key priority. invest in kazakstan seize the best opportunities in the heart of eurasia. and actions in central african republic are held under the threat of violence and accusations of vote rigging. can put al this is all just on live from dog also coming up a different election story in the shareware the 1st peaceful transfer of power since independence looks likely. optimism in europe the massive vaccination campaign begins with the aim of protecting 400000000 people from covert 90. and severe flooding forces evacuations in parts of the u.k.

under the strictest coronavirus lockdown and move aimed could be on the way. polls are due to close in the central african republic the election is seen as a crucial test of democracy for a nation that has suffered years of violence and instability the u.n. is reporting voter intimidation of the town of what observers say the poll is going smoothly elsewhere the opposition rebels accuse president fastin ourselves to a better of rigging the vote but he is hit back saying the election ensures the democratic rights of the people. in this thing every 5 years african 3 choose their leader based to she's responsible for this mission or that in the end the constitutional court and the date is the 27th this is what africans come to vote and i myself came to fulfill my civic duty. let's go straight to the katherine

sawyer who's in the capital by catherine so i believe the polls have closed when do we expect results. well yes polls have closed and counting has just started this polling station i expect counting has started in other polling stations here in borghi we've seen a lot of observers from the african union and other missions other missions as well so what's going to happen next is that once the votes are counted in the polling stations they're going to be taken to divisional headquarters and provisional headquarters they will be collated and then sent to the main tallying center here in borghi for the final results we're told the votes. are there provinces' most a lot of the votes in other provinces are going to be airlifted here because of the security situation in some of those areas but also because of the road network

which is very bad and transport by road you're told is not a good idea so they're going to be airlifted here we expect results we're told in the next 4 to 5 days maybe alia but the big question going forward really is the voter turnout how will the would be a lot of people i've talked to us say they're concerned because of the security situation especially in the provinces they're concerned that an extremely low with a tan out could discredit this election was my next question catherine what can you tell us about these reports of voter intimidation what's the security situation been like today and do you think that might have affected voter turnout. well we have been hearing this report as well the u.n. particularly talked about an area called the bridge it's north of here and the u.n. official saying that. armed men armed groups have been shooting in the air

particularly in pawling stations people have run away. u.n. blue helmets have been sent to reinforce the troops that were already there but then the situation there is very tense as well we've also been hearing about such incidents in other towns in other provinces as well a lot of people we're told are hiding out in the bushes too afraid to come out to vote in some places we're told that. people have been making away with ballot papers and ballot boxes and so wants a lot of intimidation a lot of harrisburg but we have also heard from the u.n. saying that these very few areas in the provinces and in most of the country voting went ahead peacefully and smoothly we have also had phil from. an opposition presidential candidate say to be the president's main challenger and he is saying he is concerned about this fellow what

a talent he says he has also had that many people in the countryside have not gone to vote and this will affect the election happened so a lot for us thank you. terry if you could only is from the french institute of international relations his work focuses on central and southern africa is that he thinks president to there is reelection won't resolve the security problems and see our. the fact that bosy and the armed groups are refusing those elections. of course. and the problem but i think what will be a key development in the coming weeks will be. position of the democratic opposition movement but anyway the security situation in the country has been bad for the past 5 years with the armed groups keeping control of 70 percent of the territory and even if president where they are is reelected. they say he

will be but you really need. security situation is not going to change they will still controls the venti percent of the territory so what we are basically is a kind of gun style election like it up and not against them in 2019 and polls have nothing in the share a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president mohamad who is so full was elected after a coup in 2011 he's stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor mohamed bozo aids a 30 strong field of candidates and share a struggling with movements and widespread poverty. was a very courageous young people today is a special day for us and a special day for the share which will experience a democratic transition of power for the 1st time in its history i hope it will be the 1st step towards more changes to consolidate our democratic process and our

reputation as a democratic country in africa and the world. i'm editors has more now from the capital the army. according to the election commission voting across the country has been going on smoothly except in 2 areas where voting couldn't take place because of threats of violence and he said there was even some form of surprise when people in certain areas such and by violence by boko haram and armed groups from neighboring mali and broken a facile got the sense that they are in fact voting today so he said even in those areas election is taking place but admitted that election is not taking place in such an areas because the threat is real meanwhile in the capital you have voting has been going on smoothly in the early hours of today the voting the turnout is was an impressive actually but as the day goes by we're seeing numbers of people growing by the hour the election commission is telling us that before the day runs

out they expect a larger turnout than it was in the morning and in the afternoon actually. yeah analyst model you can there is a teaching fellow a lecturer at the university of aberdeen in scotland he says the security issues could jeopardize future stability mission there. this is a big test and a big movement in the shares he's tree. bet here is a huge threat because of mainly to security issues there your reporters are clearly outlining a new year is going through quite a number of security issues we need bus in mali and look you know what i saw in the august side with nigeria so. one of the chorus countries on earth are in fact it was. it was in the head of the world food

program going to court to tell him that the world food program had worn in no doubt peace fried rice for 2022 disses a very complex country with difficult issues to do with politics economy extra climate and everything else and then you have an election that is providing. a few people but you have to wait and see what happens in transition before we can begin to talk about this next political moment. significant. one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination campaigns has begun in the e.u. it aims to protect 450000000 people across 27 countries this is how the program is a moment of unity and hope health care workers the elderly and top politicians are among those getting the 1st jabs of the fire as a biotech vaccine a man has also kicked off its an occupation campaign the last gulf country to do so also reopening its borders on tuesday after having close them to prevent

a mutated strain of corona virus from getting in meanwhile israel has entered its 3rd nation wide locked up prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he hopes it will be the last one that the vaccination campaign will bring back a degree of normal normality within weeks every nasser is in wester islam for us irene said lockdown has just started tell us about how strict is it how long will it last. well there was quite a lot of traffic leading up to it a lot of people were in a mad rush to really prepare it's currently supposed to last for about 2 weeks but it seems like that may even be extended health officials say that it could last anywhere between $3.00 to $4.00 weeks even though the contraction rates that recently have been really sorry jane here in the country rising to about $4000.00 cases reported per day over the past few days and there have been warnings that if this lockdown hadn't come into place those numbers could really rise to about 9000

per day in terms of the restriction there are quite strict people are not allowed to go away from their homes anywhere further than a kilometer businesses will mostly be shot other than groceries and pharmacies and public transport and workplaces will go down to about 50 percent capacity there will also be police roadblocks that will be set up across the country to make sure that people are not. are not breaking these restrictions there is a bit of a debate at the moment over the education system still remaining open most classes in in person classes will remain and there have been some huge numbers of cases infection rates as of grades 11 and 12 and health officials are warning that that could really lead to the lockdown being extended. ok as having saying the prime minister benjamin netanyahu hopes that the vaccination campaign will bring

back a degree of normality within weeks what is the latest with the vaccination campaign how is the rollout going. well there have been about the government to say there has been about 280000 israelis who has been vaccinated over the past week prime minister netanyahu spoke yesterday and said that he's really hoping that about 150000 would be vaccinated each day he did speak to madonna and 5 there and asked them to meet this demand for their for their bowl so according to his estimates about $4500000.00 israelis would have received the 1st job of the vaccine within a month that's about half of the population there are a few issues here with the vaccine. one of which is that it does not include palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza and the palestinian authority has had some difficulties of securing the vaccine with a very dire economic situation where they did apply for

a world health organization program but that would really only bring in about 20 per cent of the of the vaccinations needed for palestinians. ok thank you for that . still come on al jazeera more on the teenager dedicated to ending child marriages and. archaeologists than is they have discovered a 2000 year old fast food restaurant in the ruins of the home page. we've got some quasi weather pushing across the middle east over the next couple of days further north this is where we had heavy snow fall just to the north of tyrone that's what cools the the big snow and the avalanche that we've been hearing about

here recently temps in toronto at up to around 10 degrees celsius on monday it is la-z. going to be dry and quiet winds forming a light we have got sick or a brisk wind pushing across the gulf as we go on through monday and on into tuesday september just no higher than around 23 or 24 celsius little bits and pieces a fair weather cloud too much just catch a spotty of a lot right into that eastern side of saudi but nothing too much to speak of south of that it is generally dry with hazy sunshine pretty much everywhere you might see want to show is just easing over towards somalia towards a horn of africa as we go through the next day i'll say but for the most part it does look lossy try there you can see one of 2 showers just starting to creep in there plenty of shower as through the heart of africa those showers sliding down across boss want to eastern areas of south africa seeing some heavy showers and then here this circulation here that says trouble cyclon some taal that will continue to make its way across the most ambitious channel heading towards eastern

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you're watching are just there are a reminder of our top stories this hour polls have closed in central african republic despite the threat of violence the opposition wanted to spot rebels have united to reject the polls they're accusing president faustin are charged with rigging the election. voting also took place in new year a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of card president mohamed is so full of cool for being elected 2011 the 7 down after 2 terms is preferred successor is 100. the european union has begun one of the world's largest chrono virus vaccination campaigns and to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and care home residents in the 27 member bloc have been among the 1st to be inoculated. parts of the u.k. of a more to expect more flooding and strong winds they've already been days of wet weather

from the approaching storm ballot rivers have been rising particularly high in the county of bedford ship and many homes have been evacuated or a challenge says this update from clapham in bed with a river is burst its banks. the river here is called the river great and as you can see it's considerably greater than normal at the moment it's burst its banks it has flooded parts of the town of bedford and surrounding villages on christmas day 1300 residents were told that they should seriously think about moving out and finding somewhere else to stay it's not only in bed but sure the council of north hampton sure has also experienced flooding with another 1000 people they're being told that they should seek emergency accommodation on christmas day as well it's the 25th of december it's going down now that is something to be thankful for also something to be thankful for is that the code. restrictions we are in the toughest here of covert us restrictions in the u.k.

here here for which basically means that the people who should be staying inside and and not seeing friends and family what do you do if you're being told to get out of your home and you can't go and stay with friends and family the police are said temporarily at least for the moment the flood warnings override the covert restrictions and should people should go and stay with those they need to to get out of the flood danger this is all part of storm bella which has been lashing the u.k. over the last few hours and days the highest winds recorded on the isle of white 170 kilometers an hour travel disruption around the country train lines being flooded and cross channel routes being disrupted as well as federal investigators in the u.s. have searched a home as they look for clues into a christmas day explosion in nashville 3 people were hurt and about 40 buildings were damaged in the past have held another media briefing let's head over to john hendren who joins us from nashville john what did all saudis have to say.

well what we learned was we heard from police who put together a clearer picture of what exactly was happening around that christmas morning bombing and it sounds like the action of those police officers probably saved a number of lives they said they heard warnings coming out of that recreational vehicle including a warning not to approach it he said that you couldn't see inside because all of the shades had been drawn within that vehicle and they said they went building by building trying to clear people out and finish doing that so close to the detonation time that some of them were actually actually knocked to the ground feeling the heat of that explosion but amazingly in the end only 3 people were injured and nobody outside of that vehicle is killed we police do say that they found some human remains that may or may not have been from someone inside the recreational vehicle and we're also getting

a clearer picture of who this subject of interest is this is a man identified as anthony quinn warner a 63 year old man no children unmarried living about 15 kilometers away in the town of antioch and there are pictures of a recreational vehicle on his property that looks surprisingly like the one that exploded now frank food lewsey is a former f.b.i. counterintelligence official he was on the sunday talk shows here in the u.s. and he said he would not be surprised if in the very near term the police named mr warner not just as a person of interest but as the subject of the investigation and one possible theory is that he was acting alone that that vehicle exploded with a person the bomber inside of it interestingly in the case of mr warner records show that he had recently transferred the deed of his home worth $89000.00 when he bought it anyway to a woman in california so there is

a lot of suspicion of valving around mr warner but he still only being called a person of interest by the police they say they've got 500 tips and they're still trying to track them all down. ok so maybe they have a person of interest but there's still no motive being talked about right so there's a lot of questions still around this case wondering how is the city of of nashville responding at christmas day bombing i mean this was a huge shock for this is he wasn't. it wasn't his not doubt communications for a large part of the area cell service has largely been restored and that's because a.t.f. is erected these temporary sale platforms but the internet has been knocked out for a large portion of the area there are stores that uses the internet in order to operate their credit card system some were taking only cash some were operating shorter hours. when you talk about the potential motive we do not know what that

is but one of the bits of speculation that former f.b.i. official and others have brought up is that there is a conspiracy theory here in these days of many conspiracy theories in the united states that there is some connection between 80 and t. and there are 5 g. system causing covert to be spread around the country scientists say that is not possible that that's not what happens when there are certainly people here who believe that in the darkest corners of the internet but the bottom line is police have not offered a motive and we don't really know what the motive was in this case all right thank you for that update john hendren live from nashville. turkey's defense minister says the libyan will of haifa and his supporters will be viewed as just targets if they target turkish forces in the country on saturday to see a car arrived in tripoli promising to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government there well of half dog who backs of all of the east and

government threatened to strike took his forces if after they pledge to extend the deployment for 18 months. a high level egyptian delegation is in libya for peace talks they will meet with officials from the un recognized government in tripoli it all comes a day after war holy father after threatening to use force against repartee and would otherwise head has more now from the libyan capital on top of the agenda issues related to. bringing ties back to normal between the 2 regions and also issues related to consulate issues issues related to visa between. normally to citizens of both countries but on the other hand there is anger here many people in the government in political parties troops on the ground are very angry they have been surprised by this visit and they say that they come out. expect any peace from egypt or from the egyptian regime in fact since this regime

has been supporting all the military campaigns led by have thought over the past 6 years definitely the defense of most of our car during his visit yesterday in tripoli is trying to make sure that his forces in libya are not being intimidated by after the threats and meanwhile a car it threatening to back that in case have those forces attack the turkish forces in libya they will be and their supporters not only have those forces have those forces and their supporters would be a legitimate target globally $23.00 girls under the age of 18 and married every minute and the pandemic is causing a rise in child marriages the un forecasts that up to 30000000 girls may be forced into marriage of the next 10 years we spoke to. a teenage activist from bangladesh she and her colleagues have stopped more than 600 child marriages in the last 2

years. hi and. basically. how was your childhood and what is the best memory you have used. so that then my mom was not that good to say because my mom once again mattered. so just because of from that i have go to work on these issues so then i see that. there is a child from. problems national from basic go get salad are going to. stop jemera this and also want to create a child friendly environment and going to enjoy their rights and more than. for that so damn you are through fascinated graining marriage and i am most active in. my community. and we have. so.

the gulf we think about that is because we think. of a need judgements and be said. for solving this kind of problem we are making some kind of dialogue with the policymakers we saw there something. worse. than why does the bad think of jan matters and how they can play a vital role to get. any kind of news of violence and marriage or something. and just going to. any kind of full stitch and then we went with the police and fire and then us and they give us a forced. into the bin you are to solve the problem. of there is a family going to give chad myers we've got some kind of information then where

does the age of the. jan marriage so then we went. the family and i asked them that why they are giving their way of saying they don't want to invest on this go and they don't want to be at the cost of education so they're so they're giving gen myers then would try to add book it with the family and motivated them and then finally we started. these is 14 years old and she is reading in class 5 ring this bandini in last 2 months in october these goal was at them to get married and somehow with data from the news and such as we have stopped this gender is where we need that if we get married and that is and maybe hard childhood story our childhood memory we also destroy it. and we have a plan and we have a mission mission like we want to quit just that from internationally where every student can frequently walk and they will lie about their rights and they will work for others rights because we believe that you don't going to understand other

students. archaeologists have uncovered an ancient fast food restaurant was buried in volcanic ash thousands of years ago when the city of pompei was destroyed rid of harvard has more on what makes this discovery unique. this restaurant in pump a is about 2000 years old it's maybe ancient but in many ways resembles a modern day fast food business the l. shaped counter has holes for containers to serve hot food and 1st those that advertise items on the menu and like most successful businesses it had a prime location the building was found by this team of archaeologists jaring a mission to shore up palm pays ruins. we started escalating 2 years ago at 1st we only found our side of the bar which among other things has a beautiful painting of unary riding a sea horse i think it's our march to the nearby fonteyn because it's located in

a small city square that among the most evocative in pompei there is a fonteyn appears on metric tower a water tank and many other structures. among the findings a range of paintings that include a cockerel ducks and a dog the vibrant colors remain intact notably pompei red to highlight to the eateries features the menu is thought to have included dishes ranging from snails to pyaar traces of food from goats to fish were found inside terra cotta jars along with fava beans used to add flavor to wine animal bones were also uncovered and cooking utensils that could have been used today. all over this arts to increase rich history there are hundreds of archaeological sites in lesser known parts of the country that could attract cultural tourism of millions of people from all over the world. pompei was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 a d near present day naples the city is now

a source of archaeological history and treasures and an example of what life was like back then over several years about 80 fast food joints have been found in the city but this one is the 1st to be entirely excavated and restored and soon to be open to the public and archaeologists say there are many more to come. al-jazeera. results there and these are the top stories holes of closed in central african republic despite the threat of violence the opposition wants it to spot rebels have united to reject the polls they're accusing president fostanes for their of rigging the election. every 5 years central african 3 to choose their leader responsible for this mission or that in the end the constitutional court and the date set is.