thank you for joining as shelling in libya's capital has killed at least five people as find his loyal to warlord tiny for half top push on with their offensive to take over the city forces that backed the un recognized government in tripoli have accused have tossed so-called libyan national army of firing rockets into residential areas by the l.n. a says it had nothing to do with the shelling. the we know that the battle is very large and we also know that the battle is decisive and therefore we take all the measures to accomplish this successfully second we have taken all the measures to protect lives and civilians as well as public and private property meanwhile an incident at the libyan border with tunisia is raising more questions about the involvement of foreign countries in the conflicts it happened on sunday when several people said to be carrying french diplomatic passports attempted to cross

into libya tunisia as defense minister said in a statement an armed group of thirteen french nationals tried on sunday to cross the land border and a diplomatic cover with four wheel drive vehicles to their roster dear border crossing while the french embassy in tunisia says that the group were members of the team that provides security protection to the french ambassador in libya well let's bring in our hearts now he is a military analyst joins us live from beirut thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera so many countries of course playing an influential role in libya's a conflict and it's no secret i think that france has been backing the wall a tiny for half top but what do you think the so-called armed french diplomats would be doing in libya right now and what kind of support would they be providing . i think the assault of a general khalifa haftar on tripoli is not isolated from his visit to egypt and

from the meeting yesterday between king solomon and his competence with a crown prince of sort of emirates bin zayid and a. month ago the u. and backed government in tripoli called the. french ambassador and protested the interference of france and the current conflict of course the french deny that but now that the entrance of the about four wheel drive full of people who are people from tunisia libya raise questions about their possible mission inside libya may be for kind of command and control for some other forces maybe local maybe not but. as i said that

this. is not alone it should be. supported by other forces right to what extent do you think the involvement of these foreign countries whether it's egypt or france that are backing the have time to what extent do you think it's worsening the situation in libya. yes shelling tripoli. is worsening the situation and killing civilians and i mean the shelling. of tripoli as well. the move this civil war will be revived start of from a new beginning here on the wall those of tripoli. cities that opposed to. i don't think that. by force

they will. this this conflict of this national dispute instead of the two of the. that was the plan of mr sansa let me tell you and envoy right now they are replacing the they are forced by . the dialogue by military forces which will come up recedes do you do you think think general that. five times the advance his offensive on tripoli is going as planned i mean until now they had mostly are targeted open spaces but now we are in a city a populated city we're looking at urban warfare is is his plan on tripoli to march on tripoli going as planned and how difficult a conflict is it going to be once you know it blows up. more than

ten ten days ago general fay for half the surprisingly at back. three poorly he could achieve more by using the surprise but now the surprise has ended when mr assad of the people i'm a slot on. the readiness of for of all forces in order to confront. which means that the factor of surprise has ended and now. and war of attrition their war of. military positions against each other further more of the logistic support for mr phillips i have very difficult because of the logistics bases and been in gaza more than one thousand kilometers far and. so far we didn't see the main battle tanks maybe a little the the men their men weapons of this assault are four wheel drive with

machine guns fourteen point five millimeter or twelve point seven millimeters i don't think that this can. win the battle is it by this kind of weapons no artillery so far no made but there's tanks and the air raids are very limited from both sides ok thank you so much for speaking to us and thank you for your insights our hot as a retired military general joining us a line from beirut. in other world news indonesians have voted in elections to choose a president and members of parliament djoko we don't all fighting a challenge from former army general. fighting a force a challenge and thomas or for some jakarta. on a south jakarta basketball court people took part in the world's biggest one day acts of national democracy almost two hundred million people were eligible to vote for candidates of five different levels of government from national president to

regional legislative representative collectively people could cost close to a billion separate votes. i'm very happy to be here i urge everyone to come because these they represent in the cressi in indonesia. i'm very proud of this because it means i have fought for a good leader. for president people were choosing between me and company. known by many as jacoby and his challenger. jocko campaigned on his economic record particularly his government's investment in infrastructure despite using a conservative muslim cleric as his running mate djoko is seen as more liberal than his opponents proposed targeted more religious voters and those concerned about the pace of economic change he argued for more religious oversight of society and a slowdown of deindustrialization to preserve manual a manufacturing jobs presenting essentially on one hand things are going well and

that we need to keep pursuing this particular path and deliver more and more benefits pro bowl is preaching that a very different vision that in asia is sort of at the edge of con of collapse economically and otherwise and it's only through his leadership that he can cite a country pre-election opinion poll suggested djoko would dodos message had slightly more support and nationwide there are more than eight hundred thousand polling places like this one to the one hundred ninety million voters right. mobile three hundred voting in any one place they register a birth here and take a seat wait to be called before going to those boxes to use a nail much more direct than making the choice here voting was calm and well organized but elsewhere ballot papers were late and voting delayed so even after the votes are counted and one candidate claims victory it's possible the other side will say the process wasn't fair andrew thomas al-jazeera jakarta and i saw speak

to another of our correspondents in jakarta wayne hayes so when the polls have closed has the process been smooth so far. well fully i think for the most part here in the capital jakarta the situation has been fairly smooth there have been some reports that some polling stations opened late but for the most part it seems that most people in the metropolitan areas of the main island of java the people were able to cast their votes that hasn't been the case in some more far flung areas of indonesia if we go way out east for example in popular province in seven hundred forty four polling stations in the capital of that province jayapura the election hasn't started at all an effect won't be able to start until thursday because the equipment needed to hold this election the boxes to put the ballot papers in the ballot papers themselves and the ink used to stain voters fingers to prove that they have cast their ballots simply didn't show

up on time so that election process in those individual polling stations will take place on thursday we are told and in some other areas of the country the election is still underway the voting was supposed to close some hours ago but in some areas it is still under way because of the same problem they simply opened too late so when can we expect the first results then and what's the process from here. well behind me there is a polling booth and the counting at these individual polling stations where the voting has closed is now underway so they're doing the vote counting at each individual polling polling station so it's quite a process when you consider there are more than eight hundred thousand polling stations right around this country so the priority first is the presidential vote and that's what they are calling out behind me each time they call out the number of one of those two presidential candidates it is met with quite

a loud cheer by the supporters who have gathered so within the next couple of hours we will start to see a pattern emerge organizations media companies political parties will begin to release these so-called quick count results and we will soon get a picture when you take all of those quick count results into consideration of who is in front here and if there is a clear winner within the next three to four hours we may see one of those two candidates declared out the next president of indonesia and officially of course because the official final results from the election commission won't be known until may twenty seconds thank you for that wayne hale forests in jakarta the weather is next and then sudan's military rulers move against two figures from the ousted regime but will it be enough to satisfy protesters also the mexicans who aren't too concerned about living in the shadow of and ok.

and we've had some pretty violent thunderstorms in parts of europe recently some of the worst of those have been down in the southeast corner and this is what it looks like in greece that white there that's not snow that that's the amount of hail we've seen they came down with an awful lot of water so you can see that. shing three districts i was in many places saw the halley that there was also a lot of hail in the southern parts of italy now those violent thunderstorms are gradually edging away towards the southeast so forcing greece it is drawing up brightening up but this area of cloud still wrapping itself up through ukraine heavy downpours here further west say hey we've got another weather feature this one has given us some pretty windy conditions a fair amount of rain as well but it's easing as edges its way eastward so there's already a great deal less to it as we head through wednesday and behind it we'll see the temperatures rise as we head through the next few days over paris twenty where we

are maximum on wednesday and twenty two by the time we get to thursday spain portugal is a bit different though real some collateral some rain rolling in his of the temperatures they'll be dropping away quite rapidly some of that cloud will also be making its way into the northwest and paulus all over africa so we could see a few showers around in robots that maybe looks like a cloudy day for the east though it's looking a lot brighter than it has been recently. joy bringing my babies my neighbor children so they can see and get more comfortable children are at the heart of america's love affair with the fact that of their own son mom makes a report on the case being there for me to shoot at and it's fine but the new generation like you are with the reason you might wish you because you don't want to and you. never again part of the radicalized youth series on

a jazeera. want. al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories fighting in libya's capital has killed at least five people after shells and rockets were fired in various parts of tripoli forces loyal to warlord honey for have to has launched an offensive to seize a city say they're not responsible for the shelling meanwhile tunisians defense ministry says as many as thirteen people who are armed and carrying french diplomatic passports try to cross its border with libya before being this psalms the french embassy in tunisia says there were security guards for the ambassador and polls have close in indonesia's presidential and parliamentary elections nearly

two hundred million people were legible to vote it's a repeat of the twenty four thousand election with president joker we doto facing another challenge from former general or borehole. donald trump has vetoed a congressional resolution calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen congress expressed concern about the thousands of civilians killed in coalition airstrikes since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen the us president says he vetoed the measure because it threatened to weaken his constitutional power crossing jordan has more from washington at least two democratic u.s. senators are calling for congress to override the veto issued by don't trouble tuesday night the u.s. president is reid's holding a joint resolution passed by members of the senate and of the house earlier this month a version with whole of the u.s. military to start all support for the saudi air coalition if the civil war the

supporters of this measure say that the u.s. is on the wrong side of history.