i king the new king. about his country and you want to do something significant. he's already done that taking control of the palaces fortune and changing a constitution that was passed in a referendum to give him greater power many ties look to the king to provide guidance in times of crisis kingma how would you along corn may be called upon to do that early in his reign given the uncertain political future wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok the chief of police in cyprus is the latest official to be sacked by the president over a botched murder investigation the island has been left reeling after the bodies of seven migrant women and girls were found dumped in a toxic lake a greek cypriot army captain has admitted killing them over a space of three years protesters sales already has failed to properly investigate the murders because the victims were low status immigrants. both of the u.k.'s main political parties are suffered heavy losses in the first local elections since

bracks it was delayed the ruling conservatives were expected to suffer but the labor party also took a hit the dean barber has the latest from london thank you everybody why did you resign. under pressure like never before to resume his conservative party was braced for a bad result in the local elections but it's fared worse than many predicted and that in large part can be explained by frustrations over breaks it i think there was a simple message from yesterday's elections to both us and the labor party just get it all and to mr bracks it i dozens of people have shared photos of their spoiled ballots on social media most wrote messages demanding bricks straight away although some ballot box protesters were anti bricks it labor has also struggled losing seats amid confusion over the opposition party's bricks at position leader jeremy corbett was putting

a positive gloss on the results we always want to do better and that's why we're in politics for that's what weeks and simple we have in a campaign and continue to try and keep and bring people together in negotiation crazy but also do you pose a serious challenge for poor can we actually feels with. the liberal. if anyone's unambiguously happy it's the liberal democrats as one of the clearly anti bricks at parties along with the greens who also performed well they're done better than they could have expected this story across the country. you know the lib dems were it not for one point that we came back very very strongly when the big winners of the night the real litmus test nationally could come when the brics it party the new party headed by former ukip leader nigel for raj and the anti brics it changed u.k. party candidates in this month's. european elections and the prime minister policy

are in trouble and it could get worse because the brics it policy and ukip will be out in force for the forthcoming european parliament elections but the labor policy could also find itself licking its wounds once again as bricks it continues to cost a shot away the british politics al-jazeera. still out here on al-jazeera install welcome back into the side two of australia's crickets. and that. is.

book about so-called immersive films always one of the highlights of the new york tri beckett film festival but while we've been hearing about virtual reality and movie making for some time the technology has got to go mainstream first and soon because of the festival's efforts to change all of that. the technology on display in the virtual arcade at the try back a film festival is cutting edge from the headsets that allowed viewers to interact with the films to the latest projectors to display that. i'm hungry people need a leader. but storytelling has been around as long as humans themselves and this animated film called cave which takes the viewer back to the days of talking around the campfire actually point the way to the future for virtual reality filmmaking the problem with g.r. is that in some sense everything is made as a movie for an audience of one so you get one percent of the time you get along the lines and also people don't get to share it with their friends caves creators made

a holographic virtual reality experience that can be shared by up to thirty people at once with each audience member's reactions visible to the other as a way to increase profits as well as audience size like we don't want to be art to be something that just because of lack of distribution becomes whether it wants to or not just a small elite to say we want to be a way for the world to talk to itself or better important issues or try backup program or lauren hammond's concedes that consumers have been slow to buy expensive v.c.r. headsets for home. use the idea of location based experiences and festivals in particular are very important to just exposing the work to audiences the idea of location based experiences there was something that cannot be duplicated at home have to do without like this virtual experience called war remains which allows viewers to interact with performers and touch and feel their surroundings on the

battlefield as well as see them as dog. other offerings like bonfire allow viewers to make decisions to shape the outcomes of the story. you need to take this mission seriously bonfire at its core is an interactive v.r. narrative and it's really about you building a relationship with this ilian creature part but and when it comes to try back as cinema three sixty the theater seats twice as many viewers this year at least one sign that organizers expect the audience for v.r. will continue to grow kristen salumi al-jazeera new york times poll his pizza thank you very much cost us a menu since she's determined to carry on after a commanding victory in what could be her last eight hundred meters race. the south african runner produced a new meeting recalled at five days diamond league event in doha with

a time of one minute fifty four point nine eight seconds on wednesday as she lost her case against a stuff thrown rules due to be imposed by athletics governing body the i.w.a. if with the new regulations kicking in on the eighth of may the feature of seminyak and i was like a at shorter distances is unclear. but not the main goal was the main plan. defending the world title doesn't win gold so yeah i would be here defending the world title because when you win you believe you know so i believe that i'll be here yes can you tell us what you made of the caps ruling and how you feel about it now and if you will take the medication as as as suggested by june first with medication hell no that's a legal matter. pretty confidential you cannot really discuss issues here we can't support the needs of what i don't bust so if you want to know anything about me you approach my legal to you want to know anything about my i mean you have

a long talk about us so you can't carry on running the eight hundred metres of course always and i'm going to because so no matter what i'm a crazy idea i see events like hell but it doesn't make us saw my colleague i believe in it's so that's what i want to do in future and i can't be forced to switch anyway so she should raise when i want to see jason so no man can tell me what to do so like i said i'm here point where couples if i want to see events i see them but if somebody wants me to see chanel does their own problems not mine so . i'm a pall on the second one four hundred because the five k. so i can run in his eyes i want this is all about you know believing it's all about inspiring the world is someone to get slow about sports it's a body human dignity you know human life so what you do is used by the world the people doing it no matter what doesn't matter if you're going to track. people

leave they look up to you always make sure about you do what's best for them it's about what i do. so what now for so many of our sports correspondent andy richardson was watching him. well this really was a powerful and poetic response from a caster semenya in light of that ruling from the court of arbitration for sport on wednesday a ruling that some thought my and her running the eight hundred metres could even result in a quitting athletics altogether not so she plans to be back here for the world championships in the eight hundred meters and says helmont to the idea of taking medication to lower her to stop her own levels she appears to be on a direct collision course with the classics governing body and its head sebastian coe believes the ruling is fair says it's not about defining gender it is about ensuring fair competition has generally been reluctant to even talk about the so many issues preferring instead to talk about his desire to expand the appeal of track and field when caster so many of the sport already has a global icon someone who is respected for her fight against prejudice and

discrimination and someone who is of course an outstanding performance on the track she's dominated her event for the best part of a decade carl may have hoped that ruling i draw a line under this controversy from what we've seen from so many on the track tonight and from what we've heard from her afterwards it appears this saga is a long way from the finish line. liverpool manager you're going to lop is confident the three nil the feat at barcelona won't the rail be a challenge for a first english premier league title in twenty nine years liverpool can regain top spot for manchester city when they go to newcastle on saturday we are ambitious like how we want to but be still no it's a lot of us in our hands but the only thing we can do is to beat you cause that's unbelievable. that is our problem. doing on monday night over there but it's not over. manchester city play on monday home against leicester city manager says it's

wrong to suggest leicester have nothing left to play for the season. i cannot imagine the list of players come here for the holidays so maybe they can chance to you know to finish and salmon in the position depends on the results so the anything isn't it isn't going to happen they're going to try to make a good game sure the title is already decided in each of these. events it's needed some inspiration from cristiana rinaldo in friday's dobby clash against totally no visits silencing the you very fans of the lukich capitalized on some sloppy defending early in the game look to the champions would suffer an embarrassing defeat so they said he spoke with six minutes to go now those head rest on one hundred. the defending cricket world cup champions australia have welcomed back steve smith and david warner to their training camp to play served a year long ban for they part in

a cheating scandal that rocked the team but coach justin langer says they are only positives in their britain. it's not tension you just. have the boys but where does excel is sort of that playing cricket has been a big build up to draw on their experience on and off the field and we would be absolutely crazy not to the center going to be challenges for both of them know. that you know when you've come from a top position of captaining in not well then you know it's going to be a certain degree if you military that comes with that there was a slice of goal thing history at the china open in shenzhen on friday kwan yang at just fourteen years six months and twelve days became the youngest player to make the cut at a european event outside the majors it's practice time for the student was cut short by midterm exams at school. and that's all the support we have even more coming up again later thanks peter of course you follow all of the stories we're covering on our website at al-jazeera dot com i'll be back with more news on the

other side of the break they've been watching the news out with me as a whole robin thanks very much for your time and your company.

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lives. in a rapidly changing world. twenty years of mean starts with blood and land the road to story on how to zero. it's much to india's east coast with devastating falls now cyclon phony is approaching bangladesh and two million people have been moved to safety. alexander robin you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. says it will punish some countries who keep working on civilian nuclear projects with iran a day after slapping sanctions on its oil trade also accusations from the u.n.

that refugees in hungary and detention centers are being deliberately deprived of food in breach of international law. preparing to transform them into a living god more than two years after he took charge of thailand's about to finally crown the new king. welcome to the program the most powerful cycling to india in twenty years is ripping through its eastern coastline destroying homes uprooting trees and plunging large areas into darkness more than a million people have been moved to higher ground that's helped save many lives eight people though have been killed so far cycling forty made landfall near the city of buddhi in addition state on friday with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour and heavy rain hundreds of flights and trains were cancelled schools and airports shut the storm is now moving northwards to the state of west

bengal in india and is expected to hit bangladesh on saturday they need two million people there all already been moved to make shift shelters scott has more. one hundred eighty kilometer per hour winds cyclon funny slammed ashore in the desist eight in eastern india thanks. when he first made landfall friday morning near the coastal city of footy a holy place for hindus something that i'm going to win isn't the rain has stopped since early morning it's a very strong storm the trees have been uprooted roads are closed there is no electricity the rain has caused my house to flood. every month but that this is worse than the one thousand nine hundred nine storm i feel scared to be at home or to go outside i fear we might be blown away if we go out. the strong so i clone is expected to move north through and weaken as it hits west bengal and my colleague

states it will then had to bangladesh. a big concern as coastal storm surges and resultant flooding about a million people have been evacuated india's navy air force and disaster response force are on standby for. airports and schools were closed before the storm hit funny is the most serious cyclon for the region in twenty years in one nine hundred ninety nine a super cycle devastated and killed ten thousand people across the state. the coast of a state is prone to cycle and storm surge and tsunamis in banquets and shelters have been built over the last seven years before he will be the first test of how they stand up to an hour full cycle. got harder al-jazeera new delhi kevin trenberth is a senior scientist at the u.s. national center for atmospheric research and he thinks climate change is the more powerful song. this is the time of year of course in in the indian ocean where

there is quite a lot of cycling activity normally and then there's another peak an even stronger peak from october to december but not in the peak of summer so this is a surprise perhaps to some people around the world but in the middle of summer the monsoon kicks in and it creates wind shear which tends to pull these cyclons apart so these sea temperatures have been running quite a bit above normal in the indian ocean and also in the bay of bengal and this helps to support these storms you know two thousand and eighteen the oceans as a whole with the warmest on record that's a symptom of climate change and with climate change we expect a more intense hurricanes a bigger hurricanes or cycle and longer lasting hurricanes and more flooding rains and that's certainly what we're seeing now pakistan's government has removed two of its top financial officials as the country's economic troubles continue the central

bank governor and the head of the federal revenue collection body have been removed just weeks after the finance minister was asked to step down the move comes amid growing discussions for the international monetary fund but his thoughts economy is expected to grow by just three percent this year. now four hours of turn north koreans are going hungry and it's set to get even worse after the country's worst harvest in a decade that's according to un report which says more than ten million people a facing severe food shortages of the government is cutting food rations of which many people rely to its lowest ever level this year a combination of dry spells heat waves and flooding are being blamed for the crisis . so to the americas now where venezuela's opposition leader why do is vowing to fight on to win the support of the military against president nicolas maduro is his supporters to march to military barracks and army bases on saturday to us soldiers

to break ranks with the army's elite germans is key to the battle for power in venezuela and so far present has retained its support on the diplomatic front the lima group of mostly latin american countries met in the peruvian capital to help end venezuela's political standoff trees the bo has more from caracas. well it's been almost four days it seems it seems that the status quo here in venice where luck would change when we saw opposition leader quango you're going to a military base here in that i like a lot are not far away from where i am so rounded by solve this problem i think change of government change here in venezuela he was accompanied by a physician leader for the locust has been under house arrest for the past two years the fact that he was there seemed that something could change well and tell now it did in view of all the luck with ended at the vanished ambassador's residence seeking a refuge and we know that why go continue to ask people to take to the street to

ask for change what he's saying is that asking people is that this saturday they go to the street and go to military bases with leaflets asking members of the military to jane in to stand by the constitution to rebel against the government of nicola this friday he went to a meeting with a members of the venezuelan state all company with employees of belief that where he told them that the dialogue between the military members of the military and the opposition is not broken i going to go whether there are conversations with military and other officials yes there are and within every rank at all levels we have made every effort since the start of the year to transition to democracy to liberty to and these are patients to start the transitional government's been free elections very we're going to make every effort to continue making those efforts. in the meantime the united nations has increased to five the amount of people that

have died in recent days because of the protests that we've seen in a venezuela and the fear is repression that we saw from the government this raises the number after forty nine that have died in protest in venezuela this year they leave man group composed by countries like brazil argentina the united states met in the city. where they ask for example countries like turkey and russia to switch their key supporters of the government. they all took the card at the possibility of any type of military intervention and also promised to in a way find and political participation of cuba in any type of future talk regarding the future of venezuela but let's not forget that for now your position is saying that they won't and they do not want any type of negotiation with the government of nicola modal and let the government and unless unless the government decides to

call for free and fair elections. this was part of a long phone conversation between the u.s. president and vladimir putin on friday or one's house correspondent kelly. speaking from the oval office u.s. president donald trump discussed his telephone call with russian leader vladimir putin one of the many topics they discussed included venezuela where both sides have been warning one another of intervention in venezuela in recent days. arguing that. does not want to get involved in venezuela but that seems to contradict the statements coming from talks on secretary of state might pump ale by comp a recent day saying that in fact the russians had to convince directly the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro not to leave that a swell when his plane was apparently on the tarmac in venezuela so this is certainly a contradiction in terms of the claim being made by u.s.

president donald trump but once again the tensions between the two nations have been ask a lady well the united states backs the opposition leader or what the united states calls the interim leader juan why don't the russian side backs the venezuelan president nicolas maduro and so this is where there is. continuing friction in fact . of the russian foreign minister saying that these positions are not compatible that's why we know that lavrov will be discussing this issue with pompei o the u.s. secretary of state next week but in the midst of all of this the united states continues to underscore that they believe there is still the possibility of u.s. military intervention in venezuela the exact words they continue to say repeatedly all options are on the table we do know in fact that there was a meeting at the pentagon on friday where some of those options may have been discussed it was a team of military officials along with the president's national security advisory

team. after time being sanctions on iranian oil exports the u.s. government is giving your own civilian nuclear program some breathing room the u.k. china france and russia won't face any repercussions if they continue to work with iran the countries are involved with its civilian nuclear program three facilities now the waivers were first introduced into the twenty fifteen nuclear record signed by european union china russia and the us president trump withdrew from the deal a year ago now trita parsi is a professor of middle east politics at georgetown university he says washington's ultimate goal is to get iran to withdraw from the twenty fifteen deal. it's a temporary position at the end of the day i'll science art of the trumpet ministration is going to withdraw those waivers as well as well as going after other forms of trade whatever is left in order to just completely isolate iran and the bizarre situation that iran is facing is that it is now under more

sanctions now when it is actually abiding by international agreement than it was when it was accused of having violated international agreements now it seems like the plan of the trumpet ministration is to essentially force the iranians to get out of the nuclear deal and once they're out other options open ups opens up for the. bolton. group within the white house and the option they seem to be gearing towards is a military option for palestinians have been killed in two separate incidents in gaza and israeli strike on a position in central gaza left two people dead and one injured and israeli soldiers also also israeli soldiers also opened fire on protesters taking part of weekly demonstrations at the border for.