the contenders in this race a tough competition that has been seen at any time this is already proving to be a highly significant election showing the second highest turnout club since the end of the franco dictatorship sign perhaps that people here are highly motivated. the main spoiler in this unpredictable election box capitalizing on the populist wave spreading through europe the anti immigration policies have resonated amongst voters angered at the status quo the constitutional crisis caused by catalonia as attempt to secede has also dominated this campaign it's the first time a far right party has entered mainstream politics since the dictatorship of general franco so what i'm hearing sovereignty won't be broken in catalonia it won't be surrendered in brussels we're not going to kneel down in front of. the empty austerity together we can and center right citizens parties have

a chance of being part of a national government. previous coalitions have struggled in spain disagreeing factions have failed to pass national budgets whatever the result forming a coalition is likely to take time and in a reflection of what's happening across europe the only certainty is that politics in spain has become more fractured more polarized a sign of the times when increasing competent political stage you know. as you've been saying sonia no single party is expected to win an outright majority that means that a period of negotiations is likely to ensue just take a story what's likely to happen in the immediate aftermath of the election. it's not. just depends on who the games are. now with the socialist party had been in polling ahead of election day they seem to be gather. they

seem to gather more support than any other party so if they do when most votes they are going to have to begin the process of trying to pull back coalition. partners it would be to go with the stereotype to get we can hearts you need us but that must. they have made some kind of tacit agreement that they would support each other in that scenario question is what other party is will they need to bolster to form that majority as well and they're going to have to look to the regional parties as well from the past party you saw them play but what's going to be interesting is which cattle are parties are also going to be vying for their own place and what they will demand if they are going to form part of a coalition so it's a very tricky line that the leader would have to hold if they fail to do that and they come up with no viable solution then it pulls the next biggest party which in this case would be the conservative people's party they get in then they will might

likely go with it into a coalition with the far right and that's got a lot of people worried here and a lot of people trying to do some tactical voting on this day all right thank you very much with all the latest from madrid so on a day ago joe nadol is at the headquarters of the republican left of catalonia a pro independence party that is based in barcelona and i'm just picking up on the point that sonia was making that how the catalan region loads could be crucial to the prospects of pedro's sanchez what what's turnout been like their. turnout spinach dreamy good in catalonia much higher than in two thousand and sixteen it does seem as though a lot of people have come out to support parties are the the right and the far right in fear of the idea of a three way of the right with the box party and its proclaimed policies of stamping out separatism of independence altogether reposing direct rule and so on. i can

tell you ten minutes ago polls closed at eight pm oh so here they don't do exit polls old aren't doing them this time around the spanish but there is an opinion poll commissioned by the state television broadcaster t.v.e. which was released at the stroke of eight o'clock giving us a clue of where those results might might be heading a clear win for the socialists according to this opinion poll conducted over the last six days but without a sufficient majority to form a government on their own so there is talk of that leftist coalition which might bring in the m.p.'s of the pro independence parties vox not doing any better than anybody predicted at least around ten twelve percent of the vote and what may be the story of the night is that it doesn't look according to these numbers that there is in fact sufficient support for a three way coalition of the right should it come to that let me bring in my guest part of john rather just above a thanks for joining me politico a professor of political science at the university of barcelona. how significant would it be if indeed it turns out that folks have not done as well as many people

feared in the sense that in fact there isn't the support there for a right wing government just yet exactly it will it will be very significant because the fact that box that's and perform as well as expected. there's the possibility of having a cheap partite coalition right wing coalition in spain so that gives some some breath and some air to the possibility of having a red green coalition or a left call with a coalition government you know what simplest pretty extraordinary isn't it in spanish politics in this day and age to have a right worth far right wing force having any seats at all thirty six thirty eight seats that's pretty extraordinary exactly that that's kind of a part of the ox because these today being one of the worst days in the sea the sea in the history of the spanish right we main right wing party it's the first time that a clear fight right party comes into parliament and with such a force old today is not a good day for spice the markets are nevertheless potentially. a good day for

catalonia and for the pro dependance movement because of all that concern about a right wing surge there may in fact now be a left wing government that's good for the pro independence cause in general terms isn't it yeah i guess but in general terms that is the case because left wing coalition in the spanish government keeps the idea of some kind of more relaxed way of dealing with the problem in catalonia although i'm not sure that it will actually. mean a kind of a final solution for the final way to deal with the problem there is really no way of imagining a government in madrid no matter its color or strike giving a referendum to catalonia road to independence i don't think that that's a clear possibility but but i'm sure that the cattle and probably dependents cattle and these will. we will force or will try to force the main life we

party in spain to give up at least some kind of off way to to find a solution to the problem as a price potentially for their support in a coalition. that's all we've got from you for you from here we await a result possibly in the next hour or so i will bring those to you this is we've got to looking forward to it thank you very much challenge there is john hall there in barcelona and says so john was saying that the polls that have close turnout has been high in this election and we'll continue to keep an eye on those results as they come in now let's get down into marian thank you very much plenty more to come here on the news hour including. we store strongly condemn the evil of their services are men they. police in california arrest a teenager after shooting inside a synagogue. on kenneth's may have come and gone in mozambique but the un is warning the worst may not be over. and support another record for kenya's mountain

man and we'll be here with that story a little bit later. a week after several bombings targeted hotels and churches in sri lanka churches remain shut instead christians took the unprecedented step of holding mass by watching a televised service that follows easter sunday as attacks have killed at least two hundred fifty people france louis has the latest from colombia. a week after the easter sunday it's st anthony's shrine remains closed and sunday mass across the nation suspended because of security threats despite the bomb alerts and intense security the faithful get as close to their church as they can under watchful eyes the head of the catholic church in sri lanka the archbishop of

colombo celebrated mass in the church in his official residence his message of peace broadcast live on t.v. and radio contradiction. someone in the name of gone gone who is the all merciful god who is the all love god who has reared my brother and mine. who vanished while we value the service at home with her family her sister. was at st anthony's church last sunday and hasn't been seen since she holds out hope her sister is still alive but is struggling we can pray did that only when and with . church anymore i don't want god my sister went to church with belief in god she had strong faith she often sets an absence will help really good turn your life i've lost faith in the church. the family haven't stopped searching but say they're ready to accept any outcome this is our genies neighborhood multi-faith like

a family as a mosque a few steps away and in front of that a catholic shrine at this time of the year this street and the surrounding ones should be decorated with festive lights to celebrate easter a week ago instead they've been replaced by black and white streamers. really father jude joseph joined. us holding mass at st anthony's when the bomb exploded he survived because the bomb us at the back of the church away from the altar he says he's struggling to come to terms with the attack why inside this would please such things to happen. usually before the mas i talked to the people. and then. as you say later to some of them. they were full of. they were full of hope. and all of them with new dresses. i hope some families came

specially. to ask for. me to go. outside think and survive as held a prayer vigil and lit candles in memory of the dead and pray for peace florence li al-jazeera colombo. libya's un recognized government has told france to stop dealing with honey for have tar the warlord continues to lay siege to tripoli and their strike on sunday by one of those helicopters killed four and injured at least twenty three one of the wire does more from tripoli through clashes broke out again on the southern part of tripoli near the vicinity of the international in active airport as their forces loyal to the kidneys the government of national called have advanced toward the center of the tripoli international airport it's very strategic because if the government forces recaptured the international airport they can

easily cut the supporting law and. forces from the city of the south of tripoli on another front have those forces that retreated as the government forces took control of a bridge on the southern part of tripoli military sources where the government say that the government warplanes targeted have those locations in civil areas on the southern part of the city and meanwhile the interior minister of government of national called. has blamed france for what he calls supporting the warlords have to overnight a poor have plane targeted locations near the city center of tripoli killing get for one twenty or more than twenty fighters with the government of national accord and if that is. interior minister

a government of national accord is asking or calling on france to stop dealing with the world health and they go through the fighter jets several locations at night for the interior minister says that there are two countries who are involved in supporting warlord plea for hefted with warplanes and fighter jets we know that the united arab emirates and egypt are the major supporters of the warlord or have other says that have to it cannot be part of any peace negotiations and the aim of this operation by the government is not only to push have to his forces back out of tripoli but also to chase them beyond the administrative borders of tripoli towards the city of the u.n. and the city of. iraq's foreign minister is demanding a formal apology from but it's over controversial statements made about an influential iraqi shia cleric charles stratford has more from baghdad on saturday

influential shia cleric here mocked all those other who controls the largest shia bloc in iraq's parliament called for a reconciliation between iran and saudi arabia and called for a change of government in bahrain syria and yemen now. it's in response to those statements that we saw the bahraini foreign minister describe the the influential shia cleric kamal to other assad as behaving like something that was a half man half dog as you can imagine deeply offensive here in the muslim world and as a result of that we saw protests overnight outside the bar in a consulate in najaf in the bahrain embassy here in baghdad it's very important to put this kind of diplomatic spat in some sort of geopolitical calm context here of course in recent months we've seen an increase in an effort by the u.s.

to galvanize pull in its anti iran coalition a coalition that is very much supported by saudi arabia and by bahrain and let's not forget that iraq is a majority shia country that neighbors iran and sees itself very much as being in the center of this wider geo political context other souther up until now has always been so far at least as being quite moderate in his language very keen to point out that iraq is a sovereign nation and that iran will not meddle in its affairs and neither will the americans and their supporters so they say it's important to put context on this diplomatic route but it highlights once again as i say these very deep seated sectarian and political problems of this region and just how tense the situation is becoming. break your knowledge is a rat when i come back that is when i makes

a plea to pharmacies new sanctions put pressure on food supplies. a lot of displaced we'll have the latest in a series looking at the issues refugees are facing and we'll have all the sports. striking naima gets punchy after his team suffered an unexpected defeat in that status. hello again and welcome back we're crossing live and we are looking at much of the disturbed weather we had seen coming across the gulf as well as into southern iran making its way towards the east towards pakistan and afghanistan so as we go towards monday things are looking much better across the region the winds have been dying down as well but the temperatures are coming up here across many areas for quite city we do expect to see a high there on monday of twenty nine degrees for baghdad it is going to be thirty

three degrees there and as we go towards tuesday it gets even hotter in baghdad we expect to see about thirty six tehran a nice day for you but we do expect to see some showers in the forecast at twenty four degrees there here across the gulf temps are coming up as well here in doha we're going to start the day here on monday with a temperature of about thirty two as a high as we go towards tuesday it does come up as well but the temperatures across much of the interior sections across saudi arabia neka forty degrees few as a high there but over towards miss got a nice day at about thirty one and of course we do want to update you on what is happening here across mozambique heavy rain could be a factor across coastal areas but the remnants of the storm is making its way off so we do expect to see much of the rain start to dissipate down here towards the south in durban it is going to be a nice day with sun in your forecast at twenty seven in johannesburg is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty four. leah and her husband gavin worst leak when four teenagers broke down the back door the

teenagers described as being of african appearance still on the run before all of this happened i wasn't scared out of black people or people of color or. whatever to focus on african gang crime began in march twenty sixth jane when violence broke out at the number festival at federation square in the center of melbourne to gird suit of african young people coming together and knowing there was a fort bragg and it became my rolling rolling feel lot some of it was because the place become involved and we started chasing they just tables and that created all narratives in the media at the top and a lot of political pressure on this people to commit crime can do single race whole human gets blamed for the actions of the few. people have to base life i have to feel saif side there's a lot of perception issues i think that we need to deal with this well.

welcome back i'm out of the top stories here on news a protest leaders of the military in sudan due to music and shortly on saturday the two sides agreed to form a joint council to run the country until elections can take place. polls have closed in the spanish election and it's unlikely that any single party will win an outright majority that could lead to months of coalition talks where the far right talks policy could become a kingmaker. because leaders have taken part in vigils a week on from the deadly easter sunday bombings that killed more. when two hundred fifty people the country remains an aging security forces carried out more raids in search of suspects. a teenager suspected of a shooting at

a synagogue in california is also under investigation for a mosque one fastener was killed and three others wounded including a rabbi and one thousand year old man alleged to have far right views as matter rested right reynolds has moved from the scene of the shooting. almost one hundred people had gathered at the whole community center in synagogue in poll a north of san diego to celebrate the last day of passover in the jewish holiday a white one thousand year old male identified by police as jonathan ernest entered the synagogue and began firing a semiautomatic rifle bullets struck four people killing an elderly woman and wounding a young girl a man and the rabbi presiding over the service obviously look right now based on my last. conversation looks like a hate crime hard to believe as the gunman fled an armed off duty border patrol agent employed to provide security at the synagogue chased him shooting at his

vehicle shortly afterward the gunman contacted police and was taken into custody without incident police believe his weapon jammed soon after he began shooting there was a border patrol officer off duty. at the at the synagogue and as the. church was leaving the facility he obtained a weapon and engaged in gunfire and shot at ernest did not hit him but there was a piers that did make. did put some bullet holes in the car that arch was driving law enforcement officers say the alleged gunman was under investigation for attempting to set fire to a mosque in a nearby community hate crimes against jews and other minorities in the. us have increased in recent years the california attack happened six months to the day after eleven people were killed in a synagogue in pittsburgh one of the worst instances of anti semitic violence in

modern u.s. history in the past few weeks three churches where african-americans worship were set alight in louisiana president trump has faced criticism that his rhetoric has encouraged white supremacists he denies the accusations on friday the president drew criticism for once again saying there were quote fine people among those taking part in the unite the wright rally in charlottesville virginia in two thousand and seventeen which was billed as a racist anti-semitic gathering president trump says there were some there milledge to defend the statue of the confederate pro-slavery general i was talking about feel this way because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. lee a great general like. it was one of the great the alleged gunman apparently posted a hate filled anti-semitic screed online on

a website popular with the far right just a few moments before the shooting began that document will now be scrutinized by investigators who are also looking for other elements to his motive and the shooting is likely to add to a growing political debate in the weeks ahead rob reynolds al-jazeera hoey california well christensen he joins us live now from washington d.c. christian so what more details are emerging about the suspect and what reaction has there been to the attack. nineteen year old john ernest at this stage has not been linked to any known hate groups although that post on on line that spend a link to him does talk about other mass shootings including one at a mosque in new zealand praising them and there are calls now for him to face his crime charges at this stage he's only been charged with homicide though more charges could very well emerge and clued in arson charges for another mosque that

was burned in another town in california last month that's still under investigation by police now reaction to this shooting has been swift and strong across the political spectrum democrats and republicans jews and muslims all condemning this shooting calling for unity calling for different religions to stand together and in the case of democratic senator chuck schumer a call for action as wow i've seen reports that this most recent recent attack or took in took inspiration if you can call it that from other horrific acts perpetuated by white supremacists who communicate with one another online we must we must be thinking more ways to stop the spread of this hate and protect all houses of worship. and of course the need to address gun violence is greater

than ever before and chris and this attack comes barely six months after that pittsburgh's in the go to talk with eleven people were killed i mean how worried are people about the rise of anti-semitism in the u.s. . there and you can talk to jews around the country in the united states they're very aware of the threat many synagogues have security guards outside of them the anti-defamation league called this attack an attack on the entire jewish community and in fact it's not just jews that are feeling a bit nervous these days hate crimes against minority groups have gone up in general seventeen percent in two thousand and seventeen according to the f.b.i. that's the last year the most recent year for which they have statistics in new york city in the last year however we've seen a continuation of this trend and not just there around the country as well but new york city is a good example seventy three percent increase in hate crimes in the last year there

and two thirds of them according to police have been against the jewish community and now the anti-defamation league c.e.o. said in the statement that this has to stop enough is enough and he called on all religions to stand together kristen thank you. flooding in northern mozambique has wiped out entire villages the united nations released these images showing the port town of pemba one of the worst affected areas. hit the region on thursday and has been more heavy rain the u.n. secretary general antonio has made an appeal for the victims many of them were already displaced. six weeks ago. when the first some workers knocked at the door at six in the morning and as soon as we got out of bed the water had already reached our knees we tried to wait and we tried to remove some of the water but things got worse we're going to try and buy some new clothes for my daughters the younger ones are less than two years old and everything is wet

and floating in the house with all the hundred on top and it's all full we have suffered every year since twenty thirteen now or in twenty nineteen we've always been suffering. these villages have been entirely wiped out they look like they've been run over by a bulldozer and the people are asking for shelter then they need water purification and they need food so we're going to work closely with the government we are here in support of i n g c who are coordinating this response to mobilize the supplies needed to get these people assistance as quickly as possible the weather is still bad it is still raining but thankfully the winds have died down so we will be doing everything we can in the next twenty four hours to get people the supplies that they need and to continue to move out to assess areas and make sure that we know the full situation on the ground. polls have closed in bernina where people were voting in the parliamentary elections that were picking candidates for money to political parties both of which i'm loyal to the president for the first time in thirty years there's not

a single opposition candidate on the ballot five years ago people could choose from twenty different parties. sanctions banning u.s. companies from buying venezuelan oil come into effect on sunday the economic impact on make it even harder for president nicolas maduro government to import much needed food malnutrition is at an all time high leaving a quarter of the population or seven million people in urgent need of humanitarian aid a latin american medicine a c. and human reports in north central venezuela. the emblematic sugar refinery of venezuela's valley hasn't been processing locally grown sugar cane dredge least two years francisco to center explains that the source of the problem is homegrown. producers non-printing came in so we're importing brown sugar from brazil and nicaragua which we were from into white sugar and complicity and. coolio is

a historic town it was where the spaniards established venezuela's first capital in the sixteenth century me this it's a first child valley where the sugarcane industry was king. it's sad to see what's become of. the mother city of venezuela. everything you see there to live photos was sugarcane they've planted limon trees now but they're dying because there are no pesticides. under former president chavez the refinery was taken over by the state followed by price controls the producers say made growing cane unprofitable now some farmers plant grass for livestock. or raise goats. the socialist government agrarian revolution was supposed to make venezuela self-sufficient in food but it hasn't turned out that way these were the workers quarters in what was another sugar plantation in this area like much of an as well as most fertile land

it was it's probably aided by the state divided up and the distributed to the local community but as you can see it has been abandoned. today than israel imports almost everything people eat including rice beans past and corn flour distributed in government subsidized food boxes but they're not enough buyers in the last two years the san fransisco church. has been the salvation for up to six hundred people of all ages they're not here to pray but to get a meager meal of rice and beans soup the only thing most here will eat all day. we are used to live off the sugarcane industry but there's no supplies everything is in chaos. now faced with crippling u.s. commercial and financial sanctions the government is again talking about making local food production a priority it's

a goal. for the last twenty years. it is more urgent than ever. to see in human. for the tenth week in a row the members of the algerian diaspora in france have held protests against algeria as ruling elite thousands of people took to the streets of paris on sunday early this month president. gave in to pressure from demonstrators down he'd been in power for twenty years the head of the upper house of parliament is now the interim president until an election on july fourth. pakistan has released a final group of indian nationals detained over illegal fishing three hundred sixty have now been released as part of a goodwill gesture india and pakistan often arrest each other's fishermen on charges of illegal fishing for political leverage tensions have remained high since a suicide bomber killed over forty soldiers in indian administered kashmir. thousands of tibetan refugees call india's capital home despite not having access

to basic social services many are recent arrivals who fled what they say is chinese oppression into bed in the second part of our series a life displaced al-jazeera sail raman meet some of those tibetans in new delhi who had to adapt to life away from home. to better culture and thrives here every day every hundred every step every smile has a meaning generations of tibetans young continue to embrace and maintain their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are and where they're from. this is a suburb of the capital new delhi to better serve the refugees here since nine hundred sixty four. at that time this was open ground there was nothing here there were no street lights not even at all when we came here we lived in tents our understanding. was that within one or two years we will go back to their bidding. indians helped the with food and clothes and as these rare photographs show the

homes were flimsy protecting them from harsh winters and blistering summers were simple brick and wood structures or tents. the community of a few hundred has turned into a few thousand this maze of alleyways is a part of a much larger community on the banks of the river a year but not. the display of symbols flags and bunting defined it has to better the area also attracts tourists to see tibetans at work and understand their issues tibetans here have been defined as migraines are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the one nine hundred fifty one un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up their own businesses and looking for work into.