when he announced his bid to run for a 5th term and many thought he wasn't fit to run he'd rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013 by nazi 11th the president was forced to reverse his really reelection bid he promised reforms and he named a new prime minister but it wasn't enough but if they give us force a set down in april under pressure from protests says and the on the well i've been speaking to william lawrence's professor of political science and international affairs at george washington university he thinks it's now likely that the elections will have to be president. well this is another blow to the effort by the army to have elections on july 4th we are in had a number of previous problems mayors and political social circle ready refusing to administer the elections i remember a national day or said written a recent letter calling on the elections to be postponed because there is no other support from the general population and we had of course 77 letters of intent that

none of these candidates approved and even some last minute withdrawals this week from kid s. that could have presented a viable candidacy and so here we are with an unscheduled election and no candidates now we have is before a jury in 1992 or all the opposition candidates with drew are and have been rejected some of them and so are grounds what's different now is that we have the choirs in totality of the population and officials who are opposed to their actions on the current day so i don't see any way out except for the army to postpone the elections again. cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in a south africa's president amal it was a day celebration for him it followed the worst election yet for the ruling african national congress for me the miller reports from pretoria the president there that would place raise up the. help of all saw.

in front of thousands of south africans so ramaphosa took his oath of office well this is the beginning of a process 1st full term as president he came to power 15 months ago when jacob zuma resigned amid corruption scandals his party the african national congress is struggling to recover from the damage caused by suma and internal conflict call from a process calling his presidency a new dawn he's also acknowledged his party's failures in recent times * our people have watched a some of those in a home they had invested they are crossed have summoned up to the temptation of power and richard. they have seen some of the very institutions of our democracy eroded. and resources wanda the challenge is not

a what country they are huge and they are real. but they are not insurmountable among those show wage least 50 heads of state and dignitaries and more than 50000 people many south africans see them oppose us presidency as the government we committing to working for them from of course has used his address to reassure south africans to be an end to unemployment poverty and inequality is promised a better life for all promises the thousands of people here have heard many times before the question for them is whether the president will not allow up to his pledge for the a.n.c. governments prefer. why did millions of south africans running water electricity and free education is being criticized for the slow to the free of services at 27 percent more south africans than ever before and employed expecting a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but if it lights be out

the dog the option. to stop the sale of the slightly expect that he did decisively would quite upset to take our culture for white and they know all the best that would come back in the coming days and of course as expected to name a new cabinet he's under pressure to get the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the a in c. if his appointments don't appease factions within the party but for now it's a day of celebration for a man who carries the hopes of many south africans. al-jazeera pretoria south africa. we are short is research director of the human sciences research council and she says the new president is under pressure to root out corruption from the previous regime i think they will give him some time because he hasn't been in office. at the same time people are. patients and this call for change we've heard

it for some time but there is really some urgency to prosecutions now and i think that he has a lot of you know good will and side people want him to succeed and i think that that is why they see once again the majority of votes at the same time he is being threatened by the action and there is a significant amount of. of brad will if you graduate if you want to call that you would call it back towards him in the agency so he's not entirely free to take images that he wants to take because of his creation from within the agency and he wouldn't want to be seen as the person of the president responsible for splitting the. loss was accounting this al-jazeera news hour including. the congolese politician why it's good to be val's to unite the opposition after almost 3 years and not at some. concerns over the world's biggest biometrics project and what it

could mean for people's privacy. and it's double delight for bonnie nick peter has the action from the german cup final and. the president has teed off with the japanese prime minister shinzo abby at the golf course in chiba south of tokyo this is the 5th time that they've played golf together president trump arrived in japan on saturday for a 4 day visit which will include a meeting with the new emperor and that will he turn and talks of course with the prime minister. specifically on trade with this deal we hope to address the trade imbalance remove barriers to united states exports and ensure fairness and reciprocity in our relationship and we're getting closer just last

week u.s. beef exports gain full access to japanese and to the markets in japan for the 1st time since the year 2000 we welcome your support of these efforts and we hope to have several further announcements soon and some very big ones over the next few months. let's go live now to wayne herr correspondent is in tokyo so i mean the 2 men. have built up a fairly good relationship haven't they enjoying playing golf together but how much will the demands being made by president trump affect that relationship i wonder. well all we heard in the lead up to this from the white house and from the japanese government martine was that this visit wasn't really about trade it was all about the visit to meet the new emperor of donald trump becoming the 1st foreign leader

to meet emperor another he and then as soon as donald trump got off the plane really. speaking to those business leaders he made it all about trade he's made no secret of the fact going back to the 1980 s. really that he believes that the united states needs to be tougher on japan when it comes to trade his target right now is the japanese auto industry threatening to increase tariffs on imports of japanese cars and trucks into the united states in 6 months if these trade negotiations aren't successful of course that would be if he follows through on that threat would be a devastating blow to this industry and your so wants the japanese companies to do more in the united states in the form of building cars they're building factories there for employing more american workers that is something they're already doing a lot of and have committed to doing more of in the future and the other main issue of course for these 2 men is north korea recently a couple of short range ballistic missiles were tested that will have particular

concerns for japan of course when to what sort of what sort of emphasis is that being given by president. i think it will be given a lot of them for emphasis from president trump and from the japanese prime minister shinzo a bit particularly given those 2 missile tests that you mentioned that took place in north korea earlier this month the test firing on 2 separate occasions of what seems to be a new type of short range missile donald trump tweeted before his round of golf on sunday morning with the japanese prime minister saying that north korea fired off some small weapons he referred to them as which disturbed some of my people and others but not me so that was probably a clear swipe at his own u.s. national security adviser john john bolton who spoke on saturday he's also in japan and said that those missile tests from north korea were

a clear violation of the united nations security council resolutions and that is something that the japanese prime minister shinzo our bear has said as well he favors a tough stance against north korea he always has done of course he's in favor of negotiations but doesn't want to be seen to be giving away too much in return for not much from north korea he has softened that stance a little bit recently though he is saying now that he's prepared to meet the north korean leader kim jong un without preconditions so it seems certain that he will discuss that prospect when he meets donald trump formally on monday when hey covering donald transmitted to japan talking to us live from taking thank you now robert scott is a senior international economist with the economic policy institute and he says the trade deficit between the united states and japan goes well beyond just these 2 figures. donald trump looks at the world through bilateral glasses if you

will he's always looking to make a deal he seems to think our problems are just with individual countries which china number one mexico is another one he picked on a course a 3rd one here is pan and the problem is that we really have a system of global trade imbalances and the president is not prepared to deal with that it doesn't just affect united states effects many countries this offer from unfair competition from some of the same countries that we're talking about we'll certainly claim that he will take any kind of credit he can for any kind of deals he's. looking to have some quarter of a trade deal which pay and of course not but i think we haven't heard mention of the fact that japan is facing elections in july it's unlikely that the japanese are going to complete any kind of negotiations giving away access to their their very. carefully protected agricultural markets any time before those elections i think it

would be too disruptive for prime minister abi but i think they will take credit for that nonetheless i don't expect it to have a significant impact on china's global surplus or as bilateral surplus with the united states is not going to fix our trade problems. in the u.k. policies sions in the ruling conservative policy have launched their bids to take a the from timmy's in may the prime minister announce shall resign next month and that to get a leadership contest it's already seen several candidates trade their hats into the ring the contest is likely to be defined by the candidate's positions on bret's it former foreign secretary and leading campaign of boris johnson is the favorite to win oh a challenge has more now from central mountain. so he will be the next prime minister of the united kingdom but 14 tories have already said they'll consider running 5 have actually throwing their hats. into the ring they are the mcveigh rory stewart

matt hancock and jeremy hunt and also boris johnson perhaps the most familiar to viewers around the world form a matter of london and foreign secretary he is the bookies favorite by a considerable margin but historically speaking the favorites usually doesn't do very well in conservative party leadership races whoever gets it they will face exactly the same challenges with bricks it's to reason they had just less time to get it done the deadline is looming at the end of october they will be leading a minority governments of a divided party a divided country dealing with the european union that doesn't want to renegotiate a reason may's deal and then you have the labor party opposition which will do everything in its power to try and bring down the government and force a general election. professor alex the writer is director of the center of studies at birmingham city university he says the next prime minister is going to face exactly the same challenges as to reason may or a short course is clearly

a raging favorite one poll suggests that he could attract easily 40 percent of tory party members as a person say dominic rob and i knew about less than 20 percent but of course what does it mean to win in those circumstances the pm johnson only watched yesterday reaffirmed that he will be leaving in a year on the end of october deal or no deal would still be facing a parliament because there remain a majority of the risk clearly no weapon charge at all to leave you with no deal so he would he or she would still face the same constraints set to resume a good marriage. several member states having causing their votes in the european parliamentary elections the process started on thursday in all 751 politicians will be elected by

the 28 states they'll serve a 5 year term the results are expected on monday the e.u. parliament presides over various different laws including health and safety regulations over farming and environmental protections david chase has more from brussels political analysts have been widely debating whether liberal values are on retreat in the european union and whether the 28 countries taking part in these parliamentary elections will show a rise in populism where we'll have to wait and see when they polling booths close on sunday evening what the 1st exit polls will tell us about those trends immigration policy the economy and terrorism have been the issues at the heart of this debates in europe the 1st direct elections to the european parliament began in 1989 but the 5 year early polls have seen a steady drop in voter turnout ever since 57 percent abstained in

2014 there are 751 seats here in the chamber of the european parliament up for grabs now each country is awarded a portion of them according to their population size or germany has $96.00 their top followed by france with $74.00 and then britain on $73.00. once elected the m.e. peas are organized into transnational blocs the largest group up to now has been the center right european peoples party so when the newly elected any piece take up their position in the chamber their 1st task will be to elect a president of the european commission because. his days in that are now numbered in just a few weeks and then also they'll have to decide on the shape and size of the european union's budget nearing 200000000000 dollars this year.

still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour venezuela's opposition leader rallies support is ahead of a new round of talks aimed at ending the crisis plus. a mentor it's almost a city that shot down this week this ball of protest is to go to the streets it's mostly back to normal now but i'll be looking at the economic impact of the trouble and whether the could be in place. and in sports the field is set for the monaco grown crane piece it will be here to tell you his taken home. to west sponsors by cattle and ways. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where the rain is on here across much of china that has been the

trend over the last several days and will continue as we begin the week and you can see those thunderstorms really developing expression the heating of the afternoon so the forecast map has plenty of rain on it all the eastern seaboard is looking at rain we do have a flow out of the south bring a lot of moisture from the south china sea as well temperatures are a little bit lower than what they were because of all the clouds and rain so for hong kong we do expect to see 28 degrees there maybe coming up to about 30 but still plenty of rain across much of the region anywhere between $150.00 and possibly $250.00 millimeters over the next 3 days where across much of the southern part of indonesia we are looking quite nice port possibly here across parts of java as well as into bali so much was also looking quite nice over the next few days not a lot of clouds here on sunday picking up a few more clouds as we go towards monday and that will also drop the temperatures across much of that area for bangkok it is going to be a rainy and cloudy day with a temperature there of $35.00 degrees and the monsoonal rain is kind of begin

flowing here across the south so for sure long you saw some rain we may get a little bit of a break here on sunday but as we go towards the north the heat is still in play across much of central areas with a tempter there of $45.00 degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar airways talked to old was there a week you're just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country the gold we listen to the children are deeply affected because of war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. yet. i. can tell you. that there are some other like. big stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives julie out of sun just a longstanding international border is finally separate the spin from the facts

the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the underreported of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations with the listening post on al-jazeera. targets take a look at the top stories here in the news hour iran says the u.s. decision to send 1500 more soldiers to the middle east is extremely dangerous meanwhile the iranian foreign minister is in the iraqi capital for talks. the deadline to file applications to stand in algeria his presidential election shadow

for july has passed local media is reporting that most possibly all of the potential candidates failed to meet the legal requirement. cyril. unopposed has been sworn in the south africa's president following the worst election result for the ruling african national congress. promised to reform the country and to revive its economy. that car has returned to indonesia's capital after protests over the presidential election results the opposition candidate. has asked the constitutional court to review how votes were counted and people in the capital jakarta there counting the cost of this week's disruption andrew thomas has more. people shuttling bundles of clothes from southeast asia's largest textile market about $30.00 a day so when violent street protests in jakarta manages to close the markets.

dealers took a financial hit. in a row about it on busy days i can make 40 or $50.00 so missing 2 days means i've lost nearly $100.00 i couldn't give anything to my wife there was nothing violent street protests in jakarta and tuesday and wednesday night stopped much of the indonesian capital protesters were angry that official election results showed a big victory for the incumbent president joe widodo over his more religious opponents. supporters shared their opinions on how the voting was raked and the vote counting operation was run by biased officials. the violence led to road closures shops and offices were shut people discouraged from leaving home it's all had an economic impact which economists put in the 10s of millions of dollars. short term it will have a negative impact but long term if the government shows it can control the situation it could actually create confidence among investors. on friday opposition

politicians appealed for calm as their lawyers launched a formal legal challenge of the election result the city has most. returned to normal but it's not hard to find proposed supporters sympathizing with the protesters. something strange went on with a list of voters and with the vote counting the witnesses on the site were able to do their job. but mostly he wants life to return to normal he says his personal finance trumps his political concerns if this week's violence turns out to be the extent of the post-election troubles and the long term economic impact it will be pretty small the concern is the be more destruction hate when the constitutional court releases its verdict at the end of june or beyond. algeria to talk to. their members of venezuela's government and the opposition will meet you know say

next week for another round of talks aimed at resolving the political crisis the development could be seen as a sign of congress after of progress excuse me after months of tension between the opposition leader. and the venezuelan president nicolas maduro. called for an uprising against the president and told his supporters in lot a state the opposition would not take part in what he called full style let's speak now to antonia mora who is editor in chief of news and news dot com he's joining us live from miami in florida thank you very much indeed so a 2nd round of these talks taking place in what you imagine is actually on the table what are they discussing. well that's a big question martin because if it is what the u.s. state department seems to want is that the only thing that should be on the table is mud duros exit from power in vote as well i still am very skeptical that that is

the case right now the way these talks are structured the sides are not meeting face to face they're meeting with the norwegians who then operate as mediators so i highly doubt that the conversation has gotten to the point of negotiating an exit from a duro and and the his his henchmen from the dictatorship about as well ok but these things are a process aren't they and at least if then if even if the size of meeting face to face there is some sort of dialogue even if it's in direct going on which should be a sign of progress yes course. well no not necessarily because the history of it as well as shows that every time a dural has managed to get the opposition in negotiations what it's been has been a stalling tactic he just bias time manages to diffuse whatever uprising of the moment is against him manages diffuse international pressure against him so he has used talks as a tool on numerous occasions and even pope francis one of the series of talks

a couple of years ago was under the auspices of the vatican and even pope francis who has not really been that harsh against i'm not sure over the years has expressed that promises were not kept rather than as well in government so the history of talks with madeira would imply that there is not going to be a successful outcome here and that's what vice president pence in the united states was saying you know just a day ago was that the talks there should be no talks and then today the state department said that if there are talks that the talks should be focused on the exit of madeira only nothing else. well ok they have been talks in the past and as you say they haven't really yielded much but obviously this is a very very critical point isn't it not in the tensions in the country stream the high quite often explosive but also american sanctions are really by saying just this week just a couple of days ago. an ambassador the venezuelan ambassador had to resign through lack of money the ambassador to italy so. there is no place to go except. in

order to move forward for the both sides in this dispute. well yes if there were a regime is willing to negotiate and that again marty is the big question and you are absolutely right that the american sanctions are beginning to bite much more seriously in fact the indians who import a very large part of least a 3rd of the the the the hard currency the dollars that come in as well from oil exports are oil exports to india and india is pulling back on importing but as well on oil because of u.s. sanctions so there's no question that the madeira regime is now more under the gun than it ever has been from international sanctions because the reality is that the world has really not come together there have been piecemeal sanctions that you know they've been able to avoid busy sanctions through one outlet or another over the over the past few years because the e.u. hasn't been completely onboard with sanctions you know it's all been piecemeal and now those sanctions are biting more so the pressure is on the door there's

a massive gasoline shortage in but as well they have power outages forever i tweeted today that to talk about the country that has the most oil resources in the world proven resources in the world not having gasoline is like saying that there's no ice in the north pole they're all or also a major hydroelectric producer they have the 4th largest hydroelectric dam in the world 2 others are among the top 50 they've been a hydroelectric exporter for years and now they don't have electricity either so it's it is insane what has happened in venezuela and the suffering of the people is just dramatic and so the only hope is that there can be some sort of democracy that brings back foreign investment in that country and that tries to bring that country back to life antennae a moment i thank you very much indeed to sly for my. the politicians from india's governing alliance led by the hindu nationalists b j p every elected never end. as a leader now this rubber stamps his 2nd 5 year term as prime minister after

a landslide election victory his promise to promote inclusion after critics accuse his party of divisive policies that put hindus 1st and the opposition leader gandhi has offered his resignation as president of the congress party after it was again trouts in a 2nd straight election but party officials say the offer was rejected gandy even lost his seat in uttar pradesh which has been held by his family for decades the gandy dinner scene plays 3 former prime ministers more now from new delhi and our correspondent there say held. as part of the process the protocols of choosing the next government the prime minister narendra modi and his cabinet had to resign their positions on friday and submit those resignations to the president of the coven he accepted the resignations but asked the prime minister to stay on as a caretaker until a new government of the new prime minister was elected by the winning party of

course the b.g.p. of the willing party of the general election and so on saturday winning parliamentarians have gathered in an empty chamber of the parliament and have elected. modi to be the man that they wish them to lead the next government now that process has happened he will take that request by his own members and his allies back to the president and say that he has a mandate as a majority leader to form the next indian government that said and there has yet to be a swearing in date in the future that will be coordinated between astrologers b.g.p. prefers to consult astrologers and also allies before. they go ahead and decide what day that will be probably the end of may or early to. the congolese politician. has told our agency or he plans to unite the opposition he recently

recently returned to the democratic republic of congo after almost 3 years in exile khatami is a wealthy businessman and a former governor of the south east province katanga he was once an ally of the former president joseph kabila but they fell out and good to me was charged with property fraud and barred from running in december's election well that was won by felix is a caddy there the result has been disputed since chase again he's been in office he's pardoned 700 prisoners including political opponents of the former president kabila moyes khatami was one of the is cleared our correspondent catherine sawyer has sat down with moyes katun be in limbo. i think what is important for us is the life of the congolese people i'm going to go and do my 2 way in the country i came by a man of peace i never killed anyone i never stolen any penny from anyone

i cannot account for everything rich of god and do you still hold presidential ambitions 5 years is a lot we need to open our country to go up we need the people of 12 better life people feeling may be to be to be in the government is where you can help people. where i am today in the opposition we are going to. congratulate when we can where where you can congratulate going to criticise where you can agree and you are going to give advice when we can give some advice in the last presidential election you supported martin for you and another politician and he's been going around the country saying that he is the legitimate president do you support those issues you see i'm not the constitutional

court the constitutional court program better than just as president. some people listen the president has been struggling to his authority you see in this question that he's formed with his predecessor joseph kabila what is your reaction to that i know want to talk about they are quietly what are you concerned that he surrounding himself too much with people who are allies of the former president their people refused for the 3rd mandate of present and secondly they didn't vote for years candidates so i think today their people want a better future is up to president to say good because i think you should listen to the people what they do want for their future so you yourself have come back after almost 3 years he left the country thank you 16 because of your fallout with president.