demonstrators marched through liverpool on sunday calling for a people's vote in other words a second bricks and referendum on whatever deal emerges from the ongoing u.k. the unico see asians and they want the option of stopping bret's it altogether once we know what the deal is a song off for i think people are entitled to have a say as to whether they have a sense test and i think that entitled to have all my ballot paper the option of remaining in the we need to have a say on. it actually me because there is no deal and the deal is it's just a completely times piece so much for this country. question for another breakfast referendum a so-called people's vote is clearly growing for the dalai lama for the labor party conference here in liverpool is to decide whether the wishes of its membership tally be why the wishes of labor supporters across the country and indeed whether the country as a whole would regard another one who run them as a great betrayal. those concerns seemed evident by the random sample of people

we spoke to away from the march who showed little affection for the union no enthusiasm atoll for a new vote they had their vote. why spend your money on a something to be almost i don't think most reviled it at a democrat from a profit but what we did it should surely should be done to it's. not another one. same thing just going to get you had sound making agreements get a stump. promising to abide by the wishes of his party members as to colvin stops significantly short of personally supporting the second referendum he wants to keep his options open for as long as possible paul brennan al-jazeera liverpool. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back election time in cameroon as the country's longtime leader seeks yet another term despite protests more that

statements. from long flowing island winds to an in chanting death to greece. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast why i do want to take you over here towards the philippines things look pretty good right now on the forecast map we have clear skies for most of luzon all the next few days though we do have a system just off the map that is our next typhoon that is trey i mean that's going to be making its way towards the northwest now we don't expect to see a landfall in the philippines but we do expect to see those clouds start to impact that area and then the rain and the winds so that is something going to be watching a lot of these areas are still saturated from our super typhoon so any more rain across this region could be bad news across much of southern china we're looking at clouds but we're not looking at a lot of rain most of it is going to stay up towards the north with chain do seeing

a rainy day for you and twenty three degrees in your forecast well here across the southern parts of asia we're going to be seeing some very heavy rain across most of malaysia over the next few days that's going to stay in place and we do expect to see expression afternoon thunderstorms very very heavy at times but down towards jakarta your temperatures are coming up we do expect to see a temperature of about thirty five maybe coming down to about thirty four as we go towards tuesday and then very quickly over here towards india well we have seen quite a bit heavy rain and localized flooding across much of the central area take a look the forecast map as we go towards monday we do see new delhi at temperatures of twenty seven. the winter sponsored by qatar airways.

here's. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories this hour molding lives opposition leader abraham sali has declared victory the country's presidential election election commission has released provisional results they say sali won any sixty percent of the votes of the current president. thousands of people are protesting the british city of liverpool over the government's handling of the briggs it talks protesters are calling for a new referendum labor party leader journey called and has not yet indicated whether he supports

a new. and iran's revolutionary guard says it will avenge southlands attack on a military parade in the city of ours that killed twenty five people iran's president accused the us of helping support those who carried out the attack and accusations of washington that are not. fully attacking iran is likely to highlight tensions between washington and tehran of the un general assembly this coming week al-jazeera diplomatic editor james bays has more. at this year's general assembly iran i think was always going to be the main subject and the thing that was making all of the headlines and now there is a new dimension to all of this with this attack we have president rouhani in town we have president trump in town now he will i'm sure talk about iran in his speech to the general assembly on choose day but perhaps more important than that is a security council meeting coming up on wednesday the u.s. has the current presidency of the u.n. security council rotates every month and as they have that they've decided to have

a meeting at head of state level which will be chaired by president trump with presidents and prime ministers and foreign ministers around the table with him that's first be a meeting on nonproliferation and international peace and security but we already know from the main form of communication from this president what he wants to talk about and that is iran so he very much has iran in his sights while the iranians are very much blaming some of the arab countries in the region saudi in the u.a.e. and their great ally the u.s. campaigning is underway for cameron's presidential election in two weeks' time president paul beer has been in power since one thousand nine hundred two seeking reelection despite protests and violence the story. supporters of the main opposition party the cameron ethos movement in the capital bloc unfathomable they've launched a two week campaign before voting on october seventh. the presidential election

comes at a critical time for coming on after years of bloody conflict between the english speaking south and the central government that's dominated by french speakers and i could well you see. we don't know where south. home but the new me that you were i mean there was it. was like oh yes oh that was what it was come to is promising political and cultural reconsideration but change has often eluded. president has been ruling since one nine hundred eighty two and nearly every election he's won since then was highly controversial with constant accusations of vote rigging to guarantee he stay in power during his thirty six years critics accuse him of ruling with an iron fist while failing to preserve the national unity videos shown on social media last year was said to show

extra judicial killings of civilians in the south by special army brigades. come to his supporters say he's a serious challenger to president and the only real beacon of hope for canada at the moment are the presidential candidates are also trying to galvanize supporters by promising to change. the enthusiasm is there cameroonians want change and we are not mistaken we think that on october seventh cameroonians will live up to the expectations of the whole world to say that we must turn the page and we must finally move forward what president to be a still has the support base. going to come flying i would like to be president obama's campaign slogan which is the strength of experience this is logan sums up by itself. chief means the opportunities that are offered to us all this could be achieved thanks to poor. others argue

a free and fair election isn't guaranteed because of what's happened before and they don't rule out a continuation of the status quo. in tanzania mass burials have been held for some of those who died in a ferry capsized on lake victoria the number of passengers and crew who drowned has risen to at least two hundred twenty four forty one people survived tanzania's president is over the rest of those responsible. for what i had to give my child might have been found but i have not seen her i'm waiting for this ferry to be removed so that i can see whether she is there or not but i'm feeling very bad so i think god i have found my wife my child is still missing so god has every plan. flash floods have killed at least four people in two zero bridges and roads are damaged the equivalent of delhi six months worth of rain fell on saturday the storm caused water levels in some areas to rise as much as one point seven metres surging water has carried away homes cars and chunks of road. the philippines as impose

a temporary ban on quarrying follows two major landslide disasters in the past week but it is one killed at least forty five people dozens of homes are buried on the island of sabine following heavy rains and storms. reports villagers say their warnings about a nearby stone quarry were ignored. a city weighed down by grief bodies continue to pile up in mortuaries here and now go and many more are expected to send gifts for wheat is grieving for her husband. like so many others here he died when the landslide buried him alive in their home she doesn't know how her family will survive. morning on me that. i'm left with eleven children to feed how do i send them to school we lost our home our cattle we have nothing not

even a plate. monsoon rain check or the massive landslide early on thursday morning at least thirty homes and eighty people were buried as the mountain collapsed taking with it stone querrey where many worked the devastation so widespread it wiped out entire families. now this is the. this is the company a family. father mother and children all died in the landslide their casket our coverage because we were told that some of their bodyguards have already been dismembered. many of the residents who live in the area also work for the company now they feel they pay the price they had to agree with. boeing it was hard to see them like that all of them were taken away by one of the kids had not yet been found it is very painful. for years filipinos

living here have been calling on the government to stop carrying operations but they say their appeals were ignored their story is a typical one in this country. those who are impoverished are voiceless in the face of powerful influential businesses. the philippine government is promising to help meet their emergency needs and this ordered a temporary halt of quarrying operations nationwide for fifteen days grieving relatives say the quarry ban is simply not enough what they want is justice. to dog and al-jazeera not the city said province cinches philippines. flash floods of had parts of northern india leaving homes and roads under water at least twenty five people have been stranded because of rising water levels in

rivers and drains the local government in the state of the watch of protest says there's a high risk of landslides and water borne diseases india's prime minister narendra modi has launched his ambitious new health care plan it's a scheme designed to offer free health insurance to the country's poorest citizens dubbed modi cattle see half a billion people get access to health services that currently can't afford but critics say the scheme has been rushed out too quickly for political gain and lacks adequate funds to support it war and many god given a very young. if we combine the population of america canada and mexico even more than that number of people benefit from a man better at skating. now tiger woods has won the p.g.a. tour championship his first title in five is the victory of the slate in atlanta is the eightieth p.g.a. title of his career woods won the championship by two strokes and speaking after the when he said he couldn't believe it. you know but it was.

such a grind out there i've loved every bit of it and the fighting the grind the tough conditions and. i just have to suck it up and. there we don't know. where the wind marks a remarkable return to the top for tiger his last tournament victory was an twenty thirteen but woods said he might never return to competitive golf after undergoing the fourth round of surgery on his back last year less than a year ago he was ranked outside the well top one thousand golf is but after making his comeback in december it seems the tiger rules again let's talk to robert little he's got his black sports online that's a sports website he joins us via skype from los angeles robert i mean this when marks an amazing comeback for tiger his first win in five years what do you think this will mean to him well you know when you have such a long time which we need victories getting that first one is the one that's most

important is the one where you got to get over the hole and he says so many injuries so much drama just a lot of stuff surrounding him and he's been close a few times actually now that he's gotten older the hope you may see more of the old tiger that we've all been waiting for the last couple years yeah his performance that is like it was extraordinary was that i mean he won by two shots but he was five shots straight up people like justin rose who's the world number one. yeah the reason a lot of people say it was more like old tiger was he dominated from the start and that was a big thing about old tiger woods is that he would start to turn to me and you just can catch him he would just that's a pure you know i don't think he's that good at it anymore in the sense that you get a lot of field on a week to week basis but now he can't he does show that he's right up there with the elite golfers and they're still a tiger woods intimidation type but they you see his name on the top of the leaderboard it makes you a little uneasy and how much will this boost his confidence going into the ryder

cup which starts in france in a few days' time i think this entire thing is helpful for him going into the ryder cup wanted to next season and next majors as well because i think the majority of it is just been injured golf is a sport where everything has to be in tune and if your body is not in tune you simply just can't play well so with this victory in knowing it now that his body could hold up all four rounds i think the competition is going to be a little worried now that tiger's back and just a final thought but what do you think this win means to tie against legion of fans i mean they'll be very very happy today won't they well that the thing about his golf is better when tiger woods is better is kind of the same way in the states where if the yankees or the laker or the patriots are good i mean that's good for the sport in a singular sport like golf tiger woods you know is the yankees and he tiger woods

is the lakers and the knicks so when he's good it's good for the sport so i think not just his fans but the sport of golf the media in golf and everybody that has an interest in golf it's better for them when tiger woods is good robert little thank you very much indeed for your time. now the u.s. supreme court nominee at the center of sexual assault allegations says he has proof of his whereabouts at the time of the alleged incident the accusations by christine blasi forward against brett kavanaugh center around a party in one thousand nine hundred two according to the new york times kavanah says he has evidence of an old calendar that shows he was not at the party that night before his agreed to testify before the senate committee on thursday his cabinet is also likely to appear australia's food contamination scandal has reached new zealand after a needle was found inside a packet of strawberries the australian berries were purchased at a supermarket in all cleaned the store chain is now was drawn that brand of

strawberries as a precautionary measure police are investigating more than a hundred reports of selling needles found in strawberries which have caused demand for the fruit to plummet and numbers of people have packed a square in the spanish city of barcelona to watch rival teams build human castles the annual competition is part of a traditional street festival held in honor of the city's painter and st the team's attempt different types of towers recalling coordination balance and lots of practice objective is to successfully build and dismantle a tower without people falling over each other. by time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the opposition leader abraham sali has declared victory in the country's presidential election the election commission has released provisional results they say sully won nearly sixty percent of the vote of a current president. the message is loud and clear the people of the moralists want

change just this instability. in the next five years we will consider their democracy by guaranteeing human rights and ensuring accountability we will establish a peaceful and just society for all the godless of how you want it today i assure you i will be the president of all the iran's revolutionary guard says it will avenge saturday's attack on a military parade in the city of ours that killed twenty five people the president has accused the u.s. of helping support those who carried out the attack washington denies any involvement at least one person has been killed after israeli jets fired at palestinians protesting along the gaza border demonstrations against the israeli blockade of the strip have been going on for more than six months palestinians are demanding their right to return to homes and land their families were expelled from seventy years ago when israel was created thousands of people are protesting in the

british city of liverpool over the government's handling of the brig's it negotiations protesters are calling for a new referendum labor party leader jeremy coburn has not yet indicated whether he would support a new vote in tanzania mass burials have been held for some of those who died in a ferry capsized on lake victoria the number of passengers and crew who drowned has risen to at least two hundred twenty four. india's prime minister narendra modi has launched an ambitious new health care plan dubbed modi care it will see half a billion people get access to health services they currently can't afford critics say the scheme has been rushed out too quickly for political gains and tiger woods has won the p.g.a. tour championship is first title and is the victory at east lake in atlanta is the eighty of p.g.a. a title of his career woods won the championship by two strokes speaking of the when he said he couldn't believe what i was with the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story station times of watching.

testing democracy in the maldives what will a second term for president abdullah i mean span for the opposition which complains of being gagged and does it strengthen china's influence in the indian ocean islands this isn't sad story. welcome to the program of a doubt that hamid they are scattered across the indian ocean more than

a thousand coral islands they are demolished loved by tourists from all over the world for de beaches blue lagoon central pickel reefs about quarter of a million voters there are choosing a new leader but the presidential election has been no paradise for the opposition rivals to president abdullah yemeni have been jailed or exiled critics say he's become a one ruler cementing his power by a pression international observer had boycotted his reelection bid they say it was needed free no fair got to police reports. it was all smiles as president of dillard and his main rival in for him mohamad sali cost the balance and so on this point. he means critics accuse him of acting as a strongman imprisoning or exile in political rivals the election lucking transparency there's no credible election observers in all this at the moment because all the democracy democratic countries as well the. european union decided well in advance

that the government had not been bludgeoned that the government had not been doing requesting what they have requested to do before prior to the elections that is to . free the party leader as well the. supreme court of february for. but none of these things happened so they decided that they regard this election and give any credibility to this election and those critics questioning but if the election would be free and fair so they would prove right from saturday the eve of the poll security police raided the headquarters of the main opposition the mole deep democratic but this latest crackdown to start for the only viable alternative to prison means good and progressive party doesn't suddenly supposition supporters they say the election was a referendum with a multiuse continues to slide towards authoritarianism and people even if that means to come here. and ask you can you can't because they wouldn't sign

anything. to me to change my family because they believe that maybe it's not me it's not me and look at me look if voters in the cup tamale queue to coast that ballot so i'm cautiously optimistic that change is still possible i'm just going to pick just my rights and i'm going to vote and i'm hoping that we have a free and fair election alex the topless al-jazeera. ok so let's bring in our panel from colombo aman a-c. he's a mild even opposition leader and former foreign minister in london we have geoffrey salim wahid deputy permanent representative in geneva for the republic of maldives and in washington bharat go by last wame director of the southie just center at the atlantic council think tank welcome to the program and the scene let me start with

you at how did you think that the vote go today well it was peaceful so far. but the voting was extremely still and especially. we have so many people still. bye bye two daughters went to war and it took eight hours for them to cast their vote and saw a huge and it's almost impossible to every heart and now you have to live out the evil people being able to cause their vote so this is a major issue it's terribly disorganized there were no no for accused organized that it was set up in the body in a busy year and so it was very difficult for everybody and parents with children they had to go because they just could. wait in the sun outside on the road to

get into the embassy for such a long time so it's unfortunate it's very very said therefore we have less turnout . today what we expected we expected this day to five percent down out but unfortunately it would be listed that well the election commission has said that it extended diverting by three hours because of higher turnout but let me put the same question and to you geoffrey in london i how did you see did this voting go on because regardless of all these logistical problem it's still mardin a lot of controversy isn't it voting has been incredibly peaceful in the maldives and if you compare to the previous presidential elections it is in create is exactly comparable we know for a fact that we with presidential elections we do have a very high water now we have more than ninety percent we expect to have the same for this election and as usual the voting time was extended and anyone who is in line by seven pm today will make will be allowed to vote i think our embassies

our more than almost five hundred polling stations of ballot boxes the distributor across the maldives every official is going to do everything they can to make sure that every voter is able to vote and we will see that we will see that from the voter turnout rate at the end of today not even. about it decades ago adam all these was there was a lot of optimism in the mao in the maldives everybody was hailing this transition to democracy now this vote is called by many experts test for democracy what happens well i mean i think what's happening is you see these are this is this is working proud of progress this is the evolution of democracy and it's nice and face and you're right to point out that this is a litmus case test. there are the you know the optimism is there and democracies go through these cycles and these phrases and that's what's happening right now but

what is happening is as both my colleagues from the opposition and the ruling put it as there are two different perspectives and i think what's more disturbing for me is the lack of international observers to have an independent neutral voice to say which side then we'll have a he said she said kind of a dilemma here. jeffrey maybe you can answer that because both the you and the u.n. didn't send observers judy's election simply because they were they were saying that they were not going to be fair and free and they didn't want to be seen as indorsing president a yemeni now dad has been a lot in the days and weeks leading to the vote there has been as i said earlier a lot of controversy and the opposition has been muzzled up firstly the opposition hasn't been muzzled if you look at the demonstrations the very the very vibrant media that we have in the maldives you can see that they're very active they've been campaigning across the nation and even internationally when it comes to the

u.n. and to the e.u. you have you actually don't have either of them saying that it is not going to be a free and fair election in the maltese they're not saying that at all when it comes to the u.n. the only way that elections are over is can we dispatched them all these is through security council resolution and fortunately that didn't happen the maldives has invited. everyone to come to the multi-verse if you're there in person you can see exactly what's happening with each ballot that goes down you have candidate you have the representatives of each of the candidates that are present in every single polling booth across the country and you have one of the most free fair and transparent methodologies that used anywhere in the world. i mean let's see i just wanted to know from you i do agree with what jeffrey just said and also. have you been able to campaign freely have you been able to hold the amount of rallies you wanted to hold in the lead up to this vote no not at all not at all. we were

given a space in mali just for one ready and that shocked the. ruling regime and now the they've rounded it krista for five more nights and they refused to do that and also. european union and others did not come because they have a certain demands that the european union made your opinion and believed that. all the political leader has been arrested and they should be released before the elections otherwise it is not going to be free and fair so we have a candidate that all the political leaders have agreed agreed full and. but the problem here is that there was deva never a child being a free and fair election in more days. because we did not get equal opportunity to ken and neither do we did we get other people who should become just in the

election to contest so. in july this year the european union made some demands and these are not to abide. by the government. supreme court judges they their kids through the roof and veg the chief justice of the flow and dragged him out of the. of his and put him in jail and got the former president to serve the country for thirty years in jail while being present means brother or hauled brother and prison now she too is in exile you have the need of. your body party j.p. in exile we have the party leader in jail and two of his vice presidents. in jail and. the defense ministers are in jail. but this commission does a jail. and i can understand what jeffrey's actually speaking about being free

and fair. free and fair does not mean is it happens on the day of the voting even today it is not free and the voting itself is not free and fair because all the better books is packed with activists from the ruling regime and that start fair we should have one party people there sitting and as over shows the better books is nothing like this has happened and other people are deprived. and people. first and they were very rude extremely rude people and so that all these things go to say video that is feared that this is not a free and fair election. interrupt let me do during game the ballot box was not around fair i'm just bitter but i'm sorry to interrupt it is going to bring in bharat so we heard two posing points of view here you have followed the un

monitored what was going on in the maldives in the past few months what's your take on these elections is it and what jeffrey says that it's been free and fair or is it what i'm in a scene says that actually own opposition has been excluded or jailed or exiled and it's really a free ride for incumbent. didn't abdullah i seem you know i'm going for from what is available to me publicly and from what is what i've been witnessing in observing is most of the most of the people that like. pointed out have been either in jail or in exile and the number of rallies you know i come from i'm originally from india i come from a vibrant democratic society so if i were to hold that as a gold standard for democracy and elections campaigning process by that standard model the election process and most of these is fairly. i'm sorry to say it's fairly. remote by any standards the bigger question here to ask for the maldives

for the motive in people is what kind of democracy that they scribed that they want to be where do they want these see themselves and if this is if this is a standard of democracy that they want to adopt for themselves because if this is the standard of democracy that they want to adopt for themselves i see this as a pretty poor standard and for them that that standard is pretty it's a slippery slope for them to be. to be pursuing because you know remember what goes around and some of these things comes around tomorrow they might the ruling party might be at the receiving end of such as some of these democratic standards so you might have a free and fair elections by today's standards of the polling might be peaceful but if half the guys are in jail what is the point of having appalling to be to begin with well jeffrey i see that you have that agreed with anything that was said by your two other fellow pat patton is. but those are barak has put forward some very fair questions what kind of democratic race is it if there is very little

opposition in front of you in their lives is made extremely difficult if you look at the reality on the ground what's happening on the ground you see that there is a very vibrant opposition and if you talk about all the people the political leaders who've been children's or convicted felons who will convict a very serious crimes including kidnapping a sitting supreme court a sitting judge including trying to assassinate the president including a number of very serious crimes being a political leader does not absolve you of the right to or absolve you of the obligation not to commit or break the law. but jeffrey now this is only i can represent you know that yes go ahead. i want to just say i'm going to send you my whole day not seeing a lot a lot of reports also implicate the president himself or the people around him so you know and that's exactly why this president has created an incredibly strong

commission for asset recovery to investigate corruption and of course we have strengthened the existing anti-corruption commission and i'm sorry i really want to go back to the point about people not being allowed to vote if anyone is being turned away from a voting station that is a crime it is illegal it has to be reported to the action commission right away there's not a single mall division who sure wants to vote who should be barred from voting in any measure i want to say that very clearly to anyone who's hearing this program we want to make sure everyone from the government to the independent situations want to make sure that people who want to vote are able to vote and we think that that will be reflected by the turnout later today now with regard to there not being a space for people to demonstrate for people there for civil society to exist or for even political parties we can say that the public space in maldives have been given equally to both sides so fine you might request five days in

a row to have the public beach area yet the reality is that you have to share that with the other candidate that's running you have today a candidate running against the incumbent president who is incredibly popular who has been able to rally a lot of support from across the country and yet you've seen the president do the same thing you've seen literally thousands of people across the country turn up to their rallies and demonstrate on behalf of their candidates what you have in them all these if you look on the ground if you look at what has been happening over the course of the last month over the last year is people supporting their candidates in a democratic process. that i don't see internationally for example on human rights watch have underlined and have criticize human rights abuses in them. and i have also criticized the president for let's say curtailing the opposition they've also been several reports of corruption that involved him or his entourage but i want to move discover sation further to look at what's going to happen after

the results come out do the maldives has a history of close ties to india but china is a growing influence the chain of islands in the indian ocean are near importing shipping lanes and india aims to remain a dominant power but china is muscling in hoping to use them all the u.s. as a sea and air base china's leaders signed a free trade agreement with the maldives government in december wedding terrace on almost all goods the pact also allows foreigners to buy land sixteen islands have already been board for development projects and it's estimated china has a ready invested around one and a have billion dollars and sixty percent of the island's debt is linked to chinese project opposition parties accuse president you mean of leading the country into a debt trap with ten percent of the budget going to debt repayments that's around ninety million dollars per year i'm going to get back to you jeffrey yes president

to mean says listen undergone a big in for a transfer project like the bridge that the expansion of the airport and that basically is modernizing the country but many people will also tell you those who don't agree with him that he is actually unsettling the balance of power in that part of the indian ocean. this is a point that thank you i would very much like to address you mentioned that we've offered military and other sorts of concessions to china this is not the case our closest military allies today remains united states and remains india india is and always has been one of our closest development to military economic partners and we will always maintain that that does not mean that we're not going to be open to other economic partners as well if you look at the economy in the maldives the majority of the investments in the country to foreign direct investment are from american companies not chinese so

a lot of the statistics that you mention with regards to chinese investments are wrong yes when it comes to the recent infrastructure projects what our goals is as an administration is to really raise people out of poverty to ensure that they have a chance at human dignity and that does mean ensuring that we provide them with housing facilities with health care with ease of movement and better and better livelihoods so even if you look at this recent bridge for example that was built by the chinese government with the chinese government aid the majority of the cost of that bridge was granted aid not loans and what was given as loan was given as concessional loans when you talked about fifteen i was sixteen islands that supposedly belong to the chinese government this again is a fallacy this is not true a lot of the statistics that are out there that are being perpetuated by the opposition are is more is more than anything else is just sensationalist rhetoric but everything that we do it in every investment that we look at even from china is

evaluated by a central bank we make sure that it does not leave to an unnecessary burden for the country well as a minister even i just want to know your thoughts about you know this. chinese entrance let's say on them on d.v.d. and c n n if you think that that is something good for your country. you see in this month's good investments chinese investments or indian investments or american investments or whatever but the problem here with the present regime is that they have a tendency of not disclosing anything and they don't do anything in accordance with the laws of the country or the constitution of the country none of the none of the projects granted to chinese companies have any any transparency they've never they didn't come to the event that was done scrutiny ventry scrutiny committee was completely did completely outside parliament is closed so there cannot be any

scrutiny and. been invaded by the b.g. or. order of president jiang mean so. we don't know all how much investment days in a government that the form we have his certainty see how much it to the how much these investments into the cause and how much was change on the table and. we have . reasons to believe that these are not factual i was told by the chinese foreign ministry some of the project costs and and i know that they. got that coming over the bridge cause for example between mother and her they didn't even mention of the breach during all government and it wasn't a hundred thousand dollars and sometimes the government says it has to be at the three hundred million and on the median does sometimes the government says it is the enemy then does sometimes two hundred twenty million sometimes it is

a hundred eighty we didn't reach so we don't know exactly what it is so that day is no transparency even days no democracy in the country when the country is being rude due to the by a dictator these are the things that happens and this is where we have problems. going to even if you want to bring in baghdad i don't think there is any nation of it bharat now. formal or at least said this is huge concern both in washington and at the e.u. level about how demolish the are going there more closely monitoring these elections and they're ready to slap some sanctions are individuals in the mold the now is is what how do you think all of this is going and pan because obviously the heart of it is also the concern india has of the chinese expansion let's say in that part of the world. look the chinese expansion in that part of the

world is nothing new we have the. we have the china pakistan economic corridor we have the boat and rowed in the shadow we have the chinese investment central bank and that support of child for that and them are. that you know of the sri lanka is essentially a poster child of what chinese that could do to that country and how democracy can be part and i think maldives is nothing new to the scales and as both my colleagues pointed out that the investments even i would tend to agree a fair bet that the investments by any country for that matter is always a welcome sign but it always comes at what are the costs attached with that investment and what is the price you're willing to pay and it is up to the individual countries to be scrutinising that that investments as well as have a domestic political debate on what those investment could cost in that in that country for a wide variety of reasons but the bigger issue for the united states and the e.u. is basically would do is the idea the vision and the resources that are so associated for us to put forward as an alternative to the chinese and last but

secretary spontaneous speech at the u.s. chamber of commerce and tillerson speech last year at the center for strategic and international studies highlight some of this vision but until then we are able to offer a clear vision of what we can offer the rest of the war that will counterbalance the chinese effort this is what the world is waiting for and until we do that this will be the price that we in the western society will have to pay and absorb and have to calibrate our actions accordingly and as i see it the domestic political debate and conditions either in india or the united states is totally distracted disoriented and it's too much focused on internal political wrangling that we are unable to that that our partners allies and friends and the rest of the world are waiting to know are not getting a really sorry to interrupt you but i mean there's so much more to talk about but unfortunately we have reached the end of this program so thank you. very much adman as soon geoffrey selene will heed and bought out goodbye last one me and thank you

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houses and private collections that iranians are selling and an artifact is worth finances to be headaches and misuse in the middle east don't sal don't that's one quick solution trafficking on al-jazeera. hello i'm down in jordan in doha the quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera a moment of happiness hope and history those are the words of moldings opposition leader ibrahim ahmed soulé as he declared victory in the country's presidential election the result shows sali received fifty eight percent of the vote while the incumbent president abdoulaye i mean forty two percent a warning shot at dallas's report contains some flash photography.

opposition supporters on the streets of mali is their leader abraham mohammed so lay claim to victory and mo deeds presidential elections. for five years president i believe you mean has been in power they say he has been dethroned and want him to concede this is a moment of happiness this is a moment of hope this is a moment of history for many of us this has been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prison so four years of. politics in the mold daves has been tumultuous since mohamed nasheed became its first democratically elected president ten years ago he was ousted in a coup in a spin most of his time in exile intra lanka he watched as his friend and ally soulé rallied off position leaders into a coalition to take power back i like to call that a condo delivered on the ground moment so i mean the president elect. yeah has

worked it seems the heart and it's seems like living there in the last four or five. years since i was there just. the maldives has been in political turmoil and do you mean during his five year tenure two former presidents the prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in controversial trials. on the eve of the vote soleus campaign office was raided by police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered this was a big of a shock what he was hoping and he was aiming was to consolidate power. and with the way that prior to the election the way that he had. as i would call it manipulated the institutions i think it moved from the back fire. to you means tainio with a pen and paper and extraordinary numbers turnout was over eighty five percent

despite. i came to vote eight in the morning and i was waiting in the queue for all this time until five or five pm so many nine hours before voting. president you mean stayed silent as the votes were counted he had been expected to cement his grip on power but in public view the ballots piled up against him the electoral commission will announce the official results in seven days shallop ballasts al-jazeera iran's revolutionary guard says it will avenge saturday's attack on a military parade in the city of our vows that killed twenty five people the president has accused the u.s. of helping support those who carried out the attack washington denies any involvement at least one person has been killed after israeli jets fired at palestinians protesting along the gaza border fence demonstrations against the israeli blockade of the gaza strip have been going on for more than six months. in tanzania mass burials have been held for some of those who died in the ferry capsized on lake victoria the number of passengers and crew who drowned has risen

to at least two hundred twenty four forty one people survived tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of those responsible. india's prime minister narendra modi has launched an ambitious new health care plan dubbed modi care it will see half a billion people get access to health services they currently can't afford critics say the scheme has been rushed out too quickly for political gains thousands of people have protested in the british city of liverpool over the government's handling of the briggs it negotiations but testers are calling for a new referendum labor party leader jeremy corbin has not yet indicated whether he would support a new vote on tiger woods has won the p.g.a. tour championship his first title in five years the victory in atlanta is the eightieth p.g.a. title of his career woods won the championship by two strokes. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera workstation that's

watching. twenty five years ago the prospects for peace in the middle east. after decades of conflict between palestinians and israelis. this film tells the

story of secret negotiations in the political shadows. a story of the search for common ground in the midst of a region in constant turmoil. and at the center of. an unlikely media to ladies and gentlemen this excellent. minister of foreign affairs of the scandinavian country of norway minister of foreign affairs of egypt. lake assistant to the president for national security a bad as. i thank i . also today the government of norway for its remarkable role in nurturing this i. i. said temba nineteen ninety three. israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin and palestinian leader yasser

arafat's shake hands. hopes were high but peace between israelis and palestinians would finally come to them in. two decades such a peace remains as elusive as ever. in . what it could mean if this thing the most. wanted to see it but a senior state in the gaza and then israeli palestinian jordanian condominium in the west bank. well like in a way to play a symmetric. it has to be a role according to its rules rules of the game. president of the signing ceremony was former us secretary of state henry kissinger chief architect of the

peace between egypt and israel kissinger's approach was to make only small demands and to build from there. arafat's picked up on a step by step strategy and as early as nine hundred seventy four his palestinian liberation organization approved a plan to aim for a foothold in the region administered by a palestinian authority rather than historic palestine. in the same year the arab league summit has officially designated the p.l.o. as the sole representative of the palestinian people. that he or she got all the water shot in the spring. and the uk menagerie workers were that i mean. now jess are. somewhat. modes of

movement is more as a board met the. military. in one nine hundred seventy four arafat known to his colleagues as addressed the united nations for the palestinians and for the p.l.o. the events represented recognition for the palestinian struggle in the hand i'm not sad but when i am. any i would. soak up the if it was the. age at in all my mean that he did the p.l.o. game stature of the un but it continued to reject security council resolutions two forty two and three three eight. the resolutions demanded that israel withdraw within what was called secure and recognized borders. but they did not precisely require israel to withdraw to all land into occupied before the six day war in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. about said.

if they go shared by the. security council resolution to put to it. they would strongly oppose any of these two resolutions when the framework for the one nine hundred seventy eight camp david accords of. the accords called not for a palestinian state but for what was termed palestinian autonomy. that big and i'm of some use have also a look for the hokum that e.l.o. for listening while some of them fuck with that the bit latin what courtroom them to sleep eat. in the un and when do they really care what. and i hope that the new york i love you so forget the forward feel in the you and i'm a philistine again. that from it stronghold in south lebanon in one nine hundred seventy seven the p.l.o. decided to explore the possibility of torques with israel.

in. one month he said that it would. work and feed in. mobile me be a do with. there were two. palestinian president mahmoud abbas says in his book the secret channels that this dialogue was with the israeli forces that supported peace and with this afforded jews. in march one nine hundred seventy eight israel invaded south lebanon.

the united nations responded by deploying a peacekeeping force into south lebanon. known as unifil part of this force was made up of norwegian troops i had this and that for the first time. as part as as a norwegian sewn into. visiting the uni field forces in lebanon. i came with friends through israel then i ask about that it was the event to go in dhaka said that it would best not stick in east. evoked at all not all the hard to get a foot if in silicon if it offers just didn't get it but all politicians can get a lesson darted off or shifting in long enough to get instilling in a heated. nor they call to be affected approximately one thousand fold.