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vote counting is under way in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in nine years but the turnouts down from the last election. watching all jazeera lie from a headquarters in doha i'm also a heads iran that warns the u.s. against pulling out of the nuclear deal as european lobbying of washington intensifies days before a deadline. for homes destroyed by lava from a volcano in hawaii with residents now warned to expect aftershocks from earthquakes plus. the army a few young activists behind armenia's antigovernment campaign and how their efforts could help to bring.

a low ballots are being counted in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in almost ten years 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 in the elections held in two thousand and nine the country is using a new system based on proportional representation. of reports from beirut's. 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 for a sense of all the money 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 they used to meet 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 i saw when no one did and they fall destroyed hezbollah has been part of . 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. beirut now has somehow but has more from beirut. preliminary results are starting to trickle in his boss 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 hezbollah's weibo which is the future movement led by prime minister saad that

heidi says it has again so far. seven seats 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 out and. just 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 adjusting that the establishment political parties are likely to maintain the results they made back in two thousand and nine . welton is here as a nodar party is claiming victory in the country's first local election since the

twenty eleven arab spring the religious party says it's ahead if it secular rival knew that tuna spy about five percent of the two parties are coalition partners in the national government and the poll seen as an important marker in tennessee has transition to democracy but only one in three eligible voters cast their ballots official results are expected over the next few days. the united states has less than a week to decide whether it will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal on sunday the iranian president hassan rouhani warned washington about the consequences of withdrawing while european leaders continue to press prague president donald trump to stay diane estabrook 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 it is yeah tell me if america leads to nuclear accord it will soon see that this will until historic remorse for it shine in 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 to use my question 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 clear 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 or for the view in iran zain bus rovner reports from to her on. 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 held 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 as to the tone of the iranian president's remarks about the united states it was like we've got a domestic audience. honey 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 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 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 he also warned

washington against deliberately provoking the north by deploying military assets in south korea the north korean and u.s. leader is kim jong un and donald trump are due to meet in the coming weeks. there have been more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano its epicenter was within twenty kilometers aflame loni is states where has been slowly flowing into residential areas around two thousand people have now been forced to leave their homes to escape poisonous gas coming up through cracks opened up by the earthquakes a state of emergency is in effect on the big island rob reynolds is in states the community at the heart of the lava eruptions this is les lani avenue and until just a couple of days ago it was the main road through this training roll rural community here on the big island now you can see the lava 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 and over here you can see that the lava has also surged up on this part of leylandii it's 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 al jazeera and investigation by al jazeera reveals how experimental unregulated medical devices were used in mexico on patients undergoing brain operation and.

praying for peace the attack on a church in central nigeria that's dividing this community. i always say some rather lively storms moving across the east the side of the u.s. beneath this massive plat asked to pull its way across new jersey new england pushing up into that he says sort of kind of the righteous guys to come in behind him a bit wet weather just around the appalachians you know just for monday twenty one celsius for d.c. nineteen in new york and fourteen in all to us as well as sunshine coming in here to montana frankly badly at about twelve degrees the town in recent days but it will be fine and so i want to try whether actually across much of north america hints of a cliff and just rolling across the northern pos as we go through monday on and

choose that little bit of cloud there easing across the prayer. obviously the northern plains eastern seaboard should be fodder dry for tuesday temperatures getting up to twenty celsius in d.c. and not far off that for new york and twenty four also with us looking pretty good as we go on through the next couple days spring sunshine in a pond and out of sunshine in abundance today for the eastern side of the caribbean the grates around ten is on the other side saying some a very very heavy rain once again flooding right into cuba into jamaica in hispania all i was seeing some downpours recently that wet weather staying in place is because three cheese day was some concerns for many. there in green bacteria in a newborn tree and. escaping from volcanic one. in

the front or how. the climate change. science on the back of my maintain my dear captain tends. to zero. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera a vote counting is underway in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in almost a decade the interior minister has said voter turnout was forty nine point two percent down from fifty four percent the country's using a new system based on proportional representation iran's president has warned the

u.s. against pulling out of the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal saying it would suffer historic remorse rouhani also said that iran has plans to respond to any decision by president donald trump the u.s. leader has less than a week to decide whether he'll withdraw from the greenman. there have been more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano its epicenter was within twenty kilometers of states where molten lava has been slowly flowing into residential areas twenty one homes have been destroyed and around two thousand people have been forced to leave their houses. to mexico now were almost five hundred people were subjected to regulated treatment at the country's flagship state's neurological institute over fourteen years operations for a brain condition in use the device invented and patented by the head of the

institution but the method was never approved by mexican authorities and the number of doctors believe it had serious flaws in the second part of his investigation gone home and explains the consequences for those affected. over fourteen years almost five hundred patients were fitted with an experimental unapproved device a top public neurological institute you learned the good at 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.

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 that it could mean that there was a recommendation i would see a demand that you had to recognize the brilliant idea of. the institute the health ministry and that to saltillo himself or 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 landers case. dr edward natal who still works at the national institute has one word for it all. impunity impunity at every level he says.

meanwhile your london one man who 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. against the backdrop of soylent 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 forty years. john home of. mexico city indian police say they've arrested the main suspect in an alleged gang rape and murder of

a teenage girl dano boyan and several accomplices are accused of burning the sixteen year old girl alive in the state of jharkhand after her parents complained of her rape to village elders he and other suspects were allegedly angry that the elders find them several hundred dollars this punishment pakistani interior minister has been shot and what police say is an attempted assassination. in the army after a rally in punjab province the reuters news agency says the twenty one year old suspect is affiliated with the it's a headache and a big party it focuses on highlighting and fighting lost him. a bomb blast at a mosque in the eastern province of cost in afghanistan has killed thirteen people police suspect the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's problem entry election victoria getting

the reports. these are the latest victims a mortar pays to be a series of attacks on voter registration centers the afghans go to pick up their identification cards the elections in october so mr hellman. 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 up as a voter registration center two weeks ago when i saw a bombing killed around sixty people in the afghan capital kabul dissent is open three weeks ago as part of the long process to get voters properly registered president ashraf ghani has condemned the attack that many afghans blame the government of failing to provide the said his with adequate security but. fortunately we witnessed a strong explosion in coast city more than ten people were killed and more than thirty were injured in this explosion we have women and children among the victims allegations of food had long plagued elections in afghanistan the registration

process is designed to guard against that the independent election commission says it hopes his 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 gates and be al-jazeera funerals have been held for a sob the forty five people killed in an attack in northern nigeria are in bandits raided a village in co doona state on saturday witnesses say the attackers came from neighboring as far and shot at children and torched houses. disputes over territory are continuing to escalate elsewhere still in nigeria president mohammed who will hari's government is under pressure to prevent such attacks ahead of elections next year jamil alan duggan reports from benyus states where an attack on

a church is dividing a community that's lived peacefully for generations the police are taking us to a small town called by law it's in bend with state in sensual nigeria but long is a small farming community a place with no history of violence until now there are photos of tool. for the. well known. because of. the attack was devastating for people here they accuse ethnic feel any herdsman of being behind the attack there was a morning mass here when a group of gunmen stormed the church and started firing people say the shooting lasted for over an hour sixteen churchgoers died that day including two priests and

children. there have been disputes or remand across central nigeria between mostly christian farming communities and muslim herdsman for many years people here say they are afraid because the attack in belong is creating divisions they say the attackers wanted to provoke religious conflict and they call on the government to put a stop on this now for government to exist will it get him isn't he was our capacity to stop people from killing people. no one should die not a woman if one. should die we should be able to be free i sick in our environment to live what. i walk to from what i to wash it got in freedom conjugal cry but the moment you try to call or eat in terms of tribe in terms of political mission in terms of allegiance. you have to fit in the purpose for the fight and

that is why i would been telling the people that is so fight for all. many here fear the attack on the church was intended to sow fear and hatred between communities and this is why this tight the violence people here continue to preach they see that for generations they have always lived peacefully together despite the religious differences what binds them together they say is jungle then the killings in the village of by lone. duggan al-jazeera been with state central nigeria it's been two decades since the start of the war between if the opium and eritrea tens of thousands of people were killed when fighting began in one thousand nine hundred eight near a disputed border town but the conflicts roots remained largely unresolved fellas reports. twenty years ago today the eritrean military and ethiopian police

patrols exchanged fire near the town of bad me bad me isn't a disputed border area but at that time it was under the control of ethiopia within a week at a ski lated eritrea soldiers and tanks to attack the town and over the next two years the two nations fought a war along the entire one thousand kilometers about entry it ended in december two thousand with the algiers agreement a commission was established to decide blame and claims for the war each country presented its position ethiopia charge that eritrea attacked military and police units as well as civilians it says eritrea killed and injured its people by shelling mines. detention and abduction eritrea says it was acting in self-defense as ethiopia was unlawfully occupying its territory because commission concluded that eritrea was to blame for starting the war and had invaded. in may

one thousand nine hundred ninety eight but it also found that bad may was indeed eritrean territory and ethiopia had to give it back to this day bad make the small town that started the war is disputed and skirmishes continue as are a mains under the control of ethiopia the turkish president has unveiled his party's election manifesto ahead of next month's now vote. on promised new military operations against kurdish fighters along its border with syria and iraq he called jim's election more than a year early to consolidate his power. armenia's parliament is expected to elect the opposition leader. as the country's new prime minister on tuesday it follows a wave of protests in which students have played a major role as the toss of the name reports from year of on. many armenians are saying their so-called velvet revolution succeeded because

people finally shed their political apathy and were inspired to act. has been leading protests since twenty sixteen for several weeks he's rallied students at half a dozen universities he says opposition leader nicole posh union may be the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they don't need to because if they saw winter's tips they don't need to hold a process that is why people are called 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 expectations i belong to the area laid out 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 you know closing to spit into our group to another page where it will be said to me yes no it is participate terry democracy and this is all a victory and dissipates a political process when i mean you know came the united forcing the resignation of a prime minister is one thing remaining in game through the often slow and messy

journey towards monumental political change will be the next test of this country's people power movement natasha al-jazeera year of on armenia. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera vote counting is underway in lebanon's first parliamentary elections and almost a decade officials say the turnout was forty nine percent down fifty four percent from the two thousand and nine polls countries using a new system based on proportional representation cinesias and not a party is claiming victory in the country's first local elections since the twenty eleven arab spring their religious party says it's ahead if it's secular rival in the in the dock to a spy about fifty five percent say the two parties are coalition partners in the national government official results are expected over the next few days iran's

president has warned the u.s. against pulling out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal saying it with suffer historic remorse donald trump has less than a week to decide whether he'll withdraw from the agreement north korea has denied 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 can join and donald trump are due to meet in the coming weeks there been more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano more than thirty homes have been destroyed and around two thousand people have been forced to leave their houses rob reynolds is in the estates the community most affected by the lava erupts and. this is les lani avenue and until just a couple of days ago it was the main road through this training roll 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 a bomb blast at a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed at least fourteen people police suspect the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election tecno is up next on al-jazeera stay with us. once pristine indonesia's chittering river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain one of when you see examines the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera. old.