al-jazeera. watching the news hour live from a headquarters in doha dominated by the u.k. election i'm debbie navigate and exit polls point to an emphatic victory for boris johnson's conservative party if confirmed johnson will have the majority to push through parliament. also ahead the us congressional panel draws out a debate on approving impeachment charges against president donald trump. and

a parting plea for me to mars leader for the world's top court to throw out a case of genocide on minorities. fellow british prime minister boris johnson's decision to call a snap election to break the brics a deadlock looks to have paid off official results from thursday's vote are beginning to trickle in but exit polling indicates his conservative party is on course for its biggest win in decades well the poll by u.k. broadcasters suggests the conservatives will get $368.00 seats in parliament a majority off $86.00 the main opposition labor party is expected to end up with fewer than 200 its worst results since 1935 and the vote count so far is confirming that labor is losing seats deep in its traditional heartlands one of the exit poll forecasts comes true and boris johnson will get his divorce deal approved by

parliament and the u.k.'s membership will end on january 31 alive to our london broadcast center shortly that's where jonah hall has full analysis on reaction as results come in but 1st this report from paul brennan. it had appeared that this election race was getting closer as polling day approached this exit poll though turns that belief upside down if accurate the outcome would mean the conservative party winning its biggest parliamentary majority since margaret thatcher's victory in 1907 a winning margin of $86.00 seats and the strength in numbers but boris johnson to push through his breakfast agenda and so much more within half an hour of the polls closing the prime minister took to social media to thank his supporters we live in the greatest democracy in the world he said for labor though bitter disappointment so extreme that if it is anywhere near this just anywhere anywhere near your right is over this will be extremely disappointing for the for the party overall from movement yes well this was the 1st december general election since 1023 but the

weather factor with driving rain and winter chill temperatures did not put off the voters in some areas long queues formed with people determined to exercise their democratic choice polling stations shut at 10 pm and the task of counting the millions of ballot papers began as in past elections the cities of newcastle and sunderland race each other to be the 1st to declare a result and wouldn't has been truly elected to serve as member for said constituency was the 1st results came in traditional labor strongholds in northeast england dramatically reduced labor majorities seem to confirm the accuracy of the exit poll result an implied valley a 10 percent swing away from labor so the conservatives overturn an $8000.00 labor majority or the prime minister boris johnson fortis as a breakfast election the slogan get bracks it done repeated over and over the

simplicity of the message clearly worked the translating slogan to reality will be a challenge in about 11 months the u.k. will be leaving without any deal and w.e.t.a. terms if it. consequence the trade deal with the european union that's an extremely tight deadline so while the politics of it are good for boris johnson the governance and the the implications for what is going to have to do and deliver on their promise are going to be really difficult when this is been described with some justification as the most important general election in the u.k. in a generation the outcome will decide the government for the next 5 years but it will also profoundly shaped the u.k. for the next 20 years or more paul brennan al-jazeera london let's get an update so with john howard joining us from london new center john over to you. yes well the count goes on through the night here in the united kingdom thanks for coming to us in the london studio the most important election here in britain for

years in a generation is how it's being billed in fact fought by parties seeking to take this country in radically different directions the key issue breaks at the dominant force according to the exit polls boris johnson and the conservative party with. their catch role a cultural campaign slogan get gregg's it done that seems to have captivated an electorate keen to do just that after 3 fraught years of indecision and uncertainty since the brig's it referendum and i'm joined in the studio here by a panel of guests let me introduce their mo hussein 1st of all a former advisor to david cameron worked in number 10 downing street with him. polly mckenzie work with nick clegg former leader of the liberal democrats now the chief executive of the think tank demos and john mcternan is here a former labor party strategist worked with tony blair on successive elections

thanks for joining us everybody i'll start with mo hussein if this exit poll is proven out and slowly as the count goes on we are seeing a number of labor heartland seats forming. it would be a massive vindication wouldn't it of the conservative party its strategy the promise to get president all the way to its choice of leader boris johnson after tourism i think the strategy in terms of focusing on one key message and touching on the issue that people clearly have been feeling a sense of frustration about given that we're still talking about this 3 and a half years later and haven't really moved on has certainly worked of course people will be thinking about other things as well whether it's cost of living education n.h.s. but actually i think the choreography to the conservative parties that are in terms of getting this thing done 1st and then dealing with other issues does seem to have

resonated with people but to be seen there are challenges that will lie ahead when you win the seeds you've never won before which is no big achievement but actually the conservative vision around a smaller state for example is in contrast to what labor are proposing so i think we need to see what the people who have voted conservative brush expecting and how these challenges can be met in government and of course on a wider scale the promise to get breaks it done is also not consistent with the european union's view of things and indeed the reality on the ground trying to get a trade deal done within a year. it's very possible isn't it that this slogan this campaign slogan could backfire it could backfire i mean i think the argument to be had actually will be about the the kind of shape and the scope of the deal so it could be a very simple you know to coin a phrase narrow and shallow deal that could be reached or there may be other people

who want a much more broader ambitious trade deals i think it's not really whether there will be a deal or not but it would be the nature of the deal that we seek to reach with the john let me turn to you now you know the labor party well of course in ordinary times when we know these aren't ordre times in ordinary times a party like the conservatives who've been in such disarray recently divisions internal infighting defections you've lost one prime minister you're replaced with another who's been found to have done wrong by the supreme court have misled the queen i mean a situation that would produce such easy pickings for an effective opposition to labour's failure here is a failure of strategy or a failure of leadership it's a failure of almost everything about the labor party its corporate leadership the devastating judgment on his leadership he appointed the advisers the strategists his strategy they devised the messaging the policies they double down on going left

in the manifesto and then went further left with more tax and spend immediately after the manifesto launch corben corba nights and carbon as some are not just been rejected by the electorate they should know leave the labor party well i'll read you an extraordinary indictment by alan johnson the former labor secretary it's called when it's corbin we knew he was worse than useless at all the qualities you need to lead a political party that was a tweet will jeremy corbin go do you think is a stubborn man he didn't go when his colleagues in the prime parliamentary labor party voted against on a massive vote in a conference didn't go. the shadow cabinet resigned he's impervious in a politics now is one where most of the both the leaders are shameless boris johnson shameless as we've seen hiding from interviewers in a fridge. corbett is shameless himself corben will probably not going mediately and you can already see the lines of the debate being formed by his supporters

saying it was a break in and want to talk about jeremy corben nothing to do with him he wasn't even present in the present but not involved yes ali let me switch back to you now i want to draw on your expertise on the lib dems 1st of all it hopes to gather the hopes of remainders and carry them into a good result in this election it looks rather like they will now be left to sort of languish in the wilderness of middle ground center ground politics i think the labor markets clearly have had a really dreadful night. at the decision to go for their kind of revoke policy. was was a bold one but was reliant on people really believing in this election the brits that kind of still could be stopped by our strengths and clearly convinced everybody that that wasn't the case that actually that the best and safest thing to do was 'd just sort of bundle up in the middle of an ready box and move on because of that people just thought that is

a choice between 1st johnson jeremy corbyn the big squeeze on the lib dems and in the end that's going to cost them a lot of seats you know ask you about the other big result of the night according to the next exit poll anyway a massive result for the scottish national party 55 seats up 23 according to the polls again what sort of clashed is that set up westminster moving forward with boris johnson a prime minister who has vowed not to grant another independence referendum they will make the case in westminster for that with those potentially $55.00 m. pays that will of course then be scottish elections it's possible that the s.n.p. will kind of sweep the board there. that the bar since it's not going to grant them another referendum and of course the case for scottish nationals is fundamentally undermined if the united kingdom moves further and further away from the e.u. because you know we worry about a hard border in northern ireland but actually a hard border gretna green is incredibly unpalatable economically between scotland

and england have had their economies integrated for hundreds and hundreds of years so i think if he can hold that off for low enough the case for independence will be fatally undermined what do you think to think boris johnson can can avoid what some people believe is an inevitable consequence of a hard break through the break up of the united kingdom i think he will certainly try his best and i think it depends again on the size of the majority what we see not projections but the bigger the majority the more confidence and the more power you have as a prime minister and so i think with numbers that are being projected he could easily avoid it is not high. to grant a referendum at all one question that is interesting in all of this if there is this enormous landslide landslide victory for boris johnson and the conservatives is the extent to which he becomes his own man the extent to which he comes to own the bricks it issue and its consequences and the extent to which he no longer has to be accountable to the right of his party is there

a possibility may i ask you john 1st for possibility do you think of boris johnson moving forward now into a much more sort of sensible stance on briggs it a softer britain a less economically damaging breaks it as others would see it given that he doesn't want to own the negative consequences of a brics well i think the the big thing is boris johnson owns everything from now on that is it he's got 5 years not just 5 or 10 years because labor can't come back within 5 years for defeat the scale he's got 10 years to plan that's enough time for him to actually make the changes to to to invest in the life sciences to do things with a great aunt in that sense he could shape the future. the 1st sign of whether you can do that or not is what he does and michael gove the most serious thinker in british politics at the moment about what britain could be like after breaks it is michael gove nobody on the labor side nobody lives democrat side hardly anybody in

the tories i was thinking about what does our country look like once we're no longer in the european union michael did what he has in defra he's been he's been strategizing now or is in his new position if he can be there as a driving force i think you might see the cut the government coming out with a program boris does not have a program he's got a feeling and the. him is one nation tory part of him is to be honest just a columnist like us a good idea for this week good idea for next week where's he going to find the spine of his party he is not right that's the accusation the corporate eyes throw out and it bounced off him because he clearly isn't he's not an ideologue is he an empty vessel that's the biggest question and now he's going after answer because no excuses you know you know pass the legislation will leave the european union it's his country has to settle has to win john mccain and we'll leave it there thanks very much because forest johnson. breaks it in its consequences of course but does

he own his very own constituency seat will not yet we'll know that in about an hour and a half's time and he would be standing by in the constituency of experts in south where there are concerns that boris johnson may not win his own seat. belt or not i think he's going to come here energized always thought boy that he will win this seat to have had been some concern among his campaign team that he may not may not be able to hold on to this seat not is because there had been a concerted campaign by the labor candidate head knocking on doors for the past few months in other candidates just determined to try to. seated and there is a large student population or 2 that seem to be galvanized to vote against course johnson however look about predicted exit poll it would seem very unlikely for boris johnson not to hold on to

a seat that said his majority was slashed to just by plows and in the 27000 election but talking to a couple of councillors here who have been campaigning on behalf of course johnson on the doorstep they have said that many people will but will have voted for him because he simply connects to the people and his message of get it done is what people want to hear and given this constituency voted to leave it'll be interesting to see how that translates at the ballot box in just a few hours' time but we've talked a lot with your guests about bricks that you know he would have been unthinkable for places like washington bligh absolutely unthinkable to go to the conservatives but that seems to be happening and i think that is because of the breadth that they still seem to just dominated this and time election i was in hartlepool just a few weeks ago it was very difficult to point to labor voted to talk to a man has been the labor temple 55 years and people told me they just didn't feel they could trust jeremy corbett but they felt they could trust forced on them i

believe that thank you so much more i want to ask you do you know what happens if or is johnson doesn't win his constituency. well there's a few theories doing the rounds one is involved in the house of lords so he could go into lords and then he could try and still retain a kind of prime minister role from there by election could be forced in a safe conservative seat where he could then run and come back as an m.p. i mean this is or i think there is some precedent for this but this is all kind of slightly pinder scary thinking as well. because if and when it happens i think very real and quick decisions will have to be taken on chartered territory yet again nothing ordinary about this election and with that financial markets welcoming the news of the tory majority the pound is up leaders incidentally meeting in brussels on thursday and friday also welcoming the possibility of a conservative majority everybody investors' leaders and a fair number of u.k.

voters want to see an end to the uncertainty of bracks writer journey thank you for that from london for the rest of the day's news coming up on the news hour including the libyan warlord when if i have to order his forces to advance into central tripoli saying the hour has arrived also i had. placed 2 people are killed in northeastern india as violent protests grow over a new citizenship law that it's so muslims and tiger woods captains the u.s. say to their worst start at the presidents cup in 14 years later as that in sports . the 1st members of the u.s. house judiciary committee are debating articles of impeachment against president donald trump house democrats are pushing for a vote to formally charge the president with abuse of power and obstruction of

congress trump's accuse of withholding aid to pressure ukraine into investigating his potential white house rival joe biden let's bring in mike hanna joining us from washington d.c. so the committee is debating amendments to the articles of impeachment against president trump what's happened so far and what do we expect to take place. well it's been an absolute marathon session it's 12 hours the judiciary committee has been debating and it still ongoing representatives of the committee are now taking a 30 minute break and then we'll see what happens when the resumption goes we are hearing from people connected to the committee that it appears the republicans are intent on continuing to introduce amendments to the floor the amendments of voted on but it's going along party lines all the time but republicans intent on playing the sound making the procedure last as long as possible if necessary for forcing the democrat chairman of the committee to actually postpone the process and pick it

up again tomorrow so far in the course of the day 12 hours as i say there's been 5 amendments introduced by republicans each of these have been voted on now the reason for this marathon session is that each of the 40 representatives in the judiciary committee able to speak for 5 minutes on each amendment so therefore it is basically inexhaustible the amount that people can speak once a new amendment is introduced then the 5 minute clause comes in again so this is a marathon process as i said and a very highly charged one too with both democrats and republicans sticking 2 points of argument that have been outlined for a long period of time bottom line this is the penultimate stage in the end of ph with the process once it's voted on in the judiciary committee it goes to the house rules committee to decide on a date and the procedure for

a house vote and then we have some sort of timeline on when that votes will take place in the house. well it's expected that it will be next week once this passes the judiciary committee but as i said it is possible to predict how long the judiciary committee proceeding is going to go republicans are absolutely intent on making it last as long as possible and this could go on right throughout the night and even through parts of tomorrow depending on how many more amendments the republicans introduce the key issue is to get to the vote in the judiciary committee now i must point out too that the chairman of the committee can i do any stage call proceedings to the end in terms of the rules of the committee hearing however gerry and that the democrats very loath to do that because that would just add munition to the republican claims that there is an innate bias against them in the democrat controlled committee and right to mike hanna thank you so all that's

going on the u.s. and china are reportedly close close to finalizing a modest trade agreements which would stop new tariffs and taking effect from sunday it's understood that the trumpet ministration will also reduce existing levies on chinese goods in return china will buy more american farm products and increase u.s. companies access to the chinese markets and earlier on thursday president getting very close to a big deal with china they want it and so do we meanwhile the mexican senate hasn't orse the revised 3 way trade deal with the u.s. and canada they're overhauling the 1994 north american free trade agreement or an after it's taken 3 years for the trade fact to reach this point. the libyan warlord 24 have tried has ordered his forces to advance towards the center of tripoli for what he's calling the final battle for the capital in a televised speech he said his fighters would soon be victorious have to who's

based in eastern libya began the tripoli offensive in april but has been largely held back to the city's outskirts. nor you know in america that has the amount we announced the decisive battle in the advancement towards the heart of the capital to set it free will break its chain that hostages and spread happiness in the hearts of its people tripoli will return to the historical light it once was becoming a capital for culture we will raise the flag of victory throughout squares closing the pages of injustice misery and defeat with victory we announce the birth of a new era so advanced now advanced and now advance our heroes. we'll just take you to london as the life picture coming to us from north london that is germany corbin the leader of the opposition he's in is linked to in north his constituency and that is the life picture just a reminder of the exit polls we're getting out of the u.k.

that the polls are indicating that the conservative party is on course for its biggest win in decades and not the labor party led by jeremy corben where you can see right there. 2 people have been killed in northeastern india during protest against contentious new legislation it'll give non muslim immigrants from some neighboring countries a path to citizenship opponents in assam state believe their ethnic and cultural identity is under threat or reporter is there. 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 protestors slogans rejecting the newly passed citizenship amendment bill or cab.

i as some has become the epicenter of the opposition to legislation that many here think does them an unfair hand. or job if outsiders get citizenship where will we live where is the space lose our farms our land then what will we eat. the sun's moons back decades the state shares india's border of bangladesh formerly called east pakistan until 1981 people here say between 19511971 a large number of bengali refugees took shelter in assam 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 it was after kept becomes a law millions of bengali hindis work on jobs we don't have jobs and we are already

a minority who can't make cap 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 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. bartok name only. this build would not harm even a little bit any minority especially our muslim brothers and sisters who live in

this country because this bill only give citizenship it doesn't take it away from anyone. who takes of the citizenship to say it violates india's secular constitution by specifically excluding muslims. who hati the sob. still out on the al-jazeera news hour tell you where the former bolivian president ever has been granted political asylum after fleeing his country . and why the historic return of test cricket to pakistan is proving frustrating peter. had though they were enjoying some fairly quiet conditions throughout much of china some tried to those high elevations but it wasn't

a sunshine by de soto how much is off airing pretty well in fact is the malda in shanghai for the last couple days and will continue along the theme 17 celsius in shanghai on friday 22 in hong kong we have got this is father to the south we could see want to shine through the old philippines and in fact by saturday we could just see one or 2 shots along these coastal areas over vietnam the cab beginning to build through the interior so maybe a cloudy day in shanghai with some sunshine in between then further to the south as they want to 2 shots across the philippines if you will 3 will central and southern areas but notice as heavy the rain across much of borneo some areas to the north seeing some heavier downpours but also on friday a much drive day generally throughout much of the mill a peninsula as well wanted to more showers on saturday but for the most part no such as wet as it has been 27 in singapore and the almost deafening housman showers and thunderstorms we've also got some rain. one golden sections of india so if you want further to the south because it is polk of weather here and this is actually

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world. on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our exit polls in the u.k. are predicting an emphatic victory for prime minister boris johnson's conservative party they're set to win 368 seats a majority off 86. and take a look at the. make sure that's germy leader of the opposition party in the opposition is expected to end up with fewer than 200 seats its worst result since

1935 the vote count so far is confirming that labor is losing seats deep in its traditional heartland and you're looking at a live picture right now for the leader. of north. back to john hall in our london broadcast center in looking at that live picture of germany corben one wonders what he must be thinking because according to the exit polls. it's a significant loss for the labor party. well the count in his own constituency may be his only victory tonight jeremy corbyn it is an extraordinary defeat by all accounts now according to the exit poll for the labor party for jeremy corbin personally as leader who has been so instrumental so key to policy and strategy within the labor party and more and more the results that we're seeing count by count constituency by constituency do seem to bear out the extent of this exit poll

victory for the conservative party and for boris johnson handing him a landslide victory an enormous majority $86.00 seats it's a blank check for boris johnson to do pretty much whatever he wants to do with breaks it and with the country moving forward let me bring in my guest now chris hopkins is still with us he's been with us for the last few hours with the polling groups around to commers chris let me just read out to you a couple of constituencies louis greater manchester labor since 1922 it's forms of conservatives wrexham north east wales labor since 1935 it's fallen to the conservatives workington that great construct of the election that the voter that the tories had to win over if they were going to win big the older white working class traditionally labor voter rugby league supporter they've won workington it all bears out doesn't it this exit poll at what point you think we can say yep it's

pretty much on the money yeah i mean i think we probably could have said that a few hours ago to be completely frank and even the size the extent of it yeah i think so because i think in you know as soon as the valley result came in that we could see over that was only one seat we could see in the others that they were holding what swing was going against them and it was going to the back of the party and in some cases it was also going to the conservatives and i think all we've seen since then is more of the same him away. this is one of the most boring elections up in part of because the result was a foregone conclusion about what i am and you know it is an absolute disaster for the labor party that's there's no way of dressing this up and as i say about the state of the labor party today that the i mean these are people with labor in the blood in their bones in generations who just a few short years ago would have considered it maybe a decade ago completely unthinkable to vote for anyone but labor i think we've seen a massive realignment in british politics particularly for you know for your white

working class white working class people i think you know what we have seen in our polling is that far more people with russia about 2 to one define themselves only lever mainlines rather than by any any political party it's actually very similar to what we saw was gotten in 2014 where no longer was party politics relevant it became all about it probably depends and on the independents and while the remaining vote in the united kingdom will continue to be split along you know 3 or 4 parties or i'm led policy and to the extent that the liberal democrats that believe it isn't because the brits the party have to be honest played a blinder this election they stood aside to allow the conservatives to comfortably hold the vast majority of states and then in a way they haven't complained campaigned massively hard in in labor health states poverty fuel hardly poor being an exception to that which we've seen this evening

you know they've taken votes from labor voters from you know from the white working class you mention scotland scotland is an interesting story of the scottish national party have done extremely well up 20 seats again according to exit poll. how does that bode for the prospects of a 2nd independence referendum in scotland i think i think the pay and the independence movement in scotland is still at a crossroads i think that no matter how many seats they have in westminster ultimately they're still in the achieving about 40 percent of the vote. they don't have a majority within the scottish parliament although they are majorities are relatively difficult to come by because the electoral system there or the how platform before but ultimately the power to grant scotland in the pens referendum still lies with whom we pick up and westminster and there is no way that i can see a conservative a lot of conservative majority government would be approving as far as i'm concerned chris can you in all of this force see in the short to medium or ever

returned in this quite transformed fractured landscape to the old politics of 2 parties of stable majorities of tribal predictable loyalties or is this a landscape changed forever i think it will look like we're going to have a stable majority tonight so i guess the last few elections where we've had hung parliaments are very slim majority might not necessarily be a thing of the past for good but it is definitely not what we're saying tonight i think that has obviously been a huge shift in. electoral politics and you know look we're not going to have another election 5 years i can say is the pulse on particular disappointed about up i think. is a long time i think what the conservative m.p.'s and the conservative party now they're representing a group of people that they have never really represented before and their policies are going to have to appeal to those long term we saw a very. conservative manifesto this election and it was all about bricks it's so

between speeches that we say in the few days time it's going to need to have a programme for government in it a programme for government that goes beyond just talking about bracks it is going to be whether the conservative party can hold these votes come 2024 which is likely we will see a new election i think we've heard some labor talking heads tonight which. and some of the other members of the shadow cabinet is kind of saying that yes this is bad for the labor party but the 2024 election or whatever it is won't be the bracks it's election. maybe that will be an opportunity for labor whoever the leader is of raster coben or not remains to be say they'll give them the option to try and win those votes back ok chris hopkins with the other groups about to congress thanks and you heard it from chris there probably an hour ago we could already say that this exit poll result of massive majority of the conserved body and boris johnson is being borne out in the count it is likely and looking accurate how right john i

think you for that well european union leaders have agreed to turn their ball carbon neutral by 2050 but not everyone's on board poland has been left out of the commitment for now its diplomats say the country will achieve the goal in its own time the agreement reached during a summit in brussels was the 1st test of whether the proposed european green deal might turn into real action on climate change the bodies of 6 people killed in a volcanic eruption in new zealand on monday have been recovered from white island families waited on shore during the military operation and went ahead despite the high risk of another eruption and warnings of talks a gas almost 30 people are being treated for severe burns at hospitals across new zealand and australia another recovery mission will be lost for the 2 bodies remaining on the island one fortunately there are mines 2 more people there we need to find so we can also i return them. so this operation

will continue. we will. have the saf to known returning with a aerial search. to see if we can identify anyone else on the armament and we are also right now are deploying had dive team to search the surrounding motorists. i mean mars leader has urged the world's top court to dismiss a genocide case against her country or as have outlined allegations of mass murder deportation and rape following a 27 crackdown on rohingya muslims when he reports from 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 caught me on my ass stands accused of genocide

in the closing arguments the gambia as lawyers said the suggestion by me and mine 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 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 my 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 me and muslim leader aung san suu kyi again didn't address the specific allegations but called on the case to be thrown out there my requests the court to remove the case from its this in the alternative to reject the press for the

indication of provisional measures submitted by the can. if approved those measures would involve the court ordering me and mars government to ensure the security of the rigging so certainly if the court would order provisional measures it's that on 1st glance with not of intensive fact finding on 1st glance that there is probably acts of genocide a decision on that could be made within weeks. 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. algerians are still waiting to hear official results from an election on thursday that many say was a sham anti-government protesters denounced all 5 candidates for being too close to the regime of former president abdelaziz bouteflika bernard smith reports. 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 is presidential election at algeria and state t.v. found a busy place to show its of us this is all around what the ocean any at the hip 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 b.j.

are protesters to all the ballot papers and rip them up they wanted to make it clear they think the election is a fast. moving 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 the all. the algerian say they are aware that they need the massive popular legitimacy and that's why we're noticing since this morning thousands of all germans going to polling stations and this is a real answer did knows who are 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 i feel 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 but it was a good 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 this was i mean this guy is a for. similar. there with all of the people to feel. what i won't vote if i vote or betray my country no lections with the gangs that's it my brother said . with a 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. west africa top court has ordered sierra leone to get rid

of a law that prevents pregnant girls from attending schools the echo us court says a violated their right to an education rights groups hope the decision puts pressure on 17 other african countries who have similar laws it's unclear whether sierra leone will follow the court's ruling i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack in the chair that killed at least 70 soldiers their camp near the western border with mali sustained hours of heavy gunfire late on tuesday a further $122.00 soldiers were injured in the last 4 months more than $230.00 soldiers in the. faso have been killed he did just like you he dedicated the detachment in the 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 our position for 3 hours a search in pursuit has been launched in the footsteps of terrorists fleeing from

our borders it's been a year since yemen's government and houthi rebels signed the un back to agreement in sweden aimed at ending the war at the time it was encouraging news after years of fighting that's caused what's described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis but so far it's failed to deliver as victoria getting the reports. this time last year there was a sense of cautious optimism among yemenis meeting in sweden's capital stock the heathy chief negotiator and yemen's foreign minister agreed to a ceasefire in her data the poultice the main route for food and medical aid into yemen. and this the sides reached what the un called an understanding on deescalation in the city of tire as the other major center of fighting in the area . mediate is involved in the still came to say the language in the final agreement was too vague and too many details were left on result we were hoping

that the talks in stockholm could get you a few more days to make it more clear and for this reason these. events had not been implemented on the ground. the un had a very optimistic view and thought that this could be implemented within one month . when a fragile ceasefire in her data allowed some aid in fighting escalated in other parts of yemen in august separatists who want to split north from south yemen backed by the u.a.e. seized control of the pull city of aden that led to months of fighting with yemeni government forces. and david the last year the who the rebels claimed responsibility for a number of cross border attacks into saudi arabia including drain strikes on some of the world's largest oil processing plants which knocked out more than half of the kingdom's entire oil output now it would make a defining moment how the. house now would be rebiya i cannot

it. could be their own engines. since their momentum has been growing to end the violence in yemen you know taiba the u.a.e. which backs the southern separatists withdrew its forces from aden that led to a peace deal between the yemeni government and the separatists and last month the un reported a significant reduction in the number of saudi led coalition airstrikes that coincided with reports that the coalition and the rebels had held indirect talks mediated by a man. millions of yemenis who suffered bombings starvation and displacement will be hoping the warring factions give diplomacy a chance and the war ends at long last victoria gayton be algis their. children's congress has rejected a move to impeach president sebastian pinera opposition m.p.'s saipan era failed to prevent human rights violations by the army and police at least 26 people have been

killed and thousands injured in a crackdown on protesters but politicians threw the motion out saying of the not meet the constitutional threshold for ousting a president. olivia's deposed president ever morales has landed in argentina after being granted asylum here arrived from mexico where he's been staying since fleeing bolivia last month he was forced out following mass protests over accusations that he regs october's presidential election terrorism and she explains why argentina's new government has given rollo's a safe haven. cristina fernandez de kirchner was president of argentina and while she was in office the relationship between argentina and bolivia was a very very close one and that's why it will what is coming here there's also a very large will live community here in in argentina he has lots of support in this country and it's also in a way shed some light of what plans more lives has for the future right now the

current administration interim administration in bolivia is preparing for elections in the near future probably april or may they're selecting the members of the electrode proview now after the one that was in place was accused of committing fraud among many other things that it is expected that it will want to list could be the campaign manager of the movement towards socialism party that his party and believe yes so he's going to be participating actively in what happens in bolivia in the next month and that's why many say that from argentina he's going to be much closer to what's happening in his country welding is being blamed for starting a fire on russia's only aircraft carrier please 10 people were hurt this is a further delay to return to sea for the aging ship a giant crane collapsed on it during repairs last year. it's.

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a half. thank you very much for the 1st time in 14 years the international team leads gulf presidents cup after day one tiger woods provided the only relief for his u.s. team at royal melbourne in australia who's playing captain this year teamed up with justin thomas to win the only point of the day as they beat marc leishman and $4.00 and $3.00 otherwise it was the internationals who outclassed the americans to take a for me i'd. probably to go on air in the car and when i've done what i've

done you're not out of it yet and with this long which major league baseball is introducing major changes next season by adding opioids and cocaine to withstand a drug testing program but marijuana has been removed from its list of drugs of abuse it follows the death of angels pitcher tyler skaggs in july where it was concluded addiction to painkillers played a significant part of the players' union have agreed to the changes and those not cooperating with treatment plans will face disciplinary action the historic return of test cricket to pakistan after 10 years looks like being dampened by the weather in rawalpindi just 18 overs of play were possible on day 2 of the 1st test against sri lanka there was enough time for down on the silver to make a half century for the tourists he was unbeaten on 72 when bad light stopped play

and the only wicket to fall into shahid afridi removing their for 33 the sri lankans were 263 for 6 at the close much better conditions in perth australia bettered 1st in the opening test against new zealand monosyllabic shane with the same tree he was 110 not out at the close of play the australians were 248 for. ferrari's chief executive louis come alarie has admitted the team of spoken to world champion lewis hamilton about joining them in the future but come a larry added that a meeting between chairman john alcan and hamilton at a social event has been blown out of proportion hamilton who's been with mercedes since 2030 and won a 6th world title this season as one year left on his existing contract and has said he'll carefully consider he's next move. the organizers of the

paris 2024 olympics were always going to stage their surfing events away from the city but nobody was expecting it to be on the other side of the world they proposed events at the games will be staged in a hoop or on the coast of the heat in french polynesia it's nearly 60000 kilometers and 11 time zones away from paris but it is a regular stop for events in the world surf league decision still needs to be agreed by the international olympic committee though. organizers of the tokyo 2020 paralympics are expecting record attendance and with over $3000000.00 requests made for tickets so far now unlikely a lympics a few weeks earlier the paralympic marathons will not be moved north susa poorer due to the hot conditions at least were consulted and said they wanted these races staged in tokyo with many marathon nat'l it's also competing in track events during

the games a move will be logistically difficult for them to accommodate the marathon is also the last event of the whole of talk you're 2020 and athletes believe competing on the streets of the city in a free event that anyone can attend is a way of saying thank you for the tremendous support talk you residents have shown the paralympic movement over the last 7 years. the u.s. ice hockey hall of fame is set to induct its 1st african-american 82 year old neil henderson started the fort dupont ice hockey club more than 40 years ago encouraging minority players and fans to get involved in the sport anderson was on the ice for the ceremonial puck drop ahead of wednesday's game between the washington capitals and boston bruins. koala it is back in toronto for the

1st time since winning the n.b.a. championship with his former team he was honored before the game receiving his championship ring when it left the raptors after leading into their 1st n.b.a. title he didn't join the l.a. clippers in july on a $103000000.00 contract he had a mixed response from fans are these new team beat toronto $11292.00 scoring $23.00 of those points. football fans in sweden have been showing their anger towards the latter and abraham of its again the statue of the striker outside malmo stadium has seen a number of attacks by vandals this time they tried to saw through his feet either which caused controversy last month by investing in a big rivals hammer b. he's home in stockholm has also been vandalized and that's all the sports news we have a for now we'll see you again later for another update. from peter from myself and

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