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a vaccine exchange agreement with israel saying that job's a to close to expiring the dying craft in south korea. that's more than paper painting than what's being done to keep it alive. the iran knows it in a presidential election expect with a hand power to hotline judge abraham. right? you see activists had called for a boycott, after several candidates were excluded leaving only 4 contenders in the race. many iranians are weary and frustrated with the state of the economy, and that seems to have effected friday's ton out of a big report from terra. it's a tale of 2 elections, a part of society that feels disappointed and let down appears to have stayed away from the poles. my name was i another them, but because they didn't, i didn't tote because of it. it's useless. the previous government came and made a lot of promises and i know this government will do the same on right through. i

didn't vote because the candidate i wanted to vote for was after did a job, but he was disqualified. that's why i didn't. and then did those consider more faithful, the backbone of support? the political establishment relies on my son at that i've been voting for 40 years . look at my id document. there's no more space for selection steps today. i voted for mr. racy. i want him to help the, you know, one assisted us. i hope they help the youth and all the miserable people from the day we became eligible voters. that 18 we have attended the elections. this is proof. we have voted in all elections, no room left with them. i voted for mr. racy. they have been called for an election boycott, but the main factions urged people to come out. and the highest authority in the country, the supreme leader lead the cold by casting the 1st vote. it's not clear, it's worked. some don't see a candidate,

they can vote for others. don't believe in the system that seen many candidates disqualified, many feel the economy has been mismanaged prison. hassan rule. hong is administration blames us sanctions imposed after donor trump. pull the u. s. out of the 2015 nuclear deal, unemployment and inflation, or at all time highs, the currency has severely devalued. here in the south of thereon, everyone we spoke to who voted said they chosen election. frontrunner just re chief ibrahim, right. you see that if he faced 2 of the conservatives and one moderate candidate, but several of those were excluded vain. he's also been the head of the judiciary since 2019 is close to the supreme needa and has support from hotline. as many may criticize the outcome of this problem. the question now is, what was the voter turnout be? what percentage of the vote would get he may win the election but not necessarily widespread popular support. i said vague. i just, there are, there are, well, are correspondent doors such barbie joins us live now from toronto. so it appears

the election suffered from low voter turnout. why did people stay away them well, the number one concern for the general public has been that they don't believe that they, governments can really do much in terms of turning the economy around. that is the main concern. now whether or not abraham racy, the front runner will be able to do that is what people voted for him. are hoping for now. just a short while ago we heard from one of the conservative candidates most and read a who has written letter letter congratulating the head of her onto the sherry abraham, right. you see in his when, which we still cannot confirm because the interior minister has yet to announce official results. we are waiting for that in the coming hours. but it's interesting to hear from us and reside this early on in the morning. and he's one of the 1st people to comment on it possible when by the conservative candidate, abraham bright, you see in a letter he said that yesterday was

a golden page in the history of our nation. and he congratulated the one elected by the nation. my brother racy, he said. so it's the 1st piece of information we're getting from official, sir about a possible victory for the front runner, abraham, racy. as you say, dos that seems that race, he's going to win. what more do we know about him and his politics? well, he's not a very outspoken person in the public. i hear he but he's very much part of the establishment and a very powerful man. he wears the black turban that is a sign of him being what we call a se yet, meaning he has lineage linked to the prophet mohammed, according to him and his family. he is also a native of masha, which is also where the supreme leader comes from. he was appointed to the head of the foundation. there are a lot of calls, which is a very powerful foundation out of masha that is in charge with dealing with a mom as a shrine. and that is

a charity that has dealings and holdings in all aspects of the country's economy. he was in charge of that foundation before he was appointed the head of the judiciary in 2019 of course, he is also, interestingly enough, a member of the assembly of experts is that is a body that is tasked with choosing the next supreme leader so he's very much entrenched in the system, but he's also made it very clear that he is now very much going to be when, if elected a people's president, he is promised that he will deal with corruption. that is one of his main tasks when he was in charge of when he's it part of the judiciary. his main goal was to clean up that department in terms of corruption. so we do know quite a bit about his background, but in terms of his day to day in his tone, we have yet to hear a lot from abraham bracy. so in the next few hours, once we know the results, we are luckily to find out more. alright, until such a bar live 1st. there in toronto's up. thank you. now the you in general assembly

has called member space to hold the floor of weapons into me and mine. it's the 1st global action taken against the gent, a sense of seize power and began a violent crack down the table. more than 800 people from the united nations christian salumi report. it was the 1st time the general assembly made its position known on me and mar since the country's qu, 4 and a half months ago. secretary general, antonio good terrorist pressed member states for a strong message. we cannot live in a world where military calls become a norm. it is totally unacceptable. the regional threat of the cry. he's real. we must continue to call for maximum restraint and condemn all forms of lions. the reason of a large scale civil war is read. the text was adopted with 10900 votes in favor, one against and 36 abstentions, including some countries from the region. you a,

she answered her external blind pressure or imposition of sanctions on me and mar is not only an effective but quite on the contrary. it might aggravate the issue. the resolution calls for the release of state counselor, uncensored she, and other political prisoners, an end to violence against peaceful demonstrators and humanitarian access. notably, it also calls for member states to stop weapons from getting into the country. but only the security council has the power to impose in arms embargo and so far, vito wheeling powers, china and russia have opposed targeted sanctions. the general assembly resolution was sponsored by some 60 countries, including canada, get the country on a path to democracy. that's a very, very clear message of the hunter, and it's a message that says, stop the atrocities. let's, let's deal with the need for democracy is as soon as we can and the delay has gone on for several months. let's move forward. me and mars ambassador to the un,

an outspoken critic of the military, says the resolution doesn't go far enough. we are so disappointed that it took almost 3 men to adopt this. what a donald is illusion, even though it does not include many important point to say lie, thought the people emma, the general assembly, where every country has a vote and no country has veto power, has now weighed in, but will me and mars military listen. they've resisted similar calls from neighboring countries in the regional ozzy on group before, but now with this world body behind them, the calls are getting louder. kristen salumi al jazeera, the united nation. so let's bring in vivid catcher. he joins us now from new delhi . he's a former indian a basset to me and my mr. capture. good to be with us here on out 0. so india was one of the 36 countries that abstain from voting for this un arms embargo that seems rather strange, given to me and mark,

who is one of the biggest crises in the region. why do you think just briefly, new delhi, abstain in this guy's literally sions all me on my people on that there should be no doubt. but india security concerns and be security concerns because men my neighbor and be sensitivity in war in this relationship. finally, in the school practice, the new and shiny or different gauge, one wisdom in my army, which as an institution has always shown that indemnity is not the new. i'm trying to strike that in the past and has not succeeded. ok if you talk about shunning different gauge one, but many critics say india is just appeasing the june to in me and mar. and this could backfire and trigger angry protests. maybe even in flame and india.

insurgency, northeast. where many of these refugees fleeing to i don't the men, most people realize that in this is their aspiration and their desire for democracy . this would be no doubt and the democratic country does the facts on the ground and the history of men, modern it's complexity. this basically, it is, complexity cannot be overlooked in 1988 and the policy of shunning them in the army and that it does nowhere. in fact, that met the international community that has to be a process of being gauge wonder and it's not easy. it's difficult, but that is what the international buyers. so let's talk about some of the facts on the ground. then we've seen hundreds of civilians killed. i think, 800 the last count homes are being burned to the ground. the me and my armies

increasing its violence against the people. but yet india seems to be adopting as you say, this cautious approach. but many people say amounts to being complicit in, not condemning the coo and the terrible violence with thing, not tv screens. i don't think that's what it stands for in this condemnation of what is happening in men. modern terms of loss of life is done mistake. but at the same time, india can not be. india cannot look, insecurity, no country in the word. and if i may visual countries that are only focusing on humanity in issues, and there is nothing wrong with the focus on humanity, in the initial country, we don't share border with me. in fact, my experience of phone, those countries were most distant, wrong, men mar, are the most, most supporters on you wouldn't write in the month,

and that is not the case with these. all right, so let me, let me go to another. let me get a final thought from you, mister. catch you the un special envoy to me and is now a warning of the possibility of an all out civil war in the country. i mean, not to die. a warning. india's official position, as you say, is that it supports a democratic transition. so what more does new delhi need to do to help bring about that return to democracy? then i think india needs to engage. it says more with the now my army. it needs to them the word of 2021 is not due to the 20th century, and one of them in my army is doing is to move on. we not only the mind but its own the problem and this is a final bill due filling new strategic situation. let us not forget

china rules and all an india can be mindful, work china as consistently in traditionally adopted as a policy to demand money. that is correct. ok. we're gonna do that capture. we have to leave it there. thank you very much indeed. so for talking about his era. thank you. thank you. now the chief editor and chief executive of a pro democracy newspaper in hong kong have been denied baylof to appearing in court. ryan lauren, chunk him hung are accused of colluding with a foreign country. they were arrested at the apple dante's offices on thursday, under the city sweeping national security laws. the case has drawn international condemnation lots also to come here and just they are including just a month before the olympics. mixed messages from japan on with the spectators will be allowed to attend and will have the latest on the 3rd, massive duction and nigeria in many weeks florida status.

ah hello there. let's start in the middle east and conditions are looking rather unsettled across the gulf states. we've got a shamar wind, that's a northwesterly wind blowing down from iraq. and that's kicking up the dust and causing a sandstorm to incorporate and also bringing temperatures down. and we'll see a dip on sunday before the wind start to calm down. and next week those temperatures will continue to build up for, but in advance things are looking fine and dry things looking fine and dry over saudi arabia as well. that could be a shower to affecting western parts of yemen. as we move across to the horn of africa. we've seen storms brewing across the e. c o, p, and rift valley showers across coastal areas of somalia and kenya. but the real storms are brewing across the central belt of africa. cameroon,

seeing some really severe weather. heavy rain, strong winds, have damaged buildings there. as we go into sunday, will like to see more of that rain the and effecting areas of nigeria. but further south, it is a pretty dry and fine picture, but wet weather is affecting southern areas of mozambique and symbolic way. but south africa seem plenty of sunshine and the temperature in cape town will continue to climb. as we go into the weekend. the when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks, we heard some noise. this was known as a sniper alley, was dangerous intersections and sought able didn't come in through the front 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 we'll hold on al jazeera oh, a welcome back to come on the top stories here. this iran voted in the presidential election expected to have the power to hotline judge abraham racy activists. had cobra boyd cartel to several candidates were executed a triple economy in high unemployment where some of the issues dominating fridays, but the human general assembly has passed a resolution calling for a hold to the flow weapons and to me and it's even better represents the civilian government says the measure don't go far, not the chief editor and chief executive

a pro democracy newspaper. non com. i've been denied bail after hearing and court are accused of colluding with a foreign country. arrested on thursday under the cities sweeping national security . the us military presidents in the middle east is shrinking further equipment, as well as hundreds of troops are being pulled out. the pentagon confirm reports with anti missile batteries of being removed from iraq to 8 jordan and saudi arabia . it comes 2 years after the military presence in the region grew, an escalating tensions with iran. gabriel is under has more from washington d. c. where the pentagon is not telling us exactly how many troops and exactly, exactly precisely where they're being withdrawn from. an exactly when nevertheless, we can certainly ascertain from the information that they did release that, that they are saying that it definitely is air defense assets primarily that are being moved out of the middle east region. they said that they would be perhaps

moved to some redeployed to other areas that they would not disclose or brought back to the u. s. for maintenance. what we think this is, is the bad air defense system. and also the patriot missile system that the u. s. has deployed in recent years to several countries in the middle east, in terms of how many troops were thinking that it's in the hundreds, not the thousands. and these would be troops that are, that you know how to operate these air defense systems. so you ask yourself, is this a big troop drop down or not? and answer that question, got to know on how many troops in total there are in the middle east, a us troops, and it's about 45 to 55000. so if you're looking at several 100, perhaps, that gives you an idea of the total number of troops bottom line know is this comes at a very important time because biden president vine has said that he wanted to recalibrate the number of us troops and assets in the middle east region,

and this is all part of that. recalibration is he focuses more on russia and china . but it also, and this is important, this comes ahead of expected talks with iran on re entering into the nuclear agreement, the j. c. p. o a me now the tokyo 2020 chief says she wants to explore always to whole next month's olympics with spectators. japan's top medical adviser has said the games would be safer without the fans. a band would cost organizes hundreds of millions of dollars in ticket sales. oh, she aga, other sporting events are being held with spectators. so as long as people want to see the olympics and paralympics, then it's the job of the organizing committee to find and eliminate the risk in order to ensure safety and security. i want to make every effort to continue discussions until the end. so that like in other sports,

as many people as possible, can watch the games out of here as 40 solomon has more now from tokyo. this the mixed visions holding that olympic 2, adding more confusion to what's going on. just a week ago, the organizing committee indicated that they're expecting to see about 225000 spectators. they had the different events during the when that held on the 23rd don't like so. and they also mentioned that the household order, the 43 percent of the ticket. so now with the mr. army off, think denies those advisors organizers and they have already sold the ticket. so it could be a mess to see how if they decided to return the tickets, are they going to decide? and then at the number, the government, the government governance up to got

a know this thing that emergency on thursday said that they want to cover the number of spectators, the major events 210001 the regardless of the size of the event or the late so all this is adding more confusion and he said that he wanted to see if there's an event that this is a call again. but we're on monday. we're going to press conference session is going to give us the final decision on that the palestinian authority has rejected a deal with israel to receive more than a 1000000 cobra, 900 vaccines that were close to have expiry date of vaccine swap was announced early on friday, palestinians say they were told, the doses would last into july and august, but they instead receive $90000.00 jobs that expire this month. more than half of his ratings have been fully vaccinated compared to one in 3 palestinians. the only had one does by the climate. after,

after the medical technical tains received the 1st patch to vaccines, the saving, they found that they did not match the technical specifications that we had agreed earlier. we contacted the prime minister and the decision was made, the deal was canceled and we will remain committed to buying enough vaccines for our people and depression 5 to provide the vaccines as early as possible. need abraham mass mona from bethlehem and the occupied westbank. according to the pals than in health minister of what you're than a press conference with the spokesperson of the palestinian government, they said that the shipment they received today, which is between 92100000 jobs visor, did not come or went up to the palestinian standards forwarding to the deals that look struck by pfizer, the palestinian officials said that the agreement was that these doses should expire in july and august. and that's because they can get them to the people. but they found out for them to the policy and official that these jobs expire in june,

which is why they held a press conference and said that they are rejecting the whole they are sending back those batches. and now we'll wait for the back seat that the ready order is from pfizer to arrive board thing to them. they should be here in september or october. and they many have been telling us that they believe that israel was trying to score p r point after a lot of criticism came to israel because it is the occupying power or the to international law. many human rights organization said that this is israel, you to vaccinate palestinians, but they didn't do that. and they believed that they were trying to get those shipments to the palestinians because they were already going to throw that, throw them away and try to score p r points. remember, we also have a new government in israel, and this is what, why many palestinians believe that there's rooms acting in bad faith. now, when it comes to the vaccination drive in the past and it's going relative?

no, it's not even more than 13 percent of the population that have received the job. so this deal is also the delay of this team is also expected to further load down the vaccination rate and maybe take a few months for the palestinians to get through. the heard the news too because they're saying that they need to get 70 percent to have some sorts of for her immunity and be able to open up businesses and straggler life and covered 900 cases arising again in africa, the worst hit country, more than 13000 new infections were recorded in south africa in a single day. if the highest in 6 months. a 3rd wave has hit the country as it struggles to roll. that fact seems so africa as recorded more than 1700000 cases with 58000 deaths. one of the group of more than 80 students kidnapped by gunman in nigeria, husband kill. it's not clear how the student died. the group was abducted from a school in the northwestern state of cabbie. the army has rescued at least one

teacher and 5 pupils. it's the 3rd massive duction and as many weeks kidnappings by gangs described as bandits have been on the rise in recent months. in the last few hours, we've come across the kidnapper. they came to a block in point and we've engaged him. less of this money. at that point, we have a blend on 5 of the students. i'm one of the teachers. unfortunately, i think we've lost one of the one of the students, at least 27 people have been killed in a bus crash along the andean highway in peru. the bus was carrying mind work was, would it run off the road in the southern province of lucon, us, and plunged 200 meters down a hill more than a dozen people were injured? some communities in bolivia have taken up hunting, putting an endangered reptile at risks. the black came on is considered a vulnerable species and despite the threat of a 5 year jail term,

some locals in the town of magdalena had been hunting them down. one was killed. this week, a leather and meter of black came out is highly sought after and some areas politicians and academics in south korea, pushing for traditional paper making to be included on the unesco list of intangible cultural heritage. it's fear that hand g as it's known and korean could be in danger of dying out unless it's recognized out 0. rob mcbride reports from john jude. it's been made the same way for more than a 1000 years. a scale passed from one generation to the next. as in this business run, by the way, families, it's often referred to as 100 paper because that's how many stages are considered needed by hand to make each piece. the pope comes from the in a bark of the mulberry tree which grows abundantly on south korea as rocky hillsides. but it can only be harvested at

a particular time of the year and then laboriously worked to strip away the out about $100.00 energy. and then it takes about 10 years of study learning from a master craftsman. traditions are hard to learn and how to keep up so it requires a sense of commitment. this business and others still making paper. the same way is located in the city of john du, which is home to a carefully preserved village to promote korean culture. for an ancient industry that at one time expose its product to china, considered the birthplace of traditional paper, making the decline in korean. han gee has been marked, especially in recent times. it's reckoned that from a 100 workshops a couple of decades ago, barely 20, now remain on display in this city, the winning entries from a competition aimed at encouraging hun g making while showing off its berth fatality. all the offerings made out of paper. but what's needed,

argue at supporters, is the worldwide recognition that would come with unesco listing. when he pulled the new kid august benefit museum archives and constantly surprised by the condition historical documents and the characters and colors. i figured i'd still have just been drawn and the paper is not damaged at all. the paper from chase workshop is now the preferred choice for us restore is in italy, and he believes unesco recognition. similar to that enjoyed by paper makers from china, and japan would go a long way to preserving his beloved craft. can you tell me? well, of course i'll do everything i can to prevent this tradition from dying out. but i can't do it on my own. the whole society must cherish this heritage. consider a precious and love it, a craft whose mastery is hardened and that could easily be lost. robert bride al jazeera john to south korea. now austria's cove at 900 cases are declining,

which means and ends a months of silence for musicians who are back performing for live audiences. ah . ready vienna philharmonic has held its traditional summer night concert. this year the audience was mostly made up of medical workers and teachers zohler who had to provide a negative test. the theme of a concert was yearning for different places. it included compositions by debussy, birdie and rachmaninoff ah, type of krycek headlines here on 0. iran has voted in the presidential election expect for the hadn't power to hotline judge abraham racy.