Acclaimed iranian artist talks about building bridges between iran and the u. S. Let the music play. Our job is to play what the people want to hear. In the philippines leaving local artists struggling to catch listeners ears. Good evening, this is al jazeera america. Im libby casey. And im antonio mora. We begin tonight in the u. K. Where Prime MinisterDavid Cameron is pledging unity and a greater britain after he and his conservative party pulled off a stunning victory in the general election, secured 330 houses last night half of the houses houses over half the house he in parliament. Before the vote, it was suggested the vote would be very close but securing a surprisingly easy victory. Cameron says he is already working on a new approach to the European Union. Dana lewis joins us from london. Preelection predicted a close vote it certainly didnt turn out that way. What happened . It sure didnt. 11 election polls said the conservatives and labor would virtually tie on election day. Not even close. Opposition parties marched confidently on, into utter defeat, all except the tories led by David Cameron which scored a majority government. Even britains Prime Minister was skeptical at first, when exit polls suggested he was way out in front. But David Camerons conservatives defied the odds. I have just seen her majesty the queen and i will now form a coalition government. I am proud to lead the first conservative government in 40 years and i want to thank all those who worked to hard to make it a success. In every preelection poll labor and conservatives were only 1 apart . So what happened . Why did all conservatives sunlt suddenly vote . Because david cam ran convinced them unbelievable stability. They would rather be right than out of power. We havent made the gairns we wanted in england. Labor liter ed miliband not known for his car i charisma, resigned. This now brings our country to a very perilous point in our history where grievance and fear combine to drive our different communities apart. Reporter perilous he said noting the Scottish National party swept elections in scotland with an agenda to hold another independence referendum. Cameron ran on the promise to hold a confidence vote of englands entrance to the European Union. Liberal democrats as the best time he had we know what its like especially with the conservative party to govern with a small majority. It means that the extreme right of his party the euroskeptic right who want england out of the European Union the worry that the tail would wag the dog. A new conservative leader would take over running the country, the worry stirring more uncertainty into a not so predictable election triumph. Major concerns about britain in the eu and scotland, in the u. K for cameron as he starts this new term as Prime Minister. How soon can cameron form his new government . Hes already started today. He named a number of cabinet ministers and hell do that next week and then traditionally they have the queens speech in parliament which will essentially lay out their agenda in the next year. No doubt that will get through because cameron has the majority to vote it through. Thank you david. The Founding Member of the ukip party also a former advisor to margaret thatcher. Always good to have you with us john. Thank you for asking me. I assume you were stunned by the tory victory. I was. There were a lot of undecided when i talked to people in england who were canvassing. A lot of undecided and in the end they were terrified of the thought of socialism the extreme socialism of miliband and the combined socialism and they hem radged hemorrhaged into the scechts. Conservatives. I dont want to decry David Cameron, i think he did well, very well. Do you think labor is going to have to move back to the center like it was in the days of tony blair that it went too far left this time around . Yes, i do. I think tony blair was not only more centrist but extremely clever in the way he sold socialism. It fooled most people and i was in the house of commons with him for the number of years, very very bright, very clever man and he did a great job for the labor party. We just heard in dana lew itions piece we heard dick klegg worried about driving apart, almost all the seats of in scotland. Does this all risk or increase the risk of seeing a disUnited Kingdom in the future with scotland wales and Northern Ireland becoming their own countries . Well, i think certainly it increases the risk of an independent scotland. No doubt in my mind. It will be interesting in watching the debates in the house of commons why should you an snp member of the house of commons with your own parliament devolved in scotland, decide issues in england . This is going to heat up and force thoughts of devolution, and i think David Cameron would not only be thrilled to get rid of 56 seats but build on devolution. Your party ukip was the third highest vote getter and ukip wants out. Will britain stay or go from the eu . I think David Cameron is basically proeurope and he promised a referendum in the last parliament but he ratted on that cast iron guarantee i think he will now have to give a referendum this time but it will not be a clean referendum in switzerland where the government plays neutral. This will be called a dirty referendum where the government will pour in thousands of pounds into advertising and help europe into more tens of millions of pounds in swaying the vote. I think actually it will be swayed in favor of staying in europe because people will be terrified, just as they were terrified of socialism, they will be terrified leaving the European Union by propaganda and keeping britain locked into this increasingly socialist new soaf soviet European Union. Are you dissatisfied that United Kingdom gave itself only one seat . We got 4 million votes and only one seat. But in the European Parliament which is on proportional representation we are now the largest British Party in the European Parliament. I wasnt disappointed actually, the vote held up. We were only polling 13 and thats what delivered. So im greatly encouraged that the supporters of ukipp are extremely loyal. They didnt hemorrhage to the conservative party, this is the thatcherrite wing, it didnt go back home it stayed in ukipp. I think for future it is going to spell a very strong ukipp party. I hope the party is sensible to select nigel fa rfersa rvetion goodefarrage, withouthim we are doomed. Thank you. Before the attack saudi planes dropped leaf lets, the attacks focused on houthi command centers. Hamp response to houthi shelling of saudis frontier towns earl yers this week. Meantime kennel saudi arabia says it will temporarily halt air strikes on the houthis tonight, announcing the five day ceasefire friday in paris along u. S. Secretary of state john kerry, could be extended if the Houthi Rebels stop their advances in yemen. The ceasefire will end should the houthis or their allies not live up to the agreements contained in this issue. The this is i believe a chance for the houthis to show that they care about their people and that they care about the yemeni people. U. S. And saudi Officials Say they are working with the you United Nations to ensure that humanitarian aid is delivered across yemen during the temporary ceasefire. The stage is now set for next weeks meeting between president obama and the six nation he of the gulf cooperation council. Secretary of state john kerry met with the gcc on friday, saying the parties are trying to flesh out a new set of security initiatives. The gulf states are concerned about fallout of the potential nuclear deal between the United States and iran. Chopper went down in northern pakistan friday killing seven people including the ambassadors from norway and the philippines. Pakistans foreign secretary denied claims by the Pakistani Taliban that they shot down the helicopter. The technical failure and unfortunately accidents do happen. Yes, we are very sad, very very sad and grieved but accidents are accidents and we would not allow any terrorists to make political mileage out of this. It is not in order. Pakistans Prime Minister noaz sharif has compressed condolences for be crash. 800 people died when a boat went down in the mediterranean Al Jazeera Stefanie dekker has more from sicily. Reporter you can still make out parts of the ship despite the murky waters what you cant see are the bloated drowned bodies of hundreds of people trapped inside. The italian navy has released these images. They wont release the footage of many dead. But all will be crucial in investigating what happened on april 18th. Translator we have found many bodies. It is impossible to say exactly how many. The majority are inside the bottom part of the boat but it does add up to what the survivors have told us that there were around 800 people on the boat. Reporter only 28 people survived the accident, two of them are in custody. The boat collided with a merchant ship coming to their rescue and in the ensuing panic the boat capsized. A robot has been gathering Vital Information from the boat which lies 370 meters below the surface. Now returning to fort and investigators will be scrutinizing the footage. Question is whether the migrants were locked inside giving them absolutely no chance of survival once the boat went down. The italian Prime Minister matteo renzi has said the Italian Government will do everything to recover the bodies. Stefanie dekker, al jazeera renzi. Spanish police discovered an eightyearold boy in luggage which occurred during x ray. Spanish authorities arrested the woman and the boys father trying to smug him into the country. Scottish National Partys suck what it could mean to colt lands future. Burundi and what the United States is proposing to do to stop the election. In context tonight Scottish National party won in scotland by a landslide. 56 of 59 seats. The Scottish National party is now the biggest Scottish Party in the british parliament. Barnaby fliches with the story. She wasnt even phillips with the story. Astonishing victory that has sent shock waves across the United Kingdom and even beyond. All thats sweeping the labor party out of scotland. Its not something thats happened overnight or the referendum although thats accelerated the process. Labor has failed to heed repeated warnings but what were seeing today is scotland putting its trust in snp to make scotlands voice heard, and be a voice for progressive politics. And thats what we intend to do. For some in the party which has such deep roots in scotland these past 100 years there was gallows humor but others must wonder where had their party can ever whether their party can ever recover. Its not an easy one to explain. As far as i can make out the scottish public which for decades were happy to support a labor party that strongly opposed nationalism and independence, now believe independence is the most important priority. Reporter so are we now bound to see another referendum on whether scotland should leave the United Kingdom . I think its not inevitable but its highly likely and came a result of todays general election. I dont think the april tide in the smp leadership is to have another referendum but until they see goals that quickly put over 50 i dont think they risk a second defeat. Reporter even in his moment of triumph David Cameron will know that he has to listen to the voices of the Scottish Nationalists. More power to be deevolved devolved to scott land. Heading in different directions, two very different countries. Barnaby phillips, Al Jazeera Glas gowglasgow. Today i spoke to john tongue. The rise of the Scottish National party and scottish separatism, is really a problem for David Cameron. He wants to keep the union intact. He gave the scots a referendum last year where they very narrowly said no to independence. They would like another referendum at some point to try and revisit the issue. David kahn rom win try to riz theresistthe issues. They are likely to be at odds for the next five years. David cameron what hes going to try and do is also restrict the powers of the mps who were elected in the last 24 hours. Hes going to try restrict their powrgs on voting on english measures, and that could further pull apart the different components of the eurnd kingdom whether well have four parts of United Kingdom of gland scotland wales and Northern Ireland. He pledged to give them more power, see how that pans out. What has this for the tories, the conservative party are they leaning more to the left, more to the right . I think initially on David Cameron he needed to modernize the party and he took them to the left, he modernized the party. But then because some of his conservative back benchers didnt like that he had to check that process. I think David Cameron is a person of the right. Hes pretty good at winning elections, hes already proved that. This is last general election that David Cameron will fight whilst hell serve the full five year term hes not going to be running in the next five year election. Much of the next five years will be spent jostling for position who will replace David Cameron. On the other side youve seen a whole spate of resignations of party leaders. Unprecedented for three parties to resign within three hours of one another. Dig into that what does that say . First of all it shows the problems within the labor party. This was demoralizing for labor party. They felt they were very much in the game, at the end of the election they certainly didnt anticipate the big defeat that has come. So ed miliband resigned almost immediately thereafter. Right and the left of the labor party, mick klegg has resigned, in disarray to eight m. Ps from 57, a party at near collapse collapse who would want to be the next leader of the liberal democrats . You are basically presiding over the burial of the body as it were. And then you had the resignation also of Nigel Ferrage of the u. K. Independence party and he is very Much Associated with that party he in effect was that party. It would be interesting to see where ukip goes from here. He is in a relatively stable position in the next five years but the problems are left and center of british politics for labor and the liberal democrats and then theres the issue of whos going to be the next leader of ukip. So were in a period of real turmoil in british politics. John tongue, joining us from university of manchester, thank you. Suffering sanctions for those responsible for violence in burundi. U. S. Ambassador Samantha Power at least 13 have been killed in the demonstrations, and the cause of the unrest, president nickdecision to run for reelection. We. The president of burundi made it official, he signed the papers indicating he will run again. President s in burundi are normally limited to two terms. The u. N. Refugee agency say as many as 50,000 people have left the country and even when they cross the borders the refugees say they dont feel safe. The enemies we are running from can find us here and harm us. Burundi has a history of violence pitting a hutu majority against the. Guatemalas Supreme Court voted that this coreject against prosecution. Coming up 70 years after the vic why the specter of war still haunts europe. And the generation of Gang Violence still plaguing the city. Welcome back to al jazeera america, im antonio mora. And im libby casey. Coming up this half hour of International News we take you inside one of south africas deadliest neighborhoods. We have an exclusive interview with a gang leader. Also a culture clash over music in the philippines and competition from the west. First a look at headlines across the u. S. In our american minute. The pentagon has increased threat of military activity across the u. S. The pentagon says the increase was not triggered by a specific event but a generally heightened event, including an atechnical on a carton contest in texas. And Loretta Lynchs department of justice investigation of baltimores police department. The serious erosion between police and the African American community. Thousands of Police Officers gather today to say goodbye to a fallen new York City Police department. Brian moore died yesterday two days after he was shot in the head. William brat ton post posthumously promoted him to detective. Nations that fought in world war ii are marking victory in europe day. May 8th 1945 was a day that germanys surrender officially went into effect. Leaders o