yes it's a great question because the opposition has a stand that government has a stand but where do we go from here and hide our highly unlikely that the election commission will investigate any of the complaints that made by the opposition party . the independence of the election commission itself is in question it's never been very independent is usually is influenced by the government not from the government side watered matter is the legitimacy of the election from the international community so you know since you have already got congratulations from the indian prime minister manmohan singh chinese premier and the president so the european union and the united states are so proud didn't make any kind of. official statement on the election the u.n. yesterday on a question on buying additional elections say they're very aware of the incidents of violence and rigging but haven't made any kind of official statement as for do they have a live or a john bangladesh it depends on what kind of leverage would hard bangladesh take

a stand let's say for united states or european union but the government seems to be quite confident for the opposition it's chairperson is in jail it's acting chairperson in exile who's also been sentenced to imprisonment so they're going to have tough time to mobilize but talking to people in the streets to journalists and now there's the obvious concern that this election was not fair and free because most of the incident happened outside the capital and district down in remote villages some of the international observers who came here actually went to the to the polls were relatively calm and stable so their reaction and statement are based on those and the media here has been very bad did they haven't made a typical critical review which they usually do there's a draco in the. digital security act and the media had made it themselves the defense to be self-censorship within the. maybe in bangladesh

considering all base is going to be difficult to pinpoint all the blame on the government without evidence unless you start reviewing this in the media with videos and evidence that are there we know that we have seen come across evidence of malice snatching and other things so all put together it's going to be a tough battle for the opposition and it is highly unlikely there will be any call for reelection what will happen down the road is will destabilize the country because obviously the b.n.p. can stop has millions of support ideas one election three times legitimately so it has a considerable support back and the government is trying to put the blame on the opposition saying it has been creating it ran off a few not designated time as a lot of the access to terrorism and this has been going on for quite some time since two thousand and fourteen i don't think that play with the population as either is how she runs the country how the economy does because she has been good

in terms of economy how she dealt with the range and she got a lot of praise from that for the opposition it just needs to mobilize and put its foot again against the government in coming years or months down the road appreciate that thanks very much indeed for that update on the child reporting from dhaka. still ahead here on al-jazeera outrage from rights groups off the bahrain upholds and this five year jail term will tweet. denise king sky and spy the tarnished my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello there we've got quite a bit of unsettled weather across the middle east at the moment for take a look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud here of a q eight stretching its way across into iran and then there is yet more making its

way across parts of turkey and turkey is going to have some pretty heavy rain as we head through the next few days so what out of this system head it's making its way out of europe and then tracking its way towards the east it will bring us some heavy rain particularly in the southern parts of turkey and also some wet weather around the east coast the mediterranean sea particularly soggy here as we had through wednesday and into thursday a bit further south and the clown sinking its way towards us here in doha so a fairly great picture to the north of us as we head through the day on wednesday in fairly large amounts of cloud here in doha could just squeeze out one or two showers perhaps down towards the south and the wet weather here is looking far heavier for many of us it is looking like rather a wet day the showers generally from angola stretching all the way across towards madagascar but then for the south where it's been very very hot recently we're seeing quite a few thunderstorms here there's a stretching through parts of boats wanna and down through the northeastern parts of south africa so very heavy downpours here including probably jo'burg as well cape town should be a different story though we'll get to around twenty three seventy three in

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zero a reminder the top stories this north korean leader kim jong un is running the new year with an offer of more talks with u.s. president donald trump but he may seek a new policy need to rise ation if washington pursued action against killed. both sides in given's war or be accused of siphoning food aid un's food agency threaten to suspend shipments unless ruthie's reign in corruption and the associated press sold documents suggesting russians in toddy's have been seized by omv units working with saudi coalition forces. as prime minister. rejected calls for a new vote off to be declared the winner in sunday's election the opposition has called for the vote to cues and to go to widespread were gay. there when union has called for the release of a prominent rights activist whose prison sentence for speaking out against saudi arabia has been up held by bahrain's court and on the same day of court in the

united arab emirates upheld a sentence against an activist under schapelle has written ahmed month sewer and the united arab emirates and to be a raja in bahrain will now be spending years in prison for criticizing their government's policies on social media was a prominent opposition figure during behind's protest movement during the arab spring he's been in and out of prison for this activism and his tweets here on monday the supreme court upheld a five year jail term for a tweet deemed offensive to the state wars bring hatred destruction and horrors he tweeted as the saudi led coalition began bombing yemen in twenty fifteen the bahraini court agreed he disseminated what he calls false news in a time of war and offended the foreign country rights groups say the timing of the verdict is important. then. i mean the reason why they chose to have it during the holidays in the west where they are

expecting the minimal. attention diverted. as a piece advocate state that he won he wants to remain silent. decided to bomb the children in yemen he stated that war will only bring misery i would never bring solutions for those that we may be needed. by the present amnesty international calls the verdict shameful one that exposes behinds justice system as a complete farce it along with a coalition of human rights groups had also campaigned for the u.a.e. to release the activist ahmed monsoor but an appeals court in abu dhabi upheld a ten year jail sentence on monday months were to had spent time in prison in twenty eleven accused of insulting the rulers by calling for democratic elections in the united arab emirates and this time he was charged with publishing what the

government considers false information on social media as well as calling for another activist to be released these latest rulings highlight the dangers and difficulties activists space in the gulf region and are schapelle al-jazeera well separately a women's rights activist in egypt has had her prison sentence upheld on some of the charges i will fight she was sentenced to two years in jail for posting video on facebook criticizing egyptian authorities failing to tackle sexual harassment found she was charged with spreading false news undermining national security and publishing an indecent video of this international has come pain for her release and this cold sunday's ruling an outrageous injustice. sudan's president omar al bashir has ordered a commission of inquiry into nationwide protests began nearly two weeks ago the investigation will look at how police responded to the demonstrations which have left at least nineteen people dead it comes as security forces again used tear gas

and live fire to disperse crowds in the capital dozens of protesters were arrested there calling on russia to end his twenty nine year rule in the democratic republic of congo's several candidates claiming they're in the lead in sunday's presidential election counting continues after the ballot which was hampered by delays complaints of vote rigging and by violence the internet's also been cut apparent effort to stop speculation about results twenty one candidates are vying for the top office including the opposition's martin. there have been signs of cooperation between libya's rival governments after years of conflict and division this follows several international attempts to bring peace as mark would otherwise had reports now from tripoli police officers from libya's two rival governments met for the first time in the eastern city of bani. after four years of political impasse officers working under the end bad to tripoli government sat with others

affiliated with the tobruk based parliament the interior ministry in the capital tripoli says the move is to unify security measures and maintain order in only be interior tori's the officers discussed ways to link their security databases and called nate international comprehensive investigative system the meeting comes after the recent spate of attacks that targeted state facilities in tripoli the high national election commission in may the national oil corporation in september and the foreign ministry in december. civil people were killed and others wanted the three buildings were c.v.a. really damaged. analysts believe the meeting game is their right to stab to bring the two sides together when. they have to edit this decision was made after pressure from the international community on the local stakeholders of the libyan

crisis the pressure from the un security council to unify libya's institutions was also sustained by the paris and pallor move meetings that many people are hopeful the officers meeting could bring change since the rivals met face to face inside libya with no mediators however observers say it won't be effective alist some armed groups are contained and their arms confiscated this move is similar to efforts by egyptian army generals to unite reva libyan military institutions for the last two years cairo has hosted meetings between military officers from the tripoli government and those who support the world lord khalifa haftar but libya's armed forces are still divided have to his forces control the east of libya and bad government controls the west but would have to his recent deployment to fighters to take control of certain areas in the south and central regions many down with the

warring sides will find peace. tripoli britain is stepping up its patrols of the english channel amid a recent surge in the number of migrants making the crossing from france twelve people including a child with the latest arrivals trained on a beach in kent on the english coast. i want to send a very strong signal to people who do think about making this journey is that we will do every thing we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that i don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like france that they can get to britain and then just get to stay and that's why i'm working out ways with the french to increase the number of returns that we can make to also send a very strong message that we will do all that we can not just to protect human life because of course that's the right and responsible thing to do at all times but also to protect our borders cities around europe or villages to be welcoming

two thousand and ninety. in little about one hundred thousand people lined the banks of the river thames to watch the celebrations of twelve thousand fireworks exploded over the city. thousands packed the shelves and he's a in the french capital to watch the flowers play. the true. bad weather didn't deter crowds from gathering in the greek capital athens for a display of the acropolis. all right well let's leave you now with some notable moments from some of the biggest stories around the world in two thousand and eighteen. a step towards reconciliation. historic handshake. the start perhaps. but improbable relationship it probably took.

people living in gaza today refugees and they're demanding their right to return home i. prayed on the day the u.s. embassy was moved to jerusalem. no. better friends in the world. there is no frontline in eastern. tonight france the united kingdom and united states are just safer back to spring for syrian nuclear weapons and the. united states will withdraw i. from the iran nuclear deal. it's hard to imagine this topping on sickening image of the fifty two people.

starvation is threatening families or among the poorest in the middle east those least capable of surviving. the slaughter by. in the most brutal way that human history has ever think. maybe. i did states. that france. is responsible for murder. delegates approved twenty one constitution. including the scrapping of term limits for the president and vice president the supporters saying you've been busy. i'm. here to cut that looks a little bit. more

than three million flights from one of the biggest migrations in the world today. thousands of central american skate. caravans and the massive debt that mexico's u.s. border. should would be separated by the wall. these are major refugees or they may be forced to return to me and more holistic atrocities committed against them. this city is reduced to a vast wasteland of rubble and debris. a place. to leave absolutely unacceptable. please. please.

please offer to museums what change in the horn of africa. after their seventeen underground or deal. coach sighed delight for the first time.

so this is our desert these are the top stories that north korean leader kim jong un has rung in the new year with an offer of another meeting with the u.s. president on that front but he warned to pyongyang may seek a new path on denuclearization if washington pursues action against north korea. if the united states continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things and pushes ahead with sanctions and pressure against our republic then we may have to seek another way to protect our country sovereignty and interest and establish peace and stability on the korean peninsula . both sides in yemen's war being accused of siphoning food aid the un food agency threatened to suspend shipments unless he thinks rein in corruption and the associated press saw documents suggesting russians entires have been seized by army units working with saudi you eco mission forces u.s. democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken a major step towards joining the twenty twenty presidential race after announcing

that she's forming an exploratory committee the move will allow her to raise money and find stuff before formally launching a presidential bid. prime minister has rejected calls for a new very top to be declared the winner in sunday's election the opposition has called for a new vote accusing the government of widespread riki in the democratic republic of congo's several continents six claiming they're in the lead in sunday's presidential election and counting continues after the ballot which was hampered by delays complaints of vote rigging and violence the internet has also been cuts in their parents' effort to stop speculation about the results of sudan's president omar al bashir has ordered an investigation into anti-government protests that began nearly two weeks ago comes to security forces again used tear gas and life to disperse crowds in the capital dozens of protesters were. cities around europe

to be welcoming two thousand and nineteen. around a hundred thousand people lined the banks of the river thames in london to watch the celebrations. all right you're up to date with the headlines many more coming up including the street. more with more diversity. of the u.s. congress what it needs for the first time on january third we'll ask what it means for the democrats and for president joining us for coverage of this historic step in american politics the new home on al jazeera.

rue what a mellow start to the stream today hi i'm femi oke a family could be here in the stream today we are joined by musician songwriter my router you said she's an artist with soul would be fine out about her work music had her inspiration of course live on al-jazeera and of course on you tube so be sure to send us your comments your questions i'll do my best sabrine them into the show my real yousif describes herself as a musical here she's also known by her station and move fresh yousif has bared her own soul while displaying the talents of a highly versatile singer songwriter and rapper in several independently released album she sings about experiences including single motherhood black hair politics and her own identity as a native american and african american woman use of slater's work is showcased in.

a twenty seventeen collaboration with d.j. dummy drawing inspiration from issues like the standing rock protests and donald trump's treatment of women tracks and wanted to be take on modern day realities with classic soul and r. and d. style we want to welcome i mean a use of to the stream i really know well. if you get anything wrong well we know. you have a unique backstory i guarantee no one else has a back story like yours to prove i'm going to show our audience some pictures of you let's start with this one here have a look on my laptop this is stunning i'm going to show a picture of your grandmother and your mother this is where your musical inspiration the musical education started would you explain because a lot of people we look at these pictures don't say what. tell us all off.

i learned to sing at home with my mother and my grandmother in the kitchen a lot of times people were x. my mother was with a vocal coach to train them to sing and they think that she's going to you know set up at a piano and teach them notes and she'll make them come you know shut corn and pick greens in because for traditional people singing is. like breathing is like praying it is a part of what you do as as a person as a part of the community you know as a. social have you come feel the song breathe the song do chores you know it's a part of life a living part of expression when i was a small girl i would always see my mother my grandmother people would call them and they would travel all around. people to take pain out of their bodies to sing into their bodies in you know later on you may look at it doctors use the vibration of sound to move matter inside of bodies and they were doing this with their voices you know not educated in the western sense but they knew the power of sound and

vibration so that's kind of how i started. both my parents i mean my parents my grandparents had already converted to islam but my grandmother was a choir director from chicago so you know that we are muslim she was still teach me gospel songs. spiritual from slavery and she would teach me traditional native songs. that we had to really learn after the a freedom of religion act was passed for native americans that was until the seventy's we couldn't practice our culture into the seventy's so you know a lot of the culture that was lost because of indian boarding schools and natives being forced to forget who we were we had to go back and read learn those things so by the time i was born you know my grandmother was just starting to really learn the language because we couldn't even talk about it you could even talk about being indian people thought she was a mexican you know and. and you know mexicans are indigenous too that's why you see so many similarities to the southern tribes coming in. imaginary border you know

they're indigenous as well and so people didn't know that she was choctaw so later on she went back to learn the traditional ways and she was able to teach that's i mean talk about community muslim community afro american community african-american community and also of course the native american community in addition to all of that you're from not too far away from here baltimore and there's also that community there coming out on twitter in a for one person here grandma raised personally she has a hometown favorite powerful vocals edgy and good lyrics and message one of my favorite bands not only supports her artistry but contributed to her name that would be the roots from philadelphia the colors of her hair and the sounds were an overall great experience and i would love to see more so a couple of people mentioned your name i know you've been singing professionally since like seventeen but then made a move fresh came a little bit later talk to us about that history black but you know my good friend

black are from the roots they were the first group that i like toward internationally with i have my own band. as a first support internationally with and i feel like it's going to really suffer like i just came i playfully on stage where it's like a lot of people have a hard time saying my main you know and my mom. whatever and it just i feel like he just said it one night like introducing these you will do for us you know it was like a joke and then we just kind of happened in and. i think it was. my web designer who was like why don't we get the euro move fresh because it might be hard for people to spell your name and it just kind of stuck every time i would say it people would remember it and then it just i'm at the airport of people who. hear me the first song you're going to perform for us it's called impact tell us what do we need to know about that before we hear it everyone acts about this song. so this song is actually in the local it's a language the important thing about the lakota they. they held on so

their culture i feel like a lot longer than some of the eastern tribes who were kind of forced to assimilate because. of the in the building the close contact with europeans they were forced to assimilate earlier and lost a lot more of our culture. the look fierce warriors you know and this story and it's talks about the american indian wars and about the women who waved their shells when for there has been the come to come back from war hoping that they were victorious and my mom sing the song to me when i when i was a baby you know and it is a song that has become a lullaby for us not to forget the commitment to our people in the struggle that we fought to still be here the rights of being exists and she's a sing it to me as a baby and. you want to sing it for us now i am. going to perform that song and she gets ready for a valiant way to take a look at this tweet on my laptop this is from all some austin that's his handle

also says her music is spiritual inspirational and uplifting the ancestral song she starts out with is so profound and poetry is superb she is a spiritual being maximising the human experience thank you my munaf for your voice and for your talent and i will take it away. each. she.

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them i am the product of a gypsy in a keep in the somewhere between egypt and things i think i'm going to be a revolutionary since the we thing for bill clinton believe me of the man who said i was to. mississippi red. states and feel great sadness sweet grass. survive a trail of tears and slavery to see is what you call on. the money believe people had to say holy liberation. say learn to sing not in school wouldn't ways you would notice they see singing wasn't about songs it was about sound and illegal to pay and how much my grandmother told me for making bodies of sopping grown men to want to sound a siren escaped the lips and made them whole again we black and. brown blood. is there i'm only the sacrifices nothing you could have it seems. you come back

into the black feeling last rebirth yourself brand you learned that we had just been. and nothing else is ever true we are to spiritual beings have a human experience and that. was. easy but love the love not.

spectacular audience think so as well divinity rocks among the many people using twitter to share their thoughts on your voice and on your lyrics divinity writes she utilizes her prowess as an mc in the truest sense of the word to bare her soul and paint a picture of her struggles and triumphs intelligently which is encouraging refreshing and inspiring so that's just one of the many praises people are singing but also a question this person big bro says i love the fact that she tells her story of resilience and i want to know what are her views on the importance of storytelling in the black community that's what you seem to use your lyrics for oh yeah i mean that's always been kind of a staple you know in the black community is as the. that's how we passed down who we are i mean even a lot of the escape songs my grandmother would teach me those are the songs that were the roadmaps to escape from slavery that people thought were just songs but they're not you know they're maps to freedom and they are the things that anchor us

to our community and remind us of how good god is and at some point we're going to get over it connects us in relationship to god and that to me is. why we've been so resilient is because of our relationship with god. you were home schooled which you so much you value. independent spirit but when you went to school you realized that what you were learning kind of fuel songwriting was your escape yeah so what i realize about going to public school is that school wasn't what wasn't about learning it was about education it wasn't about. having a discourse that debate coming to a higher sense of understanding it really was about retaining specific information that would be on a test long enough to get a good score and everyone gets funded again we do it again next year i mean i would actually get like sat out a class for asking too many questions and because i was homeschooled i was taught

to be analytical thinker to not just take information for face value you know when i'm given information that's ok let's cross reference it with these other resources but you know as a fourteen year old no one wants to listen to you say that. and i feel very blessed that my mother educated me in a nontraditional sense like everything was education you know we could do be work and that's why school credit in her book you know we can cook we can make songs and i wanted to be a thinker more than i wanted to be a singer and at the time i felt like well if i can't be both and i'd rather be a thinker so i left the music for that time and just became a writer and star realized how to combine them you know tony here on twitter says and i want to use is if it is a naturally talented down to earth positive person with great character and she's not afraid to be honest with her music so it's that last line that tony raves that i want to pivot to not being afraid to be honest you tried out for

a little known show in the u.s. american idol and eventually you were told you're not american enough they said i was too ethnic i was too ethnic and if they have an ethnic idol they'll be sure to give me a home. when you say even. that even me i mean if you were the values. you know. i mean you know. i wasn't even offended so you're right you got it because we don't do this in spite of. the revolution will come to pass. even if it's not of the america you know god bless the mean everyone's a part of your journey. god has things happen for specific reasons to push you in different directions so i'm grateful for i listen to your music and i hear the real well to hear america in your lyrics what's happening right now in terms of what's happening right now socially politically what's your next film going to be what is

really i need to write about this right now what is blocking it i can't even say anything is bugging me as much as what is inspiring me and lifted me up is god's love. it really is a connection. and each person could become more and with their own spear in their own if your mission every day is the elevation of your soul we would have a lot of praise and is this happening each person made their own spirit their business their day to day to do this is the elevation of one so so a lot of the music i'm working on right now is really about using sound as healing tool to uplift the spirit and soul and take us out of. that dark place at the end of iniquity where we feel disconnected from god. because the closer we are in a relationship so that the better off we're going to be we have to make different decisions everything about the way we live our lives are going to be different when we're relationship with god. i want to share this with someone watching live on you tube

. she teaches with her words like a lullaby but keeping us whoa instead of putting us to sleep it's a little play on words there in the sense of being conscious and socially with it another person here is on twitter and they had so many questions for you i'm going to share one this is the same man who says they managed to restrict themselves to the questions about this one are there any artists on the african continent you would like to work with in the future and i'll preface that by saying you've already worked with one of our former stream guys. we recorded a song together we we perform together in the african. you know i love. i enjoy him a lot. one of my life child of a ryssdal i would just fall on the floor my mother played her all of my life i would love and. i would just fall out of the work we do. we know who we might you know really this is a little. i would have played this this is

a morning song and it brings you back to your roots and how you learned to sing and i just want to play this for people because you got so many amusing different sounds have a listen to this everybody. the. i don't want to fade that out but i'm going to that's so cool which is i know that if you're next music put it you want to get back to more spiritual music and this is spiritual music and it's sort of rural rule sent here for us or i mean i'm so so grateful for my mother i think when i was younger i did not understand or maybe

didn't appreciate it as much. and i looked at it as being separate like my native identity was kind of separate from my african-american identity but now it's is the same is just a part of learning to give and that was your mother that singing with you and who else was that. she's a singer from baltimore your actions from cleveland those words since you have been in this industry for so long and that video of course is proof of this is we'll hear on twitter who says that she feels the industry is changing its attitude towards women from when she first got involved to now. i think the industry has pressure on its a changes attitude i don't think the culture has changed though i think people are in hiding more now because they are worried about being exposed. i don't feel that the people truly get why there's an issue with degrading women which is really problematic you know because whenever you cover the symptoms it's going to come back at some point and that's the part that i think is

. you know. it's disheartening a little bit but i mean i try to do my best especially in conversation as these conversations happen all in studios and on shows and we talk about these things a lot to really try to help to educate and for men to understand when you play a part in the reason why it's so detrimental to the next coming generations of young girls and women who who just want to do our craft and do our you know want to come to work like you come to work and. live our purpose out you know without these other hindrances so i mean i think it's good that things are being brought to the forefront because they're lanes that are being open to women that were not open before especially for women with children especially in the music industry there's always been very taboo or very negative connotation to women who have children because your body's belong to the industry it's not your own you know. i'm going to

pause you there because you actually have a song that talks about women and saying their names are going to in the show with a mix of two of my little songs one called miracle and the other is say my name it's a song that references the twenty fifteen death of an african-american woman center blam here's a comment from a fan allen on what the song means to her. i guess on the share my thoughts on the song say mining bar move fresh and did them in a cave with his babies it just blew me away when i first heard it the song it specifically highlights the death of sandra bland and you know death by her hands of police and then again by the justice system and just hearing that this young black woman was being acknowledged in the sense that we haven't heard before you know it's demanding that her existence be validated and fought for and that in and of itself is a very emotional and powering as well. we're

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astronomy. copernicus is this debt to these medieval astronomers from the golden age. that streams in many ways will be the computers of the day you can use it to find the time you could navigate science in a golden age with germany on a. al-jazeera . north korean leader kim jong un sends a new year's message to donald trump but once he could seek a different. life

and also coming up in the program the warning signs in yemen are accused of stealing food aid the u.n. food agency threatens to suspend shipments. democratic senator elizabeth warren takes the first official step towards a twenty twenty presidential campaign. and people around the world are welcoming in the new year this is a live picture from times square in new york city i think two thousand one. north korean leader kim jong un has rung in the new year with an offer of more face to face talks with the u.s. president donald trump in a thirty minute speech kim said he's willing to meet trumpet any time but he warned

that pyongyang may seek what he called a new path of washington doesn't keep its promise from abroad is the latest now from seoul. this was a very different new year's message both in content and also style being delivered from the comfort of a study with portraits of his father and grandfather looking down from the walls in his new year message last year kim jong un bragged about north korea now possessing a nuclear arsenal this time he had a very different message when it came to nuclear weapons talking about peace and denuclearization saying that north korea no longer was testing its missiles and would pledged not to do any more testing or to produce any more or indeed to spread the technology when it came to relations with the united states he said that there had been a dramatic change promising to sit down at any time for

a long awaited second summit with the u.s. president donald trump but he did use the opportunity to again call for an end to joint military exercises between the south koreans and the u.s. and he also had this warning for the united states. if the united states continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things and pushes ahead with sanctions and pressure against our republic then we may have to seek another way to protect our country sovereignty and interest and establish peace and stability on the korean peninsula and when it came to into korean relations conjunction was far more upbeat talking about things now entering a new phase and about carrying forward the momentum from twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen building of course upon the unprecedented three summits that he held join the past twelve months with moon j.n. of south korea and the increasing speculation that we are about to witness this

visit by kim jong un indeed the first via north korean leader to south korea since the and. of the korean war he also spoke about and use spirit on the korean peninsula and you sense of trust and the feeling that if the peoples of korea both north and south wanted to move towards a reunification then nothing he said in the world would stop them the saudi u.a.e. coalition and hooty rebels in yemen a both being accused of stealing food aid you in a few days and she is threatening to suspend some aid shipments unless more is done to stop corruption the world food program says about two thirds of aid delivered to you three controlled strongholds such as son and daughter is being stolen by armed groups the associated press also saw documents suggesting that rations intended for families and tires are being stolen by armed units working with the saudi and the coalition forces or some of the nuts or is the chairperson of yemen aid us that's

an organization that provides humanitarian assistance to yemeni people she says the siphoning of aid shipments has been happening for years in yemen. the world where programs statement today is not surprising for yemenis we have been saying this for since the two thousand and fourteen coupe this is a very common and a lot of agencies even local agencies have been prevented to implement aid because there has been a political sense of control over these in areas that they control in north of yemen have tend to be more wish strict in regards to their aid and where it goes to also there is a lot of politics involved they tend to control they want the aid to be distributed at certain locations in military hospitals and you know fighting locations and that's not acceptable you know on an ethical levels but all of this is prime minister has dismissed calls for

a new vote off to being declared the winner in sunday's election the opposition has rejected the results accusing the government of vote rigging police at least nineteen people have been killed in action related violence just traffic reports now from the capital. bangladeshis ruling party planning is still hanging by the thousands in this darkened neighborhood. opposition candidates and their supporters tell us when they try to hang their banners many were threatened beaten by pro-government supporters and often detained by the police. people are nervous to comment about the election all those we spoke to in public at least said they accepted the result in the form of it's normal someone when someone loses i'm a poor man what can i do. of the prime minister sheikh hasina is a wame leake party won more than ninety percent of the contested two hundred ninety eight seats there is anger and fear among the opposition and its supporters that

has seen him who has already served three terms says the vote was free and fair. the election commission says that it will investigate allegations of voter fraud but the main opposition alliance that has rejected this election and is demanding that another one be held says that the election commission has been corrupted by the ruling party and there is mounting evidence of voter fraud. mohamad arsenal is a member of the bangladesh nationalist party he says his party polling station observers were arrested or prevented from entering by ruling party supporters. we have lost all faith in the election commission we don't believe they will stick to their words. this photograph shows one of three c.c.t.v. cameras that we found taped over at a polling station in dhaka coffee come on as a journalist he says he was attacked by

a group of men after he tried to film them attacking a man outside a polling station he can not verify whether his attackers were pro-government or opposition supporters. wanted this attack has scared me but i have to work in talk of it these vests i depend on journalism from my family a prime minister has seen it says she has faith in the election commission. the election commission has every right to investigate if they feel they need to yes they can do what they've done in the past to. the election commission says it will investigate allegations of voter fraud but has announced already that it believes the election was free and fair. that al-jazeera. quality now from time to charge really has the latest from doc. the prime minister said has been a party sense to be very confident that seems to be jubilant about the victory on

the opposition side started complaining but it doesn't seem to be hired by the election commission and it is highly unlikely that the election come in and which is heavily influenced by the government it doesn't have the independent to pursue and investigate many of the complaints are from media reports and from our sources we do know that there has been rigging there has been violence i like cross the country most of the polling center in the capital city dhaka where stable and that's where they lection observers where i saw their vehicles and that is very still made it to the list most of this violence right up by local reporters but many of them were reported as it normally is because the media is quite suppressed you had a lot of self-censorship you didn't have the usual actually it's another election that usually during their electric current environment imposed by the election commission what matters now is how the international community reacts to this election the u.s. and. united states and the european union hasn't made any official reaction to this

particular election and how well that's how soon as government already got recognition from the chinese prime minister and the president as well as indian prime minister what will matter down the road is potentially could destabilize the country because millions of people when able to board. u.s. democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken an important step towards entering the twenty twenty presidential race she is for me an exploratory commission a committee to raise money before formally launching a presidential bid and has been one of president donald trump fits his critics she's released a video promising to protect the middle classes against the excesses of wall street's a theme that is likely to feature prominently in her campaign. america's middle class is under attack how do we get here billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie and they enlisted politicians to batter spice the

crippled union so no one could stop we're going to turn the troops dismantle the financial rules meant to keep us safe after the great depression and cut their own taxes so they paid less than their secretaries and janitors it's time to write the rules for them and why after wall street crash our economy in two thousand and eight i left the classroom to go to washington and come from the broken system head on. castro has more now from washington d.c. . some analysts put elizabeth warren just to the left of hillary clinton on this political spectrum now warren has been in congress for just six years and in that relatively short period of time she has made a national reputation for herself as an ardent critics and reformer of wall street that is a position very popular with the left liberal base and in her announcement video you saw that highlighted as well as other other issues important to liberals

including minority rights and gay marriage now the fact that warren was the first major democrat to announce that she's taking this preliminary step to running may be a political calculation many others will follow in the spring and this is a suspected to be a wide field of candidates as many as thirty potential democrats who would like to take this on they include a wave of fresh new faces that were ushered into prominence by the midterm elections as well as more veterans politically including former vice president joe biden as well as senator bernie sanders both of whom have the added experience of having run for president in the past so warren would need to convince democrats that she deserves to be the new face of this currently leaderless party as well as sell the all important message of being able to defeat donald.