britain. she'd been the home secretary in charge of the police immigration and security for several years with a reputation for hard work competence respected but not loved by colleagues but as prime minister less than a year into the job it was her decision to call and a necessary election and that was the beginning of the end was the campaign was an inspiring stories a maze message repeated so often you trust to have a strong and stable leadership strong and stable leadership that strong and stable government the results well her face said that nights she and the conservatives clung to power but their majority was gone and so was her authority she was not a personality politician the same way jenny called even david cameron was used to believe in personality politics and that becomes harder and harder than the age of social media and similarly the country never fell in love with theresa may it tolerated her in the party tolerated her and the challenge now is to find someone

who can lead the country but also bring some fades and dynamism it's been lacking in recent years restless colleagues sensed opportunity then foreign minister boris johnson amount of power. undermined her repeatedly with less than coded criticism of what he saw as her too cautious approach to brecht's is. then came the policy speech where almost everything went wrong the interrupting prankster the coughing the lesser showing off the sound behind her none of it her faults but it created a fatal impression that not only was her reasoning competence she was also unlucky the interest scandal the violations of the rights of people from the west indies who had come to britain decades ago only to find themselves at risk of deportation because of policies established by may when she was home secretary did her no good either so much for a country that works for everyone and i want to dispel any. that my government is

in some sense coming down on the world systems particularly those in the caribbean . here. today because we are going to be the story until the wheels put brick's it proved impossible for her to manage the supposed hard liner accuse of flip flopping between the 2 warring sides in her policy unable to make a decision about whether she wants of the u.k. a little bit in or completely else of the european union in the end she was undone by indecision memos to the last $319.00 so the no politics at the top is always lonely and perhaps a challenge was impossible to make a success of bricks it while holding together a policy but war with itself lawrence lee al jazeera in london. we just want bring you one more breaking news story out of europe this hour at least 8 people have been injured in a suspected parcel bomb explosion in the french city of galle the device exploded

near a bakery in the center of the city those hurt in the blast appeared to have suffered only superficial injuries the incident is being investigated by the french counterterrorism office and the interior minister has called for increased security at public sites across france while the french president emanuel macron was giving an interview when the attack happened he says his thoughts are with those who were injured in that there. are many are bitly concerned about the attack it was not for me to give the death toll is there no deaths for the time being i'm about to have injuries you don't know i'm thinking of you could people in their families study. that's it for me for now but i will be back in around 45 minutes time now with much more from london now let's hand it to terry. ryan thank you we'll see you later on well the rest of the day's news is still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour and saudi arabia's crown prince meets saddam's military

leaders as protesters worry about the influence of regional power. a major blow for gay rights activists in kenya as a ban on same sex relationships is upheld and a chilly day in the saddle for the writers on the road italia peter has more in sports. the 1st the u.s. president has announced he's sending an extra $1500.00 troops to the middle east as tensions with iran continue to mount donald trump says they will have a mostly protective role iran has been a you know they state their all over the world they're a much different country now than when i 1st got here when i 1st got here they were at 14 different locations fighting right now you know i don't think the red won the fight and i certainly don't think they want to fight with us but they could not have nuclear weapons and under the obama orrible agreement they would have had

nuclear weapons within 5 or 6 years again have their weapons and they understand that let's get more from our white house correspondent kimberly halkett what more you're learning about this additional deployment kimberly. well we have a sense of what it might look like it is going to consist of a patriot battalion to in the words of the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan defend against missile threats there's also going to be a component of the additional teligent surveillance reconnaissance aircraft and then fighter aircraft a squadron if you will for deterrence now the argument being made by the trumpet ministration is this is to safeguard u.s. forces and is a response to an ongoing threat posed by iranian forces including the i r g i r g c and its proxies and this is really notable that this is coming from the acting defense secretary because just days ago he said in fact that the threat against

american forces in the region had been put on hold so we're not sure what changed in the last 24 to 48 hours since that statement was made but clearly this is not her escalation if you consider the fact that it was also earlier this month that the united states a ploy that in a rush to ploy meant the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group and it follows on the heels of a series of what many view is a skill a tory steps towards iran whether it be the withdrawal of the nuclear agreement to limit its program one year ago the putting in place of the snapback sanctions the maximum pressure campaign even listing the i r g c as a terrorist organization this is all been happening in quick succession yet the united states continues to say that it is iran that is the one that is provoking matters but not providing a significant amount of intelligence so in light of what they say is an increased threat we now know $1500.00 troops to be sent into addition in addition to the rush

deployment earlier this month ok kimberly halakhah thank you will our diplomatic editor james bays the u.n. chief spokesman about those the points here is what he said. the pentagon is announcing that more u.s. troops are being sent to the middle east the secretary general has been calling for deescalation and restraint things seem to be going the other way what's your response. we would continue. to call for closure and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rhetoric let's make to hillary mann leverett she's a former white house national security official she's also been co-author of going to ron white america must accept the islamic republic of iran she's joining us from washington thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera so this was a pentagon plan which trump just a few days ago cast doubt on saying that he doesn't think that additional u.s. troops are needed in the middle east to counter iran but now he's confirmed 1500

deployments why do you think that is. well i think very much for that the trump administration as it's evolving its policy toward iran there is an important battle struggle over what to do within the administration you have president trump who seems by many accounts to be very reluctant to engage in any kind of armed conflict in the middle east that would involve more u.s. troops in fact he is looking to have u.s. troops come out of the middle east but that's president trump among his advisors his most powerful adviser perhaps is national security advisor john bolton john bolton has been advocating for the united states to send many many thousands of troops something that trump has said he has tried to temper he's tried to moderate john bolton but john bolton is very experienced here in washington he has more than 20 years of experience in multiple administrations and from what i understand he has joined forces with some hardline right wing senators and there sat in congress

like senators cotton cruz and rubio and they're putting a lot of pressure on trump to continue this maximum pressure campaign and to. send more u.s. troops at the end of the day it seems here that trump settled on what the commanders recommended which was far less than $10000.00 troops it's more like $1500.00 troops yet still be ideal for her is he willing to others that the u.s. is continuing its force posture rate and seeing is this number is much less than had been an officially reported is this anything but symbolic i think it's entirely symbolic and essentially what trump was willing to agree to at the end of the day because the uniformed military put that number out i think really as the least number of troops they possibly could to continue this show of force that john bolton is pushing so strongly for the 1500 really is negligible the

united states has between 60 and 80000 troops in the middle east today so 18 in the broader middle east today so 1500 is really negligible and it joins along with the other shows of force sending b. 52 bombers for example from louisiana to the other day base is really symbolic those bombers could have hit iran from louisiana that's why we have b. 52 bombers because they don't need refueling so these are symbolic shows of force but they're important because they keep up this steady drumbeat of potential war against iran which serves to further isolate iran choke off its oil and leave it i think for someone like john bolton the perception is it leaves iran even more desperate and apt to miscalculate and we're just hearing that the pentagon. saying it rather is blaming iran saying it's directly responsible for attacks on tankers off the united arab emirates earlier this month and saying that that is what is

driving the new u.s. deployments what do you make of balance. well it's certainly hard to tell my experience you know i worked in the bush administration in the lead up to the invasion of iraq so i have a healthy dose of skeptic has kept us ism for any of these kinds of quote unquote intelligence reports but it's hard so it's hard to say whether these attacks are attributable to iran or they're just put out there as a way to have a a causus belli a reason to strike at iran certainly something that national security advisor john bolton is looking for he did the exact same thing with iraq and not just have to see whether or not takes the bait and engages the united states and what could be yet another strategic quagmire for the next you know the next 10 years and trillion dollars of u.s. treasure right hillary mann leverett we thank you for joining us from washington while mom has been trying to diffuse growing tensions between iran and the united states the country's foreign affairs minister warren didn't tweet of the seriousness of war could harm the whole world. sodhi arabia will soon host 3.

arab leaders and iran will be top of. kuwait will be there and the deputy foreign minister says his country is also stands ready to help. out along the side. as a matter of fact the situation is very delicate is very critical and dangerous developments are beginning to keep certain repercussions which we hope would not agree in any event we should be very careful and very cautious of all addressing these developments and the rapid pace in which they are unfolding in the region. we trust reason would prevail and calm would prevail this is kenya's high court has upheld a colonial era law that criminalizes gay sex the court said the ban on same sex relationships violate the constitution and comes after 3 years of campaigning by activists to expand gay rights in kenya anyone in the same sex relationship. in

prison. we are the government to take immediate. steps to protect and for the rights of the educate you possibly. 62 and 165. and introducing legislation that prohibits discrimination on all grounds including sexual orientation or gender identity or expression and presidential candidates. expected to file a legal challenge to last month's election results to carter has experienced days of violent protests with 7 people killed and 200 others injured in the past week. was the clear winner of last month's election they say there was widespread cheating but the election commission says the poll was free and fair and thomas has more from jakarta. it's here at the constitutional court in the heart of jakarta

that the opposition has said they will before the end of friday. lodge a formal legal appeal over the election results it's quite possible that many hundreds of their supporters maybe thousands will come down to watch them do it and that's why the such a big place presence here the roads are closed they've got riot gear they're resting at the moment but they're prepared for what might come because earlier in the week protests turned violent turned into riots and people were killed well santiago who was the vice presidential candidate supporting the presidential candidate for votes to be anti or has called for their supporters not to protest violently although he has said they can come down here it's a tough loss for them to persuade the constitutional court that the vote was systematically raikes because the margin by which we don't know won the election 11 percent according to the electoral commission well you need to have a lot of evidence of voter fraud to overcome that tried of margin and on friday afternoon at a press conference the opposition didn't really go beyond saying they wanted the

court to test whether the election was free and fair they didn't offer that much evidence that it had been raped nevertheless the full legal process will begin on friday and it is company by violent protests the place that repay it. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour protesters face a heavy police presence in algeria while turning out for the 14th straight week. a look at how they can film festival help to launch the rector mirena i asked 30 year career and in sport world cup countdown england look ahead to their chances peter has the details. glow ghana welcome back well as we go into spring and as those temperatures begin to rise we do have the threat of wildfires that are on the increase i want to take

you over here towards israel shirts and video that has come out across the region they are now dealing with while far as across parts of the country tempers of come up it has been fairly dry in some locations so the firefighters are out as well as the planes are putting down that fire retardant to try to get those fires under control across much of the area unfortunately no rain is coming into play over the next few days saturday is going to be a dry day as well as sunday across this area the only thing is on the coast temperatures are in the mid twenty's as you go inland there more into the high twenty's there from baghdad we do expect to see a high few of 43 degrees where across the gulf things are looking quite nice little dry than what we had seen earlier tempter here dog 38 degrees while we are picking up the rain though is still down here across parts of yemen where we have seen flooding over recent days the rain is going to continue we do think over the next few days maybe across parts of santa but up towards of a debbie we do expect to see a high temp to fume of about 37 degrees there and as we make our way down here across parts of southern africa things are going to be quite dry across much of the

area down here towards cape town we do expect to see attempts of $23.00 and durban at about $24.00 degrees for you. the latest news as it breaks local communities here importing are very frustrated because the lack of post storm services with detailed coverage this last month of the people's thoughts and. to make ransom notes and just want a better life from around the world as agnes has been offered to those who rebel against the government. except those involved in human rights abuses a war crimes. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty the reality whether on line when you have a male chauvinism that is in french with in our global federation it is really hard to get a piece of that pilot or if you join us. to block the beat up their mind this is

a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us and i live you to chat and you too can be in the street joining the global conversation on out is iraq. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the british prime minister to resign may has announced her resignation she'll stay on as character prime minister until a successor is chosen and may have been under growing pressure to resign with the bright so a process in disarray. a terrorism investigation is underway right now in the french city of new york after these 8 people were injured in an explosion police

are looking for the person who left a package filled with screws and bolts outside a bakery the president is announcing sunday going. extra 1500 troops to the middle east as tensions with iran continue to mount. they will have a mostly protector role. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sandman has reinforced his support for sudan's transitional military council in a meeting with the deputy heads general how much how down the galo told the crown prince that he had back the kingdom against quote all threats and attacks from iran sudanese doctors engineers and artists meanwhile rallied on the streets of hearts whom demanding a transition to a civilian government protesters are concerned that regional powers are trying to influence the future of so don imran khan has more from khartoum. ever since the sit ins began in early april look at the saudi sentiment has become a focal recluse a rallying cry look it said at 7 often dictates the gender for your position for

the center for the next few days now the mom is back in a general strike so it's not just in the capital but across syria don't see these professionals association impressed with isis to bring down the represents most of the students professionals is also that this strike if it happens at the earliest it might be sunday destroyed could will look just a couple but the i'd tell you over the country now what we're hearing is that the at this is going to sit on. the strike will put them in the driver's seat when it comes to negotiations we have the budget the opposition call this is that they would no growth in public a little light from the obvious insisting that they do what's the. algerians are taking to the streets again in cities all over the country for the 4th consecutive friday there was a heavy police presence and the. people were arrested protesters are demanding

democratic reforms on the removal of politicians linked to former president. presidential elections are expected in july. at least 9 people have been killed in an air strike by the saudi coalition in yemen in a. province the ray reportedly targeted a petrol station and some of the victims were children comes a week after the who attacked an oil pipeline your saudi's capital riyadh it's eritrea has been marking its 1st independence day since a peace deal was reached with neighboring ethiopia last year the government. social media platforms ahead of the celebrations in what's believed to be an attempt to avoid protests andrew symonds reports. it's the biggest day in eritrea's calendar of celebrations with even more significance now there's a peace deal with its neighbor and want time enemy ethiopia. now u.n.

sanctions are lifted but human rights organizations say repression is still part of daily life president is as off work he keeps a firm grip in this one party's state. i reports of a ban on social media may be surprising to some when you consider how few people are actually online eritrea has a population of 5000000 but it's estimated fewer than 2 percent use the internet mobile phones don't have internet access and there's no private media dissent isn't tolerated the country is now in a position to open up to the rest of the world. the. surprising part is that very little seems to have changed actually. despite all of the barriers to. the system of government. autocratic stream the

regressive. eritrea's peace deal with ethiopia last year part of it signed in jeddah appears to have had some involvement from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates partly brokered the deal with a clear objective to have more influence in the horn of africa the u.a.e. had already built a military base in the eritrean port of asvab or back in 2015 and as these satellite images show its a large complex the runways are used by warplanes from the saudi u.a.e. coalition in its fight against the truth is in yemen. with a base in asked opposition to the mouth of the red sea it couldn't be more strategic the suez canal to the north but even more important to the u.a.e. its enemies in yemen are a short distance away. eritrea as war for independence from ethiopia lasted 30 years coming to an end back in 1991 the conflict may be over but

unemployment is high compulsory national service in the military is indefinite tens of thousands of people have fled the country one of the hazardous routes out through libya where many have ended up in detention centers. peace may have been established but any hope of it bringing better fortune for the people of eritrea is still thin on the ground. andrew simmons. that's why. she's the director release eritrea which is a human and religious rights organization she's joining us from london thanks very much for speaking to us so as we're saying this is the 1st anniversary for eritrean since and that peace deal was signed with ethiopia to have reason to celebrate. well do ordinary air tran's have a reason for separate no i don't think so indefinite national service still on

people are still arbitrarily detained people don't have any rights in their own in their own country they use our ups and they're either in the in the national service or have left the country food is very scarce food is expensive everything in eritrea is bad as it was a year ago and whilst we air tran's are very proud that we are a sovereign nation and there's nothing that can take away from that if you mean is there peace and prosperity and hopefulness to celebrate no i don't think well they do have peace but it sounds like from what you're saying there are no freedoms talk to us specifically about religious freedom and human rights conditions in the country. yeah i'll start with religious freedom religious freedom in eritrea is curtailed in every form in 2002 the regime decided it's only going to recognize 4

religions the orthodox church of eritrea the catholic church of eritrea. and the church of air chair however old all the other religious groups were religious groups were banned many churches were shot many people have been taken to prison there were record imprisonments at one point into the thousands currently there are many still many people in prison only about 10 days ago 100 over $100.00 people were taken need to prison for praying together and their whereabouts are unknown yet nobody has been charged but even the patrick of the orthodox church is has been under house arrest for over a decade now and so even the churches even the religious groups that have been permitted by the government are. are suffering as well and are under under persecution religious persecution in eritrea is not necessarily about religion it's

about controlling their people and not giving them any freedom once when it could when you come to our forms of freedom there is no there isn't a single independent media outlet there isn't a single independent newspaper or jordan artists have been or or private jordan artists all old or not it's from the independent media have been under rist since 2001 politicians who demanded. reform in the country have been under arrest in 2001 and nobody has seen them since. days after that collaboration of peace accord with the if you look at the minister of finance of eritrea has taken into prison for publishing a book condemning the regime and president is has for the wrong doings that are happening in the country and yes and been seen since his wife has also right taken under arrest so if you name it there isn't

a single freedom in eritrea all right so we'll have to leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from london catherine thank you. now a prominent religious scholar is one of 2 people killed in a mosque attack in kabul a bomb gone off during friday prayers i'm gonna stand interior ministry said 60 worshippers were wounded it isn't yet known he's responsible. and security forces have killed a rebel fighter an indian administered kashmir india's government had accused his armed group of being linked to al qaida several reports. 25 year olds like a moose i was one of india's most wanted men i but in indian administered kashmir he was considered a hero fighting for independence was tens of thousands attended his funeral in troll districts with many others already protesting against his death was also says they were committed to that he has not been killed in our hearts he's alive we will

fight until we have our freedom it's not that. he became a rebel because we are facing oppression on or about sisters and mothers being violated indian forces are harassing our youngsters. the indian army says it shot and killed more such as hi i'm in trouble district on thursday security scenario has been managed well that has not been a me law and order incident reported so far. most of the hezbollah mujahideen one of the largest separatist groups fighting indian rule in kashmir and in 2017 declared his alliance on the cards or by filming the onslaught of those with and hand on this group during the standoff between me and the indian forces his supporters sent out a message calling on people to protect him so i care more so i was a close ally to the kashmiri separatist leader but han one whose killing in 2016

triggered months of unrest and more than $100.00 civilian deaths was his killing comes at a particular sensitive time in the region which has for decades been at the center of a tussle between india and pakistan was the mobile internet services have been suspended schools and colleges have been asked to remain closed and the indian government has imposed a curfew so to hide out. india's caretaker prime minister narendra modi has promised to take his country to new heights after leading his party to a landslide reelection victory when the 600000000 votes counted his party's security huge majority in parliament so how raman reports. india woke up on friday to news that the bharatiya janata party led by the renderer modi had secured an absolute majority in the 6 week long general election. celebrations began on

thursday when early indications suggested another wind was imminent. the election commission has been counting more than 600000000 votes cast since early on thursday and everyone is waiting for the initial announcement modi still has to be formally elected by his own party parliamentarians he's expected to meet them in a special session on saturday we need to listen to the he is celebrating the mood is very different from an opposition groups whose influence in parliament is now severely reduced given our experience the last 5 years. and we shored mean business we would let them have their own way we will stand up as far as people's concerns will be i mean picture of opposition. analysts suggest job creation in rural and urban areas is a topic the government needs to focus on has one this victory. significantly

to the young and 1st time voter much like he did in 202014 but in the last couple of years unemployment has been very high and it will be something that he will have to address for the young as well as for the future of the country. but one senior leader says policies are working. how. all the sectors must move because if the impetus which is already there. the fastest growing economy has to do you mean the must produce results which will better performance at least and. the public too has those concerns. he should try and remove unemployment for the young of the country the problems of the villages lack of electricity water should be tackled the farmer should get more facilities and the marginal and rubble farmers get their problem solved these are the issues for money. and as the prime minister gets ready to begin his 2nd term

many will be looking to see if he'll address these issues modi has received an overwhelming mandate to deliver on his pledges but it's not just domestically issues that will be a factor in a 2nd. global financial uncertainty is something that may affect india's growth and economy and regional stability with pakistan is something that modi has to balance while appeasing his nationalist vote base so al-jazeera new delhi thailand's parliament is holding has held that is its 1st session since disputed elections 8 weeks ago a government is yet to be formed as rival coalition squabble over seats as that goes on one of thailand's main opposition figures is on trial scott hyla reports from bangkok. addressing the new members as he opens thailand's parliament it follows a contentious election in march the 1st since a coup.