celebrations in algeria after president abdelaziz bouteflika finally resigns following weeks of mass protests. says he's stepping down to ensure a better future for algeria. their own for the people and you're watching al-jazeera life from london also coming up. 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 the

u.k.'s exit from europe again and office to meet the opposition leader to try to break the brics a deadlock. six months after the killing of journalist jamal his shorts he reports say the saudi government paid his family millions of dollars in compensation. other to algeria as president abdelaziz bouteflika has announced his resignation weeks before his mandate is due to end the military veterans decision to step down for those six weeks of nationwide protest against his twenty year rule many people in algeria calling for a complete overhaul of the political system which they say is dominated by a military elite a little earlier beautifully issued a statement about his resignation he said i decided to end my term as president of the republic effective on tuesday this. second of april twenty ninth i made my

decision to calm the minds of my citizens and to allow them to collectively transition algeria to a better future all my work efforts and sacrifices aimed to strengthen the national unity independence and development of our country where we just received these pictures which showed the eighty two year old former leader of algeria officially handing in his resignation after twenty years in power of course there have been six weeks of process on the streets of algeria demanding that the eighty two year old quits and also demanding that the entire political situation in algeria should be changed but these the official pictures showing abdelaziz bouteflika quitting as president so how will algeria's long time leader be even member south a serious business with takes

a look back at his career he was algeria's longest serving president. he also managed to hold the country together during the arab spring and there were protests in january twentieth over poverty and unemployment the government responded by creating thousands of small business opportunities with generous incentives to young entrepreneurs reducing food prices and then a decades old state of emergency. despite this riots continued assignment not everyone was happy with how beautifully khurana algeria. 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 his 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 c. 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. but beautifully his grip on power started to slip when he announced his bid to run for a fifth term hundreds of thousands of algerians poured into the streets in the biggest demonstration seen since independence from france in one nine hundred sixty two for five weeks the protesters demanded the president and his allies resign beautifully to 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. with a flick his opponents 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 or shortly before beatific announced his resignation algeria's army chief of staff invokes algeria's constitution in calling for the a leader to step down. shall we stand by the people until their demands are fully met as a son of the people i can only side with the people who have been patient for so long it is time to get their rights back once again we emphasize that our effort to solve this crisis is based on our allegiance to the country and we are confident that the people can overcome any crisis we also believe that individuals will vanish but the country will remain forever all political analysts imo baca joins us from skype over skype rather from algiers thanks for being with us on the program

historic day some would say a victory for the protesters but what happens now. well indeed the history that they we are talking about someone who has been in power over in the circle of our since ninety six to two hundred even before or so can you imagine the time it took to remove the him and at the time it took to the protesters to mourn him if you shortly so i would say that indeed that if you think that you do the sign down the demonstrations have been peaceful even the being good to laws negotiations why i am at talking about a lot of negotiation and not at all a tool of the jury and that in a revolutionary situation where people are been targeting symbols of the power in place such as the presidential palace and so long no they have been using the demonstrations in order to negotiate and to take back control of the state and of

the. what you call life that's why this protest does the most racially that there are so what negotiations are going to be going to be used again and again until all demands are met all of people's demands are met one of my earlier guests who is from one of the opposition parties says what he wants to see now is the setting up of some sort of presidential council do you think that's likely how would that happen. yeah i think that disturbs the school nature of the demonstration has that as a tool of negotiation is one think not cries of ducks are tree artists you know going to is another thing. he per present them tional nature adapt their deal tree on the regime has been dogging that up for the past twenty years many have to your best the something else in here obviously does a schimmel which is still in place that numbers of those who cheered this back to the creator declare victory ration of the statement of the after army chief i'm not

willing. to do to lose control of their over to transition so i believe debts now what. is going to be looked at very low prices least the will of the army and he is the army going to step forward and say well we i have been doing real people the people who have power in their hands and who are we are the one who are going to negotiate a transition or are they going to step or the back and speak no we will just. making a sorry day of letting it make the demands of the people that situation they've already built to do the composition of the defense of the people but dems a question who lives and who people are going to negotiate is still out of the government if you're between the government is still in. the sixty's several thousand as there are into a position to still be in power so or first as i said this is only

a beginning and that's redefining of all genius to do this is only the first part of the battle and second how the army and people who are still in place are going to sort this transitional crisis and this question of it was you got nothing is solved yes good to talk to i'll be back are joining us there from the capital tears thanks so much. and. let's go from algeria to doha and speak to you said he's professor of political science and international relations at county university thanks for being with us on the program going forward it's a lot of talk about whether the army should have any involvement a tool with say a presidential council some sort of transitional government do you think the army deserves to have a place a seat at the table can you actually get rid of the army altogether. i think for the time being it's very difficult to say we would get rid of the i mean

obviously every journey you know would like to see the military go going back to. its constitutional law of protecting the country against any foreign interventions but the situation as it is suggests that the me will be for the when the developments over the next few weeks very very closely going back to the president's resignation he was saying i decided to resign for some reasons but in fact the fact is that he was pushed because last week the chief of staff. suggested. two of the constitution should be triggered and for a week nothing happened the constitutional council didn't do anything the president didn't do anything but today when these high level meeting of the highest ranking

officers of the algerian army mat and the decision was for the president to leave now a couple of hours later or less there is this particular. resignation what is going to happen in the next few weeks obviously it will depend on friday the demonstrations so technically speaking. is the head of state called in to the current constitution all of julian's dead against states so they will come out to demonstrated and so on and so forth that will give the military. a hand in a company in this political transition to democracy most politicians in algeria have been calling on the military of over the last few years to. of this particular transition i would think that there will be some soul toll free

. presidency would somebody highlight. me. i don't think that the. the constitutional institutions but exist. acceptable by the people. of this corrupt regime so nobody trusts trusts the constitutional council despite the ill health of the president has not done anything for the last six or seven years the government of but we do successive governments have been elections on a regular basis so i would like to see new blood they want to believe. the demands have been over the last six weeks or so.

is the first step but the hard work begins as of tomorrow. now and also. and still ahead on the program. hello again or welcome back we're here cross a story we are looking at one from the boundary down here across much of the south making its way through perth and towards the bite we're seeing some more weather across much of the area to the north of that front but we're going to be a see a change once that front does go through some of these major cities so from melbourne about twenty two degrees here on wednesday up towards adelaide twenty

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across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all zero immigration but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudiced some pride in hungary on al-jazeera. and again undermine to the top story here on al-jazeera algeria's president of the

disease beautifully a has resigned following six weeks of nationwide protests aiming to overthrow the political system bring an end to his twenty year old. say that story because benjamin bro is a historian of colonial era algeria and he's with us by skype from austin texas in the united states but remember i mean one of the issues right now facing the demonstrators who want a complete political change in algeria is the fact that among their number very few will have experience politically or even in government because the figure has ruled with his altar off for so long. yes i did this is one of the problems of the face and the results of the sort of suffocation of civil society in a political sense over the last several decades and i think one of the things is you know that term to remember in this and what the demonstrators have been repeating is that the people in algeria are sovereign this is guaranteed by the

existing constitution or i can't imagine a new constitution that doesn't recognize that right and beginning on the twenty second second of february six six weeks ago or overstress or six weeks ago this people found his political voice and i think in many ways this is the first time or at least the first time in which it had operated or spoken at a national level there have been you know the last twenty years you know really for much of what the president would have liked his former present would to flee because. rule that there to the street had been alive but it always been fragmented in different places the murderous movements of people kabillion taking to the streets in very powerful ways but in ways that couldn't unite people talking about housing young people talking about jobs the sorts of things and so you know this spring there is that there is there is a political voice coming from the people reclaiming its sovereignty now this is you

know we be exist in a period of populism around the world and we're talking about populism dangers of populism and this particular moment this is a people that is not populist in the sense that it hasn't been constituted by a leader and so far it refuses to recognize one now of course is as as things go forward as people's voice will split it will contradict itself it will hesitate it made by some five ball silent at this particular moment it cannot be you can ignore it and i think that. you know way forward is is paved in listening to this this particular voice just quickly because i think we're going to run out of time but what we haven't discussed in the last hour will say oh he's. internationally how this is going to be received what is happening in algeria at the moment i think the only international reaction i've seen so far has been from france's foreign minister who said it was an important moments in algeria's history and that algerian people have shown a determination to make their voice heard how important is it. that international

reaction is first of all favorable towards the demonstrators but also puts pressure on those still in charge of the country to allow peaceful demonstrators demonstrations to go ahead and to allow algeria to move towards some sort of democratic change. well i think this is something we'll have to see is if things go forward you know in many ways you know i might have said a few weeks ago that you know one of the things that north africa enjoys is a fact that unlike syria unlike egypt unlike iraq and iran it's not of that this this epicenter of the strategic epicenter and so forth and so you might not have had. you know these these big outside players coming in and mixing in and and really. driving violence disunity sorts of things we saw further east that said however you know i think that we are in a moment of this this and you know many people are calling it a new cold war. we'll have we'll have to see the algerian army has

historically been quite close to russia this is where they get most of their military equipment from historically people have been trained. in them soviet union and russia and so we'll have to see if these sort of personal ties have any role of relevance here you know certainly the. demand out side actor in the sense is france but in many ways france. because of its history without syria you know this this very closely linked countries with the same time paris lease the government of france has to has to work with a great deal of circumspection and respect for algeria sovereignty in particular this is one thing that no one in algeria i think will be willing to compromise on with respect to the former colonial power now during sovereignty comes first great to have you on the program to joining us there from austin thank you thank you.

now britain's prime minister will sit down with the leader of the opposition after he accepted her offer for talks to try to break the deadlock over the u.k. is usually the e.u. in ten days but parliament has so far failed to approve any withdrawal agreements to resume a special ask the e.u. for another extension so avoid crashing out without a deal sagna reports a softening of the prime minister's previously movable red lines in a bid to end the brics it deadlock i've always been clear that we could make a success of no deal in the long term but leaving with a deal is the best solution. so we will need a further extension of article fifty one that is as short as possible and which ends when we pass a deal embattled but determined to keep going to resubmit a offer to meet with the opposition leader jeremy corbyn to find a new brics it plan that attempt perhaps to leave behind a deeply divided party to seek a national consensus and a softer breck's it u.k.

more closely aligned with the european media so far she hasn't shown no signs of compromise but i'm pleased that today she has indicated she will accept the view of parliament and is prepared to reach that discussion earlier on in downing street one by one they arrived members of the cabinet gathered attempting to plot a course through the chaos no deal is in sight at the u.k. is running out of days to make one this is the current state of brics it a high risk game where one side is waiting for the other to blink first and time is not on anyone's side the stakes are higher than ever as is the risk of the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. what happens here over the next ten days will be absolutely critical paula meant so far has been unable to make up its mind about what kind of brics it there ought to be but as the clock runs down so too does patience in brussels where there is

little appetite to prolong an already over due process for the e.u. there is little comfort taken at the ever increasing possibility of a no deal divorce. her desire or. never my desire to know but you know prepare. to do more. meanwhile ahead of next week's e.u. summit ireland's prime minister met for talks with a french president it might call has been vocal on the u.k.'s need to come up with a deal as soon as possible not least to safeguard its fellow e.u. members from the fallout of a no deal scenario it has taken two and three quarter years for the u.k. to reach this point attitudes have hardened as has the anger at the impasse police

on cheese day said they were investigating two bomb scares on the rail network which they say are bricks it related many are looking to the end of this chaotic period in british politics but the forces it has unleashed have already cast their shadows over the u.k. . al-jazeera london the family of murdered saudi journalist jamal has reportedly received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the kingdom u.s. newspaper the washington post says the relatives have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia as well as large monthly payments the article also says the shorties two sons and two daughters may soon get payouts worth tens of millions of dollars each a so-called blood money ashaji was killed six months ago after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. well u.s. senators oppress the country's energy secretary for details on what nuclear technology has been shared with saudi arabia both democrats and republicans

including the former presidential candidates walker rubio who have expressed concern about a proposal to help saudi arabia build two nuclear reactors in a letter the senators say riyadh has engaged in quote many deeply troubling actions and statements adding congress is reevaluating the u.s. saudi relationship south korea russia france and china are also bidding to build the reactors. authorities say the death toll in mozambique from last month's cyclon eagle eye has risen to five hundred ninety eight humanitarian workers are now struggling to contain a cholera outbreak in the storm's wake the world health organization says more than one thousand cases have been reports it's including one death nine hundred thousand doses of the cholera vaccine arrived in the port city of beara for a vaccination campaign for me to miller is following that story from johannesburg in neighboring south africa. aid organizations are trying to work as quickly as

possible to administer color of vaccinations across the area which is an area which was devastated by cycle only two weeks ago now they will have about nine hundred thousand doses of the vaccine delivered to mozambique today but ahead of that awareness is very important trying to get people into treatment centers and trying to access areas that were devastated by the cycle and that at some point remain in exists of all the united nations will be holding an emergency meeting to coordinate its response and as also said that it's set up about eleven treatment centers across the cycle and ravaged areas that number is significant given the extent of the outbreak now cholera is an demick to mozambique the last outbreak saw at least two thousand people affected so this is concerning for aid agencies and then any organization responding to this outbreak that number of people affected by cholera

has doubled each day since the outbreak began last week and this is especially challenging in an area where the water and sanitation infrastructure has been severely damaged two days after a violent thunderstorm devastated several villages in southern nepal relief workers have started reaching people a neat heavy rains left more than thirty people dead and injured hundreds more so be sure to reports from the southern bar of district. for these people in southern nepal what began as a hailstorm ended in death and devastation when strong winds reach their village of shelter they took shelter in their homes in less than two minutes sixteen people were dead and hundreds injured in this municipality. bijan patel and his wife mina devi lost their six year old son nonetheless their

friends say the family is in than so little. numbers uncle jitender but told us how his nephew was killed. he died right here the concrete trail on him his mouth was full of blood municipal officials say about five hundred homes were destroyed here. people are trying to save whatever they can and security personnel are helping to clear the rubble. local and national relief organizations have arrived with supplies a local official said people need all the help they can get. real expecting that the central government will help us rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed. its resources scarce tensions are high and some here see the relief efforts are disorganized disasters are frequent in the

past and it has policies very marriage and serious bonds but locals here say with different aid groups involved this relief distribution has been haphazard the recently elected provincial government says it's now taking control and will better coordinate these efforts to be out of the euro district and the power. undermines are the top stories on al-jazeera algeria's president of the lizzie's beautifully has announced his resignation weeks before his mandate is due to end people have been celebrating on the streets since the military veterans decision to step down was announced following six weeks of nationwide protests against his twenty year rule many people in algeria are calling for a complete overhaul of the political system which they say is dominated by a military elite. britain's prime minister will sit down with the leader of the

opposition after he accepted her offer for talks to try to break the deadlock over bracks it the the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. in ten days but so far parliament has not agreed on a withdrawal agreement to resume a special asked for a further extension to avoid crashing out without a deal 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 the family of murdered saudi journalist she has reportedly received millions of dollars worth of

compensation from the kingdom us newspaper the washington post says the relatives have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia as well as large monthly payments the article also says her shorty's two sons and two daughters may soon get payouts worth tens of millions of dollars each as so-called blood money two days after a violent thunderstorm devastated several villages in southern nepal relief workers have started reaching people in need government workers and private volunteers provided food tents and clothing to thousands of people on tuesday the heavy rains left more than thirty people dead and injured hundreds more and those latest headlines here on al-jazeera more news coming up for you in twenty five minutes next though it's radicalised you have to stay with us of our armed vehicles transporting. riots because we've got one on one east explain why you didn't use in

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