talk through ter night to seven rats they are sick and that's all they have they are going to get twenty one orders we were going to be close ok it was done with my brakes john fredericks we thank you for speaking to us from virginia so that is obviously a supporter of trump let's not speak to douglas sloan he's a democratic strategist he's joining us live from washington d.c. so i'll go out on a limb here and say that you're not happy with the summary off the report yet what it did say douglas sloan is that the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government so this is a significant political victory for donald trump. well yes and quite frankly as an american i am happy that the president of our united states was not found guilty of collusion with a foreign power so this is

a great day for trump and why very good is a great day for all americans that we have a president that is not guilty of collusion however the question is still open on the matter of obstruction. if i could just quote. the key here is what muller said when he said. the poetess while the report does not conclude protos committed a crime does not exonerate him regarding obstruction so that something that the democrats are going to continue to look into a bit of mr fredericks interview when he was becoming getting quite worked up there about what the democrats have to run on against twenty twenty i think the democrats have a lot to run on in two thousand and twenty and the president's number numbers are underwater and they've been so for a while what would be it would be for me before twenty twenty let's just talk about what the next steps are for the drug democrats what do they do next and what steps

do you think need to be taken for that full report to be made public i think that they should subpoena requests of the report they also can subpoena. bob muller to appear before the house as well as being a william bar to appear before the house right now we're looking at william barr's summary as attorney general of the report but we do not have the report itself and there are only a few quotes in that report as i understand you quote of bob miller never did understand so it is imperative that democrats in everyone republicans alike independents alike see the full report this is something that's been going on for twenty two months has caused millions of dollars and did result in i believe thirty seven indictments and one conviction of trump's campaign manager and to say enough. is i'm not just going to go on for

a much longer you're talking about the subpoenas and the subpoenas are issued then that could trigger a series of legal steps are we going to be looking at a long sort of constitutional battle. well given that this is something that cost millions of dollars in taxpayers' money and went on for twenty two months and did result in thirty seven indictments many plea deals and a conviction i think that the democrats have a constitutional responsibility to look into this further and not just take the summary of the attorney general who also took it upon himself to say that there was no obstruction when constitutionally it is appalling it falls upon the house of representatives to make that determination regarding high crimes and misdemeanors the question of obstruction so the attorney

general and deputy attorney general overstepped their boundaries when they made that assertion so i do think it's important that everyone see the full report all right said douglas sloan we thank you for joining us from washington thank you. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including the vital road link that will help mozambique and its neighbors following cycling to die. us we look at the high cost of living in the middle east's poorest country after four years of war. and sport germany leave it late to get a much needed win after one of their worst years in living memory peter we'll have more on that story. but first a pro-military party has unexpectedly taken the lead in thailand's first election

since the coup five years ago with more than ninety percent of the votes counted the. party has seven point six million votes while the main opposition party trails behind with seven point one scott heiler has more from bangkok. thailand an elected leader for the last five years voting early on election day. looking to keep his job through the ballot box he became prime minister after the military coup in two thousand and fourteen he's the candidate of the military backed party. i hope everyone who was in the election today to exercise your rights everyone wants democracy therefore everyone should exercise their rights in the transparency. we break out of the program to take you to president speaking let's listen in. we may have just. missed what the president. hard to say it was just a couple of seconds. from florida so reporters were throwing him

questions on the mala reports on the summary of the report that has now been released by turney general all right so let's go back to thailand and florence louis has more from chiang mai the stronghold of the exiled former prime minister attacks and. elections going on. we're in the district. that's the hometown of former prime minister topsy ballot papers from polling stations across the district for a final announcement tally preliminary results taken from the election commission's website showing how long the military backed party in the lead overall this is an unexpected result especially as opinion polls taken just days before voting started had suggested that. the party talks and would be in the lead and some analysts had

said that even if i didn't win enough to form the next government it would have a chance to form a coalition. say they are shocked they are surprised some remain optimistic because they say these are still preliminary results in the north and northeast and parts of it's. have long to live election victories to thompson and his allies have not lost a single election since two thousand and one but it appears that perhaps this time that support may not be enough. kenya's government has warned more than a million people are at risk of starvation as a severe drought grips the northern half of the country rainfall has been low for months and the effects of crops people are finding it hard to feed themselves and just last year kenya experienced its worst flash flooding in recent memory thousands of acres of farmland were destroyed half a million people lost their homes the government denies that anyone has died from hunger but critics claim as many as twenty people have already starved to death

catherine sawyer reports from. one of the worst affected areas. it's weltering in the more i village as from this dry desolate land here to the sea food aid from the humanitarian agency wald vision there's 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 that long for my four children before you go away from community centers the more desperate the situation gets as he 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 you can as return to when they can't find other food at accounts has spent is doing his best to feed his remaining family until more help comes. over 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 i'm more it's may day

now we've been in this village for a couple of hours and we haven't seen men. people making break first or 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 quis 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 of delayed response to their plight will only make things worse catherine soy al-jazeera. northwest kenya. and charles locally otoh is the minister of charge of disaster management and work on a council he says well ports of starvation deaths can't be verified. confirming that it is the you know the. parameters and ministries ministry that is

supposed to confirm that yes this is from monga and not for from what he says so the death. according to to me that's come out because they come to know is. facing hard times because of droughts which was caused by. short rains long range of. brains the failing in some parts and also having these so the rains that as opposed to come in. october november and december which failed completely so because the rains failed then there were. there water sources now distress in those areas would know to be a planted and did know as you say livestock postell communities which form three quarters of the population of this code would have moved those border lanes where they also conflict with their neighbors or resource sharing the opening of

a critical road link in mozambique is helping aid workers reach victims of cyclon in die with most roads damaged or destroyed people in remote areas have been relying on basic supplies delivered by air from the may go central tony brooklier reports on the efforts to distribute relief. food supplies are getting to pira the problem is getting them to the people who really need them. this is what happens when bread is distributed to the needy. people are desperate for every piece they can grab food is scarce and supermarkets supplies are expensive a delivered by air and water is not enough. the end six road is the bane road artery from biro to the remote parts of mozambique it was severed in the psych lone you can get a real idea of the power and severity of this psycho namie flooding that followed by this area this entire area as far as you can see was covered in water destroyed everything around here the power here even pushed off this car off the road and

miraculously the driver escaped he swam to safety but it destroyed about one hundred meters of road that being new rebuilt by the chinese the road was cut for a week on sunday it reopened after chinese contractors and local workers worked day and night to build a new stretch and restore a vital lifeline that serves malawi zambia and zimbabwe does the road being damaged it's bad for them you can see we have a situation like better see it is well for us to get there relief help is skating difficult like a state for was the greek and also for the company but in countries in order sixth really important. food is needed everywhere and mina and her sister regime there live next to the road their home was destroyed in the surge that swept the road away they said the water was up to their necks and they had to climb trees to survive but there aren't and cousin drowned and those did you get in there are very

you know seven and she told me that she thought she was going to die that day but since then they have received no help or food or shelter she says she prefers to stay here with family in hardship rather than go to beer with nothing that. is the same story for hundreds perhaps thousands of people who prefer to live in makeshift shelters close to where their homes once stood. mozambique is relying on the outside world for help but local people are rallying around to to help their fellow countrymen at this church in bira they were collecting money and food for the victims. a separate will be and that is that it's going to take time to recover our houses were basic but they were not built in one day or a week you will need more time five years ten years it will depend on what people will have to build with us now we need stronger material but our spirit is strong mozambique will need support for some time to come and for many their lives will

never be the same again tony berkeley al-jazeera may go central mozambique. the leaders of romania and honduras say they will recognize jerusalem as israel's capital following the lead a few us president donald trump the announcements were made at the annual american israel public affairs committee conference in washington and romania plans to move its embassy to jerusalem one hundred open an office there for a trade and cooperation the move has been welcomed by israeli politicians but will anger palestinians who want east jerusalem as a capital of a future state's mike hanna has the latest from washington and the principal agency of this gathering to secure the hold and three billion dollars in security assistance that the u.s. pays israel each year in addition organizers are looking to persuade members of congress to oppose the campaign to disinvest and boycott israel

importantly for its rate the prime minister this is a very important forum for him as the elections coming in israel in a couple of weeks time and he'll be meeting president trump it's understood that the president will use this occasion to sign into law by presidential decree the u.s. recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan heights once again with that israeli election coming up this is a major gift to prime minister netanyahu. so ahead on the news hour the opposition cries fall in the come or us over a bitterly contested presidential election and we look at how a new government initiative in mexico could affect thousands of people reliant on social programs we'll tell you about the gymnast who's going viral with her six perfect ten and prochoice of music peter will have that story in sports.

hello we've got yet more disturbed weather pushing into central parts of the u.s. just across the great plains lots of clouds showing up here exacerbating the flooding concerns we already have in place eastern seaboard those loop laurie fine and dry for the time being as we go on through monday will turn increasingly wet as this that weather just slides across the other side of the appalachians double figures there for new york minus one the top temperature for on monday afternoon thirteen celsius there for seattle looks and wet weather making its way into oregon pushing into the northern half of california we need the right that's not a bad thing that's how it tends to snow as we go on through the course of days it pushes it across the rockies it does so more so as we go through tuesday further south twenty one celsius in l.a.

central parts of north america by this stage looking fine and dry fine and dry will have tools eastern seaboard middle and states just around the county as well just catch a little bit of wet weather just clearing through as we go on through the day meanwhile a little bit of weather still in place for the greater antilles sunshine and showers i think pretty much sums it up elsewhere across the caribbean is looking fine and dry as we go on through tuesday the right not quite as widespread with plenty of sunshine. eternity. so could have us military occupation. my prison my freedom my heartbeat my life by languages my occupation so thought of reason a deal for the. book and the. jerusalem in

a rock and a hard to please coming. in africa's technological at peace and. poverty to live side by side. in its. life ups challenges kenya up developers to help small scale farmers cultivate a new future but can mobile phones really be the seed of change it's a starting point because it's all over the board. live out silicon savannah on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our u.s.

special counsel robert muller's report has found neither donald trump nor any of its officials knowingly colluded with russia during the twenty six the election campaign but the report didn't draw a conclusion on whether. the court of justice thailand's pro-military party has taken the lead in early election results of the first parliamentary poll since a military coup five years ago. kenya's government is warning more than a million people are at risk of starvation as parts of the country endure a severe drought conditions in thirteen counties are continuing to worsen with widespread vegetation loss and lower crop. fighting has broken out in the city of ties between elements of the yemeni army backed by saudi arabia and fighter supported by the united arab emirates video shared online shows several buildings on fire after days of street battles witnesses say a number of civilians have been killed a ceasefire has since come into effect much of thais is under the control of the

yemeni army. monday marks the fourth anniversary of the start of that military offensive in yemen by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition thousands of people have been killed and around twenty two million depend on aid to survive well yemen's failing economy has shrunk by fifty percent since twenty fifteen more than two thirds of small and medium businesses have laid off half their employees and food prices have more than doubled priyanka gupta has more. the markets of sun are once at the crossroads of trade in the middle east. today these traders and market one of the oldest in the city are selling whatever little local farmers can produce prices a steep and out of reach for most the few who can buy are often in debt. and with a smile has a family of eight he's among the millions of yemenis for whom the war has meant

sleeping on an empty stomach that matters that are the war destroyed the gulf arabs and the saudis and the u.a.e. destroyed us food prices are ten times higher because the yemeni real has no value at present yemen central bank is split between government controlled aden and who the control center saudi arabia publicly pledged a loan of two billion dollars but only to the bank in aden to keep the currency afloat as of december it had received only three hundred forty million dollars the money from the bank of aden pay salaries of government workers most of yemen's workforce. but five hundred thousand civil servants and who the areas haven't been paid it through here as. black markets like these are try being in some and in aden it's beyond imagination that there's oil shortage here in aden can you believe that patrol is not available in the patrol stations but it's available in the black

market i'm astonished to see trucks carrying patrol from the. in oil refineries but no idea where these trucks go and where the patrol its profits from yemen's booming coffee industry and farms have plummeted because of high fuel prices yemen depended on its oil exports before the war production has almost stopped since the conflict began is under the control of emirati backed fighters. but the main problem is this the port in her data to which eighty percent of food aid comes in and that is out of bounds for most. the impact of the war and the crumbling economy has forced within twenty four million yemenis to depend on aid just to survive and humanitarian aid is not enough you need a political solution that is going to allow the economy to revitalize that will allow restrictions on imports to be lifted that will allow sellers to be paid the jobs created markets to be revitalized. such sectors to come back to life again so

that people. you know slowly can start to sort of resume a life that used to exist prior to the contract i hope that perhaps many yemenis still have despite the real threat of hunger and famine priyanka gupta al jazeera. crew sra put that run into trouble and rough seas off the coast of norway on saturday has finally reached ports half of the passengers on board the viking sky were airlifted to safety after the luxury of the luxury liner encountered engine problems and at least twenty people are being treated in a hospital sanya gago has more i. a terrifying view from inside the cruise ship. before the alarm went off. the mayday call was put out on saturday as the vessel

drifted in the norwegian see more than thirteen hundred passengers and crew were aboard the viking sky with the luxury cruise line as engines failed during stormy weather it was battered by eight metre waves just off the coast of norway here the weather is known to be fierce and the shallow waters are renowned for their reefs. the rescue of the passengers began on saturday evening with the evacuation of the ship continuing throughout the night most of those on board were elderly tourists mainly from the united states and the u.k. a few escaped with light injuries many traumatised by the experience. or. so. or. from. tug boats one in front and the other behind toed the ship towards the port city of

boulder. the passengers and crew may have had a lucky escape but it brought what was supposed to be a twelve day cruise along norway's coast to an abrupt and terrifying sunday i et al jazeera. with media reports of an internal coup to oust her the u.k. prime minister it's a reason may has summoned leading breck's supporters in her ruling party to her country residence for crisis talks may is coming under increased pressure to resign ahead of a final attempt to get her bricks through parliament m.p.'s are expected to vote on the withdrawal agreement for the third time next week some of suggested they would only support the bill if may agrees to step aside so it's been one of the reason is most bruising weeks as britain's prime minister began with talk of a third vote in parliament on her breasts and zeal but it quickly became clear that

she still lacked enough support from m.p.'s to get it passed frustrated may made a televised address of the nation on wednesday in which she blamed m.p.'s for a delay to breakfast it didn't go over well it is high time we made the decision so far parliament has done everything possible to avoid making a choice motion after motion and amendment after amendment has been tabled without parliament ever deciding what it wants all m.p.'s have been willing to say is what they do not want well in need of more time to posture a deal may went to summit in brussels on thursday where leaders gave her a two week extension to the fast approaching bret's the deadline for britain could still crash out without a deal if there's no agreement by april the twelfth of the weekend did with an estimated one million people marching through london they were calling for a second referendum on britain's leading political journalists reporting a plot by members of the reserve maize cabinet to remove her altogether one

minister is reported to have said the end does not. john johnston works for politics home that's a political news website and he explains what might happen next to break the bricks that impasse. what they're talking about doing is possibly having a set of four the kalinda could have votes this week in parliament these are non-binding votes where m.p.'s could set out things they wanted to happen and so far a lot of the criticism of m.p.'s and from the prime minister she made the speech last week not a good idea but she blamed m.p.'s for it but her point was that a lot of people believe m.p.'s have constantly been saying what they don't want to happen in parliament but not really saying what they do want to happen thousands of protesters have gathered in the french capital calling for political change in algeria the peaceful demonstrations by people of algerian descent of spread to other major cities in france they have a cheater has more from paris. beginning to call it the algerian spring here in

paris the hope is that the country their parents and grandparents schools home is on the cusp of a real transformation this is a six time there's been a demonstration like this in the french capital similar scenes to say france is home to the biggest algerian community in europe. like many of. the sake of relief. because people didn't. understand why very or the body of the man known as the biggest. concert of the algerian president abdul aziz would to leak out as repeated the said it's time for his generation to give up their grip on power but will the generals on the rich business own who surround him allow him to keep his promise myself i am very happy to see that everyone is united we're united not around one algerian person not

around one region but iran doll jiri as a whole and to say we are fed up we'll stand up with this abuse of power algeria gained its independence from france after a bitter cold. in nine hundred sixty two the links between the two countries i'll surely economically remain strong the french government say they will not interfere in the sovereign affairs of another country behind this seems that diplomats will be trying to be the midwives to change. the head of mali is armed forces and several top commanders have been sacked after more than one hundred thirty four people were killed in an attack on a village a local mayor says gunmen dressed as traditional dons a hunter a storm that's a village of cattle herders in central mali they also attack swelling another village nearby violence between me and rival communities has compounded an already dire security situation in mali desert regions polls are now closed in the kemar

a silence after voting hours were extended in sunday's presidential election the incumbent president. is widely expected to win in a vote that his rivals say has been hijacked well how mother though has more from the capital. costing the amid rising political tensions. in polling stations across the three islands that make up. there was serious delays in some areas due to the late arrival of voltage material forcing the electoral commission to extend voting hours. i expect the president to develop this country and to take care of the youth especially because they are the future they will take care of us in the future. transparency transparency so that the people will be reassured that the winner is the one they voted for that's transparency. they are tall for position candidates in the contest

but none look likely to defeat president does the us money if he has his way. opposition leaders were crying foul the been before voting and it for them but the part of the self to noon opposition candidates whole four of them were huddled in a meting in this house behind me surrounded by a policeman keeping security when they come out to speak to the media they said they would not accept the results because of what they're calling must submit it cannot exist in the elections what if it was a complaint of the stuffing of ballot boxes with three marked papers in favor of the incompetent ok nuno got on very near in response to the crude talk carried out throughout the country aimed at muzzling the population in order to go to the polls provided for in the electoral code we declare the current government held by colonel as ali the legitimate on that one island opposition supporters and socked a dozen polling stations according to officials from the electoral commission

witnesses say the polling stations was a target of the people found stuffed ballot boxes it's a claim been downplayed by the current president it could be a problem but i was told that there are problems in the both security forces in the election commissions are taking the necessary measures if there are any ballot boxes that are stuffed we can replace them but apparently the situation is under control and everything is fine these are the first presidential elections in referendum to increase time limits was held previously the presidency was able to sit on the three indian ocean islands every five years a system which was put in place to prevent constant use. more than twenty coups and attempted ones since one thousand seven to five. there are now fears a lot of time to the country's unstable past. the well just morrone. soup kitchens for the poor in mexico are being shut down so are other government

programs for the most vulnerable president andress manuel lopez obrador says it's part of an effort to stamp out corruption but for many they left.