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al-jazeera. how they i'm sure they went on this is the news hour live from london coming up lebanon's fatah mention calls delivered an upset from prime minister saad hariri as the iranian backed hezbollah red just a major game. after a long walk on the corridors of power that only a person is sworn in for his fourth term as russia's president. britain's foreign secretary makes a diplomatic dash to washington to save the iran nuclear deal plus. i'm andrew symonds reporting on the continuing rains and floods in kenya and i'll be explaining how this river has changed course completely destroying homes farms.

tatiana franchise in doha with the day's sport including a formal wild number one maria sharapova continues to bounce back from our recent losing streak with the details on the grid open later on and apart from. a very warm welcome to the news hour sat hariri is set to continue his lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party's poor showing in sunday's poll says the future movement appears to have lost a third of its seats or preliminary results showed the shia party hezbollah and its allies winning more than half the seats in parliament say the holder has more from beirut. there was a clear winner at eleven on election. day hezbollah and its political allies won the majority of seats in parliament it's being seen by some as

a victory for iran the shiite group is backed by it's the only lebanese party that has an armed wing and its editorial gains further empowers it politically hezbollah's leader called for cooperation. and. before the poll i stressed that there is a reality in lebanon and that is that no one can eliminate the other even if we have disagreements we want political stability we need to cooperate. the general elections was a loss for lebanon's prime minister saddle had eighty no longer heads the largest bloc in the legislature but he still retains the majority of seats allocated to seventy muslims how did he faced opposition from within his own community have accused him of being too lenient with hezbollah which is fighting in neighboring syria when asked if he plans to change that approach the prime minister said the focus should be on development and improving the lebanese economy.

i disagree with them on many issues and will continue to disagree with them but what do i told the lebanese people will be stop working on services like electricity water roads and instead focus on political challenge lebanon can handle political crises. how do you do it clearly indicating his willingness to continue working with his political rivals he has led a national unity government since late two thousand and sixteen a cabinet that includes members of hezbollah. and the last election in two thousand and nine it was the pro western approach saudi alliance headed by saddle that won the majority of seats in parliament since then iran's influence has been growing not just here in lebanon but across the region and it has been at the expense of saudi arabia. saudi arabia used to play a rule eleven these politics. for the better. would be arabia was busy with other conflicts in the region like the war there is

a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia was aware that there are lies in lebanon jordan or longer united and they could be a force to confront hezbollah but riyadh will not leave the ground for iran. law for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and uniting now they think election is over. beirut. well bara is live for us hi there how shit so what are the latest results and what do they tell us about the country right now. julie the liberties in t.m. minnesota have been missed or caused just announced the final official results of levers parliamentary elections hezbollah and its our life and the movement have emerged as the biggest winners of the election with twenty nine seats in the

parliament also a christian coalition led by the free pass your sick movement which is the party of president to be sure i own has also secured twenty nine seats in the parliament followed by saddle how do these future movement which has twenty one sees how the comes. a little bit eight seats shorter than what he has achieved what he achieved in two thousand and nine so this is a major setback for the liberties prime minister saad how do you do the libyan these forces another question political party has been some strong results this time with seventeen seats in the parliament these are the main political parties which are going to join the national unity government which is going to be formed in the coming weeks the are the ones who will have a bigger say in shaping the future of lebanon over the next coming four years. of

their lives that from b. what happened thank you. for joining us tonight from washington is paul salem who's the senior vice president of the middle east institute hi there paul and just reflecting first on the low turnout and the way that and there's been talk of particularly bribery in vote tampering is this responsible reporting what do you make of what we've seen in the election. well first of all on the turnout only in some districts was turned out markedly lower than usual and those were some perhaps in the senate districts where you didn't see much turnout for the current prime minister aside to haiti and that partly reflects as was mentioned in your reporting that among many in the sunni community they are not comfortable with his sort of coalition sharing with hezbollah in the government so it indicates possibly that the sunni community actually is not happy with this course of events in terms

of turnout in other places it was fairly normal. not terribly different than previous elections. there is corruption in the lebanese election habits unfortunately the law tries to you know prevent the use of money and vote buying and so on but you know there's dozens of ways that their candidates some candidates and many voters find a way around that for money to exchange hands that unfortunately always always happens i don't think it's playing a major role in the results of these elections there's no really big surprise most people who follow the elections before they haven't quite closely predicted something around this around this result particularly that it is a new election law which will bring different results paul i wonder from your perspective what do you find most interesting about the result. well there's no big surprise that the hottie to movement would lose seats given the

change in the election system that was expected maybe the most significant surprise comes in the christian community where the president's free patriotic movement which is allied some degree with hezbollah did not do as well as expected and it's lebanese forces rivals who are very much and there has been. did much better than expected that indicates that sort of the christian public opinion also like sunni public opinion generally speaking is not terribly comfortable with this close partnership with hezbollah and also i think should worry has that if you know after the president who was an older man. you know passes on it's very uncertain what will be left of his prepared tragic movements very much attached to his person so those shifts in christian public opinion are significant it's also significant that in the druze community. minister walid jumblatt held all the seeds

and he is not very comfortable with hezbollah and the said regime as well so yes it was a victory for hezbollah and its allies on the surface and that's true but the general power sharing formula in lebanon doesn't change and the general mood of the various communities. certainly is not something that can allow hezbollah to be very relaxed about the future politics of the country it's a very complicated place all sam senior vice president of the middle east institute thanks for your insight. i derrius ami's confirmed it has rescued more than a son who was in vocal her captives the hostages were rescued from sepals of ages in borno state in mainly women and children some young men who were forced to become finances for the on good the operation involved twenty two brigades the multinational joint task force let's fix it interests in mind to carry in nigeria's

northern borno state that would details do we have right now. well basically of the one thousand people a where a skewed after a military operation a chilly there is a military operation code named operation deployments to which is happening around the fringes of a some piece of forest on areas like burma where these one thousand people have been rescued as well as areas like goes out and conduct areas where we've seen a recent attacks that extended up to the neighboring item of state. at the weekend we so book quote on suicide bombers attacking a mosque and a market killing at least fifty people in that area so basically it looks like operation deployment is going on at the same time when another operation was launched on the first of may in the other side of my degree and on the lake chad

area. tell us more about the coalition of forces that rescued them and then i wonder what happens to these people do they go directly back into their communities . well basically the one thousand people who have been rescued who actually were rescued by the combined forces of the multinational group other comprise nigeria cameroon chad and new jersey as well as being a republic which is contributing forces but it's not affected by the book or an insurgency and these countries the leaders or leaders from these countries actually meeting in may degree to model to discuss the way forward they're looking at the long term strategy or a longer term strategy to deal with a book on crisis in northeast nigeria as well as other parts of new jersey chad and cameroon republic so basically what the army is saying is that after the rescue of these one thousand individuals that been taken to hospitals there were treated for elements and probably wounds they sustained while under captivity and then there

will be a profiled as well as debriefed by the security forces before they are rehabilitated and eventually returned to the society well basically for those who are members or who carried arms or bought arms before fighting the nigerian state they would have to undergo another rehabilitation process being conducted by the nigerian government in another state away from the border state and a program called operation safe corridor which is meant to. give the pentonville quote on the the chance to reintegrate into regular society interests joining me from my degree of scientists suddenly have this instance one in for another six year term as the president has now been in power for eighteen years including a four year spell as prime minister to bypass the limit on consecutive presidential terms where he shall and support staff from moscow. it was a long walk to hear putin's inauguration broadcast live and step by step on russian

state t.v. through endless kremlin corridors he's walked for eighteen years admiring the pictures along the way downstairs across hallways finally him to the brights moscow may sunshine and a drive in a brand new russian made limousine. at last he entered the kremlin's ornate alexander roski hall where dignitaries were waiting but still the marathon wasn't over finally on to the podium to deliver the type of oratory the presidents the world over to live or on inauguration day when. taking office as president of russia and the cutely aware of my colossal responsibility to each and every one of us a multinational population most sponsibility to russia a country of great victories and achievements to the fauzia history of the russian state and our ancestors humility and the thanks expressed so then a pledge to all russians. as head of state i will do everything to increase the

strength prosperity and glory of russia in order to meet to surtees demands and justify the hopes of my country's people following the biggest election win of his career but he may have putin is perhaps as secure in office as he's ever been he has no meaningful political opposition despite the arrest of thousands of anti-government protesters and his critics he's cultivated a father of the nation type persona but though the sun shines cloud still gather on the horizon. once the carefully choreographed the out tricks of a glorious inauguration ceremony have faded from memory but in the person will have to address to the questions one is what happens next at the end of this six year term when constitutionally he has to step aside from the presidency and also can he continue to use an assertive foreign policy to distract us from russia's persistent social and economic problems political analyst dmitri already has his doubts.

he's cognitive dissonance we've been raised from our knees therefore we should live better but instead we live worse that means putin will have to restore the economy but the economy has its own restrictions russia's lost its status as a reliable borrower investment is slowing and hampered by sanctions domestic business prefers to flee and asked for what happens in six years time no one yet knows in two thousand and eight putin temporarily swapped jobs with prime minister dmitri medvedev to sidestep the constitutional limits theoretically he could repeat the trick in twenty twenty four he's just announcement period of his staying on as prime minister whether putin does or doesn't if you believe putinism lens when his presidential term finishes allan's al-jazeera moscow coming up on the news that from london. yeah praying for

peace the attack on a church in central nigeria that's to viking this committee ok opposition faction rejoined says sudan's ruling party raising hopes of success next month's peace talks and in sports a french cup final that could be one of the biggest mismatches ever as the richest club in the world face a team fighting a third division relegation battle. britain's foreign secretary has appealed to the u.s. president not to put the iran nuclear deal boris johnson is in washington d.c. for two days of talks as the deadline to extend the landmark twenty fifteen agreement approaches this week speaking to u.s. media johnson admits the deal had its weaknesses but said it could be improved over time. where the president set the world a legitimate challenge in january which was to try to address all of the bad stuff that iran is is doing in the region to try to stop iran getting missiles into

called middle ballistic missiles stop them interfering in neighboring countries and also to fix the cool problem of the deal which is that it expires in twenty twenty five and then there's no way of of stopping the array's going very rapidly to get a nuclear weapon well we think we can fix all that working with our european friends we can be tougher on iran but not throw away that the the heart of the deal which is all about stopping them getting a nuclear weapon given how he joins us live from the white house hi there kimberly so he's not actually meeting chum how likely then is it that he will be able to get this message across. it's a tough sell and that's why we've seen the foreign secretary here in the united states making the rounds on the morning news networks as well as pending that op ed in the new york times but you're right he's not meeting with the ultimate decision

maker and that's donald trump the u.s. president he is meeting or johnson is meeting with the vice president mike pence he met earlier with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o and we understand that he will also be meeting with john bolton the national security advisor but we talk about those two men that i just mentioned bolton and pump ale they certainly have been just like donald trump critics of the iran nuclear agreement so this is definitely a tough sell as you heard the foreign secretary mention there is a recognition that some of what the u.s. is concerned about certainly has merit the fact that there is no sort of capping of enrichment beyond twenty twenty five the military presence of iran in the region is a concern for the united states and even ballistic missile testing but again the message is one that we heard the french president menu on that call delivered here at the white house angle of merkel the german chancellor also delivering that message and that is stay in this agreement we will address those concerns with a supplemental agreement but it appears that the white house is not open to that

however we are watching very carefully for any signs of any movement or influence that boris johnson may have been able to make during his visit here so far the white house press briefing is set to begin with the press secretary sara sanders but certainly it is a difficult sell it does appear the president tweeting today that he thought the raw deal was a mess that he is laying the groundwork for withdrawal could be health of a life in the white house can be thank you. dozens of kenyans have been killed and hundreds of thousands of others have been displaced since march because of heavy rainfall the floods have hit the east african nation just it's recovering from a devastating drought that it's affected half of its counties last year anderson has traveled to mind kili fee county where two hundred small farmers have all lost their land to the river sabbahi. nothing could stop this a back a river from destroying them that provided people with something near to self-sufficiency

and 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 one hundred six acres like everyone else been hunting katana has no insurance to cover his losses but that was the main evidently. the city was being schooling. all the cash to 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 that 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 moving the jobs here are hard to find. back beside this a back a river it's raining again at these farmers with the kenya government to do more efficient now it's but. everybody's crying here. got only one family about a total family are crying because. they lost everything i think with you know but there's a. big block crying out there. or depending on this but. the aid agencies the people are now dependent on

a hard pressed to beat demand and the government is coming on the heavier pressure to devote more resources to the crisis andrew simmons al-jazeera madame goody in kenya. funerals have been held for some of the forty five people killed by gunmen in northern nigeria armed bandits raided a villages village in kaduna state on saturday witnesses say they shot at children torched houses the region seen an increase in violence by cattle rustlers and also gangs well disputes over territory are continuing to escalate elsewhere in president muhammadu buhari his government is under pressure to prevent such incidents ahead of elections next year to me ellen dorgan reports from benny state where an attack on a church is dividing community that's lived peacefully there for generations. the police are taking us to a small town called by law it's in bend with state in sensual nigeria but long is

a small farming community a place with no history of violence until now verified ideas of growth tool. for extra law. john. for now i feel. so much because of dodger where she. reside at the attacker 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 most our capacity to stop people from killing our people no why should i not a woman if one the body should die we should be able to be free i sick in our environment and meanwhile. i will walk to fatwa and to wash and got freedom. will cry but the moment you try to color it in terms of tribes in terms of political mission in terms of religion you like to fit in the purpose for the fight and that is well been tellin 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 pite the violence people here continue to

pre they see that for generations they have always lived peacefully together despite the religious differences what binds them together these see is juncker than the killings in the village of. duggan al jazeera been with state central nigeria faction of south sudan's opposition has formally rejoined the ruling party for the first time since civil war broke out in twenty thirteen first vice president and former opposition chairman tab and then guy and i'm still news on monday comes ahead of peace talks due to be held in neighboring ethiopia in ten days time says sudan's government hopes the posses reunification will help advance the peace talks here but morgan has more from says sudan's capital. now we have the opposition under requests are still fighting the government but we have the forces on the taliban doing which ever since he became first vice president has been fighting forces basically he's been fighting the iowa which splits from the from

the top on down faction now we have them we have the audio under taliban dang and we have the audio under rick much are still fighting each other now they are you under taliban has the government to fight with them along with them there but there's still so many coalitions fighting out there there's the national opposition alliance and they're still fighting the government as well which makes it very hard to see how despite the opposition under joining the government it makes it very hard to see how they can try to bring together the other factions of the s.p.l. them to join being the current ruling party and try to and south sudan civil war obviously this war has been going on for four or five years more than a quarter of the country's twelve million population has been displaced and more than half of the population are in need of food aid will this will this reification and the conflict would be to be hard to see seeing that there are many other factions also involved but it could be a great step in trying to bring together or making at least making reunification attractive to the rest of the parties by weakening them and making it seem like there is nothing to fight for if you have a stronger coalition in the government this much more to come on the program

including by malaysia's ruling party is expected to extend its decades long rule in whedon's things cold despite heavy competition and they'll position. a low in volcanic eruptions allows the winds to brace home for pets and family boats. more golden nights ahead to vegas in the ice hockey playoffs that's coming up later in sports. welcome back as we look at weather conditions around the levant and western parts of asia is this area of clay which is most significant moving in from the west now this is going to be producing some very heavy rain across parts of turkey syria and through iraq and probably iran to some stage so some stormy conditions flash flooding is certainly

a risk and that continues to be head on through into weapons day rallies aside the med looking fine there was beirut twenty two degrees celsius but there a cloud actually will extend into northern parts of saudi arabia during the course of shoes day with temperatures still up into the forty's there for riyadh here in doha it's looking pretty warm thirty eight degrees as a high numbers change we head through into wednesday and on the other side of the printer slightly cooler conditions there for medina thirty four degrees should be a very pleasant day there is a southern portions of africa and it's looking generally fine for many areas we have got this area of cloud giving some outbreaks of rain across and of madagascar but otherwise weather conditions looking largely fine quite a breezy one in cape town with highs of just seventeen degrees but elsewhere durban there at twenty eight showers likely across parts of zambia but looks the lusaka should stay largely in the dry things in the course of tuesday and heis here expected to reach twenty six.

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the mind of the top stories here on our side hariri appears set to continue as lebanon's prime minister despite his party's poor showing in sunday's parliamentary elections in which the shia party has made major day. a managerial army says said stress could more than a thousand boko haram captives from several villages in borno state those save the mainly women children and men forced to come fight his way on. by the mayor because he has been sworn in for another six year term as russian president meaning he's now been in power for eighteen years. of the six people have been killed in saudi

led coalition air strikes in yemen more than thirty of us were injured in the raids was targeted the presidential office in selma the capital is controlled by hutu rebels have been fighting the saudi led coalition since twenty two fifteen. but a little bit later going to. target the presidential office the neighborhood is full of people unemployed youths were at work we rush to rescue people whether we're trying to rescue mom from underneath a car and a child bus circled the earth try to target the town with no mercy for human beings that the militia loyal citizens have nothing to do with what is going on we are not leaders leaders work in these offices we are doing all the team daily work. buses have arrived in northern syria to collect so i was of rebel fighters and their families who were leaving as part of a peace deal stem north of holmes is one of the last remaining areas in rebel hands russian book withdrawal is possible latest agreement to return more territory to

the syrian government since and want to explain. rebels in the town of al ruston have been surrendering their weapons for days artillery machine guns and other heavy weaponry handed over to russian and syrian government forces. in return the end of the bombardment on their homes and a safe passage out for some rebel fighters including veterans of the seven year war the deals being forced on them and i know no one thought of leaving he was not or decision we would have died here rather than leaving our city the wards to chortle of helping goes a little then the approved a deal for us to be displeased we will return one day to our city that i'm going to bring in it's ok just for the sake of civilians we're leaving the city we sacrificed blood for this city but we will come back again the revolution is ongoing and we will retreat every inch taken by the tyrant regime we are the brave

and they are the cowards. the ceasefire deal brokered by russia applies to the last remaining bastions of resistance in the central provinces of hama and homs fighters and their families are being taken to the rebel held city of drop in aleppo province as well from neighboring province which remains largely outside government control. syrian government forces are regaining three rebel towns tell bisa roston an al hola. and control of the main road that runs from the capital damascus to homs and on to the city of aleppo in the north. securing the road has been an important goal for government forces. at least three thousand people are being taken out of all ruston part of the negotiated with returns yet more territory to the syrian government the moment al-jazeera a misty international is accusing egypt of using solitary confinement as torture it says dozens of human rights activists journalists an opposition supporters face

horrendous 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 mohamed morsi in twenty thirteen he's reported to have been held in solitary confinement for most of the past five years the government has repeatedly denied systematic rights abuses while jazeera journalist mark would say has been in an egyptian jail for more than five hundred days he was detained without charge by authorities in twenty sixteen during a holiday to cairo al-jazeera and international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged egyptian authorities to release jailed journalists. well hussein but only is in egypt to campaign or at amnesty international he says the conditions faced by those in solitary confinement in egypt's prisons are horrific. that saves the planet in egypt very announced porsches because the treatments

prisoners suffer in sweat you can try mints so not only are zero being arbitrary detained but actually have to stand still sometimes for over or for twenty or twenty four hours a day living alone in cells with absolutely no meaningful human contact with no more with only five minutes to go to a bathroom at most. with very poor arriving to listen with without a result sun. sometimes with denial of family visits the cells are very cosy people have to sleep on the ground and support for extended the proximity periods not to mention that i see some of those that have been through the printing bins there for over four years. officials in hawaii a warning more residents to evacuate after news from mine kill away

a full kaino opened up on sunday night lava flow has already destroyed nearly thirty homes and toxic gases have forced almost two thousand islanders to seek safety robin also has been to the states on hawaii's big island residents have been trying to salvage their belongings. the road into the eruption zone is cracked and broken fence of steam and toxic gas from the lava flows beneath below out deeper into what was once leylandii estates the enormous power of mount 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 good 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 just some residents were prone. it 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 their one again as is when they can go back to their residence and that's all what this whole issue about the bit 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 here to distribute donated emergency supplies food and water we all come together and we want to make this make stuff happen the government that kind of making 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 hawaii starbucks says it's entered into

a seven point one five billion dollar deal with nestle so far what it calls a global coffee alliance it came and gives the swiss food giant the right to sell starbucks products around the world site of the company's coffee shops some five hundred stocks employees will also be joining nestlings ranks under the deal which is yet to be approved by regulators wednesday's general election is being described as malaysia's most competitive following a late surge by the opposition it's led by in ninety two year old former prime minister was once mentor to the current data reza before turning on him for his live reports from selangor state. one hundred kilometers from kuala lumpur is known for its fishing villages and rice fields it's in rural areas like these that the ruling alliance. has traditionally dominated but discontent is stirring. fishermen here are working longer hours just to be able to survive the

high cost of living has really affected us things weren't so bad five or ten years ago he says the subsidies they receive are no longer sufficient and blames the goods and services tax imposed three years ago for the increase in overall costs. but there are others who say they are grateful to. the only party that has ruled malaysia since independence in one nine hundred fifty seven. it's in places like these far from the cities that the election will be fought and won rural areas have long been given disproportionate electoral advantage here in sa about burnout the smallest voting area in the state of a vote is worth four point three votes compared to the largest constituency. the an equal number of voters for parliamentary seats was made worse after parliament hurriedly pushed through a motion to redraw electoral boundaries in march despite protests from the opposition and civil rights groups terrifically the minimum the got the minimums of

which the government needs to win to to carry one one two of the simple majority of seats in the parliament is only sixteen point five percent because of the smallest one one two constancy content only thirty three percent of electorate the election commission has also been accused of favoring the ruling party in other ways it introduced new guidelines regulating images of party officials and banners but has been accused of applying them inconsistently its offices have cut up pictures of mahathir mohamad the former prime minister leading the opposition bit from some posters the commission's decision to call for elections on a wednesday is also being seen as a ploy to lower voter turnout the claims of unfairness has always been the agenda of the opposition and it is really for sympathy votes to prove that your prayers to the people. and perhaps as a reason really feel very safe with you calling for electoral reform says

irregularities in the electoral roll persist including voters registered without their consent and others transferred to a different voting area without their knowledge many analysts say the results of the upcoming election will be close but predict a win for the ruling party florence italy al-jazeera. state malaysia. cinesias and the party is claiming victory in the first local elections since the two thousand and eleven arab spring the religious party says it's ahead of its secular rival made that's hones by about five percent or. another party supporters are jubilant after the unofficial results show a five percent lead the party won twenty seven point five percent of the votes it's made right from the need to a spot in the second with twenty two percent both coalition partners in the current government has

a measure this party 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 did 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 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 stories so far and there's been a serious will hence as you see it the political system which we have achieved since two thousand and fourteen called partnership 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 they 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 and 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 . are deceive you. so to come on the program the president.

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it's been one year since a man well kong won the french election twelve months on public opinion is divided on the country's youngest president his opponents call him the president of the rich but others believe he's reviving france's fortunes going its economy and

raising its standing in the world the tash left reports 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 with to make a better years some analysts say that so far the results are mixed we have to give points to michael for having this kind of close being cagey relationship with other world leaders and when you measure the results there are different questions on the iran deal on trade tariffs on climate these are areas where because mission has not prevailed at least for now while michael is being celebrated abroad back home it's a different story. anger has been growing over the president's weeping reform agenda for months rail and public sector workers have staged strikes and protests

michael says the changes will modernize frauds and create opportunity but as a man see macro rally in paris people say he's destroying rights and hurting the poor good upwards of the many manual man calls politics are outrageously unfair he's like a reverse robin hood he rubs the poor and gives to the rich it was in the air. elegance surroundings are the lure of that one year ago emanuel mark hasse 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 for those who believe

michael wants france to be an innovation leader shortly after his election he inaugurated this tech startup pub in paris today at last international entrepreneurs for is a lot more happening in france from the start of eco system and i was one of the reasons for me through still consider to stay in france to build my company under my car 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 his urge to reform all parts of society quickly may create more opponents yet it's unlikely to deter him might cause repeatedly said that he cares little for popularity natasha butler has zero piracy so let's get all the day's sports news now with tatiana in doha. thank you very much julie we start with tennis and former world number one maria sharapova continues to bounce back from her recent four much losing streak

reaching the third round of the madrid open sharp over had her serve broken in the opening game five remaining and i renamed the goon but the russian who won the tournament in twenty fourteen was able to overcome her higher ranked opponent in straight sets sharp over winning seven five and six one. second seed caroline vols iraqi how to tough test getting from australian ashley bossy and her second round match the dane eventually winning in three sets six two four six and six four. and it was a big day for young canadian denis shapovalov as he got his first ever win on clay to be american tennis fans going six one six four to reach the second round the nineteen year old who played ben wopat in the. minutes looking to cause the biggest upset in the history of the french cup when they meet perez thunder man in tuesday's finals aside from the west and france is

currently trying to avoid being relegated to the french fourth division while last month he claimed the fifth title in the sixth year is history as one of the richest clubs in the world they paid a record transfer fee of two hundred sixty two million dollars for neymar and all because they could afford to pay his wages for just sixteen days with the total annual budget two point three million dollars almost all sixteen thousand people from the town have tickets to that. city just quickly had to depend duplicity what does it mean to have fun and enjoy the game. play is that for comparison having fun means to find when you're a competitor and you're on the pitch and need to have the courage to look the players that are sent to me in the eyes to confront them. if they enter onto the pitch saying these players i watch on t.v. are my idols the players i admire and they want to have fun so i hope my team will be ready for the cave and cavaliers in the boston celtics could clinch their places

in the n.b.a. conference finals that's later on monday they both believe best theory's three nothing meanwhile n.b.a. defending champions the golden state warriors are a win away from the next round of the worry is the new orleans pelicans one hundred eighteen to nineteen two kevin durant's grabbed a game high thirty eight points and steph curry made twenty three that gives him a three one lead in the best of said seven semifinal series. the vegas golden knights that continuing their winning run in their national hockey league debut season there through to the western conference final after beating the fan jose sharks in their playoff series goaltender andre flurry is a big on reason behind their success three one three stanley cups with the pittsburgh penguins before joining the golden knights on sunday he made twenty eight saves in his for the shots how of the playoffs vegas will now play either winnipeg or nashville in the conference final with the jets leading the series

three two heading into game six later on monday. jason day has moved back into gold's top ten in the world after winning his twelve p.g.a. tour title hollow by two shots on sunday but it was a disappointing tournament for former world number one tiger woods the fourteen time major winner failed to make a birdie on the last day of the tournament 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 de who closed victory with a two under round of sixty nine he now turns of attention to one of the biggest events on the calendar that's the players' championship which starts on may tenth. later this week ireland to finally play its first ever test cricket match after pushing to be part of the sport's

a lead game for decades pakistan are their opponents for the historic fixture in dublin and officials are already talking about a possible game against england welling's reports cricket is being played in our lives for over two hundred years but have not been part of the one hundred forty one years of the most prestigious form of the going test cricket until now. the malahide ground in dublin is about to stage olens historic first test with pakistan the visitors it's been among struggled to be recognised a quick its top table. ireland's team features experience pros many who have played in english county cricket around the globe but this is the moment that cries every time we've kind of been given obstacles got passed was we've done a work culture we've produced the 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 the stand accused of favoring the established powerful

nations. expensive those who are 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 four 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 brian boating here was the hero went on and famously england in the two thousand and eleven world cup the big pakistan in the tournament four years earlier the i.c.c. van the guy says they would get 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 more teams in all in the world cups that's the only way to grow the sport the effects on the interest 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 law. six seven hours well we do it by saying be part of history come and watch a major suit you know your major sport come up play against one of the world's finest a positive response from the probably all. i can't control the decision making of pickett's bosses and i can't control the unpredictable skies over w. my but i can demonstrate on the field why arlen should have been part of pick its purest form of the guy long before. they want to have a double. teams have come from around mexico and beyond to compete in the national championship for a traditional sport that's more than three thousand years old the ball game was

played across all major civilizations including the outtakes and mayor and what was then they measure america region but now includes countries from mexico to costa rica players use their bodies but not bare hands and feet to keep the solider ruppel which could weigh up to three and a half kilograms and martian basketball has roots in other versions of the game that's for players trying to get the ball on a wall. and out of the back to you thanks said sam well of course you can find out much more about the stories we're following at our website at al jazeera dot com that's it for me lauren taylor will be here in just a sec but by. he

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