was founded by mr karzai the one in jail who was a founding member of needed tunis so to in some sense since need to tunis got nearly 40 percent the last elections and the party derived from them got only 15 percent i don't see that as a huge success i see that as a bit of a failure to and the next parties are unknown so what we have is a fractured and potentially fractious parliaments coming together to try to solve huge problems that the government's facing and i'm not so sure it's going to be that easy with such a variety of opinions that will be in the coalition. the news hour including. portables socialist celebrating the election when widely attributed to the country's economic turnaround. women's desire to become mothers is causing an uproar in france. board including a golden finish to the world athletics championships for the united states.

iraq's government has denied that any of it security forces have fired directly at protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 109 people have now been killed since the unrest began on tuesday and more than 6000 people have been injured she has more. after days of demonstrations across iraq for a number of dead continues to rise in the aftermath of the killings iraq's interior ministry pushed back on. the security forces for. the protesters but could be out of limb could take everyone knows there were no clashes or confrontations between the security forces on the protesters but there were wicked and he hands that targeted the victims on both sides when we went and checked the bodies of the

motss the injuries were in the head or the heart it is clear that the shooting did not take place from the close distance or from the area where the security forces were present a serious investigation is ongoing to find out who is behind such a wicked and he miss operation. in schools of casualties as demonstrators of. a government that's been in power for just over a year the protesters are mainly young men and youth unemployment is now reached 25 percent according to the world bank that. we the youth are protesting peacefully what they were. one from the youth why are they killing us. the protesters say they've had a drop of a system that they say is corrupt and serving the interests of a few they say they don't support any political parties but that doesn't stop the political opposition from backing the protesters and calling for new elections i think this is a case of political point scoring this is a systemic issue so when you have parties refusing to take part in parliamentary

debates making sure that there isn't a core and so they can't go ahead this is all so that they can plan impression on the part prime minister i did at that mehdi on sunday the iraqi government pledged 17 reforms covering land redistribution increased welfare payments to those in need and the construction of 100000 new housing units the government launched a program of home demolitions in september targeting the makeshift shelters of the poor the head of the u.n. mission to iraq has called for the violence to stop in a tweet one of the few into mash more voices to speak up as iraq still struggles to deal with the aftermath of the invasion by the u.s. and its coalition of the willing in 2003. 0 iraqis who are worried about the safety of their family and friends back home and state to protest in front of the white house. members of the solidarity rally say they can't get a hold of their loved ones due to the internet being suspended they say the

government crackdown is an attack on democracy. and they're doing the ball home. of the shopping the we are here demonstrating in support of the people of iraq and this is a later address to the white house asking them to help the iraqi people and stand against iranian interference and we call on the protests in iraq to continue to be a little much to talk to simmer down and have to give up until we're here to support the people of iraq who getting killed in the peaceful demonstrations for simply asking for their rights because of their internet because of their electricity so they don't believe their message to the world and we're here to show our support and to tell them we stand with you and to see iran out out iraq will mean free they many government says health services are struggling because of worsening petrol shortages they will minister is blaming the saudi u.a.e. coalition for imposing restrictions on fuel imports just one tanker has been granted permission to dock in the past 2 weeks but it provided enough fuel for just

5 days the ministry says that 183 hospitals and 163 medical centers that serve 60 percent of the population have been impacted by this fuel shortage. has more from also found hospital and sauna. inside a suburban hospital there are 43. competitors they can see you'll know the $43.00 kilowatts from the total production of the generator the stuff here are appealing in case the electricity goes. out about. everything the sex depends on actressy that includes the infant incubators oxygen generating devices and other medical equipment in the past year and our strike hit an area close to the hospital cost an extra seat to close and we were barely able to stabilize the infant especially pema chairmans there are many difficulties moneys and especially disappears strollers or fuel this problem has reflect itself

on every aspect of life and. there are thousands of patients well and able to come to hospitals which are fewer because of the war there are only 45 percent of the health care services are operating now with this situation medical feeling and in just days the situation will be more difficult living as an internationally recognized government as calling on the un security council to take action against the warlord khalifa haftar our forces loyal to have to have attacked 2 major airports and start of the offensive to seize power and tripoli in april after us forces say they were being targeted by warplanes being flown from and taken misrata airports the government in tripoli is also calling for measures against countries who have been supporting hoft are. more from tripoli. libya's tripoli based foreign ministry is demanding the united nations security

council to take action against forces loyal to the warlord plea for health for targeting the 2 major airports in the worst of the country namely may to get airport in tripoli and misrata airport and the city of misrata about 200 kilometers to the east from the capital tripoli the foreign ministry is also calling on the security council to hold the countries supporting the health of responsible for the attacks committed by his forces and tripoli we know that egypt and the united arab emirates are major supporters of the world khalifa haftar since have to launch a military offensive on a part of the 4th to see is the tripoli has warplanes have been targeting the 2 major airports several times causing human casualties in some cases and also damaging the airport facilities and causing state of panic among civilians we know that have his forces say that the runways and the airports in misrata animated the

airports have been used to fly drones and warplanes that have been targeting their locations their locations in southern tripoli and also in al jawf or area in the central deserved of libya. thousands of people have rallied in paris against a new law that will wide access to treatment to lesbian couples and single women now under current french law only heterosexual couples can access the medically assisted reproductive treatment if the bill passes it will bring france along with other european countries and reports from paris the demonstration in paris began outside the french senate protesters want senators to change a proposed law the would allow access to i.v.'s the 1st single and gay women not just those in a heterosexual couple they say the french government's new bioethics bill would deprive children of a father and destroy the moral fabric of french society and some worry could be

expanded to legalize sarkozy and one of the law doesn't take into account all the right of the child or it future it only accounts for a woman's desire to have a child. it's important to defend the family unit a mother and a father for the balance of french society and for children's welfare the march was peaceful but police officers broke up a small council protest the controversial bill has divided opinion and september french m.p.'s approved it but only after a fiery debate or the report how dare you decide to inscribe into law that a child be deprived of the father this shocks me yes i'm emotional you are playing with fire. these protesters opening up access to the women this was a very serious crisis recent world to come like many of these people in the streets 6 years ago to protest against gay marriage but the supporters of the proposed no they say it would be

a victory for women's rights when she reached her mid thirty's benedict wanted to become a mother as a single woman she was unable to access i.v.'s in france so she traveled to denmark and portugal with a treatment is legally available to all women i fell out low. in my own country because i just wanted a baby and that's right it was ok over europe and countries but nothing from benedict's son is now 14 months old he doesn't have 5 per se although that mother though and though the fact that he was wanted if the bio ethics bill becomes law it will fulfill one of french president emanuel mark ross campaign promises and create hope for the single and gay women who dream of becoming a parent but these protesters say they won't give up their battle to protect traditional family values and stop the legislation for being passed to al-jazeera paris to opposition parties have taken the latent kosovo's elections pullum an area

results for the center left self-determination party in 1st place with 26 percent in the center right democratic league of kosovo where 25 percent snap election was called following the resignation of the former prime minister removed her and in knowledge he's been summoned to appear before a war crimes court in the hague over his previous role as one of the commanders of the former kosovo liberation army just a sars has more from pristina. well we can almost 80 percent of the votes counted then it shows that these 2 parties will be in the election by self that that nation party will be in need at least by how full of the percent. or 2nd party on the elections they have a deal before the election that the winner will give prime minister in a future correlation it means a lot of people here because these 2 parties their main program was based on

economic situation being the cause of which is not a good unemployment rate is almost 30 percent unemployment with the youth of the young people is almost 50 percent and also has the youngest population in europe. with. usual a prospect of 29 years currently this year saw the focus on economy but the key question is the relations with the serbia are not supporting the taxes on imported goods from serbia off 100 percent that was. implemented by the prime minister but they say they want to do. with the relations with the syllabi on the basis for supply cities so whatever city are due to citizens of course over they will do same to the citizens of serbia and they are ready they said they are ready

for a renewing good dialogue with the serbia. portugal's center left socialist party will remain in power for 4 more years after winning the election but if failed to secure an outright majority the opposition p.s. the d party is set to come in 2nd and in between 27 and 31 percent of the vote socialist party has been helped by portugal's economy which is growing more than the e.u. average thanks in part to a booming tourism industry. still ahead on al-jazeera american dream on hold last several 1000 african migrants are stuck in mexico. walking a fine line when increasing number of russians are living in poverty. and sport with far out how france clinched their place in the rugby world cup quarter finals .

hello the streets of hong kong are wet with water but the reported rain is not much but a trace there is more round these growing shells could amount to something quite significant of the next couple days already is rain's coming to the coast of ground and i think the circulation suggests some heavy stuff just catching the southwest movie into vietnam as complimenting the rather persistent line that's going to unite through sichuan has been there all know off for $23.00 weeks now but this is where the rain will be a new feeling at least for the next couple of days running into vietnam signs of that and the rain band is doing what it's supposed to going science with the sun but it's not consistent all persistent are there are showers in some ways kasia only the bigger ones in borneo and i think the forecast reflects that same is true in central and northern sumatra peninsular malaysia into thailand and cambodia so

the rain is heading towards jakarta but doesn't get there in the forecast not even by tuesday but it will be there next week is our suspect the monsoon rains in india are finally finally moving size the flooding is slowly dying down it's neurotic movement but the rain will not with that heavy in magic pradesh pretty much being under pradesh. the weather sponsored by catalyst. children are risking it all the fame and fortune in the country's most populous with the death of a 30 year old boy responded holmes to ban him from the ring one a one a few weeks trial is. going to. end up with different ideas and whether someone is going for someone is very rich but that's not only an interim thing it's how you approach official enough it is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject a story and fire out. after the genocide.

has been lifted. one woman lifted many. transforming lives in her community on the pitch. women make change. and watching al-jazeera let's pick out the top stories right now a 2nd whistleblower has come forward to me and pietschmann investigation into u.s.

president on a. person's lawyer says his client has firsthand knowledge of some of the allegations made me original complaint exit polls show tunisia's may religious party and coming 1st and parliamentary elections just ahead of its main rival the heart of tunisia. lower cross the country amid growing frustration with the stablished party. iraq's government has denied any of its security forces to fire directly on protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations another 5 people have been confirmed dead and a dad taking the total number killed with at least 109. world health organization is meeting in the philippines after it announced an outbreak of polio environmental samples from seward to manila have been confirmed to contain the virus at follows the outbreak of doing a favor and measles in the span of less than a year and has worn what's being done. letisha variance eldest grandson alexis is sick with dengue fever and has been in this public hospital for

several weeks now but he isn't the only one. across the hall her 2 other grandsons are also being treated for measles infection 60 year old prince center and 4 year old james material she says she is somehow grateful that her grandchildren made it to the hospital in time rule out the woman it has been very difficult seeing my grandsons like this but i have no choice i have to be strong so long as a hospital is just one of the many hospitals where pediatric wards of big overflowing with children sick with infectious diseases the department of health has recorded at least 40000 cases of measles across the country since january and more than 500 patients have died. while the cases of those who have reached more than 270000 with more than

a 1100 dead many of those who died were children but it doesn't end there the government has announced the return of polio type to an incurable disease that was eradicated 19 years ago public trust on vaccine has plummeted according to the global vaccine confidence index from 93 percent now down to 32 percent which means now that only one out of 5 filipinos believe that vaccines are safe. the health secretary says a recent investigation into a vaccination campaign against thank you fever by the public attorney's office is partly to blame for the falling vaccination rates this kind of best discussed in a scientific or by scientists the profession. house and should not be in a senate hearing or on television with people who are informed

and educated about the issue making definitely requirements the philippine government says it promises to roll are a series of nationwide immunization programs. but back at the intensive care unit of sunlight as a hospital every 2nd counts there's a sense of urgency here and parents are desperate for their children to recover similarly duggan al-jazeera manila. place in hong kong have once again clashed with protesters after tens of thousands defied a ban on face masks to march through the city and heavy rain chief executive carolan banned facial coverings in hopes of calming for months of anti-government demonstrations but the move appears to galvanize the city's shit it's got heiler has more from hong kong. defying the mask bad and

flouting the police who projected approval for their march thousands of hong kong protesters also ignored heavy rain most of them covering their faces beneath a sea of umbrellas this was the 3rd successive day of protests against the mass ban imposed by chief executive kerry lam she said emergency legislation last invoked during riots 50 years ago was needed after 4 months of protest against her rule the protest continued after the high court rejected an injunction challenging the ban judges say they'll review it later this month was after police blamed vandalism for shutting down the entire system on saturday more than half of all m.t.r. metro stations were closed on sunday. the protests which started peacefully quickly changed those there just to march fled from the front line as demonstrators regarded as hard core began to confront police hurling bricks and rocks at. their

offense met by tear gas the demonstrators forced to head back to where they came from the park just as you can see on a pretty stiff it were true and i watch that happening now a couple of hours into this month's it started peacefully but the major confrontation is taking place right around the police headquarters police firing tear gas out from the complex itself and also from above while the protesters are fighting against what they see as increasing control from beijing they doubt change will come with the highlights and i say generally much i look at we know that this will not change the current situation us all as you can see the more peaceful protest is the. pretends to say however i think the meaning of these protests is more important we need to let the government know that we will not surrender. so protesters were arrested and could be charged with not only participating in the illegal gathering but also covering their face scott either al-jazeera. meanwhile

the chinese soldiers have been warning protesters who shine laser lights at their barracks in hong kong that they could be arrested it was the 1st direct interaction with military forces from the mainland in the countries and the cities rather 4 months of anti-government protest a yellow banner was raised from inside the barracks and one tong warning and demonstrators they were breaking the law and could be prosecuted. north korea has accused the us a false see suggesting both sides are open to meeting again one day after broke off the nuclearization talks and stockholm young says it won't take part in quote sickening negotiations unless washington abandons its hostile policy against the north the chief negotiator comeon gill said saturday's talks broke down because the u.s. came to the negotiating table empty handed washington says the 2 sides had good discussions as president has decided not to run in the upcoming election by the process anna sparked a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replace the prime minister the

decision was later overturned by the supreme court they also faced criticism over the handling of an intelligence report warning of these store attacks and what's 259 people were killed election a set for november 16th now fernandez has more from colombia. a record 41 candidates posting cash bones for the election head of handing in nominations on monday but the president might be paula seriously in the north being among that group now when he believes he's pretty sesar that's former president minded rajapaksa it was a complete we've where he sort of swept that election saying that he was only in for one term to bring change however his tenure has been fraught with disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months trying desperately to mount a reelection bid to try and gonna support for that relax in bed president citizen

there has been forced to admit that he's not going to make it the sort of reasons for public discontent with the city say the rule has continued just here in a prove he did see those tragic sort of easter bombings the fact that it was sort of a tragedy of huge number of errors that led to that spate of bomb attacks claiming so many lives was not something that people are willing to forget so this is president citizen as we obviously of realizing and meting but he's not me going to make it so he's just going to stop with that 1st presidential bid. saudi arabia says it's working to remove sudan from the united states concerts of terrorism list so dance new prime minister abdullah talk and the leader of its sovereign council. are in saudi arabia meeting officials list saudi foreign ministry says it also

wants to increase investments in sudan and improve existing projects it has and the country morgan as well from khartoum. it's not the 1st visit for abdul fatah what one although it is his 1st as the head of the sovereign council and it's also prime minister abdul him ducks for his visit. to saudi arabia and it comes just days after he met with saudi delegations at the united nations general assembly where he told them that sudan does not need aid and does not need financial support what it needs is economic development from its allies which include saudi arabia now besides discussing economic ties between the 2 countries the 2 thoughts are also expect to discuss political relations especially about sudan's involvement in the war in the sudan participates with more than 10000 soldiers on the ground in yemen fighting on the saudi united arab emirates coalition side and people here in sudan have been demanding that the soldiers be brought back home and that they should not be participating in the war because sudan has nothing to gain with participating on

the saudi arabian side people are also wary about saudi arabia's months in supporting the transitional government they see saudi arabia played a role in urging the military to attack protesters on june 3rd at a pro-democracy sit in in front of army headquarters where hundreds of protesters have been reportedly killed so they're saying that they want the prime minister to make sure that the relationship between saudi arabia and sudan are based on mutual interests and that will not halt or any or in any way affect sudan transition to civilian rule. israeli foreign minister israel katz confirmed he is promoting non-aggression pact with gulf states as relations with some have warmed up against a common foe iran katz posted on twitter revealing his efforts that would normalize economic ties and institutionalized cooperation despite a lack of movement on the palestinian israeli conflict katz said that this effort backed by the us is historic and would put an end to the conflict and make possible civilian cooperation until peace agreements are signed he said he presented the

idea to us mideast negotiator jason graham black an arab foreign ministers he met 2 weeks ago with the united nations general assembly meeting in new york. the recent death of a 19 year old palestinian woman in suspicious circumstances raise concerns about domestic violence in the occupied territory protests have been held against what activists say is cultural acceptance of attacks against women in abraham reports stitch by stitch see mentors to start a different life after escaping her abusive husband and returning to her father's home she says her family looked her in a room and tortured her they didn't want to divorce daughter. so she set the room on fire i thought to myself if people see the fire and smoke the fire department will come to my rescue i felt like i was dying anyways but luckily i wasn't harmed by the fire after that the police entered to a safe house but many victims of domestic abuse are far from being safe and theory

we have a good system that protects women the problem is with implementation and culture some professionals don't have the knowledge required to identify victims of abuse and they don't have the awareness to approach them with him to to take. activists believe the system has already failed including 19 year old disrupter you her family members are accused of beating her to death sparking approved locally and international. protesters say there is tolerance of violence against women that makes reporting abuse much more difficult since the beginning of the year human rights organizations say 19 women have died in suspicious circumstances through the sometimes these are calling upon the palestinian to end up with and in the draft law that has been. used to provide no protection that. the palestinian government responded to public pressure with

a promise to adopt the mosque the current being a law dates back to the 1960 s. and is criticized of being too lenient especially when it comes to perpetrators of violence against women the palestinian president has previously introduced some amendments to the law but polls still exist for wanting women's rights and laws might be controversial in some circles of society and might provoke. criticism to the p.a. that they try to avoid it back at the house seem has filed for divorce and custody of her children but she can't guarantee she'll be safe once she leaves. the occupied west bank. it's a struggle to make ends meet for many and russia average incomes have fallen for the past 5 years and half the population around $70000000.00 people are in less than $550.00 a month to get by many families are taking out risky and high cost loans but that's

of course making things worse for moscow here. for weeks anastasio your diet has been receiving threatening phone calls that collectors are telling her they will hurt her child or family if she doesn't pay back her loans she lives in a town 2 hours drive from moscow and the salaries there are so low that she can't afford the rent she was offered loans despite being a single mother without a steady job but with high interest rates she's been able to pay them back with his charming i'm disappointed in myself but it's true that these loans are available to everyone and it's very bad there are a lot of sad stories i think i managed to do with this emotionally because i have a child and i need to fight for his sake but i heard very tragic stories of people who commit suicide heard a lot of these stories thousands of private companies have opened up in recent years with many offering so-called fast cash on line a recent survey shows that 39 percent of russians believe they only paid about half

what they deserve for the work they perform to help people to get better jobs moscow has started a pilot project that offers advice training and psychological support to 250000 people who have fallen below the government standard of living. the 1st thing we do is to clarify their situation what has happened to them and that their income is lower than the living standard what is their psychological condition their qualification level and if it corresponds with the job market do they have a motivation and what their needs are but since it opened 3 months ago 22000 people have visited the center most are women staff here say men are less inclined to look for help because they feel poverty as a taboo that it may put in as promised to have the number of people living below the poverty line by the end of 1st term 5 years from now but some economists say this is unrealistic since the economy has to grow at least 3 times as fast as we

able to achieve this and they say all prices and sanctions imposed on russia are only part of the problem and structural changes are needed. put in has criticised his government for working too slowly on a national project aimed to increase state spending but even if they are implemented efficiently some economists don't believe they will fix russia's economy problems. what's happening isn't reasonable distribution of the revenue mistakes in the budget planning i think until the paradigm changes the political paradigm and the political paradigm on the top of that will remain at the current level we know that despite all the new national projects the states just 6 agency had to report to the level of poverty hasn't decreased but even increase this year when i must see i couldn't see a way of clearing thousands of dollars of debt she decided to look for help on the internet her emotional letter.