2 seats available in general and today 9 of those constituencies are voting these 2 states together. a large proportion of m.p.'s the very very important are often described as sort of the florida of india in the sense that they're so. politically important when it comes to the makeup of any government and of course while we're seeing many people here environ i see in the incumbent prime minister's constituency coming to vote they've been coming in streams through the morning when the polls opened at the polls won't close to 1230 g.m.t. over in west bengal all the campaigning itself ended on thursday evening 24 hours before it should have because there was sporadic violence between rival supporters it was suggested that b j p supporters and the trinamool congress led by a man to join the banner g her supporters are at odds with each other the election commission quite concerned about song going violence and they decided to end officially their campaigning on thursday evening so between these 2 states you might say a lot depends and so at the start of this 6 week process

national security that was seen to be the main issue that was dominating the discourse and that led to a drumming up of nationalistic fervor didn't it but what about the fundamental issue of india with more than a 1000000000 people overwhelmingly poor and rural. indeed yes that the issues certainly why didn't we had a huge issue to monetise ation the removal of big 501000 back in 2016 that decimated the rural economy farmers do not deal with plastic credit cards banks are quite far away for them and they've never really dealt in that sort of scenario so for them losing their cash money was a huge impact of course the amount of money they get for their produce wheat cane sugar has all come down in price in recent years then of course we've had the g.s.t. the general sales tax that was another issue. that is affected. areas there's

a lot of very disgruntled people but issues of health education infrastructure some people that we spoke to do feel they haven't been discussed by the incumbent government as much as they should have been under the issue of national security you might say it was hijacked and taken one step further by the government because they weren't discussing these things and that was then also supported by opposition leaders i've been speaking to while i've been here environ i see the likes of. and mayawati to see me a regional leaders of 2 respective state parties who are trying to make a dent into the u.p.a. vote bank of the 80 seats that are available here martine 7 t. one of went to the b j p and 2040 that's a huge amount and over in west bengal of the 42 seats available 40 of them went to the t.n.c. the trinamool congress the b j p wants to make inroads there if it loses seats here in pradesh it's all a bit of a jigsaw puzzle but it only works for the parties that actually deliver on their

promises and talk about the issues that people that matter to people will know what really matters to people when those votes come in and are counted on thursday said helen raman live in that i now see a military pradesh thank you very much. lowe's motor county here on al-jazeera including pam good is astride their. strain as prime minister defies the odds and the opinion polls to win another 10. years after somalia was pushed to the brink of famine and now the severity drought leaves millions facing starvation. the west and sponsored by cattle and ways. hello again it's good to have you back

well here across turkey the weather has been quite active over the last several days unfortunately not going to see too much in terms of a change there because the weather is going to continue to be thunderstorms as well as large hail for most of the northern coast so for ancora the rain is going to be there for you on sunday but as we go towards monday most of that begins to push over here towards the northeast across the eastern part of the black sea i'm craig attempt as do go up to about $27.00 degrees there across much of iraq though clouds in the forecast for baghdad with the temperature of 38 well here in doha the temperatures are coming down slightly from what we had as we ended the week but we are going to be seeing some more clouds as well as humidity is going to be a problem and the winds $37.00 degrees here on sunday by the time we get towards monday more clouds in the forecast the winds continue as well $36.00 there but we are going to be watching northern or parts of oman over the next few days because heavy rain could be an issue and leading to some localized flooding there well across the southern part of south africa clouds in the forecast across much of cape

town as well as winds we do have a frontal boundary making its way towards the city and that is going to also bring some localized or rain across much of the area but for johannesburg it is going to be a very nice day if you add some of the forecasts with a temperature of 20 to. 20 sponsored by the time i am. these people have to weigh your record on this trouble in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is a parable on it will show you i don't care about the official story if you were a little visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world watching wife grace if you join me near the hot sun on the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera.

let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera saudi arabia says it doesn't want to war in the gulf bonce it will respond if iran chooses to engage in conflict the announcement follows recent attacks on several saudi oil assets last week king solomon has called for 2 meetings involving arab leaders they say this month. chancellor has called for a snap election after his deputy was forced to resign video of the vice chancellor emerged showing him promising state contracts in return for campaign financing. the 7th and final phase of india's general election is underway hundreds of millions of people have been casting their votes over the past 6 weeks the main contenders are all the prime minister narendra modi of the b j p and the congress party is. now australia's governing conservative coalition has clinched

a surprise election victory prime minister scott morrison says it's a miracle although it's not yet clear if he'll secure a parliamentary majority andrew thomas reports now from melbourne. he wasn't supposed to be the winner of a strike he has election opinion polls consistently had prime minister scott morrison and his rights of sense and liberal policy behind the labor party rivals he and they defied expectations side friends. were going to work to do. we all work to do and we're going to get back to work we're going to get back to work for the a strategist that we not go to work every day. if i start struggles and trials every day they're looking for a fair go and they're having a go and they're going to get a guy from our government the way in the sydney hotel hosting young expected the

tree party the world's euphoria the good gone she won the liberal party once again have profiles magnificent body scott morrison i said i'm not going to see job how do the liberal body and let's enjoy the next 3 think it's ultimately about the me i almost said it was funny mr labor's been taking these people i mean that long with text in melbourne where they were expecting a policy labor policies the poll says well a very subjective couple even a couple even i. should shut up i say that straight out why did. you just say that. the labor leader had been confident of victory there on saturday in states he had to be the gracious loser i was scott morrison good fortune and good carriage in the service of after right now

the national interest required no. it was not the speech shorten hoped nor expected to make sure i think think think that a selection i would make a much longer stuff in state is just resigned the leadership. this is the old there isn't it wasn't in. labour's policies more action on climate change more investment in schools hospitals and infrastructure did not resonate enough one result did buck the trend an independent candidate who campaigned hard on climate change because of the prime minister tony abbott who wants described manmade climate change as salute . but that was the exception oberle this surprise result is a victory for right of center politics in australia under thomas al-jazeera melbourne. the australian far right senator who made headlines after he blamed

immigration for the christ church mosque attack has lost his bid for reelection fraser adding was widely condemned for saying the massacre of 51 people in new zealand in march was a result of allowing muslims into the country. the un is warning of a major humanitarian crisis in somalia which is again in the grip of drought 2000000 somalis are at risk of starvation unless they get emergency aid in sharia gave him the reports. hungary's the mahdi's arrive daily at this makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital mogadishu the farms have failed and the animals have died sheltering here is now that best chance of surviving the drought the house the house about badly i was a roof i left our home and farms because of drug related conditions and conflict off farms were hit badly by the drought thankfully now we live here somalis are leaving rural areas in the 10s of thousands to get food aid in the capital the

failure of so-called long rains which usually sweep east africa between march and may has caused crop failures across the region aid agencies have scaled up efforts but say more support is needed the situation in somalia is very worrying we are just 2 years on from the 27000 drought which had a famine warning to it we were able to avoid famine through working with partners governments civil society the diaspora private sector it really was a collective effort. the new arrivals join 2 and a half 1000000 others already displaced by conflict and passed droughts in somalia with their livelihoods destroyed many of the displaced will continue to stay in camps long after the drought is a victorian gates and be al-jazeera. now in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization has said that it will move a bone or transit centers from the town of. in order to avoid attacks by rebel

groups health workers have also been targeted by local people a more than a 1000 people have died since he was declared last august catherine soy is in the capital kinshasa. is just back to the capital kinshasa from which is now there. are enough fighting missions that the average the security situation increasingly. treatment. by the rebel group called. just last week there were 3 attempts on. so this thing now is to move. where people who are suspected of having a ball off stake and so the plan is to move some of them to more areas and all those logistic needs money. also saying that they want to go back to the community

. of people who live in this area so they want to go back and just continue talking to them because there's been a lot of misunderstanding some people in those areas like. these diseases being brought in. for political reasons so there really needs to reengage them and show them just how serious the situation is. a need to give confidence to the local community involve them in everything including. trust more than a 1100 feet off the now this month this could spread across borders to neighboring countries from the international committee of the red cross. that thing that they have run out of money for barry all the other logistical needs so a very complicated situation in that part of east india our home all i health way

and having to deal with security problems i'm not just a college money problems as well as they think i'm extremely hostile for me. boeing has admitted flaws in its 737 max flight simulator software this used to train pilots after 2 crashes involving the aircraft killed 346 people the company says it simulates is couldn't replicate the conditions that contributed to the ethiopian airlines crash or the lion air accident off and in the. boeing says it's fix the simulator problem it's also working on software updates for the planes themselves which are currently grounded worldwide and this simulation the simulators are very important to the airline operators that can cost about tens of millions of dollars over the life of the aircraft so american airlines is already on board saying we're going to get those simulators and we're going to get some

more data information to the manufacturer from the pilots where the maneuverability and controllability the impasse takes place. actors at the cannes film festival have been protesting in support of abortion rights the red carpet demonstration came ahead of the premiere of the argentinean documentary let it be law which looks at the topic of illegal abortion the actor's walgreen the simple symbol of his pro-abortion placement. thousands of protesters in russia have trained victory in a campaign to stop a new cathedral being built russian orthodox leaders say they need new churches to replace those demolished under soviet era laws but activists say construction or destroy increasingly rare urban green areas now plans for the building have been put on hold after president putin intervened severson has more from captured him

back. yeah yeah yeah yeah. it started as a spontaneous protest but quickly grew into a daily feature against the building of a large cathedral. in books public parks people took out their anger on a fence put up around a construction site tens of protesters who were detained so. it's very simple this is the worst place to build any building not just the chairs because in the city center there are hardly any green areas but many places where people can relax walk around a meet each other. about shelter dogs through. under president vladimir putin the russian orthodox church has become increasingly influential without and of churches rebuilt or new ones built the old st catharine's cathedral was one of many churches that were destroyed during this opiate regime yet the from the church was demolished during the outings times of

war against legion in the 1930 that's why we would like to rebuild it to show that we are story for our room. things have returned to our historical roots. more than 70 percent of russians say they are religious surveys show that only a small percentage go to church regularly that's why some protesters say that a park benefits more people than another church so more protests are becoming more common here russians have recently rejected sundra local government decisions after 3 nights of protests here and. the president himself intervened it's a sign that the government is taking this protest pretty seriously but i want you to do what you must it's after put in order of local authorities to hold a public call about a new church the mayor opened the doors of the city hall for a meeting with protesters analysts say these protests show that people don't have

much trust in their local authorities. should be worried that his pyramid of power is in a very bad state is on the verge of collapse because the governors mayors and their deputies are not representing the people you get them out the members of the orthodox church are not happy with the delay of the cathedral project they took him to the park to make themselves heard and if the government keeps its promise soon everyone. will have a say about where st catharines cathedral will be built step fastened al-jazeera. deal with al-jazeera take a look at the top stories saudi arabia says it doesn't want a war in the gulf it will respond if iran chooses to engage in conflict then also it comes following recent attacks on several saudi oil assets last week the saudi

king the sound man has called for 2 meetings involving arab and goals leaders later this month to discuss regional. tensions. saudi arabia does not want war in the region and is not seeking it and will do its best to have beat it but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests the kingdom hopes others to be wise and the iranian regime and its to stay away from recklessness and stupid acts and spare the region instability in saudi arabia ask the international community to take responsibility to stop that regime from destabilizing the world. has called for a snap election after his deputy was forced to resign hinds chris. stepped down because of the emergence of a video which showed him promising state contracts in return for campaign financing

. the german chancellor angela merkel has referred to the austrian scandal while campaigning for the european elections she called on voters to stand up to what she described as politicians for sale. indians are voting in the final phase of national elections ending a 6 week long process more than 100000000 people across 7 states eligible to sunday's poll they include living in prime minister and then render mode to his constituency. defying predictions australian prime minister scott morrison is conservative coalition has won the general election it's not yet known though whether he'll have a parliamentary majority boeing has admitted flaws in it 737 math flight simulator software that is used to train pilots the company says it simulates is couldn't replicate the conditions that contributed to the 2 crashes that killed 346 people

up front is next. just a few months after journalist jamal a special she was killed another arab dissident was under threat norwegian security officials had to take him from his home in oslo to a secure location after a tip that the saudis were targeting him. rights activists daddy talks town jazeera . the venezuelan opposition says it's now in direct communication with the u.s. military after a self declared president won quite a fail to topple president nicolas maduro in an uprising last month so is the u.s. about to go to war in venezuela. representative to the u.k. vanessa newman. vanessa newman thank you for joining me on up front it's been nearly 4 months since

your boss opposition politician one declared himself the interim president of venezuela citing article 233 of the venezuelan constitution as his justification but that article vanessa lays out 6 criteria which make a president unavailable death resignation removal by the judiciary a permanent disability abandonment of the office or recall by popular vote none of those 6 criteria apply in the case of nicolas maduro which means mature of all his many sins and flaws is still the president of venezuela and one isn't. close i could buy into a president and so do many of. a the visionaries could be. because there was no president because there was no election that was credible and that is actually. we're seeing in the constitution if you don't actually get in there to take all the opportunities and therefore automatically goes busy

well you know the national you say there's no president because there were no elections obviously nicolas maduro says he won an election last year overwhelmingly you say it was a flawed election and yet it was your position that not only boycotted last year's presidential elections you insisted the u.n. not send any observers to monitor them so when you say they were fraud elections were a sham it's hard to know isn't it because you didn't allow the un to come in and monitor them and say they were a sham. 1st of all none of the conditions were met for free and fair elections major leaders of all the major political parties were imprisoned or inability to we had no our media was blocked internet was blocked nobody searches. every aspect of. support for anybody other than economic model was ball so there was no there was not just no conditions that had been going to gain better

if you're going to be greeted with maturity and allow the un in to support your case you show yourself in the foot no. no we did not shoot ourselves in the butt because then you whine you know they would pick which countries to which delegation and everybody had agreed and it has in fact the next edition. of the nina group for instance that without the freedom of the political prisoners and the leaders of the parties there is no proper action period it was really not only that not only that the president of the smartmatic who runs the machines that run the elections fled the country and then gave a statement in london that the elections were hijacked and they were completely paid all the time by the prime minister mr zapatero said he didn't have any doubt about the voting process he was there as an election observer former president aquittal said they were developing normally we can all get about the legitimacy of

elections we can all give all to go to 33 but we called you about is a fox on the ground one quite a may have declared himself interim president missouri still have the keys to the presidential palace he still controls the full since he still have the loyalty of the top generals he still controls the country's key financial institutions regime change is harder than it looks isn't a vanessa. i think you mean a transition to democracy and a return of prosperity to the country is harder than yes it certainly is because the military is earning $8800000000.00 a year in the trade in the trafficking of narcotics trafficking of gold diesel even food even the very crude that people are eating because they have valentia the production economy is also being 2 used to fund the regime and to exert social control so it is no surprise that they have not because they told the same

price you can say it's no surprise when on april 30th one going to win the support of march to hold the presidential palace military leaders was supposed to join them that was the plan but it was a complete failure i mean if you knew that was going to support them if it's no surprise that the military on board because they're all corrupt why do this uprising why much to the collison expect generals to join you i don't get it oh well they had said that they were what they had said that they weren't there had been negotiations and that they had said that you know that they were doing along and that that was actually going to be certified by the more they don't lose that head of the supreme court was going to support the national assembly the legitimate national assembly and say that they should be followed and then finding a lopez would follow suit so i don't fortunately did not did not happen because i didn't and it didn't happen they don't want more because their mistakes that you guys made one quarter says we recognize the mistakes what we didn't do and what we did 2 months of what exactly is he referring to the which specific mistakes is he

owning up to. i have to say i can't really speak for my president my boss specifically on. credit to quote new ambassador to the u.k. i know the venezuelan government doesn't consider you to be that he was on the bus to to the u.k. in his that you know. that's ok they don't have to consider going back there i don't the government. but when the when i've interviewed their representative they defend their president i'm just wondering why you won't tell me why he said that. i do defined by presidents what i mean. what mistakes did they make i think. i think the mistake was trusting that these men would keep their word that they had agreed that they would that they were joining us and all of their chunk of will come and support the constitution and defend the people turned out to be untrue one going to set in a washington post op ed recently venezuela is not your typical dictatorship but

vanessa madeira supporters would say how is it a dictatorship if going to is able to walk around caracas freely do interviews with foreign media hold big public rallies even call for the venezuelan military to turn on the duro i can imagine the chinese or the saudis will be iranian all the north koreans allowing an opposition politician to do that in the capital city. well going though it. has no case and is never really know the moves comes out in public but basically moves underground. when he was on the ground when he was told the presidential palace that was easy to get but they had said they had seen and then mineta or indicted or saw 28 percent of the national assembly going after the national assembly piece by piece we have no proof of life from those deputies no proof of my ok they just arrested and forget about you know

a phone call to your lawyer and almost everybody there has not to leave the country and can't go back because of the dictator's repression the only thing that is protected in the future and that this is even a human rights abuses i'm not disputing the human rights abuses i'm also going if i'm mature and i'm a dictator why am i learning this man to run around asking my defense minister and generals to tell me why don't i just look him up. well because i can come up with to make him a martyr and you'd also incur the ire of the nearly 60 countries that have that are supporting that. that you can legitimately as it is that's a huge international coalition to ignore it and that would of course result and who knows what action who knows what further sanctions or what actions by the international community would make him a martyr to all those millions of people you see coming out in march in support of the speech people come out and we were touring at that site. and those people would want their president is thrown in prison so that the risk calculus has taken

a step when you mention millions of people come out in the streets but you don't deny do you that missouri still have the support of millions of venezuelans i would dispute the 1000000. little 30000000 people in venezuela and you're telling me the cycle of less than a 1000000 people and i know i don't tell you how much a propagandist. bob we have to make that the support varies between 10 and 15 percent it does not go beyond 50 percent of the population you have to calculate that a lot of that is because the only money and the only clue they receive is from the regime so actual if you have a free and fair and democratic system would probably be a lot however it has let me be clear you know the. democracy that is being contemplated it would include people who are from the p.s.u. the quality which is the ruling party of ludo always is not with people who may have had some reason to support child or are still getting the food

benefits and the one from my little offered dispute is that that is a dictatorship and if they want to vote in free and fair elections. for example already acted you know that canard that is what we're seeing that is what is being discussed so the missouri government said for a while now that this whole crisis all of your opposition is part of a foreign plot it's a u.s. led to yankee imperialist attempt at regime change and you guys seem to want to prove him wrong one quarter said last week that a red line on u.s. intervention has been crossed and he's opened quote direct communications with the u.s. military southern commom suman duras correct as you know when he says that the opposition wants a u.s. military intervention. well you had said it is public information i mean you put it on twitter that he has done his v.p. is ambassador to washington d.c. to go down to south com and the meeting has been requested i think that's. under

that article you can see cooperation in advance of your people and your territory it specially when your military is defending when it was a number of issues it is completely invaded we had russians brought in with military aircraft they don't belong there and then we also not only do you have the cuban intelligence officers we also have a foreign terrorist organization. which stage close border terrorist attacks on our ally colombia. is intimidating venezuelan people from exercising their right so given all those things you've listed to me you would like to see u.s. military intervention in response it is not my decision that is the president's decision what would he like to see you as a representative. he has called that we think that that's necessary then that would be what that would be what his decision to make how can you believe that a u.s. military intervention will bring democracy or freedom or human rights to venezuela especially with people and abrams and john bolton leading the charge especially

given the abysmal history of u.s. interventions in your part of the world guatemala chile argentina nicaragua honduras el salvador one of those would you trust the u.s. military let alone donald trump. 1st of all times have changed and i think even and even to anybody who has been involved in latin america. i think a that confidence has changed really the attitude of the united states to the region changed see the understanding of counterinsurgency or counterterrorism operations or things to secure you know a global population all of those parameters and all of this understanding that methodology has changed yes it's times of change if you to change and yet the person leading the u.s. pollution in venezuela is an abrams

a man who was deeply involved in war crimes and human rights abuses in central america during the eighty's you have john bolton who said recently the monroe doctrine is alive and well it's our hemisphere he said in reference to latin america and of course you have donald trump saying venezuela has all the oil and they're right on our back door doesn't seem to change at all they seem to be interested in oil and sending people with a very bad record on human rights to help you. hey i was too young to live in the. internet. well i'm younger than you but we've all read history elliot abrams responsible for massive war crimes in el salvador and elsewhere in the ninety's he's now the man you trust to bring democracy to venezuela seriously. we need to have thank you man a tarion aid and we need power we need to get foreign terrorist organizations out from terrorizing our own people and we the help of whatever would like to help us

get into back into democracy hopefully i hope has always been in our position has always been and continues to be that a peaceful solution is probably let me ask you this we're almost out of time one last question one guy that was said he'll step down once elections take place in venezuela if missouri leaves office of course and you said that you personally might consider running for president of venezuela yourself you said quote i may well throw my hat into the ring why not qualified to be president of a divided party says right now i'm. not running i have do you said you were you thinking about it you change your mind. that was that was. i think i was on a program of the right and perhaps in some future i will but at the moment my concern is saving the lives of my compatriots and getting my country back

to democracy so i think that's plenty of work for me now vanessa normal have to leave it there thank you for joining me on am from. despite the arrest and prosecution of legendary drug kingpin el chapo the drug trafficking business remains as profitable and deadly as ever so who is winning the so-called war on drugs. upfront producer ryan coles has this week's reality check billionaire drug lord joaquin el chapo guzman brought more drugs into the u.s. than any other person in history today he's facing life behind bars in the united states and authorities are thrilled this conviction is a victory for the american people so with the kingpin out of the game drug trafficking and violence must be weighed down right know despite his arrest 3 years ago chapo seen a low a cartel continues to profit from massive drug shipments to the u.s. on the day of his conviction official seize the largest load of ever found in the

u.s. at a simple low a controlled border crossing and chappals arrest could actually end more lives than it saves his absence has triggered a game of thrones style bloodbath between members of his own cartel and former competitors the fact is power struggles between cartels means there's going to be more bloodshed in similar former stronghold homicides in 2017 soared 39 percent and what keeps this infernal cycle going demand worldwide the number of drug users increased by 31 percent between 2009 and 2 $1016.00 in the us opioid consumption is on the rise so it's no surprise that heroin production in mexico america's largest supplier has reached record levels right now as the only victors in the so-called war on drugs are those profiting from addiction so is it time to set the bullets and take up the thought i'd take a look at the portuguese model change in attitudes towards drug use in clinics and

society at large to help push the country to decriminalize drug use and possession in 2001 since then they've seen impressive declines in harmful drug use overdoses and drug related crime when the policy began 100000 portuguese use heroin today the estimated number of high risk opioid users is 33000 the drug use still poses a significant challenge it no longer threatens a. in order in portugal so is filling our prisons the capital is really the best solution with mounting evidence to the contrary maybe it's time to bring drugs out of the gunsmoke and into the light. known for tweeting sarcastic and stinging critiques of other elected arab rulers palestinian pro-democracy activist baghdadi rose to prominence in 2011 during the arab spring in april officials in norway where he's currently living under asylum placed him in protective custody why they received a shocking warning from the cia of

a possible threat to his life from the saudi government baghdadi is a vocal critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin so mom and had been working with the late journalist jamal khashoggi who of course was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october so does the saudi government now have a policy of just assassinating its critics abroad and if so what could be done to stop them yeah but dad he joins me now from oslo yeah thanks for joining me up front why you there are a lot of people around the world arab or non arab muslim and non muslim who criticize attack oppose the saudi crown prince why this alleged targeting of you specifically by him do you think it's not just mere criticism the cause of something like this of course i am a critic of. you know also known as and. i think this is more this is this is about more than criticism this is about actual projects that i was involved and that i think were highly sensitive and seem to have

a nerve with them be able to speak about any of those projects yet. i mean we did a risk assessment you know with a number of security experts and we came up with 6 or 7 items and as you can imagine i cannot speak about all of them but i could mention that 2 of the were initiatives that started in the life of the late jamal khashoggi which i mean after his death it fell upon me kind of like the projects basically escalated after his death and it was my team or followed up and took them to another level these are projects to do with democracy in the middle east transparency in the middle east media freedom. well specifically models very concerned about the health of our public sphere and realized that the outer public sphere in a certain way shifted from being conventional media to being social media so you understood the role of twitter twitter was very important in the post 911 years it

was specifically important in saudi arabia because neither of you had a very big online rep on my pop. so he was focused really on this you know this conquest of twitter. starting with 2015 or 2016 with the rise of i'm a. right hand man so i look like connie and you know the whole the whole. you know little shady characters around but you know going all the way to really crossing over into the michael states without question or etc so he was very concerned about the health of that and you know he himself was was very important to him for once in the arabic language. so both of these initiatives actually had to do with restoring let's let me say you are starting twitter is going to try and are you going to change your behavior on twitter now given that you know no suspect but it's your work on twitter that has attracted the saudi government's attention the saudi trolls who spend a lot of time on twitter i mean i 1st came across you several years ago on twitter

you have a big presence that you know are going to change your behavior on twitter in reaction to these threats well you might have noticed that i mean i mostly stick to the english language on twitter i mean i do once in a while a tweet in arabic but it's rather rare and the reason was really it was a form of self-censorship until it was me basically knowing that they are far more aggressive because they were they wanted to control the arabic language spear and that was you know so they needed to control arabic twitter arabic language twitter so how do i spoken primarily in arabic they would have been so much more aggressive against me. and you know so it was a form of protection right now with these events what's happening is that i'm crossing over into arabic and i might actually have to start speaking in arabic more because i have a bigger audience and i think i feel a responsibility towards them but at the same token i guess yourself censure didn't really help in a sense because you're still you still got talkative by the well i mean it's not

surprising at the least that b.s. would go after dissidents i mean there are people who got far worse far far far worse hates the united i mean do you find it odd that one arm of the u.s. government the cia is warning you via the norwegians and others warning others that the saudis are trying to murder you while another on the u.s. government state department or the white house of the pentagon continues to cozy up to those same saudis isn't that kind of weird the conundrum over here is that saudi arabia whether m.b. as we have m.b.a.'s or not so there continues to be an important country an important strategic ally to the united states m.b.a.'s knows that very well and he knows that you know this is something that he can use so i mean it is weird that the cia is basically you know living up to its legal duty you know its duty to warn . but then again i mean the only the only reason why m.p.'s is unaccountable and

unhinged is because the one administration in the world that are more that are most capable of framing him in our current leaders because the neighbors and it's not just the saudis of course you have the shadowy israeli security from the n.s.o. group which we've just discovered recently was behind the spyware used to hack into what's up and which also sold spyware to the saudis which was allegedly used to spy on the late. absolutely and in this relationship i think it's really good that more light is being shed on it. i should also add that you know one of the most sensitive investigations that i was involved and in fact that was. i think the most immediate reason i think the threats as. well as my involvement with jeff bezos hack and it's also happened to be the prime suspects but you know when it comes to you you did a lot of reporting around the alleged blackmailing of amazon boss jeff bezos let me ask you this does it depress you that m.b.a.'s is not only gotten away with

allegedly killing jamal khashoggi the cia believe with high confidence he was behind it but more than 7 months later he's still able to threaten people like yourself. the saudi dissident omar abilities in canada another person in the u.s. who is asked to remain anonymous the 3 of you who have been identified as being threatened by the saudis as far afield as norway canada the us he still has that power yet it makes sense if you think about that i mean the mirrors the logic of target things that they've lost by the way i mean if i mean i mentioned last week that you know one of the most painful messages that i received after these events came from human rights activists who live within the arab world and you know he he sent me a message saying you know what does this mean for us if you live in norway which is supposed to be one of the safest countries in the world and you are threatened what chance do i have if i live live in lebannon or i live in tunisia or live i live in egypt or i live in jordan or wherever i mean there is

a logic i mean if you can target someone in norway if you can try to blackmail the richest man on the planet then who's safe one final question is this isn't the 1st time your life has been threatened in 2016 i believe eisel added you to a kill list and urged lone wolves to take action against you in 2017 you received a 2nd warning from the group telling you quote we're watching you despite all these dangerous to your life from multiple actors you continue to do what you do you are here on the show speaking out why. i wouldn't be myself if i don't i mean. i mean this is an intergenerational struggle the idea of stopping by idea of giving up it's simply unimaginable. thank you for joining me on outfront be safe thank you so much that's our show up front will be back next week.

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the child to pull the plug on his coalition. india. marathon election goes into its final days 6 weeks after voting began. 2 years after somalia was pushed to the brink of famine another severe droughts leaves millions facing salvation. but saudi arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs. says the kingdom does not want a war in the region but will respond if the wrong chooses to engage in conflict saudi king. cool for 2 emergency summits involving gulf and ire of the it is in mecca only the 30th to discuss escalating tensions in the gulf the u.s. has deployed an aircraft carrier and bowman's to the region alleged threats from iran for commercial ships was off the coast of the u.s.

last week and an oil installation west of the saudi capital was attacked by yemen's who the rebels. have a saudi arabia does not want war in the region and is not seeking it and will do its best to evade it but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests the kingdom hopes others to be wise and the iranian regime and its ija nse to stay away from recklessness and stupid acts and spare the region instability in saudi arabia ask the international community to take responsibility to stop that regime from destabilizing the world more now from our correspondent in washington. there are reports out of saudi arabia that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon had a phone call with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o from this side the state department will not

confirm that a call happened much less what was discussed but we do know we do know the pompei has been making the. trying to gauge support for increased tensions on iran and getting pretty much tepid response from everybody so we don't know what they discussed but we do know in the past the discussions that have really proven pivotal in the relationship are those not between the secretary of state and saudi officials but between the president's son in law and senior adviser jared cushion or and mohamed bin sol none so waiting to see if there are any reports about what they're discussing this is a president who has said he doesn't want to go to war cording to reports at the same time we're seeing an escalation not only the military moves the unprecedented move to get u.s. personnel out of the baghdad embassy or oil workers are being removed and now we're hearing the federal aviation administration is warning commercial airliners to avoid the gulf for fear of being targeted an accident so obviously the u.s. is sending conflicting messages a big point is going to come in the coming days because members of congress both

republicans from the president's own party and democrats are saying we want to see the intelligence we want to know why we're seeing these increased tensions so they're expecting a briefing and then coming week how they respond it could set the tone for how this moves forward. austria's charles of the sebastian says called a snap election after his deputy was filmed apparently doing deals with a russian woman the hidden camera saying has brought down the rightwing government just days before european parliament elections in which far right parties are hoping to gain ground so has more. of a political downfall and a humiliating and political office austria's vice chancellor heinz christian strong have faced the cameras after handing in his resignation but he was adamant that he was the victim in this scandal. the only criminal offense that is present here is this huge secret service trap with illegal were caught doing this. and then set it

off and yes that was a targeted political assassination. i think it's a scandal that's proved to turbulent for the survival of austria's coalition government just hours after accepting stratas resignation the chancellor sebastian cuts announced snap elections. i believe that the new coalition is currently not possible with anyone the freedom party cannot if the social democrats do not share the substance of my approach and the small parties are too small to really be able to support us. this is the video that led to his demise recorded secretly at a villa on the spanish island of a.b.c. just months before the 2017 lections in it another senior member of the freedom party and a woman posing as a russian oligarchs nice wanting to make a $280000000.00 investment that led to talk of funneling funds from the russian

national to the freedom party turned an offer of lucrative austrian government contracts. for the election now 40 election time. paine yes yes. tell me. then you have to translate these are some very wealthy people they paid between 500008 1000000 and a half to 2000000. for the current election. yes however they do not pay to the party but when nonprofit association you have to explain not to an association. that this is not going to the court of order to us. the freedom party issued a statement denying it had accepted any funds but a straw has stood down anger erupted outside chancellor kurtz's office many

claiming going into coalition with the far right freedom party in the past sunday diagonal al-jazeera. now indians are voting in the final phase of national elections ending a 6 week long process more than 100000000 people across 7 states are eligible to vote today that's sunday's all and they include. in prime minister in the render made his constituency he is seeking a 2nd term in office our correspondents are hell raman is in. pradesh and so that is india's most populous nation what happens there really masses in terms of the final result how many people voting today how many people have been waiting 6 weeks to get their chance to vote. indeed yes a 7 phase election is a very long time every 5 years for over 900000000 eligible voters across india and

here in power and i see they've been waiting very patiently in one of 13 constituencies is up for grabs u.p.a. you know pradesh is a province that offers 80 members of parliament. the moment to the lok sabha and it is seen you might say is the equivalent of america's florida what happens here when you can really swing an election victory along with a state such as west bengal which is also voting today west bengal has 9 seats still to decide it has as many as 42 parliamentary seats to offer the indian parliament so we've got elections in punjab over in the west of the country bordering pakistan and then working our way across we've got john to go to the union state we've got him a child pradesh in the north pradesh a big state just below her pradesh here where bhopal is water production it's the 13th season and further on to the east we've got to. bihar as well 7

states one union territory 59 constituency seats of course very noisy is the focal point certainly for many b j p supporters here it is a stronghold and the incumbent prime minister seat vendor modi he will want to increase the vote bank that he got in 2014 his party officials his cabinet members have all been here as well and they've been rallying the crowds over the last few days but the opposition to a brought in their heavy guns priyanka gandhi came into the indian national congress as well as akhilesh yadav for the s.p. party so it's a very very hot seat to be interesting to see what sort of majority the winning candidate actually gets and what story that tells us from byron i see when the votes are counted on thursday absolutely said because of course it was 5 years ago that narendra modi was made prime minister perhaps the biggest majority parliamentary majority that an indian prime minister is seen for many decades is the assumption that he will be returned to office but with perhaps

a smaller majority does the main opposition congress party actually stand a chance. certainly the opposition parties include the congress party there as well as yes p.b.'s. parties from the south of india. made a concerted effort to either work together or work in coalition with each other to try and talk about what have the b j p actually achieved in 5 years what are the achievements of new under modi and we've been very thin on the ground with information in terms of the debate that's been going on both in the media the press the radio and even advertisements is very much still being the mode the image vote for me or vote for the b j p and we will gain. the electoral victory what the opposition has done and the indian national congress how they were showing it in 2014 with what less than 50 seats they have actually reinvigorated themselves roll down he has been able to talk about the issues as the leader of the

party and the potential prime minister if he should win this election and he's brought in the heavy guns of his sister of course his mother as well and several various other senior officials that they've been talking about infrastructure education health and national security but if we just talk about just 2 issues one is the jobless total it went up to 7.6 percent in may those results came out in the middle of the election result many of the opposition had wanted these results at the start of the elections they could debate them the government maybe want to push them underneath the carpet but it has become an election topic and one respected think tank has suggested that 11000000 people lost their jobs in 2018 modi came into power promising jobs for young people we've been speaking to young people in the start of the selection and that's the fashion designers early in april they said we're graduating this year we've got lots of work experience but now with our degrees we want jobs in the industry want jobs in manufacturing they are thirst time voters and there's an estimated 1st time voters of around about $15000000.00

they could sway the vote marty would have to wait and see what or how they influence the national vote again when those votes are counted on thursday all right said thank you very much indeed. formally for television. thank you. now israel is governing conservative coalition has clinched a surprise election victory prime minister scott morrison says it's a miracle although it's not yet clear if he'll secure a parliamentary majority andrew thomas reports from melbourne. he wasn't supposed to be the winner of australia's election opinion polls consistently had prime minister scott morrison and his right of center liberal party behind their labor party rivals he and they defied expectations so friends we're going to work to do. we all work to do and we're going to get back to work we're going to get back to work for this.