is deputy chancellor and the leader of the freedom party discussing trade trading government contracts the campaign supports with a woman posing as the niece of a russian on account we'll bring you more on the european elections a bit later but we're also following some other stories from around the world in iraq the military there has said at least 5 people have died after a car bomb exploded at a busy market west of mosul now this happened in a village within the town of robbia near the syrian border that victims are out shopping before breaking ramadan fast meanwhile iraq has spoken out over the escalating dispute between the u.s. and iran saying it stands with its neighbor but in the same breath the iraqi foreign minister told his iranian counterpart that he's willing to mediate rob matheson reports. if mama jeffords early for came to baghdad to clarify where iraq stands in the ongoing tension between the us and iran iraq's foreign minister seems to have given him an answer. against the unilateral measures taken

by the us we are standing by iran in its position and god willing we can play an intermediary role between the parties if necessary. iran's foreign minister has proposed signing a non-aggression pact with gulf neighbors but iran says it will take action if necessary. comes i'm on we will defend ourselves against any efforts for a war with iran whether it is a military or economic one that would victimize the iranian people we will face it with strength and resistance iran and iraq have close ties to trade culture and religion but iraq relies on u.s. and foreign troops to combat the threat of eisel and it needs foreign investment especially to develop its oil fields iraq has been doing a diplomatic balancing act for years and some say that puts it in a perfect position to be able to mediate between the united states and iran but to do it successfully like most negotiations it has to be seen not to take sides there

are also fears that some shia armed groups in iraq who are allied to iran might decide to upset that balance they might decide to take their own action their own initiative against u.s. assets in iraq. iraqis filled tahrir square in the heart of baghdad on friday demanding that their government put iraq's safety 1st and that their country should be at the center for talks to find a solution. to let up at the how loud the legitimacy on iraq has become a bridge where meetings have been held at the iranian embassy with european diplomatic missions and it's taken the decision to start talks with moderate countries affected by the situation to lobby the united states and. to try to extinguish the fires of war. iraqis may need more evidence to convince them that they won't be dragged into an unwanted conflict rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad

you know the news hour live from london much more still ahead calls for an investigation into the violent police crackdown following indonesia's disputed election. zimbabwe's main opposition has elected a new leader but will he be able to quell party infighting and challenge the government for power. and that is for 8 hours the details of what roger federer has returned to the clay of roland counts. and election is supposed to happen in algeria within weeks but nearly all the candidates who put themselves forward have been unable to register in time forces hope the presidential poll would help the country out of a crisis that forced a longtime leader abdel aziz beautifully to quit sarah 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 rahm gave saleh sees the election as an important step to restoring stability to algeria. a presidential election will put into 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've got a free car including interior prime minister abdul qadeer have been solid protesters don't trust the interim government which took over in april after beautifully could step down the 82 year old was all jerry'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 there's a clear member 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. and in a separate development algeria's new state prosecutor is pursuing corruption charges against a dozen high ranking figures from the government of former president abdelaziz

bouteflika include former prime ministers abdul malik solo and ahmed yeah as well as 5 for my cabinet ministers their files have been referred to the supremes court now one other story we're watching at least 30 people are dead and 200 others missing after a boat sank on lake my and on bay in western democratic republic of congo officials estimate several 100 people were on board when bad weather hit they were mainly teachers travelling to collect their salaries by boat because roads in the region are too poor to use. one of sudan's main opposition parties has rejected calls from other protest leaders to organize a general strike this week it's the latest sign of divisions between opposition groups after weeks of political deadlock that trying to force the military to hand over to civilian rule more than 6 weeks after they took control from president tomorrow to share imran khan has more from hard to him. the national policy have

made that announcement asking people not to take part in the nationwide strikes all the people here are listening from the ones that we've been speaking to certainly notes they are wanting to take part in the strike the national mall policy seems to have misread the mood of the country the game seems to have changed they know the policy that they once were it's the sudanese professionals association that are now the key players they're the ones calling for the strike they say that they've been forced into this strike action because the army isn't negotiating in good faith they also saying that they want everybody to take part in the strike action because they want the sudanese people to see them and to take part and to join in with them now the sudanese professionals association is actually representative of quite a number of industries including lawyers don't and people who work in the petrochemical industry communications industry it's

a very middle class movement so it will have some impact certainly here in the capital but actually a lot of these protesters also very angry because of what they see as being the transitional military council acting as the defacto government of the sudan in the last few days we've seen the vice chairman of the sudanese transitional military council meet with mohamed bin so man the crown prince of saudi arabia we've seen the chairman meet with abdul fattah el-sisi the leader of egypt and also with the crown prince of abu dabi mohammed bin ziad and that's angering people here so also i may have been divisions within. actual opposition movement they seem to be now coming together to say actually it's time for us to call the strike it's time to put the army on the box and put ourselves in a stronger negotiating position. some reports from northeast nigeria speak of an

armed ambush on a military convoy with at least 20 people killed no one has yet claimed responsibility but is known to be very active in the region this happened while the army was trying to relocate refugees from a camp in the region of borno state algiers ahmed address has more from the regional capital my degree. local sources say the attack happened when the military was escorting a group of civilians from the village of near saddam very towards the world saturday 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 problems that it had attacked military positions i don't google area killing so many soldiers just days after they released a video which they claim to show the execution of soldiers fighting the insurgency in law nigeria recently both factions of both the islamic state in west africa

programs that align to the islamic state of west africa province as well as the cold war. in other parts of borno state have launched attacks but the islip targets mainly military targets in the region while before and fighters the other ones led by factional leader 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 electorate area have ramped up their tactics and operations again in the region claiming to have killed several of them in attacks carried out on that basis in the north east and then a series of explosions in the nepali capital katmandu which have killed at least 4 people and injured several others a police official said 3 blasts took place across the city in a residential area near the head dresses and

a brick kiln cause of the explosions are under investigation but it might be the work of far left rebels who are opposed to the government a pamphlet from the cli it was found at the site of the 1st explosion. to indonesia now the disputed election is in the hands of the country's top cause after a challenge by the defeated candidate on saturday at least 7 people have been killed in clashes between opposition protesters and police there are now calls for a formal investigation into how police handled the situation andrew thomas reports from jakarta. down a narrow alley in a poor area of jakarta is a family in mourning this was the home of the youngest person to die in the protests in indonesia's 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 to to be him but he was but when i heard about it i was distraught i can't believe that he's gone are attending pisa make me laugh he was a kind boy a lovely boy. who. police 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 detained human rights activists want a fair. 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 at. 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. jari is family so 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. sushi sumo and gulf those are just some of the

things that donald trump has been up to in japan where he's visiting prime minister shinzo ave that trade is also on the agenda but the u.s. president has suggested it might not be the time for any agreement just yet when he reports from tokyo. it was something of a contrast as donald trump set 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 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 as 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 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 . here with al jazeera live from london more still ahead we'll have all the latest on the election results but also angry citizens in mexico are taking the law into their own hands frustrated by violence and this a cult of police in action the biggest biometric program in history and why it could be ringing alarm bells for almost $1000000.00 people and then later the french open is off to

a bad start with one top ranked player peter how much more. elegant and welcome back to international weather forecasts are we do have a mix of weather here across much of europe 1st we'll start off to the north where we do have some clouds and some rain all some windy conditions that are pushing across this area and that's what monday is going to look like with those winds coming across the u.k. going across parts of denmark and into scandinavia that across a bit peninsula here on monday looking quite nice with madrid at $28.00 but the big problems going to be here in the central mediterranean we do have an area of low pressure that is developing over course. also sicily windy conditions and rainy conditions there from monday to tuesday the rain continues across much of italy or rome is going to be a very rainy day into tuesday where we start to see

a break but notice all the rain begins to move here towards the east we're going to be seeing vienna with a very rainy day at 20 degrees but still quite nice down here towards the southeast for athens for parts of turkey looking quite nice with temperatures into the high twenty's well that same area of low pressure in the mediterranean is going to cause a big problem across the coastal areas we're talking algeria tunisia so we're going to be seeing the rain we're going to be seeing the wind here on monday we see a little bit of improvement particularly for algiers as we go towards tuesday and we are going to be seeing those temptress pop back up as well the sky is going to be a nice day with a temperature of 26 degrees for you. once and the magic tried now settled in towns and villages. but many are unregistered and invisible. 6 boys and 2 goals none of them have citizenship al-jazeera world needs to upgrade people. walked out on the identity of the person

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welcome back a look at the top story this hour polls are closed across europe after one of the most contentious elections in the e.u.'s history according to estimates the european peoples party will remain the largest bloc but they are down from 5 years ago the greens in the liberals have managed to significantly increase their seats whilst the parliament's 2 populous blocks of made slight gains. in our other top stories this hour iraq has vowed to stand with iran as tensions escalate between iran and washington but at a meeting with his iranian counterpart in baghdad the iraqi foreign minister says his government is willing to mediate between iran and the united states and to form algerian prime ministers as well as 5 former cabinet ministers are among a dozen high ranking figures facing corruption charges the country's new state prosecutor has referred their cases to the supremes court. so more coverage

of the european parliamentary election results as they come in to us these are initial projections of how the election has played out so far now as we were saying the center right european peoples party has honored $78.00 seats followed by the progressive alliance of socialists and democrats with $147.00 seats then the alliance of european liberals and democrats is on $101.00 seats the populace bloc which calls itself europe of nations and freedom have $57.00 seats and the europe of freedom and direct democracy which includes the u.k.'s brics it party has $56.00 seats will have more on that a bit later and then of course you have the greens right here with 70 seats and following all of this barbara sarah at the european parliament in brussels and barbara the expectation was that we would see populist nationalist parties but also smaller parties more left wing parties making gains in this election at the expense of the traditional mainstream parties. well the traditional

mainstream parties have certainly suffered the e p p which is the center right coalition is certainly still the biggest party but a lot weaker than it has been and i think the crucial takeaway number here is that the e.v.p. with the center left coalition as cindy still cannot form a grand coalition to have an overall majority within the parliament so that's something to look at interesting the e.m.f. numbers of course c.n.n. will be rebranding as savina is alliance the europe alliance of peoples and nations perhaps not as high as we had predicted but still we are waiting to get more permanent results and i will also be interesting to see if this new alliance the savina lines will be able to convince other smaller groups of also far right or right leaning parties to join that was just because we don't think they have the numbers now compared to the blocks in which they were 5 years ago the last time

that we had this problem in 2 elections doesn't necessarily mean that the far right grouping will not be able to form a bigger group to look at the numbers in more detail we're joined by. data analyst for european legs thank you very much now i know that you've been looking at the italian numbers of course italy a crucial country in all of this because we were expecting a bit of a surge of certainly the opinion polls put some vini some of them even at 35 percent how's that actually turned out what we're seeing from projections is that. you may be fairing lower than be getting the results you were than we expected more or less under 30 percent of course this is an important. thing to do the addition from sort of for me tell you from. of course will be. within the new european alliance people's emissions group and of course these results my gosh some hopes to describe this group. at the beginning. which is becoming. that perhaps the 3rd

largest group inside a group in parliament after the socialists and center right i mean obviously one of his biggest allies is marine le pen who has that very well in france or certain stunts has managed to be president i'm a crawl and you've been crunching the numbers how do you think the parliament will look when all the groupings are consolidated well as he said as you rightly said where we will see is that the center right and center left the grand coalition which has governed the european parliament so far which seem to command the majority these will mean that forces such as the liberals check specter to grow and then in the greens also expect to grow we need to join forces with this pro-u. groups in order. to keep the parties mood functioning of the parliament a bigger size bigger. bigger group on the on the right side the parliament has dropped the policy making the 1st starting from the european commission president election up until policymaking and which is in the process they may have we've all

been focusing on a lot of far right populist parties but actually the greens have done incredibly well are they the next power to be reckoned with within the parliament this is this is something. we're not expecting. the green surge especially in germany where the 2nd party with 20 percent of the votes over 20 seats 3rd 4th in france which is something no one expected above the center right of course the liberals now would be able to play a major role inside the new parliament and in order to join the new majority governing the chamber he would be you would probably be able to win a position to make stronger more precise demands to the traditional governing parties seem on a spa zito from a europe just one final thing almost all the results are in anything else you're still waiting to see or any numbers that perhaps you think might change. i think we see we're expecting results from poland and hungary of course the big governing parties are expected to bury well. other than that i think. we're waiting

for the reading the big question is the u.k. of course and the results assume a very look very. very few results to be able to probably comment and they are starting to come in of course we'll follow them here on al-jazeera for the moment similis posy toll from the data aggregate to europe elect someone i suppose it was thank you very much and of course this week a lot of talk about populist parties of far right parties in the european parliament and how they might change the makeup of the parliament but the key thing to remember is that a lot of these parties apart from having controversial views were seen as and t. europe so a lot of those parties basically one of their aims was to come into the european parliament and change it from within and somebody can accuse them of wanting to a fact the fact that destroyed from within so that is why it's key in also why here the european parliament certainly from a lot of the analysts or european parliament members here are old and potentially

some new there is a sense of relief that perhaps the far right populists haven't done as well as some had predicted all right thank you very much for now barbara sarah in brussels and we turn our attention then to early results here in the u.k. where the deadlock of a bracks it means that the country has unexpectedly had to take part in these elections which was an anticipated the and the party is expected to take the lead i'm joined in the studio now by our correspondent rory chalons and the there is a lot of frustration or there has been frustration with the ruling conservative party they were expected to suffer a real drubbing in these european elections one of the early projections telling us well the man who is riding the wave of that sentiment is knowledge of iraq i think going to be a happy man this evening he's saying that the intelligence that he's getting is the brits the party is doing pretty well it looks like is going to be a big win for the brakes of policy and the results that are coming in say exactly

that we have cities and towns that are giving the. share in their particular areas that are coming in and pretty much consistently across the board the brics a party is in the lead and 2 establishment parties labor and conservative are taking a drubbing we've only had one region actually that's declared so far with the number of pieces that have been elected that's the northeast of the country breaks it has to meet these and labor has won so yes it is going to be a very good evening for the bracks it party and you know what they're doing here i think is absolutely astonishing it's pretty much on precedents it was only looked as party on april the 12 there are things in my fridge that are older than this party and it's come from nowhere and it's completely schooled labor and the conservatives and it's done that by banging one drum very hard and repeatedly in using a combination of kind of guile and luck and favorable circumstances. to really ride

it they you know they've taken all those people that run annoyed with the government for not delivering bricks it and they've hoovered up those votes they've hoovered up some from from labor as well. but they've also benefited from the fact that the tories didn't want these elections and barely campaigned in them labor didn't do much more than that and that the pro e.u. votes in the u.k. has basically been split amongst a number of different parties which is kind of left the door open for bricks it has so clearly the momentum is with nigel farage and his bracks at party and he has managed to win over a lot of supporters you've abandoned the ruling conservatives who are gearing up for what could be a what is likely to be a brutal be to ship contest through the summer we have already seen a number of key figures during the past in the ring everyone is watching these european election results very closely how could it affect positioning for in the

race to replace to resume a well i think anyone who has. missions to be the next leader of the conservative party and of course prime minister as well will be looking at these elections and drawing conclusions and i think the conclusions that they will be drawing are going to be worrying for anyone who has concerns about the center ground of british politics because you know what these candidates going to look at is what nigel farage has done and think that if they are going to have any hope of chlorine any of those voters they've lost back from the party they're going to have to out faraj nigel farage for labor though there's also a lesson to draw which is that perhaps they they are being abandoned as well in a large extent by people who think that they should be more remain than they have been and this might force the labor party to actually come down in favor properly of a 2nd referendum or a challenge thank you. right so. to zimbabwe where the main opposition

party is elected nelson chamisa as its leader it's the 1st congress held by the movement for democratic change since the death of its founder morgan chang right last year how much hassle has more now from guerra. after months of infighting over who will be leader in opposition party nelson chamisa is the elected president of the movement for democratic change he ran unopposed after some who wanted the top job left the party or dropped out of the race and we have shown the way out we have shown zimbabwe with on 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 all 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 cash orders nelson chamisa narry lost last year's presidential election to president in a similar and that where the results showed he has significant support but whether he can appeal to a broader audience remains unclear. 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 globalization and i do a logical frameworks and propositions. both pro free market business and therefore they don't just fall. out they may differ in terms of whether leaders whatever ages and so on but fundamentally ideologically the same when it comes to is party chinese or has cheated i thi opposition is the 1st congress since morgan signed that i died from cancer last year. soon after the death of the m.d.c. is found the party split over who should replace him. the next election is in

4 years jimmy so will need everyone to work with him if he said to oppose the only party minister bobbins have even know. where. in mexico the inability of police to tackle violent crime is being blamed from a growing number of vigilante attacks angry mobs have been some suspected criminals alive others have been hanged there is reports. on the streets of a neighborhood in the state of mexico. is meeting residents who say reese's leader of a neighborhood watch group set up in response to a growing crime rate in his state but sometimes police don't do their job sometimes there simply aren't enough officers or they don't patrol so if we can lend our support in looking out for suspicious activity obviously that helps there's a growing incidence of vigilantism in the state of mexico.