and some eastern parts of europe twenty celsius in warsaw much too bad getting up to sixteen seventeen there for london and paris western parts will warm up nicely over the next couple of days actually so nineteen celsius here as we go through tuesday there's a twenty five in madrid proper warm sunshine for some small sunshine too into the eastern side of the athens at twenty four degrees exceed a disturbed weather continuing just around the balkans pushing over towards a remain in northern parts of africa stay largely fine and dry basin places account there into libya and also into morocco we're back with the top temperature of twenty five. whether sponsored by cattle. people the way you all recalled on this trial in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a two state solution the official story isn't there and on paper we all still are you i don't care about the official story if you were a little visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's lots of grays in here join me mad the front of my guests

from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour spain's socialist party is celebrating victory in the general election but it hasn't won enough seats to rule on its own populist parties also made headway by the far right vox gaining seats in parliament for the first time. a man who'd been detained in turkey for spying for the united arab emirates has reportedly taken his own life in prison according to the turkish government his body was found in solutrean prison near istanbul. talks between sudanese opposition groups and the military

a two to resume on monday the two sides were due to be on to announcing the formation of a joint council on saturday night leave the country until elections held. more than two hundred seventy election stuff it uneasy a reportedly died in the days following the world's biggest single day polls held earlier this month the general elections commission says the work has 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 are estimated to voted on april seventeenth three elections the presidential national and regional parliamentary ballots were held on the same day in order to save money on dress sano is an indonesia consultant for human rights watch he says the new parliament has to make changes to the electoral process my four things there isn't open at

seven am and finalised two fifteen meaning almost nineteen hours open not to say preparation we have to prepare the previous night meeting these people working like forty hours more just three rate of course could rig runs and then our break but again it is not adequate at the same time they have to deal with election presidency will send out national parliament proper instead of parliament and local parliament and there are sixteen political parties meaning at least one of these three latest left if you like and you have. in part this. election. this is not the fall election comments and they're doing a great job the thing is. to save money by organizing elections in a single day very difficult so unsurprisingly many people have. no

problem and. you would be. election law making it more human and it should be done now of the leader because if it is done to be labor you know the parliament to be more worried about gerrymandering about how the new election laws benefit them. because president has appointed a new acting police chief after the easter sunday bombings that killed at least two hundred sixty people that's part of the government's overhaul of the intelligence and security services but the current chief of police has refused to step down despite his success at being named the government's declared a state of emergency in deployed thousands of troops to search operations in order to find those responsible for the attacks let's go live now to colombo was a serious florence louis is why has the police chief been asked to step down and why would he go. that's right now the president

had. a police chief but also the defense secretary to step down. for failing to act on warnings about imminent attacks these warnings were supposedly given two weeks before the attack happened and the president. so he had to offer defense secretary to resign and the defense secretary did not the power to. change so the next best thing he did was to offer him. refused to do that what he's done instead is to appoint an acting. and really this is quite reminiscent of what happened last year the constitutional crisis when the president the prime minister replaced him with someone else and it took the supreme court to resolve this constitutional issue this is really not going to inspire confidence in the government at a time when the government and the intelligence services are being blamed for the

massive intelligence failure for failing to act on the warnings that were given to them about the imminent about the imminent attack now in a separate development the government say. women from right wearing face covering. right now since last week muslim leaders had already women to not wear the phrase in public and the government had them both but typically muslims but it have to be ran on face covering comes into effect. today it comes into effect today and it also comes just two days several days after the government banned two muslim organizations deemed as extremist and that is looking to other extremist organizations florence many thanks deep from the story of the life in colombo. forces fighting for libya's u.n. recognized government and pushed back against walls khalifa haftar advance on tripoli heavily armed financing gazed in street battles with tough times forces in

zawiya which is in the capital south of the five to launched a campaign on april fools to take tripoli where the internationally recognized government is based on a call made by donald trump earlier this month to hostile offering support has angered some members of the president's own party republican senator lindsey graham described it as unnerving. i don't know what the phone call to hop there was about but it had an unnerving effect on the ground i was in tunisia and the president had called. general from the east of libya this moving on tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and hopped our did but death phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking sides. the opposition leader of the democratic republic of congo running to his supporters to call for the removal of president felix she katie on sunday night in fail new claims the presidential election in december was rigged she katie replace joseph kabila who ruled the country for

eighteen years al-jazeera israel mohamad reports the thousands of congolese gathered in the capital kinshasa to show their support for the man they believe is the legitimate leader of the democratic republic of congo the. remaining defiant mohsen feeling returned home after traveling abroad the south proclaimed opposition president elect addressed to supporters calling for the ousting of the current president. kabila together with the electoral commission have fabricated the result in order to appoint someone else to the presidency this is why everything is fake now and worse in our country kabila appointed all of the m.p.'s and sen without including any of the opposition we will continue to fight until the truth of elections results are restored the. last two feeling in the december thirtieth presidential election he alleges the

outgoing president joseph kabila orchestrated a deal with tisha katty to win the nomination they both deny this claim the election was marred by violence in the lead up to delays and irregularities late to the bone outbreak and security concerns and the international community has raised doubts about the election outcome. in january for you mounted a legal challenge against the results the case was dismissed by the constitutional court despite the court's decision by you know supporters continue to stand behind him. in a permanent fight since elections took place in this country everything was troubled by two people kabila and helix katie. changed the result of elections we did not have any change of power according to our people and we will continue with fighting to regain our victory. not only remain positive in our fight together with the

coalition to take back our victory this is the fight of our people which will continue for generations. while for you is calling for reform of institutions and fresh elections his supporters say mobilizing a u. turn on the electoral decision is the only way forward for the country. here in the name polls are now closed after people voted in parliamentary elections on sunday with out any opposition parties that may have led to a low voter turnout is al-jazeera i'm a batang reports from the commercial capital culture no. 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 the world he responds with i'm not answering questions at this time thank you. the lack of choice hasn't

deterred victims 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 and 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 ponies party says this election is a travesty said by really let you know it's not an election it's a mockery which is bearing or 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 in the use them seem to improve in 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. sanctions banning u.s. companies from buying venezuelan oil came into effect on sunday the economic impact will make it even harder for president nicolas maduro his government to import food

latin america and its newman reports now from north central venezuela. the emblematic sugar refinery of venezuela's valley hasn't been processing locally grown sugar cane for at least two years. central 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 move from into white sugar . is a historic town it was where the spaniards established venezuela's first capital in the sixteenth century. it's a first child valley where the sugar cane industry was king. it's sad to see what's become of. the mother city of venice where. everything you see their 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 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 israel is most fertile land it was appropriate 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 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 that's alluded them for the last twenty years but one that is more urgent than ever. you see in human i just see it in israel and the loya jirga grand assembly of afghan leaders and scholars and elders is on the way in kabul more than three thousand prominent and influential afghans are gathering for four days of talks over discussing the war in afghanistan and the recent peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban. for the first time in more than two hundred years

a japanese emperor is abdicating eighty five year old hito has been on the throne for more than thirty years now but on tuesday will make way for his eldest son crown prince hito as a serious way hey reports from tokyo he's been a largely popular emperor who helped to steer japan through difficult times. it's been eight years since the earthquake and tsunami which changed the lives of so many people here. as home was destroyed that day and while he finds it difficult to put it behind him there's one moment he clings to. convince the emperor and empress came in you walked over to where i was. must have been difficult for you i will never forget his words. the eighty three year old says meeting the imperial couple in an evacuation center gave him the strength to rebuild his life akihito his compassionate response to the disaster

became one of the defining moments of his reign say for those affected by this terrible tragedy i feel deeply pain. akihito succeeded his father in one nine hundred eighty nine and spent much of his reign trying to address the legacy of japan's actions in world war two but the emperor holds no political power and he's stepping down as the prime minister wants to revise japan's pacifist constitution to allow for a military instead of what it calls a self-defense force it's also believed that the emperor is adults with the government over the very future of his family the imperial family is generally regarded as fairly liberal but it's still a male dominated institution only men from the male line of the family can become emperor and the family has no power to change that it has to come from the government. wants not all he told becomes him. there are only three men left in

line one of them is eighty three. of the donkey there have only been female and prison from a male lion in the past and there has never been a female lion emperor we should talk about this it may mean changing tradition but we have to be flexible and reflect modern day society at fifty nine not will he too is considered one of a new breed of royals and may relate to a different generation some of whom question the relevance of the imperial family the japanese such as die soon the relevance is very personal from time to time he proudly weighs the same clothing he wore when he met the emperor. i have been treasuring discarded whenever something happens look at the cardigan. akihito retires at a time when the imperial family's popularity is high according to opinion polls but the transition will raise more questions about the family's future and whether more change will come to ensure it survives wayne hay al jazeera tokyo.

sitting in here in doha the headlines and al-jazeera spain's socialist party is celebrating victory in the general election but it hasn't won enough seats to rule on its own populists also made headway with the far right vox posse gaining seats in parliament for the first time stephanie decker reports from madrid. the key issue is the cattle and independence parties if they form a coalition with signs as what kind of a compromise is going to be made it is an issue that is not going to go away you have twelve leaders on trial here madrid has not independence leaders on trial it is a hugely divisive issue you also have the economy that needs to be dealt with a lot of people we spoke to said the high cost of living unemployment was one of the main issues so he has huge challenges ahead first of all forming that government and then secondly second tackling those issues

a man who had been detained in turkey for spying for the united arab emirates has reportedly taken his own life in prison according to the turkish government zaki and hasan's body was found in syllabary prison on the outskirts of istanbul two men were arrested earlier this month and reportedly confessed to spying on arab nationals talks between sudanese opposition groups in the military a due to resume on monday the two sides will meet after announcing the formation of a joint council on saturday night it will lead the country until elections are held . forces facing feed libya's un recognized government have pushed back against war move advance on tripoli heavily armed forces engaged in street battles with tough tough fighters in i'm zada in the capital's south africa launched a campaign on april fourth to take tripoli where the internationally recognized government is based as the headlines that he's continuous announces they're off the

front next. well. i'm. just. the mother report is finally out so is it time to impeach u.s. president donald trump i'll ask one of his campaign advisers. block porter thank you for joining me on outfront on the very first page of special counsel robert muller's four hundred forty eight page report he says and i quote the russian government interfered in the twenty six thousand presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion it's been more than a week since it was released to congress and to the public and yet we've heard not

one single word of condemnation of the russian government from president trump one on. well first of all this is a process so these are things that we have to take a look at also why isn't anyone asking the russian government about these sorts of things why aren't they making the comments on this secondly the most important thing is there was no crimes committed by anyone around the trump administration that had anything to do with this this is clearly a distraction as we've talked about many times before trump is exonerated he did nothing wrong and this has been a huge huge distraction if there are problems with our democracy in terms of interference foreign interference something should be done and there are investigations going on in congress about this now you are right to say that he was not accused of committing a crime in relation to the obstruction of justice is another matter we will come to that in a moment but before we do you said this is a process i think he doesn't have time as he's doing other things he's found time

over the last week president trying to attack robert muller and his team he's attacked the democrats he's accuse them of treason he's attacked c.n.n. he's demanded the new york times get on its knees and apologize to me is attacked mitt romney he's attacked the f.b.i. is dead he cuts no one want from him knowing that whatsoever that the russian government launched an attack on american democracy the president says doesn't seem to care. oh no no you understand why the russian trump the democrats did so the airports checking back as we talked about many times. rule and that is if you want it all is you know you go into it has about himself you know i'm going to take you to those you want to do it go at the russians didn't talk you know over to the united states that's what melissa is imagine if a president of the people who are going to go to foreign to talk on the u.s. you'd be up in homes very good maybe obama knew that this was happening it did nothing so why didn't he say something so don't push this on trump you know that

that's not fair well i know it's going to cost it is in seven days since the record came out why has he not condemned a sweeping and systematic attack on american democracy very all that the president of the united states said not a word about it he's busy attacking the new york times and mitt romney. you know no come on this is a partisan attack and you know and i say clearly that if you're going to attack a sovereign power you need to have more information than simply what miller wrote in the report this is not going to go away you know that i'm going to if you like the bit that clearly is your chance to show how much anything i've conceded the report since he did not criminally conspire russia you're ignoring the bit which senator attacked america and the president doesn't carry on ignoring because if i tell you look you would you said he only has one people actually not you said it people watching something about himself that you're to a sting my words now many people listen carefully what i'm saying is what i'm saying is that when that report out there is

a way that we deal with these things and that's investigations ok i'll do right for them. ok here's a question and come out with concrete facts there are facts august in the very fine let's see why not by the russian government by private russian citizens and you not it's not true the report makes it very clear that it's russian minute. intelligence those are not private citizens mark please don't get out of us geo you're not private. you're twisting things you just said private citizens stop saying twisting i'm quoting you can we agree this was russian military intelligence reports four hundred pages like you said maybe there's a lot in there so what is your point i'm going to do we both agree that it wasn't russian private citizens involved in the election it was russian military intelligence you were wrong to say there were russian private citizens there are also russian private citizens. and if you know what is your real point here very simple point you just said it was only private citizens i'm saying can we agree it

was russian military intelligence hacked into the democratic national committee according to the report according to the mother report that's right the modern report says that the trauma campaign welcomed the hacking and wouldn't take about it if i don't the president being accused of that you would be up in arms don't you remember history when george bush also had this fact where they went to the british intelligence and tried on clinton when. everyone does this trying to claim to be trying to get from russian military intelligence let me ask you this when you let me also his question just to be clear the president rudy giuliani said a few days ago quote there's nothing wrong with taking information from russians and you seem to be suggesting everyone already or anybody else ok so you're both in agreement you're in the so on that basis come to twenty twentieth's action are you really there for ok with buddy saunders or joe biden or whoever the democratic

presidential candidate is calling for china to hot dog e-mails on his tax returns are. you ok with. this kids holding a secret meeting with the representatives of the iranian government to get dirt on donald trump are you ok with that seriously. have you never worked on a campaign before you know how this works you dig up dirt where you can get it and there is nothing illegal about it and you have. evidence there is not exactly my question so you're ok with the democratic candidate next china please hack donald trump's e-mails you're ok with. that is not what john armstrong did he did not go to the they have truly said things russia find hillary clinton's e-mails he said in front of our always log you want coffee like you are. gaslighting is what you're doing right now ok with the democratic presidential candidate next year. for the chinese government to hack into donald trump's tax return you are ok with that please just confirm yes illness is

a very simple question so sarcasms part of the english language they can say is that and are you ok with the democratic presidential candidates children meeting with members of the iranian government to get on donald trump yes or no look betty it's. very simple are you a favor of a yes or no should. go to the mosque you know about the middle are you ok what are you really trying to stress a very study really trying to say it's very simple it's not a very uncivil to do you know i could interview in rudy giuliani everyone does it you can get foreign investment you get foreign help in e-mails from foreigners how can the democrats also do that next year tit for tat you're going to have and i'm going to say it one more time people have the right to meet with who they want to and if you're going to go around spying on people and put eavesdropping spying equipment on it that is why they're on anyone i must say you're ok with democrats doing that just in terms of how much president trump undermine this investigation and misled the public this is what he was saying not long ago about the russian

involvement i want to give you i want to play something to you if you can listen this is what he was saying not long ago about the russian involvement but clearly documents and by the way folks just in case you like curious. no russia did not help. russia why call it the russian hoax he was wrong about he was wrong about mocking lloyd mother in the intelligence he was not wrong about that no one changed their boat because of a facebook page that's not what he said. he said he did or. did i just played the clip ball no russia did not help me. help did he won it by himself this is what the court says very explicitly that russia intervene to help donald trump even rudy giuliani considered not well to help not travel where you twisting your words around because russia did not change anybody's mind people voted for don't try to take this election away let's try another one here let's try to convince good let's

keep it as simple as possible the nearly times reported that donald trump ordered the firing of rubble in the summer of twenty seventeen the president denied it in fact this is what he said in davos at the time which is stick with him in terms of the york times big stories we now know from the matter of that was another lie from donald trump melissa substantial evidence that the president tried to have mother removed from his job don mcgann the president's lawyer says he was asked to remove her from his job again what's your question why did he lie. how do i know i'm not representing the president but you want me to let you except the law and sure enough that's a lie right that he lied i said he said it was fake news that he tried to fight we now know that he did try to what do you see this whole show about your trying to say it's about the law is about the mother of all you've heard of it's four hundred forty eight pages not about the relative report it's not actually reading from the mother. i'm iterating page eighty eight of the mother report substantial evidence

supports evolution that the president went to and in fact directed him again to call rosenstein the deputy attorney general to have the special counsel removed so donald trump was lying and doubles do we agree on that then we can move on. if this is absurd because of what happened in the mole the report is in fact exoneration of truong and now we need to look at how this was created in the first place let's move forward. you learn best to go for nothing so very simple question you can say you don't know but i'm to call the white house announced many you're going to really waste all this time on these picky little things when you should be looking at the bigger picture. in which. russia but he didn't exonerate him on instruction of justice he very explicitly said we are not exonerating him trump said it's a complete and total exoneration why did he lie about the report again that it doesn't exonerate him. you love that word lie but you do it all it's that i'm right here and here i'm going out of us going to my. students and it's

a very simple question what the report says it does not exonerate the question you asked is trying to keep them as simple as this is simple and yet it does not exonerate him trump says total exoneration is that not a lie to say the report exonerates you when the report explicitly says it doesn't help me out here the report said no crime was done here and it's not say that magic john are very high you are lying to all of us he says let's try again while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate areas. gave obstruction of justice to congress to decide he says i'm not taking a decision obstruction of justice but here's the evidence for it tell you he should he could have maybe he wanted to keep this whole thing open court and that's just by it's completely political whitewash in the no that's funny because if it's a political what was he saying that he wasn't exonerated in russia so he was so he may still have been involved in a conspiracy with the russians right according to you if we dismissed the mother of

the truck could still be a russian asset or are you cherry picking the ridiculous. we don't the includes the president of russia does cooler look like that part of it and i'm asking but it also suggests he's guilty of obstruction of justice i'm just wondering why you're picking and choosing from a four hundred forty eight page report i'm not i'm with you on the i'm saying you're right it has cleared him in russia i'm saying let's talk about the obstruction and what do we obstruction of justice cases in the report i just told you it clear. there were thirty something million dollars spent on this two years muller investigated everybody all over the place not. president trump tweeted this week quote if the pot is on dems the democrats ever tried to impeach i would first have.