closer scrutiny in the weeks ahead. what it's made out to john herb sousa former u.s. ambassador to ukraine now director of the eurasia center at the atlantic council they joins us live from washington d.c. . welcome to the program so round one to the comedian wild card but round two is going to be a lot tougher for the lansky that's correct i'm in fact i'd say round one when both zelinsky and our shan't go because polish and goes edging out units of the shadow was done something you're certain of. how do you see it going in round two when it comes to. his policies and says well it's his policies and so forth is going to come into much more scrutiny and he's policy like basic is a. very bright look he's clearly an able man he was a very successful comedian and business that the fact that he won first round you actually just certain about political talent but he does not know that much about our economic affairs about political affairs and certainly about security fears and

i think bush and he will try and make that clear to the ukrainian public in next three weeks he does have as we were just saying in that report he does have the former finance minister behind him and the economy is very much a central issue so that's going to be a great help isn't it that there is a good sign gentle use of serious reform or do you actually just the fact that he's attracted to you can a space and have is a positive sign but we have to see what that actually means in your life are we know the also has he's not backed up from last year or more by any an oligarchy who works in illinois who and that his are these are our supporters not consistent with zelinsky just anti corruption message it is an extraordinary turn up the this is come to pass in this way i know it's only still in iran what has happened but nevertheless it has happened why do you think that the vote has gone more his way this time. well principle and it's people are are not happy with the state of

domestic affairs they understand that the kremlin is waging a war against the dunbar and i think they are by and large satisfied with what shekels or time leadership which in fact has been actually but there are unhappy with the fact that corruption remains a large problem despite some progress fighting corruption there have been there's not been improvements in your standard of living all that is actually a realistic and so they're looking for a new base who is not tainted by the the policy failures of the past and certainly zelinsky represents that so what's your gut feeling as we look ahead to the around two will selenski get the job. i hesitate to make a prediction are the only traditional make is the margin between the u.s. ski and other shanghai around two will be much less than the margin between the two the in round one i think bush will now or the race where they can actually carry to victory i plan just not sure all right well or most recent appreciate your

perspective on this thanks very much i don't have them thank you. more ahead on the news hour including a new twist in the battle between the world's richest man jeff bezos saudi arabia and a u.s. tabloid magazine. dreams on hold but life carries on we talk to those stuck in mexico and cross into the united states. coming up to champion news how to take advantage of the phone to ring for ariz for his for the first scrum free seats . now turkey's opposition has made major gains in local elections at the expense of president. and his party the votes widely seen as a referendum on the act party's dominance for nearly two decades the opposition as one of control in the capital ankara and the coastal city of izmir in istanbul is

currently considered too close to call. it concedes that his party has failed to hold on in some regions. every victory and every loss is the will of our nation and we have to accept this fact as a necessity of democracy we will admit that we want people's hearts in cities we won but we were not successful enough in cities we live and we will act accordingly let's speak not to sit in concern of correspondents following these elections how much of a surprise the result so far. well nick actually when we look at the pools that have been published a prior to the election the result is not a surprise but of course it has been a surprise for the ruling party because i mean the mostly presence at dawn and it's party were not wishing to lose cities like is there and now

still there is controversy over is stumble we don't know who won the victory in a stumble the most populated city in turkey with eight with at these fifteen million people and ten point five million voters across the country so now we're waiting for the results that will come from istanbul whether the winner is the ruling party's candidate former prime minister benoliel groom who are the opposition candidates. but even though the election results are. announced it seems that there will be just the very narrow cuts between the two candidates and until now both both sides have had nonstick st. moritz has stopped transferring data information that's small and we don't know what the main is the actual results yet and the official results will be announced

tomorrow but of course when really after listening to present add on speech in istanbul and then his malcolm speech in opera it seems kind of disappointed and mainly about. and probably if he loses a stumble but it's about he sounded as if he got a message that the voters were trying to give him because the opposition made the targets it's not a big victory but a victory in big cities stumble along and is especially to give up lol to the ruling got forty. two the economic downturn and the tumbling iraq and the security situation with the neighbors so it seems at the ruling party have received a passage. or sort of believe that it's not being thanks very much in the photo. the two main border crossings into goes are open for the first time in six days

israel lifted restrictions on sunday morning after a weekend of mass protests along the fence dividing dollars and israel for palestinian protesters were killed and two hundred forty others injured during the demonstrations. 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 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 have 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 or 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 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 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 is. 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 and what. renewed push for the creation of a palestinian state they've also rejected u.s. president old chums recognition of israeli sovereignty over the occupied golan heights but as a report from tunisia it couldn't hide many other divisions jury the arab league summit. is 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. 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 these rallies palestinian conflict based on the two state solution. delivered a sharp rebuke to the trump other ministration accusing it of encouraging israel to annex palestinian territory a bass warned that jerusalem wasn't for sale. as one of. them would happen 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 us 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. is 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 he's with of the political crisis raises concerns of a protracted power struggle in the oil rich country from environment it's unacceptable that our region continues to top the list of countries grappling with refugees crises terrorism and economic stagnation. the arab league which was designed to unite arabs is widely considered we and inefficient its 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 league it shies away from addressing problems such as poverty corruption under talk recy focusing instead on denouncing those trying to destabilize the other world al-jazeera to unearth. brazil is a trade mission to israel and west jerusalem apparently backing away from a previous pledge to move its embassy to the city the move was announced during a visit by the brazilian president both praise the u.s. when it shifted its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and indicated that brazil may follow suit but senior officials have since talked down the idea of trade with arab countries. is being criticized for reinstating commemorations for

a military coup and nine hundred sixty four thousands of protesters have been marching in several brazilian cities to denounce dictatorship on the fifty fifth anniversary of the coup more than four hundred people were killed disappeared during two decades of military rule torture survivors say what happened during military rule should be condemned and not celebrated. as this. has never hidden his admiration for the military 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 moderated his language. about celebrating remembering or looking back to see what went wrong or right it's about how we could 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. the only place in brazil dedicated to victims of the military government that building a former peace headquarters where opponents of the regime what detained you thought the. 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 his. was twenty one years old when he was detained in one nine hundred seventy and spent four years in prison as s.s. 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 commemoration branded by former

president jimmy to say these governments in two thousand and thirteen ordered a truth commission into abuses carried out during military rule she has self as a one time marxist rebel was imprisoned until it should. brazil never prosecuted members of its military who enjoyed an amnesty implemented before they left. the neighboring countries such as argentina where last sunday hundreds of thousands took to the streets on the anniversary of their. military coup to cry never again. to carry out what he called appropriate commemorations to mark sunday's anniversary of the debate storm rages in brazil of with. or to condemn its military past. al-jazeera. the film u.s. military. made by marines during the war in afghanistan. look

at the rise of social media and how it's resonating with young people. to win it another title in miami of the elect. how i once again welcome some other look at the international full cost of severe weather severe storms moving away from the eastern seaboard of the u.s. francisco is coming back in behind it on a massacre have still some really heavy rains and significant snowfall to just around the eastern side of canada with a broad skies as we go on through monday as that moves through there we will see some wet weather coming into the western side of the u.s.

could parts of washington and oregon seeing some very heavy rain for a time that will make its way inland tending to snow more than possible for your says seeing some wet weather by this state that is in the panhandle some really wet weather here could see some localized flooding just around georgia just around the impossible florida and a mix of rain and snow there just moving in across the midwest a fair bit of snow to just into central parts of kansas or making their way through the race with some we know quite done with winter just yet meanwhile into the carriage bed we got a few showers around here right chad was a kohl's obedient sather into jamaica so the parts of cuba maybe into his spaniel jamaica should dry up as we go through choose day the shadows fewer and further between fair amount of fair weather meanwhile just around the eastern side of the cap it should be dry we might see want to show us in the other side of the region for costa rica.

for the pneumatic jack outright survival is about reaching their destination or if we don't hurry we'll never be able to get the time of the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. country dangerous the ice is that then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life living here are sometimes luser cattle in the u.k. there was a cold war because of the storm risking you don't go beyond on al-jazeera. the latest seems as if breaks as well as the police investigation the prime minister says there will also be a national inquiry with detailed coverage of the arms trade with saudi arabia is going to be a very important components of life in post-breakfast of britain. from around the world that alan is a symbol also must fight against. all it's.

ever going to watch out zero remind of our top stories this media reports in algeria say that the president of the legs he's pretty flicka is preparing to announce his resignation he announced a new caretaker government that will be headed by prime minister nouri dean. the decision comes after weeks of widespread protests calling for change. exit polls in ukraine show comedian averted his events he has won the first round of the presidential election the incumbent petro poroshenko is expected to finish second and make it to the runoff and. better results in turkey's local elections show the

main opposition party candidate taking a narrow lead in ankara while president rest of one's ak party is ahead in istanbul the municipal elections are seen as a test for the president. saudi arabia has been accused of hacking the phone of jeff bezos the owner of the online shopping john thompson and the washington post bezos high private investigators after his phone messages were leaked to the national enquirer tabloid newspaper as investigators have linked. back to the washington post extensive coverage of the murder of saudi journalist to malcolm soji saudi ministers who previously denied any link to the national enquirer leak we spoke to ayad al baghdadi a human rights activist and one of the sources for jeff just jeff bezos his investigation team he explained very many letters 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 planning to do even more but so 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 n.s.o. and 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 in fact 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 appropriates with with dictators but we're also saving lives somehow of course you know whether you believe them or not is another question when it's not the first time the saudi arabia has been accused of this kind of thing so hard this. sarge radio 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 report of the saudi this isn't and one of its software 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 this these findings and patella statement they said the m.s.o. group developed cyber technology to allow government agencies to identify and disrupt arest 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 denies any involvement israeli media reported that sound eurabia paid fifty five million dollars for the pegasus surveillance tool a system so advanced it classified it as a weapon and requires government approval to sell it then if 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 sound 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 converse. ation 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 and then last month at least four verified twitter accounts including one belonging to a dead u.s. weather experts were hacked a new says spread 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 as to me and runs away from that's a newseum summit of course that's in reference to the arab summit but this is just

an example of the sort of hashtags that come out of saudi arabia that's a fake pope francis has called for tolerance and peace of the mass for thousands of catholics in america ten thousand worshipers packed a sports complex of robots as the pope finished his two day stay in the north african state the first leader of the catholic church to visit since pope john paul the second ninety five. block in bangladesh that court this week could be arrested and charged with negligence twenty six people died in the blaze in dhaka some jumped to their deaths from the twenty two story high rise hundreds were treated for the effects of smoke inhalation safety inspectors say the building didn't have extension permits or enough for exists. the international monetary fund expects the philippines to become the fastest growing economy in southeast asia but many filipinos doubt that they will benefit millions over fordable homes are needed to alleviate extreme poverty. reports now from manila. married rowsley

passo 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 they all sleep in this less than ten square meter bedroom upstairs because the house really small and we can barely stretch our legs here it's hot and prompting 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 the

housing 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 being 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. local government units. to really evaluate poverty 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. in what you would like is to be relocated to an affordable housing so we can finally own a home so we can pay for it little by little 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 to. say living without a permanent home makes them feel they're lost and just seeing. the fear is residents in venezuela have built a burning barricade in protest against constant power outages and the lack of clean

drinking water protest is set in tree trunks the lights along just the streets throughout the capital of caracas weeks increase instability in the region president nicolas maduro says his government plans to ration power experts say the national electrical grid is poorly maintained it needs investment. the u.s. is president ordered reductions in direct aid to three central american countries saying they aren't doing enough to stop illegal immigration critics say the cuts to el salvador guatemala and honduras are entirely entirely counterproductive and will only increase the flow of migrants towards the united states trump accuses the countries of having to deliberately set up migrant caravans and has threatened to close the border with mexico. well some central americans who have made it as far as mexico as scraping together a living on shore if they'll make it to the united states deserves my no reply reports now from tijuana. at

a boarding house and the one in mexico 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. 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 the one. 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 it is better 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 want to 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. 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 in. if we don't find a house to empty. it 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 and julie will have to keep looking another day it's difficult to know how many central american migrants have may 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 one through news say their goal ultimately is to someday be able to reach the united states and achieve the american dream. but. the one. movie goes is seeing what the longest war in u.s. history looks like on the front line u.s. marines in afghanistan hope the documentary of battles against the taliban gives a more realistic view than hollywood kristen salumi has more from new york. it's billed as the documentary the u.s. military did not want the public to see.