matter of how and when they're going to carry it out their reaction has been swift or they've close these rings of close the kerem shalom border crossing this is the border crossing of goods it's closed air is crossing for palestinians also for humanitarian case it does remain open they've closed the fishing zone meaning policy in fisherman can no longer now go out in the waters and fish so it is something that might sound is coming out of the blue however there is a lot of frustration in gaza hamas is frustrated that the long ongoing ceasefire talks have not really given it what it wants some people will tell you there was an incident last night in the negev in a prison where israeli border guards come down on prisoners a social media was alight with with with calls for what they called the resistance to respond these are important things when you talk about the palestinian narrative of thinking why for haps this may have happened but the bottom line is this it is something that is significant and we're going to have to wait and see how israel responds but certainly at the moment israeli prime minister will be meeting done

trump later today cutting short his visit and flying back here to deal with the situation in fact seventy both of the main candidates are in the u.s. but what do we know about what the other candidates going to be doing. absolutely benny gantz he is really the main most severe threat to netanyahu is posed as prime minister in a long time he's going to be addressing apac this is the very powerful jewish lobby group he's going to be giving a keynote speech important for him really to address what is a very powerful jewish lobby both men really i mean of course netanyahu now will be returning but ganz will be looking to get more votes at home laying out a platform of what he sees his vision for israel i think we're also going to have to keep in line a check on that meeting between trump and netanyahu because there's some speculation that trump will be signing a decree recognizing the israeli occupied golan heights so a lot happening today let's wait and see how the day unfolds ok stephanie decker

live for us and lester's i'm stephanie thank you. anymore ahead on al-jazeera the braggs a battle continues for britain's prime minister and now there is talk of a hot term of theresa may and parts of western australia face the wrath of a powerful cycle. something of a change in the weather across central parts of europe over the next couple days been quite remember across the gate possibly central europe this area cloud and right that same stormy area that affected will be to see for the weekend fast pushing further south with this area cloud that will introduce some wet weather and at times some weather center cooler weather down across the no the positivity for example pushing down towards vienna pushing across into world war so coming in

behind thirteen celsius for london brighton breezy i think sums it up here at will feel a little on the cool side and eleven celsius there for paris on monday off no go into to say things do start to quieten down high pressure starts just not just way back in across those western areas of europe catherine racing's for the southwards in these for say the balkans italy seeing some of that disturbed weather as we go on into the middle part of the way want to see showers into central parts of the mediterranean but for many it still fine and dry athens at around twenty degrees a celsius some of the temperature there to fall kyra what a dry weather there across northern parts of africa for the time big pushing up into morocco will see somewhat to what the coming in as we go on into cheese day turning it into colder by that state for this. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and. you know. that's not.

insignificant ideologically but it is significant is it. very significant. if the fact. that the radicalized series on al-jazeera. watching out the top stories right now a summary of special counsel robert muller support says the and found no evidence of donald trump's campaign colluded with russia and the two thousand and sixteen election president has declared himself completely exonerated but the summary

doesn't draw a conclusion on whether he obstructed justice and most of the votes counted from thailand's election it's a tight race between the main opposition party and its pro-military rival this is the first time people have been able to vote since the military coup five years ago . israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is cutting short his u.s. visit after a rocket attack near tel aviv israel's army says it was fired from gaza entering six people. slow moving cyclon lashing more western australia continues to bring heavy rain and high winds people living in the path of granite are being urged to stay indoors says the storm crosses the region but headland is being hit hard when gas in the area up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour brian mcbride is in port hedland. finally off to. best part of two days the red alert on this part of the western australia coast has finally been lifted. cyclon veronica has moved further

down the coast and is expected eventually to move west words out into the indian ocean it means for the first time in the best part of forty eight hours people can finally leave their homes all that time they have been told to stay put and seek shelter now they can go out and about to assess damage to property although there is of course still the danger of flooding in vast parts of this coastal region because of the size of this storm and the way that it has lingered and dumped so much water on this area and is expected to do so in the next couple of days a longer term impact also for the people of northern territory that is cleaning up after the impact of cycloid trever that site clones are very fast where the system said to be the size of the state of new south wales dumping a huge amount of rainfall there many people for especially from indigenous communities evacuated and now waiting and expecting to go back and to rebuild their

communities and in southern africa aid workers are only now reaching survivors of cyclon dime more than a week after it devastated areas across three countries and mozambique a vital road destroyed by the storm has reopened telling pertly reports from a neighbor. food supplies are getting to be a or 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 supermarket supplies are expensive and he 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 a hundred meters a road that had been you 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 a 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 we will go out relief help the skating difficult but like i've said for was i'm going and also for the company but in countries in order sixth really important. food is needed everywhere ameena and her sister regime 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 have to climb trees to survive but there aren't and cousin drowned and been there

already you know so 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 be able with nothing. 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 help their fellow countrymen at this church in bira they were collecting money and food for the victims. of separate group and that is so it's going to take time to recover our houses were basic but they were not built in one day or week you will need more time five years ten years it will depend on what people will have to build which 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 there's elance prime minister has announced a wide ranging commission of inquiry into security agencies after to ask attacks in christ church which killed fifty people all into everything from gun laws and social media and how to prevent terror attacks the inquiry will look at what could have or should have been done to prevent the attack it will inquire into the individual and his activities before the terrorist attack including of course a look at agencies will look at the actions of the say yes the g.c. speed police customs emigration and any other relevant government departments or agencies. and try mr theresa may will hold a cabinet meeting later after reports of a so-called coup attempt alister is leader as coming under increasing pressure to resign ahead of a final push to get her breakfast a deal through parliament m.p.'s are expected to vote on the withdrawal agreement

for the third time some have suggested they would only support the bill if may agrees to step down johnson is from politics home political news website explains that might happen next to break the impasse what they're talking about doing is possibly having a set of what the call indicative votes this week in parliament these are non-binding votes where m.p.'s could set things the wanted to happen and so far a lot of the criticism of m.p.'s 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. millions of dollars are set aside every year for water projects in areas prone to drought and kenya despite that many people still die of hunger every year those affected in the northwest region after qana say they want permanent solutions catherine soy reports . food has begun are arriving into qana it's one of thirteen counties most

affected by a severe drought the government says more than a million people need argent help a quarter of two canas residents are on the brink of starvation this food has come from kenya's capital nairobi we need to get a permanent solution to this problem because we've been having because of droughts previously. of the undone sea we just came with them but any measures the national government has released two million dollars to help other kenyans are making donations through different initiatives there's a rush to get out to those who need it most but this is a drought that's what i. was wondering when i was there i was the primary pang of knowing about how the government has responded to this crisis. droughts cattle rustling in conflicts over water and pasta are common in this vast region with an incredibly difficult tearing the local government has spend millions of

dollars sinking ball holes trucking water to those who need it and setting up a great culture projects official say harvesting is storing water in dumps will help but there's just not enough money to bring those dams will request a shell of. m for priorities of the people. you do budgeting in the produce of a people you don't people care less it only money toward that then you and freeze a problem because if you question is a problem. aid workers also say convincing donors to invest in long time projects to deal with climate change has been hard the acceleration of for climate changes is fast and i would capacity to to cope and respond is not as quick as it should be and therefore we are very much in entering into it to a vicious circle where we are looking at short term solutions addressing the

effects of the crisis and not necessarily the root causes of the crisis but for now the focus is getting immediate help to families that have nothing but this wild food to eat but many villages store there still want more they say they need a lasting solution if they are to survive what has become a cycle of devastation catherine saif al jazeera to camera north western kenya at cern four years since the saudi coalition began its military offensive supporting the many government against her the rebels the war's had a devastating impact millions of internally displaced families are living in desperate conditions reports. nothing much grows these days in this barren land surrounded by mountains in northern yemen but hundreds of families have found shelter here from airstrikes and shelling in her province an active frontline in yemen's war job us smile and his family are one of them they

have been displaced not once not twice but four times. of the night he was at we used to work we had farms and but today we have nothing we walked from one place to another with no money i have full poison six girls none of them can go to school they're collecting firewood and bringing water instead for hours and hours fighting between pro who the forces and saw the back to yemeni fighters has intensified in the province since march more than four hundred twenty thousand internally displaced people are living in hundreds of makeshift settlements and the number keeps rising there are thirty one districts infection twenty eight of them are classed as in a state of humanitarian emergency and of those twenty eight eight of them have pockets people living in a catastrophic experience in catastrophic levels of hunger i mean like in these

areas with the most vulnerable populations the families with highest levels all the areas that are experiencing active conflicts but that's just. more than three point three million yemenis have been internally displaced or in the capital sanaa mohammad l.g.m. spends hours begging on the streets hoping to get a meal for the day. i don't remember how many years i've been displaced i pray to god that i can get ten to twenty rios to eat. in her data. people are scavenging for food and things to sell all do aid is trickling in through her day the port a key gave twenty four eighty percent of yemen's food and humanitarian assistance local markets are struggling. i work in the supermarket the shops are full of

goods but now we don't have most things there is a real shortage. there is no drug or natural disaster in yemen yet millions are going to bed hungry every night because of a war that small lasted for four years. on zero a cruise liner the ran into trouble near a stretch of the norwegian coast has finally reached port the biking lost power and started drifting in huge seas has a story. 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 aboard the viking skyward the luxury cruise line as engines failed during stormy weather

it was battered by eighty two 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. well. if. or. tugboats one in front and the other behind the ship towards the pull of mulder 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 terrifying and.

al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is cutting short his u.s. visit after a rocket attack north of tel aviv israel army says it was fired from gaza injuring six people. sirens were heard in the affair region nearly two weeks ago two rockets were fired towards tell of the provoking retaliatory or strikes on gaza by israeli jets also all the votes have been counted in thailand's long awaited election and it's a tight race between the main opposition party and its pro-military rival this is the first poll since the military coup five years ago or now from scott hi laura. five years after military rule much delayed elections five times these elections

were delayed the people have been anticipating it they once were turned to democracy most of them but what's also interesting in how we see how we saw things kind of fall into place sunday night in early this morning there are some surprises polling plots and political party fronted by the military government if they did very well much better than expected the democrat party the oldest party here in thailand did very poorly much worse than expected a summary of special counsel robert muller support says the investigation found no evidence that campaign colluded with russia during the two thousand and sixteen election of the us president has declared himself completely exonerated for the summary doesn't draw a conclusion on whether he obstructed justice a slow moving cyclon lashing north western australia continues to bring heavy rain and highway and people living in the path of veronica are being urged to stay indoors as the storm passes the region port hedland is being hit pretty hard in the

area up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour we'll keep you posted. as are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera much more news throughout the day in the meantime inside story is up next. every week going to series of breaking stories. as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter. on al-jazeera. five years after a military coup thailand holds an election with millions of people cast your ballot for the first time but is the vote democratic and how much power is the military prepared to hand over this is inside story.

over there welcome to the program i'm not clark the last time thailand tried to hold an election in two thousand and fourteen it ended with a military coup an army general took over as prime minister and promised to hold a new election but it's taken five years for people to be given the chance to vote well ninety two thousand polling stations open across thailand on sunday the prime minister probably. wants to remain in office but he faces a strong challenge from who are tie the most prominent party linked to the former leader types and should know what six million young people are casting their ballot for the first time and since the coup numerous new parties have sprung up to court their votes. and the past we've seen that nothing has changed i want to know how much change this election is going to bring. i want things to improve we've had too many conflicts in the past. and i want the country to move forward in

the right direction and without any corruption that's the way it should be well let's hear now from al-jazeera scott hi-lo who reports from bangkok. for the most part smooth polling across thailand at the more than ninety two thousand polling stations across this country six thousand here in bangkok alone now there are a couple of incidents that have been reported to the election commission they say they're going to investigate those there was a neighbor countries represented a neighbor countries invited to observe the elections here by the thai government they have been peppered throughout we've gone to a couple of polling stations throughout the day here on sunday in bangkok and for the most part things were going smoothly and the voters were excited we talked to a couple of young voters and this is very interesting because the last polling the last time thais cast ballots was eight years ago so there have been a sizeable chunk of people who grew. so they could finally vote this time around seven million we spoke to one of those and he said he was excited to cast his

ballot but he came in kind of eyes wide open that's because the way the constitution is written now was written by the military government who has ruled this country over the last five years they had a head start coming into election day two hundred fifty seats in the senate already there's so ballots being cast the voters understand that that's going to be a little bit of a challenge when it comes to forming the government particular when it comes to just how democratic it's going to be for inside story well thailand's army has repeatedly ousted democratically elected governments. twelve times since nine hundred thirty two in fact of the last two coups were against prime ministers from the chena what family texan should know what was ousted in two thousand and six while he was out of the country his sister young luck came to power in two thousand and eleven but within three years she was overthrown and fled from thailand commander general. was named prime minister promised elections but they didn't happen a new constitution was approved in two thousand and sixteen the military giunta

appoints the upper house and all governments over the next twenty years must adhere to a military strategic plan. all right let's bring in our panel in bangkok we have seen it tyler was a human rights watch in tokyo via skype michael month the son of a senior fellow and coordinator of the thailand studies program at singapore's i.c.'s use of institute and also in bangkok we have been on an economist and professor of international business at the times business school welcome to you all and soon if i could start with you human rights watch so first elections since the military takeover desist signal the beginning of the return to democracy i just came back from of being the election and vote count atmosphere across bangkok is people showing into. against the odds repressive political environment where

freedom of expression freedom for political activity have mean restricted they are acting against the odds by ass electro rules clearly the w.c.s. not thai people after spoken out whether we would say that why you say it's being translated into transformation of thailand in to democratic civilian rule we will stuck with and not a form of dictatorship that the same can't take off their military uniforms put on business suit and go on with asked business as usual that is remain to be seen. what what's your thought about this given the turmoil we've seen in in recent years isn't the best that we this is the best that we can hope for a step towards democracy democratic transition under military custody if you like.

if we're looking at the implication of the election at least this is we know that this is not the food fully democratic election with the rules and the regulations being written the way it has been but it's a start to go in that direction after this it has to be. look at how how the government would be from and how how things with. that is but i think one thing is clear is that people have spoken out and you can see from the way the direction of their vote is chilling that they're clearly the voices of people who voice their approval of. the government or not and then there are also new voices coming up and i think that it's quite clear that the people have spoken out and if this voices are not taken into consideration for the way going forward i think that would lead into to further the sort of perhaps it

would be how high land move to the next state rather that's something we'll explore as the program goes on the i just want to ask you privy to quickly from your perspective in thailand all reporters are reporting a public since relief that people actually just able to vote once again is that your sense. yes this is so people have been able to vote again and i think people have cost that their voice who they prefer to who they prefer to elect to become that next government i think that is already a good start for the democratic plan for thailand although when i'm not very happy with the roof and the regulation but the fact that the election took place today that is already. a good move forward you know the rules in the regulations michael months on take given the the army has has really written the constitution they

stude the way this election could go they will remain influential in all probability whatever the outcome can you explore first a little bit what that actually means well a few moments ago you used the word army custody of the country and i think that we can't speak about our because city because the national council for recent order dictatorship has been incompetent at political management during the period when enjoyed absolute power so it does not have the competence to exercise custody over thailand in the future especially now that there will be an elected parliament in which voices of dissent will be represented and voices of dissent will have standing the other point i would make regarding these rules is that everybody in thailand and observers internationally understand that these rules have skew. the campaign and the terms under which people have been elected as a result as an exercise in legitimation these polls were

a failure before anybody cast that evokes and i think that we need to understand that the rules imposed on voters were self-defeating because they expose the illegitimacy of the juncos effort to remain in power but i would repeat my point that i put to a privy to that some i. dog you that this is a process a unnecessarily tense divs step if you like towards restoring democracy i think that if i think that if we use language like that sir we're conceding a process of arbor tura like what the brazilian dictatorship went through b. after the one nine hundred sixty s. and i think to to concede a process to a military dictatorship is essentially to concede to the military dictatorship vision of the future of iowa ticks and i think it's unfair to the millions of time

voters view this campaign as a competitive process from the beginning and i don't think they they viewed it in those terms at all when they said i have human rights watch you keep a close eye on what goes on in the country give us a sense of the military rule in thailand what kind of authority sixty nine million people live under well under military rule that now been five vs general president when their leader was stay at a coup in two thousand and forty and it's being no mean abbott a promise a candidate why steelman pending unchecked absolute power that he has will without any have been he this power will remain weak type people until a new government is formed and the f.x. off. all this up in our preview including in violation human rise will remain effective that it's one fact and not a fact that the human rights watch has been demanding all along is if the window is

serious about holding an election that will be recognized not only by high people but by the rest of the world the election need to be consecrated will it require i and all pen and being and for unmanned but that is not the case as the one does to trolling people in jail for criticizing military rule the junta still restraint freedom of expression and media freedom t.v. station which doll house balkan news on call were removed from all sections this did not bode well in the lead up to election day it type people seem to be fairy commit that that they are now making and taking and up he would cost to push back repressive grow off the wouldn't to push back against an even playing fail because in this election general prayuth doesn't have to win majority in the lower house he simply need one hundred twenty eight states and that come by with

senate us two hundred fifty of them that there are people can say i will and that will be enough to give general prayuth suffrage and support to return to power as prime minister rudd said he thought he could return to power without winning the popular vote or not we need to respect that why it is right to be the if one party of the opposition party the opposition collective wins the popular vote but does not she win because of the way the military has skewed the rules what do you think the reaction will be on the street how will the electorate respond will they respond with resignation will some kind of resistance. i think it is quite clear from before the election that this election is written so that general prayuth could continue in his power prime minister and i think the number that has been mentioned is already you know in that direction but i think the number of these strong opposition that we have seen by the people going for the parties that stand

firmly that they are against and the military is also affected that needs to be taken into consideration that after this it would be a coalition government and this spite the number of these that they would have in terms of selecting the prime minister but in running the government and in running the government that would mean that they wouldn't let the government would run into quite a strong opposition so we are looking at. coalition party that would be not yes it would be general for you but it would not be a dictatorial that no one can oppose or can question at least we would have the opposition in the house and that things would be moving along more and i think most of the thai people know that this government that would be formed after this

election is unlikely to last very long but this election is not the end in itself and perhaps it could be considered as an election for the next one that we can move forward for otherwise we would remain in the same that. so to me i see this election as a way forward to the next step and despite this perhaps if it be left government it will not be rule unchecked like it was before this election right and when you see the next just very briefly outline for us what you believe the next step would be. i think if the government the way that they would run into a strong coalition strong opposition party and this could lead into more of the and stability of the next government that might lead to the next election and i think that would be also strong movement to to to to really to rewrite the

constitution and perhaps that would be the constitutional crisis that this government would be getting into with their very strong opposition that we are likely to see michael is that you'll sense that if you have this the status quo is kind of maintained but with this if it's really fragile coalition that she presents an opportunity for change in the quite near future. i think that's right and i think many students of thai politics have noted in the past year or so that military parties progress parties. designed to be vehicles for the military have a very poor track record in high political history the only thing that i would also point out is that we need to be attentive to the possibility that. general break or a military figure will assume the premiership and then attempt to govern without

reference to parliament because as dr velveeta has pointed out life could be miserable for someone like general but youth in parliament when he did not enjoy men or a majority of seats in the lower house that will introduce the temptation to use parliament to gain the premiership and then to try to freeze it out of the political process by relying on. not elected institutions to govern the country and that's a risk that i think we need to be attentive to and see not how do you assess that risk if parliament is is frozen out of the political process well that there is no political process is that well it is possible as as mike was suggested that. the next prime minister wish to have no general prayuth can grow using executive decreed by pos in parliament or a check and balances and we must not forget that. the drop off that you know the

current constitution. political parties in the parliament and in the government abaya to follow twenty year snatch strategy so whatever promise during election will be tested against the wouldn't twenty years strategy if there is no compatibility what will try is the junta blueprint for the country that is number one number two is given the possibility of having a franchise coalition government that got them and would realise it when my military backing which has repeatedly threatened to stay and not get cool to quell the disturbances after the election so we are heading to what uncertainty and not a shaft of uncertainty in thai politics one wonders where you're an economist one wonders where thailand's economy is going if the status quo is maintained or at

least if we get into a situation where there's this fragile coalition tell us a little bit about how thailand has performed economically since june to control it and what your senses about where we could be heading. if we are looking at the thai economy i think it's fair to say in that land has had its last decade because of our political trouble mystically and i think since the who has taken power although they try to claim that they have managed to restore confidence and growth in the economy showing by the g.d.p. growth coming up to three to four percent we might say that that could be one way of looking at it but if you look at the long term thailand has been in this kind of political uncertainty for a long time and that to the opportunity costs for the country we spend so much of

our energy and i will resources talking about how to get rid of sin or how to get rid of the junta and the task at hand is that thailand is not alone in this region and why us moving not moving forward and other people moving forward thailand's economy is now you know not doing the best in the south east asian region and although we are performing three to four percent which is world average growth but i think that thailand would have to be concerned about its economy is global and regional competitiveness and its structural challenges that we have to address for example the reform of the education the reform of the public sector and the increase of the productive u.-t. all those area matter and if thailand remains in this political uncertainty i'm afraid that that would not well for the future of thai economy ok i

believe it is very brief if you would just give us a sense of the potential that thailand has if it if it did have a settled political landscape. with that if thailand becomes much more unstable we have a strong opportunity in the region if you look at thailand economy which is about seventy million but combine that with the countries in the region what we call c.l. in v. cambodia. and vietnam thailand stands at the very geographically strong location to be the gateway into those market that's one strong potential second thailand is not the country that is competing with the kind of the low and we could be the country that move forward more into the strong value adding activities in the economy and that's one area that thailand can be

one country that improve itself but as it is right now i think thailand faced the risk of the structural challenge of improving its. competitiveness in many areas we still be high countries in the region and without addressing those it would be under my thailand's potential in moving to become the regional leader not only in economic terms but also in the political area we have not done well in terms of leading the asean region despite being the us in chad this year so with with those. uncertainties perhaps hopefully becoming more settle i think thailand has a lot of homework to do still we have some potentials to go forward and with the momentum going to jump in there because we just knew that going michael i mean every my family coming towards the end of the show. to realize the potential

that michel that peter has been talking about that do you think it's something that it can be dealt with within the nation itself or does it need international pressure as well. i believe that there is plenty of awareness and plenty of talent within thailand to address these problems the awareness of some of the issues that dr david has discussed it is a very long standing in thailand and there is certainly the capacity internally to address these issues. and finally if i can come to you soon i even though democracy may not be restored in thailand in a short time where does your sense of optimism lie if it doesn't fool well if that areas and the optimism. kick in from today's exercise of a type people it's right about people have spoken out in very high number it has

hit a record high that pasta eighty percent are now in most places that is one thing to be recon with and not a piot that we must not folk at immediately after the two thousand and fourteen coup that will come in to he has said preconditions to. sation with thailand that is thailand to hold a credible free and fair elections so the piii is whether the well community was standing with thai people and set the bar high for darick nation rejection of this election. it's certainly a pivotal pivotal moment in type politics or politics we appreciate your time everybody thanks very much indeed for joining us for this important discussion thank you i guess as you know michael want to start a. pattern on and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website odds are that come for further discussion go to our facebook

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nothing. israel's prime minister cut short his trip to the us a rocket attack north of tel aviv he has vowed to respond with force.

and we shall carry this. coming out. as democrats to man the release of robert muller spall report after it concluded the donald trump did not collude with russia and the two thousand and sixteen election. a close race in thailand. be pro-military party in the lead and the country's first poll since a military coup five years ago. where one of the remote parts of mozambique where help is finally arriving more than a week after cycle through. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is cutting short a visit to washington after a rocket attack north of tel aviv israel's foreign ministry says it was fired from gaza and hit a house in the area. seven people are reported to have been injured the strike comes just two weeks ahead of the elections stephanie jacker joins us live from maestro stephanie how significant is this.

it's very significant why what is different because it is a long range rocket and it landed around ninety kilometers north of gaza also just north of tel aviv as you mentioned there hitting a house this is what always changes the dynamics on the ground or shall hitting residential home injuring seven israelis moderate moderately to lightly injured now as you mentioned the prime minister is in the united states he is going to be cutting his trip short he was due to speak at apac tomorrow he will no longer be doing that he'll be addressing them on video then he will still be meeting with the u.s. president donald trump he will then be returning here to deal with it he is under a huge amount of pressure his opponent benny gantz who of course was the army chief of staff during the last gaza war in two thousand and fourteen he will be addressing a packed later day he has already tweeted that netanyahu has and dealt with the situation in gaza with hamas adequately that you know it's coming under more

pressure from other opponents other politicians he has tried to contain the situation before you mentioned there in your intro of rockets over ten aviv just in the two weeks ago even last year when there was a serious escalation there was a cease fire he was criticized so much that is the defense minister avigdor lieberman resigned as you mentioned we are in an election campaign he's in the huge pressure to have a serious response to what's happened so far israel's close the air is crossing now this is for palestinians also open for humanitarian cases it's close kerem shalom this is the goods crossing and it's closed the waters of god's admitting that person can no longer go out and fish are we are expecting certainly a response what kind of form that's going to take will have to wait and see ok stephanie decker live for us and less stress on stephanie thank you very much appreciate it. summary of special counsel robert muller support says the investigation found no evidence that donald trump's campaign colluded with russia for the two thousand and sixteen election u.s. president says he's been completely exonerated the summary presented to congress by

the attorney general your bar doesn't draw a conclusion on whether trump obstructed justice and democrats are demanding to see the full report had a go hand reports from washington d.c. . it's the investigation u.s. president donald trump has long condemned as a witch hunt in till it was released and now the president is cheering the findings there was no collusion with the russia there was no up structure. and none whatsoever. and it was a complete and total exoneration that's not completely true the attorney general says there is no evidence the trump campaign coordinated with russian officials but on obstruction of justice the special counsel robert mueller didn't decide if he should be charged the attorney general made that call and in his letter to congress he made clear this report doesn't find the president didn't possibly commit a crime right in the special counsel states that while this report does not

conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him and that is democrats demanding answers jerry nadler heads the committee in congress that will be investigating pretty general clark. who are dishing for his role you don't remember in the suggesting that the obstruction investigation was uncomfortable and that a president and that it was almost impossible for any president to commit a rupturing of justice he's the head of the executive branch made a decision about that evidence and under forty eight hours this conclusion raise more questions than the answer given the fact that muller uncovered evidence that in his own words does not exonerate the president he's promising to call officials to testify and vowing to get the tens of thousands of pages of evidence that have been collected the trump campaign was quick to try and use this to bolster his chances of reelection really see in this video evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion in the president's proclaiming victory but as congress pushes to make

all the evidence public and with several other investigations ongoing he may want his supporters to believe it's over it isn't political al-jazeera washington. john fredrick says donald trump's campaign manager in virginia says the report didn't do anything wrong. i mean really got to understand that what this report has said and why attorney general barr came out with his summary so quickly is even robert muller said there is no evidence of any russian collusion in the campaign whatsoever that was the reason this investigation and the robert muller special counsel office that was the reason for his existence to start with they found absolutely nothing as we all said in the campaign from the beginning the president exonerated on that as far as obstruction of justice all these witnesses all these

prosecutors all this evidence that they've uncovered and they couldn't even come to a conclusion what they basically said is yeah there's some evidence that it may have been there there's a lot of evidence that said he didn't obstruct therefore we can't conclude anything basically and after certain thank many patients rectified the democratic national committee he says the full report needs to be sure lasik has any conclusions before any conclusions data can be reached. what we know is basically nothing even the no collusion piece we still don't know the status of that until we see what's in the report what we've figured out so far is that he's not going to be indicted for criminal conspiracy rather that the president's entire family was not going to be indicted by robert mueller based on what robert mueller came up with for what he found more wasn't going to go there with the family but we don't know much more than that criminal conspiracy of the bar for that legally is pretty high if you're

talking about collusion all you're talking about is acting on the basis of a secret agreement that's what collusion here and there's lots of evidence that's already been reported repeatedly that the trump team not only kept the russian secret that russia was doing this before it became public that they met dozens and dozens of times during the course of the campaign that they signaled repeatedly that they would be willing to change american policy in approach direction where they to win the white house and then in fact they tried to do that afterwards so all of this doesn't go away because attorney general barr who was handpicked for this is signed it based on a memo that he wrote last summer saying he didn't think obstruction of justice is something the president could do a sort of legal technical argument to help move that away based on his summary of the findings in this report we gotta see the report to have any idea what's going on here. almost all the votes have been counted in thailand's long awaited election it's a tight race between the main opposition party and its pro military rival election

commission says just more than sixty five percent of registered voters make their ways to the polls is this is the first time people have been able to vote since a military coup and i have years ago election commission held a press conference a short while ago there was there and joins us live from the thai capital so what are the headlines from that and that press conference. where we shall we are all anticipating these preliminary results to be announced at this press conference that just happened in the last hour they didn't what's going to happen is that in the next hour of four pm local so about fifty five minutes from now they're going to post those pullin area results ninety five percent of the votes have been counted they're going to post those on the election commission's website just within fifty five minutes now what we think is going to happen is we're going to see you know the numbers have been building and again as you mentioned before the approach the government the military government party has been has had a marginal lead watch to see if those numbers change that much when they finally

post those pullin ery results within the hour now what needs to be noted too is the official official results won't be posted for a couple days possibly maybe even a couple weeks they have to be made official these results by may ninth so we'll probably see some and we already have actually started to see some jockeying between the parties to try to form coalitions we know that who appears to be in the second position on these votes they are looking probably to partner up with another party so they can have enough votes this are enough seats so they can possibly form a coalition and form a government this is when the process of horse trading a political negotiation will go on but again fifty five minutes we'll hear. the preliminary results ninety five percent of us of the county show. highlight for us in bangkok thank you. but more ahead on al-jazeera including parts of kenya's northwest strawn the brink of starvation the government is accused of not doing enough to deal with the drought. the opposition cries foul and a chorus over

a bitterly contested presidential election. hello there we've got a fair amount of mild weather across europe with plenty of sunshine but no fall of us you can see this speckled area of cloud that is making its way southwards working its way across scandinavia there and down through the central parts of europe this is an area of cloud and showers and it's really dragging down the temperatures so we'll see some snow after this over the high ground as well and that will gradually feet down towards the southeast corner as we head through into choose day so for bucharest instead of around twenty two for tuesday will be just fourteen lots of clouds and lots of gray weather around as well with a chance of quite

a few showers behind it staying fairly cool with the top temperature in berlin just of seven degrees but in the west is still fine unsettled we're looking at fourteen in london twelve in paris and twenty one they it's hot of matt though for some of us in the northern parts of africa look at robots up at twenty seven degrees a very hot day for us a much warmer than most we'll see it out she is things will change for a simmer of this system makes its way across us and then we'll see a change in the wind direction as well so a top temperature on choose day just of twenty three degrees i mean for the towards the south we've got plenty of showers over the central belt of africa currently so it will have really very very heavy bringing a lot of rain. that wasn't sponsored by cattle railways. isn't the problem for your candidate that he may not have a health question mark over it but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the image that it took was not going to do it he will probably not knowing the sort of decided to get.