now all jews iraq. and for you. here are really happy and excited to see our families kali's. me and my priest to reuters journalists imprisoned for reporting on that i think your crisis. i'm about this and this is all just here on live from doha also coming up. protests in istanbul as turkey's election board cancels the city's mayoral poll on all those a rerun. of the syrians bury the victims of israeli air strikes as a tensed cease fire holds. its money. plagued

with allegations of corruption south africa's ruling party faces a major challenge ahead of elections. two reuters journalists have been freed from the me and mar jail wallowing in killers so who are serving a seven year sentence for violating me and laws official secrets act they were released under a presidential amnesty the pair were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation but arrested in twenty seventeen while reporting on a massacre of rohingya refugees in iraq on a statement immediately after his release while on thanks to people around the world who lobbied for his release. only to see you thank you. i'm very happy with my family my colleagues and i can with my use right now. shortly

after their release the journalists were reunited with their families and some of their colleagues this was the scene in young gone as they finally returned home last month they were awarded the pulitzer prize for international reporting one of journalism's highest on reuters editor in chief expressed his delight at the news of the journalists release. we are enormously pleased that mean maher has released our courageous reporters while lone and. since their arrest five hundred eleven days ago they have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the world we welcome their return ok let's go live now to wayne hay in buying call going to clear up something for me initially does this amnesty have any effect on their convictions for violating the official secrets act. well as far as we're aware of that those convictions are now gone this is a pardon they have been given amnesty basically so as far as we're aware that is

the case that they will be free enabled to continue on with their careers that is what we being told but obviously as you mentioned emotional scenes there and yang gone there was some hope that they would be part of these presidential and the cities that usually happen around this time of year to mark the new year period they had been to already there were there were two over the past couple of weeks involving thousands of inmates so as you say there was hope that they would be among those to be released those two amnesties came and went no sign that the reuters pair were on there so disappointment ultimately for families and supporters all the while an inch or so and then early tuesday morning we had notification from the president's office that there would be a good and misty coming up involving more than six and a half thousand inmates and moments literally moments after that statement came from the presidential office it was confirmed that while loan and choice would be

on that list. and then we saw those amazing images of them walking out of insane prison with huge smiles on their faces and speaking to that crowd of media outside the prison gates this is great news of course for these two journalists but there are other journalists of course working in me and not give us an indication of the kind of difficulties restrictions perhaps that they face in trying to do their jobs . yes well i think that's one of the great ironies isn't it that this country is late right now by. state councillor someone who herself was under house arrest the fifteen years and military rule the military ran myanmar for fifty years in that time she was quite happy to have the media there to use the international media as a voice to call for greater rights in myanmar for democracy for freedom of speech and things like that and yet when this comes along her voice is suddenly gone and

he said very little about this case and the colonial era state secrets act that they have been convicted under is still around and the concern is that this is going to be used or code could be used open to abuse by the government by the military and used against other journalists and rights workers inside that country where you thanks very much indeed. turkey's election authority has canceled the results of istanbul's mayoral ballots triggering protests i'm hundreds of people are marched through the streets in istanbul and. the candidate of the main opposition party the c.h.p. became mayor in march for violence the commercial capital had been run by president version of a party for twenty five years voters are now expected to return to the polls on the twenty fourth of june. my fellow citizens they try to take away the elections we won on the evening of march to one they've tried to steal away

hard work. i'm calling on those who made that trichuris decision at the supreme election council believe me i will save even the lives of their children and grandchildren through the messages i'm delivering he. said of course he is joining us now live from istanbul the senate what were the reasons given for having this really run. well according to hire electorial board last night the reason behind this decision was based on the grounds that some of the ballot box officers were not civil service according to the turkish oic torah law the ballot box officers who keep the who is in charge of the security of the ballot boxes or public personnel civil servants however the main opposition party and some of the low experts are reacting against this legitimacy this excuse because they're saying that the names of those ballot box officers are listed three months prior to

election and these names are selected through security background check and as the names are put on the list these are approved by district electoral boards political parties and even just one month before the election why didn't anyone reject this why didn't anyone react against those names this is a question being asked right now but we have been hearing from international communities that. this the situation is almost who have ever the ruling got part to say is that the decision is that it is a way to clear all the doubts about the election of march thirty first he said i'm going to ask you to speculate a little bit here in the event that the result doesn't go in favor of the ak party after this rerun election is that going to be the end of it do you think or do you think the president of the one is going to continue to push for

a result that is favorable to his party. as you say this would answer this question we have to speculate we have to talk about scenarios but everybody asking the same question because some people say that now they stumble may or may not positions candidate examine them all has been treated wrongly this is an unlawful decision. and he has been victimized so he's going to come up with. a much more votes and he will be the successor in the real action that's going to happen in june twenty three however on the other side people ask another question present out on he's also the chairman of the ruling party with the new system he has been has been after this election and if he's pushing for that it means that he's sure he's going to win otherwise why should he shoots himself on the foot this is a question being asked but it seems the ruling party is after that broke or dish votes

yesterday's news line about. a leader having first time contact with his lawyers after eight years is seen as a proof for that said and thanks very much indeed. a cease fire between israel and palestinian groups in gaza appears to be holding as it goes into its second day tensions between the two sides remain high with israel warning that the campaign isn't over prime minister benjamin netanyahu says all options are on the table by my one introduction with the neutral in the past days we have renewed up policy of assassinating terrorist commanders we killed dozens of hamas and islamic jihad terrorists and we toppled terror towers we have changed the rules of the game and hamas understands this will at the same time it's clear that this is not the end of the campaign and therefore i have instructed the military to be prepared going forward the palestinian prime minister as appealing to the u.n. to intervene you walk the clock and. we are hoping that this will lead

to an end to the tragedy against our people and preserve their lives we call upon the united nations to stop the israeli aggression against our people and to provide international protection to our people in the gaza strip. qatar has pledged four hundred eighteen million dollars to support palestinians in gaza and the west bank though are held to broker this is far deal long with cairo twenty five palestinians and for the strains were killed in the cross border fighting the shock on aim has more. palestinian and israeli families continue to bury their dead as the cease fire took effect on monday morning. almost thirty people were killed during the worst cycle of violence between hamas and israel since the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen. those killed include a four month old baby a man running for cover at

a senior hamas commander in london. headed on the scene was a horrible dust was everywhere it was so dark you couldn't see your own hands i was shocked to see a woman laying on the ground and her limbs were everywhere fighters in gaza launched more than six hundred rockets into israel for its part israel launched air strikes hitting three hundred fifty targets in heavily populated areas of gaza a targeted strike killed a hamas commander in his car. get hamas and israel seemed eager to deescalate the situation quickly. monday was the start of the a sonic fasting month of ramadan this week israeli celebrate their national day and next week people from around the world will travel to tel aviv to see the euro vision music competition. some israelis living near the gaza fence and opposition leaders criticize prime minister benjamin netanyahu for agreeing to the cease fire

if you look at this illegal i think that a cease fire at this moment is a terrible mistake i think that when we have the upper hand we need once and for all finish the terror because this will repeat itself and will not stop. gazans returning to the rubble of their homes hit by israeli airstrikes were relieved there was a pause in the violence however temporary the laskar mission between hamas and israel wasn't a play. on have been killed and will we hope the war ends because enough destruction enough people are losing their lives in these wars israelis don't distinguish between the civilians and not civilians in the last several years there has been a periodic cycle of violence followed by egyptian mediators negotiating a cease fire and then what's called a return to call how long this call will last will likely depend on israel's willingness to ease the humanitarian situation in gaza and whether hamas abides by

its commitment to see these attacks natasha going aim does iraq along the israel gaza border. still ahead and al jazeera investigations in sri lanka zero in on how just one man may have masterminded one of the world's worst attacks. he lied to congress and everybody else did that it would be considered a crime why the u.s. attorney general is facing a contempt vote over the mother reports on possible russian meddling. well everyone sing here it's nice to warm some. and yet the temps just thinking the opposite the whole weather systems not quite as it should be the great deal of cloud around which doesn't tell you very much but the development in the atlantic

you think drawing a southerly breeze plenty of motion won't know but really it's teens ahead of it not growing is covered up wants the sunshine but eleven degrees in bucharest and much of eastern europe is in the teens as well the still weather the adriatic that was the case on monday has gone east and for the past few light but the drop in temperature seems like it to show itself in greece and turkey by the time we get into wednesday that was the movement overnight tuesday wednesday and there we are not enough and that's fine but only twelve in ankara the sun's out through most of eastern europe which can't be said through most of france and switzerland and even northern spain quite a windy and wet spell which is not really typical of may we see it's a very high temperatures recently in places like sudan and. i don't think because in getting any higher forty seven was along the north coast of africa has been remarkably coup and it remains that raise any thirty in cairo only twenty bucks for

libya as you can see if you're in morocco rogerian warmish sunshine.

marginal just a reminder of our top stories this are two reuters journalists jailed and me and mark have been released under a presidential pardon they've been serving a seven year prison sentence over them bust a geisha into me in march of one crisis. has the election board has cancelled the results of istanbul's mail ballots the candidate of the main opposition party the c.h.p. one much as polled the president version of the ones ruling party said they were in the good lovers it's. a ceasefire to end the fighting between armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding but israel is warning the campaign isn't over twenty five palestinians and for the israelis were killed in cross border attacks since saturday. in sri lanka thousands of military and police personnel have been deployed to track down those behind the easter sunday bombings in the capital colombo the government has banned two groups it says have links with

eisold but some people say they warned about the risk of violence before the attacks and not enough was done when al fonda's has the story oh threat time at this mosque in the town of cotton candy more than three hundred kilometers east of the capital colombo it's been two weeks since more than two hundred fifty people were killed in the easter sunday bomb attacks so security is tight but the mosque is up quickly. two years ago several worshippers were injured during a fight with a group led by the alleged mastermind of the bombings muhammad's around we had been wanting to be a common to do not to follow the. heritage of the activities but they are still going on so dos muslims should be killed i mean it says iran was well known for preaching extremist ideology the alleged mastermind of the easter sunday bombings

studied in an arabic school over the far end he got expelled then he moved on later in the later years to a mosque down the road where he was also throw it out investigations are under way into how a local man may have grown to mastermind the deadliest attack in sri lanka since the end of the civil war ten years ago one that returned sri lanka to a state of alert not seen since its decades of conflict with the tamil tigers. stuff at the mosque see they formally complained about ron and his activities. that the pictish an officer in charge of all these day obviously in charge of the police . and the second one division that means the government agent. and bought up to a home except out of it. other groups are also said to have warned authorities of the rise of iran's national group its links to i sill and its potential for

violence that at least three different mostly morgan associations made representations to the government no one organization handed in a memorandum to the president in the presence of the defense secretary i didn't find those in more than expressly saying that they are going to. the government has admitted it failed to act on warnings of possible attacks but that's little comfort to those who raised all families and friends of the many victims of the easter sunday bombings minutes and then there's. the ten thirty eastern. libya as u.n. backed government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly supporting warlord before huffed out it is offensive to take the capital this is the first time it's named the united arab emirates as a backup after the world health organization says more than four hundred people of the killed and thousands have been injured in his month long campaign to gain

tripoli the fighting is continued joining ramadan despite u.n. calls for a cease fire. talks aimed at restoring northern ireland's power sharing government have resumed in belfast their main held after the new ira admitted killing journalists lot of maccie and londonderry last month raising fears of a return to sectarian violence the northern ireland executive is a key pillar of the nine hundred ninety eight good friday agreement that ended thirteen years of conflict between irish nationalists and prober his unionists it collapsed two years ago over a scandal involving a renewable energy scheme that cost taxpayers nearly a billion dollars attempts to restore it have been hindered by disagreement over issues like same sex marriage and irish language rights now they're trying again and he has more. the funeral in belfast of lira mccain's young journalist shot dead last month and an urgent question from the priest why in god's name does it

take the daf of a twenty nine year old woman with her whole life in front of her. that reaction was a wake up call for foster leader of the democratic unionist party and mary lou but donald to head republican party should say the key was shot dead by dissident republicans during the rioting in london derry now people's clear frustration with two and a half years of political arm pass in northern ireland has led to new talks involving all the major parties there aimed at getting the devolved administration based at stormont house back up and running here in the catholic all during area of belfast al-jazeera but the director of an organization providing support and training to vulnerable young people under twenty five shane wheeler hand says the collapse of stormont means he can't get approval for future projects we want to see youth centered communities but we can't do that in the absence of effective executive at stormont so. we don't want people to go back and storm it in the way that it was

before where there's a whole raft of supremacy lang's to cross in order for us to have some sort of government that needs to change but we do need government do you need some sort of legislative body that can actually bring us from where we are to a better place alfie mccrory's a youth worker in one of belfast's loyalist areas he says the political uncertainty is directly affecting local services yesterday i spent five hours with a lady and her son her son was tentative as own life and we took him to the hospital and he was sent home there was no provision for but then in the hospital to help or no money money comes from a budget budget come some politicians politicians come from government show instead of it happening from the top during we're having to complain from the bottom up and looking in the background wherever you go the fear that the political vacuum is allowing those who advocate violence to influence the generation born after the so-called troubles these days you can find

a new kind of role model murals around here like the sporting figures but many people will tell you the longer the political arm pass continues the more young people will be tempted down a dark a path. many people here hope leery of the keys message of dialogue will now be heard by their politicians if it's not the implications for all communities here a deeply worrying about al-jazeera belfast. democrats in the u.s. say they will vote on wednesday and whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for not providing the full moeller report william barr has refused a request by congress to turn over and an edited version of the report that looked into possible russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election committee halted has more from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump has said he believes he won the debate over whether his campaign worked with moscow during the twenty sixth election and it's time to move

on victor the young delusion is over. his democratic opponents in congress disagree with a monday deadline for u.s. attorney general william barr to turn over an unproductive copy of special counsel robert muller's report came and went democrats and now as their next step president trappist told congress wednesday the house judiciary committee will vote on whether to hold barr in contempt of congress a criminal offense he lied to congress and anybody else did that it would be considered a crime. a blacked out muller report was released last month it concluded no one from the truck campaign committed a crime when they met with russians during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign however muller wrote well this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him. democrats want to see the whole

report something bar has refused even skipping a hearing last week democrats believe barr is protecting trumped by covering up evidence of misconduct they argue they have a constitutional obligation to investigate the president for alleged corruption and obstruction of justice republicans are accusing democrats of political theater designed to hurt trump's reelection in two thousand and twenty the vote. when republicans controlled the house of representatives in twenty twelve they did the same thing holding democratic attorney general eric holder in contempt for also refusing to turn over documents to congress if on wednesday democrats vote to hold the attorney general in contempt it still must go to the broader house of representatives for a vote democrats could also choose to take the issue to the courts where the matter could take years to resolve kimberly hellcat al-jazeera the white house democrat

politicians in the u.s. have been dealt a blow in their efforts to force president trying to release his tax returns the treasury secretary has denied it on monday but the house of representatives turned over six years worth of traumas business and personal tax returns steve listen said that across like two legitimate legislative purpose the dispute could new now lead to a court battle. all times former lawyer has begun his three year prison sentence michael cohen pleaded guilty last year to crimes including violating campaign financing rules tax evasion and lying to congress is going to serve time at a minimum security facility in new york going to work for transfer more than a decade before he publicly spoke from the president in july calling him a con man. now that i think really great that the country will be in the lead without all because he just. called our country there still remains much to be told and i look forward to the

day. here in. south africa's president is promising to fight corruption as he seeks reelection on what state a series of scandals in recent years have dented the popularity of the ruling african national congress one of them involved a mental health facility malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. elizabeth says her brother christopher didn't have to die he had epilepsy and lived in a mental health care facility he then asked for two and three years ago she says health officials moved him to an unregistered on licensed and ill equipped building he was among more than a thousand patients taken out of care at the time weeks later he was dead it's money. and get anyone really needs one point six. what it would have to say next point.

along with christopher more than a hundred and forty patients died nearly sixty are still missing campaigners say responsible with stealing public health care funds that the officials deny it is just one of dozens of corruption scandals here in south africa that lighted the ruling african national congress specially in the last ten years it's made it increasingly difficult for the a.n.c. to retain votes. in. the worst scandals surfaced under former president jacob zuma treasury says billions of dollars of public money was stolen presidency will run opposer took over just over a year ago has launched a number of inquiries into the corruption scandals referred to some are still running others a complete but the national prosecuting authority hasn't yet sent anyone to jail. i asked the a.n.c. spokesman why so far north of the draw for what we know the n.p.a.

is a special unit that just follow up on issues which are based on commissions to ensure that where possible they can investigate because a trial in the proper sanctions given to both were in conflict with the law. and series it's back to when wednesday's general election poll suggested will have the smallest majority if they ever had came to power in one thousand nine hundred four the end of white minority party. from opposes stays in office south africans are waiting to see how far his fight against corruption will go i hope that it won't just be that none of that this isn't just about the politics of survival the appetite to send the correct signals to the public to the international community and to potential voters to potential investors i would hope that this is a much deeper more sincere undertaking than that but i'm not sure an inquiry into the health care scandal that killed christopher hasn't led to any prosecutions yet

elizabeth and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm web al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. this is obviously with these other top stories to reuters journalists have been freed from a million mar jail while lower than choice all were serving a seven year sentence for violating mere mars' official secrets act they were released under a presidential amnesty progressed it in twenty seventeen while reporting on a massacre of refugees in iraq and state has more from bangkok. and then early tuesday morning we had notification from the president's office that there would be a good. coming up involving more than six thousand inmates. in moments literally moments after that statement came from the presidential office it was confirmed

that while lone and sure so would be on that list and then we saw those amazing images of them walking out of insane prison with huge smiles on their faces and speaking to that crowd of media outside the prison gates. election authority has canceled the results of istanbul's mayor mayor all ballots triggering demonstrations people marched through the streets in istanbul to protest the candidate that the main opposition party the c.h.p. became mayor in march before the commercial capital had been won by president bush a tired out of one's party for twenty five years voters are now expected to return to the polls on the twenty third of june. my fellow citizens they tried to take away the elections we won on the evening of march thirty first they have tried to steal away our hard work. and libya's u.n. back to government is accusing the u.a.e. of directly supporting warlords. and it's offensive to take the capital it's the

first time it's named the united out about its as a back of. the world health organization says more than four hundred people have been killed and thousands have been injured to his month long campaign to gain tripoli the fighting continue during ramadan despite united nations calls for a cease fire. and a ceasefire to end the fighting between the armed groups in gaza and the israeli military appears to be holding but israel is warning that the campaign isn't over twenty five palestinians and four israelis were killed in cos border attacks since saturday. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story from our. talk to al-jazeera. you're just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country that you're going to we listen to the children are deeply affected because of war we meet with global news makers and

talk about the stories that matter just zero. eritrea lashes out at the un's refugee agency as tamara claims the organization us forcibly relocated some of its citizens stranded in libya to his share but what would happen if they went back home as a country's and limits a national service a reason why many fled this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey in the past decade thousands of eritreans looking to improve their lives in europe have become stranded in libya detained during their legal trance or rescued from drowning the mediterranean refugees are sent to.