says 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. beautifully because opponents say as main legacy is one of economic stagnation and widespread corruption his supporters insist he brought much needed stability to algeria bernard smyth al-jazeera. algeria's army chief has invoked a number of constitutional articles in order to reach a political solution and to give the people more of

a say in how the country is run let's take a look then article one zero two confirms the resignation of the president and sees the speaker of the upper house of parliament assume a caretaker role for up to ninety days article seven declares the people are the source of all power it effectively gives them the right to choose their own representatives article eight allows the people to establish their own institutions which will protect their independence their fundamental rights and the economy from illegal activities jamila dean is an algerian writer he joins us now live from london good to have you with us so do you think protesters are going to look at this and say we did it we got what we wanted from these protests. the feeling is you believe. humiliation they won the bottle big bottle tossed beautifully but they still vowing to feel their mango in their peaceful

revolution which is vision change that's to feel humiliation yes we were on the bottom but caution that's not the repeat of deja vu for example the regime or the made you go out of me which is the regime in jail you know we're. trying maybe to implant like to egyptian soon are you a new c c sacrifice a lot dushan other media would mubarak and this is once you know you are judeans feel they rope and not this you know a portuguese or spanish singer in the army hell out of here into a real democratic transition that's do you think that will happen does the atomic energy at this point in your analysis actually want to give up all the influence in politics and return to the barracks. not really knowing the argyria.

me from actually there is a great saying to summarize the algerian army or from one of the first known historian even militant mohammed how to be you saying all states in the world they have armies. actually. the only part of me who was a state from the beginning from the independence the army played this role. they put. presidents civilians politicians as a facade but actually who run the country behind the scenes has always been the genius algeria there ault's even a lot to do for the you know for a historic change to open a big week for algeria and itself for the army for its generals to go for a historic chance historic democratic transition do you know maybe this

story we'd be agreed for evolution of independence during the war of independence against the french colonies and they want to open a new chapter in the in its history of democratic revolution which will have hopefully a big repercussions or even on the lesion on the other world run by dictators and the oligarchs and upper cheeks so what we've seen recently for example. a business tycoon which is part of the ruling elite the tycoons that. arrested by golly had died is that a sign then no of the army trying to assure in the huge era of democracy but eliminating the competition. well in a way this is also yes algerian they will come this move against one of the symbols

of flickers but they're also cautious because the chief of the stuff you're saying is. the. last warning to put these up businessman they got three children because they're close to put but actually they were on the watch of himself of the chief of staff of the army of the army all the . last twenty years now jillian's they don't want to be like they sacrifice those politicians between these entourage and this couple of. businessmen just to save. him they don't want a chance in to continue to have the same regime they want a real chance some even vote when they took to the street last night today as well the students take they took to the streets and they are vowing to take to take the streets as well next friday for most of the most ration of popular wheel of

insisting they want to change the real chance some are even calling for a new head of the army to our compound to. algeria in its. true image struggling it's a praising him it's. a spiritual of real change of real democratic change maybe it will open given the power of. decision clouded by many corrupt and many dictators around to take us through the process of what's happening next step down the speaker of the upper house of the car that been solid is taking over what happens next. at this point i'm sure are not satisfied they don't want to see him actually. they they took to the streets saying before us even they were calling we don't want been silent and good sir chief of

the. chairman of the speakers of the our upper house of the parliament they don't want him and they don't want as well. government appointed by bush record before resigning this ignition i think going with the insider who is a well known face of the corrupt regime not only was to be fed before. he was the chairman of the first democratic go the first parliament after the military coup in one nine hundred ninety two days not satisfied that's been that's been solid. we lead through vission a period for ninety days and they are not satisfied as well. that the government appointed but would be a car who is led by the interior minister who's accused of corruption of rigging the elections of police brutality that he will lead as well the. government

all right thank you so much. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including you go back ten and fifteen years and it's a roller coaster ride down in terms of payment. as nato celebrates seventy years the u.s. president tells germany it needs to pay more for the security alliance plus why brazilians saw it farmers are worried china could be losing its appetite for their followers and in sport russell westbrook produces a game winning in history maybe in performance in the n.b.a. . the corruption trial of former malaysian prime minister najib razak which got underway in kuala lumpur a few hours ago has been adjourned for two weeks he's accused of being involved in the disappearance of four and a half billion dollars from

a state fund pleaded not guilty to seven charges of money laundering and corruption and he did related to claims he pocketed more than ten million dollars from one of the funds companies it's the first of several cases against the florence lawyer for staff from kuala lumpur. criminal breach of trust money laundering and abuse of power just three of dozens of charges facing the former prime minister of malaysia not to present the last few years of his administration had been overshadowed by allegations money had been stolen from the 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 i'm not 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 and

properties linked to niger were raiding us he and his wife were. banned from leaving the country while this new mission government i think came into power on the back of strong with a backlash from what they perceived to be corruption and abuse of power in the previous administration so i think this new government one that can be seen that it's acting on these issues that i think tough on corruption is i think tough on abuse of power i think that's why the new york with this case at least six countries have ordered investigations into one and b. in the united states prosecutors allege at least four and a half billion dollars was stolen from the fund in total faces forty two charges he's pleaded not guilty to all of the following wednesday is the first of several against not just in this one he's accused of pocketing more than ten million dollars from a former subsidiary of one m.d.c. among hundreds of millions allegedly transferred into his bank account if found

guilty he could face decades in prison florence li al jazeera. canada's frei minister has expelled two former cabinet members he says undermined his leadership justin trudeau is banned the former justice minister and former treasury board chief from the party and them running in next year's elections or next elections rather queues tim of meddling in a criminal case involving an influential construction company true says the pair were undermining party unity ahead what so bizarre actions. in the mountains of southern nepal rescue workers the finally reaching villages made homeless by a devastating storm three days ago sabina trust reports from bar district where at least thirty people were killed and hundreds injured as girls force winds flattened communities. for these people in southern nepal what began as a hailstorm 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 devi lost a six year old son nonetheless their friends see their family is in the in so little. numbers uncle jitender but told us how his nephew was killed double that to be able to go where 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 to look to rebuild and

we are expecting that the central government will help us rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed here. it's 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 barack district in the. the iranian government has ordered the evacuation of seventy villages threatened by flooding a state of emergency has been declared in many oil rich from says in the southwest following the heaviest rain in ten years at least forty seven people have been killed in the past two weeks well here in the hama reports iranian pictures of the

floods showed the extent of the damage caused washed away roads blocked trees submerged and water waist deep homes schools and commercial buildings stood little chance iranian authorities have ordered the evacuation of seventy villages in the southwest oil rich province of could test on me the days and car care rivers due to a growing risk of flooding the army has been brought in to help the displaced of the for as long as people knew us we stand by the people we will stay here until bridges are reestablished and hospitals are operational the order comes as iran's foreign minister javad zarif accused us sanctions of hindering aid efforts to affected areas saying this isn't just economic warfare it's economic terrorism iranian authorities are using the military helicopters to help with the rescue operation that's been a shortage since the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran after president trump withdrew from the iran nuclear deal

last year in response the us secretary of state mike pompei offered his condolences to the victims of the flood but blame the iranian government of mismanagement in urban planning and emergency preparedness iran has experienced some of the heaviest rain in a decade various provinces have been devastated by more than two weeks of near constant rain affecting tens of thousands of people and while those who have survived try to save what's left of their belongings more storms are forecast in the coming days for healing mohammed al jazeera. lawrence catch up with the weather with everton now well just picking up from that sammy we've got the low before that the next storm which you believe for around because no one ever go yeah no it's bad news at the moment is ok come the weekend we'll see more rain coming through you can see we've got this clear a slot there there's not too much in the way of any cloud across much of the iraq and iran standing to just make its way a little further east was right skies come back

a bit higher but just not just one or two showers just creeping out of syria into iraq and that's a taste of things to come there's a bit of wet weather around on thursday much of iran at least inside of iraq generally fine and generally dry as we go on into. friday we'll see that wetter weather starting to gather a little area a cloud there popping up across much of the levant pushing back through iraq southern parts of turkey just pushing across into northern areas of syria and making the way further east was so we will see this thickening tower pushing through friday is not actually too bad but by the time we come to saturday more so sunday further heavy showers in the forecast so the flooding concerns are very much in play here for the early part of next week another area that could see a little bit of flooding over the next couple of days going to the northwest of africa because it's increasing cloud just spilling in across morocco parts of

algeria pushing up towards the next year as we go on into friday some really wet weather talking in semi. thanks so much i was the most still ahead on al-jazeera he was very very strongly minded and always having a conversation very serious. the former university of jamal khashoggi all those the saudi journalists six months off to his murder. fishies. a tug violently the right wing making waves the head of israel's general election. and in sport the baseball star who didn't get the warmest of receptions from the fans of his former team. is cold war where on live t.v. it's taught us is to be able to be concise expressing exactly what is happening in

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you're watching i'll just zero time now to recap the headlines britain's prime minister to resign may is to the sit down with opposition leader jeremy called in the attempt to break the break the deadlock the u.k. has to to leave the european union in days but so far parliament has not agreed on the withdrawal plan. the process is underway to choose it can take a leader for algeria until elections can be held it follows the resignation of president of the free car after weeks of protests calling for an end to his twenty year rule. the corruption trial of formulation prime minister najib razak has now been adjourned for two weeks he's accused of being involved in the disappearance of

for a half billion dollars from the state's investment fund the jeep denies the charges . have been as well as opposition leader is remaining defiant after politicians loyal to the president stripped him of his community. that means he. could now be charged with violating the constitution after declaring himself interim president our latin america and it's an assyrian human and small 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. 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 and much more the constitutional lawyer says the trial will likely start immediately but clearing the way for why those arrested is a risky proposition the white house has wanted 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 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 states today it is and we will continue

working towards the reconstruction of an israel. in a day of dealing 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 a number precedented political and economic crisis made dramatically worse by weeks of widespread power and water shortages model 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 has accused germany of failing to pay its fair share into nato speaking after talks with the organization secretary general in washington d.c. dog trump insisted members contributions to the security alliance will have to

increase can buy health care 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. reassuring members from the oval office after years of cutting defense of budgets dollars almost all to invest more and by the end of next year other two hundred billion more. into the defense budget since you took office 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 held at al-jazeera the white house now 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 in the capital ankara show the president's party on course to lose control of both cities it says voting irregularities affected the outcome opposition candidate for mayor in islam was

calling on the election board to declare him the winner. 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 his main challenger former army chief benny gantz are a force that reports in the 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 rinaldo the largely young crowd has come instead to see a new star player in the why reform of moshe figuring who surge in the polls has been one of the stories of the israeli election law 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 they 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 germs it is restated only to the 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 engineered an 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. israel's justice minister ireland shot head standing for the newly formed new right to party tried irony spring herself with a perfectly 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 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 juve 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 and the only been asked him is an israeli political analyst and former der general director of israel radio he says more right wing parties will likely decide what the next israeli government looks like. placing the major tendency is will of the public to the right then the. i think is going to decide the results of the elections of the small parties from the right wing and they are a competing each other to go into the parlor man and this is worrying for the ten yell because they. take votes from the likud and. he is very worried about. 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 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 drums what they call 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. many speculations and nobody knows for sure so this is why the they come pains of all the parties are mainly concentrating about ateneo and the core corruption charges us president donald trump aziz dani's threat to close the border with mexico here curious is the mexican government not doing enough to stop central

american migrants from going to the u.s. border but is faced growing pressure from american companies who say closing the border would disrupt trade shavar town say as more from washington d.c. . ever since donald trump repeatedly announce his intention to close the southern border beginning last week we've had reports of the white house was split into factions those warning of the enormous economic consequences of such a closure and those who feel it might be another great p.r. boost with the base already on tuesday they were getting indications that the line might be softening white house press spokesperson sarah saunders saying there was no timeframe for a border closure and then later in the day in the oval office dawn from himself certainly elongated the time frame for any closure if we don't make a deal with congress or of mexico and probably could say adoor if mexico doesn't do what they should be doing they should have people coming into

their country that this is their southern border that they have to protect then we're going to close the border that's going to be yet or we're going to close large sections of the border maybe not all of it but it's the only way we're getting a response and i'm totally ready to do it don't trump was also asked about his decision to cut off aid to guatemala el salvador and honduras something that may its all good increase the number of refugees flowing into the united states don't trump said that as far as he was concerned these countries did nothing for the u.s. and quote we're not going to have it any more form and this sand bar scholars go on says he's ready to give his side of the story in a scandal that led to his arrest on charges of financial misconduct it's called a news conference next week he says he's ready to tell the truth go on is out on bail in japan where he's accused of underreporting his income and using company funds to hide his personal losses he denies the charges. this week marks

six months since the murder of journalist. he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul on the journalists at indiana state university have established an annual address in the john hendren of falls 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. 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 which.