for example has a very clear position against the integration of the cia james with all the crime that's committed into the arab league framework while other states such as the u.a.e. for example has a very different position on this but there is no agreement and unless there is complete agreement on this nothing can move forward the arab league just looking at the bigger picture now the arab league over the years has been criticized as being ineffective does this organization still matter today especially given the divisions that exist within and the different camps those who support iran those who support the trumpet ministration what is its relevance today i don't think the arab league is in a much different state than it was two three five or ten years ago it is quite ineffective the regimes in the region do not believe in the arab league. as a concept all together we have not seen ever any summit of the arab league to come out with a very real actionable declaration however it is certainly worthwhile

mentioning that since at least the arab spring we've seen more division within the arab league a listen. of the organization itself the dominance of egypt and its partners over the arab league means that anybody who's not within that small club of states does not have access to the to the arab league and we have seen demand always to reform the arab league and to make it more inclusive of all the arab states needs of course this summit will not be any different however there are more complications because of the situation in gaza because of the golan and the divisive nature of the trumpet ministration in the arab world it's expected to be more difficult to come out with any of the collation at the end will see of course what comes out of this thirtieth summit much it onsite thank you very much for sharing your views with us we'll bring you the opening ceremony of the thirtieth arab league summit in tunis as it begins here on al-jazeera what we are. spectum to see first is saudi

arabia's king solomon handover the reins of the presidency of the league to the tunisian leader the tunisian leader will then speak and then he'll hand over to the secretary general of the arab league and after which there are a number of speakers we don't know the order of speakers but we will bring bring you some of those speeches including that of the emir of qatar if it happens as well as the egyptian president. moving on to algeria now and one of the country's richest men and a close back of president abdelaziz bouteflika has been arrested at the border with tunisia in the latest blow to abdelaziz bouteflika he had resigned as the head of the algerian business leaders for a month. has been awarded large public works contracts by the government and health fund which if the lection campaigns the f c e business forum became a strong political support tool for the president there's plenty more ahead on this on jazeera news hour including more than just

a local election the vote in turkey that is being seen as a test of president wants strength glass mox like a brick says he wants to start a global conversation about regulating hate speech on social media and the first pope was asian for this young ferrari driver in bahrain media will have details coming up later in scopes. voting is underway in turkey's local elections which are being seen as a major test for president wants. at least fifty seven million people are eligible to cast their ballots for more than a thousand man is the ak party has dominated turkish politics for nearly two decades but a week errancy anti inflation could see it lose control of key mayoral seats simcoe silva who has more 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 test after forty 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. 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 misspell a t's 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 good 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 and i kist if i don't support your pro kurdish party h d p currently is the third largest faction in parliament it has a field candidates and a stumble on car and there is mir instead is concentrating its efforts in a stronghold in the southeast of the country and it supports the opposition candidates in the west i believe kurdish votes in big cities like istanbul and ankara in is near have the potential to be a game changer however would still follow what the popular trend is. the people's alliance how waged a severe campaign by accusing candidates of having things to the. kurdish why. to roof which truth and its western allies consider a terrorist organization prisons are dons are quite is 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 or will the president's standing among fifty seven million turks eligible to vote. else's iraq stumble i want to show you now some live pictures from the arab league summit in tunisia where the saudi king king salmon has just arrived shaking hands there with tenacious leader this is the thirtieth arab league summit being held in tunisia capital the opening ceremony will begin in just a few minutes and the saudi king salmon expected to be the first one to speak at the opening ceremony which will bring to you live here on al-jazeera let's head to ukraine in the meantime and voting is underway there in the first round of the presidential election thirty nine candidates are in the running including the incumbent petro poroshenko and former prime minister yulia timoshenko but it's

a comedian volodin mir zelinsky who is leading in opinion polls if no candidate gets more than fifty percent of the vote the top two will go into a second round of voting join a whole has more from kiev. is the unexpected front runner in the race to become ukraine's next president followed me as a linsky is an actor and comedian his campaign appearances are stand up comedy or what he lacks in actual policy or political experience he makes up for with his on screen persona in a popular television series he's a teacher blows the whistle on corruption suddenly finding himself yes president of ukraine's give that to tory great. he's famous for one thing young people see him as an anti establishment outsider struggle. they like and respond. and i think

that's why i like was personality but it seems even he isn't sure if he can be president or not we don't know either 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 you only to have. many feel the political unknown 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 that's why reason all of these.

painting this is a conversation with president bush and first of all and if he will be elected for the second time i hope food that it will make him to sink of all 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. promises being made about the war that's the toxic question for all the candidates no one has also learned a lot 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. and jonah joins us now

live from kiev so john a ukraine unsure of which way to turn and yet a majority seem ready to put their trust in a comedian. well yes i think a lot of zelinsky is looking like he'll be the big story of least of this first round is tipped to do very well and particularly turnout is high and his large the younger aged voter base comes out and votes will then go off into the second round in all likelihood against either petra perspiration go or yulia timoshenko and at the moment the polls suggest a good win in a head to head race although of course that could change let me bring in my guests with zoe shook joins me she is an m.p. and sits on leave our foreign affairs committee in the ukrainian parliament thanks for joining me what do you make of zilinskas extraordinary rise a man who has no political experience whatsoever i think mr selenski is a rejection of the old elites i think he's also protests against prop quality he's

also prodded definitely of new information technologies he has never given like a public interview to journalists during this campaign he didn't have rallies but his popularity is just amazing but i think he's also the project of the lack of tropper dissent and to corruption leadership in this country yes i mean he he is representative of the failure not of not just of petro poroshenko in the last four years but leaders before him to tackle corruption particularly also to end the war or sink a promise he did it in two weeks it's still ongoing is there any evidence at all that mr zelinsky is surrounded by the sort of people who will advise him well enough to be able to actually change things that's the problem i think that people are choosing new youngsters such as in you but we don't know what these you will bring guests you don't know who will mr selenski is going to appoint to key positions we don't know he still he doesn't have regional structures. spall

a c is very wake of the moment and we haven't heard from him about his whether he's going to lead the country to e.u. and nato it was not sound enough to kill it enough so when it comes to foreign policy security policy war as you mentioned it's a big question who we are endorsing as the candidate well it's quite extraordinary so many people seem to be ready to take a sort of leap into the dark on him let me ask you about europe and nato you sit on the foreign affairs committee do you see any prospect of momentum returning for this country towards closer integration once again with europe i think it depends on the leadership in this country and eve the next president with his team and meets the next farland is really serious about the reforms here and will make finally the general prosecution independent and course working impartially and will make the lawyers foresman by this not politicized and working for the people not

for certain political candidates a certain political political forces then always will be legitimate and we will be hurt and we'll have more friends to appeal to european union torrone to part this otherwise why would they listen to ukraine so this is a big question mark at the moment and until we know who is the president and who is what kind of policies of humor she will have it's difficult to answer the question petro poroshenko won't take this lying down will he he'll fight tooth and nail assuming he gets through to the second round. you know it's not just off to the declarations and amendments to the constitution's a vote e.u. and nato or direction it's about real you know real results and these results look not by the by this statement of the bill addition during the thirty dental campaign but by the for example place of ukraine in the rain thousands of the end to corruption regions in the world and unfortunately we're doing in that

transparency international rating at the moment and it's all of course the result of mr. president. thanks very much for joining us a very interesting election playing out here pitting the old guard against an actor and a comedian with no experience of politics whatsoever to join a hall in kiev thank you very much jonah in a few moments we'll have the world where the with kevin and still ahead on this sound is there a news hour no drilling for oil in the arctic a u.s. judge rules donald trump's executive order unlawful and invalid's last step poets swayed look at the rise of poetry on social media and how it's resonating with young people searching for understanding and one of the most famous coaches in football fuel speculation over a big name signing to his club as coming up in sports to stay with us.

well for the arrival of the pope in parts of morocco we have seen some very stormy weather actually as you can see here and if you've seen the video it has been quite wet for the last couple of days across the region now today things have gotten much better across the area as this area of low pressure is beginning to move but it has been bringing some very heavy rain across much of that area now most of that weather has been pushed into parts of algeria over the last few days we're going to be seeing a few more showers across parts of robot but we don't think it's going to be too heavy what we are going to be watching is this area down here across algeria take a look at what's happening here across the interior that area of blue well we could be seeing some localized flooding across much of that area that's going to go over parts parts of coastal libya as well as tunisia over the next few days so we will

be watching that very carefully after that things get much better across the earth clearing out and getting a little bit warmer as well we have been watching the storm system that was in the eastern med make its way across parts of iraq as well as and to iran the rain has begun again across much of that area we are concerned about flooding continuing not only for iran but also for the northern part of iraq over the next few days that is going to linger and we do expect to see anywhere between one hundred fifty to possibly two hundred fifty millimeters of rain in the next forty eight hours. that was sponsored by tony. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one set for closure one ton of obey and it's detainees going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to press. and state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past

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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 talks between israel and the palestinians are set to dominate the summit which is about to get underway in tunisia's capital tunis regional leaders are gathering against a backdrop of division war and unrest in libya syria and yemen. and ukrainians are voting in the first presidential election since russia annexed crimea in twenty fourteen comedian volvo to me is in a sense he is leading in opinion polls toggled closely by current president petro poroshenko and former prime minister yulia timoshenko. arabia has been accused of hacking a phone of jeff bezels the owner of the shopping website on a song and the washington post bezels hired private investigators after his phone

messages were leaked to the national enquirer news faber is detectives said he was targeted by the saudis as they prodded the killing of washington jamal saudi ministers have previously denied any link to the national enquirer is reporting. the boss of facebook is calling for new rules to govern the internet and wants governments to share responsibility for policing what we click on in a newspaper article mock such a brick says it's not for companies alone to define and monitor harmful content is pushing for a common global framework to police privacy and data as well as rules to stop the spread of hate speech facebook's facing a series of scandals including its failure to stop the live streaming of the new zealand mosque attacks which hailed fifty people this month a facebook has already signed up in principle at least to a contract for the web as the brainchild of team dennis leave the man who invented the world wide web thirty years ago with the vision of open access for all speaking

to al-jazeera earlier this month then it's lee said it's a global set of principles to govern use of the internet but it needs buy in from governments companies and individuals it's called contract because in fact part of it is companies is currently not poly the platform was very complaisant. the build the belief systems need to tweak the systems a bit so that. the discussion will constructive but also those governments as well and so companies and governments need to talk to each other and also as a third constituent we've included the person the assess as a consumer and old person they feel a to be discussed because their rights are really important we see to the web and if you should be more user centric. users can have more control of the data and partly because at the end of the day if governments don't do what they've committed

to and or companies don't do what they should do then it ends up having to be people protesting in the streets people voting by changing the products they use or people complain or complaining to the government. well i speak to max this is a lecturer in computer and network security at the university of central lancashire and he joins us. from sky or by skype right rather from press and thank you so much for being with us first of all what do you make of what mark zuckerberg is proposing he says social media needs fixing is what is really concerned about liability issues you think well i think what mark zuckerberg is trying to do in here is to bring governments and regulators into the game because so far social media has been blamed heavily for a. late to. harmful countenance and lately we saw what happened to los broadcasts of the us in new zealand so social media has been blaming the

social media companies like facebook for example they say ok you want us to remove this confidence but we need common rules we need some regulations we need to some to say this is a harmful content so i think he's trying to bring more be able on board right into the process he says there needs to be a more active role from government and regulate is in regulating harmful contect election into great integrity privacy you know but what counts as terrorist propaganda and hate speech would greatly differ from country to country is a more globally harmonize framework that is calling for something realistic in your view. well this is this is exactly what you said it's some time it's subject of in one country can be considered as harmful london another country might not so in order to bring

a lot of governments and countries lawley to harmonize common rules like an international convention or standard it's not an easy to us it is a step in the right direction but like i said it's it was will be very very difficult also not only about the harmful content if you look at elections or campaigns so somebody will say this is a freedom of speech to say something that other people would consider to be hateful speech so it's going to be a very sensitive area and to devise rules that will govern and regulate the whole internet it is a very difficult task but the new has done it though the european union has passed regulations even though that took a lot of yes. that's true i mean the e.u. has the g.d.b. article which is dated or of a separate section for people online they have just something in the parliament

last week about the copyright director but this is the issue it takes years and years of provision and negotiation to come up with finally the law and we're talking about any you wish twenty eight countries on this so we're talking about a global which is over one hundred countries. and it will take longer to be done and it has to be much also by technological advances that will be able to implement this law because there's nobody just having the law if you can't really and lamented. in the real terms so well i think this is a step in the right direction and i think we need a response now from the government and later it's ok it's just so it's still a long way to go we'll leave it there thank you so much for speaking to us max. thank you we're taking you now live to the opening of the thirtieth hour bleak summit and the king of saudi arabia king salmon speaking right now let's listen action for the sake of our people's dear

guests the palestinian issue will top the agenda of the kingdom of saddam will be until the palestinian people in its legitimate rights on top of which the establishment of its country on the nineteen the six to seven borders with eased the there's a limb capital of the state according to the international lo and to the arab initiative be used in this with them we need to stress once again. categorical rejection to own procedures that will hit the syrian sovereignty on the golan heights and do is stress the boltons of salting would politically the syrian crisis

to guarantee the safety and unity and sovereignty of syria without any foreign intervention according to the geneva one and the security council resolution. when it comes to yemen we stress here our support to the united nations efforts to reach a political solution to the crisis in yemen and we urge the international community to work hard. yet. again as the whole with the militias supported by iran to stop the practices and the gresham against the yemen is that caused a lot of suffering amongst the yemeni people and that threatens the security of yemen and the stability of the region the kingdom of saudi arabia will continue its

humanitarian programs for the sake of the dear yemeni people. when it comes to the libyan crisis with stress hay and the kingdom of saudi arabia stresses it's keen this on the unity of libya and then take gritty of its stellar pres and was appalled the united nations effort to reach a political solution that will be for the sake of their security and safety of the country and to put an end to the terrorism that is a threat to everything the kingdom of saudi arabia supports the efforts of fire sing terrorism and extremism own all levels and. all the terrorist acts against two mosques in new zealand so that's

their importance has nothing to do with religion or certain location dear guests dear old guinn's the porter says. the aggression and the growth of policies of iran are flagger and violations to all principles and international agreements and the international community has to be our to it's a sponsibility to face these policies and to stop supporting terrorism and to force iran to supposed terrorism dear old years despite all the challenges facing our nation but still we are optimistic and we still hope of a brilliant future that we all knew was for the sake of our peoples and for their

welfare finally i ask a lot of my day to make our summit very successful and to. help president sipsey in his efforts in his chairmanship to this summit and peace be upon new asylum or they can what are you about. rights are reminder that we're watching there the opening ceremony of the summit and the king of saudi arabia king salmon speaking for is this opening ceremony handing over the reins of the presidency to tunisia's leader president is set to see who will be speaking next the king said that despite all the challenges facing

the nations he said that we are optimistic for the future hoping for a successful summit he made a number of comments on the issues affecting the region on the palestinian issue he said that will be the issue that tops the agenda of the summit adding that until the palestinian people get their rights and this states according to the nine hundred sixty seven borders with east jerusalem as its capital then they will not rest also on syria he reaffirmed syrian sovereignty over the golan heights rejecting basically u.s. president donald trump's recognition of the golan heights as israeli territory on yemen a war in which saudi arabia is involved of course he said that the saudi kingdom supports a u.n. efforts on a yemen and on libya he talked about the need for unity in libya and also supporting u.n. efforts there to end the crisis imran khan is covering this week's summit for us in

iran we heard there from the saudi king we are expecting next to hear from tenacious leader talk a saw what is going to be happening for assist sunday in tunis and the issues on the agenda. well very much there the king of saudi arabia set out the agenda for the arab summit as you said he was talking about a number of issues chief amongst them is the israeli palestinian conflict and he used quite strong language i have to say when he talked about the fact that they needed to go back to the nine hundred sixty seven borders and that was the only way the palestinian conflict would be resolved now we are expecting that union leader to speak they are handing effectively the reins over to the chin is eons off to that we're hearing we will hear from the arab league general secretary will open the thirtieth arab summit and then after that we are expecting an arab leaders to speak we don't know what order they going to be speaking in but certainly chief

amongst all of this i think is the real key issues going to be the israeli palestinian conflict but won't be the only one as well there was much talk about this idea that islam is linked with terrorism the saudi monarch there actually said the kingdom continued efforts to combat terrorism and extremism all levels of a terrorist attack targeting two mosque in new zealand confirms that terrorism has no homeland so he's talking about that as well so it's going to be an interesting summit when it comes to the israel palestine issue though i think that's really going to dominate a man stand by we are not going to listen to the tunisian president. to really new again. of. you being here in tunisia that chair the arab league the

arab summit that will be the best. way to meet and talk and discuss topic. as she is black of the same time to express my thanks and appreciation to the custodian of the two mosques king solomon the bin abdulaziz so would for his successful chairmanship for his wife term and of the arab summit of the twenty ninth arab summit the kingdom of saudi arabia has made a lot of efforts and we appreciate that for the sake of the arab goes this and arab issue is in that critical period of time that nation is facing at the same time i'd like to thank his excellency mr ahmed doubleday the secretary general of the arab league for.