this is not something that will serve this is this is not a decision that will really serve to turkey's interest because it kind of limits the information that could be. could be you know that the police could get from from used to guys and now there is only one guy in detention and one source of information for took it on wanted it on the actual game they had with the structure or. there's intelligence want to be sure they had it turkey. so in that sense it does not you know it makes me it complicates things for turkish investigation tours but on the other hand this is something that the u.a.e. will you know if they've backed these two guys then you know if they acknowledge that they are worse for them it could be something that the u.a.e. could use against turkey however you know it's no secret that there is that rivalry

is turkey in the region. by u.a.e. is the second fraction in riyadh. and egypt these are no secrets but they are i think at the state level it would be hard to be hard for you eat back these guys and confirm that there were spies for them and i think italy with relation to the murder of jamal khashoggi and you know what could be a dear teligent aims. particularly right after if i should use murder in turkey so in that sense now of things are going to make and i just interrupt you just to take the conversation onto another point clearly this man was a high value prisoner do we know the nature of all the breakdown all of the kind of information that the authorities had or had not managed to get out of him. we don't

actually have that sort of information however we did. we did find out that right after they were arrested that. these two individuals were at work to build some sort of anti tookie structure this is some of the information that we have received. from our sources however it is a very secret. actually met with these two individuals so it was very hard to. obtain any other information our today or in the later hours. we are expecting to get more information on the actual incident that happened yesterday morning however with regard to their what other what other work they have done prior to today or. arrests it's something that we are yet to find my challenge in techie thank you very much. plenty more still to come here on the

news for you including sri lanka's president appoints a new national police chief but the old one says he isn't going anywhere. also ahead as the libyan warlords push to take over the capital intensifies one e.u. country is being told to stop interfering. and in sports channel tell you in munich could stay on course for a seventh league title in a row. or a meeting of afghan leaders scholars and elders is known as the loya jirga is taking place in kabul today with the recent talks between the u.s. and the taliban are likely to top the agenda this meeting brings together afghanistan's many ethnic religious and tribal communities now in the past loya jirgah sabine used to approve a new constitution declare a war choose

a new king or to make sweeping social or political reforms the participants of voted to appoint the judge as temporary leader as well as deputies and secretaries they're now working to create fifty committees and will spend up to a week discussing issues including those talks with the taliban the recommendations will be announced by the head of the jirga but they are not legally binding now the president will return on the final day and decide whether he will accept what they have come up with charlotte dallas joins us now from kabul charlotte good morning hi there what are they talking about. good morning. well this morning there's been an opening ceremonies the president gunny spoke at that and now they just getting back in from lunch you can see the taint is the big white building behind me hitting back in from lunch and now they will be divided up three thousand two hundred people over there and they'll be divided into fifty committees where they will discuss five questions all related to pace they will go away for three to

seven days and discuss in these committees and then they will come back and offer their recommendations to president ghani and he will decide whether or not to accept these recommendations they all related to the peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban basically should the government get the opportunity to talk peace with the taliban what with a red lines be what would be a priority space are they hitting back and to divide up into groups they have just elected to chairman for the jirga his name is abdul if he was in what you had seen later in the he's now in his late seventy's so he's in charge of the people over there now security is very high the mood here is very tense so just had two apache helicopters fly over here scanning the area if you see my lift here on this mountainside all these houses which by afghan intelligence prior to this happening this entire area behind me is on lockdown no one can get in this entire area over to these apartment buildings you need to have security passes and be searched to

get anywhere in this area there is hundreds of uniforms police afghan intelligence international forces or even involved trying to secure this area trucks on till out into kabul and this is a city of five to six million people so north trucks allowed in while this loya jirga is on they've instituted a public holiday from saturday and took the states that means the private sector shut down public sector no government buildings are open even schools the shops all in and if it is to keep these people safe and make sure that this loya jirga happens without incident thank you. the turkish president is backing libya's un recognized government in its fight against the wall telephone have to. describe after his advance on tripoli as a plot against the libyan people he says turkey will supports the tripoli based government as it tries to drive shaft of spices out of the capital and a call made by the u.s.

president donald trump to have to offering support has angered members of donald trump's own republican party senator lindsey graham described it as being unnerving 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 dora general from the east of libya that was moving on tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and helped our did but death phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking sides ok let's take it up date on the story for you. is in tripoli so i have to force use of recently intensified the nighttime airstrikes how's that affecting the battle on the ground. well peter it has obviously affected the advancement made by forces loyal to the u.s. government of national accord in several parts on the southern part of the capital

tripoli as you know that. strikes targeted military camps and military positions of the government of national accord forces and their fighters were killed and wanted by those airstrikes meanwhile have to as you know during the past two weeks they lost the locations that they were in control of when the battle started on april fourth but recently they have been losing ground but about. to about ten minutes ago we're getting good ports from the battlefield say suggesting that have to his forces are taken control of a new location on the highway linking get this city center to the disused or inactive international airport on the southern part of tripoli namely in and said that our area which is around fifteen kilometers away from the capital city

center we've spoken to locals there on eyewitnesses they say that they've seen have to his forces in gauging in fight in the density populated areas in and said that our area that's a neighborhood about fifteen kilometers away from their capital city center they heard the forces there chanting that they are pro have to end the are from the city of the town hall now we know that brigade number nine has been under front line would have to his forces trying to push towards the capital city center we know that the airstrikes launch at but have to over the past three weeks have obviously affected the advancement made by forces loyal to their. recognized government and the government is suggesting that this those are foreign fighter jets peter martin thanks so much. hereis former national police

chief has appeared in court over allegations of corruption that's according to algerian media reports abdul ghani hamill arrived at the court into bozza west of the capital algiers with his two sons was fired in june last year by the algerian former president bill as ease but if he kept. trying because president has appointed a new acting police chief after the easter sunday bombings that killed at least two hundred sixty people a new defense minister has also been appointed as part of the government's overhaul of the intelligence and security services but the current police chief putsch if the giants win datta has refused to step down despite his success of being named. has been accused of failing to act on the warnings that suicide bombers would target churches the government declared a state of emergency and deployed thousands of troops and alpha nando's has more from the capital colombo. this situation in the city of colombo and around the

country slowly limping back to normal you can see behind me the number of way goes along the road people have begun taking to the streets to get about their usual business significantly more than what we've seen during the pasta week on the security front we've had some developments the police chief just in that are being sent on compulsory leave we're hearing while the president has appointed a new acting police chief so this seems to point to the fact that this seems to be some issues the police chief digging his heels in not acceding to a request by the president to step down the president told the media last week that he had asked his defense secretary and the police chief to resign the defense secretary did but obviously the police chief not willing to do so in the meantime we've had the president bringing into effect ascension the ban on any form of face

covering asking people to ensure that their faces are not covered so that they can be identified in these trying times that seems to be a reference to the face whale used by the muslim community however they haven't specified that and also muslim community leaders had already sent down requests to women in the muslim community off to the sunday easter sunday bombings to basically cooperate with the authorities consider not using the phrase with to allow the authorities to get on with their investigations and make things easier so that's where it stands here in sri lanka. this report in a moment we're joined by a person with your world with the but also still to come here on the news out of china fulfilling its pledge to the u.s. by banning all types of opioids relate to drugs by. we'll examine mexico's role in the fight against in the prescription drugs plus. i'm wayne hay reporting from

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a four hundred millimeters of rain and i'm afraid there is more where that came from particular long those coastal fringes the deeper colors the rights the blues gives an indication where the heaviest rain is going to be and anywhere along that coast could see maybe as much as three hundred fifty millimeters frae in the next three days still further problems to come we could see some problems too on the other side of the equator pushing up towards flying here we go we've got this next circulation we've been talk about this for a couple of days now this is cycling funny sustained winds. so concerned about the strength of the winds but the usual storms the heavy rain which will push up tools that eastern side of india it does give some cause for concern so that picture it will gradually make its way further north was running right up that east coast pushing up towards the northern parts of. pushing up towards today and anywhere along those coastal plains could see some very heavy rain coming in by the end of this week. the weather sponsored by cattle ranch is.

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welcome if you're just joining us you're watching the news our live from doha these are the headlines spain's socialist party is celebrating a victory in the general election but it has not won enough seats to rule on its own populous policies also made headway with the far right folks 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 the turkish government says his body was found in some live free prison close to istanbul. at least three thousand prominent and influential afghan. in kabul for grand assembly

it's called the loya jirga the president is there to the body makes recommendations to the president after reaching a consensus on the biggest issues the taliban are not attending. let's get more on our top story spain's elections ruth is a professor of comparative politics and european studies joining us from madrid ruth welcome to the news hour why did the conservatives do badly. good morning peter ok conservative did the most worst result ever in a recent spanish democracy. and some factors are are the ones who link this failure or the conservative pary first one i would say that is that the vision of the left in the story on the right which is the first time the right wing parties step really three main right with. it but they are popular books

which divided the votes and electorate when coming through different options this second one i would say that is their radicalisation towards the string right of the new leadership of the party. look as hello. to all of trying to win dijkstra seem right instead they'll try to wean the center right always been losing and i was being winning by. everywhere so i think that are the main two factors that appeals to the concert the defeats last night ok vox clearly performing below expectations but still very much in the mix when they take this chance in the parliament what do you think their political footprint will be. when states at the parliament but they didn't win nor were they what they were expecting to win and i think this is an entrance into their own european

normality for spain and ten percent of the votes are going through. streamed right another ten percent and to else they're embarrassed and so they stream left and then we had the stench order left center right lever all want so spain was exceptional in that. in europe. because we do not have specific istream right piracy so you are now because all these boats were all together inside if we are party which is illegal in the east in these three political parties as i mentioned before see iran are more liberal but you know what i was more concerned what he found them boxwoods brights b.s.e. related to all their istream right in europe so i think. this is a demain they may know they may now try for for the for this by needs to or

distance politics i don't think it would be i mean they wanted to be more influence on the national politics but i don't think they are going to make more than than than their presence on institutions and i think you know ways good because we can see whether we have. one one final point ruth when you talk about the parties on the extremities of politics in spain we're heading we're accelerating towards the european elections could what we're seeing in spain be a bellwether for the broader vote across europe. i mean the european elections are good very crucial this year and i hope we can talk about it more on these on this point because when one tries what we've seen in spain which is making a difference with father figure can come to see that the meager ration drive for me gratian argument is not having a very good impact in dispense with u.t.

. we have these worried how the extreme right parisa an old europe they are having a seat at the european parliament and they probably make one or two parliamentarian groups that have almost every five percent of the camera so i think they. can be and this is a new senario in european politics but we cannot forget how important are the national elections in its european country in order to have a member or seated on the european council not just your temperament and also which are the kind of profiles that the governments the national governments are sending to the so they commission so we are in a crossroads now not just only in spain but also in europe and we have to pay attention or that's what's going on over the next weeks there are so many big issues when people go into the voting booths and the european elections the spanish

election you had a what an eight nine percent higher turnout this time compared to last time when people vote for their member of the european parliament you think we'll see a higher turnout for that as well. i hope so i mean we got we got elections to the european problem but also we have elections the local level and the regional level. it's very difficult to reach the person that person is to say the turnout that we had yesterday we have to remember that this is this sycamore this take a higher turnout in this money is democracy seems the end of the dictatorship. has been a vindication of the gains against there and the fastest them you know weighing we sold the national political party has been mobilized in a higher numbers i asked if these in catalonia are in and a bus country where the that no is political but our books they don't have any representatives coming from those from the staff on this region in the bus country

but on the other side you have to think about how. these the of a population would be mobilized will look a little on the regional level we hope i hope that there will be still. higher mobilization but i think it's going to be bathed very hard to to reach that number ruth for there in madrid thank you thank you very much talks between sudan's opposition groups in the military are due to resume on monday the two sides will meet after announcing the formation of a joint council on saturday night italy the council until elections are held mama though has more now from khartoum so mohammed as far as this conversation is concerned they got for the talks today what exactly will they be talking about one part of they have a lot of ground to cover on a local issues to discuss the fuck up they have a good lead that they will form a joint transitional council is by itself being hailed as

a breakthrough but they're so minister points including the transitional period the transitional period that the council will be in power for before elections are organized is done there. makeup of the council itself is in content shown with more size wanting to have a majority the opposition want to have a dominant figure and more on the transitional military council to say sure but actually power is shifting to the civilians the military don't want to hear anything of the sort they are also going to discuss. issues including how to have been. divide this war with the consul so so much huddling and horse trading is expected but both sides are optimistic that they will ultimately if it is there how far the protest organizers prepared to go here i mean

they've been given so many concessions by this council already is there a point when they say ok we've got enough to work with. well so far no we are not seeing any sign of that and they know the hunt is strengthened by the amount of good will getting from the public they know the sudanese masses are with them and they are using the protesters who are come outside the military headquarters leverage the transitional military council has so far been pragmatic giving them almost all giving in to most of their demands but there could be a point where the transitional military council might say no we're not going to go beyond this in terms of give me your concessions and also we know that the protest leader is the opposition groups are in a race against time because some of them is quickly approaching it will start in

a few days there are doubts whether they've been there would be able to keep those people who have been come outside the military headquarters there while the force the president is on so and that's why you see things going much faster than they have been before and as for the people who are not actually taking part in those protests what kind of mindset of they in at the moment they've had such a tough life for so long and the country seems to been put into a state of almost suspended animation for so long what we're into we're heading from months for in some months five of this well if you ask any sudanese they will tell you it's been war fit that bushehr has left power itself a huge victory for them and they say going back to what they heard befall is not an option and that's why they want a quick and swift cretonne to civilian rule in sudan mohammed thanks so much.

now china has banned all variants of the drug fentanyl as a step welcomed by the u.s. president donald trump to stem the flow of lethal opioids responsible for forty eight thousand deaths in the u.s. last year but the drug isn't just entering the country directly from china it's also being imported by the mexican drug cartels al-jazeera has gone home and has more now from the mexican state of sinaloa. three young men out in the woods in sin a lower mexico it only takes these pots and pans to cook up a drug that's wreaking havoc in the u.s. then to new the synthetic opioid that's killed tens of thousands in the last six years some of it enters the u.s. directly from china but mexican traffickers are also importing it from the asian nation before processing and smuggling it's across the border for them it's a gift about fifty times more powerful than the poppy based heroin they've been

growing in the mountains here for decades and far less work and there have been growing the poppies is a three month process venton all comes in by ship to match that land port from china or germany and it gives better profits poppy based opium means a lot more investment and less money the cooking's done in these floating labs set up in the middle of nowhere we've got this area very interesting you have to be a member of the cartel to be here if you're not you're in danger were covered by radios and lookouts the only threats from the armed forces the police they say have already been told. they're all sorted out we've made an arrangement with them even so there's danger he hopes divine help ward off the old tripoli's and this few. more imagining consuming me and product tends to can stop you breathing within minutes everyone we talked to knows of the danger to uses the water business comes first and the way that this drug trafficker told us he worried the fentanyl boom

could actually damage businesses so for. in the long term. think phenyl is going to cause a problem because there's so many use idiots there will come a moment when the government's going to put more and more brock's on this and it will be a lot tougher to do business. in a lower his police chief says his force is already working with u.s. agencies to do just that on the day of a visit they just made their first fence a new law bus taking thousands of pills the chinese government's also acting they've now banned the drug that will make it harder from its can gangsters to get their hands on it but they're notorious for always finding a way. to think that the organized crime groups who are behind all of this will stay with their arms crossed would be very inadequate so we intend to keep on the lookout and make sure we adapt to any changes in changes could be coming traffickers told us the cartels are exploring how to make fence a new from scratch if they do get control of the entire supply line it spells bad

news for those fighting the epidemic of the u.s. side john homan how does it or similar is when a fire at a high rise condominium in the philippines it happened in the pacific coast plaza in the capital manila it is unclear what caused the fire and there are no words yet of any casualties. more than two hundred seventy election staff 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 or than one hundred fifty four million people are estimated to have voted on april the seventeenth three elections presidential national and regional parliamentary elections were held on the same day in order to save money and various one sort of as an intern easier consultant for human rights watch she says the new parliament has to make changes to this electoral process. my four things

the reason open at seven am and finalise counting at two fifteen am meaning almost nineteen hours open not to say preparation we have to prepare the previous night meeting these people working like forty hours more straight rate of course we break lines and then our breaks but again it is not adequate at the same time they have to deal with five election presidential send not 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 sixteen parties time three election for the end. of papers this is not the fall of the election commission they're doing a great job the thing is the parliament wanted to save money by organizing five elections in a single day very complicated very difficult and so unsurprisingly many people have

died there is no parliament should immediately of repute be excess thing election law making it more human and it should be done now other than later because if it is done to be laid there you know the parliament will be more worried about gerrymandering about how the new election law will benefit them staying in indonesia at least seventeen people have been killed by floods and landslides following heavy rain and cool province on the island of sumatra was the hardest hit twelve thousand people have been evacuated as the rain continues on since season in indonesia typically runs from october to april just last month flooding in poppea province killed more than one hundred people. the police in india have broken up fights between voters during the fourth phase of a staggered national election it happened in the state of west bengal supporters of the prime minister narendra modi's b.g.p. party carried sticks and threatened voters supporting other opposition parties that

is running for a second term in office this election is being seen as a referendum on his five years in government. well more than one hundred twenty seven million people are eligible to vote in this round of india's seven phrase election the polls have opened in areas throughout indian administered kashmir al-jazeera spoke to a cartoonist who described how his work is affected by the instability of the region he hopes the elections will change the dark imagery he sees that influences his work. i'm thirty one i'm from and i'm a graphic novelist think of spending so much of time with my parents especially with my father i wanted to imitate his drawings he would do.