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the convincing parents about an occupation could be a tough task and sweetness, government has collapsed. few options remains the prime minister. after he lost above the compass, i begin in ethiopia, where accounting has begun in a general election mod by shortages of ballot papers allegations of voting irregularities and the conflict that's denied. hundreds of thousands of people. a right to vote. the prime minister abbey met is hoping to hold on to power in what was his 1st real electoral test. he's described the poll as he threw up his 1st attempt at free and fair elections. major opposition policies boycotted monday's election while some who remained in the fray. se ballot boxes were tampered with

and their staff were attacked from at his up above his mohammad, the dog. they were long queues of waters in most pulling centers in civil 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. and 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. it is the 1st electro test for 44 year old prime minister who rose to power in 2018, championing a democratic revival in africa, the 2nd most populous country, and a break from its authoritarian post total, no less. things are 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 too much know electro board sees about a dozen pulling stations opened late due to officials arriving late. voting was extended in some pulling stations to allow water cut the bulbs. the prime ministers nearly formed prosperity parties, the phone thrown up by a considerable margin in a crowded field of candidates, mostly from smaller, ethnically based parties. more than 40 parties are filled it candidates, but most originally based, some opposition parties of boycotting the vote. in the battleground, state of romeo 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 minor

difficulties would be good to know creative, awake and difficult. luckily i hope things are out of very close up to now the turn out seems to be good. people are out in the numbers. that's a good thing. that's a good science, despite been billed as a nationwide election. so i'm not 2nd place in one 5th of the countries, 547, because it was these elections in the somali on how to region for this study. you will post for me until september for what the electoral board cold, logistical reason elections also not taking place in the region of north and if you up yeah. most of the delayed volt, scheduled for 6 september, but no debt has been set yet for a vote. in tig, i the pulls up being monitored by observance from the african union as well as a number of european groups. but the european union did not send a team blaming if you appear for failing to guarantee the independence of its mission. once the volta account of personal in peace with the prime minister,

who is head of government, as well as the president, a large list ceremony roll. how much do all just eat a sub a base you appear? ok, let's take a closer look at some of the issues weighing on the vote that's expected to continue until september. in romeo, the largest parties of boycotted the election of what they say is intimidation by the security forces. opposition parties have complained the agents have been target is opposing stations in the amera and southern nations nationalities and people's region. elsewhere, there was security and logistical problems, including issues with printing, ballot papers. voting in 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 been fighting regional forces there since november. they would chin that was formerly the us ambassador to ethiopia is now professor a george washington university. he says the selection isn't necessarily of

indication of men's performance as prime minister his party, their prosperity party will in all likelihood, when most of the of the votes, in part because some parties are boycotting the election. so i may actually love from his standpoint like he did fairly well. the bigger issue though, as. ready to what extent can he carry out his promises or a more democratic future for the indeed there. ready are many challenges to this rule behind the scenes that will not be accounted for in this voting process. and that will be a major challenge about $37000000.00 ethiopians registered for this election. that remains to be seen. how many of the 37000000 will actually vote, that's out of a population of about a 109000000. so it's going to have to be a very high percentage of the 37000000 and make this

a really credible election. but there are so many challenges already in the election that does raise serious questions about the credibility. i mean is embattled prime minister nichol passing on has held on to his grip on power. months after defeats in a conflict with as the by john, the prompted mass protest demanding his resignation, lashing out as one sunday snap parliamentary election. tens of thousands of his supporters rallied in the capital. the van, as he pledged to build on what he called a new armenia, rory challenge reports now from europe and the 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 rally and central yerevan on monday nights. he thanked the country and talked of work to be done. i mean, the political crisis that suffered anatomy on november 9th and over the republic. 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 of the 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 undecided voters in the end. when with nicole. yes, they might be traumatized. they might be grieving over here, minute 3 to 3 by john. but it seen that was from quite a rejection that his main rivals robert terry. and what was the focus and that's according to analyst richard garrick garcia and his return 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 john,

by ruling the country rather than governing the country, has been much better at fixing elections than 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. they're comprehensive and generally well managed with a short timeframe. however, they were characterized by intense police station. and maud, 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, reach helen's out 0 year event. the european union u. k. u. s. and canada have together imposed sanctions against bela roost over the force. diversion of a passenger play into men's class month among those targets to close allies of the president. alexander lucas shanker, there accused a fraud during last year's election and violence against protest is disputing the results you foreign ministers said the sanctions will help cut off funding to lucas hearing because government, at least 20 palestinians have been injured in attacks by israeli settlers and security forces on residents of the shake, gerard neighborhood and occupied east jerusalem. right wing israelis threw rocks and chairs of families living there is where the police later moved in and arrested a number of palestinians that have intentions and shakera as palestinian families wait for and is ready court decision that could see them forcibly expel from their homes to make way for jewish settlers. at least 10 people have been killed in an

exchange of fire between syrian troops and rebels in southern it live. that's according to the u. k. syrian observatory for human rights govern foresees shells, alberta, and are some. there are 2 villages in a de escalation zone. those areas have an uptick in fighting in recent weeks. in yemen, fighting has resumed in marie, but a province known for its oil and gas fields. the internationally recognized government says its forces have killed 2650 rebels in south district since february, the who things have been trying to seize my rib city to consolidate the control of a northern yemen. the fighting comes the neighboring. oman tries to broker a ceasefire, but in the government and the fees, libya has postponed the full reopening of a road linking eastern and western areas. the national unity government announced it was partially open on sunday as part of a ceasefire deal, however, forces loyal to the warlord lisa after objected saying they were not consulted.

talks have been held, and the committee said the road is not yet safe to reopen. because of landmines, the reopening of that road is critical to the implementation of the agreements of october 2020 of the ceasefire agreement, including obviously, and very importantly, the withdrawal of foreign fighters, mercenaries, and other other forces that need to start without. without further delay. we continue to intend to support the implementation of the cease fire agreement, including through a phase deployment of face deployment of, of an smell cease fire monitoring component as has been authorized by the security . the security council still to come here on al jazeera, iran's president to leg sets out his foreign policy priorities, and his view a nuclear deal in disarray.

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a job issues with that powerful. despite for greenland, a witness documentary on al jazeera, ah, ah, the me come back, you're watching l to 0 live from the reminder of our top stories. this many as can take a prime minister, nickel, passion, young and his supporters. the celebrating victory and sunday, snap elementary election. fashion young says the country's political crisis is over and he's not calling for reconciliation. please 20 palestinians were injured for tax by israeli settlers on security forces and occupied in traversal of settlers, rocks and chairs of families living in the shade. general neighborhood number

palestinians were arrested but counting on the way in ethiopia as general election . and already the opposition is complaining of balance. box tempering and even intimidation of staff. the prime minister is hoping to hold on to power. what is his 1st real electoral test? fastened to be philippines, a sheltering in neighboring sedans. to escape the conflict into great, hey, but morgan spoke to some of the refugees in congress state on the european 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 to them, 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 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 lead 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 figures, 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 abbey 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 phone 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 in winning the election on friday reiterated his support for the agreement, but he said he was not prepared to meet the us president joe biden, when he emphasized that it was the us that violated the deal by with growing 3 years ago. that feel, 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 negotiation should have an achievement for the great nation of iran . and it's people who call your home care al stances 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. the white house correspondent, kimberly how can reports now 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, but 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. a drones strike has targeted us forces stationed inside bank that international airport. the attack was intercepted and no group has claimed responsibility us officials are blaming iran, banks, militias based in iraq. it's the 3rd intercepted drone tank on the airport in baghdad. in this month, mexico and argentina have recalled their ambassadors from nicaragua, for consultations of the president. daniel ortega is increasing crackdown on the opposition. more than a dozen opposition figures, including 5 potential presidential candidates, had been arrested this month. president ortega is expected to seek a 4th term in the 4th coming november elections. mexico's president is calling for

a federal investigation into a string of deadly shootings in the border city of reynosa. 15 civilians were killed on saturday after gunman opened fire from cause in various points across the city. as spoke the deployment of the military, the national guard and the state police, reynosa borders, texas is used as a drug trafficking points and has long been a flash point for cartel violence in new corona, virus infections and me and law of hit their highest level 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's led to the collapse of the country's corona virus testing regime. turkey set to drop curfews next month, as the number of new infections continues to fall. restrictions on travel between cities and public transport, there will also be lifted. the president touches type,

a one says the goal is to make everybody over the age of 18, eligible for a back seen within a few weeks. well, vaccines are seen as key to the beginning of unlocking big events and some rich countries with high inoculation rates have started to hold those big events. on sunday night, a few fights as concerts, new york's madison square garden was the iconic venue's 1st full capacity event. since last march, there was no masks or social distancing, but vaccines were essential, just as they will be at the next 2 years, will come in cat on the hosts or in talks to secure a 1000000 doses, in case global immunization efforts. lag by next november. but there is still risk in big events. the recent g 7 summit in cornwall is risking the super spread a label. a 2000 percent increase in corona virus cases was recorded in surrounding

communities. then it's nash is a distinguished professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york graduate school, the public health. he says the future of such events is tied to the future of vaccines. it all really depends on the kinds of safety measures that are in place. you know, you can have requirements about vaccination from before people can enter into events. or you can have requirements about rapid testing at the time of entry into the events. and these, and social distancing within the event, and whether or not it's outdoors makes a big difference. but i guess the important thing is to, to remember here is that it's not only the risk of things that can happen at the venue while people are watching the show or watching the games. but everything that goes along with coming back and forth to those venues, right? so everything that goes, goes along with it, like travel to it from the venue using mass transit and very densely crowded cities

standing in line traveling to and from tokyo. all of these things are have the potential to increase spread, not just what goes on at the venue itself, coming from new york city, where our vaccination rates are relatively high compared with japan. i think still not where they need to be. i would be very distressed if we were considering holding dealing against summer olympic games here, even with our higher vaccination rates. and i think we're very still still very much in the throes of a deadly demick year. and our political leaders really need to act accordingly. not do the things that could put very large number numbers of people at risk of severe code. 19 pfizer is set to another bank, seen trials on children age 6 months to 5 years. but donna has already been testing in that age group for several months now. but this hydrogen castro reports convincing the parents that banks the nation is safe is a tough battle for on it takes

a tough 5 year old to giggle 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 we'll charge help or in is among the 4500 children participating in 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 vaccinated, 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 show. one in for american parents say they will definitely not have their young child vaccinated against cove. it no matter

the trial result, it doesn't make any sense to take a vaccine. but i can't be sure of one way or another 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 report 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 been high risk when she's been there 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. the swedish prime minister steph and laughlin is facing the choice of either resigning or calling a snap election after losing an a conference vote in parliament. the vote was triggered after the governing coalition fell apart in a dispute over proposed rent reforms. his poll brennan, the rick dark chamber installed home was packed full for the momentous vote, an electronic balance which took less than 20 seconds to confirm the outcome. stephanie lawson is the 1st swedish premier ever to lose a confidence as la fan south impassively on the front row as his coalition disintegrated before his eyes. the stuff beneath then threw up lawfern is a former union boss famed for his negotiating skills and since and inconclusive election in 2018. lawful social democrats have governed in

a minority coalition with the green, while still needing the support of small parties to get that through parliament succeed. but his government proposals to reform sweden's, strict rent control system, proved to be a red line for the left party, who warned that they would bring down the government unless the proposals were withdrawn. the how you to not some of the some move on the politic we kept our word said no, she dug into the left talking leader so often now has one week to decide whether to call a snap election or resign and get the speaker of parliament the task of trying to find a replacement prime minister, or was it vod regardless of what happens now, my party and myself will together with others, be available to shoulder the responsibility of leading the country. my primary focus has always been is and will always lead to do what is best for sweet audit. that's a heavy hint of what many analysts are suggesting that with sweden's fragmented political landscape and opinion polls showing the center left and center right

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