well four years on whether the military will retain control of security and defense ministers many people as saddam corrupted the protestors with the progress the chips fall for their climate for a 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 in 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 all are done in the name of religion is why we want a secular government. protesters are also quick to point out that they are against a well and trenched deep state that wants to see a continuation of the policies of the past but their foremost priority they say is the immense task cheeping the transition from thirty years of military rule mohammad that the world has either heard of tom plenty more ahead on the news hour when politics gets personal the deepening route between iraq and bahrain over a prominent cleric. the nineteen year old man accused of opening fire on a synagogue in the u.s. is charged with murder. and later in sport another recall for kenya's marathon man and he will be here with that.

so all that still ahead but in first iran's foreign minister is accusing israel saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of trying to push the united states into a conflict i'm a jevons that we've told a u.s. television network those nations already fueling tensions with iran israel bolton . months and united arab emirates all trying to exercise regime change at least at least they want to see how shown an interest in dragging the united states into a conflict i do not believe the president wants to do that i believe president from iran on a campaign promise of not bringing the united states into another war but the president trumps intention to put pressure the policy of maximum pressure on iran in order to bring iran to its needs so that we will succumb to pressure is doomed

to failure of the reef also accused the u.s. national security adviser john bolton of being among those trying to spark regime change in iran he to address the issue on american t.v. . honestly don't you want to see regime change just not the only way to get an iran that has been a threat to the neighbor you've just laid out a real bill of particulars why are wired 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 trita parsi is a professor at georgetown university and former president of the national iranian american council i spoke to him earlier about the tense relationship between the white house and to iran. to be completely frank with zarif is 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 in a 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 that's the remember what we read and

the wiki leaks that came out about seven or so years ago that reveal 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. then secretary of defense bob gates who told the french secretary of defense in private which was revealed through we can we expect 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 u.s. towards a military confrontation with iran which have significantly heightened the ring and it and yeah 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 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 that europe who are now he has hired on was all of those neo cons to run his national security policy and a libya's u.n. recognized government has told france to stop dealing with khalifa haftar he continues to lay

a scene to tripoli and an strike on sunday by one of his helicopters killed four people and injured at least twenty three others that that lead 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 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 the capture of the international airport they can easily cut the supporting law in coming before her there's forces from the city of the south of tripoli on another front have 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 several 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 overnight a poor have plane 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 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 on. 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 and the city of homs and a phone call made by u.s. president trying to libyan war after offering support earlier this month has angered some members of the president's own party i don't know what the phone call hopper was about but it had an unnerving effect on the ground i was in tunisia and the president had called hoft or a general from the east of libya that was moving on tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and haftorah did but the phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking sides. two hundred seventy election stuff and indonesia

have reportedly died from overwork after the world's biggest single day elections the general elections commission says the workers mostly died of fatigue related illnesses caused by long hours spent counting millions of ballot papers by hand the announcement comes ten days after indonesians went to the polls but joining us now to talk more about this is greg fealy an indonesian politics specialist at the australian national unity university joins us by skype now from cambra thanks very much for being with us now this was of course a huge undertaking administering these. elections and there were millions of people involved in and carrying it out and carrying and counting the votes but many people will be shocked to hear that two hundred seventy people died doing it how is this allowed to happen. well i think you're right many nations are shot off that the death toll is so high because many of these election officials are just ordinary

people from local communities and a lot of people would now not election officials who be the dog would become sick this almost two thousand who also become very ill and the novel to continue to judy's the real problem here was a decision i made a number of years ago a ball a constitutional court that required the presidential elections and all of the full levels of religious like the elections to be held on the one done and that dramatically ramped up the logistical burden on the election commission and also the pressure on the various election officials i had a great deal to get done in the one on the election day and then immediately following that to my ensure that all accounting was done correctly particularly bringing together the presidential and the legislative elections a presidential elections and much more closely scrutinized for any irregularities

which in monday's as it should be but the impact of that on the polling booth workers and the people further down the line who is there in their region peach elation of the votes is very strange pressure on the him even small mistakes can suddenly become big issues i can day tuesday all of undertaking manipulation of the budget when the mistakes not of deigning tali accidental or. any tainted so this is clearly taken a pretty terrible toll on a lot of a calling booth officials and the election officials so where was the oversight in all of this stan meanwhile why wasn't there a system in place to to to give him because the did the necessary rest as as they were going through all of this. well i think to some extent because this is the first time a very in the nation's history the all five level elections were to be honed on the one day i think people felt that the system could cope and that the people working

in the system could cut ultimately this is the responsibility of the election commission. you need in asia and that answers to the parliament no doubt will have very tough questions to answer but no one really predicted the save in a few days to the paul. no one was aware just to be the very heavy consequences that it had for the people who work in on those who many of them were working for and several diaries with hardly any sleep if nicely and all and if i have existing health issues for the ng it's. also a process for. so what are the what's what are the going to be the ramifications of all of a sad. i mean what sort of accountability is there going to be and as much as there is there is any. so this is a number of things of a suggested at the moment but one possibility is to separate. it because the

constitutional court says that the presidential elections and the national laser sight of the lections have to be held the sign time perhaps for future elections in five used and we could have just two levels of elections taking place and the all of the preacha labels and perhaps the election for the regional representative council which is a national body that i could tie place at a different time even if i was staggered by a few weeks that would one thousand much better in the past then all the latest id lakesha some type of place on the one i mean several months light of the first round the presidential election took place and then if need be the runoff of the presidential election were taken by several months after that so it was spread out repeater and you didn't have such a massive amount of voting type in place on the one so i wouldn't be surprised if

in future the parliament will be looking at a different kind of shit joining of the elections and trying to reduce the burden on the people who are trying to my sure the election runs probably greg fealy good to speak with. knowledge and i was in iraq's foreign minister is demanding a formal apology from behind rain itself a statements made about an influential iraqi shia cleric strafford has more from baghdad on saturday influential shia cleric him acct other saw the who controls the largest shia bloc in iraq's parliament code 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 hard man of god as you can imagine deeply offensive here in the muslim world and as a result of that we saw protests overnight outside the consulate in najaf in the 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. 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 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 all right when we come back on al-jazeera. displaced we'll have the latest in a series looking at the issues refugees are facing. transport we'll hear from the leading formula one driver who says he's bored by this season's championship.

hello there heavy downpours are expected to continue over the southeastern parts of china over the next few days the latest system is trying to move away but as that one clears another one is forming to the north and this one is looking even more active so some very heavy downpours a lot to be out of this all monday and as we head into choose day that will be sweeping its way southwards looks like we even see some of that heavy rain over hong kong as well so a very wet here as we head through monday and into choose day meanwhile if we had a bit further towards the south we can see things over the southeastern parts of asia pretty unsettled at the moment the philippines actually isn't doing too badly but away from that lots of cloud and lots of heavy showers for most of us now so it's going to stay as we head through the next couple of days plenty of very heavy downpours but i actually think smarter won't be fairing too badly for monday and tuesday and we're going to have a bit of a reprieve for from our showers but out towards the west of course we've got our cycling not too far away from sri lanka that is expected to track its way north woods as we head through the next couple of days but it is avoiding sri lanka so

here we're just seeing the outer fringes of the rain so some wet weather but it's not as bad as it might have been this system is pushing its way north woods and it looks like it will be intensifying as it does so for xing plenty of cloud over the southern parts of india on choose day as well. the weather sponsored by cattle was. from the bamboo all the students navigating dangerous rapids from the time would depart through the time we finished scared to the fishing and dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying breed if i don't go by coughing my family needs the men who go to the extreme just to make a living cot you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and certainly risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera. i'm a physician every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the clouds generally that's right out of

a hamas script that calls for the and aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine the listening post on al-jazeera. but again you're watching it is there a monitor of our top stories this hour spain's socialist party celebrating victory in general election but it hasn't won enough seats to govern on its own populous parties also made headway with far right vox gaining seats in parliament for the first time. further talks between sudanese opposition groups and the military have

been postponed until monday two sides were to meet after announcing they had formed a joint council on saturday it will lead the country until elections are held. maybe as un recognized government has told france to stop dealing with warlords after his forces are fighting for control of the libyan capital tripoli and asked strike on sunday by one of his helicopters killed four people. and more now on our top story the election results in spain jonah hole has reaction from barcelona where catalonian independence has been a major issue. well i'm standing in the election headquarters of one of the two main independent parties in catalonia the party just finished here a short while ago but they were celebrating the fact that they've returned to the national parliament in madrid more or less as many m.p.'s as they'd hoped to but crucially they have as they see it caps a hard right and

a right its coalition out of office with high turnout figures today that box party that so many people fear here hasn't won as many seats as many people feared but to a large extent the big story of the night is the emergence of the far right nationalist box party on to the national political stage to becoming the first far right force in the parliament in madrid since the death of general franco forty years ago a seismic event that in the modern democratic history of spain the socialist so the big winners of the night are not winning enough to form a majority on their own or have to go into coalition two options broadly one a leftist coalition joining forces with the anti austerity for their most part is a lot a lot of ground in this election so that may mean teaming up as well with pro independent m.p.'s from catalonia here in the end they may demand a price that is too high for the socialist to pay so they may have to instead reach across to theodore than yours on the center right not as unlikely

a coalition as you might think but you've got a new leader hugo riviera said in the campaign need have nothing to do with the socialists whatsoever he'd have a lot of climbing down to do over all the picture of this election is one of a hung parliament the potential of long and difficult coalition talk to head and really not the picture of stable government emerging from it that you'd want to see or hope to see from a national election polls have closed in been in where people were voting in parliamentary elections but the lack of choice facing voters has contributed to a low turnout anna blotting reports from the commercial capital qahtani. since pennines president was among the first to cast his vote patrice tunnel is choosing between two parties which both support him because opposition parties have been excluded by the electoral commission we tried to ask him about this and it wasn't taking place about your role do you responds with i'm not answering questions at

this time thank you. the lack of choice hasn't deterred victim the day he says he's ready to do his civic duty. personally i'm proud to verge in this election with these two parties because they will work for us and our country will go forward all parties wanting to field candidates had to meet the requirements of a new electoral code passed by the national assembly only two newly formed parties were given the go ahead opposition parties say it's a deliberate attempt to exclude them from the process all indications are from election observers that so far both the turnout appears to be you know that's a huge contrast to five years ago when people had twenty parties to choose from now they have two to choose from opposition parties that asked their supporters to stay at home and that could be one of the reasons why we're seeing such low numbers. eugene as a task to a member of the former president yeah you boney's party says this election is a travesty by really let you know it's not an election it's

a mockery which is baringo democracy we have managed to keep our democracy going since ninety ninety and this democracy which allow our current president to come from exile to power. one observer says this is setting a worrying precedence so after the come the current president if they want to take over the need of a country after him that's not how they know the ideology is in the use than simply in prevents the operation of that same look taking part in the elections so we are we are getting into a cycle of excluding some parts of the country in the electoral process. this election represents a new chapter in the country's political history one that may have far reaching consequences i'm up watching al-jazeera quotes one of. the teenage suspect in the shooting at a california synagogue has been charged with murder one thousand year old is also

being investigated for an awesome attack on a mosque last month rob reynolds of course. the place of worship now a crime scene after a gunman killed one person and wounded three others as they prayed sixty year old lori kaye was killed in the synagogue eyewitnesses said she jumped between the gunman and rabbi yes royal goldstein the synagogues leader she put her life on the line for the rabbi there's no greater right. i'm inspired. touched by goldstein was wounded losing a finger on one hand my missing finger. well forever scar me physically but it's going to remind me how vulnerable we are and also how he rowing each one of us can be another member of the congregation was lightly wounded as he tried to usher children to safety and

a young girl also suffered shrapnel wounds i witness oscar stewart tried to help the wounded i saw the rabbi who was bleeding from his hands and i immediately went to the lady on the floor and started doing c.p.r. on her. to meet. the alleged gunman who was identified as nineteen year old john ernest a college student who lived nearby he is also suspected of arson in an attempt to burn a mosque in nearby escondido last month ernest posted an anti-semitic diatribe online detailing his desire to kill jews he praised the alleged shooters at mosques in new zealand and the man who attacked a synagogue in pittsburgh last october there were more than one thousand five hundred hate crimes reported in the u.s. in two thousand and seventeen according to the f.b.i. nearly two thirds of the hate crimes a total of nine hundred thirty eight were perpetrated against jews the f.b.i.

says the number of anti-semitic crimes has increased nearly forty percent since two thousand and twelve the second largest group targeted in hate crimes was muslims rabbi goldstein said president donald trump called him personally to offer his condolences now the three people who were wounded have all been released from hospitals and as for the alleged shooter he will be arraigned on wednesday on one count of first degree murder and three counts of attempted murder robert oulds al-jazeera poway california already and we spoke to dino by diane who's the host of his own show on satellite radio and of the podcast i want to be all muslim friend he says trump's condemnations are selective. you know what he wants the past and denounce something he does when he hits the media because the media here are the enemy of the people why is dodger not use the terms what supremacy 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 upset some of his base and that's the plot of and i think it's comments here and the shooting were good and should be applauded for the new zealand shooting were fifty most muslims were killed there just to not mention anything about muslims you do not see i stammered the muslim community would denounce it the muslim bigotry is that we stand with the people of new zealand 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 it's called announce very unequivocal last year the young student doesn't eighteen there were fifty americans killed streamers every single one were killed by people tied directly expansionist every single one if

this administration has 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 its great support from the jewish community christian community for muslims after lot six months ago we had that your life cigar white supremacist terrorist attack their ship alive at least nine jewish humor and so on out were altered i will say there's a silver lining that i've never seen a muslim american jewish american groups even more united in working together because we both feel like we were under the gun that our communities are targets simply for our faith and that our places of worship are no longer see 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 reporting. at this stand a unit within the well in security are focused on domestic terrorism we don't know why they would do that like this is just it's it's very alarming to us this is where we stand right now. week after several bombings targeted hotels and churches in sri lanka the churches remain shut and stead christians held mass by watching a televised service is to sunday's attacks killed at least two hundred fifty people far slower he has more from colombo. a week after the easter sunday bombing st anthony's shrine remains closed and sunday mosque across the nation suspended because of security threats despite the

bombing that and intense security the faithful get as close to that church as they can i don't want to ice 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. if you lose someone in the name of god gone do is the all merciful god who is the your love god we were reared my brother and mine. who furnished you are 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 fake it out only when i'm with 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 said sometimes miss 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. and every father jude jones have joined. us holding mass at st anthony's when the bomb exploded he survived because the bomber was 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 doc the.