defense secretary patrick shanahan says the deployment of additional forces to the gulf will limit tehran's ability to attack. were as the president has stated he's not looking to go to war with iran we'd like to see change their behavior we would like decades worth of bad practices that they regularly engage in to stop we know that the maximum pressure campaign is working you can see that by the crumbling economy that they have and we'll see what happens from there we're going to keep all of our options in there you know. the head of the u.n. relief and works agency for palestinian refugees has appealed for urgent funding at least a 1000000 people are dependent on food aid from the gaza strip the agency says funding is running out fast and it can't afford to have any interruption in food distribution as we speak. only enough money to run its operations until mid june then we will hear negative figures and. it is absolutely crucial to avoid a breakdown of our food. and. partners to actively mobilize in

support of our efforts to secure the needed funding. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates due to attend a conference in bahrain next month as part of u.s. president donald trump's investment plan for palestine but the p.l.o. and hamas of call for an hour a boycott of the meeting organized by trump's senior advisor sharon to push the. now the libyan warlord only for half a ton has rejected french appeals to put a halt to the fighting talks between the half time and president paris failed to reach an agreement on a cease fire as the tash a butler joins us live from paris but just tell us what's emerged from the meeting between the half dollar. well this was a meeting between the french president and the libyan warlord khalifa haftar behind it took place behind closed doors and it comes nearly 7 weeks after have launched

an offensive to try and capture tripoli tripoli where the un backed government is based now look very few details actually emerge from this meeting but the lease say did give us a few lines what they said was that i have to told my craw that as far as he was concerned the conditions are not in place in libya for a cease fire if those conditions were to be in place though after said that he would consider political discussions but he said that he felt he had nobody to talk to in the u.n. about government he simply not going to enter into any discussions with them without of course makes the whole situation extremely difficult president has been trying to mediate in some way just 2 weeks ago the u.n. backed prime minister fires else arrived was in paris also meeting for talks makarov hope to try and persuade soraya and a half to to agree to a cease fire to return to the un backed peace process but obviously that has failed for now yes we're no closer to

a cease fire as you say so where does this leave mark rolls mediation efforts going forward. well the official french position is still that france backs the u.n. peace process he wants to see peace and stability in libya but you know over the past few years experts on this political insiders in both libya france and and in europe have often said that so france is backing renegade commander have to now they say that france is even supplied weapons don't have to despite a un's our u.n. arms and embargo to libya so that puts france in a very difficult position what france says to explain this is they say that yes they have provided have to the certain amount of what they call technical or logistical support or they say that is because he is a very useful ally for them in eastern libya in fighting armed groups including i

saw but the problem is for a man or mark or if he's trying to mediate in this crisis if he's trying to appeal to all sides that of course puts him in very difficult position if france is seen as favoring one side over the other but i should thank you. it's been another violent evening in the in the nation's capital as police try to contain crowds protesting of a last month's election results lisa put parts of jakarta on lockdown after 6 people were killed during riots on tuesday night france really reports. day 2 of protests in jakarta and a pattern emerges as night fell the situation 10 volatile protesters threw fireworks and other objects at police who after holding back initially fired tear gas and chased them down police say they've arrested more than $250.00 people apparently got it out because after questioning of the suspects admitted that they were told to riot and that it was claimed we are still looking for the person who

gave the instruction and the money. it was a different picture earlier on wednesday morning where the crowd was small and peaceful these are supporters of problem. who ran against president joker we don't know in last month's presidential election and the previous one why he was but last i mean look up what they cheated on some 24 team we don't want to happen again enough is enough they have had so little can you getting justice through the courts is impossible with the government we have so we come here we don't care about our safety we are prepared to give our lives as protests spread to at least 2 other cities president joker widodo has called for calm but also issued a warning so. i will work together with anyone to advance this country but i will not tolerate any one of these rights to security democratic processes and unity of our people or nation of got any. has refused to accept the

election outcome and has urged his supporters to demonstrate against it. i urge everyone the police the military and all relevant parties to restrain themselves and avoid violence as they express their aspirations. started to must they are shortly after. that is the. likely to continue to which is when we expect from both of them to the last the presidential election to play to the constitution or the challenging the election. the indonesian capital remains on edge with parts of it under lockdown $50000.00 police and military personnel have been put on duty as protesters showed no sign of giving in florence lee al-jazeera jakarta sri lanka's president has extended the state of emergency imposed after the easter sunday bomb attacks for another month announcement give sweeping powers to security forces to arrest and detain suspects for long periods

of time earlier this month because army chief said security services that dismantled a criminal network linked to the attacks at least 258 people were killed in a string of bombings on april 21st. allies of the philippine president have won a landslide victory in last week's midterm elections that's just part criticism of policies he's pursued and his 1st 3 years in office and the reports now from. my after a bitterly contested campaign lasting 3 months it is official the philippines has elected enough candidates from rodrigo duterte his administration to put the senate on their almost full control of the president that's a devastating defeat for the opposition liberal party run by former president being ignored keno its influence has severely weakened over the last few years and the campaign was no match for a well organized administration to solidify the 3rd disk controller for the

remaining 3 years of this presidency but many see the electoral process wasn't free and fair there are reports of widespread vote buying across the country and a 7 hour delay in the release of early electoral results has led many to question their credibility. ranging from number one. which never happened before. when wrong we'll have. we'll have. we'll have. a. problem our. work program from the core and the one who are ok. opponents say he is growing relationship with china is a threat to the country's sovereignty and his so-called war and drugs has left more

than 5000 filipinos dead. i mean marcus the daughter of former dictator president for didn't marcuse won a seat in the chamber. well reveal the air returning senator and former actor won another seat despite being charged with corruption when he was in office those in the opposition say this is possibly one of the least inspiring line ups in recent elections but widespread criticism over how the elections were conducted and threats of cases to be filed against the commission on elections were not enough to stop the proclamation today and to a greater extent the charge is growing political influence dog and al-jazeera monella turkey's main opposition candidate for the matter of istanbul is launching his election campaign a crimp in a moon won the vote back in march beating the at. the strip to victory election body council the result of the accusations of irregularities by president obama's

governing party the new vote to be held in june. has more from istanbul. the countdown has begun for some little male rerun which is going to take place on june 20th free the opposition candidate mr i've. won the 1st round which took place in march launched his election campaign today he says his campaign is based on the rights freedom and the economy and he says what is going to do is just listen to the result he stumbles citizens he won the 1st one after the 1st election in march with a slight difference compared to the ruling party's candidates and it's a bit earlier there was also the former prime minister that's why for the opposition is trying to preserve the world something different 123 you know due to the me. that was there at the right guard that had the courage of a survival

a man of the survival of the answer in national security in the last. 35. years old to. fierce battle between the 2 because this is very important for everybody it is economic capital 101 for the stumble main business and water of the country the critics of presidents are done under the ruling more to suggest that you know that from the moment of the. way you have the fence for them that there is off the 1st is the problem. now overcrowded hospitals on the widespread medicine shortages in venezuela have left those in need desperate for help and someone now turning to spiritual healing as a last america at a time the sentiment as you know my life right. from 6 in the morning people start lining up to get their number every day hundreds gather in this spiritual center no

created in venezuela still are just slum. the waiting room is full of images of local saints and dade's especially horse signal this 1900 century venezuelan doctor who is said to still have extraordinary healing powers diana has just seen the media while she waits to receive a donation of chemotherapy drugs to treat her advanced user and cancer. cheema is pressing on my thigh attic i went to the hospital for treatment because of the excruciating pain but it did no good now at least i can take a few steps i have faith in this gene simmons'. just a little of the biggest came was a 6 month old baby she says he's been coughing for months. and. the public hospital there either no doctors no medicine or it's contaminated and they send us away buying medicines at the pharmacy is too expensive so my sister

recommended say come here. venezuela security konami crisis is drawing more and more people to the one place that at least gives them hope for less than $1.00 cases of depressed. 3 fold. lack of food especially for your children is one of the main causes along with violence and the deteriorated health system you see people dying so you can imagine how it impacts people's psyche many want to commit suicide we do what we can to calm them. he says the sessions which are not allowed to be filmed are a mixture of science religion and face now they're going to show me what they would do if i were a real patient. medium says the 1st thing is to pass a candle over the part of the body that hurts in this case my back while in a trance the idea is to block and release trapped energy. if the case was serious he would do this. carry out

a spiritual surgical operation. some call it a placebo others the power of suggestion but whatever it is people who are undergoing treatment here swear that they're being healed. which is why more and more are coming to find the kind of miracle that they say they desperately need to see in human i'll just see that in israela time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back the fate of the so-called dreamers hangs in the balance as congress debates the future. and why these children who were born and brought up in bangladesh are being denied a formal education and in sports and out about the small german football team on the brink of a big thing more and stay with us. hello

there we're still but there's really stubborn showers every pulse of the middle east at the moment this is the time of year where normally things would be coming down and the weather would just be quiet help but we've still got plenty of showers over possibly iran and there's a stretching through parts of afghanistan as well they'll still be there as we head through the next few days mostly over parts of afghanistan stretching their way northward into parts of kazakstan that's where they'll stay as we head through friday the behind it doesn't like it will be drawing up a little bit and getting hotter so to iran we'll get to 30 degrees and hot in baghdad about 42 but parts of turkey there is still quite unsettled hair another weather system is making its way into the northwest giving us some heavy downpours for me arabian peninsula there's been a lot of cloud recently with that so now sinking towards the south you can see it here it could give us one or 2 showers around parts of the u.a.e. may begin to oman but i think most of them will be over parts of yemen and that area of cloud thins and works its way south was still as we head through friday that means here in doha it's just going to get off again with a top temperature. of around $39.00 and they further towards the south and we've

got a few showers to watch out for some in parts of madagascar but i think as we head through the next few days we're going to see more of those showers and cause a mainland africa particularly over parts of mozambique hit they could be having. what is left of the vast indigenous knowledge that cone isolation of the americas has assaulted for centuries to amateur astronomers has embark on a journey of discovery and reach a remote village in mexico's mayan region but who has more to learn about the ways of the world a route through mexico is contemporary wreckage and its mystical past we'll find out lance's on al-jazeera. in 2012 al-jazeera traveled to iraq people who are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of

a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq turned into a battleground between the mahdi army and the americans rewind returns to iraq after the americans on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour the british prime minister to resign may's under increasing pressure over the latest version of her brags that deal with the opposition labor party says it won't back its in the prime minister is also facing criticism from within her own party. the un general assembly has

voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move demanding the u.k. into giving up control of the silence to militias the islands in the indian ocean how's an important military base for the u.k. and u.s. u.k. has previously ignored an international court of justice ruling that the islands have been illegally taken from the riches. of the libyan all or to you for have todd's rejected french appeals to put a halt to the fighting french officials say the lack of trust between opposing forces in libya is higher than ever. now the us democrat house speaker has accused the us president of a cover up over the investigation into his alleged collusion with russia nancy pelosi says donald trump could have committed an impeachable offense by ignoring congressional subpoenas. would you believe that it's important for you to follow the facts we believe that no one is above the law including the president of the nitrate and we believe that the president united states is engaged up well the us

president has hit back at those claims saying he won't work with democrats due to their phony investigations. i just saw that nancy pelosi just before a meeting made a statement that we believe that the president of the united states is engaged in a cover up well it turns out i'm the most and i think most of you would agree to this i'm the most transparent president probably in the history of this country instead of walking it in happily into a meeting i walk in to look at people that i just said that i was doing a cover of i don't do cover ups you people know that probably better than anybody well the democrats who control the house are trying to investigate trump over his stonewalling of the russian probe and also his personal finances let's bring in kyron higgins he's a former prosecutor he's also a professor at the cardozo school of law and joins us live from new york let's talk 1st about the former white house counsel don mcgann and he's no show in front of

congress i mean the white house says he has absolute immunity but the house committee doesn't see it that way so how robust is the white house's legal argument . the white house his argument is completely nonsense they. just as a general point the duty to respond to a subpoena as been described for over 400 years is just absolute and so the white house is on very thin ice here in all respects donegan was not only a witness to acts of obstruction in the white house he was actually ordered by donald trump to fire robert muller and then when that became public he was ordered to falsify white house records to show that that had never happened so don mcgann is critical to congress's investigations. and the white house is claiming absolute immunity but it's perfectly clear that there is no such thing as absolute

immunity richard nixon tried to assert absolute immunity regarding the white house tapes the supreme court says there was no such thing 2008 george w. bush's white house counsel harriet miers holding the same position as mcgann asserted absolute immunity to a congressional subpoena and that was denied by the supreme court but a lower federal court and a well it's respected opinion on what about the subpoena for donald trump's personal tax records i mean the treasury secretary seems to be steering clear of this one but what's stopping the i.r.s. some turning over those tax records. well the treasury secretary is stopping the i.r.s. from turning over those tax records and continues to say that it's a constitutional question that has to be decided by the courts and 1st it's not a constitutional question it's a statutory question and the statute statute is absolutely clear that the records

must be turned over and then the courts won't step in when a statutory question is perfectly clear which this one is so the treasury department the i.r.s. should simply comply with that you know unconditional duty and what about the court order directing trump accountants to comply with congressional subpoenas i mean is there any kind of executive privilege that would allow trump in his accountants not so comply. there would be no executive privilege here executive privilege discussion. rather protects direct communications and deliberations in his financial records just don't fall under the heading of executive privilege at all the issue there was whether congress had a legitimate legislative purpose and the court said in line with well established precedent that virtually any thing that can be subject to legislation

is subject to a valid subpoena and so since there is ample legislative purpose for those records that subpoena has to be complied with i'm just let me get a final thought from you what's the bigger picture here kiran and could we see judges appointed by trump not follow the law and where does this lead attorney general william bomb on his refusal to appear on capitol hill. well attorney general barr is eventually going to have to appear again he's got to produce the full report that congress has an absolute right to that again be simply because it's the subject of a subpoena and congress has a legislative a legitimate purpose as far as judges denying the subpoenas it's going to have to go through several federal courts the recent appointees by the trump administration some of which are unqualified according to the a.b.a.

generally it here to an ideology of very strong presidential power especially these of a congress and it's possible that not as partisans but under the influence of this ideology that they would deny congress right to have this information karen higgins thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you. the politicians in the us are debating a bill which could provide citizenship to more than 2000000 so-called dreamers who were illegally brought into the country as mine is the house judiciary committee are voting on the legislation meant to protect undocumented children who've been living in the u.s. for a year is president trump has tried to cancel the program schuman the dream of some deportation these attempts have been shot down by the courts meanwhile questions are being asked about the safety of new young migrants 5 young people have died in detention centers along the southern border in the last 6 months the latest is a 16 year old who was found dead on monday after

a week in detention illegal learned his deputy director of the american civil liberties union the a.c.l.u. he says young people especially at risk when crossing the border. we are very concerned we've always been very concerned about what happens in detention centers we believe that immigrants are being detained far too often when it's unnecessary and with children it's that much worse and children should not be detained at all because of the psychological damage but now we're seeing actual deaths in great numbers and so we are extremely concerned and are hoping that both congress and others in advocates are going to try and hold people accountable and get to the bottom of what's going on it's important for people to understand that many of the children in these detention centers are genuinely unaccompanied or not separated so the question of the conditions in detention centers goes beyond just the separation of families but the separation of families is absolutely critical for people to

understand that it's still going on china is accusing the u.s. of economic bullying against its tech firms the foreign minister one year says u.s. sanctions on chinese companies such as a law way aimed at hindering his country's development plans comments come despite washington's decision to temporarily ease restrictions on the chinese take giant now starting on thursday voters across the e.u. will elect members of the european parliament bubba so now with more small european brought us into barbara. daryn thank you yes to going to have the power to approve you laws the e.u. budget and shoes or at least play a key part in choosing the president of the european commission now there are 751 seats up for grabs with each of the $28.00 e.u. countries getting a number of seats proportional to their population by say $28.00 because the u.k. is still taking part because it's for example lands have not been passed and so it's still

a member of the union the 2 major blocs in parliament are the right leaning p.p. and the center left the s.n.p. but the dominance of these coalitions could be eroded by the rise of europe's populists brigade law firm is that the rector of the global governance program of the european university institute she says the number of us skeptics in parliament may increase but they will not be a dominating force. well we should remember that the anti european radical right one about 25 percent of the vote already in 2014 this will rise this time but probably no higher than 3033 percent in other words it will not be a dramatic rise although it will be put trade as such i see no way in which the socialists and the p.p. the center left and right can continue to be the dominant grand coalition in the parliament they're going to have to do a deal and the question is will that be with the liberals and. which could well

when about $100.00 seats or will it would be the greens because of course another important political development in europe is the resurgence of the greens so the political arithmetic on monday will determine who the next president of the european parliament will be will it come from will it be a compromise candidate will it come from the party with the largest number of seats it will not be determined by the anti european forces because although they will rise they will not be the dominant force in the parliament. the british government is considering lodging a complaint to the united nations of the a damning report on poverty in the u.k. the report from the un report on extreme poverty says the government is in a state of denial about the 14000000 people living in poverty professor philip alston says the u.k.'s social safety net has been deliberately removed and replaced

with a harsh and uncaring ethos of also joins us live now from new york a professional some thank you so much for joining us here on out it makes for very disturbing reading some of the parts of your report you say the poorest people in the u.k. face lives that are solitary poor nasty brutish and short and of course we should remind our international audience you know we're talking about the 5th biggest economy in the world what was it in your research that led you to these conclusions . well my. research my analysis is based on not just the many interviews that i undertook both before going to the u.k. and when i was there but also on a whole slew of reports that have been produced by think tanks and civil society groups respected economic groups and so on in the u.k.

what they point to is 14000000 people living in poverty in the united kingdom a staggering prediction which everyone seems to accept that something like 40 percent of these children will live in poverty within a couple of years rising rates of homelessness. food bank usage through the roof. increasing concern about suicides even lower life expectancy in some areas so overall while the economy is thriving in the united kingdom what we see is a social situation which is not just neglected but is essentially being allowed to slide pretty dramatically in 2 major difficulties and you seem to lay the blame squarely at the door of the conservative party and their welfare policies. well this

is almost a test tube situation as i see it. there was a recession as we well know defected all countries back in 20072008 after that the british economy had a significant deficit as did many other countries. the coalition government that was elected in 2010 announced a new policy of austerity the chancellor at the time george osborne announced that it would bring in radical changes and indeed it has its revolutionize the whole approach to welfare in the u.k. the country that gave us the beverage plan immediately after world war 2 suddenly moved to a system where benefits were much harder to get the emphasis was on getting into employment which was a very good thing and has been very successful but the various benefits have

been eliminated they've been combined into something called universal credit which has had very significant problems 1700000 people will be left over a 1000 pounds worse off as a result of moving into universal credit the. funding for local councils has been cut in some cases up to 50 percent and they were the ones who used to provide the emergency protection for people who were really poor and couldn't cope they can no longer do any of that and certainly were running as an irregular interrupting i just want to get i just want to get the government's point of view here because they're going to be doing lodging a complaint with the un and the rudd the work and pensions secretary effectively says that he doesn't think you did enough research and that you were politically biased they also point to record lows of absolute poverty in the u.k.

and also low unemployment what is your response to the criticism from the government. that this report is better research than almost any other that she could possibly point to it contains references to some 80 different reports i conducted hundreds of interviews in advance so i got submissions from 300 people it's a very far report and reflects not so much my views as those of all of the leading think tanks in the united kingdom. philip the professor philip alston that you represent an extreme poverty and author of that report sir thank you and that is it for me in the team here in london let's go back to daryn in doha barbara thank you very much now the south african politicians have formally reelected serum of course as president. took the oath alongside new members of parliament in cape town a.n.c. won the general election early this month with its thinnest majority since coming

to power in 1904 at the end of apartheid from a post that will be inaugurated as president on saturday. to explain.