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vote counting is underway in lebanon on'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 a heads iran that warns the u.s. against pulling out of the nuclear deal european lobbying of washington intensifies days before a deadline. more homes destroyed by lava from a volcano in hawaii with residents now warned to expect aftershocks 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 country is using a new system based on proportional representation. reports 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 saddle how he 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 of 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 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 as another party is claiming victory in the country's first local election since the twenty eleven arab spring their religious party says it's ahead if it secular rival in the dark tunis by about five percent the two parties are

coalition partners in the national government and the polls seen as an important marker in tennessee as 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 iranian president hassan rouhani warned washington about the consequences of withdrawing why european leaders continue to press president donald trump to stay in it die. 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 they are aggressive. is 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 money and energy i tell me if america leads to nuclear accord it will soon see that this will until historic remorse for 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 a 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 twenty 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 for the view in iran same bus ravi reports from to ron 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 the rest of the tone of the iranian president's remarks about the united states it was like we've got a domestic audience. running 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. more homes have gone up in flames in hawaii as lava from killer way a volcano seats and to residential areas the eruption is spewing toxic gas on the rock more than sixty meters into the air. reports on the devastation and later lanny states. the road into the eruption zone is cracked and broken vents of steam and toxic gas from the lava flows beneath below out deeper into what was once

leylandii estates the enormous power of mount killer way it is plain to see we passed roads sealed off by meter high lava flows finally we reached a wall of burning rock and could go no further we've gotten just about as close to the lava as we can the smell of toxic sulfur dioxide is very strong in the air and it gets stronger when the wind blows from the wrong direction but if you look behind me here you can see that leylandii avenue this is formerly the main street in this community is completely covered with that black lava beyond it the smoke is the sign of another house that's being consumed by the lava people who have been living here have no idea when or if they'll ever be able to come back home more than twenty houses have been destroyed from the air you can see the main

crater on kill away is still boiling with smoke and steam toxic gas from the deep magma chambers is the biggest threat to human life i'm most worried about the impact of sulfur dioxide feel in our nostrils a look here as we're standing over time if there's extended exposure people get inflammation of their lungs and if people have underlying lung conditions like c o p d your emphysema they could get into trouble on sunday morning a long line of cars formed as some residents were permitted to enter the danger zone briefly to salvage important papers medicines. personal treasures but plenty more people are waiting to be allowed back in their one again as is when they can go back to their residence and that's all what this whole issue about so that they can make themselves whole again this is not the whole why of glossy tourist posters and glamorous television shows this community is one of the poorest in the entire state volunteers set up an outdoor community center called up who

hold or place of safety in the hawaiian language. to distribute donated emergency supplies food and water we all come together and want to make this make stuff happen the government scientists say there's no way to predict when the eruption will end it could be days months or longer leaving the people here to wait and hope for the best rob reynolds al-jazeera the whole hawaii. nicaragua has set up a truth commission to investigate the deaths of at least forty five protesters during demonstrations in recent weeks it comes after more marches were held calling for justice for those killed in the violence the five member panel and if 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 to mexico where almost five hundred people were subjected to

unregulated treatment at the country's flagship state neurological institute over fourteen years operations for a brain condition use the device invented and patented by the head of the institution but the method was never proved by mexican or forty's and a number of doctors believe it had serious flaws in the second part of his investigation john holdren explains the consequences for those affected. over the fourteen years almost five hundred patients with fifty with an experiment to 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 mean that there was a recommendation i would. demand that you had to recognize the brilliant idea of. the institute the health ministry and not to sort tell himself or refuse 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. going to tile 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 and leaving my daughter i'm just so tired there are days in which i just think it would be better if i died. i don't even 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 homan how does it make scarcity still ahead on al-jazeera. the army of young activists behind armenia's anti-government campaign and how their efforts could have forced a real change and surfing legend kelly slater slater tells all to syria how he's making waves nowhere near the u.s. . way have some of the weather still in place across parts of the middle east chiefly those northern areas of had flooding in ankara turkey has seen some lively downpour some wet weather also making its way it was that eastern 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 there into 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 right information or the process saudi arabia could see some possibly some rain thirty eight thirty nine celsius here. in doha are a keen southerly wind so with the possibility of them lifted dust and sand we got quite a keen southerly wind making its way across the eastern side of south africa's normally over towards the western type with the possibility of rain for the next couple days

. once pristine indonesia's river has become a toxic waste dump or textile factories that supply global fashion chain one used examines the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al jazeera it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government to buy real.

kind of again the 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 the sons countries using a new system based on proportional representation iran's president has warned the u.s. against pulling out of the twenty fifth the nuclear deal saying it would suffer historic remorse hasan 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 e.u. greenman 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. funerals have been held for some of the forty five people killed in an attack in northern nigeria armed

bandits raided a village in kaduna state on saturday witnesses say the attackers came from neighboring zamfara and shot at children and towards tausig. well disputes over territory are continuing to escalate elsewhere in nigeria president mohammad government is under pressure to prevent such attacks ahead of elections next year. dogon reports from benny was 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 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. just a tool room for the next. well known. because.

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 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 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 print

a sick love in our environment to live what to do our walk to top walk and to wash it got to have 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. the. many here fear the attack on the church was intended to sow fear and hatred between communities and this is why this plight the violence people here continue to preach they say 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 state sen. nigeria it's been two decades since the start of the

war between ethiopia 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 routes remain largely unresolved charlotte bellus 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. eritrea sent soldiers and tanks to attack the town and over the next two years the two nations force 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 ethiopia 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 can tenure as are a mains under the control of ethiopia. more than four hundred fifty people have been rescued by spain's maritime service from fifteen boats trying to cross the mediterranean sea from african shores and separately a spanish rescue charity says it saved more than one hundred people in a boat drifting off the coast of libya human smugglers are reported to have removed

the boat's engine through the journey among those rescued were eight women and six children. indian police say they've arrested the main suspect in a no and then 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 georgia her parents complained of her rape to village elders he and another suspect were allegedly angry that the elders find them for for several hundred dollars as punishment. the pakistani interior minister has been shot in what police say is an attempted assassination a soft body 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 it's a headache in the back party it focuses on highlighting and fighting blasphemy. and a bomb blast at a mosque in the eastern province of cost in afghanistan has killed fourteen people

police suspect the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for tobar as parliamentary election victoria getting the reports. these are the latest victims the mood appears to be a series of attacks on voter registration sentence the afghans go to pick up their identification cards the elections in october so mr hellman we are praying to 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 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 of failing to provide the said his with adequate security but. not the

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 have long play 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 that the election commission admits. is already. this latest blast will do little to reassure people signing up to vote is worth the risk victoria gate to be al jazeera u.s. president donald trump is expected to ask israel to withdraw from four neighborhoods in occupied east jerusalem israeli media reports trumps requests as part of the so-called u.s. peace plan which is still under development and comes less than two weeks before the u.s. embassy moves to jerusalem from tel aviv the turkish president has unveiled his

party's election manifesto ahead of next month's snap votes. unveiled the plans in front of thousands of his supporters in istanbul he has promised new military operations against kurdish fighters along its border with syria and iraq following elections in june the prime minister's office will be abolished and its powers will be transferred to the president. armenia's parliament is expected to elect opposition leader nichol as the country's new prime minister on tuesday this follows a wave of protests in which students played a major role as it's also been a reports from yerevan. 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. may be the face of this unprecedented push for change but people primarily students organized it they themselves need to because if. tips they. need to hold the process. that is what people recall food and. its 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 expectations i belong to the there really no 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. closing to spin as you said to are going to and not a page where it will be said to me it's no go to support to speak to democracy and this is also a victory and dissipates a political process when i mean it came to united 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 year of armenia well team usa have made the final of the first founders cup

a pro surfing event being held at an artificial waist pool the us are likely to meet south africa and australia in the final these surfers compete on waves that are all identical thanks to the technology that's ten years to develop the pool is the brainchild of champion surfer kelly slater and is constructed nearly two hundred kilometers from the nearest beach and slater told al-jazeera there has been interest in the technology from a number of countries. the very inefficient. water which is. why well. that solitary. or. everybody at it. all the world of the marching course everyone is. really going to

make it bigger smaller faster slower. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera vote counting is taking place 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 the country's using a new system based on proportional representation so this is another 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 in the dock to no spy about five percent the two parties are coalition partners in the national government and official results are expected over the next few days iran's president has warned the u.s. against pulling out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal saying it would suffer historic remorse haasan rouhani also said that iran has plans to respond to any

decision by president donald trump trump 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 were brunell's is in line estates the community most affected by the lava eruption. 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 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 daniel ortega erupted in april over plans to reform social security spending which were later abandoned more on the story and the day's other top stories on al-jazeera dot com next is want to stay with us. what began as a small extremist group africa's most populous country we didn't invent it from the . battle front from the nigerian government. yet why. the tourists for abducting two hundred schoolgirls displaced thousands of people. are.