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 may in madrid it's hotter than that 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 in our geas things will change for us in morocco though is 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 tuesday just of twenty three degrees even further towards the south and we've got plenty of showers over the central belt of africa currently some of the really very very heavy bringing a lot of rain. sponsor. isn't the problem for your town that they don't have a hell of course. but he does have a corruption question really doesn't look good for the only thing that i think you're going to do every will. produce i mean one of there's

a lot of disillusionment with. it's called for. those who breaks will join me from my guests from around the world and we debate the week's top stories on the issues. at the top stories this hour as prime minister benjamin netanyahu is cutting short a visit to washington after a rocket attack more. foreign ministry says it was fired from gaza. to weeks ahead of israeli elections. support says the investigation

found no evidence that donald trump's campaign with russia during the two thousand and sixteen election. has declared himself completely exonerated at the. conclusion on whether he obstructed justice. almost 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 time people have been able to vote since the military coup five years ago . australians are being urged to stay indoors because veronica is expected to storm ashore on the northwest coast port hedland further north has already felt the force of one hundred sixty. or an hour wind speeds from mcbride has the latest from here . people were told to expect a massive weather event it turned out to be as big as anybody here would want what made it all the more unprecedented for australia was that it coincided with the second massive storm cyclonic travel that barreled into northern territory causing

widespread destruction there as here in this part of western australia people were under a cyclon red alert that's a virtual lockdown for the best part of forty eight hours told to stay indoors and seek shelter it was only when that was lifted that people were able to come out and assess the damage and start the cleanup people here are used to cycle owns they had prepared well but this was a reminder that they live in one of the most cyclists prone of australia we've dodged a bullet but you know this is the sort of stuff that happens in this area or end when it does he does it you know it really creates a significant amount of damage you know how about people's preparations for this everyone takes this very seriously look at complacency is a worst thing that can happen in a community and and dead the community itself pulled together and they got very

prepared for the cycle and so you know what we will well prepared for there is also the economic impact of storms like this one this part of western australia provides much of the world's iron ore and a lot of it goes through places like port hedland normally the horizon here would be full of cargo ships waiting to take iron ore out to the world's markets and the speculation that this disruption will have caused doc all effect even to steel production in china it may only be temporary but it is a reminder that extreme weather has not only a human impact but a very real economic cost. joins us now on set so what is the latest with the storm well fortunately for port hedland the worst is though there is beginning to move away but the problem with this storm is that is moving so slowly only around four kilometers per hour which is about how fast we walk so you can imagine how long it for me would let you know mention how long this thing is stayed over the

same area roebourne has seen winds over one hundred kilometers per hour for twenty four hours now so it's just been pounding the same area for such a long time that it's really relieving to see it finally begin to creep towards the west now but there's still is another storm and often you know that the impact of the storm immediately is not always the worst the worst is when they linger and linger and linger and continue to cause problems are another storm still stirring things up that's right so veronica is now beginning to the winds are beginning to ease out and in twenty four hours time or something it will almost completely disintegrated but the other one that hit us a few days days ago was cool trevor and that one hit the coast of the northern territory and then headed south he didn't land and now it's just continuing to give us some heavy rain so it's actually going to be parts of the northern territory's and into western queensland where we see the heaviest rains anywhere in australia over the next few days in fact over the next three days some places are expecting

somewhere between three and four hundred millimeters of rain deep in the land in australia that we rarely sees a good deal of rain so this will be a real shock for them ok steph thanks for keeping us up to date appreciate it. and south africa an important story by cycle an entire has reopened following allowing aid trucks rather to reach survivors the rolling stones and big as well as neighboring allowing sandia and zimbabwe also devastated by last week's storm tony brooklier reports from the may go and aid agencies are desperately trying to reach for most areas. food supplies are getting to be 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 supermarkets supplies are expensive a delivered by air and water is not enough then 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 it 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 newly built 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 was them you can see we have a situation like better see it is well for us to get there relief help is getting difficult but like a state for was there going and there was so awful that the country neighboring countries already six 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 they aren't and cousin drowned and been met 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. or separate group 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 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. 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 don so hunters storm across again that's a villager for any cattle herders and send central mali they attacked another falana village nearby government ministers who visited the area were told the times were shot or hacked to death with machetes i don't mean to imply any and rival communities has worsened the security situation in belize desert region at a time when the un security council delegation and there's an address to hell region to assess threats. but is trying to search recent a is to hold

a cabinet meeting on monday after reports senior members of her own party were plotting to oust her as leader may is coming under increasing pressure to resign ahead of a final push to get her brics a deal for of the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. through parliament m.p.'s are expected to vote on the withdrawal agreement for a third time some have suggested they would only support the bill of mayor agrees to step down john johnston is from politics home a political news website explained what might happen next to break the impasse. what they're talking about doing is possibly having a set of for the killing decorative votes this week in parliament these are non-binding votes where m.p.'s could set out things they wanted to happen 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 as protests in ontario to demand change are being replicated in french cities or testers of algeria and to set there are echoing the calls back home for a regime change or has more from paris. beginning to call it the algerian spring here in paris the hope is that the country their parents and grandparents schooled home is on the cusp of a real transformation of 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 today to leave. because people didn't. understand why very or the body of the man known as the biggest economy of the

algerian president abdul aziz who to leak out has repeated the say 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 head up with this abuse of power algeria gained its independence from france on to a major colonial war in one. you see due to the links between the two countries both culturally and economically remain strong the french government say they will not interfere in the sovereign affairs of another country the behind the scenes their diplomats will be trying hard to be the midwives to change the president the come our silence is expected to win re-election at the opposition as alleging fraud and sunday's vote as

a homage of reports from the capital the opposition says arrests and voting irregularities amount to a coup d'etat. costing the volt amid rising political tensions. in polling stations across the three islands that make up morris there was serious delays in some areas due to the late arrival of will to get material forcing the electoral commission to extend voting hours yelling kids in teen 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. supply not money for school soon 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 parts 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 are quoting must admit it did not exist in the elections why did they complained of the stuffing of ballot boxes with three mock followed 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 tanja 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 around the three indian ocean islands every five years a system which was put in place to prevent constant coups. more than twenty coups and attempted ones since one thousand seven to five. then alfie is allotted time to the country's instable past. the well just zita morrone was. millions of dollars are set aside every year for water projects in areas prone to drought in kenya despite this many people still die of hunger every year as affected in the northwest region of chicana 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 can as 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 drugs previously. of the roma done so we just go with them but i think 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 food to those who need it most of this is the 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 local government has spend millions of dollars sinking ball holes trucking water to those who need it and setting up a culture projects official say harvesting and storing water in dom's will help but there's just not enough money to bring those dams will request a shell of. m for priorities of the people. who would do budgeting when the produce of a people you don't provoke a less settlement money toward them then you can freeze a problem because indication is a problem. aid workers also say convincing dawna's to invest in long time projects to deal with climate change has been hard the acceleration of for climate change is fast and i would capacity to to cope and respond he's 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

a short term solutions addressing the effects of the crazies and not in the city do you root causes of the crisis for now the focus is getting immediate help to families that have nothing but this wild fruits to eat but many villages still with us they want more they say they need a lasting solution if they are to survive what has become a cycle of devastation catherine saw al-jazeera to camera northwestern kenya a kenyan teacher who gave away most of his salary to support students in a remote and villages won a global teaching award and a million dollars peter to be to receive the global teacher prize at a ceremony and who by the science teacher is recognized for helping many students stay in school and go on to college graduations to head. to show kerry let's take a look at the headlines now on al-jazeera 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 of. the strike comes just two weeks ahead of israeli elections and the u.s. democrats want robert muller support on the russia probe to be made public a summary clue to the there was no evidence that a campaign colluded with moscow during the two thousand and sixteen election but the summary doesn't draw a conclusion on whether he obstructed justice. almost all votes have been counted in thailand's long delayed general election on sunday and it's a tight race between the main opposition party and its pro-military rival the vote was the first since the military coup five years ago or now from scott heiler in bangkok five years after military rule much delay the lections 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 at odds is the 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 australians are being urged to stay indoors because of cycle and veronica it's expected to storm ashore on the north northwest coast or the headline for their north has already felt the force of one hundred sixty kilometer an hour wind speeds on its sickly dangerous because it's barely moving and it's increasing the threat of flooding british prime minister theresa may is set to hold a cabinet meeting on monday after reports senior members of her own party were planning to oust her as leader may has come under increasing pressure to resign ahead of a final push to get her practice breck's it deal that is through parliament m.p.'s are expected to vote on the withdrawal agreement for

a third time i must suggest to they would only support the bill if it may step down so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera there's much more news to come up front next. three years after the u.k. very the european union. is yet to take for. britain seemed three weeks divorced from its european neighbors. the whole process still be revived to stay with al-jazeera for the latest. how worried should we be about the danger of nuclear war on the indian subcontinent in this new season of outfront i'll ask acclaimed india novelist and activist our own dr roy.

also on the show venezuela's political and economic crisis is deepening under president nicolas maduro and the u.s. and over fifty other nations say they want him out so are we now on the verge of a military intervention that's our debate but first india and pakistan became the first nuclear powers to launch air strikes against each other after the recent violence in kashmir tensions remain high but many of the. prime minister most aggressive stance giving him a boost before the country's upcoming elections one of india's most famous novelists and human rights activists though says modi is part of the problem not the solution this week's headlines indian literary legend. thank you for joining me on outfront. between india and pakistan are at their highest for decades a lot of your fellow indians would say that you should be standing with your country with your government with your prime minister narendra modi but you've come

out against him again why. well i've always been against prime minister ever since even at the time he was the chief minister in two thousand and two but right now i see that you know he has been extremely reckless. by by and by doing those sort of symbolic strike. after the attack. india and pakistan became the first nuclear powers to bomb each other to put. into jeopardy because of a problem that they have not just been able to saws but has actually been. perpetrating for so long and that problem is in me you've also said

the pakistani prime minister quote acted with dignity and rectitude throughout this crisis many others around the world of praised prime minister kan as well but should he also be held responsible a lot of indians would say for being in charge of a country that has failed to crack down on groups like mohamad which took responsibility for the attack on indian personnel just a week off to the attack a global financial watchdog said that pakistan still even on the imran khan is not doing enough to stop the funding of terrorism and money laundering. yeah well i was elise about that particular moment when we could have flashed into war you know i was not commenting on. the whole dispute which is a complicated one and of course you know. to take action against groups like the

jaish is a responsibility of pakistan but you know history did not begin with. so i think we need to look at that. very very the whole world needs to turn its attention to push me because we are in a very very dangerous situation there is a problem though that the rest of the world is more concerned about nuclear war than about the plight of the kashmiris well i mean if they care about nuclear war then they will have to care about. and frankly it's not. just care about a war hero you're looking at. a country like pakistan boat. bio weapons and you know things that keep that military industrial complex in the way west so there are very serious reasons for why people have looked away but now with this i don't think you can look at

just on the indian press and the conflict in kashmir how much is the indian media and the very nationalistic cable news channels that we see from the far how much do you think that's to blame for all this tension and hostility i mean do journalists complicit in ramping up some of these tensions. there are more than complicit sometimes literally calling for war i mean you had a major television anchor saying we don't want to contemplate the condemnation we have on blood you know one of the most terrifying things in india now is that you have something like four hundred. twenty four hour news channels i mean even of the government in this government. those media channels. openly publishing fake knowing that it's think some of those channels are. weapons they have a vested interest some of the most own by major corporates the biggest corporation

in the. twenty seven twenty four hour news channels you know. the conflict of interest is unbelievable let's talk about what's happening on the ground in indian administered kashmir in particular the suicide bomber at the center of this recent escalation. he was reportedly humiliated by police officers while in school he was shot in the leg during violent twenty sixteen protests when he joined a group of fighters in march twenty eighth his family told reporters and the. military response was to raid their home set it on fire now no one is justifying what he did but how different would the reaction in india be to his story if more people knew about his story and more people knew about what's happening on the ground in indian administered kashmir there's nothing special about that story that's the story of average young man and that's why everything is so dangerous

you know it's not what i'm saying is this beyond a question of posturing and calling them nation nationalism now you did have senior journalist think we could have a limited new kill or for heaven's sake i mean in punjab beza is low on their crops you can't breathe in delhi and they're talking about living to nuclear war there i mean this is a situation of absolutely insane and what is your position. are you for independent. you know i am nobody to say what should happen to me my position is that the shmeat is should be given a chance to express their opinion fearlessly what do they want why are we so scared of that no i guess that they should have the final say but you're not just a novelist of course you're a political analyst if you could wave a magic wand what would you do to me if i could wave a magic wand i would say that you need to demilitarize and you need to ask the

people that have been fighting for since nineteen forty seven what is it that they wouldn't you know why have seventy thousand people died why are hundreds of teenagers been blinded why have so many people been tortured for what why are people willing to kill them why our citizens willing to come in the way of bullets when. the army cordons of a militant and people just throw themselves in the. sure why so just to be clear if the if the question really is did get a vote and they voted for independence from india and from pakistan let's say you would support that you would say you're not opposed to breaking up that part of india look i'm not i'm not any kind of. believes in the sanctity of maps i mean if indians believe that it's all right for them to.

intervene in bangladesh and to separate what was there pakistan from west pakistan and liberate that place which was which was being assaulted there was genocide being committed in battle of the indians believe that that's ok then in what way do they justified their position on pressuring you've been accused by your army of right critics in india of being among other things an apologist for militant groups in kashmir as well as india's maoist fighters to you once said i do feel it's incredible that these poor poor people are standing up against this mighty state what is your position on minority groups taking up arms against the indian government which for all its sins and flaws is in the elected government. well you know i ask to speak like if you go to the center to the villages

as i have been deep into the forests of central india all four or five days walk from the main road where you have vigilante armies raised by the government plus paramilitary forces surrounding indigenous peoples villages burning their own raping their women chasing people off the land in their tens of thousands what do you want to ask people to do in the middle of the forest corner hunger strike when they're already starving what what do you expect them to do you know. all. we see i'm not just suggesting that everybody picks up arms and starts shooting people you know but if there's nonviolent protests it's not a loud if there's armed resistance is not allowed all of us are supposed to be ok with that and making the status quo sorry. india's elections begin in just a few weeks prime minister has exploited the recent crisis in pakistan we're seeing

a lot of nationalism xenophobia on the part of government ministers is he going to get reelected with this kind of rhetoric and campaign do you think. quite honestly i don't think so because the situation here is that everything is in crisis farmers are in crisis universities are in crisis banks are in crisis courts are in crisis i don't think it's going to work and there's something else happened and something else may well have you have said in the past that the opposition party the congress party has quote done by night what the b j p modi's party does by day five years into this modi era is that really still your view of congress that they're basically all the same. that's a very tough question to answer you know because what looks back at the history of what the congress has done and you do. however the modi is not the problem

or the representative of the most powerful organization in the r.s.s. with hundreds of thousands of volunteers it's a cultural that could chose to be j.p. it was set up in nineteen twenty five it has always maintained that the indian constitution is a horrible constitution it has always maintained that india should be declared. a nation so now we are in that sort of. politics and modis politics would you call that the hindu politics. would you call that kind of politics fascist really r.s.s. itself it's all the ideologues have written so much in praise of. in praise of mussolini have called second class citizens have called christians and called mean is there any if you look at the games that have been played. the fourth flag attacks the trail of dead of them.