>> turkey's prime minister erdogan triumphant at the polls. >> hello, i'm maryam nemazee in london. you're watching al jazeera. also coming up, technical failure wasn't to blame, says the airline, so why then did a russian airbus break up midair over sinai? reinforcements arrive in yemeni city of taiz. and hot news for climate

scientists. >> turkey's president has called on the international community to accept the outcome of the parliamentary election. after losing just five months ago the election w returned the party to power. >> turkey's general election was either a triumph for democracy or a victory for fear mongering depending on which newspaper you read. while the results were decisive giving the party a clear mandate to govern, the views on the streets remain divided. turkey has spent the past five months without a proper government. adding to the political instability and increase of bomb attacks and slow down of the economy not to mention the

polarized society. >> this result is not good for turkey's future because this party will not protect democracy. >> sunday's vote was viewed as another referendum on erdogan. they say its proof that people fail to understand the politics. >> most of his opponents have failed to read his leadership in the property way. especially in media reporting and political commentary they try to reduce the entire turkish politics to just one man. >> erdogan and the party had hoped to change the political system in turkey to a presidential one. despite sunday's election victory and this renewed mandate it is clear that those plans are now on hold. >> what is important right now is to revitalize the economy to

deal with regional issues such as the war in syria, threats in iraq, isis, pkk terrorism. we have to deal with these issues immediately. >> just a few hours after those jubilant celebrations it's back to business as usual. the task at hand now is to form a government and fill the political void that has destabilized the country for the past five months. >> meanwhile, the organization for security and corporation in europe says it's concerned over the media crackdown and the security situation leading up to the election. >> the main conclusions add that the voters had a variety of choices. the challenging security and environment in particular, and the high number of violent incidents including attacks against party members, campaign

is tough and party premise hinder the ability to campaign freely. the video is clearly under serious pressure in this country. criminal investigations of journalists and media outlets for support of terrorism and information on the president has had a chilling affect on media. >> over 10% of sunday's vote the pro kurdish party almost missed the cut off to secure any seats in the turkish apartment. it's thought that recent tension in iraq reerod iraq, eroded support. >> we know in the southeast of the country, they lost ten seats, eight of those went back to the akp. now, the hdp was campaigning in a very different environment since the june election. the breakdown of the cease-fire between the pkk and the turkish

state created an unstable environment here while the hdp did try to persuade and call on the pkk to lay down it's arms, it was not successful in persuading the pkked into that. there are suggestions that those socially conservative kurds frightened after this violence of two and a half years of peace, decided to pull their port back with the akp and those more secular-minded areas, those liberal voters seeing their sons go to war on the eastern side of the country perhaps felt that they should go with what they perceive is a safer option return to what they thought was the stability that turkey had before the june election. >> the russian airline whose flight crashed in i want insists that technical failure is not to

blame. all 224 people on board were killed when the flight to st. petersburg crashed in sinai. investigators say that the plane broke up in midair, but they don't know why. we have reports from st. petersberg. >> a russian government plane carrying the victims of the air disaster touched down in st. petersburg. all 224 passengers and crew on board died. most all of them were russian holiday makers. the bodies had been brought to a city mortuary where families are now tasked with identifying their loved ones. the aviation experts have been searching for clues for the cause of the disaster. an armed group claims that it shot down the airbus in response to russian airstrikes in syria. claims quickly dismissed by the russian and egyptian government. russian officials say that the plane broke up at high altitude. now the russian airline says it

believes the plane was brought down by an external impact ruling out technical faults or pilot error. >> there are no such faults like engine failure or system failure. there is no such combination of systems failure that could lead to a plane breaking up in the air. the only possibility explanation for the break up of the aircraft in the air could be a certain impact, some mechanical or physical impact. >> the kremlin said that nothing could be ruled out in connection with the crash, and there was this from president putin. >> i would again like to express my condolences to the families and relatives of the victims. this is a great tragedy and certainly we are with you in heart and soul. i want to thank st. petersburg for its response which the whole country sees and for the words of sympathy and empathy. i don't outside of the main airport an expandin expanding

memorial to the dead. 17 children were among those killed. >> it's sad. people, children who were on the flight, it's heartbreaking. i have a child myself, and i fly very often. >> russian federal investigators have opened a criminal case into the incident. the return place raided the airlines' moscow offices seizing documents and hard drives. russia has a poor safety history but claims the plane was in good shape. it's hopeful that the flight's data recorders will reveal more. >> it is clear something catastrophic happened to the russian charter flight at high altitude. it's going to take a long time to get an answer as to exactly what went wrong perhaps another couple of months.

peter sharp, al jazeera, in st. petersburg. >> the saudi-led coalition battling rebels in yemen are sending forces to back up pro government forces. they sent vehicles including tanks to support the exiled president hadi. >> exclusive al jazeera pictures shows a military convoy on its way to the embattled city of taiz considered by many to be the heart of yemen. fighters loyal to president abd rabbuh mansur hadi have been trying to keep the city under their control for months. >> hundreds of civilians have been killed in street by street battles in taiz. thousands of yemenis have been killed since the civil war began eight months ago.

president hadi wants the troops to push closer to sanaa. the capital is still under the control of houthi rebels. the united nations has appealed to the warring factions to lay down their website and negotiate a peace deal. the yemen's foreign minister said that government leaders are willing to talk if the houthies backed by iran stop fighting. talks are set to resume in two weeks. also in yemen, a rare tropical storm has killed three people and injured around 100 after making landfall on the island. more than 100 homes were destroyed as thousands of people were evacuated from areas along the coast. the hurricane force wins are now heading for the al-qaeda controlled town in the country's south. more to come for you on al jazeera this half hour. we'll be looking at the airport that has been repurposed to accommodate some of the thousands of refugees arriving

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>> welcome back. an update of the top stories. turkey's president erdogan said that the international community should respect the election

sunday. >> an exclusive al jazeera picture shows a military convoy from the saudi led coalition is headed to taiz to bolster pro government forces. >> this is how the rebels plan to fight back against syrian military air raids. they decided to put their prisoners in cages and scatter them in residential areas as a way to pressure the government as a way to stop targeting douma. they parade them in the streets. the prisoners are believed to officers and their families from the alawite sect.

these are families of alawite officers most people decided to place those prisoners from the alawite sect and high ranking officers in cages in towns of easterso they can taste our misery as our children and our women are. >> douma is regularly targeted by government airstrikes. friday's attack was one of the worst yet. the medical charity doctors without borders say that 70 people were killed 550 others were wounded in what it describes as an extremely violent bombing the target was a marketplace. it wasn't the first time civilians of residential ideal areas targeted. in august 100 people were killed. the options largest stronghold in the countryside which is under siege. days ago a makeshift clinic was

also hit. >> two bombs hit the clinic. it was a direct hit and the patients and staff were killed and injured. we can no longer operate and treat 5,000 patients a month. >> the fighting has intensified amid efforts to find the political institution. they called for a nationwide truce and the renewal of possess talks. at the same time there are efforts by some members of the u.n. security council to enforce a resolution to stop bombs by syrian government forces. britain's ambassador to the u.n. said it is important for they called the indiscriminate bombing to stop because it kills and terrorizes and also one of the causes for the flood of refugees from syria. but russia has made clear it will oppose any resolution because it believes it will jeopardy size efforts that it

feels has so far failed to end the war. >> iraq's parliament has voted to block president al abadi's government to paskey reforms without its approval. politicians accuse al abadi of violating constitution for cutting salaries of employees without consultations. >> a hanger from the former berlin airport is being used to house refugees in germany. refugees will sleep in bunk beds and be transported to areas to wash as the hanger is fitted with showers. refugees have gone on hunger strike. they say notice protest of having to live in squalor

continues in the tamper. those held there say they're being mistreated and denied basic necessity. >> we have people here who have been beating up who have received electric shock and who have suffered a lot. we've had three suicide attempts in this prison. young men who have tried to take their own lives because they were hit by depression. people are tired sick logically and cannot take it any more. >> the u.n. has called on governments to do more to protect journalists. 86 journalists have been killed worldwide so far this year while many others regularly face violence and harassment. the supreme court forces have been captured on camera harassing members of media, which workers say is not unusual. >> it is tense. the protests outside in the occupied west bank. one of the journalists filming what is unfolding.

>> we moved to the neured to film. at that moment the commander came. he threatened he would spray us with pepper spray. we moved back ten meters then they began spraying at all the journalists. >> he said that that he did nothing wrong and moved back. >> i said to the commander what are you doing to the journalist? you're attacking us. >> the police issued this statement in our response for comment. during violent confrontation and while the forces were handling attack scenes, journalists risk their lives and those of the israeli forces when they refuse to move back to a safe security distance. they were pushed back while using reasonable force. border produced commander has instructed to investigate the incident and lessons learned if it is required.

>> the government treats any attack with severity, any journalist who feels like he's being attacked is given a response after a thorough investigation. >> another incident during protests at the end of the september shows israeli security forces smashing a camera belonging to a photographer from the news service. a deputy company commander was dismissed following investigation. the photographer said that's sure he will press charges. >> i would like to file a complaint against him but i'm afraid because i'll keep working in the field. i'm afraid he'll be there again. when he finds out that i filed the community he might target me specifically. i don't know how journalists are supposed to be protected in this case. >> the united nations have declared monday the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalist. it calls on all member states do their up most to insure

accountability and to bring the perpetrators to justice. stephanie dekker. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> the leaders have agreed to talks over dispute over the issue of so-called comfort women. from seoul harry fawcett reports. >> this relationship has been in a deep freeze since these leaders took office. the handshake and smiles hardly brimmed with warmth, but this moment might represent the start of the that you. south korea's president park talked of the need of sincerity in order to heal history. south korea first wants japan's prime minister to address the past in particular the sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of young koreanen women before and during world war ii and compensate the dwindling number of elderly survivors of the

so-called comfort women system. the bear minimum was agreed a promise to speed up talks on the issue. >> in order to build a forward-looking relationship we should not leave obstacles for the future generation over the comfort woman issue. south korean issue on the history and policies of looning restrictions on japan's present day military were part of president park's refusal to meet him. bu >> the u.s. defense secretary ashton carter in seoul for annual military talks welcomed the move talking about the importance of the bilateral relationship between its two region alabama lice.

but president park did not offer the prime minister launc lunch before his flight home, and he equally took his entourage to a japanese restaurant. >> we have this update from nepal. >> i'm in the south of nepal. further up is the board town with india, and the situation over here, as you can see, is quite tense, and this area is now under curfew. the situation is tense this morning after police tried to remove protesters occupying the no man's land between nepal and india. they've been occupying the area for a month now, blocking all of

essentials. the field supplies, both cooking gas and vehicle fuel has been in short supply. the shorts here tell us that the home ministries gave direct orders to remove protesters this morning. at least one person has died, and many more have been injured. people in this area have been protesting for the past 83 days, and there has been a complete closure of the area. they've been protesting against the new constitution, which they say does not represent them. they're looking for the demarcation of federal boundaries, issues and represe representation during elections. talks have been going on between government bodies and representatives of local parties over here, and from what we understand they have been going on on a positive note. the situation has been quiet fluid around here. just behind us is the building of nepal's telecommunication,

which protesters have vandalized and set fire to. they have placed blockades around the roadside and have burned tires to create obstruction all over the way. we've come to understand that the person who has died is from india. and now indian government has issued a statement expressing concern about the killing of an innocent person. and the worsening of the situation. the statement urges nepal to sign a political solution, and it seems that the current crisis in nepal will get worst. al jazeera. >> move to go nigeria now, the country attempting to launch a new national identity bet database for the fourth time. critics say that it's a waste of money, but the government insists that it will lead to improved services. >> nigerians have filling out application forms to have their names included in a new national

identity david beckham. they also get an identity card. it's an attempt by the government to collect data for planning and to improve public services and security. after filling out the form, he has to have his bio metric details taken. >> we all need this. >> the project was launched in august of last year put but only 7 million people's names are on the database so far. that less than 5% of the nigerian population of 170 million. the government says that a lack of internet enrolled areas, poor power supply and loss of money has been factors. but in january a law will come into place making it difficult to get certain services without a national identity number known as ni number.

>> you can't deal in certain transactions without the ni number. you cannot deal in pensions. you cannot deal in insurance policies. you cannot deal in tax matters, and you cannot obtain a driver's license or your electronic passport. >> since the 1970s there have been three attempts to produce a national identity database and bio metric indict card. hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent. there are over 20 government agencies already collecting bio metric data. >> it's a waste of money. i think that ideally if you are to have a coalition system, they will be able to extract the hazard, including being able to.

>> there is a lack of government transparency in how people's personal data will be used. back at the application center, they will get their card in three months. the hope is that the database and identity card will provide the services that the government is promising. >> the u.s. space agency nasa said antarctica is now gaining ice. previous studies suggested that the land mass wag losing ice but thousands of years of accumula accumulated snow is outweighing the glacier. >> it means at sea level it is not getting rise from the mass that is comin coming from antarctica. it's good news that antarctica is not losing mass right now, but it's only a small part of what is happening to the global climate. the things that are happening in the antarctic are quite

different than what is happening in the arctic. in green land. the sea ice, the sea ice has been decreasing rapidly. but in antarctica, it's been very difficult. the sea ice is actually been decreasing slightly. and part of the continent is warming, and ice is being lost there if the antarctic peninsula in west antarctica. but over the large expanses we find that it is actually gaining mass. we need to continue the measurements. because we have seen that the mass losses have increased, and the gains that we're seeing over the large interior have been going on for a very long time. so the increases will catch up.

the increases and the loss will catch up with the gains that are taking place probably in 20 or 30 years. >> more analysis and video on demand everything we're covering right there. www.aljazeera.com. >> mechanical failure or intentional act? investigators trying to figure out just what brought down a russian jet over the skies of egypt. bias in the jury box. the supreme court considers a case that could effect hundreds of criminal prosecutions. plus seattle votes are deciding on an unique to fund campaigns but some advocates are crying foul.