with not really than yours we meet with global news makers and tweak the stories that matter just 0. iran's supreme leader calls on voters to come out in large numbers in a parliamentary election dominated by conservative candidates. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up millions told to set home in south korea with fears a coronavirus outbreak bag could get out of control. the city's prime minister goes to south africa hours before he was due to be charged with killing his wife. united against hate tens of

thousands pay tribute to the victims of a far right extremist attack in germany. a rainy and the voting in parliamentary elections under the shadow of economic sanctions the turnout is expected to be rather low thousands of candidates have been barred from running by the guardian council that's iran's constitutional watchdog and it includes thousands of members of parliament the u.s. has responded by imposing new sanctions or members of that council accusing them of rigging the election dosage of arias our correspondent in tehran the iranian capital of people coming out then in large numbers as the supreme leader has urged them to. well i think it's

a bit too early to say whether or not the turnout has been large in numbers it's been only just over 4 hours since the polls opened here we are in a mosque in. is where we are and i just 1st want to show you what the voting process looks like here the people line up outside the mosque and they make their way in where they register electronically with their national id cards they are then given the sheets of with a number of candidates they're supposed to vote for that is 30 in tehran to represent them in the next parliament and they come over to this other side where they have the lists of the candidates that have been approved over 1500 names have been approved for. them to choose 30 people that they want to represent them in the next parliament they come down to the ballot boxes here and cast their votes this is the process that has been going over the past few hours here that many people we spoke to that have come out to vote say that they are doing this not necessarily

because they support one side or de other but that they support the institution's establishment as a whole and they consider this their national duty that is something we also heard from the country the country's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei earlier this morning who was one of the 1st people to vote in the country. and have you picked up on any kind of disquiet among those who are coming out with those at the vetting of the candidates of we have the stand that many of even those existing members of parliament were disqualified from reese standing in the sea. yes certainly there's been 81 members of the current parliament that have been disqualified but interestingly enough i just spoke to the former foreign minister. spokesperson who is now working with the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif

a foreign minister and he told me that they are looking at a number of people that have been approved to run as independents so he said that they are also waiting for 2 days and then the results believe that this problem and will likely be more run by independents who conservatives rather than the traditional reformists that we've seen in the current parliament that we're seeing now there is a sense that this shift will take place between from a reformist leading parliament to a conservative one and that is something that is not good for the current government and president rouhani despite the fact that he's tried over and over again to improve the country's economy inflation is at 40 percent and you're seeing unemployment rates and you know the 20 percent this is something that the current government is saying is because of economic terrorism that's been waged on iran by the united states since they withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 iran's finds itself in a very difficult position economically and that is why we're see today's elections

become so critical because whether or not people vote it's believed that the conservatives will have control of the parliament and that is something that could really change the future of deals with the international community and the world right towards that thank you for that. chorus want to reporting from the iranian capital now let's go to central iran there has been a smith is in is from harm. the city and the province is a conservative stronghold in the last parliamentary elections and 206010 of the 19 seats up for grabs went to serve to candidates and in this 165 of those 10 seats were won by conservatives this time around is 3600000 people eligible to vote and everyone who decides to come and vote has to choose from a listener of a 109 different candidates most of those coming dates are conservative

candidates the reformists they are all almost all of them were disqualified and when people are chosen from at least 2 they want a marker down of about paper over there and then the vote is cast in the ballot box there are hopes in this part of the country for a strong turnout the government wants a strong turnout to show that it has popular support. that south korea has announced the measures the measures to contain what's now the highest number of corona virus infections outside china health authorities say there are 204 cases nationwide 100 of them are 40 don't friday most of them a link to a religious group in the southern city of jager in the capital so mass gatherings and rallies have been banned let's go live now to rather pride a correspondent who has now arrived in day and rob tell us what have you found now you've arrived. it is alarming reading

the latest figures that have been released this friday by health officials showing the base in the last 24 hours the total number of cases of corona virus in south korea has practically doubled down it's a largely due to this city which is at the epicenter of this outbreak which has the whole of south korea now worried and also centered as you mentioned there on a particular church it does seem as though most of these new cases have been church goers who attended a couple of recent church gatherings and church services those church goers then not only from this city but also from other cities and towns they went back to those places we have municipalities and other cities reporting new cases but all linked back to this one church and of there is a lot of focus also on one particular church goer she is known as victim number 31

basically she was one of the earlier people to be diagnosed with corona virus and it does seem as though she was one of the 1st within this church to have the virus potentially passing it on to other churchgoers what has the whole city here though concerned is that as well as going to that church she went about her normal everyday life for a couple of days even though she was showing symptoms and that has the whole city worried about just where she might have contaminated or passed on the infection to which other areas in which other people let me just step step back here and give you a look down this street where we are now this is the main entertainment and shopping district downtown district of daegu it's a friday evening here normally this place would be teeming with life people having early supper finishing work people out still shopping it is practically deserted the mayor of this city has told people whatever you do please stay indoors don't

venture out in that it seems. it is just what people are not doing they are not going outside everybody here it seems is waiting to see just what happens next whether this is under control or whether it is the start of some potential outbreak which are everybody's waiting to see just where it might lead and early days a novella but it has a has any direct link been established between the community the church community there in daegu and mainland china and particularly will handle who bay province. that is the unfortunate thing about this thing everybody seems to be linking at this outbreak back to this 61 year old woman she had no connection what whatsoever it seems with mainland china this was a secondary in fact this is the concern of course that now you get these 2nd or 3rd infections starting out that have nothing at all to do with china and are difficult

to control the authorities here are putting in various measures they are setting up testing clinics they have delayed the start of the new school term and the priority now is to work through the register of the parishioners of this church the members of the church and believe it or not there actually 9000 members of this church just in daegu and 1000 of those are thought to have attended these recent gatherings when we have had these mass infections all right for now thank you very much indeed robin wright there live in. private news coming in from bangkok the taika capital now the constitutional court there has ruled that the 3rd biggest political party must be this and it let's go live now to bangkok wayne hayes our correspondent there he is actually at party headquarters now this is the future forward party way in which it particularly well in the last election and with a new and exciting electoral option mussing for the people of thailand.

yes it certainly was and we saw some pretty angry emotional scenes from the supporters who were gathered here at the headquarters of the future forward party as they watched the live stream come in from the constitutional court and listen to the judges read out the verdict in this case and that verdict was as you mentioned that the party is dissolved and the 11 members of its executive essentially the core leaders of this political party are banned from politics for the next 10 years now this all surrounds money that was given to the party by its charismatic leader tunnels on june room rowing kit basically funded through the election campaign in the lead up to the election in march last year it totaled just over $6000000.00 u.s. dollars now the party that was alone and therefore it was exempt from political party laws which obviously a fairly strict around individual donations to political parties the judges in the court disagreed they said that it was a gift or it was

a donation and therefore it was way above the permitted amounts that an individual can give to a political party which is just over 3 $100000.00 so certainly as you say this very popular new face in thai politics is now dissolves and i mean the hope for a lot of people in thailand is also gone. away they live in bangkok thank you. well weeklong reduction in violence is geezer begin in afghanistan at midnight on friday the deal was part of a wider agreement struck between the us and taliban representatives in doha and if this phase is successful it could pave the way for negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government as well as for a withdrawal of u.s. forces casualties are mounting in military operations in northern syria turkey says 2 of its soldiers now being killed in airstrikes near it late province there's been

intense shelling between opposition and syrian government forces who are making their push for the last rebel held province the u.n. says the operations resulted in the largest displacement of civilians since the conflicts r.-t. of 9 years ago almost 900000 people have fled and they're now massed on the border with turkey. find out how it's affected lives. and i would still rains daily throughout indonesia as you might expect as we are in late february now the rains become a little bit more frequent further north and typically we've got with this breeze

the eastern side of the philippines include again mostly in luzon and showers turning round to hit the far south of thailand's well and rather more of princeton the lazier than has been the case but there are still good deep blue and orange blobs throughout jobber for example so the potential for flash floods is still there and is the time of the year to watch out for cyclists in australia and guess what this clump of thunderstorms in the gulf of carpentaria will probably turn into just that this is the forecast now for saturday for sunday i'll show you and that circulation pretty obvious so there we are we'll probably watch it heading slowly west which will keep you up to date with that equally further south in queens and is significant showers orange tops just think of the size of the constant this is a significant amount of rain it's not as wet as it was in most new south wales but you see sudden queens and in some parts of new south wales will see that for the next day or so for the south is quite not as cold as it was as well we have again perth is at $32.00 degrees in a few showers in western australia western australia's got more

a fire risk now than did the east. precedented fire season has killed more than a 1000000000 and. one i want to investigate. on al-jazeera. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by north point 8 percent we'll bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in to what extent will china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on our own just 0.

tarvaris a take of the top stories here at al-jazeera voting is under way in iran's parliamentary elections the avril turnout expected to be low particularly among reformist phrases after thousands of candidates were barred from running. south korea's announced another spiking coronavirus infections bringing the national total to $204.00 it's now the worst affected country outside china the government's imposed in measured sea measurements. timon's constitutional court has decided to dissolve the 3rd largest political bloc in the country ruling came after the future foreign policy and its leader were accused of breaking election finance law. now the city's prime minister will not be appearing in court on friday to face charges in connection with the murder of his wife because it's out of the country thomas to ban his

secretary says he's attending a prearranged doctor's appointment in south africa to ban his court appearance will have to be reshaped showed he was set to be charged with the murder of deport. who was shot near her home in 2017 well let's go live now to miss sarah the suit capital outside the courthouse a correspondent for medium miller for me to say this is an interesting turn of events than. well martin what appears to be a very complex case has certainly become more complicated now that the prime minister is in south africa he said while his private secretary has said that it's due to medical reasons this was scheduled ahead of time and there were rumors circulating earlier that he had fled the country but his private secretary says that isn't the case and that the prime minister is willing and ready to be in court just not today but to give us a better idea of what happens next with speaking to the deputy police commissioner

. care to mr mackay to now that the prime minister to bonnie is in south africa and is not appearing in court or the police in a position where they would want to issue a warrant of arrest. because. if we get all the information that will convince us that. it was an not. expected i think we shall wait until he. comes up. he comes and appears before the court of law and asked how his wife and i see eye to bonny was previously charged for it as the same charges against both murder and attempted murder do as the police know she said in the country. don't have any information to their heralds of. the facility.

nor yet. now previously the police commissioner had said they was concern around political interference given that he faced losing his job and had to go to court to protect it is there concern that this case being so complex is one that can't be separated from the very so sensitive politics in a suit to well. then saw i don't think it has any political interference so it was just recently when. from witnesses who believe that they are going to appear before the court of law and. we do know that they were is one piece of evidence that has been put into the public domain and that's that the phone used by the prime minister has been linked to the crime scene and and the very these charges very much based around that does the police believe it has a strong case in prosecuting the prime minister yes we have

a very strong the prime minister not only the fall but also. which is we are going to present for the court of law which is. all right mr makiya to thank you very much for your time today that was the deputy police commissioner but . now we do know that the fall america is expected to reconvene today and this is an important development a full a suitor given that there is expectation that they would be some word on the fate of the prime minister we do know that his own party the all of us who to convention had wanted him to resign he says he will do that at the end of july but for many of the party members that's just not soon enough given that the gravity of the charges that he's facing for me for now thank you for me to live in missouri. the leaders of uganda and rwanda and jews are made in the coming hours for a new round of talks aimed at easing cross border tensions

a trade imposed by rwanda continues to have a major impact on the lives of people in both countries and some ugandan economists say the country's already lost $75000000.00 in revenue since the crossing was shot a year ago catherine story reports now from the ugandan border town of. on an ordinary day this road heading to uganda's blood oath wanda would be battling queues of trucks and thousands of people crossing the border for business school and other reasons but this are not ordinary times when they impose a trade blockade traders likely napco franco a suffering because of it has run his shop at the border town of kut for 30 years and say their comic situation is a what he's seen is in the thick of my business has been badly affected i cannot make ends meet i used to make a profit of about $1000.00 a month lucky if i make even hopeful that with no viable business many have moved

away all these shops had been rented out but traders have had to close up because there's no business though still here are residents of this border town they tell us life has become incredibly difficult. tells us her husband both school too he was killed last year by random security forces as he tried to smuggle tobacco to the neighboring country using an illegal route several traders who have attempted to use smuggling routes also say to have been killed or harassed. that morning he was very happy as usual he left for rwanda with his bicycle and goods i was called in the evening that my husband is dead and he was shot in rwanda . the situation across the border in florida is equally dire rundowns have been restricted from traveling to uganda for their own safety both countries have

accused each other of how burning dissidents using spies and arresting innocent civilians several meetings between the 2 sides have failed to deescalate the situation to go what they will their take on terror. to feel free to go to gondor and then the next the day they're arrested so there again . the music. you disagree with does. ugandan government officials say talks to resolve the dispute are going well and the border will soon be open some economists say the country has already made huge losses i am told us her husband died because he was desperate to do anything to and money for his family now they've lost their sole provider and she doesn't know what to do next catherine soy al-jazeera the tuna or the uganda rwanda boda. germany's president has also nation to stop using hateful language in the wake of

a far right attack that killed 9 people several vigils have been held in honor of those killed in the city of her now from where dominic kane now reports. on a cold day in february the german head of state expresses his simple sentence in caps relating in the simple acts of the feelings of many his people for those who died here. this is where a 43 year old german used illegally owned a gun to target turks and kurds he repeated his attack of this other venue where those 2 ethnic groups congregate. when his killing spree there was complete he returned home and murdered his mother before shooting himself federal prosecutors are working on the basis he was a far right supporter see. that sign the goal of the investigation will be to find out whether there are all accessories or supporters for these attacks and. we will clarify the contacts and environment of the suspected perpetrator in the country

but also potential contacts overseas. up clear them. some of the survivors have described their ordeal. the man entered to decide and then he came to our site he shot straight to the head of everyone he saw he laid down and then he fired at all of us i had to behind a wall as i was moving to hide he shot me in the arm i laid it on somebody somebody laid on me and somebody else laid on him we became a pile. the sense of shock in this community is pretty clear already floral tributes have begun to be laid outside one of the venues where so many people were shot dead on wednesday night. political reaction has been swift all parties condemning the murders and ministers making a frank assessment of the danger of far right violence. and this is the 3rd right

wing assassination in germany we call this is terrible this is a terrible realisation because these means their right wing extremism has become a threat for germany again which is a threat for everyone who lives here this is. a canvas. that is a reference to moments like this last autumn 2 people were shot dead outside a synagogue in the eastern city of helen a 27 year old man is in custody in relation to the killings and earlier last year the christian democrat marable western german city was shot dead by a person with known links to the far right. ministers have stressed they are investing more time and resources into the fight against far right violence but some people are wondering who else must suffer before society takes the threat more seriously dominic cain al-jazeera hanau. arlen's prime minister

has has resigned after an inconclusive result of the recent general election liver atika will say on there as caretaker until his successor is chosen none of the 3 largest is one enough seats to secure an outright majority now a team of explosives experts is trying to find unexploded bombs or rockets that are putting lives of living libyans at risk the bombs can remain hidden for years in their affairs at the going civil war can kill even more people math would up to one head reports from tripoli. explosives experts to recover a rocket that landed in this farm on the outskirts of tripoli it did not explode but for more adam is still in shock. i was sitting inside at night when i heard a huge blow i thought windows shattered i rushed out to check everywhere i found

a hole in the farm and dust scattered all over the grass this farm is in the war leader added neighborhood of tripoli about 15 kilometers from the front line the internationally recognized the government accuses forces loyal to warlord $24.00 have to of targeting a residential areas since have began his oftens of on the capital in april explosives experts have been receiving a good many calls about unexploded ordinance. more than his colleagues know the dangers but also that the job they do can save lives if the rocket is not found and made safe then it called explode later and kill civilians they finally managed to dig it out. but the fear. it didn't explode because it hit fragile soil if it hit the house will send shrapnel within a wide range we only have primitive tools to recover such ordnance we contacted

many institutions but had no response so far. officials here say nearly 6 tons of unexploded devices have been collected in tripoli since april some have been destroyed and some have been temporarily stored in the headquarters of the national safety agency. just because. we have a special store in salaheddine area but we can't currently reach it because it's now in the middle of the frontline international efforts to in the conflict have so far failed and a cease fire brokered by russia until last month did not last for long the bomb disposal team has recently launched a campaign to raise people's awareness of unexploded munitions the weapons you see here are to be detonated later somewhere in the deserts everyone is hoping the war will end so but for these experts it does not mean the end of their work they say

some of the unexploded ordinance will remain hidden a likely put the threat for years to come. up to a head. to police. these are the top stories here at al-jazeera very ting's under way in iran's parliamentary elections the ever will turnout expected to be low particularly among reformist voters after thousands of candidates were barred from running. south korea has announced another spike in corona virus infections bringing the national total to $204.00 that's made it the worst affected country outside china the government is imposing emergency measures thailand's constitutional court has decided to dissolve the 3rd largest political bloc in the country where the reading

came after the future forward party and its leader were accused of breaking election finance laws the city's prime minister told me he will not appear in court to face murder charges for his 2nd wife because he's out of the country to ban his secretary says he's had he had a prearranged doctor's appointment in south africa to be on his court appearance will have to be reshaped jewels his 2nd wife. was shot near her home in 2017 for me to miller has more from the sorry. the private secretary to the prime minister tabo has been at pains to say that the rumors that he's fled are untrue and that this is a routine check up and many would ask what would the check up not then have been moved if considering just how grave these charges are the private secretary say that says that the prime minister's health is important we have also spoken to the

deputy commissioner of police who says that if the prime minister does not appear in court which at this point we now know is the case they would consider a warrant of arrest for the prime minister. a week long reduction in violence is due to begin in afghanistan at midnight on friday it was proud of a deal struck during tools which we in the u.s. and taliban representatives in doha if it goes well it could pave the way for negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government. prime minister has resigned after his party failed to secure an outright majority in recent general election and. will stay on as caretaker and tellus at cessna is. what i want the students next in 2009 a torture victim of the brutal argentine bedelia regime confronted his interrogator tortured no no no not the older daughter until i was in target has justice now been

served for the atrocious crimes committed decades earlier i didn't talk to him or telling lies and investigation into the dark history of argentina why didn't they kill me in the end rewind interrogating a torture on al-jazeera. for more than 6 months the strain of the. millions of victims have been school sit down thousands of fluids destroyed and dozens of lives. beyond the human tragedy is the wildlife catastrophe of staggering proportions the corpses littering the ground nothing could have prepared me for the scale is.