dressing and another talking shop all right i wrote challenge there in vatican city thank you now is the battle for the young vote in nigeria two men in their seventy's are contesting the presidential election on saturday in which half the registered voters are below the age of thirty five when interest reports. nigeria's young new voters say they are to change their country. they want to see more young nigerians in politics but admit that it's not easy in a country why running for office is expensive but they know what they want from those they would be voting for the want of. representing the people that is trustworthy that the one that won her in the by nope in the education think tribal conflict time and not mind it. being able to vote for the first time in their lives is proving popular this time around a little and very excited i was very amused when i just do and release more for.

younger jurors make up the biggest voting bloc this election. in key battleground states that politicians are concentrating on in the final days of campaigning with almost five and a half million registered voters most of whom are under the age of thirty five years around australia is second only to lagos in the number of nigerians eligible to cast their ballots where were we since two states would probably be in a better position to take the presidency that's why the leading candidates are focusing their energies and resources here. since the last elections in twenty fifteen appeal has been introduced lowered the age restriction on candidates wanting to run for public office from thirty to twenty five. sally satel barak is taking up the opportunity but admits it's tough fighting established parties and candidates those the end voters court the old order it's very difficult for a young person like me to contest what is very important for the ship. and how

about i believe god does the right temple meters and then does very particular order. completely so for to put people like sally some of the politics say the number of young people standing in this election is disappointing when it comes to their initial quests we have dropped in the long battle of the personal edge of a huge and unless you had to cut the cut and force the financial expenses of our contestant so. we have. a as there is no bill number no it's exactly what we asked that the majority of young nigerians are social media enthusiastic and many are well aware how the politicians target them with messages on various platforms solution began to ask. how freeness and spread of must meet the sound of mice you know my style is he sort of agree in flames as.

to how big that influence this may become clearer after saturday's vote. i'm a decrease i'll come to nigeria in a few moments we'll have all the weather with a ten but still to come here and al-jazeera. looking for the politicians but will voters in senegal a loss for the elect a new leader. twenty five years since a mass shooting in a west bank mosque we report on how the consequences are still unfolding. and of course the west indies cricket a who's just put himself into the record books stay with us. well we've had a welcome dusting of snow in afghanistan deadly floods same parts of pakistan and

we've had flooding rains in the northern areas of india could see this area of cloud hake say the say this is in the punjab district of india similar conditions across the border into pakistan lots of cloud and rain around here it's moving through the i think squatting down servicing dry weather so a few spots of light just about like them out on a chart twenty seven celsius there for new delhi on friday it cools off a touch as we go on into sas the cloud just sliding its way through karate will hang on to a hive around twenty seven cells in the speaking of karate there's been some unusually wet weather across southern parts of pakistan forty millimeters of rain here in twenty four hours the average for the entire month is around twelve millimeters so that was quite a dumping of rain but further north is making its way away that further north has been a dumping of snow dusting at least into afghanistan this is the same and couple that wintry weather around frozen oranges on the streets there as you can say reenter

out so this has been something that has been somewhat welcomed across the country kabul will see temperatures falling back to around four celsius the system makes its way through touch warmer as we go into the weekend with lots of crisp place sunshine. sponsored by town and. donald trump was told of a special with can. now the u.s. president a north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very honored to eight months after making history in singapore when they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally and the korean. followers on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera. whether it's cute and culturally strange. wild and ferocious.

is the balance between endangered wildlife and then noisy neighbors. right there and there's nothing between how you have a human habitat to live together. how many people here have seen a tiger. over. the top stories here on al-jazeera at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire that ripped through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a blaze broke out in a residential complex which also housed a chemical weapons. forces in syria say they expect to rescue all remaining

civilians in the eastern village of back in the coming hours where the battle for control of the last remaining toe tree is taking place fifty fighters one hundred two iraqi security forces on thursday. says the roman catholic church needs to heal the wounds of the decades of sexual abuse by priests has been speaking at a meeting of bishops to address the scandal and call for concrete and effective measures. the fate of a butcher's teenager who joins us now unclear after bangladesh confirmed it will not allow into the country the u.k. government moved to strip him of her citizenship this week believing she held dual nationality with bangladesh has more than one. finding close. to a decision taken by this is. that she was being stripped of her british citizenship from a copy of a letter from the british home office. begum is in a refugee camp in syria where she was discovered earlier this month and.

in twenty fifteen she and two friends left the u.k. to join eisel in syria she married a dutch eisel fighter soon after arriving and have been living in i suppose last stronghold before arriving at the camp can i say to you i think the british prime minister said the decision to revoke begum citizenship had been carefully considered the overall point of the friend makes is absolutely right which is how important it is for this government and this country to make very clear that we will take action against those who are involved in terrorism the british government can withdraw a person citizenship if they deemed a security risk providing it doesn't leave them stateless it's believed begum has bangladeshi heritage and is eligible for citizenship but when asked about the case

the country's foreign ministry said teenage begum is not a bangladeshi citizen there is no question of begum being allowed to enter bangladesh bacon's infant son is a british national by birth the british government says his rights are not affected . this is bethnal green where she grew up an area with a large bangladeshi community in london's eastend the case is divided opinion here . there's just so many factors in this and i'm actually quite bit torn to that one hundred it was the truth but this is the ship i want them to bring her in the baby ava but the other hand i'm like she did go away and she did join you know terrorist group. only fifteen when she left for syria there were some including the former head of britain's foreign intelligence service m i six people leave the british society should be strong enough to give her a second chance others want her to come to the u.k. to stand trial to possibly face a prison sentence and enter into

a deal radicalization program. begum says she doesn't regret traveling to syria she's also described the twenty seventeen manchester arena bomb attack is justified retaliation the comments haven't won her much sympathy but one former senior police officer believes begum should be seen as a victim you know we took him at sexual exploitation we were talking about individuals that were on the on the internet being radicalized parents had no idea whatsoever what was happening. an estimated nine hundred british nationals have joined eisel but only forty of being prosecuted the government wants to send a tough signal to others hoping to return to the u.k. but every right or wrong decision the government makes sets a precedent for others. al-jazeera london. independence protesters have blocked a motorway in northwestern spain burning tires on the road connecting the city of barcelona as part of a general strike against the ongoing trial of catalan separatists

a dozen former local government leaders are facing up to twenty five years in jail for their role in a failed twenty seventeen independence. now a group of french lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make them a criminal offense in the same way semitism is illegal in france critics argue that opposition to the israeli government is not comparable to anti semitism speaking at an event organized by the jewish community president emanuel macross said legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may come the day after thousands of people rallied across funds to denounce hostility towards jews. palestinians are preparing to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of a massacre in hebron the demonstrations on friday twenty nine palestinians were killed when an american israeli settler opened fire inside a mosque on the twenty fifth the fabric nine hundred ninety four and as harry force that reports from the occupied west bank the consequences of that mass shooting are still being felt even from a hillside overlooking her bronze old city it's clear that this is an ancient place

rich in human heritage but also a visible fault lines of human conflict according to the traditions of the abrahamic faiths judaism christianity and islam abraham himself along with his wife his sons and their wives are buried in the caves above which the ybor the mosque now stands since israel occupied the west bank in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven jews and muslims have prayed here separately divided over the past twenty five years the division has deepened and the muslim side the call to prayer requires an israeli soldier to unlock a door israeli army cameras survey the interior of the mosques in mom says more than half of what he describes as an exclusively muslim site has been cut off. muslims totally reject the division which isn't meant for protection the real protection comes from the fact that this is an old islamic mosque and the settlers to live. on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred four an american israeli far right settler baruch goldstein and to the mosque during prayers and

started shooting he killed twenty nine worshipers and wounded nearly two hundred he himself was chased down and beaten to death the violence the stain on least here may have been over in a matter of minutes but its consequences still deeply felt this was a seismic event in the history of this town and from the epicenter here the fissures of that politically psychologically physically have spread out throughout . the immediate military lockdown forcing the palestinian market to close amid other restrictions was followed by the hebron agreement of one thousand nine hundred seventy eighty percent of the city is known as h one mostly the urban sprawl of the west bank's main economic center and of the palestinian authority the remaining twenty percent home to several hundred israeli settlers and forty thousand palestinians became h two under israeli military control the illegal settlements have swollen attracting some of the most right wing settlers in the occupied west bank some eight hundred and are registered as living here the crisscross intimate nature of the division heightens the friction hebron is often

a flashpoint of violence jews here remember an early a massacre in one thousand twenty nine when sixty seven people were killed the small jewish community forced from the city. for kamin what's happening now is a religious and historical homecoming under the protection of the israeli army they're just doing their job to try to keep the tension. down because without them it would probably be much more tense so there we see that we see them of the positive presence a few meters away a very different perspective run the gate has seen her home and her freedoms ever more constricted for the last two years by reinforced fence and a gate that soldiers can look at any time we used to come and go now they have as i assume. we say prisoners are in prison but we did a larger one twenty five years on from one of the deadliest days in the israeli palestinian conflict its legacy is undimmed in the daily reality of hostility

disposition and division are a force that al-jazeera hebron in the occupied west bank there's now a new smartphone that you can bend in half some songs now and they'll its next generation of devices including the galaxy fold but will it be enough for the industry leader to overcome a shrinking market christensen he reports from the uk. the next generation samsung smartphone will also serve as a tablet with its folded as a four point six inch display it's compact and perfectly portable but. when the device opens up your world does too not surprisingly samsung's newest device is called the fold and it was unveiled with all of the fanfare you've come to expect from the world's leading smartphone maker. but shares with things we call it goes on sale in april but it and samsung's new as tannen as ten plus are being released amid faltering worldwide sales people have

a little bit of phone fatigue all the phones look the same they feel the same this new galaxy s ten is not really going to break the mold but we've seen some hints of things that are coming in the future that might get people really excited the issue whether buying samsung or an apple device is increasingly price with the fold costing about two thousand dollars samsung will have to convince consumers that they just have to have it pretty much all of the price to perform the performance of their own looking for. a replacement phone every three or four years i'm not within the eighteen to twenty four month update cycle i'm not rich enough or that the global smartphone market is shrinking after years of rapid growth with consumers waiting for the next game changing feature and major markets like here in the united states that saturation still smartphone sales are a vital part of the global economy. in two thousand and seventeen smartphone sales reached nearly four hundred sixty billion dollars but the rising price tag for the

better known smartphones is not just an issue in the developed world and there's heavy headwind against the high and smartphones we saw that i phone in the sales but not that great some macro issues as well china is slowing down. but europe is slowing down with the release of the full the industry leaders seem convinced that continuing innovation and the ability to access five g. data networks in the near future will be enough to keep smartphone consumers coming back for more christian salumi al-jazeera new york. tech giant google says it's made an error after failing to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its home security device consumers only found out about the nest guard's built in microphone when google announced it was updating the part of the voice command assistant company says it was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed as a feature who also said the microphones must be activated to work.

photos in senegal attending to find out more about the candidates running for presidency the nation goes to the polls on sunday now and other african nations comedians making fun of politicians have often found themselves in jail but that's not the case in senegal reports from the capital dhaka. thank there maybe no televised presidential debate but there is special election coverage. comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president mike you saw on the campaign trail. follows cells every move poking fun at the president who for now seems to be the favorite in the race. but the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to

explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race thanks laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. to get on with the daily news in iraq the political satire show on the election the aim is to hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls. people just the chief will go.