well. an unprecedented turnout expected in hong kong's local elections following months of protests the live from one of the polling stations. and this is. also coming up. heavy police presence in colombia's capital after 2 days of major protests taxon pension reforms more damning revelations in the impeachment inquiry the state

department forced to release documents that show trump's lawyer was in close contact with the secretary of state over ukraine. goes to trial at the international court of justice over the crackdown on. new life in some of the alleged crimes. let's begin in hong kong where polls for local elections are now open the poll is seen as the latest for the pro beijing government following months of demonstrations chief executive carrie lamb has cast her vote record 4100000 people have registered to vote it's hong kong's biggest turnout since the territory was returned to china from britain in 1997 when speaking to the media kerry appealed for a peaceful. we are facing an extremely challenging situation in organizing this year's

elections but i'm pleased to say that with the concerted efforts of all parties including of course over 30000 civil servants in many departments working today we should have a relatively peaceful and calm and vironment to conduct these elections successfully . hong-kong pro-democracy activists just. for a test is to continue opposing beijing he was disqualified from running in the local elections says i will protest movement stuff for a few more people around the world just out of hong kong and. should come out to book. your action is that your action in marketing to base all this money on the street if you instead of over the political system but i still urge people actually to show how this can head to beijing. mcbride reports from hong kong now coming amid unprecedented unrest everyone agrees this will be an

election like no other many seats are being contested by a new generation of candidates some molded by the protest movement. and wing an independent is out on bail after being arrested and charged for unlawful assembly. people have been paying close attention to the process the excessive use of force by police and the aristos and they've been studying the views of the candidates on these things and making up their minds in a city of 7000000 people a record 4000000 have registered to vote. you know it's tough we don't know which side to take but beijing is in charge in any case all signs indicate that the pro-democracy protests are poised to win a big victory. this is important for hong kong people it's like an opinion poll normally dominated by local issues this election will instead focus on the much

bigger question of hong kong's relationship with mainland china with pro china parties having the majority of seats up for election they are seen as having the most to lose given the groundswell of anti-government feeling pro-democracy candidates are contesting every seat with thousands of new young voters registering for the 1st time the probe aging camp seems to be bracing itself for losses this year the elections have been highly politicized and violence have become a central issue and there are people for and against so local issues sidelined campaigning on streets that bad the scars of months of unrest leo chu is a candidate for the democratic party. he's not hopeful about the chances of this vote forcing the government to concede on any of the protesters demands i do not

have a very strong am optimistic mind about they were care about the people. in this direction but at least. in part a matter for the international community that but people are thinking in hong kong . this ballot will likely prove the strength of feeling in this deeply polarized city the question then will be watching impact it has on the escalating violence of mcbride al jazeera hong kong. sarah clarke joins us again live from outside a polling station. now. well the polls have been open for a couple of hours now and the official figures indicate that $150000.00 people still cuffed their ballots in the 1st hour now that's almost 3 times the turnout in that same 1st hour since the 25th jane elections are huge lines at polling booths across the city you may be able to see

a line behind this place but this line snakes its way around the building and this is a similar scene across hong kong as you mentioned it was broad mention in the story of 4100000 people have registered to vote that's a record number and the increase has been recorded in the 18 to 35 year old age group so the course currently has the majority in these district elections but certainly the pro-democracy camp is expected to win back some support in this district election so how much of a shadow as the recent protests cost over the election. it was something this is considered a referendum on the political process it's been going on for 6 months now it's also a test of the public's support for the pro-democracy movement and the protests is now with increase increasingly violent clashes between police and protesters i've a recent weeks we've also seen massive transport disruption across the city where the protesters have been targeting the transport system and that's obviously upset a lot of people the public support could be winding will certainly see that in this

particular virus but the early turnout suggests that the pan democrats or the pro-democracy camp my return some sense of my win back some of those seats from the protestant groups but we do expect the early results to be in on sunday evening. all right thanks so much sarah clarke. in colombia and the government protests have continued in the country's capital for a day large groups of security forces patrol the streets of bogota and fired tear gas and thousands of protesters and followed an overnight curfew. defied by demonstrators who stayed on the streets angry over tax reforms and reforms in pension system and their m.p. i think has more. small groups of protesters are on the streets most are peaceful and happening without major issues but other ones if protesters try to march on the streets are blocked

one of the rows they are immediately confronted. quite violently by the police in and taking riot gear with tear gas with grenada bombs as we have witnessed earlier during the day we have now been able to confirm that at least one of these protesters was seriously injured by one of these. days that hit them in the in the head he is now. under surgery in a hospital in downtown we understand that his condition is critical but under control so we're going to try to find out more about him in the coming hours and more people are also planning to repeat. demonstrations were people hit on pots and pans in different parts of this city

most of the violence seems to be happening when the protesters try to reach the government buildings downtown if they stay further now north and in the plazas and don't try to move on the streets then. seem to move on peacefully. now the u.s. state department has released threat holds related to its dealings with ukraine the documents support testimony at the impeachment inquiry that several senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kiev into investigating the president's rival joe biden john hendren has more from washington. the cast of president donald trump's ukraine pressure campaign grows ever wider 100 pages of newly released state department documents show that secretary of state mike pump

aoe spoke to president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani twice in march that was shortly before u.s. ambassador to ukraine maria vonn of h. was removed from office scott lucas says it's not hard to infer what they were talking about but the day before pompei a 2nd call with giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and maria vonnegut trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that weren't enough just wanted an investigation by ukraine the impeachment inquiry is looking into whether the white house engaged in a coordinated campaign to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine until the president of vacuum tree publicly announced that he would investigate president trump's chief political rival former vice president joe biden president trump denies that accusation i want nothing. that's what i want for you that's what

i said i want nothing the newly released documents support this damning statement from embassador gordon sunland was there a quid pro quo the answer is yes everyone was in the loop we kept the leadership. of the state department and the n.s.c. informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompei o. the state department had refused to give those documents they were obtained through a freedom of information lawsuit by the watchdog group american oversight now senate democrats are asking pompei oh in a letter to recuse himself from the state department's response to the impeachment inquiry pump ale was quick to respond i'm not going to accuse myself from this i know precisely what american policy was with respect to ukraine i was working on it and i'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished also joining in the circle of those implicated in the presidential pressure campaign is the president's top

defender in the impeachment inquiry republican devin nunez clearly these little chris accusations don't reflect committee members who are honestly searching for the truth on saturday reports emerge suggesting nunez met with a disgraced former ukrainian prosecutor to find dirt on biden that is according to a lawyer for businessman live parness indicted for his role in working with giuliani to prompt a ukrainian investigation of biden and his son if true the circle of all the president's men in the ukraine campaign just got bigger john hendren washington. well still ahead on al-jazeera israel's prime minister accused of holding the country hostage as his political rival tells him to step down. putting pressure on the french government to look at how activists are pushing for tougher action to stop domestic violence.

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you'll. come back you're watching out 0 time to recap our headlines now voting is underway in hong kong's local elections a record number of people have registered this time around he'd seen as a test for the pro beijing government following months of demonstrations in colombia anti-government protests have continued in the country's capital for a 3rd consecutive day hundreds of protesters were dispersed by tear gas following an overnight curfew in isolated looting in public. records of the u.s. state department's dealings with ukraine have been made public confirmed contacts

between secretary of state mike pompei and the president's personal lawyer rudy giuliani earlier this year. we had miles leader aung san suu kyi is expected to defend the country's military against allegations of genocide at the international court of justice the army is accused of targeting the nation's rangar muslim minority in 2017 a documentary being add on al-jazeera sheds new light on the abuses must warn you though a binge of aids report contains some disturbing images. nearly a 1000000 muslims live in the. world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh as the international court of justice prepares to begin hearing allegations of genocide and forced deportation of the ring a new documentary uncovers testimonies of abuse and the involvement of me and government officials. the prosecution has gone on for decades but since 2017 hundreds or thousands of rangar were forced to flee after the military

accusing the rebels of terrorism as early as 1966 the burmese military started to see the ranger as a problem. through the years myanmar's government has even set up special forces to deal with it's running the minority british government. there grew up these problems with muslims have existed since the british rule because they brought labor from bangladesh. we're not migrants from bangladesh this is their birth place and i was born in this house that was built 1819 our mosque was also built on 994 my great grandfather. through the years myanmar's government has even set up special forces to deal with its ruling the minority. was essentially the burmese equivalent of as says. now sarkar was the executioner this former intelligence chief says the priority was

to stop people crossing into me in my or illegally you know i created an a sucker to stop people from crossing the borders it was the right thing to do they were migrants our objective was to control our border they are a guest from bangladesh and we didn't want to accept guest otherwise there would be no more rakhine just got more and more muslims that. now decades later u.n. investigators have warned genocide threat for me and is greater than ever i want into earlier the famous soldier held a gun to my head in seed what if i shoot you right now did he seed we have in order to kill all of you muslims we are invincible. or were injured once their villages were burnt down were funneled into what is now the cum complex where 122140000 were injured are basically imprisoned there are concentration camps detention camps if not into communal violence this is the burma state organizing and watching over the

destruction of ruins of villages and the rounding up of hundreds of thousands are injured into camps some ringer say they hit their children in graves there's had their babies burned alive. they threw the children into the fire that turned our heads the other way so that we wouldn't see it at the beginning we have never been soft on human rights in this country we must military denies carrying out mass rape and murder homeowner the really critical media a lot of news about what kind of state is fake there is fabricated news that the military has raped women it's not true. they break just right there in the paddy field after 5 months i knew he was there i felt him growing in size only there i got a call the mongolia there are 5 of us women were separated from the crowd and taken into the house. but they closed the door

then they blindfolded us and then they did whatever they wanted to do with us. hundreds of thousands of simmering anger are waiting for justice and a chance to return home some of the job elders there who can see the full program called exiled when it 1st 20 g.m.t. on sunday one of egypt's last independent news publications mother is appealing for the urgent release of one of its journalists a statement on its website says police took these a lot from his home in cairo on saturday they also confiscated electronic equipment and documents related to his work zelotes arrest is the latest sign of a widening crackdown on press freedom in egypt. israel's opposition leader by the gand says once again called on the prime minister binyamin netanyahu to resign over corruption charges follows netanyahu statement on friday that he would not step

down 3 indictments calling it an attempted coup in noncom has more from tel aviv well against time to statement perfectly for the evening news and this was very much a message not just to the israeli electorate but to the likud party itself yes he spoke in that building just behind me here in the television expo center where he had an offer for prime minister benjamin netanyahu take a look at what you had to say. surely a call for unity government is a large as possible i would be the prime minister for the 1st 2 years while netanyahu can deal with his legal issues it's clear he can come back as prime minister this is the only way to prevent an unnecessary election. so the idea is that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be a part of the government but he won't have any ministries and certainly won't be prime minister instead what benny gantz is just thing is that he fights his court cases and then studies result that they can take a look at any idea of

a power sharing agreement and anything that might take place in the future between the good and the blue and white party whether that's going to be acceptable to netanyahu remains to be seen but the entire game at the moment seems to be avoiding a 3rd election we're in a period of about 17 days left where any member of the knesset can try and form a government if that doesn't happen then the country goes to the election which is what all the politicians seemingly are trying to avoid so this was not a generous offer to netanyahu but very practical one to try and avoid going to a 3rd election that see what the prime minister has to say about this he's also under tremendous amount of person from within his own the crude party as well gideon saw is a pretender to the israeli throne and he says he wants the likud party to have a primary election an internal election and to choose a new leader and to move on with the process of forming a government so then you know under

a tremendous amount of pressure right. navas been renewed fighting with tween kurdish fighters and turkey backed forces in northern syria it happened near the town of an acer turkey launched an offensive against the kurdish led syrian democratic forces last month a truce was agreed in coordination with russia but small scale fighting has continued. iran is resorting is restoring rather internet access after the government imposed a shutdown last week in response to widespread protests the demonstrations followed a government increase in fuel prices by up to 50 percent rights groups on the ground say internet connections still remain spotty in certain parts of the country amnesty international says more than 100 demonstrators have been killed by security forces a figure rejected by iran's government as a base as this from tehran. as of this moment it's back up to 70 percent and that's up from 5 percent when it was shut down last week that was following demonstrations

and riots that took place as a result of the announcement by the government of a fuel price increase of up to 50 percent now that was a very sophisticated shutdown according to analysts that iran has made to shut down the internet inside the country stopping people from communicating outside of iran but the internal network inside the country still was up and running so banks could carry out transactions you could order taxis and absent access news websites within the country those are based inside the country but we still don't know how many people died during this last week now the official iranian camp just 12 that's including security forces amnesty international has put the figure as over 100 now iran denies denies and rejects that figure but business is have been affected exchange currency exchanges travel agents people trying to communicate with family outside the country now iran says it was necessary to maintain stability in the country but what they did manage to do is stop people communicating organizing and

sharing videos of those demonstrations not only within iran but outside iran to tens of thousands of people have been marching across france to highlight the problem of violence against women in france has one of europe's highest rates of domestic violence so far this year 160 women live being killed by current or former partners a report released this month found french police and the justice system often failed to protect women. from reports. joanna tilly thought she'd finally escape her violent partner when she moved out of their home with their children she'd suffered years of abuse but then one day in september he killed or join his friends in the northern french city of love say her murder made them determined to help other victims of domestic violence so they teamed up and launched a telephone helpline they've been flooded with calls. when we saw how joanna had

tried hard to get help her death made us think we have to do something we have to be heard there are some organizations that help but it's not enough. in our city join a story touched a shocked many people raise the awareness we hope our suspicion will get people talking. there was outside her local supermarket the joanna tilly was fatally stabbed by her former partner in front of her 3 young children just weeks before her murder she'd filed a complaint with police but they'd done little to help. a woman is killed by her partner or ex partner every other day in france many others face daily physical sexual and emotional abuse campaigners say that even though violence against women is widespread police judges and prosecutors rarely take it seriously every woman know because she heard that she will not nobody's going to listen to her go there is already the culture that if you go to the police you're not going to be

understood you're not going to be listened and your case is going to be closed. for months cesar activists in paris have been running an underground campaign after dark they put up antiviolence feminist messages in the street as people realize that this is mass killing disguised as crimes of passion one of our messages says you will never kill because of love so we're raising public awareness and often women who are suffering violent tell us these messages help them to. the french government is working on new legislation to tackle violence against women but campaigners say the proposal so far failed to address the root causes of abuse they say what's needed is to change attitudes to women and better educate children and adults domestic abuse often thrives because it is hidden these striking messages of bringing the problem out into the open where it can't be ignored natasha partner al jazeera paris. bolivia's interim leader has rejected the senate's attempt to grant

former president evo morales amnesty what fled to mexico amid allegations of rigging the october election congress has now passed a bill paving the way for new elections. but the bill to call the elections was approved unanimously in congress after a heated debate now the interim president will enact it to begin the process of selecting members for the electoral tribunal and said a date for a new election. look to nicholas has done for the next government cannot be abusive either with the rural or you have been people it has to be neutral to manage the country well but if you favors one or the other it will be lost. part of the demands made by members of the mass party that it will not ellis' party was to take the military off the streets in turn the government wanted no more protests now streets have been quieter here in the past few hours after this past week clashes

between protesters and the police and the army left 8 people dead here now the government wants all road blocks to be lifted to allow passage of food and fuel around the country but there are still many roadblocks that need to be cleared fully many parts of the traffic is fluid food is slowly making its way into the stores but here there are long queues of people waiting to get gas and many here say they're not happy. things are not well yet we're not getting gas the government doesn't care we're being discriminated against not only here in the. sun in other places around the country there are cars long lines of cars and trucks queuing up to get gas however here many people are saying that the approval of this bill to call elections is giving them the confidence that now the country begins to move forward. and you can get much more normal stories we've been telling you about if

you had over the top way. dot com. let's take you through some of those stories now voting is underway in hong kong's local elections a record number of people have registered this time around it's seen as a test for the probe aging government following months of demonstrations so a clock has the latest from. well the polls have been open for a couple of hours now and official figures indicate that 150000 people. ballots in the 1st hour now that's almost 3 times the turnout in that same 1st hour since the 25th gain elections are huge lines at polling booths across the city maybe i would see a line behind this place car behind me but this line snaked its way around the building

and this is a similar scene across hong kong now 1000000 people have registered to vote that's a record number and the increase has been recorded in the 18 to 35 year old age group so the post office macapp it currently has a majority in his district elections but certainly the pro-democracy camp is expected to win back some support in this district election in colombia government protests of continued in the country's capital for a 3rd consecutive day hundreds of protesters were dispersed by tear gas following an overnight curfew and isolated looting in bogota records of the u.s. state department's dealings with ukraine have now been made public they confirm contacts between secretary of state home pay 0 dollars trams personal lawyer rudy giuliani earlier this year it's been renewed fighting between y p g kurdish fighters and back forces in northern syria it happened near the town of.

turkey launched an offensive against the kurdish led syrian democratic forces last month israeli opposition leader barry gans is proposing a deal to end unprecedented political crisis he says his party's willing to go into coalition with the likud but its leader benyamin netanyahu could have no part to play dances called on that in yahoo to resign following an indictment in corruption cases. iran is restoring internet access after the government imposed a shut down last week in response to widespread protests and demonstrations followed the government increasing fuel prices by up to 50 percent. there's the headlines the news continues after counting the cost stay with us. they don't believe in a 2 state solution do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i just said it was that pakistan would never start. a war we meet with global news

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