lining up to vote the first election since robert mugabe's long reign ended but he's still seizing attention in zimbabwe. i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up four million people stripped of citizenship in an indian state where they go now. a funeral procession one of the few signs of life in a nicaraguan city where people live in fear of pro-government forces. and the fire hydrant is all that's left standing sturrock u.s. town flattened by flames.

polls have been open for two hours now and zimbabwe's first election in the post. but the former president still grabbing plenty of attention after going against his former parties are no p.f. throwing his support behind the opposition's candidate nelson chamisa the man who succeeded mugabe and november emerson and then god was promising to revive the economy it's been in tatters following mugabe's thirty seven years in power. joining us now from zimbabwe's capital of more tacit she's there for us in how to turn out shaping up now about a couple of hours into voting right. well the lines are getting longer and longer they've been a few problems like people going to the wrong polling stations but on the whole is to be going fairly well fairly smoothly you can see the people walking the tents the ballot boxes behind they put in the ballot papers in those ballot boxes and the

lines are getting longer and longer there are some of the voters they mainly young people under the age of fifty and when you talk to them their main issue is the economy the poor state of the economy they say some of us have university degrees but we can't get jobs because companies have been closed for nearly two decades because of some of the policies that the country has adopted when robert mugabe was president so they're saying that whoever wins they hope that that person focuses on the economy and creates jobs for them so order people are lining up to vote later we'll have a president. voting in his role home in the main opposition leader nelson chamisa is going to vote in harare not too far away from here and also vote in our in a few hours time sammy. wrong here i think very orrin generally towards the opposition so i'm wondering since this is the first election without power do opposition supporters feel

a little more emboldened now to come out and vote. they do a lot more people saying they really eager to vote and it is the first election with when you speak to people they'll tell you they really don't know which way this election's going to go because they've been told that the polls or the polls are being put out so far have say that it's going to be a very very tight race the other things as well to consider the main opposition leader nelson chamisa he's young he's been shaking up the scene recently. not going to vote for the rulings on the speculation that people who support him in the army and in the ruling party may also choose not to vote for if so a lot of things are at stake right now ever president insists that he has the majority of support he insists that he's going to win this election but it is it is one to watch very very close because a lot of things have changed and the people are really concerned about the economy they say and. since nine hundred eighty things have gotten worse economically and

some are saying maybe it's time to give someone else another child so that someone could be the opposition. time will tell i guess thanks so much. now molly's for. her has congratulated verses on a successful election despite some violence in the north millions of people cast their ballots on sunday in the vote mogwai and security results in about a week caters hoping to win a second term his main rival is sixty eight year old. heavily critical of characters record. as more from. some groups elated to al-qaeda in the islamic magreb threatened several times to decide this vote and also just to toss a petition of ballot boxes and voter cards to somebody most areas a big challenge for the government here some incidents have been reported in the on off in some areas to the ballot boxes were confiscated by unknown groups

a few cases of that happened and also some shelling on a you and a friend space in i going to work in the north apart from this throughout other regions of the country no to parts of major incidents four million people have been left off a new register of citizens in a northern indian state it is a trying to calm fears of people in assam which has a population of thirty two million by telling those they now label as foreigners that they will not be deported and do have the chance to file an appeal hold challenge again has more. forty five year old munawar a big boom is battling cancer and the national registry of citizens she has appeared at the foreigners tribunals six times to prove she's an indian citizen. seven million of the thirty two million people who live in our some state had until sunday to do the same and. i am extremely upset my health is getting

worse and if i don't get justice my children will be treated as citizens of india if my name doesn't appear in the n.r.c. list then their names will not appear either critics of the national registry of citizens or n.r.c. say movement by the us a means to protect their culture has turned into xena phobia out of prime minister nuri modi promised his hindu nationalist party would take action against undocumented muslims who fled to india during the bangladeshi liberation war against pakistan in one nine hundred seventy one. to foreigners tribunals has been done to fight many such people whose name will not be appearing in our seat this exercise has left so many genuine indian citizens in trouble after being questioned by the n.r.c. tribunals nearly a thousand people were deemed to be foreigners and sent to detention camps

supporters of the registry say their campaign doesn't discriminate between bengalis muslims or hindus it is very simple those who have ended up to seventy one and muslim as far as i mean god their name will be updated on us but we also have india on the move the muslim community only a dairy and i didn't nic india's interior minister has ordered security to be tightened before the release of the updated on monday russia nothing says there's no reason for anyone to panic and he has ruled out further detentions the government of the tea growing an oil rich awesome state denies accusations it's targeting poor and an educated muslims it here they are more than fifty seven percent in some they are mostly living below the poverty don these people are illiterate and no education system exists in their villages. despite reassurances from the government many who are not listed on the n.r.c.

fear they may have nowhere to go the federal government says undocumented immigrants can apply for indian citizenship but hasn't released details. on al-jazeera. the latest round of syria peace talks brokered by russia turkey and iran is taking place on monday the talks are happening in the russian city of sochi instead of kazakstan capital a stand there where most of the previous meetings have been held representatives from both the syrian government and opposition as well as the u.n. special envoy to syria are expected to attend. in nicaragua international human rights groups are accusing pro-government paramilitary groups of kidnapping and murdering people with impunity nearly four hundred fifty people have been killed since anti-government protests began in april rights groups say the president's government is inciting fear in places the mounting new elections our latin america

editor lucien human has this report. messiah had the nicaraguan city that put up the fiercest resistance during three months of anti-government protests looks almost empty. the only large group on this normally overcrowded street is part of the latest funeral procession it's been nine days since thirty one year old buy out of the had again was buried a baker with two small children and a third one on the way who was taken from his home during what the government called the clean up campaign in the rest all three men with beauty shirts olive green pants and black masks kicked down the door they grabbed him and said you're coming with us his wife cried out he hasn't done anything he hasn't done anything. this is the only family member who did speak to us on condition of anonymity the grass in this empty lot has just been cut but it's here that the highly decomposed

body of by yet of the heart again was found hidden among the tall brush three days after he disappeared the body was taken to the morgue in the capital where the coroner confirmed that he had been killed shortly after he had been taken from his home. when we got the call that they had a party characteristics. when we went to an identifying the doctor said he had here and here. heavily armed paramilitary operatives continue to comb the streets of the neighborhood relatives of scores of civilians allegedly killed by pro-government forces say they've been threatened with reprisals as they speak out many have left the country hundreds of activists who manned trenches wanted to oust populus president daniel ortega have gone underground alex had none this is one of them. the lists have been distributed to

the paramilitaries we train safe houses every night but it's only temporary they don't understand is that the more they try to intimidate us the more people they killed disappear or imprison the angrier and more determined we become. perhaps but there's also a great deal of fear in the interim merican commission of human rights warns that a third phase of repression is now under way with selective arrests disappearances and the criminalize ation of those who oppose a president whom they see as a dictator you see in human al-jazeera my site. al-jazeera is mariama sanchez for those allegations from the human rights commission and the minister for national policies. how did you justify the presence of irregular forces operating with the police the way the looting was stopped was when the citizenry came out the organized citizenry is also been very important and helping to lift up the

barricades community policing is an important part of the policing percept community policing in trucks in vehicles without plates you have violence on both sides there's no doubt about that in a democratic state you can't half people going around on it with high caliber weapons masked in vehicles that i don't have to meet operating with the police there's they're operating as terrorists they're operating as agents of the coup and that has to be counteracted so for the police to protect the police have to have a presence in the national territory and they need to establish that with the support of the citizenry when all is said and done in this case by case analysis comes out we're going to find that there were demonstrators who were killed there were police who have been killed their son in east since who have been killed there

are people who were caught in the crossfire of these battles who've been killed and that's probably not and considerable group there are journalists who have been killed also and the only way we're going to know this is through that case by case analysis it's that i had an al-jazeera. plenty more and you know how two thousand and eight team market dog of democracy in cambodia. you failed us strong words from cambodia's opposition after an election that's been labeled a shabby vasa strain is government comes under fire for failing to prevent the death of a refugee. hello there is pretty wet and windy for some of us in europe at the moment and that's

come as a bit of a shock after all the hot weather that we've had recently but look at all the cloud that's marching its way across the northwest it's pretty soggy across many parts of the british isles the northwestern parts of france and pretty windy as well so isn't all that warm a maximum temperature just of twenty three degrees is expected on monday and that system tries to push further east was though it will break up a bit so what we'll see is rather the cold day all filtering its way eastwards we'll see eventually the hot air beginning to push its way back northwards again say things are going to get hope once more but for now we'll see some heavy rain over parts of norway and stretching down through the low countries ahead of that is still very hot but thirty five degrees and actually many of us and the eastern parts of europe will be seeing the temperatures over thirty degrees but they could be a few thunderstorms around now across the other side of the mediterranean plenty of settled weather here still pretty hot in chinese though about thirty five degrees north towns hot to him or bad hair on maximum will be held down to around twenty four or twenty five this central belt of africa areas where there's plenty of

showers at the moment lots of them through parts of sudan and pushing quite a long way north now through parts of chattanooga here where we want to heavy showers. it is a very important force of information for many people around the world. have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else has talked to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront.

time to recap the headlines now voting has begun in zimbabwe's first election with robert mugabe the former president is supporting the opposition candidate nelson chamisa the ruling zanu p.f. . is promising to revive the economy following thirty seven years in power. votes being counted in presidential election with the results expected in the next few days president. is hoping to win a second term but some polling stations weren't able to open because of security concerns four million people have been laughed off a new register of citizens in the northern indian state of bangladesh the prime minister promised to act on the undocumented muslims who entered during. the war against pakistan and nine hundred seventy one. the opposition in cambodia says the

international community has failed the people calling for the results of the general election to be rejected because. of the really. low. 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 is accused of voter intimidation he's been in office for thirty three years last year he dissolve the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason. twenty more in july two thousand and eighteen marked the death of democracy in cambodia. it's history in the us to be a celebration of the. people who are having society their right to choose their own government unfortunately that choice had already been made for them before

polls open the result. announced by the c.p.p. in any national election committee must be forming rejected by the international community such as the un as he and the e.u. are you any democratic government and institution of wayne hey has the latest now from penn. the overriding sentiment from critics of the government in cambodia independent observers to all of this country is that cambodia must now be regarded as a one party all thora tarion state and when you look at the results of sunday's election it's difficult to argue against that given that the cambodian people's party of prime minister hun sen won almost all of the seats in the national assembly only two other small opposition parties won seats and neither of those parties can be considered a real threat to the rule of the c.p.p.

or the prime minister who has been running this country for thirty three years we've seen some strongly worded statements from the cambodian national rescue party that is the party that was dissolved late last year banned from taking part in sunday's election the vice president of that party mousavi saying that it is the death of democracy in this country the result must be rejected democracy has been replaced by outright dictatorship and she went on to say that she believes the cambodian people have been let down by the international community the leadership of that party have been very busy particularly over the over the last six months or so lobbying foreign governments to take action against the government in phnom penh and so far we really haven't seen any tough action taken there are some things in the works like tougher sanctions from the united states possibly tariffs imposed on goods exported from cambodia to the likes of the european union but they're all

still in the works and clearly the leadership of that ban party will continue to try to apply the pressure on those foreign governments. hundreds of hikers who were trapped on a mountain after an earthquake in indonesia have started to make their way down the magnitude six point four earthquake that killed fourteen people has left many villages on the streets the quake on lombok island damaged around one thousand homes families say they're afraid of aftershocks more than one hundred sixty injured have been taken to nearby hospitals and clinics indy's year lies on what's known as the pacific ring of fire making it susceptible to earth quakes. a strain in coroner has found that the death of an iranian asylum seeker held on a remote pacific island was preventable i mean because he died in australia after contracting a leg infection on the man asylum detention center the coroner found his death was

due to what he called compounding errors in health care provided under the offshore detention system andrew thomas has the details from sydney. and karzai got what was initially a relatively simple infection from a leg injury doctors on mount a saw and began treating it with antibiotics but it became pretty clear pretty quickly they weren't working and how it causes its condition was getting worse fast the doctors requested of cambra that he be transferred urgently to australia but their requests were initially ignored and then refused outright it was two days later that officials approved his transfer not to australia but to port moresby happy new guinea's capital there in hospital there were more mistakes in his treatment his condition got much worse and eventually he was transferred to brisbane but by the time he got there days after the initial infection he was unconscious and he died in september twenty fourth well the coroner has said that his death was completely preventable and he pointed to systemic flaws in the system

and multiple errors in his treatment since the coroner's recommendation is that doctors on the ground or man i saw the not officials in canberra be the ones to decide whether a patient needs to be transferred to australia ten more people have died in australia offshore detention centers or prisons since i'm a cause. and the coroner says the need not be more. teenage palestinian activists started to mimi tells al-jazeera should continue her fight against israeli occupation the seventeen year old is free after spending nearly eight months in jail for kicking and slapping an israeli soldier. story has transformed her into an anti occupation poster child under simmons has the story from have village now in the occupied west bank the free trade jail ordeal much the same as hundreds experienced by young palestinians every year but the case of had to mimi

is profoundly different with her mother now the 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. 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 the pressure of the oath or says later she told out zira she was deprived of some rights in jail to enter a geisha and was really hard i was subject to sever violations they entered a gator used seen words to me and 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 us and i can do 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 had childhood. teenager can't live normally i feel. guilty because we can't in the coalition 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 ruth simmons al-jazeera now the seller in the occupied west bank. to me means release was discussed in the meeting of the israeli cabinet the agriculture minister calls her a terrorist. i think israel acts to 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 the reality we see now you can change that we must change the. boat loaded with aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy in a school to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt set off from palermo in italy

a week ago was carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens bulldozers and construction crews a busy on the border between iraq and syria the iraqi government started to seal off the front here to stop cross border attacks by i still find says but the project has a long way to go before all six hundred kilometers is secure someone can reports from baghdad. what was once an open border crossing between friendly neighbors is now walled off. 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 towers to 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.

baghdad eight people have died as wildfires continue to sweep across the u.s. state of california more than thirty eight thousand people lost their evacuation orders. are now. the entire community of keswick california has been turned to ash nothing remains a want slightly little town of about seven hundred people now resemble something like a far away planet from a science fiction movie the fire that roared through here was described as a tornado of flames there was nothing firefighters could do to stop it the way the front fire front was coming through it was going to do what it wanted to do we might be able to say one little spot here but the risk would have been real just announced to try and even be anywhere near there what remains are the remnants of people's lives there are small signs of life here like the burnt pages of this children's book it's silent there isn't a sound there's still

a mandatory evacuation zone residents aren't being allowed back. only the occasional emergency vehicle passes by ironically the only color remaining in town a red fire hydrant that was no match for the flames it's the middle of the day but the sun can barely be seen because it's so gray and dark here the sun can barely peek out through that thick layer of smoke and ash that covers the air not only here but in this entire region of california doctors say people that inhale the smoke now face health risks. by all accounts everyone here was able to flee just before the fire overtook them the residents are mostly low income the future of the historic town is now in doubt i don't know if they'll have the resources to rebuild i hope it goes you have insurance have the opportunity but those who don't it's. a

low income area so much or a lot of people will be able to rebuild. if they decide to rebuild it will be a new town because the old one simply no longer exists gabriels and oh i'll just keswick california. as take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera now voting has begun in zimbabwe's first election without robert mugabe the former president is supporting the opposition's candidate nelson chamisa seen here casting his ballot just a few minutes ago the rulings on o.p.'s emerson and god was promising to revive the economy following thirty seven years in power. al-jazeera how much has more from her. when you speak to people they'll tell you they really don't know which

way this election's going to go because they've been told that the polls or the polls are being put out so far have say that it's going to be a very very tight race the other things as well to consider the main opposition leader nelson chamisa he's young he's been shaking up the scene recently rebel mugabe said he's not going to vote for the rulings on the speculation that people who support him in the army and in the ruling party may also choose not to vote for . votes are being counted in mali's presidential election with the results expected in the next few days present cato's hoping to win a second term but some polling stations weren't able to open because of security concerns four million people have been left off a new register of citizens in the northern indian state of us some near bangladesh the prime minister promised act on undocumented muslims who went to during the bangladeshi war against pakistan in one nine hundred seventy one the state registry

says people won't be deported and will have the chance to appeal the opposition in cambodia is calling for the results of the general election to be rejected the ruling party claimed victory in sunday's vote it's been widely described as a sham though by human rights groups the prime minister is accused of voter intimidation last year he dissolved the main opposition party the latest round of syria peace talks brokered by russia turkey and iran is taking place on monday happening in the russian city of sochi instead of stan's capital as. well back of the top of the outs inside story now. capturing a moment in time. shots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work but inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. go

be so. on al-jazeera. a turning point in zimbabwe the ruling party is put to the test in the first election without robert mugabe for forty years but the former president who was overthrown last year makes a surprise appearance and refuses to back his successor this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the.