from the election commission showing that across afghanistan some 4500 polling stations were opened that's 500 less than the country wanted those 500 couldn't open because of security concerns and well over half of those polling stations have now returned figures showing that more than a 1000000 people voted now if you consider that most of these polling stations that have so far registered their numbers in the cities where security is higher then we could see even lower returns coming from rural areas where the taliban is stronger so that 2000000 votes could be on the optimistic side even so that is out of a population of 9000000 people who are registered to vote in a country of $30000000.00 plus and this compares with the last election 5 years ago when $8000000.00 people went out to vote nonetheless the afghanistan government is claiming this to be a success that despite all of the predictions of chaos and violence it was able to

open polling stations and maintain a certain level of security across the country but despite that many parties here will be wondering just how valid this result can be with so few people voting and the allegations of vote rigging of voter fraud have already started between the major candidates. so if you come here down there at 4 years is a mere massey's filed assigned we look at one of the armed groups that's refusing to join the peace accords. and got a bit of a drive a couple of days ahead across much of japan want to see showers but nothing really in the way of heavy persistent rain also the korean peninsula has been enjoying some fine dry weather it's warm 28 celsius monday in seoul and warm as well across

much of japan 29 degrees in tokyo then by choose a more rain pushing in from the south and to the west and pushing across into the southern sections of the korean peninsula as well 29 in seoul with a chance of some rain showers now plenty of rain really gauge the impact in taiwan over the next couple of days and this is why this is typhoon my tag this will continue to strengthen on monday we're looking at winds at about 130 kilometers an hour and then as we head into chews day and as the storm moves quite rapidly up towards the north push not very heavy rain across taiwan we could see some flooding rains but at this point as well we expect the winds to actually strengthen so around 150 kilometers an hour it will push that rain right to these eastern coast of the china so likely to see a rather wet day in shanghai but not bad in hong kong 33 is your high temperature and then down into indonesia golson fairly widespread rain showers really across much of borneo spreading west across much of as well and certainly by cheese day

a wet day in kuala lumpur with a high of 30 to. the $950.00 a clash of politics and a challenge to french colonial. in the 2 series. tells the dramatic story of how martin to. give us back our lenten season. with a rare eye witness testimony from the man who fought the french on the ground to museum the battle for independence episode one rebel is iraq.

let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera police in hong kong are responding with tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon as anti-government protests as hold another mass rally there denouncing what they describe as chinese tyranny arrests have been made. the british prime minister boris johnson's facing pressure on several fronts as he attends the governing conservative party conference in manchester in the north of the country there are calls for his resignation over corruption allegations from his time as mayor of london. afghanistan's voter turnout is estimated to be just chain 1000000 people according to an election official that's just a 5th of registered voters the day was marred by taliban violence and technical problems. that the voting has begun in austria's snap parliamentary election the early election was called after former chancellor sebastian center right coalition

collapse in the wake of a corruption scandal people's party is facing off against its former coalition partner the far right freedom party and the center left social democrats dominate cain is in vienna with the latest. millions of austrians have the opportunity to go to the polls to elect a snap election parliament this. action should not really have been taking place for several years to come but it has been caused by the collapse of the coalition government that had been in place between the far right freedom party and the center right people's party and sebastien course the question will be how high is the turnout in this election in the previous parliament election was 80 percent will it be so high given that today is a sunny day across the entire country what factors will really play a part in the decision making of the voters will they look at the scandal which in golf the previous government particularly which engulfed the senior leadership of

the freedom party which forced them out of office those are many of the questions voters are having to answer and the result well it will decide where this country goes in the next 4 or 5 years. the yemen see if the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a months long military campaign that is have been targeting the southern saudi region of now drowned and at the un general assembly the foreign minister of yemen's internationally recognized government uses speech to blame iran for the conflict in jordan has more. well most of the addresses before the u.n. general assembly have been filled with calls to save the planet or to promote economic and social harmony the yemeni foreign minister used his speech to attack those he says are responsible for plunging his country into war and men do. these are huth the militias supported by iran the main sponsor of terrorism throughout

the world is a ron with its expansion alist agenda iran exploits the resources of its people in order to wage proxy war using militias which are capable of the most heinous forms of destruction and sabotage and that he had shot of the then how the army stepped up his rhetoric accusing to han of trying to spread yemen's war into saudi arabia and onto the high seas. well. yemen when iran has some heavy has wrought havoc in the arab peninsula it has created trained armed and financed militias to brandish the slogan of the iranian revolution and they haven't priced an approach based on abuse repression and torture the who things have transformed the region into a stronghold to launch rockets in order to threaten the security of neighboring states and never gave in and the ritzy. who the forces meanwhile have reversed their

decision to observe their own ceasefire instead they claimed they've made significant progress in border fighting against saudi coalition troops as well as against yemeni fighters backed by saudi arabia. thousands of the enemy forces have been captured as prisoners others were killed from among the prisoners is a large number of high ranking officers and soldiers of saudi citizenship more than 72 hours from the launch of an operation they have been destroyed imprisoned and captured. a former u.s. diplomat says with both sides intent on winning the war it's been tough for you when on ways and for regional negotiators to end a war that has led to widespread hunger disease and displacement they. are strong on the ground and they have done. in 2009 in november when the celebes 1st against them they went inside saudi border is near

that measure on area and they captured both 100 war regards. then they use them for water so i imagine most of this is big not unconditionally accept the results that they once again want to show. you know are capable of marm. and then again imply a prisoner swap and. it doesn't seem as if peace talks will happen any time soon at least mohamed al hunt tommy has reminded the international community this country is still got hit by war rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the united nations the foreign minister also criticize an ally the united arab emirates for its support of separatists in southern yemen. our army has had to

face myriad direct military attacks in violation of international law and these attacks were mounted by iraq. these attacks have undermined the stability of our homeland and in this way the immorality aggression has undermined the noble goals of the coalition. saudis say t.v.'s reporting the personal bodyguard of king solomon has been shot dead in the city of jeddah major general abdel as these our fandom is reported to have been killed by a friend over a personal dispute the gunman was also a shot and killed in a standoff with police after refusing to surrender. and a senior saudi government official has refused to answer questions about the whereabouts of a man believed to be involved in the murder of the journalist or marcus churchy at all hours your bear was interviewed by a u.s. public broadcaster p.b.s. but he didn't reveal the whereabouts of solid al qahtani. look.

all these questions he was a close aide to the crown prince where is he now you should ask the public prosecutor perm the prosecutor won't talk to us. to know the english have called him again. the former egyptian government contractor whose online videos has helped spark recent anti-government protests says rallies need to be stepped up and held every day people have been on the streets for 2 fridays in a row this month protesting against president abdul fattah el-sisi demonstrators accuse him of corruption and destroying the economy. moslems are long today god willing i heard there is a game that after the game we should go to the streets for one hour we will protest outside our homes if we see that there is a large number of protesters we should keep going on with them if we see police stop and go back home we should exhaust c.c.

and so police forces on like we're just thinking every day. and protests have been taking place outside the egyptian embassy in the sudanese capital khartoum to demand the release of a sudanese student who's been detained in cairo while lead her son is accused of taking part in recent anti-government demonstrations and of belonging to the muslim brotherhood and outlawed group in egypt his family says he was tortured and forced to make a false confession on state television the 22 year old moved to egypt in august to study german. the trial of sudan's former president omar al bashir has been delayed until next saturday following a brief court hearing he's facing charges of corruption including illegal possession of foreign currency and illicit enrichment the trial 7th session was held in khartoum and heavy security. or you know esko world heritage site in kenya is under threat a consortium of companies is planning to build

a coal power plant on it there are fears about the impact that would have on the environment and wildlife but as nicholas hogg reports from the islands of lamu for some locals it could mean jobs and hope. a protected site under threat is an ancient settlement built from coral and mangrove timber. for centuries arab chinese and indian traders have come to these islands of exceptional beauty. while its beaches in ancient history attracts tourists its location facing the indian ocean is now attracting investors. simpson has 3 months of his farm to investors who want to transform this unesco world heritage site home to endangered lions and buffaloes into 1000000000 dollar coal plant which they did because we see he said different up and coming to all. time on the whole

a lot you are not that good but young people in law who have been protesting against the project saying it will damage the environment kill animals and destroy their island what we did is we have a little bit you do not get right to anything that was we didn't communicate right with it we did not want this cleaned up to do let's not get them on till they took the government to court and won but the consortium are appealing the court's decision now we've reached out to this consortium to get an answer to our questions but to no avail this is a consortium made up of various multinational companies from the united states china and europe supported by the world bank in their appeal to the judge they say that the courts overlooked their efforts to mitigate the damage to the environment saying that this coal plant would bring electricity to millions of people. damage to the environment has already started with the construction of this deep seaport the coal plant would not only power it it would also bring electricity to

$20000000.00 kenyans who live off grid despite the risk to the environment the state wants the project to go ahead and so this world heritage site unique in its history and wildlife sheltered from human intervention for centuries is about to be irreversibly damaged because hawk al-jazeera archipelago. police in nigeria are trying to find the families of hundreds of men and boys who were freed from captivity on thursday as many as 400 of them some as young as 6 were discovered during a raid in the northern city of kaduna they were supposed to be enrolled in a religious school several of them have been in chains have been beaten or sexually abused 7 people have so far been arrested. it's almost been 4 years since the government and rebel groups signed the nationwide ceasefire agreement but there's still no sign of a lasting peace and some groups are even refusing to sign the document including

what's regarded as east asia is largest non-state army it controls an isolated region on the borders with china and thailand wayne hay takes a rare look at why our state in the far east of me and mine is a defacto independent territory it's run by the country's largest rebel army which unilaterally declared it a state it's largely cut off from the outside world in particular the rest of me and my human right now why it's still a wild frontier people who live here have id cuts only for the state we can travel outside of here. the united states army controls 2 areas on the borders with thailand and china this state is run under a one party communist system it's heavily reliant on chinese support in the form of trade investment and in the near future thanks to a new casino possibly tourism. when i 1st moved here there was only jungle

everywhere but now it's more developed in the past it was very poor and 5 behind but it's getting better. there was signed a bilateral ceasefire deal with the me and my army in 1909 and haven't been directly involved in any significant fighting since the largely left to run their own affairs and still maintain a well organized and well resourced fighting force of up to $30000.00 now about having under pressure to join the governments nationwide cease fire agreement which like many other ethnic armies are refusing to do they say they're not prepared to meet one of the key conditions of that deal which is for this soldiers to lay down their weapons and join the me and my military the why are also fiercely protective of their income streams like jade mining and the illegal wildlife trade many products like tiger and beer teeth are sold openly in the state capital punk come the united states army is also thought to be one of the region's largest

manufacturers of illegal drugs a business that says it's no longer in but there are many who believe those who run this area are still stuck in the past and until they open up life will not improve for you i'm in philadelphia i want want to continue to develop i want to see more people move through here which will improve trade in business in the past 2 or 3 years it's been very bad i can make a so much. state serves as a reminder of how fragmented me and mar is while the syria may be at peace for now it's the people that continue to pay the price of civil war through isolation and a lack of developments wayne hay al jazeera. stricker the top stories here it is sarah police in hong kong have responded with tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon is antigovernment protesters held another

mass rally denouncing what they call chinese tyranny effaced and tore down signs congratulating china's communist party which is due to market 70th anniversary on tuesday well made britain's prime minister is battling on several fronts as he joins members of his conservative party in manchester for their annual conference is not only the brakes it pressure on boris johnson but they've also been calling for him to resign over allegations of corruption from his time as london's mayor their violence technical failure and disillusionment have had a dramatic impact on afghanistan's presidential election and election commission official says the estimates eventually turn out for saturday's vote was just over 2000000 people out of more than mine and a half 1000000 registered voters hundreds of polling stations didn't open or they had their communications cut and almost 70 attacks across the country killed 5 people and injured hundreds of others yemen's who the rebels say thousands of saudi

backed fighters have surrendered after a month long military campaign a military spokesman says have also captured several saudi army offices there are reports coming in of a large fire at a station in jeddah in saudi arabia there are no immediate reports of casualties but will bring you more information on this as soon as we get it. and saudis say t.v. is reporting the personal bodyguard of king sound man has been shot dead also in the city of jeddah major general abdul aziz al franken is reported to have been killed by a friend over a personal dispute the gunman was also shot and killed in the send off with police after refusing to surrender. voting has begun in austria snap parliamentary election it was called early after former chancellor sebastian curses center right coalition collapsed after a corruption scandal or

a trap today those are the very latest headlines for us to get out 0 coming up let's climb it s.o.s. . hello i'm a man's a borrow welcome to planet earth so as. a new warning from the u.n. that our oceans and vast frozen spaces could turn against us as our planet over. night. and we set ourselves if we sink we can see in nature.

the head of the un implores governments to millions of people around the world take to the streets to some of the largest climate protests in history and will meet people tackling the environmental damage on the doorsteps. of our oceans an ice sheet a warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on earth that's the warning from the latest report by the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change the i.p.c.c. and it really makes for a pretty grim reading which forecasts of place will melt rising sea levels intense storms loss of marine life unless we curb global warming slee the 900 page study is the work of more than 100 scientists from 36 countries but insists that while some impacts are inevitable there is still time to act to avoid the

worst. and across a few critical. on through. all this report is showing that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase global warming will drastically alter the ocean and the cross-beam however if we reduce emissions roughly consequences for people and their livelihoods will still be challenging but they will be potentially more manageable for those most vulnerable while there are some pretty striking findings here are oceans of take up 90 percent of the world's excess heat they've been warming for half a century and expanding as they do so and they've also been absorbing up to 30 percent of c o 2 emissions which is make them more acidic around 15 percent of marine animals are likely to disappear by the end of the century and there's a really high risk that water coral reefs will vanish altogether if emissions are

not curbed 70 percent of the earth's permafrost will melt really simple eons of tons of c o 2 and methane into the atmosphere ice sheets and glasses in mountain regions and at the poles will for further to hitting people 1st with too much water and then leaving them with too little as the fresh water pours into the scenes severe floods that used to happen once every century could hit every year by 2050 and sea levels will rise low lying coastal regions and cities will be swamps like the city of shanghai home to $24000000.00 people here it is now under the 3 degree world should temperatures rise further some island nations will simply cease to exist and many of us would join the growing number of climate refugees rising global temperatures are already causing glasses and ice sheets to melt in pakistan and many of those downstream live in fear of catastrophe priyanka gupta reports. this

dark wall of ice creeps closer to the village of huston about every day this fish book racier is 15 kilometers long and as wide as 14 football pitches it's moving as much as 4 metres a day quicker than any other gracie in the world and churning solid ground into river of mud. local villages are scared. we are under constant threat in these places and a very much worried not only about ourselves but also about our farmlands and prosperity which is the main source of our living. there within 5000 known places in the mountain ranges of pakistan. many are melting more than 3000 gratian lakes have appeared 33 of them are at risk of overflowing and causing major floods 7000000 people live in their part. and only warning system is being installed in remote areas but there are many challenges it's complicated to get the equipment

and it's complicated to know how to set it up so in designing the project and putting in monitoring facilities work with the community it's not an easy thing to do these go off projects should go ahead quickly because they represent a risk to people it's not close season pakistan under threat researchers warn that 36 percent of places all along the hindu kush and himalayan mountain range will melt by 2100 if governments don't do enough to stop global warming. for the people of us now bad that's happening right now priyanka gupta our dizzier let's go now from the mountains to the sea to one of the front lines of the battle to save on marine life nick clark is with a team of scientists on a greenpeace expedition off south america. yes we're in a unique expedition charting unexplored waters exploring the newly discovered area of reef about 130 kilometers off the shores of french guiana at the mouth of the

amazon is about 500 kilometers in that direction and if you look up you can see the greenpeace campaign vessel esperanza. conducting all manner of research from the seabed to the surface and building the case for introducing marine protected areas to 30 percent of the world's oceans by 2030 this is all part of the measures scientists say need to be taken to help protect the living world from the worst effects of climate change well earlier i spoke to search plane who is from the french center for scientific research and 1st asked him about his area of expertise the coral reefs yes coral reefs will change a lot yes for proof will be transformed there are a species that clearly not are not going to pass these over sort of our scenario and there are species that will disappear and all will be become marginal are all very restricted and we want to be sort of the habitat structure in species that we

see now and so in the end we'll have probably will be completely transformed much less diverse as they proceed in terms of coral coral being the. the tax side that's sort of structure of the entire ecosystem so in the end it's the entire system that will be transformed and discord evolve we've seen them now we've seen them for the last century will probably be dramatically changed in the next 50 years in the context of the i.p.c.c. you get to worry about live be i've been able in several centuries and 1000000 to adapt to different and then suddenly changing that habitat transforming and so the end of these these are the end of those 4 and we don't know exactly but clearly they'll be strongly affected coral reefs the entire base of one marine ecosystem and one that's facing enormous change in pressure from climate change and then for sizing the importance of research the like which we're seeing here on the esperanza

in the bid to mitigate the effects of climate change. for more on the i.p.c.c. report i'm joined from copenhagen by professor jason box he's an ice climatologist at the geologic survey of denmark and greenland has such been quoted extensively in the study professor book signing so much for joining us look at the report it reads like a catalog of disasters they still melt sea level rise extreme weather refugees it's a pretty apocalyptic sounding scenario if it's as bad as all that i think what stands out is the coherence of the story and that is because the climate changes are no longer subtle. just a decade or 2 ago the story was more uncertain because the climate system was still coming out of the noise but now we're at a point where we see across the climate system and including ecosystems really dramatic changes and unfortunately we expect them to intensify

you've been studying greenland the optics for many years now what are the major changes that you're noticing that and what is the impact of them we used to look at these individual elements now we see the system changing we see arctic changes radiating out of the arctic that is weather patterns in the mid latitudes are affected by the arctic which is warming twice as fast as the globe that is slowing down the jet stream causing slower moving weather patterns and that is precisely what produces droughts or floods even periods of extended cold weather this is the 4th of 4 u.n. reports in the past year we've had by devastated else there and he says and the 1.5 degrees centigrade warming report when you look at all these or pull together 3 or scientists eyes what do you see i think my biggest concern is about food security

and water security. threats from drought on food and water security will already be felt now sea level rise that is a problem on the horizon and one question i will instead it is have you seen a massive collapse of a glass you have you seen ice falling into the into the sea and how does that feel i have been travelling to greenland the last 25 years i've been able to witness the landscape changes the retreat of glaciers out of few words that really surprised me this year for example we were walking down a glacier and we walked past a giant hole that had formed in a glacier that used used to be very convenient for us to walk down and i understood from local people that that occurred in the last few weeks so this fjord that we were working in the ice has retreated 5 kilometers since i've been working there and then now there's this giant hole that formed which makes it obvious that this

is happening very fast the the ice is is so sensitive that it's surprised me even after visiting there for 25 years professor we're going to have to end it that thank you so much for appearing on planet earth. so clearly the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming is really urgent and yet record carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are a worrying reality just 2 countries china and the united states are responsible for over 40 percent of the world's c o 2 emissions but the u.s. is planning to pull out of the paris agreement and emissions in china rose around 4 percent in the 1st half of this year alone china is the world's biggest consumer of energy importing coal from australia and asia and oil from the middle east and is building coal plants abroad and africa people on kenya's world heritage lambing island have managed to stop china's contractors from building one for now we met an

environmental campaigner who is following to continue the fight 2015 there was a proposed park plants to be built by the government and we asked the community we are really a poison because it has a lot of environmental degradation it's going to cost a lot of pollution the sea pollution the air and the water pollution. this is the the site that the proposed plant is supposed to be built here is you can see behind this is where there is a sea here it's only now that is to notate but this area connects to the the deep.