think about the sophistication of exports to break into this. as soon as you find your phone on me ah, being counted any year after an election billed as the most democratic ever, but lot by fighting and famine. ah, around what you know, they were like well, headquarters hearing coming up in the next 30 minutes. ah, the porters chair, many of the leader of the winds alone slides and they call them the defeat in the war against john also mexico, argentina, paula methodist from nicaragua,

the ongoing cracked down against your position and australia rejects the even recommendation to put the great barrier reef on the list of world heritage sites that are in danger. ah, welcome to the problem. it's all being counted as general election that's being seen as a test of prime minister of elements commitment to democracy. the vote was maud by shortages of ballot papers. allegations of voter regularities and a conflict that's denied hundreds of thousands of people. that right tonight, man has described the policy therapy, his 1st attempt at free and fair elections. major opposition parties of boy countered monday's election while some who remain in the phrase, se ballot box is a tampered with, and the staff were attacked from the sound of the bahama. did our reports. there

were long queues of waters in most pulling centers in several cities across if you appear including in the capital at the sub. some of the volt started queuing us us for a m local time. and the electro commission had increase the number of pulling stations across the country to avoid large crowds from gathering appalling 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 enough because sick and most popular country and a break from it's offered a teddy and past totaling other things. a common normally 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 has like 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. they were delays in some pulling stations though they threw up the

national electoral board, say about a dozen pulling stations opened late due to officials arriving late. voting was extended in some pulling stations to allow water cuts the polyps, 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 with candidates, but most originally based, some opposition parties of boycotting the vote. in the bottle, gram status on the position parties have been caught up the election, citing intimidation and imprisonment of some of their leaders and supporters. some opposition leaders have however endorsed the process. colleague, it's somewhat credible. my expectation is that it would hopefully and yesterday was minor difficulties with creative, awake and different. that's why we are hoping that's what we are 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. this fight been billed as a nationwide contact. your elections are 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 called 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 not that has been set yet for a vote in ticket. i the pull something monitored by observance from the african union as well. as the 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 votes are counter bushnell a piece with the prime minister, who is head of government, as well as the president, a large list ceremony,

a role. how much do alger zita, a sub a base you appear. now the election is prime minister abbey ahmed 1st electro challenge after coming to power in april 2018. he became the 1st ethnic amorro prime minister, and before that, the guy in the people's liberation until the t p l. s. as it's known, dominated politics for nearly 30 decade, a 3 decades, sorry. in his role, i'll be, i'll be lifted media restrictions released political prisons and appointed women into government roles in 2019, he was awarded the nobel peace prize for his work and ending a long standing conflict with every tress. the turning point came a year later, when he accused the t p l fighters, of attacking an army base in the north, he sent in the military to to grow in november and later joined them with ever trained troops. there are reports of thousands being killed in the conflict and tens of thousands moving displaced, but also accusations of war crimes and rape davidson was the us and bassett. a to eat the opium and is now professor at george washington university. he's,

as the selection isn't necessarily a vindication of ibm. it'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 look from his standpoint like he did fairly well. the bigger issue though is. ready what extent can he carry out his promises or a more democratic future for the if indeed there. ready are many challenges to his 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 to the election that it does raise serious questions about its credibility. now media is entitled to prime minister nichol passion and has held on to his grip on power. months after defeat in a conflict with us or by john that prompted mass protest demanding his resignation . ashley and has one sunday snack parliament reelection, not tens of thousands of his supporters rallied in the company out of them as passion, yet pledge to build what he called a new armenia. really challenge reports from the capital the in the end, it wasn't even close with a much bigger victory than pre election polls predicted. nicole pasheti and it's celebrating, it's a radi and central yerevan on monday night. he thanked the country and talked of work to be done. i mean, the political crisis that stuff is not, i mean, yeah, november 9th. and over the republic off, i mean, i gave

a mandate to our government and this political team to establish a dictatorship of low and right. the people in advantage. and i don't have a notion 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 hon cuz on the side advice, is that in the end, when you with nicole passion. yeah. yeah. they might be they might be grieving over our military defeat by john. but it seen that was from jackson, that his main libel robert for terry and that's according to analyst richard garrick garcia, is a 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 charles on by ruling the country rather than governing the country has been much better at fixing elections than winning elections. robert carrion 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 competent and generally well managed with a short timeframe. however, they were characterized by intense pull station. and maud, by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric among key contestants. this election has deliberate something unusual for armenia and the region. a largely fair vote, in which the winner wasn't pre ordained box nicole passions and must move quickly to unify this traumatized and divided nation or political crisis. might soon

consume armenia again, will reach helen's now to 0 your event the, the europe in union u. k. u. s. and canada her together into sanctions against other routes over the force diversion of a passenger plane to minutes last month. among those target price allies of present, alexander lucas shanker and accused of fraud during masters election and violence against protest as disputing the results. a foreign minister said sanctions will help cut off funding til the shank of govern. mexican indulge in tina, have recall bastards from nicaragua consultations over present. daniel take is increasing crackdown on the opposition more than a dozen opposition figures including 5 potential presidential candidates have been arrested this month. president ortega is expected to seek a 4th term in the upcoming november elections on sunday. megan mora, a journalist on the presidential, hopeful, was arrested under nicaragua as controversial new laws. the crack down on will take us opposition, isn't new. as john homer reports now from mexican city,

it seems that president, daniel will take his government as really go around sort of mopping them up. now officially, what the police have said is that he was asking for, for an intervention in nicaragua, including for military intervention that he was involved in terrorist attacks. they ready for the book at him. and there is 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 thrown in jail dissidence students, journalists,

and political figures amongst them. but this is an escalation of that repression in colombia that has been fighting between anti government protested and police near the capital. demonstrators confronted right please. man, that's the bucket. top of the form protested, died after being hit by a gas canister, in daily demonstrations against fighting poverty, inequality and police brutality. protests was begun in april against the government's proposed tax reform, which has since been withdrawn. well still ahead here on there, the hope to reopen discussions about the young young nuclear program will have a life update plus i down my hand in respect for your courage entry here as more and more people are being displaced from the homes. and so how region you in special envoy, angelina jer, leave is one camp in becky. the fence. ah,

ah, it's too late for the journey to winter sponsored by cut on airways. hello. that's more hot sunshine, across the middle east. as per usual, i'm pleased to say they shall wind has just east off, so not quite to blow as it has been recently with the lifted dustin side but lots of hazy sunshine. right across the middle east, 48 celsius. the in queue weight of the still in fact i noticed one or 2 showers, therein 2 were central and western parts of the turkey. but that side is lossy dry with plenty of sunshine in the sunshine, stretching down across the horn of africa, fear showers still less into that eastern side of africa. but we have got one or 2 showers, just cropping up around the hall is by just say some wet weather, just seizing into a coastal part of kenya, southern areas of somalia. maybe a shout was around the gulf of guinea, into cabal nova,

towards cameroon. by jerry f flooding race. any possibility here over the coming days for southern parts of africa and other dry weather, lot of sunshine coming through. it said winter solstice. of course we are looking to just find a fall away because some west weather down towards the far south just around the western cape $800.00 celsius for cape town on wednesday. little cooler to go on into the middle part of the way. can some showers there into northern parts of mozambique sponsor cut on airways. be part of the debate itself defeating 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, but we wanted to talk about where these lun, white men impacting our lives. your dream, where at global audience becomes a global community, jumping to the comment section, and part of the discussion there are like kinetic efforts to silence on the online

page on al jazeera. ah, the me look about what you all just there with me. the whole robin, the reminder of all top stories that counting is underway and if he has general election, the opposition says ballot boxes with tampered with. and the staff threatened prime minister element is hoping to hold on to pilot. and what is his 1st real electoral test? armenian prime minister nichol, passionate and his supporters are celebrating the victory and sundays, parliamentary election. bitter and divisive campaign passion, and it's fully reconciliation and mexico option tina have recall bastards from the

correct q over consultation over present. daniel will take us increasing crackdown on the opposition more than a dozen opposition figures, including 5 potential presidential candidates have been the rest of this month. the us says it's waiting to hear back from north korea regarding a proposal for a meeting. the american special representative for north korea made the comment during talks with south korea unification minister, the visual se now is a good time to reopen discussions about young nuclear program. earlier this month, north korean leader kim jong warned his government to be fully prepared for both dialogue and confrontation with the us. most importantly, they go to countries agree on the shared commitment to pursue complete the implementation of the credit post diplomacy dialog, sophomore, and that's cost over $2.00 corresponded, installed. rob mcbride is standing by its rob, i mean, why would the u. s. and south korea think it's a good time to talk with the north. indeed, they would be implications for such

a move and an approach that's right, that this is an interesting time. and that have been some interesting developments, especially during this visit, especially with mention of possibly scrapping the working group that exists between south korea and the united states. which see, is seen as a positive sign or possibly a way forward of restarting dialogue. just to give you some background. this working group was established between south korea and the united states. right at the height of all of this flurry of diplomacy at the end of 2018, basically to make sure the 2 allies were singing off the same him sheets. the stay were proposing the same thing, things to north korea, that there wouldn't be any misunderstanding with all of these the different moving parts. since then with the fall off in diplomacy, this has been seen as something of an impediment to be starting negotiations. north korea, i hate the idea of this working group as describing it as

a noose around the possibility of diplomacy as so the fact that they are talking about scrapping. this is almost symbolic if you like that this belongs to the previous period of diplomacy. if it is done away with, then in theory, at least a new phase can restart. now just what that is, remains to be seen. but from south careers perspective, they are looking for small ways. any ways of trying to start to independent initiatives that restarting dialogue, such as trying to get vaccines into north korea, or maybe restarting small projects such as tourism. so these moves are seen as possible, ways of restarting, just a small diplomatic initiative such as those india and the thought to, to, for this, these move to happen as has come. because there's been really a change in the us administration that might give the impression that there is a shift in diplomacy. and diplomacy is not very important word right now between the u. s. south korea and the north this visit by

some camp is being seen as a highly important influential here. he hits a veteran politician when it comes to all things in north korean. he served as an basset to south korea served on the various previous us acid ministrations on the korean initiative. so his appointment is seen is very significant that the, the united states is indeed interested in restarting dialogue. and then we have had interesting sounds coming out of north korea from kim jung and saying that the north korea should be ready for both as he put it dialogue, but also confrontation, which was seen at least as being that fairly optimistic. but since then, his influential sister, kim, jo, john, has given a clarification, or if you like, poured cold water on that, saying that people shouldn't get ahead of themselves. that if too much was expected, that they could indeed be disappointed. so it could well be that this is

a bit of good cop bad caught by the brother and sister from north korea coming out . and we are still seeing the possibilities at least of dialogue at some point in the future for the day. thanks so much, robert brought forth that insult. no wrong, president light has declared his country has many more foreign policy objectives than reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers abraham and i see giving his 1st news conferences winning front is election reiterated his support for the agreement, but he said he was not prepared to meet us president joe barton, i see emphasized that it was the u. s. that violated the deal by withdrawing 3 years ago. whitehouse correspondence can be held, kit has more on those comments and how they 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 way to press secretaries and saki at 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 yet 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 by the 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 to 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 for you and has increased security and a large refugee camp and became offensive violence wasn't in this the hell region. thousands of fled their homes after arising number of attacks this year when he saw refuge in the good will come near dory, where charlotte balance ripples ah,

in the northeast corner of the kena faso near the borders of new year. and molly, lies the good of a refugee camp. this is home 11000 refugees. actress angelina jolie. are you in ambassador flu in by helicopter to highlight world refugee day? she's been marking the day like this for 20 years. the keenest also is part of this, a hail with chad molly and this year the region is in crisis with growing violence, displacing more than $2000000.00 people. a milestone passed for the 1st time this year. the way the international community tried to address this conflict in insecurity is broken. it is erratic, it is unequal, is built on inherited privilege. it is subject to the whim of political leaders and it is geared towards the interest their powerful countries, including my own and the expense of other authorities in the king of fos or any you

will say they are doing the best to protect these refugees that deployed more soldiers and increase the trove 22 year old yellow. our alma do moved here 4 months ago. her 4th moved in a decade. me do. i live smelling 2012, me and my children. i have 2 children. i came here with the family and without. i am a woman, i am afraid of the war. the war has followed them. fight is linked to al qaeda and i saw operating on the edge of the sahara. have expanded their reach into this hail . 132 people were killed in an attack near here earlier this month will if i will do as once i arrived burkina faso, i'm afraid even in good a boat that we don't sleep at night. it's really hard for kina as well as molly or unstable. the number of people displaced in this, a hail is 4 times what it was 2 years ago. but yet you ins refugee agency sees it has just 22 percent of the money. it needs to hope doors and became fossil when,

as he still on that is to have it. we insisted on staying here despite our fear. we are too scared. it's like what we left and molly, it happened in burkina, but it's not perkiness fault. this is all of africa today, there is not a country where there is no problem. this problem covers all of africa. as the violence worsens and this a hail refuge is harder to come by. so they stay here hoping to avoid the next attack in countries struggling to support them. charlotte bellis al jazeera me now cube itself, ministry has res. details of its 2nd self develop cove at 19 vaccine and it says it's 90. 2 percent effective. of dollar is a 3 shot vaccine and has proved highly effective in its late stage clinical trials . cuba is facing its worst art braces. the start of a panoramic with a record number daily infections him whole gun. so we have achieved 62 percent

efficacy with the application of 2 doses of this vaccine. this is a very comforting results because it was obtained in a scenario where mutant strains are circulating. we are talking about efficacy not against the original strain, but efficacy against the combination of the strain circulating in havana at the moment. where there are many variance circulating on that doctors and js on a young guy is an associate professor of infectious diseases of the australian national university. he says, though, that a to hasn't been released, cuba has a long history of making successful vaccines. cuba is a very small nation. i'm a nation of 11000000 people, but they've had to be self sufficient over the decades due to sanctions and various other issues. and really prior to coding, they were exporting 49, almost 50 by take products to other countries, predominantly in latin america. and they've got

a strong history of developing and administering vaccines. so it's really good news. unfortunately, the only issue at the moment is the announcements. so i haven't seen any hot doctor or peer reviewed papers, but that was also the case with the faxing and they presented very good, dr. and in the last paper following that. but hopefully, if we're seeing 92 percent efficacy with the adela vaccine and the some of those 2 vaccine had 62 percent off. the 2 out of 3 doses that is very encouraging. but of course we would, i'd like to know more information. what sort of variance were in place, particularly was the delta barrier circulating in cuba when the study was being done. and were the results similarly efficacious in more vulnerable groups, such as the elderly?

now to months of criticism over the government's handling of a devastating 2nd wave, india is now offering, coven, 1900 vaccines, free of charge to all adults. but at face is a huge challenge of reaching the majority of its people who live in small towns and villages. as elizabeth parent reports, health care workers track through the pine forests of indian administered kush mead 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 trek on the red amalgam. 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 fax is necessary. so that's why we got it today. 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 some a 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 before the percentage over 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 same. so our theme and we are doing best took on these people. so each day we go to these nomad which are residing here in the deep water. we gunman them each day, we almost $40.00 to $50.00 people,

state governments have gone campaigns to convince people and ascending teams to 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 say vaccination rates must increase significantly to protect people. and that unless the vaccine hesitancy is addressed, it will put in the it's fragile gains against coded 19 at risk. elizabeth, florida al jazeera new delhi. ah, you'll see all just there with me. hill robin hinder reminder of all top stories, county gets under way and is twice delayed. general election prime minister element is hoping to hold on to power. and what is his 1st real electoral test? several opposition parties of boy called to devote the conflict into grier and ballot shortages left hundreds of val.