voters will come. to fold so that here we we very very high rates across the city do you think that anything will change if the current president continues in power i mean are people expecting him to be anything to do in these next five years than the previous ones many people are complaining of his or his performance well this question is very difficult to answer because people have. different visions of these our administration some people think that when you select you do you really do better than i ever think other people think that you can do worse than the first term of got inflation you have any hope for better security in mali during the next few years whoever wins this election i mean what's going on particularly during the last five years the last three years it's horrible you know only. a continuation of the increase of attacks across the country i mean any prospect for a better security in the next few years well i recently yes because as

a million citizens i will have a good thing from a country i things things will change it's tough it is difficult but when we get to gave or we. we put together our forces which may change you we can be a five next years thank you so much thanks so much thanks a lot gentlemen can and as you can see so far there is a very low turnout as we said but as the day progresses and if the rain stops maybe we will see more numbers coming even though many opposition leaders have refused to support the opposition leader so miles if they are and they said they would not control the vote of their supporters if supporters want to vote for him for president they don't mind that so as we said many people here think that the president's going to i would win anyway during this second round thank you. israel's palestinian minority has met a mass protest in tel aviv against the controversial nation state law that

officially affirms israel's jewish but critics believe it turns not only jewish minorities into second class citizens turned out to show their anger at the bill which was passed last month the week after israel's jews community also rallied against the war i was at the protest in tel aviv. the museum is. a policy. for. the moon there's a. lot of jews who are saying that they are not happy with the direction. the message is one of unity. because we don't need this of this and you won't loan off netanyahu that. number two event is not i'm not. giving him to citizens this is

amazing this is. a member of our. fight for something and this is. the people that really believe in democracy and equality we have and take democratic moves taking place in many things in the towards gays towards women in words and towards arabs and this is a fascist regime is turning into a fascist that is still not there but it's going in a bad direction and we need to stop it as soon as we can. move forward the making of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and there is a big. they're. going to continue with this momentum becoming law against this government a massive people do not. right the right thing right when. well the measure

pushed through by prime minister binyamin netanyahu declares the right to exercise national self-determination in israel is unique to the jewish people it also says that he broods the only official language downgrading the status of arabic previously they were both official languages and it establishes jewish settlement as a national value but the state must encourage with its top two dollars inches of public opinion expert and columnist with plus nine seventeen magazine and she attended the protest last night and joins us via skype from tel aviv dalia how surprised are you at the level of turnout on the streets i mean you were there i wasn't entirely surprised because we know that this law has been very very divisive in israeli society in other words the right wing which is about forty five percent of israeli society and over fifty percent of jewish society is quite supportive but almost everybody else from the left to the palestinian minority to about half the people who consider themselves centrist and course the druze have been very against it and

so it has been galvanizing i think it's for those people it's crossed a red line we saw about by estimates thirty thousand people last night it was an impressive turnout you know people were very energized and the previous week of course there was also a very large demonstration in the same place for the same reason people feel like it has cemented a history of discrimination between the majority and minority populations in israel with a lot of constitutional status so and they're not accepting it so what was the general feeling on dollar was it unified or whether whether different opinions about parts of the nation state law. at the demonstration i would say the general feeling was very unified people are against the law they think it is you know completely antithetical to israeli democracy or at least the israeli democracy that should be the case in the future i don't think anybody has illusions about the levels of discrimination in israel in the past so the feeling was quite unified however the criticism this morning from the right wing from the prime minister from two of his ministers is that palestinian flags were waved and it's true that not everybody

agrees on that many of the people from you know call them the mainstream jewish left did not think that that was the right tone for the demonstration some people didn't want any national symbols neither the israeli nor the palestinian flag but i think it's natural as a protest because you have a minority population of twenty percent of the country who has been essentially marginalized for most of the country's history and now law passes saying in effect it's not your country well it's natural to protest by making a statement that they are part of this country but in under a different identity however of course you know that it's like a pack cat and mouse game the right wing is using that as proof why we need a lot of begin with that's what they're saying dollar just a final thought from them and is there a general shift in parts of the jewish community that what's going on with the direction of the government is not what they voted for in the last election. well i think it's a very good question i mean you have to remember this government and particularly the prime minister has always been among the most polarizing figures in israeli life right now and so the people who are against this law it's pretty much the same

kind of coalition who are against you know the entire direction of this government the whole time so i'm not sure if we're shifting it we're seeing new people shifting however i will say that among the right wing if you if you look beneath the surface of the public who seems to support the law and we asked them in surveys things like do you think the law is necessary now up to thirty percent of right wingers do not think the law is necessary right now and understand that it was provocative and i heard a lot of skepticism from people even who identify with the moderate right saying this law is just productive and not democratic and is wasting you know a strong partnership we've had with the druze and destroying it and the question really is whether those people will shift because the much of the center and the left and the palestinian minority was always against this government the real question is what happens with the sort of you know centrist pragmatic but right wing leaning people who have voted for right wing parties and might be saying you know i'm not so sure of this is what's really best for the country dawlish him and

thank you for talking to al-jazeera i pleasure. are plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including al-jazeera the same six hundred days in prison the state of media freedoms in egypt plus. a mentor thomas in the northeastern indian state of assam where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people. that concerns there are about to be made strikes. baltimore orioles break a fifty year record but it's not one to be found of all to be here with all that in the sport still to come. now in india four million people are waiting to hear why they've been excluded from a citizenship register which isn't as some states say the ones left out are illegal immigrants from bangladesh or the government insists it's a genuine attempt at a census but as andrew thomas reports from. some believe the exercise about

whipping up nationalism ahead of elections. all hassa been nessa knows about her is that her younger sister is ninety seven so she must be older passport she says has her date of birth wrong but she does have an indian passport she is she insists indian. yet when the state government of a sound published a draft national register of cisterns or n r c list two weeks ago her name was not on it. it's insulting i was born here my father and my grandfather were born here we are all from here. about thirty three million people in assam four million are not on the register has an unnecessary name is on the list but his wife's name is missing as well as his mother's he thinks the whole list exercise is targeted at muslims only one lord can be described as disasters i mean when you are normal or of indian citizen i'm going to know you can be

a pretty woman you. ethnically and religiously assam has always been one of india's most diverse states but there's a perception among some of rampant illegal immigration from neighboring bangladesh . india's hindu nationalist b j p party in power both national and state level says the only way to address it is to find those they call infiltrators and strip them of citizenship they cannot order the demography or the politburo for some movie in fact right does the sound in this country should you lead for in the us or to the politics of india demography of india no. you have. in some predominantly muslim villages a majority of people are not on the list most of this crisis meeting in langley are a part of an extended family of fourteen just four of them are on the list people here think the number left off the n.r.c. list has been kept the liberally high for political reasons they say the

announcement of the could be as many as four million infiltrators in assam state is meant to send a signal nationally. prime minister narendra modi's government is facing reelection next year highlighting action against illegal immigration it will probably win them votes. all those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made stateless just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt and to thomas al-jazeera langar in a sense to india well for more on this we're joined by sanjay hague he is a lawyer at the supreme court of india how much of this is a real concern to the government about illegal migration or long term dahmus to city and how much of it is about the vote bank and maintaining political superiority in the region. see there is

a perception among the nic people of assam day that has been large scale make a donation from neighboring bangladesh over the years especially around again that the one thousand nine hundred eighty one water but by. stand was what at that point of time when the pakistan army attacked what was its own territory then in east pakistan many being morally speaking muslims fled bangladesh and then they settled down in the neighboring indian states of as sam and whispering boy the assamese feel people feel that they are being swamped by. people who have come from across the border and who are not leaving however there are others who have a different take the data is this that people have remained where they are but borders have changed. all again you must remember that the area which comprises as and called is bangor this was once

a united province under british india there after it got split among india and pakistan and then pakistan itself broke into pakistan and bangladesh. if you are a big speaking muslim in assam there sometimes is a presumption among the local less amused to think that you must have come from bangladesh ok that is not always true that is not always true ok sanjay let me if i would let me jump in here and ask you so what are the consequences then for the millions of people who might not be able to prove their citizenship what happens to them they will be subject to further orders of the supreme court as well as any other measures that i lament or the government of their good deeds. it is inconceivable to my mind that four million people could be deported back to bangladesh bungler this does not acknowledge them as being bangladeshi citizens you

can't have four million people stateless what is to be done about their status then it is possible that they're not able to produce documents which showed their death fathers or grandfathers were indian citizens. either to be treated as undocument ok to be kept in detention there is. there are many cases there are about one hundred one hundred thousand cases where people have been declared to be foreigners that is not indian and many of them are in detention camps for years on and then some get a quick a quick final thought i mean the government i mean the government will say this is a real attempt at a census what do you make of that assessment will the government has to come out with a call as to what it needs to do with these people live there and documented

unfortunately the government as well as the opposition parties out there are playing politics the government wants its majority in endorsed by a report which says that there are so many illegal immigrants who are swamping the country i do not think that that is the fear forward is the point the point is that these are people without papers or what for various reasons including power to an able to trace their ancestry back to there and. there we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for your time sir. thank you now the bangladeshi foreign minister has traveled to me and miles rakhine state where muslim minority fled a brutal military crackdown almost a year ago mahmud ali inspected preparations there for the ranger to return to me and not around a million of them living in camps on the bangladeshi border he also met with a myanmar minister and both sides agreed on the early repatriation of ranger back

to rakhine state. at least thirty seven people have died in one of the worst floods in the southern indian state of carolus thousands have been forced to leave their homes more than half the state is now on high alert here morgan reports three days of torrential rains in kerala in southern india have caused flash floods and dams to overflow dozens of people have been killed some have drowned swept away by fast running watches others buried in landslides and wooden thirty thousand people have been displaced. we're got to go there are around three hundred houses here which floodwater has entered we came out of the houses in a hurry and our clothes our records our property papers identity card passport everything is left inside the house we couldn't bring out a single piece of paper even the books of our children and their uniforms are all inside the house. heavy rains are not need to corella but this year state

authorities have described the floods as the worst in almost one hundred years eight of the fourteen districts are on high alert around fifty million dollars worth of crops have been destroyed since the end of may a huge evacuation operation began with thousands of people now sheltering in rescue camps they're relying on aid after losing almost everything they owned more than one thousand two hundred people. all dates and in middle age ladies and everybody is staying here but. lasted three days they are all here and so many people and organises and are helping us. despite the floods hundreds of him to the forty's on saturday gathered at the and move us leave a temple which is itself partially submerged to perform the annual salvation rituals known as valve a bally. pres are offered for the salvation of the souls of ancestors this year they're also praying for those lost in the floods and that no more lives are lost

before the end of the moon some season people morgan are just era when a few moments we'll have all the weather was stuffed but still ahead here on al-jazeera tightening security around the white house at a planned demonstrations by right wing activists and their opponents. and sport fireworks on the dollars he reaches the final in toronto what would have left him to stay cool. why the sky knowing the full range and harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello there we've got a lot of cycling activity around asia at the moment take a look at the satellite picture we can see plenty of cloud across this region and within this a huge blanket of cloud there are a few distinct swirls now the first one all the one furthest east is the peak and that's going to work its way northward then we've got one very close to shanghai at

the moment that one's called yagi and the third region we're watching is just to the south of hong kong where there's an awful lot of rain at the moment and there is a formation in force and what we're expecting over the next few days is for yagi to work its way steadily inland is very close to the coast at the moment so just in the next few hours will make its way over land and once it's over land of course it's lost its energy source so it will begin to dump all this moisture across this region we've already seen a lot of heavy rain here over one hundred millimeters in places so there is likely to be flooding here the other one is gradually working its way towards key you shoot it's going to reach us probably on wednesday so we've got to keep a close eye on the track over the next few days to see exactly where the worst of that storm will hit the other one well let's hear the formation of at the moment is already pounding us with very heavy rain over two hundred millimeters of rain and we've got a good few days of heavy rain still to come there's likely to be flooding here. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. in an exclusive series of

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. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera after twenty two years of talks the leaders of russia iran azerbaijan kazakhstan and turkmenistan have sung the convention on the legal status around in the caspian sea iran says additional agreements will be needed in the chariot territorial dispute over the sea the caspian lies about one of the world's largest collections of oil and gas reserves. have started voting in a runoff presidential election president ibrahim cato first round forty one percent vote but opposition candidates and maybe a c.c. accuses him of for the first vote was marred by violence as mali struggles against

armed groups. and israel's palestinian minority as a mass protest in tel aviv against the controversial nation state law that officially affirms israel's jewish character but critics believe it turns non jewish minorities into second class citizens thousands turned out to show their anger at the bill which was passed last month. now three attackers thought to be behind a bombing in jordan have been killed in a police raid security forces stormed this building in salt with several suspects were hiding they eventually blew up the building four police officers were also killed and five other suspects were arrested the raid was in connection to a homemade bomb attack a day earlier in for haste which killed one person. the funerals for children killed in thursday's their strike on a school bus in santa province have been delayed until monday at least fifty one people were killed in the attack most of them were children so full body parts remain to be identified the saudi erotic coalition says it's investigating the

attack now a prominent saudi arabian scholar has been arrest in the latest crackdown on dissent omar is extremely popular on social media with more than six million followers on twitter he was detained on tuesday in mecca it so far unclear what the charges are against him but other clerics have been arrested for being critical of crown prince mohammed bin south. it's been six hundred days since al jazeera journalist mahmoud hossain was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge the same is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he down to zero strongly denied the allegations and the network has been demanding his release more about mali reports. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to

visit his family in cairo he's been held in the notorious tour a maximum security prison where he's complained of mistreatment hussein and al jazeera strongly deny the allegations against him that he broke last false news when writing letters even asking. for the good offices to speak with christians he promises democracy in the country now he's a lot of. which include press freedom and freedom of expression egypt level similar charges against al-jazeera trio bahama hammad mohamed fahmy i'm peter greste day five years ago and as there are explore my editor in chief ibrahim helal was sentenced to death and absentia two years ago. reporters without borders ranks egypt one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty countries in this year's watch press freedom index it says at least thirty two journalists are being held in

egyptian jails few have been put on trial most have been detained for months or years and over a being held on trumped up charges. those imprisoned included gyptian journalist mahmoud i was a it known as shah can he's been locked up for five years reporting on the robber square protests in cairo. where hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands injured recently shall be nominated for the nest kids press freedom prize and multi award winning journalist had its home raided a may and was arrested and detained. as the egyptian authorities target what they describe as fake news new laws were passed in july to support the arrests of journalists they allow the state to block social media accounts and detain journalists who have more than five thousand followers and existing laws which are already being used to cost. us media freedom new laws and more wishes.

many more who. will be arrested because they want to express their opinion supporters of president c.c. say they will safeguard freedom of expression. but rights groups say it will give a legal basis for egypt to crack down on criticism or dissent nor about manly al-jazeera. and one of nasa's most ambitious space missions has blasted off. three two one zero lift up the bank a probe will fly closer to the sun than any previous satellite it's designed to brave extremes temperatures of more than a thousand degrees and speeds of seven hundred thousand kilometers an hour mission will last seven years let's talk to francisco jeggo he is a senior research fellow at the department of physics and astronomy university college london he joins us now from london francisco great to have you back on the

program look it's a risky project this isn't it costing millions and millions of dollars so what are the chances of success here. very high i think the launch was immaculate the solar rays deployed so the spacecraft is working properly with the sun energy so we expect that they will not be any problems until it reaches his final destination and that's where the potential risks may appear more more dramatically but we will see. the spacecraft he's now yes sorry no not the one francisco you tell us about when a spacecraft is. yeah the spacecraft is going to actually slow down and remember we are the speed of the order because the earth and we have to go inside we have to get three the fall that speed actually which is quite a lot and that's one of the recent to use a very powerful rocket so the spacecraft is going to go towards the sun is going to go behind this one of the end of september and it will come back not close to the

sun yet but it will come back and they will meet the planet venus and venus we change the i want to be a little bit by the end of november we will have the fairest nearby past of the towards the sun remember they are with these very elliptical it brings the final arbiter going to bring us we just saw the spacecraft we think that they stand so far for diameters of the sun which is extremely close but only for a few days ok because they're very fast and then he goes away goes all the way to the planet venus and then three months later will come again it will do that for twenty four times starting in december francisco you talk us through the path of the spacecraft but what critical information do scientists want to get from the probe that will help in their research. ok well this is fascinating this is fascinating because this spacecraft is going to fly into the inner part of the solar corona this sort of caught on is the sterile and most feared of the sun we

see charged with energetic particles magnetic fields is very thin kind of blast much but it interacts with the earth the sun and the air interact through the solar corona and we get all these kind of radiation particles super tommy particles so magnetic fields distort us is really magnetic storms that can affect our satellites and they will read the disable some of our satellites around the earth and they can produce enormous damage to. our power distribution networks here on the. earth can produce a massive black holes that has happened several times in the past when we have very powerful magnetic storms in the sun so we need to learn more about things and this is the mission of these spacecraft so francisco back down here on earth i mean questions are being asked about the cost of these sorts of projects i mean are they worth it in the long run when national governments are often accused of wasting money when the public see no direct benefit to them. yes.

it's a difficult way to answer this properly just in a quick interview like these but we have to keep things into perspective the cost of these missions is nothing compared with the cost at least being. wasted actually in in wars i mean all that other things there is he's not cos he's telling best meant the majority of the cost of the spacecraft goes into the salaries of the scientists something knowledge is that part of building it. the spacecraft itself is not that expensive piece these is the people that build it so the technology which is being developed for example in this case we are developing very high receives thank you for assistance refractory materials like carbon carbon components like ceramics which are onboard of the spacecraft protective that classifications here on earth and they must remember that we have space travel man missions to the moon and mars that will be subject to the solar storms and the more

we learn about it the more we learn about how to mitigate the effects of peace on the on the health of the astronauts francisco jaeger always good job in the program thank you it's a pleasure. now on to rice's protest as a march from the streets of silence fell a year off the violence that killed one person this time the demonstration was peaceful amid a heavy police presence last year president donald trump refused to speak out against white supremacists but on saturday he tweeted he condemns all forms of race . but more rallies are expected on sunday white supremacists will gather outside the white house john hendren has this report from washington d.c. . a year ago to the day liberal might that the old right now police in washington d.c. want to keep history from repeating itself. on the anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia that left a counter demonstrator dead when a car drove into a crowd as many as four hundred white supremacist marchers prepared to converge on

lafayette square in front of the white house so do more than a thousand left wing marchers who call themselves anti folk were anti fascist jason kesler who organized that unite the right march is leading this one they say you hear around you that is a anti-white a. leaving many here fearing another round of violent confrontation i think something serious could happen i think something terrible would happen let me just say i. shot israel kessler's charlottesville our richard spencer is not expected in washington so his ideas are. yes i mean america story please undoubtedly a white country we're headed in a very different direction what we're saying rings true what we're saying cuts right to the heart of the matter and that's why people are attracted to us that's why we're growing hundreds of city and u.s. park service police will line the streets with one simple goal well to make sure be

to make sure that nobody is injured and nothing gets broken barricades will play a key role police say they've learned lessons from charlottesville and their main goal will be to keep the two. groups apart even as they converge by the hundreds in this relatively small space it's a colossal task counter demonstrators are already filling the streets i think it's an absolute affront to human decency to a bailout on these nazis and white supremacists honor to come here and march in front of the white house on these songs or in a verse or e. a police force with perhaps more experience than any in the world in handling protests tries to allow the march but not the mayhem john hendren al-jazeera washington times analysts will break here not just when we come back the cameras strike on bookings and prices for qualification for the africa cup of nations for being here with that story and much more on straight.