to kill in the unique general election it's a brix it general election those tribal loyalties have been smashed asunder up and down the country across the whole nations and as well in northern ireland because exit polls historically have been taken at the same places the how we find out about the vote going one way or the other will be very interesting. this is al jazeera you're watching a special broadcast coming to you live from european broadcasting hub here in london we now have the exit polls the conservative majority for boris johnson is 86 according to that exit poll projection that gives him $368.00 seats in theory if this projection is accurate labor on $191.00 the liberal democrats on 13 the bracks it's party of

course a party for whom it is in their political d.n.a. to get out of the european union they have got 0 m.p.'s all the predictions were that bracks it would get 0 the top line on the mr johnson boris johnson has got precisely what he wanted he's got more than what he wanted let's bring in chris hopkins from savannah to commerce chris i have to say this time last night you were saying 6 or 7 maybe he's got a strong king majority that's up there with tony blair back in 97 yeah absolutely i mean it seems to be the. completely justified if that the post correct which we've got no reason at the state a doubt that it wouldn't be he was committed justified in trying to call this election in order to get a large majority to push back that they'll through. you know he did run a very safe campaign and to work for him and you're frankly you know looking at those numbers it's a disaster it's not for the for the labor party will get on to that of course in the coming few hours here on al-jazeera on

a special broadcast what does he do next once he's given the speech as he will do of course it is just the exit poll that's all it is we are not 12 hours ahead of where we are at the moment it's big though so in theory if it does translate into being that he had to get $26.00 as a minimum to do what he had to do yeah so in theory on monday parliament will sit again or. sounds like if there was a large conservative majority boris is going to push for queen's speech on thursday parliament might even end up sitting loosely over christmas and he's going to want to get back there for as soon as he can and it sounds like he's going to have the numbers to do so at the concert really very very easily his campaign correct me if i'm wrong here his campaign was photo op photo op photo op easy interview photo op photo op it was him driving the tractor through a polished irene brick wall it was him hiding in the fridge etc we discussed this this time yesterday why did that message get through to the voters and it would

appear the labor message of the n.h.s. is safe with us you get a 2nd referendum and then we might or might not do some sort of intermediate deal with the s.n.p. up in edinburgh i think if this was the bracks election and it looks for all intensive purposes again if this expo is correct that it was the bricks election then the simple message of getting back to dan will of we clearly has resonated i think there are a number of remain voters up and down the country that will be sick to the back teeth of what's happened over the last few few years i think you know if they might have had the time again they would probably still vote remain but equally they probably think that the result of the referendum should be respected and there may have been some of those that didn't turn out today you know there may be some remain voters that might have even voted voted conservative in order in order just to end you know this stalemate the parliamentary logjam been going on for the last couple of years you know clearly boris's get back to the message if that supposed correct pretty worked ok let's just look at the figures and how they are unpacked

one more time for you if you're just joining us here on. this is how people voted in the u.k. is general election the conservatives it looks like according to those exit polls have got that majority there up at $368.00 labor on $191.00. there you see as well liberal democrats on 13 the s. and p. doing quite well it has to be said 23 of those. we're labeling them as others basically that means people standing on independent tickets in constituencies i think it be fair to say chris constituencies that aren't what you might call normal she's talking about the west country you're talking about devon cornwall you're talking about wealthy farming constituencies in the south west of scotland places like that yeah i'm not sure that my mental math might not be up to this time of the evening but i would assume that the 23 might also include the 18 in northern ireland so that means that might only be 5 kind of others we did have quite a number of independent standing this elections conservative that. didn't retain the weapon of chosen the standard independence i think there was also one in the

east devon that maybe contribute to that number but i think in general. those 23 made up with 18 or in our seats to what extent if these figures are right and exit polls have been wrong before 992 famously and that you could gen x. and they got it completely wrong assume for a 2nd this exit poll is correct to what degree we were using this expression last night did people go into the voting booths today on a wet windy mid-winter day here in the u.k. holding their noses metaphorically in going well i'm not quite sure who to vote for i voted perhaps people who voted for breaks it they voted with their hearts not necessarily was their heads that's what their critics would say how did people decide who to go for this time around i mean again i think they may have voted say they may have voted for the conservatives traditionally they label themselves as not a part of government so the electorate may well have gone to the polls today giving boris the majority that he's i craved in a very similar way to how they didn't give mrs may the majority that she created

2017 i think the or maybe there was even some regret from voters based on what happened 2 years ago and the fact that since then all we've had is a parliamentary logjam nothing has progressed nothing has changed and finally it pays at least at this stage that the electorate has given us a clear decision chris for the moment thanks very much where we have correspondents outside parliament in london as well as in edinburgh and oxbridge. the seat that the prime minister. who's. he wanted. the exit poll it looks like that's precisely what he's going to get. yes piece of this is true then 360 or 191 for labor the conservative party if this is true and these polls have been wrong before once in 192015 but if this is right then it's certainly

a working majority of the very least if not a landslide possibly. and the words get bricks it dumb how many times have we heard that phrase internationally not just in the u.k. it's pretty simplistic messaging on one side but it would appear. boris johnson will claim this is vindication for his hard push for the country to decide the way forward with a general election it had been resisted strongly by the labor party and indeed the other opposition parties because of the timing with the destruction of a whole variety of not necessarily the normal political issues of debate in such a difficult thing as a general election the had been a lot of emphasis put on the national health service with the u.k. by labor it would have pay labor did very well on this point but no the brics it

issue was pushed harder and harder every time boris johnson got into what looked like considerable trouble with his style of interviews by turning to be used by his type of messaging he come back to those words get it done get bricks it done the actual building of want to do about pulling out of the your. the an election europeans a union not necessarily full on detail a deal that could put we'll put the u.k. out of europe within the end of the month the end of january generally the 31st but then a question mark over the trade deal so there's a long way forward the brics it isn't all over and done with by any means with this result but it does mean that the parliament behind me. looks if this is true to be. back in conservative working with joy to territory that would mean that you

get the level of to pay for the sort of twisting and turning and parliament coming to the decisions that the don't suit the government in power so this is a pretty historic seeing if it's true we'll see if it's true you will see the pattern of swing within a matter of hours 1st up. as a round 11 am only less than an hour away but the race to get the 1st. results in will take place in the north east of england as traditional it won't necessarily give you any bearing on what's happening but then by about 1 am g.m.t. we will see these so-called toll retarget seats these are the labor seats particularly in the north of england labor held seats a marginal some of them where the conservative supposed hard in here is

a crucial indicator of how things may have switched because the last opinion poll before people went to vote i came up with some interesting statistics it showed that the number this is so sure groupings being studied in this opinion poll and what the marketing people and the the research is called the blue collar social sector that's that's. what was once called working class but effectively lower salaried families and indeed the unemployed showed a marginal increase in interest support conservative support compared with the middle classes the a.b.c. ones for example as they termed it which is managerial middle class voters and that is quite extraordinary because it's showing that that those perhaps who wanted out of bricks it who were labor supporters found themselves turning conservative and that's what we've been hearing in many parts of the country that is

a major factor. here the other factor that's very clear from from all the research and that the list last opinion poll is the massive number of young people supporting jeremy corbyn and feeling that that that they could not trust the conservative party that is colossal the 18 to 34 year old age group if that it extended from 18 to maybe 60 year old for the sort of lead to the how they were getting you know you're talking leaves of up to 26 points in the opinion polls that this will be a different story you have jeremy colbert as the next prime minister but no if this is true it could be a landslide for the conservatives under thanks very much ok let's go live now to 90 who's in edinburgh for us monitoring events of course all the scottish capital certain the line from nicolas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister has now been for several weeks a strong vote for the s.n.p. strengthens the case for

a 2nd independence referendum. absolutely peter and there's been lots and lots of attention here in scotland on exactly how her party would fare. in 2015 serge's really knocks labor out in many parts of scotland gens now if we believe those exit polls they're back up to those levels of 2015 on around $55.00 westminster seats of course her party wants independence they voted on it here in 2014 and rejected it many people were looking to the s.n.p. as performance in the scenario perhaps of boris johnson failing to get a parliamentary majority and perhaps a coalition government involving jeremy coleman's labor in which nicholas sturgeon has made it quite clear to labor that their price would be a promise of what they call in direct to another referendum on independence next

year will cope and has already said that if he were in power that wouldn't happen in the early years of a labor government now we're looking at a completely different scenario many people now will be wondering where these this leaves the many people who are very worried about bricks it here in scotland which voted by a majority to remain in the european union and perhaps for that reason a starting to even if they weren't favorable to the independents argument before starting to shift that way and so it really is a complicated picture here in scotland many of the seats in fact $46.00 of the $59.00 seats here were deemed to be marginal and we have to still take those exit polls with some caution but for the moment it seems that there's been a breakthrough a further search for the s.n.p. but in westminster the picture now the question for scotland will be well where do

they go with this question of independence now that it looks like there will be a government her. by boris johnson who many analysts say is still the idea of a hard break sit at the end of 2020 there might not be a trade deal by that time that's a prospect which will worry the many right remain voters here in scotland for the moment thanks very much let's just show you some of the lives his life is coming to us from the sun linda newcastle area that's the constituency that generally declares 1st you can see there are certain urgency there where the running into the counting hole they generally return their result within about i think is about 90 minutes or 2 hours historically they've always been pretty much always been the 1st to declare sunderland of course very prosperous town in the north east of england facing the north sea that when it comes to the weather getting all that wind and rain coming off the north sea particularly at this time of year if you're just

joining us here on this al-jazeera news special we've got the exit poll results it looks like the conservatives are going to get and this is a prediction predictions can be wrong they can change they've been wrong before the conservatives boris johnson is going to get 368 seats the labor party 191 the lib dems will get 13 the s.n.p. will get 55 the brics it party which on paper is actually not a political party as such it's not constituted as being a political party on paper it's actually a company how many m.p.'s did they get 0 we can talk about that and the dynamic of that a lot of course in the coming hours we're joined by emma hayward who is our correspondent covering all aspects of this boris johnson's own constituency and his majority is not particularly big and healthy and people are saying he took his eye off the ball to concentrate on the national campaign. he's been rarely

seen here actually peter he was seen though just outside one of the underground stations in the constituency earlier posting pictures on. twitter looking very confident and you've got to think that he maybe knew that he was going to do well tonight if those exit polls are to be believed here it is busy already we are waiting for the 1st to arrive they usually come in about 10 past 10 here and we get the 1st boxes from the more than $100.00 polling stations in this constituency we were talking about boris johnson if that is to be believed then he will his correct that mantra get this correct that done will simply have worked among the public which will come as a surprise to some people who simply wanted to remain in oxbridge he divides opinion like in many other parts of the country there are some of course who believe they want to have it enjoy having a prime minister. others believe he is the wrong man for the job there has been a real campaign to oust him as well bruno university is home to thousands of students and many of them have been really trying to get behind this campaign to

get boris johnson not elected in this constituency but we will get to know in the early hours of the morning we expect the declaration to be between about 5 o'clock ok and we'll come back to respect as and when that happens in the meantime we'll talk to you again in the coming hours to thank you so much. spreads joining us here in the studio kevin craig a political commentator and donor to the labor party and saeed come all a former conservative m.e.p. who's now research director of the institute of economic affairs kevin create if i can come to you 1st what went wrong for jeremy corbin well can i go back to what you just said which is that the exit polls have been wrong before i've been very active in this election and i am genuine the staggered by what we have just seen and i do think it is too early to take his red and exit poll predicting a majority of that magnitude has been

a difficult election no doubt about that turnout was not helped today by the weather in any in any sense. yes but i think it's too late i genuinely someone who's done many general elections cannot compute the size of that prediction and i think it's too early to say that nothing indicated that a majority of that size was coming and certainly none of the data that i've been privy to across the country ok time will tell of course it's not an exact science but even if it's half of the $368.00 the majority between the post and how far he's gone beyond that it's still incredibly good which means that your guy's message of the n.h.s. is safe with us people decided to go with something else and i think it's good to be quite honest and show a bit of emotional intelligence in politics even a result half of what's predicted would be an awful night for labor it would be were it true an awful night for jeremy corbyn i'm sure that he wouldn't stay in

post if that were the case but i think you know there are the next 5 or 6 hours that's when we're going to see what actually happened i don't know what side of things but no this is enormous what will come soon a 2nd slate the message though the look after the n.h.s. message people didn't buy it but maybe that was because people didn't believe it and also people drill down into the figures i mean you know if you look at the figures labor was saying we'll spend 3.8 percent more to save the n.h.s. according to the office for fiscal studies here in the u.k. the tories are going to spend 3.3 percent more so 0.5 percent more of a spend on expenditure cannot by definition be enough to save the n.h.s. when the people you're up against are going to spend almost the same amount of money well the fact is yes the 1st did say that but also we received credit for proposals that were very well costed and utterly transpire in a way that in the past labor manifestos were and on the n.h.s.

you know jeremy did display documents which clearly indicated they had been early stage discussions about. greater involvement of american corporates in the n.h.s. so i think when i was campaigning you know in constituencies with brilliant m.p.'s i marched called over and other leading lights the labor movement i found great appetite for a message that said if you only if you were in over $85000.00 pounds a year would you pay any more tax i found that resonating with people especially the young people who can't afford homes the people who see waiting list developing i found a lot of support for that message and so i am a someone who's done a lot of politics genuinely flabbergasted by these numbers and i still can't quite believe it so you come out how did they do it. well i think following from kevin i think the former conservative colleagues will be smiling at the moment of exit poll but actually exercise a great deal of caution they would also say this is only an exit poll the only poll

that really counts is the one when the all the seats are counted all the papers have been counted i think we can service call the election clearly on brecht sit and 14 as a practice at election this year the country is now at impasse we have to move on we can't discuss you know it's very difficult to cut through on any other issue and only we can deliver bricks and they hammer that home all the way through and they made sure as well they did in some ways adopt soft labor policies to conservatives what did exactly exercise fiscal responsibility they also said that they would spend more money in some conservatives very very difficult and people for example classical liberals are say at the institute of economic affairs would say this is actually a soft form of socialism that we're seeing here from the conservatives and i think what the concerts have done is they've tried to build those coalitions and in reaching out to those coalitions they've had to adopt some labor policies but was just the same point i guess to both of you coming to you 1st it wasn't there a point perhaps about 2 weeks ago when people genuinely the voters i mean genuinely

started behaving as if they did not trust any politician any place and boris johnson you know wrapping himself up in the flag saying i'm a 1st nation conservative he sacked 21 1st nation conservatives and most of them have now been kind of allowed to creep back into the party so there was a hypocrisy there that people were engaged with yes but people don't expect their politicians to be perfect they know that they are not ordinary creators and i don't 100 just interrupt you there is a difference between someone like a boris johnson being imperfect and as he did this is a journal of record lying about lying for which he was sacked twice when he was a journalist and what happens here at the elections people that is they don't have their ideal politicians. so they play vote for the least worse when they vote for the ones that they are closest to you know i am as a proud brit terrified and no offense that my prime minister could be confirmed

overnight as a man who steals phones out of the hands of journalists when he doesn't like footage of what season are speeding to give it back ok ok fair enough i'm all for you know offenders redeeming themselves he then went hiding in the fridge because he didn't like the cut the question from a journalist our prime minister you know doesn't want to tell us it's on the record how many children he has this is not normal you know for the viewers of this al-jazeera worldwide this is an incredibly unusual situation where the norms of how you behave as our lead are being smashed ok but when you talk about the norms the norms being smashed of course that's a function of the fact that this was the brics that general election this was in effect for a lot of people in the maelstrom of all the issues this was who is it brics it is that the n.h.s. is a transport is it h s 2 that the new high speed rail link that nobody the voters nobody really wants but all the politicians who are politically invested in it they think it's

a good idea but one of the things things that occurred to me yesterday when we talked to chris hopkins the 3rd issue when voters were being polled about labor and what was good or bad about labor the 3rd issue was anti semitism jeremy corbyn was called yesterday and he semite and he still it would appear cannot get a handle on that issue and that got through to people that got through to the voters well i am deeply regretful if semitism has played any role in how people made voting choices in this election my personal belief is that jeremy corbyn is in no way. self but i do understand how it's things that have been said or done of caused her and let's be honest labor. got that response wrong or right they must have done we must have done as a party otherwise it wouldn't carried on being talked about and talked about so there's a massive learning to happen there but for me when you see the choice that was in

play in the last 24 hours about climate change levels in investment personal taxation the state versus the individual character and honesty i am absolutely staggered in a way i haven't been in 25 years of politics activism and business about what's in front of us especially given the frailties of the pm so assuming the numbers are even as half as good as the exit polls suggest what does he do with those numbers once parliament reconvenes where he's been quite clear he called the election on bricks it he now says to if picks up referring to the european council president european commission president picks up the phone to other leaders and says now we already let's go forward let's deliver brecht's it let's leave on the 31st let's start the negotiations about the future and once he said he can get that in motion and make it quite clear we are leaving no more uncertainty then we can start tackling some of the other issues very very briefly however he says they can do the

trade deal within a year no you can't can you that's impossible come on it's funny that i've had conversations with michel barnier about this a michelle has played very well on the kerry show oceans what's really interesting is one of them where i spoke to tony abbott and i said this to me show. what you can do is you can do a deal and say stop interview we'll sign this deal and do a 2nd do i mean surely it's much more complicated than that if we say that we let's give you one year to do the best deal and we'll sign that deal it can be done ok but that's not the best deal i mean if canada took 7 and a half years to negotiate a trading deal with the da p.t.o. what's the silver bullet that boris johnson's got that confront kate 7 and a half years into 13 months what you don't do is you look at all the chapters are we going to say let's cut through that. not going to have preferential and not be a sector of that sector these are 6 who can open up their studio ok let's unpack those figures for you just one more time if you're just joining us here on al-jazeera we've got the exit polls the polls close to what 26 and

a half minutes ago the conservatives the predictions are saying we'll get 368 seats the labor party will get 191 seats the lib dems under the leadership of joe swinson 13 seats the s.n.p. based up in edinburgh of course but they do return m.p.'s to the westminster parliament covering the whole of the u.k. they will get 55 bricks at party 0 seats in the new parliament will get you right across all the developments as and when we get them i'm noticing that sunderland is still racing to be the 1st constituency to return their verdict it's a little lighter moment as we move through the couple of hours the 1st couple of hours after those exit polls are published to see which constituency can tell us who they are electing to westminster they like to do it ahead of anyone else lots more on that in the coming hours in the meantime we'll take

a pause and will wrap up some of the top stories for you here on al-jazeera. ok the other big story this hour the u.s. house of representatives is moving closer to impeaching president on trump as the judiciary committee holds its final debate house democrats are leading efforts to formally charge the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress mr trump's accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his potential white house rival joe biden and his son hunter by. well republicans on the u.s. house judiciary committee repeatedly complained about the procedures followed by the democrats. what will be known by this committee from here on out is that this committee has now sounded the death of minority rights in this committee this committee has become nothing but

a rubber stamp this committee is amazingly now on such a clock in calendar process that they don't care facts be damned they don't care a country who's fighting russian aggression because when you cry and fight question aggression they're helping us fight russian aggression and he did it for personal gain the biden situation. it could only be an abuse of power and i think this amendment really reflects how the president was using as a power power perfectly entirely appropriately and it also shows how scared they are of the fact live to washington and correspondent mike hanna so mike eventually agreed what's inside these articles of impeachment now. now they are still debating that very fact peter they going through the articles of impeachment word after word line after line paragraph of the paragraph the republicans apparently attempting to continually obstruct the entire process the situation is and terms of

the rules of the judiciary committee each speaker has 5 minutes to refer to each of the amendments so this is a lot of speaking time that we are seeing and it appears that on the republican side in particular each share representative trying to get as much time in as possible to prolonging this process the republicans through the day saying that they have been biased against that their minority rights are being trampled on because they demanded a minority hearing in which they could call their own witnesses the chair of the committee insisting that that was not the case that could not happen refusing to allow them permission to do so insisting that this process in the judiciary committee has to go ahead briefly pete exactly what they're doing is what is called a markup they are going through these 2 articles looking at every word every phrase agreeing on it essentially marking it up as they go along the vote at the end of the process will be coming and then it goes to the house rules committee who will

then decide when it will be voted on in the house and what the format of that particular vote will be the republican line mike seems to be it's time to pin the tail on the donkey when it comes to evidence that's the accusation from the republicans to the democrats what evidence have they gone through what evidence has been presented to them. well it's been weeks indeed months of collection of evidence by various house committees ranging from judiciary committee oversight committee the intelligence committee they've all been collecting evidence but part of the process that has been problematic is that a large degree of evidence that the committee is wanted was a blocked by the white house hence the obstruction of congress charge the obstruction of congress a appeal that we have in that 2nd 2nd article of

impeachment so the republicans are continuing to say there is no evidence but at the same time democrats point out that it's the white house that has continued to block evidence which would be pinning the tail on that particular donkey nevertheless democrats in particular are arguing that the evidence is not necessary they believe that everything is open and shut in a way that phone call that he had on the 24th of july that president trump had is in itself evidence the attempts by the white house to block any further evidence or individuals from appearing before the various investigatory committees is seen as obstruction of congress so the democrats are arguing that there is no need for further evidence that the case is in their eyes open and shot and that the republicans by continuing to appeal for articles of evidence are indeed just seeking to prolonging the process and this they believe is yet another example of how the the work off the judiciary committee in particular at this stage can be

obstructed by a republican sitting on that same committee mike will leave it there and we'll come back to him when there are any developments but in the meantime thank you very much . u.s. stocks have risen following reports the u.s. and china have reached them in principle trade deal president trump tweeted earlier that a big deal was near and there were reports an interim phase one agreement had been reached according to the reports washington has offered to cancel a fresh round of tariffs on chinese goods. the us senate has unanimously passed a resolution recognizing that the mass killings of armenians a century ago was genocide the resolution states its u.s. policy to commemorate as genocide the killing of 1500000 armenians by the ottoman empire which was centered in modern day turkey from 1915 to 1923 ankara has condemned the senate move turkey contests the figures and denies the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide. was more still to come this hour.

posing wraps up in algeria after a day of mass protests against an election where all 5 candidates have links to the ousted president. also head indian security forces 3 protesters as they're deployed to stop and rest in state over the controversial citizenship is. a reminder of the top stories for you so far here from al-jazeera the exit polls are pointing to a clear conservative win in the u.k. general election boris johnson's party is on target we understand to win 368 seats that's 50 more seats than the 27000 election and gives him a majority of 86 it's the biggest conservative win since margaret thatcher became prime minister in 1979. one other story the u.s.

house of representatives is moving closer to impeaching president donald trump as the judiciary committee holds its final debate house democrats are leading efforts to formally charge the president with abuse of power and obstruction of justice. ok let's get more about what we think is going to be the u.k. election result ellen wager is a research or for u.k. in a changing europe an initiative based at kings college here in london allan welcome back good to talk to you again what's your reading of how we think the figures are going to go well it's almost it's well it's certainly a majority for the conservative party it's certainly a healthy majority for the conservative party enough to give boris johnson room to relate room for maneuver in the long term to do whatever he wants in terms of bricks so we'll certainly leave the a pretty big european union on the 31st of january and then what sort of brics are we have is the next question but his message is quite simple message let's get bricks it done he can't get let's brics it done he can't get it done at all because

this is just stage one he's not going to get bricks done until all those trading deals are in place so horizontal now face a choice he has a lot of political capital and political influence he can go for a new deal at the end of december 2020 or he can face the sort of breaks it is in his party and have a lot more flexibility and room for maneuver it's basically all it's boris johnson now he's you know got a huge amount of political capital he's delivered this huge landslide result that was unexpected in all the opinion polling prior to the result so i guess it's really up to us on what happens next is that why people like william reese mog were no place during the campaign at all blink and miss it he was on twitter twice i think and that was it and the e.r. geas they were all kind of muscled and put away someplace chained to a radiator where the key to this result has been winning a whole swathe of seats in the north of england the voted for bricks it say in scotland the conservative party of sudan pretty badly in london they saw what

really gained any seats at all in the south east. still battling battles but in the north of england and the east midlands in the west midlands they've come through and delivered swathes of results for the concert as i haven't been one for in about 100 years. formulation of the of the electoral map of the u.k. in favor of the conservative party has boris johnson in cahoots with although clearly it wouldn't be deliberate but in cahoots with in effect nigel farage turned the conservative party into the party yes the big structural thing that there was going going to the conservative party was that they were the brits if it was all united behind the conservative party and they won what looks like 46 percent of the votes almost 7 they voted for breaks it voted for the conservative party because the brics a party became a sort of a dull force throughout the campaign it really lost its influence and everybody for the conservative party to remain as you know there wasn't that same enthusiasm for germany corben there was the lib dems vote and they they squeeze the lib dem voters

much they cared for the lib dems it was still there and in the labor party is because it's selling the fence on the backs of the sheep and looks like it's got stuck if you michel barnier watching what's going on right now what's going through his mind well this gives clarity on this 31st of 30 of us to generate the u.k. will definitely believe in the european union by the 31st of january and the big question now is whether the u.k. tries to form some sort of agreement with the bike by december i think and they the assumption in brussels is that the u.k. will try and form this were bare bones free trade agreement by the end of next year so they'll be a lot of money is played if you like don't have takes a lot longer to make this sort of trade agreements are going to be times going to fight ok alan for the moment thanks very much. algerians been voting in an election there that's been described as a sham by protesters for 10 months the country has been in political turmoil with large demonstrations leading to the resignation of the long term president abilities beautifully but protesters say the selection hasn't been pretty unfair

because all 5 presidential candidates are too close to the old regime has been its myth at this polling station in algiers there weren't many voters but plenty of ballot papers should turn out pick up later in the day here in the early morning just a few ballots have been cast in algeria as presidential election. algerian state t.v. found a busy place to show its of us this is all around what the ocean in the 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. that 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 oh susan 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 will get the algerian so they are aware that they need the massive popular legitimacy and that's why we're noticing since this morning thousands of poll germans going to polling stations and this is real and certainly did build sure doubting that this day want realized what people hopefully and how did you know protests began in algeria in february when abdelaziz bouteflika said he'd stand for a 5th term as president he eventually backed down and resigned if but it's not stopped tens sometimes hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in the last 10 months on election day there wasn't much tolerance from the police for protesters calling for a boycott that was many algerians say this election won't get rid of. the group of businessmen politicians and military leaders who wield the real power

behind the scenes and i mean this guy is a from the similar scene there with or with who was what but sure i won't vote if i vote or betray my country no lections with the gangs that's it my brother so i will. low turnout 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. burnet smith al-jazeera. at least 2 people have been killed during major protests in goa harty the capital of the state of assam in india the unrest follows the passing of a controversial citizenship amendment bill in the parliament the assamese people say they don't want bengali hindus to be granted indian citizenship al-jazeera is there which has such a come to a standstill because of the protests. another

day of violent protests in assam and more tear gas fired to contain the crowd but not enough to drown the voice of thousands of protesters determined to defy a curfew and make themselves heard. the crackdown adding impetus to the protesters slogans rejecting the newly passed citizenship amendment bill ok. as some has become the epicenter of the opposition to legislation that many here think these they're an unfair hand. or juggler's at all charges will get citizenship real real real live where is the space we will lose our farms our land then what will we eat. sam's bones back decades the state shares india's border of bangladesh formerly called east

pakistan until 1971 people here say between 951 and 971 a large number of bengali refugees took shelter in s.f. but the new legislation says anyone who came to india before 2014 as long as they are not muslim will be accepted as an indian citizen and of course i'm off to see if he becomes a law millions of bengali hindus were part for jobs we don't have jobs and we're already a minority we can't let c.a.p happen. 350 soldiers were sent to patrol and most of them in go hearty as tensions rose and life came to a standstill shops schools and petrol stations are shocked the indian army is patrolling go harty the capital of intellect and to maintain calm many of the streets here are littered with burnt tires and with entangled metal railings signs

of anger among people here most of the protesters say that they are fighting to preserve their culture and to keep their jobs. the protesters seem determined to fight for what they see is a battle for their identity but they are under increasing government pressure to stop that's a lie. because a legal challenge in the supreme court has already been launched critics of the citizenship bill say it by late india's secular constitution by specifically excluding muslims. archer vora al-jazeera who hati islam. and the east indies libyan warlord to leave for her after has called on his forces to advance towards the center of tripoli and what he's calling the final battle for the capital city in a televised speech after said his forces would soon be victorious in taking control of the fiercely contested city the commander launched an offensive in april to take tripoli but has been largely held back to the city's outskirts. normally

remark about half the amount we announced the decisive battle on the advancement towards the heart of the capital to set it free. will break its chains freed hostages and spread happiness in the hearts of its people tripoli will return to the historical light it once was. 1 becoming a capital for coach. we will raise the flag of victory throughout squares closing the pages of injustice and misery and defeat. with big treat we announce the birth of a new era so advanced now advanced and now advance our hero's. head has been following updates from tripoli. he has been announcing this several times before and this is almost the 4th time he's announcing the disease or the. eventual incursion into the capital tripoli but this comes after the

libyan understanding or agreement in regard to military cooperation and it seems that have to it is now challenging their possible turkish libyan corporation in terms of military and security a corporation but in all cases the commanders with the military commanders with the government of national court. they are underestimating the importance of have to speech they say that this has been an hour said several times before and have to is using this peach only to raise his forces and also to try to destabilize the forces of the government of national accord and they also say it could be a massive sleeper cells that are opponent to the government of national court in the west of libya in all cases government forces are now are now on high alert in

southern tripoli to try to prevent any possible attempt by have to his forces to enter tripoli international court of justice little to look at the verdict to soon as possible after a 3 day hearing looking into whether myanmar should be tried for genocide against muslims lawyers from the gambia have been providing testimony on allegations of mass murder deportation following 827000 crackdown on the minority group when he is in the hague. the sun shining on the international court of justice on a cold winter's morning in the hague belied the dark nature of the allegations being made inside at the world's top court me and my stands accused of genocide in the closing arguments the gambia as lawyers said the suggestion by a man that any wrongdoing by its military should be investigated internally was inconceivable when 6 of its top generals including the

commander in chief senior general men are on the firing have 'd all been accused of genocide by the u.n. fact finding mission and recommended for criminal prosecution. this was just the opening phase of a case that's likely to last for years it's alleged that me and soldiers raped murdered and tortured reading good muslims as part of attempts to wipe out the ethnic group claims backed up by united nations investigators in her closing statement myanmar's leader aung san suu kyi again didn't address the specific allegations but called on the case to be thrown out there my requests a cost to remove the case from its this in the alternative to reject the requests for the indication of provisional measures submitted and again if approved those measures would involve the court ordering me and miles government to ensure the security of the rigging so certainly if the court would order provisional

measures it seeing that on 1st glance with not of intense of fact finding on 1st glance that there is probably acts of genocide a decision on that could be made within weeks. with aung san suu kyi here leading me in my defense the 1st phase of this case became as much about her as the government or military would this former campaign of human rights used the opportunity to finally show some sort of contrition or sympathy towards the ring she didn't and she leaves with her international reputation lower than when she arrived. seeing her in court having to listen to the evidence would have provided some satisfaction for the rich who once believed she would be the one to fight for their rights now it's become an international fight for justice when hey al jazeera the hague. turning our attention to the congress has rejected a move to impeach the president opposition n.p.c.s.

the past in piniella failed to prevent human rights violations by the army and the police at least 26 people have been killed and thousands injured in a crackdown on protesters but politicians through the motions saying it didn't meet the constitutional threshold for a president who is latin america editor c and human has more now from santiago. this is certainly good news for the president president whose popularity has plummeted to around 13 percent according to the poll and 24 hours ago his cousin is . the now former interior minister was impeached. by the senate where finally. the united states had decided to. accept the impeachment request this would have gone through the senate what many people are wondering is what was the point simply because the numbers don't hold up

or had this gone to the senate the opposition does not have the 2 thirds majority needed to impeach the president some say that this was basically to send a signal on the part of the opposition that the president must be held accountable others though say that it was a bit of a waste of time and that the opposition should really be concentrating more on resolving the problems that this country is facing right now given the social upheaval the need. forms and that this is just kind of a way to try to whitewash the fact that many of the left wing opposition which presented this request hasn't been doing its own. the former bolivian president evo morales has arrived in argentina where he's been granted refugee status by the government or others have been in mexico since last month when he resigned and left bolivia because of unrest caused by a disputed election results the argentinean president all but if and under a previously described mr medallists as being the victim of a coup to raise

a bow is implying as iris she says a number of investigations are likely to prevent marla's from returning to bolivia in time for its fresh presidential elections there should be all for early next year. one of the things the argentinean government is asking him what alice is not to make any political statements or make any dicker ations it's not clear yet how he's going to handle his refugee status here in argentina without being able to give any type of public declarations but at the same time he playing a crucial role in those elections he has said in the past that by the time that the elections happens they would like to be back in bolivia but there are several investigations that involve him among them him calling for people to take to the streets to demonstrate against their into remote governmental they are several people were killed in clashes the interim administration if they mean and will want to list because of this killings and most definitely going to have to see but it's not likely that he'll be allowed to return to bolivia any time soon. still to come

for you here on al-jazeera a recovery team begins the dangerous task over moving bodies from new zealand's place on to. a remarkable scenes outside the climate change conference accredited delegates kicked out the summit.

welcome back new zealand's recovery team has arrived on a white island to begin retrieving the bodies of 8 people killed in that volcanic eruption their scientists have warned the gas on the island so toxic that one

single inhalation could be fatal the elite rescue team will wear protective clothing and gas masks the risk of another eruption remains high experts warn it could erupt again within days your thought is a face growing pressure from families of victims to recover the body used as soon as possible rescue mission is expected to take at least a few more hours well the rescue team took off from the tiny airports the times mayor there says there is a desperate need for the mission to be completed i need to make it clear that while we fully appreciate the need for the safety of any recovery team guys want to carry white island to retrieve their loved ones we are now living with a growing sense of desperation to bring home guys that we know the and those we love the un's climate change conference in madrid or cop $25.00 is into its final few days scientists and politicians from around the world are trying to agree on the next crucial steps for the paris agreement the un's climate change strategy our

environment editor nick clark is at the summit he says there are still several outstanding issues that need to be agreed. it is the penultimate day here in madrid probably going to extra time is these things will be days are probably into saturday as some crucial issues still at play not least national commitment to reducing emissions which is vital as we go into 2020 and also some rather we'll be but again crucial details 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 was speaking as lots of protests and dozen pages of it and see them lots of protesters gathered hundreds of protesters gathered making their voices heard frustrated at the stately slow state to progress here at the top now these are credentials observers who then had their credentials taken away because

of this protest not covered quite a few of these conferences over the last 2 years since 2012 and never have i 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 i 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 forward a $100000000000.00 to try and wean e.u. countries off fossil fuel so that's one development there's an awful lot more needed. now when we come back on the other side of the break we'll bring you the latest updates on 2 big significantly big stories this couple of hours here on al-jazeera story number one. and it looks like according to the exit polls predictions has $1.00 and $1.00 big in the u.k. general election there you go it's predicted that you'll get $368.00 seats labor $191.00 lived on 13 s.n.p. on 55 will also get the latest from our correspondent following the impeachment

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