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polls close in lebanon's first election in nine years it's a new system but the same play is a set to dominate. hello i'm maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. afghanistan's upcoming election appears to be the target once again a bomb attack a voter registration center kills at least thirteen people. iran's leader hassan rouhani issues a warning to the u.s. if it pulls out of the nuclear deal it will regret it like never before. and we're in ballet and to find out why the city's iconic street is under threat.

i'll come to the program our top story polls have closed in lebanon's first parliamentary election in one year as three point six million people were eligible to vote but it appears few chose to cost a ballot with time out around thirty percent the country is using a new system based on proportional representation but it's unlikely to upset the overall balance of power say to hold or has more now from beirut. judd phonos among the eight hundred thousand voters who are eligible to cast their ballot for the first time lebanon hasn't had an election in nine years political wrangling and disagreement over a new alec torah law were to blame now this twenty three year old hopes his vote will make a difference. for people who don't have any money but it shows up with the money you need to get them go. more and more voices are calling for change and it's not just the young lebanese are concerned about the growing level of poverty and

unemployment in the country. on the number you that. we want change we want to new generation of leaders who know what the youth need with the burden. this is the first time. where so many independent candidates joined the electoral battle the new law which is based on proportional representation opens the door for these candidates to try to break the political elites hold on power but they acknowledge they can only make a small difference. and we know we will win all the one hundred twenty seats but even if we get eight ten or twelve seats we are satisfied because we know we will be able to expand our presence later on they are up against a political establishment that has been in power for years if not decades even since the days of the civil war in the one nine hundred eighty s. if those politicians are not running their sons or grandsons are and they have been accused of using their office for electoral gains. there are people who

vote for candidates who help them this is wrong with that is how it has always been . those are the so-called traditional voters who not only benefit from a politician or party but are often loyal to their sect before the nation lebanon's parties are sectarian among them the iranian backed shia armed group hezbollah. hezbollah fault ice on the window one day of the fall destroyed hezbollah has been . a wonderful to them hezbollah and its allies are expected to win the most seats in parliament further strengthening their power which has been growing in recent years. a lot has happened since the last election in two thousand and nine there was political instability the post presidency was vacant for two years until late two thousand and sixteen when lebanon's political rivals reached a compromise deal a president was elected a national unity government was formed headed by prime minister saddle heidi that

included members of hezbollah. prime minister how did he wants to secure enough votes to ensure his leadership of the sunni community and ensure his return to the premiership he has exchanged harsh words with hezbollah during campaigning but that is an expected part of the election rhetoric in lebanon both sides know they need to work together if they want national unity and this divided nation. is live in beirut now and hashem met the first election of its kind in nearly a decade but turnout is low why. mahdi about how to say these are extraordinary times in lebanon voting has come turn and turnout is asked to meet at something around thirty six percent we're waiting for final official result of results from the government about the turnout in the coming hours with getting reports of clashes between supporters of the future movement which is the

movement of the prime minister saad that heidi and also of hezbollah supporters in the southern suburbs of the. capital beirut this is an indication of the mounting tension that we've been seeing over the last few days here in the capital of beirut because everything is now a new the new election law is creating the lows of anxiety and also the hope among many people particularly civil society candidates and joining me to talk more about their hopes for the future are gilbert dermot and laurie hi ted thank you very much indeed for joining us you are been given a chance for the first time in lebanon to take part in elections an independent candidate and you're hoping to make a change do you think that people people will vote for you at first were not given a chance really thinking oh don't chance the law is not good they bet on i would.

be solvent i like to be divided with one unite the throne in mind this think six six six six candidates it's a precedence in this country of also psyching movements coming together and yes we can win and what we've seen today around the street is gives us a lot of hope in this country again laurie you've picked some fights in the over the last few months particularly over the waste management you've been saying that the government is inefficient in a. active and of the needs to be a change will deliver nice heed your kools give you their trust like a few hours and you will know about that but i believe what we have seen today on the streets of beirut specially it was festivity we have seen people like cheering up for you cannot walk on the coming to us talking to us asking us where to board and the fact that there is this hope we have been able to give them the will and testament if to go and vote so we have betting on that so we're waiting for the results hopefully we will be really successful in that but even if not it is i

think this is a historical moment today we have given to people and that turned against the established gilbert whatever the outcome of the elections what will be your next move. in respectively we're starting to organize starting to more of a platform to engage is all citizens in it with the same common vision and the same common program with a one to five seats no seats the struggle has started it's just the start of the spark and will continue right after the elections a lot of this is a country where political parties are divided along sectarian religious lines are pretty much to entrenched they've been there for almost five decades is it possible to bring about people from all the sects of lebanon and join you when they don't know that much about you yet people are fed up of district in suspense and definitely people blunder standoff that there is no division in the political sphere or the political party is there or united to maintain and control what they are dividing the communities yes but they are one when it comes to washington power

and this is what people have understood not and this is why they will join us and this is that where our greatness about their starts to morrow morning thank you very much indeed members of the civil society candidates money came under attack by the establishment political parties over the last few days. in all sorts of accusations of them saying that they are basically undermining the basic tenets of democracy in lebanon and the stop listening the has been prevailing for more than half a century but people like gilbert and glory of the feeling that if today the can if they can break the ceiling of the sectarian establishment the have the has been going on for quite some time to blow it could be a different time for lebanon now we have to wait and see what would be the outcome of the election but these are extremely delicate developments and extraordinary times here the eleventh this explains why the political establishment is pretty much anxious about tomorrow thank you very much hash bar with all the latest from

beirut where voting is drawing to a close in the parliamentary election that. a bomb blast in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern province of cost and the suspect the mosque might have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election jennifer glass is following developments from kabul what would we know about this attack in horst. well the explosion went off in the afternoon after prayers people had gathered there in a tent outside the mosque to register to vote in october elections as you said at least they're seeing people killed and thirty three injured in this latest attack on a voter registration center the worst attack came here in kabul two weeks ago nearly

sixty people killed and almost one hundred twenty wounded in that attack as people stood in line here registering to vote and it's not just voter registration centers that have come under attack also election workers have been attacked as well around the country the voter process the voter registration process started just about three weeks ago it's supposed to last until mid june the government was hoping that fifteen million afghans would register for those parliamentary elections so far only about one million afghans have registered and many afghans that i've spoken to here in kabul say they are concerned about these attacks that these registration centers are a target for anti-government groups and they do not want to go register in one case a local school is being used as a registration center and the parents have kept some of their children away from the school because they think it makes it a target president ashraf ghani condemned today's attack saying that the terrorists continue their crimes against religious sites that they will not deter the afghan

people they will not darrelle the election process he has announced an investigation but that is something the afghan people have heard so many times before many of them very skeptical that the afghan government can do more really to protect them from these kinds of bombings but this is happening in the run up to elections in october how much pressure is there on the government to come up with a plan and to take measures to protect campaigning registration centers and of course the voters themselves. there is a tremendous amount of pressure the international community wants these elections to go forward the afghan government wants these elections to go forward but right now they're set for october twenty eighth about the latest you can have them here in afghanistan because of the weather and as you say we're just in the very beginning part of this we are just in the registration process that is going

terribly slowly and as the campaigning gets underway that is going to be a big concern because of course campaigning inevitably means large crowds anti-government groups have shown that they are determined to disrupt the election process eisel has claimed responsibility for a number of the attacks of the one here and in kabul and around the country so i think it definitely could affect i think no question that it is going to affect the election process going forward and the government's going to have to decide what it can do president ghani calling on his security services to better protect voter registration areas but so far they've been unable to do that with attacks today's attack in host province in a series of attacks here in kabul as well it's going to be a really large challenge for the government to try and safely carry out these elections all right thanks very much with the latest from kabul jennifer glass. i want to bring you some news from pakistan where the interior minister survived

a suspected assassination attempt a son who was shot and wounded while sitting in his vehicle shortly after addressing crowds around the in punjab province is receiving medical attention and is expected to be moved to look or further treatment is attacker has been arrested according to one of his aides will now five rebels have been killed in a gunfight with government forces in india to controlled kashmir security forces moved in on a house in shopian district where this is specter rebels will base troops ordered the rebels out of the house and then started shooting when there was no response one of those killed was top rebel commanders saddam thousands of poured onto the streets for his funeral. north korea has denied it was forced into giving up nuclear weapons by american led international sanctions a foreign ministry spokesman told the state use agency the u.s. is misleading public opinion by claiming the sanctions work also warned washington against deliberately provoking the north by deploying military assets in south

korea. so ahead for you on the program second part of an al jazeera investigation into claims of medical malpractise at mexico's flagship state neurological is shoot . in turkey as president unveils his party's political vision ahead of snap elections next week. hello there we've had quite a bit of wet weather over parts of china recently this area of cloud here 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 too meanwhile out towards the west we've got quite a few outbreaks of rain through parts of sure lanka in 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. once pristine indonesia's chittering river has become

a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply global fashion chains one is the examines the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. i'm back just a look at the top stories now polls have closed in lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years initial reports suggest turnout was low it's around thirty

six percent lebanon is using a new system based on proportional representation thirteen people have died in an explosion at a mosque in afghanistan's cost province has been used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election. and pakistan's interior minister has survived a suspected assassination attempt a son was shot and wounded while sitting in his vehicle after addressing a rally in punjab province he is expected to survive. iran's president has warned the u.s. it will regret quitting the nuclear deal as the deadline looms for donald trump to make a decision on ronnie says iran has plans to respond if trump pulls the u.s. from the pact trump has repeatedly said he wants to leave the twenty fifteen agreement unless european allies can fix what he calls flaws in the deal he has less than a week to decide whether he will extend u.s. sanctions relief on iran i got

a call out haulage if the us 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. the same bus route the. us live now so saying if and when donald trump the u.s. withdraws from the iran nuclear deal we know that the government in tehran is going to be faced with a stark choice about whether or not they should resume the activities that the deal sought to constrain any clue as to how they might respond. well i think the clue is in the the public messages from numerous leaders that have been made over the last several months and that is that they can begin developing and making weapons grade nuclear material again very very quickly and so it is more

likely than not that that will be part of their first response if you will to the deal being broken by the united states if indeed that is what happens and the iranian position is that it does not want to develop a nuclear bomb it has no interest in it it will not pursue it that's what the public messages from the iranian government but by beginning nuclear enrichment activity once again by developing the materials that could be down the road sometimes used to make a bomb that gives them political leverage that they used in the first place to negotiate the twenty fifteen nuclear deal so that is likely to be a part of their response why does the public opinion stand how concerned on iranian people about the prospect of the new deal not surviving. well for most people the benefits of the deal have not touched them directly the successes that were enjoyed in terms of iran's economy in the beginning were

largely at the government level large companies benefited from the resumption of oil sales but for most iranian people they haven't really benefited from the deal and that has created discontent with their own president hasan rouhani it has to be remembered that he married himself to the success of the nuclear deal it was his trump card that helped him win the election last year and become president once again and so he is now trying to explain to the iranian people that the start of the negotiation for the nuclear deal with western powers from a play of for as an honest broker from a desire to engage in dialogue over conflict and they are trying to defend that decision now there are some observers that say if the united states pulls out of the deal it will empower military hawks in iran hardline lawmakers but there are some observers saying that this could work out in rouhani is favor it will give him

a sort of moral high ground to be able to say that it was the united states that pulled out of the deal not that we fulfilled all the requirements of us in accordance with the nuclear agreement and they can say to world leaders in the future that we've tried to make policy your way and now we're going to go back to making policy on our own terms i all thank you very much at the white house from. the turkish president as you type out on his unveiled his party's election manifesto promising new military operations against kurdish fighters along its border in syria and iraq want to dress thousands of supporters in istanbul ahead of next month's now elections he called a vote more than a year early to consolidate and move to an executive style presidency which was narrowly approved in a referendum last year old cheering his speech i do want to say restated his party's commitment to the economy. was at the rally. more freedom and more prosperity and for this is the most so search for us and our draw on snap election

manifesto for june two thousand and twenty four actually that this was the thing that's carried the ruling party to the parliament in two thousand and two but 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 now prisons are drawn talks about opening a new page actually saying that turkey's turkey will decrease its interest rates inflation rates which have become a burden for the turkish citizens due to increasing living prices also aired on mentions that turkish military will continue suppressions into northern syria until turkish borders are total secured by the fire true groups one more thing that are don't focus during this manifesto was that turkey should become a self-sufficient country in defense industry and he mentioned more what

plans that turkey would be. producing actually and now everybody is curious after stating that there will be a new page how turkey will be implementing those freedoms and prosperity a methodology used while the state of emergency is still underway. over fourteen years almost five hundred mexicans were used as guinea pigs at the country's flagship state your logical institute they were implanted with a device to drain fluid from the brain invented and patented by the head of the institution but the device was never approved by mexican authorities and doctors told al-jazeera it had serious flaws in the second part of our investigation john heilemann examines how this could have happened and the consequences for those involved. over the fourteen years almost five hundred patients were fitted with

an experiment to unapproved device a top public neurological institute you learn the good it was among them it was done without her or her husband's knowledge. they asked us to sign a bit of paper but never that it was going to be a valve or a tube that was part of an experiment they never told us anything about that. three doctors working at the institute at the time told out does either that the same is true for other patients who received the implant it was designed to treat hydrocephalus that's excess fluid in the brain by training it down through a chub into the stomach area. this man invented the device and patented it who will sotelo he was also the director of the same national neurology and neurosurgery institute where it was pressed into use despite never being approved by medical authorities in the field there was a recommendation i would see a demand that you had to recognise the brilliant idea of sotelo the institute the

health ministry and that to sotelo himself who refused to talk to out to syria he's always maintained that studies show his device was effective. neither he nor the national institute has ever been sanctioned for its unauthorized use despite a commission of medical arbitrage clearly stating that malpractise occurred in your land as case one grain of the doctor good natal who still works at the national institute has one word for it all. impunity impunity at every level he says. the while your learned and poor man will have to sell their flat to pay medical bills their claims for compensation have fallen on deaf ears mexico's attorney general's office kept them waiting for eight years only to tell them it wouldn't take any action all the time you learned his health is worsening

although it's unclear if that has any connection to the device. i'm frightened of dying of leaving my daughter i'm just so tired there are days in which i just think it would be better if i died fighting. against the backdrop of silence a congresswoman and n.g.o.s have taken the case to the into american human rights commission. it's unlikely to succeed but it is a fresh attempt to get justice for the hundreds of people treated as guinea pigs over fourteen years john holeman how does it or mexico city. israeli military says it's killed two palestinians who try to cross into israel from the gaza strip israel says the two men were trying to damage security infrastructure more than forty palestinians have been killed and thousands injured along order since march when we protest against israeli land confiscation started. now police in serbia have stopped a far right leader returning to

a village where he encouraged ethnic hatred joining the balkans war vojislav shush else and seen here in the red shirts wanted to hold a rally with supporters cheshire was convicted of war crimes last month by un quarter versus speech he gave in the village in one thousand nine hundred two calling for the ethnic cleansing of crack residents he was sentenced to ten years in jail but freed because of the time he's already spent in custody. now for decades has been known for its streets out with some graffiti and murals becoming well known landmarks but demand for new housing means some of the famous outlets might soon disappear dominic kane has one. 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 to the anarchic where what matters is the work and the artists themselves want to remain anonymous and not to have limits placed on the creative and see if there's new

buildings being drilled that's all right it's like that's i mean more important than like street art is like something that is born on its own and doesn't have like when it's gets to well regulated or sanctions and it will really be alive anymore so and you get a feel for just how alive the scene really is in districts like clips back improvised astronauts stared down at you from buildings how the fruits of the artists labor is there for all to see and where people feel walls are just murals waiting to be painted albert as more and more street artists are coming here from across the world really gets 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 thor 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 square 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 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 king. berland. square at the top stories now polls have closed in lebanon first parliamentary elections in nine years three point six million people were eligible to vote but the turnout has been low countries using a new system based on proportional representation but it's unlikely to upset the overall balance of power. is in a writ. these are extraordinary times in levered and voting has come to it and turnout is asked of it are something around thirty six percent we're waiting for final of the sort result of results from the government about the turnout in

the coming hours with getting reports of clashes between supporters of the future movement which is the movement of the prime minister saddle heidi and also of hezbollah supporters in the southern suburbs of the. capital beirut this is an indication of the mounting tension that we've been seeing over the last few days here. a bomb blast in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern province of cost and we suspect the mosque might have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election elsewhere pakistan's interior minister has survived a suspected assassination attempt a son was shot and wounded while sitting in his there shortly after addressing crowds a rally in punjab he's expected to be moved to la hore for further medical treatment . iran's president has warned the u.s.

it will regret quitting the nuclear deal as the deadline looms for president trump to make a decision has some rouhani says iran has plans to respond if trump holds the u.s. from the pact north korea has denied it was forced to give up nuclear weapons because of american led international sanctions a foreign ministry spokesman says the u.s. is misleading public opinion by claiming the sanctions worked as the top stories i'll have more news for you in about twenty five minutes time after one i want east which starts now.