he said the death of the complicates the political tensions between turkey and the u.a.e. i think it's significant for the for the fact that to eating out you know will not be able to gather further information. on on their motivations or or what sort of. aimed a had in turkey in terms of political implications i think it's also important because the you we will you know will try to use this against turkey based on its already existing rivalry and strategies but you know this is not something that will serve this is this is not an incident that will really serve to turkey's interests least of all we did find out in right after they were arrested that. these two individuals were at work to build some sort of an anti to ease structure this is some of the information that we have received. from our

sources an attack on a protestant church in bikini faso has left six people dead gunman shot five worshipers in a pastor as they were leaving a service in the small more than ton of syl god she recently there has been a surge in attacks attributed to all groups based in the north. a rare grand assembly of prominent afghans is taking place in kabul where the u.s. talks the taliban are likely to top the agenda it's known as the loya jirga and such meetings have been held for centuries it is a way of bringing together afghanistan's many ethnic religious and tribal communities there could be more than two and a half thousand people there they've been used to approve a new constitution declare war choose a new king or to make sweeping social or political reforms on the first day they'll be able to appoint the judges temporary leader as well as deputies and secretaries the new head of the jirga will then create fifty committees they'll spend up to a week discussing the issues recommendations will be made but they're not legally

binding. joins us live from kabul so charlotte will be talking about today. was a very long day for the delegates they have just returned back to where we are at the hotel they started at four thirty this morning because of security issues to get in there they started with. the president spoke and then they lick to the chip person for the man's name is russell it was a day later in the eighty's in his late seventy's more than three thousand people over the next anywhere from three to seven days as they debate the number of questions about how they will proceed should they get the opportunity to talk pace with the taliban we've just learned of the four questions they will be discussing over the coming days they are what needs to be done to achieve a long lasting peace in afghanistan what values should be safeguarded during talks

with the taliban what type of post analyses from the government should lead the talks and lastly foreign policy be looking at what action should be taken towards foreign countries that support the taliban and i guess we have to wait for a reaction from the president because he wasn't there today. he was there this morning are new for the opening ceremony then he left and he leaves these delegates to talk amongst themselves they do split into committee and then he leaves them to talk to discuss they will be a lot to weigh in here we debate. anywhere from three days to a week then at the end he will return and they will present their recommendations on what they think the path the government should take and they are meant to represent every faction of afghan society they from all the different districts this thirty percent of them a woman some people a young some all different tribes different religions so they are meant to

represent kind of a wide swath of what afghanistan should want and what he should fight for but like you said it's not legally binding so he will listen he will take it on board and then he will decide with the that will be the front that the afghan government will put forward should they get the opportunity to talk pace with the taliban but the taliban when it comes to certainly will not today. they were not there today and they were not happy they put out a statement they said we believe this is all a show by the u.s. they say that the jeopardizes the peace process by doing this and they feel like it's disrespectful to the long history and traditions of the loya jirga which go back centuries and they would be our new ones who would be with the loya jirga being how to quite key figures in afghan society boycotted it former president cause i boycotted it he said he didn't think that the productive and also the c.e.o. who's the second highest ranking afghan official he wasn't happy that he wasn't

consulted enough in the lead up and he said he didn't think it would be productive either prison garb he actually called them both alice and his are feeling speech and said yes i'm aware they're not here i don't want to pass judgment i will only set to you charlotte thanks very much. still to come for you here the news including. a reporting from tokyo where japanese are preparing for the first imperial abdication in more than two hundred years. because president appoints a new national police chief but the old one says he isn't going anywhere. the warriors remind everyone just one of the champions action from the n.b.a. playoffs coming up in about thirty minutes. there's been heavy fighting in southern tripoli as forces loyal to the warlords continue to attack the libyan capital after spices and taking control of areas near

the inactive international airport tripoli based government recognized by the u.n. says it's bringing in reinforcements to repel the attack and a call made by donald trump earlier this month to after offering support has angered some members of the president's republican party the senator lindsey graham described it as being unnerving. 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 haftorah general from the east of libya there smoothing on tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and haftorah did for the phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking. from tripoli forces loyal to. have to have advance towards. neighborhood that's about fifteen kilometers away from tripoli city

center and eyewitnesses in al sadr and locals there say that they have seen have to his forces engaging against forces loyal to the you and the recognized government of national accord in the streets and inside the densely populated areas namely in a neighborhood on the southern part of the libyan capital we know that during the past two weeks have to his forces have been losing ground and the government of national called forces have been pushing have forces back beyond tripoli in active international airport have to after they lost ground they intensified air strikes specially night air strikes this intuitively means a very tense especially for civilians living in the nearby fighting areas and the government forces say that they are receiving get more troops to push have to his

forces back to their old locations they also say that the are able to push have to his forces back beyond their administrative borders of the capital tripoli. turkey's president is backing libya's un recognized government in its fight against after richard i've heard the one described have to as advance on tripoli as a plot against the libyan people he says to he will support the tripoli based government as a trust to drive half his fighters out of the capital yousif is an international security and political analyst he joins us now from istanbul yourself about why is mr earle one taking this particular approach. you know that turkey has with relationship with all countries the beaches operation the recognized by the united nations such as afghanistan iraq and turkey supporting them international ariane are for t.p.m. to peace saw mr are the on again either

a tit that he's confirmation that they're giving support the international and united nations recognize government in tripoli because otherwise the half their forces may not be able to capture the trip or leave but there will be more people who is being suffered such as in the case of the syria saw in order to prove one such kind of rebellion positions turkey decided to support the united nations nice government inside tripoli and mr adlon has iterated his support for many times and when he says he will support the u.n. backed government does he mean politically diplomatically or militarily. since it is the united nations recognized government two countries made bought sign an agreement politically economically and militarily a saw since it has now been declared off usually the turkish government office

surely can't support the united nations frequent nice government bought economy loophole tickly if necessary from the perspective of militarily as in the case of turkey supports more united nations mission symbols now to afghanistan iraq to many other parts of the world so i believe that in case the united nations government recognized government a government of national accord once they have from the turkey militarily there is not up that turkey will support them militarily also that same thing what if he's backing the wrong horse in as much as. is well resourced he's got some very wealthy powerful backers and he's had his. arms and his fighters literally on the gates stationed on the gates of tripoli for several weeks now and he seems to be able to sustain that from my perspective of

analyzing the situation in libya. being backed by the rich countries such as the gulf countries does not mean that they hundred percent will brink you the ground to your success and victory because the moral striation on the ground is very open through public government is the united nations secret nies government so taking into consideration who's backing the rebellion heidi for half the turkey there from the perspective of principle of the turkish foreign policy keep on supporting the you under cognize government of national accord i can see you. in istanbul thank you. talks between sudan's ruling military and the opposition have resumed with more discussions on the transition to civilian government the two met after announcing the formation of

a joint council on saturday nights it lead the country until elections are held and spring in his life for us in khartoum so many further talks are being held today do we know the nitty gritty of what they're discussing. yes away no because they say they have agreed in principle to this and publish them and provide joint transitional council which will house bolster the military and civilian representatives and it will take the country through up. transitional the whole denies elections of course they are this causing will take what number when it comes to the members who will be part of but consul calls the transitional council wants a majority of the council that civilian testers opposition groups who have been behind these protests right in these space outside the military headquarters want a majority in the out console because they're saying they're up against

a well and trying to state and. saying that they that would allow the console boxes dominated by the ministry of course they're also this causing the length of time the transition will be full and among many other things so we expect a multiple for hard getting on a horse trading but both sides are optimistic that they will finally get them. to get the feeling they might have had that this might begin the process of easing tensions so they can begin to talk to each other in a less confrontational way perhaps. yes indeed and you can tell from the. us and go talk to us here at the square of them lol hopeful of the holdouts of the time to civilian rule is to done might be out on the whole to have

a valid side the military at the transitional military council itself has been vetted pragmatic giving in to most of the demands of the. protest organizers some of them including given up pod's with in the transitional military council itself all the people conceded to be part of that idiom was a model of bush however we're seeing a situation where they're getting more and more leverage from the protestors and being intransigent and the moms and they are saying they have got a second option if all these talks fail they say they can bring the country to all i mean they can call for a general strike and bring saddam to all hold all over because they say they have the power of the people behind them and humbles for the strength and today

when the transitional military council disbanded old thread unions in that country which means the protest organizers if it gets to thoughts will have. don't put unity took hold of all they want but i mean the first they are in khartoum thank you. sri lanka has a new defense minister the appointment as part of the government's overhaul of the intelligence and security services the president has also appointed a new acting police chief but the current chief. has refused to step down let's go live now to colombo and our correspondent michelle fernandez how can you justify trying to stay on in the job. given this blame game everybody has their own story and so to the police chief even though he hasn't been seen or heard from since we've had this

confrontation almost with the president present by people in the city say no when he made the media a few days ago or did say that he had asked the defense secretary and the police chief to step down about the secretary of the secretary of defense ministry a bureaucrat the prime the president had the right to do that but where his police chief was concerned given the laws and the constitution the police chief could have only been removed on the recommendation of the police commission so the president couldn't really sack him however this kind of pressure brought to bear he was expected to resign but obviously he was unwilling to do that now the defense secretary did resign we saw a new defense secretary being appointed a former army commander taking that position and being sworn in before the president today the police chief however is a different story quite a colorful character having some issues in recent months and we still haven't heard from him but the president did two things we're hearing that the police chief was

sent on compulsory leave basically in a bid to try and deal with a situation where he's digging his heels in and refusing to step down and acting police chief an inspector general of police that's the second in command the second more senior officer has been appointed as the police chief is it approaching a point where it might just. be getting back to normal. i think rather a long way from that but having said that to be literally. the city and many towns around the country have been nearly deserted we've had the first day of the week you know bringing people into into their offices the roads have been crowded there are people nothing like as normal people do realize

that they have to get on with life people i've been speaking to people throughout the day some people said we have to get on and make a living we will survive the people saying how long can we stay in our houses yet other people are saying we trust the security forces they will do our jobs there are many people still concern peter i mean make no mistake with the ongoing alert all of these detections people are worried but they did live with a group of all for twenty six years this is nothing new sadly went back to living with that uncertainty into the mill thanks very much in indonesia at least seventeen people have been killed by flooding and landslides following heavy rain bengkulu province on sumatra was the hardest hit twelve thousand people have been evacuated as the rain does continue monsoon season and an easier typically runs from october to april just last month floods in popular province killed more than

one hundred people. the mozambican government says the number of dead after a powerful cycling has now jumped from five to thirty eight heavy rain causing flooding in some areas and that rain is expected to continue over the coming days the u.n. is giving thirteen million dollars in emergency funds to mozambique and the komodo islands to assist in the relief effort. is the second one to last the african coast in six weeks. time for your weather is up and yeah i was staying in mozambique because the remnants of kenneth have not quite done with us just yet so there is more rain in the forecast which you believe take away the satellite picture and you can see this massive cloud this little clutches storms and that's been feeding coastal showers in just drifting in there from the the the mozambique channel lots of cloud lots of very heavy rain over the next couple of days we could see further really heavy rainfall that we're already had three hundred ninety eight millimeters

of nearly forty millimeters of rain in just the past two days and we could see the same again over the next say three or four days you can see where the concentration for the really heavy rain is up towards the far south east of tanzania and northeastern corner of mozambique still seeing some really heavy rain then said the flooding concerns really do remain in place further north we could well see some flooding pushing up towards eastern parts of india over the next day or say we've got the circulation here we've been talking about this for a couple of days now and this is a sideline for any sustained winds of around ninety five kilometers per hour but it will strengthen further as it makes its way up towards that eastern side of india it may well make its way into under but that they may well feed into bangladesh speak on certainty about the exact location of the storm when it does make landfall but it is going to bring some really heavy rain up that eastern side of india over the next couple of days damaging winds possibility of a storm surge too but there will be widespread flooding pater everson thank you

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this hour the top stories in spain the socialist party is celebrating a victory in the general election but it hasn't won them of seats to rule on its own populous parties are also making headway with the far right vox gaining seats parliament for the first time. a man who'd been detained in turkey and chance with spying for the united arab emirates has reportedly taken his own life from prison or into the turkish government psyche and how son's body was found in so live for the person on the outskirts of istanbul. arrested earlier this month reportedly confessed to spying on national. one of the top story there's been heavy fighting in tripoli as forces loyal to the police continue to attack the libyan capital his fighters have advanced and taken control of areas near the inactive international airport. sixty indian nationals are back home today after being held in pakistan because of illegal fishing three hundred sixty people have now been released by as part of

a goodwill gesture india and pakistan often arrest each other's people on charges of illegal fishing tensions have remained high since a suicide bomber from a pakistani based group killed more than forty soldiers in indian administered kashmir in february tariq is a strategic affairs analyst he joins us from welcome to the news so this is a gesture of goodwill will it work thank you. maybe it is less likely to work to be very learned in response to your question this is a gesture primarily to minimize the level of density india still it is that exist in. the present by and to alleviate the fear is that the situation should not get out of control these goodwill gestures. i mean from time to time used by. primarily by august to make sure that we can.

you know guess stay out of trouble if both sides regularly arrest or detain the other country's fisherman and both sides know this is an ongoing issue why not simply start not arresting people. to tell you their truth the fact of the matter is that there is a little willingness in new delhi these days and i'm being very fair that at the present time and i appeared on indian television all the time there is no willingness in the government of mr nor in the mood the to bring any matter that exist between the two countries any issue that does exist between the two countries to a peaceful resolution and this happens to be one of the secondary issues and although it is very serious human beings are involved but s. compared to the issue kashmir the compared to the short terrorism this does not

come you know in the forefront so i would say now that they can dissolve it if they have ought to but and actually in round one is on record many came to power he said if india takes one step father gets done but it takes two and start of that what we saw was the escalation on the battlefront and the downing of indian planes and the at that by indian planes in duke august so there is no will add the present time. that is it's huge right now going on all this that that all this is happening on the bench in britain india and pakistan this is happening because there is no that there is an election going on and mr modi wants to win the election at the cost of pakistan but i don't but my personal analysis is that when the election is over these problems will remain the same the issue because we were living in the same issue

a fisherman little main the same and this say girlies of fishermen will continue to be this technique will continue to be exercised in the day that as a means to medium lies the level of intervention. thank you very much. the police in india broken up fights between voters during phase four of their staggered national election the violence was in the state of west bengal supporters of the prime minister mr modi b.g.p. party threaten the opposition party supporters with sticks as the mood is running as we've been hearing for a second term in office in an election seen as a referendum on his five years in the job so far well more than one hundred twenty seven million people are eligible to vote in this round of india's seven phase election seven faces and all 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 across the region he hopes the elections will change the dark imagery he sees that influences

his work. mining. i'm thirty one i'm from kashmir 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 draw all these traditional embroidery more tips on paper. and. saw. trying to copy his pictures and. and i'll forget what was happening outside i remember. being fearful of my father being taken by by the armed forces for these. identification it's. but but this drawing and helping my father was was was the best time of my childhood but i stepped outside the home still today. that's still

a deaf ear is still there and. now i fear for my nephews and my nieces and my friends when i talk about my stories when i write my stories. i want to know why showing people as just numbers. you know i just wanted to show people the way they are in their real lives someone's friend someone's related to and something like that so that so that people relate to them and this text our visual offers them this cinematic experience i think it's very effective in terms of. speaking about our personal experience lives and. and creating a device where people can relate to your life and see you see see distribution differently not just as a dispute but as us as a humanitarian problem as well i hope the situation changes and i don't have to

draw these dark rituals and did scared bellew a normal life but that's obviously a dream no more than two hundred seventy election staff in indonesia reportedly died in the days following the world's biggest single day of polling held earlier this month and countries general elections commission says the workers mostly died of fatigue related illnesses caused by long hours spent counting millions of ballot papers by hand one hundred fifty four million people are estimated to have voted on april the seventeenth through elections the presidential national and regional parliamentary ballots were held on the same day in order to save money. now china has banned all variants of the drug fenton and it's a step welcomed by donald trump the u.s. president to stem the flow of lethal opioids responsible for forty thousand u.s. deaths in twenty eighteen however the drug isn't just entering the u.s. directly from china it's also being imported by the cartels in mexico john holeman

reports from the heartland of the mexican drug trafficking scene the states of sinhala. three young men out in the woods in sin a low of mexico it only takes these pots and pans to cook up a drug puts 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 got this area very controlled you have to be a member of the cartel to be here if you're not you're in danger we're 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 misuse imagining consuming me and product can stop you breathing within minutes everyone we talked to knows of the danger to uses for the business comes first and then however this drug trafficker told us he worried the fentanyl boom could actually damage be. so in the long term. i think phenyl is going to cause a problem because there's so many user deaths there will come a moment when the federal government's going to put more and more blocks on this and it will be a lot tougher to do business. in a lower as 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 the first fence and 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 in adequate 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 its bills bad news for those fighting the epidemic or the u.s. side john homan does it or similar. sanctions banning u.s. companies from buying venezuelan oil have now come into force the economic impact make it even harder for the president nicolas maduro his government to import food stuffs.