well the signs from yesterday are going in a different direction than appeasement quite the opposite direction and today also we have this statement from the military council ordering the opening of rolls and passages you know that well those that have been used are being used to supply the tomb and other areas with the with the necessities of life and that there was a long statement distributed to the press and that you know some of the protesters are taking public all the way to their own hands the understanding is that this is a kind of in direct response to the decision yesterday by the leadership of the protesters to stop coordination and talks to the to the military with the military council so instead of appeasement instead of. mutual understanding we see the tools sides taking steps and announcing things that could only lead to escalation we have been. told in very action of the protesters. since this morning since that

announcement by the military council and on social media they got to go to collude refuse. the accusations by the military council that they are disrupting the public order they say they are staying in one place in front of the army headquarters of course that is where the train the railroads pass inside khartoum and outside and all sorts some of the public roads the protesters are saying that this is only one place and the rest of the roads are open they're not taking public all day into their own hands they're not interfering with the work of the police or security or the military but they are here and they have decided to stay here until their demands are met by the military they accuse the military council of. refusing to hand over power to civilians they think that they are the whole coup d'etat against the former regime and the change of the regime came in the name of people and the aspirations. people should be met otherwise they were not and

a protest from i believe it of course and follow vince for these for the day in cartoon. well plenty more ahead here on the al jazeera news hour including regional security talks are on the agenda as the pakistani prime minister meets iran's president plus. i'm going to gallacher in the valley of the gods in utah or a place that soon could be and gas exploration there are those here who are fighting back. against the n.b.a. champions are with away from the second round of the playoffs those details later. it's the third and final day of voting in egypt's controversial referendum which could extend the president of the father and see if he's term in office until twenty thirty the official results are expected to be announced on tuesday but rights groups say the referendum would be free. if approved the changes could allow

the president to appoint top judges and expand the role of the powerful military heavy security across egypt. mohamed el masri is an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the doha institute for graduate studies good to have you with us how to keep my teeth in at the moment i think this rabbi street i mean you be watching events for the last three days what's really interesting is that. this referendum is being perceived very differently within egypt and outside of egypt it seems sort of be a tale of two referenda sure so on the one hand international media have been very critical not only international media but also human rights groups as you indicated in your lead up so the new york times al-jazeera c.n.n. and the washington post they've written very critically about the referendum and some of the irregularities that have been witnessed on the ground according to eyewitnesses and according to you know. civilians who have voted participate in the

voting the egyptian government has released a statement just within the last ninety minutes or so essentially lamenting the international reporting calling it false and then you know going on to sort of declare the alleged democratic and free and fair nature of the vote and that is to be expected this is consistent with past narratives of the egyptian government that there is sort of an international conspiracy against egypt participated in by the likes of al-jazeera the new york times the guardian c.n.n. and the washington post and even human rights groups if it's a foregone conclusion that sort of is going to extend this to we've had very little from the opposition during this process so where does this sort of leave the voice of the opposition dissent criticism within egypt. well there is very little opposition in egypt the egyptian government has done a very good job of consolidating power over the last six years they've eliminated

opposition parties they've shut down opposition media just in the lead up to this vote they've shut down thirty four thousand websites belonging to dissidents who are trying to organize a bottle a void campaign they also arrested political figures about one hundred twenty of them in the lead up they banned a protest that was scheduled so the really is no space for dissent in egypt at the moment and i think you know a lot of analysts are predicting that it's really a matter of time before there is another sort of protest movement another another uprising if that's allowed to told i mean if we look towards twenty thirty in the way of the direction egypt is going at the moment we have to sort of the generalities of civilian life or what life will be like in terms of just the normal liberties that wallace but one expects if you go to complain about your water supply or if you're going to complain about the price of bread or inflation or the lack of joy. is that going to get an individual in trouble at what level

a lot of people of already have already gotten in trouble remember there are sixty thousand nonviolent political prisoners in egypt many of them are in jail for expressing the kinds of opinions that you just that you just mentioned unfortunately egypt took a step forward with the revolution and then and then took about two or three steps backwards and particularly since two thousand and thirteen and these amendments further intrench military dictatorship in egypt and i think you can expect even more repression and power consolidation unfortunately we'll have to see what happens when we get the results of this particular referendum musri thanks so much for joining us here on. ukrainian actor and comedian of law to me as alinsky has won the presidential election. the political novice is us to meet him to have received around seventy five percent of the vote his rival petro poroshenko has conceded defeat walker reports of. having played the role

of president in a t.v. show below to meet zelinsky is now on course to make that role a reality winning an overwhelming majority of votes cast on sunday. thank you to my parents for their support and for living through all of this thanks to my team for their strength and stamina has my wife heard all of the things that was said about me in this campaign and perhaps she would never have married me faced with defeat president petro poroshenko was magnanimous but he will continue to play a role in ukrainian politics do you agree dear ukrainians i want to underline that the new president will face strong opposition very strong but i want to say that the country our ukraine which is the best in the world will only benefit. poroshenko painted zelinsky as naive and did experienced dangerous for

a country at war with russia with questionable links to an unsavory oligarch. but zelinsky patrice himself as a simple guy who had come to break the oligarchic system a corrupt system many ukrainians believe poroshenko as a wealthy businessman belonged to it was either a protest vote or a genuine belief that a comedian might make a worthy commander in chief a martyr just maybe it is time maybe those who think differently i am majority. choice is very simple either or either hope. zelinsky is hope but we want change. blood to me. a fictional president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zelinsky and his team consider break this election victory but defeating corruption

and ending the war with russia is going to prove harder word in english. you're right. he may be funny but ukrainians have shown little patience for presidents and failed to deliver. an open joins me now from the ukrainian capital kiev and really a new chapter in ukraine's history is about to be written robin. i so yes indeed it is and what an extraordinary election it has been a and a and a very interesting campaign as well in terms of how zielinski very smart tech savvy social media savvy people put together a very twenty first century campaign as opposed to the incumbent president petro poroshenko which was something far more conventional and as a result well we see that outcome now more than seventy percent of folks karst in favor of the world to me as if you were with me to talk about that campaign and

also what's next for selenski and his political program although i've a sack of good. excuse me ok for the civic network the poor. old. was this a free and fair election what was your what's your take on that the get your organization we observer the selection in each of the stages from the official start to feed that and we have to assessed it as a free and fair and very competitive because we're also of candidates had access to extra mani and t.v. channels that's why they didn't have any problem for conversation or negotiation with their routers through new media or old type of t.v. channels zielinski had hours and hours of programming and control even in the run up to the election like the a couple of days before the election his t.v. series was airing with him as president was that yes it was a money pool ation drooling because according to ukraine legislation it doesn't

look like education at the same time and this serious and t.v. programs had to influence into the final results and during two hundred hours this person was showed by one plus one to a channel which is very a claim us in ukraine one plus one t.v. channel which is opposed by the oligarch with alleged links to mr zelinsky. mr but anyway moving on from that was nixed for zielinski sheens no political party that exists on paper but not in practice and he's going to want to have that political party behind him in parliament so look what you got to do you know first of all ukrainians should citizens hugely has a strong support from a friend you pull it in at the same time this politician might last all the regions you're in few months is that's why current newly elected president is going to call extraordinary parliamentary election during the aunt of the may at the same

time he will have after the inauguration only a few days for these. for at least order that's why it's a big challenge for him to wait a coffee year because before all the ordinary elect. and maybe it will the region between these and next election i want to call extraordinary election the problem with political parties in ukraine and not just ukraine but in this part of the world to play soviet countries like ukraine and let's say georgia in place insisted these are personality based political parties are they they don't really have much in terms of an ideological foundation and that makes them weak doesn't it and it's easy to form and rebuild but you don't get lost in political stability that way do you yes as you mentioned the landscape doesn't have every little political party it is a fight only on the feet for this white issue revealed that beak team all over ukraine

and to support the new campaign and before that problem enter election to have that file of rate in and big fraction in your parliament or a key will be a very weak president is out he's fraction when it comes to policies what can we say about says events these policies in terms of his his to democratic credentials and the kind of reforms that he wants to introduce to ukraine truly if it's not then there's a question because everybody who supported him walmsley saw what they want on these person because he wasn't very open in the bushie asian or a conversation about his problem his objectives his policies or even about he steve that's why it's a dream for ukrainians who want to have a new capacity on new attack of pollution titian's it's real they went close to society and that's why it seems to follow the new zealand ski was able to

school so highly let's say to win this so many of the regions in ukraine all but one i believe in western ukraine. the incumbent president if that was the only reason that the president poroshenko took that because he hasn't. really elucidated spoken much about his policies and so that's what we are now expecting in the coming days to hear from c.n.n. skeet about what players pose for ukraine and its future really interesting times there robin foresty of walker force in care. policy in europe because shin fein leader mary lou mcdonald has called for an end to violence rioting in northern ireland after the murder of journalist lara the key head of the irish republican party made the comments cheering easter rising commemorations in belfast twenty nine year old mckee was shot while observing rioting in london diary's crank in the state on thursday night's double says no progress can be made through armed action it's past time now for these groups that masquerades as republicans to pack up and

pack it in to end their activities and to let the people get on with the work of building a new united ireland that's right and that we all wants an island that will be a tribute to our patriot day and to all who died the ireland in which leave rep mickey should have lived. now u.s. president donald trump and his political supporters are again attacking the special counsel investigation led by robert mueller tribe's personal attorney rudy giuliani says the report is full of lies and distortion according to the special counsel's report russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election in a sweeping and systematic manner the document also details the president's attempts to allegedly stop the investigation. meanwhile the chairman of the house intelligence committee says he believes the president broke the law by obstructing justice and did so in

a number of ways and i think that the my report points out how the elements of destruction are met in several instances several courses of the president's conduct what bob mueller said and this is obviously directly contrary to what bill barr represented to the country is that he felt bound by the office of legal counsel opinion that he could not indict a sitting president now kellyanne conway points that is proof of innocence but it's not bob moffitt made it abundantly clear he felt he could not indict the president . well in a few moments we'll have the weather with kevin but still ahead here on the al-jazeera news the protesters in morocco march calling on the government to release an activist who's been detained. by a film about one hundred modi has been pushed out of the box office in india. and is a woodsball to some sort of a federations cup final clash strangely. what

we have had plenty of disturbed weather here across much of the gulf and the winds are going to be a problem and they are a problem right now across much of the i want to show you what's been happening here and show you the satellite image because you can see the disturbed weather coming across the gulf actual of those clouds expanding as a full of boundary is pushing through the region now there of low pressure causing this weather is up here across parts of iran bring a lot of rain across that region but the frontal boundary is pushing through parts of doha right now and with that we are getting quite a bit of winds as well as a lot of dust some of those gusty gusty conditions are causing a dust storm across particularly parts of eastern saudi arabia right now we're talking about lower visibilities anywhere between three hundred and two hundred meters all the way back here across parts of riyadh so we could be seeing some

airport delays across the area as those visibilities do come down that's going to continue today tench wise here in doha thirty two degrees today but once we start to get that front pushing a little bit more towards the south temps is going to drop but the winds are still going to be a problem across much of the area particularly here across saudi arabia where the dust storm could continue as well as push down here torch much of the southeast as we go towards parts of wednesday things get a little bit better but the possibility of the dust storm will continue. to sponsor down. in the heart of the amazon the libyan family has clan lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. but it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it all live via. on

al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told we will shout it out to all of radio with the exclusive interview see dangerous for journalists to editors publishers all around the world and in-depth reports are real being canadian forces there with al-jazeera as teams on the ground are going on the world to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news. talk about it watching the al-jazeera news hour with me so robin

a reminder of our top stories president says he'll ask for foreign assistance to attract international links to sunday's bomb attacks the government is also to declare a nationwide emergency to give police the military extensive powers to detain and interrogate anyone without a court order at least two hundred ninety people were killed in the attacks also saddam's military council is all the people to stop blocking roads and let police do their jobs the warning comes as protesters say they'll suspend talks with the council the deposed president obama. earlier this month. and egyptians are voting in a third and final day of a referendum to change the constitution is approved the proposals could allow the president to stay in power until twenty thirty results are expected to choose that . there have been overnight explosions around libya's capital as troops aligned to the u.n. recognized government targeted warlord khalifa haftar forces forces from the

capital modified to the city from an offensive launched by her after the world health organization says two hundred fifty four people are being killed thousands injured in the last three weeks mahmud up though he there's live for us in tripoli and this is a fast moving situation by day and by night and in fact mahmoud by the hour so what seems to be unfolding on monday. clashes erupted again this morning as forces loyal to. the government started this offensive on the highway linking tripoli city center to the international airport which lies around thirty kilometers on the south of western part of the city remember have to its forces the now they have a location in given a city of the international airport and the government forces say they are trying to proceed towards have to locations to take control of the airport and divinity of

the airport the military commanders of the government say that they are now around seven kilometers from tripoli international airport remember this is the in active airport that has not been functioning since twenty fourteen on the other hand the government forces are trying to maintain their defense lines specially after they took control of the strategic locations over the past week on the southern part of the city and they are now they have military units trying to sustain their defense called on around the capital around thirty three kilometers from tripoli's city center at namely in an area called they're trying to cut their supporting line for have to the forces coming from the south was namely in from the city of the u.n. and the city of lahore now we know that overnight government forces a. rocket from heavy artillery is and their positions on the highway on the

airport highway targeting have to in and around the tripoli international airport and overnight also we heard also locals here in tripoli heard humming of planes over tripoli but no no reported and no. no. overnight but in all cases the government the governor forces are trying to maintain their defense lines and they say that they are now proceeding towards have to his forces on the way to the tripoli international airport so wait for the moment we leave it. for some tripoli. in morocco thousands of demonstrators have marched on parliament calling for the release of what they call political prisoners but the government considers the forty two activists a security threat under schapelle explains. bringing parts of the capital to

a standstill thousands of moroccans call for one of their own to be released from jail. holding placards of nasser's of sofie the thirty nine year old leader of the he dock movement the protesters chant we are all sufi earlier this month he and three other men saw their twenty year prison sentences confirmed by an appeals court in casablanca says this is all all money if this these people have protested in the reef region to ask for economic and social demands and they've been imprisoned as if they were the worst terrorists and this we cannot accept and we are demanding their release. they were joined in the streets and outside the parliament by civil society organizations and mothers. do we know oppression is killing us we don't accept it we want all our children to be freed they're now on hunger strike what is the government doing. well i say to the government think

reasonably and find a solution for our children who were sent to various prisons that they have pity on us. and then along with pity for these forty two activists they want the government to release money to be used for economic development and job creation programs and or chapell. group in mali has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed sixteen soldiers targeted an army camp in the north of the compliment her early on sunday the military base was reportedly ambushed and burnt to the ground more this week and join our correspondent nicholas hackett joins me now from. nic some real clarity on who might be responsible ready for the attack not just on the military base but also on civilians. that's right i mean this latest announcement made by jim martin. well mostly mean comes really as no surprise the group was behind in a time just

a month ago on the military in an area called jara where there was the same mode of operation the army camp was assaulted early in the morning first through artillery and then mortar attacked and really raise to the ground with soldiers fleeing the scene and that's what we saw yesterday morning in the town and day that area is the by the ouagadougou forest and back in november the french forces launched an operation to try to apprehend a man called a medical file a medical file this is a full on the leader of this group jemaah islamiyah loosely mean and he has claimed responsibility on your breast attack really targeting the that the military there and we see a pattern in terms of of these operation armed groups attacking the military and then militia groups or armed militia groups that are sometimes backed by the

government attacking the full on the population that's what happened back in march three weeks ago where one hundred sixty seven full on the villagers were killed that following an armed group attack on the military now the prime minister the former prime ministers i should say micah is responsible for giving credence or for backing some of these militia groups that the reason is because the mali and military are just under equipped and are unable to face this rising rising attacks from these that from these armed groups he had to resigned last wednesday under pressure from the population so because we saw unprecedented. demonstrations on the streets of the might go here calling for the government to step down and so over the weekend president your brain got character has been holding talks to find a new government to try to salvage his government and he's increasingly under

pressure to try to stem out all these attacks that are coming closer and closer to the capital so for the moment we'll leave it there of course and follow developments with unique as the days press thank you. let's head to the middle east now where iran's president hassan rouhani has revealed the development of a joint border force with pakistan now rouhani made the announcement after talking to prime minister iran who's visiting on a two day visit the men have been discussing trade and border security relations between the neighboring countries have been strained in recent months until the latest on this from same describe the who's in the iranian capital this visit. suggested a tense time for neighbors who have share a land border zain and have have had historically good relationship.

absolutely so if there were tense times the very warm handshakes the very broad smiles that we could see during the press conference between the pakistani prime minister imran khan and the iranian president hassan rouhani would seem to signal that those tense times are over as you said the security apparatus between the two working on security was one of their primary points in conversation and president hassan rouhani started his part of the press conference by saying that they were determined to have better ties that no third country could stop the brotherhood as he called it between the two countries and he announced the formation of a rapid reaction force to respond to problems of counterterrorism along their shared border now this is to address a spate of recent attacks this year that have taken the lives of armed forces personnel on both sides of their shared border insist on baluchistan on the iranian side in baluchistan province on the pakistani side both sides have said that armed groups are operating from within each other's borders from on each other's soil and

there has been accusations that neither country's doing enough and so they've come together and run a con the prime minister of pakistan speaking during his turn at the press conference saying that he did not want quote terrorism to divide his two countries he also defended pakistan's record on terrorism and said that in the last several years seventy thousand people have died that no country knew better the problems of terrorism than pakistan and he defended his country's intelligence apparatus and ability to respond to those kinds of threats and he pledged to iran that they that he would not allow any group that was oppa to operate on pakistani soil to hurt any other country and so there were very positive discussions iran said that the intelligence chiefs of both countries would be working closely together to cooperate on combat in armed groups in both their countries and so moving forward that is possibly one of the most significant developments to come from this he announced with they will work more closely on cow. operations there was also

a number of issues discussed a very ambitious agenda so for in terms of economic cooperation which included a gas pipeline to pakistan and iran sending electricity to pakistan a country that sees rolling power cuts on a regular basis and so this really does the handshake between these two men really seems to signal a possible shift in the power dynamics in this region if this if these two countries one a nuclear armed nation one or another one of the largest oil producing countries in the world both neighbors are motivated to work towards a better economic future for both countries mostly what comes out of this two day visit to one more day to go for the moment zain thank you. well let's stay in sort of the asia south asia region because india's election commission has delayed the screen of a biography of india's current prime minister prime minister narendra modi was due to come out ahead of the first phase of india's general election but both the commission and many of the countries many in the country are concerned about the

effect of politics on the world's largest film industry as there was supposed to be a small. pm there and their movie is a glowing interpretation of the life of india's current prime minister it's not something everyone here would agree with and what's more producers tried to release the film just before the country seven days election began this month but the election commission has delayed their release over concerns it would unduly influence voters the film is the most prominent in a recent line of political films and series critics say favor the government or pan the opposition it's. you know you almost every month specially in these months leading up to elections we are seeing more and more political found this film journalist says the political exploitation of films used to be rare in india but that's changed every life is in some way. by the movies and so perhaps the power. the bee have figured out that this is one way to

get across earlier this year several bollywood heavyweights flew in a private jet to meet the prime minister many say this photo from that meeting shows a relationship between the government and some of the film industry that might be too cozy. and with influence working both ways. government propaganda have been produced in india for decades some of the others on the other side many in the film industry have used their form to jump into politics. openly trading on her celebrity for votes in this north mumbai constituency for the opposition congress. after starring for years in several of the different language based film industries she's become famous that fame is a powerful tool and political campaigning. activists all of those people affected this this kind of change in the last one and

a half so they need to change the needle more of them this has become more crucial this is unique in atlanta with more political films and series expected to.