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polls open in lebanon those people vote in their first parliamentary elections in nine years. and of their more a trial this is al jazeera life and also coming up the u.s. says it's resurrecting its second fleet to increase naval presence in the north atlantic. more evacuations in hawaii as toxic gas and volcanic lava rests on residential areas. some of the most famous straight talk is under threat from developed. people in lebanon are voting in the first parliamentary election in almost ten years president michel cost his policy during the last hour the wall earlier we saw

prime minister saad hariri costing his vote the new system based on representation will help overcome lebanon sectarian divisions. nearly six hundred candidates are vying for the one hundred twenty eight seats in parliament eighty six of them 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 prime minister saad hariri belongs to the future movement which is popular among sunni muslims he says the election is a contest between his party and hezbollah which is the most powerful political movement in lebanon it's the only active only party with an active armed wing the conflict in neighboring syria is one of the main issues for voters one point five million syrian refugees in lebanon that's around a quarter of its population and the economy has featured heavily in the election debate lebanese youth in particular be looking for strong economic leadership in

the face of unemployment low wages and corruption national guard joins us live now in the lebanese city of baalbeck so how should the first election in nine years what i hope it will bring about any change. laura huge hopes and anticipations of the same time as you've been saying this comes against the backdrop of the political deadlock that has been going on for quite some time since two thousand and one of the growing political divides between the main establishment political parties in lebanon and huge economic social problems the conflict in syria the syrian refugees and also economy and unemployment this explains why today as we do have some huge expectations we have also in exile at a particular among the establishment political parties about how to move forward joining me to talk about. today's vote is the top of him and most away from. the

list of hezbollah places where we stand is a hezbollah stronghold in the bit. about him. how significant is this vote for you it is fairly significant but only for a husband told lebanon but also for all the people who believe in democracy this is a place where we are going to start to show that a new era of the bodies politics this is because you elections are taking place on the. loaches the proportional we have worked hard in order to help produce this electoral law this is look at a low it's very important why it's important because it gives the opportunity for a new course if us is to be a presented in the parliament has been pushed hard and love with in order to produce the elections this electoral law and we're working hard also in order to maintain democracy in its best shape what's next the moment the results are announced you know the divide now in lebanon about the future of the arming of

hezbollah political unity in the country solving the on going social and economic issues and the conflict in syria the thousands of thousands of syrian refugees. it's impossible to solve this problems as long as the political divide continues eleven and lebanon has been engulfed in the political crisis of our since its. existence you know very well we have never been at any time that we are free of problems problem free lebanon has never existed before the political divide has always been very steeply very vertical and it continues to be now a chilly we have reached. a return point when we have to do everything possible in order to save the country not only in the military livered we have been able to achieve a lot we have been able to defeat that accuse in the mountainous terrain and we have been able to defeat these are useless but when it comes to the economy we have a very big very big crisis that we want to handle with other to us as with other

with the way that if this is this is a place where people are upset particularly here in the area this thing that we haven't seen a major transformation in the infrastructure well this is something that they have been blaming the state times the government but you know the government but you also as well as one of the government we are part of the political system but we are not the political system we are about the state actually we are not the state we are part of the state but when it comes to the executive branch when you talk about the government how the decisions are being taken we have struggled a lot in order to help our people our people understand very well that they leave the blame on the political system which is security and in its nature this is the problem we're going to work there and really helping our people as much as we can be less than half a minute is it possible to see hezbollah and the future movement in a government after the elections when you talk about politically thinks everything is possible thank you very much indeed little him and so we thank you very much indeed mona this is quite a significant moment for the lebanese they're hoping to see more representation

more independent voices more people representing different minorities element of this is like come to the has been divided along sectarian religious lines and the agreements in the past have been so far then. need to maintain that representation because by the end of the day the sun is the shias and the christians have to be represented it remains to be seen how the young lvalues with political affiliations are going to make a decision today are they going to vote for the establishment mainstream political parties or argo are they going to take a different alternative that could show you the few sort of lebanon morally and we will have to see what the first results bring in much they say and to more rational thanks very much human rights watch has strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince one had been sound one for what it 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 us iran's president says the u.s. will regret quitting the nuclear deal like never before subtle honey says the country is prepared to respond if such a decision is made us president said he wants to leave the twenty fifteen agreement into the european allies of trying to convince him not to do so. the u.s. has announced it will increase its naval presence in the north atlantic to counter that cause a renewed threat from russia as part of the military build up on both sides which hasn't been seen in decades and estabrook reports. 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 die in us to brooke al-jazeera israeli media reporting impressive donald trump could ask israel to withdraw from four neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem there is speculation it could be part of the u.s. peace plan for the region it comes a week before the american embassy officially moves from tel aviv to jerusalem. as live for us and western or a slim staff it does more than we know about these reports. yes this is all in the israeli media and those reports are also citing that american officials are denying them but certainly it's interesting because there is of course a lot of back and forth about what president trump is calling the deal of the century a new sort of planned peace plan to try and resolve which has been something that has proven impossible to do so so far you mentioned there for neighborhoods it

really is all about geography is that this conflict and the neighborhoods that are being talked about abu dis abu dis is already outside of the separation wall which means it has been detached from jerusalem proper even though it is a neighborhood of jerusalem is that we are and couple two other ones that are talked about there close to the wall and people will tell you that they will be easily sort of part of that put outside of thought is the one that there's a bit of an issue where there's sure front refugee camp which again is close to the wall but you have sure thought proper now this is right next to west jerusalem many people will tell you that that is almost impossible that the israelis will agree to that things are still very much in flux reading it has to do with concessions certainly these reports saying that the american officials gave this message to the to the defense minister avigdor lieberman in his visit last week he spoke to israeli media last night saying there's no such thing as a free lunch and there will be concessions for the move of the american embassy to

jerusalem but they will be worth it i think having talked about all those complexities laura the one main issue here is the old city you can offer the palestinians certain neighborhoods you can try and push may which is what the israeli government is trying to do to sort of get these neighborhoods outside of what they're trying to establish is the new jerusalem proper but without the old city which has the locks a mosque compound which of course is holy to muslims and to jews without the core of the issue where that goes i think all the other things are semantics and i think it still has to be said it isn't in credibly difficult conflict to resolve concessions yes need to be made and i think it's going to be interesting what the trump line is going to produce i think we are expecting to hear details of that all through the fourteenth of may when the embassy is due to move here to jerusalem dekker porting from leicester is from thanks jeff. thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes as mount kilauea on big island continues to erupt

volcano began spewing lava and toxic gas through huge cracks in the on thursday eruptions been accompanied by hundreds of earthquakes which are getting more powerful volcanologists working with teams to assess. says the volcano is likely to release more lava but it was difficult to forecast way it would appear. our noses for this to continue we see no slowdown in activity our seismic and geodetic data coming from the region still indicate magma cumulating we should anticipate more filters quakes and some of them can be large and potentially even damaging. reynolds's on why is big island is close to mt. this is the end of the line les lani estates lies behind that roadblock and no one is being allowed in at the moment because there are at least eight active lava faults in that area they are reported to have been dying down somewhat by public officials saying that the

amount of lava bursting from those eight active faults has been quieting down but officials say they are quite certain the. eruption of mt feeling way out in this state is not yet done and one of the most important health risks involved in this direction comes not from the law but self but the toxic gases associated with it particularly sulfur dioxide which can be very dangerous for children old people and people with asthma emphysema and other kinds of pulmonary disorders now people the police and other authorities here say they're considering whether to allow people who were hurriedly evacuated over the past several days back in to this area on sunday at least briefly in order to pick up stranded pats important personal items

and personal papers but they want to make sure that they do that without letting anyone who has no business in leylandii estates in to do any mischief. so ahead here on out of there are protesters gathered outside the national rifle association's annual meeting in dallas texas calling for stricter gun controls. on wednesday in nonpaying where it will tell you why new opposition party is threatening to withdraw from july's election. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lead. to the first snowfall on the winter spring. hello there it hot hot hot in parts of europe today and it stay hot over the next day or so you look at the temperature in london there up to twenty four degrees i can guarantee there's going to be some some people here by the end of the day looks

at ike it's going to stay fine unsettled them for many of us across europe but not quite full of us there is more cloud there is more rain down towards the south has already given a some spectacular flooding over parts of turkey and we're also seeing those showers over parts of southeastern europe as well so particularly over parts of greece through macedonia and up through serbia there is the risk that we could see lots of thunder reactivity during the course of the day and maybe some flash flooding as well so very heavy downpours here and that system sticks around as we head through monday so still more shop showers here there will also be more showery downpours on monday through the northern parts of italy down into the southern parts of france now for the northern parts of africa has been fairly unsettled here over the last week or so and we're still got a little bit of cloud there of a pause about jiri at two newseum should clear away those we had through monday the temperatures still well the disappointing in out is they're only getting to around twenty one degrees in fact robots nor even that woman here they'll also be some

rain. there with sponsored by the time he's. getting to the heart of the matter. if. the bill calls you today and says. would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people the . only option for prosperity you. hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

again you're watching out there top stories people in lebanon are very saying in the country's first parliamentary election in almost ten years president michel aoun cast his ballot his short time ago and prime minister saad hariri in the voting booth in beirut it's a new system based on representation will help overcome lebanon's sectarian divisions. the u.s. is increasing its naval presence in the north atlantic to deal with what it calls a rising threat from russia its reviving its second fleet which was suspended seven years ago to save money. and in hawaii a volcanic eruption continues to pull people from their homes. and toxic gas some powerful earthquakes are threatening residential areas. francaise condemns the u.s. president's remarks about the twenty fifteen attacks in paris donald trump suggested the killings could have been for vented if the country had liberal gun laws or

trump made the comments whilst addressing thousands of gun owners at the national rifle association's annual meeting castro reports. 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 i'm in the 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 too he's

. jokes too he's you see there's little chance trump would accept such an invitation on friday the president basked 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 as 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 that's two sides clashing bringing the stark relief to 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 go 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 an explosion in gaza has killed six members of hamas military wing because some brigades it happened in a residential neighborhood of the wager explosion injured three other members says those involved were trying to deal with an unexploded israeli weapon from the

twenty two war. 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 fir it only emerged as a challenge after the largest opposition party was dissolved when hey reports from the capital phnom penh. 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 need for there and it's from but in the next. one until monday if the so there's an inch 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 can board 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 reinstated and for kim so card 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 to flicks. of the spirits of all people of those countries so it's still a negative on earth can vote at the day but the future they will come back to earth it's no more. the grassroots party has already faced intimidation with signs and banners taken down in some places apparently by government support is but in a way and 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 wayne hay al-jazeera phnom penh all money and living in

poverty hoping the recent political up paving will bring improvements to the lives of financial crisis and corruption since independence the left a third of the population without jobs that are going to aim reports from about thirty five kilometers west of the capital yerevan. it's dark there are electrical wires haphazardly strong and it smells like sewage this is the hallway of a one nine hundred sixty s. dormitory built for construction workers where impoverished families with no other options now live on this morning social workers are paying a visit to rita nasr yachts eight family members are packed into this apartment with a makeshift kitchen on the balcony the grandmother has lived behind these four crumbling walls for twenty seven years but she says this is hardly a home. my psychological state isn't just the only shoe but also my

hand i have diabetes i don't sleep at nights there's no space to walk and i pace back and forth my legs hit to bed chairs tables. this community lives in the shadow of the mets a more nuclear power plant a lack of jobs is keeping several generations rooted in this place they desperately want to leave poverty and a stagnant economy drove protesters into the streets over the last several weeks the world bank says almost thirty percent of armenians live below the poverty line the official unemployment rate is twenty percent but experts say it's much higher social worker garonne fillion says the government provides meager assistance to armenia's poor and corruption has pushed them to the margins of society. everything a child is living in poverty and is vulnerable and every child is

a funny we don't have enough social workers for them and every hundred thousand people is not one full time social worker. some of his grandchildren join the government protests that led to the resignation of the prime minister she says she wants to have hope but wonders how much change a new government will bring must bear that on the we told the regional authorities to have problems and they say if you look at our problems you would cry they say we have to cry for them instead of them crying for us they are not even helping. nothing. for another young the present can only be improved and her family's future secured by one thing the opportunity to live in what she calls a real. al-jazeera a more are media of all

a manager of manchester united alex ferguson is in intensive care after an emergency surgery he suffered a brain hemorrhage. is the most successful coach and british football in history united to thirty eight trophies including two european champion crowns during twenty seven he is in charge. now for decades street art has been a prominent feature of the story of political and social change but demand for new housing mean some of the city's famous artworks might soon disappear when it came reports from the german capital. 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 is much to the anarchic where what matters is the work the artists themselves want to remain anonymous and not to have limits placed on their creativity if there's new buildings being held 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 born 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 when improvised astronauts stared down at you from buildings how the fruits of the artist's labor is there for all to see and reputable fill walls are just murals waiting to be painted all the. 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 with or at ease 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. has to go not. friend of having a sort of staying with this school cities and things like that forever there are some examples of three thought in this city which do have protection germans called partial structures here what's left of the berlin wall and 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 arch

of yesteryear also provide a platform to paint the pictures of the president dominic king. berlin. and without it there are these are top stories people in lebanon have a say in the first parliamentary election there in almost ten years as that michel aoun cast his vote and they were in the past hour and a while. saad hariri also cast his ballot as had the new system based on forceful representation will help overcome sectarian divisions. 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 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 human rights watch has strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince bandar bin sultan for what it calls a dramatic increase in detentions without trial the group says at least two thousand three hundred people have been detained for more than six months without trial some appealing custody more than a decade the group says the saudi justice system only seems to be getting worse iran's president has warned it would be a historic regret donald trump decided to pull out of the nuclear deal as i know honey says the country is prepared to respond if such a session is made us president repeatedly said he wants to leave the two thousand and fifteen agreement i've got a big heart as. if the u.s. to pull out of the nuclear deal it will soon realize that this decision will become a historic regret for them no change will occur in our lives next week we have

devised plans for any possible decision that might make and will resist it. the u.s. 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 fleet which was disbanded seven years ago to save money and in hawaii more people have been forced to leave their homes by volcanic eruption lava steam and toxic gases was powerful earthquakes are threatening residential areas as i had lines of it back with more news after talk to al jazeera. and there are over seven billion lights in this long each one a story that demonic to be told. with documentary.

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