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votes are counted in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in the nine years little change is expected at the top. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program thirteen people killed in a bomb blast in afghanistan police suspect it's another attack by those looking to disrupt the forthcoming elections iran's president warns the u.s. will suffer historic regret if donald trump pulls out of the nuclear agreement with tehran and volcanic destruction in hawaii lava flows continue after the u.s. island is hit by the worst quakes in decades. hello thank you for joining us vote counting is under way in lebanon's first

parliamentary elections and nine years there are three point six million eligible voters but turnout has been low and it's expected to fall short of the fifty four percent who voted in two thousand and nine lebanon is using a new system based on proportional representation but it's unlikely to upset the overall balance of power holder has more now from. the judge but our own is 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 or to show the money we need. 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. well you know. we want change we want to new generation of

leaders who know what they used to meet with some of the heaviest. 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 eight 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 on the way to no one did the fall destroy 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 of the 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 he wants to secure enough votes

to ensure his leadership of the sydney community and ensure his return to the premiership he has exchanged harsh words with has been our 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 than of who their leader. last year how far is live in beirut for us to following these elections there is so hashem the polls closed a few hours ago any indications yet on the outcome. in nischelle turner limon or e results of just the hezbollah and its allies made some major gains in the early and also in the in southern lebanon this is quite significant development because hezbollah was eager to consolidate its political gains in those areas which are widely seen as a hezbollah stronghold now we were waiting to see what hizbullah survival which is

the future movement led by sad how dearly has made particularly here in the capital beirut and also in the northern city of tripoli and these two districts are crucial for saddle heady if he makes major gains there would consolidate his chances to be reelected as prime minister of lebanon but he faces some tough resistance from news certainly candidates particularly here in the capital and also in tripoli it remains to be seen whether president michel our own and his party which is the free patrick movement is going also to be the biggest. when are among the christian political blocs in eleven or so these are the latest developments just a while ago we've seen a crowd of hezbollah supporters riding their motorcades here in the downtown of

beirut celebrating what they consider to be a major win ok so we're still going to have to wait to get any clear indication of results but there have also been some clashes a little earlier what's the latest on that there have been some clashes particularly in the southern suburbs of beirut between supporters of the future movement and of hezbollah but the army into fear and then put in and to those clashes there were also some scuffles in the district of predominantly christian area between wyvil groups particularly from the prepared to go to movement and the live in these forces but they were also stabilized the security forces have stepped up their presence particularly in these are was of the night when the preliminary results start to trickle in and you know a vast when supporters of the winning party start to take to the streets of vets where security forces are concerned about potential clashes and skirmishes between

the groups and they want to ensure that the nice of the night passes without major confrontation is that could. further increase the tension that has been going on for quite some time here in the country this is a crucial moment and the government is eager to see the nice bass without any major confrontations between the different political parties. with the latest there from beirut and monitoring developments there we'll of course bring you results as soon as they get in for the moment passion thank you. the afghanistan now where a bomb blast has killed thirteen people the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern province of cost police suspect that the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election jennifer glass'

more now on the story from kabul. the attack in host province is the latest in a series of attacks on voter registration centers and on election officials around the country it certainly has the afghan government concerned president ashraf ghani condemned the attack saying the attackers continued crimes against religious places but he said that it won't do a real election process that he called on his security services to better protect these voter registration centers but so far they've been unable to do so the worst attack came here in kabul two weeks ago when a bomber attacked a line of people lined up for to to register to vote sixty nearly sixty people killed in that bombing and almost one hundred twenty injured has many afghans very concerned about going to voter registration areas they feel that they're unsafe they feel that they're not protected they feel that they are a target and of course this is just the beginning of the election process those

parliamentary elections to be held in october the campaign period will start after voter registration voter registration goes on until mid june the afghan government's goal had been to register fifteen million people by then but so far only about one million people have been registered in the past three weeks or so and the attacks certainly seem to be deterring the afghan public from it so a very serious consequences to these attacks for an election that many here see as crucial to the future of afghanistan. what astounds interior minister has survived a suspected assassination attempt has son a cabal out was shot and wounded while sitting in his vehicle shortly after aggressive crowds at a rally in punjab province he's receiving medical attention and is expected to be moved to lower for further treatment his attacker has been arrested that's

according to one of his. 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 at some rouhani says iran has plans to respond if trump holds the u.s. from the pact trump has repeatedly said he wants to leave the two thousand and fifteen agreement unless european allies can fix what he calls flaws in the deal is less than a week to the side whether he will extend the u.s. sanctions relief iran i gather because as hard. if the u.s. opts 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 trump might make and will resist that. same bus driver has more now from tehran. president hassan rouhani is preparing his people for a worst case scenario the resumption of u.s. sanctions and they return to the economic isolation of the past but this is not the

same iran that signed the nuclear deal in two thousand and fifteen. ronnie's message to his people is that iran has a more robust economy one able to withstand any aggression by the united states iran is also strategically stronger in the region than it was when it signed the deal with close ties to countries it is helped in open conflict including syria iraq lebanon yemen and in recent years to iran has strengthened one to one trade and diplomatic ties with dozens of countries these are things are wrong the leaders are pointing to as positive steps taken during the current administration and best of the tone of the iranian president's remarks about the united states it was likely for a domestic audience. ronnie mary herself to the success of the nuclear deal and as it begins to fall apart he finds himself defending his government's decision to enter into talks in the first place if the united states pulls out of the nuclear

agreement many people say that it could bolster hardline lawmakers and military hawks here in iran or it could work out in president rouhani favor giving his government the moral high ground to say to western powers that we try to get your way and now we will go back to making policy on our own terms. north korea has denied it was forced into giving up nuclear weapons by american led international sanctions a foreign ministry spokesman told the same news agency the u.s. is quote misleading public opinion by claiming the sanctions worked he also warned washington against deliberately provoking the north by deploying military assets in south korea well still to come here on al-jazeera. their army of young activists behind their media's anti-government campaign and how their efforts it could have forced real change plus iconic street art is under

threat from berliners who want more housing. how i would get warm sunshine for a good positive europe's in the northern areas of europe see some pretty decent weather over the next couple of days down into the southeast it's not so great actually just around the med turkey has seen flooding rains zanker has had flash floods as a result of some massive downpours schellas continue here as we go through monday and on into we're choose day i see some showers to so there was a fast moving parts of italy but the further north moscow twenty degrees celsius twenty one was still twenty. ossified whether michael with a monday and a london was the time just touching twenty six celsius maybe even a degree or two higher than that of course pass or of england's come further south

paris at twenty six celsius fun to try for a good part of spying and potable water to be a possibility over the next that eastern areas of spy could see a little bit of weather over towards boston over the heat continues further north twenty six twenty seven even warmer there in moscow twenty three degrees celsius showers. continue just around the met we are still going to see some unsettled weather just coming in not to our side of us and all the piles of africa the current one celsius but showers and repacked on monday more of the same but she's day. sixty seven. pound promise for one people. but disaster struck. the pledge to the establishment of the jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british declaration that

changed the middle east for seeds of discord on al-jazeera. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera a vote counting has begun in lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years initial reports suggest turnout was less than fifty 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 the mosque was being used as a voter registration center. parliamentary election and iran's president passed on

rouhani has warned the u.s. it will regret pushing the nuclear deal as the deadline looms for donald trump to make a decision. there have been more evacuations in hawaii as molten lava from a volcano continues to threaten residential areas around two thousand people have now been forced to leave their homes to escape lava and poisonous gas. excuse me coming through the cracks open by the earthquakes let's go to rob reynolds now who joins us live. hello barbara we are in the town of this is a community gathering point that it's been set up by volunteers from the community in hawaii and it's called who hold new all which means a place of safety this is an area where people are trading information they're trying to get more information about whether their homes which have been evacuated

are safe or not some people have been able to go into the effected area with civil defense officers others have no information about their possessions their pets and other things of that nature and also people here are handing out food water and other essential and also talked to a doctor who was volunteering here who said he's quite concerned about the sulfur dioxide which is actually. actually you can hear you can smell the odor of sulfur dioxide in the air and that is a toxic gas that can cause a lot of problems especially for people with asthma emphysema and things like that i want to talk right now to face as a kind of a community elder here as a lifelong resident of the hole and faith what do people here want most of all right now most of all most of our people want to go to the residence of they can take care all their home and also

a lot of them have pets that the at their homes and the pats have been fed for a couple days and they also need to pick up important documents like their land tax or ownership papers of their vehicles and things because they just left it behind because they were in a rush and they didn't have enough time to pack up all of those states and are people satisfied that they're getting enough answers from the authorities here in hawaii absolutely not we have been out of touch with the manner and the civil defense i mean they should have been here already you know it's a radio after seven o'clock and they're not even. here and you know they are paid officials so they should have had all of these problems taken care of and if they didn't know all this should have contacted some of the older people that from the community that have gone through these experiences before like i've been experienced with lava flow since one thousand fifty five to today and my husband has been experience with lava flow from one nine hundred sixty lava flow which was

a really great one which was you know was broadcast nationally nationally and internationally so everybody knows about kapoor and this one now he's being broadcast nationally to an international but we just don't have the rate leadership right now to get things done ok and a little bit about this community i mean a lot of people when they think of why they think of mansions by the sea they think of rich golf courses and wealthy people in sailboats and that's sort of the this is one of the poorest communities in hawaii tell guilt about this community that is correct this is the most this advantage community in the state of hawaii and we have the high is you know population that have these it's like diabetes heart disease you name it we have it and even the income level is below proverb and we've been trying to help our people to become you know better citizenship and

lot of our people to have been incarcerated so we need to make sure that they can be successful and give them the tools that they need to be successful right now the programs that have been given from the federal level the state level and the county level it's not enough and i'm a farmer correctional officer so lot of these things is second hand to write this book on how to thank you very much for speaking with us or appreciate that so that's. a longtime resident here of the city of paul on the big island of hawaii we will of course be monitoring the erupt. and further developments and we'll be speaking to the people who live here and getting their views on how they have been dealt with by their officials and how they feel about these events for now barbara back to you rob thank you. a five rebels have been killed in a gunfight with government forces in indian controlled kashmir security forces moved in on a house in shock e.-n.

district where the suspected rebels were based troops ordered rebels out of the house and started shooting when they had no response one of those killed was top rebel commander said about thousands have poured on to the streets for his for. armenians are days away from what many hope will be seismic change in their political system on tuesday the parliament is expected to elect an opposition leader as the country's new prime minister this comes after a wave of protests across the country as the name reports not from yet of on students have played a major role. many are medians are saying their so called velvet revolution succeeded because people finally shed their political apathy and were inspired to. death has been leading protests since twenty sixteen for several weeks he's rallied students at half

a dozen universities he says opposition leader goal should know and maybe the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they refused him so neither because if the so there's tips they. need to hold a process that is where people work or food and. it's undeniable young people force during the protests that eventually crippled the country fed up with the poverty lack of jobs and corruption they're hoping the government will finally turn its attention to the pressing needs of armenians if pressure becomes prime minister as expected on tuesday he'll have an abundance of goodwill and face high expectation i belong to the very later percentage of the people who really believe that this day would come i expect

a lot but it's really hard for me and for him because like people i know people are going to push and i know that it's going to take a long time for him to rebuild the. system the student activists we spoke with say the priority is for the new government to hold free and fair elections it would be a first for this generation no closing to spit into or going to another page where it will be said to me is no it is participatory terry democracy and this is also a victory and disappoints a political process when i mean it came to united. forcing the resignation of a prime minister is one thing remaining in gauged through the often slow and messy journey towards monumental political change will be the next test of this country's people power movement natasha l. does era yerevan armenia. tennesseans have been voting in local elections for

the first time since the two thousand and eleven arab spring revolution it's being seen as an important marker on the country on the country's transition to democracy but among many voters enthusiasm for the political process appears to be waning as mohamed june now reports. for tunisia which is considered not just the birthplace of the arab spring but also its only success story this is a significant step. for citizens heading to the polls to vote in the first ever democratically free local elections. it's seen as another milestone on the long and difficult road to becoming a full fledged democracy. more than fifty seven thousand candidates are running for office in three hundred fifty municipalities. forty nine percent are women and more than half are under the age of thirty five but one officials have called for a large turnout observers don't expect many to come out citing an electorate

demoralized by high unemployment a weak economy and years of austerity a lack of trust in politicians especially by young people is but one more challenge to the general population and we have already begun. we. are not looking at all. the reason. is that you need. not. worry in the daily life i mean there are going to be issues. that. need to weigh. frustration with the economy and anger arising from the government's austerity measures led to protests in january analysts say low voter turnout in these municipal polls could be dangerous to the future of democracy in tunisia that it would call into question the

legitimacy of those elected who are there in power and they won't have any support around them that think they. do and they will not be able. to make. more a more objective really good life in the country the elections were meant to be a way of giving more power to municipal councils throughout the country while it's still far too early to tell what these polls mean for the future the results are expected to be a sign of the political direction tunisia may be going into ahead of presidential and legislative elections next year how much. russian opposition leader let's have a volatile has been released after that an anti putin rally on. saturday the valley called on people to stage rallies throughout the country ahead of the russian president's inauguration for a force

a term that only was dragged away by police shortly after appearing at a protest in moscow his lawyer says the forty one year old will appear in court next week. that for decades berlin has been known for its street art with some graffiti and murals becoming well known landmarks but the land for new housing means that some of the famous artworks might still the sapir dominick reports 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 and sounds want to remain anonymous and not to have limits placed on it created to see if there's new buildings being dealt 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 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 let's 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 i'll get 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 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 could stay here and what current has to go not. friend of having a sort of staying with this square cities and things like that for ever there are some examples of three thought in this city which do have protection germans called partial factories here what's left of the berlin 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 present dominic king al-jazeera berlin.

larry mind of the top stories on al-jazeera vote counting has begun a lebanese first parliamentary election in nine years initial reports suggest turnout has been less than fifty percent lebanon is using a new system based on proportional representation but it's unlikely to upset the overall balance of power has more now on why the vote. this is why it's a crucial. moment for everyone for president bashir out because he wants to consolidate he wants his party to free past few chick movement to consolidate gains of the christian community it is crucial for hizbullah which wants to consider date its gaze in the it stronghold particularly in the valley of southern lebanon to tell the international community and the liberty is that he has the trust of its

own people it is also crucial for prime minister saddle hariri as you know historically speaking of the sunnis have been divided the key players the sunni players divided over who has to have the biggest said said that how do you want to project himself as the voice of the sin the community a bomb blast in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern province of cost police suspected the mosque and may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election pakistani police say the suspect behind the attempted assassination of the interior minister is affiliated to the ultra religious tariq and the big party the twenty one year old man was arrested shortly after allegedly shooting in wounding a son following a rally in project confidence. iran's president has warned the u.s. it will regret quitting the nuclear deal has the deadline moves for president trump

to make a decision as a rouhani says iran has plans to respond they've trump pulls the u.s. from the pact ever been more evacuations in hawaii as molten lava from a volcano continues to threaten residential areas around two thousand people have now been forced to leave their homes to escape lava and poisonous gas well those are the top stories we're going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next it's talk to al-jazeera about. who.