swear and thank you. zimbabwe's president survives an explosion at a rally where he was speaking one of his vice presidents was injured. the softer ethiopia's new prime minister escapes a grenade attack at a rally which killed one person and dozens. said this is al jazeera a long way from london also coming up. thirty one's main rival for the turkish president say mahara inch eight draws a massive crowd in istanbul at his final election rally. thousands flee syria's darragh province after the government launches a major offensive plus. two

years off to britain's decision to leave the e.u. tens of thousands marched to london to demand another vote. zimbabwe's president has a skate to the explosion at a campaign rally by the ruling zanu p.f. policy ahead of next month's election this video shows a grenade flying through the air as amisom and other politicians were walking off the stage in the city of bell away oh my god has condemned the attack as a cowardly acts while the opposition leader says any violence is unacceptable he wasn't hurt but one of his vice presidents and another minister the elections will be the first time since robert mugabe was forced out of power last year let's get more on this from a tosser who's in neighboring south africa her anymore you're hearing in the latest

as well as to exactly what happened. or prison and i was spoke to the state media and you see some of those injured include the chairman of the ruling party open which in gori wife of one the vice president and the speaker of parliament and several others when he was asked who he thinks was responsible he said he doesn't think it's people who come from below wale he says these are people from outside the city called the new normal enemies he didn't name anyone you also see that is not the first attempt on his life he's not afraid he will carry on campaigning he's urging bobbies to stay calm and look forward and prepare for the elections at the end of july so there must be questions being asked about the security surrounding the president now haro as we can see whatever was thrown really exploding very close to him his the mass left the stone age. exactly that was surprising a lot of people usually security at these rallies are very tight i mean yes for the thousands of supporters who come in they get searched in the into the stadium or

the venue they get patted down by security normally party supporters sometimes a few police but to get that close to the president normally it's the ip officials senior party officials and journalists of this individual who managed to put all this device to the screen name on to the podium people are wondering how did he or she managed to get that close what was security like there's clearly a lapse in security what is going to be done next a lot of questions being asked but one thing is guaranteed the next really he has the next meetings he will have in and around the country the security would likely be very very tight this figure watching from around the world karen saw the transition of power from a government of quite peaceful we are now looking to go into this next election in july is there a fear that there are factions within the country that could ask on security and on the violence. well generally the campaign period has been pretty relatively

calm there been a few incidences here and there into party struggles and issues but nothing in there is what we saw on saturday i think what people are wondering is who is responsible some people are saying maybe because the way or the second biggest the city is an opposition stronghold they could be some opposition people who don't want the result of the party who don't like the president others are saying that they are a way that when he was removed from office a few months ago by the army down with allies made it very clear they are unhappy with the fact that when god is now president so they could be some interparty issues within the rulings are party but the president really trying to calm people down saying do not worry they can he have under control he is not afraid to die he said the time is not yet up and as far as he's concerned these elections will go ahead at energy life as scheduled thank you. well the o.p.'s health minister says at least one person has been killed in a grenade attack during the new prime minister's first mass rally in the capital addis ababa more than one hundred sixty people were injured after it has announced

a series of major reforms since taking office in april victoria gay some reports. this was the moment the grenade exploded close to where prime minister abbey ask why it was sitting. for a few moments there was confusion before members of the security forces came onto the stage and led the effort to safety. witnesses say they saw the man who targeted the prime minister there's a prime minister we're just concluded his speech and that moment there was a grenade. but i think the guy was just trying to stroll the stage. beside him just took him. just went off and on sunday it was a bloody end to a day that is started with so much optimism hundreds of thousands of ethiopians had gathered in the capital addis ababa mescal square to support their new prime

minister since taking office in april the forty two year old has announced a series of reforms including the release of tens of thousands of prisoners the opening of state owned companies to private investment and to propose peace deal with eritrea in an address to the nation after the attack abby said that those trying to divide ethiopia would not succeed in your my for a little while that but that i'm not certain groups planned and coordinated to destroy this large gathering to kill innocent people and to spill blood on our streets they have tried very hard but their entire plot has failed the questions are being raised about whether the security operation for such a large rally was adequate some of the officers have been saying that this is an attempt on the life of the prime minister and the definitely the supporting the rally was a great demonstration that there is

a solid support for the reformist by the prime minister but at the same time the the great attack have revealed that the reforms are still fragile prime minister abbey says he is determined to bring change to ethiopia but this attack highlights the lengths to try and stop him victoria. turkey's presidential candidates have held their final rallies ahead of landmark elections on sunday president. has edged people to get out and vote he attacked his opposition for locking vision boasted of his achievements while in office such as you health infrastructure he's been in power since two thousand and three called a snap election eighteen months early on his main challenger inch a has also held

a rally in a stumble throwing a massive crowd he's painted a bleak picture of turkey and saying its currency would remain weak and its refugee problems on this old six candidates are running for president under reforms the when it will acquire sweeping new executive powers. shell is waiting for us in ankara and just tell me a little bit about what the ones message was to the crowds at that rally. well seward spin very clear message throughout his campaign particularly in this last rally which is that the people of turkey are on the brink of a new iraq in the states one that they have chosen to draw themselves through the last referendum which change the political system which governs the country here from a parliamentary one to a presidential one he said that malvo tools are there or make turkey even stronger economically geopolitically and so forth and in order to continue this journey they

should come out in full force vote for him as you mentioned there he has been critical of his opponents for lacking vision because much of the campaigning that has been centered on this presidential and parliamentary elections because this is the first time both elections will take place on the same day much of that campaigning by the opponents over one of the cards you have been trying negative campaigning critical for her to run herself as a person of it's parts you for being in power for too long or curtailing freedoms as far as the opposition claim there hasn't been that much in terms of economics. lions or how they will those running or vying for these positions would govern differently there are some promises that have been made for example as you mentioned there with regards to the refugee issue. the candidates of the secular c.h.p. party vowed that he would send millions of syrian refugees syrian refugees currently in psyche home within one hundred days an alarming promise to say the least there

have been other promises made by other candidates for example the nationalist candidates who promised that she would privatized the national television service t.r.t. and sell it off so there have been some propositions in terms of the manifestoes or promises made by hughes candidates but the vast majority of the campaign has been centered on being critical of her doing and the party not harming change just thing to be galvanizing at least some of the opposition in favor strongest in the opposition what is he thank you think that is drawing big crowds. indeed i mean from these for the five candidates competing against iran who is the front runner who remains the most single most popular political figure in. is the strongest contender to try and face him he most polls are predicting through that you will win in the first round if anything the biggest chance he has

is to force a second round of voting and maybe through protest votes being collated and concentrated on one opposition figure that may give him a chance to actually properly competes against one because according to all the exit polls or rather all the prediction polls that have been taking place there is a twenty to twenty five point gap between our two an injury so still a very big gap in order for somebody to win through they need to reach at least fifty percent of the votes in the first round so if one fails. to reach that fifty percent considering there are five other candidates for which the vote can be divided that could make the second round a lot closer there have been large crowds but it's important to note turkey has an eighty one or eighty two million population country so was a million people can turn out for c.h.p. really a million or two million can turn out to an a.k.p. really really the only way to accurately count supports is through the ballot boxes

the a.k.p. would say well over the past fifteen years they've won twelve of those elections and therefore that is a good litmus test to show their support the opposition will say well that supports has been told or at least it's remained stagnant in some places your arms in a huge rise over the years so sunday's vote is historic to say the least and the lot of people here are waiting to figure out exactly how it will turn out bearing in mind very quickly that turkey has a huge voter turnout you're talking at least eighty eighty five percent turnout so it is going to be very hotly contested. thank you jim. and. still to come on the program. singing for the less fortunate hundreds turn out for a civil rights rally in washington as the donald trump steps up his anti immigrant rhetoric and why the swiss goal scoring celebration is an informal worldcom. think

tensions in the balkans. hello again look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've got some showers across some eastern areas further wise fine around the caspian sea a woman in tehran at thirty seven meanwhile across the eastern side of the mediterranean weather conditions in general looking fine we have some showers on the southern side of the black sea also some showers the sending into parts of the caucasus so for georgia and armenia through monday we could well see one or two big storms now here in the arabian peninsula it's pretty fine temperatures there in the low to mid forty's for many still a fairly brisk mild blowing down through the gulf region so some places a bit of lift a dust bush doesn't automatically mean visibility in doha not too bad forty one

degrees celsius and rising to forty seven degree can see in parts of the emirates and manchu in the course of monday now across into southern portions of africa here we've got some fine weather conditions for everyone not particularly on the edges fifteen or so high in cape town to his post struggling to my sort of eighteen degrees celsius but once you get into central parts of africa then there are some really big storm systems coming through in those east cities so sit down towards the gulf of guinea region some heavy showers across west africa but that could be some dry weather across in ghana.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera zimbabwe's president m.s.n. money has condemned the attack on his campaign rally as a cowardly act the bomb blast happened just seconds after he addressed the stadium crowd and below where your city came after ethiopia's prime minister i'll be asking right a scam to grenade attack at a rally and other south about one person was killed and more than one hundred sixty

five of those george and massive crowds are turned out in turkey for the final rally before sunday's election opposition leader my hire an inch aide told supporters he's confident he'll defeat president. iraq's minute she says it has killed forty five eisel fighters including some senior come on the us in an eastern syria a military spokesman says the raid targeted a meeting of ice allegiance in the syrian province of darrow's or among those killed were a senior member of the group's so-called ministry of war his deputy and a local commander and thousands of civilians have fled parts of syria's daraa province where the government has stepped up its offensive will fight to say they've repelled of the last attack but fear they may not be able to hold out much longer the u.s. has called on president bashar al assad to halt the offensive which falls inside one of the internationally agreed deescalation zones. reports.

this is the first time forces have used battle. in the year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an end to the seven year war the americans have of serious repercussions if the offensive continues and the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's of course and he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he's quite serious distinct power we will never recognize him reject the presence of ukrainian and afghan militias. who should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the

opposition says thousands of shia militias also moving in dar was the focal point of the syrian uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last year and for service are largely outgunned and outnumbered. the dow offensive poses challenges for all the parties the rebels cannot afford another setback after being

evicted from major song calls including aleppo homes and on the asker's of damascus but of the syrian army's push continue as the u.s. may interfere and that may trigger a wider ass collation. that jump out a minute.