both home and abroad my kind of zero washington soup kitchens for the poor in mexico are being shut down and so are the government programs for the most vulnerable president and as manuel lopez obrador says it's part of an effort to stamp out corruption but for many the left wing leaders decision has come as a surprise on home and has this report from mexico city. it's can community kitchens where some of the country's most vulnerable you get a cheap meal they're going to have access to care for quite lou pape their life saver in feeding her family of six weeks his gaze would be i know it's really helped with our finances even with the gas for the stove and now i go to work rather than just worrying about cooking and until now we've never gotten say but many of them it's because only six thousand federal food kitchens have already shots as part of budget cuts to social services it's not just the soup kitchens

closing their doors funds have also been slashed for child daycare centers and the government plan to shut down shelters for women fleeing domestic violence and give the money instead until a backlash made it change its mind. and this is all come from a president who's long championed the poor and vulnerable at school some surprise and indignation. he says the measures necessary to stamp out corruption sit didn't mean it's finished around thirty years of these programs which were just used to win elections and get media attention. programs which encourage corruption using the name of the humble the poor to do it that's all finished. is something in the government social ministry was recently implicated in a monumental corruption scandal but civil society groups say the wholesale scrapping of programs for the poor is not the answer and some worry there are other

motivations well my concern is that is really an attempt to concentrate power to have all the social programs in their hands to be a political platform and if you really committed to transparency and avoid the corruption will be transparent in the sense. of the of the new programs that you're putting together none of that so far. the new programs he's talking about include expanded help for students the old and those with disabilities the president it seems does want social programs just ones built to his own design john homan how does it or scarcity. results president the senate has official visit to chile that's provoked an unprecedented boycott some chilean politicians refused to me jr brought that out oh because the rightwing leader praised chile's former military dictatorship this name and has more from santiago. brazilian president. came

to chile to express his admiration for the country's free market economic model. but it's his admiration to chile's former dictator general pinochet that made him the target of public outrage. in the past couple sonata has said pinochet should have killed more people this anti-gay opinions also brought protesters out onto the streets. but at the presidential palace brazil's right wing populist leader was received with the respect to be fitting a head of state. by his conservative chilean counterpart. for one thing they share the conviction that bin israel as leader. has to be pushed out. of just come from speaking with donald trump account reveal the details of that venezuela is a main concern for all of. us we are confident that very soon it will join the new south american block procedure the day that venezuela manages to defeat its

despicable dictatorship. both leaders signed a memorandum to begin negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement but even the luncheon has turned out to be controversial this is where it's going to happen and there are very few tables for mr an official lunch and that's because a lot of the guests have declined the invitation and that includes the president of the upper and lower house of chile's congress who say that is a bad example for chile. yes the foreign minister justified the visit on the grounds of national interest it on be and remember that brazil is a huge market for exporters and the number one destination for chilean foreign investments. perhaps inspired by his recent visit to washington also not all last charges that he's a massage honest and a racist saying it's all fake news. you see in yemen al jazeera some doubt will. be a virtual has been how the new zealand city where

a gunman killed fifty people at two mosques on that server stick place at a park in christ church near the isle norm wasc that was the first to be attacked on friday a week after the shootings the muslim call to prayer was broadcast across new zealand during. a cruise ship is being towed to safety after being stranded involve seas off the coast of norway with engine failure nearly four hundred of the almost fourteen hundred passengers on board the viking sky were airlifted to safety but terry gayton b. has his report. it was meant to be a relaxing cruise. that passengers on the bike and sky say it ended in a terrifying ordeal. the fact that. the ship suffered engine failure in stormy conditions of norway's west coast on saturday afternoon as it drifted towards rocky ground the captain sent out

a mayday signal it all tonight. it's clear that it's a serious situation when a crew ship with over thirteen hundred passengers is in one of northern europe worst waters they've managed to anchor the boat so it's lying at rest they've also managed to start one engine there are four engines on board and now they want to start more so they can move themselves. strong winds and waves up to eight meters high caused windows to break and water to flow in the passengers mostly from the united states in the united kingdom were told to put on life jackets and wait for help. the bad weather meant rescuers were unable to use lifeboats to take them ashore. the helicopters were said to winch them one by one to safety the viking sky was more than halfway through a twelve day trip around norway and was shed you will tour right in britain on choose day. it's

a trip passengers say they'll never forget but for all the wrong reasons victoria gates and be there and still ahead in sports the world champion gymnast who couldn't hold on to sayto or the bar has back to anwar coming out. to. talk to. her. when lose breaks and the story below six million children in and outside syria have

been affected by war when people need to be heard. and the story needs to be told people are telling us that there is no medicine and there are no syringe and al jazeera has teams on the ground us power alone is not enough to bring you more on will be taking documentaries and light news on air and online. it is now time for sports and here it's clear thank you will the bad boy of cricket is back at the top level of the game david warner has made his return to the pitch

after serving his year long ban for ball tampering in the australian open for sunrisers hyderabad and their i.p.l. game against kolkata knight riders and got right back in the swing he made eighty five before he was caught out warner was one of three players to be punished for ball tampering during australia's test series against south africa last year. two of tennis's biggest stars are now out of the miami open world number one naomi osaka was knocked out in the third round on saturday the defending champion was shocked by it shay sue weigh in three sets the number twenty seven seed lost the opening set but forced her way back by winning the next two so now face caroline wozniacki in the round of sixteen. i just think good got to an ocean hill. which is something that i did last much to i'm not really sure why this is happening but it's kind of unusual for me. since winning

the australian open in january quite a rough time she split with her coach sasha byan who helped her to two back to back grand slam wins and also to the world number one ranking then she broke down in tears after losing in the second round in dubai and then last week she failed to reach the quarter finals in indian wells. meanwhile eight time champion serina williams has pulled out of the turn meant with a knee injury a day after reaching the third round. indian wells champion bianca and now has ten wins in a row the eighteen year old canadian beat world number four and julie kerber in three sets but the german was a sore loser microphones caught her calling and the school the biggest drama queen ever as they should. in the men's draw roger federer avoided an exit at the hands of mulled over the right to albert despite losing the opening set the three time miami open champion fought back to

escape an embarrassing second round defeat. but the number two seed alexander's vera crashed out to david fur as vera had nine aces but also double faulted twelve times in this last goes through to face francis jafo in the third. u.c.l.a. gymnast caitlin ohashi has taken the world by storm again with another perfect ten routine only this time she did it with new music ohashi replaced on star michael jackson and her viral floor routine with hits from tina turner beyond say and janet jackson the change comes after that leaving neverland documentary which highlighted alleged sexual abuse of children by michael jackson ohashi said given the platform she thought it was best to make the change change to change just a little bit. so final scene with gymnastics the world cup in doha wrapped up with

a nasty fall for the netherlands on the horizontal bar of the world champion in the event lost his grip and crashed to the ground leaving the way open for thames brick of proration to take the gold ahead of japan and cuba. and american jade carey followed her vault victory on friday with another gold this time on floor the eighteen year old won the event by more than a point with the italians in second and third carries victory takes her one step closer to making the olympic team for tokyo next year. one of argentina's top female footballers says more must be done to fight for gender equality in the sport back in a century as took legal action against her club and the argentine f.a. for not recognizing her as a professional since then the f.a. said a professional women's league will start later this year her campaign was also boosted by a mix football match on saturday organized by amnesty international which also featured

former national team captain one. but if possible to feel he was a positive first there are still missing you must understand that this is not the end but just the beginning there is still a lot to be done we must continue to demand in the clubs that they comply and continue to add rice and humans football according to the goal for paul casey is barely hanging on to his lead in an attempt to become the first back to back winner of the valves for championship in florida casey was on the verge of building a comfortable lead until a bogey on the final hole for him three under sixty eight that cut his lead to one shot over dustin johnson johnson the world's number one player had some say in the margin going into the final round at it. but the shot of the day came from jackson called crack on the fifteenth this hole in one shot him up the leaderboard and a third where he was just two strokes behind all these.

pretty impressive outsiders for now heads back to do. thanks very much lee well that's it for this program but you can always find more news on our web site and the address for that is dot com that's it for the news hour but i will be right back with more of the day's news stay with us. a chance for a union after decades of separation caused by a war. one i want to join some others journey to reaganite with the son she lost more than sixty years ago in the korean war on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you

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and welcome debate of pollen you're watching out there live from doha also coming up. this is one of a million people desperate for food we visit a village in kenya at the center of the drought crisis. people here were told to expect an extreme weather events that now want. our correspondents in the thick of it as a powerful storm lashes northwest astrarium. and we look at the high cost of living in the middle east porous country after four years of war. so votes are being counted in thailand's first general election since the twenty four thousand military coup preliminary results are expected shortly the election commission estimates a turnout of eighty percent more than fifty one million times were

a little to elect five hundred members of parliament but critics say it isn't true the job kraddick since the entire opera house it's a point to buy the military so we can not go to florence louie who is in china my for us florence is reset eighty percent turnout possibly there must be so much anticipation what happens next. well the votes are being counted now local media are already reporting on official results we're expecting the election commission to hold a press any minute now where they will also be announcing on official results now they've got about sixty days to make the an official announcement on the final results and they say they will take up to a few they will take a few weeks to do this because they need time to investigate. the complaints that the election commission has received today with regards to how voting went down when they made a when they gave a press conference they reported that there were some minor. electoral irregularities including some early votes that failed to arrive back in time and on

time which means they won't be counted but overall we can expect final results to be announced only in the next few weeks now in katine does have declined to comment much prefer truth. reserve that comment until the official results have been made but we can expect very intense negotiations over the next few weeks and that's because analysts say the way the electoral process has been structured no one party is expected to be able to win enough seats to form a government on their own which means we can expect to negotiations political horse trading to take place as parties try to cobble together a coalition charger and trying my best to talk sense hometown hanif our lives have never lost an election there since two thousand and one but our prospects this time . it's going to be an uphill battle told for thompson and his allies in this area the north and northeast of thailand

they have in the past in the election victories for top fifth mainly because the rule in the farming communities are grateful to him for being one of the first politicians to pay attention to them he gave them agricultural subsidies he gave them access to cheap health care so they could be counted on to deliver votes to him but the way the military and the last five years or ruling thailand the way that stacked the deck in that favor means that it's going to be an uphill battle this is because the military gets to appoint the entire upper house that's about a third of the legislature and this upper house together with the lower house gets to select the next prime minister they've also put in place an electoral rules that essentially place a cap on the number of seats a party can win so this is a huge. the disadvantage to the thai party the hasn't stopped people from coming out to vote because they are just you know they've been telling us throughout the day that the just so excited about the chance to be able to come out to vote to get off to five years of military rule and in fact even as voting stopped and polling

stations were closed and counting began people started streaming back to the polling stations because they wanted to watch the votes being counted then they were waiting for the results to be announced orange who we keeping an eye on those elections in thailand for us thank you. ok news government says more than a million people are risk of starvation as a severe drought takes hold catherine sawyer correspondent reports from turkana county that's one of the worst affected areas for. it's weltering and you're more i religious from this dry desolate land here to receive food aid from the humanitarian agency world vision is a drought in kenya and the government says up to a million people in thirteen of the country's forty seven counties need argent help hiders in the northwest region of two cana a some of the worst affected here they receive saugor rice bins and cooking oil to last them at least a few weeks

a little but i want to go i'm very happy to see this food and make sure it lasts longer for my four children before you go away from community centers the more desperate the situation gets etsy can loria bond says how fourteen year old son long narrow died last month from manu tradition. we did not have food so you just used to have fruit he grew weak by the day until he died that's when sam when we first met us were the only volunteer health worker in the village shows as well long hours buried the government denies others have also died of hunger thing and then i'll go with you was just bones he had never come to the health center for any treatment of any other ailment he had just been eating wild fruits and nothing else . wild food which grows near reavers is what to kind of return to when they can't find other food at accounts has found is doing his best to feed his remaining family until more help comes. we just need help if we don't get it then we'll

just continue eating the fruit and wait to die there's nothing else i can do the government blames the drought on delayed trains the crisis is made worse by locust invasion last year i mean all diseases and conflict many in this village escaped another area after cattle rustlers attacked them and stored the animals it's midday now we've been in this village for a couple of hours and we haven't seen many people making. break first lunch most of them are saying they don't have anything for dinner as well they say that they've run out of food aid they received at the beginning of the month lucky mayor queens boiling the last of her cheek piece i borrowed from a neighbor of the sleeping hungry yesterday i know i'll have to share the food with those who don't have she tells us. in this village and many others that are harder to reach time is of the essence i believe response to their plight will only make

things worse catherine soy al-jazeera. northwest kenya. and in a straddling a cyclon veronica's battering the northwest of the country port hedland is one of the towns hit by winds of up to hundred sixty kilometers an hour the storm is pretty clearly dangerous because it's moving slowly and so flooding is likely in the northern territory another storm cycle and trapper has weakened allowing us trillions there to return home from a bride has more from port hedland. cycloid veronica has made landfall with full force it has built out to sea again in strength and intensity and has been battering this long stretch of west australian coastline in addition to its strong force winds it's also been accompanied by a storm surge which has started to inundate low lying areas along this coastline it's a problem of flooding that will be very worrisome for coming days by the to run chill

running associated with this weather system some areas are being told to expect several hundred millimeters in the coming days people here were told to expect an extreme weather events that is down what they are dealing with in addition to the flooding in the coming days they will be assessing the damage from this. color malaria and other diseases are threatening survivors of cycle and its and southern africa seven hundred people are so far confirmed killed and that total is expected to rise much of the port city of beara isn't in mozambique is damaged or destroyed survivors have been telling our correspondent tony burke leigh about their ordeal. they are tired and traumatized but at least these victims of cyclists are safe now each one has their own harrowing story about the time the storms came each day more of them come mostly from boozy district. on monday which about is sixty five years

of age he had a smallholding and lived alone he was rescued after spending four days stuck in a tree without food he says his life is changed forever i say i give over the whole five eleven i have nothing to go back to my farm my house all were destroyed there is nothing left i need to start afresh but i don't know how. he lives here now in the same or a michele school in bira along with twelve hundred other displaced people. christina arrived on saturday after surviving for four days on the roof of a church in boozy her foot was infected after she stepped on a piece of submerged roofing while waiting to safety her future like many others is something she finds difficult to contemplate i was i from now on life will be difficult i will need food i will need shelter he's crying for food now but i don't know what he will be crying for when we go back. these people are getting three

meals a day and access to medical care so safe and sound and dry but they have no idea when they'll be able to go back to their homes that is if they have a home to go back to i. the massive emergency operation involves dozens of countries and it's costing more than fifty million dollars but the focus is now changing at the moment the. the doctors the acute phase of risk is pretty much those people need to be lifted out of raging water there are people in trees and the top of houses most of that is. those people most of those people have been received i think the focus area at the moment is relief getting that relief to the people who need it is now an urgent priority before cholera and other diseases break out the situation is improving but there are still risks of further flooding or sadly the risk of flooding is ever present and ultimately we have red alerts now on two of the major rivers one is a busy flowing in from zimbabwe to the sea and the other is the boozy river which

is a short fat flat river which floods very easily as a really bad situation of the germs of fall so we're facing multiple routes that won't affect these people their concern is their next meal and how to rebuild their homes their communities and their lives tony burke three zero zero zero. there's been fierce fighting in the yemeni city of taiz between an element of the yemeni army supported by saudi arabia and fighters backed by the united arab emirates video has been shared online of several buildings on fire in the city after days of intense street battles sources on the scene say a number of civilians were killed in the clashes a cease fire has since come into effect between the two factions much of taste which is yemenis third biggest city is under the control of the yemeni army. this week is the fourth anniversary of the start of the military offensive in yemen led by the u.a.e.

led coalition thousands of people have been killed and around twenty two million depend on aid to survive they have been failing economy has shrunk by fifty percent since twenty fifteen.