is it possible to be jewish and critical of zionism. i do palestinian solidarity or that it's the most jewish thing i can what about the treatment towards the palestinians and the occupation that is. al-jazeera correspondent. this is al-jazeera. hello there i'm more heated with the al-jazeera news are coming to you live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes joe biden pulls ahead in georgia inching closer to 270 electoral votes that are needed to become the 46 president of the

united states. it's stoned to each and every vote it's the race to the white house is heading for a full 2 finish with the gap not donald trump until biden in the battleground states. democratic and republican supporters trade calls to count every ballot dollar trump a game that makes on the proven claims of folks are frauds. and after deploying troops and ethiopia's north the president to clear is the region a no fly zone to stamp out a separatist struggle. and i'm far as well have all the day's sport including a miserable night for ac milan as they suffered their worst ever european defeat at the san siro. but it's been 3 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president. the race to the white house is headed for

a 4 to finish with every hour narrow in the gap between donald trump and joe biden well here's the overall picture there are just 4 battleground states left to catch any one of them could give joe biden the win now he's just pulled ahead in georgia where he is in the lead also across in nevada trump is ahead in the other 2 states but the margins are razor thin the states that are being counted in the ones you see here in yellow nevada georgia north carolina and pennsylvania of course currently biden has 264 electoral college votes and trump has 214 that still puts both in range of the magic number 217 a likely result on just 2 of those battleground states now as we've been saying biden is now leading in georgia by

a range of 900 votes the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots are coming from the city of atlanta a math is a democratic stronghold of ahead across pennsylvania that's the state of the race there we're hearing that a decision is june in pennsylvania in the coming hours remember of course this is the states were joe biden was born trumps leading in that state but that lead has been shrinking consistently and the remaining mail in ballots again are mostly coming from democratic leaning cities as philadelphia pittsburgh and there suburbs know this is giving biden a good chance to catch up on the 18000 or so votes that donald trump is ahead no trump has lashed out at the time it's taking for the remaining votes to be tallied in those key states he's saying the election was being rigs and store and saying that further legal action is imminent also in georgia and has more now on the

counts and the controversy surrounding it. counting the ballots one by one in georgia one of several states that could yet determine who will be the u.s. president on january 20th 2021 the incumbent donald trump demanded again on thursday that the counting is a legal and must be stopped if you count the illegal votes by easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. the election from us if you count the votes that came in late by looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late trump has repeatedly and incorrectly said the process could be sabotaged but it's actually common for states to need several days to count every vote but trump isn't just complaining he's suing in nevada the trump campaign is hoping this woman's story of alleged voter fraud will shut down the count there are going to vote in this called i have

a vote i personally can matter and you and yours are her it started in person this current been mailed out the garlic and somebody took my ballot officials denied stuckey's charges saying they did everything possible to help her vote and in michigan a judge rejected trump's request to halt vote counting in that state around the clock trump supporters have been protesting the vote count even demanding to be let into the rooms where the ballots are being counted after meeting with his campaign staff in delaware democratic candidate joe biden said he trusts the process senator i would continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is fully shannon harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working. the count

is being completed and we'll know very soon so no declaration of victory just yet given the 2 big unknowns the status of the vote counting and the status of the trump campaign's legal challenges roslyn jordan al-jazeera. a white house correspondent kimberly hawk it is watching all the action unfold from washington d.c. where carol it's just after 5 o'clock in the morning where you are certainly this new lead that joe biden has taken in georgia will mean i'm on a very easy night sleep for many people in the white house what exactly does this lean in georgia mean for the presidential race. well it's bad news for donald trump and i suspect he was up all night because about 2 hours ago he was tweeting from the white house it's not it's about 5 am here local time in washington d.c. it's not yet daylight so the president has been watching this lead that he had

slowly slip away and what i suspect is that in the coming days and even weeks we're going to be talking a lot about the u.s. state of georgia because it's not just the state that potentially could push joe biden over the edge in the direction that he wants but also it could deliver control of the senate now that we're talking weeks ahead but in terms of 2 runoff elections right now the republicans remain in control but as they have a potential run off not one but 2 runoff elections that could potentially change so i'm getting a little bit ahead of myself for now what we're focusing on is donald trump and joe biden and where that contest will end the counting is still going on in georgia it's not yet complete so we can't say that this is a state delivered just yet but certainly this is a trend that has been going in joe biden struction for many days and hours and it's

clearly a worrying sign and very quickly with reference to those tweets that donald trump was sending about 2 hours ago he is still saying that he could easily win the presidency if we stopped the vote counting on election day but what we know is due to cope with $1000.00 and mail in vote that in fact many of these deadlines for getting not only getting the but mail in ballot in but then allowing for it to be counted were extended so donald trump is making this claim that these votes are not legal that's not true in fact the process has been adapted due to the nature of the global pandemic kimberly we've heard there some of trump's tweets from a couple of hours ago. clearly very high water his options what system will trump the next. well done troops reverting to a playbook that's very familiar to us from his presidency and also from when he was a real estate mogul and you know some of his business practices in new york city

for so many years he lit a gate this is what he does but the problem is this isn't commercial real estate this isn't a reality t.v. show this is the presidency which has very strict rules with respect to the u.s. constitution it is certainly within the president's. ability to be able to to file lawsuits and should challenge but they aren't usually that successful is to ends up looking kind of like a last ditch effort and the momentum for joe biden is only going to increase as we know the joe biden camp is already preparing for a transition putting in place the wheels of motion that's all getting underway will donald trump is still trying to hang on so the problem is what this is going to do a stretch things out of the courts will try to move as quickly as they can i can only tell you my experience from the year 2000 is that by mid december all of this

was worked out but that was only one state this now involves multiple states multiple challenges so it could take a little bit longer but most americans are confident that by january 2021 and all gratian will still take place and the person who has officially won this contest will be sworn in but again it's going to be a messy process between now and then and it's also territory that really hasn't been seen in modern history and even really before that lots of legal battle still to come can be where you know we're asking you to reconsider your your crystal ball here but is there any idea. of when we can expect a result or indeed a resolution or do you think this is going to come. early january. well no i don't think it'll come down to early january but it could drag on for a month just given the nature of donald trump. most candidates would at this point

. concede say that this is lost and for the good of the country to try and unite the country which we know is so divided that this would be the time to potentially consider a concession phone call so that that process of healing can begin but donald trump has said very clearly in 2016 he said it again in 2020 that he may not accept the results of the contest and he made that clear less than 24 hours ago as he spoke from the briefing room that he's continuing to fight so unless somebody persuade him to concede this process will continue and it will be worked out through all of the legal mechanisms but ultimately those institutions will prevail and i think it is important to note too that donald trump is increasingly finding yourself a lonely man that many republicans who were very quick to support him when it seemed to serve their political fortunes are now sort of like rats fleeing the

sinking ship if you will so. this may become inevitable that donald trump well will have to concede but so far he is showing no indications that he is he is preparing to do that imminently carry a very tight race we're going to keep cross all of a whole reporting live from washington d.c. thank you very much in deeds where one republican in the u.s. house has come out strongly against donald trump's claims while more naming him to rectally out some kid singer has to see that of course every vote needs to be coincidence but if someone has a legitimate concerns about frauds then evidence must be presented he's also calling for a stop to the spread of what he describes as the bumps mis information. or pennsylvania is one of the critical battleground states which care decides the election is out a series number cruncher come on santa maria on why the state is so crucial

pennsylvania is famously joe biden's native state you probably heard him mention scranton pennsylvania more than a few times but it is important for anyone who wants to win the white house pennsylvania has 20 electoral college votes on offer and the pollsters believe the keystone state could in fact hold the key in deciding who wins this time around but if history for you here we go back 299246 straight presidential elections it has backed the democrats' bill clinton and barack obama who won twice john kerry and al gore who didn't but pennsylvania still became part of the so-called democratic blue wall but like so many things all of that changed in 2016 pennsylvania flipped red only just when donald trump beat hillary clinton by less than one percent now we're going to bring up the $26.00 electoral map to see who did well where and you've got the democrats down in the southeast they did well the other cities in the suburbs the republicans who won in mostly rural areas did pick up some urban centers and

then the 3 counties which we've colored in orange who switched from barack obama in 2 elections to donald trump in 2016 a quick look at some demographics for you and more than 80 percent of pennsylvania's voting population is white blue collar voters who have long been the democrats base non-college educated voters who favor donald trump also 10 percent of eligible voters are black and hispanics a little over 5 percent so it will probably come down to do is urban voters in pennsylvania and whether biden can hold on to them and then woo some back from donald trump to decide who gets 20 vital electoral college votes and that is why pennsylvania matters. well a particular heinous in philadelphia for as she says accusations of folks are frauds have rial to supporters. there is a heavy police presence here there has been throughout the day but if you want to

just look over here with officers standing outside of the convention center because local news here in philadelphia is reporting that police here got a tip that there was a gentleman from a man from virginia headed up this way with guns and his plan was to attack the convention center where the count is going on behind and so they they found him his car according to local media arrested him with his weapons but this is the big concert because there are people out there who are who are huge supporters who believe that when the president says that the vote has been stolen now it's important to point out what they're counting in pennsylvania are votes that were mailed in and got to the election sites alexion day so the president is trying to make the distinction that any vote cast during the day in person that's legitimate anything in the mail was illegitimate this country has

a long history of voting by mail. there is no evidence that there is widespread fraud signatures have to be checked identities have to be checked still the president tried to so there is going to be growing concern in philadelphia as people work up the use of the local according to local media a plot to attack the facility behind me where the vote is happening was actually toward them. and let's get more on the snow and speak to joseph euro he's here in doha a professor of political science at texas a and m. university kids happy with us on the news hour that lead for joe biden and george i will have rattled the white house what do you think donald trump does from here on in with part from our correspondents unlikely he's going to concede so what are his next steps i mean it's likely that the president and his supporters will continue to go to court in state courts. to hold the voting and see how the

counting of votes in places where the late arriving mail ballots and absentee ballots. president's chances of winning and of course the continue to encourage counting of votes in places where the president is behind on the votes that have already been cast. and inconsistent position to take but that certainly doesn't seem to be slowing down the strategy and a lot of focus as well on what president trump has been tweeting has been tweeting rather what he claims that the election's being stolen that illegal votes are being can say now a loss of president trump's supporters believe what he says and they take this very very seriously suggest in the rhetoric just bad think this could get particularly in these very very tight swing states. you know i mean the process of counting votes is one thing right i think that the administration of elections in

the united states is generally very very good they the likes of the chills will continue to count all of the vote that they receive according to the rules of their own state so each state has its own rules for when mail ballots leave sent and how long they have to reach. the different quarters in offices to be counted and the continue to apply those rules and so all of the appropriate ballots have been counted on the other side so you have whether or not people see that process is legitimate and i've been encouraged to see these long standing rules and longstanding processes as illegitimate and i really do think that part of what president from is doing is not merely trying to win the election but to cast as long a shadow over american politics as possible and to undermine the legitimate the ineffectiveness of the by presidency should he ultimately prevail and go on to lead the country well where does this leave joe biden then because the all this talk about legal action and stopping vote counts and recounts it does bring back memories of the

gore bush election in florida back in 2000 what are the chances do you think that the courts could keep donald trump in power. you know it's certainly difficult to say but given the fact that. joe biden has clearly won enough states to kind of be on the cusp of victory donald trump would not only need to win legal challenge in one or 2 states but in virtually all of the remaining states in which he is now behind in the vote count to prevail and so it's not just a matter of winning one or 2 but winning multiple legal challenges in multiple states with multiple. different legal rules at stake so i think his chances of prevailing if the vote counts turnout as we expect them to are quite slim in terms of winning the election but i think his prospects of undermining the political

position of the incoming democratic administration and making it more difficult for joe biden to govern a divided country i think are quite good and if we are looking at where we're still counting votes there are still not clear who has won this election yet but if joe biden does prevail but you are seeing this undermining of a potential joe biden presidency where does this leave the united states i mean are they looking at complete death look for the next 4 years i mean what kind of impact is this going to have more broadly going forward. there's a half century trend of rolling growing partisan polarization of republicans and democrats becoming more ideologically separated and more socially separated from one another and the events of the last 4 years including the election are sort of an exclamation point at the end of that process and i think joe biden if he does win the election faces a very difficult task in trying to lead this deeply divided country there are some

opportunities to find common ground with republicans for addressing the economic problems in the country because of the pandemic that's well it's addressing the pandemic itself there might be opportunities to compromise on reporting the process for nominating and confirming federal judges. that can continue despite a divided government but you know it's going to take a lot of work and the signs are certainly pointing bet that that will be hard to achieve but i think anybody was going to come in as a democrat and be able to do that joe biden has a long history of service in the united states senate was a good personal relationships with many republican senators who has a history of bipartisan leadership that as a legislator he's the person to do it and that was the centerpiece of his campaign to try to heal those wounds and bring the country together i don't know that you will be able to do it i don't know that republicans will be willing to partner with them to do that i can already see people jockeying for 2024 but you know i think

that that will be his instinct and his 1st effort is to try to find those points of compromise and then use them to build a program of government going forward ok joseph year there from the texas and university thank you so much for your thoughts and your analysis. thank you. my. 3 some other use now in ethiopia's prime minister says a military operation in the northern region has clear and limited goals that's after calls for immediate steel escalation from the international community for a sorry sense in soldiers on wednesday after accusing the region's tea p.l.f. party of attacking federal troops and accusation it denies well tensions grew back

in september after the regional elections despite it's a government that's all moments. coronavirus will secret rulers say that was a paragraph by the prime minister let's get more now on this from william davison he's a senior analyst for ethiopia at the international crisis group and joins us by skype from addison. thank you so much for joining us on the news what exactly are we looking at in ethiopia tensions seem to be rather high from both sides of course are we to getting swards violence or civil war. yeah i mean parts of that are really an understatement and there is an axis conflict and insecurity region and the federal government's you know based on this provocation the the alleged attack threats to get us forces on a military base and the federal government has launched

a military intervention and the objection there is to try and remove the leadership from power we have seen fighting in west seagrave along the harley region border over the last couple of days there was also some sort of clash around the airport. so this is an active conflict situation the fighting is not be that sustained and widespread so understanding yet but the intent is there in the federal government to push ahead and try to remove the leadership and there's every possibility it's a great leadership is going to put up very stiff resistance and why has it escalated so much i had to get to this point because if that the tipping point was holding an election that at the wrong time. isn't it easy enough to just to just dial this back or have these 2 sites really been spoiling for a fight and this was an excuse. well you would like to think so but unfortunately that clash over the election really was a very serious constitutional dispute over the rights of take re the autonomous lee

hold an election and that was as it happened against federal rulings so this is a very serious constitutional disputes ends with the federal government saying that degrades government was unlawful and to graze government saying that the federal government out of a state its constitutional mandate so you can see what a serious sort of legal position that is within a federation that is built upon a very toxic political disputes emanating from a power struggle within the ruling coalition with the tea party losing a lot of power so unfortunately there's been all sorts of opportunities for dialogue and these people in power were previously part of the same ruling coalition they have gradually become opponents and now they have entered a complex of course we need dialogue and it's imperative that both sides and embrace dialogue and in the international community pushes for that we also have to be realistic that we have now reached a complex situation ok william davis and that joining as ever madness of about

thank you so much for bringing your analysis. the constitutional court in the ivory coast has extended the deadline for objections to the presidential election results rival factions have been fighting since the weekend polls that returns president alison watera par to opposition candidates boycotted the elections saying a 3rd term for the president is unconstitutional security forces have surrounded the homes of opposition leaders after they said they would set up a transitional government's. the trees joins us now live from. just bring us up to date here sounds like there has been some kind of concession made there for people to go to objection seeing that alexion masel what was the situation like currently in that region. well basically apart from rumors of a possible negotiations between the opposition and government officials brokered

by some diplomats which of course the diplomatic community here has refused to sort of acknowledge there is no much talk about any concessions so far apart of course apart from the endorsement or the congratulations. that being the only challenger to alassane ouattara to be proclaimed winner of the elections on saturday as declared by the. electoral commission here so basically you've got the situation we're in right now however what we're seeing is a possibility that things may be looking a bit calmer for now on the streets of our biggest most security presence and the markets as you see this is one of the markets in abidjan it's gradually filling up although there are certain businesses that are still skeptical of the calm situation now prefer to wait until after the constitutional court the collaboration

but also want to wait out. and see how things go from there whether they will be outbreak of violence on the streets of ivory coast or there will be continuous peace and again there are schools that are supposed to reopen on monday and now with the current situation a lot of questions are being asked should this schools we open oh should they wait until when the situation is a bit subtle from the look of things a lot of schools may not reopen next week because a lot of parents are asking some have even moved out of the country ahead of the elections not asking calling in to ask whether it's safe again to bring back their children into it because back to school to that is a situation for now and hopefully for many our borders especially the business community were spoken to so far they've hope that the situation will hold and even improve so that they can restart their businesses remember this is an economy that is one of the fastest growing in africa the growth rate here is more than 77

percent for the last 9 years and this year we expect that this crisis political opposition will probably affect the situation with the business community in addition to the impact of copulating on the economy so far ok reporting there live from abidjan thank you. new zealand prime in a surge is in the arts and has been sworn in for a 2nd term i just say the right thing all the way to you know me going to hear our turns labor party won $64.00 of the $120.00 seats in new zealand's parliament last month the party's biggest election victory in 50 years or 20 per cent cabinets includes 8 female 5 miree and 3 l g b t ministers including the prime minister grant robertson is the 1st openly gay man to hold a position. it's time for

a check on the weather with bob. only 2 weeks ago lisbon was suffering flooding from a circulating low fuel there's another one there and this one will be a focus but more recently it's been the eastern side of spain that got rain from an on shore breezes get some more as well but this is an orange grove it should not be under water as a reminder for you mostly because modern enough to be annoying this is the east coast around but i don't see it but as i said the focus is going to be east coast so much as the west coast and portugal more especially the seas through friday heavy rain now it will tend to ease i think as it gets dark tonight and things will all go east woods which means it will be spain that gets this frontal system once again it will end up in the pyrenees and once again the focus brief will be on the coast near valencia but this is where flooding seems more likely so i suspect then there will still be sherry in breezy imports too but went through so quickly it

ought to be ought to be all right now the bigger picture of europe in europe is this is the wet because the moment it's been cold but sunny but i'll swear if you look just briefly dances bottom right hand side strong wind coming out of the black sea down the aegean which the coast of libya and into brooke in particular are suspect is going to be rather unpleasant. still to come here on al-jazeera an economy near collapse in the next $239.00 less than $3.00 a day in london on. this man markets ready for sunday's election we'll tell you why some people were accusing the bolts of undermining democracy. and in sports the goal for that produce some moments of magic ahead of next week's mawson's far will be here with all the details later this music. around the world council and cities are working to manipulate and influence us

trolls thoughts fakey just algorithms that have developed and designed to push content that says click me every click we make you just sold. one and in the throes of a 5 part series are 3 years in mexico examining how propaganda and proper shape. the algorithm on a job you. do you feel validated in south way is a type of performative activism. let's go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist the lights are on there's nowhere to hide join me richelle carey is up at the front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. out front on al-jazeera.

the off. base is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories for you this hour the u.s. presidential race remains 2 calls to call for battleground states are still counting democratic nominee joe biden has pulled ahead in the state of georgia by just over 900 folks. the trump is making unproven claims that says if only legal votes were counted he would win the election he says legal challenges in manda in the u.s. supreme court's. job eyes in a surge in people to be patient he says he's confident of becoming the next u.s.

president currently has 264 electoral college votes 270 are needed for victory. while the u.s. is seen another record jump in corona virus infections 2 days after the presidential election more than 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record sets the day before according to a tally by johns hopkins university. the entire population of liverpool in the united kingdom is set to be offered to test for covert 19 as part of a trial for mass testing aimed at helping hospitals and western restrictions on 2000 military personnel have been deployed to help let's get more now from jonah how is life for us from liverpool joe what are our banks are achieve with this new strategy of testing everyone in the city of liverpool.

well this is the launch of a government pilot program of course involving the city of one of the local authorities here but something that the government in england hopes will be a pathway out of covert 19 short of the discovery and distribution of course of a vaccine it's a mass testing pilot project as you indicated here in the northern city of everyone in the city residents and workers alike being offered regular tests using brand new rapid turnaround testing technology in which the government has invested many millions of dollars in income in acquiring that gives a result in just about a quarter of an hour or so they're offering tests to people who have symptoms also to test test to people who don't have symptoms they're hoping of course to catch the very large numbers of people who carry this virus without symptoms out and about being infectious without knowing that there's anything wrong with them at all and it's the 1st step in a much wider of course program or vision rather the government has called operation

moonshot in which they hope to expand this testing to the entire population of the country up to 10000000 tests per day sort of part way back to normality because of course you turn up you get a test you find that you don't have the virus and you can go back about your business back to the workplace back to the gym or leisure centers or hospitality venue sports venues and so on life could more or less begin to go back to normal so hugely significant what is starting here in liverpool and will carry on over the next 14 days or so existing testing sites are being expanded new ones built and field the big football stadium in the city is also being used as a testing venue the big question as it gets underway in the next couple of hours is one of trust is there sufficient trust in the population at large to turn up voluntarily to take these tests to use this new technology because of course if you get a positive test out of this well then you've got to go into quarantine for 14 days

. ok john howard there live from liverpool thank you. the united nations has warned that armenia and azerbaijan have committed possible war crimes in their conflict over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh both sides pledged to not target civilians but strikes against towns and cities continue and challenge reports as evidence of other human rights abuses. in the living room in armenia these people are anxious we're not identifying the parents just in case it leads to their son being mistreated he's a prisoner of war held by azerbaijan's military his mother and father had no idea he'd even gone to the front lines but now they're waiting and hoping trying to keep their spirits up cornhole they have no information on how he is where he is what's condition he's in when we call the answer is the same it is the same from the human rights defenders and the red cross they tell us everything will be fine it will be

good i have no idea what's going to happen it's no wonder they are worried 3 weeks ago as a by johnny social media platforms shared video of 2 armenians being captured in a corner karabakh. ball footage shows what looks like the same 2 men bound and draped in armenian and new going to karabakh flags then they're shot dead. as a by john's government says the video is fake. armenia's human rights on both men says he's aware of other videos showing meta lation. food in jail or trades. doesn't buy germany's soldier is cutting glitter ears of the body of army a soldier and you can see the hate speech and glorification and praise from from other soldiers. but armenia is accused of carrying out possible

war crimes too on october the 28th 21 people were reported killed in a rocket attack on the azerbaijani town of barga the biggest civilian loss of life in this war so far both armenia and azerbaijan are hitting civilian areas. and there's evidence they using cluster bombs banned by more than 100 countries though not these 2. the international committee of the red cross says it's engaged in talks with both sides to remind them of their obligations under international humanitarian law and to allow access to prisoners of war and we call on the sides to give us more names of those people because we're of course all of the information that is now on the internet and we have a lot of families coming to our offices here in azerbaijan and i want to cut about asking. for support and help with as they put a freeze up and they recognize their relatives much of the modern identities all of armenia and azerbaijan rest on their animosity towards each other and their fight

over nagorno-karabakh strong voices in each country argue that they are the historical victim of it they have the monopoly on truth and this is a dangerous situation for human rights in this conflict chalons al-jazeera. armenia . man maher is holding its 2nd general election on sunday since it ends its military rule the government's council voting in areas where there's been fighting between the military and ethnic groups that means more than a 1000000 people will be left out and history is a lot of concerns for us in the reports. weeks before polling open. migrant workers in neighboring thailand cast their votes in advance one of them is composed from the shine ethnic minority who works with a non-governmental organization that helps me migrant workers in thailand she's also been visiting communities to encourage others from myanmar to. the information

age of the year i want to explain to people that we can't ignore politics or the election this is about our future if the political situation improves in our country then our lives will be improved and we wouldn't need to leave the country to find work maybe education but. not everyone will have the chance to vent polling will not take place in dozens of. townships in conflict zones are those deemed under the control of ethnic groups silence is a shan refugee living in a camp for displaced people in time and he says he's not surprised that it's mostly ethnic minorities who are affected by the election commission's decision. government always finds an excuse to cancel it in ethnic areas they claim it's because of conflict and it's not safe for people to travel to this helps the government parties win the election and it doesn't help the shot ethnic. in rakhine state fighting between the myanma military and the arakan army has displaced more

than 200000 people in less than 2 years voting will now not take place in more than half of that 17 townships. rakhine state is also home to most of the country's ethnic grouping and the majority won't be able to vote even though they've been in the country for generations the government considers them stateless and has over decades used to series of laws to deprive them of citizenship in 2017 a violent to military crackdown on the cost nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 people to flee to bangladesh we were franchise. so. the result is. this is myanmar 2nd freely contested general election since the end of

full military rule in 2011 many analysts expect the ruling party the national league for democracy led by aung san suu kyi to win. but whoever wins will have to share power with the military that's guaranteed 25 percent of parliamentary seats and control of 3 important ministries. and many here say that shows there's still a long road ahead on myanmar's path to democracy florence to the al-jazeera. sproles more prosy politicians in hong kong have appeared in court over a fine as a legislative council meeting well in 5 months ago they were granted bail until their next appearance in february they're accused of contents and obstruction but critics say it's part of an attempt to sideline the sense invoices no probe aging lawmakers involved were arrested hong kong police have tonight any political

motivation well severe gopalan is in hong kong for us with their current of today's court appearance. this was the initial hearing where they were told what their charges were they all put in their pleas to and they were all granted bail but the main crux of their defense is that this is an issue that should be dealt with within the legislative council and not at the courts of hong kong now if i can take you back to those events of may 8th that started off quite innocuously with a dispute over who should control the chair of a key committee that descended into scuffles involving both the pro big legislative councillors and also the pro-democracy legislative councillors only the pro-democracy legislative councillors have been charged they could face up to one year in jail if they're found guilty and they say this is just yet another way for the government to silence any opposition or any kind of dissenting voices there have been more than 10000 people are arrested relating to the protests of 2019 they

include politicians activists protesters and also journalists so this is just seen as another step in the government's crackdown on trying to silence opposition voices and this also comes a soon after our months off to the national security law was put in place in hong kong that set wide ranging ill defined law that many say has been put in by the central government to once again quiet any opposition voices hong kong's chief executive is in mainland china on a tour she's currently in beijing and she has been told by the central government that they have given her their full backing. lebanon's economy is near collapse and life is a struggle for many but syrian refugees are among the worst hits the united nations says 80 percent of the 900000 who were registered ready living in extreme poverty before the beirut port explosion in august so in a harder reports the so at least 200000 syrian refugees live in lebanon's capital.

the united nations says 16000 of them were directly affected by the beirut port explosion in august. rehab and her family survived the blast but their source of income did not she explains her husband hasn't been able to find work in a weeks like so many other syrians he is an informal laborer. my husband lost his job after the port explosion he tries his best to find temporary jobs to be able to feed us my son is working he earns $60000.00 lebanese leeroy a week that's roughly $10.00 on the black market exchange earned by her 10 year old son mahmoud who works 12 hours a day helping a tailor. the local currency has sharply devalued in the past year even before the break we have ongoing distance programs and those are given to us but we have

increased the amount in order to partially compensate for inflation it's not enough for many families who are struggling during lebanon's financial meltdown u.s. the cystic show at least 80 percent of the 900000 refugees registered with the agency live below the poverty line that is classified as having to survive on less than $3.00 a day. the situation was about and after the last it got worse if i work i can just buy food not pay for rent or medicine for my daughter regular jobs are hard to come by already there are government imposed restrictions on the ability of refugees to work support from aid organizations is not enough to stop living conditions from worsening syrians were affected as everyone else in the country but in the greater percentage because when. you when you are i mean 1st. person as you would very often are the syrians lebanon hosts one of the highest

numbers of refugees per capita in the world and 50 percent of its population of 5000000 people are poor many syrians live in this impoverished neighborhoods next to the port where some of them used to work current tina was among the areas damaged by the blast at least 40 syrians were among the 200 people killed 3 months on the lack of food and shelter is still a concern for many sent to. beirut. muslims in greece are returns in the 1st ever friday prayers in athens newly opened mosque was it was officially opened on tuesday and is the 1st to be established in the greek capital since the 19th century the decision to build it was made in 2006 but it was the lanes wide legal challenges and protests it's estimated half a 1000000 people from the muslim faith in the city. dozens of

people have been killed after tropical storm eaters struck central america for doing and mudslides and forced thousands of people from their homes across nicaragua honduras and guatemala mahomet's reports. tropical storm rita has left a trail of destruction burying villages and submerging streets in guatemala many impaired or barrios have abandoned their homes major rivers are in danger of overflowing their banks forcing people to flee for higher ground anyway they can also my gosh everything got where everything was lost we just managed to move 2 beds upwards the fridge turned over everything got way we love that about her and the water was already up to our chests. many people have been killed in landslides authorities are attending to survivors in the banking and at the ministry of public health has come to check on the people take the temperature the vital signs and if

any person requires any special care they will be immediately transferred to a health center. itar struck the nicaraguan coast as a powerful category 4 hurricane but despite being downgraded to a tropical storm the slow moving system has continued to drop torrential rains across central america in the west of panama power lines and trees were brought down and roads damaged many are hoping and waiting for help emergency crews are combing through wreckage to find the missing overbore mother in. you are really welcome we have documented around 400 people a mine of approximately 8 years old died we have evacuated people rescued them from the highest evacuation points to the shelter. but some areas are hard to reach in honduras aid groups are warning the crisis could trigger a humanitarian disaster i did this in there are dozens of families in some c.d.'s of the celebrity that are on their roofs and are asking to be evacuated yet

there is so little time for these and we know that the national system in this not have the capacity it has been asking for support but it's quite worrying situation and. some of those who have reached safety say they have nowhere to go that. we haven't been told us that our shelters are not we have to move on fruit because what else are we going to do. it's been described as the was a natural disaster to hit this region in more than 20 years millions off facing hardship with limited access to food water and shelter full cost as are expecting the storm to regain strength and head toward cuba and the gulf of mexico really mohammed al jazeera. still has an i'll just say it will have the sport for you and rough on the towel stays on course to win the paris masters and a 1st time all the details coming up after this break on.

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there certainly tonight we didn't see the best ac milan of the season that's obvious yet i believe the match was decided by a few incidents negatively for us because we had been doing well and conceded very little of our opponents to a quick and excellent attacking deep and when we went under especially with the 2nd goal the game became much harder tactically and mentally. josey merinos tottenham bounced back from their humiliating defeat to answer for a blast wake premier league side b. ball garion champions illiterates 3 want a way 1st now lead group. speaking about top players without speaking about problems is primitive. always suspect from the much. so i'm quite a bit demanding on that never have. little soul that i still sense them in this game. expect much more from from us look as i was saying before. i'm happy

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recovers from brain surgery doctors say he will remain in hospital for a few more days the 6 year old and when his aries hospital where he underwent a procedure on choose day to remove a blood clot one of the greatest players of all time arizona led argentina to world cup glory in 1986 he has previously battled drugs and alcohol addiction. you the all mode you go and in post operation we've seen some episodes of confusion we associated that to be that we draw the idea is to the to do we draw we believe this will last a few days we've spoken and we are all in agreement of doing this we all believe this is what must be done and we are going to do it. and rafa nadal has taken another step towards winning the paris masters for the 1st time in his career the 34 year old b. jordan thompson of australia in 2 sat sun is through the quarter finals on

wednesday the french open champion became just the 4th man to secure his 1000 win set tennis's highest level of a spell a spaniard will still apply. alexanders of ram had a tough few hours on court against ager in monterey no in france but after dropping the 2nd sub the german prevailed with a 766764 when after an epic 3 hour match a face down river bank in the order finals. and american brands static or had the lead after the 1st round the houston open it's the last call of tournaments before next week's masters senator went on to birdie 2 of his final holes finishing out 5 under he sits 2 strokes ahead of 6 players including world number one dustin johnson but the shot of the day was produced by scottish golf for martin. he sank a hole in one of the 2nd hole but don't manage to tie for 8th place heading into the 2nd round. ok and that is all your support for now hala back to you thank you

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