this is al-jazeera. hello i'm how market did good savvy weathers for the news are we're live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. algeria's army chief is calling on president of blows with a thinker to immediately stepped aside. i'm barbara starr in london with the top story from europe. this is a decisive moment in the story of these islands and it requires national unity to deliver the national interest to the u.k.

prime minister says she will try to extend a break sit and agrees to sit down with the opposition leader in an attempt to break the political deadlock. six months after the killing of journalist jamal has shoji reports say the saudi government paid his family millions of dollars in compensation. and far as smile have all the day's sport including i'm ashamed that here in europe not the weekend goes by without of these commuter tory acts big plays on the. head of football's european governing body speaks out against recent incidents of racism. the heads of all jiri as army is calling on president of the us these words if we could to immediately step down. losses article one

o two of the constitution should be triggered it says the president can be removed if he is unfit for office there were months a bit of said he will step in at the end of the month hundreds of thousands of people happy in protesting against the eighty two year old since february matheson has more. these pictures apparently show a meeting between president both of his predecessor i mean zero while an army general close to beautifully because brother in a statement says he's been asked to stand in as temporary leader until a new president is elected after beautifully steps down. those who back built a flicker will be hoping the presence of a respected former president will come protest such as these in the city of desire who want everyone to put a flicker to go. five years ago but that's it we are sick and tired of him he has

to go we have suffered you know a judge other who has done am i lost general salah why you don't take the president and leave the country good to be done you sound our country. a statement read on state t.v. said president abdelaziz bouteflika will resign before his current term officially ends on april the twenty eighth his opponents say nothing will change unless beautifully his backers go with him and. we appreciate the statements of the national popular army during this transitional period the people must be the masters and a transitional government formed according to a general consensus that will never deceive the algerians the eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke six years ago is accused of being a token front man for military and business leaders who his critics say really run algeria. the operating rules of the system must be completely changed and that is what the ruling powers refuse they want to give themselves some time to return

again after some window dressing this is like it's always been except that today the people are determined the president statement also said announcements to ensure the continuity of the state's institutions will be made within days but leaders say the president no longer has the right to make decisions. weeks of protests. may have discouraged president bush a flicker from standing for a fifth term but the struggle for power in algeria is becoming more open there are also questions about how long the military will tolerate demonstrations like the us rob matheson al jazeera. the iranian government has ordered the evacuation of seventy villages threatened by flooding a state of emergency has been declared after some of the heaviest rain in ten years at least forty seven people have been killed in the past two weeks iran's foreign minister is blaming us sanctions for hindering the flood relief efforts.

now in a week from the israelis will be electing their next governments fourteen major political parties are competing for one hundred and twenty seats prime minister benjamin netanyahu of the right wing likud party is seeking a fifth term in office he is the first sitting prime minister due to be indicted on corruption charges he's continued to expand illegal israeli settlements and no progress has been made towards establishing a palestinian state that's a now his biggest challenges are former military chief benny gantz and your lap is of the blue points coalition against lead israeli forces during the gaza war in twenty fourteen on the campaign trail his focus has been on a she's such as the rising cost of living and fighting corruption then there's ivy

gabby from the labor party which hasn't won an election in twenty years to palestinian israeli parties are also in the running are a force that reports from west jerusalem on the battle for power. which of these men do israelis want as their prime minister for all the myriad parties and themes to loomed over this campaign the real fight remains benjamin netanyahu versus benny gantz has never had a better friend than you for israel's prime minister the strategy has been clear portray himself as the only politician capable of playing in the big league keeping israel safe and scoring wins such as last week's u.s. endorsement it was really sovereignty over the occupied golan heights like his friend in the white house he's gone on the attack against the media and the legal establishment whose investigation into lavish gifts and alleged media manipulation he calls a witch hunt nonetheless in the middle of the campaign his attorney general decided

enough real witches were found to recommend indictment for bribery fraud and breach of trust which netanyahu denies it remain an issue for a few days on the agenda and then and then the agenda when the news agenda went on elsewhere they feel very adept at moving the news agenda and inventing ideas or using events that happened to to change the public discourse he switched the focus to the mobile phone of his opponent benny gantz after report it had been hacked by iran insinuating it might contain incriminating personal information and you know. not only from my cell phone in recent days the attacks of switch to ganser is mental stability and stamina to go with the mantra that the man netanyahu made army chief in twenty eleven is weak and of the left in response cancer is focusing on new corruption allegations and what he calls netanyahu weakness of a gaza nonetheless one former senior israeli negotiator sees gantz taking a different approach on the palestinian issue he doesn't want to continue to rule

in the people and this is in israel one of the most important litmus this hts between. liber us and the conservative guns is blue and white party is a last minute creation with two other former army chiefs and netanyahu is former finance minister at its own it's an unashamedly pragmatic project to get netanyahu out of office but winning the election in itself isn't enough it then becomes about putting together a governing coalition of parties represented in the israeli parliament the knesset and even if his likud party comes second at the polls that is where benjamin netanyahu has a distinct advantage but there have also been persistent leaks not totally refuted that dance could under certain conditions agree to serve with netanyahu in a unity government that would be the biggest twist yet in this bitter election season al-jazeera west jerusalem. well us return at sea to our top story this

hour the algerian army chief has cold's on the president of blessings but if they get to immediately sat in with me to discuss this as you said one though professor of political science and international relations at qatar you know virus it's a joke we have that statements by a hammock guide salah just a short while ago it was read so it's on algerian television let's take a listen to that statement first be that all ready to fight in mcdonogh head jaish and what anya xabi we need to buy its allies the proposal of the army with would delay there's no time to be wasted we need to implement immediately the proposal of butter as in article seven eight one zero two of the cause that you shouldn't to go on throughout the party that will be for the sake of the country. well here's

a book that statement was read sorry it's on all jerry and t.v. just moments ago can you give me your reaction first of all to this. book a couple of hours ago news from algeria where the was coming to do you know there was. an officer's meeting in algeria basically who's who in the algerian military who was present at this. this meeting like the chief of staff. the commander in chief of the armed forces of the navy of the republican guards and all the different lesion the sixty minutes of using so anybody who is in a body in the army was meeting. and i was not surprised to hear this particular decision by the chief of staff obviously last week he called upon the president to to or they called the jews to. go to of the constitution it was some kind of advice the tone has changed and basically called him calling for

the president to go and he would go why why this change no the president had already offered to see stand why this sense of urgency why does the army want him to stand down united basically the president said that he would leave he would choose to he would leave by the twenty thousand between now and the twenty eighth of april but obviously the government was formed a couple of days ago is questioning this particular government so he doesn't want to the president and his own too large to have. in what happens next obviously the president is his entourage i'll take you maybe three weeks two weeks nobody knows in order to please to put in place people who are favorable to the little little models and confirm that. used might be nominated as member of the

the. council for the nation that he would be made president of the council of the nation and the fall he would had the country he would be the head of state and so on and so forth so what the military is the win is trying to block a neat little load for the president just because you go and that set a new will not have a say in whatever happens. after you're out of power do you think the president is likely to heed this advice say this call is a step that immediately i don't know what the board of the president is listening or not it's not the president has been out of the game for a long six seven years and more recently we have not julian's we have not seen him in public since the first of november obviously the president has a very interesting hobby to inaugurate buildings and so on and so forth but to take a little. bit of things that have been completed in algeria the first one is the

international airports of august and the second one is the big most of all just the fact that they have not been you know the integrated by the president until now suggest that he is very very poorly and people around him especially his bottle side is pulling the strings and that's what the he doesn't want even they called them the base of the gun or the the u.s. despotic of the world in arabic and i sub out which means the gun or the mafia to refer to the president now the protestors this of course comes after weeks of mass protest. how will this news likely be received by algerians who are taking to the streets every week very very well i would expect to do news to be very very welcomed in algeria everybody has been talking about the want to and it should have been triggered into. thousand and fourteen before the constitution was

changed it was. eighty eight of the constitution so everybody in algeria has been calling for the police to go from day one i mean the protest begun with no two the fifth in office they did not listen to the germans are saying this is not enough one two and the follow in the provisions of the constitution is not enough or they want something. it's a very clear signal from the military which is the most important institution in algeria they are no longer supporting the president this is for the first. history since independence the military is saying we are not with the president and it sends a very very strong signal to the protesters that the army and the people together and if you listen to what the protesters have always been say in the jaish which

means the military shop which is the people. blood and blood and so they keep drumming this particular message to and to the military institution they also say that we do we do it by example we are peaceful peaceful peaceful or we are the way it is exercising our democratic constitutional right to protest the constitution and i'll take the seven and eight which the gates of the referred to suggest that the people of all power let's do it let's leave it that's what he's doing ok given this announcement it will affect you think this will have on the process do you think the protests will will start to wind dying or is there still a need to keep the pressure up i don't think it will wind down on the contrary i expect people to come out it must've numbers even bigger than last friday in a couple of days. millions. do we want to destroy the missiles would be the

president's order to launch or what we will of course because reading those protests when they eventually surface for no we will have to leave it there thank you so much use of poor and professor of political science and international relations joining us here in the door her studio. it's time to go or a front door hard to london where barbara sarah is standing by with all the latest on the brakes a crisis barbara. hello thank you well britain's prime minister as offered to sit down with the leader of the opposition to try to break the deadlock over breaks in the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. in just ten days but so far parliament has not agreed on a withdrawal deal to resume a says she'll ask for a further extension to avoid crashing out of the bloc despite the best efforts of m.p.'s the process that the house of commons has tried to lead has not come up with

an answer so today i am taking action to break the logjam i'm offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to to ensure that we leave the european union and that we do so with a deal any plan would have to agree the current withdrawal agreement it has already been negotiated with the twenty seven other members of the e.u. has repeatedly said that it cannot and will not be reopened what paul brennan is outside downing street in central london falling or following all of this for us in what she said so sitting down with the leader of the opposition this new extension what is actually new when shows a shift in policy from terrorism they are. well you're right in the sense that it's not the first time that she's offered to reach out to the opposition although i have to say that in previous times the opposition has rather accused her of having

an open door but not necessarily an open mind as regards their representation to her over bracks it as far as the extension goes this is definitely a change in the prime minister's stance work concerns that she was prepared to take britain to a no deal breck's it and i understand that the cabinet was split on this issue with ten ministers ten cabinet ministers wanting a longer extension and fourteen ministers preferring are the new deal or a short extension so not a no deal but an extension it's important to say though it is a short extension we are talking a matter of days because as i understand from what the prime minister has said she's asking the jeremy corbyn to me to agree a plan on the future relationship and then she hopes to have a vote in the commons by the middle of next week so that she can go to brussels for the european council meeting on wednesday of next week with a mutually agreed plan with the opposition to present to those european leaders now

that is not much time to agree a joint way of proceeding and the other big question is exactly what is she prepared to compromise on the labor party the opposition party has wanted to put a customs union on the table too and rights of workers as well and it remains to be seen just how far the prime minister is prepared to move on those kind of measures measures that she has previously regarded as her red line and immovable. she made that statement after she was locked in a meeting with her cabinet for literally a do we have any indication of how much support she actually has from her government which we know is incredibly divided. well as i say that the numbers that emerged ten fourteen two sitting on their hands as i believe as well as far as within her own party. it is more divisive the argy this european research

group of if you can call them purist bricks or tears who are perfectly prepared to leave the european union with no deal at all they are going to be very bitterly disappointed by this the labor party as well is going to regard to resubmit its offer with some degree of suspicion i've heard from one m.p. tonights who said from an attorney she said she's trying to dip jeremy corbin's hands in the mess of brecht's it so you can see that labor are not necessarily going to welcome this with open arms it rather depends the devil will be in the details as to exactly how flexible the prime minister is going to be on some of these red lines that she's put down previously paul brennan with the latest from outside downing st paul thank you. well may says she will seek the shortest extension possible from the european union earlier its chief negotiator said the bloc was ready for a no deal breaks it's an aria. do you. desire

or. never my desire. but you're. prepared. to do more. back say it was top of the agenda arlin's prime minister meeting with the french president in paris and then when the urge the u.k. to come up with a plan to end the stalemate. before doing. the rejection of the rich rural agreement three times for the house of commons as well as the rejection of every other alternative plan that means we're heading towards a no deal the european council decided it's up to britain to present a credible alternative plan supported by a majority between now and april tend to avoid it if the u.k. is not able almost three years since the referendum to propose a solution it will effectively have chosen a no deal exit on its own and we can't avoid that failing on their behalf as things

stand the united kingdom will leave the european union on the twelfth of april without a deal. however there is still time for the prime minister to come to the european council with proposals proposals that are credible and have a clear pathway to success and i think we need to be open to any proposals that she may bring forward to us. patrick wire is a political correspondent at the new statesman magazine he joins us from outside westminster in central london patrick wire welcome to al-jazeera so what do you think kerry's amazing speech reads us. well for the time being it leaves us in a very similar place we were in this morning we know that teresa mayes to take the clip also she's confirmed she will seek that extension. she's being quite tricksy

with her language though in saying that she wants it to be as short as possible that will depend on the commons agreeing on something now it's very clear that the onus is not on jeremy tobin that's a bit of a red herring because she said that she wanted to reach a settlement with him that respected the results of the referendum now as far as she is concerned that means an independent trade policy generally called once a customs union they're incompatible so that depends on and then she said she will abide by the will of the commons now we've seen from this week that the commons there was no settled will so the likelihood is that we will get to the twenty second of may the very last we can ratify which all agree without having to take place in the european parliament lections with nothing on the table and that means we are into a longer extension because you know that these been very clear it won't be a short extension will be a long one with a provision to leave early and we have a european parliament elections so really it's the same timeline that was set out what treasonable our first extension earlier. you mentioned correctly that parliament didn't really manage to agree on any in the end because of votes on any

real alternative to her deal but there was a very small margin when it came to voting for a customs union so it does show that perhaps there could be some consensus built there can you ever see a situation maybe two reason may would opt for a customs union could be that be the solution that is alluded everyone so far. well it wasn't very short it wasn't close to a majority was close to a plurality you know it was still a good fifty votes off even if it had to give even if it had worn a prophecy of votes he would have been a good forty votes off trees they will never move to a customs union by choice because that means splitting her party that's the reason may he's much more party political down she is that was implicit in what she said downing street just now she said she wanted a settlement the respect of the result the referendum i.e. independent trade policy no customs union and then it's over to the commons if she can't reach one which i mean so she's saying. in a quite significant shift you're saying if the commons votes for something that

breaches more red lines i will have to abide by it but i think she's pretty confident that it won't come to that because the extremes of the parliamentary debate are so entrenched that nobody is seeking to compromise even those you know remain as and socrates who have more in common than that which divides them they are going playing a zero sum game at the moment it seems incredible that all of this is happening with ten days to go from a potential hard to breath or you know leaving without a deal and even that in itself is an extension what impact do you think that all of that's going on in westminster is actually having around the country. i think the public of very very fatigued the point at which m.p.'s feed this will become real for them politically is the point at which polling cause for european elections dropped through voters' doors now most people think is you know intractable and that it will get sorted but they worry that once people are told to

vote in european elections dollars when the huge backlash from leaves will come one tory m.p. told me last week that he feared the constituents only half jokingly would burn his office to the ground if they had to vote in the states you see elections and now remain as a breast is a lot of hope will that be that will be a big boot for their electoral chances they have to fight for european parliament so it could potentially be quite a shock to the system if you have a long extension. why are political correspondent at the new statesman sir thank you for sharing your expertise with us thank you. and that is it from london now it's back to how. thank you barbara now it has been six months since the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered it's a marriage his family have reportedly received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the kingdon the washington post says his relatives have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia as well as large monthly payments the article also says two sons and two daughters may soon get payouts worth tens of millions of

dollars each as saul cold blood money while the initial shock following the death of gemma shoji has since widened so become a global call for justice i'm just cements reports the cia may have pointed the finger of suspicion of mohammed bin salma ruler of saudi arabia but nevertheless it's this date itself that's in charge of bringing. givers to justice and maybe other investigations but no one show any sign of taking the case away from saudi officials who vehemently deny the crown prince ordered because judges murder. turkey has worked relentlessly is attempting to get extradition of the men saudi arabia had accused of being part of a rogue plot to murder because georgie from the very outset turkish investigators suspected the saudis were more engaged in a whitewash than an inquiry and the un has acknowledged that turkey was prevented

from getting access to the murder scene at a crucial time turkish leaks to the media showed c.c.t.v. pictures and the names of fifteen men suspected by turkey of having been part of it team that killed in the saudi consulate. turkey asserted that it had strong evidence tape recordings held of the gruesome murder it passed on to foreign governments and the cia but body couldn't be found. last november the saudi public prosecutor announced that out of twenty one suspects taken into custody eleven had been indicted and he said five could face the death penalty on charges of ordering and committing the crime and the motion is agreed to u.s. senators have provided some hope for those campaigning for an independent investigation but last month a closed door briefing at the white house ended with little achieved senators

including republican lindsey graham said the meeting was a waste of time like many he believes donald trump who on different issues as a close ally won't ever accept intelligence information from the cia that mohammed bin salmond ordered the murder. the un initially reluctant to get involved is now attempting its own inquiry led by agnes kalamata special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions yet made a request to the saudi government for access to the consulate and later she said saudi arabia is grievously mistaken if it sinks its secretive trial process conforms to international standards the accused haven't been named but one man known to be one of the suspects is reported to have been freed he's souled al khatami who was a close advisor to bin psalm the washington post has quoted unnamed u.s. and saudi sources as saying the crown prince still seeks advice from. andrew

symonds. well sharif monsour is the middle east and north africa program coordinator for the committee to protect journalists and joins us now on skype from washington d.c. mr mansour you're going to say should the c.p.g. has been campaigning for justice since. was killed do you think we're any closer to getting any justice for this murder. both very literally just the room of the company belittling what we in or the one who has agreed to this should . go as far as possible to the highest level in the saudi government the latest we know of is someone who owns the right hand of the crown lands autonomy for example of warsaw not just this operation they get us. but even the beating of women female bloggers and so presence.

we saw as the governments that eating this or claiming to bend the national community for even continue to raise question well they haven't provided we're uncertain the question about we are social cue body is this is a sign that i hold here six months ago when everyone on the side of government was trying to deny anything to do with this crowd. to this day they haven't provided the body and that was the meeting demand his family has had for the last six months and we still don't know where his body is there there have been criticisms worldwide certainly this was a shocking murder and internationally there was to criticism against saudi arabia however that criticism appears to be petering out the longer this goes on do you

think the saudis are playing a waiting game here. put on day one the saudis have tried to deflect and try to lie about what happened and the campagna three i'm sure has tried to cover it up or look the other way or the other way when that happened but we're hoping the congress. your opinion and even western capital of the leper relationship with society governments that known this is where we get all the lying we cannot wolf who are the. accountability of the highest level do you think the case sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom worldwide absolutely and just to this day the fact that the name. is being around the war and to this day

a very difficult name to pronounce in english is matched with an email from the eighty's magnitsky making the rounds in policymaking media circles and every time assad official visits western capitals it will be on the agenda the war it's going to take time but it's going to think a lot more people standing up and has called those questions throughout the year to reach. complete accountability we seek in this case what do you make of those alleged payments to. family from the saudi government what do you think this these payments mean in terms of finding a resolution to this case. well i am a muslim myself and i have studied the norm that even from within and this is a condition on the families of the aggressor has repented and that truth was

found in form we have a home with all of them on to the hip and to be honest this this is a prize that has nothing to do with money no matter how much money is are you. can throw in a problem they cannot just disappear this is what we're trying to say here money is not enough we need a change of behavior we need all the dollars who are being portrayed of them locked up that is a harsh agree brought from the saudi establishment and went into exile and spoke out was there people who will torture the families the friends the law and cerevisiae you this is that in progress saw the russians need to understand in order to move forward the nipple of up to the claims of reforms and they keep talking all over the world and just finally mr mansour do you think there will be

any consequences do you think anyone but will you will see any justice for this case and if not are other journalists at risk as a result. this is why we could head out of this of whatever it is and many people are of the warm and the home of arts community in the press freedom community. are what it and they think their outrage is that really in a pulpit or service no matter how the saudi officials or the from governments the regime try to look there are elected people in congress who are raising this directly who are going to continue to call for accountability and elected representatives in european parliament international institution i am myself will continue to call for a watch of their care and i think c.p. rearwards its demand to join in the house very. demanding accountability of course

we will continue to raise this point when for example the special report at the un and submits mitchell report column are in jordan to the demand that the home arts council take a. more aggressive action based on that report shareef will have to leave it there but thank you so much for joining us from washington d.c. sharif mansour from the committee to protect journalists thank you thank you but have. lots more still to come on the al-jazeera news hour including an historic visit scribd prime minister alexis tsipras visits his northern neighbor. and in sports the reigning women's football world champion say they want to be backing down from their ongoing equality lawsuits. thank.

hello again and welcome back we're here cross northern and western parts of iran we have been dealing with flooding again with another round of rain coming across the region this is a storm system that brought the rain these are the images that we saw coming across much of the area rivers overflowing flash flooding going on many communities being affected by the second week of flooding now last week flooding was deadly this week has caused a lot of evacuations across much of the region even though the weather system is now moving away a lot of the flood water still is in the area there is a system making its way to the north as well as over here towards the east what's going to be left is some better conditions in terms of skies so a lot of the air will begin to dry out we don't expect to see another round of rain coming until probably next week out here towards the west that we are looking at still rain across much of parts of turkey but down towards the south it is going to

be drier here across the gulf it was a stormy day for doha with a dust storm pushing through on monday things are going to get a little bit better but we can't rule out the possibility of seeing some rain even a thunderstorm here as we go towards wednesday twenty eight degrees is going to be the forecasted high and as we go towards thursday it is going to rise to about thirty one degrees rain in your forecast at thirty three and a nice day for muska at thirty. the brazilian economy is booming but the deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life could technology help bridge the gap. the serious the challenges developers to design apps for a better world travels to rio de janeiro elites the young people tasked with making a different life than for vela found on al-jazeera.

newsstand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera armed vehicles transporting players riot police with god one on one east explains why indonesian soccer fight and die for the sports analogy of. venezuela's rival assemblies are meeting after the supreme court's made moves

against opposition leader. it ruled that has parliamentary immunity issued restricts the opposition controls the national assembly and government supporters dominates the constituent assembly well let's get more on this our latin american i'd certainly see a new man joins us now live from caracas the constituent assembly is expected to meet singh to discuss the lifting of quite there was a muted say what does that mean exactly. yes that's absolutely right you can probably see behind me some of the deputies they are about to go into the chambers shortly where they will be voting presumably on the order that was sent by the supreme court on monday calling on this body which is considered the most the most powerful body in the land to strip his depth of his immunity as a deputy in the national assembly now remember the national assembly is controlled by the opposition of power in the country anymore but why though is the president

all that assembly and as such he was named as the interim president by the national assembly and recognized by many countries around the world including most of latin america the united states canada japan and australia to name just some so that's what us to where we are now the government has been trying to figure out how to get him out of the way and now they've decided that by stripping him of his immunity that would basically lay out the groundwork for him to be arrested put in prison tried for subversion and a whole array of other charges that presumably are being put in the ready now as he threatens to bring more and more people out onto the streets to try to bring about regime change here in venezuela so things are getting extremely tense at this hour and the big question is what will be the reaction from the united states washington has threatened them a government many many times that it. dire

consequences although they have not been specified. for a second year it's ok but the reaction from the united states but what about one point so how does he react since this. yes i said the united do we don't know how the united states will react but that it has promised to take swift and harsh measures if y. is always put in jail but i ask why go back. about an hour ago i said what do you think is going to happen he does not recognize the right of the constituent assembly he says it's completely illegal that only the national assembly has the constitutional right to strip any deputy including the president of the chamber of his immunity and he's just went on to say that this is just another sign of what he called the political inquisition and terrorism being carried out by the model government instead the national assembly a short while ago passed a motion to describe the novel and the rest of his ministers as promoters of

state terrorism and called on the on the international community to try to come to the aid of venezuela because of pusing these paramilitary groups called going to people that have been out on the streets firing at people and yesterday in fact even shot live rounds into the air as well as always speaking groups that are now being officially called by the opposition or described as terrorists who see in human life or as in caracas thanks very much for bringing us up to. there has been one years since i took over as ethiopia's prime minister and he has already made big changes he's released thousands of political prisoners and did a t. decade conflicts with eritrea and signed peace deals with rebels but key challenges remain mohammed oh reports from. it's been a good first year for prime minister in

a time at forty two the ethiopian leader is the youngest on the african continent when the ruling with european peoples revolutionary democratic front of coalition elected him prime minister last pull him back on a decisive shift away from decades of tight government control is i think prime minister abhisit arrival on the african stage is commensurate with the arrival of president mandela he is a breath of fresh his outlook is amazing he's tapped into the mood not any of ethiopians but of people all across the continent so far but such events include freeing thousands of political prisoners and closing the country's infamous torture chambers in the capital addis ababa ethiopia had long been known as one of the world's wast jailers of journalists within months of taking office released them or . he has appointed women to half the cabinet posts parliament has also accepted his female nominees for president and head of the supreme court but it's the speed with

which he ended a twenty year conflict with neighboring at a trade and established ties with its leaders from working as a standard so many he's signed peace deals with the rebels that have been designated terrorist by the former administration and appears to have persuaded them to disarm if that's not enough he invited its european dissidents exiled abroad to return home but how nega a leading opposition leader remain in exile for years have been sentenced to death in absentee now he says he's back to rebuild a position politics in ethiopia with the full support of the premier he is very committed. you know i don't remember in any of our conversations where we had a significant difference we have discussions very openly we you know we we don't see each other as threats in terms of political power it's almost like

observing a different country when you look at the pace with which of the form subform in ethiopia so far very few expected things to go so fast yet the analysts are quick to point out that the prime minister's still faces some challenges that are threatening the very existence obviously up here as a nation. has more than eighty different ethnic groups the divisions are all and deported and they've been flaring up with a new intensity in the past here we're having millions of people displaced from their homes and being in a different comps throughout the country and i think that has to be stopped the sooner really the sooner the better for the moment it seems to have the momentum and no shortage of energy to do with the challenges that lie ahead mohamed and all just. hope. senegal's president. has been sworn in for a second term he won fifty percent of the votes in february is election opponents

accused him of preventing some of his rivals from running but the results were not contested this will be sells final term as president under senegal's two term policy starman office is for another five years. the bit prime minister alexis tsipras is on and historic visit to new renamed north macedonia is happening ten months after both countries ended a dispute over the name macedonia country's prime minister says he's looking forwards to more cooperation between their two countries. since guy has more for us from scorpio the capital of north macedonia. it was historic day for greece and for north must have gone you know first time ever one greek prime minister used to visiting these countries let me remind you that two countries had more than three decades dispute about they used think of the term macedonia and

about the name of this country which was the republic of macedonia but after the prince spoke reman he was remained in republic of north my said don't you know boat prime minister today here in scope yeah i said that despairing important message to say and to this region three you wrote to balkans as well that this country's need to go forward and not to rule even to the history dozens of contracts were signed today but it's important is the economy corporation between two countries in that line here is called will be held one business forum and each for real will be attended by more than four hundred representatives of the companies from both countries when a very important contract was signed in today here in skopje that recovery's shown will protect macedonia airspace let me remind you that the north has done yet

doesn't have its own i'll be sure as to be here from the prime minister here zoran zire macedonia east respecting the same help for its feet became a member of european union. former malaysian prime minister najib razak goes on trial on corruption charges on wednesday after a delay of nearly two months the trial is the first of several criminal proceedings against knows you who faces forty two charges for us louis reports night from kuala lumpur. criminal breach of trust money laundering and abuse of power just three of dozens of charges. facing the former prime minister of malaysia. the last few years of his administration had been overshadowed by allegations money had been stolen from a state investment fund setup known as one and the. cabinet ministers who questioned

him was sacked or made to resign but investigators cleared him of wrongdoing then last may he became the first leader of the party that ruled malaysia as it gained independence more than sixty years ago to lose an election and a new government led by mahathir mohamad reopened investigations into one m. d. properties linked to niger were raided us he and his wife were banned from leaving the country while this new government came into power on the back of strong with a backlash from what they perceived to be corruption and abuse of power in the previous administration so i think this new government. acting on these issues that i think often corruption is i think on abuse of power i think that's why the reopen this case at least six countries have ordered investigations into one and d. in the united states prosecutors allege at least four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund in total faces forty two charges

he's pleaded not guilty to all of the following wednesday is the first of several against not just in this one he's accused of pocketing more than ten million dollars from a former subsidiary of one mt be among hundreds of millions allegedly transferred into his bank account if found guilty he could face decades in prison florence li al jazeera. has just come again at al-jazeera we do understand that it's the algerian president of lizzie's beautifully has resigned but news coming in from all jerry and states agency of a birth certificate of course the subjects of. any long running protests in algeria we are hearing from the algerian state agency that he has resigned. for was of course several calls from tens of thousands of protesters for many weeks

and of course earlier this hour we brought you news that the heads of the algerian army had calls for him to step down immediately the heads of the algerian army had said it would be needed to trigger article one or two to ensure that the algerian president was immediately removed from power so we understand from the algerian state agency that abdul aziz beautifully has resigned. so bernard smith is going to look back at his career he was algeria's longest serving president abdulaziz beautifully will likely be remembered for ending the civil war that lasted ten years hundreds of thousands of people were killed beautifully to one

praise for restoring stability that led to an economic boom and major development projects across the country. he also managed to hold the country together during the arab spring there were protests in january twentieth eleven over poverty and unemployment. the government responded by creating thousands of small business opportunities with generous incentives to young entrepreneurs reducing food prices and ending a decades old state of emergency. despite this riots continue and a sign that not everyone was happy with how beautifully qur'an algeria. beautifully could is considered a national hero by his supporters he fought on the battlefield during algeria's war of independence from france and then served as foreign minister until nine hundred seventy nine in the early one nine hundred eighty s.

he was accused of corruption and went on a self-imposed exile the charges were later dropped and at the end of the civil war in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he won an election with the backing of the military the opposition so the vote was raked beautifully because critics accuse him of clinging to power and cracking down on his opposition during his second term in office he managed to change the constitution to allow him to run for an unlimited number of terms so in mounting control of a sea and popular unease among his opponents who to flee to won a third election in two thousand and nine and the fourth in twenty fourteen by the time he won that election he was frail and rarely seen in public and some said he was no longer fit to govern western leaders considered him an important ally in the fight against armed groups in north africa who to flicker had zero tolerance towards these groups and the heavy handedness linked to that approach sometimes cost civilian lives in twenty thirteen thirty foreign workers including western

nationals were killed when beautifully ordered the army to storm a gas plant in the algerian desert the aim was to rescue hundreds of hostages held by an armed group affiliated with al qaeda. critics believe beautifully could have saved lives how to negotiate a safe exit for the civilians who've beautifully his grip on power started to slip when he announced his bid to run for a fifth term hundreds of thousands of algeria has poured into the streets in the biggest demonstration seen since independence from france in one thousand nine hundred sixty two for five weeks the protesters demanded the president and his allies resign beautifully a first try to placate the protesters by reversing his decision to stand again and perspiring april's elections the eighty two year old who suffered a stroke in twenty thirteen said he'd stay on until a new constitution is adopted. but it wasn't enough to stop the revolt and the

protests continue. any decision making capacity beautifully had left was taken from him by the army high command the chief of staff call for the implementation of an article in the constitution which allows for the president to be removed because of ill health. i would have liked his opponent say as main legacy is one of economic stagnation and widespread corruption his supporters insist he brought much needed stability to algeria bernard smith al-jazeera. well just a short while ago a statement by saddam was read out on algerian t.v. where he called on president would if he could see step down let's take a listen to that statement be that all ready to fight in mcdonogh hinge nation what anya should be we need to utilize the proposal of the me with would delay this though. to be wasted we need to implement

immediately the proposal of but as in article seven eight one zero two of the calls to tuition to go on throughout the path that would be for the sake of the country while just hours after that statement was a mates own algerian television the algerian president abdullah says boots of frica has submitted his resignation that news come against us from the states news agency and it falls weeks of mass process in the streets of all geria the eighty two year old leader has of has of course led algeria for many many years now that long reign has come to an end as we understand it well that is it from me and the team here in doha for this news hour after sara will be back with us in just a moment with more of the day's news coming from london.

egypt's strongman is ruling with an eye and faced on the sidelines from his allies is deafening the us was perfectly happy to trade off the mark for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have forgotten 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 man in cairo on al-jazeera.

a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said to close guantanamo bay and its detainees going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a new high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to proxies or work out of the state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited to on al jazeera. isn't the problem for yorktown that they really don't have a health question mark over it but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the image to get a ticket as mabury was going to do every will probably have known about it or decided we really do get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.s. across the globe too far that is called for all of the breaks doesn't build

confidence of break spoke to join me near the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here in algiers a. after weeks of protests president have been. resigned. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. this is a decisive moment in the story of these islands and it requires national unity to deliver the national interest the british prime minister says she will delay. from europe again to meet the opposition leader to break the brakes a deadlock six.