josie are. you ever your. big gains from hong kong's pro-democracy can that it sounds voters send a clear signal of supports to the process movement that's rocked the territory. hello there and how the markets and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up rescuers struggle to reach areas of kenya devastated by landslides that have killed dozens of people. al-jazeera uncovers our diplomatic passports are being secretly sold to help keep caribbean politicians in power plus. i got something

important really wrong. past mistakes come back to haunt former new york mayor michael bloomberg as he announces he's running for the white house. but 1st pro-democracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in district council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protest that of course the territory's worst political crisis in decades live to sarah clarke in hong kong shortly straight after this reports from scott hi there. in a sweeping victory pro-democracy candidates made huge gains in hong kong's district council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. the voters sending a clear message of the 1st polling since the protest movement began. even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and

a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the polling was seen as a way for voters to officially take sides in this deeply divided city of 7000000 back the probation candidates in the hong kong government or those who support greater democratic freedoms for hong kong in line with the protesters who've been fighting to push back on what they see as increasing control of the mainland china you know. this election means a lot to hong kong the older generation who. the younger generation hopes for change. it's usually a sleepy election to select a low level local government positions but many will couple early to vote as there was concern that unrest could mean the polling could be cut short for the pro-democracy camp is about a vote of confidence on no confidence on the kerry lamb government and on the

excess use of police force against protesters but a probation camp there was say this is also a defacto referendum on the protests and the violence there was an un easy calm during the few days leading up to the election just a week after some of the worst violence in these nearly 6 months of protests that's mainly because both sides knew this election is critical to their cause. kong's leader kerry lamb while casting her vote recognise the challenging times for the city and the importance of peaceful elections. andrew chu won his 4th term as district councillor the pro-democracy candidate was brutally attacked earlier this month parts. howard you. can have a very strong and clear to a new method for. the beijing for it and also the international community to be home as they stand firm together we are trying to. fight for our

freedom and democracy so even though more people voted than ever before and this is a significant election it's unclear if the victory for the pro-democracy parties will ease the violence or help the divisions here. 0 hong kong. well sarah clark joins us live from hong kong sarah just bring us up to speed with the latest results just how big are the gains being made by those pro-democracy candidates. were huge gains for the pro-democracy parties the latest figures the 398 seats have been won by the pan democrats or the pro-democracy camp and just 58 for the post beijing parties now until sunday. had the majority in these district council elections now this is normally and unavenged traditionally and unavenged full council election but of course this time it has huge importance after the ongoing demonstrations of the same cause kind of chaos across hong kong

in the last 6 months now keep some high profile. lawmakers including junius home who have been on seated he was the legislator is also the ledge of council but is also a district councillor he was the one of the ones who was considered to be aligned with the triads triads of his seat which being quite brutally bashed some of the protests a few months ago and we also spoke to. council a fellow called paul cherry and he's described these results from sunday's district council elections as nightmarish and this is what he had to say a short time ago. so i believe what we now do is. called if i've. dealt with but the most out of step for you before and i think the government will be shuffling of the top like i seriously just although timing wise it may not be the

best time yet but it will be on the table as well. and sarah looking ahead to the rest of the day now we are expecting pro-democracy politicians to visit the university were some students are still involved in a standoff with police tell us more. of the civic party is calling on their winning candidates to go to the polytechnic university in color and to show their support to those a handful of protesters who are still inside that campus there been inside that campus now for more than a week in a blockade that started about 2 fridays ago and we also have 2 other demonstrations in hong kong one in central and another one end point and these demonstrations are as well showing support for those protests is still a polytechnic university the question now is whether or not this protest movement will be wrapped up as a result of sunday's election results or if they'll consider this simply a morale boost. ok sarah clarke joining us live from hong kong thank you the most

highly classified chinese government documents are giving a stark insight into the mast attention of ethnic minorities mostly weaker muslims rights groups estimate that smaller than a 1000000 people have been locked up in camps in the region since unknown hand reports. the chinese government says camps such as this in the shin jiang region are centers for education and vocational training documents obtained and verified by the international consortium of investigative journalists reveal they in fact operate as extrajudicial internment camps for the compulsory indoctrination of ethnic minorities mostly muslims. the documents detail how police use an artificial intelligence driven data system to select who will be detained once inside the camps every aspect of their life is controlled from frequency of toilet use and haircuts to visits from loved ones inmates the documents say are ultimately judged

on ideological transformation study and training and compliance with discipline and order. in the classes they would tell us that we were poisoned by religion that islam is an infectious disease that it came from abroad that if they needed to be a religion in china that it must be put is him and we should not believe in any other religion human rights lawyers say the documents confirm what many have suspected about the camps there's a system inside of these camps you know where you get more points for being indoctrinated with you know the sort of central chinese communist propaganda and removing interesting year on islamic identity it's the most orwellian thing that ever seemed or as human rights. chinese government has rejected leaked documents as fake news. documents talking to talking about is a. fabrication if you want to have a document about this but cheney had a consensus we have many documents we have

a 7 papers published international legal experts say the in term and camps are a violation of china's laws and constitution but the chinese government has long stood defiant against foreign criticism vinton meaghan al-jazeera. at least 56 people are known to have died in landslides in northwestern kenya but with bridges and roads swept away rescuers are struggling to reach all of the affected villages and their own sure how many people are so missing me reports. william and his 6 year old son gilbert have been searching for alice but so far there's no sign of gilbert's missing 8 year old sister or 4 year old brother. it was about midnight we heard loud noise and then we were swept away by floodwater i heard my son screaming i risk you tim his mother and one other child but 2 of my children were swept away way yet to recover their bodies. this mother is searching

for her 16 year old daughter who was at a friend's house when the landslide hit on saturday in kenya's west polka dot county. i'm here looking for my daughter's body i want to know who can help me get her body back. red cross aid workers are recording the names of people who are missing relatives are reluctant to leave but politicians worried about the possibility of more flooding and landslides arranging them to evacuate the area as soon as possible i know some people might want to stick with their mother this is my life to go but one situation like this where we are losing 19 children 19 in also and. i am requesting all of us to leave this i'm going to serve our ground. president to are kenyatta has sent the armed forces to help but with roads and bridges destroyed rescue efforts have been delayed we have recovered about 4

bodies yet to. retrieve all. 7. bodies we don't know where the out of bed accounted for but it was very bad. the governor of west says that short of medicine clothes and blankets he's appealing jintao victoria gay to be out there. this.

let's talk president's national conversation to address. the plane smashes into homes in the republic of congo after. we've got some quotes of weather pushing into northeastern parts of the u.s. now this area cloud here has been affecting least the seaboard up towards the northeastern corner and that will continue to drive its way further east with the perrier of low pressure here gradually moving out of the way easing across new england eastern parts of canada sunny some snow on that one up towards the far east of kind of there around the canadian maritimes and some snow to into central parts of canada and temperatures here will stay will tumble as we go through the next

1000 sub-zero in winnipeg that cool air coming down across the northern plains of the u.s. notice some wetter weather down towards the central and southern plains troy and brighter which will cease to support they say in around 15 celsius further west the area a cloud of rain just pushing in around the pacific northwest western parts of canada as well meanwhile into the caribbean it's not looking too bad i see lots of lovely tropical sunshine a little more rain gradually making its way into the windward islands trinidad tobago pushing up towards barbados could see some wet weather as you go on through monday and that right becoming more expansive as we go on through choose day right up towards the leeward says well the greater antilles on the other hand looking lousy fondant right kingston with a high threat. if you have to choose between your site and feeding your family what do you do that

happens because we don't keep ourselves healthy when your son could face death from a dog bites or do you do everything else you can because it'll eat into a choice can you afford them. films about inspiring solutions to play on. aging selects on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera a quick reminder of the headlines for you this hour early results are wrong comes district council elections show major gains for the pro-democracy candidates it follows months of anti-government protests and leaks classified documents from

china's governments have revealed details about the mast attention of ethnic minorities mostly muslim weekers it includes intelligence briefings that described by police a data system based around artificial intelligence to select whom it is detained. now al jazeera is investigative units has discovered how the secret sale of diplomatic passports and help keep some caribbean politicians in power to medicals general election takes place on december 6th and as deborah's avi's reports the result may be influenced by payments from wealthy foreigners who want the privileges of becoming an ambassador. this is all of the serafin. a former prime minister of domenico using concealed cameras we film him willing to broker a deal with a rich businessmen living in asia i think that all she can we'll get in there is your. daughter or. he says the businessman would then be made an ambassador for the

domenica despite having no connection to the country. serafin says the money will go to dominique his current prime minister receive l. skerritt to help win of 4th term in power. by the us of a monster. the bridge the only difference is the kurds like to. try and find every. last week police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a crowd demanding an end to what they say is widespread vote rigging our investigation reveals how many rainy and annie resume on fred bought his dominique an ambassadorship he helped fund prime minister skerritt selection when 5 years ago paying for rallies t. shirts and printing the party's manifesto mon friends foreign business partner witness the deals we don't use the word bribe we'll just use the word adult enough

appreciation but definitely without that money he wouldn't have got his diplomatic passport manfredi hope the possible gave him diplomatic immunity it didn't work he's just been sentenced in iran to 20 years for investment. our investigation has found that 6 caribbean states have appointed dozens of foreigners to be their ambassadors around the world while many are respected business leaders several have been exposed as criminals. american eric restante became an ambassador for grenada he's alleged to have filmed grenada's prime minister keith mitchell accepting cash in a briefcase the rest said it was half a $1000000.00 keith mitchell denied any wrongdoing and said he was only paid $15000.00 the travel expenses the video as not be made public the americans kept it when they jailed restaurant if the fraud. all of a serafin and demanded

a fee for arranging a dominique ambassadorship heart for both serafin and prime ministers skerritt later denied any discussion about a diplomatic passport skerritt denied any wrongdoing and said any payments were legal campaign contributions deborah davis al jazeera. and diplomats for sailors info at 20 jancee on monday right here on al-jazeera. more than 60 doctors say they fear wiki leaks founder julian assange is could soon die in prison they've written an open letter to the british government's demanding that a song be transferred to hospital the doctors say he's suffering from psychological problems including depression and a serious shoulder elements songes in the maximum security belmarsh prison near london the u.s. wants to extradite him on espionage charges. yes defense secretary mark asper has

far than they've his top official esper acted against richard spencer over allegations that spencer proposed a deal with the white house behind his back the matter has to do with a navy seal accused of war crimes says case had been championed by president donald trump cable as also has the latest from washington d.c. . the u.n. has been putting a positive spin on what was achieved at the 1st round of these talks in geneva the reality though is that there was very little progress made in actually drafting a new constitution for syria but the 2 sides as well as a 3rd group of representatives of civil society showed up on the talks didn't collapse it would be too early to say there is agreement on constitutional principles lore is there yet agreement on which issues should be addressed in the future constitutional text which should be addressed in other ways. but there was

a solid initial discussion and there are commonalities on which to build. the members during the recess to reflect on what was discussed return ready to build on it the co-chair of the constitutional committee on the government's side because bari has said that any constitution means to preserve what he describes as national constants in syria now that's a code word for the assad denies the will be running the country for almost 50 years it is the key issue and it's likely to be a crunch point soon for these talks james pays out his era at the united nations that package there from a g.'s base around the syrian constitutional committee which is set to resume talks in geneva later this month we will bring you an update from gabriel elizondo in the next hour of coverage here on al-jazeera city stay with us for now though let's move on to colombia where the president's ivan dk has been meeting newly elected

mayors and governors to hammer out a deal on reforms the so-called national dialogue follows day's events a government process many are angry about corruption and possible changes to the minimum wage pensions and taxes well a curfew was imposed in the capital on friday but it didn't deter people from returning to the streets a day later alison has more now from bogota. this is for today the straightforward in which there have been demonstrations as you can see behind me 10 thousands of people are out with banging on their part. or. the same is happening in other parts of the city in the city center and in the west of this city and this is happening and growing bigger and bigger every every day the difference today is that there hasn't been any of the violence that we have

seen and previous days that the police has not shown up a lot of these demonstrations were broken up by the police moving in violently and actually after all these brutality is one of the region people are out there mending changes from the government yesterday an 18 year old was seriously injured by the police he was hit in the head and a lot of the people here are chanting his name saying that they're all the land crews the name of the person that was that was hit in the head when he was demonstrating and people are saying that they will continue staying in this street facing out i'm till they manage the changes that they are demanding from the government. the levies interim president union yes has signed legislation paving the way for new elections that bar former president of marlice from running a wave of violent protests something disputed election results forced neurologist

to step down 2 weeks ago more than 30 people have been killed in the unrest marlice is currently in exile in mexico. a plane has crashed into homes in the democratic republic of congo killing almost 30 people it happened just after takeoff in goma this no official word yet on what went wrong priyanka gupta reports. this is what's left of a passenger aircraft that crashed into homes near an airport goma 18 passengers and 2 crewmembers scorn both the busy bee and life flight none of them survived. i was as a researcher with my family when i saw the plane spinning 3 times in the air and missing a lot of small bits when we fleet and after that we saw the plane crash into this house. the small plane left airport for a flight to the city of beni 350 kilometers away it crashed shortly after takeoff

killing several people on the ground in a busy residential area i was just out and so at this point we're collecting all the necessary information it's our duty to identify those killed on the plane and in the buildings we must set up the universe quickly to deal with this crisis and will involve all of the specialized services. the congolese rescue teams initially found it difficult to access the crash site but they now have retrieved many bodies from the wreckage the your mission in democratic republic of congo is providing help to the. air accidents are fairly frequent in the sea as a result of poor aviation standards the european union has banned all congolese airlines including busy from its airspace last month 8 people were killed when a cargo plane crashed soon after taking off for the same airport in goma. al-jazeera. the un's humanitarian chief mark local cast made his 1st visit to sit

on since the transitional government was formed in august with an 8500000 people are in need of humanitary. in assistance sudan's economic situation worsens over 300000 people have been affected by the heavy rains and severe floods across 17 states since september at least 11 people died in an outbreak of rift valley fever which is a water borne disease it rains several so called the rise and color in blues now and seen are states with some 300 people taking l. well the ns humanitarian chief mark who spoke earlier to al-jazeera and said sudan's new administration is facing a tough challenge we have a new situation in sudan a new government your thirty's i've talked to them during this visit but they've inherited an extremely difficult situation of you've as you've just described to me know your headlines are exactly what we're seeing 800000000 people food insecure

disease outbreaks conflict and so on but some really big important things are changing the new government is giving all the aid agencies much more access to deal with these problems they want to work in a different way with this they want to normalize their relations with the wider international community put the past behind them and i think the international community really now needs to step up and to seize this opportunity for my my particular responsibility i would like to see more humanitarian assistance all over the country but also foster humanitarian assistance so all those people who came out on to the streets demanding change start to see some improvement in their lives . and finally one of america's richest men has ends at the white house race former new york mayor michael bloomberg joins an already crowded democratic feels one big mistake from his posts however has come back to haunt him kristen slimmy reports.

mike bloomberg party affiliation has changed since he was a republican mayor of new york but his opposition to donald trump has been consistent trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business god help us the 77 year old billionaire has funneled millions of dollars of his personal fortune into progressive causes like gun control and climate change but is considered a moderate and were he to run as a democrat a potential threat to former vice president joe biden were he fits sort of an even keeled even tempered political leader with a track record of getting things done in the city of new york with the specially with 2 you can on the issues economic development and and think things of that sort which has a certain amount of appeal to more moderate. mainstream type democratic voters bloomberg has expressed his dissatisfaction with the current field of democrats suggesting some are too far to the left to beat the president who shrugged off

speculation the former mayor would enter the race little might go will. spend a lot of money michael bloomberg made his fortune here at bloomberg to help lead the financial information a media company the co-founder he's the richest man in new york with far exceeding president trumps but among some democrats that could be a liability what we need is a dynamic democracy particularly among the party base the billionaire will get charged to do walk the run for president of the united states while bloomberg may be targeting white suburban voters who went for trump in 2016 he recently apologized for apollo. see that put him at odds with the minority community called stop and frisk many saw this police tactic as a form of racism and harassment i got something important wrong i got something important really wrong. i didn't understand that bad therm the full

impact that stocks were having on the black and latino communities an apparent recognition of the need to unify the opposition and a late apology that appears aimed at smoothing the way for alleve entry in the race kristen salumi al jazeera new york. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines early results from hong kong's district turn selection show major gains for portable crecy candidates falters turns out in record numbers after almost 6 months a process that have caused the territories worst political crisis in decades save a carcass in hong kong with more on what these results mean it's a huge of a morale boost for the pro-democracy front as well as the protesters it also has implications for the lives of council this is the part of hong kong's effective parliament here in the city because $117.00 of these district councillors are

selected to stand on the election committee which plays a crucial part in voting for hong kong next later now that election will be in 2020 kerry lamb is very unpopular at the moment but certainly if the pro-democracy groups in the pro-democracy parties have the majority in these district elections you've got to assume that a large part of those $117.00 district councils selected will be from that side of politics. leaked classified documents from china's governments have revealed new details about the massed attention of ethnic minorities mostly muslim weaker is why its groups estimate that more than a 1000000 people have been locked up in camps in the siege on region his arguments include intelligence briefings that describe hope police use the data system based around artificial intelligence to select who ought to be detained u.s. defense secretary mark asper has far the navy's top official esper acted against richard spencer over allegations that spencer proposed

a deal with the white house behind his back the matter has to do with a navy seal accused of war crimes. colombian president over in decay is meeting recently elected mayors and governors to hammer out a deal on reforms he called for a national dialogue after anti-government protests more than 60 doctors say they fear wiki leaks founder julian assange could soon die in prison they've written an open letter to the british government demanding that assad be transferred to hospital the doctors say he's suffering from psychological problems including depression and a serious shoulder elements the u.s. wants to extradite him from the u.k. well those are the headlines here on al-jazeera day stay with us the news continues after a j selects. with bureaus spanning 6 continents across the globe. al-jazeera as correspondents live

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