one way of telling the story keeping is to tell the right and to be respectful there is a great chance to get to know the person full details to. this is al jazeera. and i'm fully back to go in doha this is the news hour on al-jazeera coming up in the next sixty minutes an interim president is named in algeria by the protesters who brought down the previous leader out back on the streets. anti-government demonstrators well on the streets south sudan's capital as western nations call for a credible transition plan also this hour a four time prime minister takes on a retired military chief in what is expected to be

a very close israeli election race. london with the top stories from europe including with just three days to go the british prime minister travels to falter in germany trying to shore up support for a short break the tension. and arpita semaj with all your support we're an hour away from the champions league quarter finals as much as the city trying to avoid a repeat of last year's slip up against an english rival. thank you for joining us after weeks of unrelenting protests calling for abdelaziz bouteflika his resignation algeria it now has an interim president but been sad as appointment has not satisfied many algerians who want a complete overhaul of the political establishment. reports. this is the man who will lead algeria for ninety days until

a new president is elected. the speaker of the upper house of parliament of the uk was appointed interim president by the parliament a few days after these beautifully designed his decision followed weeks of unprecedented protests against his book but with a clear cause a replacement faces a daunting task he's widely unpopular and seen by many algerians as a member of the same elite accused of corruption within votes and inefficient governance but. says he's hoping to build bridges with his opponents where he knew that i need everyone ensuring this period in our country to strictly apply the constitution and work hard faithfully and with dedication and so the people can make their decision and to choose their elected president but on the streets the discontent cont'd years the same protesters who wanted to flip

out unhappy with been salles appointed and they are determined to push for a real change because we have come out today in order to oppose ben salah ben certainly we don't need you. we are here so the ones who are governing the country leave because they are robbing and not building the country they are destroying in . a serious political crisis began in february when president bush. he would be seeking a fifth term in office he'd been in power since nineteen ninety nine but rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke into thousand and thirteen after weeks of protests calling for him to step down the army withdrew its support for the eighty two year old president and the jury has longest serving president eventually resigned. but for many

algeria's their fight is far from over they want a clean sweep of the political establishment at the national unity government to lead the transition to democracy. in other world news in sudan seven protesters have been killed on the fourth day of a mass sit in at army headquarters the crowds in khartoum are demanding the resignation of president bashir but his commanders have offered have ordered draw the office is not to confront peaceful demonstrators this the embassies of the u.s. britain and norway have said in a joint statement that sudanese authorities should deliver a credible plan for a political transition victoria gate and b. has a meet the. standing firm outside ami headquarters in the capital khartoum protesters chant down with the regime. ows early

a security force personnel opened fire on demonstrators in an attempt to break up their food a long mass sit in soldiers who saw the attack intervene to protect protest is letting them into the headquarters and shooting at the government security forces. a spokesman for the military says there is new splits in the on food season security forces remain united. the mold i hope but i mean what the about the police national security and intelligence forces are supported by the army we needed to consider certain things before moving the enthusiastic protesters outside the area the very well prepared plan has helped us to control the situation in a peaceful way. some offices there have been openly siding with protest was never going to make it to all of you let me say that we're here now because we're taking the side of the people we're standing with the people nobody else. protesters and the opposition sudanese congress party

a calling on president obama al bashir to resign they want the military's help in forming a transitional government the leadership of the army if they. disposed to the name of the people they live there it's balls to the. the call of the opposition they are in the entering the unity of god yourself on this we lead the country for chaos so i think they have no other option but to this ball positively to the demands of the people the governments imposed a state of emergency since february after their crackdown failed to stop the largest outcry during al bashir is thirty year room. so he's asked the ruling national congress party to help restore stability and. the government says change can come through the ballot box but protesters on the streets insist they want change now victoria gates and

a al-jazeera. at least eight people have been killed after a bomb exploded in northern syria it happened in iraq which is controlled by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces which pushed i saw fighters out in twenty seventy. voters in israel have been casting ballots in elections that will determine if benyamin netanyahu will remain in office for a fifth term he voted earlier in west jerusalem one of his main challenger benny gantz urged the country to embrace a new dawn opinion polls put gans's blue and white coalition just ahead of next now's likud party but the prime minister appears to have the best chance of forming another governing coalition. government in the. midst tell you i had no major dollars but this is a sacred act this is truly the essence of democracy and we should be blessed with it but you need to choose well i cannot say what i can but i don't want to not here

so let me that i'm happy to place myself at the service of the state of israel in the citizens of israel i'm happy to stand for the good of the citizens on a new power we call for a respectful and quiet day from all sides while we have two correspondents covering this story for us hard abdel-hamid benny gantz says when white coalition headquarters in tel aviv will be speaking turn just a moment professor harry fossett who as and who is that the third party headquarters also in tel aviv the current prime minister benjamin it's now spotty harry just about an hour or so left to vote and that's now has been scrambling to rally last minute vote is. yes it's been a day of real for you to get activity from israel's prime minister as he tries to get every last vote he can from his likud supporters we've seen him tweets that he's beginning from ation that well the leftists are voting in great numbers the likud strongholds are very low in terms of the polling numbers canceling

a party of campaign events and heading back to jerusalem for an emergency meeting he said really trying to turn up the temperature and to demonstrate the the crisis that he's trying to portray. prospects as being in the earlier he was at a beach telling people to get off the beach and get to the polling stations he rolled out his american pollster who told us on his social media feeds because you're not allowed to campaign in terms of using adverts on television and radio today deposed telling you is that because nine percent of likud supporters were confident that but doesn't you know who would win they were staying at home and it meant they were losing the race so there is a huge effort underway it's also involved could activists going to pull. stations in palestinian israeli areas apparently well certainly with hidden cameras and police trying to intervene the head of the israeli election committee saying that this was an illegal act and perhaps later that perhaps not there has been

a real lessening in the palestinian israeli votes historically low turnout among that section of the society according to one poster one of the news agencies and we just heard from the parties themselves that they estimate it at around forty four percent with just an hour to go last year last election rather it was more than fifty percent so that could potentially allow more right wing parties over the threshold in the that the sort of climate where they would support another right wing netanyahu coalition he wants to get his look good party as big as possible to be sure of being given the opportunity by the president of the country to try to form not coalition and that's why he's trying so hard to get every last thirty can even now in the last hour thank you for that harry harry fox said it's now the likud party headquarters in tel aviv let's cross over to her job then hamid who is also in tel aviv but the challenge is ness now the challenge as party headquarters

the blue and white coalition led by benny gantz and young appeals just how confident they're. about a victory over next now and are they really i don't turn it into any card. well they have been calling also have very similar to what harry was saying about the day of benjamin and you know both men and yes and you know elected also had the emergency also went on social media calling on their supporters to go to cast their ballots saying that they could with the same in the lies and tell their . supporters that they had to make sure that their ballots went into the right box now how confident are they about. with election publicly they would say they're very confident that the their own predictions or exit polls would work the way they're following these elections would give them

a good chance but i mean at the end of the day the ways really politics is done is that even if they get a large number and they become the largest bloc in the israeli parliament of parliament the knesset that doesn't mean that they actually have the premiership in their bag now are they very much different in their political platform then benjamin netanyahu and many people will tell you that no very much in substance at the end of the day yes they are the hope of the liberals yes they are trying to too intense benjamin netanyahu saying that he stayed too long in power saying that he esteemed it was corruption allegations but it is still a party that is very much along the same lines and certainly we haven't read any of the two co-chairs giving out very much what they would they would do for example with the israeli palestinian conflict appeal it's probably

a change in form rather than substance many of the likud voters pretended that they had been quite a limited by ditto of benjamin netanyahu that lately is politics have been divisive . politics has also a racist undertones will definitely that is that change in the form how it is presented today israeli public thank you very much for that hoda abdel-hamid life for a sane ten of eve let's bring in mitchell barak who's the c.e.o. of kiev on global research a research strategy and communications firm he's aligned from western men very good to have you with us on al-jazeera i want to get your polling expertise first of all to turnout in twenty fifteen in the last election it wasn't over seventy one percent do you think it's going to be higher or lower this year and what will that tennis about the overall results. well first of all you had two excellent reports that preceded this both of those correspondents really summed it up very well first of all so you have a good understanding of what's going on regarding the polls and the turnout very

hard to say exactly what first of all i think it is going to be a lot lower because in the last election there was a lot of push between eight o'clock and nine o'clock when the polls closed and so we're seeing a few percentage points lower now and it doesn't look like it's going to pick up in any massive way between now and you know in the in the last hour like it did in two thousand and fifty what we've seen and what your correspondent spoke about was the dirty tricks of election day going on in both major parties but more with the likud and it's and now there's a lot of dissent from ation you can't say you have that you can't take it at face value that more left of center voters have voted in the right of center the likud voters have stayed home we don't know right now what we know is that the turnout is very low in the arab sector which is a problem because that may affect the threshold to get in for the smaller parties and one of the things that the guns people and the left are the guns pete ticket is

banking on is that a lot of these smaller parties which are in the coalition now or were in the coalition like israel between all of the development like moshe ca clone of coolant to like even better than shithead and possibly by that you do they may not it depends how many people vote right and if any of those parties or two of them are out then that's when you know it's going to have a very very difficult time doing it say one thing that you know where he pulls out his pollster and says that nine percent of the likud voters are not coming out it seems like a pretty good number to me that means ninety one percent of likud voters are going out to vote i don't think that makes a lot of sense but you can see that it creates a lot of hype and everyone's talking about it and it could get out to vote well everyone's just crying wolf here and it's and yeah and both contenders both counts main contenders that. and that's now i've made a lot of promises during the campaign especially netanyahu to try to appeal to the smaller parties the smaller right wing parties do you expect them to keep those

promises and what direction then whoever wins will they take israel towards. i like to say elections in israel are very much like hotels in las vegas what happens in election campaigns stays in election campaigns there is absolutely no basis in reality any of the promises that it's you know has made or any of the parties all the parties said they're the smaller party we're not going to sit with the guns government there's no way we're going to do it god says that he's not going to say when the all bets are off everything is possible what i think is going to happen we're going to see in the next few hours we're going to have a lot more questions than we will answers because a lot of it is going to have to wait until some of these votes are counted and then we're going to really see how it stacks up so i'm not really sure that we're going to get some clarity tonight but there's nothing that's been said in the campaign that can be taken seriously this is mudslinging and campaigning just to get the

votes and each party has a different strategy is that just vote for me is don't vote for the small guys because then i won't get in and you know they're trying to steal votes from each other so it so anything goes it's not it's not going to happen very interesting to talk to you about this michel barack thank you so much for joining us there from western slim. plenty more ahead on this news hour including military and trade on the agenda as the u.s. president welcomes egypt's leader to the white house. and president trump rocks a deal for cuban baseball players to play in the u.s. major league paedo have the details since it's. our time now for a look at the stories making headlines in europe and the british prime minister has been trying to secure support for a short break sit delay nic is in london news center with more nic.

there in a funny thanks very much yes britain's tourism a has met with key leaders ahead of an emergency summit in brussels on wednesday may held talks with french president to my will my call in paris of the meeting german chancellor angela merkel in berlin as she is committed to leaders to back her request to delay breaks it until june the thirtieth and within the last two hours u.k. parliament voted to support her extension but without the approval of the european union u.k. will crash out of the block on friday well let's take it on to our correspondent but it's with is following developments from outside the british parliament will speak to him in just about the first let's get more from natasha but he's been following events in paris natasha trees may be looking to rally a europe's two most powerful leaders. indeed and she spent just over an hour with the french president in model marco the elisei palace trying to persuade him to support terror quest for an extension of our school fifty and delay

breaks it once again and of course it wasn't ever going to be easy for her because the french president has been one of the e.u. leaders has taken a particularly hard line when it comes to the briggs it process he's made it clear in front again that for treason made to be granted an extension she has to come up with a justifiable credible plan for brakes it were to allow you need just to feel that in a way she deserves an extension model might call even thought by some to perhaps try and block her requests well we now know from elisei sources that that would be the case because the french president is now said to be open to an extension he just doesn't want a more one he doesn't want this process to drag on any longer than it needs to and there must be some conditions too he says he wants the u.k. as long as the u.k. stays in the european union he wants there to be checks and balances on the u.k.'s behavior for will to make sure the person doesn't disrupt your business any further

or attention thanks very much indeed let's get the picture now from london from westminster bernard smith stymied by ben it was really happening. the labor party the conservative party are continuing to talk to see if they can reach a compromise on the brakes a deal that regime talks on thursday will be a pause while series in may is in brussels on wednesday but the labor party said this evening that they've yet to see a clear shift in the government's position a shift that is needed to secure a compromise so while the tolls continue the labor party wants to reopen the political declaration this will determine the future relationship between the u.k. and europe after the period of the withdrawal period that's not happened they haven't they want to they want to lock on any agreement they reach to stop any future prime minister after to resume a changing any deal and they want to look at the pip possibility of a second referendum it doesn't seem the conservative party have come anyway close to what the labor party want but in

a sense as you just heard from the tasha the pressure is off in the immediate future of the labor and conservative parties because it looks like they're going to get this extension anyway so in the next couple of days they're not going to be forced to present something to the european union they will have more time to go away and think and see if they can come together on something you know for a better thanks very much for the better smith in westminster. relations with saudi arabia are also in the spotlight in britain human rights campaigners say there's overwhelming evidence that the u.k.'s billions of dollars worth of arms sales to the kingdom violates international humanitarian law now they're challenging the policy in court i mean bob reports from london. the war in yemen has unquestionably punished the civilian population beyond belief now a group of campaigning organizations is trying on appeal to prevent the british government from supplying weapons to a key player in the conflict i since the war started four years ago the u.k.'s

licensed around six point five billion dollars worth of arms sales to saudi arabia . as well as precision guided bombs and munitions it sold typhoon and tornado fighter jets made in supplied by british firm systems but most importantly it supplies personnel to maintain and to train saudi personnel to operate them and just last week the dispatches program interviewed form of being personnel he said that if if they weren't there in saudi arabia the air force were it stopped flying british planes within seven to fourteen days at the most in twenty seventeen the u.k. high court ruled the government could keep licensing arms sales to riyadh but last year after saudi journalist was murdered by saudi agents in the country's culture in istanbul germany suspended arms sales to saudi arabia it recently extended that ban and now campaigners say it's time for britain to take similar steps at the

heart of the case is the arms trade treaty which says the government cannot license arms sales if there's a clear risk the items involved might be used for a serious violation of international humanitarian law now in a written statement the u.k. government has told al-jazeera we remain confident that the u.k. operates one of the most robust export control regimes in the world and will continue to defend the decisions being challenged for the main group bringing the appeal the u.k. is simply ignoring the facts on the ground time and again we've heard from the save the regime that it supposedly taking every precaution to ensure it's not killing civilians and yet the bombings the funerals continue the bombings of weddings continue the bombing of school buses continue. we have seen should have been days of celebration turned into massacres we've seen family homes destroyed trouble and yet all the while the arm sales of continues as the deadly airstrikes continue in yemen and with millions facing desperate poverty largely because of the ongoing

fighting a win for the campaigners could create an important precedent. here a london russia's president has unveiled a plan to drastically increase shipping and infrastructure in the arctic region where we are putin told other arctic nations that russia would expand its icebreaker fleet and upgrade its northern ports and said cargo passing through the region would be four times greater by twenty twenty five there is growing competition in the arctic is melting icecaps present new opportunities to exploit its resources and expand shipping routes. via our foreign partners to join our work to create port hubs at the end points of the northern sea route i mean there are many transport and the ports infrastructure in picture part of cum chatzky. and surely considering the specifics of the article the profits for investors should and will be even more advanced. that's it from london to fully.

nic thank you very much for that egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi is in washington for talks on the challenges facing the middle east is in meeting president donald trump to discuss the conflicts in libya and syria along with the latest developments in israel and palestine. egypt's campaign against us and the strength of cairo's relationship with washington. a lot of progress has been made in a lot of different ways in terms of terrorism and other things with egypt and within egypt it's really incredible what's happened especially in certain respects that we've already talked about but we will be meeting with representatives of the president and of egypt in a little while again we have very very important things militarily to talk about and also about trade in the trading partner we do a lot of work together we work together and i think we've never had

a better relationship egypt and the united states that we do right now on the scene turn praised the strength of egypt's alliance with the united states for the are going to come to the east with i will all the credit goes to you mr president thank you very much for your support on all fronts that's what we're trying to promote our bilateral relations in various fields political economic military cultural and others are let's bring in one rabbani now who is the coeditor of an online magazine specializing on the contemporary middle east he is live from washington thank you for being with us once again this is the second visit to the white house since twenty fourteen just how important is this one for him. this is a very important visit for c.c. because he is now in the process of revising the egyptian constitution to extend his presidential term essentially continue as president for life and this visible

demonstration of american support is vital to his ability to do so he will be able to go back to cairo and say the americans are on board with my plans something that will be particularly valuable to him if he's questioned or a second guessed. sorry by others in the egyptian elite particularly in the armed forces and what do the americans what does this trump administration get out of this relationship with this alliance with egypt well they have a reliable client the most significant state in the arab world which is egypt and egypt of course is vitally important to the united states in a number of ways not only given that central location now given the developments in libya with general huffed of smarts tripoli which is being supported by egypt and its allies but also crucially in the arab israeli conflict where the trumpet

ministration and the netanyahu administration in israel has now gone from creeping to leaping out next station and the united states is now conferring formal recognition israeli acts of next station which may well extend to the west bank and i think it's fair to say that president sisi has been central to ensuring arab acquiescence in this mix so sinister so who needs the other the most in the relationship. i think the american egyptian relationship certainly since the one nine hundred seventy s. has always been essentially a patron client relationship with washington and the driver see and egypt on the one hand receiving support and favors but ultimately also doing washington's bidding so i think it's quite clear in this instance that it's stronger than the

united states in control of the american egyptian relationship having said that i think it's also important to point out that there has been a significant improvement in russian relations and a proposed russian arms sale to egypt is also going to be on the agenda during this visit and one last question before we let you go when rabbani rights groups are of course up in arms about this visit. to the white house hoping to raise age of human rights record as an issue to congress that they should take into account when you know officials meet sisi later realistically though what can the u.s. congress do when egypt's president has such a strong relationship with a top administration. as we've recently seen with respect to yemen the congress is capable of taking meaningful even if the white house is totally committed to a different course of action and at least theoretically it could do so in this case

as well the problem i think is despite growing outrage in the united states including among sections of american elites about egypt's atrocious human rights record there is bipartisan support for the key regional role that egypt plays in the middle east particularly in terms of maintaining and promoting greater arab normalization with israel so i think the chances that at least official washington is going to take position on these issues is rather slim for the moment thank you very much for your insight when rabbani joining us from washington thank you for your time. still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour. i'm nicholas hark at the tunisian libyan border find out next how libyans are now trying to leave their country as the fighting intensifies in tripoli. and in sport the defending champions of asian cup football snatch victory from the jaws of defeat if you don't

be here with distance. hello there there's quite a bit of cloud still of a policy of the middle east if we look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud work its way over parts of iraq towards iran as bringing us a few thunderstorms who are also noticing this huge area of cloud that's making its way through parts of afghanistan and up towards the north it is this one that's more active we see more wet weather out of this but even this one is beginning to ease as we head through wednesday or wednesday instead we'll see some shop showers every part of turkey the western parts will see some very lively downpours we'll also see some further towards the east as well and those will gradually filter into the northern parts of iraq as we head into thursday there's also a good deal of cloud over the arabian peninsula at the moment too and that still

sticking around for wednesday and thursday so there's still the risk of seeing a few showers some of them could turn out to be a little bit lively i think mostly for doha the biggest risk is for wednesday we head down towards a southern parts of africa are lots of showers here as well but generally stretching down into the eastern parts of south africa at the moment the latest batch just moving away from the coast but it looks like they'll be replenished as we head through the day on wednesday say wall showers are likely hair a few of them could even affect jo'burg towards the west it is generally a lot drier for us here cape time should be fine a maximum temperature of wednesday of around twenty three degrees. he came from a wealthy background in paris and became an artist against his family's wishes he went on to bring a fresh perspective to oriental painting falling in love with some harlem culture making jr his home and converting to islam. and just zero world tells the

story of lost to dean dean and his unique artistic work. the french oriental list and. egypt strongman is ruling with an unfair and the silence from his allies is deafening he's perfectly happy to trade off the march for city for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo on al-jazeera.

back to pull out a reminder of our top stories algeria has appointed. interim president. but protesters who demanded. they want a complete overhaul. protesters have been killed on the fourth day of a mass outside ami headquarters in the capital the progs in khartoum have been demanding the resignation of president omar al bashir and israel's prime minister benjamin. has cast his ballot in an election that will decide if he remains in power for a fifth term his main challenger benny gantz also voted. the country to embrace a new dawn after he cast his vote as talk more to the israeli

lection to our senior political analyst who is here with us on the news hour. we've talked with our correspondents of course about the polls and you know versus netanyahu way whether it means we're different whether things were different i want to focus with you on the palestinian issue historically the israeli palestinian conflict has been one of the most important issues in israeli elections the dividing line between left and right it doesn't seem to be the case in this election whoever wins whether it's guns or not it's now who what will change you think in terms of the palestinian issue and for palestinians it's actually very present but it's spec it's differently exactly expected in terms of security who can secure israel more as if israel is occupied by palestine and. if you remember in the beginning of the campaign the so-called more moderate meaning the three generals meaning benny gantz his campaign real was totally

surreal it was a real of death and destruction in gaza to prove to the israeli public that netanyahu might be mr security but he is the ultimate general he destroyed gaza and he uses such words in terms of how much damage he could have done to the palestinians in gaza in the two thousand and fourteen war so in so many ways this is about to machel men basically flexing their muscles about who's more forceful more violent more extreme towards the neighbors and i think netanyahu is trying to show here he is far more it illogically extreme and guns are starting to show that he is morse the bully powerful that can protect israelis from the posts and of course this this is what resonates i guess with with israeli vote is now when it comes to you know making peace with the palestinians who do the palestinian

stand a better chance with i mean. let me just try to again underline few of the words here for example say palestinian israeli conflict israel is a young state's seventy one years old fifty one of those seventy one years is are and was in total control of all of the palestinians within palestine so in fact all the palestinians within palestine live under israeli control for most of israel's history today israeli israeli jews in hebron would vote and there is about fifteen hundred of them two hundred thousand palestinians in his brawn would not vote. so what does that tell you sutlers in occupied palestine vote for the israeli elections by the stimulus who are basically controlled by the

israeli government and its occupation cannot vote so it's really it has it has stopped being a conflict a long time ago it's more of a state of occupation. the separate but not equal is or it controls everything the palestinians live within their own communities under the control of israel does so in a sense israelis have a right to vote but the scene is don't have the vote within that one reality as well as those who had the right to vote some of them anyway want to boycott the election among the palestinians among the palestinians exactly absolutely because what is that going to achieve not much actually because. to vote or not the vote is not really much of a struggle in the end of the day a lot of the people vote or order to present themselves to the knesset because it is and is a city for the palestinians to. you know have their demands voiced in the israeli parliament but yes i think increasingly you will see probably more and more you

know what we're not playing this game this is an up or tape parliament and we don't want to have any part to do it but so the idea is that today between guns and and and the benjamin netanyahu according to the palestinians it's a choice between being hung to death and being shot to death so where does this all then leave you know the so-called deal of the century that we've been hearing about for such a long time now from the trump administration trying to find a solution to this i mean if it's now says a fifth ten what happens i think clearly. from a bus the palestinian leaders. hope peace will come out of this election but you know this gun the thing is really going too far but being as it be that as it may i think he just hopes that the guns will win because guns would talk to a bus again unlike and you know basically hasn't talked to our bus for years he

would negotiate with the palestinians negotiate a deal it will not have a palestinian sovereign state it will not have withdrawal from the sutler's the settlements it will not have is jerusalem become a person said but he wants talk to the palestinians about a final deal that they're now on the other hand is betting on the administration basically confiscating the entire history of the peace process all the e.u. and security council resolutions all international law for a real estate deal so instead of not talking about a state we're talking about a real estate deal and real estate the apparently is going to be in gaza and if they're going to be any state whatsoever it's going to be a guy as a state with parts of sinai egyptian sinai and maybe that's what i did for the has c.c. and present them are discussing today because we're expecting the date of the century to be apparently announced on may fourteenth right israel independence day or what

the palestinian call disaster. will be our sorry will arab countries. you know if egypt is talking to trump about this. will arab countries accept this those who have fought for the palestinian cause all these is you know the spite of everything that happened over the last ten years until today the absolute majority of the arab voter street people are completely against everything is going on and they are completely against israeli occupation and hostile other believers. in contrast are slowly but surely buying into the trump deal because of the pressure in the end of the day this is a pax americana as trump would hope it to be america does play the hedge a man in the middle east region it does have sort of control over some of the dictators who are dependent on the united states as your earlier guests specified but as the c.c.

is the pendant on trump. crown prince is dependent on sol so forth so last might play the deal but i don't think they can go too far because in that they what is being proposed is so surreal is so i would say allow me stupid that i don't think as president our best said it will never go down it will never be accepted thank you very much for your insight myron bashar a senior political analyst in libya now forces loyal to warlord holly for have time have carried out another as strike this time targeting the disused airport on the southern outskirts of tripoli and other s. strike hit the operational airport in another part of the capital on monday fighting continues between have times fighters any u.n. backs governments forces despite an appeal to stop by the united nations now are many libyans in tripoli are trapped by the fighting others a crossing the border into tunisia there is nicolas hack reports from zara say with any tunisian libyan border. seif but still terrified.

we dare suffered a stroke when the gunfire began and the mortars and airstrikes began falling in tripoli. her sister got her out they traveled three hundred kilometers to the nearest functioning hospital here in tunisia. i mean pain i'm heartbroken for my country and seeing my people ripping themselves apart. the u.n. has called for a truce to let others escape tripoli the main route leads to tunisia where security forces are on high alert this behind me is the road that leads to libya now security forces were not allow us to film any further they say as a precautionary measure because just a few days ago general tried to take control of this road from the libyan side but failed this is a strategic importance not just for the libyans but also for tunisia. tunisian

security forces tell al jazeera they've counted to five hundred libyan vehicles crossing the border in rest year since warlord khalifa haftar began his offensive. it's not just civilians leaving members from rival groups have come for medical treatment sometimes sharing the same doctors in the same ward you know to become more and more to they like medicine they like health care workers they like blood banks they're in shortage of pretty much everything so they come here for help. the unfolding crisis in libya has brought an unexpected increase in trade for some tunisian businesses many here have opened their doors their country could become a lifeline to many more libyans if the conflict worsens nicholas hong al jazeera and the tunisian libyan border. the u.s. attorney general has told congress he will release every day active version of the

miller report within a week william barr is being pressured to publish a full report into russian interference in the election of president donald trump says some of the information will be blacked out because it seemed to be too sensitive was in jordan has more from capitol hill in washington. the u.s. attorney general william barr got to talk about the reason why he was called before a house appropriations subcommittee on tuesday the budget for the u.s. justice department which he has but mr barr also got a lot of questions mainly from congressional democrats about the moeller report a report that is said to be more than four hundred pages long but of which mr barr wrote a four page summary and turned over to called words soon after march twenty fourth well mr barr had then had to explain to members of the subcommittee including its chair jose serrano just how it was he put together this four page summary and how

he got input or didn't get it mr miller's team did not play a role in drafting that document although we offered him the opportunity to review it before we sent it out and he declined that i would work diligently to make as much information public as i could in available to congress has i could you will recognize that i'm operating under regulation that. was put together during the clinton administration and does not provide for the publication of the report but i am relying on my own discretion to make as much a public as i can mr barr said that he is on track to make public a version of the mobile report by the middle of april that's in the next week but he also said that he has to make certain that he is holding back or redacting information that either goes to criminal investigations or perhaps could reveal

intelligence sources and methods one thing that he did not confirm is whether or not he would be looking at using executive privilege the president's right to keep communications private when it comes to releasing the report mr barr said that he believes in transparency but there were some on this congressional panel that indicated they didn't exactly believe him. iraq's prime minister has won the u.s. decision to label iran's every elite revolutionary guards a terrorist organization could have negative consequences for the region this fall is a strong condemnation from iran's president hassan rouhani calling donald trump's unprecedented move a mistake and he warned that his country could develop more advanced nuclear technology if washington continues to exert pressure. in hong kong pro-democracy campaign is behind more than two months of mass protests or facing up to seven years in jail they have been found guilty for their role in protests by hundreds of thousands of

people demanding open elections for the city's leadership reports from hong kong. the nine pro-democracy laden's lefcourt defiant despite being found guilty for their role in the umbrella movement protests in two thousand and fourteen. before the verdict was delivered they issued a message to the people of hong kong part unless we persist there will be no future because of ocracy i think that's why we need to persist and get a flight out there what will happen in bright future democracy an hour later the court found the nine pro-democracy leaders guilty of inciting public nuisance they included a law professor and retired scola who founded a similar protest group called the occupy movement led the pro-democracy protests in twenty four to name calling for hong kong's chief executive to be elected by popular vote instead of being appointed by chinese government leaders in beijing the judge rejected the occupy lady's argument that the protest was an appropriate

exercise of free speech instead judge johnny chan found that they impinged unreasonably on the rights of others when hundreds of thousands of people came out the main roads in central hong kong a blocked for more than two months this verdict is more bad news for the pro-democracy movement critics say the leaders in beijing a tightening a control over the semi autonomous city and similarities tonight in china now becoming forbidden here in hong kong the verdicts have been condemned by democracy activists human rights groups and politicians in the united states and britain it is worsening we have to admit physical safety is not yet an issue but in freezing prostitution. activists and talk to. but they.

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tempus ali thank you very much we're just a few minutes away from kick off in the champions league quarter finals symmachus the nighters liverpool play porter and manchester city visit tottenham hotspur so he will be playing the first ever champions league match taking place at

tottenham's new stadium have guardiola as men are chasing a quadruple having already won the english league cup spurs will take courage knowing that city were eliminated from the champions league at this very stage last year. we know exactly where you are going to to face is in our hand how we have to handle it if you want to make a step forward as a club as a team we have know to handle the situations if you don't because we are not prepared to purport to go through last year's finalists liverpool welcome have seen porter to anfield in the other match the reds defeated porto five no in the champions league last year before going on to beat city but not taking anything for granted despite being on a great run of domestic form beyond five euros that's how it is in training you can see it we are reading again and a good moment about other teams as well so we all play for a lot and we will see tomorrow night pardew really wants to go through and.

good so it will be a tough one but that's all how it should be. holders of the asian champions league trophy scored two goals in stoppage time to go top of the group the japanese team went from two hundred three two up right at the end of their match in youngman south korea on your journey of a man who ended the verse move with a half early pass to keep them suit ashima two points clear groupie. former u.s. women's football player hope solo told al jazeera that she was fired for fighting gender discrimination u.s. soccer terminated her contract after what they described as a number of off field incidents so learned former teammates have since fall the swimming nation lawsuits against the governing body because in my faith for equal pay when i played in twenty sixteen in the olympics i got fired my voice was the strongest my voice is the loudest now this cared all of the players that used me as

an example that they could remove the loudest voice and that the fight would be over played on the u.s. soccer federation for close to two decades and they'd never let it go to that with us they taught us how much money they were going to give us and that was the end of it people our will not give up power if you have to eat it. today the referendum is underway in france. they'd be happy to see a foreign coach take charge of the national team david the story. these amateur rugby players in paris can only dream of representing their country but they will have a big say in how the national team is coached after a string of dismal performances in the six nations championship french rugby chief bernard laporte wants to do something they've never done before hire a foreign coach but he's decided to put it up for a vote a rugby referendum across all amateur teams in the country asking them simply do

they want a foreigner in charge. i don't care if the coach is french your foreign we need a coach who is capable of developing the team we need the right coach who can bring back the values of b. and make people want to come back and watch again because it's losing its way. it's not for britain to have a foreign coach it would be a first i think the problem with the team is the players not with a coach hiring foreign coach is nothing new in world rugby currently four of the six northern hemisphere teams are coached by foreigners the wales boss warren gatland a new zealander is said to be in the ports preferred choice if the referendum goes his way but there has been some high profile opposition the former fronts captain fabien pollute was quick to condemn the idea saying once again we will try to copy others instead of being proud of who we are not everyone shares that view that furring coach will be able to. and we start from scratch

that's the idea of somebody able to start from scratch foreign coach or not it's clear that something needs to change it's been nearly a decade since france won the six nations and laporte is determined to have a strong team in place for the twenty twenty three world cup which is in france. for now though the future of french rugby is in the hands of the amateurs voting will last for two days and the result is set to be announced on friday david stokes al-jazeera. president trump has cancelled an agreement with cuba to allow its baseball players to sign for major league teams in the u.s. without defecting from their homeland the deal negotiated under former president obama would have allowed a number of players to compete in the melby and bring their families to the u.s. return to cuba in the off season the white house has now declared the deal illegal . you know we have an opportunity i think it was an opportunity to continue to see

talent to the major league with this a breaking of the agreement it sets us back like in other areas because of the blockade i think there's a lot of talent to call but that will never be because of this decision problem that it's dashed many hopes for those guys who aspire to who want to play for money to be economically free donald trump is cut off that path staying with the major leagues life isn't so great for the baltimore orioles one hundred sixty one million dollars slugger chris davis he said a major league record of forty nine consecutive acrobats without a hit bear in mind they're still worse in more than one hundred years he led the league in home runs in twenty thirteen and twenty fifteen so will be hoping across his permanent form just to do it. most more for me again in the twenty one hundred g.m.t. that's often our folly period thank you very much that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from me fully back to the whole team thanks for watching stay with us next up special coverage of these re-election next an artiste.

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israelis votes in a historic poll which will decide whether benjamin netanyahu returns for a fifth term in office. and i mean this is al jazeera life from london also coming up. in algeria after a member of the former presidents in this call is appointed interim leader. and seven protest as they killed in major demonstrations calling for president alba she had to resign. and the u.k. prime minister's seat say you.