the kremlin they'll be very pleased with how things are they it was very clear and they said so themselves in

terms that they were worried that he's been in power for so long now why would you bother turning out to vote when you know what the results comes to be loyalty suppose it only goes so far and they did organize all these things like you know you can win a prize if you turn out votes and there's a policy atmosphere and all that but doesn't necessarily mean the people are going to do it's either to figure out this formula whether decided that they wanted a seventy percent and house and the putin would win seventy percent of the vote with all the projections at the moment or that he's going to get more than seventy percent of the votes even if the turnout looks like it might be slightly lower than seventy percent but even so i think they'll think you know for a fourth term i mean the guy will have been in power for almost a quarter of a century by the time that he finishes his fourth term it's quite difficult to take people with you for all and to tell him and i think they'll be very pleased with this result in terms of the validation and legitimization of him that is that it seems to employ it is a fascinating election isn't it thank you very much lawrence leigh with all the

latest from the russian capital we want to bring you some other stories now kurdish fighters in syria's northwestern african region a vow to fight on after the main town was taken by turkish forces and their allies turkey launched its operation to clear the enclave of kurdish y p g fighters in january ministrations as it will now used to read a tactic to get the turkish army under simmons reports from gaza on techie's border with syria. they reached a friend at sunrise columns of free syrian army fighters turkish special forces have been active on the ground ahead of them kurdish why p.g. fighters have withdrawn in large numbers there was limited resistance on one side of the rebel fighters backed and directed by turkey with ground forces and airstrikes prepared to declare a victory here. the one and after we enter the three and we've liberated all the

center believes we will declare a victory statement on the terror we are telling the civilians to come back to our friends it's safe now. within hours celebrations in the city sent. by the syrians and the turks. people this is a gift from the turkish armed forces to the turkish people and our glorious martyrs on this day a reference there to the victory of turkish forces against the western allied forces one hundred three years ago in deliberately in the first world war the turkish president was at the commemorations and made this announcement tell us it's not over most of the terrorists have already fled with their tails between their legs our special forces and members of the free syrian army a cleaning the remains in the traps they left behind in the center of affray al

flags of trust and stability away even inside of rags of terrorist and so on the fifty eighth day of operation olive branch turkey's first objective is realized. you can see some civilians had chosen to stay instead of joining tens of thousands of others into syrian regime areas to the south. it's reported the kurdish why peachey now intends. to avoid direct confrontation with turkish forces instead engaging in guerrilla types of action the turkish have proved with force their intention to push back the wipe e.g. away from its border and it doesn't and they'll be moving further eastwards this is likely to be one battle of several andrew symonds out jazeera. which just want to take a look at the situation as it stands in syria right now turkey in the free syrian

army have captured large swathes of afrin but the kurdish forces remain in control of most of the northern territory that east of the euphrates even have a province in the northwest that remains the largest rebel stronghold but syrian government forces backed by russian airpower have divided the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta into three parts cutting off key rebel supply lines well syrian president bashar assad has been visiting army positions there assad met with soldiers who now control some eighty percent of the eastern go to territory the united nations is said to be negotiating a possible ceasefire with the main rebel group there failed mine rebels say they are in discussions about getting aid to civilians and evacuating people with urgent medical cases some a binge of aid has the latest on the situation inside eastern ghouta. this is still happening in the besieged pockets of rebel held eastern ghouta here straights and shelling have continued on one of the largest and most populated parts of the

entries from inside this footage from a drone shows the shrinking boundary between rebel fighters and advancing forces loyal to president bashar al assad thousands of people have been wounded in more than fifteen hundred killed in the latest on slot. from a ship it will worship we hold the united nations and the security council directly responsible for this silence around these crimes and for failing to take action to prevent these crimes but let us not forget. the party that holds direct responsibility of the syrian regime and the countries that continue to stand by it . like much else of rebel held syria relentless one bodman to who has forced most of it into submission the buildings over parking garages no longer stand that's a washing machine hanging out from the shell of an apartment block a fridge shows what was once a kitchen another floor appears to show bottoms and the caved in roof the cameraman who filmed it says this used to be his neighborhood creatures on top of buildings

are the entry points from where rockets and bombs entered these buildings until recently eastern there was home to almost four hundred thousand people the u.n. is said to be negotiating with rebels for an evacuation deal many don't want to leave because they fear conscription arrests reprisals and revenge wants to leave. more than twenty thousand have fled to government controlled areas but tens of thousands still remain inside. we lived in horrible conditions we did not have food water or wood. syria's military has released videos of tanks and soldiers rolling into the streets of towns across eastern huta in addition to russian air cover government forces are backed by iranian troops hezbollah fighters and shia militias from iraq and afghanistan they say they have almost one but they're taking over another area decimated by syria seventy a war some of

a job with al jazeera republican senators are warning u.s. president donald trump not to fire special counsel robert muller and say must be allowed to investigate alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election tom ackerman has more from washington. while calling the investigation into his campaign suspected connections with russia a witchhunt the us president had indicated he might be willing to submit to questioning by the special counsel but as robert muller's team appears to tighten its focus on the president himself trump's latest tweet storm made clear his open hostility towards the probe why he said as the motor team have thirteen hardened democrats some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans another dam recently added does anyone think this is fair and yet there is no collusion on saturday trumps personal lawyer john dowd called for a shutdown of moaners investigation at first saying he was speaking for the

president but later backtracking he spoke after former f.b.i. acting director andrew mccabe was fired for what government investigators said were an authorized media contacts and a lack of candor about alleged disclosure of classified information mccabe disputed the allegations and said his dismissal was an attempt to undermine his credibility because he could corroborate former f.b.i. director jim commies own firing by trump who's admitted it was intended to and the russia investigation amid reports that muller has presented the white house with questions he wants to ask the president even under threat of a court ordered subpoena there's growing speculation that trump is ready to fire muller that say members of congress would be a big mistake this is a serious investigation and if the president tries to terminate it prematurely i think it will be. a true constitutional crisis but meanwhile mccabe's firing just two days before he became eligible for

a full government pension has prompted at least one democratic congressman to offer him a temporary job allowing mccabe to preserve his benefits tom ackerman al-jazeera washington . next weekend tens of thousands of students are expected to march in cities across the u.s. to demand action after the florida school shooting the level of gun violence in the u.s. is higher than any other developed country one of president trump suggestions for tackling gun crimes in schools has been to arm teaches and school stuff john hendren visited one school in ohio which has been quietly doing so for you is this might be the most heavily armed public school in america in the rural town of sidney ohio would be attackers are warned each entrance to every school scattered throughout this school or several safes opened with a fingerprint it put a glock nineteen handgun in reach of a team of teachers and staff trained to take out the shooter i don't necessarily like having guns in school either mental health backpacks background checks assault

rifles gun control laws all of those things i don't necessarily agree disagree with but at the same time i am all of those things combined are not going to stop an active shooter five years before president trump said this if you had a teacher with who was adept at firearms they could very well end the attack very quickly educators like this former soldier were volunteering to train for classroom combat back when we first started this i know i second guessed whether this was the correct thing to do and sometimes i still do but. if if we save one once one student or we say a whole building where the students and i think it's worth it i think it's. i don't it's it's just sad that we have to do that now after the massacre at connecticut sandy hook elementary school in two thousand and twelve sheriff john lindh heart

decided that if anyone starts shooting here there would be a small army to fire back his case in america i cannot wait on state i cannot wait on the federal government. i can't wait on psychologists to figure out why one person hurts another person you have to protect yourselves if i could wave a wand and make it all go away i would prefer a no guns period but that's not going to happen in the states. each school in sydney also has an armed deputy and each classroom is numbered on the outside so first responders can pinpoint a gunman the locations of the weapons and the identities of the first responders are secret so that if a gunman came to this school he wouldn't know who might be armed because it's all caught on camera the first responders can see him many teachers say they're already overburdened without adding security to their duties they're there to teach so what they would rather have than guns is the have training on how do i identify mental

health problems but here in sydney some parents of reluctantly come around like it's not the world i think any of us will live in but i think it's the reality of where we're at and them you know we take all kinds of measures to protect banks and our money and museums and why would we do the same thing for our kids as she can schools across the us return to focusing on the so-called three r.'s reading writing and arithmetic here in sydney they've added a fourth responder john hendren zero sydney ohio. shrank as president has lifted a nationwide state of emergency which was imposed to stop anti muslim violence the order came into effect twelve days ago often muslim riots which killed two people and damaged hundreds of muslim and properties in mosques much of the violence was carried out by somalis buddhists it was concentrated in the central county district security forces have been deployed to help with built damaged homes and businesses

and its myth has more from the city of jaffna in northern sri lanka. now when the intercommunal violence first broke out two weeks ago the police and the government were criticised for not doing enough to stop the violence that was directed mainly of muslim owned shops businesses and homes so in response to that they quickly imposed a state of emergency in as part of but they blocked all restricted access to what's up viber to facebook because the government says messages inciting racial violence were being spread by members of the sinhalese majority nationalist community to the muslim minority now one of the lessons the government has learned is that it says in future it's going to much more closely monitor what goes out on the social media because now for two weeks people not been able to get access to watch or facebook or viable or imo because of those restrictions considerably inconveniencing people here but he says he needs to monitor what's the message of

the spread on those social media platforms and indeed facebook was called in by the government last week to say what it could do and facebook has said it will work with the government to try and stop these messages and messages of. violence and racial incitement being spread by its powerful other back shortly with the news hour stay with us. hello there all still marcus is now clearing away from australia this is the storm

that brought us the power outages across many parts of darwin then grazed the northern coast of western australia and now it's working its way steadily into the open ocean and as it does so it is expected to intensify rapidly so it's a good job it's not going to hit land again for us across the northwestern parts then there will still be more in the way of cloud but the worst that we've seen from the storm is now over for the south force in perth it's now hot will get up to around thirty four degrees there on tuesday but it's a little cooler for the southeast look at that only nineteen that's the maximum in melbourne if we head over towards new zealand we can see we've got a little bit of cloud with us at the moment but the main event is still on its way that's working its way towards the south island of force in fjord and and westland it's looking pretty wet on monday and choose day they could well be a little bit of flooding thanks to this system further north it's mostly following no fault clinton t two degrees will be our maximum on tuesday but it could just be one or two showers as we head up towards japan we've got a lot of rain that's working its way across us it does look very wet there on

monday system sweeps through though and by choose day it will be beginning to dry out for many of us behind that system though it won't be that wal-mart some of in sendai just nine. this is. low i maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up.