years ago his critics say he's been a front man for military and business leaders who really run the country protesters are demanding they also need to go in a clean sweep among the ruling elite but some say the power and influence of algeria's military is unlikely to change i think of the. i mean i think the army is one of the people's constitutional institutions that is widely accepted by the algerians that the role of the army now is to take the side of the people for a smooth transition of power in algeria. some ulterior and celebrated all night not just in the capital of genes but in other cities too in the light of day they'll be wondering how many of the now former president's allies will remain in power matheson. while staying with the story jamil is an algerian right so he says there is a sense of caution among the people about who may take over from beautifully. the feeling is your belief. humiliation they won the but big bottle tossed.

but they still vowing to fulfill their main goal in their peaceful revolution which is vision change that's to feel humiliation yes we were on the bottom but that's not the repeat of the egypt you know for example the regime or the maid. which is due to you know jail and we're. try you may be to implant like to egyptian shin are you a new c c sacrifice which vehicle like lucian army did with mubarak and this is once you know you are judeans feel they hope and know this you know the portuguese or spanish. the army help out here into a real democratic transition that's due to arguments actually in nigeria they are

not satisfied that. we leave the transitional period for ninety days and they are not satisfied as well. that the government appointed but would free a car who is led by do interior minister who is accused of corruption of rigging the elections or for police brutality that he would lead as well to a television government. lots more still to come for you here on the news including saudi arabia state oil company finally releases data about its reserves. with less than a week to go before israel's general election right wing parties are searching in the polls. and in sport russell westbrook produces a game winning and history making performance in the n.b.a. .

to libya where the warlord holy father after sword of his forces to move west towards the capital tripoli where the u.n. bank unity government is based he says he's on his way to fight what he calls terrorist groups his forces a backed by the u.a.e. and saudi arabia. has more now from tripoli. forces loyal to libya's warlord khalifa haftar have been deploying in the central area for the last few months they say that they are advancing to take over the libyan capital tripoli and the other remaining cities in the worst of the country upon the request from the central command of general have to himself have those forces are now positioned around seventy kilometers to the east from the coastal city of sirte we understand that this move has come after have to visit to the saudi arabia

two weeks ago and before that he was in abu dhabi and met with officials from the united arab emirates and we understand that the united arab emirates and saudi arabia are the major supporters of have alongside egypt france and russia on the fourteenth of this month the general what a so-called the general national conference is going to be held and it is sponsored by the united nations and this conference is expected to recognize the shuffled government to have have good as head of security so by advancing to the west maybe have to is trying to. sustain his forces existence in the west of the country as a do fact to existence of forces in the west of the country before the general national conference is held on the fifteenth of this month. financial details which

certainly arabia hasn't released since the one nine hundred seventy s. show the reserves of the world's number one oil firm are much lower than expected but the data also shows saudi aramco has overtaken apple royal dutch shell and exxon mobil to become the world's most profitable company osama bin should be explains one of saudi arabia's most highly guarded secrets is out or at least part of wield the state oil company has unveiled data for the first time since the one nine hundred seventy s. saudi aramco had to publish the information in a prospectus for potential investors as it prepares to raise capital and buy a petrochemical company called sapping the data also raises questions about the size of saudi oil reserves betrayed by the revenue to run the kingdom that of our oil field is one of the world's largest surprise in the prospectus is that the around close its production capacity is three point eight million barrels

a day now that still is far away the largest deal in the world while people are concerned about as it used to produce well over a five year in those days what we've understood over the years is that this is an intentional reduction of capacity in the war the savak purchase comes after saudi aramco plans for a public share offering their i.p.o. was put on hold last year it was meant to be the world's largest which saudi arabia evaluated at two trillion dollars the i.p.o. is not only going to be about whether those interests it's also going to be about whether the salaries are prepared to offer their crowns or will their most important company the thing that is very rabia provides all the revenue for the country or the bulk of it are they willing to really put that overseas and put them in a position where you know people could potentially have lawsuits against it you know make claims against it and i think a lot of people inside it would have think very carefully that's what they want to do. the data shows that tax pays to the state has been greatly reduced to investors

there are also questions about crown prince mohammed bin solomon's ambitious vision twenty thirty the investors look at these all of these aspects technical influence on government interference and government in their oil company operations and then of course the overall sustainability of saudi regime in the next ten twenty years money raised from around cause business and potential sell off is at the heart of diversifying the saudi economy which so far remains a distant vision from a job aid out as there flash floods in iran have killed sixty six people following the worst rain in some regions in ten years the iranian red crescent says nearly one hundred sixty thousand people have been affected regular moment as more. the heaviest rainfall in a decade much of iran south west and central regions have been hit hard with tens of thousands of people affected in the rest and province in the west survivors

trying to recover what they can from muddy streets so tell moment i have lost my whole life house and everything and not only my family but the entire pollard doctor town many are without food and essential services employees knew going on well they we have been hungry and thirsty since this morning our children are hungry and there is no natural gas electricity or water. in the southwest province of kusa stan there is a growing risk of flooding it when you know thirty's have ordered people in seventy villages to evacuate and sent in the military to help in the province of gaullist on the iranian red crescent says it's helping provide emergency shelter for fifty seven thousand people and dozens of military and relief helicopters have been deployed to help those affected iran's foreign minister zarif says the relief efforts are being hampered by the united states he said sanctions imposed by washington were economic terrorism and preventing the country from getting

equipment like helicopters u.s. secretary of state mike pompei accuse the iranian government of mismanaging it's been planning and failing to prepare for emergencies president hassan rouhani promised affected areas would be rebuilt gas. in spite of what america was for all will see that our big nation our officials and our own horses or men or reconstruct everything that's been damaged. the heavy rains have also triggered floods in neighboring iraq and with more rains expected the emergency may last for some time yet mohammed al jazeera. it's six days to go until israel's general election and there's been a surge in the polls for far right parties are a force of reports now 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 ronaldo the largely young crowd has come instead to see a new star player in the wire a form of mushy figuring whose surge in the polls has been one of the stories of the israeli election an issue in the law he's proposing something very liberal the legalization of money 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 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 candidate has been banned from standing for inciting anti arab racism. issues israel's justice minister ireland shot head standing for the newly formed new right 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 leads 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 grain of the occupied west bank meaning donald trump's peace plan do 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 with him is an israeli political analyst stand former general director of israel radio he says small white wing parties will likely decide what the next israeli government looks like. they sing the major tend to see an israel of the public is to the right then a 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 an attendee l. because they. take votes from the likud and. he is very worried about. if they not even if they will not be able to go into the parliament for that will be elected then he will not have enough main dates enough seats in the knesset and 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 the 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. and that many speculations and nobody knows for sure so this is why the they come pains of all the parties are mainly concentrating. on the owl and the core corruption charges. nearly a million people in mozambique are being vaccinated against cholera after last month's cycling the program is centered and better which was the hardest hit two people have died and only two thousand cases of cholera have been recorded in the miller has more from bear. the line for food is growing longer and longer as the day comes to an end here in barrow we're at the. camp where at least one thousand eight hundred people a stay temporarily that's off to they were displaced by psycho need die in the flooding that followed often all they've set up temporary tents for shelter people here say they have very little to go back to if anything at all of this is where

they can get medical assistance food and fresh water and this is important considering the concern around the cholera outbreak so far they've been about one thousand four hundred cases there is of course concern though that this estimate could be low given the way people have to live the limited access to war to and hygiene been compromised the outbreak of disease is a priority for aid agencies here containing that aside from colorado there's also concern around a malaria as well as a measles outbreak so far nine hundred thousand doses of cholera vaccines have been sent to barrow this is one camp where people are able to get that vaccination to try and contain the spread as far as possible still to come here on al jazeera under pressure pound spent as well as opposition leader remains defiant after being

stripped of his parliamentary immunity. breaking point with a sense u.s. government claims about the border with mexico. and in schools to baseball star who didn't get the warmest of receptions from the fans of his former team. himself look at the international forecast in place to say we've got some dry weather moving across iran at the moment i'm afraid come the weekend we will see yet more show was rolling in here we go with large the clear skies are few showers a little more cloud across turkey northern parts of syria some outbreaks of right sunny a possibility here as we go through thursday come friday rain since a little further south as becomes

a little more expansive right across the levant lebanon jordan having a pretty wet die possibility of some localized flooding eventually this as we go through the weekend that will make its way eastwards somewhat cloud stretches this way down across the gulf so could see a few spots of rain even here in concert thursday looks the best a day the clear day the brighter day twenty nine celsius in similar temperature as we go into friday but you can see all the more cloud in the forecast as we make our way through the weekend now we see some bits and pieces of cloud also filtering across the eastern cape of south africa stretching back towards angola actually but right skies now starting to push in behind you must still see want to see showers just pushing in to the eastern cape like the skies to into southern parts of my big cloud and right all making its way further east. an ancient land and one man's dream to transport tons have billions from europe and

fly them over his beloved country. in a nation reeling from decades of violence. on regions are easily. reached callen international team of pilots get this man's dream off the ground. is over babylon on al-jazeera a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capitol of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains the color project that's what we diffuse it was one of the sounders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the twenty first century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera. from

london and these are your top stories the u.k. prime minister. the opposition leader. find a common approach to leaving the e.u. . algeria's former president statement after he. asked for forgiveness for any mistakes he's made. to decide the next. his troops to move towards the. unity government he says he's on his way.

to. the nato secretary general the end stoltenberg has warned the us congress about a threat the threat of russia stoltenberg gave a speech to mark the seventieth anniversary of the alliance he said he doesn't want to a new cold war but he urged the us not to be complacent or to james joins us live from congress what they've been talking about. well i think that is the main line that we heard from you there from the nato secretary general warning of a more assertive russia and certainly from those gathered here members of the senate members of the house there was a very receptive welcome to his speech there was a standing ovation for the nato secretary general celebration of nato seventy years and i think they concurred with that opinion about the threat from russia of course the one person who doesn't come to a joint meeting of congress who's not in the room is president donald trump and of

course he's been skeptical about the russian threat skeptical even about the nato alliance suggesting to aides privately at various points that perhaps the u.s. should pull out of course that's not the only problem that is facing nato right now tensions in that the alliance with regard to italy and its a better relations it has recently with china and to a purchase of missile system by turkey point side book to the nato secretary general a short time ago. there are though tensions in your alliance we look beyond the u.s. you look at italy signing up to the bolton road initiative taking to a to an extent the side of china you look at turkey looking very close to signing a missile defense system bought from russia to these things concern me i'm not denying that there are tensions on the there are disagreements on the wide range of different issues trade climate change and the g eight and also all the issues but

we have seen differences in between nato allies before back to the soonest crisis in fifty six to the iraq war in two thousand and three which. strongly supported somalia as a strong were against. the war but this spite these differences while they were honored for history is that we need to always been able to overcome them and stand together and unite around the record tosca that is to protect or defend the other and i am absolutely confident that i'll also be the case now he says it's the longest military alliance in history a cause for celebration you might wonder then as it was signed the north atlantic treaty here in washington seventy years ago why they're not getting all the nato leaders together here nato will say well that's happening later in the year in london but i can tell you from some diplomats from countries they're telling me the

reason is president trump they've seen what happens when president trump is at nato meetings two meetings in brussels and i think they were worried about the unsettling nature of having president trump chairing a meeting with his disruptive way if it took place here in washington given the signals over the past year or two of the trumpet ministration james that the touch on the big issue in the room as well afghanistan. absolutely because that's the place where nato soldiers have been serving where nato soldiers have been dying mr sultan but when i spoke to him said that we shouldn't. be too predicting imminent peace in afghanistan he said he thought it although he was pleased by the efforts he thought there was a long road ahead and it was interesting when i pressed him on some of those fundamental freedoms that nato soldiers have died trying to protect things like

education for all women's rights human rights media freedom he said that those must not be sacrificed if the taliban is brought to the table and bought into the political process in afghanistan and i can see that down the line is a potential source of tension among some of the western allies thanks very much james. well earlier i spoke to eva formally the u.s. ambassador to nato and began by asking him first of the main concerns of the alliance. russia has returned quite clearly as a major challenge to the security in europe it has invaded ukraine and next crimea it is in other parts of europe involved militarily as well as through cyber and other means and it's still trying to undermine the stability of countries throughout europe and indeed it interfered in the elections in two thousand and sixteen here in the united states cyber is one means of that of that effort by the

russians and of course other countries including the chinese iran north korea and others are using cyber weapons as a means to interfere in the stability of europe of the united states and nato is a good instrument to try to counter that it does need to do need to leaders therefore as well over the coming decade have to convince presidents and prime ministers around the world that old fashioned old fashioned nuts and bolts security defense still matters and it's got to be fundies that's the fundamental purpose of nato i think that's what the secretary general is saying as we speak at the on capitol hill the message needs to be clear we are still threatened in a whole variety of ways both by traditional and longstanding threats like russia but also new ones that are that include cyber security includes terrorism it

includes pandemic diseases and climate change and that we as an alliance need to stand together in order not only to cooperate to deal with those threats but to provide the means necessary for dealing with those threats and that means spending on security defense hardware is one part of it better in cyber security is another part of it and greater cooperation is the third element of it but it costs money security doesn't come for free behind closed doors do you get the sense that needs to leaders particularly the military commanders because their role is. the top of their game clearly they wouldn't be there if they weren't do they feel a sense of annoyance perhaps that they don't feel the love anymore coming at them from washington or is their line well you know we've lived in survived beyond other presidents prime ministers anyone that had a problem with nato and we will survive donald trump with his i mean he's reheating this call to talk about the funding of the alliance well i think there is. a

dual attitude on the one hand nato is taking very real steps to improve the deterrence and defense capabilities specifically with regard to russia it's deploying troops into eastern europe into the baltic sea states and hansing its air and naval presence in the black and baltic sea as the us is even deploying marines again back up in northern norway and i think military commanders are looking at that and seen the sense of decisions that happen made over the past five years as way in ways to strengthen nato and they're they're happy with that at the same time it's this political uncertainty about the nature of particularly american leadership and the president's commitment to nato that is leaving not only our allies but military leaders uncertain about what the capability of the alliance if and when it actually gets challenged will the united states politically being gauge in this alliance if and when the necessity is there that question has never been

asked. to the extent it is being asked today and that is a big change a record number of families mostly from central america trying to seek asylum in the united states the u.s. government says the country's southern border with mexico is at breaking point and president from says he may shut down the border as a result i do castro reports from el paso in texas. the u.s. southwestern border has not seen numbers like these in more than a decade more than one hundred thousand migrants and asylum seekers crossing in march the border patrol's commissioner says the system is overwhelmed continued inaction by congress is going to continue to put people at risk the vulnerable migrants on the journey in mexico as they cross our border increasingly hot weather and our own personnel and unfortunately children in our custody sixty five percent of the recent arrivals are families or children traveling alone the vast majority are central americans who say they're fleeing violence and poverty last week in el

paso hundreds of people were kept under a bridge the u.s. government said its processing centers had run out of space after the resulting public outcry the asylum seekers were moved many are being released to charities that provide temporary shelter the release says that are coming from border patrol or not as organized there they're coming in and their release is that are happening a different types of theory that president donald trump says he's going to close the border this week if the flow of migrants doesn't ease already his administration has moved some officers away from ports of entries to the front lines of the humanitarian crisis but even as those close to the president claim the focus is on saving lives trump accuses the asylum seekers of fraud you have people coming up here you know they're all met by the lawyers the lawyers of and they come out they're all met by the lawyers and they say say the following phrase i am

very afraid for my life are i am afraid for my life ok and then i look at the guy he looks like he just got out of the ring is the heavyweight champion of the world is afraid. it's a big fat con job. shut down the border impact on train and the u.s. economy would be catastrophic the closure of just a few days would mean billions of dollars lost leaving many to question whether the president threat is serious or simply a political tool in the absence of a real solution hi peter castro al jazeera el paso texas. venezuela's opposition leader is remaining defiant after politicians loyal to president stripped him of his immunity from prosecution it means one could be charged with violating the constitution declaring himself interim president in america. 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's 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 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 prison 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 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. 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 a we will continue working towards the reconstruction of venezuela. 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 may 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. now farmers in brazil worrying that any possible end to the trade war between the amount to say it's in china could have major implications for their exports the soybean provides livelihoods for many in western brazil as daniel swine now reports. brazil is one of the world's largest oil produces a state 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. we are warrior when we have china negotiating with the u.s.

in these conditions almost obliged to buy saudi from the united states that is going to hit us hard about.