that's what this job. and live from studio fourteen zero zero headquarters and. welcome to the newsgroup polls close and a new era of turkish government is about to begin with voters choosing a president who will have increased powers will cross live to ankara and istanbul european leaders meet in brussels to work on the migration crisis and as they talk a bone called lifeline searches for a port where it can dock and bring a group of refugees to safety zimbabwe police offer a reward to help them find those behind a bombing at an election rally for president. and i'm joined by.

panama hat england as they thrash the six one to reach the knockout stages in russia. believe the newspaper live on our streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com it's the most fiercely fought parliamentary and presidential election in years holds in turkey closed an hour ago and the results could lead to rest of winning a second at five years for most presidents now millions of turks were eligible to vote in a country where main challengers have been rallying energetically right across the country for weeks the stop election called on by erdogan could go either way so if he wins it means he will adopt major new powers not seen since at. that's works

rule one which critics believe will weaken democratic rule he's also looking for a majority in parliament on the other hand he faces a major challenge from a united office ition and if he fails to reach fifty percent in the presidential vote he'll face a runoff most likely against a fiery center left candidates who has gained popularity during this campaign we have correspondents live from three locations in turkey will go to sit in a glue in istanbul in a moment. we'll be doing in us from the hour becker as well but first we'll cross for. he's joining us from ankara to tell us how tight this race has been. well i mean when it started off the gap between the two ron and his closest opponent was so much that it was considered that it would be a done deal within the first round but as you mentioned though the rain over the past couple of weeks one of the opposition candidates this year in jail has managed

to galvanize some kind of supports which has made it quite possible that this doesn't get settled today in the for a strong there is a possibility that it would go to a second round of voting albeit for the party and two rounds supporters are hoping that actually that doesn't happen and the reason why they're hopeful that they're kind of this read a paper on will be able to settle this election today is because while said they he is contesting against five other candidates which means those opposed to our two one will be dividing and sharing their votes between different people to go through a runoff that runoff would only be between two candidates and his closest rival which would pose a tight or maybe more difficult challenge for him but it's important to know that the reason that i do one of them took twelve different votes since coming to power in two thousand and two two thousand and three he's won every single one of them most of them have been billed as some sort of referendum on his popularity each one

of those have been able to come out victorious over the speech one makes it a bit more difficult because the longer you're on power the more difficult it is to maintain that however as close as this race is his supporters are saying well they're hopeful that their candidate to will manage to prove once again victorious all right jamal thank you for that update from ankara over to istanbul and sin and cos of all good joining us from there as were saying said i'm the first time turks vote in presidential and parliamentary elections at the same time so what are the different scenarios that we could at that end up with that the end of the day. well there in yes there are a few scenarios that have been discussed since the beginning of the announcement of the snap election first this is the first time that the president is a member of a political party and he is running for president says so if the first scenario is that when when our donna wins also when uk party wins what's going to happen so

this is actually what the ruling party and the president have desired and the president and the presidential executive presidential system model has been designed according to this scenario a party having to make sure to and are done being depressed and so that everything can be easier the laws can be a pass through the parliament easily the second scenario is that since add on it has the stronghold in the in the in the public polls actually a before daylight action as on the wins and up party the ruling party loses its majority this is actually a scenario which was not welcomed by the uk party supporters are for two lovers. the couple of last weeks but this requires a coalition in the parliament because if other party the ruling party loses this majority it's going to limit the president's poverty's and actually made it critics

say that this is a very good model because it is going to be more to mock were take as there were there is going to be a coalition and turkey has been ruled by the same political party for the last sixteen years. the scenarios doesn't show any chance for president and don to be. to be left out alone but of course if he if he gains falls below fifty percent then he's going to be going for the second round and he's going to be competing with his main challenger mr mccarver. but again. as i said before the public support is on be helpful for the president add on to that and action but system ballot boxes have start to have been have began opening and it will be is seeing what the results are coming out but the the more support that scenario is that presents add on to win either in the first round or the second

route but the ruling party losing its majority in the party all right we shall wait and see what happened since and thank you for that update from istanbul will now take you to the southeast of the country how much joining us from judge it back to a kurdish stronghold mohamad what is the significance of the curtis vote here and with the procrit of h d p party running by itself not part of a coalition how are they expected to fare. just dug in the kurdish vote is we can say that the kurds maintain a seventeen percent share of the national electorate so they may come after after this party and also after. if if mr injury is the main threat the h d p party is the second main threat the most important bloc after the main opposition bloc so this gives the kids much of

a way to this in this election the leader of the h.d. party a charismatic young man forty five years of these behind bars. he is he has galvanized supporters here during the last couple of weeks just through video messages and the kurds have a could see they have a cause that unites them more than any other group around the country any of the marginal groups or any of the subgroups inside turkey itself they think they have a long history of bitterness with the central government in ankara and that's something that's a rallying cry for them they think that they have to maintain a kind of level of power in the parliament because they have already reached that ten percent or even more in the in the elections of parliamentary elections of two thousand and fifteen in june they got even more than thirteen percent seats in the parliament in the november election they came down to around ten percent and now

they want to maintain that threshold or go beyond it so that they can be kingmakers they can be able to influence the outcome of this election if they get if they get more seats now they can even deprive the party from a majority in the parliament and you can see how much of a problem that will be for everyone if also the election goes to a second round they can coalesce with the main opposition parties and that's going to be negative for president of the one all right val giving us the update from the back at thank you. so these elections mark a new era in turkey's presidency and it's politics as we're saying priyanka gupta explains why the changes to turkey's political system are so significant. these elections have many of us including one that's expected to make lasting changes to turkey's presidency and its politics for the first more than fifty nine million can vote for new members of parliament i'm depressed and on the same day what in fifty

six million of them are in techie at least three million more in sixty countries abroad the elections will end the existing parliamentary system of governance and replace it with executive presidential one after it was approved in a referendum last year the office of the prime minister will be dissolved and the new president who the first time can have ties to a political party will be the head of the state but the vast executive powers like the power to prepare the and with budget issue decrees and declare a state of emergency let's not speak to sully ozil he's a professor of international relations that cuddyer has university and a columnist at work daily he joins in joining us via skype from istanbul thanks for speaking to us before we get into the presidential system the new presidential system that is just saying give me your opinion on how you saw voting today and what is the lightly likely outcome of this election in turkey. well first of all there was an unprecedented mobilization over the start of the public to make

sure that these elections were conducted in a fair and honest way the campaign itself has been rather unequal and that is vigilance if you want if on the part of the electorate therefore we'll have for the next two or three hours a lot of reports about how the county's going and my expectation is as your report as already said is that unless the a sheep eat for one reason or another to skip under the ten percent threshold the part of the mint will go to the opus you chanelle alliance plus the cheapie and i suspect there will be a second round for that for the presidential elections and but undoubtedly for the whole that i had two reasons this is a very significant election in turkish police three and speaking of the opposition

we saw the opposition parties really banding together even those that generally don't agree with one another does that bode well for them do you think or is are too out of the out party just too popular right now whether added on and party. obviously somewhere around fifty percent of the vote therefore forty piece half the electorate that made it popular but it's i mean the fact that the opposition three parties that don't really have all that much in common with one another if you logically could come together suggests to something else but where the politics of the country actually is that is the print the presidential system that we are now entering into does not treat the have much order to short in the country it does not really have a consensus behind it there are plenty of people there who are already against it

and what unified the opposition as i said these are not parties that if you logically very different from one another there is the fear that with this system particularly if bought the presidency and the parliament go to the ruling party and its leader we're going to end up with such you don't want to pose issues of power without to be appropriate mechanisms for checks and balances that this will actually be damaged to whatever the left is soft of turkish democracy but what i meant was the other marty then doesn't maintain its majority in parliament in terms of the presidential system what does that mean for parliaments ability to challenge early ones rule if he wins the presidency but doesn't get the majority in parliament. well then we will have at least a modicum of balancing on the part of the legislative i mean that the powers of the legislature had been diminished considerably in this you see some says it is an executive sentences them but nonetheless the power of the first still resides with

the parliament the parliament itself can actually call for nearly four elections just the way the president can plus presidential executive orders can be overruled overturned by by the law that is in legislation legislative moves are more important away more than the executive orders therefore the separation of the executive from the legislature means that there would be some bad single of the executives of power let me ask you how turkey's new presidential system is different from other countries from the united states for example. well the american system although we keep on concentrating on the president or each of them he was conceived you know way that most of the production the congress and that i numerous ways of checking and better than seeing the presidential. power although obviously in time through historical difficult developments the executive equated

more and more. the congress stuff in our case one of the things that most of the opponents of the new system. complain about is the fact that there are no appropriate checks and better says the judiciary situation condition in turkey today leaves truly a lot to be desired and the separation of powers particularly of the judiciary as an independent force is not really visible in this in the system that we are about to start with therefore. that our debt is that today it is the sheer it because of lack of proper checks and balances that this will make it the executive will to powerful so he goes well we thank you for speaking to us on al-jazeera thank you good to speak with you well you can head to al jazeera dot com and you'll find extensive coverage of this high stakes and lexan and if you scroll all the way down right there we have a special talk to al-jazeera with the leader of the sa the party and the

presidential spokesperson abraham callen both discussing this important election we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera our twitter handle is at a.j. english use the hash tag eight a news grade one contacting us and you can send us a whatsapp or telegraph plus line seven four five zero triple one one four nine. now a rescue ship with the more than two hundred refugees and migrants aboard is stuck in the mediterranean sea that's happening as european countries squabble over who will take it in the german vessel lifeline picked up the refugees and migrants between libya and the italian island of lampedusa on thursday malta refused to allow it to dock in its waters and italy has accused malta of what of being what it called inhumane italy has become the main routes into europe for migrants and

asylum seekers with hundreds of thousands of them making the perilous journey from north africa each year with many dying at this in the meantime it's going to be interesting there are two hundred thirty four people in the blood of the libyan coast fortunately we don't have any pressing medical condition so the situation is stable right now on the scene babies and mothers are reaching relatively well it appears we politics is being carried out on the back of these refugees rescuing people in danger it is not a crime for example a gay shouldn't get needed planing and returning them to libya is against it you need a refugee convention and right now sixteen european leaders are meeting in brussels in preparation for a thursday summit on this very subject migration italy wants all of the e.u. to accept its fair share of economic migrants or receive less in new funding the french president of money when mccall says the e.u. is facing a political crisis and its member states should be financially penalized if it refuses to accept migrants and germany's chancellor angela merkel is in favor of

bilateral or trilateral agreements among e.u. states as a way out of this migration crisis donna cane following the story for us from brussels to tell us what you're hearing about so the meeting and whether any compromise will be reached. well during that's the real question here whether it's possible for these sixteen leaders of sixteen member states to find some sort of accommodation some form of words which they can agree upon to take this migration crisis forward to try to find solutions to it will here to discuss this meeting with me is calling the host from the german marshall fund going on what the likelihood is is that what probability is that some form of words will come from this meeting that will take forward a solution to the migration crisis in europe well all politicians who have presence today will have to take something home however the situation that face at home will

be very very different so i would argue that whatever they bring home is not really worth the paper it's written on. but it is important for me that these politicians are coming together because they're all affected by the migration crisis very differently but for me it's a sign of a future way of how you peons will deal with challenge policy challenges did you know when to get those around the table that really affected by it one of the things to say here not around the table in the building behind us all the visa grant group states that's the czech republic slovakia poland and hungary those countries they seem to oppose this idea of a european solution they don't want coaches they don't want to accept a number of migrants onto the territory how does the e.u. find a way of bringing these countries together and then not at this meeting they will be here on thursday and friday of this week how does the e.u. get agreement with those countries for me it's a good example of the e.u. having neglected the fact that within the e.u.

exists differences and still divisions there is a fundamental difference between east and west and it was a mistake a couple of years ago to impose quotas on them because how can you expect countries to take refugees and immigrants if they have never really experienced a large amount of populations that are fundamental. different culturally and by religion so it makes sense to me that they're not there and again it speaks to the larger question as to know where is the e.u. going what kind of e.u. will we have in the future and i think we need to move on and get away from this by narry business of more europe less fear of more european integration less european gratian integration but really look at new models as to how we get certain european states together to deal with the policy challenge with us in the larger level at the smaller level right now we have situations where individual ships on in the mediterranean such as the mission lifeline initiative which is an initiative based

in germany which has hundreds of people on the boat and it seems that countries don't want to accept them how does the e.u. deal with the micro level if you can't deal with the macro level i mean unfortunately this particular example speaks to how little people think about human rights the value of human life. totally absent and this discussion that's very much dominated by politics and ideology i think at the end of the table there will be some language on border control and relocation center. reception center us probably outside of the e.u. but that then raises a whole other question that we in europe we really need to realize that dealing with our domestic issue of migration means we also need to deal with it as a humanitarian issue as a development issue as an economic issue as a security issue and so so to get the politicians that have to use various

portfolios to sort of come together and address those together because just one interior minister or one humanitarian minister console what we have and again alone we console with either we need to have various countries coming together on the level to address that going to host region much and thank you very much for your time so that you have a sense of perspective of the. sorts of issues they're trying to deal with you both at the micro cause them and at the microcosm the question will be what form of progress will emerge today given the fact that there's another meeting of twenty eight e.u. states all the e.u. states on thursday and friday here in brussels but for now back to you dominic thank you to the u.s. now where on the issue of immigration there president trump has just tweeted this and he appears to be calling for undocumented migrants to be deported quote immediately and with no judges or court cases on saturday his administration announced a series of steps to reunite families separated at the border under

a now abandoned policy about two thousand three hundred children were taken in recent weeks by u.s. border control around five hundred twenty children have been returned to their families so far that's according to the department of homeland security even though the trumpet ministration has reversed course and called for congress to address the issue the white house remains under pressure to reunite hundreds of children with their parents well the story has taken an interesting turn and we're talking about it because twitter has really caught on it involves the white house press secretary being kicked out of her restaurant under schapelle as a social media producer who will talk us through this andrew right during we've seen so many protests in recent weeks across the country as well as outrage online about that child separation policy but on friday night a member of the administration was confronted with that outrage in a personal way so the owner of this restaurant in lexington virginia asked the white house press secretary to leave the restaurant as she was ordering food with

her family the owner of the red hen stephanie wilkinson explains why she asked sanders to leave saying she believed sanders worked for an inhumane and an ethical administration in which she publicly defends the president's cruelest policies and she said she'd do the same thing again. now sander said that the owner's actions say far more about her than about me and lots of people have come to her defense while saying that the restaurant's decision was discriminatory there's others this is trending earlier in the day that are using the hash tag restaurants for sarah to post their ideas for restaurant names that might be more suited for members of the administration or they're sharing images like this one which gent shared here encouraging other restaurants to effectively discriminate against the trump white house because of its policies now centers recently supported you may remember this a policy in which a baker refused to make a cake for this same sex couple in the state of colorado and then the supreme court later ruled in favor of the owner so some or warning that this could be the

beginning of affectively democrat only a republican only restaurants in the united states but this user here says that he's glad that sarah got to experience what it's like to be a gay person trying to buy a cake and you can see just how much this is kind of playing out on facebook in the restaurant's review sections as people kind of express their views on both sides of this issue a similar. week when homeland security secretary kerry. has basically shouted out of a mexican restaurant in washington d.c. and the people in this video called for a change in policy while shouting the word shame so let us know what you think about this new sort of protest which is basically disturbing government officials while they try to eat you can share your thoughts with us using the hash tag newsgroup or message me directly i mean or chapell. we have an interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com where the author looks at america's policy of families

separation and says that it's been done before andrew mitrovica goes on to say that according to reports more than seventy two thousand children lost parents to deportation in twenty thirteen alone that's under obama you can read this article on al jazeera dot com it's on our home page so turton joining us from london with more of the international news hi sue. a judicial panel in iraq has ruled only suspect ballot boxes from last month's disputed election will be recounted that's despite iraq's parliament mandating a nationwide manual recount ballot boxes from areas where the allegations of forward will be moved to back down for the manual recount which will be held in front of united nations representatives a date for the recount has not yet been decided fighting in yemen is port city of how data is moving closer to the city center raising fears of a humanitarian catastrophe thousands of people are fleeing to safety mostly to the

capital sana'a the saudi led coalition launched a campaign to take a key strategic port from the rebels twelve days ago the toy a gate and b. reports. on the road they hope to safety families escape the fighting in her data and head to would send that despite the un's also to take away the control of her day to court the warring sides haven't agreed to the proposal these yemenis like thousands of others have decided they've waited long enough for any ceasefire to be agreement so there was skating with the few possessions they've managed to pack. in and we have been displaced because of aggression and war we have left our houses and all families in hard data we have escaped. an estimated thirty thousand people have left her data in the last three weeks including this mother and her ten children they just arrived in santa.

clara and we lift our home because it came under attack from warplanes guns and tanks my children couldn't sleep because of the fear of shrapnel now we haven't gotten in camps we have nothing but they'll most likely end up staying in places like this former school now it's home to three thousand displaced families and. we live and what i did throughout the crisis we got food baskets. but over the last few days there's been lots of bombing and i was scared my children so we came to. and the. forces from the saudi amarok he led coalition which are backing yemeni government troops are moving closer to the center of her day to city the u.n. says the fighting will exacerbate what is already the world's worst humanitarian crisis with twenty two million yemenis dependent on age and at least eight million

on the verge of starvation. victoria gate and be al-jazeera. diplomats are assessing the fallout of the u.s. through the draw from the united nations human rights council the move was widely condemned by activists and even some america's allies they say the rich route could leave the u.s. with less influence on the international stage and diplomatic as genspace has more from the united nations. for eighteen months ambassador nikki haley has made it her mission to make sure it's not business as usual at the u.n. she has repeatedly called for reform as her boss president trump has pulled away from the international consensus on key issues pulling the u.s. out of the paris climate agreement the iran deal the un's cultural agency unesco and cutting all funding for the part of the un that helps palestinians most recently she announced the us was withdrawing from the un human rights council the first country ever to do so she said it was in part because of its bias against

israel pulling out of the human rights council for the us was a huge miscalculation i mean you can see their influence in the council since it was created in two thousand and six on various different issues by pulling out they don't have that kind of influence anymore so even leading jewish organizations on human rights have commented that how can an the u.s. continue to support israel inside of the council when they're not in it anymore. a year ago haley visited geneva the home of the human rights council urging major reform before the u.s. pulled out of the body last week the u.s. put forward a proposal to its close allies on a way to reform it but they weren't even prepared to discuss the plan the ambassador herself wrote a letter to human rights groups last month our mission circulated a draft human rights council strengthening resolution to a small group of member states for edits to this date we've received not one

written edit from a single member state. ambassador haley has been a key player in the trumpet ministrations policy of disruption on the international stage but some diplomats believe it may be beginning to backfire on some issues the u.s. may be finding it harder to persuade its allies and bully its adversaries here at the u.n. i think that especially on issues relating to the middle east the u.s. faces a crisis of credibility at the u.n. . and even its closest allies such as the u.k. are distancing themselves from american positions on iran and on israel and that is really making trump look very isolated. earlier this month in an effort to block a draft security council resolution on gaza ambassador hailey trying to rally support begging fellow ambassadors to support her own rival draft but she was the

only member of the security council to vote in favor of it increasingly at the u.n. the policy of america first seems to be resulting in america alone james al-jazeera of the united nations that's all from in london now back to daryn in doha so thank you well for those of us watching on facebook live for those a few rather watching us on facebook live we bring you the story of a soccer team for. giving refugees in gaza nouveaux and still ahead on the grid a syrian government offensive targets deescalation zones in the southwest of the country and forces thousands from their homes details in just a moment. welcome back as we look at the levant and western parts of asia first of all still some

showers across the eastern areas but generally looking warm for the most part fine conditions around the caspian sea one or two showers on the southern side but to run is looking pretty hot forty degrees forty four across in baghdad in iraq meanwhile on the eastern side of mediterranean looking fine for beirut there twenty six but still a few showers isolated showers across parts of turkey and into the caucasus but never less those a big storm system so that could well be some flash flooding resulting from them as i move the forecast through into choosing not a great deal of change and again fine conditions there for aleppo jerusalem in a twenty nine and then as we head tentative arabian peninsula is looking very warm here in qatar forty six degrees in doha so a bit of a shemale i mean on the other side the pincher temperatures in the mid forty's there for medina let's head across into southern portions of africa where weather conditions are looking good in most places we've got sunshine for most of the bit of cloud just affecting the southern cape there but otherwise fine weather expected

over the next twenty four hours and look at highs of eighteen in cape town patchy clubhouse of coastal parts of mozambique but otherwise fine across much is in bad way and zambia with highs of twenty two new soccer. china's guangxi province has become famous for its large number of elderly many aged one hundred or older one to one used investigates in the region to hold the secrets to a long and healthy life one east on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where every. show that are over seven million lives in this world. each one a story. to be seen. to be heard that

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the most read articles right now on al-jazeera dot com the top story which we've been covering for you here on the newsgroup is the elections in turkey vote counting going on right now and the polls closed just over an hour ago right across the country read more about that as well as the day's other top stories on al-jazeera dot com. we have an update for you on a story that broke just before we went to air on saturday that grenade attack in zimbabwe so it happened at this campaign rally for the president emerson and. you can be seen here wearing the yellow cab as you can see and leading dignitaries from the podium and into a crowd tent just seconds before the us he wasn't hurt but at least forty nine people including both of zimbabwe's vice presidents were injured in the explosion

and the attack won't affect next month's presidential election the first since longtime leader robert mugabe was ousted last november. has more from harare the stadium where the blast occurred in bill a whale has been cordoned off it is now a crime scene the police up peeling to the public to see anyone who perhaps saw anything or took pictures on the phone can they please come forward and a substantial reward has been offered several people were injured in the blast. so for the number of people we have been injured or forty lang in there currently receiving treatment it might at the. hospital is world is united blowing hospitals however we expect the number might rise because we believe someone was on board to report to hospitals

this is probably police is therefore appealing for more information. to aid the ongoing inquiries the presidential spokesperson george and even if there is another attack or as david emergency is declared that we're not to take the elections at the end of july and she's there all political parties are meant to meet and they'll sign a peace pledge basically committing to free the and peaceful elections a concern for some of the bombings now is what actually happened they know that a good age was used normally in this country you can't just walk into a store and buy at than eight people normally with acts that kind of stuff in the military and that's a huge concern for some people what you likely see at the president's right is from now on the increased security and those allowed to get close to him like the media for example would like to be thoroughly screened. and parallels are being drawn between what happened in zimbabwe and the grenade attack just hours before at

a rally for if you new prime minister ahmed had been speaking to supporters at a mass rally in the capsule addis ababa when a grenade was thrown in his direction two people died and more than one hundred fifty people were injured many of them in the nick to get to safety six suspects have been arrested and nine police officials are also in custody for security lapses take a look at this opinion piece online where the author argues that not everyone is happy about the transformative power of the if your prime minister has been embarking on so where to next to read kaos analysis on al jazeera dot com and if you have any comments or questions to us here at the newsgroup you can send them through or on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera we're on twitter our handle is our ageing glitch use the hash tag a.j. newsgroup and also you can send us a whatsapp or telegram plus one seven four five zero triple one one four nine. well the us president donald trump's son in law and senior advisor jared christer says

the administration will soon present its peace plan for israel and palestine and he said this will happen with or without input from the palestinian president mahmoud abbas he made the comments in an interview with the palestinian newspaper puts during his trip to israel is quoted as saying that he doubts as capable of making a deal but added that he is still willing to work with him the palestinian leader cut communications with the trumpet ministration after it recognized him as the capital of israel perry faucet has more from west jerusalem. well there's very little here that gives precise indications as to what might be in the black and white of the trim deal but what there is in this interview given by gerrard cushion are indications as to the general direction of travel of the united states administration and the way that it intends to approach this two things really stand out he's putting a lot of store by economic incentive saying that palestinians may well care less

about the talking points of their leaders than the prospects of better paying jobs for future generations of their people the other thing that stands out and is evidenced in that is the way that he is trying really to bypass the leadership of mahmoud abbas the palestinian president appealing directly through this interview which is being read by palestinians to the palestinian people themselves saying that perhaps the promising leadership is scared that palestinians might actually like what was in this deal and saying that mahmoud abbas perhaps doesn't have the ability to take the lead take the leap rather towards a compromise but there are also things which are really obvious by that absence in this interview no mention of settlements of occupation of the very controversial decision by donald trump to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and indeed to move the u.s. embassy there so the fact that that hasn't been addressed for many palestinians

these aren't just mere talking points of the leadership these are very much core principles and as far as leadership is concerned it has reacted with pretty restrained fury to all this the palestinian president's spokesman saying the united states is trying to create false history has been falsified in facts the p.l.o. second general side of erica has accused them of trying to separate gaza and the palestinian authority even further and indeed undermine the palestinian authority leadership in the west bank so no prospect at this stage that the palestinian leadership has and wants anything to do with the united states administration or its plan even ahead of its publication. well while on a recent trip to jordan and speaking to al jazeera the british opposition leader has denounced the u.s. is decision to cut more than half of its planned funding to the united nations agency for palestinian refugees jeremy corbyn also called for an end to the israeli

occupation of palestinian territories you can read the whole interview on al-jazeera dot com syria's war is edging closer to its border with jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights so take a look at this map right here you'll see it in a moment hugh can see who is in control of where if i scroll down there it is so the fighting is happening down in the southwest a syrian government offensive targeting rebel fighters it's in a deescalation zone and it's in defiance off a u.s. warning but the united states has also reportedly issued another warning telling rebels not to expect their military supports meanwhile syrian activists reports at least four civilians were killed when twenty five russian airstrikes targeted eastern parts of that and thousands have also been forced from their homes

were taken that off has become a major focus of the syrian government backed by moscow the city where anti-government protests began in twenty eleven about our reports. this is the first time complements forces have used battle bones in. 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 eye and to the seven year war the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's authority he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of the reigning and afghan militias it's only syrians who

should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the opposition says thousands of shiite militias are 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. anti as forces are largely outgunned and outnumbered. let's move back to the united states for

a story that's off the grid and what do you have. thanks daryn there's been protests that have taken place for a fourth straight night in the u.s. city of pittsburgh pennsylvania over the killing of a seventeen year old teenager by a police officer this is what some of the demonstrations have looked like over the past few days in different parts of the city and all the protests have captured national attention. while this video of the incident explains why there's so much outrage in the community it clearly shows an officer firing at teenage boys running away from him and the officer says that he stopped the vehicle because it matched the description of a car that was involved in a drive by shooting a few minutes beforehand now there are a number of things about this killing that have struck a chord with people online and one rose was and an unarmed honor student who was shot three times in the back as i said as he ran away from police and there's some members of the community like the local musician pittsburgh slim who say that this

cop in this incident effectively tried convicted and executed an unarmed seventeen year old kid who was running away from him and the civil rights leader bernice king addresses those who ask that question why was he running from police well reverend king says everyone needs to and large their understanding of compassion for why a young unarmed black man would fear police even when he's done nothing wrong let's look at some of the reasons why according to the washington post fatal force database four hundred ninety five people have been shot and killed by police across the united states this year alone forty six percent of those killed by police last year were white while twenty three percent were black but african-americans only make up about twelve percent of the u.s. population and african-americans are also more likely than white americans to be than a arrested and then convicted and face stiff sentences now some of that some of that history clearly influenced and one rose when he wrote this poem a few years ago called i am not what you think saying that he'd never want his

mother to feel the pain of burying her son he understood that people believed that he was just a statistic saying that he was confused and afraid that poem has been shared widely on social media and read out at some of the demonstrations as you can see here. those expressions of community grief all taking place ahead of his funeral which is due to take place on monday the costs of which by the way the crowd funded online so let us know what you think about this especially if you're watching us from the pittsburgh area you can get in touch using the hash tag news great or message me directly i mean or chapell and you thank you all we're getting her limit every results from the turkish election we'll cross over to seneca so ugly joining us from our bureau and as somebody hearing said i'm. during according to the semi state news agency on of the linnaeus agency it twenty point seven to three percent of the boxes about foxes have been opened and. as the

presidential candidates has fifty nine point twelve. remains of the main opposition candidate the main challengers come comes the second with a twenty six point fifty three percent vote and then thirty comes the all the female candidates i miss my out action and with a seven point seven to two world when we look at the alliances the presidential alliance between a party and the nationalist party has six the seven point fifty five and a position airlines has went to three point twenty six and in terms of its stumble over old twenty two percent of the ballot boxes have been opened and prisons are gone runs the first according to the initial results are right to send them thank you for that update so as we're saying preliminary results coming in from istanbul we will cross over a back to turkey as of when these results continue to come in well if you're watching us on facebook well you'll see is canada will soon be the second country

in the world to legalize recreational marijuana that stories on facebook and joe will be here right after the break to take a look at the days of the world cup news including senegal dancing through their training but coming waltz into the knockout stages stories coming up with joe right after a check of the world weather. the

carter center. examining mandatory sentencing in the us if the state of florida requires the rest of my life in here as a tradeoff for my family's life to bargain i'll do it if the defendant goes to trial the judge has no option but to give the mandatory minimum they were complying with this judge gives you five years and this judge gives you twenty years so the legislature to make a difference exploring the dark side of the american justice system with job on al-jazeera.

i mean to was here to update our song was absolutely daryn yeah let's start by taking a look at a historic victory for england at the world cup against panama initially north korea and it was a day's who remember for england captain harry kane he netted two penalties on his way to have trick and the top spot in the goal scorers charts johnstone started it all off with an early goal to put the english in front stones also scored his team's fourth go months united midfielder jesse thing god added his name to the school sheet as england blew panama out of the water this is england's largest ever victory six one in

a world cup match and it has drawn them to level points and goal difference with belgium at the top of group g. and guaranteed a place in the knockout rounds there was also a history for problem are despite that defeat thirty seven year old felipe became his country's first ever goal scorer at the world cup with a consolation strike as it ended in glen six panama one. point made well and truly lost that game but it's pretty impressive that every tons of them are even made it to russia and you can see just how much it means to sports commentators in the country who were filmed getting emotional as they listened to use an arsenal and. when they use a video system referees ovata has been a talking point at this tournament so far many fans a saying that the technology has caused more confusion here's andy richardson from

moscow. i mean that is the other side football fans are getting used to the idea that they're not the only ones watching this world cup on television for the first time the video system referee is playing a big part in the action bar is only used to decide if a goal has been fairly scored if a player should be sent off if a penalty can be awarded all to alert the referee if he mistakenly penalizes the wrong player. it's you see something every fan at this world cup seems to have an opinion about you know it's going to make the game slow but it's great i think it isn't slowing down that much and it gives both sides on both sides a team makes it seem like it's a fair like it's a fair match sometimes it is not do you see where like portugal for example. was. there for didn't use the. bar each game is followed by four officials watching footage from thirty three cameras the olympics referee is

still expected to make decisions only if there is a clear and obvious error intervene it's deciding what's a clear and obvious error is the leaves room for disagreement to. give the doctor to have an easy to them solve interpretation is completely different from other sports like tennis morley basketball cricket we are the technologies used only for fucking decisions in football not too many interpretation so something could be clearer and we could be known for another. bar training days were held in the build up to this world cup many of the referees are using it in competitive games for the first time out these finals. is up and running in some major domestic leagues including germany and italy in italy the statistics would suggest its impact has been positive the amounts of foul play yellow cards and diving all went down as players became aware that i was watching their every step. that i was

is one of the brazilian players that had virally entire season in in the that he feels confident that things work and he think that the experience that he had in that he was good mistakes are going to happen for sure but i think that for getting really close offsides if the ball goes in or not if the believe the peach before and well we saw that the. many times and i think that's going to be really good what is the reason the what did you. like it or not the days when a notebook and a whistle were all a referee needed to do his job a long gone and the richardson al-jazeera moscow. were just a quick update on the game this taking place right now senegal and japan a one one a half time in group h. but we really just wanted an excuse to show you these pictures of them training take a look. was. an eye in the triangle as they could be the happiest

team we've seen at this well i am rule just hoping that senegal will be able to don's thirds of the last sixteen just so we can watch them a little bit more in training. all right we'll follow we'll have more sport for you at eight hundred hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to the rain though thank you a lot story for you and facebook is expanding its messenger opt for children that's despite a wave of criticism from child health advocates who asked mark zuckerberg to delete it altogether the platform allows children to chat with friends and family with parental supervision the critics saying it's just poking kids to devices at a younger age facebook says it's taken feedback from parents into account and has decided to offer the service to children and through an canada in addition to the united states thanks for watching that'll do it for this newsgroup keep in touch with us on social media you can do so by all the ways right there we'll see you back here in studio fourteen on monday.

conservation ease helping to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chats at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snowed up it's just the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests that more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international

taste of stress in species. we will maintain the finest fighting force the world has ever known united states army was so reliant on the private sector i would call that the tendency we have a mismatch between the way we. are to be and the reality of the twenty first century in order to. do for you and i want to show you how many of the persons that you're sending out you should be child soldiers not. child soldiers reloaded on al-jazeera. we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers to follow it anti-riot. we are challenging the forces we're challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

initial results in turkey's high stakes election for president who are on course for a new term with major new powers. and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up leaders held an emergency meeting in brussels as hundreds more migrants are left in limbo on rescue the. displaced families found there are set up makeshift camps in the deserts while russian ass strikes rained down on that province and a victim of its own success hotels and restaurants are shut down around china's lake to save the popular.