we've charged with the big lie and say he has every kind of. millions of voters across the country counties goofy just many congolese say they want to accept a result they don't believe. malcolm webb to zero can shatter the democratic republic of congo. joins us now from kinshasa so katherine what's been happening there. well i'm in one of the polling stations even an opposition stronghold here in the capital kinshasa they gave is still open people are being allowed to come in to look at let me just step out of the shot so you can get out a clearer view seeing right about two hundred or still. waiting to cast their ballots many of them are saying that they cannot find their names on the on the voters register very frustrated they've been here since very early in the

morning others are saying that the process the voting process is extremely slow and we spoke to an observer as well who said that perhaps part of the reason why this process is slow is because many of them still do not know how to use these electronic voting machines do not know what it is so it's taking time for them to understand to use it before they vote some of them up to ten minutes. in other areas we have been told both in counting vote counting have started several polling stations here in this opposition stronghold. facing similar problems there's a problem here with these they said some of them very angry people. voters registered as missing in those polling stations and they said that they believe that the electoral commission is. not trying to lock them out of the election to deny the opposition will. and what's been happening in. what's been

happening elsewhere in the country because obviously many people were not been given the chance to vote today. let me start with a place called vera is in south kivu which is in the are and there's a polling station that weather was an incident two people died so what happened is that there was an election commission official old was helping people with this voting machine and then suspected that he was misleading some elderly people and other voters who did not know how to use the machine of protest thereafter said police who were there fired live bullets to despite the protest does one bullet he will tell who was in the queue he died the protesters and on this police man and

beat him to death. in beni one of the areas where. it was postponed because of a boiler and security reasons as well carol working with taking place the processed mork election they're calling it so that we just talked to some of them they said well now we are counting votes and we are going to give those results to that lecture commission and to the u.n. as well but you must also understand them this is a huge country with very poor infrastructure and somewhat different they're done very limited. ways to get information so getting information from many areas is very difficult and this is father complicating what is already a very difficult election hasn't. kinshasa thanks jeff. plenty more ahead on this news hour new questions about the israeli military's use of live fire in gaza after

a major investigation. history delayed north korean leader kim jong un says his trip to seoul will happen just not this year as planned. and later in sport we'll hear from the woman who has just made history in the ultimate fighting championship . more than two hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers in months of protests at the gaza border fence thousands more have been injured but now the new york times is raising questions on the israeli military's use of live fire against protesters a new report focuses on the death of twenty year old medic. who was killed by gunfire during a protest in june after analyzing over a thousand photos videos the times concluded the job did not pose any security

threat and was standing on one hundred meters away from the border fence when she was killed by a sniper the israeli military says it is investigating the death joining us now is one of the journalist behind the investigation david how the new york times jerusalem bureau chief thanks very much for being with us so i want to ask you first of all what gave you the idea of of looking into this whole thing to begin with. well i mean if you know if it was a medic a young woman she was the first medic to the first female medic to volunteer at the fence in these protests but also our video crew had interviewed her three weeks before she died just just by happenstance they were working with me on a piece all about the protests displaying what was going on for viewers who are confused by them as many were and she was this compelling passionate you know really personal young woman who was you know everywhere at once it seemed you know

helping people but also very articulate and and forceful in her and her message and we had her on camera we didn't actually use her in the piece that we were working on but we had this in our in our in our files three weeks later when she was killed we quickly turned it into a little piece of responding to her death which got immense traffic worldwide but we felt you know a duty almost to say you know that so many people had already been killed at these protests and each one seemed to like sweep away the last you know you know how it can be in the news business you know people become statistics and you kind of. you just get a little over overloaded by the numbers but we felt like it was important especially in the case of a medic you know obviously it's the death of any civilian is is pivoted by international law you know when when it's certainly intentionally that the medics are have a specially protected status and here's a young

a young medical woman who's volunteered she's gotten really well known and she gets killed it seems like we really needed to know what happened in that case nobody really knew each side you know made very forceful declarations one way or the other the palestinians said she was gunned down you know their hands in the air and this wasn't quite true the the israelis tried to portray you know they that the person is portrayed as an innocent martyr a few days later the israelis put out a tweet suggesting that you know a video suggesting that she was part of the violence the truth you know was out there still and we wanted to set out to find it so how did you arrive at the conclusion then that she did not pose a security threat. well the i mean the incredible thing or these days and that's been pioneered by our video unit is the ability to crowd source tons and tons of video you know it seemed as though almost everybody at the scene had a smartphone and a lot of them if they weren't thrown

a rock they had their cell phones out and they were recording things all day long now you know there are journalists with their with their feet still cameras and video cameras there's a lot of video and still imagery that we were able to harvest once you can get that and you get the made metadata and you could put it into a very careful meticulously constructed chronology and then you can actually you know with the help of partners that forensic architecture you're able to put some of this into a three d. rendering of the reconstruction of the whole thing where you can place people exactly where they were when this thing happened now it's amazing that you know i personally reporting this out to the one eighty a couple times you know based on some of the footage that we were getting in from certain angles it looked like you know one set of facts but once we were able to triangulate and not just frankly with three sources but i think we had six or something you know vantage points on the the final moment you're really able to like see everything you're able to place everything in and it's are

a and space it out exactly as it was relative to the israeli side to really begin to see who was where who was doing what how far were they away was anybody doing anything they should have been doing or or that pose any kind of legitimate threat and then you're able to see you know what the facts were yeah it's as you say very exhaustive amount of evidence that you went through pretty amazing what you can come up with with the technology that's available today pretty. good to talk to you on that david how think of joining us there from west to islam. president almost bashir says he will not apologize for the ongoing turmoil in sudan he's been speaking out against protests taking place in the country for the past eleven days demonstrators have been calling on him to step down they're angry over rising food and fuel prices sudan's parliament is expected to vote on its twenty nine thousand budget soon where she had blamed economic problems on international sanctions and

talked about sudan's resolve but really the man you know this guy who like you was a brotherhood yes we're 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 pietro or anything else and we will get through this period but it needs patience wisdom and good management. fendi is a professor of politics at the door in situ for graduate studies and

a former diplomat at the sudanese foreign ministry he says the government's insensitivity to the protesters demands has stoked the anger issues not just sprayed. it's about also how the government makes you feel if the government for example makes fun of you dollars show care about your life. tries to say that well this is by far too this is for me this is caused by foreign intervention or by honest going to seize what everybody knows. it is a government responsible so i think. that it's insensitivity which makes and the way the government some three acts. committee and i think is small just about numbers are also many others who have been injured and injured is a serious source not the numbers of skill. there's also. thousands are now there

isn't because the government also makes arrests from the restrictions so. families are affected by this. it's not going to the repression is not going to work. on its own if you want to stop demonstrations you have to talk to the people you have to offer solutions you have to. give initiatives the rebels in yemen say they have started to leave the port city of hadera it is part of a u.n. cease fire deal signed in sweden earlier this month but the yemeni government says they have not gone and the un says a humanitarian corridor between data and the capital hasn't opened yet as promised rob matheson a force of the first tentative step which yemenis hope could lead to a new future. the fighters have controlled the part of her data for much of the almost four year conflict. these pictures show some boarding trucks and leaving

reportedly to be redeployed around the city but it's part of an agreement reached the talks in sweden and in her data hosted by the united nation. news 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 and 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 or 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 her data in june however patrick come out the retired dutch major general who's heading a team of u.n.

monitors in her data is reported to have said he's disappointed that an agreed humanitarian corridor between her 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 rob matheson odyssey. a heavy rain in northern syria is causing major flooding forcing thousands of internally displaced families

from their makeshift homes aid groups which are already struggling because of the war in syria have appealed for international help hamad in what d.c. reports. the. 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 live and the aleppo family stared helplessly as their flimsy tents and makeshift shelters were washed away by. the floods didn't just hit a ten or to half the camp or almost all of the camp has been washed away it's caused more damage than we could have imagined it was going to the children and the elderly took to higher ground as residents struggled to drain the rising waters my town or i was going to burn to me 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 tents have been flooded were helpless against 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 to 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 them the water 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 cause 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. all right still ahead on al-jazeera bridging the pay gap between

workers and bosses we examine what's being done in the u.k. to try to make salaries fairer. and they've been labeled a threat to brazil by the incoming president we'll look at the battle looming with landless people. and later in sports the hostile act that's all this and be a player being ejected from the action and he's here with that story. hello again we're here cross labatt we are watching what is happening out here towards the west because in the eastern med we do have a system that's going to be developing over the next few days so watch what happens here on monday you can see the system in the central part of the med not really affecting all of aunt too much as of yet so here on monday aleppo is going to be partly cloudy with a temper of nine beirut some clouds started to come into your forecast at sixteen

but here on tuesday is when we really start to see the effects of that storm and that storm is going to be a player as we go towards mid week as well more heavy rain will be pushing into the area so we're going to be watching that very carefully over here towards baghdad a sunny day for you at about eighteen degrees or across the gulf we could be watching some rain developing here across the gulf into parts of iran over here toward saudi arabia now here in qatar we could be seeing similar showers pass through on monday and into monday night but by the time we get to tuesday those acts those chartreuse will be push you over here towards the east so things are going to look better across the region over towards dubey a nice day if you at about twenty six degrees and then very quickly down here toward the southern part of africa we are watching some showers pushing up towards durban towards your hands broke over the next few days temps wise over towards doug derbent twenty seven degrees for you and a cool day in johannesburg with a temperature of about eighteen degrees there.

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again you're watching. top stories this preliminary election results in bangladesh say prime minister. term in office but the opposition says there's been vote rigging according to the government at least eighteen people were killed in the last twenty four hours demanding the whole election be rerun. polls in a democratic republic of congo have been extended in some places but many have been able to vote they are choosing who will succeed president joseph kabila about one point three million people from three districts have been excluded from. president

ahmad of bashir says he will not apologize for the ongoing turmoil in sudan he's been speaking out against protests taking place there for the past eleven days demonstrators have been calling on him to step down they're angry over rising food and fuel prices. afghanistan's presidential vote has been pushed back by three months after parliamentary elections in october were marred by violence and technical issues the election commission has resettled the vote from april to july to resolve issues that arose in the parliamentary election two months ago polling stations in some areas were not opened biometric machines did not work and there were incorrect voter lists will join us now from our car ball is political analyst intisar thanks so much for being with us so they want to postpone this for three months because of the problems that happened in the parliamentary elections

but we all remember the problems from two thousand and fourteen in the presidential elections there and all of the widespread allegations of fraud there are they just to avoid the repeat of that in twenty one thousand is that also what's behind this . what are you cannot expect in afghanistan that. you would think should be very fine and transparent at the two thousand and fourteen election in that two thousand. and ten election has been a very war six election commission i think this delays more than necessary deal a because the election commission should ensure that they are just going proper transparent and senate leibert election not the election for the sake of election this election that happened just months ago maybe they have not been able to announce the candidates the winning candidates and at same time there has been a lot of fun occasion again on the the election commission that they have been not fair in transparent and in name that that there has been

a lot of corruption so this is a good deal a and they should be ensuring that the coming presidential election should be an election that people can count on it people can believe on it that c.q. the public trust that said in transparent and free in quite countable. how much of a challenge is security going to be in these elections with the threat of attacks from the taleban and other groups and. this talk of reducing the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan the president trump. has mentioned there with if there's fewer international troops securing helping to secure these areas that's going to be be an issue as well if if the data the election is put bath. well you may have the remember the report of cigar that seventy percent of the afghan lead has been gone sure sure little may be partially controlled by the taliban that's

a big concern rightly the security issues is the bottom line for a fair and free election after course the the announcement of person trump that he will just draw soon thousand forces from afghanistan but even if they stayed afghanistan they are not concerned about the securing of the election day so the two ministers minister of defense and minister of interior has been recently appointed by president guardian i think they will they will need a few months to ensure that they're on the job they understand the security challenges in finally they come up with this it be so yes of course it's going to be connected with the security situation along the logistics situation also the election management as well good to speak with you. south korea's president has received a letter from the north korean leader kim jong un asking for talks in the new year

president moon jane's office says kim was sorry he couldn't make a planned visit to the south before the end of twenty eighteen kim and moon met three times this year and made a series of goodwill gestures south korean say kim has asked to meet moon several times next year rob mcbride has the latest from seoul. 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 kin going on would be visiting south korea which 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 to 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 soln 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 denuclearization 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. well u.s. president donald trump has been in office for nearly two years now but he can expect a tough time when the democrats take control of one of the two houses of congress in the new year as part of our series looking at what we think will be the major issues in twenty nineteen. in the u.s. election season begins very early. i am a socially running i'm running for president i am a candidate for president in twenty one thousand the campaign for the white house will officially begin expect a crowded field of candidates on the democratic side as they try to take back the presidency from donald trump in two thousand and twenty. will be helped by some fresh faces and capitol hill in january democrats will take over the house of

representatives in the u.s. congress for the first time in eight years it will also be the most diverse group in u.s. history with the highest number of women including the first two muslim american women and the first to native american women it was no solution no collusion there is absolutely no solution but the new congress will also bring in many people who want more investigations into tribes businesses and financial transactions with foreign governments particularly russia one of those people is california congressman adam schiff who's expected to take over the house intelligence committee he's promised to probe trump's business dealings and make them public i have no business whatsoever with saudi arabia couldn't care less any inquiry will look into that claim and u.s. ties with saudi arabia riyadh has come under heavy scrutiny following the murder of . killed in the saudi embassy in istanbul in october democratic lawmakers in the

house of representatives may press to hold the crown prince accountable even though the royal palace has denied it this is the f.b.i. continues its investigation into trump's alleged campaign ties to. foreign governments. that investigation has already netted his former campaign manager deputy campaign manager and former national security advisor among others. another meeting between north korean leader kim jong un and trump is also in the works white house officials have indicated it could happen as early as february last june the two men made history in their first meeting in singapore. but since then pyongyang has reportedly built up its nuclear program contrary to what trumpet hoped the white house is also expected to unveil its peace plan to help resolve the dispute between israel and the palestinians given the israeli elections in twenty nineteen the trump administration is said to be in discussions with israeli

officials on the best time to unveil the proposals kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house 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 j. and boats on auto will be sworn in on tuesday he describes the group as terrorists lots in america and it's an issue newman reports from the state of mato grosso in the west of brazil. scores of families who belong to the. landless people's movement live in makeshift homes along this rural road in southwestern brazil they now that are 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 did i think none of them made much 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 for 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. and 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. all right when we come back in sport roger federer steps up preparations for the defense save his australian open title.

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