of ninety days and then after that we'll see new parliamentary and presidential elections ok perhaps some how about thank you israel has lifted its ban on palestinians fishing off the coast of gaza b. this is part of a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas the agreement which is mediated by egypt includes expanding the fishing zone along the mediterranean coast israel reopen two main crossings on sunday following a weekend of palestinian protests on the border june has more from gaza. this was supposed to be a day that would bring a renewed sense of optimism to fishermen here in gaza instead it's been disappointing that's because of the weather it's been raining heavily it's very cloudy it's windy now this was supposed to bring a new sense of hope to gaza fishermen today because today for the first time in years gaza fishermen will be allowed to in some parts off the gaza coast go up to fifteen nautical miles off the coast to fish that's

a huge boost to the fishing industry here is also the first time since last week that they've been allowed back into the water by israeli authorities now the gaza fishermen that have gathered here this morning some of them went out earlier a few boats but they came back in because of the bad weather and many of the people assembled here say they need to be able to go back into the water there's approximately four thousand fishermen here in gaza this is one of the few viable industries here this is one of the few ways in which people in gaza are able to make money so it's extremely necessary but the fishermen that are here are saying it's great that they will be able to go back into the water they are hopeful that this means they will be able to continue to go out into the water and fish but at the same time they also say that they still need equipment they still need more equipment to be able to come into gaza for their boats so that they can fish more so they can bring in more fish make more money for their families for their

children there is a cautious sense of optimism in gaza the past few days these egyptian led mediation talks between hamas other palestinian factions in israel they really seem to be on a positive track there's been no final deal that's been reached yet but the fact that gaza fishermen are now going to be able to go back into the water once the weather clears that is giving people here a renewed sense of optimism that hopefully in the days ahead things will continue to improve rescuers are struggling to reach villages in nepal cut off liason. thunderstorm at least twenty seven people were killed but that number is expected to rise as emergency workers reach the remote districts of barra and are saw buildings collapse a bus was blown off a road and cars overturned in the storm those are expected to join the recovery operation once the weather improves and police twenty four firefighters have zeid while battling a forest fire in the western mountains of china the blaze broke out

a movie it's a bet an autonomous county in china's sichuan province they went missing on sunday when the wind changed direction fanning the flames hundreds of people are still working to contain the blaze. a woman accused of murdering the half brother of north korea's leader will be freed from a malaysian prison next month that's after donkey huang admitted a lesser charge of causing hurts she was sentenced to three years and four months but will be released soon do so time already served florence louis reports from kuala lumpur. i don't just over a month will be free the vietnamese charged with killing kim jong nam the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un in february two thousand and seventeen has accepted a plea deal she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of causing harm and has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison she would have faced a mandatory death sentence had she been found guilty of murder. in the i hope that

my daughter will be released in a month i'll be very happy or once case is similar to city ayesha indonesian kohak used prosecutors dropped charges against city last month without saying why the indonesian government later revealed that its officials had lobbied malaysian authorities believing city had been used as a tool by north korean intelligence for north korean men who fled the country hours after the killing have also been charged but their whereabouts remains a mystery you know mediation of iraq we see that justice must be done. and he also said the boy slot ship that there really is essence in fact of the former will be unsatisfying and they emphasize that the must be brought to justice north korea has denied any involvement in the murder lawyers for the two women have always maintained they was indeed scapegoats it's very likely that no one else will ever stand trial for the murder of kim jong un the four north korean men still at large

despite an interpol red notice equivalent to an international arrest warrant florence al-jazeera kuala lumpur. plenty more ahead on the observations hour including new zealand's prime minister is in china but a decision not to use weiwei technology for the country's five g. mobile network hangs over her visit. the fake president will now face the real president in a runoff in ukraine. and ferrari blows away to buy her a details coming up a little later with andy in sports. so new zealand's prime minister is making her first official visit to china where she's expected to tackle some sensitive issues just government rejected a bid by chinese company y. way to install new zealand's five g.

network while way was turned down on national security grounds following the lead of the us and its western allies but china is new zealand's biggest trading partner so the prime minister has a fine line to tread adrian brown has more from beijing. well the fact that jews and arden is here in beijing just over two weeks since the mosque killings in christchurch is i think a measure of the importance she places on new zealand's relations with china it will be though just the briefest of visits one day and one night on monday morning she stood in the great hall of the people to be officially welcome to china by the country's premier league she's going to be discussing trade issues essential with him she wants to upgrade new zealand's current free trade agreement that was signed back in two thousand and eight at the moment two way trade between these two countries stands at almost nineteen billion dollars but there are tricky areas for

her to negotiate there are challenges for her on this trip china of course is upset that its giant telecoms company while away is being banned from participating in new zealand's five g. network china wants new zealand to reconsider that ban but of course the united states are saying that if new zealand were to do that then washington might not be prepared to share intelligence with new zealand in the future because new zealand is part of the five eyes intelligence alliance that involves canada australia new zealand britain and the united states so in a way new zealand finds itself caught in a sense between this deepening friction between china and the united states right now and then of course there's yes you of human rights in the aftermath of the christ church killings jews and arden has made ill treatment of muslims and other ethnic minorities part of the country's foreign policy and human rights groups are

hoping that she will build on that momentum and raise the issue of what's happening in shin jangle human rights groups say that essentially more than a million ethnic muslim we girls are being held in reeducation camps china calls them vocational training centers but of course raising an issue. this with china's leaders always brings a typical response and that is we do not allow other countries to interfere in our internal affairs the peacekeeping mission in mali is already the deadliest in u.n. history and the violence is getting worse as the situation deteriorates some countries are already pulling their soldiers out of a peacekeeping force the u.n. mission is currently around sixteen thousand and its mandate is due for renewal in june let's. here's the africa editor of the french weekly news magazine l'express is that he's joining us from paris thanks for talking to us on al-jazeera so we know that the netherlands will not be renewing their mandate with the u.n.

mission and canada has also announced the same thing what impact is that going to have on the country. well you know on the ground the impact is not so spectacular but obviously symbolically it makes sense if you take the case of the netherlands in fact it's an old story and the decision dates back to last year last june it was the consequence of a very critical report published by the court of the of the netherlands about the poor training and the lack of proper military equipment for all the blue helmets coming from. the dutch blue helmets the problem here. in france as all the way it's been pretty critical toward european partners and as repeatedly asked for sharing the burden of operating in mali

now the problem is that for our partners it sounds like there is a certain amount of reluctance to get embroiled if not trapped in the nightmare and some diplomats how you talk to in the past few years used to say that we are not willing to get trapped in the franco african the story kind of postcolonial story but from the objects and i think rightly so that it's not a matter of african problem. and a topic for the who of europe but if you consider the interests of our i grew in the you were numb and also terrorism well we'll talk about the various groups in mali in the security situation in a moment but first let me ask you this because it is described as the un's most dangerous mission and we know that the country's security as you're saying has gradually deteriorated specially over the past year since twenty thirteenth so has

the u.n. gotten it wrong in mali. well it's very true i mean originally the danger was localized in the northern part of the country and then it's coming south with new tensions in central mali and to give you a very recent example in the twenty third of march you had the massacre of more than one hundred sixty civilians in a small village and here you have the real danger it's a toxic cocktail between and shouldn't if not ancestral inter-community clashes between i would say basically farmers and cattle breeders and the activism of the groups in fact the jihad danja has never been uprooted from mali a no from central mali and you have to add. something to the problem you have

a conflicting approach between for example france and russia on the one hand and the united states on the other a couple of days ago it was last friday there was an interesting debate in the security council in new york france and russia say there are positive signals in the implementation of a peace agreement signed in two thousand and fifteen on the concrete washington says nope not enough breakthrough about the deployment of the administration of mali in the country or constitutional reform decentralization so here there is a tendency in washington to consider a downsizing of the u.n. operation ok van sant just to stand by for just a moment because we're going to get an update from the ground in mali and i'll come back to you that's where and of course hackers joining us from from god so as we're reporting nicholas the u.n.

mission some countries are now planning to pull out just tell us why that is. well officially the dutch and the canadians the canadians were scheduled to leave at the end of july and then president and move the un security council to oust them to extend their mission but they're not going to do that the dutch you know had a series of missteps that involved like three dutch soldiers dying most you do with their own equipment and there was an investigation put in place and that resulted in the dutch defense minister resigning but was clear at least for the canadians this is an election year for justin trudeau who is running for reelection in october and it's unclear for a lot of canadians why they're putting so many canadian lives that risk in this mission in mali donaldson's of miles away from canada that's a question that a lot of people in from western nations are asking themselves how is the security

of mali contingent on the security at home of course the europeans is is a little bit more obvious where we are is a major trafficking route for for arms for drugs and for human trafficking so we just them out of the migration and go into the illegal migration going to europe a lot of effort has to be put in on the ground here in mali ok we're going to thank you for that update from mali back to have. one son just a moment ago you were talking about the differences between some of the countries and for example washington pushing to downsize its involvement in mali so now that the dutch are going to be pulling out as well as the canadians who do you think will be picking up the slack. well you know basically you have a very significant force of at least twelve thousand soldiers but the problem now

is to make some connection with the french movement and what is called the g five force you know that after the french intervention in mali it was extended to five countries under the name of. so from chad to mauritania. first to mali. and now the problem is the problem of operational coherence between the u.n. system which tends to keep people in their bases and this five force. which has not been very very efficient so far and for example the first real military on counter with a group took place a couple of weeks ago. been efforts in the past three years to sample the force and to finance it ok joe we thank you very much for joining us from paris in

a few moments we'll have the weather with kevan but still ahead right here on the al-jazeera news hour with the clock ticking to resuming prepares for yet another attempt to get her back to deal through parliament a sign of the times in japan as a new imperial era is announced. in sport the celebrations begin as the title winners of argentina's top football league are decided with a game to spare. well we are dealing with a he waiver situation right now across parts of india yesterday temperatures exceeded well above average in some locations here and per we had forty three degrees that is about four degrees above average here in ca than forty five degrees

that is about seven degrees above average for this time of year now we are looking at critical he wave conditions across several states right now we're talking about clear skies in many areas that's causing the heat and the clear skies to was actually make that he come up but it is these areas particularly the central in the north western part of india that we are seeing the heat wave unfortunately the next few days we're going to be seeing these temperatures still remaining well above average in this area for now per forty four forty three degrees will continue to be your average for the next few days actually as we go towards thursday we do expect that temperature to come up probably to about forty four degrees downtimes had about forty degrees there now the heat is going to continue we do think until the monsoon does kick in and that is not until we had june first down here towards the south it kicks in about normally this time of year for june first and then as we go to june tenth that is when we see the big impact of the monsoon but until then that

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simply turning its pursuit into policy good time has done what no other country have. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour turkey's election board says the opposition is in the lead in istanbul's may or raise the opposition won most of the ten largest cities in the local elections in a significant blow for president reza tell you berta was ruling party protesters have been back on the streets of algerian capital hours after a caretaker government was named local media is reporting that eighty two year old president of the aussies beautifully is preparing to. a woman accused of murdering

the half brother of north korea's leader will be freed from a malaysian prison next month dawn was sentenced for a lesser charge of causing hurt but she'll be released soon for a time served. early results from ukraine show a comedian has won the first round of the presidential election. it's a major step towards victory but his numbers are far short of an absolute majority and he'll now face the current president petro poroshenko in a runoff vote on april the twenty first. 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 a lot of is 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 the.

great. legs in the wizard and mine is it. the new life begins a normal life life without the corruption without bribes without anything like this life in a new country a country have much. dylan's he 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 caring about it for the soviet union you know for the russian choir and their fight so it was for ukraine the chocolate billionaire versus the comedy king russia we've been 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 zelinsky 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. well that's a good question right just maybe because they trust him more than the alternatives that's it. and they. all line. bluntly actually saying that we don't want. a continuation of current policies you know with what we don't want people who don't trust running the country so this is the shiny new look i'll take in ukraine and younger voters in particular will surely love many hard to like the five all of them is immense his promise to change everything even if he so far made only the vaguest suggestions about how he plans to do that will have to change fast

as voters' minds become far more focused in the second round so that was john a reporting will now speak to him bring him in from kiev join us a little be interesting to see how the next couple of weeks play out indeed i think the tone and substance of this election is going to change and change fast over the next few weeks with much more forensic scrutiny of both of these candidates whittled down from a list of thirty nine to forty in particular mr zelinsky the t.v. comic no political experience whatsoever and people don't really know very much about his plans or policies what one man who's got to know him fairly well he's my guest alexander done you look you saw him in my report there a former finance minister me official advisor now perhaps to mr zelinsky thanks for joining us yes you see is he ready do you think for the sort of pressure the sort of scrutiny that his policies will come under now is he ready to provide detailed

answers. i think i think he is ready to face those challenges when he is elected if you're referring to debate. you know clearly you know he's no. incumbent president but again there's a saying we should trust him people. even they take place they also will. you know whether they actually trust that what is being set out actually would be put in practice and here i believe the president. he has you know a big disadvantage so to say because for the last five years he's you know he. you know just. the minimal levels well you've got to know a little bit about what he plans for the country domestically i want to ask you i

mean how does he plan to dig this country's economy out of the hole that it's in how does he plan to tackle corruption the two big issues domestic well what we need to understand is this is. the president right so it's only the beginning of the big transformation and that transformation. of constellation that he's got to leave. so it's starts with forming the team and the stars was number one position the president so he needs to put in place a strong team that after the presidential election right then you know showed the results to ukrainians so that he could win the parliamentary elections and then having a majority in the parliament and having strong team in the presidential administration and key positions in the law enforcement then he would be able to tell us from the countries it's only beginning to understand it's not like you know there is no simple recipe about it but it would be but he must have

a vision and he must have that vision with the people closest to him the other big issue. how will he deal with president putin with russian influence in this country something arguably has an advantage over him with how will he deal with a man like putin but first of all he has a very very clear vision vision and we work on this vision together actually if you do what you said earlier and so do many questions including by the way question of how to deal with is fighting corruption in ukraine because this is like a you know it's a part design movement within the country people who you know who grew up who destroyed institutions who destroyed the hope of ukrainians but the future they're the biggest. friends of actually what first that mrs announced means to do is actually clean up the corruption institutions make them independent ensure that they deliver second is to the fore judiciary system what there was done before by

president bush and it was a fake clear fake but if warm and everybody understand it was an invitation so it needs to be very very quickly and efficiently relaunched and then that is not enough to not to do even before the parliamentary elections ok that's my ukraine very very different than a send a signal that we're different countries ok i was under don't recall going to have to leave it there just some of the immense issues really on the plate of lot of years olinsky a man with no political experience and an awful lot receives back to you john howard thank you. parliament is preparing to vote on a series of bricks and options and ending the political deadlock over the u.k. as the parts are from the e.u. the prime minister's withdrawal deal was voted down for the third time by politicians on friday and reports suggest a reason may could bring her deal back on tuesday for a fourth vote but m.p.'s are divided on the issue with many hoping for

a softer. proposed agreement. get an update from the barker joining us from london so m.p.'s will again vote on their own preferences this evening are any of the alternative breck's of likely to win. well we'll have to really wait and see the bricks and merry go round very much continues there are lots of predictions there are lots of hell of a lot punditry about what will happen next what we do know is the true reason maze options are running out we also know as he said that there's going to be a second round of the so-called indicative votes a little bit later on the first round was last wednesday when m.p.'s took the unprecedented step of seizing control of parliamentary proceedings to vote on a whole string of different alternative to reason mais plan none of them were able to actually get a majority amongst m.p.'s but there were two or three clear front runners that included remaining in the customs union also putting the final deal if there

is one to a public vote as well both of these options actually gain more support amongst them fees than to reason may's full deal when it went before parliament for the second time so what m.p.'s are trying to do now is find a consensus for a way forward it may well go to another round of votes on wednesday and there is of course however a bit of a health warning with this because the government isn't legally or duty bound in any way to adopt what m.p.'s come up with but given the impasse give given the lack of movement so far teresa mayes under a tremendous amount of pressure to perhaps capitulate in some way to accommodate in some way possibly what the m.p.'s a likely to demand whether that may be a deal with a public vote on the back of it who knows but theresa may of course does risk crossing some red lines if she gives away too much to m.p.'s looking forward on a laser what they want what is this then all mean for her thick and specifically do

we expect her to a bow to the pressure. she may well do so what we do know is this that the failure to get a deal passed last friday meant that she automatically failed to meet the e.u. deadline of last friday allowing them to leave the e.u. with a deal on may the twenty second and they will in the u.k. to then have a two year transition period an orderly breaks at the default position now as the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. without a deal on april the twelfth the e.u. has called an emergency summit for april the tends to reason is undoubtedly going to go to that the e.u. may well give her two options to leave without a deal a couple days later or agree to a very very long extension but then of course that raises the prospect of the u.k. having to get involved in european parliamentary elections symbolically that could be a huge blow for to reason may imagine having to spend more than one hundred million dollars on a electoral process to vote for officials to an organization of the countries meant

to be leaving you can see the irony there so the options for treason may definitely running out as you know she had staked her entire political reputation on this deal last friday she promised to leave to resign to step down as prime minister if m.p.'s back to deal over say that in bucket what happens next for her is pretty young clear but our options are most certainly running out ok the market thank you . venezuela's president nicolas maduro has announced a month long electricity rationing plan while the nationwide power cuts continue the announcement was greeted by demonstrations against the regular powers. say the widespread electricity blackouts are making their lives even worse on top of food and medicine sort of jazz and hyper inflation experts say the national electrical grid is poorly maintained and needs investment are latin america editor with human has the latest from caracas. as you can see much of practice is in darkness at this

hour president nick. last mughal in a pre-taped address told the news whalen's that the country had again been attacked by what he called saboteurs in an electromagnetic attack he called it on friday and on saturday making it impossible for authorities to try to normalize the supply of electricity throughout the country he again did not provide any evidence of these attacks but he did say that they will be a thirty day period at least of power rationing to try to normalize the electrical grid good throughout the country and he also said that public services would only work until two pm every day schools will also continue to be closed one of the worst things about all this of course is that people don't have water you need to have electricity to make water pumps work as well people are getting desperate and this has led to a lot of protests certainly here in the capital on sunday people came out in the afternoon they were shot at by some pro-government supporters called police. two

people were injured but then later in the night all over in many parts at least of the capital people went out onto the streets again blocking roads burning tires putting up different barricades and banging on pots and pans demanding water and electricity so there is growing concern that this is going to raise not just the level of tension but of violence here in venezuela president maduro is in fact calling on his supporters to take to every single street in the country to quote ensure the peace while the opposition is now calling for venezuelans to go out and protest all over the country starting on monday for their political and economic turmoil has forced more than three million venezuelans to look for a better life abroad and for some it's been their final journey.