challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. record numbers turned out to vote in hong kong's local elections after months of anti-government protests. at least badgery now this is the home of the spread of. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin get this also coming up in the program voting begins for a new president in getting the gears of political turmoil. blocking the way rescue efforts are hampered in western kenya after dozens of killed in the

slides. and how climate change is affecting the golden glow of the world heritage site in the western pacific. and the passion for change in hong kong has translated into record numbers of people turning out for district elections the polls taking place after months of increasingly violent protests against the probe aging government and at the last count those more than one and a half 1000000 people having cast their ballots will get a very we'll get the very latest from our correspondent sara clark in a bit 1st so here's her report. as polls open to the people lined up around 4000000 have registered to vote in hong kong's district council elections after months of citywide on rest the people want their voices heard i.

think. that is. battery nowadays in all always right on time and maybe you want to change you have the most you can have different opinions isn't that what is important for you to see this show what your. candidates will face off in 18 districts with 452 seats up for grabs parties currently hold the majority in district councils but anger against the government could a road they support for the 1st time the pro-democracy camp has candidates running in every seat past few months i can't sleep the young people just want to us for just for us for us for. 11 the government to give them the chance to live it's. a simple problem pro-democracy activist joshua wong was disqualified for running in this election he cast his ballot urging others to do the same if they urge to stop police brutality call on free action is high but i'm sure what

everybody votes where we still have to actually police have been deployed to monitor the polling birds to months of clashes the city's later has called for calm on sundays but we are facing an extremely challenging a situation if all the nice thing this year is elections but i feel is to say that with the concerted efforts of all parties including our blog over $30.00 to settle so many things working today we should have been relatively peaceful and calm and vibrant to fund these actions such as the post i kept my bear the brunt of public anger but analysts say it's unlikely the pro-democracy parties will secure a majority i expect the democrats maybe get a number of extra seats but it will be very difficult for them to really get an overall majority the district elections are normally a low key affair with campaigns focusing on local issues like garbage collection

and bus ride. but it's the only election in hong kong which is decided by direct suffrage and a small group of district councillors play a crucial role sitting on an election committee which chooses the city's next leader the protests were initially triggered by opposition to an extradition bill which would have allowed fugitives in hong kong to be sent to the mainland for trial but it's now a wider anti-government movement opposed to china's tightening grip on the former british colony after months of often violent clashes the city's $30000.00 strong police force is on duty for the 1st time in the history of district elections whatever the result of this one it's unlikely to stop further interest. let's go live now to sara and sara said this record number of people who registered to vote in these 2 pretty dull local elections presumably are coming from the ranks of the young those who have sympathies for the pro democracy movement and indeed might

have been out on the streets in the demonstrations. that's certainly an indication so far in the latest figures we now have 1700000 cast their ballots are at sunday's district elections so as you mentioned 4100000 people have registered to vote that's a record number registering and the 18 to 35 year old age group that's the area that's the group where we've seen the biggest increase of certainly weeks where you'd imagine that the number of new people coming to the ballot actually putting their voice down i think people want their voices heard and a huge lines we're seeing at these polling stations are an indication of how many people are coming out to vote now we still have about 6 and a half hours left after these polling stations to stay open and we expect those big numbers to continue right now if there is a significant increase in terms of the pro-democracy vote what sort of power would it allow for that contingent in the district councils.

well the analysts we've been speaking to indicate that the protestant still has the majority in the current district council. but even if the pro-democracy groups do secure more support and win more seats they believe that there are likely to take over that majority simply because it's not the camp has such huge numbers in these district council elections but this particular vote this election is considered also a barometer or test for the public support for these ongoing protests which as you mentioned have been going on for months now and they're not just the weekend weekend protests anymore they week day and we've seen massive transport cast across the city where the transport systems have been paralyzed people will be looking to see whether or not they still public support for those of protesters and if they'll be further unrest as a result all right sara thank you very much so a clock there live in non-code all right let's go to iraq now where news is coming in within the past hour or so of 3 people having been killed after security forces

opened fire on protesters this time in the southern city of nasiriya dozens of others were wounded mainly by live bullets and tear gas canisters at least 330 people have been killed in protests around the country since early last month let's get the very latest from our correspondent in baghdad mohammed jem june. we're awaiting more details but it does sound like it is quite a tense situation in the overnight hours and into today and nasiriya all of this of course still happening amid the backdrop of basically this stace is that is going on in parliament here with regard to an electoral reform law that has been much discussed originally the 2nd reading of this electoral reform law was supposed to take place at a session in parliament yesterday on saturday by the end of the day the session did not happen there was no quorum and had it happened it still would not have been on the agenda now it is scheduled to be taken up again on monday but what exactly does

that mean the details as far as what is in this electoral reform law which is something parliamentarians here been promising to try to satisfy the demands of the anti-government demonstrators the details have been very vague and because of that when we go out to dr square day after day to speak to the protesters here they say that they have no trust in the government in actually implementing reforms and they don't believe that any type of new electoral reform law is going to do anything to change the situation here what they're telling us they are today is that they want to see and into corruption and they want a complete overhaul of the political procedures here and the political system that's in libya where the spokesman for the wall have to says a no fly zone has been put in place over the capital tripoli except around apple after his forces have been fighting to take the capital from the internationally recognized government of national a cold the tripoli administration says any threat to civil aviation is

a crime under national as well as international law. the polls of opened in a presidential voting guinea-bissau hour that many hope will end years of political instability president jersey marial vosh is seeking reelection after a 1st term that was marred by political infighting and claims of corruption he faces strong opposition including from a former prime minister domingo. but era who was fired 5 hours into the 15 guinea-bissau had 9 coups and attempted coups in the past 4 decades nicolas sarkozy our correspondent in the capital. people come to nurse clementina to talk about their aches and pains but there is something that keeps coming up in her consultations politics is making people laugh. and so she tells them there's only one way to deal with it it's to vote in this presidential election. it's as if

politicians forgot about us that what they do actually affects us once they come into office they completely forget about the people they are meant to represent. the santos is disappointed with the president goes in mario vosh who's running for reelection he said he would put the country back to work instead elected officials squabbled threatening each other unable to pass laws or approve budgets the government stops paying teachers and nurses do some to us who was left without pay for 10 months her clinic has no running water it had no electricity until it charity installed solar panels. to get treatment people come to a hospital run by the west african soldiers stationed here as part of a stabilizing force because of the political deadlock. treatment and drugs are free this is an effort to win hearts and minds because presidential candidates have been critical of the presence of foreign soldiers in their country in rallies they peel

to patriotic crowd celebrating the south. it will take more than a good show to convince the 760000 voters they will come out to vote because many of them are 1st time voters and while this campaign has been about trying to bring to an end the political crisis with these young people or jobs. but you brewer has a master's degree in political science in a country where half of the population doesn't know how to read and write and yet he couldn't find a job now he works as a caretaker in an empty building site sleeping on a concrete floor. m. painful to have gone through this i sleep on the floor i am not sure why i bother to study what is this country done for me. it's a feeling shared by many there is no quick remedy to give you peace i was problems but for a nurse just on to us expressing yourself can help alleviate the pain and perhaps

bring change because hawke al-jazeera. the rescue efforts are under way in north western kenya after flooding and landslides at least 36 people have been killed but the full scale of the disaster is yet to emerge rescue efforts have been delayed because flooding cuts off roads and bridges and the president are who can yasser he swiftly responded to the emergency in a statement saying to those whose loved ones are yet to be found i assure you that the own going multi-agency rescue operation will continue until after every missing person is accounted for. lots more to come here at al-jazeera including as we amount goes to trial at the international court of justice over the crackdown on muslim ranger al jazeera sheds new light on the alleged crimes and i wonder in colombia a 3rd day of protests in bogota as the president pledges to hold a national conversation.

hello there it is pretty chilly but it is mostly care across eastern areas of europe not so across the central regions a massive cloud not just out of course bringing with it yet more in the way of heavy rain look at this into genoa in northern italy in just the last 24 hours 117.2 millimeters of rain and there is more in the 4 call so of course falling on very saturated ground there's been some flooding into the southeast of france and we could see more of the same these areas in red indicating about $200.00 millimeters of rain to come down in the next $2.00 to $3.00 days very heavy rain sunday into southern areas of the across into sicily cold air to the mountains that is where we'll see the snow not bad generally across much of central europe and

then there's another system just pushing in across to the phone or west so that does mean more rain across the u.k. falling on some very saturated ground so that all some flood warnings in place and will surprise no systems in the central med the cloud along with the showers working their way throughout jairus unisa really just impacting coastal areas but a damn couple of days ahead into algiers and tunis temperatures oversea lower with that rain and cloud around actually little bit below the average for this time of year probably a better day monday into algeria is still very unsettled in tunis with the high the of 70. sponsors in town. we. believe in the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen to what i just said it was that pakistan would never start a war i'm anti war we meet with global news makers and tweet about the stories that matter does iraq.

have a look at the top stories here or is there. a record number of people have turned out to vote in hong kong's district elections more than one and a half 1000000 people have already cast their ballots is expected to be a test for the pro beijing government after months of increasingly violent protests . in iraq 3 people have been killed when security forces opened fire on protesters in the southern city of nasiriyah dozens of others were wounded mainly by live

bullets and tear gas canisters. i'm voting began in guinea this sounds presidential election for years political infighting and claims of corruption have paralyze parliament incumbent president jerzy mario. seeking reelection. and israeli opposition leader benny gantz has offered something of a compromise to try to avoid a 3rd election this year he's proposed to retaining the dish it with his rival the could party if the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is cleared of corruption charges imran khan has more now from tel aviv. well against time to statement perfectly full the evening news and this was very much a message not just to the israeli electorate but to the likud party he said itself he actually spoke in that building just behind me here in the television expo center where he had an off prime minister benjamin netanyahu take a look at what you had to say. surely a call for unity government is

a lodge is possible i will 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 appalled all 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 result that they can take a look at any idea of the 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 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 these really throwing and he says he wants the likud party to have a primary election internal election and to choose a new leader and to move on with the process of forming a government so netanyahu under a tremendous amount of pressure right now. now colombia's president has promised to begin what he calls a national conversation to end the rest for a 3rd consecutive day anti-government demonstrators were out in force in the capital ball that's all they are angry about for post reforms to the tax some pension systems alessandra around p.s.e. is involved. protests were done for a 3rd consecutive day in bogota against the government of even duke as hundreds of

demonstrators took once again to the streets across the capital thank the demonstrations were peaceful with people banging on pots and pans and chanting we're not afraid anymore yet as they try to block roads and march towards downtown they were attacked by the police rolling in on motorcycles and dispersing crowds of the tear gas. but protesters kept coming back that is yes 23 days 4 days 5 days are not enough it will continue until the government listens to the people no more policies that make us work until we're 80 years old without a pension for a certain day protesters were met with stun grenades and tear gas by the police in this case as they were trying to block this avenue one of the main tera fares from the north to the city down to the center. clashes in confrontations continued

throughout the afternoon and into the evening one protester was critically injured by the police president said the army will remain the ploy to cross the city saturday there were no reports of looting and vandalism and the overnight curfew imposed on friday was lifted the mayor. said that the looting was coordinated by criminals to spread panic but if this isn't about some young people who are having spontaneous demonstrations there is a plot here a high level organization with those who are interested in destabilizing the country. president duke announced he will begin a national conversation with the leaders of the protests next wednesday but some fear it may be too little too late it's interesting that he spoke about it in a conversation not a dialogue i believe the president do has not yet understood the dimension of public discontent and i really don't sense that he is genuinely interested as of

yet in sitting down and discussing with different sectors of tommies society about the multiple sources of discontent that are driving this but without a real dialogue many colombian say they will continue to defy their government in the streets like so many other protest movements across south america alison and. the italian coast guard has rescued 149 migrants after their boat capsized in the mediterranean 3 children and 13 women were among those pulled from the water and taken to the port of lampedusa survivor said around 20 people are still missing more than a 1000 people have died so far this year trying to make the dangerous sea crossing from africa to europe. unsung suchi is expected to defend her country's military against allegations of genocide at the international court of justice the

army is accused of targeting the nation's muslim ranger minority a documentary on our era sheds new light on the abuses and a warning that a solid binge of age report does contain some disturbing images. to 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 wringer a new documentary uncovers testimonies of abuse and the involvement of myanmar government officials. the prosecution has gone on for decades but since $27.00 teams hundreds or thousands of running or were forced to flee after the military accusing the rebels of terrorism. as early as 1966 the burmese military started to see the real hinge or as a problem. through the years myanmar's government has even set up special forces to

deal with its ruling the minority british government. grew up these problems with muslims have existed since the british rule because they brought labor from bangladesh call out. only as our most we're not migrants from bangladesh this is a birth place and i was born in this house that was built 18 or 19 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 s.s. . the executioner this former intelligence chief says the priority was to stop people crossing into me in mar illegally. so 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 we didn't want to accept guest otherwise there would be no more rakhine just got more and more muslims that. now decades later un investigators have warned genocide threat from myanmar is greater than ever on earth i'm a soldier held a gun to my head in seed what if i shoot you right now then he said we have an order to kill all of you muslims we are invincible. over once their villages were burnt down were funneled into what is now the come complex where 122140000 were injured are basically imprisoned there are concentration camps detention camps it's not intercommunal 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 are going to say they hit their children in graves ideas had their babies burned alive but they threw the children into the

fire but turned our heads the other way so that we wouldn't see it and that the government we have never been soft on human rights in this country we must military denies carrying out masri and murder my home and that any think the media a lot of news about what kind of state is fake this fabricated news that the military has raped women it's not true. they raped us right in the paddy field after 5 months i knew he was there i felt him growing in size only there are a lot of call them all while they are 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 rating for justice and a chance to return home some of the job there and you can see the full

program it's called exiled and it as at this time here at al-jazeera. at the head of the catholic church is demanded that while the does renounce atomic weapons saying they decrease security wastes money and threaten humanity pope francis was speaking in the japanese city of mecca saki which was devastated by a nuclear bomb in august 145 he paid tribute to the victims calling the bombing an unspeakable horror the pontiff says nuclear weapons are not the answer to a desire for security peace and stability when it commits to me into the queue more to go see government convinced as i am that a world without nuclear weapons is possible and necessary i ask political leaders not to forget that these weapons cannot protect us from the current threats to national and international security we need to ponder the catastrophic impact of their deployment especially from

a humanitarian and environmental standpoint and reject heightening a climate of fear mistrust and hostility formatted by nuclear doctrine. an archipelago in the western pacific is home to some of the most intact coral reef systems in the world and the spectacular range of biodiversity about it's facing pressure from climate change tourism and overfishing that club cripples from the western pacific nation of palau. it is an extraordinary sight exposed structures of ancient coral reef framed in one expensive took weighs the requirements of a unesco world heritage site and beneath the surface the profusion of variety of life is stunning one of the highest rates of biodiversity on the planet but the challenges a new worse in amongst a jumble of islands a series of marine lakes hold more one does this is a. lake it is connected to the sea but only through a series of small correction fishes in the rock it's effectively isolated

a single ecosystem and beneath the surface lies a unique subspecies golden jellyfish they've evolved to harvest energy directly from sunlight there are more than 2000000 of them and indeed that's a significant reduction in the pos there have been as many as 30000000 in this lake but fluctuations in the weather have recently taken a toll. the biggest challenge that we face in terms of the jellyfish snake is climate change very recently within the past. year and a half to 2 years saw. the golden jellyfish that the site is famous for around the world completely disappear because of climate change the salinity of the lake grow so the temperature of the water to face these ranges are on the lookout for illegal fishing in protected so called zones implemented to try and conserved wind lng for species along the coast for the commercial fisherman and little fish it uses

big ships mother ships it's everything from giant clams to search and to secure cumbers to fish and then from next year the marine protected area will be massively extended into the open ocean but. 2020 all the stuff sold will can only be pissing about 20 percent of the water and the reason for that is that we want to make sure that 80 percent of no 10 will ensure the sustainable the field is more than resource we're saying that when we don't. give area a refuge of conservation area you can see it's 5 times as much space in an area with open there is another ultimately overriding concern not just on parallel but for the 2000000 islanders across the pacific sea level rise can 0 has lived here for decades and he says full moon tides are getting in and that can have a devastating effect this is a 1st time i've seen these kind of. high thanks come in and it's hard because you

have to find another place to move to and if you don't have the money to build a new house then you won't be able to do that so pretty people are pretty much a stock. the wonders of this part of the pacific are many. of the pressures is standing tough when it comes to environmental protections but its people are going to need all the resolve they can muster in the coming years nick clarke al-jazeera . to take a look at the top stories here it is there are a record number of people have turned out to vote in hong kong's district elections 1700000 people have already cast their ballots is expected to be a test for the pro beijing government after months of increasingly violent protests sarah clarke has more from the whole call we now have $1700000.00 cast their

ballots are at sunday's district elections 4100000 people have registered to vote that's a record number registering and the 18 to 35 year old age group that's the areal that's the group where we've seen the biggest increase of certainly weeks where you'd imagine that the number of new people coming to the ballot actually putting their voice down i think people want their voices heard and the huge lines missing at these polling stations are an indication of how many people are coming out to vote now we still have about 6 and a half hours left after these polling stations to stay open and we expect those big numbers to continue 3 people have been killed in iraq when security forces opened fire on protesters in the southern city of nasiriya dozens of others were wounded mainly by live bullets and tear gas canisters now in libya the spokesman for the warlord i have to say it's a no fly zones in place over the capital tripoli except for at mitiga airport after

his forces have been fighting to take the capital from the internationally recognized government of national accord the administration says any threat to civil aviation is a crime under national and international law. voting began in guinea-bissau presidential election for years political infighting in claims of corruption to power lies politics and cumbered. seeking reelection rescue efforts are underway in northwestern kenya after flooding and landslides at least 36 people have been killed but the full scale of the disaster is still unclear rescue efforts have been delayed because flooding of roads and bridges in the area is coming up next it's our interview program. on counting the pulses russia uses mercenaries in conflicts from syria to libya the future of rule around cairo if the 2 trillion dollars but is the saudi state owned oil company

valid plus google takes on the big guns in the gaming industry carry the cost on i'll just. give you the. last month turkey launched a military operation in northeastern syria saying it's aimed at preventing the predominantly democratic forces. from keeping a presence on the border area operation peace spring was condemned by the u.s. and the international community but for the turkish government it's a crucial step to ensure national security. and this week i would be speaking to the turkish defense minister about the operation cooperation with russia and iran and strained ties with the us and they took over 400 different systems all of this as the turkish different.