cities like entirely and other. parties still manage to win more than hof the votes counted a process the country and nationally its retained 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 have economic problems vote for the presidential coalition led by the president president are the ones that the people have spoken i'm not he has a listen you know that things need to change and that he and his party must come up with solutions to fix the country's economy and address the concerns of those who didn't vote for the out party the opposition will not be trusted to see a free come deliver better governance and the positions it won from k.p. at a time when our once been accused of being autocratic sunday's elections are a demonstration that democracy is still very much alive and talking.

to mali now a government made as a warning of even greater turmoil if the united nations reduces its peacekeeping force their emissions mandate is jus for a new canadian and dutch peacekeepers who form part of the sixteen thousand strong force already going home nicholas hot joined one of their final deployments they call this operation desert falcon on board this royal canadian air force helicopter for the dutch long range of condescends to they're about to be dropped close to the border with burkina faso in an area controlled by armed groups while i still in syria is on the defensive here the slavic state in the greatest the local ice a lot shoot is on the offensive it's highly active in this border area and has claimed a 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 conflict drivers that that actually feeds. the danger in mali because we have a lot of smugglers smuggling activity illegal trafficking criminality we have this ethnical 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 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. 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 full on the villagers were attacked by government backed militia groups in the region of mctee while the violence continues to spread in canada and the netherlands are pulling out of this operation saying their mission is done. we are leaving the u.n. still stays behind with another thirteen thousand troops so i'm not afraid. to lose specific. troops. they

come back hours later after having seen thousands of people uprooted by the increasing violence need of help but in the groups they bear witness to what seems to be an expanding war out of sight deep in the. we have much more ahead. more. and another. rest of europe's top stories felicity. elizabeth thanks so much yes once again britain's parliament is trying to find a solution to its own deadlock over prices so far m.p.'s have rejected every

possible process the leaving the european union that has been put to them so now they're holding a second day of so-called indicative votes to see what form of practice that m.p.'s might accept and more could be held on wednesday well at the same time prime minister to resume a remains committed to securing agreement for the withdrawal deal she has negotiated this is the final week for m.p.'s to come to a decision on bracks it before and e.u. summit on the tenth of april if there isn't an agreement by then will will have to decide whether to leave the e.u. without a deal or try to seek an even longer delay to the process let's take you live now to outside the houses of parliament to speak to al jazeera isn't really a challenge so rory they do use a vague shortly olney's there is indicative motions to know how the votes likely to go. or the four that john bucko has chosen for i am pleased

to have a look at some of these i'll go through them from start to finish we have number one a customs union that basically means that any breaks it deal would keep the u.k. essentially inside the european union's colm common trade tariff policy that we have numbered so you which is a common market two point zero it's being called that means you don't just get a customs union you also get the u.k. staying in the single market with its free movement of goods labor services and capital thirdly there is some sort of public vote that means whatever parliament chooses gets put before the british people to have their say on for a second referendum essentially and then last the have an extension to article fifty basically dragging on this bricks. process even further if that's not possible then parliament would choose between either no deal hold or calling off

breck said now we can bring it out and wait to hear from king's college london i don't know i'll be interested in getting your take on this because if you are of a brick say persuasion bricks it means bricks it mysteries in may as said at infant there's nothing very brick city in any of these options and yes it breaks it is finding out that this is what happens when parliament take control of the process when they vote it down three's a maze dale they getting this self to form a brick set this being great but parliament said parliament last week voted down comprehensively the the no deal options so they're now left with just the soft brakes options that the speaker has chosen and that's and that's the reason why in the house of commons this evening is saying very few no deal is raising very few breaks to taking part in this debate because they're saying this isn't in my name if you like and the softest of all of these common market two point zero seems to be the front runner at the moment yet looks like it is said last time the scottish national party on the labor party didn't m.p.'s in sports they didn't make that

discipline them peace to support this proposal this time they are going to make a big difference to the numbers that looks like that's the most likely to get that majority to get the three hundred ten two hundred fifty looks like a plausible proposition in the house of commons if it does get a majority was sort of does this pose for to resume a vis beleaguered prime minister so let's really unlucky the trees and i would actually follow through and say ok we can have some single market membership have freedom of movement of people in the eleanore because that's against all i read lucy said that she will refuse to do that refused to keep freedom of movement refused to stay in the single market refused to have not have this straight independent trade policy that would mean not having this customs union essentially it's hard to see how to reason make a car those things then you have the parliament the house of commons set against the government and it's really difficult to know what could happen then other. some sort of general election but a general election we get another conservative prime minister is that going to

solve the issue no it's unlikely and you look at the opinion polls right now and all they point to is is deadlock gridlock if you like say maybe some one body leads when some sees one party against and sees no party getting the overall majority that they need to push through their own agenda and that's why it's so difficult to resolve this basic question in the u.k. but this parliament which is used to having big majorities one party or the other what we have right now is deadlock minority government and that's why it's so difficult that she was made to govern at the moment we're going to have your people there was out of wages from king's college london felicity back to the studio thanks so much for us all the improbable victory of access and comedian of a lot of his a landscape in the first round of ukraine's presidential election will now be followed by close scrutiny of his plans for the country his rival in the second round runoff the incumbent president petro poroshenko has warned that selenski lacks the strength and experience to deal with russia's president vladimir putin but the oceans have lost faith in mainstream politics are drawn to promise of

change and hope 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 the situations 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 one of 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 released what matters for us and what matters is the sense of drone strikes and ticks the live there are two is a combination of political pressure so and shows

a very clear choice of what you create against the russian aggression so experience matters into live or in that message that experience matters trust matters their food voters will be faced with an extraordinary choice in a 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 al-jazeera here and that is the latest from here in london let's go back to elizabeth in the us felicity thank you very much now sri lanka's president is calling for drug traffickers to get the death penalty after watching police destroyed three quarters of a ton of cocaine might triple a city center plans to end the forty three year moratorium on capital punishment high tech detection equipment stupidly installed at street on comports to disrupt drug distribution in the indian ocean region they

destroyed cocaine was part of a record seizure three years ago. a severe storm has torn down homes and flipped cars and trucks as it swept across southern a pile at least thirty one people are known to have been killed but rescue and recovery crews are yet to reach some remote areas so be distressed to reports from paris their district. telephone poles snapped like toothpicks collapsed homes vehicles overturned sunday night storm left a trail of destruction in the parser districts of so there are no power. as well as the dead and injured government ministers say at least one hundred thousand the pallies are affected. the doctor in charge of this hospital in parsons says he's lucky to have survived here before you know i was on the road and the bus in front of me flipped i had to do c.p.r. on people on the road many people here have hating jews and many have broken their

arms and legs doctors here have been working around the clock and patients who sustained more serious injuries were taken to other hospitals some to the capital katmandu. the storm hit around seven thirty in the evening just around dinner time the fierce winds brought down many of the wood and mud houses some almost like matchsticks crushing people and trapping them in the city about its prime minister has visited some patients. was sick set up an interview process you know the second string theory the cochairman the doctor said there was a gun and i'm going to tell you everything that if. there was ever a live in legal mess it would have been fiction that being the burning was your brother said security forces have been mobilized to help rescue operations and local groups have started to distribute aid including food and medicine many here

are still recovering from the shock and the force of a storm never seen in their lifetimes swedish russia out of the destructive power stay with us on the news hour here's some of what's coming up facebook or most hundreds of a counseling to india's main opposition party and pakistan's military. china steps up the battle against a highly addictive. at the request of the u.s. . and of the title one of the viking tina's top football league decided when again just bad. hello again welcome back where causal yvonne it has been the rain that we have been seeing over the last couple days dealing with this one weather system you can see it quite clearly on the satellite imagery good news is down towards the cell the

system is going to start to dissipate but in for chip here towards the north we're still going to see the remnants of the storm really in the northern part of iraq and also into turkey things don't change too much as we go towards wednesday the rain really continues but down towards the south is just going to be a few showers but for quite city we're going to be sick and windy conditions few with the time for them of about twenty nine degrees well here in the gulf here in doha it's going to be the clouds we're still dealing with temperature is finally coming down we had seen a very warm day on monday getting into the low thirty's but here in doha on tuesday back to about normal at about twenty nine degrees and then on wednesday about twenty eight over here towards though it is going to be the clouds and though the heat as well with the temp there of about thirty one degrees and then very quickly down here across the southern part of africa for durban for johannesburg rain is back in your forecast over the next few days you can see it right here on the satellite coming into play and temperatures are also coming down all the getting to about twenty degrees few there up towards rory it is going to be a cloudy day twenty seven and more rain in the forecast medicare with

a temperature of twenty eight degrees there. teach it strong man is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo on al-jazeera. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby even in florida those meetings are going to really. reveal secrets you want messaging out there that are going to bow out great you know. and connection some don't want to expose snake in legacy

media love mass shootings. mess with my al-jazeera investigations house or sell a massacre on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news these are our top stories the algerian president's office has issued a statement saying friends and author of the one step down before his term ends on april twenty eighth millions of have been protesting calling for the eighty two year old to go. there's more bricks a debate going on in the british parliament with politicians who later vote on alternative for the prime minister unloved withdraw or do you the options include

a softer break so where. closer ties to the block as well as another referendum leavings without any agreement. and he's willing party says there were mistakes of thousands of ballot boxes in the capital after the opposition won the mayor's office in ankara and several other major cities. while those results are seen as a reflection of the anger among watches over the state of the economy and this is why off to a solid and unbroken run the country slipped into recession last year president of the one who has dominated turkish politics for two decades received a lot of the blame a currency crisis for the turkish news about forty percent of its value against the u.s. dollar last year to he's government has burned through a lot of its foreign reserves trying to keep in the u.s. stable inflation has compounded the impact of unemployment which is at a ten year high over around thirteen percent well let's get more on this now we're

joined by biden assistant professor of world history at the american university of in all of iraq money and he's joining us live from so many a very good to have you with us on al-jazeera has the ak party lost its stranglehold at least at the local level because of the economy. leaving thank you for having me on the show. part of it part of your statement is true the a.p. is magic if you will has been its magic spell had been broken as of last night but given how poorly the turkish economy is doing how much it has hit rock bottom on a lot of things and we can go into those if you want but given how badly the turkish economy is doing and the need to fix those things that d.a.p. within the next three four years when they will not be facing an election. which

probably will implement a set of reforms which could help them bounce back can they provide that economy you know they were reports of the finance minister who was also at the on some level walls preparing an economic reform package are they up to it. that's a very good question and it's the is the million lira question there are really two look to pass facing the t.v. president who want to hand his son a walk at all or one of them is to basically capture their spirit of reform from the first from their first term in office from two thousand and two to two thousand and seven when they set in motion a series of reforms that really you know put turkey into the first leap of international economic players as after the two thousand and seven elections and they faced and my read of domestic challenges they really lost that touch of reform

and magic and the turkish economy really never recaptured average growth of more than five six percent from the two thousand to two thousand and seven period if they did a series of reforms such as reconstituting the central bank of turkey as an independent as an independent institution that's trying to interfere with especially interest rates. the central banks. if you just use of it the interest rate mechanisms trying to manipulate. the foreign currency exchange markets as they did last week with the with the temporary closing of the swap market things will go in a much better direction institute in reforms for the rule of law a lot of that could really help the the medium and long term that's good because it

could can continue certainly could be cut you off on that but this isn't it however they continue to want their populist economic policies then all bets are off and if they do continue i mean they have there's a lot of stake and there's everything to lose for the message that. absolutely. you know the other couple of things really the reason why a lot of church and opposition glory myself i should say are happy about last night's result is that this was precisely twenty five years ago how everyone started president anwar when he was elected mayor is a restart of the ninety nine for what it was an ally was your job was elected mayor of opera to islamize eight years later really allow you to capture power pretty much as a merely a super majority in parliament or

a lot of people would be opposition to your recapture better power within turkey's new presidential system however the new presidential system there came out of all fairness you're just a lousy i don't want to do a lot of things in the economy without the system really needed parliamentary approval so ball is now in everyone's court how it will play is the big question is another billion dollar question absolutely mr coyote thank you very much for your time and your analysis on this we do appreciate it that is. live in so many thank you thank you. now face full has removed hundreds of fake accounts and spam pages linked to political parties in india and to pakistan's military face folks says the accounts were created to manipulate social media use is one of the main offenders was discovered to be india's main opposition congress party campaigning for the upcoming general election says to me and 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 bought swans 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 marys in february and march following the suicide bombing of indian troops in there back in february. that is the director general of the pakistan. for facebook kala ses but says it's being selective. i agree with one of the policies of the fears were garvey asli that if there are inaccurate information provided to stablish fake accounts because of the situation because of the with sentiments are being. translated in into weiland so our actions

i think i would definitely agree with that one while what i'm saying is that the timing in one day if you're choosing a political party congress party which i'm sure do have plenty of argument that why the b.g.p. was not selected going to be dippy also was a raising sentiment anti muslim sentiment and on the this side i'm just saying the way it has been clubbed in my question is related to that one otherwise i agree with the contents that if it was they were inaccurate and in authorized definitely they should have taken out but i'm sure this is just a stab there may be more more coming from the facebook and i'm not sure it would we can call it a social media anymore maybe we would call it a selective social media in future. to the us now with a 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 that is the latest measure to stop mainly central american migrants from trying to enter the u.s. illegally castro has more from washington d.c. . this memo from u.s. homeland security secretary here's 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. china's government is clamping down on a highly addictive drug in an apparent gesture to the u.s. as they try to sort out their trade standoff fentanyl and all similar drugs will be added to china's list of controlled substances suspected of being the main source of the powerful painkiller that's caused record numbers of overdose deaths in the u.s. in december donald trump said any chinese move against what he called a horrid drug would be a game changer in solving the trade for. now looks at why fentanyl which is used as a general anesthetic is now at the center of the u.s. opioid crisis. well this latest announcement is a great win for the u.s. president donald trump chinese made friends now flooding the u.s. market has become a major sticking point for him in the trade deal and here is why last year seventy thousand people in the u.s. died from drugs overdose at least hoth of those were caused by fentanyl last month

the u.s. department of health reported that between twenty eleven and twenty sixteen fentanyl overdose deaths rose by more than a thousand percent and that's because the drug is fifty times stronger than heroin and around one hundred times stronger than morphine and the largest increase in defense in all related fatalities is among those aged between fifteen and thirty four and while most victims are whites overdose deaths are rising faster among black and latino communities in january the u.s. customs and border patrol announced their biggest ever seizure offense know its street valley well three and a half million dollars in fact one hundred fourteen kilos of this synthetic opioids were discovered under a false floor in a truck carrying vegetables from mexico and the illegal drugs travel from china to mexico and then across into the u.s. in fact fentanyl potency means mexican cartels can deal with smaller shipments

instead of smuggling fifty kilos of heroin with the risk of getting caught dealers would only need to smuggle in one kilo of fence will instead to receive the same street value and financial return and while most of it is transported into the u.s. through legal ports of entry or even by post trump has repeatedly cited the opioids including fentanyl a one of his reasons for building a border war with mexico i'd also like to have you take a look at the event and all that's coming out of china and mexico. and whatever you can do from a legal standpoint whether it's litigation lawsuits of people in companies. in china you have some pretty big companies sending their garbage and killing our people it's almost a form of the word. and i'd like to do whatever you can do legally to stop it from china and from mexico. and if you could look into that appreciate it china its disputed u.s. claims that it is responsible for the fentanyl crisis move on of the free of arts

and the accusations from the u.s. led evidence the contrary to the facts the chinese government has always been committed to empty drug principles and has implemented the international anti drug obligations in a manner befitting a responsible large country the us itself is the main factor in the country's problem of internal abuse and the biggest legal fence on produce in china has actually welcomed the come down but insists it has nothing to do with the drugs that end up in the u.s. in fact it's blaming it on illegal producers in the meantime dear spencer epidemic has prompted police to carry a lifesaving antidote just in case. china's president has a new zealand not to discriminate against chinese companies during prime minister just send our burns visit to beijing paying spoke of the importance of mutual trust after new zealand rejected a bid by a chinese telecom giant our way to build the country's five g. mobile network is a china correspondent adrian brown.