interesting to see whether that will be an advantage for this government whether. supporters will see that as affirmation that prime minister morty is the man who can deal with pakistan all right listen. to our pradesh thank you claim our head in the news hour including the u.n. makes another appeal to prevent a bloody battle for tripoli. to dance president under pressure as protesters call for him to step down. and formula one gets ready to celebrate a milestone details coming out and for. president nicolas maduro says he's reached a deal with the red cross to bring humanitarian aid into the country made the comments during a televised address in which he also accused u.s. vice president mike pence of racism and what he called tremendous hatred and

demanded that the u.n. recognize opposition leader as interim president during a speech at the united nations security council. going to the vice president of the united states mike pence was make himself ridiculous to the security council of the united nations if you can understand it is our going to cities races supremacy they believe me as superior to us they believe they give orders to venezuela to go. they believe they are the empire that gives orders that governs the takes that gives no mr pence and venezuela you should know the president of the republic is not put here by you or donald trump i can has more on the u.n. meeting on venezuela. proceedings delayed while waiting for the us vice president to arrive with no u.s. permanent representative yet appointed mike pence is sent to make president trump's case and he demands that the u.n. recognize one kaleido as the legitimate leader of an as well or at the current term

best suited to the un be expelled with all due respect mr ambassador you shouldn't be here you should return to venezuela. and tell nicolas maduro that his time is up it's time for him to go but some others in the council insist on best that some will among carder should stay and accuse the us soft plotting illegal regime change should not see the new policy to issue an inventor israel is not a threat to international peace and security however external players are a direct threat to the peace and security in venezuela itself we just heard that today while discussions in the security council continued the us vice president pressed his point to the media outside saying the us will seek a resolution to formally withdraw the accreditation of the material government a resolution that may well have to be decided in the general assembly mike hanna al

jazeera united nations speak till gunson on skype in caracas is a senior analyst at the and his region at international crisis group thank you very much for your time so when it comes to the u.n. when it comes to security council all we say that the u.s. carries a lot of weight but they're still not getting their agenda accomplished in the u.n. why is that. well i think the venezuelan government feels very comfortable on the whole when the u.s. and its allies take venezuela to the u.n. for whether it's the security council is the general assembly if they feel that they have more support their particular than they do in in regional organizations like the oas which just yesterday voted to switch from recognizing mr daughters representative to record recognizing mr why those representatives the venezuelan government. and thus of the mancow is saying today they feels that this

is really an imperialist plot to overthrow but do it oh and that the u.n. is a good stage on which to demonstrate that that's in fact what's happening so why does the u.s. keep going this route to accomplish what it is that it seems they're trying to accomplish. it's a good question i don't think there's an easy answer to that it seems from where i'm sitting that possibly be the main reason maybe that the u.n. is a good platform in the sense that it you know when when mike pence goes to the security council makes a speech obviously it makes a lot of noise and it makes the news wait and it puts the venezuelan situation in high up the agenda where clearly the united states wants it to be of mean this week we've got not only mike pence of the security council we've got. a i believe is going the secretary of state is going to colombia we've got elliott abrams who's the special representative on that as well and he's going to be in in spain and portugal so this is something that the trumpet ministration apparently is putting

a lot of weight on and are the sanctions putting any pressure on nicholas when are they working at all. well this is a country in very very deep economic problems inflation measured around a million percent a year at the moment people don't have enough to eat there's a huge exodus millions of people have already fled the country and pretty soon by all accounts is going to be rivaling the syrian exodus in terms of sheer volume and it's even faster in terms of the rate of people leaving so there's an already and existing crisis. is coming on top of the they've not completely and we're not seeing the complete effects of those yet but when they do hit we're likely to be in even deeper trouble is likely to be very very serious fuel shortages for example already struggling economy is likely to reach what can only describe as collapse i

mean say that while i don't know is popular in venezuela but not necessarily with the opposition as a whole can you know i said that right can you explain what you mean by that what i mean is that mr white though is very popular personally in fact he has popularity levels in the opinion polls which rival those of the late president chavez when he was in power but the popularity of quite though isn't necessarily reflect or it isn't in fact reflected at all in the popularity of the opposition as a whole so you can see the window is a very key asset to the opposition if he were to be detained if he were to have to leave the country if he some way one way or another was out of action then the opposition would suffer a very severe blow and that and that makes them very vulnerable ok. and we appreciate your insight on this thank you very much. thank you the u.n.

chief is calling for a cease fire in libya to avoid what he calls a bloody battle for tripoli the security council held an emergency meeting on the situation as fighting there intensifies dozens of people have been killed in recent days that includes at least thirty fighters loyal to warlord tarr whose forces are trying to take the capital tripoli from the un backed government the united nations says at least four thousand people have been displaced and many more are trapped but it's still time to stop it still stime for a cease fire to take place for a suspicion of will still be to use to take place and to avoid the worst which would be a dramatic bloody battle for tripoli and it's still time to recognize there is no military solution only political solutions going apply to situations like the one in libya. tell ahead has more from tripoli. the situation is still

a very tense in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli following get yesterday's clashes between forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar and others loyal to the end of baghdad police based government of national accord have to us forces manager to open and you'll front in the southern eastern outskirts of tripoli namely in a neighborhood old call that aims are and eyewitnesses that say that hundreds of families would leaving the area because of the clashes and meanwhile the government of national accord accuses have the forces of targeting civilian areas with heavy with heavy weapons or random shelling have random shootings have been landing in civilian areas and also have air force has been targeting get the government to force locations in the outskirts of the libyan capital meanwhile the government of national poll says that its air force has conducted civil air strikes targeting

have to forces locations around the city of again around one hundred kilometers to the to the south from the libyan capital tripoli government sources say that they have been recaptured sixteen. fighters and also military vehicles the situation remains very tense and it seems that despite the fact that civil international institutions have been calling for called including the united nations and the european union but it seems that need that one of the evil factions on the ground is listening to the international calls but generally speaking this situation is collation it seems to be dealing with the peace talks need their general national conference which was due to be held on the fourteenth of this month in the city of adama's sudan's president as under increasing pressure as. western nations are calling for

a serious response to protesters demand for political change on tuesday protesters held a fifth straight day of a sit in outside the army headquarters that continued into the night stands information minister says eleven people were killed during a security incidents in the capitol hill mohammad reports. determined to make their voices heard sudanese protesters continue to come out in their numbers chanting outside army headquarters in the capital khartoum for another day one of the us dollar being under this president we have been displaced because of him they do to us as they please we ask for the killer to be ousted. but on monday and tuesday security force personnel opened fire on demonstrators staging a sit in. some soldiers intervened and others expressed their support for the demonstrators. and this is a message to our colleagues in the armed forces that people here are brothers and

have a right to speak their minds these are mid ranking offices power still lies with the higher level of command despite some saluting the army and calling for them to part ways with the government a spokesman for the military says the armed forces and security forces remain united the mold i hope but i mean what 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 very well prepared plan has helped us to control the situation in a peaceful way. opposition leaders say they're seeking talks with the army to plan a transitional administration and they now have the backing of the u.s. u.k. and no way the three countries said in a joint statement sunni's authorities must now respond and deliver a credible plan for this political transition but some activists believe more needs to be done. he's somebody who committed the genocide in darfur everybody knows the

military does not need to you know shit that i'm ever here so to actually just try to have a negotiation or a settlement is not enough there has to be a strong statement where change happened and das to be a way for him to leave power omar al bashir has not commented on the past few days of protest but state t.v. showed pictures of him chairing a meeting of the country's supreme commission for national dialogue. the anti-government protests started last december fueled by food shortages and rising prices human rights watch says more than fifty people have been killed in violence since that photograph out of wadi in february a state of emergency was brought in but it's fails to contain these protests the biggest challenge yet for all the shares a thirty year rule. as to don appears to be heading to a political breaking point protesters say they'll continue to take to the streets until the demands are met. mohammed al jazeera. still ahead

on al-jazeera a former president's party stages a comeback in the democratic republic of congo and supporters of the current president are not pleased. i never believed that this black hole was as big of people said until resolved. that the world's first images of a black hole scientists and their one of the mysteries of outer space and a huge test awaits arsenal in the quarterfinals of their openly are will have all the details in sport. and i bet the clouds are gathering once more were over parts of southeastern china for to. look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds at first it just in the

north drifting their way towards the east but then a few bright white areas of cloud begin to develop to the south of that and this is the area we've got to watch over the next few days that really gets going and then we see some very heavy downpours that day and on friday the whole thing is moving southward so so on friday it will be the growing she area and the growing dome province where we see the worst of the wet weather really does look very wet here i mean for the towards the south and the some sunshine for most of us in the southeastern parts of asia but also some sharp showers around some particularly heavy ones have been there over the southern half of the philippines but we're also seeing plenty of oppose borneo through java and into so much up from the north west impossible so i want to show is here particularly i suppose of thailand and as we stretching through cambodia and into pose a vietnam for friday as well will two of us likely to see a few showers here there's also some showers if it was the northwest as well if we look at the satellite picture we can see them making their way across parts of bangladesh when those ones ease i think we'll just see more developing particularly

late tone during the day so at first it shouldn't be too bad for the eastern part straw yet halts yes but the showers though pop up late on thursday and late on friday to. weather sponsored by cats only. as protests over welfare cuts exploded nicaragua's phone trying government launched a brutal clampdown. now after a year of deaths detentions and political suppression crisis negotiations are underway. but could the dark days of civil war still retire. people in power investigates a frontline nicaragua on al-jazeera. and monday put it on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to form

a dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered for even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the you're. watching out a cereal a take out the top stories for you now make a prime minister has accepted the e.u. offer to extend the exit to october thirty first a block away view progress on the deal in june three some a was taking an extension till june thirtieth and an emergency meeting and brussels also opened in the first phase of in just general elections by mr modi is seeking a second term voting

a staggered over seven days to allow india's nine hundred million registered voters to cast their ballots and as well as president nicolas. has called us vice president mike pence a racist supremacy labor comments after pence called on the u.n. security council to officially recognize opposition leader want president. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu except for a fifth term after his main rival conceded defeat in the general election this despite benny gantz winning as many seats as her foster reports and lustrous on netanyahu is expected to get the support of smaller right wing parties to form a coalition government. just hours after claiming victory came a different tone from the man now likely to become the leader of israel's opposition. given the size of the blocks this is the reality the fight isn't over the dialogues continue to mean. that they brought only growing certainty that the former army chiefs project to unseat israel's prime minister had failed i believe

b.b. king bibi had been a chance in the early hours of wednesday and once again benjamin netanyahu backed up his boast that there really is no one like him in israeli politics. very moved that the people of israel put their trust in me again for the fifth time a greater trust even he managed to take enough votes from right wing rivals to gain seats for his likud party without undermining support for his preferred coalition partners personally as well as politically the stakes have never been higher i think the main purpose of these elections are was to get a majority in the parliament in the knesset that will enable aim to make legislation that will give him immunity and protect the. charges that he is going criminal charges it's going to face a few months israel's attorney general is due to hold hearings for netanyahu and his lawyers where they can challenge his intention to indict the prime minister in

three separate corruption cases it's considered likely however that charges will be brought one of the key questions now is exactly what kind of a price this. smaller far right parties might try to extract from netanyahu in return for their support especially if they're expected to go to the wire for him to help him defend against the corruption cases he faces and it's a price that could end up costing the palestinians more than anyone in the final days of the campaign netanyahu endorse the annexation of all israeli settlements in the occupied west bank palestinian politicians fear it's more than an election ploy rather a consequential political shift just weeks ahead of the planned publication of the trumpet ministrations peace plan i think the whole goals of the game are changing because now it's clearly so that imposing greater is on all of historical palestine . and therefore they have totally cancelled any agreements they have not left side their two state solution they have totally gated that requirements of peace they

have totally violated international law and so on so now we in the in the hole in your strategy to deal with this. netanyahu stands to make history twice over within months becoming israel's longest serving prime minister and potentially exposed to serve the stain of indictment for all his opponents talk of its being time for change enough israelis have decided that what they really want is more of the same very force it out west jerusalem as president donald trump has congratulated the israeli prime minister on the election result. the fact that the pentagon i think will see some pretty good action germs a piece not everyone said and i never made a promise. but everybody said you can't have peace in the middle east with israel and the palestinians i think we have it and i think we have now a better chance with bibi having one. now who have established

a close relationship israeli leader made that a centerpiece of his campaign and in the process israel's become an increasingly partisan issue and u.s. politics let's bring in waxman in boston. massachusetts he's a professor at northeastern university and author of the book the israeli palestinian conflict what everyone needs to know thank you so much for your time so how much of a factor was donald trump in helping and benjamin netanyahu win this election well president tom so he did everything he could do to help farmers and it's in yahoo and going back to his declaration regarding jerusalem and then more recently his recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan heights i don't think these were the decisive fact is though even in just yahoo's reelection i think really. what really i'm to school this was the fact that most of his supporters despite the looming indictments against him continue to stand by him and they already knew that president trump was this was

a close friend of netanyahu that just you know he has good relationships with many world leaders so i don't think any of the kind of interventions by president charm really tipped the balance and that to me all he's played with and a real lesson in the embrace of donald trump it was we literally just saw there but i meant bigger it's literally the ember and the embrace of donald trump of benjamin netanyahu in and mentioning it now his policies and things like that what effect do you see that having on politics in the u.s. . well i think we've already seen how the kind of bromance if you like between trump and netanyahu. has really increasingly alienated many liberal democrats and has turned the issue of israel and u.s. policy toward israel into a into a part of that issue and what we're seeing happen in the united states is growing polarization between the more liberal democrats in the base of the democratic party

and liberals generally in the united states and republicans republicans more really love netanyahu and obviously strong supporters of the relationship between trump and netanyahu whereas democrats have become really not only critical of trump but also of netanyahu personally and i think that's going to increase the netanyahu coming back into office so the partisan divide that's already been growing in recent years is likely to widen still further so is that something in that backfiring on netanyahu the fact that this is becoming such a partisan issue in the u.s. . i don't think it will backfire not netanyahu himself but it will certainly backfire on israel ultimately the u.s. israeli relationship doesn't rest simply upon the close relations between its leaders the u.s. israeli relationship the insurance the resilience of that relationship rests in part on strong bipartisan support for israel and the fact that historically

democrats and republicans have been very supportive bizzaro if that bipartisan support loads as is happening then that will ultimately weaken the foundations of the u.s. israeli relationship similarly if american jews become increasingly disaffected with israel and increasing the alienated and critical of israel as it's already been happening and i think will continue to happen now that will also be a further weaken of the us israeli relationship and it israel continues down this path of illiberal democracy particularly if israel under netanyahu decides that addicks parts of the west bank then that will really call into question the extent to which the united states and israel shares common values in the belief that these two countries share common values that you democracies is also something that's underpin the u.s. is ready relationship so ultimately i think. netanyahu coming into office again even though in the short term that's going to result in a close relationship between the trunk with the trumpet ministration in the long

run i think it's going to erode some of the important foundations of the u.s. is ready to sustain the palestinians. well as the report you just mentioned and particularly his comment i think the palestinians are really in a major political crisis here i mean there were obviously waiting for the potential release of the trumpet ministrations peace plan that's certainly going to be not satisfactory to the palestinians they're going to reject that that's probably going to lead if it if they indeed the path is ever released that will lead to even more pressure from the trumpet ministration on the palestinians and possibly pressure from various states in the region on the palestinians the palestinians are really going to find themselves in a tight spot and more broadly the palestinian strategy historically at least since the beginning of the of the oslo peace process has been to hope that the united

states would pressure israel would use its leverage to pressure israel to make concessions at the negotiating table if on the other hand the united states wants the trumpet ministration is in lockstep with his and if the united states supports israeli moves to addicks parts of the west bank then i think that's going to require a fundamental rethinking of palestinian strategy and what the palace and even palestinian aims are they still going to seek a two state solution or will the palestinians shift away from demanding a two state solution and instead demand equal rights within a one state. and i appreciate your expertise very much australia's prime minister has called a general election on may eighteenth scott morrison is seeking a third term for his conservative coalition he's been in office since august and is the third prime minister to lead a government divided over issues and leading climate change energy policy has played a role in australia's last six changes of prime minister. believe the smalling

i visited the governor general here in canberra and he accepted my boss for an election to be held on the saint of my. we live in the base country in the world but to secure your future the road ahead depends on a strong economy. and that's why there is side much at stake at this election. it's going to enter thomas's life rest now and tell us more about what the main issues are driving this. woman liability for scott morrison you saw there and his governing coalition is political instability within his own party it was in twenty thirty just over five years ago that that governing bloc first got elected and since then they've had three different prime ministers first tony abbott they mouth and tumble i'm out scott morrison on that spain because consistently they seem to have been behind in the polls so late but the

opposition here will make a lot of the fact that if i can't decide who should run their own party and run the government as prime minister how can they run the country to govern of course i want to talk about that well let's talk primarily about the economy now it's been stalling by global standards for the last few years but in the last six months nine months or so it's really taken a knock because house prices here tumbling and it's a real fear that that could feed into the broader economy and the recession could be on its way the government is saying if you let labor in and they're promising high spending the government says high attacks as well then you risk recession here labor for their part will they want to talk about climate change they don't think that the government has got a credible climate change policy and i think young people here a particular care about that enough to throw the current government out the government though also has a scare campaign of their own will so the opposition would describe it they say that if labor with a gets in refugees would stop flooding to australia they were coming in large numbers tens of thousands by boat back in twenty four to fourteen the government

brought in very tough policies sending refugees who came by boat to offshore islands in other countries remote tropical islands and that has for all its control the seas stop boats of refugees coming the government says if labor comes in they'll loosen those policies might and refugees will start flooding back in so those are the main issues politicos debility the economy climate change and refugees and your house all that's going to play out. very hard to say because the opinion polls suggest that a labor of position will win this election the opinion polls have said that consistently for the last almost three years that's one reason indeed that there's been so much change of leadership i mean change the prime minister the government didn't think it would win the election they want to leave that they think can win it they are still behind in the polls with the polls all narrowing and just a reference we've just had a state selection in the state of new south wales which include sydney last month the labor opposition was expected to win that election didn't the governing rights of sense of party here in this state one pulling

a rabbit out of the heart of your life and winning at the last moment there is also a bit of a maverick element to australian politics which is everybody has to vote to vote saying it's compulsory you get fined if you don't vote in theory what that means is that elections decided in the middle ground you can't win an election by getting out your bites by appealing to the extremes the party you have to appeal so that middle ground in practice though what it often means is the elections here decided by the sorts of people who don't bother voting in elections for example in the us people who are the least interested in politics and that bloc can get swayed the last moment by something that comes up in the campaign that captures their attention either way so just a few weeks of campaigning still to play full on the fifth theory labor will win the government may just sneak it under thomas. thank you. leader kim jong un says his country must steel a serious blow to those and posing sanctions by building

a self-reliant economy as comments came as the south korean leader arrived in washington to try to revive talks on the north's nuclear weapons robin pride reports from seoul. the south koreans have managed to break the deadlock with their neighbors before but after the failed summit in the vietnamese capital hanoi in february when the u.s. appeared suddenly to change its demands at the negotiating table this is a different kind of obstacle the administration supposedly reportedly has demanded that north korea abandon everything in a one shot big deal but just structurally that's impossible or this is a sort of estimated donald trump because in hanoi he gave us short himself to be tough. maybe excessively tough i would say you know south korean president moon j.n. prepares to meet the u.s.

president north korea's newly elected cream people's assembly is gathering in pyongyang it could indorse leader kim jong un's new path of economic development instead of miss the nuclear testing but to do that he needs at least partial lifting of economic sanctions which he'd hoped to get at the hanoi summit now president moon is likely to push the u.s. administration for some sanctions relief but he might be disappointed. there ocracy ease there in the aged by the hard liners. and the belief that i just beginning to bite and they might be right so for now we could be left in the same diplomatic limbo people occasionally get their hopes up expecting some huge breakthrough because we have to try to do that but until we see some indications of

change in ideology world view perceptions national interests of the stakeholders in the region will be stuck here for a while but as long as their arms missiles being launched or warlike threats being made many in northeast asia will settle for that rob mcbride al jazeera so coalition of the former leader of the democratic republic of congo joseph kabila scored a landslide victory in the country's election for governor angry supporters of newly elected president took to the streets protesting and when. reports. another election in the democratic republic of congo provisional governments are chosen by parliamentarians. and after what was a tense process former president joseph kabila square listen common front for congo and the day it bad or but one province just taken by president felix she secured his ruling union for democracy and saw.