head courses in ankara so we have here competing claims of victory in these local elections in some crucial cities in the country just how complicated could this get . us marionettes much of the conflicting claims come for a stumble but here we are you know clear out in the main opposition parties porter said there's a huge celebration here because people are happy that masri abbas on the right candidate. who also ran again the night before has won the elections it was a wide difference compare job parties and parties candidate. now everybody's sure that he won and the opposition also that played it's a victory for him is made for a stumble it is a different situation because the main opposition and. the

party's candidate the former prime minister have to play a victory but we are hearing that still the foods are being counted mainly in some districts which is c.h.p. the main a position has always been dominant and truth is political history but it even. even if. or the main opposition candidate wins it seems it's going to be with the very slight difference he stumbles population is fifteen million and ten point five million who are eligible to vote and we're talking about just the few thousands of people's votes that would make a difference especially in istanbul but still waiting for all the boxes to be opened and all the posts to be counted. and i must say that in the summer action they get. this local election was more than that it was like a national election campaign. even before today's election and the group already

h.t.t.p. seems to be the kingmaker because they had six million votes in the previous elections and that if they made bookings mostly in the western cities forty a position at a low end and the c.h.p. the main opposition party in mostly only coastal cities and just thought that it had this access and it's something but still no result in an on going out and his marriage also the national aspirant you had somebody with the government and had a lot of stocks as even though they were just supporters of the ruling out party they gained a lot this is that you. now this is not me from political analysis in turkey you have to obviously wait and see perhaps what the final results show but indications are the may or may not be some significant shifts on the way there for now thank you very much. as most of i have for you in this news hour from london

allegations by the c.e.o. of amazon that saudi arabia is involved in followed hacking also leaders of the arab league summit in tunisia condemn the recently by the u.s. to recognize israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights and liverpool keep the english title race alive and kicking with a late. pull be here with more on that story. exit polls in ukraine are showing that the comedian of belgium is a lenski has won the first round of the country's presidential election so lansky is a political novice who campaigned against rampant corruption is taken just over thirty percent of the vote ukrainian president petro poroshenko took less than eighteen percent a runoff vote will now be held next month john holl has the story from kiev.

followed a mere zelinsky victory is not unexpected the polls have been tipping it for weeks but it is a pretty unlikely political victory this man has no political background or experience he played the part of a president in a t.v. series but that's really all anybody knows about him they don't know what he stands for they don't know who backs him importantly they don't know who may influence him in the future and in what direction but above all of that this was a protest vote by a sizeable proportion of the population angry angry and frustrated with politics mainstream politics as they have been this has been a rejection of those politics of those leaders and the old ways in ukraine. election night at the zelinsky campaign headquarters it's a casual affair a long way from the stuffy formality of the more established parties which is little surprise for the. the near certain winner of the first round of ukraine's presidential election is

a comedian turned actor whose only experience of politics is playing the part of president in a popular television series he may soon be playing the part for real that's. great . legs and always had a minor. new life begins a normal life life without the option without bribes without anything like this life in a new country a country have my dreams use them watchable. gilinsky will go into the second round runoff in april against incumbent president the confectionery business owner petro poroshenko who seems to have lost public trust over his broken promises to end the separatist war in the east and wipe away the stain of official corruption he says because you know thank you for not turning back into the soviet union you know fire him fair fight so it was before you play the chocolate billionaire versus the comedy king russia would be watching the second round closely as will the european

union ukraine is stuck in the middle geographically divided by conflict its economy in the doldrums and anticorruption reforms failing to take hold neither candidate has ready answers. back at h.q. and this man former finance minister alexander downer look could provide the experience the candidate lacks something like an act of blind faith though isn't it to support a man with no political background or experience whatsoever why should people do it . well that's a good question right just maybe because they trust him more than the alternatives that's it. and they. all blindly want to actually saying that we don't want. a continuation of foreign forces you know with what we don't want people who don't trust running the country so this is the shiny new look of politics in ukraine and younger voters in particular will surely laugh many hard to

like to five all of them is immense his promise to change everything even if he's so far made only the vaguest suggestions about how he plans to do that we'll have to change fast as voters' minds become far more focused in the second round. so this man zelinsky is a political unknown his policies are unknown but he does seem to represent for many people hope it was just five years ago that protesters were out of the square behind me in my dance square the second revolution in this country in fifteen years they protested here against corruption for a different kind of ukraine a different future of moving closer to european structures the e.u. nato and so on instead what do they see they have a frozen conflict in the east corruption is still right some say goes all the way to the top so we have this rejection of mainstream politics to the extent that people are prepared to be braced sort of blind faith invalid to be insolent speech

he's not there yet of course he's got to fight and win the second round yet and those policies of his such as they exist will come under far greater and closer and closer scrutiny in the weeks ahead. well melinda haring is the editor of ukraine alert at the atlanta council and a fellow at the foreign policy research institute she joins me now from washington and i just want to pick up on the point that jonah was making that we have now the comedian the wild card counter that religion is a lansky he is in a strong position having won the first round but does it mean that he's going to do as well in the runoff vote absolutely not so the first round is actually over performed he took about thirty percent and that's several points higher than most people expected but he also may have been a protest vote and we don't know how people are going to vote in the second round when it's really serious when you're going to end up with a real president. he's unconventional he's had

a sudden rise to prominence in this election is that enough clarity on what he would do if he becomes president on his manifesto on his policies. so your reporter is right that his policies are very unclear he's never held office before but the fact that he has someone like alexander donny look the former finance minister says a lot about him so you may not have experience but he knows people who do have experience and he knows people who can get the economy going again and the economy is really the central issue in this election sure the war is important but the economy is really dragging foreign direct investment it is completely flat in two million ukrainians are working in the czech republic and poland so if still if he can get the economy going if he could finally turn the tide on corruption people are going to take him really seriously so yes he doesn't have a defined team in foreign policy and i think that's one of his big weaknesses but in the next day or two he should begin to announce more of his team you mention

foreign policy and there is still a conflict unfolding in eastern ukraine of course every candidate in this election has said that they want to resolve this conflict but no one has really provided any detailed plans on how they would make that happen. that's right so the differences between zelinsky and poor shaker there are differences on paper so is a list he says that he would support a referendum on nato and he says that he wants to talk directly with vladimir putin and he's been ridiculed as having naive views on foreign policy petro poroshenko of course campaigned on a pro e.u. pro nato platform you'll see it in all of his advertising but frankly the differences are not real because ukraine has lost thirteen thousand people because the parliament has in shrine a pro nato pro e.u. perspective in its constitution this is a settled issue ukraine wants to join nato it wants a join the e.u.

a majority of people support it so if zelinsky is elected and he tries to hold a referendum on nato i think there's going to be strife i don't think he's going to be able to do it public opinion is really going to limit the next president's foreign policy options thank you very much from the atlantic council melinda herring added to the. we move to gaza now where the two main border crossings have reopened for the first time in six days israel left at restrictions on sunday morning after a weekend of mass protest on the fence dividing gaza and israel for palestinian protesters were killed and two hundred forty others injured in the demonstrations mohammed jan june has more now from gaza. more indications that egypt should mediated talks between hamas other palestinian factions and israel are on a positive track first came word on sunday that the government 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 not a cool miles off the coast 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 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 that 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

a 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 out 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 still ahead on the program we'll be meeting the migrants who

traveled through central america hoping for a new life in the united states but who are now considering we sat playing in mexico. a backlashes brazil commemorates a nine hundred sixty four military coup by president believes it will reunite the country and whole be here with the action from the old rivalry between glasgow rangers and celtic. how i would also if i were still across many parts of europe see the changes to british summer time up towards the north western coast changing the weather as well so temperatures getting up to around twenty celsius in london. there are fourteen for monday so. pretty summertime temps is a full right back in because still as we go into tuesday and wednesday actually

what a cloud down towards the southwest a few bits and pieces of rain still in play here then we go over central areas is fine and it's dry fine and dry to over towards you sixes and sevens there from moscow over the next couple of days dry weather i'm pleased to say to the eastern side of the mediterranean now a little more sunshine coming through well why so much sunshine back up towards the northwest there's eleven celsius on monday and tuesday for london seventeen there in paris it cools off a little bit some wet weather sneaking in the basin pieces of cloud and rain there still into spain and portugal over the next couple of days northern parts of morocco algeria they lost the draw because some wet weather the scraping the far north of libya pushing across northern parts of egypt over the next while the time becomes a tuesday much of north africa does look last a fine and dry but still a fair amount of cloud for much of america.

a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror once said the closure of guantanamo bay and its detainees going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that were shot in the conditions to return back to cracking tally in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited part two on al jazeera. for the nomadic jock the tribe survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry never be able to get the top of the story we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. is dangerous to the ice and then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life people that are sometimes losers in the group there was a cold war because of the storm risking it all mongolia on al-jazeera.

welcome back just a quick look at the top stories in algeria state television is reporting that president abdelaziz bouteflika has named a new caretaker government after six weeks of anti-government protest media saying the new government will be headed by prime minister nuri dean but. turkey's ruling ak party and its main opposition of both claim victory in istanbul's local election turkish broadcasters say almost ninety nine percent of the votes now been counted but the opposition is also saying that it's won the cities of anger and izmir. and exit polls and ukraine are showing that comedian brought to me as

a lansky has won the first round of the country's presidential election selenski is a political novice who campaigned against corruption. in other stories we're following closely arab leaders meeting in tunisia have unified two were new that push for the creation one day a palestinian state they also rejected u.s. president donald trump's recognition of israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights but as have reports from tunisia they could not hide that many other divisions at this thirtieth. showing a united stance against u.s. recognition of israel's occupation of east jerusalem of the golan heights. the king of saudi arabia denounced donald trump's decision as a violation of international law. career 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 they had of the united nations called and to the israeli palestinian conflict and based on the two state solution allison your leader mahmoud abbas 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. and i've had to say that for him what happened during the era of trump has never been heard or seen during the errors prior to him there 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 are 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 one might get that he 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 i've been as he's with of the political crisis raises concerns of a protracted power struggle in the oil rich country. from a remarkable it's an example that our region continues to top the list of countries grappling with refugee crises terrorism and economic stagnation. the arab league which was designed to unite arabs is widely considered that we and inefficient it's statements often mocked as a show of empty rhetoric to appeal to a disgruntled arab audience cinesias president said that arabs won't be able to tackle the ever growing challenges they 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 recy focusing instead on denouncing those trying to destabilize the other weld. turnus. u.s. president donald trump has ordered cuts in direct aid for three central american countries as part of his campaign against illegal immigration trump accused el salvador guatemala and honduras of having set up migrant caravans after a surge of asylum seekers try to enter the u.s. this week but democrats say the funding cuts will only increase the flow of my current trump is also threatening to close the country's border with mexico well many of the migrants who traveled north through central america found themselves unable to enter the u.s. some find building a life in mexico is their next best option a money rottweiler reports now from the border town of tijuana. at a boarding house in p one a mexican twenty nine year old son p one two is 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. center who 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 possible seafood restaurant near downtown. i'm established 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. 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 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 where they're 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. house i want to be stable and i don't want to keep stay in the shelters here and there 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 with money a lot of this a local social worker says that people from central america like ingrid and her daughter face many challenges like discrimination from 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 hours of searching still no luck finding an apartment for rent indeed and julie will have to keep looking another day it's difficult to know how many central american migrants have

made 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 sent the i one through news say their goal ultimately is. to someday be able to reach the united states and achieve the american dream. but ended up out of. the one. the president of brazil has made a decision to reinstate commemorations of a military coup fifty five years ago and it's causing controversy. honoring history will unite the country but survivors of the killing and torture campaign say that what happened during military rule should be condemned not celebrated the new shiner explains. the president has never hidden his admiration for the military that he served in as a young army captain before entering politics while still

a congressman he said it's mistake while 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 looking back to see what went wrong or right it's about how we can use this for the good of brazil in the future. however some of his supporters have been more direct. i think it's fantastic i think brazil has to celebrate march thirty first it's a day when brazil almost became a communist country we could have become a venezuela or north korea this museum is the only place in brazil dedicated to victims of the military government that building a former peace headquarters where opponents of the regime were detained always thought the sickest home this place preserves memories through the testimonies of survivors and a collection of documents that all combined with the importance of this building all together they helped to recreate a period of our history. was twenty one years old when he was detained in one

thousand nine hundred seventy and spent four years in prison. and there was this uproar created by the president has reopened the debate we have two opposing forces one is the force of resistance those who resist during those days but also researchers and historians that understand history. on the other hand we have retrograde forces who want to celebrate a past that in fact should be abhorred previous commemorations were ended by former president rousseff whose government in two thousand and thirteen ordered a truth commission into abuses carried out during military rule she has self as a onetime marxist rebel was imprisoned and tortured brazil never prosecuted members of its military who enjoyed an amnesty implemented before they left office that's a marked contrast to neighboring countries such as argentina where last sunday hundreds of thousands took to the streets on the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy six military coup to cry never again. he will

lead individual commanders to carry out what he called appropriate commemorations to mark sunday's anniversary opponents will hold their own protests including a silent march in sao paulo or the debate store rages in brazil of whether to celebrate or to condemn its military past. al-jazeera saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the phone of jeff bezos the owner of the shopping website amazon and the washington post bezos hired private investigators ultra's phone messages were leaked to the national inquirer newspaper investigators link back to the washington post coverage of the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi last october saudi ministers have previously denied any link to the national enquirer is reporting mark owen jones is an assistant professor of middle east studies at hama and haile for university in qatar he says the hacking of mobile phones is widespread. this tactic is become the norm so we

have saudi doing it a lot but we know for example that the united arab emirates of use this time similar technologies against human rights activists like up in months or you know the bahamian government back in two thousand and twelve were using european spy ware in fish it's a target activist not just living in behind but living in the u.k. so we know that even smaller countries countries that do not have as much power or clout to saudi arabia have been using these types of technologies to target activists living abroad and this to me is really crucial because what we're seeing now is not necessary just state centric efforts to control dissent we're seeing these kind of assemblages of authority in structures often western companies or third term governments coming together to target people who might be living in canada or the u.k. is much of the expertise that is then sold to authors and governments comes from countries like america u.k. it's no different from the arms trade if you look at most countries in the gulf where they buy the weapons from it's usually the u.s. or the u.k. so it's these people who have the expertise with selling it to these countries so

they can wash their hands of this actually all of this technology should be considered a weapon it depends how it's being used president donald trump executive order to allow offshore oil drilling in the arctic ocean has been overturned a federal judge in alaska called trump's reversal of environment environmental protection policy from the obama era unlawful and invalidate the ruling reinstates the drilling ban in much of the arctic ocean the lawsuit was brought by coalition of environmental groups reynolds has more on the story from washington. 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 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. the head of facebook is calling for new rules to govern the internet mark zuckerberg says it's not for companies alone to define and monitor harmful content he wants governments to share in the responsibility for policing what we click zuckerberg is pushing for a common global framework to police privacy and data as well as rules to stop the spread of hate speech facebook has already signed up in principle at least to a contract for the web it's the brainchild of tim berners lee 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 but honestly said it's a global set of principles to govern he said 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 partly the platform was very complacent but the

building belief systems need to tweak their systems a bit so that they could do the discussion more constructive but also those governments as well and so companies and governments need to talk to each other and also is a third constituent we've included the person the assesses the consumer and old person they the feel age we discussed earlier because their rights are really important we see through the web and if we should be more user centric. users can have more control of their 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 voted by changing the products they use or people complain or complain to the government. was still ahead for you on the program but we're looking at the rise of poetry on social media and how it's resonating with young people searching for

understanding. and in school roger federer make short work of one of the tallest players on talk to win yet another title a while and. four have that story and more in school. april on al-jazeera nato leaders will gather to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the alliance in washington d.c. madam husain engages in rigorous debates cutting through the headlines on up front twenty five years on from the genocide that killed nearly a million people wonder has rebuilt but how far of its people been reconciled the emmy award winning show phone lines is back with more investigative journalism and in-depth stories israel is to hold an early election on the ninth of april but with a corrupt.