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laureate aung sun suu cine rejects accusations of genocide against the rowing machine leads me and miles defense of the un's highest court. britain's prime minister retreats into a fridge to avoid a live t.v. interview on the last day of election campaigning while labor's leader has problems of his own plus. the real danger is when politicians and see on making it look like real action is happening. as teen activists cretan burke to cry is a lack of action on climate change time magazine names her person of the year. the upper house of the indian parliament has approved a controversial bill that will grant citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan opposition politicians and human rights groups say it excludes muslim refugees from the 3 neighboring countries as

part of the government's hindu nationalist agenda they have also been violent protests in the northeastern states of. reports now from new delhi. i was i they chanted slogans around a bonfire and called for overdraw of the citizenship. this happened as india's upper house debated and passed the controversial legislation that says that religious minorities including hindus sikhs christians and buddies who migrated to india because of persecution from afghanistan pakistan and bangladesh would be granted citizenship these protesters in the state of assam say their struggle is against inclusion of migrants irrespective of their religion because they want to preserve their indigenous culture and livelihood i'm don lemon live here you are we are live on the border have been each and every one of our own large our invasion

of women rule all over and against this bill we condemn this being. least fire tear gas to contain the crowd while a column of assam rifles a paramilitary force that 70 soldiers was on standby in the state to such columns were on standby in tripoli up another state in the northeast where there's been protests against the bill for similar reasons india's lower house has already passed a bill. the indian government says this legislation is meant to protect religiously persecuted minorities from neighboring countries but many are asking why it's excluding muslims during a debate in parliament opposition parties spoke about the fear gripping india's muslim community which is also the country's largest minority. students and an indonesian protested against the legislation and described it as discriminatory. by whom the citizens would be guarded under the citizenship amendment law muslims would have no protection. many political analysts say the legislation could have

a lasting impact on the social fabric of india art of war or al-jazeera. will find mustapha is vice chancellor at hyderabad null saw university of law he says people oppose the bill for different reasons this. is not communal. national army and the men enough and they believe in are not bothered about their religion not my. local culture and local languages and and people from bangladesh. all the anyone.

has dismissed his ations that her country's armed forces committed genocide against muslims as quote misleading sons who chief says the mass exodus of or was the unfortunate result of a battle with armed fighters the case relates to me and mas military crackdown against the muslim minority in 2017 when hail reports from the hague. as state counselor and head of government arrived at the international court of justice she was welcomed by supporters chanting we stand with you. but anyone hoping that aung san suu kyi a nobel peace prize winner would take this opportunity to at last stand with the would be disappointed in opening meum us defense against genocide charges she said the picture the gambia presented to the court was misleading and incomplete the situation in rakhine is complex and not easy to fathom but one thing surely just as

all of us equally the sufferings of the many innocent people whose lives the torn apart as a consequence of the armed conflicts of 201617 in particular those who have had to flee their homes and our knowledge in camps and cox is bizarre. that was as far as the sympathy went for the ring get 700000 of whom were forced to flee to neighboring bangladesh after a crackdown by the myanmar military suchi again refused to use the word ring when describing the mainly muslim minority ethnic group a denial of identity is proof say experts of genocidal intent on tuesday the gambia open the case with harrowing allegations of rape torture and murder by security forces in attacks on reading to communities in 2017 sujit didn't respond to those specific allegations but said any wrongdoing did not amount to genocide and would be dealt with in me and mob outside her supporters also weren't interested in

discussing the alleged crimes. unless you're to feel whether i believe or not we are here just to give support to her and we have complete faith and trust in what deficient but it was she said that if she does it's going to be a good book and it will. be gambia says the ring there are facing an ongoing threat of genocide and desires the court to order b.m.r. to take steps to guarantee their safety in response me and miles lawyers called on the judges to reject the f. location in a speech on sun sujit gave a brief history lesson on rakhine state and spoke about the complexity of the problem there but she again failed to address the root cause of the reading there have been continued to be discriminated against as illegal immigrants with little or no status or rights and until those things are addressed their security will continue to be at risk on a historic day at the world's top court this one time campaign a few human rights provided little hope for the rich and she provided little

evidence that she's interested in salvaging what's left of her reputation wayne hay al-jazeera the hague. well hundreds of thousands of wrinkled muslims to coaxes bazaar in neighboring bangladesh after the crackdown in 2017 stephanie decker is there she says refugees are closely following the court's proceedings the consequences of the mean mars military offensive in august 2017 is turning this into the biggest refugee camp in the world one of these tents have a family a person who has the most horrendous stories of what happened to them so whether genocide intent of genocide is proven or not what is clear is that severe human rights violations atrocities were committed against these people many people here are aware of the proceedings in the hague some of them have been meeting with community leaders sitting around a radio listening having them translate what is happening they are they've been calling for justice for a very long time but there is

a skepticism also among some as to why unsung suchi went that. he went to the court for her own benefit we won't be benefiting from it she was part of these atrocities against us she went there to lie and to gain public support for the 2020 alexion in myanmar she went to the i.c.j. for her own benefit. it is hugely significant what is happening so many miles away at the international court of justice but whatever way the court is going to rule it is going to take time many people will tell you that it's not going to have an impact a real direct effect on the people here people want justice they've been calling for that for over 2 years but they also want to go home now mean more hasn't given any insurances hasn't allowed the united nations or any agencies in to assure that they will be safe if they do return to bangladesh has made it very clear they don't want them here almost a 1000000 people live in these camps and their future is uncertain. protesters have clashed with the police in algeria a day before the country's 1st election since mass demonstrations began in february

those led to the president abdelaziz bouteflika stepping down in april however demonstrators say the poll is a charade that will enable an old guard of rulers and the military to remain in power all 5 of the presidential candidates in thursday's election are former associates of beautifully and fewer than one in 6 algerians are expected to turn out to vote. now here in the u.k. it's the final day of campaigning ahead of an election that should determine britain's future in europe the 2 main party leaders of travel the length and breadth of the country this on a day that saw 15 former labor m.p.'s urging people not to vote for the party under its current leader jeremy corbin while the conservative prime minister boris johnson the pits take refuge in a fridge to escape media questions here's paul brennan. finally they started

before dawn for the party leaders every hour vital as the campaigning draws to a close from north to south and in the other direction a frantic last push to get their core messages across to voters. prime minister began his day to day ari the metaphor of course based on delivering in his case delivering rex's exhaustion and tension are inevitable at this stage of the campaign and the hash tag fridge gate began trending on social media after one of johnson's aides swore in exasperating as a journalist or a participant to come on the good morning person prime minister. the prime minister appeared to retreat into a walk in fridge to escape the media but he warmed up enough by the time he reached his next stop at a party factory indaba to morrow for space in the country to get things done. during the local time to be. 2 years.

into this economic policy uncle. tom. thank you choice. is jeremy corbyn the labor party leader who's been lagging behind in the opinion polls but is still optimistic of a late turnaround he began his day in glasgow laying out what a labor government would mean for voters thank your elected government that would eliminate child poverty across britain they can elect a government that will end the cruelty of the injustice of give us the credit. they can the lexicon of parents that will give hope to the next generation by investing properly in education for the future all across the u.k. to do in scotland the nationalist s.n.p. leader was offering a fresh choice of vegetables nicolas sturgeon a greengrocer's in edinburgh urging voters to back her party to block boris johnson's bracks is the sort of people. i don't want to have for the cuts to public

services if we don't want to be dragged out of europe again so willing to have boris johnson is crazy minister envoy s.n.p. to make sure we take our future into own hands and build a better future for scotland and in south west london the liberal democrats are concentrating very last drops of campaign energy on targeting conservative seats which voted to remain in the e.u. in the 2016 referendum this is been a difficult campaign for the liberal democrats but poll rating sliding steadily throughout the 5 weeks and their leader jo swinson excluded from the head to head televised debates but in certain remain leaning seats the party could yet still spring some surprises every vote matters we've got an amazing team edge in the campaign trail and i still believe we can stop forest johnson stop breaks and build a brighter future the opinion polls suggest the conservatives have just enough support to secure a majority government but the margin of error in those polls is big enough to mean that a result could still go either way paul brennan al-jazeera southwest london live

to parliament correspondent neve barker sunni's today really something of a surreal last day on the campaign trail. yeah and it really sums up the past 5 weeks we've seen photo op after photo op we see the conservative party very quick to exploit perhaps every single political metaphor they possibly can out of every single one of those photo op so as we heard there in paul's report we've seen boris johnson serving up parties to show that his breaks a deal is ready to be served to the people ready to eat we've saw him out early in the morning before the sun came up delivering milk again to show that his breakfast deal is available to be delivered distributed to the people of the united kingdom but somebody who may not be willing to stomach any of this any of these political metaphors at all of course is the opposition labor leader jeremy corbett his style very very different indeed he tends to favor church halls squares ways able to sort

of meet people individually as well as addressing larger groups of of people both leaders though very interesting lee began in the north jamie corbin going a bit further north to glasgow where he's hoping to capitalize on support there are still some votes in the scottish national party both then have moved slowly down through the country it's believed that one of the main battlegrounds mangy be the north of england where there have been quite a few strongholds for the labor party in years gone by but the majority of people in many of these places voted to leave the e.u. and it's those voters that the conservatives are hoping to persuade to back them this time around converse lee what we've seen in the south east of england is the liberal democrats trying to pilfer seats for the conservative party in constituencies that largely voted to remain part of the which is why trying to predict this election is particularly difficult votes are being stolen over there

but maybe being gained over here at the moment it's all to play for but clearly what we expect in the coming hours are perhaps more. political metaphors when boris johnson and jeremy corbyn give their final address is here in the capital so need just walk us through what we can expect on election day itself. very briefly the polling stations open at 7 g.m.t. 7 local and will remain open until 10 g.m.t. in the evening we expect voter turnout to be pretty high in 2017 it was in the high 60 percent centinels so a similar kind of turnout possibly higher this time around traditionally older people tend to turn out to vote more than younger people. when it came to people registering to vote this time around something like 3100000 voters under the age of 35 came out to register their intention to vote

a 1000000 of them under the age of 25 so in polls close early exit polls should be known counting of course will then begin the final results will start to become much clearer in the early hours of the morning on friday night thank you very much . still to come here on this half hour israel heading for a 3rd election as a midnight deadline looms for a new government before. and russia says reports of attacks on civilians in syria's it live province are fake. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast all a very messy picture across much of europe 1st of all i do want to start down here across much of the mediterranean we have a lot of rain a lot of winds here we've seen some problems across greece and the next phase is

going to be making its way more towards the east we're talking about parts of lebanon syria turkey as well very heavy rain across much of that area the other big storm is going to cause a lot of problems and turn. as of the wind as well as the rain over the next few days this storm is coming out of the atlantic and if you look at those winds streams very tight very fast moving and that's going to cause a problem anywhere from the u.k. for france for spain over the next few days and we're going to be seeing a lot of rain as well us and snow out ahead of the front particularly in the overnight hours when those temperatures are dropping it's not just going to be over here towards the west it will also be here across parts of italy very heavy rain as well as very windy conditions for that region for border though look at conditions here as we go towards the next couple days thursday the rain continues friday winds up to 100 kilometers per hour by the time we get towards saturday we do expect to see some improving conditions across much of that area and here across northern africa windy conditions across much of the area from a gazi expect to see winds as well with

a temperature of 18. bit of a strange day to start these interviews we just heard today to city of aleppo has fallen or should we say liberated war. one tool for astonishing stories tode and their own riots how did you know who to trust and not to trust. a stranger came to town witness on al-jazeera.

reminder of the top stories for you this half hour here on al-jazeera the upper house of the indian parliament has approved a controversial new bill that would grant citizenship to non muslim minorities facing religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan curfews have been imposed in parts of the country stop protests against the bill. meehan mass leader has defended her country against allegations of genocide of the international court of justice uncensored she called the accusations which relate to a military campaign against drink and muslims misleading and incomplete. politicians in the u.k. have been making their final pitches to voters ahead of thursday's general election which will determine britain's future within or outside europe the latest polls show the ruling conservatives maintaining their lead over the labor party. israel looks to be heading towards an unprecedented 3rd election in less than a year unless politicians can strike a highly unlikely last minute deal to form

a coalition government the deadline is midnight local time which is now less than 3 hours away and israel's parliament has already taken the 1st steps to dissolve itself and call another election the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz both failed to form a governing coalition after the last vote in september let's bring in her a force of our correspondent in west jerusalem harry do we think this is all but inevitable now. i think so i mean it's now 2 hours and 40 minutes away the deadline there have been a couple of hints at potential moves during the day but they seem to have come to nothing and instead we have a pretty grim atmosphere in the israeli parliament the knesset where already there's been the 1st reading of the bill which would be necessary to set the date of that election for march the 2nd next year if it does take down to midnight without

a deal then automatically the parliament is dissolved and new elections are triggered and along with the the grimness there is a fair bit of blame being thrown around us and yahoo benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister has been on social media in the last hour or so blaming benny gantz and his blue and white party for dragging the country into 3rd elections saying that they missed the opportunity to form a unity government and see parts of the occupied west bank an extend sovereignty extended to illegal israeli settlements there blue and white responded by telling him to save some lives for the election campaign their position remains that netanyahu is the one who's been the blocking agent in forming any kind of unity government because of his insistence on staying on as prime minister at least for the 1st few months of such a government benny gantz has said that he won't serve under an indicted prime minister he's been indicted in 3 separate corruption cases and in

a sense for all the events that have happened since the last election september 17th with both netanyahu and dance being given the opportunity to try to form a government then this unprecedented 3 week period where any of these really knesset could theoretically form a government the the positions of these 2 key players have remained totally immovable and that's why we are where we are just a couple of hours now away from this deadline to the opinion polls predicting. they're predicting not much change really i mean it they show an israeli electorate that is pretty much resigned to having to go to the polls again they are suggesting that there is a little bit of upward trajectory for benny gantz and blue and white the latest poll this week suggested that his party might get 37 seats in the next parliament could of benjamin netanyahu 33 so that is a a gain of a few seats for benny gantz but still not even by that polls reckoning enough to

for him to form a majority 61 seat coalition government and they're also showing where the blame as far as the israeli public lies 41 percent blaming knows in yahoo some 25 percent blaming of a door lieberman nessa knows former ally and defense minister who has so far refused to take his right wing party into a right wing coalition with netanyahu insisting on a broad unity government instead just 5 percent blaming benny gantz for the situations that perhaps that shows why there is a incremental rise in support for him and his party but really there are a few obstacles still in the way for netanyahu he would face a primary challenge on december the 26th according to the could if there is a 3rd election there is a challenger in waiting but so far very much to be seen whether he'll be able to gain the kind of support he would need to topple

a sitting prime minister and leader of the party also a potential legal moves against his legitimacy is staying on as an indicted prime minister but i think that the betting is that there will be a 3rd election and the same 2 key players gansa netanyahu will be at the head of these 2 rival factions thanks very much. the governor of nairobi has been granted bail after being arrested on suspicion of being involved in a multi-million dollar corruption scandal mike sancho who's a member of kenya's ruling jubilee party has denied accusations of money laundering forging documents and awarding contracts to his close friends dozens have been arrested as part of a corruption crackdown promised by the president who took kenyatta but it hasn't led to any high profile convictions. shares in saudi arabia state run oil company have officially begun trading on riyadh stock exchange opening 10 percent higher than the initial public offering made history a week ago with the biggest ever i.p.o. raising 25.6 $1000000000.00 for less than 2 percent of the company this valued

around co at $1.00 trillion dollars making it the most valuable listed company in the world today's 10 percent rise in share price means that valuations jumped to $1.00 trillion dollars the i.p.o. phill short of the 2 trillion valuation the kingdom of wanted and officials had hoped it would hit that mark on the 1st day of trading. the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 has announced new sanctions on iran but says he's open to more dialogue with tehran to free american prisoners the laces sanctions target one of the country's biggest airlines mahaan air and 2 shipping companies mr pompeo says washington will not deviate from its campaign of targeting iran's economy through sanctions russian official has dismissed reports of russian attacks on civilians in syria's italy province as falls special envoy alexander lavender m.t.f. spoke to our to 0 sum up intervene in kazakhstan where the latest round of syrian

peace talks are being held. all of it completely it's fake news no proof to it because when our. is making from fulfilling some military task you know it is checked all the locations of all of the fighters of the headquarters and so on it's checked triple times so that in order not to make any mistake and another not for the civilians to cause any damage is among the civilians so i am 100 percent sure that these are and it's a pity that the the position of the listen to it and they correspond this to the. among the international community you know this this is a 1st not good but at the same time i should tell you that. we tell the opposition take everything into your hands. and it will be says fire completely if there is no

provocation from their side we will guarantee that there will be no. attacks from or from the governmental troops. commuters in paris have suffered another day of huge delays with the transport strike over pension reforms about to enter a 2nd week that's despite a promise from the prime minister at watford leap that the crossover to a new point space system will be fairer and phased in gradually the 3 biggest trade unions are against the plan which they say means everyone will work longer. teenage activist gratitude has been named time magazine's person of the year time praised to unberth for inspiring students around the world and governments to do more to tackle climate change the swedish environmentalist started protesting last year when she skipped school and camped outside the swedish parliament demanding action she recently inspired 4000000 people to join the global climate strike in september . well news of the owner came through welton burke was in madrid addressing the latest round of un climate talks where she accused business and political leaders

of misleading the public on their climate change plans she says they're holding negotiations on loopholes that aren't leading to real action against warming temperatures and she described their tactics as quote creative p.r. . to stay below 1.5 degrees we need to keep the carbon in the ground. only setting up this than they are and saying things which give the impression of the action is underway will most likely do more harm than good because the changes we cried are still nowhere in sight the politics needed does not exist today despite what you might hear from world leaders. and thousands of protesters have rallied in sydney demanding action on climate change after weeks of bushfires across parts of australia demonstrators accuse the government of ignoring a climate emergency as more than 100 fires raged across the east coast sydney has

spent weeks blanketed in a thick haze of smoke from the fires burning about and hours drive away from the city at its peak air pollution has been 11 times worse than levels that are considered hazardous last more news from if you want to on our website as ever the address al-jazeera dot com. welcome if you're just joining us pete over here in london this other top stories from al-jazeera the upper house of the indian parliament has approved a controversial bill that will grant citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan opposition politicians and human rights groups say it excludes muslim refugees a curfew has been imposed in some places after violent protests in the northeastern state of assam demonstrators there say indigenous communities will be marginalized

if hindu migrants are granted citizenship. myanmar's leaders defended her country against allegations of genocide at the international court of justice on sun suchi called the claims which relate to a military campaign against rainbow muslims misleading and incomplete can there be genocidal intent on the part of the state that actively investigate prosecute and punish is soldiers and officers who are accused of wrongdoing although the focus here is on members of the military i can assure you that appropriate action would also be taken against civilian offenders in line with due process there will be no tolerance of human rights violations in the rakhine or elsewhere in the room. with less than 12 hours to go before the polls open in the u.k. election party leaders have been crisscrossing the country making their final pitches to the verses the latest polls indicate the gap between the conservative

and labor party is narrowing ahead of a vote that will determine britain's future within europe. protesters have clashed with the police in algeria a day before the 1st election since mass demonstrations began in february demonstrates a say the poll is a show rod that will enable an old guard to rule lose and the military to remain in power. israeli politicians have 2 and a half hours left to form a government or face an unprecedented 3rd election in a year the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz failed to form a ruling coalition after the votes last september those are your top stories do stay with us the stream is next taking a closer look at china's global development dr i'll have a quick summary of 30 minutes i'll see if.

china has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure projects across the wild but is its global riots and for poor countries i'm finding out how . it is day 3 of our special series looking at colonialism our attention was drawn to articles accusing china of economically exploiting countries around the world with some going so far as to say it's on the verge of being a colonialist power so is china's unprecedented development cause for concern or celebration look for the hash tag on twitter because colonialism and sinister thoughts.