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 policies 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 old was asian 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 would 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. with al-jazeera. right now we can say to david bergman his adjourn this is the base in bangladesh for many years he knows the country really well thank you for talking to us live from london

charles stratford ended his report there by suggesting that the rejection of this election result will have a fairly significant impact on the political and security future of bangladesh what would he mean by that. well i think the legitimacy of the elections will be seriously in question i mean clearly the government will have its ducks in the row mortgage. lawyer countries government officials and its partners on election observers to say that the election is free and fair but all reports that coming out of bangladesh from independent sources suggest there was widespread read rigging i mean i think it would it's no surprise that there was this was the election that was going to be rigged i think most people most observers expect that to be the case but many were gassed that the blatancy of it yesterday a lot of stuffing or ballot boxes a lot of systematic throughout the country opposition probing agents not being

allowed to enter polling stations as was just reported so with this level of lack of credibility in election it's really unclear exactly how what's going to go ahead i think i think the government will be able to remain firm it has a tremendous capacity to solidify itself and the opposition. is is relatively weak i mean it's been weakened by violence over months and years against it hundreds of thousands of its supporters have been arrested detained him any fear i have so there's a really intimidate you situation which is an unlikely to result in any real protest against the election result i was going to i was going to put to you the opposite point of view that sent suggest that couldn't this just be the manifestation of a huge amount of support for she can see that and tara what i mean league as a consequence of what has been considerable economic growth a the last decade six percent is what bangladesh has been pacing and so perhaps

people are prioritizing development of a democracy. yes i think the one league is not is a popular party and what is really interesting about this election is that had there been a free and fair election they were probably odds on favorite to possibly have a majority of votes i think many people accept out what is really fascinating is that they were desperate to hang on to power and didn't want to risk any possibility of losing the election and that what is this rigging is all about i mean it's not now i mean it's difficult to know who has the most support the opposition or the one really in the country we certainly don't know it from this vote but clearly because of the uncertainty with the opposition movement i mean the focus will be on the need for a free and fair election or to determine which party is actually more popular because this election really is not determining that even though had it been taken place in a free and fair way the government may well have won. and we've heard in charles's

report we heard from come out this ain't a cool sea veteran. player in bangladeshi politics and now opposition leader calling for a rerun of the elections that's that's not going to happen is it especially when you've already got foreign leaders like the ranger maybe feigning to congratulate shaker on another win. it's difficult to believe that that would happen i mean clearly the opposition is going to call for that but it's very difficult to see how the government will in a year anyway relent and that the opposition have the capacity to force the government to change its mind i mean this is going to be a long slow but so clearly i would say there is a kind of a crisis of deliberate you to see what the government is going to have to face whether they're going to get through that i'm not they they will certainly be able to get through that in the short term but whether or not in the medium term there's going to be sufficient grievances and self in the country that will spark something sometime on is unclear but clearly i think the government is now safe the opposition will clearly make is the mons but they're not going to be satisfied in

the short for sure right david bad went at finance thank you very much. and we'll be covering another highly contested election in just a little while in the democratic republic of congo ballots being counted after a vote played by long queues broken machines and indeed to wrench a brain. also ahead rights groups outraged after bahrain holds an activist five year jail to the tween. and the new england patriots make their tenth straight play elsewhere have the full round up until be fighting for a place at super bowl fifty three lived in. a gas explosion his school's part of an apartment building to collapse in russia killing at least three people and injuring others many other people are still

missing and it happened early on monday in the south western city of math need to go on. a u.s. citizen been arrested in moscow suspected of spying the f.s.b. russia's domestic security service says the man has been held since friday and a criminal case has been opened against him and we're going to get more on this story as it develops that news is only coming within the last hour or so. the floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty one people thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes search and rescue operations are underway for the dozens of people who are missing most of the victims of the storm system are in the mountainous by coal region in some are island. has more from the capital manila. as a preemptive measure local government officials here say they have evacuated more than twenty thousand civilians just days before this disaster shock unfortunately though this disaster still happened it's important to note know that the total

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 and she will 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. now the votes are being counted in the democratic republic of congo after a much delayed presidential election the opposition though has raised concerns over irregularities early results are expected within the coming days the election could lead of course the first peaceful transition of power in the d.l.c. malcolm webb is a correspondent reporting now from the capital kinshasa. president joseph kabila dated early he's left the democratic republic of congo for the eighteen years. this

election two years a video is to choose his successor my only concern is that we have this very every right. and for the for the timeout might be. this is the man he wants to take over from a zani shattering he's on the european union sanctions list accused of rights abuses and put the city 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. percent of eligible voters already registered. with the tool of being able to vote as a polling station inside this primary school it's called voting machines ready to go there's no copy of the electoral register here absolutely packed full of people inside we sit sunrise waiting to vote a big crowd of people outside as well they sense is running thin people here blame

the president of the election commission for not delivering demanding their rights of eight. young people 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 for 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 areas were having problems so more there is everything is going peacefully now if you pull over for you know big me if people love you maybe if you fall of. the out of congolese you have to force. people in the eastern cities of benny in the template 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 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 him a big liar and saying that she has a recount where. millions of voters across the country counties will be contentious and many congolese say they wanted to accept the result they don't believe. i mean go live now to malcolm he is still there in the congolese capital kinshasa and that map of what you witness yesterday's seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm for these more than eighty million people trying to make a difference in their country but what about those what more than a million people who just were not able to vote.

lot of frustration for them but in spite of these expediently opposition to killer martin finally we saw in the story that they're still pressing ahead he says they can still win but a lot of his supporters are sort of the story skeptical about the election commission skeptical about the counting process going on right now so waiting to see what results the electoral commission will present in just under a week from now and they said it will be announced waiting to see what kind of reaction you get from the public and does anyone really believe. the two main opposition candidates really stand a chance. of winning given that most people assume that president can be the once his chosen candidate to take from where he left off.

a lot of the voters really yes they were purely very. clearly very optimistic that they could do it that this was their chance. martin failing and so still saying so but. as we saw in the story a lot of skepticism about the election commission the opinion polls before the election which gave martin. substantial lead forty four percent of the vote is opinion polls also asked people if they'd accept a ruling party victory it was announced about half said they would not and the polls there's also asked people if they would demonstrate in that case and again about half of respondents said they would demonstrate so. party victory is announce a high chance even if opposition leaders don't feel that it's all just in the street a lot of people here who say they will go to the streets anyway. i know it will be anecdotal but what's your assessment of how the technology. he's the controversial

electronic voting machines did they work. they worked in some of the polling stations you went the others here in the capital kinshasa the problem wasn't the machine but the voters registered which hadn't seen brought to those polling stations who were great skeptical about the motivation but that these were in opposition areas where they didn't turn up until very late in the day but there's a lot of controversy in questions about how the tally takes place the voting machine prints a ballot paper after the vote has made that selection but there's been controversy and a lack of clarity whether the final count will be based on the count of those papers which is of course relatively transparent and everyone's agents and the observers see that in each polling station or is that it will be the electronic data that you compiled in a central database of the electoral commission which of course is

a much more opaque system that opposition believe is much more vulnerable it is beginning to look here exactly how this is going to take place waiting to find out the coming days and what each of the different parties will say the result is and of course what the electoral commission itself will say the result is all right for now malcolm webb thank you very much indeed well now we can speak to me aswat who is research director of the democracy and governance unit at the human sciences research council that is a south african think tank and she's joining us live now from johannesburg thanks for joining us mia i'm just wondering what your thoughts are about whether a bad election because this seems to have been a bit of a rag tag of an election process and whether a bad election is actually worse for the country than no election the tall. well that is of course a very difficult question to answer. i think the problem really is the degree would

be the degree of rigging and what we are seeing is that you know the congolese are passionate to vote and they are you know really showing up in incredibly bad weather conditions against all odds if you will to vote and it seems like there is no possibility of not having an election after there's already been significant delays you know. that was supposed to. call an election already for two thousand and sixteen you know his term ran out so really there is. if i had to choose i would say an election is better than no election but it's going to definitely as we've just heard you know cause protests of the ruling party you know again is pronounced the winning party because the elections the sorry the opposition candidates will simply not stand for it and the how significant

a moment is this the democratic republic of congo this vastly well see country in the heart of africa which of course at the same time it is it is so impoverished. well of course it is tremendously important this is really had any istar equal turning point because there's not been any peaceful election for the past seventeen years in fact there's been no peaceful election for since one thousand nine hundred sixty so this could be the this could have been the first peaceful election depending on you know how you measure peacefulness but what you're saying is correct that the country is vastly wealthy and has tremendous mineral and other resources it's the second largest country in africa what happens in the congo really affects the entire region and continent as a whole and it is really crucial that you know people should start sharing in some

of the tremendous wealth that flows from the cop and the cobalt vines for example it's also tremendously ironic that the mines in the congo provide the technology or some of the raw material for the technology that we using cell phones gates you know in terms of infrastructure in terms of development the congo lags so far behind many other african countries and. people simply you know are living in an underdeveloped poor country and they've had enough of this and the election atmosphere the i think indicates this level of tiredness with equations instant me a shout thank you very much indeed for joining us live from johannesburg. now rob is here with the weather he'll have an update on the situation in the philippines also coming up in this. rap artists feel the pressure in russia as the kremlin seeks more control over music. and lincoln leads dallas the winner

in their last game of the ajay we'll have the highlights from the n.b.a. coming up install. through tranquil a rave you. can free rooms in a finished gondola. this has been the story of the weekend not a good story admittedly one of these here is loose on the central philippines you can see there are further satellite produced a huge amount of rain it was a tropical depression and this which is a city in the east doesn't show a huge amount of damage from these pictures but given that that was there for twenty four hours the amount of rain i'm about to show you came out of it there was down for six hundred twenty five millimeters of rain three days as the months was more than a month was in three days so huge potential realized for lunch time which is why we now have

a death toll of sixty eight the maybe more of course to come but the weather has improved so this should be no war problem that the cloud is going further west will come to the second there are more showers building the new year will be introduced with a few thunderstorms that's normal but you can see the are is a draw into this here spots just focus on a little bit this is wet season of course for the southeast asia particularly for in d.c. but they smashed a cloud here is nowhere near indonesia this is developing into a probably a tropical depression maybe a tropical storm feeding more shoulder time to the coast of vietnam and cambodia so although the winds may not be a problem the accumulation of rain could be up to two hundred fifty millimeters in an already wet country. the weather sponsored by cats are and always. in the next episode of science in the golden age abi exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of astronomy. the

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let's have a look at the top stories here on the hour jazeera news al-jazeera has obtained pictures showing the saudi hit team that killed jamal khashoggi carrying large bags suspected of containing his remains the video shows the team arriving at the consul general's residence in istanbul. bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina has won a fourth term in office the opposition insists the polls were breaks and they want a new vote and a neutral government. floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty one people most of the victims of the storm system are in the mount of the. by cold region and in summer. now more protests are planned in sedan today that's monday calling for president omar al bashir to resign he's

refused to apologize for the political turmoil in his country and has sly and the recent protests against rising food and fuel prices president bashir has blamed to then second amid problems on years of international sanctions most of which have now ended. this and i guess 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 kneel through an economic crisis. all right let's go live to our correspondent have him all the news in these cities capital khartoum and what do we expect in about half an hour's time do expect people to take to the streets in large numbers. yes martin people have been planning for

a few days now they're saying that just like to use their last week when they came out and thousands in various parts of the capital to try to march to the presidential palace to demand president bashir step down they said that they're going to need that all over again so it's the sudanese association of professional workers the basically gathered together people of different professions doctors teachers engineers to try to get together but this morning in khartoum there was heavy military presence heavy police presence to make sure that people don't get together to try to protest now we've already heard from the u.n. and various foreign governments that the police that the government has been using excessive force to try to disperse protesters they've been using live ammunition and tear gas and amnesty international said thirty seven people have been killed but people seem to be very keen and determined to continue protesting they say they will continue to do that until president bashir steps down which is something which he says he's not going to do and give us an idea of the numbers of people protest is involved and the geographical spread can we call this a national movement. while it is happening in various parts of the country martin

it's happening it's happened in the west of the country it's up in the east of the country and southern parts of the country and it's also left a nationwide impact schools and educational institutes around the country has been shut down to prevent people from gathering and there's several states of emergency declared in various cities and curfews and others so yes it has a national magnitude and people have been protesting in thousands we might say because it's not only hard assume that has been witnessing protests cities like where the protests started and it's now under curfew it has had an impact in the daily livelihoods of people so yes people are saying it's a national it's a national movement and they are they calling it a people's movement but it's been backed by opposition as well to try to topple the president so regina all right thank you very much deborah morgan will keep us right across with developments in the cartoon today. now bahrain's high court has upheld the jail sentence of a prominent rights activist who spoke out against saudi arabia now bill rajab will

spend five years in prison after his appeal was rejected in court there are jobs tweets criticize saudi air strikes in yemen and accuse bahrain's prison authorities of torture the sea international says the verdict it's poses bahrain's justice system as a complete farce. that we can speak to our made our work day who is the director for advocacy at the bahrain institute for rights and democracy is joining us live now from london so how should we read this the highest court in bahrain refusing to grant. mr rajab his his appeal and indeed reinforcing his sentence of five years. i mean the reason why the chose to have it during the holidays and where.

the nation devoted. his initial sentence to the midst of that mission the criticism and contamination the united nations the united states. european union have explicitly called for conditions. so the whole world knows maybe it has done pretty much should. the exposing the torture which is happening in bahrain and also like expressed his criticism about the war in yemen. that he won't remain silent. decided to bomb the children in yemen. war will only bring misery and would never bring. those between. these five years of prison. rajab of course was also one of the leading figures wasn't

seen the twenty eleven protests against the government in grain should we say this is a continuation of the. the fight back if you like by the ruling elite against things that were involved in these protests. yes it's only two and they. live been so ruthless to do rulers now begin to show their. toilet and for anyone. to criticize the government even if they decide to to take additional quarter or repress their own maybe a regiment two thousand and eleven was free men was able to speak to the international community although there were thousands of people who. were imprisoned and tortured including myself. but the situation now even leading and most prominent. now they. are caught in this sense is now thirty seven years and this is not only that is in june two thousand and sixteen we begin to see

the president cracking down on. civil societies like political parties being being. being shot we got the only independent newspaper was also like shot there was. a crackdown on which intensified in the. mid two thousand and sixteen where bush ran short and in the face where they would show zero for anyone to the. ruling family and i think we have to think something which is extremely important that today's ruling has nothing to do with just. a place where. it's simply the interest and. maybe maybe it seems to be someone who has

the ruling family because only speak out about the human rights abuses the systematic torture and behead and particularly the. jokers and exposing the war in yemen made. thank you very much indeed for joining us live from london. in the united arab emirates a program ocracy activists is also had his prison sentence up held made man saw was jailed for ten years for criticizing the m.r.c. government online he was considered one of the few openly critical voices in the u.a.e. and silvers also find two hundred seventy thousand dollars. kuwait says it will only reopen its embassy if the arab league resumes relations with syria the announcement comes after kuwait seventy foreign minister was named in the lebanese

newspaper article listing financial supporters of the syrian government he has denied the accusation calling it an insult but the u.a.e. and bahrain reopened their embassies in damascus last week. a delegation from the afghan taliban of arrived in tehran iranian capital taliban representatives are meeting with iranian officials for peace talks the two parties are expected to discuss negotiations for afghanistan's government earlier this month afghan forces abandoned a remote western district bordering iran leaving the area to the taliban after the government failed to resupply troops stationed there. pressures outspoken an increasingly popular rap artist to settle it setting off alarm bells in the kremlin after a string of arrests and constant cancellations president putin recently go for tighter control of control of rap music but for fear of making it even more popular he

stopped short of calling for an outright ban or a challenge reports now from moscow on the pressure that performers are facing. his one of russia's most popular homegrown rappers his lyrics cover drugs violence and social dysfunction and recently he's been in trouble after all dorothy's in a string of cities cancelled his concerts haski responded with a car top performance outside a venue in krasnodar police dragged him away. and there are others in. the band i speak a more overtly political in high school they've had shows canceled with or thorazine citing alleged suicidal themes and they were detained recently too from their russian tour i speak told us the pressure is misguided more of it and so the more people listen to music you know people find out

a bunker solution and become angry with it go around so it's just untrue into to always just me as well as just make us believe that we're not alone. evander allman known as the rapper face can see why some are comparing what's going on to the soviet repression of rock music in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . the situations are similar the passage in the current one a both terrifying it says that we are still a third world country without freedom of speech what's unclear at the moment is whether this is a centralized crackdown the federal security service here operating some sort of blacklist or whether it's more like local officials being a bit overzealous either way in excess of twenty five concerts are being cancelled this year affecting more than ten different artists but this story has twists suggesting that in russia things are often more complicated than they seem just four days into his twelve day sentence for my.