various points pulling out of neat little sum stays i think that people should be less focused on this and reports. coming out without any clear source and just looking at the part of it what a delight to states and present on states publically in the meeting with me yesterday in the white house in the state of the union speech some weeks ago when all our leaders met in brussels in july he says clearly that he united states presenter is committed to nato nato says the reason that its foreign ministers are here rather than nato leaders is because they'll meet at the end of the year in another summit but privately diplomats from nato countries have told me there was a reluctance to have a meeting here that would have to be chaired by president trump given the destruction he caused at the last to nato summit in brussels james al-jazeera washington and there will be a meeting on thursday at the state department off those nato foreign ministers were

looking out for more tensions there were some tensions on display on wednesday particularly as regards turkey's decision to buy a russian missile defense system over the objections of the u.s. who will be looking up more developments on that on thursday as well as italy's increasing closeness with china so we'll be covering that on thursday at the state department. and washington d.c. thank you. when i'm ahead in the news hour including. but less than a week to go before israel's general election right wing parties are surging in the polls. multibillion dollar corruption scandal former prime minister najib razak take the stand. and support the italian footballer who received an unexpected response from his own teammate after being racially abused by rival fans.

algeria's former president has issued a statement asking for forgiveness for any mistakes he's made eighty two year old jealousies beautifully to step down on tuesday after weeks of protests the speaker of the upper house is an ally is expected to take its place until elections are held within ninety days matheson reports. hours after president of the disease beautifully had his twenty years in power ended the search for g.b. his new leader has begun the constitution says this man. the speaker of the parliament is eligible to be caretaker president for up to ninety days during which an election for a new president is expected some critics say that people won't accept a salary as a temple to relieve him because he's a long time beautifully. the slogans were very clear they were calling. war of the departure of as well so the algerians don't want the transition to be

led by any member who was close to the plan and. so i don't think that they will be acceptable. protests turned to celebrations at the news of pathetic his resignation weeks of demonstrations as well as growing pressure on him to step down from the head of the army and. other commanders who once supported forced the eighty two year old reverses an announcement to stand for the fifth time as president in a statement attributed to. pay. for forgiveness he says he's human and he makes mistakes beautifully has made few public appearances since suffering a stroke six 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 the role of the army now is to take the side of the people for a smooth transition of power in algeria. i. celebrated all minds 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 former president's allies will remain in power. to turn to our top story now the situation in libya they went back to government has issued a military alert after the renegade general khalifa haftar order to strips to move west. your fellow at the johns hopkins university joins us from washington d.c. we appreciate your time so why are making this move now. i . have that i think he has

a number of objectives one is because of the un announced national conference that's supposed to be held on the fourteenth fifteenth and sixteenth of april i think of that would like to force the hands of the board the un and those that bending. in a way that does not exclude him fearing that this conference may start a whole new pat for libya in the next few years and that he may not be. included in that process or his objectives are not include the house that has one he wanted to do this for for quite a while i know there are actually from senior u.s. officials during the obama administration that at the end of two thousand and sixteen he actually sent envoys to washington to propose. ideas that he will take over the country militarily and he asked for the you us to remain neutral at

which time do you and absolutely refused and issued a warning. using the very term red line. to him and anybody supporting him he claims and he effectually actually. you know has been supported by. extensively both militarily. and financially as the u.n. documentation has said clearly a number of reports by the e.u. and named as the primary arms supporter for her for us there is also another larger i think objectively and i think the un u.a. e. is pushing now hostile towards this kind of militarization of the situation or to end any questions about libya because of what's happening in algeria as i think the. and you think it's about. yes i think it is also

a defense mechanism they don't want what happened in algeria to spread their game and to a place like libya. for you know they would like to have this entire area from north africa to remain under military rules. so. the muslim brotherhood the islamic groups so when you talk about the timing saying that you think that this is this is kind of time with this conference this coming up do you think that this that that means it is intentions are much more political than military is something he thinks he's militarily going to succeed at or is it just about making sure he is part of the conversation going forward i think it's mainly political and geopolitical i militarily i don't see how he thinks or anybody thinks he can succeed in the. various groups or military groups within the west

from force of libya from tripoli. armed they're not going to allow him to enter tripoli easily i think it's going to be a very bloody battle. i think there were also be other. countries that will be supporting and to have efforts so i'm not sure militarily he is actually convinced he can win this i think it's more of a threat to gain some political. advantage. again the situation than there is an alert for aaa military alert thank you so much for joining us from washington we appreciate it. and israel far right parties are seeing a surge in support in the final week of campaigning before a general election very fast that has allowed us an 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 wire a form of mushy figuring who surge in the polls has been one of the stories of the israeli election of 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 and the germs it is restated only to the state and we keep our sort of thing 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 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. israel's justice minister i had shouted standing for the newly formed new right to party tried irony spring herself with a perf human 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 or if they disagree with the party that leads the coalition in 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 jus 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 army forces al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem a palestinian man has been shot dead in the occupied west bank israeli army says the man tried to stab a group of israelis near a military checkpoint close to the city of nablus and was shot by one of them health saying officials say the man who fired the shot was a jewish settler a second palestinian was wounded in the incident israel

says it has recovered the remains of a soldier missing since the one nine hundred eighty two war in lebanon at a nationally televised speech prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced that the remains of zachary us or tank commander had been returned to his family. it was when our three soldiers still listed as missing in action. the secretary of homeland security will visit the us mexico border this week officials there are coping with an unusually high number of migrants trying to get in your signals and says the border is at a breaking point a number of central american families seeking asylum in the u.s. reached in the eleven year high and the last month on wednesday president donald trump once again threatened to shut down the border hi peter castro joins us live now from el paso texas along the us mexico border so heidi tell us more ira shell so there is a word that the white house is considering ways of shutting down ports of entry to

make good on president donald trump's threat how ever at the same time he himself has seemed to walk back that threat of shutting down the water claiming without offering evidence that mexico has suddenly stepped up its efforts to deport central americans we have not found evidence to support that but what is clear is that people continue to arrive. 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 are not as organized there they're coming in and their release is that are happening in a different types of hearing the 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 entry 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 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 who's afraid. it's a big fat con job. if trump actually closes the border the consequences for trade and for the u.s. economy would be catastrophic a closure of just a few days would mean billions of lost dollars which leads many to question whether this is a true threat that the president is serious or simply a political tool and the absence of any real solutions shall castro and el paso thank you because introduced legislation to provide four hundred million dollars a new way to venezuela and support of opposition leader one point zero for the money will be sent to neighboring countries taking in venezuelan refugees bill will also

ease sanctions on officials who recognize quite ohs government or is it nicholas winter as call quite a a puppet of the us and is accused washington of trying to conduct a coup. still ahead on al-jazeera why brazilian soy farmers are worried china could be able using its appetite for their produce. and unraveling the mysteries of the solar system and three separate missions this week. and its board free passage to the big time a deal that means baseball players no longer need to play cuba to make it to the majors. however we have had some rather nasty weather around the eastern seaboard of the u.s. recently this area cloud brought some light amorous snow into the carolinas is now

pushing further northwards through new england the eastern parts of canada all eyes now on this next area cloud which is another developing feature that pushes a lot of heavy rain in sioux the great plains that pushes up towards the midwest a celsius there for chicago for many are places well the race was what is not too bad never the previous systems gone nine hundred fifty see make the most of it because you know what's coming further over towards the west a fair amount of cloud in here some useful rainfall for the time pushing towards california you see some snow just coming in over the rockies some wet weather up towards the pacific northwest into western parts of canada by that somebody come to friday right down the appalachians down into the deep south alabama georgia seeing some very heavy rain for time and that wet weather pushing right up towards new jersey towards new york up towards you england for a time myself in new york temperatures will fall away with some snow with all the flank of that system a wall well that's a rather unsettled weather also affecting central parts of the caribbean jamaica

looks in the mix for some heavy rain over the next couple of days especially north . april on al-jazeera faultlines is back with more investigative journalism and in-depth stories of the world's third largest democracy heads to its presidential and legislative elections a documentary explores how the united states and the european union a turning a blind eye to egypt's violations of human rights prime minister modi is seeking a second time with a campaign dominated by talk of a cash man pakistan will he succeed an exclusive look at the goals behind russia's current foreign policy explained by some of the insiders who helped shape the kremlin's ideology of april on al-jazeera.

to. cut. her. this is al jazeera let's recap the top stories for you libyan warlord cliff a huff tarr has ordered his forces to move west sparking a general military alert from the un backed government after hours eastern based fighters say they're headed west to fight what they are calling remaining terrorist groups. in these and britain's lower house of voted to approve a bill that forces the government to avoid eight no deal bricks it u.k.

supposed to leave the e.u. on the twelfth of april but wednesday's photos means that the government will now have to ask brussels for an extension. secretary general says a more assertive russia will continue to pose a threat to the security alliance against holton burned sound of the warning when addressing politicians and capitol hill in washington d.c. where defense ministers are meeting to mark the seventieth anniversary of nato. our earlier my colleague peter tabi spoke to evo daalder a former us ambassador to nato he began by asking him about the alliances main worries. 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 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 then 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 they're all at 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 the u.s.

is even deploying marines again back up in northern norway and i think military commanders are looking at that and seeing the sense of the decisions that have been 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 leaving not only our allies but military leaders uncertain about the capability of the alliance if and when it actually gets challenge 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 the national rifle association in the united states is lobbying congress to block the law which prohibits people convicted of domestic and sexual abuse from owning firearms congress is expected to hold its first vote on the issue

on thursday on sirius alan fischer reports from percha. and it was boom boom boom three bullets came flying through the door kate ran to remembers the night she was shot she has the pictures of the blood of the injury of the moment she could have died but she doesn't need pictures to remember the fear she had a restraining order against her soon to be ex-husband the police took all his guns but there was nothing in the law to stop him buying others keeping ons other hands of abusers is what i've been fighting for for almost seven years now absolutely it needs to be in the violence against women act needs to stay there forever if they are going to abuse their wife if they're going to put their hands on their way if if they're going to emotionally abuse their wife if they're going to control her and do all those things that are on the domestic violence we'll they'll go as far as to try to kill them and the easiest way to do that is with

a gun it's called the boyfriend loophole the come violence against women act doesn't block people convicted of stalking or men who abused come to former dating partners from owning a gun. gun in the home of a domestic abuser makes it five times more likely the woman will die latest figures suggest six hundred women are short and killed by their partner every year so campaigners want to close the loophole but the national rifle association sees that as infringing on gun owners rights and so wants it friends in congress to block reauthorizing the act but we don't consider any of these provisions in gun control or about guns at all we know that of a woman is shot by an abusive male partner every sixty hours you know so that's every day that we lay that's one more life lost a recent poll showed overwhelming support for laws which keep guns from domestic

abusers. kid run to has focused her life campaigning for the change knowing how close an abuser with a gun came to taking hundreds away from her for ever alan fischer. alexandria in virginia. is congressional committee has begun legal proceedings to obtain the four report into russia's role and the two thousand and sixteen election and move sets up what could be ailing thing confrontation between the us government and congress that is donald trump's administration last month a summary of the report prepared by a special counsel robert muller said it did not find definitive evidence that president trump and his campaign team colluded with russia can really help get us more from washington d.c. . we need these materials to fulfill our cousin to tional obligations a full and unredacted look at special counsel robert muller's report into donald trump and his political and business circles that's what congressional democrats are demanding and on wednesday voted for the justice department to turn over this

committee requires the full report and the underlying materials because it is our job not the attorney generals to determine whether or not president trump as abused his office democrats on the judiciary committee in the house of representatives are furious the attorney general william bar appointed by president trump did not meet their april second demand to turn over the report whether trump and his team colluded with russia during the twenty six thousand election campaign or obstructed justice during the investigation the follow the attorney general recently released a four page summary of the nearly four hundred page moller report saying there is no evidence the president worked with moscow to win the white house bar has promised only to provide a redacted copy by mid april with publicans accused democrats of i'm necessarily prolonging the collusion debate that there is

a ordinated attempt by the democrats to undermine the president of the united states and this is all about the twenty twenty presidential election but democrats believe trump supporters in congress are trying to suppress evidence of potential criminal misconduct by the president last month when the special counsel concluded his report even trump supported making it public thank you very general but it wouldn't bother me at all but is the debate rages about its release trump is now dialing back that statement so i think it's somewhat of a waste of time this is just politics at a very low level the judiciary committee wants evidence and to. from past white house officials wednesday's vote means it could subpoena that information at any time the question is whether the justice department will comply if the attorney general refuses he could be held in contempt of congress that sets up

a lengthy legal confrontation between the justice department and the congressional body that oversees it kimberly help get al-jazeera washington masons former disgraced chairman carlos cohn has been arrested for a fourth time in japan earlier on wednesday tweeted his plans to hold a press conference next week to quote tell the truth he had been out on bail and he's accused of underreporting is and common using company to hide his personal losses own denies the charges. are malaysian prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges he denies involvement in the multi-billion dollar one in the scandal or its lawyer reports a former prime minister accused of being involved in looting billions of dollars from the state not getting support here through prayer not chip is on trial for criminal breach of trust corruption and money laundering involving the alleged transfer of more than ten million dollars into his bank account.

not just you i'm looking forward to it because you've got a lot to say. prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a form a subsidiary of stated vestment fund one m d. and there are accusations that he faces forty two charges in total most involving claimants pocketed nearly seven hundred million dollars for one. he's due to stand trial for most of those may tenth this year. says he's the victim of a political vendetta orchestrated by the current government that came into power following elections last me. and i think. charges that this is politically motivated but i think then that this over time and also probably could really be if the evidence against the response trolls were being that one of his on

the prosecution in order to bring the water but he and prove that wrong green did indeed occur when malaysian police raided properties linked to not ship they seized handbags jewelry and cash worth more than two hundred seventy billion dollars investigators say money stolen from one m.t.d. was used to fund lavish lifestyles for his family and his associates including buying high end properties building an art collection and funding a hollywood movie one is being investigated in five other countries including the us the us department of justice alleges for the hard billion dollars was stolen from the fund this trial marks the first time a former prime minister of malaysia has been but it's also significant because it will put on public record details of the fraud that allegedly occurred at one m.d.c. and the highest offices of government how transactions were made shell companies

allegedly set up to cover the money trail the connections between him and others accused of taking part in the financial scandal florence al-jazeera for. nearly a million people in mozambique are being backs unaided against caller after last month's cycling to die most of those getting the shots or any port city of their isle which was hardest hit two people have died from the disease in nearly two thousand cholera cases have been reported the minute miller has more from vera. 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 after they were displaced by syke only die in the flooding that followed after now they've set up temporary tents for shelter people here say they have very little to go back to if anything at all now 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 water and hygiene been compromised the outbreak of disease is a priority for aid agencies here containing that aside from color others also concern around a malaria as well as a measles outbreak so far nine hundred thousand doses of cholera vaccines have been sent to para this is one camp where people are able to get that vaccination to try and contain the spread as far as possible brazilian farmers who rely heavily on exports to china are afraid that an end of the u.s. china trade work could significantly hurt their businesses the soybean provides livelihoods for many and western brazil is to.