king 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 with mounting control of a sea in 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 and beautifully co 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 algeria has poured into the streets in the biggest demonstration seen since independence from france in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 called 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 are jazeera. now britain's prime minister to resign may says she'll speak with the opposition leader to seek a breakthrough on breaks in the u.k. is due to leave the european union in nine days but so far parliament has not agreed on a withdrawal plan may says she'll ask the e.u. for a further extension to avoid crashing out of the block without a deal some are going to go reports a softening of the prime minister's previously it 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 corbin to find a new bracks it plan and attempt perhaps to leave behind a deeply divided party to seek a national consensus and breck's it the big u.k. more closely aligned with the european media so far she hasn't shown signs of compromise but i'm pleased that today she has indicated she will accept if you are prepared to reach out and have 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 problem and so far has been unable to make up its mind of 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. with her desire or. never my desire. but. is now prepared. to do more. meanwhile ahead of next week's e.u.

summit ireland's prime minister met for talks with the french president it might well mark hall 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 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 as cross over now to neve joins us live from london so how much hope is there at this point neve of both tourism and german called finding some kind of common ground to put a deal together. it's very difficult to gauge the sense

of hope there is a degree of optimism the big question everyone else is asking though is can may call been talks kind of a compromise be found to save bricks it's to reason made a letter to conservative m.p.'s this morning said that she had hopes that conservative m.p.'s and the government's partners empowered all the non-is democratic unionist party would collectively be had enough to be able to back to reason may's deal and given that that hasn't happened she's having to reach across the other side of the house of parliament to the leader of the opposition labor policy jeremy corbyn to try and find a way forward but we have to remind you of course that politically they are poles apart in the kind of visions that they have for breaks in the labor policy prefer a softer version of brecht's it where the u.k. is more closely aligned to the e.u.'s customs union so the single market we know

the reason may has created a series of red lines that she said that she will not cross will she now go back on that and allow for instance the movement of people from the e.u. into the u.k. given that many people voted for braggs it precisely to control immigration from the european union but all of this has led to some hardline break cities within her own policy of accusing her of betrayal one hard line breaks a jacob response even accused her of trying to do deals with marxists that so he views the labor policy. in the form of the foreign secretary has said that working with the labor party will lead to such a soft breaks it that it may disintegrate altogether. nieve is the ball having back to the e.u. at this point when it comes to extending briggs it. what's

the reason may made it very clear that an extension to leave the e.u. is almost any effort to pull which means of course the ball does that not going back to the european union the default just to remind you is the u.k. leaves the e.u. on april the twelfth if no deal is reached or if no alternative is found trees in may and hoped to allow for will be given a technical extension to may the twenty second if her deal have been passed last friday as you know that didn't happen so she missed that e.u. deadline so essentially she's going to have to go back to the e.u. at the summit on wednesday and ask them again for a technical extension what we're hearing though is that the e.u. are saying well look if you got to have another extension it's got to be a long one this time and then of course that raises the prospect of the u.k. being drawn into european parliamentary elections that take place on may the twenty third that's exactly what tories may doesn't want having to go through electoral

process of voting for officials through an institution at the u.k. is meant to be leaving it is very much in the e.u.'s hands as to what concessions if any they get if the united kingdom but there have been some positive signals from brussels donald tusk the head of the european council urging the e.u. twenty seven to be patient with the u.k. . thanks so much. claymore still avenues out including you go back can improve teen years and actually rollercoaster ride down in terms of payment. as nato celebrates seventy years the us president tells germany needs to pay more into the international security alliance why brazilian soya farmers are worried china could be losing its appetite for their project. and its more russell westbrook produces a game winning in history making performance in the n.b.a. .

the corruption trial of former malaysian prime minister najib razak which got on the way in kuala lumpur a few hours ago has now been adjourned for two weeks he's accused of being involved in the disappearance of four and a half billion dollars from estate investment fund denied seven charges of money laundering and corruption related to claims he pocketed more than ten million dollars from one of the funds companies it's the first of several cases against him he's accused of receiving close to seven hundred million dollars to fund. the latest now from florence louie joins us live from kuala lumpur also as i said it's been adjourned for a couple of weeks what happened in court today to bring it to this point. well court started at two pm local time not just arrived five minutes before trial

started he had already scores of supporters waiting for him as soon as he stepped out of the car there were shouts of boss crew which translates to my boss the lead prosecutor in this case is the attorney general himself and he opened his eyes that missions to court by failing that this is the first time a former prime minister of malaysia has been put in the dock and he also made it a point to remind the court that the alleged offenses took place when not your brother was not only the prime minister of this country but also the finance minister of this country the prosecutor said the alleged offenses took place at a time when not just had maximum political power as well as control of the nation's purse the trial lasted only for about three and a half hours before it was adjourned the they heard from one prosecution witness out of about sixty that the prosecution is expected to call.

criminal breach of trust money laundering and abuse of power just three of dozens of charges facing the former prime minister of malaysia not to present 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 has ruled malaysia since 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 not just were raided s. he and his wife were banned from leaving the country while this new mission government of being came into power on the bag-o. 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 one can be seen that it's acting on these issues that i think government corruption is i think tough on the be soft by what i think that's why the you open 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 not to places forty two charges he's not guilty to all of them. the one i'm d.b. financial scandal has been described as kleptocracy at its worst there's a lot of international interest in this case this trial concerns only seven out of forty two charges that not yet faces and involves around ten million dollars out of the more than seven hundred million he is alleged to have pocketed mostly from one m. d. b. the strong is also significant because it won't put on public record details of the

fraud that allegedly occurred not only have one m.t.v. but at the highest levels of government in malaysia and for not chip this will afford him the opportunity to present his case in court not chip has portrayed himself as the victim of a political vendetta he's cheated not guilty to all charges and he's maintained he's innocent all right florence louie there from colin powell thanks so much. venezuela's opposition leader is remaining defiance half the politicians loyal to president nicolas maduro stripped him of his immunity from prosecution well that means one could now be charged with violating the constitution after the cleric himself interim president our latin america and it's a listen newman has more from caracas. venezuela one country with two rival assemblies delegates to the controversial constituent assembly which is loyal to president nicolas maduro 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 why do is accused of public office betrayal of the nation's taking money that belongs to the venezuelan state and 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 warned of 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 the law 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 dog about the implications of losing his immunity and in the people. 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 today it is and we will continue working towards the reconstruction of an israeli. in a day of julian resolutions the national assembly passed a motion accusing me 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 mcdougall 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 i just got back us one of the few moments alive all the way the with evidence and facts but still i have here not zero and one thing is it's so expensive and we don't get paid more. why finding affordable housing in the us isn't just a problem in big cities now. and is the son of a motor racing that goes faster than the reigning world champion formula one debut . hello there well we have the weather very divided across europe at the moment clear skies over towards the eastern side of the consonant lots of sunshine around but

over towards the west a fair bit of cloud that's been piling in see this well just around the northern france pushing up through the british isles and this cold front this blue line that's where we got some pretty cold air and that may well be summertime across western parts of here as far as the close concerned and we feel like that it's whole ten celsius for london in paris from last weekend really getting up to around nineteen or twenty degrees or really is pretty grim at the moment anderson snow in the forecast as well just around the alps a fair bit of snow could cause a lot avalanche as well you see that snow does stretch across the pyrenees too for a time will struggle to get to double figures for london as biko through thursday and then well wet and windy weather coming through the ship be a little drier a little brighter at that stage having said that then as we go on into the middle part of the week with those temperatures start to recover we're getting up towards the mid teens there for london and paris but still some blustery showers rattling

their way through temp just in madrid struggle to get to eleven degrees celsius but there's a warm sunshine warsaw it eighteen degrees. sponsored by the time anyways. egypt's strongman is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you want to hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london our man in cairo on al-jazeera or. in. pool.

and. be. a rich and diverse culture explored through its music istanbul songs of the city on al-jazeera . welcome back i want to go out zero time to recap our headlines now algeria's president up there as these beautiful guys 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 new elections are held. britain's prime minister's reason may says the leader of the opposition

party to seek a breakthrough in bragg's the u.k. is due to leave the european union in nine days but so far parliament has not agreed on the withdrawal. the corruption trial of former malays. prime minister najib razak got on the way in kuala lumpur a few hours ago but it's now been adjourned for two weeks he's accused of being involved in the disappearance of four point five billion dollars the state's investment fund the g pleaded not guilty. now with six days to go before israel's general election attention is focused on the battle for reelection by prime minister binyamin netanyahu he needs the help of smaller parties to see off his main challenger former army chief benny gantz harry foresaw reports from occupied east jerusalem. it's a packed night at

a sports bar in west jerusalem but the screens aren't showing leo messi or cristiana and although the largely young crowd has come instead to see a new star player in the why reform of moshe fagan whose surge in the polls has been one of the stories of the israeli election when he is proposing something very liberal the legalization of marijuana i personally don't smoke but i think in today's world it has to be legalized. fagan's libertarian message goes beyond marijuana to separating religion and state ending the military draft reforming education but his a hoot or identity party's platform also reflects the far right positions of a man who's been banned from entering britain for fostering hate what about the non jewish residents say he wants to annex the occupied west bank in gaza and dispatch hundreds of thousands of palestinians to other countries allowing only those who swear allegiance to israel to stay which only a small minority would be granted citizenship yes we do believe that to keep our

identity in the jones it is true state only jewish state and we keep our sovereignty on our holding their hand which is the land of israel that god gave us fagan also advocates full israeli sovereignty over the locks the mosque compound building the third jewish temple on what jews call the temple mount as well as moving israeli parliament or knesset close by and his is not the only ultra right party that could have a big say in the story of this election and the coalition horsetrading that comes after it. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself engineer in alliance between one of his coalition partners and a jewish supremacist party whose main counted it has been banned from standing for inciting anti arab racism. is israel's justice minister ireland shouted standing for the newly formed new right to party tried irony spring herself with a perfume labelled fascism a message that her plans to limit the powers of the judiciary smelled more like

democracy to her these parties have a lot of power because if they get something if there's something that they don't like about government policy if they disagree with the party that the coalition at any point they can do this thing that often reminds me of a child in a sandbox saying i'm leaving the big lynn says just that about giving up even a green of the occupied west bank meaning donald trump's peace plan due for publication after the election could face a threat from both sides the palestinians who reject u.s. mediation and the far right israeli parties it could be crucial partners in the netanyahu government are a force that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem the only been menachem is an israeli political analyst and former general director of israel radio joins us now live from jerusalem good to have you with us so it looks like it's neck and neck doesn't there between netanyahu and gantz do you think that's now a composite off with everything is been trying to do to help the right wing.

i think that this is the first time in ten years that is a real danger or for the continuation of the. g.m. and the very worry personally. mostly because of the corruption charges against him and. the only way to know what's going to happen to speculate is by the public opinion polls are right now with the situation they're looking it looks pretty equal between now and the twenty hour when benny gantz saw the pictures not clear and we don't know who will win the election. part of. netanyahu is challenges shall we say is these as any i mean a scandal. what are these elections reveal about the sort of push or attempt to push israeli politics more towards the right.

i think the major tend to see is word of the public is to the right then. i think is going to decide the results of the elections of the small parties from the right wing and there are a competing each other to go into the parliament and this is worrying for the ten year old because they with take votes from the likud and the. very worried about it and. if they not if they will not be able to go into the parliament for the not be elected then he will not have enough main dates enough seats in the knesset to form a coalition or a block over sixty one mandates and this is very worrying for the likud party this trend also explain another notable feature of this campaign as some would say the

first time the whole palestinian issue isn't featuring there is little if any talk about a two state solution amongst the major parties and right the main issue in this election is about the ten you know about the corruption and. in any case all parties are waiting for the. peace plan of president trump what the all the deal of the century that is going to present after the elections and nobody exactly knows if the idea of two state solution is in this plan or not. and that many speculations that nobody knows for sure so this is why the campaigns of all the parties are mainly concentrating about the owl and the core corruption charges all right thank you so much for analysis they only been one menachem. the u.s.

president is accusing germany of failing to pay its fair share into nato speaking after talks with the organization secretary general donald trump insisted members contributions to the security alliance will have to increase kimberly helka reports . 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 arctic 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 us shoulders nato's defense burden it helps them there in europe helps them a lot more than it helps us trumps 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 spurred on intentionally perhaps a little bit towards european autonomy greater european autonomy so it's been happening for a long time but i think maybe help 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 to. reassuring members from the oval office after years of cutting the fronts of budgets dollars almost all to invest more and by the end of next year other two hundred billion more. into the sense of urgency. 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. iran's government has ordered the evacuation of seventy villages threatened by flooding a state of emergency has been declared in many oil rich provinces in the southwest following 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 effort the u.s. blames iranian government mismanagement. in the mountains of southern a poor rescue workers are finally reaching those years made homeless by a devastating storm three days ago sabrina shrestha reports from barra districts where at least thirty were killed and hundreds injured as the gale force winds flattened communities. for these people in southern nepal what began as a hail storm ended in death and devastation when strong winds reach their village of fetter 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 lost their six year old son nonetheless their friends see their family is in than so little. numbers uncle to tender but told us how his nephew was

killed gave it away 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. a look to rebuild them really expecting that the central government will help us rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed here. and its resources scarce tensions are high and some here say the relief efforts are disorganized disasters are frequent in the park and it has policies very marriage and to respond 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 for beatrice. other the district. farmers in brazil fear the end of the trade war between the united states and china could have major implications for their exports soybean provides livelihoods for many in western brazil as daniel schwannoma reports. brazil is one of the world's largest oil producers a matter that is the biggest producer in brazil china is brazil's biggest export market and about half of that is commodities mostly saw so when beijing says 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 hear about the good or saw 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 all 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 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. these 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.