separate the spin from the facts that's why i own. the misinformation from the journalism. one data mining company and one election with. a dramatic volcanic eruption in guatemala at least twenty five people dead and for many from their homes. and are welcome to our. headquarters and with me elizabeth also ahead a wave of desperation twin boat tragedies in the mediterranean claimed the lives of at least sixty very few g.'s trying to reach europe. but the european tide of anti immigrant sentiment reaches slovenia nationalist party emerges as the largest group

the general election. the protests against tax rises in jordan reach a boiling point the king is ready to demand the resignation of the prime minister. the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states. and the canadian prime minister had sound like donald trump the latest fallout over the u.s. president's trade policies. at least twenty five people have been killed and several injured during a volcanic eruption in guatemala the volcano has been spewing black smoke and ash into the sky lava flows reportedly struck at least one village many living nearby will forced to leave and the local airport has been shut down well let's get more on this now our correspondent david missa is joining us live on skype from the

capital guatemala city the death toll climbing david from seven to twenty five in the past hour what are you hearing. well that's right i mean it's really too soon to see exactly how big this this disaster could be it's nighttime here it's about ten o'clock at night and the volcanic eruption hit about three o'clock this afternoon now and the communities that are affected are on the southern flanks of the volcano which is basically where water where rainfall mixed together with some of this ball cap and covered it sounds like it covered one village now rescue rescuers have not been able to access that site you've got volunteer clear volunteer firefighters working together with police the army. and other rescue workers but they have me all the access of the site so we're expecting probably tomorrow morning when they get access to the site that this death toll is going to

climb as the tragedy becomes much more revealed david do we know how many people have been affected how many people live in the area to be evacuated i know that says one of central america's most active volcanoes so what they any precautions and place for something like this happening. well that's right they do regular drills around this volcano that is incredibly active this is the second eruption so far this year and it's kind of continually pumping out smoke and loud. so they have been taking lots of rest sort of. efforts to try to prepare people in these communities the communities are very large they're at the base of the volcano but the area affected is very large there's three compartments here as they call them and what all of that are now on red alert and there's more than a million people who've been affected by this sort of rainfall of ash that's come down across a very wide area today myself i was driving home couldn't see out of the wind

shield because of this it was like snow was in the wind chill on it was the black sandy snow and so they were cause traffic accidents in several places so you know more than a million people have been affected but the real people who have been damaged by this by this volcanic slide are located in those villages and we're going to find out more morning exactly how bad it is you know and the pictures that we're saying david it certainly looks very bad how does this can you say guess how this option compares with the past eruptions. i think it's did well i could say that yes this is this is much worse than anything that we've seen for a number of years there haven't been this many calories from a volcanic eruption that we are now entering into the rainy season here in guatemala and it's not unusual to have one slides coming down the differences here

is that it's lab or that's been added to the water instead of earth it's going out into the water but what i'm a lot of very susceptible country to any kind of natural disaster is very mountainous and in the rainy season that ground gets saturated and can give away very easily lots of towns that are located far from highways and it can be cut off very easily in a poor country so people build in places where in other places they might not be able to have their houses and there's been no shortage of challenges then david so how stretched. i think right now it's simply a question of be able to get into this area like this that it's night it's night here there would be more aggressions that would be happening from the volcano and i think rescue workers are just be very careful so as they themselves don't get trapped in this but i don't think it's necessarily a case of them being spread then i think it's simply a case of beyond that access the sidelines became down over the highway and that's really preventing them from getting into the air is that have been most impacted by

this. for david thank you very much for that for now that's david mercer with the very latest joining us live from guatemala city thank you david. let's move on to other news now and at least fifty five people including six children have died and two tragedies in the mediterranean sea both boats were carrying refugees trying to enter europe and then getting a speedboat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands and the tennessean coast guard is searching for survivors from a refugee boat so far sixty eight people along with nearly fifty bodies have been brought to the port city of slacks shiela ballasts reports on the safety of land and back where they began after the nine metre boat sank leaving two newseum bound for europe. the boat had a capacity for seventy five to ninety people maximum but we were between one hundred eighty and one hundred ninety on board. nearly seventy people were rescued

by the two new zealand coast guard and brought to the city is farkas it's unclear exactly how many people are missing it's the most deadly ship break in the mediterranean since people. elicited. water was coming into the boat those who could escape or fled others drowned we stayed there until almost five am then fisherman came to help us the coast guard arrived. it was a dark night on the mediterranean some two thousand kilometers away three adults and six children drowned off the coast of turkey the turkish coast guard pulled five people out alive. the toll of dado missing in these waters is up to six hundred fifty people since january and yet it's a far cry from twenty fifteen when this was the main route to europe more than a million people crossed and there were three times as many deaths most migrants now come through northern africa search and rescue n.g.o.s have diverted to deploy

from italy all motor. says the north the moment we are witnessing a decrease in arrivals in recent months this figure of the decrease does not stop us running with people who come are in terrible physical and psychological condition. these were the latest arrivals more than one hundred fifty people reach southern sicily on friday we are here and we will perform. as long as we will be able to perform we are performing rescue and we would be performing in the future that is possible. and sometimes there is good news ten days ago a baby was born on risky ship the aquarius at two point take kilograms she was named miracle the mother was found stranded off the coast of libya the now insistently. life or death the two outcomes migrants must consider before they board a boat to europe charlotte ballasts. well those deaths occurred as the tide of

anti immigrant sentiment continues to swell across europe so the area is the latest country to elect a populist party results from the parliamentary elections show the rightwing anti immigration party led by former prime minister has won more than a quarter of the vote and that puts his party in the lead but he's likely to secure an outright majority tanya novak has more from the piano. he's a former prime minister was disgraced by a corruption scandal but now you understand and his slovenian democratic party a back on the political map his hardline on immigration secured his party victory in this election immigration has been at the top of the political agenda since two thousand and fifteen when half a million people fleeing pass through slovenia on their way to the best in europe close. most foreign challenges that are part of the domestic challenges including modern crisis so it's a challenge for the whole of the e.u.

during a biggest wave of mass migration we told our european partners that a better large should be in short supply it will be back in their countries and not in europe the strong his nearest challenger was comedian turned politician marion charles leader of the new center left party who see more trussell trust the first it is impossible to bias he said it publicly before the elections that we will not enter a youngish onsides coalition let's give time to the relative let's give him the chance to form a government and then we will see what happens if we have this opportunity they will form the government but. the snap election was called after the sudden resignation of prime minister. he stepped down in much due to a failed railway a project he's credited with boosting slovenia's economy up to recession but it wasn't enough for voters here. slovenia once a part of former yugoslavia joined the european union in two thousand and four a government led by. slovenia to the right and an anti migrant voice to the

analysts a youngster has a big challenges ahead the electorate is hearing the voices are angry are all and it's true you know go after go after and immigration policies after say that you will drown out. the song. said he's a leader who has had the chance as and done it so far will he do it this time around it's a big question but the bigger question is can he will form a government even though young is young says martin most votes in this election defines himself in a difficult position it will be very hard for him to find willing martin in the other partition want a coalition most of them don't share his political beliefs and all of. the neighboring italy the new interior minister says the island of sicily it will no longer be what he calls a u.s. refugee camp salving her visits

a city on some day says has plans to deport illegal migrants are not hardline but common sense the area as one of the main evolver points for refugees and migrants who make the dangerous crossing from north africa. we're going to these are emergency centers my interest is to work in order to reduce the number of people arriving and increase the number of deportations this isn't easy to do nor is it possible to do it a quarter of an hour but in the coming weeks we want to give new signals to cut costs and cut my good attention durations to jordan now with the prime minister may be on his way out sources have told al-jazeera they cannot the level asked to resign in a meeting at the royal palace on monday there have been days of protests in the kingdom after the government proposed raising income tax by at least five percent mohamad the save reports. thousands marched in the streets of amman towards the prime minister's residence chanting we are coming it's the fourth night of protests there demanding the resignation of hand over his plans to increase

taxes. the government must step down the tax law must be withdrawn these are our demands and we don't when the next government to implement the same policies either . if the government doesn't respond to at manzanar will be a general strike on wednesday just like the one last week who will be calling for the government to step down because we do not want a government pressured by external involvement we need a government that represents the nation government sources now say king abdullah will meet the prime minister on monday where he and other members of jordan's government are expected to submit their resignation. jordan's been under international pressure to cut spending to deal with its thirty seven billion dollars debt that's equivalent to ninety five percent of the country's annual output it borrowed seven hundred twenty three million dollars from the international monetary fund two years ago to cope with its economic slump. jordan

is also struggling to housing support two point seven million refugees from neighboring conflicts more than a third of the entire population oh these jordanians understand their country is in financial difficulties what they don't understand is why they're being asked to pay the bill some of the d.c. al-jazeera. and margot there's a middle east analyst and former based journalist and he says there is no easy solution to the crisis. the protests only began on wednesday and we've been moving very quickly to the point where on friday the king canceled the fuel tax and already according to many reports monday the prime minister will resign this has been one of the key demands of the protesters in addition to the canceling of the tax law you have unemployment rising to about eighteen percent amman is one of the most expensive cities in the arab region you have deep seated economic issues with twenty one percent of jordanians below the poverty level into the country observing

over six hundred fifty five thousand syrian refugees so many jordanian feel deeply unhappy with the current economic situation and that has caused them to go to the streets and say that enough is enough so while unemployment has risen the reason for these tax hikes was because only about five percent of jordanians are paying income tax so you have very few of jordanians contributing so jordan the government has said that we need to have more money coming into the budget the debt has to about forty billion dollars the debt to g.d.p. ratio is at ninety five percent so the reason that the jordanian government backed by the international monetary fund has increased taxes because this current situation is unstable if jordan removes the prime minister this deep seated economic wars are going to continue therefore there are no easy fixes and this situation is going to be very dangerous in the coming days if not weeks. lots more still ahead on the bulletin hacking the conference news agency new information

about how big a role saudi arabia played in the cybercrime that led to the gulf crisis. am to the naming tower of baghdad course repair iraq's crumbling heritage are being ignored. and that sounds great but when. the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there we're seeing lots of cloud at the moment over parts of the middle east we can see a whole trail of it from parts of iraq and iran stretching all the way out to work its way of attash can and into el monte as well so we'll see if you outbreaks of rain from that is slowly nudging its way eastwards looks like how marty will still catch a few showers there during the day on monday and as we head through tuesday the showers gradually begin to break up a little bit further towards the west we've got yet more wet weather here that's

not good news for us in georgia where we've seen some flooding and more showers do mean more thunderstorms to even further towards the south and force in yemen we've seen this huge area of cloud that's been with us coming in going over the last day or so and it's given us a lot of wet weather and some flooding over parts of yemen as well so these are the pictures from santa and as you can see there's a lot of water logging there now it does look like we're going to see a few more showers as we head through the next few days and what we'll also see is more cloud work its way over the southern parts of a man as well around for lolla so here is typical for this time of year you do expect to see more cloud a few more outbreaks of rain but this perhaps is a little bit early here in doha no most are in the air here our temperatures right up at forty one or forty two degrees for the southern parts of africa fine force in cape town. so one of the sponsors i can't always.

good to have you with us on these are our top stories at least twenty five people have been killed and several injured journal volcanic eruption in guatemala the. west of the capital city has been spewing black smoke and ash into the sky lava

flows reportedly struck at least one village. at least fifty five people including six children have died in two boats carrying refugees trying to enter europe in the deadly a speedboat sabc while crossing from turkey to the greek islands and in a separate incident to the defense ministry says it's recovered forty six bodies after a boat capsized near the port city of facts and in slovenia rightwing opposition party led by former prime minister has won the most votes about twenty five percent of the parliamentary election and. party was trailing behind in second place with twelve percent but since secured a majority there have to be a coalition government. analogise their investigation has found that saudi arabia played

a big overall in calls in the gulf crisis than previously thought the report shows the cell that hacked the website of the covered news agency in may two thousand and seventeen work from a saudi government ministry in riyadh and the phones and computers were all connected to a saudi communication company the hacking off the cuff a news agency led to the fall out between qatar and its gulf neighbors saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. last june and a second french newspaper is reporting that sol the is threatening military action against cutter if it acquires russian weapons photo newspaper says the saudi crown prince has written to u.s. president donald trump and british prime minister trees a major warn that it's ready to retaliate if acquires the s. four hundred and two aircraft defense system it was revealed to us in a similar letter to french president emmanuel macron on friday as a message to moscow said in january that his country intended to acquire the missile system but tuesday will mark a year since the blockade began we'll have a special program looking at all the political economic and human crisis impact of

the crisis that's at eight hundred g.m.t. on tuesday here at al-jazeera. insulting and unacceptable that's how canada's prime minister justin trudeau described the new u.s. tariffs on steel and imports the president on trump invoked national security concerns as justification for the tower of what she's also imposed on metal imports from mexico and the european union or canada plans to impose reciprocal measures on southern neighbor. first of all we're putting the same kinds of tariffs exactly on on steel and aluminum coming from the united states and canada to be directly reciprocal but we are also putting a number of tariffs on consumer goods finished products for which canadians have easy alternatives one of this either made in canada or made from another partner with the tariffs one of the truths about tariffs is they drive up costs for

consumers and on top of that these tariffs are going to be hurting american workers and canadian workers the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable well donald trump's top economic adviser call that response by trudeau and other reaction larry could says the u.s. has to protect itself i don't think we're satisfied yet that they will protect or uphold all the shipments of steel coming into canada from around the world could be china could be brazil could be a lot of different places this trend shipping effort is something that has been troubling to us look the president has declared our steel industry a national security matter mike hanna has more from washington. well the u.s. is now at the center of trade disputes on a number of fronts with traditional allies canada the e.u.

mexico they all absolutely furious at the decision to impose new tariffs and even more upset by the contention that it's a national security issue and talks with china have fallen apart it would appear that commerce secretary warble russell two days of talks in beijing with the chinese vice premier but no agreement reached china absolutely furious at the fact that the u.s. says it's threatening to reintroduce new tariffs this just a matter of weeks after that seem that agreement had been reached on some form of truce now all of this is likely to come to a head in the next few days when the leaders of the g. seven nations gather for talks in canada. to turkey now where president of the one has held a massive election campaign rally in the predominantly kurdish city of the advocate is trying to win support from an ethnic community that the government has been at odds with for years he said the turkish state also belongs to kurds said of course

the owner reports from the advocate she was very good her turkeys presents are drawn addresses an election rally in the d.r. booker to stop the sin city known to be the kurdish heartland he made it clear that no one should be seeking an independent state for turkey skirts. all citizens including kurds are assured by the target for public other demands should be legitimate and within the rule of law the spite the kurds disappointment in their ruling party in the face peace process and on still has strong support among some of them. he values people the previous leaders didn't treat us well especially kurds. the ruling our party launched a peace process in the two thousand tends to find a way to end turkey's decades long conflict with the outboard kurdistan workers party or the p.k. k. a conflict that claimed one of them forty thousand lives but the fridge or peace was short lived it effectively ended in two thousand and fifteen when both sides

resume talks starlet the situation got more complicated when a state of emergency was declared following a failed coup in two thousand and sixteen. first the government promised to lift the state of emergency in three months but then it was used as a tool to design politics in opposition and now it stands as the biggest obstacle against democratic channels peoples the party h.t.t.p. is the large sprawl kodesh bloc and could be a game changer if it wins more than ten percent of the vote this would likely wrap the ruling party off its majority in parliament over the last three years he has taken a very hawkish very militaristic very aggressive very masculine take on the kurdish issue and this is it because he's trying to survive kurds in southeastern turkey has suffered almost because of the government security policies prisons are dong is

promising ways democracy and more embracing policies towards all of the dozens of trickle back the kurds who have supported our job during the peace process i'm curious to know how this will include them if the state of emergency is not lifted . to the major question now is how to lose the photo of the kurds again in the squishy legislative and presidential elections elections that will mark turkey's transition to a new government system headed by a very strong president. of al-jazeera. to russian journalists investigating myanmar's military crackdown against one hundred muslims in northern state and once again appeared in court while loner and who are accused of keeping a secret government documents they've been in custody since december convicted they face up to fourteen years in jail. now eleven tower of pisa is well known but

baghdad also has a tower where the tendency to told it's one of the many heritage buildings suffering from poor maintenance and neglect osama bin job they have reports from the iraqi capital. the sixteenth sixty the year when the mosque was built but this is all that's left of it the cracks in the arches and fading tiles are reminders of the golden days of baghdad this is the victorian facade of the iraqi capital old governorate building it was damaged during the two thousand and three u.s. invasion and has been abandoned since this area was part of the ottoman military complex on the banks of the tigris river its decrypt state symbolizes the dig rich cultural heritage. and many people nowadays are not aware of the importance of these sites and the reason is that recently iraq has faced violence and internal fighting which led to

a weak government the conscription zone baghdad's old minaret are feeding the caliphs mosque compound is over a thousand years old built by the caliphs after centuries of war than invasions the minaret is the only original structure left and it didn't always lean. the government to seal the mosque because of the dangerously rapid tilting of the minaret but there are no real efforts being made to repair it the government's priorities are the provision of basic services and with a struggling economy preservation efforts inevitably take a back seat there are no worshipers in this compound which is hundreds of years old because of the fear that the minaret would fall on the hall these days when people pray they do it in the courtyard spiderwebs have replaced the curtains inside and we are told there are no books left in the library upstairs. we need to value the sites not only there were legit ones but also historic sites like the

assyrian and babylonian sites it would help to strengthen the national identity. and that iraqi national identity has been blurred by years of sectarian strife corruption and mismanagement. these two domes envelop the symbolic eternal flame of the iraqi flag this monument built in the one nine hundred eighty s. used to represent iraqis now many government departments claim ownership of the multi-million dollar landmark the martyrs monument was used by u.s. forces and then the iraqi military as a base like much else of iraq's heritage its museum and library were also looted these days the halls remain empty and the general public is not allowed in a. rich tapestry of ancient and modern history is fading fast many people are afraid that unless action is taken to protect and preserve it it could be lost forever so i'm a bit. like that. and just

a reminder that you can always keep up to date with all the news on our website that said al jazeera dot com. with the headlines on al-jazeera at least twenty five people have been killed and several injured during a volcanic eruption in guatemala the volcano southwest of the capital. has been black smoke and ash into the sky lava flows reportedly struck at least one village more now from. this end. the communities that are affected are on the southern flanks of the volcano which is basically where water where rainfall mixed together with some of this ball cap and cover it sounds like it covered one village now rescue rescuers have not been able to access that site you've got

volunteer clear volunteer firefighters working together with police the army and other rescue workers but they have me all the access of the site so we're expecting probably to morrow morning when they get access to the site that this death toll is going to climb as the tragedy becomes much more revealed. at least fifty five people including six children have died in two boats carrying refugees trying to enter europe and legally a speed boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands and in a separate incident defense ministry says it's recovered forty six bodies after a boat capsized near the port city of facts while those deaths occurred as the tide of anti immigrant sentiment continues to swell across europe sylvania is the latest country to elect a populist party a right one group led by former prime minister younis young she has won the most votes that's about twenty five percent of the parliamentary election and an anti-establishment party came in second place with twelve percent but since no

group secured a majority they will have to be a coalition government and a neighbor in italy the new interior minister says the island of sicily will no longer be what he calls europe's refugee camp matteo salvini who visited sicily on sunday says his plans to deport illegal migrants are not hardline but common sense the area is one of the main wobble points for refugees and migrants who make the dangerous sea crossing from north africa at least one hundred and fifty eight people landed there are friday after being rescued on the mediterranean jordan's prime minister maybe on his way out sources have told al-jazeera the king of the mobile asked promise to honey are lucky to resign at a meeting on monday when days of protests in the kingdom after the government proposed raising income tax. the listening post is coming up next. unpack it for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether on line horrendous things you know it's all just there there's absolutely no doubt about

that or if you join us on sacked a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is a dialogue to talk to us about some of this excessive perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the colobus conversation amount is iraq. but of course they don't really know in modern and got out most of india's means the new publications hold on hold but of course the big problem with the moment. it's like the us government is the show you get into is one of the biggest stories out there right now i mean in india it doesn't want to. alarm richard just britain you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week a journalist goes undercover in india to expose media companies willing to peddle propaganda dressed up as news for a price kremlin funded news outlets are feeling the heat in the us but what about

washington's own state sponsored broadcast operations overseas a real k. .