as the names publicly in front of everyone's present. voters came early some queuing for hours patiently waiting their turn is seventy six year old ascendant jai it's his eleventh presidential election and twenty year old put a candidate who's voting for the first time. i want change there is corruption and dysfunctional justice system this needs to stop grow or i want stability so that we can live well and peacefully avoid stability and change a promise candidate solid running for a second mandate says he can bring but rival candidate edriss sachs says cells failed to deliver so far political newcomer song goes further saying the political system has failed the people. senegal's population is rapidly changing most are born after two thousand bees want to see a new form of leadership that addressing issues that matter for senegal i think especially one of them like some cool he has been like his voice has really it

could run like with young people because his young himself is saying that it's time to change the system and also like all the candidates like it is a sake in kenya have also addressed in the own way a different part of the programs but i've seen lacking in this campaign issues around when around like environment specially none of them really address it from my opinion in a serious way to opposition rivals karim wadded former mayor of the car khalifa salo were barred from running in the race after being convicted for corruption the opposition accuses saul of using the courts to crackdown on dissent. this is the polling station of medina in downtown de car it's a stronghold for the opposition and despite the calls for president. to boy called this election people came out to vote because there is a long tradition of democracy in senegal and whoever wins this election will be in charge of

a country wealthier than ever and estimated fifty billion dollars of oil and gas has been discovered off the coast of senegal forty qatif years the culture of corruption and believes only the rich and the powerful will profit from this you will a sudden john believes it will improve the lives of all to the gillies. two different voters two visions for senegal future. now the provisional results will be announced on wednesday the official results from the election commission will come out at the end of the week on friday in the meantime there's been a lot of speculation in the media and of course the former president who came back to this country just weeks before the vote had said that these elections will be rigged had announced that it would win with a score of fifty five to fifty seven percent the prime minister announced fifty

seven fifty seven percent just last night so the longer it takes for these results to come out the more people here are anxious there's been a muted reaction from party supporters both from a key cell and and. all eyes are on the election commission now everybody now waiting anxiously for the results to come out back to you martin thanks nick nicholas live in the capital dhaka still to come here at al-jazeera we'll hear from palestinians who say israeli occupation is making it ever more difficult for them to pray. and i bet there's plenty of fine weather to be found over the northern parts of asia at the moment the temperatures aren't bad either we do have

a little bit of cloud this is drifting its way eastwards it's moving its way away from a sit in japan though so by the time we get to choose day this should be plenty of sunshine around i think think for tokyo there will be a little bit more cloud than we might see otherwise and twelve degrees will be towards the west in small force in beijing on top temperature around and climbing up to twelve as we head into wednesday but look for the south as well cloud beginning to put itself together on wednesday so before the south once the animals see what's going on. heya plenty of fine weather to be found for cheese day the clouds just beginning to build for some of us and then that rain really gets going for wednesday so heavy downpours has stretching all the way across through shanghai so wet day for us with a top temperature just of nine degrees but for the towards the south plenty of sunshine for many of us here the philippines should be fine and dry as we should be across vietnam cambodia a couple of showers perhaps for us in parts of thailand but for the south that's where the majority of the showers are and some of these have been really quite heavy over the last twenty four hours i'll say somewhat wet weather perhaps i

repulsive some macia now it's like java should be dry but for a sit in borneo that's where most of the wet weather will be it doesn't fairly soviet times. the right explodes prominent figures of the twentieth century. influence the course of history. that he did not get enough credit for and in the book you want to be the big historical figure but he was mandela the biggest con in the world the president and the president came together to end apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and to be declared face to face on i'll just see.

here's a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera at least twenty five people are thought to have been killed on venezuela's border when security forces tried to block aid from getting in the u.s. vice president mike pence is due in colombia's capital soon to meet the opposition leader and other regional politicians who support him the u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad as a writing class at the talks with the afghan taliban is co-founder and political chief bill delaney baradar is among several senior taliban members who are attending the four day summit aimed at ending the seventeen year war. senegal's prime minister has said the president macky sall has won reelection a claim that's been rejected by the opposition official results from the weekend elections have yet to be announced.

also underway in nigeria after the presidential election there is expected to be a tight race between president mohamed who bihari and his main rival. the election was marred by violence at least thirty five people were killed let's go live now to the capital abuja our correspondent there is jonah how despite the thirty five people or say who died the you giving giving it its approval saying that the election was conducted in a relatively peaceful atmosphere. yes that's right many of the monitoring groups delivering their assessments during the course of the day today not all of them are quite as happy with the process as the african union it has to be said two days after the vote and the results are only just now beginning to trickle in at an official level here in a boot of the very first state is announcing its results now in

a painstakingly slow process each of the seventy three candidate parties having to have their results announced and of course there are thirty six states plus the capital region thirty seven times this is going to have to be repeated before we have a picture of the final result will one of the observer groups that has delivered its assessment not quite so glowing joins me now chairman of the situation room an umbrella of seventy civil society organizations looking closely at this election clement new work or thanks for joining me before we get on to your assessment are you concerned about the slow pace of the delivery of results yes we are concerned the stage in the last election that we have had more than fifty percent always lots of miles so we're concerned about the slow pace we had all of yesterday where suspect that some of that is arts to begin begin to be on our standard didn't see that happen so we we at concerned we understand of course that they a number of. high but where specter had this to go fast or to put that down to well

the number of political parties maybe but also we need a challenge is an lapses that we have seen in terms of the commission to respond to this whole state does all of this using begin to point to the possibility of a disputed result so the longer this goes on well we hope not suddenly. and i think on both sides of the political divide but even in civil society about the way there has been lapses identified that we will be on the date of whatever is in the house would be a reflection. of what has happened but i must say certainly there are concerns well let me point to some of the concerns in your report situation room report you've spoken about serious lapses observed in the conduct of the election down to logistics in part but also pointing out elect the election was marred by violence partisan security services and compromised our nick officials that's quoting from

your report it's not particularly glowing while suddenly we had to postpone the election week after we still had those largest six challenges that were cited for the postponement comments mental falls they should have stayed there that a.t.m. we didn't start in several places on till about eleven am and then missing materials and of course we've been receiving reports of security over region in some states an interference that shouldn't really be the case we have made it plain constantly that the all of the police and security services should be as that i could had better next to the commission this may not have played out in the with the lantis of these are some of the challenges and then we've seen some instances of violence people being killed in their report that we issued to nine deaths in a space of forty eight hours this is of concern all of it i'm sure of concern

clement no awkward thanks for joining us another so the work goes on for the rest of these results to be announced on social media both the leading camps already declaring victory and ample circumstances as you heard there for potential legal challenges should anybody wish to bring them back to general alive in the nigerian capital abuja thanks. now forces loyal to the libyan warlord holly for hafter are reported to have killed nineteen people in an attack in the country's southwest it happened in the town of moore zouk where have to his forces have taken over several oil fields more than thirty houses were set on fire files were destroyed and cars were stolen after is said to employ sudanese militia men and his battle to control territory. that twenty five years ago a jewish settler killed twenty nine palestinians as they worshiped at the ibrahimi mosque in hebron since then muslims say it's been more difficult to worship freely

at holy sites than at smith reports. it's time to make the call to prayer at the mosque of abraham in have room to get to the room he uses to spare needs the israeli army in the synagogue on the other side of this partition to open the door but this site is the burial place of abraham sacred to jews as it is to muslims soupy as often happens he says is being ignored is not drowned out by chanting in the cynical. eventually he gave up the steel divider was put in after an american israeli far right settler shot dead twenty nine muslim worshippers in one nine hundred ninety four the police told al-jazeera that there's an agreement with the palestinians that there is no call to prayer on certain jewish holidays are filming was not done during a holiday i think it is awakening people or how to defend their property their rights their holy sites and it is empowering the palestinian more and more to

steadfast in this conflict more hard to forward to find their way out of it in occupied east jerusalem at the oxer mosque israeli authorities control when and who can or cannot worship in these places every time attracts a significant police presence and many of the worshippers who come to the mosque will tell you that they find that intimidating the israeli police will say that they have to have a presence to maintain security. here a jordanian led islamic body the walk manages the holy sites a lot of his time is spent pushing back against israeli attempts to encroach on a recent example in our x. was when worshippers forced open a gate to a meeting hall it's been closed by court order sixty years ago because a group that used it was associated with a palestinian group hamas a whack says the group has long disbanded but the police want to keep it closed with a really thirty percent on daily basis with backing the settlers with allowing and

i think the site is challenging not only the work with chosing the people of the city even on fridays your holiness the i have to submit my gaze to the soldiers to the israeli military groups in order to enter the site and to pray for half an hour and come back from the same get to collect my document my id after two israeli police officers were killed and they are x. a compound in twenty seventeen metal detectors were installed at the entrances worshippers refused to pass through. eventually israel gave up remove the detectors and the palestinians celebrated israel maintains it's only taking security precautions it points to the metal detectors that jewish worshippers and everyone else must pass through to access the wailing wall the palestinians will say though they're the ones living under occupation. bernard smith al-jazeera

occupied east jerusalem. president trump says he's delaying another hike in tariffs on chinese goods after making substantial progress in trade talks he plans to meet the chinese president xi jinping to conclude a new agreement the u.s. and chinese again see it is have been discussing terrorists as well as commodities as they work to end a seven month trade war. the secretary shamir a roadtrip drama green book was crowned best picture at the ninety first academy awards on sunday on a night that saw many wins for diversity rob reynolds reports from the red carpet in los angeles. screened. green book took the best picture award on oscar night that was a demonstration of diversity in film. and working for the movie tells the story of a black classical pianist and his white driver and bodyguard traveling through the segregated american deep south of the one nine hundred sixty s.

the whole story is about love it's about loving each other and despite our differences and finding out the truth about who we are we're the same people. but here she leave one best supporting actor for his role in the film as the classical musician don shirley i want to dedicate this to to my grandmother who has been in my my ear my entire life telling me that if i first i don't succeed try try again that i could do anything i put my mind to. always always pushing me to to think positively and i know that i would not be here without her that she has got me over the hump every step of the way in a major upset a livia coleman won the best actress award for her portrayal of the bad queen and in the favorite many hollywood observers had expected the award to go to glenn close who has now been nominated seven times without a win and close you've been my idol to say long and this is not how i wanted it to

be and i think you are amazing and maybe very much. the best male actor award went as many had predicted to rami maalik for his passion for trail of the torture rock star freddie mercury in bohemian rhapsody. we made a film about a gay man an immigrant who. lived his life just unapologetically himself and the fact that i'm celebrating him and this story with you tonight is is proof that we're longing for. for stories like this it was a big night for director all fund socorro own his film roma won best foreign film amid stiff competition horror own one also for best director and best cinematography he shot the film himself. veteran director spike lee won best

adapted screenplay for black klansmen make the more choice between love purses hate . let's do the right date the prize for best supporting actress went to regina king in if deal street could talk based on the novel by african american author james baldwin i'm an example of what it looks like when support and love is poured into someone following a controversy involving would be host comedian kevin hart's past homophobic tweets the show had no host at all. it's dead at the usual opening comedy monologue the surviving members of queen rocked out on stage. robert oulds al-jazeera following.

terrorism take a look at the top stories here that is there at least twenty five people are now thought to have been killed along venezuela's border with brazil as security forces try to block foreign aid getting into the country u.s. vice president mike pence is in colombia's capital bogota to mean venezuela's opposition leader. and other regional leaders. at the moment we estimate there are twenty five people dead and eighty four injured the thing is we don't control the hospital the military controls it the people they killed they put them in an armed vehicle and took them to a military base that's why we're not sure of the exact number of dead the u.s. special envoy. arrived in qatar for talks with the afghan taliban is co-founder and political chief. about adar is among several senior taliban members who are attending the four day meeting aimed at ending the seventeen year war presence is seen as a significant boost for the discussions. the u.s.

envoy treated not long ago arrived in doha to meet with the mall thora to tive taliban delegation this could be a significant moment appreciate cata for hosting and pakistan in facilitating travel now the work begins in earnest people living in indian administered kashmir say there's a shortage of fuel and gas as a military continues its crackdown on separatists shops and businesses were close over the weekend in protest against the government police and paramilitary soldiers are patrolling the streets of the main city in anticipation of possible demonstrations tensions between india and pakistan remain high after a suicide bomb attack killed at least forty indian soldiers earlier this month. prime minister says president has won reelection a claim rejected by the opposition official results from the weekend election have yet to be announced the winning candidates fifty percent to avoid

a runoff right those are the headlines inside stories next. i see the days in syria appear numbered days long extended the bulk of the body has lost in all its territory and it's on the spot where will they go and look at what from iceland be all over this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm elizabeth parata and i saw once controlled an area stretching from west and syria to east an iraq that is nearly the size of the u.k. it proclaimed a caliphate in two thousand and fourteen and imposed its harsh rule on millions of people bought was flushed out of iraq and eventually lost most of its ground in syria what's left of the group now is confined to a tiny part of the syrian village of bogle's where they are vowing a battle to the death the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces made up of mainly kurdish fighters has launched an offensive to retake the village bosh it's not easy thousands of civilians have already been rescued from more than two thousand remain trapped. well i said again seizing control of territory in syria and twenty fourteen when it captured the case that he of iraq or and declared it the capital of itself proclaimed caliphate a year later the group's control expanded to include most of it as all parts of aleppo homs and the province of idlib also areas south of the capital damascus

a vast stretch of desert and oil fields but in twenty seventeen u.s. backed mainly kurdish fighters read talk the city of raka and the syrian army with help from russian estrada's regained full control of their hours or the fall of these two key strongholds weakened eisel and they began to lose more and more ground more than four years after the group's rise in syria has left is a tiny patch in burgos near the iraqi border. well it's introduce our panel now joining us from morocco is muhammad basta is director of the moroccan institute for policy analysis and ankara via skype is use of a freelance security analyst at set at the foundation for political economic and social research and in london is mesa gifted a human rights activist and anti eisel campaign a very warm welcome to all of you mr mass start with you and robot are we seeing

the end of the group of eisel in syria. i think it's from a military perspective with think i think it's it's it's a successful and a complain to limit the ability of the. caliphate and we have seen that many of the its fighters has been killed and its territory has been trying. so it's from that perspective i think it's it's been successful but if we look for a long term i think this is far away from from being defeated because the a period of the of its ideology and its organization i think is transitioning from the state or from the caliphate into underground are a good. way of fighting so it's very difficult to say that we are

any time soon of the and off this list out about the does the end of the group do you think mean the end of the ideology the group seems to be all but defeated in syria but has the ideology from my point of perspective i agree with. the ideology still keeps on the is because the widened which is being created in syria and iraq the historical background starting from i thought regime and starting from saddam hussein. vagal or the field is there a profile you know order to create such kind of terrorist groups because of the let me take a look at the back to do it historical background of the eiffel but can i say that a garam war player you know to conduct especially in syria and iraq is also

impossible because in order to conduct a good rule of warfare you need to control an area which completely belongs to you for all kinds of logistical and training camps can say that from now on the eiffel can conduct terrorist attacks. just very different from the general of warfare the terrorist attacks inside syria and inside iraq so i agree that i still militarily has lost the game in syria on iraq but i can say that it is not the end of any kind of terror groups inside syria and iraq all the middle east terrain is very first child as i said you know order to create such kind of terror groups in this area. said do you think the group could resurface given that there is not a credible peace plan as well as hand many of the conditions that led to the violence remain an absence of political legitimacy we have

a failure of governance town. yes i actually agree with my fellow guess that although we've defeated isis militarily we've taken back the so-called caliphate the sick twisted ideology that underpins everything they do lives on and while that lives on while syria and iraq are still in ruins and while people are still not represented in governments where they feel they don't have a future i think you'll always find the rich fertile ground for which isis will try to exploits. and that's the next challenge for the coalition the coalition has done great work in destroying isis however they have destroyed a lot of syrian infrastructure for instance so we really need to rebuild we need to restore what was there and we also need to come up with a plan for the future that will actually hill the rift within syrian society and before you do that i mean how do you manage the very present problem right now of

the remaining fighters mr massey what are their options you know if this syrian will they stay in syria and try to reintegrate society or will they leave and keep on fighting. i mean that's a big issue because a mini country is there is no agreement actually among countries how to deal with the foreign fighters in europe there is a heated debate how to deal with the foreign fighters are there returnees and as you followed all recently president obama trump asked the european countries to receive the foreign fighters but actually did is a daily how to deal with this return is most of the european countries actually are not what come in order not to want to stick to or to receive them and the actually aren't they way they are the most off countries in europe under and swear that are dealing with the return is is mainly through oppressive measures

which is the prosecution and put them in prison but the problem is not that it's not the prosecution it's after the post-prison because those people have experience in the buckle field it's a challenge after they return to society later and this alibi that there are of course many who don't want to return to normal society they want to keep fighting what are the options for these fighters where are they looking to go i mean we've heard from iraq intelligence officials from a u.s. military official that hundreds likely more than a thousand of isis fighters have crossed the open border the desert border into iraq. regrouping in iraq. as i said iraq and syria is a very personal grounds as i said in order to build up again a capacity in spite rock so it should be very careful not only in suburbia but also

in iraq but you know due to taking this terrorist organization both inside the new rug and syria we have three options i can say one of them is to let them turn back to their all regional countries and to make a judicial process queue to judicial trial in their own country is the second option that to judge them in all regional countries like the crime has been committed but that may take a look at back to the shooting grant for example there is no compassed of the syrian government in order to judge because the sudanese government only could trolls counter-top with this country two thirds of the discount under the occupation of syrian democratical force and other forces so this is also not a very good option in order to acquire a terrorist organization the third option which is very logical from my point of perspective to build an international court and to judge them inside where they

have committed crimes but that court should be definitely an international court because we cannot try we cannot trust to the judicial process of the syrian regime so the third option might be a little bit more logical but what can i say that the european countries as explained in a couple of days that they cannot take back the responsible but the of accepting their citizens to their countries the cannot quite against terrorism if we do not take the responsibility of our citizens so they should take some responsibility in order to fight against terrorism otherwise preaching to the countries such as turkey syria iraq and other countries from their comfortable bloom's is not enough to fight the terrorists and again what happens to foreign financing want to can hunt is a real issue but that's something that. is addressed once we actually get to

a judicial process with the fighters again there are so many who don't want to who don't want to return and who want to keep fighting so mr masback how concerned or prepared a country's in the region you know including north african countries about the fighters who are losing ground in syria trying to make it to other countries in the region to join groups there. actually there are three different kind of countries in north africa that are dealing with the this issue there are i would say strong countries with strong cup abilities of the military and security level which i'm talking here about morocco algeria and to some extent tunisia so in this country i think they are more efficient in dealing with the returnees and also manage in the or the colors but the issue here is with libya which is where there is a lot of. lawless areas and there was

a lot of people traveling from untrue to libya for infighter so here is the issue of how to deal with this people coming from leave in syria and iraq and locate an intercity a but to what extent and how many people travel it actually to libya or other countries it's very difficult to judge for the moment i think it's more the case of for a jar and weak states rather than stronger states like morocco or a jury and tunisia and of course all of these countries are worried about the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria because of what it means you know for the situation fighting eisel food fight is leaving and we've had as we mentioned president obama promised announcement in december that he was pulling out two thousand.