criminal and has promised to clean the country of what he calls the red communist threat he supporters say he is the man brazil needs. the poor people he's very simple i feel like everybody. hundreds of people have gathered outside i am also not over that part and they're chanting the national anthem and celebrating they say they want order and progress something that's written in the brazilian flag but there are many who fear that the not of selection is a threat to democracy. i know told us he celebrates every election in brazil because he was banned from voting for twenty seven years during brazil's military rule. i cherish every election because it's our way of expressing l. selves and this election is more important than ever because of what's at stake and what's at stake is our democracy. this is the first defeat of the workers' party in

sixteen years when former president won the presidency. what we saw was an awakening of people as to what was at play in the selection precipice being put to the test we had twenty sixty one president dilma was being a beached we had the un for a present of president the failure to follow the un resolution we will forward with courage to take all corners of this country democracy is a volley above all of us. has vowed to appoint former members of the military in cabinet and that he run the country with an iron fist analysts believe his election represents a challenge do the brazilian harm the capacity to defend themselves against a challenge to the democratic way of doing things and what we've seen i think from the. electoral courts and some of the other instances. this makes me worry that

perhaps not most are not and will take office in january his job then will be to fulfill his promise to kickstart brazil's economy and a crime wave that has already left thousands of people day. it is our religion era still to come here on al-jazeera we will not be broken to show solidarity in pittsburgh religious communities remember the victims of saturday's synagogue shooting. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts well here in the pacific we are watching typhoon you to make its way towards the philippines over the next few days you can see it there on the satellite image and on monday that

another part of the philippines luzon particularly is going to start to see the influence with the winds as well as the rain bands starting to influence that area landfall is expected on tuesday morning and we do expect it to be equivalent to either a high category three storm or a category four storm but either way flooding is going to be a major problem and then as we go towards wednesday that system will enter into the south china sea a little bit further to the south we are seeing plenty of clouds and rain across much of the area here from malaysia and indonesia down towards jakarta it is going to be a little bit dry with mostly cloudy conditions you can be seeing about thirty three not changing too much as we go towards tuesday but for pellew unfortunately we are now in that part of the season where more rain is coming into play and then here crusher a lot of rainy conditions of the next few days unfortunately but for med most of india we are looking at dry conditions for you here along the coastal region so we are going to be seeing more rain particular down towards the south of kuka those rain showers could influence you over the next few days but we do expect to see

a temperature few in partly cloudy conditions of twenty five degrees. he was malaysia's prime minister the nine years until his government was strong and our offices candles and allegations of corruption in an exclusive interview one o one he speaks with knowledge you present on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. with every.

of the mark you're watching i was there i was the whole room the reminder of our top news stories a passenger plane with one hundred eighty nine people on board has crashed off the sea of indonesia the lion air flight six ten was only thirteen minutes into a flight from jakarta when it disappeared from radar it was heading to an island near a search and rescue teams found some wreckage in the java sea. also saudi arabia's most senior prosecutor has arrived in turkey or the merger will meet with investigators looking into the death of society journalist shoji is expected to provide testimonies of the eighteen suspects with turkish counterparts and there's been a suicide attack on the election commission in afghanistan's capital kabul a spokesman says vehicle was targeted and left a number of casualties last weekend there was a string of similar attacks during the country's parliamentary elections. let's go

back to our top story now and that crash just off the coast of indonesia joining me now from singapore is ground sure aviation expert good to have you with us on the program before we talk about the airline and its history let's talk about the search and rescue operation and what's the priority for thora t's who will need to investigate this crash quickly. yes of course the priorities too forced to go to decide and try to recover as much as they can but there are money to pull your friend to. areas where they need to investigate starting from eighty years billing who are the information's out there and then the black box and the awkward was to carlos on the plane get across so they go to the key information bess where this will investigate and see what exactly happened indeed let's first talk about the aircraft itself it's a boeing seven three seven max eight it's

a relatively new aircraft in the fleet of lion air so the airline doesn't think that the aircraft for say is at fault but something has gone tragically wrong absolutely this is the fourth generations of boeing's new aircraft which is headed over to land in twenty eighty and there are a few areas where. this. seventy seven was going to meant getting flight level and so on but considering boeing's track record and this new genus that we have about it don't look lake and a mechanical failure or something around those lines in terms of aviation safety indonesia is off to being criticized as having a pretty low priority on this that it's tried to tighten its belt and improve its reputation how do you assess line safety protocols across

across asia pacific because there have been a number of recent fatalities. yeah of course these incidents are going to improve the tourism the passengers emotions so or not doubt such incidents is going to play a crucial role in. the reason. in an issue of course going to that tough time in time stuff maintaining the septic accord and and getting and the international forums updated about what's happening but they're still continuing their journey in terms of cleaning it up making sure that they have the robust septic or in the future looks like challenge and there are multiple such classes in taking this industry and a very difficult what was the what does happen as the hours progress and the investigation continues for the moment so bring sure to join us from singapore

thank you and the door of the top story nine survivors of the synagogue shooting in the u.s. city of pittsburgh are speaking out about their ordeal they joined religious leaders across all three through all of the eleven people killed during the shooting suspect robert bowers has been charged with hate crimes for saturday's attack and could face the death penalty if convicted she had returned she has more from pittsburgh pennsylvania. a message of defiance of the need to address the causes of rightwing extremist violence was heard at a multi-faith drill in pittsburgh sunday evening we will recognize this moment there's a moment when this nation needs to heal in the nation needs to come together under the common sense of how we start then it's like this from happening ever again. jonathan pohlmann was there as the shots rang out and attempted to help congregants to safety what happened will not break us it will not ruin us

we will continue to fly and sin and worship everyone together. and continue our historic medic's legacy in this city with the friendliest people that we know. as police and swat teams responded it soon became apparent that this was a hate crime the suspected gunman robert bowers told police he wanted to kill as many jews as possible with an assault rifle and pistols killed eight men and three women their ages range from fifty four to ninety seven american couple and two brothers among the dead during the course of his deadly assault on the people the synagogue bowers made statements regarding genocide and his desire to kill jewish people after standoff with police powers eventually surrendered and remains in federal custody today so our complaint charges bowers with twenty nine separate federal

crimes. outside the tree of life synagogue people have been laying flowers of the victims all day this is one of the oldest jewish communities in the u.s. they will be no tolerance for anti-semitism in america or for any form of religious or racial hatred or prejudice shortly after the shooting president trump calling for unity in a nation where hate crime is on the rise but in fact as investigators searched out his home for evidence there's now a renewed focus on the rhetoric the president himself uses bows appears to have been triggered by a white extremist conspiracy theory about u.s. jews funding the caravan of central american migrants making its way through mexico a theme president trump himself has alluded to the president and his supporters however disavowing any linkage is donald trump instead musing that perhaps god may have prevented this massacre she had the al-jazeera pittsburgh. well the children all or all the victims are also held in new york home to more than a million jews kristen salumi and the community's reaction to the shooting and the

nationwide increase in hate crimes. in new york a show of solidarity with the victims of the pittsburgh shootings the connections between the jewish community there and the one in new york one of the largest and oldest in the united states are personal and i have friends who live in pittsburgh and i have friends who get a chance to not so when i heard my first reaction was you know i was scared like these are my friend i think that this particular thing is really really scary especially because it's out of synagogue which is like i spent eight hours a week at my synagogue police here and around the country have stepped up security not just at synagogues but at all places of worship jewish leaders say the present climate of hate is taking a financial as well as emotional toll but some of dogs and churches and temples and mosque also have to take security measures we're spending a fortune to money. to protect our children our congregants new york's jewish

community is vast and politically diverse ranging from orthodox to secular but united in outrage hate crimes against the jewish community have surged not just here in new york but around the country up fifty seven percent in two thousand and seventeen according to the anti-defamation league but it's not just jews who are under attack african-american churches mosques have also seen increases as have many immigrant groups the pittsburgh gunman made clear his hatred of jews on social media some of his comments targeted the hebrew immigrant aid society because of its work helping refugees i've actually been doing in her fifth work since i was seventeen years old albert khan is a jewish lawyer who works as the legal director for the council on american islamic relations and this was an act of terrorism by so on repeating the president's lies about the muslim community about the refugee community we've seen so many attacks by those driven to violence by the president's words we need to come together to

show we are better than this that we are stronger than that's that we will transcend this moment and acts of hatred have. that said the attack in pittsburgh appears to be bringing jews and other religious minorities that much closer together christian salumi al jazeera new york. both parties in germany's governing coalition of suffered heavy losses in a regional election seen as a critical test for chancellor chancellor angela merkel's government early projections in the state of her support merkel's christian democratic union and the social democratic allies down ten points each the greens have nearly double the support to twenty percent meanwhile the far right f.t. will and to the state parliament for the first time after gaining the backing of twelve percent of voters. but there are three years just believe this is a hard and difficult night for the s.p.d.m. has a we have not kept the result up to where we wanted it is a bitter defeat and we cannot talk our way around it it is the worst expected

result since nine hundred forty six. to the middle east where three palestinian teenagers are being killed by an israeli drone strike in gaza they died in the eastern region of the strip between khan yunis and india. the israeli army says it fired towards three palestinian saboteurs who were attempting to plant an explosive device near the border fence with israel the palestinian president is accusing his hamas rivals of supporting the interests of the united states by not giving up control of the gaza strip but mood abbas is worried the u.s. is planning a proposal to offer palestinians some statehood in the hamas control strip and limited autonomy in the occupied west bank he's pushing for full independence in both areas but the german army has sent its top brigade to lead nato's largest military exercises since the cold war about fifty thousand personnel from the twenty nine nato allies are taking part along with partners finland and sweden let's go topless has more from trondheim in norway. german

artillery and soil the host nation always invited thirty countries to participate in the biggest military exercises nato has run in years and germany is the biggest contributor. with over nine thousand troops participating in the exercises overall the german army has sent his top armored brigade as part of the very high rate in his joint task force or a.t.f. . the contribution of germany itself is almost a mechanized brigade and expression in this exercise we have from the ninety brigade from germany about five thousand drum soldiers about two thousand vehicles and equipment and equipment the german army certainly has from arguably the best main battle tanks to fighting vehicles and artillery but up until recently it has been mostly training to fight a very different kind of war since the end of the cold war germany has served in

conflicts from bosnia to afghanistan but after years of counterinsurgency operations and peacekeeping it now has the real learn the lessons of high intensity conflict germany's military high command is aware of the problem and with rising regional tension between russia and its western neighbors the emphasis is now on how the next major conflict will be fought you know have to refocus and that there is a short term possibility that there are people paul and might attack nato. has of course refocus our efforts to be prepared for that as well that is not the copy of cold war it is much more complex with a rapidly changing nature of conflicts such as cyber warfare and with new weapons being constantly designed other global power such as russia are increasingly able to challenge nato the alliance will have to work hard to keep pace. topless how to

zero. now the u.s. defense secretary says barriers are being moved to the mexican border to stop thousands of my rents and refugees from reaching american soil to matters says the deployment of troops to the border is still being worked on mexican police ended a temporary standoff with the group making its way to the u.s. meanwhile another group of my friends and refugees as from el salvador hoping to reach the u.s. about three hundred salvadorians of the capital sun solvable heading towards the border with guatemala the group was organized via the social media site facebook. there i'm still robin the reminder of our top stories a passenger plane with one hundred eighty nine people on board has crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from indonesia's capital jakarta the lion air flight j.t. six one zero was only thirteen minutes into the flight when it disappeared from

radar it was heading to an island this the mantra i don't want i want out process. then that the process could be quick to help from other institutions i'm sure the military and police will help to speed up the operation that according to early information there are one hundred eighty nine people on board the flight which includes passengers and crew. saudi arabia's most senior prosecutor has arrived in turkey. will meet with investigators looking into the death of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is expected to provide testimonies of the eighteen suspects to his turkish counterpart and there's been a suicide attack on the election commission in afghanistan's capital kabul a spokesman said a staff vehicle was targeted and left a number of casualties last weekend there was a string of similar attacks during the country's parliamentary elections. far right can do that. has one brussels presidential election in his victory speech he pledged to defend the constitution democracy and freedom balsara will take office

in january after beating his challenger fernando had dad from the workers' party. vigils have been held around the us and in other parts of the world for the eleven people gunned down at a synagogue in pittsburgh suspect robert bowers has been charged under hate crime laws for saturday's attack and could face the death penalty if convicted both parties in germany's governing coalition of suffered heavy losses in a regional election seen as a critical test for chancellor angela merkel's government early projections in the state of has put merkel's christian democratic union and their social democratic allies down ten points each the greens have nearly double the support to twenty percent sri lanka's president says the sacked prime minister was done because of a plot to assassinate him president series that made the claims during an address to the nation those were the headlines of course you follow those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com more news in

a half hour next on al-jazeera it's what they want east to stay with us. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world while the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china to on a jazzy. it was an election that malaysia's government never expected to lose but in many ways after more than sixty years in power the ruling party was thrown out. now malaysia's former prime minister najib razak faces charges of money laundering

abuse of power and criminal breach of trust i'm marianne jolie on this episode a one on one east we speak to nadia brazil and ask what went wrong. not. know zebra zach was born into a political dynasty and the engine politics well in his twenty's it's rising through the ranks to take the top job in two thousand and nine sorry you didn't get us through this issue or nutrition. but his political career was plagued with scandal and allegations of corruption. here's your review with twenty million translators tippets. who did this was allegedly using css to corrupt defense deal at

a time when no job was the minister for defense one zero when he's covered the. case in twenty fifteen as a result i was banned from the country and be deported from china and being exported. by skims agents and military outfit. but it was the wolves biggest financial scandal that would bring him down. shortly after becoming prime minister knowledge of set up a sovereign wealth fund one in d b with the hope of a young malaysian entrepreneur jolo four point five billion dollars was allegedly siphoned out. jolo gained a reputation for extravagant parties with celebrities private jets and souping yachts. back in malaysia not jobs wife rules mom reveled in

a life of luxury with design it begs and jools. by the general election of twenty eighteen public anger against knology biddies party thruster newly united opposition into power. as. i. except that of the people. knowledge of private residences were raided by police who confiscated two hundred and forty million dollars worth of luxury goods there were two hundred fifty fall what's this going to bring him back and i will simply bet. containing. jewelry and watches. today analogy faces almost forty charges of money laundering and abuse of power his wife faces seventeen charges of her

own in the one m.t.b. scandal is being investigated by six different countries including the department of justice in the united states. mr knowledge of the area and jelly and i said to me this mr place deca say thank you. mr najib thank you for joining one on one east. to begin with what was your reaction the night of the election and why do you think the malaysian people decided after almost six decades they wanted to china which basically will last for two reasons. one we lost because of the false promises made by the opposition promises. which they themselves can see today they have considered very openly that they made the promises because they thought they were not going to read

and of course the other one is to be lost the propaganda war. you know the vilification of me as a problem is that then as well as the party. it was a perfect storm you know that led to the end of but as i mentioned in the country but let's go to some of those propaganda claims that were made that you say were propaganda claims i mean what do you say to those who accuse your government of having been a quick talker see of having been involved in one of the biggest heists the world have as if it's saying you know the alleged misappropriation of four point five billion dollars from the country's sovereign wealth fund one m d b well first of all. it's not true. that. you know we got one or so kleptocrat government because. the main point was that i returned

more than six hundred twenty million dollars back you know they kept on accusing me of receiving a huge sum of money but. they forgot to mention that the bulk of the money was returned four months after the general direction but we still don't see just going to your personal accounts that money that flowed into your account in twenty thirty that kind directly from an account in singapore linked to. a very close business associate of joe how do you explain that or carry it over to its main sources that came to my account. one was a direct contribution from the ministry of finance of saudi arabia. that has been proven in terms of wire clips going to the united states department of justice report that money originated in an account controlled by joe lhota and then it

went into the saudi account and then it will go to your i don't know that rule one was established it came from the ministry of finance saudi that was also confirmed by the d.o.j. report if you put yourself in my position when king abdullah. committed to support me i assume that everything was. going to be done in a proper way i would not have any knowledge of who owns the phone but you were the prime minister of this country you were the minister for finance you were also the chairman of the one m.t.b. advisory committee shouldn't you have wanted to know where exactly that money was coming from sure i wanted to know but after receiving the commitment from king of the law and subsequent doctors that were sent to me are assume everything would be fine just on that matter you have presented

a letter from the saudi prince gifty knew the money. but there are serious questions about the authenticity of that letter. how do you account for the fact that the letter from that saudi prince uses exactly the same phrases as a letter written by a very close malaysian business associate of jolo gifting him millions of dollars worth of aat for example the saudi prince writes the gift should not in any event be construed as an act of corruption i personally do not encourage such practices in any manner whatsoever and then you've got joe lowe's associate business associate writing to him. all the artwork gifted to you should not in any event be construed as an act of corruption i personally do not encourage such practices in any manner whatsoever i mean what do you say to people who say that these that letter from the saudi prince was fabricated in fact reason to cover up the

diversion of. into jolo and his associates accounts and in fact into your own account well i want to see it is that the only reason why i accepted because shore you know from king of the law that you would support me and the subsequent initial donations did come follow the ministry of finance of saudi and i assume that subsequent donations would also come from sources connected to the saudi i'm not privy to letters written by jordan or in instances as you mention. but that the authorities examine it let them investigate if george is responsible or i don't want to sponsible for siphoning of fun. then. they must be held accountable the question is when i received the funds was i aware

of the source of money if the central bank were to signal to me there was something of concern but maybe not you would i would die knowing we have money if i get a check from al jazeera into my bank account i know it comes from al-jazeera i know the account it comes from it's got an account number on it it's not a secret this kind from a singapore account controlled by joe lowe's close business associate a malaysian man and and the united states justice department has traced that money back to one m.t.p. money but that was subsequent at that particular time when i received the money i assume it was a general. donation i do not believe knowledge beyond six. your you've recently been banned from leaving the country you've been charged with thirty eight counts of money laundering bribery and abuse of power but when you were prime minister and an investigation cleared you of any wrongdoing why do you

think you were cleared then and you are now facing a long list of serious charges you must realize that this current government you know when they were running for office. they had already. made this political narrative. that they were going to take action against me so in that sense they have to feel you know whatever political promises they made leveling charges is one thing but whether the evidence a deuce later on was support the charges that's another matter so tell me what was your relationship with john. my relationship with george bush was on the basis that he was going to promote you know investment from you know the middle east that would help us ensure that we can achieve a good strategic relationship with certain key countries and he was very close to

the royal families particularly in u.a.e. as well as in saudi so i saw him as creating value. you know that could help us that was the main reason but in six investigations going on around the world into corruption related to one named what what does that tell you about what went on yeah there were there were things that were wrong in wanting to be but don't stop at this. law but get others involved as well because they are international figures who are probably allegedly involved. but they must also be investigated they must also be question who benefits it will really benefit from the whole of one. issue this is what i would like to know too well some people would see.