the deal until he got rid of the steel and aluminum tariffs so the president people been pushing on capitol hill they want to see a vote on this new trade agreement and now because those tariffs have been removed they have a better shot than they did before to australia now we're voting is on the way for elections that code deliver a 6th prime minister and as many years opinion polls suggest the conservative governing coalition will lose to the center left labor party opposition leader bill shorten has committed to more ambitious environmental targets he's also promised to bring stability after years that have seen both sides of politics watching prime ministers and party room crews. will be ready to hit the ground from tomorrow we'll be ready to start straight away and we'll start straight away my 1st cabinet meeting the 1st order of business would have been a submission to the independent umpire to get the why age is moving again for millions of our fellow australians my 1st legislation would reverse the cuts to

penalty rights we will convene the parliament as soon as possible to start action on climate change the rest of the world's fighting climate change a strategy has been missing this is not the aussie way to go missing in the big fights the world will know that if i begin selected astray is back in the fight against climate change well let's get more on this we're joined by correspondent andrew thomas who is in bannockburn that is one of the modular electorate that will decide the election the state in victoria and will be crucial to the outcome. it will and you know that because bill shorten who you saw there and scott morrison the prime minister have spent a lot of time in just 2 or 3 seats in victoria that could make all the difference in this election it's all very already very tight in the australian parliament it's only a parliament of 151 seats need a majority of 76 seats to form government will the labor opposition already has 72

seats so if they win next overall in this election just 4 seats nationwide they will form the government and opinion polls suggest that they will do that narrowly but they will now 3 of those seats here in victoria the sum over in western australia about 4 out from here a 4 hour flight north in queensland there are 3 or 4 more seats that are actually in play that could swing either way and then there are a few in and around sydney probably to the city itself in the western suburbs to north of sydney where they could swing liberal right to sense of government policy or labor and the others are in tasmania the island state just to the south of australia scott morrison who you haven't seen on television yet because he's campaigning down in tasmania all still lection day and he's on his way back to safety i would imagine what same to vote and are just going to ask you know we've heard from the opposition need a bill that shorten. any sign yet scott bias and what his plans for the day

will. dalliance has my idea he will see campaigning on saturday it's about a 2 hour flight from tasmania it's a city where he's from where his electorate is and i imagine he's. just landed in sydney will probably be seeing him voting in his south in sydney electorate fairly shortly he'll be making a lot of what labor is not talking about that say is that tax royce's in the government's eyes the fact that they have promised to take away tax breaks for richer australia so the government says that will really cripple an already delicate economy where house prices pulling and that's concerned that could spill into the wider economy the government also warns that the environmental policies of the left of center like the policy will have a crippling economic impact you still bill shorten talking loudly and proudly about environmental ambitions but the concern that the government says it has is that that will hurt the economy those 2 issues taxes paint and they have are never to be

front and center of this election campaign and there are some minor policies as well when many seats in the lower house but in a very very thoughts election they could hold the balance of power andrew thank you very much for that for now that is andrew thomas with the latest live and vatican thank you and we have plenty more ahead on the news hour and polluting the huge fishing community and betting that is struggling to hold on to its heritage. the battle of the donald trump the multibillion dollar border war reaches court. the king of play is looking regular and wrong peta has the action in sport. representatives from the u.n. a new and the african union of piling pressure on saddam's military and protest leaders to reach an agreement immediately both sides were expected to reach

a deal and earlier this week the talks have been suspended for 72 al assad to protest to set up roadblocks across the capital film and their latest round of demonstrations have a more than has more from the. protesters in front of the army headquarters and are saying that they're waiting for the military headquarters to let them know what will happen after the 7 to 2 hour deadline expires now that deadline expires on saturday at midnight and they're waiting to know if the military council will extend an invitation to the opposition to resume talks or whether they will continue with their sit in to put pressure for a civilian independent transitional government to be formed now the 2 sides still have a lot of things to sort out including the sovereign council which effectively will be the presidential body the military council wants to be the one chairing that council as well as either equal or more presentation than civilians meanwhile the opposition are saying that it has to be an independent council with mostly civilians and military representation so that is the last hurdle they have to sort

out before they can announce a transitional government is formed in the meantime protesters are saying that they will be in front of the army headquarters they will not be deterred by violence from the from the military and the rapid support forces and nothing will stop them and less this see an independent civilian transitional government being formed and accountability for those who have committed crimes over the past 30 years lots of demands but lots of high hopes and expectations that will be sorted out once the 72 hour deadline passes from the military council hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been back out on the streets of algeria for the 13th friday in a row protesters are demanding the removal of the political race off to forcing out their longtime president the ports. for months protesters have gathered outside the iconic graham who's building in the capital g. is demanding political change. but on friday mooning they arrived to find the area barricaded by police officers. tens of thousands of protesters tried to push their

way through that 1st security forces responded with tear gas that outnumbered and under attack. they eventually pulled down to the area it's the 30. week protesters have gathered in the main square to demand the removal of politicians and officials associated with the regime of alstom president abdelaziz bouteflika cutting the similar mix somebody from the they want to destroy us but they want we demand late only we reject their stories of being we are the ones who choose who represents us not even though you know many protesters day believe that interim president up till kadok been salah is the right person to run the country at this critical moment presidential elections are scheduled for july the protest is not just in the capital but across algeria unrelenting in their demands but complete regime change i didn't touch that project elections under this president

can only lead to a fraudulent government but we is the one who fix $6000000.00 forms for bootlicker but weasel actions are rigged and dollars and we will not take part in them and we say no to the elections. some want army chief of staff my guide to step in and remove the political elite but he's wounded against what he says are attempts to create a power vacuum so i see despite such warnings anti-government protesters seem determined to continue their rallies until the political establishment is gone victoria gate and be al jazeera. to ben and now it has a west african country on edge after a violent and 2 elections which opposition parties want to contest as i'm about hanging polls situation has added to the waters of a large fishing community. what they say about gun view is that life is peaceful. for more than 250 years people have been living on the water and what's thought to be africa's largest lake community it's grown to around 35000 people.

a guide is 23 year old herman. he grew up here but is now studying on the mainland he shows a sort. the fish farms the main source of income for most families. we meet gerard when you he explains that business is tough because they have to invest so much in it for so little return. to go around the world when we castanets and don't catch any fish it breaks our hearts we have no choice but to come back to fishing because we have nothing else to do if we can get some help to move away from this work it would be good what we really need is help. the water reaches up to 2 meters and so a boat is the only way to move. them and tells us that each family has at least 3 the community is divided into what they call villages the chief of this one is no new he tells us they need help with basic facilities. we have no electricity

or clean water because of the way the population is growing the clean water we have is not sufficient if the government could help us with this we would be happy. for 25 and sells food for a living she has plans to open up a store she is the exception among her age group and i want all of my friends are gone they've gone to the mainland to look for money i'm the only one left congo is a fully functioning community with schools churches a hospital and even a cemetery one of the challenges for people here is how to preserve their way of life without being left behind by the rest of society. a man tells a story of how his ancestors found sanctuary when they were escaping a war between bendings ancient kingdoms now there's no escaping the fact that many like him though proud of their heritage are looking for a different future i'm up watching al-jazeera. the u.s.

house of representatives has taken his battle of a dong thomas border wall to a federal court the house and others that urging a judge to stop but he hands of dollars being transferred to once the construction and rob vandals has more on that these. arguments were heard here in california on friday in a pair of lawsuits that seek to block president from spending any money under a state of national emergency for his border wall now they were brought by a number of states and also by some nonprofit organizations including civil liberties and environmental groups what they say basically is that when president trump said he would try to go around congress to find money to build his wall he was acting in an unconstitutional and illegal manner and that the president's own statements betrayed his belief that there was no true emergency meanwhile

a small army of individuals in this country are working in the opposite direction from the federal government they're seeking to help migrants. in fall for his texas eddie canalis fills a barrel full of jugs of water to save migrants who might otherwise die of thirst in the dry thorny brush in el paso texas volunteers at the church of god a handout donated clothing to destitute migrant families in san diego professor joy in a brooks and a handful of student volunteers collect letters from people fleeing violence and poverty who are being held in detention. across the u.s. a small army of volunteers spends time money and energy to help migrants and asylum seekers in any way they can canalis has been putting out water into the wilderness for years he's seen what happens to people who don't make it to safety since 2004

we've had $750.00 recovered bodies and remains and until we fix a system that is broken we're going to continue to have a humanitarian crisis a people dying pastor méribel velasquez has turned her el paso church into a shelter for people who are released from detention with no place else to go it's horrible in in the beginning i never thought it was going to be to this stream they're tired to hydrated they're hungry authorities say a record number of migrants were detained in april exceeding 100000 for the 2nd month in a row most are families from central america professor brooks center student volunteers are archiving over 1000 letters from migrants in detention one pair of detainees with pen pals on the outside and there are their letters we archive and with privacy protection so that future researchers will understand the magnitude of

this humanitarian crisis and the real lives of refugees the letters tell of escape from violence poverty and of fear and loneliness in incarceration sometimes migrants send little gifts baby shoes woven from bits of plastic a dreamcatcher crafted from dental sloss grassroots volunteer efforts like this one stand in sharp contrast to the vast sums expended by the us government for border police barriers and incarceration even while our government is locking up refugees we will be humans we will extend our. no matter how modest the effort because this the world depends upon small acts of kindness sparks of humanity amid a humanitarian crisis. it is a crisis that extends all the way from the crime and poverty ridden cities of central american countries to the border with the united states and beyond into

courtrooms all over the country next week on may 23rd the house of representatives will make its own arguments to a federal judge in washington also saying that the president acted unconstitutionally when he declared his state of emergency there determined to try and stop him from building his wall. to the head on the news hour we'll look at why the talks in norway between venezuela's government top and opposition have solved anything. searching for answers hundreds of wives and mothers in sri lanka demand justice for loved ones they haven't seen since the civil war. and in sports this banished success at the jaded italian patron would have to detach.

the wedding sponsors by the time and ways. we've got some pretty wet weather pushing into central and southern parts of china at the moment a fair bit of clout there just spinning out of those central areas down into the southeast i was seeing some heavy rain into the southeast recently with us to come as we go on through the next couple of days to hong kong looking pretty disturbed 31 celsius quite a keen southerly wind further north the winds will start to push in from the north as we go on through sunday where those 2 meet the air is forced to rise it cools it condenses it forms a cloud and if we get a lot of heavy rain coming through hong kong should be a little dry but i was never too far away temperatures as around 30. degrees celsius similar temperatures across southeast asia similar conditions at a quarter crop of showers into malaysia not seep out into into nature should be generally dry here over the next couple of days the wetter weather is a little further north borneo seeing some heavy downpours we'll see some showers also grossly not in their way into singapore and kuala lumpur not say about into

todd but michael could catch the old sharon he to the die 36 celsius the top temperature may well generally dry across much of south asia think it's now just pushing into the far north of india once again that will make its way a little further east was just getting up into the forty's hydrabad 41. the west. and ways people have to weigh your record on this travel in fact a few years ago there was place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we will show you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's lots of grays in here join me mad the hot sun on top from my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here when i was just there are. 20 years of china's transformation. told

through one young girl's journey. from bus to adult eve. 2 decades following the development of life on nation. rewind returns to the story of k.k. the girl from quango. on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour on these are our top stories and struck by the syrian government and it has killed several civilians the attack occurred as the u.n. a chief warned that they worst fears are being realized to the west in syria where

the government and its allies of pushing to retake the last rebel stronghold president donald trump has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove u.s. tariffs from alimony and ports the move could put the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying the new trilateral trade deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement and voting is underway in australia for election code deliver a 6 the prime minister in as many years opinion polls suggest the conservative governing coalition to the center left labor party. hundreds of people have protested in libya's capital tripoli against warlord khalifa hafez offensive on the city they want half those men to put down their weapons after as allied with the based government and the various east and the head of that ministration of the nie has told us media that they are prepared to negotiate with the u.s. backed government in tripoli but won't accept preconditions on retreating.

venezuela's president says talks of norway the government and opposition explored a peaceful agenda the discussions have now finished with representatives of the opposition why though having left the country. they had been hoping meetings would help end the months long power struggle between why the and. america editor lucien newman has more from venezuela's capital caracas. there is a tremendous amount of secrecy surrounding attempts to bring about some kind of a negotiated settlement to this ongoing conflict we do know that conversations that took place with representatives of both the government of president. and of opposition leader in oslo norway have ended their representatives have returned here to the capital we don't know whether those talks were stalled were ended or they were going to be resumed no nothing has been said about that all we know is that the foreign minister has thanked norway for its efforts to mediate or rather

to this was about a dialogue. that there is no dialogue only mediation very very careful not to make it sound as though he's negotiating with the government and this is because he's under tremendous pressure from some sectors more hardline sectors of the opposition who say the time for talking is over that the only way to dislodge president at this stage would be to have some kind of international foreign military intervention. politicians in the u.s. state of missouri have voted to approve a tough anti abortion bill just days after alabama and that a similarly restrictive law missouri's governor will sign the bill saying it will make his state one of the most pro-life in the country the legislation bans terminations at 8 weeks of pregnancy there are exceptions for medical emergencies but not for pregnancies caused by rape or incest doctors could be jailed for up to 15 years but women won't be prosecuted. now saturday marks 10 years since the

lanka's long civil war ended the tamil tiger rebels made their last stand against the government on an hour strip of coastline along with 300000 civilians sheltering from the final battle both sides have since faced allegations of war crimes and rights abuses in elfin and as reports from cannot cheat the victim's family say they are still waiting for justice the pain never stops with. the end it ended as mothers were dying every day we had children bring them up as good human beings for a good life we think of our children 24 hours a day and die again and again her eldest son ugandan was shot dead in 2006 sickened sancha jeevan killed in the last month of the war she was separated from another son martin than as the final battle raged and thought he was dead until she saw a picture showing him in

a government rehabilitation center. but after 10 years of searching she's never found him. then we don't know where he is but he's not that he's alive i believe what is my child situation the government has to give us an answer we're asking to give our children back let them go or else give us an answer what did they do with our children say publicly. after the civil war government troops battled the tamil tigers who were fighting for a separate homeland following years of discrimination by the majority singhalese population in 2006 then president behind the rajapaksa backed his brother the defense secretary to launch an all out assault on the tigers in the final stages almost 300000 civilians were trapped in the middle many died in the crossfire sri lankan troops work used of deliberately shelling no fire zones a charge they denied the tigers used to villains as human shields. and they're

no longer believe. after the war the suffering continues hundreds of wives and mothers have spent the last 10 years visiting all branches of the police the military government and attended every protest demonstration and vigil they've tried to raise their plight with international figures from the u.n. but nothing. subtle just of a child and who has worked with many of these women says the vulnerable bear of getting income is so important for them. for survival north or that are for many. and even then they go out to have their livelihood to work. even if they go and work in the how work is their fierce head as mine. because they had everybody knew the never.

the present government came to power in 2000. in 15 promising change sitting up an office of missing persons has been a key achievement but an office of reparations and truth and justice mechanisms are still pending a fact the senior most government official in the north admit government. i do not bring a new one is fully of obvious humans. yes we should do more and we could have done more that admission is of little comfort to jacob mari and hundreds like who just want justice 10 years after the end of the war there's still a lot of work to be done many families depend on war widows and they're struggling to make ends meet find employment and rebuild their lives for this government would help them find answers is fading and patience is running thin but yet the wheat disparate for any scrap of information about their loved ones philander's

al-jazeera. cross party talks in britain aimed at striking a compromise on to. have failed labor leader jeremy corbin says discussions have gone as far as they can the 2 sides have tried for weeks to agree on terms for the country's exit from the russian was due to leave on march 29th but it's been delayed until the end of october for the brics it uncertainty has been threatening to close britain's largest steelworks and scum for as ever hayward reports it has a reprieve for now. for more than 120 years the steel works have dominated scunthorpe skyline its glory days when tens of thousands of people were all long gone and these are anxious times the 4000 or so

stop on share with worries about bricks it leading its owner to ask the government to loan it tens of millions of dollars for a business in profit so we're actually getting somewhere and then bricks laying bricks it is causing us problems the problems that's happening at the moment are no fault of the workers are no fault of the management. it's way above the problem is the deal. british steel has now put on the cash from its own lenders and investors to carry on in the short term a few orders from the e.u. because of the crisis have been added to already tough trading conditions hair it can be a long way from the political workings of westminster and even further from the e.u. is based in brussels but uncertainty surrounding breaks it is having a real impact on people's lives. is the life. 20000 jobs in the supply chain. market at.

busier than ever fabricating steel construction and industry certainty and the body will tell you whether i voted labor my. it's the uncertainty that kills businesses people hold an investment i can people on and it has a perk working for all the life of economy. more than 2 thirds of people in this area voted to leave the e.u. back in 2016 there are pockets of deprivation in scum thought so securing the still works long term future is important to the town survival if we're serious about being an independent self-sufficient nation. outside the european union that can stand on its own 2 feet we have need to have our own steel building capacity that's the foundation of our manufacturing the foundation for our defense and our security . which is still is in no way alone in its struggles because of the uncertainty

regarding brics it and britain speech a place in the world here they just hope it's known history of steel making won't be snuffed out i mean he would al-jazeera scunthorpe. meanwhile campaigning for the european elections as underway it is being seen as a litmus test on whether there's still support among russians to leave the e.u. nigel farage as new projects at party is leading opinion polls while at least 5 other parties are campaigning to remain has more from the south west of england these people believe they are the defenders of democracy in britain under siege by elites which would stall the barricades and overturn the bricks and referendum the new brics it party likes to encourage this fortress mentality and clearly many english people do too they are way ahead in the polls and this is

a warning to parliament not just let them serve a party the labor party as well if they do not deliver for exit in a meaningful form that actually is abrupt that we won't come to the next general election and that m.p.'s of both parties are in dire trouble assuming the polls are right the brics that party will win at least a 3rd of the votes in the european election plus a further people in this country who actively want to leave the european union with no plan and no deal they are determined and they are organized and their opponents are in some disarray with the conservatives and labor at war with themselves and each other it has fallen so far you've other parties to try to fight off brick says here's a new one called change the u.k. currently polling in single digits. and here's another resurgent centrist liberal democrats on around 15 percent nowhere near as high as the bricks at policy so why don't they all stand together and if they don't which one should people vote for. i

would be much happier if their main parts are working together on a common platform it didn't happen i'm not blaming anybody it's just the way it is and now we're dealing with the reality and i think it's very clear from the polls people are gathering around the liberal democrats and i would encourage them to be right then there's the greens registering their highest ever polling in the u.k. they accepted there had been infighting between the remain supporting policies not a good look when the aim is to defend the u.k. from the disaster of brics is if we're taking it as a proxy referendum i mean need to add up the votes of the brics the party not at the base to remain parties and then i think that both come out about it but honestly say it's the people in the middle who can make a difference and what we need to do is have a people we can actually see where the country is now and i'm trippin i'm pretty sure that will come out for remain to the u.k.'s voters are offered a choice between a new policy that offers no policies whatsoever other than brick states and yet which is utterly focused or several others who have coherent policies on almost

everything yet which seem at odds with each other along with. the more confusing it becomes gloriously al-jazeera in the southwest of england. and this is the fullest of all his competing in the european elections and the southwest of england. and the a 7 week long election is drawing to a close with a final phase of voting on sunday the government campaign has focused on prime minister narendra modi who is seeking a 2nd term in office the opposition has accused him of stirring up in their nationalism so while raman reports from vida nassif one of the prime ministers voter heartlands. it's loud it's passionate and it's drawing crowds to the city about an hour see they've come to see priyanka gandhi for the indian national congress party drum up support her

party wants to unseat the incumbent m.p. prime minister narendra modi for the moment it's more about political celebrity and less about politics. but analysts say a resurgence of the opposition is countering modi's record his personality and hyper nationalism what has happened is that modi has projected himself as a personal figure who represents india india's national interests well as everyone else has seemed to be coming short of what might be nationalism in this country as a result the campaign is incredibly vitriolic incredibly personalized. on the other side of our nancy supporters of 2 other major regional parties a similar to what he unbuttons the march parties have joined forces to take on voting questions like in the final stages of the election. process takes a constituency trying to win the everything. general election has.