labeled a threat to brazil by the incoming president will look at the battle with people. who were spying for displaced syrians now there's a call for help for thousands affected by flooding. so that four people have been killed in election related violence in bangladesh in the southeastern city of chittagong security is on high alert as people cast their votes for a new parliament election campaign has seen violence between supporters of the government and the opposition the prime minister who's aiming to win a fourth term has been criticized for cracking down on the opposition in the lead up to polling day let's go straight to charles stratford a correspondent who's in dhaka and charles a couple of hours out from polls closing and troubling reports emerging of violence . that's right now. confirm now that

four people have. reportedly been killed two inches are gone and the other two in a district called camilla both these areas are known to be strongholds for the opposition with respect to where we are here at this polling station in dakar the situation here is being has been calm this morning but again we're in reports from some of the people that we've spoken to here most notably a group of one of the scribes this polling agents representing the b.n.p. the banker nationalities party the opposition party here now agents polling agents from all parties to come to polling stations on voting day and they're here to monitor the process and crucially to witness the counting of the votes now this b.n.p. this opposition polling agent told us that he and his colleagues another thirteen men had their identification papers taken away from them and what he described is

what manhandled away from the scene they weren't allowed to enter the polling station i've spoken to also representatives here from the election commission that were very nervous about going on camera they can confirm that they are hearing similar reports from voting stations polling stations around the city so as we've been reporting. this election a lot of violence certainly the opposition saying that at least ten thousand six hundred of their supporters were arrested be detained in the build up to the election. a number of people killed as well of course the ruling party here very keen to point out that they've lost supporters as well killed in this violence they say that at least six of their supporters were killed by what they describe as oppositions thugs. and they're very keen to say what they believe is a free and fair election here and they say that these figures that are being banded out by the opposition are hugely exaggerated but of course the fear is certainly

amongst opposition supporters here is that this kind of level of intimidation or fear is going to keep people away from the polls today and as you say we are two hours away from the polls closing it's quiet here at the moment it's lunchtime we do expect more people to come in cannes their ballots in the coming couple of hours but what about the. it's fair to say is not of the government has done pretty well in certain areas. yes certainly with respect to the economy the government has been commended by the world bank for example for quite impressive growth figures in recent years at least six percent we know that there are huge infrastructure projects that are ongoing here that are being built including for example the hydro. nuclear power station there is a great expansion of these economic zones as well a lot of emphasis put on the success of the manufacturing the clothing

manufacturing industry here that is contributing billions to the economy the opposition say that it's not really filtering down to every day people positions say that they accuse the government of spinning off vast amounts of money in corruption cases from some of the. the investment being put forward by the chinese and the indians for example the government is also being commended for the way it's handled the refugee crisis seven hundred thousand or so range of refugees displaced across the border from myanmar last year was described as the largest refugee crisis in the world at the time now residing here in bangladesh the current prime minister has government commended for that but i think when you speak to the people on the ground generally that you don't get a sense of fear and intimidation you get a sense that they have had enough of the awami league and its government here.

and they talk about what they describe as a battle between what is described as the to make remarks and politics of this country shake a scene and who is. terms already and her opposition leader who was jailed in february that is in jail the moment serving. a number of years for corruption cases who is also the the wife of a former leader of this country and who herself. to terms representing if you like jailed the opposition a lot of people will say it is time for major change and they are complaining that there aren't the necessary political platforms to voice their concerns and get the kind of things done that they want done in this country in the future so it's a very complicated situation here. politics is often described in bangladesh since one nine hundred seventy one the independence of this country as flip flopping

between the beginnings of democracy and the military dictatorship we'll just see the end of the day or in the weeks ahead just how much of a free and fair election has been held here today. thanks very much and david time being a chance for us there in dhaka well polls are open in the democratic republic of congo in the long awaited presidential election there the congolese are choosing who will succeed joseph kabila has been in power for seventeen years about one point three million people from three districts been excluded from voting in a decision that's caused protests in the lead up to the whole. my only concern is that we have this every day. and for the maid to be grown. up for the space and clear and the world doesn't. want to see the creepy things and they don't believe that this isn't the place because of us.

but. shouldn't. and the wisdom to be. that's josie could be let's go straight to our correspondents a polling booth in kinshasa joins it completely the outgoing president saying the elections are free and fair is that the view that you're hearing. well here right now people proceeded with voting the day of polling began with renshaw rain but that didn't put some people off people very keen to vote the rain stopped just a short while ago people now walking through the muddy streets coming up more and more coming line up vote you're asking about whether people see it free and fair some opinion polls about that suggested that about half were just over half of congolese people don't trust the electoral commission and that trust has been further undermine when the electoral commission announced that people couldn't vote

in three parts of the country all of them opposition stronghold of the candidate martin. the polling began in the eastern city of beni activists there where there is no voting taking place set up their own polling stations they made their own people as the papers and hundreds of people have lined up to vote in protest they don't have ballot boxes that using plastic sacks instead people there are objects strong because being excluded the reason the electoral commission gave were in a bolo outbreak conflict people that don't believe it they think they've been excluded because they support the opposition and that this was a tactic by the electoral commission to try and reduce the vote count. for the opposition candidate mark in fact that's why they're lining up today to vote in protest mark a real big change obviously ahead for d.r. see how hopeful are we of a peaceful transition. we're still waiting to see the opinion polls that ask people how they react is the ruling party's candidate

was announced the winner about half of the respondents said they disputed about half the respondents said they'd take to the streets there is a lot of skepticism about the ruling party and about the electoral commission but in the last week for so opposition candidates diverge for calm of course they don't want to risk being accused of violence or of turning a poll of violence as the results are counted in the days ahead and when the results are announced waiting to see how people react now have the already been in the last couple of days unrest some of those eastern cities that are being excluded from the polls opposition supporters protested police tried to break it up with live gunfire and tear gas some government buildings was burned so if people feel that cheated out of a fair result and not given a credible election possible we'll see more of that kind of unrest in some parts of the country are marcom thanks very much indeed that's picture from kinshasa marking

where purporting. the worry sides in yemen has begun handing over responsibility for the porter data to the united nations forces from the duties in the yemeni government to being redeployed as part of a un backed deal between the two sides agreed in sweden earlier this month it's aimed at ending almost four years of war which is causing humanitarian disaster un coordinators are yet to clarify the functions and responsibilities of both sides. the balance of power in northern syria appears to be shifting following the u.s. decision to withdraw troops russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other after talks in moscow meanwhile encourage his sent fifty times to the syrian border in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces from gaziantep near the turkish syrian border is mohammed atta. of took his tongue roll into syria and iran has been bolstering its military positions

along its south of border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the cottage held city of mumbai is syria syrian rebels blocked by tuckey also on the move both inside areas of syria and the techies sway and along the eight hundred twenty two kilometer border between the two countries kurdish forces are miles from friday that they have been forced to cut a deal with president bashar al assad after they were abundant by donald trump. the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria a little over a week ago here syrian troops deployed in support of kurdish forces on the edge of mom bitch their deployment creates a government buffer across syria which fully separates the tukey and its proxies from the kurds but they are yet to enter the city of money bitch as they claimed on friday. we haven't seen any movement of the syrian army in miami beach all we see

are the military council of mine each members. the conflicting reports from. the cales thoughts likely to ensue and of the sixty to one hundred day timetable for the withdrawal of u.s. troops with the remaining fighting forces in syria come bling to replace them in most high level toughest immigration led by foreign minister. has talked with the russian foreign and defense minister as they discuss the situation in syria as u.s. forces flip it the withdrawal. of the students and an understanding was great stone how military representatives of russia and turkey will continue to coordinate the steps on the ground under new conditions with a view of finally rooting out terrorists threats in syria. we discussed the latest developments in syria with regards to u.s. decision to withdraw from the country we exchanged views on how we can coordinate our efforts from now on we stressed our resolve to fight against terrorist

organizations we have a common will to clear all terror organizations from syrian lands to also result in respect serious to the total integrity something diplomats say might spell a for government forces in the tissue held areas of the east. with the syrian opposition groups and with the un back political process in topples bashar al assad is now trying to shape is what i asked the un is already looking for funds to rebuild the country the u.s. troops pull out how about threatens to open up any for other regional opt outs like iran and tukey something assad's opponents can't counter mohamed at all just. a still ahead. positive signals from both the united states and chinese leaders they speak by phone about their differences to including the trade. and we report from both sides of what's being called a major incidents these migrants crossing to the united kingdom.

binny's ping skunks by the taj mahal. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across the southeastern part of europe we are watching one system pull out of turkey finally and we are going to still see a few showers and maybe some snow here across the turkey and syria border over the next few days you can see right there on the forecast map to the northwest though looking much better for partly cloudy conditions you but the temperature only about zero now what we are going to watch is what is going to happen here across the central med as we go from monday to tuesday the system's going to develop and bring some very heavy rain across parts of southern greece for athens it's going to be a rainy day for you here on monday with the temperature there of ten but as we go towards tuesday more rain is going to push you over here towards turkey out here

towards the west oh a nice day for london at about ten degrees clouds in the forecast for paris at nine and zurich we do expect to see six as your high temperature well that same area of low pressure we're going to be watching here affecting parts of northeastern africa as well not looking too bad here on sunday but as we go towards monday look at the rain that starts develop and it's going to affect parts of tripoli benghazi as well even towards alexandria could be seeing some rain in your forecast a little bit more towards the west though morocco is looking quite nice attempt to for about eighty degrees in algiers partly cloudy a few with a temperature of fifteen. the wind sponsored by cowtown everybody's. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing the realities of the pain starts from the very beginning got there by name school money and providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera.

well you know. some of the like. let's have a reminder of the top stories at least four people have been killed and election related violence in bangladesh with polls closing in less than two hours prime minister sheikh hasina is aiming for a full time in office she's been criticized for cracking down on her opponents and restricting press freedom. votes in the democratic republic of congo and choosing who will succeed president joseph kabila he's been in power for seventeen years

about one point three million people from three just treats have been excluded from . the warring sides in yemen have begun handing in the responsibility for the port of data to the united nations forces are being redeployed as part of a un deal between the these and the yemeni government. the us president says major progress has been made towards ending his government's trade war with china donald trump and being confirmed they've spoken over the phone about resolving their differences she have returns he has more now from washington d.c. . very optimistic and positive indications from both donald trump and chinese media first that was donald trump's tweets which said just had a long and very good call with president xi of china a deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subject areas and points of dispute big progress being made exclamation mark and chinese media confirming about phone call took place chinese media said president xi said he hopes to push forward a sign a u.s.

relationship that is coordinated cooperative and stable and he said that he hoped that the teams presumably the trade negotiating teams could meet each meet each other halfway and reach an agreement that is mutually beneficial as soon as possible and we have had indications in the last few days that a u.s. trade delegation will be traveling to beijing in january after what were described as intensive discussions over the phone over the christmas period trying to husband relenting somewhat since the truce was declared between china and the u.s. over trade talks at the beginning of december lowering tabs publishing draft laws which suggest greater intellectual property property rights and protection for foreign companies so perhaps there is movement under way the mother of a guatemalan boy who died while in u.s. custody says his son was healthy when he left home eight year old philippe gamers along it's from a remote village about four hundred kilometers west of guatemala city he and his father were detained by u.s.

border agents on december the eighteenth katherina along says his son reported he was doing well every time he called home. i could never have imagined this he was happy when he left he called me and said he was at the border and he was having chicken for dinner. when he left he said i'm a little young now but when i arrived i am going to grow up i will study and look for a job and i'm going to send you money and buy a kilo it's for my mom. well u.s. president donald trump has blamed the democratic party for philippe's death as well as that of another guatemalan child in u.s. custody this month trying to criticize what he called the pathetic immigration policies of the democrat attempt hurts he says the flow of asylum seekers from central america would stop if they approve funding for his border wall. a funeral has been held for a two year old yemeni boy whose mother fought for a visa to visit him in a us hospital people gathered to mourn a doula his son and his service in california he had

a rare brain disease is mother took legal action after being denied entry to the united states under the trumpet ministrations travel ban and several muslim majority countries she was eventually granted permission just days before her son's death we are here today because my government. i am a u.s. citizen must leave the u.s. citizen. the muslim then took my wife from coming to the u.s. for over a year but force me to choose but you must stand hell and keeping our family together we all know you and we know your son did not die and. we hope to of the last struggle and. the people who are affected by the muslim then from yemen. libya iran somalia and syria.

that we cope with life policy will be changed and families will be reunited brazil's largest social organization the landless workers movement says attacks on its members have increased significantly since the election of a new right wing president. will be sworn in on tuesday he describes the group as terrorists a lot of america to see in human reports from the state of vermont across or do so in central west brazil. scores of families who belong to the odd landless people's movement live in makeshift homes along this rural road in southwestern brazil they now that castillo says the two months ago she was taking a shower when she heard her neighbor's screams. this shack was up in flames torched by unknown assailants luckily no one was injured animals didn't think none of them it might i'm not going to tell you we're not afraid we are that's why we leave the lights on now i'm afraid but what can i do against these people nothing. she's

referring to increasingly emboldened opponents of the m.s.t. who expect brazil's far right wing president elect bush were not all to make good on his promise to get rid of so-called dangerous extremists brazil's landless movement is the largest organization of its kind in all of latin america and it's also the one that suffered the most attacks of the seventy social activists who were murdered in brazil last year the vast majority belong to the landless movement and the fear is that under the new government they will be targeted even further. an antiterrorism law is being debated in the senate could make that easier for decades the m.s.t. has been fighting for land redistribution and at times members have resorted to land occupations and violence but legal experts argue the current penal code is sufficient to punish those who break the law. to give the government now in the future the power to declare any type of demonstration by political opponents as

terrorism is very dangerous. back at the roadside shows or some vegetables they've grown. for every. other human rights that we go hungry a lot we trade things with our neighbors and that's how we survive by using the patches of land by the side of the road imagine if we had our arms. but instead of land they're expecting a confrontation with a new president who's declared the estimated one point five million members of the movement of threat to brazil you see in human al-jazeera mato grosso brazil. heavy rain in northern syria is causing major flooding forcing thousands of internally displaced families from their makeshift aid groups which are already struggling because of the war in syria have appealed for international help. reports. thousands of families displaced by years of war in syria are being

displaced again two days of torrential rainfall in the country's northern region caused major flooding in refugee camps in it and then left. family stared helplessly as their flimsy tents and makeshift shelters were washed away by. the floods didn't just had a tenner to half the camp or almost all of the camp has been washed away it's cause more damage than we could have imagined it was a lot of children and elderly took to higher ground as residents struggled to drain the rising waters i turned over to i could have learned that may god help us after all these heavy rains we haven't been able to sleep for the past three nights and during the daytime we're not able to move around we've been doing all that we can to drain water out but unfortunately towns have been flooded were helpless that is total damage may god help us all. the flooding also cause closure of some major roads inside and outside the camps roads they're used to transport urgently needed

aid. syrian civil defense also known as the white helmets say numerous refugee camps have made an urgent appeal for emergency assistance but make the most of the number. up to some areas we have deployed forces in the region with heavy equipment to try and get the water out of the camps. the syrian observatory for human rights says the severe weather causing catastrophic conditions leaving tens of thousands of people to face the winter without shelter they're calling on the international community to help avert a major crisis for people who have already suffered enough i'm in the d.c. . al jazeera. tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have marched in the serbian capital of belgrade it is the latest in a series of demonstrations and opposition politician was beaten last month critics accuse populist president on his own to do shit of containing democratic freedoms

in cracking down on potent. britain's immigration minister has defended the government's handling of the rise in migrants and refugees crossing the english channel more than two hundred twenty people have attempted the crossing since november we'll look at the view from the british side of the channel in a moment the first bennett smith begins our report in north west from us from college the messages being sent to families in africa the middle east iran and afghanistan will be about failed attempts to make it to an. electricity comes for just a couple of hours a day from generators provided by local charities. this camp has nothing but the around six hundred migrants stuck here on a freezing windy december day it's a hopeless place living conditions you are just making people every very desperate and you're also into a labor. to escape here some migrants are now prepared to pay smugglers to cross the channel in rubber boats for others the risk is too great that we tried taking

a boat. then we'll you know i want to save my lives. and give myself for the good this is important my life. then you lose the good this is this is going to have the way the french and british governments have spent millions of dollars for to find a port against people trying to stow away on lorries it's one theory why more people are turning to boats the migrants that launched themselves into the channel in rubber dinghies from here risk high seas strong currents freezing water and they risk collision in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes my colleague sonia guy i go picks up a story and go. exhausted and freezing these people made a hazardous journey on the flimsiest of vessels rubber dinghies this latest sudden surge in numbers of those arriving like this has alerted british authorities to the

dangers of a possible catastrophic accident in this stretch of water off the southern coast so much so that the british home secretary is now treating this as a major incident on saturday the immigration minister went to the town of dover to meet border offices they say it has been difficult to keep up with the numbers of people who have arrived in these circumstances and what they need is help to effectively patrol the area and closer working relations with officials across the channel in france what we're doing is constantly reviewing the resources that we need continuing the really important. the french and it's absolutely critical that we share information at the highest on the most effective level because of course what we want to do is to make sure that people don't set sail across the channel making a really perilous journey is it a treacherous time of the year it may only be a fifty kilometer journey between kalai and dover but the english channel is also one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and while some politicians hid in britain

have called for more patrols the concern is is that this will merely encourage others to come and make that dangerous journey the latest route shows how despite the dangers many are desperate enough to risk everything to make it here and to escape the difficult conditions in makeshift camps in france but even if they make it here there is no guarantee that they can stay here sonny diagonal al-jazeera. this is out zero these are the top stories at least four people have been killed in election related violence in bangladesh with polls closing in less than two hours prime minister sheikh hasina is aiming for a fourth term in office she's been criticized for cracking down on her opponents and restricting press freedom. voters in a democratic republic of congo choosing who will succeed president joseph kabila

he's been in power for seventeen is about one point three million people from three districts have been excluded from voting one of the main opposition candidates martin for you to cast his votes a short time ago he says all eligible voters must be able to do the same. just to commit to the sense of that and the beauty has to court rules you have a lot of cards you have to vote and each single polling station has to open and people ask you what we are monitoring it and we know that some here yes we are having problems. everything is going peacefully now the people of. you know beneath the people of you may be because one of. the dimple saudi difficulties you have to put. the warring sides in yemen have begun handing over responsibility for the port of data to the united nations forces

are being redeployed as part of a un backed deal between the he's and the yemeni government the balance of power in northern syria appears to be shifting following the e.u.'s decision to withdraw its troops russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other after talks in moscow on saturday meanwhile ankara has sent fifty tanks to the syrian border in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish white p.g. forces. the u.s. president has been tweeting about what he says is major progress towards ending his government's trade war with china donald trump in china paying confirm they spoken over the phone about resolving their differences. president trump is blaming the opposition democrats for the death of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody this month he criticized what he called the pathetic immigration policies of the democrats. all right you're up to date with the headlines the news continues you know right after talk to our desire for. more diversity.

first time on january third will. join. in american politics. as the only predominantly muslim country with nuclear weapons but with a new. state of. the relations with its neighbor india. but after. decades. building measures but are they ready to settle their differences.

have started a sixty two billion dollars from agreement. to their. other important relationship with the united states president. asked for help to find peace in the. region and security. but also challenges. new leadership meeting we will find out if the president. talks to their. the president of islamic republic of pakistan thank you very much for talking to us there this is a new journey that you've embarked upon a journey with the pakistan tehreek

e insaf with you as the head of state people's man in the presidency the world is wanting to know what is this new pakistan that you are going to create i think what has happened with my coming into the presidency is that we have brought people's ideas we've brought the feeling of the people of pakistan to the office and the prime minister of this country brought the feelings of pakistan to his office the urgency the need for urgent pakistan has been is very important i think what we need to do in pakistan is what they would kindle be a promise to speed them up with the new realities which we saw when we have come into government with resort to face them to modify our direction to improve our directions to give stability to pakistan to do to fulfill that commitment with the government the constitution of pakistan makes with its people let's talk about the change and progress that your party has been promising and it's been elected upon

you embarked upon a very ambitious hundred day plan which many thought was over promising and in the last hundred days the economy is not in tremendous shape there has been thousands of jobs a vigil being lost the indicators at the national assembly in terms of legislature haven't really moved a lot so you.