mohammed. in venezuela the effect of the massive blackout on thursday and friday is still being felt the government's suspended schools and shut down businesses as many areas are still to get the power back on already strained health care system is under a major strain with this often on power supply president maduro blames the us calling it sabotage but the opposition says it's mismanagement of the power grid that led to the widespread power cuts. well grab a break on al-jazeera when we come back back on track a friendship train almost derailed because of recent tensions between india and pakistan on the move again. the weather is dry now across the middle east the chance of want to choose showers same to iran little bit of thick a cloud just spinning its way into central and southern parts of the country and

they go as you go on into tuesday you could see a few spots of rain here to the east of that it's generally dry kibble at five degrees celsius and i was for the west it's again last fine and dry but something just spilling in from the mediterranean sea a few showers into northern parts of syria maybe still some wintry weather there into the central parts of turkey with some snow then i want to weather that we have in sioux iran will make its way over towards pakistan so tales of the odd shot just creeping back in here for where to stay but elsewhere it is generally looking quiet and dry quiet and try to across the regulation a pleasant sunshine here in doha getting up to twenty six twenty seven over the next couple of days think of cloud into southern parts of saudi arabia down towards germany much as catch a few spots of rate rolling in here plenty of rain meanwhile making its way towards mozambique you can see our tropical system making its way through that is our claim making its way across the mozambique channel only may very slowly really big

downpours coming in over the next couple of days. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis we doe as illegally maigret joining with the military to impose their deadly political agenda we have to photo our nation what has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. religion this is a politic me and an unholy alliance on al-jazeera.

top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera boeing stock is down in u.s. markets which open for the first time since sunday's fatal airplane crash in ethiopia the european airlines boeing seven hundred seven max went down upside down its way to nairobi all one hundred fifty seven people on board killed a black box flight recorder has been recovered and damaged however as the investigation continues. the un special rapporteur on me in ma says she fears a new crisis for real if bangladesh relocates them to a nearby island dan healy has been briefing the human rights council after visiting cox's bazaar refugee camp. and the venezuelan government suspended schools and shut down businesses as many areas are still to get back electricity following days of outages and already strained health care system is under major strain would be on and off again out power supply. president nicolas maduro blames the us calling it

sabotage but the opposition says it is mismanagement which has led to this. u.s. backed five is in syria are fighting to claim i sold last remaining territory the kurdish led syrian democratic forces resume their attack on after pausing to allow civilians to leave says there are still about four thousand civilians in the town and i suppose using them as human shields more than a thousand algerian judges say they will not monitor the april elections if president of the lizzie's beautifully could pursues its fifth. clerics in the country are calling on the religious affairs minister to stop pressuring them to give pro-government sermons state t.v. is also reported the eighty two year old president has returned home that was on sunday of course from protests around the country against his bid to run for another term. as an algerian political analyst resident scholar at qana the middle east center who told us algerians allegiances are changing. the people who has been

moved to the region in the area are no longer eager to be royal i think they these are the first crack down within the system i think this is finally . the people who are listening to the voices of millions of a jillion who went down and took up the street in march first and march eight i think president putin has. the pression coming from this is too strong and too intense for hemming and for being with the demonstration in in algiers on march first i can see that in the determination of julian's and their determination their frustration and their anger is very strong and i don't think that they will blink. now i think the best solution at this point is to step

down the force of the entire region as we know it is not likely to crumble however the façade needs to change. the former vice president of democratic republic of congo is suing the international criminal court for compensation after he was acquitted of war crimes jumpier is demanding sixty eight million euros in the i.c.c. his lawyers say his assets including seven planes and three villas in portugal were allowed to rot by the court spent a decade behind bars in the hague charged with war crimes committed by his private army in neighboring central african republic his conviction for bribing witnesses that was upheld. a state of emergency in sudan will be reduced by six months president on one other she had to create it last month to try to quell the ongoing protests against his three decade rule it was originally supposed to last for a year but parliament has now voted to cut it down to six months but the protests do continue. forces aligned with libya's united nations recognized government have

been called to defend the northern city of sirte from an advance by the warlord khalifa haftar and his fighters after the libyan national army which is backed by the united arab emirates and egypt it's only about forty kilometers from search five thousand troops are lines to the tripoli based government of due to start arriving in sirte on monday to bolster the defenses iran's president hassan rouhani has arrived in baghdad for a three day visit and the timing couldn't be more critical is donald trump's policies in the middle east and his crackdown on iran having a huge impact on reports now from baghdad on how the two countries are cementing their ties. iranian president hassan rouhani visited a shiite shrine in baghdad during his first visit to iraq since taking office despite being neighbors this is only the second visit by an iranian president it's intended to send a message to the trump administration iran and iraq have

a bond that won't be shaken by u.s. sanctions or always. at all there is no doubt we're exerting all efforts to enhance this relationship in order to secure these interests and not abandon them president rouhani is facing pressure at home the economy continues to deteriorate after the u.s. reimposed saying sions last november iraq is also facing pressure iran and the united states are its two closest allies iraq relies on iran to meet its electricity and oil needs the united states provides iraq with three billion dollars a year in security funding and has a military presence the us has given iraq a waiver to continue buying electricity and oil from iran but that expires on may fifth iraqi president barham saleh must try to appease both allies without angering either while the country tries to rebuild after years of conflict which of million

for the more we have visits by iranian officials the more we get fresh heard by the u.s. administration it's better if we slam shut our border with iran and don't accept anything and anyone because we did not benefit from them at all. i'm almost i think romney doesn't care about iraq's welfare there must be mutual respect among regional countries to iraq and its sovereignty and no interference or meddling in our internal affairs we need to rebuild iraq from our own resources. the two presidents are hoping to establish a free trade zone along their more than fourteen hundred kilometer border build a railway link and increased political cooperation the neighbors say the stability and prosperity of the region depend on it but the trumpet ministration views iran as a destabilizing influence should iraq is in the middle struggling for normalcy and depending on both countries natasha going to al-jazeera baghdad. he was president

for another showdown with the democrats so the government funding trumps twenty twenty budget proposes slashing spending by five percent across almost all except defense which would get a boost he's also seeking eight point six billion dollars from congress to build a wall on the us mexico border will seem to believe that now in washington. what this budget does is lays out the president's spending priorities he wants to try and tackle the opioid crisis here in the united states he wants to introduce spending cuts and even try to balance the budget over the next fifteen years one that in terms of the deficit has grown mother two trillion well donald trump has been in office but what most are focusing on in the united states is within this budget request to congress is the president's request for more border wall funding some eight point six billion in his annual budget proposal this is an addition to

the eight point one billion already secured as a result of his declaration of emergency along the southern border one that the democrats in the house of representatives have challenge voting overwhelmingly to nullify that declaration that vote now going to the republican controlled senate where it is also expected to be pushed back on that will put the president in a very difficult position it will likely be his first veto that he will put in place in order to get that funding but this additional funding as part of this new twenty twenty budget proposal is likely to be much more difficult the president knows that his team knows that what this is really about is the twenty twenty presidential election this isn't just about setting the priorities for the two thousand and twenty budget this is about setting the priorities for donald trump in the twenty twenty presidential election campaign and he is making his case to the

american public about why he believes he deserves a second term. a court in malaysia has freed a suspect accused of killing kim jong naam the strange half brother of north korean leader kim jong un and a vietnamese citizen remains on trial for the murder florence lawyer reports now from sharm where the proceedings took place after two years in detention in malaysia city ayesha is now a free woman she had been on trial for killing kim jong nam the half brother of north korean leader kim jong il at the start of the hearing on monday the prosecutor asked that the murder charge against him be dropped and no reason was given the judge has granted her a discharge not amounting to an acquittal. i feel so happy i didn't text back that i would be released today a big thank you to president your care widow day and all the ministers of the indonesian embassy who appointed the lawyers from malaysia also of course thank you

to the malaysian government for releasing me city ayesha says the first thing she's going to do when she returns home to indonesia is see her family the indonesian government fought hard for her freedom indonesia's law minister had written to the malaysian attorney general arguing that city had been used as an intelligence tool of north korea city's lawyer said there wasn't enough evidence to convict her there was no direct evidence that she had played anything on you don't know as you can see from the c.c.t.v. recording what was the only fall was merely traces of. degrading yanks and that alone is only very is the company that still leaves don t. one of the enemies suspect in the dock her case has been adjourned until thursday following a request by her lawyers they too are seeking for the charges against her to be dropped. the thrust of the defense arguments for city and dawn has been the saying

that they did not know they were taking part in a murder plot they've said they thought they were recruited to take part in a reality t.v. show. defense lawyers say the two women were mere pawns in a politically motivated med for north korean men the alleged masterminds and identified by malaysian police as suspects in the case left malaysia just hours after kim was killed who ordered kim's death and why remains a mystery florence to al-jazeera. malaysia the united states is increasing its dominance in the global arms market with a surge in sales to the middle east findings come from the stockholm international peace research institute sipri which shows u.s. exports grew twenty nine percent in the last five years and the flow of arms to the middle east increased eighty seven percent russia and chinese arms sales have fallen by europe turkey and israel have increased their share. people across japan

a paying tribute to the victims of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami which caused the nuclear meltdown at fukushima prime minister shinzo are and japan's prince and princess led the commemoration eight years on since the disaster that killed more than fifteen thousand people in authority to continue to deal with the cleanup. now the. express sold so-called the friendship train between india and pakistan has resumed its service it had stopped running because of the recent violence in the region to reports now from the holes for a way station. they're trained to india leave bryce a week early in the morning. it through i'd only hope for many people to connect with families there why did between india and pakistan. the distance between the horn and dharti on the indian side of the border maybe less than thirty kilometer but it still takes six hours destination due to security takes on both sides.

had come to their station early and is not taking any chances as he had already seen t. cancellations because of escalating tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors . really good thirty years your goal and the. vision. of the resoluteness and i haven't seen any issues visiting pakistan and have felt the same love which i have back home in india yes i got worried when train services will hold you to recent tensions but now everything is fine and i am going back a couple of good research. and it's travelling with her family. grandmother boy. it is very difficult to get an indian visa people are waiting for these documents since long due to the crisis between india and pakistan but now we are very happy that one who make it this time although dangers are running.

the paper to remain strong are divided on either side of the border the whole pay. countries will be able to reconcile their differences and create a now. it's time for a goodbye i still fear no war. a quick break move and travel. many are relieved to be able to travel again. i request countries to be friends and live in peace as people on both sides of. how we live and progress and prosperity. some says. i felt honored to be in pakistan when the people knew about me that i am indian they met me with a love which is unthinkable even offered me tea i think war is not a solution to any conflicts. more passengers arrived. and some even

find time to take a call from their loved one. by their baggage biogen in front of us counting room one by one for security. after clearance and under tight security the passengers board their train for india for many it comes as you're relieved to be finally moving again perhaps wondering if this break your link will remain open . they may be back on track but no one nor for how long. or. we're going to take you to the headlines now an al-jazeera boeing stock is down in the u.s. markets which open for the first time after sunday's fatal airplane crash in ethiopia the ethiopian airlines boeing seven three seven max went down outside on

its way to nairobi or one hundred fifty seven people on board were killed now the black box flight recorder has been recovered but the word is that it has been damaged as well. other headlines the un special rapporteur on me and maher says she fears a new crisis for the region if bangladesh relocates them to a nearby island and he leaves been briefing the un human rights council in geneva after visiting the refugee camps in cox's bizarre ill planned relegation and relocations without the consent of the refugees concerned have the potential to create a new crisis it is incumbent on the government of bangladesh to ensure that this is not brought about it's now to british m.p.'s to decide the next steps for braggs it's that message coming directly from the european union which says it remains committed to agreeing a deal in time for the u.k. to leave the union this month m.p.'s will pass their verdict on prime minister to resign may's plan to take britain out of the e.u.

in a vote on tuesday the venezuelan government has suspended schools and shut down businesses as many areas are still without electricity the already troubled health care system is under a major strain with the on and off power supply president nicolas maduro blames the us calling it sabotage the state of emergency in sudan will now be reduced president omar bashir declared last month he tried to quell the ongoing protests against his three decade rule it was originally going to last for a year but parliament has now voted to cut it to six months the protests continue their rallies. and the former vice president of democratic republic of congo is suing the international criminal court for compensation after he was acquitted of war crimes. demanding more than seventy six million dollars from the i.c.c. his lawyers say his assets including seven planes and three villas in portugal were allowed to rot by the court bemba spent

a decade behind bars in the hague charged with war crimes committed by his private army in the neighboring central african republic news hour and twenty five minutes on al-jazeera next go inside story. tibetans are marking sixty years of their uprising against chinese rule but are they any closer to a homeland of their own beijing insists a better it's part of its territory but what's it doing to win the hearts and minds of tibetans this is inside story.

hello there i'm james pays tibet is a mainly buddhist himalayan area of plateaus and mountains known as the roof of the world it's been governed by china as an autonomous region for almost seven decades and beijing claims of centuries old sovereignty over the region but the allegiances of many tibetans lie with their exiled spiritual leader the dalai lama for china he's a separatist threat a living god for his followers huge crowds gathered at his temple in india on sunday to commemorate sixty years since the failed to bat an uprising against chinese rule supporters of the eighty three year old peace icon prayed at the british rhine in mountainous dharamsala where the dalai lama stablished a government in exile hundreds of tibetans and taiwanese rallied in taipei the capital of the self-governing island that china also claims as its territory will

get to our guests in a moment but first let's hear what some of those protesters had to say this is a proud g. that till now we were sixty years and still ours a struggle young and fresh in strong so we can give china a ditch under the dividends to mend our struggling they want to get into we have members of parliament come in for about ten countries. this will ensure send a signal to china issued. bed is not dead it's very much alive and international community supports the issue of tibet tibet declared its independence from china in the early twentieth century but beijing took back control in one nine hundred fifty by sending thousands of troops a year later to bad leaders signed a treaty that confirm china's sovereignty over the region and guaranteed tibet north ptolemy but the tibetans say they were forced to accept that agreement in one

nine hundred fifty nine mounting resentment against chinese rule led to a failed uprising and the tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama was then forced to flee to northern india six years later the chinese government established the tibet autonomous region which included about half of traditional tibet in one thousand nine hundred nine china said the door was open for the dalai lama provided he abandoned his calls for independence but talks between the two sides have stalled since twenty ten. well let's bring in our panel of experts that discuss all of this and in beijing we have einar tang and he's a political analyst who advises the chinese government on economic and development issues in brussels and russia he's a professor at a rasmus university rotterdam who researches the impact of chinese development policies and tibet and in new delhi we have to back an activist writer and poet

tens in some dough welcome to you all let me take you right back at the beginning of our discussion to sixty years ago in fact even further andrew perhaps we could start with the year you give us the historical context of what happened let's maybe start for now in one nine hundred fifty. well if we started next i would actually prefer to start even earlier than that if we look at the breakdown of the chain empire what we're simply looking at is an empire that was not even an chinese it was mentary and and it was based on the notion of. various nationalities joining together but as we see the emergence both with nationalists and the communists of in a modern nation notion of nationhood it was very much based on a notion of han chinese nationalism. which had difficulty incorporating minority regions of china. and that's about in areas and so this i think this has been

a tension underlying the chinese position ever since in the modern period in the twentieth century so in one nine hundred fifty essentially you had a situation where. the communists won the civil war and they were researching their control over the boundaries and the choice facing han chinese nationalism at that point was to do we do we actually impose our sovereignty on the chinese national national spaces and allow economy to the to the. to the other men nationalities that were previously incorporated into it into the man to empire or do we actually incorporate them into a chinese nation state but that's dominated by one nationality and they chose the latter course of action so i think a lot of the tensions both and so on and inner mongolia stemmed from that. tension basically in the twentieth century clearly the problem here is whether how you see

the history of tibet and certainly i think there might be different views in beijing and sebastian community outside tibet and where you are so and do in delhi tell me what's your views and do was this an independent state wants this now under occupation or was it always chinese. was just that just says andrew fisher made it very clear that right from the beginning in one thousand nine hundred eleven when there was a chinese evolution it was. china emerging coming out of the game for more money. it was montreal this was a separate militarily. powerful country flew over china so till nine hundred eleven china was itself under falling occupation so the new china really emerged in one thousand and eleven even at that time china was attempting to act like the

month jews trying to control over other occupied countries or of countries where managers had influence like mongolia or tibet so when chinese attempt in one thousand and eleven one hundred twelve to control over tibet failed because davitt in military bid to chinese back into their country so then we come back to nine hundred forty nine when marja don't consolidate its political power with the formation of people's republic of china so. when communism came to power then once again the real certitude their right to control over form of colonies all the places of influence like tibet so china once again. under just one second. nine hundred twelve in one thousand nine hundred forty nine in the intervening period was to parrot an independent self-governing country let's

be clear what your view is on. absolutely between one thousand thirteen to one to forty nine to but most of free and independent country not only that tibet signed the med mon treaty with the british empire that's how i do not your predation of india became a part of british empire today is a part of india so india must recognise that are not your put there is became a part of india because british empire signed that document with independent tibet so therefore tibet is really flourished as an independent country without any foreign control all rule or even influence in fact in one thousand forty seven when india regained its independence during the. first asian relations conference in the presence of gandhi ji represented as an independent country in the asian relations

conference to better always been like that and one to forty nine china attempted to invade tibet not only this is the biggest and mongolia also occupied by china in nine hundred forty nine and one hundred fifty eight after let me bring in which led them to bring in our because the reason i'm going into all of this history which may seem a long time ago two of us is that account i think is disputed in beijing isn't it. very believe that pax has always been chinese. well i wouldn't say that i mean if you go through history nothing has been forever one place but if you're just going back to the early twentieth century and you start looking what happened as the from the chinese perspective the ching empire is deteriorating it's very weak during that period tibet basically went off as on its own it was never recognized by either the ching empire or anybody else that it was independent in

terms of china then later on you have the founding of the new republic they reassert control over areas that they believe are traditionally under their sway if you look over the many hundreds of years tibet was in fact a vassal state but that was very different now keep in mind at the time they were talking about in one nine hundred fifty nine tibet is a feudal theocracy ninety five percent of the people are either slaves or service or indentured to the land there's a ninety percent illiteracy. life expectancy is very very short about thirty five point five years about one third of the women die in childbirth. it's not exactly a panacea this is not not lost horizons that we're talking about so from the chinese perspective when they come come into combat they're kind of horrified i

mean the conditions there are it's difficult in china but it's even more they see it even more harsh in this very. distant land ok well i tell you i can as i can see . the moment i know i see soon do is know it's really agreeing with that picture of his homeland tibet soon do what was your dispute with that account. yeah. see if he's saying that tibet was in such a situation you must know under. forty five million chinese died of starvation so what condition are your damn promising are you claiming and if you think you have liberty to tibet then you should go back to the own country you should go back to your own country if you have so much liberty just too much to deliver delivered that kind of a development your china's attitude today has that it has not only toppled the

montreux empire to gauge china is owning abject adapting anti history of mongolia as their own now you know china is going back even further in history china's ng and a history of you want and history which is actually mongolian over china today china saying even that is history of china so how much china wants to colonize history how much i know wants to colonize the people cultures languages know when nine hundred eleven ran china was toppling the month judeans chinese people said we are now free of foreign occupation and therefore the long pleaded have grand how the men in china world varying they said we have to cut this because this is a culture of among jews we are now free and independent china china's forgotten this china is now adapting history oh colonizing history that's over in force you

cannot keep lying this in the world today i need to get out of history in a moment but i still think looking particularly today events of nine hundred fifty nine andrew nine hundred fifty nine the dalai lama was the man who moved to fled to india explain to our viewers the importance of the dalai lama as a political leader a spiritual leader actually a god to people in tibet. it wasn't a god because he just very theist and i just if i can discourage make a correction then i just want to make a comment about the few of the points made by our colleague in beijing which is that i think he basically repeated a bunch of government propaganda there because for instance just the terminology theocracy implies a belief in god where there is no buddhist believe in god there atheist and the idea that if the vet was futile is

a standard part of the marxist interpretation of tibetan history that has very little basis and actual historical study it's more of a characterization of no way to deal age in my eyes. you know pre-modern is about essentially we can talk about high mortality statistics for women and children but that existed all over asia at the time so there's no surprise that it would be the same in sabbat as it would be in china and india it's not to discredit the fact that tibetans as boots unease would have achieved similar types of human development outcomes as the chinese did over the last fifty sixty years so i just want to make that point. is is is basically seen by its abends as their incredibly have a system of reincarnation i recognised reincarnations of previous realized and beings and he's seen as basically a reincarnation of the bit of compassion in that sense so he's he's he's. one of the top lamas in the religious hierarchy. and particularly if they're going to put

tradition of buddhism which is one of the four main to that in traditions there's of other minor traditions but he was also seen as the head of states of of of the government which was the government in los at the time that controlled what is today essentially that's about a town in this region so the boundaries of it's about autonomy is region which accounts for about half of the spent territory in china recognised by the chinese government as tibet in the tone of its areas that spread its own as region is was basically the territory controlled by the government led by the young at the time of the chinese invasion there with the chinese prefer to call the peaceful liberation in one thousand nine hundred fifty i was on the basis of that territory because i put my brand. all on the dalai lama van in one nine hundred fifty nine i'm the dalai lama now because he's led your people struggle and he has not managed to return to bad so he has been over sixty years pretty unsuccessful

would you agree with that yes he's only now is that the lama. his holiness the dalai lama is spiritual and political leader. nick. so he's for us that the lama is the eyes of the people and the heart of the people. but he has always been like this. ever since their common exile he had meant much more to wants so he is he is the one who have led us through this. through does difficult period struggle with great sense of calm confidence and happiness so he is the one who we look up to as our hope so therefore what you have. been able to achieve today although it's not. independence of tibet but he has led us through our difficult time odds of that

today tibetans both inside tibet and outside we are much more confident we are united we have a great sense of hope and there's a what do you call it is done and today is all in is the dalai lama is not just a tibetan people's leader he. were interrupting that edition of inside story you can catch the rest of it down to zero dot com of course because of breaking news out of algeria it is coming through state media in algeria that president bush if they can has announced he is delaying his postponing the elections which are in the country and he announcing that he will not be running now there is a disease but a fake a picture of him not in good health and been in a wheelchair for many years he suffered a stroke and twenty thirteen nevertheless he wanted to run for a fifth term as president of algeria and it has provoked of course some of the

biggest protests we have seen in algeria in the past thirty years protest movement which gathered a lot of steam. a lot of young people as well particularly pushing in those protests and weren't moved by his apparent desire to run for another fifteen not change his mind it seems that has all now changed state media in algeria reporting that president up disease beautifully is not only postponing the elections in algeria but he will not seek a fifth term you would describe it once confirmed as a huge win really for people power in algeria so let's start by speaking to. who is a research fellow at the school of advanced studies in social sciences on skype from algiers and we've been in speaking to you a lot over the last few days about this what's your initial reaction that it seems people power has won the day here. well the impact will be real because it's going

to make the strong euro not just in the hundreds you know as some are. say debt december's nuns and that can mean down the protests that for me to case somehow unfortunately it is too late to weeks ago maybe and even so people may have been sex like but when the acts of the protests are getting bigger and bigger and actually asking for more you have to know that since the past three folders here in algiers people i've been organizing a lot of gatherings discussing in principle at the level of universities public companies unions work or news have been decided some kind of a blueprint for the transition so we are well beyond becoming the c.e.o. of. just so you know as well and so our viewers know i can bring you up to date the news wires from reuters saying that the prime minister. has also resigned and that president put a figure saying there will be

a reshuffle of the cabinet in the next few days so that's the president not running for a fifth term the prime minister resigning and a cabinet reshuffle coming up what do you think of is there a this has to be handled very carefully doesn't it because of the amount of anger there has been on the streets there has to be some sort of control over the way things change now. well not totally because of the are here of the streets but those of vehicles all generally ends have been used to make the transition in one nine hundred ninety nine was the chevy has been forced to resign this way any tools . that stand out of the transitional problem the army in. one thousand nine hundred ninety percent in between i have been also grilled from the top by the military command and and people have been used actually to these kind of transitional can be found in the algerian and as accurately as you talk with people

and because of the intense along the love the sense of cause there's a sense of victory somehow but at the same time people are asking he's a trail of the living that's not the feel. are all the parties trying to benefit from this situation and to push the insanity some to see a car to get back that cultural on the transition that's really what all germans are willing to know now and to also description this questions and that and fear is the only thing that you have to do is to offer comp interest for all of institutions the problem is not the kind of people who are in power in the same his team who will tell you ok and the problem is really with the use of the institutions that have to be much more transparent than the iraq so are you going down that shouldn't be thinking that if it's for the army and the secret service that you're on them as a transition giving the illusion that. going to be a problem well that's not that's not the solution. more lines dropping on the

newswires says well to our viewers mr puts a flake or an out saying that he promises quote political and economic reforms as well so it's interesting as all these things accumulate imo you start to see a picture of a man who's realizing well the writing's on the wall and the people really do want change they're not willing to accept the status quo. yes they were on chanting and i had the mansion economic reform i mean mommy you know is really the most stupid most crucial issue here are our friends that people going to hear from some that cock and that their use of the oreskes that's not had being the major openly companion of all and gavin in all g.m. very not on the all six there is a well known for being the nation of the car and shooting at a not yet the very pricey also is i will correct it that's why australians are fed up. it's not the only allows a constant in the elections now it's really

a lot of reforming the whole system ah have been there any promises were just too great demands more. hopefully not that you have no social justice i don't think so so this sad incident i am going to have a real impact as i say that going to make algerians feel stronger so i think some back away from the regime here but at the same time it is well beyond the state. let's just pause for a moment see any of us joining us on al-jazeera right now we're looking at some pictures there of the algerian president lizzie's beautifully the old pictures these ones from twenty seventeen a man has not been seen in public a lot he is in a wheelchair he is i eighty two he still wanted to run for a fifth term as president but in the last few minutes that has changed let me run you through the developments algeria's president abdullah sees beautifully he has announced that the elections will be postponed in algeria they were due to happen in april he's also said he will not be seeking that fifth term as president any

longer his prime minister has resigned as well or yeah yeah. there is going to be a reshuffle of the cabinet and there are promises of political and economic reforms as well so a big development a big series of developments if you like in algeria after many weeks of protests the. to kill early by the youth of algeria who were not happy about the prospect of abilities but to flee to running for a fifth term we have got. excuse me. with us on skype from algeria she has been quite a few days now we've watched this develop together just tell me your initial reaction as well to the news after seeing these protests for so long and seeing i guess the the determination that people had over the disease beautifully karen this proposed fifth term. well you may think that this process have been going on for so

long that follow the algerians is probably a spot. thing that's really the real work is parking now and for the past then i say they have been trying to organize themselves i think trying to think about new forms of prophecy passerby. many generations with the local institutions within universities so oh he's going home in the army going to handle that because that's exactly the course not without a blue streak of being the being out of the game now it's going to put the pressure on the army even more you know that the army is stacked weeks have been the silence only. being vague statement on the need for a jury to these decisions offering them to preserve this kind of of a meat that the regime had been putting with all the back twenty guineas. oh did

i really i'm not miss we want not is going easy i'm a going to max new post that next try did you have an ongoing hand you did the now man the police not to request put that actually now you know you have planning to put this on try the next five days the really with books because putting aside it's going to be the army that the army is going to have a stake own was kind of childish and it will accept was the judiciary important here as well because correct and far wrong i think today there were a thousand judges or thereabouts in algeria who said we want to see this election we will not monitor this election if the president runs. yeah i say well i often say that australians have been asking for a state and they only found a definition so now i'm seeing that the current through team of the former him out

of the car is that it is done that are we going to get back to us to suddenly without any consultation without any pressure on the whole these people who have been using this to dispose so far there are no entrenched false alarm if we look at the finish the transmission problems ample we you know we saw all of that quietly we could not avoid the old elites to come back but they did so through the new institutions so it was more or less if you're full of the people to your control this outcome and how they will be reintegrated well we are lucky when we have not reached that take you know gerry i guess we are still in negotiation and people feel like they're still negotiation with the with the regime officially with the army. it's just one hundred hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera on canal sons of maria in doha welcome to the news hour the breaking news this hour in the last well twenty minutes or so is that the president

of syria is beautifully will not be running for a fifth term he has postponed the elections which are due in april he will not seek that controversial fifth term which he had been seeking the prime minister has also resigned there is going to be a reshuffle of the cabinet and there are promises of political and economic reforms it's an incredible turnaround really weeks of protests months of protests in algeria which have not lost any momentum particularly driven by the youth of algeria who were willing to see an ailing eighty two year old president in a wheelchair seeking a fifth term in office they have held up their protests and it would seem that they have won at this point will have a look at some of the pictures we've been seeing so much of this over the past two weeks haven't really anger in the streets but but. peaceful as well there has not been such a violent side to these it's been

a real sign of people power out on the streets people who wouldn't back down in all this is algiers itself the capital but across the country as well as they wanted their leader to step down or postpone the elections he has returned from geneva yesterday after seeking medical treatment there and has done both of those things quite an extraordinary turn around it is with us on skype from algiers to talk through some of this breaking news and we thank you not only for coming on but for staying with us as the news develops and as we hear these new lines in fact i've got another new line for you now a new constitution will be submitted to a national referendum in algeria the presidency announcing a new constitution will go to a referendum i guess that's a good sign already that they want to go to the people soon to look for confirmation of where they want algeria to go. well you know algeria is i'll tell

you and again i don't i mean i sound a bit this in this town that but the constitution has been the lead to so many times that it's real and not about a new constitution it's about. there are sink the lot of that already exists so will halt the whole arab league only gets you to force a regime and politicians who have not respected the constitution for the last twenty years and even more to certainly respected him but he can send you one of those people mabel tara new constitution but who is going to oblige these both pointy sions and the new governing elite to respect that comes to sion so again i believe that these statements are made to the choir clerics and do not in cold the willingness of the object me of this to totally get treated of the regime and more importantly to participate in politics that if they tell me

about the algerian opposition we talk about opposition on the streets which we have seen plenty all of in the past month but what about the strength of the political opposition because this is a huge moment for them as well. well this is a national conferences and they go to shape in a way with the power and especially the poor was their safety in australia and financially with the army and the sequester misses is something that they have been asking for that these the last the last get past two to monday. but on the same time they have been so focused on the power that's been so focused in that in their negotiations to walk the regime with the regime that they have totally forgot about all jim and even local dishes and pots being inlining are nationalists while they are. there is they they have actually most help with the all

day and they have no credibility one side of that that plan to try to join them auction. that has been a dog and i cannot jim they have the demonstrations uk then chile's saying that they do not trump and then them and they after having. had so ambiguous a relationship with both sam kind and what they have nothing to do within the ranks of the did not try to. stay with us i know you've probably got all sorts of people trying to contact you at the moment and lot of developments but do stay there because i want to come back with you in a moment i do also just want to remind viewers of the breaking news in the number of developments that we've had in the last twenty to twenty five minutes the headline if you like is that the president of algeria abdelaziz bouteflika has said that he will not be seeking a fifth term as president and he will be postponing the elections which would due

to happen in april it is a huge win for the people of algeria the latest lines coming on the reuters news wire saying that he is beautifully it is holding a meeting with the army chief of staff right now and as ahmed was telling us earlier the role of the army was always so important at this and i believe but haven't you been yesterday or perhaps the day before the head of the army was saying that of the army had a united view on the future of. the future of the country i'm being told these are pictures from algerian television no i can't tell you if they are alive but the certainly the picture or the signal if you like is coming into us live from algeria i don't know about these pictures but it looks like a chief of the army this the presidency has announced that he's holding a meeting with the army chief of staff perhaps we are looking at this or is that picture from his or is it just still actually really hard to tell at the moment it may just be a still image. but that who would correlate with what i've just seen there are

about amazing with the army chief of staff the other developments is that the prime minister. has resigned as well but to flee here has said there will be a cabinet reshuffle there will be political and economic reforms and there will be a new constitution submitted to. the people via a referendum. so we're going to talk more about these developments in a moment but right now i want to have a look back at of the lizzie's beautifully his twenty year rule which according to a presidential statement will be ending soon this is from hashem hold araa. algeria's longest serving president i did as he's beautifully will likely be remembered for and during the civil war that lasted ten years and killed hundreds of thousands of people would have won praise for restoring stability of that lead to an economic boom and major development projects across the country. he

also managed to hold the country together during the arab spring there were protests in january two thousand and eleven over poverty and unemployment the government responded by creating thousands of small business opportunities with generous incentives to young entrepreneurs reducing food prices and anding a decades old state of emergency despite this riots contending a sign that not everyone was happy with how beautifully ran algeria. considered a national hero by his supporters he fought on the battlefield during war of independence from france and then served as foreign minister until nineteen seventy nine in the early one nine hundred eighty s. he was accused of corruption and went on

a self-imposed exile the charges were later dropped and of the end of the civil war in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he won an election with the backing of the military the opposition said the vote was rigged. critics accused him of clinging to power and cracking down on his opposition jewing his second term in office him managed to change the constitution to allow him to run for an unlimited number of terms so with mounting controversy and popular unease among his opponents but of one a third election in two thousand and nine and afford. in two thousand and fourteen by the time he won the two thousand and fourteen election he was frail and rarely seen in public and some said he was no longer fit to govern once the leaders considered him an important ally in the fight against armed groups in north africa

. had a zero tolerance towards those draw. and the heavy handedness linked to that approach sometimes cost civilian lives in two thousand and thirteen thirty foreign workers including western nationals were killed when beautifully ordered the army to storm a gas plant in the algerian does the aim was to rescue hundreds of hostages held by an armed group affiliated with al qaida but critics believed could have saved lives had he negotiated a safe exit for the civilians or planned his counterattack more carefully during his last years in power he sacked many of his top army generals in a push to curb their influence but a flip i had a number of health concerns in recent years has suffered a ministroke other beginning of two thousand and thirteen and was in

a french hospital for three months of the. opponents say his legacy was one of stagnation while his supporters insist he brought much needed stability to algeria. so some good background there from hashem a whole bar al jazeera correspondent who's covered north africa extensively for many years now giving us an idea of well what life has been like under president abilities. it would appear that change is coming in some form of the other is he has announced that elections due april will be postponed he won't be running for a fifth term as president which of course caused such large scale protests in algeria the other developments of that his prime minister yahia has resigned as well and that a new constitution will be submitted to a national referendum with a promise of political and economic reform we've also heard there was

a meeting with the army chief i think that picture might still be on algerian television if we can have just a little quick look at that they've got a still shot there of abilities but a figure on the right meeting with the army chief general ahmed had and the army's position is always so important in situations like this here's some fresh pictures as well of course this coming in direct from algerian television so we don't have any control over what's being shown their abilities but a figure on the right remember we're actually seeing him for the first time in a very long time he has been in hospital in geneva at least for the last two weeks and only arrived back in algae as yesterday we got some more pictures coming up for you now no we just lost them as they were looking at different sources coming in from algerian television just trying to keep an eye on them so in the meantime we will go back to our guest who's with us on skype. thank you.