claim wind through the immigration courts and there is a massive backlog of these cases which means the wait for the day where they can actually see a judge and be either granted or denied asylum can be of two years and the current policy has been that these families are waiting in the united states with family members the sponsors who are already in the country and trump says that many simply disappear into the woodwork never show up for their court appointments and in this sense remain in the country illegally and so his policy which is very controversial has been to send people immediately back across the border to mexico once they've submitted their asylum claim and wait out those months or years there the problem there with people or immigration activists advocates is that the conditions in mexico can be dangerous and international asylum laws says that these asylum seekers must be protected as this process continues thank you very much for the often on that side show koster with the latest from washington d.c.

. now somali with government leaders a warning off even greater to more if the united nations reduces its peacekeeping force to the mission's mandate is due for renewal in june bob canadian and dutch p.h.d. peacekeepers who form part of the sixteen thousand strong force already going home nicolas hock joined one of the final deployments. they call this operation desert falcon on board this royal canadian air force helicopter or the dutch long range reconnaissance team they're about to be dropped close to the border with burkina faso in an area controlled by armed groups while iceland syria is on the defensive here the slow mixtape in the greater sahara the local ice aloft shoot is on the offensive it's highly active in this border area and has claimed any number of attacks. too dangerous and sensitive the u.n. would not allow us to film this infiltration operation with both canadians and

dutch forces removing some of the footage we shot to protect their troops they say . while this is a peacekeeping mission in looks and feels like an exercise in counterinsurgency what makes this mission dangerous is that we have a lot of different layers of. drivers that that actually feeds. the danger in mali because we have a lot of smugglers smuggling activity illegal trafficking criminality we have this ethnic tension between different groups we have the influx of terrorists from from the border region and from inside mali and also we have this tension between the armed groups that are sort of fighting for political power. and all these things add up to the one big dangerous melting pot. as the mission in mali is known costs a billion dollars a year and is considered the un's most perilous it's already cost the lives of two hundred peacekeepers that's more than any previous mission and some of them were

dutch. the canadian forces have brought back their helicopter to get it refueled meanwhile some three hundred kilometers away the dutch forces continue their ground patrol make no mistake this is an international effort to try to bring back peace to mali in a country that spiraling out of control although their mandate is to protect all of the european forces limit their operation just as far as this canadian medivac team can carry them and bring them back. in march the un forces did not intervene when hundreds of villagers were attacked by government backed militia groups in the region of mctee. the violence continues to spread in canada and the netherlands are pulling out of this operation saying their mission is done. we are leaving but the un still stays behind with another thirteen thousand troops so i'm not afraid. to. lose a specific us. troops can do

a job just as well. they come back hours later after having seen thousands of people uprooted by being creasing violence in need of help but in the hands of armed groups they bear witness to what seems to be an expanding war thoughts out of sight deep in the saddle nicholas hawk al-jazeera go. the weather was next and then facebook from of hundreds of a counseling to india's main opposition party and aka found military. and playing politics ukraine's comedian turned politician has won the first round in the presidential election but who have been locked off in the final race. hello again and welcome back we're here cross china we have seen plenty of rain across much of the area even hong kong saw some rain over the last few days better

conditions for hong kong as we go to the next couple of days temperatures though coming down to about twenty two degrees here on tuesday plenty of sunshine along the eastern coastline over the next few days but as we go towards wednesday the rain is back from many locations particular up here towards the east and the central areas and that rain could be heavy notice how dark those areas are we're talking anywhere between hundred fifty to two hundred fifty millimeters of rain could be seen across much of that area leading to localized flooding in the region well here cross india it's not the flooding of course we're ahead of the monsoon it is the heat that we are dealing with some locations are dealing with he waves a severe he waves and some regions not per forty three degrees that is about five degrees higher than your average for this time of year down towards head or bad it is forty one we don't seem to get much of a break as we go towards wednesday either possibly as we go to towards thursday it will get hotter than that and then here across much of the gulf it is the clouds

that people are dealing with is going to be a cloudy day here on tuesday with a temperature here of twenty nine to greece but getting a little bit better by the time we get towards wednesday with a temperature of twenty eight. experience. places together.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories and breaking news from algeria with state media is reporting that president. by april twenty eighth millions of algerians have been calling for the eighty two year old to go in and the constitutional council has been meeting to consider whether he can be removed from office. to. turkey's ruling party says there were mistakes of thousands of ballot boxes in the capital as the opposition the one in the a k p candidate says they're appealing the results to justice the trumpet ministration says that will speed up the deployment of officers to the mexico border and will expand the policy of sending asylum seekers back to mexico it is the latest measure designed to stop mainly central american migrants from trying to

enter the u.s. illegally. now the improbable victory of actor and comedian. in the first round of ukraine's presidential election will now be followed by close scrutiny of his plans for the country his rival incumbent president petro poroshenko has warned that the lens he lacks the strength and experience to david with russia's president vladimir putin but voters who have lost faith in mainstream politics are drawn to the lenski promise of change john holl reports. ukraine's comic actor volodymyr zelinsky owes his success in the first round of the presidential election to t.v. fame and a protest vote by young people frustrated by corruption and the slow pace of reform in one of europe's poorest countries living in. the people are more important to me more than political ambition the people are both everything the ukrainian people are waiting for us but who will get the last laugh linsky will now face far more

forensic scrutiny of his so far rather vague plans for the country for us. to do is actually clean up corruption institutions make them independent ensure that they deliver second judiciary system what there was done before by president bush and it was a fake clear if you want those sorts of broad brushstrokes may not be enough against the incumbent president petro poroshenko the chocolate billionaire with a taste for a second term yeah. i will understand the signal that society sending to us empower this is a harsh lesson for me and for our whole team and they lead us to correct past mistakes. poroshenko has been quick to seize the initiative telling young voters that he's heard their protest promising quicker reforms and questioning the ability of political novice zelinsky to represent ukraine on the world stage he's warned

that an inexperienced leader would be a gift to russia's vladimir putin scuppering hopes of ending ukraine's war with russian backed separatists in the east what matters for us and what matters is the sense of transfer excellent excellent there are to is a combination of political pressure sanctions to very clear. against the russian aggression so experience matters into livery in that message that experience matters trust matters their food voters will be faced with an extraordinary choice in the second round runoff in three weeks time a t.v. charming charismatic but with no political background whatsoever or the incumbent president who's failed to rid this country of corruption or to end the war but who many may feel has the strength and experience that ukraine can't do without you and

a whole algis iraqi of. britain's parliament is getting another chance to find a way forward on russians delayed departure from the e.u. these are live pictures from parliament where they're debating ahead of the votes they look at for alternative options to prime minister tories amaze with the troll daily which they're rejected three times the options are too soft to rex that's where brushing would retain close links to the e.u. they will also decide on whether the people should vote on whatever politicians choose and finally a plan to cancel bret's that altogether as a last resort to avoid crashing out of the e.u. without a deal. facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts and spam pages linked to political parties in india and pakistan's military face folks as the accounts were created to manipulate social media uses one of the main offenders was discovered to be india's main opposition congress party campaigning for the general election as jamiel has more from new delhi. out of the seven hundred or so counts that have

been taken down most were seen as supporting the opposition congress party now facebook denies that they're targeting them specifically but only fifteen or so belong to or were rather supporting the governing b j p now if you look in a different way the number of followers it does paint a little bit of a different picture those seven hundred or so counts of porn the governing b j p added up to about two hundred thousand followers in total those fifteen pages or so that support of the governing b j p had two and a half million followers now the inauthentic behavior you spoke about facebook says that that's the reason that those fake accounts were taken down not the content they posted per se but that could mean that these were fake accounts or that they were bots ones that automatically post pages or links now the congress party says that none of the party pages taken down actually belong to them but that could just mean that they belong to supporters the b j p on the other hand hasn't commented on

the pages supporting them this issue of fake news has been spreading on social media and messaging applications particularly whatsapp which is owned by facebook some of the more recent and biggest fake news stories have been the ones on calvin july auntie's stories about the slaughtering of cows an animal considered sacred by too many here in india which has led to attacks on minorities as well has been the targeting of mary's in february and march following the suicide bombing of indian troops here back in february. affairs director general the pakistan health he agrees with facebook's policy but questions the timing of her decision. i would agree with that that if there is in a career or in a pan take for example behavior is there that's fine but the issue here is the way it's been the timing is one issue we have seen that recently pakistan and india are almost across to the full confrontation and out of that the

p.r. or the peerage appox our military's pages basically ordered looted pages which we which is been stated they were using fake accounts to basically raise some sentiments against india or maybe for that matter we are not sure about that because pig book saying it's not about the contents the problem here is that it creates a huge dichotomy that the selection had there been a political party i'm sure other parties in india must have with it and saw pakistan would may have some bases as well a severe storm has torn down homes and flipped cars and trucks swept across southern name at least thirty one people are known to have been killed but rescue and recovery crews are yet to reach some remote areas forecasters say storms are common this time of year that this was particularly strong and our correspondent

sabina stressed is in one of the worst affected areas. and here is a recent hospital in the district of course where many of the people injured by this storm and when storms yesterday have been brought in for treatment now the storm started around seven thirty in the evening with high winds and wherever it ran in the path of the strong but massive destruction and mud and still good structures that they live in came crashing down almost like matchsticks injuring many of them thirty one people have been confirmed dead and many more in the hundreds more injured. as many as one hundred one hundred thousand people have been affected by this this aftermath of the storm. the prime minister came here earlier to say that the rescue and recovery operations by the security forces have been

going on but for most people who are here the problem is when they get back home they have. to go back. to zero. a woman accused of murdering the half brother of north korea's leader who will be freed from a malaysian prison next month don't be hong admitted unless a charge of course and heard she was sentenced to three years and months but will be released soon due to time already served florence louis reports from kuala lumpur. in just over a month will be free the vietnamese charged with killing kim jong nam the half brother of north korean leader kim jong il 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. i hope that my daughter will be released in

a month i'll be very happy. once case is similar to city i shows indonesia. 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 earlier on we see that justice must be done and he also said the boy slug ship that there really assistance in fact the former koreans are just plain caught 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 are still at large despite an interpol red notice equivalent to an international arrest

warrant florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. now japan has announced the name of its next imperial era. ray it translates as all suspicious means peace the harmony that begins in a month when the new emperor takes the throne nor do i need this rework contains the meaning that culture is born in is the people who use a flea care about each other i renew my commitment to pioneer a new era that will be filled with hope with the selection of a new era name i sincerely hope this new era will be widely accepted by people of japan and deeply rooted in japanese people's lives. and i get out of the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera algerian state media is reporting that president assad that has these will resign by eight hundred twenty eight millions of algerians have been calling for the eighty two

year old to step down and the constitutional council has been meeting to consider whether he can be removed from office because he's unfit to fall took his ruling party says there were mistakes that thousands of ballot boxes in the capital as the opposition secures a one an uncle or the ak party candidate says they appear linked to the results to a poll justice and both the act party and the opposition c.h.p. have claimed victory. turkey be happy now let the stumble be happy and get back to normal we had seven elections in five years let's get back to work now and serve the people. just as we started to run the city in a transparent fashion at every moment i'm doing this happily and i know that every part of the city belongs to sixteen million people. the trumpet ministrations says it will speed up the deployment of officers to the mexico border and will expand

a policy of sending asylum seekers back to mexico it is the latest measure designed to stop mainly central american migrants from trying to enter the u.s. illegally britain's parliament is getting another chance to find a way forward on the russians delayed departure from the e.u. they'll be a vote on four alternative options to prions the tories a maze withdrawal deal which politicians have rejected three times the options are too soft to break so where britain would retain much closer then with to the e.u. they would also vote on whether the people should vote on whatever politicians choose and finally a plan to cancel breaks them all together as a last resort to avoid crashing out of the e.u. without a deal. facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts and spam pages linked to political parties and india and pakistan for military facebook says the accounts were created to manipulate social media uses one of the main offenders was discovered to be india's main opposition congress party campaigning for the upcoming general election well those are the headlines on al-jazeera counting the

cost is coming up next thank you very much for watching. hello i'm adrian finnegan and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week indonesia's on the road to becoming one of the world's biggest economies we find out what's holding it back and how that could damage the president's hopes for reelection. also this week as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote who is financing political

parties there. and mexico's leftist president swept to power on a promise to help the country's poorest but now he's axing social programs we'll look at why. indonesia is economy isn't growing as fast as the president promised when he was elected five years ago joko widodo is spending huge sums to try to get reelected for a second term he's giving regional governments billions and giving handouts to the country's poorest one indonesia as well on its way to becoming a two trillion dollar economy in the next five years a population of more than two hundred fifty million people strong across more than seventeen thousand islands is being held back by among other things poor infrastructure. economic growth on the main island of java expanded at five point seven percent last year bali than nusa tenggara grew just two point seven percent unemployment in jakarta is running at around five point three percent but its more

than eight percent in the neighboring state of west java the world bank estimates that indonesia has an infrastructure gap of one point five trillion dollars compared to other emerging markets president joko widodo is halfway through a ten year three hundred twenty seven billion dollar program to construct new airports highways and ports or congestion in the capital jakarta costs the country billions in lost revenue al-jazeera as florence louis reports now on how the city's newly opened mass rapid transport system is proving to be highly popular. jakarta's long awaited mass rapid train system is finally here was and it's proving a hit more than ten million people work and live in the indonesian capital and the m r t goes a long way in easing the city's notorious traffic congestion. this is a mess if you're in the news you're finally has an unmarked just like other country

that has been having it for years it is also i am very proud moment i usually take an old bus to office but no i'm provided with these very comfortable public transportation i hope people who make cars the office will use this possibility. there's only one line at the moment running from south jakarta to the city center covering a distance of sixteen kilometers the plan is to expand this to eventually cover one hundred twelve kilometers with more than sixty stations by twenty twenty five since coming to power in two thousand and fourteen president joe kudo's administration has prioritized infrastructure development like this one as one of the ways to unlock the country's economic potential other projects include the construction of ports roads power plants and oil refineries since the country is moving from the commodity base to the manufacturing base producing more high value at products it

needs quite calm but the. system exporting goods from any genre or just sending them around the country is expensive logistics costs make up around twenty four percent of g.d.p. much higher than the regional average but the infrastructure projects also come at a price they're estimated to cost four hundred billion dollars over five years adding to government debt levels but the government says that the debt is manageable by law we are allowed to go to sixty percent but remember the main percent. g.d.p. number all the loan that we got to be looking at the productive projects or they can be from the project. so i don't see that much problem but the economic growth that was supposed to happen on the back of infrastructure development hasn't yet materialized g.d.p.

growth has hovered around five percent in the last five years while that can be considered a pretty solid number for some countries it's below the government's target of seven per cent and it's not enough for indonesia's development needs and ambition. condiments generally agree indonesia has to keep spending and not just on building roads railways and other facilities but we also need the soft infrastructure what i mean about this stuff infrastructure is for instance capital human capital the flop one which. is one of the up by at the of the government education in health care for instance have been given bigger allocations in the state budget physical infrastructure but jakarta's newly opened m.r.i. is only part of what indonesia needs to boost its economy. joining us now from london. is emerging markets columnist at capital economics good to have you with us gareth. but forecast seven percent growth at the time of his election the economy

has been delivering what around five percent that's not too bad when you look around but what's holding the economy back. i think there's a number of factors that certainly commodity prices haven't helped being quite subdued for most of gerry's term and i think also more fundamentally it's just been a failure to revitalize the manufacturing sector which when he set out five years ago was one of his key aims now there's a number of reasons why he's failed to do that he has admitted lee he's done some kind of useful tinkering around the edges we've made it more easy for foreign manufacturers to set up in he's pushed ahead with some improvements to the infrastructure but the one thing that he's really failed to do is to press ahead and make any progress with them with labor market reform so in indonesia it's incredibly expensive to hire and fire workers and what that means is that people are reluctant to share it set up manufacturing facilities in indonesia when they could do so much more cheaply in neighboring say vietnam for example and i think

that's been the key reason why growth is to fail to come really anywhere near the government's target so what needs to be done what does he need to do i mean people are arguing that the kind of infrastructure investment that we're seeing it into these here at the moment isn't creating the right kind of work and i think he's made some reasonable progress in infrastructure spending so over the past five years he's increased an annual average about twenty percent which is pretty decent and given the constraints of the fiscal position and so on it's unlikely he could have done much more but i think as i mentioned the key thing that he really needs to do is press ahead with these labor market reforms and i think without that then that indonesia is really going to struggle to attract the kind of manufacturing sector that it needs to really kind of raise growth above the five percent that we've got but that we seem to be stuck at the moment now this is something that we were talking about growth on last week's program china became indonesia's second biggest source of foreign direct investment in twenty seventeen jakarta says it

expects chinese inflows will only continue to swell should. be concerned about failing to keep up with repayments to china. i think it's a very difficult position that it's a problem facing not just indonesia but other countries in asia as well it's that china has clearly got a lot of money to spend as part of its belt and rode into tive and given the infrastructure deficit that indonesia has at the moment there's a clear role for chinese investment to pay i think the concern that indonesia has but also places such as pakistan and malaysia where there's been quite a big push back on chinese investment recently is that that these investments come with say that you hear stories about interest rates and double digits in his stories that china wants to control the asset even after it's been built and i think that's the reason why indonesia is going to tread very carefully with this over the next few years and why you're already seeing some pushback at the election over the prospect of a big increase in chinese investment growth like many developing nations you look

at the statistics and wonder what on earth the problem is but i mean you have this massive what sixty percent informal economy what needs to done to be done to make that more inclusive. i think the key point that i've mentioned is that if you look at the most successful asian economies since the second world war countries such as taiwan hong kong korea what they all had in common was a very competitive export orientated manufacturing sector now this is something that the indonesians really struggle to create and generate and i think if it's if it's going to meet its potential and raise growth to the seven percent or so that you kerry's been targeting it really needs to do something about that now he has made some useful progress on infrastructure so there are improvements in place there but i think until you see that big changes in the labor market also land reform is another area that hasn't really to show until you see changes that and i

think indonesia is really going to struggle for it so whoever wins the election what should the main priorities be as they take office and looking ahead to the next five years i think if you look at the economic proposals of both candidates neither of them really have economic policies if you look at pro bono a first of all he's got a very kind of population nationalist agenda he wants to cut taxes which may provide a short boost the economy but would also raise borrowing and probably borrowing costs as well he's also been very circumspect about chinese investment and also very nationalistic about kind of promoting a more a more self-sufficient economy and i think investors are very wary of a prayer when but he's still a long way behind in the opinion polls that doesn't know very likely on john kerry i think you get more of the same so you get kind of tinkering around the edges you get some further improvements to the business environment you probably get more spending on infrastructure but he doesn't look as if he's going to be this kind of second transformative figure he's not going to push ahead with these big changes to

infrastructure i mean changes to the labor market the indonesian needs now a lot of the problem with that within the nature of the problem with the policy mindset is if you think back kind of twenty years or so where indonesia was hit very. by the asian financial crisis. is present deep distrust of foreign markets and also open markets and so they're likely to be very cautious in their approach to policy making regard to torture the guy with many thanks indeed for being with us ok thank you now around one in five of the philippines one hundred six million people live in extreme poverty getting by on less than two dollars a day many including children were long hours a street vendors or laborers to make enough to feed themselves hunger occurs most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where seventy percent of workers a pool of zeros jungle and dog and meet some of those struggling to earn a living in the capital manila when war broke out in malawi in the southern

philippines almost two years ago. and her children fled the violence they made their way here to downtown manila since then her eldest son to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violence and like many others they are harassed because they are homeless and they're classified as illegal vendors later it is hard when you see them haul away entirely what is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say iran to have a filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of money meant more than twenty percent of them are underweight the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children.