we can the army were attacking ringo and now they're attacking everyone in me on monday. you regret? well, it's like that we listen. absolutely. nigeria with a woman present it would be great. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on, sir. ah, when ever you know the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter when you call home will be used in current affairs that matter to you. i pod lighter abraham lacy went ahead as expected in initial results and i'm start to

re run the presidential election. ah, i'm a dream that again, this is al jazeera life and also coming up systems is to retaliate. g and bloodshed will not survive. the un general assembly condemns me on laws, military coup, and cause for weapon sales to end in a vote, that fell short of overwhelming support. took his olympics chief pushes to find ways for people to attend the absence. october 19th adviser said that it would be safest with no friends at all and such and go the panoramic sport about a payments revolution. italy as government has wanted for years as was widely expected, hardliner abraham tracy as well ahead and the vote count after iran presidential

election. the 3 other candidates had already congratulated the tradition rechieve the official final and non runs interior ministry. both of us are being get her lose. she was given that vote counting is still continuing. these are the initial results. mr. abraham racy has more than 17000000 800000 votes. mr. as i eat more than 3000000, 300000 votes, mr. him at a more than 2000000, 400000 votes, and mr garcia's other. how she me more than 1000000 votes. by now to to run out of here is dawson barry, is that for a so an apparent landslide victory. but on a very low turn out yes, this is the concern. now it will be how will this president elect abraham, right? you see be able to convince the public that he can turn things around for them. of

course, the economy being the number one issue for the audience. it's important to point out that abraham bracy is the number that he has gotten in this election is now going to be considered known to be the lowest, turn out voter turnout in iran history. since the revolution of 1979 voter turnout is that 48 percent. the interior ministry said that the number of votes cast they have the final number for that is 28600000 radians went to the polls on friday. abraham bracy, of course, got a landslide victory. we also know that the current president has found honey, has now visited abraham, but you see it at his office, it within the judiciary and terror on to congratulate him in person. he knows what task awaits him. of course, and the countries 13th the government will be formed in the beginning of august. the president has sandra honey, will no law will no doubt be giving him a few updates about what to expect when he takes office at that time. tell us more

about him, racy, then about his politics while he is a man that we know to be very close to the supreme leader and to the conservative establishment here. abraham bracy, where is a black turban, which is a sign that he is a say it meaning that his family claims lineage to the prophet mohammed. he's born in masha, which is also the birthplace of the supreme leader. it's a lot of the harmony, is iran, 2nd largest city in north east of the country. he was appointed as the head of the a on a foundation in mesh out in 2016 position appointed by the supreme leader himself. because it is the foundation that is in charge of a member as a shrine, and that's foundation is also involved with the country's economy and the politics as well. so it's very important position. he had that job until 2019 when he was

again appointed as the head of the judiciary by the supreme leader. so we know him to be a man of very, very high status within the system. he hasn't said much about his policies. he has said that he plans to tackle corruption within government that was also his platform. when he was assigned the portfolio of the judiciary, he bonded to fight corruption within that department. and that is also what he intends to do when he takes office 0 stores that you are reporting live from, from will speaking at a diplomatic event in turkey, iran's foreign minister java leaf defended the electoral process despite the le low turn out the literacy of the of the government is based on performance and based on the constitutional process, the constitutional process is that but, but people's apathy is a problem. and we need to be careful in iran, and we need to look at in a sober way without trying to blame each other why people are not turning out in

the numbers that we expect them to turn out. i believe part of it is because of the domestic and fighting that we had over the past 8 years. part of it is because of the fact that some even portrayed our diplomatic achievements in j. c. p. o, a as a national stadium. well, that results in people's up i'll just there is asset. beg your life for us now we're into iran. just have a 50 percent of the electra didn't vote in the election. they've sent a very loud and clear message to happen. yes, they have been people stay away from the polls. it does affect the country and the politics of the country. there was lots of effort made by the political if this meant to try and get people to come out and vote the supreme need to the live, how many came out. he made a speech. you said it was people's religious duty, the political duty urged people to come out and vote to defend the country. and you

mentioned the country's enemies that they want to be a lower vote to turn out to undermine the political process. now even for the husband ron, he had come out and said that boy cutting the election wasn't the way forward that yes, that they had been in justices done in the disqualification by the guardian cancel that vetting body. but the way to compensate for those was to come out and vote and have a higher vote to turn out. but interestingly enough, the reform is candidate from back in 2009 me who said most of it who's been under has the rest and has voted in previous actions. he came out and said that he would be boy cutting the election and called it engineer. it also former president. i've been a dad, he was disqualified from standing and he said that he wouldn't be voting and he wouldn't be backing any candidate. so there were calls from within the side, the country calling on people to stay away from voting, whether those calls are successful or not, where the people actually conscious the boy cut the elections. they just stayed

away from the polls because they didn't see their candidate represented, or even the fact that they were dissatisfied with the current government is difficult to tell unless you actually kerio country wide poet as to why the reason behind why people didn't vote. i'll just, as i said, beg, reporting live from the test run. i said for the moment, many thanks to speak to how savvy, who's a professor of political science a tougher on universities with us not live from taff, ron much as expected. i know. but what do you make of this, this result a 62 percent portion of the of the votes. abraham racy has got yes. i think the vote at brian bracy got was quite predictable. many people predicted that he was going to win, and it was showing in all of the poles unethical. that's what i think it may be a bit surprising is the very low number of non boats that have. busy to not mit the margaret or we form

a candidate if you like. got in. i think the main problem there was that he was trying to distance himself from the cover a current government role on e, who has performed very badly yet. and they can only sector, however, he wasn't very successful in this regard. he served for over 2 years as the director of iran central bank in, during his watch, uranian currency lost a lot of its value. so i think maybe that was a surprise, the very low number of boats that he got. okay, so what sort of president will he be? how will people's lives change with the ever him, racy as president of iran. so easy is taking over at a time of great difficulty. your inflation rate is almost 50 percent. it's predicted that the government will have a huge budget deficit this year. also globally at the j. c. p. o, a better known as the rock nuclear deal is in shambles on negotiations or of course

taking place. but we're still not anywhere near an agreement. so there is a lot of difficulties that rate you see will face from day one. and the expectations from him are quite high, and there is, of course, a chance that people might get disappointed with them very quickly. of course, one of the problems that outgoing president hottie had a moderate was that they were constant squabbles with the conservative elements in parliament. now with a conservative president, at least the business of politics in iran should get easier should the from now yes, perhaps that could be a factor of having unified government branches could help on. nevertheless, i would say the main reason for the failure of the hon. government, what the maximum pressure campaign of the trumpet administration of the ronnie government was actually doing quite well before donald trump left the nuclear deal

. and i think part of the reason for the results we have today actually goes back to american sanctions. it's debatable whether this was intentional or whether this was an unintended consequence. but nevertheless, throughout rainy and history, where whenever there is u. s. pressure, it always benefits the conservatives, and it always turns into losses for reform, its actions, the economy, the main driver. the main concern for voters in this election, of course, would be the economy intrinsically linked to the sanctions that are in place against iran. at the moment. as you say, people will have very little patience with the president who doesn't improve their lives economically. what's going to happen in terms of the iran nuclear deal in terms of the sanctions? will abraham bracy be better bringing the benefits of or lifting sanctions for for

the electorate in iran that his predecessor social, the narrative, among the conservatives and even m. c. himself up to now has been the reason for your wrong. i cannot make failures is not the sanctions but the mismanagement of the role on government. so according to this narrative, if this mismanagement is fixed and the economy will be fixed. but i do think that many conservatives at least internally, they understand how important the sanctions are. and i think this will go back of how much weight will show flexibility in the conversations. one important point is who will he appoint for the nuclear negotiations? now if he goes ahead and appoint that jelly, lee was a contender in this of action and withdrew in favor of gracie, and who was the nuclear negotiator doing medina, shod. then he is a very strict heart buying or when it comes to negotiations. and of course, we all remember that the negotiations during act medina,

the succeed really good to talk to you again professor many facts indeed, for your time. 100 massage. the professor of political science, a tech on university the rest of the race news is just ahead. why the u. s. is further reducing its military presence in the middle east, and no deal after all, kind of spending a far as he rejects a 1000000 cobit 19 vaccines from israel. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, the weather's looking decidedly unsettled, increasingly unsettled across much of western europe. at the moment. lots of plants humbling in from the atlantic. we are going to see some summary down pause, cropping off as we go on through the course of sas day and even into sunday. as

well, lot of the showers to ever towards the black sea. we'll see some heavy down pulls into remaining html david pushing up into southern parts of ukraine. heat. they're hot and dry from moscow around 30 celsius central area. still pretty hot as well. but the cold weather, the wet weather is going to be across the western side. if you can expect to see some play in the cricket along the south of england, there, southampton will see brighter skies for a time and then showers will come in. there will be some interruptions in the play live the shower, stay across much of france, spain and portugal. also we're seeing some west weather and disappointing on the temperature is 24 celsius. the 4 madrid, those showers will continue to pulse away across the good part of france. heavy downpours possibility of localized flooding as we go one through sunday. we'll see that was whether making his way towards germany as well. berlin, at 36 celsius. those temperatures will fall away as we go one through the course of the weeks a 28 celsius, the balance. we go one through tuesday, and by that stage you should be fine. dry and sunny sponsored power cut

on airways challenging the way mainstream media report. the news stories like these should be easy pickings for political reporters out of all power to account how it is in journalism is breaking the destruction of civilian property. this is all evidence for the farm tribes and the rich, the speaking, we've been getting stories of john taken from the houses in the middle of the night and tortured the listening post covers the way the news is covered on his era. ah ah.

again, this is l 0. the main news, this initial results from iran presidential action show hotline of abraham racy. well ahead. as expected, the 3 other candidates have all ready. congratulations. the dish re, chief official final announcement is to you sometime on saturday. iran is foreign minister, java, so he's just defending the electoral process to spice hello versa. turn out and speaking at a diplomatic event in turkey, he sent the legitimacy of the government is based on performance and the constitutional process. the un general assembly is called on member states to hold the flow of weapons into the law. though non binding the voters and other significant sign of global opposition to the john to the seized power and began to crack down to kill more than 800 people from the united nations christian salumi reports. 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 press,

the 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 risk 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 maurice not only in 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 and 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 as, 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 save life. 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, the chief editor and chief executive of a pro democracy newspaper in hong kong have been denied bail after appearing in court while law and john came home. are accused of collect colluding with a foreign country. they were arrested at the offices of the apple daily on thursday . under the cities, sweeping national security law cases drawn international condemnation. the us military presence in the middle east is shrinking further up some equipment and hundreds of soldiers a being withdrawn. the pentagon confirmed reports, the empty missile batteries are being removed from a rock, kuwait, jordan, and saudi arabia. it comes 2 years after it grew its military presence and the region as tension escalated with iran. gabriel elizondo reports now from washington

. well, 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 know how to operate

these air defense systems. so you ask yourself, is this a big troop draw down or not? and answer that question. gotta know on how many troops in total there are in the middle east, a us troops, and it's about $45.00 to $55000.00. 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 biden 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 the focus is 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 one student from a group kidnapped by gunman. and jerry on thursday has been found dead. at least 80 students were abducted from a school in northwestern state of cabbie. the all of these rescue one teacher and 5 pupils. it's the 3rd massive duction in as many weeks kidnappings,

arising as gangs described as bandits seek when some payments. the eas, top diplomat, has again pushing lebanon's leaders to agree on reforms to unlock financial aid from the block. just to borrow the president michelle, i want to discuss lebanon's worsening economic crisis. leaders have failed to form a functioning government since august, or if warnings of sanctions, if they can't reach agreement soon. the crisis, lebanon is phasing. it said domestic crisis is a self imposed crisis. is not the price is coming from abroad or from external fact, this is a whole made, crisis is accredited, don't buy yourselves and the consequences with the population are very much. dia, armenians vote him snap elections on sunday, in the shadow of

a simmering conflict with neighboring azerbaijan. they fought over the disputed region of the going to come back, and armine as prime minister, called the rose after effectively surrendering re challenge reports now from the out of the fighting may have almost completely stopped. but for aman and amena, the war is not over the 19 year old son hamlet isn't home yet. and this there sure is him being captured by azerbaijani troops last october. since then they've heard nothing. and as a by john deny is 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 my good last week, as a by john return 15 armenian military prisoners. in exchange back, you received a map showing land binds in an area they won back in last year's 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 deep advantage of situation. but society feels more stressed when imminent shoe money tavian problems are not being result for for the society. officially nitty 4000 dom meanings were killed or disappeared when as a by john took back territory last to our menia during the 1st war, however, disputed no. going to kara back, which ended in 1994 on this hillside overlooking year of and you really get a sense of armenia is loss. this is the main military symmetry of each of these soldiers fell in last year's war. many of them barely after that teens. so armenia

is morning, it's sons, it's 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 has by johnny's were nearly 3 decades ago . didn't i miss my house every day? i come here to gather time. i look at my house and i cry. you 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 of being ignored. the absence of a diplomatic strategy, the failure of military lessons learned. none of these were 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 talons al jazeera yerevan with the palestinian authority. has you turned on a deal with israel to receive them a 1000000 cove at 19 vaccines. the palestinians say they were assured that the doses would last into july and august, but instead, they were sent $100000.00 jobs the next class this month. or the half of israelis a fully vaccinated, only one in 3 palestinians has received a single shot by the and comet. after, after the medical technical team's 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. took care of 2020 chief, says that she still wants to explore ways to hold next month. lympics with the spectators. on friday, the top covert 19 medical adviser declared that the games would be safest without any signs at all. that would cost organize us hundreds of millions of dollars in ticket sales, given the forum spectators are already banned from attending. how can all she got 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. it's a nice economy appears to be climbing out of its cove at 19 plunge ships,

financial face problems even before the pandemic, like people's preference for cash payments, that her tax revenues that looks to be changing. now. as adam rainy reports from room this vegetable market in the heart of room dates back to the 18 sixty's, a century and a half on cash is still king. but there are signs the times are changing. for years, the italian government has been encouraging electronic payment. as a way to increase tax receipts. the pandemic gave it the push it needed, as people wanted to pay without handling cash. because they thought exchanging money by hand could spread the virus or level this year and we have to accept progress. this is how things are cash is on the way out. electronic payment in italy, rose 4 percentage points in 2020 alone. and now digital payments make up a 3rd of all transactions. it'll even has

a lottery to encourage people to request disco receipt for even the smallest purchases. to prove they were made above board. that i got to paying for euro coffee with a card or a phone was practically unheard of before the pandemic. and now it tell us is communism visit to your local such purchases are just a small part of the burgeoning digital economy. one growing faster as a result of the pandemic. the government is investing billions of euro's from the e u cove. it recovery fund to modernize the economy, which is projected to grow by nearly 5 percent this year, and an additional 5 percent in 2022. i think this is a bigger keisha now for air increasing the amount of efficiency spot and see in our system. we have spent also a lot of money during, during this crisis. so now economic growth is really

a master executive trainer, mounted your carman. jani sees this is a moment of opportunity for himself and the country at large money, regional capital. i think we used to think we had to be shoulder to shoulder with our boss. our lives revolved around the physical workspace to succeed today. 95 percent of my work is done from here at home. i love that provides more possibility for growth. we understand now we can't waste our time the world and must make the most of it. for lofty goals in a country where old habits die hard, adam rainy al jazeera rome ah. a check on the headlines on al jazeera initial results from iran, the presidential election show hotline and abraham racy, well ahead. as expected, the 3 other candidates that were the congratulations, the judiciary chief,

the official final announcement issue with an hours there on foreign minister. java leaf is defending the electoral process despite the low voter.