best documentary films from across the network on al jazeera, he the gambia counts votes cost as mobile software presidential election, seen as a test of democracy in the west african country. ah, hello, i'm adrian. and again, this is al 0 life though ha, also coming up, visiting saudi arabia, the french president says that he'll work with gulf countries to resolve the diplomatic crisis with lebanon. south africa works the scale of vaccinations as the electron delta variance drive a 4th wave of cobit 19 infections. venezuela's opposition leader joins protests after judges cancelled an election race that the ruling class he was losing.

ah, the results were expected on sunday after guardians voted in the election seen as a test for its transition to democracy, turned out was high as people decided if president adama barrow deserves another term al jazeera ahmed address reports from the capital banjo. president adam a bottle arrives to cast his vote aware that in this tightly contested election, there could be surprises by the president and his supporters, accounting on a divided opposition to achieve victory. or i hope i am the unfortunate of supporting this one. everybody knows not even eulogy. remember, we're going to be doing that. i'll let you borrow is challenged by the leading analytics of the coalition. but and the team, the victory of ice produces a jada, jamie 5 years ago. they also voted and i confident of winning when i want to say

that i have got my lot and hum danella down to god. what is it to him? this election is significant in many aspects, from the record number of candidates to the nearly a 1000000 people who register to vote solomon boss as the difference between the 2016 election. and this one is clear, the feeling of fear was there. but this one has no feeling of fear from my own, from my own business. and does it mean anything for us? a voter? yeah, it means something. yes. because then somebody can do that editing, which is not in line with his own desire for 1st time to how a demi, it's a dream come true. you'd feel nice wouldn't, since since i was a dad i wanted to feel like i said,

141 as an old previous elections since 1947 unique system is used traditional models along with a drum and bell inside. this could be the last time the mobile system of voting. if you understand the gambia or the list of candidates going, it's becoming increasingly expensive to produce ballot boxes for each candidate. and in all of the countries, 1500 boats. the election commission wants to adopt paper ballots in the next vote, because the system that a software country for more than half a century is no longer sustainable. turn out across the country was impressive, and the process largely peaceful. people are enjoying greater freedom, the seeing the value of elections as a means to piece because gummy of that was, are very got a piece of in but also the result of the election is expected within 24 hours of

poles closing on saturday night degrees algae 0 by june, the gambia security forces have been deployed the central molly after 31 people were killed in an ambush. a truck was sprayed with bullets and set on fire to the town of monty women, and children are among the victims. central molly is become one of the most violent areas and the fight against armed groups linked to i saw and al qaeda. ethiopia, as prime minister, has called on young people fighting for the to gray people's liberation front to surrender, and not to take part in what he called a war without a goal. fighting is now said to be limited to areas between the towns of batty and dca. the government says it's making progress and has captured more towns from the rebels who has been fighting for more than a year. but their leader denies that his troops are withdrawing and says that the government's engaged in war propaganda of allay ivy in

war, there is progress and regression. this is the nature of war. there a site that we have seized and others that we've evacuated. and within the framework of the strategy that we set, we withdrew from some positions and we, we deployed. this is not because of military pressures changing these positions with our decision. france and saudi arabia have held a joint phone call with lebanon, and was seen as a significant gesture towards resolving a diplomatic crisis. the call was made as french president, emanuel micron visited saudi arabia after trips to the u. e and cut off the kingdom and other gulf states withdrew their ambassadors from bay root last month, angered by a government minister who criticized the saudi led war in yemen. the minister resigned on friday, rami cory is a senior public policy fellow at the american university of bay routes, and explained some of frances motivations in mediating i think what's going on is the saudis are trying the saudis feel

a little bit isolated. they've failed and virtually every initiative they've taken in the middle east and yemen and cut out of lebanon and iran. and virtually every foreign policy initiatives they've taken under them sell, man has failed and are backfired. and they really are trying to figure out a new way to reengage diplomatically with other countries in the region. and in the world the, the american president won't talk to the saudi crown prince because of the assassination. and so the, the so, or the leadership feels a little bit isolated among some people in the world. macros sees this as an opportunity to step in sell arms to the rockies. so arms to other people, re establish some kind of french role in the region. so everybody sees some kind of benefit in this as seen from the saw or the perspective. the fact is that the french has simply played a very normal diplomatic game, which is to try to find

a face saving way to allow people to step back from the confrontation and make believe everything is fine and go back to normal ties. and the french do that with a certain panache which they've always had at the same time. they're supporting autocrats in egypt on the selling oster the rockies. i'm doing things that a lot of people complain about, but that's how that's how state to state relations are. this is not a game of righteous politics. this is a game of power politics and reality and macros showing that he's willing to play this game as well as anybody else. saudi arabia and france also issued a joint statement, calling on lebanon's leaders to work on comprehensive reforms. they want action on corruption, finance, energy and border control. and many of them across and had been sold on. also agreed to work on a humanitarian plan for 11 people. it's grinding economic crisis is left 3 quarters of the population in poverty. so don's military chief says that the army will leave

politics are to elections for the shadow for 2023, general abdel for the hon. offered the assurance during one of several interviews he gave with international news agencies on saturday. the han let the military takeover in october before a deal was struck last month to reinstate the prime minister. and what at yahoo! when a government is elected, the armed forces in all organized security groups, i believe will have no participation in political matters. this is what we agreed upon, and this is the armies natural situation for the armed forces to carry out its duties . because there will be a government elected by the sudanese people that expresses their will and hope. the number of new daily coven 19 cases in south africa as nearly quadrupled in just 4 days more than 16000 infections were recorded on saturday compared with 4300 on tuesday. it's on the scoring concerns about the contagious nurse of

a new over chrome variant from johannesburg. for me to miller explains how the government bears responding by encouraging more vaccinations. this is one of a few 100 vaccination centers in the housing province in south africa. and how ting has been hardest hit by the rise in coven, 19 infections, between 70 and 80 percent of new infections across of africa in this province alone . and that is why authorities are saying that people need to get out and get vaccinated. there has been some level of vaccine hesitancy, about 42 percent of people who are eligible for a vaccine have actually taken that up. but that number drops to about 36 percent for people who have taken up 2 doses, who are fully vaccinated. the government has set up a number of drives, door to door awareness campaigns, trying to create awareness around why the vaccine is important, especially because so little is known around the army kron variance. and the

greatest concern there is just how easily it spreads. and that is being reflected in the spike in numbers that south africa is experiencing. one area of concern, while hospitalizations of people has remained relatively low, a number of young children under the age of 5 are having to be admitted to hospital now becoming ill after contracting cove. at 19 this week we've seen a number of students 12 to 17 since it was open to that age group a month or so ago that has come in now for, for the vaccinations coming in with the parents coming in as families. so there has been that we have the mon, optical, a number of infected kids at the surrounding schools over years where i think parents are exercising portia a week ago this vaccination center had about 50 or 60 people coming through every day. and now that number has doubled, so that is encouraging for people trying to make sure that south africans are getting vaccinated. but we've also been to several vaccination centers in this

province. some entirely empty, some with people trickling through and others more busy. so there's still an issue around vaccine hesitancy, but certainly a significant proportion of the sub african population has been swooped by this new army con variant. and more people are coming out to get a job. all than 15 european countries have confirmed cases on the on the crone variant. but those persistent opposition to the reintroduction of measures to slow rising curve at 19 infections. thousands, marched peacefully through the dodge city of tract. the government imposed a partial lockdown 3 weeks ago and since tightened it to the case numbers being at their highest since the panoramic began. it's a similarly start picture in germany, which reported another $64000.00 infections on saturday. outgoing chancellor, anglo merkel made this appeal to those resisting vaccinations, as she prepares to leave office does being

a lot. please allow me today to say one last time. what is of the utmost importance to me these days? we are in a 4th wave of the pandemic in a very serious situation. in some parts of the country, you can only describe it as dramatic overfilled intensive care units, severely ill. people who have to be flown across germany to get the care they need the good for a little bit. that is why i appeal to you again urgently and take the malicious virus seriously. right now the new omicron variant seems to be more infectious than the previous ones. get yourself vaccinated. it doesn't matter if it is a 1st shot or a booster. every vaccine helps ginormous and i'm in south korea. it's the delta australians causing unprecedented corona virus numbers. saturday was the 3rd day this week of new cases, a bit above 5070 patients died. 750 people are critically ill in the hospital. will have more on the pandemic shortly. the van i have,

they didn't want to do it because of what they heard about a microchip been put inside you that controls you. that was the main reason will look at greece's new approach to tackling vaccine hesitancy. also had russia is accused of weapon ising. its energy resources to put more pressure on ukraine. ah, look forward to burly to scully's, the with sponsored by counsel at ways. hello there the tropical cycle and that scene brewing in the bay of bengal weekend as it approached the north eastern coast of india. but we still have warnings out for places like a di show. we're expecting heavy rain and strong winds. we could see up to 200 millimeters of rain fall in places. and with that, there's a significant flood risk. now the remnants of that system are going to push across

to the north east, entering bungler dash. by the time we get in some mondays, a heavy rain expected here. edging as well in simeon mar as we go later into the week. but for the rest of india, it's largely fine and dry. if you spotty showers up in the north down in the south . we are seeing some heavy rain but not as heavy as it has been recently. weather showers, edging into western areas of sri lanka, for pakistan, it's largely fine and dry lots of sunshine. we will see some snow showers edging down into northern india and ensnare. pol now is the head across to east asia. largely fine and dry for much a china it's going to change in the northeast. we've got a bit of a wintery mix coming in to play. that's going to blow down into the korean peninsula. some of that heavier snow entering north korea, but it stays largely fine and dry in the south. it's wet, however, in southern parts of japan, there'll be sunshine in tokyo on monday for the weather, sponsored by casara always. if america held up a mirror to itself,

what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america. what's working and what's not? a lot of people were only talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda. if america can handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts, we need to go back to the bottom line on al jazeera or holding the powerful to account. as we examined, the u. s. is role in the world on al jazeera. ah ah, hello again, this is l 0. let's remind you. for many years the saw only results are expected on sunday, after guardians voted in an election seen as a test for its transition to democracy. turn off was high,

as people decided if president obama barrow, deserves all the top from saudi arabia, of held a joint phone call with lebanon, and want to seen a significant gesture towards resolving a diplomatic crisis. gulf states withdrew ambassadors for a roof last month for government minister, criticized the sound you live in south africa is government is working to scale up covered by team vaccinations that you all the com variant is driving another wave of infections for the number of new daily cases daily, quadrupling in just 4 days. in australia, opponents of coven 19 vaccines of protested as rivals to support the jobs rally to julian wolf reports. ah, calling for their freedom in melbourne. large clusters of people on the streets of one of the shrill is biggest cities waving the flags of many countries. demonstrators who now colace, truly a home demand,

a reopening of their communities, but oppose a mandatory vaccine was teaching for 30 at ease. and vaccination was always of a voluntary thing for parents and kids to make it austria leave the key. it was just so we have to just learn to live with this and get all the things we conscious cape locking us down. you know, just because it's a new varied, they'll always be in your berries. fiona doesn't realize is the freedom josma sudden social responsibility is yesterday alia, which largely closes, borders when the corona virus pandemic began is now dealing with an outbreak of the omi chrome variant. the new emergency is further in government efforts to boost the economy. following kobe locked down, i expect us to see further spread communities spread within australia and other parts of the world. but that may not necessarily be a bad thing because it will give us a lot of opportunity to, to understand how this various works in highly vaccinated countries.

in the state of victoria were full vaccination has become mandatory to access most things. it is the and vaccinated who make up the majority of people in hospital with cove it, but most of the trillions are in support of vaccine jobs with nearly 90 percent of everyone over 16 being fully vaccinated. at the moment there's lots of anger. after this covert crisis and i think it's being directed at the wrong side, we're seeing, you know, health care workers being talked, you know, bookshop workers and it's really important. i think that we say actually the majority of us did support these health restrictions that saved millions of people's lives. and the majority of us actually do stand in social solidarity with each other. for a country whose coven rates pale in comparison to other develop nations for these restrictions, the time to return to normal is long overdue julian wolf al jazeera. and

the greek government is fighting vaccine, misinformation, and hesitancy. it's made shots mandatory for people over the age of 60 john. so hopeless reports now from vessel anaki on what else? it's planning to do in the fight against coven 19. this is the government's expeditionary force. bobo vaccination squads, a founding out to villagers across northern greece. where infections and misinformation run high at the village of man, the las maria cook too, is getting her 1st shot. she works at a local fruit canning factory with $250.00 people, some of whom refused to be vaccinated with another. i guess they didn't want to do it because of what they heard about a micro chip in put inside you that controls you. that was the main reason. others think the vaccine is a financial hoax or that of yeah, yeah, and i value when a new vaccine comes out, experiment for 10 years and then put it into production. that's how it usually

happens. as soon as this pandemic happened, they produced a vaccine. he said, the multi nationals, consolidated, am i lying? most? don't believe such theories. in fact, at mann, the las, there aren't enough jobs to go round variety of what i, you know, i'm very, the 1st time they brought 40 shots this time they brought 37, but we expect more did him. since early october. daily infections have tripled to about $6000.00 and daily deaths to about 90 government statistics show that 90 percent of these deaths are among the unvaccinated to reduce deaths. authorities are trying to increase vaccinations. the methodist allocate use, the regional health director is pairing up with mayor's priests and even football teams to ensure a good turn out for his vaccination vans and dispel myths surrounding the vaccine. williams, with lot of them, a lot of people came to the village square just to see what other people's vaccination would be like because they had heard that you might get dizzy,

fall over. but the government is using the stick as well as the carrot, starting in january unvaccinated people over 60 will pay a monthly fine of a $120.00. the 1st such penalty in europe. the government's concern for all their cove and sufferers stems from the fact that they are the most vulnerable to the disease. people, 65 and over, make up just 12 percent of coven cases in greece. but also half of all hospitalizations and 83 percent of deaths, the unvaccinated are being punished in other ways to their band, from indoor restaurants, bars, theaters, and jims, and have to present a 48 hour rapid test to enter banks, government buildings, and non essential shops, the idea is to preserve an open economy for the 62 percent of the population that is fully vaccinated. there's been a fourfold surgeon vaccination bookings. the hope is that greece will quickly close

the vaccination gap with the rest of europe. jobs are opal us al jazeera, for solo nikki is when the security forces of shot and killed a palestinian man who police. they stamped on his really before attempting to attack officers. it happened just outside damascus, gate, and occupied east jerusalem. video appears to show as rainy police pointing their guns of paramedics, preventing them from treating the palestinian is really stabbing victim was treated and is now in hospital. there was scuffles and fighting between palestinians and israeli police. shortly after the attack. huge numbers of people have joined the latest protests and serbia against new laws that environmentalists say, well, let foreign companies exploit local resources. they blocked reducing most ways in belgrade and cities across the country. the government's opponents accused of making it harder for people to protest against high polluting projects, while making it easier for private lands to be acquired. russia has stopped

exporting coal to ukraine, saying that it needs to cover high demand at home. ukraine depends on russian coal to keep it slight song, but as long accused its neighbor of using energy as a weapon. charles stratford reports now from tourette's in eastern ukraine. home line close to the front line in eastern ukraine. bind such as this one, had helped fuel industry and the don bass region and across what was the soviet union for over a century. but ukraine remains dependent on russia to meet its energy needs, especially coal, which is vital for fueling ukrainian pow stations. in 2014 pro russia, separatists seized control of the majority of the mines. further depleting, ukraine's access to call decades of neglect means much of the mines infrastructure is close to collapse. but you're not the is your thought. the equipment we have is

from 958, lack of investment and government negligence is one of the reasons why we face a shortage. things could be difficult this winter. another problem is that russia caught ukraine's coal supply. last month. russia has recently stopped exporting coal to ukraine, saying that there's just too much domestic internal demand for the natural resource . some analysts are describing this is nothing short of blackmail. an effort by russia to weapon analyze its vast natural resources as a means of putting pressure on ukraine. and it's not just coal that russia is using to try and control your grain. these a gas pipelines similar to those that transport russian gas across ukraine to europe. europe relies on russia around 35 percent of its energy needs. and ukraine gets paid transit, these, which were around 2000000000 dollars last year with those days on nearly over the

non stream to pipeline, which is expected to be opperation next year by policies. ukraine instead transporting gas from russia to germany on the baltic sea russia right to we divide euro for rush rate. the energy relations. ready was different state separately rather than with then go the year from graham perspective. this means that russia will. ready have, has free to destabilize station in the queen, more actively. germany has warned russia not to use its gas exports as a weapon, but has been criticized by other european states and ukraine for exposing kiana to more economic pressure for moscow. silas, se rushes aim of trying to keep ukraine in expire of influence is impossible. it is simply not possible to have that sort of control away our neighbors. we've all,

with the investing huge resources military as well as economy because in be and as i see on russia, i think it moscow and age to modify its aids because very simply, natalie winter is just beginning. yes is so worried about the potential electricity blackouts that it's been forced to start importing coal from as far away as the us and columbia. so let's say economic. an energy pressure from russia will continue, because the more ukraine talks about future nato and e u membership. the more moscow sees red cha, stratford al jazeera tor esque eastern ukraine and is waylon opposition? leader kwan gladto has joined protests in the states of thought in us where an election was an old, the supreme court council, the state governors race, which was being one buying a position candidate. what,

oh says that it shows free and fair elections are impossible. and venezuela judges of ordered a new election beheld in january. i'll just ears. teresa bo reports off and he made this deed of but he never birthplace of the neat revolutionary president of a chinese. you had to send to a new dispute between government and the position. it is here where the chevy family has been ruling for over 20 years. with a late president's brother at any charities, charges governor. but as they were being tallied after last month, contested governor's race between co disqualified opposition candidate to play the super atlanta alleging pending investigations and said the election should be scrapped and held. again, let me look at the supreme court of justice. set a date for a new electoral contest for january the 9th. however, the day that all that, as well as were waiting for next year was the election to choose the president of the republic or recall,

referring to the governorship of the state of verena's. in november's elections, venezuela. socialist party, one in 19 provinces. the opposition in only 3, the opposition was divided in many states across the country. but enough, the heart of the will, chavez revolution is one state. the government cannot afford to lose europe. the union of serve the elections for the 1st time in 15 years. and in a preliminary report said that even louis improvements had been made. the elections happened with no independent judicial oversight or election law enforcement. james chavez and nancy were stepping down after the electoral scandal. way up. i sent out a mirror and lucy, i present my resignation from office effective as of today in order to facilitate this transition process until the elections proposed by the highest court of the republic. take place now all the eyes are on readiness and vehicle stations

capacity to unite to defeat the ruling party. and then you vote set for january. the whole will be doug. yes, yes, emily say it's a little fight that count in the struggle for democracy. one, no, indoor lloyd bass, you, the only way out is by weaken the regime and that is achieved where you can get strength out of them. the situation and brightness generates this more, more a conflict within their regime in there. and to do that, you have to participate in elections in 3 forced them to expose themselves. venezuela has been struggling through a political and economic crisis for years. the elections where for many a path to which dialogue, but this he to which anybody ness exposes the enormous challenges, steed ahead. very so i'll just cedar. at least one person has been killed. many others injured after eruptions from mount some arrow. the tallest volcano on the densely populated entities in island of java, huge clouds of smoke and ash,

going into the atmosphere of also triggered heavy rain. last ruptured in january. there were no casualties then. ah, it is good to have you with us. hello, adrian said he couldn't hear it though how the headlines and al jazeera only results were expected on sunday, after grampians voted in an election scene as a test for its transition to democracy. turn out was high as people decided if president adama barrow deserves on the term on the 0. i'm at address reports from the capital banjo. the turn out was really, really in progress talk to going been for so he was tell you that this election is very important or significant in manner is this is a false sunday voting in close to 3030 years with lots of freedom of choice. lots of freedom of expression there was.