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have a live update of china tightened, gets grip on rare mineral. the u. s. makes moves to gain control of his precious resources. ah armine, as a prime minister, has claimed victory and sundays not parliamentary election. early result show nicole passion the ruling party is in the lead. the call the election as anger grew up. lassie, as defeat in the war with as a by john re challenge, has more of a capital that result started coming in acting prime minister nicole patching the unclaimed victory 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 its main god, we already know that we want to convincing victory in the elections and we will have a convincing majority in parliament. if the results hold,

it means voters have decided not to throw a passion the am and his reformist agenda out. despite anger and trauma, over last year's military defeat, so as a by john pershing yann's main rival is form of precedence. robert carried him, his armenia alliance block is contesting the counts saying there were hundreds of voting irregularities. raving the searing heat to come invites people told us that their hope for an end to armenia is current miseries. i've been calling them, i expect on mania is able to come this temporary crisis with a good governance will be able to guarantee development, avail country, politically and economically. yes ma'am. i'm going to vote with the dream to see my armenia safe and unified with karen. i hope for the best future for my country, but with official turn out, not quite 50 percent. it seems the war or the campaigning has turned many armenians off politics. both main arrivals try to convince that their competitor is

worse. and that is why we have this aggressive abusive language from both sides. now. so and if you will talk to our citizens, you will see that they are just judging what will be the least harm for the future of our media. as dawn broke over year of and on monday, there are growing fears. this. com is temporary. nicole passion yan is already calling on his supporters to campus later in the day on monday in this square. if they are a similar move from cherry and supporters than the chance of st. clashes increase will reach helens out a 0 year event. what awesome correct on wasn't adviser to prime minister passion yon. he outlined the challenges ahead. it seems like of course, pushing young has the 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 with others, which was one of the biggest concerns, so that the political, internal, political turmoil up. now, how are you going to handle the situation where i mean, it's in, it's very difficult to say for any political power of the pied rob walk between all it looks like the larger. in the larger picture, the security architecture of the region has not changed much, be the war, russia to going to be a major player in all of this. so whoever comes to power is going to have to deal with martco quite directly. and that election came kind of came to prove that none of 2625 party to where participating in the election were coming to poll with they're not joined up, 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 this relationship will evolve. both of open and crucial parliamentary election for e. c o. peer, it's prime minister abbey almond. first electoral test. he's on the increasing international pressure with reports of famine and continuing violence in the northern region. but people there won't get a chance to have their say in the election yet. besides to gripe polling will not take place in some other regions as my home of the day reports on the eastern region of her off with 368 alley squeezed into just one square kilometer. this is the old wall city of hot of it's 20 few. it's thick high walls erected in the 13th century by the indigenous people

a unique ethnic minority group. while holidays used to inhabit a much larger area, their population has declined and they now leave behind the city walls. in 2016 units called recognized as the head of the site to protect its history. as one of the worlds and ship civilization, they threw up in government also men had its own federal state, the smallest in the country. yet the electoral commission recently refused to allow his living in other parts of if you appear to vote for candidates in their homeland in upcoming parliamentary elections. but up the heart of his challenge, that decision in the supreme court, it ruled in their favor, moved to give you all be wanted to preserve a culture and heritage. the reason harry's have a cause. i state today is recognition of hurry, culture, language history, and perhaps most importantly, readdress, the injustices perpetrated against us. preserving hovering governance will prevent a tyranny of the majority, protect indigenous in minority rights, and quite simply,

it is just fair. following the supreme court ruling, the electoral commission asked 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 how to is central to their existence. and they say that specially important as they're facing competition from settlers and coaching on their lawn. heavily mob, we are really worried about the future. about people as a 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 diaspora, 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 not take place in the neighboring somali region of the electoral commission. i was postponed the polls. they're citing defects with bowling 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 pink government, and demo blessed its troops. while we were all thinking that our region viewed for once of all, to be the rest of it, your p, it's piece for vance, and we are all being forced to wait till september to exercise our constitutional rights. voting has also been postponed in the morphin conflict on to gray ridge and where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from farming. a new dead for a vote integrate has not been set together, the harder to gray. and so molly regions account for 6 to 3 out of 504 to 7, but i meant it's, it's and to many of the people in those regions been unable to what they say

undermines their existence, mama, i do, i'll just harder in tennessee. but william laurence is a former us diplomatic regional security officer in west africa. he says this election is about the prime minister, consolidating power. we're not going to get much democracy from this vote because already the outside observers are pulling out major powers of express, great concerns. many politicians in parties are calling for boycott and 25 percent of the pulling stations won't be opened. so a number of analysts are saying these elections will not be free, fair or credible what it's really about is using the elections to consolidate power . and in an effort to make the more stable it risks, making ethiopia more unstable. so the real question is to what degree will the majority of b p, o, p 2 are packing abbey against the 2 grades. see this

a good enough for them to continue sport abil? he seems to be the for ordained winner of the election. while a number of populations are becoming more and more marginal, what would really fix this situation would be a natural national reconciliation conference that would bring in all of the increasingly excluded population. don't forget that abbey was elected originally on a mandate of respecting the cultural diversity and various histories of all these regions. and the current government is doing the exact opposite. it created a central party that's excluding, exit polls in france suggest the far right has perform worse than expected in some days. regional elections. president emanuel macro centrist party, also po, badly. but it appears the center right. has made gains comes after a record, low voter turnout for the 1st round of regional elections, an advisor to jail, hong kong media tiger and jimmy ly says pro democracy newspaper, apples, daily, before shot in a matter of days. the company's assets,

a report that had been frozen by authorities under the territories controversial national security laws. it comes days out to the apple. danny newsroom was rated by the police flagrant brown's on the line. now from outside the apple daily office in hong kong agents with apple tele running low on funds and its assets frozen with just a matter of time before i close down i think perhaps it was darin the moment the paper is saying that it could close within days we don't know exactly what within days means, but certainly they have a cash problem at the moment. there is no money to pay stop. they have been effectively shut out of the banking system. but to answer your question, was this inevitable? yes, it was because that's remember last august, the owner of next media which controls the apple daily jimmy life was arrested. he is now serving jail terms over a string of offences. and of course,

he's also being charged onto the national security law. if he's convicted of course, he could end up spending the rest of his life in jail. then last week, 5 executives of next media were arrested 2 of them. but now being charged with conspiracy to collude with a foreign power. and remember, just last thursday, darren, it wasn't 50 or a 100 police that stormed into the apple dating. it was $500.00. and that's led to sorts of criticism with the hong kong government that it was complete overkill. now the secretary for security, john lee has said that the assets that have been frozen, all the assets that he says belonging to a criminal syndicate, and he's appealed to journalists to and that ties with the daily newspaper. john lee also referred to the suspects as being criminal, and this was before but actually being charged. hong kong legal system of course

means that you are innocent until proven guilty. but yes, certainly these days for the journalist, a community in hong kong. and i think what you're going to see more of darren is increasing self censorship and big western news organizations who have their headquarters here in hong kong are beginning to make contingency plans. yeah. an agent. what is this now mean for the pro democracy movement? i mean, is this just that of a nail in the coffin for press freedoms in hong kong? well, of course, the apple daily was unashamedly a pro democracy newspaper. its crime is this last june. it carried an editorial basically urging foreign countries, including the united states to impose sanctions in the hong kong in response to the decision by the national people's congress to impose this recode in new security law on hong kong. now, in the eyes of the hong kong government, that his subversion, but there's an important distinction to be made,

the apple daily car that authorial urging sanctions to be imposed on on kong. what's less clear now is what happens if major organizations like cause report what the apple daily is calling for? it's very uncertain we are trying to sort of navigate red lines without really knowing what those red lines are. all right, adrian brown lie 1st there in hong kong. adrian, thank you for a short break here. and just here, when we come back, treated intense a 3rd way to infections, campus pace in south africa. but only one percent of the population is fully destination. and hard lessons learned from the pandemic. now a year later, albania, health care system is still facing tough challenges. more than that states. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways.

hello from dough. how good news are shamal has backed off, so that means less windy across the gulf states as we look toward monday and that's going to allow our temperature to climb around the goal. so if we look at kuwait for the next few days, look at this. we shoot up to $48.00 degrees, that's a good 8 degrees above average and winds here will be about 40 kilometers per hour, much less. and then the 80 we were dealing with southwest spawn soon is also whipping up the waves across the arabian sea. so for coastal sections of oman, we could see wave heights about 5 meter as high. and as we had toward the al had jar mountains, the risk of sun showers and thunderstorms here. except we're going to go to turkey and we do have a batch of wet weather running north to south in a, across the country on monday should be a mix of sun in cloud for its stumble. slight chance we will see a shower there for the tropics of africa. looks like this. we've got some rain for tans, india into kenya pushing into the usual spots that we would see democratic republic

of congo central african republic as while i run of showers through areas of most and beak, spilling inches and bob boy also for the east coast and madagascar cape town, $21.00 degrees, but conditions will turn wet and windy in the days to come. sponsored pay 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 among the destruction of civilian property. this is all evident for what i'm trying to understand. the speaking, we've been getting stories of john taken from the house in the middle of the night and tortured the listening post covers the way the news is covered on al jazeera. ah

the welcome back and took them out of our top stories here. they are medias cats. i get prime minister, a strain victory and sunday snuff elementary election. early results show nicole passion the routing parties in the lead. we call the election following last year to feed in the war with as a vice voting them the way in ethiopia. is parliamentary election, it's by minister abbey homage. first electoral test done comes with a critical time reports of thumb and non continuing violence in the northern children reach an adviser jailed hong kong media cycle. jimmy lie has told the reuters news agency pro democracy newspaper. apple stated before to shut in amount of days. if the company has no access to funds offered assets are frozen. or warnings of power cuts across several iranian cities off. it's only nuclear power

plant, went into an emergency shut down the head of the state. energy company says the bashir plant may not be operational for up to 4 days. it's the 1st time tara reported to an emergency of this kind had been wanting in the past. the plant could stop functioning. it around fails to buy equipment from russia to take us banking sanctions for gary say more is an expert in iran's nuclear program. he explained more about russia's role in the construction and operation of the plant. 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, shipped who it rod after the fuel is used and therefore contains put tony,

and then sent back to russia for disposition. so the blue shirt 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 handles. there have been concerns expressed about the safety of the facility because it's such a curious hybrid, a 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 sufficiently sense at 1st went online in 2011. and in vienna day after iran elected a new conservative president talks to revive the nuclear deal seem to have made some progress. but differences still remain. diplomats have been negotiating since april to bring best chair on,

on washington back into compliance with the agreement, united states and in direct talk to the ron and says, there are still several sticking points. while the head of the rain and delegation things that closer to the end, but the most difficult issues are yet to be result from washington dc. his question 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 ayatollah 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, a relative of jordan's king abdullah and a former chief of the royal court are appearing in court on charges of sedition and incitement. their accused of conspiring to the half brother, the king, to cement unrest against the monarch and some that was placed under house arrest in early april. he's not facing charges. the defendants are the most senior figures to appear before the security code. in brazil become the 2nd country out of the us to record more than half a 1000000 corona virus, deaths demonstrators in rio de janeiro placed roses, uncut mac up on a beach. and memory of the victims. hospitals are struggling with a devastating 3rd wave of the pandemic. president j both and are still continues to play down the serious over 19 putting pressure on states to resist locked downs. brazil recorded more than 44000 cases and over

a 1000 deaths in the past 24 hours. albania says it's achieved. heard immunity through infections, cutting code 900 transmission dramatically, but it came at a terrible cost overwhelmed. the hospitals and the resulting desco may have been far higher than official figures. the jest, johnson couplets reports in the capital toronto. 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 19 cases in toronto. at the very beginning, we were thinking it would be a lot. and if the time by the time run around by we were thinking it's much easier and economically and logically and medically, thinking to get those services much closer to that people by then would had go around the hospitals were under pressure. ariens can de named journalist of the

year for his coverage of the pandemic. witness to the problems? no. okay. well no, again, that patients have to wait 6 to 8 hours, just been loaded from ambulances because there were no beds available. they were very sick and needed to go to intensive kevin mediately 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,

as early locked 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 a running home and we were if you recall, well the 1st country after italy to impose love, now our liaison was very, very heavy. then we did many things faster than others because of the, of the terrible fear that if we would not control this could be a disaster. 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 cove at 19 in albania. but the us based institute for health metrics and evaluation estimates the figure at nearly $16000.00 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, south africa. the government has tighten. covey 19 restrictions to fight a 3rd wave of infections. and as robin smith reports from cape town, coping with a virus largely depends on where people live and how much money they have. south africa is in the grip of a deadly 3rd wave of cove at 19 infection. the army has been deployed to assist doctors in the most populous province of halting. almost 2 thirds of the countries active cases have been reported. their hospitals are under pressure and

supplies of oxygen are becoming short. the situation was similar in the western cape during the 2nd wave at the end of last year. but experts believe that province won't be as hard hit this time around. part bay in cape town, is often described as a microcosm of south africa, informal settlements, skirt, the boundary of sprawling estates. mcmercer lives here and contracted cove at 19 in december last year. i've never felt as sick as in my whole life as i, as i did fax, those 10 days say it was quite scary for me. but luckily for me, we live in my big house and i had a, i see you, dr. looking after me. so we had things like, you know, we had sat monitors and the monitors and let me just a few 100 meters, the way things are very different people living here. she also toilets and full

time social does something is not easy and families can into these tiny check. do not have the luxury of isolating in the provincial health department says poor people are at greater risk and blames those better off for spreading the virus. the 3rd way in this province as primarily been driven by people that live in the area. so the people that can isolate the people that can warranty the other ones. it's not been the adding to the behaviors. south africa as covert 19 vaccination program has faced several obstacles and only one percent of the population is fully vaccinated. it still does a lot about equity and staying in the world. we could have prevented quite a lot of data that will come out of the said way. if we had access to vaccines earlier and fairly, when you again have to stand in line,

it just kills just kill. and it's, it's the most real feeling. they've been to you do? many here on all waiting anxiously for more developed nations to respond. robin smith out there or kept off. no, a football federation has voted against boycotting the 2022. fif a will camp and catch our fans and call for the organization to withdraw the support of a claims cotton i was exploiting migrant workers got transferred criticism over their living and working conditions, especially those involved in the construction of stadiums. doha says, it's done more than any country in the region to improve worker welfare. the norwegian motion to boycott, the games was voted down at the delegates meeting on sunday would be given to. the executive committee of the football association believes that a boy caught us the same is turning its back on cut off and its challenges and thus denying itself the opportunity to commit to improvements. the graffiti artist

banksley is making headlines again. but this time is not for art is created, but for losing the rights to claim some of his work. the anonymous artist, last rights for this most famous piece isn't a legal battle with a postcard maker who uses his image is a profit. the european union intellectual property up to says his work can't be protected if he doesn't identify himself. ah, i tough a quick check of the headlines here and i'll just say are army as a prime minister has claimed victory and sundays not parliamentary election. early result show nicole passion the ruling party is in the lead. he call the election following lassie of defeat in the war with as a by john or a challenge as well. what he's claim that have block his party has a convincing majority, although he acknowledge not all the vote to be counter.