across this country. the vote counting is also underway in the democratic republic of congo after a long awaited presidential election the opposition has raised concerns over irregularities provisional results are expected in the coming days the election could result in the democratic republic of congo's first transition of power through the ballot box welcome wear pants the latest from the capital kinshasa. president joseph kabila of eighty delhi has led the democratic republic of congo in eighteen years. this election two years a video is to choose his successor my only concern is that we have these very heavy rain. and over the might be wrong. this is the man he wants to take over. he's on the european union sanctions list accused of rights abuses. 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 there's no copy of the electoral register here that's a let me practice for the people inside we sit sunrise waiting to vote a big crowd of people outside as well patience is running thin people here blame the president of the electoral commission for not delivering and demanding their rights of a. young. lady into morning we're looking for which a voice we've heard go anywhere. everyone here is showing their support for candidate number four martin for you live he 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 reno dug

some heavy hours we're having problems. everything is going peacefully now if you pull over for. me. you'll be if you. have. to have a congolese and you have to force. people in the eastern cities of benny and the tempo 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 clearly of a big liar saying that she had to recant when. millions of voters

across the country counted will be contentious many congolese say they wanted to accept the result they don't believe. web al-jazeera kinshasa the democratic republic of congo. still ahead here on al-jazeera why president trump has decided to slow down the immediate withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria we'll have a live update and the protests continue the government announces a new budget to stay with us here. yet more clouds and at times rains stepping in from the atlantic into move west impossible if you're digging down actually across central areas through germany

heading down towards the alps we are going to see some snow over the high ground he says of the out for example we'll see quite a covering of snow pushed further south the gnostic little system just developing into central and eastern parts of the mediterranean temperatures struggling to get to around ten degrees celsius in athens and in the cloud on the right on monday ten celsius somewhat clear skies there for london nine degrees for paris it is relatively mild and it will continue to be as we go on into the new year we will see well some rain and snow running across the baltic states the white cold across a good part of east near pushed further right down towards greece yeah you can see the the right kind of time some snow continue to roll its way in here's some of that wet weather will affect the far north of libya maybe also wanted to share was a possibility to the northern fringes of egypt temps very disappointing fifteen celsius there for triple a twenty there for cars and not so bad here the better weather across most western parts of africa continues to was about with the top

temperature of eighty degrees. the latest news as it breaks i'll go inside on both sides of the political spectrum are you know a team in their criticism of the government with detailed coverage only change so far as to make it explicit thank you communist party will remain as the only party . from around the world the idea of an armed intifada position to the occupation is gaining support that's moving away from different magic negotiations.

welcome back you're watching officer with the whole robin i could arrange another top stories on the program al-jazeera has obtained pictures showing the saudi hit team that killed journalist jamal khashoggi carrying large bangs shortly after he was last seen alive the video shows the team arriving at the consul general's residence in istanbul and suspected of carrying his remains which have never been found also floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty one people most of the victims of the small storm system are in the mountainous region and in the island and voting has begun vote counting partly has begun in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election the opposition has raised concerns over irregularities provisional results are expected in the next few days. a u.s. republican senator says he's received assurance from the president to be

a slowdown to the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria senator lindsey graham says u.s. president donald trump is committed to defeating isilon to meeting with him at the white house graham has criticized trump's announcement this month of removing all two thousand u.s. troops from syria saying it could destabilize the region we still have some differences but i will tell you that the president is thinking long and hard about syria how to withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interests which are to make sure that isis is destroyed they never come back their allies the kurds are protected and that iran doesn't become the big winner of our leaving and i feel pretty good about where we're headed. obama does our correspondent shows nothing goes into the turkey syria border and i haven't really a warning from president trump's own side and perhaps some encouragement to those on the ground in syria that politicians in the u.s.

want to act wisely and any withdrawal decision. yes of course they were warned about the hoppen but the trump stepping on the brakes will slowing down the u.s. troop withdrawal. to happen within six to two hundred days from the time he made the announcement to many here is more like a closing the door to the stable of the halls haase a ball already alliances huf shifted the ease of crumble by the regional policy to feel about the vacuum the void that would been left once the u.s. troops leave syria we've seen about the dust but at the move by the kurdish y.p.u. fight is inviting the city and government forces to come and attack them against a top official position of course tuckey has also been reacting to lynsey good

homes comments there with on cuz i'm busted up to washington say i hope you do not mean the y.p. deal when you're talking about your lies. is vowing not to allow any tended to be controlled by god anywhere it's border and it has been must and coupes of the border overnight we saw dozens of times the ruling into syria from the commission of a border crossing the f.s.a. fighters who are allied to turkey of sixteen thousand of them are also on a wall for to say to be getting closer and closer to the city of mumbai input a potential for an all out offensive well for the moment so we'll leave it. bahrain's high court has upheld the jail sentence of a prominent rights activist who is critical of saudi arabia the bill rodgers will

spend five years in prison after his appeal was rejected in court were jobber tweeted criticism of saudi arabia strikes in yemen and accused bahrain's prison authorities of torture. residents in the yemeni port city of the data say shelling is still occurring despite a un backed truce who the fighters agreed to hand over control of the data to the government which is backed by the saudi and where r.t. coalition of the talks in sweden earlier this month the un has confirmed the have pulled back as they have handed over control of the port to coastguards however the yemeni government accuses the rebels of backtracking on the agreement saying territory has been handed over to the affiliates. of these say that they've also fired four missiles into saudi arabia they say they targeted saudi forces near the city of just in a separate development to saudi soldiers were killed while fighting with these near the yemen border as according to saudi media israel's military has

killed more than two hundred palestinians during the months of protests at the guards a border fence thousands more have been injured in the weekly demonstrations now the new york times has released a damning investigation it israel's use of live fire on protesters its report focuses on the death of a twenty year old medic who was killed by gunfire during a protest in june after analyzing over one thousand photos and videos the times concludes that the jars killing was intentional and she did not pose any security threat and was standing more than one hundred meters away from the border fence when she was killed by a sniper the israeli military says it's investigating the death. and israel's prime minister says he's received a personal pledge from brazil's president elect to move his country's embassy to jerusalem and also naro who is hosting benjamin netanyahu and other leaders always inauguration on choose day he's under growing pressure to keep brazil's embassy in

tel aviv to avoid hurting lucrative exports to arab countries. colombian authorities say they're investigating the assassination plot against the president even 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 to a right wing economists to speak when he criticized the socialist government of venezuela's leader nicolas maduro. first of all you're going to see when we can announce that intelligence investigations have been carried out for several months about possible attacks against the life of the colombian president. we recently captured three venezuelan citizens who found themselves in possession of weapons which further increases the concerns that the or thirty eight have had in this matter. or protests are planned in sudan and choose to call the war president bashir to step down he's refusing to apologize for the ongoing turmoil in his country recent protests against rising prices bashir is blaming economic problems

on international sanctions well the madness is that i know we're going through a crisis and the people are facing challenges and we'll 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 neil through an economic crisis. we were also tells parliament has passed its two thousand nine hundred fifty called budget politicians say the new budget will reduce inflation but many remain skeptical they will be able to deliver on that promise of a mortgage reports from the capital khartoum. after days of demonstration over the poor state of the economy which have morphed into calls for the government to step down to dance parliament passed its twenty nine thousand first call budget. the

most important thing about a budget is addressing the hard currency issue and increasing exports by thirty percent while reducing imports by increasing like production the budget also focuses on creasing oil production reducing imports of oil. the new budget promises to reduce the country's inflation from its current rate of seventy percent to twenty seven it's also aims to increase economic growth by five point one percent and raise spending by nearly three point four billion dollars while cutting budget deficit to three point three percent from caribbean the. three point seven aims that some economists think will be difficult to achieve and. there's a huge deficit in the budget about one billion dollars there is also a deficit between exports and imports and encrease and inflation these are challenges facing the government so anything that doesn't address those issues affect the implementation of the budget. the newly passed spending bill also leaves important questions unanswered. the new budget will maintain subsidies on wheat and

theo but doesn't explain where the government will get the hard currency needed to pay for the subsidies because it should take have left long queues at petrol stations and lack of right in some bakeries which has triggered nationwide protests a process that began in the city of hadera bread shortages and rising inflation quickly spread to other parts of the country the government responded with tear gas and live ammunition more than sixty percent of sudan's revenue was lost when thoughts dentist heated in twenty eleven taking a third of the country's oil reserves with it despite government attempts to find new sources of revenue and sudan suffered now some sudanese think they have lost faith in the government's ability to fix the economy. i have little faith in the government but there's no other option if we get another government it might be even worse than the one we currently have. our only problem is the high prices we've said it before that the government has taken all our money but we don't know what the future holds what if we bring in people who have experience and they

destroy the economy even more so dense economy has been fragile for the past seventy years but politicians here hope that their twenty one thousand budget will lead to greater stability both economically as well as politically him a war going to zero. call the. women's basketball team made history. closer to winning the world cup with a new women's basketball training facility in the country the sport is gaining popularity especially amongst girls reports from the city of. a. fifteen year old. is unwilling to accept the kind of life many teenage girls are facing the third child of four brothers and sisters she's expected to cook clean and iron for the family chores her brothers don't have to do. and look i need help and i'm grateful that i mean i was doing this but i hope she has a better future than me. in senegal one out of three girls marry young.

but this is not what i mean i want. one day my older sister went to a basketball court and she dribbled and saw this team playing together it was an eye opener there's so much tolerance and solidarity between the players and after training it's as if they are a family. and so i mean i started playing. here deep in sending girls countryside with an all girls team. that's breaking the norm. they don't play nice. they play to win that. they want to mop up as a coach and talent scout working with the new african national basketball association academy in senegal. we don't coach girls differently from boys because they are. and to be.

sending girls national team or are known as the lion this during the last world championships in october they outperformed it out showing most teams coming close to bringing the cup to africa. and so in a country where many young girls are married at a young age the success of the women's national basketball team is challenging traditional views defiant more and more girls are going out to play instead of staying at home they are perseverant rigor encourage qualities by is looking for while a few girls will make a living from playing basketball if selected it's a chance to get training full scholarship and an education and opportunity to another life nicholas hawke algis you at chess senegal. your children there are going to remind of all top stories al-jazeera has obtained

pictures showing the saudi hit team that killed journalist jamal khashoggi carrying a large bank shortly after he was last seen alive the video shows the team arriving at the consul general's residence in istanbul suspected of carrying his remains which have not been found floods and landslides in the philippines and killed at least sixty one people most of the victims of the storm system are in the mountainous because the region some are island thousands of people have been forced to leave homes search and rescue operations are ongoing all the dozens of people are still missing bangladesh is prime minister sheikh hasina has won a fourth term in office the opposition insists the polls were rigged and was a new vote under a neutral government. but counting is underway in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election the opposition has raised concerns over irregularities provisional results are expected in the coming days. the u.s. republican senator says he's received assurances from the president that there will

be slowed to the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria senator lindsey graham says u.s. president donald trump is committed to defeating always the after meeting with him at the white house has criticized trump's announcement this month of removing all two thousand u.s. troops from syria saying it could destabilize the region we still have some differences but i will tell you that the president is thinking long and hard about syria had to withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interests which are to make sure that isis is destroyed they never come back their allies the kurds are protected and that iran doesn't become the big winner of our leaving and i feel pretty good about where we're headed lindsey graham speaking there well bahrain's high court has upheld the jail sentence of a prominent rights activist who is critical of saudi arabia the beall rich will spend five years in prison after his appeal was rejected in court tweeted criticism

of saudi arabia's as strikes in yemen down to queues bahrain's prison authorities of torture those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on ars their next it's inside story do stay with us. capturing the moment in time snapshots of the nine s. the story. into someone else's. niece. she's accused of silencing her critics or main rival is in jail as shit is seen as a decade in power is being put to the test in bangladesh she's vote for her to stay as prime minister and why does this election matter this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey the daughter of democracy to her supporters and authoritarian to her critics bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina has been in and out of power for decades and now she's likely to win a mandate for a record third straight term millions of bangladeshis have cast their votes in what's being seen as a referendum on his seen his ruling party elections have been marred by violence accusations of a crackdown on opposition voices and complaints of vote rigging seen as longtime rival is the former prime minister but she's been in jail since february on corruption charges and is barred from even taking part charles' strafford as has the latest now from the capital dhaka. as polls closed in this the eleventh's election in this country's history since its independence in one thousand nine hundred eighty one yet more allegations but only by the opposition or voter

intimidation and potentially vote rigging certainly the election commission says it's going to be investigating these claims that the polling station that we visited things will calm but interestingly we spoke to a member of a member of an opposition polling station teen who said that they had their id papers and their election papers confiscated they then said that they were threatened and forced to leave the premises by what they described as supporters of the ruling party now each party is supposed to have representatives at these polling stations they monitor the voting process and vitally have to be present for the counting of the votes so certainly these allegations are consistent with what it seems the election commission could be investigating it's also important to say that at this particular polling station they seem to be very few members of supporters of one of the opposition costing their ballots one man who came up to us

quietly and was keen to report to us that he said that he'd arrived at the polling station to find out that his ballot had already been cast now the government has said that the kind of figures that the opposition has been calling out in the build up to this election the opposition saying that more than ten thousand six hundred of the supporters and some of these candidates have been arrested detained in the build up to the election the ruling party saying that these figures are fabricated . and there's a there's been a lot of exaggeration on the level of violence that has been committed by their supporters and they're keen to point out that they have also been the victim of violence at least six supporters of the ruling party have been killed in the run up to this. action the government also it must be pointed out despite their human rights record the international community or many members of the international community in the world bank been very complementary with respect to the economic

policies of bangladesh in recent years least six percent economic annual growth. in recent years they've also been very complementary to the government about the way that it's handle what was described last year is the largest refugee crisis in the world around seven hundred thousand ranger refugees fleeing a crackdown in myanmar that are now residing in camps in bangladesh but as i say with these increasing allegations now of voter fraud jury in this poll it's going to be very interesting to see whether either side except any result after this election charles stratford in dhaka the inside story. it's like a closer look at the woman who's led bangladesh for nearly a decade chica seen as the daughter of bangladesh this founder who led the country to its independence from pakistan she was elected to the leadership of the ruling

awami league in one thousand nine hundred one and began her first and as prime minister in one nine hundred ninety six she is now the country's longest serving and two thousand and seven his senior was jailed on charges of corruption alleged to have taken place while she was in office she returned to power in two thousand and nine and is that credited with overseeing ten years of economic growth but criticized for cracking down on the opposition she's also been praised for welcoming revenger refugees fleeing a military crackdown in me and maher. let's bring in the panel now joining us from london seoul tom a mood sharif president of the awami league in the u.k. and. a professor of international relations at john kerry and our university and also in london a hog associate fellow of the asia pacific program at chatham house appreciate all of you for joining me right now so what i want to start with you is the atmosphere right for a free and fair election as you see it it is fully. very much

and the most fair. way to come and gust their vote i have been getting information from people who are standing in the queue all over the country and giving information as to how simple easy and comfortable it was for them to go and give their vote. and i am fully satisfied that dan as spies the promise of the election commission the law enforcing authorities the government of the day and this. other people who are conducting this election including the civil servants and helping police forces job i'd be interested in your thoughts as well do you think that there's the proper atmosphere to foster

a free and fair election. it depends how we see generally i would say that it was a related play much. of what we are and dissipated perhaps there are allegations that in some voting some polling stations. perhaps there is also. by media reporting that almost like more than eighteen people died during the day of the lection which gives you a little bit of an uneasy picture there where you see that the election has been marked with violence and irregularities and the election commission has the right to me mention that definitely looking to eat and conduct appropriate inquiry into all these allegations which has been launched by different political

process so therefore in a general sense the most fair was much more better than what we anticipated but perhaps the violence that really questions sartain integrity of the entire process. charade or thoughts. well i think you know rather than concentrate only on what happened on the election day which and in any case we don't have a vague picture because media hasn't had full and free access to the election coverage we've had very little independent oversight and monitoring of the elections let's step back a little bit and see how the state machinery has been manipulated in bank of the issue for a period of time during the campaigning the way the election commission has been manipulated the way the police has been deployed so instruments of the state have been used in the ruling party's favor in addition i think we have to still step

back and really look at the onslaught on the opposition which has been taking place for the last two years almost you know we've had sixty one percent of the opposition candidates who've had some form of criminal cases filed against them so overtly dismay ssion of those in the opposition has taken place which in my view would not constitute a free and fair election and we're actually are absolutely going to going to drill down on that when you talk about the opposition but actually to bring up something that that soltani both reference was the election commission the chief election commissioner actually said that he wanted law enforcement agencies to act with an iron fist to check violence and iron fist is that language concern you salt on. no it doesn't concern me because for the entire really action

years if you look at the record of the opposition the people who were born out of the martyr of the founding father father of the country well known to say you were a man and his family members in some way at his own residence and then took over power in the country and subsequently ruled the country without law without any any law without any system and without any election these people in the last election did not participate in the election not a little bit that sultan i'm talking to as alternatives so time talking about right now though right now that is a matter of fact there is one i have just a moment right there now just a moment there's one a bit of political analyst charge i describe it this way says that political

parties don't see each other as political rivals they look upon others as enemies i mean even the language that you're using now seems to be extremely harsh. well it is mr of sons view my view is that there are elements in all political parties all over the world who try to educate their own party men and other party people and they are not the leaders if you look at what sic has in a has been telling over the years continually that the election will be free and fair that it will not be interfered with by any organization it will be unfair if this somebody is committing crime and the police does not stop or low interest and other authorities do not stop them of the eighteen murders in last two

days sixteen people where only activists sixteen of them a unserved police helper who was murdered mercilessly sultan is a full time to do some way so tired as sharon made a very good point earlier we're still trying to gather a lot of the facts of the day and actually what has happened there so i want to let me bring and let me push ahead i want you to respond to what i saw you reacting to what i was saying this political analyst said that the rhetoric is so charged and people talk about each other as enemies instead of political rivals do you agree with that. yes to a great extent the point is. just a little bit of political history i mean if you take bangladesh's political history since one thousand ninety one two major political parties have always had a divergent view on political philosophy a political leader largely and perhaps that has escalated into violence many many

times now what happened in two thousand and eight own word is we had a credible election in two thousand and eight where the current current regime came into power but two thousand and fourteen was a fractured election perhaps but again two thousand and eighteen was the election where all the political parties agree to come and participate so i should give credit to the critical parties to really show some sort of common ground that they really need to take the democracy institutions forward so therefore they were in the election perhaps yes there are allegations and there are visual allegations and perhaps we have seen in the media that there were whites great concerns regarding the integrity of certain institutions and rightfully if you take the election commission and the statements this morning two of them were essentially saying that they didn't see any kind of calling agent coming from the other parties taken part

in the electoral process the car has these are the allegations which election commission itself says that those so therefore i think these things too should be dealt with pretty fast and perhaps when you discussed about the role of the police or law enforcement agencies well the historic reason is police would always to comply with the regime of the day so there's no deviation to that but then he's been put in power or of a malignant power so the so henceforth there. that you mention irons or are those is perhaps their regular recording that bottom of their shoes or have recruited root sherif limit you mention this the state the status rather of the opposition and i think that's important to discuss why. what it's been done to to weaken the opposition mean it's obvious that the main opposition leader is in jail

but what are the other types of systemic things that have been done so much so that they did not even participate in two thousand and fourteen. well i think you have to see it i think a very good point was made earlier about the force lies on all sides all political parties across the board have behaved in an irregular mannah through the years they have been violations committed by all sides in this particular context i would say there was such disillusionment with the army league's ability to hold and free and fair election in two thousand and fourteen that the opposition decided to abstain and stay out of the election so there was an illegitimate in the election in two thousand and fourteen one can argue lost its legitimacy how about the two thousand the teen elections is it illegitimate elections to be the fact that parties have come together as was just pointed out makes it a legitimate election but the means that we use to weaken and fracture the

opposition and the widespread not just arrest but also cases the direct attacks the onslaught on those who spoke out into the in the media and we've had the very emblematic east of shahid the limb. who was put under. arrest and despite international fury about it. this sort of complete authoritarian clampdown on dissent is something i would say was rather i'm precedented the b.n.p. has had its share of you know suppressing the same tone and having showing streaks of authoritarianism in the past when it was in in the in the chair. i think with the i want me to eat it took a very unprecedented scale you know we've seen the killings of opposition members we've seen as i was saying you know the attacks in terms of criminal cases

being launched the absolute emasculation of the opposition i think is as been quite complete under the army league soltani modestly or with the league in the u.k. i'm sure i'd like to respond to that. of course respond to all these things. arsenal of mustard a liberal leader and a member of parliament was murdered in front of the school where you are the basically originally teachers school teachers. in broad daylight by the n.p. tax and who have been. doing little time rested and. done for just a moment so to understand it just just once again i'll let you finish this. second one second charu shari said that both sides have been guilty of a lot of a lot of things she did say that i know no no i did i disagree with you

because there is no two sides one side has done so much criminal acts that started with the killing of the founding father obama this the national leaders who fought who are the leaders of our liberation while they were martyred inside the jail in a gruesome way so turn and i have heard you saying people are you saying that he or that delivers n y r are you saying that the awami league is now anywhere. ok only league is is an organization which tried to establish democracy in the country and the last in fort before did election was that to ask the question everybody to come and join in on the action twenty nine political parties have participated in this election if political party which men are to have forty two

thousand sit in forty two thousand. centers and their people to give their the prison duty that could not be put on our own league as only cannot be blamed for that a political party which for twelve years did not do any politics and before that all right ok hold of a friendly. public property. line will be taken in to dusk salt on i want to bring into this conversation as a as an outside observer a professor a professor of international relations sorry to say that that both sides have have done improper things i am so trying obviously is pushing back on the idea that awami did in getting us a lot of history and not saying that history doesn't matter history in context apps actually do matter but do you think that in that for a lot of voters or at least party leaders they're so entrenched in history that they're not looking forward you know i mean i think the people are looking

forward i mean this is one of the crime of the contemporary politics in bunkers you have rightly mention. the. looking about that yes there the institutions are pretty much fractured to a large extent but again this is the legacy we have inherited from a long long time story but again now what determines at the moment there are things for major issues one is whether the public safety is deliberate whether the economy is actually trickling down to the bottom or perhaps what kind of governance are we going to establish in this country so perhaps yes the last ten years that we had he collapsed and there are plenty of reproach to reach shows that yes the development was an event but at the end of the day what has happened today as as my

friend from our army late has also say that yes it was also on the part of the other political parties to come up with political maturity and i'm certainly not blaming anybody here but perhaps a little bit of more political maturity to both sides the regime and the opposition was expected that's the reason why we are now seeing eighteen dead which is not at all except that that we have got eighteen whether the guys are from the ruling party or the opposition doesn't matter what matters is the life of the last or so which means the institutional does have some sort of witnesses which will require immediate attention and perhaps amendment and the other from london has rightly mentioned that yes there where the issues of political vacuum there was an issue of an even line first man but perhaps this gives another mandate to the current regime

the regime that will come into power soon to really fix it because unless you fix it perhaps another five years we don't. people will not really will be willing to. more if you go ok at the end the big thing lies within the hands of the i when they want to do i want to get in one more question i'm sorry before you went out of time did the massive. exodus everyone is being so many people are being received in bangladesh has that been a campaign issue or discussion at all. well certainly there has been some attempt you know by certain political parties certain interests within bangladesh to create fear about the exodus certainly the issue about their hinges radicalizing radicalizing bunder the asian and spreading islamic hard line

islamic militancy in that part of bangladesh has been that that view has been perpetrated perpetuated by by certain groups including the half hours that which is linked with the of army leak but i'd like to make a quick point here and which is about you know these elections the army leak has done well it's been classified as authoritarian development whatever that may be the economy is showing a strong group of seven percent employment is is high and good people are reaping the benefits of this economic route the access to education has certainly improved so they're there they dipping good things that have happened in the of are really would have possibly as recent polls would have possibly won this election without the bending the rule of law it didn't need it so ironically the army league

was in a good position even internationally welcoming the hinges has been a very good move and has been generally with all the hiccups involved has been generally you know accepted and. deserves credit for that as the government in power so i suppose what i'm trying to say is that this election could have gone seamlessly and in of army leagues favor it didn't need to bend the rule of law and that will be the final word i think that's a good place to wrap it up thank you to all of my guests i preached. your time very much salt sharif. khan and shah rukh lot to hug thank you all very much and thank you for watching you can see the program again anytime go to our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion at our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at

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parts of a robin you're watching all just airlines my headquarters here in doha also coming up the search for survivors in the philippines after floods and landslides killed at least sixty one people. opposition. to prime minister sheikh hasina claims overwhelming victory in the general election. continue in sudan calling for a change of government of president bashir. welcome to the program al-jazeera has obtained video showing saadi agents taking what suspected to be the remains of jamal khashoggi to the house of the saudi cultural general and it stumble the washington post columnist was killed soon after entering the saudi consulate october the second poll today reports. it's

been three months since the murder of. and his body still hasn't been found but this video could throw more light on the sequence of events after he was killed the pictures appear to show members of the saudi hit team carrying bags thought to contain his remains into the saudi consul general residence you can't believe these things happen in embassies or consul generals things but but of course they are control of all that control will in that saudi property saudi land the local police can't really do very much about it and of course they wouldn't imagine for one minute the were actually listening to what was going on inside the saudi journalist entered the consulate hoping to pick up documents that would allow him to start a new life with his fiance he never came out alive saudi arabia blamed his death on rogue agents but turkey's president says it was a premeditated murder orchestrated by riad these pictures only add another layer of

complexity to the investigation now we have direct evidence showing members of the killing unloading body bags or black bags of some sort so it leaves the impression. body ended up at the consular. residence and that's where the investigation should focus not what happened today a few weeks after hushovd disappearance a team of turkish investigators found traces of acid during a search of the saudi consuls residence the office of turkey's attorney general has told al jazeera that chemicals were used to dispose of casualties body and now a new book is revealing more details of the killing. diplomatic atrocity the dark secrets of the murder was written by three reporters from turkey's daily newspaper

it names two previously and identified members of the saudi hit squad as well as their links to the royal family also audio recordings which allegedly prove that the crime was premeditated and information on his show g.'s reported refusal to text message his son in riyadh and tell him not to worry if he didn't hear from him for a while as a fuller picture of the killing emerges the pressure continues to grow on saudi arabia last week the king reshuffled his cabinet hoping to deflect international criticism but the saudi side would hope that this recent cabinet reshuffle puts an end to this case and relieve saudi arabia from this pressure by the turks and the international community looking for some answers the new details are also likely to add to growing calls that saudi arabia names and indicts those behind.

killing paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. to send a correspondent in istanbul and cinema in the video has been out there but when you close a scrutiny of the images once again really highlights the complexity of the plan to make. perhaps put yet again more pressure on riyadh to name and hand over the suspects to ankara. yes of and exactly this is what is expected from on current now because as we have mentioned before. the investigation case since the indictment hasn't been able to be filed yet in the investigation has turned out to be about luck because since everything happened under a diplomatic immunity the murders even the murderers were diplomatic immunity it investigation process is kind of blocked because an independent investigation is still ongoing in saudi arabia about what we hear from the turkish officials is that

saudi arabia doesn't even give out the names that they have arrested that they have questioned in riyadh and they said no information regarding the interviews of those suspects and these people are the prime suspects in an investigation ongoing in turkey so since that there is a lack of cooperation between riyadh and ankara on this murder case everything was stopped and turkey said this is the time for an internet international investigation to be launched and turkey urge international community and a third parties. to launch an investigation into a national investigation minister of the united nations but as i sad turkey was complaining that the saudis haven't named their local color breakers and they haven't even given out the name who ordered the smirk there and turkey has always claimed that the person who gave the order is among the senior officers in saudi

arabia so now there's a whole crowd that this new picture this new footage can also urge the international community more and maybe a push for more corporation over did investigate ssion otherwise really it is becoming get the blood and turkish officials circus people along with the people who seek for justice they were not happy about what's going on because it is taking a long time and. the indictment has to be filed very soon despite all the evidence all the video recordings all the tapes that all all the transcriptions are there everything proves that this murder was premeditated and it was run by a saudi official who is. up to three whom you can also see in this picture getting out of the when now we are we are waiting for an a statement from the istanbul prosecutor's office to give more details on the topic

and probably the foreign ministry might also be speaking about this about this new evidence proving that jamal first took his body remains are taken to the residence and there is no picture of those luggage is getting out of being taken out of the consulate residence so now there is a question whether the buy the remains are still there but for the moment we'll leave it. at this in pursuit of a list of books. bahrain's hindquarters of holy germs and tins of a problem rights activist who is critical of saudi arabia the bill roger will spend five years in prison as appeal was rejected in court robert tweeted criticizing saudi air strikes in yemen and accusing bahrain's prison authorities of torture and the students national says the verdict exposes bahrain's justice system as a complete farce staying in the region people in the yemeni port city of the data say shelling is still occurring despite a un back troops who could find has agreed to hand over control of the data to

a local coast guard to be overseen by the un as part of the recent deal agreed in sweden the un has confirmed the huge use of pullback but the yemeni government accuses the rebels of backtracking on the agreement saying territory has been handed over to the affiliates. floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty one people thousands of people have been forced to leave homes search and rescue operations are under way for the dozens of citizens who still missing most of the victims of the small storm system or in the mountains because the region and the civil islands. manila as a preemptive measure local government officials here say they have evacuated more than twenty thousand civilians just days before this disaster struck and fortunately though this disaster still happened it's important to note know that the thought of number of fatalities came from different areas all across the region the first

landslide happened friday and the second one late saturday night but so many areas according to local government officials and rescuers remain inaccessible because roads and bridges have been destroyed at this point rescue energy bill operations remain in their way and those who have been displaced according to the local government are receiving assistance such as temporary shelters food and medicine south-asian a bunch of those whose prime minister sheikh hasina has won a fourth term in office according to local media the ruling alliance has won at least two hundred eighty seven thousand three hundred seats where voting took place the opposition has rejected the results claiming widespread vote rigging charles strafford reports from the capital dhaka. voters cast their ballots after an election campaign described by the band with this your position as one of the most violent in this country's forty seven year history. we have a lot of hope in this election because we couldn't vote in the last one with this

time we came to vote let's see what happens now. the government deployed hundreds of thousands of security forces across the country an effort it said that was to guarantee a peaceful vote weeks of violence and what the opposition described as intimidation by the ruling party in the build up to this election certainly the situation at this polling station has been calm but that's not to say there haven't been allegations of voter fraud members of an opposition polling station monitoring team say they had their i.d.'s and election papers confiscated they said they were threatened and ordered to leave. all parties were supposed to have election monitors at polling stations to watch the voting process and the vote count election commission members confirm to us they had also seen opposition members to the way. we fourteen members of the opposition b.n.p.

entered the polling station we gave our papers to the presiding officer and he said to go to the booth then the ruling party members beat us and forced us from the building. but the government and the opas asian acknowledge a number of supporters from both sides were killed on election day but the ruling party said the election had been free and fair then this from the leader of the largest opposition coalition including the main opposition party. we urge immediately to cancel this what we reject the so-called result of the election we demand to hold another election under a non politicized government. the election commission says it will investigate allegations of vote rigging but the announcement by the opposition that it has rejected the vote has huge implications for the political future and security situation across this country struck with al-jazeera. a rescue operation involving some five hundred.