in the middle east, ah, killing the count on algebra. ah ah, ah, me. this is al jazeera. ah, hello there, i'm to start the hey, and this is the news out, live from headquarters, here in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. the thousands are on the streets of june is demonstrating against and for the president's moves to

consolidate power. last, alice federal elections in germany, voters are deciding on who will lead the nation. after 16 years of anglo, the hell. a funeral been held in the occupied westbank to 5 palestinians were killed and raised by israeli forces. troops on the last extra police deployed serbian cars of use each other of provocation and a stand off about call registration. and then sport lewis hamilton lindsey, 100, pull me to one grand prix and team us. they gave me to the final day of the ride, a cup with a big lead of a defending champion, europe. ah, thousands of people have been protesting against that. unity in president and the capital, but supporters of say it will also out on the streets of june us on day he announced

he would rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution. next year, bryan falls under a heavy police presence, crowd gathered on the tune as in capitals main boulevard to protest against the president. the anger has been growing since july, when chi said suspended parliament and said to the prime minister, 2 months on, they still know parliament, no prime minister, and people here say no plan to improve their lives. but when you have a home, you know what i, what i, what he's acting like, he is the son that is rising on the country. the general prosecutors, the president, the parliament, the government, he's acting like he is everything. that's an issue to people and it's movement don't. once they cite, president side says his actions when needed to address economic stagnation and a poor response to the corona virus. his critics are calling it a coo and cy. he tightened his grip on power on wednesday, announcing his rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution. but that

constitution was a hard forward product of the 2011 revolution that triggered the so called arab spring. protest is say, the president who is a constitutional law professor is endangering the progress, has been made, calling his actions a betrayal of democracy. we need to go back to the constitution. we need to go back to the flow. we are a democracy and nobody has the right to break the 60 days. they've got 6 june. as he, his largest political party enact, facing a crisis of its own over a 100 party. officials announced today resignation on saturday, accusing its leadership of failing to counter sides actions local and international human rights groups had condemned size power grad wanting a slide towards authoritarianism. but they were also being demonstrations in support of the president. i said has promised to uphold people thrive,

but there is still fees here of a return to absolute one man room. alex here brian al jazeera. well let's bring in sharif al caddy. he's a political commentator. he joins us now from tunis. sharif, we've seen plenty of protests before. do you get the sense that this one is different in some way? don't feel like there's really broad frustration and unity with the entire political establishment. if actually today is, is, let's say it's a bit different because the members are more important than the numbers the week before. but today's protest, downtown june, seems mean to gathering thousands of sides opponent between 3 and 4000 people to be exact, according to some calculations by done by, by our list. so it was nearly the supporters of the previous reading parliamentary coalition of doing as much protest itself so far is

a sign of opposing side publicly is still possible. this, by the last day decrease the 1st and most up sort of powers to the president without the for any possibility of any regular being mentioned in the article 7. so the gathering, the student taking place some demonstrate their progress by the from, by the police to, to, to, to reach the demonstration. but i think this, this is a clear sign that's the opposing side. so far is the possible denisia. well i remember president's i was elected in a landslide and he has had broad public support. i believe until now is patients now just wearing thin or people losing faith in his promises of change so far? 8th, quite august. even according to recent orders are, he's a very different he was elected by an in slide and seeing according to the recent

pores we even if we say that maybe they are not exact or there is a huge interval, a few things that could do it. it's clear about the elections are to be had in the upcoming days. it would easily enlarge the when i buy another slide. once again, the main, the main, the, let's say, reside is toward the main command called sequence of psychological sho. faced by denisia the to the guy, this is the coverage on denny when people were suffering from daddy shortages. and it was seen people who are dying. the gates of the house becomes what he says constituted another or the final psychological, but to need to order a majority of them according to post to be in favor of july when district decisions . but now with the, with the new presidential degrees, we are see we are watching the listen, the little decline and maybe new policy in the upcoming days. when

team this little decline. bunch, the president side is a very, very popular engine, is you, while amid all of this tension, we are also seeing ruptures within the powerful enough the policy. and given all the divisions within the political establishment, where do you see this going from here? is there a path to resolution? when 40 so far we've seen a fight is the one we're controlling the say, the the pieces for the most pieces on the, on the, just for if we can do this way. so far, what you're seeing is just consequences ought to be pretty new 20 july 25th. it's quite clear about the political need. what are they didn't understand or even they didn't. busy simulate the huge psychology shook and the huge impact

over the july to insure the decision and the, the $113.00 people resign it yesterday and they were in conflict with the president of another month before july 26. it seems like the mr. resignation is now seeing us today and to a little shaw. well, i must ask you then as a political commentator sitting in june as a you sharif personally concerned about a democratic back slide in your country? or yes for sure. you know, especially with, with, with the presidential orders is just a freezing and up on the parliament, but a large part of the constitution. and so now prison by side is the same time in charge of the executive just because he could also parade in order

to, to amend something and just to re status. so of course, when you're gathering or the powers in only the hands of a person or a president who has no great or difficult experienced, do that the make crisis good, easiest today to violent protests in the upcoming months for force. unfortunately, history teach us the reaction from the authorities is not only toward the way of the bulk of your printer. it isn't but your other tor, the way of repression. let's say this worse case scenario. but of course we have to to remain very who's, you know, sharif al, can't have the political commentator speaking to us from the capital gina, thank you so much, sharif. well, let's now bring in algebra and, and jamal l shy out, he is also reported extensively from june, as he joins me now. jamal i just want to pick up on that last point that was to reef how real do you think the rest of the erosion of democracy is and she is the

office or the energy we store of the our spring. it's very real and that is probably the single most important factor that people are rallying around, bird bind assessor the before the july 25th announcements that i saw you made, which essentially was seen as a power grab or his opponents described as a constitutional coo there were documents that came to public knowledge a few weeks before of this very specific scenario that the president was going to make these announcements to essentially strip all those democrats against the attorneys and fed made through a free and fairly elective parliament through the constitution, through an independent judiciary and whether those documents at the time were questioned in terms of their authenticity, whether they became self realizing kind of warnings or whether in fact they were

true. what conditions are seeing today? and this is what many of them as push many of them to take to the streets is that all those gains are under threats. the problem is, and this is where there is an issue. as the analyst pointed out there, it does have a lot of popularity, but the popularity needs to be assessed and analyzed. whether that is popularity for an individual or political party or political program, or whether it is protest, popularity, e it is, people hates the other side more or this trust the other side more so for our old indicators over the past few weeks, is that actually his popularity isn't because of him per se, and so much that is frustration due to the economic situation due to the lack of efficiency of the political parties that have been at the forefront of the scene over the past 10 years. and due to the crisis like corporate, and the biggest evidence of that is that was people didn't come out in the streets opposing his decisions on july 25th. as the weeks went by. and as there's been no

clear and to the tunnel that's it has decided to take the country through more and more people come out to the streets opposing. well, given the worst case scenario there that we were hearing sharif talk about in terms of escalating protest and potential violence. how is the region indeed the rest of the world now viewing this, that's very good. and one of those indicators regular point there, because the 1st visit's look, i saw you had author those that power grabbing the announcements on july 25th, where it gets from who were from the united arab emirates. and from egypt that you kind of bastions over the counter revolutionary forces that have been essentially a pushing very agenda as opposed to the our spring one. so regionally speaking, there are countries like the u. e like egypt who will continue to back and support . i saw it because i don't want to see the kind of results of our spring in terms of democracy, freedom and personalization. however, chinese is different. it is unique in the sense that geographically,

it's not the same as egypt and libya and, and syria and other places. and therefore not the party is not the muslim brotherhood. it's a lot more moderate in the eyes and much more acceptable in the eyes of the western international community. so we've already seen expressions of opposition from european countries towards by fi it. and now we're seeing, for example, in the united states, several members of congress and other people pushing secretary states. and it's only been can to put pressure on tighter, at least reinstall parliament and set a final date as to when these extraordinary measures will cease. but the reality is, the executive power, logistics of power. traditionally, all of that is in the hands of the president. and if you've got everything in your hands, then why do would you need to negotiate? here is the issue. what can force you to come to negotiation table to bring about the other factors? people will see that the protests might force his hand. but then again, those popular protests have taken place and other countries in our world. and

really the ending has not been too positive in terms of democracy. some very interesting weeks ahead. jamal l sheil, they're out. they were a correspondent speaking to us from to help. thanks html. while right now, it is the final hour of polling and germany as voters decide who will lead the country after chancellor, anglo merkel leaves of the 16 years in office. more than 60000000 people are headed to the polls with up to 3000000 of them voting for the very 1st time. all of the major party candidates have cost their votes, and what is the most competitive parliamentary election in years? we have 2 correspondence on the story for us at the moment in a minute. we'll talk to dominant kane, he's in berlin, but 1st let's go to how to meet. she's in the cd stronghold of dusseldorf holder. i mean, let's say, was marco's anointed success, and he was the initial front run a bit when i want to race at so tight. pre election polling has the 2 leading

parties within the margin of error. i imagine it's pretty tense and the cd you can't today. well, certainly it hasn't been easy for. i mean, unless it is, as you said at the beginning, it did look good for him. but as the weeks of the campaign went on, things change and he sort of his, the center, right. and him sort of became started lagging in the opinion polls. and he also, lot of people told me that he was not charismatic enough. and other people thought that he was quite weak, but also he did a lot of mistakes during his campaign, especially during the floods. when you went with the president, the german president stein my, to the flood. well, the president was giving a speech he was seeing laughing in the back ground and that has actually infuriated a lot of germans again today had a mishap when he went to the battle boxes and he was cussing his ballad. he was

supposed to fold it. he had, he was holding the ballad incorrectly and everybody, so who he voted for no surprises in who he voted for. but certainly if you read the comments on social media, well, a lot of people were say, he doesn't even know how to vote. how can he become a chancellor? so it hasn't been looking very good for him even. and it pushed actually be outgoing chancellor, i'm going to america to join the campaign trail, especially in the last week she, she was seen in bavaria than yesterday on the last day of campaigning. she was next to him in athens. and that's actually is what narrowed the gap. i was at that rally yesterday afternoon and you could see that a lot of people who were there were more excited to see angle america, then actually listen to what i mean. lashes had to say so it's been very tough for him. and if you put it into context that a lot of people, especially do use,

think that the center, right. and i'm going to michael, who has not been progressive enough, has not been keeping up with the times. so susan is quite a difficult moment for them. and also you have to bear in mind that the center right is the biggest party in this country has been historically been the biggest part in this country. it has won all but for elections over the past 50 years. so does a lot on his shoulders. certainly coming after such a chance, the angle america, who until today remains the most popular politician in this country. and now it is only, as you said, 45 minutes or even less left foot before the polling stations close. and, and after that, we'll have some exit bull, and we'll actually see really how much he managed to convince the german people how to go. he is on the ground for us into football. thanks so much hata. well, let's now move over to dominant. came across this for us in berlin. dominic,

as we've been saying, polls are due to close and just under an hour or so. so what then should we be looking for is we start seeing returns today the most important thing for all parties taking part in this election is to maximize their vote in the states where they have a really good, strong hold position as it were sort of naturally for the kristian democrats given that armand nations, their minister president, in northrop west failure will, they will be looking to stack up the votes if they can, in that part of germany. but also clearly they want to win votes everywhere. that's how parties succeed in general elections. but for the social democrats, well, they're more popular in other states so, so you have to look at the selection through that side to through that. so that perspective as it was when the, when the voting stops in the counting starts in the next 40 minutes or so, we'll get an idea of the general picture exit. polls will emerge if you'll give us

the general picture across the entire country. but the devil is in the detail. how will each party have the prospered or suffered calling to the electorate in each state? and remember, the german electoral system is divided into 2. so each voter elector gets a ballot paper for the general election and has 2 votes. the 1st vote is for a local member of parliament, a directly elected member of parliament, one candidates the other vote. the 2nd vote they call us and driven the cancelling them. a van is the vote for the chancellor, for the person, for the party who the person wants to succeed and proportionally the parliament will then be composed on the basis of the 2 votes amalgamated. that's what we need to look out for. we need to see whether each party is prospering, where it needs to be, or whether there is a swing against any particular policy in any particular state. those are the things to look out for when the vote counting starts. very interesting, few hours ahead,

the dominant cane for us in berlin. thank you so much, dominic. well, there's plenty more head for this needs are including a fast in europe, iceland, alexa, parliament, where the majority of members are women who see the mounting justice and mexico. the families of 43 students here 7 years ago, still wants to know what happened. and the taste of arab hospitality as well cup organize this catalog residents to open their home to fan ah, to the occupied westbank now where a funeral has taken place for one of 5 palestinians killed by israeli forces. yeah. the bodies of the others are being withheld by

israeli authorities. and the troops told several villages and jan in ramallah early in the morning surrounding houses and opening fire. israel says its soldiers rated the villages to arrest what they call mass operatives. neither abraham has more now from l. k and the occupied westbank. what happened early on sunday that these really forces have raided 5 different villages in the occupied west bank, including here in the maybe they've killed 5 palestinians all in all. and 3 of them were here and look, maybe we went to see the house where these palestinians were hiding in. and we've seen the remains the belongings of those palestinians. of course their bodies were in there because they were according to witnesses, left to bleed to death. fit then were taken by the israeli forces. these 3 people are from the mass and the party has more and 3rd death calling for more resistance against the occupation. and one of them is the head on who has been on the run for

weeks. israeli forces has tried to arrest him and his house when they could then they said his wife and parts and other members of his family as a way to force him to surrender. of course that this didn't happen. and it ended today with his that now also in g mean to palestinians were killed and according to the palestinian health ministry, one of them was a 22 year old. and the other was a 16 year old. now, 4 of those bodies that were killed of the 5 today are still with these really forces, but one of them, the 22 year old has been laid to rest in genie. and in a funeral that we've also seen his fiance crying, she was, they were supposed to get married next month. the father said that he just celebrated his birthday yesterday. so it is a very tense situation here in the occupied westbank and many palestinians are saying that this is part of the price and the pain they're enduring under these

really occupation. meanwhile, israel has released a prominent palestinian politician after 2 years in detention kalita. gerard is arrested back in 2019 and an overnight raid on her home. she was accused of inciting violence and of belonging to a band organisation. in july, she was refused permission to attend her daughter's funeral. to rob was released up to salem checkpoint near jan in i'm leaving on and demonstrators and you're done. have blocked 2 oil pipelines in protest against a peace deal with rebel groups. it's happening in the eastern city of port sudan. the ministry of energy says there are enough oil reserves to last up to 10 days. last october, several rebel group signed a piece deal with 2 dawns, transitional government, but protest is from the badger tribe. say that agreement ignores the interests of john's government. his warning that this disruption could cause huge financial losses. that's what his ports you done in the countries main seaport, and obviously vital for the economy. one of the blocked pipelines brings in crude

oil to the capital cartoon. the other transports oil exports from neighboring south to dawn, which produces 162000 barrels a day. the wheels brought to ports you down and then shipped onto global markets. and the call to him government receives around $25.00 for each of those barrels of oil sold from south you down here. but morgan has one out for us from cartoon, and all goes back to october, 2020, which is about a year ago. when a group of opposition, an armed group signed a peace agreement with the sudanese government after months of negotiations. now the b to tribe is one of the main tribes that is counting ethan sedan and they have rejected this piece agreement, saying that it is not representative. and as does not address the root causes of marginalization and of under development in the eastern region. now it's worth noting that there are b to cries or beecher groups that did sign an agreement with the student needs transitional government. but those currently brought blocking the roads and

highways leading to the rest of the state. say that the group that signed an agreement with the transitional government does not represent them. so there's an issue of who exactly represents the beach or tribe right now. the be a group of elders or the council of the beach or elders have loved the main road that leads to the rest the states, as well as the road that leads to the main ports, blocking that port effectively on, on, on saturday they also block the pipelines causing economic disruption. this is something that has caused so much concern that members of the sovereignty council and the executive council here in the transitional government have flown to the to, to the rest, the state capital of port down to try to negotiate with the processors to open the road. that needs to the se, but offer to open the airports as well as the ports to make sure that the operation and the economic activities continue to make sure that the country that is suffering from an economic crisis does not suffer further. how savvy is defense minister says troops, assets border with kosovo on heisen de lud. serbian gents have flown over the

border after cultivated appointed special police to areas where the ethnic subs live. hundreds of subs have been blocking the cost of a border for a week. now, after cause of a band, the entry of cars was serbian registration place. course of declared independence from serbia a decade after the war between ethnic how banyon and said forces. this is a suit for we responded positively to brussels invitation for talks. we showed readiness for dialogue. the serbian president refused, and instead of dialogue he chose to encourage criminal groups in northern kosovo. therefore, such provocations, obstacles and blockades as well as today's criminal actions with terrorist elements come because crime, tensions, fear, smuggling and chaos have been the only form of their survival during these 2 decades. this hug means arch, joins us now live from belgrade. and how is spell grade viewing the situation and what's it proposing in order to try to reduce tensions and solve the problem?

willow official belgrade is demanding the withdrawal of possible special police troops from the not, of course of all as an absolute condition to start the dialogue and current problem, the car plates but also to continue the facility a dialogue that has been taking place in brussels for a year now, the current problem begun week ago when the cost of government cost of a police started to require all drivers from serbia that replaced their car blades has been issued by therubi a which brings its temporary one that costs 5 euros in volume for 60 days coastal government says that this measure actually resembles the measure that serbia has imposed 4 possible citizens many years ago and that his band contemplates the republic of cost encryption on

a course of all is done for them. are serbia problems, declare the independence seems 2008 and serbia does not recognize it as a state. so serbia does not recognize plates that has republic graphics on it. so that i've reached an agreement for many years ago that caused civil will be issuing the blades that will thing just cost will not true public of course, of all. but this agreement expired in mid of september and the prime minister, of course, of all the quality is now requiring that serbia recognized. and that allows entrance of cars from coastal that they're using republic, of course, have a place in order to allow again, cars from serbia to enter costs actually cost. so we'll say that this has been part of the freedom of movement agreement that has been reached a decade ago. and that sort of b r is actually violating gates. in the meantime,

you'll be on uni, on the international community or calling the both sides to talk to lowered their tensions. but serbia does not seen is guilty in these issue and that does not allowing to be called equally in these regards. we read to reach dina and stays on needs standpoint. that 1st condition is that cause civil special police troops had to withdraw from the north of course of all as on condition to start on guard plates. the result is that borders or administrative crossing is serbia. call it on between serbia and the cost of all has been blocked for 7 days now. and fans are staying high. and in the same time, no one can say, when will the dialog on normalization of relations between serbia and cost of all will be continued in various organs right there with all the latest for us from

belgrade. thanks so much, ma'am. i'm still ahead here on algebra. i . it takes 2 to tango ignoring need to couples with the move to one. this is while championship and boxing has a new heavyweight champion. will hear from him the man that he leaves a hi there way we go with your weather forecasts for the middle east. wind still an issue across some areas. we have our shamal blowing down across the gulf. it's not going to be as intense as it was over the last little while. so here, let me show you. i'm thinking gus here of about 45 kilometers per hour,

but that's still enough to kick around the sand and dust and impact. visibility sandstorms also in the forecast for the se portion of afghan as.