change in temperatures say thirty nine degrees hot on wednesday but by thursday the winds will be feeding down from the northwest so it won't be as hot a maximum will be thirty six degrees but they could be quite a bit of dust around as well for the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for many of us hey we've got a few showers around the coast of madagascar perhaps a few further north a video and into the south at last we find a dry including for us in cape town at seventy. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your bra five g. will be boss a data transfer times faster than forty we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made the disappointment regrets and praise as u.s. president donald trump announces plans to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. but i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up members of iran's parliament burned an american flag to show their anger even as president rouhani says the teheran will stay in the deal. malaysia's prime minister seeks a third term despite corruption allegations and elections that pitted against a former mental. and a new call to train midwives in nigeria where every day more than one hundred women die while giving.

us president donald trump defied last ditch diplomatic efforts by his european allies to stick by the iran nuclear deal following his announcement to pull out of the pact has been swift international reaction with more criticism than support members of iran's parliament burnt an american flag to show their anger while iran's president condemned the u.s. for not respecting its commitments a sign rouhani says that he's ordered the atomic energy organization to be ready to stop the enrichment of uranium other signatories to the twenty fifteen dealing clued in france germany and the u.k. have said that they regret trump's decision but will remain parties to the pact they'll be meeting with iranian counterparts on monday to discuss the developments spot president trump did get support from the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu has praised the u.s. president for taking what he called a bold decision to pull out of

a quote disastrous deal a white house correspondent kimberly how could reports. after much anticipation u.s. president donald trump made good on a signature campaign promise solidifying his america first agenda i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made. the u.s. negotiated the agreement with iran in twenty fifteen along with the united kingdom france germany china and russia to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief with the announcement the united states now bria poses tough economic sanctions on iran's oil and banking sectors that had been lifted arguing iran did not live up to its end of the agreement. we have definitive proof that this arabian promise was a lie even though u.s.

intelligence the united nations and european allies maintain iran has been compliant under the agreement trump cited a recent israeli report that iran had not been truthful about its activities before entering into the deal trouble also argues the agreement should have dealt with iran's military pursuits in the region and its ballistic missile program. capitol hill the top senate democrat disagrees and to me the right thing to do would have been to try and come up with our allies with an agreement on those issues and let the nuclear part of this continue as is because it's not being violated in any way trumps predecessor barack obama the man who oversaw the deal called trump's decision a serious mistake in a statement obama said without the agreement the united states could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear armed iran or another war in the middle east. deede former democratic

presidential candidate bernie sanders believes the united states is already on that path the road to the war in iraq did not simply begin in two thousand and three it was laid down brick by brick over a number of years ironically as the president tore up the nuclear deal with iran secretary of state mike pompei it was on his way to north korea laying the groundwork for a nuclear deal with p.r. nyang president indicated the united states is willing to negotiate a new deal with iran but he says his decision also signals the united states will no longer make were trying calls empty threats can really help at al-jazeera at the white house for the policy is the president of the national iranian american council he says that the u.s. strategy on iran is beginning to take shape. they certainly want to stay in the

deal but do they have the backbone particularly the europeans to be able to provide the type of guarantees and protection for their own companies so that they can continue to be engaged in the iranian market without getting sanctioned by donald trump that's where the question is the desire to stay is there the desire to make sure that a deal remains in place is there but this is going to take a much more backbone from europe than what they have shown so far we're now starting to see that the united states actually does have a strategy and it's a strategy of setting the stage for a major military confrontation with iran everything from what they're doing with saudi arabia and israel what is happening right now with the israelis bombing syria i think we're starting to see the pieces fall into place and the plan is to have a confrontation and this is why i think the european effort to try to appease donald trump was doomed to fail from the very very outset he is not a peaceable. on the reaction to president trump's decision. joins us from west

jerusalem no surprise alan that prime minister netanyahu is welcome donald trump's decision to withdraw from the pact we did see some some military maneuvering overnight in syria where iranian forces of thought to be operating of the israelis said anything about. well the israeli military rarely confirms or denies any military operations inside syria itself what we can gather from arab media is that the place that was targeted was believed to be where iranian missiles were stored that the israelis believe those missiles were pointed directly at israel and what was carried out in the view of the arab media was a preemptive strike in case the iranians started to think of retaliation because of donald trump pulling out all of the iran nuclear deal we hear that least nine iranian fighters were killed but as i say nothing at all from the israelis

certainly we know that when prime minister benjamin netanyahu left for a visit to moscow which was preplanned he did say that again they would be talking about coordination with russian forces over military action inside syria which would suggest that yet again the israelis have been talking to the russians when they have been selecting targets inside syria but it is worth just reminding everyone that the israeli military never ever talks about any sort of military operation insights as for political reaction well across the board there seems to be support for benjamin netanyahu this is regarded as a big political win for him even though he was saying that this was a brave decision by donald trump certainly there is a consensus in israeli politics that iran. poses a threat to israel how to confront that threat is perhaps where there is divergence but certainly across the board and listening to the radio over the last few hours

there is a consensus that this was indeed the right thing even though there are a number of people inside israel itself who believe that iran is in compliance with the deal you'll remember that there are a number of intelligence and former general officers. intelligence officers and former. generals in the israeli army who believe that the iran deal was a good deal that iran was in compliance or that the united states would be in the long run but for israel it will be interesting to see the polls in the next few weeks to see just how much of a bump domestically benyamin netanyahu has got from a decision that was taken several thousand miles away in washington alan many thanks indeed alan fischer the west jerusalem u.s. secretary of state mike pompei as arrives in north korea for another surprise visit is second trip after meeting kim jong un in pyongyang last month he's expected to discuss kim's upcoming meeting with trump and the detention of three u.s.

prisoners reports suggest that they'll be released as a goodwill gesture kathy novak reports from seoul. this is the second visit for a u.s. secretary of state might calm paled to pyongyang it's not yet known whether he will meet the leader himself kim jong un but might pump aoe says he will be meeting with senior officials in north korea to discuss the expected meeting between donald trump and kim and at the first meeting one might come pale with still the cia director he says the groundwork was laid for that meeting and now it's expected that the firm details are expected to be discussed the other item likely to be very high on the agenda is the fate of the three americans who are detained in north korea donald trump foreshadow that a decision on their fate could be imminent telling the public to stay tuned but still no details about whether or not they are likely to be released soon might pompei or says that efforts have been being made by the u.s. administration and he will be discussing that with officials in north korea the

leaders of china japan and south korea have agreed to increase cooperation to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons they gathered in tokyo for the first trilateral meeting between the nations since twenty fifteen leaders urged concrete action by north korea for a permanent peace settlement there's a live pictures from tokyo this is a welcome ceremony for the chinese probably alou could churn who's holding a bilateral meeting with japan's prime minister shinzo are being weighed hey reports now from tokyo. this was an opportunity for the japanese prime minister shinzo in particular to lay out what he and his country want to see if there are to be any detailed negotiations with north korea over their nuclear program before this summit throughout this flurry of diplomatic activity over the past few weeks there's been a sense that japan and its prime minister have been

a bit on the outside all of that activity even though for the past year japan was very much affected by. the threats and the activity coming from north korea after this very brief trilateral summit in tokyo each of the leaders made a statement but it was really only the japanese prime minister that got into specifics about north korea this was his chance to lay out what his country needed he said the u.n. security council resolutions must be implemented they want to see concrete measures from north korea and he also spoke about the abducted issue these japanese citizens who were abducted by north korea in the seventy's and eighty's allegedly to be trained as north korean spies will twelve of those japanese people are still missing still unaccounted for presumably still in north korea so that's an issue that is very close to the heart of japanese people and the prime minister shinzo obvious and that is just one example one issue that japan wants to see on the table

when it comes to negotiations with north korea and whether a play thanks to one of zero then. cried hungry against an elected leader the protesters are calling a dictator. in the spanish language movie featuring big name stars the setting says the scene at the cannes film festival. and over the heat is now being chased out of europe and it's certainly been very warm recently but now we're seeing more in the way of cloud just defective in the northwest this is just quite a week feature but you can see this large bank of cloud up towards the northwest that was rolling in for wednesday that's going to give us some heavy rain and some pretty strong winds as well as that makes its way across us will see a real drop in the temperatures so for us on thursday london will only be getting

to seventy of paris will be up at sixteen that is that weather system then making its way. across the central parts of europe on thursday for the east coast a very warm here was so up at twenty eight degrees that's eighty two in fahrenheit but as well as being caught for many of us there will also be a few rumbles of thunder and if you catch a shower it could well turn out to be very heavy for the other side of the mediterranean there's a good deal of cloud here that's gradually rolling its way towards the northeast and as it does so it's going to drag up the temperatures as well so for us in cairo we'll see the temperature all the way up at forty degrees on thursday so really very hot for us meanwhile towards the northwest ten is still not that hot we're looking at nineteen in a row back to the still a good deal of cloud around with some of the impossible rocco and area and it could just squeeze out one or two more showers as we head through the next few days.

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a president trumps decision to withdraw from the twenty fifty nuclear deal runs president hassan rouhani criticized trumps action but says the terror remains committed to the pact trump says that he'll impose the highest level of sanctions against. iran three signatories to the deal france germany of the u.k. say that they regret trumps decision and will remain parties to the pact of planning to meet with a radio counterparts on monday to discuss the situation meanwhile former u.s. president barack obama has called the move to withdraw a serious mistake. but u.s. secretary of state mike pompei as arrived in north korea for another surprise visit is expected to finalize details of the upcoming meeting between donald trump and kim jong il. voting is underway in malaysia in what's being billed as the country's tightest ever election prime minister najib razak has cast his ballots in the city of pecan jeep's coalition is likely to win the most seats but it's expected to be a close race between him and mahathir mohamad the leader of the opposition alliance

. it's been. a come election in terms of the physical. aspect of the election it's not been ten. but it has been quite vicious in the content. but syntax which is very. doesn't reflect what democracy. thank you and the most important thing is for the people to decide on the destiny of this nation and must be based on facts much based on policy must be based on the weekend execute the best plan for the nation and for the people live now to quite a serious florence louise outside a polling station in the capital florence it's being billed as we said is the tightest const contest ever and yet the incumbent is still expected to win.

that's right a poll or a survey that was released just on tuesday couple of hours before voting started suggests you know that's the income that. the incumbent party could take up to about one hundred feet but there are two hundred twenty two theat in parliament thirty seven seats too close to call and the reason for this is because of the opposition and one of the main reasons for this is because the opposition vote is expected to be that they used to be in this party known as posse that used to be part of the opposition alliance but it's no longer part of that alliance it's going out on its own and the opposition votes may either go to that isn't this party or to the opposition alliance known as. the we've seen what we see in ben is a very concerted attempt by leaders from both sides to canvass for votes we had mahathir mohamad deliver a speech at ten pm on tuesday night before two hours before campaign here and

he told the country you have. vote vote wisely we're voting for our dignity we're not just voting for a change in government vote to restore dignity to the country and he said twenty years ago this country was known as an asian tiger now we're known for corruption and also at the same time we had. a caretaker prime minister of this country telling voters telling the electorate that look at our track record we've ruled this country for more than sixty years we've developed the country been built it up if you want to continue the success story that is malaysia vote for us he also threw in last minute election goodies as people here call it to the electorate saying well we'll give you two more days of leave next week if we win the election people below twenty six years old won't have to pay for tax these are the things that he has he's promising the electorate if his party is given and now the mandate to all sorts it's wednesday it's a weekday people are work what impact is that likely to have on voter turnout in

the senate. it's going to lower voter to now we've already had some statistics come in from the electoral commission there are only two hours left to voting now as at one pm the voter turnout was at fifty five percent that's still lower than the voter turnout at the last election where by noon it was almost at sixty percent now high voter turnout is what the opposition politicians opposition supporters say is necessary to counteract gerrymandering and mel apportionment that's been taking place and taken place recently now the most recent push to redraw electro boundaries has analysts saying that even with as little as one fifth of popular votes. can still control the parliament and become the next ruling party again so high voter turnout rate is absolutely necessary for

a story line of call up of innocence laws. there's been a riot at one of indonesia's highest security prisons it's in depok which is south of the capital jakarta holds more than one hundred sixty prisoners accused of supporting the armed group eisel sources have told al-jazeera that several gods are being held hostage. thousands of people hungary have been protesting against what they call the all for a tarion role of prime minister viktor orban the right wing nationalist was elected for a third straight last month on an anti immigrant agenda but the reports. i police pushed back demonstrators trying to get into the parliament building in budapest. hundreds of people gathered early on tuesday before parliament's first session since last month's election when for prime minister viktor orban some also formed a human chain around the building shouting dictator. for test against the government and also of the protest against the opposition because we think that they all eat.

later in the day a huge crowd gathered carrying the hug area and european union flags. support for all bands anti immigration stance particularly in rural areas gave him a landslide victory but his opponents call his widow illegitimate because of changes in redrawing district boundaries and extending citizenship and voting rights to ethnic hungary and when they bring countries. one hundred thirty three of one hundred ninety nine members of parliament taking the oath come from all bans fish party and its small ally the christian democratic people's party. for all ban approval by the chamber expected on thursday is a formality meaning he'll serve a third term in a row his fourth in total as premier. the voters made the decision about who should govern the country and who should play the opposition role everyone must respect

the decision of the voters this is the basic rule of hypocrisy. but obama also has just the two thirds majority that allows him to amend the constitution unchallenged he's promised an amendment giving parliament the final say over any efforts to settle foreigners in the country and the law imposing a. eighty five percent tax on foreign donations to civil society groups that support immigration. opens critics accuse him of removing democratic checks and balances including a crackdown on parts of the media his economic policies have put hungary on track for economic growth through four percent divided opposition into the mix and it's unlikely that these protests will dent picture all bands popularity. al-jazeera. u.k. prime minister tourism is government has suffered another defeat over its brings it plans members of britain's upper house of parliament voted against the prime minister's plans to leave europe's single market to the u.k. breaks from the e.u.

the house of lords also back to the mental and to remove the fixed date to leave the e.u. from the legislation politicians argue that sticking to march twenty ninth next here could cause problems if they go ca sions go down to the wire the us is calling for venezuela's president nicolas maduro to step down to protect the safety and security of the americas that as well has been recession for years with hyperinflation a shortage of food and medicines the duros government is accused of using heavy handed tactics to stifle opposition or don't rest its on the pressure to suspend its upcoming presidential election we cannot allow him to patrol his quote unquote victory on may twentieth as a validation of his role it will be nothing of the sort as long as munro stops a credible independent observer mission we know the results will be fraudulent. the

systematic oppression of the venezuelan people has become an active threat to the entire region for the safety and the security of all peoples and latin america it is time for men dural to go at least seventeen people have died in an area of the democratic republic of congo where an outbreak of the a bowl of virus has been confirmed the world health organization says two of those cases in because of tested positive. it's been nearly ten months since an earlier flare up of the dangerous virus was eradicated this is the ninth time that it has broken out in the democratic republic of congo since one nine hundred seventy six the world health organization and doctors without borders are sending teams to help prevent its spread. having a baby in nigeria is a major risk for women that's according to the u.n. which says that more than one hundred of them die each day giving birth the lack of access to health care means that many expectant mothers have babies in their

villages alan duggan reports from benway states where a veteran midwife is trying to improve standards. of people in the village called her mama and galley she's one of the oldest women living in this part of mccurdy in the jury essential been restraint i mean a garbo is her real mean and she's hailed as a savior by the other women she sent in in the local language which means each additional breathing assistant or a midwife. i mean there's been delivering babies in her village for more than fifteen years. now going to was a well they're actually when they come to me the poor they need help and sometimes they come with nothing and i can't refuse them so i take care of them even when they can pay me. mary alex is grateful she didn't have any money but i mean had her

deliver her baby just a few hours ago she's naming her baby happiness the story of mary alex is one that is repeated a thousand times over but the challenges faced by ameena can be extreme and this is what's left of the clinic she says a group of men set it on fire a couple of months ago and she can't afford to rebuild it it is devastating not only for her but for those women who rely on her. government figures reveal almost seventy percent of deliveries in rural areas happen at home the nigerian government's now introduced a program to better train birthing assistants like ameena so we're just going to train them and ask them so that they can help is that require identifying d.j.'s to be just friends. during pregnancy you will encourage me to be front and care. but in benelux state there are more challenges to overcome governments health

workers seven went on strike for several weeks now this is why private and charity rides like this one are packed with patience making the situation even more difficult for mothers and their buildings. in the mean this makeshift clinic another expectant mother arrives she's given what is described as herbal medicine. by me now and then it's a case of waiting and waiting. in the in al-jazeera mccurdy inventively state central nigeria. it's one of the most prestigious and glamorous events on the film festival is on the way in the south of france for eleven days twenty one movies will compete for the top prize the front door. the crown jewel of the international film festival circuit opening this year with the spanish language film for just the second time in its seventy one year history.

and i want to go to ben is a psychological thriller starring penelope cruz and it is setting the tone for a festival that this year will champion art house cinema. on the driver. why are big hollywood blockbusters almost entirely absent from this year's line up and the headline grabbing so low a star with story is not in the main competition we've got really interesting competition coming from people like spike lee and also a return of laws as well so we're going to see some interesting big names coming into the main competition but also those fresh faces those new voices of the art house might actually surprise and that might be the big story that comes out of the festival this year. each year it can briefly focus is the world's attention on the film industry an industry still reeling from the harvey weinstein scandal can is

where many of his alleged sexual assault took place it can no longer be a two week celebration of male brains and female beauty. issues of gender inequality and sexism arrive and head of the jury cate blanchett. calling them out would i like to see more women in competition absolutely well do i expect and hope that that's going to happen in the future i hope so we're dealing with what we have in front of us and i mean our job as industry members away from the festival is to keep working towards positive change but the festival says it will not bow to what it calls positive discrimination and set forth all the firm people say the seven percent of women directors in the film industry the cannes always has a higher number twenty twenty three percent but there's a number of women directors say to me well if i'm selected for campus i hope it's not just because i'm a woman i hope it's because i'm a director the government artist. other controversies

a red carpet ban on selfies and no netflix the online distributor has fallen out with the festival but it can brings back glamour to art house cinema but audiences should be pleased charlie rangel al-jazeera london. scripts every with us every answer going to air into how the top stories on al-jazeera members of iran's parliament are burnt a us flag angry of a president donald trump's decision to withdraw from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal trump says he'll impose the highest level of sanctions against iran iran's president hassan rouhani has criticized transaction of says that tehran remains committed to the fact that. they have done nothing except put empty signatures on pieces of paper without doing anything about it the iranian mission on the other hand has agreed to everything and accomplished all its responsibilities we had some duties based on that agreement and we have delivered all of them but today we can

see which is the country that doesn't respect international agreements we've done nothing wrong is not acceptable that the u.s. is pulling out. three signatories to the deal france germany and the u.k. say they regret trump's decision but will remain parties to the pact they're planning to meet with iranian counterparts on monday to discuss the situation u.s. secretary of state mike pompei as arrived in north korea for another surprise visits he's expected to finalize details of the upcoming meeting between donald trump and kim jong il and discuss the detention of three u.s. citizens the leaders of china japan and south korea have agreed to increase cooperation to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons they met in tokyo for the first trilateral meeting since twenty fifteen the leaders concrete action by pyongyang for a permanent peace settlement on voting is underway in malaysia and what's being billed as the country's tightest ever election prime minister najib razak the ruling coalition is likely to win the most seats but says it's expected to be

a close race between him and mahathir mohamad the leader of the opposition alliance at least six people have been killed of the riots at the police detention center outside of d.c. as capital security forces are still working to bring the situation under control the center holds more than one hundred sixty prisoners accused of supporting i saw sources have told. but several gods being held hostage there's the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next. getting to the heart of the matter if mostafa kinzie the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have told us would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like were two people being peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity deal for south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.