always close to the action when i'm up and by my portable go folk and wonder what they can get up to the minute news and opinion the background to political developments. we'll bring you. joy. this is the t.v. news live from burning tensions flare as kenya gears up for a rerun of the presidential election the polls turn out to protest after election officials say the votes will proceed as i said you the supreme court had not an

election held in or despite a nation irregularities we'll go live to nairobi once a coming up a german human drives organize a goes on trial in turkey today his case has become a flashpoint in or gritty strained relations between bolin and ankara. and china unveils its new leadership to line up and president xi jinping leads the pack which includes of many of his loyalists but no clear successor. following a warm welcome to you i'm on the thought she may we start with the kenya where the supreme court has announced it will not hear a last minute petition to deliver a presidential election the chief justice is not enough judges the press and the announcement means tomorrow's vote will go ahead. share doing the decision past

triggered protests in a key soon and opposition strong group people have taken to the streets many are saying they will boycott the presidential election rerun. now the region comes after the supreme court another results from august election irregularities since then dozens have been killed in election related violence did obvious catherine wonder who is keeping track of all those developments and joins me now from the kenyan capital nairobi hi catherine now before the election commission has just spoken out and said the vote will go ahead tomorrow as a share due to how do you justify its decision well he says that operationally they're ready and this is something that he said last week he said operationally the electoral commission is ready to deliver. an election however whether it will be credible is it is another issue now he began his statement

strangely by talking about police brutality and excessive use of force and he says that he's spoken to the to the police oversight authority and they have assured him that police will protect the rights of those who are voting and protect the rights of those who want to abstain from voting and want to take part in picketing which was quite strange but then he says all systems go from now on the other the supreme court had refused to hear a partition calling for a delay of this election saying not enough judges were present to make a ruling how is this explanation gone down with the people. it's mixed reactions we have people who dismissed the supreme court based on political reasons after september first when they had knowledge of the presidential election there's one side of the country that seems that seems to feel that the supreme court is being influenced by the other side of the opposition so there are

a lot of people who just dismissed it but then there's also a number of people who question this who question the fact that three judges who had the ability to make it to supreme court did not make it to simply supreme court with no valid reasons we know one is sick we know one had her driver's shots last night and was handling that and the other two appeared in court earlier today so it seems orchestrated especially according to opposition leaders the list seems to be a certain amount of uncertainty there even though the elections i should have to go ahead tomorrow. as shared you know what is the morgue like there where you are catherine it's very uncertain because even if the elections do take place tomorrow there are various various court cases that allow the opposition if they feel aggrieved or anyone who feels aggrieved to go back to the supreme court and have a substantial case against this particular presidential rerun so there's

a lot of confusion in the air we might go into an election tomorrow morning people will vote and then the people who don't want to vote so how will the police react to people who don't want to vote we're seeing police not just an urban centers especially in western kenya we're not seeing them just in the urban centers but we're actually seeing them going into villages so there's a lot of concern that and how they would react to to picketers tomorrow catherine on one do you know we thank you very much for that update. tonight a techie why the trial has started for a german human rights activist arrested in istanbul in july better stored now was detained during a meeting with other human rights activists he stands accused of links to terrorism and of having ties to the man allegedly behind last year's failed coup the islamic cleric led his arrest has raised concerns of a turkey's authoritarian regime is stumbles palace of justice as the trial

began activists demonstrated for the release of german. and ten other defendants including the head of amnesty international in cherokee for holding a workshop the rights group says the charges are trumped up workshops music paid by worship in question is like those held around the world but here it's being treated like a gathering a conspirator's and criminalized it shows just how much turkish law is being instrumental ised. ustedes here in instrumentality at that. and the other defendants were arrested in july show it was conducting a seminar on data security at the time turkish prosecutors allege that their actions aided the girl in movement and the kurdish p k k which are considered terror groups in turkey. and had been lecturing about encryption methods at the time of his arrest. if convicted he could face up to fifteen years in prison.

for. the indictment sounds like a collection of conspiracy theories. and his friends are not acquitted today that will further strain the german turkish relations. with. the german human rights commissioner along with german politicians are urging the immediate release of it now they say the move could help improve strained german turkish relations. earlier i spoke with amnesty international's john doyle who said in a stunning when i asked him why he thinks his organization was targeted by turkish authorities. well i think it's doing a number of things and certainly from the point of view of the authorities this is helping to build a particular propaganda narrative it's helping to to blacken critics to discredit human rights organizations human rights defenders in the eyes of the public it's

much the same tactic has been used to silence journalists or discredit their opinions in the eyes of a broader broader public so i think it fits into into that pattern there are number of commentators who would observe that there's an element of hostage taking in relation to to to foreign countries from turkey wants to to extradite alleged colonists supporters a number of theories but the bottom line is this is a very somber indicator of the direction that turkey is heading in and the state of human rights in this country. joined argues in a from amnesty international thank you very much for speaking to us from istanbul. this subject look at some other stories making news around the wives the kurdistan regional government in iraq has offered to another the results of last month's independence referendum in order to hold talks with bandar iraqi forces of driven kurdish troops from cities in the north just outside the autonomy zone and overwhelming majority of iraqi kurds had voted for independence but the central

government had rejected the result and described the referendum as illegal in bangkok the five different sermon he has started for king bumi paan his son has been performing riots in the city's historic quarter while tens of thousands of mourners have filed into surrounding areas to bid farewell to their beloved monarch the king died last october at the age of eighty eight. turning now to china which has established its leadership of the next five years electing as usual for a second term as general secretary the ruling communist party also revealed a new lineup for its top ruling council but a successor to she was not named in a k. a brick were tradition. their identities kept tightly under wraps until this moment these are the six men who will help chinese president xi jinping roll one point two billion people for the next five years they are the new members of china's top

billing council officially known as the political standing committee of the communist party the selection closely watched around the world traditionally one or two members of the committee agreement as successors to leader of the communist party but these new council members would be considered too old under pastoral to take over from she when his term ends in twenty twenty two. he's still a in nominating a successor he's fanning speculation she is scheming to stay in power beyond the two terms allowed by china's constitution she's reelection as a communist party leader was no surprise after his name was and trying to know how to constitution on wednesday it's an honor that puts him on a level with china's revolutionary founder margin dong and makes him the country's most powerful leader in decades. from. the chinese communist party is the world's largest political party if one is big one must big.

history makes it abundantly clear that the chinese communist party is capable of not only spearheading a great social revolution. but also imposing a great revolution on itself. on the streets she is proof popular because of his anti corruption drive he's also partly opened up china's economy now the world's second biggest god you don't do this with regards to the party congress the last five years have been very satisfactory you call it how much you're one hundred one so i have a lot of confidence for the five years i heard you know when you do it. but under she's leadership china has also seen massive human rights violations and the arrest of those critical of his rule in what is being called china's worst human rights crisis in decades. the first head of state to russia and seventy

s. present from my as and moscow has already taken part in a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial. includes a talk with russian president vladimir putin followed by a separate meeting with human rights activists the german president will also attend an event the handover of the st cathedral in moscow to the evangelical lutheran church of russia. an air of celebration at a normal sunday service the last one before this evangelical lutheran congregation in moscow officially gets its church back. lutherans are religious minority here in russia most in the community have german roots their ancestors came to russia centuries ago on the invitation of the czars who promised land and religious freedom but later the soviet government persecuted lutherans and seized church property including this cathedral the community led by archbishop paula has been

using it again since the fall of the soviet union but so far it has remained russian government property. and that the courts here on a case like someone started living in your apartment and it's not yours anymore so they let you turn up but the whole time you have the ceiling. and any point to a card and don't bring the government's hands or other hands it's ours it's it feels like home again this is just. in the officially atheist soviet union many churches were repurposed from nine hundred thirty seven this cathedral was used as a movie theater and a film studio by then all lutheran churches across the country have been closed and many of their pastors arrested and shot. here at video cemetery in moscow long known as the city's german cemetery the scars of that persecution are still tangible many. gravestones here were neglected and destroyed after the second world

war the lutheran community struggled with the additional stigma of its german origins often associated with the nazi enemy. which. is the return of our church to some extent restores historical justice historical truth but only partially i hope that this will just be the beginning of a new stage in the development of our country and our community only in the short circuit the number of churches that were destroyed by the crime of course the fact that this cathedral is being returned that's good news. just sort of the church belongs to the congregation it belongs to the people that come here and look after it so st peter's and paul's cathedral will be the first evangelical lutheran church to be given back to the congregation they hope it will set a precedent and that the russian state will return other churches as well. albert einstein describing the key to happiness as sold for around one point five million dollars at an auction in jerusalem einstein gave the piece of hundred bytes

to a japanese bellboy after the scientist realized he had no money to give him a tip the auction note reads a calm and modest live brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness bidding began at two thousand dollars but escalated quickly before the note went to a mystery. business there's a bank facility looking at your fans as earnings are soaring the german airline is using its might to go on buying spree in europe. that's coming up shortly. where i come from we have to fly.