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but first the shia group hezbollah and its allies are reported to have made gains in lebanon's column entry elections well that's according to unofficial preliminary results being cited by politicians in the media the official to. there is expected to be announced in a few hours from now but hezbollah supporters have already been out celebrating these have been the first parliamentary elections in the nine years let's go live now to beirut the lebanese capital and our correspondent there. so if the predicted gains are for hezbollah does that mean they have been losses for saad hariri the current prime minister. martin it is definitely a major setback for prime minister. brown has just made a statement saying basically that he is proud of the achievements of his political party that he remains the biggest sonu bloc in lebanon and that he wants to

continue this through the path of political reforms in lebanon that people still trust his party the movement possible i have to say this is what a face saving steps meant because sad that had it it was hoping to further consolidate political gains that he made in two thousand and nine when he won when you know the day he was when he was. you know he was hoping to garner support ticket only here in the capital beirut which is considered to be a certainly stronghold but you know want menacingly here in beirut didn't cast a vote for saddam how did he wish list him with a very delicate task ahead in the near future i think he's in a position where he has to reinvent himself brand himself to be able to reach out to the sunni community one hand and to his allies to be able to continue as

lebanon's prime minister has a lot on the other hand is considered dating these days along with its allies particularly movement but i have to say the other biggest surprise of the election in lebanon is the. lebanese flu led by some is based picked killer games they are now the second most important question block in the parliament and they are likely to say the fewest of the country lebanese forces are stone critics but there's no law they say that the country has to stay away from regional politics and the stones to quizzical of the syrian president bashar al assad the elections yesterday in lebanon have created a new political reality that could further lead to further chance in a less all the parties come together and negotiate a general agreement so hashimi talk about a new political reality then in terms of the lebanese parliament but the key posts

remain in the sectarian provinces that they always have been a sunni muslim remains prime minister the president is a maronite christian and the speaker of the house is a shia muslim. we continue i mean the the the problem the speaker of the parliament is most likely going to be not be very who has made. major gains his party. has won sixteen seats problem now is for prime minister saddle how do you who has won only twenty one percent but you know what the other political parties have no other alternative if you if they don't have a saddle how do you do it will be difficult to sell another certainly lead. to take over as prime minister najib mikati a very prominent sunni leader won elections in tripoli his biggest problem is that he doesn't have the same popularity that's out there how did he so i think

ultimately what we're going to see in the coming days is the free pass music movement of president bashir i want along with hezbollah and how really coming together to form a government of national unity that could be the only way out to save lebanon from and the political gridlock in the coming weeks all right for now hashem thank you. live in beirut now to russia where vladimir putin has been sworn in as president for the fourth time his inauguration for a six year term came two months after an overwhelming majority of ages backed him in an election we show him face no serious challenges but mr pease is offered to keep dmitri medvedev on as prime minister in his new cabinet live now to moscow and our correspondent there henri chalons and rory it seems that the putin arrangement is a very successful formula that the new president doesn't want to tamper with. well

i think it's successful in that it offers putin basically consistency and continuity he knows who is he has been working alongside him for many years and of course back in two thousand and eight when putin reached the constitutional limits of his presidency he simply stepped into the prime ministership swapped roles with dmitri medvedev for four years and then in two thousand and twelve came back to the presidency again so he knows who maybe it is he can trust him to a certain extent if you had of his not particular pop particularly popular figure domestically he is known for numerous gaffes and mistakes he's not been particularly successful with his custody and ship of domestic affairs but perhaps for peace that's not the most born thing the important thing for putin here is

loyalty putin has for a long time been very conservative in his appointments and i think with deciding to keep mitigated as prime minister well that conservatism and that sense that he would rather choose someone loyal than someone really brilliant continues and so he's got somebody taman relatively compliant then by his side what do we think the next six years will look like as far as that image putin is concerned. well you know the sun is shining here in moscow has been a glorious day for a lot of the boots and to be inaugurated on but there are clouds on the horizon for the presidents and i think basically a boils down to two things first of all what happens at the end of six years he is about to reach the next limits constitutional limits of his presidency so at the end of six years he effectively constitutionally at least has to step aside for the

presidency the question of what happens in the immediate period after that has not been answered yet so we don't know the kremlin hasn't given any hints about what's going to happen it is possible that he could do another swap perhaps with mitigators and if maybe it was still that is the prime minister then that would mean that see another the constitutional terms of of the presidency or six years rather than the previously for it means that putin will be in his late seventy's when he perhaps as a chance to come back to the presidency so it's old but it's not necessarily too old and he seems in reasonably good health at the moment he could also change the constitution to find another way of staying on or some other role of supremum power but then there are other questions as well such as what happens domestically what happens with the persistent problems that russia has with the economy and with social issues in the last term of his presidency person basically used issues of

national pride like how nixing crimea and getting much more involved in regional and global affairs to kind of paper over these cracks can he carry on doing that can he still use national pride issues to mask the problems that many russians face day to day and i draw a thank you rory chalons live in moscow a rebel feiss a leaving an enclave very close to the syrian city of homs under a deal that's been brokered by russia a number of factions of handed over their heavy weapons to the syrian army fighters are now being taken to rebel held areas in the north and this agreement will say allows for there being pinning of the highway between homes and hammer it's been close to seven years. there's the rebels in yemen have launched more missiles into saudi arabia they were aiming at several military targets in the nudge run border region economic sites including oil storage areas also said to be hit saudi arabia

says it's different systems were able to shoot down some of the missiles saying in yemen at least six people were killed by saudi led coalition airstrikes on the presidential office in the capital sanaa is controlled by the rebels and elsewhere demonstrators are calling on forces from the united arab emirates to leave a yemeni island in the arabian sea amorality troops arrived on so katra on thursday forcing yemen's own soldiers from key locations mohammed has more. they're calling for troops from the united arab emirates to leave the island of support to. the people who live here say then move the rebels on by land that means you and your forces have no reason to stay in that artists will just end up on the forcing altie a minute troops and taking over some strategic locations they say it's part of their operation to buc forces loyal to exile be

a mini president of the rebel monsoon heidi so culture is a walled heritage site known for its unique and pristine watch from bottom and it's located just off the coast of somalia with access to major shipping routes the head of the provincial council yemen cease the u.a.e. soldiers should leave well. these forces are present in psychiatry or mara in volumes that can't be understood there are illegitimate troops in these areas are there forces that belong to the who teach to be fought by the coalition here the answer is a big no. yemen swore pits iranian backed to the bulls and the most against troops loyal to exile president hadi. the u.e.s. part of his so delayed coalition the stop in three years ago to support hardy whose power base is in the southern city of other parts where the u.a.e. has been growing its influence funding and training armed yemeni groups now the

u.a.e. is on the island of support humans prime minister says he's been out to deployment there is an assault on women so violent these protesters agree they also wanted the island eunuch would be destroyed two. hundred of them are just. now there appears to have been a breakthrough in south sudan's civil war one of the opposition the main opposition faction in fact has now said that it will join the country's ruling party this is the part of the opposition that is controlled by first vice president tough guy his announcement could possibly strengthen salva care let's go live now to the south sudan capital juba and speak to our correspondent there take us through exactly what's happened here and whether you think this does indeed strengthen the hand the south. well first of all

martin let's remember that nearly every single faction are currently fighting or opposing the government has been part of the oh we seem to have lost him orgon. but we've got a lot more to come. here in news hour including bail denied cambodia's opposition leader remains behind bars after being accused of treason. and a year on. we take a look at how successful french president emanuel mccrone first year in office has been and why public opinion is divided. the houston rockets in the golden state warriors move closer to the n.b.a. conference finals details from the playoffs coming up with in school. france and germany are vowing to stick to the terms of the twenty fifteen iran

nuclear deal even if the u.s. walks away they and other european powers a lobbying president trump not to end america's involvement in the agreement as he prepares to make his decision in less than a week the latest is the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson to go to washington he's made his case in the new york times he wrote of all the options we have for ensuring that iran never gets a nuclear weapon this part offers the fewest disadvantages it has weak this is certainly but i'm convinced they can be remitted i'm sure of one thing every available turn that if is worse the wisest goals would be to improve the handcuffs rather than break them or either to go live to our white house correspondent kimberly how caisson kimberly said boris johnson is the latest in a long line of europeans who've been trekking to washington to try to get donald trump to stick with this deal. that's right in addition to the foreign secretary penning that op ed in the new york times he's also been on two of the morning chat

shows here in the united states essentially what many are learning around the world is if you want to communicate with donald trump go on the program fox and friends and that's exactly what boris johnson has done again sort of echoing the messages you put there that in fact that that is the belief of european leaders that well they acknowledge that there are some flaws with the j c.p.o. way that in fact it offers the fewest disadvantages so now we know that well boris johnson will not be meeting with donald trump he is certainly going to be meeting with a number of the president's close advisors not only vice president mike pence but we know also as well with the national security advisor john bolton who of course himself is very critical of the iran nuclear agreement but i'm just wondering how far president trump might be persuaded by the new of what boris johnson's message is he's saying this is far from perfect this deal he understands that there

are many flaws to it but nonetheless it's still the best show in town it's best to stick with it and reform it rather than scrap it was. right well i think there. in many ways donald trump sometimes just wants to be listened to and recognize and i think that that's what's happening behind the scenes right now we are getting the sense from high level diplomats britain germany france all saying that they believe there is a way to address the president's concerns you remember when emmanuel mccraw the french president was here meeting with donald trump certainly that was his very public message when he spoke to the present as well as the u.s. congress that some of these concerns are legitimate there is the belief that there is a concern about the regional activity of military activity by iran the so-called sunset clauses or the fact that the agreement doesn't address adequately in the eyes of the united states beyond twenty twenty five and also the concern about ballistic

missile testing so you remember emanuel macross suggested the j.c. be a pillar to a supplemental agreement addressing those concerns so those negotiations continue well there haven't been public statements about that certainly that is what the feeling is that there is still opportunity make some progress the decision does not have to be made until may twelfth and there still is time to influence the president's decision but in the meantime of course we've seen some of the major hole. one particular major hole on the president's team is not he's not part of national security is not part of the state department and that is rudy giuliani who gave this perhaps the strongest indication of of what he thinks at least the president is going to do. right certainly it doesn't look good there is concern and i think that's why we're seeing some of the more grim statements coming out of europe right now because this is really down to the eleventh hour we saw not only the cautioning by the french president emanuel macross saying that if the

united states were to leave that this would be opening a pandora's box that there could be fears of war and even that's the message from the foreign secretary boris johnson that in fact this could have iran rushing for the ball i believe is that is what he said so certainly there is concern there's also concern coming from iran itself the iranian president rouhani saying that if the united states does make this move that there would be historic were grette there's no question that there is a sense of how serious this is what the implications could be should the u.s. president decide to withdraw from this agreement that's why i think we're seeing such intense high level lobbying taking place in these final days ok kimberly thank you kimberly white house correspondent in washington now the first rated signs of being unveiled in jerusalem for the new u.s. embassy opening. it's moving from television for president drums recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital president trump says he might attend the official

opening that coincides with the seventieth anniversary of israel's creation which palestinians cool the. now the party engineers here has claimed victory in the first local elections since the arab spring started this seven years ago provisional results results show the conservative party leading its secular rival as mohamed vall now explains. was another party supporters are jubilant after the unofficial results show a five percent of the party won twenty seven point five percent of the votes it's made right from the need to his party the second with twenty two percent both coalition partners in the current government has a measure this party of victory is very important for tunisia and for the democratic transition we don't yet have final results but the first clues show progress of enough and it's success sunday's municipal elections are the first to be held in tunisia since the revolution that and the dictatorial rule of president

ben ali seven years ago around fifty seven thousand candidates have run for office in three hundred and fifty municipalities forty nine percent are women and more than half are under thirty five the poll is seen as an important step to words tunisia's transition to democracy and consolidating the gains of the revolution. people are proud that their country wasn't just the birthplace of the arab spring but also its only success story so far and there's been a serious hand since you see it the political system which we have achieved since two thousand and fourteen called partnership there is consensus this choice to support reforms will remain because it has for reference the two thousand and fourteen elections the elections were meant to be a way of giving more power to municipal councils nationwide a worrying aspect is the low turnout of just thirty four percent only one in three eligible voters cast their ballot analysts see that as

a result of voter frustration with the performance of elected officials they won't have any support around them think they. do and they will not be able. to make the relation more more objective really good live in the country. demoralized by high unemployment weak economy and years of austerity young tunisians are demanding more than just the right to choose leaders and the lack of trust in leaders promises led to protests in january about the state of the economy . our desire. i'm the see international has accused egypt of using solitary confinement as a form of torture and says dozens of human rights activists journalists and opposition supporters face her renders physical abuse behind bars the group's report outlines extended beatings humiliation

a lack of food and restricted movement for years on end egypt has arrested thousands of people since the military overthrew president morsi in twenty thirteen morsi himself is reported to have been held in solitary confinement for most of the past five years the government has repeatedly denied systematic rights abuses well i've been speaking to hussein bomi who is the egypt campaigner at amnesty international and he says the conditions face by those in solitary confinement in egypt's prisons are terrible. so you still find it to egypt very coarse of course. prisoners suffer instead you can find not only the r.c.m.p. treated but actually have two scenes sometimes fall over for twenty five or twenty four hours a day leaving a low incidence with absolutely no meaningful human contact with. five minutes to

go. without. sometimes just deny the family visits the cells are very filthy people have to sleep on the ground floor for extended periods not to mention that i see some substance abuse first printing been syria for over four years al-jazeera journalist mahmoud to say there's been an egyptian jail for more than five hundred days he was detained without charge by oath or it is in twenty sixteen during a holiday to cairo al-jazeera and international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged the egyptian authorities to release jailed journalists and one of the last bastions of free press in cambodia has been sold to a businessman with links to the government the phnom penh post was bought from its

australian owned by p.r. firm both civil koma ji prime minister hun sen has cracked down on independent mean there is media in the polls here jan this complain of harris meant by secret police and several outlets have been shut down the reporters without borders organization says independent press is in ruins and reporters operate in a climate of terror. supreme court judges in cambodia meanwhile of rejected an appeal to release a former opposition leader before his trial for treason came saka was arrested in september and denies all allegations when hey has more from bangkok. this is really now the end of the line for him so car when it comes to taking this case through the courts to try to have his pretrial detention nullified this all started in september when he was arrested on treason charges and then in march the municipal court in the capital phnom penh ruled that that initial period of six months could

be extended by another six months that was appealed unsuccessfully by kim so cause a legal team and now the supreme court has upheld the decision by those two lower courts so he can now be held until september and crucially that takes us past the general election in july and of course critics of the government led by prime minister hun sen say that is what this is all about it's about stamping out any significant opposition to the ruling cambodian people's party in that election there's also over the past year and a half been a significant crackdown on independent media in cambodia and now we've had what was really seen as the last truly independent outlets in cambodia being sold this is the phnom penh post it is being sold to a an investor in malaysia who also owns a public relations firm that has among others counted among its clients the

cambodian prime minister who in sin so clearly that raised a lot of concerns the phnom penh post ran a story about the sale about who the publication was being sold to and the new company owners ordered that that story be taken down now we've had the editor in chief of the phnom penh post on monday being fired and several of the editorial staff at the publication resigning from their position so clearly this is being seen as further deterioration in the media landscape in cambodia. all right it's time for the weather now here's richard with news of heavy rain which could cause flossie flooding in parts of the levant there you can see on the satellite image there martin quite an area of cloud and rain also an area of storms affecting parts of saudi arabia says from the sea currents through all mountain civil moving boldly towards the east clear air getting into wards the mediterranean sea coastline of

lebanon for instance but some pretty heavy rain here on the eastern side of turkey down through syria through jordan and further towards the south in the sequence through that area of rain then moves further eastwards into parts of iraq certainly northern areas and then it crosses on the through the border and into iran with time so i think that could be some localized flash flooding in both areas as a result of that storm system moving through another twenty four hours than it should begin to clear away meanwhile as we move towards the mediterranean reaching to see that area of cloud there but the feature around the whole of the med really is the fact that all these areas of rain are also associated with thunderstorms if you look at the spheric smout that we have which is a thunderstorm location system is lit up like a christmas tree all around the region some really big storms here of how some particularly heavy storms around the bay of genoa over the last twenty four hours those gradually weaken away i think the main focus is going to be across more southeastern parts of europe where maine's very unsettled here circulation developing in the blank sea and some heavy storms are likely all across this region

the next twenty four hours richard thank you very much at the still to come here on the al-jazeera news. a pulls in volcanic eruptions allows hawaii residents to raise home for their pets and their valuables plus. unli welling's a cricket club in dublin which is about to start all of its first of a cricket test match against pakistan. in the persian.

going green bacteria in a boardroom. escaping from. the really the halls of innovation in the for what happened to experiments both exploring and. how counter the effects of climate change the science of capturing call the new thing names on the fly and on the back of my maintains the mind does have to contend. of the top stories here at the al-jazeera news hour hezbollah supporters in lebanon

a celebrating unofficial results from the general election which showed gains for the shia muslim group and its allies the official results are expected later in south sudan an opposition faction says it will join the ruling party in an apparent breakthrough in the civil war the merger is expected to strengthen the position of the government of president salva kid before peace talks later this month. has been sworn in as russia's president for the fourth time and becomes the longest serving leaders and stalin he won almost eighty percent of the vote when reelected in march he's already been in power as president all prime minister for eighteen years many on a whole and takes a look now at putin's journey to the top. he started out as a k.g.b. agent became the head of russia's spy agency then the country's prime minister and less than five months later at the age of forty seven vladimir putin became the

president of russia it was a spectacular rise and reveals the to knesset that has shaped his eighteen years in power evolution to be like the issue of russia's two term presidential limit by two thousand and eight putin's time was up he resolved to that by handing the presidency to dmitri medvedev and becoming prime minister himself if you were in any doubt as to who really held the power. four years later a person was back in the top job and stamping his authority with a police crackdown on anti-government protests and tough you measures to quell the scene. a much more man image is fuelled his popularity at home and putin has worked equally hard to assert russia's tough image abroad. he took crimea from ukraine a move that still angers many in the waist he stepped in to back the regime of

president bashar al assad in syria's long running war over the breast and he's accused by u.s. intelligence officials of being behind a campaign to sway the us elections in donald trump's favor forbes magazine has named bush and the world's most powerful person for four years in a row he's now back for a fourth term president of a country with the opposition has little or no voice president of a country where despite tough international sanctions he's determined to drive russia's agenda no matter how much that much and tegan eyes the waste. well nicholas circle of is assistant professor at moscow says he's stupid foreign relations and he's joining us now live from moscow thank you very much so the last eighteen years i think you could argue that putin has a the scene perhaps the rockiest time of relations between moscow between russia and the west how do you think the world looks to that image putin now as he embarks

on his next six years and perhaps his last six years at the top in the kremlin well i think the world should treat mr putin not as starlin as was mentioned previously in your comment but short of the goal who was leading in france after the second world war because mr borden stresses and he stresses and he is position is justified that he actually helped saw the country from the cares of the ninety's to the stability of the current day and he could compared to russia to phoenix which is reborn after. difficult times in the previous decades so it is very important he is seen by the population as a person who restored national pride and restored russian status as a mayor one of the major powers indeed and he during his speech after the ceremony

. indeed this i think everyone will agree that that has been one of the signature policies of his time in office and that is to restore national pride to russia but it's come at a cost isn't it because many of the of the elements of his foreign policy have been quite a been seen as being quite aggressive by the west and that has and that has come at a cost because the west and then introduced rather large tranche of of sanctions which are leading to the stagnation of the russian economy so russians ultimately are paying the price. well first of all i would say that the impact of the sanctions is a bit exaggerated whilst still though some companies and the financial institutions have trouble up to union investments or obtaining credits from the four western banks generally economy is doing fine and the president

stressed today that russia will to develop pyatt acknowledges industries and that will promote self-sufficiency and that will help to maintain stability in the country and to maintain economic growth and i think that will work out because the government is now investing. considerable amount of funding into the into the defense industry and other high tech sectors of the economy and how do you think the wild looks through vladimir putin's eyes today is it a hostile place so that he has to maintain this robust foreign policy in order to keep russia great again and keep it as a major player on the international stage he didn't say a robust he say that russia will have an active foreign policy will be an active

player and will protect its interests and what he says and he this is very very consistent about that that russia is not being treated as an equal partner that the west is not recognizing russia's national interests and does not want to respect them so that's the major problem from the point of view of mr putin and i think that it's how the situation is seen by the most part of the population by the majority of the population right nicholai still call thank you very much indeed. now the trial of eight men accused of raping and murdering an eight year old girl in indian administered kashmir has been moved to a neighboring state the top called made the decision after the victim's family and lawyer said that they face death threats the incidence of spot anger across the country about the increasing number of sexual assaults on women and girls priyanka gupta reports they look at peace but this family is in pain.

in january an eight year old girl was taken from a family to a temple gag raped by at least three men over the course of four days and then killed her body was dumped in a forest the indian supreme court has banned media from using the girl's real name her family is part of a nomadic community of muslim shepherds a muddy but bob a tatty they killed our daughter she was very pretty we remember her every time we miss her a lot during migration wherever i transit i miss her i mess her in the days and nights whenever i'm alone i miss her after the incident we are very scared we want justice and the culprits to be hanged i tension between the muslim and hindu communities has often been high but they two year old girls case has shocked many on both sides a retired government official and four policemen have been charged through a tired official sons iran is alleged to have ordered his nephew and

a policeman to kidnap the go to harass members of a community into leaving qatar district which is in the northern indian and mr kashmir area of jammu it's mainly him though activists say the religious divide here is fuelled deliberately this government form last three years this government branded this community has learned about this forest. guard those who are or for the last three years branded this community as a criminal and now they're attacking by the governmental institution the fact that the under threat has according to activists allowed the muslim community to be harassed which they say led to the eight year old girls gag rape and death lawyers for the accused disagree with. the theory and the lived with the gang rape. it's not established on the medical records that the border has been is according to police reports d.n.a.

tests have proved the god's presence in this temple a post-mortem cited in the police report has indicated injuries to her genitals as a result of sexual assaults were supporters of the accused protest and asked for federal police involvement in the case supporters of the family for justice and continue to protest bianca gupta al-jazeera. and erupting volcano in hawaii has destroyed at least thirty homes and forced almost two thousand island is to seek safety but reynolds is near a killer whale volcano which is sending molten lava into vents attentional areas. the road into the eruption zone is cracked and broken vents of steam and toxic gas from the lava flows beneath below out deeper into what was once leylandii estates the enormous power of mt killer way it is plain to see we passed roads sealed off by meter high lava flows finally we reached

a wall of burning rock and could go no further we've gotten just about as close to the lava as we can the smell of toxic sulfur dioxide is very strong in the air and it gets stronger when the wind blows from the wrong direction but if you look behind me here you can see that leylandii avenue this is formerly the main street in this community is completely covered with that black lava beyond it the smoke is the sign of another house that's being consumed by the lava people who have been living here have no idea when or if they'll ever be able to come back home more than twenty houses have been destroyed from the air you can see the main crater on kill away is still boiling with smoke and steam toxic gas from the deep magma chambers is the biggest threat to human life i'm most worried about the impact of sulfur dioxide feel in our nostrils

a look here as we're standing over time if there's extended exposure people get inflammation of their lungs and if people have underlying lung conditions like c o p d or emphysema they could get into trouble on sunday morning a long line of cars for him to some residents were permitted to enter the danger zone briefly to salvage important papers medicines pets and personal treasures but plenty more. people are waiting to be allowed back in they want to get answers when they can go back to their residence and that's all what this whole issue about so that they can make themselves whole again this is not the whole why of glossy tourist posters and glamorous television shows this community is one of the poorest in the entire state volunteers set up an outdoor community center called up who hold or place of safety in the hawaiian language. to distribute donated emergency supplies food and water we all come together and want to make this make stuff

happen the government not going to make it scientists say there's no way to predict when the eruption will end it could be days months or longer leaving the people here to wait and hope for the best rob reynolds al-jazeera the whole hallway assad says is entered into a seven point one five billion dollar deal with nestlé to form what it calls a global coffee alliance the agreement gives the swiss food giant the right to sell starbucks products around the world outside of the company's coffee shops around five hundred stocks employees will join nestlé under the deal but has yet to be approved by regulators this kenya's floods have destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland and is on top of the humanitarian crisis which has displaced more than two hundred fifty thousand people but there appears to be no end in sight as the rain continues under simmons says travelled to meddle in khalifi county where

two hundred small farmers have who lost their land to the river. nothing could stop the sabbat the river from destroying land that provided people with something near to self-sufficiency. an abundance of fruits and vegetables used to grow here in fertile soil that's been replaced by silty sand these are only a few of the farmers who have lost their livelihoods by land wars around the corner there how do things like everyone else valentyn katana has no insurance to cover his losses but that was. my other thing the city where everything is cooling off. all the cash i get from. it one of the places that escaped the floods this is how it should be two crops of maize a year but people may be poor but it's rich land the original course of this river

was right over there beside the tree line it didn't just burst its banks it changed course completely surging right across this land destroying homes farms and all of the crops the danger now is that the force is here right across this bank a short distance away this family is afraid they could lose everything to the floods are changing lives making more people dependent on aid right now longer term many will consider moving to towns following the path of urbanization the nearest town is melinda and jobs here are hard to find. back beside the sabbat the river it's raining again and these farmers what the kenya government to do more efficient now is but. everybody's crying here. not all one family about

a thousand families are crying because they've got little lost everything i think we'll see you know ten days or so with blood crying out there. already been displaced. the aid agencies the people are now dependent on are hard pressed to meet demand and the government is coming on the heavier pressure to devote more resources to the crisis andrew simmons al-jazeera bad and good in kenya. it's been a year since emanuel macro won the french election twelve months on public opinion in france is divided on the country's youngest president his opponents call him the president of the rich who ignores the plight of the poor and others think he is reviving france's fortunes growing the economy and raising the country's international standard the trash about law has more from paris in one year emanuel mccall has rocketed from relative obscurity to international prominence the french president is bounded on to the world stage taking illegal climate change the iran

deal and europe his strategy is to speak to everyone even those he disagrees we have to make a burger he is perfect some analysts say that so far the results are mixed we have to give points to mccall for having this kind of close to being cagey relationship with other world leaders and when you measure the results there are very different questions on the iran deal on trade tariffs on climate these are areas where my calls mission has not prevailed at least for now while michael is being celebrated abroad back home it's a different story. and has been growing over the presidents weeping reform agenda for months rail and public sector workers have staged strikes and protests michael says the changes will modernize france and create opportunity but as a man see macro rally in paris people say he's destroying rights and hurting the

poor could afford to do many raul macro's politics are outrageously unfair is like a reverse robin hood robs the poor and gives to the rich it was in the elegant surroundings all the of that one year. ago emanuel mark all celebrated his victory since then he has been dividing public opinion on one hand there are those who say that his policies are hurting some of the most vulnerable in society but there are others who believe that is exactly the kind of dynamic president that france needs for his supporters the youngest french leader since napoleon is a visionary. we have seen an economic revolution but if you call in social revolution and one that is constructive not destructive it's a true leverage for those who deliver my call wants france to be an innovation leader shortly after his election he inaugurated this tech startup pub in paris today at louis international entrepreneurs there's a lot more happening in france and the start of eco system and that was one of the

reasons for me through still consider to stay in france to build my company under mack all the unemployment rate is down investments picking up and public approval for the strikers is fooling but the president has not won his battle yet he's urged to reform all parts of society quickly may create more opponents yet it's unlikely to deter him repeatedly said that he has little to life natasha zero partners in sports coming up in just a little ball and joe will tell us about how the knights of continued their golden run in the ice hockey playoffs.

so the schools use that his job thank you and be a champion defending champions the golden state warriors a one win away from reaching the conference finals the worry is thumped the new orleans pelicans one hundred eighteen to ninety two kevin durant grabbed a game high thirty eight points and steph curry made twenty three that gives him a three one lead in the best of seven semifinal series history rockets are in the same position also needing just one more win to claim their western conference series against the utah jazz chris paul led the scoring twenty seven points as the rockets one game four on sunday one hundred eighty seven's. the vegas cold nights are continuing their winning run in their national hockey league debut season there through to the western conference final after beating the sand as a sharks in their playoff series goaltender mark andre flurry is

a big reason behind their success flurry one three stanley cups with the pittsburgh penguins before joining the golden knights on sunday he made twenty eight saves in his fourth shutout of the playoffs vegas also got a bit of luck in the second period as the park hit the post but on review was determined to cross the line the golden knights beating the shark three nothing vegas will now play either at winnipeg on nashville in the conference final with the jets leading theory three two heading into game six later on monday. the time of a lightning or three to the eastern conference final the boston bruins three one in game five of their series in tampa is the third time in four years they'll be in the conference final the lightning will play either the reigning champion pittsburgh penguins or the washington capitals. baseball star debutant share her with a chair here tawny returned to the mound for the los angeles angels after twelve days out with a sprained ankle and there was no sign of rust against the mariners on sunday as he

dominated early keeping seattle scoreless through six innings before ryan healey spoiled his bid for a shutout with a two run homer in the seven angels still came away with an eighth to win. now jason day will move back into the top ten engulfs world rankings after winning his twelfth p.g.a. tour title at quail hollow by two shots on sunday but it was a disappointing tournament for for formal world number one tiger woods the fourteen time major winner failed to make a birdie on the last day of atonement for the first time since two thousand and fourteen he carded a final round of seventy four to tie fifty fifth meanwhile it was a commanding performance from day who closed out victory with a two under round of sixty nine he now turns his attention to one of the biggest events on the calendar the players' championship which starts on me but. it's really nice to be able to play as you know pretty solid for the most part of the week. you know the short game is really nice it's running out nicely for next week

but you know obviously got a lot of work to do over the next few days i'm going to enjoy tonight an obviously enjoy this win but you know once tomorrow starts it's going to focus back on the players and try to win the one well later this week ireland will finally play its first ever test cricket match after pushing to be part of the sports league game for decades pakistan of their opponents for the historic fixture in dublin and officials are already talking about a possible game against england and he welling's reports. cricket has been played in ireland for over two hundred years but they've not been part of the one hundred forty one years of the most prestigious form of the guiding test cricket until now . the malahide ground in dublin is about to stage island's historic first test with pakistan the visitors it's been a long struggle to be recognised a cricket top table. arlen's team preaches experience pros many who have played in english county cricket around the globe but this is the moment they craved every

time we've kind of been given obstacles got passed was we've done a work culture we've produced big results against big teams and we've been knocking down the door so to finally you know get the appreciation i got that chance at the top is going to be great but this was rude of stand accused of favoring the established powerful nations. expensive those who were growing the guy the bosses of world cricket the i.c.c. have reduced the amount of teams in next year's world cup from fourteen to ten now in a brutally difficult qualifying competition in zimbabwe the west indies took one of the qualifying spots and the other one went to the new test nation afghanistan but that meant there was no price for ireland in the past if these players wanted to play test cricket that have to switch their allegiance to england haven't i bryan boating here was the hero went on and famously beat england in the two thousand and eleven world cup the big pakistan in the tournament four years earlier the i.c.c.

one the guy says they were good a decision to reduce woke up places clear admission of a mistake but to life on and it was absolutely heartbreaking especially when it comes down to the last game. so like obviously there's just a minor difference between the teams who went through the last of the teams who didn't so it's just a shame really because if you look at like other sports like football or whatever they have there are more teams involved in the world cups that's the only way to grow the sport the effects on the interest and on the finances for irish cricket could be irreparably damaging so they need test cricket to succeed and to attract jarosz public how do you sell how do you market a five day game to a public it's only used to a game that sort of lasts six seven hours well we do it by saying be part of history come and watch a major to you know your major sport come up play against one of the world's finest so you get a positive response. probably all. i can control the decision making of pickett's bosses and i can't control the unpredictable skies i've adopted in my but i can

demonstrate on the field while on in shipping parts of pickett's pier was told with the guy long before now they want to have a doubly. now some of the world's best surface have been going head to head in california over the past few days but they've not been in the ocean instead they've been competing on also official waves at the founders cup the artificial light pole is the brainchild of champions for kelly slater and it's taken ten years to develop surface compete identical sized waves meaning competition really comes down to technique a combined well teams won the inaugural title ahead of brazil slate as team usa had to settle for third behind them but he told aus there are a number of countries now interested in using this technology. that they should be very inefficient but the water pushing this well off for all the whining that's well it's

a solid on the solitary action or money but if it's everybody at a racing. race. had. all the top surfers in the world on the march and course everyone is saying. it's really fun to make it bigger smaller faster slower. alexai cooled off net well that is a list sport for me for now. joe thank you very much indeed and thank you for being with us for this al-jazeera news hour to stay with us if you can i'll be back with another full bulletin of the day's news in a few minutes from now i think i'll wait. getting to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can do the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities

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