right now we can speak to matthew goodwin his a senior visiting fellow at the europe program of chatham house he's joining us live now from italy via skype thanks for talking to us matthew how does it look from where you are i mean did we see this great surge from the right wing that was predicted by many before the elections took place. well we certainly see the national oculus party still very well it's a leave i'm very. prompts and the u.k. and euro skeptic parties that want to reduce migration into europe have affectively finish 1st in their elections but we've seen a mixed picture where we see some green party used to well let's keep doing well some liberal party is doing well and i think it is fair to say that perhaps the main story tonight the fragmentation more parties doing

better the mainstream be squeezed and bonuses increasingly going to one of 2 ends of the political spectrum indeed so it's it's almost as if there's been a surge from the radical sides both sides of the spectrum the more radical elements of the political spectrum is that what you're saying. i think that's a fair assessment i think if you look at what's happened in germany with the greens if you look at look i mean from being in italy look at the liberal democrats in the you try but also say that frankly the we're seeing in the right balance is to the big established parties having a really good time of it and you know we're coming out the back of the financial crisis directly g. crisis we've got big banks on the table around breakfast or the security on employment and it's quite clear that a large number of cases feel that the established traditional policies are not able

to answer those challenges and they said that increasing disaffection if you like with the political establishment across europe that does seem to have been halted doesn't it by these figures that suggest there's been a an almost a record turnout across europe well exactly i think turnout is the one of the big stories that really positive story of the year are more people opposed to. 5 years ago and i think overall that that's something that we should celebrate we had a discussion a few years ago was people giving up on democracy i think the answer today is no actually more people are participating. these elections but the great say i'd also we're seeing a lot more ideological diversity coming into politics liberals graines populous radical left so i think if anything you know that marketplace of a big forum so i think politics and the issues that affect our lives is going to

become richer as a result of that all right matthew goodwin thank you very much indeed for till the into us from the long year initially. well we're staying in this city because the far right. party led by interior minister and deputy prime minister matteo vini is the top performer in that country would go live to rome some of binge of it is our correspondent there and. done well pretty much predicted right what it is it a single issue you vote to vote for leader is it just the matter the issue of immigration. yes martin we did expect that the league of league party is going to do well but it's not a single issue it's a myriad of issues we've been traveling in the last week from north towards the south southern parts of italy and it's not just migration it is economics it is

people being tired of the same old faces politicians who've not been able to deliver and casting their votes for the lead party because they believe that new faces new people people who are calling for a change in the way the european union is run deserve a chance and that's what we've been hearing from the supporters obviously on the other side of the spectrum this is the results are upside down so to speak of the democrats who were the winners of more than 40 percent last time around are trailing behind so is the party which is in correlation with the league party forming the government head in italy also trailing behind the lead party so it is a resoundingly victory so far we've only had about 20 percent of the votes counted and they're leading with more than 30 percent as they were projecting earlier themselves that this will this will be mean that the lead party would be not just

in european parliament but also this would strengthen their position in local politics as well waters through we've been speaking to say that this is not an election about the european union only but it also is a very strong point on how they want their country to be run and some of them live for us in the italian capital ren thank you. well an indication of how the european results could have an impact on national politics greece is now heading for snap elections after the ruling party suffered major losses in the european parliamentary election prime minister and access to press says he'll coolly elections of to june the 2nd his left is syria party which. dawned into the greek political scene 6 years ago on an the platform lost out to the conservative new democracy party. right dubbed a 2nd round of local government election on june 2nd i would request needed

declaration of national elections from the president of the public so adam and the greek people of the only ones to make the final decision more now from our correspondent in athens jones are up with us. the result of sunday's dramatic election result in greece has been swift the opposition conservative new democracy leader. the government to resign he said greece needs a new strong government with a fresh mandate for the good of the country the prime minister needs to resign and hold elections as soon as possible and shortly thereafter that is in fact what happened the prime minister alexis tsipras said in public but even though the result secures the cities as places the protagonist of the political contest that results he says is not up to par with our expectations i will not ignore this result and he says he will call a general election as soon as the 2nd round of local elections is concluded next

week and that displeasure expressed by the prime minister i think is a reference to measures that he had recently announced they were they were tax handouts affectively whereby food and restroom sales tax would have fallen to half of what it is today to 13 percent. taxes on. other goods were to fall for the down the road at the end of the year if caesar were reelected he said he and he reinstituted installment scheme for people who are in tax a really has and that was a very popular measure back in 2015 when sousa 1st came into power unable to people to come up or up to date with taxes again and he also paid out a 13th bonus pension to do and a half 1000000 pensioners all of those measures the were insufficient to keep him up to par with his 36 percent popular vote with which he came to power in september

of 2015 there hasn't been an electoral contest in greece in the intervening period almost 4 years and this is the 1st result in which. personally and series a have. been tested for the policies and the result is clearly a thumbs down for the ruling left wing coalition. we've got lots more to come and they are including we're in sudan where deep divisions among the main opposition parties may prolong their fight for a new government. calls for an investigation into the violent police crackdown following indonesia's disputed election. and intimation of victory lewis hamilton dedicates his monaco win to make a louder peter has more installed. tell iraq has broken out against the us treatment of a wrong in their escalating crisis but the iraqi foreign minister also told his

iranian counterpart that they are willing to mediate some reports now from baghdad on iraq's delicate position. if mohammed jever jerry for came to baghdad to clarify where iraq stands in the ongoing tension between the u.s. 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 like. iran's foreign minister has proposed signing a non-aggression pact with gulf neighbors but iran says it will take action if necessary. 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 ice all added needs foreign investment especially to develop its oil for. it's 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 of shia armed groups in iraq who are allied to iran might decide to upset dot violence they might decide to take their own action their own initiative against u.s. assets in iraq oh iraqis filled talking a 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 of talks to find a solution. and iraq at the how it allowed their 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 iran 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 faisal it is a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations he's now director of the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university he says is more likely that a european country could take the lead in any mediation. i have always been skeptical that iraq can ever play that role there are other countries in the region that have also that might have more ability to play that role and i think even they are sitting on the sidelines so i'm not sure that the iraqi government will in fact play this role nor indeed do the 2 principal parties appear to be looking to the

government of iraq to do so one of the principal casualties in the estimates of many experts including some within the iraqi government. that one of the principal casualties of such a shooting war would be iraq itself so this is focused the minds of the entire iraqi police regardless of which side of the issues they come out of so it's more conceivable to me that a european perhaps even switzerland which after all represents american interests in iran and the president of the united states met with the swiss 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 as a busy market west of mosul it happened in the village

a village. in the town of robbia near the syrian border victims of a shopping before breaking their ramadan fast said media in saudi arabia says is intercepted a drone with explosives launched by who the fight is it apparently targeted the airport in design that's close to yemen's border in the south who think run media confirmed a drone strike a military one is at the apple. the emir of qatar shake tamim been found he has received an invitation from saudi arabia's king sound to attend 2 summits in mecca the meetings will focus on the effects of drone strikes on all the oil installations in the region catherine remains on dry land sea and deprecate off to saudi arabia lead for arab nations in imposing a trade and travel involved in june 2017. one of sudan's main opposition groups is

rejected calls from other protest leaders to organize a general strike for tuesday and wednesday is the latest sign of division between opposition groups trying to force the military to give civilians full control of the country imran khan has more now from the capital khartoum. the national party have made that announcement asking people not to take part in the nationwide strikes all the people here listening from the ones that we've been speaking to certainly know they are wanting to take part in the strike the national my party seems to have misread the mood of the country the game seems to have changed they not 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 the strike action because the army isn't negotiating in good faith they're 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 halting 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 zajac and that's angering people here so also i may have been divisions with them. 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 algeria's. constitutional council says 2 candidates have registered to run in the presidential election earlier local media reported that no one had been able to register successfully before the deadline passed the 2 candidates are required to collect 60000 voter signatures to validate their entry protesters are against the elections saying the government is linked to form a leader abdelaziz bouteflika. newspaper says it's now highly likely the elections set for july will be perspire owned in a separate development here is new state prosecutor is pursuing corruption charges against a dozen high ranking figures from the government of abdulaziz beautifully they

include former prime minister's abol malik's l.l. and made way are as well as 5 former cabinet ministers the files have been referred to the supreme court. use of a professor of political science and international relations at cafe university he says protests as a likely to work in news. 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 their files have been transferred to the high court suggests that there is mounting evidence against a few weeks ago the who or the chief of staff we spoke about corruption in algeria he made it absolutely clear that he had solid 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 out the. blood would be spent and so far so good he asked up to his words and they also said that he would get rid of what they called. the people who have been bullied in algeria the drug so the movement. would go a very very long way into a p.c. in the streets. on this al-jazeera news hour including game on the us president at the center of a charm offensive on his visit to japan. vigilante groups in mexico taking justice into their. and in sports has. details of roger federer's return to clay and carol.

hello again here across united states it has been another day of severe weather particular across oklahoma here the storms have pushed through and they were deadly in el reno oklahoma where people had died because of the overnight storm and it's still dealing with the recovery there across the region we're going to see more weather over the next few days particular pier across parts of arkansas into missouri and to iowa as well and we're also dealing in conjunction with the flooding that's going on because these storms continue to drop rain across much of the same areas from monday to tuesday a lot of the rain pushes into ontario but then we're going to be seeing a little bit of a break here across the central areas down towards the southeast we're still dealing with heat with atlanta reaching to about $34.00 degrees there what we've been talking about the rain and heavy rain across parts of central america we do have a disturbance off the coast that has really been instigating the rain there nicaragua

has been a big problem and now we're going to be seeing a little bit more rain as we go towards northwestern coast to rica so flooding and also mudslides and landslides could be a problem them up towards now so it is going to be a nice day on monday with a temperature of $28.00 degrees and then very quickly across parts of argentina a little bit of a rainfall situation across parts of the north and the east and asuncion rain for you the temperature of 26. the pollution is palpable. delis shares the symptoms of many modern metropolis but it's unique features have been gotten a crisis. people in power investigates the toxic mix feeding the city's invisible killer and asks why more is not being done to relieve its citizens at least that we have on a jersey of. the consequence of war. veterans of russia will

be served in the marine corps for $989.00. that just doesn't go away. it will not obstruct for the last couple years. is home as. follows a group of u.s. army veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back shelter. 0. traverses take a look at the top stories here on the al-jazeera news. europe centrists have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in the history

the center right european peoples party and the socialists and democrats together have the most seats but not enough for a majority. and the right is gaining ground in these elections italy's far right lower league lead by matter salvini has become the biggest party in the country and in france far right leader marine le pen won her jaw with president emmanuel macro . and in the u.k. nigel farage is brecht's it is set to win after tourism a failed to make it arrangements that would have ended the membership before the election. their sources have told out there that an armed group has ambushed a 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 i saw linked groups struck a military base killing 9 soldiers this happened in the same region i'm

a dangerous is our correspondent reporting from my degree. local sources say the attack happened when the military was escorting a group of civilians from the village of cold war. towards the world on 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 province that it had attacked military positions around good deal 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 the east nigeria recently both factions of both 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 ice up

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 attacks and operations against in the region claiming to have killed several of them in attacks carried out on their bases in the north east to zimbabwe now where the main opposition party is elected melson to me said it's the 1st congress held by the me for democratic change since the death of its founder last year the party has been plagued by infighting. has more from where in central zimbabwe. after months of infighting over who the leader of his about his main opposition party. is the

elected president of the movement for democratic change he went on. opposed to some who wanted the top job left the party or dropped out of the us a 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. nonviolent peaceful contests internally and that is what we have shown the world look at the number of people we have come all on their own accord on the bombings are watching him closely to see how he plans to put pressure on president amos and i got word of a rising inflation and unemployment along with fuel and casualties nelson chamisa unary lost last year's presidential election to president amos and all around god by 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 opposition and i don't like to call frameworks and propositions they're both new liberal both pro free market business and therefore they don't just even out they may differ in terms of whether leaders whatever ages and so on but fundamentally i do much for the same when it comes to his party geneva has positioned is the 1st congress since morgan signed and i died from cancer last year. soon after the death of the m.d.c. founder the party split over who should replace him. the next election is she in 4 years jimmy so will need everyone to work with him if he should oppose the only party mini's about means that even know. where zimbabwe. peacekeeping has always been dangerous work men and women sent around the world trying to contain the worst conflicts now the un is finding itself short of cash

and warns missions hanging in the balance is a diplomatic editor james pays. the u.n. is holding its annual events honoring the work of its peacekeepers around the world . being some of the most volatile places on earth last year 98 were killed while on g.t. increasingly they also operate in a very difficult financial environment funds a tight with some budgets being cut or peacekeepers need to better training and better equipment and their men 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 u.s. 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 confused on. the united states side the u.s. cares about peacekeeping we see it in our interest us as 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 bone. of the united nations where president trump is currently in japan and he's been giving mix messages about his visit he 1st said that great progress is being made in trade negotiations then he said on social media or hinted at leas

that nothing will happen until after japan's elections in july or later on monday he and prime minister shinzo are they they will meet with trade on the agenda when a report from take care. it was something of a contrast is donald trump set ringside at the grand sumo tournament in tokyo alongside the 1st lady and japanese prime minister shinzo a bear and unconventional president watching the most ritualistic and traditional japanese sports was 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 shinzo bear 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 there weren'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 of harmed american innovation. as you arrive to 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 is 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 however you want 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 . indonesia has just received election is now in the hands of the country's top court which is dealing with a challenge by the defeated cather that they 7 people were killed in clashes between opposition protesters and police and there are now coals for a formal investigation into how police handled the trouble a warning under tell us his report from jakarta contains some violent images. 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 process 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 brand's parents don't think he took part in any bullets and they don't know how or why short. of a word to the hospital in 4 hours no one could tell me anything but eventually they took me to a body i didn't want it to be him but he was. when i heard about it i was distraught i can't believe that he's gone. pisa make me laugh he was a kind boy a lovely boy. we say they didn't fall out of bullets last week just tear gas and rubber coated.