perhaps for chinese airlines to start ordering less from boeing and instead switch their orders to boeing's main rival. philippines presidents rodrigo to have won a landslide victory in last week's midterm election that's despite criticism of policies that he pursues in the 1st 3 years in office reports. after a bitterly contested campaign lasting 3 months it is official the philippines has elected enough candidates from rodrigo to 3rd 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 at the solidified disconcert all 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. busy which never happened before. when wrong we'll have. we'll have. we'll have. a. problem our. work program for and the who who were. 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 political news day. by me marcus the daughter of former dictator president for didn't marcuse won a seat in the chamber while. a 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 church is growing political influence dog and al-jazeera manila to bomb blasts of killed at least 9 people in somalia's capital mogadishu in one attack a car bomb targeted a convoy of politicians who were heading towards the presidential palace the group al-shabaab says that it was behind the attack the kenyan activists binyavanga one

ita has died at the age of 480 sandra schapelle looks back on his life and career. he was one of africa's most renowned young authors binyavanga wainaina won multiple awards for his writing including the caine prize for african writing for 2002 discovering home but most will probably remember him from a scathing satirical essay he wrote called how to write about africa challenging popular stereotypes about reporting on the continent when you write about africa he said always use the word africa or darkness or safari in your title never have a picture of a well adjusted african unless that african has won the nobel prize remember any work you submit in which people look filthy and miserable will be referred to as the real africa do not feel queasy about this you are trying to help them get aid from the west a significant amount of coverage probably the vast majority of coverage or africa

by the way is it reinforces the preexisting idea that this story has to stop. kenya is experiencing economic growth after the devastation of the rest of the continent yet septimus thought so so that they existed narrative must be the pendant and collapsed place and then oh maybe there's a good news story if you're lucky. a forceful advocate in changing how africa is seen and understood why nina became one of the 1st prominent figures in kenya to announce he was gay after a series of anti-gay laws were passed to neighboring uganda and nigeria i see that my coming out of. you know movement in. an intervention in iraq was like if i have to be accountable here i don't want my brothers and sisters to be dying and being beaten in nigeria and then i'm kind of quiet. the it's very weird people would give i'm feeling for them i just felt that that intervention was necessary when in

a suffered a stroke in 2015 the next year he announced he was hiv positive he'll be remembered for humanizing the other and being one of the best writers of his generation he didn't try to create his own different stream that people can follow in order to report or write about africa he created our own narrative and demanded a place for it the mainstream by revealing the existing narratives it was a very courageous thing of the him to do and designs inspired many of us in many different fields to sort of bring up the african perspective and take hold of one narrative in the media in conservation in education legal practice media practice and reporting etc binyavanga wainaina died in nairobi after a short illness he was 48 years old. just ahead on the news hour one of the favorites india arrived in england the cricket's world cup which begins in 8 days

we'll hear from that camp in the sport next.

to a. time for sports. thank you very much as you've been hearing wolf football's governing body for has decided not to expand the 2022 world cup in qatar to 48 teams the gulf nation now have been preparing 8 stadiums to stage a $32.00 team thurmont which will now go ahead as planned president jan infant teano had been looking into expanding the tournament and staging games in

neighboring countries and expanded event it would have meant more spots at qatar 2022 for each continental confederation 2026 that will cup will definitely feature 48 teams well with both 2 ghana based it football writer gary smith on how this decision will affect football in africa african football busy. historically not done well at the world cup and i mean the argument against the continent gets even more slots because the argument is that if you with a few that they have a we have be doing to do their best with it and so they increase of the last cup number for africa men's that more attendees were going to be in there but you got a lot of people feeling that african football has not developed to. a level where even be able to do well even if you give them a 100 slots you know but by ship means of probably numbers of men that are more africans you had the greeks are the chances of doing well so far that is the scaled

down and it's still going to be $32.00 teams means that it's back to square one for african countries off 2 years of struggle burnings a rebel team f.c. union are on the for over promotion to germany's top league the bruins league for the 1st time the team are set to face stood guard to end a 2 legged playoff here's all burning reporter dominic. as they go through their training routine the players of f. say when your have got one thing on their minds the chance to play in germany's bonders league or next season but to get there they must 1st beat far i've got a team with a bigger budget that's used to life in the big league something on your own is definitely not. when you have a new challenge you have to adapt to it there is a difference in quality between our league and the blunders eager but i can tell you we all want to get their club officials hope these might be among their biggest

assets fans considered among the most fervent and most loyal in germany who support during the years of communist domination during the cold war was a focal point for those who opposed totalitarianism evolve going marty's played in goals for your own during the seventy's and eighty's he told me what it was like back then. as far as the issue in it was great for us on the personal level but it was also hard because we had so many obstacles placed in our way we were the small team that no one wanted to look at and who they wanted to get rid of but in the end we are still here. teams from the old east germany have struggled to succeed since reunification indeed 15 years ago best soon your finances were so poor that fans donated blood to raise funds to keep the club afloat. one of germany's leading football writers told me how significant efforts in winning promotion would be not

just for the club but also the blunders league i'm it's the most interesting and the most special. the only club which is which is still successful from that in some part and so on and on the other hand it's it's it has very interesting supporters they built the stadium by the supporters are together with the supporters for generations the stands have been packed with fans all loyal to their club through thick and thin with the hope they might one day see their team play in the big league we'll find out if that wish will come true on monday night dominic kane al-jazeera berlin the cricket world cup begins in just 8 days and one of the tournament favorites india have a arrived in england ahead of the event gerard corliss team are ranked 2nd in the world behind the host nation the 2 time champion is that will play it warm up games against new zealand and bangladesh before getting their well cup campaign underway against south africa on june the 5th. any d.m.

can beat any team on a given day. if you look at 20142019 now but gap is much closer now between teams all you have you see what i've done is done was in 2014 see what he what bangladesh was what they are now you know so it's a strong competition. the st louis blues are heading to the stanley cup finals for the 1st time in 5 decades beating the san jose sharks up $51.00 in game 6 of the western conference final and was winning 3 consecutive games to advance it to the franchises 1st stanley cup series since $970.00 the blues took on the boston bruins back then and they'll face the same opponents this year. once we go on though in january and february you know where we knew we had a good hockey team. you know we get the playoffs anything can happen that's got to get here and we did. credit to our players they battled and. they believe they're

going to make the playoffs and we made it and that's why it's well for me we'll have more later on some many thanks indeed and i'll have more news for you in just a few moments on al-jazeera see that.

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al jazeera. where ever you have. a 2nd night of violence in the indonesian capital of the re-election of joker widodo. hello i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. defense officials consider sending thousands more troops to the middle east tension

simmers with iran. abandons plans to expand the number of teams allowed to compete in the 2022 world cup. and in the u.k. british steel goes into liquidation with many blaming briggs's for creating market uncertainty. we begin in indonesia where hundreds of protesters have been arrested during a 2nd night of violent demonstrations they're angry the president djoko widodo was declared the winner of last month's elections 6 people were killed in rioting on tuesday florence louis reports now from jakarta. 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 people.

after questioning of the suspects admitted that they were told to riot and that it was planed 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 probably. who ran against president joker we don't know in last month's presidential election and the previous ones who are evil but they cheated us and 2014 we don't want to happen again enough is enough. 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 beloved nation to get any. has refused to accept the election outcome and has urged his supporters to demonstrate against it so i urge everyone the police the military and all relevant parties to restrain themselves and avoid violence as they express their aspirations protests started the day on shortly after president joe cool delivered his victory speech was likely to continue until the day which is when we expect from both of them to the last the presidential election to play to the constitutional court 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 show no sign of giving in lawrence lee al jazeera jakarta there are reports that the u.s. department of defense is considering sending more troops to the middle east that's

against the by. drop of tension with iran officials have told the group says and associated press use agencies that there will be a meeting of the national security agency in washington on thursday to discuss a possible deployment earlier members of the trumpet ministration downplayed the possibility of war with iran but strongly defended the military buildup in the gulf and extra warships and fighter planes were deployed within the past few weeks let's go live now to mike hanna in washington who can tell us more so mike no decisions have been made as if these are just proposals that are up for discussion. well according to these reports quoting unidentified defense officials these are points that are up for discussion that will be presented to president trumps national security advisers in the course of thursday now the reports put the number of troops at the pentagon which is to deploy it anywhere between $5.00 to $10000.00 along with other resources such as added patriot missile batteries more naval

warships in the area the pentagon itself has been approached for comment and they will not speak on troop movements basically declining to comment in any form but it's no to do that the acting secretary of defense along with the secretary of state held a closed door briefings in congress yesterday at which they made very clear that the u.s. was not intent on war with iran emphasizing their belief that to terence was the way to go the acting secretary of defense insisting that the steps taken to deter iranian action have proved successful to date including the accelerated deployment of an aircraft carrier fleet but this if these are discussions are indeed going to happen in the course of the day certainly likely to ratchet up tension if after these discussions the u.s. does decide to send more troops to the gulf region what will the role be.

well that's unclear at the moment whether or not these discussions take place if these reports are indeed accurate but looking at the size that is being bandied about 521-0000 troops you would probably find these would be invision to be support auxiliary troops now the identified spokespeople who've been speaking to the news agencies say that these are what they call defensive troops this would imply that they are supply troops that they would be working on the naval vessels in the area or servicing the aircraft bases from which aircraft are deployed into the region but once again this is all speculation at this particular point we cannot even confirm if indeed such a meeting is taking place if there is going to be a briefing given to the national security adviser's by many thanks indeed of zeros mike out of the in washington president trump has accused top democrats of tearing

the country apart by pursuing investigations into his administration he walked out of a planned meeting with democrats and the white house has refused to comply with congress following the release of reports into russian interference of the 2016 election separately a judge's ruling may now allow democrats access to trump's financial and business records there as can really help reports. it was supposed to be a bipartisan meeting with democrats about fixing america's roads bridges and airport but when democrats arrived at the white house meeting on wednesday u.s. president donald trump abruptly ended it just. took a pass it was planned when we got in the room the curtains were closed why trump is upset democrats are accusing him of blocking multiple attempts to investigate him we believe that the president the united states is engaged in

a cover up and cover up trump later called reporters to the rose garden to debunk that argument i don't do cover ups on capitol hill for the past few days there have been growing calls by democrats and at least one republican to begin impeachment proceedings against trump in an attempt to remove him from office yes it was. some lawmakers believe the president obstructed justice during the investigation into allegations his 2016 campaign worked with the russian government there has been no collusion and poor by the u.s. justice department clear trump of any collusion use them again as a legal obligation to be here still just this week trump stopped his former counsel don mcgann from testifying to congress about that investigation and on wednesday new york lawmakers voted to release trump state tax returns to congress trump is also fighting democratic attempts to get his business records from deutsche bank

what they've done is abuse this is investigation number 4 the same thing probably 5. and it really started i think pretty much from the time we came down the escalator interim donald trump argues his democratic opponents have been resisting his presidency since before it even started and continue to back efforts to impeach him but democrats are divided on whether it's even wise to launch impeachment hearings knowing it could take down trump or help him win support for his re-election can really help at al-jazeera the white house football's world governing body 50 an ounce that the 2022 world cup tournament in qatar will not now be expanded to $48.00 teams usually $32.00 teams participate but in 2017 feet for decided to include more teams in the competition last year the organizations presidents johnny and frontino said the change could come into effect in 2022 but

those plans have now been scrapped qatar has been on the sea and land blockade by saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt since 2017 has released a statement saying that cats had always been open to the idea of an expanded tournament in 2022 but after joint analysis both parties have concluded that quote due to the advanced stage of preparations of the need for a detailed assessment of the potential majestical impact on more time would be required that a decision could be taken before the deadline of june was therefore decided not further pursue this option james dorsey is a middle east expert with the s. rajaratnam school of international studies in singapore he says that feat his decision was a foregone conclusion. i think with that we have had months or weeks of basically just cussing out air and something that was in my mind illusionary with other words

culture was willing to play this out it's certainly became clear after kuwait no man said that they would not be able to accommodate feet in an expanded world cup and the idea that infantino was putting forward that agreement. to share the world cup with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. would put an end to the gulf crisis was basically par in the sky got us since 2010 has been preparing for a $32.00 team world cup and to expand that by by basically double half of that so going for $32.00 to $48.00 would have been an enormous task in the last stretch towards the other world cup and i think the gutter may have been willing to share with with oman in kuwait keep in mind the romance been very helpful to god during the. during this whole gulf crisis in the last 2 years and

kuwait is the mediator but there was no way that it could be shared with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. as long as the boycott was in place and the boycott is about much more than the world cup maybe and war khalifa haftar has rejected french appeals to put a halt to the fighting in the capital tripoli talks between a half time president to many on mccraw in paris failed to reach an agreement on a ceasefire after us forces have been fighting troops loyal to libya's internationally recognized government based in tripoli for weeks now. i want an update next here on syria then if the bill is not passed then this house will be faced with a very stark choice to resume his final push to win support breaks a deal fails to convince the opposition but also some of her own party. in the u.k. suffers a crushing defeat in a u.n. vote on the shankar's island.