a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of our networks, journalists on al jazeera. ah, if you are in an election, overshadowed by a humanitarian crisis and little than t grad region, i have questions about the polls. credibility. ah, hello. again, this is l 0. live from dough. how's it coming up? its own jailed assets, frozen hong kong pro democracy, apple newspaper warns, but it's on the brink of closing down the armenian prime minister's decision to go

to the voters, pays off the call for him at his policy of one landslide victory and vaccination island, brazil undertakes a large scale corona virus experiment near rio de janeiro. ah, ethiopia is probably facing his 1st electoral test against the backdrop of conflicts and the threads of famine in the northern region of to gripe. the ahmed rose to power and 2018 champ, feeling a democratic revival at a break with e. c. o. peers authoritarian past. but that promise is being put into doubt by the crisis into dry and the failures hold elections in some areas in a moment will speak to him. morgan is a refugee camp in neighboring sudan. but 1st, let's go to my habit otto in the capital at his i will buy your out of polling station. right now, the polls are open. how busy is it that the

quite busy, when the bolting has been going on for about 3 hours so far, people i've been driving to pulling sessions from for this morning and outside almost every pulling session. the long queue of old bolt is, have been orderly and things have been going very small for the voters who are here have been cutting the boat for 3 positions, not the members of the local assembly, members of the house of representatives, which is the main parliament here, if you appear as well as one for the house of federation, which is the upper house of the by criminal parliament. if you are, the people here are very keen to cause their balance really is passed by how competitive the campaign of been the full 47 parties not taking part in these elections, but i've been handled that they're the ones that will bring in

a democracy to europe yet, but they have been dogged by all kinds of problems for legal logistics as well as questions on the legitimacy of these both given that some parts of the country would not be floating, at least 3 regions. voting and then the other places where they used violence places like the british jungle region, some parts of them harder region and some parts of the region, which is the biggest in the country on the water because of ethnic violence, which has been going on in if you up here for most of the past 3 years, i'm led to the displacement of more than 2000000 people and then days the war in which is costing a very long shadow on the elections that the public process. and the way, if you're p the farm in the way the whole conflict have been handled, remains

a blot on the image of prime minister be who in the alley of the month and the as office rule has been described, does a piece may, can a man who is was that mccarthy credential? the think if you also the dictatorship, it's norm for many and i'll just have it at a live at a putting station in at is about well the conflict between the national army and the to guy and people's liberation front. it's not into its 8th months. the t p l. f dominated ethiopia as politics for nearly 30 years, until prime minister took power in 2018. they ordered a military operation against the group and see dry in november after he said that it is attacked army bases. the t p i left says it was unfairly targeted to guy opposition. party said that more than 50000 people have been killed while the un says that more than 350000 of been pushed into famine. last week,

the african union launched an independent inquiry and to allegations of human rights abuses in the region after widespread accounts of killings, of sexual violence against civilians. i'll just have a morgan in godaddy state in neighboring sudan, hipaa. many people at the camp where you are, of course, from ethiopia, and they can't take part in this election. what's their view of it? well spoken to people here over the past 2 days, and they think that the election is not a free and fair and the democratic process. they say that 1st of all, it has been delayed from the previous year to this year. and they say that the excuse of the corona virus pandemic is just an excuse that prime minister be made. and his ruling party used to push the country into suitable condition to ensure that he will win the throne of election. now at least 70000 people have fled to 4 different times here and to dance. got out of state as well as neighboring states.

many of them in the military and condition, but they say that they want to remain here until the situation and pay great stabilizers. now the fact that fed grey, a region of 7000000 people have been excluded from the election is something they see as a sign that the government and the ruling party. seeing the great as not pocket with you and seeing them as not if you're pm. and so they say that they want to become an independent region. they say that this current election, the process that is happening right now. if it is not a process that would lead the country into stability and to democracy, they say that if anything because of the conflict integrity which has the millions and because of the fact that opposition figures are in jail. if anything election would lead the country into further turmoil, and further deterioration out there was have a morgan and got to the states in sudan. many thanks. hipaa. the board in charge of hong kong is pro democracy newspaper. the apple daily says that it will soon decide

whether to close it down. it says that the company's assets have been frozen by authorities on the hong kong was controversial national security law, leaving it unable to pay staff or cover expenses. 2 executives have been charged after police raids on that is room last week. let's go live at hong kong. i was here as adrian brown is outside, that he's papers headquarters. so adrian is that he's paper closing or not i think be a dream. we can certainly say that the paper has come a step closer to closing a board meeting has been taking place for much of monday morning where what's left to the executive team team have been discussing whether or not the paper can remain open given it's been denied access to funding it needs to do things like pay wages and to generally keep operating it's now effect to be locked out of the banking system. and what the poor to doing is, are all, seem the government to unlock close assets that have been frozen. so they can pay

stop, they say, unless that happens by june the 26, then the apple daddy will have to close. now a final decision it seems, will be taken on friday, when the board of directors of next digital will meet once more. we heard on monday morning from mark simon. he is an advisor to jimmy ly, the buddy, an activist who owns this, meet your organization. and who of course is now in jail. and simon said that the paper would close within days because of its funding crisis. a lot of staff are also were told, very worried about the safety they received threatening phone calls. this is, as you pointed out in your introduction and unapologetic pro democracy paper, is in many ways a proxy for the pro democracy movement. now, this is the 1st time that the national security law in hong kong which is imposed almost a year ago has been used against the paper because of the views and opinions that

it has expressed. now the apple daily was founded by jimmy lie more than a quarter of a century ago. it is arguably the most popular newspaper in hong kong, but it is a thorn in the side, not just of hong kong government, but also of course, the communist party across the border. i was just, there was adrian brown, live in hong kong. adrian, many things armine is acting prime minister. nicole pushing in has one sunday snap parliamentary election, mashini and civil contract party to billy 54 percent of the vote. he called the early polled ease, public anger, about a peace deal he signed to end the war with as a by john last year. but unions made rival, the former president robert could charlie ends. armenia alliance block is in a distant 2nd place, with 21 percent outraged though still centers of armine as to feet in the wall. only 49 percent of eligible voters cost that balance. let's go live that a yellow and i was just curious where he challenged. is that what's been the reaction to finance when well, i think the,

the main way to look at this is that this is a fatty unexpected but a resounding victory for nicole passion. yet, over the last couple of days, looking at the various possible outcomes of this election, i've been looking into whether they were going to have to be coalition talks, possibly even a 2nd round of voting. if the counts put, this is tightly contested and very close in the end, it doesn't look like it's been that way at all. nicole fashion in way out in front said richard, cherry, i'm a distant seconds. now we can speak to a political unless you can put this all in a great degree of context. now we've got richard garcia who's the head of the regional studies center. richard, thanks tony. again, i'm sorry to bring you the heat to the midday sun. can you frame the size of this victory for especially on who voted for him and why? well, what's most significant is this endows incumbent prime minister nicole brushing you

on with a rare degree of legitimacy. and especially in terms of deepening of democracy. what in many ways what this represented was much more of a no vote as much as a yes vote. in other words, there was a significant block of one, decided voters as much as 30 percent that emerged as the crucial and critical swing boat. not thoroughly voting in support of passion, yon, in any enthusiasm, but rather voting for the government out of fear or dread of the opposition and former president, robert court john sward and come back. so what is it about ca, cherry, and they just don't like, well, in many ways in terms of the lesser evil. shoddy on embodies evil. for many armenians, his terms as president of armenia, where he actually came to power by force and forcing the resignation of the 1st democratic lee elected president rochelle, in subsequent years for john,

by ruling the country rather than governing the country, has been much better at fixing elections than winning elections, and this contest also shows he has little experience with earning votes. what then next for cherry and because there are legal cases that he might have to face going forward. is this now an issue of his actual liberty, his freedom and is there a possibility that he, you know, he's contesting, they'll actually think doesn't accept that might do something desperate? well, in many ways, we can't rule that out because called charlie on is comparable to a former. we're tired athletes making a one last attempt at glory and actually suffering from a damaged reputation by failing in a past his prime come back. what this means, however, called charlie and still represents over 30 seats for the opposition in the new parliament. however, it's

a dangerous calculation in terms of the potential for further criminal investigation. and in many ways, even moscow was unable or unwilling to support him fully. should we take his claims of election irregularities seriously? well, the easy answer is now for the simple reason that of all the hypocrisy. this is a man who draws his own election record, has refuted any even substantiated cases. in this context, even the russian observers let alone the always the have fail to find evidence of anything more than simple sporadic violations. pretty, pretty good. got you and thank you very much. so obviously we now have a mandate for nicole pasha, and he will have a very difficult time going forward as prime minister because the country is a whole host of problems. any one of them would be difficult in isolation. group them together because things like refugees healing

a wounded and traumatized nation economic development problems. group is altogether, and it's a huge, huge task. but even the ablest of politicians, i'll just say was worried. challenge live in yerevan. many thanks. deed, rory. the weather next to on i was 0 then days of electricity shortages and iran after it's only nuclear power plant is urgently shut down as cases of code at 19 search. and i'm going to stop people queue for hours to get oxygen to save someone . they loved, ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. however, the sun associates today and we've got some very high temperatures across eastern parts. so if you have scorching heat over here, fine and dry, clear skies as you can see, nice big area of high pressure but further west,

it's not to some like at all of the cloud and rain rolling into the bisco framing, lots of wet weather there across the channel into southern parts of england. disappointing temperatures as well. london just 15 degrees should be about $2122.00 at this time of the year, so really not to bring that wet weather then affecting a good pass. so france, northern parts of spain and portugal west weather to into west switzerland. northern areas of jeremy sinks pulses of heavy rain along with denmark, metal push its way up because good part of scandinavia over the next few days, 32 celsius there for moscow. on monday, tuesday house is still 34 degrees as temperature is very much on the rise and notice the showers continuing into central and western parts of europe heavy at times with some some the dry weather. coming back into the british houses, we go on 3 tuesday, 800 celsius for london, so started to get a little closer to where they should be dry and fine across northern parts of africa hopped in tripoli for west africa,

the seasonal showers to doing quite nicely making the way for the north sponsored power cut on airways. be part of the debate itself defeated the end closing in the us or in the u. k. because it will just come back again when no topic is off the table. what we wanted to talk about were the one white man touching a dream, where a global audience become a global community, jump into the comment section. and part of the discussion there are like, if it's the metric efforts to silence fell opinions on the online, based on al jazeera, ah, ah, the

other again, this is i'll just here are the main news. this is in supposing and a crucial parliamentary election. it's private has to be ahmed's 1st electoral test . he's on the increasing pressure of the humanitarian crisis of the oven t gray region. many as prime minister has one sunday snap of entry election, accomplish indians fancy. got many 54 percent of the boat is made. rival with president robert custodian is in a distant 2nd place with 21 percent of the board in charge of hong kong pro democracy newspaper. the apple daily says that the soon decide whether to close it down. the company says that authorities have frozen its assets. iran, as president elect is expected to hold his 1st news conference in just over an hour from now. conservative chief justice abraham lacy, who was elected on saturday, will take office in august replacing how sondra honey turn out was the lowest in recent history. racy will take part during a critical time,

the saran seeks to salvage of nuclear deal, out of broken economy, which has been deeply affected by us sanctions. let's go live out of town on serious dorset jabari is there? what can we expect from the president elects press conference while this is going to be the 1st time that local and foreign media in the country will be able to see and ask questions of the president elect. and it's important to point out that there's been a lot of foreign media that have been invited into the country to cover the elections that took place on friday. and those media outlets will be leaving later on this evening. so the reason behind one of the reasons possibly behind having this press conference so quickly after his victory as possibly to introduce himself and to establish some kind of report with the foreign media. there are still present in the country, but we expect the president elect to lay out some of his platforms as agenda for coming for years. also,

it's an opportunity to really get to know the local media as well. he's a man who has not had a lot of direct contact with the media inside the country during his years as the head of the countries judiciary. and prior to that head of the us on the old foundation in my shop. also, it is important to note that he's still the head of the countries to this sherry. he will have to appoint somebody does his deputy to take over until the supreme leader appoints a new judiciary to take over. it is important, i think, to see what shape that will take, who he will decide to put in that position. also we understand that he's going to his home city of masha on tuesday evening where he will deliver another speech. so he's probing to be a very active president elect in the 1st few days of office, certainly to try and win over those people who didn't vote for him. and those who also didn't vote at all. of course not everyone will be able to watch or listen to the press conference. the country currently suffering power shortages blackouts

after it's only nuclear power station was closed down. yes sir. some technical issues, apparently in a nuclear power plant of share and that is according to officials from the countries atomic energy organization. they had warned in april that they are in short supply of certain parts that there needs to be maintenance of the facility which when operational in 2013, with the help of the russian government who helped build the site. it provides about $2.00 to $2.00 and a half percent of the countries electricity needs annually, and it saves iran about $12000000.00 barrels of oil per year. the officials from the atomic energy agency had warned that if they do not get certain parts to fix or maintain this site, that they will have technical issues. and that is exactly what's happened. the officials have said that they need to shut down the site for g 3 to 4 days to try and see if they can maintain what the technical difficulties are having are. but

according to the foreign ministry spokesperson, earlier on monday, during his weekly briefing said, it is just technical issues. there is no hints or any signs of sabotage, which of course has taken place of other nuclear sites in the country just in the last april at a nuclear side that's hands. there was an attack on the power grid in that facility which took it out for a few days before the generator came into play. so there is some speculation that, that so there could have been some power play better. as far as the officials are concerned. this is just a technical issue and they're trying to remedy it. and the coming days, of course, all this is happening as the nuclear talks of wrapped up in vienna. the 6 round of the talks and the ranges have now formed a special committee which takes, which is taking a look at the final draft that has been agreed upon in vienna. and they will decide whether or not to accept it. we understand that this special committee is with

officials from the national supreme national security council. all right. somebody thanks. data storage authority, there live, entire honest also was saying in vienna maps involved in talks to revive the iran nuclear deal. say they're heading back to their capitals to prepare for what could be a final route of the garcey ations. they've been trying since april to bring the us back into the pact to get iran to once again comply with the conditions while several sticking points remain. all sides say the closer to the end, kristen salumi reports for washington. 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. afghanistan's government has urging manufacturing companies to make more oxygen cylinders to help hospitals that are overwhelmed by cobit 19 patients. leaders also appealed for international health. alexander bias reports in cobble, the lineups for oxygen tank start in the middle of the night. and last for hours, every person here is desperately trying to save someone. they love shall, ins. officials gentlemen, i came here when i am last night, the boy oxygen because i have a covert patient at home. i've been waiting on the street since then. i would never of what it's long, but i've already lost family members, like my aunt and some other relatives on my brother's now infected. and he's in

a very serious condition. afghanistan's 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 a 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 is 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 dined because they didn't get got only oxygen. if they have got oxygen, their life could be saved. i think the higher efficient in health sector. they are responsible for that, that the health ministry has defended itself,

saying it took the necessary steps and was prepared to treat its citizens as pull it off the market. come for me because i'm for 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 sort of oxygen is a positive case as continue to increase. and if most of the car only goes to one hospital in the area, that's a feel of a shortage of 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 to roll out in april, but so far, not even one percent of the population has been fully inoculated, or call on the old one. to, for 2 things. up is, implants 1st and facts in lex, in the investing oxygen, oxygen up to 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 coded 19 is yet another worry. afghans have to contend with. alexandra buyers, al jazeera, small islands near rio de janeiro has just started a max vaccination drive. most of the residents of quatre are expected to be fully inoculated in around 2 months. monica kia explains why this is part of a bigger brazilian study. just 15 kilometers off the shores of rio, diginero lace packet done in island of tranquillity, where time seems to have stood still with its colonial buildings in know, cars. he used to be a favorite spot for tours, not anymore. i had with the guy who was with the pandemic, the number of fairies going back and forth from the island has been reduced most

here, live off tourism, which has taken a severe blow you stuck with. this will hopefully change the next couple of months when back it will become brazil's 1st totally vaccinated island on sunday, the entire population over 18 or so, and received the 1st dose of the corona virus vaccine, brazil's health minister, my cell, kid aga, promised that 8 weeks later, dill received the 2nd one that the mid bucket that was chosen as part of a pioneer study on the effects of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine, which is being produced in real by brazil's leading field, who is institute researchers. juliana, i hold the map was. so the idea is to measure how effective math explanation is in stopping the virus from spreading surgeon what she respect your biomedical when you guys you, we chose pockets because it's a very stable community. it's an island, so there's less human interaction, contrary to what happens among the $7000000.00 people living across the bay in rio,

they also have a strong family health system. here with a lot of information on all residents. sausage a geographically small area which makes vaccinating. everybody simpler. it takes around 40 to 15 minutes, riding a rig shot on this a kilometer dirt road to go around the whole island fucking around. 4500 people live here. and they all know each other. reuse me or said the experiment would allow the island to celebrate its famous carnival in september, while the rest of the country is to waiting to see if there will even be one next year. what packet does residents are not keen on the idea? no, there's no way we can do this having a test event to see how well mass vaccination works is one thing. having a carnival is totally different. we cannot control how's the frivolous besides,

this is not the moment to party mean, brazil has just reached the milestone of 500000 debts by over 900. 84 year old men said is, mortar says she's hopeful, but doesn't think the pandemic will be over any time soon. not even for beckett that's fully vaccinated population. she says she'd rather wait to see what happens to the rest of brazil and the world and dance alone in her paradise island. monica, now, i'll just 0 bucket. ah, it's good to have with us to headlines and i'll just see if he opens are voting in a crucial parliamentary election. it's prime minister, i'll be on its 1st electoral test. he's on the increasing pressure for the humanitarian crisis and little them t guy, region mohammed otto reports now from at us out about these are the elections. the prime minister is face.