a poll that will decide the future direction of brecht's it making their choice in the u.k. general election. hello again i'm in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up purging is also under way in algeria to elect a replacement for formally is out there. but protesters say it's a sham election. another day of legal arguments and the international court of justice faces genocide allegations for its treatment of muslims. and trying to clear china's and why it's middle classes are being blamed for a rise in pollution.

well 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 has begun to decide who will form the next government and decide the future of breck's it you're watching live pictures now of that for saying well prime minister johnson has already cost his votes in his west london constituency he's seeking another term for his conservative party the main opposition is the labor party led by jeremy coleman and this is the u.k.'s 3rd general election in less than 5 years well let's go live now to worry chalons who's in london for us where a virgin has been going for a couple of hours now so talk us through how the day is likely to pad out. what as he said we have already seen that boris johnson the british prime minister has cost his ballots we expect to generate calls within the other leaders of the main parties charts with the liberal democrats nicholas sturgeon of the scottish national party. we'll follow as well probably in the next couple of hours or so

they'll want to get those pictures out as quickly as possible voting goes through today all the way up until 22 g. empty and it's when the polling stations finally closed 10 o'clock this evening that we get the exit poll that will tell us some in some way which direction this election is likely to head the counting goes on of course over the nights and into the morning so by this time tomorrow we'll get a rough idea of where we're standing boris johnson is wanting to do much much better than his predecessor to reason may did in 2017 when britain's last general election was held she went to the country with a snap election hoping to strengthen her position on bret's it and ended up squandering her majority so boris johnson is buying the drum has been for all of

the election periods breaks it breaks it breaks it that's what he has concentrated on labor in contrast has tried to refocus attention on to more public service orientated things particularly the national health service that's what they want to concentrate on but yes when we're looking forward to this time tomorrow there are a variety of different options we could have a majority we could also have a hung parliament that would be tricky we would then be into the process of 1st of all boris johnson as a former prime minister being tasked with perhaps building a coalition if he can do it then it's up to the other parties most probably labor to transform their coalition it could be a rough road ahead for british politics we'll have to see. the day thank you very.

after 10 months of protests and political turmoil algerians too are voting to elect their new president but the turnout as expected to be low the election has been widely rejected by protesters who want to see a complete overhaul of the political system on wednesday demonstrators 4th with police while they were urging algerians not to vote for any of the 5 presidential candidates bennett smith reports. the in february algerians had had enough of what they call the i sabah the gangsta system the utter the it was the decision by 82 year old abdul aziz beautifully to seek a 5th term as president for tens of thousands of algerians out in nationwide protests was. in april the army forced beautifully to to resign and the election was eventually shed yule for december the protests continue i

think i'll join or police banks or march on these election day want to president in office or soon as possible burbled play in the constitution game bill is a very good job big problem of trust between the 2 between the arguing government will do authorities and 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 they're cleaning up but the 5 men running for president are approved by the state they've all worked for the current regime many thanks so much tony q one of the few words 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 up these elections because there is no election with this gang this stealing our country and our freedom we don't want them was and trenched in algeria after more than 50 years since independence from france has not yet given any indication that its willing to release the reins of power. to see it cannot be missed change in one person a president will not change anything they want the complete blake away from boston back to says they want. to go delia lies that they have are going to more porting to do to do so and i don't think they will give up. but the president will have to deal with the stock than oil 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. bernat smith al-jazeera. news as

me as such in for a number of fights is after at least 70 soldiers were killed in an attack in the west of the country a military campaign in near the border with mali came under heavy fire late on tuesday there's been no claim of responsibility yet but the fight is linked to an increasingly active in the region. with. the detachment of the in its military post near the border with mali was attacked by heavily armed terrorists estimated at several 100 there followed a combat of rare violence combining artillery fire and the use of kamikaze vehicles by the enemy on positions for 3 hours a search in pursuit has been launched in the footsteps of terrorists fleeing from our borders well that's her live now to on that interest as a nazi and molly on a day on the that just calling the attackers terrorists what do you know about who they are at the stage. well basically it's hard to say who

which group carried out this attack but we know in the northern part of mali there are several armed groups operating there from al qaida to others and locally grown . groups that are active in this particular region so it's thought because the army they need also said that right now they feel that some of them have escaped across the border probably referring to the border with mali because in itis is not far away from the border with mali however on the other side of nizkor we also have seen the uptick in violence from boko haram which started in nigeria by the way more than 10 years ago we've seen how they have carried out several attacks in that particular region but what people suspected now are those groups armed groups operating along the mali corridor and they believe that probably they have links to al qaida and other. extremist groups that have been known to have operated in that

area over the last 7 or 8 years and that it's also just days before some as in france that's meant to discuss the future of the french military's deployments in the region what's driving the insecurity that. well basically i think the groups from boko haram i swap it in other groups in the region in this house and of course in nigeria they want to make a statement an expert security experts are warning that probably will see more of such daring attacks in the coming weeks or days in the region because there are a lot of. there are a lot of attacks that. we've seen over the last few weeks or few months in the region where the army bases in the region have been particularly targeted and a lot of people hear that the groups are we arming themselves we know nigeria's closest borders and to some extent they've been able to curb the number of attacks

in that region but we see we think that in the next coming days or weeks we'll see more such attacks by the way the you know just attack is the biggest in the genre since the beginning of the conflict will continue watching that region very closely and interest in the. russians only act kerry has caught fire during maintenance what the admiral could docked in the arctic port of . reports of the 5 again on the upper decks emergency services have said several people were rescued from the ship the 2 may still be missing. india's government has ordered thousands of troops into the northeastern states of a sum and to poor a following violent protests there against a controversial bill on citizenship now both houses of parliament have passed the proposed law which grant citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution in pakistan and bangladesh and afghanistan but muslims are excluded which opposition

politicians and rights groups blame on the government's hindu nationalist agenda and salvor isn't in some states where the protests they're against the law fearing a possible influx of migrants idea of general just. the state of asylum in india. are not giving up. not jaunting slogans on the guy as they demanding the government withdraws their citizenship amendment bill they say their struggle is to protect their indigenous culture and live you some of these boys abuse will go to your seats all of our jobs if you do i agree it's a given indian citizenship then 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 go hearty tough news being imposed here mobile services have been shut down but despite that several factors have been planned in the capital city today. the weather is fixed but still ahead house democrats warn the u.s. president is on the verge of dictatorship during a fiery debate over his articles of impeachment. and new zealand's police unveiled plans to recover the bodies of those killed after a volcanic eruption. hello again it's good to have you back well things are looking quite dry up here across the northern part of southeastern asia we're going to be seeing luzon that clues

manila over here towards the west into vietnam looking fairly good plenty of sun across much of the area the heaviest rain will be down here towards the south affect the most of malaysia as well as into central indonesia and over towards the west jakarta though expect to see the rains start to increase even heavier as we go toward saturday attempt a few of about 31 degrees now speaking of rain brisbane you have seen some very heavy rain just in the last 24 hours we did see a system push out here towards us at tasman sea things are looking better now but take a look at the rain totals we saw just in the last 24 hours 130 millimeters fell in just one hour we saw 112 of that coming down so you can expect to see of course we did have a lot of a localized flooding across much of the area things are looking better across the area we're going to be seeing a frontal boundary to the south that is where the cooler air is melbourne you have been a little below average right now but up here towards brisbane it is going to be a warm day for you and speaking of heat we are talking about in perth temperatures

well above average for much of the area the a 3 day forecast we have a heat wave in effect with saturday still looking at about 40 degrees. this descent make the heroes of europe asia africa the middle east oceania. went to a stage made them actually. make connections makes mistakes peak for the on becoming it's best. to excite the shore to say i want to be. these.

kind of i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour boris johnson is fighting for another term as british prime minister he's already voters in the general election that will decide the future of brecht's is his main rival labor leader jeremy corbyn is expected to vote soon and london. and polls have also opened in algeria as presidential election despite the votes being widely rejected by millions taking part in months of mass protests demonstrators want sweeping political reform before any voters has held. a news as such in for a number of fighters at least 70 soldiers were killed in an attack in the west of the country a minute tree company not is near the border with mali came under heavy fire late on tuesday. now lawyers for the gambia have just begun giving their closing arguments in the international court of justice as they push for me to be tried for

genocide against the rich. told the course on wednesday that the allegations are an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation she said soldiers conducted on a just a much operation against armed groups and she's rejecting allegations of a mass murder and rape campaign against the muslim minority 2 years ago we have 2 correspondents covering the story stephanie decker is with hundreds of thousands of writing to refugees in cox's bazaar in bangladesh but 1st let's speak to wayne hey who is in the hague well wayne was there anything in the statement that might have changed the minds of critics. no i don't think so that speech that opened a 1000000 miles defense against genocide charges has been widely criticized some have accused her of lying in that statement others have said that really a large part of it was about her trying to protect herself from any future legal

proceedings against her post simply remembering that can't happen here at the i.c.j. this is a state versus state dispute in that speech she refused to address the specific allegations of murder torture and rape carried out by security forces as she made excuses for the me and my military she blamed the whole thing on ripping of militants who attacked security forces but really if we trace the origins of this latest round of violence you have to go back to 2012 when. attacked in retired state and at that stage the militant group didn't exist and to this day there are more than 100000 written get confined to camps on the outskirts of the state capital city way as a direct result of that violence in 2012 and it's people like that that the gambians are asking the court to help protect from further acts of genocide through these provisional measures and when talk us through what happens now at the cost.

well today is the final day thursday it's a 3 day process this initial phase of the genocide case and as you mentioned the gambians already inside the it's going to be a fairly brief process today the gambians responding to any allegations or comments that were made by me and my team on wednesday is the final statement and then later on thursday it will be me and my final turn to address the allegations against them and then the courts will have to decide whether or not it agrees with the gambians request to introduce these provisional measures designed to protect as i say the rigging inside rakhine state and those in bangladesh you want to return from any further acts of genocide they are quite clear that the genocide threat is still there and they want to protect that ruling could come within the next few weeks when have that live for us in the hague thank you wayne well let's go live now to stephanie decker he's. in bangladesh in what's now the world's largest refugee camp

with those refugees that wayne was just talking about 70 this has been difficult for people there trying to follow what's happening 8000 kilometers away but has there been any reaction to what aung san suu kyi had to say yesterday. well for those that have been following it now the 3 g. was connected can watch it on their mobile phones are talking to community leaders that's how the news is trickle down some of them are hopeful saying that perhaps this could lead to that returning home others will tell you we spoke to one community leader who said no this is not going to benefit us at all this is basically unsung sushil using it for domestic leverage because of elections coming up in 2020 the bottom line is this people here have been calling for justice for over 2 years now you mentioned the biggest refugee camp in the world you can see it it's a sprawling city a city built out of human tragedy that is here and it's not at the moment there any indications that people are going to be able to return this is what they want

justice yes but they want to be able to return home and the issue is one of safety the issue is one of assurances as you heard from wayne there there are so many questions about how their anger is treated inside me and why this is why the repatriation project would have been attempted here people refused to go back because they do not trust that they will be safe when they do so so these are the challenges as we go into almost 2 no half years and moving forward of what is a probably unsustainable situation you have a population that is growing you have bangladesh which has made it very clear that they cannot stay in this forever and certainly not on their own yes you have many aid organizations working here but these people education is lacking you have a booming young population you have young men sitting around doing nothing so there's a lot of frustration there's a lot of challenges moving ahead and i think many people will tell you that whatever the court rules when it comes to these emergency provisional measures is going to be very difficult to see that improve the situation for these people certainly in the short term stephanie bring us the view from cops in baghdad thank

you steph. now u.s. president don trump has signed an executive order which he says is intended to end anti-semitism but their affairs that it's designed to restrict criticism of israeli government policies and explains president donald trump has regularly boasted of his pro israel record he did it again as he signed a new executive order this time aimed at fighting what the white house sees as a growing problem of anti semitism on university campuses across the u.s. as this is our message to universities if you want to accept the tremendous amount of federal dollars that you get every year you must reject anti semitism and i essentially the order extends part of the 1964 civil rights act into law the department of education to withhold federal funding from any call it that discriminates on the grounds of race color or national origin that no is extended

to religion and critics say that effectively suggest use of people who share the same race or collective national origin. the new order could significantly impact the b.d.s. movement it are just a ploy caught divestment and sanctions campaign against the israeli government for its treatment of palestinians living in the region some have claimed b.d.s. is anti semitic while supporters say it's not targeting a religion but political action but as the group has grown on american campuses it's been accused of creating a hostile climate for jewish students by conflating include the criticism for israel and make it equal to you know anti semitism they're trying to censor only the freedom bit here in the u.s. when it comes to the israeli policies donald trump is aggressively back to israel since taking office he moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem in the face of international opposition and recognized the golan heights territory seized from syria as part of israel but he's been accused

of making anti-semitic remarks and defending new nazis who chanted and. slogans he was criticized for comments made in a speech to jewish groups in florida at the weekend reinforcing jewish stereotypes bloddy you are the real estate business because i know you very well you're brutal killers not nice people at all but you have to vote for many of the jurors you're not going to vote for pocahontas like and the many jewish groups have praised the president's action us congress tried to take a similar action to the executive order even with bipartisan support it stalled donald trump's move breaks that logjam alan fischer al-jazeera washington well u.s. democrats have warned that president anwar trump is on the verge of dictatorship by republicans have defended his record it was all part of a fiery debate on the house judiciary committee on the 2 articles of impeachment against donald trump the democratic party is leading efforts to formally charge trump with the abuse of power and obstruction of congress. in new zealand attempts

to recover bodies from the white house and volcano are expected to be made despite scientists fearing another and an interruption 2 more victims from monday's eruption have now died of their injuries and hospital raising the number of dead to 8 jessica 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 rough so. this is this is going to happen sewage treatment then obviously there is the usual kinds of. things all of the survivors have

been 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. 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 go 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 market men 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 this 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 oakland new zealand. now after 2 years of legal battles disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein has reached a $25000000.00 civil settlement with his alleged victims the new york times reports that it would end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against weinstein and his company but he still faces criminal prosecution on sexual assault charges

relating to 2 women more than 30 actresses and former employees of the hollywood producer would share in a payout from his now defunct film studio it means weinstein would have voided missing any wrongdoing now time magazine's person of the year is grettir totenberg the 16 year old climate change activist from sweden is the youngest ever recipient beijing u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi and u.s. president donald trump time praise turnback for inspiring a global movement to stop the destruction of the planet. well the desire to have a brand new home is being partly blamed for an increase in air pollution in china steel and cement factories are producing smog as they meet demands for new infrastructure and housing 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 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 the chinese be 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 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. the 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 it's remarkable transformation into the world's 2nd largest economy i think china and. at that 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 here the skies above beijing may be clear more often but why china's new middle class demand new homes chinese

factories are likely to continue pumping out pollution rob matheson al-jazeera beijing. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines voting is currently underway across the u.k. to decide who will form the next government and decide the future of brecht's it opposition leader jeremy corbyn has just cost his voters in his north london constituency who is saying those pictures from just moments ago prime minister barak's johnson voted in his constituency in west london it's the u.k.'s fed general election and less than 5 years barrie chalons has more. tactical 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 as presidential election that the turnout is expected to be lower the election has been widely rejected by millions of people taking part in months of mass protests they want to see a complete overhaul of the political system the for any votes has held. searching for a number of armed fighters after at least 70 soldiers were killed in an attack in the west of the country a military camp in the knot is near the border with mali came under heavy fire late on tuesday there's been no yet claim of responsibility but fight is going to iceland al qaeda increasingly active in the region russia's only aircraft carrier has caught fire during maintenance work the ad the admiral could not solve is

docked in the arctic port of moments witnesses reported that the fire began on the upper decks and imagine sea services said several people were rescued from the ship but 2 may still be missing india's government has ordered thousands of troops into the northeastern states of some untrue poor following violent protests against a controversial bill on citizenship both houses of parliament have now passed that proposed law which grant citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution in neighboring countries but muslims are excluded well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power. fishing boats from north korea washing up on the shores of japan. sunk carrying dead bodies. one a one east investigates these mysterious go ships on al-jazeera. 2014

people and revealed the shameful treatment of disabled people in romania state from the care of our investigation also raised questions about why the e.u. was funding some of those institutions now there are a fresh allegations about neglect mistreatment this time not just in romania but in neighboring countries in the 2nd of 2 special reports sarah spell it has been to poke area to find out.