some of those struggling to earn a living in the capital manila when war broke out in morality in the southern philippines almost two years ago. and her children fled the violence they made their way here to downtown manila since then her eldest son up to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violent and like many others they are harassed because they're homeless and they're classified as illegal vendors. and look at us hard when they see them hauled away and tired what is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say iran to have a filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of money meant more than twenty percent of them are underweight the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children with stunted growth. how occurs the most in agriculture and fishing sectors where more than seventy percent

of workers are impoverished displacements brought about by natural disasters and continuing on conflict contributes to communities food insecurity the autonomy's a region in muslim mindanao has one of the highest tendency for under way children and it may be attributed to the history of conflict in the region. aid groups have been feeding children in many public schools for years and the government is promising to expand that program nationwide and include kindergartens and elementary schools. in hopes to eradicate hunger and reduced on to the growth in children by twenty thirty and there it's sustainable development goal it's not being highlighted because. this is very abstract we only notice one nutrition if the child is skin and bones sometimes we call it behave that hunger even recall it

like. that starvation of the soul because when we talk about that it doesn't only affect the body with it affects the whole being of the child. shayne is twelve years old and for four years she's been helping her mother feed her other seven siblings they sell flowers outside churches and together make less than six years dollars a day shayne sleeps here on the pavement with her mother she says she dreams should become a doctor when day three now she sells her flowers with hunger her constant companion . still to come on counting the cost of community farms are springing up in venezuela as u.s. sanctions kick in. but first india's prime minister narendra modi declared the country a space power after the successful test of an empty satellite missile but opposition leaders complained that the prime minister used the test to score

political points the election commission said if you'll pardon the pun that it would launch a probe of its own as one into the prime minister's announcement which comes ahead of elections more than mine one hundred million indians will go to the polls in the world's biggest democratic process beginning april eleventh political parties are expected to spend seven billion dollars over the election cycle that ends on may twenty third but there are concerns new campaign laws introduced by modi are making it more difficult to find out who's financing the parties and their candidates anyone can walk into a bank and buy electoral bombs anonymously for the party of the choice. joining us now from new delhi is charlie a professor and dean at the general school of international affairs good to have you with us professor the government has defended these new campaign financing rules why is that if you know. before the final and. once.

it was completely in the dark. so. donations and was not accounted for us all are because we are the books and after a car so the dollars does claiming that you know by introducing these bonds and other schemes a lot of we are going to be in the back in early ledger to be you know i will look for a school to me and you can actually tell who's receiving how much and before last we couldn't even guess who this image finally receiving one amount of money and from two or so our own we the factory still we're in the current law which means that the law is knowing what at least you know who's repealing it in the box we will accompany black boxes so the people next to me are really hot but do you need from where you are laughter your appetite ration it does seem like it is also lost

on the situation by two nuclear of the ruling party and of working against the interests of the opposition and therefore there's a lot of concern about whether it will do the balance in favor of the what the donors expect for their money in india can elections in the country that border and politicians perhaps more concerned about their sponsors than that constituents well you know they are going to get along is a problem with most democracies there are influential gallic who are trying to curry favor with the government and to get policies enacted in their favor i'm not so sure the current situation means that a lot of some big businesses will want to jewelers because one of the interesting aspects of this law is that even foreign companies not just in newcastle aspiring ones with indian branches can also need parties i'm honestly so odd to me that you

know it's leveling the playing field but i want to get i mean this is about loan on cash for ok people obviously kind of are getting. only a few words are exchanged if you have any more wins so about exchanging all of it with the thought of all that. concessions for investment and that will settle things possibly could be for choose to have this path through this fashion all are you knowing is a completely democracy at the end of the day and elections cannot be bought or fixed i mean that you can use of language because you really for example understand what you are getting most of the funding that is gabby even of a tree you normally and he lections and we have seen the parties that are on it in the nets are also on because there are the usual governance of the guard and i didn't get the. you know cabbie that started a whole gabbie what's now because of the leaderless caste and religion are going to

think it's ok so who are the big done as and what about foreign political bonus there's concern all over the world about us foreign and political funding what about in india well least of these the most interesting aspect of it i mean are used in new business houses the big family owned business houses. and that are not the beloved and so are we in martin county financing into the open secret where marlowe opening the door of the unit subsidy of the foreign company and that means an interesting because are you not over the last if you go forward are. you and you're one of them was a crack of this nation's foreign investment saw the news of throttle up on you know international money national populations now looking for market access and a better government could be how you know it's only going to india and the only

very keyed in probably made a mark in this election unlike in the last minute fighting donations were bad so they started you know unless this election are our interests are all we're going to be or it doesn't look like five going to be the new professor really going to talk to you and counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us. now getting enough food just to survive continues to be a big problem in venezuela the oil rich nation produces only twenty percent of its own food and with the latest us all sanctions now beginning to bite some hope the community farms will get them through tough times now to zero stories about reports from caracas. difficulties are everywhere in venezuela these days the economy crisis as millions struggling but people say they're ready to fight back by producing their own food they have turned this small farming back us into an agricole logical project where they can grow fruits vegetables and even fish.

he says the situation will likely deteriorate in the country when the new us sanctions take effect. that there is an economic war against us and we try to supply our families in the hospital in the area with displays we can feed seventy people every day. there are three families living here and with what they produce they're helping a local hospital people here say that they need to be ready for what's coming. on the people say that in this place almost everything to survive. on a linux says there are over twenty thousand projects like this one in venezuela but that they need more government support. we need to teach people that they need to learn how to produce their own food this needs to be public policy we need to tell

the government the budget that is invested in food production must be the same one vested in the armed forces. venezuela imports most of the food it consumes the us has impose new sanctions that will make it tougher for the government to sell oil and get much needed cash it has on the part of america and we send the says there are real sanctions begin now. the sentence we saw by the united states in the past were affecting individuals but they were not against the state against p.d.s.a. it was against people related to the government the sanctions were light or we are going to see now is an embargo and this is going to be tough demolishing. the m.d.s. has been breeding rabbits in the farm he says people see them as pets but they could be a crucial source of protein. there also needs to be self-criticism the government doesn't know how to plan how to get organized the enormous corruption because the state continues to operate like all agog what we want to eradicate is still and

it's up to us social movements to make change in this production as a way to protest. most analysts say the situation will deteriorate in the next few months becoming self-sufficient is the only way many venezuelans will have to deal with their every day life mexico's leftist president under as manuel lopez obrador swept to power promising more help for the country's poorest now though soup kitchens that feed the hungry a shutting down as he takes the axe to government social programs john holdren explains why from mexico city. mix can community kitchens where some of the country's most vulnerable you get a cheap meal there were never notices here because lou pape there are a life saver in feeding her family of six with his gaze wally i know it's really helped with our finances even with the gas for the stove and now i go to

work rather than just worrying about cooking and until now we've never gotten. that many of mitts because almost six thousand federal food kitchens have already shut as part of budget cuts to social services it's not just the soup kitchens closing their doors funds have also been slashed for child daycare centers and the government plan to shut down shelters for women fleeing domestic violence and give the money instead until a backlash made it change its mind and this is all come from a president who's long championed the poor and vulnerable at school some surprise and indignation. he says the measures necessary to stamp out corruption sit didn't mean it's finished around thirty years of these programs which were just used to win elections and get media attention. programs which encourage corruption using the name of the humble the poor to do it that's all finished the c.f.l. on the base something in the government social ministry was recently implicated in

a monumental corruption scandal but civil society groups say the wholesale scrapping of programs for the pool is not. and some worry there are other motivations well my concern is that is really an attempt to to concentrate power to have all the social programs in their hands to be a political platform and in that says if you really committed to transparency and avoid the corruption will be transparent spread in the sense of of the venue be carried of the of the new of the new programs and you're putting together none of that so far in place the new programs he's talking about include expanded help for students the old and those with disabilities the president it seems those weren't social programs just ones bill so his own design. and that's for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen get in touch with us you can tweet me a finnigan on twitter use the hash tag c.t.c.

when true or drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net e-mail address as always there's plenty more few online. called slash c.t.c. that takes you straight to a page and there you'll find individual reports links even entire episodes for you to catch up on but that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm adrian finnegan for the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the news on al-jazeera is next. they said what do you think of waterboarding i said i think we absolutely need it wishes to have it out of the carriage of the people in power investigates the private companies and mouli us towns allegedly complicit in the illegal use of torture under interrogation the sun will rise once a day and then sets not a few are in the hands of the cia who can make the sun shine or not rendition new

visitors. on al-jazeera. a time off change in discovery that things that it dated and then. you see a time to forge an identity not saying anything bad about accepting the baby to mean your whole life plans get really pissed in one thousand nine hundred ninety south africa up revisits the children of apartheid seventy years on as they grow and develop where their countrymen fourteen up south africa part two on al-jazeera . three palestinians are killed and hundreds injured as israeli forces use live fire against protesters mocking again of gaza demonstrations.

hello i'm the star of the attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. in the middle of the algerian military has always been within the legitimacy of the constitution. algeria's army chief says there's a campaign against the military that calls for the removal of president abdullah says pacifica. epidemic fears and mozambique has the number of cholera cases in the wake of cycling he died doubles in forty eight hour winds. and a struggling economy is the biggest issue on their minds as millions of turkish forces head to the polls in local elections. three palestinian teenagers have been killed and more than two hundred forty people injured during a day of protests in gaza tens of thousands gathered at the fence that separates

gaza from israel to mark of year since the start of weekly protests known as the great. palestinians are demanding the right to return to lands from which their families were violently expos during the founding of israel in one thousand nine hundred forty eight mohammad time dream has more from gaza. on the first anniversary of the great march of return palestinians came out committed to their cause continue on the physical out of of it we're here for the anniversary of nine days and that has been stolen by israel we hate to tell everyone that we have rights and they've been taken by the israeli. for many here this is become a regular weekly routine a cycle of bullets and tear gas all of it bringing death and injury to the protesters. as in protest past some demonstrators. toward the border fence and others hurled rocks toward israeli forces but today most stayed behind simply observing waiting to see what happens next but making

a difference was the presence of hamas and islamic jihad volunteers who actively tried to keep things calm. despite the flare ups things have so far today been far less chaotic than many people feared they would be the question now what exactly happens next. the great march of return protests began on march thirtieth two thousand and eighteen when civil society groups called for action against the twelve year blockade on gaza the original aim was to break through the fence and reclaim their ancestral land the protests were later organized by hamas saturday's anniversary was set against the backdrop of a bid by egypt to deescalate the latest round of tensions between israel and hamas negotiations are ongoing a massive issue is on the scene said they'd arrived at a crossroads. that must look with everything will depend on how israel deals with protesters will they stop attacking civilians and stop the aggression and airstrikes on gaza and also other going to respect what's been

a great upon with the egyptians lost some were cautiously optimistic about the prospect of a deal others worry a deal won't ensure things will fundamentally change somewhat over folios yes it a thought was that it had that attitude the economic situation in gaza has been very miserable for a long time but in the last two years it's become more miserable unemployment is very high there's no money in gaza the border is closed which means eighty percent of needed items come out and who goes if people aren't allowed to travel and there aren't enough hospitals for treatment of a sentiment echoed by many here who vowed to continue to come out week after week year after year until they finally get the rights and opportunities they deserve. gaza. and israel has launched another round of artillery strikes on gaza they talk about hamas positions near the border fence separating gaza and israel earlier the israeli army said five rockets were fired into israeli territory from gaza there

were no casualties a mass evacuation some of its positions in anticipation of an israeli response well algeria's army chief has renewed his call for the constitution to be used to remove president otherwise a specific a from power millions of algeria have been taking part in nationwide anti-government protests demanding political change the tory occasionally reports. who days after the army backed protestors cools the president abdelaziz bouteflika to step down algeria is amici reiterated his be that the eighty two year old president must leave office. in danish the position taken by the algerian military has always been within the legitimacy of the constitution and has always upheld the interest of the algerian people above all it is always seen that pollution to the crisis count be anything other than the implementation of article one hundred two of the constitution but acknowledge there is resistance to his plan

a moon deponents not to seek to undermine the military some think he was referring to a meeting between proof implement your brother saeed and the former head of algeria secret service this is actually more about the different elements within the regime itself within what it was known as you look who was the power and which is a series of that held our collective and that until now have worked side by side and which now seem to actually be coming apart. bt flicker he's ruled algeria for twenty years suffered a stroke in twenty thirteen and is ready been seen in public since by triggering article one or two the constitutional council would declare the president unfit to lead the country a step that would pave the way for the chairman of the upper chamber in parliament to take over as interim president until elections are held. but many algerians want much more than

a change of leadership they're calling for an overhaul of the entire political system that plans include a national unity government that would lead the country for a transitional period draft a new constitution and reinvigorate an economy in tatters. the government attempted to split the opposition but now there are signs the government itself may be splintering as it tries to resolve this crisis big turia gate and be . the number of cholera cases in the city of barren mozambique has increased to more than two hundred seventy eight and health workers are struggling with the aftermath of sight turn in which hit more than two weeks ago damage to water and sanitation facilities has raised fears about a potential epidemic. reports. scenes of destruction left in the wake of catastrophic flooding with towns and villages submerged cycling hundreds of people in mozambique. now the government is desperately trying to save lives.

we're trying for void an outbreak of cholera at the moment we're expecting this we're very prepared for there's no doctors in place so this is what we're doing at the moment many were trapped for more than a week with no access to clean water after cycling eat i hit the port city of bear . with tens of thousands of people displaced and living in temporary shelter a lack of sanitation has created the perfect conditions for cholera the vaccination is a very needed and it should start next wednesday next week the faster we go the most generous we have to come to transmission. of the of the coalition in the population then there is a big need for community engagement safe water distribution for all of these population of berrabah to also for the districts are running bera

where there is a i risk for cases there are so. cholera is not new to mozambique the country has experienced regular outbreaks over the past five years but aid agencies now warn there is little time to prevent a major outbreak and more should be done to stem the spread of the disease. al-jazeera. well voting is underway in turkey's local elections which are being seen as a major test for the ruling party at least fifty seven million people are eligible to cast their ballots the ok party has dominated turkish politics for nearly two decades and an opposition alliance is hoping to put a dent on their dominance sin and cos the only who has moved from istanbul. for the first time in turkey's political history. the president holds local election rallies across the country the president's campaigning is an indication of how important these elections are to him and his party they are seen by many as

a popularity past after their forty's seventeen years at the helm and it's a state of economy that is presenting president add ons biggest challenge and could turn voters away from him also because the ruling party believes they can win by polarization and avoiding real problems but packing it survival to the country's future may risk the president's credibility. the ruling party currently governs forty nine out of eighty one provincial municipalities the party formed people's alliance with the nationalist movement party in the last two elections and nominated joined candidates then they complain about high food prices so what if there are no onions in my cooking what i can't live without is our flag our country or the sound of the call to prayer turkey's main opposition party c.h.p. and the conservative group party have united under the nation's alliance some. the

people's alliance divides there are those with them and those against the even called opponents terrorist m i n n i kissed if i don't support your pro kurdish party h.t.t.p. currently is the third largest faction in parliament it has an appeal to candidates and a stumble on corrupt and there is merit instead is concentrating its afeard in the stronghold in the south to stop the country and it supports the opposition candidates in the west i believe kurdish votes in big cities like istanbul and qur'an is near have the potential to be a game changer however would still follow what the popular trend is. the people's alliance now waged a three year campaign by accusing candidates of having links to the p.k. kurdish fighters group which too can its western allies consider a terrorist organization prisons are don't like parties facing perhaps the greatest challenge in seventeen years the economy the continuing recession threatens the

support base especially in big cities like a stumble and sunday's local elections will the president's standing among fifty seven million turks eligible to vote because so what else is there a stumble. now the u.s. president's decision to allow offshore oil drilling in the arctic ocean has been overruled a district court judge called donald trump's reversal of an environmental protection policy from the obama era unlawful and invalid this means the drilling ban in much of the arctic ocean will come back into effect the ruling is the result of a lawsuit brought by a coalition of environmental groups following trump's executive order has more from washington d.c. federal judge sharon gleason says president donald trump exceeded his constitutional authority when he issued an executive order back in april of two thousand and seventeen that essentially stripped away all protections against explore ation and oil drilling from above five hundred thousand square kilometers

of waters all in the arctic and north atlantic oceans trump has tried repeatedly to roll back environmental protections that were made during the emboss obama administration but he has been unsuccessful in large part because.