just relations tripled among them is impact a car an incubator for startups but i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take a number of risks because very little things like this in my field and entrepreneurship there are a lot of things that are here in our living room here before one inauguration after the other cell is changing the capitals landscape promoting and narrative of a rising senegal. just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a tool billion dollar construction site it's called junkyard you present my case i want to turn this into a silicon valley for west africa but if you travel away from the cranes and building sites there is another senegal with a different narrative this is. two hundred kilometers from the car and there are villages with no running water electricity or hospitals children suffer from malnutrition you sick out walked away from this life traveling across the mediterranean into europe with the hope to find better opportunities but he's come

back empty handed there are no jobs here no opportunities at least not for us it's as if we don't exist we don't count on politicians unless it's election time and we haven't because what. senegal is sinking in debt riddled with corruption and unemployment this is the narrative shared by the four opposition candidates among them political newcomer anti establishment huisman song. you can win your. politicians understand nothing because this country's youth has decided to take responsibility and to take their destiny into their own hands fifty nine years of lies and betrayal. with conflicting narratives to choose from it's now up to the six million voters to decide which one rings true and which senegal to vote for. all right nicholas is live for us now in the car so nicholas what is the

latest you're hearing there on how it's all been going. well there's still four hours to go before the polling station close we just spoke to the officer in charge in this polling station he says sixty percent of the ballots are the voters have come in we're still waiting for more people to come in this afternoon but what's interesting to note is that despite the call by the former president at the i watch for a boycott of this election people came out in numbers this morning from six o'clock in the morning we've seen young and old families people just in their best attire their sunday best come out it was it felt more like a celebration or or a family or a town gathering here at the polling station where people were greeting each other voting and people expressing their views even though they had various candidates or divert divergent candidates that they were supporting all were coming out to vote really a celebration of democracy here in senegal. and what else as far as the

the youth vote what's what's happening with that because i understand this you know i know this is an important issue for for many people in senegal. yes has and this is really important because among the electorate many of them are first time voter the majority of the people in senegal are millions are born after two thousand the ages nineteen to give you an idea you know the last two presidents . age ninety two in my case i was fifty seven in many young people that we spoke to feel a disconnect with with politicians and with their leadership and they feel like their issues are not being addressed issues like climate change the environment unemployment to name a few are issues that concern young people that they feel are not being addressed so this challenge although he has done well on the economic front the economy is growing at the at the rate of seven percent there's been recent oil and gas

discovery. worth an estimated fifty billion. ever but despite all this economic growth all right we're going to have to apologise for that we're going to have to move on obviously if you as you heard there are technical challenges getting the better of us there. we're going to talk talking more about senegal now because there's lots of conversation online about this. story has an voters in senegal have been sharing their expectations online about the elections and on twitter people are using the hash tag senegal votes of voting photos and videos about their hopes for the future and the country's leadership many are currently as nick has said at several polling stations casting their ballots. and as i mentioned earlier more than six million people are expected to vote and with the young people making up the majority of the country's

population they are but actually hopeful for change. on monday good i am a second year student in a professional player at the darker university club and i'm going to go in the upcoming presidential election a lot of young people here don't work and don't study and spend all of their time in the streets but i'd like to eradicate this so i hope more young people study and to cut the cost of a lot of things especially food prices all of that is too expensive in our new president needs to cut it in the senate go to moderate i want to see is. a much bigger middle class. you know less and less divided between very rich and poor. a better economy stronger national company. you know more about women and men. people much more hope greater energy. yeah those are my hopes for senegal and there has also been keeping

a close eye on these elections online asking voters to share their own stories using the hash tags that i got at the science with a whole section what else you need to know and our online team has so far found that the economy and corruption seem to be the two main concerns for voters but candidates are promising to address this by creating more jobs and also fighting corruption which is severely impacting senegal's economy every year where if you are currently in senegal we do want to hear from you to tweet us he's the hash tag he's quit. thanks for halo they had of the roman catholic church as promised concrete action to tackle cases of sexual abuse by priests pope francis says the church is legal definition of a minor will be raised from fourteen years old to expand protections in his dressing senior bishops on the final day of a conference on sex abuse within the church and he has called the abuse of an

abominable crime or a challenge is live for us from vatican city so what else did the pope have to say. well he had to say that well he used very very strong language in is final address it follows the eucharist a mass in the vatican that was the conclusion of four days of discussion with high ranking clergy that are being brought here from across the world and he describes abuses priest abuses in the catholic church as tools of satan ravenous wolves and he said that we find ourselves before a brazen manifestation of this spirit of evil this was harsh language for those who have used their positions as priests as bishops etc. to abuse small children in cases that have been coming up time and time again for

years now what he said happens be done that it's priests bishops cardinals had to go back to their countries and use the measures that were already in place in the catholic church and properly applied and to make sure that it doesn't happen again he said it bewkes will be addressed with the utmost seriousness. our already did they do enough then to address the concerns of the abuse survivors. absolutely not. the survivors who have been gathering in writing to you. keep a tab on what's been going on inside and speak to the media here were very angry after they listened francis they said what they have been demanding the. pope adopt a policy of zero tolerance for throwing priests who have abused children after

house of the priest throwing those who have covered up for that abuse out of the priesthood to that language wasn't here it was missing from walk by francis said and it is missing from the discussions that have taken place over the last four days and they believe that this is a kind of paedophiles charter that it means that there is no you accountability for the cover up of of abuse that high ranking clergy can go back to their countries and continue covering it up and that this means that more abuse will take place. having said that the vatican has never said the this was going to be the final destination this meeting it was always going to be a step in the road and once this is all wrapped up which it just has there is going to be more discussion there's going to be more meetings and what the vatican wants to come out of this is a kind of framework that can be drawn up a practical handbook that can be applied across the world so that the vatican so

that the catholic church can properly address. an issue that has become an ex essential problem for catholicism it is driven people away from the faith and unless they deal with it properly it will continue to do so rory challenge thanks very much roy talent. well this is a news bulletin if you're watching us on facebook why we've got a bonus story for you now want to woman has been devoted to looking after baby chimpanzees in sierra leone from our friends at a.j. plus and it is hollywood's biggest night we'll look at the oscar favorites and tell you about the drama surrounding this year's emmy. allies generally fine now in afghanistan and iran there is

a storm system developing in the central mediterranean but it's not going to be in immediately so we've got a day of fine looking weather low twenty's beirut little bit less in aleppo same sort of story across iraq i was surprised to see a shower but if you watch the development between monday and tuesday that storm winds up it comes from libya comes across to cyprus sudden turkey northern syria as you can see by this snow for turkey itself and it looks stormy so i think on shore winds will be quite nasty from lebanon lebanese coast northwards who's in juices is suddenly ahead of it that usually means it's going to be dusty as long as the ground is drawn is fairly dry now that before we get to that we go northerly and the southerly is here as in western society but as you know that wind just slowly east was attempts to rise in riyadh to twenty nine degrees but i think we're looking at dry weather if it little dusty we still potential big showers in the eastern side of south africa there's the last one went through into southern

mozambique but you know it's the exception that proves the rule for most places far in cape town's twenty three will take a bit of a dip as the wind strengthens from the west but most places assigned also zambia it's dry. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how and why bill rees influence the course of history the celt that he did not get enough credit for and in the budget he worked to be the big historical figure but he was one delegate the biggest icon in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up partite in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on all jesse. one of our biggest strengths is that we will to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people still jabot outside these gates waiting for any

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here with a news group taking a quick look at the stories trending on our website not surprisingly events in. events in venezuela dominating interesting story number the number three story that's getting it clicks heading to the middle east to promote a peace plan we're going to talk about that and more detail in just a moment but it's all there for you on our website c.n.n. dot com log on and time. u.s. president donald trump senior adviser on his way to the middle east to promote a plan for israel and palestine where the company middle east envoy jason green blatt on a week long tour. the u.s. delegation expected to focus on economic issues but the details of any peace plan have not been made public the administration says it will reveal reveal that off

the israeli elections in april prime minister benjamin netanyahu is looking to win another term as head of israel's government but he's facing allegations of corruption in israel palestinians cut off talks in twenty seventeen after the u.s. recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and it overturned decades of u.s. policy an international consensus that this issue should be resolved at the end of talks the palestinians want an independent state based on borders before the one nine hundred sixty seven war with east jerusalem as its capital that would mean an end to the occupation in the west bank and gaza but israel has kept up construction of settlements they're going to talk more about this now with a senior political analyst marwan bashar so. he's going there to talk about this peace plan allegedly but first for a couple of years now we've heard almost nothing about it about the details of why is that the strike first of all because apparently it's not a priority for the trumpet ministration and second of all they're very happy just

to let israel be israel for the occupation to continue and for the palestinians to suffer for a while until later on when the united states or for them anything they were considered to be too generous of the united states and israel so i think there's a bit of a strategy here and the strategy is to humiliate the palestinians so much to basically make them starve cut off all aid as the trump and mr ocean did to the palace in special to the palestinian refugees recognize israel. as capital of israel and it's an extension of east part of the city also accepts. the israeli illegal settlements in the west bank and gaza so basically has them all five issues that supposed to be so-called find the issues jerusalem settlements borders as well as refugees and the sovereignty questions have all been basically dealt with so what's remains is how do you feed them to the palestinians. for me it's clear that

george bush not and his father in low person trump have two things in mind the way to coerce the palestinians into accepting an american the it is through israeli sticks and gulf carrots so the idea is make israel put all the pressure possible but oppression and so on against the palestinians and get the gulf countries to donate money to the so called economics of peace so this way between pressuring from the left and trying to donate as a reward for those palestinians who accept american israeli diktats i think not on company hope to make some progress and way way to the arab nations fit into all of this i mean you know you mention the gulf states but it isn't all about them and they want what about the other states in the region i think i think netanyahu and israeli government are able to do what they are doing and person trump is doing what he is doing like and like to recognizing the next session of jerusalem muslims

for it's because the out of order is in a complete mess it's in collapse since the arab revolutions and got that revolutions we can't really speak of an arab world anymore and if you look at the map of the arab world right i mean either there are countries in conflict or conflicts countries or tore the remaining countries today egypt and israel who are sort of egypt and jordan who already recognize and have peace with israel. the others like iraq syria lebanon they're not going to have anything any time and he knew normalization of relations with israel algeria morocco are too far away libya yemen and so on so forth are toward so the only thing really left are the gulf countries and the gulf countries are well to do a far as the trumpet construction is concerned what president of doesn't say by the way is that the average income in israel is higher than most gulf states in fact it's way higher than all arab countries with the exception of qatar u.a.e.

and another country like weight so the gulf countries are expected to finance american israeli diktats on the palestinians when in fact the us israel have more money and the all the palestinians more compensations and yet. it is coming to the gulf in order to get the gulf countries to donate money in order to make up for what israeli injustices all right appreciate your perspective as always and as the a senior political analyst model michel thank you all right we're taking a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the world cubans will vote on a new constitution for the first time in decades it could mean more freedom in trade property and foreign investment and for the eight million registered voters there it will be a rare chance to voice opposition to the government but on the sanchez reports from havana. protestants of cuba pray for divine guidance.

and for cubans to vote no on sundays constitutional referendum. don't stay home don't leave your vote blank you know what you have to put on the ballot. religious groups say the new constitution may eventually allow same sex marriage. with the proposed constitution has not respected the people's opinion on the issue of marriage and family only. this sort of dissent is unprecedented in cuba and it's not restricted to moral values the draft constitution brings in more freedoms to trade buy property and attract foreign investment it even sets presidential term limits but communism remains and try and as cuba's guiding force many here say the changes are the most significant since the cold war era the critics say ratifying the proposal will only serve to perpetuate the communist one party system for those

pushing for a no vote the shadow of fetal castro remains in these pages islamist my things by qualifying it as the state in society's guiding force it puts the party above the rest of the institutions recognized by the constitution and that's a threat against any democratic process. the no campaign complains it hasn't been given enough time compared to its government financed opponents. i am voting yes cuba is voting yes we are voting yes. for their own labor this would be the best constitution cubans ever had was as was eliminated. the foundations for socialism have to be there we fought for that many years and now there are new things like private property it's the best in every way. it's thought close to twenty five percent of cubans are likely to vote against the draft but win or lose sunday will be a historic day it will be the first time cubans can say no to a government proposal out in deal been the innocent just and just see the have been

a cuba oh let's bring in david ariosto in new york now he is an executive producer of the radio groups jeezy media and author of the book this is cuba so what do you make of these proposal this then how how significant is this are cubans really getting a voice here to to to decide the future. you know i think it's sort of a two pronged gas in the first of that is that yes this is an opportunity for the cubans and cuban people to come out and openly disagree with their government this is not something that is all that common on the island however this is also a constitution that result lot of consulate it with consulate existing changes that former president raul castro brought severe and there is a pretty overwhelmingly expected to be a yesterday vote on today now the question really is is is how much of a guess what are we going to get back in one thousand nine hundred six the

constitution referendum the first of placement of fidel that was in excess of ninety seven percent so you know if they get around ninety percent if they get around seventy five it's a question of how much legitimacy does this new administration have and you know when you look at raul castro he's eighty seven years old he's got six grandchildren and you know he's thinking about institutions beyond you know sort of when he passes will disregard lucian society that he and his brother built still have the legacy that that he continues to bear and i think the real concern about looking about what happened to the soviet union and so this grappling propounder amongst the old oligarchs and he is really concerned about providing the kind of legitimacy that you see instance might bring there and still a popular referendum that yes while we can savor of the yes vote would do that if it if not then you really have to start to wonder if there is cracks in this old

cuban system yet speaking about the cracks in the system what what would the hardcore revolutionaries in cuba be making of this is this is this a betrayal of socialism. you know it's funny i think you know there's that old tipple in your line that all politics is local and you know you when you have. castro. in a row captures only sun so it's still sort of pulling the strings behind the scenes and you have the old revolutionary guard that have not quite receded. you know they don't do not want to see sort of a handing over of the government to the yankee peerless as they might say but you do have a younger group of cubans who are increasingly oriented towards the internet you know they want many of them wants more opportunities in terms of what financial markets might bring to bear and those two ideologies don't necessarily work with one another so when in miguel the as canal the new president he has to bolster

placated all those all revolutionaries who are you know there are gerontocracy there but there are still there and they still wield power but the broader popular sport has really never known a leader other than castro in power is now starting to look for different ways to change i think when you really look at what has taken place in cuba over the years there's always been this this release valve in that you to go to the united states or sort of that what dr wood policy in which it cubans made to the united states they could just simply become residents and so a lot of the opposition simply went to south florida new jersey that ended with the obama administration so you know this homegrown opposition coupled with some of the disaffection that the catholic church is starting to bring to bear with through the issue of gay marriage you're starting to see more opposition and i think regardless of what happens today cuba as a political voice will no longer speak with one voice on the international stage just by virtue of

a government that is going to have to be more beholden to its constituents is good to get your perspective on this david dowdy all star thanks for being raped. it's been an attempted hijacking of a passenger plane in bangladesh the plane was forced to make an emergency landing at chittagong airport local media reports saying all one hundred forty two passengers got off the plane safely after it landed the gunman was injured and has been arrested the boeing triple seven was supposed to fly to dubai in the united arab emirates syrian state news says and i saw a landmine has killed at least twenty four people near homs forty two of exploded as a van packed with workers pos by in the town of salem a year i saw as lost virtually all of his territory but many bombs have been left behind the u.n. figures have revealed a record number of civilian deaths in afghanistan last year almost four thousand people including a thousand children were killed that is the highest figure since the u.n.

began keeping records in two thousand and nine takes the total number killed in the last ten years to thirty two thousand the were in afghanistan has taken a terrible toll on civilians and twenty eighteen witness deplorable levels of harm inflicted upon. the us so the highest number of civilians killed in the conflict since the united nations began system systematic documentation of the impact of the war on noncombatants thousands of palestinians have been demonstrating for and against president mahmoud abbas in garza they demanded and best stepped down after the salaries of five thousand people were suspended is seen as a move against hamas which governs the gaza strip rival rally took place in york acquired west bank in support of president obama. north korea's leader is on his way to vietnam for a second summit with the u.s.

president it's believed kim jong un will travel most of the way to hanoi by train he is donald trump there on wednesday. the counting continues in nigeria after saturday's presidential election the electric commission extended voting hours in some places after a ballot machines malfunction more from china how in a bridge are all indications are that this election is not in fact over i next the independent electoral commission has confirmed that some polling stations have at a carry voting over from saturday into sunday other polling stations that we don't know how many apparently didn't open at all because of violence intimidation and other problems at the polls that of course gives rise to the question will they have to reschedule the vote at those places meanwhile the counting goes on at the state and local level though it may be a few days yet before we have final results here at the central collation center in a boojum it's a worrying period this concerns will rise about the possibility of

a disputed result out of all of this and already one of the leading observer groups operating here yagur that we've been speaking to has called this election not the election nigerians expected not the election nigerians deserved and we're covering the nigerian ang nigerian elections from all angles how many trees has more from maiduguri in the northeast northern nigeria is relatively calm after the early morning scare on election day there were also fears of possible outbreak of violence after the two leading political parties accuse each other of planning to disrupt the correlation of results in various states across the country however nothing much has happened in most parts of northern nigeria since the end of voting on saturday now all election observers and the rest of the country is watching closely to see what will happen after the declaration of results which will start in a matter of hours by the independent national electoral commission and how the leading

political parties are able to calm their supporters after the results have been announced. switching gears a bit now it is the biggest nice's a year in tinseltown the ninety first academy awards get underway in hollywood hollywood later on sunday rob reynolds takes a look now at the films of vying to take home the coveted oscar. the red carpet has been rolled out on hollywood boulevard and the on globes with the names of the winners are ready to open this year's academy awards feature a diverse slate of best picture nominees including the exploits of a half or can supervise year zero in black and. the life of an indigenous mexican housekeeper in the one nine hundred seventy s. in roma the scene he's working for black in the deep south blue problems a story of overcoming bigotry and creating interracial friendships in green book

and the like with the brilliant but troubled gay rock star in bohemian rhapsody. the films and performances selected you know the she is nominated this year for the ska certainly reflects that hollywood has a greater understanding and is putting forth a greater commitment towards diversity and inclusion and i think that's a good thing the four other best picture nominees are vice a bio pic of former vice president dick cheney a star is born a remake of a venerable tale of fame fortune in fate with a helping of popular songs black klansmen director spike lee's comedy drama about a black policeman infiltrating the k.k.k. and the favorite a lavish dive into the intrigues b. trails and lesbian love affairs in the eighteenth century british royal court the

best female actor nominees include yes you know in roma lady gaga in a star is born and melissa mccarthy can you ever forgive me but there's a clear favorite i mean glenn close it's like finally i mean glen has been the bride for. and it's. i am so i think everybody is like like the best male actor award contest looks like a dead heat between christian bale startling in person a shot of cheney in vice and romney malek's passionate portrayal of the talented orbited freddie mercury is bohemian rhapsody the television ratings for the oscars broadcast have been shrinking for years and twenty team was the worst year yet by including a broadly diverse slate of nominees this year the film industry hopes to bring those numbers back up and if the academy awards more relevance robert oulds

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a special bond with him join the north korean leader and the u.s. president are about to meet again in vietnam a letter they were signing is very comprehensive and i think both sides are going to be very impressed with a month or so after their historic summit in singapore come a strike a deal on nuclear weapons and to finally end the korean the special coverage of the bridge the twenty so. that people are talking about is for today is and thank you so much house what's known as the land of a thousand hells and over the next few days some of cycling's biggest names will be

taking on the mountains of rwanda that's water a wonder has been upgraded by the sport's governing body so that it can now include world change a new one of the rice in africa is in this category that takes place in gabon but are wonders week long events which started earlier this sunday is now that's how fish stage race on the consonance you can follow the a stage race on social media here's the the reigning champion that is local rider samuel mcgee sure he'll go face a high quality of rival.