twitter, facebook, google plus and more. i can't man heads on the polls. it's a re referendum on his economic policies he says. ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to al jazerra live if our headquarters in doha. also ahead. [ chanting i can't breathe ] >> it's a rally cry being heard across the u.s., thousands take to the streets to protest police killings. we are in bangladesh where people are using their bare hands to clean up after a huge oil spill. and building on the move, sounds

like science -- building on the moon it sounds like signs fiction but closer to fact than you think. >> it's a vote he's almost certainly to win, japan's prime minister is hoping for a landslide victory in a snap he will give hi the mandates to gain reforms. the country slipped in to recession and his popularity stalled. let's bring in harry face he had who is joining us live from coke yo now. giving that he is expected to win and with a big majority, how is the turn out been? >> reporter: well, the turn out seems to be down on the same period the last election in 2012. in terms of on the day voting, at 2:00 p.m. local time, which is a couple of hours ago, the numbers were 5% down on the numbers in 2012. they themselves were the

lowest -- considered the lowest turn out in any japanese election since the war. and it's hardly surprising because a lot of people are really wondering what they are voting for. we were at a poll station for a few hours earlier on sunday, and people -- there was no real great enthusiasm there. people were kind of going ahead with this out of a sense of performing their political duty. even those who were supporting him and his government and voting for them. were complain that go there was a lack of any real alternative because the opposition is in such a state of dis disarray. the election is really opportunistic on the part of abe and his party. he's liker to get a businesser slice of the seats in the lower house than he already has which is 295. there is talk of him getting more than 300, with his coalition partner, preserving his two-thirds majority and taste, extending his time in office by an extra two years before any further fall in

popularity. >> and what does he plan to do then, harry, would that -- with that extra time that he's going to get? >> reporter: well, he says that this is a referendum on his economic recovery plan, the reviews for that have been mixed at best. certainly the first two arrows in the three arrow quiver have had an effect. fiscal stimulus, huge monetary easing, it's seen prices rise, profits for big businesses that exports, but also seeing households squeezed. and what everyone is waiting for is this third so-called arrow of structural reform. this economic boost which comes from those first two arrows being despite the fact that there is in fact a recession in the second half of this year, will only last as long as those measures continue and many government in the past have tried to reform the very stagnant and difficult to reform

areas of the japanese economy like agriculture, healthcare, against stiff resistence, abe has found resistence even within his own party on that front. his party members will probably reward immaterial to some extent for getting them back in office for an extra four years, but the question is whether he can really make good on that pledge which the real economic recovery of this country really does rest upon. >> harry, thank you very much for that. that's our correspondent harry monitoring the elects for us joining us from tokyo, thank you, harry. to other news now, thousands of people across the united states have been protesterring against what they say is police brutality. the rallies have been led by the families of black men who have died at the hands of the police. pete culhane has more from wash where one of the largest groups marched to congress. >> reporter: this has become an anthem. witnesses say his hands were up when he was shot and killed by a white police officer.

>> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter: i can't breathe a new rallying cry, those were the final words of eric gardner, his death caught on tape. the white police officers involved will not be put on trial. the deaths have sparked widespread outrage and protests complaints that what happened to brown and gardner saul too common. so thousands marched in new yo york. [ chanting i can't breathe ] >> reporter: and in washington, d.c. >> this country today and every day, until we see change, we are going to make you uncomfortable. because african american people in this country have been uncomfortable for too long! >> reporter: the allen family brought their young boys to teach them a lessons in active 1reu678 and becausactivisms ands happened recently they have had to teach them about racism because they say it's different for black men in america. >> when the police pull you over, put on your dome light so they can see inning i had is the

vehicle so they know exactly what you are doing before they approach the vehicle. yes, he will have to have those conversations. >> reporter: some of the organizers said the purpose of the protest was to change federal laws but there are federal laws that ban discrimination and racial profiling. the people say there is a much different purpose for the gathering. >> i think when you have a lot of people come together. it shows the police, like, okay, these are the people that you are here to protect, this is how they feel, this is what they want from you, that's when the police department starts to change. >> for people to see that we are awake, and we are aware of what is going on and that this needs to be changed. >> reporter: for the allen family, they hope this is the first step to finding a real solution. >> i think it starts a dialogue. and from that dialogue, people can be exposed to what you think and feel. and you know, maybe you can solve problems that way. >> reporter: the feelings in the crowd were clear. they are angry. they are determined. and they are saying enough. what is less clear is if in the

long run, anything will change. patty culhane, al jazerra, washington. after an extending deadline in a long month of negotiations delegates from the u.n. climate conference in peru has reached ideal. developing nations originally rejected the draft outline because it favored richer nations, the plan will be signed at next year's conference in paris is the plan. indonesia's president has toured an area that has been devastated by at massive landslide. he traveled to meet sawye survii was. they are now work to go move the mud. they had been using shovels and bare hands to search the rubble. 80 people are still believed to be missing. villagers in bangladesh are are trying to clean up an oil spill threatening the world's

largest mangrove forest. it has ruined parts of communities. for many scooping up the oil and selling it back to the government is their own source of income. here is their story. >> reporter: picking up oil from water on the southern coast of bangladesh, people that live off the land cannot escape that environment the disaster. villagers use their hands to scoop out oil. this still has taken its toll on sea life and communities too. >> we are facing a lot of problems because of the oil spills. it's affecting our poultry business and we can't fish anymore. we can't use the river water any longer for our daily necessities. >> reporter: thousands of liters of oil spill in to the waterways after a tanker hit another vessel on tuesday. the area is protected and is home to rare dolphins, he come justs are warning of an en sraoeurplg the catastrophe. government officials are trying to figure out just how bad the

damage is. >> we are getting sample of soil and water. that is the pollution level. [ inaudible ] get this sample of fresh soil and. [ inaudible ] so many. >> reporter: chemicals to help disburse the oil are being sent to the region but first volunteers are doing what they can, combing river bank and swamp lands. >> translator: right now this is the only way to do the cleanup. there are no other alternative this is to this. we may considering using oil disperse ant but that has to wait until the end. however we prefer the natural method to clean the oil spill. >> reporter: they fear using chemicals ca coup make it worse. further damaging this eco system. most of the people in the village the earn that i living from fish this is area. but for the last four days because of the oil spill in the river, they are no longer able to do so.

their only source of income now is scooping the oil from the river and selling it to the government-run oil companies for a meager 30 u.s. cents a liter. no one knows what the future holds for tell. al jazerra, bangladesh. the u.s. senate has pass aid 1.1 drill i don't know dollar spending bill that end the threat of a government shutdown. the measure provides enough money to keep nearly the entire government running until september of next year. president obama now has to sign it in to law. anti-government protests in haiti have spread from the capital to other cities across the country. demonstrators are trying to pressure both the president and the prime minister to quit. dominick kane has the latest. >> reporter: in recent weeks, protests like these have strung up in the haitian capital. now they are spreading to other cities. the people are calling for the government of the president and

prime minister to fall. >> translator: no magic wands can save them. there is no magic want that can save them. there is no way they can be saved. >> reporter: on friday, michelle had said that he would accept the resignation of his prime minister as parts of a plan to reach a new consensual government. but on the streets of the capital, that idea fell flat. >> translator: he thinks lamont's restless resignation p the protests. he's playing a game and not thinking ahead. our demands are clear and he could also leave office. >> reporter: the president's problem is that there have been no elections in haiti for three years. the term of office of the current parliament will end next month. and no new elections are scheduled. >> translator: the government will support to organize the elects for four years all they did was corruption. they ruined the country. that's why take to the streets and we will be in the streets every single day.

we are asking the u.s. government to come take the president with them because they are the ones that put him in power. >> reporter: the way the u.n. peacekeepers handle street protests on friday has also been criticized. some people have accused them of using excessive force. but they are responsible for policing haiti. with protests growing, seemingly all the time, dominick kane, al jazerra. much more to come here on al jazerra. threatened and intimidated we report from chechnya where this human rights worker says he no longer feels safe. plus. >> reporter: i am agent are you soi in south sudan where an marge education plan is helping bring thousands of children back to class.

wasn't trading anything. >> ... and entitlement. >> you took my grandchildren's future away from them.

♪ ♪ god good tgood to have you . after a long night of rangel think delegates in peru have reached ideal. the agreement will lay the foundation for a plan to be signed at next year's conference in paris. anti-government protests in haiti have spread from the capital on to other cities across the country. demonstrators are trying to pressure both the president and the prime minister to quit. and people in japan are voting in a snap election, which prime minister abe is almost certain to win. abe called the vote last month after japan slipped in to

recession and his popularity stalled. let's get more on japan, we are joined now by political analyst michael in tokyo. always good to have you with us al jazerra. so abe says this is a referendum on his policies, on his economic policies, we are not pecking or have seen a large turn out so far, so can this be a referendum on how abe is doing when people aren't actually going to the polls and voting? >> reporter: well, he will call it a referendum and take whatever victory he can get. certainly this is something that he needed in order to shore up his own support within the party. what he does with that support, he was going to be facing a tough reelection in next fall for the presidency of the party. that, if he delivers 300 seats today, in the elect, he's going to be sitting pretty and will not be facing any leadership challenge for the foreseeable

future. >> and what do you think he will do in the foreseeable future? would that strengthen -- with that strengthened mandate? >> reporter: well, there are two schools of thought. some people believe deep insides abe there is a reformer who has just been struggling to get out. and that once he gets a big mandate from this elect, he's going to go full force in to a reformist bent. others believe that, well, if he gets a lot of votes and doesn't have to worry about another election, national, election for another for you are years, maybe the face of reforms economically will slow down and instead concentrate on his pep projects involving a history and nationalism issues. >> and are those the kind of changes to the constitution that we have seen that abe would like to carry out.

>> in physician his first two years he made various slight moves for in the direction of course tunessal reform. it's very difficult to reform it here. the contusion has never been touched since it was promulgated. with the new mandate and with a lot of time ahead of him. he might start moving more aggressively towards this long time deeply held goal that he has had. >> and are you talking about changing the contusion to make it less pacifist, is that what you mean? >> yes, he has a real problem with article nine of the contusion. the contusion was written by u.s. occupation authorities for japan. and at that time the united states wanted a fully pacified and fully neutralized japan to be no longer a threat to world peace. well, it's been 70 years and

japan has not been a threat to world peace during that time. however the security situation here in east asia is changing and changing by the day. and that's simply because of the rise of china. and mr. abe is one of many who believe that we simply can't go on as we have been going, we need to have our onability to defend ourselves and we need to be better partners of whoever our allies are in protecting this country. >> analyst michael there joining us from tokyo. very good to have you with us, thank you. now, the iraqi army says it's killed more than 100 fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant across anbar province in the past 24 hours. there has been intense fight in this cities of row ma'a romadi. and the border cross, coalition

forces are being backed by forces on the ground. leaders are now calling for more weapons and ammunition to help in the battle. to yemen now, where tribal leaders have reportedly decided to stop confronting houthi gunmen. the area is north of the capital sanaa, tribal leaders withdrew their forces from the front line after an agreement. the houthis held the capital is that since late september. now, on monday it will be one year since the start of the civil war and the world's newest nation south sudan. since the fighting began last december, 10,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million forced from their homes. pool who have been displaced are facing harp ships like lack of water, food and healthcare it started off months of political in fighting.

a seize fire was signed in january but it's continually being broken. three-quarters of a million children are among those driven from their homes, some with child soldiers on both sides of the conflict others have lost contact with loved ones from south sudan, catherine soi reports. >> reporter: she is 16 years olds, she has been taking care of his six siblings since february. this is the young e. their mother was killed here, their father is still missing. >> translator: my father walks with a limp on. that day when the fight wag is too much. he told us to run ahead because he would slow us down, that's the last i saw him. >> reporter: every so often, they come to this uncief office, they want to find out if their father has been located. it's not good news. >> in security is one of the factors that does not allow our

staff to go to trace the parent of these unaccompanied children. >> reporter: he is 17 years olds and knows exactly where his parents are. he was told they are in ethiopia. he joined the sudan's people liberation army when it was just the militias, fighting the khartoum government. in january he was deployed by the national army to fight the rebels. >> translator: i left the sbla because colleagues from my tribe were killed. soldiers from the other tribe would kill us even if they were fight for the same side. i was afraid they would kill me too. >> reporter: diana, her siblings, and hundreds of thousands of other children have not gone to school all year. many schools have been destroyed or closed because of security reasons. and getting children back to school has been a struggle. many are afraid, they are traumatized and studying may not

be a priority right now. but they have enrolled in an emergency program to chasm up with what they have lost. this village school only had 600 students before the conflict. now 3,000 have registered. the village itself is hosting roughly 80,000 displaced people. before december last year, only 1,500 people lived here. >> the children in south sudan like many places are very resilient. and the society is very resale i didn't want. it's been through 24 years of war. and these people are still goi going. >> reporter: they are about to write their end of year exam. they hope they will pass, but approximate many teachers having fled. most children juggling school and fending for themselves, justing being in class is good enough. more than 430 civilians in egypt have been referred to military court for their alleged role in protests last year.

violence broke out when security forces tried to break up their protest cram camps, they were determine straighting against the removal of former president mohamed marcy. the protesters are accused of killing police officers and burning government buildings. al jazerra continues to demand the release of our three journalists who have now been in impressed in he just a minute for 351 days. peter guest every, mohamed fahmy and, ba mar mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they are appealing against their convictions. human rights workers in chechnya say they are being targeted as parts i've campaign of fear and intimidation. activists say it's intensified since they start ahead causing authorities of carrying out collective punishment against the families of suspected separatists. rory challands reports.

>> reporter: sergei and dema are scared. armed men have just tailed their car through the dark roads of the chem en countryside. for safety they have come to our hotel in the capital. the armed men are parked outside. the human rights workers call the police, and as many friends and colleagues as they can think of. and this is cctv footage taken earlier on saturday from outside of dema and sergei's apartment. this man here, sergei says he thinks is holding a gun. they knock on the door, then they speak to the neighbors, luckily sergei and dema weren't there at the time. sergei, why do you think this is happening? >> translator: i think with these methods the leadership of the republic is using pain and loss for the killed chicken policemen to try to get rid of an organization that's undesirable for local authorities and creates problems. >> chechnya's deputy interior minister arrives at the hotel to talk. he says one of the men who came

to the apartment is head of the city's administration. and that there is nothing to worry about. but while this conversation is going on, the human rights workeworkersworkers' office hash of the these houses belong to families that launched an assault that killed 14 policemen, one civilian and the attackers themselves. it's been five years since chechnya's long decades of war were officially declared over. and this fresh violence has clearly angered the president. relatives of killers should be ban issued from chechnya and their homes destroyed, he urged. criticizing this as illegal collective punishment has led to the targeting of the rights workers not just in chechnya but moscow too. at an official rally on saturday, the ngos were accused of being in league with terrorists.

>> translator: we don't want human rights activists to criticize our president. he's right and he does everything correctly. >> translator: i came. [ inaudible ] myself. >> reporter: so sergei and dema are working out whether to leave chechnya. they feel intimidated. and that it's not safe anymore. rory challands, al jazerra. now sunday marks 42 years since humans last stepped foot on the moon. since then, there have been calls for a return mission and everybody the building of a manned base on the moon. now a team of european researchers have come up with a novel way of making that possible. our technology editor explains. ♪ ♪ >> you are now moon base number one. >> reporter: the idea of a manned base on the moon has been around for decades. and not just in the realms of science fiction.

nasa's apollo missions gave the science community huge amounts of information about the lunar surface, but the vast cost of the program and waning public interest saw it axed in the 1970s, now scientists are again looking towards the moon and mars. >> once you leave earth's orbit and you have committed yourself to an asteroid or onto mars you have cut off your support and cut off your supply line from earth so you have to be resource. >> reporter: this honey comb like structure was built bay a robotic 3d printer scientisted used a mixture of dust exactly like that found on the moon and added water and a type of salt which turned it in to a concrete. they say this could be done on the moon and could form the building blocks of a future moon base. the team say using a robotic vehicle or a fleet of them to mix and then squirt in to place the moon concrete would be faster, cheaper and safer than

using astronauts to do the job. >> if you would today built build a moon base with normal technology, you would have to bring all the materials, tooling, astronauts and build the base there. with this he can knowledge, what you just do is you send a machine to the moon being the 3d printer to the moon and use the dust that you find already on the moon to build the moon base around the machine itself. >> reporter: the concrete shield would protection the mission from small meteor impacts and block out dangerous radiation. >> on certain parts of the moon, and on planets like mars, water does exist. and that really makes resupply a lot easier for future astronauts if the resources are already there just take looping the technology to extract them. >> reporter: we won't be setting up manned base on his other planets or on the moon for decades at the very least. but when we do, new and innovative ways of building will be essential. if we are going to turn science fiction in to fact.

al jazerra, at the european space agency research center in the netherlands. that story and the rest of the day's news is all on our website aljazerra.com. hi i'm lisa fletcher and you are in the stream. from sharing your car to an extra room in your house, an industry is exploding. put it's cutting out the middleman. we discuss the rise of the sharing economy right now. ♪