cambodia's ruling party claims a landslide victory in a general election that lacked any serious challenges. this is. also coming up freedom lost a palestinian teenager jailed for kicking an israeli soldier says her legal rights were violated. there were no female soldiers here and i have a right to that i had. questioning as a minor. which was my rights zimbabwe's former leader robert mugabe endorses the opposition candidate at of monday's presidential election. flaming tornadoes spreading wildfires destroy homes families and livelihoods across

northern california. the opposition in cambodia is calling for the results of the general election to be rejected by the international community it comes after the ruling party claimed victory in sunday's vote which has been widely described as a sham by human rights groups prime minister hun sen who's been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation last year he dissolved the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason away and he joins us live now from phnom penh wayne so what's been the reaction so far to the election result. and i think the overriding sentiment from critics of this government from independent observers of cambodia is that the transformation is complete that cambodia now must be regarded as a one party or thora tarion state and when you look at the results of sunday's

election it's difficult to argue against that sentiment given that the cambodian people's party of prime minister who in sindh won almost all the seats in the national assembly only a couple of small opposition parties won seats as well and neither of those parties can be considered a thrill a real threat to the rule of the c.p.p. we've had some fairly strongly worded statements from the vice president mustafa while all of the band opposition party the cambodian national rescue party that was dissolved late last year they've just held a media conference in jakarta the capital of indonesia she is calling it the death of democracy saying as you mentioned down that the result must be rejected democracy has been replaced by outright dictatorship and also interesting lee enough saying that the cambodian people have been let down by the international community the exiled leaders of the sea an r.p. have been very busy particularly over the last six months lobbying international governments to apply more pressure to take direct action against the government in

cambodia and for the most part they really haven't there are things in the works but really nothing concrete has happened so far in the hope is that things like sanctions perhaps tariffs on imports from cambodia may start to pick up pace now that the results of the election have come in some way and what can the band opposition do now following this election. well i think they're clearly becoming desperate we're seeing that in the comments from the leadership in that media conference in jakarta we also heard from sam rainsy he is former president of the c n r p he lives in self-imposed exile in paris in an interview after the results were confirmed on sunday night he said that he would like to see peaceful street protests against the election it is difficult though down to see how that can be achieved right now there has been a vibrant proteus culture at times over the years but often those protests

political protests have been met with violent crackdowns by the police and by the military including after the last general election in two thousand and thirteen when the see an r.p. almost won and given the climate at the moment it is difficult to see how any protests significant protest can be mobilized also taking into account as i mentioned that most of the leaders of the c.n.r. p. and now living overseas there's really no one here in cambodia to organize those protests so i think they will continue down the path of trying to pressure governments into taking action the united states passed last week in the lower house a sanctions bill that still has to go through the senate and then on to the president but if that does go all the way we could see targeted sanctions against prime minister hun sen himself and other members of his in a circle wayne thank you. now a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking and slapping an israeli

soldier has been released from prison seventeen year old i had to mimi people to continue to fight against israeli occupation of palestinian lands al-jazeera is under simmons has a story from not in the occupied west bank free of dread jail ordeal much the same as hundreds experienced by young palestinians every year but the case of a had to mimi is profoundly different with her mother now a man who shared jail time with her she was greeted by her father i had to mimi is already being portrayed by palestinians as an icon of resistance to the occupation who now love the body she spoke on a range of political issues including gaza and the rights of children in israeli jails to get education and sit exams and she managed to do after pressuring the oath or says later she told out zero she was deprived of some rights in jail then through a geisha it was really hard i was subject to sever violations they entered

a gaither used scene words to me because there were no female soldiers there and i have a right to that i had two male interrogators questioning me also as a minor they didn't even charge a family member to be there which was my rights people are describing you as an icon do you intend to take up politics perhaps or. maybe with time when i'm able i might think about the coming couple of this and at some point. the prison sentence was for this head slapping israeli soldiers outside her home filmed by her mother never mind the video went viral then it was arrested a short time later her mother was also detained a father who spent most of his life as an activist with several prison terms says he's both proud and sad i had lost that side of her. teenager. can't live normally i feel. guilty because we can't in the basin and it's

become the do it and that is what. her father is probably right when he talks about his daughter's life changing for good at the heart of it all is social media the battle over imagery and symbolism and this is the face the palestinians and the israeli security forces expect to represent more defiance to the occupation . maybe a start and not an end to her actions and through symons al-jazeera the seller in the occupied west bank well to many israelis was discussed at the meeting of the israeli cabinet and the agriculture minister called her a terrorist. i think israel acts too mercifully with these types of terrorists and others israel should treat harshly those who hit its soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no deterrence deterrence leads to that reality we see now you can change that we must change that. a boat loaded with aid bound for gaza

has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is being escorted to the port city of ashdod it's one of two boats attempting to break the tovey a blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens saudi media says government of shot dead the head of intelligence security for aden airport in yemen and that some of kerry was killed by masked gunmen no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack there's been a recent rise in attacks on government officials including iraq in security officers. the saudi led coalition in yemen says its destroyed launch sites being used by who the rebels in the western province of saddam is images released by saudi arabia's government run t.v. are said to show the coalition strike on one of the missile sites. zimbabwe's opposition leader nelson chamisa has been reported to the police for

holding an unlawful press conference on the eve of elections when campaigning is not allowed earlier chamisa received endorsement from an unlikely source the former president robert mugabe who said he was the only viable candidate well now the zanu p.f. leader of and the current president and god what is accuse the path of striking a deal from harare is harma tough. it's the second time robert mugabe has spoken to reporters since he was forced from office last november his reappearance hours before monday's general election was a surprise so was what he said he says he won't be voting for the real exotic vs the party he laid for so long or endorse his successor. it's. the m.d.c. we. are there's. i have made. it through remembrance and or.

right he's. i think it's. the leader of the main opposition nelson chamisa says he welcomes every vote he can get it is not made judy is it kind of going to choose what are we going to this election to choose what it is we are going to be just so if someone says they are likely to have a favorable disposition in my favor we're mine to deny that extra vote that will make the fundamental win that we want when. the ninety four year old says being forced from office by the army was unconstitutional it is one of the last race in print or an african literature to support the sayings that have influence in the ruling party and what he says could influence how some people vote.

and the opposition alliance have pulled in relatively large crowds at campaign rallies some analysts say monday's election could be a tight race that was a major weakness might be the fact that he may have some people supporters will be sympathetic to robert mugabe and this will mean a force for him and may decide for for the opposition also some use on the other hand as a primary challenge of having had to have a quick fire campaign a divided opposition but also not so much of a campaign in the rural areas as my. president when i got was says he's confident he's going to win and that the election will be free and fair international observers have been invited for the first time in sixteen years have said a credible poll could help in the international isolation after decades of political and economic instability. that. were pressing soon as a journalist a voice of america's new service he says there have been hints recently that mugabe would support the opposition. of course to some in the ruling party it might be

a surprise but the last campaign rallies the opposition leader advocate knows and chamisa he had been hinting was going to endorse him so i can say for those who are following this did not come as a surprise even yesterday when he is a star early in harare he did say that he had the picking of former president. it is very surprised again also curious the time that our president mugabe decided to come out in seemingly those mr. everyone is trying to take advantage of that mr. may be thinking that there are some people within the ruling party was too big president robert mugabe and mr we understand he had attempted to win that inducement by sending some in these areas like

a former foreign affairs minister or tums in b. and others but he did not mr mugabe's baking and now he's bashing both mr mugabe and mr for seeking to take the nation backwards. time for a short break here and i'll just erupt when we come back sensing outrage as we go to the iraq syria border where a construction project looks to tighten security and deal with a stretch of ice and plus. it's one of the worst wildfires ever to hit northern california and it's devastating everything in its path and it's showing no signs of letting up any time soon gabriel's sandow in as we california that story coming up . from the waves in the snow. to the contours of the east.

hello there it's mostly dry and hot for many of us across the middle east at the moment isn't really picking up a great deal of cloud all rain at the moment we're just seeing a few showers around kurdistan and into kazakhs down there and i think they're likely to stick around as we had to choose day as well elsewhere the fine just hope forty fourth's in tehran and for us in baghdad we'll get to around forty four now here in doha been pretty humid over the past few days but the winds are shifting a little bit as we head through monday and tuesday it looks like they'll be working down more from a northwest direction that's a dryer direction for the wind so hopefully less humid as we head through the next couple of days our temperatures around forty two or forty three degrees so we will clouds with the save a pulse of a man it could just give us the old shower around the law a little bit of drizzle and as we head down towards a southern parts of africa for many of us it's fine and dry at the moment we're seeing a little bit of town just in the east that could just give us this the or shabbat i think for most of us it should stay dry just not what will force in cape town

a maximum just a fifteen degrees on choose day the central belt of africa though this is where all the showers are some particularly low everyone's coming their way through parts of syria down there and they're pushing quite a long way north as we head into tuesday will see some mineral deposits of chad and . the weather sponsored by cattle and peace. when diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixteen instead of being an ox to could do a job wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour the dissolved opposition in cambodia is calling for the results of the general election to be rejected by the international community the ruling party has trained victory in the election which has been widely described as a sham by human rights groups by minister hun sen who's been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation. a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking on slapping an israeli soldier has been released from prison seventeen year old i had to me has become a symbol of palestinian resistance is urging people to continue to fight against israeli occupation. and zimbabwe's ousted president as the mounts his former party on the military head of elections on monday polls will open within the hour robert mugabe said he'd vote for the country's opposition candidate rather than endorse

those who have illegally taken out. not two children and their great grandmother are among eight people who died as wildfires spread across northern california more than thirty eight thousand people are under evacuation orders in and around the city of or. being on saturday president donald trump declared a state of emergency and parts of northern california affected areas will qualify for immediate financial help from the federal government gabriel is on to has more now from keswick in california. i want to give you an idea of how bad this fire was we're in the community of keswick california this entire town completely destroyed from the fire you can see these homes here everything pretty much gone the force of this fire is so obvious here and it jumped the road as well the other side of the street everything gone as well this is a community of about five hundred people it was a small town really in the mountains outside of redding california

a working class town and it's just completely gone look at this these are power lines melted brought to the ground there can see the force of this fire that roared through here and showed absolutely no mercy there are more than three thousand firefighters that continue to work this blaze and you'll see a lot of the smoke in the air still as well step over that power line they're not letting residents back in here and that's the reason why is because there's power lines still down and the area is still too very dangerous for people to come in here it's still in an evacuation zone we're at right now look at this another example of the force of this fire just ruhr through this car here and this is a fire that's not even close to contained yet firefighters are saying it's so bad that they're really not even trying to stop this fire at this point they're just trying to get people out of the way because there are other communities here that

have not been burned down yet like this one that are in the path of the fire and that's what's really worrying firefighters here. the publisher of the new york times says u.s. president donald trump has misrepresented a private meeting they held two weeks ago and earlier on sunday trump tweeted that he had a very good and interesting meeting at the white house with a g. sulzberger the publisher of the new york times where they spent much time talking about the vast amounts of fake news being put out by the media and how fake news had morphed into the phrase enemy of the people sad well a short time later the times published a response saying the meeting was supposed to be off the record but trump tweeted made it public the times publisher says he accepted the invitation to raise concerns about trump's deeply troubling press rhetoric sulzberger also asked not to attack wider journalism if he was unhappy with coverage about his presidency well danny lippman is a reporter for politico dot com he explained why donald trump continually attacks the media. the reason that trump is maligning the media and trying to

discredit us is that he is not happy with the way he has covered and with the constant scandals in terms of the muller investigation michael cohen russia the white house palace intrigue with you have people in his own white house fighting against each other in the media using people like me and you to settle their scores he does not want his supporters and other republicans and independents to buy into that and in many ways that's worked if you talk to most trump supporters they can't even read the new york times or c.n.n. they just believe it's fake even though the people who are in our shoes we're just trying to do our jobs you know i don't care how my reporting affects democrats or republicans i just want a good fair and accurate story and a lot of americans it's going to take

a long time to change their mind on trusting the media again because of trump's rhetoric and also the which is the baited abetted by fox news which you know is not very loyal to a lot of other media outlets sometimes bulldozers and construction crews are busy on the border between iraq and syria the iraqi government started to see last the front here to try and stop cross border attacks by eisel the project has a long way to go before all six hundred kilometers is secured as an income reports from baghdad a little which was once an open border crossing between friendly neighbors is now. iraq sealing the border with syria for national security reasons it's already completed a twenty kilometer stretch. iraqi helicopters patrolled from the air the iraqi army stands god on the ground. we have implemented a strategic project just like any other country in the world to protect our borders

frankly speaking this is the best approach in terms of implementing security and we can protect ourselves from infiltrators smugglers and terrorist. the threat from isis has been dealt with after the iraqi army recaptured seize territory and declared victory last year however so-called eisel sleeper cells have taken advantage of the open border and infiltrated from syria securing the border has been welcomed by government leaders in damascus. the syrian side wants to secure the border area also so they can prevent cross border infiltration and so far both countries have had success in capturing fighters but iraq's priority is to secure the border because of the absence of a completely secure syrian border. the construction project began in june concrete walls fences and sand barriers surveillance tiles to be installed in the coming months if it's successful iraq will close the rest of the border with syria some

six hundred kilometers however it still has to deal with what it calls sleeper cells that are inside iraq in some of the main cities and in the countryside. how does their baghdad fighters have attacked the northern mali and city of kid out firing several mortars including one near a polling station election been dominated by security concerns and the threat from al qaeda has been escalating president cagers hoping to secure a second term but faces a challenge from sixty eight year old so many i.c.c. mohamed valas the latest from bamako. voting has been going on smoothly throughout the day sunday here in the modern capsule by mccall and that's contrary to the expectations of some observateur who just a few weeks ago have been talking about the impossibility of organizing this election on should be one and that in view of the tremendous security challenges and logistical problems during the last seven weeks some groups related to al-qaeda in the islamic magreb threatened several times to disrupt this vote and also just

a transportation of ballot boxes and voter cards to somebody most areas were a big challenge for the government here so today the government can bore start some success has been registered some incidents have been reported in the north in some areas around timbuktu ballot boxes were confiscated by unknown groups a few cases of that happened and also some shelling on a un french base in agon hawk in the north but we don't know about casualties if there are any casualties in these incidents apart from this throughout the other regions of the country no reports of major incidents happening today. pakistan's political parties have accelerated their efforts to form alliances following the july twenty five election despite controversy surrounding the results imran khan's party says it's all set to form a ruling coalition but there are major challenges facing the incoming government saw them as more from islamabad. mohamed when these

things campaign for the so-called new pakistan has succeeded in driving out the political old guard similar to his traditional taxi which is now competing with online services such as zuber. when he's been driving for fifteen years and makes less than two hundred dollars a month like thousands of pakistanis who are living just above the so-called poverty line he struggles to provide food education and health care for his three children. he voted for iran can and has high expectations. needs to provide us jobs housing for the poor and for years.