similar to what we had in the past we have suffered for thirty years we need a swift and final solution. a joint transitional council which would include military presentation is on the cut negotiations have not yet us publish the personalities who would leave the country in transition to a full democracy but all sides so hopeful that they will eventually reach an agreement on but. there's been a discussion on the points in which there were differences of viewpoints and i think the discussion is continuing in a positive and fair trial way and that has encouraged us. some of the issues that dealing with include the period of transition would it be two or four years and whether the military will retain control of security and defense ministers many people is a done cut at the problem with the progress the chips fall for their clamor for peaceful democratic dispensation may be far from over but they say the struggle

they started here could potentially shape a new era on the african continent. encouraged by progress so far now a string of concessions by the transitional military council the mood within the protesters is one of defiance. today doesn't stop them gathered outside a building where the opposition popular congress party was holding a meeting chanting no place for islamists at least sixty four party members were wounded in the ensuing violence something that's been condemned by both the military and protest organizers. we've passed through along for the last thirty years every kind of crime has been committed against injustices corruption the killings. in the name of religion and why we want a secular government. protesters are also quick to point out that they are against a well and trenched dips. that wants to see

a continuation of the police isn't the past but their foremost priority they say is the immense task chipping the transition from thirty years of military rule mohammad that the world is either hot. we got plenty more ahead on this news hour as libyan war khalifa haftar has pushed to take over the capital continues one european country is told to stop interfering. in one thousand year old man accused of opening fire on a synagogue in the u.s. is charged with murder. and later in sport another record for kenya's marathon man and we here with that story. is all that still ahead but first iran's foreign minister is accusing israel saudi arabia and the united arab emirates of trying to push the united states into a conflict mohammed jevons that he told a u.s.

television network those nations are already fueling tensions with iran israel bolton. and united arab emirates all trying to exercise regime change at least. at least they want to have shown an interest in tracking the united states into a conflict i do not believe that president trump wants to do that i believe president trump ran on a campaign promise of not bringing the united states into another war but i believe president trumps intention to put pressure the policy of maximum pressure on iran in order to bring iran to its needs so that we would succumb to pressure is doomed to failure. also accused the u.s. security national security advisor john bolton of being among those trying to spark

regime change in iraq bolton addressed the issue on american television as well. honestly don't you want to see regime change just not the only way to get an iran that isn't a threat to the neighbor you've just laid out a real bill of particulars why a why it's such a bad actor in the region well look the people of iran i think deserve a better government there's absolutely no doubt about it the trouble is it's not just the theological dictatorship it's a military dictatorship too that's a very difficult circumstance we'll see what happens as the economic pressure continues to grow. the policy is an adjunct associate professor at georgetown university and was president of the national iranian american council he joins us via skype now from reston virginia good to speak with you again thank you. so let me ask you first of all about the fs comments now it's no secret that he doesn't have a lot of good things to say about the u.s. administration since since they came into office what should we read into this is

this just kind of a bluster from him i mean how much how much truth is there too to his assertion. well to be completely frank with zarif was saying was what most people in washington already knew i spent a lot of time talking both with democrats as well as with conservatives who are very very worried that the president is simply not on top of this issue and has delegated the iran file to john bolton who has now given been given an opportunity of a lifetime to start a war that he's been seeking to start with iran for more than twenty years and the circumstances for bolton are of course quite good because on the one hand you have a president that doesn't pay attention to this extent that he should he has a secretary of state that is essentially in a support of bolton and then he has no one at the pentagon right now heading the pentagon which means that is no one like matt is there could be pushing back at this point so this is been something that has been worried

a lot of people in washington for quite some time the fact that zarif is speaking to it i think is quite interesting which i think is an indication that the iranians seem to have a good understanding of the mood in washington but what give us some examples of his assertion that you know that israel saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are are goading the united states into a full blown conflict with iran. well first of all it's the remember what we read in the wiki leaks that came out about seven or so years ago that revealed that not only was saudi arabia but also the u.a.e. m b z was mentioned several times as being someone who very aggressively push the united states back then to go to war with iran and same thing with king of the law and in saudi arabia you had the quote of then secretary of defense bob gates who told the french secretary of defense in private which was revealed through we can

make said the saudis want to go to war with iran to the last american meaning clearly that they were not going to aim to fight it themselves they wanted the americans to fight it for them then you have more than twenty five years of israeli efforts to push the us towards a military confrontation with iran which have significantly heightened the ring and it and yeah i'm staring so again zarif is not saying anything that is coming as a surprise to anyone in washington on the contrary everyone here already knows this and there's significant nervousness both among republicans and democrats that it is not trump that is running the show right now when it comes to iran is john bolton so why is he saying this now then what should we read into the timing of this. i think he's saying this because he is realizing that bolton is closer to. turning his dream of a war with iran into reality than ever before and as a result there even is saying this and he's also seeing it on fox news because i think he's aiming to not only reach the president himself but also to reach to many

voters who put trump in office who actually did so because they believe that he was less inclined to go to war with other countries then hillary clinton was and remember trump was very much criticizing the iraq war and very much criticizing the neo cons who started it you are who are now he has hired almost all of those neo cons to run his national security policies all right trita parsi joining us there from a reston virginia thanks very much thank you so much now libya's u.n. recognize government has told france to stop dealing with after the wall continues to lay siege to tripoli and an strike on sunday by one of his helicopters killed four people and injured at least twenty three others would have done well and has more from tripoli. clashes broke out again on the southern part of tripoli near the diversity of the international in active airport as their forces loyal to they and

their kidneys the government of national called have advanced towards the center of the tripoli international airport it's very strategic because the government forces the capture of the international airport they can easily cut the supporting law in coming before her there is forces from the city of the south of tripoli on another front have to his forces that retreated as the government forces took control of the bridge on the southern part of tripoli military sources with 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 the government of national called. has blamed france for what he calls supporting the warlords have to overnight a poor have to play in targeted locations near the city center of tripoli killing

get four and one twenty over more than twenty fighters with the government of national accord and. interior minister a government of national accord is asking or calling on france to stop dealing with the world. and they go to the fighter jets or the locations at night or the interior minister says that there are two countries who are involved in supporting warlord plea for help to with the warplanes and fighter jets we know that the united arab emirates and egypt are the major supporters of the warlord who for have to russia 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. and a call made by president to libyan. offering support earlier this month has angered some members of the president's own party i don't know what the phone call hotter was about but it had an unnerving effect on the ground i was in tunisia and the president had called dora general from the east of libya this moving on tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and helped our did for phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking sides for the tenth week in a row members of the algerian diaspora in france have held protests demanding complete regime change back home thousands took to the streets of paris on sunday earlier this month long time president. gave in to pressure from demonstrators and the military and stepped down they head of the upper house of parliament is now the interim president until elections take place in july but he too is facing demands

to quit the polls have closed in people were voting in parliamentary elections they were picking candidates from mali to political parties both of which are loyal to the president the first time in thirty years there's not a single opposition candidate on the ballot five years ago people in could choose from twenty different parties country is considered one of africa's most stable democracies. has more from the port city of course on. opposition is not present in this election because no opposition party is made the grade now what happened was a month ago there was a decision taken by the electoral commission that only two policies were able to meet all the requirements of code and a new charter of political parties this electoral code and charter were read by the national assembly so the fact that now only two parties to the president have been able to succeed has caused an opposition outcry they're asking how can it be that

an election can go ahead without any genuine opposition the president's position has been that he's left the decision to the national assembly the process is taking its course and this is the. governmental organizations all concerned about what this means for the democracy of this country because bernie has a very proud tradition of democracy since multi-party politics in one nine hundred ninety so for the country to find itself in this situation many watches many activists think this is a step backwards for this country. week after several bombings targeted hotels and churches in sri lanka churches remain shut instead christians held mass by watching a televised service that follows these easter sunday's attacks that killed at least two hundred fifty people louis has the latest from colombo. a week after the easter sunday bombing. shrine remains closed and sunday mass

across the nation suspended because of security threats despite the bomb alerts and intense security the faithful gather as close to the church as they can on. the head of the catholic church in sri lanka the archbishop of colombo celebrated mass in the church in his official rest his message of peace broadcast live on t.v. and radio contradiction. to kill someone in the name of god. the all merciful god who is the all love god who has reared my brother and mine. who vanished while we value. of service at home with her family her sister. was at same time to church last sunday and hasn't been seen since she holds out hope

her sister is still alive but is struggling we can't take it out only when we're now i don't like 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. and family haven't stopped searching to say they're ready to accept any outcome this is our 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. every 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 the

peaceful place such things were to happen. usually before the mas i talk 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. my whole song families came specially in pension. to ask for. me to god. everything. a prayer. and prayed for peace. on food supply. issues.

border. hello there we're still got snow in the forecast for north america or over the next few days even though we're at the tail end of april we look at this satellite picture we can see one area of cloud here that's edging its way eastwards that perhaps some snow to chicago but now it's mostly rain as it works its way into the northeast but then we've also got another weather system that is dropping down from canada and this is going to give us some very heavy snow and some strong winds it gradually edges its way eastwards so as on looking fairly messy really over the next few days plenty of snow around over the northern plains the u.s. by choose day elsewhere and you see some wet weather the stretching down towards the south that's more in the way of rain but all of this going to edge its way

eastwards and it's a looking very messy at the moment even further towards the south and this plenty of showers here through parts of cuba and through his spine yota and across into jamaica away from there there's more in the way of dry weather but even head that's likely to be a few shop showers at times and some of them as i say are likely to be fairly heavy as you head down towards panama looks like the rains will be pepping up on tuesday so a wet today for us from head down towards south america of course the rain here is meeting quite a bit heavy but it is now moving away towards the north so for power watch for you but better than it has been twenty six will be the maximum there in asuncion looking but if a now that is the rain looks like it is brewing once more as we head through tuesday and into wednesday. on al-jazeera. the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls we focus on the economic challenges facing india and the rungs of culture that the new series of you want to win the environmental which meet some of the people striving for twenty

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again you're watching a mind of our top stories this hour spain's socialist party celebrates victory in the general election but it hasn't won it off seeds to rule on its own populous parties also made headway with the far right vox gaining seats in parliament for the first time. more talks between sudanese opposition groups and the military have been postponed until monday the two sides were to meet after announcing they had formed a joint council late on saturday night it will leave the country until elections are held. libya's un recognized government has told france to stop dealing with warlords after his forces are fighting for control of the libyan capital tripoli and astrakhan sunday by by one of his helicopters killed four people. a teenager suspected of carrying out a shooting at

a california synagogue has been charged with murder the nineteen year old is also being investigated for an arson attack on a mosque last month saturday's shooting left one woman dead and wounded three others investigators are now looking at his social media activity including an anti semitic letter published online. flowers were laid at the crime scene outside the synagogue and a candlelight vigil was held at a nearby church for the victims of the congregation in temple. a u.s. democratic senator chuck schumer says there is an urgent need to also address the issue of gun violence 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 our rob reynolds is live for us now from poway california so rob what more are we hearing on this murder charge. well the suspect john ernest is due to be arraigned on wednesday hossam he'll be facing one charge of first degree murder for the murder of lori can say it's the sixty year old woman who lost her life in the synagogue shooting and attempted murder three other charges of attempted murder now some positive news that has come out this afternoon all three of the people who are wounded which included a young girl under ten years of age have been released from the hospital so they're out of danger now the rabbi here at home synagogue in paul way

a rabbi use royal goldstein spoke very movingly to reporters a couple of hours ago about how he saw the gunman he was wounded by the gunman he showed how his hand had been when he's missing a finger and saying that this missing finger will always remind him not only of the fragility of life and of his community but also of strength and he called upon the forces of light as he put it to battle the forces of darkness as for the one thousand year old suspects online diatribe it contained many of the usual conspiracy theories and a tired anti-semitic tropes that we've seen really not just in the internet age but dating back decades and even a century or more but i think what one of the things that you showed senator schumer's there saying is that it's not only a question of gun control at this stage but also

a question of somehow controlling hate online because the suspect in this case made it very clear and i was struck by this in his online letter saying that he didn't grow up in a house that was filled with hate he wasn't taught this as a child he learned it himself he learned it online. and it's well reported as well that to investigate his rob looking at whether he was behind an attack on a. attack on a mosque on a mosque last month want to have one more we hear about that. that is correct yes that's right they the sheriff of san diego county said that the the suspect in the killing is also being investigated for attempted arson at a mosque this is about a month ago in the town of escondido about fifteen kilometers or less from where i'm standing there were a number of worshipers in the mosque at the time and when they discovered the fire

they were actually able to put it out with the fire extinguishers that they had inside the building so it was not a serious fire left them scorch marks but also again indicate something about the state of mind of remember a nineteen year old and how full of hate he was and it is presumably for jews for minorities for muslims for a whole variety of people who are not like him i should mention also has them that rabbi goldstein said that president donald trump called him personally. earlier today and he said he offered his condolences something that the rabbi said he deeply appreciated. all right rob reynolds there in poa california. when dean obeidallah is the host of his own show on satellite radio and of the i want to be your muslim friend podcasts he joins us via skype now from new york thanks very much for being with us so once again we are talking about an attack in

the united states on a religious group by someone who was by all accounts a white supremacist and we get the reaction from the president on this some of many of whom have said would not did not do enough to condemn what we've seen here what do you make of all this. goes back to charlottesville virginia in august two thousand and seventeen when we had white supremacist there chanting jews will not replaces you want to replace us and they were not human it's a white supremacist terrorist attack killing heather higher intimately dodgems response was to equate those fighting do you treat he racism and anti-semitism with those who are starting it in you know in the united states a president can't make laws but a president can do something else they can inspire good bad and ugly inside with donald trump if he is in action his it is actually resulted in bold in certain

people on the fringe of our society who are white supremacist now i'm not speculating that i'm sitting there saying they've been bull they look down from people like david duke the former klan leader richard spencer another white supremacist so it's alarming we need a presence very very clear if you know moral ambiguity whatsoever when it comes to white supremacy now jim famously said during the campaign we must use the terms radical islamic terrorists that have seen it over and her over you can't solve the problem you can't see your doctor has never entered the were uttered the words white supremacist terrorists he won't do that and it makes also suspect that we get a sense that this is basically not like that's the wrong place united's america does not. he did say though that this was a hate crime pretty or pretty early on after the shooting and his defenders would say that said that that he has. done more than enough to to condemn this and as well as we reported earlier. he. put in

a phone call to the rabbi of the of the synagogue to offer his condolences so that so they will say that that he has addressed this issue and this the criticism that he's getting is unwarranted what do you say to that i think when he wants the pastor and denounce something he does when he hits the media he calls the media here the enemy of the people why is dodger not use insurance what to promise he is the enemy of the people why is he not simply tweeted neo nazis are the enemy of the people is a choice is made not to do that you can speculate all day why he is not the us watch politics here we get a sense we know why someone has been in let's be blunt and i think it's comments here undershooting were or good it should be applauded for the new zealand shooting where fifty most muslims were killed don't have to not mention anything about look you cannot stand the muslim community we denounce the muslim of bigotry because we

stand with the people of new zealand that again was by design so in the ninety's i think in this time there's no place for any kind of timidity or lack of moral clarity we don't you know what he's doing and we want trump to go further in school to denounce unequivocally last year the incident doesn't eighteen there were fifty americans killed streamers every single one were killed by people tied directly explain to them is every single one at this ministration is not made it a priority they need to make it a priority. what do you make of the fact in terms of they would the reaction to all of this we've seen condemnation of this from from people across religious groups from from from muslims from jewish groups from christian groups and so on it you know in the ugliness of all of this do you see something positive here well after new zealand we saw great out great support from the jewish community christian

community for muslims after lunch six months ago we had the true life cigar white supremacists terrorist attack their ship allies italy the non jewish americans and so on out who are all different three groups i will say there's a silver lining that i've never seen a muslim american jewish american groups the more united in working together because we both feel like we were under the gun that our communities are targets simply for our faith in that our places of worship are no longer safe for each other for ourselves so i think there's a silver lining you have this kind of sense that we're in this together and i hope in the long run it leads to some really positive elements i'm hopeful about that but again we need to see ministration the part of homeland security here according to reporter two weeks ago and this band a unit within the mall in security focused on domestic terrorism we don't know why they would do that like this is just it's it's very alarming to tourists this is where we stand right now good to speak with you at the number joining us there from

he'll thanks very much for being with us. sanctions banning u.s. companies from buying venezuelan oil come into effect on sunday the economic impact could make it even harder for president nicolas maduro government to import much needed food latin america and its own reports now from in north central venice one . of the emblematic sugar refinery is in israel is a valley hasn't been processing locally grown sugarcane for at least two years francisco to central explains that the source of the problem is homegrown. producers non-printing came in so we're importing brown sugar from brazil. which we move from into white sugar. who you'll 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 crew you're the mother city of venezuela about. everything you see there to live photos was sugarcane they've planted limon trees now but they dying because there are no pesticides. under former president hugo 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 governments 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 a row predated 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 pasta and corn flour distributed in government subsidized food boxes but they're not enough for a buyer in the last two years the san francisco 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 and we all 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 that's alluded them for the last twenty years but one that is more urgent than ever. to see in human i just see it as an israeli.