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vote counting is underway in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in nine years but the turnouts down from the last election. are watching all just zero life from a headquarters and. also ahead iran warns the u.s. against pulling out of the nuclear deal as european lobbying of washington intensifies days before a deadline more homes destroyed by lava from of all kaino in hawaii with residents now warn to expect after softs from earthquakes. praying for peace the attack on a church in central nigeria that's dividing this community.

hello vote counting is underway 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 elections held in two thousand and nine countries using a new system based on proportional representation has somehow has more from beirut . 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 that the hezbollah is weibo which is the future movement led by prime minister sad that. 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 to the civil society candidate said that they 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 just so far with 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 to nazir's and nodar party is claiming victory in the country's first local elections since the twenty eleven arab spring their religious party says it's ahead of the second learned by about five percent the vote seen as

an important marker in tennessee as transition to democracy mohammed jim drew 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. 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

the general population and we have already begun. progress and. you know. the reason. is that you need. not. worry in the daily life i mean there are going to be issues. that. need a way. 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 mean. they will

not be able to. make. more 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. the united states has less than a week to decide whether it will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani warned washington about the consequences for drawing while european leaders continue to press president donald trump to stay in it 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 energy i tell me if america leads to nuclear accord it will soon see that this will entail historic remorse for it to shine in the united states along with four other countries and the european union signed the joint comprehensive plan of action with iran in two thousand and 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 clear idea about next steps if when you 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 for the view in iran zain bus ravi reports from to herat. 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 yesterday told of the iranian president's remarks about the united states it was like we've got 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 there have been more evacuations in hawaii after another earthquake hit close to an erupting volcano it's epicenter was within twenty kilometers of flame loni a states where i'm only

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 opened up by the earthquakes a state of emergency is in effect on the big island. states the community at the hearts of the law. this is lane lonnie avenue and until just a couple of days ago it was the main road through this tranquil rural community here on a wise 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 funerals have been held for some of the forty five people killed in an attack on northern nigeria on bandits raided a village and to do an est on saturday witnesses say the attackers came from neighboring zamfara and shot at children and torched houses disputes over territory are continuing to escalate elsewhere in nigeria president mohamed juba harvey's government is under pressure to prevent such attacks i had a full lections next year. going to reports from benue state where an attack on a church is dividing

a community that's left peacefully for generations. the police are taking us to a small town called. it's in bend the state in sensual nigeria but long is a small farming community a place with no history of violence until now verified i'm just going to root for the next. few months because. he flew to my students write us. the attacker 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 over land 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 are a wanted to provoke religious conflict and they call on the government to put a stop on this now are for government to exist will it get him isn't he was our capacity to stop people from killing our people no washing of that not a woman if one nobody should die we should be able to be a cyclone in our environment to mean what to do our walk to the top walk and to wash it got freedom conjugal cry but the moment you try to color it in terms of tribes in terms of political mission in terms of religion you know a difference in the purpose for the fight and that is well been told in the people

so fight for all. men 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 pray they see that for generations they have always lived peacefully together despite the religious differences what binds them together they say is shanker than the killings in the village of. duggan al jazeera been with states senate. nigeria still ahead on al-jazeera an investigation biologist zero reveals how experimental unregulated medical devices were used in mexico on patients undergoing brain operations. and the army of young activists behind our meaning as antigovernment campaign in how their efforts could have forced real change.

through tranquil raveena can you. see and if it means going to the. way have some of the usually wet weather still in place across parts of the middle east chiefly those northern areas have had flooding in ankara turkey has seen some lively downpour some wet weather also making its way it was at least a side of the mediterranean lebanon jordan well possibly as well could see some wet weather a lot of clout there across much of iraq to the east of that iran generally try and fine for monday it will go downhill as we go through the week some showers and to that eastern side of afghanistan that will pull away a couple picks up to around twenty five degrees celsius not too bad to the north of that as that cloud coming into iran some really heavy right likely to see some flooding into parts of iraq as a result of these live the showers still

a few showers there just around eleven and by richard around twenty two degrees celsius but it shouldn't be as bad as it has been recently fits for the selfish generally dry across the nation or the process saudi arabia could see some plaid possibly some rain thirty eight thirty nine celsius here in die hard kinsella leeway and so with the possibility of some of the dust and we've got quite a keen southerly wind making its way across the eastern side of south africa's normally over towards the west and type with the possibility of right the next couple days. the women sponsored by qatar and ways. that are. in this. each one a story. to be seen. to be. demonstrably. it is. with.

the human children. see it up. top stories on al-jazeera vote counting is under way 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 is using a new system based on proportional representation iran's president has warned the u.s. against pulling out of the twenty 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 agreements there have 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. over fourteen years almost five hundred mexicans were subjected to unregulated treatments at the country's flagship state neurological institute. operations for a brain condition used a device 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 his investigation john holeman explains the consequences for those affected. over fourteen years almost five hundred patients were fitted with an experimental

unapproved device at mit's 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 it or 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 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 dr saltillo himself or refused to talk to 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 land as case. 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 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 this 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 a pool to use. their own home in. mexico city. nicaragua has set up a truth commission to investigate the deaths of at least forty five protesters during anti government demonstrations in recent weeks it comes after more marches were held calling for justice for those killed in the violence the five member panel of investigators will report back to politicians within three months protests against president daniel ortega erupted in april over plans to reform social

security spending which were later abandoned its indian police say they've arrested the main suspect in an alleged gang rape and murder of a teenage girl. and several accomplices are accused of burning the sixteen year old girl alive in the state of jharkhand to her parents complained of her raped a village elders he and another suspect were allegedly angry that the elders find them several hundreds of dollars as punishment. the pakistani interior minister has been shot in what police say is an attempted assassination. was hit in the arm after a rally in punjab province the reuters news agency says the twenty one year old suspect is affiliated with the to have taken the bake party it focuses on highlighting and fighting for me the party's leader has joined widespread condemnation of the attack which comes ahead of elections in july amnesty international is accusing egypt of using solitary confinement to torture it says

dozens of human rights activists journalists and all positions supporters face physical abuse behind bars the group's report outlines extended beatings humiliation a lack of food and restricted movement for years on end egypt has arrested thousands of people since the military overthrew president mohamed mursi in twenty thirteen and mostly is reported to have been held in solitary confinement for most of the past five years the government has repeatedly denied systematic rights abuses. well al jazeera journalist mahmud has saying he has now been in jail for more than five hundred days he was detained without charge. in twenty sixteen during a holiday to cairo al-jazeera international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged egyptian authorities to release him as well as jailed journalists. how much.

against israel after an explosion killed six of its fighters in gaza on saturday thousands of palestinians turned out to pay their respects to the fighters who were part of the organization's military wing the brigades says they were killed while dismantling spying equipment planted by israel the israeli military denies any involvement. meanwhile u.s. president donald trump is expected to ask israel to withdraw from four neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem israeli media reports trump's request as part of the so-called u.s. peace plan which is still under development it comes less than two weeks before the u.s. embassy moves to jerusalem from tel aviv 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 the ready outside the separation wall two of them very close to it 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 the turkish president has unveiled his party's election manifesto ahead of next one snap vote. plan. hands in front of thousands of his supporters in istanbul has promised new military operations against kurdish fighters along its border with syria and iraq and following the elections in june the prime minister's office will be abolished

and its powers will be transferred to the president's armenia's parliament as expected to elect opposition leader nichol neon as the country's new prime minister on shoes day it follows a wave of protests in which students have played a major role in the toss of a name reports from. many are medians 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. may be the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they don't need to because if. there is tips they. need to

hold the 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 expectation i belong to the area they 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 no closing to spin as you said to are 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 dissipates a political process when i mean it can be 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 guinea. year of on armenia. more than seven hundred fighters are reenacting medieval battles in italy it's part of a global competition where challengers take to the field with swords spades and axes and while it's not a fight to the death like in the old days wounded fighters are still filling up nearby hospitals in the first day of this year's championship around eighty people

had to be taken to the emergency room for a checkup. hello again the headlines on al jazeera this hour vote counting is underway in lebanon's first parliamentary elections in almost a decade officials say the turnout was forty nine percent down from fifty four percent in the two thousand and nine polls countries using a new system based on proportional representation to this is and not a party is claiming victory in the country's first local elections since the arab spring their religious party says it's ahead of its secular rival and that too in a spy about five percent two parties are coalition partners in the national government official results are expected over the next few days. iran's president has warned the usa gains pulling out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal saying it would suffer historic remoras donald trump has less than

a week to decide whether he'll withdraw from the agreements 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 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 more than thirty homes have been destroyed and around two thousand people have been forced to leave their houses of reynolds isn't any estates the community most affected by the lava eruptions this is les lonnie avenue and until just a couple of days ago it was the main road through this training roll rural community here on these big island now you can see the lava has come up and overwhelmed the road and in the background there look no farther back and you can

see the smoke and flames from another house that's being destroyed nicaragua has set up a truth commission to investigate the deaths of at least forty five antigovernment protesters in recent weeks comes after marches were held calling for justice for those killed in the violence protest against president daniel ortega erupted in april over plans to reform social security spending which were later abandoned those are the headlines on al-jazeera the listening post is off. when ever you. at least twenty five and still live in. the i am i am one of them and smashed the same second

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