the climate do you think that's a bad thing. the future of the city absolutely coming soon on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of that the america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. children's government accuses former crown prince homs of being part of a plot to destabilize the country. hello there i'm tell you this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up heavy rain triggers flash floods and mudslides in indonesia killing dozens of people. gary and the new prime minister. who survived months of anti-government protests seeking

a 4th time. in the harrowing stories in this case and survival from those who fled a violent attack and recently. jordan says it's prevented a plot by top officials and a former crown prince to destabilize the country and step a prime minister says the group was working with foreign parties and had been under surveillance for some time from the crown prince hamza says he has been placed under house arrest earlier he accused jordan's leaders of corruption incompetence and harassment the deputy prime minister also said at least 14 people have now been arrested so far with. the state intelligence with already has been closely monitoring activity from his highness homs a surefire some bizarre bus modelo and others whose movements were aimed at undermining us debility in security the surveillance incepted movements including communication with foreign sides on a so-called 0 hour to trigger measures aimed at undermining else debility $108.00

has more now on those arrests. apparently those people had been. followed they were under surveillance it's not clear for how long whether it's weeks or whether it's months and it's only when they started talking about the 0 hour that then the king took that decision choo choo have that wave of arrest yesterday however it's still not clear what they will be charged of i mean one of the reporters in that press conference did ask the foreign minister what are the charges and he said well it's still too early to talk about that investigation is still ongoing and everything will be revealed in a transparent way so you do get some answers in the sense that the you can see there the foreign minister say make no mistake there was some attempt to have some sort of plot it's not clear what that plot was it was certainly prince hamza

was having conversations or his the circle around him was having conversations with a member of the opposition abroad interesting one of the reporters there asked him said it's the 1st time we as jordanians hear about this opposition abroad who is that a brazilian abroad who is that opposition abroad and he didn't have an answer for that he said it was too early to talk about that so you do get that feeling that the government is putting out the message that they took that action because they had credible information credible intelligence that something was cooking they nipped it in the bud but we still have many questions. oh prince hamza's mother queen no has defended her son saying that truth and justice must prevail but the head of the senate says the accusation is a malicious plot to undermine the king and i'm all in a sign of the one about we reiterate our confidence and pride in our royal monarch the king we are all behind ok standing firmly against any malicious treacherous

hand or king is a red line so i was ok one i'm moving on and dozens of people have died from flash flooding and landslides in indonesia and neighboring east timor rescue workers say they may also not be able to reach remote areas for some time and forecasters are now warning of more extreme weather and torrential rain just a washington reports that the east flora's into flash flooding and landslides have killed dozens of people in at least 7 villages and the death toll is expected to rise many families say their loved ones are still missing. as the scale of the disaster unfolds communities are in mourning. this man's body was pulled from the debris people in the video say he was a teacher. thousands of houses are likely to have been buried under mud after the landslides at least 5 bridges were destroyed and most roads blocked hampering

access for search and rescue workers or. we need to work on giving the logistics because this is extreme weather we have to use both we're looking into planes or helicopters we will support the needs of the people the power and communication lines are down making a difficult for authorities to know the extent of the disaster authorities say they're trying to get food masks and other essentials to evacuation centers. i would challenge cation we will try to find other ways to access the area to deliver essentials in neighboring east timor this boarding home of the students was one of many buildings destroyed in the floods witnesses say. 2 year old is among the did he do leashes with the bureau. to ensure a strong and. anti-government protests have been held again in thailand's capital for months now demonstrators have been calling for the constitution to be reformed they say it doesn't support

their rights or freedoms they're also demanding the release of pro-democracy protesters well there have also been protests across me and despite weeks of increased violence there by the military and mandalay one group gathered at dawn on motorbikes calling for a return to democracy more than 550 people have now been killed since the military seized power in february fast. on demonstrators carried painted eggs with anti military slogans to show their opposition to the coup many of those eggs also had a drawing of the 3 fingered salute that you can see there which has become a symbol of resistance. $22.00 indian security personnel have died during a raid on a maoist rebel hideout and each eastern chad has goth stage one maoist fighter was killed police say they acted on intelligence that the group was hiding in a forest what ensued was a 4 hour gun battle with one officer saying that rebels used grenades well the

maoist rebels have now been fighting the indian government for more than 40 is tens of thousands of people have died in that conflict there are a 1000000000 is inspired by chinese communist leader mao zedong they say they're fighting for indigenous tribes marginalized groups and the rights of poor farmers and laborers and reason is they've been responsible for attacks on politicians policeman bureaucrats and foreigners they've even been blamed for prison breaks and derailing trains the indian government calls them the country's biggest internal security threat well as a retired indian navy commodore and also the director of the society of policy studies he says the violence is a setback for the government. for any country to lose 22 security personnel. being operation in the heart of the country is a reflection of the seriousness of the trade that the indian state and the local government in this is have been dealing with so we immediately incident that

set back and the investigations wargame was a sense of what went wrong and how. large force of will east and special forces will walk or me the operation welcoming the area how it would be ambushed this is insurgency a low intensity campaign that's been going on all more than 3 decades and in this speech here about 15000 people have been killed so that to give you an idea about the scale of what we are building which so i think the indian state would have to go back to the drawing board to see what could be done better because we are talking of want to. i would broadly this like this as a challenge of governance and the need for the center of it daily and the local government to. go really get back to the drawing board and come up with

a different strategy that would be a mix of what's your nation and also firmness by battle scarred now ethiopia says eritrean troops have begun living it's more than taking a region multiple reports having kids they are trained for says have massacres sexual violence and then you're seeing some of those attacks happened during a one month conflict between government forces and the regional take away people's liberation front last year now after denying the presence of their train trips for months ethiopian prime minister announced withdrawal last week. home polls in vogue area closed just a short while ago are voters a choosing a new prime minister and a new parliament this comes after months of anti-government protests and also amid a surge in coronavirus cases prime minister boyko borisov is seeking a 4th term for his center right party while the opposition has campaigned on restoring trust in state institutions and reducing poverty bugg area is the poorest member station and also has the blocks 2nd highest crave in 1000 death rate while

bennett smith joins us now from the capital sofia where he's been watching people cast their ballots but it does look like they could be some potentially very messy coalition building ahead what has been foremost on voters' minds today as they cost the ballots who. well in the state here turnout has been loath typically low in bulgaria and it's only been again around 40 or so percent most people worried about the economy worried about covert and worried about corruption now early exit polls suggest that the party the ruling party. party will get around 25 percent of the vote so they have lost support and the socialists of also lost support to this new upstart anti establishment party that came out of the protests last summer scatting its polling around 16 or so percent this will lead to an unprecedented situation. where it could be that there's going

to need to be coalition building and the thing is this anti establishment party has said it will not go into coalition with any of the mainstream parties so it could end up being some sort of limbo period as bulgaria's politike politicians try to work her way through and see if they can establish some sort of government we won't get results final results until perhaps much later tonight into tomorrow in a state well then and as those results in number of other countries and powers around the world will be watching fairly closely i imagine. yeah this is a european union come true but right on the edge of the european union and it certainly had a sort of a democracy of the last 30 years it was a former satellite of the soviet union so it's retained strong cultural links to russia there are norma's russian business investments here and large numbers of

russians own property here and there's been plenty of reporting recently that certainly russian and chinese organizations have been influencing social media here the garion population of one polled yes in favor of the e.u. for the opportunities of travel and investment the e.u. brings but 45 percent of them are in favor of a strong man style leadership who doesn't need to bother with elections so there is this paul going on in bulgaria between the european union the liberal the liberal democratic supposed to stand for the different sorts of politics that comes from russian a state. with all the latest for us from the barbarian capital so far thanks so much. here on out. find out why turkey has plans to develop a can now america bus restraints. cast out accusations of

witchcraft are putting women's lives at risk in ghana during. it. is the time the year when winds suddenly get up to show miles just blowing through the gulf that's quite a strong all the initial is dusty it still blowing from kuwait down through bahrain qatar and down towards the usa where firms are not too brown there's the remains of the dust which will probably settle but the wind is going to take its time i think the slowdown is still quite strong tuesday but beyond that with the winds in particular subject as maybe as suddenly bringing dusty weather up towards jordan through northern saudi in turkey the well looks set quite far it's not quite true in the gene of the bosphorus there is a change in wind direction and cloud cover and rain but is in the night but the

most part we're looking at a fire in the king area and you'll notice by wednesday the wind has dropped in the forecast here is an interesting one of the locals anyway the temperature hobbs' around the 30 mark but what's not to get to but next weekend humidity is rising easterly brazenness feel quite sticky 33 i think next sunday says a waterway now standard whether it's on the a nice bit of are supposed. to most of southern africa when you get a breeze up from the south it's clearly cooler portal it was 90 capetown hangs on 23 there's rain around the cape it might develop into something substantial they had been. frank assessments the world is on a. drought that moral failure is that a fair assessment you can be a catastrophic. to weiss valuable back saying informed opinion should we be

buying that course ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines the inside story. war the war hurt war and war. hello value watching out of there that's one of our top stories this hour jordan's former crown prince has been accused of involvement in plotting to destabilize the country with foreign assistance instead the prime minister said at least 14 people have been detained crown prince hung's us says he is under house arrest. heavy rains have triggered flash floods and landslides in indonesia and east timor at

least 49 have been killed thousands more displaced dozens of homes were swept away or buried by modern debris. and poles and garrett closed just a short time ago voters there are choosing a new prime minister and a new parliament this comes after months of anti-government protests and amid a surge in coronavirus cases prime minister boy crowbar assad is seeking a 5th time. now survivors of an attack by armed groups and more than mozambique have been speaking about their ordeal one woman gave birth on the side of the road as she fled that fighting. reports. safe and sound in a hotel room this baby boy and his mother survived a traumatic birth during a raid by armed men on their hometown photo abdullah as he was separated from her husband and 3 other children as they try to escape fighting in palm a she delivered her baby alone without medical treatment on the side of

a road. running. i was tired while i was running and i was left behind by the group i was with then it got dark and i felt really sick and i couldn't go on i knew it was time to go into labor i slipped right where i was and gave birth alone. armed groups to md palmer nearly 2 weeks ago killing dozens of people some of those displaced have arrived in the city of pemba the provincial capital of kabul god a province where this is what's happened in parma the armed men were there for 15 hours the population fled people died on the boat in the water others hid in the bush thought armed men who were looking for people to kill. aide workers say while tens of thousands of people fled the attack only a small proportion have arrived in pemba and other safe places even so the authorities in pemba say they're struggling to cope with the influx. the infrastructure will not support the number of inhabitants this city was prepared to

accommodate a certain number of people but now we have a lot more they're exposed to cold 19 plus the amount of crime will increase. leaders from neighboring countries held talks in zimbabwe's capital on thursday and moved about the violence in no the may be able to be held next week these displaced people say they're desperate to return home but only when it's safe to do so victoria gating be al jazeera now the african union says it's willing to lead mediation talks to resolve the dispute over a dam that is europea is building on the nile if you're here says the grand or innocence project is crucial to its development but egypt answered on our worry that the construction will lead to water shortages past negotiations a failed to reach an agreement and it says it will begin the 2nd phase of filling the day with or without an agreement to more going to ports now from caught him on what a drop in the water levels would mean festered on. this was

a treatment plant called el manara is the 2nd largest in sudan's capital ha tomb supplying between 1.2 to 1500000 people it relies on water from the nile to operate and while it's just a little more than 10 years old operators are worried about how it will function in the coming months and years last july we have a we all for we all grow up in the action movie said rose who he is here because of the fluctuation of the revolving. aisle manara is just one of several stations that was affected by the filling of the grand if you can remember on stem last year the dam which is based on stretching on the blue nile the source of more than 70 percent of the river watts's is near completion for nearly a decade if you pan and downstream countries sudan and egypt have been holding talks about the project and it's filling and operation. 4.9000000000 cubic meters of water was stored in the grand renaissance them during the 1st filling in july

last year so that means authorities say the resulting drop in the level of the nile reduced or cut off water from more than 5000000 people in some districts the lack of water lasted for a week this year the dam is expected to go up to 13500000000 cubic meters and they are concerns about its impact on the millions of sudanese living on the banks of the mile and beyond. sudan's government says at least 20000000 people could be affected if as expected what are levels drop from april to september some like omaha might who relies on water for living are concerned about the days ahead after seeing the impact of the 1st filling. we know water is life and we needed to drink and cook but for people like when the water goes off it means no work no work means no income. living life for us in every way possible to dance called for expanding the talks about the dam to include more mediators in addition to the current mediator of the african union

a call egypt has backed but if you appeal has rejected the few people government says the dam is crucial to lifting tens of millions of its citizens out of poverty by providing electricity and wants the african union to remain in charge of the talks but those talks were halted since january and the sudanese government is concerned about if you peace announcement of a 2nd failing we are seeing that nor more agreement. on your formation was a little serious then during the population living along. which is. approximately half of the civilian population is a dear little pigs are getting back to the plant operators see it will be hard to prepare for the future without clear information about the filling of the dam in the few pm high lands upstream people morgan al-jazeera has home speaking of bodies of water a group of retired turkish admirals is warning that a treaty governing the use of turkey's waterways may be threatened they say

a project to build a $9000000000.00 canal on the edge of istanbul could undermine the montreaux court which guarantees free passage of civilian vessels in that area but the government says the istanbul canal will ease shipping traffic on the busy bosphorus strait russell said a has more now from istanbul. so the admirals $103.00 retired admirals has just issued a statement urging the government to preserve the montauk anwesha which gives turkey the control over the strategic straits of both forests and dardanelle so they claim that this new stumble cannot which aims to connect the black sea to the mediterranean sea will bypass the straits and it will lead turkey's loss of the absolute serenity over these strategic straits which the government mentally actually rejects it and says there's just what a way and trying to is the shipping traffic in the boats for us which is one of the

busiest maritime passage in the world so the government reaction has been quite big and the the party support person the head of the parliament director of communications of the presidency does us right after each other they issued a statement an announcement and condemning this and saying that this is another at count of the retired generals of meddling in the politics and the army should never have any place in the politics they should stay away from such delicate issues just unclear in ankara the power of the chief public prosecutor's office has initiated today a judicial process over this statement regarding to 103 retired admirals and also just a little bit ago the party secretary general of the ruling party has announced the tomorrow the power of parties governing body is going to have an extraordinary session to discuss the latest. increased restrictions including

a complete lockdown on weekends is to take effect in india's wealthiest state from monday that's off to a surge in new coven 1000 infections driven by cases. india's health ministry reported more than $93000.00 new infections just in the past 24 hours more than 60 percent of those are in maharashtra which is also home to the financial capital mumbai. on the head of the roman catholic church has led easter mass at the vatican and a scaled back service that jews have grown a virus destructions pope francis offered his blessings to the wild he urged his followers not to lose hope during this pandemic. when millions of filipinos are unable to celebrate easter and a traditional way after the government imposed a strict lockdown jamaal in dhaka reports oh my dear the lord is mercado has been coming to the church of the latter and in the capital manila since she was a little girl on the holiest day of the christian calendar this is

a star as she's allowed to go as in many countries places of worship are seen as potential hubs for spreading coronavirus so for now attending men as is different. for me this isn't a for now that i am able to hear most outside the church his swerd give me strength my faith is my god that search has long been the refuge for the faithful who come from the poorest sector of society but public these are gatherings have been restricted for a 2nd consecutive year raising concerns from many catholics here that the pandemic may have permanently altered the ways of worship. the philippines has seen a steep price in coronavirus cases since february prompting the government to impose another round of lockdown in manila and nearby provinces but in recent days at least $1.00 out of 4 filipinos who have been tested have turned out positive

with coronavirus. so this priest has been left with no choice but to preach in an empty church although it could be watched online he calls for a moment of silence to remember the thousands who have died from the pandemic sending a message of comfort to those who are grieving so much more in another part of manila father flavia begin with her runs a center for the poor and homeless he talks about redemption in the critical the church completely in society especially when. the thing is to respond appropriately competently and justly. he did needs of the people the church to remain silent it will always serve as sions of those. people the church will always remain as a light to those dampened by their hopes. for

a homeless man a reformed drug user a lawyer and a journalist for their flabby says they represent those who have been persecuted by the government he offers a message of hope. but for many here the shadow of death still lingers though the faithful see the remains fervent in their prayers christ the sea has been resurrected and the hope filipinos will soon rise from their sufferings to. manila. while in indonesia christians of how there is to sunday services with heavy security after last week's suicide bombing at a cathedral which injured 1000 people indonesia has been on edge since the 2 attackers blew themselves up as a church in sort of a sea island. community isn't gone as a far northern region have been banishing people they queues of practicing witchcraft neighboring regions of set up camps to help for as you've been forced out but as ever to broker reports from dan baba there's concern now that because of

the coronavirus even more people are being sent away the car you paul see is blind and the self is failing he wants to go home to live on his final decent but not so mighty to happen. he was banished from his village yes ago by those who once called his family on us friends and they want to take him back a boy died in the killing of a chicken and they accused me of killing him by witchcraft they chased me out of the community and i ended up here many people in this camp have similar stories now at least 6 so-called which comes likeness in northern ghana hassen people who are accused of witchcraft and chased from their homes or dishes. all gallops but in the way this is a hero sleep every night and day and then if you were in the way to. get out i looked over at our house here and there off

a shelf here see the covered 1000 pandemic may be one reason why more people now arrive and seeking refuge and yet gonna was the 1st country in the well not to receive cover dozers another kovacs program but hearing a 12 hour drive north of the capital of. many people simply don't believe in the facts and instead they believe in witchcraft. we do all of this stuff the government and non-government agencies are run in cobbett education campaigns and hold a vinyl doesn't make matters worse. people understand why a strong young man wakes up gets corvids have difficulty in breathing have difficulty in been in all the body suddenly young man dollars in all communities and not in ghana. it will not be accepted door after find out white and illegal to the lab or trees to do with those more. good to do which dr.

should i would you are satisfied east and definitely they will find the nuns and there as i will slowly will if you want on 4000 college cases have been reported in gone us not an official number is far higher and keep rising. go also i have taken to refugee becomes feel rejected and long forgotten but small i arrive in a day and that is increasing concern about the spread of the koran of our old us they are forced to share a smaller space the risk becomes a so much greater. cloud and this is al jazeera and is are the headlines jordan's former crown prince has been accused of involvement and plotting to destabilize the country with foreign assistance and step a prime minister said at least.