from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on al-jazeera. an election many algerians consider worthless ballot papers a torn in the presidential vote to replace abdelaziz bouteflika. this is al jazeera live from doha i'm fully back to people also coming up deciding on a break sit direction the political leaders have cast their vote in the new case election in less than 5 yes. anger in india's northeast over a bill that brand citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims. history will look back at the actions here today how would you be

remembered. and the u.s. house judiciary committee set to resume its final debate on articles of impeachment against president donald trump. thank you for joining us thousands of algerians have been protesting outside polling stations and have torn up ballot papers rejecting what they say is a sham presidential election the protestors accuse all 5 candidates who are running for president of being too close to the old regime of former leader abdelaziz bouteflika he resigned in april following 20 years in power and months of unrest demanding change but it smith has more at this polling station in algiers there weren't many voters but plenty of ballot papers should turnout pick up later in the day here in the early morning just a few ballots have been cast in algeria presidential election. algerian state t.v.

found a busy place to show its of us this is all around what the shin any at the hague the presenters voiceover encourages people to get out and vote tells them there can be no reform without stability and says the people casting their ballots here were people who had recently been protesting the. but in the port city of the jail protesters took all the ballot papers and rip them up they wanted to make it clear they think the election is a farce the new thing if you think that all 5 candidates running for president this is one of them as a dean he like the others has been approved by the state all of them the senior officials in the current regime that is if you win that you won't get the algerian says they are aware that they need the massive popular legitimacy and that's why we're noticing since this morning thousands of going to polling stations and this

is a real answer did those who are doubting that this day want realized what people hoped for the. protests began in algeria 10 months ago when abdelaziz bouteflika said he'd stand for a 5th term as president he eventually back down and resigned was. but tens sometimes hundreds of thousands of people continued weekly protests against what all jerry and cole looked prove what the group of businessmen politicians and military leaders who wield the real power behind the scenes was this guy is a from the similar scene they went on with. what shall i won't vote if i vote or betray my country no lections with the gangs that's it my brother was quote if there is a widespread boycott of the election whoever wins will face questions of legitimacy before he even begins to tackle the challenges of

a stagnant oil dependent economy high youth unemployment and rampant corruption. bernard smith al-jazeera. that economy aspect is an algerian political analyst senshi explains why many algerians have little faith in the election right candidate that had been you know participating in these elections are actually really that which we do important figures that such as abdul majeed the born and to anybody he is where respected believe trade minister and head of the government so for algerians that this is and this is for them and masquerade that this is a circus because actually the other direction rejean is trying to rejuvenate itself that by putting again people who have been there for decades and who are actually products of the system now some people have been seeing that the popular movement

should have been institutionalized itself and you know for people such as or. shashi at the head of this leaderless movement in order to all represented and to negotiate with the government. the u.k.'s 3rd general election in 5 years is underway prime minister voice johnson is hoping to secure another term against labor leader jeremy corbyn and this is being called brains most important election in a generation by both conservative party leaders and the main opposition labor party from london if barker reports. on a dismal december day democracy is an action is a breaks a deadlock has brought british voters back to the pilot box for the 3rd general election 5 years. leaving a polling station in london conservatively deports johnson and one of his closest

aides. johnson called the election to try and secure a parliamentary majority so he can press ahead with bricks it unopposed or isn't. london from the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn after he voted. out the party for this election on the future of public services including the country's steamed national health service. in scotland the nationalists s.n.p. leader nicholas sturgeon was feeling beat her party's main goal is to. shared by the liberal democrat leader swinson the policies defining policy is to remain firmly in the e.u. they. held an election in december and. they're choosing $650.00 m.p.'s to represent them politicians who will decide britain's future either in or out of the european union. it's expected to be

a close race everyone is very confused everyone is deeply divided. families and friends of people are riven in a way i don't think i have seen before in elections in my life i think it's very tense day for every upset on both sides of the argument polls close at 10 pm g.m.t. exit polls we publish straight away with the 1st official results known a few hours later the park al-jazeera london. and live to another of our correspondents in london very chalons rai what kind of turnout are we expecting. well that is a big question and we don't know yet the short answer to that when we have seen pictures of long queues at some polling stations but we have no way of knowing at the moment whether that's something that is replicated across the country or whether it was something that was just

a pre-work rush of voters to the polling stations but as nave was saying in his report there it's highly unusual to have an election in the winter and there is a question mark over whether that is going to affect the turnout as well with people choosing to stay out of the harsh weather and keep indoors rather than go out and vote another question mark hanging over this election is what role tactical voting is going to play because this is the bracks it's election essentially. people seem to be willing to stray further from their traditional voting patterns and they have done previously and votes along whether their party is in favor of breaks it all or against it so that could upset things a certain extent and also break elections the t. rex it for voting for to see you know the british public have been to the poll. so

many times over recent years that they could decide to stay indoors because they've just had enough of it that it's been in many ways a rather an edifying campaign and so you get the sense from some voters that i don't particularly like any of the candidates are on offer thank you for that really talons life choice in london. in other world news dozens of arrests have been made in northeast india during protests against legislation on citizenship thousands of troops are deployed in the states of a salmon trip or a protest says here migrants from bangladesh will be made citizens both houses of parliament have passed a controversial bill which allows citizenship to minorities facing religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but muslims are excluded and child vora has more from the provincial capital on a stop. and there are difficulties to the. state of assam in india.

are not giving up on the roads are not jaunting slogans i was there demanding the government for draws the amendment bill they say their struggle is to protect the indigenous culture and live you some of these was abuse what could be a say it's all about jobs if you need my ignorance or 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 airports to the capital city of assam know how to use been imposed here mobile services have been shut down but despite that some of the have been planned in the capital city to be.

the u.s. house judiciary committee has begun its final debate on articles of impeachment against president donald trump the democratic party is leading efforts to formally charged with abuse of power in obstruct. of congress and will be an opportunity to amend the 2 articles of impeachment then the committee will vote on each one of them individually let's bring in. in washington d.c. talk us through what's happening today in this impeachment inquiry a vote is expected i believe. that's right fully it will happen some time today and it will likely pass along party lines of course democrats control the house of representatives they have the majority as well as house judiciary committee and very likely before the end of the day these articles of impeachment which are abuse of power and obstruction of justice rather obstruction of congress charges against

trump they will be cast out of the committee by the end of the day that sets up for next week when the full house of representatives will then take a look at these articles and vote on whether or not to formally impeach the president that has only happened twice before in u.s. history and it will likely happen again along those party lines with democrats in support of impeaching trump now this is all coming though while there are reports that there are some democrats from trump leaning districts who are considering not voting along with their party caucus which is an indication of the greater political considerations the reality of all this is that once this impeachment process reaches the senate which is expected to happen in january that is where trump will be put on trial to determine whether or not he is convicted and thus removed from office and because his own republican party has the majority in the

said it all signs are that he will be acquitted and he will not be removed so the question then for democrats is what is the point of all of this well their leadership says this is about accountability accountability about with overseeing the presidency which is part of the constitutional duty of congress however of course there are these political considerations about how this may blow back or help or whatever the case of real action for democrats and republicans alike in congress and as far as the president himself this morning he has been tweeting that he has done nothing wrong that there was. no crime to be impeached for and his own calculation as well is for the upcoming reelection campaign he is hoping to spin this impeachment as an effort from democrats to victimize him from the day that he took office in order for him to gain more sympathy from his base and on twitter again this morning from highlighting public polling that shows americans continue

to be deeply divided on this question of whether or not to impeach and remove trump from office thank you very much for a force on capitol hill that speaks more about this now to nancy soderberg who is a former deputy national security advisor to president bill clinton she is live in washington thank you so much for being with. heidi said that the house is moving quickly forward on articles of impeachment against president what do you make of the pace of this inquiry and are democrats right to be worried about taking this into the election year. this is 1st of all high drama for the united states the country's very divided and that's going to play out in real time today the democrats recognize this is a very difficult issue for their swing districts that were essential to flipping the house in 2018 and so they want to get it over as quickly as possible and move

into the election issues which will elect democrats in the fall health care education the economy not impeachment that said they feel they need to fulfill their constitutional duty because what the president did was so blatant holding up military aid for political benefit deny white house meetings to a key ally and they have to fulfill their constitutional duty no it's alice in wonderland bizarre alternative facts with the republicans none of this happened it was all ok and it's quite extraordinary to see the republicans defend indefensible actions by the president but that's washington today right and as you say americans are very divided and he'd think looking that nobody american voters who decide donald trump states. exactly and i think what the democrats understand is this is something that they have to do and then say pulis he did not want to do 'd it we're going to see some defections tomorrow in the house next week rather and

they house votes i think some of the more vulnerable or democrats will vote against impeachment abstain they were hoping to have a censure which would be a slap on the wrist but not actual impeachment because they're running for reelection and this will play into the attacks on them the key issue here 'd is what is the. possibility that the russians would interfere again in our elections at the request of the president in november and that's the urgency right here we know the the russians not the ukrainians are actively at the president's invitation interfering in our elections this november and this is a red flag for the democrats to say this is not acceptable and i believe that once this impeachment process is over and there's no doubt that the senate's going to vote to acquit him so he will have hey i'm that i was acquitted nothing wrong that

we want to have the congress which is doing its constitutional duty to make sure that there are no interference in our elections in november and that's a real risk and that's partly why we're going forward and we have right now as we speak russians intervening thank you for your thoughts nancy soderberg joining us and from washington thank you very much for a time thank you still ahead on al-jazeera. of genocidal intent in the international case and again his legal team gives graphic testimony to back in santa geisha of genocide against myanmar military. brass cloaking china's capital in small co's being blamed for us telling the campaign to clear the air.

hello again it's good to have you back well here across china things are looking quite nice we don't have a lot of clouds or ready to talk about we are looking at some chilly conditions though to the north we're talking about temperatures that are into the teens down towards the south though they are into the mid to low twenty's across much of the area for taipei and i stay for you with the temperature of 25 degrees maybe dropping down to about 24 as we go toward saturday over here towards india though still dealing with a lot of rain down towards the south for sri lanka as well you can receive some rain in the forecast coming back as we start to go towards the beginning of the weekend but look at the north we're talking about plenty of rain affecting parts of new delhi as well so it's going be a little chilly there during the overnight hours in during the daytime only getting to about 17 degrees by the time we get towards saturday though the rain should be pulling away more sun in the forecast for the temps there 18 and then here across the gulf well there is the potential of some rain for us here in doha as we go into friday notice of rain across much of the area with plenty of clouds also affecting

parts of kuwait as well so 24 degrees here on friday with the possibility of some rain and as we go toward saturday more sun in the forecast 25 miska it is going to be a beautiful day for you with a temperature of 26 degrees. from ancient embryos to come misleading us. age old philosophies and the rule of order remain central to the world's oldest living civilization in the 2nd of a 2 part series the big bang joe johns the rise of a 21st century superpower examines the challenges it now faces from the outside and from within the china complex are too much on al-jazeera.

every camp of our top stories on al-jazeera ariens have been tearing up their ballot papers in protests against the presidential election which is currently under way demonstrators have been calling for a total boycott of the vote and turnout has been low so far only 15 percent voting is also under way in britain stairs general election in 5 years breck sit in the future of the national health service have dominated campaigning for what's been described as the most important election in a generation and dozens of arrests have been made in northeast india during protests against legislation on citizenship the bill and allows citizenship to certain religious minorities from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but excludes muslims demonstrations demonstrators rather few migrants from bangladesh will be

made citizens. now lawyers for the gambia have given their closing arguments at the international court of justice in the hague as they push for myanmar to be tried for genocide against iraq they are providing testimony on allegations of mass murder and rape now on mas leader on tons hoochie told the court on wednesday that the accusations are a cold incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation she says soldiers conducted a legitimate operation against armed groups wayne hayes at the hague and he explains how the ganga's lawyers took down a defense opening speech by own son suchi which was of course the opening of me and mas defense has been widely criticized some of said she was lying in that speech that she was using it as a way to avoid any future legal proceedings against herself personally which isn't going to happen this time here at the international court of justice this is a state versus state dispute but the gambian lawyers in their closing

arguments on thursday really did systematically dismantle the. put up by the state counselor and after her. lawyers particularly the assertion that the raids on wrecking your villages in rakhine state by me and my security forces were part as the me and my delegation put it of a legitimate counterterrorism operation the because of the existence of an arm to rethink a militant group for more than 700000 muslim fled myanmar to neighboring bangladesh after the 27000 military crackdown. that al-jazeera stephanie decker is in cox's bazaar where refugees are following the proceedings in the hague very closely. these are the people who endured those horrendous atrocities at the hands of me and mars military these are the people who are being referred to when it comes to the case at the international court of justice now many of them are aware of the

hearing some of them have been able to get to information on their mobile phones others don't know about it all some of the people we've been speaking to think that this could potentially be a 1st step into being able to go back home but many people also tell you that they don't understand the real legalities the details of what is happening there. that you will get justice since the whole world has now put them on trial i hope our situation will change as a result of that i hope the opportunity to hold peacefully people here been calling for justice for a very long time it's been almost 2 and a half years since that offensive in august of 2017 was so hundreds of thousands of people flee here in the space of just a couple of weeks but these people also want to go home and many people will tell you that the ruling of the international court of justice and that may take time will probably not be able to give that to them there's

a lot of challenges ahead when it comes to seeing how they'll be able to go back home we've just been speaking to the head of the u.n. refugee agency here in bangladesh and he said even if repatriation started tomorrow it would create it would take an incredibly long time until you process this amount of people this is a city of refugees equivalent to the population of some of the world cities but each of them has a story of her endless horrors tragedy and trauma. former bolivian president evo morales has arrived in argentina where he's been granted refugee status according to the argentinian foreign minister was living in mexico since. since last month after he was granted political asylum he was forced to step down and leave bolivia after protests against his 4th election victory the army in these areas searching for what he calls several 100 heavily armed terrorists who killed at least 70 soldiers their camp near the western border with mani sustained hours

of heavy gunfire late on tuesday there's been no claim of responsibility but finds his name to isolate al qaeda i increasingly active in the region he detests lead you need deputy the detachment in the in not has military post near the border with mali it 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 our position for 3 hours a search in pursuit has been launched in the footsteps of terrorists fleeing from our borders. wilding work is being blamed for starting a fire on russia's only aircraft carry at least 10 injuries are reported on the admiral could send off $400.00 people of on board the flagship of russia's navy which was docked in the northern port of more months a giant crane collapsed during repairs said last year and the fine is a further delay to a return to sea for the aging warship which critics say is obsolete.

now the un's comic-con friends strain madrid cop 25 it in its final days scientists and politicians from around the world are trying to agree on the next crucial steps for the paris agreement the center of the un's climate change strategy and they've been locked in arguments over how to make carbon markets work and the conference could be extended by one day i environment and it's a nick is at the summit in madrid it is the penultimate day here in madrid it will probably go into actual time is these things will be douceur probably into saturday at some crucial issues still in play not least national commitment to reducing emissions which is vital as we go into 2020 and also some rather unwieldy but again crucial detail on carbon trading and loss and damage that is compensating those poor nations impacted by climate change yesterday we had some drama in the homes here outside the main plenary where the u.n.

secretary general is speaking lots of protesters gathered hundreds of protesters gathered making their voices heard frustrated at the stately slow stated progress here at the top now these are credentialed observers who then had their credentials taken away because of these protests not covered quite a few of these conferences over the last 2 years since 2012 and never has have seen scenes like that so it's an important issue and also demonstrates the a chasm there is between the feeling outside these holes and as you say the slave state of progress within one piece of developing news we have the european union's greendale it hasn't been widely accepted as real progress but there is an element of progress in the sense that they put forth a $100000000000.00 to try and win the new countries off fossil fuels so that's one development there's an awful lot more needed. well let's go to the world's top carbon emitting now to china where the desire to have a brand new home is being partly brain for an increase in absolution steel and

cement factories are producing small guys they meet demand for new infrastructure and housing rob matheson has our report 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 here 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 china's 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 as

a whole for the 1st 6 months of 2019 rose by 4 percent china's wealthy 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 because 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 what china's new middle class demands new homes chinese factories are likely to continue pumping out pollution rob matheson al-jazeera beijing. so again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera thousands of algerian 7 tearing up their ballot papers in protest against the presidential election which is currently under way demonstrators have been calling for a total boycott of the vote enter not a so far be no i don't need 15 percent voting is also under way in britain stared

general election in 5 years prime minister boris johnson is helping to secure another term against labor leader jimmy corbin this is being called prince most important election in a generation where brekke seat and the future of the national health service have dominated campaigning in india dozens of arrests have been made in the northeastern protests against legislation on citizenship the controversial bill allow citizenship to certain religious minorities from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan but excludes muslims demonstrators fear migrants from bangladesh will be made citizens. live pictures for you from the u.s. house judiciary committee which has begun its final debate on articles of impeachment against president donald trump the democratic party's leading efforts to formally charge trump with abuse of power in obstruction of congress over charges that he tried to force ukraine to investigate his political rival chilled by it and they will be an opportunity to amend the 2 articles of impeachment then

the committee will vote on each one of them individually lawyers for the gambia have been given their closing arguments at the court of justice they push for myanmar to be tried for genocide against their will they're providing testimony on allegations of mass murder and rape yamas leader on sons who cheat told the court on wednesday that soldiers conducted a quote legitimate operation against armed groups the army in asia says is searching for several 100 heavily armed fighters who kill at least 70 soldiers their military camp near the western border with mali sustained hours of heavy gunfire late teens say there's been no claim of responsibility they're upset with headlines here on al-jazeera the news will continue after the street to stay with us. we were told to get to that because russia has been addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal. for

a couple on 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 it 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 being a colonial 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. china is now approaching a decade as the world's 2nd biggest economy and it is investing in

a staggering for a.