the breaking the phones, this is fine and your phone on me are on the presidential election low says hoping a new leader will improve the country struggling economy ah allow. mariam was in london watching alger 0, coming up on the program from the u. k. to russia. is the corona virus delta varied could dramatically set back a european recovery. countries missing from un blacklist despite gray violations against children in conflict zones. and tony chang on the time border

fighting has forced more than a 100000 people into the jungle. but essential supplies are running in i and i welcome to the program will polls and use a close in 30 minutes in a presidential election. it's expected to put iran on a more conservative path. the hotline had the judiciary brain, right? you see is widely tipped to when the vote. many vote has many writings, a weary and frustrated with the countries. economic problems and voter accuracy is likely to weigh on ton out in this election activist called for a boy called after a range of candidates were excluded by the countries of powerful decision making body. the guardian council. so short, it will be to assa bag in the capital tack wrong 1st. so dosage of bar e reports on the voting so far. 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 pulling 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 actions where the results were very much unknown. and the people you like did is that just caught me to jordan, even on the all 3 of the more under dog during those actions in the corrective action. i think many people as well as many hannah was already predicted. i brought him raised the point when the 60 year old, conservative candidate abraham bracy is the head of her own. should the sherry he has been under e u sanctions since 2011 and us sanctions since 2019 for legit human rights violations. here, none of these things seem to matter to these voters. the only issue for them is the

economy and 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 no sir mattie the only mater left in the race. the former head of her on central bank has been using his background in finance to try and convince voters he is the right man for the job. can i pay me a demo? i've come to defend the very last piece of democrats that remains on voting for him . i tell you the most important issue right now is our economy. i hope you can fix it. i've come to ford so we can retain 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 or j. c, p o, a. and they're hoping a positive outcome will deliver the results that people want. to turn out as a major issue for official here who hope they can rally. electra that compared to what has on monday was elected a years ago than a president may prove not so popular when he takes office in august, georgia, safari out to 0. well, i said bank is also in the capital tower on forest and join just now and that they've been these expectations of a record low voted. votes of time out in this election would have been what people been saying to you, a polling stations today. we're in the south of the her on the show, her a, these polling stations have been set up in the courtyard of

a shrine. now we've been here for around 7. i was when you 1st arrived, there were many people. here we go, okay. it's very hot. maybe more people come out. the sun begins to set. and that did happen. the 100 the people in the courtyard here at one point. but here's the thing, not many of them were voting. we had more people visiting the shrine than voting. and those that did vote when we did off them, which way they voted most of them actually. in fact, every single person i spoke to the voted and voted for next natural frontrunner it rain, right? so that's the situation here in the sense of thereon. it's been very, very slow. it is about half an hour to go before these pulled close. and as you can see behind me, there's not that many people here and i've been taking a look at that. but what is the number by the have not increased that much in the last 7 hours. so the, so it does look like at least here, it's going to be a low turn out. we thought it would be higher nice in this part of their on is more conservative, but we have seen across the capital. not that many people of voting. and that's because many people are still upset that the state of the economy of the honda

government and admin administration and how they've handled the economy, but also the fact that a candidate, somebody disqualified, they can't really identify anyone to vote for at least those people who are staying from the poles. right. and is it just pops was reflecting on that very important decision that has shape this election is the fact that the influential guardian council disqualified a range of modern and reformist candidates didn't they before before this vote? that's right. they did disqualify a number of prominent candidates from the reform. mister murderer can no prisoner hasn't honie have come. some reform is come to come out. now they haven't backed anyone specifically, but they've encouraged people to come out and vote. but the question is, who are those people vote for? if you've taken away any prominent reformers to moderate figure, then who can they identify with? yes, there is one moderate in the form of the,

not the him of the former governor of the central bank here. but he's not that well known and when we were in for hon. just just last week, when we were asking people not many knew who not that him at he was. and many of them would say that they won't voting because they didn't know who to vote for. they didn't believe in the system, but that's not the only thing. the main issue is that many people are just upset that nothing has happened. they don't feel that anything has happened in the last 4 years. they feel let down by president husband ronnie and his government. they believe that he has mismanaged the economy, but the government has blamed us sanctions, but people are just not buying it. so all of this is playing into what could be one of the lowest vote to turn on the presidential election that iran has ever seen. all right, thank you. i said a reporting test from the, from south to run that. thank you. well, i do hearing that abraham right, you see is considered the front runner in the vote, but it's not his 1st bid for power the hotline had to iran suggestion re to for the presidency in 2017. but last to hi sandra honey,

he'd be the 1st president already sanctioned by the united states for his alleged role in the execution of thousands of political prisoners 30 years ago. while it's officially not taking sides cleric has the banking of the powerful revolutionary guard. also, he has the support of the supreme leader he's seen as i tele home in i. e. protege, and could possibly take over. that job, went home and i dies well treated par see joins us now from washington. he's an expert on us iranian relations and the geo politics of the middle east. and so we're hearing about there being a sense of disillusionment, perhaps hopelessness. among many iranians who are deciding to stay away from the polls. how and how important is this question of non participation and what it means for the, the legitimacy of the system work. traditionally the, the regime itself has looked at data indicator as

a reflection of its legitimacy. and you can see a split amongst the conservatives. some are actively pushing to repress participation explicitly and others who are still calling it a duty and you have to go out and both. i think what they're hoping for is to have something that is slightly above 50 percent. so they can say that it was not a historic law that it was a majority of the population that participated, but it's clearly not going to be anywhere near to 70 plus percent that existed when the options and the ideological diversity of the candidates are far, far greater than it was this time around. so if it falls below 50 percent, how, how significant could that be for the public? i think they think that they're moving in a direction in which this is less of an issue than it was before they have survived years of un sanctions. they think that they have enough control of the population,

at least as the argument of some of the on the conservative side who do not look at border participation any longer as a key indicator of their legitimacy. and they would perhaps even argue that this is part of a larger trend in the world in which we are seeing movement away from democracy in the whole set of different countries. ultimately, i think it will actually be a significant problem for them, but also for those who are calculating that this will be a major blow to the system as a whole. i think at least in the short term that is not going to end up being what it is we saw this happening in earlier elections which people boycotted. and that only led to some of the most problematic presidents coming to power off, for instance, who to a very large extent came into office precisely because a very large portion of the population did not want to vote rather than johnny back then viewing him as an establishment figure and as a result, boycotted the election, you have always and there is an election you this conversation about the role of

the president. and obviously the supreme, the parallel structures that exists within the system and the geology of the present, alongside the supreme leader who has, who is the ultimate authority in iran, one of the, one of the dynamics between these, these 2 figures. well, in the past it's been quite interesting. you know, on the one hand people are doing that the president ultimately is now to decider and that is quite correct. the president does not have the power of the presidents tend to do in other political systems, but to go as far as to say that they're irrelevant is quite an exaggeration and made a huge difference. who was president on, on there, and the new york compared to russia to ronnie, for instance, particularly from the perspective of the united states and the ability to be able to negotiate a new deal. it makes a huge difference when it comes to internal politics, internal freedoms who is pregnant. so these elections are ultimately quite

important, but they are becoming increasingly farcical mindful of how narrow they have engineered them to be, but not allowing a much broader segment of society to be able to stand for elections. thank you very much to party for joining us from washington. thank you. ok. palette sitting authorities rejected a deal to get more than a 1000000 vaccine doses from israel off to the 1st batch was almost useless. vaccine swap was agreed earlier on friday with about one and a half 1000000 jobs set to be delivered. israel admitted they would expire soon, and the palestinians say they were told the doses would last into july and august. but the 1st 90000 to due to expire this month when the interim is following the story from back and forth. is there been any further reaction to this matter?

there was a press conference by the house in, in house minister the spokesperson of the paulson in government, in which they said that the agreement that was with pfizer is that they will get jobs from israel that were due to expire in july and august. but the once they received the expire in june corps, this info you inferior to many palestinians who took the social media saying that they're just getting israel was initially throwing away many. i've been saying that this is israel way to score p r point, because also there is a new government. but as far as the whole thing is concerned and human rights organization, they were saying that the palestinians fall under israel's occupation, which means the israel have an obligation under international law to give the job before this has been ignored by israel saying that they've signed agreements with his, with that ensure that they've housing in the floor, he should be the one responsible for giving those jobs. but this argument has also

been met by a lot of criticism by palestinian saying that even if the palestinian authority is in charge, it has very limited control. and we've seen that limit of control when it comes to the palestinian authority's ability to impose locked downs. for example, it had many areas fall outside its control, so it was unable to restrict movement for example, but also we're talking about a very bad economy. so this is why for many palestinian officials, they were saying that vaccines where the only way out and they were trying to score deals with many policy and organization, many international companies to get them the job. of course, for now, we're talking about less than 13 percent of the population that house the jobs. and this calculation of disagreements is expected to confuse the vaccination program even further. how much from best brand. all governments across europe is scaling back plans to ease restrictions as the delta variance of the corona virus

continues to spread. is that to be behind a sharp rise in cases in russia, germany and the u. k. r. there is joe hall reports the delta vary in 1st discovered in india is making itself at home in europe. in britain, it's responsible for new infection numbers soaring past 11000 in a single day, and doubling every 11 days hospital admissions arising though deaths remain low. that's because the success of the vaccine rollout means the elderly and vulnerable of protected, leaving mainly young adults to get it and they tend to be less susceptible to serious illness. in countries where vaccine wrote out is less advanced, the risk is greater. the russian capital moscow has seen daily infections rise by 30 percent this week, prompting an extension of restrictions and the rebuke of public behavior from the kremlin that our total nihilism and the low vaccination level were behind the

search. we must also not forget, the counting of the infection itself, converts to only 18th of the country's population has been vaccinated with russia's own sputnik vaccine. and it's now become mandatory for those in public facing work like retail education, health care, and public transport. to get the job elsewhere in the e u, where vaccination programs have escalated after a slow start, restrictions are being eased and holiday travel is back on in the hope of a post cove. in summer, european football championship matches drawing big crowds, but the delta variant may have other ideas with the leaders of france and germany warning against complacency. that's not really bad. we need to remain vigilant as far as the spread of mutations or variance is concerned. we can see this in great britain. i can only say we can't behave as if the corona virus pandemic is over,

where people travel. so will the virus, the variant is present in more than 80 countries and the world health organization says it could soon be the dominant global strain. many a looking at the u. kays experienced as an object lesson in the perils of over confidence. we've not done, i think 80 percent of adults in this country have had a 1st job. and we're now asking 18 year olds to come forward. so when making huge huge progress, the country that has trumpeted vaccine success loudest in europe is for the moment moving fastest in the wrong direction. jona whole al jazeera fill out for you on the program, for the confrontations of the alexa moss compound off to friday, present occupied east jerusalem. ah

hello there. the heat is on across europe. and those sweltering conditions are expected to last weekend, particularly 3 central areas. this was the scene in berlin, germany where temperatures rose 10 degrees above the average and that sunshine and those clear skies are expected to last the we can, you can see temperatures, they're hitting 35 degrees in berlin, but the heat is also fueling those storms and we can see them brewing across north western areas of spain into the west of france, and here comes the rain for paris. some of the storms also felt across the south east in areas of the british isles, and norway sing plenty of wet and windy weather. this weekend, but for us we are germany and poland. the heat is certainly on a similar story for batteries and western parts of russia. temperatures continuing to climb moscow at 30 degrees celsius. but we have those swirl of storms continuing across the balcony flood,

or what flood alerts remain for romania and some of those showers, touching into greece and turkey. but there is a change coming on sunday. we got wet weather moving into more central areas. and some of the showers will be felt across areas of germany, the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. more small. to continue the change all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your bill. ah

ah, welcome back to the main stories now. polls in iran presidential election, it's use of close, very shortly with the hotline headed the traditional abraham right. the widely tip to when turn out is reportedly low with opposition. parties calling for a boycott has a poll after several candidates were excluded. and palestinians are rejecting a deal with israel to receive a 1000000 doses of the 5 corona virus vaccine panacea stars. he says they had an expiration date sooner than had been agreed all in all the developments at least 11 palace, indians have been injured in a confrontation with his writing forces and occupied east jerusalem. this happened

after friday prize at the alexa mos compound israeli forces were dispersing protesters who gathered in opposition to the nationalist flag march held earlier this week. they were demonstrating against insults towards the prophet mohammed made by israelis at the march. stephanie doug has more from occupied east jerusalem protests had been called for authority of damascus gate and protests to the races. i didn't cite full charm by the israeli right wing nationalists on the flag march on tuesday. the project didn't reach damascus gate, but a couple of 100 did protest. soon after friday prayers into the alex a compound there was a stand off with is really forces a couple of polishing and injured and rested. it was then dispersed. we also had the usual friday protest in beta and the occupied west bank people there, the village protesting against the expansion and the, the setup, let's say of the legal is really outpost of every tar. this is an outpost that has

really been expanded over the last month or so set up early last month. how the thing is protesting against it. it's also very close to land that they use all of growth that the residence of the village only can now no longer access it because it's been declared and military zone. interestingly enough, this government is really government. there is an eviction order against the outposts or parts of it, at least is certainly today media report saying that it's expanding faster than the actual government can keep up with it. so a lot of watchers here are saying that it's going to be one of the main tests early tests of this new government prime minister nationally. bennett, of course supports the settler movement. some reports indicate that he's going to be given a child to try and convince the settlers there to lead willingly. i think that is going to be difficult and then perhaps it is going to have to come down to defense minister began to deal with it by force. i'll just air a scene in advance copy of

a new you and reports on children armed conflict to mentor name and shane countries and groups that commit gray violations against children, serious government and yemen who the rebels are among those named. but while israel is criticized, it avoids the blacklist and diplomatic as a james base explains. 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 israel to investigate each case where live ammunition was used. that's in the body of the report. you turn to the annex,

which is supposed to be the blacklist the u. n. a 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 this data for killing or maiming more than $250.00 children on the saudi led coalition is responsible according to report for killing or maiming $194.00 children. but you'll find that the who fees are in the annex on the black list bought the saudi led coalition on not on that amex, the formal 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. well, 3000000 people will force from their homes last year. it means that more than 82000000 people are now displaced worldwide. the un says it's twice as many as a decade ago. more than 2 thirds of them come from just 5 unstable countries,

syria, venezuela. afghan, is don, south sudan, and me and mom. but it's fresh vine, it's in africa. it's causing this number to swell. new conflicts and if you have, if you, if he has 10 gray region across the sile and also in northern mozambique, why save the childrens has 364000 children has been forced to flee the fighting many of become targets and continued attacks in the cargo delgado region, matthew salt launch is a spokesman for the you and refugee agency. and so governance should focus more on the root causes of these mass migrations. one of the main messages to europe and to all developing countries is really to show solidarity. this is a global problem, it requires addressing global root causes. but also when refugees do move, asylum seekers move, they need to be solidarity. you can't put all the pressure on a handful of gateway come countries because simply the pressure too much. so what

we ask european and other countries to do is to show solidarity and to share the burden of hosting refugees. europe is looking at some new legislation and rules on refugees and asylum seekers and migrants and, and we hope that they'll be able to find an accord on that. and part of that would have to be showing solidarity and showing some form of relocation of refugees and asylum seekers around europe. while also of course, focusing on the causes that are causing people to move, which are of course conflict, poverty, and increasingly climate as well. one of the big challenges of course, is getting aid and support. so those people who need it the most in, in those remote areas. and that has been very difficult, particularly people, not just the need. we have similar problems in countries like syria getting supplies across the border. well, communities have people in, in thailand banding together. tell the victims of me and miles conflict. they are

smuggling food and medicine to the displaced many of those who escape the fighting . hiding in the jungle. tony chung reports, now from the time the mob border a single mind. the bird perches on the temple roof and thailand. and oh, 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 man. they have to operate without the tire authorities knowing and with no guarantees. the aid will get through it. 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 in my army. the supplies, the loaded onto a truck, blankets, medicine, ta, poland, and food. this consignment will be driven across the borders. elsewhere. it must be carried by hand from the other side of the border. the corranio army is in control . it was one of the ethnic groups that signed up to

a cease fire and 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 checked through the jungle the 3 days from the most 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, everyone is grateful to be away from the fighting. it was in there for them that we were sleeping in our house when the museum of soldiers came near a village. we were very skewed. we can't stay in the village anymore. 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. mos

army has unleashed the full might of its military machine, helicopter gunship jets and heavy artillery firing the civilian neighborhoods. its troops have left a trail of destruction in the towns and bodies littering the streets. many decompose 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 burn to 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 board here into thailand. but thailand has shown little interest in taking in tens of thousands of refugees as it did in the ninety's. when

memos john to enforce 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 a military coup. the may also have robbed them the future. tony chang al jazeera, on the time, me on my border. ah, look at the main stories now and the poles in iran presidential election aren't you to close around now, with the hard line head of the judiciary abraham right. se widely tip to win, turn out is reportedly low with opposition. parties calling for a boycott of the poll after several candidates were excluded. i said, beg has more from appalling station in southern town, ron. these pulling stations have been set up in the courtyard of a shrine now we've been here for around 7. i was when you 1st arrived there were many people here.