you know over some crazy monsters and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint trying to bring mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers i think really i'm tired no. we are challenging the forces were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

several people killed in running street battles in pakistan as police try to clear our protesters who had our allies the capital for weeks. this is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up another step in a palace long path to democracy where voters are having their say in a first regional elections zimbabwe's new government moves in on robert mugabe's old allies plus. i don't know what. sales may be going through the roof at amazon but we'll find out why some of its workers have little to smile about. thank you for joining us protesters are back on the outskirts of the pakistani

capital islamabad an even larger numbers despite a police crackdown that turned violent on saturday at least six people were killed and one hundred fifty injured when officers moved in to disperse a protest camp with tear gas and water cannon thousands of others have rallied in solidarity shutting down roads in several cities pakistan's government has asked the military to help restore order but at least for now the army sees seems has it and to get involved now the protesters are demanding a minister resign for a missing a reference to the prophet mohammed in a parliamentary bill the ministers ziad hamid says it was a clerical error that's already been fixed but there are accusations they're accusing him rather of a blasphemy a highly contentious issue in pakistan they say the changes were intended to benefit the mahdi minority who may recall. as heretics the protests have spread across pakistan from islamabad to whole kharaj and hyderabad i speak to those in kaka who are on the road between the whore and it's not about these protests have

cost huge destruction millions of people affected and we're hearing now that there are more people on the streets on the outskirts of islam about what more can you tell us. yesterday. on saturday when the security forces moved in on those protesters heavy tear gas water cannons there was progress in the initial hour or two but all of the police was pushed back by those protesters as the protests spread across the country in the air joining areas overall would pay near it. and then going all the way to the southern port city of karachi today. renewed renewal between the security forces and those protesters are the protesters have gorged on other police station we are toward the pakistani military chief. the united arab emirates

is going to be meeting the prime minister later today he had already told the prime minister that they should be regarded as peacefully and soon as possible who are these protesters come out they've been described as right wing conservatives who are they exactly and what are they so angry about. particularly. there's no one. that came into being. a guard the governor of the job name. of course governor of the thing they did with a black female and he became. even though he's now. a bodyguard a large following and a lot of people across. this party you. know now

however it has become a force to be reckoned with their demands of creating as you mentioned they wanted their resignation of the law minister saying that they were after their body their day they will continue for several weeks. and they. are cared for anything then the distribution of the cabinet of course change their dollar order of what the government did on the receiving end. situation and as you mentioned the military is reluctant partly because the military does nord want to come in on the streets against those protests believes that the police and security forces have adequately trained and it did in the responsibility of the government to try and do something about dates because something the military can order forward to fight against those protesters on the street and therefore the backlash turning against the military instead of the government thank you so much thank you

so much for that come on highlight for us in kind of a hole and we'll have more on the situation in pakistan later in the program when he speaks to another of our correspondents in islam about thank you come out in other world news polls have opened in a pos northern mountain district says voters take part in the first federal and state elections under a new constitution it's a first phase of the vote across thirty two district the election is expected today the gronwy. for the past transition into a federal or state since the king was forced out of office in two thousand and six the himalayan nation has been trying to overhaul its political system and leave behind years of violence and instability power is being devolved away from the central government to save a newly created space the changes will make it more difficult to remove a prime minister those who push for reform say will lead to more stable government a proportion of seats in state and federal assemblies will be allocated to women and indigenous people the aim is to create increased gender and social equality but they are concerns fringe parties will be pushed aside leaving power in the hands of

the parties which have dominated in the past politics for decades. has more now from a non district one of the most difficult areas to set up polling booths because of its harsh climate and remote location. when one on district on the unfairness circuit of nepal where elections are taking place for a state and national assembly now it's been almost four hours since polls have started and the lines are continuing almost half the votes have already been cast and at this polling booth. is the smallest electorate with just about five thousand five hundred eighty one registered voters but it is one of the most challenging districts because of climatic conditions as well as difficult terrain. because of this are just tickle challenges elections are going to happen in two phases the first phase today is in the mountains and the hills and the second phase of the seventh of december in the lowlands where climatic conditions are much better now

there are two major contestants one the left alliance between the you know unified marxist leninist party as well as the former maoist and the other ones the democratic alliance the old old get vanguard of democracy in terms of the party congress and the other right wing parties so the competition is really high but locals over here that we've talked to say who ever wins they really hope will develop this district. a factory explosion has killed at least two people in eastern china it happened in in bowie in a part of the city that had already been cleared for demolition state media reports say the blast cost some buildings to collapse and more deaths are feared about thirty people have been taken to hospital. zimbabwe's former finance minister has told a court he was abducted by masked men ignatius chambliss facing charges of corruption

he was detained by the military when he took power almost two weeks ago there is under simmons who joins us now live from harare zimbabwe is capital and tell us first about the reaction to these corruption allegations against the fina finance minister former finance minister i should say well people are pretty un surprised by what's happened he was arrested right at the start of the military's move into harare he was taken into custody by soldiers held in the military detention place where he claims he was beaten now how he was beaten certainly not of the face it would seem but he has received hospital treatment according to unconfirmed reports that he he went to the the actual court requesting to actually get bail he didn't get bail people feel that this is predictable and they're expecting more of these sort of allegations against ministers which is

hardly surprising and he is denying all of the charges of corruption and fraud this is basically how zimbabwe is waking up on a sunday or reading these sort of headlines not headlines projecting the future what sort of game plan is in place but more some form of retribution through the courts against those who have offended the state it's now what five days since president obama got the resigned what is the mood like on the streets right now in harare what are people saying about the future. i think. what exactly is happening to happen so quickly as you just pointed out as far as the future goes everyone is fully aware of the risks there has to be investment foreign governments have made it quite clear there has to be reform before certain investment can take place the m.d.c. the main opposition party is saying that basically what needs to be seen is also

some planning on the government's part and also we will be getting very soon probably by monday or tuesday the announcement of the cabinet so basically what we are seeing here is a roll up to define stance from the new administration and we will see something playing out in the direction of a time scale of how it will roll out and that's what the n.b.c. want to see they want to see what sort of play they can get in planning for elections in a free and fair way and in harare thank you very much for that. still ahead on al-jazeera rights groups warn the arrival of aid planes in yemen is not enough to be humanitarian crisis and there's no war but the matter is one of the highest in the world we look at the issues concerning voters heading to the polls.

from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. we have something of a wintry weather across much of europe will hold down across the northwestern corner across the united kingdom into the low countries see how the winds coming in from the northwest direction just from the direction of the i suppose like stands right down into central passes seeing some wintry weather some rain sleet snow or. cross the high ground diving down across the balkans as we go on through the new styles on sunday with temperatures no higher than around a celsius for london and paris that want to ship in even that thirty madrid is around about them i've average actually will see this wet weather this wintry weather moving across the high ground to the southern fringes of the balkans more rain coming back into greece you notice athens seeing some rather wet weather watch

the skies come back into homs some sunshine yet again but the christian saw that we had across the northwest of europe that saw on the way out mild weather coming through getting up into double figures but wetter weather risks well for about a cloud of western parts of africa at present but it should be dries we go on through the next day or so temperatures are a bachelor around twenty two degrees with just about getting up into the mid teens there in china is still warm enough there in cairo with a top temperature of twenty three degrees. there with sponsored by cats on face. africa through seismic changes country stands out because it's considered so successful why is the. president of ghana nonna. talk to all jews here. at this time.

hello again you're watching al jazeera live from doha a reminder our top stories this hour protesters are back on the streets on the outskirts of the pakistani capital it even larger numbers despite a police crackdown on saturday the government's asked the military to help restore order but the army seems hesitant to get involved the protesters are angry over the wording of a parliamentary bill holds are under way in no nippon not in a pos northern mountain districts as voters take part in the free state and federal

elections under a new constitution sunday marks the first phase of the vote the second phase will happen in ten days. and zimbabwe's former finance minister has told the court he was abducted by masked men ignatius shambo is facing charges of corruption he was detained by the military when he took power almost two weeks ago rights groups are concerned over the military's influence on the judiciary. more now on our top story and those protests in pakistan joining us is al-jazeera is abdul rahman who is in islamabad thank you very much for speaking to us drama this was about the situation because we're hearing of more protests on the outskirts of the the pakistani capital today what's a situation like right now. situation demands a. tense situation. of police crackdown on the protesters of yesterday there was a lot of clashes took place yesterday between the police and the protesters.

is blocking the men leading to the capital since more than twenty days. there was some kind of a fellow at. the local administration of the capitol there taking a decision late last night of asking the army to be deployed right which. in which there was some kind of at the. army and some particular areas around the city and the location which is as i said. blocking the manned road leading to the capital of starbucks is more than twenty days the army as you say has been called in you know has been requested to try and restore order but they seem to be some reluctance with them to get involved the pakistani military and we also understand that the army chief is meeting with the prime minister meeting today what role do you see the army playing here if this crisis continues to grow all the likely to get

involved. is unclear there is a lot of meetings there's a lot of contacts between the military leadership and the civilian leadership since yesterday morning throughout the day even today there was a lot of communication there will be some meetings. in the evening. unclear. or the request which was made by the local administration of the capital to the armed forces to deploy some soldiers it says simply. that is it will be just. that in the capital there is no further explanation there is no further details about. what kind of will be. given to the army what kind of task will be given to the army. according to our own understanding of the situation it is difficult a little bit difficult. to take in actually going to those civilian protesters

maybe there will be some kind of a new strategy shared between the civilian government and the military leadership. to find a way out of this crisis which is you know. continuing since more than twenty days right and it's a very tense situation indeed thank you so much for speaking to us. about bureau chief joining us there from the pakistani capital. moving on in libya's coast guard has recovered the bodies of thirty one refugees who died when their boat sank off its northwestern coast on saturday about two hundred people were rescued and brought back to tripoli as a coast guard spokesman told al-jazeera that forty people are still missing nearly three thousand migrants have died in the mediterranean sea this year trying to cross into europe. among the bodies that were tragic scenes the sharks have devoured parts of their bodies thankfully the survivors have been recovered

israel's occupation has curb the freedom of movement for many palestinians in spirit families in some areas at least twelve thousand people mainly from the occupied west bank are affected by israel's ban on family reunification but a smith reports from where thousands are crammed into what effectively no man's land. location location location rarely is the property hunting maxim more important than in the carved up territory of the occupied west bank mara obaid lives in occupied east jerusalem she has the right to live in israel her fiance where some sell a main lives in ramallah and our fifteen year old temporary israeli emergency order means we're some cannot get israeli residency to join his wife to be so they have to live here. falls inside the municipality of jerusalem so it's governed by israel but it's on the palestinian side of the separation wall. they are bent can

look like any other engaged girl you plan you have to dream i would have chosen for a cab i was thinking of a house with a small garden it's more like a dream though faced by the reality i had no choice but to live in for a cup so i can keep my identity card and my life partner catherine act ups unusual situation i mean seventy thousand people a packed into a limited piece of land now the population of course has grown by as many as ten thousand people a year every year for the last twelve years but this town could never expand outwards because of the separation wall and that suits the israelis because it's another way that they can control the number of palestinians living on the other side of the wall the main purpose in our point of view all from our long experience of this. is to push palestinians outside of their voters to to divide the families they know what it means you know the family and the personal social network and they are targeting the feminists this is they are targeting children

they are targeting the homeless they are targeting you know their presence in jordan more than twelve thousand palestinians are stuck in this bureaucratic limbo and there's no chance of relief in sight bernard smith al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. rights groups are warning the arrival of for aid planes in yemen is not enough to stave off a humanitarian crisis and landed in the capital sanaa on saturday carrying medicine and supplies and. wheels down at center international airport for the first time in almost three weeks until saturday a saudi led blockade had shut down most of yemen's ports of entry after warnings by the u.n. a handful of planes carrying polio and diptheria vaccines and aid workers arrived in the hooty controlled capital. only overlook and asuna international airport was

banned from receiving communitarian aid aircraft for more than one thousand days that led to more than five hundred u.n. aid workers being stuck here and the consolation of more than fourteen aid flights . earlier in the week some aid trickled into the western port of who died but that has now stopped the world food program tells al-jazeera it's still waiting to offload a ship carrying twenty five thousand metric tons of wheat enough to feed one point eight million yemenis for a month people need an avalanche of eight millions are on the brink of famine and they're struggling to survive cholera polio and diptheria outbreaks in addition to the war humanitarians are serving the needs of seven million people who are completed dependent on. the blockade began on november sixth after who the rebels fired a ballistic missile into saudi arabia. a saudi led coalition fighting on behalf of

the government says it needed to stop weapons smuggling the u.n. warns commercial imports particularly food and fuel must also resume the world food program says continuing to choke off the supply could have a disastrous effect on fourteen million people living in northern yemen people it says it doesn't have the resources to help natasha going to does iraq. german chancellor angela merkel is urging against another election as she tries to form a new government coalition talks between merkel's conservative bloc into smaller parties collapsed last week she serves to polygonum and together soon after the center left social democrats agreed to more negotiations there's a. nice invite so in the next election we must do better we must have solved more problems than we have today it is with this in mind that we must evaluate possible talks with the social democrats of course we're prepared to talk but talks can only

be conducted on the basis of mutual respect that must be clear. voters in honduras are heading to the polls for elections that will determine the next president current leader juan orlando hernandez announced he would stand again despite a one term limit public safety is one of the central issues of the campaign honduras still one of the most dangerous countries in the world the security minister says in the first ten months of this year more than three thousand people died in violence corruption is also a major problem the government has been accused of bribery embezzlement and doing business with drug cartels and the watchdog group transparency international says military and police are selling weapons and ammunition on the black market marianna sanchez reports from the capital tegucigalpa. with every election there is hope and he will do just the hope for change is crucial in one of the world's most violent countries. with that in mind. i want to have the blessing of being able to

come back home alive every night for now we don't have that. the promises of improved security i fight against corruption but also of a better economic future those are some of the core issues the nine candidates are offering durance on sunday's general elections. broadcaster and center left candidates aloofness atlanta. is splitting the opposition vote with former professor research from the liberal party opinion poll say president that man this is leading he's the first president in his recent history to run for reelection the supreme court lifted a constitutional ban on precedents serving more than one term paving the way for evan unless. according to the law that the syrian shouldn't have been adopted but it was approved by the supreme court the electoral tribunal the army said they wouldn't dispute the decision diplomat sad it was the court's decision and we

haven't seen extreme civil disobedience because of it. eight years ago precedent was ousted in a military led coup for trying to conduct a non-binding referendum on the issue of the election. some voters say democracy is being challenged in this election. on sunday will decide it will have four years of a government that is byo it right and it's all for tarion some analysts say this election will be a referendum on that and this is tenure the challenge for the other candidates will be to convince voters their promises can surpass the economic and security policies this government insists have been a success. here at this one neighborhood on the outskirts of some. people like sandy just say the presidential term limits or even the issue of security are not the most important issues for under us. if there was work for older people i

wouldn't mind waiting for the president. sixty percent of all didn't live in poverty many say this government has forgotten to give them jobs however many hundred say they may prefer to vote for what they already know and for promises from new candidates that make ultimately remain unfulfilled and innocent as i just see that they do see on us. shares in the online retail giant amazon reached a record high at the end of last week after a big holiday sales as founder jeff bezos is now the world's richest person is said to be worth more than one hundred billion dollars but imus ons the livery workers aren't doing as well some say they have had their pay cut by a third without explanation jacob wants reports. john delivers packages for amazon. the gig is unpredictable amazon flex drivers spend as many as sixteen hours

a day watching an app for available block of deliveries if they get one bill delivered perhaps a dozen packages in a two hour window then they wait sometimes for hours without pay i want my job i started what would i do i will be in a car but i think doing the job is great but i just can't make any money doing it right now john is not his real name and we can only tell you he lives on the east coast of the united states he says he doesn't want to lose this job but he can no longer afford to work it either when i started we were earning or base wage plus tips after several months he trained to. base pay including tips. amazon now counts tips for its amazon flex drivers against their total pay john used to make roughly three hundred dollars in a day now he's making two hundred dollars if he's lucky amazon is developing a service how to use drones amazon has made

a science of delivering goods fast and cheaply someday it says it wants robots to make deliveries but at the moment it relies on contractors to cut costs in this country if you are treating workers as an independent contractor you're saving up to thirty percent of your labor costs you're not pain into social security you're not paying into workers' compensation for workers who are injured you're not paying into unemployment insurance for workers who are laid off and two months before innocence from the change in pay on a john received a new contract to sign you an amazon agreed to resolve disputes between you and amazon on an individual basis through final and binding arbitration he was being asked to sign away his right to sue in open court and then amazon changed his pay i shouldn't have to spend all the mail trying to do now through my paycheck is thirty percent less than what it was last week and i still haven't gotten an answer

because there's nobody pocket i don't know what to do there's nothing to do you can quit that's around through you're a private contractor newts up the perm but the job or you don't the holidays put pressure on everyone but for those without the comfort of full time employment there is no such thing as time off amazon says it cannot comment on pending litigation toward al-jazeera. rallies have been held across the world to highlight crimes against women people march in istanbul in turkey even though police initially didn't give permission those involved want the government to do more to reduce domestic violence and improve gender equality public demonstrations in turkey have been restricted since last year's failed and this is how the event was mocked in brazil rio de janeiro's famous cries every demas touch are eliminated in orange in support of the u.n. sponsored campaign.

again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera protesters are back on the streets of the capital this pakistan on the outskirts and even larger numbers despite a police crackdown on saturday the government asked the military to help restore order but the army seems has written to get involved the protesters are angry over the wording of a parliamentary bill come on hyder has more from kalakaua on the road between the whore and islamic party. they're traveling there from lauder climb a bog on the motorway about four before and. however it is taken literally where deterred from one intersection to another interchange and that of course it's causing huge problems because what the protectors have done it they have barricaded all those. points where they were able to go much to the border and they have blocked that highway at several places. now the news two people have died in two

others a seriously injured in a factory explosion in eastern china at least thirty people have been taken to hospital after the blast in ningbo. the polls have opened in the past northern mountain districts says voters take part in the first state and federal elections under a new constitution sunday marks the first phase of the vote across thirty two districts the next spot happens in ten days power is being devolved away from the central government to seven newly created states. zimbabwe's former finance minister has told a court he was abducted by masked men ignatius johnboy is facing charges of corruption he was detained by the military when it took power almost two weeks ago. concerned over the military's influence on the judiciary. and rights groups are warning the arrival of four eight planes in yemen is. not enough to stave off

a humanitarian crisis they landed in the capital sanaa on saturday carrying medicine and supplies efforts to control outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria have been hampered by a saudi led coalition blockade which was imposed almost three weeks ago and libya's coast guard has recovered the bodies of thirty refugees who died saturday when their boat sank off its northwestern coast one hundred forty five people were rescued and brought back to tripoli to al-jazeera is next. released on the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to you al-jazeera. you will. see.

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