disappeared of syria but this time on al jazeera. education is struggling to keep pace. from failing to prepare children for today's world. but some schools are changing the rules are good to have hope that they can and how the lady. with the stillness in results. will. eat a different book or even rebel education early learning mexico and this time on al jazeera. the. russian president vladimir putin celebrates says he looks set to return to office for a fourth term. this

is al jazeera live from doha also ahead turkey says it's captured the kurdish held syrian town of a free while syrian government troops made gains in rebel held eastern. trump ring use his attack on the special council investigating russian election meddling as republicans warned him not to sack robert muller plus. he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like hitler saudi arabia's crown prince head saudi iran's supreme leader in his first interview on u.s. television. thank you for joining us live here putin has celebrated his victory in russia's a presidential election with thousands of supporters in moscow has won seventy six percent of the vote with almost all ballots counted fourteen was always expected to win but what was in question was how many people would vote in his favor his nearest. there was communist party candidate

a very good dean who is on almost twelve percent soon after the first exit polls fulton joined crowds in moscow's red square the election was held on the fourth anniversary of the annexation of crimea from ukraine at a press conference the president later rejected british allegations that moscow was involved in the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. calling them nonsense lawrence lee reports on putin's landslide victory. so it's all over putin has won again and so i think the kremlin a likely to be pretty happy with the way this is turned out of course they were worried that putin's been in power for such a long time that people simply might not turn out to vote given the inevitability of the outcome but they had set these benchmarks that said that they wanted a seventy percent turnout to prove that people are still interested in voting and they wanted putin to get seventy percent of the vote and certainly their goal at least one of those two things putin is going to get more than seventy percent of the turnout is going to be i think sufficiently high that they'll be satisfied

enough with the outcome how did they do this well it was a variety of means political the whole of the russian media are almost on their side there goes a set of opponents to putin who were frankly hopeless there was a mood fosters before the vote that said that putin is the only man who can stand up so all this western the gresh and particularly around the spied poisoning in the u.k. they were in juice months offered to be able to turn out to vote you could win a mobile phone maybe or something like that and there was some evidence of irregularities the polling stations as well but one where the other they won and putin is going to get his full term. price they called his election such as the status of blood in your putin in russia as he was in reality little more than a coronation i mean you could lead us with that are you me it's very important to maintain this unity to attract those who could have voted for all of a candidate we have to stand together shoulder to shoulder we have to think about

unity not about differences we should think about the future of our people about the future of our country we are destined for success. it was never a contest to single out the overwhelming percentage of votes cast and more than six out of ten russians voted for the kremlin it went more or less to plan of course russians knew perfectly well that when the television told them that they had to go out to vote because it was a city do you see what they really meant was you have to go and vote because we have to get troops in back in the kremlin that meant this wasn't great election about who was going to win but it was about how much. several instances of fraud were caught on camera harmless looking old ladies voting twice while stuffing reams of paper since a box is not enough to alter the outcome but for alexina valmy banned from standing in the election evidence of a corrupt 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 candidates it's just that kind of election i guess. in delhi even took part in the campaign and was entirely absent from the t.v. debates but during the election videos surfaced on the internet like this one which gave a glimpse of how the kremlin wants people to think. the film depicts a man who tells his wife he can't be bothered to vote something which putin himself had warned against the man that has a nightmare in which black africans suddenly appear in the armed forces to his horror there's a homosexual in the kitchen the message is clear is day this is what you'll get if you don't have putin in charge and of course it's coupled with a promise from the president to spend more and more on the military but here fortune put in would very much like to normalize ties with west but his personality

means he can't show weakness he can't be seen to be giving up yet he understands very well that with international isolation his regime is open to risks and dangers his fourth term begins with a flat out diplomatic crisis with the west's events which are uncertain and fast moving but political change in russia continues to move as fast as the ice on the moscow river by the time putin finishes this fourth he'll be in his seventy's and he will have been in power for almost a quarter of a century that's a very long time and also raises a very difficult question for the establishment here because the constitution in russia says that you can't serve more than four terms but clearly given that putin's been portrayed as the only man to lead russia forward and there's no obvious alternative what are they going to do and put themselves are asked about this in the immediate aftermath of his when he was asked are you going to change the constitution and he said well look i don't want to serve the one hundred years

old and he said i haven't thought about changing the constitution yet so he doesn't seem to think that he's going to do it he certainly hasn't ruled it out but is by no means clear who might stand instead. as we mentioned the russian president has dismissed allegations by the u.k. that moscow was behind the chemical attack on a former double agent as nonsense britain has expels twenty three russian diplomats in protest of the poisoning of. his daughter in southern england two weeks ago russia has retaliated with similar measures but insists it did not possess the nerve agent he used in the attack. i learned about this tragedy about script poll i learned about it from the media i think it's quite obvious that if it is a chemical weapon many people would die immediately it doesn't have any chemical weapons which destroyed all its chemical weapons under international observation some of our international partners promised to do so but they haven't done before we're open to cooperation with the investigation and in the world news kurdish

fighters in syria's northwestern offering region have vowed to fight on after the main town was taken by turkish forces and their allies turkey launch its operation to clear the enclave of kurdish y.p. g. forces in january those fighters say they'll now use guerrila tactics against to take a shower me andrew symonds reports from turkey southern 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 y p g fighters have withdrawn in large numbers there was limited resistance on way to the rebel fighters backed and directed by turkey with ground forces and their strikes to declare victory here . the finale after we enter the free movie that all the center buildings 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 the celebrations in the city center. by the syrians and the turks. 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. 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 i left behind in the center of affray al flags of trust and stability away vincit of rags of terrorist and so on the fifty eighth

day of operation olive branch turkey's first objective is realized that a fight here larry shows him some civilians have chosen to stay instead of joining tens of thousands of others into syrian regime areas to the south. that's reporter the kurdish y p g now in terms 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 white p.g.a. away from its border and it doesn't and they'll be moving further eastwards this is likely to be warm bottle of several andrew simmons ultra zero. now this is a situation in syria now turkey and the free syrian army have captured large swathes of the african region but kurdish forces remain in control of most of the northern territory that's nice of the euphrates italy province in the northwest

remains the largest rebel stronghold in the south syrian government forces backed by russian airpower have divided the rebel enclave of eastern go to into three cutting off fighters key supply lines nicholas danforth is a senior policy analyst at the bipartisan policy center on middle east politics he says the u.s. chose to stay out of the conflict between its allies the kurds and turkish forces. the united states has had what i guess you could call a consistent but incoherent approach to dealing with the syrian kurds this whole time they've made it very clear that they're working with the syrian kurds east of the euphrates river in an mom bitch where they're directly fighting isis but at the same time their situation often in the kurdish resistance to the turkish attack there is not something the united states is going to get involved with so at the point where russia opened if russia open our friends airspace to turkish military strikes and at the point where the y.p. g. declined an agreement with the assad regime to let the assad regime take over

offering to prevent a turkish attack for better or worse the white b.g. was on its own if they decided to evacuate often because they felt they didn't have the strength or the public support to defend it that certainly would have negative consequences for the moving forward on the other hand if they decided to spare the city destruction possible destruction in a turkish military assault that could be part of a larger strategy which you know through a successful guerrilla campaign against turkish forces could ultimately get them some limited measure of autonomy meanwhile the syrian government has released video said to show president bashar assad visiting positions in eastern guta where his forces now control almost eighty percent of the territory state media say assad met soldiers who had been part of the effort to retake the area the un is said to be negotiating a possible cease fire with the main rebel group that. the rebels say they're in discussions about getting aid to civilians and evacuating people in need of urgent

medical care. republican senate is a warning us president donald trump not to fire special counsel robert muller they say he must be allowed to investigate alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election in a series of tweets over the weekend trump accused the f.b.i. leadership of lies corruption and leaking information as well from washington. if twitter is any indication u.s. president donald trump is growing increasingly worried about the investigation into ties between his campaign and russia sending off a series of angry tweets including this one where he did something you normally doesn't do he mentions robert mueller by name tweeting why does the miller team have thirteen hardened democrats some big cricket hillary supporters and zero republicans another demaris unli added does anyone think this is fair and yet there is no collusion there are a couple of problems with this tweet first of all muller is a republican so is the man in charge of him rod rosenstein who trump appointed and

the f.b.i. director christopher ray also a republican trump also tweeted there was no cried but three people who were part of his campaign two rather high up have pled guilty to committing crimes more than twenty people and companies have been indicted so far on saturday trump's personal lawyer john dowd called for a shutdown of miller's investigation at first saying he was speaking for the president but later backtracking leading to criticism from democrats and republicans this would undoubtedly result in a constitutional crisis and i think democrats republicans need to speak out about this right now giving the time the resources the independence to do its job and when you are innocent if the allegations collusion with the russians and there is no evidence of that and your end ascent of that act like it trump can't actually fire moamar but he could try to fire the people in charge of him asking their replacements to kill the probe that would likely lead to huge protests and pressure

on congress to name a special prosecutor giving him vastly more power that couldn't be stopped no matter what the president wants. al-jazeera washington. still ahead on al-jazeera six months on from mexico's deadly earthquake concerns are mounting over how politicians are treating those affected and we'll tell you why if you have to or old massacre in the philippines is topping peace efforts with armed groups in mindanao. hello there the weather in north america is now around paying off we're seeing lots of cloud will work its way towards the east and gradually as it does so it's going to be picking up more and more moisture and strengthening as well so by the time we

get to lunchtime on monday then there's the area of low pressure pulling up plenty of moisture ahead of it bringing up plenty of rain there and behind it will see the edge dragged down from the north so what feeling that warm i'm also going to see a fair amount of snow that system then just eases out towards the east there as we head into chews day deepening rapidly as it does so heavy rain some snow on its northern edge and plenty of what weather behind it strong winds in with this system as well it does look particularly know asti behind it there's a little bit more in the way of cloud a few outbreaks of snow and for the western coast it's also looking rather unsettled here with more wet weather working its way into parts of california the further towards the south of for many of us here it's fine and dry there's plenty of warm sunshine to enjoy kingston there and into around thirty one degrees most of the showers of in the southern parts of through parts of panama and into colombia if we had down towards south america here the wet weather that has been in the faso the parts of our map is now working its way northward here it is over parts of power guy working its way into brazil as well heavy downpours here.

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welcome back our top stories on almost all ballots counted on observers have reported widespread violations including ballot boxes being stocks kurdish fighters in syria's north western african region have vowed to fight on using given attack takes this out to turkish forces took control of the main town to launch its operation to clear the enclave of kurdish forces in january and republican senators are warning us present donald trump not to fire special counsel robert miller they say he must be allowed to investigate alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election in a series of tweets over the weekend trump accuse the f.b.i. leadership of lies corruption and leaking information. saudi arabia's crown prince has hit out at iraq on accusing it of wanting to expand its power in the middle east mom had been simon made the comments during his first u.s. t.v. interview ahead of a trip to washington this week in jordan has more. for thirty minutes on sunday the

u.s. news program sixty minutes profiled the saudi crown prince mohamed in solemn on his meeting this week with president donald trump and with climate actual officials in new york for americans who don't pay much attention to foreign affairs the impression of the thirty two year old man slated to be king one day may well be a positive one he's trying to turn saudi arabia's oil based economy into one that's more diversified he favors religious and social reforms and he wants women to have more rights if you have to mean we have extremists who forbid mixing between the two sexes in are unable to differentiate between a man and a woman alone together and their being together in a workplace but many of those ideas contradict the way of life during the time of the prophet and the callous the presenter asked m.b.'s about saudi arabia's poor human rights record and about his country's air war against hope these in yemen

a war that has caused a humanitarian crisis but india's was most forthcoming about the existential threat he sees from iran's ayatollah ali common it he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like hitler who wanted to expand at the time many countries around the world and in europe did not realize how dangerous hitler was until what happened happened that night i don't want to see the same events happening in the middle east not mentioned during the segment the saudi led economic and political blockade against qatar now in its tenth month the possibility of diplomatic relations with israel or the war in syria analysts say the interview was revealing in one significant way i think that his instinct to blame everything on iran from domestic problems in saudi arabia to the region was quite striking and to rewrite history and that somehow the problems in saudi arabia only started in one nine hundred seventy nine erases the fact that that. his

relative king faisal was assassinated in one nine hundred seventy five for bringing television to the kingdom and allowing girls to school go to school this is not a problem that started with iran this is a problem inside saudi arabia inside the ruling family in saudi arabia that mohamed bin someone is really trying to erase and it comes out pretty clear in this interview the chrome prince wants saudi arabia to be the most powerful country in the middle east and he wants to make sure the u.s. is in his country's corner all the more reason than to make an appeal to the court of u.s. public opinion. al-jazeera washington a ceremony has taken place to mark the fiftieth anniversary of a massacre on an island in the philippines local leaders say because the massacre of muslim filipinos remains unresolved peace talks between the government and on groups are not moving forward i mean ireland again reports from craig adore islands . the island of the door was scene of one of the most decisive battles in the

second world war it was the last line of defense for american philippine troops from invading japanese forces since then it has become a memorial of bravery and sacrifice. but for many muslim filipinos could he door is also a place of a national. jesus walked through these walls hoping to see the name of his grandfather it isn't here he says but it does not diminish the importance of what happened here fifty years ago i studied. in the bottom more history and then i phone the story of these. and so a sublime summer youth. we are to conduct a study in justice because we are the future of the bombs and. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. before martial law was imposed the philippine government already wielded enormous

control forces and many of its operations were shrouded in secrecy operation where deca was a covert military plan by former president for dinner and marcus to destabilize sabah and take it back from malaysia filipino muslims were recruited under the guise that they will be able to join the philippine military but the plan failed and the massacre or more than twenty filipino muslims spark to rebel union mindanao that continues to this day. it is believed that a total of about sixty filipino muslims were recruited and most of them remain unaccounted for various armed groups and rebel leaders have for decades demanded separate state for more communities in mindanao more than one hundred thousand people have been killed and millions more displaced governments have tried and failed to achieve a peace deal many local leaders believe that's because historical injustices have

never been acknowledged the job in the massacre is not taught in schools are written about in history books and so in a small and solemn commemoration of jobby there are those who died are honored fifty years ago those filipino muslims being trained as soldiers but their names on these walls local leaders say this may have been a desperate act as they were being held captive by the military and probably already knew they would be killed. but they wanted the country to know they did exist and remember what happened here. zero could hit their island central philippines. so early on is still struggling to recover from the break which hits west africa four years ago the epidemic killed thousands of people in the country while those who survived say they're not getting the help they need

for health complications linked to the disease and i did raise reports from the city of waterloo. default and survived one of the most fatal viruses street west africa indicate a group of survivors of the twenty fourteen or ball outbreak are walking one are now in a strategy to help others instead of your so they say the disease is still killing people three years after the country was declared a ball of free. the. complications leads to the. you know there of fifteen of the survivors in the country and that one is too but there is also a need to get out of there for even probably the country that if we don't have proper cleaning from a care say you will be i mean we risk because members mill survivors so must in there that i have

a fragment of the virus and yes i'm in it all appeared instead of the young ones after the first outbreak in guinea in march two thousand and fourteen it killed thousands dozens already dying before help arrived this cemetery in waterloo is dedicated to victims of the disease thousands of them are buried here some sort of loon is believed many could have been saved if received by government had been used properly this symmetry is a constant reminder of one of several yawns darkest moment. activists and survivors still struggling to recover. court do want to accountability one hundred fourteen million dollars of money meant to fight the disease vanished the history of it when it strikes one it may strike again their whole idea is really sure that the victim survivors can just is what it will are we have to stress again that our government

is prepared that our government judiciously manages whatever falls are so that side to respond to the virus that is what we do it is a government official told us just later but we have not received communication on the matter from the regional court. government says more than four thousand people died here activists say the numbers are higher. for now their biggest challenge is dealing with the health complications and the stigma of having contracted the virus . with the trees al-jazeera water the city of young thousands of protesters have rallied again in brazil to denounce the killing of a politician who was an outspoken critic of police violence demonstrators gathered at the salon in rio de janeiro where city councilor mariella franco grew up she was shot dead along with her drive on wednesday in what investigators are treating as a targeted assassination. is now six months six months since an earthquake shocks

mexico city leaving hundreds dead and thousands without shelter since then politicians have received criticism for how they have treated survivors and over the reconstruction process john heilemann reports. it's not easy getting ready for work in the morning when you live in a tent that's how it's been for six months for patty since her home was damaged in last september's earthquake she has her few possessions with her. i haven't really slept in six months we take turns who's on watch who is then we look for a change to close the gate we use ropes there's people who try to get n one hand full of camps like patti's adulthood around the capital thousands of others were damaged tiles is living with relatives or paying rent that they can ill afford elsewhere while they wait for the more than three hundred fifty million dollar reconstruction budget to kick in much of it hasn't done yet and that's partly because the city committee set up to administer the phones led by local lawmakers

was plagued by irregularities for experts on the advisory panel resigned in protest among them. all that in this moment i can say that the money has been managed with the desirable transparency. that's a worry especially with elections coming up c.s.t. the man on the if the use of this money isn't rigorously made transparent it's possible that it's going to end up being diverted merino and others hope the city's finance secretary freshly assigned to clear up the mess will stop that from happening everything would be fine it would be up on the internet platform for all the students would be able to see what was done with it we'd geim the budget. for the reconstruction was supposed to go from the start the mexico city government has tried to create more checks and balances the mills where in the country to stop funds going astray but starting almost

a new will mean more delays officials admit that they've been improvising and you can still really see that there are some temporary centers like this one offering loans but in general information on how to get help there's been little publicized and often inaccurate or confused civil organizations say even the census of the damage caused by the earthquake still isn't complete it's all led to a situation in which people still don't know exactly what comes next and then when john homan oh does it a mexico city. well again i'm fully back to bo in the headlines on al-jazeera that i'm here protein has celebrated his landslide victory in russia's presidential election thanking thousands of his supporters in moscow put in one seventy six percent of the vote with almost all ballots counted as some of the servers have reported why spread

violations including the stuffing of ballot boxes. it's very important to maintain this unity to try to close who could have overcome we have to stand to give a shoulder to children we have to think about unity notable differences we should think about the future of our people about the future of our country destined for success kurdish fighters in syria's north western a free region have vowed to fight on using guerilla tactics on the turkish forces took control of the main town to launch its operation to clear the enclave of kurdish wifely g. forces in january the syrian government meanwhile has released video said to show president bashar al assad visiting positions in eastern guta way his forces now control almost eighty percent of the territory the un is reported to be negotiating a possible humanitarian ceasefire with the main rebel group in eastern guta saudi arabia's crown prince has hit out at iran accusing it of wanting to expand its

power in the middle east mama been summoned compare supreme leader ayatollah ali home in a to hit list he made the comments during his first u.s. t.v. interview ahead of a trip to washington later this week republican senators are warning us president donald trump not to fire special counsel robert muller they say he must be allowed to investigate alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand presidential election in a series of tweets over the weekend accuse the f.b.i. leadership of lies corruption and leaking information and thousands of protesters have rallied again in brazil to denounce the killing of a politician who was an outspoken critic of police evidence of violence demonstrators gathered at the slum in rio de janeiro where city councilor mariella franco grew up she was shot dead along with her drive on wednesday in what investigators are treating as a targeted assassination. you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera the news

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