this allegation by the opposition and critics and human rights organization now obviously there is a jubilation and ruling party camp the opposition almost predict that this scenario because they have come under attack since the election campaign started from december tenth at least thousands of opposition members and candidates were arrested they were discouraged from campaign by the security force along with the ruling party supporters this is been widely reported in the mass media at least sixteen right bodies have criticised this an even playing field for the opposition decided thirty seven incident where the opposition leaders motorcades where attacked by play by the ruling party supporters considering the scenario the opposition itself said this is not going to be a fair election they're supporter of scared to go to the polling centers at least forty seven candidates actually glycol today lection today and twenty two happens to be from the jam out

a slimy who are actually running for the election under the government banner so this reaction what is going to see after the final count and also how this legend of mystery is going to be given by the international community and the international observers as well as global media was this really of election and other things to consider is there going to be a stable situation after this election or is going to be a superficial stability because obviously the kind you have opposition. the boat and the bin get shy away from their franchises right to blow and this will obviously they'll have some reaction tomorrow appreciably from the government side as well as from the opposition side of course we have hard that they want to relax and by dr commodify and he said this is that's why us and this is not a fair election and that a party some government we want out of election can take that government many things time to change it giving is a very succinct sum up to the elections. still to come this half hour the u.n.

welcomes a redeployment of yemen's heathy rebels away from the port city for data that says independent verification is still needed and why u.k. bosses will soon have to explain any gaps between them boardrooms on the show phil . hello again it's good to have you back where across china we are looking at some quite conditions across much of the area we have some clouds here across much of the central area some clouds also off the coast before hong kong a mostly cloudy departed cloud today for you on monday temps about seventeen degrees shanghai some clouds in your forecast that you get a little bit better by the time get to tuesday maybe eight degrees there in taipei just a couple showers just to the east of you with the tempter they have about eighteen degrees well as

a bigger way over here towards india looking quite nice for much of the area the problem areas going to be the north we are dealing with very cold temperatures also some very dense fog across much of that area as well as some haze causing some pollution in those regions so for new delhi twenty one degrees is going to be a high down towards the south a few passing clouds maybe a few intermittent showers for colombo with a term for the of thirty one staying like that as we go towards tuesday kolkata though a nice day if you with a temperature of about twenty four degrees and then here across parts of the middle east we are looking at the possibility some showers across the gulf notice the rain right there coming across the gulf that's really going to affect iran as well as parts of saudi arabia even over here monday night towards parts of qatar we could be seeing a shower passing by but by the time we get towards tuesday things are looking much better across the region and we do expect to see a temperature of about twenty four degrees. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing new

realities new pain starts from the very beginning go on and school providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. come back from under on the top story say on voting is when there are no in the democratic republic of congo's long delayed presidential election those have been

frustrated by the rain broken voting machines and missing ballot lists and at least eighteen people have been killed during voting in bangladesh's general election results are projecting a big lead for a promise to shake a scene but there are reports of widespread vote rigging. afghanistan's presidential election has been postponed probably three months to give the authorities more time to organize the ballots the new votes will be held on july the twentieth that comes after palm and she polls were heavily criticised with huge delays at polling stations and low functioning equipment the timing of the poll has also been complicated talks between the u.s. special envoy the taliban and launching a process in afghanistan. united nations has welcomed the redeployment of yemen's hoofy forces away from her data on saturday their own backed rebels. began to leave the port city a sponsor of a u.n. sponsored dale agreed with the senate government earlier this month and the u.n.

says independent verification is needed to ensure the who is remain in line with the stockholm agreement where much less than a ports. the first tentative step which yemenis hope could lead to a new future. the fighters have controlled the part of the data for much of the almost four year conflict. these pictures show some boarding trucks and leaving reportedly to be redeployed around the city it's part of an agreement reached the talks in sweden and in her data hosted by the united nations who the rebels backed by iran and yemen's government supported by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have also agreed to uphold a cease fire in the city that i was delighted today because of the thing and we want these kind of that official. came late but god willing the ceasefire will hold and the. god willing the ceasefire who died

a continues people need security and safety in this country. yemen's coast guard will continue the day to day operations at the port as they have done while it's been under who control the united nations will have overall responsibility and pro-government forces are expected to back away from the areas they'd seized on the southern edge of the data in june however patrick come out the retired dutch major general who's heading a team of u.n. monitors and hard data is reported to have said he's disappointed that an agreed humanitarian corridor between hooded and the capital sanaa has not yet been opened . the deal says so-called military manifestations should be removed from the city but who the fighters who leave the port are expected to stay. as the fighters who used to protect the port will be redeployed to protect the city according to the sweden agreement. the governor of her data appointed. by the yemeni government says the who have simply handed responsibility for the port to allies within the coast

guard and the management. the next key step for yemen will be to open the humanitarian corridors to deliver more food and medical supplies to starving and sick civilians who've been caught in the fighting rock matheson. so down this president bashir has admitted his country is in crisis and has called on pleas to abstain from using excessive force against anti-government demonstrators at least nineteen people have been killed in unrest since december the nineteenth i'm the same puts the figure higher than one strangers are calling for bashir to step down rises over the high price of basic food and fuel he says years of international sanctions and the lack of oil revenue have hurt the economy and in a speech to police he insisted the country would pull through the time war but the madness is that i don't like. us we going through a crisis and the people are facing challenges and we stay awake trying to solve it

but we can't solve problems with more problems and destruction destruction and looting will deepen the problem and not solve it we will get out of this crisis despite everyone trying to get us to kneel through an economic crisis we are a country that god placed with a lot of resources on top of its human resources we have people qualified in media fields and we could use these qualifications with what god blesses us who are national resources like a group culture animals plants minerals or pietra or anything else and we will get through this period but it needs patience wisdom and good management colombian authorities say very investigation investigating an assassination plots against president even to k. involving three venezuelan nationals colombia's foreign minister says the men were arrested with heavy weapons including two rifles intelligence suggests they were planning to target duke

a right way columnist he's frequently criticize the government of venezuela's leader nicolas a murderer. there's the body and we're going to give you the best we can announce that intelligence investigations have been carried out of the search for months about possible attacks against a lot of the colombian president. we recently captured three citizens who found themselves in a position of which further increases the concerns that have had in this matter. themselves the largest social organization the workers' movement says attacks on its members every increase significantly since the election of right wing president . he describes the group as terrorists and the states of matter. all out of america and that's news to new reports. scores of families who belong to the. landless people's movement live in makeshift homes along this route road in

southwestern brazil they now that steele 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 noddle 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 and in the future the power to declare any type of demonstration by political opponents as terrorism is very dangerous. back at the roadside shows are some vegetables they've grown. for every. other human round we go hungry a lot we trade things with our neighbors and that's how we survive by using the patterns of land by the side of the road imagine if we had our arms actually. but instead of land that we're expecting a confrontation with a new president who's declared the estimated one point five million members of the

movement a threat to brazil you see in human al-jazeera. brazil. i'm generally the first you know what are coming into force here in the u.k. targeting the growing pay gap between executives and the average worker at u.k. listed companies will have to monitor reveal and justify the difference in salaries between the boardroom and the shop floor o'bannon reports from london as part of our series looking into new laws for twenty nineteen. the glass and metal tires of london's financial district symbolize the success and sometimes excess of britain's top companies while enforced public austerity has kept a lid on the average working wage the eye watering salaries and extraordinary bonuses of the top u.k. bosses have sparked outrage in twenty seventeen alone the salary of top bosses jumped eleven percent to four point nine million dollars over the past twenty years or so we've seen the pay of a foot c. one hundred c.

for about fifty or sixty times that the average work to bore like one hundred fifty times now there's been no real justification for that in terms of company performance so i definitely think it is the case that there's been a major corporate governance or policy failure somewhere along the line among a string of high profile controversies in twenty eighteen with a ninety five million dollars bonus paid to jeff urban c.e.o. of the house bill de persimmon the public outrage cost him his job the raw. all mail paid its new chief executive rico back a seven point three million dollars signing on fee despite seventy percent of shareholders objecting and a shareholder revolt bt failed to block a two point nine million dollars package for gavin patterson the departing chief executive remuneration committees have been acquired a long time now to take into account paying conditions elsewhere in the company when setting executive pay and they have absolutely failed to do this from january

twenty ninth listed companies with more than two hundred fifty employees must calculate unpublicized the pay ratio between the boss and the average worker the institute of directors supports the new rules although it says some comparisons will be more useful than others but if for the same company you'll seeing say the pay ratio increase from one year to the next so top exact a moving upwards at a faster rate than that of the average employee that could give rise to legitimate questions in the sense that you're describing and if companies refuse to moderate themselves there is scope for further government intervention perhaps policies from the government in relation to their procurement activities or in relation to the. tax system that would favor the companies with lower pay ratios and penalize those with the vast caps that have become increasingly complex in recent years the new pay ratio regulations should strengthen shareholders ability to block excessive

deals and could shame companies into actually complying but u.k. boardrooms have shown themselves to be remarkably brazen despite public criticism and more may yet be needed in order to rein in the worst excesses paul brennan al-jazeera the city of london. south korea's president has received a letter from move korean leader kim jong il formal talks in the new year president moon office came also rick expressed regrets that he was unable to visit the south before the end of twenty eighteen came the moon met three times this year and have made a series of goodwill gestures the south koreans say came and stated that he wanted to hold more summits to bring about the do you knew the rise ation of the korean peninsula brightest more from so. the presidential office in seoul won't reveal too many details about the exact contents of this two page letter but it is being

warmly received here by south korean officials president moon j.n. indeed has responded on social media thanking kim jong un personally there had been hopes that kim jong un would be visiting south korea it would be an historic visit the first by our north korean leader indeed since the korean war and that that visit would take place during this year that was the stated intention when the two leaders met in pyongyang for their third summit in september but it wasn't to be the case even as late as last week some people were predicting that the visit might be taking place on the thirtieth and thirty first clearly that's not happening but this letter does now lead to speculation that the visit will take place possibly as early as the new year communed on. chairman kim expressed regret towards the fact that his visit to seoul did not take place as was agreed between the two leaders in

pyongyang chairman kim expressed a strong willingness to visit seoul and has been monitoring the situation kim also stated that he's willing to meet often with president moon in two thousand and nineteen to divans discussions on the peace and prosperity of the korean peninsula and to resolve together the issue of the nuclearization but officials are still confident about the general direction of into korean relations last wednesday a groundbreaking ceremony indeed took place between north and south korea for a planned project to reconnect road and rail links across the d.m.z. separating the two koreas so in conjunction with this letter south korean officials are still confident that the whole reconciliation process is still on track. let's get you a quick rundown of the top stories here on al-jazeera voting is shantel to end around now in the democratic republic of congo's long delayed presidential election

but many votes voters have been frustrated by torrential rain and problems at polling stations unofficial voting house taken place in opposition strongholds in the east postponed because of the recent outbreak. there are no machines in the few machines that are there do not work properly just . came to sanction mr capello are able to vote for change but unfortunately there is no voters there are no machines there's nothing some people couldn't even find their names on the voter list would be we think you know. i've been here since five o'clock and nothing is happening nothing works at the polling station still happy and still voting machines are here waiting to vote we don't understand what's going on. meanwhile in bangladesh's general election voting has been marred by violence and reports of widespread vote rigging at least eighteen people have been killed during the voting and the results are projecting a big need for prime minister shaikh

a senior the opposition has already rejected the results afghanistan's presidential election has been perspire owned by three months to give authorities more time to organize the ballot the new vote will be held on july the twentieth it comes after october palm and she polls were heavily criticized with huge delays at polling stations and malfunctioning equipment for them. so those president omar al bashir has admitted his country is in crisis and has called on the police to abstain from using excessive force against anti-government demonstrators at least nineteen people have been killed in unrest since december the nineteenth demonstrators are calling for al bashir to step down as anger ronnie's is a high price the high price of basic food and fuel colombian authorities say they're investigating an assassination plots against president even two case

involving three venezuelan nationals colombia's foreign minister carlos hall mr geo says the three men were arrested with heavy weapons including two rifles. those are your headlines one on one east the pacific's nuclear time bomb it's coming ix. the marshall islands is a tiny pacific nation with a very big problem. thanks. once ground zero for america's cold war atomic testing it's been left with a toxic radioactive legacy. now rising sea levels threaten to swallow the

islands and if that happens deadly nuclear waste will be released into the ocean. and steve chap on this episode a one on one east we investigate how one of the world's smallest countries is paying for the actions of a global superpower. we're halfway between australia and hawaii. in the middle of a seemingly endless pacific ocean. below us chains of mostly uninhabited islands that together form the nation of the marshall islands. which is about sixty s. i don't know about the experience how many times thank you we're going to want to pick up our life the big question experimental stuff to think is

a strength. spread over two million square kilometers of the central pacific the marshall islands is a scattering of more than a thousand islands and eyelets. few people have heard of in a we talk but it's the ground zero of us nuclear testing in the pacific. but the welcome sign hints of what we've come to see but when you know what it really is a few would want to visit this place. the circle is a room of the islands so remote that there's no regular transport in or out it'll be a week before our plane returns if we're lucky. it's a stunning place. hides a dark secret. be. on.

yes. this is a place whose atomic past is seed into its present the people of in a way talk were forced into exile by the atomic full elf allowed to return after three decades and new generation is learning about the traditions and customs of this place. was they have also been told about america's top sick legacy and how it lies under a giant dharma. was. they are interesting some are they understand that we have a voice in our you know island that is what they call by using. they know that

there is a tomb because they have been there so the dawn you call it the term we call it the. fact. we sit out the next morning to see for ourselves. after nearly two hours we approach one of in a way talk assholes forty islands. what we've come to see is hard to spot from the beach only from the air can you get a true sense of the sky of what the united states military calls the dome. the done is actually a dump it contains the toxic leftovers of some of the most powerful atomic bombs in history america's cold war legacy it is a tomb of nuclear waste the dome is completely unlabeled there's no fence there no

guards there people can go there if they want and there's nobody to stop them but they let me up and make you worry about them i am afraid i haven't had a. crime was i. for nine hundred forty six to nine hundred fifty eight the united states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the muscle islands. and was in a way talkies hardly knowing its closest neighbor three hundred kilometers to the east became synonymous with nuclear fallout. its name is bikini. on. my own going on the are you going to wave coming toward the camera body.

from the kid. right not a thing i'll be able to come in it's just not clean enough for. one of the countries loves traditional never gaiters else and killen is adrift living in exile because he's not allowed to return home to bikini. ahead of the atomic testing there in the one nine hundred forty s. the united states told elson killen's family and the one hundred sixty seven people of his asshole that they had a duty to the world to leave their islands. kind it was a moment film by the military's p.r. unit and want to thank. all right now james when you count that the united states government now wants to trying this great force and there's something good

for man. and that this experiment here are the first step in that direction and i was. ready and willing. every. where you can there are many things you did everything being in god and it cannot be other than go there ah and here by the way i was thinking i am i should leave you now you are my. the. god. was nobody at all well yeah. there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of people from their home islands

. in one thousand nine hundred six is part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the u.s. paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the testing program. less than four million was if a played. the tribunals office in the capital mud zero is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the us government policy on the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade and dismissed health hazards as not existed or in significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been a passionate advocate for the local people his wife who was

a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer aged just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall islanders will ever get justice from the nuclear weapons tests that were conducted here and just this is the right word it's really important to understand that that a lot of nuclear contaminated material was tossed into a crater left over from a bomb test a coral atoll essentially and a coral atoll by its nature is porous. when the u.s. was getting ready to clean up i believe in the one nine hundred seventy s. they picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and dumped a lot of this plutonium and other radioactive waste into the pit and covered it over with an eighteen inch thick dome and left.

the dome was never meant to be anything but a temporary solution to the problem of atomic waste at almost every stage of its construction safety was separate. to save money. michael gerard is a u.s. climate change specialist who has visited the dome the bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons explosion. it's permeable soil there was no effort to line it and therefore the seawater is inside the dome already they see sometimes washes over it and you know you know our storm and united states government has acknowledged that a major typhoon could break it apart and cause all of the radiation in it to disperse. you can see why ruin its remoteness made it seem like

a good place for the contaminated contents. but like most of the islands of the marshals rooters is baylee a major above sea level at its highest point when this dome was built in the light nine hundred seventy s. there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out as it is now ready o. active isotopes from underneath the dime roll out with it that though it's the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change which it will be a very devastation event. if it were really it we're not talking just the marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling that. the ocean is rising and it's and it's making this nuclear waste leak

out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacy as well it's link. is a poet and climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ancestors they've been here for thousands of years and and there's also just nothing like you and your else and it's a part of why i. love that. you have. a rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how the marshall islands is on the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall i.