prospect of electing a president who promises to make the have nots rather than the privilege his main priority seems irresistible people like fruit vendor. who says the two other candidates represent options that have failed to the working class. of a whole new consumer because we need jobs education sports health for farmers not just for those who have benefited from. the need help so the country can grow. civil side you'll have it remains optimistic he says it's illegal to tell his employees who to vote for but that he has explained what he believes would be the consequences if mexico were to veer off its present course i am lucy and joins us live now from mexico city how would you describe the mood all around you just ahead of this landmark. hello mary mother of people are very very excited i've covered many many elections in this country and i have to tell you i've never

seen so much expectation i think that that's really probably the most the most incredible part of it all that one of the candidates. and this man will look this over as he's better known has really really awakened so many expectations about poverty crime fighting corruption that's never really been the case in the past at the very most when expected a little bit of change and so i think that that's what has really galvanized opinion and it will still polarized opinion here in mexico and you say that as he's known has awakened expectations but i guess he also speaks to the fears of many mexicans around the issue of security violence of big ticket and corruption are fears for how this vote might be conducted. well absolutely corruption is his number one fema he says that he is honest that he is

a man that can be trusted and people believe him he has run for the presidency twice before and twice before he says that it's been strictly has been stolen from him because of the mean. the tampering the manipulation in the voting process this time around we know that something like seventy one hundred would have be candidates step down most of them because they were threatened because of violence there's been one hundred and thirty six politicians killed in this election campaign forty eight of them candidates and so this is been the most violent election campaign in recent memory and in top of that a new study just came out that shows that one out of every three mexicans has received offers of anything between two chickens to up to five hundred dollars to cast their vote in a certain way so there is certainly fears that this will not be a completely transparent election. it may not change the presidential outcome because has such a wide margin of victory of supposedly of

a bit of advantage but it could change the way that the congress is shaping up and so does that suggest with with so many key issues and challenges facing the country that time now is likely to be very high tomorrow we think it will be there's no way to be absolutely certain but it seems that there's so much excitement and there's so much at stake in this election that the turnout will be much higher than usual yes marian thank you very much we're looking forward to all of a coverage from america and soon human who is there in mexico city and the team head of that election in mexico thank you finale c.-a still to come for you on the program rescue workers and a flooded cave in thailand were told boys in the football coach have been stuck for a week. and why a manual recount of votes in iraq might not end the crisis of the last month's elections.

welcome back we've got some quite chilly conditions across southeastern parts of a straight moment nighttime lows well into single figures across these areas and daytime highs not great there fourteen melbourne just thirteen degrees celsius out across western australia so complacent perth they're coming in at twenty two degrees celsius and there's a move the forecast through into monday that front begins to push into wards perth meanwhile we've got one or two showers on the coast maybe brisbane seeing the odd shower but again those temperatures still very much on the low side moving across into new zealand we've got pretty unsettled weather at the moment certainly looks like being a wet and windy one through much of sunday particular the western side of both north and south islands as we head on into monday we will find the bulk of that rain begin to clear away certainly slightly brighter but cherry weather beginning to push in so a slight improvement expected now as he moved up into northeastern parts of asia

here too it's looking pretty unsettled we will eventually see a tropical cyclone appearing from the south heading towards south korea but ahead of it we've already got some heavy rain and in fact is also pushes into north korea to move the forecast through into monday that rain still in evidence there is a cycle beginning to develop south korea like you see some very heavy rain me want it should be largely dry and beijing highs thirty one. eradicating leprosy in cambodia. education on treatment in equal measure on. the employee early you know disability yet wait until three year old or year more people have disability great used to it and in no wait the next generation of antibiotics may just be at the bottom of the ocean. as it.

revisited on al-jazeera. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now hundreds of protests have taken place across the united states against the trump administration's controversial migration policy more than two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite president trump signing an order to end the practice. and the free syrian army says peace talks with the government and its ally russia have broken down in the southern province of daraa several rebel held town villages in the area have now accepted government rule. in other news we're following sweden

a saying that it will host yemen's warring parties for negotiations this as the u.n. is saying it will help run the red sea port of had data saudi and u.a.e. military coalition has been fighting to take the city from the who sees for two weeks now most of the country's humanitarian supplies come through the port to feed millions of people who desperately need a. how divers have managed to go to several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers and their coach who's been missing for a week a new opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope that the boys may still be found alive scott hyder a pause from chiang rai. one. week after the boys and their coach passed through this entrance into the tom long cave a line of ambulances and hundreds of workers carry out a drill for their rescue. non-home is the mother of one of those boys she tells us thirteen year old among loved all sports but football was his favorite

mother and son are very close uncharacteristically he did not ask for permission to go to the cave i often think that he's a good boy he liked to play football since he was small i always support him i never thought and if the light these would happen because when ever he would leave home he always act. for the first few days after monk or went missing his mother just cried at one point she was so distraught and exhausted she fainted she's only just started eating again she did not previously know any of the other parents of the missing boys now they're getting strength from each other i feel much better now and this the pause is making me stronger i have to be strong but a recent my son comes out today with um one cave complex goes on for kilometers now this is a section of it across from where the searching for the boys and their coats is

going on now now people here locals believe that there is a spirit in these caves and this is where they come to make offerings to it. well offerings to the caves spirit and gods continue. so does the searching for a second day water is flowing from the mouth of the cave decreasing the level inside the flooded sections of the cave complex and rain has been light. and in the hills another chimney or hole leading down toward the cave is being explored as a possible way into the cave complex. the spirit of the cave is fable to be that of a woman who is waiting for her husband to return to her much like the relatives who have been here since last saturday scott either al-jazeera. well to iraq now as the electoral commission says it will begin a manual recount of votes in some regions on cheese day it follows widespread allegations of fraud in the maypoles recount process is expected to take two weeks but many think the crisis over the election results won't and that mohammed valley

explains your next politics is not the critical moment when the clock struck midnight local time ticked over into sunday the mandate of a lax parliament expires. a new parliament was supposed to emerge following the general elections last month but differences over dissolves honest them under which presents a constitutional by limit for iraq after weeks of discussions about whether the outgoing parliament should extend its mandate it has finally decided to end its term from now and until a new parliament is in place you're iraq will be in a constitutional vacuum who can put things back on track legally speaking i mean so the government has the opportunity to do so so the government is responsible for implementing the law and the the constitution and the courts are responsible for overseeing that the implementation has taken place in accordance with the law and the constitution so the government and the courts can do so together i that is on

its of the may twelfth election the shock to the ruling coalition led by prime minister about the. it came in third contrary to its expectations a nationalistic alliance of mostly secular parties but led by shock lyric mocked at a subtle got the most seats fifty four of three hundred twenty eight in second place came in alliance of around groups. several parties cried foul alleging irregularities that included vote rigging glitches in new voting machines and destruction of ballots prime minister haidar lab badly said security agencies had evidence of unprecedented violations on saturday the independent high electoral committee decided to start a manual recounting of votes only in areas where irregularities were reported that will begin to be and other provinces on tuesday some parties say that's not enough and want a total recount. these are serious problems none of which were resolved before the

current parliament expires this political uncertainty to a long list of problems. or disease. now protesters in india are demanding the death penalty for two men accused of raping a seven year old girl demonstrations have been held across eight cities in months are districts near the center of the country and men are accused of luring the young girl away from her school before assaulting her. german chancellor angela merkel says fourteen e.u. countries have agreed to take back my clients who originally registered with them the call made the claim a letter to a coalition partners who are demanding the government take a tougher line on migration but hungary in poland who are among the fourteen countries of deny reaching any deal on sunday all straight takes over as president of the e.u. council for the next six months it means chancellor sebastian kurtz will temporarily lead an institution struggling to find a united front on like ration kurtz is pro european but he's also taken

a tough position on immigration in the past so what direction will the bloc take with austria at its helm dominic cain reports. he's his country's youngest leader and for six months at least on paper europe's as austrian chancellor since last december sebastian cortes has governed in a coalition with the far right and increasingly his policies have reflected that. to austria's goal is to stop the tide of illegal immigration the refugee and migrant influx into europe we have always stuck to our position and will use the e.u. presidency to work on a sound european solution that can only be achieved if the protection of our external borders works we have to be the ones who decide who come into europe not the people smugglers. cts says he sees his country's role as a bridge between east and west which is why he's been making over. churches to the countries of what's called the visa grad group the czech republic hungary poland

and slovakia who some in brussels consider to be in the news awkward squad they don't share the desire for an ever deeper union and don't want to accept more migrants or refugees trying to cross the mediterranean that he would have liked dog back everybody jumps into the water our people catch them bring them out fish them out of the water and automatically they're basically ferried into the european union i don't believe this is a complex border defense it's extremely important that we define what happens with those who are trying to cross seas illegally into the european union there is another border that is important to ministers in vienna this is the south's ak river a natural front dividing austria and germany from each other but in recent times the government of sebastien courts has been reaching across this river to try to establish good relations with the government in bavaria and it's a six weekly regarding immigration and border controls because ministers in munich

and vienna want to see much more of this police checking people crossing their shared frontier a technical but apparently temporary breach of the e.u. is showing an open borders deal but while this is clearly what courts is seeking his counterpart in berlin angle america has resisted the widespread return of such controls insisting that she is a vital plank the e.u. policy away from the issue of migration another problem the austrians will face is the pressing question of how to deal with the e.u.'s budget which means that as mr cortes takes his seat around the e.u. table he will face lots of questions which may not have easy answers dominic kane al-jazeera oberndorf by spork. an average of thirty people a day are rescued from drowning in australia but saving lives is about to get easier next on the drones will be used to help rescue stranded swimmers to and to

spot sharks that might be getting a little too close for comfort andrew thomas reports now from luna. a drone flies over the australians as well as the rough water films in the center of the shot to swimmers who've been swept out and are in serious trouble but rather than just film them the drone drops hope a self inflating float to which the swimmers cling on and used to get gradually swept by the waves back into sure. it was one of these drones which in january carried out the rescue of two sixteen year old boys mark phillips was at the controls lucky. we didn't actually put it on our end because we're obviously busy but we did it from the video footage from the wire so we know from takeoff to them receiving a part with sixty seventy seconds a demonstration shows how it works the drone hovers above the person in trouble

then it's operator times when to drop its load swimmers hold on until help arrives and i more traditional way in some cases drones are equipped with the loudspeakers too connected to lifeguard radios they act in a preventative capacity for being able to get above people and say hey stop there's a real bear or you are about to get into trouble or you're about to be washed off head back in with had that capability so we're having intervened probably close to one hundred times where we'll stop people getting into that situation before they've even got the last australian summer beaches down the east coast where patrolled by seventeen lifesaving drones by this november more than fifty rescue drugs will be operating the water today it was hard at the devil get but in the rough weather with waves rowing can reach quite the jet skis can and far in frightening they've gone from shore to drop in just twenty five seconds other drones look for sharks computers have been taught to recognise different species

we've tried it with images this computer system and it can actually come back and actually give us accurate answers on the basis of the data we fit the computer can then alerts people to get them out of the water it is an excellent example where it had been used in not replacement things but as a system in getting the work done in a better way the shark spotting and life flow dropping drones have finished their trial periods they'll be patrolling australia. beaches for real this summer and those behind them hope the technology worldwide under thomas al jazeera beluga it bruce but. just look at the top stories now hundreds of protests have taken place across the u.s. against the trumpet ministrations controversial migration policy more than two thousand

children remain separated from their parents despite president trump signing an order to end the practice in new york a selection of activists and actors address the crowd. and part of turning them on down the road a break the man didn't break five men and. look at those rules the more good a good little. girl in general over the course the renewable. the really good. girl really was really really worth of the day and tomorrow in court as long as it takes we will come together and we're going to have some freedom maggie no to the loud hoot ministration the let me know wrote poems on the thought morrison of children from their parents are living in heart with reality. and our other top stories syrian rebels say peace talks with the government and its allies russia

have ended in failure the free syrian army says they refused to surrender in the southern province of daraa several rebel held town and villages in the area have now accepted government rule that. divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand to search for twelve young footballers and their coach has been missing for a week a new opening discovered in the caves offered hope that they might still be found alive. south sudan's latest cease fire has reportedly been violated with both the government forces and the rebels blaming each other for it the agreement was signed by president salva care in the rebel leader riyadh machar on wednesday protesters n n d are demanding the death penalty for two men accused of raping a seven year old girl demonstrations have been held across eight cities in the month's out district the men are accused of luring the young girl away from her school for assaulting. all those are the headlines the cure we visited is next and then more news after that from doha. on counting the cost the

european union is trying to change we'll look at the reasons why the economic cost of violence in mexico plus the timber companies are accused of in danger in the world's second largest rainforest. counting the cost on a disease. the health care workers have been trained how to defend the text for the tops of the

skin light the when the patient is asked to abort if they can feel. so in some way could be an organism that's producing the next month of august. over the last twenty is more than fourteen million people have been cured of leprosy and the number of new the detective cases this fall and dramatically but in the last decade progresses back mated threatening our chances of completely eradicating the disease i'm dr louise paling and i'm here in cambodia to see how a new israeli transmission strategy is being used to track down and treat potential sufferers in the hope that leprosy can be wiped out. leprosy is a chronic infection caused by the bacteria mycobacterium left brain the disease spreads in droplets of nasal mucus between people in close and frequent contact it

damages peripheral nerves and as the disease progresses nerves swell hands feet and facial skin become numb and muscles paralyzed leading to deformity. loss of sensation also increases the risk of injury with open wounds often becoming infected leprosy is entirely curable i've treated in the early stages disability can be averted yet it still affects thousands of people around the world. so i suppose how big a problem is that in cambodia. program . so in nineteen ninety seven about the reality they still have many leprosy in cambodia why haven't we got rid of them proceed yet if we've got affective treatment. at

system asked another person control program about their activity is limited so they cannot access to go drugs or you but that's why. the leg over time patients new sensation in their hands and feet meaning that any cuts and so as they develop a painless if these become infected it committal to the loss of fingers and toes as he's left school at least made. right and also maybe full session today people can see so they're making the show and i'm taking yeah is it painful because you've just had your surgery on thursday yes and just a little bit of today getting the x. and long yet to continue my studies there are fees you know you have to have free so romantic me i mean i need it and we didn't like we can miles and yada

can you tell us what music you're listening to talk about or i'll head off. some camping go wild and you know and so yeah when feelings try to go to our all be quiet i mean thank you very much and good luck feel leg getting on your leg in that interval that it was to thank you very much. and. i said i said. thank you all chain can you share was our legacy is affected you that was worth taking a. moment to change the names. within the chain we can see here that it's affected the long in the in the body as . cause the terrorist become amputated because this area gets nothing and then what happens is people damage it just just doing their daily activities walking around gets knocked and also the damage itself can actually take off to take the person

off. his affect the way i. frankly are to. medicines to cure leprosy are available free of charge all around the world these are provided by pharmaceutical company novartis through the world health organization and have been hugely successful in the fight against leprosy but recently progress has stagnated in june twenty thirty experts from around the world met to develop a new strategy to completely halt the transmission of leprosy the last mai-ling fighting leprosy proved to be the most difficult one what we now do space look at every patient who is diagnosed specially and look up the look of his contacts persons in his family his household the neighbors his colleagues examine them for their procedure and if they do have signs of the procedure opus feel they should be

treated fairly with the multi-group terrapins literacy is also very much associated with stigma when you get a diagnosis of leprosy you may be excluded from society completely in some countries or you may lose your job which very often is the case. our plan is to introduce that in several pilot areas in six countries in the world to demonstrate that this is feasible and when we have critical mass of the day we could come vins the rest of the world to apply that as well yes and this is what we hope to do. i pay out yearly net to know that means that now but what if you buy it off i don't know i said these guys are health workers and they can go into the local communities and not you know not to diagnose a chance you will see a high poverty about it there will be at the end go out.

new for the new on need new examination not the labor right i run now we each member sit on the key under the mat casing the fifty or so three hundred meters around the house where the person was identified yeah yeah it is reading tracking down the receiver and is the how to go through it of the fish and among those that were seeking through. to eliza kate in a few hits i would put them home don't want to remember. that particularly when you're. in a country still recovering from civil war and genocide the basic health care provision available means that knowledge about leprosy is limited a key element of the strategy is raising awareness of the disease reducing the stigma surrounding it and informing the communities that the health workers are coming before the contact tracing begins the team put on a festival for the local community so that when it just just getting ready for the field to show where people are going to be told about leprosy and they're actually

going to announce it and began to speak is going on the next day and i come with you yet really good. to see. that this is fun this is not what i was expecting with chrissy to be driving along in the van but with the program on the phone from one of the problems of the fire was all of them are going to pop out of i don't know about i don't know kind of but i've been watching from that moment on by i don't know why but ma'am i'm not afraid of this modesty that needs a very comfortable for the bottom of the problem. is that the key elements of the stuff you say oh it's like me i tell people about the show but again that my letters from all of her own car number one i would call her a little older than i would girl call or five or whatever. i'm amazed by how many people arrive for the show. it really demonstrates the power

of putting on a show and for communities such as this one you would. like to. know what. i was telling the fakes about eradicating leprosy is as much information as if you met him i didn't know what was the real one who was who. the little one who got killed. i don't know how to tell you a little angle. that. i didn't write out a. little like the actors perform parables about leprosy to educate the community

about the reality of the disease and also to inform them about the contact tracing that will take place the next day. we come to. ok happy. we're going to check the. medical make. it feel. good about what to actually go to. the team doctors at the home of the cured leprosy patient from where they will head out into the surrounding community to trace his contacts to check if anyone has been infected. with the person. hello nice to you it diagnosed five years ago. do you have any symptoms from the leprosy still a min. no not on me i'm one who lives with you at home.

by doing what i do with three children that keep you very busy yes. i mean the moon and so you have one child affected by let's see. how can we meet your child. oh hello. i am a live rabbit in the garden to be legalized to reach you how old are you. were you so and when did you get diagnosed with you know kind of when and how did they diagnose you how did they know that you had leprosy. movement. where's that where is the package can you show us. thank you so it's very it's very very subtle. the health care workers have been trained how to defend the test for they touched the skin lightly and the patient is asked to report if they can feel

it whether leprosy is the coffee that because the area is now. the team confirms that germany has been entirely cured of leprosy thanks to the medication what do you think might have happened had the health care workers not come to find you and i mean connie do you do you give them yes so this is this is how easy it is to treat leprosy there's no big deal needles there's no drips there's literally a small pack of pills that patient just keeps in the home just takes one every day and it's free. for more jim you know the information. about the. i mean. it was really a moment in the part of the contact.