well you know. when we get to. know when you get. a poll that will decide the future direction of bricks it does begin making man choice in the u.k. general election. and again i'm mr and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. protests in algeria as polls open lead to elect a replacement for former leader of the us is mr. anger in india's northeast over a bill that grant citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but

excludes muslims. on the filipino president's deadly war on drugs is back in the spotlight rights groups say police statistics don't add up. now it's being called the u.k.'s most important election in a generation by both the conservative party and the main opposition labor party and the past out of voting has begun to decide who will form the next government and decide the future of brecht's it you're watching live pictures now of polling stations in london prime minister barak's johnson is expected to cost his vote very shortly he's seeking another 10 for his conservative party now in opposition is the labor party led by jeremy corbin it's the u.k. is a 3rd general election and less than 5 years let's go live now to rory chalons who's in london for us where we say polls open just over an hour ago voting has begun the weather is looking pretty grim has the day likely to pad out especially in terms of chad out. here an hour of voting done so

far take us all the way through till 22 g.m.c. 10 or 10 o'clock this evening 15 hours of voting in title as you say we'll see boris johnson costing his ballot soon i think all the leaders of the main parties are going to be voting over the next 2 or 3 hours they want to get those pictures out boris johnson and call them will be doing that in london nicholas sturgeon and . joyce when surgeon leader of the s.n.p. joyce winston liberal democrats they'll be voting off in scotland now we get. a exit poll as the ballot box is closed 10 o'clock this evening that's the 1st idea we'll have about which direction this election is heading then the voting will take sort of the council will take us all the way through the nights and we'll get a much more concrete idea some time some more

a morning boris johnson of course is hoping to do much better than his predecessor to reason made it in 2017 she called a snap election to strengthen her bricks it position and ended up blowing. majority he is trying to make this election all about breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it is the main message you've heard coming out of boris johnson jeremy corbyn is trying to refocus things onto public services and the national health service particularly. tactical voting is likely to be a big consideration in this election we don't know how much but we'll have to wait and see but the traditional bourne's of party loyalty seem to have been fraying over the last 2 or 3 years depending on whether you are a remain a or a lever quite likely people are going to be crossing party lines voting for

a party that didn't do in previous years because that party most closely follows where they feel about breaks it and we'll see whether that is a decisive issue in this in this election well or as you say that last election back in 2017 didn't threaten a majority for the tories so what happens a vote as don't give any one party a majority this time round. yeah you need 326 days in the 650 m.p. house of parliament behind me across the river to get a majority if you don't get that you have what's called a hung parliament and the process is if that happens that the prime minister before the elections or boris johnson in this case is the one that gets the 1st chance of forming some sort of coalition to get those numbers over 326 so you can do that by an established coalition or you can do that with some sort of more

informal arrangement as to reason may have to do with northern ireland's d p back in 2017 if that is not possible if the prime minister cannot form a coalition then they can either try and rule as a minority government that's very difficult as boris johnson has been finding out over the last few months or you can resign and say look i can't do this and hand over most likely to the next biggest party in parliament which is most likely to be the opposition the main opposition party they will then get the chance to do the same things or form a coalition or an informal arrangement that can get them into government it was difficult for the reason may in 2017 it's likely to be more difficult for either of the of the 2 main parties if we get a hung parliament this time for various reasons various things that happened over the last few months for the conservatives they've lost the support of the d.c.u. paid labor would have perhaps a slightly easier time doing

a coalition with the liberal democrats or the s.n.p. etc but that's no good going to be no walk in the park either or a challenge that life rests on then i'll be charging 10 throughout the day following with action very closely thank you very. and after 10 months of protests and political turmoil algerians too are voting today to elect their new president but turnout is expected to be in the election has been widely rejected by protesters who are calling for a complete overhaul of the entire political system on wednesday demonstrators clashed with the police while they were urging voters to boycott the 5 presidential candidates ballot smith reports. i infer every algerians had had enough of what they call the i sabah the gangster system. the to. the decision by 82 year old abdelaziz bouteflika to seek a 5th term as president for tens of thousands of algerians out in nationwide

protests. in april the army forced beautifully kit to resign and the election was eventually shed yule for december the protests continue i think i'll join or qualities bank so much on these elections they want to president in office are soon as possible burbled play in the constitution game didn't is a very big club big problem of trust between the 2 between the arguing government will go toward these. the people over the last few years but if we could came to power in 1909 for 20 years he was kept there by a group of men known as. they wielded power behind the scenes as an ailing president became just a figurehead. on tuesday 2 former prime ministers and other officials were jailed for corruption so close to the election it's been seen as an attempt by the army also part of the prove walk to show that cleaning up. but the 5 men running for

president are approved by the state they will work for the current regime. virtually not to vote we are against this election we are against this force we are against the corruption of this regime. that we went out into the streets to call off these elections because there is no election with this gang this stealing our country and our freedom we don't want them. and trenched in algeria after more than 50 years since independence from france has not yet given any indication that it's willing to release the reins of power. to the old reporters to see it. cannot be missed change in one person a president would not change anything they want the complete break away from boston practices they want. to go delia lies but they have a golden opportunity to to do so and i don't think they will give up. the new

president will have to deal with a stock don't or will dependent economy high youth unemployment and rampant corruption and whoever wins will face immediate questions of legitimacy as analysts predict only a 15 percent voter turnout. bernard smith al-jazeera. the 3rd and final day of hearings at the international court of justice in the netherlands where myanmar's later denies the army committed acts of genocide against the rangar i was on she told the court on wednesday that the allegations are an incomplete and misleading facts full picture of the situation she said soldiers conducted a legitimate operation against armed groups and she rejects allegations of a mass murder and rape campaign against that muslim minority 2 years ago while around 3 quarters of a 1000000 rangar fled to bangladesh our correspondent stephanie decker is in the world's largest refugee camp and says the court ruling will have little impact there. if we're going to be honest about it if we translate it to how that is going

to affect this situation a situation of almost a 1000000 people living in a refugee camp on the far south eastern corner of bangladesh it's almost become a status quo i think the world has sort of become used to that this is the way it is right now to know how for years almost in since these people fled here and regardless of which way the court is going to rule and this is going to take time even if it says yes there need to be emergency provisional measures applied to protect the people to protect the remainder iraq currently to remain there and to protect these here there is no important mechanism so if we boil it down to how it's going to affect this situation really critical situation it's not going to have any real impact because there's no sort of short term solution to this there's no long term solution to this. now mark canning is a former british ambassador to me and mine and he joins us now on skype from sussex mr canning thank you for joining us i recall that aung san suu kyi she was under house arrest when you were ambassador there and you were present at some of the

hearings now she's defending the military who put her under house arrest and she's defending them against charges of genocide what do you make of that i find it deeply depressing deeply disappointing as someone that not so long ago was lowered it is a big in the fight for democracy and human rights to be standing up and defending the indefensible this is deeply depressing and particularly depressing to the many hundreds of thousands of people around the world who. i want to read you something that you yourself wrote about aung san suu kyi back in 2009 you wrote she is perhaps the only person capable of bridging the your ning political divides between opposition ethnic nationalities and government in myanmar do you still believe. well one of the paradoxes of her rule at the moment has been that she has worked very hard with many of the other ethnic groups within myanmar the shan the kitchen

many others to improve that relationship with the central government that conspicuously in disgracefully she has done nothing to help the ro him go so no i i do not stand by what i said earlier i'm afraid well brisson the country has historically had quite a close relationship with uncensored especially after she studied at oxford but we've seen this very profound fall from grace on a strict how does britain as a country view have now i think they will be trying to come up with a policy that doesn't throw away the advances that have been made in myanmar and that have been some advances to get to the bottom of the situation with the room to see them protected better to see them eventually return of those that want to return and that it's going to be very difficult but you don't want to tip the whole policy back to the bad old days some things have got better you can see that when you go to myanmar clearly the situation with respect to the routing has a lot and i feel very strongly that she should not be in the hague defending the

indefensible well in 2012 i recall uncensored she said in an interview i am just a politician and there's an election in yemen next year did the west put her on a pedestal is this about domestic policy. i think it is about domestic politics i think there is an election next year the n.o.p. that been slipping in the polls i think there are difficult negotiations coming up with the military to water down the provisions of the 2008 constitution which bar unsung scituate from office and hold of looking very good for the military in the parliament so you can see the political reason she is positioning herself in this way that she should not be doing it while it is in fact true that the military holds hard power and beyond now she has huge moral force so she did that's become of course very watered down but we should remember that it suits the military very well that she's sitting there in the hague doing what she's doing and that gives her power to not stand behind what has been happening is

this then really a question about putting democratic progress ahead of protection for the rigging and how do you make that decision in a country that's been through so much so the so many areas i think it's very difficult because as i say you have seen advances with the economy with the relationship. with the other ethnic groups with some aspects of human rights bickley not in rakhine province so you have to find a way i think of isolating the military and punishing the people to responsible and it may be a case that one person won't support behind someone else rather than unsung suchi enter issues partly deserving of support at the moment while mr canning i i also know that the u.k. has had concerns about her leadership style for years and lack of ability to delegate to manage a team is this also is a symptom of that. i think it's one thing to do to fight for human rights and to

you know fight for changes in myanmar it is a very different thing to lead and to govern and i think the last few years have shown that the weaknesses autocratic style she surrounds herself i'm told with people that many of whom have not been in myanmar for many years and she is not someone who naturally takes advice and i think many of those things are coming back to bite her i think they must surely have been many people who said it was ill advised to go to the hague going to defend what has been going on there was no compulsion for her to do so the charge was against the government of myanmar not against her personally it and she should have left the mid picking because that's what it came across as yesterday to the lawyers that was behind her. not counting that a former british ambassador to myanmar very good to have you on al-jazeera thank you for trying to get. stella had announced there as some of the injured are flat

out to australia new zealand's place under outlands to recover the bodies of those count after a volcanic eruption. and clicking china's capital in a flog is being blamed for a stalling the campaign to carry and that. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts it's a very messy situation across much of europe and i want to start down here 1st across the southeastern part of europe we do have an area of low pressure causing a lot of rain and winds for parts of turkey over here toward syria as well as into lebanon will be watching that very carefully for potential flooding in the coming days but it's over here towards the west this is going to be the big scenario we can be watching as we go into the end of the week is going to cause a lot of winds as well as some very heavy rain across much of the area so today the

big concern is could be anywhere from the u.k. down 30 parts of coastal france as well as into spain wind speeds we're talking anywhere between 80 and 100 kilometers per hour wind gusts across much of that area so you can imagine we are going to be seeing probably some downed power lines as well as trees across much of the area on friday we are looking at a lot of snow across much of the interior and for zurich while you are part of that snow we're going to be seeing a mix of rain as well as snow here on thursday the winds are going to be a big problem here on friday and it's really not until saturday that we start to see a break in your weather normally this time of year we would see about 3 degrees but on saturday it is going to be slightly above average and we are going to see a little bit of the sun coming out. the weather sponsored by countdown and. it's still real. family. going into my living years ago. we heard the

sounds of large explosions. and the chips faced in captivity they came for me. they told me to leave my son i said how can i i saw so much pain in the other female prisoners. just 0. hello again i'm mr and our mind about top stories this hour. voting has begun in the u.k. snap election which could help break parliamentary deadlock on breaks that the main contenders are boris johnson's conservative policy areas walking to a polling station just moments ago and the labor party led by jeremy coleman. polls

have also opened in algeria his presidential election despite the votes being widely rejected by millions taking part in months of mass protests demonstrators want sweeping political reforms before any vote is held. now india's government has ordered thousands of troops into the northeastern states of a salmon trip or a following violent protests there against a controversial bill and citizenship both houses of parliament have now passed that proposed law which grant citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution of pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but most limbs are excluded which opposition politicians and rights groups blame on the government's hindu nationalist agenda until vora is at those protests in goa hati and asked on state. idea of general just to come by live to the stage of assam in india. are not giving up on the roads are not jaunting slogans on the day demanding the government for draws

their citizenship amendment bill they say their struggle is to protect their indigenous culture and live you some of these boys abuse local d.s.h. all of our jobs if you do why groups are given indian citizenship when they can get the jobs these people say they should be getting on the same street we've also seen several recalls back to the soldiers of the indian army now we will really be reporting that one column of the indian army that's about 70 soldiers wasn't standby in the state of assad but now it looks like the government is perhaps planning to send more boots on the ground this is the road which goes from the airport to the capital city of us though hearty tough news being imposed here mobile services have been shut down but despite that several protests have been planned in the capital city to the. u.s. democrats have warned that president all trump is on the verge of dictatorship

while republicans have defended his record it was part of a fiery debate by the house judiciary committee on the 2 articles of impeachment against donald trump the democratic party is leading efforts to formally charge trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congress trump has repeatedly denounced it as a witch hunt. with the president we can sit down i would vance's american security interests by fighting an american adversary the president weakens america where the president demands that a foreign government investigators domestic political rivals corrupt our elections to the founders this kind of corruption was especially british is free and fair elections are the bedrock of our democracy if our elections are corrupt everything is corrupt so tonight we've experience where in december after a year of trashing this institution

a year of trying to trash this administration and this president we come up with abuse of power and can't define it we come up with the obstruction of congress after $72.00 days i know they're desperate you know how i know it adam schiff soem words yesterday we can't go to court that would take too long more than 5 and a half 1000 people have been killed in drug raids between july 26th in the november of this year according to the now the police have held a press conference to give what they call the real numbers in the war on drugs but rights groups like amnesty international say fatality numbers are much higher and they want investigations into police killings well known as a human rights office a family stands national in the philippines and he says the police don't paint the whole picture. to small city operation on numbers that they have reported on this morning drug personalities arrest operations conducted these are just you know.

outputs of. their drug operations from $10.00 to $16.00 not much less the said about the killings themselves and yes they have mentions it's $5500.00. it's just perplexing for us for example when we released our report in february 27th mean the numbers are already up to 7000 in our. almost 2000 killed in police operations and more than 3000 killed in a more than 4000 killed in by unidentified gunmen and by the end of 2017 and this is a government report they have mentioned that our own 4000 killed if police operations and more than 16000 dead by an unidentified gunman this is at the end of the 17th so it just doesn't make sense the numbers. in new zealand tenants are expected to be made to recover bodies from white highland despite scientists

fearing another imminent eruption more victims from monday's eruption died of their injurious and hospital raising the number of dead now to 8 jesca washington reports from auckland. it's not how this is trailing interest would have expected to be going home leaving new zealand on a stretcher suffering from severe burns the israeli defense force is flying out some patients who suffered horrific injuries when the white island volcano erupted to relieve the pressure on new zealand hospitals burns units have been operating at full capacity with surgeons working nonstop since monday's tragedy trying to save the lives of dozens of people the nature of the insult was for what for the kids isn't in the rush. this is this is going to happen soon treatment of the obvious. and it's the usual kinds of. things all of the survivors have burns through at least one 3rd of their bodies surgeons here at the national burn

center and hospitals around the zealand have called in for skin donations from the us and australia they're calling it an unprecedented medical emergency for new zealand days after the eruption a recovery mission to retrieve the bodies still on the island is said to begin that will go on to the island and i will make every effort to recover all of the bodies from the island and return them to the washington. and from there we will move those bodies back to the mine mayn't. i have to emphasize that the risk has not gone. the risk remains present authorities had been cautious due to the dangerous cocktail of gases on the island and a warning from seismologists of the likelihood of another eruption this is the most like to get for a white one and has been since 2016 and probably going back to quite a few years this world so it is really

a high level of interest in this book market man lost his brother in the disaster he's been calling for recovery crews to get to the island and is unhappy at the delays is not frustration that i can't get on that's more frustration that they haven't gone to the on this been done to get out there. and make them go on. red tape ruckus the leadership has filed he's just one of many waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to be returned home. just to washington al-jazeera auckland new zealand. now news as army is searching for a number of armed fighters at least 70 soldiers were killed in an attack in the west of the country a military camp near the border with mali came under heavy fire late on tuesday there's been no claim of responsibility but fighters linked to isolate and al qaeda active in that region the united nations says it can't verify assertions that iran

was behind attacks on saudi oil facilities plants belonging to the state oil giant aramco were hit by drones and missiles back in september cutting output by about half saudi arabia the u.s. and european allies say iran's to blame iran denies that u.n. investigators weren't able to corroborate that the weapons were fired and they were of iranian origin. china is the world's top carbon message despite investing in renewable power for decades now 85 percent of its primary energy still comes from fossil fuels most of that is from coal thanks in part to its surging economy china's emissions rose 4 percent and fast half of this year from madison reports from beijing. china produces about 20 percent of the world's carbon emissions coal makes up around 59 percent of china's energy consumption and thick smog can still hang over beijing in winter as people light a relatively cheaper coal fires to ward off the bitter chill. but in recent years

coal mines have been closed and the building of new power plants has been restricted near heavily polluted areas. in the last couple of years you see smog almost every day in winter the pollution was very serious but since last year it's getting much better the number of electric vehicles in china has been booming the amount of investment that trying has been making over the last 7 years in renewable energy has been significant and the pollution levels from its power stations has leveled off but despite that china's emissions the hole for the 1st 6 months of 2019 rose by 4 percent china as well as the middle class is being blamed for the surge in demand for new housing and infrastructure has meant more work for china's steel and cement factories and a rise in pollution there result of that is overcapacity industry

a lot of questionable. infrastructure projects in other areas so that's the part where there is space to build what you actually need but. stop building just because you want to create demand for more steel and cement and construction work china has argued for years that it shouldn't be criticised for using coal to power its. remarkable transformation into the world's 2nd largest economy i think china and. at the time some other developing countries believe that this is our rights to develop the course they recognize that yes it's our rights to develop but on the other hand it's also about our rights for you know people's right to brave healthy air the skies above beijing maybe clear more often but china's new middle class demand new homes chinese factories

are likely to continue pumping out pollution rob matheson al-jazeera beijing. well you can find a much smaller website including updates on britain's critical election today as voters go to the polls that they dress for that is al jazeera dot com take a look. at it again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines one of the main contenders in the u.k. snap general election boris johnson has just voted in opposition is the labor party led by jeremy corbin its hopes the snap election will break the parliamentary deadlock over how britain should leave the european union for a challenge explains how the voting pattern this time can be different. tart school voting is likely to be a big consideration in this election we don't know how much you have to wait and see but the traditional bourne's of party loyalty seem to have been fraying over

the last 2 or 3 years depending on whether you remain a or a lever quite likely people are going to be crossing party lines voting for the party that it didn't do in previous years because that policy most closely follows where they feel about breaks it while polls have also opened in algeria's presidential election despite the vote being widely rejected by millions taking part in months of mass protests demonstrators want sweeping political reform before any voters has held on so 3rd and final day of hearings for now at the international court of justice in the netherlands where man was lead to deny is the army committed acts of genocide against the reigning. she told the court on wednesday that the allegations are an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation. india's government has ordered thousands of troops into the northeastern states of assignments for poor following violent protests against

a controversial bill and citizenship now both both houses of parliament have passed that proposed law which grant citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but muslims are excluded. at least 70 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military camp and western asia where it happened near the border with mali the defense ministry says armed groups attached the base for 3 hours no one's yet came to responsibility us democrats have warned that president don trump is on the verge of dictatorship the republicans have defended his record it was part of a fiery debate in the house judiciary committee over the articles of impeachment trump has repeatedly denounced to the whole thing as a witch hunt well those are the headlines to join me for more news here after the stream. we were told to get to that between russia has been addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal. for

a couple and you know we meet with newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. china has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure projects across the world but is its global riots good or bad for poor countries i'm femi oke. 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 a colonialist power so is china's unprecedented development cause for concern or celebration look for the hash tag on twitter because colonialism and send us your thoughts.