using live ammunition shot at protesters gathered outside the house of former president bush. he had called for a boycott of sunday's poll angry the result his supporters chanted down with president but. many were killed and wounded. and so glow two former presidents called sunday's parliamentary election in electoral coupe most opposition parties were prevented from taking part in the race the internet was shut down during the vote and only twenty seven percent of the registered electors came out to vote a historic low. but he accuses tellem of tightening his grip on power once political allies they've now become rivals during his mandate been accused of attempting to kill him and embezzling twenty million dollars is now in power in bernie's feeling the pressure. this is as close as we can get to you bernie's home the security forces have cordoned off the neighborhood they say to prevent any

further violence for those who support the former presidents the presence of the military on the streets is a form of intimidation. at a press conference the opposition called for more protests won't be we can let president tom accompany skate power from people who will defend the nation without benefits before. been in is often described as a beacon of democratic stability in the region but it is now going through an unprecedented political tore moral with the current and former president using the streets to settle old political scores nicholas hawke al-jazeera to new been in. uganda's opposition politician bobby wine has told a g'day he's willing to sit down with president. to discuss the challenges facing the country a popular musician turned politician was released after three days in custody for taking part in what the authorities called unlawful. protests catherine sawyer

reports from kampala. this was the moment bobby while returning home on thursday after three days in cassidy for leading protests against a social media tax many of his supporters like young john to his music and political views most have grown up with president yoweri in the seventies in charge has been in power for more than three decades and so was the parliament that wind told al-jazeera his supporters relate to him because of his fight against social injustice we are lucky that we are living in a generation where our mouths can not be shut we shall speak the truth and we shall continue using the law as it does do stand for our rights and has a president ever reached out to you talk about political issues to talk about how to move the country forward and things like that. no he has not reached out to me and would you be willing to sit down with him to talk about what's ailing the country and what perhaps can be done better because he is the head of state i would

be very glad and very honored to sit with the president and tell him exactly what i am saying now. honorably attending that mr president we need to respect the law was in another neighborhood eyes a quote we restore expresses his political stand on a good day he'll make about five dollars selling the street food but after expenses and home bills he's left with very little to save his business. when you say more than usual they should reduce the price of wheat the city council should also treat us well stop harassing and overtaxing us. like war weary a majority of ugandans are young those we talked to said they don't have jobs poor and frustrated the compiler is considered an opposition stronghold and bobby wine is very popular here but some analysts say if you go to all areas president yoweri

museveni is still family in control this vast knowledge of the people who say they're struggling to make plans maids and just want a better life government ministers say their colonies performing well but not growing as fast as the population who have one of the highest rates of population growth so in terms of absolute figures we are. because over this. summer with the achievements which we just got. back at the food store where we are safe he wants to move to a much bigger one and maybe one day a proper restaurant he tells us if things remain the same politically he does not say he's a constant is changing catherine saw al-jazeera kampala. in the democratic republic of congo the number of people killed by the latest outbreak of the bowl of virus has climbed above a thousand since doctors discovered the reemergence of the disease last august the

number of cases has increased rapidly the world health organization saying a major impediment to controlling the virus is fighting involving various armed groups in the affected areas. hundreds of thousands of algerians protested for the eleventh straight week on friday calling for the ruling elite to step down they say they will continue to hold their rallies and tell their demands are met even though even through the muslim holy month of ramadan and do quite report. the streets of the capital ring out to calls for change again was thousands taunting they must all leave the the scenes were repeated across the country by crowds unhappy with interim president abdulkadir. and prime minister nuri deemed bad to be . supposed to only seven square lections on july the fourth but he and other government officials are seen as little more than remnants of the regime of

president abdullah sees beautifully calm things the protesters are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system. we have to remain patient when a regime ruins a country it's still the people's money humiliates us and runs the country the way they want for more than twenty years we can say that after two months we are tired we can't be tired we have no right to waste this revolution that had the shabby had that. many protesters are opposed to the planned process of transferring power to a newly elected government they fear that some members of the old beautifully kept ministration may be given roles was not a real goal be in the streets during ramadan and we will be heading to the all go way yet with just an old box we would like to change the system entirely we would like to begin again from the start this is in order to start everything from the beginning to reset everything the good. stuff we were so close you are almost there

is no dialogue this government is a judgment we want to negotiate with we told gates a lot has changed the government then will told us if you don't then you won't stop. many want army chief of staff are meant to step in and remove the political elite but he insists protesting should follow the constitutional process so large helped push out president beautifully after twenty years and has promised to crack down on corruption while some algerian supports him others are skeptical whether sylar can be part of the far reaching sweeping change they demand and until the sweeping change protests across the country looks set to continue. algy sara. heavy shelling in rebel held areas of northern syria has forced the university of lip to send students home and the eastern countryside of italy was come under further

attack from russian and syrian government airstrikes the attacks are the latest violation of an eight month old truce brokered by russia and turkey. thailand's king ma what you know long gone has been crowned as the country's monaco after two years of mourning his father. king a rama ten placed the seven point three kilos crown on his head in their labyrinth coronation ceremony mixing buddhist and hindu traditions sixty six year old succeeded his father in two thousand and sixteen ending a seventy year reign when he has the latest from bangkok. over the course of just over two hours inside the grand palace in the thai capital bangkok thailand saw its first royal coronation in sixty nine years with the crowning of king my heart what year long corner the tenth king in the cretinous de at the end of that

ceremony we saw him dawn the seven kilogram great crown of victory and give his first royal command a very brief comment inside the grand palace saying that he will reign with righteousness for the benefits and happiness of the people of course he was already king having ascended the throne in two thousand and sixteen following the death of his father king on a do new day who reigned for seventy years so this was really a formalisation of their process all of his only son becoming the next king of thailand at times throughout that ceremony on saturday we also saw thailand's new queen queen city a surprise announcement coming from the palace on wednesday that king my harwich year long corn had married for the fourth time the former deputy head of his bodyguard service a military general in the time military and a former flight attendant with thai airways it's believed the pier met on a flight some years ago so she is now the new queen of thailand not only do we have

a new king of thailand but a new royal couple. talks aimed at ending the seventeen year war in afghanistan are resuming in on saturday the. will include representatives of the taliban and the united states stephanie decker is live for us following those talks so stephanie this is the latest these are the latest negotiations in a round of discussions that have been going on for several weeks now what are we hearing there. several months really has and it's been a complicated a long winded negotiation process is the sixth round of talks now what we're hearing from sources and they're very very tight lipped or we've just been kicked out of the venue where it's being held because nobody wants the presence of any media and security under very strict orders to get any media away from the venue but we are hearing from our sources inside and also other diplomatic sources that

they're not going that well we've also heard from the spokesperson from the taliban saying that they're going slow one of the sticking points well one of those was was thrown in just a couple of days ago the issue of disarmament of the taliban this is a new issue that's been brought to the table has been it's causing controversy the taliban saying that this is not going to happen at toul and then you also have another issue about the name of the taliban on the final agreement paper that will be signed once and if they manage to agree to something which is they want to be called the islamic emirate of afghanistan and the americans are saying that that is not possible because it gives them the sense of a government and the taliban is saying that they were a government in september two thousand and one before the the onslaught of the americans began it is very complicated there are four main issues on the table there has been some progress on those issues until now which is the issue of the u.s. troop withdrawal the timeline which is the issue of a cease fire it's the issue of entraps can talk because of course the afghan government is not present here and also the issue of afghanistan not being used as

a ground for terrorist organizations to norwich attacks we do understand there's been progress on that but at the moment still two sides firmly entrenched in their positions we understand the talks are difficult at the moment and then also just briefly has and there's an issue of timeline because ramadan the holy month of ramadan is due to start either on sunday or monday the taliban saying they don't want to continue negotiations through the holy month and the americans are trying to push for something to continue so again i think we're going to have to wait and see how this day unfolds progress being made yes but certainly at the point at this point in time we know there's real sticking points in both sides are not really budging. all right stephanie thanks for that stephanie death ally first there were those talks are taking place. security forces across sri lanka remain on high alert to meet fears of more attacks following the easter sunday bombings the catholic sunday mass has been cancelled again while offices continue to carry out searches may now for nando's reports from the eastern town of cattle including

detections like what has been found here in qatar near batticaloa are becoming commonplace as the police the military and all the law enforcement branches are bringing in their resources to conduct searches on a house to house basis as you can see this collection from hand grenades to micro pistols to walkie talkies and other weaponry have been detected in areas close by now the two hand grenades were found basically thrown in this cemetery which is just behind us obviously somebody had detected it houses used by the parent and the sister of the alleged mastermind was searched here in qatar. such as were also carried out in a number of locations in town leading to the discovery of assorted weaponry and according to what we're hearing from those involved in the reads this is becoming commonplace as the net closes in and people realize that there are more and more

searchers and they had risk at being discovered. all right we'll have the weather with everton in a moment but still ahead on al-jazeera. why some south africans are out on the streets ahead of the coming election. this is not only that all this and deepest lake in the world it also holds a lot of secrets curious to diseases and answers to scientific questions i'm stuck fast the reporting from lake baikal in russia. and south africa's caster semenya defies new rules on testosterone and female athletes after running a record time in doha or will have that in school.

they want to follow warning was issued for a tropical cyclone funny around about fifteen hours ago you can see how quickly it has diminished into this feature which is still quite a large one a good part of bangladesh now if the threat of flooding rains coming through this kind of rainfall that we had as a system made its way into into the northeastern corner of india pushing up across west bengal and into bangladesh hundred seventy seven millimeters of rain twenty four alice in a space of six hours we saw one hundred thirty nine millimeters of rain which is around twice the may average rainfall so that is a lot of rainfall expected amounts of hugh trying fools coming in in just a small space of time and the rain does remain a threat over the the coming hours not really the winds the winds not say much of a concern but it says of rainfall we could see maybe one hundred to two hundred fifty millimeters of rain across parts of bangladesh picking more than bangladesh

pushing up in new into nepal and where we see that rain coming down over the higher ground of course can only go one way it's going to come back down through the ganges. i'm back on the bengals so flooding concerns are going to remain in place for some time to come we will see that right easing as we go on through our sunday august monday brought us guys coming back in by the floodwaters will remain. the weather sponsored by catalona. once welcome now fear. dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world to be sure i feel more judgment on syria and the future how much money it doesn't refute you get those people who don't think. any german and i'm not the new germans on al-jazeera. one of the

really special things about work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story as we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging but it is but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. people believe to tell the real story so i'll just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. and again you're watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour the israeli army is firing artillery shells into gaza palestinian fights is

a fight about raja of rockets into israel the ministry of health in gaza says israeli artillery killed one palestinian israeli commander say nine hundred. kits were fired from gaza. cyclon forney has stormed into bangladesh killing at least twelve people and forcing more than two million to seek shelter cycling is weakened since devastating communities along the east coast of india on fire they can at least sixteen people. weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea after the breakdown of denuclearization talks with the united states south korea's defense ministry saying several launches were picked up but they were not ballistic missiles. south africans will be voting on wednesday in the general election the six time people head to the polls since the end of apartheid back in one thousand nine hundred four the african national congress has won every vote but its popularity popularity has declined

recently many of fed up with the continued inequality and unemployment malcolm webb joins me live now from malcolm a deep sense of frustration being felt there among many people particularly in the shanty towns. where we are right now the rally of because largest opposition party the democratic alliance the leader of them across england to see my money speaking at this moment thousands of come to hear what he's got to say although not every seat in the stadium is it is messages one of change very critical of the a.n.c. government support service delivery says he'll tackle poverty says he'll tackle corruption in the last election the democratic allies won just over a fifth of the vote share not mean proportional number of seats in parliament that's what i've heard for the last five years they say they're going to get much more this time but opinion polls suggest they'll get about the same vote again but

over the last thirty years they have had a steady increase in support not partly because of growing to. content with the ruling african national congress many people were tired of unemployment others. about poor delivery of public service is that which there are protests almost every week in south africa we went to some of those protests some of those people are angry about these issues let's take a look at that story. was twenty five years after south africa became a democracy these people are tired of having no jobs no land and poor housing these kinds of processed happen every week and in more say with an election coming. this one last month was in a township in johannesburg. has lived there in a shack for thirteen years politicians have always promised better housing but she

says they don't even organize trash collection. we don't have enough space we need . i'm not going to avoid up until they took two waves. not the same for everyone south africa's the most on equal country in the world since apartheid most white people remain relatively wealthy economically things improved to some black people. but not in the shanty towns each one of these toilets is shared by dozens of families they smell bad they're only emptied about once a week across south africa there are millions of people living in similar conditions in informal settlements and the only way to get out is to find a job that pays enough to be able to afford to live in a better area more than a quarter of workers are on employed and there's been economic stagnation for about a decade. president cyril ramaphosa is promising change his

party the african national congress has been in power ever since it was credited with ending white minority rule he's expected to win again but with a smaller majority than ever before. some economists think poses leadership good for economic growth good in. that alone won't fix a broken model is long as they are not imagining economy models which are broadly inclusive and exploring. economic space to make sure that the broader increasing population. at least can transition from students to the middle class then there is. potential full serious conflict in the future that is based on lack of opportunity. victory is certain is the continuation

of protests this one was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want change this election's on likely to bring it. so while the african national congress is losing some of the vote share it's not as if opposition parties like the democratic alliance for the more radical sounding economic freedom fighters it is not as if they're picking up all those voters will . also be instead a little receiving a lot of votes this time finding opposition parties to be any more convincing than those who are in the power and in the case of the democratic alliance some people are drawn by their promises of fighting corruption and bringing change others still don't see them as a legitimate. governor of south africa because of that the party was founded by white politicians who were opposed apartheid for there was democracy in ninety ninety four but after nineteen for blacks were joined by self want politicians to

be dismissed apartheid and so the eyes of many decent franchise and see supporters read it and see that time when ending white minority rule you still very much see the democratic alliance as a party that is too strongly connected with white minority rule of apartheid also there isn't a vast policy difference between the african national congress and the democratic alliance so the losing votes is not the case in its own position of picking up all of those votes that's one of the reasons why wednesday's election most people south africa on. any drastic change. still widely expected. smaller. than it's ever going to. come thanks for that malcolm webb in some way for a spot. the u.s. has tightened restrictions on iran's nuclear program by failing to renew two key

sanctions waivers they were in place to allow some countries to do business with iran iran will now be in violation of the curbs if it continues to ship surplus heavy water to arm on the u.s. has also made it harder for iran to dispose of any in reached uranium it's renewed some sanctions waive is that allow russia china the u.k. and france to work with iran on civilian nuclear projects iran's president has says the u.s. is trying to sow divisions among iranians oh me call about all your general as the united states is violating international laws and pressuring companies to prevent them cooperating with iran and seeking to weaken our currency and the independence of our country there are huge conspiracies against our country and the american administration is waging a political and psychological war against us a decision to change the regime in iran washington aims to spread division in the country and the iranians must unite to piece this war. on the tubes the way rejoins

nonsense talk more about this director of the gulf study center at qatari university good to have you with us again jim so what do you think is is is going on here on the one hand they're extending these waivers to certain countries once again but there are some restrictions tied to it as well you know has been the center of all of what's happening now is the only american administration and those from they wanted to basically blocked iran exporting even one millimeter of it depends if it's oil so that is the core of the business and the other way is there's not actually affect the whole concept the united states now want to make sure the iran cannot import any bottle from second to from me and that basically will lead that iran will lose the main source of revenue for its own actually budget which means more economy problems more pressure on the. in the regime was basically but of the regime on the corner that is the main thing you know what's

know all of those waivers this speak about i think the right to show that they are actually taken into consideration the interest of other countries especially u.k. germany other countries but this will not affect the course of the business with the oil so who do you think is it in the us administration is behind these decisions is it john bolton the national security advisor who is seen as very hawkish taking a comes to iran or is it my pompei or the secretary of state who perhaps less so. you know both of them they are harsh on iran both of them but i think there is the major difference between both of them is that bolton believe of regime change. don bale believes that we have to put more pressure on iran to change its behavior if this does not happen we are welcoming the regime change so that is the main

difference between the both strategy of the two men basically i think what has been implementing now especially if the if these kind of the oil package is not to be renewed for the eight countries iran will be in real trouble economy and basically this will cause more trouble to the oil price of oil market as a whole and i think the united states now try to solve some of this by producing more oil actually but there is an interesting point has in this context we have to look at it which was basically none of the it countries now they are saying we are actually committing ourselves with what the trump wants so they are keeping silent now because they still do we will wait a few weeks before the impact of this. decision on their economy so none of those countries now is actually saying that you know we are against this however it seems that ball all of these countries are waiting who will be ringing the bell first and saying actually no our economy would be

a real trouble if we actually accept this kind of pressure from the united states on the oil sector of iran your thoughts on this as only so much of the way thanks michael. out turkey's economy is expected to continue its downward slump as the u.s. imposes further sanctions on iran's oil industry turkey is a major customer for iranian oil but it is now having to look elsewhere simcoe solo reports from istanbul am iran is the second largest oil supplier to turkey after russia turkey has energy rich neighbors but no reserves of its own so is dependent on oil and gas imports that leaves the turkish call me vulnerable to rises in energy prices the value of the turkish lira has fallen at least forty percent in the past year and could fall further because of concerns about all supply to keep the troubled economy running. human. troubles just during the israeli lobby before

the twenty twenty a lick should sound like he gave golan heights and jerusalem told him otherwise it has nothing to do with national security around complies with the nuclear deal but they want to contain iran for israel safety if turkey can't buy oil from iran sourcing alternative supplies from the united arab emirates or saudi arabia is difficult the turkish government is a leading saudi quit it following the killing of journalists. in the kingdom sconce late in a stumble last year and relations with the u.a.e. are strained since turkish police arrested two a rabs who confessed to be spying for their murat is as a stopgap the turkish government is negotiating with iraq to buy oil only to kick only to wild turkey is trying to make itself understood by its western friends who are protecting its national interests but to put an end to its independence it should focus on renewable energy in the long term turkey try to torpedo the reimposition of u.s. sanctions through a gold for all the strategy with iran basically using clear and cotton payments to

buy a turkey's state bank hot bank another turkish initiative was a curse a swap they are between iran and russia last year and that's bypassing the u.s. financial system but it fails to salt turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the u.s. stopping deliveries of if the device that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air rushing the missile defense system and with the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s. sanctions on neighboring iran see now because all of al-jazeera a stumble our scientists are hoping the world's deepest lake is our bring something which could help us saw new types of antibiotics have been found in cross stations

lurking in the depths of lake baikal in russia but as steadfast in reports now more research needs to be done before patients can benefit. it's more than twenty five million years old six hundred kilometers long and holds a rich history of information about a changing climate and species this is siberia's lake baikal scientists recently found that one creature living here with extreme survival skills might be crucial to the discovery of new antibiotics the enfeebled a coup station often mistaken for a shrimp produces bacteria that can be used to cure infections in humans. of course it's very significant for humanity would we do here because we're now facing increasing resistance to existing interviewer six meaning that there used to work are less effective. before these new antibiotics can be used on humans a lot more research needs to be done some pharmaceutical companies have already

shown interest it usually takes ten years before a newly discovered antibiotics are produced the institute is also using the crustaceans to study the effects of climate change and other and via mental changes under even creatures by injecting micro sensors into tiny bodies by observing different kinds of crustaceans living in different depths of the lake they hope to obtain information about how humans can adapt as well scientists believe that this immense lake not only holds the cure to diseases but also the answer to and fire mental challenges our planet is facing but this league is still largely unexplored and to reveal its secrets some say the government should change its strategy and change the lake into an international high tech research project so far lake baikal is mostly used as a tourist attraction and source for drinking water scientists say the world's largest freshwater reservoir can be better protected if it's turned into a center for biotech.