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 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 struck at al-jazeera. well i've been speaking to david berg when a journalist is that being based in bangladesh for many years and he's be monitoring this particular election and he says the vote rigging was blatant. 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. lawyer countries government

officials and it's parties on election observers to say that the election was free and fair but all reports that coming out of bangladesh from independent sources suggest there was widespread really rigging i mean i think it really it's no surprise that there was this was an election that was going to be rigged i think most people most observers expect that to be the case but many were gods that the blatancy of it yesterday a lot of stuffing of ballot boxes a lot of heat i mean systematic throughout the country opposition polling agents not being allowed to enter polling stations and 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

a many killed disappeared so there's a really intimidatory situation which is unlikely to result in any real protest against the election result floods and landslides in the philippines have killed at least sixty eight people thousands have been forced out of their homes search and rescue operations are underway for nineteen people who are missing most of the victims of the storm system are in the mountainous biko region as well as in some island jimmy little indonesian has more from the capital manila. as a preemptive measure of 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 energy will operations remain and their way and those are been displaced according to the local government are receiving assistance such as temporary shelters food and medicine. we've still got a lot more to come here in marriages here in news there including a push for peace in iran the holds talks with the taliban to bring an end to the violence in afghanistan. rap artists feel the pressure in russia as the kremlin seeks more control over music. and the new england patriots make their tenth straight playoffs will have a full round up of who will be fighting for a place at super bowl fifty three with peter in sport.

people in the yemeni port city of her data say shelling is under way despite a un backed truce hoofy pfizer's had agreed to hand over control of her data to local coast guards and they will be overseen by the un and that's all part of a deal that was agreed in sweden recently bought the government backed by a saudi iraqi coalition says they're not honoring the truce well the midterm doom reports in her data optimism however cautious it may have been has turned into confusion despite a un back to truce there are reports showing it's still going on. some residents accuse her the rebels of failing to hand over control of the port city as they have promised to do as part of the recently signed agreement in sweden that had the scene you know where they. say the talks about handing over the port of ho died as a farce directed by the who the militias and with an international cover. on saturday video emerged showing some who the rebels who controlled the port for much

of the almost four year conflict boarding trucks and departing according to the u.n. the who these have indeed pulled back. by the next day others said that was simply not the case because the rebels claim yesterday that the handed over to port but they have not done so they have not delivered anything. on monday however the rebel said it was violations by the saudi iraq to coalition it's putting the her data agreement at risk. we are adamant to continue to comply with what we have signed with the aim of a stablish ing long and just peace those who are attempting to cause a failure to the agreement are willing for the war to continue and the plight of the yemeni people to continue as part of the un supported agreement who the rebels backed by iran and yemen's government supported by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates also agreed to uphold

a cease fire in the city. aid workers had hoped humanitarian corridors could soon be opened and much needed aid might be delivered a scenario whose success relies on mutual trust and one whose achievement seems more difficult with each new accusation. and zero. votes are being counted in the democratic republic of congo after a much delayed presidential election the opposition though has raised concerns a very regular season say they won't accept the results but the early results are expected to come within the coming days this election has the potential to be the first peaceful transition of power in the country since independence malcolm webb is a correspondent he is in the capital kinshasa. percival's of the opposition of the united of the main opposition coalitions united in refusing to accept whatever whatever results comes from this hugely flawed election.

the opposition. elections took place it broke before going to the polls in to see factions of the breakaway faction led try to felix the security. has been given a lot less in the opinion polls than his competitors and more feeling for you now must employ you yet again didn't have much of a support base throughout most of the country he was only really known here in the capital he has the backing of two political heavyweights who haven't been allowed to vote in this election they were blocked by the court mores the two million jobs yet. judging by opinion polls and judging by what we've seen at rallies around the country and with the judging by the actions of the overthrow of these things martin for you is seen by them that their greatest threat he wasn't allowed to travel to some places for his campaign one of his rallies was violently broken up by the

police. pretty improbable gave him a substantial lead gave him about forty four percent that was before the voting and he said large there just a few hours ago that he's confident that he's going to win and he says it's one of the dishes old story of the ruling party result has announced that he can't accept it but one of the spokespeople of ramadan he shall refuse the ruling party's presidential candidate also spoke just a short while ago he said they actually put in a victory said that they would have won most of the provinces outside the capital that i don't believe the opinion polls in at all with what was seen at some of the rallies in some of the provinces where the opposition move is it really very popular but nonetheless ramadani spokesman confident in the victory he said that if you lose going to defeat the result anyway he should be defeating it is in the

court that's in the court system that many congolese don't trust to see. partial to the ruling party along with the electoral commission about which has a lot of skepticism as well down from time. he's seen even in major cities. i'm just wondering what you think the reaction will be among the people of the more than eighty million people in this country if they feel. the election has not been free has not been set. to opinion polls people about as well about half of respondents said they wouldn't accept ruling party victory in about half of respondents said they would take to the streets if that was announced whether or not position leaders who led people to the streets to protest but i'm. being condemned for turning the election violence from even even

international condemnation from. other countries in part of government. if they even if they don't call that people to the street many congolese people think that what they'll do anyway and there were questions around the county right that's going to get us to this result the voting machines that we use printed ballot paper for each voter. paper placed in a box that has been a lack of clarity around whether it will be those papers that are counted to get the final tally. result transmitted directly from the voting machine to the electoral commission can think about it because it's much more transparent an electronic system that happens within the confines of the electoral commission is much more. where the opposition say they can then it could be. that they like to commission says that will come for another six days from now the people they are waiting to find out meanwhile internet service even. though that makes it very

difficult to change and communicate any of the results that they're trying to tally all right so now i'm saying thank you very much indeed i'll see tense signs. d.l.c. . protesters are out again in sudan they're calling for president omar bashir to resign police have fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd that's in the capital khartoum the president is refusing to apologize for all of the political situation in his country and has slammed the recent protests against rising food and fuel prices we can talk to him a morgan correspondent who's there in the capital hard to people certainly in the capital seem to be unafraid of turning out on to the streets to make their opposition know despite the fact that we've seen some fairly heavy handed policing yes martin people seem to be very determined to continue showing the president that

they don't want him to and to to continue running as president they're saying that they've had enough of his twenty nine year rule they say it's not just about the economy it started with the economy obviously last week but it went on and people are saying that they don't want the president to rule they want they want a new regime they want new faces they want new policies now today we've seen people protesting again and again the police responded using live ammunition and tear gas i've seen people being tear gas and we've seen live ammunition being shot in the air and protesters today while we were out in the streets it's not clear how far this will go and it's not clear where it would end the president said he is not going to step down and the protesters said they will continue to protest and they will continue to march and some of them continue to strike until the president steps down and soccer if that would ever happen right now it seems very much as the protests at least in the capital are being orchestrated by the association of professional workers tell me is there really a virtually political affiliation for these protesters particularly where you are encouraged to. well no not really when the protesters started it was mainly about

the people the people or the one or the one who are motivating the protesters they were the ones who are demonstrating from street to street in various parts of the country the opposition just came out in the past few days to lend their voice and their support to the demonstrations there saying that they feel that these people have a legitimate cause to be out in the streets marching against president omar and bashir but what the people are staying in the streets is that they don't want any political party affiliated with their protests with their demonstrations there is saying that they want this to be a pure people's revolution people's movement and it's not clear if it would actually work because it's because it doesn't have any political backing but at the moment they're saying that they want this to be exclusively their movement their their their words out against the president and saying that they don't want him to continue ruling the country right now here bill morgan thank you very much indeed. the russian president vladimir putin has arrived in the southwestern city of magni to go after a gas explosion earlier monday calls part of an apartment building to collapse killing at least four people and injuring others many other people are still

missing. a u.s. citizen has been arrested in moscow suspected of spying the f.s.b. that's russia's domestic security service says the man has been held since friday and that a criminal case is now being opened against syria. freshers outspoken and increasingly popular rap artists are setting off alarm bells in the kremlin after a string of arrests and concert cancellations president putin recently called for tighter controls all of this type of music but for fear of making it even more popular he stopped short of calling for an outright ban challenge reports now from moscow. husky he's 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 storage

fees in a string of cities canceled his concerts husky 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 than hosty they've had shows canceled with the authorities citing alleged suicidal themes and they were detained recently to from their russian tour i speak told us the pressure is misguided morally and so the more people listen to music the more people find out in bunkers lation and become angry with go around so it's just untrue into to now is just me. well let's just make us believe that we're not alone evander rahman 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 past situation the court 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 jesting that in russia things are often more complicated than they seem just four days into his twelve day sentence for minor hooliganism huskey was unexpected and he released. margarita simonyan chief editor of state funded broadcaster r.t. tweeted he must have supporters in the presidential administration and on state t.v. the man under western sanctions is the kremlin's chief propagandist jumps to the defense of russian rap dmitri kissel e off said that the children not only of black american hip hop culture but also of

the early soviet poets bloody may makowski then taking many of us by surprise he started rapping mayakovsky verse thirty on the audience passed through an australian study and that is a serious study some artists at least appeared to have friends in high places rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. ok it's time for the weather now and rob is taking. his head back to try to australia's a sort of rerun of the tropical storm called zero in that went through canned but it's not exactly the same thankfully cannes rainfall of four hundred sixty nine millimeters in the last eight days is excessive obviously december of one hundred eighty one this part of tropical queensland has suffered flooding this is the road north report douglas up towards rain forest area if you like so it should get a lot of rain but not this amount and i'm not sure of the amounts foldback is easily sustainable so the question is what is going to happen next given that it is

a wet season in the development area the moment from the point of view of what's happening in the atmosphere more let's jump away from the video and find the right cloud is going slowly west was this is exactly what happened before and it spun up into a tropical cycle and so was as this one is doing in the gulf of carpentaria there it is. if it develops into something more which it might do to be called penny and the last one was further south and revolved in the gulf of carpentaria four by two days and then head back crossed. this one it looked like exactly the same the problem isn't was when this again with a mass of rain but i am pleased to say we know that it's going to do that and he's going to cause flooding it's further north than the last ones a lot further north in cannes looks is heading for a small place called lockhart that's right and so restaurant straightly it's mostly dry and very hot. thank you very much rob lots more to come here on the news hour including breaking barriers were in senegal where the women's basketball team has

become an inspiration to teenage girls. and look at donny cicily lead stylist to a win in their last game of the year peter will have the highlights coming up in sports. in a four part series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians view push him into somebody with a difficult job rather than an authoritarian leader with imperial ambitions and many critics of protest are equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum under a neck wrestle discovers a complex attitude towards that country's leader and his policies in search of putin's russia analogise era. when the news breaks and the story it's when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told.

with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports. al-jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries. and live news on air and online. service take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera 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 a team arriving at the consul general's residence in istanbul. to prominent rights

activists in the middle east. half their prison sentences are held back rainey activist now bill rogers will spend five years in jail for criticizing saudi air strikes in yemen and in the u.a.e. are with him and so will serve a ten year sentence for criticizing the immorality government online. bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina has promised that any incidents of very triggering in sunday's election will be investigated she's won a fourth term in office the opposition has rejected the results so claiming widespread irregularities. the delegation from the afghan taliban have arrived in teheran taliban representatives are meeting iranian officials 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 let's speak not a. national security analyst is joining us live now from the afghan capital kabul tell us first of all what's going on taliban representatives are in tehran to list what specifically. i think taliban are trying to outreach to the regional players they were and russia a couple of months ago they were and the u.a.e. a few weeks ago and iran is a regional who has a lot of interests and afghanistan iran believes that the isis the dice thirteen of august on is not yet eliminated and did look towards taleban assen effective tool and ensuring the day that they have the capacity to

defeat. the stun therefore does this relationship this bomb has been has been sort of bridged over the past two to three years and taliban and other were just trying to reach out to other countries besides pakistan to diminish their dependence on pakistan and iran has a lot of is very interested in making sure the. form good bond with the taliban because they believe the taliban contests about forty to forty five percent of the afghan territory and therefore it's very unclear important for the next two to have good relations with the iranians absolutely said the taliban do have control of a sizable portion of the country but all these talks that the taliban are having with various other parties actors from outside the country and they facilitating

the afghan negotiating process which fundamentally has to has to work in order for the country to be emerge out of the violence. so so if you look at the african conflict the african conflict has three sides to it one is the african side the other one being the region on the side and the other being the international side it's important for the regional countries and and the parties in the conflict in afghanistan to discuss the future of understand it will be difficult for the regional players to pursue a taliban including bush shifting table with the afghan government because taliban stand is very clear that they would not want to talk to the afghan government and they are only willing to talk to the u.s. led coalition i think this meeting has less to do with iran persuading the taliban

to to negotiate with the afghan government and it has more to do we're trying to form a bond is the house to do an elimination of. the stun iran trying to secure their investments the interests through taliban in afghanistan i think it's going to be more of these aspects for the sake of media and to ensure that did on lose the relationship that they have with the afghan government and the stand is that they were that they were pushing the taliban to talk to the afghan government and to bring the vote of the parties into the negotiate negotiating table and what sort of impact then is the recent announcement made by donald trump that fifty percent of u.s. troops who are around seven thousand u.s. troops will be pulled out of afghanistan as that had any significant impact in terms of the way the taliban. the afghan government and the possibility of their

having negotiations. well when the news was announced everybody will come to the news and i will understand and they will all very shocked and there was a panic mode but hops more on the general african public side. i think has been reduced quite drastically after the news coming in two days ago doubt there are no such orders from president trump to withdraw troops from afghanistan and specifically to of honest on but i think it has it has put of honest the afghan government in a little bit of an uncomfortable position knowing god as to trying to analyze whether to decode rely on the u.s. government and what would happen what they would draw and after discussing this with the afghan government or didn't do it unilaterally what is it that they can do on their end to sort of minimize the damage did they brought to the changes into the security sector to ensure confidence is not lost for us the afghan

national army is concerned the government has been sort of busy on all fronts trying to consolidate on the gains that they have had and trying to reduce the damage of the news but yes it does have negative impact on the more all of the afghan government on the morale of the afghan national army because the afghan national army and the afghan government is fighting a very tough back to with the taliban across the country from by the showing all the way to how munden herat in the west. absolutely yes. thank you for talking to us hear it out there. oh yes republican senator says he's received assurances from the president that there will be a slowing to live with your all of american troops from syria senator lindsey graham says president trump is still committed to defeating eisel they had a meeting at the white house senator graham had criticized president trump's announcement earlier this month to remove 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 i do 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 that our 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. correspondent mohammed has been following developments from gaza and tap on the turkey syria border. trump stepping on the brake or slowing down the u.s. troop withdrawal. 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 after the horse has bolted already alliances half

shifted to ease a scramble by the regional powers to feel about the vacuum the void that will be left once the u.s. troops leave syria we've seen the dust but it moves by the kurdish y.p. do you fight is inviting the syrian government forces to come and tuck them against a top official position of course tuckey has also been reacting to lindsey graham holmes comments there with an cuz i'm boss about 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 cards 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 sixty two thousand of them are also on

a war footing say to be getting closer and closer to the city of mumbai in particular from for an all out offensive. and some breaking news coming from the united states we're hearing that the democratic senator elizabeth warren has launched her exploratory committee and exploratory committee for a possible twenty twenty presidential race bid sarah lizabeth warren the democratic senator as. exploratory committee for a possible twenty twenty presidential race. today if any more details emerge about that particular story but in the meantime let's look at what's going on in senegal because they are called the lionesses that's the senegalese women's basketball team and they made history in october edging closer to winning the world cup with a new n.b.a. basketball training facility in the country this force is gaining popularity is

special among girls. reports now from the city of chess fifteen year old i mean a song 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 or started playing.

here deep in senegal's countryside with an all girls team. that's breaking the norm . they don't play nice. they play to win. as a coach and talent scout working with the new african national basketball association academy in senegal other. we don't coach girls differently from boys because they are. and to be lionesses they need to work hard. senegal's national team are known as the lyonnesse during the last world championships in october they outperformed it out shown 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 stay

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