and eva this is something that you may not need to tackle head on also because keep in mind that the philippines a lot of us got no no we're not sure criminal court. has not gone beyond remain our extermination being dispersed. karla's condé joining us from an elegant human rights watch carlos thank you. so on al-jazeera britain's back to party fails to win a seat unless mentor is labor supports a narrow victory. and mexico promises to step up security along its border with lot of mala to prevent migrants crossing but the u.s. wants it to do more. howlers the thunderstorms are moving away now from south korea and japan this head

of cloud is the head of the low and this is his a trailing frontal system so it's not quite going strong satellite picture but the full cross for saturday is rather a better one still good and backwash showers in northern hong schober otherwise good looking fine 27 in seoul in the sunshine there is more rain there's the yellow sea but it does not reach beijing which sits quite pretty as a light breeze and the low thirty's and here's the picture of sunday cloudy occasional showers still possible but all thunderstorms i don't think have a bit of rain running into north korea pyongyang in particular seeing it by sunday evening for china the wet weather that has been so extensive right from chengdu across to was shanghai is not their forecast and subsidize the emphasis is a bit further south a might be heading down towards home call again certainly for the south in the yangtze valley as you can see but only just it will vary in the next month or so from here down to here. that surprised me in the philippines the showers not been extensive recently and in the forecast lose on these dry but come for the size of

particular born as a summer work kind of untold looks wet also looks pretty wet and so the ways in this dark green is the heaviest downpours which do extend westwards towards singapore. after decades of being programmed with instructions they took on greek computers could no know on their own identifying problems and predicting human behavior. official intelligence good moment to moment. and decide on a future the big picture. of the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine. to sierra.

are watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now if the prime minister of iraq medicine sudan to broker talks between pro-democracy protesters and the chair into the un's pushing for human rights monitoring team to be deployed over the recent crackdown on protesters. and human rights acts pirates are demanding an investigation into the philippines a violent war on drugs the panel's accusing president robert go to territory of intimidating judges and degrading women as well as encouraging attacks on drug dealers. the case broke the party has failed to win. a by election challenge in the city of peterborough the newly formed party was hoping to win its 1st parliamentary seat after a strong performance in european elections last month and stead the seat was

narrowly retained by the labor party during the 2016 e.u. referendum 60 percent of voters in peterborough backed leaving the block. despite differing opinions across our city the fact that the threats of party have been rejected here in pizza for shows that the politics. shows the politics of division will not quit. this is a result for every community in pizza for tonight's victory is significant because it has shown that the politics of hope can win. regardless of the odds the leader of the labor party says the vote shows that people are concerned with issues beyond blacks it other say in the polls spells trouble for britain's 2 main parties to the whole house the reaction from peterborough. well a failure of the brakes party perhaps in this. election in peterborough but

certainly not i think a failure of the brakes if party expectations were of course extremely high that they would win here particularly after their showing in the european parliamentary elections just a fortnight ago an extraordinary victory for them there but of course it was not to be but look at the bigger picture here this is a part of the british party founded just a couple of months ago off the back of each treatment anger by many voters that the reason mates conservative party and its failure to deliver breaks of the party only that it's a single issue party no other campaign message no other policies tremendously alluring to the great many voters in this country who feel so passionately about rights and it's led by nigel farage a controversial politician a friend of the president of the united states he held private meetings with donald trump just this week and indeed in those european parliamentary elections 2 weeks ago as i said they 1st out of all the national political parties here sending 29 m.

e d's to brussels while the conservative party some to their worst national election result in the party's 200 year history and here in peterborough coming a very close 2nd in trying to send an m.p. to westminster losing by just under 700 votes as a vanishingly small margin i think make no mistake and the other parties will now make no mistake the briggs's party has become and remains a significant feature new feature on the british political landscape and britain's prime minister officially stepping down as the later a park and servant party so continue to serve as prime minister while the party chooses her successor 11 m.p.'s are competing in that race may announced her resignation 2 weeks ago after parliament voted down her bracks a deal for a 3rd time so to speak about all. lawrence this labor victory is a big surprise. well it's a surprise only because the ascendancy of the rex it policy has been has been so

quick and so astonishing in general saying they cannot get a clear winner in the european elections and in the referendum 3 years ago piece of revoted by 63 percent believe in so based on all that the bookmakers had the brits it policy is the odds on favorite to win. that the labor party however obviously saying today that they won because they didn't campaign on bricks they campaigned on austerity and. on all the poverty and school places and hospitals and all those things that they say people are much more interested in than and so there are different interpretations of the results but what genocide is absolutely right the reps at parties is now a part of life in intriguingly there's an opinion poll this morning for the times newspaper about westminster voting intentions who would people vote for if there was a national election and that puts the back seat policy in the lead on 26 percent labor and the liberal democrats who want to cancel joint 2nd and 20 on the conservatives

down and full of them on 18 percent so that all the polling is very consistent about a quarter of people in the country wants the sorts of hard bricks it that the bracks a party has to offer just over that possibly somewhere there are a 3rd want to cancel it completely and then you go everybody else looking at the conservatives in the labor party the 2 supposedly main policies in british policy saying make your minds up what are you going to do and that's really what we stuck it it's basically a 3 way split in public opinion but we don't have 2 party politics anymore at least the time being is for party politics and that makes things very confusing because it means is no clear direction in terms of what the country wants to do party and let's talk about one of the main parties obviously the conservative party how bad is this for them. well that they're really in a hole at the moment it's a reason mays last day as conservative parts of the national fire always always one for a stunt and moving the agenda to his time is put in them through lots of ups and the

10 downing street this morning saying demanding to be part of the new bricks in the ghost asian with whoever succeeds at his prime minister and all the main contenders for that race are now saying we've got to live a brooks's otherwise a conservative policies types and the reps that policy takes over but as i'm saying the thing they wouldn't address in that is if they would say says we are delivering bricks it one way or the other over the 31st. then there will be a vote of no confidence in parliament and probably the conservative party would lose that because there are enough incentive in peace who would vote against their own government collapses and that would lead to a general election even before they could they could deliver that source of bricks and so it's really a mess because they're in a trap of their own making really they cold deliver the sort of bricks at the bricks policy once but they don't know where else to go because the alternative was to resume those bricks and that's sort of been ruled out by parliament so it's very difficult really to know where they go from here all right lawrence lane the latest

from london thank you. for minister says troops will be deployed to its southern border with quote amala to stop the flow of migrants to the united states or sell a broad says $6000.00 national guard soldiers will be sent that's after the us threatened to impose tariffs on all mexican goods if it didn't do more to control the number of people crossing into the u.s. central american migrants flaying poverty and violence travel per lot of mexico to reach and u.s. . ice president says he is encouraged by mexico's offer to do more for mike pence as president trump will decide if those steps are enough exco his foreign minister has held 2 days of talks in washington been negotiating still have not reached an agreement depends on exports and faces a 5 percent tariff being imposed on monday john and as more from mexico city. mit's cruz foreign minister marcello abroad has just confirmed the country is willing to send members of its national guard this is a new quite militarize force to its southern border as part of any deal with the

united states on trying to reduce migration and try to avoid the tariffs the president trump is planning with threatening to bring into effect on monday the 10th of june the negotiations between the 2 countries continue what's at stake here and what is the problem really large amounts of central americans mainly from from tourists and salvador guatemala coming through mexico often without documents and many of them trying to get into the united states there's been a real surge about mexico has had some success in detaining them in recent months but for the united states that's not enough they're demanding more action now mexico has been sending signs all through thursday that it's trying to do more it's arrested for example a prominent migrant migrant rights activists that was guiding current vans large groups of people through mexico and it also froze the bank accounts of $26.00

people that have been suspected or people smuggling now comes to the point where certain proposals are obviously on the table with the united states and its so that government and president trump to decide whether this is enough as negotiations continue last year u.s. border guards apprehended hundreds of thousands of central american migrants trying to enter the united states more than 3 quarters of a 1000000 migrants were from mexico more than 21000 had traveled from honduras and 16300 people came from guatemala experts say climate change is one of the reasons for the exodus prolonged drought and extreme weather events are battering maize beans and other crops and as a man mercer reports from guatemala many farmers say they. no choice but to look for opportunities abroad. on this dusty hillside in guatemala's western highlands francisco prepares a field for planting

a decade ago he could grow enough corn to feed his family for most of the year but these days his harvests are getting smaller and smaller francisco says climate change is to blame is that then the weather shouldn't be like this it used to rain in the middle of april but now the rain doesn't arrive until the end of may or the beginning of june we always wait until it's rain before we plant our corn if it doesn't rain and we don't plant because the seeds won't grow average daytime temperatures in guatemala have risen over the past decade while crop damage and frosts are more common and when it does rain it often pours for days washing the topsoil away water malo already has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the western hemisphere and in the western highlands indigenous subsistence farmers make up half the population when crops here fail people leave who wants to follow his uncles to the united states the 18 year old says that there's no future for young people in his village the only people he sees getting ahead have left to work

abroad and send money back. i didn't. i want to make something out of my life to be able to follow my dreams i want to get a good education find a job and help my family here it's a struggle to save even a tiny bit of money as guatemala's dry corridor continues to expand more farming families are set to struggle what i'm all is one of the 10 countries in the world most impacted by climate change and while people leave the country for many different reasons at the root you'll often find climate change that makes adapting to and mitigating the changing weather patterns a priority. knows how far a little help can go he built this drip irrigation system as part of a. a u.s. funded project focused on cropped up versification water and soil conservation and reforestation the goal to create a stable income from agriculture. we have the desire of the will but we

don't have as the capital but the assistance from us aid in other countries helps drive us forward not just me but many farmers were able to help our families and were able to better care for the environment president donald trump cut aid to guatemala el salvador and honduras for failing to stop illegal migration for families like francisco's that could make the decision on whether or not to migrate to the united states that much easier david mercer al-jazeera. what amala. council has been told a state actor is like they responsible for an attack on oil tankers off the coast of u.a.e. last month saudi arabia norway and the u.a.e. presented a joint report that said the sabotage was sophisticated and coordinated but didn't blame any country specifically the u.s. has previously blamed iran but the iranians aren't brownian foreign minister says israel is fabricating intelligence about its involvement or says deputy ambassador to the u.n.

downplayed the evidence. you shouldn't jump to conclusions to the base if you refuse any more you know because we're. going to do no name no you know you. just know they didn't blame him he was to get you to do it you but that's going to show you video oh do you believe bin laden was to do that you come to china as later as ending his 3 day state visit to russia as a guest of honor at an economic forum in st petersburg xi jinping and lattimer putin are hoping to boost mutual trade in the face of the climbing relations with the u.s. but a more potent has praised relations with china saying they are at an unprecedented level a serious enter on president has vowed to stay until the next election despite calls from protesters for him to step down abducted and solid took over as leader in april after a long time leader abdel aziz beautifully to reside protesters want anyone associated with beautifully get to go before

a new election can be held as canceled a presidential election that had been scheduled for july 4th lowry's president is accusing the opposition of trying to cause chaos and mobilizing way called illegal demonstrations on thursday police fired tear gas at hundreds of opposition supporters in the capital on the 3rd day of protests are calling for president peter with the record to step down after what they say was a rigged election last month. world health organization says it has to mates that around a quarter of a bola infections in eastern democratic republic of congo are going undetected there been more than 2000 confirmed cases since the epidemic broke out in august with nearly 1400 deaths the u.n. health agency says its teams have been unable to reach some areas because of violence by rebel groups and rest is making detection harder and in some cases the virus is being found just too late we are definitely missing cases because when you

have come community that's like that and probable cases then you are definitely missing transmission and the. 1000000000 dollar question is how big is that number we believe at this point and then let me be me let me be very cautious here where we believe. we've we're we're probably. detecting in excess of 75 percent of cases we may be missing to a quarter of cases our website is al jazeera dot com we have all the day's news there top stories such as what is happening in sudan what keep you posted check it out. for a shot here here with their headlines on al-jazeera prime minister of medicine sudan to broker talks between pro-democracy protesters and the giunta the mediation efforts came after the african union suspended sudan's membership they went pushing

for a human rights monitoring team to be deployed over the recent crackdowns on protesters . the sudanese political landscape is different from the political landscape. with significant interest when it comes to should done but i think if there is one single individual or a single country of the moment who has the credibility the political weight and also the international of the doing to get to bring these 2 sides together in sudan if you do it because prime minister and the tube in the state. un human rights experts are demanding an investigation into the philippines violent war on drugs the panel's accusing president radio to territory of intimidating judges and degrading women as well as encouraging attacks on drug dealers the case brags that party has failed to win a by election challenge in the city of peterborough the newly formed party was hoping to win its 1st parliamentary seat after a strong performance in european elections last month and stead the seat was

narrowly retained by the labor party during the 2016 a referendum 60 percent of voters in peterborough backed leaving the bloc mexico's foreign minister says troops will be deployed to its southern border with guatemala to stop the flow of migrants to the united states or sell a broad says $6000.00 national guard soldiers will be sent that's after the us threatened to impose tariffs on all mexican consulates if it didn't do more to control the number of people crossing into the u.s. . china's leader is ending his 3 day state visit to russia as a guest of honor at an economic forum in st petersburg xi jinping and lattimer putin are hoping to boost mutual trade in the face of declining relations with the u.s. protesters are out in algeria for the 16th consecutive week they want the interim president. to step down isabel though to stay on until the next election or testers are demanding the entire political elite leave before a vote can be held they force longtime leader abdel aziz beautifully to resign and

april. and headlines keep it here monica and sad story that's next. back to democracy thailand now has a new civilian government but is it democracy when the new prime minister is a military general who led the coup 5 years ago. is promising change but is that possible in a country that's had more than any other this is inside story. that

everyone come all santamaria welcome to inside story when you look at a country that's had 12 coups since 1932 along with another 7 attempted ones well there is clearly something of a love hate relationship with democracy there and so it is in thailand which had an election in march the 1st since its $114.00 coup and now has a newly confirmed prime minister only this prime minister was the same army general who led that they didn't do a whole lot of questions about the true state of democracy in thailand that's what we're discussing today the relationship between state military monarchy and the people and why that mixture proved so unstable time and time again let's start with this from wayne hay in bangkok. after more than 11 hours of debating and voting thailand's parliament finally elected a prime minister for the next 4 years when the figure general prayuth chan a chair receives more than half the vote from the house of representatives which

means he has been chosen as the new prime minister. but he's not new at all. is the army general who led a coup to remove a democratically elected government in 2014 and has been prime minister ever since . much of his support in the parliamentary vote came from senators in the upper house who were handpicked by the military it wasn't surprising therefore that they all voted for prior to continue as thailand's leader. the only other contender was a man seen as the new face of thai politics talent on june room wrong kit led his young future forward party to 3rd place in march's election the 1st since the coup he's now vowing to be a strong opposition voice continuing to fight for democracy and human rights. you know. what the. good news.

we thought was. that we. were there but for now he has to work outside parliament clearly seen as a threat to the military he has several legal cases against him which he says are politically motivated and the court has suspended his m.p. status 5 years after staging a coup the military says it is now returned democracy to thailand but the process was anything but democratic and the end result is an unstable government and the prospect of more political turmoil. for the past 5 years the military has been able to rule with impunity many of the same people are still in charge of the new civilian government but the now answerable to coalition partners and constituents and after being largely silenced since the coup the opposition parties can now

speak freely one of their 1st jobs may be to table a vote of no confidence in the prime minister who they view as illegitimate wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. because i want to show you a little bit here about how the balance of power works in thailand basically it is a constitutional monarchy there is a king but the prime minister is the head of government by law the king is supposed to have little direct power but that's not the case time monarchs have often used their moral authority to influence the course of governments and they're normally not big fans of power sharing in fact their supporters repeatedly been to the military which explains why thailand civilian governments are often short lived and toppled by coups on average thailand has had a military coup every 7 years since 932 powers often been consolidated them through changes to the constitution for example the current constitution where the prime minister is to be jointly chosen by the senate and the house of representatives however the senate members are all nominated by the army which means you've got 250

votes in the bank already leaving just 126 more to become the prime minister. ok so let's introduce you to today's panel starting in tokyo with michael at monticello is the coordinator for the thailand studies program at the yusof ishak institute in singapore and bangkok soon i pass out who is a senior research for asian human rights watch also a former advisor to the thai senate and rounding out the panel in washington d.c. anthony nelson director of the east asia and pacific practice at the advisory firm albright stonebridge group gentlemen welcome to you all thank you for joining us. i want to do a little bit of math 1st of all and i might start with you soon i bank 750 seats in the house that means 376 to become prime minister for you have got 500 now when you look at it just by the numbers that's a landslide the real story though is that he already had 250 votes in his favor

already and it was all according to a lot of what i've read certainly rigged in his favor do you think. in did come out that you know that was no even playing field from the start that. started with $250.00 senator that he personally handpicked including his younger brother and that currently that you know no matter what he will be selected as a new prime minister of thailand regardless of the election results it has been decided such way so it is not our affair and has from the beginning 10 per time i feel rightly aggrieved given they and again i've got numbers here a 136 votes if we actually go back to the election itself they want a 136 votes and the party of mr pryor 197 so we have again and we've seen this in other countries the party which didn't get the most votes doesn't get to form the government the constitution the election law the administration of election by by

the election commission of thailand and lead this was the decision of the constitutional court all have been set up to her and he that. the winning party always everyone knew that and you know it was put high couldn't form a government that no matter how hard they try they would get a college and that couldn't form a government 1st of all because they are contesting against. the m.p.'s from that camp last senators 250 of them that produced hand-picked and then later on we saw incidence after incident that seats that won by and. what taken away from them by some sort of twisted mathematical in the calculation of obsolete a location by election commission we solved the decision of the court to disqualify

elected m.p.'s and candidates from the anti. and now we might see further actions against and not an opposition party that is future forward party and cannot hold on to room kid who was the candidate for the premiership who ran against didn't refute it we'll talk more about future for a little bit lighter moments in turkey you've had a sort of rise smile on your face the whole time as we've been talking there are i'm sensing you don't totally agree with what we're saying here though i agree highly was what should i says i always agree with and i and i just. what we're describing here things that we've known for quite some time since the 2017 constitution was approved and i think it's more fruitful to look and see what lays ahead so i had rather than to rehash this mathematics that's been obvious for

a long time well if it's been obvious for a long time it's all been done under the guise of a democratic election so i think it does need to be rehashed because this doesn't if we knew the solong if we knew these numbers then it doesn't look like a democratic election. well we're tossing around categories here that really don't reveal very much a democratic election well we had an election in which many type people showed great faith and many type people approached the election with energy and commitment and they campaigned very hard on a large number of parties was created to to contest this election and i think on that indicator democracy looks pretty healthy the fact that some men who seize power with the barrel but at the barrel of a gun in 2014 have written the rules to perpetuate their power that's not much of a surprise these are soldiers who committed a coup what do we expect from soldiers i'm going to cool but

a stunt like this i think we should look at the fact that the glass is half full but there was a competitive election in which a number of parties that are clearly opposed to military rule and to the continued perpetuation of the power in by politics did quite well. and on the health is i'm not quite frank ok i'm going to bring in and thing on this one because i'm going to say i didn't necessarily go along with what michael was saying there initially but he's got a point as well what else would you expect from a military junta which took power 5 years ago this is all been in the teenagers for a long time it seems maybe we just shouldn't be surprised of all this and as a sense just move on. well i think what we need to look at right now is how is this government going to function those 250 senators as you mentioned the prime minister but they don't participate in no confidence votes they don't participate in passing the budget or other key pieces of legislation so the margin that preview has to actually get things done legislatively if razor razor thin. and that's going to put

them in a position that they're not accustomed to of having to negotiate of having to make deals you're doing that right now as we look at who's going to be appointed what cabinet seats and from an investor perspective that's something we're watching very closely as they're wrangling over commerce as they're wrangling over the agriculture ministry the health ministry these are the i.c.t. ministry critically these are the policymaking entities that are going to really determine if thailand is able to start rainy and more foreign investment so how that negotiation shakes out it's going to be incredibly critical to how this moves forward for thailand economy and if you got me thoughts about how that might shake out just based on what you know of the personalities in the place already. well you know we've heard a number of things about you know maybe the democrats are going to get it for all of agriculture and commerce well lang proper will retain finance that and will take on. maybe health and i.c.t. but none of that is finalized yet but the question under the last government has

been you know when the rubber meets the road and trenched interests. were not willing to change their policies around maybe customs around balancing security with. courage and if they feel if they feel. who's had that final word and we haven't seen a reason under this government that it's necessarily going to change let's talk a little bit more gentleman about the man himself prime minister now prior to channel chat. a man who banned a lot of political activity he restricted the media or in some cases he has said that too much democracy and freedom are actually to blame for thailand's political troubles. so why is there any reason to think any of this would change at all even though he is promising some sort of change general privilege it's not going to shed his skin and behave any bad he is a dictator.