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 certainly changes to the labor market to indonesia needs now a lot of the put the problem with that with indonesia the problem with the policy mindset is if you think back kind of twenty years or so where indonesia was hit very hard by the asian financial crisis and what is pretty is a deep distrust of foreign markets and also open markets and so they're likely to be very cautious in their approach to policy making really good to talk to you guys 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 blown out as 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 zeroes john allen 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 up to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violates often like many others they are harassed because they are homeless and they're classified as illegal venters later it is hard when you see them hauled away in tire which is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say aye around half of filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of muldaur shipment more than twenty percent of them are under weeks the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children with

stunted growth. how occurs the most in agriculture and fishing sectors where more than seventy percent of workers are impoverished displacements brought about by natural disasters and continuing on conflict contributes to communities food insecurity the autonomy as a region in muslim mindanao has one of the highest tendency for underweight children and it may be attributed to the history of conflict in the region. aid groups have been feeding children in many public schools for years and the government has promised to expand that program nationwide and include kindergartens and elementary schools. in hopes to eradicate hunger and reduce down to the growth in children by twenty thirty on their it's sustainable development goal it's not being highlighted because. this is very abstract we only notice one nutrition if

the child is skin and bones sometimes we call it be hidden hunger even recall it like. that starvation of the soul because when we talk about malnutrition that it doesn't only affect the body but it affects the whole being of the child shane is twelve years old and for four years she's been helping her mother feed her other seven siblings they sell flowers outside churches and together make less than six u.s. dollars a day shane sleeps here on the pavement with her mother she says she dreams should become a doctor when day but for now she sells her flowers with hunger her constant companion . still to come on counting the cost of community farms are springing up in venezuela as u.s. sanctions kick in. but first india's prime minister narendra modi declared the country a space power after the successful test of

a satellite missile but. opposition leaders complained that the prime minister used the test to score political points the election commission said if you'll pardon the pun that it would launch a probe of its own as one into the prime minister's announcement which comes ahead of elections more than nine hundred million indians will go to the polls in the world's biggest democratic process beginning april eleventh political parties are expected to spend seven billion dollars over the election cycle that ends on may twenty third but there are concerns new campaign laws introduced by modi are making it more difficult to find out who's financing the parties and their candidates anyone can walk into a bank and buy electoral bombs anonymously for the party of their choice. joining us now from new delhi is charlie a professor and dean at the gentle school of international affairs good to have you with us professor the government has defended these new campaign financing rules

why is that if you don't i think before the finance. it is what passed and you once released it was completely in the dark and. so you know anybody who made donations and it was not a co-author for a lot of it was well after the books and after our saw the garden strains that you know by introducing these barns and others it seems a lot of me on people who could be in the back in early june or to be you know available for school to me and you can actually tell who was receiving how much and before the basket we couldn't even guess who was use each one was deceiving what amount of money and from whom so of course the i don't we do factor still in the current laws which means that only at least you know who is essentially in the last legal or completely black box so the next it wasn't going to be only far but i

believe from very. our last show your efforts are it it does seem like it is also lost in the situation by assuming you think of the ruling party and he's of working against the interests of the opposition or the air for there's a lot of concern of or when it will do the balance of the e.o.p. what the donors expect for their money in india can elections in the country be bought and are politicians perhaps more concerned about their sponsors than their constituents. well you know i'm going to capitalize on either of those most democracies there are influential godless who are trying to curry favor with the government and to get policies enacted in their favor i'm not so sure the kind of situation means that a lot of some big businesses will want to do a lot of us because one of the interesting aspects of this law is that even foreign

companies not just in newcastle a spot on one with the new branches can also need parties i'm honestly so odd to me that you know it's leveling the playing field but i want to get i mean this is about loan on cash for a people seriously kind of our game but only if it was obvious changed the heart of a lot of wins so what about extending all the seats on last fall back solution to concessions for investments and also be possibly could be afford to do this back in this fashion all our knowing in a company or the market or see at the end of the baby and elections cannot be bought fixed i mean that i think is outlandish because you really for example understand why the party gets most of the funding that doesn't get out of the trick you not only any election of the party that are reading the letter on it also one because they're all using stubbornness regarding identity play that you know can be

tied up or can be one of these other leaders casting religion odysseys ok so who are the big donors and what about foreign political donors the concern all over the world about foreign political funding what about in india well these of the most interesting aspects of it i mean it's all in the new business houses the big family owned business houses a lot of bodies and the time. you know. it's and so are we in martin county fighting out in the open secret that we're morrow night awfully lot of indian sorts of use of foreign companies and i mean it's an interesting because there are you know over the last. you know we and only one of the most practical solutions for our investment saw our use of threat of our own law international multinational corporations now looking for market access and better

jobs for a period of returning india and dealing with a very keen to probably made a mark in this election unlike in the last minute foreign legion and so they started you know unless this election laws just are all going to look like foreign policy layers professor really good to talk to your counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us now getting enough food just to survive continues to be a big problem in venezuela the oil rich nation produces only twenty percent of its own food and with the latest us all sanctions now beginning to bite some hope the community farms will get them through tough times now to zero stories about reports from caracas. difficulties are everywhere in venezuela these days the economy crisis has million struggling but people in a little known as say they're ready to fight back by producing their own food they

have turned this small farming back us into an agricole logical project where they can roll fruits vegetables and even fish. on a limb at that he says the situation will likely deteriorate in the country when the new us sanctions take effect in the process that there is an economic war against us and we try to supply our families in the hospital in the area with displays we can feed seventy people every day. there are three families living here and with what they produce they're helping a local hospital people here say that they need to be ready for what's coming. on the people say that in this place almost everything to survive. on a linux says there are over twenty thousand projects like this one in venezuela but that they need more government support. we need to teach people that they need to

learn how to produce their own food this needs to be public policy we need to tell the government the budget that is invested in food production must be the same as the one invested in the armed forces. venezuela imports most of the food it consumes the us has impose new sanctions that will make it tougher for the government to sell oil and get much needed cash. on the part of america and we send the says there are real sanctions begin now. the sentence we saw by the united states in the past were affecting individuals but they were not against the state against p.d.s.a. it was against people related to the government the sanctions were light we're going to see now is an embargo and this is going to be tough demolishing. the n.b.s. has been breeding rabbits in the farm he says people see them as pets but they could be a crucial source of protein. there also needs to be self-criticism the government

doesn't know how to plan how to get organized the enormous corruption because the state continues to operate like all agog what we want to eradicate is still and it's up to our social movements to make change in this production as a way to protest. most analysts say the situation will deteriorate in the next few months becoming self-sufficient is the only way many venezuelans will have to deal with their every day life mexico's leftist president under as manuel lopez obrador swept to power promising more help for the country's poorest now though soup kitchens that feed the hungry a shutting down as he takes the axe to government social programs john holdren explains why from mexico city. mix can community kitchens where some of the country's most vulnerable you get a cheap meal for the national figure to quote lou pape there are a life saver in feeding her family of six with his gaze wally i know

it's really helped with our finances even with the gas for the stove and now i go to work rather than just worrying about cooking and until now we've never gotten. that many of mitts because almost six thousand federal food kitchens have already shut as part of budget cuts to social services it's not just the soup kitchens closing their doors funds have also been slashed for child daycare centers and the government plan to shut down shelters for women fleeing domestic violence and give the money instead until a backlash made it change its mind and this is all come from a president who's long championed the poor and vulnerable at school some surprise and indignation. he says the measures necessary to stamp out corruption sit didn't mean it's finished around thirty years of these programs which were just used to win elections and get media attention. programs which encourage corruption using

the name of the humble the poor to do it was that's all finished the c.f.l. on the base something in the government social ministry was recently implicated in a monumental corruption scandal but civil society groups say the wholesale scrapping of programs for the pool is not the answer and some worry there are other motivations well my concern is that is really an attempt to to concentrate power to have all the social programs in their hands to be a political platform and in that says if you really committed to transparency and avoid the corruption will be transparent spread in the sense of of the oven if you carried of the of the new of the new programs and you're putting together none of that so far in place the new programs he's talking about include expanded help for students the old and those with disabilities the president it seems those weren't social programs just ones bill so his own design. and that's for this week if you'd

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and on welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me in a broad and also ahead big turkish cities turned their backs on the president's party as an economic downturn weighs heavily on. the u.s. sends more officers to the mexican border and announces that it will send more back . and a severe storm kills more than thirty people in a remote area of may and the damage it caused is making rescue efforts even more difficult. we begin with breaking news from algeria where the president's office has just issued a statement saying president of the disease buttafuoco will step down before his term ends on april twenty eighth well this follows sunday's cabinet reshuffle millions of algerians have been calling for the eighty two year old to step up to

step down let's go straight to our correspondent in iran con he is one from all the developments from neighboring tunisia reports circulating throughout the day that this might happen emraan what is the document that's been released say. well the statement is very short it was issued to state media and it reads this off that he named the new government on march thirty first two thousand and nineteen president beautifully will issue important decisions that will ensure the constitutional rights and one show the continuity of the work of the state institutions during the transitional period that will take place from the date the president submits his resignation now he hasn't actually submitted his resignation as of yet that may well come as early as tuesday now we are hearing we did hit earlier in the day that the constitutional council was meeting to enact one zero two now that allows two options the first one is for the president to resign it's

clear that it's that the option he's taken on the other option was for him to be forcibly removed from office with a vote in parliament that got a two thirds majority this is the end of a twenty year rule for abdul aziz beautifully kept hasn't been seen in public very rarely been seen in public since two thousand and thirteen when he had a stroke and this was one of the demands of the protest movement is it enough to bring the pope to protest movement to an end no it's not old of the protest movement leaders and all of the things that we're hearing on social media suggests that there are still problems despite beautifully resigning which he will do a some point between now and april twenty eighth. what are those problems will those problems us that include people who be seen as being close to him that includes the opposition the government and the army as well so although this is one of the demands of the process is it's not the end of the protest movement and the

government will be hoping that this might have some sort of impact everything we're hearing suggest that it won't have any impact on algeria's protests you know it might have six weeks ago when the protests started in iran but the protesters are not going to be happy with those words in the statement to ensure the continuity of state institutions because as you said it's not just beautifully as who's seen as part of the problem and that has to go it's the entire establishment so what is it that the protesters are asking for if the going isn't enough of and you know. the people that he's put in place are not enough. well i think if we had a crystal ball and clearly we don't but if we had one we might see this focus shift to the chief of the army. now he might well become the next figure in the protest

as always he's being seen as being very close to beautifully and allow the use of leakers government to. put forward policies that would damaging to the country they also blame him for turning if not a blind eye then at least being complicit in the allegations of corruption that have surrounded the if you could government for many years now the key allegation amongst them is that government contracts went to key. loyalists who then kickback money to the government so i'm thinking what we're hearing via social media from analysts we spoke into is that the focus may well shift once beautifully resigns once that process takes place to the army and then whoever's in charge come the enactment of all school one of two which allows for this forty five day period where an interim government is announced on the elections a cold so i think i think speaking to people is that we're going to see the name

become much more important in the coming weeks and he's the chief of the army and ron thank you very much for that finale that is enron con with all the latest live from neighboring to us thank you. let's move on to other news now and office sustaining significant setbacks in turkey's local elections president the once ruling party says it's challenging the results and and the biggest city bowl saying that there were mistakes the ak party has been defeated and most of the ten largest cities. reports. after almost two decades of constant losses turkey's opposition finally has reason to celebrate. the people's republican party or c.h.p. won the mayoral position in the capital ankara it would seem is on course to capture is stumble turkey's largest and most populous city. turkey be happy now let the stamboul 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 start today we

will 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. your party has won every mayoral election in istanbul since one thousand nine hundred four it was the first major position held by roger urwin who used it to launch his political career nationally bruising gets is a personal blow to the president was asked 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 lost and we will act accordingly . despite the losses in some of the big cities like entirely and the other. party still managed to win more than hof the votes counted across the country and nationally it's retained the largest number of mayors true but the turkish people

appear to have directed their frustration with the faltering economy of the ruling party which has led the country uninterrupted for seventeen years. what was promised on june twenty fourth was if you don't want the country to our economic problems vote for the presidential coalition led by the president. president of iran said the people have spoken or not he has listened to you know that things need to change and that's the end of the party must come up with solutions to fix the country's economy and address the concerns of those who didn't vote for the act party the opposition will now be tested to see if it can deliver better governance in the positions it won from the a.k.p. at a time when i once been accused of being autocratic sunday's elections are a demonstration that democracy is still very much alive in sarky damn i love how you i'll just sit on it fumble the trump ministrations as it will speed up the deployment of offices to the mexico border and will expand

a policy of sending asylum seekers back to mexico it is the latest measure to stop mainly central american migrants from trying to enter the us illegally idaho cost i reports from washington d.c. . this memo from u.s. homeland security secretary here is to nielsen says as many as seven hundred fifty u.s. border patrol agents may be reallocated from where they're currently position which maybe interior checkpoints are processing commercial trade to these hot spots right on the border where they're seeing an influx of central american families and unaccompanied minors crossing without authorization into the u.s. that number is that it is at an eleven year high in march and expected one hundred thousand people who are entering the u.s. in that manner to seek asylum from poverty and gangs in their home countries now because of this the border patrol has been complaining that they are overwhelmed that they're putting people under bridges processing them at

a breakneck speed and having to free them at bus stops and other places just on the border streets of the u.s. in texas and in arizona and in california and nielsen is saying that this is going to redeploy those assets so that more border patrol agents are available to process this mass influx of people seeking asylum in the u.s. the second part of this announcement would be to expand the remain in mexico program which is very controversial because rather than allowing asylum seekers to wait the months or years that it takes for these. cases to be decided by a u.s. immigration judge they've been staying in the united states during this wait but now the trouble ministration is sending them to mexico a place that could be dangerous according to advocates for immigrants as well as possibly illegal international asylum laws says that these asylum seekers must be

protected as their process continues. to venezuela now where the political and economic turmoil has forced more than three million people to look for a better life abroad but for some it's been their final journey there are reports from the town a city of. well one woman is ensuring that the dead and given a proper burial sonja been moved this is bearing the body of a lot of us who fled venezuela but passed away just days after arriving in colombia . she's a retired forensic doctor with a lifelong mission caring for the destitute dead in this area of northern colombia saving them from a communal grave. i think this is god's purpose for my life we're all the same when we die and we all deserve a decent burial. that granddaughter says they had left venezuelan search of medicine to treat her grandmother's diabetes the drugs she needed have become hard

to find at home they didn't have money to pay for a place to sleep let alone foot the five hundred dollars bill needed once the worst happened but i came out when. i was just hoping my grandmother could live a few more years but it didn't work out that way. sonia started bearing people illegally two decades ago in this unused plot owned by the city in two thousand and seven she convinced the tory to recognise it as an official cemetery called people like us for many years most of the bodies sonya recovered were victims of long vs fifty year long internal civil conflict but that it's changed since two thousand and seventeen since then practically all the people barrie is here have been poor venezuelan migrants. given the hardship they suffer more and more arrive looking for a better life many are sick when they get here i just help them when they're gone sonja does most of the work on her own paying out of her own pocket and goes from

town to town in a pickup truck wherever there's a body to recover.