stricks in the northwest province of mozambique they're without power so we're still saving what level of damages. but. yeah i mean that the first years of the haitian this is a good one area. island as further out in the indian ocean including the commerce chain of islands are also starting repair as the film is our houses have suffered a tremendous disaster everything was destroyed meteorologists expect more severe rain across northern mozambique threatening flooding and landslides. sikes from kenneth may require a major news humanitarian operation at the same time that the ongoing cycle response targeting three million people in three countries remain critically on the fund. it's the first time in recent history two storms have hit mozambique and one cycle in season six weeks ago likely to die devastated the south where more

people live in neighboring malawi and zimbabwe were also hard hit killing at least a thousand people and leaving a trail of destruction the extent of the damage caused by this latest cyclon is still too early to say. nor about a manly al-jazeera. south africa is marking twenty five years since the end of apartheid on this day and nine hundred ninety four for the first time in the country's history people of all races were allowed to vote president cyril i'm a porter says the day of freedom won't be forgotten for big tragedy of it was always with great deliberation. different this is what was it and this gave you a million. and. more going. to it was the deep division. was. full of protests

broke out in the same town where the freedom day celebrations were taking place the demonstrators say they lack basic living standards and for them apart they've never ended. but some progress has been made since nelson mandela was revolution to end white rule but not nearly enough according to critics of the ruling african national congress reports from johannesburg. marked a mini cd members a feeling of euphoria in one thousand nine hundred four 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 after 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 hunter has. opened 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 be 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. only. thing for the people to protest over poverty poor public services and unemployment happen almost daily these are 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 not looked at people either no real knowledge we have all the successes not just of challenges. and all over the road to

accuse us. 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 is 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 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. in

johannesburg he says the criticism of the n.c. is justified. and south africa. day in twenty nineteen is certainly a much better place than it was in one thousand nine hundred four but you know there are many many child does that remain issues of inequality poverty and in particular unemployment and in particular unemployment among young people is a major major concern in south africa at this point in time it's a social. social contest station and lots of anxiety and frustration amongst ordinary people in south africa who feel that more could and should have been done to alleviate their plight so whilst a lot has been achieved we have an awful long way to go to really realize the dream of freedom that our founding fathers and mothers had for the society we have huge. huge economic problems that we have to confront it's been very lackluster growth in recent times we're in a recession last year and employment is rising it's

a state that is that has been captured for the better part of the last ten years extensive levels of corruption and looting of state resources which of undermined the ability of government to deliver basic services. housing education and so on venezuela has said it will officially withdrawals no one is asian american states on saturday you know he has recognized the head of the opposition one guy does his venezuela's wife a leader earlier this year he would normally do is request to exit. those supporters are holding more protests in caracas calling from a durham stand down when maduro supporters are holding their own rally the president has refused to stand down despite international and regional pressure the duros accused of presiding over a corrupt government has left the country struggling with a nationwide power cuts and worsening economic conditions for jennifer mccort is a professor at georgia state university she also worked closely with the

organization of american states to mediate conflict in venezuela and she joins us via skype from budapest i'm jennifer how surprised are you that venezuela has decided to withdraw from the oas and why do you think nicolas maduro decided to do this now because the oas doesn't even recognize madeira as the president anyway. that's correct but he actually announced two years ago that he planned it with withdrawal from the oas it's a two year process and so it is finally coming to an end this month he did that to prevent their suspension potential alister of the us whether from the oas that he did it in a sort of preemptive fashion the oas has been trying to get a two thirds majority to remove. this waiver from it but it hasn't been able to it's got a simple majority of countries within the hemisphere to read. presidency

instead of mark geragos but this has been divided. in part in large part because they've been this way. over the last fifteen years or so and the oas was once dominated by influential leftist governments but i suppose the changing political landscape in latin america has led to more right wing governments in places like brazil argentina colombia which i which which i guess are more in tune with president trumps populist policies so that is way less pretty much found itself out of step with the oas doesnt it. yes definitely been a spoiler was playing a very strong role in it when it had oil money to distribute particularly to smaller caribbean countries and central american countries who voted normally to support the venezuelan position against some of the other larger countries in the oas now of course that as well it doesn't have that oil money and so fewer

contributors the porting it but it hasn't lost all support so the oas is playing again a stronger role but is not going to be able to for example mediate as it did fifteen years ago in the country because it is it is not trusted by that in this way the government and it's mainly trying to organize international support for the opposition the alternative government. has been its main role is is venezuela's exit lockett's a third of the deepen that as well as diplomatic isolation which is something that washington and president trump want to do anyway. well certainly it adds to it the problem is that we see we have dual presidencies and dual diplomatic representatives now or have been this way so the oas recognize the tentative

presence. why don't representative and has ceded that person in the oas just in the last two weeks so what that means for preventive sway in the. departure from the oas at the end of this month is extremely unclear the united nations on the other hand still recognizes president muggers representative as they are an asset or to the united nations and this is happening around the world in european capitals in the united states in latin american capitals as why don't names representatives and ambassadors and attend and. all right jennifer jennifer mccoy thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you thank you. meanwhile things are not going according to plan a thousand security force personnel who defected from venezuela they crossed the border into neighboring colombia two months ago and then they remain awaiting the cold to join the fight with venezuela's president. reports from the border city of

god as they abandoned their posts and crossed into colombia they were greeted as heroes was more than one thousand members of the security forces defected two months ago they promised loyalty to. the leader of venezuela's opposition in self appointed the interim president they expected it would soon help president nicolas maduro. you're doing the right thing in my message to military families is the time is now. that's not proven to be the case remains in office and the defectors feel they've been abandoned left to worry about their fate and that of their families back home. william can seem is the only member of in this way less feared special forces known to have deserted me i want to have this hope that in a few days we were going to act and begin what they call operation freedom to

topple my door and his criminal posse instead it was his family members who felt they had to flee after reportedly receiving death threats and it kills me having to stay here standing idly by knowing what's happening inside the country but this is the situation we're here with nothing to do with we can't work and can't send money back home i'm thankful for the food and shelter but we want to do what we came here to do. most of the venezuelan defectors are reluctant to speak to journalists some are being sheltered by the united nations there's financially supported by in this way less opposition the day we have fifty were at risk of being on the streets since the opposition had not paid their bills. we don't understand how they are being so responsible. after we answered their call leaving our country and our career the result is that we are increasingly divided and many have already left representatives of the venezuelan opposition tell us that they were so right by the number of venezuela military forces that defected back in february and they're

trying to come up with a plan to deal with them in the long term especially if the political situation in venezuela doesn't change. however so-called ambassador to colombia refused to comment the colombian government says they are doing what they can to assist they clearly have large expectations which the colombian government is not responsible for we try to take care of them as we do with the other one point two million venezuelan migrants in colombia within its way less political seal meat dragging on those who risk all to support change wait and wonder if their gamble will pay off. the. security forces in afghanistan or free dozens of prisoners from a jail run by the taliban u.s. special forces join the raid in zabul province it has many security force personnel some reported have been tortured during their detention taliban members are told to

do been killed during the operation. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back another case of police brutality goes viral in the u.s. the office is in florida. and life is a game for many libyans seeking an escape from. celebrate the life of their hero sixty seven with the sixty seventh minute goal and their march towards the scottish title stay with us i. well there's generally quite quiet to over parts of the middle east at the moment you see a little bit of cloud just drifting its way across parts of iran but nothing too significant as you head out through afghanistan you see a little bit more in the way of cloud that could give us a few showers and still want to outbreaks of snow but all of that is clearing away

for the west there's also only one or two showers around parts of turkey at the moment i think those will intensify as we head into monday and some of the downpours will be rather lively but that's really the only regions of what weather for the south though there's more crowd here and there's also more activity also spawned or not ning out of the cloud over parts of saudi arabia and is a drifting its way eastwards we see a fair amount of cloud a few outbreaks of rain here in doha as well that's still going to be with us that system as we head through the day on sunday so still a chance of seeing a few showers here but on monday it clears away and then off to that it looks like the temperatures will shoot up say thirty two degrees on monday but i hope to as we head through cheese day and wednesday down to was the southern parts of africa of course we've seen all storm kenniff but it's largely disintegrated now there's just a few rather heavy showers to be seen most of those staying off the coast there will be more showers here as we head through the next few days and again some of them could be very heavy for the southeast looking largely dry and at twenty four.

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on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour so don's opposition says it's hopeful that a deal will be reached with the military to transfer power a delegation representing protestors has been meeting army leaders to demand a civilian led government. as president has banned two groups accused of being involved in the easter sunday bombings which killed more than two hundred fifty people and follows more raids and arrests across the aisle. a mozambique's government is urging people to seek higher ground just days after the tenets of the

country forecasters are predicting more heavy rain which could lead to flooding and mudslides. but in less than twenty four hours spanish voters will head to the polls for the general election in four years that's cost a european new center where madame ozzie standing by. hi daryn yes that's right the political landscape in spain has become more fractured in recent times and this means that all five parties that are competing for seats in tomorrow's election could have a real shot at playing a role in government the two traditional parties the center right popular party or p.p. in the center left socialist workers party have seen their dominance eroded by the smaller parties with no single party expected to win an overall majority former government could prove problematic with both far left and far right parties among those vying for office for we have two correspondents following this election for a sunday gago is standing by in the spanish capital madrid first so let's meet to

jonah hill he is in barcelona what impact is the election likely to have on catalonia and its independence supporters china. well one way or another it could i think have a pretty profound impact perhaps even decisive on the direction of the independence movement here the fifty percent of catalans of course who support independence but remember this is a movement that has already had an enormous impact on the direction of national politics it is pro independence m.p.'s in the national parliament who helped to trigger the snap election in the first place when they withdrew their support from the socialists earlier this year it is a movement that has been an enormous catalyst in the. support for the far right vox party the ultra conservative party the first far right force in spanish politics since the death of the general franco forty years ago and which ever way the result goes it is a movement that has already influenced that result whether in encouraging

a right wing coalition including vox determined to stamp out separatism altogether or by lending its support to a new leftist coalition with the socialists and perhaps just the faintest chance in that of a negotiated solution at some point down the line take a look at my report. its abilities of support. arrived regularly after eighteen months in prison and on trial in madrid catalans haven't forgotten independence a former interior minister for him and his wife laura and their daughters know that you are kim hasn't forgotten them. the telling that he doesn't is us. saying that he holds him next year we don't see a record together and he's with us now probably. the trial of twelve cattle and independence leaders on charges of rebellions addition then by misuse of public funds follows the region's referendum and unilateral declaration of independence which was met by police violence in two thousand and seventeen it's taken on heavy

significance for a movement struggling to reassert itself last in search of a way to achieve its goal. that i see very clearly that people don't feel like compromising in this ends up giving up of recognizing the renouncing it i don't see that it's possible that some people may think that we need more time that it doesn't have to be an immediate but i don't see any kind of resignation at all if not now then what is to happen in the interim at the national level spain's socialist government may pay a heavy price in this weekend's election for its attempts to negotiate over catalonia a surge in support for the far right nationalist brock's party risks dragging the entire political landscape to the right making a compromise over cattle and separatist aspirations seem less likely than ever if there is to the right then the radical right in spain everything is going to be

more difficult because that this practice in the right part of the explicit a lot of. the money again so it's not going to be only a matter off of it in the bed in this project but they're very. very core of a. their set of government on the open i mean that was recovered during their. democracy and so perhaps inevitably there's a quiet shift towards a more pragmatic approach is in business it is hard to see that the public is unless the main political party of the roughly sixty percent of people anderson support the independents some of its leaders and you can see they are in prison not addressing the crowd here by live video link the message increasingly is that unilateral action didn't work the way forward now is through dialogue and political legitimacy. that means winning as many seats as possible in the national parliament and influencing change within the dream of independence isn't getting any closer

but it does remain very much alive. so the independent streaming lingers jonah but the way forward is uncertain. the way forward is uncertain certainly there in search of a way forward but the independence movement may well have a way forward thrust upon them because they are coalesced and indeed a great many catalans beyond the pure independent supporters of coalesced around another issue more immediate more pressing than the goal of independence and that is that trial of the twelve probably dependent leaders in madrid ongoing now there's a verdict expected in a couple of months a months time people here see them as political prisoners they see their case as a symbol of repression handed down by central government in madrid and if those verdicts turn out to be guilty verdicts in a couple of months time well that could well be the spark that reignite all over

again the independence of passions the shimmering anger the frustration the resentment here and has the potential certainly to draw even more support to the independence cause thank you very much jonah hill bringing us the latest from barcelona sunny gago is in the capital in the trade and so near their capital and crisis as jonah was saying is at the heart of these campaigns but. does this election risk deepening the polarization in the country. well maryam it's really unprecedented phase of its own democracy there's never been really years such a fractured state of affairs in the lead up to election forces as you mentioned earlier the two main parties is pretty much a binary choice for voters in the last few years that has been changing people's dissatisfied with the status quo

a lot of anger also about political corruption in which both of a political parties were implicated in that of course has opened up the grounds for these other smaller. these and most attention is being thrust upon the emergent far right parties and as jonah mentioned in his report fox has been using the crisis in catalonia and the subsequent constitutional crisis as a way of galvanizing people who feel angry that the previous government did not tackle this hard enough so without the direct effect has really been away. from the people's party and that this had direct effect on that meanwhile the socialists are so far ahead in the polls in the lead up to this election what is upset is certain is that even if the socialist do manage to get the most amount of votes they will have to try an end to it into some kind of coalition with the far left until stirred see where there was a party and also all the regional parties if knox the leader of the socialist but

they're such as has been warning you don't vote for this that spain gets a right wing party a hard right a far right the likes of which has not been seen since the days of the the details of general franco that was his warning and get this other figure arriving now forty percent of those voters who are going to the polls on sunday are still undecided as to how they're going to vote another challenge for all those political leaders were trying to galvanize as much support for their own party as possible and these it as you say another challenge and the outcome looking very uncertain thank you very much when i go in madrid. we go to france now where anti-government yellow dress protests have charged that police in the city have. tried to cross a bridge to get to the european parliament but were pushed back by riot police it's the twenty fourth weekend in

a row that yellow vest demonstrations have been held across france the protests come despite a series of tax cuts announced this week and appeasing the movement. authorities in paris have deployed professional mountain climbers to protect the not true down cathedral from further damage ahead of a storm due to hit the french capital the climbers of covered exposed parts of the eight hundred fifty year old building destroyed by a fire earlier this month the cathedral has already suffered water damage after firefighters for the blaze for more than twelve hours its feared heavy rain getting into the building would hamper the reconstruction process already likely to take up to six years. and russian president vladimir putin says he's considering offering fastrack russian passports to all ukrainian citizens that's after already granting those living in separatist parts of eastern ukraine the right to russian citizenship we genetically done. which was seized by russian backed separatists in two thousand and fourteen after russia annexed crimea from ukraine says he wants to

discuss the conflict with the ukrainian president elect but to me as a landscape. i have more from london for you in about twenty minutes time now back to daryn and martin will see them thank you very much our people and by mean of the casting their votes on sunday but but there won't be opposition politicians on the ballot election commission says groups opposed to the government were unable to meet new requirements on the board reports in the commercial capital cotonou. campaigning for these elections has been everything but business as usual there are two parties able to field candidates for eighty three national assembly positions and they're both pro-government. according to the electoral commission none of the opposition parties met the requirements of a new electoral code and charter of political parties one view from the eligible republican bloc party is that the opposition parties simply couldn't get organized in time to meet their requirements. it's also about taxes most of the national

assembly members who cannot take part in this election have been in government over the last ten years and have properties business interests and companies and now they can't meet their tax bills so they're not eligible for us in the republican party we are not only proud to be taking part in this election we are also doing our best to defend the constitution. well that's not the view from the other side opposition politicians believe the eligibility ruling is a deliberate move to fill the national assembly with candidates that will comply with the president's agenda to do so. it's a legislative coup and for us in opposition it is not acceptable we cannot endorse what's happening whichever way you look this is an unprecedented situation so much so the response of religious leaders traditional regional chiefs the west african bloc. and non-government organizations and also the president to intervene

however the president says the polls on sunday should go ahead the assembly failed to reach an agreement on a constitutional way forward following the announcement in march that the opposition parties were ineligible according to a prominent civil society activist what's happening takes the country back decades so. it's unfortunate it's sad and it's a step back for a democratic tradition and been in and it's contrary to article three of our constitution since multi-party democracy the people of britain have had the right to vote with legitimate option and this is a part of their sovereignty and now millions have been in years will be denied that right. as the country prepares to vote many are wondering what will happen next as they find themselves in unfamiliar territory among forcing al-jazeera. health officials in pakistan are suspended nationwide and the polio campaign follows the killing of a health worker and two policeman escorting vaccination teams pakistan is one of

three countries in the world where polio is still endemic but threats by armed groups and social attitudes have prevented many parents vaccinating their children . mexico is dealing with unprecedented numbers of foreign migrants seeking a new life in the u.s. thousands of migrants some walked all the way from guatemala honduras and other countries despite warnings from president trump and they're not welcome as the story. 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. 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. but really leave into also from onto to us says that without support from local communities migrant shelters are a last resort but the shelters can't provide for everyone no one was saying is that coming up we're going to say like you know 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 out 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 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 right. just before sunset migrants began to rush the train many of them women with a.