the nationalist movement party especially for the big cities where their competition is poised the opposition alliance the nation's alliance has brought for instance the race to knife edge in a stumble that has been under the ruling party or its predecessors for almost a quarter century and especially in uncorrupt the gap between the ruling party the nation's the people's alliance and the nation alliance it was pretty high but in the last week really how witness that this gap has been narrowed but still the opposition alliance is running in the front in the turkish capital ankara but. this is the first time that the ruling party and presents are gone has been challenge especially in the local elections considering that present our dance political career also started. from local authorities he was he was to be the mayor of istanbul and then he became prime minister even though he was banned from politics

before and then he has rising up to being the president but of course this local election matters especially to the ruling party because turkey made a major referendum and switched approved switched from parliamentarian system to presidential system last june and the ruling out party mean the president who is the first president to be a member of a political party and the chairman of a political party if he wants to console of the it is vote along with the nationalist movement party who has allowed with him for the last two elections the right sort of course well who thank you still ahead on al-jazeera algeria's armed chief says there's a campaign against the military after it calls for the removal of president are the losses both of. the housing crisis in southeast asia is fastest growing economy we look at those who've left behind.

hello gated welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across europe we have seen plenty of nice weather across much of the area now things are going to change basically down here towards the south as well as up here towards north let's start with the north first we do have a funnel bondy right there across northern germany as well as poland coming through parts of dust scandinavia that is going to bring some winds with it as we go towards the next couple of days we're not going to see a lot in terms of clouds here or rain but we are going to be seeing some windy conditions as well as a drop in temperature so for berlin we do expect to see here ten degrees over towards london at twenty paris though you're going to stay about twenty degrees and that is going to continue as we go towards monday windy conditions will continue across much of the area and the down here across the

a bit of peninsula it is going to be wet cloudy and cooler with madrid seeing attempted there of about seventeen degrees well over the next few days it is also going to be the northwestern part of africa that sees plenty of whether that weather is going to extend into the central portions of algeria as well we do think there is a possibility of flooding across this area if you notice as we go through the rest the day and into monday heavy rain across the region so potential for flash flooding in the area up towards tunis it is going to be a cloudy and what day with the tempter there of seventeen degrees. the weather sponsored by town. for amnesty international an organization focused on human rights around the world now amnesty itself is facing allegations of abuse and mistreatment by its own staff because honestly fall into the lowest point in its history do you think misty's secretary general. talks to al-jazeera.

well i'm going to tell us this thing we were told earlier thanks lou well. good luck. you'll want all. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the two main border crossings into gaza are open again for the first time in six days israel lifted restrictions on sunday morning after a weekend of mass protests along the fence dividing gaza and israel and talks between israel and the palestinians are set to dominate the thirtieth the arab league summit which is about to get underway in the tunis in capital tunis regional leaders are gathering against a backdrop of division war and unrest in libya syria and yemen and. people in

turkey are voting right now in local elections which are being seen as a major test for president rather play a bird once ruling party the party is that risk of losing control of many oral seats in ankara and istanbul because of the struggling economy. ukrainians are casting their votes in the first round of their presidential election thirty nine candidates are in the running including the incumbent petro poroshenko and former prime minister yulia timoshenko but comedian of all the demos alinsky is leading opinion polls if no candidate gets more than fifty percent of the vote and the top two will go into a second round of voting so when a help has more from. expected from drama in the race to become ukraine's next president give me a zelinsky he's an actor and comedian he's campaign appearances are stand up comedy act what he lacks in actual policy or political experience he makes up for with these on screen persona you know popular television series he's

a teacher blows the whistle on corruption suddenly finding himself president. that's. great. he's famous for one thing young people see him as an. outsider figure which they like this. there's a certain thing. and i'd say. i like this personality but it seems even he isn't sure if you can be president or not we don't know we we just want to believe that he's a better option previous presidents with businessmen politicians and lawyers maybe a comedian can make a difference for. many feel the political zelinsky could hardly do worse than the current president petro poroshenko he came to power after russia's annexation of crimea vowing to end the war in the east and sweep away corruption the billionaire confectionery king here immortalized in bullet casings and his own sweet and

chocolate wrappers has bowed to pressure from the international monetary fund raising utility prices that hurt the poor and he's in a circle he's implicated in allegedly corrupt weapons purchases. if you see corruption i think we should talk about this let's why reason all of these. painting this is a conversation with president bush and co first of all and if he will be elected for the second time i hold food there we'll make him to sink evolved what kind of place in the history he wants to to get. also in the running after two decades in politics and three years in prison is former prime minister yulia timoshenko many of her supporters at a final rally in central kiev were bussed in from the countryside drawn by a pledge to consume a gas prices the focus of this election is the economy the promises being made

about the war that's the toxic question for all the candidates no one has answered no one has. no one wants to take responsibility for five years of war after a people's rebellion against russian influence and corruption and ukraine is a country that seems stuck unsure now which way to turn jonah. and to corruption candid a couple tova has won slovakia's presidential election making her the country's first female leader. of the liberal lawyer who has no previous political experience beat the governing party candidate in a second round runoff vote property over and told supporters who saw her victory as a signal for change she'll be sworn in in june to the largely ceremonial position. i accept this result with great humbleness and sense of great responsibility i

think all of you for being here with me and i promise you that i will be with you let's look for things that connect us let's place to work for a better slovakia's above all the fights fought for personal gains let's invite other people in pursuit of ideas and values that connected us through this election algeria's army chief has been holding emergency meetings as he pushes for president to flicker to be declared unfit for office millions of people have joined nationwide protests demanding political change victoria gate and the 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. 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 the solution to the crisis cowpie 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 bruta flick his influential brother 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 to what are the power and which is a series of that held power collectively and that until now have worked side by side and which now seemed to actually be coming apart. 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 the. that many algerians want much more than a change of leadership they're calling for an able who is 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 . saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos and accessing his private information bezos ordered hired hired private investigators after his personal messages were leaked to the national enquirer newspaper in january be inquiry found riyad targeted base those who owns the washington post after the death of saudi journalist. the kingdom denies involvement in the hacking

. donald trump's ordered cuts in direct aid to three countries in central america as part of his campaign against illegal immigration democrats say the cuts to el salvador guatemala and honduras are entirely counterproductive and will only increase the flow of migrant caravans north through mexico towards the u.s. the reports from the border city if you wanna where many migrants say they're living in desperate and dangerous conditions. it's another day at a migrant shelter on the us mexico border almost everyone here is from central america and they're seeking asylum in the united states. in the past migrants would be allowed to wait in the u.s. while their cases were considered but a change in policy by the trumpet ministration now requires them to be sent back to mexico until their case numbers are called yes back at the i arrived in tehran and applied for a number because they said that with the number everything would work out now i'm

seeing that's not the case with. most of the people at this shelter have been here for several months many of them tell us they don't feel safe just. the americans asked me if i had somewhere to stay and. i said no we don't we don't have family here or anything they asked if it's dangerous for us in mexico and i said yes we run a risk there but they still send us back here i don't feel that's right. the city of the one who has seen an increase in violent crime in recent months there have been almost five hundred people killed so far in two thousand and thirteen adding to the more than twenty five hundred homicides reported last year. for central american asylum seekers like nineteen year old idea of being stuck in mexico seems just as dangerous as returning to his home in honduras about you and. your interior want to you get kidnapped or something worse because of all the criminals as

a migrant you get scared but no matter i suppose we have to stay here for some time . human rights advocate because of clarke says the change in policy by the u.s. is turning the mexico side of the border into a massive waiting room for asylum applicants and i've got it but what the united states is intending to do is dissuade migrants by making the asylum process in the united states more bureaucratic. an estimated two hundred forty individuals have been sent back to the one under the trumpet ministrations remain in mexico program but as the policy expands to more cities along the border that number is expected to rise significantly u.s. officials have defended the policy of returning central american asylum seekers to mexico calling it a vital response to a crisis at the southern border but human rights groups warn that the program could have the opposite effect and push more desperate migrants to cross over illegally mounted up. at the us mexico border. the international monetary fund expects the

philippines to become the fastest growing economy in southeast asia for many filipinos doubts whether they'll benefit millions of fordable homes are needed to cope with a growing population and alleviate extreme poverty dogon reports from manila. married rowsley passau has been living here with her husband and four children this small room serves as the kitchen living room dining area and bathroom at night the all sleep in this less than ten square meter bedroom upstairs because the house really small and we can barely stretch our legs here and it's hot and crompton but that's better than nothing according to the philippine government almost six million homes need to be built for impoverished filipinos and that backlog is expected to reach almost eight million by twenty twenty two which means thousands of homes need to be built every day in order to meet that demand but that's not

happening because government says it hasn't enough money we are producing less than the need for housing since this is also a budget exam when there are these of course we fall short of the target to meet the housing backlog because the priorities and education on have we compete with the basic sectors every year this lack of housing is made worse by thousands of families being displaced by typhoons and earthquakes and the decades long conflict in many places like the mindanao region displaces thousands more. experts say the poor are most likely to be homeless and that's the worsened by a growing population more than twenty two million filipinos are now living in extreme poverty the government says it's taking action we hope programs projects on. all government agencies local government units.

in the country as most of the unemployed to have no proof of home ownership the government has classified them as illegal settlers people like there is. mary rose's mother she moved here in one thousand nine hundred eighty three after her husband died and raised her children on her own more than thirty five years later she is still classed as an illegal settler you know what you would like is to be relocated affordable housing through we can finally own a home so we can pay for it. there are many shanties like this one in the capital manila people live in small areas without adequate sanitation yet filipinos continue to come here looking for jobs and many like there say living without

a permanent home makes them feel they're lost and drifting. al-jazeera manila. we're getting live pictures right now from the pope. right now where he's visiting with six children he is on a trip to the country to promote her religious dialogue and his spending about twenty seven hours in the country this is his first visit there on the first by a pope since nineteen eighty five and he will be holding a mass later on sunday with about twenty three thousand catholics who are in the country right now. the headlines on al-jazeera this hour the two main border crossings into gaza are open again for the first time in six states israel lifted restrictions on sunday morning after a weekend of mass protests along the fence dividing gaza and israel well how much

has the latest from gaza the thinking here in gaza is that a deal is all but complete it's been reported extensively in media outlets here especially media outlets close to how much you also have many outlets the israeli media that are saying that a tentative deal has been reached this deal as we understand would include the opening of the two me border crossings would also allow fishermen to fish off the coast here anywhere between twelve to fifteen nautical miles off the coast which would be a huge boost to fishermen in gaza it would also allow the entry of goods talks between israel and the palestinians are set to dominate the thirtieth the arab league summit which is about to get underway in the team is in capital tunis regional leaders are gathering against the backdrop of division war and unrest in libya syria and yemen and people in turkey are voting in local elections which are being seen as a major test of president read

a player berto on the ruling party the ak party is at risk of losing control of mayoral seats in ankara and istanbul because of the struggling economy ukrainians are casting their votes right now in the first round of their presidential election comedian of all the demise alinsky is leading in opinion polls followed closely by the current president petro poroshenko on the former prime minister yulia timoshenko and to corruption candidate zuzana capital the has won slovakia's presidential election making her the country's first female leader of the liberal lawyer who has no previous political experience beat the governing party candidate it. saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos in accessing his private information ordered private investigator hired private investigators after his personal messages were leaked to the national enquirer newspaper in january the inquiry found riyad targeted bezos who owns the washington post after the death of saudi journalists. those are the headlines talk to

al-jazeera is coming up next stay with us. on account of the cost for a look at what's holding in the me from becoming a true trillion dollar economy as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote goes financing politics in india mexico's government is axing social programs for the country's poorest bitterly why counting the cost on our elders here. i. i i i you know that you know the nearly sixty years adversity international has campaigned for a world where everyone enjoys child rights living free from too much of discrimination and persecution where people have freedom of choice of expression in forums and it was founded by british lawyer peter benenson who organized

a letter writing campaign to release political prisoners that simple concept grew to become a global movement which works in one hundred fifty countries demanding governments and organizations and injustices but the champion of human rights is itself guilty of some of those very abuses an independent report commissioned by amnesty found some of its staff have been the victims of bullying discrimination and abuses of power the damning report says honesty has a toxic working culture that management routinely use bullying and public humiliation thirty nine percent of stock have developed mental or physical issues because of working that sixty five percent don't believe their wellbeing is a priority for the state and that the findings could fundamentally jeopardize amnesties mission so how can i hold governments to account when some of its own workers feel abused as it lost credibility and is it fits the purpose they are key

questions for these new secretary general appointed last year m l comino i do talks to our. i. community thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you for human rights violations bullying sexism racism abuses of power injustices you work so hard to expose in corrupt organizations governments and yet injustices that amnesty itself has now been found guilty of in this very shocking very damning very critical report has honestly fall into the lowest point in its history do you think. the challenge that amnesty country faces is based on four things one the fact that our mission that we worked for was tough a committed to why we're winning battles we're losing the war and that contributes to a very kind of stressful environment because all the folks that work at amnesty

a passionate committed want to make big can and they also understand that you know why we winning yeah and they're in important battles they can see that human rights is keeping away from us the second problem is our organization set up in one hundred sixty one as added one neal of complexity off to the other it has it's evolved and to be honest we need a complete reorganizing because in fact the very structure of the embassy right now is a source of certain conflicts and tensions that we need to fix it and be the third problem is our culture we have a culture where we need to be to have a much higher levels of trust because you see this thing where you come to amnesty so you working for human rights like for example i was in a cost city with a team of colleagues you know what you see the is so horrific the impacts that you have on you as a person i mean i like other stuff had to go for counseling and so on and we came

out after seeing mass graves and so on but in that environment there's almost a sense like you know the cause is so important so you put every thing then you cut a little bit of commas yet in the knee think it's ok and what we're saying is moving forward it's not ok that we actually don't take our internal wellbeing as much as we fight on the outside and of course within that there's into individual failure as well and this is reporter commission before i chill and i'm glad that the board in my plea desists made a commitment to make it publicly available and for amnesty just one case of racism or sexism is one case too many sixty five percent. staffie responded in this report say they don't believe their wellbeing is a priority for the state they say there's a toxic working environment first you know one percent of staff say they've developmental fiscal issues because of working amnesty and not just because of the human suffering they experience but because of the working culture itself how

damaging is this report to amnesty credibility surely it's very difficult for you to hold others to account to hold them to high standards to criticize them when so many of your star feel that they are like that absolutely it is very somber and painful reading as a new person coming on board it was very difficult to read this over i think now we must be judged by how we move forward and we address it and the first thing is i think it was really important that my colleagues on the senior leadership team reflected. on all the reasons that contributed to this and as i say it was not just individual failure it was systemic and structural reasons as well and i don't know of any other sort of situation where entire cabin the entire. management of any company where people reflected off of the collective apology took their responsibility and offered to step aside and that just happened as an act of

continuity that's the first step we're now investing moving forward in terms of at liens of well being interventions to ensure that there's proper safeguarding there is adequate support for people who've reached the will positions and so on i'm not saying it's going to be easy for us to recalibrate and move forward with the healing approach if you want but the commitment is there from myself the board and all parts of the organization and we are focused on acting on it now just to be clear this report we didn't didn't need to make it public it could have been held privately and so on i don't think he could have because the decision was made before me it was the right thing. as a organization that work in the public interest we said if we are judging others we need to say where we have failed so that we can learn from it and move forward to address it in the sea this week it's not going to be overnight but i'm quite convinced that in a short space of time with the kind of commitment i've seen in all parts of the

organization to improve wellbeing as well as improving our capability to win bigger battle to foster i am cautiously confident that within a year we would be able to turn things around quite substantially that's quite a quick turnaround quick timetable a year to sort out what the report said what tensions that existed long before the restructuring program of amnesty yes you not getting in the past few days by rather not one you want sort of getting out but but you know the term toxic is quite a loaded word i think within a year i want that word off the table but that doesn't mean we won't have to do some really difficult work around asking. is a structure that was set up in one in sixty one that element in twenty nineteen is going to be no and then it is how can we make the structure more lighter more nimble more people friendly and you see what has happened is because the stakes of what higher and higher in human rights and as we see. you know countries like the

united states that were on the positive side of human rights are now like one of the worst countries in some ways when you see all of these things happening it is saying to us that we have to be willing to do things differently we must be willing to question current ways of operating and all of that is going to take moral courage it's going to take people who might have held or parts of the organization that might have held power in the particularly it are we have to be willing to now look at how do we bring different parts of the organization closer together because part of what is happening is the is quite high level of conflict and it's something unique to amnesty by the way and that some of the conflict is almost structurally. defined meaning that if you add a particular job with a particular role at the moment the way we are structured it could put you in conflict with three or four different parts of the nation we need to clean all of that up and i am going to try my best to convince people to come up with

a model cottage in all parts of the movement that we look at people failure of course we're human beings people make mistakes. that's going to be the easiest spot to sort out the more difficult it's going to be the structure the culture and so on and as we enter a new strategy process we have mining ourself of what they say that your culture and your structure can each a strategy for breakfast so we we have to address so the question of structural and cultural change as well as ensuring that our managers are better trained to provide the kind of well being and care for the very passionate talented committed stuff that we have an amnesty it seems in some ways. you're going to actually have to be quite ruthless in what you do with amnesty to make it fit for purpose i wouldn't use the word ruthless of all and that's not in my nature. i think we have to be bold courageous. take into account you know for example what einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting

different results the stakes are extremely high right now we have you know the climate scientists saying that we've got twelve years to get emissions to peak and start coming down we have to be willing to change to be fit for purpose but i do not believe that it is necessary for us to make those changes in a way where you brutal and you don't have a sense of humanity in the way you do it i think yes sometimes change is actually always changes painful but i think we can do change in a way that is respectful that is you main and he's putting the humanity of everybody that is involved in the process you know at the center of how we make change happen i mean just from your perspective one of the key problems we still feeling like this is that how can they go out and challenge others who obviously feels have been guilty of human rights violations when they themselves have as i say in this report they've been frightened to actually say what's going on in their

own organization not must be pretty troubling well just to be clear about it like for amnesty. when we look at the report or the reports. people with felt free to speak in the reports we could to the safe space and i think that was positive i think this was a problem that was left festering for decades and the fact that. we say that the time has come now for us to actually look at ourselves internally we cannot simply be looking at external weaknesses on the part of government business and so on because we want to as gun gun he said be the change we want to see in the world so but i would urge not to see it as that this is like a massive issue within the organization like for example with the cases yes and i'm privy to a confidential report which which documents particular cases names and so on and

i'm going through each one of them and i want to assure people that you know for example you know the speculation about how bad it is is this sexual harassment there which they isn't and so on but i think the approach as the leadership of. amnesty at the board level and so on that given our values given what we stand for one case or two cases of racism or sexism or bullying. one case too many and therefore we and then i've been an amnesty for six months not right and i can tell you i've not seen the case of bullying in six months i've not seen it you know doesn't mean it's not have you know absolutely absolutely and that's part of what we have done through this process which is we've created a context now with a david seasoned organization people of fleet and i encouraged.