we did ten policemen and a soldier were also killed in the violence that's going live to charlotte bettis was in kabul for us voting had to be extended in some parts of the country because of the violence are people heading to the polls again this morning in those areas. they are suppose opened at seven am almost three hours ago now in four or four hundred polling seem to is that reopened from the five thousand that were open yesterday at least in kabul there were long queues again this morning people turning out to vote yesterday a lot of the polling seemed to us had issues which is which is why they have reopened four hundred. issues were along the lines of stuff simply didn't show up they showed up late some of the voter lists was sent to the wrong provinces the people showed up the names weren't there to vote by machines when there was a whole host of things beyond the security concerns so this is essentially like a do or if you will for the election commission to try pick up some of those people

who couldn't vote yesterday late last night we got the figures of voter turnout so nine million people had registered to vote three million people actually voted which in the scheme of afghanistan actually isn't bad and hoping that they may be able to push that high to four million once these turnout comes in from the versions into us today and also we've got into provinces gusen in kandahar once they come in maybe they'll be able to get up even higher several attacks overshadow the voting on saturday what more do we know about these attacks and did that deter people from going to the polls. so this time yesterday we'd had dozens of attacks across the country they were flooding in and the taliban spokesperson i to tell it up his tweet to say you put out a tweet every time they try to launch an attack or at least claim to launch an attack it tweeted two hundred fifty times in the first of eight hours of yesterday

they were just so active across the country the ministry of interior saying that they had one hundred and ninety two attacks yesterday and saying that there were a lot of little attacks so the casualty guess actually weren't that high from across the board ministry of interior saying twenty eight did that soldiers. police and civilians seventy three wounded although we do believe that to be a very conservative estimate of seeing numbers three times that security was a huge concern used to people who we had long queues of people people turned out to vote they were determined which is a great sign for the health of democracy in this country that people who are willing to take that risk this morning however it is quiet thank you for for a same couple still ahead on al-jazeera found people fill london streets demanding a people's vote on the breaks it down last colombia's my want to use a top to protest against a government crackdown. hello

it's looking rather unsettled across a good part of the middle east at the moment would you believe there's a cloud also for a lot of the downpours as well for good measure a lot of clouds showing up on the satellite picture there just spinning out of syria into iraq around the eastern side of the med it shouldn't be too bad actually beirut twenty seven celsius going up to twenty two forgeries and you can see with the wetter weather just falls into place baghdad could see some very heavy showers over the next day or so with the possibility of some localized flooding those showers eventually make their way down into kuwait east of that dry and sunny twenty celsius the full couple of thirty five in karate but you can see there is some clouds as you make their way back across the gulf and we've seen some really heavy rain here in kata during the past well the past six hours or so terrific

amounts of rainfall actually we had over sixty millimeters of rain coming down in the space of just one hour and bear in mind for the annual average rainfall seventy seven millimeters of writing say has inevitably cause some flooding plenty of things like that out there i'm afraid hopefully not too bad as we go through the next couple of days but the rain never really too far away for amounts of there up towards the northeastern parts of saudi arabia down toward just southwest that flick to the other side of the by monday. seven years after muammar gadhafi is controversial came to a violent libya is fruits an entire. competing forces each running for power and influence continue to disrupt a broken state but time for gold. in the second of

a two part series the big picture who is to blame. the lust for libya on al jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump us told the washington post quote obviously there's been deception and there have been lies regarding the killing of. the saudi government says a journalist died during a fistfight inside its consulate in istanbul the washington post also says cia officers have heard the audio recording that turkey says proves how he died meanwhile in new zealand has joined france germany the european union and the u.n.

in calling for a credible transparent and in-depth investigation into how showed his death germany's foreign minister says they shouldn't be arm sales to sondra arabia before a complete piracy. and vote counting has begun in afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years there were a number of attacks on polling stations that left at least seventeen civilians dead and more than seventy wounded because of the violence and also technical issues in some provinces voting has been extended this sunday for more than four hundred polling places. now u.s. president donald trump says he will abandon a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with russia he accuses moscow of violating the decades old pact which bans the two countries from having a wide range of nuclear and conventional weapons. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we finally agree with but russia is not

one fortunately under the agreement so we're going to terminate their bravery we're going to pull out if trump follows through with the decision it would bring new fears of another race the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty grew out of u.s. president ronald reagan's historic meeting with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev in one thousand nine hundred eighty six it for him is the united states and russia from possessing producing or testifying missiles with a range of five hundred to five and a half thousand kilometers the united states accuses russia of deploying prohibit a taxable nuclear weapon since at least twenty fourteen to intimidate european nations and former soviet states that have aligned with the west's russia says u.s. missile defenses violate the pact the u.s. withdrawal would enable it to deploy a new weapons reportedly to counter a chinese arms buildup in the pacific nicholai so-called is a nuclear expert who is a senior fellow at the james one center for nonproliferation studies he thinks trump is acting hastily. fortunately both sides has never been able to sit down

or because they were going next for discussion technical or all all the result is a little worse if you do diplomacy well the speakers will doesn't agree with you know. or so we're going to sense all the demands of the street you learned. what they would say or did the trouble of going to stray she really rushed in to abrogate the treaty. israeli media says a demolition of the palestinian village of qana has been postponed indefinitely and palestinian leaders have rejected those reports saying they cannot be trusted as in war in two weeks since israel's deadline for the one hundred eighty bedouin residents to leave their homes israeli media says the evacuation has been delayed to allow for negotiations with the villages israel wants to demolish the village in the occupied west bank to make way for more illegal settlements. thousands of supporters of the european union have marched through the streets of london in the

biggest demonstration against breck sit in the u.k. supporters of a people's vote are demanding the british government hold a referendum on the terms of the final exit deal there's growing concern the u.k. may leave the e.u. next march without a deal paul brennan we force from london. in twenty sixteen concerned that leaving the e.u. might result in chaos were dismissed as project fear by breck's its supporters but with just five months to go until britain leaves the e.u. and still no agreement on the terms of departure millions of people are now very afraid indeed my major concerns of the future not for my generation yes we're going to be completely stuffed. for my children's future and my grandchildren's future we could have all of our rights taken away because one of our trade deals take it and the students we are vulnerable to god and it's just are going to be destroyed because the fact. this was a massive turnout people came from all over the u.k.

to attend and the crowd was at least five times larger than the one hundred thousand originally predicted by the organizers there was a significantly smaller pro breck's event in the northern town of horovitz on saturday night job for raj urging the prime minister to just get on with this. you know the evidence suggests that out of courtesy of those that voted remain here now say we're democrats and we think the government should simply get on with it i mean it's all message and get on with it fulfill your promises to us you said if we voted to leave it would happen it needs to. but what is it the people's vote campaign to say the it's promised and voted for in twenty sixteen is not what's going to be delivered in march next year as the weeks and months pass with no agreed deal the pressure for a people's votes is growing but what's uncertain is whether the government will actually grounds of people's votes and what the question will be if they do. once

they've given us the vote then we can argue about what the question should pay and without question it should be do you want to devastate the united kingdom and create catastrophic consequences for the economy or you want to play any of the options stain eighty will definitely be on the ballot paper because it is parliament itself that will decide what the question is. was that the prime minister is still refusing to hold another referendum and the opposition labor party seems reluctant to force one with the pressure from the voting public may yet force their hand paul brennan al-jazeera central london. a week before the runoff elections brazilians are protesting against far right presidential front runners i.e. both scenario they have been demonstrations across the country against a controversial candidate with close ties to the military also narrow has been criticized for his homophobic sexist and racist comments attacking women people of color and the gay community is leading in the polls ahead of left sists candidates

fernando had died now those rallies come at a time when police are investigating claims of fake news and possible violations of electoral laws the workers party candidates hernando our dad says his rival hired a firm to spread misinformation about him to millions of what some users is accused of far i contend narrow violating campaign finance laws or snare has denied those claims. now refugees in migraines are crossing the border between mexico and guatemala they're part of a so-called caravan of people who've been walking north towards the united states john homeland reports from mexico southern border. is always a way through migrants heading to the united states a fund of same and so it proved this time around by river thousands of people in a controversial caravan from honduras made it into mexico rights under the gaze of police who blocked off the bridge with guatemala they crowded on to small rafts

which usually ferry locals and goods across the river they see like many others comes dreaming of a new start for herself and her full month old daughter again game of yellowstone. i hope to get to the u.s. and that trumps consciences touched not for as but for the children who go hungry. the president trump is instead demanding that the caravan be stopped before it gets to the us keeping pressure on the mexican government off the ceiling of the border bridge authorities said they reviewed migrants cases one by one to check if they qualified for asylum here it's excruciating lee slow but some waited amid a certain amount of chaos here it does seem that people are around for the long haul they struck timing out food and water and on the other side you can see people have hung up atop pulled in to try and protect themselves from the sun and there's even close hung up against the railing of the bridge to dry. was for some the

frustration was just too great was and they too to the quick a route into mexico once i'm sure they headed to join more than three thousand others in the plaza or at the nearest town see that it doubles as a lawyer to come home and his son says it spent the night there like most in the caravan they brought six days from honduras fleeing poverty and imo john. there's a lot of hunger you can't find work and when we do you just earn five dollars and with that you can buy anything you get tired of it and it. has a number of arrivals in the square group town authorities offered food and shelter in the community center migration officials began processing asylum requests is just the start of the probably won't be clear for some time who will stay who will continue and who will be forced to take the long trip home john home and al-jazeera see that. while laws iran maya want to use it being relaxed in

a number of countries colombia isn't one of them as new president even dukie has signed a decree allowing police to confiscate all quantities of the drug that's despite the constitution allowing users to carry a small amounts for personal news. reports on why many believe the measure aimed at stopping draft drug trafficking won't work. lighting up in protest is my view and our users in bogota are demonstrating against a presidential decree banning personal drug possession because i'm a bit and that's got to make sure we are not violent people we consciously regulate all habit without causing any damage to others and today we peacefully disobey. they say the government is treating them as criminals denying them their constitutional rights there's the lessons here we want to tell the state and society that the time has come to start

a real public debate on the issue of drugs instead of going back to hardline repressive policies. to get their point across the group tried to march to the center of the city. but the rally was promptly dispersed by police. selling and consume drugs in public is against the law in colombia for two decades it has been legal for people to carry small amounts for personal use but one of the president's campaign promises had been a tougher stance on drugs in a country which remains the biggest producer of cocaine in the world. wants to bring back aerial fumigation of coca crops and increase force eradication policies that have received the applause of the donald trump administration in the us the new the create let's policeman stop and frisk anybody on the streets confiscate drugs in fine offenders. then. we are not sending consumers to jail

it's about taking the drugs away and destroying them because these substances harm public health and they harm children. yes experts say the new measures will have little effect on criminal organizations political science professor sounded a border that received personal attacks and even traits for denouncing the creek and revealing she's every creation smoker my one at a time if this is going to have any particular effect on the war and drugs i think that this is not going to be a way to reduce consumption traffic or your production i think that what they are doing right now is basically pandering to a very conservative base that supports the government right now drug use is increasing colombia's the country has grown economically in the past it has spent billions of dollars fighting the war on drugs with little success it's unclear whether a return to traditional hardline and repressive policies can achieve this time i listen to them. macedonia is

a step closer to formally changing its name to the republic of north macedonia parliament now really approve the proposed change and move would allow the country to end its twenty seven year dispute with greece and an brackets bid to join nato and the european union ri says its neighbors current name implies a claim to its problems with the same name the proposal must still be approved by the greek parliament as always much more news on our web site at al-jazeera dot com all the very latest on all of our top stories including the killing in istanbul turkey. no again i'm fully battle with the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. present donald trump has told the washington post called obviously there's been deception and they have been lies regarding the killing of saudi. the saudi

government says the journey is dying during a fistfight inside the saudi consulate in istanbul the washington post says cia officers have heard the audio recording that turkey says proves how he died meanwhile new zealand has joined france germany the european union and the u.n. in calling for a credible transparent and in-depth investigation into death germany's foreign minister says it should be on syria's tucson jury vs before a completes inquiry. vote counting has begun in afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in eight years they were a number of attacks on polling stations that left at least seventeen civilians dead and more than seventy wounded because of the violence and technical issues in some provinces voting has been extended this sunday from more than four hundred polling stations u.s. president donald trump says he will abandon a not landmark nuclear weapons treaty with russia he accuses moscow are violating the decades old pacts which bans the two countries from having

a wide range nuke of nuclear and conventional weapons we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded gravely but russia is not one fortunately i wanted to agreement so we're going to terminate the bravery we're going to. israeli media says the demolition of the palestinian village of qana lamarr has been postponed to allow for negotiations but palestinian leaders have rejected those reports say they can't be trusted it's been more than two weeks since israel's deadline for the one hundred eighty bedouin residents to leave their homes israel wants to demolish a village in the occupied west bank to make way for more illegal settlements a week before the runoff elections brazilians are protesting against far right presidential front runner. he's been criticized for his homophobic sexist and racist comments attacking women people of color and the gay community also narrow is leading in the polls against the leftist candidate for

a man to have done and those are the headlines on al-jazeera faultlines is up next stay with us. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to you al-jazeera. when the powerful can get away with that. because they have the money and the connections to rick the system. then people lose confidence in allah. and confidence in their future. political a vote for hillary is a vote to surrender

a government to public corruption grafts tony is a bad breath just a survival of our constitution. you know the fact that they've broken the law they're pretty clear about it but how do you like prove it how do you like sure people like it actually matters. in the two years since donald trump was voted into the oval office artist robin bell has focused on alumina ending the kinds of misdeeds it can be hard to see and. my contract with the american voter begins with the place to end government corruption . trump the self-help billionaire railed against corruption on the campaign trail. one of the things of trying to tell my friends is that not to get cynical because like that's his strength. as president trump has mixed private business and public duties in unprecedented ways yet giving rise to allegations that he's using the

highest office in the lands to enrich himself and his family the logic is basically like everything's cool so if. three things from the maze will take the most from prison. right we're going to washington d.c. . we are going to frame the swamp. in this episode of faultlines we check into one of the swamps finest venues to examine the charges the trump is profiting from the presidency. and violating the constitution of the united states. i. our investigation begins just a few blocks from the white house of the trumpeter national hotel in washington. it's housed in the old post office as storage building on by the u.s.

government. there sure is could do is welcome to trump d.c. i wish an enjoyable stay with us as for us. back in two thousand and twelve the trump organization want to competitive bid to lease the old post office from the government's general services agency. barely two weeks before the two thousand and sixteen election and reopened as a hotel expenses. the washington operation is just one of the dozens of luxury hotels condos resorts and golf courses that bear the trump brand from las vegas to vancouver and to the bud. before it launched critics of the hotel project would be too expensive to prove profitable but what most didn't anticipate was of the owner would win the white house. or in the of

uncle suite at the trump international hotel it's named for the president's daughter it cost a thousand four hundred sixty. i've dollars to stay here and that's on the less expensive side of the lecture suites but like so many visitors to the hotel whether politicians tourists or journalists like us the only reason we decided to come here is because it's owned by the president of the united states when he was elected trump owned more than five hundred companies mostly under the umbrella of the trump organization and the president elect of the united states of america. in a controversial decision trump refused to divest from his companies instead he put them into a trust these papers are just some of the many documents that i've signed turning over complete and total control to my sons i spent thirty years of my life tracking them am because i thought he was culturally significant i did not expect him to become politically significant investigative journalist david cay johnston has long

reported on the ups and downs of trump's business ventures you know what donald trump said he was giving up ready to businesses and putting it into a trust i literally erupted in laughter donald trump doesn't run any businesses thumb trump is not a competent businessman he leaves it up to other people. and furthermore the trust that set up this sons of said they tell dad about what's going on in the business to avoid the possibility of conflicts of interest previous u.s. presidents put their financial assets into a blind trust to ensure they would know how their wealth was handled those who owned businesses sold them jimmy carter had to sell his two bit business after putting it in a trust and nobody for a minute thought that his little peanut warehouse in rural georgia was going to have any influence on government policy can donald trump actually take profits out he can reach and withdraw money at any time whether or not he's done so we don't

know but this is not anything at all like a blind trust this is like what you expect to see in a family business. posing as a country. during the first. night after donald trump was sworn in at the capitol his motorcade went to the white he had the presidential limousine known as the beast stop. he stopped right in front of the trump international tell he was sending a very clear signal you want to do business with my been straight you will pay tribute to me and bingo that hotel suddenly was full of business. zach everson is a freelance journalist who's created a whole new be out of covering the trumpeting national hotel and the people who patronize it on your twitter feed you've kind of highlighted a lot of what top and social media will tell so what are some of the kind of ones that stand out this is a picture i found on instagram of russia's ambassador to the united states and he

was posing with the founder of a russian nail art chain and she she attacked him i mean it's got the instagram account r us the m d usa and the caption said in english thank you to our russian ambassador russian flag in the usa american flag for a warm welcome in washington d.c. maine's governor pages ben here rudy giuliani is here a lot so this was a guy instrumental classic pete and you know guy's night with a couple of his friends and america's mayor and then hash tag maggie has tag saturdays are for the boys. trump's financial disclosure forms in the kid that the hotel brought in more than forty million dollars in two thousand and seventeen according to federal documents reported by the washington post they'll tell made a remarkable profit in the first four months of that year the hotel expected to lose about two million dollars and instead it made two million dollars so that's a four million dollars swing. it has one of the highest room rates in d.c.

it's been reported that one of the lowest occupancy rates and that to me says that they have a set market of people are going to come here and they don't need to necessarily place their homes competitively so would you say donald trump and his family are profiting from the presidency. through the hotel corridor yes and part of the reason they're making good money is because trump is president i think that's why a lot of people do come here. since the hotel opened the president has visited at least ten times and there are streams of evidence the trump family members administration officials republican politicians and lobbyists all make appearances . the federal election commission filings show that republican candidates committees and powerful donor groups have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at trying to see. foreign governments including malaysia saudi arabia and romania have also made a showing kuwait as celebrated its national day at the hotel two years running. in june the philippines embassy hosted an independence day celebration the ambassador

explained his choice of venue to filipino news agency having it in a hotel that happens to have his name is it but that's hardly the end all and be all but it's a it's a state it's a statement that we have a good relationship with this president. whatever the intent of events like this have raised criticism that foreign governments are patronizing the hotel to curry favor with the president. in the penn state party was held as the philippines lobbied for free trade agreement with the united states philippines president rodrigo to territory had proposed the two countries explore a bilateral deal when he met with president trump at the end of two thousand and seventeen so was it reasonable for critics to see a connection i would see it as a cut and dried transactional thing after two years in afghanistan as a reporter and then as an advisor to the us military sarah chayes writes about corruption and its casualties around the world it's not like in the un follow up is

the use of trump hotel and then you get in return a piece of public policy that's how the u.s. bribery statute is now being construed by the supreme court but that's not how they stop work this stuff we're. because you do your network partner a favor they are in your debt they do you a favor and it goes back and forth like this you don't have to spell it out trump's business history in countries like the philippines is hard to separate from his current duties as president an ad from two thousand and twelve shows how trump's name is emblazoned on the sky rise in manila represent a great opportunity. to defer the beans it's developer. is the philippines trade envoy to the united states. philippine envoy is double headed private public the president united states is double had a private public that means every interaction between the two you don't know where

public service stops and private interest begins. although the trump organization vowed not to pursue new foreign ventures while trump is in office. there's wide overlap between his business interests and the international relationships he must navigate as president. a chinese government owned bank runs a twentieth floor of trump tower in new york city at a trump property adjacent to the un saudi arabia and india own apartments. the new unit there is this year. from post foreign dignitaries at mar-a lago his private club where membership rates doubled after his election his companies have been granted approval for trademarks in china even as the president negotiated trade policy with its leader so far i have got nothing absolutely nothing but the potential conflicts of interest are many and they've raised charges that trump is violating the us constitution in the news that the charges are laid out in several lawsuits one of which is now focused on the trumpeted national we decided last year

because it was a violation of this country's oldest anti-corruption law and that is the emoluments clauses both foreign and. we would like a federal court to order the present united states to cease violating the emoluments clauses and that would i think mean at the present nine states would be ordered to divest in a clear and transparent way from his businesses. seen as the attorney general of the district of columbia the democrat and with his counterpart in the state of maryland he's suing the president and frankly we saw it as our obligation particularly given the fact that in the case of the district of columbia is violating the law five blocks down the street how do you prove that the president being influenced by people patronizing his hotel how do you prove corruption it's a great question and that is why the founding fathers made a very clear.