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hello i'm adrian from again this is the news hour live from al-jazeera headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a successful gamble as exit polls indicate a clear victory. in japan's snap election. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in saudi arabia in a second bid to end the gulf crisis without high hopes of a breakthrough. it's obvious rich northern regions feel short changed by the government's economic policies and now they're fighting back. for the houston astros have booked their tickets to l.a. they beat the new york to reach their first world series in two thousand and five for their face the dodgers begin.

so we begin this news in japan where exit polls suggest the prime minister shinzo ruling bloc is headed for a big when voters braved a typhoon to cast their ballots in the polls are they called it a year earlier than expected and was asking for a clear mandrake mandate as the country faces challenges from an aging population and a sluggish economy at home and from north korea abroad. are they nomics is trademark policy aims to revive japan's stagnating economy it's facing massive debt and slow wage growth growth as well as several corporate scandals defense has been a big issue for who wants japan's military to play a more active role in conflicts it's a controversial point as japan has been constitutionally pacifist since world war two but it's an idea that's gaining popular support to use a missile threats from north korea his ruling l.d.p. party approved changes at its congress this year allowing leaders up to three

consecutive three year terms from the previous two consecutive three year term limit let's go live to tokyo now to syria sarah clarke is there so sarah exit polls predicted that they would win resoundingly with a supermajority has he done enough to get that. you're right the exit polls which have just been released in the last hour and i should say we're relying on the. exit polls they have said it is a robust victory and yes he has retained a majority with the suggested the exit poll three hundred seats up to three hundred seats so the liberal democratic party has held a majority on its own but it's safe to say also on these figures that shinzo are they will be returned to power and will be considered historically as the they're the longest serving leader in japan's post for history as for the supermajority which is whether or not the l.d.p.

and the coalition partner can hold or return or i should say achieve the supermajority that's yet to be declared i think some suggestions have based on these exit poll results of that it said that the coalition partner may lose some seats so the counting is underway i should say the official counting the typing to play havoc with regard to some of the ballot boxes so some people will be a lot alike tonight in the vote count but as it stands at the moment we do have. promised by as it is the leader who's just front of the media just now he hasn't spoken to the media but he's presented a ribbon declaring that the successful candidates but tomorrow he will hold a press conference where he will no doubt respond to this election result apart from the time through which kept a lot of voters away from the ballot box whether any surprises in this election. there have been some surprises in this is looking at the opposition camp we had two very new or newly formed political parties that formed in the last month and

remember we only had two weeks of campaigning so these newly formed political parties didn't have long to prove themselves to voters many thought that the party of hope led by you know who's the tokyo the very popular tokyo governor they thought she would be the biggest threat to our buys majority hold in parliament but she's come through with the list seats are fifty nine according to the exit polls the party who is now looking to become the main opposition party this is a constitutional democratic party this is another one of the newly formed political parties it's led by. diana and he was the at the man of the former cabinet secretary and the face of japan's fukushima disaster from the government side he was the face of the press conferences he's surprised everyone by turning out to get potentially as many as sixty seven seats so he now looks like according to this in h.k. exit poll he looks like they may pose as the largest opposition party at

a liberal democratic party and the coalition partner so many thanks sarah clarke there live in tokyo. the u.s. is pushing ahead with renewed efforts to end the gulf diplomatic crisis u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson met with king solomon in saudi arabia for talks aimed at ending the blockade against cata it's now been four months since saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspended ties with. i was it was pretty cool hayne is with me in the studio it's all about been it's been all about reading the tea leaves as far as rex tillerson visit to saudi arabia is concerned so far we had that bizarre incident yesterday where he was met at the airport not by his counterpart and i someone from some ministry but today we've had these meetings a press conference that was going to happen that wasn't going to happen and that is going to happen what's going on yes it was considered an insult because it was the deputy minister for protocol the met the u.s.

secretary of state now this could backfire i'm not saying it will but it could because remember president donald trump on the campaign trail made a huge deal about the fact that barack obama had to walk down the other side of the plane air force one if he finds out that his secretary of state was shown this level of risk disrespect that could push his button but that said the poor reporters the reporters who are traveling with secretary and i'm on a small list of e-mail list with them they're not having able they're not able to communicate they're having problems with wife either not able to get a video out so we don't really know what's happening i can tell you that we've just received reports that he has arrived at the airport and that the press conference with the saudi foreign minister should happen shortly well we'll be able to see it we have no idea if we do get to see if he's on his way to qatar to be flying to meet the emir of qatar if we do get see video from this press conference if and when it happens what signal should we be looking out for perhaps to tell us about the leverage that directs the listener has been using against the the saudis and

the blockading nations the tone is going to be all important here because we solve rex tillerson when this crisis first started and throughout he's maintained even kill his reproaches everybody just. calm down and the blockade let's get together let's talk that change dramatically as he was on his way here and let's keep in mind this trip was added on we knew he was going to india and pakistan all of a sudden he's coming here why the u.s. is impatient the president himself is impatient so all this and you saw a different tone from rex tillerson he said it's not cutter's fault it's the saudi led coalition's fault they're refusing to negotiate which could be why you saw the deputy minister for protocol meet the u.s. secretary of state at the airport right so what is rex tillerson going to say to them then to try to end this blockade what. what does he have his arsenal to to make to get there to be some sort of movement in this this deadlock he's got a lot of bullets the question is does he want to fire them now we will find that out he could simply say publicly we've invited you to camp david come to the white

house the president offered and then we'll decide to say no to president donald trump really look at how much of it he threw in the congress can you imagine if the saudis said no to him that comes with political risks for president donald trump the other thing in this is leverage that not a lot of people in washington around the globe are talking about the u.s. congress has a bipartisan resolution that basically would tell the u.s. military stop with the mission you can no longer refuel saudi war jets you can't give them intelligence you have thirty days to get out that would have a dramatic impact so now the trump administration can't make that happen but if they put their thumb on the scale and told congress we want this much more likely that it's going to happen right now authority in washington trying to roll that back we have a couple of interesting hours ahead all day days ahead i mean what about when when the rest of us and when i was here in qatar what's he going to be saying to the well and that is the great question every analyst i've spoken with throughout all of these months i have one question for them what is the safeways say faith based

let's try that is yet to face of it so easy for you to say what is that step what could possibly give if you look at the list of demands and look how could he possibly do that and maintain. a sense of sovereignty in the country being behind him so every expert i've asked ok what can they give and that would make it seem as if the saudis were. nothing no one can come up with anything so what rex tillerson i have no idea ok because nobody does many thanks steve i was there as public health and well while in riyadh the u.s. secretary of state attended landmark talks between the leaders of iraq and saudi arabia iraq's prime minister other body and saudi king solomon held the first meeting of a council aimed at strengthening ties between their countries and countering iran's regional influence about he says that the papa ship will help to counteract serious challenges. this council will be an important step towards enhanced by a lot. we believe that cooperation and partnership is the way to

a hughes the aspirations of our people told peace and stability we have launched an initiative that focuses on development in economical cooperation instead of more indiscriminate. sprains foreign minister is urging people in catalonia not to listen to their regional leaders as madrid moves to take control of the region madrid in the capital and governments remain in political deadlock tension and flared after catalonia held a controversial referendum on to session from spain as president has accused madrid of attacking the region's democracy move to suspend the capital and parliament. at al-jazeera paul brennan paul is there any sign of a compromise in this what happens next. well that doesn't appear to be any sign of a compromise at the moment both sides are taking it to salute brink and although we saw some four hundred thousand plus people out on the streets of boston last night

today we've seen no major demonstrations out all but the tensions are really simmering what is expected to happen is that colors push them on the council on president he's going to convene a plenary session of the council on parliament. and debate mariano rajoy the prime minister's actions the invocation of article one five five and acts accordingly with the statement now the speculation is that puts them on the council on cabinet could effectively declare u.t.i. . declaration of independence effectively. creating a council and republican in name at least the timing of that could theoretically happen on friday which is the same day that the senate in madrid will debate and most likely approve the prime minister of a whole invocation of one five five it is it is coming together as a real collision course and that doesn't appear to be any willingness

a tall sit back down the catalan media here as a pro independence newspaper which is saying the time is now for resistance urging them on to make that declaration of u.t.i. yeah i mean the sentiments here are pretty hard line so after that yesterday after a very overhaul you had to vote out of one five five we saw this huge demonstrations in barcelona what's what's the mood there now. well this is a sense of fatigue i mean we've been trying to speak to people from the cats the ruling party here and they're tired frankly that you know that it's taken its toll of the tension the organization the mobilization of people out onto the streets in recent days and weeks and they're now at a stage where literally the cliff edge is in front of them and the decision has to

be made it's a real crunch time as to whether they step back from that to facebook or leap and it's frankly anybody's guess as to which way they're going to go some could argue that frankly they've got nothing to lose aside from of course their liberty in the sense of the person because it's. in vocation of article one five five was regarded as nuclear button well briefed on himself has his nuclear button all of declaring. a unilateral declaration of independence and and effectively potentially triggering widespread civil disobedience here in catalonia make no mistake catalans are split there are plenty of people who believe that the way this has been handled has has been done wrongly and that the referendum was not legitimate and it's damaged long term catalonia claims for independence by doing it in the way that it has been done in recent weeks but there are plenty of people and we've seen them on the streets in the last few days and weeks who are willing to

push this as far as they possibly can because they potentially feel that that there may not be a better chance than they get than they're getting right now for many thanks. live in barcelona. two of the richest regions in northern italy are voting for a bigger say in who controls their affairs and how much tax they pay venice is the jewel in the crown of the vonetta region which along with neighboring long body account for thirty percent of italy's g.d.p. but many taxpayers in the north resent subsidizing the relatively poor south of italy. reports. that survived throughout the centuries reflecting a time when venice was a prosperous suffering state. over millennia before becoming part of. a bygone era some hoping to revive. the future is a europe one of many different people we are not the only ones everyone has a right to decide it's only administration our culture has been forgotten our

children are not told the history of the republic of venice but a history that was never ours. this is a strong sense of identity among the nations but ask anyone and they will say the region is not getting much in return and it's time for a better financial one they hope will come after taking part in a non-binding referendum that was approved by the constitutional court if you look around here you'd be hard pressed to know there's a referendum taking place now the question voters will have to answer is not about independence but rather whether they want more from the central government during the night there was a market does hope to vote will help save the murano glass industry a cultural flagship of venice that has decreased by nearly ninety percent over the past three decades his family business is one of the few still surviving. the

bullet. entered the region they come from. dry the best. going on i loved. the percent. but opponents see this vote as a shrewd political move by the northern league the regional ruling party which had called for independence in the past and. the real issue for him providing for the rest of italy is not true we already have other regions in. each region calls for autonomy then there will be. a more chaos it will snowball by saying no we try to put up a wall to stop this avalanche. if the yes vote succeeds it will give a popular mandate to do an orderly ahead of national elections next year and coming on the back of the catalan vote. venator referendums are yet another signal of

european separatist movements picking up steam. but at the venice. still to come on the program refugee children to escape violence and face a new threat in bangladesh. preparing for the global mass migration from the countryside to the city los angeles could become a blueprint for the future. and its fort lewis hamilton edges closer to a fourth world championship title details coming up a little later with. the head of the world health organization has backtracked on his appointment of zimbabwe's president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador the u.k. and the u.s. criticized the decision along with human rights activists and health groups they point to alleged rights abuses in zimbabwe the world health organizations chief at

earlier said that mugabe deserve the honor because of his public health policies. was for his a freelance journalist based in. and joins us now live from there good to have you with us sir. is this an embarrassment for president robert mugabe to have had this on a bestowed on him this goodwill ambassador ship and then have it taken away. certainly yes it makes it very i think the shortest ambassador you know wild less than a week it is taken away from you. it is a bit of an embarrassment also looking at the figure that zimbabwe hosted to the. world health organization six to seven six station for the well african health ministers just. the end of august into september and this is going to be drawn from mr mugabe from prison. in less than

a week after he's our point so what was the reaction to the appointment there ends up where is about where and how will people react to this what appears to be a snap now by the the world health organization. if you look on their rights activist and also their opposition that they were shocked to hear about used up when rent is the goodwill ambassador for in c.d.'s and the treatment because. their argument is that prison governor has presided over a collapsing you know it's. also sating to think that he has been going out of the country to seek needed medical treatment himself to the fight used most of the times when he goes for treatment and if you look at our health system most of the times. the. department you know the system is not in a good shape sometimes this stuff was without four months without being paid and doctors sometimes they go on strike and even the state of our health our public

health system so that was the argument of the opposition and that rights activist missing that it was kind of misplaced to then upwind prison mugabe is the goodwill ambassador for many diseases in africa and what do you think this tells us about the relatively new head of the world health organizations way of doing business. i think. yes court negatively because i think maybe i would i would just need to court like what one of the outspoken government ministers in prison who gave his government professor jonathan moore you are saying that this before the appointment of prism of garbage they should have mid points out it and made their decision you know or somebody than to rush and up when me and appoint him and only to think a few days later that they are withdrawing it from him so diplomatically it doesn't

look well for the newly appointed. i think now we're talking about three months down the light after it's up when we only put into office in july doctor to address so you'd want to look well in terms of. also him coming from africa. i remember in at the end of august into september when the zimbabwe hosted the african health ministers or more prism of garbage he was praising him and saying that there we have all one african men fifty men to lead to the world health organization but then he says happens privilege for harry regards to the seventy thanks date you walk of. we're going to take you live that you were saudi arabia this is saudi television we're watching rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state giving a press briefing along with his saudi counterpart i know there were

a little late joining this week we've finally got translation of the event so let's listen in to to what is now the final stages of this press briefing rid of them all the foreign foreigners fighters in iraq this is quite important and the iraqi will iraq will receive the support from its neighbors this agreement is quite important in helping the iraqi people to achieve what the iraqis want and we need to iraqi arab relations as well. completely open as a matter if you allow me i agree with everything said by mr teller certain the kingdom of saudi arabia and iraq have geographical and historical relations and family relation of the same time economic relations with our neighbors and we will be doing a lot to producers of the our. roads and it's quite important to have good

relations between the two countries iraq and saudi arabia unfortunately during the past and because of politics iraq was having a government that was not a friend to saudi arabia and then the invasion of saddam hussein to kuwait and so many things have affected their lives but for now we wanted to support and boost the relations between the two countries we need to fill this gap and that all of the different viewpoints and people living in the arab peninsula should be living in that way when the saudi arabia has been established under the king gabbed allies ease we used to have relations between these parts of the world these families in this part of the world we have also to be proud of of being here and we are proud of the history of these parts of the world we need to have the best relations

with iraq and we need both come to still try hard for the sake of the two papers in order to build better relations also need to thank our friends in the now that is states for what the our furred with the cooperation between the three of us and we need to boost their lives in all aspects of life we also to promote their relations into different levels because we think that these relations according to the history of the two countries have to be developed more more and. your excellence say if said during a recent statement regarding the crisis with qatar do you have any comments on this regard question to ilja bear we talk about the movements of the emir of

kuwait to guarantee the. gulf summer do you think saudi arabia would emirates and bahrain will take part in the gulf summit in case the prices and the result out of. the united states of america has a strong relations with all concerned come true as. when it comes to the dispute with qatar qatar the united states of america article also looking into how that relation because it's important from the security and they can and they come in economic point of view also the age of saudi arabia emirates and bahrain nothing has happened since then between the us and these countries and as we said before we hold the concern part is to start a sort of dialogue to sort out that this bit and sort out the problems and we need

to strengthen the gulf cooperation council because the gulf cooperation council is quite important in this regard and also has its own participation in developments in the region that's why we need to have a pass for everyone for all concerned parties to solve the problems and bring strength the to the drug of cooperation council regarding the kingdom of saudi arabia the emirates the black rain it's quiet important. for every citizen in the region we have consultations for the time being regarding the future steps and who let you know. well that appears to be the end of that particular press briefing we were. listening to the whole of it we missed the beginning here on on i was it will let you know what was said at the beginning of that press briefing in the next few

minutes but rex tillerson now the u.s. secretary of state about to board a plane this press briefing taking place at the airport in riyadh he's about to board a plane from doha qatar where he will be meeting with the mayor of cattle and they'll both be speaking to the media following them meetings a little later today let's bring it down to zero. senior political analyst now and bashara who is watching that for us in london. we are watching carefully for what rex tillerson has to say and the body language in involved what do you make of what you saw. well i have some good news for you i actually was listening to the press conference from the beginning there's an interest in arabic. and so i can report as it where. the emphasis in the beginning from rector soon wear on iraq and saudi arabia if you remember this visit has come

in a context of trump speech against iran or on a nuclear issue and i think it's very important here for secretary or soon to be following up in terms of containing iran's influence in the region and what washington or the top administration hopes to be a new iraq he sowed the axes that would put some limitation to iranian influence in iraq in syria and in other places and in that sense you could say that for the second thing it down there are certain the entire gulf crisis with qatar or the qatar crisis is a total destruction from what seems to be global or greater interest in the region in containing iran and i think in a sense second it does it would be doing two things at the same time trying to create some new interest or dialogue or cooperation between baghdad and riyadh and

at the same time resolve the qatar crisis neither task is simple or easy on the less public. level would probably going to see the saudis trying to see where the saudis are going in the situation in yemen because that's becoming an issue in washington or in america in general what leverage can rex tillerson use of saudi arabia to break the deadlock in this in the gulf crisis i was talking earlier on with political hay who's covered. american politics for many years and she was saying about this it's that we had yesterday when read. so this was melton was met by the the deputy head of a puppet and by his account of poss riyadh yes that was riyadh sending a message direct rex tillerson which one particular go down too well with the state department all the white house. look we need to differentiate between two things

one is how saudi arabia is such fired or otherwise with director simper say because unlike any other secretary of state maybe with the exception of george shultz in the reagan administration this guy knows the gulf but there than any other american diplomat in the past many decades because he is former head of exxon mobil he was in direct contact with those regimes with those countries and knows very well qatar in particular but also of course saudi arabia the united arab emirates and rectal arson knew from the very beginning that what the united arab emirates and saudi arabia were doing against qatar was wrong was nuts in line with american interest and certainly was done behind and i took us back so it took few weeks but eventually iraq style arson and general mattis theory of defense what able to convince president trump that what i would be riyadh were doing were

basically a could it does in qatar we're trying to create change in qatar whereby the united states is not part and parcel and did not give any such green light so i think that change trumps a position and hence you could say that while what we have is not very happy with the external it has to deal now with a united front administration that doesn't like this gulf crisis once it to go away now what leverage will look i mean the united states is still the most important country in the gulf and it has interests throughout it has security and military bases throughout and i think saudi arabia in the stands all too well that without american protection there is very chance a little chance for circular to practice any influence or to guard its own security in the region. my lot always gets to date a senior political analyst known bashar. from al jazeera still to come on the

program families who lost loved ones in sri lanka civil war wait for justice they only a decade after the fighting came to an end. an indian mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest mines will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. at this time on al-jazeera. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the wound. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current of families that matter to you. al-jazeera. has yet to have no i'm not dead. yet.

we want the good news that's our population. trying to get like not. just. jump on the drug. get all of the one today. just on al-jazeera. elegant good to have you with us adrian for the get ahead in doha but the news out from al-jazeera our top stories u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in saudi arabia as part of renewed efforts to end the gulf diplomatic crisis between cast out its neighbors but he's indicated that a breakthrough is unlikely he's also been discussing iraq and tensions with iran.

exit polls suggest that japan's prime minister shinzo abbes really luck is heading for a big win in the country's general election voters braved the typhoon to cost the ballots in the stop poll which i'll be called a year earlier than expected. and spain's foreign minister is urging people in catalonia not to listen to their regional leaders as madrid moves to take control of the region all of the reach by the catalonia as president has accused the spanish government of attacking the region's democracy. the u.n. says that a great deal of work still remains to bring stability to sri lanka nearly a decade after the end of its twenty six year civil war it's conducting a review to find out what's in the way of implementing vital reforms as mel fernandez reports many victims' families are frustrated with long delays in securing justice. father nelson the rajah's moving home again

a process that brings back painful memories she was asked to move out days after her husband stephen was abducted by uniformed military personnel and the market when the a motorbike blocked our vehicle in traffic and a white van pulled alongside they held a pistol to the tried his head and said steven get out and bundled him into their vehicle that was more than eighty years ago there's been no trace of him since hundreds of families like the other have joined protests demanding. they see a government that won the war against the tamil tigers must be able to find out what happened to their loved one. hope prompted many to vote in the government of mighty policy to say one two thousand and fifteen it has been working with the international community and has made progress including the return of some private land and the establishment of an office of missing persons but two years on many feel it's not doing enough we ought to proceed. on the assumption

that a great deal for a reason to be done done then. to be. institutionalized but they continually interested in doing so degrees has spent the last two weeks in the country to monitor what sri lanka has and has not done he hopes what he calls positive conversations will translate into action that will strengthen the rights of all citizens but rather than i was not convinced. that high profile people keep coming here but this is of no benefit to us they're just talking about their views but not doing anything. right. is echoed in the north where people surrounded the. president when he was a tad last week. he demanded the release of what they see as political prisoners

and concrete action on ensuring justice after the war the president told protesters he's willing to discuss their concerns on a degree of recommendations will be closely scrutinized by government leaders in colombo they have repeatedly insisted that they won't allow direct international involvement in any war crimes investigation the ministry of foreign affairs in colombo says it's not the government to decide whether the rapid recommendations are beneficial to the people and whether to consult him further whatever the outcome rather than a says she won't give up hope of finding the truth about what happened to her loved one. al-jazeera colombo. hundreds of monster of a government plans to repatriate nearly six hundred thousand range of muslims who fled to bangladesh protesters in replied the state capital which joined by some hardline

buddhist monks who regard as illegal immigrants the refugees fled across the border after a crackdown by me and my military the u.n. has described it as a textbook ethnic cleansing but save the children says the children refugees safe even once they arrive at the camps in bangladesh it says that the risk of trafficking sexual abuse a child labor or report a time via child three is that. the most vulnerable among the new record is there are close to three hundred forty thousand children among the refugees according to units that nearly twelve thousand children cross with the referee every week from me amounting to bangladesh you can see a lot of the children will hang out in the street looking for food or begging for money some time with their parents some time alone and they're playing by the streets sometime he said never stop get ready children actually selling stuff now they don't have much to do in the refugee camps the question is really bad this desperate some for hunger they're out in the state looking for something or other

we have seen some one time in one of the refugee camps some time back a man tried to snatch a child from my mother and was beaten up by refugee mob obviously a time according to save the children many of them at a high rate for sexual exploitation and child trafficking and child labor and unless there is some sort of schooling set up here in the long run a lot of this children with still be venturing in the state and will be at high rates of exploitation within this community in the refugee camp area. in cameroon security forces moved to stop a solidarity march that was in support of english speaking regions on saturday at the police end of the demonstration of the port city of dualla which was planned by the main political opposition group cameroon is a mainly french speaking country but english speakers in the northwest and southwest regions want greater autonomy aid agencies say that security forces have killed dozens of demonstrators in the past few weeks. five former u.s.

presidents appeared together at a charity concert to support hurrican relief the one america appeal concert in terre and texas is raising money for people affected by hurricane harvey. and maria the presidents have already raised thirty one million dollars for hurricane victims and they urged americans to do make all. these were grievous storms back to back. there is still work to be done in taxes and in florida and our friends in puerto rico and the american virgin islands have only begun to dig their way out of what could be still ok lambert is disaster but can be a new beginning was a little formless. could not be prouder was. the response of americans. when they see their neighbors and they see their friends.

they see strangers in me american step up the. president donald trump was not asked the event but he did send a video message presidents jimmy carter george h.w. bush bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama nobody and i want to express our deep gratitude for your tremendous assistance city life is becoming the norm for more and more of us it's estimated that seven out of ten people on the planet will live in cities within the next thirty five he is precious increasing on urban planners to design cities of the future clipping in los angeles rob reynolds has more on the plan to revamp the haas of l.a. . at the american landscape architects annual conference there is a focus on sustainability and designing for an air of global warming for example econ creek has developed a chemically unique waterfront building material that encourages growth of marine

life in projects now underway from the middle east to new york harbor my creating a habit that is actually calcium carbonate base you creating a kind of a reef it's growing with time so it's becoming like and leaving water from the plants and marine organisms clinging to them actually make waterfront structures stronger and more resilient and a time when warming oceans are spawning more frequent more intense storms. well santa list is the site of one of the most ambitious landscape architecture and design projects underway in the country the revitalization of the l.a. river the river was in tuned in concrete in the 1930's much of it is a lifeless ditch surrounded by industry full of trash and mostly off limits it's a gash the river is a gash and intractable corner of the channel rail and fences

and you know it just was the kind of place that was invisible this is what the river looks like now but plans are afoot for a transformation to this a living corridor for wildlife a gathering place for people and environmentally sustainable green space planted with indigenous grasses shrubs and trees in the heart of a city known for its freeways parking lots and strip malls there's biking jogging. there are some pocket parks or smaller parts or you know apartment buildings with terraces overlooking the river it's basically a space that we can. use in a much more meaningful way to weave the city together the project will take decades and cost billions of dollars in public and private funding but with strong

support from the state city government and businesses it is moving forward creating more grace in the city of angels robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. a murder in argentina is overshadowing sunday's elections while new members of congress and the police are investigating the death of an environmental activist who disappeared two months ago that could affect the outcome of the election as. reports from one of. these people are expected to be at rallies tomorrow the close of campaigning for sunday's legislative election between the parties cancelled when earlier this week a body was found to be that of missing activist santiago. i believe it's all got to change because people can't go on disappearing like this there's a complicity between the repressive forces which is repugnant. the police did what happened and the justice system backed them up there was

a government cover up it's all organized so they can do what they want. disappeared in order for protesting for indigenous rights in the south of argentina his whereabouts dividing in nation where wounds are still war over the kidnapping killing of an estimated thirty thousand people under military rule in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's tension with the author still trying to establish the identity of the body a running high dominating debate in the days leading up to the election was he killed by police or did he drown opinion largely determined by which side of the political divide voters are wrong and how much faith they have in state institutions other election issues or whether president government is a good thing i think she has trouble with economy back on track and holding inflation and tackling rising crime like our mid-term elections this is a test of the government and argentines will decide the make up of congress which

is important to the government if it's a pledge through important legislation and will test the comeback aspirations of former president cristina fernandez. still popular but she and many of her former allies fighting allegation. of corruption in that what's in play for the opposition is how they regroup and present themselves for the twenty one thousand presidential elections who will lead the national moment all of argentina's parties are trying to present a bright future many voters are still coming to terms with their country's troubled past. when osiris voting is one of the way now in slovenia's presidential election opinion polls are predicting an easy reelection for the incumbent. has been nicknamed slovenia's king of instagram for his frequent presence on social media around one point seven million people are eligible to vote day. that was this guy a national hero or

a tyrant napoleon bonaparte who ruled over france and much of europe divides opinion more than two hundred years later but shining a more positive light on the emperor is a new exhibition that includes rare artworks natasha butler reports from paris with his determined steely gaze and distinctive hat napoleon bonaparte is one of french history's most recognizable figures a brilliant general he forged his destiny in the french revolution crowned imprint thirty five he went on to dominate europe but while many french people regard napoleon as a hero others say he's a source of shame a tyrant and a cruel war monger curators hope a new exhibition in northern france will help restore his reputation as a military and political visionary if. a pretty rebuilt france after the revolution of course there are parts of history that are hard to accept. terror inside and his desire to conquer europe and if people have fallen out of love with the polian it's

because these days we value peace and we're not accustomed to wars like people were in his time. napoleon transformed france he created many of its institutions and his napoleonic code still defined civil war across much of europe for visitors here his legacy is clear on the. whole he was a great figure of french history we owe him a lot our institutions and our schools. in troubled times he built an empire and restored order napoleon's tomb is under the sumptuous dome of the lead in paris it's one of the capitals.