the misinformation from the journalism. one data mining company and one with the listening post on al-jazeera made on al-jazeera venezuela will hold a snap election as president maduro aims to retain control of what lies ahead for a country that has been waiting for at the end of a long tunnel. the top u.s. general in afghanistan about his plans for defeating the taliban and an isis insurgency. struggling with security issues and economic uncertainty iraq is finally set to hold elections as an unseen global battle rages for results. still to be claimed. commemorating seventy years from now al-jazeera examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict made on al-jazeera.

this is. the al-jazeera news hour on live from. that. coming up in the next sixty minutes polls close in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in line get as bob started out with official results expected on monday. the u.s. against pulling out of the new. period lobbying of washington intensifies days before a deadline and investigation reveals how the experimental unregulated medical devices were used in mexico on patients undergoing brain surgery i don't spall to. continue. chaps had to settle for a draw. in

a fiery el classico contest. counting is underway in lebanon's first parliamentary elections. three point six million people were eligible to vote but turnout was down on last time and you system of proportional representation was used in the election but unlikely to offset the overall balance of power. of reports from beirut. judd phone is among the eight hundred thousand voters who are eligible to cast their ballot for the first time lebanon hasn't had an election in nine years political wrangling and disagreement over a new alec torah law were to blame now this twenty three year old hopes his vote will make a difference. for people who don't have any money but it shows up with the money. you need to read them go. more and more voices are calling for change and it's not

just the young lebanese are concerned about the growing level of poverty and unemployment in the country. on the you know. we want change we want to new generation of leaders who know what the youth meet but. this is the first time where so many independent candidates joined the electoral battle the new law which is based on proportional representation opens the door for these candidates to try to break the political elites hold on power but they acknowledge they can only make a small difference. and we know we will win all the one hundred twenty seats but even if we get eight ten or twelve seats we are satisfied because we know we will be able to expand our presence later on they are up against a political establishment that has been in power for years if not decades some even since the days of the civil war in the one nine hundred eighty s. if those politicians are not running their sons or grandsons are and they have been

accused of using their office for electoral gains. a list of them there are people who vote for candidates who help them this is wrong with that is how it has always been. those are the so-called traditional voters who not only benefit from a politician or party but are often loyal to their sect before the nation lebanon's parties are sectarian among them the iranian backed shia armed group hezbollah. hezbollah the when the one day it and the fall destroyed hezbollah has been. a wonderful to them hezbollah and its allies are expected to win the most seats in parliament further strengthening their power which has been growing in recent years . a lot has happened since the last election in two thousand and nine there was political instability the post presidency was vacant for two years until late two thousand and sixteen when lebanon's political rivals reached a compromise a president was elected

a national unity government was formed headed by prime minister saddle heidi that included members of hezbollah. prime minister how do you he wants to secure enough votes to ensure his leadership of this and the community and ensure his return to the premiership he has exchanged harsh words with hezbollah during campaigning but that is an expected part of the election rhetoric in lebanon both sides know they need to work together if they want national unity and this divided nation. and. has more from beirut. preliminary results are starting to trickle in hezbollah says it is making gains in the southern part of the country and the big valley both areas i consider to be. hezbollah strongholds now of the hezbollah's wyvil which is the future movement led by prime minister saddle how duties it has again so far. seven seats eleven but they're expecting

that number to increase these are preliminary results of future movement is expected to gain something like twenty five seats or more than that the other main establishment political parties say that they have also made some gains and the civil society candidate said that the managed to see that this is quite significant these were some sort of emerge from almost nowhere and the out of now trying to save the political future of the country has been very aggressive over the last few months. they have been building up the momentum across the country so so far we're getting first indications that just in that the establishment political parties are likely to maintain the results they made back in two thousand and nine. as they want to other news now in the united states has less than one week to decide whether one went to or from the iran nuclear deal on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani want washington about the consequences are withdrawing while

european leaders continue to press donald trump to stay in it diane estabrook has more from washington. with the may twelfth deadline just days away president donald trump's new legal adviser offered this assessment of the iran nuclear deal to a gathering of iranian dissidents in washington what do you think is going to happen to that agreement. that route they are given. as president trump a longtime critic of the pact is threatening to pull out of the deal by saturday unless it can be improved on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani offered a stern warning this salas money and energy i tell me if america leads to nuclear accord it will soon see that this will entail historic remorse for it china the united states along with four other countries and the european union signed the joint comprehensive plan of action with iran in twenty fifteen. under the j.c.

way iran agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons in exchange for the easing of sanctions president trump says the deal was flawed from the start in part because it allows some nuclear provisions to sunset in two thousand and twenty five. he's also blasted iran for its use of ballistic missiles in the region and has accused iran of supporting terrorism european allies have been pressing the u.s. president not to scrap the deal u.k. media say british foreign minister boris johnson is traveling to washington to meet with senior administration officials on the issue so it is really that visit followed similar meetings in washington last month with french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel who both agree the pact isn't perfect but think it can be improved in an interview on sunday britain's ambassador to the u.s. expressed optimism about keeping the u.s. in the deal all those issues we have ideas we think that we can you can find some

language to use my question that meets the president's concerns there are reports that former secretary of state john kerry who helped negotiate the j.c. under president barack obama is also meeting with foreign leaders to save the deal some republicans in congress say they aren't opposed to scrapping it but advised the president to be careful you need to have a clear idea about next steps if we are going to pull out president trump maintains he still hasn't made up his mind what he'll do but time is running out dion estabrook al-jazeera washington and for the view from evonne saying best raviv reports from padda. president hassan rouhani is preparing his people for a worst case scenario the resumption of u.s. sanctions and they return to the economic isolation of the past but this is not the same iran that signed the nuclear deal in two thousand and fifteen. ronnie's

message to his people is that iran has a more robust economy one able to withstand any aggression by the united states iran is also strategically stronger in the region than it was when it signed the deal with close ties to countries it is helped in open conflict including syria iraq lebanon yemen and in recent years to iran has strengthened one to one trade and diplomatic ties with dozens of countries these are things are wrong the leaders are pointing to as positive steps taken during the current administration and the rest of the tone of the iranian president's remarks about the united states it was likely for a domestic audience. running mary herself to the success of the nuclear deal and as it begins to fall apart he finds himself defending his government's decision to enter into talks in the first place if the united states pulls out of the nuclear agreement many people say that it could bolster hardline lawmakers and military hawks here in iran or it could work out in president rouhani favor giving his

government the moral high ground to say to western powers that we try to get your way and now we will go back to making policy on our own terms now the hashmi is the director of the center for meddling studies at the university of denver and he thinks that is likely that donald trump will pull the u.s. out of the appointment. the key point here that shouldn't be missed is that why would iran agree to renegotiate the terms of the nuclear agreement that donald trump is now threatening to withdraw from based on a commitment that america's word under the leadership of john will trump could be honored i mean if donald trump can pull out of the current agreement why would the iranian regime trust donald trump to adhere to a radio sheet agreement so i think this is a deeply you know problematic position and i don't think fundamentally from my reading donald trump is really interested renegotiating anything i think he's committed to pulling out of the green and to confronting iran politically

economically and possibly literally and i suspect iran will then begin to restart its nuclear program in some form or some fashion allowing hardliners in iran to really declare a victory over president rouhani a reformist forces who you know are very strongly in favor of this of this agreement and that was i think have its own internal repercussions within the context of domestic politics hardliners will say look you know we just can't trust the word of the west the united states in particular they committed themselves to agreement now they're not honoring it and we have no other. option except to to dig in to rally around the flag to invest in our military and to try and stand up to western bullying intimidation tactics even if it comes at the price of economic sanctions. north korea has denied that it was forced into giving up nuclear weapons by american led international sanctions a foreign ministry spokesman said the u.s.

is misleading public opinion by claiming that the sanctions worked he also wanted washington against deliberately provoking the north by the pulling military assets in south korea the north korea and us later on and on and trumpeters a maint and the coming weeks. the israeli military says it's killed two palestinians who tried to cross into israel from the gaza strip israel says the men were trying to damage security infrastructure more than forty palestinians have been killed and thousands injured by israeli forces along the border since march when weekly protests against land confiscation began. meanwhile hamas has valid revenge against israel after an explosion killed six of its fighters and guards are on saturday thousands of palestinians turned out to pay their respects to the fighters who are part of the organizations the military wing brigades amass as they were killed while dismantling spying equipment planted by israel as really military has denied any involvement. and u.s.

president is expected to ask israel to withdraw from four neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem israeli media is reporting that trump's request is part of the so-called u.s. peace plan which is still under development and comes less than two weeks before the u.s. embassy moves from tel aviv to jerusalem stephanie decker has more from west jerusalem. reports in the israeli media that the trumpet ministration will israel to hand over cede control of four palestinian neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem drugger free of course is incredibly important it is everything when it comes to resolving this conflict three of those neighborhoods one of them is are ready outside the separation wall two of them very close to it the other one being talked about are fought is one that is right next to west jerusalem many people will tell you that it will be incredibly difficult to see how israel will allow to hand over control of that the bigger picture here is what's important and also no

one has yet spoken about the future of the old city the old city of course home to the al aqsa mosque compound it is holy to muslims it is holy to jews many people will tell you the palestinians won't accept anything when it comes to the core of the issue i think it's all about concessions we have heard from the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman in these early media as well saturday night saying there is no such thing as a free lunch of course referring to the transfer of the american embassy here to druce and we expect that on the fourteenth of may concessions will have to be made by both sides the trumpet ministration of course donald trump will be incredibly keen to be seen as the man who's been able to resolve the impossible he's calling what we are expecting to hear a new plan that their administrations been working on the deal of the century i think however no one is holding their breath the palestinians increasingly skeptical of the americans as honest brokers following that move however other was will tell you that perhaps the trump administration will be using the move to twist

israel to twist this administration into giving concessions that otherwise it will not make again we're going to have to wait and see what exactly the specifics of this deal will be we're expecting that to be announced a little after that move of the embassy to jerusalem the fourteenth. there are plenty more ahead on the news al including more destroyed by lava in hawaii with the residents now want to expect aftershocks from earthquakes. the activist behind the media campaign and how their efforts. could force real change. and in sports surfing megyn kelly slater explains how he's making waves nowhere near the ocean. a bomb blast at a mosque in the eastern province of course has killed fourteen people place suspect

the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center as parliamentary election reports. these are the latest victims to be a series of attacks on voter registration centers where afghans go to pick up their identification cards the elections in october. at the mosque when a huge blast occurred i don't know what happened next police say a bomb was planted in the mosque in host province which was doubling up as of voter registration center two weeks ago when i saw a bombing killed around sixty people in the afghan capital kabul the center's open three weeks ago as part of the long process to get voters properly registered president ashraf ghani has condemned the attack that many afghans blame the government of failing to provide the said his with adequate security but little fortunately we witnessed a strong explosion and coast city more than ten people were killed and more than

thirty were injured in this explosion we have women and children among the victims . allegations of food have long plagued elections in afghanistan the registration process is designed to guard against that the independent election commission says it hopes as many as fifty million people register for the parliamentary and district council elections but the election commission admits turnout so far is already low this latest blast will do little to reassure people signing up to vote is worth the risk victoria gate and be al jazeera. the pakistani interior minister's been shot and what police say was an attempted assassination. in the arm to a rally in punjab province the news agency says the twenty one year old suspect is affiliated with a. party that focuses on highlighting and fighting blasphemy the party's leader has drawn widespread condemnation of the attack which comes ahead of elections in july

security forces have opened fire on protesters and the administered kashmir killing five people and wounding at least fifty others the crowds were angry about a military operation against separatist fighters in short feel and five rebels were killed in the gunfight with indian troops there's been of recent spike in violence during anti india protests in the disputed region while tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets for the funerals of those killed which included a senior rebel commander muslim separatists have been waging a campaign against indian role since the late one nine hundred eighty s. . to mexico now where almost five hundred people were subjected to a treatment at the country's flagship neurological institute over fourteen years when operations from brain condition used to devise invented and patented by the head of the institution of the method was never approved by mexican authorities and a number of doctors believe it had serious flaws in the second part of his

investigation john homan explains the consequences for those for those affected. over the fourteen years almost five hundred patients were fitted with an experimental unapproved device a top public neurological institute you learned the good ed it was among them it was done without her or her husband's knowledge. they asked us to sign a bit of paper but never that it was going to be a valve or a tube that was part of an experiment they never told us anything about that. three doctors working at the institute at the time told how does it or that the same is true for other patients who received the implant it was designed to treat hydrocephalus that's excess fluid in the brain by draining it down through a chub into the stomach area. this man invented the device and patented it. he was also the director of the same national neurology and neurosurgery institute

where it was pressed into use despite never being approved by medical authorities have equipment that there was a recommendation i would see a demand that you had to recognize the brilliant idea of sotelo the institute the health ministry and the to sort tell himself were fused to talk to out to zero he's always maintained that studies show his device was effective. neither he nor the national institute has ever been sanctioned for its unauthorized use despite a commission of medical arbitrage clearly stating that malpractise occurred in your landers case. dr edward natal who still works at the national institute has one word for it all. impunity impunity at every level he says. meanwhile your london one man who will have to sell their flat to pay medical bills their claims for compensation have fallen on deaf ears mexico's attorney general's

office kept them waiting for eight years only to tell them it wouldn't take any action all the time you learned his health is worsening although it's unclear if that has any connection to the device. i'm frightened of dying of leaving my daughter i'm just so tired there are days in which i just think it would be better if i died. against the backdrop of silence a congresswoman and n.g.o.s have taken the case to the into american human rights commission. it's unlikely to succeed but it is a fresh attempt to get justice for the hundreds of people treated as guinea pigs over fourteen years. john home and. mexico city. to hawaii now where there have been more evacuations after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano as epicenter was more than twenty kilometers of les loni

a state where mountain the lava has been flowing into residential areas around two thousand people have been forced to leave their homes to escape lava and poisonous gas that's coming up through cracks opened by the earthquakes a state of emergency as an effect on the big island well let's get more on this now rob reynolds is and paula and has just been into part of the area which has been evacuated so what were you able to see when you went into that zone rob. well elizabeth those very dramatic many of the roads that we traveled on were cracked and there were fissures in the roads the steam and the gases coming out of those cracks there were signs where on the roads and the ground where lava had erupted upwards and then fall and down and cooled and some roads you could see lava flows that had cooled but they were they were like as tall as i am you

know really immense and mount bold rock had flowed and finally we got to an area where we really couldn't go any further because all the roads were blocked and there we saw houses on fire smoke going into the air and this very very strong smell of sulfur from the sulfur dioxide gas that is associated with this eruption of mt killer whale and we couldn't stay there very long because we didn't have the kind of equipment that is necessary to breathe properly with with that gas in the air but it was very very strong smell and could kind of you could feel it in your lungs very much so that was what we were able to see and we were also able to see the billowing smoke in the cloud of volcanic eruption which is sort of towering over this area where i'm standing right now and given those

conditions from has everyone states which is the most affected area have they evacuated one of people telling. you know i talked to a police officer from the hawaii state police and he said that yes there are some people who are you know staying behind and they're there declining to be evacuated and there's really very little that the authorities can do they cannot come in and drag them out to physically so those people are staying at great risk to themselves now the majority of people around two thousand people have evacuated and many of them have been congregating here and paula they're trying to get information from one another and from officials and they're also a very impressive volunteer effort where people are donating their own food their own water other kinds of essential to people who had to flee from the eruption and

people here are feeling very sad asli that their lives have been so disrupted i talked to one young man who had lived in one house and lani it states this entire life the house was burned to the ground and he knew it and he said he was really shocked and his parents were very shocked as well but on the other hand a lot of people today were heartened by the fact that finally allowed them to go into safer parts of the lining is states to go to their homes see if the homes were intact and then pick up some of the items that they were not able to take with them when they exited very rapidly such as medicine paths that were left behind personal documents and you know personal treasures so that was something that was really weighing a lot on people's minds earlier today and after the authorities allowed caravans of

people in their cars to go into the states and do that people were feeling a bit better but overall. there everybody here knows that there's no stopping the mountain there's nothing that humans can do to make this go away so it is simply a matter of waiting and hoping for the best thank you very much for that that is robert analyst joining us live thank you. nicaragua has set up a truth commission to investigate the deaths of at least forty five protesters during anti-government demonstrations in recent weeks it comes after more much as one held one for justice for those killed the five member panel of investigations will report back to politicians for than three months protests against president of up to in april all the plans to reform social security spending which were later abandoned. the turkish president has unveiled his party's election manifesto ahead of next month's snap vote the president's budget unveiled plans in front of

thousands of supporters in istanbul he promised new military operations against kurdish fighters along turkey's border with syria and iraq and of course june's election more than a year early to consolidate his power. manias parliament is expected to elect opposition leader nicolle as the country's new prime minister on tuesday it follows a wave of protests in which students have played a major role as the going to reports from yet of on. many are medians are saying their so-called velvet revolution succeeded because people finally showed their political apathy and were inspired to. has been leading protests since twenty sixteen for several weeks he's rallied students at half a dozen university he says opposition leader. may be the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they

don't need to because. there are steps they. need to hold the process that is where people recall food and. it's undeniable young people force during the protests that eventually crippled the country. fed up with the poverty lack of jobs and corruption there hoping the government will finally turn its attention to the pressing needs of armenians if pressure becomes prime minister as expected on tuesday he'll have an abundance of goodwill and face high expectation i belong to the there really no percentage of the people who really believe that this day would come i expect a lot but it's really hard for me and for him because like people i know people are going to push and i know that it's going to take a long time for him to rebuild that. system the student activists we spoke with say

the priority is for the new government to hold free and fair elections it would be a first for this generation you know closing to spit into or going to another page where it will be said to me is no it is participatory terry democracy and this is also a victory and dissipates a political process when i mean it can be united forcing the resignation of a prime minister is one thing remaining in game through the often slow and messy journey towards monumental political change will be the next test of this country's people power movement natasha al-jazeera year of on armenia. russian opposition leader has been released after being detained at an anti putin valley on saturday and a volley called on people to stage valleys throughout the country ahead of the russian president's inauguration for

a fourth term and was taken away by police shortly after appearing at a protest in moscow now this is the forty one year old will appear in court next week. to head on the news hour. praying for pasting attack on a church in central area that's dividing the community. why some of the famous street talk is under threat from developers. and spawn arson wango gets the perfect sendoff a final home game in charge of us now. from the sunset so it's proving savannah. to summarize the top in metropolis how i once again welcome to another look at the international focus of had some really heavy writing to the southwest of china recently had to pull away

the west as well that will ease over towards that southeastern corner system a heavy rain in place pushing all the way up towards shanghai comes a little further south which as we go on through tuesday some big downpours a possibility towards hong kong maybe some west weather just not going back towards the gulf of tonkin want to show is there across into china vietnam should be caught without possibility of one of two heat of the day they stretch they way down into cambodia a rash of showers across southeast asia some of them will be big and heavy from time to time coaching at thirty one celsius possible this is really heavy rain coming in here this is the into the it does look as monday's pick just a pitch as you go on through chews day scattering of showers little further north in the shows. well was in place not too far away from some time doesn't it too bad over the next few days after a recent spell of very heavy rain heavy rain stays in place full southern parts of india some big showers coming in here some showers that into sri lanka east of

india could also see some wet weather along with bangladesh but for many these days very hot in. the winter sponsored by cattle and. once pristine indonesia's river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain one when you see examines the cumin cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera and this is different whether someone is saying or someone is very red. it's how you approach it and i think it is a certain way of doing it. by.

the country. good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour on these are our top stories counting is underway in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in nearly a decade the interior minister has said it was forty nine point two percent down from fifty four percent last time the country is using the new proportional representation system iran's president has warned the u.s.

against the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal saying it was a historical more than rouhani also said that iran has plans to respond to any decision by president the u.s. leader has less than a week to decide whether he will withdraw from the agreement and there will be more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano. within twenty kilometers of the estates where molten lava has been flowing into residential areas around two thousand people have been forced to leave their homes . funerals have been held for some of the forty five people killed in an attack in northern nigeria armed bandits raided a village and could do in a state on saturday what misses so the attackers came from neighboring far and shot at children and torched houses the region see an increase in violence at the hands of cattle rustlers and armed gangs. well disputes over territory a continuing to escalate elsewhere in nigeria president government is under pressure to prevent

such attacks ahead of elections next year. reports from venue state where an attack on a church is dividing a community that's lived peacefully for generations. the police are taking us to a small town called by law it's in bend with state in central nigeria but long is a small farming community a place with no history of violence until now they're offered a glass of grog tool. for an extra hour. for now i feel. so much because of the. reverence rather of the attack was devastating for people here they accuse ethnic feel any herdsman of being behind the attack there was a morning mass here when a group of gunmen stormed the church and started firing people say the shooting lasted for over an hour sixteen churchgoers died that day including two priests and

children. there have been disputes or remand across central nigeria between mostly christian farming communities and muslim herdsman for many years people here say they are afraid because the attack in belong is creating divisions they say the attackers wanted to provoke religious conflict and they call on the government to put a stop on this now are for government to exist will it get him isn't he was our capacity to stop people from killing our people. no washing not a woman if one knows what should i be able to get for us o'clock in our environment to live what. our walk from what i do washing got the freedom carnival crowd what the moment to try to call or eat in terms of trade in terms of political mission in terms of religion. defeating the purpose of the fight and

that is well been telling the people so fight for all. the. many here fear the attack on the church was intended to sow fear and hatred between communities and this is why this plight the violence people here continue to preach they see that for generations they have always lived peacefully together despite the religious differences what binds them together they say is stronger than the killings in the village of. duggan al jazeera been restates central nigeria it's been two decades of the start of the war between ethiopia and eritrea tens of thousands of people were killed when fighting began in one thousand nine hundred eight near a disputed border town but the conflicts of ruth remain largely unresolved shallop

ballasts reports. twenty years ago today the eritrean military and ethiopian police patrols exchanged fire near the town of bad me bad me isn't a disputed border area but at that time it was under the control of ethiopia within a week it is still a suit eritrea since soldiers and tanks to attack the town and over the next two years the two nations fought a war along their entire one thousand kilometers about entry it in did in december two thousand with the algiers agreement a commission was established to decide blame and claims for the war each country presented its position ethiopia charge that eritrea attacked military and police units as well as civilians it says era trainer killed and injured its people by shelling mines murder rape detention and abduction eritrea says it was acting in self-defense as ethiopia was unlawfully occupying its territory because commission

concluded that eritrea was to blame for starting the war and had invaded ethiopia in may one thousand nine hundred ninety eight but it also found that bad may was indeed eritrean territory and ethiopia had to give it back to this day bad make the small town that started the war is disputed and skirmishes continued as are a mains under the control of ethiopia. more than four hundred fifty people have been rescued by spain's about time service from fifteen boats trying to cross the mediterranean sea from african shores and separately a spanish rescue charity says it saved more than one hundred people in a boat drifting off the coast of libya human smugglers are reported to have a move the boat's engine halfway through the journey among those rescued were eight women and six children. now tennessee as any other party is claiming victory in the country's first local elections since the two thousand and eleven arab spring the religious party says it's ahead of the secular to an aspire. about five percent of

voters say it is an important maka antinous he has transition to democracy muhammad june a poll. for tunisia which is considered not just the birthplace of the arab spring but also its only success story this is a significant step. on citizens heading to the polls to vote in the first ever democratically free local elections. it's seen as another milestone on the long and difficult road to becoming a full fledged democracy. more than fifty seven thousand candidates are running for office in three hundred fifty municipalities. forty nine percent are women and more than half are under the age of thirty five but one officials have called for a large turnout observers don't expect many to come out citing an electorate demoralized by high unemployment a weak economy and years of austerity a lack of trust in politicians especially by young people is but one more challenge

to the general population and we have already begun. with electric program and. you know. we're not looking at all. the reason. that you need yes. there is a region. where even the daily life i mean there are going to be issues. that. need a way. frustration with the economy and anger arising from the government's austerity measures led to protests in january analysts say low voter turnout in these municipal polls could be dangerous to the future of democracy in tunisia that it would call into question the legitimacy of those elected who are there in our and they won't have any support around them that think they mean. they will

not be able to. make a. more objective really good life in the country the elections were meant to be a way of giving more power to municipal councils throughout the country while it's still far too early to tell what these polls mean for the future the results are expected to be a sign of the political direction tunisia may be going into ahead of presidential and legislative elections next year. human rights watch has strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salam for what it calls a dramatic. increase than arbitrary detentions the group says at least two thousand three hundred people have been detained for more than six months without trial some have been in custody for more than a decade human rights watch says this hour the justice system only seems to be getting worse with the latest numbers or a marked increase from two thousand and fourteen when the group found that less

than three hundred people held without trial for more than six months human rights watch says one saudi citizen has been held without conviction since september two thousand and three another has been detained while under investigation since december two thousand and six two hundred fifty one people have been imprisoned for more than three years without cases coming before the courts the report is based on data published by the saudi interior ministry well adam kugel is the middle east researcher at human rights watch and he says ending the detentions should be a priority under the reforms announced by saudi arabia. saudi authorities have been promising justice reforms for more than ten years and they've poured millions and millions of dollars into it yet for all these reforms we still find these massive numbers of people held for many many months and even years without trial and that's just one part of the problem once people get to trial they also face other issues including convictions based on what they say are coerced course confessions as well

as an inability of defendants to adequately defend themselves before saudi courts some cases in which no defense was presented to end up with the death penalty so you know i think while the certainly the crown prince maybe even more time to institute full scale justice reforms. they certainly have not made a lot of progress so far and i should also say in a recent interview with the washington post the crown prince when asked about the detentions and unfair trials of human rights activists seem to indicate that he did not think that the system was broken what we did was we took the data from in full second and we just analyzed how many people have been under investigation or with a case that is that is not indicative of a conviction or being brought before trial and we said how many of them are in detention how long have they been in detention i also should say that in january of this year we sent a letter to the saudi attorney general and to the saudi foreign ministry requesting

information or information about the data as presented by the almight portal but we received no response it's difficult for investors to invest when they don't have confidence in the justice system it's difficult for ordinary saudis to feel like you know they can go through life and receive fair treatment when they know that the justice system isn't working so it is a really critical it should be a critical component to mohammed bin some nance modernization efforts. the united arab emirates says that its role on the strategic yemeni arland of the quarter has been distorted that's after the yemeni prime minister criticized the emirates for sending troops to the island amorality forces landed there last week and took control of the airport and harbor the u.a.e. is part of the saudi led coalition fighting with the rebels in yemen but ties between the emirates and yemen's government have become strained in recent months police in serbia have stopped a far watch leader returning to a village where he encouraged ethnic hatred during the balkans war. wanted to hold

a rally with his supporters a u.n. court convicted him of war crimes just last month after he called for the ethnic cleansing of residents in his village in one thousand nine hundred two he was sentenced to ten years in jail but freed because of the time he's already spent in custody. to germany now in berlin has long been known for his street heart with some graffiti and murals becoming well known landmarks but demand for new housing means some may soon disappear dominic cain reports from the. it's a city of culture and counter culture where the walls of buildings are the canvas on which politics and society sometimes collide in an art form that is much to the anarchic where what matters is the work the artists themselves want to remain anonymous and not to have limits placed on a creativity if there's new buildings being dealt that's all like it's kind of like that's i mean more important that it's like street art is like something that is

born on its own and doesn't have like when it gets too well regulated or sanctioned then it won't really be alive anymore and you get a feel for just how alive the scene really is in districts like lights back where improvised astronauts stared down at you from buildings how the fruits of the artists labor is there for all to see and reputable feel walls are just murals waiting to be painted all the. more and more street artists are coming here from across the world really it's more and more and as far as i know this year alone more than fifty new murals are going to be painted in a very short time. but in a city with a constant need for new housing and more office space often world renowned examples of street art can end up obscured by new buildings recent figures suggest the vacancy rate in existing apartment buildings is just one and a half percent at a time when fifty eight percent of all households are occupied by single people

leaving the city planning with or a tease with the dilemma of how to protect cultural treasures while accommodating the ever growing number of people who want to live among them you have to deal with investors that want to build blocks and things like that and so everyone has to find solutions what. has to go not. friend of having a sort of stay with this school cities and things like that forever there are some examples of three thought in this city which do have protection germans called partial factors here what's left of the burden wall at what's called the east side gallery but even here it's clear where modern buildings have really taken over and yet some believe those modern buildings that obscure the art of yesteryear also provide

a platform to paint the pictures of the president dominic cain al-jazeera berlin. to egypt now where there's disappointment after archaeologists confirmed that there was no evidence of head and remains in an ancient turn belonging to king tooth and carmen in two thousand and fifteen an expert suggested that the remains of the king stepmother and their fertility could be concealed behind wall paintings but new radar scans have dashed years of excitement over that prospect. now more than seven hundred fighters have been acting medieval battles in italy it's part of a global competition which challenges take to the field to sort space in access and while it isn't a fight to the death like in the old days wounded fighters are still filling up nearby hospitals with around eighteen needing treatment after the event.

it's time for sports now his study are thank you very much newly crowned league champions barcelona just three games away from becoming the first team to go on beaten through the spanish season after a two all draw where all madrid in el classico luis suarez was first on the scoresheet in the country's biggest match cristiana ronaldo equalized for rail less than five minutes later barcelona went down to ten men when sergio roberto was sent off as tempers flared late on in the first half it looked as though basso would

clinch the win when lee and all messi struck the back of the net in the fifty second minute but a late gareth bell equaliser gave them the troll huddersfield have kept manchester city's scoreless the harm for the first time this season to keep their premier league hopes alive and to upset the trophy celebrations of the champions the trophy ceremony was delayed by nearly half an hour after fans came on to the pitch after the final whistle the nil nil draw means cities still need one win and two goals from their remaining two games to break their records for the most wins and most points in a premier league season as well as the league's all time goal scoring record. i know when you win a final or wait a goal in the last minute is something splodge it is the thing especially here you know we had time to you know to. to accept the reality we won two or three days ago it was a go and we're surprised how good we maintained it once it was our focus in today

for many a reason we were not able but to try to make the last effort. all snow have celebrated also invent his final home game with a five no when i was a bentley the crowd were all given special must say also in shots as they thanked him for his twenty two years with the club then go on three league titles and a record seven f.a. cup with the gunners but also crashed out in the last chance them to claim a european trophy when at last it came to beat them in the europa league semifinal on thursday he paid tribute to alex ferguson is in hospital off to suffering a brain hemorrhage and to the also fans at least they think i gave my total commitment to do with him. and my thoughts of course that's all right i see my take it and very noble my commitment was generally in total is complete integrity i want to make people happy because i have

a certain idea of the game of football to be played and my ambition was always to win the style when you began but i think you have a responsibility and. for the supporters to have a special experience when they come to a club meanwhile chelsea of basted that chances of a top four finish in the a.p.l. with a one know when i've been a livable on sunday and livia giroux with the only goal chelsea remaining fit but and now just two points behind top them as they look to secure the final champions league spot with the game in hand. well months ago oh. it was impossible to meet gene pool right at the end of the fight for the place in champions league. not one of the reasons that he's a. devil i want to because. we are getting a t.v. game on the phones i want opponents and. i think mostly i do it being well oh.

well oh. i want to. i will feature is not you know what it. team usa has made the final of the first ever found us cop a private thing about being held and also official wave pool the u.s. ally case i mean south africa and australia in the final the sufis compete on waves that ole identical thanks to the technology that took ten years to develop meaning competitions come down to who is best the pole is the brainchild of champion suffocates flights and it's constructed nearly two hundred kilometers from the nearest beach told al-jazeera has an interest in the technology from a number of countries that basically a very inefficient old water person a spall off for people all the why that's well i think that some autonomy solitary. or money but if it's everybody raising.

rates for. all the top surfers in the world of the fortune course everyone is. really going to make it bigger smaller faster slower. on the spanish grand prix and taken over the moto g.p. championship lead as a huge crash at major implications for his nearest rivals pulses a cow crunch low fail to finish after crashing out on nine but that also was then flying high over his honda during a collision with the sea pairing of andrea david seals and hot headlines though a little later on in the race all three riders walked away from the outset and that resulted in them slipping in the championship standings reigning world champion mark has now leads the series by twelve points after the wind at his home track i was clever. i knew that there might be made was. like me or even

a stronger but you know he raises very down to my mates many many things we would like to do to get these levels cycling's you know the italian completed his swing through israel on sunday as stage three saw the riders travel two hundred twenty nine kilometers from beersheba to a lot on a scorching day in the negev desert the pellets and fell back from the breakaway group until the last seven kilometers when it came down to a sprint finish italian rider. clinched the victory but it's australian right hand dennis he retains the race leader's pink jersey after finishing in the palace and the race now heads to sicily and that is all this ball for now more later and that does it for the al-jazeera news for me it is a problem in the entire team thank you very much for watching. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we need to from the

government to just shoot soon turned into a battle front for the mind jury and government. yet why. the torrijos for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing and displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins and bloody rise of iraq on al-jazeera. and monday. on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. rewind returns with a new series. and brand new updates on the best of

documentaries in i was the global. and the others through the rewind continues with children of conflict we'd love some peace in this war especially. children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. on the wall that the city and the story builds to the forest so it would just. when people need to be heard women and girls are being bombed and given away in refugee camps al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you the award winning documentaries and live news about al-jazeera i got to commend you on hearing is good journalism on air and on mine.