as the ruling party for me to milan al-jazeera pretoria south africa. the pending more ahead on the news hour including opposition supporters again on the streets of venezuela the turnout short of expectations and why the crisis in venezuela is being blamed for food rationing in cuba. and coming up in support of paycheck he takes the biggest touch a look at colombia. polls have opened for the 6th day and the as a one and a half month long parliamentary elections almost 60 seats are up for grabs on sunday including those in the capital delhi there's one more round of voting on may 19th but the counting taking place on the 23rd well ahead of today's vote one voting party candidate has been getting

a lot of attention as quote highly reports from the city of board. running on an alternate platform the spot facing terrorism charges and connection with the mosque . braga is a 1st time candidate running for parliament in the central indian city of bhopal under the ruling. party or b j p banner she the party the prime minister narendra modi has sent to their campaigns on hindu nationalism. but our court also has passed last year terrorism charges laid against her as a suspect in 2008. killed 6 people she's out on bail due to poor health. visiting a hindu temple for a cleansing ceremony she adamantly maintains her innocence in the case and points to the opposition. there are many from the opposition congress party out on bail and also fighting the elections these people want to break the country. i. 100

percent innocent. on these attorney explains it's illegal for her to run as she's not yet convicted but it brings into question the decision by the b j p to field a candidate facing terrorism charge. if it's proved that she is implicated by the court and gets a prison term then she would never be able to run for elections and. it's not just the b j p that's pushing hindu nationalism in bhopal albeit a softer version the congress party candidate has also been promoting hindu ideology in this community with a 20 percent muslim voter base 35 years ago one of the worst industrial accident in history happened here in bhopal the union carbide ghastly thousands were killed and now more than a 3rd of bhopal 2000000 residents are still affected and some who work with victim support groups feel that the ruling party due to its nationalist agenda are

ignoring them end other minorities. even though abdul-jabbar his health is failing he still runs an organization that trains women impacted from the gas leak. with creating a toxic atmosphere and i hate speeches just like that the $94.00 poisonous gas leak in bhopal all i hate speech is destroying the mix between hindus and muslims it's creating the tension of creating hate. so when the people of bhopal cast their ballots they are not only choosing their next leaders they could also be deciding whether their community will become more divided it's got harder al jazeera bhopal india. sri lankan investigators are trying to work out of the alleged mastermind of the easter sunday attacks blew himself up they don't carry out a d.n.a. test to save muhammad the leader of a local group blamed by the government was one of the silverside bombings and the town of calm and i'm an hour from now and is met some of the families of the other suspected attackers moment and his mother struggle to explain what happened.

on easter sunday horder the emotion actually i don't have words because. things go on. and things go on she is pregnant and she has to keep. his sister who's in custody was married to a. police killed me as well he was defending people involved in the attacks in this safe house 5 days after the easter sunday bombings twin creators formed by some of the explosions to rip through this house inside the mouth of the. there were 15 people including 6 children who were killed here authorities say that if the safe house hadn't been found there's no telling as to the damage. the people here could have caused yes his family paints

a different picture of the man. here is really kind everybody knows. everybody knows him carter is a very kind of a loving people. peace of mind and he has a very good connection with his family. i don't know what was happening to his mind i think actually he has. been brainwashed. so some people. doesn't think a number of those involved in the attacks related and lived in this street cut down pretty all within a few 100 metres of each other we also met the mother in law of one of the easter sunday bombers in a twist of fate her daughter was killed in the signed about a degree. a sister in law of another bomber also spoke to us they both said they did not know of the plot. mohammad zahir and seen here just before he detonated his

bomb at the shangri-la hotel was the leader of a local group linked to i still. police told her that his wife who survived the sign the murdered reed is being questioned by investigators with advice from doctors who are treating her. she has admitted to being among this group of 3 women buying clothing at this department store a few weeks before the attack members of the muslim community here say the killers have no place among them. they are not muslims those involved are not muslims we have proved that we didn't accept their bodies is no connection between islam and suicide and. the relatives of the killers say they did not nor their intentions not everyone here believes them but will now have to find a way to move forward without reaching for the division.

east in sri lanka. now are several conservative u.s. states mostly in the south are and once again tough anti abortion laws alabama senators are expected to vote next week on a bill that would criminalize monster portions from conception of the proposal passes doctors who help women terminate their pregnancies could face up to 99 years in prison and georgia a so-called fetal heartbeat well the signed into nor by the governor this week it bans all abortions are the 1st signs of the fetal heartbeat that before many women even know that they're pregnant the c.s.m. a heartbeat bills have already been passed in kentucky mississippi and ohio all of them are facing legal challenges rather than jordan has more from washington d.c. . the latest round of laws being passed in u.s. state legislatures that put new tougher restrictions on women's access to abortion has become a controversial development here in the united states those who support the

outlawing of abortion say that they are glenn getting closer to the day when the procedure is outlawed in all 50 states and u.s. territories those who support abortion rights say that these new laws represent really a new frontier in trying to undercut the lives of women and girls and so they are trying to find a political way to respond to this new slate of vaal laws being passed we've already seen demonstrations at state legislatures there's already talk of raising money to fund efforts to try to defeat the laws or overturn the laws in the state courts perhaps in the federal courts as well but in the meantime this is a process that has been really going on since 1973 when the roe v wade decision was decided by the u.s. supreme court that ruling says that women do have a constitutional right to seek an abortion however that does not mean that the u.s.

states have not had any efforts in that time to try to restrict access to abortion and in fact 43 of the 50 us states do put limits on where an abortion can be performed how many doctors can be involved after how many weeks during a woman's pregnancy and abortion can be performed there are penalties but none as tough as those that have been passed recently in some southern u.s. states to syria now and government forces in the northwest have ignored calls for calm pushing further intervention held territory rebel fighters failed to reclaim enclaves and hama province for caps and captured by forces loyal to president assad there a new government campaign against. rebels in both hama and provinces has killed more than 100 people and forced 150000 from their homes. from the world food program says poverty has become the main enemy for many syrians especially those

stranded in the war zone. after 8 years of crisis in syria. needs are strikes staggeringly high is specifically in it live because of the latest escalation we know that there is from 150-002-1800 extension 00 people who have been displaced from north and. southern parts of it live to the northern camps where we've been receiving them and providing food assistance and humanitarian aid however more needs to be done since 2014 the world food program and the entire u.n. body has been able to reach the north west of syria through our cross border operations via turkey. alone is able to reach just a bit over half a 1000000 people on a routinely and regular basis however we have had to stop some of our assistance to parts in southern italy due to the fighting we've spoken through our partners to some of these families the happened to be the families who were unable to provide

transportation for themselves it's a long road from the southern parts of it led to the northern camps and so they've ended up being stranded we're doing our best to reach them and in fact our partners tell us that as of last evening we've managed to reach all of them with food assistance and shelter it's also important to recognize that after 8 years of crisis a lot of people are tired it's not just the folks in it live who are now under fire but also the 75 percent of syrians who are living in areas that have been settled but they are facing a new enemy that of poverty to venezuela where opposition to han why though has called for direct contact between has movement and the us military he made the opinion as opposition supporters gathered for another day of demonstrations against president nicolas maduro but the turnout fell short of expectations as to rise above reports from the capital caracas. and other proved has diminished.

this one to demand the release of the vice president of the national assembly. so i have a son to says she cannot wait any longer for a change in her country i am in we cannot continue with nicolas maduro in power we can hardly eat another detaining our lawmakers what else needs to happen from a door to go away. but for now it seems the little is not going anywhere venezuela's president denounced the cia as being behind efforts to overthrow him last week at coole attempt that did not succeed. because the person who carried out the coup is a coward a traitor his name is manuel of the heart of the christopher a traitor who is guilty and a coward after which he fled. many people in venezuela believe mother would or is not the legitimate president. they say the lections last year were field with

irregularities. opposition leader asked people not to lose hope and says he has ordered his envoy in washington to meet with the u.s. southern command. will talk to anyone that will help us transition to democracy in venezuela with the armed forces with the people on the streets and the international community that turnout is demonstration the marks i'm older than you crave yes ok well i tired and chanted with the current situation in the country when it is going through an enormous economic crisis that has already forced to millions of people out of the country. the government has tried to implement some reforms to improve the economic situation but most analysts believe that as long as my in power it's unlikely to get any better. there is no option since there are foreign restrictions and because there was a crisis the government has no credibility in oil production has dropped so it's

almost impossible the students when. not happy with saturday's turnout they say they don't have a future in venezuela but do not want to leave. our disappointment is what motivates us to take to the streets we have to win the street caracas we owe it to our friends who have died it would do is not going to go away if we keep on talking . many here are calling for an intervention to force out. but the consequences of such a move could be catastrophic in a country where he supporters have sworn to fight back. and the ripples all the political standoff in venezuela are being felt in cuba where the economy was already suffering because of u.s. sanctions the government started rationing food and basic goods to stop holders from selling them on the black market a trade gate in the reports. the queue for fresh chicken stretches outside the

supermarket in havana poultry and many other items are often in short supply and shoppers have just heard there's been a delivery. they'll have to wait several hours to be served not only that there's now a limit on how much they can buy. for you when they sell items such as chicken sometimes there's not much available so we've been told to limit the amount customers can buy . cuber imports up to 70 percent of its food and is struggling to pay the bills because the government's receiving less aid from venezuela which has its own crisis to deal with cuba's communist leaders are starting rationing meat eggs rice beans and other essential such as so. i thought i wanted to say that i think rationing is the only way to stop hoarding food people need to buy less so that everyone can get a little bit like the government says the main reason for the future is because of u.s.

sanctions donald trump has reversed the thawing. relations when barack obama was president is is safe because and then you go there we depend on imports that come from the united states and that has meant that we've had to look for alternatives to be able to secure the products in the market however our mission is to fracture all the measures the euro as government imposes. keep has been under a u.s. economic embargo for almost 60 years but with the economic and political crisis in socialist venezuela cubans are preparing for more tough times ahead victoria gates and be al jazeera. now more than $180.00 activists in cuba took part of then on the authorized pride parade despite government warnings at least 3 were arrested while others for orders just banned that device called for the valley after a state run organization canceled its a vent against earlier this week the pride parade of the 2nd march organized

independently of the cuban state and just over a month or so but we march so that we all respect each other we understand each other we love each other we must learn to live in unity look it's necessary please you have to leave this place listen to me i'm asking that you all help to get others to leave. busy you free resisting change yourself and the people nor the government are going to understand each other in the end there are so many of us in the situation it's going to get results that are still still ahead on the news hour . of diversion the chinese construction project disrupts a fragile peace and current state or take a look at how the world is processing the era of donald trump and the plan to catch clenches paul of the spanish bond pre-pay said we'll have the details.

hello again we're here across china we're going to sing quite a bit of rain over the next few days particularly in the central portions of the country now the eastern coast as well as the southern coast really not looking too bad as we end the weekend temperatures though are going to be in the high twenty's hong kong you can reach into about 30 degrees there but for shanghai that temperature is going to be dropping as we go towards monday you are going to be picking up some rain some low clouds as well but just to the south for shows can be seeing a very hot day at 31 and taipei nice conditions but it is going to be hot at $33.00 degrees there were plenty of rain across much of south asia as well we're going to be picking up those tropical afternoon thunderstorms across much of the region some areas such as vietnam seeing some heavy rain over the next few days bangkok he sings a very heavy rain as well 35 degrees as your forecast hi you're on sunday maybe going up to about 36 degrees there but down here towards jakarta it is going to be

a wet day at about $33.00 and then over here towards india what we are picking up a few clouds particular up here towards the north pushing their way across that will bring a few showers but nothing to really break the heat across much of the area new delhi we do expect to see a high there on sunday of about 39 degrees where we may see some rain showers is down here toward the south carol estate the rain's going to continue over the next few days but for bigloo attempt a few of $33.00 degrees. the weather sponsored by countdown in. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan braved the ordinary joins us or you were too high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all kurdistan on al-jazeera.

good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these top stories but the rebels have begun redeploying fighters from 3 major ports and given they say it's

partly due when broken do but the yemeni government says it's a priority. an attack on a luxury homes have in the pakistani port city being developed by china has ended with the security god and 3 gunmen killed and separatist group on or just on the bridge should army has claimed responsibility saying it targeted chinese and other foreign investors. and also opened in the 6 day of voting in india's 6 week long autumn entry elections almost 60 seats up for grabs on sunday including those in the capital. now the world health organization says more than 450 people have been killed in the battle for libya's capital tripoli the un security council has called for a cease fire as walled off the continues his campaign to capture tripoli the red cross says residential areas are turning into bashing fields with almost 60000 people displaced by the fighting aid agencies say hi. spittles are struggling with

power cuts and chronic medical shortages. now a search operation continues after a boat carrying almost $100.00 refugees sank off to his yes southern coast a 70 people died after the boat capsized on friday. before reports were rescued a still in a state of shock. this bangladeshi man set off in the hope for a better life in europe but is now stuck at this refugee reception center in tunisia. yet he's one of the lucky ones. he makes a painful call home 3 of his brothers who were on the boat with him when it overturned didn't make it. a fishing boat tried to bring as many passengers to shore as it could. only 16 survived out of almost 100 people who set sail from the city of zawar on the libyan coast a lot of. they put us on a large boat after sailing for

a while they moved us to a smaller inflatable boat with more than 70 people on board they left us and sailed away because of the number of people it started taking on water and overturned some of us are from chad or morocco but the rest are from bangladesh. the un agency for refugees refers to the mediterranean as the world's deadliest sea crossing it's a popular transit route for those desperate to reach europe last year almost 2 and a half 1000 people died trying to cross. the international organization for migration says $101.00 people were returned to libya on friday the wide range of nationalities of the passengers on the boat have made it difficult for the to metion risk used to identify the victims and. we took 4 of them to the regional hospital for treatment and the rest of the survivors are here we

will present them to psychologists and experts in order to give them the support they really need as you can imagine they all traumatized tunisian human rights organizations are blaming the european union saying tough immigration policies are forcing people to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean but for these men who have lost friends and family blame won't bring back their loved ones. so here is a gun for 0. talks between saddam's military council and opposition groups remain deadlocked to mombasa protests forced the military to longtime president omar al bashir and it was replaced by a transitional military council which is resisting protesters demands to cede power to civilians have a morgue and has more from the capital from. sami mahmoud looks at photos from home and is reminded of when the word arrived on his doorstep his from the nuba mountains in southern sudan where he saw sudanese where planes dropped bombs on his

village some fellow farmers were killed and others were forced to escape. the government forces dropped bombs from i'm tired of and other kinds of planes and didn't distinguish fighters from civilians they dropped bombs indiscriminately it was a massacre a genocide against the people of new bam mountains. the farmer says knowing what the military can do to civilians is what brought him to join the massive tent at army headquarters and the 5 week long sit in followed months of anti-government protests demanding president obama to be sure and his 30 year. he was ousted in april 11th by military commanders the transitional military council has been in control ever since despite demands for civilian rule opposition parties and the 00s at the sit in are demanding the council transfers power to the nuba mountains area and software defined is just one of several regions that were in sudan others in the southern region of the nile and the western region of therefore many people have fled those areas due to military operations some led by commanders in the

military council sudanese with our preference in the capital and who have been able to join the sitting here in front of the army headquarters they want to leave until power is handed to civilian government. but it's a stalemate in talks between the 2 sides with the military council threatening to hold early elections if no deal is reached within 6 months the opposition coalition says it wants to end the deadlock but won't back down in its demand for civilian government i'll tell you look this thing that he had with the legitimacy the military council is lending on comes from the people who forced the military to overthrow bashir so the talk shouldn't be about power sharing or delegating and the military should not want to chair the sovereign council and have authority to appoint members of the transitional government it should hand over power to the people to form a civilian government. sudan has been under military rule for much of its existence since independence from britain in 1956 protesters here say when they forced the

military to overthrow bashir a month ago they discovered how much power they have and know it can also be used to force the military to hand over power to the people. morgan al-jazeera how tom what are the protests continue the economic crisis that spot them has taken a toll on pay for mahomet of the reports from car film or basic commodities and short supply. for fuel it. seems like these sites in most spots are. the city multis say sometimes they spend the entire day waiting to fill up their vehicles. the fuel crisis shortages of bread and electricity outages are posing a major challenge for the country's transitional military council moderate men on the run and everything is as before there is no difference between the old regime and the military council we still have shortages and queues for bread and fuel will

go. back used to full money at banks and the few tele motions that still hold koch under the c.n.n. hit dozens of people wait patiently in line to get money out one of the most out of interest of and it may take us up to a month sometimes to withdraw full salaries treat government imposed limits it's ramadan and people are fasting it's unfair to wait for this long to collect our own money our own right according to bungle fishes it's been taking an average of 6 hours for the few a.t.m. . talked to be emptied. the financial ecosystem they say house quite simply seized. yet since that removal of a model bashir from office the sudanese pound headley strengthened against the dollar on the black market sulfides it again almost a 3rd of its value but not is yet to fully into law prices for basic commodities.

while lying on the oligarchical oil prices had begun coming down but have once again risen due to the mess of demand for commodities during ramadan we can only pray that things get better for us. a decision to cut food and fuel subsidies i mean last year increased discontent with all bullshitters government and 3 that mosque protest in december that ultimately led to me to move the from office the protests are still going on the people of sudan what used to making do with the little lady how constantly inventing the little thing and coming. together to find new ways to work it but if it's all real political on the comic solution. to break demolition push them. out of done attempts to put in jewish property stolen in the 2nd world war has angered far right supporters and poland hundreds marched to the american embassy in the

capital rules for against u.s. pressure on their government to compensate holocaust victims and their families the protesters say that their country was a victim of nazi occupation and shouldn't be held responsible for nazi crimes more than $3300000.00 polish jews were killed in the holocaust. thousands of protesters in albania demanding promised that a step down they threw 5 bombs at the socialist party headquarters in the capital that ana the opposition accuses the government of corruption and haven't lends to organized crime but denies the allegations. now for some villages along the border with thailand the promise of a new road has considered a threat to life as they knowledge but for others it is seen as an opportunity mohammed june has more on how the chinese construction project is threatening a fragile peace and. state. when

a road was built through his property to transport crushed rock from a nearby quarry soundly in few decided to take action. because. the vibration of the mine explosion is very strong and the neighbor houses and wells cracked with the series 5 bracing from the explosions these houses are a few yards away from the quarry whatever the situation is they didn't come and see the damage. to save his crops he's attempted to break up the road on his land and is now being sued by the contractor. the quarry began operating in 2070 and people here say their landscape is now being chipped away at a rapidly increasing rate. the area is under a fragile ceasefire agreement between warring ethnic groups and government forces after decades of conflict while some people were compensated for damage to their properties by the road construction most were not which is added to preexisting tensions between villagers most quarries on the mountain are small and locally

operated but the much larger chinese quarry was never assessed for social or environmental impact. the asian development bank suspended funding for the project and worrying has stopped. which has left some without work on the other leg. what i would like to demand now is to restart the mining process we've been praying for this and people work in mining their livelihood is in good condition but now they're facing challenges everyone is in a difficult situation. numerous attempts to contact the china road and bridge corp were unsuccessful civil society groups say the chinese state owned company has been doling out excuses instead of compensation. they chose to disobey laws that are already in place when the c.r.b. seek came to construct the road they didn't respect the rights of the local population. while smaller quarries continue to supply road builders observers say

large scale projects in korean state should wait until a final peace agreement is reached between the government and the region's armed ethnic groups until then a project meant to unite is instead sowing seeds of division. and disease. now south korea is the place to be if you want to get a glimpse of the future of electric cars problem bride reports from the island. the 1st in the world to be carbon free by 2030. this show brings together everything you need for an electric future. yes the cars both the sensible ones and the fun ones and all the other everyday vehicles to service in a world beyond fossil fuels all using the same advances in electric engine and battery technology but in all shapes and sizes even one made using a 3.