has already said he is looking forward to meeting the prime minister later on wednesday to discuss a way out of the break that stalemate. algeria's president of the disease puts a figure had stepped down after weeks of protests calling for an end to his twenty year old the chairman of the upper house of parliament is expected to run the country for up to ninety days until the elections are held on the corruption trial of former malaysian prime minister najib razak which began in kuala lumpur a few hours ago and has now been adjourned for two weeks he's accused of being involved in the disappearance of four and a half billion dollars from the state investment fund. charge which he denies. venezuela's opposition leaders remaining defiant even their politicians loyal to president nicolas maduro have stripped him of his immunity from prosecution it means one could now be charged with violating the constitution after declaring himself interim president more with our latin american edison and.

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 the trial 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 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 dog 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 today it is and we will continue working towards the reconstruction of venezuela. in a day of dealing resolution. 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 a precedented political and economic crisis made dramatically worse by weeks of

widespread power and water shortages muddle 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 access to the us president is that his germany of failing to pay its fair share into nato speaking off the talks with the organizations that secretary general in washington donald trump insisted that members contributions to the security alliance will have to increase more with kelly help. 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 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 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. reassuring members from the oval office after years of cutting the fronts of budgets. to invest more and by the end of next year they will add the hundred billion more. into the sense of urgency to go for it 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 can really help get al-jazeera the white house canada's prime minister is expelled to form a cabinet members he says undermined his leadership justin trudeau has banned the former justice minister and the former treasury board chief from the ruling liberal party and bar them from running in the next election queues trudeau of meddling in a criminal case involving an influential construction company trudeau says the pair were undermining party unity ahead of october's elections still talking elections turkey's election board has approved recounts in almost a third of istanbul's districts after the ruling party disputed early results in local elections the initial count in istanbul and in our interest shows the president's ak party on course to lose control of both cities its voting irregularities and what affected the outcome the opposition candidate for the marin assembled i was calling on the election board to just declare him the winner. in

the mountains of southern nepal rescue workers are finally reaching villages made homeless by a devastating storm three days ago it's been interesting has a report from bob a district or at least thirty people were killed and hundreds injured as the gale force winds flattened entire communities. for these people in southern nepal what began as a hailstorm 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 their six year old son nonetheless their friends see their family is in the so little. numbers uncle just then told us how his nephew was killed double that to be able to go but 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 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 into a response 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 as fresh out of the euro barrister.

we'll take you to the headlines now on al-jazeera the british prime minister teresa mayes facing questions from parliament in her weekly session right now already the opposition leader germy corben has said he is looking forward to meeting the prime minister later on this day prime minister may said in a televised address yesterday that she would be seeking cooperation from the opposition party to try to find some sort of way out of the break that deadlock so that's due to happen later on the way. other top stories for you are jarius president up to these beautifully could have 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 algeria for up to ninety days until elections can be held. news of the resignation sent jubilant algerians out into the streets in the

capital algiers crowds gathered at the square which has been the focus of the demonstrations 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 because a lot of iraq is the power of shame they must all go away they must leave and they must be accountable we started this movement peacefully and god willing we will end it peacefully. the corruption trial of former malaysian prime minister najib razak began in kuala lumpur a few hours ago it has now been adjourned for two weeks and he was accused of being involved in the disappearance of four and a half billion dollars from the state investment fund denies those charges venezuela's opposition opposition leader is remaining defiant after 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 he declared

himself venezuela's interim presidents and iran's government has ordered the evacuation of seventy villages threatened by flooding state of emergency has been declared in many of the 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 sanctions from the united states for hindering the flood relief effort the u.s. blames iranian government mismanagement that's my lot for today thanks for your company inside story is next on al-jazeera. is turkey's president under threat. to suffer unprecedented defeats in

local elections after years of consolidating power how because shock. and how can he recover this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me wretch up type 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. after almost two decades of constant losses turkey's opposition finally has reason to celebrate. the people's republican party or c.h.p. one of 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 the one who used it to launch his political career nationally losing it is

a personal blow to the president was 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 other not older ones still managed to win more than hof the votes counted across the country and nationally it's retained the largest number of mayors true but the turkish people appear to have directed their frustration with the faltering economy of the ruling party which has led the country uninterrupted for seventeen years. what was promised on june twenty fourth was if you don't want the country to our economic problems vote for the presidential coalition led by the president. president are in fact the people have spoken i'm not here has

a different 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 it can deliver better governance from the positions it won from k.p. at a time when i don't want been accused of being autocratic sunday's elections are a demonstration that democracy is still very much alive in kharkiv. jazeera. 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 sets can is a turkey specialist for i.h.s. country 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 met me 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 causing a protest 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 the hour that the president added 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 has him in a party is a clear winner off the elections receiving most of the votes. the fact that c.h.p. has again wolf votes is not necessarily it has not necessarily affected a party's overall votes in the country so i think may be. we can see yes c.h.p. has gained ground given its alliance and given its maybe strategic. the selecting candidates and maybe even becoming a party that now is willing to appeal to the masses you know all you have increased the cable 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 search 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 there 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 see a sense of. having a move 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 fear of what the opposition did to go from there 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 boards or a landslide decrease in the hip party plus amish because of what we see just that it's a big 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

the society 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 h.t.t.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 during the last presidential election president added to our vote in the stumble was only three point five per cent more than the sum of his. the sum of his competitors including set out in them a touch 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 is your statistically is a very accurate interpretation of how the numbers how we can unpack the numbers but the reality is surely can i suggest yunus this that the opposition starting all this 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 to add one 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 the ones leadership i think there is no questions their president on has been the leader of our party since it was founded but he has also been the leader also very 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 to solve 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 adjusts.