true of people saying this report says russia interfered in our elections it makes it absolutely clear that it did happen regardless of who was involved and that it could happen again in twenty twenty and frankly is anyone doing anything about it it's exactly right and there's concern obviously within the u.s. government particularly in the congress that essentially this report could essentially a race some of those conclusions from the investigation which is that russia actively participate in undermining our democratic system and undermining the united states' national security and so they're trying to ensure of the american people don't believe anything that's in the mahler report thereby giving a free hand for russia again to take action in several years to undermine our election because again they think they can get away with it so how and this is there a ridiculously broad question by how do you stop it happening again it seems it was about hacking it was about cyber security it was about social media fund all these

sorts of things it's a huge type of issue to actually address and actually say what we're going to do these concrete steps to try to stop it happening again. you know i think the u.s. congress has taken some pretty important steps there's two pieces of legislation the desk of defending american security act and the deter act defending elections that have been proposed which would essentially created the turrent for any future russian election interference if russia did intervene in the twenty twenty lection both pieces of legislation create sanctions and other measures that would give the u.s. government the tools to confront additional election interference and then again because the congress was involved because of a blatant mistrust of president trumps russia policy there are some significant tools that the u.s. government now can use the question of course is those pieces of legislation could be held up over the confusion of the month a report and the fact that you know president trump believes he was let off the

hook as a result so republicans in the senate are clearly more i would say hesitant to propel future russian sanction that would upset the president united states so really it is an issue for republicans in the congress to decide whether they want to support democrats creating more tougher measures that would potentially deter future election are here twenty twenty knots in the coffee so interesting talking to you about this really appreciate your time thank you thank you. now police in turkey say they have detained two suspected spies working for the united arab emirates both were arrested in istanbul on monday they thought to gather intelligence on arab nationals one arrived in turkey last october the other came in later to help his colleague more on this with natasha going to him in istanbul. sources tell two men were arrested inside a hotel room in istanbul on monday they've been described as intelligence

operatives an encrypted computer stashed in a hidden compartment was also seized they've allegedly admitted that they have were working for the united arab emirates but they are not citizens of the. sources say the men have been under turkish surveillance for six months during that time they contacted turkish analysts they inquired about qatar's investment in turkey the two countries are close allies the u.a.e. is part of a saudi led blockade against qatar intended to isolate the country the two men also allegedly contacted a suspect in the gym out because shoji kate's shoji was the saudi and washington post columnist murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october now a senior official tells reuters that one of these men first arrived in turkey days after case shoji is murder the second soon arrived sources tell us that the men may

have been here collecting information about arab dissidents since the arab spring in two thousand and eleven many have sought exile here in turkey another prevailing theory is that the operatives presence here in turkey may have a direct link to the shoji murder the u.a.e. is a very close ally of saudi arabia and the country faced international condemnation after his show g.'s murder sources say with turkey's relationship. with saudi arabia and egypt strange that perhaps the u.a.e. was attempting to open up a new avenue of collecting intelligence here in turkey the two men are expected to face political military and international espionage charges here's what we've got ahead for you on this news hour. stepping up the precious sudanese protesters have their own plan for taking over the country

a month after the massacre mollies entire government resigns accused of failing to protect citizens and sport a bad day for the world tennis number one paul is here with the action from the monte carlo masters a little later. for the funeral former president on garcia's taking place two days after he took his own life hundreds of supporters greeted garcia's casket in the capital lima his family also in attendance there the sixty nine year old shot himself in the head on wednesday as police were coming to arrest him over corruption allegations that's talk to us live in lima with an update for us marianna. well come on apparently president former president. planned his suicide really well this morning at the way care one of his daughters his daughter lucy and i got to

read the letter that he left behind. in which he again said reiterated what he has been saying all along that there would not be any evidence against him in the or the bridge scandal corruption case that is that is touching so many people in latin america now luciana read his father's letters but at the same time there's been surfacing a lot of. information. about how president former president got sia has been in a way saying goodbye he told his students at class last week in the university that perhaps that would be his last class he also told his personal secretary that the gun that he used when he escaped after his first government that helped him escape corruption charges and left would be the gun that would. keep his on or he also

told his personal lawyer that he would never allow anyone to exhibit him as a trophy that no one would ever see him in handcuffs and he also said in the letter i leave my body as a sign of contempt for my adversaries well adversaries have been saying all along since the former president took his life that he was really cornered that so much information is coming out and it was closing in on alan garcia and that he did not want to face justice now sia has been his body his remains has been parading around some of the main avenues in the center of lima and he will be taken to the cemetery in a few hours where he will be cremated come all extraordinary details coming out there . thank you mariana sanchez in lima for the protests on the way for nine successive week in algeria thousands of people in the capital chant

a down with the system remember the long term president abilities but if it was earlier this month protesters continue to demand change because of the interim government's links to beautifully and delays to the presidential election that's delayed until july here's some thoughts now from use of a political science professor at university here in doha he says it appears the protesters crucially still have the support of the military. the most difficult thing to do is to predict what's going to happen next in algeria but for the being . in the violence there have been incidents of people. protests. both of the protesters and the military seem to be as far as this is concerned the chief of staff so i will not permit blood to be spilled. on see the media would they call this. a. violent protest we

are exercising our constitutional right to. peacefully this is basically the mrs dott the protesters are surrounded new statistics on the war in yemen sure the number of people killed in the last three years is seven times higher than widely thought this is from a u.s. based nonpartizan organization which analyzes days around violence worldwide it recorded more than seventy thousand yemenis killed in twenty sixteen and then says the number of dead include more than seven thousand civilians the organization accuses the saudi led coalition and its allies of direct targeting and killing almost five thousand civilians but also says the group is responsible for killing one thousand three hundred civilians ten thousand yemenis have reportedly been killed in the last five months ceasefire brokered by the un have helped to cut the casualty rate but heavy fighting of course goes on well under

a company is an analyst from the group the armed conflict location and event data project which published the statistics. the violence in yemen. overall decreased since the beginning of twenty nineteen mostly due to a decrease in violence in the previous awful day which had become the flashpoint of the major offensive last year. they'd agree with has managed to actually stop violence or to prevent violence from escalating in their region but what we've seen is actually an escalation of violence in outer regions in the north you know in. in delhi as well and this was mostly due to the fact that the who thiis have been actually engaged in repression of local tribal actors for instance in. but also there has been every escalation of frozen military

offensives in in many areas so what we've seen is actually a. geography of the violence in sudan protesters continue to gather around the army headquarters of the capital even though their wish was granted to have omar bashir removed from office despite the military takeover and promises of a civilian government the protesters want civilians to start leading the transition now in fact they are expected to name a team on sunday to take charge of the country from ahmed well. the joining the city is like stepping into a new sudan people are taking power into their own hands these civilians are now guarding the border and they're greeting people with songs and smiles. so being searched is almost a pleasure and they'll work involuntarily. while this crowd believes the heat to put out a message of change others help to keep them cool money is being donated

drinking water is provided. is served for free for a day medical doctors have left their paid jobs on joint efforts to set up makeshift clinics to help those who protested last night. yeah we worked in hard conditions there were days when we couldn't handle the sheer number of people who came for medical help that we could hardly sleep for days who were doing both the humanitarian and national juta by being here. these people are here in front of the army headquarters to make sure a complete revolution is achieved and a military coup doesn't just lead to another period of rule like bashir but as i see it in medicine he said the military council most tend of the powerchair transitional civil and government which is protected by the army will fulfill all

the objectives of derivative so far we have only cut the head of the tree we still need to remove the roots a message that's being eco that on sudan ordinary people now take center stage the blood that's been shed for this moment is an adult on the walls as are the young women who acted with courage and leadership this is where some of the deadliest blasts took place on the morning of course when thousands of protesters walk up to the crossfire members they didn't go to those classes they displaced the special facility where folks actually came from this direction what if it's not a place in the future possibilities of this uprising it's like a fire ball that's building up to the surface of the old regime. the uniforms of those snipers who are caught hank here as a mark of shame to those who fought change but many here say the deep state is still intact and only the facade of the former regime has been removed i think that

. they didn't they just removed some debt and put more tax in its place we don't want. national congress members in the government and that's why the protest and their rule slogan whether or not there is she has fallen. here. the president of mali has accepted the resignation of the prime minister and his entire government following weeks of protests over ethnic killings more than one hundred sixty people in a full army village were killed last month by suspected gunmen from the rival doggone ethnic group. reporting for us from neighboring senegal and he says for many a prime minister represented a lot of the challenges facing the country. the resignation of the prime minister and his government comes as no surprise just on wednesday members of the parliament both from the ruling party his own political party and the opposition in an unprecedented move put forward

a motion of no confidence against my guy and his government that was supposed to be voted in on friday on thursday he resigned and on april fifth there were thousands of mali is that took to the streets of bombs in unprecedented protests and these were from the opposition from religious groups also from the pope community three weeks ago polls were victims of attacks from their own neighbors closer nomadic group ethnic group in mali and they've criticized the government for not doing enough to protect them so there's a lot of grievances against this government also people really questioning the government's institutions and its ability to address the basic issues. here the price of basic necessities have it's gone up by twenty percent schools have not reopened since september there's a shortage of water and electricity to leave million people are in need of urgent

assistance and so mike it crystallizes all the grievances that the government is unable to address so the president. says he will engage in dialogue with the opposition is well to try to find a new government that will be put into power in the days to come. india's prime minister in the run through modi is addressing a gathering of trade in new delhi in an effort to shore up votes for his party before the elections close. looking at this from the capital. small traders are a traditional base for the b j p or part the the party and prime minister narendra modi now move back addressing that base to shore up support during this election many small traders say they are very pleased with the government's policy. yes reason has been good for business been modi's very good with this election manifesto in future after binning he will really do a good job for us not all traders are police twenty six. which was the withdrawal

of high value currency notes in the market and last year's introduction of the goods and services tax hit some traders hard now modi is trying to win those traders back here in this garments market though some traders say no one is listening to their concerns. the policies of this government have ruined us whatever has happened to us for the last one and a half years that shouldn't happen to once or worst enemies overnight they have ruined us and business. prime minister most of the in the b j p hope their continued pro-business policies will eventually sort these problems out and keep the majority of small traders on their side. still ahead for you on this news hour we're looking at how the flooding in iran is draining two and a half billion dollars from the country's economy. and in sport well we've seen many golfers hold some incredible shots but how many have you seen like that.

most of the middle east moment is seeing a drawing trends of plenty of clatter and going through iran is building this general direction and this feeds all sense to generate showers around the sun casting a sort of water vapor cumshaw and around the eastern med so we're talking about lebanon northern syria turkey in the caucasus to see further rain of course it's still called an office and i would highlight most of that means that most assyrian most of iraq and most around will look it dry with an eye and that's true of afghanistan that there are a few showers still possible as you can see temperature and tear up to twenty bring kuwaitis up to thirty one in baghdad middle twenty's been hovering around that in the low thirty's and the same sort of situation extended to sunday but a chance to showers or at least rain thirteen further sasser israel possibly even touching northern egypt is certainly there but that is levant basically if you have

to the south of that though there is still a chance of a shower or two in saudi arabia the main focus is going to be further south more or less we're talking about west and south a year in the high ground once more regular daily showers thunderstorms big downpours tents disappear overnight but they reappear during the day. q eight or qatar on sunday. their dreams have turned out to be disappointed. that if anyone called me to say he'd leave egypt i'd advise him not to come three young north africans tell the story of how europe is not all they hoped it would be. out there a world welcome to italy. for

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president donald trump has made a phone call to libya's warlord after in a statement the white house said trump offered his support and recognizes have to role in fighting terrorism and securing libya's oil resources but at least two hundred people have been killed in the two week battle for control of tripoli. because democrats have issued a subpoena for the full uncensored version of the report an edited version was released on thursday which found numerous contacts between donald trump's campaign and russian officials in the run up to the twenty sixteen election but not enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime and police in turkey have announced the detention of two suspected spies working for the united arab emirates both were arrested in istanbul on monday and thought to gather intelligence on arab nationals want to go back to those developments in libya concerning a phone call from president donald trump to the libyan warlord khalifa haftar we've got half an hour to talk about it now a senior fellow at the foreign policy institute at johns hopkins on skype from

washington we thank you for your time well my pleasure thank you it really is an interesting development and i'm wondering how much of a turnaround do you think this is is this just donald trump saying something going against what his administration has or do you think it's a complete sort of reversal in in administration policy. i don't think it's a complete reversal i think it is one of those from. baghdad. to trump fashion in which he contradicts the policy over his own state department. security council and the u.s. military. statement was not really clear as to what it really did. it came about five days after. it actually happened and nobody seems to know about it i can assure you from my own

private sources that tuesday last week a senior employee at a presenting mr. and the tripoli government was in the white house and heard from national security officials and they confirmed for him at that time the u.s. government still backs the internationally recognized government of sudan. he also then had meetings at the state department that i level and they also assured of live so forth. it also contradicts the publicly clear statement by the secretary of state. in which he called so all indications is that this is one of those. may dismiss it and say yeah exactly so happened here then sorry to interrupt here is it more then about.

relationships in the region you know by doing this by saying this he allies and self with the traditional regional allies the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and also as i was discussing with a correspondent in earlier the fact that oil is involved here as well and the battle for resources is always on his. i absolutely ironically just brought up something that reminds me of the meeting he had i think last year where prime minister said roger was visiting washington and met with president trump and this is a true story the first thing that trump ask him when you walked into his and also office was so tell me who controls the oil so. oil seems to be all who is on mr trump's mind but but this is a more serious thing for us it is the united states policy to recognize the

government of national accord as it is in the united nation and all countries around the world in which the united states actually played a vital role of creating it secondly africa and the united states africa command has worked extremely closely with where the tripoli government and troika with them indeed had to actually clearly separate from isis it was the tripoli government after after all for isis in sirte they lost over seven hundred people in the fight it's. after got command generals were in tripoli all nutria weeks ago and there was very active very late shoot with the africa command so. it is very ironic to speak of half that of fighting better or is. it because i'm going to jump in there. i'm sorry because with plenty of other news to get to but i do thank you for your your expertise in your insights on this topic thank you very

much. now the expected repair bill for flood damage in iran is believed to be around two and a half billion dollars now millions of iranians are rebuilding their lives after the devastating floods a month ago and as the reports from the wrist on problems the crisis comes at a bad time for iran's already shrinking economy hampered by u.s. sanctions. iran's government is measuring the cost of flood damage in the billions of dollars for iran's people measuring the cost is also very personal damage shops . broken furniture. even packets of spaghetti. homes have been destroyed shops and businesses damaged everything is gone. now the cleanup the floods left this school filled with mud the goal is to clear up as fast as possible to get the children back into class now this is the kind of thing that will cost time and money to fix if you look over here that metal structure that's

connected to the bridge that is a temporary one that had to be put in place when the pressure of the water that was coming through flowing through the river brought down entire sections of that bridge and if you look over here in this direction basically what we're looking at is a river front that has now been completely destroyed. the iranian government's response to this emergency was rapid and people say they are grateful but now they expect the authorities to help them return to their normal lives. a scheme is in the works to rent apartments for people who don't want to live in tents and relocate those from villages which cannot be saved the city gov of pul doctor says his people are doing everything they can more. seeking to considering the large scale destruction or roads had been cut and we had no access to the capital of the province most roads to villages were damaged and we had to.

across lauriston province crews have been at work for weeks rebuilding washed roads repairing transport links is crucial for getting help into affected areas. there is a sense of urgency. officials want to get the newly homeless out of tents and into temporary homes away from busy streets for some patience is wearing thin and there have been reports of protests in some parts of the country. we met one woman. who says she's had enough little remains from her earlier life but memories just days before the flood she was celebrating the persian new year with her family now this is all that's left. with a. i house was just here the floods took us away completely there was no sign of a two story house anymore it's riven now we have displaced living in tents we don't know what to do there is so much pollution there are thousands like her looking to

the country's leaders for answers. the questions include where will her family go and how will she raised three boys after losing everything. on province iran we're looking at news from europe now in a journalist has been shot dead in northern ireland. has more on that story. that's right cammalleri mick he was killed in a riots which took place in london derry violence happened just days before the anniversary of the east uprising of the irish republicans against british rule in one nine hundred sixteen. has been held in her memory is and what i was only twenty nine years old larry mckee was a rising star in journalism she just signed a book deal and had a promising future instead she's the latest victim in northern ireland's long

running conflict. after police raided a property in london terry terry as it's commonly known more than fifty petrol bombs were thrown at police and several vehicles were hijacked and sat on fire like he was watching events in the hours before her death tweeted terry tonight absolute madness. the journalist was standing close to a police vehicle when several shots were fired and she was hit she was taken to hospital where she died we believe this to be a terrorist act we believe has been carried out very violent as republicans. are sas men at this time would be that the new ira are most likely to be the ones behind us and that forms our primary line of inquiry open night forensic teams were to try to piece together the events that led up to her. earlier this year the new ira was blamed for a car bomb attack in derry it also claimed responsibility for sending parcel bombs

the killing of the journalists to shock the community here and devastated her friends and family our hopes and dreams and all of her amazing potential with a single barbaric act. this cannot stand britain's prime minister to reason may said it was shocking and truly senseless condemnation too from the leaders of northern ireland's biggest political parties this is a tragic loss of a young life and our hearts are broken for although all those am concerned those people who carried out this sense this attack have no place in society those people who carried out this attack did not have any support those people who carried out this attack have attacked all of us they've attacked the community they've attacked the people of touring they've attacked the peace process and they've attacked the good friday agreement many people in northern ireland to concerns about the renewed ballance in derry and what led to it there were many tributes being paid to lehr

mckay all praising her as a seeker of the truth emma heywood al-jazeera. or ukraine's president petro poroshenko and his rival actor and comedian rajan is a lenski of gone head to head in a live television debates several thousand spectators attended the event in kiev's and then pick stadiums with beefed up security opinion polls suggest selenski will win sunday's runoff three weeks after he be par shango in the presidential elections first round robin foresee a walker was at the debate and sent us this. final few weeks in the run on with a second round runoff and it's not beat about policy. rate it's about whether or not this debate is going to have. to be stated that it did happen but it's an extraordinary thing it's absolutely baffling that we have two presidential candidates now all the same stage. they were facing each other from opposite ends

of the football pitch with i mean what they should go to become the president was that his supporters are up now they're on the side it. i know you're on the sites you're in the law to be is the lansky supporter cheering and cheering at all the mark right moments but it's something to the spectacle it's not really a debate that's a slagging match an appearance is it deceptive because although there appear to be more far sankoh supporters in here this evening petro poroshenko he's training in opinion polls by a huge margin so it's something radically radical happens this evening out since he doesn't say the right things but they still hold cause to cause a major political upsets in ukrainian politics in the election on sunday and i tell the story as a following crime activists have gathered in a number of here.