it's emergency rule for option coverage that might be a little comfort to people who have just lost everything that they've had. in it the we're going to be seen in the coming days how glad to see. there's also think of the criticism about the fact that the design does disaster agency didn't let people know that the volcano was about to reroute and indeed when they were being shouted out to get a little over was over the ferry thought well you hang on the ground well they were saying that they were able to get the evacuation message out to some people but the people were just lightly self coming. out of the area that was really devastated but people did they thought the person that does the path of the law was going to come down and it actually was a little bit farther up and it sounds like they weren't able to get the message through to the people but they came down so fast and furious and then there's a problem or the last always slows down to call a tow but because of this amount of rain and because of the amount of lavender size

of the explosion it just channeled the completing the routing so it came down in an area where it normally doesn't come down and it came down very very quickly and some people were just on able to get out of it and on but certainly there's going to be a lot of questions i didn't really ask for disaster management agency on why those people weren't evacuated earlier many thanks for that update david maisonette speaking to us directly from not volcano eruption i don't know chunks i just come in some twists about the russia probe has triggered outrage from democrats and constitutional lawyer this time tweeted he has the right to pardon himself from the investigation is to supposed follows on from comments made by his lawyer rudy giuliani he said the president probably out the power to do so as speak to our white house correspondent kimberly how can kimberly what's the situation legally really can he pull himself. well certainly

this is the argument that we now know is going to be made by the president's legal team we know this because the president we did it his attorney rudolph giuliani the former mayor of new york saying it on sunday on the sunday chat shows and we also know because of a letter that has been leaked to the new york times newspaper that was authored in january in fact this is something that the legal team that is advise ing donald trump in the ongoing russia investigation the probe by the special counsel robert muller went to whether or not there was any collusion or obstruction of justice this is the thinking and now the president putting it on twitter saying as has been stated by numerous legal scholars i have the absolute right to pardon myself but why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong now let me tell you there has been some weighing in of the justice department going back to nine hundred seventy four in fact during the nixon years in the political corruption scandal that occurred during his presidency it led to his resignation the justice department

says in fact that no one can judge their own case and in a memo also said the president cannot part of himself so certainly legal minds have been looking at this back decades and the president's conclusion isn't necessarily the consensus of the institutions of the united states and now he's gone one further from our understanding in these even questioning whether the actual probe is constitutional itself. right this is another argument that seems to be something that is being floated about by the legal team of the president putting this on twitter and a whole host of tweets about half a dozen this morning here in the united states the president is making this argument listen the appointment of the special counsel is totally all caps unconstitutional despite that we played the game because i unlike the democrats have done nothing wrong well some are suggesting that the president perhaps could be feeling guilty and so is putting out there that he has done nothing wrong but

there's also more to it than that the president does not have absolute power under the u.s. constitution of the united states anything can be investigated because there are equal branches of government the judiciary supreme court the congress which is the legislative and executive which is the white house behind me all of these are equal one is not great of the other so the president can certainly make that claim but we've already seen with past presidents like bill clinton that they can be impeached the house of representatives does that the senate removes them certainly i can also tell you that if the president were to exercise what he claims to be his right or to make the claims that this is unconstitutional any of those actions going much further would certainly in a divided united states polarized politically there would certainly be widespread and rest of the president were to going back to the issue of self pardoning if he were to do that many fans really how could i bring in the very latest from just outside the white house. you are with the news hour on al-jazeera much more to come

on our program a beating of top clerics who are calling for peace talks in afghanistan is targeted by a suicide bomber in kabul could there be a thawing of relations between madrid and catalonia following the swearing in of a new spanish prime minister and his forty injury hasn't come between africa's player of the year and the place of the world cup. not as their investigation has found that saudi arabia played a bigger role in causing the gulf crisis than previously thought the report shows the cell with the catalan news agencies website in may last year worked from a saudi government ministry in riyadh the phones and computers were connected to a saudi communications company and hackers have posted fake quotes attributed to catalyse amir this led to saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cutting ties with cattle and imposing

a blockade well as the one year anniversary of the blockade of qatar approaches there are efforts in the us to win support president ali trump initially the countries behind the blockade this year though has been calling on all sides to resolve the dispute practical hain looks at the role lobbying has play in all of that. the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism it was a shock in washington and across the globe a u.s. president publicly going after cutter a close ally that houses the biggest u.s. base in the middle east siding with the blockading countries. at the time many believe the saudis following treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the

push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from brodie a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one e-mail bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quote is a direct result of the campaign we have led over the past two months to highlight the funding of terrorism by cutter and the muslim brotherhood brody is suing cutter he says they hacked his e-mails a charge they denied but cutters facing more scrutiny because of another court case prominent guitars are being sued by rapper ice cube he says they didn't pay him as promised in a business deal and his partner testified that they tried to use them to get to

steve bannon in testimony describing their offer as a bribe which they also deny all sides of spent millions of dollars on lobbyist trying to sway the trust of ministration one country in the gulf region is a threat to global security are putting ads in the president's favor cable channels placing op eds in prominent papers lobbying lawmakers stand with the united states to defeat terrorism and. there are a lot of guys who are making an awful lot of money and mr former lobbyist stephen billet thinks they're likely wasted. millions of dollars because you never really see any evidence of it later on you know you'll see decisions made at a later time that indicate that there was a positive outcome according to the new york times the saudis and u.a.e. offered to help the drone campaign before the election it's unclear if anything was done on his behalf with their money but it's an allegation special counsel robert muller is likely looking at the man at the center of many of these questions george

nader is cooperating with the investigation. al-jazeera washington and. since the blockade began we'll have a special program looking at the political economic and human impact of the crisis us at eight hundred g.m.t. on tuesday have sarah. at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital kabul it happened to thousands of religious scholars who are leaving a gathering helicity splits happening in of a city they announced a decree against the war in afghanistan the taliban to accept the government's face off jennifer glass is in kabul. the bomb went off as hundreds of thousands of islamic scholars and clerics were finishing their meeting in what we call the jirga tent the loya jirga tent to really a a conference hall in kabul as they were exit a after a meeting where they condemned of the ongoing war as an islamic and condemn suicide

bombers a bomber went off at the gate the entrance to that gathering where more than two thousand five hundred religious leaders had gotten together to try and persuade the taliban to come to the peace table to accept what the president calls an unconditional offer for peace talks now and just as we heard news of that bombing another bombing in town a smaller bomb went off in a truckload of watermelon that injured three civilians it seems that over and over again we hear these stories we are reporting these stories that either the taliban or i saw are setting off bombs or attacks here in the afghan capital and around the country really a sign of how difficult it is for the afghan government to maintain security at the taleban a growing influence around the country despite fifteen thousand u.s. and nato troops as well as a large force of afghan security forces fighting very hard and losing men all over

the country has been a brutal fighting season and the attacks continue here in the afghan capital. israel says it will take money from the taxes it collects for palestinians to compensate israelis for fun a damage to the land israel says palestinians protesting in gaza carried out in the tox damaging forests agricultural land more than one hundred twenty palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers since protests on the border began in late march but the smith reports. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu wants to make the deductions for damage he says has been caused to agricultural fields and nature reserves and forests by the burning kites that have been floated over from guard into israeli territory the palestinian authority says to do this would be robbery and a cowardly aggression israel collects sometimes says and revenues on behalf of the palestinian authority and sends them over to the p.a.

every month and previously israel has threatened to withhold taxes for actions taken by the p.a. that israel doesn't approve of there's no indication yet of how much israel is threatening to withhold the book the tax off already has previously estimated the damage just to agricultural land has come in at about one half million dollars and it suggests that if you add nature is. fields in other areas to that that could increase the cost for the president of catalonia says he will meet spain's new prime minister kim torah said he has exchanged messages with had just sanchez on the catalan region's future following last year's unilateral declaration of independence which was declared illegal no date has yet been set for discussions to be traitor reports from madrid. the new socialist prime minister pedro sanchez started his first day in office by welcoming the ukrainian president petro

poroshenko to madrid it was a long standing gauge went on the former prime minister mariano rajoy diplomatic diary close aide for both leaders must have had a long night shoring up new briefing notes after a horror lost a vote of no confidence. but the real focus of the day was on a prison compound deep in the countryside outside madrid. the newly elected president of the regional government in catalonia kim was paying a call on five of his former colleagues behind bars awaiting trial on charges of rebellion and sufficient but the main question was is the knowledge chance of a new dialogue between madrid and barcelona. we have exchanged messages and agreed to meet as soon as possible it's important for me to emphasize that we are going through an exceptional situation in this country if we want to know what type of prime minister we're going to find the one who condemned the independence

referendum or a new man or. that statement from the catalonian president now leaves the diplomatic ball very much in the court of pedro sanchez but he's got a lot on his plate already he's got to form a new government but both men realize if they're going to take this opportunity they've got to take it soon. a right wing rally over the weekend in the spanish capital condemned the no confidence vote. as a constitutional coup they are calling for a new election with the new prime minister having only eighty four socialist votes in the three hundred fifty seat parliament that new election could come soon. al-jazeera madrid. saudi arabia has issued its first driving licenses to women ten women who are already have licenses and other conscious i've been issued with official paperwork licenses were given early with the ban on women driving not be

lifted until june twenty fourth but now in saudi arabian activists both men and women who've been campaigning for the right to join remain under arrest are accused of trying to undermine the kingdom security and stability. still ahead on this news hour a job for the new government to revisit the deeply divided seaside resort of austria and italy where impoverished areas are suffering a rise in organized crime will list the pay off u.s. democrats put up an unprecedented number of female candidates in the primary elections and in sports steph curry sets a new record as the golden state warriors take control of the n.b.a. finals.

hello there we're still got plenty of showers across many parts of the middle east on the satellite picture you can see the cloud here over parts of iraq also iran and then stretching its way up working its way across tashkent and into marty so we're seeing some fairly sharp showers out of this system particularly in the northeastern part of arm up and it looks like those showers are going to stick around as we head through choose day of wednesday two more showers as well through the northern parts of turkey gradually rattling their way towards the east and some of these have been pretty lively recently they have given us some flooding in georgia and we're likely to see some more heavy downpours over the next few days further towards the south and the showers in yemen have eased for now but instead we're seeing the cloud begin to build over the for the parts or of a man so for some of us in salon there will be quite grey the chance of seeing a little bit of drizzle the weather and maybe the old shower times as well further towards the south of a many of us across the southern parts of africa is fine and dry this latest weather system is now moving its way away from us and that's good news because it's developing it's really pulling itself together looks quite distinctive on our chart

for tuesday it will throw a few showers towards the southern parts of madagascar but other than that it will be largely unaffected a few showers will also be heading further north over parts of mozambique but for the west it's looking dry. the world's pollinators are in decline. in this episode of arthritis we meet entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insects of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k. to see how all the industrial sites are being turned into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al-jazeera. you possibilities treeless journalists or medical facilities in gaza had already

declared a state of emergency several weeks ago gripping documentaries to discover a wealth of award winning programming from around the globe. debates and discussion on one side of the split screen dignitaries mingling on the other car to see the world from a different perspective only on al-jazeera. welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera jordan's prime minister honey al malaki has resigned following days of protests against i.m.f. backed austerity measures king abdullah has appointed a full not world bank economist as his replacement rescue is in guatemala searching

for survivors after a volcanic eruption on sunday killed at least thirty three people is the most violent eruption of the four a go volcano in more than forty years and there's been outrage in the u.s. after president donald trump tweeted that he has the right to pardon himself from the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty six. elections. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says iran must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon he's been meeting german chancellor angela merkel in berlin netanyahu warned against allowing iran to expand its influence in the middle east and that the nation is a threat to the world dominic cain has more from berlin. when german and israeli heads of government meet there are always expressions of deep friendliness of the importance of the relationship between their two countries given the historical legacy the point also to make is amongst the expressions of friends there are

differences of opinion specifically regarding iran and the deal that was agreed several years ago concerning the nuclear program that iran had and how that could be put to one side certainly iran search for a nuclear weapon coming to this meeting mr netanyahu had made clear his concerns were iran and iran and there was certainly concerns that emerged during the joint news conference given by both leaders iran's calls for our destruction. but it's also look for weapons to carry out its genocidal desires we know that for a fact this visit to berlin is the first stop in a whistle stop tour as it were of europe's capitals taking in berlin taking in paris taking in london where mr netanyahu will be meeting with the heads of government heads of state to try to get their support for his view which is that the deal with iran needs to be repudiated as it has been by the united states government of president donald trump but so far at least the european leaders have

been steadfast have said no they believe that the best way to prevent an iranian nuclear weapon is by this deal being enforced behind all of it is of course their concern that european industries that want to invest in tehran on are concerned about what might happen if sanctions are imposed. we need some kind of regulation is we also say we need to talk about their activities and say yes but we think that through tough negotiations through joint negotiations this would be possible. meanwhile iran's supreme leader says his country has no intention of curbing its ballistic missile program and will respond harshly if attacked by its enemies ayatollah ali ham and i gave the warning on monday he said iran as missile program is crucial for the country's defense and tech crunch will attack ten times more if provoked by western nations. hundreds of bodies have been found in the iraqi city of mosul almost a year after it was retaken from myself they were buried in ruins and along the

banks of the tigris river and discovered during a renewed search efforts chance traffic reports from baghdad. it's been eleven months since iraqi prime minister hydrilla body declared victory over eisel in mosul much of what was iraq's second biggest city lies in ruins the fighting was described as the most intense urban combat since world war two. the search for bodies goes on civil defense search and rescue teams are concentrating on areas close to the banks of the river tigris it was here that the iraqi government forces supported by international coalition airstrikes flushed out and killed most of the last remaining leisel fighters in the city i saw bodies that were covered around seven hundred these bodies were all of i still that used to hide in these houses are obstacles and clearing these bodies out of the unexploded munitions hidden

bombs explosive vests and rigged houses with i.e.d. as we are trying our best to overcome these obstacles for. the remains of eisel fighters are being found close to dead civilians who were on able to escape it's estimated around ten thousand civilians were killed in of a province in the battle against isis most of them in west of mosul. we have been pulling bodies for eight days already from the. banks within this quarter alone we have found two hundred bodies on the thursday four hundred on the second day and around one hundred on the third we have difficulty getting heavy machinery aside all city because. more than two million iraqis remain displaced across the country including approximately seven hundred thousand from mosul the rebuilding of the city has yet to start families like the space many

more months if not years living in camps the delay is primarily because of questions about who will foot the bill. at the donors conference in kuwait in february iraq allies for help with the eighty eight billion dollars cost of rebuilding this country including mosul but only thirty billion dollars was pledged the iraqi government faces having to cover the majority of rebuilding costs itself for now almost a year since the battle against leisel in mosul was one the search for and recovery of the dead continues john strafford al-jazeera baghdad. italy's new coalition government appears to be focusing on immigration and its early days in power so also facing may just social issues the seaside town austere just outside the capital rome is one area that's been hit hard by poverty and the rise of organized crime the pope was there on sunday and condemned organizations for letting residents down so you're going to go as followed in his footsteps for a day in

a deeply divided community. the sun and the mediterranean sea provide a welcome distraction from italy's recent political dramas this is also a popular resorts on the roman coast. and this is also. the one. we are marginalized and you know. we're living in a developed the in the i'm dying of hunger and living in a carriage it is a deeply divided place where people feel politics has failed them in its place organized crime has filled the gap through drug trafficking and extortion. the local five star movement to took control of the council last year has promised to crack down on the gangs and rebuild the area so the problems are very real it's

a marginalized place there are drugs there's crime that people here have been forgotten and it's a neighborhood such as this one here where people feel they have really been abandoned let down by governments over the years and while a new set of politicians is promising change there's very little say thing that will actually happen. without political support those living here have had to take it upon themselves to make it more habitable including creating spaces for children to play with and once was nothing the local councils responsibility assumed by those who weren't supposed to serve. everything that's been done here has been done and it's not because we do not want to work but there's always been a wall between the citizens and the operatives. and the problems here have also been acknowledged by the head of the roman catholic church during a visit on sunday the first in fifty years by

a pontiff pope francis condemned the organizations that have turned austria into a power center of mass violence. jesus wants the walls of indifference and silence to be breached on balls of oppression an arrogance torn asunder and paul skloot for justice civility and legality. it is a stance a plea a new era in italian politics everyone here knows there is much work to be done to take an immense effort politically and otherwise to rest ostia away from the stranglehold of the local mafia gangs who wield it more must power sony vaio al-jazeera last year there are reports that a self-proclaimed libyan national army has entered the city of derna after weeks of heavy fighting the cinci led by renegade general lee for half the has led to severe shortages of water electricity food and medical supplies general have to l.

and a fighters have been battling several armed groups that control the city. french police have moved people out of two camps housing refugees in paris authorities say they're offering temporis shelter to the hundreds of people affected it comes a few days after police cleared an even larger camp in the northeast of the city over the past three years police have moved twenty eight thousand refugees out of camps in paris the president of the philippines for a trigger the turtle is once again finding himself at the center of controversy this time it's over a kiss. the seventy three year old president invited a woman onto the stage during an official visit to south korea and asked her to kiss him in exchange for a copy of his. you know the crowd it was all a bit of fun her rights groups have denounced the move pointed to deter his record of derogatory remarks about women and the fact that you thought that kissing the

woman would be in thirteen people's cells says something about how you view him in that women are for in their day men that you can express or eggs or say is the or the over another person especially a woman is entertainment that's something really you see. there are certain rules of conduct when it comes to public officials especially a president in a formal gathering in a public gathering and what i saw i don't feel is the correct all proper demeanor for a public official at an official event. eight states have primary elections in the u.s. on tuesday to narrow the amount of candidates for the upcoming midterm elections there across have been rallying around an unprecedented number of women candidates as they push to regain the majority in the house of representatives come november christine salumi has more from the state of new jersey. am i right in back of me

i am i guess arrow she is a former navy pilot federal prosecutor and first time political candidate mike use relish also the leading fundraiser in a crowded field of democrats running to represent new jersey's eleventh congressional district a seat that has been held by a republican man for the last twenty four years we see so many women running we see so many veterans running because we feel like it's time for new leadership in washington it's a common sentiment among democrats particularly women who were actually physically being targeted by our president not only here in suburban new jersey but around the country and we have twenty four seats we need to flip in this midterm election and i'm running to flip one where they hope to win enough seats to retake the majority in the house and female candidates are leading the charge on tuesday nearly one hundred women from both political parties many of them newcomers to politics will be on the ballot in congressional primaries continuing a year long trek an unprecedented number of women are taking part in state and

local elections and often times winning and what some have described as a wave. mobilization started the day after president trump's inauguration when women marched by the millions expressing concern about last reproductive rights and immigration experts point out there's now a lot at stake here who controls who is she who controls the house of representatives will control the purse will control the investigative power will ultimately if necessary control the impeachment process this election is a very important president trump is also working hard to rally his base in two thousand and sixteen more white women voted for him than hillary clinton i think people were surprised that right about that outcome and so now i think of everything and not like too much. and it's time for a change many voters say this year women are more engaged and outraged by the

president's alleged mistreatment of women you can't be divisible you need to be a unifying leader and that's my biggest opposition to the trump attacks the biggest hurdles for women candidates are yet to come in the general election this november but if the primaries are any indication women candidates and voters will be making their voices heard kristen salumi al jazeera new jersey. north korea's leader kim jong un has reportedly replaced three of his leading military offices according to the south korean media kim has saxena defense minister they are miss chief of staff and the head of its political bureau have been replaced with younger men who support his policy as u.s. intelligence believes that has been some opposition from within the military to kim's dialogue with south korea and the united states and in just a day's time the eyes of the world will be on singapore when it hosts the historic

summit between donald and kim jong il and while the excitement is building secrecy that surrounds much of the planning scott hind the reports one of the smallest countries in the world is about to host a summit that could very well be the biggest diplomatic event in decades u.s. president donald trump a north korean leader kim jong il are due to meet at last and potentially diffuse one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints. because of the dramatic back and forth mystery over the location and the personalities involved with some it isn't gauging people who previously had scant interest in geopolitics. singapore has a history of hosting top level high security events including two critical taiwan chinese meetings and the annual shangri-la security defense summit the whole security apparatus is very robust there's a lot of surveillance around the island there's significant control of the cent does control of the media such to any.