get the latest iran al-jazeera. iran says it will increase production of low level uranium and tells the u.s. it will only talk when the time is right. hello and welcome i'm peter tell me you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also ahead the u.n. says it may need to cut back on aid to parts of yemen and its blaming the hussein rebels. venezuela's president calls for early elections the opposition led national assembly. and the formula one legend. has died at the

age of 70. the iranian president hassan rouhani has come out saying he favors diplomacy but the current situation isn't suitable for talks with the united states now on monday iran announced it's quadrupled the rate of production of low enriched uranium this comes a week after it said it was ending some of its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal is practical in. leaving the white house president donald trump says he's willing to talk to iran's leaders when they are ready while seemingly downplaying a potential threat iran would be making a very big mistake if they did anything if they do something it will be met with great force but we have no indication that they will. but his administration just weeks earlier had said it had intelligence that iran could attack u.s. forces or its allies sending in an aircraft. carrier to the gulf earlier than

planned along with bombers and missiles even evacuating some of its diplomatic personnel from iraq perhaps in response iran announced monday it's quadrupled its production of enriched uranium still at a much lower level that could be used for a weapon the capacity of the country's enriched productive through some technical modifications has been increased by nearly 4 times without any new changes or centrifuges the design information related to this has been submitted to the international atomic energy agency and still some analysts say there are signs of a potential diplomatic breakthrough and there is an urgency for diplomacy and may be the signs in terms of the omani of foreign minister traveling today to iran and discussing some regional issues and oman has played a kind of a mediating role between the u.s. and iran in the past so maybe this is a good sign the u.s. president has sent mixed messages on iran but this is

a man who prides himself on making deals and so far he's been able to find one in his foreign policy now saying he's ready to talk if you runs leaders only ask patty calling al-jazeera washington. iran's urging the u.n. secretary general to help facilitate a diplomatic dialogue to ease what's called the alarming security situation in the gulf region a massacre to james bays is following those developments from the u.n. . the letter which has been sent to the current president of the un security council indonesia and to the un secretary general antonio good terrorists talks about the alarming security situation in the gulf it doesn't mention the u.s. by name but it says currently in action is creating a lose lose situation instead it's proposing using a un security council resolution for more than 30 years ago to create a new mechanism for talks between the gulf states and iran the proposal by iranian

ambassador tart proviron she is one that shows iran is pursuing diplomacy is trying to be reasonable at the same time though coming up with a procedure that would cut the u.s. out of any negotiations it has already been welcomed by the russian ambassador we've put the support of the need to do. something good version of regional security architecture which would eventually wolf in a larger 4 months but the immediate need to have a venue for months where to discuss good regional issues ambassador added he thought it was likely the security council would talk about the current tension between iran and the u.s. in the near future. talks will continue on tuesday between sudan's military and

protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day of the issue of who should lead the new governing body does remain a key sticking point protesters say they will keep demonstrating on the streets of khartoum until a civilian led government's been installed talks between the 2 sides were halted for 3 days while demonstrators removed roadblocks they had put up in the capital morgan has more now from car too. people in front of the army headquarters in sudan's capital hard to say that they're disappointed that the opposition coalition has the declaration of freedom and change and the transitional military council could not reach a deal yet again now the 2 sides could not agree on the sovereign presidential council the military council has been saying that it wants to be the one chairing that body and it wants either equal representation or military majority and that presidential council but the opposition coalition are saying that if that happens and if they agree to it then the transitional period will be led by the military and that's not something that they or the protesters in front of the army

headquarters are asking for they're saying that it should be led by civilians and should have a civilian majority so that's one thing to decide could not agree on there's also the issue of the role now the opposition coalition wanted to have a ceremonial role with oversight from the legislative assembly which it will have 2 thirds of the seat but the military council is saying that it wanted to be the one that presidential council to be the one having oversight over the transitional period so that point of contention and the fact that the 2 sides could not reach a deal shows that once again they have a lot of things to talk about as thousands in front of the army headquarters to continue with this that and they say they've already listened to the military council and that they remove the roadblocks and they've offered some concessions so they want to see what comes next and they also say they're waiting for the opposition coalition to decide what comes next as well and if there should be a next escalation to try to put pressure on the military council or whether they should wait for further talks which may produce results or may not present produce results. the u.n. says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts

of yemen who seek control it blames hoofy rebels for blocking aid convoys encouraging staff but says the suspension of aid would be a last resort markets meanwhile have reopened the port city of data so fragile ceasefire a whole year's laura but many. life is trickling back into this market place yemen's port city of hard data as people buy goods without fear of snipers the aerial bombardment. residents are hopeful as a fragile ceasefire between saudi a marotta led forces and who the rebels hold at least for now at the nominal value of their own money we hope the un and boys will continue working until the roads and ports are open in her data to let aid and supplies enter they need to be delivered to the people so they have enough to live. this month with the forces withdrew fighters from the ports of her data sally from russia isa underage deal

brokered by a un led committee the start calm agreement was established between rival combatants in december but offered 2 similar agreements failed the ceasefire was fragile and sporadic fighting continued. for now it's holding but both sides of the ramping up rhetoric after saudi led coalition warplanes bombed the rebel held capital sama killing 6 people including 4 children this is off to hooty drone strikes on a key oil pipeline to the west of the saudi capital riyadh can tell you that we are following with great concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in yemen over the past days recalling the initial positive steps taken in the implementation of the data agreement we are encouraged by the firm commitment reiterated by president hadi and the government to implement the agreement. the world food program may also

suspend aid deliveries to rebel controlled yemen because of harassment from hooty fighters. in a statement the u.n. agency said humanitarian workers in yemen a being tonight access to the hungry aid convoys being blocked and local authorities have interfered with food distribution who data port is the entry point for the bulk of imported goods and humanitarian aid to the war torn nation. but with aid organizations responsible for distributing food to millions of people across yemen the task of reaching yemenis on the brink of starvation appears to be getting a lot harder lower about a manly al-jazeera. indonesia's election commission has announced president who has won last month's elections with 55 percent of the votes were won more than $85000000.00 of the total $154000000.00 votes cast in the world's 3rd biggest

democracy and election board ruled out claims by opposition parties of systematic cheating due to a lack of evidence the commission will officially declare would go to the winner by may the 28th if there are no legal challenges by the opposition parties let's talk now to ben bland ben is the director of the lowy institute south east asia project he joins us live from sydney would it be fair to say what we'll probably get now is more of the same. it's certainly looks like it this is been a resoundingly victory for joko widodo known as the president he's actually increased his margin of victory from 6 percent last time to more than 10 percent this time so that's a positive sign there's there's wind in his sails but he's a character we know well he's someone who prefers compromise to confrontation so i think we're likely to see him pushing further ahead with his plans to develop the economy build more infrastructure and maybe something he's talked about which is new have a new focus on skills and training as indonesia tries to find jobs for the 2000000

young people who are entering the workforce every year but if you're balancing confrontation with compromise and you prefer a compromise does that mean that he's he's going to not have to delay what he wants to push through but it might be a slower process. i think it will be slow and steady you want to resoundingly victory but the results also show that indonesia is a deeply polarized country so. very strongly in areas where non muslims are in the majority like farley the hindu island many people go on holiday there for the opposition candidate won very strong in more conservative islamic parts of indonesia so i think that shows there's a deep part of the ization in indonesia and he's going to have to overcome that if you want to push ahead with reforms which are tough and there are a vested interest in indonesia but want to block some of the reforms that would open up the economy and create better jobs and opportunities going forward can he deliver going forward on those big promises that he was making during the campaign

on the economy and also of course on the infrastructure issues in the country. i think he will make some progress he did a lot of hard infrastructure in the 1st time building roads bridges airports etc but i think it's going to be much more tough when it comes to things like skills training opening up indonesia to foreign investment those areas where domestic investors have a big stake and they will be reluctant to see reforms that might bring in new competitors either domestically or from outside so i think he will push ahead he said that now he's not limited because there's 2 term limits is needed he doesn't have to seek reelection he can be braver but i think we'll have to see what he does not what he says because as i mentioned earlier he's always been a cautious leader in many respects one gets the feeling that the opposition is quite bitter about what happened to it. as a result of the election i mean will the choose to just the political grenades in

front of him or will they do what's good for the country i think we'll see a bit of both so the losing candidate has insisted that the actions been stolen from him as he did in the previous election which he also lost there are a lot of police on the streets of jakarta today because there's a fear about from both supporters protesting the election results but at the same time as that concern i think in the past we've often seen the opposition into the move close to the new government of the day as they seek patronage maybe positions in the cabinet so i think you have a mixed reaction some will continue to protest the results and others will seek a way modus vivendi with the new government as they seek to get jobs get opportunities with the president reelected. thank you. ground still to cover for you here on al-jazeera including ukraine's new president is sworn in and takes to the political stage in dramatic fashion plus. i'm wayne

hay in bangkok with thailand's lower house of parliament to sit to convene for the 1st time since an election in much but we'll tell you why it's the military that remains in control. hello again well we are experiencing a very severe weather outbreak as we speak right now and what we're looking at is these thunderstorms coming out of the rockies have all the elements coming together we have more still we have a temperature contrast as well as upper level instability and a severe weather outbreak including tornadoes damaging hail and gusting winds is going to be the problem as we go into tuesday so we're going to be keeping an eye out on this behind the system though it's going to feel more like winter across the rockies where we do have winter storm advisories in effect for the higher elevations picking of snow here in the middle of may that is going to continue as

we go from tuesday to wednesday as well as some rain and windy conditions across much of the northern plains over here towards the east coast not looking too bad for new york and washington into the low twenty's there but down here towards atlanta it is going to be a warm as well a steamy day at $31.00 degrees where across much of central america we are looking at a lot of rain anywhere from panama all the way up here towards guatemala the rain is going to continue all the way through midweek so potentially we could be seeing some localized flooding there but for cuba not too bad few at 31 degrees in nasa at about 29 and still very rainy across much of argentina here particularly over here to as born as it is as well as much of there but rio a nice day for you at 28. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives.

other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work out. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers and the front lines i feel like i know if i have the data to prove a. witness on al-jazeera. ok let's revisit our top stories for you so far this half hour the iranian president hassan rouhani has come out saying he favors diplomacy but the current situation is not suitable for talks with the u.s. now on monday iran announced its quadrupled the rate of production of low enriched

uranium. talks continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day of use your food should lead the new governing body remains a key sticking point. on the u.n. says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen areas under whose you control it blames who for the rebels for blocking aid convoys and harrison staff but says the suspension would be a last resort. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has proposed holding early elections for the opposition controlled national assembly the next shuttle vote isn't until late 2020 at least a dozen assembly members from the opposition have been stripped of their legislative immunity in recent weeks. and face charges treason and subversion all coincides with talks held in the u.s. between pentagon officials and representatives of the opposition leaders. here's our latin america you see in human reporting now with more from caracas. president

had said many many times over the last few months that he is willing in fact that he wants to bring forward elections for the national assembly the only institution that he does not control so that in and of itself is not new what's new is the context there have been exploratory talks between the government and the opposition . in norway nothing supposedly had come of this but now president says that he is willing to quote speak to the devil if that will bring peace now the devil of course that he is referring to is the opposition leader but it's not clear why the wants to talk to him at least because he has put 3 or maybe 3 demands which he says are not negotiable and that is for to resign for there to be a transition government and for elections to be held but not just for the national assembly but for all of the institutions in the country starting with the presidency so it's not clear at all whether this latest suggestion is really going

to fly or the way whether it will work at all to try to unlock this deadlock. hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the surge in the trumpet ministration not to pull out of syria. the united states should remain engaged in the conflict citing quote deep concerns and threats on. democrats and republicans have been worried about the administration's foreign policy. pull us forces out of syria. government of cut off a key water pipeline supplying the libyan capital tripoli the un says it could amount to a war crime water supplies in the city and surrounding areas and. suspended and residents are relying on private water deliveries tripoli's homes at least a 1000000 people it has been under siege since early april when the war. launched a military campaign to take the city at least 500 people have been killed.

yesterday an armed group storm tripoli's main water distribution station and has reportedly closed the water valves supplying tripoli and other cities in the north west of the country including got a on and why a potentially impacting 2000000 people and their access to water some districts in tripoli already experiencing low water pressure and it is expected that the full impact will be felt in the coming days unless the valves are reopened were supplied to tripoli has already been impacted prior to yesterday as maintenance staff at the facilities were evacuated for security reasons due to the ongoing fighting. a ceremony has been held in bangkok to remember victims of the military crackdown the 9 years ago it comes as members of parliament prepare to meet for the 1st time since the march general election the election was supposed to bring an end to military rule but the new parliament does include the senate this dominated by soldiers when hey there's there. was i would think that thailand's

history is stained with political violence and what victims say a fruitless search is for justice it's a pass critics say the military wants ties to forget and tries to prevent them remembering their neighbor there's no denying people died here in this temple or it's supposed to be a save zone it's very cruel that authorities don't let relatives more properly pay your visits this buddhist temple in bangkok every year to remember her daughter a nurse who was one of 6 people killed by soldiers 9 years ago. a guard went to the temple to help anti-government protesters looking for safe shelter as soldiers moved to end their rally but the military fired into the temple from an elevated train line 2 weeks ago charges against those soldiers were dropped because of a lack of evidence. the shooting was part of a crackdown against dissidents orchestrated by general prayuth china who became prime minister after leading a coup in 2014. he's likely to stay in the job after the next government is formed

thanks to a system that's designed to keep the military in power. that's despite the country holding its 1st general election for 5 years in march more than a 3rd of the senate is filled with retired military or police officers the wrist are civilians who are also handpicked by military leaders some say many thais have been brainwashed from a young age to believe that the military must have a role in politics and to grow up to have a very simple idea we have a problem because probably. patients are bad you know and military are not they are the ones who have successfully kept peacefulness the armed forces are entrenched within thai society when men turn 20 they have to report to duty and tens of thousands are conscripted fell into a military force that has around $1600.00 generals or admirals and a record budget this year of just over $7000000000.00 army commanders rejected al

jazeera as request for an interview thailand's military is also being plagued by corruption scandals many centering around the purchase of the quickness that critics say it simply doesn't need what combat tanks submarines and the airship that cost $11000000.00 and spent most of its life on the grounds thailand doesn't have any regional enemies and the military's equipment and personnel are often used against the public. they try to cover up trying to make themselves not guilty once you kill a civilian aren't prosecuted you may feel mighty but as a mother i won't let you get away with what you did 9 years ago she believes thailand can only have true democracy when the military gets out of politics only then she says will many human rights abuses be fully uncovered wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. ukraine's new president a lot of years olinsky has used his swearing in ceremony to dissolve the parliament

triggering a snap election the comedian turned politician also said his 1st priority is to reach a cease fire deal with pro russian separatists in the east of the country has done to help. an event that only months ago seemed unthinkable the inauguration of comedian and actor volodymyr zelinsky as president of ukraine. a lot dimmer zelinsky all in that order but only because then the more grainy zelinsky has become president before his character in a popular t.v. series servant of the people is a schoolteacher whose improbable rise to the present. unsee is built on a campaign against corruption zelinsky his own rise now taking up the role for real was built not on clear policies but on public distrust in fact little is known about his policies instead ukraine is taking a chance on a man with no political experience rejecting a political class that many voters feel has failed them corruption remains rife and

the war in the east the divides the country continues with no end in sight the landscape problem here is that people didn't vote for him they voted against the establishment against the other candidates the people who have been running ukraine for the last 25 years and so and you saw that today in various reports from the ukrainian parliament they want massive crowds supporting zelinsky so selenski popularity isn't really very deep in that sense it's more an anti vote than a pro vote supporters sees alinsky as a breath of fresh air among his 1st steps a pledge to call early parliamentary elections he's referred to some m.p.'s as petty crooks and a promise to end the war with russian backed separatists said let the force of nice you know i'm ready he said to do everything so that our heroes don't die. that's something he's pre-disaster petro poroshenko wasn't able to do and while poroshenko

did make reforms that helped ukraine stave off economic collapse voters decided he hadn't done enough to rid the country of corruption will be under great pressure to do better. a presidency that breaks with tradition got off to the most nontraditional start no flashy convoy for volodymyr zielinski who chose to walk the streets to his swearing in ceremony high fives and selfies also not hallmarks of previous administrations all of this clearly styled as a fresh start for ukraine even though no one really knows what president's plans to do or is capable of jona how al-jazeera. 5 catalan politicians have been briefly released from prison to pick up their parliamentary credentials their temporary release comes ahead of the parliament's opening session on tuesday all 5 of facing charges over their involvement in the 27000 cattle and

independence referendum. politicians from europe's mainstream parties are calling on voters to stand against the far right ahead of the european parliamentary election among them is france's president emmanuel machall he has met with the european council president all 1st to discuss the vote starts on thursday is for my heart was broken with tradition and joined the campaign trail. through time formula one world champion niki lauda has died at the age of 70 the austrian driver passed away on monday 8 months after having a lung transplant here's. 3 in his prime niki lauder was one of the most famous and fastest people in sport formula one world champion 3 times 2 of these titles came after an astonishing recovery from a crash that almost killed him. and dressmakers lauder was born in vienna in 1949 by the age of 22 he built up enough racing car experience to be part of f 1. 974 he lost a draw for italian college giants ferrari. he finished 4th for

a team that had been struggling and his input to improve the car proved invaluable because in 1985 he became world champion. he was a more dominant in 76 until a horrific and infamous crash at the number green in germany now that had urged his fellow drivers to boycott the rice as a safety concerns but it went ahead and on the 2nd half of the truck and burst into flames he was trapped in the wreckage suffering severe burns damage to his lungs and was left in a coma he survived severely scarred but incredibly missed just to rices he returned to do with english driver james hunt with physical and psychological scars their story after the accident i couldn't take any of it is it all because it was too bad rafter i was feeling good i wanted to raise a lot of retired from the foreign advice of the season after just 2 laps concerned with it's a wrench riding hunt completed device in 3rd place to win the 76 drivers' title by

a single point move now the did manage to reassert himself dominating the 77 series and to regain his title. when he left ferrari there was a lame period including too short a time it's. 1902 he was back winning races with mclaren and part of another famous rivalry this time with tonight allen crossed the frenchman to the 84 will drive his title by just half a point when he finally retired as a driver at the end of the 5 season there is still plenty to keep him busy he won his own airline and yes there were times he was back in the cockpit as a pilot and had 5 children by the time the 2nd wife gave birth to twins in 2009 management positions included the returns of ferrari in the ninety's and he was non-executive chairman of messiter when i signed lewis hamilton in 2012 and understandably popular figure he's left the team in mourning for. oh well you hear. part of

his legacy to be his dedication to drive a safety. the damage from the 76 crash was always there. but the talent trophies and powers of recovery are what you define niki lauda. this is al jazeera these are your top stories iran's president hassan rouhani has come out saying he favors diplomacy but the current situation isn't suitable for talks with the united states on monday iran announced its called drupal the rate of production of low enriched uranium the talks continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day of who should lead the new governing body does remain a key sticking point. the united nations says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen and to see control and he's

blaming hoofy rebels for blocking aid convoys and harrison stuff but says the suspension of aid would be a last resort. the agency will do everything within its powers to ensure that the weakest and most vulnerable especially the children do not suffer he still hopes the good sense will prevail and the suspension will not happen the ultimate responsibility for the welfare of their people lies with the yemeni leadership hundreds of us politicians have sent a letter to the white house searching the trumpet ministration not to pull out of syria democrats and republicans have been worried about the administration's foreign policy after president donald trump decided to pull american troops from syria last december. indonesia's election commission has announced president has one last month's elections with 55 percent of the votes and election board ruled out claims from the opposition parties of systematic cheating due to a lack of evidence. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has proposed holding

early elections for the opposition controlled national assembly next sched jewel vote isn't until late 2020 that coincides with talks held in the u.s. between officials from the pentagon and representatives of the opposition leader on why the. government of cut off a key water pipeline supplying the libyan capital tripoli the u.n. says it could amount to a war crime or supplies in the city and surrounding areas are now suspended and residents are relying on private water deliveries tripoli has been under siege since early april when he felt after launched a military campaign to take the city those are your headlines up next it's witness i'm back after that. counting the cost as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on iran we look at the strait of hormuz the most valuable waterway in the world tourism industry takes a hit after these the sunday attacks and flying cars as the future just

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