a man who served under tunisia's dictator becomes the country's treely elected president. this is al jazeera, live from london. also coming up, an angry north korea, to skip a groundbreaking security council meeting about its confident of a price recovery

first we start with break news. heavy casualties after an explosion market incident. the right now, i was

... we understand that so far there has been no claim for responsibility. are the fingers pointing to them at this stage. >> absolutely. this is not the first blast for the day. for now, the state of gombe which is, this town of gombe which is some 114 kilometers

from bauce ask targeted, targeted by a bomb that was placed inside one of the vehicles inside the station. and last night there was, last evening there was an attack in the neighboring state of yobe where several people are thought to have been killed by the attack. and from what eyewitnesses are saying, that these are people, suspected members of boko haram who have been operating largely in that area northeast of the country came into the town in 15 different vehicles and stormed the town, attacking strategic locations killing a number of people, setting homes, offices hospitals, security forces on fire and targeting specifically security agents and killing civilians. >> okay, thank you so much indeed for that live update in nigeria.

the country where the arab spring began, the final step of tunisia's final step to democracy, where turmoil persists despite other uprides. the winner is beji caid essebsi. a strong victory, despite criticism about his age and links with previous jeex governments. his opponent was the interim president moncef marzouki. attracted just over 44% of the votes. jamal shayal is in tunis forfor us. >> the country's first democratically elected president since the uprising. however the results coming out announced by the election commission seemed to reflect that maybe there was a larger

gap than many expected. between the 88-year-old veteran and the interim president marzouki, regardless of that, isolated incidents of violence in the south of the country. including the islamist nava party who didn't put their full weight behind any specific candidates have been calling on people to remain calm. they say this is a moment that people should be joyful, that the teuns yaf tunisian people ha transition to democracy, regarding who tunisians wanted to win, they should join in celebration because this is cause for joy. it is also important to know that not only is this the first time that tunisians have elected democratically, but the first time in the arab entire history that there has been a democratic

transition of power between one party to another. tunisia for another time sets the agenda in the arab world as it did in 2011 with the uprising that removed the dictator then. >> north korea is refusing to take part in a united nations security council meeting focusing on its human rights situation. the session will get underway the next hour in new york after president obama accused north korea of being behind a cyber attack against sony. the hack led to thousands of e-mails being leaked and the cancellation of an upcoming film which portrays the assassination of kim jong-un. kristin saloomey has the story. kristin. >> this is the first time the

human rights situation of north korea has been on the agenda of security council. security council has talked about north korea before, but only on 9 on nuclear proliferat. looked at human rights in north korea and found systematic abuses that starts from the highest levels of government and affect the population there, we're talking about things like last starvation, forced abortions, rapes, persecution of people on religious and political grounds, arbitrary arrests, lack of due process, torture, lack of free media, the list goes on and on and on. and as you are saying this comes at a particularly tense moment for relations between north

korea and the united states as a result of the hacking scafnld involvinhacking scandal ofsony h korea of hacking into this company's e-mail system. >> kristin what do we expect to come out of the meeting in fact? >> we don't expect a formal action on the part of the security council. we know china has objected to this meeting and on the grounds that human rights in north korea are not a threat to international peace and security and that it could provoke north korea further by having this meeting. china would probably block any referral to the international criminal court or sanctions which is what the general assembly is asking the security council to do. because of china we don't expect any formal action but simply having this meeting and putting

human rights on the agenda of the security council of course elevates the issue to the international stage and allows the security council to discuss it and bring it back up at any time, and human rights officials at the u.n. are in fact encouraging the security council to do that to keep an eye on the situation there and perhaps take further action in the future. >> okay, kristin saloomey, thank you very mucthankyou very much . >> after a capital punishment ban, that decision follows school massacre of school massacre in peshawar. kamal hyder reports from peshawar. >> executions after the clemency

of at least 55 were rejected by the president of pakistan. it is expected the executions will be carried out, despite the threats of the tarika taliban. the gathering outside the red mosque demanding that the liquor iks, elements in pakistan who were against the people of the country, has continued outside the red mosque, although the protesters contend the momentum is still on, there is a demand by the people here among civil society that they should reclaim their mosque but on the other hand the tarika taliban splinter group has issued a direct threat to those protesters, saying they will be responsible for the consequences. >> in afghanistan, the taliban is increasing attacks in remote

corners of the country. those areas include kunar province in the northeast. where protesters say they are getting little help from the military. >> the people of danam province, have had no choice but to fight for themselves. >> translator: it is the door to afghanistan. if the door isn't locked anyone can get in. >> reporter: afghan security forces have failed to drive the taliban out of the area. people are impatient with the government. >> translator: if they aren't going to help us, then we will meet the taliban. and make a deal with them. and then the taliban will control this area. >> reporter: about 300 kilometers away in gosne province police are building new checkpoints along an important

highway that links kabul to kandahar. trouble. the taliban a >> translator: a security situation is very bad here, there are a lot of taliban. they come from three other districts and they continue to control areas and cause a lot of damage. >> reporter: despite the police presence people here are worried. whole rows of shoches are shopse abandoned. are be nato withdrawal is almost complete. only 3,000 troops will stay in next year to support the afghan forces. they have stain heavy losses. hopefully they have learned enough from this year's battle to stand up to a resurgent taliban. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> battles now underway with the islamic state of iraq and the levant in the city center. the battle for sinjar and the surrounding areas have become the latest focus in the campaign

to take back territory lost to i.s.i.l. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its three journalists detained in egypt for 359 days, almost a year. peter greste, boa baher mohamedd mohamed fahmy are appealing against their sentences. mohamed and peter were sentenced to 7 years, baher was sentenced to an additional three because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. ahead, grim picture of muslims trapped in the central africa republic. how this new model of jet is critical to the plane maker airbus.

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to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. >> a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. we understand there have been heavy casualties after an explosion at a markets in northeastern nigeria. it is reported the explosion happened in the market city of bouci. an entire market area was set ablaze. tunisia's presidentialcy has been won by beji caid essebsi. defeating interim president moncef marzouki. are pyongyang has refused to take part in a session of u.n.

in new york. incident took place in the city of nott, driver attempted to stab himself afterwards. police are investigating what moistemotivated the attack. criticism of the world body in a new humidity watch report. accused human rights workers of preventing muslims from fleeing abroad. natasha guinane reports. >> they fate persecution if they leave and death if they stay. central african republic. killed by christian militia. >> they slit my father's throat.

first they cut his foot with a machete then they slit his throat. >> reporter: since february 42 people many of them children have died from malnutrition and other diseases including to human rights watch. twice a week u.n. peace keeperss escort a convoy to cameroon but won't offer the same protection to people who been displaced. the muslim transition government says it wants to prevent ethnic cleansing. >> these people are from this country and they have the right to stay and we don't want to see that either however they have the basic right to decide what they want to do. >> reporter: if they try to leave the country on their own, the displaced muslims worry they will be slaughtered buy christian militia. dr. babakar gay acknowledges the conditions in the camps are horrible and the people are free to leave.

>> provided to them by the humanitarian community, i agree with you, that the government is looking at this issue, with i think very good effects, they intend to avoid ethnic cleansing in the country. >> reporter: while the government reassesses its poks, position, usman says she wants to follow the rest of her family to cameroon. >> even if you gave hee a lot of money to stay i wouldn't stay. >> reporter: staying in these displacement camps or making the trek across the border either way, it last the risk of dying. natasha guinane, al jazeera. price plunge of oil, discussed during the meeting of oil producers in abu dhabi.

>> gathered at a time when oil price he have taken a dive hitting their national budgets hard. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates say they're confident the market will stabilize soon. in other areas, energy ministers say reducing output wouldn't help. >> there is a lot of surplus in the market therefore the supply is much, much greater than the demand. i think approach by opec is a very wise one. >> exporters from opec represent only around 40% of the world's oil production. saudi and united arab emirates ministers blame outside for the slump, they lack coordination and are acting irresponsibly. not members of opec, the united states and russia. but a refusal of opec to drop its current supply of 30 million barrels a day could hurt economy

even those inside the block. iraq is among those who have been hit hard, funding its war against islamic state of iraq and the levant. it's forced to become more efficient. >> when you reduce your income it will effect. this is the negative side of it, but the positive side of it that we are reducing a lot of unnecessary soft. >> reporter: another positive -- unnecessary costs. >> so kirkuk is functioning once again. >> reporter: but not everyone suffering from the cut in oil prices. jordan says it's saving millions in energy cost because diesel and oil is cheaper to import. >> we saved i think for the last four months about 45 million jds. >> but he warns it's only ashort term gain, the long term foreign investment in his country by big

oil producers saudi and united arab emirates may be affected. in the long term it's so difficult to predict, many economists say it couldatic take months for the economy to recover. eartha wood, al jazeera, abu dhabi. the latest far right protest, by a group called islamist west. in doing so it's managed to attract the attention of people who wouldn't normally focus on the right. the threat of what it calls radical islam. al jazeera's nick spicer joins us from dresden. any trouble? >> minor scuffles with our camera crew witnessed when two

counter-demonstrators tried to speak out during the demonstration and they were punched and man handled and brought out of the crowd. it was a hostile safe to say crowd to the media. the leader of pegeda, you just described its name, lut lutz bachman, said that germany and the german government has been promising to overhaul the immigration policies and has not done so and that's why people are angry and joining this movement. it has to be said this is a bit of a grab bag of movement. the main thread that seems to unify people is the fear of islamfication. , muslims are allowed to live in germany as long as they respect

the rules of the country. but there's dismay the number of people entering into the country, coming in from syria, germany being the chosen destination, in the western world. so i think those are the undercurrents that play here. people denying they are part of the far right, the media here in germany saying that they are. >> okay nick, nick spicer live in dresden there for us. seichel was temporarily released so he can receive treatment for cancer but he's using the chance to stage a return to politics. neave barker met him in bell great. >> this is a gift i received from my friend, saddam hussein. >> one of the last remaining strong men of the rm german

wars. >> in the last 12 years the hague tribunal failed to prove any kind of link between me and any kind of atrocities. >> at the siege of vukova, he is accused of the hague of the murder and torture. the return of seshel urges closer to eu membership but there are those here that are concerned that membership in the european union will be hugely damaging for serbia's close ties to russia. seshel has made no surprise of his desires. interrupting the interview, seshel's mobile phone. ♪ ♪ the russian national anthem his ring tone of choice.

>> translator: all of our traditional enemies are eu members. russia is our traditional friend and ally. eu countries bombed us in 1999. they grabbed kosovo from us. russia throughout history has never attacked us. >> from the start, obstacles and delays have beset seshel's trial. but the biggest delay was caused by the hague itself. delays forced the replacement of one of the judges. setting back the process by months. after all the court proceedings were finished and as they were reaching an agreement on the verdict, the entire process was trowrnd squarreturned to square. this is unacceptable. >> seshel says he will not return. >> in my mind, never.

if they arrest me, and bring me to account, what i could do? >> this is seshel at a recent internationalist rally, as the citizen return of the most unrepentant nationalist threaten is. >> neave barker, al jazeera, belgrade. >> manufacturer airbus delivered the plane to qatar airways, which becomes the first airlines to fly the carbon composite airplane. >> they have waited eight years, and it would not happen again in another decade. the unveiling of a new airplane, the a-350 picks up on something

that the american manufacturer, boeing, picked up on. 53% carbon composite. is that a good return for $15 billion invested? airbus thinks so. >> we tested a lot, we went through a lot of simulations also, much more than we used to do in the past. but whether we started the gs process, we had almost no problem. >> the launch customer at qatar airways, famous for exacting high standards, to the point that this delivery was delayed by a week. >> an aircraft delivered by airbus, completed, but all the equipment put inside, especially the seats the galleys, is not

manufactured by third parties. >> qatar airways are talking about new comfort on the airways. let's face it, economy is never going to be that comfortable. but maybe it is a bit of improvement. >> as the page in economy i thought it was great. there is noticeable differences in leg room, more space underneath the seats to put your personal items. >> meanwhile in the airbus factory the work goes on. nearly 800 on order, and keeping the workers on the assembly. for now though, plane number 1 will begin commercial runs on the doha to frankfurt route. >> much more details of all the coverage we have on our website,

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