complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can to as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as i was is there a correspondence? that's what we strive to do. i if you pins out voting in an election, seen as a test upon this to be ahmed commitment to democracy. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is all just like from also coming up the media, then battle leader things. when in the connection, the focus grew out of the defeat and the more of the report that hong kong pro

democracy, a newspaper apple daily could shut down in days off its assets are frozen. we'll have a nice update. italy's government of cash incentives for families to have more children, as it grapples with a demographic crisis. ah, here pins are voting in a crucial parliamentary election. its prime minister beyond its 1st toro test, he's on the increasing international pressure with reports of famine man continuing violence in the northern region. but people there won't get a chance to have their say in the election yet, but the doe is live and easier if he has capital out it's out about somehow there are growing concerns. whether this election will be free and fair given that so many people will be excluded from the vote. yes, and did dot and those questions still link go on, but millions of if you went to pulling sessions across the country

very early in the morning. some of them from for full, i am lat whole time that it came to cost the bolt, the electro commission of increase the number of holding sessions across the country to avoid large cards got any debt. and particularly for assuring these as little as possible of covered 19, but also to have them the voting process. 37000000 people have registered to vote in these election, loftiss are record number and many people are saying, if not the number of people have registered them, it looks in all the i'm in all expectations of the voting. the vote a ton out will be very high. of course, the elections are not taking place in all the regions of the country. they will not

be taking place in the city, regents the ticket region where the government forces are fighting fighters from the people's liberation from prime minister, had sent them the last of november to the forces. i'll talk if you can, government forces that will also not be taking place in the somebody region which has been, which i've seen so much stability in the past. but now has some. ready com and then also in the how to reach and the tiniest of if you up. yes, said ross with $368.00 alley squeezed into just one square kilometer. this is the old walled city of hot of extent. you appear if thick high walls erected in the 13th century by the dizziness heart of the 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 got 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 harley sleeping in other parts of if you appear to vote for candidates in their homeland in upcoming parliamentary elections. but after his challenge, that decision in the supreme court, it ruled in their favor, moved to get the loan or be wanted to preserve a culture and heritage. the reason, however you have a cause. i state today is in recognition of hiring 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 how to is central to their existence. and they say that specially important as they're facing competition from surplus and coaching on the 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 sick of the challenges facing the people of the hot region is 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. somebody region of the electro commissioners 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 or gotten national liberation front, signed a peace agreement with the pink government, and demo blessed its troops, wadhams, beaver, all thinking that our region viewed for once of all, to be the rest of it, your p. it's piece for advance 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 great region where hundreds of thousands of people suffering from farming. a new date for a vote integrate has not been set together. the harder to gran somali regions account for 6 to 3 out of 504 to 7, but i'm interested and too many of the people in those regions been unable to vote . they say undermines their existence a total of

$47.00 opposition parties take part in the election. prime minister obese prosperity party is the most organized. all i'm is the one of the biggest number of candidates across the country. some of the focus on 30 complaining about harassment. it's in addition, imprisonment of the officials in various regions in the country have boys call building company based in some of the major regions. like on the way i talk to percent of the 5047 members of parliament will come from. and that is living for predictions of a landslide victory for 5 minutes to be fat. it will be the 1st time it is the 1st time he's facing the electorate. and he's really keen to get a legal monday so that he can continue with his reforms in the country. all right, though live there for us in the if you have a capital out is up at

a 100. thank you. while the election is being seen as a test of prime minister, i'll be as commitment to democracy in april 2018. he became the 1st ethnic remote prime minister before that the to gray on people's liberation front or t p. a left dominated politics for nearly 3 decades. in his row abbey ahmed lifted media restrictions released political prisoners and appointed women into government roles in 2019 he was awarded in the battle peace prize for his work and ending a long standing conflict with eritrea. the turning point came a year later when he accused t p l a fight as of attacking an army base in the north. he sent the military to to grey in november later joined by retrain forces. and there are reports of thousands being killed in the conflict and tens of thousands more being displaced are also accusations of war crimes. and right. when william laurence is a former us diplomat and 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 policies in parties are calling for a boycott. and 25 percent of the pulling stations won't be opened. so a number of the analysts are saying these elections will not be free, fair or credible what it's really about and using the elections to consolidate power. and in an effort to make the more stable it risks, making the more unstable. so the real question is to what degree will the majority of b p, o, p 2 are backing abbey against the 2 grades. see this a good enough for them to continue support? you seem 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 these

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. they've created the central party that's excluding armenian catholic, a prime minister has claimed victory on sundays snap parliamentary election, only results show nicole passion on ruling parties in the lead. he call the election as anger grew up the loss of defeat in the war with as a by john or a challenge as mo, now from the capital year of us. a very result started coming in acting prime minister, nicole caching the unclaimed victory changes all the people of our media gave our civil contract party a mandate to lead the country. and personally me to lead the country as prime minister. but its main cause, 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, yan, and his reformist agenda out. despite anger and trauma, over last year's military defeat, as a by john prussian yann's main rival, is former presidents, robert cherry, him. his armenia alliance block is contesting the count, saying there were hundreds of voting irregularities, raving the searing heat to come and vote. people told us that i hope for an ends to armenia as current miseries, and i expect on any is able to come this temporary crisis with a good governance will be able to guarantee development, avail country, politically and economically. yes, didn't it? 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, 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 armenia. 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 helen's out a 0 year event, an adviser to jail, hong kong media tiger and jimmy ly says pro democracy newspaper. apple daily will be forced to shut in a matter of days. a company's assets have reportedly been frozen by authorities under the territories controversial national security law. it comes just days after

the apple daily news room was rated by police, but adrian brown don't live now from outside the apple daily office in hong kong agents. so that was daily running low on funds, its assets, frozen the peers. it was just a matter of time before i close down. yeah, i think it was, but these comments remark, simon advised to jimmy lie, i think clearly indicate that the final nail in the coffin may not be far away. we spoke to stop from the apple daily who were arriving at work a short time ago. they were determined they said to carry on working, but they also said they weren't surprised by the announcement. now what's happening now down is that a board meeting is taking place with what's left of the senior management of the daily here at the headquarters on an industrial state in eastern hong kong. we're not sure when that board meeting is going to end, or if any announcement is going to follow. but certainly the apple daily has been

in the cross hairs. not just the hong kong government, but also of course the government across the board are in the mainland for many years. for china, you know, it's personal, jimmy ly, the activist who owns next media, and the daily, has been a thorn in the side for many years to me. and i was born on the mainland, and it's hyper has been responsible for almost daily criticism of the communist party during the past months and years. ly, himself, of course, is now serving a string of sentences in jail. he's also facing the prospect of an even longer jail term because he's also being charged to under this new national security, the law. remember darren that was imposed on hong kong almost exactly a year ago. and since then, its impact has been felt on all sections of society. now it's being felt very much in the media world. yeah. adrian,

what does this now mean for the pro democracy movement broadly? i mean, if it's just another nate in a coffin at the press freedoms in hong kong, well, it's not just, you know, the apple daily that's been feeding the squeeze from the hung government. the local broadcaster c h k, which has a sort of independent outlook rather like the bbc and abc and australia. it's also now on a very, very tight leash, indeed. star of being fired, stop have resigned. morales is very low. so yes, it's not just the apple daily that is very much being targeted to the moment. and then of course, there's the question of what happens to the big international news organizations who have their regional headquarters here. it's fair to assume many of them are now making contingency plans, but it's much worse darn for local journalists because what is happening the apple daily has had a real chilling effect on the journalistic community here,

especially local media. and you'll see more and more signs. not just a back to censorship, but active self censorship. alright, agent brown, live there in hong kong. adrian, thank you so much. let's come here and i'll just say are including electricity outages loom in iran off to an emergency shutdown of it's only nuclear power plant . and as cases of cobra, 1900 to bike enough chemist on people q for hours to get oxygen to try to save someone a lot more than that. the hello from doh, her good news. our 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 gulf. 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 array b and c. so for coastal sections of oman, we could see wave heights about 5 meters high. and as we head toward the al had jar mountains, the risk of sun showers and thunderstorms here. next up, 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 is stumble, slight chance. we will see a shower there for the tropics of africa, looks like this. we've got some rain for tens in the 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 big spilling inches in 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. the

news in mamma allegations of torture, emerging under the military track, down $11.00 east. investigate the secret detention center and make on the defective to reveal line one out of the or something was going to change. anything really changed. this is systemic violence that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against that barrier. know what to say, so we are all looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just there, i'm me the me

welcome back. if you can, one of our top stories here, this, our voting is on the way in ethiopia as bottom entry election. it's by minister abbey ahmed. first, electro test. comes at a critical time with reports of famine and continuing violence. the northern region armenia catholic, a prime minister as prime victory in some days, not voluntary election, early result show nichol passion, the routing parties in the lead. the call the election following last year, defeat in the war with the by john and an advisor to jail, to hong kong media tycoon. jimmy lie, i told the reuters news agency, the pro democracy newspaper apple daily would be forced to shop in a matter of days into the company has no access to funds after its assets are frozen. now a day off the iran, electra new conservative president talks to revive the nuclear deal seem to have made some progress, but differences still remain deeply that have been negotiating in vienna since april to bring both terrorism and washington back into compliance with the

agreement. the united states is an indirect talks with iran and says, it was still several sticking points, while ahead of the iranian delegation thinks they're closer to the end. the most difficult issues yet to be resolved from washington d. c. has kristen 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 iran 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. there are warnings of power cuts across several iranian cities offers only nuclear power plant, went to, 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 terran has reported an emergency of this kind. that had been warnings in the past. the plant could stop functioning if iran fails to buy equipment from russia due to us banking sanctions. how about how it has been announced in the news and you might have had 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. libya as national government has announced the partial reopening of a road that links the east and west of the country. it was one of the conditions of a sci fi agreement, signed between warring sides and october. 4th is loyal to the warlord leaf. i have to say they weren't consulted and yet to approve the decision. the prime minister

insist portions of the road in afghanistan has recorded 92 new corona virus deaths in the last 24 hours the country seeing a huge spike in daily cases and a record number of deaths. the government solved for international health and agencies of warned, the situation is spiraling out of control. alexandra buyers reports in cobble, the lineups for oxygen tanks start in the middle of the night. and last for hours and every person here is desperately trying to save someone. they love children's official journal more than i came here when i am last night, the boy oxygen. because i have a cobit patient at home. i've been waiting on the street since then. i would never have what it's long, but i've already lost family members. luck my out and some other relatives on my brother is now infected and he's in a very serious condition. i've gone,

astounds 3rd wave is also it's worst, and it's continuing to spiral out of control. 10000 new cases were recorded just in the last week. but some say the true number is much higher. shad. wow. the number of infected much more than reported in the media. there are 2 to 5 people that are infected with the virus in many homes and the wrench in all categories from mild to moderate to severe hospitals in multiple provinces have reached full capacity. and there's a severe oxygen shortage. many here are angry and say, the government hasn't done enough to avoid this crisis. i have seen young people who have died because they didn't got on the oxygen. if they have got oxygen, their life could be saved. i think the higher official in health sector, they are responsible for the that the health ministry has defended itself, saying it took the necessary steps and was prepared to treat its citizens as part

of the mark it came from. because of all those patients who went to our medical facilities and needed oxygen, we're able to get it. but yes, we are facing the threat of sorts of oxygen is a positive cases continue to increase. and if most of the crowd only goes to one hospital in the area, once there's a fear of a shortage oxygen in both the government and aid workers are pleading for international health. there have been multiple calls for oxygen cylinders, and most crucially vaccines. afghanistan began its role out in april, but so far, not even one percent of the population has been fully inoculated or colored the old word for 2 things up as implants 1st. and vaccines lex in the fin, oxygen, oxygen up to the, as the virus surges through the community, officials are trying to spread public awareness. they blame the surge on a lack of social distancing. and continued gatherings for

a country that was already facing widespread poverty. and a near constant threat of attacks conquering coby 19 is yet another worry afghans have to contend with. alexandra buyers al jazeera, brazil's become the 2nd country after the united states to record more than half a 1000000 corona virus, deaths demonstrators in rio de janeiro placed roses on kopeck upon a beach. and memory of the victims. hospitals are struggling with a devastating 3rd wave of the pandemic present jaya. both scenarios still continues to down play the seriousness of covered 19 putting pressure on states to resist locked downs. brazil's recorded more than 44000 cases and over a 1000 deaths in the past 24 hours. well, since upon demick, italy's population has dropped fund any 400000 and the government is often cash benefits to families having more children to help reverse the trend. but analysts say it might not be enough. atom rainy reports from rooms though by

italian standards, sahara maloney might be said to have a big family, 13 month old and that is her 2nd child problem i started up, but his problem is that my husband and i have had unsteady work for 14 years. the decision to have a 2nd child came late only after we both got a steady job. we relied on our parents to help us pay for the house and take care of the children. postponing a family is common here. birth have been declining since the 2008 crisis. italy has the world's 2nd oldest population, and it is shrinking to last year. it fell by more than 380000 people. that was due to a historically high death rate with the pandemic. and a historically low birth rate. italy's fertility rate is $1.00 children for each woman. the government is trying to boost birth rates with a new family plan,

a major infusion of direct cash payments that increase with the number of children a family has. demographers, elena and bro, set the says the family plan is a good start, but any increase in the birth rate can take decades. there are more immediate steps . italy could take now. immigration can be a solution, software for aging population. of course, we have an injection of young people working in the working age population. but immigration is a thorny issue in italy. we asked a member of parliament from the center left democratic party. how political leaders can convince italians of the need to take more non italians into the country. you'll also see got, i can explain all i want to italians at a certain level of immigration, helps italian society. but as long as they keep saying immigrants big for handouts on the street, i won't convince anybody we need to integrate them into italian society and need

help from europe. with the pandemic eating and summer temperatures rising, there's been an increase in the number of migrants crossing the mediterranean and landing in italy. that's only further fueled anti immigrant sentiments, divided over immigration. italy will rely then on mothers like sahara to choose to have multiple children. a choice many italian women are unwilling to make. adarine al jazeera rome. noise football federation has voted against boy cutting the 2022 fif will. comp in cat all fans had call for the organization to withdraw the support of the claims cotton was exploiting migrants. cutouts face criticism over the living and working condition of workers, especially those involved in the construction of stadiums. a doha says it's done more than any country in the region to improve work or welfare, and always in motion to boycott. the games is voted down. the delegates meeting on sunday would be in the bleach. the executive committee of the football association

believes that a boy cart is the same as turning its back on, caught out and its challenges, and thus denying itself the opportunity to commit to improvements. now, fortune thinkers in south africa, disappointed to discover that they've been digging up, caught stones instead of diamonds. thousands of people descended on religion, causal in natal province. last week after stones were discovered in a field by a local head room has been spread that a diamond line had been discovered. but analysis of the stones have confirmed that just courts. ah, type a quick check of the headline 0 now to 0 poles of opened in a crucial parliamentary election for its prime minister abbey on its 1st electoral test. he's on the increasing international pressure with reports of famine, non continuing violence in the northern region. bahama that do has more from ethiopia as capital addis ababa the electoral commission of the.