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another attack on a voter registration center in afghanistan thirteen people are killed in the explosion in cost. hello again i'm asking them about is there a life and also coming up i haven't voted in nine years so what will today's parliamentary election mean for the people of lebanon. iran's president will the americans not to walk away from the new deal of the may twelfth deadline for renewal. a stunning display as hawaii's killer whale volcano continues to spew toxic gas and lava on residential areas threatening thousands of people.

at least thirteen people have been killed in afghanistan after a bomb exploded at a mosque in the eastern province of cost police say may have been targeted because it's used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election more than thirty people were injured well this is the latest in a series of attacks over the past month and most of them have been on these voter registration centers last week twin bombings in kabul killed at least twenty five people including nine journalists that was the deadliest attack involving members of the media for many years in a separate attack on the same day a suicide bomber set off an explosion that killed eleven children near the southern city of kandahar earlier in april another fifty seven people died in kabul during one of the several attacks on voter registration centers and the explosion north of

the capital in baghlan province killed six people from the same family on april the twentieth gunman his center in bag this province and a police officer was killed jennifer grass is our correspondent live now in the afghan capital kabul and jennifer that's a really grim roll call that we've just been through is it fair to say that attacks particularly on civilians are increasing in their intensity now. absolutely martin and i and really afghans all over the country are feeling it particularly here in kabul as you said just the last two weeks alone two major attacks here in the afghan capital one on monday last monday they killed twenty five people and two weeks ago sixty people killed in a hundred and almost two hundred twenty injured in an attack on a voter registration center president ashraf ghani just released a statement within the last few minutes. it's about the attack in host province in

the east saying that terrorists continue to attack sacred places that they should be brought to justice but that they will not they will not deter order rail the process of elections scheduled for october of course we're in the middle right now of voter registration and as you read martine that that terrible time line of attacks since voter registration began mid april so just about three weeks ago there's another five or six weeks to go by mid to mid june the government was hoping that fifteen million people would be registered but the independent election commission says only about a million people have registered i do know from afghan friends here in afghan folks that i speak to many are very nervous about going to register to vote they're very unhappy that some local schools have been designated as voter registration centers we do know that in some provinces the taleban have close schools that have been used as a voter registration centers i must say though we spoke to the taliban spokesman

just a couple of minutes ago he denies responsibility for the attack and host province he says that the intelligence services are trying to frame the taliban to the taliban denying responsibility for that latest attack that killed thirteen in eastern afghanistan and injured thirty three so who is it then jennifer who in the afghanistan sees it as the main mission in life to try to disrupt these elections or at least the registration for them. well the big attack here in kabul two weeks ago was claimed by eisel that attack that killed sixty people on a voter registration center and i saw of course is the next biggest group behind the taleban who has that which has been carrying out attacks around the country while that stronghold is in the east we have seen that it's been able to carry out attacks here in the capital where they're getting their supports how they're getting the logistics to carry out such complex attacks in the capital such big

attacks and devastating attacks here and around the country is unclear we do not have any claim of responsibility for the latest attack in host province but it's definitely a very very difficult time here in afghanistan as we were reporting on this attack in host province we got reports that six indian engineers and their afghan driver were kidnapped today in by golan province of the taliban are being blamed by local officials for that those six indian engineers working on power projects there the taliban have regularly attacked power lines and back bringing power here to the afghan capital so the afghan government in a very very difficult task the present afghan president has ordered his security services to better secure voter registration centers but up until now they haven't been able to do that the afghan people are very concerned about their safety as they move forward to this crucial vote scheduled for october twentieth to elect a new parliament a new district leaders all right thank you very much jennifer live in kabul. well

it's evidence first parliamentary election in nine years since the last for it that was in two thousand and nine a lot's happened the war in neighboring syria for one thing which is led to the arrival of more than a million refugees and then there's the regional rivalry between saudi arabia and iran that almost inevitably feeds into this highly politically polarized society but the country is using a new system it's based partly on proportional representation president michel and there you can see him use among the first to cast his vote that saad hariri the prime minister he voted also in another polling booth in beirut. god willing all every lebanese citizen has to vote and perform their national unity the lebanese can vote for whoever they wish this will make the country stronger. all right let's look a little bit more closely at what this election is about almost six hundred

candidates are vying for one hundred twenty eight seats in parliament and 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 a shia muslim prime minister saad hariri belongs to the future movement which is popular among sunnis he says the election is a contest between his party and hezbollah which is the most powerful political movement in the country is the only political group with an active armed wing the conflict in neighboring syria is one of the main issues for voters as mentioned there are more than a million syrian refugees in lebanon bringing that population to around one in every four the economy has featured heavily in the election debate lebanese young people in particular are looking for strong economic leadership there's high unemployment there's low wages and they've been moved the rate of corruption right

let's go live to our correspondent zain the harder who. in beirut we've had a day of of given that long list of of malays the libyan the lebanese people. voting for what sort of turnout have we had lots of enthusiasm generally has it been among the people. there hasn't been enthusiastic relatively high voter turnout a lot of people we've been speaking to say they're voting for change but they know it is an uphill battle this is really the first time we're seeing so many independent candidates vying in an election race trying to break the hold on power the ruling classes hold on power taking advantage of this new law but even these independent candidates acknowledge that it's not going to be easy that they if they win any seats is just a few seats but it would be a small but meaningful change

a lot of people are worried about the economy as well as the high rising rate of unemployment in the country many lebanese graduate from universities and they can't find jobs and they're forced to leave so some people will be looking for change but of course there are others the more traditional voters in lebanon who really are hard core supporters of their parties lebanon's parties are sectarian parties and this is a highly you know sectarian country people feel that these are sectarian parties in one way or the other protect their community if you talk to example hezbollah supporter he will say well hezbollah has been forced to fighting for us protecting us from the regional from the regional turmoil you talked to a supporter of the prime minister who is a sunday and they'll say well he has been fighting at the iranian influence in the country so you have different kinds of voters hoping for change and others hoping that their leaders will stay in power and i'm i'm assuming that the

sectarian nature of politics in lebanon is not helped to toolis it by the outside pressure because of course lebanon has been at the center of other people's walls in conflicts for a very long time. yes this has been the playground especially the saudi arabian rivalry it has played out in lebanon for years but as of late lebanon in one way or the other has been left on the side spared from the regional turmoil because of a deal in late two thousand and sixteen where a president was elected who was seen to be close to hezbollah and in return the prime minister. was installed as a prime minister and then you had a national unity government which included hezbollah ministers now many people will say that compromise deal will continue post elections alliance really have changed the biggest winner of this election is going to be hezbollah and its allies and as of late we've seen their influence grow eleven on the iranian influence while saudi

arabia really has been busy fighting the war in yemen and losing its allies in lebanon their main ally was the prime minister saddam he was their man he is no longer their man yes he enjoys good relationships with them after the events in riyadh when he resigned last year but they are supporting other candidates and you have this fragmentation in the sunni community which makes them weaker and makes the iranians stronger in lebanon all right dana thank you for. now the iranian president as well the u.s. that it will face historic regret if donald trump scraps a new deal some rouhani says his government is prepared to respond to such a decision is taken president trump has repeatedly said he wants to leave the twenty fifteen agreement he has less than a week in which to decide. oh. 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 to make and will resist it more now from our correspondent in the iranian capital. so it was under his administration that the deal making began in the first place and it is what won him his last election in twenty seventeen last year president hassan rouhani put the way the twenty fifteen nuclear deal forward to his people is the cure all for all of the country's economic woes and at the time it was what it was his it was his trump card if you will to win him the presidency and now is the time that his government is defending their decision to go forward with it in the first place there are many observers that this may be very good for iran by the united states being the bad guy if you world by being the reason that the deal begins to fray and comes to an end it gives

a wrong of the to the political ability to tell european partners that we have the moral high ground now that we tried to do your way and it didn't work out and now we will return to policymaking on our own terms so going forward. the end of the deal may mean untether in iran from a nuclear agreement at a time when it enjoys far more regional influence than it did when it negotiated the deal in the first place israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's better to confront iran sooner rather than later he is accusing iran of delivering advanced weapons to syria with the intention of launching attacks on israel israel is believed to be behind the recent airstrikes on syrian military bases that killed iranian soldiers to iran and its lebanese hezbollah or of revenge for those attacks and the foreign secretary of the u.k. boris johnson he's on his way to washington to try to convince president trump not

to give up on the iran nuclear deal is visit comes just after the leaders of france and germany made similar efforts in washington last month with a manual macro and angle of merkel say that the current deal is the best way to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. coming up here at al-jazeera. i'm wayne hay in phnom penh where it will tell you why new opposition party is threatening to withdraw from july's election bron james beats the buzzer giving the cleveland cavaliers a three nothing serious lead over the raptors in the n.b.a. finals. hello there we've had quite a bit of wet weather over parts of china recently this area of cloud hair has been giving us some very heavy downpours and now it's working its way away towards the

northeast and over parts of japan you see while it was with us over ching it brought us some heavy rain lots of thunder lightning as well caused a few mudslides and landslips as well so you did cause quite a bit of problems there that system is gradually sinking its way southwards and will continue to do so as we head through monday and into tuesday and choose day it will be mostly confined to the south coast and further north it should be a good deal drier along that south coast though still going to be very wet that does include force in taiwan and down towards parts of vietnam to me while out towards the west we've got quite a few outbreaks of rain through parts of sure lanka on the southern parts of india also further north we've got a fair amount of what weather there is also affecting us in parts of afghanistan and pakistan too over the mountains still a turning to snow but in the central belt lots where things are getting pretty hot at the moment with that poor up to around forty two or forty three degrees as we head through the next couple of days for the arabian peninsula here largely fine

and dry as you'd expect but it's not completely sunshine all the way we've got more in the way of cloud for saudi. stories generate thousands of headlines cooperation with different angles from different perspectives. this is the only evidence that russia was responsible for this separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's call on the misinformation from the journalism to be issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera.

to take a look at the top stories hear it out is there and only thirteen people have been killed in afghanistan after a bomb exploded at a mosque in the eastern province of cost police say it may have been targeted because it was also used as a voter registration said four of tables parliamentary election several voter registration senses are being targeted in the past month. people in lebanon of aging in the country's first parliamentary election for nine years the country is using a new system partly based on proportional representation iran's president says the u.s. will regret quitting the nuclear deal like never before has a rouhani says iran is prepared to respond if such a decision is taken president trump is less than a week in which to decide. the volcanic eruption in hawaii is forcing more people

to leave their homes love steam toxic gas and even earthquakes they're threatening residential areas rob reynolds reports now near the erupting mt killer way or on the state'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 or 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 loni 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 event 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. you know some breaking news coming from pakistan we're hearing reports to the interior minister it ball has been wounded in a gun attack this apparently happening in punjab province correspondent come all hydras on the line now from the pakistani capital islamabad what do you know come out. calling them each. old constituency of inaugural was wicked in the fund. situated not very far from the city of long haul. to be

getting back in during a call when somebody aged or came however the police was able to do the attack it immediately we are go to that didn't get a minute. on his arm. much bigger and the doctors are now saying that. and in stable condition. is this being viewed then as an assassination attempt. to be in the dutch nation again going back did was approach called because. you have god within. the country. despite the fact that we had very high security. indeed it was in the game to get such a nation however. and moved to an undisclosed location. all right thank you kemal hyder then giving us the very latest on what

appears to be an assassination attempt against pakistan's interior minister it barnow as kemal goes off to find out more about this because we'll bring you the details on this here at al-jazeera but in the meantime this look at other news and north korea has denied u.s. led international sanctions forced it to agree to give up its nuclear weapons a foreign ministry spokesman told the same use agency that the united states is misleading public opinion by claiming that it was the sanctions that actually worked he also warned washington against quote deliberately provoking the north by deploying military assets in south korea now all of this comes ahead of a planned meeting between kim jong un and donald trump which is to happen in the coming weeks and of course would be historic. one of cambodia's strongest opposition parties is threatening to withdraw from july's election it's called the

grassroots democratic party and it says that the vote is unlikely to be free and fair though it only emerged as a challenger after the largest opposition party was dissolved when he reports now 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 elected 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 is for but in the next two months i'm on 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 who 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 opposite. to be reinstated 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 reflect on the spirits of all people of those countries so it's still negative on earth today but the future they will come back to earth it's normal. the grassroots 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. now the turkish president. announced a second cross border military operation in syria as he campaigns for reelection

next month president obama has been delivering his ruling a k party's election manifesto at the supporters rally in istanbul he's called the presidential and parliamentary elections will june the twenty fourth that's more than a year early. was at the event and said is this update. more freedom and more prosperity and for this is the motto of thirty present and snap election manifesto for june two thousand and twenty four actually this motto was the thing that's carried the ruling party to the parliament in two thousand and two since again as a protest in two thousand and thirteen and since the fans go it sent in two thousand and sixteen the government has harshly being criticized for its tough security measures inside turkey and respect imposed on the media presence are dong talks about opening a media page actually saying that turkey turkey will decrease its interest rates

inflation raised which have become a burden for the turkish citizens due to increasing living prices also add on mentions the turkish military will continue suppressions into northern syria until turkish borders are total security by the fire troops one more thing that i don't focus during this manifesto was that turkey should become a self-sufficient country in defense industry and he mentioned more what happens that turkey would be a would be put in producing actually and now everybody is curious after stating that there will be a new page how turkey will be implementing those freedom and prosperity a methodology while the state of emergency is still underway. now the spanish coast guard says. it's rescued four hundred seventy six refugees from the mediterranean sea over the course of friday and saturday apparently they were trying to cross

from north africa to europe favorable weather has sparked a surge in attempts no deaths were reported the u.n. says six hundred fifteen migrants have died in the mediterranean this year a total of two hundred twenty two thousand four hundred thirty nine migrants have managed to reach european shoals in the first four months of this year the serbian police are blocking a convicted war criminal from holding a political rally in the village of. c far right leader voiceless the shell was convicted by the u.n. war crimes court for the former yugoslavia for nationalist speech in one thousand nine hundred two in the same village he was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred towards the current minority. to sports now and basketball the cleveland cavaliers have taken a three nothing lead in the n.b.a.

and conference semifinals over the toronto raptors so hale malik report back to last year and the project seems a three time finals m.v.p. if this is a liberal james as last season with the cavaliers he certainly making it one to remember their been reports all season long that he might leave off this campaign the now however he looks fully focused on cleveland who was with the top scored in his team's first two wins over toronto and eastern conference semifinals and game three was no different than the look like the nice thing over the weekend the three time n.b.a. champion back thirty eight points but despite the bronze display the raptors pushed the cavs all the way they went on a run in the final quarter and managed to draw level the yes the you right thanks second security but on this night nobody was going to deny le bron thirty six if you were thanking the beating winners and not the match winning display cleveland

winning it one zero five two one of three they could be a drive you know for a lay up that i've had in the past. should be a floater like i was tonight. just pretty much. now have a three nothing. al-jazeera. time for a look at the top stories here it out there and news just coming in from pakistan the interior minister. has been wounded in a gun attack in punjab province he was shot in his right shoulder as he was sitting in his car having having just addressed that his son has confirmed that his father is conscious and apparently out of danger but that something of course we're

following here it out. at least thirteen people have been killed in afghanistan after a bomb went off at a mosque in the eastern province of course police say it may have been targeted because it uses a voter registration center in october column an election well the thirty people were injured elsewhere in afghanistan seven indian engineers and their afghan driver being kidnapped by a group of gunmen they work in a power plant in the northern baghlan province a police spokesman says the engineers were traveling to a government run power station in a minibus when they were abducted. people in lebanon the voting in the country's first parliamentary election for nine years president michel aoun cast his ballot in beirut and another district of beirut saw the prime minister saad hariri voting the country's using a new system partly based on proportional representation oh. god willing all every lebanese citizen has to vote and perform their national charity

the lebanese can vote for whoever they wish this will make the country stronger iran's president has warned the u.s. will face historic regret if president trump scraps a new deal. ronnie's says iran is prepared to respond if such a decision is taken president trump has less than a week in which to decide in hawaii more people have been forced to leave their homes by a volcanic eruption lover steam toxic gas and earthquakes are threatening residential areas in the american states those are the headlines. once pristine indonesia's river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain when you see examines the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera. at least twenty five you. want to know what on.