tng calling for international institutions to do their part to stop the military escalation but have to say that the international community should do its best to protect civilians and also the united nations support the mission in libya the head of the united nations support the mission in libya condemning the attack and said it was terrifying night for civilians in tripoli or indeed any more they've been air strikes with both sides coming under attack both sides in this fight for tripoli do you get a sense that the battle for the capital the battle for tripoli is entering a crucial stage. it has been really in a crucial a stage since civilian areas and civilians have been targeted by heavy weapons and air strikes but to have to be involved according to the government of killing innocent civilians this has it is in some sort of if i may say

disillusionment in clude ing. among have their supporters and we're getting reports that the major supporters of have to in in this in the west of libya namely the city of the city of the there is a lot of. position changing greece in italy after that have their forces have not managed to enter the capital literally and take control of the capital concerning the military confrontations on the ground strikes happened today from both sides and they were getting reports that three soldiers from the government of the forces government have been killed by an airstrike launched by a poor have to war plane this morning thank you for that update. is our correspondent in tripoli libya in other world news counting is under way in indonesia's presidential and parliamentary elections the ballots are being tallied

from eight hundred thousand polling stations the incumbent joker we don't do is facing his main challenger a former army general has provoked to lead the world's third largest democracy live to our correspondent when here in jakarta when this was the world's biggest one day election the counting is underway what's the latest. yes and. it's really a display of democracy right around this country the unofficial counting is underway in effect some of the results being reported by organizations that send people out to sample of the poll. and stations right around this country that usually for the most part anyway very reliable and what they are showing is that the incumbent joko widodo has about a ten percent lead over here as challenger probable so if that holds true if those results confirmed then that would be

a big you win if you would over the same challenger in two thousand and fourteen he won by six percentage points the last time the election was held but wayne there are parts of the country that have yet to go time to sand what impact is that going to have on the overall results. and. well i think if this ten percent margin does hold true then probably not a lot is far as we could tell in the city of jakarta most of the voting went by pretty well the procedure was carried out without too much disruption there were a few delays in some of the polling stations outside all jakarta if particularly in the east of the country there was some pretty major disruptions particularly in the province of popular and also in neighboring province hundreds of polling stations there weren't even able to stop because some of the equipment didn't arrive on time voting papers ballot boxes things like that so in hundreds of those polling stations particularly in pop where the election wasn't able to be held so will be

held on thursday so certainly these results are provisional as i say though some of the companies the organizations that are reporting them have got it right in the past on several occasions and it appears that joko widodo is heading for a second term in office thank you for that wayne he correspondent in indonesia's capital jakarta they were the latest on the election results now uganda says it will consider giving asylum to the deposed president omar al bashir the foreign ministry says it may offer that despite his indictment by the international criminal court for war crimes demonstrations are ongoing in sudan's capital khartoum. the ruling military council has responded to some of the protesters demands and sat the prosecutor general and do his aides but there is still no headway on demonstrate his main demand for civilian rule morgan has the latest from our to. ugandan foreign minister is quoted to have said back his country is ready

to offer asylum to ousted president obama and bashir but the military council on the day that they ousted the president last week said that the president who will not be handed over to any foreign government there is saying that it will hurt to dance over anybody and that there are concerns he will be handed over to the international criminal court president bashir was the only sitting president to be incited by the international criminal court for work crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide in the western region of darfur so far some media some local media and international media are reporting that he's being held in prison in the prison of kolber where he has spent most of his opponents and enemies back in the days when he was in power but some officials are spoken to say that that is not true that he's being held in a safe place under house arrest until his stick into courts one of the demands from the protesters on the streets they're saying that they will not and they're said to him until they see until they see the president and his opponents being taken to court court and held to account for the crimes they've committed when they were in power they're also saying that they will not end their sit in if the government does not hand over immediate power to an independent civilian government political

parties and the council have been in talks in terms of forming a transitional government but there are issues between the two sides that are points of contention including how the government should be run the parties want an independent government while the military council wants to be the one supervising that government most of the international body bodies and international blocs like the e.u. and you said they will not recognize the military council if it does not have hand over power to an independent civilian council so at the moment sudan is nowhere for near forming a transitional government and the people in the city of thousands are not ready to go back home until that demand is met. some of algeria's opposition parties and former diplomats say they will not take on in the july presidential election they're angry about the use of violence against anti-government protesters and accusing interim government of wasting time the announcement comes after algeria is interim president. appointed. a new head of the powerful constitutional

council why they're meeting we decided not to take politics not to accept not supervise and not run for the elections under the current political regime they are trying to buy time to weaken the popular peaceful uprising we condemn any way to resort to violence against demonstrators and we condemn the practices against the previous marches were renew our call for real transitional period that is reasonable and acceptable. at least one hundred fifty people are missing after a boat sank in the democratic republic of congo it happened on lake kivu on the country's eastern border with rwanda about thirty three people have been rescued so far still ahead on al-jazeera u.s. president vetoes a congressional resolution to end u.s. involvement in the war in yemen.

we've got certified weather across japan over the next couple of days it's not looking the toll bad here we have got the little bit of cloud just rolling through q southern parts of honshu and drifting out into the open waters where the system will pull away slots of fine weather just coming in behind across the sea of japan and there you go thursday looks like a pretty good day twenty three celsius there for tokyo a little bit of wet weather across the north korea eighteen celsius across the korean peninsula and then as we go on into friday these temperatures pick up not what with the two but it's all across the good parts of japan you might just catch wanted to see into the western side of honshu twenty four celsius similar temperatures there across northern parts of china beijing at around twenty three degrees a little bit of cloud just lurking here but the thick cloud as into central and southern parts of china said thursday because the west the weather just easing in

across the region really does become rather more widespread as we go on into friday heavy downpours could see some localized flooding of this one well show when the temperatures in shanghai at about twenty three degrees they'll show winds in hong kong there southerly so we're getting up to twenty nine degrees celsius here and brightening up towards the weekend meanwhile the sunshine is showers right across much of southeast asia. talk to local. authorities. if.

you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories they've been asked strikes in the last few hours with both sides in the battle for libya's capital tripoli coming under a tight un recognized government forces of targeted warlord twenty five times positioned south of tripoli and have lost three of their soldiers strikes pounded their troops been want to nation's defense minister says thirteen french nationals with diplomatic passports and weapons were stopped on sunday crossing from libya into tunisia the french embassy in tunisia says there were security guards for the

ambassador. and uganda says it will consider giving asylum to sudan's deposed president omar al bashir the foreign ministry says it may offer that despite his indictment by the international criminal court for war crimes when it speaks of more about this and the situation in sudan to osman who's an activist also professor. a university of technology she is live from johannesburg in south africa very good to have you with us on their first of all what is your reaction to this ugandan are. try to take in the share would that be something acceptable to protesters instead. i think and i can only offer personal opinion on this. i think it is an option i think there are certain people need to be removed from sudan to society for us to have a chance at establishing a democracy and for sudan to have

a chance at real peace for the next few years but you know if uganda where to take him in that wouldn't guarantee a trial i mean for for the crimes he committed in sudan would that be acceptable that he just left with no trial. the what the protesters are palling for is trials for everyone that has participated in any war crimes. so definitely we would like to see him trial. we need to see some of these people removed so ideally they need to be tried at the i.c.c. and i have often said that my views on the i.c.c. have changed over time for me now the priority is stability in sudan but there truly is it's the one thing that is scaring us the most is that during

a model bashir era many many factions were armed and we are sudan is in an incredibly fragile situation so at the moment anything that can be negotiated. to guarantee peace and stability in the country that is really my priority and i said i can really only offer at this stage of personal opinion meanwhile meanwhile more senior officials have been sacked which is what the protestors had been asking for do you feel like you are getting the protesters are getting any closer to what they are actually demanding will they get it you think. i certainly hope so but as you can see the protesters on mark leaving the sittin at the military headquarters in court which means that they want to remain on the streets until there are some gutter tees what i can see is that the military

council is kind of addressing some of the demands of the protesters rather fragmented manner i don't see it happening in any comprehensive way it's almost like trying to pacify the protesters by a dressing one or other issue and i suspect that for us to really have real change we need to address this in a much more systematic manner but the fact that the protestors are on the streets still i think that shows that there is perhaps a lack of trust that people feel that they have been deceived a lot and they feel that unless there are gotten tease that their demands are going to be met they what they say is that they're not leaving the city and thank you so much for speaking to us mayor osman an activist joining us there from johannesburg south africa thank you for sharing your views with us. ages fundamental as rubber

stamps constitutional amendments that could keep president abdel-fattah in power for another decade the parliament voted five hundred thirty one to twenty two in favor or give the military any all formal role in the country's polity so a referendum would also be held to approve the changes dahlia farmy is an associate professor of political science science at long island university she explains why she believes the measures are a challenge to democracy in egypt. but what these constitutional amendments do is put the executive branch or the president above the parliament and the judiciary with the military solidifying power around that now when we think about what constitutions are supposed to be for constitutions are essentially the contract between the state and society where essentially the constitution is it a protect the rights of civilians with this constitution is now designed to protect is the c.c. regime which is very different than what essentially

a constitution is all about it also removes a lot of procedural protections and checks on contracts and bidding and military role in the economy it actually removes all of those checks and so essentially this constitution is not just not in keeping with democracy and human rights and the root of the arab spring it actually does solidify military authoritarian rule in egypt france's president to many and my car has vowed to rebuild snotter dam cathedral within five years his branding for a global architectural competition to rebuild the destroyed spire of the gothic donations to have restored have reached nearly one billion dollars from paris bennett smith reports. it was a hellish scene inside one of christianity.