i have to say as he's trying to crush post arab spring an iraqi in libya the prime minister in tripoli phase of. have there is a dictator in waiting. aid workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of the city were there has been fighting electricity and water supplies have been disrupted along with telecommunications and there are concerns the violence could spread beyond libya's borders affecting its oil production and bringing a rise in those trying to escape the conflict heading for europe. tripoli a group of people carrying weapons and french diplomatic passports have been stopped by tunis in authority is while attempting to cross from libya the incident at the country's western border is raising more questions about the involvement of foreign countries in the conflict some of binge of aid has more. a rally in the libyan

capital tripoli calling on france to end its intervention in the conflict. there have been sporadic protests before but this one came after french nationals carrying weapons and diplomatic passports were stopped at the border between tunisia and libya tunisia says it's the second time for a nationals have been stopped recently the first coming in by the sea whatever they entered through two rubber boats and they were spotted we followed them till they reached our bottom the two boats carry eleven european foreigners from different nationalities and we handed them over to the authorities concerned the second group entered on sunday consisting of thirteen individuals all of them frenchmen under diplomatic cover it with arms and ammunitions and initially they tried not to hand them over the french embassy internees he says its nationals were members of a team that provide security protection to the french ambassador to libya an explanation many are questioning there is no meaning for infiltration from. libya unless there is. a military operation or support of command and

control systems or something like this to. have their forces front supports the un recognized government in tripoli but it also maintain ties with the other government led by warlord khalifa haftar analysts say its interest in libya centered around oil and regional influence with powers such as saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt the french government is involved in this this the police city in their position on one hand there is condemn nation of what's happening but this is not the translated action was not reflected the actions they've been taken by governments in order to push for a diplomatic solution france isn't the only foreign power involved in libya have started a u.s. citizen allegedly trained by the cia during the rule of moammar gadhafi he now has

the support of saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt and is also reported to have more than french. despite the u.n. . but the fighting intensifying many libyans say a political solution is needed but that can only come if. their covert military support. out of their. head. that could keep power until twenty thirty. any results for a presidential election possibly winning. one of the world's largest democracy. hello there was some rather powerful weather working its way towards australia at

the moment for the time being with just being watching this it larry of cloud here as it's drifted its way steadily eastwards behind that it is feeling a bit cooler than it has been so it's up to temperature there on thursday just around twenty degrees but a more active weather is going to be coming towards the southwest you can see it pulling itself together there on thursday and on thursday night into friday is when we'll see that push its way across us for some of us here it will see some heavy rain and we'll also have some very strong winds as well it's a temperature in perth on friday just of nineteen degrees over towards new zealand and here what is quite calm at the moment is not really a great deal going on good deal of cloud in the east but that's generally burning back towards the coasts and for most of us as we head through thursday should be fine more the way of cloud of rain is on its way towards us there that will probably reach us on friday and the southwestern parts will see the heaviest of those outbreaks of rain but it was the north and for many of us in japan is looking fine unsettled quite nice temperature wise as well up to around twenty two degrees

we do have more in the way of wet weather over north korea that's just working its way towards us well actually sweep over us thursday night and during the day on friday it will continue to move away and the temperatures will right. the. fake news is a global virus but in indian politics it's becoming a cancer on the up and stopped and you can manipulate the window with the body just the sort of you can skew the perception of the on your b. the specific reasonable bar good would be used it does start to know as the world's largest democracy goes to the polls how vulnerable are expected to be leaders disinformation. people and power investigates india fake news and agitprop on al-jazeera.

we're going to one of the top stories here on jazeera saddam's former president bashir has reportedly been taken to the country's most notorious jail the maximum security khobar prison military leaders have also arrested dozens of former officials who are part of bush's government including two of his brothers. peru's former president and garcia has died hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest at his home in lima garcia was being investigated for bribery in what's become latin america's largest corruption scandal. in libya funerals are being held for the victims of shelling and rocket fire that hit a densely populated district of the capital on tuesday night the u.n. says the violence may amount to a war crime. egypt will hold

a referendum this weekend on sweeping constitutional changes which you have proved would allow president sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty the changes were overwhelmingly approved by the egyptian parliament on tuesday they include extending presidential term limits from four to six years giving the president more power over the judiciary and in trying to do the role of the military in politics the vote will take place over three days earlier i spoke to timothy count us who is a nonresident fellow at the to institute for middle east policy he explained how the changes would increase the power of the egyptian president. the reality is that this is not only about extending cc's power but it also these amendments assuming that this document continues to govern the country beyond presidency will make the next president also have disproportionate power visa b. the other institutions of government the groups have made any effort to oppose the

constitutional amendments have found themselves having members arrested web sites blocked. there's been a lot of suppression of any effort to actually oppose the amendments the media is entirely supportive of the of the proposed amendments there isn't really any space for a public discussion on the negative aspects of these of propose amendments at bly one might oppose them when event is not just a line to suspending all operations our tax credit has rejected to pay for emergency funds getaways is facing one point two billion dollars of debt has to mean has more need any. jet airways had about a twenty two and a half percent market share in india now at down to roughly twelve percent it's had financial difficulty for years in twenty thirteen the airline came close to collapsing but thanks to a government rule change allowing some foreign investment into indian airlines it

was saved when the hot air waves bought a twenty four percent stake in the airline but new domestic players especially low cost carriers kept eating into jet airways market share and profits since late last year they have problems paying back loans and paying employees now what this will mean for consumers and aviation expert has told al jazeera that in the short term for domestic indian passengers prices will go up but indian flyers are very price conscious so they can only go up to a certain amount before people stop flying and india with the having such a growth in the aviation industry it's believed that other competitors will fill the market share now internationals of the different jet airways had many agreements and co-chairs with other international players particularly k.l. and their friends and getting competitors to take over those routes will take time as they have to negotiate with the airlines and airports and countries to fly those routes now it's not over for jet airways just yet particularly hundreds of employees are still striking to get the airline back into the skies and the

investors the ones who own the debts the banks particularly are trying to get a new buyer interested in resurrecting the airline. north korea says it has test fired a tactical guided weapon the korean central news agency says leader kim jong un personally observed the test earlier on wednesday came reportedly said it was of quote weighty significance to increase the military's power in combat it's the first public weapons test since the second summit between kim and us president donald trump in february ended with no agreement. turkey's opposition party has taken control of the country's largest city is stamboul a crim him olu of the republican people's party had his victory in the marrow election confirmed after a recount of the vote the foka has more. i can remember lou supporters have gathered outside the mayor's office in celebration the win for the c.h.p. party candidate is

a major upset at the ruling ak party who have controlled turkey's cultural capital for many many years it has been more than two weeks now since municipal elections nationwide but the result has been pending here in istanbul because of a dispute over the final result alysa results. in the new york point two five percent ahead of brutally killed or in the act party candidate the dispute led to a major route between the two parties the act party going through the sea priem electoral council and asking for the entire vote to be overturned but it isn't quite as simple as all of this to move maybe mair but that when has already been contested by the act party they have asked for this entire election to be an old time for there to be a rerun of the supremely actual council now has a week to decide whether or not to uphold this result or to indeed allow that rerun

to happen this result is particularly bruising for the ruling party and for president earlier this is the city where he began his political career as mayor of the city in the nineteen nineties it's also particularly bruising because not only has the c.h.p. policy won here in istanbul but is also one in the capital ankara. early results from indonesia's presidential election suggest incumbent djoko we doto is on course for a second term with a comfortable lead over his challenger probably be on toe official results won't be known until may andrew thomas reports from jakarta. i just tell you they shout the president's victory may not be official yet but it's no less real for that in the center of jakarta his supporters are celebrating. quick counts were

carried out of voting stations as soon as the voting process finished each ballot paper held up to show where holes have been punched once tallied they pointed to a clear victory for the incumbent. we have all seen the. results but let's be patient we need to wait for the old. let's all unite as a nation. almost two hundred million people were eligible to vote some with a turnout of eighty one percent wednesday's vote was one of the biggest ever one day exercise in democracy anyway. i'm very happy to be here i urge everyone to come because. i'm very proud of this because it proves i have fought for a good leader but it wasn't a smooth process everywhere the biggest problems were in west papua where ballot papers and boxes failed to arrive and voting has been delayed until thursday so.

it's not conceding yet and claims the problem showed the election may have been stolen. but take down before folk buy support safeguards the ballot boxes so we can fight all of the lights but the irregularities don't seem great enough to put the overall result in doubt if when it reports in may the electoral commission confirms the informal results. this year by great somalis when they last competed in twenty. actually in this election result the big picture of. france will hold its national competition to decide how to replace the spire. that was destroyed in monday's far president wants to restore the cathedral to its full glory within five years but some experts are warning it could take much longer to

reports from paris. from above the extent of the damage to not a dam is clear monday's fire ravaged the twelfth century cathedral destroying its roof and making the spire collapse dozens of precious artworks were burned centuries old stained glass windows melted. firefighters continue to assess the cathedral safety and used water jets to cool parts of it the spokesperson said risks remained. the surely most money toward a hot spot that can be found in the cracks between the stones that make up the votes the lead which covered the entirety of this vote as complete melted so we have to continue monitoring the boat to do that with you on the banks of the river saying people watched the overall this i thought to myself i have to come and take in the same ocean it's really deeply moving it's very different to watching it on screen to take time to see the devastating impact france's prime minister said

a committee will oversee not traditions reconstruction and an international competition will be launched to rebuild the spire. the international competition will allow us to ask whether we should even recreate the spire if we should rebuild the spire as it was conceived and built by the architect in the same manner or if as is often the case in the evolution of heritage and of the cathedral we should give not a new spire adapted to the techniques and challenges of our times. flourish the french president emmanuel mccall wants not for a down to be rebuilt in five years that would be in time for the paris and then picks but some building experts say that's too ambitious that a project of this scale could take decades the deadline for rebuilding could be a challenge but funding it seems less of a concern with multimillion dollar donations flooding in on wednesday cathedral bells across france rang out in solidarity.

not sure damns devastation has touched many people perhaps because it's a famous symbol of paris because the imposing eight hundred fifty year old building office people a link to the past natasha butler al-jazeera paris. climate change activists in london have targeted the city's rail network on a third day of protests and causing disruption to the city to demonstrate this climbed on top of a carriage and another super glued himself to its window on the train was stopped in london's financial district three hundred forty people have been arrested since the extinction rebellion protests began on monday the group is calling for the government to declare an ecological emergency and take radical measures to protect the environment. this is really difficult none of us wants to there's someone with her as a mother has children. with and living on violence we don't want to disrupt anyone's

lies we don't want to cause any damage we don't see any other option allowed in other things that we're doing in town that people are on board with and it's thought of as big imposing a little surplus so great will that change at the will of the government so we've got to keep going go to keep pushing we don't want to do this but it is a sure fire way of getting the debate on the table obviously personally other money for the least of the person in the world off the such as long as the issue is on the table people talking about it this is certainly. one of the top stories here lodges here dogs former president bashir has reportedly been moved from house arrest to the maximum security cobar prison bashir had been kept at the presidential residence since being forced from power by the army last week military leaders of also arrested dozens of former officials who were part of bush's government including two of his brothers saddam's military council says

irregular forces loyal to the shias party will be brought under army and police control. arrests are underway symbols of the eyes to the regime in addition to others who are believed to be linked to corruption cases the most prominent of those who have been placed in custody until now i are the brothers of the former head of this corrupt regime abdullah and a bus but sheer peru's former president alan garcia has died hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest garcia was being investigated for bribery in what's become latin america's largest corruption scandal he turned the gun on himself as police arrived at his home in lima to arrest him garcia was rushed to hospital and had emergency surgery but died from his rooms. at least twenty eight people are dead after a tourist bus overturned in portugal veered off the road and rolled down a hillside on the island of madeira dozens of people have been injured the

portuguese president has confirmed that all the victims were german. north korea says it has test fired a tactical guided weapon the korean central news agency says leader kim jong un personally observed the test earlier on wednesday kim reportedly said it was of quote weighty significance to increase the military's power in combat is the first public weapons test since the second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump in february ended with no agreement funerals have been held for the victims of shelling in the libyan capital at least seven people were killed when a densely populated district of tripoli was targeted on tuesday night the un's special envoy to libya says the violence could constitute a war crime forces loyal to the eastern world highly for have to have been trying to take the city from the u.n. recognized government for the past two weeks. those are the headlines to stay with

us and i'm sure there are people in power is up next by for that. in. the. us there are nine hundred million indian voters decide who should be there next week how vulnerable are they to the kind of social media manipulation that has recently been seen in the room usa i made growing anxiety about the impact of fake news on ministers information on the world's largest democracy we've been to invest .

as far as crime goes not much happens in. a sleepy drew district in the heart of the south indian state of. mind so when police constable mohammad the smile received an urgent phone call on a slow afternoon in may two thousand and eighteen he didn't quite know what to make of it. reported that a mob had taken four child kidnappers hostage and was threatening to kill them. but some school. hundred to two hundred people got a little. the villagers told the constable that they had received

messages forwarded to war whatsapp that a child kidnapping gang was heading for their village. the message is one accompanied by a video that showed two men on a motorcycle abducting a child who was playing on the street. it was enough to cause panic and mayhem. here knows. what. the years have never said. they were just. to hear your voice give it all there's a couple good we don't. always go for the action hopefully within the law and the public. can still pull itself out of the goal. which is. why the constable

a smile was able to save the day here things did get out of control in the rest of the kind. over a period of four months in two thousand and eighteen more than thirty people were lynched across india after similar rumors about child abductions began circulating on what side. these killings were eventually dubbed the whatsapp lynchings by the media. among law enforcement officials. chief of police remarks with a computer science degree he was one of the first to recognize what was happening i could understand that the mall on the videos where did fix there were not real be deals but these weirdos and images we're making these religious form into mobs wielding mobs and they were trying to restrain strangers who walked into the village there's this fear or there was this mass hysteria we wanted to understand

the origin of this we do because they were going but unfortunately we could not get to the origin of this reduced because of the traceability problem because what has this and went and corruption and you cannot get to the origin so even today we have absolutely no idea about where these videos originated from. eventually it emerged that the video in question was doctored from an educational video made by an ingenue in karate pakistan tried to raise awareness about child kidnapping. with just a little editing the video became a weapon in the hands of unknown troublemakers. so we had to do something and we had to do something very quick. when you have a faceless criminal when you don't know who is you know creating this panic or who is spreading this malicious messages then the only option you have us to reach out

to the community and up build them not to share them not to make them go. so that's precisely what we did people write north of red all for the sake of a new force they were not aware of misinformation and the potential it hard to incite winds. but if the actions of free and others have helped raise awareness about the potentially deadly consequences of spreading malicious just information few people fully understand the broader threat that fake news poses to indian democracy. in the capital of the north indian state of bihar thousands of people have assembled to watch prime minister modi launch his campaign for reelection in the state the excitement is palpable. was.

behind the scenes of this festive unlike most experts have been sounding the alarm bells since the last general election in two thousand and fourteen india's political parties including the prime minister's hindu nationalist party jump up party. have emerged as masters of digital manipulation. most of them including the opposition congress now have a social media wing but critics believe that the b.g.p. steam better known as the id cell is far more organized so i reached out to them and all requests for interviews were quickly denied but there are three pozen id cell volunteers spread out across the stradley and i hope some of them would be billing to discuss their work to figure. out the starter.

motor. is what they are trying real hard liquor filled up. then in a stroke of good luck i ran into money which he has the id settle for the state of bihar there often accused of dishing out misinformation in an attempt to sway voters a charge that body image lee brushed aside i want to pull this stunt i'm able to you project on what our psyche but then we call the individual if you don't just give us what you're part of us face usually if they don't make it up any of the up they're not brand nap of all that up or not it was the fact that make you good looking. but he explained that he had personally overseeing the setting up of pozen of whatsapp groups each with nearly two hundred fifty members. her book say which you don't want to have you'll watch a bit from the official human didn't come across your facts you have been on top of

. the media want to like make up you would know what the cool facts they brought up are the year i'm fulfilling the indias to mock them say i am. a little. over two hundred thirty million people use whatsapp in india and many of them have been added to potus and groups that disseminate misinformation and provoke sectarian tensions nobody understands better how this works than twenty five year old shivashankar saying a whistleblower who was a key member of the bee gees data analytics department until he suddenly quit a year ago the editor of the party getting thirty fourteen elections was centered on developers who are dotted and on the wall are good there's not a multiple message unlike jack who heard i don't at the party want to find if you look at messaging today it's all about how you're going to see the wonderful felician of the code to get hold of fighting the best focused on how that all of

the nationals are not a bunch of children coming up for you to go to country and how they're going to save you from all of that was all of the up and struck the economy. that the body is going to do basically a liar. and manipulate them into what a party is just based on emotion that. critics like sharon allege that the b. chippies shifting narrative is contributing to the flood of misinformation on the barrel of the scope of the book he now consults with a group of opposition politicians in the state of bihar helping them devise a digital strategy to counter the b.g.p. which is miles ahead in the game. because in order to develop be sure. you'd been able to unemployment. yet just that i would not been officially labeled shiver my ledge is that when he was with the b.g.p. he was tasked with collecting a large amount of personal data to profile voters these feature sets would then be

used to add people to different whatsapp group chats based on their interests all their prejudices. saw a lot of big donors in the public domain that's provided by the election commission toast the biggest one is the one who were to. each other delivering that agenda that household information and their water not in a large part of her do you can get people's cost in religions just with that being because if it's a muslim you know that person is probably a muslim so we just don't you can get to sixty five seventy percent accuracy brit this you can also make up other did just that including say electricity bills which give you a good idea of social comic status because workers are today usually has a higher electricity bill because they have air conditioning plus you have things like for not bush that are of the liberal surprisingly is a leader in europe if you can back up back to the anecdotal then you basically have a direct to be to message people based on their cost their religion their it group and the would belong to the lack of data protection laws in india means that such

methods are not strictly illegal. but she was disturbed by the kind of an ethical micro-targeting he witnessed the problem arises when you start using the exact same of the liberty dollar to basically create a divided society and the people what started happening is that there is a very concerted effort to clear the divide between hindus and muslims to create a divide between groups really specify messaging they're going to get across they want to get across the messaging that muslims will overtake the population number for this group but the thing is just because the messaging goes to such a small subset of people who didn't know or what i am to believe that such a good thing is if you can profile people and identify what kind of messaging they're likely to believe you can skew the. message and campaign it doesn't happen instantly one piece of news that's going to convince you of

something but if you're bombarded with fake news point to do is press that direction for months on end it does start to feel. these messages stargate minority religious groups or individual politicians journalists and activists. but the problem of fake news it's not limited to whatsapp. it's parent company facebook has nearly three hundred million users in india and that's by default plays host to an organized ecosystem for disseminating misinformation. in two thousand and eighteen a b.b.c. analysis of some three thousand facebook pages from a town found a pretty dominant trite when narrative a nationalist ideology aligned with the b two b. on sites spreading fake names at the heart of this all good nice ecosystem up artists and influencers like because spine day i started a facebook in which i mean known as i suppose which is one point six which is a board.