needed no convincing voted overwhelmingly to strip opposition leader of his legislative immunity. that the next step is for the supreme court to begin a trial that can be accompanied by an arrest warrant or other precautionary measures is accused of public office the trial of the nation's taking money that belongs to the venezuelan state a much more the constitutional lawyer says the trial will likely start immediately but clearing the way for why those arrest is a risky proposition the white house has wanted to know more than once that is why the president or harmed in any way there would be a quote significant response from the united states. just hours earlier in the same legislative palace why they all had overseen a session of the opposition controlled national assembly which in january proclaimed him interim president of the country neither he nor the elected legislature exercises real power but they are recognized as venezuela's legitimate

parliament and president by more than sixty countries we asked why dogs about the implications of losing his immunity and in the way. they have no legal rights to lift my immunity or anything else let's call things by their name this is political persecution in venezuela harassment and states to that ism we will continue working towards the reconstruction of venezuela. in a day of dilling resolutions the national assembly passed a motion accusing mother of promoting state terrorism. this was in response to the increasing use of heavily armed civilian groups to repress opponents and intimidate protesters with venezuela embroiled in an unprecedented political and economic crisis made dramatically worse by weeks of widespread power and water shortages appears to be fighting back with everything at his disposal just how and when the

international community will respond is the big question to see in human got access . iran's government has ordered the evacuation of seventy eight villages in a region threatened by flooding the senior province of. some of its heaviest rain in ten years flash floods have killed at least forty seven people in the last two weeks a government is blaming us sanctions for hindering the relief effort and two days after a violent thunderstorm devastated several villages in southern nepal relief workers have started reaching people in need heavy rain with more than thirty people dead and injured hundreds more so been interests are reports from the southern but a district. for these people in southern nepal what began as a hail storm ended in death and devastation when strong winds reach their village of said they took shelter in their homes in less than two minutes sixteen people were dead and hundreds injured in this municipality alone bijan patel and his wife

mina devi lost a six year old son nonetheless their friends see their family is in the in so little. numbers uncle gender but told us how his nephew was killed double that of the evidence he died right here the conclude 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 you have to look the people we are expecting that the central government will help us rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed here. i know its resources scarce tensions are high and some here say the relief efforts are disorganized disasters are frequent

in the past and it has policies very marriage and he responds 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 the b.s. rushed out of the euro district in the. us president is accused germany of failing to pay its fair share into nato speaking after talks with the organization secretary general in washington donald trump insisted that members contributions to the security alliance will have to increase with our white house correspondent kimberly arcus. when germany obviously is not paying their fair share calling out members by name donald trump didn't hold back as he sat down at the white house with the nato secretary general crediting himself with the tick in defense spending

you go back ten and fifteen years and it's a rollercoaster ride down in terms of payment and since i came to office it's a rocketship up the u.s. president's criticisms aren't new he's repeatedly attacked the nato alliance at one point calling it obsolete he's walked back those criticisms but routinely complains the u.s. shoulders nato's defense burden it helps them there in europe helps them a lot more than it helps us views have made nato leaders wary of their partnership in twenty seventeen he refused to endorse the mutual defense commitment in place since one thousand nine hundred forty nine known as article five of the nato treaty some reports and suggested president trump has privately told advisors he wants to withdraw from nato potentially destroying the alliance that's why many nato members remain suspicious of the u.s. commitment to nato members fear a weakened alliance without the united states would be powerless to contain

russia's advance into ukraine and threats to its neighbors that's why steps have been taken to strengthen the pact as a result of trump's threats and spurred on intentionally perhaps a movement towards european autonomy greater european autonomy so it's been happening for a long time but i think maybe the europeans pick up the pace a little bit of building their own capability separate from nato but for all of trump's criticisms the u.s. congress still supports nato january bipartisan legislation passed in the house of representatives blocking tromp from withdrawing from the twenty nine nation pact there similar legislation in the senate knowing this nato as leaders sought. reassuring members from the oval office years cutting the fence of budgets. to invest more. next year. hundred billion more. into the defense budget. it's a message stoltenberg who will preside over

a nato meeting in washington this week hopes to impress on an ambivalent u.s. president in order to preserve the alliance kimberly helped get al-jazeera the white house. this week six months since the murder of journalists to jamal khashoggi who was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul now journalists at indiana state university have established an annual address in his on up john hendren reports from the campus i nearly four decades after he studied on this campus in the american heartland jamal khashoggi is remembered for living and dying for freedom of expression was. as a columnist for the washington post he called for a more open saudi arabia and greater freedom of the press around the world his death highlighted how far both have yet to go. first of all is that he was

a truth teller this became a kind of a wake up call to people in america and around the world about how press freedom is under threat i think that's the thing that jamal would be proudest of. friends remember an outspoken student at indiana state university with a triumph sportscar a strong saudi accent and stronger views. eliot remembers him he was very very strong. but he was also very respectful. that's her with him in this one nine hundred seventy seven university newspaper photo when he walked the halls here nobody could have known that he would become a figure who rattled international diplomacy and ruled a regime the saudi government denies the conclusion of u.s. and turkish intelligence. ordered his murder but increasingly because of it that

government has become a global pariah. on tuesday indiana state university hosted the first annual address on the state of journalism in his honor it's important for a free press to be able to speak on behalf of the people to be able to do that on a global stage matters and we want that to be recognized and we want to never forget that six months after death his legacy continues to challenge a regime that according to recent reports has paid blood money to family members in the form of million dollar homes in thousands of dollars in monthly payments and according to leaked medical reports his physically abused and undernourished political prisoners are still in a better place i think for press freedom to be help here the authoritarian leaders around the world think they can get away with suppressing

public debate are going to have to be frightened of press freedoms like any fundamental political change has to come from the inside the censors on the torturers are always going to be strong enough to impose their will if they decide they want. perhaps but death and the international uproar it's caused has made that will a little harder to impose john hendren al-jazeera terre haute indiana. and brazil are actually watching progress in china's tried talks with the united states those who sawyer worried that a new deal could threaten their livelihoods was done on the reports from the state capital of. brazil is one of the world's largest oil produces a matter is the biggest producer in brazil china is brazil's biggest export market and then half of that is commodities mostly saw so when it might do its story

shopping elsewhere brazilian farmers take note. when we have china negotiating with the us in these conditions almost obliged to buy saudi from the united states that is going to hit us hard about five thousand workers are employed in harvesting to. one hundred seventy thousand tons just on this twenty seven thousand hectare property. without the chinese buyers it will be complicated we're following the latest news in the papers and we're really worried. brazil's big agri business mostly backed the winning candidate. in last year's presidential elections while brazil does far more trade with china than the us the new president when. aging is not on his itinerary or the talks go on in washington in beijing to try to resolve their trade differences it's unlikely they take into account the future of these workers on the other side of the walls but these men although they

have no say a very attentive their livelihoods depend on it. the state capital was founded in seventeen nineteen joining a gold rush on the gold ran out. the collective until the arrival of big agriculture. in the late twentieth century the city grew rapidly from fifty thousand inhabitants to more than six hundred thousand today soya nice parts is white gold. soil is used in more than two hundred sub products you can find it in madison cosmetics but it's most important use is as protein for eating livestock that converts into animal protein for the population the world's demand is huge producers here like gold will not run out but they must have. for now brazilian soil produces nervously watching and waiting to see which way the

international trade winds blow. west to brazil. with al jazeera these are the top stories algeria's president of the lizzie's with the flick has stepped down after weeks of protests calling for an end to his twenty year rule the chairman of the upper house of parliament is expected to run the country for up to ninety days until elections are held so. if we are supposed to be content with the fall of one person we won't go far our real battle is to have a state under the rule of law with democratic institutions a second republic with a real popular sovereignty. is the power of shame they must all go away they must all leave and they must be accountable we started this movement peacefully and god willing we will end it peacefully in other news former malaysian prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty at the start of his corruption trial in the

capital kuala lumpur is accused of stealing close to seven hundred million dollars from a state investment fund in the first of several cases against florence louis has more from outside the court. than one m.t.v. financial scandal has been described as the talk received at its worst this particular trial involves the alleged transfer of more than ten million dollars into former prime minister. was no bank account from a company known as s.r.c. international form a subsidiary of one so really it's just a fraction of one hundred million dollars but not to the sea and also just a fraction of the forty two charges he faces in tokyo the british prime minister theresa may says she will meet with the leader of the opposition jeremy corben to seek a breakthrough on breaks that the u.k. is usually of the european union in nine days but so far parliament has still not agreed on a withdrawal plan. and venezuela's opposition leader is remaining defiant up to

politicians loyal to the president nicolas maduro stripped him of his immunity from prosecution it means one could now be charged with violating the constitution after declaring himself venezuela's interim president. you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next. is turkey's president under threat red chip further won and his party suffer unprecedented defeats in local elections after years of consolidating power how big a shock as he suffered and how can he recover this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program today with me peter dopy retch up to the one has dominated politics in turkey for the past sixteen years but after winning every election since then has a k. party suffered a setback in sunday's local elections voters apparently particularly fed up with what critics say is his increasingly autocratic rule as well as the falling value of the turkish lira rising inflation and high unemployment the justice and development party lost control in major cities including isthmian and the capital ankara mr challenging the opposition's result there and in turkey's biggest city istanbul from their. small. i 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 and it would seem is on course to capture is stumble turkey's largest and most populous city. turkey be happy now let's establish 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 see tina transparent fashion at every moment i'm doing this happily and i know that every part of the city belongs to sixteen million people it was the first major position held by roger tabor earl on who used it to launch his political career nationally bruising gets is a personal blow to the president is actually 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 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 and 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. present on our own for the people have spoken i'm not here has a listen you know that things need to change and that he and his party must come up with solutions to fix the country's economy and address the concerns of those who didn't vote for the arc party the opposition will now be tested to see if we can deliver better governance in 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 talking. ok let's get going let's bring in our guests joining us on skype from istanbul is met celexa managing editor for the daily sabur newspaper. is a turkey specialist for i.h.s. country at risk he joins us from london and finally old school or well nice is the anchor office director of the german marshall fund of the united states he joins us from the turkish capital gentlemen welcome to you all in istanbul if i can come to you first was this a protest vote or something else. well i think i think you know it is a message definitely given to the our party as a party but i think if we look at the results i don't think we should come to

a conclusion that this is you know like your question is i think posing a protest vote vote against president add on himself because if we look at the june twenty fourth elections when we held the votes for presidential and parliamentary elections we saw that the party itself still receive less votes than they are that the president are they want to sell so in the local elections we know we see that that fifty fifty one and a half to fifty two percent nearly void is still there for the for the president are gone and the party although this is again a part of an alliance setting however. you know in june twenty four elections and also. hours after the most of the votes were counted the president on this time around again said that you know there will be some self evaluation made and the

party will has taken the lessons that needs to be taken into consideration for an evaluation an assessment for the party to come up and face the challenges or some of the needs that need to be addressed for a better performance next time so i don't know if we can call it a protest vote but i was of course there is the loss of let's say the capital city and some of the other cities. is a major shift however you know in the continent in istanbul things are not as clear yet so i think once things settle down in istanbul then there will be a better chance to to you know say that whether or not this was a protest or but right now i don't think despair. does it mean a party is a clear winner last election is receiving most of the votes. the fact that c.h.p. has again will vote is not necessarily it has not necessarily affected our party's

overall votes in the country so i think maybe. we can see yes yes he has gained ground given its alliance and given its maybe strategically selecting candidates and maybe even becoming a party that now is willing to appeal to masses you know nothing they have increased the cable commitment you raise a lot of talking points but we don't have half an hour so let's just boil that down and talk to a gay sex can in london again let's just talk first about the the handling of the financial crisis or his critics would say the mishandling of the country's financial crisis well of course i was most people would argue the single most important factor determining the outcome we saw on sunday we saw that the government in turkey had for a long time delaying what some would argue to be an inevitable outcome kicking the can run the kicking the can down the road if you will and seeking to keep the the

clockworks of the economy going for just a few months longer to get through yet another election but there was a point at which i think that strategy started to fail and we saw the result of that in the local elections over the weekend and now the advantage that turkey has is the fact that there is this unprecedented four year long period in which there will be no election contest and that gives the government a very good opportunity to undertake some of the more structural reforms that the economy desperately needs and that could potentially provide the government with a a let's say a sense of. having. it's on its past mistakes in the lead up to the next round of elections in twenty twenty three in ankara give us a sense view of what the opposition did to go from their starting position to

having this much traction within the the political scene of turkey. sure peter but i would like to first say that actually the scene that we are seeing is not a landslide the increase in the opposition's wards or a landslide decrease in the hip party plus amish because of what we see just a little bit shift away from the nation alliance to from the people the lions to the nation alliance in certain cities and districts that are of course a couple of reasons why this as up and as mammoth as said first of all the opposition or the nation alliance has managed to nominate candidates that appealed . so citee including some of the voters of the governing coalition but apart from that they also managed to craft an ally instead appeals to messages on top of the alliance that they had forged during the presidential election between the main opposition republican people's party and the newly funded your

party they managed to bring more aboard the kurdish d.p. voluntarily without giving back anything and it was this kurdish vote for example that made a difference in many of the cities if we take istanbul as an example for simplicity doing to the last presidential election president added to our vote in the stumble was only three point five percent more than the sum of his. the sum of his competitors including set out in them it touched the president of the kurdish party so van these three parties came together there was only three point five per cent vote difference if they party ok just any interruption there for a second because what you're saying a statistically is a very accurate interpretation of how the numbers how we can unpack the numbers but the reality is surely can i suggest eunice this that the opposition starting on

their starting point was a starting point defined by everything being stacked against them because solved. what mr erdogan did in the aftermath of the failed military coup you know voices of dissent have disappeared journalism is operating in a difficult environment in turkey still so they're starting point was not as easy as perhaps you would like to say it is. peter than let me let me say it in this way our president the add on has been using polarization for a very long time to galvanize his own water base but he didn't realize that in doing so you was also galvanizing oncor sort of dating opposition in a way that they themselves would not be able to do if it wasn't for president as how. in assemble what does this tell us about how politically savvy mr erdogan is now or not i mean putting a government sponsored vegetable stalls obviously didn't get traction with any one

people were it would appear able to see right through that. i mean i mean if we're talking about president are there once leadership i think there is no questions their president or the on has been the leader of our party since it was founded but he has also been the leader also zero traditional voter base in turkey and that is the center right vote in turkey and the fact that he has been able to consolidate the center right voters be it under national tendencies or be it under more conservative tendencies or be it as through his tangible projects that he has brought into turkey be through consolidating even the kurdish wards in the southeast provinces i think his leadership is not is undamaged at the moment however there is something that are going himself is also same day and he has said

it he has said the same thing when the party received about forty some percent during the parliamentary elections that defect that the party itself needs to be continually adjusting itself to the needs of voters or to demands of orders and this is what they will and i'm i'm thinking they will do going forward starting from this week that there will be shuffling something i'm saying will be done in the cabinet or in the party administration however the eyes of the people out on as someone who can make a face time call and gather millions out to defeat of a military coup or a coup attempt on is a leader who people you know regardless of their political ideology when it becomes a national matter they stick to. so in that sense his leadership and his party leadership i don't think is at question at the moment however there is a question. i mean there is also or you know the criticism or maybe some

sort of demands are met by the party admitted r.t. if you. executives or other ministries our people make a separation between the party and our joint in this sense however when he comes back and i just i just want to put that point search can in london so he's got to in effect reshuffle his government keep his party together because there are rumors not of a split within the party but certainly the beginnings of what might be a fracturing effect if you will but he's also got to keep the country together and on top of that he's got to now because the elections are past and the presidential election is more than a couple of years away he's got to drill down into the the issues of the economy because there's no money literally in the bank. it's a very difficult task that lies ahead of the president that's for sure there is the economy that will continue bleeding and some painful adjustments are necessary and

that has been clear for a long time now you can no longer continue with the credit fueled growth model that has been the case for a long time now since the acute became of the power. that a model simply needs to change and that will in tng entails pain in the short term and it's a question of whether the political authorities or mr doing himself. have the patience to. go through that and beyond that there is also the jew political challenges lying ahead. the situation with the us what i view as a brewing crisis regarding turkey's continued desire to purchase four hundred most of the first systems from russia that will also be problematic for the turkish economy because. for example relations with the u.s. is an indicator which international investors really take into account in terms of

basing their decisions on. on what to do with turkey and that will definitely be something that weighs down on the economy in the one year outlook in ankara could it just be that after what five six votes in five years the electorate in turkey are just tired of him and if he's got political savvy if he's got political weight behind him still he's got to engage with that idea. peter i'm still concerned that we may be all intact pretty in this vote because if there was a landslide loss in the warts of the party we could have said that but it's not the case it's set it's a small shift so and it wasn't about present out on these elections were about who were provide municipal services to the people and not who govern the conti but of course its president added on and is l.-i that budget that turned these elections

into an issue of national existence that they did to my eyes as such questions but i think that would be that would be an over interpretation what we see here is that not them on the supporters of president added on but emong is or poignance they are sort tired of that then of look over their differences and can unite otherwise how could a secular nationalist party hard core national his party and is that nice party and a kurdish nationalist party come together actually they are tired of this so president added on is now bringing them together and this is a huge challenge for president outgoing to future because in the past for those ational this worked in his favor through for those ation he could conduct a bigger war than his opponents but now through paul that is ation through the polarization created by president add on the opposition seems to tilt the balance and this is a challenge for him looking forward to that next election the presidential election

does he have one part of his political d.n.a. which the opposition don't obviously have at the moment and it might be going to suggest to this he is a gut politician he is instinctive he survived this long for a reason he is a political mastermind and i don't think even as opponents have any doubts about that but there are structural developers drug could make things more difficult for the economy is one of them and i agree with your about his point about the. opposition finally managing to look over their differences and i would reinforce the point about there not having been that much of a change in terms of support levels for one side or the other the voters to a great extent in turkey are still locked within what i would call identity groups so the islamists more broadly or not is of course

a simplifying term occurrence conservative segment of the population still voting for the one and the a.t.p. and vice versa and the minor shifts we see between those groups have of course resulted in the big changes that we saw in the election over the weekend but when it comes to the next presidential election one is still. leading by far and we are yet to see a politician that could rival him especially when it comes to not got instinct that you were referring to ok metamath in stan bill so clearly he's still the most popular politician in taught in turkey bar none there is a slightly unpredictable disconnect between his popularity in relation to his party's popularity but the opposition if he is vulnerable how does the opposition build on that because presumably they're now looking to the presidential elections as well then unity among the president among the opposition is not

a very it's not an organic unity of course i mean we're looking for organic unity among politicians but if we look at their voters days that unity that comes from being anti our daughter is not a very suspense sustainable unity in the long run i mean now we are and we're talking about. economists i don't want to i don't want to label them as that but there's a whole.