polls open as people in the first. nine years that we can see the prime minister saad hariri just. as is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. says it's resurrecting its second fleet to beef up naval presence in the north atlantic. more evacuations in hawaii is. the residential areas. plus why some of the most iconic streets under threat from developers. they've been levied on voting in their first parliamentary election in almost ten

years the polls been delayed several times over disagreements about the electoral law it's hoped the new systems system based on forstall representation will help overcome the level of sectarian divisions. nearly six hundred candidates are vying for one hundred twenty eight seats in parliament eighty six of them are women lebanon's parliament is evenly divided between muslims and christians the president must be a maronite christian the prime minister a sunni muslim and the speaker must be share from and says saad hariri belongs to the future movement the most popular party among sunni muslims he says the election is a contest between his party and hezbollah which is the most powerful political movement in lebanon is the only party with an active armed wing the conflict in neighboring syria is one of the main issues for voters there one point five million syrian refugees in lebanon that's around a quarter of its population the economy is also featured heavily in the election debate lebanese youth in particular will be looking for strong economic leadership

in the face of unemployment low wages and corruption. joins us now live from. there has been there is hope business these elections will bring about some change of the first votes in nine years but voting does seem to be as entrenched along sectarian lines as ever. i have to say laura there's a sense of hope here in lebanon that because these in new election law based on proportional representation approved for preferential vote that we might see more independent voices representing different minorities that would break the monopoly of the establishment political parties that have dominated politics in lebanon for almost four decades but whether we're talking about entrenched political parties just to give you an idea tend to get to be a car which is considered to be a hezbollah stronghold hezbollah faces

a tough challenge this time for from independent shia candidates are fairly hated for example with the. with the how really movement and also with the free preach better yet it will burn affiliated with president bush and this is quite significant today hezbollah is hoping to win most of the seats in this particular area it is their stronghold and therefore they are eager to tell the international community to tell the liberties that they have the trust of their own people now we have to wait and see what happens tonight after the start tallying the voices are we're going to see new faces coming to the parliament are we going to see a new trend eleven that's the question now absolutely but this intense rivalry has said to them neglect as there are many basic services and these are key issues in this election just electricity for example on rubbish collection these are issues

that people are having to deal with on a daily basis there. this explains why most of the political parties are anxious today there's a sense of anxiety because for many of the people that we've been talking to they say that we have a huge problem which is basically the poor public services the remember the issue of the waste management a few months ago when thousands of lebanese took to the streets or said enough is enough with fed up with the political establishment it doesn't seem that anything works properly here this country we would like to see neutral and new people taking over this is why the political parties are pretty much concerned because of one of the been here in power for almost four ever but at the same time people say that we haven't seen anything which has been improving in order to die when the decisions are made when we know who's going to be the winner when we know who's going to take over the new parliament the biggest challenge facing globally in the near future is

properly running this country electricity is has been problem for for ages waste management waste dumping has been a huge issue unemployment is also a huge issue i think these are the top challenges facing the liberty's political establishment and ok for the moment we'll leave it there by reporting from baalbek and back thanks very much human rights watch has strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince for had been summoned for what he calls a dramatic increase in arbitrary detentions the group says at least two thousand three hundred people have been detained for more than six months without trial some of been in custody for more than a decade the group says the saudi justice system only seems to be getting worse the u.s. has announced it will be thought naval presence in the north atlantic to counter what it calls a a new threat from russia as part of the military build up on both sides which hasn't been seen in decades to proport. the u.s.

navy says its second fleet will be back in commission this summer operating out of norfolk virginia the fleet which was eliminated in a cost cutting move seven years ago is being reestablished to counter what the pentagon calls a rising throughout from russia at a ceremony in norfolk on friday admiral john richardson chief of naval operations said our national defense makes it clear that we are back in an era of great power competition as the security environment continues to grow more challenging and complex. russia's navy has stepped up patrols in the atlantic and both russia and nato have been building up forces in eastern europe at levels not seen in decades while russia has fewer ships than it did during the height of the cold war u.s. officials are especially concerned about its expanded submarine fleet and increased presence in the atlantic ocean but one military expert sees this more as saber

rattling than an outright threat of war i think what the russians will do is probably over time react with more submarines operating in the atlantic more messages to us that be aware but i think that this will be kept at a relatively low level and i really don't see a huge escalation or any escalation proceeding from these actions the u.s. second fleet will be responsible for an area extending halfway across the atlantic and will include a staff of more than two hundred dian us to brooke al-jazeera robert hunter from johns hopkins university says the trumpet ministration is trying to reassure its allies in eastern europe. they're saying to the russians we do what you are doing very seriously more important i think is to try to reduce sure countries in central europe the baltic states poland and the like that are worried about what mr putin russia has been doing in central europe particularly in ukraine after all the

united states has a certain number of ships you can organize them in different ways and if you put them in a new thing and call it the second site it doesn't really change anything except symbolically and maybe in a bit of training because ships are assigned by the united states when and where they are needed and what you call them a really is a secondary matter and hawaii more people have been forced to leave their homes by a volcanic eruption navas the montauk got some powerful that's quite a pressing residential areas reynolds reports from near the erupting mt killer on my wife's big island. local resident tony lutes shot this cell phone video as new line of the events opened near his neighbor's house the molten rock blasted high above the ground and toxic sulfur dioxide gas streamed through the air sound and a lot of roaring like jet engine and every time it exploded it was like an

explosion as i can i'm going on the new eruption from mount killer way a cause the emergency evacuation of nearly two thousand residents from the small rural community of lay lani estates and surrounding areas one night it was find there was little cracks in the pavement and the next morning. no one having worn it covered roads with rivers of magma and reportedly destroyed several buildings hawaii's governor called out state national guard troops to provide emergency help and keep people out of harm's way it is a difficult thing to watch a lava flow is unpredictable and not exactly certain what course it will take on friday a powerful six point nine magnitude earthquake shook the big island of hawaii causing structural damage to buildings including a school kill away a is one of the world's most active volcanoes continually erupting now for more than thirty years normally the lava flows through subterranean channels to the sea

but the new eruptions are following a different pattern this is a newly established road block in the middle of the eruption zone now the police and national guard tell us that just a couple of hours ago a new law the vent opened up in the trees over in that direction for the people who live under the volcano the occasional jet of molten lava and bone shaking quake are part of the price of living in a tropical paradise i'm not afraid of it just respect it and be aware of. you know i don't care if the mountain is unpredictable no one knows where the next lava breakout will be or how long kill away as angry mood will last rob reynolds al-jazeera near mount killer whale. thousands of kenya's displaced by floods are being removed from the only solid shelters they could find schools the government

says children should return to the classrooms on monday andrew symonds reports from the town of karachi it's a school classroom but this isn't about learning it's evil thousands of kenya's flood victims found food and shelter in schools but their stay is over it's time to move again the government wants to reopen the schools think of nothing and there is no way i can refuse to move i have no place of my own anymore my roof now i have no peace of mind. bar. and so registration begins and these people are then sent on their way with some basic survival kits they're heading for a place known as the chief's camp but there's little in the way of comfort there they're all homeless with no possessions surrounded by floodwaters and there's no sign of what's going to happen next this camp may have the advantage of being on

higher ground but it's a small hill top space is limited and it's overcrowded already the people have had to go elsewhere it's getting really bad for them the weather is still wet and their conditions have got worse. they have to get wood to support the top pullens they've been given these are do is sell shelters and there are no facilities here yet for the moment the nearest source of drinking water is a want to a round trip away by forte and it means wading through these floods no bombs. on the belonging to. the local chief has orders to reopen schools on monday but admits facilities for the displaced place yet what do they have it's not enough about toilets about what it's not good these resilient people

are remarkably tolerance some accept the education of their children must come first but what cost in terms of hardship and health risk. to set up with although we are suffering it would be better to have this elderly to fast. it's difficult to . move back and forth you never know you might be more. uncertain see like the rain clouds hangs over these people andrew simmons al-jazeera khalifi county in kenya still ahead here on al-jazeera protesters gather outside the national rifle association's annual meeting in dallas texas calling for stricter gun controls plus. i'm wayne hay in phnom penh where we'll tell you why new opposition party is threatening to withdraw from july's election.

how the remains of the april heatwave is pretty widespread eighty five days ago in europe east here in the east of europe is being eaten into as it has been everywhere else by the latest of the cold fronts is this brought rain in and change attention some cloud from the atlantic so we back down to really normal conditions now those normal conditions will prevail over night was showers around the balkans for greece and turkey and the circulation the western med slowly improving other words the wind is lightning the showers not as widespread as they have been the last couple of days and in fact the warmth is increasing in western europe twenty four to twenty seven against the british isles about the same as the remnants here in romania where the rest of europe is just recovering having dropped ten degrees it's starting to warm spell you get on that massive great he's going to be i think a big mass of thunderstorms and heavy showers from remaining through greece still

into turkey and probably macedonia as well remaining showers in southern france just a few wondering thunderstorms but that feels a bit more like spring the weather by this time should have improved on the north coast of algeria tunisia the wind is lighter no showers around but the difference in temperature in current as one twenty seven in cairo but the breeze brings forty six to us one.

top stories people voting in their first parliamentary election. ballots in beirut is have a new system. over. terri and. the u.s. is beefing up its naval presence in the north atlantic to deal with. a rising threat from russia reviving its second feat which was disbanded seven years ago to save money. and in hawaii more people have been forced to leave.

areas. an explosion in a coal mine in southwestern pakistan has killed at least sixteen because emergency crews are trying to free around a dozen of those who are trapped in the mine they say the blast was caused by a buildup of methane gas. francaise condemns the u.s. president's remarks about the twenty fifteen paris attacks donald trump suggested the incident could have been prevented if the country had loose a gun laws a french government says he should respect the one hundred thirty victims of the attacks or tom made the comments whilst addressing thousands of gun owners at the u.s. national rifle association's annual meeting hisor castro reports from dallas in texas . a father's pain from losing his son in the parkland florida school shooting turned protest.

the. manual all over has been painting protest murals since his seventeen year old son was killed and now he says he wants to invite president donald trump to the family's home for a father to father visit. you will see an empty room. very powerful images of my son. all around my house we are. we're still with him every single day we wake up we can not listen to he's he's. jokes to he's you see there's little chance trump would accept such an invitation on friday the president bask in the approval of the national rifle association the powerful gun lobby that gave his campaign more than thirty million dollars your second amendment rights. are under siege but they will never ever.

be under see as long as i'm your president trump expressed sympathy for the victims but has done little to reform gun laws since the florida shooting that killed seventeen that's despite student marches and polls showing that a growing number of americans almost seventy percent support more gun control. protesters say they'll show their power in the upcoming midterm elections we've seen tragedy after tragedy we've waited from politicians to speak up for us at some point you realize or not that it's our time to speak up for itself and if they don't support us then like i said come november we're going to start voting people who actually care about the american people the students against guns aren't the only ones here protesting this group of civilians armed with rifles and pistols who are legally allowed to carry their weapons in public are also making their voices heard they have a very different point of view their constitutional right to bear arms the two

sides clashing bringing to stark relief two very different america just exercise or second amendment rights we like to show that just because you have a gun you're not going to shoot children but children have been the casualties of gun violence leaving grieving parents and a divided country in their wake. castro al-jazeera dallas. one of cambodia's strongest opposition parties is threatening to withdraw from july's election the grassroots democratic party says the vote is unlikely to be free nor fair and only emerged as a challenge after the largest opposition party was dissolved by a report from the capital. one of cambodia's newest political parties believes it's the only one that truly lives up to its name representatives of the grassroots democratic party are related from the ground up with supporters and members voting for who they want to stand in july general election but party

leaders say there are undemocratic forces at work in cambodia we are ready for there is from but in the next. one until monday if the so there is and it's getting worse so you don't think that this and it's in this what's right for the price of pain the previous largest opposition party the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved in november accused of plotting to overthrow the government its leader kim is in jail charged with treason critics say it's part of a campaign orchestrated by the ruling cambodian people's party which is afraid of losing power the opposition performed well in the last general and local elections including q who won his seat in phnom penh only to lose it when his party was banned and. most people used to support my party in this area told me that if there is no camborne international rescue party in the election they want

to go to. the party headquarters which is owned by another former leader sam rainsy has been seized by the court which may sell it unless he pays a million dollar fine for defaming the prime minister when sam rainsy has called on cambodians to boycott the election there has been international condemnation of the deteriorating situation here with forty five countries signing a letter calling for the opposition to be reince. dated and for kim to be freed while the united states and the european union have withdrawn funding for july's votes the government says it isn't concerned about the criticism and words intervene in the judicial process they can voice but it best not the flags. of the spirits of all people of those countries so would still negative on earth. but the future they will come back to earth it's normal. the grass roots party has already faced intimidation with signs and banners taken

down in some places apparently by government supporters but in a way a new political force may be exactly what the government needs a strong opposition to give the election some credibility but becoming too strong may also come with risk when hey al jazeera phnom penh. was their investigation has found that hundreds of mexicans have undergone experimental unregulated medical procedures by the country's flagship neurological institute over a fourteen year period the patients are fitted with a device meant to drain fluid from the brain but in some cases it made the conditions worse holeman has part one of his investigation. it's painful for you learned to look back at the time before she was hit by hydrocephalus a debilitating condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain it's left her with massive headaches and speech problems. everything

changed because i was a sports woman before i spent twenty years doing sports and i sold clothing everything and that she hoped that an operation at mexico's flagship institute for neurology and neurosurgery would help her but what she didn't know was that doctors would hope with an experimental and the north arised device. and not just her four hundred seventy three other patients who went to the facility we're also implanted they were essentially guinea pigs in an unofficial trial carried out over a period of fourteen years they never asked me anything before operating they said something to my husband but never that they were going to do an experiment. three doctors working at the institute at the time spoke to al-jazeera it all said that like you learned the nearly five hundred patients weren't told the device was unauthorized nor nobody's case file included an informed consent about the

experimental nature of the device not one the national institute has refused to clarify if patients were informed or not but we got access to six patient falls this is what's key to all of this the medical consent form in one of the cases and it's very general it doesn't mention that this is an experimental device that hasn't been authorized by the health ministry. but that's not all the three doctors out to syria thought to say the device was simply a tube that relied on gravity to drain away fluid from the brain down to the stomach area and that relying on gravity meant that if a patient lay down it would flow back other devices used valves to stop that. it's just a tube it's technology from the fifty's it doesn't represent any sort of progress. by a publish studies the inventor of the cheap claimed it's precisely calculated diameter

did regulate flow and stop fluid going back to the brain even when patients were climbed he said it worked better than valve eula devices. doctors told us several patients had to have the device replaced but it's unclear how many suffered from any ill effects the names of those implanted have been released and many came from poor remote communities. it's a problem especially with patients without much money they feel ok and they go there last. year learned that was able to have another device fitted several years ago but the health continues to worsen at this point hopes of getting better or for justice a fading john home in. mexico city. what on home has more from mexico in the second part of this special al-jazeera investigation and he'll be exploring how the unregulated practices were allowed to be carried out and

discovering the consequences for everyone involved as here on al-jazeera later on sunday. the decade street art has been a prominent feature of perlin telling the story of political and social changes but demand for new housing mean some of the city's most iconic artworks might disappear like a report. it's a city of culture and counter culture where the walls of buildings are the canvas on which politics and society sometimes collide in an art form that has much of the anarchic where what matters is the work and the artists themselves want to remain anonymous and not to have limits placed on that creativity if there's new buildings being gouged that's all right it's kind of like that's i mean more important than it's like street art is like something that is worn on its own and doesn't have

like when it gets too well regulated or sanctioned and it won't really be alive anymore. and you get a feel for just how alive the scene really is in districts like lights back improvised astronauts stared down at you from buildings how the fruits of the artist's labor is there for all to see and where people feel walls are just murals waiting to be painted i'll get more and more street artists are coming here from across the world really what's more and more and as far as i know this year alone more than fifty new murals are going to be painted in a very short time. but in a city with a constant need for new housing and more office space often world renowned examples of street art can end up obscured by new buildings recent figures suggest the vacancy rate in existing apartment buildings is just one and a half percent at a time when fifty eight percent of all households are occupied by single people leaving the city planning or for at least with the dilemma of how to protect

cultural treasures while accommodating the ever growing number of people who want to live among them you have to deal with investors that want to build blocks and things like that and so everyone has to find solutions what could stay and what has to go not. friend of having a sort of staying with this square cities and things like that forever there are some examples of three thought in this city which do have protection germans called partial factories here what's left of the bourbon wall at what's called the east side gallery but even here it's clear where modern buildings have really taken over and yet some believe those modern buildings that obscure the art of yesteryear also provide a platform to paint the pictures of the president dominic kane al-jazeera berlin.

as ours are these are the top stories people in lebanon are voting in their first parliamentary election in almost ten years president michel aoun cast his ballot just in the past few minutes or so while there we saw promises son harry in the voting booth in a week in the system based on forceful representation will help overcome levon sectarian division. national power has more. to tide when the decisions are made when we know who's going to be the winner when we know who's going to take over the new part of it the biggest challenge facing globally in the near future is properly running this country electricity is has been a problem for ages waste management waste topic has been a huge issue unemployment is also

a huge issue i think these are the top challenges facing the liberty's political establishment human rights watch has strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salmond for what it calls a dramatic increase in detentions without trial it says at least two thousand three hundred people have been detained for more than six months without trial some have been in custody for more than a decade and the group says the saudi justice system only seems to be getting us. the united states is beefing up its naval presence in the north atlantic to deal with what it calls a rising threat from russia as reviving its second seat which was disbanded seventy years ago to save money. in hawaii more people have been forced to leave their homes by a volcanic eruption lava steam and toxic gas as well as powerful earthquakes threatening residential areas. an explosion in gaza has killed six members of hamas military wing because some brigades lost which injured three of those happened in

a residential neighborhood. in boulder trying to deal with an unexploded israeli weapon in the twenty four team war. and france says the us president's remarks about the twenty fifteen paris attacks donald trump suggested the incident could have been prevented if the country had loosed the gun laws the french government said he's a respects the victims of the attacks those are your headlines we're back with more news to inside story. and for you it's. it fought for for decades.