went to the nuclear deal and set a 60 day deadline for the e.u. to come up with a new agreement a week ago for oil tankers 2 of them saudi were targeted in an alleged act of sabotage off the coast of the u.a.e. iran has denied involvement in the attack on wednesday the us sorted its non-essential staff to leave its embassy in iraq as we've been hearing citing threat spike iranian backed groups but that same day president trump also told his officials he didn't want a war with iran but trump has just ramped up the rhetoric again tweeting that if iran wants to fight it will be the official end of the country while to put it all together is passee call hate she joins us live now from washington d.c. patty how do you interpret trump's latest tweet in light of the unfolding events of the past few weeks. well it's been interesting he ended that tweet with don't ever

threaten to you never threaten the united states again which left pretty much everyone around the globe going what is he talking about what is he responding to we haven't really been able to figure that out but the president got back from his golf club in northern virginia about 2 hours ago and he has been very active on twitter so usually when that happens when you see a tweet story like this it means the president is watching his favorite news channel fox news it's definitely skews to the right and in some cases the far right so just to give you a sense in the last 2 hours since he got back from golf on a very warm day here in washington d.c. he's tweeted out support for a book for the australian election he talked about immigration he sent a message to graduates who are getting through college and university graduations right about now and the media before that he targeted a republican congressman who came out and said that there is grounds to impeach the president some are questioning the strategic value of that because this is a congressman that has about 230000 twitter followers and the president repeating his claims to his 60000000 followers that member of his own political party thinks

he should be impeached so it's not clear what the basis is for the president tweeting this out it will serve to up the rhetoric at the same time we're going to do a critical week here because a lot of republicans and some downer and democrats have been since basically suspicious about what this intelligence is some have been told what it is and come out and said this is nothing others have said this is serious all members of congress are expecting a detailed classified briefing on this alleged threat from iran there has been talk that the there will be legislation specifically saying that the president cannot launch a war with iran without congressional approval that's something that's in the constitution but lot of presidents have ignored of the last few decades so this could be a pretty pivotal week in the whole conflict between the u.s. and iran live and obviously always a key point for this administration in the middle east another one was trying to find some kind of solution to the ongoing conflict in the palestinians and the white house has released the 1st part of its long awaited so-called peace plan for

the middle east what do we know about it. well it's a really just following the typical trump playbook when it comes to foreign affairs think about it when you met with north korea's leader he said look at the economic benefits you could have from basically getting rid of your nuclear weapons program so long that vein we see jared kirshner the president's son in law chief advisor who's handling middle east policy he's come out and said in bahrain at the end of june he's inviting treasury secretaries finance ministers from all over the world to come together for a conference and take a look at what money can be given to the palestinian authority they say they want to focus on $4.00 areas one is infrastructure other industry empowering investing in people and reforming the government for the palestinian people this it looks like it's going to be a nonstarter for the palestinians but again the basic playbook is look look at canonically you're doing great so now make these political concessions it hasn't worked out anywhere that they've tried it but they're going to continue to do that

here in palestine i think it's also important to point out this is an administration that has taken hundreds of millions of dollars away from the palestinians in the form of aid to the palestinians and the united nations so their requests that other countries replace that money while it remains to be seen how well that's going to be received particularly with the latest from washington patty thank you this thing with that story the white house says the peace plan will not address issues including a palestinian state and the status of jerusalem an advisor to the palestinian president says that that means it's likely that little will be achieved. had been the subject had beheaded some police shoot him full deal proposed by the us president at a time when the us a dominant to rule is gradually when dealing in world war even in latin america and therefore we are insisting if we want to go to the peace process there has to be

a solution although we proposed to the jews in the past our willingness to have a one state democratic nonsectarian so we wanted to states one palestinian estate on the 1967 borders with full control and sovereignty on its territory with east you pressured him as its capital. they hammer abu sada is a political scientist and the so simple fessor and al azhar university joins us live now from gaza thank you for joining us what is your our reaction to this announcement of an economic workshop well from what i have gathered i believe that this is a very ambitious plan by jerde course you are on the white house team who are working on this plan for many months now but i'm not finished or that this. is going to war or this plan will be accepted by the palestinians i have already heard from mr libby the shot and also from the spokesperson for the palestinian president

saying that this man is futile plan because busy. the core issue is or the palestinian israeli conflict as it was stated by course not in an interview with c.n.n. he very much said that this economic war crimes are the 1st phase of the deal in the sense that it will avoid getting into the serious issues or the core issues of the palestinian israeli conflict. i think in that issue of jerusalem palestinian refugees and so forth one of the things that he said was that this would go hand in hand with a political plan so not necessarily you know that issues of course key issues like status of jerusalem and the future state would not be addressed right now but it doesn't certainly mean it would never be addressed i mean do you see any value in that 1st dealing with some kind of economic plan and then going to the political situation later. that is the problem with the plan i think the financial

affairs on the political issues on the core political issues of the palestinian israeli conflict the 2 state solution the issue of jerusalem refugees the future of israel in the settlement in the palestinian territories because getting engaged in an economic boost. was a mention in. the. international vision and that it's but that the into that there is no trust between the prosecutors and the u.s. administration the u.s. decision is over the past you don't have to move its embassy from joseph i'm going to be have to deal with that him and took ignite is designed to solve good on its own also you are suspicion of funding to. the united nations or you have some works agency doesn't get the. but you are sadly mistaken and that's why the

palestinians are the maybe. this is all about the good of the century is about it cannot make peace without any political or and without solution to that almost and it is going to be. speaking to a university in gaza having some glitches with the sound so we're going to have to leave it there but thank you for joining us. well coming up on this news hour from london no food no medicine and now no fuel will tell you have been as well as economic crisis is causing a petrol panic plus. i. 3 lanka remembers its fallen soldiers 10 years after the end of a devastating civil war. and in sports the favorite makes his move at the peter has the details.

of the world's biggest democratic election has finally come to an end more than 600000000 indians are believed to have cast their ballots for a new parliament in american elections spread across 6 weeks and 543 constituencies their results will not be counted until thursday but exit polls suggest the prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist b j p party will easily win another term in power sunday's vote also included the holy city of modi is standing for reelection so he'll run and has more now from better nazi. states and union territories across india have now completed the election voting for something general election is well and truly over all that's required now is the vote count which we'll have to look forward to on thursday politicians will perhaps have a nail biting time trying to wonder whether they were actually able to sell their idea of a future. india to the electorate what was the electorate needs and walls we've

been finding out environ r.c. i they've been queuing up since daybreak it's the 7th and final phase of india's general election on sunday people from 59 constituencies across 7 states and one union territory head to the polls more than 900000000 people were eligible to cast their ballots in the world's largest democracy over the past 7 weeks voters waiting here are excited that their day has finally come should be getting underway development more infrastructure his physical situation is that it should be given to. the very 1st i felt really nice voting for the 1st time i want prime minister made to come back to power and move the country forward and develop it so that the unemployed can get employment. environ arcee is one of 13 seats in the state of pradesh that's being fought over on sunday it's the parliamentary seat of the incumbent prime minister narendra modi there are many

issues the electorate has had to consider communal politics unemployment the economy education and national security. for some small scale manufacturers the issue is clear this factory produces fans and it's been severely affected by the monetize ation and the introduction of the new goods and services tax g.s.t. which is added to the manufacturing cost and impacted on the workforce there that gupta was the new government to revisit the amount of tax small cottage industries like kids have to pay. 50 to 60000 people depend on cottage industries like us here my sales are down and property margins tool by about 60 to 70 percent when it comes to workforce i used to have about 30 employees now i can only afford in. analysts suggest there is a disconnect between what the public needs and what politicians say they can deliver i think one of the reasons is that. india has been quiet and emitted from

the masses they do not have things to offer as the economy is unfolding i think we are going deep into crisis and the promises that they are making the parties hollow is very difficult to fulfill the promises so they don't want to talk about the concrete deliveries while these voters wait patiently in line for their turn to vote the country will have to wait until thursday before the national vote count begins. so all that's left to do is the vote count that will happen on thursday and then they'll be a better indication of what india's new parliament will look like and who might lead a new indian government for the moment the exit polls are suggesting that the b j p might just sneak in with another victory along with our allies but indian pollsters have been notoriously wrong historically they were in 2014 so we wait and see how the indian public voted and what the reaction will be from politicians north south east or west. of them on this we're joined in the studio by deviation and professor

of international relations at the university of westminster here in london sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we're going to take exit polls so you know any kind of polling with a bit of a pinch of salt but if there are no modi has won what do you think swung it for and what do you think it was in the campaign considering as we've been hearing that the economy hasn't been doing as well as as it could what you think swung it for him in fact came to power in 2014 on the promise that he would bring development and there's no indication that that has happened in last 5 years in fact and the key a family elections in december last year where i think his party lost so they're all prediction that if the election really tight he may win lose what have happened for then of course was if in your sort of war like situation with the republic of the what has worked for more the 2 things externally the idea that he has sort of stood up to pakistan for he has given an image of him being the strong leader and internally again he has given the indication all the image. building around him being a strong hindu nationalist leader who should minority that particular muslims and

christians the place and also 5 secularists essentially have worked on 2 fronts extreme internal both give the image building around him be indeed the only strong leader and that of the work in the election because this election became more bloody madeon anti modi and that has worked in the favorite themes of focusing on the sort of religious aspect in the hindu nationalism even during the campaign and i believe this isn't allowed under in the electoral law or you're not allowed to bring up religion he did how unprecedented was it and how much of a difference do you think it made of course well in india supposed to be in religion people have often brought it in the past but what's new and what's different about more with the recently hindu nationalists there's a look a far right party don't write in the far right party like in this case what they did was they put a kind of candidate people who have got no well documented case of being terrorist in certain get using terror against muslim population extremists is not a dog whistle politics where the indicator the hindu national they were very proud

of being in the nationals and we saw more be again going to temples preventing and walking around and thing that he is not good hindu but he's a strong hindu unlike all of the leaders who's going to show pakistan its place and who's going to make sure that secularists are forever marginalized in india diffidence no longer dared to question him and muslims and christian minorities women minorities that are better they should seek protection never think equal rights very much built been around since the image of the strong man that would protect india especially pakistan and i suppose the whole thing and we see it in some populist leaders around the world very much built on the cult of personality how sustainable is that you know once you win the election and you then have to govern if it example of gone in turkey in fact we should receive very similar contexts where the come to power claiming that they are representing the majority again the secular elite and that's the commonality between both of them we see with a dog and a despite economic underperformance over the years he has managed to. about the power and again because the device is not a unifier the same time you've got significant fictional population believe in him

because he's a strong leader a theme of the case in india and modi has prevented himself with a strong hindu nationalist leader the only hold that the hindus have to have a hindu nation or we're going to find out what the actual results are on thursday will be interesting at the see how he's done for the moment deviation and professor of international relations at the university of westminster. now an issue that hasn't featured heavily in india's election campaign is climate change that's despite rising sea levels impacting on many voters like here on the tiny island of google matter which is just 4 kilometers in size now the people there fear that it's the last time they'll actually be able to vote before the island sinks into the bay of been goal the island is part of west bengal a major battleground state between the israeli b j p and the opposition. it watching out is a rest still to come on the program. we seek out. thousands

marched in alabama against the most restrictive abortion law in the united states iceland takes a drastic measures to protect the county and that's become too popular after appearing in a justin bieber video and then sport with peter news of the czech success and they tell you no. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast will plenty of messy weather here across parts of central europe we do have an air of low pressure that is really beginning to organize here across the central area now 2 sides of the storm the eastern side that's bringing up that warm air from the south temperatures are into the mid twenty's in some locations but the precept is showery so going to sing off and on conditions there here towards the west though we're talking about

winds coming out of the north it's going to be more of a continuous rain across parts of germany as well as into switzerland and that's going to continue as we go towards tuesday as well better conditions over here towards london we are going to be seeing some sun and your forecast at 20 degrees paris though some clouds few at $21.00 in zurich at about 18 degrees there well plenty of clouds here across much of northern africa coming in from parts of algeria over here towards tunisia as well in those clouds we could be seeing a rain shower or 2 but we don't think it's going to be too heavy at times tempers across the sahara we are talking about low forty's for many locations but up here across the coast it is tripoli about $22.00 degrees there here on monday and into tuesday over here towards benghazi though we are talking about $31.00 degrees there down towards parts of cairo we are looking at $39.00 to greece and us one it is going to be a warm day if you would sunny to forecast 42. as

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here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a protest leaders in sudan have resumed their transition talks with the military insisting a civilian heads the new governing body the white house has announced the 1st part of its peace plan for israelis and palestinians it's an international peace to prosperity conference next month to encourage investment in the region and voting is ended in the 7th and final phase of india's general election exit polls suggest prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party will win another term.

the austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz says snap elections will be held in september following a corruption scandal involving his vice chancellor hans christian strafford leader of the far right freedom party was forced to resign after footage was released over a video sting in it he was caught on camera offering to fix government contracts in exchange for support for his party structure has denied doing anything illegal. tens of thousands of people meanwhile have rallied in berlin frankfurt munich and other german cities in defense of the e.u. they say they're answering calls from the german chancellor angela merkel to push back against the far right which is predicted to make gains and next week's european election merkel has warned that nationalism is the enemy of the european project on saturday italy's deputy prime minister met there savina staged a rally in milan attended by nationalist politicians from across the bloc he vowed

to reshape the european parliament. donald trump has broken his silence on alabama's abortion law in his go of going against some of the most controversial parts of the ban the u.s. president tweeted that he is strongly pro-life with the exceptions of rape incest and protecting the life of the mother alabama only allows abortion in the last of those 3 cases after it passed an almost total ban on tuesday in the miscreations are taking place in cities across the state of alabama against the role the ruling prohibits all abortions unless there's a risk of death to the mother supporters of the ban say that they expected them all to be blocked in court but they hope the appeals process will bring it before the u.s. supreme court. or let's cross to one of the protests in montgomery alabama and speak to stacy faux she's the president of planned parenthood southeast an

organization that provides reproductive health care sex education and information to people in the region madam thank you so much for joining us your knowledge is there a 1st of all just explain to us why it is that you're protesting. when you can see behind me that literally hundreds of alabamians have joined today to march to the capitol here in montgomery alabama protest the bell the governor i.v. signed into law last wednesday. and we've now had this tweet for president trump a saying that he is very pro-life but that even he doesn't go as far as to ban abortions in cases of incest. incest and rape do you think that tweet sways things in one way or another but let's be clear i think president trump is just giving cover for politicians a like 25 white men here in alabama that last tuesday night stared 3 brave rape survivors in the face and voted down the exception for rape and incest in the spell

is nothing more than a political game in a race to the supreme court overturn roe v wade. just to explain to our international audience. the sort of lord that the supreme court upheld i think back in the in the seventy's effectively allowing abortion across the united states. tell us what would happen what you think the impact of this law and now sticking to alabama when it actually does come into effect obviously stopping women from having an abortion but the difference is i suppose when it comes to class and the affluence well let's be clear 1st planned parenthood and the a.c.l.u. will be taking the state of alabama to court and hope that like every other fight we've had that we will prevail in this law will never take effect but banning abortion doesn't stop abortion it stops safe abortion and who this impacts is poor women and women of color across this country and what these politicians should be focused on are the real health crisis like the one here in alabama where black women are dying of cervical cancer at 6 times the rate of any other state in this

country. obviously a lot of people you know will be trying to push this through the courts and the final word would go to the supreme court of course the make up of the supreme court has changed since donald trump has been in office how worried are you that that would actually be what reverses a lot of the abortion laws across the united states. well i'll bet i am clear that we will prevail in court let's be clear this is an alarm bell that is ringing throughout this country and that's why protests like these are happening people are worried and they should be because people don't understand the headlines in the process and there are people out there already that are thinking that abortion is already illegal so we're working every day to make sure that people across georgia alabama and mississippi know that our doors are open and that abortion is safe and legal and accessible a lot of the laws are certainly in some of the states that have changed we've mentioned the change of the makeup of supreme court if you felt a shift in society not just in alabama but i suppose across the united states when

it comes to abortion so i guess you think it's it's sort of society led or think it's more of a specific something that politiques is leading and i think this is nothing more than a political game that our president is leading the way on we know that 70 percent of americans do not support overturning roe v wade and that holds true right here in alabama no matter if you cut it on party lines republicans democrats evangelicals people do not support these bands and the politicians here just aren't listening which means they will get a pink slip next fall when we all had to the voting booth. stacy folks president of planned parenthood. some of. this thing thank you so much. tornadoes have wreaked destruction throughout the midwest region of the united states wind speeds of up to 210 kilometers an hour were recorded in oklahoma as homes were destroyed the only a few injuries were caused tens of thousands of people have been left without power

the state is bracing itself for more thunderstorms and possible flooding. on top of severe shortages of food medicine and power venezuelans are struggling to find the petrol harsh us economic sanctions coupled with a lack of maintenance in the oil industry are pushing the energy sector to crisis point from the state of kind of bubble you see in human reports. the queues to fill of cars with fuel the northwestern business will a r 23 to 4 kilometers long. near the city of motorists hope and pray they'll be lucky to make it to the pump before it runs dry yet my mother used it yesterday i was in line for 6 hours and couldn't fill up. isn't normal ask. with this government apparently it is we are a major oil producing country and. on top of shortages of water.

the further you go from the harder it is to find petrol but in the past 2 weeks the hunt for fuel has become much worse. look we started a great check called in focus. these are the messages from today. there's several causes for the crisis a industry experts. down to 20 percent of its normal level instead of 1300000 barrels a day where. 260000 which means we have to import gasoline. importing it from the united states but as of april 28th the u.s. government stopped all sales not just of fuel but of the additives needed to make the petrol that than his whale is still able to refine at home and then there's the chronic problem of price distortions all the patrol in this tanker truck or 13000

liters costs less than $1.00 which means it's practically free but only if you can find it these shortages and these long lines are creating a black market with some people charging as much as $10.00 for 20 leavers now anywhere else that may be considered peanuts but here it is the only thing cheaper than petrol is the air that you breathe that is considered a fortune and much more than the minimum wage. shortages have not yet impacted the capital caracas but experts say it may not be long before they do in irony that escapes no one in venezuela the country with the world's largest oil reserves. opec members and russia have agreed to keep oil output at the current level at a meeting in saudi arabia but they say that they will continue to monitor the market the meeting in jeddah follows u.s.

president trump saying the oil producing nations had agreed to boost production to combat an increase in fuel prices they increase has been caused in part by renewed sanctions on iran the opec nations and russia say that they will meet again in june . yemen's who the rebels say they plan to target $300.00 military sites in yemen the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the statement follows a drone attack on a saudi oil pumping facility the explosion that rectally hit a pipeline rupturing it and causing an oil leak that covered a 1000 square metres. thanks . i'm a morial service has been held in sri lanka for government forces killed during the 26 year civil war which ended exactly 10 years ago president city center joint security chiefs and military families to remember the 10s of thousands killed and

injured while fighting against tamil separatists mina fernandez was at the service in colombo. was. the beating of battle drums to remember fallen comrades who died fighting to stop the tamil separatist cause tremendous leaders put aside their differences to honor the government forces killed all. they sacrificed their lives for our motherland to bring lasting peace freedom project and democracy the united nature of the country and its territorial integrity to safeguard democracy these heroic and brave sons were committed to safeguarding the future of this country. the conflict began in 1903 and rights end in 2009 had claimed the lives of around 100000 people a un panel of experts found both sides should be investigated for possible war

crimes but they have not been any prosecutions the passing years haven't been the pain of loss for many families some came from around the country to share their grief each line inscribed here is the name of a member of the military or the police who died during 26 years of conflict more than 28000 people died 6000 are listed as still missing and thousands more are disabled by their wounds today's event is about commemorating their contribution to the war effort surely chandler's husband was killed in battle on the east coast when she was 8 months pregnant she told us how the soldier was dedicated to serving his country and hopes he didn't die in vain. we can only hope that with his 2nd feis our children can have a better future. another widow still has the uniform of

a husband thus annika he was killed in battle 11 years ago his brother also lost his life. both graves lay side by side in their garden here in poland ira. the man he gave his life to save this country my hope even today is that this country saved by such sacrifice must be safeguarded for our children and that they will have freedom that is my hope through these tears. going to dinner now this sons are older she says life is easier but the memories will not feed and neither will the pain miller fernandez jazeera colomba. here a vision song contest organizers say that they're considering action against iceland's performers for waving palestinian scarves during the show members of the island's punk band held up the scarves when the camera cut to them as points for being awarded it.