warren has taken a major step towards running in the twenty twenty presidential race won the now that she's forming an exploratory committee that allows her to raise money and find staff the full formally launching a presidential bid and a video message warren stressed the economic mess that's that's brought her to national prominence america's middle class is under attack how do we get here billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of them and they listed politicians to cut a much swines the crippled union so no one could stop with the way to turn the. dismantle the financial rules meant to keep us safe after the great depression and cut their own taxes so they paid less than their secretaries and janitors it's time to write the rules for the wire after wall street crash our economy in two thousand and eight i left the classroom to go to washington and come from the broken system head on it's going out to our correspondent heidi show castro she is joining us

live from washington d.c. so tell us more heidi about warren and what we can expect from her campaign. well some analysts would put elizabeth warren on the political spectrum just to the left of hillary clinton warren has served in congress now for six years and in that relatively short time span she has made a national reputation for herself as an ardent critic and reformer of wall street you saw that point highlighted in her announcement video as well as other liberal firebrands like defending minority rights and gay marriage however the message that she really has to sell to the red meat base of democrats is that she can confront trump in the general elections and she's trying to make the case that she is going to use her success in reforming the corruption on wall street to tackling that same issue in d.c. eleven that's war and heidi what about the rest of the democrats you know how are

they looking as people start to announce the candidacy and can they mount a real challenge to president trump they are a party essentially without a leader. that's right and this is so very early in the election season still work spending a flurry of more democrats and now i'm saying in the spring warren may possibly be making this political calculation to announce now to get ahead of that wide field of possible opponents which could be as many as thirty people that are considering whether or not to jump in and they include to her left the new wave of fresh democrats who were ushered into fame by the results of the midterm election we know that in just a few days time the youngest and most diverse class of incoming freshman will be sworn into office in congress and then to her to the other side of the political spectrum or and also faces challenges from former u.s. vice president joe biden and also senator bernie sanders who both have experience

of having run in a presidential election in the past were and would really have to sell to her fellow democrats that she is capable of being the new face of this still leaderless party and not to mention the major task of being able to run against donald trump successfully and she's already shown a bit of weakness on that front trump has continuously attacked her using the slur of pocahontas to deride warren's claims of having native american ancestry and her supporters and critics have both panned warren's decision to take a d.n.a. test and release those results to the public they say she was just taking trump's bait and so many are seeing that as a potential weakness and if she were to be successful to become the nominee and eventually to take on donald trump she would certainly have to be a little bit more deft elizabeth thank you very much for that finale that is. live in washington d.c. thank you. now general elections and have been mobbed by violence police say at

least seventeen people have been killed including seven from the policy and five from the opposition. alliance the opposition is rejecting the results accusing the government of vote rigging and they're demanding of rerun of the whole election child strafford reports from the. bangladeshis ruling party is still hanging by the thousands in this darkened neighborhood. opposition candidates and their supporters tell us when they try to hang their banners many were threatened beaten by pro-government supporters and often detained by the police. people are nervous to comment about the election all those we spoke to in public at least said they accepted the result but was not really it's normal someone when someone loses i'm a poor man what can i do. after prime minister sheikh hasina is

a wame leake party won more than ninety percent of the contested two hundred ninety eight seats there is anger and fear among the opposition and its supporters that has seen him who was already served three terms says the vote was free fair. the election commission says that it will investigate allegations of voter fraud but the main opposition alliance that has rejected this election and he's demanding that another one be held says that the election commission has been corrupted by the ruling party and there is mounting evidence of voter full. mohamed. is a member of the bangladesh nationalist party he says his party polling station observers were arrested or prevented from entering by ruling party supporters. we have lost all faith in the election commission we don't believe they will stick to their words. this photograph shows one of three c.c.t.v.

cameras that we found taped over at a polling station in dhaka coffee come on as a journalist he says he was attacked by a group of men after he tried to film them attacking a man outside a polling station he can not verify whether his attackers were pro-government opposition supporters. this attack has scared me but i have to work here in talk of with these desks i depend on journalism from my family a prime minister has seen it says she has faith in the election commission. the election commission has every right to investigate if they feel they need to yes they can do it they've done in the past two. election commission says it will investigate allegations of voter fraud but has announced already that it believes the election was free and fair chance not that i just don't. and that's going to live to dock on our correspondent hundred chaldeans joining us from there so where

to from here thunder you did shake a scene as performance in the news conference that you attended give us an idea of how she of how the government will deal with all the allegations and move forward. well since pretty much outright rejected the allegation saying that by and large this election was free and fair and one of the best. here is to accept the notion that there's been a regular it is worth snatching up violence all across the place that was relatively peaceful in the capital city dark out. question without a doubt just their rights there are a limited number of international law. action network for a free election day along with at least thirty thousand people last thirty thousand observatory rather applied for interested in observing this election all the twenty six thousand right through some of their visas were delayed that us criticize that

because they were sponsoring the observers so there's not as many observers the european union observers ran down for other reasons so the international community really doesn't comprehend the massive irregular turns out to slaves across the country many of the observers went to a very sort of design polling centers then back out that are you know three of violence and looks very normal it is in the villages in the isolated corner in bangladesh that most of this violence and irregular does run john question regarding a question that u.n. spokesman today say there were anywhere of the irregularities and the violence that took place in bangladesh and they also say that they're also aware of the loss of life and injuries during the campaign on the election day now all these are not making any impact right now to the government there cussing out in the press conference since very confident she's been congress related by the chinese premier

and president along with the indian prime minister so she feels like she's getting international recognition already for the opposition of the different notion. still trying on the idea that there should be a mutual election and demanding and rejected this election and the election commission on its part saying that that is not going to be any reelection this is the final result of course we heard that they're willing to listen to some of the irregular dates and complain that they've made but it's highly unlikely that they're going to look much deeper into it what we'll have to see down the road in weeks and my. how the international community reacts to that and whether there's been accepted as a legitimate election or not and so we'll see how the opposition more will rise it's just create some sort of. pressure on the government for another election

or read their demand from where are there but that highly unlikely which possibly will create their super pretty short term sure for a government in coming years sandra thank you very much for that amount that is. live. now the afghan taliban has visited iran for talks as days after a senior iranian official was in the gardens foreign members of the armed group well ted and push for peace follows indications from president trump that the u.s. would withdraw a significant number of troops from afghanistan early in december pakistan claimed credit for talks held in the united arab emirates involving the u.s. and saudi arabia for the taliban refused to meet the afghan government delegation and despite the soviet union invading afghanistan my nine hundred eighty s. russia seems to have now taken on a role of peace broker it held talks in moscow in the vendor with the taliban but again the afghan government did not attend now whether she is the author of taliban

militant islam all in fundamentalism and central asia and he says the afghan government is concerned about the u.s. president's indications that he could withdraw troops from afghanistan. be hopeful that the americans will stay on and. president trump special envoy. who has been very active in trying to bring about a peace settlement doesn't want to see his major card which is the u.s. withdrawal eventual withdrawal from afghanistan he doesn't want to see his card being played without getting a major concession in return from the thunder from the other thing is that all of this lead. to find it on relations with all of the brig states and been a huge effort being made by major players like china even russia

the arab states to bring all the neighbors together remember that all the neighbors have a so-called policy of supporting vietnam government but many of them have also been helping the taliban and that includes pakistan excludes russia and it includes iran so we have to get reach a position where the state. the u.s. republican senator says he has received assurances from the president that the withdrawal of american troops from syria will be slowed down well senator lindsey graham says president trump is committed to defeating i saw from meeting at the white house and graham had criticized trump's announcement earlier this month to remove all two thousand u.s. troops from syria saying it could destabilize the region we still have some differences but i will tell you that the president is thinking long and hard about syria had a withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interest which are to make sure that isis is destroyed they never come back their allies the

kurds are protected and that iran doesn't become the big winner of our leaving and i feel pretty good about where we're headed. kuwait says it will only be opened its embassy in syria if the arab league resumes diplomatic relations with the government the announcement comes after quaid the deputy foreign minister was named in the lebanese newspaper article listing financial supporters of the serbian government he denied the accusations calling it an insult both the u.a.e. and bihari reopened their embassies in damascus last week. now parts of between a fossil are honest a state of emergency as the government tries to deal with increasing violence thirteen provinces battling attacks from jihadists have been placed under tight scrutiny the communications ministry says the decision was made after ten policemen were killed in an ambush near its border with mali the offices were attacked while

heading to a school that's thought to have been burnt i am militant group. what's being counted in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election the opposition has raised concerns of a regular outings and says they won't accept the results early results are expected in the coming days the election could lead to the first peaceful transition of power in the d.l.c. . now on the first day off twenty nineteen jabal sonora will be sworn in as brazil's president the incoming leader of south america's biggest economy is the hard right populist who's praised the military dictatorships of the country's past bot what does him taking office mean for the rest of the world john holdren has more these covers more than brazil yemen simmering forest it's known as the. storing billions of tons of the planet's carbon dioxide. but now brazil's incoming president wants to see it opened up the business. go

through. with people that leave it with. if we need to we're going to propose democratically to congress change the laws of the environmental policies don't disrupt brazil's development. it's not just the environment john abell sinatra's election is part of a new global wave of populist conservative leaders levitated it wants and natto the victory of balsa narrow as a victory for the ultra right which is beginning to be a real force in the world brazil is very strategic one of the most important countries in latin america it has this relationship now with the u.s. and other countries like austria turkey and the philippines zero zero zero but the relationship will scenarios most interested in is with this money they share a love of social media and the distrust of the press will sinatra's even been nicknamed the trump of the tropics between them they now rule over the two largest economies in the americas it's an abrupt about face from the left this governments

of brazil's recent past history polystyrene you looks pretty quiet now but it felt some of the biggest tremors of change hundreds of thousands of people marched against a corruption scandal that ingolf brazil's political class that together with problems with the economy and specially crime many people fed up and ready to take a chance on an absolute outlier diable sonata. analysts say there's danger he could eventually have to another global trend strongmen undermining democracies he has a fondness for brazil's authoritarian past well so well i'm in favor of torture and the people are in favor of that too. that doesn't lose him points for many here who see it is just plain speaking they will judge him in state on how he acts to tackle brazil's many problems john home and. so paolo. so they had on the

wrap around the pressure and russia as the kremlin calls for more control of rap music. and dance and changed out of tone one of their last thing here pay to have highlights from the n.b.a. coming up in sports. how i would draw a couple days see all my cards and most public cloud you do see me around eastwards is just give you a cage no shot was that'll continue the cloud mass further west has got a good abrupt ending to it says east of turkey but it is cloud nevertheless and the development of the eastern med will become significant but not immediately set for tuesday if the potential for snow in afghanistan it looks fine and sunny for most of iran but the cloud has taken a fairly quickly that was

a by john in northern syria and in turkey and that circulation in the eastern med will become rather more dominant hasn't yet bought brought rain by wednesday on this is second dry day but it will come in after that the cloud mass the sas is probably mostly just a cloud mass it might bring a little bit of rain to this inside of iraq in the case no shower for the border inside the but i think it's mostly a cloud picture can't rule out a few spots around fairly obviously now this is where it proper summer rain showers now you see structure feingold well would answer botswana zambia this wandering down towards africa that line any whereupon he could produce a pretty stormy conditions and therefore local flooding seemed likely but to durban's up to thirty two sides rees and cape town's kept to twenty three.

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it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories . has obtained pictures showing the solving team which killed. carrying logic back suspected all containing his remains the video shows the team arriving at the saudi consul general's residence and. yes democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken a major step towards running in the twenty twenty presidential race one announced that she is forming an exploratory committee that allows her to raise money and find stuff before formally launching a presidential bid and sudan's president omar al bashir has addressed the nation on the independence day celebrations as protests of

a neven conditions threaten to undermine the planned celebrations earlier police fired tear gas to try and disperse crowds in the capital promised better economic conditions and called upon the opposition to engage in dialogue. we shall enter into a new era where unity is reinforced and harmony is maintained in the whole country all with the aim to face the challenges and threats hovering above our head and here i renew the call to be honorable. united to parade on the good and not be able to join hands to denounce violence steer away from wars to engage in dialogue is the only means to resolve differences let's go now to our correspondent have a morgan she is also joining us live from the capital president bashir listing a raft of measures to address the problem for the problems that are plaguing saddam now and have for a while and as he's doing that all the protests over all of those issues have

continued. yes elizabeth and let's sort of it's not the first time that his promising to try to improve the economy he actually came out and said that three days after the demonstrations started or not he said that he was going to try to introduce new economic reforms but the protests escalated they kept saying that they do want to take on a much improved under his regime they said that they want him to have done after his twenty year rule twenty one year rule and try to introduce a new government an interim government until elections are held now people are saying that this promise of trying to improve the situation or trying to improve the economy something they've heard over and over again and we've seen people protesting today saying that they don't want new promises they don't want new reforms what they want is for president obama and bashir to step down and try to pave way for an interim government until elections are held that we've also seen police fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters to try to disperse them that hasn't stopped them and they say that they will continue to protest as president bashir says he's very defiant he's not going to bow to their demands and step down and he hasn't to those demands for i mean he's been in power for more

than two decades so where does the situation go from here the protesters say they won't settle for anything less than him stepping down he's very unlikely to do that . well he says he wants to negotiate but the thing is that these protesters don't have a certain body backing them up the have backing from certain opposition groups but they seem to be largely the people's protest the people's revolution like they like to call it they don't want the president to negotiate with them what they want is for him to step down so it's not very clear where this would end today and right now is at a crossroad between the protesters were demanding that president obama be sure step down after his twenty one year rule and president bashir who's promising reforms promising dialogue as he said earlier who's promising more inclusive government like he said but people don't want that so he's still defiant he keeps making promises but people obviously seen not to want to listen to that so it's not clear where this would end a lot of with but as it stands right now people saying that they will continue to protest they will continue to march on the streets until he gives up his thank you

very much for that for now that is have been more than live in the room thank you now as we've been reporting u.s. democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken a major step towards running in the twenty twenty presidential race let's get more on this we're joined by heather hill but in washington d.c. she served as a special assistant to speechwriter and president bill clinton and she's now the director of the new models of policy charts initiative at the new america foundation very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so elizabeth warren who is she going to try to appeal to and how will she do it. so once building or trying to build a really interesting coalition trying to on the one hand pull in the bernie sanders supporters from twenty sixteen who want to hear an economic message a strong message about going after banks and powerful special interests but also pull in women who've been activated and really leading protests against donald

trump here on the left since his election and also make it appeal to minority groups who have largely been felt a bit left aside from the standards and sort of so left center coalition within the party that way take the banks of corporations as sort of similar to banning sadness can she succeed where santas didn't and winning the democratic nomination. well hers is that she puts together a slightly different coalition than he does and that she is a newer face than he is and that he can pull in a bit more of the party establishment by running as a full throated democrat where he ran proudly as as an outsider now she'll have to compete against him chil also quite possibly have to compete against senator sherrod brown of ohio who will also be looking to take that kind of left wing

somewhat populist critique so and that's just three of what we think will be more than a dozen candidates eventually so it's a it's a narrow path for her or for anyone and saying you know some of her main competitors will be if we look at people like bernie sanders and joe biden and then elizabeth warren how representative aren't they off the you know very young very diverse new democrats that have been elected in the midterm elections the sort of the changing face of the democratic party. yeah so if you look at sanders war and by and also mike bloomberg former mayor of new york and businessman who are all the sort of seventy is sure well over seventy in the case of sanders set and then you go all the way down to the other end where you have someone like beta o'rourke a longtime congressman from texas who narrowly failed in a bid to become a senator from texas but is being talked up by some as

a presidential candidate and some of the senators who are expected to run like come on the harris of california cory booker of new jersey who are in their fifty's or forty's kirsten gillibrand of new york. are amy closure of minnesota who are in their forty's and fifty's and there you have a broader ethnic and racial as well as gender spectrum so that's sort of youth versus experience is going to be one of the key cleavage is for voters to choose among this whole that is great to get your expertise on this we really appreciate your time that has had the whole bit and washington d.c. thank you. now a u.s. citizen has been arrested in moscow over suspected spying the f.s.b. that's russia's domestic security service so the man has been held since friday and a criminal case has been opened against him we'll get more on the story as it develops now russia's outspoken and increasingly popular rap artists are setting

off alarm bells in the kremlin after a string of arrests and concert cancellations president vladimir putin recently called for tighter control of rap music but for fear of making it even more popular well he stopped short of calling for an outright ban or a challenge reports from moscow. husky he's one of russia's most popular homegrown rappers his lyrics cover drugs violence and social dysfunction and recently he's been in trouble after all storage fees in a string of cities canceled his concerts passkey responded with a car top performance outside a venue in krasnodar police dragged him away. and there are others. in the band i speak a more overtly political than hosty they've had shows canceled with the authorities

citing alleged suicidal themes and they were detained recently too from their russian tour i speak told us the pressure is misguided the more they can so the more people listen to music and what you will find out a bunker solution and become angry with go around so it's just country into to always just may as well is just make us believe that we're not alone evander ohman known as the rapper face can see why some are comparing what's going on to the soviet repression of rock music in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . the situations are similar the past situation the court want to both terry. fine it says that we're still a third world country without freedom of speech what's unclear at the moment is whether this is a centralized crackdown the federal security service here operating some sort of blacklist or whether it's more like local officials being a bit overzealous either way in excess of twenty five concerts are being canceled

this year affecting more than ten different artists but this story has twists jesting that in russia things are often more complicated than they seem just four days into his twelve day sentence for minor hooliganism huskey was unexpected and he released margarita simonyan chief editor of state funded broadcaster r.t. tweeted he must have supporters in the presidential administration and on state t.v. the man under western sanctions is the kremlin's chief propagandist jumps to the defense of russian rap dmitri kissel you off said their children not only of black american hip hop culture but also of the early soviet poets bloody mayakovsky then taking many of us by surprise he started rapping mayakovsky verse so early on the audience passed through and are still in saudi and that is a serious study some artists at least appeared to have friends in high places rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. now cities around the world have begun celebrating the

new here thousands that were to watch fireworks last month by town to usher in twenty nineteen and i'm a stray here celebrations kicked off at the sydney harbor bridge and opera house putting on its annual spectacular display.

it is time for sports now here peter thank you very much elizabeth boxing and m.m.a. fans waited hours and stayed our poll light in some cases to watch floyd money mayweather is much anticipated if a little bizarre returned to the ring and it was all over before the end of the first of three shared three minute rounds in that time forty one year old mayweather is opponent japanese kickboxer ten sheen. was knocked down three times before his corner threw in the towel at the exhibition fight inside hama. is hoff mayweather the age and was in tears at the result he threw plenty of punches but was stunned by may with his power before entering the ring may with the boasted of earning nine million dollars from what could have been a nine minute fight not bad for relatively little if it. was a crowd this is good it's awful you know he was dominated that's why did it somewhat expected.