it was president in the oval office oval office for 2 and a half 3 hours recently so i think it's more likely that a european power will have the ability to mediate between the 2 principals rather than a regional country also in iraq the military says at least 5 people have died after a car bomb exploded at a busy market west of mosul it happened in a village near the syrian border victims are out shopping before breaking their ramadan fast. nearly all the candidates who put themselves forward for elections in algeria have been unable to register in time of ortiz hope the presidential poll would help or the country out of a crisis that forced the longtime leader abdel aziz both a flicker to quit so or hire us reports. july the 4th is a proposed date of algeria's presidential election but it doesn't have any candidate so far the constitutional council has declared that almost all of the 77 candidates don't meet the legal requirements to take part candidates from the

future front party a national republican party withdrew their applications calling for the election to be delayed and for the creation of an independent election monitoring body. the authority can form an independent entity like a national committee with branches nationwide so that we can have an election not involving the executive powers namely the president the government and the constitutional council critics of the ruling military fear the election will work in its favor the army's chief of staff gave saleh sees the election as an important step to restoring stability to algeria. so a presidential election will put in them to those trying to prolong the crisis it's important to form an independent body to organize and supervise the elections. on friday protesters chanted for saleh to resign along with other leaders connected to former president added i d's but of including interior prime minister abdul kahar that have been silent protesters don't trust the interim government which took over

in april after beautifully could step down the 82 year old was algeria's longest serving president in power for 20 years it's been 14 weeks since protesters 1st took to the streets demanding change now they want the election perspire and. an independent monitor must have more power than just organizing an election it should be able to supervise the entire process including declaring the results this is. vital to bring back the people's trust despite the hardship of protesting while fasting during the holy month of ramadan demonstrators insist they won't stop until their demands are met so to hide out. in a separate development algeria's new state prosecutors pursuing corruption charges against a dozen high ranking figures from the government of the former presidents they include former prime minister is. as well as 5 former cabinet ministers their

files have been referred to the supreme court's it is a very important development let's not forget that these 2 prime ministers have been seen by a judge before all over the last 2 weeks when they opened up the investigations and obviously the fact that the files have been transferred to the high court suggests that the mounting evidence against a few weeks ago were do you chief of staff we spoke about corruption in algeria he made it absolutely clear that he saw the evidence against members of the cause the government or the. people in the previous administration obviously it is moving on because what happens is that the promised to take. the. blood would be spilled and so far so good he asked up to his words and you also said that he would get rid of what they called. the girl and the people who have been bullied in

algeria the drug so would be the movement. you would go a very very long way into. the streets saudi arabia according to a state media has intercepted a drone armed with explosives launched by the fighters the drone was said to have targeted the airport in. order for the rebels of long number of john and tax on saudi cities. plenty more ahead on the including. where police are. questions over police brutality. federer's return to clay. sources have told an armed group nigerian military convoy killing at least 20

people they say it happened while the army was trying to move refugees from a camp. on monday and isolating groups struck a military base killing 9 soldiers in the same region. local sources say the attack happened when the military was escorting a group of civilians from the village of. towards them well in such a day morning now the military has not issued a statement regarding this attack and this is not by the way the only attack in recent days a few days ago there were claims by islamic state in west africa province that it had attacked military positions i don't google killing so many soldiers just days after they released a video which they claim to show the execution of soldiers fighting the insurgency in the east nigeria recently both factions of both the islamic state in west africa

probably is not aligned to the islamic state of west africa probably as well as the cold war. in other parts of borno state have launched attacks but the ice up targets mainly military targets in the region while before a fight is the other one is led by functionally i will because i've been raiding villages for food items and the rest they missed mostly target civilians and they also attacked military positions and now the nigerian military in collaboration with the multinational joint task force the regional force like involved in the elected area have ramped up their attacks and operations against in the region claiming to have killed several of them in attacks carried out on that basis in the north east zimbabwe's main opposition party has elected nelson chamisa its leader it's the 1st congress held by the movement for democratic change since its founder morgan tsvangirai died last year the party has been plagued by infighting has more

from. often months of infighting over who beat up is the bobbies main opposition party. is the elected president of the movement for democratic change and opposed to some who want to the top job to drop. out of the us we have shown the way out with sean zimbabwe with sean africa that it is possible to be democratic it is possible to renew it is possible to have a nonviolent peaceful contest internally and that is what we have shown the world look at the number of people we have come fall on their own accord. zimbabweans are watching him closely to see how he plans to put pressure on president innocent of a rising inflation and unemployment along with fuel and casualties nelson chamisa unary lost last year's presidential election to president innocent women that were the result showed he has significant support but whether he can appeal to

a broader audience remains unclear but his m.d.c. party also has to show its different from the ruling zanu p.f. i think there's a lot of common ground between the ruling party and opposition and i don't like to call frameworks and propositions. both pro free market business and they don't differ. in out they may differ in terms of whether leaders whatever ages and so on but fundamentally i do much for that. when it comes to his party jennie's a has been is the 1st congress since morgan signed that i died from cancer last year soon after the death of the m.d.c. has found the party split over who should replace him i. the next election is you in 4 years jimmy so will need everyone to work with him if he should oppose the only party minisub audience that even know. where zimbabwe. one

of sudan's main opposition parties has rejected calls from other protest leaders to organize a general strike it's the latest sign of the versions between opposition groups which are trying to force the military to hand control of the country to civilians and one can has more from hard to. this isn't about the party would have been a very big deal before december however the political landscape in sudan has completely changed and it's the sudanese professionals association that are currently the leader of the political pack in the country they're the ones that called for the strike and it looks like the strike will be heeded by many sectors of civil society here in the country now the sudanese professionals association is very much a middle class movement very much based in khartoum and it can bring khartoum as part of the rest of the country to a standstill now the party said it's not the right time for this and they need to not hold a strike however although those schools may well have been heated before december

the party don't have the political power that they once had and also the transitional military council say that the opposition are actually divided and that's why we haven't been able to come to a deal with the world the opposition coalition say actually what's happening is the regional players are backing the transitional military council and they're supporting them and that's been borne out in the last few days the vice chairman of the transitional military council and he has met with crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin so man we've seen the chairman of the transitional military council meets with. sisi his name is abdul fatah but han and now a lot of han is actually going to the u.a.e. to meet with the crown prince of abu dhabi mohammed bin zeid that's angered the protesters because they say this government this transitional military council is in effect acting like the government of sudan and they're not negotiating with the opposition coalition would they don't negotiate with us in good faith so they say

they've been forced into this strike action and it looks like the strike action will take place and it will hold and it will bring called soon to a standstill peacekeeping has always been dangerous work men and women sense around the world trying to keep a lid on the worst conflicts and now it's financially volatile to new runs finding itself short of cash and warns missions hang in the balance our diplomatic editor james bays explains why. the u.n. is holding its annual events honoring the work of its peacekeepers around the world . some of the most volatile places on earth last year 98 were killed while on chichi increasingly they also operate in a very difficult financial environment funds a tight with some budgets being cut or peacekeepers need better training and better equipment and that mandates need to be realistic and adequately support these with

both resources and political will for many years un peacekeeping has been based on a grand bargain western countries the e.u. and the us providing specialized equipment and troops and the vast bulk of the money while most of the troops come from asia and africa. but the system is breaking down many countries but most notably the us are not paying their share un peacekeeping is owed a staggering sum over $1900000000.00 the countries providing the peacekeepers countries like pakistan which has over $5000.00 men and women serving around the world are the ones currently having to pay most of the costs so here we are $2.00 contribution countries making sacrifices losing lives in order to maintain international peace and security and facing budgetary challenges so i think we need to fix this it needs to be fixed because this removes the most

successful enterprise of the united nations and it should be adequately resourced the u.s. owes way more than any other country to un peacekeeping that's been the case for many years but under president trump the size of the arrears has swelled to over $1100000000.00 a former obama administration official says it would make real sense to pay up now it's a little confusing. the united states side the u.s. cares about peacekeeping we see it it's in our interest u.s. is a larger training training country for peacekeeping missions and our diplomats work worldwide to help them succeed because we see the value of these missions so some of this can and should be sorted out with congress so they fully fund the amount that the u.s. owes and we can resolve this shortfall the u.n. secretary general knows he must tread carefully president trump doesn't take kindly to demands for huge sums from international organizations even though in this case

it's money that everyone agrees the u.s. is james. of the united nations jacob kathman is the associate professor of political science at state university in new york and he says there's no doubt about what a reduction in peacekeeping numbers will mean. to the extent that the peacekeeping budget is not able to cover the cost of currently deployed soldiers then and given that those soldiers are provided voluntarily by the member states if those member states are not being reimbursed for the deployment of those soldiers then you could see member states deciding to call their soldiers back from existing missions which would be critically important for the mission be able to you goals i can imagine that this would create in some instances a good deal of instability and one of the things that. soldiers do is they signal the commitment of the international community to bring resolution to these

conflicts and one of the calmest conceptions of peacekeeping is that it's meant to keep peace that are already existing that's simply not true in most cases the u.n. has deployed to active conflict and bahrain and when that's the case the effort put forward by the united nations is really important in terms of signaling to the combatants and to the civilians on the ground that they are committed to short term and long term stability in those places to the extent that those soldiers are being underpaid. misused or or returned to their their member states their home countries and that could create a level of instability on the part of the combatants in the civilians in those places. still ahead on me on this or a news hour an update on the european elections which are shaping up to deliver a big winter france's far right. donald trump bonds with japan sends a robber over sumo but hence there will be no progress on an important deal and in

sport the toronto raptors have punch their ticket to be n.b.a. finals peter how details of a canadian force. hello there the weather still giving us quite a messy picture over parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing most of that cloud is marching its way across the caspian sea but further south we're going to see a few more showers as we head through the next couple of days in one or 2 of these may turn out to be quite lively they also might kick up a fair amount of distance well towards the west now if we find a dry for most of us here and the temperatures in beirut will be wrong as it as we head through the next couple of days to choose day i think will get to $27.00 degrees a bit further towards the south of the some of us around the arabian peninsula this

is still some cloud around particularly over the northwestern parts of yemen and into the southwestern parts of saudi arabia now this cloud is giving us some rain in fact some of us have reported nearly 90 millimeters of wet weather and that has always run down the mountain sides and you can see that water there just seeping through the town i think there will be some more showers as we head through the next few days and again some of them could turn out to be a little bit heavy here in doha though no major changes for us weather wise i think we'll get to around 39 or 40 degrees and still until we hear it at times for the southern parts of africa put a cloud there just getting into the southwest making things rather gray away for us in cape town that system is edging its way eastwards as we head into much. an investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building

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hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our exit polls from european elections in france show that marine le pen's far right party is on track for a major upset these are live pictures often about addressing party supporters in paris and therefore cost to be president of iran maicon centrist party again $24.00 seats in the european parliament. iraq has spoken out against how the u.s. has treated its neighbor iran iraq's foreign minister said baghdad doesn't approve of the unilateral actions against iran but it would like to mediate between the 2 countries algeria supreme court will investigate corruption cases against a number of former ministers 2 former prime ministers and 5 ministers from a bit as these beautiful because governments were referred to the courts. go back

to our top story of the european parliamentary elections and will return to marry in london for more on the. yes that's right during a significant election millions across the continent voting in really one of the most important such votes we have seen in decades as a wave of populism threatens the traditional power balance in the region early results estimates are coming in from across europe including germany france and spain now in germany we've already heard the greens made some big gains there largely expensive one of. the social democrats it was a poor showing for them and elsewhere it looks like the far right national rally has pulled ahead of president emanuel macro's party in france this according to the latest exit polls and as we've seen with germany the greens appear to have done well also they have come in 3rd place so there is plenty going on let's join bob or

sara because she is following everything for us from brussels and barbara tell us about the latest that. well the latest as you mentioned is of course these exit polls and national forecasts coming from france now just to remind the viewers voting is still actually going in the european union now france poland forgive me italy poland and finland are still voting so no what is really going to announce official results just yet but as you mentioned merriam the exit polls that we're getting from france do show the national rally the party of marine le pen the far right populist party in france has actually managed to pull ahead of a man with mccrone and the his and now we had been expecting this opinion polls in the past few weeks had been suggesting something similar it does seem that that has happened of course france

a key country the 2nd biggest in europe when it comes to seats in the european parliament they've got $74.00 members of the european parliament germany the only country with more at 96 germany also interesting angular merkel's c.v. use the christian democrats have held and again the a if the there on the other hand the far right party in germany hasn't done as well as predicted down by 2 points neither has the far right party in austria the freedom party that won by 5 points even though they were mired in a scandal which probably had an impact on votes these votes of course not the final results but an indication i'm joined now by peter clip from the think tank open europe thanks so much for joining us again now we have the results from france of course another key country the other big one really waiting for is italy what do you make of the suggestion that marion le pen has actually managed to surpass him and win the crown well people are really looking at it and the other is symbolic

defeat crones trying to reform from but even is very modest labor market reforms. enormous opposition has so european agendas going now. where he wants to concentrate even more power and money at your level and i think even in france this is not a popular thing to do if you look at the result of le pen but we've seen a lot of protests in france against micron not so much by the national rally by by the shawn the yellow vests in every weekend we've seen writing and to varying degrees in paris what impact do you think these initial movement had on mcreynolds vote hard think it's more like a response from the public where it has a great impact i'm not so sure think it just shows that there's a lot of this content and this is confirmed now on the other hand look ben has not done better than 5 years ago so this is also maybe

a pattern across europe that you have some and to stub richmond's feeling you're a skeptic sentiment those differently consolidating but i think they're failing to to to make great breakthroughs i mean it's interesting because of course the national rally of marion le pen is sort of born from the front desk and i love her father john marie le pen it was around for decades that she could potentially be one of the key figures to lead a far right alliance obviously we're still waiting for italy's vote so we can't really discuss in any detail until then about how likely do you think a far right alliance would be for example marine le pen who is quite secular with some of the other far right parties who are almost aggressively christian if you will yes it's likely that we will have a big group built their own to salvini here in the european parliament no. they are internally still quite divided mainly on the economics in mainly on the question of the eurozone were indeed the more northern members or not happy to support transfer

say were us some of the like salvini has for example been praising the president of the european central bank and what are drug says so there's internal a difference. is the record important and secondly a majority a solid majority of any piece will still not be euro skeptics so they will simply try to continue with business of usual sort it's quite interesting to talk about your skepticism because we never talk about in any other election you know most members of parliament in any part of parliament don't necessarily want to the undoing of that very parliament whereas here at the european level you do get your skeptic members of parliament with fact to flee almost don't want the european parliament or the european union as it exists right now to continue existing what are the dangers of this euro skeptic wave that we had all been talking about parting the dangers is that our debts the mainstream parties in europe do not speak of the signal that they continue with business as usual they continue to transfer

powers and money to the brussels level for example by scrapping veto powers for national governments over taxation or foreign policy i think the euro skeptic move in the splits you have the people that want to destroy the whole e.u. but then you also have the people who say look we just need to make of the bit more modest we need to make sure that it focuses on its core business and i think that the means 3 parties in europe have to pick up the signal it's clear. euro skeptic sentiment is still pretty strong this was not a great breakthrough but it's a consolation but we still have italy and the u.k. to come to the u.k. obviously a slightly different case peter piper from open europe thank you very much so mary most interesting it is that effectively what you're getting here is 28 national elections and all 40 on slightly different platforms and in a slightly you know with slightly different themes in the various countries but ultimately they are all going to have to form

a european parliament here 751 seats up for grabs and we will soon find out we are about to get some a semi official projections on what the. we'll actually like thank you very much barbara starr in brussels so of course we will have much more for you a bit later on but for now it looks as though in germany merkel's alliance is finished in 1st place as she has suffered heavy losses and in france a marine the pens far right policy early projections early projections showing that she is finished in 1st place in these e.u. elections will have more from london a bit later on and of course from brussels now let's get back to daryn. thank you well at least one person has died in northern peru where there's been a powerful earthquake the magnitude 8 event happens about 75 kilometers southeast of this story peru civil defense says at least 11 people have been injured it's also calls power cuts in several cities and damage to buildings fall tronto

centered on social media there will be no major progress on a trade deal while he's in japan so far he's spent his time there taking in traditional japanese culture and on monday here the prime minister will hold a bilateral summit where trade will be discussed when he reports from tokyo. to something of a contrast is donald trump sent ringside at the grand sumo tournament in tokyo alongside the 1st lady and japanese prime minister shinzo a bare and unconventional president watching the most ritualistic and traditional japanese sports. earlier in the day the 2 leaders had a round of golf but on monday the games will stop and they'll get down to business although no significant announcement on a trade deal is expected it's thought that she won't make major concessions particularly in agriculture before an upper house election in july. u.s. producers want better access to japan's food and agriculture markets that have

traditionally been protected by subsidies and other non-tariff areas the rural voter base is one that she won't want to risk losing ironically u.s. farmers would have had better access to japan if the united states had remained part of the trans-pacific partnership multilateral trade deal that came into force in december but donald trump pulled the u.s. out of that agreement after he won the election. trump also wants to revive the u.s. car industry believing that imports have harmed american innovation as you arrived in japan classic car enthusiasts gathered outside tokyo keeping the glory days alive. what i like most is the design and also the sound of the v 8 engine i don't think the design has aids the designer who came up with his car 50 years ago is amazing to help the revival the president wants japanese companies to invest more in the states he made demands japan limits vehicle exports and has threatened to

increase tariffs japan has been there before in the eighty's with the reagan administration what was agreed at that time was a quarter of an upper limit for cars and that resulted in major investments of japanese car makers in particular honda and toyota in the u.s. economy i do think that the negotiations are heading in this direction now very much for now this visit seems to be mainly about relationship building with japan trying hard to impress and keep the united states on side when hey al-jazeera tokyo . and uneasy as the spirit election is now in the hands of the country's top court which is dealing with a challenge by the defeated candidates at least 7 people have been killed in clashes between opposition protesters and police and there now calls for a formal investigation into how police handled the trouble just a warning under thomas' report from jakarta contains some violent images. down

a narrow alley in a poor area of jakarta is a family in mourning that this was the home of the youngest person to die in the protests in indonesia as capital for a handful jari was 15 late on tuesday night he got what messages from excited friends there was something big going on in the center of town just 15 years old. in britain's parents don't think he took part in any violence and they don't know how or why short. of a word to the hospital in 4 hours no one could tell me anything eventually they took me to a body i didn't want it to be him but he was there when i heard about it i was distraught i can't believe that he's gone. peace to make me laugh he was a kind boy and a lovely boy. we say they didn't fall out of bullets last

week just tear gas and rubber coated bullets to control and disperse drawing crowds . they say their action was restrained doing only what they had to but others question. people from human rights groups say from their early investigations into what happened here last week basis spec the place of using unnecessary force and of violations of human rights. they say they've seen disturbing videos like this one of what appear to be police beating a man cowering in fear another appears to show men in uniform attacking someone who's already been the time. and human rights activists want a formal investigation into police tactics and actions. the police used tear gas indiscriminately and treated everyone violently peaceful protesters people who just came out to watch and those throwing stones. last week's riots began as protests by supporters of presidential election contender. after in

the media's electoral commission announced he had lost to the reelected president joko widodo. family say he wasn't motivated by politics he was just a curious teenager his parents want to know why that led to his death andrew thomas al jazeera jakarta. norway is to host more talks aimed at resolving the power struggle in venezuela but as well in government in opposition representatives are doing all slower discussions were held earlier this month the developments seen as a sign of progress between president president nicolas maduro and opposition leader one hijo has warned he won't take part in what he calls false dialogue. in mexico the inability of police to reduce violent crime is being blamed for a growing number of vigilante attacks and groups have burned some suspected criminals alive others have been have.