me and former paramilitary fighters they secured forty eight seats in the election but that count that. can't. pardon me of seventy two votes through an alliance with the former prime minister nuri al maliki the two blocs will control more than two thirds of the three hundred twenty nine seats in parliament not a house for me is director of the middle east studies at the university of denver he says the stakes are high with the new alliance but iraq has a lot to be positive about. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have

a nationalist political agenda that is cured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraqi society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know crushed but not comprehensively i think defeated and some of the you know key challenges. that iraqis are facing are the normal things that developing societies struggle with unemployment corruption the delivering of public services in southern iraq for several months now there have been ongoing protests over the question of access to

clean drinking water you know tens of thousands of iraqis have checked themselves into hospitals over water poisoning. and there's been no one that has been able to really you know stand up and address you know these issues the hope is that this new you know iraqi coalition government being much more inclusive and representative will begin to address these challenges. the iraqi police have fired tear gas at anti corruption protesters in the southern city of basra about three thousand people gathered to demand jobs and better public services but say they are not getting a fair share of the wealth generated from oil exports similar protests have also been going on since july. a fire is raging in brazil's two hundred year old national museum in the city of rio de janeiro the historic building was once the country's residence for the portuguese royal family all the floors are light twenty million items under threat including fossils and ancient egyptian artifacts on

twitter president michel tabor called it a sad day for brazil. so head here on al-jazeera protests across russia over putin's plans for the state pension age. and the farmers struggling to revive lives destroyed by volcanic ash to stay with us. we still got some very lively weather across the eastern half of the us around the great plains pushing up towards the midwest the same some flooding around the lakes another system starts to poll six way in towards the northern plains toward the midwest as we go on through the coming hours and in that wetter weather will not its way further a switching see the long lot of cloud of rain actually comes out of back out of

ontario across the lakes down across the midwest all the way down towards texas he says side of the country saying that warm moist air look at the way in this coming in from the gulf and so lots of moisture lots of heat once again further west it's a good deal quasi we have got temperatures getting up to twenty celsius there for seattle maybe twenty one by choose day things not to bad here twenty eight degrees there for central parts on tuesday seeing more heavy rain further flooding so me a possibility just notice this little area cloud and rain started to push its way into southern parts of texas by this date further east just warming up once again for new york temperatures getting into the mid east now across the caribbean we've got this little club just storms just around the turks and it's pushing up towards but muta that will make its way across northern parts of cuba as we go through our monday grassi heading on into the gulf of mexico.

this is life on the streets. from the discovery of theater is an opportunity to. become someone. for the generation of a plane and perhaps. a. little princess part of the viewfinder. at this time. watching all just the whole rob a reminder of our top stories libya's u.n. backed government has declared

a state of emergency after five days of fighting in the capital at least forty one people have been killed in the violence and more than one hundred others injured several armed groups are battling for territory near tripoli's only functioning port. nearly four months after iraq's election eleven political groups have come together to make the largest bloc in parliament to include groups loyal to shia cleric. and prime minister. will convene on monday on the process of forming a government will. also to reuters journalists accused of illegally obtaining secret state documents arrived in court to hear the verdicts on their case. could face up to fourteen years in jail if found guilty they were arrested shortly after uncovering details of the killing of ten boys and men in the coastal village of dean last year. china's president is expected to announce a plan for billions of dollars of aid and investment for african countries on monday president xi jinping is due to stay. at the launch of

a two day summit in beijing he's been welcoming fifty two leaders including the sudanese. bashir and of south africa's president cyril rather poser she's trillion dollar belton road infrastructure plan is set to top the agenda but there are concerns the project is overloading the poor countries with debt let's get more of this from adrian brown our correspondent in beijing are we why is africa at the moment so important to china. also you know africa became important to china really about two decades ago because africa of course was rich remains rich in the resources and minerals that china needed to fuel its economy so china has been investing in africa at a blistering rate it's hard to think of any country in africa perhaps apart from one where you do not find you know africa chinese projects and projects financed with with chinese money that country by the way that where there is no sort of

chinese investment is really swaziland because swaziland remains the only country in africa to have diplomatic relations with taiwan that is the island republic to china regards as part of its territory but of course in the last few years africa has become a customer of chinese loans china is extending a lot of financing to africa in the form of vast infrastructure projects now these are often deals which are contracted to chinese companies and of course the work goes to chinese labor as this is one of the ways that china manages to keep its g.d.p. figures so good here in china but what is happening so is that a lot of these countries are finding themselves more and more in debt to china in fact the international monetary fund estimates that a third of african countries are now having difficulty meeting their repayments now china says that a lot of these countries were in debt to other lenders before china started giving

them money but nevertheless there is concern that the amount of indebtedness is starting to weigh heavily on the g.d.p.'s of these various countries but of course there's another reason for having this gathering i suppose in beijing adrian is that china really wants to make more friends now more than ever. that's right these african countries represent a very important bloc of places voting bloc places like the united nations and of course at the moment with china embroiled in a deepening trade war with the united states it wants to be able to present a united front to be able to say look we have more than fifty countries in africa who like the way that we do trade so this is going to be a summit so where you will see plenty of smiling faces plenty of gratitude l.b. no disagreements no discord notes just you know

a vote of confidence in the way that china is doing business in africa as you pointed out in your introduction we expect to hear president xi jinping announce details of new financing for various projects in africa when this summit was last held three years ago china pledged something like sixty billion dollars worth of funding for various projects in africa so expect more of the same at this summit or people or what goes on in beijing with you adrian thanks very much people smugglers are taking greater risks to ferry refugees to europe leading to a higher death rate amongst those who take the journey that's according to the u.n. refugee agency says the voyage is more deadly known despiser fall in the overall numbers of crossings and deaths last year the tour occasionally has more. these images of three year old allen could ease body shocked people around the world it was a reminder of the human cost of the syrian war and the refugee crisis three years

on the dangers faced by other refugees trying to get to europe have increased a report by u.n.h.c.r. shows more than sixteen hundred people have died or gone missing while attempting to reach europe so far this year well the total number of people arriving in europe has fallen the rate of deaths is risen sharply particularly for those crossing by the mediterranean sea in the central mediterranean one person died or went missing for every eighteen people who crossed to europe in the first half of twenty eighteen compared to one death for every forty two people he crossed in the same period last year during the traffic has become more deadly he's the traffickers are ticking more risk because there is more silver. cause god's on the air trying to get to coast it does cost them more to keep those people longer in their

warehouse and their captivity the drivers of forced migration remain unchanged conflicts in africa and the middle east are forcing people to leave their homes dissolution should not just be new up to europe to sort of lead us to be exemplary units response but it's quite clear that it's already too late when the people are in need we need to work downstream in country first in country of origin and that takes time despite information campaigns the more warnings through social media about the dangers they may face refugees feel they have no choice but to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean victoria gate and be out there. at least eight saudi soldiers have been killed during fighting with the rebels that's according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that for the who the attack along the southern border videos from saudi media captured the fighters including what they say is a high ranking command. two of the government protesters have been shot in

nicaragua they were wounded by an identified gunman in the capital but there's been a flare up in fighting between pro and anti-government sides and saturday it followed president daniel ortega decision to expel un human rights mission from the country activists say three hundred people have been killed in rest over the past four months. such as south asia where pakistan says the three hundred million dollars of military support the u.s. plans to scrap is reimbursement it's owed and not aid its foreign minister says the money is to meet pakistan's expenses in supporting the so-called us war on terror sharper mood qureshi says he'll bring up the issue with secretary of state by pompei and when he arrives in islamabad on wednesday the u.s. accuses pakistan of failing to take action against armed groups and providing them with a safe haven in pakistan denies the allegations. in russia there have been more protests

against increases to the age at which people can get a state pension the communist party organized rallies across the country the government wants to increase the retirement age from sixty to sixty five for men and from fifty five to sixty four women president vladimir putin's that made some changes to his original plan but argues the current pension arrangements are not financially sustainable and bullshit skier is a fellow at the washington institute focusing on russia's foreign and domestic policy she says putin's government did not expect such a public outcry. the way the government announced these reforms was at the time when russia was still hosting the world cup sort of hoping that the public would notice trying to trying to soften the blow so to speak but one what really the larger issue here is that these reforms demonstrate russia's economic decline of the government's inability. to handle development because russia is

a system. it is not geared towards development of the country rather it's a system built on lanty to the kremlin where those that are close to the kremlin get rewarded. and you know there are such things as for example the government had stopped contributing to the pension fund to finance the crimea and exchange. the witnesses so it's prioritizing political motives funding foreign adventures over domestic development notably never took responsibility when he made these concessions or that he sort of presented himself as this fatherly figure that is stepping in at the last minute before i was a watch while all struggling to make ends two months from all over all kind of corruption which is destroyed much of the crops as david most reports chill till field after field is blanketed in ash and rocks. the rich black soil on the side of this volcano in guatemala is normally the stuff of farmers dreams but beyond ral

knows firsthand that what the volcano can provide in bountiful harvests it can just as quickly take away the volcanoes deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks and ash onto his field the twenty eight year old was counting on his corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed. a few thought. there was a layer of ash here thirty centimeters deep that was super hard like cement so. it's off now because we've tried our best to work the ground but this corn won't give us anything like this plant here no cob no nothing. they represent of killed hundreds of people a few kilometers north of the scene of the disaster ashen volcanic rocks not only damaged thousands of hectares of corn and beans but also cash crops such as vegetables coffee avocado and fruit trees ronald is just one of fourteen thousand

smallholder farmers who lost their crops after june volcanic eruption these people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help. and highland town an hour away government help is starting to arrive guatemala's ministry of agriculture is providing shovels machetes and other tools to thousands of farmers official say that those who lost all their subsistence crops will also receive food assistance for up to three months. this is the agriculture ministry is first response but soon will be providing new coffee plants will also be giving away seed so farmers can replant their fields but these are medium term plans it will take two or three years to be able to recover these crops. in the meantime family is relying on public donations in order to survive their year had begun with such promise his family rented extra land and planted all the seeds that saved from

previous year's harvest in the hopes of getting ahead now they have nothing to show for their efforts. paying for corn means buying one hundred to two hundred pounds every month depending on the size of your family so you could be paying around fifty dollars a month for corn but often you only make twenty dollars and we both work on you know. the money doesn't go far enough. despite the setback ronald and his family are determined to get through the year ahead he and other farmers here have faith that the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer. and the department of the now go to mark. your geologist their arms the whole rabbit a reminder of our top stories a state of emergency has been declared by the u.s. backed government in libya after five days of fighting in the capital tripoli at

least forty one people have been killed in the violence and more than one hundred others injured several armed groups are battling for territory near the city's only functioning airport forces backed by the government of the national accord have lost several strategic locations to a breakaway faction of the state saudi soldiers have been killed during fighting with yemen's who the rebels that's according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that for the who theater along its southern border videos from saudi media show captured the fighters including what they say is a high ranking commander to reuters journalists accused of illegally obtaining secret documents arrived in court to hear the verdicts on their case. could face up to fourteen years in jail the found guilty they were arrested shortly after uncovering details relating to a massacre last year the generals who oversaw the operation there are monks and those the u.n. says should be investigated for genocide nearly four months after iraq's election

eleven political groups have come together to form the largest bloc in parliament that includes groups loyal to shiite cleric souther and prime minister hyder. hashmi is the director of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the new coalition gives him reason to be optimistic. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based the volley of brazil a fire is raging at the rio de janeiro two hundred year old national museum all falls of the building or ablaze twenty million items are under threat including

human fossils and ancient egyptian effects those are the headlines and back with more news in. to stay with us. unless we have new generations growing up to understand that other nations a chip of the natural then soon there will be nothing left and will suffer primatologist and conservationist dr jane goodall told us to al-jazeera. viewfinder fresh perspectives through the lens of local filmmakers around the globe .

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