he's campaigned it's very unorthodox it was mostly in social media he was engaging you know literally millions of people via social networks he didn't pay for any advertisement he has running the cheapest campaign you know the problem more of it's own and he is always behind him and this is obviously you know there is not only one oligarch like you got caught my skin the others behind him and i think. during the campaign so he's not and you know it's an ordinary ukrainian but he's also a millionaire but he's a very savvy man not only a comedian simply because like he has been building in the past twenty years he's been dutch and company he has been you know the production director of the major television channel has a millionaire on his own right so it's i think is going to be fun personally. with some insights on the two contenders going into the second round the incumbent confectionery billionaire and the media you might describe it as the billionaire versus the comedy came from there you go thank you very much for that

jonah hol following that election in kiev all speaking there about the election in ukraine taking an unexpected turn also a first for slovakia anticorruption candidate zadok up to tova as won the country's presidential election making the country's first female leader a liberal lawyer who has no previous political experience of being a governing party candidate in a second round runoff vote capital of the is pro europe he told supporters he still have victory as a signal for change should we see one into the largely ceremonial position in. 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 the election we will have more from london for you a bit later on now back to elizabeth in marion thank you very much now among the

stories still to come in the news hour a new twist in the battle between the world's richest man and a u.s. tabloid magazine plus. there's the road building. and the film america's military does not want you to see made by marines a serving in afghanistan. and in sports the son of schumacher starts first on the grid victory slips out of his grasp will be here with more on. the to 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 that separates gaza from israel before protesters palestinian protesters were killed and two hundred forty injured in the demonstrations mohammad has moved from gaza. more indications that egypt mediated

talks between hamas other palestinian factions and israel are on a positive track first came word on sunday that the time was salim and areas crossings had been reopened then came word that the fishermen in gaza will once again be able to resume fishing the fisherman's union tells us that they've been notified by israeli officials that north of the gaza strip they will be able to go six and not a cool miles off the coast of that in gaza city they will be able to go twelve nautical miles off the coast and that in south of the gaza strip they will be able to go fifteen not a call miles off the coast of gaza now all of this happening at a time where there has been cautious optimism building in gaza because of efforts to try to deescalate the tensions that had really gone much higher in the past week now one of the reasons the tensions have been deescalate it is because on saturday

which was the first year anniversary of the great march of return protests things remained far quieter far calmer than many feared they might be in fact it was extremely remarkable that there was actually a statement by the israeli army spokesman praising hamas for showing restraint for trying to calm the situation down at those protests on saturday now on sunday even though people in gaza have expressed a sense of optimism and they believe that these negotiations will actually be successful at one point there were two rockets that were launched toward israel they did not land however in israel they landed in the gaza strip no injuries or casualties were reported at the moment folks in gaza hopeful that they will be able to see that these negotiations have been successful this all coming at a time when just days ago many here were convinced that gaza might be on the verge

of all. war once again with israel right now though as i mentioned a sense of cautious optimism building in gaza signs indicating that these egyptian mediated talks are actually on a positive track now arab leaders meeting to nazir have unified to venue their push for the creation one day of a palestinian state they also rejected u.s. president donald trump's recognition of israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights part as the reports from to his ear that could hide many of the divisions at the thirtieth arab league summit. showing a united stance against u.s. recognition of israel's occupation of east jerusalem and the golan heights. the king of saudi arabia denounced donald trump's decision as a violation of international law. the palestinian issue remains one of our top priorities until the palestinians get all their legitimate rights including the

right to establish an independent state based on one hundred sixty seven borders with east jerusalem as the capital and we reject any attempt to undermine syria's sovereignty over the golan heights that they had of the united nations called and to the israeli palestinian conflict based on the two state solution. delivered a sharp rebuke to the trump administration accusing it of encouraging israel to annex palestinian territory a bass warned that jerusalem wasn't for sale. i had to say that from what happened during the era of trump has never been heard or seen during the areas prior to him they might have been hiding the policies then came trump with all impoliteness to announce this policy that is categorically against the international legitimacy since one nine hundred forty seven it is a coup against international law and legitimacy this american administration has

put in and to its role as a mediator in the peace process the u.s. is a biased mediator they're an oblique was established more than seventy years ago and has always been beset by divisions and armed conflicts. it's almost two years since saudi arabia the u.a.e. and it imposed a land sea and blockade on. qatari leaders refute their neighbors' accusations of promoting extremism. it's four years since the sandy led coalition launched its war against the who thiis in yemen killing thousands of civilians and creating the wells worse humanitarian crisis. i and after eight years of war in syria arab league leaders remain divided over readmitting president bashar al assad. is also eighty years since the revolution toppled

the yet libya remains one of the most unstable countries in the world neighboring algeria is seeing an unprecedented protest movement demanding the resignation of the eighty two year old ailing president abdullah says what of the political crisis raises concerns of a protracted power struggle in the oil rich country. from a remarkable it's an acceptable that our region continues to top the list of countries grappling with refugees crises terrorism and economic stagnation. the league which was designed to unite is widely considered a week and inefficient its statements often mocked as a show of empty rhetoric to appeal to a disgruntled audience cinesias president said that arabs won't be able to tackle the ever growing challenges that face as long as they remain divided and that sums

up to a great extent the problem that has always crippled the arab league its size away from addressing problems such as poverty corruption on the talk or see focusing instead on denouncing those trying to destabilize the other weald al-jazeera turnus well let's get more on this now we're joined by our senior political analyst might want to shatter marwan let's talk more about what the communique is said to say specially about palestine because there have been very strong statements comments all day and we had one from the saudi king salam what do you make of you know what he's saying about the importance of the creation of a palestinian state and rights of palestinians given what we know about the crown prince mohammed bin salmond's very cozy relationship with not just u.s. president donald trump but his you know senior adviser his son in law jared questionnaire and their plan for palestine well you know as usual there are the growth between rhetoric and reality is quite huge in the arab world and in

political discourse and this summit is no different out of the a dozen and a half. resolutions if you were in the final communique the first one is short about palestine and the central at the of palestine for all arabs and the second is a long one about israel and its dealings with us. stein it's dealings with the united states and palestine and of course the question of the golan and jerusalem and i think here is where there is a bit of a controversy if you will that on the one hand arab leaders would the re for. that they have stated throughout the years about jerusalem as captain of a sovereign but a since it was on so forth for the same time they're divided over how to deal with the israeli occupation how to deal with american upcoming initiative after the

israeli elections to deal with this question so they remain defied did they remain ineffective they remain more or less paralyzed to do anything for palestine and the palestinians certainly paralyzed to do anything about israel's continuing patient and annexation of up their authorities but for the for the day they certainly come up with a statement that sounds to their public opinion yet to be strong but do they recognize that they are at an important moment now when they have the u.s. president recognize the israeli claim over the occupied golan heights i mean if they let this go what is the occupied west bank up for grabs what about east jerusalem aside i think i think the principle and that's the danger because at one point last year the year for a lawsuit december two thousand seventeen the americans decided to accept basically american israeli an accession of visual system and move their capital there this

time around when when america president thrombus start with american. legitimacy over israel an extension of the golan heights there i should know by a secretary pompei a was that israel is an exception to international law while there was ition of there through by force it is not acceptable to the united states but israel can do that which basically opens. the gate as president emphasized today that no israel can annex beyond jerusalem beyond the golan heights a lot of territories within the rest of the palestine notably the west bank and what can the arabs do about it not much and if they can do anything about this issue which has been going on for seventy years now what hope of the other big issues that they will also very high up on the agenda the war in syria and yemen and libya there's almost ten. out of the eighteen that go state by state you know

we hope that somalia gets on its feet and stabilize its country we hope that we are sort of there and sort of through with it to pave the way to get you know moving on so on so forth we're in so that it there with the people of syria in order to stop the violence and find a political solution and we are with the people of yemen and so really a lot of wishes that don't translate into action there's no plan and. there is no even. you know the feeling that they are serious about the things they are saying or repeating from previous summits which actually because the question what the heck for why do the meet if they're going to repeat the same things and not even follow through what's the point philip sutton why do they mean that well i think i think they meet because they have done though they have done so for so many

years and why not do it again the stronger countries like to meet in order to dictate their terms so that a big saudi arabia did this time by completely sidelining the gulf crisis and completely. legitimizing its position on the war in yemen egypt did something similar so some of the stronger countries maintain the weaker countries need the other countries so if you don't like you know gets by but for the people that. speak the same language read the same books sing the same lyrics recite the same poetry live in the same geography have the same history bitter and sweet. the same god this certainly deserves a league or sort not this to be not the this leadership but certainly they deserve a league of sorts unfortunately the arab league has been failing because of arab leaders thank you as always for your analysis. thank you.

now one of algeria's richest men and a close back of president of the disease beautifully guy has been arrested at the tennesseean border he had that resigned as head of the algerian business leaders farm on thursday he has been awarded large public works contracts by the government and help fund with a fleet as an action campaigns now algeria and lebanon fronts a gathering for a seventh week of bad government protests against president with a flicker they are rallying in support of the millions of algerians who are demanding regime change and algerian army chief is pushing for eighty two year old with a flicker to be declared unfit for office we have a lot more still to come on the news hour no drilling for oil in the arctic a u.s. judge rules that donald trump's executive order is unlawful and valid also how brazil's new president is facing a backlash after trying to honor a military coup fifty five years ago and a boxer was disqualified for biting his opponent paul we'll have that story and sports.

hello again welcome back well this hour i want to take you up here towards a live on but we have been talking about the very heavy rain that we are seeing across the region you can see it on satellite image and we are already picking up the rain right now across parts of iraq and now coming into iran now we're very concerned about this region because it is already saturated from our previous storm that we saw at the beginning of last week the custom deadly flooding there we expect to see some rain anywhere between one hundred to two hundred millimeters of rain over the next few days and as we go towards tuesday things across the ron do get better but here across northern iraq things are going to remain quite wet there well across the gulf we are seeing our temperatures rising and here on monday about thirty six to be is going to be a high notice of the clouds across the region with the rain up to the north could see some rain here in doha as well could be thunderstorms and as we go towards

tuesday we do expect to see those temperatures coming down to about normal for this time of year but still quite cloudy across much of the region and that as we make away across southern africa things not looking too bad down here towards the south not a lot of clouds to speak of but we are picking up those cooler temperatures across much of the area so for cape town it is going to be an eighteen degree day there up towards durban maybe a shower or two or twenty six and johannesburg a nice day for you with a temperature of about twenty six degrees. rewind continues to care bring your people back to life. with updates on the best documentary. the struggle continues. to. use distance revisiting the suv. we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an

annual competition. people would. reward. and unreported world. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the we're.

going to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour and these are our top stories early results from turkey's local elections show the main opposition party candidate taking a narrow lead and while president. party is ahead in a bold the municipal elections are seen as a test for the president and ukraine's presidential elections exit polls say comedienne lenski is a bit in the first round with over thirty percent of voters incumbent president petro poroshenko a second place with seventeen point eight the same so there was likely to be a runoff vote and leaders at the arab league summit and to have made a new. unified push for the creation of a palestinian state they were also rejected donald trump's recognition of israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights. the us president ordered reductions in direct aid to three central american countries as part of his campaign against illegal immigration critics say the cuts to el salvador guatemala and on the us are

entirely counterproductive and will only increase the flow of migrants to the u.s. will trump uses the countries of having set up going to caravans he's also threatened to close the border with mexico. will some central americans have made it as far as mexico scraping together living on shore if they will ever call the us home manuel rapido reports from to honor. at a boarding house and the one in mexico twenty nine year old son one two and is starting his day he pays about twenty dollars a week for this modest space but it beats staying at one of the several migrant shelters scattered around town. arrived at the us mexico border with the migrant caravan that left honduras four months ago. today santo who works as a dishwasher at a popular seafood restaurant near downtown want to. establish now i have a job where i'm happy the truth is i'm glad to be working and things have been

going well for me. sentido says he has no intention of returning to honduras and plans to stay in mexico at least for the time being it is not but not all central american migrants have the same luck in finding work or a place to live in the city after more than a year in mexico and in good good it is also from honduras says she's no longer trying to cross into the united states. we followed her and her daughter julie around a neighborhood in the one of four there looking for a place to live she's asked us to hide her face out of fear of the same criminal group that drove them from their home might recognize her. i want to be stable and i don't want to keep stay in the shelters here and even if it's just so i want to be on my own with my daughter into tells us she's had a hard time settling into life in mexico so we. might be a lot of this a local social worker says that people from central america like ingrid and her

daughter face many challenges like discrimination for renters. and i i was even talking right now with. her and she was saying if it's really being hard for us here and if we don't find a house. we're going to feel the pressure to try and cross the border and maybe we will have more opportunities on the other side. after searching still no luck finding an apartment for rent and julie will have to keep looking another day it's difficult to know how many central american migrants have made do you want to their permanent home but the city is still a place where many could find work and the type of stability they may not have had in their home countries even if that means barely scraping by. but even those who have found steady jobs like something i want to lose so if their goal ultimately is to someday be able to reach the united states can achieve the american dream. just

either one of. saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the following of jeff bezos the owner of the online shop in john to amazon and the washington post there's also a private investigator is after his phone messages were leaked to the national enquirer a tabloid newspaper has detectives have linked the hack to the washington post's extensive coverage of the murder of some of the journalists. with saudi ministers have previously denied any link to the national enquirer leak now it is a human rights activist and he tweeted to confirm yes i was a direct source full bass also investigation team over the past six weeks my team and i were working overtime on the story bob held off on publishing anything there was still a loss that we can publish but we continue to work on this well we spoke to al baghdadi earlier and he says there are many layers to the story. it is directly.

linked to what happened was enough i should say as you can imagine jeff bezos is a man who owns the washington post but he's also a man who is a businessman who is doing a lot of business in saudi arabia and planning to do even more business insider and it's also the angle of the saudis being not very disciplined about their use edge off of this kind of technology which is actually threatening it's not only threatening to you know it's basically really effectively it could start a cyber war where we're you know even companies and if this is legal then it is a big problem but also it's a problem i should mention for the technology companies that actually provide these kind of services such as an assault on others and you might notice that for about a week now before i head off gavin de becker article in the daily beast in which he exposed this there had been there has been a number of reports which i can only explain effect on

a can only describe as p r it's like there are actually anticipating though they're probably they're anticipating something like this and they want to to kind of say that you know we're not that insidious company that that cooperates with with dictators but we're also saving lives somehow of course you know whether you believe them or not is another question why that isn't the first time that saudi arabia has been accused of this kind of thing explains. sarge arabia seems to have adopted a cyber campaign to silence those disagreeing with the kingdom both at home and abroad on the abdulaziz is one of them he's in exile in canada and was a friend of murdered journalist. last june he received a suspicious text message with a link to track apostles' delivery a canadian research group citizen lab says that it's confident the armors mobile phone was targeted by saudi arabia and infected with spyware and other surveillance

tool is known as pegasus it's owned by an israeli company called the n.s.o. group and there have been multiple reports on how it's been used in several countries to target civil society in august amnesty international reports of the saudi this isn't and one of its star for attacks who pegasus both receiving messages with malicious links from the same domain that links back to and i so at the time the company responded to amnesties findings and patella statement they said the m.s.o. group developed cyber technology to allow government agencies to identify and disrupt terrorist and criminal plots they also added our products is intended to be used exclusively for the investigation and prevention of crime and terrorism if an allegation arises concerning a violation we investigate that issue and take appropriate action based on those findings then i so great has been accused of being an accessory to the murder of jamal but it's in the eyes of any involvement israeli media reported that sound eurabia paid fifty five million dollars for the pegasus surveillance tools

a system so advanced it classified it as a weapon and requires government approval to sell it then the so group has already been sued by these and i'm the state has requested israel revoke its export license for human rights violations and that's not all because sounds eurabia has also been using twitter but says the software that interacts with other twitter accounts and can spread whatever message you want it to hundreds or thousands of them flood twitter to boost a coma. station or even a hash tag until it takes off on its own in this way you can create a fake trend that is use this tool against its neighbor cats are creating fake news and one question she was murdered founded bots armies got to work to and then last month at least four verified twitter accounts including one belonging to a dead u.s. weather experts were hacks a new says fred pro sound messages so if you take a look at this i just want to show you because this is what's trending in saudi arabia at the moment and if you look at the top hash tag it translates to me and

runs away from the two news in some and of course that's in reference to the arab summit but this is just an example of the sorts of hashtags that come out of saudi arabia that's a fake to morocco now where pope francis has called for tolerance and peace that a mass for thousands of catholics he also wore the faithful against trying to convert others ten thousand worshippers packed a sports complex and a bath as the part finished his two day stay in the muslim north african state he is the first leader of the catholic church to visit since pope john paul the second in one thousand nine hundred five now moviegoers are seeing what the longest war and u.s. history looks like on the front line u.s. marines in the hope that their documentary of battles against the taliban gives a more realistic view that hollywood kristensen only has more from new york. it's billed as the documentary the u.s.

military did not want the public to see marines doing drugs making mistakes. and potentially making new enemies while deployed in afghanistan you know the film combat obscura offers little in the way of commentary or big picture analysis but provides a really seen look at the more from the perspective of american troops on the ground i just haven't seen. our words like reflected. as brutally honest as as i had experienced it miles lego's each shot the footage as a u.s. marine working in a public affairs unit and decided to turn it into a film after returning home to new york here he's found americans quick to praise the military. doing a great service for the country yet uninformed about the eighteen year long war on a killing not anyone's really thinking about it but honestly the gritty realism of the film is not in line with the more sanitized image of the military that most

americans are used to seeing nor is it an image that the military wants to promote the marine corps has condemned the behavior on display telling al-jazeera it is not in line with their high standards while the marine corps and says that at least some of the footage is the property of the military but chose not to pursue legal action to halt its release after defenders of the u.s. constitution's first amendment got involved this is not just miles as own free speech rights but the rights of the public to get this unique perspective of what it was like to be a soldier on the ground in afghanistan. corner right that perspective includes attempts to save a fellow marine mortally wounded in combat his mother permitted the footage to be used in the film we do want to have an honest discussion about the war that doesn't you know hero worship and kind of sugar coat the whole experience

goes he estimates twenty fellow marines died during his eight month tour of duty. he himself was wounded warrior combat duty that this there's no discussion of the tens of thousands of afghan civilians killed in the war but the filmmaker hopes to give american viewers a better understanding of what they and the u.s. military are up against kristen salumi al jazeera new york. a u.s. court has blocked the president's push to allow offshore oil drilling in the arctic ocean the judge described donald trump's executive order as unlawful and invalid the ruling reinstates a drilling ban imposed by barack obama and much of the arctic ocean off alaska rob reynolds 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 off in the arctic and north atlantic oceans trump has tried repeatedly to roll back environmental protections that were made during the in obama administration but he has been unsuccessful in large part because environmentalists as in this case keep taking the administration to court and they keep winning the judge in this case said that once a president applies the designation of a national monument or a protected area under laws that date in some cases back well over one hundred years no future president can reverse those decisions by themselves it has to be done by an act of congress not simply by an executive order as the president did in

this case so the affected areas which are principally off the coast of alaska which will now be protected at least for several years as this case works its way through the court system our home to a number of endangered species including bowhead whales and polar bears now the decision by brazil's president of reinstate commemorations of the military could fifty five years ago as causing controversy jabal some says honoring history will unite the country but survivors of the canning and torture campaign say what happened back then should be condemned and not sun abated the reports. of the judge will scenario has never he his admiration for the military that he served in as a young. captain before entering politics while still a congressman he said it's mistake one in power from one thousand nine hundred forty nine hundred eighty five was not to kill more he since moderated his language

it's not about celebrating remembering or.