he 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. both the government and the opposition acknowledge a number of supporters from both sides who 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 but al-jazeera. a rescue operation involving some five hundred people is underway following

a gas explosion and partial building collapse in russia the blast in an apartment block happened early on monday in the southwest of the city of miami told walsh three people have been confirmed killed and three others injured seventy nine are still missing. still ahead here on al-jazeera we take a close look at the rise of the far right in germany as foreigners and refugees come increasingly under attack. and with a new congress in place what challenges lie ahead for u.s. president donald trump and twenty nine t. the stories of the other side of the break. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. when over europe it seems the warm is winning out over the code i'm surprised it's happening that way but that seems to be the case this

arc of cloud here is actually the air from the atlantic and nothing really driving it this way you wouldn't have thought so city and needs it the sun is out there wind directions right for things to warp in spain and portugal and they have been doing so ten degrees in london sixteen zero or example times above where they should be and that's relative walks is fitting right through poland so the code is left in ukraine and russia and that's of course where you might expect to see some snow there's a little bit is that warm front goes across for instilling austria back to the alps and for the south to scold not on the top of the higher ground in for example serbia but it's sundry rain in greece which is showing you some of the most vicious weather and that's us develop and spread in towards turkey the next so as the warms relatively speaking develops more snow for the baltic states east in poland and better ross was right in following all so the actions in european mainland song in the eastern med i think that central eastern by which you can see developing here will affect parts of north africa no surprise there at first it's mostly bound over

the water itself but i think you're far on the coast of libya will become a very wet place during tuesday. the weather sponsored by cattle and place. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then to end this case it was betrayed totally upfront own al-jazeera.

because if you're watching officer with me said robert a reminder of our top stories al-jazeera has obtained pictures showing the saudi hit team that killed jamal khashoggi. that seen carrying large about suspected of containing his remains into the consul general's residence in istanbul. also floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty one people most of the victims of the spawn storm system are in the mountains because the region of the some are islands. others as prime minister sheikh hasina has won a fourth term in office the opposition insists the polls were rigged and wants a new vote under a neutral government. vote counting is under way the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election the opposition has raised concerns over irregularities early results are expected in the coming days the election could lead to the first

peaceful transition of power in the d.l.c. buckel webb has this report from the capital kinshasa. as it could be elevated early he's 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 rama zani shattering he's on the european union sanctions list accused of rights abuses i put seventy 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 one hundred percent of eligible voters already registered. but no fool have been able to vote there's a polling station inside this primary school it's got voting machines ready to go

there's no copy of the electoral register here absolutely packed for the people inside said sunrise waiting to vote a big crowd of people outside as well they sense is running thin people here blame the president of the electoral commission for not delivering it demanding their rights of eight. we were sleeping until morning we're looking for which a voice we won't go anywhere. everyone here is sharing death 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 bowler outbreak and reno dug some heavy hours we're having probably. somewhat there is everything is going peacefully now if you will or for you know been me it will all for you if you fall of. zero. there out of congolese and you have to force.

people in the eastern cities of benny into tembo demonstrated last week when the electoral commission said they could vote. 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 the 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 him a big liar and saying that she had to recant where. 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 or a democratic republic of congo. settles parliament has pursed its twenty nineteen

physical budget it comes as protests spurred by a lack of economic opportunity continue across the country politicians say the new budget will reduce inflation but many remain skeptical the government will be able to deliver on the promise of a more good reports of a call to. after days of demonstration over the poor state of the economy which have morphed into calls for the government to step down sudan's parliament passed its twenty nine hundred first called budget. it wasn't the most important thing about the 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 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 the current 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 feel but doesn't explain where the government will get the hard currency needed to pay for the subsidies a currency shortage has left in 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 say they have lost faith in the government's ability to fix the economy here. 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 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 he morgan of his era. a u.s. republican senator says he's received assurances from the president that they'll be a slowdown of the woods hole of american troops in syria senator lindsey graham says president told trump is committed to defeating always so after

a meeting at the white house graham had to criticize trump's announcement earlier this month to remove all two thousand u.s. troops from syria saying it could destabilize the region hundreds more these developments in temple the turkey syria border. trump stepping on the brake or flowing down the u.s. troop withdrawal us. to happen within sixty 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 whole of a bolt had already alliances half shifted these us crumble by the regional powers to feel that the vacuum the void that will be left once the u.s. troops leave syria we've seen the dust but at the move by the kurdish y.p. do you fight is inviting the syrian government forces to come and talk to them i guess attack each operation of course tuckey has also been reacting to lynsey good

homes comments there with the. ambassador to washington say i hope you do not mean the y.p. deal when you're talking about your allies tuckey is vowing not to allow any territory controlled by guards anywhere near its border and it has been massing troops at the border overnight we saw dozens of tanks rolling into syria from the commission of a border crossing the f.s.a. fighters who are allied to turkey sixteen thousand of them are also on a war footing there say to be getting closer and closer to the city of mumbai in preparation for an all out of france. the u.k. versions of agreed on they plan to deal with migrants and refugees attempting to cross the english channel it'll include increased joint patrols and surveillance i will be implemented in the coming days boats carrying twelve men from syria and

iran were intercepted off the coast of dover on friday while the two hundred twenty people have attempted the journey since november. by the extreme right in germany have been on the rise in recent years often targeting homes of refugees of foreign owned businesses it's estimated around twenty five thousand far right activists are spread throughout the country donna came reports from kendis in eastern germany massoud hashimi prepares his restaurant for the lunchtime rush on a busy week day he'd expect to have lots of clients it is a rainy and restaurant but recently things have changed he and his restaurant have been attacked for how this has. three men dressed all in black and wearing motorbike helmets came into the restaurant they made nazi salutes and shouted heil hitler then they threw one of some of ours at me and hit me in the face then they three me gets one of the radiators i spent eight days in hospital because of it you . are the police are still investigating this attack to establish whether it

was a case of right wing extremist violence but on the face of it appears to be part of a string of such incidents that have happened in this city in this state in recent times one question your forty's will be asking is what's the deeper motivation for such violence mike scheffler can provide a clear idea he spent seventeen years in the extremist far right movement in saxony who does when the front of the house will be idea where i grew up there were only left wing groups and right wing groups you could join but i felt drawn to the right and it felt as though my friends did two of them then one day a recruiter arrived and he gave us the structure something to believe in one. he admits having targeted left wingers and foreigners in violent attacks at the time he felt no remorse until relatively recently he was an elected representative of

the neo nazi n.-p. day party now he rejects the movement he told me why it's often the reason it was a gigantic disappointment for me when the people i had followed into the movement suddenly quit it made me question everything at believed then i was full of doubt and i slowly began to realize i needed to be part of wider society and it was in doing that that i became a different person scheffler was helped out of the neo nazi scene by the group exit dodge land fabienne fishman runs the group from its base in berlin he says the size of his task is clear but i think life that there are about twenty five thousand dedicated hardcore neo nazis who are being monitored by the police and who are suspected of committing violent acts and that number is well identified but there is also a crossover of some individuals from the populist far right there's no doubt the vast majority of people who support the political far right do not support the use of force to achieve their aims but as massoud can confirm in kennett's there are

still several who do dominate came out zero in saxony. the americans know immigration was a big part of u.s. president troubles election campaign is expected to feature heavily when he officially heads out of the trail again next year but as part of our series of you head to twenty nineteen can be held to reports on what else lies in store for the u.s. president. in the u.s. election season begins very early i am officially running i'm running for president i material for president in twenty one thousand in 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 present. see 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 two native american women it was no summer you know collusion there is absolutely no scholars 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 but 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 trump it hoped the white house was also expected to unveil its peace plan to help resolved. 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 al-jazeera the

white house. you want your desire the whole robin to remind of our top stories are just there has obtained pictures showing the saudi hit team that killed jamal khashoggi seen carrying a large by a suspected of containing his remains into the consul general's residence in istanbul bahrain's hindquarters a pole the jail sentence of a prominent rights activist who is critical of saudi arabia the deal rajab was spent on will spend five years in prison after appeal was rejected in court tweeted criticizing saudi air strikes in yemen and accusing bahrain's prison authorities of torture amnesty international says the verdict exposes bahrain's justice system as a complete farce people in the port city of the data say shelling is still occurring despite a un backed truce who the fighters agreed to hand over control of who donated to

the local coast guard to be overseen by the un as part of a recent deal between them agreed in sweden the un has confirmed the who these have pulled back but the yemeni government accuses the rebels of backtracking on the agreement saying territory has been handed over to affiliates. floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty one people most of the activities of the month storm system are in the mountainous and the coal region of the summer islands. under the just prime minister shaker seen or heard one a fourth term and her third consecutive election victory according to local media the ruling alliance has won at least two hundred eighty seven out of the three hundred seats that of where voting took place the opposition has rejected the results claiming widespread to vote rigging and vote counting is underway in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election the opposition has raised concerns over

irregularities early results are expected in the coming days the election could lead to the first peaceful transition of power in the d.l.c. . those were the headlines here on al-jazeera more news in half an hour to stay with us up front is the next. i mean every weekly news anchor brings a c.v. simply breaking stories and of course there's damage from. the ground channelise that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the in aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase. as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter in the next embed is a free palestine a listening on al-jazeera. some say the hashtag need to campaign is too white and too privileged so how there's a movement to call out sexual assault being received outside of the west and up front special.

in two thousand and six the slogan me two started as a movement by u.s. activists to write a book as a way to show solidarity with the victims of sexual assault but that slogan went viral overnight in the wake of hollywood's harvey weinstein scandal last october which prompted women around the world to break a lot of the silence around sexual assault and harassment and begin sharing their stories with more than twelve million posts on facebook in just twenty four hours since then the hash tag has been shared at least eighty five countries around the world so why does this particular campaign prove to be so powerful and how is it being received outside of the west joining me to discuss this are mona eltahawy a journalist based between cairo in new york and author of headscarves and hymens why the middle east needs

a sexual revolution run general kumari women's rights activist and director of the center for social research in new delhi and. a guardian writer and director of communications for the ngo the association for women's rights in development thank you all for joining me on this special edition of outfront i want to start by asking you all how has the hash tag mean to movement been received outside of the u.s. outside of the west rangel you're a long time champion of women's rights in india what's the response to me to be like over there. little red and the whole campaign started on social media with hash tag mean to the million women also onto the whole you know the kind of speaking out as talking about themselves and their own twenty five thousand women joined that campaign in india and also a lot of them really wanted to speak about their own experiences but when we restart the kind of expression they did not really come out with are going to kind

of post so that it's not really got ready to happen to them but there is definitely said that they're also fails to explain how dismayed at workplace they've also been victim of the kind of relationship at work place with their bosses with the professors and also the whole media became very very active police bootcamp in what really was very critical was involved i can see the destruction the heart of every woman that they could find a space on social media and could see that this is what's happening to me too not a recently the african union ambassador to the u.s. said during a discussion about how to take me to the quote in africa the conversation is not even begun we are nowhere near where we need to be what's your reaction to that. i very much agree with embassador and my country ghana the conversation has been extremely muted about me too and the sense that people have not been publicly name

in those who have violated them those who have assaulted them people have actually been speaking about the need for us to have this conversation but no one is really speaking of that's because the consequences for woman who name people who violates them is really still to hash in about a few years ago in twenty fifteen that prominent. public personality quickly changed the chua was allegedly accused of raping a young woman there were people who were witnesses to the fact that she had been abused by this man she went to hospital the doctors verified that she had been sexually assaulted the state of government took up a case back to this woman was vilified in the press so much she eventually withdrew the case. and this is an example of what happens when women speak up and when we've happened at this care just other women from speaking up because they can see that there's no justice for the victim and even aware. of the victim as an

disrepute moner when you're listening to none and speak about gardner and some of the other african countries does that resonate with what you're hearing and what you've experienced in the middle east living in cairo traveling through the region or has braced in the arab world. has taught me to has been embracing our world under it arabic equivalent which is and i come in and i've seen several activists share their own experiences and say that this happens to every woman i know this has happened to me personally but i think the importance of hashtag me to. is not just about women speaking out and not been able to speak out and as the community blame the woman or not i think what this particular moment in history has done is it has allowed women around the world to see each other as all being victims of patriarchy that this is an institutionalized form of discrimination that regardless of where you're from will affect every woman and will affect members of the q.

community we also affect men we've seen gay men who've spoken out about this so i think that as hard as it is to speak out in certain communities it's important to recognize that this doesn't just affect white actors in hollywood and it's not just white men who are supporting them we need to move the conversation outside of of this very very specific white us lens and make it a global one critics say that the voices of women around the world and rajat i want to ask you this question first critics are the voices of women around the world who work in factories are victims of sex trafficking minority women women in rural areas living in poverty are missing from this campaign from this movement is it fair to say that white western women especially white affluent women are still dominating this campaign and if so what do you do about that. as you know very few women are in the. social media space in and yet only about twenty seven percent of women who really are the internet users reserve you the men also recruit among

these twenty seven percent who have mostly working in people who are in the organized sector or people who are really in some very or the other have been capacity recruiting is there was a skill but majority of the women who are from the informal sector of the grounds are many tribal women should all cause women as you said classes victims prostitutes and profit driven engage in prostitution are forced into prostitution all those women have not found that space the majority of the women say about almost like ninety percent even one octave department ican participate economy who are not organized who do not have access to internet is not that they don't use peers it's kind of harassment but then orderly use this they are not able to say even in all forms that are they're not able to even walk through these rigorously committees that we have formed with these are all internal complaints committee so certainly there is a kind of divide that you can feel you see not a do you worry about how quote unquote white me too is

a result of unfair. i mean what i would like to see more of more of a focus on movements of particularly like the most oppressed groups who have actually been workin and violence against women for a long time some of the work that some of my previous administrations have done such as the african women's development fund which is their macon fund which funds particularly small and medium sized women's rights organizations across the continent you know there are numerous small community based groups that have been working to end violence against women and what i tend to see that they focus on me too is focused more on yes you know more privileged white woman in hollywood more privileged white women in north america without really acknowledge him the kind of community led efforts that have been going on. and balancing why do women why do you think it is that me too has been so successful or high profile in

a way that other previous campaigns against gender based violence haven't been is it because of the hollywood celebrity angle or is it something else. i think absolutely it's because of the hollywood celebrity angle and because it has the media attention and for me that's not a bad thing that's a good then but let's also use this opportunity to focus on community based organizations that have been working for decades to end violence against well and once and for all about why me too has been so successful i think it is a particular moment where we're seeing white women in hollywood confront white men who have hurt them and i think that that gives it a much more global platform than say all the individual work that we've heard about but i also think it's really important to take it out of this idea that it's only these rich and white powerful men who do that because what i worry about is that ordinary men will just kind of sit back and say you know well you know what i'm not rich i'm not powerful i'm not one of those guys and i think this is a really in valuable moment where we have an opportunity as

a global community not just in our individual community spaces to say look this is about patriarchy this is about how it's institutionalised this is about misogyny and this is about discrimination against women so how does that affect every woman and how is every man complicit in this because i hear from a lot of men they say well i don't do any of that so this has nothing to do with me but unless you're doing something to stop that from happening your complicit and you're benefiting from that system of patriarchy so i think this has to be a daily occurrence when we talk about this with our friends with our siblings and also politically because i think that as fantastic as this hollywood moment has been we're also missing is that the president of the united states has been accused of sexual assault himself and we're not talking about that at least twenty women have accused donald trump of sexually assaulting them and if you if you just stop and think about that the president of the most powerful country in the world and we almost had a senator in the united states roy moore i mean we always had

a really really right we once had a candidate become a senator in the u.s. has been accused of pedophilia and this is a chance for us now i speak now again. that egyptian muslim woman who cover things issues for my people they say look we have to confront these issues in every community. in every community pick up on that you've written that muslim women are stuck between a rock and a hard place on the one hand you have islamophobia in europe in the united states who whenever a muslim man is accused of any kind of sex from jump on this and say it's the religion is to blame islam is to blame use it to bash the religion on the other hand you have some in muslim communities who don't want to call out mr jonas because they fear that it will give islam a bad rap and they're giving ammunition to people who already hate them they don't want the community to look bad so how do women in communities like that deal with this dilemma if you can call about the answer to that is exactly what will take us out of me to hashtag me to being a white hollywood social media moment the answer to that would be that each

community has to recognize that the less we can talk about sex the less we can talk about these taboos and the less we confront these taboos the most vulnerable people in our communities will be affected and the most vulnerable people are always women children and the eligibility queue so it has to fall on the shoulders of those of us with privilege and to take that even further just also to defang the racism islamophobia when i talk about the middle east and other one of my communities i have to talk about domestic workers i have to talk about migrant laborers because in the gulf you're talking about women who come from different very very disadvantaged countries in communities who are often sexual assaulted by their employers they have no recourse to justice as a racist of a class. so we have to make hash tag need to recognize race gender class able ism and because actual or interesting run general motors talks about this you know the being stuck between a rock and a hard place women of quote unquote elsewhere too it's not just about religion is it for example when women fight for their rights in places like india or pakistan

or parts of africa some say oh you're attacking our traditional culture values you're supporting western cultural imperialism you often do hear that kind of backlash argue.