interior minister at the government of national accord is asking for calling on france to stop dealing with the world health and they go to the fighter jets several locations at night for the interior minister says that there are two countries who are involved in supporting plea for hefted with warplanes and fighter jets we know that the united arab emirates and egypt are the major supporters of the world. says that hefted 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 home and a call made by president donald trump to hostile or offering support earlier this month as i heard some members of his own party i don't know what the phone call to

haftar 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 there smoothing out tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and helped our did but phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking sides. more than two hundred seventy election stuff in indonesia reportedly died in the days following the world's biggest single day polls held earlier this month 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 more than one hundred fifty four million people the rest a meter to a voted on april the seventeenth the elections combine the presidential vote with national and regional parliamentary ballots in order to save money. still ahead on al-jazeera the nineteen year old man accused of opening fire on a synagogue in the u.s. is charged with murder. and when politics gets possible the deepening rub between

iraq and bahrain over a prominent cleric. 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 eastward that got 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 hispaniola and across into jamaica away from there there's more in the way of dry weather but even here this 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 cheese day so a wet today for us for 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's brewing once more as we head through tuesday and into wednesday.

like qatar airways experienced economy class like never before qatar airways going places to get. george you know it is it a reminder of our top stories this hour spain's socialist party is celebrating victory in the general election but it hasn't won enough seats to rule and so populist party has also made headway with a far right folks gaining seats in the parliament for the first time. further talks between sudanese opposition groups and the military have been postponed until

monday the two sides were jews who meet after announcing the formation of a joint council on saturday night it's going to lead the country until elections are held. libya's un recognized government has told france to stop dealing with warlords dog its forces continue to lay siege to tripoli an airstrike on sunday by one of its helicopters killed four people and injured at least twenty three others . iran's foreign minister is accusing israel saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of trying to push the united states into a conflict mohammed. told a u.s. television network those nations are already fueling tensions with iran. israel bolton is not going to be months and united arab emirates all trying to exercise regime change at least at least they want the show and interest in dragging the united states into

a conflict i do not believe that president trump wants to do that i believe president from iran on a campaign promise of 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 it on to its knees so that we will succumb to pressure is doomed to failure as we had said have also accused u.s. security advisor 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 met threat to the neighbor you 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 that's

a very difficult circumstance we'll see what happens as the economic pressure continues to grow. again i suspect in the shooting at a california synagogue has been charged with murder and i'm nineteen year olds also being investigated for an awesome attack on a mosque last month while brunell's reports. 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. and i'm inspired to touch 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 roic 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 eyewitness 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. me. the alleged gunman 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 prays the alleged gunman that 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 robbery holds al-jazeera poway california vigils have been held in sri lanka to mourn the victims of the easter sunday bombings a week after the coordinated attacks churches remain shot amid security concerns at

least two hundred fifty people were killed off to hotels and churches were targeted by gunman. as the latest from colombo her leave. a week off to the east and sunday province. shrine remains closed and sunday mosque across the nation suspended because of security threats despite the bomb and that's an intense security the faithful data 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 residence 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 the service at home with her family a sister. with that same town 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 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. 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 would have. 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. to ask for. me to god. everything. outside st anthony's survivors held a prayer vigil and lit candles in memory of the dead and pray for peace florence lee al-jazeera colombo. iraq's foreign minister is demanding

a formal apology from bahrain is over statements made about an influential iraqi shia cleric so structured has more from baghdad on saturday influential shia cleric here mocked other assad 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 here with 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 the consulate in najaf in the bahraini 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. for the tenth week in a row members of the algerian diaspora in france have held protests demanding total regime change back home thousands of people took to the streets of paris on sunday earlier this month longtime president other as is beautifully stepped down under pressure from demonstrators as the military 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. polls are closed in beni in where people voted in parliamentary elections on sunday but the turnout was low as voters didn't have much to choose from i'm about saying reports from the commercial capital. pennines president was among the first to cast his vote. is choosing between two parties which both support him because opposition parties have been excluded by the electoral commission we try to ask him about this. taking place about heroes you

responds with i'm not answering questions at this time thank you. the lack of choice hasn't deterred. 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 tassel a member of the former president yeah you boney's party says this election is a travesty said 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 alone 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 leader of the country after him that's not how they know the ideology is in the use than simply in prevents the operation of their team 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 cotton and. tens of thousands of passengers

have been left stranded after scandinavian airline s.e.'s canceled more than twelve hundred flights a pilot strike over wage negotiations shows no sign of ending that in barber reports. it's already disrupted the travel plans of thousands of passengers now a strike at scandinavian airline s.a.'s means more than twelve hundred flights scheduled for monday and tuesday a counseled the industrial action by pilots started on friday stranding more than seventy two thousand people some of those stuck at arlanda airport near the swedish capital stock home were taking it in their stride but others were distraught and french so it's always for good reason if people stopped working it's because there is something special to to put in light and nods and then the atheist doesn't do anything right now and our company do anything what you can do what i meant a new start for you know right now i feel still actually is that why would i want

to cry over the weekend they say yes the pilots' unions and noways employers association all confirms no new talks apply and the airline which is partly owned by the swedish and danish government insists it's prepared to return to negotiations but it says agreeing to the pilot's demands for paying creases would seriously damage the company chemistry of the. you have done everything to reach a solution. that had been put on the table have been and realistic and have seriously jeopardized. but a union body representing ninety five percent of the airlines pilots in denmark norway and sweden says the disputes about much more than wages. we have completely unregulated working hours that is we don't know beforehand how we will be working out if we get to. strike it or say yes isn't affecting flights operated by its partners which make up roughly thirty percent of departures but that would be little comfort to the thousands of would be travelers trying to find a plan b.

. al-jazeera. some of the headlines in al-jazeera spain's governing socialist party is celebrating victory in the general election but it hasn't won enough seats to get a majority on its own populist groups also made headway with far right vox party gaining seats in parliament for the first time voter turnout was very high it's seventy five percent is what spain's prime minister said just after the results came in. the spaniards have sent many messages today we have sent a message of what we do not want we did not want to go back we want to country to look forward into the future we have also sent a message to europe and the world that we have won and rejected all thought tarion ism vox party leader santiago of

a scholar says his party will work to deliver on its promises. we will fight even harder this is only the beginning we told you we will start reconquering and we are initiating that conquering with a presence in congress vox is here to stay further talks between sudanese opposition groups and the military have been postponed until monday the two sides word to to meet after announcing the formation of a joint council on saturday night it will leave the country until elections are held libya's un recognized governments told france to stop dealing with a warlord holly for hotdog his forces continuing to lay siege to tripoli an airstrike on sunday by one of his helicopters killed four people and injured at least twenty three others. more than two hundred seventy election stuff in indonesia reportedly died in the days following the world's biggest single day polls held earlier this month the general elections commission says the workers

mostly died of fatigue related illnesses caused by long hours spent counting ballot papers by hand while the one hundred fifty four million people are estimated to have voted on april seventeenth and those are the headlines will be back in about twenty five minutes live in a. on counting the call says the u.s. slams the brakes on iran's oil exports will track the spillover effect also have a secret world of high risk lending impacts the poor in a sting operation to catch a spine multiply for control of the next generation of my body counting the cost on al-jazeera.

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