he never managed to cast his vote we saw allegations of voter intimidation and arrests in the build up to the election and more than ten thousand six hundred supporters of the opposition. suffering some form of attack or intimidation in the build up so the opposition say it is very doubtful that a real credible investigation by the election commission is going to be is going to take place when there seems to be so much pressure on them from the ruling party all right that's a picture from dr charles thanks very much indeed for reporting a vote counting has begun in parts of the democratic republic of congo after presidential elections there voting was extended in some polling stations which opened late the main opposition coalition has complained of irregularities in many pulling stations the voting machine war. and this was not the proper.

and also you know many police station i work or allusion. i warn people our weaknesses or didn't we're not allowed to be sedition and after. the vote before counting the ballots. so more for many of our witnesses where taken out. of the voting station sunday's vote was in fact two years overdue let's hear now from malcolm webb who reports from the capital kinshasa. president joseph kabila dated early has left the democratic republic of congo for even eighteen years. this election two years a vigil is to choose his successor my only concern is that we have this very heavy rain. and probably for the time out might be wrong. and this is the man he

wants to take over ramadani shattering he's on the european union sanctions list accused of rights abuses and put certain people i think victory is on my side and tonight i will be president. but the heavy rain hit the capital kinshasa didn't put people off. and there's no sign of a low turnout by thirty eight percent of eligible voters have already registered. but no fool have been able to vote as a polling station inside this primary school scott voting machines ready to go if there's no copy of the electoral register here absolutely facts for the people inside to be dusted sunrise waiting to vote if a crowd of people outside as well for patience is running thin people here blame the presidents of the electoral commission for not delivering it demanding their rights of fact. we were sleeping in two morning we're looking for which bush we won't go anywhere. everyone here is showing their support for candidate number four

martin fire you live here one of the main opposition contenders three of his strongholds have been excluded from the presidential poll the electoral commission says because of conflicts and the butler outbreak and really no doubt some here we are we're having problems so more there is everything is going peacefully now if you pull over for you know beneath it people love you if you fall off with. saudi they're out of congolese and you have to force. people in the eastern cities of beni in the template demonstrated last week when the electoral commission said they could. i when it came to voting activists made their own polling materials and opened their own polling stations him protest. thousands came opinion polls indicate that most congolese don't trust the electoral commission.

when its president came to check on a polling station in kinshasa was greeted with chants calling it a big lie are saying that she has a recount when. millions of voters across the country counties will be contentious many congolese say they wanted to accept the result they don't believe. web al-jazeera kinshasa a democratic republic of congo. all right still ahead here on al-jazeera uncovering isos grim legacy another mass grave is found in northern iraq. the u.s. state of california takes the lead with tough anti gun laws and you get tougher and then you get.

however we're seeing some really heavy rain stormy weather across southern parts of the u.s. more of that where where that came from asked a lot of clout being pumped up from the gulf of mexico lighting over towards the eastern seaboard mother little area a cloud that's just spilling its way out of the rockies nat'l sink further southwards and east was fair bit of snow there into colorado into new mexico into i was i'd rather for colder states have the desert southwest fair bit of snow to up towards miss year ie illinois indiana and some really heavy rain arkansas for example pushing down towards that eastern side of texas louisiana big downpours coming in here we are allowed to see some flood in new york not so bad so you make our way into where new year's eve we see some model weather coming in for the new year fifteen celsius in new york dry skies coming back in but you can see we got a fair bit of snow north of the border into that eastern side of kind of the heavy rain there for good parts of new england and a fair bit of snow down towards the southwest so we'll see some further snow

flurries coming in across new mexico motus eleven the top temperatures there for denver let's get down to the tropics where as a good deal more agreeable lossie fine and dry lossie blue skies chance of one of two showers around the western side of the region but for most set that. for afghans with ties to international organization. to straight has never been greater. left exposed by the strong a foreign troops. may be the only path to fish to. any nation makes home feel ever find their way. to the viewfinder series on al-jazeera.

that again you're watching al-jazeera reminded the top stories this hour al-jazeera has obtained pitches showing the saudi hit t.v. killed journalist among such a car and a large bag shortly after he was last seen alive that suspected of carrying his remains which have never been found. but my bet is prime minister sheikh hasina has won a lot of. election victories securing a third consecutive term in office but the opposition has rejected the results and his call for a new vote violence on polling day left at least eighteen people to. vote counting is underway in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election the opposition has raised concerns of irregularities provisional results are expected in the coming days. israel's prime

minister says he's received a personal plates from brazil's president elect to move his country's embassy to jerusalem benjamin netanyahu says olsen are told him it was a question of when not if the move will go ahead of the incoming brazilian president is hosting netanyahu and other leaders for his inauguration on tuesday is under growing pressure to keep the embassy in tel aviv to avoid. lucrative exports to our countries well israel's military has killed more than two hundred palestinians during months of protests at the go and support of friends thousands more have been injured in the week the demonstrations now the new york times has released a damning investigation into israel's use of life on protesters its report focuses on the death of a twenty year old medic he was killed by gunfire during a protest in june after analyzing over one thousand photographs and videos the times concludes that iran is on a nudge is killing was intentional and she did not pose any security threat it was

done he will the one hundred meters away from the border fence when she was killed by a sniper the israeli military says it is investigating the death david how is the new york times jerusalem bureau chief and one of the journalists behind the report explains why his team chose to investigate rosen on this his death it was important especially in the case of american obviously it's the death of any civilian as is pitted by international law you know when when it's certainly intentionally that you know medics are specially protected status and here is a young a young medical woman who's volunteered and 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 with their hands in the air and this wasn't quite true. the israelis tried to portray you know they

thought that the presence portrayed her 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. yemen who the rebels say they fired four missiles in saudi arabia they say they targeted saudi forces near the city of jos and in a separate development two saudi soldiers were killed while fighting with who these near the yemeni border that's according to saudi media well the u.n. team on a train the troops in yemen says it's disappointed that a humanitarian corridor between the port city of her data and the rebel held capital sana has not yet opened this was among many agreements reached the talks in sweden earlier this month as part of that deal with the rebels have handed over control of her data to the government and the u.n. wants to verify where they'll go next the u.n. says it wants to ensure that the movement of rebels is in line with the sweet agreement another mass grave containing civilians executed by eisel fighters

has been found in northern iraq the sites in provence was used by the group as a military training camp police are guarding the area and how eager until a team arrives from baghdad to exuma the remains of product has its report shepherds discovered these remains after a heavy rain in the area a child shots was found among blankets in the grave it is unclear how many bodies a further underground come out. as you can see the location allowed them to hide and kill innocent people from the district and outside the district levels from that the level age say they witness victims being mad by i saw as they walked him through the forest. well up a little ahead of me as you are for me on a little on our way we saw what they were killing them with the victims were dressed in red suits we could see them it was clear. it isn't the first mass graves found in her wheelchair in southern cook gray's containing at least four hundred

bodies were found at an airbase on the outskirts of the city in november last year last month the united nations in iraq and the un's human rights office released a report it says there verified and documented at least two hundred two graves in northern and western iraq they date back to the time when i still controlled large swathes of iraqi territory between june twenty fourth teen and december twenty seventh teen only twenty eight of those teams have been excavated and ever one thousand bodies have been exceeded and the report says as many as twelve thousand bodies could be buried in the graves they could hold vital evidence to convict those responsible for war crimes and possibly genocide traumatized families may never know what happened to their loved ones the united nations says grazed must be preserved and they seemed with care to give them some comfort barbara and. sara.

at least sixty people have done it all for a storm system called flash floods and landslides in the philippines five thousand people have been forced to leave the homes dozens of still missing the number of casualties could rise as rescue operations continue thousands of passengers were also stranded at different ports across the country. the search for fifteen teenagers trapped in an illegal coal mine in northeast india will resume in the coming hours after navy divers abound in the first rescue attempt on sunday the naval team trying to reach them but could only make it possible to scent of the one hundred ten meter pit the miners became trapped earlier this month floodwater father chris president has received a letter from north korean leader kim jong il for talks in the new year president moon jai in the office says that kim was sorry he couldn't make a planned visit to the south before the end of the year came in maidan met three times this year and have made a series of goodwill gestures afghanistan's presidential vote has been pushed back

by three months off the parliamentary elections in october were disrupted by violence and technical problems the election commission has reshaped two of the vote from april to july to resolve the issues two months ago polling stations in some areas failed to open by metro machines didn't work and some voter lists were correct. sudan's president bashir says he will not apologize for the ongoing term all in his country has been speaking out against protests over rising prices some demonstrators have been calling on him to step down but share blames economic problems on international sanctions but really some of the know is that i don't like it. 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 polices us who are national resources like. animals plants minerals or pietra or anything else and we will get through this period but it needs patience wisdom and good management the u.k. and france ever agreed on a plan to deal with migrants and refugees attempting to cross the english channel the plan will include increased joint patrols and surveillance and will be implemented in the coming days more than two hundred twenty people have attempted the journey since november. the u.s. state of california will toughen up its already strict laws on gun ownership in the coming months as part of our series looking ahead to two thousand and nineteen rob reynolds reports on how the state has come

a long way in bringing down crime. the new year will bring new gun laws in the biggest us state california will ban anyone under age twenty one from buying rifles shotguns and semiautomatic weapons like the rifle a teenage gunman used to kill seventeen high school students in florida last february we have seen dramatic decreases in the death rates from firearm related causes and we think that those decreases are attributable to some of the strong gun laws that we have in california the strongest in the country in the early one nine hundred ninety s. california began an acting law mandating waiting period for all gun purchases background checks prohibiting gun sales to people with mental health issues and many other measures in one nine hundred ninety three california had one of the highest gun homicide rates in the u.s. seventeen point three firearm deaths per one hundred thousand residents by two

thousand and sixteen the rate had declined to seven point seven per one hundred thousand by contrast alabama with lax gun laws currently has twenty one point four firearm deaths per one hundred thousand per year the states that have strongest the strongest gun laws have the lowest firearm related death rates and the states that have the weakest gun laws have the highest firearm related death rates the national rifle association for the proposal to raise the age limit at last another log coming into effect in twenty nine teen will impose a lifetime ban on california residents convicted of serious acts of domestic violence previously domestic violence convictions had resulted in only a ten year ban hannah dunn year is the violence prevention education coordinator for the organization peace over violence but we know it that when it got as

a present in the home it makes the. woman five times more likely to be killed but also we know that when i got his present accuser has access to a gun it also increases the likelihood of more it's utilized often as a means of control of coercion and the evidence shows a clear link between domestic violence and bass shootings fifty four percent of mass shootings have a connection to domestic violence yet it's a domestic violence shooting in which the perpetrator kills their partner as well as other innocent victims or family members california is chipping away at american gun culture year after year an approach that's paying off and saving lives rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. all right let's have a recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera and now there has obtained pictures

showing the saudi hit that killed journalist america carrying large bags shortly after he was last seen alive the video shows the t.v. arriving at the consul general's residence in istanbul suspected of carrying his remains which have never been found but good as his prime minister has another has won a landslide election victory securing a third consecutive term in office but the opposition has rejected the results of his call for a new vote fall and some polling day left at least eighteen people dead but counting is underway in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election provincial provisional results are expected in the coming days the opposition has raised concerns and it regularities in. polling stations the voting machine the war. and this was not the properties and the many police titian i want.

i want people i want to seize or didn't. allow to be. israel's prime minister says he's received a personal pledge from brazil's president elect to move his country's embassy to jerusalem benjamin netanyahu says that. told him it was a question of when not if the move will go ahead the incoming brazilian leader is under pressure to keep the embassy in tel aviv to avoid hurting lucrative exports to arab countries at least sixty people have died after a storm system calls of flash floods and landslides in the philippines five thousand people have been forced to leave their homes and thousands are still missing the search for fifteen teenagers trapped in an illegal coal mine in northeast india will resume in the coming hours after the navy divers abandon the first rescue attempt on sunday the naval team tried to reach them but could

only make a partial descent of the one hundred ten meter pit the mine is became trapped earlier this month by floodwater all right you're up to date with all the headlines here on al-jazeera got more news right after you find asia. more women more diversity the new look of the u.s. congress what it needs for the first time on january third will what it means for the democrats and for president all join us for coverage of this historic step in american politics the new u.s. conference on elton's zero viewfinder.

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