really, george roy, now he will be sentenced and could face up to 30 years behind bars to join us on june the 25th for live coverage. as this historic us court case reaches its conclusion, derek show the search engine same on al jazeera, the. ready semen and an election vote can sing is underway, but the conflicts in the region of 2 great and food insecurity overshadows ethiopia as parliamentary election. ah, hello and welcome to w. a. watching al jazeera alive from headquarters here, and so also ahead a snap election and a decisive victory. thousands of millions take to the streets to celebrate nicole passion. young's win covered 19 vaccine trials,

a well under way for young children. but convincing parents about inoculation could be a tough task. mexico auction tina pulled her ambassadors from nicaragua over the ongoing crack done against the opposition. ah. okay, let's go going to e. c o p. a plan counting has now begun in a general election mod by shortages of pilot papers, allegations of voting irregularities and the conflict that's denied hundreds of thousands of people there. right to vote. the prime minister abbey smith is hoping to hold onto power in what was his 1st real electoral test. he's described the pulled as he threw up his 1st attempt at free and fair elections. major opposition parties of boycotted mondays, election. while some who remained in the fray, se ballot boxes were tampered with, and their staff were attacked from addis ababa. is mohammed the doe?

there were long queues of waters in most pulling centers in several cities across. if you appear including in the capital of the sub, some of the volta started queuing us us for a m local time. the electoral commission had increase the number of pulling stations across the country to avoid large crowds from gathering at pulling centers to reduce the risk of spreading covered 19, but also to haste. and the voting process is the 1st electro test for 44 year old prime minister who rose to power in 2018, championing democratic revival enough a 2nd most populous country. and a break from it's offered a tedium post totaling other things, a common orderly so far. but i just wish the process was a little faster than it is. and we hope this election will bring peace and unity as far as i will, than anything i will vote for a party, which i think will bring peace to our country. and i finalized my decision on who

to vote for. there were delays in some pulling stations though they threw up emotional electoral board sees about a dozen pulling sessions, opened late due to officials arriving late. voting was extended in some pulling stations to allow water. of course, the bulk of the prime ministers nearly formed prosperity parties of florence, run up by a considerable margin in a crowded field of candidates mostly from smaller, ethnically based parties. more than 40 parties are filled with candidates, but most originally based, some opposition parties of boycotting the vote. in the battle ground state of or me and position parties have been courted the elections, citing intimidation and imprisonment of some of their leaders and supporters. some opposition leaders have however endorsed the process, calling it's somewhat credible. my expectation is that it would hopefully with minor difficulties would be

a good indicator of away. and that's what we are hoping. that's what we watching very close up to now the turn out seems to be good. people are out in big numbers. that's a good thing. that's a good science fight. been billed as a nationwide called elections. i'm not 2nd placed in one 5th of the countries. 5047 because it was these elections in the family on how to region for this study, if you will post for me until september, for what the electoral board hold logistical reason. elections also not taking place in the region of north. and if you up yeah, most of the delayed voltage scheduled for 6 september, but no debt has been set yet for a voting ticket. i the pull something monitored by observance from the african union as well as a number of european groups. but the european union did not send a team blemish if you appear for failing to guarantee the independence of its mission. once the volta account of national and peace with the prime minister,

who is head of government, as well as the president, a large listed ammonia roll. how much do all just eat a sub a base you appear? ok, let's take a closer look now at some of the big issues weighing on the boat that's expected to continue until september. in romeo, the largest parties of boycotted the election of what they say is him. it's invitation by the security forces. the opposition parties have complained the agents are being targeted opposing stations in the m. r and southern nations nationalities and the peoples region. elsewhere, there were security and logistical problems, including issues with printing. ballad papers voting and a 5th of constituencies has been postponed and into gray. people don't even know when they'll be able to have their say in the election. the army has been fighting regional forces that since november. david chin was the us ambassador to ethiopia. he's now professor george washington university. he joins us on skype from

washington. davidson, welcome to our 0. there are so many people here who cannot cast a vote. what does that raise? does that not raise serious questions when it comes to credibility? raising. ready questions about $37000000.00 ethiopians registered for the selection that remains to be seen. how many of the 37000000 will actually vote that's out of a population of about 109000000. so it's going to have to be very high percentage of the 37000000 to make this a purely credible election. we won't know the numbers until they held the votes have been cast. that there are so many challenges already to the election that does very serious questions about the credibility seems to be trying to plate spin so many big issues at the moment. can he carry this off? and yet, at the same time, stay true to the promises he made to the people back in 2018

can. to the extent that his party, the prosperity party will in all likelihood, when most of the loads, in part because some parties are boycotting the election. so i may actually look from his standpoint and like he did fairly well, the bigger issue now as to what extent can you carry out pharmacist or a more democratic future for the if indeed there. ready are as many challenges to ms rule behind the scenes that will not be accounted for in this running process. and that will be a major challenge. how much of a grasp does he have on this ongoing situation in the region of t grey? i mean, he promised that it wouldn't last a long time, a long time looks like what it's shaping up to, to, to be, to occupy me. he said that almost 8 months ago now, obviously it's turned into

a girl a warfare situation. even with significant support from neighboring troops from eritrea who played a major role assisting the european forces and the grades are clearly and has become a much greater challenge for him. the push of the government forces to control all of the towns and grades, but they do not control much of the rural area. now, there is no indication that it's trying to be possible to control the rural area anytime soon. david shin, formerly us ambassador to ethiopia, thank you very much. thank you. armenia is in battle, prime minister nichol passion. yon has held on to his grip on power, months after defeats in a conflict with azerbaijan, that prompted mass protests demanding his resignation. passing out one sunday snap

parliamentary election, tens of thousands of his supporters rallied in the capital. he ran as he fled, to build what he called a new armenia, rory challenge reports now from the armenian capital. yeah, in the end, it wasn't even close with a much bigger victory. them pre election polls predicted nicole pasheti and it's celebrating. it's a radi and central yerevan on monday nights. the thank the country and talked of work to be done. i mean, the political crisis that suffered anatomy on november 9th and over the republic of, i mean, i gave a mandate to our government. and this political team to establish a dictatorship of low and right, the people implemented and i don't have a lot so jubilation for the prime minister and his supporters. but although winning 54 percent votes from a turn out of not quite 50 percent, is a solid mandate. it's hardly a ringing national endorsement of the man. it was

a large chunk of underside. advices that in the end, when with nicole, they might be traumatized. they might be grieving over here, minute 3 to 3 by john. but it seen that was from why rejection that his main libel robert for terry and i was just focused on and that's according to analyst richard garrick garcia, is a returned to armenia is less democratic, passed his terms as president of armenia, where he actually came to power by force and forcing the resignation of the 1st democratically elected president patrol. in subsequent years for charles on by ruling the country rather than governing the country has been much better at 6 elections, been winning elections. robert contrarian and his armenia alliance are rejecting their defeat, saying there were voting irregularities. but international observers had given the running of the election, their preliminary approval, if not the toner,

which campaigning was conducted. the parliamentary elections in the republic of ammonia, their competence, and generally well managed, with a short timeframe. they were characterized by intense pl, always station and mod, by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric among key contestants. this election has delivered something unusual for armenia and the region. a largely fair vote in which the winner wasn't pre ordains bots, nicole passion, he must move quickly to unify this traumatized and divided nation or political crisis might soon consume armenia. again, we'll reach helen's out 0 year event, the e u, the u. k. the us and canada have together imposed sanctions against bela bruce over the force diversion of a passenger plane to minsk last month. among those target, either close allies of the president, alexander lucas shanker, they're accused of fraud during last year's election and violence against protest

is disputing the results you foreign ministers say the functions will help cut off funding to lucas shank has government. at least 20 palestinians have been injured. have been during attacks by israeli settlers and security forces on residents of the shake gerard neighbourhood in occupied east jerusalem. right wing israelis threw rocks and chairs at families living there is really police later moved in and arrested. a number of palestinians, fabbing tensions in shape. gera, palestinian families wait for and is where the court decision that could see them forcibly displaced from their homes. to make way for jewish settlers. still ahead here on al jazeera, iran's president elect sets out his foreign policy priorities, and his view about a nuclear deal in disarray. and in india is remotes, himalayan regions, health workers track for miles to provide cooper. 19 vaccines in indian administered kashmir.

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ah, the me. what the bank you're watching, 0 life on your top stories. armenia, catholic, a prime minister nichol passion, yon and his supporters. the celebrating the victory in sunday. snap parliamentary election. passionate says the countries policy crisis is over and he's called now for reconciliation. at least 20 palestinians have been injured off for tax is really federalism, security forces and occupied east jerusalem. settlers through rocking chair the families living in the shape general neighborhood. remember, palestinians were arrested look kind of things under way anything of his general

election and already the opposition is complaining of balance. box tempering, and even intimidation of staff. the prime minister smith is hoping to hold on to power. what is his 1st real electrical test? fastens a, b, c o, p, and sheltering and neighboring sudan to escape that conflict into gray. hipaa. morgan spoke to some of the refugees in gallery states on the ethiopian border. they say they have little faith in the outcome of the elections for 70000. if you'll be in refugees who fled from the northern region to come here in sudan including this camp of cuba and to dance about estates, it's just another day. now conflicts thought that integrate between the regional figured people's liberation front and the federal government in early november last year and has displaced more than 2000000 according to the united nation. more than 350000 people are in need of aid on our facing famine. while more than 5000000 are facing food insecurity and the need of 8 for survival. now the region of p great

will not be voting in the elections, and that is not something that has been decided by the people of degree. rather, it was decided by the federal government which says that the insecurity integrate will not allow for voting to take place. it is worth noting, however, that the region of the degree held its own votes in september last year, and that was not recognized by the federal government. it was one of the factors that led to the conflict in november. people who we spoke to here to hear their views on the election say they don't think that the process will lead to stability . and if they say that with conflict ongoing, not just in figuring but other parts of the country, as well as the dissension of major opposition, figures who was top contenders against prime minister and his ruling prosperity policy in jail. they believe that conditions were created to make sure that prime minister and his ruling prosperity party when a 2nd term. they also say that the fact that the grants are excluded shows that if the opium stone regards to gray as part of the country. so people,

he has said that they believe that the process that is ongoing and if you will not lead to stability or security, they say that if anything it would lead to further conflicts and insecurity, especially in the region of to grey runs, president elect has declared his country has many more foreign policy objectives than reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers abraham racy giving. his 1st news conference since winning the election on friday reiterated his support for the agreement, but he said he was not prepared to meet the u. s. president joe biden racy emphasize that it was the us that violated the deal by withdrawing 3 years ago. that tucker, how did you don't mind how he had our interaction with all countries will be balanced. any negotiation that is going to be the benefit of the nation will be supported, but negotiations should have an achievement for the great nation of iran and its people who call your home care al stance is that all signatory should return to the 2015 agreement. and abide by their commitments. we are asking the europeans not to

be pressured or influenced by the americans. people want their rights to be revived . this white house correspondent kimberly helped get reports on how those comments were received in washington. there is the new president lacked and what impact it would have on negotiations in the eyes of the united states. in fact, that was a question posed to why those press secretaries and saki of the daily press briefing. not only what impact the election result could have negotiations, but also the comments by the president leg that he refuses to meet with you as president joe biden. here's what she had to say. well, we don't currently have diplomatic relations with iran or any plans to meet with the lead at the leader level. so it's unclear that anything has actually changed on that front. i will say that the president's view and our view is that the decision maker here is the supreme leader. that was the case before the election is the case today, will be the case,

probably moving forward. the iran nuclear negotiating teens just manage their 6 rounds of talks. they have not to get in to get announced the 7th round, but as is typical, they're back consulting with capitals and we're looking forward to seeing where that goes moving forward. now when complicating factor and all of this is the president elect himself, is subject to some of the sanctions that have been put in place by the united states and the european union as well. iran continues to push for a listing of those sanctions so far. the vibrant ministration has kept the sanctions put in place for the previous trumpet, ministration in place. and so asking about that, the white house press secretary did comment on that as well. saying that she is aware that the president elective iran is subject to some of the sanctions for his human rights record at a crackdown that he was participating in. and as a result, she says that's why the biden administration has made human rights foundation of

its foreign policy. the negotiations that are taking place in vienna are no exception. and when there is an effort to reach mutual compliance and disagreement for ron and the united states, this will be part of the negotiation. mexico and argentina have recalled their ambassadors from nicaragua, for consultations of the president, daniel. it'll take us increasing crackdown on opposition more than a dozen opposition figures including 5 potential presidential candidates, had been arrested this month. president ortega, as expected to seek a 4th term in the upcoming november elections. let's get the leases from john holeman, who joyce's life from mexico city. john were talking primarily about one journalist miguel moore, or why was he detained where he was another one. the 5th one is you mentioned actually of these possible presidential candidates. and it seems that president, daniel will take his government has really got around sort of mopping them up. now

officially, what the police have said is that he was asking for foreign intervention in nicaragua, including for military intervention that he was involved in terrorist attacks. they ready for the book at him. there's new laws in nicaragua that have recently been made, which enables the government to accuse basically people of treason, their political drivers of treason. so he's just the latest one in more than a dozen political figures that we've seen arrested recently in the country. now this is something as well that hasn't just been happening over the last couple of months. this has been happening over the last 3 years or so since 2018 in which there were protests against president ortega and his regime. and those protest ended with a lot of people being arrested, a lot of people being stored in jail, dissidence students, journalists, political figures amongst them. but this is an escalation of that repression that

these detentions, john, they're nothing new. they have been happening over the past few days. is it a highly structured, almost coordinated campaign targeting people who might be perceived as potentially opposition? not right now, but at some point down the line. yes, it's definitely not, not just opposition, but in november 2021. nicaragua goes to presidential elections. so this is definitely the regime, it's acting against people that could be rivals to president ortega and to his government. this is a country for quite some time now. and president ortega has been in control in this 2nd round of his leadership because remember, he was also the president of the country in the 1980s after the son denise the revolution. so this is the 2nd round of his leadership, and it's been progressively getting more, more and more regressive. a more repressing people that would challenge him. so we

seeing what could be a climax to that. john many thanks, john holeman that john is live from mexico city. well, thing in that part of the world in columbia, at least one professor has been killed in the capital during anti government protest protested with riot police and bug or tom. there have been daily demonstrations against rising poverty, inequality and police brutality. protests 1st began in april against the government's proposed tax reform, which has since been withdrawn. there are allegations of increasing government crackdowns with reports of security forces using force against protesters. me new corona, virus infections in me and my have hit their highest levels since the military seized power. in february, 595 new cases were reported. on monday, the coo prompted many medical workers to abandon the health service that led to the

collapse of the country's corona virus testing regime. turkey is set to drop curfews next month, as the number of new infections continues to fall. restrictions on travel between cities and public transport, they will also be lifted the president wretched type at one. so the goal is to make everybody over the age of 18, eligible for a vaccine within a few weeks. after months of condemnation, over the government's handling of a devastating 2nd wave, india is now finally offering cobit 19 vaccines, free of charge to all adults. but the biggest challenge is reaching the majority of his people who do not live in cities or towns. elizabeth parent them picks up the story. health care workers track through the pine forests of the indian administered, push me to reach the village of docks, whom the remote himalayan region is home to the nomadic bucket. while tribe in the summer, the cattle herders move in search of pastures for the sheep and goats in between

the seasons, the nearest healthcare center to duck soon is a 3 hour trick. on the red malware we came in april and we'll slowly go to a different area from here we are a bit far so no one could go to get the vaccine and everyone was scared of it. but now the doctors had made us understand that the faxing is necessary, so that's why we got it today. goes after months of vaccine shortages and uncertainty about supply. the indian government has announced vaccines will be free for all adults from june 21st. many people in dock, so i'm grateful to have these health care workers. i'm a barbara, do we live very far away in the mountains? no one from the health department had come here until today. and luckily i got vaccinated the percentage over on the others need more convincing. vaccine shortages aren't the only challenge facing the indian government hesitancy, fueled by misinformation and mistrust is common in rural and remote areas. people

often are very reluctant about this like theme. so our theme and we are doing but took on these people. so there we go to these nomad which are residing here in the deep water. we combine them, and e day we almost 40 to 50 people. state governments has the gone campaigns to convince people. and ascending teams, the villages a devastating 2nd wave of the corona virus which killed more than 180000 people in april and may, has tapered off and cases have declined. but health experts have vaccination rates must increase significantly to protect people. and that on this vaccine hesitancy addressed it will put in the it's fragile gains against covert 19 at risk. elizabeth per item al jazeera new delhi, pfizer is set to an bank seen trials on children age 6 months to 5 years. madana

has already been testing in that age group for several months now. bought this heidi joe castro reports conducing the parents, the banks nation is safe, is a difficult battle for on. it takes a tough 5 year old to get go through a blood drop didn't go very rude and not even flinch when he gets a shot containing either the pfizer by on tech vaccine or a placebo. well, you know that it can, we'll charge help or in is among the 4500 children participating visors late stage clinical trials for kids under 12 taking place across the us and europe at one test site in louisiana. doctors that often are health medical center or asking parents to prepare kids for the vaccination, having your child backs and needed to protect them from getting to that wall as unlikely that they would get a serious illness or serious impact. it is possible and, you know,

we're here to tell you that there are children in our children's hospital to this day being cared for because of the polls shell one in for american parents say they will definitely not have their young child vaccinated against coded, no matter the trials result, it doesn't make any sense to take a backseat, but i can't be sure of one way or another. and for something that if i get it, i'm most likely going to survive and they even more so are more likely to survive. lia richie says her 11 year old son will not get the vaccine, she thinks the development was rushed. the kaiser family foundation reports another quarter of american parents say they will have their young child vaccinated as soon as the f d. a authorizes emergency use. jennifer gibbons daughter is 8. she's high risk

conditions for more so and i would love for her to be that's new today. pfizer is vaccine already has emergency authorization from the f d a for children, 12 years and up. the company says it's trials for that age group showed 100 percent efficacy against co bid with minimal side effects results for younger children are expected by september. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington crypto fans something shiny and new to get excited about. so the piece auction house is putting a flawless $100.00 carat diamond up for sale, which can be bought using crypto currencies. the pear shaped diamond is expected to fetch up to $15000000.00, which is about $477.00 bit coins at the moment. anyway, the auction house says is by far the highest valued physical object for which one can pay with a crypto currency. ah,

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