algeria's eighty two year old president to quit within weeks but will it be enough to appease protesters. i'm sam is a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the. the. drumming up support defiance from venezuela's opposition leader as he confronts. the nose to have it yet another setback for to resume a and break zip lines. and living on the breadline

we look at how palestinian civil servants are coping with severe pay cuts. algeria's eighty two year old friends events has agreed to step down by the end of the month bowing to weeks of protests and pressure but it's unclear if the move liabilities beautifully will satisfy protesters have been demonstrating for six weeks a jury gates be reports. after being abandoned by algerian military leaders it was perhaps only a matter of time before president abdelaziz bouteflika was forced to name a date for his departure it came in the form of a statement read on state television confirming beautifully will resign before his twenty year rule runs out on april the twenty eight the eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke six years ago critics say he's become little more than

a front man the military and business leaders who really run the country. weeks of growing protests force beautifully and his backers to reverse his decision to stand for a fifth term but neither that nor a cabinet reshuffle the satisfy protesters who are demanding the entire political elite be replaced. almost. taken a long time already he should have resigned a long time ago in two thousand and fourteen he shouldn't even have thought of running again everyone must go nobody should stay for help the people are asking for everyone to leave the government meaning put a freak out and his clan to stop announcing every time the departure of somebody and the return of somebody else no they must all go and let the people decide. deputy defense minister and army chief of staff guide salah has repeatedly called for the president to step down or be declared unfit for office but he's been locked

in a power struggle with beautifully because implementor brother saeed analysts say there's been confusion among algeria's ruling elite about how to respond to the protests. i think people are against a transitional period that is run by the regime because due. to april twenty eighth when the official time the president with a little older but the question is who will want to transition period in the current regime runs the pediatrician period then. the revolution or the demands are definitely not met the protesters. the government is saying it will listen but nothing will change in algeria victoria gayton be there. but as well as opposition leader is a step closer to being arrested the supreme court is calling for one day though to be stripped of parliamentary immunity saying he disobeyed an order barring him from leaving the country in america and it's a lucy newman as more from caracas i its opposition leader prepared to walk

onto the stage at a small rally and could act as a pro-government armed group through tear gas at his caravan and fired shots into the air. the incident occurred shortly after the supreme court ordered the all powerful constituent assembly district wide all of his parliamentary immunity for disobeying a travel ban last month. the move brings bible one step closer to being arrested but even means defiant obvious that. he can take their offer and strip i am unity to where they see fit but we will continue working continue mobilizing on the streets and organizing this is persecution this is a dictatorship no. way though is the president of the opposition controlled legislature which is not recognized by the middle government but sixty countries including most of latin america europe the us and canada recognized by the law as

venezuela's interim president. as the power struggle escalates and israel remains nearly paralyzed by more than three weeks of power blackouts and acute water shortages oh desperate residents of this working class caucus neighborhood waited to fill containers from a spring that leaks water into a parking lot these people have been here since five o'clock in the morning and it's now almost midday it's very very hot they haven't had water for five days and tempers are really beginning to flare as they try to break their way in past that gate. to try to get a little bit of water. on the police arrived just in time to restore order but people say president nicolas maduro decision to ration power for the next thirty days in an attempt to stabilize power and water supplies is not enough see my gala there's no water no power nothing works no metro no transportation we have to beg

for a drop of water no one can work like this. it's easy to blame the united states but nicolas maduro is the one who's responsible for what happens in venezuela. but some believe there's another culprit. is to blame he says he wants our president to go but even without water and power we will remain firm by his side. for how long is the question as well and his supporters attempt to elevate the pressure for regime change despite the growing risks you see in human i'll just practice. nicolas maduro has sank his electricity minister following a series of nationwide blackouts and electrical engineer will step into the role but as well as president has already announced plans to ration power for the rest of the month. venezuelans who fled to bolivia say they now fear being sent home

dozens were arrested after leaving and to protest last month and. is one of the few countries that still supports venezuela's president in minnesota. in venezuela i am a civil engineer i worked for many years the bus and gondola driver in my country but there is no work food security medicine and now every day the situation in my country becomes worse it is more difficult i had the option to come here or die of hunger literally in venezuela i decided with my wife and daughter to leave the country i do not regret it. the u.k. parliament has failed again to agree an alternative to the government's bragg's deal presented with a list of four options and an able to find a majority for any of them the case now just ten days away from exiting the european union without any deal paul brennan reports from london. on

any given day the majority view outside parliament fluctuates with the changing numbers of pro and anti bricks of protesters and as m.p.'s inside debated the four alternatives to teresa mayes brix a deal on monday it was an exit choir from yorkshire in the north of england who held sway. of the referendum based on the facts after cooling off period subject to a lot more scrutiny than the previous one is is perhaps the best way is having a dramatic overshadowing effect the prime minister has to the knife crime summit on monday to discuss a serious recent uptick in fatal stabbing theresa may insists it's a priority but there is a sense that her main focus lies elsewhere and during the debate itself climate change protesters stripped off in the public gallery of the parliamentary chamber to draw attention away from it and on to what they said was the most important issue facing the world right now. but all eyes were on the speaker john bercow as

he announced the result none of the four alternatives had secured a majority the government how much home parliament's latest failure to agree on a way forward on this is no the second time the house is considered a wide variety of options for a way forward he says once again failed to find a clear majority for any of the options three the opposition isn't giving up if it's good enough for the prime minister to have three chances at her deal i then i suggest that possibly the house should have a chance to consider again the are the options that we had before us today in a debate on wednesday the prime minister is in a very tight corner here being presented with options by m.p.'s which either go against her negotiating redlines or contravene her own party's manifesto pledges she can ignore the indicative votes of course because they're non-binding but m.p.'s are already gearing up to pass new legislation which would force the

government to comply for their teresa mayes options really do start to dwindle but many believe the prime minister will now try to win over proly of bricks or tears with a final ultimatum. this is now the stark reality of what we are facing what you are facing and the project that you want is very easy so you either the will of the house is this a much softer slower breaks it or there is still mine deal i know you've rejected it several times but in this situation which is now the least worst option although the prime minister and cabinet meet on tuesday morning to decide their next move paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. the children of murdered saudi journalist jamal j. are understood to have received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the king the us newspaper the washington post says his four children have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia on top of that they getting large monthly payments

the article also says his job these two sons and two daughters may soon get pallets worth tens of millions of dollars each is so-called blood money shoji was killed six months ago after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul just shine is executive director of the arab center and washington an independent research organization he says the revelations of tanishq saudi arabia's reputation even further. and tension exported to serve as a financial incentive to remain silent i think that will be a very negative purpose both in terms of the reputation of the kingdom. and. at least publicly by the kingdom to try to to settle this issue if it simply meeting cultural demands or requirements why i allow a credible legal process to proceed to find guilty party and punish not guilty

party according to the ongoing legal system and saudi arabia would like i said with an open court with observers international observers then so be it but alone as a financial incentive i think frankly frankly it's an insult to members. still ahead on al-jazeera a new report reveals the arab media targets of a crack hacking team used by the u.a.e. . and fears of mall turmoil in mali with u.n. peacekeepers poised to pull out. hello again where across parts of america we are looking at still cold temperatures particularly in the morning this frontal boundary right here that you can see on the satellite pushing out to the atlantic but still behind it we are looking at

chilly temperatures they are coming up at the highs are still here at the low teens in some locations but out here towards the northeast we're still talking single digits we're talking boston new york auto up montreal still not getting out of the single digits until we get into wednesday where the air starts to moderate just a little bit down here towards the south though looking much better for atlanta twenty two degrees as your forecast but we do expect to see some rain showers coming into play for parts of the midwest as we go towards mid week well here across the caribbean sea a lot of clouds out here towards the east those clouds are going to have some showers and we don't think they're going to be too too heavy at times but temperatures across the region is are hovering in the low thirty's or the high twenty's nesa we do expect to see some showers to you at about twenty eight degrees there and then very quickly across much of south america but only down here towards the southern half we are going to sing quite a bit of rain anywhere across the northern part of argentina we do think that we could see some localized flooding in the area over here towards rio though it is

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i want time to recap our headlines now the algerian president's office says these beautifully call will step down before his term ends on april the twenty eighth millions of people have been protesting for several weeks now calling for the eighty two year old step down. but it's way the supreme court is calling for positionally the one way those parliamentary immunity to be taken away the chief justice says don't disobey the court order that barred him from leaving the country the u.k.'s exit from the european union remains dead logs after parliament failed once again to approve an alternative briggs's plan none of the four proposed alternatives to the prime minister's reason mase brogues the deal got a majority. after significant setbacks in turkey's local elections president roger tired of the ones ruling party is challenging the results in the capital ankara and

the biggest city stumble saying there were mistakes the party's been defeated in most of the ten major metropolitan areas jamal 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. yet 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 losing gets is a personal blow to the president was asked the head of 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 other not older ones 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 the people have spoken and that he has a listen you know things a new trick 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 now be tested to see if it can deliver better governance than the positions it won from k.p. at a time when i do want to be accused of being autocratic sunday's elections are a demonstration that democracy is still very much alive in torquey. a group of former u.s. intelligence agents help the united arab emirates spied on prominent arab media figures according to a special report by reuters targets for the hackers included the chairman of al-jazeera and the host of the b.b.c. arabic television show because part of a u.a.e. intelligence program exposed by royce's earlier this year is their fault. i am

hoping that cooler heads will prevail when the united arab emirates and its allies broke with neighboring could tore over a host of grievances in june twenty seventh a group of american hackers working for a secret u.a.e. spy program sprang into action as first revealed by reuters those american operatives had once worked for the n.s.a. and other u.s. spy agencies but they now worked as part of a u.a.e. cyber squad called project raven using skills they learned in the u.s. to spy on opponents of the u.a.e. monarchy the team of americans now turn those skills an american ally qatar as the u.a.e. joined by saudi arabia egypt in baccarin imposed a blockade accusing could torah financing extremist groups in the region where there's correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or

a van ramped up its monitoring of. you know of qatar in general of its surveillance of qatar and specifically ramped up its you know its surveillance of media figures according to documents the u.s. mercenary hackers begin targeting a number of journalists especially those at the could tor funded al-jazeera network both countries viewed the network's expansive coverage of the arab spring uprisings as a deliberate attempt by qatar to fuel opposition to their monarchs al-jazeera says it's an independent news service giving a voice to everyone in the region former operative say their goal is they hacked their targets was to find material showing that could tours royal family was pulling strings in the local media since the emirate is believe that these turtles have such a close ties to the qatari government they believe that by hacking the i phones of these reporters. you know that it would give them access to like emails or messages

or intelligence about the qatari government it so. off the u.s. ministry of foreign affairs did not respond to requests for comment in the n.s.a. declined to comment according to program documents by its all customers one target he is the host of a popular debate show on al-jazeera called opposite direction the network's chairman was also hacked the u.s. ambassador to qatar during the gulf crisis the michelle smith said she found it alarming that american intelligence veterans were able to work for another government in targeting in america now ari facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts and spam pages linked to political parties in india and pakistan military facebook says the accounts were created to manipulate social media users pages supporting india's main opposition congress party as well as the ruling b j p were removed in the run up to national elections sri lanka's president is calling for

drug traffickers to get the death penalty after watching police destroy a one hundred kilograms of cocaine three policy center plans to end a forty three year old moratorium on capital punishment high tech detection equipment due to be installed it comports to disrupt drug distribution in the indian ocean region. a severe storm has swept a path of destruction across southern nepal at least thirty one people are confirmed dead and hundreds injured rescue and recovery crews have yet to reach more most areas it's been a stress there reports now from pass a district. telephone poll snapped like toothpicks collapsed homes vehicles overturned sunday night storm left a trail of destruction in the bad parts of districts of southern. 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 my be here for most i was on the road in the bus in front of me flipped i had to do c.p.r. on people on the road many people here have paid in 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 if you will second string theory because the doctor said there was a gun and i'm going to tell you everything that they say. if i live in lincoln beds

and i never think that being a party 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. destructive power. a cholera outbreak in mozambique in the wake of cyc slowly dying has claimed its first victim more than a thousand cases have been recorded so far the world health organization says a vaccination program was started by in the city of bayer site only days contaminated water supplies creating the conditions for cholera to spread more than a hundred people were killed in a storm which swept southern africa. government leaders in mali a warning or even greater turmoil if the united nations reduces its peacekeeping force there the mission's mandate is due for renewal in june canadian and dutch

peacekeepers who form part of the sixteen thousand strong force are already going home they've joined one of their 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 conflict drivers that's there 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. 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 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 but the un still stays behind with another thirteen thousand troops so i'm not afraid mali will completely collapse now that's why we leave they might lose a specific us but the other troops that are still around can do a job just as well they come back hours later after having seen thousands of people uprooted by the increasing 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 nicholas hawk al-jazeera. for the second month in a row the palestinian government will only pay civil servants salaries this comes after israel said it would withhold taxes it collects on behalf of the palestinian authority. falls from the occupied west bank. choosing what's for lunch has become a more difficult decision for schoolteachers. oranges she can afford this time but . she only received five hundred dollars of her salary the minimum paid to public employees in the west bank last month i mean because we cut down on meat and the expensive vegetables and fruit we stopped any extra expenses as we need to adapt we might be able to survive this month and the next one because we have some savings but we won't be able to take it much longer this is what worries many people here not only has the international in the past few years the united states has got

hundreds of millions of dollars paid each year to the palestinians those cuts. his salary and his job fifty percent of my previous salary went to pay my mortgage while thirty percent was covering my kids' school tuition now that i've lost my income i'm looking for jobs abroad to guarantee that my family lives a decent life palestinian leaders are looking for more support from a very limited is obviously going to be betterment it will be temporary and we are money we are you us money obviously it is part of the political blackmail that united states is the trying to push us to accept what they call the ultimate deal that's not something that's going to happen at all and the president has been very explicit in his position to reject all of this and we don't talk trade politics for food one of the palestinian authority tries to manage the financial crisis by cutting costs then taking loans from banks many fear that this is not a long term solution and it's already affecting all palestinian walks of life. even

getting here has become a luxury for some people. a five dollar haircut is not a priority. on the back of the whole economy depends on employee salaries even the expensive cars you see are paid by loans and the cash flow is limited for now these people lining up to get that reduced salary have no choice but to manage with what they have. the occupied west bank. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now they are gerry and president's office says that the as these beautifully go was step down before his term ends on april the twenty eighth millions of people have been protesting for several weeks calling for the eighty two year old to step down imran khan has more after twenty years president. will step down before april twenty eighth however is that going to be enough to appease the protestors

probably not the protesters have long said that they want a radical overhaul of not just the government and people close to beautiful but also in the opposition who they say are in cahoots with the government and they want to reduce the role in public life of the army venezuela's supreme court is calling for opposition leader one way those parliamentary immunity to be taken away the chief justice says kwaito disobeyed a court order that barred him from leaving the country the opposition leader has traveled to several latin american countries that support his claim to be president he's denounced the court decision. the children of murdered saudi journalist should g. are understood to have received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the kingdom the washington post says his four children have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia on top of that they are getting large monthly payments was killed

six months ago after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkish president the rajah tiber of the un's ruling party says it will challenge the results of local elections in two major cities with nearly all votes counted the opposition pay the appears to have won in istanbul and in ankara many see the action as a referendum on the ones government which has been battling a recession the u.k.'s exit from the european union remains deadlocked after parliament failed once again to approve an alternative rags it none of the four proposed alternatives to prime minister may's deal got a majority there's the headlines the news continues here now to syria after witness . on counting the cost we look at what's holding in the knees here back from becoming a two trillion dollar economy as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote

will ask who's financing politics in india and mexico's government is axing social programs for the country's poorest literally why counting the cost of al-jazeera. jack morea church in every. alleged.