a political shake up in spain. the ruling party fails for win a majority. the key question today, how do they form a coalition. ♪ ♪ hello, and welcome my name is peter. you are watching al jazeera coming to you live from our headquarters in dough that. 91 people are missing after a landslide in china. india's supreme court has just upheld the release the youngest convict in the gang rain and murder of a woman in new delhi.

we'll tell you why fisherman's fortunes are drying up on nigeria's a two biggest rivers. ♪ ♪ our top story. spain has been left with no clear governing majority after the election produced a divided parliament. prime minister's people party lost half of eights support. delivering a blow to two-party system it. 123 sets in the 350 seat parliament. falling short of a majority. the opposition social assists came second with 90 seats, but two new players made a billing prescription with the voters. the anti-austerity party formed just last year claimed 69 seats while the pro-does citizens party won 40. the rest went to other parties. now, that result means spain is facing a new period of political uncertainty.

as barnaby phillips now reports from madrid. >> reporter: it's the strangest victory celebration you'll ever see. at the headquarters of spain's popular party, they were trying to work out who it all means. they came first but with their lowest share of the vote since the 1980s. the subdued mood here reflects the atmosphere of political confusion. the prime minister has fallen well short of an absolute majority. it's difficult to see how he can build a stable co lipping. all this means that spain could be in for a prolonged period of political uncertainty. but when mariano came out to speak to his supporters, he insisted he would try to stay in office to carry on leading spain towards economic recovery. >> translator: there is still a lot of people in difficulty. we need to create a lot more jobs. the spanish need a government

that has parliamentary support. and therefore i will seek a stable government and continue in the general interests of all spaniards. >> reporter: on the other side of town, they were celebrating a political earthquake. the anti-austerity party has burst to the scene. and will now be a major force in the new parliament. the many young -- for many young spanish people tired of corruption an and unemployment. they are the future. >> today is an historical day for spain. we are very happy for the fact that in spain the town, the two-party system is ended. and we are happy because we are starting a new political era in our country. >> reporter: for the social assists and, their leader pedro sanchez, this was not a good night. they, too, recorded their worst result in decades.

and yet such is the lack of clarity that surrounds this result they could be crucial partners in any future coalition. that leaves the citizens party, another new force which could play a prominent role in the maneuvering to come. the citizens have tap ed in to a disenchantment with the old political establishment. at the end of a long night in madrid, the party faithful made their way home. still arguing about who won, who lost, and how on everything a government will emerge from this messy situation. barnaby phillips, al jazeera, madrid. that, of course, is the key question. live now to madrid and al jazeera's correspondents david chater so now what can they come up with? >> reporter: well, i think two months at least of negotiation

to try to form a coalition, but the math malt i cans, the arithmetic simply doesn't add up, peter. floss way that i can see any of these parties getting together and agreeing a stable political plat form to bring a ruling coalition that can affect the -- have an absolute majority of 176 in the deputy of the lower hours, the lower house of the parliamentary system. so i than although the mariano will be called on for the people's party by king felipe to try to form the coalition government. he has a steep climate of him i think probably facing not only those two months of very difficult and intense negotiations, we are facing perhaps the prospect, if they don't work out, of another general election under the contusion which would occur in march. so there is an awful lot to play for. of course spain needs a strong government. it needs a new government.

but i just don't see the political arithmetic working out in the lower house at the moment, peter. >> a is contract country, david, unemployment is still running at, what, 20, 21, 22%, during that period of two months of negotiations, what happens to the economic reform program? >> reporter: absolutely nothing will happen to the economic reform program. and what we are facing is the earth has moved politically here in spain. and it was very significant at the victory rally last night which i attended, that pablo iglesias did say that he wants a referendum for catalonia. he had strong support in the basque regions, these are the jeannies coming out of the bottle as a result of the, i would call a victory for demos because they got 20% of the vote compared to the socialist 20

within%, they got so close but because of the political system here the votes were weighted for the socialist party. and now what happens to the idea of a stable plan, we don't know. it's quite extraordinary. but they have now got to to turn a youth. vote. they took the burden of the austerity on their shoulders, your up employment is still at 30%, they have to form these in to real policies, they have to stand out in the parliament, the congress of deputies and keep singing the same tune. and i think they will. they are not going compromise in any way. the social assists i don't see them compromising in any way. and also the citizens party, i don't see them compromisedin con any way, they don't want to be tainted by the 22-party system. there are at of fresh items coming in and i don't see how

they fit in to the old political solution, this is a brand new day for spain and an uncertain future. there are unconfirmed reports of three dead. soil and had you had buried at least 22 buildings at an industrial park on the outskirts of the city. victoria gate end by now reports. >> reporter: it used to be a busy industrial park in one of china's biggest cities full of fact are yous, shops and homes. now that's all been buried under a thick layer of mud. nearly 1500 rescue workers have been on the scene throughout the night. trying to find survivors. a task hampered by the unstable ground. the land slide swept away everything in its path. 22 buildings have been destroyed, including two dormitories for local workers. an area of 20,000 square meeters is covered with soil. the land slide also triggered an

explosion at a nearby gas pipeline. media reports suggest the landslide was caused by collapsing earth that had been dug up during construction work over the laugh two weirds, it seems authorities had some warning because they had time to evacuate hundreds of people before the slapped slide engulfed the area. >> translator: more than 900 residents were evacuated. seven people rescued from the slapped slide have been sent to hospitals they do not have light threatening injuries. >> reporter: people are spending not in temporary shelters. the chinese president hat ordered local authorities do all they can to help people affected by the accident. questions are being raised by why an unstable mountain of everything was scored so near to a busy industrial area. the immediate focus, though, is on the search and rescue in the hope of finding at least some of the missing still alive. victoria gate end by, al

jazeera. india's supreme court has upheld the release of a youngest convict in the 2012 gang rain and murder i've medical student. the convict has served the maximum sentence of three years for a a juvenile. he was 17 at the time of his arrest. at widespread protest the government produced changes to the juvenile justice law but the bill is yet to clear the upper house of parliament. nidhi dutt is live for us this hour in new delhi. he's no longer in custody technically, but the controversy sure to continue, nidhi. >> reporter: that's right. well, the youngest conflict in the 2012 gang rain is now being housed by an you think named ngo at an unflamed flo unnamed locan terms of what the people had to say, they have to work within the confines of the law and according to the indian law, the offender has served his maximum three years sentence and he has -- and the supreme court has

suggested that in the absence of any law we can't takeaway the right of a person there has to be sledge late i have sanction and the supreme court has said should you want changes to the law, and this is referring to the delhi women's commission and other activists that you should approach parliament to do so and indian parliament has owe bridged the upper and lower houses of parliament this morning say they will be taking up the amendment to the juvenile justice act something they have been sitting on for quite sometime. >> that's the political dynamic here, but in terms. legal process; there anything left to the parents or protesters? could they, in theory take him to court and pursue a civil case against him? >> reporter: it's unclear what options are open illegally. given the terms of the case a juvenile bein executed he beingd

he has served his maximum sentence. >> nidhi, thanks very much. japan's toshiba company has announced it is slashing more than 6 1/2 thousand jobs after a billion dollars accounting scandal. the restructuring will affect the computer. shares plunged more than 9% on monday morning because of reports that the company pictures a $4.5 billion net loss for the year to march. toshiba's chief executive resigned earlier this year after the kim admitted to overstating its profits. still to come on this program. >> reporter: i am wayne hay reporting from thailand where yet another seafood processing company is accused of labor rights abuses. the yemeni government says the ceasefire has been extended but fierce fighting continues on the ground.

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♪ ♪ the top story heres on al jazeera. spain has been left with no clear governing majority after a general lex produced a divided parliament. prime minister's people party took the most seats but lost a third of its support. political newcomers including anti austerity may prove to be key players. up to 90 people are missing in china after a mudslide. there are confirm three dead. and india's supreme court

has upheld the release of the youngest conflict in the 2012 gang rain and murder of a mall student. protest is have been held in new delhi against the release of the man who was a juvenile at the time of his arrest. now, to thailand where the government says it's not ignoring the issue the slave labor in its seafood industry. the issue you was recently highlighted the investigation in to the working practices at a processing factory. sigh land is one of the biggest producer of seafood in the world and relies heavily on migrant labor. way hey has more. >> reporter: thailand's seafood industry is built on migrant labor from neighboring countries, particularly myanmar, wages are low and there is evidence of abuse. this boy says he works up to 18 hours a day putting labels on tins of tuna. he's only 16. and doesn't want to be identified. it's legal for him to work full time, but with certain restrictions like not working

past 10:00 in the evening. >> translator: sometimes i do overtime and finish at almost 1:00 in the morning or even at dawn. all extra work is supposed to be paid as overtime. but they don't pay me as they should. >> reporter: he worked the golden prize, a large tuna processing company just outside bangkok. the company sells $230 million worth of tuna to overseas markets each year. management wouldn't comment and instead septembe sent security s on. >> the issue out golden prize is about wages and overtimal. they don't get paid as pitch a is they should. they are paid less than what is stated in the labor law. >> reporter: recently, about 1500 staff walked off the job for a day in a bold protest. phoneses between the workers and golder prize has amounted to nothing. this is certainly not an isolated case. in fact, thailand has always had a problem with labor rights,

particularly in when it comes to migrant would beers and it's an issue that you could be about to hurt the he cop my. the european union has puts the seafood industry on notice. it will decide soon whether to ban all imports of products from thailand because of illegal fishing practices and labor issues. >> we have said that we are not perfect in thailand, we have about three or 3.5 million migrant workers. nobody can clean up 100 percent, but at least we have the mechanism we allow the press, we allow the ngo to monitor us. >> reporter: thailand's military government has altered labor laws and introduced tougher punishments and some companies are making changes. but for workers, the law will mean nothing unless it's enforced. >> let's take you live now to bangkok wayne hay on stand by for us there this hour, so how long until what the government says it's doing kicks in and

starts pro they going people? >> reporter: yes, well, that's the big question, isn't it, peter. the military government which when it seized power in a coup last year, made human trafficking, slavery, those types of things in thailand one of its priorities. we have seen some changes, some companies are taking notice. there have been some improvements in fact in some very large companies but clearly there is a very, very long way to go and clearly one of the big problems that isn't being talked about much at government level is corruption. and really that is fueling this problem, corruption is rife in these communities, where these seafood processing factories are over the years government officials, police, military have been implicated in some of these operations have been alleges to be turning a blinds eye when complaints of labor abuses are made. so that's going to take an awful long time to clean up nal you can really target the corruption at that level then actually helping those migrant workers on the ground in those factories

will be quite difficult. >> is there an obvious go-to person or organization if those migrant workers are feeling abused is there somebody that they can turn to that they can talk to and their complaints will get fed back in to the system? >> reporter: i think it depends on the company they work for. like i say, some of the bigger companies, the internationally renowned ones exporting all armed the world are starting to make some small changes. small in the grand scheme of things. and in those companies they are saying anyway the management of the workers can go to them to make complaints about abuses or about being mistreated on the production line if you like. but really for meet of them, they are working in some cases in some very small sheds nondescript small operations and for them it's very difficult. they have no one to turn to. many rights groupings and ngos doing work in that field. for them it's dangerous, death

threats maids against the workers themselves. it's alleged there are death threats made. we should mention the people out on the boats disappear sometimes for months on end out to sea. and there are constants allegations of abuses happening on those boats, they are under paid. under fed on many al sayings and even allegations of murder if someone gets sick or injured while under way. there are allegations they are pushed overboard and left to drowned. for them it's impossible to take those accusations, complaints to anyone they can trust. >> wayne, thanks very much. a so-called ceasefire marred by continued fighting in yemen has been extended for another week. talks to end the war ended without an agreement at a meeting in switzerland the rival sides have promise today meet again next month. emma hayward now reports. >> reporter: after nearly nine months of conflict this is what a ceasefire look like on the

ground in yemen. fating on the streets of the besieged city of taiz. each side has accused the other of violating tuesday's truce. negotiated at united nations talks in splits lands the meeting there finished with no deal to end the war. only a agreement to meet again in january. >> translator: we have agreed on extending the ceasefire and i announce this on past of president hadi and the government of yemen. we have informed the united nations and we have informed the members of the alliance about the extension of the ceasefire, but this also depends on who hugy's committee abiding by the ceasefire. >> reporter: in recent days forces loyal to yemen's president hadi have been making gains against the rebels known as the houthis. mo government forces say they are advancing towards the

capital sanaa. >> translator: we preached the city center and this is evidence the houthi have no popular support. >> reporter: hadi lost control of sanaa last september after the houthis who were backed by iran, advance odd the port city of aden. yemen's neighbor. saudi arabia, formed a coalition to carry out airstrikes to target the group and its supporters. the cost of this war to ordinary yemen-yes already wary after years of conflict instability and dire poverty, has been huge. nearly 6,000 people are thought of been hill think the country's education and health system has collapsed. after negotiations in switzerland some aid is now getting through to the city. taiz. but it is not nearly enough. the week-long truce has been

extended. many living through this war which much of the world has forgotten will hope the talks in january will produce more to end this conflict. emma way hard, al jazeera. in the northwest of syria, more than 40 people have been killed in airstrikes thought to have been carried out by russian war planes six strides hit the center of the rebel held city idlib injuring a further 150 people. months do you has been accused of targeting the fighters fight is sawed up testified isil. the russian press says he is ready to work with the syrian president as well as others to find a solution. >> translator: it's easy for us to work with the u.s. president and is assad of. i have talked to them about it. why is it ease any we do not wag a tail and change our solution,

we slowly before formulating our position listen to everybody and chose a line which we think is acceptable to everyone. russia's defense ministry is due to release information obtained from the flight recorder of its jet shot down by turkey. data from the black box could help resolve the dispute of whether the jet was located where, where it was locate when the it was hit. turkey says it ignored warning to his leave its airspace before it was shot down last month. but russia says it was flying over syria when it was struck. ankara has refused to apology and moscow ordered sanctions in response. the flight on sunday was the first one to depart from amman. small groups of syrian refugees living in lebanon land ed in canada earlier this more, they are pushing forward with their plan to resettle 25,000 syrian refugees within the next month. the immigration minister says that intake could double by the end of in effect year. i iraqi army says eights

planning a major operation to flush out isil from the city of ramadi. residents have been asked to leave the area within 72 hours. the iraqi military planes are dropping leaflets indicating safe routes but besieged families say they are not being allowed by isil fighter to leave. the capital of iraq's biggest province, anbar was ceased by the group earlier this year. the burundi parliament is meet to go discuss the african union's plan to send in peacekeepers over fears the country is sliding towards a civil war. at least 400 people have been killed in growing unrest since april. when the president decided to run for a third term. his government is refuse to go allow in peacekeepers and says they will be an invasion force. but they are going to sen sends 5,000 in without their consent. the president is pictured today announce his can days i for a third term in the 2017

elects. they say 98% backed the amendmenamendment of the constitutionality to allow him to run again. the sources of income are drying up fast. in the third part of our rivers of life sister, a report from nigeria. >> reporter: mohamed has been a fisherman all his life. the skills have been passed down from one generation in the family to another. he considers the river his life and home. fish is has been part of our life for long and very important because that is the way we feed? leave. afternooactually. our fathers, grandfathers were fishermen and so are we.

>> reporter: but the accumulation of salt and over fishing is threatening his livelihood. the rivers report yielding as much as they used to. this is a confluence, a meeting point of 22 biggest rivers. jo generations this was a very busy hub for shipping, fishing and farming captivities but in recent years people earning a living from the rivers have seen their fortunes dry up. the appearance of mall islands in the rivers have add today the fish american's woes, fish breeding grounds are disappearing as the water becomes shallow. as a result, many fishermen had to switch jobs to feed their families. >> translator: we were raised a fishermen but the fish supply here is depleted and you cannot step yourself if fishing today that's why we are looking for alternatives. >> reporter: boats don't go on the waters much as they used to. a government project to dredge

the rivers has made the situation even worse. >> the government has attempted to dredge the rivers that means all the debris is cleared and the floor is improved. but we haven't seen that. my understand is that only certainly channel says have been dredged. but even that has not come to the level that that will help the economy of the state. >> reporter: for now fishermen can only watch and hope that some day soon, the fish will return. and restore their livelihoods. mohamed is are you respite, al jazeera, nigeria. and in part four of our rivers of life series we look at how local authorities in the united states in the capital are attempting to stem the flow of

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