well. a political shakeup as. chief demands a presidential vacancy he says the eighty two year old up to lindsey's put a figure is unfit to lead. a call for change comes as protests against put the figures twenty eight year old continue across algeria. this is the world news from al-jazeera there is tough talk coming from benjamin

netanyahu as the is writing leader returns home threatening to escalate violence and. only the central government can tell us what i have been a lot giving us. and feeling neglected the frustration in the wake of mozambique's devastating flooding. so constitutional council is holding a special meeting right now after the army chief called for the presidency to be vacated on health grounds this is after weeks of protests calling for the ailing president. to step down after twenty years in power matheson has our report just. ahead of algeria's army announcing what could be a significant moment in the country's history requesting the removal of president abdelaziz bouteflika from office but that's a. in this regard we need to find

a solution to sort out this crisis and to respond to the demands of all jury and within the constitution and within the sovereignty of the country in order to achieve that consensus and to achieve something that is accepted by all parties bootlicker has been in power for twenty years has been credited with revitalizing algeria's economy and ending fighting with armed groups in the one nine hundred ninety s. which killed tens of thousands but he's now eighty two and his health has been poor especially since suffering a stroke six years ago his critics say he's become little more than a front man for military and business leaders whom his opponents say really run the country. weeks of growing protests finally forced beautifully to refer to his announcement to stand for a fifth term he also postponed next month's presidential election a decision designed his critics say to keep him in office algeria's military leaders have been some a beautifully because strongest supporters now they seem to be abandoning him but

some fear that even if beautifully goes little may change the army. and the secret services who have had something that really has. already how are always trying to find a way after their way forward. and that's all that. really bad aunts oh the issue of how can you know young people have their insert that the message also heard about the regime about their willingness to see the regime relieved. article one zero two areas constitution says a president should be removed from office if the constitutional council decides he's unable to carry out his duties because of a long term illness if two thirds of parliament agrees the chairman of the upper house will become acting president if we follow the constitution's done more or

less the same people who are running the country at the moment we've been in it for the foreseeable future and forty five days to ninety days depending on the situation the elections. that we would make in major constitutional or legal arrangements so the game we produce will be will be played according to the rules that exist today and this is what the people in algeria have been calling for or against but they don't want the politics to continue under the same rules lizzie's beautifully has hold on power appears to be slipping but some of his critics fear his allies are determined to remain in iraq matheson al jazeera let's talk to hashem he's in tennessee at the moment but of course has covered algeria and the region for many years for us what was your initial thoughts on this hashing with the army finally saying something on the issue. well it's come out by that statement the army is basically saying that it's pulling our support for

president. who ruled. for almost twenty years the way for what could potentially be a new era but i have to say that the reaction so far very cautious in algeria about the statements made by the algerian army to trigger article one two people happy to say basically we have moved past the notion of. how to step aside because the project office a movement that has engulfed the streets of algeria over the last few weeks was basically about the need for the whole political establishment that has been in power for twenty years to go and people are waiting for the next step they are saying that unless there is a national unity government where we can see independent figure members of the opposition younger representatives of the project ocracy movement all together

crafting a transition to democracy in a syria we will continue to be skeptical of any move made by any key power broker in algeria about the future so i have to say that or one hand many people believe that the move by the by the military will definitely pave the way to turn the era. of the a car but they are waiting to see what happens next important to note hashem that the military whilst it is intervening here is doing it by the book it's going through this constitutional process which will eventually land up in the hands of the parliament isn't it. i think they have realized in a way or another that it's about time to step in because over the past few weeks we have seen the army chief making statements. cautioning people i guess in the act of destabilizing algeria and they were widely seen by the protesters by the opposition as. backing or supporting abdulaziz with a few of the backfired in

a way or another today the army is moving towards a new direction saying that we're not siding with the president we've we got the message for the people and therefore we're calling for article one zero two to be trivial to get now from a legal perspective it remains to be seen how the constitutional council will move forward when it comes to to the to declaring president. unfit to govern the country and therefore calling for the president of the parliament to take over and by the way are the other bill solid who is now the president of the parliament was expected to represent algeria in the arab league summit which is to be held in tunisia in three days from now it remains to be seen whether he will attend or not after the dramatic announcement that was announced today by the army is quite an extraordinary moment but at the same time command. there is still some

monks diety about the future because all of those decisions will ultimately have to pave the way for some radical changes in algeria and you transitional government drafting and you can situation you have to call for prep parliamentary elections and then to be followed by a presidential election as these is definitely an un charter to have a seat for betty algeria's not just uncharted territory but it will take a while won't it even though we've got the constitutional council meeting with right now and it seems that the wheels are already in motion i mean we could be talking many months before any of this is completed. it could by the same time they know that they cannot allow for any power vacuum but tickling a place like a jury because this is a country the has suffered in the ninety's from an unprecedented civil war to fight a gas armed groups that cost the lives of almost one hundred thousand people and

the army the army itself in one nine hundred ninety one when the council the elections it's struggled to bring about an institution to to to rule the country and therefore i think they are trying to do two things here one they want to send a message a reassuring message to the people that we've got the messages. era is over by the same time they are saying that we have to ensure that stability remains in algeria until everybody that is agreed on by all the political key players is in algeria is that that that's the moment where we can we can we can trigger a real transition to democracy and then again you have the opposition which is really very skeptical about the outcome of any move in a move where the army will have a because say because they're saying that we are the ones along with the people who took to the streets everyone was silent and saying that it's about time for radical change. therefore we are the ones who have to have

a biggest say in implementing those reforms and i think this is what will happen in the fuselage area which is the need to build some consensus among every key player in algeria about what could be the next step forward. is our correspondent on north african affairs good to talk to you when i have a quick look at article one or two that we have been talking about of the algerian constitution which means that if the president is believed to be unable to perform his duties because of a lasting illness then algeria's constitutional council has to assess his condition and that's what they're doing right now if it unanimously agree. yes but the president cannot continue it in informs the parliament the parliament has to vote and we need two thirds of parliament to support the removal of the president before any action can actually be taken the chairman of the upper house can then assume the caretaker role for forty five days if the president's illness last longer than that elections can be cole here's my one to share our senior political analyst to

talk through some of this it's funny talking about if the president's illness last has been ill for what six years now he's been in a will it's almost surprising to think that an intervention on grounds of his health hasn't happened so you know i don't think it happened sooner not because he was in full control because the people behind him because the people in the army and in the establishment were playing musical chairs amongst themselves some of them were actually governing and he was the front and others were simply playing each other because there was no one candidate that was going to take over and this is not new. one of the things we miss when you talk about the g. eight is of course history counts more than most other countries in the area the history of algeria is mostly the history about struggle for power especially among genitals i mean you know i'll git independence in one thousand six hundred two by

nine hundred sixty five the first. and what it would get took over for fourteen years the government's own so forth and then we had that as you did another general another credit and then we had another one there while and the last and the last twenty years the beautifully guys been in charge but in and between you had general kofi and you had all these automate personnel an intelligent person out so much so that one when one thinks of algeria one thinks of it spine to be the military and it's nerve system to be the intelligence asian so they really indispensable if you will and so today it's clearly that a lot of people are vying for power still within the system. this is not on those of us politically have brought to power basically took to the fore and nudge the system forward i think the big question is does he have the will and the desire of the people at heart or does he have once again. the military and that's what i

wanted to ask you so you've got because you listed off a whole lot of generals there who came to power since when was it nineteen sixty two sixty five is the first one ok so do you think that could be another one of those names that goes down a year in history because as i pointed out to you ellie and two other guests before he is doing this by the book right now he's not said i'm coming in and taking over he said i want to invoke this article and they're doing it already well there are two things that we know for sure the others we're probably going to have to guess one he's very old. so we know he doesn't has a long political future hedren i mean he's an old man to he never never expressed or short desired for political roles i mean he wasn't exactly the person the second in command with in command that was the vying for power. and as i said in one of our earlier conversations it didn't seem for the good twenty years that he actually showed any such a vision. which probably is comforting for some of us who would want to believe

that or what he really wants now is just to play by the book play by the constitution nudge the constitutional assembly forward and promptly move forward with the transition with the as you heard earlier with the head of the national assembly being transitional president for forty five there's a successor now of course his detractors. and those in the streets of algeria will probably doubt a lot of that they will probably see maybe the glass how the glass half empty and there would tell us that in fact this long tradition will only lead to diffusing the momentum on the streets diffusing the will of the people that materialized over the last month in algeria so then once again we have seen how full or half empty so we have to watch the street very closely again we have to watch the street and we have to watch the military. as i always say i'm there either to be skeptical than to be naive hopeful or optimistic i should say i think

that all of the military in algeria and the rest of the arab world has been key has been indispensable but also in a good number of occasions we haven't seen a military step in and then just step out because the democracy have florestan the country so i remain skeptical that way and yet i would say yes once again the military or kite side of thus far but it's only five years to be fair has played by the book ok thank you mon bashar a senior political analyst. the rest of the day's news is coming up here on al-jazeera. one very important they want to know how an al-jazeera investigation has sent political shock waves through australia.

hello there we're seeing a lot of wet weather across the middle east at the moment a lot of heavy rain and some of the worst affected has been the southern parts of iran this is shiraz you see the water there just rushing past it's picked up those cars and just thrown them and it really has caused a fair amount of damage now that system is gradually edging its way eastwards you can see it while it was over so very heavy downpours as the poor to its way northward heavy rain loss of thunder and lightning as well and that system still here as we head through wednesday will have moved away from she runs there and that will moves out the way we see a few more bits and pieces make their way in from the mediterranean and that will gradually it's their way eastwards as we head through thursday so yet more showers are likely here through parts of iraq and edgy their way towards iran once more now here in doha is the rather gray recently and tonight we're expecting quite a few thunderstorms that's clearing though so on wednesday it will be an improving picture of the often and should be bright and settled and then it should stay that way for this day so it's a temperature for us of around twenty eight degrees on thursday that's eighty two

in fahrenheit it will still be a little bit breezy day the cloud with these outbreaks of rain is just to the south of us is over post the u.s. stretching into parts of saudi well made things rather gray hair and at times if you see a few outbreaks of rain. up to.

here on al-jazeera and algeria constitutional council is holding a special meeting right now chief called for the presidency to be vacated on health grounds that's after weeks of mass protests calling for the ending president. after his twenty years in power. earlier this month he did reverse his decision to seek a fifth term but said he would stay in office until a new constitution was adopted he is rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke back in twenty. two other news and israel's prime minister is threatening further action against gaza and human that's on yahoo cut short his visit to the u.s. after a rocket attack near tel aviv israeli military then bombed gaza and dozens of

rockets were fired back into israel stephanie deca has more from west. this is the kind of pressure that benjamin netanyahu did not want he had to race back to israel ofter what he really wanted to play as a golden egg for his election campaign the u.s. president recognizing israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights at the moment a shaky cease fire is in place for the all the criticism here of the prime minister that he hasn't done enough he hasn't played a tough enough hand on gaza and on how massed we are to wait two weeks away from a hotly contested israeli election three of the men in the party that are giving him the closest run for his money are x. chiefs of staff but again that's you know who is a very savvy political operator he's also facing a lot of pressure about corruption cases cases that he will be indicted for in the future so he's facing what many people will tell you the strongest challenge to his

role this premier in a decade but again he's a savvy political operator he's played this well and says everything seems to be under control. the central issue the u.n. security council meeting as well the status of the occupied golan heights was also discussed as after monday when u.s. president signed an order recognizing israeli sovereignty over the territory a decision condemned by several u.s. allies the secretary says the seven by that not surprised in each case we're simply recognizing facts on the ground and the reality and doing the right thing we hope those nations will join us to understand how important it is how right it is. and we are continuing to have conversations with you mentioned a handful of countries with each of them about this issue about our decision and why we believe this is fundamentally the right decisions will move from new york without a diplomatic effort to james pace. at the start of the meeting the u.n.

secretary general antonio terrace was speaking outside the chamber i asked him both about the ongoing violence in garza the u.s. recognition of israeli sovereignty on golan first of all we were clear in the condemnation of the rocket attack but now we believe it's absolutely necessary to avoid any scaling up and to have restraint and i would appeal is forty strain in the present moment for the people not to suffer even more both in israel and in gaza and in palestine in general on the other hand i think the two seeing disconnected but our position in relation to the golan heights is very clear it comes clearly established by the resolutions of the security council and the general assembly as my spokesperson was able to yesterday clearly describe so that's the view of the secretary general on the goal and that controversial

announcement by president trump i think the u.s. will be watching you heard the comments from secretary of state pompei oh some of their allies in the security council meeting and towards the end of the meeting we happen to have some of the closest allies speaking one after the other we heard from the german ambassador we heard from the u.k. ambassador we heard from the french ambassador and all of them were critical of that u.s. decision which i think will be noted in washington the united states has implemented sanctions against iran targeting twenty five individuals and businesses based in iran but also turkey and the united arab emirates u.s. treasury announced those sanctions on their website including banks and financial institutions more from patika lane in washington. the u.s. treasury says it is sanctioning more people and trying to cripple the iranian economy and now they're far focusing on twenty five different people and entities

not only in iran but in turkey and the united arab emirates the department alleges that these people in these companies were helping to trade the iranian reale and turn those into u.s. dollars and euros more than a billion dollars worth and they believe that was used to help the revolutionary guard so this is all part of the trouble ministrations continue to attempt to try and hurt the iranian economy just last friday they issued more saying sions against the effect the iranian weapons development teams so again trying to put pressure on iran but this time someone unusually going outside of iran in targeting people and companies inside both turkey and the united arab emirates brazil's president has ordered the armed forces to hold commemorations on sunday marking the anniversary of the nine hundred sixty four military coup. who is a former army captain himself says he admires the military dictatorship that ruled the country until one thousand nine hundred five and he denies the ousting of the

president fifty five years ago amounted to a coup hundreds of people were tortured killed or disappeared during military rule if you consider the question see if he believes that society as a whole perceiving the danger that the country was experiencing was able that day to unite civilians and military to recover and return our country onto its course if that had not happened today we would have some kind of government that would not be good for anyone. and venezuela has declared tuesday a national holiday to help cope with its second major blackout this month the government is trying to restore power to the capital caracas and other cities after power supplies failed on monday it's again blaming us back to ponens of sabotaging the dam that provides most of the country's electricity. survivors of cycling a day are trying to get their lives back to normal after last week's storm left a trail of destruction in southern africa zimbabwe malawi and the city of barrow in

mozambique are all hit very hard tony burke has been saying how the city's long running support for the opposition may be actually affecting the government's recovery effort. on the streets a view of the clean up of cycling he dies destruction has begun it's a massive task volunteers a very ground to try and restore a sense of normality to this ravaged city. mango is the hands on mare who gets up every day at five am to supervise the operation and try and restore hope we also are trying to tell the people there's no food. but we need to work we need to work off hours so we need to rebuild our selves people are living in schools and on street corners it's a miserable existence even for families familiar with hardship before the psych loan struck this region had an unemployment rate of seventy percent with forty percent of those making living on the streets the majority of big companies that

employ most a beer is full time work force have been devastated by it i many have gone bust and getting the economy back up and running is now one of the top priorities it's been a climatic battleground here but also a political one there has been hard core opposition and it's voted five times against the ruling for lemo government in parliamentary and presidential elections and some people here believe they're paying a price for that opposition critics accuse government leaders in the campus almost of previously failing to invest in infrastructure including schools and hospitals and of not doing enough to help victims of the disaster there so question i asked grogs. god why are you breaking cycle. i want to get. only god can tell a good. thing to say that only the central government can't that's what i do a lot giving us government supporters maintaining all it can with limited funds and

that. funding is allocated regardless of which party is governing and all provinces what is important is the direction of the country and not the party. but politics is a game that few of mozambique's poor and destitute play their lives are always been a struggle from birth to has been unemployed for twenty five years he lived in a shack and survived a lot of jobs the cycle only left him with nothing. either and did you at least i had a home before the psych on of my life was a little normal even though i didn't have much but now i have lost everything it's not just me sleeping here the streets are full of families with children. many of beer is new street well as don't know what even care this is an election year in mozambique for them life is about if and when they will next eat not when they'll vote. we did it i don't care about politics we just need help there's nothing to eat and we don't have medication we don't even have pots and plates. the misery for

many of mozambique cycling victims won't end until help arrives tony berkeley al-jazeera beera. australia's prime minister says he is very concerned over al-jazeera is investigation showing links between the us lobby and an australian political party and thomas says. this is denise just sitting. in for nothing was. what started as an al-jazeera undercover investigation into the united states is national rifle association is now dominating australian news and the top of politics there we have reports that one nation officials basically sought to sell australia's gun laws to the highest bidders to a foreign buyer and i find that a part of one nation is

a far right anti immigration party that's growing in influence in australia its officials caught trying to get donations from the us gun lobby is big news that's because first for donations to political parties were recently made illegal in australia with one nation foremost among those calling for that ban and second because most australians are proud of their strict gun laws and a concern that any political party suggesting they could be watered down or changed . that is particularly true right now in the aftermath of the horrific mosque attacks in neighboring new zealand earlier this month on choose day the one nation officials caught on camera tried to turn the tables pointing at the undercover reporter of al-jazeera and never ever ever suspected him or wildest dreams that this guy employed by middle eastern country while geo as an australian to iran is going to politics this is skullduggery at its worst this is the very first time

a strong leader has witnessed political interference from a foreign government but the al-jazeera program may care rejects that the evidence is on the video videotape quite clear one nation says the al-jazeera documentary will seriously and fairly damage their election prospects in the meantime it's dominating australia's air waves and online andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. with al-jazeera these are the top stories algeria is constitutional council is holding a special meeting after the army chief called for the presidency to be vacated on health grounds it follows weeks of mass protests calling for the ailing president up deliveries but to flicker to step down after twenty years in power more from hashemite harbor he's monitoring developments from tennessee and i think the army has decided that this time if we are to step in it is definitely to show the people

that you are genuinely about a radical reform that and says the demands of the thousands of algerians who took over across the country saying basically they need fresh the country they need a new efficient government and they did the establishment to go and win the algerians use the term the system of the establishment this talking about president which of his interest about the about those who benefited from the system over the last twenty years. other news israel's prime minister is threatening further action against gaza benjamin netanyahu cut short his visit to the united states after a rocket attack near tel aviv the israeli military then bombed gaza and dozens of rockets were fired back into israel gaza was the central issue at a un security council meeting as well as was the status of the occupied golan heights remember on monday u.s. president donald trump signed an order recognizing israeli sovereignty over the territory a decision which was condemned by several u.s.

allies in his way that is declared tuesday a national holiday as they try to cope with the second major blackout this month the government is trying to restore power to the capital caracas and other cities after power supplies failed on monday it is once again blaming us back to ponens for sabotaging the dam that provides most of the country's electricity and strength is prime minister says he is very concerned after an al jazeera investigation revealed links between the u.s. gun lobby and an australian political party official from the n.r.a. were filmed by our investigative unit advising australia as one nation party on how to influence public opinion after a mass shooting we are back with the news hour in about twenty five minutes time next inside story.

the golan heights. says the u.s. recognizes israel. benjamin netanyahu election campaign. helping peace in the middle east this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm nick clegg so u.s. president donald trump has done it again in his latest controversial move he has recognized israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights ending decades.