it is threatening more destruction than psycho a guy that hit southern areas in the country back in march it died devastated parts of the south east of mozambique zimbabwe and malawi killing hundreds and displacing tens of thousands the world bank says that's why conan loan caused two billion dollars worth of damage it's unprecedented for two psychos to hit the region in such a short time fraction kenneth may require a major new humanitarian operation at the same time that the ongoing cycle response targeting three million people in three countries remain critically on the fund. more heavy rain is expected increasing the risk of floods mudslides and water borne diseases with the scale of this is awesome likely to grow aid groups say a lot more help will be needed from the international community over the coming days and in the months of recovery ahead mohammed al jazeera. still ahead on

al-jazeera a major push back could come so and against the forces of would be in war like a hot tar plus. some places we've been one even let us use the toilets and my kids have been denied water how could you deny a child water and not welcome sign goes up for members of caravans travelling through central america headed to the us. now for those of you off to germany or poland who thought oh yea it's nice and warm when it's back to change all these clouds drifting slowly from behind me in the general directions but not temperatures back again by some like ten degrees for example in germany but in denton nineteen and spread cloud and rain rather more watch for that it's been the case the last few days that's all coming from the atlantic and it's left a legacy of

a spinning top as you can see over england which tristan's the southern no say what's in windy weather then the order today for the british isles the low countries downs are a good part of france as well and the twelve in paris zurich even colder than zurich is higher of the spain and portugal come back into the fine warm more typical spring like with all this is happening over the european mainland which means throughout mid mistreated from west to east it's looking fine richard be quiet the hot air that the in blowing additive libya back in tunisia well that's gone now in fact twenty in tripoli the moment twenty eight in benghazi and rebalanced twenty five in the sunshine goes up to twenty seven even juicing a bit of cloud in the sky. west africa on the line take here is across towards somalia there are showers big ones mostly they're gonna.

this is out there and these are the top stories this hour military commanders in sri lanka say the bodies of at least fifteen people have been found after

a shootout connected to the easter sunday bombings several raids were carried out around the city police discovered explosives a suicide vest and and i still flag several former ministers from sudan's ousted ruling party had been released from prison camps as protesters continue to rally outside military headquarters in khartoum and demanding the army and mediately hand power to a civilian authority. and the u.n. warns mozambique is in danger of widespread flooding as hurricane force winds give way to torrential rain local media reporting deaths in the single figures after tens of thousands of homes were evacuated along the indian ocean coastline. thousands are protest sit in the libyan cities of tripoli in misrata against warlord clave hop stars attack on the capital at least three hundred people have been killed more than twelve hundred ensure. on the offensive. i have reports from tripoli. here in the main square in the libyan capital libyans have come out

to condemn what they call the military aggression by have the forces on the capital tripoli also in other cities on the west of libya including the city of misrata libyans have taken to the streets to condemn the military escalation this is the third friday in a row since the military escalation is started on april fourth the protesters here say that they are calling on the international community including the united nations and they reappear in union to put pressure on have to stop the military escalation on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital the protesters here today are also condemning targeting get his attention areas especially after the u.n. or the kidneys the government accused half the forces of committing war crimes by

authority think residential areas and killing innocent civilians including women and children the now denouncing what they call the military rule they say that have to want to impose the military rule in the west of the country here there are portraits of international leaders and the protesters here today are blaming these leaders for what they call supporting the military campaign led by the world khalifa haftar the protesters here today say that they will continue protesting here every friday until have those forces moved back to the east of the country central american migrants hoping to pass through mexico have been experiencing a backlash from some of the my. public it's a change in the welcome others have been given out as there is no upper level horse . outside

a small church and don't allow mexico several dozen central american migrants are taking a break from the exhausting heat for most of these people faith centers like this church are among the few places left where they still feel welcome. to notice it all in is from us and is here with eight members of her family she says she was recently chased down by mexican immigration agents and hasn't found much sympathy from the mexican people but a symbol that this they think we're criminals but we're not it's true there are all kinds of people in the caravans but we're being cursed for the sins of others some places we've been one even let us use the toilets and my kids have been denied water how could you deny a child water we're all human beings. over the past few months in mexico there's been a shift in public opinion toward migrants many business leaders in the state of chiapas have closed their doors to central americans publishing videos online for training migrants is disease ridden criminals people in chiapas no longer come out to donate

food and water like they once did it would appear the migrant caravans have worn out their welcome to grow neatly veta also from a window to us says that without support from local communities migrant shelters are a last resort but the shelters can't provide for everyone. is that coming up we're going to say like oh now you were not on this journey because we want to hurt anyone and we're here because we want to better lives for our families we would never hurt anyone here in mexico they are brothers and we respect them but at the same time we wish they would stand by us because they do feel there is a lot of discrimination against us migrants and that is not fair. several hundred migrants have gathered along the train tracks their goal is to head as far north as possible. we're standing atop a train car in the town of arriaga in southern mexico many migrants who are worried about being detained while walking on the side of the road will opt for hopping on

one of these freight trains this one's called la vista or the beast but hopping on top of one of these trains carries its own risks and over the years many migrants have died falling off the sides of these train cars. just before sunset migrants began to rush the train many of them women with young children. no longer feeling safe traveling in caravans it appears migrants are resorting to the back roads and train routes of the past even if it means a whole new set of risks. on mexico as on twenty five years since the end of apartheid and south africa as progress has been made since nelson mandela's peace for evolution to end white rule but not nearly enough say the critics of the ruling african national congress is campaigning intensifies for next month's general election the a.n.c. is accused of ignoring corruption and chronic poverty hasa has more from johannesburg. motm uneasy demand is the feeling of euphoria in one thousand nine

hundred when apartheid ended and nelson mandela became south africa's first black president she believed ending a white minority rule would mean a better life for the poor black majority to decades of oppression since then she's been waiting for the government to provide her with a decent home and she hasn't managed to find work in years if she was home to hers and open up my cupboards and see i have nothing no food i have to go outside and house in order to eat something before going to beit so why should i take my id book and go out there to vote when i'm suffering. in soweto township we meet. he was a member of the football club founded in the one nine hundred eighty s. by nelson mandela's wife winnie a group that was politically active during apartheid twenty five years after the end of racial segregation he says he's angry and disappointed with the african national congress led government. jobs. we are hungary is because

of those guys not the. same. thing for the people protest over poverty poor public services and unemployment happen almost daily there's a general election on may eighth and the a.n.c. is facing mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions of black people we have looked at people who are no real knowledge that we have all the successes not just of challenges. and all over the road to accuse us to purchase but everything must be done within the law the legacy of apartheid where black people were considered inferior to whites and not given the same opportunities it's partly why africa remains one of the most equal societies in the world since one thousand nine hundred ninety four more people do have access to clean running water education and healthcare even though many say those services

are poor these are some of the houses the bills by the government for the poor are provided for free others are subsidised millions i've been built since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but there are still housing shortages blamed in many on corruption and millions of south africans continue to live in abject poverty they won the right to vote twenty five years ago today the struggle is with economic freedom which many say still feels a long way off. al-jazeera. criminal rights activists aren't happy about a visit to china by the head of the united nations. has been accused of ignoring what activists say is their persecution of the weaker muslim minority and diplomatic editor james reports. the u.n. secretary general in beijing for a summit marking china's belt and road initiative an ambitious global network of infrastructure and trading projects all linked to china something that in itself is far from uncontroversial and tonio good terrorists did make

a public speech in china but there was no mention of the we go community inching zhang a glaring omission according to human rights groups who claim as many as one million we get as could be being held in detention in an article for the washington post the executive director of human rights watch kenneth roth detects a pattern he writes could terrorists should show that he can fulfill the full scope of his responsibilities as un secretary general he's excessively quark diplomacy is selling short his position and the promise of the united nations the secretary general has only once publicly spoken about the we get issue this year and that was to decline to answer a question i know that there is a dialogue between the office of their commission human rights and the people's republic of china in that regard i am not in a position to give any details at the present moment probably if a would be talking about it i would make it more difficult for him to succeed china

has considerable clout at the un as one of the five permanent members of the u.n. security council is that why the secretary general is pulling his punches the secretary general has been anything but quiet on his defense of human rights globally i would refer you to a number of speeches he's delivered of the human rights. council in the way also that he has really mainstream the role of human rights in all of the un's work does he make a different calculation on speaking out on human rights issues that involve human rights abuses by permanent members no i don't think there is that calculation his goal is to. promote human rights he will do it differently at different times the u.n. says the secretary-general brought up all the relevant issues when he was in beijing they say they'll give more details in the coming days i can tell you no one here is expecting that to include

a full some denunciation of china's human rights record james zero of the united nations trade union members want the european union to stop giving too much power to employers or testor surrounded european union headquarters in brussels to put pressure on politicians and next month's european parliament election. trading in confederation want workers to benefit from employment rights economic growth and i are wages. british voters are also due to take part in the election because of a delay to bracks it or insley has been looking at how voting to like members of the european parliament is being seen by some as a second referendum. european elections a close battle lines are being drawn on friday the centrist liberal democrats launched their campaign inviting voters squarely to reject bracks it's against them the new bracks it party which demands leaving the e.u. as soon as possible whichever side gets the biggest share of the vote will claim it

has a mandate to force the british government to back its position but the two million british citizens living on the continent very many like this group in portugal want to vote to stay in the e.u. but now it appears the option may not be open to them many have received identical letters from local authorities like this one advising that ballot papers won't even get sent out before may the tenth at the earliest people may not be able to return the ballots in time due to the very short notice that we've been given to arrange these elections it will not be possible with the timetable and the roll lions on our printers to provide supplies for the postal packs for them to be mailed earlier than this date. i think given the enormity all. of this won't change. the potential of how people perceive citizens actually feel in you change schools accent and if we are not.

the same team assuming the majority of british ex-pats supported you membership not being able to vote in time would help the parties that don't like rex's the reason why this matters is because in the u.k. the european elections are being seen effectively as a sort of mini second referendum on whether the country should leave the european union facing national federal judges progress to party against a gaggle of others including the liberal democrats who want to stop brick sets at all costs and the polling is sufficiently tights that the inability of british citizens on the continents of folks could make a major difference yes i am very very worried about this it's very clear that u.k. citizens in the e.u. want to take part in this election many of them were not allowed to take part in the referendum three years ago this is their opportunity to have their say on whether they think that we should stop bricks that something that would dems want to achieve if they're going to miss out simply because it takes too long to issue

the ballot papers or the postal system in their in their respective countries in the e.u. doesn't work very effectively or because they can't secure a proxy here in the united kingdom that could skew the results the propane parties already accused of being slow off the blocks in preparing their pitches for the election pardon remain this may already have made their minds up who they want to vote for but if people living abroad cannot exercise their choice it would be hugely controversial largely of his era and under. the headlines right now on al-jazeera military commanders and share longest. the bodies of at least fifteen people had been found after a shootout connected to the easter sunday bombings several raids were carried out around the city police discovered explosives a suicide vest and an ice cold lag several former ministers from sudan's ousted

ruling party had been released from prison this comes as protesters continue to rally outside military headquarters in khartoum they're still demanding that the army immediately hand over power to a civilian authority. but the interior minister of libya's u.n. recognized government says its forces will launch a counterattack against war within days really three hundred people have been killed and more than twelve hundred injured since off guard forces launched an offensive to take control of the city over three weeks ago on friday the united nations said rockets and mortar shells hit residential neighborhoods in the capital only thirty nine thousand people have been displaced since the fighting began. and algeria thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets for the tenth week in a row i want all of those associated with the old regime of president. to go he resigned earlier this month after pressure from the military police have been unable to break up the protests despite the announcement of

a presidential election in june. so fucking up what we did all of them will be gone and they will be judged and the money of the properties will all go back to the people that's what we're looking for we don't want them just to lead we want to be judged so that's what we want to learn. this corrupt system is playing a dangerous game my dear brothers algerian people we must remain united i swear to god if we separate because of risk as i'm originalism i swear the system will not only last for years but it will last for centuries and we will go back to marginalize editions corruption and the abuse of power and the election is actually in july powerful cycle ever in northern threatening to cause widespread flooding cyclon kennett stormed ashore ripping off roofs and drowned down and power lines and rule areas it is now weakening and strained another cycle in devastated southern mozambique just two months ago. for the headlines keep it here on

al-jazeera much more to come inside story is that next. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so many times when you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. tax cuts and promises of reforms president emanuel macron followers to transform france is his response to months of yellow vests protests and nothing to stop the riots this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan they are the results of the so-called great debate after months of hearing complaints from the length and

breadth of france emanuel mccraw has told t.v. viewers that he's listened to the cries for change he's responded to the biggest challenge to his presidency by offering some concessions to the best protesters they've brought paris and other cities to a standstill every saturday for months now demanding cuts to the cost of living across proposing lower taxes for some pensions reform stopping the closure of schools and hospitals and making it easier to hold a referendum on vital issues there are other proposals too but are they enough to stop the riots and revolt against his ideas for the future of france we'll get to that soon with our guests but first here's ounces here is natasha butler in paris. at his first presidential press conference on domestic affairs emanuel mark all said he'd listen to people's grievances over social inequality and the french political system in response he offered a raft of new policies including a reduction of m.p.'s and income tax cuts for workers let me you're going to show

you the best way to address the needs of fiscal justice is not to increase the taxes of dispersal of that person no it's rather to lower taxes for the greatest number of our fellow citizens in particular for those bloat and part of the middle class is you also touched on personal matters saying he regretted that some people considered him arak and. i've given the impression of always giving orders of being tough and at times unfair this i regret because it's not why i am and it's not helped our cause. macro's new policies were based on the findings of the great debate and initiative he launched in january to give people a chance to discuss their concerns at a town hall meetings and online an attempt by the president to end months of yellow fest street protests if the cost of living in the state of politics emanuel mccoll hope that his speech in new policies will convince french people that he's heard

their concerns over the social inequality and he's trying to help he knows that if he fails to persuade them his credibility his popularity i does a policy to continue with his reforms will suffer. in paris yellow vests supporters gathered after the president's speech and said did not give up their battle the sort of my reaction to he says speech is one ward resign when a government does not a sword to people it is necessary to hold elections again who will continue or demonstrations to convince mr mccracken to this of these government the real test the macro will be how the wider public will regard his new policies and whether he's managed to bury his reputation as a president who favors the rich this it'll doubt that the timing is vital halfway through his presidential term and just one month until the european elections he urgently needs to rebuild trust natasha butler al-jazeera paris.

let's bring in our guests for today joining us from paris chief foreign correspondent at le figaro from london charles let's field european affairs analyst at the eurasia group and on skype from san malo or head of european research of the global policy institute but welcome to inside story if we could begin with you has president bush said and done enough to put an end to the yellow vest protests i don't think. actually. is of course a tiny minority. but they're really a they want to remove. from power they just don't have. sent. it's more they have some kind of. hatred for him though

i don't think personally his men that should be heated you couldn't agree or disagree with him but this is the way the yellow vests think and. you will still have some kind of protest i think against him because as a matter of fact we have to consider that. he has lost a lot of the clout that he had after is the election in two thousand and seventeen if you if you like people much more desire pointed with rays in my court today that of course they were days of action is two thousand and seventeen chance which field in the twenty extent then is it not the policies but the man that is the problem here it's true that the yellow vest protesters who have been protesting until now the sort of hardcore the remaining hardcore won't be

satisfied by the policies yesterday and. they obviously dislike macro but i think anything he could've said any poll in or for that reason any policy could have come up with wouldn't really have been enough but that wasn't necessarily the goal of yesterday's appearance and i think he was really unsettled by the support for the other best movement at the very beginning in december some really rather scary polls for him showing seventy five percent eighty percent of the french agreeing that's receded quite substantially and i think the whole goal of yesterday was to start a new phase in his presidency where he can talk to those who no longer agree with you might have had some sympathy at the beginning but no longer do and as far as that's concerned the policies he announced yesterday might be somewhat successful we can discuss that ok run on the same question to you to what extent is it not the policies but but the man that is the problem here. a very large extent indeed.

yes you know us have already announced they would keep keep but they have protested already called protest vote tomorrow in paris and you know the towns in france the they're pretty sure it is a shrinking number of demonstrators and michael was not addressing the you know best even though you mentioned them early in his intervention but to actually make a difference between do claims of the you know vest he claims which he agreed were actually funded were right and they were right to complain and the vent and medium said of that yet note some of the problems that now he was ready to tackle them and he already announced some measures in december we said he's fide welter of persons yesterday and so on on some reforms which we said these five pensioner element of do you know pressed by bridging or by a real risk devolution index seat pension so. it was said earlier

was the factory to come to have you know that what remains of the you know has done is a was to appear to appoint a section or a beautician to. electorate to twenty five percent rooted for him and do some of the people on the center right attracted by support he seized and in that sense you could say that it's been reasonably successful to just size yesterday because you see to popular is the aberrant the according to the polls of today he's managed to convince thirty seven percent of the french which is quite an achievement because to actually charm city twenty seven doesn't run is quite a undertaking and so is the demand result when you figure that he spoke you know generating was just of over twenty five percent before his intervention run a year out in paris was this the speech of a leader does he have an air of presidential authority about him is that mere culpa wasn't that when he said that he could have adopted

a different tone and style of leadership in the first two years of his presidency was this speech made with an idea think on reelection in twenty twenty. i don't think sure i think it's a bit too early but we have to remember that sixty maybe thirty seven percent of the french were convenes but there's another figure which i think it's more which is the more important is that sixty three percent and of. the people who listen to the president were not convinced though even really made a lot of efforts to try to you know to get everybody with him. so. this is not a success this is not a feel or either issue that he was a compared to and man it was hard working but maybe it was more a minister's speech than the president it was very technical he looked like it was

long it was all big blog boring bland you could say and and he went into details that are actually the responsibility of the prime minister and the government and not of a president the president in char in france is in charge of the real big decisions if you like diplomacy war or peace and the great you know constitutional constitutional changes and so of but the. president is not in charge of the deed today social policy of the government. and there is an article in the constitution's that it is the government that debtor minds and leads and conducts the policy of the nations so i think that. core looked

a little bit too much as a technocrat and not as a president in the sense of you can see that you know. be do force were meteo and birdied really the president of france johnson's fear what do you make of that it was more of a minister's speech than than than a presidential one sixty three percent of the electorate still not convinced to what extent is all of this little too late. too little too late for french voters i tend to disagree with the previous panelists and perhaps a great degree of it mosher tell me why it's evidently the case that the president spoke about sort of more technical measures and didn't look like a de golyer a mr on but in twenty nineteen i'm not sure if that's really the expectations the french have in fact macro at the beginning of his presidency spent an awful lot of time trying to come across as a jew patisserie and president a sort of god like figure and it came across really it's rather in written rather

strange strange fashion i'd say for such a young man to behave like a greek god or a roman god. so this is beyond as he's trying to open the second act of his presidency i think it is understandable that he's trying to talk a bit more concretely about what he can do for the french and i'd also say that political attacks in france has accelerated since two thousand and two in that there's been. sort of saying that the elections for presidents and for parliaments have been synchronized and therefore presidents have become more responsible for the actions of individual governments you don't have this kind of removed figure of a president the president is expected to be involved in day to day politics that may be incoherent with the original spirit of the fifth republic but that's the reality we have and so the reason i disagree i suppose is that tried a different tack which may or may not work time will tell but he came across as perhaps a bit less regal or divine his desk wasn't sort of gilded but actually white and

quite sort of minimalist and he talked about real issues so time will tell whether it works what you make of that. yeah it will be charged too because actually east to himself yesterday that some of the measures he was indicating that he was proposing such as going to some that is asian do kind of. taxis which can be cut to the kind of public spending which can be cut will be decided by the gov and he gives directions as his role. to the government as the constitution stipulates to enact the sport he sees so is rolle yesterday if it was quite right to give some direction and effort he gave the sense of direction basically that he hasn't change direction every challenge he stop and michael cannot be defiled of the nation like to gore was all a. given she and i could be at some point because of his age anyway and because of

is approach is actually made the point that he's big on earning curve so it's a bit quieter the next iteration of the set the mood just accept a shift in the last two years or some really he's not quite fit because actually because of his life he was removed from many people and to come on people's program is look in the last two years that maybe the measures he had who took his top down approach the debate don't approach charter say the idea is not suited to a french want people who understand then the debate. for that to happen he wants to show that it's recent he's already made some consideration we should go towards the demands of the face of a do specific ever fix he wants to involve that but the government has a role to play but there are so more the citizens are still going to vote or mayors

so he wants to promote a top down governance as it was before. and let's see where that can work run a changing tack slightly here what is it that the french want the people they say they want lower taxes employment opportunities reforms better public services fewer decisions made by the elite in paris but many are unwilling it seems to accept longer working hours or higher retirement age less social security is what the french want pretty much like briggs it is in the u.k. want i suppose undeliverable ultimately whoever is in power is that thing that you know it's how do you do politics in western democracy. there were cameron in england instead of barring a leadership and saying we are going to improve our position in the

european union we are going to make this european union work cameron decided it's not up to me to decide but it's up to the people again and again to decide and i will do a referral and so mccall should really poor little ship. and he made a huge crisis which is not finished in britain you need leadership. did. show a lot of leadership yesterday i am not so sure i'm not so sure that people listen to him to the end i don't think so the they were bored quite quickly he showed good competence is sure that he was a good technocrat i don't think he showed leadership and if you

sure leadership you just say and make the people follow you in a policy and he started to. to to say that he was elected on the program that he would reform france because forms as he very costly welfare state that does not bring said his fakes satisfaction to its people is the huge well first aid no satisfaction for the people and the problem is that mccall said that it would reform it but actually it didn't take in the first hundred days all the measures that shewed as have reform this state and finally yesterday told us. that you know he had a promise of reducing. the size of the civil service in france which is. the biggest. the heaviest civil service in the whole europe and

apparently it was it was all a bit blurred but apparently he will give up this this reform so actually. at the same time he did not reform the system he will be still criticized by by germany for instance because of huge french dificid and at the same time he didn't bring satisfaction to the most poor people of france and the yellow vest population so i don't think that for the time being he is a really beginning act to or if you think that is beginning an act number two i don't really read the scenario ok a chance to show a white why couldn't the court of introduce the measures that he's introducing now earlier in his term. is there any alternative in terms of leadership in france

right now to president mccraw and how will his party or marsh fare in in the forthcoming european elections. so to take those three questions one by one the reason why some of these policies wasn't well presented before is simply because we've had a great debate recently and it was important to show that this great debate served some purpose and that it inspired some kind of change of cap in macro leadership although some my fellow panelists seem to think he isn't showing much of that quality so that's why the policies came up now some of them follow through on what he announced in the summer some are a much more specific response to i think frustrations with which macro felt to be fair to him he did take part in his own debates he actually turned up as a sort of surprise guest at some of them and usually did quite well and you know yesterday's exercise of banging on for three hours about various measures is an exercise he's very good at and while it can be quite tedious to watch it on television people who attend usually get quite drawn in and so using the great

debate he did speired some policies to respond to various frustrations one very key one was sort of simplifying administrative tasks and bringing them all into one place which may be maybe sort of called service france or something ok simplifying access to public service is your second question was on a lot of political tentative to macro for the moment there isn't really one i mean he's decimated the the traditional parties of government and so the alternatives are really extremes which for the moment don't seem ready to win in a two round race and your third question how well we do in the european parliament elections in a month and his list is sort of neck and neck with the far right the far right i believe is ahead this week but it really varies from week to week and that's the big challenge for him as a pro european president i think it's very important for him to come first in the european elections occasion we haven't got to the bottom of this question of what the french want do they want macro or national they want the far right. who will do the french and this is a big question and every president was tempted to reform france and

met with a bruise or tide is be so difficult bruce. on soc was it before it was ship before it's time that they want to make structural reforms a stronger position it was even the case for my quote earlier all in one it changes the change liberalized station and a reform or a way work you had to face. right was used to privatizing a way to a party to competition yet to face huge demonstrations but you know to give it ok and that's it's always been you should undergo or used to say do you want to out can you governor country with for under the sixty five different types of cheese and he'd seen in there of an education when you look at the what comes out of the debate to two main things that the board of want is they less tax and more public

services how do you reconcile this two aims that these. very very difficult to square that circle that yesterday for example many many measures will displease is right wing supporters especially the fact that he decided not to implement hundred fifty five thousand job cuts into cities has yet to do it because there's a demand for public services maybe it would mean redeploying these people etc so. i don't think he has a sense of leadership it's very difficult in france to reform this time yes to changes try to evolve more whole other bodies in there just in the making of a decision and some of the decisions he announced yesterday go towards death at first but he said he wanted to work more closely with the unions which early on in his mandate eeg note and yesterday it was very striking to see that the most

positive reaction to his speech yesterday was that of the reformist union. and it was. loads of good fakes and we see that do you use ana quite reassured by the fact that he won't make seven cuts in public spending right he's are so proud he wants to defund de france or should what we're just being under attack from many quarters in europe and within france in the us for years and that is something that we. that we send him a good case and make it chances for his government for his part is this do you buy that action to maybe come ahead of not in a pen because it's true he has no position i don't want conflict of the cigar we could take over the presidency for a final question i'll go off on you for a voice in the middle here charles let's field in london. charles i need you to be under a minute here if you can guess what time is is tight if there were

a general election always and only half way through his term but if there were to be a general election in france tomorrow would he win. well there are different types of elections in france and they're all too round elections so you can't really read them through a british lens or a german one but in a presidential election i think he would win he still has the support of the twenty four percent of voted for him in the first round in twenty seventeen and then assuming he would be up against an extremely candid is of the far right or the far left mr middle of the far left is quite a. quite a strong figure in the opposition on the far left so whether he would he were to face mrs le pen or mr middleton he beat them not as convincingly as in twenty seventeen but he would so that's not saying that he'll win in twenty twenty two the next election is quite low quite a long way away if you ask me what would happen in the immediate future and he would probably went just many thanks indeed gentlemen we must end our discussion thank you all for being with us today when i was here out in paris charles this field in london and jack role in san paolo and if we get you can see the program

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your own record on this trouble in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a two state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we will show you i don't care about the official story if you were to visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's lots of graves in here join me on the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera. it's a climb to one of the holiest sites in. the street seems to defy gravity every piece of the u.s. is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness but it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the u.n. to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow putin's example but how do you measure it. it's a nice happiness but when chew it if it is quantifiable by simply turning its

pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. i mean this is different. but there is some one thing for someone to read this matter we think it's how you proceed to show that it is a certain way to countries. out. fifteen dead in a gun battle after sherlock in security forces launched a raid in connection with the easter sunday bombings. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. anger among protesters as several former ministers from sudan to al sadr regime are

freed from prison by military rulers. south africa marks twenty five years since the end of apartheid better headed next much general election the a.n.c. is accused of ignoring corruption and chronic poverty. and criticism of the u.n. secretary general by human rights groups who accuse him of silence over the plight of china's on a visit to beijing. military commanders in sri lanka say the bodies of at least fifteen people had been found after a shoot out during raids connected to the easter sunday bombings cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up after the assault in the eastern city of. six children are among the among the dead several raids were carried out around the city police discovered explosives other bomb making equipment a suicide vest and an eyesore flag on solutions us now from colombo so there's been

a lot that has been developing in the in the past day or so florence what's the latest. that's right now police say they have made several arrests and that's still the security situation ongoing in the east and of sri lanka this is where the gun battle started on flight day it was several explosions that were hurt now we're finding out that the. with the result of side bombs that's where fifteen bodies were recovered now police have asked villages to leave their homes so they can conduct house to house searches and in a separate raid also on friday night they found bomb making materials including one hundred fifty sticks of explosives one hundred thousand metal ball bearings the eisel flag as you mentioned as well as junior forms very similar to what the suspected suicide bombers were wearing in a video now they immediately place the area under curfew twenty four hour curfew that started on friday night and that's in the movement dominated easton province

of sri lanka but also in colombo that's been a worrying development the navy police said they arrested three people who had on them one kilogram of explosives and they were arrested near the railway station and it shows just how tense and fragile the security situation is and how quickly it can change and develop a couple of days ago police were making arrests the bomb disposal units had been called out and they were making controlled detonations you know but now new security forces were engaged in the gun battle in a way it shows that police are making a getting closer to the people who may have links to the attacks as well as knowledge of the attacks but it's also scary because it confirms what authorities have been saying that they've been warning about the possibility of attacks in sri lanka so what effect is this having on people and sharia longer. well it's

a really tense situation here i mean colombo is nothing like what it normally is the streets are normally busy the you know the people everywhere bustling but now so many shops are closed with people choosing to stay home you see armed officers on street corners or they're guarding religious buildings of all faiths churches mosques temples religious dot choose people can't get into hotels unless they have a can reservation even then that's a so stringent sniff adult checking your i.d. just an hour ago before the police came in off just for identification papers and last night our van was stopped five times along a two kilometer stretch so the security presence on the streets of colombo it's so visible and it's ramped up so much in just the last twenty four hours and of course people are worried people are dead you know the sri lankans have been through a lot they've lived through twenty six years of civil war but they packed their bags and the fighting ended ten years ago so in the last decade they've been

getting used to a myriad of means and now this the possibility that this period of peace may be shattered by more violence and more and the worst thing in this country doesn't have a conflict of history between muslims and christians and of course naturally that is that the bombings on easter sunday the events of the last few days may create a rift between the different religious communities lawrence live for us in colombo thank you florence well raman is associate editor at war ok that's a new media website and sherlock as she joins us from colombo we appreciate your time very much so for this type of operation to happen it is clearly very well organized and had to have taken quite a bit of planning and if in fact this is i sold. their people or is anyone surprised that i saw has this level of organization in sri lanka to have been able to pull something like this off if in fact they were the ones that did this. but i

think the general consensus on the ground is that people do you know when what about how far the fact that these some extent have a section where you know that a very extensive network on the ground what we do know is that in two thousand. media reports of one person at least. just to join the sound stage and doing better there we noted that that was not taken very seriously into that. the justice minister at that time we did as a radical party into that turkey to. join. and. i also said. that once you reach this. preaching of any extremist ideology so there were warnings but it wasn't taken seriously and even it went and the justice minister did ask about it back to me that these revelations and i'm going to the. cabinet support that i have that stood up to the senate and

sort of trivialized if you ports and you need to be faxing that to be the media that's a statement was not the statement of the government but ever since then there have been other reports. sort of religious organisations that excused ideology such as the national guard which is so responsible for these attacks and also the. military who is also named as one of the suspects suspect organizations behind these attacks so the leaders of these groups and multiple extremist ideology are muslims themselves moderate muslims have protested against them several people organizations have written to authorities about these groups and the idea was that it seems like nothing was taken very seriously so let me let me ask you these attacks ok so as far as florence said and her report there

is not a history of animosity between muslims and her stance in sri lanka in colombo specifically do you think maybe that's why there was just this resistance and disbelief to think that that something like this would happen. there's no to. any kind of. tension between the fifteenth and was it would just come out up. between the singles and the planets so had there be any nation. actions oh i'm going to exchange ideas what he did but perhaps a channel. i think. seriously but given. the tension between this year and the end. i think it was just sort of not taken seriously at all when attacks like this happen countries have different ways of responding but what seems to generally happen is this. heightened security state

for lack of a better term how do you see this affecting. security and telethons community the government in fact going forward. and that is the biggest fear a lot of. you discussed as you know discussed earlier as well we thought we had left behind ten years ago in the war and yet it replied to everything all the very. extensive check being having to carry your national id with you at every point canada's means that a view of exists fish and all of these things we kind of came through and we had sort of accepted this this beast and now well i think troubling that there's so real nature of what is going on and slowly beginning to understand the reality. that there's going to be it is here and also in

a community that the unfortunately viewed by some people at least suspicious lens there will be security and until at least the government can. totally they will try to. any kind of third occurrence so it is so it is i suppose it's a chance to debate about a transitional states but accepting this new reality well ram enjoining us from colombo sri lanka thank you very much. and sudan several former government ministers arrested during the overthrow president omar al bashir have been released and that is angered thousands of protesters who have been in a sit in for three weeks now outside military headquarters in khartoum they say they won't go home until military leaders immediately hand over power to civilian rule ahmed our reports from the capital. under the scorching sun. outside the sudanese army headquarters in ca to look for friday prayers. the

someone is haven laden with political messages condemning the of deposed former president bush messages to the demonstrations continue until the protesters achieve their goal at a time to civilian rule in sudan. soon as the prius the now from the a chance feel the road it will hold up then we need a civilian government to set up a foundation for a modern sudan followed by elections that have integrity and represent the will of the people. and there's a lot of sadness husband of the full regime devoted to people through segregation and racism and today we are united as one nation without trying to create all color we are ready to develop a progressive suit on the protest us walk compt outside the military holds us even before bush it will soon move from the interests of all the transitional military council has given in to some of them to be amongst the protestors last field

digging in for a fight under a fusing to discuss the feeling here is that the consul is simply invites crime hoping the protesters won't be disappointed and then go home despite international support for the protest as the ten member military council has so far resisted calls for a transition to a civilian administration they argue any small vacuum could propel sudan into a civil war three council members submit that there is initial so my. and stay under pressure from protest leaders who say they have presented the interest of all bushie to aldridge and the three good jubilation among the protesters who mosque in their tens of thousands for what organizers hoped would be a million strong march in the past few days the numbers have been bolstered with many people arriving from other parts of sudan to join the sit in how would i do algebra.