have a voice. i'm in one of the charm. well, that's never be afraid to ask a question. and i think that's what actually we're really does. we all the questions for people who to be accountable and also we get people to give them view of what's going on. ah armenia as catholic, a prime minister claims victory early votes favor nicole passion yonder party leading at the ballot box. ah, hello and welcome. i and peter w, a watching al jazeera live from headquarters here, and also coming up know going to be the o p, and will soon be costing their ballots. but with some regions excluded questions remain over how inclusive the vote will be. an emergency shut down unless you're

ons only nuclear power plant could last days. and course electricity cuts across several cities of china tightens his grip on red minerals. the u. s. makes moves to gain control of this precious resorts. ah, i mean you can't take a prime minister, has claimed a victory in sunday snap parliamentary elections. the votes are still being come to results showed pass against ruling party in the lead . the turn out was just under 50 percent passion. you had called the snap poll back in april after last year's defeats in the war with as a by john. his main rival appears to be the former president, robert cassy, around the face is a corruption investigation. turns over to the people of our mania gave our civil

contract party a mandate to lead the country and personally me to lead the country as prime minister. but my god, we already know that we want to convincing victory in the elections and we will have a convincing majority in parliament. us and cut it young, was an advisor to the prime minister. passion yon. he outlines now. the challenges lying ahead. seems spike of course, passion young has a lead. it's not going to be a constitutional majority from what it seems, which means that it's not necessarily going to be an absolute majority in the parliament. however, it will be a majority, which will give a chance to creative and others, which was one of the tickets. so that the medical stuff. now how are you going to handle the situation? where are you then? it's very difficult to say for any political power, the pied rob walk between all it's, it looks like the larger, in the larger picture, the, to the architecture of the region has not changed much the, the war,

russia to going to be a major player in all of this, of whatever comes to power is going to have to deal with these multiple quite directly. and that's actually kind of came to prove that not all 2625 parties to where participating in the election were coming with the po, with their gender. got enough vote, so whatever it is, whether good or bad, unfortunate, or what it is, they will have to deal with russia. considering the way moscow has been behaving in this, been in keeping some kind of a neutrality. they do believe that whoever comes to power will have to deal with that. so we'll have to see how these relationships will leave all. now in the coming hours, millions of ethiopians will be heading to the polls for a crucial parliamentary election, which has been delayed twice so far, its prime minister abbey. i met 1st electoral test and comes at a critical time for the nation with reports of famine and continuing violence in

the northern region of t gray. while there will be no election into gray because of the conflict. some other regions will also be excluded. as mohammed the reports now from the eastern region of hara with $368.00, alice creased into just one square kilometer. this is the old walled city of hot of extent. if you appear, if thick, high walls erected in the 13th century by the indigenous people, a unique ethnic minority group. while hardy is used to inhabit a much larger area, their population has declined. and they now leave behind the cities walls. in 2016 units called recognized as the heritage site to protect its history. as one of the worlds and ship civilizations, they threw up in government, also med had its own federal state, the smallest in the country. yet the electoral commission recently refused to allow

to be living in other parts of if you appear to vote for candidates in their homeland, in upcoming elementary elections. but of the hardest challenge that division in the supreme court, it ruled in their favor, moved to get the loan or we wanted to preserve a culture and heritage. the reason, however you have a cause, i state today is in recognition of hurry, culture, language, history, and perhaps most importantly redressed. the injustices perpetrated against us. preserving hovering governance will prevent a tyranny of the majority, protect indigenous and minority rights, and quite simply, it is just fair. following the supreme court ruling delettre commissioners for more time to conduct a special registration of hardy voters, in other parts of it appear to enable them vote in their homeland. for holidays, the question of who gets to govern is central to their existence. and they say that specially important as they're facing competition from settlers and coaching on

their land. but we are really worried about the future about people as population keeps declining the plot to take over herrera by other ethnic groups is getting thicker. the challenges facing the people of the hot region is best illustrated by the housing behind me. it was built with funds from the bass for people living in the united states and europe. but now lies abundance of people from the neighboring region came to claim the land of their own. this week's elections will also take place in the neighboring somebody regional via the electoral commission. i was postponed the polls. they're citing defects with boring material. the region has known more instability than piece in the past 3 decades. 2 years ago, the rebel group, the national liberation front, signed a peace agreement with the pin government and demo blessed its troops, wadhams law. and we were all thinking that our region will for one of all to be the

rest of it. your pm. we are, it's be for vance, and we are all being forced to wait till september to exercise our constitutional rights. voting has also been postponed in the more from conflict on to greater gym where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from farming. a new debt for a vote integrate has not been set together. the harder to gray and somali regions account for 6 to 3 out of 547, but i'm interested and too many of the people in those regions been unable to what they say undermines their existence. mamma do, i'll just do the harder in tennessee. now, there are warnings of potential power cuts across several iranian cities. after it's only nuclear power plant, went into an emergency shut down the head of the state. energy companies, as the bushier plant may not be operational for up to 4 days. this is the 1st time to iran has reported an emergency of this kind that had been warnings in the past

that the plan could stop functioning if iran couldn't buy equipment from russia because of us banking sanctions. how about all it has been announced in the news and you might have heard to the nuclear share of power has been subject to an emergency shut down, which will last for 3 to 4 days. it was shut down yesterday when you lose a 1000 megawatts of your plans capacity. the likelihood of blackouts will rise. and i say more as an expert on her, on the nuclear program and director of the crime center for middle east studies. he explains more about rushes rolled in the construction and operation of the plump. it's entirely a foreign facility. so the plan was originally started by a german company before the iranian revolution and was partly finished at the time the shot was removed. then germany refused to continue building the plant after the revolution and russia stepped in and the plant was finished about 2011. the plant

is entirely fuel by russia, so the fuel is manufactured and enriched in russia, ship to iran after the fuel is used and therefore contains port tony, and then set back to russia for disposition. so the brochure nuclear power plant really isn't connected in any direct way to concerns about your nuclear program because iran operates the facility, but they don't really provide the fuel or handle expense you. there have been concerns expressed about the safety of the facility because it's such a curious hybrid, partially german facility, finished with rush and technology. but so far there have been no safety incidents that have taken place in the plan has operated more or less efficiently since it 1st went online in 2011. and in vienna, my day off to iran and legacy. then you conservative president talks to revive the

nuclear deal seem to have made some progress, but differences still remain diplomat sipping negotiating since april to bring both t ron and washington back into compliance with the agreement. the united states is in, in direct talks with iran and says there are still several sticking points for the head of the iranian delegation. things that quotes closer to the end, but the most difficult issues all yet to be resolved the cases and going back to the capital for more consultations and they'll return after 10 days from washington . his christian salumi, the key issues seemed to be the lifting of sanctions that were imposed by the united states. when president donald trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement, the iranians went into these talk saying that they would not go back to full compliance with the deal until the sanctions were completely lifted. and national security advisor for the united states, jake sullivan is saying that the united states does retain the right to impose

unilateral sanctions on non nuclear issues like human rights abuses or ballistic missile issues. we know that missiles while not covered under the original nuclear agreement are a concern for the united states. but still sullivan is saying that the united states focus is on containing around nuclear program. what i would say is that there is still a fair distance to travel on some of the key issues, including on sanctions and the nuclear commitments that iran has to make. but the arrow has been pointed in the right direction in terms of the work that's getting done in vienna. so we will see if the iranian negotiators come to the next round of talks prepared to make the hard choices that they have to make. in order for the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran nuclear deal to be reinstated, and sullivan downplayed the importance of the election of abraham. right. he said

to the presidency in iran, the hard liners saying that ultimately it will be the i a toll of the supreme leader who will call the shots and make the decisions when it comes to whether or not to return to the nuclear deal. he did say that the us believes that diplomacy is the best way forward, not military conflict, an advisor to the jail, hong kong media tycoon jimmy lies says pro democracy newspaper. apple daily will be forced to shop in a matter of days. the company's assets of reportedly been frozen by the authorities under the territories controversial national security law. it comes days after the ample daily news from was rated by the police. 2 of its executives were also charged under the same national security law. still to come here on this program to green refugee sheltering incidence, reflect on their political future. ccrpi a heads for the polls and hard lessons learned from the pandemic. now a year later, albania,

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portal with me founder gotten on to 0. me ah, the me exactly, quarter past 2 gmc, these are your top stories. armenia, catholic, a prime minister has claimed victory and sundays snap election boats are still being counted. but early result show passions ruling party is in the lead. his main rival, the former president robert custodians blocks as it will not recognize those results . iran's only nuclear power plant has gone into an emergency shut down the best

time. it's not yet clear or caused this to happen. the head of the state energy company says that bashir plant may not be operational for up to 4 days. and in the next few hours, polls will be opening in a few p as parliamentary election. it is prime minister abbey estimates. first electoral test comes at a critical time with reports of famine and continuing violence in the northern degree region. but people integrate will not be taking part in that election. the government says the conflict that makes the boat impossible more than 2000000 people have been displaced by mumps, of conflict, and force tens of thousands to seek refuge in neighbouring to dawn. his morgan reports now from gathering states along the border with if you appear this little coffee shop in cuba camp is where some refugees hang out to escape the scorching sun outside. it's also where they come to talk about the latest development in their home region of the great in northern europeans, which they fled to escape fighting. and today,

most of the conversation revolved around if the, if this parliamentary election on our time they or i would have liked to vote. but the conflict and politics. and if you have ruined many, many things, we've been excluded as if t great was not part of a few yet. and that really pains me. conflict erupted last november. and if you take re, between the government and the regional take re people's liberation front or left the ruling party. if you appeal for 27 years, they will also from power in 2018. following years of protest and new government was formed, led by prime minister abbey, who promised reforms and free and fair elections in 2020. but they have been twice postponed due to the corona, virus pandemic, and logistical problems. many here of what's in h cast ballots, and it's a great regional elections which were held in september last year that was not recognized by the federal government. and was one of the factors behind the conflict. the region $7000000.00 people want to be taking part in the parliament to

election this year. many who fled to camp here say after the violence of witness back home. they don't feel they're missing out. right. groups have accused both the left and federal government of committing atrocities in the conflict. refugees who've arrived here have reported being tortured, beaten, and imprisoned because of a gram identities. era trans troops fighting and take re, for the government, have been accused of human rights violations from masculine, to sexual violence, to blocking a to those in need. refugees also accused militia term is, i'm her region of carrying out killings integrating. are you going to be, i'm her are militia, came to my house that night and beat my husband and tried to force us into a military truck. i was 6 months pregnant and the neighbors told them to let me go because of that. we skate, we saw the malicious kill many people, including my 30 year old neighbor here in this coffee shop. the verdict is that the conflict integrity has divided

a country that was already unraveling and that elections would further de stabilize its someone will want and there is fighting in other parts of europe. you, including the somali region, aroma, and venetian google on the most prominent opposition. figures are in jail of the government, for layman. this is a country of law and order, but this is a line. and i don't think this election will be democratic process. those here say, even though the votes are yet to be cast and the results haven't been announced, the outcome of the election is unlikely to change the trajectory of africa, the 2nd most populous country, people, morgan, onto 0, who bought camp the body. libby is national unity. government has an as the partial reopening of a road that links the east and the west of the country. it was one of the conditions of the cease fire agreement, signed between the warring sides in october. now the 4th is loyal to the wall or telephone after say, the one consulted and get to approve the decision. but the prime minister insists

portions of the road are open. you tell me yeah, that you know many more about it. it is my pleasure to be part of this historic day as the reopen, the main artery connecting, but you simply be what's west, it would enable people to reunite as a doctor of division and separation have gone forever. i take this opportunity to call an all libyans to steer away from rift malice or hatred and to join hands to rebuild our country. to take libya forward in gen of war had let me know something i was. what the prime minister did is a unilateral act from one side, the prime minister did not coordinate with the operations room. the only authorized party for that decision is the 5 plus 5 joint military commission. we have to wait until they meet and we will see what decisions will be taken. malik traina has more now from the coastal road west of the city of cert. now we're here on the coastal road in between the cities of miss rather and approximately 130 kilometers

east of miss ross. now the prime minister has just arrived. he's opened the road and to commemorate the event. now this road has been closed. since warlord hussar lost his offensive on tripoli in 2019 in april 2019. this is a very important road to live in. trade are between eastern and western libya. so this is very significant. according to the prime minister, he says this will help rebuild lives up to bring about unity and to further prosperity in the country. now, there are critics that say that opening the road will give war fighters as approximately, according to the un, 20000 for fighters in libya, according to military sources. there's at least 2000 russian mercenaries to the south. here. wagner grew also some play that this will help for word

for inquires to continue on, or to move up towards the north. so we're here now. this is the front line. there's another, there's another, a place that they're going to go to about 20 kilometers to the east of here, and they're going to be opening up that road there. the hope is that the libyans will be able to travel from eastern to western livia from western to eastern libya, and that this will help unite the country. in on sunday, brazil became the 2nd country after the us to record more than half a 1000000 corona virus. deaths demonstrators in rio de janeiro place rosie's on cobra cologne. a beach and memory of the victims. hospitals are struggling with

a devastating 3rd wave of the pandemic. and the president ables and are still continues to play down the seriousness of koby 19 putting pressure on states to resist locked downs. albania says it's achieved. heard immunity through infections, cutting curve at 19 transmission dramatically. but it came at a terrible cost for overwhelmed hospitals and the resulting death tow may have been far higher than the official figures suggest, john surplus reports now from the capital to rhonda. this is covered one, the 1st of 4 public hospital wards at the heart of the obedient government's pandemic response. from november to february, it was overrun because of the government policy to concentrate. all the countries covered 900 cases into iran. at the very beginning, we were thinking it would idea that this time, by the time run around by we were thinking it's much easier and economically and

cycle logically and medically, thinking to get those services much closer to that people. 5 in word had goes around, the hospitals were under pressure. everyone's can de named journalist of the year for his coverage of the pandemic. witness to the problems. okay, well no, again, that patients have to wait 6 to 8 hours just to been loaded from ambulances. because there were no beds available, they were very sick and needed to go to intensive care of immediately. some died in the ambulance in the overcrowded and undisturbed words. some patients committed suicide by jumping from the windows. hearing these stories, many patients were afraid to go. some went to private clinics, many of them to turkey through a special charter flight. and many stayed home. yogi pudgy says he spent $5000.00 on oxygen and nursing bit up over from the bus. and so i had many friends who went to hospital and never got out alive. so i decided to stay home. at 1st it was easy

. i thought, is this the great cove it everyone is talking about. but then i got really sick. i thought i died and came back to life. the prime minister eddie rama says, albania is early lockdown initially. saved the country from the soaring infection rates of western europe. what happened in italy scared us a lot. so it was a bit like running home and we were if you recall, well the 1st country after italy to impose love, now our look down was very, very heavy. then we did many things faster than others because of the, of the table. fear that if we would not control this to be a new us, but albania didn't have the resources to keep workers at home during the 2nd wave of the virus. herd immunity was achieved through infection at

a high cost. officially 2 and a half 1000 people died of curve at 19 in albania. but the us based institute for health metrics and evaluation estimates the figure nearly 16000 because that's how many more people died here over the past 9 months than would normally have died in the same time period. we've heard immunity achieved infection rates plummeted in time for a general election in april and 17 percent of the population has now received at least one vaccine chart, far above the global average of 12 percent. helping prime minister at rama when a 3rd term jumps out hopeless al jazeera tirana. the technology that moves connects and retains and even heals, as none of it would work without rare minerals. they are crucial to today's tech. and china wheels significant control over the global supply. now the u. s. and others won't change. that's as rob reynolds explains them from los angeles. this is

the mountain past mine in california. the only rare earth mine in the us. if you are like many people, you're probably unfamiliar with new di, medium gal linea m. this pros, e m, and more than a dozen other oddly named rare earth minerals. but you probably are familiar with smartphones, computers, television sets, cars, solar panels, wind turbines, and hundreds more, a technological devices, including advanced weapons, all of which are made possible by the special magnetic and conductivity properties of rare earth where it's had electronic properties which, which caused a manufacturing and technology revolution. this is basically what's allowed, the, the absolute, universality of high technology, 90 percent of rare earths are mind and processed in china,

which also manufacturers, most of the finished products that include rare earth, china as a stranglehold on processing even the or produce here in mountain pass has to be shipped to china for processing, and we pack it into the slings and then we ship it to china, low labor costs, and lax, or non existent, environmental regulation keeps china on top. the situation has led to concern over us japanese and european economic and military security. if china were to cut off supplies of rare earth finished products, it could devastate the economy. we also have to push back against unfair trade practices by competitor nations that have hollowed out the u. s. industrial base and undermine our supply chain security. despite their name, rare earth aren't really that rare at all. right now on the united states,

mining companies, my iron or flash age, or is or coney am or some other commodity. collectively throw away enough recovery be rare to me, 85 percent of global demand. kennedy proposes using those wasted minerals in a combined corporate entity to counter china's near monopoly. old fashion concept called operative to shiva shamans g ford motor company. they could all be owners, partial owners of the cooperative, and the co operative would produce for them, finish metallic alloy, and magnetic products. whether that model becomes reality or not, it's clear. world leaders have become aware of a global rare earth supply chain problem and are finally taking steps to address it

. rob reynolds al jazeera, los angeles, to estron, also stepped outside the international space station to tinker with its power supply. they installed the 1st of 16, so the arrays which will give the aging panels a boost after 20 years of continuous use. the new power supply will keep the station running in the years ahead. as it begins to accommodate commercial operations and private tourists. the panels are 19 meters in length when fully unfurl like a carpet of our slung as a cricket pitch. ah, you're watching elsie's 0. these are your top stories armine, as caretaker, prime minister has claimed victory in sunday snap parliamentary election. his main rival, the former president robert cassia and block says it will not recognize the results from van rory challenge explains.