around the world this new. generation. should never be a country that anyone who spent time in. here the third the state. and we know she's going to be incarcerated and to have a share of controversial approach to punishment for. power. and we see a lot of abuses. underway

in lebanon first parliamentary elections and. the last election. and welcome to al-jazeera on live from my headquarters and. also ahead iran wants to. have the. lobbying of washington and ten days before deadline more homes destroyed. in hawaii with the president want to expect. the army of young activists behind anti-government campaign and how their efforts could help to bring real change.

vote counting is underway in evidence first parliamentary elections in almost ten years as official results are expected in the coming days but supporters of major parties are already out on the streets celebrating the interior minister has said the voter turnout was around fifty percent down from fifty four percent of elections held in two thousand and nine of the country. based on proportional representation in the hall the reports from. judd phone is among the eight hundred thousand voters who are eligible to cast their ballots 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 them what. you need to read 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. well you know. we want change we want to new generation of leaders who know what the youth need but. 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 some 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 the way no one did and the fall destroyed hezbollah has been part of. a waterfall 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 a president was elected

a national unity government was formed headed by prime minister saddle heidi that included members of hezbollah. prime minister how do you he wants to secure enough votes to ensure his leadership of this and the 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. beirut. has more. preliminary results are starting to trickle in hezbollah says it is making gains in the southern part of the country and the big valley both areas i consider to be hezbollah strongholds now of the hezbollah's wyvil which is the future movement led by prime minister saddle how duties it has again so far. seven seats eleven but they're expecting that number to increase these are

preliminary results of future movement is expected to gain something like twenty five seats or more than that the other main establishment political parties say that they have also made some gains and the civil society candidate said that the managed to see that this is quite significant these were some sort of emerge from almost nowhere and the trying to save the political future of the country has been very aggressive over the last few months. they have been building up the momentum across the country so so far we're getting first indications that just in that the establishment political parties are likely to maintain the results they made back in two thousand and nine. let's move on to other news now the united states has less than one week to decide whether in withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani warned washington about the consequences of

withdrawing while european leaders continue to press president donald trump to stay in it dynasty brooke has more from washington. with the may twelfth deadline just days away president donald trump's new legal advisor offered this assessment of the iran nuclear deal to a gathering of iranian dissidents in washington what do you think is going to happen to that agreement. that nuclear agreement. was president trump a longtime critic of the pact is threatening to pull out of the deal by saturday unless it can be improved on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani offered a stern warning this solves mommy and energy i tell me if america leads to nuclear accord it will soon see that this will entail historic remorse for it to china the united states along with four other countries and the european union signed the joint comprehensive plan of action with iran in twenty fifteen. under the j. c.p.o.

way iran agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons in exchange for the easing of sanctions president trump says the deal was flawed from the start in part because it allows some nuclear provisions to sunset in two thousand and twenty five. he's also blasted iran for its use of ballistic missiles in the region and has accused iran of supporting terrorism european allies have been pressing the u.s. president not to scrap the deal u.k. media say british foreign minister boris johnson is traveling to washington to meet with senior administration officials on the issue so it is really that visit followed similar meetings in washington last month with french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel who both agree the pact isn't perfect but think it can be improved in an interview on sunday britain's ambassador to the u.s. expressed optimism about keeping the u.s. in the deal all those issues we have ideas we think that we can you can find some

language produce much and that meets the president's concerns there are reports that former secretary of state john kerry who helped negotiate the j.c. under president barack obama is also meeting with foreign leaders to save the deal some republicans in congress say they aren't opposed to scrapping it but advised the president to be careful you need to have a clearer idea about next steps if we are going to pull out president trump maintains he still hasn't made up his mind what he'll do but time is running out dion estabrook al-jazeera washington and for the view from iran saying the reports from. 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 its 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 iranian leaders are pointing to as positive steps taken during the current administration and there stood the tone of the iranian president's remarks about the united states it was like we've got a domestic audience. ronnie married himself 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 the military hawks here in iran or it could work out in president rouhani favor giving his

government the moral highground 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 that it was forced into giving up nuclear weapons by american led international sanctions a foreign ministry spokesman said the u.s. is misleading public opinion by claiming the sanctions work and also warned washington against deliberately provoking the north by deploying military assets in south korea the north korean and u.s. latest kim jong un and donald trump that you should meet in the coming weeks. to hawaii now with there have been more evacuations off to another quake hit close to an abrupt and volcano if epicenter was within twenty kilometers of a lani a state where molten lava has been slowly flowing into residential areas around two thousand people have now been forced to leave their homes to escape lava and poisonous gas coming up through cracks offended by the earth quakes a state of emergency is in effect on the big island of venice and states which is

the community at the heart of a lot of options this is les lani avenue and until just a couple of days ago it was the main road through this tranquil rural community here on big island now you can see the lava has come up and overwhelmed the road and in the background there look farther back and you can see the smoke and flames from another house that's being destroyed and over here you can see that the lava has also surged up on this part of leylandii if they've blocking that road now the smell of sulfur dioxide is very strong right now it gets stronger when the wind blows from the direction of the vents coming in here we saw multiple steaming vents coming up out of the roadway we're not going to stay here very long this was until just a few days ago really

a tropical paradise now it's a disaster area. still ahead on the bulletin and on does the u.n. investigation reveals how experimental unregulated medical devices were used in mexico on patients undergoing brain operations and thirteen people donavon blocks to donna found a suspect it's a number of attacks by those looking to disrupt upcoming elections. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east. how i once again welcome to novel a cat the international focus of had some really heavy writing to the southwest of china recently and put away the western well that will ease over towards that southeastern corner system a heavy rain in place here pushing all the way up towards shanghai comes

a little further south which as we go on through choose day some big downpours a possibility towards hong kong maybe some west of weather just not going back towards the gulf of tonkin want to show is there across into china vietnam should be caught without possibility of one of two heat of the day showers as they stretch they way down into cambodia here's a rash of showers across southeast asia some of them will be big and heavy from time to time coaching at thirty one celsius possible this is some really heavy rain coming in here this is for indonesia it does look largely trying as monday's pick just some of the pictures to go on through choose day scattering the showers a little further north of the showers always in place not too far away from some on time doesn't see bad over the next few days after a recent spell of very heavy rain heavy rain stays in place for southern parts of india some big showers coming in here some showers that into lanka on the east of india could also see some wet weather along with bangladesh but for many it stays

very hot in. the weather sponsored my cats on the use. of all my friends and coworkers some were detained i am the one who survived they were waiting for news of the men for only one word and. boy children. i have only once in my life see. scared to death a bitch a civil wars darkest secret. to come on al-jazeera. is going to have you with us on al-jazeera these are all top stories. to weigh in

lebanon's first parliamentary elections in almost a decade and minister has said voter turnout was forty nine point two percent down from fifty four percent the last time the country is using a new system based on proportional representation. iran's president has warned the u.s. against pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal saying it would soften his stock will move on rouhani also said that obama's plans to respond to any decision by president trump the u.s. leader has less than a week to decide whether he will withdraw from the agreement and there have been more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an abrupt and volcano of its epicenter was within twenty kilometers of the a state where molten lava has been flowing into residential areas around two thousand people have been forced to leave their homes. to mexico now where almost five hundred people were subjected to regulate the treatment of the country's flag

. state neurological institute over fourteen years what operations for brain conditions used to devise invented and patented by the head of the institution but the method was never approved by mexican authorities and a number of doctors believe it had serious flaws in the second part of this investigation john homan explains the consequences for those affected. over the fourteen years almost five hundred patients were fitted with an experimental unapproved device a top public neurological institute you learned the good ed 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 how 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 draining it down through a chub into the stomach area. this man invented the device and patented it julio 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 mean that there was a recommendation i would see a demand that you had to recognize the brilliant idea of sotelo the institute the health ministry and the to sawtelle himself were fused to top two out to zero 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 landers case. dr eg natal who still works at the national institute has one word

for it all. impunity impunity at every level he says. meanwhile your land and one man who will had 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. 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. and in place said the rest of the main suspects in an alleged gang rape and murder of a teenage girl. and several accomplices accused of burning the sixteen year old girl in the state of shock and after her parents complained of her rape to village elders and another suspect the angry that the elders fund them several hundred dollars as punishment. the pakistani interior minister's been shot and what police say is an attempted assassination. on the arm off to a rally in punjab province news agency says the twenty one year old suspect as affiliated with the headache in a bike party that focuses on highlighting and fighting blasphemy the party's leader has joined widespread condemnation of the attack which comes ahead of elections in july. a bomb blast at a mosque in east in the eastern province of causton of ghana has killed thirteen

people suspect the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center as parliamentary election but tory gate and be reports . these are the latest victims to be a series of attacks on voter registration centers where afghans go to pick up their identification cards the elections in october. at the mosque when a huge blast occurred i don't know what happened next police say a bomb was planted in the mosque in host province which was doubling opposit voter registration center two weeks ago when i saw killed around sixty people in the afghan capital kabul he said his open three weeks ago was part of the long process to get voters properly registered president ashraf ghani has condemned the attack that many afghans blame the government for failing to provide the said his with adequate security but. fortunately we witnessed

a strong explosion and coast city more than ten people were killed and more than thirty were injured in the six. we have women and children among the victims allegations of food has long plagued elections in afghanistan the registration process is designed to guard against that the independent election commission says it hopes as many as fifty million people will register for the parliamentary and district council elections but the election commission admits turnout so far is already low this latest blast will do little to reassure people signing up to vote is worth the risk victoria gate to be al jazeera hamas has vowed revenge against israel after an explosion killed six of its fighters and dollars on saturday with thousands of palestinians turned out to pay their respects to the fighters who are part of the organizations military wing brigades amass as they were killed while dismantling spying equipment planted by israel the israeli military has denied any

involvement. and us president trump is expected to ask israel to withdraw from four neighborhoods and occupied east jerusalem israeli media reports that trumps request as part of the so-called u.s. peace plan which is still under development that comes less than two weeks before the u.s. embassy moves from tel aviv to jerusalem stephanie decker has more from west jerusalem. reports in the israeli media that the trumpet ministration will israel to hand over cede control of four palestinian neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem drugger free of course is incredibly important it is everything when it comes to resolving this conflict three of those neighborhoods one of them is ready outside the separation wall two of them very close to the other one being talked about or fought is one that is right next to west jerusalem many people will tell you that it will be incredibly difficult to see how israel will allow to hand over control of that the bigger picture here is what's important and also no one has yet

spoken about the future of the old city the old city of course home to the al aqsa mosque compound it is holy to muslims it is holy to jews many people will tell you the palestinians won't accept anything when it comes to the core of the issue i think it's all about concessions we have heard from the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman in these radio media as well saturday night saying there is no such thing as a free lunch of course referring to the transfer of the american embassy here to druce and we expect that on the fourteenth of may concessions will have to be made by both sides the trumpet ministration of course donald trump will be incredibly keen to be seen as the man who's been able to resolve the impossible he's calling what we are expecting to hear a new plan that their administrations been working on the deal of the century i think however no one is holding their breath the palestinians increasingly skeptical of the americans as honest brokers following that move however other was will tell you that perhaps the trump administration will be using the move to twist

israel to twist this administration into giving concessions that otherwise it will not make again we're going to have to wait and see what exactly the specifics of this deal will be we're expecting that to be announced a little after that move of the embassy to jerusalem the fourteenth. human rights watch has strongly criticized saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sole man 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 have been in custody for more than a decade human rights watch says the saudi justice system only seems to be getting worse well the latest numbers are a marked increase from two thousand and fourteen when the group found fewer than three hundred people held without trial for more than six months human rights watch says one saudi citizen has been held without convictions and september two thousand and three another has been detained while under investigation since december two thousand and six will two hundred fifty one people have been imprisoned for more

than three years without the cases coming before the courts the report is based on data published by the saudi interior ministry will add google is middle east researcher at human rights watch and he says ending the detentions should be a priority under the reforms announced by saudi arabia. saudi authorities have been promising justice reforms for more than ten years and they've poured millions and millions of dollars into it yet for all these reforms we still find these massive numbers of people held for many many months and even years without trial and that's just one part of the problem once people get to trial they also face other issues including convictions based on what they say are career scores confessions as well as an inability of defendants to adequately defend themselves before saudi courts some cases in which no defense was presented that end up with the death penalty so you know i think while the certainly the crown prince maybe even more time to institute full scale justice reforms. they certainly have not made

a lot of progress so far and i should also say in a recent interview with the washington post the crown prince when asked about detentions and unfair trials of human rights activists seemed to indicate that he did not think that the system was broken what we did was we took the data from in full second and we just analyzed how many people have been under investigation or with a case that is that is not indicative of a conviction or being brought before trial and we said how many of them are in detention how long have they been in detention i also should say that in january of this year we sent a letter to the saudi attorney general and to the saudi foreign ministry requesting information or information about the data as presented by the almight portal but we received no response it's difficult for investors to invest when they don't have confidence in the justice system it's difficult for ordinary saudis to feel like you know they can go through life and receive fair treatment when they know that the justice system isn't working so it is a really critical it should be

a critical component to mohammed bin some man's modernization efforts. to turkey now where the president has unveiled his party's election manifesto ahead of next month's that vote. unveiled plans in front of thousands of supporters and istanbul he promised a new military operations against kurdish fighters along turkey's border with syria and iraq at the out of court adjourns election more than a year early to consolidate his power. i mean his parliament is expected to elect opposition to it in a cult as the country's new prime minister on tuesday that follows a wave of protests in which students have played a major role as the talks are going to end reports from yet ever. many are medians are saying their so-called velvet revolution succeeded because people finally shed their political apathy and were inspired to.

has been leading protests since twenty sixteen for several weeks he's rallied students at half a dozen university he says opposition leader. may be the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they don't need to because. tips they. need to hold the process that is where people recall 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 there 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 there really go 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 that. 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 now closing to spears you said to our group to not a page where it will be said to us no it is participatory terry democracy and this is also a victory and dissipates a political process when i mean you can unite forcing the resignation of a prime minister is one thing remaining in through the often slow and messy journey towards monumental political change will be the next test of this country's people power movement natasha guinea al-jazeera year of armenia.

and again on the there's a problem in the headlines on al-jazeera vote counting is under way in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in almost a decade the interior minister has said the voter turnout was forty nine point two percent down from fifty four percent in the two thousand and nine polls the country is using a new system based on proportional representation and now the news iran's president has warned the u.s. against pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal so. it would suffer historic remorse donald trump has less than a week to decide whether he'll withdraw from the agreement north korea has denied that it was forced into giving up nuclear weapons by american led international sanctions a foreign ministry spokesman said the u.s. is misleading public opinion by claiming the sanctions worked the north korean and

u.s. leaders kim jong un and donald trump and you should meet in the coming weeks they'll be more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano as the epicenter was within twenty kilometers of a landing a states where molten lava has been flowing into residential areas around two thousand people have now been forced to leave their homes reynolds is in a state this is les lonnie avenue and until just a couple of days ago it was the main road through this training rural community here on big island now you can see blogger has come up overwhelmed the road and in the background there look farther back and you can see the smoke and flames from another house that's being destroyed. a bomb blast and has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern course province police suspect the mosque may have been

targeted because it was being being used as a voter registration center for parliamentary election the pakistani interior minister's been shot and what police say is an attempted assassination. in the rally in punjab province news agency says the twenty one year old suspect is affiliated with the. party it focuses on highlighting and fighting less for me those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching. the united states navy is.