ca ting in washington with the president's team and eventually they hope to sign an agreement between the two countries but right now they clearly aren't there president trump says he's raising these tariffs because he's disappointed with the pace of those talks so we will see how the chinese will respond but they have in the past raised retaliatory tariffs and they've targeted country farmers in the midwest of the united states and that has hurt the u.s. farming industry so john i suppose the big question is what's the likelihood then that both sides with agreed to a trade deal that might put the towers behind them with this president there and you really never know what's going to happen but the white house spokeswoman sara sander says she believes that an agreement is likely that after this week of negotiations perhaps longer if if there are some tie ups that eventually paying of china and president trump would sign an agreement together that would be good for the global economy which is suffering from these tariffs with the u.s.

threatening tariffs on europe as well you've got the farmers in the in the u.s. and other industries here very much wanting that to end but there are a couple of sticking points in those talks one of them is what the enforcement mechanism will be to ensure that china and the u.s. abide by this agreement the other one is whether those tariffs will remain in place afterwards and what they will be so a lot of questions still up in the air for the white house is hopeful they can come to an agreement right there john hendren in washington d.c. john thank you. if you have some breaking news out of russia an airliner has crash landed in moscow the latest reports say at least five people have been injured among the seventy eight passengers and crew on board the air flight jet was seen in flames touchdown. state media reports that a fire broke out after the jet took off from moscow bound for months in northern

russia will also bring you more on that as we get it here at al-jazeera rebel held areas in northwest syria being attacked for a six successive day by government forces and russian warplanes. at least one civilian was killed in the bombardment on sunday and this raises the number of people killed so far in the offensive to twenty three activists say around twenty five areas were targeted in libya and hama province has. a military judge nigeria has ordered the youngest brother algeria's ousted president abilities beautifully into custody along with two former intelligence chiefs saeed beautifully was the country's defector ruler after his brother suffered a stroke six years ago but protesters aren't backing down continuing their calls for a revival of the entire political establishment. your sect your state might pump aoe says russia's government must leave venezuela pales comments came as he's expected to meet russia's foreign minister in finland this week i'm going to meet with

foreign minister lavrov in a couple of days we'll have more conversations about this they object he was very clear we want the iranians we want the russians we want the cubans out that's also what has to take place in order for venezuelan democracy to be restored. russia's foreign secretary urging the u.s. to counsel plans to oust venezuela's president each year we now see an unprecedented campaign led by the united states in order to overthrow the legitimate venezuelan government we condemn this campaign which seriously violates all the principles of international law provided by the united nations statute the time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back. saddam's military announces plans for change but the opposition remains unconvinced. and bad news for gamers in iraq looking for a virtue to stay the government is banning the pot from the online video game or in that state of this.

hello there we've got a lot of clouds aspiring its way across the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing it making its way through piles of iran working its way across the caspian sea there is no giving a great deal of wet weather but it is making things rather hazy picking up a fair amount of dust as well is still way across us as we head through the day on monday but breaking up a little bit as it works its way eastwards behind it there's a bit of cloud is drifting its way you know parts of techie that will give us one or two showers particularly in the northeast and in the eastern parts as we head into choose day for the south and across the arabian peninsula the still a fair amount of cloud that's going to stick around as we head through the day on monday roll of the gray rather hazy for many of us here one choose day it begins to break up we'll see the winds begin to work down from the northwest so here in doha

hopefully the air should begin to clay around to little bit so a lot of will still be humid though here will be getting to around thirty two degrees down towards the southern parts of africa and here there's a lot of dry weather around still some showers though for the northern paullus of mozambique and up into parts attends a nice to play in that area that was hit by a. still flooded in some regions more showers are expected to arrive in the next few days elsewhere they're largely fine and dry except along the south coast where more clouds will make up the.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is threatening to intensify airstrikes on gaza the military says more than two hundred twenty have been carried out since saturday palestinian fighters of fatah hundreds of rockets into israel. from gaza health ministry says sixteen people have been killed in the past twenty four hours meanwhile israeli authorities are reporting that at least three people in israel have been killed by rockets. an airliner has crash landed in moscow reports say at least five people have been

injured among the seventy eight passengers and crew onboard the air flight jet was seen in flames in the touchdown sure of the of all airport still the crew of the support jet making an emergency return to moscow state media reports of a fire breaking out after takeoff on the flight to months in northern russia. the cleanup after india's biggest cycle own in twenty years is now underway dozens of people were killed in the extreme storm disha state. where there's a mounting concern about what happens next for the people left homeless. sanyo rani part nyuk has lived in for thirty years making a living selling souvenirs to tourists visiting this hindu holy city when cycled funny slammed ashore her life changed forever. we lost everything we don't have money to build a house to even feed our family people have come to look at our house but no help

we just want someone to help us rebuild. not far away in the village of two thousand people were brought to this school complex for shelter before the storm they were promised food in a place to stay for fifteen days. we are in big trouble we don't have a place to stay i'm staying with my family here they gave us food for two days and now want us to leave where will we go they should at least let us stay until we can build our own shelter. and that concern about what comes next in the wake of the cycle and is shared by many others the indian government has been congratulated on its storm planning preventing a large number of casualties but local communities here in putting are very frustrated because the lack of post storm service is setting up several roadblocks on the main road in the town. got about but only just finished elections before the cyclon hit and we lost so much the houses in the farmers lost crops there's no help

from the government no visits by offices that is why we are blocking the road. and about two hours away the bustle of a decent state capital bhubaneshwar has partly returned but worry over fuel supplies created long lines at fuel stations underlining the challenges ahead. life in no discernible take months if not years to complete. returned to normal most people are well aware of that but there's early concern over how equally the funding and the rebuilding will be distributed it's got harder out zero puti india . saddam's military council says it will publish its plan for the country's transition on monday sensible agrees with parts of the opposition's draft document but it disagrees with a number of points you know sation as have been ongoing for weeks when he woman is live for us now from khartoum he seems we are starting to see splits within the opposition as to how to deal with the military going forward how significant are these differences. while it is very significant daryn all of them are united in on

one point which is that they want the military council to hand over power to civil government but they differing on how that government should look like and now they are mediators that have joined sorry they are mediators that have come between the two sides the military council and the opposition coalition they're offering that there should be two transitional council is one of them with the majority with the civilian majority and the other of them with a military majority and that's something that the opposition is divided on some of them want a purely independent single transitional government that is dominated by civilians with military or presentation others are saying that it might not be so bad having to transitional council's one of them being a military and security and defense council that deals with the security and military issues while the other is a civilian that deals with stability issues and sudan's external relations and external affairs so right now they're in a meeting trying to decide whether they should have two transitional council is one of them being dominated by the military or whether they should be united and one

and they're also trying to decide if they should accept a mediator between the two sides the military council spoke about an hour ago and said that they are going to continue negotiating with the opposition coalition and that they are happy to try to give them more time and that they want to make it work they want to form a transitional government but that this still studying the proposal that has been offered by the opposition coalition some of the members of the opposition coalition some police. parties have said that that document the declaration of the constitutional declaration which was presented a few days back does not represent them and that they have reservations but at the moment they are very divided the opposition are trying to unite their their forces so that they can face the military council in terms of trying to figure out how the transitional period should look like or to hear morgan there in the sudanese capital khartoum eba thank you south africa's ruling party has held its final rally before wednesday's election president serum up or so is ending campaigning in johannesburg the african national congress is marred by allegations of corruption and facing a challenge on the democratic alliance as well as the economic freedom fighters

party. divisions of a race in south africa are still surfacing twenty five years after the end of apartheid millions of black south africans say they're still struggling to reach benefits but some white south africans say they're now the ones facing discrimination would be the miller reports in the northern cape products. it's in this dry dusty and desolate part of the northern cape province that a group of white south africans say they've found refuge they call this place utica only white afrikaans speaking people are allowed to settle here but they say they're not racists orcutt's want to paul and his family moved here three months ago he says to protect and preserve the africana culture language and way of life we were all building on a dream. but i think progress if. it got worse and it got more difficult. with affirmative action. it made it increasingly difficult. for us as white

people to get jobs jobs and also job security really reassuring when you might be retrenched we've not been given permission to film in utica instead we speak to the founder of the new boat at his home nearby the school is only under a foot or so. but you don't wash. funny the shoe is no on the other foot and now we are fighting against the racists how can we be racist when it is us who are being forced out of the country they sing against us kill the farmer so everything counts against the white race so who are the racists. so far twenty families live here and more homes are being built the local government went to court to stop people here from building any more houses the municipality says these homes were built without permission and contravene bolding regulations the court agreed but judges are also considering whether or not a town that allows only white afrikaner people to live there should be allowed to

exist in a democratic south africa one of the smaller and newly formed political parties black first land first has banned white south africans from joining it we had a blacks organization that had been. accept white before the party sentiments resonate with some in a country many consider to be one of the most unequal in the world it's been accused of exercising discrimination and taken to court the wrong of this country is. the whole economy system is. the media projection of let problems is on to black. we are going to the parliament therefore truly presenting a real voice of for people to bring a broad left democracy in a flood country while the apartheid system and its policies based on race may have been abolished twenty five years ago many here say they have to live with its legacy and come election day the vote of many south africans will be influenced by

race and identity. al-jazeera south africa. the runoff election for a new president is underway in the newly named republic of north macedonia candidates from the governing social democrats and the opposition conservatives both failed to win a majority in last month's election both parties have argued over the recent name change ending the long running dispute in greece and its province of macedonia. online computer gaming generates billions of dollars around the world and its popularity has also grown in iraq but parliament has now banned several popular online games the government says they're harmful to society potential national security threat. reports from baghdad. glued to the screen in a virtual reality battle to survive an online gaming is big in iraq. the most popular game is play on the battleground. developed in south korea three years ago

it's become a global sensation with players around the world being parachuted on to an island and fighting for survival by any means. but iraq's parliament has voted to ban it saying it's harmful to the health culture and security of iraq and society. student only a place for a couple of hours at least four times a week. led to a lot i it is an exceptional game and very realistic it gives you the opportunity to compete with and build new friendships with other players around the world it's ok if they ban it for children but not for adults we're old enough to know how to manage our time. players are known battleground is one of the most popular computer games of all time in two thousand and eighteen they were holding four hundred million players around the world now be affected by the computer games on the young

as the long debated by psychologists and social commentators and it's an especially heated debate here in iraq because young people have exactly we must say watch violence the ban which is expected to come into effect in the coming days as calls only line protests these iraqi girls dressed as characters from the game posted pictures of themselves online iraq's high commission for human rights says a teenager recently committed suicide after he was influenced by the game. and you have that definition. when we analyze the iraqi personality we find that consecutive wars and violence have traumatized and shaped that you rocky psychology in general to be more receptive and prone to aggression confrontation and trauma due to these harsh variables and dynamic that is why peace games provide a subconscious venting platform. shops are full of the games merchandise small computer businesses are doing a roaring trade for many gamers their own line life offers an escape from the

challenges of growing up in iraq if to anyone they wish when they play gamers are able to break away from and forget the bad situations they are living in many gamers especially the older ones say the government should be doing more to eradicate the causes of real violence in iraq ali and his friends to say they are old enough to know what's right and what's wrong. but that. the headlines here on al-jazeera israel's military says it's carried out more than two hundred twenty strikes since saturday palestinian fighters have fired hundreds of rockets into israel. gaza's health ministry says sixteen people have been killed in the past twenty four hours meanwhile israeli authorities are reporting at least three people in israel have been killed by rockets israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu says he has no plans to slow down the bombardment of gaza an emergency cabinet meeting has just ended. this morning i instructed the i.d.f. to continue its massive attack against terrorist elements in the gaza strip and i've also asked to buffer the forces around the gaza strip with armored forces artillery and infantry hamas bears responsibility not only port attacks and actions but also the activities of the islamic jihad and it pays a very heavy price. russian state media says at least one person has been killed after a plane crash landed in moscow the jet was seen in flames as a touchdown sheremetyevo airport. it's thought the crew of the so-called jet were making an emergency return to moscow state media report reported a fire breaking out after takeoff on the flight to murmansk in northern russia. a military judge has ordered the youngest brother. of president abdelaziz bouteflika

into custody along with two former intelligence chiefs side but if he was the country's effective ruler his brother suffered a stroke six years ago but protesters aren't backing down continuing their calls for a review of the entire political establishment so africa's ruling party has held its final rally before wednesday's general election president serum a pause there is ending with campaigning in johannesburg african national congress the a.n.c. is marred by allegations of corruption is facing a challenge from the democratic alliance as well as the economic freedom fighters party. the runoff election for a new president is underway in the newly named republic of north macedonia candidates from the governing social democrats on the opposition conservatives failed to win an outright majority in last month's election both parties have argued over the recent name change aimed at ending the long running dispute in greece and its province of macedonia. so those are the

headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story somebody. south africans are about to go to the polls on wednesday and the african national congress says it will retain its majority in parliament but after a quarter of a century in power can the a.n.c. still appeal to voters this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong on party leaders have rallied their supporters and made their final speeches but a quarter of a century since the first democratic elections promises haven't changed much and neither have the problems every day south africans thousands gathered in the party colors to choose who they think were resolve their main concerns inequality unemployment and corruption while for others access to basic services like electricity and sanitation will determine who they'll choose the african national congress has led the country since the end of apartheid but it's accused of not doing enough and it faces a major challenges from the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters policy but president obama fires up believes he's done enough to convince south africans to return him to power. before we speak to our guests malcolm webber has this report from johannesburg. this is the final. south africa's ruling african.

wednesdays an exodus. ever since it was credited. in order to vote in one thousand nine hundred forty one every election but it. was issued was capitalize on a series of corruption scandals those eyes on russia that the live republics that this is. the fish will. still consider keeping the sources we pollute the good. as hell didn't budget. for the budget are desperate to come into. some of. the opposition economic freedom fighters doesn't it he was pushed out of the sea about six years ago his posses rapidly risen ever since the last election.

for the state's imbalance to see to disrupt proceedings and change the closest south african politics criticized. for corruption promising to nationalize south africa's. handed fact this is going to say loss is one of a long time for the big fellow opponents and also patents. silverman's i don't really know who the best on duty right now we are saying this would never come back up at me south africa's largest opposition party the democratic alliance held its final rally on saturday the last baldwins out just over a face of the seats but. it's been steadily but slowly increasing in spite of the ever growing criticisms of the disenfranchisement among some a.n.c. . many more often. yes the many have

believed that come wednesday. we will take this majority with us on the margin that it ever had little malcolm where the inside story. let's go to our guests and johannesburg grant lost a son head of program for political institutions and processes at the electoral institute for sustainable democracy on skype from cape town a solution i do research at the institute for global dialogue a south african think tank let me begin with you in cape town is this a case solve the a.n.c. better the devil you know all the economic freedom fighters and the democratic alliance and it's time for south africans to have a change it's a difficult question to answer because i think what we are witnessing is that africa is there a contest to today then the a.n.c. coming in in one to four was definitely on the back of your florek transition democracy people were very. jubilant about the fact that this is going to be

a substantial democracy twenty five years later we look at this electoral democracy and we look at the multi-party democracy and we see voters being very uncertain not clear about who they want to vote for i think there's a sense that they want to go but just not sure whether it's the a.n.c. or whether it's the if they have or any other political party and of course what we are witnessing is all of the governance deficit in that is influenced the mindset so i think in a sense when you look at democratic theory it's about great from the best to the worst but i think is that africa right now you're looking at you know who's the least worse if you want to use that terminology and then of course going down the list from this i think is seen in many ways is you know it has to reestablish that kind of. moving large in the mindset of its both its support base which has been. gradually declining and of course at the provincial level if you took

a call can you look at. what you call the eastern cape etc there's been contestation i mean cutting is the biggest level in which country stations going to take place and questions of whether we're going to see coalition governments which president of course has come out very moment and denied and said we don't like coalitions but again you know this is what's happening at the more at the at the subnational level for the country so i think for the a.n.c. it's about basically that psychological barrier between a few fifty eight percent and a sixty percent but also in terms of how the voters are looking at it in terms of performance in terms of service delivery and whether they have met their interest or have they just used the party or people using the party to basically advance their interests as well this is a key election concerns a lot of the voters growing losses and in johannesburg a lot of people very concerned about corruption inequality and they're taking a look at the n.c. now and saying to themselves well you've had twenty five years is that is that

a fair description of what many voters are thinking. you know i don't think that there's one issue for any vote it's such a complex choice for voters in south africa right now as an issue rightly said corruption is right up there you know we had a situation where if we had carried jacob zuma into the elections for the a.n.c. i think we'd be talking about a very different electoral scenario because he had become an extremely unpopular person personally and as president and the a.n.c. recognize that this was becoming a liability for them so they made a very very important change introducing sorum opposers president and he's almost rejuvenated the a.n.c. and been able to allow the a.n.c. in some senses to wash its hands of the zuma regime so whilst the country remains mired in the consequences of the corruption and cronyism and the other excesses of the zuma regime because we have a change in the a.n.c. the a.n.c.

itself has been able to argue that they are now that they need to be given a fresh chance and that they should be allowed to clean up their own mess in the scenes but sadly corruption is one of these states of the economy is always looming large the state of personal security crime is always an issue in south africa and of course we have the very emotive issue of land and several parties suggesting that with a legs into power they will be expropriated land without compensation change of the constitution so there's been a lot of issues for voters to consider as they look at these particular elections. in cape town i have been hearing these issues for the last twenty five years every time we've had to south africa elections it's always seems to be the same issue security corruption inequality even land has been discussed but that doesn't seem to be any concrete measures taken. i think grant is right i mean i think the challenge with the facing is that these issues have become fairly institutionalized

and of course you know the complexity of the issues is that they have been allowed to deepen in a vague negative way so what is happening today i think when we look at the election that's going to mean the election that's going to take place on may eighth is essentially people saying well how much have you quantity qualitatively delivered on these issues if you take the land question for example it's become an exceptionally emotional issue but at the same time there's different reactions to it in terms of what should be the policy implementation what of the a.n.c. and yes they may have greed in a very broad way a brown black expropriation without compensation ideologically they do differ in terms of implementation of that section twenty five of the constitution and of course the proposal that was adopted by the two houses of parliament to take a forward in terms of next going to war that that what you call the revision of the

constitution but coming from a convey different interpretations of what happens in the south african context is that when you constantly see how much of the south african coffers the state money that has been utilized in the context of the kinds of issues that they're seeing emerge in the sunder commission around money that has been utilized in an unproductive way in terms of how it has advanced particular interest and economic interest and advance particular people in konami. well then of course it becomes a critical issue i think this come around people are really frustrated because they come go to the polls they think about this very seriously and we now think critical parties who made us necessarily believe have not really made accountable to this electorate that they have that they have that have get that has given them the vote so this is a system as well is also about the fact that the policy of. certainty the by the way richard has taken place yes i agree because i had to readjust the naked ring

evoked a kind of reach of a nation in the party but he's also constrained in telling the new program let's bring in joseph okie on our head he's a commentator on south african affairs a political activist and a former columnist for new africa magazine joseph a guest seem to be saying that it is almost a a n c two point a new and c. has been rejuvenated under its new leader and it's not the old. jacob zuma would you agree with that characterization or would you think the a.n.c. still has structural problems from well before all. i mean to to the extent of it to the end. sort of inherited it must've job there is i don't know any political organization or political party in the world today that would have probably found the job that the n.c.a. inherited in south africa in two thousand nine hundred ninety four that is it

unless they're prepared to be as radical. radical political parties and organizations could be but of course the n.c. opted to take in moderate line that say it really to their credit then c. has been large down the best of what they could in terms of force and i think i think the jury is rather out i think is going to win these elections what's going to happen in the next four years will probably determine whether or not this is a new n.c. or not and the reason is that actually unfortunately jacob zuma when he was elected to replace a tumble becky the vast majority of the members of the n.c. and ordinary africans in south africa thought he was probably going to be the main genuine voice for themselves unfortunately in fact. sort of really sunk into the action that now. was a hoss to if you like try to run so to that extent yes it's a different entity by and large you put as a political going to session that stands for that for for for what they really

fought for i think that you would be out again if we see that they were to tackle the structural problems what in the n.t. and in the government and that must include longer form and economically distribution for the peoples of south africa we have talked about this a little bit by when i asked the question to all three of you let's begin with grant lawson in johannesburg always looking period of coalition building a deal making of trading horses because of this uncertainty over what the a.n.c. now means are they going to have to make deals or is there enough support there is there enough numbers there for them to be able to come to power with a mandate. no i think we're relying on polling data and polling data has its flaws when it comes to predicting elections so we are a lying a bit on what the scenarios sketched by those polls suggest the polls suggest that this is going to be a close race and that the a.n.c. is going to have to fight for every vote which is really

a new scenario for the party dave enjoyed fairly comfortable majorities in previous elections and it was really only in twenty sixteen that we saw a serious coalition politics really into the political landscape of so that rika which means that of course coalitions with between the a.n.c. and other smaller parties are plausible but also coalitions between the major opposition parties we've already seen in three of the major metros that those coalitions did and seats the a.n.c. from power and because we have both a national vote and a provincial vote the expectation is that one or two of the provinces may actually end up in coalition arrangements because no single party can get a clear majority at the national level the polls suggest that in the wake of getting rid of zuma and building themselves in that albatross and putting rahm a poser who in fascinating ways remains more popular than his party at this stage is actually giving the a.n.c. a boost if the election had been held fifteen months ago we might have been talking about a very different story but now with the advent of opposes new new sort of dawn and

of course the debates and tasted so we don't know as voters whether we can trust it yet or not the vote to seem willing to give him a chance at least the nation i do in cape town coalitions are beginning to become a thing in south african politics but always seeing he coalition of getting behind the cult of the personality cyril ramaphosa seems to be a guest on the. girl most said he seems to be very popular more popular than the a.n.c. . yeah i mean i think we've been moving towards coalitions as ground track you pointed out in terms of twenty sixteen local government elections but here's the thing for me and i think this is going to be the key ingredient the key driver factor that we have to think about for the selection and that is the trust issue so they may trust or i'm a poser but do they trust and see that that question then becomes even more complex for the boat because when they get to the other going to go out and vote because i

like i'm opposable i'm not sure of the party and i think that's going to be a key ingredient for the mandate in c. gets all the mandate from a pause i guess in terms of the national election and the outcome of an of the results of a national level for the party with a given that mandate and if you get that mandate will the party then say no we need to contain his power a little but as we've seen previously done both at the two elect to conferences in terms of color quantity and of course in because well there were questions about all these political leaders getting or the leaders of the party getting too popular then the party and the second dimension to that is both at the provincial level you can see coalitions work because they do have a particular dynamics around opening up the accountability to opening up a more diverse set of governance but we've also saw how if you don't choose the right kind of coalition partner how they can actually. tumble and quickly fall like

a house of cards as we've seen the da in the nelson mandela pay as you see in the da in johannesburg also in a sense of how they've been. the tensions that have raised there the third point i want to make is this the polls and grant is right we predicting on the basis of looking at opinion polls except but we didn't don't know what's going to be an outcome because within these polls that we've seen in the last couple of months there's almost an eight percent differential between some of their outcomes and how the opposition. the so i think what we need right now off to this election is a much more a much more clearer a coherent and a much more embittered kind of understanding of not just national election the provincial elections but looking also at the election landscape even taking into account by elections are local government elections were to tell us what the feeling and the mood is amongst people in terms of the apathy and where they go it

is interesting joseph i want to bring you in here from london we all seem to be hearing that yes. there is a very popular possible popular than the a.n.c. so do him damage in the long term do you think. i'm not quite sure i think it's actually very lucky to be more popular than the n c because one he's a very nice guy and two he played a central role in the formation of the new south africa leading to the elections in south africa and i think most of african still give him that credit he's a bargain his trade unions and and of course as i said he he's in his or his in the house guy by and large but i mean that sayed where the n.c. is a state where particularly zuma dekker duma left it it needed somebody like a room before that who other than being nice other than having a bit of history is also someone who is known and seen to be absolutely intellectually deep in south africa needs a leader who is able to use the brain the charisma and if you like the composition

of leadership that enables them if you like to bring a coalition of all partners together and i think i'm a horse that is a very good guy to be able to do that unfortunately of course he was slightly tainted a few years ago over the maracana months ago where minister of african thought probably because the company which is involved in lonmin. was at the center of that at an event that led to an unfortunate muska in that country but probably tainted him but anything really beyond that i think of after need somebody like him and i think it to his credit and indeed and his credit it was actually a good thing to elect him us president and i think if i was advising them i would simply say rally around him before the rally around the traditional and see valleys or else actually the likes of economy freedom party are actually watching from behind i think they're the people to watch going forward probably might have more so than that the in my opinion grass isn't in johannesburg so we're taking

a look now at the opposition all of they do they have their act together are they going to upset some people with large against the way perhaps expecting or do you think it's a fairly contrite election. look i think that the party that everyone expects to see gains in these elections is the third horse in the race the economic freedom fighters the jury is really out on what the da the the second opposition party to the largest party in opposition will do in these elections some of the polls suggest that it may flats or some of them suggest that it may decline somewhat but really all of the talk and all of the focus on growth in the political landscape is on the part of the economic freedom fought every part is led by julius malema who is a very charismatic individual of course he comes out of the a.n.c. he was a former president of the youth league there before he was expelled from the party and formed the formation and so you know a lot of the energy and other focus on issues has really come from the fifth

they've managed to really almost upstaged the da in many respects in this campaign period and yet numerically they remain a really dark horse to make any meaningful gains numerically within the landscape so we set a very very interesting position here where the a.n.c. is declining the second opposition party the da may or may not decline we don't know we'll have to see and then all of the focus about a third party growing is actually a party which is coming from a very small base in the economic freedom fight solution in cape town we all running our farms above i just want to get fuel before we leave i'd like to wish you the same question lawson the opposition hasn't got a chance. well i agree with grant in terms of the the way in which is these three parties are contesting and of course some of the polls predicting a place in dublin in certain contexts will be in effect nationally but here's the thing the it is the one party that speaks to that so that band of unemployed youth

to that band of people in the country that are young who we need to get registered who i think if you look at the age group. about sixty percent or less than what you call is a third of them are not not registered so you could have a high proportion of that group that are not registered to vote but yet can be appealed by that you know if it's kind of rhetoric talk and the kind of ideological stance they take which is very much a round of populist than emic so i think it will be really around that where they get it but that they get that mandate from their from the electorate from the support base or whether they take away votes also not only from the a.n.c. but also from disillusioned youth in the da and other political parties it's an interesting one isn't it that the opposition do seem to be making gains but possibly not enough. not enough funds problem likely this time around personally known as a saint maybe in the next elections and perhaps if they were doing what they're

supposed to do by and large i wouldn't advise some of them very much maybe they should be building up a lot of promise because as it away the n.c. comes from a very clear. about guarantees that e.f. actually brought off on actually the scheme to take the mainstream of the key issues particular bottom line reform and economy ownership for the broader south africa from a historical perspective it is something that can be very tempting to most of africans but of course i would say that the year is massively in my opinion again tainted by the very apparent perception that is actually a front for the este was white establishment south africa and if you go by the statistics but i'm too now still up to sixty up about sixty seven percent nearly seventy percent of top management positions in south africa i held predominantly by white men and only perhaps just over three percent under four percent of top top companies in south africa and the hands of the africans in the black people in

south africa i think if you walk up and organize they come painted on many of those issues there is no way in which the vast majority of average south africans would go to would anything to do with your life that all of it and there's no reason why probably those who actually leave the n.c. they have to leave as it would not go to a year for it but i think the game is still for the african national congress to do it's certainly a very lively election with a lot of issues and a lot of possibilities let's see what happens on may the eighth i'd just like to thank all our guests grant lawson so nationality and joseph and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com on further discussion and go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. . side story for me i'm wrong on and the whole team hit like the now.

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to the program israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is ordering the israeli military to continue what he calls massive strikes in go. israeli forces say they have carried out more than two hundred twenty s. strikes on gaza since saturday with palestinian rockets being fired into southern israel at least nineteen palestinians in gaza have been killed and some of the funerals have already been held israeli military say they've killed a senior hamas commander. meanwhile authorities in israel say at least four people have been killed from the rockets fired from gaza are in force at reports from the israel gaza border. on the second day of fighting in and around gaza brought more killings and a growing sense of certainty that this latest outbreak could be the most dangerous in recent months. israel's military said it was directly targeting fighters and announced the killing of a senior hamas commander in a strike on a car in gaza city how much the israelis say was responsible for transferring

iranian money to fighting factions in gaza. israel says hamas and islamic jihad fired hundreds of rockets from gaza. some were intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system others though got through israel says one person was killed in a direct hit on this factory in the israeli city of ashkelon another man died when a rocket struck his vehicle close to the gaza border that followed an overnight rocket strike on a house killing a fifty eight year old man the first israeli victim of a rocket fired from gaza since the two thousand and fourteen war. we are not commenting we do trust the army. will take care of us but we are really worried by the rockets. israel's prime minister confirms he told of the buildup of forces and promised further strikes on gaza. this morning and structed the israeli army to continue massive attacks against terrorist elements in the gaza strip. during force

meant of the units around the gaza strip are more artillery and infantry how must bear the responsibility not only for its own actions but also for the actions of us . and it is paying a very heavy price for this. but the youngest palestinian victim of this latest round of violence was buried on sunday the gaza health ministry says fourteen month old son was killed along with a female relative by an israeli drone strike on saturday israel's military says they died as the result of a misfired rocket from inside gaza. the hear the cowardly zionist occupation has done this to this innocent. family there were not resist an element at all of near or around the family's house. the u.n. envoy on middle east peace nicolo in large enough condemned the rocket fire and called for a return to the relative calm but it prevailed since the end of the last escalation in early april is was to understand that the sick this equation will not war if

they continue to kill people or they expect people to keep silent or for to keep silence for the crime of israel no i think israel is being the prize and the will and there is very clear if the target people people will target if it were so there's a reason escalations have been contained thanks in part to un of gyptian mediation and the prevailing sense that neither side really wanted a full descent into war this round though is already more dangerous with israeli civilian casualties on one side and targeted killings of hamas commanders on the other both sides have reasons to fight on as well as step back our forces al-jazeera on the israel gaza border and the tasha going to enjoins us now from the israeli city and asking on the touch of this has been a dangerous escalation of the conflict just bring us up to date with what's been happening on the ground itself. well in the last half hour or so there has been a low around sunset for about ninety minutes there was a constant barrage of rocket fire from gaza coming into israel you could see

a good number of those rockets being intercepted by the israeli iron dome system but one of those rockets it appears hit an apartment building in the city of ashdod and killed one man that now brings the death toll in this skirmish between hamas and israel that began friday into saturday to twenty people that includes a toddler as harry mentioned in his story two factory workers and a senior hamas commander and this is considered a grave escalation dear and because it's the highest death toll in skirmishes between the two sides since the war of gaza in two thousand and fourteen a short time ago an israeli security cabinet meeting ended the israeli army has been instructed by the cabinet to continue airstrikes to prepare for an escalation saying that the top priority is the security of the state and its residents in egypt today egypt in the past has played the role of mediator between hamas and

israel and has been able to to arrange negotiate cease fires and quell the violence pretty quickly and in egypt today there were talks underway no word yet on any resolution of those talks however natasha the timing of this latest conflict between hamas and israel is less than ideal both sides don't want or don't appear to want an escalation why is that. that's repeatedly been something when i was here. last year and early into this year it's been a constant theme neither side supposedly wants an escalation and yet these skirmishes continue regarding the timing there are several things to keep in mind tomorrow the holy month of ramadan where muslims around the world will fast from sun right to sunset begins you also have is really celebrating their independence later on this week and the following week you'll have tourists from all over the

world intel of eve to attend euro vision it's a long time very popular european music competition so clearly this is not a moment where israel would want an escalation of violence and again on the hamas side a case could be set made that the palestinians also during the month of ramadan do not want their lives to get any bleaker again the motivation behind this some analysts believe is because they're just simply hasn't been any movement by israel according to hamas to help ease the restrictions to ease the blockade in gaza where there could be a better or freer flow of food in medication to help expand the zone where fisherman in gaza can earn their livelihood and so the motivation might be that hamas is looking for some easing by israeli some abiding by its commitments previous commitments the israeli media is categorizing though this latest skirmish

as a quote blackmail by hamas and islamic jihad all right to natasha going to get on the tunnel thank you well joining me now is marwan come on he's from the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha so witnessing a dangerous escalation of touch on both sides now twenty people killed from both sides why has this happened now and so quickly. i think it's happening now because the palestinians hamas and other factions would want very much to actually is likely to abide by the cease fire agreement which was detached between the two sides in late march. like six seven weeks ago before there is likely elections at that time there is that it is the agreed actually to expand or give some concessions to the palestinians in order to ease the blockade. let's remind

everybody that there is a blockade on gaza since two thousand and seven since hamas took over in two thousand and seven and that blockade actually was imposed by those at least and also by the egyptians and the objective of the blockade actually is to bring down the hammer government in gaza so what house is really after right now is to force that is that it is at this particular time to abide by the cease fire agreement which was reached a few weeks ago especially easing the destructions on the gaza the fishing expanding the fishing zone of the course of gaza and i thought about things despite all that on the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says look he's going to keep up the airstrikes on hamas and the armed groups in gaza how important is it to his domestic audience that here appears to be seen to be tough on security even as he attempts to form this new coalition government after the election was always important for. the leader actually to appear tough concerning this issue of

security but at the end of the day he's getting absolutely nothing out of it because the last round of fighting between the two sides few weeks ago it ended like. i mean nobody really wanted that because how mass at the end of the day got certain. concessions by that is that at least in exchange for stop firing against against so i think at the end of the day he will get absolutely nothing. but i will keep their resistance in order to live a normal life because don't forget that after all there is the largest prison on earth it actually includes more than two million palestinians who are completely cut off the list of the world so what the palestinians would be would be doing and keep doing resisting and trying. to break this blockade and force that is likely to ease i mean the destructions and and give the blasting in the chance to live normal life let's just touch on if we can more on the reports of

a targeted attack by israel on a man that they say was financing hamas for iran does this represent a change of tactics by israel because israel hasn't carried out targeted assassinations for a long time that it does actually. it is a change of tactics by the by those that it is because over the past few years actually there is that ease and that pressure from different parties actually the stop targeting senior hamas leaders because they want to on the other hand have to . i mean more moderate in their relation in the relation with the with their with with these that is what i think this time they are back to their tactics and that they represent in my opinion a change in tactics from these ideas thank you very much for your insight you know if there's one person has been confirmed dead in russia after an airliner made an emergency landing in flames let's cross over to my.