ah al jazeera, when ever use all ah the radiance vote for a new president to succeed. how sondra honey questions of the future knew me as a country struggles with an ailing economy and a nuclear deal and down i i low on money. this is out there, life from doha. also coming out there obtains a copy of you and report that says israel committed violations against children in

the occupied territory, but failed to go any further and will have moved from a remote jungle camp in the mall where people are hiding from fighting between the military and homes, great. and several former officials under brit brazil president j are both narrow on the investigation over the handling of the corona bar. i thing has been extended in iran presidential election, which has seen a low turnout so far. judiciary chief abraham racy is widely predicted to when he faces to other conservatives and one monitor and candidates opposition parties called for a boy course, off the several other candidates works fluted short, he will speak to us bank who's asked a polling station into her on the 1st, let's go to dorothy jabar is report on the voting so fall

a test of support for iran political system. the 1st person to vote, the highest authority supreme leader itala alley harmony. shortly after, almost 67000 polling stations opened across the country with nearly 60000000 people eligible to vote. but it is clear this time around the presidential elections are different. compared to previous selections where the results were very much on known. and the people you'd like me to jordan even on the all 3 of the more under dog during those action in the corrective action, i think many people as well as many hannah was already predicted. abraham raised the points when the 60 year old, conservative candidate abraham bracy is the head of her own. should sherry he has been under e u. sanction since 2011 and us sanctions since 2019 for legit human rights

violation. here, none of these things seem to matter to these voters. the only issue for them is the economy was, you know, i'm voting for a fee to improve the conditions in our country. our problems are many, but mainly that are you don't have jobs and inflation is very high. i think he can do something for us. his only main rival has been this man up to nasir him mattie the only mater left in the right. the former head of iran central bank has been using his background in finance to try and convince voters he is the right man for the job. my name can i pay me a demo? i've come to defend the very last piece of democrats. he that remains on voting for him. i tell you the most important issue right now is our economy. i hope you can fix it. have come too far so we can return our democracy. by the way. the unemployment rate is an all time high,

and iran and inflation at more than 40 percent in vienna, members of president has found ronnie's team are in talks with the united states and other members of the un security council to get us back into the nuclear deal known as the joint comprehensive plan of action, j. c, p o, a. and they're hoping a positive outcome, but deliver the results that people want to turn out as a major issue for official here who hope they can rally electric. that compared to when has on monday was elected 8 years ago. the next president may prove not so popular when he takes office in august. sources safari out to 010 live. now, as i said, bag who is outside or inside, i believe putting station in tech, ron observers have been predicting a low turn out in this election. what is your sense from being asked about of how voting is going whether they're currently in defense of their own,

in rate rich opposing station inside a shrine. so it's become very busy. the sun is setting the temperatures are going down, you'll probably hear the call to prayer. i've been research taishan taking over the speaker, but generally we didn't. the many people hail though is picking up now. and as we were driving around better on, we did the many pulling stations and they didn't seem very busy, but of course they're on, isn't there on there's about 60000000 eligible voters across, across the country, 100 and some 3000000. i could be wrong, but your rights people have been predicted. polls have been predicting a low voter turnout, and that is a concern to the political establishment here. the lowest turn that we've ever seen . the presidential election insider on is in 1993. where is 50.5 percent at some polls have suggested that it could be lower than to put that into context. the lecture that the lead in this election is the brain, right? the, the current judicial chief, now the last election against president row hall and you got just less than $16000000.00 both, but he lost the election by a 1000000,

but it's the voter turnout is less than 50 percent and managed to get the same amount of both that will be him, be wrong, next president. and what are the main issue for the people who voted that you've spoken to in particular, the younger generation? well we've spoken to people only here in fair on both sides of their own in the city for this mahoney. wrong 3rd largest 15 i. every time i stop and spoke to somebody, there's one major concern, which is the economy. unemployment is high, inflation is around 40 percent, and people just want a standard of living. i went to shop for the young people and they were complaining about the price of goods, the daily some people blame the ronnie administration say that they haven't managed the economy, probably the properly. and the government has said that it's because of sanctions, but people just don't. why that they've been very disappointed. because even though the fact you have been in safe, they feel that president hasn't wrong and you haven't dealt with the economy

properly. now whoever is the next country of the country next president will have to deal with some of those issues because those people are voting and many people are staying away. but those people vote in what some change and they want their standard of living to get better. thank you for that. i said, beg there for us in tech, ron. not al jazeera has seen an advanced copy of for you and reports not yet made public on children and conflict. it's meant as a blacklist naming parties that commit gray violations against children. but key actors have been left off. let's course now to our diplomatic edison, james spaces in london who seeing this report, what more do you have to tell us? well, this is always very controversial when this is published every year. it's a report on children living in conflict zones, and then in an annex the report, a list of those countries and groups that are responsible for maiming and killing

children. now in the report, the certainly criticism of israel it talks about more than a 1000 grey violations against children in east jerusalem, the west bank and gaza. and the report says, i quote un remains deeply concerned by the number of children killed and maimed and continues to row to investigate each case where live ammunition was use. that's in the body of the report. you turned to the annex, which is supposed to be the black list, the u. n. is supposed to provide this every year to the security council, and israel is not listed on the blacklist look to yemen. and that the who the rebels all the state for killing or maiming more than $250.00 children on the saudi led coalition is responsible according to the report for killing or maiming a $194.00 children. but you will find that the fees are in the annex on the blacklist bought the saudi led coalition on not on the amex, the full list,

we believe has now been circulated to the security council. it's still private. it will be published in the coming days and the security council will discuss it in about 10 days time. so there is so far, little reaction, all the to our report of what is in this report. and i can tell you, we've just received this from human rights watch. the child advocacy direct to jo becca says the secretary general is continuing to let violators off the hook for agree just abuses against children or james, i guess that begs the question, why isn't the un holding israel more to account? well, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes right now and in recent weeks, but we do, i think know what has happened in previous years. and that's the countries do not want to be on this black list. they do not want to be named and shamed, and they put a great deal of pressure on the un and even the un secretary general himself not to

be on this list. we know that israel constantly says that it singled out by the united nations and singled out unfairly, and they're backed in that assertion by their key allies, the u. s. which also says the un treats israel unfairly. many thanks for that. james spies in london for us. a sci fi between me on most military and arms groups last about 3 days before collapsing. more than 100000 people have now fled into the jungle with few supplies. penny chain reports from the time me on my border. a single mind, a bird perches on a temple roof and thailand and o men for those. the believe it brings bad luck. but just down the road. no time for superstition. people are packing up supplies to send across the board to man ma . they have to operate without the tire authorities knowing and with no guarantees . the aid will get through contin. it's very difficult to get access to the

displaced people. some of the aid workers were arrested and some of the donation items were destroyed and burned by the me and my army. the supplies are loaded onto a truck, blankets, medicine, top, poland, and food. this consignment will be driven across the borders. elsewhere. it must be carried by hand on the other side of the border, the correct army is in control. it was one of the ethnic groups that signed up to a cease fire man ma until the military coup. in february, the aid is unloaded from the truck and taken to a makeshift jungle camp. it's the monsoon season and conditions a tough. nonetheless, a steady flow of new arrivals. these people had tracked through the jungle the 3 days from the most of the township that has seen the fiercest fighting. but here is elsewhere. covet protocols, prevail, temperatures taken a masks worn, they must remain isolated for 14 days. despite the conditions, however,

every one is grateful to be away from the fighting. it was in there for them that we were sleeping in our house when the me am, our soldiers came near a village. we were very skewed. we can't stay in the village anymore. or the artillery hit our village late at night we were very scared and hurried to get up and ran to the jungle to hide from the shell. fighting and kaya state has been fierce men, most ami has unleashed the full might of its military machine, helicopter gunship jets and heavy artillery firing to civilian neighborhoods. its troops have left a trail of destruction in the towns and bodies littering the streets many decomposed beyond recognition. in the tropical heat, some believe this is a deliberate policy to force the carini from their homeland everything the region has, has a very specific purpose or purposes that is to, to drive people away from their homes. and to make it possible for them to

return, some people daring to go back, but with so many homes burnt or destroy, there's a real concern. the arm is intention, is to push people back into the jungle for long periods of time, or even worse, to push them over the border here into thailand. but thailand has shown little interest in taking in tens of thousands of refugees as it did in the ninety's. the memos jointer enforced a similar policy on the carini. that means that these children could remain in the makeshift camps for months or even years forced from their homes by military to the may also have robbed them their future. tony chang l to 0 on the time me on my board. the still ahead on al jazeera, the crone of our very 1st identified in india is blamed several countries. the infections rise sharply. armenians are a people in mourning off. the lock is devastating defeat. classify john,

hundreds of prisoners of war are still to come home and this we can not reflection brought on by the crisis. i'm returning not for later in the program. ah, ah, it's time for the perfect journey with sponsored by cut on airways. hello, an intense monsoon rate out of the gate. we've been talking about it. so for this i want to take you to west spain gall, where we have just been inundated with rain and our rainfalls from the monsoons have been amplified by a disturbance parked over to pradesh, just incredible scenes that were seen there. and this part of westbank always felt more than 400 millimeters of rain scooped up in the last 3 days. so there's that disturbance parked over pradesh, amplifying the rainfall toward the northeast. so that includes for b, r and west bank gall. and it's also spilled into parts of nepal. there's are heavy,

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entrance. that was what happens to people who were shot. they came into the wrong entrance, the nightly pyrotechnics of the funny to turn to the camera man. so that's good. they'll out of here, sorry, a vo holiday and will hold on al jazeera. ah, ah, the me you're watching out as a reminder, on top stories this, our facing has been extended in a bronze presidential election opinion. polls are predicting victory for the judiciary chief and brought him right. 10 out is expected to be low. several prominent candidates were excluded out there as seen an advance copy to you and

support on children and conflicts. un has failed to put israel on its global blacklist despite the report documenting more than a 1000 grade violations against children in the occupied territories. and israel, and far between me on most minute train alms, great loss and fatty 3 days before collapsing. tens of thousands of fled, that the security council has just finished hearing from the special envoy on me. and we'll get you more on the election in iran. how med most savvy is a professor of political science at the university of to ron. he joins us on skype from the many thanks for joining us on. i'll just there. so we've talked a lot about the low 10 out of this election. why do you think 10 outs is lower this time around? a while. the lewis turn out iran has had in presidential elections was 28 years ago

where the turnout was around 51 percent. and this of action, the prediction is the turn out is going to be somewhere between 40 to 50 percent. of course we have to wait until tomorrow to know the exact number. and i think 3 important factors are playing into this. first of all, is the economic situation. according to paul, the number one reason people site for not voting is that they are not happy with their economic conditions. the 2nd factor is the corona virus pandemic. this election campaign has been very cold because of that. in the 3rd one is the disqualification of some of the major candidates by the guardian council. as talk a bit more about the economic challenges that people face in iran as a result of the sanctions. and for many reasons, i was reading that the middle class has shrunk in the last decade, which gives us a sense of how difficult the economic situation actually is in iran for people.

yes, that's true. so federal honie, the current president would like to the 8 years ago on a mandate to improve the ranking economy via a nuclear deal. and after 2 years of being in power, he reached you on 2015. actually, after the deal was reached, you on the economy was doing relatively well for a few years until donald trump left to do in 2018. since then in the past 3 years, the rain currency, his boss, lot of its value, inflation officially is around 40 something percent in reality might be more. and as a result, a lot of people are feeling are these hardships. so the hope is that perhaps a revival of the nuclear deal will put you on the economy back on track. you of course, are professor years you have students. what is it that young people in particular

are looking for from their new leadership? i see, i don't think we can generalize and say that it's a single thing. a lot of young people, of course, they want jobs. they want to be able to marry and have a home. are things that are very difficult to do. i mean, for example, on living costs, the cat ron are very high numbers of that. there are also some political demands as well. so for example, one concern regarding a brian raising the front runner is that he might sensor some websites, which is instagram. and in the base, he has been very clear that he's not going to do that, but nevertheless, there are few years that he might sensors the internet as well. so it's not just economic demands, i would say a wide range of demands,

but the economy is probably the number one priority. many thanks for your analysis . how mad massage massage a professor political science at the university of stefan israeli forces have injured at least 11 palestinian protesters in occupied east jerusalem. it happened after friday prayers that the most compound 14 people were arrested. they had gathered in opposition to the nation. this flag march held on tuesday and south of the occupied west bank city of nobliss. at least 47 palestinians have been injured during similar protests. israeli soldiers, 5 gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse demonstrates is after friday press. this week marks 54 years since the illegal occupation of east jerusalem nigeria enforcers have managed to rescue 2 teachers and 5 students from kidnappers . they were part of a group abducted earlier on friday, off the raid on

a school in the northwestern state of can be. it is the mass kidnapping, in 3 weeks, gangs of men described as bandits, often stage, abductions, seeking, ransom payments. in the groan of ours, marian called delta, which was 1st identified in india, is becoming an increasing concern for governance. the u. k. has seen the biggest surge and coven 19 infection in the number of hospital admissions has also been rising. officials estimate that the delta variance is responsible for more than 90 percent of new cases, mostly in on vaccination younger people. well, there's also been an increase in cases linked to the delta variance in germany. the strain now makes off about 6 percent of cases there. more than half of the population is vaccinated as the health officials, all concerned the new variance could fuel more infections. now, brazil,

senate has placed several former officials on investigation and a prob, relating to the handling of the coated pandemic. nearly half a 1000000 people have died in brazil and present enjoyable sanara is face christianism for being dismissive of the outbreak in his country. let's go to monica yet. a king who is live for us in a rear dish. near at monica, what exactly is happening? so this saw parliament for inquiry has begun in april. it's investigating the government handling of the panoramic because brazil conference for other countries does have the conditions to mass vaccinate people fast that has done so in the past . but in this time there make, it was very slow to mostly because there was government denial of how

serious this pandemic was. it turned down offers the vaccine, made by pfizer. it turns out offers the vaccines made by the world health organization. so all these officials, the former officials and are being investigated and what this means that you turn of events, is that 14 people among them, the former health minister, why the pose will the current health minister, my kid hit all that? and the former foreign relations minister, and there thought i was there now under investigation. they're not just speaking as witnesses, but what this basically means is that the people that are participating in the probe, they said now issue search and seizure warren to get more information from these people. so it's, and this is happening just as brazil will probably reach half a 1000000 deaths by corporate 19 this weekend. many thanks to that, monica young,

a key of joining us that live from rear diginero. the japanese government's top medical adviser says the safest way to hold the tiger olympics would be with no fans present at all. his recommendation puts him at odds with organizes and the international olympic committee was limited numbers of local spectators to attend fans from a board were bound several months ago, and a final decision on locals is due to be made. next week. the games are beginning next month to spite mounting opposition across japan. south africa as recorded its highest number of daily infections since january. more than 13000 cases were reported. and just the last 24 hours. the government has deployed the army in guar hang province to help combat the spread. on tuesday, south africa returned to title restrictions after sudden rise in infections.

now early elections have been called in armenia, but whoever wins will have to deal with a national psyche deeply wounded by defeat in a war with, as by john last year. the 2 sides force over the disputed region of the going to come back. these are live pictures from the capital, yet a van where opposition protesters have been holding a rally. i'll just there is worry, challenge is in the capital, he sent us the support the fighting may have almost completely stopped. but for aman and i mean at the war is not over the 19 year old son hamlet isn't home yet. and this there sure is him being captured by, as a, by johnny troops last october. since then, they've heard nothing by john denies holding him in consulting they said, during these months we've seen too much pain. we've lost our faith in the government in the elections. i won't participate,

i will not vote. we're far from politics and all we want is our children to muslim last week as a by john return 15 armenian military prisoners. in exchange back, you received a map showing landlines in an area they won back in last year fighting. although the numbers are disputed as a by john still hold 60 to perhaps 200 armenians, it calls terrorists prisoners of war. just one of the damaging consequences of armenians military defeat. losing war psychologically puts a society in a des advantage of situation. but society feels more stressed when imminent, humanitarian problems are not being result for for the society. officially, nearly 4000 da meanings were killed or disappeared when either by john took back

territory last to armenia. during the 1st war, however, disputed new going to kara back, which ended in 1994 on this hillside overlooking year of and you really get a sense of armenian loss. this is the main military cemetery and each of the soldiers fell in last year's war. many of them valley after that teens. so armenia is morning, it's sons and brothers. it's father's. but it's also morning, a sense of itself as a country on the new borderlines russian troops keep an uneasy truce. and armenians have been displaced from their homes, like as by johnny's were nearly 3 decades ago. because didn't i miss my house every day? i come here to gather time. i look at my house and i cry. your blood, graham, the crisis has triggered early elections. do this weekend. candidates are blaming each other for the defeat. but this analyst says the real problems, years of military over confidence and squandered internationally mediated peace

negotiations are being ignored. the absence of a diplomatic strategy, the failure of military lessons learned. none of these are being addressed by any candidate, neither from the opposition nor the government. no one has been able to articulate either what they would have done differently or what they will do differently if elected armenia will soon have a new parliament. but how and if it can bring this country out of its trauma, is far from clear. rory helen's al jazeera yerevan police at hong kong have charged the chief editor and the chief executive of the pro democracy newspaper, the apple daily with collusion with a foreign country. they were rounded out by police along with 3 other colleagues on thursday. well, those 3 were released on by a later on friday. and so we have also frozen millions of dollars in company assets . the arrests lead to cues at new stones to buy the latest edition of the tabloid.

comalla zone australia is east coast could be added to the endangered species list . the marsupial is already classified as vulnerable. g logging, ban encroachment, disease, or numbers fell even further during bush fires early this year. scientists a warning call as could disappear from the wilds in the eastern state of new south wales by the 2050. ah, i'm on the inside with the headlines on al jazeera, they thing has been extended in iran, the presidential election opinion polls are predicting victory for judiciary. chief abraham racy turn up is expected to be low to several prominent candidates were excluded. rice sees victory would put hawks in control at a time when the president government is trying.